Posted on 08/03/2004 12:28:27 PM PDT by QQQQQ
They are needles in a haystack. Very hard to find.
Well, I'd hope he is saying WE should "assume".....without saying "I know." I don't think they are going to come out and tell us or Al Quaida what they know....
Fridays they are at the mosque..... the rest of the week at the local strip club.
Is that based on three year old information, too?
I suggest you read the 9/11 report for insights on why this is the case. Certainly, we know who some are and have already picked them up, others are being watched while others remain anonymous.
Remember this about terrorist operations and sleeper cells:
WE have to be lucky every time. THEY have to be lucky only once. . .
"He called on the American public to remain a part of this effort, "to do your part, to remain vigilant and ever-watchful for suspicious activity and behavior, and to report that activity."
This is one of the important ways of discovering them. The intel services, police, etc. can't be everywhere.
SOME of the info may be 2-3 years old, but there have been new updates. It is also coming from many different sources and there is a lot of chatter.
Those who try to focus on the fact that SOME of the info was collected 2-3 years ago, are trying to discredit the Bush administration.
Whether you agree with them or not, they are NOT clowns, like Kerry and Edwards.
They are not raising the terror alert because they found someone's old notebooks.
How many of them came in here under your watch, Tom?
As I watched the skies clear of planes on 9/11 I assumed there were others who didn't carry out their attacks.
Well duuuuuuhh!! The borders are wide open and we continue to prosecute a PC "war" against terrorists in the US, so what the hell does he expect?
It's illegal to search multiple ME males since that is profiling and profiling is wrong. We allow ME males who are obviously casing flights to go free, even with expired VISAs. We call the police and report ME males taking pictures of NY bridges and refineries in Texas and the police yaaaawn.
Nothing to see here...move along.
I'm not claiming we should know where all of them [terrorists or terrorist suspects] are, but Ridge's comment made it sound like we don't have a clue where ANY of them are.
"I would have hoped - three years after 9-11 - that by now we'd know who they are and where they are, that we would be well beyond the "assuming" stage."
One would think - however when the same allows thousands of illegals to pour over our borders everyday - kinda throws that theory out the window.
In recent years a lot of tobacco shops have opened up in the Seattle area that are owned by Middle Eastern men. There may be an innocent explanation for this, but if I were the FBI I'd be keeping an eye on them. Also, I went into a 7-11 recently, late at night, and the Black and/or Middle Eastern clerk was listening to what sounded like an angry rant in a foreign language on the radio. When he noticed that I was noticing, he turned off the radio.
This is excellent. It certainly puts in in perspective.
I highly recomment to Non-Sequitur and everyone else, who would prefer to ignore "dated" intelligence, to go to your link and see for themselves.
http://www.murdoconline.net/archives/001474.html
What Ridge is saying, that we can't afford to assume there aren't any here.
We always MUST err on the side of caution, that is all, especially, when the stakes are so high.
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