Intelligence Agencies Fear Escalation of Violence

Der Spiegel ^ | Sept. 5, 2004 | Friedrich Kuhn

[T Ruth]

Interesting article from a liberal German magazine. The author does not shrink from stating the case baldly: "al quaida . . . is pursuing a new world-wide strategy: to use attacks of the most brutal kind to influence elections, so as to spread islam over the entire world."

[pierrem15]

yes, but he links Iraq to the Chechen "quagmire." Look for that to become a Dhimmicrat talking-point.

[randog]

Until now, children have been substantially protected in all the attacks of the international terrorist organizations.

Evidently young Israeli children don't qualify by German standards.

[T Ruth]

Good observation.

[formercalifornian]

[marron]

A Beslan or Madrid style attack would not be impossible in the US. I also expect them to launch such an attack before the elections. How much it affects the election would be hard to predict; immediately before election day would probably provoke more voters to pull the lever for Bush. If it happened a few weeks before, the Dems would have time to play it to their advantage, and it might tip it the other way.

Since our southern and northern borders are essentially open to anyone willing to walk cross-country, it won't be impossible to filter a few dozen suicide commandos into the country, and if I am right they are already here and have been here a while.

September 11 is coming up, and it doesn't take a genius to imagine they might like to mark that date with a reprise.

Pray and keep your powder dry.

[Bahbah]

I was hoping someone would point that out. Thanks.

[T Ruth]

Unfortunately, your post is all too accurate.

[maestro]

FYI.......ping

[RonHolzwarth]

Evidently young Israeli children don't qualify by German standards.

You're right, they didn't and don't. It wasn't that long ago that young Jewish children went up the smokestacks at Treblinka, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Chelmno, Sobibor, Belzek and Majdanek, along with their mothers, fathers, grandparents,,,

[coconutt2000]

"al quaida . . . is pursuing a new world-wide strategy: to use attacks of the most brutal kind to influence elections, so as to spread islam over the entire world."

His head is stuck in the sand... Al Qaida was building a world wide network for exactly this purpose well before 9/11, and well before the Russian school.

It certainly wasn't a network designed to spread love and good will.

[CurlyDave]

Until now, children have been substantially protected in all the attacks of the international terrorist organizations.

"Substantially protected", my @ss.

Israeli children & their mothers have been targeted. In other instances children were only "collateral damage", but they certainly weren't protected.

The real difference is that now they have been specifically targeted.

Where is the UN ? What do you say Kofi, old boy ? Should we all sing "kumbaya" over the dead bodies ?

Hopefully, the Russians will not be bashful about retaliation.

If Pres. Bush could forge an alliance against terror with the Russians, it might be the only good thing to come out of this.

[T Ruth]

If Pres. Bush could forge an alliance against terror with the Russians, it might be the only good thing to come out of this.

Yes. An alliance on cultural, or perhaps better, "civilizational" grounds might be more fruitful and lasting than the WWII alliance against the Nazis.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[CurlyDave]

I would settle for a pragmatic alliance against a common threat for starters.

I have been to Russia and did business with Russians for several years. We have much more in common than we have differences.

[TheLion]

All those OTM's crossing our southern border doesn't give one much peace of mind, does it.

[San Jacinto]

...reached a level of terrorism that can lead to even greater violence.

It darn well should lead to a BIG escalation in the violence is all I have to say about it.

[JasonC]

I'd settle just for the Russians not giving nuclear technology to the nutjob terrorist masters in Iran.

I've been asking for a year now. Not an inch so far.

[stlnative]

I believe that any and all schools that have had major work done to them over the summer MUST have bomb sniffing dogs run through the schools. This terrorist bunch had access to the school during the remodeling of the Belsan School and they stashed explosives and ammo under the new gym floor. This might be what their plan is for our voting period.

Tell me what would make it even more horrible than just having an American school of 1000 children being held by Islamics terrorists?

It would be more horrible (to some) if they do it when Americans are suppose to be voting at the polls for our next president. Even though it probably would not work on most of us, but they think it would influence they way the American people would vote. Simply take a school and the children hostage on 11/1/04 and demand that if Bush wins they will blow up the school with all the children in it, and claim if Bush does not win they will let the children go. They also know that elections might be held off, but they will demand if it is, then the school goes up with all the children in it. There is no way we could enter the school as they would have it wired up just like they did in Belsan. The thing is MOST American people are more rational, but now we totally see that terrorist will kill anyone no matter what age they are. They think it is helping their cause, but we all know (and now some other countries are waking up) that it does not. What could it hurt if the government ran bomb sniffing dogs through schools that were remodeled over the summer? Start with them first and then start checking other schools that have not been remodeled over the summer.

[Fast1]

Time to get real nasty with these Animals.