Word: qaeda
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...address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council last week, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that al Qaeda's obtaining a nuclear weapon is the CIA's deepest fear. While he was right in the sense that bin Laden potentially could again kill thousands of Americans, it's a worst case terrorist scenario and not the most likely one. The Marriott bombing reminded us once again that it is the common, everyday weapon we should be most afraid of. The 9/11 hijackers took over four airplanes with box cutters...
...doubt al-Qaeda will be blamed for the Marriott attack, with the implication that only an experienced terrorist group could have carried it out. But just about anyone can make a car bomb. Designs are available are on the Internet. Karl Armstrong, the man who blew up a University of Wisconsin building in 1970, found the formula for his fertilizer car bomb in the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...Although the attack is almost certain to be the work of Islamist extremists, the identity of its authors remains unclear. There is mounting speculation that al-Qaeda or its associates may have been involved. Malik insisted that it was too early to say, but hinted that early suspicions were being cast on Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud, who has been accused of ordering the bulk of the nearly 100 suicide attacks to have killed over 1,000 people in Pakistan over the past two years. "There has been no arrest taken place on this incident, because it just happened last night...
...some discussion of how to address and redress that. We should have no illusions. It is a very real danger that could be a mortal threat to our whole civilization, to our way of life. It comes in two varieties. On the one hand you have the al-Qaeda type. On the other hand you have the Iranian type sponsored by the Iranian government. Both of these have global aspirations. Both of them have a sort of apocalyptic mind-sets. Both feel that now is the end of time and that the final struggle is about to take place between...
...militant encampments. "That's the element that is missing in the fight now on their western border," Air Force Major General Burton Field told a House panel earlier this month. Lacking precision-guided bombs, the Pakistani military has been forced to rely on ground operations against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants, which eliminates the element of surprise. And, says analyst Ayesha Siddiqa. "As far as the army's reaction is concerned, I haven't seen the Pakistan army say it no longer needs F-16s and military...