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Phone Taps Sparked New Alert
NY Post ^
| October 31, 2001
| NILES LATHEM and BRIAN BLOMQUIST
Posted on 10/31/2001 6:03:23 AM PST by concerned about politics
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:01:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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October 31, 2001 -- The latest nationwide terror alert was prompted by phone calls intercepted in Afghanistan in which suspected al Qaeda members conversed in code about a "big event," sources told The Post. The U.S. military intercepted a "handful" of satellite calls as late as last weekend, and the callers all used the same coded phrases, according to sources in the Bush administration.
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To: kjam22
Agreed on tonnage of bomb. Wouldn't it be nice to call an all hands meeting at ground zero to coincide with the impact?
Hmmm
I wonder if "Abdul Mohammed Raghead Atta" is now wondering whether the next rendevouz is a set-up.
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posted on
10/31/2001 6:36:52 AM PST
by
Triple
To: cricket
Intercepted in Afghanistan means no wiretap approval was needed.
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To: WhiteGuy
Abdullah:"Hey Mohmar, I wonder why achmed has been acting so strange lately."
Mohmar:"I don't know, can we still trust him. Did 'they' get to him?"
Oh, this is fun.
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posted on
10/31/2001 6:43:03 AM PST
by
Triple
To: concerned about politics
If we had rounded up all of them and sent them home WEEKS AGO, this would never be even thinkable. Touchy-feely bullsh*t political correctness will be the death of us all.
To: 1234
why not? It's not like the terrorists cells would have any other way to communicate w/people in Afghanistan.
To: hellinahandcart
Which is why the next attack will be on the West Coast
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posted on
10/31/2001 6:50:55 AM PST
by
Hildy
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To: concerned about politics
al Qaeda members conversed in code about a "big event," sources told The Post Hmmm... Maybe they got the code wrong... They were talking about a "Big Gulp"?
To: concerned about politics
Maybe, just maybe, we DIDN'T intercept their phone conversations. Maybe we cracked their internet communications, which we want them to use more of (and stay off the phone)! Let's make it so they hafta revert to using messenger pigeons!
To: Scully
"...to preserve presidential succession." These are the most frightening words I have heard in a long time. Time to pray, America!
No they are not. Try this... Vice President Lieberman has been moved to saftey to preserve presidential succession.
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To: concerned about politics
This could be a terrorist cell testing to see if they are being tapped. You state over the system that something is going to happen and sit back and wait for any echo from the press. No response, no wire tap.
To: WhiteGuy
"Any association with the new unconstitutional secret "snooping" is purely propoganda"
I think your on to something.
To: 1234
I agree. But regardless, these new powers will be ineffective against terrorists in a couple years. They will learn to work around them. And then the power will only be good for abuse. We need a Sunset Clock to keep a sharp eye on the sunset of these supposedly temporary powers.
To: kjam22
>>>904285904590184 tons of explosives <<<
Would that be "long" tons - or "short" tons. We want to get this right. (;>)
To: concerned about politics
Why are they telling us this information? We don't need to let the terrorists know anything about our intelligence activities.
To: Random Access
Vice President Lieberman has been moved to saftey to preserve presidential successionThankfully this did not happen...and thus, my original statement stands. But you are quite right that "President Gore and Vice-President Lieberman" would have been the scariest words - had they been elected.
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10/31/2001 1:27:44 PM PST
by
Scully
To: concerned about politics
Man! Our intelligence is so backward, primitive and ineffective. We are like the British when the Radar had not been invented yet. Hearing rumors of German bombers flying overhead, huddling in caves not knowing whether nor when the bombs would actualy fall. WAR IS HELL! TELL THE GOVERNMENT TO DEPORT NOW!
To: cricket
We weren't precluded from using military garnered info or foreign government garnered info PRIOR to this latest fedgov terrorist act!
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posted on
10/31/2001 1:47:46 PM PST
by
Rowdee
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