RSS 2.0
Once more, with feeling: “There is no global war on terror.”
We wake up this morning to reports of a foiled terror attack in London. Word is that the bomb that London police diffused is similar in construction to bombs wired to explode in Baghdad.  Rest assured, Rascals. “There is no global war on terror.” Senator Edwards, our next commander in chief has told us so. Several times.
In 1993, al-Qaeda member Ramzi Yousef used a truck bomb to attack the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack killed six people, injured 1,042, and caused nearly $300 million in property damage. Yousef was later captured in Pakistan.Â
On June 25, 1996, members of Hizballah exploded a fuel truck adjacent to the Khobar Towers, military housing in Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed.
“The global war on terror is just a bumper sticker.”
On February 23, 1998, Osama bin Laden issued a fatwa under the banner of the World Islamic Front for Jihad Against the Jews and Crusaders declaring that “. . .to kill the Americans and their allies- civilians and military— is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it. . .”
Worry not, for Edwards has assured us: The war on terror is just “a Bush-created political phrase.”
In 1998 al-Qaeda bombed the U.S. embassy in East Africa, resulting in upward of 300 deaths. In October 2000, al-Qaeda militants in Yemen bombed the missile destroyer U.S.S. Cole in a suicide attack, killing 17 U.S. servicemen.
In September of 2001, well, nothing needs to be said about September 2001.
But Edwards (a/k/a The Breck Girl )comforts us: “I’m going to say the truth, and that’s it.” “There is no global war on terror.”
 In 2002 Islamic terrorists bombed three spots on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people, 164 of whom were foreign nationals and 38 Indonesian citizens.
 On the morning of March 11, 2004, North African Islamic extremists with links to Al Qaeda set off a series of coordinated bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid, Spain killing 191 people and wounding 2,050.
In July 2005, there were a series of coordinated bombings in London during the morning rush which killed 52 and injured 700.Â
In 2006, British police arrested 21 people in connection with a terrorist plot to blow up airplanes flying from the UK to the US. 6 to 10 flights had been targeted.
In January 2007, British police arrested nine people who were planning an “Iraq-style” abduction inside Britain. The plot was to include the torture and beheading of a British soldier, and then put the beheading on TV.
In May of 2007, the FBI arrested a group of foreign-born radical Islamist terrorists planning an attack on Fort Dix, New Jersey designed to kill soldiers with assault rifles and grenades.Â
In June of 2007, the FBI uncovered a plot by 4 terrorists planning to ignite jet fuel supply tanks and fuel lines that run underground through New York City neighborhoods.
After reviewing this short history, perhaps Edwards has a point. Bombings, plane hijackings, beheadings, kidnappings. Those are not really terrorist activities.
Training camps in Afghanistan. Bombings in Spain, Yemen, Indonesia, England, East Africa, Jerusalem and New York, by radical Muslims from Germany, Canada, Paris, London, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Chicago. Nothing “global” about any of that.
Once more with feeling: ”There is no global war on terror.” What a relief after this morning’s crime report in London.