Bump for later read; this looks fascinating.
Are they going to make this a cover story on the actual magazine, like they did with their Global Warming scaremongering?
It looks fascinating, all right, but a couple of things bother me.
First, It's written by one of the left wingers from Time, Incorporated. So, who knows what axes he has to grind?
Second, I don't want to spend any money on a book that would support the liars at Time and put money into the pockets of their left-wing, treasonous owners.
Third, did the administration approve of these leaks, or is this yet another example of traitors at the CIA leaking sensitive stuff to their left-wing contacts in the media?
Perhaps these suspicions are unjustified, but after the way Time has behaved over the past fifty years and more, I think there are good grounds to be suspicious.
Thanks Time for alerting the terrorist to a cia operative within Al Qaeda....
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2003 Flashback:
Preparations for possible attacks gear up
Saturday, February 8, 2003 Posted: 10:37 PM EST (0337 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/02/08/threat.level/
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Transportation security was increased nationwide on Saturday and health care officials were urged to be vigilant for symptoms of bio-chemical contamination, a day after the nation raised its terrorism threat level a notch to "high."
New York City; eastern Virginia; Portland, Oregon; and Atlanta, Georgia -- host of this year's National Basketball Association All-Star Game -- were beefing up security under the alert warning issued Friday. New flight restrictions are planned for airspace around Washington, D.C., starting Monday.
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Of possible concern could be attacks involving chemicals, such as ricin, cyanide, or organophosphates and/or radiological dispersal devices (RDD), and dirty bombs," a letter from Virginia officials said.
Vote for the Democrat Party (Ha-Ha). They will protect us just as Bill and Hillary Clinton did on 911 (Ha-Ha)!!! Can you imagine any American dumb enough or insane enough to cast a vote for the Democrat "Traitor/Treason" Party? The filth, vermin and scum of humanity that makes up the current Democrat Party would have had massive rejoicing if thousands of New Yorkers were poisened to death in the NYC sybway system. America, you better wake up, and rip the beating heart out the treasonous low life called Democrat by voting them all out of office and into the black hole of evil from whence they all came!!!
Sounds less than impressive to me. Sodium cyanide plus hydrochloric acid is just the old reliable San Quentin recipe. Drop the cyanide pellets into the acid, plop plop, fizz fizz, smell the apricots, and choke and croak! A subway car could make a serviceable green room, with seating for a few dozen instead of just two, but it escapes me how the "invention" solves the gas distribution problem to enable a larger attack.
I can think of a reason why Zawahiri might have called off the attack.
If the New York subway and other targets were attacked with cyanide, essentially chemical warfare, 45 days after "early 2003", we would have been on the eve of, or at war with Iraq. That would have raised the real possibility of mushroom clouds over RGFC divisions.
Al Qaeda obviously retains the technology though.
I wonder how large an attack it would take for pressure on Musharraf to open the Pak border to US troops?
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If it succeeded in killing 1 Million Libs in NYC it'd certainly be jake with the NYT, no surprise here Hell if it killed a bunch of NYT employees it'd be jake with the NYT. NO SURPRISE!!!!
Suskind is low life piece of garbage.
RON SUSKIND is a Bush Basher . Bush-Bashing Books Due Out Mimicking the lead-up to the 2004 elections, when publishers flooded bookstores with books bashing President Bush, more anti-Bush books are due out this summer – just before Congressional elections.
Two years ago, "Against All Enemies” by former anti-terrorism chief Richard Clark was highly critical of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism efforts, and "The Price of Loyalty” by RON SUSKIND chronicled former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill’s disillusionment with the Bush White House. Both hit the top of the bestseller list.
Now Suskind has another book about to be published, "The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11,” which focuses on U.S. intelligence failures, USA Today reports.
Other forthcoming books include:
# "Oath Betrayed” by Stephen Miles, a medical professor who cites "medical complicity" in "the abuse and neglect" of inmates at U.S. prisons in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
# "The End of Iraq” by Peter Galbraith, a fellow at the Center for Arms Control. The book’s subtitle is: "How American Incompetence Created a War Without End.”
# "What Terrorists Want” by Louise Richardson, a Harvard lecturer who insists that Bush's war on terror will fail because of an ignorance of history.
# "Is Iraq Another Vietnam?” by Robert Bingham, a Vassar College professor who maintains that U.S. policymakers haven’t learned the lessons of Vietnam.
Bernadette Malone of Sentinel, a conservative imprint, told USA Today that the wave of anti-war books reflects "the insular, liberal mind-set of most New York publishers. They think we're losing the war, that it's hopeless, a fool's errand . . . I, and a lot of other people, disagree."
Hi MamaDearest.
Now I see exactly how the phrase "continue on the trained Manhattan" fit into the al qaeda scheme of things. The phrase came up many times in jihadi forum translations. This was both before and after the Madrid bombings.
BTW, nice to run into you off TM!
I shudder to think what would have happened if the Dems were in control of the White House conducting policy in their typical "head in the sand" mode.
I've heard over and over again on Fox News this morning that Zwahiri, Al Queda's second in command ordered that the attack be called off "for unknown reasons."
It's pretty simple, really... These people aren't stupid. They know the history of the leftists in this country during wartime. They know how they won the war for the communists in Viet Nam. If there were to be a huge Al Queda attack in the US, especially now that Al Queda is well known to be in Iraq, that would spell the end of the left's chances of losing the war for us. There's no way they would take a chance of uniting much of the country, and forcing the left out of power at this point in time.
They're perfectly aware of the fact that if they bide their time, the left will continue to try to force America to lose the war in Iraq, and even the WOT.
Mark