 Terrorists in Pakistan remain committed to attacking US targets and it is a matter of time before Al Qaeda or another group uses chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, said CIA Director Porter J Goss on Friday. Talking to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in his first public appearance as CIA director, Goss said that defeating terrorism must remain one of the core objectives of the US intelligence community. "Al Qaeda is intent on finding ways to circumvent US security enhancements to strike Americans and the country," he said while elaborating the worldwide threat to the US. He added that Al Qaeda was one facet of the threat from a broader Sunni jihadi movement, "Our pursuit of Al Qaeda and its most senior leaders, including Bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahri is intense."
| Ah, good. That part of it's starting to publicly crystalize. As we've noticed here, it's not just al-Qaeda now, but an international Sunni phenomenon, almost a fad. It's made up of one part professional terrorists, one part princely money, one part lunatic holy men, and probably three parts idiot boys who are enamoured of wearing masks, waving guns, and being menacing. Jihad has become the Islamic world's version of hip-hop. |
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