Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood

Tip from our friend Bill in DC

It should come as no surprise but the Theocons in the Bush administrator don't understand the evolving nature of Al Qaeda. Evolving Nature of Al Qaeda Is Misunderstood, Critic Says

The Bush administration has failed to recognize that Al Qaeda is now a global Islamic insurgency, rather than a traditional terrorist organization, and so poses a much different threat than previously believed, says a senior counterterrorism official at the Central Intelligence Agency.........
.....the government "doesn't respect the threat" because most officials still regard Al Qaeda as a terrorist organization that can be defeated by arresting or killing its operatives one at a time.

While the Bush administration continues to spin the WOT into a win, the reality is:

He noted that President Bush and other officials had repeatedly said two-thirds of the leadership of Al Qaeda has been killed or captured, but he said the figure was misleading because it is referring to the leaders who were in place as of Sept. 11, 2001.

Al Qaeda has replaced many of those dead or captured operatives and continues to thrive as a guiding force for Islamic extremists around the world.

We are not fighting a terrorist organization but a world wide insurgency.

"The difference between fighting a terrorist group and fighting an insurgency is one of size," he added. "Yet we still don't know how big it is. We still, today, don't know the order of battle of Al Qaeda."

So Bush is fighting a Crusade against a worldwide Jihadist movement the nature and size of which we don't know or understand.
The 911 commission didn't do the job.

"The American people need a better understanding of how we got to 9/11," he said. "But I think the 9/11 commission was bound and determined not to find any culpability. By finding no one guilty, they managed not to deal with the real problems."

The information sharing issue is bogus.

.....the F.B.I. agents who came to the bin Laden unit before the attacks on New York and Washington. "With the exception of one very good officer, the F.B.I. agents who came to the unit came to have coffee, and to try to get trips to Europe," he said. "The agency carried the bureau on its back."

Do you feel safer now?