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Al-Qaeda 'planning big British attack
is what the Times Online is reporting this morning in a disturbing article which states, "Spy chiefs warn that one operative had said he was planning an attack on "a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki" in an attempt to "shake the Roman throne", a reference to the West."

The article makes many suppositions and quotes from sources in an attempt to back this headline up, but the underlying message that Al-Qaeda is far from through is the important thing here.

Since the 9/11 attack upon the World Trade Center many have openly stated that al-Qaeda is in the planning stages of additional massive attacks. It would certainly make perfect sense as we never did bring bin Laden to justice.

That in itself is something that has constantly amazed me, once the focus of a world wide hunt, bin laden faded into his caves, coming out of his darkness once in awhile to make his threats to the world then supposedly retreating to the safety of his cave again.

I for one do not buy into this, it was evident that America quickly turned the hunt from the most wanted man in the world into hunting for other top name terrorist and insurgents, al-Zarqawi, Saddam and other individuals popping into the news radar from time to time.

Whatever the reasoning behind this change of world wide focus, the fact remains, al-Qaeda is alive and well and waiting to make their moves.

The question remains, do they have the capabilities of attacks as large as the Times are reporting and the answer would have to be a very big yes, it could be accomplished in any number of ways, from nuclear devices to biological weapons or even dirty bombs. Each of which, if properly applied and activated could produce casualties in the numbers the article is saying.

In my opinion, our intelligence resources and special operations teams should be expanding more energy to effectively dismantle the leadership and infrastructure of al-Qaeda, from bin-Laden all the way down to the expandable suicide bomber. We should follow through on the threats President Bush first made, to punish any nation working with or harboring al-Qaida and/or the Taliban, including Pakistan, Syria and Iran, then and only then will we make any headway into reducing the threat of terror attacks upon the people of America and England.

Some analysts are saying that we have burned up and effectively damaged our military resources in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, yes, this could very well be a possibility, we do not have a limitless resource of manpower in which to draw from, however our intelligence recourses and special operations teams should be put to better use to hunt these murdering psychopaths down, bringing them to justice, or justice to them.