Report: Al-Qaida doctors trained to implant bombs in humans

Western intelligence agencies believe that al-Qaida doctors have been trained to implant bombs inside the bodies of suicide bombers, Britain's Sunday Times reported.

The doctors, thought to have been trained by a man who worked with the top bomb-maker for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), have the ability to put explosive compounds in breasts and abdomens of suicide bombers, the newspaper reported without citing its sources.


The lead doctor was thought to have been killed in a drone attack earlier this year and likely worked with the master bomber-maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, according to the newspaper.

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The CIA want to track down the group of doctors, the newspaper reported. 

Former CIA officer Jack Rice joins MSNBC to discuss the recent discovery of an al-Qaida underwear bomb plot.

"There is a transferable skill and there is still some concern," said a Western security official who spoke to The Sunday Times on condition of anonymity.

Experts said explosive compounds such as pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) could be surgically implanted in an aspiring suicide bomber, who would them allow the wounds to heal, according to the newspaper. Body scanners in most airports around the world would not be able to detect the device, which could be detonated by injection, the newspaper added.

The news follows revelations on Monday that that AQAP tried to arm a suicide bomber with a non-metallic device that was an upgraded version of an "underwear bomb" that was carried on to a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day 2009, but failed to detonate.

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The device that authorities seized in the undercover operation contained what was intended to be a more reliable detonating mechanism, counter-terrorism officials said Monday.

U.S. officials said that the latest plot was foiled by the CIA and allied foreign intelligence services, without identifying the allies. British authorities put heavy pressure on the Obama administration not to disclose Britain's role in the investigation.

NBC's Pete Wiliams reports on the details about the alleged bomb plot out of Yemen that was scheduled to occur in America on the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden. MSNBC's Alex Wagner and the NOW panel discusses America's ongoing 'war on terror' and the shadow of 9/11 that still hangs over the country.

Several U.S. media outlets reported that Saudi Arabia was the key partner in the operation.

But it turned out that British intelligence played what appears to be a more central role in foiling the plot to send a suicide bomber on to an airplane. The operation was a cooperative venture between Britain's domestic and foreign intelligence services known as MI5 and MI6, officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

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As details of the operation emerge, it appears to be a striking example of how U.S., European and Middle Eastern intelligence services cooperate on complex counterterrorism missions.

A spokesman for Britain's Foreign Office declined to comment, saying that in such cases it never confirmed or denied the involvement of British intelligence. A spokesman for British intelligence also declined to comment. 

Reuters contributed to this report.

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Wasn't there speculation that 2 Russian airplanes were brought down by Chechen women with "implanted" devices?

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#1 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:24 AM EDT

in brazier...how bazaar...

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#1.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:04 AM EDT
    #1.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:41 AM EDT

    OH NO! Help me US Government take away the rest of my freedom. Please protect me from the boogie man.

    • 6 votes
    #1.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:17 AM EDT

    I wonder how many of their doctors went to school in the USA?

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    #1.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:42 AM EDT

    Women have to face the odds- the industrial silicone implants that will rupture and cause life-threatening complications or bomb boob implants (the bomb materials have to be in gel form then)- X-rays can silhouette them- but which cosmetic surgeon will be on duty to verify? If they have to inject somthing- thorough rifling of handbags/overnight bags/pockets by TSA's tlc agents. Prisoners used to have 'safe-keeping tubes' inserted in their anal passage. The mules (for cocaine) still active -are revealed in x-rays. Is it feasible? In Germany they went back to the Markov umbrellas with mercury poison (Thelocal.de) Personally I would not prefer to be in any crowd demonstrating- where over 500 people are congregated- it is like going to any soccer match in any country (latest Turkey) where people just go nuts.

      #1.5 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:50 AM EDT

      OH NO! Help me US Government take away the rest of my freedom. Please protect me from the boogie man.

      I want protection from the boogie man!

      • 3 votes
      #1.6 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:59 AM EDT

      Life imitates art?

      Why so serious?

      • 2 votes
      #1.7 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:06 AM EDT

      When a physician/surgeon agrees to perform this procedure they go from healer to barbaric savages holding a knife. With this sick perversion of the Hippocratic Oath, they go from healer to murderer and no longer deserve the title of doctor! Just a further example of the insanity that can occur in the name of religion.

      • 15 votes
      #1.8 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:19 AM EDT

      The sill is NOT being able to implant the device, the skill is being able to convince someone to accept the device

      Dr: "I would like to stick my thumb in your butt and while I am up there a bomb as well, just before you fly to the US."

