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2006-01-21 Home Front: WoT

Al Qaeda May Already Be in U.S., Security Officials Warn

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Posted by Steve White 2006-01-21 01:01|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He admitted though that a number of vulnerabilities remain.

You mean like THE MEXICAN BORDER???????

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-21 02:14|| 2006-01-21 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Or the US-Canada border which is marked by nothing but a ditch in some places.

Posted by CaziFarkus">CaziFarkus 2006-01-21 02:59|| deleted]">[deleted] 2006-01-21 02:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Remember all those non-traceable cell phones purchased after the treasonous release of intel collecting by the NYTs? Yeah, I suspect there are still cells out there. Needing those cells and to do it in large numbers and so quickly means there's something afoot. I just hope we have a good size contingent of torte lawyers standing by to sue the NYT out of existence by the families of those killed in the attack which would have been thwarted had the NSA operation not been exposed.
The First Amendment only protects your right to print, but does not protect you from suits brought by those harmed by your willfull action.

Posted by Oming Sponter6302 2006-01-21 09:32|| 2006-01-21 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 #1 He admitted though that a number of vulnerabilities remain.

You mean like THE MEXICAN BORDER???????
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-21 02:14
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Hey Bomba-Osama's-Ass: I love your posts buddy, but I have to disagre here. The real danger comes from our America-hating Leftist pals north of the border, Canada.

Read Richard Miniter's superb book, Disinformation. He argues we've been worrying too much about the wrong "broken border."

Posted by The Accurate Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-21 11:03|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2006-01-21 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 *disagree* Crap!

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-21 11:04|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2006-01-21 11:04|| Front Page Top

#6 THE MEXICAN BORDER???????

in related news:

20, 2006 â The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (âMCDCâ) announced the release today of video footage of an incursion by a unit of the Mexican army across the U.S. border in Arizona

Link

Posted by RD 2006-01-21 13:33|| 2006-01-21 13:33|| Front Page Top

#7 One of the things the Air Force taught me to do was to identify choke points and targets of opportunity. I don't think Al-Qaida has had that same kind of training, for which I'm extremely grateful. I can look around me at Colorado Springs, and see hundreds of places where a bomb of the right size would cause millions of dollars' damage and tens of millions lost to delays and re-routing.

We haven't had to fight a war on our own soil in a long, long time. We've forgotten how very vulnerable we could be. I doubt seriously that "homeland security" forces look at the US in that perspective. We need to reinstate the old Civil Defense Corps, update the training significantly, and use the American people as a whole for internal defense. We also need to significantly increase border security along ALL our borders, reinstate the Patriot Act, and let NSA continue to listen carefully for that "certain ring". I'd also push hard for a national militia with local units and local control under a national umbrella.

This is a huge country, and needs all the open eyes it can get to protect it.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-01-21 14:43|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-01-21 14:43|| Front Page Top

#8 OP, I'm sure your training helps, but I'll bet I could figure out 75% of those just by visiting AAA and getting the Colorado Springs city map. They only need 1 in the top 25 metro Areas on the same morning to create some real chaos.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-21 14:52|| 2006-01-21 14:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Old Patriot defence doesn't work against terrorism. Only prevention --- killing the terrs on their native soil.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-01-21 19:53|| 2006-01-21 19:53|| Front Page Top

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