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Have any of you folks visited the Global Islamic Media Yahoo group? There's some pretty disturbing info over there and on the links referred to in the postings. Most of it is in Arabic. There is a posting about assasination using bicycles, and another celebrating the destruction of the US. I'll try and translate later this evening or first thing tomorrow. I hope that our intelligence and law enforcement agencies are able to protect us. I've had that ominous feeling for over a month now, and I was really concerned there would be an attack within this country during the last few days of Ramadan. Thankfully, I was wrong. Right now so many things are going right for the US. We've caught Saddam. The economy has rebounded. And the way that Saddam surrendered without a shot should have every terrorist wannabe questioning why they should "martyr" themselves when one of their leaders crawled out of a hole begging not to be shot. I'm sure the bad guys are thinking they need a real morale boost. I hope and pray they do NOT get one. If we can get through the end of the year without something bad happening I'll feel much better. I keep remembering that back in February Bin Laden released a tape and claimed the following (article at http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/13/1044927730845.html):

"In this final year I hurl myself and my steed with my soul at the enemy. Indeed on my demise I will become a martyr," the al-Qaeda leader purportedly says. "I pray my demise isn't on a coffin bearing green mantles. I wish my demise to be in the eagle's belly," he continues.

That still has me uneasy. But I've been wrong before. I thought that someone would happen during Ramadan in the US. It didn't. I hope that I am wrong again.

Re: Getting their news from US

That would not be anything new.

NASA's Columbia Accident Investigation Board was running any where from a few days to a few weeks behind our thread on the Columbia Accident. Our ragtag team of ex-shuttle/pvt contractor/NASA guys was able to figure out the genesis of the problem within about 3 hours of the incident, though it took us another 3 months to "keep an eye on" the stories coming out of CAIB.

The POTUS trip to Baghdad got broken here first, and the moderators pulled it to protect the safety of the POTUS.

Free Republic is great, if the moderators let the readers do their thing (and not pull threads like what happened this AM to my attempt to transcribe the Ridge press conf).