Another Al Qaeda Bust
Via HuffPo, ABC's website is reporting that documents captured in Iraq 6 months ago indicate that Al Qaeda is trying to recruit operatives to enter the US on student visas to attack the Homeland. Rather strange that this story is leaked to the press the night before Bush's State of the Union Address, no? Any bets that this big bust will be mentioned tomorrow night in Bush's speech ("Intelligence sources have uncovered an Al Qaeda plot in Iraq and we're fighting the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them here...")? I'll also wager that once more details of the story come to light, it'll turn out to be a really big bust in another sense too.
posted by Paul @ 5:07 PM
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This wouldn't be a new strategy on the part of Al Qaeda, would it? Wasn't that what some 9/11 high-jackers were doing?
Of course, if terrorists-on-student-visas is the threat, who among us would argue that the best way to deal with it is to engage in a massive military effort to police a civil war in a failed state?
Of course, the linkage between Iraq and terrorism has never been based in anything other than the American public's ignorance and stereotypes about the Middle East. Iraqis look kind of like some of the people who attacked us on 9/11, and they're from the same region of the world. Lizard brain stuff.
If this is the best they can gin up with their terrorism-on-the-march fear-mongering, I don't think it's going to turn Bush's approval ratings around anytime soon.
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