Major Intel Failures in recent times;

Nine Eleven

Beslan
Seven July
Eleven July
Mumbai Siege

While all spooks were getting laid dead-drunk as a door nail, innocent people were caught in the crossfire in a war with these extremist assholes with guns & bombs.

Seven-plus years and we have yet to take this war on terror to those that continue to terrorize innocents all across the globe.

Or like a wise old man at Notre Dame used to say 'It's all a relationship of convenience, Son. It's all about money and it's got nothing to do with convictions or for that matter who'd blink first'.

Maybe he's right.

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Now that markers have been put out, courtesy of this piece of recent news, let's see how the intel community and security agencies deal with it before such an act comes to pass.

If there's anything we should have learnt after 9/11, the year 2013 will hold the key for prevention.

Meanwhile, it's not a bad idea after all for taking this continuous war on terror into the backyards of all those that threaten us and our allies.

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I wonder what JFK meant when he uttered the following line during the Cuban Missile Crisis;

'The thing has begun. Why doesn't someone gets the word and jumps the gun'

Could it (if applied) offset the chance of a major terror attack?

Could it (if applied) provide the solution aka preemptive strike?

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