Terror Plot Foiled: Bin Laden Operative Revealed Targets, Terrorists' Names

ABCNEWS ^ | Wednesday, September 26, 2001

[Mark17]

I wish we would stop treating these people as though they were common criminals, and start treating them as out of uniform combatants, and simply shoot them.

[Vigilanteman]

Do you suppose Putin would loan us some of his best ex-KGB men to handle questioning if we asked politely?

[2Jedismom]

As he was being interrogated by French authorities, Djamel Begha, an Algerian national, revealed the list of targets and identities of other members of the terrorist ring.

They'll die for their cause, but sing like canaries when caught. Very odd.

[JohnHuang2]

hehehe

[piasa]

The French may be prissy but they are not soft when it comes to prisoners or interrogations.

[ambrose]

Good idea.

In fact, I think we should be hiring these ex-KGB men to capture these ragheads and play ping pong with their testicles.

[Theresa]

"As he was being interrogated by French authorities, Djamel Begha, an Algerian national, revealed the list of targets and identities of other members of the terrorist ring. "

It is so wierd how they cave as soon as they are caught. I don't get it.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Folks, I really truly fear that it is only a matter of time before we see a nuclear terrorist attack.

[American Soldier]

I feel just sick for suggesting this, but in the end it the fact that attacks on the EU Parliament and UN HQ in NYC were both foiled may COST lives -- seeing these things hit would be the only thing that would get the rest of the world to realize it is civilization that's under attack here not American cultural imperialism or unilateralism or some other such B.S. justification the left might give...

[longrider]

You've hit the nail on the head. If there's a known cell, don't watch them, shoot them.

[onyx]

Their attacks are meant to shock and terrorize. I'm afraid they're going to explode a car bomb in a school yard full of children.

[Travis McGee]

After seeing the WTC events in living color, even the Euros are "true believers" now.

They all know their cities can/will be next if they do not crack down hard.

[xm177e2]

Authorities had reportedly been watching the suspected terrorist cells for several weeks but moved in quickly after the attacks on New York and Washington.

If they had moved in earlier, maybe they would have found out about the WTC plot. Of course, they wanted to gather as much information as possible, so I understand why they didn't move in on them.

[truth_seeker]

...and simply shoot them.

Why do that, when they rollover so easily? I think our policy against cruel and unusual punishment should not be applicable, for these types. Real slow, and very painful, always coming up short of death. For a very, very long time.

[Humidston]

Amen. Keep your powder dry!

[stumpy]

Except when they have SCUM American Lawyers defending them. Declare war, treat them as spies (without the "trial lawyers association).

[Vigilanteman]

This actually is not odd at all. The fanatics in the Imperial Japanese Army who didn't manage to die in a suicide attack would sing when caught.

There are a number of documented instances. I recall reading about one instance in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutians in May 1943 where three prisoners were captured (they did not manage to die in a banzai attack) and proceeded to divulge locations of all the caves where the remaining troops were.

No Japanese emerged from Attu years after the war ended. One of the prisoners was so cooperative he actually rode along with one of the reconissance pilots to point out positions in the neighboring island of Kiska. In that battle, the American and Canadian troops lost 5 men accidently shooting at each other. The Japanese had quietly evacuated the island just days after the recon flight.

Ruth Benedict, who studied episodes such as these in her classic The Crythasanthemum and the Sword hypothesized that the men beleived they had lost their chance for heaven in the afterlife by failing to fight to the death. Accordingly, they felt entitled to enjoy whatever was left of this life. Multiply these rare battlefield cases with the more common civilian cases who (1)either failed to committ suicide as ordered in places like Guam and Saipan or (2)failed to fight to the death in their homeland after the atomic bomb was dropped and you had a society built on the emperor as divinity changed to a pacifist society within one generation after the war.

I'm not predicting this will happen with the Islamisic extremist worlds, but it is possible. Jesus will not come again until the Gospel can be preached in the whole world. Right now, the only places where Christianity cannot be freely preached are the Islamic and Communist worlds.