so, foreign policy...you realize that what you've done is helped to create a new terror leader? You get that right? The more attention we pay to these people in the media; the more we sensationalize them and legitimize them; then the more powerful and influential they become. We shouldnt be crowning anyone, ever again. We made that mistake with bin laden, and it helped to give him a HUGE following. These types of articles are the exact things that people like Awlaki WANT! They feed off of this stuff. We should keep it to ourselves and just deal with these people in the shadows, where they belong. I mean honestly, how much does the average person need to know about our war against terror and the people we fight. Most of the info will be misinterpreted, and or go one ear and out the other anyway. Just a suggestion. Less on New terror leader speculation, more on U.S. mid-east policy.

He will be dead in relatively short order. I think the US apparatus for hunting down single individuals has got so well developed and is so well resourced that if they have a will, they will probably find a way.

To paraphrase, ironically, some terrorists the US only has to be lucky once, whereas their target must be lucky forever.

Israel has knocked off various leaders from Hezbollah to Hamas, and a newbie pops up to take over. So the US can smoke this jasper and anyone else who steps up to the plate, but as long as there are followers, and they'll always come up with leaders.

It doesn't matter how many you take down. There's always a charismatic somebody hanging out in the wings, waiting for his free public spotlight conveniently given him by the Western press. While that doesn't provide all the impetus for rise to power, being talked about a lot by your enemies as someone to watch out for gives quick and easy legitimacy where it might otherwise be harder to come by.

Unfortunately, in today's media world, any news that isn't bad news, is no news worth talking about, except for occasional the offbeat hero story, to make everyone feel a little better before throwing them back into the quagmire that is "obviously" happening everywhere else in the world right now. And if we can't help our "next bin Laden" a bit to get more news out of it, then that would mean less threat to our very way of life to talk and worry about. Even calling him that immediately gives everyone that kernel of terror and makes people wonder when the next 9/11 is.

I think it is premature to state Anwar al-Awlaki will not become the head of al-Qaeda Prime; but even if he is not, he still holds the leash of AQAP, which is a much more active, vital and dangerous organization. He remains the most active recruiter of jihadists and instigator of attacks in the United States, as he claims in the 4th and 5th issues of Inspire Magazine. Don't count Anwar out of the fight just yet.

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There has been a dangerous tendency of focusing on forerunners to replace Ben Laden as a head of Al-Qaeda Network. People living in corrupt dictatorship regimes and the rest of the world are more interested in finding out who will be elected as a new head in the militant organization than their own elections. It has become very unhealthy that news networks are not even as much interested covering decent and honest citizens living as dissidents or asylees in open societies and struggling to bring Universal Human Rights and Values shared by open societies to their own historical homeland and countrymen. We have many young people in prisons of dictatorship regimes being abused, tortured and getting imprisoned on falsified charges, actually struggling peacefully to restore people’s rights and sovereignty to build civil society. When young people living these countries see that there is more democracy and openness in choosing Al-Qaeda leader, we can almost predict who will they follow and get recruited later in their lives. As long as there is no openness, transparency and less corruption and bribery in so-called ‘emerging democracies’, ruthless and brutal ruling clan members will use Al-Qaeda or any other threat to stay in power and create sporadic reactions leading to even more dangerous events for our world community.

The threat of terrorism from extremists such as Awlaki has been systematically exaggerated and overrated at the expense of our civil liberties, rule of law and Constitution...if anything a much larger domestic terrorism threat is from right-wing racist, fascist and anti-abortion groups...sadly this has been mostly ignored in our corporate media.

You can't kill an idea, destroy an ideology with bullets. What are you, stupid? You kill that man, he becomes immortal. Such death only brings more of the same. This will be our downfall, the true fall of mankind.

I find it extremely hard to believe this person is a threat. In terms of recruiting terrorists to attack us, from what I've read of his speeches, he is nothing but a petty opportunist riding on the coattails of the force that really drives Islamists to terrorism: the constant killing of innocent people by our government. If our military wasn't aggressively bombing and murdering thousands of women, children, and yes even men who would otherwise not even think of killing Americans, then Awlaki would have no force whatsoever. If anyone is to blame it is those who treat these people in far flung corners of the world as cattle who can be slaughtered without thought.

The Yemeni-American firebrand preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki, won't replace Osama bin Laden as al Qaeda's No. 1 -- but Washington should be worried about his increasing prominence. He will be dead in relatively short order. I think the US apparatus for hunting down single individuals has got so well developed and is so well resourced that if they have a will, they will probably find a way. To paraphrase, ironically, some terrorists the US only has to be lucky once, whereas their target must be lucky forever. colon cleanse The threat of terrorism from extremists such as Awlaki has been systematically exaggerated and overrated at the expense of our civil liberties, rule of law and Constitution...if anything a much larger domestic terrorism threat is from right-wing racist, fascist and anti-abortion groups...sadly this has been mostly ignored in our corporate media..

It has become very unhealthy that news networks are not even as much interested covering decent and honest citizens living as dissidents or asylees in open societies and struggling to bring Universal Human Rights and Values shared by open societies to their own historical homeland and countrymen. We have many young people in prisons of dictatorship regimes being abused, tortured and getting imprisoned on falsified charges, actually struggling peacefully to restore people’s rights and sovereignty to build civil society . I think the US apparatus for hunting down single individuals has got so well developed and is so well resourced that if they have a will, they will probably find a way. To paraphrase, ironically, some terrorists the US only has to be lucky once, whereas their target must be lucky forever.

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