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Terror Networks

9/11 Could Happen Again

2021-09-20

Abdulrahman Al-Rashed

[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] It is not easy to forget that terrible day, and even after 20 years it is still disturbing and frightening that it can happen again anywhere in the world, and dreadfully replicable.

Two decades later, the number of al-Qaeda gunnies has increased, their areas of deployment have expanded, recruitment continues, and their weapons have evolved. They are in training camps in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...

Posted by:Fred

Ref #5: Hopefully I'm wrong and all their successes are classified but it doesn't seem that our intelligence services and military leaders have improved at all since 9/11.

You are "wrong" about nothing, with the possible exception of the date.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-09-20 16:31

#6 Oh, it will happen. And afterwards the PTB will be upset to find a lack of inclination to 'step up' from the population at large.

Posted by: ed in texas 2021-09-20 16:25

#5 Hopefully I'm wrong and all their successes are classified but it doesn't seem that our intelligence services and military leaders have improved at all since 9/11.

Posted by: ruprecht 2021-09-20 13:32

#4 We need to build the lawfare capability to win

What's the difference between a militia and vigilantes?

Posted by: Skidmark 2021-09-20 12:21

#3 I know of a compound in Franklin County Ga. that's needs to be watched, doubt it is since it's not a white compound.

Posted by: Chris 2021-09-20 12:13

#2 Um, this isn't hard.

We were not surprised. Read what the AQ and ISIS leaders are saying...they mean it. OBL told everyone what he was going to do and he did it. Target the leaders and financiers that yap about attacking the US.

Agree on the AQ as an idea...Be aware of the literature given out by the mosques here in the states...if Wahab or Ibn al Taimiyyah are the scholars they follow, then that area will live perpetually one minute away from a terrorist attack.

We need to build the lawfare capability to win - we need the authorities established up front to respond...the AUMFs, the law of war needs to be expanded to deal with ununiformed enemy combatants, test what we have in the Military Commissions and fix the problems in the law, and make sure our federal laws support. Do this now rather than sit around and complain about what we don't have when it happens again.

Posted by: Tennessee 2021-09-20 09:37

#1 If it happens it's because an (alleged) majority voted for it. Make sure you tell you neighbors with Bidet signs "You voted for this" when it happens.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-09-20 04:25

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