Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Al-Qaida Is Still Dangerous

Al-Qaida Is Still Dangerous Foe, New Data Show -- David Ignatius, IBD Editorial

Government officials refer to it blandly as the "SSE," or Sensitive Site Exploitation.

That's their oblique term for the extraordinary cache of evidence that was carried away from Osama bin Laden's compound the night the al-Qaida leader was killed.

With the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks a few weeks away, it's possible to use this evidence to sketch a vivid portrait of al-Qaida, drawing on material contained in more than 100 computer storage devices, including thumb drives, DVDs and CDs, and more than a dozen computers or hard drives — all collected during the May 2 raid.

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My Comment: They and their allies will be dangerous for years (if not decades) to come. We might as well get use to it .... and develop long term policies and intelligence operations with this in mind.

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