Officials See Terror Threat From Iraq Vets (insurgents)

[PaulaFarrell]

by Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Florence, Italy (UPI) Jun 01, 2005
Two former senior Bush administration counter-terrorism officials say the danger posed to the U.S. homeland by graduates of the Islamic insurgency in Iraq is so severe that the measures needed to counter it will affect Americans' quality of life.
"I predict that the quality of all our lives will change to a certain extent, as measures previously considered needed (only) in forward areas will increasingly be ... adopted in our home countries," Cofer Black told a conference of U.S. and European counter-terrorism officials and experts.

Black, who until earlier this year was the U.S. State Department's counter-terrorism coordinator, declined to elaborate.

He said Iraq had become "a university on how to conduct highly effective assassinations and bombings." He said the skills learned by terrorists there meant that "we are likely to see increasingly innovative" means of attack.

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. no shit sherlock

but isn't that exactly what they want? Permanent war, permanent terra, permanent excuse for their faith based initiative to destroy secular society.

[Demeter]

2. And Here I Thought They Were Referring To US Vets!

Now worrying about the boys and girls coming home as a threat to BushCo would make a lot of sense...

[formercia]

6. Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War I vet

and apparently decorated. Yup, I think there are going to be a lot of very well trained and pissed off vets coming home.

[radar]

22. And John Allen Muhammad (Beltway Sniper) and...

...Robert Flores (Univ of Arizona gunman) and a few servicemen at Fort Bragg in North Carolina...

Gulf War link to grisly U.S. crimes?
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/021113/80/dekn2.html

[dbt]

3. AND WHOSE FAULT WOULD THIS BE?

[leftchick]

12. um.....

[Roland99]

14. Clinton's obviously. I mean, he was a terrorist appeaser, right?

:sarcasm:

[sniffa]

4. but, but, but

we're fighting 'em over there so we don't hafta fight 'em here.

[truthisfreedom]

5. why do i hear the sound of one hand clapping from this guy?

treason!

[neweurope]

7. Such bullshit on every level. But the sheeple - both in the US

and in Europe - will gobble this up. There have always been terrorists and they always knew how to use bombs and Kalashnikovs; they didn't have to wait for Iraq to teach them. And, yes, if it were so, whose fault would this be?

And since when are car bombs "terribly innovative"? So innovative and terrible, indeed, that "the measures needed to counter it will affect Americans' quality of life" - and Europeans', I might add, since the US are pressuring Europe to adopt the same measures over here? (And the EU will; show me one government who doesn't want to control it's people and will grab at the slightest excuse - and if they don't, the US thugs can still blow up another train station!)

And the non-European and non-US world is now "the forward areas"? Independent countries are OUR "forward area"? That's unbelievable; they get more brazen day by day.

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[endarkenment]

15. well it seems that they have learned a lot

about how to build very effective IEDs from assorted parts that can knock the shit out of armored vehicles. So there is some truth about the training camp we are running over there.

[Supersedeas]

16. measures need to counter it will affect 'Merika's quality of life

[LynnTheDem]

18. Guess what nation is the SAFEST in the world from terrorism!

North Korea.

And bush PROMISES to make America the #1 safest from terrorism nation. Enjoy!

[reprobate]

8. Pardon me, but didn't we predict just this befor shitface attacked Iraq?

[clydefrand]

9. I hope all the Bush supporters who come to this site will read

this. We can say, I told you so; but that does no good when our innocent people die because of his dastardly deeds.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. There's a police state comin', so just get on board. That's what

I 'read' in Mr. Black's comments.

[catnhatnh]

11. Yep....

...precursor message to weaken objections to actual martial law...yep-it LOOKS like Nazi Germany but its necessary for your own safety...Armed checkpoints/national ID/biometrics and more...it's all zooming down the pike and heading for your neighborhood REAL soon...Damn these insurgents!

[Massachusetts]

13. "The horror, the horror" (keeps the masses in line)

WHAT BUSHCO WANTS

http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/photos/hitler_rally_steps+large.jpg


I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!F BUSHCO

[LynnTheDem]

17. In other words, bush has, of course, made us LESS SAFE.

We are all LESS SAFE thanks to BUSH.

[anotherdrew]

19. anti-war movement right all along

why, tell me why we can predict the future so well 3 or 4 years out on this complex matter and the assholes in the media and the friken sheeple are so damn dumb to not even realize it when "the worst case" has come to pass? I'm so damn fed up I just want to walk away from the whole thing. screw it, the Murikan people will get what they deserve and have paid for with the coin of ignorance and mindless leader worship.

"freedom? you're soaking in it!"

[LynnTheDem]

20. Not just anti-war; ANYONE with ANY COMMON SENSE knew this would result.

bush, his Cartel, and rightwingnuts don't, of course, possess a single grain of common sense between the lot of them.

[neweurope]

21. Not only the Merikan people. The Europeans, too. The US is

the biggest bully on the block and they're bullying the EU to become just like them. And we will. Our military-industrial complex, though not as influential as yours, is just as unscrupulous... and our sheeple just as dumb. And as lazy and greedy.

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