I wonder how many other terror situations have been ignored or covered up to lull or to prevent unrest among the public? I

Posted by: epg at April 8, 2005 5:49 AM

At least two Islamic terrorist groups have attempted to take responsibility for the BP explosion in Texas City.
Just by claiming responsibility is in itself a terror tactic/attack

Posted by: shiva at April 8, 2005 6:40 AM

Thank heavens for the private sector.

Posted by: cubed at April 8, 2005 9:53 AM

Thank heavens for the private sector. Posted by: cubed

What has the private sector done to fight Islamoterrorism? Besides falling all over themselves, selling out their country and culture for Saudi, Arab and Iranian oil money.

Posted by: Giaour at April 8, 2005 10:12 AM

Pragmatism is a double-edged sword.
To publicly acknowledge a successful attack( to be open and honest), will make the attack successful beyond just physical damage. There are many less obvious objectives terrorists hope for when making their plans, for instance they may actually hope to provoke the target government to enact oppressive security measures that will effect a larger segment of the population, like the so-called moderate muslims, which will help validate what the "fundamentalists" have been trying to tell them. And no doubt some will start believing it and act on it.

This in turn(openly active jihadi operations here)will also provoke a response from private citizens to varying degrees in the form of vigilantism and witch-hunts, which is something else the terrorists may hope for. For a number of reasons, ranging from a destabilizing, chaotic effect to very high propaganda value on a global scale.

The American muslims are considered expendable to the upper levels of jihadi leadership.

Posted by: kentim at April 8, 2005 11:16 AM

Or to my mind-
If this was an attack and the fact became public knowledge (due to DELIBERATELY inadequate border protection measures-just read the Minuteman Project daily reports!!!) Jorge Bush would be disgraced, impeached, and ridden out of Washington on a rail.
Can you say coverup?
Treehugger

Posted by: treehugger at April 8, 2005 12:53 PM

Giaour,

Normally, I don't respond to Leftist/Islamic etc. posters, but since you do seem to view Islam as a problem, I'll respond briefly to you.

You are a collectivist, so I understand the difficulty you have with "the private sector."

The private sector is not a group or organization. The private sector I am referring to here is each individual who understands the problem we face with Islam, and is doing something about it. That would include you, whenever you post a criticism of Islam on this site; everybody who has a website or blog and is spreading the word; every person who has sent a letter to a congressman or school board member; anyone who has handed out a leaflet or put a bumper sticker on his/her car; anyone who has published a book explaining any aspect of the problem; and citizens risking life, limb, and reputations with organizations such as the Minutman Project.

The public sector includes those governmental agencies who are failing to uphold their Constitutionally mandated duties to protect us against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It includes those agencies who are lax in their decisions about whom to grant visas to. It includes employees in the FBI who say there is no evidence of Al-Qaeda in our country. It includes a government-run school system that is forcing an Islam-friendly curriculum down our children's throats, and producing generation after generation of Leftists who, unlike you, do not retain the remnants of intellectual integrity to acknowledge that there is a problem. It includes those government policymakers who refuse to protect our borders.

Every time I read one of your posts, I see that you understand that we have a problem with Islam, but I also see, with great disappointment, that you do not see how defenseless your collectivist thinking makes you as a combatant.

You don't have to be a religious person, and you don't have to be a conservative; I'm not either one of those. What you do have to be in order to be effective is to understand some of the basic principles that govern reality, which are too long to go into here.

Islam and it's collectivist cousins, from the American Left to socialism, communism, fascism, etc. are one and the same when it gets down to the level of those basic principles I mentioned. All of them reject the individual as the most important unit of society.

As I said, normally I would not respond, but your recognition of Islam as a negative force gives me hope that you aren't too far gone to join us.

In that vein, please get a copy of Thomas Sowell's "Basic Economics" and read it. It is a terrific springboard back to reality for collectivists who seem to be hanging onto reality by their fingernails. If you make it through that, there are more places you can go.

Unfortunately, most collectivists are stuck at the level of economics; they have to get straightened out on that before they can move on.

Good luck.

Posted by: cubed at April 8, 2005 1:18 PM

cubed
Positive attitude towards Giaour,

Giaour,
Keep your[leftist]venom pouring I love it

Good luck to the both of U

Posted by: shiva at April 8, 2005 2:34 PM

That's interesting. I had almost forgotten that when I heard the first news report on the radio it said that there were two explosions; the first one was a small one followed by a larger one. I listened carefully over the next few days and did not hear any more on the two explosions.

I wondered at the time that this would fit a bomb/refinery blast scenario, as well as a small leak explosion leading to a bigger blast. The odd thing was that I heard nothing more on the initial story of two explosions. Did anyone else hear that it had been two blasts?

Posted by: panos at April 8, 2005 3:16 PM