yyz said:
The fact is......the threat is not as big of a deal as the government always makes it out to be. (And I'm not trying to down play it.) Of course it's great that these asspipes didn't get to pull off the job, but some day........someone still will! But it's not a daily threat, and it shouldn't be a Keystone Kop production to make us "feel safe".
If Ali bin Jihad wants to blow up a plane, he will! If Ahmed Qak Sukor wants to blow himself up in the middle of your mall, he will!
But these guys are not around, people. Not at the rate your panic driven minds are led to believe."
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i do hear you,yyz....ya know, if the inconvenience gets too much more than the current high-blood-pressure security hassles...i mean, when i can't even bring bottled water on board a plane so i don't get dehydrated and get a sinus infection...it sucks....
and yeah,i'm tired of letting these m.f.`ers crowd us further and further into a behavioral corner.....
i also agree...the law of averages will probably catch up to us....
two decades of p.c. thinking has now led us to a multicultural nightmare....
that, and an almost nonexistant immigration policy means that we probably have hezbollah chapters from coast to coast....
dearbornistan is merely the heart of the beast.....
check places like paterson, n.j.. or throughout southern california for the tentacles of the beast....
but,i`m sorry,yyz....imo,it`s a huge deal....if this attack had actually happened,what do you think would be the ramifications for the airline industry?....on wall st?...the economy in general?.....everyone`s precious civil liberties?....
there`s a reason we haven`t been hit in 5+ years....and it ain`t the terrorist`s sloth.....
they`re on the run...bin laden`s in a cave somewhere....their home base has been taken away(afghanistan)....
yet,they still hit spain...they hit england..they hit egypt...they hit india.....australian plots were foiled........and many more targets since 9/11....
we haven`t been hit....and we`re "the great satan"...that tells me we`re doing something right...
actually,they just grabbed more of these "quakers" in italy..
""Italian police arrest 40 in security crackdown
Sweep followed discovery of alleged terror plot in Britain
Aug. 11, 2006. 02:55 PM
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ROME — "Police have arrested 40 people in cities throughout Italy in raids on Muslim gathering places in a security crackdown launched after Britain thwarted an alleged terror plot.
Anti-terrorism police agents also searched homes of Pakistani immigrants as part of a Belgian probe into suspected financing of terrorism, the Interior Ministry said today.
The arrests were made Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples and other cities on Thursday and today "as part of an extraordinary operation that followed the British anti-terrorist operation," the ministry said in a statement."
they also just picked up some muslim guys toting 1,000 trac phones around...they bought `em in wisconsin and michigan...and they live in texas.....
i always go 1,000 miles out of my way to buy bulk cell phones...doesn`t everybody?...
and that`s just one incident....here`s another..
""Last week, the Grafton police pulled over 24-year-old Hashem Sayed for a routine traffic stop. But what they found in his car was far from routine. Patrolman Daniel Laymon recalls the scene, "There were multiple cell phones, roughly 150 to 200 cell phones from multiple retailers," he said.
Buying that many pre-paid phones is not a crime, but the police say it is unusual.
Less than a week later, the authorities in Marietta, Ohio, arrested 20-year-old Osma Sabhi Abulhassan and 20-year-old Ali Houssaiky. Washington County Sheriffs deputies seized several pre-paid cell phones and thousands of dollars in cash. Because of the incidents, Grafton police believe the events are connected.
"The department feels that there are a lot of similar circumstances and there are a lot of similarities between the activity there and the activity experienced here," said Patrolman Laymon.
The activity seems to be more than just a coincidence. All three men are from Dearborn, Michigan and all three gave similar reasons for buying the phones. Sayed said he was buying them to ship to California to sell for a profit. But Washington County's sheriff says that may not be the whole truth. "They are digital for detonating car bombs and they have a particular digital frequency and that's what they're using them for," said Sheriff Larry Mincks.
Mincks says the men also had instructions on how to obtain private flights and airplane passenger information.
"It also had some information concerning airport security and check points."
He says the two men apprehended in Ohio are linked to another man who is being investigated for possible terrorism. Now, police across the state have a warning for residents.
"Not that it's a crime," said Grafton Police Chief, Robert Beltner. "But we can check into it to make sure nothing illegal is going to take place with those phones.""""""
this stuff scares me...and i expect the gov`t to do EVERYTING in their power to grab these festering pustules....
i know you don`t agree...but i think it`s becoming clear that we have a significant fifth column here in our country.....
i think we have a real problem here....and if it takes me wearing a paper gown and cardboard slippers on a plane ride from here to there, so be it....
i know......just relax...reeeellaaaxxx "g.w.,you're being very un-dude".......i hear you...we`ll have to disagree...
you say that if they want us,they`ll get us...but there are probably a couple thousand brits and americans drawing breath today that wouldn`t be on the green side of the grass by 08/16 because of the heightened security...
can`t say it had anything to do with soda or shampoo,though....
""Taking my soda and shampoo off the plane is not going to make the ride any safer........taking Ali and Ahmed off, will. You see.........My soda and shampoo were never the problem. :shrug:[/
i`m with you there,partner...
but..... i just heard on cnn that the a.c.l.u. will sue boston`s logan airport after authorities announced they will go to a semi-profiling technique.....
see...the insanity continues....
