[RightGeek]

More details at the link.

[PGR88]

Indian agents had interrogated a man last year who was linked to the Islamic State,

Might that be the same Islamic State that Obama, McCain and Brennan tried to use to overthrow Assad in Syria? Who was fed Gaddafi's weapons from Libya when he was overthrown and Hillary laughed about it? Could it be the same Islamic State that then set up their base in Western Syria and recruited Islamists from all over the world?

Just asking for a friend....

[EEGator]

[EEGator]

If I recall correctly, I think bin Laden’s family had a couple dollars too.

[God luvs America]

asking for prayers for a young American girl who was critically injured in the blast while on business for the Department of Commerce...link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3744073/posts

[tbw2]

Sri Lankan millionaire’s family was an ISIS cell: Suicide bombers shatter shameless excuses peddled by ‘liberals’ to justify Islamic terrorism
https://www.opindia.com/2019/04/sri-lankan-millionaires-family-was-an-isis-cell-the-suicide-bombers-shatter-the-shameless-excuses-peddled-by-liberals-to-justify-islamic-terrorism/

[Zhang Fei]

[One distraught woman could not stop crying and shouting at the police. She blamed them for not having acted on intelligence warnings of the attacks.]

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It comes down to “who, what, how, when”. Without prior knowledge, it’s really impossible to act with any effectiveness. Terrorists are always issuing real and false signals of impending attacks. At less than 1% of the population, cops and other security people simply cannot be on high alert 100% of the time - the overtime expenses and curfews would be cost-prohibitive. 9/11 was preceded by masses of intelligence warnings that were just like the intelligence warnings of the past that came to nothing. Intelligence warnings have become part of the background noise, an effort by terrorists to drain the limited energy and resources of their targets.

We can deter terrorists, but that would require draconian measures involving collective punishment. The complete extermination of the bin Laden family and the families of all the 9/11 hijackers would probably have given future terrorists pause. Such policies would strike at the heart of the niggling worry even among the most devout of believers - what if I’m wrong and my deity doesn’t really exist? Do I really want to risk having my blood kin - parents, children, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews - wiped off the face of the earth? When Muslim terrorists start detonating nukes in Western cities, reprisals against the kin of terrorist perpetrators might just become a live option.