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Book: Al Qaeda Called Off NYC Subway Plot
FoxNews.com ^ | 18 June 2006 | AP

Posted on 06/18/2006 1:48:34 PM PDT by MikefromOhio

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Scary stuff...

I seem to remember the liberals making fun of the terrorism danger level and how it was moved quite a bit during this time.

If those idiots only knew then....but then again, they have no shame anyway....

1 posted on 06/18/2006 1:48:37 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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According to the investigative report by Ron Suskind, an informant close to Al Qaeda leaders told U.S. officials that Ayman al-Zawahiri had canceled the plan in January 2003

Because had they proceeded, the entire Middle East save Israel would have been reduced to charred rubble.

3 posted on 06/18/2006 1:52:44 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

yep...maybe not all of it, but certainly we would be knocking out known AQ cell locations with nukes, not bombs...

The answer to a WMD is a nuke, every single time.


4 posted on 06/18/2006 1:54:17 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: MikefromOhio

Yeah, the Libs probably knew, but didn't care.
They saw an election coming up that they 'needed' to win at any cost.

So even if the Libs knew, they'd ignore it.


5 posted on 06/18/2006 1:54:50 PM PDT by Darksheare (This is a test of the emergency tagline system. Had there been an emergency, you would have heard...)
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yep

no shame the bastids


6 posted on 06/18/2006 1:55:40 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: MikefromOhio

They're the Aphids of the political world.


7 posted on 06/18/2006 1:56:49 PM PDT by Darksheare (This is a test of the emergency tagline system. Had there been an emergency, you would have heard...)
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To: MikefromOhio

Wonder if they would have tried for 03/11/03? When did the train bombing in Spain occur? 03/11/04?


8 posted on 06/18/2006 1:57:41 PM PDT by princess leah
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To: MikefromOhio

Al Qaeda have decide to wait for a democrat administration. If they had gassed the subways, western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan would now be a nuclear wasteland.


9 posted on 06/18/2006 1:58:18 PM PDT by jimbo123
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yeah...

dates with 11 in it have some sort of signifigance with AQ anyway.


10 posted on 06/18/2006 2:01:23 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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Most likely....

although I don't want to rule out us going into Iraq a bit quicker than we did if it had occured.


11 posted on 06/18/2006 2:02:01 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: Darksheare

yeah...


12 posted on 06/18/2006 2:02:23 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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"What has been concluded for the most part is this: Al Qaeda's thinking is that a second-wave attack should be more destructive and more disruptive than 9-11," Suskind told the magazine in an interview".

Is this really the answer to why it was called off?

It would have terrorized millions who use mass transit throughout all major cities for the long haul.


13 posted on 06/18/2006 2:05:00 PM PDT by Canedawg (In God We Trust)
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To: MikefromOhio

The libs were just praying for some kind of disaster before the 2004 election so that they could blame it on Bush.

Aw shucks.


14 posted on 06/18/2006 2:07:33 PM PDT by RAldrich
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To: Canedawg

further down in the story, President Bush himself is reported to have wondered just why they called it off.

My guess is that our buildup in Iraq had AQ worried (this all occured at the same time that we were screwing around with the UN to get them to go into Iraq with us). I seem to remember that our danger alert level went right up around the time that Colin Powell went into the UN with his briefing, and the libs trashed President Bush and Homeland Security for playing games.....

Maybe they figured (and probably correctly) that we'd respond with a nuke in the case of a gas attack.


15 posted on 06/18/2006 2:07:59 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: RAldrich

maybe not all of them, but it's sad to say that there is a definitive contingent of liberals who think exactly that way.


16 posted on 06/18/2006 2:08:49 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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I seem to remember the liberals making fun of the terrorism danger level...

They were using this:

image

17 posted on 06/18/2006 2:13:04 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)
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Because it signifies the twin towers 11 see
18 posted on 06/18/2006 2:14:05 PM PDT by al baby (Dick Trickle is not a medical condition)
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To: backhoe

I can't see it for some reason....


19 posted on 06/18/2006 2:14:07 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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To: al baby

no I think it was actually something else....

they picked 9/11 (and 3/11 and then the attack in Britain) because the dates meant something to them....


20 posted on 06/18/2006 2:14:52 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (aka MikeinIraq - Foreman of the NAU)
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