Canadians Stop Terrorist Plot
by RonChusidThe Toronto Globe and Mail reports on a series or raids in which seventeen were arrested and authorities “seized enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer to build an explosive device three times more devastating than the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.” Perhaps the scariest aspect of the article is:
Commissioner McDonell said Western youths who have never set foot in Afghanistan can be “inspired” and radicalized by al-Qaeda in many ways.
“They can be inspired through the use of the Internet, though library, through books and through their own proselytizing to each other and recruiting and radicalizing individuals,” he said.
CNN and the New York Times also report a possible connection to two people arrested recently in Georgia.
This points out the fatal flaw in George Bush’s claim that we are fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we won’t have to fight them here. By using 9/11 for political advantage, and as a way to pursue the pre-9/11 neocon agenda, while ignoring real actions to fight al Qaeda and improve homeland security, Bush leaves us more vulnerable to such attacks. Bush’s irresponsible policies appear to have helped al Qaeda with recruitment not only in the middle east but here in North America.
We are not safe as long as people as reckless and incompetent as George Bush remain in power.
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“Bush’s irresponsible policies appear to have helped al Qaeda with recruitment not only in the middle east but here in North America.”
Yep. Just as millions of us “focus group” folks predicted. Not that Bush really cares, you know… about anyone else’s opinions or facts that are obvious on their face.
KJ , The Islamic insurgency is spreading no matter who is our president.Bill Clinton had lot of trouble and guess what?He was a liberal and Al-Qaeda still attacked us.Bush has much to answer for, because in most conservative opinion he is not taking it to the enemy like he should.At least he is putting up resistance to it.Western Europe bends over and radical Islam STILL attacks them.
Darth,
The Islamic terrorist numbers and the frequency of attacks world wide have gone up in orders of magnitude since– 2003. You are free to disagree with the scholars and experts on this. (Who also predicted everything that has happened in Iraq back when Bush was busy preparing to go to war, but not to control the predictable post war issues) Your ‘not so bad’ president has never respected those opinions. Those of us who have not spent lifetimes living there and/or studying it, are a little less willing to dump a large field of expert consensus because we respect meritocracy. We can even understand their explanations and reasoning enough to recognize they are much more likely correct than the wishful thinkers.
Al Qaeda attacked the WTC in ‘93. We didn’t figure out who they were operating under until much later, but they didn’t attack us again here until 2001.
The number of serious threats the Clinton Administration caught in time to abort far out weighed the one that succeeded (USS Cole, 10/2000). As Clarke pointed out, if the Pentagon – that gets 85% of the intel funds – had just commented to the intel agencies that they were going to start using that port for R&R; they would have been reminded that it was a known terrorist hot spot. Months before the terrorists figured out they could hit a US Navy vessel on their own doorstep, plan it and carry it out.
Al Qaeda doesn’t attack because of the political system in power. They had been building their organization since the Russian/Afghanistan war and the results of those preparations started to be identified in Africa, Bosnia, Chechneya and other places in the 90’s. Their targets are countries weakened by internal strife and with limited resources to retaliate. Especially when retaliation just brings counter retaliation, further escalating the violence. A fact well documented in the history of wars amongst MEN.
The attacks on Europe are just as much about retaliation for their ‘interference’ it the holy lands of Mohammed and getting them to live in fear.
“Bush has much to answer for, because in most conservative opinion **he is not taking it to the enemy like he should**.” Just what does that mean? More troops? Better tactics? More diplomacy?
Oh, one of the first thoughts that popped into my mind on the morning of 9/11 was;
‘As soon as W was announced the winner, they realized they had a window of time that we would be more vulnerable: the transition period for the new admin. They went in to high gear planning it then. If Gore had been put in the office he won, this probably would not have happened.’
What I have learned since has simply cemented that first, intuitive conclusion.