[lugsoul]

IF the 5000 number is accurate, or true, our difference on this issue may end up being the scariest of all. I think that 5000 MUST include the kind of 4-step-removed folks discussed above. Because otherwise, if (as you seem to think) it does not, then there are AT LEAST 5000 people in this country having direct communications with terrorists trying to attack us, or at least with suspicious patterns connecting their commications to these people. 5000 is a lot of people. More than the number of 'hard-core insurgents' in Afghanistan.

[pissant]

There are bound to be at LEAST 5000 terror sympathizers in this country with contacts as diverse as the commie insurgents in the Phillipines, the questioanble Saudi supported "charities", to british bred terror scum, etc etc. The number seems small to me.