http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200609/NAT20060921a.html
"Intel Chairman: Iraq Still the 'Front Line' in War on Terror"
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
September 21, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""We remain a nation at war," Hoekstra told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. "We have been on offense. We have taken the fight to al Qaeda and radical Islam."
Hoekstra's report, submitted to U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) on Sept. 6, acknowledges that "the enemy we face today is not the same enemy that attacked the United States in 2001."
"Al Qaeda has been forced to adapt to its changing environment and has relinquished some of its operational control to an extended network of like-minded terrorist groups to ensure the movement's longevity," the report stated. "We are no longer fighting a war against just al Qaeda. Rather, we are now fighting a war against various entities inspired by al Qaeda and radicalized in various areas around the world, including in the United States."
But Hoekstra said al Qaeda remains the greatest threat to the United States, noting that speed and agility are "hallmarks of al Qaeda today."
"We need to realize that this war cannot be won on offense alone, in a military sense. We need a comprehensive strategy," said Hoekstra. "Al Qaeda has a comprehensive strategy."
He said that as part of the terrorist organization's strategy, "they have made Iraq the front line in the war on terror.""
ON THE NET...
http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000564.html
Note: The following text is a quote:
September 20, 2006
UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT IN GAZA
To protest the Roman Pope they shot up a Greek Orthodox church.
ynetnews.com:
Gunmen opened fire at a Greek-Orthodox church in Gaza Saturday, in protest of comments made by Pope Benedict XVI against Islam. No one was hurt.
Posted on 20 September 2006 @ 09:48 GMT
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http://www.saag.org/papers20/paper1957.html
Paper no. 1957
19.09. 2006
"MUSLIM ANGER AGAINST THE POPE"
by B. Raman
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2366419,00.html
"Carey backs Pope and issues warning on 'violent' Islam"
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent, and Richard Owen, in Rome
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "THE former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey of Clifton has issued his own challenge to “violent” Islam in a lecture in which he defends the Pope’s “extraordinarily effective and lucid” speech.
Lord Carey said that Muslims must address “with great urgency” their religion’s association with violence. He made it clear that he believed the “clash of civilisations” endangering the world was not between Islamist extremists and the West, but with Islam as a whole.
“We are living in dangerous and potentially cataclysmic times,” he said. “There will be no significant material and economic progress [in Muslim communities] until the Muslim mind is allowed to challenge the status quo of Muslim conventions and even their most cherished shibboleths.”
Lord Carey’s address came as the man who shot and wounded the last Pope wrote to Pope Benedict XVI to warn him that he was in danger. Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to murder John Paul II in 1981 and is now in prison in Turkey, urged the Pope not to visit the country in November.
“I write as one who knows about these matters very well,” Agca said. “Your life is in danger. Don’t come to Turkey — absolutely not!”
Since the Pope quoted a Byzantine emperor as saying that the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad were “evil and inhuman”, a nun has been shot dead, a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda has vowed to kill the Pope, churches in Palestinian areas have been attacked and security at churches and mosques in London and elsewhere has been stepped up."
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000563.html
"PAPAL ADDRESS AT UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG
Faith, Reason and the University - Memories and Reflections"
(September 20, 2006)
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http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=94748
"ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Code: ZE06091209
Date: 2006-09-12
Papal Address at University of Regensburg
"Three Stages in the Program of De-Hellenization"
REGENSBURG, Germany, SEPT. 12, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a Vatican translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered to scientists at the University of Regensburg, where he was a professor and vice rector from 1969 to 1971.
This is the version the Pope read, adding some allusions of the moment, which he hopes to publish in the future, complete with footnotes. Hence, the present text must be considered provisional."