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tabs 07-30-2003 01:26 AM

Al Oadea's next Target
 
Bye Bye Golden Gate Bridge...

Stanley 07-30-2003 01:50 AM

umm...Am I missing something here?

tabs 07-30-2003 02:11 AM

Easy to bring down with a plane, highly symbolic, highly visible, it's on the Left coast where no ones looking and where people still feel relativily safe...cause all the action is on the right coast. (now no one will feel safe). Besides it's where Willie Brown holds court...

widebody911 07-30-2003 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by tabs
Easy to bring down with a plane, highly symbolic, highly visible, it's on the Left coast where no ones looking and where people still feel relativily safe...cause all the action is on the right coast. (now no one will feel safe). Besides it's where Willie Brown holds court...
...and GWB likes nothing better than to see California take it in the a$$ (no pun intended)

island911 07-30-2003 10:19 AM

A plane!? Why a plane?
I know about the recent warnings, about the possibility Al Qaeda may try more suicide hijackings, but I think these are BS.

Al Qaeda has already done the job on the airline industry, and have had two consecutive failures on pasenger planes. (that we know of)

My money would be on the use of a tanker truck. Much easier to get.
Hmmm, I suppose a cargo plane would be fairly easy to get as well.

tabs 07-30-2003 11:02 AM

How bout a nice cargo ship....sail it right into San Francisco Bay and detonate a nice Tactical Nuclear weapon that was bought from the ex USSR. Maximum everything...

Adam 07-30-2003 03:03 PM

Sounds like a Clive Cussler novel, Tabs.

Having problems sleeping lately or something? ;)

Aurel 07-30-2003 06:27 PM

The mass murder of many thousands of people in New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania was blamed on Arab terrorists minutes after it happened, yet all the top officials insisted during those tear-stained days that they had no premonition such a monstrous event could even happen.
_
Do you understand how those two thoughts do not and cannot co-exist in the same logical space? And if they don't, and you do understand, you also understand that your entire sociopolitical paradigm was shattered that day, because you know 9/11 was the handiwork of the rich manipulators who run our society, a hard-hearted ruse with which to plunder Arab treasures to the robotic applause of the drugged-out and brain-dead American populace.

Not from me, but well written...
The rest is here

Aurel

pwd72s 07-30-2003 07:13 PM

Uh...sure, Aurel, sure...whatever you say.

bell 07-30-2003 08:02 PM

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1059624133.gif

:D

Aurel 07-31-2003 02:45 AM

Humm...Is this the freedom of speech you guys are so proud of ? Better start looking at yourself in a mirror...Funny anyways.

Aurel

hardflex 07-31-2003 06:05 AM

since about 1980 , they blame every plane crash on terrorists, until they find otherwise. most of the time they're wrong, on 9/11 they were right.

I think Al Queda took, in a big way, the opportunity to exploit our policy of not confronting hijackers, to do what they asked in order to minimize loss of life. We didn't think they would kill themselves and others as the primary mission. That's now changed.

GW Bush and friends took the the opportunity to use 9/11 as justification, rightly or wrongly (still to be determined), for military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq.

CJFusco 07-31-2003 07:08 AM

"GW Bush and friends took the the opportunity to use 9/11 as justification, rightly or wrongly (still to be determined), for military adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq."

Whereas I agree with this point, I find it hard to believe the Illuminati-like conspiracy theory that Aurel is putting forth...

tabs 07-31-2003 12:12 PM

Don't want to upset the fatted calf
 
Since 911 the government has tried to find ANY OTHER cause for a plane crash than terrorism.

Americans are the fatted calf...our job is to consume...as such thinking is not required...and the media has responded by dumbing down the American populace with a steady diet of Situation Comedies, Sports and meaningless talk shows with the latest bleach blond bimbo tauting her latest venture.

350HP930 07-31-2003 03:27 PM

No, even before 9/11 our government has tried to blame several cases of aircraft sabbotage as 'accidents' such as flight 800's spontaneously exploding fuel tank.

http://www.twa800.com

And for those who would like to think that bush and company were just passive observers need to keep in mind the extraordinary circumstances that kept field agents from investigating mossouis (sp?) laptop computer before 9/11.

