Analysis: Al-Qaeda Changes Focus of Their Attacks and Here's Why

The Hawaii Reporter ^ | 9 Jul 06 | Jim Kouri

[Darkwolf377]

You're going to have a coronary, Mrs. Fact Woman. You're not a woman? Are you a man going through menopause?

Why do you hate women so much?

[Jim Noble]

This article didn't spend enough time focusing on if any of the accused terrorists' civil rights were violated, their phones tapped, or their funding was looked at by the US government. Also, are their holding cells adequately air conditioned?

You forgot the proper Koran handling procedures.

I DO hope they are using two hands at all times...

[Ditter]

Last nights news showed reporters showing how trains and train yards were totally unguarded. It bothered me to think terrorist were watching the news. All I could think of the old WW2 slogan "loose lips sink ships".

[tonycavanagh]

johnny7 is right about America being able to strike back covertly as well as overtly and while as a terrorist you can hit America in the war of attrition that follows as terrorist group you would lose.

That is why with America I would take a more indirect form of attack.

I would let Americans do my work for me.

i.e causing gang warfare in the cities eliminating key gang members with the evidence pointing to other gang members.

Eliminating Black and White separatists, feeding into people paranoia.

The aim would be not to bring America down, she is too powerful for that, but to create enough problems that America would start turning inward.

Nothing like race riots or accelerated gang warfare for tying up American military resources.

Of course this would take a lot of effort and organizational skills.

[leadpenny]

I pity some people but don't hate anyone.

[Darkwolf377]

You forgot the proper Koran handling procedures. I DO hope they are using two hands at all times...

Yes, so they're sure it gets over the fence and into the pig slop. :)

[leadpenny]

FTR, the first insult: "you're not too swift."

Facts, my dear lady, are stubborn things.

[Darkwolf377]

I pity some people but don't hate anyone.

Although you think the height of insult is calling someone a woman--twice. Very revealing....

[leadpenny]

You're intuitive antenna is inoperative. You could hurt yourself, try not to think.

[cvq3842]

Good point. People should not forget.

[Stallone]

The Four Scourges of the World:

1. Liberal Media
2. Islamofacists
3. Communists
4. Democrats

[Darkwolf377]

I think more people remember than we give them credit for; just because the MSM seem to want to "get past" 9-11, people SAW it, while it happened, on their TVs (or in person). Those images aren't leaving our heads. Just because 9-11-themed poll questions aren't asked, that doesn't mean people aren't thinking about them.

[cvq3842]

Understood. But seeing those pictures really brings it home.

[Darkwolf377]

Of course you're right. I kinda wish some cable station would play realtime video of it on 9/11 for 24 hours or something starting when the newscasts broke in about the first plane. Remind people on an emotional level, not just an intellectual one.

[nonliberal]

What the terrorists don't understand is that if there is another attack and Mecca is not still glowing 2,000 years from now, the President would be impeached. Every mosque in America would need an armed guard in front of it.

That is the great thing about America. We don't put up with a whole lot of crap.

[cvq3842]

Wow! Quite a post! Agreed, America won't allow itself to be messed with.

[mo]

As a corollary to that, I am sure that Dean, the DNC and whoever will be their nominnee will somehow be in receipt of Middle Eastern cash......

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

So really, Al-Qaeda has become just another activist wing of the Democrats.

Right. Al-Quaeda is the military wing. It's like Hamas. Each wing pretends it doesn't know what the other wing is doing.

[prairiebreeze]

I believe such attacks would have to be on-going and widely spread to have a lasting economic impact. Not that the scenarios you describe wouldn't be horrible or cause consequences but I hope that mass public withdrawal wouldn't be sustained (if it occured) in the long run.

[nonliberal]

I think the immigration debate has brought out that there is still concern for national security as well as a seething rage over terrorist attacks. It is just below the surface, but it is there.