Your guess is as good as mine, but I certainly hope and pray that we do not extend the slaughter to other countries in our effort to track down terrorists. There might be no end to such an enter- prise. There are terrorists in almost every nation on this earth. Another problem with the idea of tracking down terrorists is that it is so ludicrous since we have been training them right here in America to do their dirty work in other countries like Afghanistan, Nicarauga, Chile and other areas of South America for well over twenty years.
These terrorists have been killing people in the other countries after we trained them so well and now we are up in arms over killing the terrorists. That simply doesn't add up in my book.
Our government has designated 36 known Foreign Terrorist Organizations as follows:
1...Abu Nidal organization (ANO)
2...Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
3...Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
4...Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
5...‘Asbat al-Ansar
6...Aum Supreme Truth (Aum) Aum Shinrikyo, Aleph
7...Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
8...Communist Party of Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA)
9...Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group, IG)
10..HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
11..Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
12..Hizballah (Party of God)
13..Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
14..Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
15..Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
16..Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad)
17..Kahane Chai (Kach)
18..Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK, KADEK)
19..Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT)
20..Lashkar I Jhangvi (LJ)
21..Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
22..Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
23..National Liberation Army (ELN — Colombia)
24..Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
25..Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
26..Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
27..Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)
28..Al Qaeda
29..Real IRA (RIRA)
30..Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
31..Revolutionary Nuclei
32..Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November)
33..Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
34..Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC)]
35..Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path or SL)
36..United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC)
Source: U.S. Department of State, Patterns of Global Terrorism 2002, published April 2003; accessible at [http://www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/], p. 99ff. (Some spellings have been
adapted.)
That list doesn't include the number of terrorists groups in our own country. So we really have our hands full don't we. Do we plan to bomb all of those countries into submission to our will and way? I for one certainly hope not. Why can't we follow our President's advice to the Indian-Pakistan and Israeli-Palistinian people to sit down at the table and resolve our differences?
That's my thoughts for today!
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