I thought for sure TPers were behind the TS bomb scare

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#27
hell i thought the authorities said they were looking for a "white" man. i want my apology for being profiled
 
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#30
I thought it was a TPer; riled up by Palin, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh etc. The long, violent history of the seditious TP suggests this is right up their alley.
 
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#34
Pakistani officials now say they have at least one man arrested in pakistan who is involved in this bombing. no not terrorist related at all. . .
 
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droski said:
Pakistani officials now say they have at least one man arrested in pakistan who is involved in this bombing. no not terrorist related at all. . .
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If it is terrorist related, in the sense of organized terrorism of some sort, then what concerns me most is that we didn't have a sniff of it coming. That's why the NYPD was saying that it wasn't terrorism after it happened, if you believe them, because they were told there was no international chatter or signs that would suggest it was terrorist in nature.
 
#36
#36
agreed. it is disconcerning. though i doubt you need many people to be in the know for a car bomb compared to a 9/11 type strike.
 
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#37
I am not sure if we can ever rid ourselves of these kind of terrorists completely. But our politicians in power both state and federally are not serious about stopping terrorist attacks.
 
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droski said:
agreed. it is disconcerning. though i doubt you need many people to be in the know for a car bomb compared to a 9/11 type strike.
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Definitely, but we've had a good string of picking up on these things recently, it seems (fingers crossed).
 
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volfanjustin said:
I am not sure if we can ever rid ourselves of these kind of terrorists completely. But our politicians in power both state and federally are not serious about stopping terrorist attacks.
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What would you do to prevent this sort of attack? Just curious.
 
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#44
Given the complete incongruity between the complex attack efforts we have seen from Al-Qaeda in the past versus this effort, which was firecrackers and $8 alarm clocks held together with chewing gum, I'd say that the speculation on the front end that it was not foreign terrorism wasn't ridiculous.

Bloomberg looks like a fool for saying it -- he should have just said no one knows right now -- but its not like most people didn't on the front end doubt some organized and sophisticated planning.

In fact, it may yet turn out that this was the Islamic terrorist version of Amateur Hour.
 
#45
#45
bloomberg should be tied in enough to realize that we've dramatically decreased al queda's ability to plan and excute another 9/11. they just don't have the same money and the same size of organization. chances are this is the type of attack we will be seeing for the future.
 
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#46
we've got guys lighting their shoes and crotches while trying to take out Americans. I'd say this is pretty consistent with what we'll get in the future
 
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droski said:
bloomberg should be tied in enough to realize that we've dramatically decreased al queda's ability to plan and excute another 9/11. they just don't have the same money and the same size of organization. chances are this is the type of attack we will be seeing for the future.
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I was under the impression from news reports that this was Taliban generally, not Al-Qaeda in particular. Point being this guy seems to be tied to the K-Mart of terrorist organizations.




utvolpj said:
we've got guys lighting their shoes and crotches while trying to take out Americans. I'd say this is pretty consistent with what we'll get in the future
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Well, the difference is that the shoe and underwear bombers apparently went to training and had sponsors for their activities, etc. The fellow arrested for this evidently went to a terrorist school he found on the back of a matchbook cover.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying such threats should not be taken seriously. I'm just saying that initial doubt about it being part of anything organized was a fair initial inference. Wrong, apparently, but I think its hard to fault people for thinking it was primarily kooky, as opposed to some part of a master plot.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Bloomberg looks like a fool for saying it -- he should have just said no one knows right now -- but its not like most people didn't on the front end doubt some organized and sophisticated planning.
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yet the example he gives is the same BS line about TP folks rather than saying nothing.

he is a fool for saying it and if I were a NYr I'd be worried about where his head is at vis-a-vis threats.
 
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volinbham said:
yet the example he gives is the same BS line about TP folks rather than saying nothing.

he is a fool for saying it and if I were a NYr I'd be worried about where his head is at vis-a-vis threats.
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I agree he looks really bad right now, it was a chance he did not need to take at the time he took it. Should have said he didn't know -- because he didn't.

But that was a political mistake from him. It does not mean that there wasn't a basis for him to speculate in the manner he did, both because 1) we've seen low level and unsophisticated threat and violence from homegrown zealots of our own and 2) the lack of sophistication in this effort was not what we've come to expect from the overseas adversary.
 
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