That could be it
My mind is getting blurry from all this reading
Hussein's Capture Not Likely to Harm Al Qaeda
Experts Say Terrorist Operation May Be More Likely to Prove Its Relevance
by Dana Priest, Washington Post
December 26th, 2003
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"Al Qaeda planning and operations will continue unless other factors impede them," said Rand Beers, a former counterterrorism expert with the National Security Council and now an adviser to Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. "In fact, I presume that al Qaeda will now want to prove its independence from Saddam Hussein and its continued vibrancy by conducting more operations."
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Have you seen the new headline story at the WaPo?
New Plans Foresee Fighting Terrorism Beyond War Zones
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has approved the military's most ambitious plan yet to fight terrorism around the world and retaliate more rapidly and decisively in the case of another major terrorist attack on the United States, according to defense officials.The long-awaited campaign plan for the global war on terrorism, as well as two subordinate plans also approved within the past month by Rumsfeld, are considered the Pentagon's highest priority, according to officials familiar with the three documents who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about them publicly.
Details of the plans are secret...For example, SOCOM has dispatched small teams of Army Green Berets and other Special Operations troops to U.S. embassies in about 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America, where they do operational planning and intelligence gathering to enhance the ability to conduct military operations where the United States is not at war....