I saw this news story yesterday on the wire: Two LeT Men Arrested In Delhi. Two members of LeT were travelling through Delhi carrying 2 kilos of RDX (a plastic explosive) and detonators.
This came just before an advisory to Americans in India, particularly in Delhi and Mumbai, to be on alert for potential terrorist attacks. It's interesting to me that the Indian government would then say that that advisory is "innocuous". It definitely seems that there are major terrorist activities afoot, this month (10 year anniversary of Al-Qaeda declaring war on the US) and I think that Al-Qaeda is looking to strike on or near 9/11 again. They have this thing for anniversaries and symbolism.
In other thoughts, I was thinking about bin Laden, and how they claim that he's in Pakistan, hiding in the hills near Peshawar. But I always remain skeptical. And thinking laterally, I keep thinking about where I would hide if I were bin Laden, and I think of places like Miami Beach or the Catskills ("This is my new friend Benny Bin Laden") but then a thought occurred to me:
What if bin Laden were hiding in Venezeula? Stay with me for a moment. Hugo Chavez has repeatedly rattled sabers with the US and has no love for us. What if bin Laden asked him for refuge? I think he'd offer it. Speaking only partially glibly, they'd sit around and laugh at how much they both hate Bush, and how the US has troops marching all over eastern Afghanistan looking for bin Laden and Al-Qaeda when in truth they're hanging out in the jungles of South America. I don't think it'd actually happen, in part because there are so many Americans running around Venezeula, and there are still lots of people in that country who like the US, and more importantly, our military runs narcotics enforcement surveillance operations in the country, but it's an interesting idea. I propose it to get other people to think about other places where bin Laden might be hiding that's not Pakistan.
