This is terrifying!

Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon

This from the November 29th Jerusalem Post: “An al-Qaida attack on the US with non-conventional weapons is virtually "inevitable," and the organization is likely "tying up the knots" for such an attack, Yossef Bodansky, former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.”

“All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike – something more horrible than anything we've seen before – is all but inevitable," he said. Bodansky … added that "the primary option" for the next al-Qaida attack on US soil would be one that would use weapons of mass destruction.“

"Bodansky said that while there may still be some vestiges of debate and doubt within Islamic circles [on the morality of using WMD], he believes that planning for such an attack is finished. "They got the kosher stamp from the Islamic world to use nuclear weapons," he said."

"Moreover, Bodansky said that America is losing the war against terrorism, noting the number of recruits bin Laden is able to count on, as his call to arms gains widespread support throughout the Muslim world."

[Read this and tell me that we're safer!] "In the pre-9/11 world, Bodansky said, Jihadists could count on 250,000 individuals trained and willing to die, and 2.5 million–5 million people willing to help them in one way or another. He cited intelligence estimates from this summer that suggest that as many as 500,000-750,000 people are willing and trained to die, 10 million are willing to actively support them, short of killing, while another 50 million are willing to support such a movement financially."

I don’t know about you, but I don’t get a warm feeling knowing that the number of people willing to die/support them/finance them has increased by a factor of ten. I hope he’s NOT a good fortuneteller, or that the FBI remains very good at what they do.

BTW, this Bodansky chap is apparently not a wacko, here’s a brief bio I found on the web: Yossef Bodansky, an internationally renowned military and threat analyst, is the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. A former senior consultant to the U.S. Departments of Defense and State, he is the author of eight books on international terrorism and global crises.