http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/07/08/labours-security-minister-announces-shorter-terrorist-threat/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/07/08/labours-security-minister-announces-shorter-terrorist-threat/#comment-3877 Steven_L Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:32:30 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/?p=352#comment-3877 How does anyone know that political support for Bin-Laden's ideas won't grow in the Islamic world? It strikes me that a lot of these countries have too many unemployed bored young men. If their situation doesn't improve it seems conceivable that they will embrace this idea of an Islamic superstate, and may quite happily join some sort of Hezbollah-esque paramilitary group. What stance will the new democracy in Iraq take on the formation of a political wing of Al-Qaeda a few years down the road? How does anyone know that political support for Bin-Laden’s ideas won’t grow in the Islamic world? It strikes me that a lot of these countries have too many unemployed bored young men. If their situation doesn’t improve it seems conceivable that they will embrace this idea of an Islamic superstate, and may quite happily join some sort of Hezbollah-esque paramilitary group. What stance will the new democracy in Iraq take on the formation of a political wing of Al-Qaeda a few years down the road?

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