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July 07, 2005
Mannes: London Is Al Qaeda’s Spiritual Hub...'
Aaron Mannes, author of the TerrorBlog and of the book "Profiles in Terror" weighed in on the July 7, 2005 attacks in London with this observation at NRO (National Review Online): With this morning's tragedy in London many experts have noted that if London, which has long faced the highly sophisticated terrorists of the IRA and numerous international terrorist organizations, can be struck by terror then every city is vulnerable.
He said, "While Britain's domestic intelligence and counterterror capabilities are highly professional and have disrupted numerous terrorist plots, there have also been glaring deficiencies in Britain's strategies against Islamist terror."
There are glaring defiencies in the strategy of every nation that has been hit by assymetrical warfare. That includes Israel. If it weren't so, attackers could not get through defenses unless someone let them through. Since attackers can get through, or are already on the inside, there must be defiencies. Such defiencies are inevitable given human nature. And since an attacker is bound to get through, at some point, the goal is to make it as difficult as possible in order to minimize the success rate.
Posted by Munir Umrani at July 7, 2005 03:11 PM
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