Bodansky: Terrorists Seek ‘Mass Casualties on an Unprecedented Scale’ (says were losing)

Newsmax ^ | Oct. 5, 2004 | Dave Eberhart

[FearGodNotMen]

Most of the Muslim who emigrated to Europe went there searching for jobs and a better life. The problem is, the terrorists can easily slip in along with them.

[JSteff]

"In short, the terrorists we face are super-sophisticated ...very different from the average American's view of the "Arab Street."

Jeez, you could take out the words "terrorist and Arab" in the sentence and replace them with Democrat and it would still ring true.

[kimosabe31]

bump

[pawdoggie]

Mr. Bodansky may be a "terrorism expert", but he's also peddling a book, and is therefore inclined to use sensationalism and "loaded" phrases ("losing the war on Terror). If one were go back to November 1942, one would find that while there was a grim determination to persevere in the Allied camp, no one "knew" to within a moral certainty that we were "winning" or "losing". Yet historical factors were already in motion that would make our victory "inevitable". The fact is that we have only just begun to fight the War on Terror, and that some dark days and difficult decisions lay ahead before we develop the sense of urgency, the ruthlessness (yes, ruthlessness) and the true will to win that it will take to keep terrorism away from our shores.

[FearGodNotMen]

Thanks for the bump kimosabe31,

It's about time the American people--especially conservatives--got a little more savvy about the world around them.

[Kingasaurus]

Bodansky is always on with John Batchelor and he ALWAYS says were losing. A real alarmist who has an overinflated view of his own importance. Then Loftus shows up in the next segment and says we're winning and victory over time is inevitable.

Take it all with a grain of salt.

I agree that if they had a suitcase nuke they would have used it by now.

[kimosabe31]

Yeah, Europe is going down the tubes in the next 50 years unless something changes. However, a France or Europe run by Muslims is unlikely to be much more of a threat to the US militarily or economically than Egypt or Libya is today.

Got to disagree with you here. The "froggies" have a fairly substantial nuke stockpile and IRBM's to deliver them with. If this fell into the hands of the islamo-fascists, they could "blackmail the rest of europe. It would represent an enormous threat escalation that would require immediate neutralization.

[kimosabe31]

I don't think we can tolerate allowing the "frogs" to go "islamo-fascist". Bush should makesure they understand this right after the election.

[Poohbah]

Bodanksy was the first expert to significantly warn the West about Osama bin Laden in his 1999 best seller, “Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America.”

He was probably not the first "expert" to make stuff up (faced with a shortage of material about Osama's teenage years, he simply faked it).

And he's been caught doing that before--back in the 1980s, he came up with a doozy of a story for Jane's Defense Weekly, claiming that "female Spetsnaz troops" had infiltrated the anti-nuclear dingbats protesting outside the US cruise missile base at Greenham Common.

[vaudine]

If intelligence is so bad, on what does Mr. Bodansky base his doom and gloom predictions?

vaudine

[Poohbah]

If intelligence is so bad, on what does Mr. Bodansky base his doom and gloom predictions?

See my post #29...he makes it up as he goes.

[Wallaby]

More Bodansky:

• Jihadists Anticipate Imminent Nuclear Strike Against U.S.