Fears in US about Mumbai-type attacks

Source: Dawn News, Karachi

Fears in US about Mumbai-type attacks

By Anwer Iqbal


WASHINGTON, Jan 9: The terrorist attacks in Mumbai have dramatically damaged Pakistan’s image in the United States where a consensus seems to be emerging that the terrorists may be planning a Mumbai-like attack on the US as well and that if such an attack happens, it will originate in Pakistan.

Over the past two days, more than a dozen senior US officials, lawmakers and terrorism experts discussed various scenarios for a possible terrorist attack on the United States. All pointed their fingers at Pakistan. And these were not unnamed intelligence officials who in the past discussed such scenarios with the US media on the condition that they remained anonymous.

These were all senior officials and lawmakers -- such as Gen David H. Petraeus, the new head of the US Central Command; Ken Wainstein, the White House national security adviser; and Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee. And they were all speaking on the record.

There were differences among them on the nature of the next terrorist attack on the United States, but not on its source. All agreed that the terrorists hiding in Pakistan’s tribal areas were already planning such an attack.

Read more: http://www.dawn.com/2009/01/10/top12.htm

:sarcasm:

with very few armed people.

I have a carry permit.

?????

I believe that we should all live in a fear based world. We should all be afraid to leave our houses in the morning. We should be so afraid of our everyday lives that we should be suspicious of everyone. We should all be jumpy people with guns ready to save the world.

any terrorists with guns could cause.

It would drive a great new economy of lawyers, guns, and money.

Just keep eyes open, everything isn't always exactly as it appears.

you know like a NEW new Pearl Harbor.

The Power of Nightmares - http://www.rewtube.com/?film=the-trap&gclid=CPWAhITF_pMCFQpjnAodwUpSXQ

rather than Blair House.- Hope some picked up on that irony.

Its just fear mongering.