Every day that they delay GIVES Law Enforcement ADDITINAL TIME to prepare AS WELL AS root out these bastards - no?
As to the Anthrax in this country - Stephen Hatfill. Guilty as sin IMB.
TONS of Iraqi Anthrax? Ha! I don't BELIEVE that they have quantities ANYWHERE near that large ...
But it doesn't take a hard core "trained terrorist" to be given the address of a mini storage garage, load a crate of glass jars in his car, and begin mailing 100s of leaky FedEx, USPS and UPS packages, and tossing the anthrax jars onto subway tracks, etc.
No training at all, just the will to kill infidels.
And all Saddam has to do to "pull the trigger" is give the cache locations to Al Queda contacts.
Tell me where my logic is faulty. Is it that "it's impossible to smuggle a hundred pounds of an illegal white powder into the USA?" ROTFLMAO.
Perhaps it's "the FBI has found and arrested every Al Queda sleeper in the USA, and sealed the borders against any more sneaking in or flying in." ROTFLMAO.
Or is it "Saddam is not that mean, and would not prepare a Sampson revenge option for the time that we come to root him out?" Again, ROTFLMAO
Oh I forgot, "Hatfill did it all, and Atta went to Prague to talk about ice hockey with the Iraqi intelligence boss."
_Jim, you crack me up. With our Feds on the ball like you, it's no surprise that we found out about that hijacking plot in August of 2001 and averted what could have been a tragedy.
What? You feds didn't?
Upon what evidence do you base your conclusion?
"TONS of Iraqi Anthrax? Ha! I don't BELIEVE that they have quantities ANYWHERE near that large ..."
Refresh my memory. How many tons of anthrax were the Iraqis found to have in storage after Gulf War I? About 18 tons of the stuff were destroyed, I believe.
They've now had how many years since the inspectors left to rebuild their stocks? I make it over four.
Now, what was your point...???
Posted: 11.18.02 @ 4 p.m. Document Warns Of N.Y., D.C. Attacks By Alaa Shahine | SACOBSERVER.COM WIRE SERVICES
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A statement attributed to al-Qaida threatened more attacks in New York and Washington unless America stops supporting Israel and converts to Islam, an Arab TV reporter who received the unsigned document said Saturday.
Yosri Fouda, correspondent for the satellite station Al-Jazeera, told The Associated Press he received the six-page document on Wednesday. That was a day after the TV station broadcast an audiotape purportedly made by Osama bin Laden.
Fouda, who is known for good contacts within al-Qaida, would only say that the statement came from his sources with the group. But he insisted he was certain it came from the terrorist movement's leadership.
Fouda, speaking by telephone from London, said the statement called on Americans to stop supporting Israel and other governments that "oppress" Muslims or face more attacks. The statement also called on Americans to convert to Islam, he said.
Fouda quoted the statement as saying: "Stop your support for Israel against the Palestinians, for Russians against the Chechens ... for corrupt leaders in our countries ... (and) leave us alone or expect us in Washington and New York."
He added the statement demanded U.S. troops leave the Arabian Peninsula, and justified the killings of American civilians because they pay taxes that finance military operations.
There was no immediate reaction from Washington. No officials were available for comment at the Pentagon or the National Security Council Saturday afternoon. A report on the statement as described by Fouda was carried in The Sunday Times of London.
Fouda is a prominent Arab television journalist who has broken several important stories about al-Qaida. In September, Al-Jazeera broadcast Fouda's interviews with two top al-Qaida operatives hiding in Pakistan, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khaled Sheik Mohammed.
Binalshibh was arrested in Karachi, Pakistan, shortly after the broadcast and was transferred to U.S. custody.
Fouda said the statement also referred to the crisis between the United States and Iraq as one more reason to attack Americans.
"You are placing Muslims under siege in Iraq, where children die every day. Oh, how weird that you don't care for 1.5 million Iraqi children who died under siege, but when 3,000 of your compatriots died, the whole world was shaken," Fouda quoted the statement as saying.
Meanwhile, a militant Islamic Web site that carries news about al-Qaida has dismissed as lies a report that a senior member of the terror group is in U.S. custody.
U.S. officials in Washington said Friday that one of the leaders of al-Qaida had been detained in a foreign country and handed over to U.S. authorities.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to identify the detainee, but said he was not al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, his chief depity, his son or the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The site scoffed at the U.S. officials' refusal to name the detainee. "Maybe they fear to announce a certain name, and al-Qaida would issue a denial so their (the U.S.) situation would become worse," it said.