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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:36 PM
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The bullshit in the "Ft. Dix terror plot" gets even deeper
http://www.thnt.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070509/NEWS/70509011

<snip>
Circuit City corporate spokesman Jim Babb confirmed this morning
that a current employee was asked by one of the alleged terrorists
to dub a Jihadist training VHS cassette into a DVD.
<snip>

First, we're supposed to believe that these idiots planned a full-scale assault on a military base, then were going to somehow survive that and carry out attacks against other military targets. Now this? Sounds like a bad script for a B-grade movie.

I guess we all know the morale of the story folks: terra is still very much alive in this country, and keep spying on those dark-skinned folks!
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benddem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:41 PM
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1. Just look at all the other
huge plots they've broken up...just when the news gets bad. Guys with no money or guns who are going to blow up the Sears Tower. A bunch of guys in Miami...same story. This is just another bunch of BS to stop us from thinking about the mess in the justice dept.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:42 PM
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2. I sort of let this one go as I figured Bush was saving us once more.
I think they have a folder of these things they drag out. The trouble is when something really bad turns up we will not believe it either. How can Bush taint so many things? I have got so I believe not one thing the man tells us any more. I frankly want to believe my govt. but how can I?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:45 PM
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3. Do you remember after 911 that they ASKED people to use their
imaginations to come up with possible terrorist scenarios and send them in?
I think the contributions to that are in the folder you speak of.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:49 PM
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I think you have got it.
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:52 PM
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7. One of these days a writer is going to recognise
some dialogue or twist in one of these stories and the whole thing'll be blown :P
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BushOut06 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:56 PM
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8. You think Tom Clancy is writing up these scenarios for them?
He's a right-winger, isn't he?
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:07 PM
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12. They're pretty hackneyed so...probably. :-)
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Raksha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:11 PM
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13. Yeah, Tom Clancy is a right-winger but he'd never
come up with anything quite this stupid...would he?
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:34 PM
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16. What was the name of his book where the Korean airliner was crashed
into the Capitol building during the SOTU - killing most of the Congress, President, VP and cabinet members?
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benEzra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 02:04 PM
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32. Debt of Honor, I think. (n/t)
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conscious evolution Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:38 PM
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17. He is
Edited on Wed May-09-07 04:40 PM by conscious evolution
But I have also heard he despises bush.Don't know how true that is though.


add..

Come to think of it,in the book the poster was asking aboutthe bad guys were a bunch of corporate criminals who had taken control of their goverment.Sounds kinda familar,huh?
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phylny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:37 PM
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25. Hey, I think that pizza parlor cover was MY idea! n/t
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:57 PM
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9. Seriously?
I don't remember that, but what a silly thing to ask for.

This is no doubt the source of some of the crazy stories we've heard, and will likely continue to hear, as the screws turn in on the Rupublicons.

I'll just wait for the guy drinking beer and hanging in a recreational vehicle parked in a field somewhere to appear on TV saying, "Hey, that was my plot! I submitted this story to the guvmint way back yonder when they was askin' us all fer ideas..."

As Joan Rivers says, it's always a couple of guys drinking beer...
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azurnoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:48 PM
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4. Surely there is no
coincidence between the terra'ists and the announcement that 35,000 more troops were going to Iraq.
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:49 PM
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5. The administration who cried wolf
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spoony Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:50 PM
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6. I dunno about this one but
Edited on Wed May-09-07 04:08 PM by spoony
didn't a bomber (1993 WTC?) try to get the deposit back on the truck he blew up?

If anything I feel better knowing that potential criminals aren't exactly the masterminds they portray them as.

edit: spelling
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:13 PM
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14. That is true
and it is how they caught them all.
Also, Tim McVeigh got pulled over for having no plates.
Yes, most criminals are dumb, but not all.
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 03:57 PM
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10. Of course it's BS!
"They" have been following these Fort Dix terrorists around for

Sixteen Months



but are just releasing the info now to get your mind off other things.

Bush/Cheney must be impeached and cut the crap already.
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Morgana LaFey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:57 PM
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18. I like your style.
GREAT post
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pampango Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 11:52 AM
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31. I like your style, too.
If they arrest them right away, we can accuse them of just trying to get our minds of the scandal of that day. And we could criticize them for not trying to penetrate the group in order to see who else was involved and whether there were any further links to other groups or individuals.

I boggles my mind how any thinking progressive could possibly think that those who are willing to bomb markets and religious processions in Iraq, buses and subways in London, as well as attacks in Pakistan, Algeria, Spain, and Morroco would dare attack anyone in our little ol' country.
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NoAmericanTaliban Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:03 PM
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11. Bush & Co are full of false positive terra alerts
What ever happend to the terra 'bums' in Miami

Also - if this is just a big deal why isn't the terra level gone up - there could be more out there you know.
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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 04:17 PM
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15. Wonder if the Circuit City guy
got laid off in their recent "Patriotic" purge to get rid of the higher salaried staff? Either way, it's a bs story involving a bs company -and, need I add, a bs administration?
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:07 PM
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19. Reminds me of the holdup guy who demanded his victim had no money on him
so the robber made him write a check...
:eyes:
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:08 PM
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20. what gets me about this is...
did the guy who took the tape in to be copied, ever think that a video of "hooting and hollering" about "jihad" and "blowing up soldiers" would not get noticed? I mean, how stupid is that...especially in these days after 911.

I don't know. I would like to think that it's just as simple as it sounds--which it probably is--but still, these are some dumb, DUMB "alleged" terrorists.
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HiFructosePronSyrup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:09 PM
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21. The whole thing reminds me of that Monty Python sketch...
where the two mobsters try to shakedown an Army base.

"Ah, this is a nice Army base you have here, Colonel. I'd hate to see anything... happen to it."
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:09 PM
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22. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theorys.
So yes I do believe these idiots were trying to attack an army base and they would have been easily killed.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:26 PM
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23. I don't understand why these guys are being called terrorists.
Attacking military targets isn't terror. Traitors is more like it.
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:31 PM
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24. Middleeastern people threatening an American target will always be called terrorism.
Does it always make sense? No. Is it a racist? Sure. But the media will always call these situations terrorism or attempted terrorism.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:40 PM
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26. I agree
It's extremely convenient and simple.
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Cults4Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 11:35 AM
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29. Ive been asking that question of a lot of people..responses
were (other than lame ones) basically... They are not uniformed military members... I laughed and thought about Blackwater.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 05:42 PM
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27. they couldn't even dub the tape themselves but they were going to carry out
a "Terrah" attack? yeah and Saddam had drones that could reach the east coast.
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krkaufman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-09-07 07:29 PM
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28. All these arrests have shown us is how incompetent a terrorist has to be ...
Edited on Wed May-09-07 07:29 PM by krkaufman
... to get arrested. (And that a less moronic bunch could do some actual damage.)
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MGKrebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-10-07 11:45 AM
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30. So let me get this straight...
A Circuit City spokesperson is willing to confirm the story, but NOT willing go any further for fear of compromising the investigation? As if the press isn't going to be in there now asking every employee all they know about it.

So presumably someone in the FBI said it was OK to acknowledge the event?

Sheesh.
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