Posted on 05/03/2013 4:33:55 PM PDT by bgill
Two more people have been arrested in Seattle and New York, FBI officials said yesterday, as investigators tried to break up a suspected terrorist network they believe was plotting a bomb attack against a US target .... Graham Fuller, a specialist on Islamic extremism and a former CIA analyst, said: "I'm a little sceptical about the possibility that the GIA is now targeting us because it would have been accompanied by some kind of rhetoric. Therefore I would speculate that these guys are working on their own or hired by someone else."
And Mr Fuller argued that Mr Ressam's Afghan training was not conclusive evidence of a Bin Laden connection.
"Virtually every serious mujahed, every Islamic fighter, would have been in Afghanistan, would have received training for building car bombs, and would probably have come across Bin Laden. We have to be careful when we talk about 'links'."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Except that is exactly what we have done.
Remember Osama Bin Laden.
CIA brought him to power by trying to go after Russia.
LOL. Clever. To take the less convoluted route, GraHAM Fuller is obviously connected to Kevin BACON.
HAM and BACON.
Voila’!
GRRRRRREAT post, bgill, thanks! Thanks very much for the ping, null and void. BTTT!
Thanks for your posts concerning Graham Fuller. BTTT!
How many muslims have been imported specifically to work in food processing plants?
“The Russian Federation is unraveling, and its war against Chechnya shows why. Moscow blames Islamist terrorists for the trouble there. But in doing so, it ignores Russia’s deeper afflictions. Russia has forced disparate ethnic groups to live together for decades but has proven inept at governing its wobbly empire. Now the fighting in Chechnya is leading dissatisfied nationalities to rethink their options — and their dependence on Russia. Chechnya was the first to rebel. It will not be the last.”
“The mantra that the war on terrorism is not a war on Islam ignores one crucial fact: Islam and politics are inextricably linked throughout the Muslim world. Islamism includes Osama bin Laden and the Taliban but also moderates and liberals. In fact, it can be whatever Muslims want it to be. Rather than push secularism, the West should help empower the silent Muslim majority that rejects radicalism and violence. The result could be political systems both truly Islamist and truly democratic.”
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/57806/graham-e-fuller/the-future-of-political-islam
Several others - http://www.foreignaffairs.com/author/graham-e-fuller
Wolverines gone rogue?
Fascinating links! Thanks very much, bgill. Wider context BUMP!
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