Terrorist Organizations

Okay, Pakistan nabbed six more terrorists. They all work for al Qaeda apparently. You know there are 38 other groups on the list. How about capturing some of them? Oldies, but baddies, like Shining Path are still out there. While we’re in South America how about some FARC terrorists?

Proving that any metaphor can be taken too seriously the Greece-based Revolutionary Nuclei (ya like that, see it plays on the “terrorist cell” idea. Clever. I’m sure some pomo lit professor is laughing over that one) are still out there. How about the Basque separatists (ETA), while only one movie has depicted them as far as I know (Barcelona), don’t they deserve some attention? Despite the Good Friday peace accord the Real IRA is still out there. Come on can’t we catch one of them?! They are practically in our own back yard.

You’ve even got groups like November 17 who’ve been around since the early 1970s. The 1970s!? What was in the zeitgeist then? That’s when you had wacko groups like the Symbionese Liberation Army popping up. Maybe Z (1969), for a long time the only foreign language Best Picture nominee, spawned all this political activism.

Decades of terrorism with almost no progress. I bet the People’s Front of Judea is probably still out there. Come on world, you can’t let Pakistan pick up all the slack. Get busy. Listening: The Narrow Margin - IQ