On 03 Aug, 2004, at 09:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did Tommy Ridge strike fear into your heart when, on Sunday night,
just after the Democratic Convention, he announced imminent attacks on
the Stock Exchange? Gee, turns out his info was three or four years
old. STOP THE BULLSHIT! SEND BUSH BACK TO THE RANCH!
Reports That Led to Terror Alert Were Years Old, Officials Say
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID JOHNSTON
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Published: August 3, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -Much of the information that led the authorities
to raise the terror alert at several large financial institutions in
the New York City and Washington areas was three or four years old,
intelligence and law enforcement officials said on Monday. They
reported that they had not yet found concrete evidence that a
terrorist plot or preparatory surveillance operations were still under
way.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/03/politics/03intel.html?th
You can read words, but you do not understand their meaning.
If you wish to consider Al Qaeda no threat, that is your perogative,
but you should read the second paragraph of that same article:
"But the officials continued to regard the information as significant
and troubling because the reconnaissance already conducted has provided
Al Qaeda with the knowledge necessary to carry out attacks against the
sites in Manhattan, Washington and Newark. They said Al Qaeda had often
struck years after its operatives began surveillance of an intended
target."
Yes, Al Qaeda has been studying US sites for many years, and the
information found in the computer seized last week demonstrated exactly
how long Al Qaeda has been "casing" the US.
In fact, much of the information discovered on that computer was 5
years old and older. Much of it obtained from the Internet before 9/11.
To quote the 9/11 commission report in the 8th paragraph of the
introductory letter by Committee Chairman Tom Kean and Vice Chairman,
Lee Hamilton:
"We learned about an enemy who is sophisticated, patient, disciplined,
and lethal. The enemy rallies broad support in the Arab and Muslim
world by demanding redress of political grievances, but its hostility
toward us and our values is limitless. Its purpose is to rid the world
of religious and political pluralism, the plebiscite, and equal rights
for women. It makes no distinction between military and civilian
targets. 'Collateral damage' is not in its lexicon."
And later in Chapter 12:
"Bin Ladin[sic] and Islamist terrorists mean exactly what they say: to
them America is the font of all evil, the "head of the snake," and it
must be converted or destroyed.
It is not a position with which America can bargain or negotiate. With
it there is no common ground -- not even respect for life -- on which
to begin a dialog. It can only be destroyed or utterly isolated."
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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