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NORAH O’DONNELL – Obama’s bin Laden success challenged by current issues
“Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order,” Romney said Monday, comparing to last one-term
president (aside from Bush 41
“The narrative is out there where the Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he had advised the
president not to go forward with this raid, even VP Biden said the raid was too risky”
Take out bin laden get intelligence
“This has now become a political issue”
Nothing public on president’s schedule today, behind the scenes meetings with SecDef, briefing, no
threat today, no specific plots
“It should be a pretty quiet day here at the White House”
“Democrats generally been accused of being Dovish on foreign policy, weak on foreign policy”
Like in China with Chen Wung Dong
“Mitt Romney has very few foreign policy credentials, so that could be a strong contrast point, certainly
one of the strengths President Obama wants to play up when he has a record on the economy that can
be challenged by Mitt Romney”
No signs of a deal with China – “biggest threat to U.S.-China relations in 20 years,” certainly since
Tienamen Square
Need help with issues on Iran, Syria and North Korea, since China has permanent seat on Sec Council
“What I think might happen is something like allowing chen to get a medical parole”
MJ GOHEL – Fear of terrorism replaced by complacency
Al Qaida, the central organization of bin laden, was dismantled and destroyed soon after 9/11, by the
superb work of the U.s. security and intelligence services,” and bin laden went into hiding”
“Al Qaida is not the only terrorist group out there” in Reality, there is a global jihad movement
composed of many automonmous groups together with semiautonoimous cells, all bonded together by
a common idealogy: a hatred for the west and it’s democratic allies such as India and Israel and its
desire to impose fundamentalist Islam”
“Bin laden’s greatest contribution, besides the atrocity of 9/11, has been his legacy. He franchisde AQ in
many ways. The threat is fragmented”
Lakshmi toybu in Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban, mullah omar talliban, al haqqani network,
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AQ in Arabian Penninula, Magreb, Boko Haram, al Shabaab in Somalia
Lone wolf terrorists
“The threat is there”
British gov’t announced this week deploying batteries of surface-to-air missiles to roofs of buildings in
London in preparation of Olympics “that’s an indication of how great the threat still is”
“It was much simpler when there was one organization and one could go after them and eliminate
them.
Osama’s key leaders have been eliminated:
Now they’re spread out over the world
Faisal Shabad intended to blow up Time Square 2 years ago today
“The security services on the one hand have been very efficient in thwarting plots, which has made us a
little bit complacent, and we’ve also been lucky.”
“We tend to think the threat has gone away, but it’s still very much out there.”
JOHN KING
“Everything is fair,” “The Obama team believes this is going to be a very close election”
Gov. Romney did say he disagreed in sending troops across border to Pakistan
But a lot of people said that
“The president deserves credit on this day, so do the SEALs, so do the intelligence analyst”
“The president said “yes,” and now he’s going to use it politically. Some find that unseemly, but
welcome to politics. All is fair game.”
Officials at DHS “In an odd way this makes their job harder.” The big organization they’ve been watching
for years, their elader is dead, leadership is scattered, ability to launch 9/11 attack is all but eliminated
Worry about lone wolves, Arabian peninsula
Lots of chatter recently about anniversary attack
Intel has a different kind of a job now “because they’re looking for smaller pieces”
He has a huge foreign policy challenge right now with dissidents in China. Syria, Iran,
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“The one thing we do know, is it’s very hard for Republicans to use their usual “Democrats are soft on
National Security”
Obama giving Romney “Massachusetts treatment,” (repubs to Dukakis, repubs to John Kerry,)
“He’s going to take advantage of this, and down the road
JJ GREEN – al-Qaida plots ‘still out there’
“al-Qaida has always been a problem. They weren’t a problem because of bin Laden. They weren’t a
problem because of necessarily where they were.”
“They were a problem because they had lots and lots of lots of off -the-shelf plots that had been
developed,” “and there were people who were well-versed in pulling them off”
“the threat essentially is the same”
“A lot of al-Qaida operatives have been removed from the picture, but those plots are still out there,”
They’re still trying to recruit lone wolves to pull those off
“That’s what the intelligence community was saying for years: It doesn’t matter whether bin Laden is
killed or not. This organization is on that track now.”
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