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Posted on 08/02/2004 5:12:31 PM PDT by JustPiper
I'd like to spread the word of what an Iraqi blogger said...
Iraqis viewed the attacks on the Christian churches as attacks on fellow IRAQIS, not on a certain religious group. Iraqis don't view this as a Religious war, but the terrorists are trying to convince the world that it is a religious war. We shouldn't fall into their trap.
He hopes the West will not fall into the trap the terrorists are trying to set... that we will not turn this into a Religious war. So we should not complain any more or less about these bombings of churches in Iraq than we do about any other bombings in Iraq. Innocent Iraqis were killed by terrorists who are pursuing their own political agenda, the same as when they kill innocent (Muslim) Iraqis who are lining up to join the Iraqi Police force.
For the rest of his blog, see this FR thread:
This is a Trap
I know. I've been reading it since the "get go". It's always tomorrow, or soon or tomorrow.
Judge resigns to end hostage standoff in Florida; statement fooled gunman
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) A judge pretended to resign on live television Wednesday to end a standoff in which a man armed with a gun held an attorney hostage, authorities said.
Duval County Judge Sharon Tanner, who authorities said had handled a case involving the gunman, gave the bogus resignation on camera as local stations were covering the hostage incident live.
The attorney was freed unharmed and the gunman, who had demanded the judges resignation, surrendered shortly afterward, Sheriff John Rutherford said. The names of the gunman and lawyer, and the lawyers relationship to the suspect, were not immediately released.
The incident began when Mayor John Peyton received a call at City Hall shortly before noon. The man said he was holding an attorney hostage at Riverplace Tower, a 28-story downtown office building, and had a bomb. Sheriffs officials later said the man did not have a bomb in his possession.
While talking with the man, Peyton was able to contact the Jacksonville Sheriffs Office, and officers evacuated the highrise. Peyton was able to keep the man on the telephone for about 45 minutes, while police converged on the building.
One of the mans demands was that Tanner resign on live television. Peyton said the man was not pleased with the outcome of a case he had before the judge. It was unclear what the case involved.
what a way to get a property tax hike postponed!
Appears to refer to when the intelligence came to their attention, not a specific date of attack.
War Gaming Terrorism
This is the first part of a series of analyses that seeks to game out potential terrorist attacks from the terrorist point of view, using something other than the farcical paradigms used by software engineers. It relies instead on the real world where unknowns and variables abound, where cultural blindness and differences impact greatly and human frailty is a constant. Where limited resources, betrayals and impersonations are a part of the environment
an unclean world fraught with uncertainty and risk.
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http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/marzullo/2004/marzullo080104.htm
War Gaming Terrorism, Part 1
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/marzullo/2004/marzullo080204.htm
War Gaming Terrorism, Part 2
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/marzullo/2004/marzullo080304.htm
War Gaming Terrorism, Part 3
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/m-n/marzullo/2004/marzullo080404.htm
War Gaming Terrorism, Part 4
I bet there were a lot of "crapped pants" in that room that night.
During the 90's a friend's Mother lived in Canyon Country, CA. There was a wash or old riverbed behind her. She kept saying there are Russians here and they hold drills out in the wash. Also, one night I was out on a date and we wanted to have a smoke so my date said "I know a bar we can smoke in." When we got there he said be careful, don't make too much eye contact because members of the Russian mafia hang out here. It was weird. The bar was also in Canyon Country.
You have mail.
yea,,luckily no-one was shot..
no kidding ... just imagine one of the county commissioners being unaware of the "drill" and having a concealed weapon.
Wag the dog???
Un-f'ing-believable... The ability of the average American to draw a conclusion based on mountains of evidence has been effectively neutered by the media and Washington.
What is so disturbing about American society's attitude toward the War on Terror can be boiled down to two things:
1) Proof of terror exists only in its fruition.
2) Even then, it may not be enough
There will always be an indisidious assertion that politics is to blame. We could have time-stamped, live video of OBL lighting up a suitcase nuke in Times Square over the Internet and every major news network throughout the world, and some group, somewhere will say it's in the name of Bush trying to steal an election.
How depressing that the only way to survive as a nation is, quite frankly, to survive (how profound, right?)
In essence, we, as a people, need to completely write off the fork-tongued elements of the Democratic party (Dean, Kennedy, McDermott, Pelosi et al.) as fifth-columnists. They are truly a danger to the Union in that we allow them so much of our time to be aghast, bitter, and stupefied by their breathtakingly treasonous behavior. By assigning them power, we give them power. The judiciary will never try a Jim McDermott for treason. The judiciary will never go after celebrities like Danny Glover, who give comfort and aid to the enemy. Popular sentiment will never convict Michael Moore for being the lying Uriah Heep that he is. Congress will never have the backbone to kick the U.N. off our shore.
We need to forget about the ones who've politicized 9/11 and the War on Terror. They're lost. So are their followers. They've made their deals with the devil and those who are unsavvy enough to see their duplicity are no longer worth our time. We'll never enlighten the people at DU, the people at Slate, at Planned Parenthood, at NEA, at NOW...
Regulators will stop revealing nuclear plant safety lapses
WASHINGTON (AP) The government will no longer reveal security gaps discovered at nuclear power plants, hoping to prevent terrorists from using the information, regulators said Wednesday.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced the change in policy during its first public meeting on power plant safety since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It drew barbs from critics who said the secrecy would erode public confidence in the agency.
Until now, the NRC has provided regular public updates on vulnerabilities its inspectors found at the countrys 103 nuclear power reactors, such as broken fences or weaknesses in training programs.
We need to blacken some of our processes so that our adversaries wont have that information, said Roy Zimmerman, director of the commissions Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, which was created after the attacks. NRC spokesman Scott Burnell said commissioners voted to take the step March 29, but kept it quiet as agency staff worked to implement the plan. The vote itself was revealed Wednesday and had nothing to do with this weeks warnings that terrorists had surveyed U.S. financial institutions, Burnell said.
I'd say that is confirmation that Harris was more or less correct. Notice the FBI said no one is under arrest in Indiana, which would be true if the person is at GitMo. She probably muddled some details, thus "she doesn't know what she's talking about", or perhaps that could better be translated. "I wish she'd shut up and not blow the XXXXX operation"
OK OFF TOPIC now: What would happen if somebody signed onto FR as a new user and took the screen name ALL? Would the system take it and if so, would they get millions of pings a day? Just something I've been wondering about for oh....years. LOL
According to the link: "The sound the people heard was a piece of plastic that fell through a mail chute. The plastic made a sound similar to an explosion when it hit the ground, officials said. "
Nothing about any package found.
Terror]New Information On Al Qaida Surfaces
Wag the dog...her exact words.
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