09.12.11
The bad guys won (continued)
Not that the bad guys have given up. Tens of thousands of our protectors were on full alert yesterday against a small number of Al Qaeda operatives who were said to be plotting an attack here or in Washington.
The possible weapons included a car bomb and a poison such as ricin. One informed law enforcement source said the terrorists had been trained to strike an easy “soft” target first with the hope of diverting protection away from a better defended “hard” target.
From me, mirrored at Globalsecurity:
The number of people hired to search for and analyze threats exploded.
Today it’s a fact there there are a lot more people working in this capacity alone, paid for by the taxpayer, than there are actual members of al Qaeda worldwide …
Another result is that at the local level, nationwide, the belief has been embedded nationwide in many people, including those ostensibly involved in counter-terrorism, that al Qaeda men are everywhere, ready to spring from behind any bush to spray Americans with germs or poisons.
blog said,
September 12, 2011 at 11:41 am
The bad guys won…
Here’s my conclusion from ten years of war on terror, one drawn from expert perspective. It’s simple: The bad guys won. I don’t mean bin Laden or al Qaeda. My view deals with the US mechanism, the security and threat assessment machine that was part…