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Originally Posted by punky
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Originally Posted by Graham
But of course the evidence to back those claims up isn't available to us, nor, indeed, to any independant body whose opinions we can, hopefully, trust, even if we don't get the facts.
So pardon me if I'm a little sceptical.
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"nor, indeed, to any independant body whose opinions we can, hopefully, trust, even if we don't get the facts."
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Their must be a present and ongoing threat to our country, or the security services wouldn't be over worked, or desperately trying to recruit more people.
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Or that, having had years of downsizing following the end of the Cold War, they're doing their damndest to make sure that they take every possible advantage of the current situation to re-establish their position.
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It is also foolish (I believe) to think that Al Qaeda are the only people that hate us, and they are in a couple caves in Afghanistan.
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It is also foolish to assume that every time we hear of "an organisation with links to Al Qaeda" there is some sort of global conspiracy with Osama Bin Laden pulling the strings and orchestrating acts of terror instead of, much more likely, a bunch of vaguely related fanatics who share similar aims.