Lets also not forget that the Bush adminstration and the military did create plans for attacking Afganistan and Iraq long before 9/11 occured. How convenient for the Bush regime it was that they got their 'trifecta' as Bush so ineloquently put it.

When agents who are trying to do their jobs to investigate the known threat of terrorists using planes as weapons are thwarted so badly by top agents in washington that they seriously joke that there might be an al-qaeda mole at FBI headquarters something is seriously afoot at the top levels of our government.

In fact that story is so telling I think I will post that one for everyone's amusement.

350HP930 07-31-2003 03:31 PM

Quote:

Angry FBI agents joked about al Qaeda mole at HQ
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Minneapolis FBI agents who unsuccessfully sought an August 2001 warrant to search flight school student Zacarias Moussaoui's computer did so after learning that Phoenix FBI agents outlined similar concerns about other suspected terrorists in Arizona three weeks earlier. Despite information that suspected al Qaeda terrorists were involved in flight training in two states, the warrant request — coming a month before the September 11 attacks on America — was rejected by FBI officials in Washington for a lack of probable cause.

That decision, according to government sources, so infuriated the Minneapolis agents that they joked among themselves that Osama bin Laden, whose al Qaeda network has been named in the September 11 attacks, must have successfully planted a mole inside the FBI.

The Minneapolis agents arrested Moussaoui in August after questions surfaced about his flight training. The 33-year-old French-Moroccan has since been charged in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that killed at least 3,000 people. He was named by authorities as the 20th hijacker — although he was already in custody at the time of the attacks.

The Phoenix memo, by FBI Agent Kenneth Williams, alerted bureau executives in Washington in July that bin Laden followers were training at an Arizona flight school. He said eight suspected terrorists were training, but senior FBI officials did not follow up on the information.

The decision to reject the Moussaoui warrant was criticized in a 13-page letter to FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III from Minneapolis Agent Coleen Rowley, who said senior FBI officials created a "roadblock" to derail the probe. She said the agents were so frustrated by the lack of response by senior officials that they sought to bypass the chain of command and directly notify the CIA — but were reprimanded.

Miss Rowley said that although they were "closest to the action and in the best position to gauge the situation locally," the agents were not allowed to proceed despite the corroborating Phoenix alert and information they had from intelligence officials overseas that Moussaoui was tied to terrorism suspects.

"There was a great deal of frustration expressed on the part of the Minneapolis office toward what they viewed as a less-than-aggressive attitude from headquarters," Miss Rowley said. "The bottom line is that headquarters was the problem."

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican and senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he was "alarmed" by the Rowley letter. He said if the decisions by senior FBI officials in the Moussaoui probe were an example of how the FBI was investigating terrorism, "We're in grave danger."

"I don't blame agents in Minnesota for wondering if there were unwitting collaborators of Osama bin Laden sitting around at headquarters," Mr. Grassley said. "If field agents committed these egregious errors, they would be facing discipline and relocation. But the double standard of discipline and accountability continues, even though Director Mueller has pledged to me that it was gone."

Mr. Grassley said he had given Miss Rowley written assurance she will be protected and he expected that the FBI would take "no retaliation against" her.

According to the sources, the letter questioned whether the Minneapolis warrant application had been changed by officials in Washington and it suggests that several FBI officials could face possible disciplinary action.

Meanwhile, Sen. Bob Graham and Rep. Porter J. Goss, chairmen of the Senate and House Intelligence committees, said they intended to pursue accusations that FBI senior officials created a "roadblock" that derailed the Moussaoui probe.

Mr. Graham said accusations in the Rowley letter showed a "lack of aggressive follow-through" by FBI officials on concerns that field agents had about flight lessons Moussaoui had taken and his ties to international terrorists. The Florida Democrat said those concerns "deserved to have gotten greater attention."

He said it was "premature" to suggest that senior FBI officials in Washington had obstructed the Moussaoui probe, but there was "a lack of aggressive follow-through." He said the Moussaoui concerns were relevant to the nation's vulnerability and, as a result, "deserved to have gotten greater attention and treatment."

