Posted on 01/28/2008 6:29:00 AM PST by Righting
Over there: Disparaging any manhunt for al Qaeda leaders as pointless, Pakistan’s president said Tuesday that Osama bin Laden is less of a threat to his regime than the Taliban running roughshod over part of his country, The News notes — while AP
has an administration official venting dissatisfaction with the quality of info it’s getting about jihadis operating in Pakistan’s volatile tribal area. Extensive intel has allowed coalition forces to push al Qaeda out of numerous Iraqi provinces, but a top commander stays cautious, “saying the terrorist group’s ability to re-emerge is constant,” The Washington Timestells. Afghanistan’s president
the World Economic Forum in Switzerland yesterday that the whole world could suffer from the “wildfire” of terrorism engulfing his region, The Voice of America mentions.
Over here: “Sleeper cells are walking around the infidels’ land using different cover methods and white names that don’t attract American internal security’s attention, but . . . it’s al Qaeda’s lone wolves that disrupt [the FBI’s],” The Jamestown Foundation quotes a jihadi Web
posting. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has backed off on its defense of two Muslim college students caught
driving with explosives and a how-to video on bomb-making, WorldNetDaily relates. Concerns about the safety of serving Muslim military personnel arose after it emerged that their personal details were among those of 600,000 people held on a filched Royal Navy laptop, The Sunday Times tells. Releasing updated guidelines, British university leaders agree to inform the police of any extremist
behavior by students or visiting speakers they suspect may lead to terrorism, The Guardian reports — while AP has U.K. police offering to train the academics.
Holy Wars: “How does a single individual go from standing on a street corner to flicking a switch and blowing himself up? The question is superficially simple. The answers are not,” The Observerexplores in a two-partseries. “Jihad doctrine; Shariah (Islamic law); designs for a global caliphate through jihad (terrorism) and the spread of
(Islamization): We pretend they are not factors in the free world’s experience with Islam,” a Washington Times columnist waxes wroth. “Nowadays, quite a few Islamic religious leaders issue fatwas against Westerners—or moderate Muslims—thus energizing the people against other nations, in a battle resembling the one between light and darkness in Manichaeism,” a Worldpress.org essay asserts. A Palestinian resistance group gaining strength on the West Bank “sounds like Hamas
— or even al Qaeda — but doesn’t support suicide bombings or secret militias,” The Christian Science Monitor profiles.
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&docID=hsnews-000002659597
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