      But seriously, AQ is weak, Keep killing them. They are paranoid whenever they see an object flying overhead.

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      #1.9 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:23 AM EDT

      Ed-NavDoc,

      "With this sick perversion of the Hippocratic Oath, they go from healer to murderer and no longer deserve the title of doctor!"

      I agree wholeheartedly! But I wonder if the same might not be said of some of our Western doctors these days. After all, the Hippocratic Oath says in part: "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion." What about euthanasia advocates like Jack Kevorkian or our abortionists or the doctors we use to administer the death penalty by lethal injection? Are they adhering to the Hippocratic Oath or rationalizing it away?

      • 2 votes
      #1.10 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:34 AM EDT

      what is not being reported is LIBYA, the rebels(mostly terrorist groups), are rounding up all the black African Libyans, killing them, putting them in prisons, and confiscating all their property; Gaddafi's had built large apartment complexes through out Libya, where anybody could live, built schools, (men and women studying together), state of the art hospitals, all are being torn down by the new in power radical Muslim extremist, the Arab spring is now a nightmare, whole modern towns are being destroyed, the oil production is almost at a standstill, male doctors are not allowed to treat a woman, (very few female doctors in Libya;) and we call this a success; what on earth is a failure !

      • 5 votes
      #1.11 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:07 PM EDT

      Ed-NavDoc, was thinking along the same exact lines.

      • 3 votes
      #1.12 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:28 PM EDT

      In the quest for"absolute safety", we are giving up a lot of freedom. Life is full of risk, anyway. We are turning into wussies in the quest for a totally risk free existence.

      • 5 votes
      #1.13 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:46 PM EDT

      Don, Those women had explosives on the outside of thier bodies. Security personnel at the airport were paid off, and it was not a great sum.

        #1.14 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:50 PM EDT

        Hello folks, are you scared yet? The TSA will now have to adjust their procedures for the vagina and suppository bombers. Keep being afraid, be very afraid, fear, fear, fear!

        • 6 votes
        #1.15 - Sun May 13, 2012 1:23 PM EDT

        no doubt trustverify, the "boohoo, keep me safe" crowd is so freaking happy to throw away freedom in the name of capturing the boogymen that the TV and internet told them were out there.

        the terrorists are winning just by driving us to throw away our freedom, which is one of their own stated goals!

        • 4 votes
        #1.16 - Sun May 13, 2012 2:19 PM EDT

        Turn the middle east to glass and let allah sort em out...

          #1.17 - Sun May 13, 2012 2:23 PM EDT

          plain bob - in brazier...how bazaar..sorry...how bizarre...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY

          As usual plain bob posting nonsense on Newsvine.

          zuksam - OH NO! Help me US Government take away the rest of my freedom. Please protect me from the boogie man.

          You too, zuksam, posting nonsense on Newsvine. 1. You lost your "Rights" just after January 21, 2009, when President Obama signed his Patriot Acts (Plural). Shown here being signed by President Obama January 22, 2009 during a staged News Media Event, 04:38 minutes of 11:55 minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLSeD19m3UE. 2. Your so called "boogie man" actually almost succeeded on numerous occasionsalready, and believed to have succeeded before (cannot be 100% proven, not enough evidence left after explosion).

          This "New" article, Report: Al-Qaida doctors trained to implant bombs in humans, is old news.

          Al Qaeda Bombers Learn from Drug Smugglers

          http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/28/eveningnews/main5347847.shtml?tag=pop

          JP-345944 - I wonder how many of their doctors went to school in the USA?

          Who cares, their original intent may NOT have been to do this after becoming a Doctor; there are means to make people do anything.

          Ed-NavDoc - When a physician/surgeon agrees to perform this procedure they go from healer to barbaric savages holding a knife. With this sick perversion of the Hippocratic Oath, they go from healer to murderer and no longer deserve the title of doctor! Just a further example of the insanity that can occur in the name of religion.

          I told you before that for Islamic Believers completely subjugated to Islam by definition Muslims, Islam Overrules everything else, example the Hippocratic Oath "is only a Western Concept" (same excuse used many times, other examples: the 1907 Hague Convention, 1949 Geneva Convention, etc.). I also told you before the Islamic Belief is NOT the "Western" Limiting term of "Religion", as for Muslims, Islam is ALL, All Politics, All Religion, All Culture, All Beliefs, All Ways of Life (and Death), All Laws, etc..

          saxon - what is not being reported is LIBYA

          Two Words: Election Year

          Libya is just one more of those previously listed successes of President Obama by the Democratic Party. After the truth was reported by the BBC, Arabic Al Jazeera, Das Bild, Le Mode, etc. (everywhere except the US) then the Democratic National Committee removed Libya from the President Obama List of Achievements. Just like the DNC removed President Obama's April 2009 Policy of "US Military will not be used to secure US Borders", March 2009 Policy (that started most of the current problems at the Middle East), Guantanamo Closure, Against President Bush's Stationing of US Military ABMs at Eastern Europe (President Obama back peddled December 31, 2011, US ABMs to Romania), lots of etc..

