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Attacks by Islamists projected to continue
townhall.com ^ | 1/14/05 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 01/13/2005 10:46:12 PM PST by kattracks

Radical Islamic terrorists will continue to attack the United States and the world in the coming two decades and are likely to obtain and use biological weapons, according to a new intelligence report made public yesterday.
    The National Intelligence Council (NIC) report, based on more than 1,000 interviews with U.S. and foreign specialists, said extremist Muslims pose the greatest danger of terror attack because their "religious zeal" has pushed them to conduct mass casualty attacks.

 "The most worrisome trend has been an intensified search by some terrorist groups to obtain weapons of mass destruction," the report said. "Our greatest concern is that these groups might acquire biological agents or less likely, a nuclear device, either of which could cause mass casualties."
    The report, "Mapping the Global Future," projects future threats and trends to 2020, and concludes that globalization is creating a new era of world insecurity.

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Terrorists will continue to use car bombs as "asymmetric weapons" but extremists also are expected to step up their use of higher-technology weapons, including advanced explosives and unmanned aerial vehicles.
    As for targets, the report stated that the United States and its interests abroad will remain "prime terrorist targets," with other terrorist attacks aimed at Middle Eastern regimes and against Western Europe.


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1 posted on 01/13/2005 10:46:13 PM PST by kattracks
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
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2 posted on 01/13/2005 10:48:24 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: kattracks
"Worlds whiny spoiled chidren expected to continue p*ssing up ropes...click here for updates"
3 posted on 01/13/2005 10:53:40 PM PST by Bobber58 (whatever it takes, for as long as it takes)
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To: kattracks

Well, golly. Sugar's sweet, water's wet and the Pope's Catholic.


4 posted on 01/13/2005 11:01:25 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: kattracks

"Attacks by islamists projected to continue"

"Deaths of islamists projected to increase"

5 posted on 01/13/2005 11:22:39 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: kattracks

I projuect the ultimate extinction of "the Islamists". Think Carthage.


6 posted on 01/13/2005 11:25:36 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: kattracks
Radical Islamic terrorists will continue to attack the United States and the world in the coming two decades...

Mercy! Next thing you know, they'll tell us that rain is wet, sugar is sweet, and Ted Kennedy is a lying drunk Liberal!

8 posted on 01/13/2005 11:36:03 PM PST by Prime Choice (If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made of meat?)
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To: kattracks; All
Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:


9 posted on 01/13/2005 11:42:17 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: kattracks
Radical Islamic terrorists will continue to attack the United States and the world in the coming two decades and are likely to obtain and use biological weapons, according to a new intelligence report made public yesterday.

In other news, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. They won't quit until someone is dead. I hope it's not us...

10 posted on 01/13/2005 11:44:26 PM PST by TheSpottedOwl
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To: kattracks

Duh!


11 posted on 01/13/2005 11:45:15 PM PST by RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS
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To: F15Eagle

Criminy!

I swear, Eagle, sometimes I feel like I've been exiled on Planet Stupid. How about you?


12 posted on 01/13/2005 11:48:29 PM PST by broadsword (It was far beyond anything seen here before!)
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To: kattracks

Boy, must have been a real nail-biter putting that one in the report.


13 posted on 01/14/2005 12:00:44 AM PST by thoughtomator (Rooting for a Jets-Vikings Superbowl!)
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To: F15Eagle

bttt


14 posted on 01/14/2005 1:17:27 AM PST by lainde
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To: lainde

Does this guy think he is telling us something we don't know? Real news would have been on the order that they had decided not to attack anyone ever again and they were going to live peacefull with all infidels from now on and they are thinking about becoming Buddists. Not that this will ever happen but at least it would be something we don't already know. They can keep on attacking and we can keep on killing them.


15 posted on 01/14/2005 1:24:49 AM PST by calex59
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To: kattracks

These whackos don't have any other reason to get out of bed in the morning but to hate the US. No meaningful jobs, self esteem, education. They're stuck in the Dark Ages and told by their mullahs that it's our fault. We're trying to bring them into the modern world and their senses, but so far it's a tough road to hoe.


16 posted on 01/14/2005 7:30:15 AM PST by hershey
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
The analysis isn't quite as contentless as you (and a few others on the thread) are making out:

Sure, the Koran provides ample 'justification' for jihad as a war of global conquest, but Islam has taken this seriously in fits and starts. Their false prophet and the first few Caliphs took it seriously, but then the later Caliphate got pragmatic (St. John of Damascus, who wrote the first Christian critique of Islam was the equivalent of Lord Chamberlain to one of the Caliphs, and only got trouble due to court politics, not his criticism of their religion). The Moguls conquored India, but eventually decided to accord Hindus, who really are idolaters, the status of dhimmis (which the Koran reserves for 'infidel' monotheists). The Turks renewed a serious attempt to conquor Europe for the false creed, but you might have noticed things have been fairly quiet since the last seige of Vienna was turned back.

The question is when this round of jihadism will die out (if they don't overplay their hand and oblige us to hand Islam a defeat on the magnitude of that given politicized Shinto in 1945).

17 posted on 01/14/2005 7:34:31 AM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was)
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To: F15Eagle

Death To all Islamofascist terrorists ~ Bump!


18 posted on 01/14/2005 7:52:43 AM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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