This criminal, Bin Laden, is supported, though, by many factions in many countries where it would not be politically expedient to attack the U.S., but where they criticize the U.S. constantly. Bin Laden runs a terrorist extremist outfit called Al Qaeda. The following is from the FBI files on Major Investigations (Kenya bombings), available through their website at
www.fbi.gov:
"Al Qaeda functions both on its own and through some of the terrorist organizations that operate under its umbrella, including: Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and at times, the Islamic Group (also known as "el Gamaa Islamia" or simply "Gamaa't"), led by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and later by Ahmed Refai Taha, a/k/a "Abu Yasser al Masri," named as co-conspirators but not as defendants herein; and a number of jihad groups in
other countries, including the Sudan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, the Philippines,
Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and the Kashmiri region of India and the Chechnyan region of Russia. Al Qaeda also maintains cells and personnel in a number of countries to facilitate its activities, including in Kenya, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, Canada and the
United States.
Al Qaeda has a command and control structure which
includes a majlis al shura (or consultation council) which discussed and approved major undertakings, including terrorist USAMA BIN LADEN, the defendant, and al Qaeda also forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with representatives of the government of Iran, and its associated terrorist group Hizballah, for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West,
particularly the United States."
Look at all those countries: most of these governments have an open and terrible distrust and hatred of Americans and the West. It is not surprising that Pakistan has opened its airspace: why antagonize the Big Guy right now? But an attack by the U.S. could lead to many of these governments coming right back at us. It is my assumption that Bush and his advisors are very well aware of this, or something would have been done already.
Don't get me wrong: I'm just spouting information, not rhetoric. My personal rhetoric already has me with my finger on the button. ... Mike