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ANOTHER TRY: Terrorists tested liquid explosives on a jet in 1994 (lots of v interesting info!)
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| Aug. 11, 2006
| Simon Reeve,
Posted on 08/11/2006 7:26:30 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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"Bojinka" means "explosion" in Serbo-Croat.
I never knew that.
I also didn't know that they invented the liquid explosives and actually did that test back in 1995.
To: Cindy
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:26:58 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
To: FairOpinion
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:28:12 PM PDT
by
Spirited
To: FairOpinion
Isn't it about time we start attacking whatever mass transportation they have in Iran, Syria etc.? M aybe we can take out some mules.
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08/11/2006 7:32:32 PM PDT
by
xxyyxx
To: xxyyxx
We need to learn the lessons of WW II.
I leave it to the deductive powers of the readers as to which specific actions we need to remember and how those actions helped end the war.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:35:23 PM PDT
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FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
To: FairOpinion
The book The New Jackals by Simon Reeves is about OBL and Yousef. The FBI said of Yousef that he was the most experience bomb maker they'd ever come across. And he trained lots of jihadists before his ultimate arrest.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:35:57 PM PDT
by
Peach
(Prayers for Israel and all who love her.)
To: FairOpinion
This must not be true. You see Senator Kennedy and other leading democrats say that the terrorist plot is because of President Bush's bad policies in Iraq. This must just be right wing propaganda.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:37:45 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
(Thank God the Brits don't have a New York Times!)
To: FairOpinion
I leave it to the deductive powers of the readers as to which specific actions we need to remember and how those actions helped end the war.
Short answer. We didn't fight a proportional war, We went in with overwhelming force and an intent to kill as many of the enemy as possible until they surrendered according to whatever conditions we set.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:39:51 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
To: FairOpinion
I REMEMBER TWA FLIGHT 800.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:42:09 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: ladyinred
Notice this was in 1994 and what did Bill Clinton do about it?
Remember, he keeps telling us, how serious he was about pursuing Al Qaeda.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:42:11 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: FairOpinion
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:43:47 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: FairOpinion
I wonder if the FBI looked into a liquid explosive on TWA Flight 800? Maybe this is why there was no explosive residue found.
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08/11/2006 7:44:26 PM PDT
by
Wiggins
To: FairOpinion
Liquid explosives were used by a North Korean agent to bring down a Korean Air jetliner in 1987. She planted the bomb on direct orders of Kim Jong-Il.
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08/11/2006 7:47:43 PM PDT
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COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: FairOpinion
I also didn't know that they invented the liquid explosives and actually did that test back in 1995. That's because it wasn't Bush's fault. It didn't get a lot of press coverage.- tom
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:49:29 PM PDT
by
Capt. Tom
(Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
To: Wiggins
In fact, they DID find bomb residue on '800:
The gov't searched about for any airport at which a bomb detection exercise had been run, got the name of the dog-handling agent and got him to claim he'd gotten the residue all over the place in an exercise he'd run.
Can you guess how many reporters talked to the agent? ZERO. Yep.
But one tenacious journalists poured through the documentation and discovered that indeed that agent HAD run such an exercise --on a DIFFERENT airliner.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:52:11 PM PDT
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gaijin
To: gaijin
What about that monkey that was on the Houston flight with the detonator in his hollowed out pc about 2 months ago?? Sure it was just a big misunderstanding...
To: gaijin
I forgot to mention --the stewardess who stole the piece of seat cloth from '800 that SHOWED that there had been bomb residue?
Our government convicted her of her "THEFT", and nearly put her in PRISON.
It was a suspended sentence of 5 years, or something, and a colossal legal headache.
They also threatened her husband.
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08/11/2006 7:54:06 PM PDT
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gaijin
To: gaijin
Nearly forgot:
Remember that after 9-11, incredibly they STILL had middle-eastern teams of guys scoping out airliners?
The guys would be all nervous, lining up to go into the bathrooms in careful sequence, one after the other, like they were practicing the assembly of some bomb that had previously been in components, one per kook...
The FBI detained the guys who turned out to be TRAVELING ON FALSIFIED PASSPORTS, and then incredibly...?
LET THEM GO.
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posted on
08/11/2006 7:57:25 PM PDT
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gaijin
To: gaijin
In fact, they DID find bomb residue on '800: That's right. I remember that now.
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08/11/2006 7:57:54 PM PDT
by
Wiggins
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