The “WAR ON TERROR” is an industry that has grown so big; you can’t simply turn it off, or so many people will be out of work. With “Al Qa’eda decimated or nearly annihilated; the USA’s government is in a quandary to find a substitute focus if only to keep the war on terror alive and keep the industry going. To prove my point, I read several days back about the series of killings in a state in the USA that involved freed prisoners who are suspected of being bent on taking vengeance upon public officials who put them in jail. What shocked me was the use of the word “Jihadists” to refer to these avenging prisoners who believed they were either unfairly punished for a minor crime or totally innocent of the crime for which they were imprisoned. The word “Jihadist” is, of course, associated with Muslims, so that even I, that was what entered my mind. Maybe these are Muslims, I thought, but I wanted to be sure, so I re-read the article. There was one name associated with the founder of the group that sounded like Hasseem or Naseem or something, but the word Muslim was nowhere mentioned in the article, so why Jihadist? I think the word is taking on a new universal meaning, similar to the word “assassin,” of Arabic origin. The evolution of the war on terror and all the technological paraphernalia that it gave birth to is coming home to the USA; “chickens are coming home to roost,” meaning have a taste of what your government does to other people.
Whether ‘Kim Jong-un' of North Korea is a worthy replacement for ‘OBL’ remains to be seen, but hey, the boyish ‘Kim Jong-un’ has millions willing to kill and die for him, not to mention triggers for a few, if not several, nuclear bombs. That alone makes ‘Osama BL’ look like a decommissioned cartoon character.
US turns to domestic extremism as new counterterrorism focus
While insisting that al-Qaeda has been “shattered” as an anti-US threat, American officials are reportedly struggling to invent a new ‘counterterrorism’ policy, with domestic extremists mentioned as the new focus.
“The threat from al-Qaeda and the potential for a massive coordinated attack on the United States may be diminished, but the jihadist movement is more diffuse,” said Director of US National Intelligence James Clapper at a congressional hearing Thursday as quoted in a Los Angeles Times report on Monday.
“Lone wolves, domestic extremists and jihad-inspired affiliated groups are still determined to attack Western interests,” he reportedly added during a testimony at the House Intelligence Committee hearing.
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