There is no terrorist threat

In Michael Moore’s latest “book”, Dude, Where’s My Country, Moore writes this paragraph;

There is no terrorist threat.You need to calm down, relax, listen very carefully, and repeat after me:
There is no terrorist threat.
There is no terrorist threat!
There… is… no… terrorist… threat! 

Well, yesterday we all became aware, if some of us hadn’t already, that isn’t entirely true. According to the Washington Post;

A group of would-be terrorists, allegedly undone after attempting to have jihad training videos copied onto a DVD, has been charged with conspiring to attack Fort Dix and kill soldiers there with assault rifles and grenades, authorities said Tuesday.

Five men — all foreign-born and described as “radical Islamists” by federal authorities — allegedly trained at a shooting range in Pennsylvania‘s Pocono Mountains to kill “as many soldiers as possible” at the historic Army base 25 miles east of Philadelphia. A sixth man was charged with helping them obtain illegal weapons.

Sounds like a terrorist plot to me – no matter how whacky it sounds.

The Wall Street Journal also reported that the Brits arrested four more suspects in the 7-7-05 bombing yesterday;

British police arrested four people Wednesday in connection with the suicide bombings that killed 52 bus and subway passengers in London in 2005.

Two men and a woman were arrested in West Yorkshire, Metropolitan Police said, and West Midlands Police said a 22-year-old man was arrested in Birmingham. All were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism and were being taken to London for interrogation, police said.

Searches were under way at two flats in Birmingham, and at five addresses in West Yorkshire — two houses in Dewsbury, two houses in the Beeston neighborhood of Leeds and one house in Batley, police said. Mohammed Sidique Khan, identified as one of the four London bombers, was a resident of Dewsbury and had grown up in Beeston.

And if you think the reason that these suspects were planning attacks only against nations who are at war in Iraq, the Wall Street Journal also ran a story this morning about German police raiding offices of more suspected terrorists;

Prosecutors said they were investigating more than 18 people suspected of organizing what they called a terrorist group that planned to carry out firebombings and other violent attacks. Some 900 federal and local police officers in cities including Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen searched about 40 premises used by several anti-globalist groups, they said.

“The militant extreme left groups and their members are suspected of having founded a terrorist group, or of being members of such an organization, with the specific goal of staging fire bombings and other violent attacks in order to disrupt or prevent the upcoming G-8 summit in Heiligendamm,” federal prosecutors said in a statement.

Last I checked Germany wasn’t a combatant nation involved in Iraq. Need another example? How about this report from the Washington Post of Islamic youths rioting in France;

Though violence continued late Tuesday and early Wednesday, the third night after the election was much calmer than the previous two, Interior Minister Francois Baroin said.

About 730 cars were burned nationwide Sunday night and 592 people were arrested. The following night, 373 vehicles were torched and 160 people were taken in for questioning across France.

If mayhem committed against the civilian population of France isn’t terrorism, I don’t know what is terrorism.

Bill Gertz, in today’s Washington Times, claims that the Balkans are islamist’s latest recruiting and training grounds;

   “When it comes to extremists, we’re talking about very, very small pockets in Albania, as well as among the ethnic Albanian populations in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and other parts of the Balkans,” said one official with access to intelligence reports.
    The official pointed out that the Albanian government has been supportive of U.S. efforts to counter Islamic terrorist activities, including curbing logistics and financial aid, and working to prevent terrorists from receiving training and weapons.
    But a Congressional Research Service report produced in 2005 said instability in Albania during the 1990s gave al Qaeda a “foothold” there.
    “Poor internal security, lax border controls, and high rates of crime produced an environment conducive to terrorist activity,” said the report by CRS specialist Steven Woehrel. “Some foreign Islamic extremists used Albania as a safe haven and gained Albanian citizenship.”
    Balkan Muslims also have been targets of al Qaeda recruitment efforts because they have an easier time blending in or evading U.S. and European security measures and border controls, which often are geared to identifying Middle Eastern extremists.

Don’t forget the post I wrote back in March about the ETA operating in Bolivia;

Members of the Basque terrorist group ETA have been conducting financial and propaganda activities in Bolivia with the knowledge of President Evo Morales, according to Spanish intelligence reports cited by the Madrid newspaper El Pais and the local press.
    Officials in Bolivia have confirmed that six members of the Basque separatist organization traveled to Bolivia and met with high-level officials of the Morales government during the past year.
    According to these officials, Mr. Morales and his vice president, Alvaro Garcia Linera, have had relations with ETA members since 2005, predating Mr. Morales’ 2006 inauguration.
    ”Members of ETA have been purchasing homes and creating a new refuge for the organization in Cochabamba, where they move like fish in water,” according to El Pais.  

What’s that about not calling it a global war against terror?

How can Moore say, with a straight face, there is no terrorist threat? How can Congress not see the straight line between the war in Iraq and terrorist activities worldwide? How is it possible that Democrats don’t see a looming threat and ignore the fact that winning in Iraq is essential to our national security?

Purely politics. Just because the American people elected Republicans instead of the mealy-mouthed, insolent children in the Democrat party.

Moonbattery (h/t Curt at Flopping Aces) writes that the HuffPo crowd still thinks there’s no terrorist threat.

Michele Malkin writes today about the Jersey jihadists and “the thanks we get”.

Crotchety Old Bastard disputes the Jersey jihadists’ “homegrown” label.

Category: Politics, Terror War