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Under New American Management Al-Qaida Now Poses Inner Threat
IBD Editorials ^ | August 13, 2010 | PAUL SPERRY

Posted on 08/13/2010 5:23:15 PM PDT by Kaslin

If al-Qaida looks and sounds different as we approach 9/11's ninth anniversary, it's because it's under new American management. No fewer than four U.S. citizens and a permanent U.S. resident have risen to senior leadership posts.

These five English-speaking leaders are actively planning or facilitating attacks against their countrymen, while recruiting and radicalizing other American turncoats to carry them out.

By remaking itself into an American enterprise, al-Qaida is now more lethal than ever. Its new generation of leaders understands the way America works, having lived here for decades. They have a better sense of our security blind spots. They also know which kinds of attacks will produce both mass panic and maximum economic damage.

Al-Qaida's indigenous rebirth, moreover, befogs our military strategy. We're no longer at war with just a foreign enemy, but fellow Americans recruited by the enemy. They're supplied, in turn, by a seemingly endless stream of homegrown foot soldiers, fed by a native Muslim population once believed quiescent and nonthreatening.

Shockingly, the War on Terror has morphed into a mini-civil war, and it's posing major new challenges to its prosecution. We're now battling our own citizens. How do we deal with wartime traitors? Can the CIA assassinate them? Can it spy on them? What about their civil rights?

This muddies an already muddy war — and it's all part of al-Qaida's plan.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
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1 posted on 08/13/2010 5:23:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

You are right.

What is worse is the population has no will to fight back.

They have won.

Prepare for the new world order. THIS is it.


2 posted on 08/13/2010 5:25:02 PM PDT by RachelFaith (2010 is going to be a 100 seat Tsunami - Unless the GOP Senate ruins it all...)
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To: Kaslin

American idiots brainwashed by TV elected on of them.


3 posted on 08/13/2010 5:25:41 PM PDT by Frantzie (Television controls the American people/sheep)
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To: Kaslin

This proves that islam is in our nation only to overthrow this nation... and DC wants it that way.

LLS


4 posted on 08/13/2010 5:34:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: RachelFaith

“What is worse is the population has no will to fight back.
They have won.”

They haven’t defeated THIS unreconstructed cracker.


5 posted on 08/13/2010 5:44:58 PM PDT by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Me, too. Count me in as an unreconstructured cracker.


6 posted on 08/13/2010 6:08:43 PM PDT by Thom Pain (2 + 2 = 4 : Defending the Constitution is CENTRIST; not RIGHT WING! Don't be labeled!)
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To: Kaslin

Meanwhile, in other news, the Resident of the United Sates announces from the Whtie House that he endorses Mosque building at Ground Zero.


7 posted on 08/13/2010 6:10:27 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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