Caller to Fox News won't turn in terrorists he knows are here!

Fox News | 10 minutes ago | RandallFlagg

[bvw]

And there's an awful lot of logging that goes on in systems (has to be for cross-company billing, mobile call transfers) if a call is recent and one is persistent, you can probably track it.

[VaBthang4]

I live in Long Island, Virginia about fifteen minutes away from where a grip of black Islamists [about as competent and lethal as my neighbors hairless poodle] are hold up in some wanne-be-Waco style trailor park....the State as well as FBI & ATF are all over these bozos.

I am more afraid of being struck by a stray slug falling from the sky after leaving some drunk hillbilly's shotgun then I am of these drips.

A potpourri of anti-whitey, anti-jewish, anti-math, anti-hygeine, anti-build your home on a foundation etc etc.

I'd keep an eye on them no doubt...if for anything else....just by sheer stupidity they may accidentally detonate a halfbaked explosive device and start a brush fire that sets all of southwest Virginia ablaze.

...but as a Man I have more respect for some homeless Arab man wondering the streets of Wichita and his ability to get something accomplished then I do for these bass'akwards goobers.

[chaosagent]

Not only this, but if they've paid for the Caller ID service on their 800 number, the caller's number shows up on a Caller ID box just like yours at home. They don't have to wait to look at the bill.

[RandallFlagg]

None of the above. Fox News doesn't do that when they accept callers.

[DAnconia55]

I pointed out that there are probably 100 cells still in existence here. That gives ~1000 persons in the cells (a high estimate, but stay with me). These persons depend on an active support network of perhaps ~10,000. Another 100,000 know and say nothing.

You'd better be way wrong. Even a few hundred could be devastating...

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Okay, that's it! You guys need another opinion of Linda Vester. I like her and she is smart and straight-shooting. She asks the right questions. Also, do you know that what Linda did to that guy on the phone was the best way to keep this particular caller online and deter him from hanging up? Thought not. Some callers are not as verbally prolific as others. This caller actually needed a bit of coaxing, which Linda did. If Linda left it for the caller to take all the air time, he would have hung up sooner.

[boris]

These are simply my WAGs. I never presented them as anything but. However--I did see an estimate from Canada that they thought they had ~50 cells.

Got any better numbers?

I do speak to security people on a regular basis, and none of them has contradicted my 'rough' guesses.

Rumors? No. Speculation.

--Boris

[RandallFlagg]

I like her, too. I think she reacted well under the circumstances. It's difficult to have to take the commands of the producers (In her earpiece, possibly telling her to keep him on as long as possible; perhaps even coaching her as to how to do it) while trying to be professional to her viewers during a potentially sticky situation.
Kudos to Linda and to Fox News.

If this had happened on CNN, they might've agreed with the caller, hung up quickly and not bothered to trace it.

[Illbay]

100,000 people is a LOT of people. Think about it: That's the size of a small city, or of the largest of the state universities.

You cannot have that many people operating (especially interoperating) and not cause a stir.

There may be plenty of those guys in here, but I suspect the number is closer to 2,000.

[boris]

"100,000 people is a LOT of people. Think about it: That's the size of a small city, or of the largest of the state universities."

I said the larger number knows but keeps silent. Paying attention isn't your forte, eh? I did not say 100,000 were "operating". And 100,000 people is 0.04% of the U.S. population.

--Boris

[MissAmericanPie]

I wonder if it was the same guy that posted that thread on FR the other day. I had a burning reply ready but by the time I hit post the thread had been deleted.

I hate when one of my verbal fuel bombs is wasted, lol.