Hello my friends, I hope this day finds everyone doing good, I thought I would just take this time and bring out some of my thoughts on the latest terrorist activity going on throughout the world but especially the failed attempts against the United States. Right now you are hearing allot of discussion of whether they are dry test runs or not. Come on folks do we really think that matters? Of course it doesn't matter; what does matter it seems is that the amount and frequency of the attempts are increasing.
I'm sure just about everybody was either watching the news or heard allot later about the October 29 parcel bombs that where shipped from Yemen addressed to two Chicago, Illinois synagogues. One was found on board a UPS cargo flight and the other on board an American Federal Express flight, the flights where stopped and searched in Britain and United Arab Emirates after tips came into the US government from sources within the government of Saudi Arabia.
According to White House counter terrorism chief John Brennan the devices enclosed in the parcels were constructed of computer printer cartridges, circuit cards, wiring and a powerful explosive called PETN. As of today Yemen based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula or AQAP accepted responsibilty for the devices found on October 29. Also Brennan said the US government is looking into AQAP's claim of responsibility for the crash of UPS flight 6 the resulted in the deaths of the two crew members.
As a side note if you remember 80 grams of PETN was also the explosive material inside the alleged underwear bombing by Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab on Christmas Day 2009, and now in the past week there have been reports of letter or parcel bombs being sent to European heads of state including the Chancellor of Germany and the Prime Minister of Italy, as well as mail bombs addressed to the European Union Law Enforcement Agency and the head of the European Court of Justice and other targets in Greece.
At this time law enforcement are not totally sure where the bombs came from, except they don't believe the bombs found in Greece where from Al Qaeda. No matter where they came from it has become quite obvious terrorists no matter who they are working from are becoming bolder, willing to take more risks to hit their intended targets.
Now to get to my point, many of you may know I retired from the US Navy on 31 Dec 2005 so I have been to many different country's and have seen how different threats play out, and now with Al Qaeda becoming bolder I can see the situation in the US becoming similar to that of Israel. In Israel terrorist attacks have been occurring on soft targets, rather than those targets which are heavily guarded. Examples would be light rail, buses, night clubs, grocery stores and other places where the general public become easy targets.
It's time us ordinary citizens to start taking these potential attacks seriously. In Israel to go shopping, or hang out with friends in a nigh clubs you have to pass through metal detectors and x-ray machines to help prevent these attacks, yet despite these actions people continue to die and I am afraid that is the next step Al Qaeda and other groups plan to take, I pray that I am wrong but I am afraid soon we will see bombings on the city buses, light rail, grocery stores and many public areas. In India it played out with gunmen taking over hotels and taking lives, recently their were alerts that the same type of attacks where being planned for Europe.
Here is my biggest fear, first of all I know there are sleeper terror cells throughout the country waiting for the word for something as simple as terrorists with guns walking down various cities at the same time and begin shooting, the thing is, it is going to happen! The main question is when. Our government is in denial and is not prepared so it is our responsibility to be on the lookout and have a plan for when it does happen.
Groups such as the ACLU complain anytime our government comes up with a plan to protect the American public and those plans are filed away, its time for people like the ACLU to get off their buns and start worrying about protecting us and themselves and stop taking the government to court anytime someone is inconvenienced when investigating possible terrorist plots, it's time for them to stop treating these cases as possible illegal immigration cases and begin eyeing them as potential life and death situations.
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