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Yes. The Iraqis can kill a lot of people. Every muslim is willing to help or hide these sickos.

We can kill a lot more of their people. We will probably have to before this is all over. An awful lot of them.

Just as WWII quickly descended into the decimation of civilian populations on both sides, this too may. Before this is over, our precision munitions may not be needed anymore.... except maybe in France or Germany.

Interestingly the inquiry, which never made any of the news media (probably not smart at the time) didn't use the "leak" safeguards that one would expect for something of that magnitude. Actually, more "civilians" than one would expect knew a lot of the details concerning what was being alleged. The general details seemed much more preposterous at the time than it does now, so they probably calculated that letting people in on what was happening would generate more useful information than keeping a lid on it. I was one of those civilians. An FBI agent walked into my office in North Texas and started cross-checking some information that he had received already from internal documents, which I happened to see. I can tell you this -there were a lot of people who were intent on getting information and they had a tremendous sense of urgency. My speculation is that they may have let stuff leak to the degree that the bad guys would have figured out they were on their trail and called it off, which they obviously did. But what was disturbing was how big the picture was.

I can tell you that there were three main foci: the I-35 corridor from Dallas to OKC and the I-25 corridor from El Paso to Denver (Colorado)and the US 59 corridor from Houston up into Southeastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas. There was a guy they were looking for big time who was supposedly on the feds' terrorist list as a Libyan agent, who actually turned out to be a Mexican operative for the Guadalajara mob who had once worked for Salinas. Crossover identities between Mexican and Arab is, and was then, quite common. Interestingly this guy, who used numerous aliases (I saw his mug shot), bore a striking resemblance to the sketch of John Doe Number 2 in the OKC flap.