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Preparing For A Terrorist Tet
From Homeland Security:
The warnings are there. Will we listen this time?
On Sunday, Dec. 7, Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism advisor to President Bill Clinton, published an essay in the Washington Post titled "What They're Aiming At: The Next Chapter in the Shadow War Between the U.S. and al-Qaeda" in which he envisioned two strategy sessions, one by Al Qaeda and the Taliban, the other by the new administration’s national security advisors, as each evaluate the Mumbai terrorist attack and lay plans for 2009's operations.
In Clarke’s imagining of the terrorist session in Rawalapindi, Pakistan, it emerges that the point of the Mumbai attacks were to create friction between India and Pakistan, drawing Pakistani forces away from their operations against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Waziristan.
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My Comment: I have trouble seeing a "terrorist Tet" occurring on the same level that Tet was during the Vietnam war .... an all out battle that lasted for a few months. But Al Qaeda is always looking at doing the spectacular attack .... can they organize another 9/11 .... I do not know if they can, but I am sure taht they are trying their best.