          TrustVerify,

          Once again posting uninformed uneducated no experience emotive nonsense posts. Instead of posting Facts on Newsvines Forum to discuss Facts "Get Smarter Here". TrustVerify keep on contributing to the "Dumbing Down of America".

          • 3 votes
          #1.18 - Sun May 13, 2012 3:41 PM EDT

          zuksam

          OH NO! Help me US Government take away the rest of my freedom. Please protect me from the boogie man.

          Well if said boogie man can carry terrorist attacks, yeah I would prefer if they protect us. Even if it sometimes mean having to go through unpleasant security systems (or even the occasional search) at airports, it is still preferable to death due to a terrorist attack.

          • 1 vote
          #1.19 - Sun May 13, 2012 4:56 PM EDT

          Even if it sometimes mean having to go through unpleasant security systems (or even the occasional search) at airports, it is still preferable to death due to a terrorist attack.

          yep, checkpoints, random searches on the street, the power to break into your home without a warrant on the least casual whisper, all for the purpose of "protecting" us

          works so well in such countries as N.Korea, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia we should do it here

          • 2 votes
          #1.20 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:01 PM EDT

          Soon at the rate of additional screening required you will need to show up to the airport in a hospital gown, remove it when you enter the line, they will then give you a free prostate exam on your way through, at the other end of the line you may put the gown back on for your flight, results of your exam will be waiting for you upon arrival at your destination

          • 1 vote
          #1.21 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:13 PM EDT

          "Please protect me from the boogie man."

          Don't you mean the "boobie man?"

          Exploding hooters - wow, what a concept.

          • 2 votes
          #1.22 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:37 PM EDT

          BTW david, you are blaming Obama, but we really lost our rights when BUSH signed the first patriot act.

          and no, the lastest ones aren't any better, just extensions of the same ridiculous crap that Bush started.

          so if your argument is that one is just as bad as the other, you might have something there...

          • 2 votes
          #1.23 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:24 PM EDT

          This crap was tested out in Israel ... long before it came to our shores. It was the Republicans who sent out a cohort of pitchmen to get the troops stirred up to accept anything - in the quest for "protection and security".

          It was the liberals who warned that no matter what rights "you " were willing to give it - there were always going to more draconian rights which would need to be given up... sooner or later. So here we are 10 - 12 years later, still being told we need to give up more freedoms, more rights, more erosion of innocent, until proven guilty ... and surprise, surprise - we are still being asked to give up just a few more... then we will really be safe.

          The begining of the end started when the public started consuming all the Death Wish, Dirty Harry movies, they were controversial then, but today they are standard police policies and procedure? once Pandora's box is openned, it can be shut... that is the realitye which we are living with now.

          China is using its Criminal class as spare parts, and we are pushing through a law which stays that unless you sign a notice that you have specifically refused to allow your organs to be harvested upon your death - they will assume that you give permission. What that really means is - they will take the organs and swear they couldn't find your declaration for non-harvesting. Oops, we made a mistake - well its too late now, the organs have been used.

          See how easy it is to deny rights when you hold the levers of government?

          We are in a "Brave New World" .... all your things are mine

            #1.24 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:38 PM EDT

            Winning "hearts" and "minds" has been reduced tracing al-Qaida doctors implanting bombs.

            Have the Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists certified that al-Qaida supporting Syrian rebels as "good" ones?

            • 1 vote
            #1.25 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:41 PM EDT

            beware of blonde bombshells

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            #1.26 - Mon May 14, 2012 12:19 AM EDT

            Have the Saudis, oil companies and their lobbyists certified that al-Qaida supporting Syrian rebels as "good" ones?

            actually, it is that, and the support of hamas and hezbollah for the rebels that is causing the administration to back away from direct intervention on behalf of the rebels

              #1.27 - Mon May 14, 2012 12:41 AM EDT

              hey danwill, let us all know when your home was invaded by the government or any other home that you know of invaded by the government for no reason. That's what I thought. Are you really so stupid as to believe the threats to America don't exist and that precautions aren't needed to make sure they do not succeed? Wow, I can picture you now sitting behind your door, AK47 at the ready, waiting for big brother to come charging in. lol Never take you alive, will the dirty bastards? LOL what a clown.

