my own drum

News reports are popping up everywhere regarding the re-emergence and apparently unexpected expansion of Al Qaeda’s operations. It seems that while President Bush was telling us that Osama was busy hiding in a cave somewhere being ineffective as a leader, Osama was quietly and efficiently amassing an army for his Jihad. And when I said army, I meant that. Troops are being recruited and sent to Africa for training and indoctrination in the ways of Jihad, and then being dispatched literally throughout the world. Our President may have once again underestimated the situation. Frankly, I think he bit off more than he could chew to begin with.

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