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2004-08-24 Down Under

Over 100 terrorist attacks thwarted in Australia, US, and UK

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-08-24 11:44:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "All of this damage came at the expense of the lives of just 11 suicide bombers and about $500,000," he said.

This clueless statement totally ignores the 70 billion dollars the Saudiâs spent over thirty years seeding the ground for our current problems. It also ignores the support and training provided by Iran for a separate group of terrorists.

It also ignores that countries such as China and France have their own reasons for causing the US problems. And that many countries and people are reacting to an increasingly globalized culture and economy with rising anti-Americanism.

9-11 was the bomb and Al Qaeda was the group that delivered the bomb. But the enemies the US faces are the forces that nurtured the terrorists. The money and blood the US is spending is to counter that broader enemy.

So far the âreturnâ on the Islamic investment has been the overthrow of the Taliban and Saddam, the awakening of the US to the Islamic threat, and the willingness of the US to confront terrorists sponsors throughout the world.

Before this is over the âreturnâ will look far worse for the Saudiâs, the Saddamâs, Iranian mullahs, etc.

Posted by Anonymous5032 2004-08-24 12:42:56 PM|| 2004-08-24 12:42:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mr. Ruddock needs to go back and re-do his math, and check his facts. Nine-Eleven was not the first, nor the only, terrorist attack on the United States, nor was it the only terrorist attack by al-Qaida. We cannot forget, or marginalize, the first WTC bombing, the Khobar Barracks attack, the embassy bombings in Africa, or the attack on the USS Cole. Secondly, there were 19 terrorists on those four airplanes, Mr. Ruddock, not 11.

The total cost to al-Qaida was also substantially higher, although most of those costs were after-the-fact costs, due to US response. How many al-Qaida fighters have been killed since the US invasion of Afghanistan? The Taliban government has ceased to exist. The free and open training grounds are gone - today all training has to be done as clandestinely as possible, and always with one eye open for a sudden rush of Tomahawk missiles - or worse. I'm sure recruiting has also suffered, but we don't have access to the records to judge that.

The money hasn't dried up completely, but it's slowed from the massive flood pre-9/11 to a mere trickle of its former self, and what money does get through carries with it the potential of being tainted. Each DAY sees another half-dozen of the better-trained operatives, even the higher leaders, being killed, captured, or driven underground. The United States is in the midst of a long-term pitched battle to suck dry the entire Islamist movement by killing those with the desire to carry that movement forward. The killing fields of Iraq have bled dry half a generation of those most dedicated to the cause. The operation continues.

Of course, I can understand Daniel Benjamin's behavior. Anything to distract from your own failures to do anything substantial in the fight against those who have targeted this country, anything to marginalize your own failure to grasp the obvious facts that there were people who had declared war against your nation, and anything to protect "your" president is ok, isn't it Mr. Benjamin?

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-08-24 1:12:41 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-08-24 1:12:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 For more on Benjamin's rantings see here.

Posted by tipper 2004-08-24 10:49:36 PM|| 2004-08-24 10:49:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Meanwhile, an American terrorist expert estimated that about 70,000 trained terrorists remained at large around the world. Daniel Benjamin,

The propaganda is getting so bad, they don't even try anymore. Meanwhile? Yes, we are talking about all of the terrorist attacks avoided and MEANWHILE... a world a way and nothing to do with this article, we found someone who said something negative about GW.

I guess it was time for coffee and the reporter couldn't find a negative GW quote to fit the story...so he just stuffs this completely unrelated one in.

Posted by B 2004-08-24 11:01:07 PM|| 2004-08-24 11:01:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 oops..my bad. I guess he was a sattelite feed into the conference. Doh!

Posted by B 2004-08-24 11:02:57 PM|| 2004-08-24 11:02:57 PM|| Front Page Top

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