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Posted on 10/12/2004 8:58:00 PM PDT by nwctwx
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After a year of TM I fully agree.
All worth of repeating.
I think you made it well known that you were reposting. It's tough to keep up with every post on the TM when it is really busy. That's probably the source of confusion.
I found the list to be quite interesting, and I will bookmark the site.
snipped from excellent article by Joe Mariani:
It's clear that Afghanistan and Iraq were the first parts of an overall strategy to confront nations that sponsor global terror, a strategy that John Kerry would not energetically pursue. Iran is the primary sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East. Once both Afghanistan and Iraq are firmly under the control of their own people, our allies will surround Iran. If Iran continues to harbor and sponsor terrorists and build nuclear weapons, we will only need to blockade the Straits of Hormuz -- their main transportation route for oil exports -- for their economy to be in danger of collapse. The only cure for terrorism is democratic reform, and Iran is already on the verge of a democratic revolution. Once Iran gives up its sponsorship of global terror and pursuit of banned weapons, North Korea will have lost all of its main customers for illegal weapons and partners in proliferating nuclear knowledge -- Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Iran. With no outlet for its only exports, North Korea's economy will also face collapse, unless they fully dismantle their nuclear weapons programs.
That's the path President Bush has put us on -- a path that will lead to a safer world in the long run, though it will not be easy or quick. He told us so right from the beginning, if you were listening. On 20 September 2001, President Bush told the nation:
"Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated... We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."
President Bush is fighting terror with a long-term comprehensive strategy, like a game of chess. John Kerry is planning to fight terrorism like a game of checkers -- make a move, see how your opponent responds, react to his move. Kerry would fight a defensive war, concentrating on reactive strategies like searching incoming ships and increasing funding to those who would respond to the carnage of an attack. While those are good ideas in any case, no amount of money or manpower can possibly search all incoming ships, nor patrol every inch of our huge borders. No matter how high we build the walls around our country, it would only take one clever or lucky terrorist to debase all the defenses we can create. The only effective way to fight terrorism is to convince the nations that support it to stop. Or else.
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/mariani/2004/mariani103104.htm
It has not been refuted. Like you, I saw the Imam on Rita Crosby's show last night and he spent about 10 minutes explaining why he thought it was Gadahn (cheif amongst them was the heavy breathing while 'excited'). He also spent a while talking about how Adam converted and eventually fell in with the 'wrong crowd' at school.
This guy should be all over the news talking about this but the election is more important. I can't help but think they will try to pull something off Tuesday though I side with others in the fear that the real danger lies just beyond the election.
There are more militant groups in Iraq than there are militants to fill them.
bump
Good point. Terrorists may belong to multiple groups with no allegiance to any one of them.
!!! Don't miss the last sentance.
'Suicide bombers preparing to attack Russia'
October 30, 2004 11:11 IST
More than 80 foreign-trained suicide bombers are planning to attack Russia, a top security official told the country's parliament.
"We don't know what route they might take to get into Russia, and this creates definite problems," Director of the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopastnosti, General Nikolai Patrushev, told the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, on Friday.
He accused governments of West Asian Islamic countries of supporting suicide bombers in the North Caucasus, where Moscow has been fighting Chechen separatists for the past decade, RIA Novosti reported.
Besides bombing of two passenger jets and a suicide attack at Moscow metro station in August, Chechen rebels also carried out a suicidal mission to take large numbers of hostages during last month's seizure of a school in Beslan.
"In order to confidently say that there won't be any terrorist acts, a whole system of measures need to work well," Gen Patrushev said. "Such a system has not yet been created in our country."
At the Duma meeting, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said his department had prevented a string of attacks in the past year.
"More than 200 terrorist acts have been prevented... Many of these crimes were aimed at killing hundreds of people and bringing about the gravest consequences," he said.
http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/oct/30rus.htm
This is an EXCELLENT article. Wow.
FYI
Military teams respond to changing role
"Quick Response Force" poised for natural disaster, security or terrorist attack
By Erin Emery
Denver Post Staff Writer
Post / Helen Richardson
A member of a quick response team heads out for a plane ride from Colorado Springs to a Wyoming site for a training exercise last week. The teams can be ordered to any city or countryside in the U.S. to prevent a terrorist attack or provide security, with minimal preparation time.
Guernsey, Wyo. -Army Pvt. Trevor Stevenson's bed was concrete: the floor of Building 123 at Peterson Air Force Base.
His pillow: a helmet of Kevlar.
