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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:25 PM
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NY Times; London bombs "crude" ? homegrown extremists
http://www.nytimes.com

If not AQ then who?
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:29 PM
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1. Who was it that said London was a hotbed of jihadists?
Coulter? God, I'd love for that bitch to eat her words.

It's too early to even speculate. For all we know it could be a couple of kids with grudges, former employee/employees, or any other extremist group out there.
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:48 PM
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4. Coulda been a McVeigh type. Never know.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:55 PM
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6. highly unlikely, but, you're right you never know
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:54 PM
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5. it is a hotbed of jihadists
They have a large Muslim population with fervent radical underground fringe. For example, British shoe bomber, Richard Colvin Reid, was involved in this movement and eventually became a follower of Mubarak Ali Shah Gilani, who has British connections and was the man Daniel Pearl was seeking to interview when he was kidnapped and later murdered.

Likely, it was a combination of homegrown terrorists with Al-Qaeda affiliations and an outside group with similar affiliations. That's sort of getting to be the rage now. Matthew Levitt, former FBI terror expert, was talking about this on Jim Lehrer not too long ago. Of course, I say likely, because we don't know for sure. You can almost say with certainty it was AQ affiliated, I have a bit of an obsession studying terrorism and it has all the AQ hallmarks.

But, Coulter means it in a different context. What she means is "Muslims" not jihadists, London, Paris, Berlin and most major Western European cities have large Muslim populations. Anne just can't distinquish between the good and the bad. She sees brown skin and a funny name and it's all the same to her.
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:33 PM
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2. who?
a counties' secret agencies would never conspire to commit violence
against its own citizens to stir up fear and hatred and to further a radical RW aganda, now would it?

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430 /

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods

nah! too outrageous to even consider!



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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-08-05 10:33 PM
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3. Those undersized rice-freak gooks in Viet Nam were "crude", too
Edited on Fri Jul-08-05 11:23 PM by rocknation
And did they find out that the U.S. had the the biggest, smartest, and most powerful military on earth, or what?

:eyes:
rocknation
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