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To: Do not dub me shapka broham

"Anyone at the beginning of the 1970s who forecast that terrorists would blow up jumbo jets in midair with all of their passengers on board, kidnap a head of state, run a boat filled with explosives aground on a crowded beach, set off a bomb weighing several tons in the heart of London's financial district, release nerve gas in a subway at rush hour, unleash biological weapons, hold a city hostage with a stolen or improvised nuclear weapon, or crash hijacked airliners into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center would have been dismissed as a novelist. Yet all of these events were perpetrated, attempted, or threatened."

RAND was the think tank that was commisioned by the Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism
http://www.rand.org/publications/randreview/issues/rr.08.02/thirtyyears.html


7 posted on 01/24/2005 1:59:39 AM PST by endthematrix (Declare 2005 as the year the battle for freedom from tax slavery!)
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To: endthematrix
The second "Twin Towers" plot had several precedents, the most prominent being "Operation Bojinka", which-thankfully-was foiled before it came to fruition.

The Caliphate-a radical group of Turkish exiles living in Germany-also planned to launch a 9/11-style attack against the mausoleum housing Kemal Ataturk's remains.

All of these plots, however, had an antecedent in the she-ming of a supposedly psychologically imbalanced, wannabe assassin, who was a domestic, non-Muslim, conspirator.

Right now, there's a major Hollywood release based upon his story.

11 posted on 01/24/2005 2:29:44 AM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham (Anxiously awaiting the coming of the Tupacalypse.)
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