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U.S. officials fear a huge attack this summer. Al Queda has apparently 18,000 members ready to attack. I'm sure they want to influence the election if possible and kill as many Americans as possible. This country better get it's act together real quick and secure the continental US as safely and quickly as possible.
 
I don't see how al Qaeda figures they will help themselves very much by attacking the USA before the elections. I would assume that given the choice al Qaeda would want Kerry to be the US president rather then Bush. If an attack does take place Bush will probably get re-elected.

After all, what does Kerry have to offer to defend the USA from terrorism? All he has is his four months of heroism in Vietnam, his plan to work with the U.N. (LOL), his plan to work more closely with our European 'allies' (LOL), and some vague concepts about trying to defend the USA at home (unworkable-it is necessary to take the battle to the enemy).

Whenever Kerry or his associates are asked what they will do in the war on terrorism if Kerry is elected president, these are the only things I have heard Kerry or his associates talk about.
 
Sure hatred in Iraq has grown since we marched into that God forsaken land. Regardless of how OUR press sells it to the world we have done some good there. But to say Al Queda has grown purely because of this, is wrong and pure speculation. How do all the people with perfect future and past vision not know that, for example, Saddam wasn't thinking of conscripting/hiring 50,000 more terrorists and then become buds with Bin laden???...We don't know, and that's the point!

Keep fighting in their yard. 18K? Give me and some buds enough time, money and weapons - that problem can be elimnated!

18,000? Is that all? After all the raving by our press? 18000? What a joke!!! I mean I'm not down playing it - it seems one guy can bring us to a halt, but it's just the whole fear thing used by BOTH sides.

Yes let's be ready. More than ready, let's strike FIRST!
 
We need to close our borders! Kick out anyone that even remotly has any kind of link to terrorism/groups and never let them in...no exceptions!
 
Chris B., neither of the two major political parties in this country will close the borders. In my opinion, this in insane. Millions of people are pouring into this country and we know very little about a lot of them. Soviet spies used to WALK from Canada into the USA and to this very day a person in some areas could still do this. al Qaeda terrorists could easily be among the millions pouring in from Mexico. In fact, I saw a special on TV where a guy said that people from the Middle East are paying 50,000 per head to cross from Mexico into the USA.

Both political parties want the Latino vote. But think of the political consequences if terrorists strike in the USA (especially if they use nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons) and later it is discovered these terrorists crossed over to the USA from Canada or Mexico? Could be political suicide for somebody. Maybe something will finally be done then.
 
Another thing we must do is get tougher with Israel. The US is virtually a rubber stamp vote in the UN for anything that Israel does. This
has isolated us with even moderate Arab states.
We must be fair if we are ever going to have peace in the Middle East.
 
Osama Bin Laden and Al Queda were responsible for 9/11. They were in Afghanistan. We invaded Afghanistan in order to destroy Al Queda and capture Osama Bin Laden. We diverted military and intelligence resources from Afghanistan in order to invade Iraq. In spite of convincing quite a few in the US otherwise, Bush, Powell, Rumsfield, etc. have all had to state that there is no link between Iraq and 9/11. Saddam's Iraq was not a big training camp or haven for Al Queda, as he didn't like Muslim fundamentalists terrorists either since Iraq was secular state.

We didn't complete the job in Afghanistan, but we did manage to increase Al Queda recruitment. **** , we didn't even properly interrogate Osama's relatives when the White House authorized their departure from the US just after 9/11, even though no other civilian aircraft were allowed to be in the air.
 
So the Attorney General says that Al-Qaeda wants to "hit the United States hard." Yet there's no specific information about time or place, and there are no recommendations for actions or precautions for citizens to make?

What exactly is the goal of this press conference? I mean, other than to bolster the President's historically low approval ratings.