Mr. Goss, Florida Republican, spoke of "a frustration in the field [among FBI agents] that people are not willing to take risks in Washington and don't want the boat rocked in any way, shape or form." He said "there could be a more aggressive pursuit [by the FBI], within the guidelines of the law, of enforcement of the law."

350HP930 07-31-2003 03:38 PM

Here is an interesting follow up to this story. The unnamed agents who thwarted the investigation into Moussaoui and the other 9/11 collaborators have been promoted by the Bush administration to leadership roles in our nation's 'new' reorganized intelligence organizations while people like Rowley who blew the whistle on this fiasco is having to use whistle blower protection laws to keep her job.

What was that someone was saying about the Bush regime not being involved in a conspiracy to allow a major terrorist attack to happen on US soil as a way to further its power and promote a war?

bell 07-31-2003 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aurel
Humm...Is this the freedom of speech you guys are so proud of ? Better start looking at yourself in a mirror...Funny anyways.

Aurel

yes i was excersizing my right to say whatever i want......as you did.
and lighten up francis...:D means it was meant to be funny

tabs 08-02-2003 09:51 AM

Saying GW and his cronies were somehow complicent in the 911 attack..is like saying Charles Manson worked for the LAPD.

350HP930 08-02-2003 11:01 AM

Well, its a fact that the Bush administration thwarted a lot of invesigations into Saudi ties to terrorism before 9/11. I will leave it up to up to you to decide if that is the same thing as complicity. It certainly explains why the higher ups in FBI headquarters were so intent on protecting the 9/11 terrorists that were caught before 9/11 and why those people have been rewared since 9/11. If you want to take the blame off of Bush a little you can argue that previous presidents provided the same protection to wealthy Saudis but it was under Bush's command that the **** hit the fan.

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How did it happen that the CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency and our other extravagantly funded spooks could neither prevent nor learn in advance about the most deadly attack on America since Pearl Harbor? The answer was as unpleasant as the question. If U.S. intelligence agencies did not see the attack coming it was because they were told not to look. Why? From inside the agencies were obtained statements and documents indicating that the Bush administration blocked key investigations into allegations that top Saudi Arabian royals and some members of the bin Laden family, not just Osama, funded and supported Al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7310

http://www.rediff.com/us/2001/nov/07ny5.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/DailyNews/saudi_021126.html

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailyNews/FBI_whistleblowers021219.html

island911 08-02-2003 03:32 PM

Yeah, and the moon landing was an elaborate hoax too.

Yeah, really . . i have links to prove it.

The biggest proof is in the last link. . .check that one out, for sure. (excellent presentation)

http://www.primeline-america.com/moon-ldg/

http://a1.nu/moon-landing-hoax/

http://galactic-guide.com/articles/8S12.html

http://www.dc8p.com/html/moonhoax.html

350HP930 08-02-2003 03:39 PM

Hmm, I guess you prefer to believe Bush and his cronies who claim that the government had no idea any such thing could happen instead of the various field agents and other honest people in our government who have risked their careers to come forward to say they did there best to stop this in its tracks when they saw it coming from a mile away, only to be stopped by their superiors in washington.

You can believe anything you want if it makes you feel better at night, but it doesn't make you any less of a dupe.

island911 08-02-2003 04:05 PM

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Originally posted by 350HP930
. . .
You can believe anything you want if it makes you feel better at night, but it doesn't make you any less of a dupe.

Ah, name calling. Brilliant.

You seem awfully certain that I've been duped. (was it the "moon landing hoax thing?)

So what makes you so certain that I've been duped, but not you!? . . .something you read? . . .something someone told you!?

I'll tell you something strange; the word "gullible" has been left out of EVERY dictionary . . . really, try to find it. I bet you can't find it.

350HP930 08-02-2003 04:26 PM

Gee, is calling someone a dupe the same as name calling? To me it just clearly describes any person who thinks that leaders within their government are above comitting criminal actions for the purpose of protecting their benefactors.

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dupe ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dp, dyp)
n.
An easily deceived person.
A person who functions as the tool of another person or power.
I would assume by your sad attempt at dismissing news and opinion articles concerning this subject that it was a good term for the situation at hand.

