Keeping Us Safe.

While much of the focus this week has been on the killings in Haditha, it may be easy to forget or overlook one vital important fact. We are killing terrorists almost every day in Iraq. We are killing men who would come into your home and slit you children's throat if given the chance. Do. We. Get. That?

One may argue that that is unlikely. But we also thought the same thing about 9-11. One might argue that these terrorists are over there and not here. But then we hear about this in the news today:

"A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned. Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh.

The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar.

The Toronto busts are linked to arrests that began last August at a Canadian border post near Niagara Falls and continued in October in Sarajevo, London and Scandinavia, and earlier this year in New York and Georgia.

The FBI confirmed Saturday the arrests were related to the recent indictments in the U.S. of Ehsanul Sadequee and Syed Ahmed, who are accused of meeting with extremists in Toronto last March to discuss terrorist training and plots.

The intricate web of connections between Toronto, London, Atlanta, Sarajevo, Dhaka, and elsewhere illustrates the challenge confronting counter-terrorism investigators almost five years after 9/11."

And in the "Bush was also right about this" category, you might be interested in how they broke up these terrorist gangs:

"Linking the international probes are online communications, phone calls and in particular videotapes that authorities allege show some of the targets the young extremists considered blowing up."

Wiretapping works?? Who knew?

We would do well to remember why we haven't been attacked again. Why at least 10 attacks from Al Qaeda have been thwarted since 9-11.

Imagine the news focusing on these things instead of the negative? Imagine being thankful for what our boys in Iraq are doing. Imagine being thankful for what President Bush has done to make us safe.

via Powerline

crossposted at TexasSparkle

Update: Ace has the reaction to this story from the left side of the blogsphere. Which is pretty much crickets singing.