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Gone quiet(Almost too quiet)
CNN ^ | December 15, 2006 | By Henry Schuster

Posted on 12/15/2006 2:48:33 PM PST by Dog

CNN) -- It's quiet. Almost too quiet.

That's what you get in a horror movie, just before something bad happens. But does the same cliché hold true in the world of al Qaeda, whose leaders have gone very quiet?

We had a flurry of messages from al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, around the time of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. There was an al Qaeda propaganda video about the 9/11 plot, a message to Americans urging them to convert and another message bemoaning the fate of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad who was captured in 2003. There was even an al Qaeda-conducted interview with al-Zawahiri.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: zawahiri
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I have been telling everyone on FR that will listen.... this sudden quietness from Zawahiri....doesn't fit the pattern.....something is going on.
1 posted on 12/15/2006 2:48:36 PM PST by Dog
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To: Cap Huff; Straight Vermonter; Southack

Another voice asks were is Zawahiri.....when will the MSM notice the quiet....and how abnormal it is.


2 posted on 12/15/2006 2:50:43 PM PST by Dog (Day 46. of NOT hearing from Zawahiri........where you at Ayman...that missile almost got you ..huh?)
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To: Dog

I always listen to you Dog and you know I am not kidding about that.
What do you think is up?
Do you think it's Christmas Mall attacks?


3 posted on 12/15/2006 2:51:52 PM PST by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Dog

Thats when that music starts in the background...

And someone grabs a flashlight, before heading (by themselves) down into the basement to investigate some sort of weird noise...

Me?

When I hear someone say "GET OUT!"...I'm gone!

Of course I'll have my trusty Bazooka, with plenty of reloads!


4 posted on 12/15/2006 2:53:43 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: netmilsmom

Ping


5 posted on 12/15/2006 2:54:01 PM PST by unkus
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To: Dog
Yeah...something's going on.

They're dying in droves! < fingers crossed >

6 posted on 12/15/2006 2:54:32 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: Dog

They've won an American election and don't want to queer our impending surrender.


7 posted on 12/15/2006 2:54:42 PM PST by vetsvette (Bring Him Back)
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To: Dog

Has anyone thought about all of the food poisoning cases? Is this natural or is someone assisting?


8 posted on 12/15/2006 2:54:51 PM PST by Angelas
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To: netmilsmom

I think that madrassa strike hit to close to home...and AQ doesn't know how we pinpointed Zawahiri to two locations in the span of 10 months. When we see or hear another tape from Zawahiri...it will signal AQ thinks they have plugged their leak.


9 posted on 12/15/2006 2:54:57 PM PST by Dog (Day 46. of NOT hearing from Zawahiri........where you at Ayman...that missile almost got you ..huh?)
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To: netmilsmom

I'm really hoping that this is all nothing to wonder about...

But then again, why haven't we been told of a terror threat upgrade by our illustrious DHS???

hmmmm...


10 posted on 12/15/2006 2:55:28 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: Dog
Dead slimes tell no tales!

May be a reason for optimism instead of tension!

11 posted on 12/15/2006 2:55:51 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (When true genius appears, know him by this sign: all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.)
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To: vetsvette

Doesn't it strike you as odd ...we never had an AQ tape commenting on the recent elections?


12 posted on 12/15/2006 2:56:31 PM PST by Dog (Day 46. of NOT hearing from Zawahiri........where you at Ayman...that missile almost got you ..huh?)
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To: Dog

Well, that's better news from you than I expected.
Thanks!


13 posted on 12/15/2006 2:57:05 PM PST by netmilsmom (To attack one section of Christianity in this day and age, is to waste time.)
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To: Dog

It is not that abnormal Dog.


14 posted on 12/15/2006 2:57:15 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: Dog
There's a grizzled cavalry sergeant out there somewhere who thinks, "yeah ... too quiet."

We'll see.

I don't go to malls at all if I can help it, especially at Christmastime. But if I were a terrorist, that's exactly where I'd go.

15 posted on 12/15/2006 2:57:50 PM PST by r9etb
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

How so?


16 posted on 12/15/2006 2:57:52 PM PST by Dog (Day 46. of NOT hearing from Zawahiri........where you at Ayman...that missile almost got you ..huh?)
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To: Dog
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17 posted on 12/15/2006 2:59:02 PM PST by Malichi (!)
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To: Dog

Look at the audio and video that AQ has put out in the past 5 years, and the timing.


18 posted on 12/15/2006 2:59:16 PM PST by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: r9etb

I live in the country and I like it that way. I don't make much of a target out here.


19 posted on 12/15/2006 2:59:21 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: r9etb

I think people are missing the point here....the gone quiet...is not about another terror attack...its about AQ releasing 20+ plus tapes this year....UP UNTIL that missile strike on the madrassa on Oct 30....then dead silence.


20 posted on 12/15/2006 3:00:14 PM PST by Dog (Day 46. of NOT hearing from Zawahiri........where you at Ayman...that missile almost got you ..huh?)
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