Posted on 05/05/2005 8:44:16 AM PDT by hinterlander
Last Friday, firefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq. An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs. The owner of the building, according to the New York Post, "served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records." But officials were definite: this has nothing to do with terrorism.
It doesn't? What does it have to do with, then? Was this a local Rotary Club chapter that decided to sell pipe bombs as a fundraiser and thought that a few posters of Osama and Iraqi beheadings might liven things up?
Similarly, when explosions killed fifteen people and injured over 100 at an oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005, the FBI quickly ruled out terrorism as a possible cause. When a group calling itself Qaeda al-Jihad and another Islamic group both claimed responsibility, the FBI was still dismissive. But then it came to light that investigators did not even visit the blast site until eight days after the explosions -- and eight days after they ruled out terrorism as a possibility. One more independent-minded investigator asked, "How do you rule out one possibility when you don't have any idea what the cause is?" Still later came the revelation that initial reports of a single blast were inaccurate: there were as many as five different explosions at the refinery.
It may still be possible that these blasts were accidental and that five distinct things went wrong at the refinery to cause five separate explosions at around the same time. And maybe there was no terrorist involvement. But how did the FBI know that before even investigating?
These are just two examples of a consistent pattern. Last Thursday, federal authorities revealed the existence of a three-state scam that enabled over two thousand illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses. Michael Garcia, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, explained: "With a valid driver's license, you establish an identity. There's no way to identify whether that identity is valid -- that you're not on a terrorist watch list, that you're not a criminal. It gives you a bona fide." However, although he did not explain how he could be sure that no jihad terrorists obtained any of the fake licenses, he assured reporters that this case had no connection to terrorism.
Daniel Pipes has recently pointed out that denial and obfuscation of obvious terror-related cases has been going on for years. When a Muslim named El Sayyid Nosair murdered Israeli political activist Meir Kahane in New York City on November 5, 1990, authorities ascribed the killing not to jihad but to Nosair's depression. On March 1, 1994 on the Brooklyn Bridge, a Muslim named Rashid Baz started shooting at a van filled with Hasidic boys, murdering one of them. The FBI blandly ascribed the shooting to "road rage." On July 4, 2002, at the Los Angeles International Airport counter of El Al, the Israeli national airline, a Muslim named Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet started shooting at people. He killed two. The FBI initially said that "there's nothing to indicate terrorism." However, after it came to light that Hadayet may have been involved with Al-Qaeda and was known for his hatred for Israel, the FBI finally did classify this as a terrorist act.
Most Americans do not realize that such incidents are taking place on American soil after 9/11. Are officials trying not to alarm the American public? Or is this a politically correct strategy born of the success that canny American Muslim advocacy groups have had in portraying themselves as victims since 9/11: are officials trying to protect innocent Muslims from backlash?
Whatever their motivations, they are keeping Americans in the dark about the true nature and extent of the jihadist terror threat in our own country. The consequences of that can only be negative.
What about the Muslims shooting folks around D.C. out of the trunk of their car. They're not terrorists either, right? Right.
Auto airbags are actually big business--there is a thriving black market. The reason is that they are so expensive to install, so an unscrupulous repair shop can bill an insurance company for the full cost of a replacement, buy one of these black market ones (usually stolen from other cars) at half the price, and pocket the difference.
Not saying it's not terrorism, but I'd guess a simple black market/insurance fraud scheme is more likely judging from all the airbags.
> An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs
Yeah, the azide charges can be so used.... but *damn.* There are explosives far easier to get in much larger quantities. What happened to the days when terrorists made batches of explosives using common household chemicals?
I have ZERO faith in the FBI. This is from the article and unacceptable and heads should roll:
Similarly, when explosions killed fifteen people and injured over 100 at an oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005, the FBI quickly ruled out terrorism as a possible cause. When a group calling itself Qaeda al-Jihad and another Islamic group both claimed responsibility, the FBI was still dismissive. But then it came to light that investigators did not even visit the blast site until eight days after the explosions -- and eight days after they ruled out terrorism as a possibility. One more independent-minded investigator asked, "How do you rule out one possibility when you don't have any idea what the cause is?" Still later came the revelation that initial reports of a single blast were inaccurate: there were as many as five different explosions at the refinery.
It may still be possible that these blasts were accidental and that five distinct things went wrong at the refinery to cause five separate explosions at around the same time. And maybe there was no terrorist involvement. But how did the FBI know that before even investigating?
I suggest that it is possible the air bag scam is a funding mechinism for terrorism. Just as black market cigarettes are.
It doesn't? What does it have to do with, then? Was this a local Rotary Club chapter
Nope, just the meeting room of a local chapter of the daley crime machine.
Keep in mind that same group also claimed responsibility for the power blackout in the Northeast some time back.
Thought you might find this one interesting. I could add a few incidents to this list, including the probability that the OKC bombing had at the very least some terrorist help. (Not saying McVey and Nichols didn't do it--just that I don't think they did it alone.)
Me either.
Nah - more like two sick faggots in that instance...
BUMP!
Actually, and I have no idea if I heard this right, but some radio show was saying something about Roger Moore being involved in OKC. Did anyone else hear this or am I just hopped up on goofballs?
Hey, lets not be too harsh on the FBI. After all, they have more important things to do....like chasing after runaway brides. Our tax dollars at work. And after being involved in the chase, the FBI isn't even going to charge that White Trash "bride" for the manhours we paid for! give me a break.
I have this theory...the Feds will never say it was a terror attack....unless we see buildings falling like what happened on 9/11.
Airbags & terrorists plus Texas refinery blast info, very interesting article!!
I was visiting NYC when the American Airlines plane went down just after taking off (November 2001). My initial sense was that it was terrorism, and to me, the shoe bomber incident explained how it was probably done.
Things that make you want to scream, what's up with Mr "Garcia"
Continuing on the investigation coverups similar to TWA 800 and Oklahoma City and probably a few more.
The FBI is not an apolitical organization any more!
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