[solo gringo]

Hang him high with a short rope.

[Clinton's a rapist]

That's funny. I'm from Bromley (as is David Bowie, natch). One thing about the place is, it's full of shoe shops. I never could figure out how they could sell so many shoes on one high street. Strange place, Bromley.

[codeword]

Lots of interesting new detail here. But this is wrong, isn't it?

M Moussaoui...was prevented from joining the outrages only because he had been detained for behaving suspiciously at a flight school.

Wasn't Moussaoui being held on a visa violation while warnings from the flight school were ignored?

[FreedomPoster]

While he was at Brixton Mosque a fellow worshipper was Zacarias Moussaoui, a Frenchman of Moroccan origin who lived in Brixton.

But we were told that this guy had no links to Al Queda!?

Nothing to see here, move along. < /sarcasm>

The government needs to get its fecal material organized, or those of us paying attention are going to lose all faith in their cluefulness and ability to wage war against the terrorists.

[ChadGore]

but . . .but . . . .but . . . This can't beeeeee, I thought Islam is love ?! < /sarcasm>

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

“He kept asking us: ‘Do you know where there is jihad which I can fight?'"
...
“He was an amiable, happy-go-lucky individual, always wanting to get involved in things and helping. He was very keen to learn the basics of Islam.”

ya think?

[Lent]

Interesting. I haven't heard one report in the "official" talking heads media or on North American rags about him being a Muslim. Is somebody sanitizing my news (/end stupid question)?

[RickGee]

“He was a testing ground. If he had succeeded they would know this is a mechanism that works. If the plane had exploded there would have been very little trace of how that happened.”

People keep saying that it has never been done before (the shoe trick), but we don't know that.
There are at least a couple of airplane crashes which are unexplained aren't there?

[angkor]

looking for her son several months ago after he went to Pakistan and stopped communicating with his family

Now we know where he picked up the name "Tariq."

[EggsAckley]

accused of assaulting flight attendants

This statement bothers me. He's ONLY accused of assaulting flight attendants?
Not accused of intent to blow up an airliner??

[truth_seeker]

Britain seems to be a prime nest, for terrorist followers of the false prophet. They seem to not strike there, lest they ruin a good thing. It is about time that parliament and congress, pass some laws, to clamp down on these people, in their mosques, including the clerics who incite.

[PoisedWoman]

“He doesn’t have the capacity to think: ‘I’m going to get these explosives, I know where to get these explosives from, I’ll put them in my shoe’.

He doesn't? How many IQ points does it take to think those deep thoughts?

[Cicero]

Far too many coincidences here for this to be a crazy loner. Not only the Moussaoui connection, not only all the talk about Jihad, but apparently he went to PAKISTAN not too long ago. I hate to say it, but until Bush leaned on them, Pakistan was practically running the Jihad.

I too think that Bush has got to get rid of that third-rate no-name that he put in charge of the FBI and put in someone like Rudy Giuliani instead, so they can rid of all the timeservers and corrupt clintonoid stooges at the top levels. I can't believe that they are putting the same people who covered up Ron Brown, Vince Foster, OKC, Waco, Ruby Ridge, TWA 800, and all the rest, in charge of the anti-terrorism campaign. Hell, some of these guys WORKED with the terrorists. They are old friends.

Now they are going out of their way to run lying stories in the press about the anthrax letters and even this shoe bomber. Next thing they'll tell the Washington ComPost that the shoe bomber is really a pro-life sidewalk counselor. If it weren't for these English media reports, we wouldn't even hear this much of the truth.

[BunnySlippers]

I was surprised that Britain has about 10 times the number of radical militant Islamic groups than we have ... for such a tiny country. I sure hope Blair is trying to clean them out but haven't heard this in the news.

[ClearBlueSky]

Tell us AGAIN that it's NOT about religion!!!

[tubebender]

Mr Reid, a mixed-race Briton who appeared in court in Boston on Christmas Eve

You won't hear that in the US of A.

[Fulbright]

Drudge is linking to a story saying that American put "Reid" up in a 4-star hotel after denying him boarding rights on Friday.

The stupidity of this industry is without parallel.