Posted on 11/22/2010 4:20:46 PM PST by jazusamo
While the Transportation Security Administration is groping for an answer to air safety, al Qaeda is laughing. This week, the terror group publicly detailed its plans to circumvent the latest government security measures and bleed America to death.
The new edition of al Qaeda's glossy magazine, Inspire, discusses last month's plot to down cargo planes with bombs hidden in printer ink cartridges, and a successful Sept. 3 UPS aircraft bombing in Dubai. These new techniques were born after underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab failed to detonate his explosive on Northwest flight 253 last Christmas. Since then, the terrorists say they "have been experimenting with ways to bring down airplanes. ... We looked into X-ray scanners, full-body scanners, sniffing dogs and other aspects of security."
The magazine includes technical details of how to construct weapons that will avoid X-ray and chemical sniffer detection, enabling other jihadist groups to try them out. An al Qaeda press release stated, "It is our plan to disseminate the idea to the mujahidin worldwide and to expand its deployment onto both civilian aircraft in the West as well as cargo aircraft."
"Operation Hemorrhage" - al Qaeda's name for the ink-cartridge attacks - cost only $4,200, which they claim "will without a doubt cost America and other Western countries billions of dollars in new security measures. That is what we call leverage." The fact that the attacks failed is irrelevant; the underwear bomber didn't detonate his bomb but the Obama administration went off the deep end in response. It is "such a good bargain," al Qaeda explains, "for us to spread fear amongst the enemy and keep him on his toes in exchange of a few months of work and a few thousand bucks."
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I’ll give credit where credit is due, sounds great to me!
This is exactly what AQ intends. Get us running in circles wasting our manpower and money and demoralizing our people.
I honestly think that AQ didn’t want the panty bomber or the shoe bomber to succeed. They wanted these tactics known to cause us even more trouble..if the planes had gone down, we would not have known exactly why.
Next they will try a A-hole bomber and really tie us in knots.
If we don’t start profiling and come up with a secure flier system..we are going to loose the war.
I agree completely, we have to start training people to profile like the Israeli’s. I fully believe they already know where to start the system that will give the most security and then keep expanding it.
Can there be any doubt now of the insanity of our Federal Government?I never had any doubt about the insanity of the nation's largest organised crime family. At least not since 1993 . . .
Compassionate CommunismThat has rather the same ring as "promiscuous celibate," "political morality," and "New York Mets baseball," alas . . .
I couldn’t agree with you more!
The first person we should send to secure the border is Michael Chertoff. I bet he would make way more money, and intimidate the heck out of illegal border crossers.
Frankly, I’m with Bobby Jindal. Now...the terrorists rights are respected more than the legal citizens’ rights are respected.
I have your fourth amendment right here...
Hey, sweetie! It’s so good to “see” you! ;o)
Yeah, like a trained seal.
Poison works best - it’s not in our “usual” M.O.
The last line in that article is the best, LOL!
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