[The Loan Arranger]

Just think if more people would do this, even on a part-time basis. This is a way for housewives/husbands, shut-ins, disabled and elderly people (among others) to fight terrorism without being in the military or law enforcement.

[Uncle Miltie]

It would be best to learn Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, etc. I wonder if the FBI / CIA would fund language and culture training for otherwise unpaid sleuths.....

[valkyrieanne]

I hope that's not her real name and city.

[MarshallDillon]

Good for her, -and us.

[AndyPH]

Amateurs beware - you could be hindering the professional agencies.

This is something I got into shortly after 9/11. Compiled a big dossier on various names linking to aviation-related terrorism and bio warfare. All sent to the authorities . Was it valuable intelligence, elaborate misinformation by the terrorists or perhaps deliberate self-incrimination to incite mistrust of muslim community? The connections were way too strong to dismiss as coincidence but I suspect they were a bit too easy to find.

I'm convinced bin laden deliberately "leaked" details of 9/11 to a few groups around Europe with the intention of fomenting mistrust after the event - not to say this mistrust is unwarranted but it does illustrate the level of cunning were up against.

Should also bear in mind that if you're monitoring you're also being monitored - by friendly agencies and perhaps some not so friendly. In doing so you're adding to the background noise and, worse, could blunder in and alert the terrorists.

[JockoManning]

bttt