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2005-07-23 Africa: North

Sharm el-Sheikh corpse count now at 49 83

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-07-23 00:44|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Dan, its more significant than that. Up until this week AQ attacks have been one off. It gave people the feeling that we have had our attack, now we can move on. One off attacks weren't creating enough terror. Its been obvious for a while that repeated attacks were needed to increase the terror level, and some of us wondered here, why AQ didn't get this. These are logistically a lot harder, so it takes time and expertise to put organization in place. Now in 24 hours we have seen 2 repeated attacks - same targets, same MO, one in Sinai, the other in London. This I feel is now the new AQ strategy.

One other thing, Its also clear that AQ has a lot of room to improve. I think we are seeing clear signs they are. Its my suspicion they are buying PIRA expertise.

Posted by phil_b 2005-07-23 01:49|| 2005-07-23 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Keep in mind that the leadership has had about 2 years now to reorganize and redeploy the additional resources that Zark needs to keep killing in Iraq. As long as the leadership stays in Iran and the training infrastructure in Pakistan, they can continue refining their capabilities as they see fit.

Posted by Dan Darling">Dan Darling 2005-07-23 01:56|| http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com]">[http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com] 2005-07-23 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Which is why it is crucial that Blair make an ultimatum to Pakistan after 7/7 and 7/21: dismantle your terror groups and their madrassas, deliver their leadership to the UK, OR ELSE!

When Al-Qaeda attacked the US from its bases in Afghanistan, the American ultimatum went straight there. It's not enough to kill or catch a few terrorists in the UK -- the Pakistani head of the snake must be attacked.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-23 03:31|| 2005-07-23 03:31|| Front Page Top

#4 catered mostly to European and Arab tourists
No accident, I'll bet the Zionist hotels had Jooooo security.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-23 09:07|| 2005-07-23 09:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Dan,
Popular SUPPORT is not the issue. What matters is that the people FEAR the terrorists. And fear them more than they either fear or support the alternatives. It worked pretty well for the Communists in Viet Nam - the US could not protect everyone, everywhere, all the time, but the Communists could attack anyone, anywhere, at any time, so to a large degree the people 'supported' the Communists.
It is very difficult to fight a ruthless enemy without being ruthless too. It's fear of death and starvation versus desire for luxuries and freedom. A lot (most?) of the time fear wins - so the fight is to reduce the fear. In this war that battle is mainly fought on the airwaves. 100 people killed, or whatever it turns out to be, is a lot, but the effect is greatly multiplied by media exposure. The challenge for the 'good guys' is to come up with a PR/propaganda strategy that counteracts the media exposure effect (and NOT by censoring the media).

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-07-23 09:34|| 2005-07-23 09:34|| Front Page Top

#6 NPR said the death toll is 86 just about an hour ago...

Posted by .com 2005-07-23 09:40|| 2005-07-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Pakistan is a snake pit of terrorists, all right. After 9-11 then Secretary of State Powell had his little talk with Musharraf and we obtained cooperation from Pakistan for our ops in Afghanistan, at least with the segments of the govt and military under Musharraf's control, which was sufficient for our ops. Now the snake is rearing its head again. How much control does Musharraf have? Not a lot, but enough to keep him in power. On the edge of a knife, I imagine.

The real problem comes back to the resource trail, the money trail, and that is Saudi Arabian princes giving millions and millions away to madarassas, terrorist groups, mosques around the world.

We are treating this problem symtomatically. We need to wipe out the money trail. And that requires some special ops, or at the minimum putting the fear of God, Allan, whatever into the Saudis to cease and desist in their dirty little games. We will get nowhere while treating the sores on the patient. We need a big hypo of penecillin, so to speak.

How much Iran is involved in enabling this mischief is unknown, but they need a real good look. That is my take on the terrorist bombings.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-07-23 13:03|| 2005-07-23 13:03|| Front Page Top

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