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With America now on increased terror alert it is important that the front-line states in the war on terror not take their eyes off the ball. It is extremely unlikely any MANPADS style assault could be successfully launched in the US since the opposition does not have the capacity to smuggle large numbers of these weapons from their current acquisition zone to America.

Islamic entente strategy closely follows the teachings of General Erfurth who stressed that the integration of new weapons systems must be deployed en masse to effect a decision. While shooting down a civilian airliner in the States would be a spectacular coup, such an act does not win the fight for the outgunned entente forces. If anything it would only harden American resolve to annihilate the opposition.

In Britain the case is quite different where Blair is still under fire and Islamic entente forces have smuggled dozens of MANPADS. Many of these units purchased in Prishtina in October and successfully infiltrated via ferry to the Muslim community in the UK. Heathrow and Gatwick still not operationally effective in extending their security perimeters and a half dozen smaller British airports with virtually no defence versus this style of attack.

Whether the European purchasers were fronting for al Qaeda is now hotly debated within the British intelligence community but that really does not matter. The fact is these units will not be used against America but are allocated to elements within the UK as part of a larger strategic move within the Third World War. A successful shootdown (or even a miss) in Britain paying much larger long term dividends than one in America.

The Brits need to keep their eyes peeled in this time of the shortest days of the year...

The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.

It looks like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is showing liberal bias. Several times they use the word "Stinger" (a US missile) as if to suggest that US arms proliferation is the problem. But I've never heard of a civilian aircraft downed by a Stinger.

The Russian/Chinese designed SA-7, however, is ubiquitous in terrorist circles as is their RPG-7 and AK-47. Some of my leftist friends believe America is the arms supplier to the world. But more than 95% of Saddam's arsenal came from the East.