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War on Terror

Tentacles of terror

By B Raman

December 31 2009

The recent attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airline, which was part of a wider conspiracy orchestrated from Yemen, clearly shows that the Obama Administration now faces a two-front war against Al Qaeda: One in the AfPak region and the other in the Yemen-Saudi axis

According to the NEFA Foundation of the US, a non-Governmental organisation created following 9/11 to track Islamic terrorism, Al Qaeda's network in Yemen has issued an official communiqué claiming responsibility for the failed terrorist bomb plot targeting a Delta/Northwest airliner travelling from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas day. The communiqué included original photographs of would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab grinning in front of an Al Qaeda banner. The group acknowledged that the device had failed to properly detonate, but promised that it would "continue on this path until we achieve success." The statement also congratulated Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Malik Hasan and urged fellow Muslims to follow his footsteps and kill American soldiers.

According to the same foundation, Al Qaeda's network in Yemen has issued an official response to the airstrike earlier this week on a suspected Al Qaeda gathering in the region of Shabwah that reportedly killed up to 30 people, including a number of senior Al Qaeda operatives.

The group threatened that it would not allow "the slaughter of Muslim women and children to pass without taking vengeance for them, Allah willing. We call upon all Yemeni tribes... and the people of the Arabian Peninsula to confront the crusaders and their clients in the Arabian Peninsula by attacking military bases, embassies, intelligence agents, and naval fleets occupying the waters of the Arabian Peninsula."

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Dealing with Iran: Learn from the catastrophe of Iraq, Islam and the West, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and the West

Dealing with Iran: Learn from the catastrophe of Iraq

BY DILIP HIRO (World View)

8 August 2008

As the debate on Iran rages in the United States, the hawks need to examine the 2003 Iraq War and its aftermath, pondering the wisdom of George Santayana - "Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it". Defeating Saddam Hussein's army was the easy part; what followed proved catastrophic for both the United States and Iraq.

Now, the Pentagon's two aircraft carriers stationed in the Arabian Gulf have the coordinates for the Iranian targets. So too has the Israeli Air Force. As for the timing, some hawks see a window of opportunity for US President George Bush to strike Iran between the US presidential election on November 4 and the inauguration of his successor on January 20, 2009.

But, no matter when the US or Israel accomplishes its self-appointed mission, the key question remains: What then? The short answer is Iran's response will be intense and all-encompassing.

The warnings about Tehran's all-out backlash have come from high officials in the US and outside. "I think everybody recognises what the consequences of any kind of conflict [in Iran] would be," said US Defence Secretary Robert Gates.

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