Posted on 10/22/2002 6:08:27 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Won't make this too long here just throwing out an idea here. The cops were watching this pay phone booth yesterday. 2 illegal immigrants pull up to it and we know the rest of the story. I came up with a theory today that I wanted some opinions on. I am thinking that the 2 men a Mexican and a Guataemalen were probably very common user's of this pay phone. Most illegal immigrants resort to using calling cards to call their homeland and usually early in the morning or real late at night depending on the time change of their country to the U.S..
The sniper cell is obviously traveling in different cars here. Maybe having cased a particular route everywhere there are white vans. These guys are watched for a couple of days and he sees that they use this payphone and have a truck fitting the description. Remember calling cards come up or are traced back to the number of the company that issues the card. Only then can the company trace back to what phone booth a call is made from.
So the sniper cell leaves a message from that phone number days ago after the 6th or 7th shooting. The law finally gets the number down and the message from the tips line as calls 8 and 9 come in. The cell demands money for an offshore account. The law tells them we can't do that for you today.
Is it possible that the offshore account was blackmail or extortion to an account that would funnel much needed money to other cells or an organization that found the means to use this money for funding operations? Ala Al Qaeda which trained in these very things? Electronical terrorism...and a host of other things by use of computers and banks.
I truly believe we are in the next wave here and the color chart is still sitting at code 3. Truly showing how useless it is. Al Qaeda and its supporting groups have had its money stripped from them for the most part and choked off. Is this the new means of getting money? They most certainly trained for this. They most certainly made these threats on our childred over the last year. They have most certainly trained for Urban Terrorism.
We have seen the CNN videos captured from Afghanistan. We have been warned of these types of attacks and methods. Yet, our government is trying its best to distance itself from terrorism. They will not show a picture of the missing French soldier who specialized in sniping so to say.
A French terrorist you say? Well who is sitting and playing our government in VIRGINIA like a fiddle? Moussaoi...the 20th hi-jacker.
Still don't think it is terrorism or Al Qaeda related? Prove me wrong...or add to this thread. Explain to me why the accent and the spelling of these notes is screaming of coming from a foreigner not familiar with the English language.
Prove me wrong or give me a reason why it is not Al Qaeda or terrorism FreeRepublic.com.
Why do I feel as if this country is protecting a certain group of people in this country right now because if the truth came out...the government would lose control of the population and the rest of the population would take matters into their own hands.
God how could we ever do that? Actually fight the war on terror on the home front.
Just do what they tell ya.
I sadly believe you underestimate the docility of the American population, even the gunowners. And the government can berelied on , I think, to viciously side with the local Moslems/Arabs in such a brawl. Determined gun confiscation would likely result. The members of the bureaucracy and most of the bureaucracy are suicidally tunnelvisioned and will die before they let anyone have any excuse to label them unPC.
Whether calling Mexico or Guataemala, it would be earlier there, based on time change. Your reasoning here is pointless.
My theory is that it's a government worker gone postal.
Somewhat similar to the forest ranger who starts forest fires.
I have the same gut-feeling about the anthrax letters.
That's it. Just a simple "gut feeling".
You said...Most illegal immigrants resort to using calling cards to call their homeland and usually early in the morning or real late at night depending on the time change of their country to the U.S..
These guys where making the calls early in the morning...6 or 6:30 AM Eastern? It would be even earlier in the morning in their native countries. They were clearly not calling home because of the time change......Pointless.
No reason to appologize...Just discussing.
That is a fact.
If a girlfriend, wife, family member or friend knows about it, you will most likely be caught. If you get drunk and start bragging in a bar one night you will get caught.
It may be frustrating and infuriating but he has a very easy task when it comes to shooting random targets and it will be tough to catch him without a break somewhere along the line.
He may never be caught – but unless he is acting alone and keeps his mouth shut he WILL be caught, eventually.
I don’t think this is a group. I don’t think it’s organized. FWIW.
An interesting point. The Abu Sayyaf (southern Philippines version of AQ) did fund their operations by kidnapping rich foreigners and returning them after ransom money was paid. At one time, the exchange rate in Manila was 40 pesos=1 US dollar, while in the areas where Abu Sayyaf was the black market rate was 10 pesos=1 dollar. Why? Because they needed the US greenbacks to buy ammo and guns.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.