                #1.28 - Mon May 14, 2012 3:16 AM EDT

                Don't worry about it!. Should you see someone with a det. cord dangeling out of their buttox just don't light it for them!.

                  #1.29 - Mon May 14, 2012 9:45 AM EDT

                  Time to PROFILE...It's LONG OVERDUE and IT WORKS!!!

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                  #1.30 - Mon May 14, 2012 10:10 AM EDT

                  With much talk of personal rights and freedoms, it seems that 'where there's a will, there's a way' applies and cutting back, almost to nill, the travel to and from areas known to hold, allow passage of and be friendly towards terroristic packs is about the only real form of protection. And no, it's not perfect and some will say that's not what America is about, that it cuts off relations in many ways, etc., etc. . And, we've had problems with our own home grown terrorists.

                  But, if this is where we're at or heading towards, if some are this hell bent on getting to us, then there's really no way to remove all threats but stymying travel to some areas, back and/or forth, is all I can really think of; however, only viable if others follow suit such as our allies and then it can become a seperatist world, us and them, which may be o.k. with some and not others.

                  In the end, I don't believe that 'experts' know of the right combination of answers as any will take time and $$ to implement, much less those of us opining here. I do just think that if any interactions with some areas are all but snuffed until they either get their collective poop together and handle those that are terrorists in their areas or allow them to flourish to the point of where we can take out said area something more will get done than trying to stop every single way an attack can be carried out here or in the air. Paranoia self destroyer....

                    #1.31 - Mon May 14, 2012 10:31 AM EDT

                    David, I was simply stating my opinion. I am welcome to mine just as you are to yours. I was merely using the Hippocratic Oath as an example. That does not change the fact that a physician is supposed to treat and/or heal the sick and injured. The procedure stated in the article still turns whoever performs it into a cold hearted murderer no matter what the culture, religion, or part of the world.

                    You say you told me this before. You must have me confused with someone else as I have never had this kind of conversation with you before that I can recall.

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                    #1.32 - Mon May 14, 2012 11:51 PM EDT

                    ken, you very clearly don't know jack spit about history

                      #1.33 - Mon May 14, 2012 11:53 PM EDT

                      danwill

                      yep, checkpoints, random searches on the street, the power to break into your home without a warrant on the least casual whisper, all for the purpose of "protecting" us

                      works so well in such countries as N.Korea, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia we should do it here

                      All I meant is what I said, i.e. that it would bother me more to be (or to see a loved one be) a victim of a terrorist attack, then to go through the security systems at airports. Just my opinion.

                      And surely you know that whatever N. Korea, Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia do, its not to protect their citizens.

                        #1.34 - Tue May 15, 2012 1:02 PM EDT

                        danwill

                        yep, checkpoints, random searches on the street, the power to break into your home without a warrant on the least casual whisper, all for the purpose of "protecting" us

                        works so well in such countries as N.Korea, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia we should do it here

                        Is there no in-between with you. I am not understanding how improved security measures at airports, equates to losing my freedom, random stops on the streets, (I guess we already have drivers license and DUI check-points,) and the power to break into my home, Please help me to understand... I guess I am stupid!

                          #1.35 - Tue May 15, 2012 3:39 PM EDT

                          the question is how far are you willing to go for minimally useful "security" measures?

                          when some whackjob manages to get on a plane with a bomb shoved up his arse (and it will probably happen sometime, there already is precedent), are you going to demand cavity searches for everyone?

                            #1.36 - Thu May 17, 2012 12:48 AM EDT

                            i'll take my chances vs the "scary terrorists" and worry about the many things that are well over 100 times more likely to kill me and mine

                            right now, lightning is just a couple of times less likely to kill me than a freaking terrorist, and that is including the people that died in 9/11

                              #1.37 - Thu May 17, 2012 12:57 AM EDT

                              while you have been worrying about the big bad terrorists, over 350,000 people have died in car accidents, over 30,000 per year now, and over 40,000 per year in 2001

                              over 450,000 people die of heart attack every single year. we won't even mention all of the other diseases that could strike at any time and kill you

                              the true numbers go on and on of what is fantastically more likely to kill you. I'm a realist, and I'm not going to let these a$$wipes win by destroying my freedom or by letting these idiots even waste my time. but the people screaming "keep me safe" are letting them win, and this is exactly what the terrorists want

                              I have more important things to do than worry about the occasional psychotic nutcase and don't need to have my time wasted by feel-good measures that do virtually nothing to improve my likelyhood of living another day

                                #1.38 - Thu May 17, 2012 1:20 AM EDT
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                                profiling is necessary to stop this type of terror. these people are walking bombs. i am sorry for the inconvenience but i would hesitate getting on a plane with young male or female muslims.

