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2008-03-24 Terror Networks

They Trained. They Plotted. Then They Bailed.

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 Broadly speaking, I don't think OMAR comprehends the "true nature" of his father OSAMA's + AYMAN's, etal. ORIGINAL INTENTIONS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-03-24 00:47|| 2008-03-24 00:47|| Front Page Top

#2 There's no obvious silver bullet here, of course.

I see one: They allow themselves to become human again.

Posted by Bobby 2008-03-24 06:50|| 2008-03-24 06:50|| Front Page Top

#3 They're mostly (but not all) just misfits and cranks. And about as reliable...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2008-03-24 07:41|| 2008-03-24 07:41|| Front Page Top

#4 They were just there for the free falafel and goat lovin.

Posted by Huputer the Obscure2933 2008-03-24 07:57|| 2008-03-24 07:57|| Front Page Top

#5 There's no obvious silver bullet here, of course.

No problem. Depleted uranium should do the trick.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-03-24 11:26|| 2008-03-24 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 But can they be turned? They'd make great double agents.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2008-03-24 12:20|| 2008-03-24 12:20|| Front Page Top

#7 This is interesting. Al Qaeda seems to have wasted considerable resources on men playing at being terrorists. This would partly explain the relative dearth of terror incidents post-9/11, intelligence from Iraq and Afghanistan coupled with near-superhuman work by Western and otherwise FBI-types (I can't remember which MI is internal, -5 or -6) accounting for those caught in flagrante delicto.

Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-24 13:03|| 2008-03-24 13:03|| Front Page Top

#8 cum rutilus manus would be a better phrase here, TW, although from their POV, they did fuck up.
/[grin]

Posted by twobyfour 2008-03-24 19:21|| 2008-03-24 19:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll consult trailing daughter#1 about that, twobyfour. The trailing daughters and the trailing father have Latin, I was the generation that skipped.;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2008-03-24 21:28|| 2008-03-24 21:28|| Front Page Top

#10 Ah! "Red-handed" is the loose interp., TW.

Posted by twobyfour 2008-03-24 21:41|| 2008-03-24 21:41|| Front Page Top

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