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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (223608)3/12/2005 12:07:04 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (3) of 1573513
 
re:

- We have much tighter security than before 9/11; (Agree)
- Al Qaeda's funding HAS been affected (but not totally cut off); (Agree)
- Significant chunks of their leadership have been killed or captured; (But their membership and motivation has increased.)
- They are under considerable pressure to operate covertly, whereas before there was no such pressure; (They were always under that pressure.)
- Their ability to train their membership is heavily compromised; (There are at least 10,000 newly and fully trained terrorist in Iraq. Why do you think bin Laden was encouraging them to attack the US?)
- There has been no successful attack against the United States since 9/11/01 -- 3.5 years and counting. (It was 8 years between the first and the second <and only> attacks, so we are still under the frequency curve. If there are no attacks in the next 4.5 years, I'll admit that the threat has decreased. If there is an attack in the next 4.5 years, will you admit that the threat has increased?)

The number of terrorists in the world, and their motivation to get the US, is certainly relevant to the subject of the increase or decrease in the terrorist threat.

Now, can you provide any evidence that the threat has decreased?

John
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