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Massive Intelligence Raids Follow Zarqawi’s Death
Armed and Dangerous ^ | June 8th, 2006

Posted on 06/11/2006 8:25:36 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter

Edited on 06/11/2006 8:57:19 AM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - In a surprise sequel to the death of top al-Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this morning, police have executed raids and searches on dozens of newsrooms and editorial offices belonging to a shadowy and ill-defined network called the “MSM”. The resulting haul of intelligence on terrorist objectives and strategy has been described as “priceless”.

“It’s no secret that these `Main Stream Media’ organizations have been handing the terror network a lot of its talking points,” said one spokesman. “Increasingly, terrorists have been shaping their strategy around media operations, relying on their tacit partnership with the MSM to achieve shared political goals. Cracking the media side of the operation may be the most effective way to cut off the terrorists’ oxygen.”

Representatives of the New York Times, the Reuters news agency, the Guardian, and other apparent targets of the investigation declined to comment, except to blame U.S. President George W. Bush for millions of hitherto-undisclosed Iraqi civilian casualties, higher gas prices, several extragalactic supernovas, and the Hindenburg disaster.


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1 posted on 06/11/2006 8:25:37 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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To: Cap Huff; Coop; Dog; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Boot Hill

ping


2 posted on 06/11/2006 8:26:26 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (The Stations of the Cross in Poetry ---> http://www.wayoftears.com)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I love President Bush! there I said it! =)


3 posted on 06/11/2006 8:27:05 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Straight Vermonter

I a fair and just world, this would be true...


4 posted on 06/11/2006 8:29:18 AM PDT by wvobiwan (If you're not part of the solution, you're obviously a liberal Democrat.)
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To: Cinnamon

My condolences to you...


5 posted on 06/11/2006 8:30:49 AM PDT by Iscool (You mess with me, you mess with the whole trailer park...)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I read somewhere on this board that the main reason that the MSM is so freaked out about the NSA surveillance is because they are afraid that their contacts with the terrorists will be identified.


6 posted on 06/11/2006 8:31:23 AM PDT by Mercat (He's everywhere you are.)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Report from yesterday [and probably more raids are going on still]

Post-Zarqawi security sweep continues
  Posted by Grendel9
On 06/10/2006 12:03:21 PM CDT · 10 replies · 298+ views


english.aljazeera.net ^
The US military says it has carried out nearly 60 raids following the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Some raids were carried out using information gathered from the house where al-Zarqawi was killed on Wednesday, a US military spokesman said. Major General William Caldwell said documents and information storage devices were found, as well as rifles and grenades, at the house near Baquba, north of Baghdad. At least 24 people were detained and one person was killed during the raids, he said. Caldwell displayed photographs of items he said were recovered during the operations....

Zarqawi's network reached into Europe and north Africa. Chances are, many more raids are in process to take down the network.

from the link for the following article: The Men in the Shadows -- Hunting al-Zarqawi ~~ Task Force 145


"Task Force 145 uses a process that they call the unblinking eye, which is essentially a very tight linkage between intelligence and operations, meaning that as soon as they have intelligence they want to act on it, rather than sit and dwell on it for days at a time," said Sean Naylor, who reported a piece on TF 145 for the Army Times.

[Gorelick wall came tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...]


7 posted on 06/11/2006 8:34:18 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Straight Vermonter
“It’s no secret that these `Main Stream Media’ organizations have been handing the terror network a lot of its talking points,” said one spokesman. “Increasingly, terrorists have been shaping their strategy around media operations, relying on their tacit partnership with the MSM to achieve shared political goals. Cracking the media side of the operation may be the most effective way to cut off the terrorists’ oxygen.”

Calling the New York Times turncoats, calling New York Times turncoats ... are the traitors in the room? Calling New York Times...

8 posted on 06/11/2006 8:34:50 AM PDT by GOPJ (Hang zarqs by his feet in the center of Baghdad and put a NYTimes in his hand-pissant)
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“It’s no secret that these `Main Stream Media’ organizations have been handing the terror network a lot of its talking points,”

Very funny, but the MSM only take talking points from the enemies of the US. They are too lazy to make or hand anything to anyone. They live by the press release and the talking point e-mail from the Dims. Thinking things up is not in their job description.
9 posted on 06/11/2006 8:36:17 AM PDT by JLS
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To: Mercat

Helen Thomas... I'd love to see her contact list


10 posted on 06/11/2006 8:46:43 AM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: Straight Vermonter

Bumperoo


11 posted on 06/11/2006 8:48:13 AM PDT by roaddog727 (eludium PU36 explosive space modulator)
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To: Straight Vermonter

You can search the MSM all you want, and you will never find any intelligence whatsoever.


12 posted on 06/11/2006 8:49:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

>>everal extragalactic supernovas, and the Hindenburg disaster.

LMAO here! I just woke up the sleeping Boston Terrier puppy sitting next to me on that couch!


13 posted on 06/11/2006 8:52:29 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Straight Vermonter
“It’s no secret that these `Main Stream Media’ organizations have been handing the terror network a lot of its talking points,” said one spokesman.

I thought MSM was an abbreviation for Marxist Seditious Maniacs. It certainly describes their true identity and purpose. Nothing about the MSM is "Main Stream" in the USA, and rational citizens in the nation are well aware of that fact now.

14 posted on 06/11/2006 9:03:27 AM PDT by Unmarked Package
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But, but, but . . .

I thought Zarqawi's death "didn't mean anything" to the war in Iraq?

15 posted on 06/11/2006 9:09:03 AM PDT by LS
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To: Mercat
I read somewhere on this board that the main reason that the MSM is so freaked out about the NSA surveillance is because they are afraid that their contacts with the terrorists will be identified.

Oh I hope they were and that arrests are soon to follow of some very prominent Presstitutes.

16 posted on 06/11/2006 10:45:27 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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