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    This process seems unstoppable as long as the would be terrorists can

    exchange information free ly.

    The only thing I can think is that what has to be addressed is the root causes

    that drive young people to become suicidal terrorists.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:07:02 PM PST

    * [new] Hiranyagarbha, your diaries are thought provoking

    It would be nice if you participated in the comment threads.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:29:52 PM PST

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    * [new] Time problems

    It is not always easy to participate. But I will try.

    by Hiranyagarbha on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:05:56 PM PST

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    * [new] DailyKos works 7x24x365

    Welcome!

    Where is your ashram?

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:09:12 PM PST

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    * [new] There is no feature...

    on Kos to reply privately to personal que ries, it seems. Not that I mind so

    much, but it might be use ful on occasion.

    by Hiranyagarbha on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:11:58 PM PST

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    * [new] Silly of me!

    Gateway to the Himalayas. Nice.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:59:24 PM PST

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    * [new] Private Responses

    Many people include personal email addresses in their user profiles.

    Click on their names to see if they do.

    Solar is civil defense. Video of my small scale solar experiments at

    solarray.

    by gmoke on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 09:13:12 PM PST

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    * [new] To be honest...

    I don't know tha t much about it. I just found this take a little different from

    most of what has been said so far about this event.

    What really hit me was his observation on the profess ionalism of this strike

    compared to the previous "ineffectual" bombings in various places over thepast few months. You could say that the city boys had come in to show the

    country bumpkins how it was done.

    by Hiranyagarbha on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:10:27 PM PST

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    * [new] Identifying these so-called terrorist CEO's

    and determining if they really have such multinational CEO capabilities a nd

    asp irations seems utterly critical to the hypothesis that this was merely a

    training lesson. As you say, at the moment, no one has been even firmly

    identified, so it strikes me as a hypothetical leap.

    We don't have time for short-term thinking.

    by Compound F on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:10:53 PM PST

    * [new] Multinational meta-organisms without CEO's are...

    ...possible.

    What comes to mind first are the communist (Red Army Faction, Red Brigade s,

    Montoneros, Tupamaros)and nationalistic (IRA)urban guerrilla organizations

    that seemed to use similar methods and did exchange information and

    resources in Europe and La tin America during the 70s.

    Now the Internet facilitates this ad-hoc type organization something similar to

    what Alvin Toffler suggested in Future Shock.

    Adhocracy vs. traditional hierarchical bureaucracy.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:25:54 PM PST

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    * [new] see snack related mishap's comment

    below. great video.

    We don't have time for short-term thinking.

    by Compound F on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:55:05 PM PST

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    * [new] Cooperation among intelligence....

    agencies is paramount. As is mentioned above, the socio-economic

    pathologies that foster bombing by suicide a re integral in minimizing these

    attacks.

    by appletree on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:12:07 PM PST

    * [new] Unfortunately, you may be right

    This is yet another bit of fallout from multinational corporate crime creating

    enemies, the power of the internet, and the evolution of criminal enterprises.

    Put them all together and you get the sort of organized criminal/terrorist

    movements that writers of pulp novels have been talking about for decades.

    Which, of course, w ill lead observers to no t take them seriously and to

    denounce them as tinfoil-hat nonsense.

    Won't it be nice to have a SMART President?

    by ibonewits on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:20:34 PM PST

    * [new] All this was predicted by many SF writers

    Perhaps the Pentagon should require more Science Fiction reading.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:27:18 PM PST

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    * [new] Looking at a couple of Scots

    writers--Charles Stross and Ken MacLeod--is enlightening in this context.

    byjoycemocha on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:29:00 PM PST

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    * [new] I've said since 9-11

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    that 40 years of reading sf had prepared me far better than the average

    American for the 21s t century.

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    by ActivistGuy on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:47:37 PM PST

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    * [new] (Not so) oddly ...

    ... I was about to go into a rif about sci-fi predictions coming true, and de cided

    it would make my comment too long.

    GMTA indeed!

    PS: It would also be interes ting to revisit Toffler's Third Wave theories a nd

    apply them to terrorism and other criminal enterprises. I've already learned

    that his ideas work for other areas of human culture than the ones he paid

    conscious attention to (such as re ligion).

