Posted on 11/08/2004 8:09:11 AM PST by agenda_express
Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says
By JAMES RISEN
Published: November 8, 2004
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - The Bush administration has failed to recognize that Al Qaeda is now a global Islamic insurgency, rather than a traditional terrorist organization, and so poses a much different threat than previously believed, says a senior counterterrorism official at the Central Intelligence Agency.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NAME YOUR SOURCES, NYT!!!
Someone here said recently that Bush's #1 mistake in early 2001 was not dumping Tenet as soon as possible.
They should be disbanded and a new organization should be built from the ground up.
"Michael Scheuer, the former chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit and the author of a best-selling book critical of the administration's handling of the fight against terrorism, said in an interview with The New York Times this weekend that the government "doesn't respect the threat" because most officials still regard Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization that can be defeated by arresting or killing its operatives one at a time."
Another GW hit article from the NY Slimes which is under SEC investigation for fraud re phoney # of subscribers and news stand sales. The NY Slimes is incapable of printing the truth.
"...says a senior counterterrorism official at the Central Intelligence Agency."
BARF ALERT.
Attention Porter Goss: Richard Clarke butt-buddy still clerking at the Agency. Suggest immediate fumigation.
It was global before and in the dark. We have cast a bright light on it and they are scurry about like the rats they are. Now it is time to exterminate them.
Risen appears to be another rabid Fudge Packer for Kerry or at least one who spends his adult life writing articles to push the gay agenda.
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=JAMES%20RISEN%20Gay
They do name their source. Not that that makes the article any better!
This guy Michael Scheuer is just extra-bitter because the Bush re-election killed his political apointee aspirations. He figured that his inflammatory book and revisionist perspective on recent history would get him in tight with the Kerry administration.
The war in Iraq is a consequence of this as is the effort to to make Iraq and Afghanistan deocratic and free.
Most of the hysterical criticism of Bush has been over acting on the fact that this is a "global Islamic insurgency" wherein critics have said Bush is not going against al Qaeda enough and Iraq didn't attack us etc...
"The Bush administration has failed to recognize that Al Qaeda is now a global Islamic insurgency,"
Um, that's what the Bush Admin has been saying all along.
I guess this explains why we have Special Forces deployed all around the globe.
In an unrelated story, the news media has been saying that President Bush doesn't understand much of anything, and that his critics and opponents understand everything. (':
I just checked your hotlink and it sure looks like his interest is in pushing gay issues.
Wonder when he had time to do his supposed CIA work?
Whenever you see one of these unfounded bashings of GW in the MSM, do a simple search in the Yahoo search area.
Enter the name of the bser and type in Gay after its name. Then do the search. It can be quite revealing.
Scheuer doesn't strike me as a dove. He advocates very punishing attacks against the Islamists.
I don't understand where you disagree with him.
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