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You know, if every tag line here on TM at "pig" in it, we may scare away the jihadist from this thread. Do you mind if I copy your tag line?
Lufthansa Plane Bound for Tel Aviv Diverted after Bomb Threat
Source: Associated Press | 9:30:46 AM EST
JERUSALEM -- A Lufthansa passenger plane en route to Tel Aviv was diverted to Cyprus on Tuesday, escorted by Israeli war planes, after the airline received a bomb threat, officials said.
The threat was received in a phone call to the airline's Frankfurt, Germany office. The Israeli spokesman for Lufthansa, Yitzhak Zaroni, said the caller spoke with an Arabic accent.
"When the plane was in the air, there was a telepone call in Germany that said there was an explosive device on the plane," Zaroni told Israel TV's Channel 10.
After consulting with Israeli authorities, the airline decided to divert the plane in Larnaca, Cyprus, instead of letting it continue to Tel Aviv. The plane, a Boeing 747, had 331 passengers on board, Zaroni said.
The plane was being searched in Larnaca.
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=372
I think you may have started something with your PIG tag line.
LOL, I don't mind at all.
(except let's move the apostrophe so we include all pigs)
(Is that grammatically correct?)
How a bout:
"Don't come to the US. We too are dipping our bullets in pig's blood"
PS. Our way to fight terrorism at home!
...not just our bullets in PIG's blood, but our bombs as well...
Too many threats to planes in the last few days...
Most excellent idea.
The possibilities are endless.
"All your pig's blood are belong to us." LOL
Pakistan agrees on a 10-day ceasefire with Al-Qaeda
http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/news_service/middle_east_full_story.asp?service_id=5113
And the newtwork news is where?
Anywhere but....there.
That was a solid article by Marzullo. I think the "decade" timeframe is wishful thinking. Iran can pose internationally as a slave to M.A.D. and attack us by proxy via Hezbollah.
BREAKING NEWS: Shots fired into Knox Bush/Cheney headquarters
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An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning.
The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore.
According to Knoxville Police Department officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am. One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors.
There were no witnesses to the shooting. A customer at a nearby dry cleaning store noticed that shattered glass on the sidewalk in front of the headquarters and called police.
Volunteers and staffers at the campaign office say they have no clues as to who might have committed the crime. However, they add that the shooting makes them even more enthusiastic and energized about working for their candidates.
"If I have to sleep here (at the campaign office) now, that's what I'll do," says volunteer Suzanne Dewar.
In an unexpected twist, a bank directly across the street from the headquarters was robbed just as KPD officers were busy investigating at the scene of the shooting.
http://www.wbir.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=20241
I must say that the group here on TM is a nice bunch of folk. BUMP to all of you here for playing nice.
I posted this story on the breaking thread and made a mistake on the headline. It was my first time posting there - everyone jumped on me. Yikes! Thats the last time I post to breaking.
The date 10-12 was thrown out there by the Pentagon of all places to be the next 9/11 on here last week
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Sep2004/n09272004_2004092704.html
Chairman Poses Question to Counterterror Experts
{{Columbus Day the Day America was discovered}}
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 27, 2004 -- As the United States continues the global war on terrorism, the question officials should ask is, "Are we being as bold and innovative as we need to be?"
Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, posed the question to officials attending a counterterrorism conference here recently. {{{"I don't want to ask that question after what we are now calling 10/12 -- the next 9/11," he said. "The time to ask the question is now."}}}
Myers quoted Dallas Cowboys football coach Bill Parcells, who said, "Success is never final, but failure can be." That saying resonates for counterterrorism professionals, Myers said. "All of us have to be right a million times a day, but the terrorist threat that we confront only has to be (right) once," he said.
Myers said there have been notable successes in the war on terrorism. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States and its allies have killed or captured more than 30 senior leaders in al Qaeda. The coalition against terror also has foiled many terrorist plots. "That is significant, but that is not the end of the threat, and that is not the only threat that is out there," he said.
And the threat itself has changed. Myers said al Qaeda "morphed" as it began being hurt badly by the pressure on it. He said the terrorist threat is less centralized than before, the network is looser, and intelligence professionals talk about "al Qaeda-associated groups" more than the organization itself.
However, the target of the threat has not changed. "We read the intel every day and see that the United States of America is still a prime target for an attack," the general said. "And the threat is as intense as ever."
The U.S. government and its international partners need to break old paradigms to confront the new threats. Myers said the United States should determine if its forces are structured correctly around the world to confront extremists. A regional approach might be more appropriate to the threat than a country-by- country approach.
"The old way of doing business goes a long way back," he said. "The world changed, and it requires a different perspective. How you deal with threats that don't respect any national borders is a real issue."
Another issue is communications. Myers said the government must continue to communicate the nature of the threat to the American people or to international partners. "This type of threat -- extremism that uses terrorism to create fear -- is probably a greater danger to our nation and our friends and allies than anything previous," he said. "They can exploit cracks and crevices and, through fear, take the underpinnings of this society and cause us to not be logical in the way we approach problems."
Myers reminded the counterterrorism specialists that the country has accomplished much and that much is still expected of them. "It's only if we quit that we'll lose," he said. "That's the only way that we can be defeated. We have to remind ourselves of that."
Thank you for the FYI!
Thanks. But didn't we have trouble figuring out the context of that quote?
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