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By: The Mahablog » About That Graphic

The Mahablog » About That Graphic — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:58:35 +0000

[...] Update update: La Lulu is having a fine time throwing charges of racism at the leftie “nutroots” and smearing Ned Lamont by association. Let us remember some of La LuLu’s past efforts, such as the time she obsessed over her fear of scary black people, as I discussed here: In one of her most brilliants posts yet, Michelle Malkin calls the suspects “black Muslim radicals” and provides us with an overview of recent terrorist threats coming from black Muslim radicals, going back to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and including the Beltway snipers and black Muslim inmates in Folsom Prison. She even takes a swipe at “the old school black Muslim thugs (and Jesse Jackson pals) of the Chicago-based El Rukn.” [...]

By: Ray Robison

Ray Robison — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:43:16 +0000

“Iraq was never on the States Department’s dance card of terrorist strongholds”
http://www.milnet.com/state/State-Terror.htm
US State Departments: Patterns of Global Terrorism: 1999

“Iraq continued to plan and sponsor international terrorism in 1999. Although Baghdad focused primarily on the antiregime opposition both at home and abroad, it continued to provide safehaven and support to various terrorist groups. “

By: uncledad

uncledad — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:47:45 +0000

Just look at Johnny Swifts website, enough said.

By: uncledad

uncledad — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:32:39 +0000

Just another chapter in the “war on terror”. A book of fiction 5 years in the making. Doesn’t this just justify all the “illegal” domestic spying? Interesting that just today the NYT, LAT, and that great liberal rag the wall street journal reported yet another apparent infraction on our civil liberties (tracking domestic bank records). Hey these guys took an oath of allegiance to Al-Qaeda (administered by an FBI informant), give me a break. Apparently this is the best they can do (concocting some cockamamie story) to justify the illegal spying. FAUX news bought it why can’t we? I smell desperation, yesterday WMD’s today “black Muslim” terrorists. Nothing rallies the right wing base like some good African American Mug shots.

By: maha

maha — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:21:18 +0000

that must mean that there are no actual Al Qaeda cells working in the United States.

Or else that the Justice Department is colossally incompetent and rounds up phony cells instead of real ones.

Hmm …

By: Jon Swift

Jon Swift — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:16:18 +0000

I should think you would be happy to know that if the FBI is expending so many resources on wannabe Al Qaeda cells with very little ability to pull off a terrorist attack, that must mean that there are no actual Al Qaeda cells working in the United States.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:46:01 +0000

Donna – the denial and failure traits are typical of narcissistic alcoholics who are quick to point the finger at the other when things go wrong.

The “[b]ut, the Bush folks are willing to RUN a slow failure war in which more and more American soldiers get CUT down..” is excellent. Maybe you could send it over to the Howard the Screamer so he could have at least one tool in his kit next time he goes on Sunday morning talk.

By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:48:55 +0000

So, we all know that Bush has no plan for Iraq or post-Iraq. As Josh Marshall said so well, “Bush’s policy is denial and slow failure”.

And, what a bizarre GOP fantasy….. that ‘denial and slow failure’ policy is now being lock-step embraced by Rove-advised Republican congress-critters who must hope that the ‘06 voters are gonna be fine about leaving our soldiers in Iraq as IED fodder. The Repugs, looking at the election ahead, gamble that their lack of a plan [to get our soldiers safely home] isn’t worthy of their attention, since, as Rove advises them, Dems demanding an actual plan can just be smeared with the phrase ‘cut and run’.

But, the Bush folks are willing to RUN a slow failure war in which more and more American soldiers get CUT down..

Today, the death count for our soldiers in Iraq hit 2,515.

Back to the specific topic of this post, the arrest of the seven in Miami, and the way the media presented the story…..my thought was that we will probably get a steady diet of such inflated scare headlines between now and November. Nothing like holding power to be able to feed the public some selectively spun news. Remember Ashcroft and his inflated ‘news’ announcements in a previous election cycle? This story makes me wonder if it’s merely a first of several trial balloon stories to be put out to test what level of scare story might alter public opinion to bolster the ‘failed policy Republicans’.

By: fshk

fshk — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:33:11 +0000

This is a head scratcher. The Sears Tower story made the front page of the NY Post in what I imagine was the same fashion it made Fox News, and if you think about it, it’s all very misleading and bad journalism, to boot. I know that when I’m reading newspaper stories, I tend to just read the headline and the first couple of paragraphs… that there was “no threat at all” isn’t explained until the sixth paragraph. Shouldn’t the lead be something like, “Sears Tower Targeted; Officials Say No Threat”? Or something?

I don’t know how the non-threat affected the rest of the country, but there were a suspiciously large number of police officers in the NYC subway this morning. They were checking bags at my stop. It’s been a few months since I’ve run into a security checkpoint; the number of cops in uniform in the subway has been consistently up since the London bombings last year, but the bag search checkpoints tend to only pop up if there’s some muttering of terrorism in the news. Which confirms my theory that the bag searches are more PR than effective anti-terrorism measures.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:23:30 +0000

I find it interesting that North American would-be terrorists are all getting caught now through undercover stings. This raises a couple of questions for me: 1) would a real Al Qaeda sleeper get caught by so foolishly plotting with complete strangers? And 2) why is law enforcement using these ongoing undercover ops to garner PR, when that could tip off suspects before they’re arrested? (In Canada, there was a lot of noise in the media from high government mucky-mucks, a couple of weeks before the “sting” netted all those paintballing teenagers. That struck me as very weird.)

None of this makes me feel any safer.