"Winning" The War On Terror

Remember all the talk from Doublethink Dubya about winning the war on terror, we're making the world safe for "democracy", and fighting the terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them at home? While the US Government won't discuss the details of on-going stateside investigations, the British government reports attempts to infultrate MI5, it's intelligence service. Worse yet, they estimate there are nearly a half a million British citizens who are simpathetic to Al Qaeda.
How many do you suppose are in the US?
BBC NEWS

Al-Qaeda sympathisers have been trying to infiltrate the British security service MI5, the BBC has learned. [...]But those with al-Qaeda sympathies were weeded out during a six to eight-month vetting process, officials added.


Officers at a Scotland Yard briefing said they continued to be very concerned by the intelligence picture, with 70 investigations continuing and some of the information received described as "very sinister". The head of the Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist branch, Peter Clarke, said 60 people were awaiting trial in the UK for terrorist-related offences. But he warned: "This is unprecedented, and the flow of new cases shows no sign of abating - if anything it is accelerating."


MI5 believes, from polls, that around 400,000 people in the UK are "sympathetic to violent jihad around the world", said Frank Gardner. Within that number 1,200 people have been identified as being activists the security service believe are engaged in acts of terrorism at home and abroad, he said.