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                                #2 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:28 AM EDT

                                yes profiling is necessary to a certain extent but this can change the game to include returning hostages, non Muslims...you name it

                                guess this means a little more probing and x rays for the lot of us..and to be honest i really dont mind the extra inconveniences to be safe

                                • 7 votes
                                #2.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:36 AM EDT

                                But what about fair-skinned, blue-eyed muslims from Eastern Europe? Or African-Americans who converted to Islam? Or asian muslims from India, China, the Philipines, or Vietnam? How can you tell if they're muslim? And how about this; after what we've seen in Norway earlier this year,you're only kidding yourelf if you think white americans wouldn't think of doing something like this. So should we profile everyone (black, white, hispanic, jew, etc...) just feel be safe? Where will it end?

                                • 14 votes
                                #2.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:42 AM EDT

                                and that is the real issue with terrorism..just where do we stop the emotion of fear and why they are so effective..that have us looking at people now who we normally don't look at with a sense of caution...but Michael you have made some very valid points

                                • 5 votes
                                #2.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:48 AM EDT

                                Extra x-rays? Are you nuts? We already hear medical reports that what we're getting may be too much, and that there should be radiation count records for each patient. But sure, let's give every frequent flier flier that's just trying to keep his job a significantly increased cancer risk.

                                • 3 votes
                                #2.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:54 AM EDT

                                It is unbelievable the extremes these fanatics will go to. It seems like there is very little we can do to detect these types of devices. The only possibility would seem to be to find out what they are using as a trigger for these bombs. The article mentions them being detonated by an injection, so we need to find out what the compound is that is injected. It seems like our best bet is to find and eliminate these doctors as soon as possible.

                                Profiling would not do much to stop these types of bombs unless we find out what the detonating compound is and look for that. After all, we are not going to start forcing people to have x-rays taken at security check points. I doubt that something that intrusive would fly with the courts, particularly since the radiation from x-rays is far more than what the current scanners use and can not be called harmless so many people would object to the exposure. I also doubt they would start installing x-ray machines at every airport security check point and keep radiologists on standby.

                                • 6 votes
                                #2.5 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:58 AM EDT

                                More fear mongering.

                                Boogeyman is gonna get you! So give up more freedoms so we can protect you.

                                • 7 votes
                                #2.6 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:02 AM EDT

                                guess this means a little more probing and x rays for the lot of us..and to be honest i really dont mind the extra inconveniences to be safe

                                You can't use any sort of imaging system that uses ionizing radiation like X-rays. You may only fly once or twice a year, but many people fly 100 plus flights a week It wouldn't be medically safe to expose anyone to that much radiation.

                                • 1 vote
                                #2.7 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:18 AM EDT

                                a year! (sorry)

                                • 1 vote
                                #2.8 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:33 AM EDT

                                Profile, Profile, Profile....its the only answer, or better yet just don't let them get on planes or enter the country, kick out any suspect people....I know I know, you can't violate their civil liberties....

                                • 3 votes
                                #2.9 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:46 AM EDT

                                If profiling only stopped the terrorists who are middle eastern young and middle aged men, (At airports and everywhere else) the incidence of violent terrorist attack would be cut by 85%. The fact that there are "blue eyed muslims from eastern europe" and blacks who are muslims also, etc., is true but statistically they could be randomly searched like the rest of the population and catch another 10 percent.

                                The real way to stop this is to admit we are at war with Islam and act accordingly. and I don't mean dithering around trying to "win hearts and minds" or any of that crap.

                                • 9 votes
                                #2.10 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:55 AM EDT

                                Coming soon: to board a plane, you strip completely. You pass through a scanner. You pass a row of sniffing dogs. Then, comes a blood test.

                                How about we send secret eradication squads out worldwide and do this the old fashioned way? What the heck is wrong with us, anyway? Mamby-pamby PC delusions will be the utter undoing of the west.

                                • 2 votes
                                #2.11 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:57 AM EDT

                                @VH Navy:

                                "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Franklin

                                • 6 votes
                                #2.12 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT

                                George your racist, your racist!! Yet you state the obvious, the bleeding hearts on this vine can't see past their face and only work to collapse any opposing view. They can't handle the truth........

