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2013-04-28 Terror Networks

Quiz: How much do you know about terrorism?

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Posted by tipper 2013-04-28 04:13|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Missed 8. :(

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-28 07:08|| 2013-04-28 07:08|| Front Page Top

#2 5 as well. I credit Rantburg U, but blame my short attention spa...Squirrel!

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-28 11:47|| 2013-04-28 11:47|| Front Page Top

#3 "One of the worlds deadliest terrorist events was the 9/11 attack in New York, executed by Al Qaeda. But that was not the groups first successful attack on the US. What was?"
I answered "1993s World Trade Center bombing"

I for some reason thought that sheik was AlQ linked. Was he?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-04-28 12:35|| 2013-04-28 12:35|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought I knew my terrorism pretty well but I missed 8 also.

Perhaps it is because we don't talk much about the IRA or Sein Fein on this site anymore?

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-04-28 12:38|| 2013-04-28 12:38|| Front Page Top

#5 I go to the quiz and it's talking about the Sicarii as one of the 'very first terrorist groups.'

They picked them so they could go with "See? The Juice _invented_ it! Haha! See?"

I suddenly don't want to see the rest of the list; I want to say "$%#K these assholes with a rusty antimatter chainsaw" and close the window, but I guess I'll go on and see how bad it is.

I guess they're counting the Cole as being 'successful' and the first WTC bombing (and the various embassy bombings in Africa) as not. In short, they're ignorant but they're the lecturers.

It's their job to ask the questions and our job to answer them. that's why Wosshisname Akin is newsworthy but some asshole doctor killing black women in Philadelphia isn't.

I wanna grab them by their throats and shout "the bombers didn't learn this shit in a madrassa, they learned this shit from you."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-28 12:56|| 2013-04-28 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Beautiful little rant, Snowy Thing. You nailed them to the wall.

Posted by trailing wife 2013-04-28 14:58|| 2013-04-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 We've become as a civilization the spiritual equivalent of Dr. Jenny McCarthy, who goes around telling the parents of autistic kids they were bad parents who caused the situation by vaccinating them.

The Tsarnaevs were never taught a foundation, a base. Not in the FSU and not here. So when Al Qaeda (which means 'foundation' and 'base') comes around to teach theirs, they don't have an immune system to deal with the situation.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-28 15:43|| 2013-04-28 15:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Very good analogy, Thing!

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-28 15:44|| 2013-04-28 15:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Pretty well sums it up Thing. Unfortunately, the Tsarnaev Bros. are in good company.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-28 15:53|| 2013-04-28 15:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Missed 8 as well. The 8 I missed I had it narrowed to 2 and picked the wrong one

Posted by IG-88 2013-04-28 16:06|| 2013-04-28 16:06|| Front Page Top

#11 The USS Cole was not the first in part since the Embassy bombings in 1998 preceded that event and earlier there was Somali and 1993 World Trade Center which was mainly Ramzi Yousef's bomb and he was KSM's cousin (but back them it wasn't called al-qaeda.

Posted by Jack Salami 2013-04-28 17:02|| 2013-04-28 17:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Some further thoughts: The FSU doesn't really have as good a mental vaccination program, but they have (for instance) Kadyrov who will allegedly extrajudicially kill your family if they're in Chechnya and you do something like this in Russia.

Also, we're killing people extrajudicially in Pakistan but we turn around and say there's no such thing as the networks/cells/etc and they're all lone wolves.

That we have to kill because the tooth fairy told us, apparently. Or maybe the Psi Corps.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-28 17:12|| 2013-04-28 17:12|| Front Page Top

#13 Missed 4.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2013-04-28 17:51|| 2013-04-28 17:51|| Front Page Top

#14 Six wrong but it was multiple choice. I made some good guesses. If you'd asked me to fill in the blanks it would have been ugly. Thanks to Rantburg for many of the ones that I really knew.

The one thing that really surprised me is that the IRA was never listed as a terrorist organization. Did the Kennedys have anything to do with that?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2013-04-28 17:58|| 2013-04-28 17:58|| Front Page Top

#15 The first well known terrorist in history might well have been Catilina. At least he was perceived and treated so in ancient Rome.

A century before the sicarii

Posted by European Conservative 2013-04-28 22:06|| 2013-04-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

#16 There were also the Cilician Pirates, and I'm surprised noone from Syracuse makes the grade.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-28 22:59|| 2013-04-28 22:59|| Front Page Top

#17 I was going to write a really big rant, but I'm reconsidering given the stuff I've been hearing about the wiretaps of Mama Tsarnaeva's conversations with her brood. I may have to take back some of what I said if what they're hinting at turns out to be true.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-04-28 23:03|| 2013-04-28 23:03|| Front Page Top

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