It is a fact that bush was briefed multiple times about the al-qaeda hijacking threat after he was in office and despite this his administration still thwarted multiple investigations into saudi linked terrorists. Concidering the treatment of Moussaoui after he was caught and the other 9/11 terrorists being legally allowed into the US despite their known terrorism ties I am left to assume that these scumbags were getting the same protection until the events of 9/11 occured.

If you disbelieve all these facts how is it that all these strange events occured? Coincidence? Inept desk jockys in washington?

If you are above being a dupe what is your explanation for what the whistleblowers are telling us?

Perhaps you just believe they are all disgruntled workers wanting to make their bosses look bad?

island911 08-02-2003 04:31 PM

have you ever considered the concept stemming from the words "historical revisionist" ?

350HP930 08-02-2003 04:48 PM

So I take this as you rather criticise facts you can't deal with instead of come to a logical conclusion based on such information?

All I can say about myself is I will trust information from a person like Coleen Rowley who along with other hard working agents almost managed to stop 9/11 from happening if not for the actions of her superiors and then risked her own career by blowing the whistle on her superiors who were lying to the american public that they had no idea that this could happen.

So you prefer to believe the likes of bush, ashcroft and the heads of the other jokes we call our security apparatus instead?

Well, I have already said enough about what I think of people who take that view about things.

Aurel 08-03-2003 09:01 AM

To me, the greatest proof that something had been cooked about 9/11 was when the investigators found the passport of one of the hijackers on the smoking rubble of the WTC. Or when one of the hijackers forgot his bag with a coran and other proof that he was a terrorist in his rental car. Really, how dumb do they think we are ? This has nothing to do with revisionism. But trying to have Dr. Island admit that he is not always right, or even take an other perspective at facts, is like asking him to understand french. BTW, what does gullible mean ?

Aurel

dougcl 08-03-2003 09:07 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gullible

Aurel 08-03-2003 09:23 AM

Okay then, I beleive that the vast majority of americans are gullible in beleiving that the melting point of leather is higher than that of stainless-steel.

For a reminder of the FACTS, check here:

http://archives.tcm.ie/breakingnews/2001/09/16/story23866.asp

Aurel

Mike Feinstein 08-03-2003 06:14 PM

Man, I didn't want to get drawn into this but you've all overlooked one obvious fact. GWB was only in office 8 months when 9/11 came. It's been widely reported that the attack was the result of years of training and planning. It was Bill Clinton that said "no thanks" to Binladin's head on a platter. It was Bill Clinton in the oval office during the most fundamental development of global terrorism in modern history. This guy sold our security to China to ensure his reelection. This guy was in power when our most critical nuclear secrets simply disappeared one day. He simply looked the other way when BinLadin took out our ship in Yemen. You telling me that his administration had no clue that the US was a terrorism target? The list goes on. If there was a government conspiracy (which I doubt), there's only one American president to look at....and it ain't GWB.

Aurel 08-03-2003 06:31 PM

Bush...Clinton...who`s responsible really is not the issue, because both are not in charge, in the greater scheme of things. The only difference is that Bush is a poor dumb bunny, so its easier to blame things on him. But really, if you want to look at where power is, it simply is where money is. Period. Oil. Now, would anyone answer my question about the melting point of leather, please ?

Aurel

bell 08-03-2003 06:38 PM

leather melts between 500-550f depending on the quality
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1059964713.jpg

Aurel 08-03-2003 06:56 PM

LOL. Thanks Bell, you answered my question. Did you notice your bunny looks like a french ? LOL.

Aurel

bell 08-03-2003 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Aurel
LOL. Thanks Bell, you answered my question. Did you notice your bunny looks like a french ? LOL.

Aurel

not MY bunny.......and only because he has pancakes on his head.........
kind of silly really.......like this thread :D

Aurel 08-03-2003 07:32 PM

This just reminded me there are some pancakes left from this morning, I am gonna have one, then go to bed. Goodnight.

Aurel

tabs 08-03-2003 11:44 PM

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Originally posted by Aurel
But really, if you want to look at where power is, it simply is where money is. Period. Oil. Aurel
Money is the reason why GW is pushing so hard to thwart Terrorism...the monied interests have lost their shirts...Bill Gates richest man in the world worth 100 Billion is now worth half that...and the list goes on...with the collapse of the Stock Market Trillions dissappeared over night... Money represents the status quo..it loves stability.

