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"Watch the Border," from Time magazine, with thanks to Kemaste and RB:
TWO WEEKS AFTER intelligence officials confirmed that Osama bin Laden had sent a message to Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, urging him to plan attacks on U.S. soil, details are emerging from one of al-Zarqawi's lieutenants about what the man behind many of the terrorist attacks in Iraq could have in mind. Intelligence officials tell TIME that interrogation of a member of al-Zarqawi's organization, who was taken into U.S. custody last year and has been described as a top aide, indicates that al-Zarqawi has given ample consideration to assaults on the American homeland. According to a restricted bulletin that circulated among U.S. security agencies last week, the interrogated aide said al-Zarqawi has talked about hitting "soft targets" in the U.S., which could include "movie theaters, restaurants and schools."The bulletin also notes the Iraq-based master terrorist's apparent belief that "if an individual has enough money, he can bribe his way into the U.S.," specifically by obtaining a "visa to Honduras" and then traveling across Mexico and the southern U.S. border. Al-Zarqawi's aide also revealed that his boss, after pondering the absence of attacks in the U.S. in recent years, concluded that a lack of "willing martyrs" was to blame. Al-Zarqawi believes, according to his lieutenant, that "if an individual is willing to die, there was nothing that could be done to stop him," even in the U.S.
There is no evidence, say intelligence agencies, that al-Zarqawi's agents have infiltrated the U.S. But authorities remain vigilant....On her visit to Mexico last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued her own reminder of the border's vulnerability. "There's no secret," Rice told reporters, "that al-Qaeda will try to get into this country ... by any means they possibly can."
Uh, Dr. Rice, excuse us, but it's no secret that they're already here.
Posted by Robert at March 16, 2005 6:00 AM
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Some months ago I wrote here about seeing 6 to 8 young middle-eastern looking young men just sitting in the shade of a tree near my neighborhood mall. They were not doing anything in particular, just looking toward the mall. It caught my attention and my staring caught their attention. I have wondered since then if they were casing the mall, since middle-easterners are rare in these parts.
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at March 16, 2005 11:43 AM
Carolyn2,
If they were terrorists, don't be afraid; just continue to remember the 2nd amendment!
Americans have the right to bear arms! Americans will not tolerate cowards who prey upon the innocent. If we use the amendment according to the law, we can protect ourselves, as we have faced evil before and we will face it again, and again, and we will win! Don't be afraid,.... be fearless. They are weak and we are strong. Samuel Colt knew that, we are equal if we are not afraid to defend ourselves. That makes them unequal, unwelcome, unlawful, evil, and they will be defeated, and Americans will live on in freedom. No question about it! Remember....Don't tread on me!
at March 16, 2005 12:56 PM
WOG-
Concise and hitting the bulls-eye!
As sad as the prospect is, I hope the Islamic jihadists' attacks come sooner than later, because, to paraphrase the classic line from "Apocalypse, Now!":
"...every day they are getting stronger..."
Better that they hit us now, very terribly, while we can than strike them a deathblow in return.
But, the Islamists seem cunning enough to use the old 'death-of-a-thousand-cuts' recommended by guerilla madman Mao Tse Dung.
Bleeding us slowly, and not enraging the West enough -with a blow of intolerably serious WMD damage- to make us really rouse and eradicate these dangerous maniacs as thoroughly as needs doing.
They appeared to have overplayed their hand on 9/11, but people in American (much less Europe) didn't suffer sufficiently (a mere 3,000 innocent corpses), and the wishful slumber of everydayness has returned. As an Islamic Shariah-lite Republic appears to be dawning in Iraq, Iran nears gaining a Russian-assisted nuke, and Pakistan's scientists leak their atomic technology to their brother Muslims.
What is the specific number of dead that the West will require before we actually act?
That is the only question left.
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage..."
at March 16, 2005 10:24 PM
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