Posted on 07/04/2002 11:06:04 PM PDT by ChicagoRepublican
According to the ticker on top of Ha'aretz the FBI is reporting that the LA Airport gunman was an Egyptian-born resident of Irving, California.
This was an inefficient onslaught. It was fated to have limited casualties. If it was a dry run, the attack was severe enough to expose every security asset and procedure, but limited enough to not warrant a radical redeployment or redesign of those assets and procedures. That's my little paranoid twitch about this event. If the guy is wacko, the events make sense too.
No offense, but I honestly laughed out loud at this.
This is like testing pH at the bottom of a leaky boat.
We don't need more Moslem visas, however carefully screened, we need the Moslem non-citizens currently here to go home.
BTW, Saudi Arabia still has fast track visa status, meaning a Saudi can get one through a travel agent over there and touch down on our soil without ever having been in the same room as an American. It's automatic!
You're not being sarcastic are you?
Many reports of ME types trying to procure polied and fire uniforms in the past month, and more.
Perfect for a follow-up attack.
I believe we can only really fight this war effectively if the Republicans win the Senate this Fall and hold the House.
I'm not blaming Ashcroft, and I'm beyond tired of the "win back the Senate" alibi for every failing of this Administration.
Getting ME non-citizens out of our country was the obvious strategic move of this war on 9/12/2001, at the very latest. The President could have asked the country to let him do this, and we'd have properly responded positively.
This is war, and our domestic efforts have fallen far short of the mark, because the aim hasn't been true.
I'm all for that, and I can think of a few other steps.
BTW, one poster stated on another thread that the shooter had more than one ID... I'm trying to track down a link.
I agree with all your frustrations, but not with your assessment of the response of the public and the Senate to what we want to do, what we feel is necessary.
The President is out on the hustings working on public opinion as best he can, and J.C. Watts is heading for home. The American public in general is still sleepwalking.
There is nothing more perilous to us right now than the legions of foreign nationals who move within and outside our borders under fraudulent, untrackable and multiple identities. Abdul Ramadan comes into our country on a temp visa, he becomes Rasheed Mohammed and Sayed Al-Amman while he's here, he leaves the country as Abdul Ramadan as mandated, and he comes back as Rasheed or Sayed through American visas or through Toronto or Vancouver or the Virgin Islands. Nobody in our government, law enforcement agencies or immigration institutions knows who these guys REALLY ARE. Let's you and I try to go to Bulgaria, Norway or Argentina and pull that shit.
The American people were put back to sleep after 9/11, just like they were put back to sleep after the shooting this afternoon.
For whatever reason, that's been a calculated policy of this Administration.
Your post gave me a good laugh. Let me see, which country frisks old ladies at the airport and which one uses profiling and absolutely refuses to let a suspicious individual onboard? Sorry, but the Israelis are not steeped in political correctness when in comes to Arab terrorists as our government is. Our officials waited hours and hours to release this man's nationality and the Israelis came out hours ago and called this guy out for what he was.
Bush has led the politician pack in being willing to name our enemies and go after them. But as a politician, he has a keen sense of just how far out he can go and still have people follow him.
You may judge our current populace by your own world, the one you grew up in and live in, but many current "Americans" haven't got a clue what that means, and live in a completely different "world" than we do.
I'll believe this a little when Bush either sacks Norm Mineta or shuts him down on his anti-profiling nonsense.
The public wants profiling, the Congress looks ready, and the Bush Administration is once again, dragging it's feet.
Who'd thunk Transportation was going to be such a b*tch?
Now what does he do? Throw out the only Democrat in the Cabinet? Undermine any semblance of Mineta's authority by overriding him so he quits and yells?
God, you may have discovered, has a perverse sense of humor.
No matter how ineffectual this guy was when compared to Atta and his cronies, I'm sure he did it for the same reason as Atta. I don't understand why he just went in with a gun and a knife. If I were to put myself in his shoes, I would have gone in with a bomb strapped around me like the suicide bombers in Israel.
I agree, it's not the number of people involved, it's the intent. I also think that Al Queda is planning another big attack, but are waiting until we let our guard down. Even if that means having to wait a year or two.
LOL. Yes, the frisking of old women is definitely beginning to pay off, they have discovered a terror cell of grannies.
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