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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 11:17 AM
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Al-Qaeda regrouped, on the march, says expert
http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=3e98f39c8d779bcc
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It's back," a top terrorism expert told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday.

"Today, al-Qaida has not only regrouped, but it is on the march," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at the Rand Corp. "Al-Qaida is now functioning exactly as its founder and leader, Osama bin Laden, envisioned it."
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"(Islamist) radicalization is increasing rather than decreasing," Hoffman said. "This is not a fight against the current generation of terrorist, and the next generation is already indoctrinated. What we need to be doing is not fighting the generation after this."

Hoffman believes the United States has ceded the Internet and its propaganda to the terrorists. There is very little effort to counter the information promulgated by al-Qaida and its affiliates. While it might do nothing to affect those already committed to violence, extremists might yet be swayed if they have contrary, verifiable information.
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To need to fight the Internet...
Amazing...
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 11:19 AM
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1. But...but...I thought Freedom was on the March?
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 11:20 AM
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2. Al-Qaeda.
“It has no existence as an independent concrete entity. It designates a highly developed category of Western covert operations designed to secure destabilization through the creation, multiplication, mobilization, and manipulation of disparate mujahideen groups. The evidence suggests that this was certainly the case on 9-11.”

- Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed.

http://www.gnn.tv/B16240
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 11:21 AM
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3. Oh, so many boogie-men and not enough fear instilled in the populace ...
What is our power mad, warmongering, neo-con leaders going to do next to spread FEAR.

Stop the HATE of "the other" ... Stop the War Machines, I wanna get off! ;)
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 11:38 AM
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4. Heres the point Osama bin laudin still lives and thrives
Bush has done nothing to bring him to justice.......

because he doesn't want to bring the boogie man to justice

Boogie Man has to scare people. He's a Bush tool...
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kineneb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-21-06 12:01 PM
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5. Osama probably lives in WHouse basement
he he. :evilgrin:

BushCo just seems to have done everything Osama could ever have desired. And then some. Sigh.
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