International terrorism

[Vermouth]

The State Department released its annual Country Reports on Terrorism April 30. This is the Center for Strategic and International Studies's synopsis:

Despite local and international efforts, the number of attacks worldwide have remained constant and still up sharply since 2005. The lethality—the ability to kill or injure people—however, has gone up by about 10 percent. This likely reflects that terrorists are adopting more powerful technology for making bombs and are becoming better at targeting—that is, a better ability for attackers to get closer to and blend in among their victims.

Al Qaeda has become operationally diminished, but it has stepped up its public relations campaign significantly and is seeking to expand its ideological influence through what its followers say, not what they do.

In terms of tactics, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are the weapon of choice for terrorists. This should be a reminder to the U.S. officials responsible for developing federal plans for dealing with possible IED attacks—plans that are now months and months overdue.

In 2007, we saw the introduction of toxic chemicals, particularly chlorine, into IED attacks in Iraq. This is a heads up for other countries, as Iraq is the single-largest training facility for “foreign fighters” who travel to Iraq to gain operational experience and learn new tactics that they then can take back to their home countries.

Around the world, by and large, the victims of terrorism are primarily Muslims. Well over 50 percent of victims in 2007 were Muslims, most of these in Iraq.

This is an international problem. Even excluding the war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, last year nearly 5,000 people were killed or wounded by terrorist attacks in India and Pakistan—numbers that approach what the United States experienced on 9/11.

[BIGTEX]

Wow!

They studied, investigated, researched, interviewed, probed, analyzed and examined, and, the result:

There are TERRORISTS in the world.

Wow!

What would we have done without this valuable information?

[gunit_sangh]

and with dear leader's obsession with iraq ... it's gotten worse during his presidency

heckuva job georgie

[they call me MR. GRUMPY god damn it!]

and with dear leader's obsession with iraq ... it's gotten worse during his presidency

heckuva job georgie

gunnit, again you present a jackass statement that demonstrates an inability to express or examine any issue in terms other than how much you hate bush.  get over the 2000 election  

[BIGTEX]

gooneybird:

What percentage of the Dumbocrats  in Congress voted to invade Iraq?

Please be specific.

[BIGTEX]

Notice that liberofascists, when confronted by BIGTEX, are unwilling to repond to his request for the facts by which the arrive at their lunatic hallucinations.

Telling, is it not?

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