It has been a long time since we heard anything on Bin Laden. I wonder what his group thinks about the 'new' Iraq? Is it that they will feel more renewed to fight against the US and allies or are they scampering now, looking to disassociate themselves with terrorism. I guess the question here is this...
Is it possible for a terrorist to repent and change? Or is that once you become a terrorist you remain so forever?
Well to answer my earlier question, seems like Osama's boys are at it again.
From CNN:
PLOT UNCOVERED TO ATTACK U.S. CONSULATE
After the capture of an alleged al Qaeda cell in Karachi, Pakistan, including
the man believed to have masterminded the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole,
the U.S. warned Friday that the terrorist network is in the final stages of
planning an aerial suicide attack against the U.S. Consulate in Karachi.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/02/aviation....sory/index.html
What o they want? Blood?
U.S. DETAINEES POLICY CRITICIZED
Human rights groups criticized the U.S.' planned release of 12 more detainees
from Guantanamo Bay saying all "unlawful combatants" should be charged or
freed.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/05/06/unlawful....ants/index.html
I don't think I need to add more to this...
From ABC News:
TONIGHT'S FOCUS: As recently as last week, various administration sources
were saying that the war on terrorism was so successful that Al Qaeda was
severely broken. President Bush praised that effort on Friday, saying,
"Nearly one half of all al Qaeda's senior operatives are no longer a
threat to the United States." Well, it certainly doesn't look that way
today. The dead and wounded are still being counted from last night's
series of terror attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And while Al Qaeda has
not yet been directly linked to those attacks, its everyone's first
assumption. Al Qaeda may indeed be weakened, but how weakened? We know
this much: even a weakened al Qaeda can be deadly.
Hmmm... so they attacked by air, tried by land, but what about the sea?
From CSMonitor:
How Al Qaeda might strike the US by sea
Port authorities prepare for a variety of potential attacks from a
terror group believed to own as many as 15 ships. By Peter Grier and
Faye Bowers
https://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0515/p02s02-usgn.html
Now, I never thought of that, but it seems like the newspapers do a better job of enforming everyone where they could possibly drop a bomb :
From Deseret News:
UTAH MANHOLE A SYMBOL OF SECURITY NEEDS
A manhole in a Utah street -- where terrorists could have inflicted amazing harm
had they known about it -- became a symbol Thursday of how vulnerable Americans
still are to catastrophic damage from even a small attack at a forgotten spot.
https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...33407%2C00.html