Al-Qaida After September 11.

The war on terrorism did not destroy al-Qaida but on the contrary the group now is stronger than it was five years ago, a terrorism expert says.
Bruce Hoffman of Rand Corporation tells Spiegel Online that it is not clear if Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahri are still the ones ordering the attacks but that there is a command functioning from Pakistan's region of Waziristan.
read the interview.

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Anonymous said…
Words in hearts healing



Then the Lord whispered in our hearts…..
Words can reach where weapons cannot

We asked our village sage, how can we restore
warmth to the face of our souls when
the favorite poisons of Satan,
fear, despair, and hatred alight
upon innocent hearts as ashes
from the funeral pyre of joy

How can the eyes of faith close to sleep when
across the night bed of hope
sheets of despairing pall are spread and
the lurid hollow eyes of perjury beam, and
subvert words of sacred text, laughing
as divine counsel is debased and done violence

Dear sage, we asked, how can goodness smile when
unabashed hatred slaps virtue off the face of shame
emboldening hatreds minions, who feverishly
twist and mutilate the morals of their victims
deceiving those souls until they believe that
sin is virtue, murder is justice, and hatred is love

As he spoke, his downcast voice intoned that
riotously, by perverse commission
Satan's minions bathe in rivers of wine in Hades, and
with vapid mocking lust, they harvest
those deceived souls, reaped by suicides sickle

Your path to heaven cannot be paved with
chaste corpses across a river of blood, embrace
the dreadful ebb and flow of truth in your heart, meet
doubt and dishonor when they surface, for they
reveal to you that compassion, not revenge, fulfills the soul

His voice beamed as a bright light when he said
bravely, deeply, reach into your heart
without guile, without deceit, without prejudice
touch faith there, then inexorably
God's words in hearts healing
like the timeless rain, drawn unrelenting to the sea
will swell into a profound unsounded amity
in the soul's oceanic sanctuary, and become peace
lapping upon the shores of divine purpose


Copyright © April 2006
9:56 PM
tgimacb said…
The message is clear to terrorists at large - you will be hurt in return

So, not all are eradicated, but you know there is a deterrant, don't you?
1:42 PM
marl said…
thanks alot for this amazing article.
8:00 PM
mark said…
man there's no such thing as qaida. the usa made it to fullfill their goals in the middle east
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