"jim rozen" wrote in message
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In article , RAM^3 says...

Has it? Where is the followup attack to 9/11 in the US?

7/7 in London.

I think this was where I came it. Dave said it was
"beneath me" to point this out. Our efforts in
iraq no matter how splendid at spending our tax
dollars have not stopped terrorism at all.

They seem to be concentrating all the insurgents
instead, so they can attend postgraduate terrorism
school in the universtity that we ourselves have
created.

Jim

You expected otherwise? g

One of the obvious trademarks of the Al Queda network is their penchant for
grandstanding: big operations on easily-remembered dates. They also tend to
use troops from a wide range of countries.

Now that their training camps in Afghanistan have been closed, they've been
sending their trainees to Iraq for some "stand-up-shoot-back target
practice" which has, also, culled their ranks of some of their dumber
recruits.

The recent events in Lebanon would seem to indicate that the Syrian-backed
training camps may ALSO be soon closed. This appearance is strengthened by
the increasing number of graduates of those camps being identified as being
within Iraq. [They knew better than to try going to Israel. G]

As to "concentrating" their forces, I'd guess that they, actually, have less
than 5,000 - excluding sympathizers - world-wide. (It doesn't take many: ask
the IRA how many "active" people that they have. G)

One good thing about their "concentration" in Iraq: there our personnel can
take effective action against them. If they're hiding out in the US or the
UK then the local laws are so rigged that they have to be caught AFTER they
commit an act - something difficult to do when the act eliminates the
perpetrator - and then provide them with lots of "Photo Opportunities",
Media Interviews, and other publicity for their "cause".

Another good thing about their "concentration" in Iraq: the attraction to
Iraq of extremist removes them from their "parent" countries thus reducing
the risk that they'll create havoc there. This contributes significantly to
the peace and stability of the region and, at the same time, allows their
"parent" government to legitimately disavow them and their actions to the
rest of the world while ALSO allowing them to disavow any complicity in the
death/capture/detainment of these "young" people.

A major turning point was passed when the so-called "insurgents" [aka
terrorists] shifted their focus from the Coalition troops to Iraqi troops
and civilians. This marked their recognition that their initial efforts to
return Saddam Hussein to power was dead and that they were in for a long,
drawn-out, war to take over the government of Iraq and, eventually, become
the preeminent power in the Middle East [Saddam's Dream] and the Muslim
World [Khomeni's Dream].

In case you've forgotten, to them, the Crusades are "current events"...

Far, far too many people, today, think that the 4-day attack is all that
there is to a war since that's about their attention span limit. They forget
that it took far longer than that just to take Okinawa - a much smaller
area - and that there were Japanese troops coming down from the hills for
over 25 years after their government had surrendered. They also forget the
hard-fought campaign in the US Territory of Alaska [along the Aleutian
Islands] and both the shelling of Southern California and the bombing of
Oregon and Washington by the Japanese.

Why should this war be any different?