Report: U.S. likely target of another major terrorist attack

[Newsjock]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/08/17/international2127EDT0563.DTL

LONDON (AP) -- Another Sept. 11-style terrorism attack is "highly likely" in the United States, which ranks fourth in an index assessing the risk to 186 countries, a research company said Sunday.

The London-based World Markets Research Center ranked Colombia, Israel, Pakistan, the United States and the Philippines, in descending order, as the five countries most likely to be targeted in a terrorist attack in the next year, said Guy Dunn, author of the company's World Terrorism Index.

The index, to be published Monday, assesses the risk of terrorism to the countries and their interests abroad, he said. The country least likely to be attacked by terrorists is North Korea, Dunn said.

... "Another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack in the United States is highly likely," the report states. "Networks of militant Islamist groups are less extensive in the U.S. than they are in Western Europe, but U.S.-led military action in Afghanistan and Iraq has exacerbated anti-U.S. sentiment."

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[ewagner]

1. Taking a page from Will Pitt

Notice to all terrorists

I'm not afraid of you and I refuse to be intimidated.

Further: You will not make me blindly accept the rape of my beloved country by this administration because of your threats.


(damn: where is that flip-off smiley?)

[Dover]

2. Taking a page from Nancy Waterman's latest article,

on edit....oops wrong thread.

[Dover]

3. Bush is probably on the steps of the WH yelling "bring it on!!!"...n/t

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