I've got my plastic sheeting and duct tape at the ready.
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Gee why wouldn't they want to effect the election since it worked with the wimp Spaniards. When they first bombed WTC we did nothing, when they bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City we didn't pursue the Mid East Iraqi connection. John Doe 2 was Hussein EL Hussannie a member of the Iraqi republican guard. Went to work at Logan Airport in Boston until 09/11/2001. McVey had a pocket full of Iraqi phone numbers when he was picked up. There was a APB put out for a Brown pick-up with three mid eastern men. 12 hours later the FBI was told to kill that APB by the Whitehouse. We did nothing to the home country that financed it because Clinton didn't want to get involved. When the Cole was attacked the Government said it wasn't a bad enough incident to start something over. After 18 U.S. soldiers were killed in Somalia the Administration ran like a bunch a scared school girls. When flight 800 was shot down over New York harbor we got a nice CIA fantasy video of a center fuel tank exploding. Even though several hundred people saw the missiles tail flame come off the water and rise into the night sky ending in the explosion of the aircraft.
This was also seen by two Viet Nam combat pilots who were piloting commercial airline were said to be wrong by the Government of what they saw.
When 17 sailors died on the U.S.S. Cole we did nothing.
When the Kabal towers were bombed in Saudi Arabia
we did nothing. So guess who the terrorist want in the White House ?
A Gutless kept by his wife Pu$$y, I'll do nothing to protect us Democrat who just like Clinton will look the other way. He will like Clinton be more worried about his poll numbers than our National security. Kerry will let the terrorist countries have free rein to do what they want with zero fear of retaliation. The only difference between Clinton and Kerry is I don't think John Kerry is a Rapist. Womanizer probably, a Rapist no.

Edit: "I'll do nothing to protect us Democrat"
This is directed toward the new far leftist Elitist Marxist Democrat not the average Democrat in General.

[ May 26, 2004, 05:48 PM: Message edited by: ALS ]
 
It takes years for Al Qaeda to plan and execute an attack. What was it.....eight years for a second attack on the WTC? And we had useless Clinton in the White House most of that time. Why are they ready so soon now???

The fact that they are poised to strike again says to me that our current leadership, and I do use that term very loosly, has done nothing to hinder terrorist actvities. Resources that could have been used to capture OSAMA BIN FORGOTTEN are wasted in Iraq.

God, I hope this report is wrong.
 
Even the State Department has noted that Spain voted out the previous government not because of the bombing, but because the previous government tried to use the bombing to implicate the other party in the upcoming election. Something like 90% of the people didn't support sending troops to Iraq in the first place, so they recalled their troops when the new government came into power.
 
Yup, recruitment is up due to scattering Al Queda from it's base in Afghanistan, and from the invasion of Iraq. The article didn't state so, but I gather that the situation would have been better if Al Queda had been contained in Afghanistan and if Iraq had not been invaded.
 
The Spanish Government was gone, and the bombing had sweet F.A. to do with it.

Governments have to learn that they are there to represent the populace.

John Howard will find out the same thing later this year.
 
Hey ALS great post. You forgot to mention the left wing judges that "The most liberal member of the Senate" would appoint. These ultra left judges shove their ideologies down our throats
contrary to what the majority want.
 
Don't forget the ACLU (Communist Org) who is totally funded on Tax payer dollars. Did you catch the story yesterday how they are suing LA because they have a small cross in the city seal.
LA said take a hike we are not removing it. Based on the history of the city and massive cost of changing in on all the buildings, vehicals, signage and so on it isn't going to be removed.
 
Whoa nelly ALS. That was a mouth full!!!!! You have some interesting hypothesis that would make one think. I really like the McVey link. I've followed that since day one and I've never heard about the Iraq link. Interesting indeed.
 
Has anyone here actually read the story?

20,000 members before we toppled the Taliban. We killed 2000 Al-Queda in that conflict = 18,000.

20,000 - 2,000 = 18,000 = EEK THEY'RE GROWING???
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"The estimate of 18,000 fighters was based on intelligence estimates that al Qaeda trained at least 20,000 fighters in its training camps in Afghanistan before the United States and its allies ousted the Taliban regime. In the ensuing war on terror, some 2,000 al Qaeda fighters have been killed or captured, the survey said."

I'd say this story was spun pretty heavily and a lot of gomers bought into it.

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