IS THAT RIGHT ??
Let's do some post election FACT CHECKS on that.
Bin Laden 'cut off from al-Qaeda' (click title to entry, thank you)
The CIA says Osama Bin Laden is isolated from the day-to-day operations of al-Qaeda, but that the organisation is still the greatest threat to the US.
CIA director Michael Hayden said the Saudi militant was probably hiding in the tribal area of north-west Pakistan.
Mr Hayden said Bin Laden was "putting a lot of energy into his own survival" and that his capture remained the US government's top priority.
But he warned that al-Qaeda was still spreading in Africa and the Mid-East.
In a speech to the Atlantic Council on Thursday, Mr Hayden said: "[Bin Laden] is putting a lot of energy into his own survival, a lot of energy into his own security."...
The question is "Has al Qaeda now spread into Africa ?" It's difficult to answer that question except to say, "Does the CIA have records any more recently than 1998?"
...Kenya is widely remembered as the site of the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed over 200 people and cast al-Qaeda into international prominence. (click here) The attack was followed by a 2002 suicide car bombing that targeted a hotel popular with Israelis near Mombassa and the attempted destruction of an Israeli airliner. In both incidents, the vast majority of victims were Kenyans. There is, however, a great difference in the perception of the ongoing terrorist threat in Nairobi and Washington. Over Kenyan opposition the U.S. has issued a new terrorist warning for Kenya, damaging the important Kenyan tourism industry. Kenyan officials claim their country is largely free from terrorist threat and is unfairly blamed for its unavoidable proximity to lawless Somalia....
Okay? It would seem as though al Qaeda has NEVER LEFT Africa. Right? Algiers has been a long time occupation area for al Qaeda right along with Somalia. The most recent Bush Doctrine Report links increased levels of violence to terrorist networks.
JOKING !
A North African terrorist ring with deep connections to al Qaeda could pose a threat to Western Europe, (click here) the head of Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) said.
Ernst Uhrlau said al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa was attempting to expand its sphere of influence beyond its established power base in Algeria.
Al Qaeda in Islamic North Africa, which is also known as the Al Qaeda Organization in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility for attacks last December in Algiers, targeting the UN headquarters there and the Algerian Constitutional Court. The bombings killed at least 70 people.
The terror group has also been at the heart of a string of attacks this year, including a strike east of Algiers on Sept. 28 which killed three people and wounded six others....
Then there is THAT reality al Qaeda is ALREADY a well established global terrorist network. You know the 'thing' that gets me is that the attacks in the USA were seven years ago. And what does the USA say after STILL YET ANOTHER attack on The West? "Oh, well, this is London's 911." As if they really needed a 911 to understand the pain. Additionally, the al Qaeda recruitment members that carried out these bombings did so after receiving all the paraphernalia from Pakistan. Go figure, huh?
Full text: 'Al-Qaeda' Madrid claim (click here)
This is a transcript of the videotaped message claiming al-Qaeda carried out the Madrid train bombings, as translated by the Associated Press.
We declare our responsibility for what happened in Madrid exactly two-and-a-half years after the attacks on New York and Washington.
It is a response to your collaboration with the criminals Bush and his allies.
This is a response to the crimes that you have caused in the world, and specifically in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there will be more, if God wills it....
At the rate the USA intelligence and military are moving to completely disband al Qaeda, Bin Laden will have died an death by natural causes !
Seven years ago, people. Seven years since the attacks of September 11th and we have seen allies of this country attacked when IN FACT bin Laden could have been captured and killed.
What is "W"rong with this picture?
SEVEN YEARS !!!!
Are we any safer? You know, I still have my Duct Tape, don't you?
