"shooting at the wrong target" you ask?
you think? read this:
Who in the world would not have supported a massive, really massive action to take out bin Laden and al Qaeda? Why did they oppose the adventure in Iraq?
why indeed
"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the 38-year-old Palestinian blamed for hundreds of deaths in terrorist attacks in Iraq, appears to have adopted the remnants of the sleeper cell network in Europe that helped spawn the Sept. 11 hijackers and now serves as the primary organizer of a diffuse, but growing collection of Al Qaeda veterans and new recruits on at least three continents, according to a recent US spy agency report, interviews with intelligence officials, and terrorism specialists."
where is he you might wonder?
Zarqawi is best known as the leading Islamic terrorist in Iraq, believed to be responsible for the deaths of at least 700 people there in the last year and this month's beheading of American Nicholas Berg.
After months of investigation, a picture is emerging that connects Zarqawi, whom US officials believe is still in Iraq, to the deadly train bombings in Madrid in March, a foiled plot to blow up Jordanian government offices in Amman last month, and the recent capture of several suspected terror cells in Italy, among other plots, the officials said.
from Iraq he controls international
'more dots in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East increasingly lead back to Zarqawi' - 'Zarqawi and his network have plotted terrorist actions against several countries, including France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Russia. Since last year, members of his network have been apprehended in France, Britain, Spain, and Italy.'
"And we are in the wrong country"
not looking that way is it?
“Now, at the same time, we had this war on terrorism. We were fighting Al Qaeda. We were engaged in Afghanistan. We were looking at ‘cells’ in 60 countries. We were looking at threats that we were receiving information on and intelligence on. And I think most of the generals felt, let’s deal with this one at a time. Let’s deal with this threat from terrorism, from Al Qaeda.” |
