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Unmasking of Qaeda Mole a U.S. Security Blunder-Experts
Reuters ^ | Auguat 7, 2004 | Peter Graff

Posted on 08/07/2004 12:07:47 PM PDT by be-baw

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1 posted on 08/07/2004 12:07:49 PM PDT by be-baw
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To: be-baw

Well, maybe if this administration wasn't forced to justify every action they take by both the major media and the Democrats, this mole would still be masked.


2 posted on 08/07/2004 12:09:09 PM PDT by Carling (What happened to Sandy Burglar's Docs?)
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To: be-baw

Yes, it's politics, but you can thank that daytime TV 9/11 report also...


3 posted on 08/07/2004 12:09:48 PM PDT by hedgie
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To: be-baw

Where were all these "experts" in August 2001?


4 posted on 08/07/2004 12:10:36 PM PDT by thoughtomator (I question the timing of this post)
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To: be-baw
......."It goes against all the rules of counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, running agents and so forth. It's not exactly cloak and dagger undercover work if it's on the front pages every time there's a development, is it?".......

(The 'medium' is the message......)

Diamonds?.....sure,....that's a medium?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

/sarcasm

5 posted on 08/07/2004 12:13:52 PM PDT by maestro
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To: Carling

exactly...blame the NY Times.


6 posted on 08/07/2004 12:16:26 PM PDT by Keith (IT"S ABOUT THE JUDGES)
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To: be-baw
The New York Times obtained Khan's name independently, and U.S. officials confirmed it when it appeared in the paper the next morning.

Once the Times let the cat out of the bag then it was pointless for the U.S. to deny the identity, as Al Qaeda's people were perfectly capable of reading the Times. The Times and whoever leaked to the Times are the culprits here.

7 posted on 08/07/2004 12:16:47 PM PDT by Numbers Guy
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To: Carling

Right on! The media frenzy and their "right to expose" every national secret, as long as it makes the President look corrupt or inept, has to be reigned in!

Freedom of the press requires a sense of decency, honesty, and integrity!
DKK


8 posted on 08/07/2004 12:17:20 PM PDT by LifeTrek
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To: Carling

Yeah, the NYT pressured the admin to do it. And I have been one to say that they need to get the word about successes.

But gesh, they could have waited a month on this one, although then they would lose control of the news cycles like they in over WMD in IRAQ.


9 posted on 08/07/2004 12:20:15 PM PDT by fooman (Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
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Where were all these "experts" in August 2001?

Sitting on their arses, just like they have been ever since. I am particularly galled to see a German bagging on us for intelligence failures. The Germans haven't had effective intelligence since they shot Canaris (and it was hurting before then).

Case in point. Remember where Mohammed Atta and his boys got all fired-up about crashing planes into buildings for the Religion of Death? It was a place called Hamburg, previously best known for the whores of the Reeperbahn.

Could someone tell me what country Hamburg is in, and under whose internal security organizations' benevolent gaze was this plan hatched?

Care to name a country in which the foreign minister is a member of the anti-American Green Party?

Hint: one answer fits both questions.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

10 posted on 08/07/2004 12:20:52 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F
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To: be-baw
Reuters is pro-terrorism and Anti-USA.

So is "The New York 'Slimes'".

"The New York Times obtained Khan's name independently..."

Once it's on their front-page, any covert, mole type stuff is over. Get who you can IMMEDIATELY.
11 posted on 08/07/2004 12:21:03 PM PDT by CaptSkip
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Damned when you do it based on OLD intel, critized when you do it "TOO SOON", damned when you DON'T immediately put into action some sort of all encompassing plan to thwart a NEBULOUS 6 year old plan that says AL Qaeda plans to fly airplanes into buildnings.

Doing NOTHING resulted in 911. Have we forgotten??

The PUBLIC needs to wake up and completely RETHINK obtaining news from the MSM.

12 posted on 08/07/2004 12:22:11 PM PDT by PISANO (NEVER FORGET 911 !!!!)
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The result of countering what that little runt "whats his name" ex abortion doctor from New England was spouting about the Orange Alert being political. He should be hanged as a first step in the war on terror.


13 posted on 08/07/2004 12:27:41 PM PDT by hgro
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To: Numbers Guy
Well put. This bears repeating:

Once the Times let the cat out of the bag then it was pointless for the U.S. to deny the identity, as Al Qaeda's people were perfectly capable of reading the Times. The Times and whoever leaked to the Times are the culprits here.

14 posted on 08/07/2004 12:30:45 PM PDT by Nexus
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; All; be-baw

Last night Ernest at the Beach posted a very interesting thread on this.

The outing was done by a Pakki Intel guy. Then the two NY Slimes reporters did their light in the loafer dance with unnamed US sources (top $ they are in the same probably the same rat camp as Joe Wilson and Richard Clarke).

Go to this link for some insight to what happened not the Gay light in the Loafer spin of a pair playing reporter for the Old Gray Whore, the NY Slimes.




http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1186810/posts


15 posted on 08/07/2004 12:44:06 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Franchurian Dork Candidate, le Jacquestrap Kerri says, "Judge me by my record".. We will!!.)
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To: Nexus
The Times and whoever leaked to the Times are the culprits here.

Words cannot express my anger with the New York Times. They are literally killing Americans with their anti-American Internationalist attitude.

Where are the angry mobs with the torches when you need them?

16 posted on 08/07/2004 12:45:00 PM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: be-baw
The Russian FSB had a mole in with the Chechnyans whom they managed to keep secret all the way into the Dubrovka theater hostage crisis. After that debacle, they decided to let him have an "accident".

Sometimes security doesn't outweigh massive loss of life.

17 posted on 08/07/2004 12:56:05 PM PDT by struwwelpeter
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To: be-baw
I would not trust Reuters as far as I could throw a Linotype machine manufactured in 1972. They are apologists for terrorists and they detest the US of A. As far as they're concerned, we ALWAYS screw up.

Perhaps they are right and things rolled out as they say, but based on their previous reporting, for my money, this arab-owned news service needs several corroborative reports to be credible.

18 posted on 08/07/2004 12:56:46 PM PDT by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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To: be-baw

I'll wait to hear from our guys.


19 posted on 08/07/2004 12:59:29 PM PDT by txrangerette
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To: Carling
The New York Times obtained Khan's name

Well, maybe if this administration wasn't forced to justify every action they take by both the major media and the Democrats, this mole would still be masked.

YEP> Both of these say it all.

20 posted on 08/07/2004 1:11:04 PM PDT by Indie (Ignorance of the truth is no excuse for stupidity.)
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