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2005-07-31 Britain

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What is both a cause for concern and revealing about these five young men is that according to their neighbors and football mates they were all normal in their dress and behavior, going about their daily business and life. They were always polite and helpful. However, in the last six months, this behavior changed and they started becoming very religious and started wearing âtraditional dressâ. They became inward-looking and kept to themselves. Their wives and womenfolk similarly took to wearing the head-to-toe hijab. What police are now trying to piece together is what and who precipitated this sudden slide into extremism and suicide bombing.

The radical so-called imams, without putting themselves at risk, convinced the recruited terrorists - that there were 72 very good reasons for suicide bombing...

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-31 00:31|| 2005-07-31 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 "Police are quick to defend the half million pounds of extra funding a day spent on policing London..."

That's Â£180m per year. Not much when it comes to avoiding further attacks that kill 50+ people and maim hundreds more. Gives a lower cost estimate for the War effort at home.

It's going to be a lot more expensive if Moslem leaders are not caught and executed soon. We can let the moderate ones alone, if someone gets around to finding them.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-31 02:24|| 2005-07-31 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm becoming a bit suspicious about the second bombing attempt. If what is being told is true, that they don't understand why all those bombs didn't go off, then Al Qaeda is sneaky enough to have planned that whole event as a diversion. The would-be bombers of the second attempt would not even need to know that they are part of a diversion. It would be a clever idea and certainly one that would have occurred to the AQ planners.

Let's review, shall we. The reports say the investigators aren't sure why their bombs didn't explode. They've caught all five. The guy is traced through his cell phone records and they say that "panic" probably caused them to not follow the plan and make such stupid mistakes.

It's impossible to know, of course, especially since I'm sure we are fed all sorts of misinformation, but the "masterminds" of the second bombing seems to have consistently made assumptions that would have been obvious to Al Qaeda, such as cameras getting good shots of the bombers, the bombs not detonating, and the use of a cell phone to capture the guy.

I'm beginning to wonder if the second bomb isn't just a goose chase that was planned to trhow off the hounds from the real masterminds.

Ever since the first WTC bombing - the AQ planners have played the investigators like a fiddle. Remember how in the first WTC bombing that one of the players was left behind. I'm beginning to wonder if every major AQ bombing has patsies/scapegoats to be left behind that are a part of the original plan.

Posted by 2b 2005-07-31 07:28|| 2005-07-31 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Nah! If the boomers planned to be blown to smithereens, they and their masterminds wouldn't care about a few pictures.

Although somebody might be watching how the police work....

Posted by Bobby 2005-07-31 09:19|| 2005-07-31 09:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Occam's Razor, 2b, Occam's Razor.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-07-31 14:45|| 2005-07-31 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 Ah ha! Neither of you have used a quality dentifrice. Thus results are as yet untabulated.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-31 22:30|| 2005-07-31 22:30|| Front Page Top

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