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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group

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To: Sig who wrote (130094)4/26/2004 7:06:27 AM
From: redfish  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
"So this war is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, not in Chicago or the streets of NYC. It was our choice to do that, rather than let terrorists grab another airliner and have to shoot it down over one of our cites."

How does the war in Iraq prevent a terrorist from grabbing an airliner in the US?

"Iraq dramatically strengthened their recruitment efforts," one counterterrorism official said. He added that some mosques now display photos of American soldiers fighting in Iraq alongside bloody scenes of bombed out Iraqi neighborhoods. Detecting actual recruitments is almost impossible, he said, because it is typically done face to face.

nytimes.com
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