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2004-03-29 Terror Networks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-03-29 12:08:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 [Off-topic or abusive comments deleted]

Posted by John Doe TROLL 2004-03-29 12:23:18 AM|| 2004-03-29 12:23:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 But at what point did Mossad take over the planning?

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2004-03-29 1:27:29 AM|| 2004-03-29 1:27:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "We talked about hitting California as it was America's richest state and bin Laden had talked about economic targets."

Makes me wonder how all those lefties in SF would have reacted had an attack been carried out in that city.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-03-29 11:06:41 AM|| 2004-03-29 11:06:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 ima going to kick ass if they hit SF. that americas greatest city. im also thinking that the lefty you mention also kick ass to if attack. you dont mess with san fran man!

Posted by muck4doo 2004-03-29 11:14:28 AM|| [http://www.petatv.com/] 2004-03-29 11:14:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait this can't be right! Al Queda said they want Bush to win because he's so stupid and all he knows is force, which we ALL know can't hurt them. Kerry's powerful diplomacy on the other hand would be a devastating blow to them! Right? Wouldn't it? (crickets chirping...)

Seriously, it's good to hear from the horse's mouth that we are definitely having a large and paralyzing effect on them. Now we need to increase the pressure and finish the scum off.

Posted by Damn_Proud_American 2004-03-29 11:16:20 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com] 2004-03-29 11:16:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 ...Y'know, a Wayback Machine trip might be useful here. Suppose Binny and the boyz really did pull off a dual attack that morning - figure easily 15-20K dead in the space of an hour or so. At that point, how much convincing would it have taken for Dubya to open up the Football? Kabul - gone. Baghdad - almost certainly. And we would have only been warming up.
Khalid needs to thank Allah that Binny got cold feet.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-03-29 11:52:04 AM|| 2004-03-29 11:52:04 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I dunno, Mike, my impression is that nukes are strictly a mental deterrant rather than an actual weapn these days and the US wouldn't use one unless we got nuked first. World opinion and all those UN wrist-slaps, you know.

Posted by Mercutio 2004-03-29 12:15:09 PM|| 2004-03-29 12:15:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 ima going to kick ass if they hit SF. that americas greatest city.

It looks nice. That's about it as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-03-29 12:30:06 PM|| 2004-03-29 12:30:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Mercutio-
To a great extent, you're right - but in the first few days (remember while they were talking about 10K dead) every option was on the table. Multiply what we saw - and felt - in NYC by ten, and I think you would have had even the most screamingly liberal politicians falling all over themselves to nuke them.
There would have been one potentially good aspect to that - with at least a city or two in glowing ruins, and us unapologetic about it - I think Libya, Iran, and probably NK would have been lined up to see who could get rid of their programs fastest.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-03-29 2:23:47 PM|| 2004-03-29 2:23:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Next time they'll aim for the tenth floor, not the 80th.

Posted by 11A5S 2004-03-29 5:29:04 PM|| 2004-03-29 5:29:04 PM|| Front Page Top

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