"No more heavily salted snack treats for you, Mr. Snopercod!"
Posted on 11/02/2001 4:10:04 PM PST by Talkwire
Edited on 04/29/2004 1:59:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TRENTON, New Jersey (CNN) -- FBI agents, many wearing oversized hazardous materials suits, raided an apartment here Friday, bringing out bags of seized materials and taking one man in for questioning.
FBI agents and local police arrived at the first-floor apartment about 9 a.m. ET, according to neighbors.
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I think it's normal in a culture where one man can have 4 or more wives. That kind of leaves the other men with only each other.
as they say in russia- 'tuff-ski $hit-ski'!!!
I was fixing to pose the same question when I seen your post. Doesn't seem very smart to me. What's with these guys. If they had waited a few hours they might have caught them all.
Hugh, I'm pretty sure the French surrendered to a Parisian mosque about five weeks ago (in a somber ceremony).....
Kit.
Not I. But we wouldn't be surprised if it turned out to be the Greenwood Village apartments on Norman Road, would we?
It's the same old FBI. They expect these guys to be like David Koresh---walk around downtown for a while, then come back home and get busted. No wonder the FBI's been pushing the theory that the anthrax mailings are all due to domestic "rightwing hate groups"---they want to be able to deal with people that are as dumb as they are.
as they say in russia- 'tuff-ski $hit-ski'!!!
I am forever skeptical of a journalist's "[source] has not returned calls" claim, ever since the time I personally tried to double-check a story.
In the story "Death by Diplomacy", in the July 7-July 13, 1995 "LA Weekly", alleged reporter Brian Alcorn wrote, "# No one in either house could remember even the temperamental Brown stripping someone of a chairmanship and giving it back on a one-day pass. No one but the two participants knows what was said at the meeting, and neither of them returned calls from the Weekly. But it isn't difficult to imagine Boland's end of the conversation: Cross me, and you cross the NRA."
The entire article was full of sleazy anti-NRA innuendo (it was about the scuttling of an anti-gun bill in the California legislature). It sounded fishy to me, so I started making some calls to see what the real story was.
Despite the "reporter's" claim that none of the parties returned calls, they *ALL* returned *MY* calls within an hour or two, even though I was simply a private citizen asking for information, and not a reporter.
I got calls back from Steve Helsley (the NRA's lobbyist in California), from the office of California Speaker of the Assembly Doris Allen, from the office of California state Senator Richard Polanco, *and* from the office of California assemblywoman Paula Boland.
All were extremely helpful and cooperative, and absolutely all of them confirmed my suspicion that the LA Weekly article was entirely full of horse manure. I verified the falseness of almost every claim and innuendo in the article, and that *includes* the information from Senator Polanco's office, and he's the guy whose bill got flushed and had no reason to provide any excuses for the NRA.
But then, what else would we expect from anti-gunners, whose idea of a good article is to report what the author *IMAGINES* happened? Yes, go back and reread the above quoted passage, the reporter actually uses the word "imagine" preceding his "big revelation".
So now whenever I hear a reporter use the phrase, "did not return calls", I realize that this could be code for:
1. "I didn't bother to actually research this."
2. "I didn't want to gather any facts that might get in the way of my agenda."
3. "No one returns my calls anymore because they've come to realize that I'm a scumbag."
People have pointed out that the Trenton area has a lot of pharmaceutical companies.
Some folks have used this as a launching point for the conspiracy theory that the drug companies released some anthrax in order to boost antibiotic sales...
But a more plausible connection might be the following: If you were a terrorist group without the facilities to weaponize anthrax, maybe you could have your operatives with an education in biology to get jobs at pharmaceutical companies.
Then one night they could use the high-tech equipment to run off a "special" batch of their own design...
Chris went apoleptic over the guys statement about anthrax from Iraq. Asking him over and over if he had proof. We know Saddam has a bio-weapons factories. Even, he, a flaming liberal can't be that naive to believe that Saddam is using them for humanitarian purposes.
Chris needs to get a grip and face reality.
Just further proof the FBI are incompotent idiots, and are totally incabable of solving $hit. Why not stake the place out, and make sure you catch the guys instead of putting them on the run.
I think you're being unfairly harsh.
It wouldn't surprise me if the FBI *had* staked out the apartment for several days (or even longer), for the very reason you mention, but finally came to the conclusion that the suspects had flown the coop (perhaps even back as far as the date of the mailings), and it was time to go in and see what evidence might be left.
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