    Won't it be nice to have a SMART President?

    by ibonewits on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:21:56 PM PST

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    * [new] Loretta Napoleoni: Terror Inc.

    Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist who wrote a book about the

    'economics of terrorism'. I found this video on Youtube and I'm posting it here

    because I think she sheds much light on the structure and day-to-day

    operations of terrorist groups.

    In particular, the notion that terrorist groups are somehow like multinational

    corporations s trikes me as fanciful. If anything, terrorism seems to be more

    cartelized than globalized.

    by snack related mishap on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:22:34 PM PST

    * [new] interesting.

    globalization sowing the dragon's teeth of its own destruction.

    We don't have time for short-term thinking.

    by Compound F on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:51:45 PM PST

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    * [new] In a sense...

    But I don't think it's spontaneously generated in the sense that we a re often

    led to believe. International terrorism doesn't emerge from poverty, misery,

    inequality, and similar afflictions in the s ame way that a localized resistancecell would. Internationa l terrorism may feed on these conditions, of course, but

    it is my belief that it is a mistake to see these as a root caus e.

    What isn't talked about much in Napoleoni's lecture or this article is the role of

    national intelligence agencies in propping up these ne tworks, be it for profit or

    for political reasons . Al Qaeda could not exist without the assistance of the ISI

    and the CIA, who first formed the Mujihedeen a rmy in Afghanistan.

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    by snack related mishap on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:12:05 PM PST

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    * [new] actually, she argues that although they initially

    are funded by states, they then branch out independently using similar

    methods of funding, creating their own "she ll state " (her words), and

    destroying the so-called legitimate former economies, as w ith the Taliban using

    opium to fund their "state" that now surrounds the Mayor of Kabul. Then their

    funding piggybacks transnationally on the globalized banking system.

    We don't have time for short-term thinking.

    by Compound F on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:24:01 PM PST

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    * [new] Yes.

    I was arguing that it's not clear to what extent such organizations could

    exist without that initial support and protection. I was not suggesting

    terrorist groups a re incapable o f cutting the umbilical cord.

    On a related note, the Mayor of Kabul's brother is alleged to be one of the

    biggest opium lords in Afghanistan.

    by snack related mishap on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:29:56 PM PST

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    * [new] Somalia as an example

    From Gerald Posner, on the Somali Pirates:

    Whistleblower has learned that a classified internal report at the

    US Treasurys Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has

    concluded that the pirates are funded by expatriate Somalis and

    Emiratis based in Dubai. This de termination is based, in part, on an

    independent Interpol probe that managed to identify several

    moneymen be hind the high sea piracy. All live in Dubai.

    The businessmen backing the pirates arrange for the complex

    multibank transfer of ransom funds, disbursing the money through

    dozens of institutions around the globe within hours. They take a

    hefty cut before sending the pirates share through hawala, an

    underground cash-based Islamic banking system that leaves

    behind no written or electronic records that investigators can

    follow.

    Here again, the story we're told is that pirates are a phenomenon that

    emerges from Somalia's poverty. To an extent this is true, and Somalia is a

    good example of a 'state shell', without a coast guard worth speaking of.

    But these weren't just pirates; they were financed by people for profit. We

    don't know if the financiers were intelligence groups with an agenda, or just

    bankers seeking a profit. Neither would surprise me.

    by snack related mishap on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:49:43 PM PST

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    * [new] Rogue Economics

    Napoleoni has also w ritten Rogue Economics which argues that much of the

    international economic system is basically illegal and knows it. I have

    extensive notes from the book and hope to write a diary on it soon.

    Napoleoni is very good at what she does and Rogue Economics fits in with

    Shock Doctrine very well.

    Solar is civil defense. Video of my small scale solar experiments atsolarray.

    by gmoke on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 09:20:40 PM PST

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    * [new] If you look around on the right places

    on the Net, you'll find that others are already thinking that this attack was

    meant to divert from something that happened during the attack. Think about

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    who was killed, the connections they may have had, and so on.