                                  #2.13 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:08 AM EDT

                                  and the BOGGY MAN stories go on and on..... Good post Wayne.....

                                  • 2 votes
                                  #2.14 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:16 AM EDT

                                  Wayne, that is a great quote from a great man. I just doubt that Ben had to worry about a Muslim terrorist blowing up his stagecoach on the way to Washington. Not disparaging Ben or you, but he could not see into the future or even imagine what technology would be used to destroy human beings. He also said, "It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins."

                                  • 1 vote
                                  #2.15 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:17 AM EDT

                                  Michael412320. Most hispanics, in the western hemisphere at least, wouldn't dare convert to islam. Our mother's would kill us first of all and second we couldn't eat 'asado'(red chili pork, damn that is good).

                                  • 6 votes
                                  #2.16 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:18 AM EDT

                                  Google Jihad Jane. That's who you need to profile. Blonde American women who've decided to be terrorist sympathizers.

                                    #2.17 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:18 AM EDT

                                    Does this mean the TSA is now going to require all airline passengers to undergo exploratory surgery before being admitted on board? If you thought body scanners and intrusive pat-downs were bad, think again. They're going to have to replace those body scanners with operating rooms. That would really cause quite a snarl in air traffic! It would probably require at least several hours per person.

                                    • 2 votes
                                    #2.18 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:35 AM EDT

                                    First off, we are NOT "at war with Islam". We are at war with people who use the religion as a vehicle for their hate. I know a lot of Muslims, and if we were "at war" with them, I'd surely be dead by now.

                                    Second, Michael-412302 got it exactly right. Not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs. The idiots who think that just screening all people who look a certain way will keep us safe have absolutely no idea of what they're talking about, and are just acting based on fear, like cowards.

                                    I'm sure that most of you will disagree, though, so please explain to me how screening people who "look like Muslims" will stop the next 'dog bomb' from taking out an airplane.

                                    • 3 votes
                                    #2.19 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:10 PM EDT

                                    Profiling for body part bombs .... hmmmm .... I can see killing two birds with one stone here. Stock up on rubber gloves and give every male flyer a free prostate exam.

                                      #2.20 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:27 PM EDT

                                      Yes we must profile.!!! The 2nd worst attack on US soil was committed by a white man (Oklahoma City, anyone?) So I say all white men should get extra screening too. Folks if all of Islam wanted to kill us we'd be in deep doo doo, there are about a billion of them. Frankly, if someone wants to hit us that bad they will find a way no matter how much security we put in place. I'd rather go back to the way things were and take my chances. And yes that goes for my loved ones to, I'd rather they die free and standing up to our enemies than cowering in the corner showing fear. That may sound harsh but the sad fact is we could all die anywhere at anytime, we need to stand up and show these guys we are not afraid.

                                      Ben Franklin could not have foreseen this but it makes his quote no less true. By adding more and more security (that we can't even afford as it is) we show the terrorists that they have scared us into giving up our freedoms, in other words we show them they have won.

                                      • 2 votes
                                      #2.21 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:45 PM EDT

                                      Michael-412302 - But what about fair-skinned, blue-eyed muslims from Eastern Europe?

                                      Being dealth with with extreme prejudice by the Russian Federation.

                                      Michael-412302 - Or African-Americans who converted to Islam?

                                      Sorry people at the US put limits on US Law Enforcement. However, being that many have/had converted while at US Prisons many can be exempt from those Restrictions. And do not say Racist, etc. it is what is done (actions), not an opinion.

                                      Michael-412302 - Or asian muslims from India,

                                      Watched carefully by India's Intelligence Agencies and Law Enforcement Agencies as Historical Pakistan broke off from India as an Islamic Nation.

                                      Michael-412302 - China,

                                      Zero Tolerance of Muslims at China, including the current areas near the borders of China, near the Old Silk Road (route to the Middle East, Southwest Asia, etc.).

                                      Michael-412302 - the Philipines,

                                      Close to Zero Tolerance, especially regarding the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

                                      Michael-412302 - or Vietnam?

                                      Zero Tolerance, actually worse than the Chinese.

                                      Michael-412302 - How can you tell if they're muslim?

                                      By their Required Actions of being by Definition a "Muslim" (100% Subjugated to Islam). Or their associations with known Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists.

