Every Day is September 12th
A listing of recent major terror plots disrupted:- Australia - November 05 - a group of seventeen Muslims were arrested for planning to blow up targets in Sydney and Melbourne, including famous landmarks
- Canada - June 06 - a group of seventeen Muslims were arrested for planning to blow up targets in and around Ontario via truck bombs (they had something like three or four times as much explosive as was used in the Oklahoma city bombing in 1995); also they were interested in beheading the Prime Minister
- England - August 06 - a group of approximately 50 British Muslims of Pakistani descent were in the final stages of preparation for an attack which would bring down between 6 and 10 transatlantic flights in the middle of the ocean
- America - July 06 - a group of seven men were arrested for planning to "blow up the Sears Tower and destroy FBI offices and other buildings in Miami, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Washington"
Every one of these victories are the equivalent of a major battlefield victory in a previous war, and we should treat them as such. Think the Battle of the Bulge, or Gettysburg.
I am quite familiar with the temptation to dismiss arrests such as these as so much silliness, because no major crimes were actually committed and often those arrested appear to be a ragtag bunch of losers - "how could they do that much damage? They don't look like Mohammed Atta." Think, though, how it would have appeared if we had captured the 9/11 hijackers in August of 2001, for example. Would it have been very impressive? Probably not. Would people have been skeptical? Probably so. Would it have altered the course of history? Without question.
posted by JM @ 4:18 PM
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