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2005-07-26 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2005-07-26 14:22|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 And I thought they were Norwegians!

Hmmm... has the time come for ethnic/racial profiling, anyone?

I heard this here in Northern Virginia during Rush's show (he's on vacation) on WMAL 63 AM dial.

Searched all over the place, couldn't find sh*t, then made the wise move to come here.

Thanks!

Posted by Sheling Shinelet1015">Sheling Shinelet1015 2005-07-26 14:53|| www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp] 2005-07-26 14:53|| Front Page Top

#2 were they British?

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2005-07-26 15:09|| 2005-07-26 15:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Egyptians, Planet D.

With training as chemical and civil engineers ... ie. qualified to figure out the best ways to bring down bridges and blow up subways.

Posted by too true 2005-07-26 16:50|| 2005-07-26 16:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Lol... When I read #3 (yes I read them in reverse order when the thread is short), I instantly took "Planet D" to be a planet, with an alternate reality country called "Egypt" - yeah, I know, read too much SciFi.

But I think it makes as much sense, actually, as the surreal world these tools inhabit, lol!

Posted by .com 2005-07-26 17:13|| 2005-07-26 17:13|| Front Page Top

#5 one of them :
Ahmed Mohamed Atta, 30
WTF???
is that name like John Smith in Egypt?

Posted by BigEd 2005-07-26 17:50|| 2005-07-26 17:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Colour me impressed -- the FBI got them before they did anything harmful! Well done, boys and girls ... now go do that again.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-26 17:59|| 2005-07-26 17:59|| Front Page Top

#7 OhmyGod!!!!!!!!!!

They missed Lars Olag, 38!!!

Posted by Michael 2005-07-26 18:08|| 2005-07-26 18:08|| Front Page Top

#8 I like the Brits way of dealing with them. Shoot them first then ask questions....

If another bombs hits the USA how many of us do you think are going to visit the targets you we have already selected just in case?

You think the Islamo's Pig's have sleeper cells in the USA? Wait until 100 million armed citizen sleeper cell cuts loose on the local Mosques and Arab neighborhoods "if" another bombs goes off in the USA.

Select a team and pick a target and lets be quick about it.

Do you think this is wrong? Am I over reacting...

Posted by Long Hair Republican">Long Hair Republican 2005-07-26 18:44|| 2005-07-26 18:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Four were ILLEGAL ALIENS?

I wonder how they entered the United States... Did they overstay their visa (in which case the Counsler officer(s) should be repremanded or fired) or did they come across the Mexican or Canadian border (in which case Border Patrol heads should roll....).

Its damn time we start holding people who let this happen responsible -- we aren't playing for peanuts here....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-26 19:01|| 2005-07-26 19:01|| Front Page Top

#10 Overreacting? Yes.

But anymore my giveadamn is busted

Posted by Michael 2005-07-26 19:05|| 2005-07-26 19:05|| Front Page Top

#11 "Do you think this is wrong? Am I over reacting..."

Maybe. But if you are, you've got LOTS of company-- including me.

I've been thinking lately, what happens if the Islamoloonies land another punch on American soil? I suppose the answer depends on the size of the punch.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-07-26 19:11|| 2005-07-26 19:11|| Front Page Top

#12 Aside from Pearl Harbor, were there any other Japanese acts of violence that provoked the internment camps in WWII?

Posted by Neutron Tom 2005-07-26 19:25|| 2005-07-26 19:25|| Front Page Top

#13 None that I know of, Tom; I think Roosevelt's concern was mainly about spying, and industrial/military sabotage. I don't recall reading about any incidents of that type, either.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2005-07-26 19:44|| 2005-07-26 19:44|| Front Page Top

#14 These guys need a ringside seat near the blast deflectors on the next shuttle launch.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-07-26 19:53|| 2005-07-26 19:53|| Front Page Top

#15 no imports for Civils needed, thankyouverymuch. Illegals? throw the f*&kers back, after 5 yrs breaking big rocks into small rocks. As an engineer, they should appreciate the need for aggregate of all sizes: 3/4", 1/2", down to a 200 sieve, therefore, get to work ya lazy MoFos! Picks and hammers!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-26 20:17|| 2005-07-26 20:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Tom, you should read Michelle Malkin's book on internment.

The broken codes apparently showed enough of a spy network on the West Coast that the government was alarmed.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2005-07-26 20:29|| http://blog.simmins.org]">[http://blog.simmins.org] 2005-07-26 20:29|| Front Page Top

#17 #12. Tom, I recalled incendiary attacks against the northwest mainland and googled up two references:
1)On Wednesday morning, September 9, 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-25 surfaced west of Cape Blanco and launched a small seaplane piloted by Chief Flying Officer Nobuo Fujita. Fujita flew southeast over the Oregon coast, dropping incendiary bombs on Mount Emily, 10 miles northeast of Brookings. Fujita was able to launch an additional bombing sortie three weeks later.
2)One of the best kept secrets of the war involved the Japanese balloon bomb offensive, prompted by the Doolittle raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942 as a means of direct reprisal against the U.S. mainland. Some 9,000 balloons made of paper or rubberized silk and carrying anti-personnel and incendiary bombs were launched from Japan during a five-month period, to be carried by high altitude winds more than 6,000 miles eastward across the Pacific to North America. Perhaps a thousand of these reached this continent, but there were only about 285 reported incidents. Most were reported in the northwest U.S., but some balloons traveled as far east as Michigan. I doubt that these, mostly unsucessful raids, influenced the establishment of the internment camps.

Posted by GK 2005-07-26 21:45|| 2005-07-26 21:45|| Front Page Top

#18 GK---The incendary-laden balloons were a long-shot attempt to start forest fires, IIRC.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-07-26 21:48|| 2005-07-26 21:48|| Front Page Top

#19 and a lead to a recent Dirk Pitt Jr book - Black Wind

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-26 21:59|| 2005-07-26 21:59|| Front Page Top

#20 Didn't a Japanese Pilot try to take over some hawaiian island after Pearl -- along with some Japanese residents?

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-07-26 22:19|| 2005-07-26 22:19|| Front Page Top

#21 I agree AP. I recalled that too, but haven't the foggest why the raid on Mount Emily.

Posted by GK 2005-07-26 23:11|| 2005-07-26 23:11|| Front Page Top