Tag: al-Qaeda
By Jeralyn, Section War on Terror
Posted on Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 10:32:54 PM EST
Tags: al-Qaeda (all tags)
Posted on Tue Jan 12, 2010 at 10:32:54 PM EST
Tags: al-Qaeda (all tags)
The New York Times on the over-hyped threat of al Qaeda.
[T]he politically charged clamor has lumped together disparate cases and obscured the fact that the enemies on American soil in 2009, rather than a single powerful and sophisticated juggernaut, were a scattered, uncoordinated group of amateurs who displayed more fervor than skill.
By the numbers:
Exactly 14 of the approximately 14,000 murders in the United States last year resulted from allegedly jihadist attacks: 13 people shot at Fort Hood in Texas in November and one at a military recruiting station in Little Rock, Ark., in June.
Even Captian Underpants is overblown: [More...]
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