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2006-08-23 Europe

Hamburg Becomes Focus in Failed Terror Plot

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Beer, brauts, and terrs

Posted by Captain America 2006-08-23 00:17|| 2006-08-23 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Failed = bombs did not detonate. Sheer luck for the passengers. Next time, they may not be that lucky.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-23 00:22|| 2006-08-23 00:22|| Front Page Top

#3 "the case has provided shocking proof for many that Germany is now also a terrorist target"

Instead of the terrorist haven and staging ground it's been?

No fun when your resident terrorists turn from their plotting against the Great Satan to a little homegrown fun, is it? Don't remember the Baader-Meinhof gang? Don't remember that the first airplane hijacked by the paleos was taken from the Frankfurt airport? Don't remember how well other nations appeasing Germany in the 1930's worked out?

Selective Alzheimer's is a sad and stupid thing, Germany.

Sucks to be you, doesn't it?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-08-23 00:56|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-08-23 00:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like Hamburg is to Germany what Dearborn is to US.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-08-23 02:36|| 2006-08-23 02:36|| Front Page Top

#5 As always, Islamists never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to foul the nest. This congenital over-reaching will surely spell their doom, as it well should.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-23 05:40|| 2006-08-23 05:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Speaking of the good old days of terrorism in Germany, anyone remember that after the Munich Olympics disaster, and three of the terrs were in custody, the German govt faked an airliner hijacking in which the fake hijackers demanded the release of the three. The Germans obliged, and the three went free. Mossad had to track them down and eventually killed two of them.

Posted by thanks for the memories 2006-08-23 07:14|| 2006-08-23 07:14|| Front Page Top

#7 I remember. Never forget. Never again.

Ok, class, who is paying attention?

Posted by Quana 2006-08-23 07:31|| 2006-08-23 07:31|| Front Page Top

#8 9/11 apparently wasn't enough for the authorities in Germany and particularly in Hamburg to clean out the rathole. The same can be said for Dearborn, London, Paris, etc. What will it take? Probably an all out war with the west that costs many thousands if not millions of lives. How many times does history have to show us that allowing evil in our midst to go unpunished only causes worldwide catastrophe?

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-08-23 08:42|| 2006-08-23 08:42|| Front Page Top

#9 mcsegeek1, several factors...

Majority of people is reactive, not proactive. Under normal circumstances, they are able to go by (the reactives, that is), but in circumstances like our times, they need to be dragged by hand. A good portion of the reactives feel the danger, but they don't know what to do. That is because for most of the people, whatever is not in an experiential reference, they are not able to deal with it directly or rationally and they assume an ostrich position, or degrees of it thereof. I know, sucks, but that is the way it is.

Us, the ones that see it clearly, would have to wait for the majority to catch up. Meaning it would take some bruising, unfortunately. Once they realize that their existential certainities are no longer certain, they would, reluctantly, give a mandate to the proactive segment of the population.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-23 10:17|| 2006-08-23 10:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Forgotten to add that there is another factor, amnesia. People tend to supress indirect traumatic experiences with a degree of amnesia. They do it readily with direct traumatic experiences as well-- it is a natural defense mechanism. Usually for people with a good mental health and with a proactive tendencies, the trauma resolves at certain point and the temporary amnesia is no longer needed. Reactive people tend to use this defence mechanism more often and it takes longer time to go through the process, due to a tendency to externalize the whole bandoogle as that way they don't have to deal with it directly. It follows that the impetus for a resolution has to come from without.

Posted by twobyfour 2006-08-23 10:33|| 2006-08-23 10:33|| Front Page Top

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