    There's at least two sources who point to the s imilarity of this attack with the

    one outlined in the novel The Dogs of Warby Frederick Forsyth. It's an

    interesting thought.

    byjoycemocha on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:28:15 PM PST

    * [new] Terrorism vs. Gangsterism

    There's been some talk about a Mumbai crime boss with ties to the ISI named

    Dawood Ibrahim having been involved in this and other bombings. If this is

    the case, then the attacks more likely had to do with territory and power than

    some senseless act committed by religious or sectarian zea lotry.

    by snack related mishap on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:38:08 PM PST

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    * [new] "The Threat from Internat. Crime & Terrorism"

    was the topic of1997 Congressional Hearings: Intelligence and Security.

    The report on the hearings on "The Threat from International Organized Crime

    and Global Terrorism" has a lot o f information that IMHO is worth reading.

    There are 78 pages in the report, and this is just a small snip from the

    Introduction:

    "...We truly wish it were tha t simple. Regrettably, we are in something

    far worse. I will humbly suggest that what we are w itnessing these

    days a re three types of criminal activities: Drugs, terrorism, and

    organized crime, which are like three huge geological plates which are

    slowly starting to shift and grind together. They could ultimately

    produce an earthquake of unprecedented magnitude and destruction.

    "...To be specific, all of these groups are far more sophisticated, far

    better financed and more disciplined than previously suspected..."

    What a ll of this tells us is that in the interest of globa l business, these

    dangerous groups w ill soon cross a threshold of

    compartmentalization, w ill begin merging and are working jointly with

    one another.

    "...Its sophisticated and highly disciplined managers view crime as an

    investment; indeed, an export commodity. When opportune, they will

    pool resources and move back and forth between legitimate and

    illegitimate activities..."

    It's been 11 years since this Congressional Hearing, and I wonder how many

    of the warnings were ignored, and how many of the recommendations were

    implemented and kept in place through the Bush Administration.

    by kurious on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:36:11 PM PST

    * [new] Conceptually interesting

    However, I believe you're putting the cart a bit before the horse . Let's let the

    investigative process p lay out a bit more before we s tart trying to fit these, asyou point out very unique, attacks into some larger theory.

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    by ActivistGuy on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 07:45:30 PM PST

    * [new] The investigative process is very opaque

    What we'll be fed w ill be distorted by all sorts of hidden agendas and

    interests.

    Thought experiments suppo rted by few but ironclad facts may be the only

    thing we have to work with.

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    by Shockwave on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:37:29 PM PST

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    * [new] You do have a point there

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    .

    Still right now all there is is speculation. In an event this big, some facts will

    spill out into the public domain, by accident, or by the ope ration of one o f the

    conflicting interests. Which is more than we have now.

    This s ig line is in foreclosure. For details on acquiring a credit default swap on this

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    by ActivistGuy on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 09:15:21 PM PST

    [ Parent ]

    * [new] Global terrorism was a threat in the 70s and 80s

    with hijacked planes and ships, but now it has g raduated to a new level....an

    extra-national level.

    I remember read ing a book about terrorism reaching a new g lobal level in the

    90s....the author was ten years off. She predicted that the new terrorism

    wou ld reach a level unimaginable to the world at that time...and yes...it seems

    to be a corporation.

    by Temmoku on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 08:13:35 PM PST

    * [new] "Terrorism" is a convenient construct

    "Terrorism" is a convenient construct, enabling nation state s to hide the

    effects of state sponsored violence on their own subject peoples. Seen in this

    context, "terrorism" is merely a response , and usua lly an ineffectual one at

    that.

    In India, the terror that the state visits on its peoples in Kashmir and

    elsewhere, is at least an order of magnitude more murderous (50,000+ dead

    in the past two decades in Kashmir alone) and brutally effective in subverting

    the possibility of any meaningful change.

    by WAlib on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 09:05:34 PM PST

    * [new] Global Guerrillas

    John Robb has some ideas at http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/...

    Solar is civil defense. Video of my small scale solar experiments atsolarray.

    by gmoke on Sun Nov 30, 2008 at 09:11:47 PM PST

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