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A Glimpse Behind the Plot Against the American Embassy in Paris
The New York Times ^
| 10/28/2001
| CHRIS HEDGES
Posted on 10/27/2001 5:40:41 PM PDT by Pokey78
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posted on
10/27/2001 5:40:41 PM PDT
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Pokey78
To: Pokey78; veronica; beowolf; Sabramerican; Lent; angelo; boston_liberty; EaglesUpForever...
BTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
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posted on
10/27/2001 6:03:52 PM PDT
by
dennisw
To: dennisw
This still means "diversity is our strength", right?
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posted on
10/27/2001 6:16:45 PM PDT
by
junta
To: dennisw
Just like a virus Islamicism. Who knows what cell it will infect. The new drug for the disenfranchised ME and North African first or second generation living in the West.
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posted on
10/27/2001 6:30:35 PM PDT
by
Lent
To: Pokey78; MadIvan; tonycavanagh; FITZ; Manny Festo; Lent; patent; rebdov; Sabertooth; harpseal...
"....a circle of radical clerics based in mosques and prayer centers in London and Leicester that French officials see as central to Mr. bin Laden's movement. "They are Osama bin Laden's representatives in Europe," an official of the Interior Ministry said."Why are they still being "observed", instead of raided, arrested, and bulldozed? Are we serious about winning this "war" (sic) on terrorism or not?
"Think globally, act locally."
To: Travis McGee
Why are they still being "observed", instead of raided, arrested, and bulldozed? Are we serious about winning this "war" (sic) on terrorism or not? To the last question: No. I'm still waiting for a raid on CAIR.
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posted on
10/27/2001 6:38:01 PM PDT
by
Lent
To: Lent
I think that it will never happen if left to the fedgov which just assured the saudis that we will NOT restrict visas to come to America in any way.
Nothing will happen until after another 9-11 level event, after which "students" and others on visas may be subject to review under Rule 308.
To: Travis McGee; Lent
"Why are they still being "observed", instead of raided, arrested, and bulldozed?"My "optimistic" (very ironic, that) answer is that through surveilance we hope to locate the WMDs that are already here.
Not that my optimism puts me at any ease.
To: Pokey78
The nod was to come from a Frenchman of Algerian origin who was on his way back from training in Afghanistan. Another article in tomorrow's NY Times, Jubilant Calls on Sept. 11 Led to F.B.I. Arrests , says that bin Laden no longer phones people so that he cannot be tracked, but uses messengers instead. Somebody presumably gave Atta the go-ahead during his last trip to Europe, in July of this year. I wonder if we will ever learn who the messenger was.
To: Sabertooth
If there are already WMDs here, how can anybody reasonably argue against the use at least of sodium pentathol?
To: Travis McGee; harpseal
"These plotters were not very clever," an official of the Interior Ministry said. "They bought all their chemicals at the same place. They might as well have left a calling card for our intelligence service." These guys seem to have had particularly bad opsec. Not that Atta's bunch, from what we hear, had much better. The European authorities could pick their bad actors up, our authorities did not. Of course, I suspect that's because Atta's bunch had protection, from the CIA or some such.
To: dennisw
Thanks for the flag. Thank God the frogs got him and not us. At least the French know when good interrogation is required.
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posted on
10/27/2001 6:55:07 PM PDT
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mercy
To: aristeides; Travis McGee
If there are already WMDs here, how can anybody reasonably argue against the use at least of sodium pentathol?Key word: "reasonably"
I say we put them on the first Blackbird to Turkey, and let our NATO ally subject them to some down-home Islamic interrogation.
To: Sabertooth
The WMD already here could be kilos and kilos of anthrax in glass jar "bombs" to fill thousands of envelopes, to to be thrown down on subway tracks, or into air intakes for buildings and sports arenas.
If they are dispersed to a dozen agents with no contact with each other, I can't see a solution.
To: Travis McGee
Hey Trav, check this out. The posters have turned my Vanity into a decent intro at most. Bring toothy.
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posted on
10/27/2001 7:04:39 PM PDT
by
mercy
To: Travis McGee
I wouldn't say solutions are unimaginable. For anthrax, an effective and reasonably safe vaccine could well be enough. Speaking of the anthrax vaccine, haven't the Russians offered to sell or give theirs to us? Why haven't we taken them up on the offer -- is there some reason to think their vaccine is ineffective or excessively prone to side-effects?
To: mercy
Toothy?
To: Travis McGee
Bump. Arrest, execute, deport. Skip the first step where necessary in an individual case.
patent
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posted on
10/27/2001 8:12:33 PM PDT
by
patent
To: aristeides
I don't know about a vaccine for anthrax, anyway it couldn't be given to 300 million of us before 2002.
The next and major anthrax attacks could already be in the mail, or could go down the subway tracks tomorrow.
As far as keeping 100 kilos of antrax spores out of the USA, how successful are we with cocaine interdiction?
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