Islamic cell 'had Disneyland and Las Vegas as targets'

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 08/30/2002 | Oliver Poole and Sean O'Neill

[Thud]

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[DoughtyOne]

The Disney Airforce will be taken out of mothballs and placed on alert.

All former pilots are directed to report at once.

[McGavin999]

And everyone thought that nothing was happening. It takes time to make a case against these guys, especially with all the anti-American liberal lawyers who are willing to take their cases.

Yep, things are going to start clicking along pretty soon. I expect we'll be seeing Osama's head on a pike before too long.

[freeperfromnj]

You have to check out Connie Chung's show - on right now. The lawyer and mother of one of those charged is on defending them. It's not illegal to have tapes of Disney and MGM -- everyone goes to visit Disney when they come to visit this country the lawyer says. THe illegal identification documents found in the apartment weren't found in his part of the living space -- on and it goes.

[Notforprophet]

They could have been casing the FRiva Las Vegas conference. Laura Ingraham and Diotima would make intriguing targets.

[nightdriver]

Makes you realize just how wise Spain was to throw out all moose limbs hundreds of years ago.

Maybe, just maybe, we started wising up in time in this country.

[Prodigal Son]

I think they'd be pretty stupid to target Disney. The last thing you want to do is make mothers angry- there'd be no stronger mandate for war than if the nation's mothers were screaming at Bush to crush the threat to their children.

Another thought that has been troubling me lately as far as targets is the Chunnel. I somehow doubt that the security is on the same level as that of an airport. On the French side they have a huge Muslim refugee camp built nearby. The refugees frenquently try to get in the Chunnel and make it to Great Britain. There's a lot of opportunity for wreaking havoc in that formula.

I believe when the Chunnel was built it was at the time the most expensive construction project ever conceived. The monetary loss would be spectacular as would the disruption in Chunnel traffic, not to mention it would be a high profile type operation that al Qaeda seems to like- Spielberg type destruction coupled with major loss of life. I know it must have crossed the jihadis minds...

[Savage Beast]

Isn't this what anyone would expect of a satanic cult, if its devotees could carry it out?

[Vidalia]

Chuck Fronnie Cung...

[PJ-Comix]

If they struck at the French Disneyland, would anybody even notice? That place is a bigtime loser. What the hell went thru Michael Eisner's mind when he chose France as the location of Disneyland? It is the WORST place on earth to locate a Disneyland. Even North Korea would have been better. Yeah, can you picture phony French intellectuals, after an evening of smoking smelly cigarettes and listening to horrible jazz going for a spin on the "It's A Small World" ride with Mickey and Donald?

[2right]

What better way to offend the French than with a theme park. The French deserve Euro Disney.

[PJ-Comix]

And why would tourists to France even want to visit Euro Disney? Let's say you're an American tourist in Paris. What would you prefer to do? Stroll along the historic Left Bank, dine at a gourmet French cafe, or.....go for a stupid ride with Mickey and Goofy? The latter for me is about as likely as going to a McDonald's in Paris to dine (although I'm sure there are a few idiots who would take that option).

[oc-flyfish]

Hey now! Sometimes you want the taste of home when you are in frogland. I can tell you from personal experience the Maxi Sucre is pretty good. Of course they had no idea what an Egg McMuffin was... I had to point to it on the menu before they got it.

[philosofy123]

You bad mouth the French, and you have to answer to me mister!

Actually, the average French is at least 10 notches more intellectual than the average American. They rather go to the museum then to to watch Jerry Springer or Okrah!

It is bad streotypical to pick on France, a country that helped us gain independence, and a culture that most of the world borroed heavily from. However, if you don't understand my point, or you don't care about the facts, then all you have to do is go back to watching Jerry Spinger in your mobile home--Baba!

[FreeAtlanta]

The French also have a lot of unfired guns for sell. Dropped only once...yada yada ;-)

[PJ-Comix]

I heard they serve escargot at the Paris McDonalds....It's called McSlugs.

[PJ-Comix]

However, if you don't understand my point, or you don't care about the facts, then all you have to do is go back to watching Jerry Spinger in your mobile home--Baba!

And speaking of Jerry, there is still that mysterious French fascination with JERRY Lewis as some sort of cinematic genius.

[Black Agnes]

Sadly, most of the 'good French' that helped us with our independence were killed in the French revolution by the mobs of leftist looting peasants that have ruled France in one way or another ever since...

[philosofy123]

That is funny. I don't really understand the fascination of the French with Jerry Lewis!

Though I am a right winger, I found better intellectual conversations with leftists in Paris or Stanford! Leftists in New York or Boston are not real intellectuals.