Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Al Qaeda Still a Threat
Today's WaPo states that al Qaeda originally planned to use up to 10 planes in its Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S., striking both coasts, as well as FBI and CIA headquarters.
The lengthy article also details a decade worth of al Qaeda planning, which at one time suggested "taking over a nuclear missile launcher in Russia and forcing Russian scientists to fire a nuclear missile at the United States," among other ways to strike our nation.
The article also provides yet another reason why military intervention in Iraq was necessary:
Read the whole thing.
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The lengthy article also details a decade worth of al Qaeda planning, which at one time suggested "taking over a nuclear missile launcher in Russia and forcing Russian scientists to fire a nuclear missile at the United States," among other ways to strike our nation.
The article also provides yet another reason why military intervention in Iraq was necessary:
U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said that despite losing much of its leadership in the U.S. war on terrorism, al Qaeda is still dangerous and may now be more far-flung.This isn't going to happen at a United Nations negotiating table. It's going to happen when we physically go in and replace these despotic regimes with democratically elected governments. And it's going to happen when bordering nations see the effects of freedom, and have no choice but to grant it to their citizens, or else face the same consequences as Saddam Hussein.
Pistole said the FBI views the war against terrorism as a "generational" one that may not be won until future generations in the Muslim world are weaned away from radical anti-American views.
Read the whole thing.
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