Bin Laden represents a free radical...he doesn't give a flying fk about money...he's a TRUE RELIGIOUS ZEALOT...thats why he lives in a cave in Pakistan..He's out to upset the status quo...He wants to return the Arab world back to being a Theocracy as in the 14th century...He represents INSTABILITY...get it.

The policy of the USA is to get a handle on Terrorism by controling the region...by getting rid of ANY REGIMES that support instability which in turn threatens the Status Quo. Your right it is all about MONEY and the financial system of which oil is only (a part of) the lubricant of the Global Economy. Oil is not the whole picture but a piece of the puzzle...Think Macro not Micro...

Aurel 08-04-2003 02:56 AM

I get yout point Tabs.
The only problem I see is that you cannot blame all the problems of the economy on El Quaeda and 9/11. Remember that the internet stock collapse started before that, and Bill Gates did not lose his money because of 9/11. Consider also the the foreign policy of stabilizing the middle east was decided way before 9/11. One of the documents describing this policy is dated of sept. 2000, and called `rebulding americas defenses`. Do a search if you want. Hence the idea that 9/11 arrived at a perfect time for those who decided these policies.

Aurel

tabs 08-04-2003 12:08 PM

Stock Markets usually trade 6 months in advance of what is perceived to be happening in the futher. The US Stock Market topped in March of 2000.. Roughly 6 months before the election...the Market wanted to see which political direction the country was going to go...as it was too close to call...after the election it was the Dot Com bubble that burst, then just as the economy and market was firming up 911 hit...then early in 2002 Enron, Global Crossing was played up as being so terrible.fpr political purposes...not that it wasn't bad but it wasn't a hugh crisis...as the hedge fund that the Federal reszerve had to bail out in 1994...that one woulda broke the $1 standard for Money Market Funds..now. thats big...Then the 2002 midterm elections again the country wanted direction...and the Democrats were trounced...then the market rallied in November and December....then the war with Iraq dragged the market down..but once a direction was established the markets have risen.... So no 911 wasn't the whole ball of wax...there were alot of things that came home to roost all at once. But now Terrorism is the biggest cloud hanging over the market.

350HP930 08-04-2003 12:43 PM

Enron wasn't that bad?

Don't you live in california Tabs? ;)

I would think that the people caught in the middle of the phony energy crisis and the billions it sucked out of that state would have a slightly different outlook on the corrupt actions of that corporate FOB.

If I am correct about your location what is your electric bill like now that california is locked into some overly inflated energy rates?

I would be one to argue Enron did more to damage the economy when it was in business as usual as compared to the measly several billion it set back the economy when its house of cards collapsed.

tabs 08-05-2003 09:48 AM

Which has more impact on the economy?

1. Breaking the $1.00 standard for Money Market Funds...that means a $ in doesn't mean a $ out + interest. Thats like saying your Bank Account or Checking Account won't be worth the money you deposited so you can pay your bills..

2. Enron...which granted wiped out a lot of retirement savings of people who weren't diversified, hit quiet a few mutual funds hard because they had portfolios that included Enron stock. Put a few thousand people out of work, and CA had Grey Davis in collusion with Enron...after all he took campaign contributions from them. In his infinite wisdom decided to lock in electricity prices at an exorbitant rate, which Enron and other power companies were price gouging on.

So which sceniro really strikes at the root of our financial system. The Federal Reserve action in these two cases will give you the answer, and thats the viability of Money Market Funds...end of story... If you can't agree with that it's useless talking to you.

Now why in the scheme of things does Enron Stick in the minds of people as being this hugh earth shattering fiasco. And what CAUSED IT TO HAVE FARTHER REACHING EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY THAN IT OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE?

1. The media played it to the hilt...why it had all the making of a story that would make good RATINGS...Greed, corruption and incompetance.

2. The Democratic Party was trying to tie a tin can around the tail of GW and the Repblican Party so they could win in the 2002 Mid term elections.

3. No body even remembers that hedge fund going under...why because it was too serious of a matter for the media to fk around with, it could have caused a panic, and a run on the banking system. And the Democrats were in power and they weren't rocking the boat...cause it would have made them look bad.


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