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My apologies if this has been posted; I don't recall seeing it.

It's Pakistan, Stupid!
By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 6, 2005

Law enforcement has a term for the period after a crisis when things revert to norm -- condition white. Well, the American people are just about there, three-and-a-half years after the 9/11 attacks.

But as the media obsess over Michael Jackson's favorite lubricants and Paula Abdul's dalliances with idol wannabes, al-Qaida is "very active" recruiting and planning to attack the United States again. "As months and years pass," Vice President Dick Cheney warns, "they are hoping that our country will grow complacent" and forget the horror of 9/11. And they're getting their wish, judging from the picayune issues that are catching the nation's attention now.

Cheney echoed President Bush's own warning a few days earlier to resist the urge to lower our guard. "One of my concerns after September the 11th is the farther away we got from September the 11th, the more relaxed we would all become and assume that there wasn't an enemy out there ready to hit us," Bush asserted.

Do they know something we don't? Short answer: yes.

Behind the scenes, homeland security officials are wringing their hands over intelligence indicating al-Qaida is preparing to attack major American cities, including Washington, using Pakistani nationals and possibly Pakistani-Americans.

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17968

Do they know something we don't? Short answer: yes. Behind the scenes, homeland security officials are wringing their hands over intelligence indicating al-Qaida is preparing to attack major American cities, including Washington, using Pakistani nationals and possibly Pakistani-Americans.

Fantastic post Oorang. We're just sitting ducks while they wring their hands and refuse to admit there is danger lurking. Just keep up morale and keep letting those Islamic foreign nationals in. Never mind finding the ones already here whose VISAs have expired and who have disappeared into America's woodwork (who may be the very terrorists who will arrange and perform our next attack!).

It's not just Mexican illegal aliens who need to be removed from our country. When it comes to protecting our country and its citizens from potential terrorists, foreign nationals in violation of the terms of their VISAs need to be rounded up and shipped out pronto - manpower and budgetary constraints or not. There are enough laid off law enforcement personnel in this country to handle the job quite adequately. We seem to have money for meaningless pork barrel pet projects, but national security needs to take precedence in this time of war. (off soapbox).