Posted on 10/29/2010 12:42:36 PM PDT by conservativegramma
Headline on Fox:
U.S. investigating whether multiple suspicious packages originating in Yemen and found aboard international cargo flights in Newark, Philadelphia and England are part of a terrorist dry run for a mail bomb attack.
Authorities Investigating Several Suspicious Packages That Originated From Yemen
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Nothing— They found nothing, This was an October surprise on obama and it fizzeled.When we do this over nothing,THE TERRORISTS WIN!!!
Yeah, got to get him out there to say "It's a credible threat." What? Other terrorist threats aren't credible? Like blowing up a plane in a Detroit suburb? No need to rush to a microphone for that. The Ft. Hood jihadi wasn't credible? How did anyone know then there wouldn't be several others across the country working together?
Don't call them terrorists, don't jump to conclusions, oh, but unarmed devices on two planes is a "credible threat" and "we're taking this seriously" and "Al Qaeda is behind this."
No, they definitely found something.
The terrorists win if they kill people. If they fail, and compromise their network in the process, they lose big.
This.
Some info :
” According to the manufacturer, the taggant agent was voluntarily being added by 1991, years before the protocol signed became compulsory.[4] Batches of Semtex made before 1990, however, are untagged, though it is not known whether there are still major stocks of such old batches of Semtex. The shelf life of Semtex was reduced from 10 years before the 1990s to 5 years now. Explosia states that there is no compulsory tagging allowing reliable post-detonation detection of a certain plastic explosive (such as incorporating a unique metallic code into the mass of the explosive), so Semtex is not tagged in this way”
This sure sounds like a dry run to me,,,
Either that or this was an old batch,,,
That mite account for the fire aboard that UPS aircraft
before it went down...
No, someone was to intercept the delivery before the package reached the address on the label. Like the pot delivery to a mayor of some Southern town- it was supposed to be diverted before it got to the innocent target.
A synagogue delivery will be less suspicious than some apartment.
Or, there are radical Rabbis expecting explosive shipments!
Has anyone said what the explosives were, how big, what type?
I don't buy either of those scenarios. It was said that they contained Semtex.
http://boingboing.net/2008/08/07/swat-team-raids-mayo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berwyn_Heights,_Maryland_mayor%27s_residence_drug_raid
Here’s a case where someone was supposed to intercept the delivery, to a “safe” recipient. Things didn’t work out that way. The mayor was put on the address label probably because he’d be considered ‘safe”.
The radical Rabbi was a joke.
Who are “they” and what did they “find?
To see what security picks up before you send the expensive stuff ... ;-(
I don’t buy the dry run, but one thing’s obvious: the admInistRATion did not let the crisis go to waste.
A question for anyone: I was not around any media today... so did Homeland Security/authorities have a press conference (as they always did during Bush’s term) or was it just Obama making the official announcement?
Were these laser printers being sent to Jewish temples in Chicago? Oh - Jews get free printers from Yemen all the time, plug em in and they blow up?
This is such garbage. I dumped Tv but radio tonight during Hannity had a top of the hour news story crediting (Obama’s bosses/puppet masters) the Saudis with tipping the US off.
He is a Saudi stooge and this was such a fake PR stunt for the Islamo Marxist and his bosses the Saudis.
They win when they get a muslim in the white hut circa Nov 2008.
They win when Bloomberg okays a 911 Victory Mosque so his company can gain and maintain access to Islamic markets for financial terminals and data, print news and satellite TV financial news. That market is worth billions.
The Saudis have investments, deals and joint ventures with ALL 6 US TV networks.
I would think the timing is also so people in cars during rush hour hear it on radio, and it is the top news item during evening news on TV. Then, it’s a weekend, and Obama “needs” to campaign too- he was flying to Charlottesville to do so.
What I think is this is also being hyped because it is a trap for Republicans- they hope the opposition will say it is all phoney, and then they will say Republicans are politicizing national security etc. There are many levels to this. I believe it COULD have been a terror threat, but the fact Obama himself made the statement is political. He has “underlings” to do this sort of thing. Brennan or Big Sis could have dealt with it. There was no need for the President of the US to talk about toner cartidges from Yemen which did not blow up.
Hey you~~~
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