`Next wave' of terrorists taking shape

[never cry wolf]

`Next wave' of terrorists taking shape
Intelligence chiefs warn Senate of peril amid rising anti-Americanism

By Cam Simpson
Washington Bureau
Published February 25, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Even if Al Qaeda is crushed, terrorist threats will remain because of a global surge in anti-Americanism, the emergence of dozens of groups representing terrorism's "next wave" and the worldwide spread of Al Qaeda's philosophy and "destructive expertise," the nation's top intelligence officials said Tuesday.

Still, CIA Director George Tenet and Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Osama bin Laden's network itself remains the greatest immediate threat to Americans.

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Plunge in support for U.S.

"Support for America has dropped in most of the Muslim world," Jacoby said in a statement to the committee. Favorable ratings for the U.S. among Moroccans dropped to 27 percent a year ago from 77 percent in 2000, he said. In Jordan, a key partner in the war on terrorism, those rates went to 1 percent last May from an already dismal 25 percent in 2002.

All of this, Jacoby said, is increasing pressure on governments that are important to U.S. efforts against terrorism.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0402250155feb25,1,6054535.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Like we didn't know this would happen! :mad:

[el_gato]

1. all by design, fear keeps people obedient

don't ask questions

[central scrutinizer]

3. exactly, and xenophobia

is a common trait among *'s base

[denverbill]

2. Meanwhile, our borders are porous, our ports are unprotected,

and former Soviets are peddling their nuclear expertise and/or uranium to the highest bidder.

Bring the troops home and lets guard our own borders.

[chookie]

5. Another LIHOP?

The porousity of our borders and the vulnerability of potential targets, like nuclear and chemical facilities, not to mention our ports, is disturbing.

It's only a matter of time.

I guess Condi will go on tv and say "Whodda thunk they'd bomb one of our nuclear plants? " and make it all okay.

I hate to say it, but we are seeing a familiar pattern: warnings about the vulnerability of targets being met with official indifference.

[dArKeR]

6. Just in time for Junior's election run

[Demonaut]

4. who knew? beat them into friendship

urn thier respect with napalm

[Claire Beth]

7. Most of the world hates us now

and we can thank DUBYA for it! He certainly hasn't helped our image.

[rhino91063]

8. Can bush be charged

With giving aide and comfort to the enemy?

[callous taoboy]

11. Thought we were

making America safer!

[RedEarth]

9. This was expected after Bush

alienated the entire world. One more reason we have to kick this monster out of office in November. He's a danger to the entire world.

[catmandu57]

10. But, we got saddam

and w* is a wartime president who's going to keep us all safe. Wasn't preventing another attack one of the main legs on the chimps* platform?

[radfringe]

12. Next wave' of terrorists taking shape

lol, from the headline I immediately thought the article was about the next graduating class with education degrees who will be teachers....