Al Qaeda is Stronger
Recently, the National Intelligence Estimate warned of the resurgence in Pakistan of al Qaeda. The NIE is the intelligence community’s collective analysis of pressing national security issues.
According to a senior government official who has seen the NIE, al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Despite a campaign of military action and counterterrorism operations, al Qaeda has regained its strength and found safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Bush continues to claim that “Al Qaeda in Iraq” makes Iraq the central front in the war on terror. The Bush regime insists: “over the past six years, we have prevented attacks from al Qaeda by taking the fight to them.”
Former analyst and head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer believes that al Qaeda may follow us to America long before any insurgents in Iraq do. Michael Scheuer wrote “Imperial Hubris”, which describes what the terrorist’s convictions are based on.
The Pentagon reports that Iraqi forces control only 8 percent of Baghdad and that American and Iraqi forces control only about half of Baghdad. The surge is clearly not as successful as General Petraeus would have us believe. Should those threats become a reality while America continues to be bogged down in Iraq, it will be a major blemish on the career General David Petraeus.
It’s been four years and the Iraq military hasn’t stepped up. Reportedly, 400,000 Iraqis have been training for four years. We train our youth in 16 weeks, put them on a plane, send them to Iraq and expect them to do battle over there for a year. Those Iraqis in the military need the pay, but most are not interested in dying to help an occupying imperialistic corporate power steal their oil.
According to a senior government official who has seen the NIE, al Qaeda is the strongest it has been since the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Despite a campaign of military action and counterterrorism operations, al Qaeda has regained its strength and found safe haven in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Bush continues to claim that “Al Qaeda in Iraq” makes Iraq the central front in the war on terror. The Bush regime insists: “over the past six years, we have prevented attacks from al Qaeda by taking the fight to them.”
Former analyst and head of the CIA’s bin Laden unit, Michael Scheuer believes that al Qaeda may follow us to America long before any insurgents in Iraq do. Michael Scheuer wrote “Imperial Hubris”, which describes what the terrorist’s convictions are based on.
The Pentagon reports that Iraqi forces control only 8 percent of Baghdad and that American and Iraqi forces control only about half of Baghdad. The surge is clearly not as successful as General Petraeus would have us believe. Should those threats become a reality while America continues to be bogged down in Iraq, it will be a major blemish on the career General David Petraeus.
It’s been four years and the Iraq military hasn’t stepped up. Reportedly, 400,000 Iraqis have been training for four years. We train our youth in 16 weeks, put them on a plane, send them to Iraq and expect them to do battle over there for a year. Those Iraqis in the military need the pay, but most are not interested in dying to help an occupying imperialistic corporate power steal their oil.
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