Even if Obama and his minions would prefer otherwise:
OSAMA bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will “outdo by far” September 11, an Arab newspaper in London has reported.
And according to a former senior Yemeni al-Qaeda operative, the terrorist organisation has entered a “positive phase”, reinforcing specific training camps around the world that will lead the next “wave of action” against the West.
The warning, on the front page of an Arabic newspaper published in London, Al-Quds Al-Arabi – and widely reported in the major Italian papers – quotes a person described as being “very close to al-Qaeda” in Yemen.
The paper is edited by Abdel al-Bari Atwan, who is said to be the last journalist to interview Osama bin Laden in 1996. According to the report, bin Laden is himself closely following preparations for an attack against the US and aims to “change the face of world politics and economics”. The operative is quoted as saying that “this will be shown by the fact that we now control a major part of the south of Somalia”.
Given the fact that I think bin Laden is dead – killed in the Tora Bora in December of 2001 – I take this report with a large grain of salt. On the other hand, I post it because (a) it might turn out to be true, even if we never see it due to disruption by our side and (b) because it is a dead certainty that our terrorist enemies will want to test Obama’s mettle early on to see what they can get away with from the new Administration. This would also have happened had McCain been elected – the whole world, indeed, wants to get the full measure of the new President. The problem with al Qaeda is that they usually get the full measure of something by killing lots of innocent people.
We can stick our heads in the sand and think that France and Iran will save us the trouble of fighting this war, but our enemies hate us for what we are, not what we do and they will keep coming at us until they are taken or destroyed. The central fact of our life is this: the enemy hates President Bush, but they also will hate President Obama. The only difference will be whether they’ll hold Obama in the awed and fearful respect they show to Bush, or whether they’ll run wild convinced that Obama has pulled the plug on the war and its only a matter of time before evil men take control.
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