attacks on financial institutions ?
02-08-2004, 16:45
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attacks on financial institutions ?
a 25 year old pakistani computer enginner has been arrested by officials after it was found that he was relaying messages on behalf of al qaeda leaders.
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Among the questions the plotters sought to answer, senior American intelligence officials said, were how best to gain access to the targeted buildings; how many people might be at the sites at different hours and on different days of the week; whether a hijacked oil tanker truck could serve as an effective weapon; and how large an explosive device might be required to bring the buildings down.
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source: nytimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/po...rint&position=
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02-08-2004, 16:47
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02-08-2004, 17:04
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Re: attacks on financial institutions ?
Call me cynical but couldn't the recent announcments about an increased risk of attack on the east coast of america kinda be a way of scaring people into voting for Bush?
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02-08-2004, 17:05
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Call me cynical but couldn't the recent announcments about an increased risk of attack on the east coast of america kinda be a way of scaring people into voting for Bush?
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noooo thats way too cynical........it really is............is it ?
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02-08-2004, 17:32
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Re: attacks on financial institutions ?
Orwell could have been 20 years out...
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02-08-2004, 23:05
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Call me cynical but couldn't the recent announcments about an increased risk of attack on the east coast of america kinda be a way of scaring people into voting for Bush?
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OK. You are cynical... 
Seriously, I do find it odd that both Bush and Blair have elections coming up in the next few months and all of a sudden there is a massive terrorist threat that hasn't been there before!
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02-08-2004, 23:26
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OK. You are cynical...
Seriously, I do find it odd that both Bush and Blair have elections coming up in the next few months and all of a sudden there is a massive terrorist threat that hasn't been there before! |
Thing I don't understand is.. if they are hyping up the terrorist threat because of the impending elections.
What makes them think that we will vote for them? For the stirling work they have done do far??.... I don't think so.
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02-08-2004, 23:40
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Thing I don't understand is.. if they are hyping up the terrorist threat because of the impending elections.
What makes them think that we will vote for them? For the stirling work they have done do far??.... I don't think so.
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Historically, any prime minister or president who has politcally been in a weak position has got a slight "boost" in ratings if he or she has gone to war. I think the theory goes that we, as a population, feel they have somehow made us safe.
I know, I don't understand it either.
It could also be that when nothing happens, they can say that their warnings worked...
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03-08-2004, 02:43
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I really wish they stuck with the tried-and-tested policy of "what we don't know wo't hurt us". With so many foiled attacks and red herrings, i'm worried we will get a "boy-who-cried-wolf" senario.
And it is really against Bush's interest to somehow let a terrorist attack happen pre-election. The one area (except maybe economy) Bush is ahead of Kerry (the only one thing seeming to carrying him through the swing voters atm) is homeland defense which Bush takes seriously (if maybe a little too serious). If an attack does happen, people would probably think we might as well vote for Kerry.
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03-08-2004, 10:29
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Re: attacks on financial institutions ?
Haven't they just found out that the information is 4 years old?
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03-08-2004, 17:08
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Haven't they just found out that the information is 4 years old?
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Uh huh. There were loads of senarios in which this intelligence might not be implemented, and in this case, they probably dropped it in favour of 9/11. So now next time when it might be a serious threat, noone will take any notice a la boy-who-cried-wolf.
Anyways, the next target on US soil would probably be more geared towards either showmanship, or mass casulties, rather than an idealistic target.
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