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2006-09-18 Terror Networks

Fractured Fairytale: Practice Makes Terror ( The "false alarms" may be dry runs)

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Posted by anymouse 2006-09-18 18:15|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Great article. My guess: it won't be an airplane; it will be a soft target. Until bombs go off in shopping malls (ala Israel) or we see children taken hostage in elementary schools (a ala Beslan) the American public are too complacent to demand that the government do what needs to be done. Once the aforementioned happens, and it will, we'll start doing what needs to be done. Unfortunately, innocent people will have to die first.

Posted by reality check 2006-09-18 19:53|| 2006-09-18 19:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Has anyone gone back over pre 9/11 flight reports
to see if their were any dry runs by Satans pool boys?

Posted by Elmineng Ulenter1860 2006-09-18 20:17|| 2006-09-18 20:17|| Front Page Top

#3 As stated: "Arrest them and send them to their respective home countries as terror suspects. Put them all on an international "no fly" list. These doucebags knew what they were doing."

Posted by Phineter Thraviger1073 2006-09-18 20:26|| 2006-09-18 20:26|| Front Page Top

#4 9/11 hijackers did dry runs.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2002/05/28/hijackers-test-runs.htm

Posted by J.D. Lux 2006-09-18 20:34|| 2006-09-18 20:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I recall reading an account of such a trial run by actor James Woods. Pretty grim stuff.

Posted by mrp 2006-09-18 22:12|| 2006-09-18 22:12|| Front Page Top

#6 The account, ahem, was reported by James Woods, of course :)

Posted by mrp 2006-09-18 22:13|| 2006-09-18 22:13|| Front Page Top

#7 The "false alarms" ~~may be~~ were dry runs)

There - fixed that for ya'

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-18 22:17|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-09-18 22:17|| Front Page Top

#8 Because I ~~stupidly~~ have confidence in the abilities of our government, it is impossible for me to believe that we have not begun to accumulate the travel patterns of every single person whose point of origin or destinations include terror sponsoring nations.

If people do not have any substantial reason to be traveling back and forth several times a year to Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and so forth, they need to be flagged big time.

Furthermore, if an airline wants to be connected to America or even have its tickets sold though any of our agents or credit card systems, they had better be ready to surrender all records of passenger travel to or between countries of interest.

We need to assemble data bases that record the travel patterns of those who:

Fly directly to countries of interest.

Fly to international hubs where appropriate transfers can take place

Fly too often to any of the above

Have names of Arabic or terrorist nation origin

And so forth. I'm sure you get the idea.

And, oh yeah; FIRE THE IDIOTS WHO DO NOT TAKE AGGRESSIVE ACTION WHEN CONFRONTED WITH BLATANT CASING AND PROBING OPERATIONS.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-18 23:32|| 2006-09-18 23:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Imagine this... President Bush has announced that 8-10 attacks have been stopped because of procedures being used. We don't know what those procedures are (and I, for one, don't want to know).

It could include the flight patterns of certain individuals. We know the airlines are computerized with a massive database of every flight any of us have taken.

Just hopin'

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-09-18 23:44|| 2006-09-18 23:44|| Front Page Top

#10 The West should create special flights reserved for Muslims only, the others being for non-Muslims only.

This way, if a muslim terrorist blow an airplane, only Muslims are killed.

Posted by leroidavid">leroidavid 2006-09-18 23:54|| 2006-09-18 23:54|| Front Page Top

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