While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence, releases the September National Intelligence Estimate—”Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States’’—reporting that the “War on Terror” has jeopardized, not enhanced national security; that the al-Qaida (Arabic for “the Base”) international terrorist network is not in decline, but in ascendancy.
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References:
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat – New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/middleeast/24terror.html?_r=3&oref=slogin
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