Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat

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September 24, 2006

Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat

By MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 — A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has grown since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Documents released by the White House timed to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks emphasized the successes that the United States had made in dismantling the top tier of Al Qaeda.

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That document makes only passing mention of the impact the Iraq war has had on the global jihad movement. “The ongoing fight for freedom in Iraq has been twisted by terrorist propaganda as a rallying cry,” it states.

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The new National Intelligence Estimate was overseen by David B. Low, the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, who commissioned it in 2004 after he took up his post at the National Intelligence Council. Mr. Low declined to be interviewed for this article.

The estimate concludes that the radical Islamic movement has expanded from a core of Qaeda operatives and affiliated groups to include a new class of “self-generating” cells inspired by Al Qaeda’s leadership but without any direct connection to Osama bin Laden or his top lieutenants.

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More recently, the Council on Global Terrorism, an independent research group of respected terrorism experts, assigned a grade of “D+” to United States efforts over the past five years to combat Islamic extremism. The council concluded that “there is every sign that radicalization in the Muslim world is spreading rather than shrinking.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?ref=world

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Gee! - they picked up on that real quick! - just a few years late though .

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Attacking, invading and occupying a country that had NOTHING to do with terrorism, right next door to where known terrorists operated - -

So the terrorists moved into Iraq because the fumbling USA directed invasion couldn't seal the borders, didn't know the countryside, and can't even speak the native language of the area.

Terrorists, insurgents, locals, whatever,

have managed to kill almost 2800 well trained, well armed invaders who have TOTAL air superiority with murderous bombs and cannons - and with what?

rifles, RPGs, roadside bombs and suicide bombers.

Good thing Iraq didn't have a REAL military, eh?

And the US is even considering attacking IRAN????

Iraq was an emasculated country through sanctions and the no-fly-zones.

Iraq is 22 million people.

IRAN is over 70 million people.

AND has a viable Air Force and Navy.

IRAN to the USA,

will be as the Soviet Union was to Germany in WW2

Just ONE step too far . . .

USA go HOME!!!

while you can