Tuesday, March 18, 2014

The Return Of Global Terrorism


Global Terrorism Set To Reignite -- Greg Sheridan, The Australian

"At the beginning of the year 2001, no one could predict or imagine what was coming with the 9/11 attacks and everything that followed. American intelligence got some information, but no one really trusted that information.

"We could be in the same situation right now. Who can say what will happen after Syria? I fear we are in a pre-9/11 situation."

This is a devastating wake-up call because it comes from a man, let's call him Ali, who is one of the most senior figures associated with Indonesia's security policies.

I met him a couple of weeks ago, early one evening, in the acrid, smoke-filled cigar bar of one of Jakarta's five-star hotels. His judgment, which he supports with dense data and close reasoning, is informed by decades of critical experience. It is a judgment made long before a Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared over the South China Sea on Saturday, in an incident which may or may not be terrorism.

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My Comment: Years of war and hundreds of billions spent .... and Al Qaeda is not only still a threat ... but it is expanding. We need a new strategy.

1 comment:

Don Bacon said...

The US military (and its cronies) in a hundred countries, drone-launched rocket attacks on civilians, torture -- these are the terrorist recruiting tactics that the US uses, plus the US allies with terrorists to achieve its world domination objectives (e.g. with Saudi Arabia, in Libya, funding Pakistan, etc.).