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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:27 PM
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Al-Qaeda plotting fresh attacks on US aimed at sowing death & destruction on massive scale
Sheesh. Aren't they laying it on a wee bit thick? That's what CIA chief Hayden said today to the CFR (they do so love to start their little campaigns there)

NEW YORK (AFP) - CIA director Michael Hayden warned Friday that Al-Qaeda was plotting fresh attacks on the United States aimed at sowing death and destruction on a massive scale.


His comments came just days ahead of the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and as the US government said it was analyzing a copy of the latest video message said to have been made by elusive Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

"Our analysts assess with high confidence that Al-Qaeda's central leadership is planning high impact plots against the American homeland," Hayden told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

"Al-Qaeda is focusing on targets that would produce mass casualties, dramatic destruction and significant economic aftershocks," he added.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070907/ts_alt_afp/usattacksqaedacia_070907183438
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DemKR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:27 PM
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1. terra?
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:28 PM
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2. Fear mongering
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 02:29 PM by liberal N proud
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BuyingThyme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:28 PM
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3. So, the Chimp will come out tomorrow and say they're on the run.
Seen it.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:33 PM
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10. Mission accomplished! nt
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:58 PM
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30. Cue Paul McCartney and Wings:
Al Qaeda on the run,
Al Qaeda on the run!
(blah blah blah etc)

Yeah, I know. Too many syllables to fit. Deal with it.
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:29 PM
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4. What does Al-Qaeda think about poverty in the ME? About Muslim on Muslim violence? nt
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:29 PM
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5. Quick, attack Iran...oh, wait!!!
Al Queda is Sunni and Iran is Shia, but hell this is America and they don't know that...ATTACK IRAN!
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:30 PM
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6. no sheeeeeeeeet
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daninthemoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:30 PM
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7. The official launch of the campaign season.
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:32 PM
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8. "republican party spokesperson Osama Bin Laden says..." - use this meme often nt
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:35 PM
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16. Yes indeed, or
senior bush white house advisor osama bin laden; the secretary of terror
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:32 PM
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9. You have a better chance of drowning in your own bathtub...
...than you have of being killed by terrorists.

'Scuse me while I go rip out my bath tub.
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:34 PM
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11. Every one of these terror alerts carries an implicit message:
The Bush administration can't stop the terrorists.

Where's the assurance that we've protected our borders?
Where's the confidence that our systems and protocols will catch the plot before it matures?
Where's the insistence that our intelligence services are on top of it?

Wouldn't the message of a competent administration be that we're confident, not that every American is in danger?


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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:09 PM
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26. Hell, they can't even stop defective products from getting in
let alone stop a terrorist.
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InternalDialogue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:34 PM
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28. Terrorists, lead-based paint on toys, melamine-tinged dog food, Mexican truckers
We have so little control over our own borders, markets, cities, and roads. Two-thirds of America still thinks we make steel and live in the land of the free.

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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:34 PM
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12. IOW bush's war on terror has been an abject failure
100's of thousands dead, trillions wasted, no end in sight and an old bearded guy continues to fuck with us.
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dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:34 PM
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13. "Planning hign impact plots"?
The could plan an attack, they could plot an attack, they could be part of a plot. But planning a plot sounds like they're planning to get together to discuss plotting something.

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katsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:35 PM
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14. So this is like piling on top of the death & destruction
the bushco* administration has been sowing for 6 years on the Iraqis, Afghanistanis and the have-nots here at home?

Wish I could pick the lesser of two terrors and make the other disappear.

Pffffft.
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StClone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:35 PM
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15. Al-Qaeda greatest success
Was having 9-11 and Bush as contemporaneous disasters. Then America met the curtain call when they gave Bush a second term: Terror 2.0 Not New! Not improved! Just with more Auto-Destrux!
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:36 PM
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17. He learned that from his Intervue with Osama, last month in
Crawford at the familiy Bar-B-Que
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:38 PM
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18. Those in fear will vote for the authoritarians. Fear Fear Fear is a political tool.
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LeftCoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:40 PM
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19. Does this still work?
Used to be when they pushed the 'terra' button everyone would jump. I don't get that feeling anymore though. Think it still works?
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spartan61 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:45 PM
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20. Now just wait a damn minute! Weren't we told before the 2004
election that we would be attacked if we voted for a Dem president and would be only safe if we voted for bush??? Does this mean that those repuke pundits and campaign ads were lying to us? Sheesh. :sarcasm:
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:50 PM
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22. Well, we'd better vote the Repukes back in the majority in November then..
we want to stay double triple safe, don't we?:sarcasm: :banghead:
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Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:49 PM
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21. Holy shit, let's go bomb some brown people!!!
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:50 PM
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23. the surge is working!!
we have to defeat them over there so they won't follow us home, so we won't have terra attacks on our soil!!

This all just goes to prove that the surge..is......wait a minute.......uh....... never mind, we now return you to your normal brainwashing x(
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 02:56 PM
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24. To Americans today, this sounds like the US in Iraq. Funny coincidence that!
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L. Coyote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:01 PM
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25. "Al-Qaeda plotting fresh attacks on US" story distracting USA from R's Culture of Corruption woes
This is the tail wagging the political dialog dog.

Gotta change the focus. Too much scandal in the news, Too many resignations.

AND, that pesky March on DC for Peace in just one week!
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:14 PM
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27. but the terra level hasn't changed.
this shit is unbelieveable.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:55 PM
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29. BOO!!!!
(hee hee, I skeert ya huh?)
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trusty elf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-07-07 03:58 PM
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31. Hairy Plotter
Edited on Fri Sep-07-07 03:59 PM by tomeboy
I'm so frightened! Please commander codpiece, wipe your posterior with the constitution one more time!

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