The greatest threat to the United States are not nuclear-armed countries like North Korea or Iran but "transnational non-state networks," namely Islamic extremists linked to al-Qaeda, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed Sunday.
| Sorry, Hilde, there is no 'war on terror', no 'transnational non-state networks', and Guantanamo's current inmates are just misguided. Didn't you get the memo? |
In an interview with CNN, Clinton said, "Most of us believe the greater threats are the transnational non-state networks, primarily the extremists -- the fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are connected to al-Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula or al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan." She said these networks "continue to try to increase the sophistication of their capacity. The attacks that they're going to make and the... biggest nightmare that any of us have is that one of these terrorist member organizations... will get their hands on a weapon of mass destruction."
But Clinton added, "In terms of a country, obviously, a nuclear-armed country like North Korea or Iran pose both a real or a potential threat." |