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...attacked again. The lack of attacks has not been for want of trying: since September 11 the U.S. Government has foiled plans to blow up ten planes flying from the UK to the United States simultaneously, the terrorist plot to explode JFK airport in New York, the Al Qaeda plan to fly an airplane into the tallest building in L.A., and other planned attacks, domestically and internationally. Considering the many foiled plots that have not been made public, the safety and security of the Unites States since September 11 has been truly remarkable. The Bush administration worked to ensure America?...
...changed - to secure the population - and will remain that way through the first of January into next year," the brigade's deputy commander, Lieut. Colonel Christopher Beckert, explained a few days before New Year's Eve. "We see the primary threat right now to the Iraqi population as al-Qaeda and also special group criminals. Our plan is to continue to defeat them with our Iraqi counterparts...
...there is no shortage of other players in Lebanon who could disrupt the tense stability along the frontier. Some of Lebanon's Palestinian refugee camps are home to al-Qaeda-inspired militant groups who are suspected of having launched rockets into Israel on two occasions since the end of the 2006 war. On Sunday, the mood in Ain al-Hilweh, the largest and most lawless of the camps, located outside the southern port city of Sidon, was one of fury and mourning. "All that the Israelis are doing, these massacres, killings and bombings, is creating a new generation of suicide...
Still, al-Zaidi may have done Bush a favor. In an ABC News interview the next day, the President conceded for the first time that al-Qaeda had no presence in Iraq before the U.S. invasion, adding, "So what?" In another news cycle, this admission would have dominated the headlines: that after the debunking of Bush's original excuse for war--Saddam's weapons of mass destruction--his argument that Iraq was a crucial nexus in the global war on terrorism also held no water. Thanks to al-Zaidi, nobody heard the other shoe drop...
...More recently, Daniel Schneider, Fritz Gelowicz and a third man are alleged to have formed the core of a cell known as the Sauerland Group linked to the Islamic Jihad Union, an Uzbek terror organization with ties to al-Qaeda. The group is believed to have been focusing on striking at U.S. targets as well. German police say that they observed the men purchasing and storing highly concentrated peroxide, which Germany's federal prosecutor believes was for making car bombs. The police further allege that the men scoped out U.S. military facilities or clubs where they believed frequented by Americans...