Kristina Reid
11-12-10
1:30 pm
Al Qaeda is still planning Mumbai style attacks in Europe and it has also been suspected that they are targeting the U.S. as well. Counter-terrorism officials in Europe and the U.S., who have been working together to combat against terrorism discovered Al Qaeda plans to coordinate several attacks in cities around Britain, Germany, and France. At the discovery of these plans the U.S. issued an unprecedented travel advisory in October for its citizens traveling in Europe. European officials believe that Al Qaeda members planned to carry out the attacks sometime before the end of the year. The attacks would have been similar to the November 2008 attack in Mumbai, where gunmen belonging to Lashkar e Taiba a Jihadist group in Pakistan affiliated with Al Qaeda, went on a shooting rampage. The shootings were targeted at a prestigious hotel in Mumbai as well as a railway station and a Jewish center. More than 160 people were killed during the incident. The capture of Ahmed Sidiqi, in July helped western intelligence agencies to uncover the plot of the attacks. According to officials Sidiqi is being held at the Bagram air force base in Afghanistan. Intelligence agencies also learned that that Ilyas Kashmiri, a senior al Qaeda operative, had a planning role in the plot. According to U.S. counter-terrorism officials, Osama bin Laden himself signed off on the plot.
I thought this article was really interesting; I was completely unaware of the attacks that happened in Mumbai. I’m glad that Officials were able to find out about the attacks before anything serious had happened. This article shows that government and military officials are working together to try and make the world a safer place from terrorist. Terrorist are becoming more and more active, making the issue of terrorism that much more of a social problem. I think that the U.S. as well as other countries is doing a good job of working together to combat against the terrorist. As long as governments work together and put in equal effort the terrorist don’t stand a chance at continuing to get away with these senseless acts of violence.
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