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Slowdown in 'chatter' worries officials
CNN ^ | 8/6/04 | CNN

Posted on 08/06/2004 9:10:23 PM PDT by wagglebee

(CNN) -- A drop in so-called "chatter" among suspected terrorists is troubling some counterterrorism officials, who noticed a reduction in intercepted communications before the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, government sources said.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 911; alqaida; chatter; counterterrorism; homelandsecurity; terrorism
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1 posted on 08/06/2004 9:10:25 PM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Keep torturing those sub-humans. I have a bad feeling about soon and pretty soon.


2 posted on 08/06/2004 9:14:33 PM PDT by REAGANBELONGS TO THE AGES
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To: wagglebee

What's the worry? We're killing them all. Not much chatter left in them.


3 posted on 08/06/2004 9:15:06 PM PDT by tobyhill (The war on terrorism is not for the weak!)
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To: wagglebee

Well the way we are racking them in, maybe they don't have anyone to talk too:')


4 posted on 08/06/2004 9:15:14 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: CindyDawg; tobyhill

I hope so.


5 posted on 08/06/2004 9:15:52 PM PDT by wagglebee (Benedict Arnold was for American independence before he was against it.)
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This might mean they have something planned for the Olympics. That's probably going to be a much easier target than the Republican Convention later this month.


6 posted on 08/06/2004 9:16:22 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: wagglebee

And today's question is: When will we ever get control of our borders?


7 posted on 08/06/2004 9:17:37 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: Azzurri

From everything I've seen, anyone who goes to the Olympics is insane. A Greenpeace boat could knock out the security in Athens.


8 posted on 08/06/2004 9:18:24 PM PDT by wagglebee (Benedict Arnold was for American independence before he was against it.)
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Obviously they must have heard Howard Dean state that this was all politically motivated and then said to one another:

"Hey Abdul, the jihad gig is up! That Howard Dean knows our motives. Let's quit before he screams at us." "You are so right Mohammed! We must either choose to harvest the opium crop or get out the vote for John Kerry. Either way, we know Tay-ray-zuh will understand us."


9 posted on 08/06/2004 9:19:27 PM PDT by datakcy (I Pledge Allegiance - is that TOO MUCH to ask? If so, then go back to your tents & mud huts NOW!!!)
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i thought maybe today they might try something, it being the 59th anniversary of Hiroshima, but Sept 2nd looks so damn tempting to them I am sure. I will be at a HUGE Bush party in NYC...I am not going anywhere, BRING IT ON, fokkers!


10 posted on 08/06/2004 9:19:34 PM PDT by montag813 ("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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I thought they would never shut up!


11 posted on 08/06/2004 9:20:54 PM PDT by Bluntpoint
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Whatever happens, remember the key Democratic talking point:

It's ALL Bush's fault!


12 posted on 08/06/2004 9:21:50 PM PDT by datakcy (I Pledge Allegiance - is that TOO MUCH to ask? If so, then go back to your tents & mud huts NOW!!!)
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To: FormerACLUmember
And today's question is: When will we ever get control of our borders?

It's too late for that. If that was their plan, they are likely already in: men, materiel, explosives, biotoxins, isotopes, what have you. It is here, it could be anywhere. In a cargo truck, a FedEx van, an illegal alien landscaping truck.

We had a chance, a brief chance, post-9/11. But we utterly failed to protect our boundaries. God help us, I hope we got lucky and stopped whatever they had planned.

13 posted on 08/06/2004 9:23:36 PM PDT by montag813 ("A nation can survive fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.")
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To: Azzurri
I'm convinced that Athens will be hit. NYC will be locked down tighter than a drum during the RNC Convention week. Athens, otoh, will be an easy target.

AQ will try to kidnap athletes and hold them hostage. They will try to get the people in Gitmo released. Lots of media coverage w/o the propaganda drawback, plus the Eurotrash will put pressure on Bush to cave.

That's my call. It makes sense from AQ's point of view.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

14 posted on 08/06/2004 9:25:11 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: REAGANBELONGS TO THE AGES; Dog; swarthyguy; oceanperch; oceanview; Shermy; RightWhale; Calpernia

Me, too. Chatter slowdown worries me more than anything else.


15 posted on 08/06/2004 9:25:37 PM PDT by txhurl (A splinter, shorter than a staple, about as thick, barely stuck in his skin = Kerry a purple heart.)
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To: montag813
We had a chance, a brief chance, post-9/11. But we utterly failed to protect our boundaries. God help us, I hope we got lucky and stopped whatever they had planned

The Republicans are just as responsible here as the democrats, with the exception that at least the republicans are not obvious anti-American traitors.

16 posted on 08/06/2004 9:26:08 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: wagglebee

The majority of us here are not counter terrorism experts my self included, but I think they either about to strike or temporarily found a way to communicate with out us being able to intercept their messages in the wake of catching that that geek on the 13th of July. Either this doesn't bode well, but I'm sure we can take what ever they got shove it back down their throats.


17 posted on 08/06/2004 9:27:02 PM PDT by Conservative_boy_in_Bangkok
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To: section9

You are right on the money.

I suspect the American team will be too closely guarded, so they will hit the Italian, Polish and English teams.


18 posted on 08/06/2004 9:28:22 PM PDT by MediaMole
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To: Azzurri
Check out this thread of anti-kerry signs!
19 posted on 08/06/2004 9:29:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (http://www.osurepublicans.com)
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To: tobyhill

Over there we are hanging tough. Here I worry.


20 posted on 08/06/2004 9:33:05 PM PDT by Iberian
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