                                      Instead of stating exceptions, let's talk about percentages. 1. Person returning from a known Fundamentalist Islamic Nation., 2. Relatives, Family, Friends, etc. living at an Islamic Nation, that can be used by Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists as "Leverage"., 3. Young Fundamentalist Islamic Believers that believe that serious "Injustices" have been done against Islam (too bad most Islamic Believers are brain washed to believe this since birth (parents), peer pressure, school (islamic mandatory school curriculum), islamic government, mandatory islamic tithes, islamic laws, islamic news media, neighbors (as informants), Imams at Mosques, etc., basically 24/7/365 since they were born)., 4. Due to methods used by Fundamentalist Islamic Believers like Armed Force, Hostage Taking, Leverage, Starvation, Violent Leverage and Persuasion, etc. the Fundamentalist Islamic Believers (aka Muslims) out number the minority "Moderate, Rule of Modern Laws" Islamic Believers (considered to be Islamic Heretics by the Fundamentalist Islamic Believers and therefore subject to the Death Penalty)., 5. Lots of etc..

                                      stonedog34 - First off, we are NOT "at war with Islam".

                                      To be Politically Correct we are NOT at War with Islam; Islam has long ago Declared War Against the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers in the 109 Suras of the 114 Suras of the Holy Koran (Quran), as well as stated by the Current Islamic Laws. If you want me to start spoon feeding your lazy arse by listing the 109 Suras of the 114 Suras of the Holy Koran (Quran) someone else will have to change your full diapers.

                                      stonedog34 - Second, Michael-412302 got it exactly right. Not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs.

                                      Too bad most of the Christian Arabs, and other Religion Arabs are the minority or are DEAD. As currently the Fundamentalist Islamic Believers are ignoring Mohammad Mandate of Exception that allows the Christians at one Monastery to be exempt from persecution and death; as the Fundamentalist Islamic Believers believe that this document is false (fabricated by the Christians) and are attempting to find and destroy this document (the bombings at the Christian Monasteries at Egypt).

                                      Your post is like saying that at the US there are many Buddhists, Taoists, etc. as a significant Majority, instead of stating the Fact that they are NOT the Majority (considered insignificant).

                                      stonedog34 - are just acting based on fear

                                      Nope, acting out of fear based on previous Fundamentalist Islamic Believers (aka Muslims) previous ACTIONS. Note: In most cases the US Public is Reactionary not preemptive (proactive), doing things after the Actions, not before.

                                      Hint: The minority 1.8 Million of Islamic Believers living at the US do NOT make the Rules for the Majority 1.5 Billion Islamic Believers Worldwide.

                                      wow-3703095 - Frankly, if someone wants to hit us that bad they will find a way no matter how much security we put in place. I'd rather go back to the way things were and take my chances.

                                      That is just like saying it is OK to have unprotected sex in this age of STDs, HIV, AIDS, etc.. This is all about minimizing Risks and Chances (opportunities for Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists).

                                      As we (US Military, US Intelligence Agencies, US Allies Military, US Allies Intelligence Agencies) have to be right 100% of the time, and they only have to succeed once. Not to discourage you but Facts are that we are outnumbered by the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists (basic list of US Department of State) and out Funded by the Mandatory Islamic Tithes (Trillions USDs per year to fund the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists, according to the US Department of State, US Ally Governments, International Financial Institutions, International Militaries, International Intelligence Agencies, etc..).

                                      Personally, after being outnumbered and out funded for so long many of us and myself believe that this is a losing battle, and we will be glad just to go back on EARNED Retirement (Fixed income near poverty, not the 6 figures like California Public Workers Retirement) after being involved with Islam since the 1980s.

                                      wow-3703095 - I'd rather they die free and standing up to our enemies than cowering in the corner showing fear.

                                      It is someone else's turn (all yours, wow-3703095) to deal with this problem, start learning College level (Degree) Arabic at an Islamic Nation, then learn College Level (Degree) Islam taught in Arabic at an Islamic Nation; learn College Level (Degree) Farsi also (The Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran's growning "Strategic Sphere of Influence"). Get trained in US Military Asymmetric Warfare (Insurgency, Counter Insurgency, Counter Terrorism, Redacted, etc.), SERE, Special Operations, etc. and US Intelligence Agencies (Redacted, HUMIT, Redacted, Redacted, SIGINT, ELINT, etc.). Then start living with the locals for a few decades. So that if you F**k up and are not Right 100% of the time and something slips thru 1% of the time, someone will be demanding your head on a platter (the same someone(s) you hired (elected) that cut our funding and manpower). IF you ever need our help dial 1-800-Dial-A-Prayer (in other words f**k you we did enough for an ungrateful people and ungrateful Nation).

