Obama and the Terrorists (PORTUGAL News Online)

President Obama’s inauguration increases the likelihood of a major terrorist attack in the United States. That was the stark message of the South Waziristan Institute for Strategic Hermeneutics (SWISH), a think tank that offers strategic advice to some of the leading players in global politics.

SWISH warned in its mid-December report to Obama’s transition team that al-Qaeda “will attempt a 9/11-level attack, probably within the United States, at some point between now and mid-2010. If and when that happens, your country will require exceptional levels of political leadership if you are to avoid yet another misguided military response.”

Unfortunately, the South Waziristan Institute for Strategic Hermeneutics only exists in the fertile brain of British academic and strategic analyst Paul Rogers, who publishes its reports on the website of Open Democracy. Moreover, the Obama transition team did not ask for this report, although one devoutly hopes that they read it. Because the prediction is quite serious, as is all of SWISH’s work.

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