Posted on 11/16/2002 3:30:51 PM PST by finnman69
CNN is reporting a new press release obtyained by Al Jazeera in which new threats are made against Washington DC and New York. Anderson Cooper of CNN was interviewing the AJ reporter who believed the 6 page statement to be credible and certainly from a senior Al Qaeda member, possibly the official Al Qaeda press office. The message threatened attacks unless the US stops supporting Israel.
I don't think it is that. We already know they will attack if and when they get the opportunity. We've seen that. We are already more vilgilant than we ever were prior to 9/11. I think these warnings are pretty pointless though unless there is reason to believe there is a specific place and time when an attack might occur. But even if we had warnings like that, what are the chances that what we were getting was the truth and not a diversion. What we have is a situation in which some kind of an attack could happen at any time and any place, but there comes a point when you realize that it does no good nor makes you any safer to fret about it all the time so you engage a kind of internal numbness mechanism because you know there is nothing that you can do anyway.
Maybe that's overly simplistic but that is how I see it.
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.
Do we ever!
A LITANY FOR TODAYGod save New York.
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They're so big into symbols; what about Hollywood? That has to be the source for the global dispersion of the infectious evil of the "Great Satan". I would think adding it in the mix would pretty much be the trifecta of American symbolism, at least as far as the rest of the world is concerned.
All Muslims seem very fond of deli meats. They're always asking each other for "A Salami, lots of bacon".
Sorry. Didn't mean to leave that part out CD
Arabs have very big mouths and very small military skills, thus their constant murder of unarmed civilians.
Islam is a primitive heretical death cult with insane terrorist mental cases as leaders.
They have done their best, we are on guard, and they have nothing left in their stunted arsenal that we won't be able to quash.
LOL!!!
Right away Muhammed, just give me directions to the nearest mosque and some kneepads.
Unless, of course, they are so arrogant as to presuppose that even if we knew, we couldn't do anything about it.
That's it, I'm done with payin' taxes!
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