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From: "Andy Mensah" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 11:30 AM
Subject: [unioNews] Refocus war on terror
> Nov. 21, 2003. 01:00 AM
> <H3>Refocus war on terror</H3>
> <B><i>The 9/11 war on terrorism is nowhere near over. And it will not
> be won by U.S. President George Bush's military adventures in
> Iraq.</i></B>
>
> That's the brutal message in yesterday's terror bombings in Turkey.
>
> The attacks, which destroyed the British consulate in Istanbul and
> the London-headquartered HSBC bank, were among the deadliest in
> Turkish history, killing 27 outright and injuring 450, many
> seriously.
>
> Carried out by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group or by sympathizers,
> the carefully orchestrated bombings were what one security expert
> rightly called "an iconic coup" for the terrorists, coming just five
> days after bombings at Istanbul synagogues that killed 25.
>
> They cast a pall over Bush's state visit to London. Hammered two key
> American allies at one go: Turkey and Britain. Struck at one of the
> world's big banks. Embarrassed Turkey's secular, Western-looking and
> Israeli-friendly Muslim leadership. And were intended to intimidate
> other Muslim regimes that co-operate in the anti-terror war.
>
> Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to defeat the
> terrorists, who apparently don't seem to mind if they kill Muslims,
> Jews or anyone else in order to wreck havoc around the world.
>
> ``Those who bloodied this holy day and massacred innocent people will
> account for it in both worlds,'' he said. ``They will be damned until
> eternity.''
>
> Above all, the bombs served notice that Al Qaeda and friends remain a
> potent threat more than two years after Bush vowed to "smoke out" the
> 9/11 killers and bring them to justice.
>
> This is serious, more so than Bush will admit, obsessed as he is with
> Iraq. "Our mission in Iraq is noble and it is necessary," Bush said
> as Turks reeled from the blasts, "and no act of thugs or killers will
> change our resolve or alter their fate." British Prime Minister Tony
> Blair dutifully echoed that sentiment.
>
> But it misses the point. After 9/11 the main thing was to put Al
> Qaeda out of business. That didn't happen.
>
> Instead, Bush invested vast resources into hammering Saddam Hussein's
> regime, which, while criminally brutal, was not a terrorist threat.
> Terror had not taken root in Iraq, before the invasion. It has now.
>
> Meanwhile, bin Laden remains free to preach murder, and to bankroll
> it as his adherents stage a deadly comeback.
>
> <B>Yet Bush is poorly placed to counter the threat to America and its
> allies, so bogged down is he in Iraq.
>
> This is tragic. Bush has no priority more important than running bin
> Laden to ground and putting his crew out of business. It's past time
> to refocus the war on terror.</B>
>
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