Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Bin Laden thwarted in terrorism goals: official | Politics | Reuters

Bin Laden thwarted in terrorism goals: official | Politics | Reuters: "WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his second-in-command have been rendered ineffective by international anti-terrorist efforts, a senior U.S. counterterrorism official said on Tuesday.

The comments by Dell Dailey, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, were among the Bush administration's most confident declarations of progress against bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri.

Both men have nonetheless eluded a manhunt since the September 11 attacks on the United States by al Qaeda militants in 2001.

Dailey predicted Barack Obama, who takes over as U.S. president from George W. Bush on January 20, would seek broader and deeper international ties to fight terrorism."

Yet let us not forget that despite all the hate Bush speeches we as a nation have been kept safe from terrorism as a whole. The terrorists feared attacking us again on our own soil. I only wish that I will be able to say this in a year, but i doubt it. They will test Obama and if he does not stand firm as Bush did, but rather handles the problem as Clinton did, we are in for a very long 4 years. I am not very comfortable because of all his Clinton era picks for cabinet members and advisers.
They are the ones who got us involved in the mess of terrorism to begin with to the extent that it got to on 9/11.

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