Posted on 02/10/2006 4:59:54 AM PST by Terrence DoGood
Homegrown terrorist Jeffrey Leon Battle considered America the “land of the kaffirs,” or unbelievers, and the American people “pigs.”
He once lamented to an acquaintance—who happened to be a government informant—that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks did not sufficiently damage the U.S. economy.
“This is the land of the enemy,” he said of his own country in a May 8, 2002, conversation secretly recorded by the government. He explained to a friend how his “burning desire” to become an Islamic martyr had inspired his aborted quest to join forces with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where he could kill American troops.
Lesson Learned
Battle, now 35, is serving an 18-year prison sentence for conspiring to wage war against the United States, a crime to which he confessed and pleaded guilty. But members of Congress who are stalling on renewing the Patriot Act and attacking President Bush for ordering the National Security Agency to intercept al Qaeda-linked communications in and out of the United States could learn something from studying the activities and communications of the Portland Seven terrorist cell that Battle and others began forming in Oregon in the months before—that’s right, before—the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at humaneventsonline.com ...
IF we lost to the Muzzis, which I do not think will happen, the only good thing that could come of it would be that Hillary would have to wear a burka.
Here. You'll enjoy listening to this new hit song, "ISLAM'S NOT FOR ME"...
http://www.islamcomicbook.com/media/Islamnot4me.mp3
...that was in my best Cardinal Egan (Bernie) Irish accent.
"Opponents of the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency program that targets al-Qaida-linked communications in and out of the United States should consider the Portland Seven terrorists, one of whom blamed their failure on President Bush. "
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That's OK, the Dems blame Bush for thwartin the attack on LA, before it fully materialized.
Taranto: Nothing to Fear but These Idiots. Dems fault Bush for thwarting an attack on L.A.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576362/posts
Interesting that Human Events didn't print the first paragraph, but Townhall did, which was the whole point of the article.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/terencejeffrey/2006/02/11/186087.html
"Opponents of the Patriot Act and the National Security Agency program that targets al-Qaida-linked communications in and out of the United States should consider the Portland Seven terrorists, one of whom blamed their failure on President Bush. "
He's one of Farrakhan's folks who decided to go hardcore.
NOI should be phone tapped and bi+(# slapped into oblivion.
Human Events is conservative, so I have no idea, why they would have omitted the most important paragraph of the entire article.
Could a paragraph been added to a later publishing? Do the dates jive?
Considering the title of the article is the same in both publications, and the first paragraph is what provides justification for the title, I figure the author must have written it that way and someone one HE in their infinite wisdom took it out.
I read it first at Townhall and was going to post it, then I saw it was already posted, but from HE, and the excerpt didn't contain the paragraph, so I went to the the HE website and sure enough, it wasn't there.
Odd -- I was reading more and found the last paragraphs are different too. Looks like Human Events have deliberately weakened the article.
The last paragraph from the TH article is a good close:
"Lawmakers critical of the Patriot Act and NSA intercepts must decide if they really want to strip away one or more of these barriers between us and another terrorist attack."
The one in HE:
"The question for lawmakers in Washington, D.C. is simple: Do they want to keep in place all the redundant layers of protection that stand between us and the next 9/11? Or do they want to strip one or more of them away? "
I.e. giving the impression that it really would be OK to strip away those layers, because they are "redundant".
The sneaky editors!
Exactly so!
I guess since Terence P. Jeffrey is the editor of HE he could have edited it himself
Interesting!
I wonder how it appeared in the print edition, because Robert Bluey the editor for HE Online.
Oh, well.
18 years isn't long enough for this traitor. A firing squad's bullets would have been more appropriate.
The line is Rush's.
Oh, I just noted that the author was affiliated as an editor with HE. Great eye on the omission!
I am glad you dug further, I had no idea the author was also an editor of HE. Teamwork. :)
"John's gotta sausage, yeah, man"--- Frank Zappa-- 'Joe's Garage"
I was wishing I could find it as a stand alone music file.
Spread it!!
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