Officials are focused on preventing fear that could vindicate Al-Qaeda’s methods and cause economic damage. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “The best thing we can do to fight terrorism is to refuse to be intimidated by it. Just for the record, I plan to take the subway tomorrow morning and feel just as safe as I did this morning.” He emphasized that citizens should not change their daily lives while remaining vigilant. The NYPD tried to reassure the public by mentioning that it has stopped 13 terrorist attacks since 9/11.
“New Yorkers should be cautious and aware as we prepare to commemorate the 9/11 anniversary. However, there is no reason to panic or allow our spirit of freedom to be dampened as we get ready to celebrate the opening of the Ground Zero site this weekend,” New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said.
For Ayman al-Zawahiri and Al-Qaeda as a whole, it is imperative that an attack happen. The terrorist group has suffered tremendous blows this year. Osama Bin Laden was killed in May, followed by the feared “commando commander,” Ilyas Kashmiri on June 3, and the East Africa operations chief on June 11. Al-Rahman, the group’s new second-in-command, was killed on August 22. It is reported that the head of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Nasir al-Wuhayshi, was recently killed in Yemen. On September 5, Pakistan claimed it captured Younis al-Mauritani, a senior operations leader overseeing plots in the West. He was planning attacks on the U.S. economy by using speedboats filled with explosives to strike dams, oil tankers and oil and gas pipelines.
These blows have resulted in a confident tone from U.S. officials, boldly saying the terrorist group faces “strategic defeat.” Al-Qaeda must prove that it is not on its way out in the wake of its huge losses. Ayman al-Zawahiri, likewise, must do something big to show he can fill Osama Bin Laden’s shoes. If an attack does not happen, even the most stalwart supporters of the terrorist group will have to recognize that it is a far cry from what it once was.
If the plot is foiled, Al-Qaeda can still hope that a homegrown terrorist will act on his own accord. Every supporter of Osama Bin Laden will want to spoil the sense of resolution that will be felt this September 11. They don’t need orders to attack, because they understand the importance of the date.
The next week is a contest for both sides in the war on terrorism. Al-Qaeda and its supporters will do their best to carry out an attack, and Western governments will do their best to prevent it. If Al-Qaeda can be stopped from doing anything significant around this anniversary, it will be yet another painful blow to add to the list of its injuries for 2011.
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Racial profiling be damned. If anybody sees three Middle Eastern guys wearing bulky overcoats, shoot first, then ask questions.
Then, Homeland Security needs to explain how these guys got into the US.
In the apocalyptic age we live in; I personally trust no one.
Google "Why They Hate Us," by Laurence M. Vance.
If you only read one article concerning the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States, I highly recommend that this is the one to read. The important information it contains is not widely known to most Americans.
You peaked my interests, so I googled up "Why They Hate Us," by Laurence M. Vance, and the first thing I noticed is it was published on the Lew Rockwell website, which is an anarcho-kook website that promotes the idea along with those morons Ron Paul and Reverend Wright that 9/11 was America's chickens coming home to roost. Yeah right…that's all we need, more mentally handicapped brain damage from kooks! Give me a break!
Check out the "Zabibah" on Zawahiri's forehead; it's the mark of Cain. And a fine target for a sniper…
can we say Zombie time?
The solution to our problem is really pretty simple. Outlaw Islam and ban and reverse Muslim immigration to America ASAP and suddenly there will be no more jihad attacks. Why waste hundreds of billions of dollars and at the same time usurp our heretofore constitutionally protected freedoms and rights when we don't have to? Indeed, is Muslim immigration so valuable for America that it is worth changing America forever just to accommodate it?
The notion that Islam is a Religion of Peace™ being hijacked by a tiny minority of extremists is a damn lie hoisted on the American people by GWB and his cronies, as ALL MUSLIMS, per the sixth and most important pillar of Islam are jihadists. Indeed, Muslims never ever migrate to the West or anywhere else for that matter to assimilate and integrate, but instead to eventually subjugate and dominate and to make Islam supreme via demographic conquest. If anyone believes otherwise, then I have a bridge I need to sell them.
In addition, declaring war on terror was about as ludicrous as ludicrous gets, since Muslims only engage in jihad, which is holy fighting in the cause of Allah. They never ever engage in terrorism, as terrorism is a product and manifestation of the non-Islamic world only. Hence, if you ask Muslims if they support terrorism, of course, they will always answer no and be truthful at the same time, because they don't support terrorism either, as terrorism and jihad (holy fighting in the cause of Allah) are two mutually exclusive and entirely different things altogether. Thus, the reason the so-called war on terror thus far has been a total abject failure and complete unmitigated disaster, although no one will admit it, is because it is based on political correct myths and false premises about the true nature of our Islamic enemies.
In fact, practically everything that America has done in response to the 9/11 jihad attacks has been either totally useless or incredibly counterproductive because it was based on political correct myths and false premises about the real nature of our Islamic enemies. Indeed, the notion that after doubling the size, scope, and power of the federal government via the creation of the massive Department of Homeland Security and the immense National Intelligence Directorate, like growing government is always the solution for all that ails us, somehow made us safer is ludicrous. All it did was create a massive unnecessary federal government bureaucracy that is bankrupting us and a false sense of security.
The truth is despite trillions of dollars wasted we are more vulnerable today than we were the day the 9/11 jihad attacks occurred, simply because we have more Muslim jihadists living in America today as a fifth column than we had the day the 9/11 jihad attacks occurred. Indeed, as long as we allow Muslim jihadists to migrate to America to become a fifth column and to subvert us by working to remove all obstacles for the eventual imposition of Sharia, we will always remain vulnerable to jihad attacks.
On the other hand, zero Muslim jihadists in America equals zero jihad attacks without wasting hundreds of billions of dollars, without a massive unnecessary federal government bureaucracy that is bankrupting us, without sacrificing our heretofore constitutionally protected freedoms and rights, and without permanently changing America forever just to accommodate mass Muslim immigration with all its excess baggage.
In fact, there is only one sure way to eliminate the threat and to protect the homeland from jihad attacks at the same time, and that is to ban and reverse Muslim immigration ASAP. Indeed, during the Cold War we didn't let millions of Communists immigrate and infiltrate our country because that would have been suicidal. By the same token, we shouldn't be allowing millions of Muslim stealth jihadists to immigrate and infiltrate our country today because it is likewise suicidal.