Hit ‘em while they’re down

As we near the end of Ramadan, jihad attacks have noticeably increased in frequency and intensity everywhere, particularly in Pakistan, where security forces are on red alert, which for some reason translates into firing on US military choppers across the border in war-torn Afghanistan.  As usual, I have been monitoring the daily jihadi cyber-chatter, which appears to be largely  concerned with the current US financial meltdown.  Glee and exhilaration in the face of our misfortune unsurprisingly characterizes jihadi discussion about the Wall Street crisis, and I was just beginning to wonder what this preoccupation with the economic situation might mean when prominent counter-terrorism analyst Brigitte Gabriel explained it:

Some [jihadists] are talking that this is the time to strike, while America is down.

Clearly, now would be an especially inopportune time for a domestic terror emergency—not that there’s any such thing as a good time for one, from our perspective, at least—but I’m not personally aware of any Islamist chatter to that effect.  Ms. Gabriel, however, says the radicals are "talking" about it, and presumably she has better primary sources.  In a WorldNet Daily exclusive, she refers knowingly to the heartbeat on "the Muslim street," which for my money is good enough to raise the terror alert level.

You can read Gabriel’s remarks here, and embedded in the article is an hour-long audio file of the KSFO interview with Barbara Simpson.

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