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April 29, 2006

Whose Back Is Broken?

While Zawahiri claims that the US back is broken in Iraq, the opposite might be closer to the truth, though. As we are about to hear, terrorism took its toll on mankind last year, the numbers mentioned Here are probably in the lower end since what is eg. going on in Algeria and more places, more often that not qualifies :

Associated Press
First published: Saturday, April 29, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Leaders of al-Qaida lost some control of the terror network last year due to the arrests and deaths of top operational planners, but the group remains the most prominent terror threat facing the United States and its allies, the State Department said Friday.
In its annual report on worldwide terrorism, the department singled out Iran as the most active state sponsor of terrorism, saying that its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security directly have been involved in planning and support of terrorist acts.

Overall, the report tallied about 11,000 terror attacks around the world last year, resulting in more than 14,600 deaths. That is almost a fourfold increase in attacks from 2004, though the agency attributes the change largely on new ways of tallying the incidents.

At least 10,000 to 15,000 of the about 40,000 people killed or wounded worldwide were Muslims, most of them in Iraq.

About 3,500 of last year's attacks occurred in Iraq and about 8,300 of the deaths occurred there, accounting for a large part of the increase over 2004.

The report said Iraq is not a safe haven for terrorists, but Shiite and Sunni extremist groups are trying to turn it into one. While the U.S. and its allies have thwarted some attacks and kidnappings by groups like al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, "the battle is far from over," it said.

The report said that Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders are scattered and on the run, and Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for the network. In addition, al-Qaida's relations with the Taliban that once ruled Afghanistan are growing weaker and the group's finances and logistics have been disrupted, the report said.

"Al-Qaida is not the organization it was four years ago," the report said.

However, "overall, we are in the first phase of a potentially long war," it said. "The enemy's proven ability to adapt means we will go through several more cycles of action/reaction before the war's outcome is no longer in doubt."

A new generation of extremists, some trained through the Internet, is emerging in cells, the report said.

Osama who has promised us that he will not be taken alive , should indeed ideally be kept on the run and under pressure. But more important of course is it to stop the whole organization, and looks like that this back is the most broken one.

Posted by Charles Martel at April 29, 2006 5:35 PM

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