AP: Terrorists Planning Summer Attack

AP via Yahoo News ^ | Curt Anderson

[Howlin]

ROFLMAO......now you all stop!

[Joe Hadenuf]

you will never be able to stop a team of 20 guys from coming across the canadian border

Huh?

We can't secure our own freaking borders, but we can send thousands in arms over to Iraq to have alley to alley street fighting with Iraqi gangs, and make their entire society into a shinning pillar of democracy?

We are told daily that we are in Iraq so the bad guys wont come here, yet our government has stood in silence for 25 years now completely ignoring this epic lawlessness?

And now we are told, "We just can't stop it". That freaking bull sheeet.

Maybe it's high time we pull our troops out of Outer Mongolia and put them on our *own* borders.

After all, isn't the protection of America, our homeland PRIORITY #1? How are these politicos going to look if we take another hit and they kill 20,000 Ameicans or more, right here in the USA? It will get very ugly for them, bet the rent.

[Clint Williams]

Our resloved has desolved thanks to those who still wish Bill and Hillary were in charge.

Angie, I think the American resolve has not been truly awakened yet. Any who are ready to toss in the towel and concede defeat, fine, repeat after me: "Allah-u Akbar!" 'Cuz you're going to be saying that a lot!

[CWOJackson]

There have been enough of them here on FR lately.

[Judith Anne]

Look around the Missouri Ozarks. If you seriously want more info, please FReepmail me.

[chiller]

Another attack on our soil is the only thing that will get the f'n libs to see the seriousness of this? So sad.

[oceanview]

tell us how you can stop 20 guys from getting into the country? how many troops would you need at both borders, and guarding the coastal regions, to achieve the level of security needed to stop 20 inflitrators. sure, you can have better border security in a "macro" sense - but to stop a team of 20, with 100% certainty, it can't be done.

[ride the whirlwind]

Amen to your prayer.

[nicmarlo]

A few weeks ago, on O'Reilly, it was reported by a gentleman (who, I believe worked directly under Ashcroft, but I may be mistaken) that after 9/11, our borders were enforced by the National Guard, for about 3 months. It was, according to this man, extremely effective.

O'Reilly posed the question: then why were the National Guard taken off the borders?

The gentleman said, that's a good question, and he has no answer.

O'Reilly surmised it must have been too effective.

Then asked the question: "What is wrong with our President (past ones, included)/Government.....that they continue to risk American lives, especially since 9/11, in this hapless manner, leaving our borders open..." (Not his exact words, of course, but very close to his comment.)

I believe it was during this program that O'Reilly also stated that 33% of all convicted prisoners are NOT Americans (he was not referring to those being held in jail awaiting trial).

[RaceBannon]

we need to stop posting methods of dispersal like you just did.

Dont want to give them ideas! :)

[ExSoldier]

In my notes and data from the nbc school, somewhere. I'm sure it's available online, everything is. But I signed a nondisclosure document and I'm not sure if it's still in effect or not, given that my security clearance has also lapsed.

[Joe Hadenuf]

tell us how you can stop 20 guys from getting into the country?

Huh? Whats with this 20 guys thing?

We have a conga-line of millions entering our country laughing their butts off at us. We haven't a clue who these people are or what they are doing here. LOL!

They could easily put thousands in this country with agendas of death, with little effort.

[Clint Williams]

>Another atrocity here will galvanize most Americans again, and expose the whining anti-American libs for what they are. If it's big enough any Muslims still here might want to think about getting out fast (unfortunately this includes a very nice couple I know, but it also includes some I Just Do Not Trust At All). It will be time to Clean House.
How would these scenarios impact the Presidential Election?
1. There is a successful terrorist attack in October that kills 5,000-10,000 Americans.
2. There is an attempted terrorist attack that fails to kill many Americans. The terrorists are captured after the fact.
3. The US thwarts a terrorist attack, seizing their WMDs and capturing the terrorists.
4. There is no terrorist attack on the US, but we have had the nation at high levels of alert most of the summer and fall.
5. There is a successful terrorist attack on London.

You've overrun my limited skills at punditry. But I will take a stab at it, and let the chips fall where they may:
1. Bush is re-elected. (Look at 9/11, look at Spain.)

2. #1, but even more so.

3. #2, but even more so.

4. Can't call. (Further affiant sayeth nought. :-)

5. Um. Too dependent on actual circumstances to call.

[alnick]

So you don't believe that all the America bashing from the left hasn't enboldened our enemies? I think it has.

Emboldened our enemies AND undermined the resolve of many Americans. And the America bashing is coming from a small number right here at FR as well.

[DoctorMichael]

In my mind, I keep coming back to James Woods's story of his planeflight (pre-911) WITH some of the 911 terrorists who were 'casing' the procedures in the airliner's front cabin. He thought at the time that something was strange and the hairs on the back of his neck went up.

He was 'up-close and personal' with Evil.

He got it.

The rest of these numbskulls could care less.

For now.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Exactly, that is the scenario that would be politically most effective for AQ. It is what Saddam did by not using and hiding his WMD's, which inflicted the most damage(so far) to President Bush.

[chiller]

Agreed -- a 2nd (actually 3rd, 4th, 5th) attack would enrage the US citizenry so that gloves would be dropped and all hell would be unleashed. Deportations and closed borders too.

[Victoria Delsoul]

The terrorists must feel encouraged with so much dissent going on. They probably figure that killing Americans before the election will yield a similar result as in Spain.

[Dog Gone]

The border thing with me is a non-starter. The manpower to seal it is enormous, and you'd only move points of entry elesewhere. A determined terrorist will get into this country no matter what. We are just not going to be able to put a soldier every 50 feet along the Mexican border or our coastlines and rotate them every 8 or 12 hours.

We don't have anywhere near the number of satellites to monitor every square foot of our borders. The notion that we could use the existing ones to do so is wishful thinking in the extreme.

Can and should we do more? Certainly. Can we make it foolproof? I'd guess never.