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So we now know that the underpants Christmas bomber guy spent some time training in the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen, which of course now makes Yemen the Big New Scary Important Country We Must All Care About.
Or maybe not. Quips Mark Steyn:
The 9/11 killers were mostly Saudi. But the Shoebomber was a British subject. So were the Heathrow plotters. And the Pantybomber was educated in British schools — first in Togo; then at University College, London — and there is plenty of evidence he was radicalized while in the U.K. So three of the four circles of homeland-security hell with which the public are tortured are British in origin.
In his very fascinating book about Muslim immigration, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, author Christopher Caldwell identifies Britain as the EU country most plagued by organized terrorist extremism within its borders. British Muslims are, in short, some of the world’s most dangerous, because the country harbors such an active and vibrant underground (and in some cases, not even so underground) network of militant recruiters, preachers, and ideologues. Plus all the access to modern technology and communications that only a true global city like London can offer.
So the real country to watch in the coming days is not the P.D.R.Y., but the good old U.K. It’s easy to point fingers at the crazy backwards Yemenis for failing to do something about all the Al-Qaeda in their midst, but what’s Gordon Brown’s excuse?
