Two days from now this nation will once again remember thoselost in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania two years ago.Various memorials will take place to commemorate the dead. Acrossthe pond in England another sort of memorial will occur.
The Islamist group Al-Muhajiroun will hold a conference on Sept.11 celebrating the accomplishments of the men they call "TheMagnificent 19." The nineteen hijackers headline the conference'sposter and are grouped according to the planes they commandeered.Al-Muhajiroun�s leader, Omar bin Bakri Muhammad called theassassins "heroes."
Bakri stated the conference was going to examine the reasons forthe Sept. 11 attacks and had the audacity to say that "the resultsmight be similar to what happened" if those conditions still exist.The conference will even have a speech by Osama bin Ladinconsisting of spliced together statements from his TVinterviews.
Bakri then went further, stating that the UN bombing in Baghdadwould not be the last terrorist attack and that the UN wasconsidered to be a "legitimate target" because "it represents theright-hand tool of the world Crusades led by America and its alliesagainst Islam."
Bakri is not some lunatic making noise. He is considered to be akey contact of bin Ladin's by intelligence officials. When a man ofthis nature says words like this, people need to sit up and takenotice.
Amazingly, this story has been almost invisible since appearingin the Washington Times on Aug. 30. The war against terrorism isfar from over; yet, it is becoming mundane. People are alreadybeginning to forget the determination of a nation to eradicatethose who wish to destroy us.
President Bush warned this war would take a long time. We arenot fighting countries; we are fighting a nebulous group of Islamicradicals who seeks our annihilation.
The war on terrorism is an American issue, not a conservative orliberal one. The Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists didn't take a survey tocheck the political leanings of those they were killing. Theysimply turned planes into cruise missiles and went kamikaze on us.They gave no pretense to how many innocent lives assumed roomtemperature while we took caution to prevent civilian casualties inIraq.
In a 1998 interview Osama bin Ladin said he doesn't distinguishbetween civilians and the military; they're all targets. There isonly one way to fight an enemy like this: indiscriminately.
To fight this war we have to engage the enemy socially (moralsuperiority), financially (stop their funding) and with deadlyforce. Talking to them does no good. The deadly events in Israelshow you can't negotiate with terrorists; you have to killthem.
The problem is even our leaders are forgetting that. A Senatecommittee recently drafted regulations limiting the use of SpecialForces by requiring a presidential "finding." This inherentlylimits our ability to strike quickly and with tactical surprise.Special Forces are this battle's vanguard. We cannot afford to fleefrom the hatred the Islamists burn with. This is what they want. Wecan't cut and run as France and Germany are. This gives victory tothe enemy. The only way to prevent another Sept. 11, 2001 is todestroy the terrorists who seek to destroy our way of life.
Write to Jeff at mannedarena@yahoo.com
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