Newsweek published an highly interesting article today. Retired Vice Admiral John Scott Redd, head of the National Counterterrorism Center explains that the US is going to get hit again by terrorists in the (near) future (no matter what the US does) and he explains what the nature of the war against terrorism is. He also talks about Osama Bin Laden.
It is remarkable to hearread him say with such a high confidence level that Osama Bin Laden is (99% sure basically) still alive. He explains that if Bin Laden dies, the news will leak out, “It’s difficult to keep something like that†a secret. Also interesting to read his take on the fact that Al Qaeda seems to be releasing more and more videos per year and is getting more (technologically) sophisticated. As the retired Vice Admiral told Newsweek, Al Qaeda does not rely on Western media and Al Jazeera anymore to get its message out: its doing a mighty fine job by itself through the Internet.
Read more here.
