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2006-05-19 Europe

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-05-19 01:30|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There's a serious logical flaw here. She says there's no evidence of al-qaeda in europe. All that means is that they haven't found any, not that it doesn't exist.

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-05-19 06:25|| 2006-05-19 06:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Saying this a few weeks before the World Cup is pretty freakin stoopid.

Posted by Howard UK 2006-05-19 06:41|| 2006-05-19 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Their point, I am sure is, "law enforcement" has taken care of the AQ problem. A War on Terror isn't neccessary. How European and leftist of them and also how wrong.

Posted by SPoD 2006-05-19 07:03|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-05-19 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 There's a serious logical flaw here. She says there's no evidence of al-qaeda in europe. All that means is that they haven't found any, not that it doesn't exist.

IMHO, it means they've stopped looking.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-05-19 08:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-05-19 08:53|| Front Page Top

#5 she doesnt say AQ is gone, but that the hierarchy is gone, and that they cant directly manage attacks. That doesnt seem all that far out, from what weve heard. If its true, its not just due to Euro LE (though thats been pretty active) but to US LE, intell (which by its nature has LE AND warlike aspects), and of course to the military campaign in Afghanistan, which has pushed AQ from control of a state, to control of, at most, parts of Waziristan, and isolation for all the key figures. And yes, intell extracted by the US at Gitmo and elsewhere may well have played a role as well.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-05-19 09:43|| 2006-05-19 09:43|| Front Page Top

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