As you may recall, during the last election cycle a staple of the Obama campaign was the braggadocious assertion that “Osama is dead, and Detroit is alive.” Our mortal enemies of the past fourteen centuries were now, we were assured, “decimated”, and “on the run”.
How things change! If we take “Osama” to be a synecdoche for al-Qaeda, then it now seems, unfortunately, that both of these statements are false. Moreover, given that the State Department has advised all citizens of the civilized world to be on the lookout for an imminent and horrific assault, which might happen anytime and anywhere, and given also that we are shuttering diplomatic outposts around the world, it could be plausibly argued that it is we, not al-Qaeda, who are “on the run”.
Apparently, the threat has something to do with “implanted explosives”, as DEBKA explains here.
Meanwhile, the “workplace violence” trial of Nidal Hasan is underway at last. (This is good, because we’ve been paying his salary ever since his lethal spree, way back in November 2009.)
Also, it seems Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer will be appealing their ban on entering the U.K. Good luck with that, guys.
The peeling bumper stickers I see around Wellfleet notwithstanding, it seems difficult to avoid the conclusion that global jihad is proceeding nicely, along both its strategic paths: the more sensational, but ultimately less dangerous, terrorist approach favored by al-Qaeda and its affiliates, and the far more worrisome dawa blueprint preferred by such “moderate” institutions as the Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, ISNA, OIC, and their useful idiots in the Western ruling elites. Good cop, bad cop.
Let’s just hope our diversity doesn’t become a casualty!
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Plus one to you for using “synecdoche.” What a beautiful word.
Does anyone know if Nidal is going to get the firing squad when convicted? Or hanging? I have some vague hope that military justice doesn’t use some ridiculous drug cocktail.
Oh wait, it was the service that ignored all the signs that he was a fricking terrorist son of a bitch. I withdraw the question. Probably he’ll end up with “life” and last 50 more years, receiving $100,000 or more of medical services per year to keep his evil ass breathing.
About as far as I’d go is, Zawahiri must be contracted to Verizon.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/08/06/198681/broad-us-terror-alert-mystifies.html
And using it to their advantage.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/nationalsecurity/al-qaida-s-won-this-round-so-far-20130806
Have yet to check your link Ups. Just booted. Noticed the BBC is reporting “a foiled plot” in (surprise!) Yemen.
Whenever I see the BBC reporting anything… – did a quick look-see and found something more like I was guessing – and even then I was waaay far out on the guessing limb.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-kenya-airport-fire-idUSBRE97605T20130807
(I did see an “amusing comment” somewhere – AQs possible new weapon – the chatter bomb).
http://warontherocks.com/2013/08/not-another-al-qaeda-article/