Posted on 09/08/2004 2:38:14 PM PDT by fidelio
Sounds like a few hostages were about to be rustled up.
I'm locked and loaded in Arlington. Just try it MF's.
Ever since this problem in Russia, I've been reflecting about our schools. I even went and talked to the principal about the security procedures and what the plan was in a threatening situation, at my little grandsons school yesterday. I would think they wouldn't try anything locally around here though because the kids (not to mention moms and dads) probably armed better than they would be.
As he was a member of a cell, they all are, it will probably reveal nothing.
Yup. This caught my eye:
"Sources close to NEWSCHANNEL 5 say Forghan was carrying $3000 when he was busted in addition to a laptop computer, and a receipt from a store where he had purchased leg chains and handcuffs.
Was he going to kidnap someone? Who?
Did you learn anything from those google links?
When the time comes, where would ya place the border?
(wondering where to put down stakes)
We have too many Texas border towns where the population has not assimiliated into the American culture. They brought theirs from Mexico.
They owe allegiance to Mexico, not the US.
That culture leans heavily on the macho men who deal drugs and make the big bucks.
They don't give a doodly damn about a terrorist attack in Houston or LA. They just want to make money.
That they are pawns in the terrorist game is irrelevant.
They plan to retire in Mexico at the age of thirty five anyway.
The sad part of all of this is that these actions are applauded and admired by most of the population, and no American will ever be privy to the information necessary to stop it.
North of Victoria.
Sorry, South Texans.
" North of Victoria."
"Sorry, South Texans."
Sabine river.
I hear what you are saying and don't mean to be dense but how are you tieing this in with an Iranian from Mass.?
No, I am not.
This man wasn't acting alone. He's part of a network.
I have no idea what the intentions were, but you can bet he has ties to his home base in Massachusetts.
Then you are part of the problem unless I have missed something. If you are a muslim terrorist and think this is cool say so.
"When the time comes, where would ya place the border?"
500 yards south of the southern bank of the Panama Canal.
If I had to live in a city, I'd pick Victoria over any place I've ever lived.
take me off of your ping list
They brought the kid down from Boston, so they didn't activate him up there (probably due to our security).
They gave him $3,000 to $5,000 and his new mission was a shopping trip. They told him that they wanted a computer, a bulletproof vest, handguns, ammo, and handcuffs.
They sent him to get those things near our border with Mexico.
That means that either the cell is *in* Mexico right now, or else the operation is planned for near the border...or perhaps both.
If Al Qaeda gets smart, they'll hit soft targets *in* Mexico. Our natural gas pipelines that originate in Mexico and go North to feed U.S. cities are particularly vulnerable...but handcuffs and leg-irons don't indicate sabotage. They do indicate something more along the lines of an Iraqi-esque kidnapping/ransom/extortion operation, though...possibly even hitting a large Catholic church in Mexico. Keep in mind that they are at war against the entire West, and that they *want* to turn this into a global religious war (say, by hitting the Vatican in Italy or some other prominent clergy target).
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