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Posted on 11/01/2006 8:20:24 PM PST by nwctwx
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2079
War on Terror Like Cold War, Not World War II, Rumsfeld Says
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9, 2006 – To fight the war on terror the United States will need the perseverance its citizens demonstrated during the Cold War, not the complete national mobilization of World War II, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.
Rumsfeld spoke at the Landon Lecture series at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kan.
“Like the Cold War, this era finds America and our allies in a struggle against an ideology of global reach,” the secretary said. “And like the Cold War, this era requires us to adapt and adjust our strategies, our way of thinking and our institutions.”
Rumsfeld said the war on terror is not going to be a short-duration, high-intensity conflict like World War II. Rather, it is more like the Cold War, where the country did not mobilize, but did demonstrate the perseverance to prevail over 50 years. “We did it through successive administrations of both political parties, not just in our country but in the democratic capitals of Western Europe,” he said. “And it was a very different experience.”
Government officials need to present the case to the American people and explain to them what’s at stake, the secretary said. “Every year that goes by, there is a greater and greater likelihood that weapons of mass destruction are going to end up in more and more hands,” he said.
North Korea detonated a nuclear device, and Iran is trying to build one. “You see what Iran did by way of providing weapons to the Hezbollah, to a non-state entity,” Rumsfeld said. “And you look down the road, and other countries are going to say, ‘Well, if Iran and North Korea are developing nuclear weapons, maybe we need to do that.’”
He said it is only a matter of time before these weapons will be in the hands of non-state entities. Deterrence, which served the West so well in the Cold War, will not work against networks that have no real estate to defend, no industrial base and “no address where you can go after them.”
The world is moving to that scenario, he said, and the civilized countries must understand the threat and take steps to counter these threats. “We did it during the Cold War,” he said. “I don't have any doubt, at all, that we're going to be capable of doing it during this long struggle that we face against violent extremists.”
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http://www.persecution.org
http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=58270
"Bangladesh Demonstrations November 10-12"
Safety and Security
South / Central Asia - Bangladesh
9 Nov 2006
http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=58302
"Warden Message: Hamas Threatens U.S. Interests"
Consular Affairs Bulletins
Middle East / N. Africa - Israel, Jerusalem, West Bank/Gaza
9 Nov 2006
http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=58300
"Warden Message: Israel Caution Urged"
Consular Affairs Bulletins
Middle East / N. Africa - Israel, West Bank/Gaza
9 Nov 2006
http://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=58265
"Warden Message: Pakistan Suicide Bombing"
Consular Affairs Bulletins
South / Central Asia - Pakistan
9 Nov 2006
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_2765.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Fri Nov 10 2006 03:12:26 GMT-0800.
Bangladesh
November 08, 2006
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Fri Nov 10 2006 03:13:25 GMT-0800.
Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
In response to the assertion that the war in Iraq "created more terrorists":
The madrassas, training camps, sleeper cells, global financial network, intricate plots, terrorist manuals, etc., did not pop up overnight. The global war on the "infidel" has been in the works for decades. Just what were the thousands of men who went through the various training camps going to do? Sit around and wait for us? If I remember correctly, something like 20,000 men a year were being trained in Afghanistan and elsewhere. That's not a few disgruntled youths, that's an army.
Iraq or no Iraq, we'd already been targeted.
WAY TO GO MARINES!
I appreciate you all and Happy Birthday.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013996.php
November 10, 2006
"Iran to IAEA: Help us build reactor while we ignore you"
Newt Gingrich quote. Needs no parsing, IMO.
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"We need candor, we need directness," said Gingrich, a potential 2008 presidential candidate."We need to understand the threats we faced with are so frightening and so real, the danger that we'll lose two to three American cities so great, that we cannot play games with each other,........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736259/posts
I agree that he's 100% correct about the grave danger the U.S. faces but I think our party has taken enough of a beating this week without Newt piling on the Prez.
Asians thrown off flight (UK - Muslims)
The Sun ^ | November 10, 2006 | By JOHN TROUP and TOM REILLY
Posted on 11/10/2006 7:39:14 AM PST by Eurotwit
COPS marched four Asian men off a plane after a passenger said their behaviour made him nervous.
The men — in Islamic robes — were arguing in a foreign language and then all went to the toilet, one after the other.
A fellow traveller on the Luton to Glasgow easyJet flight demanded they be kicked off — just as the plane was to taxi to the runway.
Cabin crew alerted the captain and cops were called, who took the men, all in their 20s, off the plane.
Everyone else on board was then ordered off with their hand luggage while the crew searched the cabin.
The jet took off an hour and ten minutes late at 10pm on Wednesday.
Another passenger said: “A Scottish bloke in his 20s who was sat beside them clearly thought something was up. He was arguing strongly that these lads were up to no good and should be taken off.
“Considering they had just got on a minute before, their behaviour was pretty bizarre. I think other people were worried.
“The men were all wearing jackets over long Islamic robes. They had beards and looked like Muslims.”
In August Asian students Sohail Ashraf, 21, and Khurram Zeb, 22, were thrown off a jet as passengers wrongly thought they were terrorists.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736289/posts?page=11#11
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Al-Qaida in Iraq leader vows his fighters will never rest until they have blown up the White House.
Yet only one passenger spoke up. Amazing.
Al-Qaida's real cocky today ... we need to serve up Binny's head on a platter.
Oooh, that would be nice.
Here's the FULL TEXT, a must read, IMO.
Plenty of info MSM left out of their reporting....
Such as the thwarted attack to London from November 2000.
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Terrorist threat to UK - MI5 chief's full speech
Following is the full text of a speech delivered on November 9, 2006 by Eliza Manningham-Buller, Director-General of MI5, on the terrorist threat facing the UK:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2447690,00.html
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