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To: i-node who wrote (805801)	9/9/2014 1:38:50 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580007

>> he has taken out bin Laden and other key al Qaeda operatives. The point, which was lost on you, is that there were no "key al Qaeda operatives" left by the time Obama got there. Which is the reason they were never able to attack us successfully again while Bush was president, and the reason bin Laden was "despondent". 9/11 was at least 10 years in the making. After 9/11, al Qaida went for more widespread bombings.........in London, Madrid, Mumbai, etc. They even tried again in NYC but failed. At the end of the Bush administration, there had been little progress in diminishing al Qaida's strength. From MIT: The U.S. public widely credits President Bush with toughness on terror. Most recent polls show more Americans approving than disapproving his handling of the campaign against terror. 2 In fact, the Bush administration is weak on terror. It wages a one-front war against al-Qaeda, the main terror threat, when effort on every relevant front is needed. Specifically, the administration focuses on an offensive military and intelligence campaign abroad while neglecting five other critical fronts: bolstering homeland security, securing weapons and materials of mass destruction from possible theft or purchase by terrorists, winning the war of ideas across the world, ending conflicts that fuel support for al-Qaeda, and saving the failed states where al- Qaeda and like groups can find haven. The administration has also bungled parts of the military offensive by diverting itself into a counterproductive sideshow in Iraq and by alienating potential allies. As a result, al-Qaeda and related jihadi groups remain a potent threat more than five years after the 9/11 attacks. 3 Assessments by U.S. intelligence and other analysts indicate that the terror threat has actually increased since 9/11. 4 The Bush administration’s toughness on terror is an illusion. Its counterterror campaign has been inept and ineffective. 5 President Bush talks the talk of strong action but doesn’t walk the walk. And his weakness on terror is putting the United States in great danger. read more...................... web.mit.edu

To: i-node who wrote (805801)	9/9/2014 11:52:52 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1580007

As usual, your're just spouting a bunch of partisan, crap LIES: The Terrorist Notches on Obama’s Belt abcnews.go.com The list of senior terrorists killed during the Obama presidency is fairly extensive. There’s Osama bin Laden, of course, killed in May. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki as of today. Earlier this month officials confirmed that al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan. In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed. In June, one of the group’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan. In Yemen that same month, AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed. Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta. Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan. In September of that month, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia, and AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia. Then in December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed. In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured; Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed; and Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed. In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan, while senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia. In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed. In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed. In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed. Remember when Rudy Giuliani warned that electing Barack Obama would mean that the U.S. played defense, not offense, against the terrorists? If this is defense, what does offense look like? -Jake Tapper