FBI: Suicide Attacks Likely in U.S.

AP via Newsday ^ | May 20, 2002, 4:41 PM EDT | RON FOURNIER

[Jean S]

It is inevitable that suicide bombers like those who have attacked Israeli restaurants and buses will strike the United States, FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday as the White House answered criticism with fresh terrorism warnings.

"There will be another terrorist attack. We will not be able to stop it," Mueller told the National Association of District Attorneys meeting in suburban Alexandria, Va. "It's something we all live with."

[Clive]

""I think we will see that in the future, I think it's inevitable," he said."

And how will the United States react?

Will it show the same forbearance that the world now demands of isreal?.

[anniegetyourgun]

I think we've all known this was a real possibility. However, that doesn't make it any easier to swallow. When it does happen, I think we will find there are folks in the U.S. who will physically 'deport' middle eastern men who they suspect are illegally in the U.S - all the way back to Allah.

[jackliberty]

The administration knows what needs to be done to prevent further attacks, but lacks the willpower to offend all those "peace loving muslims". In the meantime, more Americans will be killed and the politicians will shake their heads and wonder what they could have done to prevent it, especially as the answer is right there in front of them. They are willing to sacrifice Americans before offending muslims. What's wrong with this picture?

[sixmil]

What really makes this hard to swallow is that we are spending 2 trillion dollars to prevent it and where are the results? Oh right, that's classified. I hope the administration realizes that they need to do a little better than 'attacks are inevitable' with our 2 trillion dollars, or they will get throttled at the voting booth yet again. If they can't provide security, then stop trying and give the money back. This is becoming an American hallmark - funding is mandatory, results are optional.

Another difficult thing for me to swallow is the unspoken suggestion that we need to tolerate potential terrorists on our soil in order to maintain an "open" society. The costs far outwiegh the benefits, as we learned Sept. 11th. These guys use our technology, society, charity, you name it, against us. Without us they have nothing; they depend on us, not the other way around. If the only price for living in a terrorist free country is being called an isolationist, closed society-ist, or Berlin Wall lover, then I'm way ahead of the game; sticks and stones may break my bones...

[waxhaw]

A little bit of profiling will go a long way in preventing suicide attacks and if the government isn't prepared to profile then I suspect U.S. citizens in various parts of the nation will profile with extreme prejudice. Once our nation experiences its first suicide killer I'm curious to see what the media's spin will be.... especially if the first suicide killer targets CNN in Atlanta.

[WRhine]

Another difficult thing for me to swallow is the unspoken suggestion that we need to tolerate potential terrorists on our soil in order to maintain an "open" society.

Absolutely Right On. Nice Post sixmil. That is the suggestion the administration is making.

[medlarebil]

Not if we deport Muslims who are not citizens and put a moratorium on immigration until we win the war against terrorism.

[sixmil]

Actually not just tolerate, but continue inviting more with open arms. If the GOP wants to commit suicide, I hope they don't expect me to do it with them, and I don't want to pull the trigger for them either.

[PLK]

"There will be another terrorist attack. We will not be able to stop it," Mueller told the National Association of District Attorneys meeting in suburban Alexandria, Va. "It's something we all live with."

This makes my blood boil. No we DON'T have to live with it. We can begin by:
1. ridding the U.S. right now of all illegal mooslims whose country of origin has been associated with terrorism
2. by clamping down on colleges and universities to force their compliance with monitoring of foreign students
3. seal off U.S. borders
4. deport ALL those with ties to terrorist organizations or who have provided funding for them (mosques, college professors and organizations, charities, etc.).

Forget about the P.C. whiners, do it NOW! Unfortunately, it probably WILL require another horrendous attack before people wake up.

[blam]

"And, in a reminder of America's lingering vulnerabilities, the Justice Department's inspector general said Monday that the system for tracking foreign students is "significantly flawed" and won't be fixed by a January deadline."

...and no-one has even thought of sending them all home until it is fixed, huh?

[scholar]

...especially if the first suicide killer targets CNN in Atlanta.

Great observation! As soon as the lame-stream media becomes a target, I'm sure they will change their tune about profiling. Wasn't it Tom Brokaw that went into an outraged tirade after they received the anthrax letter?

These elistist buttheads think they are so far above the rest of us peons they really need a dose of reality.

[sarcasm]

Follow the money.

[Who is John Galt?]

No we DON'T have to live with it.

True. We could announce to the world that any attack resulting in the death of even one U.S. citizen, anywhere in the world, by perpetrators proven to be believers in Islam, will result in the special delivery of a Mk-41 25 megaton bomb (assuming we have any left ;>) to the ‘holy’ city of Makkah, courtesy of the United States Airforce. Any subsequent attack, we could announce, would result in the delivery of a second such device to the ‘holy’ city of Madinah.

Instead, I think we will choose to ‘live with it’...

;>)

[anniegetyourgun]

Re #5 - I suspect we may never know how many attempts have been thwarted already - such as the item out of FL yesterday.

[onedoug]

Defeatism. We will surely be attacked again with this point of view. The enemy is islamism. It can be defeated. But it must be recognized and engaged accordingly. It must be undermined. "Islam is peace," will not work.

[El Gato]

...and no-one has even thought of sending them all home until it is fixed, huh?

Kind of hard to send them home, and have any confidence you've got them all, if your tracking system is broken and you don't where they are.

[tessalu]

As long as the USA allows Muslims into our country, we are likely to be under attack. No one but a brainwashed Muslim is capeable of such a thing. Bush scares me when he thinks that Islam has not declared war on us, for it has. We are at war and Bush has not decided who the enemy really is. He thinks that Islam is a religion of peace, and it is a religion of terror and hatred.

[mindprism.com]

The FBI have discovered a latent talent for clairvoyance. What was that skit Carson used to do with the envelope and the turbin?

Cynicism is not too fashionable in "The New Normal" post 911 world... ahh, well - never was the trendy type.

"Programs! Get your Programs here!! Can't tell the good guys from the bad without a program!"

[sixmil]

Re #5 - I suspect we may never know how many attempts have been thwarted already - such as the item out of FL yesterday.

I imagine that such a strategy of secrecy will only empower conspiracy theorists, while voters might choose to buy the demotard rhetoric one more time, or maybe they will go 3rd party. Imagine us coming to the realization in 2004 that Pat Buchanan was just off by a single election cycle.