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Intelligence 'Chatter' Links LAX Shooting to Al-Qaeda Plot
Communications intercepts by U.S. intelligence agencies indicate that the July Fourth attack on El Al Airlines at Los Angeles International Airport may have been an al-Qaeda dry run in preparation for a larger attack, two members of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security said Sunday.Cheeze. I hate this kind of article... Where to start? First, I reject outright, 99 44/100ths percent certain, the idea that the attack wasn't terror related â just an isolated incident, y'know? The timing, the target, and the perp add up to a terror incident. So the Feds have a mouthful of meal trying to say different. The glass slipper fits, bunions and all. Second, this bit of out-of-school blabbing says it is terror-related, and lays it at the al-Qaeda door. Wrong address. The only thing suggesting such a thing is the Suleiman Abu Ghaith tape telling us to fasten our seatbelts, and this doesn't seem to measure up. If that's the best they can, we're justified in going back to being more interested in who killed Chandra. Chances are miniscule of you or I or anyone we know getting hurt. How do odds of 2/280,000,000 sound? My guess, and it's only a guess, is that Hadayet was "inspired" by (not "directed by") the al-Aqsa "declaration of war" on the Merkin/Zionist Conspiracy®, which, keep in mind, was issued on July 1st â three days before the El Al shoot-em-up. What better way to attack the Merkin/Zionist Conspiracy® than to heroically shoot up the El Al counter in a major Merkin city? Then there's the nature of "chatter," which is actually a technical term. It refers to non-official, non-message communications. It's Abdul and Mahmoud on the line (or wherever they got the info â could be a bug, a conversation overheard, what-have-you) discussing the attack. Keep in mind that Abdul and Mahmoud probably know nothing more than we do; they're a couple barracks rat PFCs who get sent for coffee and sweep the floor and sometimes are allowed to answer the phones. So the conversation was along the lines of That's a different flavor of intel than, say, a memo from Zawahiri announcing a day off for all al-Qaeda members in celebration of the Famous Victory of 4/7/02 Over the Forces of Zionism and Crusaders. So I have my doubts, no matter what Debka says. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-22 |
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