12/04/2006 Middle East Live Daily Thread

Middle East Live Daily Thread ^ | 12/04/2006 | La Enchiladita

[La Enchiladita]

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[conservativepoet]

Thanks for the ping 4but...I'm amazed at the speed of insanity sweeping this country.

[CougarGA7]

Very interesting.

My take on this is that it was specifically designed to create an incident. It doesn't make any sense to me for these guys to try and take over a full aircraft. Especially, after 9-11.

I fly quite frequently, and I can say that if anyone got up and made an action that appeared as though they were trying to take over the plane, I would not hesitate and would take the person down. I have no doubt that I would have a dozen people right behind me.

The big difference between today and pre 9-11 is the nature of hijacking itself. Before 9-11, when a plane was hijacked, it was landed somewhere, maybe taking off again and landing somewhere else and would become a long drawn-out standoff. So the mentality of response to a hijacking was to let the hijackers take the plane to location x and let the whole thing play out.

This is no longer the case, the mentality now if a plane is hijacked is that this plane is going to be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

These actions by these men tell me that they were trying to create a scene in order to cry foul to the press. And it looks like they were successful. They are fully aware that the press is their greatest tool to use against us and soften our resolve. And as usual the press always plays right into their hands.

[Walleye_Walter]

"4 letter word

(W-O-R-K)

LMAO...what's that (LOLOLOLOL)"

OK 4, I now have a perfect visual of you as Maynard G. Krebs!!!!! LOL

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ALLAH~~~ALLAH~~~FUBAR~~~YA'LL~~~~~~~~~~~~~

And Good After Mornin'...;0)

[Uncle Ike]

From the "Olmert very, very disappointed" file:

" Undercover IDF troops storm cafe, kill terrorist
Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec. 4, 2006 | Yaakov Katz


Posted on 12/04/2006 1:30:21 PM CST by ScaniaBoy "

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1748304/posts

" Undercover IDF soldiers stormed a Tulkarm caf and gunned down a prominent Fatah militant Monday evening, Palestinians witnesses said.

Residents of the northern West Bank city said Mahmoud Aved al-Al, an al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades operative from the Gaza Strip, was killed. The witnesses said a 12 year-old boy was critically wounded, and a second Fatah militant was moderately wounded, in the raid.

IDF sources confirmed that units entered Tulkarm and surrounded the establishment after receiving intelligence that the fugitive - who they say was in the midst of planning a suicide attack - was sitting inside.

The sources said troops called on the fugitive to surrender several times. When he tried to flee, the soldiers shot him dead.

No soldiers were wounded in the action, the IDF said. "

[Bahbah]

That sounds pretty exciting. Hooray for the IDF.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Hey,W_W,,,Ya' just told your age...;0)

[malia]

And this all happened November 20, 2006.....

Read the opening to todays Rush Show thread and you know why this was kept out of headlines.....

not that we don't already know why........

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

TANKS for the good news,Ike,,,;0)

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

LOLROF...;0),,,,,,"Look it up."