Day of terror strikes was planned for August 16

Daily Mail ^ | 8/11/2006

[RushCrush]

They need to take that kid away from that mother. She was going to KILL THE CHILD!

[craig_eddy]

Glenn Beck just reported that August 22 was one of the dates. I missed his source.

[proud American in Canada]

There are 2 females, one has a 6 month old and another is pregnant.

OMG! Horrific.

[Rutles4Ever]

Good question. Perhaps nothing significant. Possible they've adjusted their tactics since the West has become quite keen to their days of religious/cultural significance.

[Moose4]

I feel for you. 9/11/2001? My 35th birthday.

}:-)4

[GeoPie]

Nope, 2 Caucasian converts and two women (one of which was prego).

[pgyanke]

NYT deeply saddened this plot came to light... without their exclusive scoop.

[sarasota]

But hey, don't be talking about racial profiling.

[Republican Red]

I watched the Glen Beck show last night and it was fascinating. Even Beck said he thought he was sounding like a nut case but the date Aug 22 was looking more and more like a date to start something big. He surmised that the airplane plot was to cause distraction while Iran was plotting something big.

Aug 22 was written about in the Wall Street Journal by Bernard Lewis who Glen Beck kept referring. The article is linked to below.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008768

[mware]

LOL, did you see the thread by Doug??? He called the NYT's international desk and told them he was doing an article for FR and wanted to know if they were upset by not being able to run the story ahead of time so they could warn the terrorists.

[jwparkerjr]

re: It acted under powers granted by the United Nations to tackle the financing of terrorism

Huh? I beg your pardon, I must have misunderstood you, it sounded like you said the UN has some sort of authority to grant powers to sovereign nations, which suggests they might also have the authority to deny those same powers. This is simply too much.

[nhoward14]

Technically, the NYT has no comment.

If you missed this thread, you missed the brilliance of a fellow FReeper.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681329/

[netmilsmom]

Well, one can very have too many Ritz Crackers, tang and peanut butter in the house.

Oh and water.

The funny thing is we have a well dug for outside watering. We recently bought a hand pump for spot watering without using the electric pump. I think I need to do some research on how to make this drinkable water.

[jiggyboy]

I thought this whole incident was being portrayed as a big win by the western intelligence communities.

That statement above makes it sound a bit more like an accidental discovery. That would be a whole lot scarier -- I wonder which is the case?

Eh, let it be both. That's the way it happens a lot of the time. We're getting more hooks into the terrorist organizations which gives us more info; that's a cycle that gets better and better.

[celtic gal]

The hub for Continental is Houston.

[nhoward14]

Sorry... have to fix the link.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681329/posts

[sarasota]

Yep, it's all about you. :o)

[TankerKC]

It acted under powers granted by the United Nations to tackle the financing of terrorism in the...

Oh thank you UN for granting sovereign nations these powers!

[null and void]

Nahhhh, The NYT would have sat on it until 8/12, then done an exclusive of the interviews of the late hijackers with a detailed inside story of the whole plot. Casual photos of the hijackers, their families, and the going away party would be sprinkled throughout the full special section article...

[celtic gal]

Betting on Aug 22 is logical. Oh the other hand, that is the mad man of Iran's date and if this is Al Quada (sp),then this would be a OBL method of making himself relevant whereas he has been overshadowed of late.