It’s a Dangerous World Out There

Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2013 by Post Scripts

Posted by Jack

This just in…

CAIRO — The explosion of a car parked outside the French Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, wounded two French guards on Tuesday in what appeared to be the first major terrorist attack on a diplomatic compound in the capital since the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in 2011.

This blast is the most significant such attack on a diplomatic facility in Libya since a siege of an American outpost in Benghazi last September, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed. A string of more minor attempted attacks on Western or United Nations diplomats began before that attack and has continued since then, although mostly outside the capital.
Since January 1,991 people have been known to be killed by Muslim extremist in 102 terrorist attacks involving mostly snipers, suicide bombings and car bombings.  The attacks occured in Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan,  Nigeria, Afghanistan, Yemen, Kenya, USA, India, Thailand, Somalia and Algeria.  Other countries, such as Canada, were fortunate enough to  interrupt terrorist plots before they killed anyone.

 

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One Response to It’s a Dangerous World Out There

  1. Tina says:
    Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 10:25 pm

    Canada has it’s act together! Low taxes and a good economy, plenty of jobs and strong national security to boot!

    Now what was it that the administration said about the war on terror?

    The video is from Aug 2006 in which White House Adviser on Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan:

    …he declared that the United States is not engaged in a “War on Terrorism”, and that the USA is not in a “Global War” against “Jihadists.”

    The Telegraph recalls Obama in his SOTU address:

    In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier this year, Barack Obama declared that he was “confident” of achieving “our objective of defeating the core of al-Qaeda”.

    Although he acknowledged the need to pursue the “remnants” of the terrorist group and its affiliates, the overall message was clear – al-Qaeda was badly degraded, the tides of war were receding and the US was winning this fight that was no longer even officially a war.

    Remnant huh? For a remnant they are sure doing a lot of damage around the world!

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