NYC tunnel bombing plot uncovered

[southsider2k5]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/07/07/tunnel.plot/index.html

[KipWellsFan]

Authorities believe a Canadian co-conspirator was involved in the alleged plot to blow up New York

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/07072006/2/nati...ny-tunnels.html

 

We need a tighter border!!!

 

In conversation here with George W. Bush and later with the press, Harper made it crystal clear the federal government's first priority is an open America. "If the U.S. becomes more closed to its friends, the terrorists win," he told reporters at the White House.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentSe...72154&t=TS_Home

 

Prepare for a flood of Canadians!!!!!

Edited July 8, 2006 by KipWellsFan

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202518,00.html

 

 

Another one bites the dust!

 

 

[KipWellsFan]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,202518,00.html

Another one bites the dust!

 

Check a couple threads down.

 

One former intelligence field officer says, and two other CIA officials confirm, that the alleged plot by Muslim extremists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York City was nothing more than chatter by unaffiliated individuals with no financing or training in an open forum already monitored extensively by the United States Government, RAW STORY has learned.

 

“The so-called New York tunnel plot was a result of discussions held on an open Jihadi web site,” said Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and contributor to American Conservative magazine, in a late Friday afternoon conversation. Although Giraldi acknowledges that the persons involved – “three of whom have already been arrested in Lebanon and elsewhere - are indeed extremists," their online chatter is considerably overblown by allegations of an actual plot.

full story

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/No_Plot_..._Hate_0707.html

 

Anyone notice that it seems that more and more intelligence officials are turning on the administration?

 

ohh I should have added this...

 

Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertof seemed unconcerned earlier today, when the news first broke. Chertoff told the Associated Press earlier today that, "It was never a concern that this would actually be executed… We were, as I say, all over this."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/No_Plot_..._Hate_0707.html

[NUKE_CLEVELAND]

Check a couple threads down.

full story

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/No_Plot_..._Hate_0707.html

 

Anyone notice that it seems that more and more intelligence officials are turning on the administration?

 

ohh I should have added this...

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/No_Plot_..._Hate_0707.html

 

 

Ok so we have the mainstream media versus an "alternative news" website which quotes the infamous "unnamed sources" within the CIA. I think you can tell which way the scales of who I believe are tipping.

[KipWellsFan]

Ok so we have the mainstream media versus an "alternative news" website which quotes the infamous "unnamed sources" within the CIA. I think you can tell which way the scales of who I believe are tipping.

 

I'll admit that some website getting CIA sources is pretty amazing and/or suspicious but these cases are constantly overblown. A bunch of idiots in Miama get arrested for being... idiots, and its plastered all over the news. Or in Canada recently, headlines about plans to behead the Prime Minister and take the House of Commons hostage. A few days later it turns out the bozos didn't know enough about the area and gave up on that plan early on.

 

The timing is always curious but this is probably more of a, provocative terrorism headlines sell idea.

Edited July 8, 2006 by KipWellsFan

[Gregory Pratt]

Anyone notice that it seems that more and more intelligence officials are turning on the administration?

 

Well, the Bush Administration tried to pin the "intelligence failures" leading to the Iraq War on the CIA rather than on their own faulty conclusions and dishonest cherrypicking.

Then, the Administration appointed Porter Goss to purge the CIA, and he started it as soon as he came into office.

Finally, they created a new office of intelligence, with a new "Intelligence Czar," and took away a lot of the CIA's power. (I was never in favor of the 9/11 Commission, and I think it's faulty as hell to say, "Well, they're experts!" on anything because they weren't, really. They were ex-political hacks playing the role of -- well, I won't go there. Let's just say I don't appreciate the Commission's efforts or conclusions.)

 

What Bush has done, and tried to do, to the CIA strikes me as reminiscent of an honor killing. "They leaked stories in response to me blaming them; they have dishonored me. I must kill them. PORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTEEEEEER!"

 

Good for the CIA to fight back against a crooked and dishonest White House.

[Balta1701]

So, where is the outrage over the NY Daily News publishing this story about an investigation in progress?

[KipWellsFan]

but back in the real world...

 

Landmark al Qaeda trial collapses

The trial of 19 alleged al Qaeda members had been designed to showcase how serious Yemen was in the fight against terror. But the Islamic militants, accused of plotting to assassinate Westerners and blow up a hotel frequented by Americans, were all acquitted for lack of proof, the presiding judge ruled Saturday.

 

...

 

Several of the defendants did confess to having been in Iraq to fight U.S. troops there and had Iraqi stamps on their passport, the court heard. "But this does not violate [Yemeni] law," the judge said.

 

"Islamic Sharia law permits jihad against occupiers," he said.

 

...

 

"The judiciary is collaborating with the Islamist extremists and this verdict is politicized," al-Maqaleh said on the telephone. He said it was another sign that President Ali Abdullah Saleh was trying to drum up support from Muslim radicals ahead of the coming presidential elections.

 

Saleh has long-standing ties with Islamic militants, who have stood by the administration since the 1980s. They sided with his northern government in the 1994 civil war and the successful battle against secessionists from the secular south.

 

Saleh has announced he will again run for president, breaking earlier promises to step down after 28 years at the helm of this impoverished Arab nation.

 

In defiance to Saleh, five Yemeni opposition parties have chosen Faisal bin Shamlan, a prominent businessman and former Cabinet minister, to challenge him. Bin Shamlan has spoken out against al Qaeda and won respect for denouncing corruption.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/08/...s.ap/index.html

 

Jihad against occupiers is legal.

 

Can we add Yemen to the Outposts of Tyranny now?

Edited July 8, 2006 by KipWellsFan

[Rex Kickass]

So, where is the outrage over the NY Daily News publishing this story about an investigation in progress?

There wasn't a picture of Don Rumsfeld's house attached to the internet.

[Gregory Pratt]

So, where is the outrage over the NY Daily News publishing this story about an investigation in progress?

 

I, for one, am furious.