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Thursday, November 27, 2008

On That Terror Attack In Mumbai

100 killed, purportedly by a radical Muslim terrorist cell. This frightening assessment comes from Bruce Hoffman, a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the author of the book “Inside Terrorism,” as quoted in a New York Times report:

“It’s not often that things in terrorism alarm me. So much is a repeat of what we see almost every day, like suicide bombings. There’s no real innovation in terrorism, which is why 9/11 was so terrifying, because it was so innovative and heinously clever.

“But these attacks show how a handful of men, basically using weapons off the shelf, can paralyze a city and frustrate highly trained security forces. These attacks were calculated to spread alarm and anxiety — to put it quite frankly, to unhinge things — and that’s exactly what they’ve done.”
In other words, Mission Accomplished.

Which means there's not a hotel or restaurant or shopping mall that's now safe anywhere on the planet. Brace yourselves for more of the same.

1 comments:

wicked dickie said...

C'mon Jerry. Obama has already essentially declared victory over the terrorists. Nothing to worry about. He's appointing an "expert" to be in charge of homeland security. Governor Napolitano is prepared to "fight" illegal immigration and her other qualifications are: almost non-existent. And then, we're gonna get Eric Holder at Justice 'cause Obama owes him for Clinton's pardon of Weather Underground terrorist chums of his buddy Ayers. Although Holder presided over the Mark Rich pardon after which Slick Willie received much loot through the good offices of Goldman-Sachs, the real problem lies in Holder's efforts on behalf of the Puerto Rico terrorist FALN. This implies that terrorism is no big thing despite FBI warnings that this action would return "committed, experienced, sophisticated and hardened" people to the clandestine movement. So, we got what amounts to a pro-terrorist at Justice and a supremely unqualified leader in the fight against terrorists. Of course, we got an unqualified bloke as our president-elect and an unqualified dolt soon to be in charge of Foggy Bottom. I feel so secure. Don't you?