I just read your post from yesterday on the thread you linked. It was brilliantly written and contains within some of the same feeling that I have been having. I think that it would be a very good post to reprint here. I hope you don't mind:
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To: HipShot
Wrong. That's a fatal mistake to make.
The sub critical components have a half life of 24,000 years.
Also note the subtle use of misdirection, i.e., the "mid-1990s" slipped in, to reframe the timeframe. IIRC, the stuff mentioned last week (or was it the week before?) was of allegedly recent import, presumably maintained up to the point it was walked across the border.
Moving right along, it has occurred to me that this weekend's "sudden" alert-panic is curiously juxtaposed with the LAST alert-panic (the one that allegedly involved the aforementioned tac-nukes).
However, there has to date been ZERO mention of the last alert (in the context of the present alert).
This has moved me to speculate that the elephant under the carpet that no one wants to mention is in fact there, under the carpet.
In other words, I suspect that the "whatever it was" of the last alert (quite possibly a number of tactical nukes) are still "at large", and, they have NOT been intercepted, and it's starting to get down to the "oh-sh** hour", with no hope in sight (other than pathetic feel-good/look-good gestures like they're doing in NYC the past few days).
What made my own blood run cold vis-a-vis this scenario was the Drudge headline yesterday -- since confirmed via multiple sources -- that the "big news" was in fact OLD news.
When they drop what they're doing and go into overdrive in a mad panic to put up the barricades NOW NOW NOW! -- and, the "news" that's motivated the mad dash, is actually OLD "news", then what you're faced with is the MO of a "cover story."
So, if they're actually using some dreadfully OLD "news" as a cover story to rationalize a sudden mad dash to secure a bunch of targets, it smacks of a truly terrifying oh-shi* moment -- the likes of which they DARE not disclose (thus the pathetic cover story dredged up to "explain" why it's necessary).
It's like buying a house, and after you're there a month, you discover that a few years ago, someone toilet-papered your trees on haloween. It's now mid-summer. So, you drop what you're doing, install lights, security cameras, a concertina wire perimeter, concrete barricades, and full time rent-an-army to patrol the border, NOW!
Um, "NOW"?
What's wrong with this picture?
Everything.
Unless...
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.
Damn.
PS: Does anyone know of anything going on in Miami in this same timeframe that would require "heavy" airplane old hands to drop what they're doing, and race out to Miami post haste, leaving lame cover stories of their own?
If the answer is a "loose lips" thing, then don't say it, obviously.
550 posted on 08/03/2004 10:50:52 AM EDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
WASHINGTON — A key al-Qaida figure who had access to the surveillance data that led authorities to increase the terror alert level was among those arrested in raids in Britain on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. national security official. He said the arrests were made on information obtained following the arrests of al-Qaida suspects in Pakistan.
The official described the arrest of Eisa al-Hindi, an al-Qaida leader in Britain, as the initial unraveling of a network of al-Qaida members believed to have been actively planning attacks in the United States and elsewhere.
Al-Hindi, according to the official, had access to the detailed surveillance of the five financial institutions in Washington, New Jersey and New York that was stored in the computer of a suspect apprehended earlier in Pakistan. Other al-Qaida operatives outside Britain also had access to the information, the official said.
Al-Hindi was among 13 men, ages 19 to 32, arrested in raids late Tuesday in London, the nearby towns of Watford and Luton, and Blackburn in northwestern England. One man was freed Wednesday without charge. The others were being questioned at a London police station “on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,” police said, according to the Associated Press.
The arrests in Pakistan that led investigators to al-Hindi began in June with the apprehension by Pakistani paramilitary forces of Mussad Aruchi, an al-Qaida operative. The operation was supervised by the CIA, officials said. Aruchi, described as a nephew of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the architect of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, told interrogators he “was sure that al-Qaida would hit New York or Washington pretty soon.” He is also a cousin of Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, who was convicted of planning and carrying out an attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.
So that no one misunderstands the following lines"
To: HipShot
"Wrong. That's a fatal mistake to make.
The sub critical components have a half life of 24,000 years."
Were the words of HipShot and were being responded to by Don Joe