Today while reading the IHT, I found this very interesting article by Elaine Sciolino and Eric Schmitt for the NYT:
A bitter personal struggle between two powerful figures in the world of terrorism has broken out, forcing their followers to choose sides. This battle is not being fought in the rugged no man’s land on the Pakistani-Afghan border. It is a contest reverberating inside the Beltway between two of America’s leading theorists on terrorism and how to fight it, two men who hold opposing views on the very nature of the threat.
On one side is Bruce Hoffman, a cerebral 53-year-old Georgetown University historian and author of the highly respected 1998 book “Inside Terrorism.” He argues that Al Qaeda is alive, well, resurgent and more dangerous than it has been in several years. In his corner, he said, is a battalion of mainstream academics and a National Intelligence Estimate issued last summer warning that Al Qaeda had reconstituted in Pakistan.
On the other side is Marc Sageman, an iconoclastic 55-year-old Polish-born psychiatrist, sociologist, former CIA case officer and scholar-in-residence with the New York Police Department. His new book, “Leaderless Jihad,” argues that the main threat no longer comes from the organization called Al Qaeda, but from the bottom up – from radicalized individuals and groups who meet and plot in their neighborhoods and on the Internet. In his camp, he said, are agents and analysts in highly classified positions at the CIA and FBI.
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Lately I´ve been reading some things, and watching some videos that points to a conspiracy behind terrorism, jesus christ, and so on…
Things like New World Order, hermetic orders that controls the government, saying that Christianism is only a tale, and exposing centuries of church mistakes… wanting revenge, and in their turn wanting to control everything too…
Saying terrorism was only an alibi to make the war machine go on… saying H1N1 is an alibi to reduce the population…
Somebody can please talk about this “Terrorism behind the Terrorism”?
These are crazy days indeed.
Hello again,
I like it has been said, Everyone is right.
Maybe the powers that be are perceiving the general dissatifaction within the hearts of people who are taught to believe ‘right or wrong’….and it’s not down to ‘small people’ starting wars, is it?
xxxx
PS I missed you guys, my laptop gave up the ghost, and if I miss any of your comments in future it’s not that I ignore people, just that I haven’t blogged that day.
Always a prayer for hope and light to all
Mwah
If they are so smart,how is that they are not able to prevent events likt 11 september?Forcasting the future is not their strong point.