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| Ex-trainee of al-Qaeda says more attacks are likely |
| 2002-08-13 |
| An American who trained at an al-Qaeda military camp in Afghanistan said he does not expect another terrorist attack of the same scale as Sept. 11, but feels certain more strikes will come. ``They got lucky once. There's never going to be anything that big again,'' Aukai Collins told a gathering of law enforcement officials in Quincy yesterday. That's comforting. But it won't be for lack of trying. I think the usual tactic has been to go for something big, then wait until the heat's off and the rubes have forgotten or minimized what happened, then blow something else up... Collins, a San Diego native who found Islam in a California youth detention center, went to the Middle East in the mid-1990s to help Chechnyan nationals fight for independence from Russia. He soured on the idea of being an Islamic freedom fighter after he lost his leg in combat with the Russian army while some of his compatriots began kidnapping and killing tourists in Egypt. Hmmm... Losing a leg. That'd do it. Bet it was part of a matched set. There you are with only one leg, and you suddenly notice that all the people around you are bloodthirsty killers. How fast can you hobble? One of several speakers yesterday at a seminar run by the Virginia-based Terrorism Research Center, Collins said the al-Qaeda training camps were not particularly well organized. ``Everybody has this idea that al-Qaeda is a big sophisticated organization with thousands of well-financed operatives in every corner of the world,'' he said. ``Al-Qaeda is like an idea or a movement, and you have to understand it before you can fight against it.'' I understand we have to kill all of them we can find, and blow legs off the rest. I hope the gummint does, too. He said al-Qaeda resents feeling like its world is being invaded by ``the West.'' And the United States' staunch support for Israel offends al-Qaeda supporters of Arab descent. Too bad they're so easily offended. Killing little five years old in their beds offends me, too. Crashing airplanes into skyscrapers full of people offends me. And I feel like my world is being threatened by nutbags in turbans. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 We aren't removing them because our "leaders" are on the payroll of the backers! |
| Posted by: the ghost of howard beale 2002-08-13 23:26:56 |
| #1 Regarding ALL of the above: Why do we not remove EVERY ONE of these terrorist animals and their backers, from the face of this earth? To hell with diplomacy and military quid pro quo. |
| Posted by: Allah the Dog Faced God 2002-08-13 23:10:32 |