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"Bojinka" means "explosion" in Serbo-Croat.

I never knew that.

I also didn't know that they invented the liquid explosives and actually did that test back in 1995.

1 posted on 08/11/2006 7:26:32 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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Ultimately, there's no safety in security measures. The only safety will come from killing enough jihadists that they are either all dead or the remaining ones surrender. Collateral damamge is a sad thing, but it's better than losing our freedoms and accepting more inconveniences. We should destroy Islam if necessary to protect ourselves.

Bill

58 posted on 08/11/2006 9:30:19 PM PDT by WFTR (Liberty isn't for cowards)
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Yousef is now serving a life sentence plus 240 years, in isolation, in the Supermax prison in Colorado. But the techniques he used may have been passed on to a newer generation of terrorists.

Yes, by articles like this one. Sheesh!

63 posted on 08/11/2006 10:10:51 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Creating the <a href="http://clinton.senate.gov">straddle</a> Google bomb one post at a time.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oplan_Bojinka

Oplan Bojinka (also known as Operation Bojinka, Project Bojinka, Bojinka Plot, Bojinga)


65 posted on 08/11/2006 10:21:17 PM PDT by stlnative
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Good find, Bump!


69 posted on 08/12/2006 12:11:36 AM PDT by BunnySlippers
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"But one of the hallmarks of Osama bin Laden's followers is that if they don't succeed once, they will try again. In 1993, militants led by Ramzi Yousef, who was the mastermind of Operation Bojinka, aimed to topple the towers of the World Trade Center by detonating a huge bomb underneath the complex, an explosion that killed six people and injured more than 1,000. In September 2001, al Qaeda returned for another attempt with far more devastating consequences.
75 posted on 08/12/2006 8:16:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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