World War Three tomorrow

From DEBKAfile, November 18, 2006, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00) ...

If Islamic militancy is not stopped today, “we’ll go through World War Three tomorrow,” US Middle East chief warns

Addressing a Harvard University audience Saturday, Army Gen. John Abizaid compared the rise of militant ideologies such as the force driving al Qaeda to the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s and said: “If we don’t have guts enough to confront this ideology today, we’ll go through World War Three tomorrow.

If not stopped, said the general, “extremists would gain an advantage to gain a safe haven, to develop weapons of mass destruction, to develop a national place from which to operate. And I think that the dangers associated with that are just too great to comprehend.”