al Qaeda Regrouping

While the left pressures Bush to end the War on Terror, AQ is plotting future attacks. We can't keep the troops in Iraq forever. But this article lends credence to the idea that when we do withdraw, we can count on an increase of attacks on the West.

To make matters worse, America is still foolishly clinging to a PC mentality that leaves the borders, airlines, and profiling techniques wide open for catastrophe.With no infidel soldiers in Dar al-Islam, AQ should have no trouble gaining access to civilians in the West.

A waning offense and little defense.

Al-Qaeda is reaching out from its base in Pakistan to turn militant Islamist groups in the Middle East and Africa into franchises charged with intensifying attacks on western targets, according to European officials and terrorism specialists.

The development could see radical groups use al-Qaeda expertise to switch their attention from local targets to western interests in their countries and abroad. “For al-Qaeda, this is a force multiplier,” said a British official who follows terrorism.

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The effort by al-Qaeda to reach out to radical Islamist groups, which is still at an early stage, follows the rebuilding of al-Qaeda’s core in the lawless tribal areas of Pakistan, near the Afghan border. Al-Qaeda was severely disrupted by US-led military action after its 2001 attacks on the US. But the central organisation appears to have reconstituted around about 20 senior figures in farms and compounds that also act as training camps, western officials say.

“AQ Central” has sophisticated target planners and expertise in poisons and explosives probably unavailable to local groups, officials say.

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