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To: untenured
These guys are not as interested in causing fear (as many assume) as they are in practical military objectives. Imagine wiping out thousands of the best scientists and future scientists at once at MIT.

Ah ha...you're making the same point I was making to my co-workers today. They think I'm nuts, but one was saying something about the FBI security warnings and that the terrorists were just trying to scare peopel because that's their goal..to terrify us. I said nonsense, that's the old PLO model used in Western Europe. This is entirely different...these guys are at war. They're interested in killing Americans, wrecking our economy and defeating us. They flew planes into the WTC and caused them to collapse...they didn't threaten to do it, they just did it.

I really don't think they're interested in ruining our Halloween...they're more interested in killing our kids on Halloween. They way be getting a kick out of watching us scramble about because of the latest Anthrax scare, but that's not their primary goal.. Their goal is to kill people. This is really very serious.

160 posted on 11/02/2001 7:10:38 PM PST by pgkdan
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To: pgkdan
They're interested in killing Americans, wrecking our economy and defeating us.

Yep. The DC portion of the 9/11 attacks had very practical objectives - decapitating our government and/or military command. I heard somewhere today (can't remember where, unfortunately) that the gov. had come into a copy of Al Qaeda documents describing how to attack targets that were to be attacked because of their economic importance.

The Golden Gate Bridge, if it is a target, is a target because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that it will significantly damage the N. California economy. Any symbolic or emotional damage is just gravy.

176 posted on 11/02/2001 7:15:41 PM PST by untenured
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To: pgkdan
I really don't think they're interested in ruining our Halloween...they're more interested in killing our kids on Halloween.

I don't think they want to kill just a few kids which is why trick-or-treating was safe enough. It would be too easy for people to remember which homes they visited and being arrested for killing only a dozen or so kids isn't what they want to do, they're aiming for thousands or at least hundreds at a time. Malls, schools, or any crowded places will be targets.

185 posted on 11/02/2001 7:18:52 PM PST by FITZ
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To: pgkdan
I totally agree with you. It seems as if the government is reluctant to stop new visas and cancel existing visas and deport the Muslims currently here on visas.

I think that the biggest hammer that the American people have is to write or call their congress critters and tell them that we will not buy or fly until they start the deportations.

I believe that they are nearly as concerned about the economy as the terrorists.

187 posted on 11/02/2001 7:19:17 PM PST by hd5574
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To: pgkdan
You are so right! These people despise America, hate Americans, and wish to destroy Western Civilization. Their idea of paradise on earth is the primeval conditions of Afghanistan. Since I'm an infidel, I do not understand their taste, and do not wish to wear a burqa and live in a yurt.

There are so many people who have NO conception whatsoever of history, are so illogical that they do not realize that as of 9/11, EVERYTHING changed, irrevokably. Our nation will be at war for YEARS.

283 posted on 11/02/2001 7:55:03 PM PST by meridia
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