Stevenson, 21, of Farmington Hills, Mich., had slept about four hours, along with 125 other soldiers from Fort Carson who are part of a "Quick Response Force" that can be ordered to any city or countryside in America to prevent a terrorist attack or provide security on home soil.
Stevenson was part of the troops that boarded two C-130s before sunrise Thursday and flew to Camp Guernsey, a Wyoming Army National Guard post about a 90-minute drive north of Cheyenne.
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2503223,00.html
Here's an interesting Lebanese editorial:
Copyright (c) 2004 The Daily Star
Monday, November 01, 2004
Osama bin Laden: Still devious and contradictory
By Massoud A. Derhally
Special to The Daily Star
Well there you have it. Once and for all Osama bin Laden acknowledged in the newly released video on Al-Jazeera responsibility for carrying out the barbaric, cold and calculated attacks of Sept. 11.
Bin Laden provides irrefutable insight to his involvement and planning of the Sept. 11 attacks, referring to instructing Mohammed Atta - the leader of the 19 hijackers - to carry out the attacks within the time span of twenty minutes.
He then mocks President George Bush. "It never occurred to us that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his citizens in the two towers to face these horrors alone," bin Laden said, in reference to the number of people working at the World Trade Center towers.
Such a revelation will surely leave conspiracy advocates in the Middle East and around the world gasping as they try to come to grips with facts they have long found difficulty believing. But it is also designed to implicate Bush as having allowed more people to perish as a result of poor leadership and negligence - at least this is what bin Laden is saying. And there is some insight that bin Laden has either watched or read about Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," given his reference to Bush talking to a young girl in the classroom whilst the attacks were underway.
Comfortable and collected, speaking with an ironically soothing voice, bin Laden abandoned his polemic calls for jihad - his urging of Muslims to kill Americans and their supporters. He instead tried, at least in his schizophrenic and twisted form of logic - if that is what one can call it - to reach out to the American people, rationalizing his hideous attack on the United States three years ago.
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or Al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands," bin Laden said addressing the American people.
"Any state that does not mess with our security has naturally guaranteed its own security."
There is obviously no possible, rational or logical way to rationalize the slaughtering of thousands of innocent lives. But clearly this is an attempt by bin Laden to try to sway American foreign policy as much as it is an attempt to influence the U.S. elections. More importantly, it also conveys the contradictory and devious nature of bin Laden. If the message here is that American people should feel at ease and are not at fault, then why did bin Laden make his threat in the aftermath of Sept. 11, in which he said America will never be safe and those living in it would never know security?
It seems also that the "sheikh," as he is called by some of his admirers, has been going through a period of introspection. The Israeli invasion of Beirut in 1982 appears to have played a formidable role in spewing the venom over the years in the psyche of bin Laden.
"While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women," he said.
"God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind," he added.
Notice here, a clear shift in strategy. Bin Laden is no longer talking about ejecting the "infidels" from the Arabian peninsula. He isn't attacking any particular Arab leader. If Lebanon had such a profound impact, if it had played such a salient role in shaping his views and his hatred of America, why then did he wait from 1982 until 2001 to launch a large-scale attack on the United States?
After all, he would have had more support waging an all-out guerrilla war in Lebanon against Israel's invading army. Bin Laden is no Che Guevara. He is not Yasser Arafat, nor Gamal Abdel Nasser.
What you have here is what people in the intelligence community call a rogue agent - except this one is a multidimensional psychopath with a self-prophesied ideology to instill fear, terror and hatred in the hearts of human beings.
How can an individual, who for years was on the take from the CIA and other intelligence agencies, proclaim that the killing and maiming of innocent Palestinians, Arabs or other Muslims around the world be wrong and then hideously murder - under the guise of religion - innocents in Africa, Saudi Arabia, and the US? Bin Laden is an individual defunct of a moral compass, and a fatwa (edict) branding him a bigot and a heretic by Muslim clerics the world over is long overdue.
It's not enough to express sorrow every time a child dies or when hostages have their heads cut off, or when a non-Muslim has their throat cut. Are we butchers? Are we barbarians?
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=5&article_id=9743#
US warns of possible imminent terror attacks in Nordic, Baltic states
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2004/November/theworld_November11.xml§ion=theworld
Wednesday morning in conjunction with the 1 year anniversary of the beginning of the daily terror threat reporting here on FR.
~~~~~~~~~~~ I hope this isn't THE DAY!
Ditto.
Thank YOU nw.
Yep.
RUMOR: If not next door neighbors, the gist is they have places near each other in Idaho.
Future note:
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OPINION (with a touch of speculation): That is a right-on-target summary.
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