Tuesday, February 24, 2004
Are we safer now than before Iraq?
CIA Director George Tenet said Tuesday that the al-Qaida terror group is seriously damaged but has spread its radical anti-American agenda to other Islamic extremist groups that now pose the greatest threat to the United States.
"The steady growth of Osama bin Laden's anti-U.S. sentiment through the wider Sunni (Islamic) extremist movement, and the broad dissemination of al Qaida's destructive expertise, ensure that a serious threat will remain for the foreseeable future -- with or without al Qaida in the picture,'' Tenet told the Senate Intelligence Committee in his annual assessment of global threats.
The leadership of the original al-Qaida terror group, which the United States targeted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, is seriously damaged, Tenet said. Beyond al-Qaida however, Tenet said, there is a continuing threat to the United States from a "global movement infected by al-Qaida's radical agenda.''
And you don't think attacking Iraq on false pretenses had anything to do with inflaming the terrorist movement?
posted by chris at 2:53 PM
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