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                                      #2.22 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:08 PM EDT

                                      Islam says they are at war with us, they say it from the Muslim pulpit, the Koran (I don't really care how it is spelled) says it clearly, the cheering Mulims on the streets and in the markets wordwide say it when Americans or Brits are killed by "terrorists".

                                      How much of the entire religion and included cultures has to affirm that they intend to kill all non-muslims before you muslim apologists will admit it.

                                      Let me stop here and remind you morons that it is not "racist" to say any of this. Islam is not a race.

                                      We need to take a breath, admit as a nation and as a people that we need to go full out on these idiots before we give our hard fought freedom away.

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                                      #2.23 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:31 PM EDT

                                      We all knew this would happen eventually. If it becomes impossible to smuggle an external bomb onto the plane (which it isn't), they'll just swallow or implant it instead. If it becomes impossible to go through security, all they have to do is blow themselves up in the line. Due to the ridiculous inconveniences that the TSA has caused over the years, I'd say the terrorists have already won.

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                                      #2.24 - Sun May 13, 2012 7:06 PM EDT

                                      Times are changing fast and we have to move with the times.

                                      Take it or leave it: Iraqi wars (1991 and 2003) invented by extremist Jewish lobby and then directed by Saudi Arabia, oil companies and their lobbyists are responsible for this.

                                      These two wars have crippled the US, British and allies from all sides including economics ones.

                                      Extremist Jewish lobby is one of the culprits. They invent a problem like now being done in Iran and Syria and then Saudis and co take over directing wars.

                                      From the posts one can make out the hell holes some are in! They imagine in their own make believe world!!

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                                      #2.25 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:48 PM EDT

                                      "To be Politically Correct we are NOT at War with Islam; Islam has long ago Declared War Against the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers in the 109 Suras of the 114 Suras of the Holy Koran (Quran), as well as stated by the Current Islamic Laws"

                                      So if you claim that 109 Suras declare war against unbelievers, I can prove you wrong by quoting six Suras that do not. Here you go. Seriously, do you enjoy lying? Does it make you feel good?

                                      [1.1] All praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.
                                      [1.2] The Beneficent, the Merciful.
                                      [1.3] Master of the Day of Judgment.
                                      [1.4] Thee do we serve and Thee do we beseech for help.
                                      [1.5] Keep us on the right path.
                                      [1.6] The path of those upon whom Thou hast bestowed favors. Not (the path) of those upon whom Thy wrath is brought down, nor of those who go astray.

                                      1 SURA


                                      In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

                                      [110.1] When there comes the help of Allah and the victory,
                                      [110.2] And you see men entering the religion of Allah in companies,
                                      [110.3] Then celebrate the praise of your Lord, and ask His forgiveness; surely He is oft-returning (to mercy).

                                      2 suras


                                      [112.1] Say: He, Allah, is One.
                                      [112.2] Allah is He on Whom all depend.
                                      [112.3] He begets not, nor is He begotten.
                                      [112.4] And none is like Him.

                                      3 suras


                                      In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

                                      [103.1] I swear by the time,
                                      [103.2] Most surely man is in loss,
                                      [103.3] Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.

                                      4 Suras

                                      In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

                                      [107.1] Have you considered him who calls the judgment a lie?
                                      [107.2] That is the one who treats the orphan with harshness,
                                      [107.3] And does not urge (others) to feed the poor.
                                      [107.4] So woe to the praying ones,
                                      [107.5] Who are unmindful of their prayers,
                                      [107.6] Who do (good) to be seen,
                                      [107.7] And withhold the necessaries of life.

                                      5 suras


                                      In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

                                      [99.1] When the earth is shaken with her (violent) shaking,
                                      [99.2] And the earth brings forth her burdens,
                                      [99.3] And man says: What has befallen her?
                                      [99.4] On that day she shall tell her news,
                                      [99.5] Because your Lord had inspired her.
                                      [99.6] On that day men shall come forth in sundry bodies that they may be shown their works.
                                      [99.7] So. he who has done an atom's weight of good shall see it
                                      [99.8] And he who has done an atom's weight of evil shall see it.


                                      6 Suras


                                      LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!



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                                      #2.26 - Mon May 14, 2012 9:02 AM EDT

                                      And here's a seventh for good measure:

                                      In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

                                      [97.1] Surely We revealed it on the grand night.
                                      [97.2] And what will make you comprehend what the grand night
                                      [97.3] The grand night is better than a thousand months.
                                      [97.4] The angels and Gibreel descend in it by the permission of their Lord for every affair,
                                      [97.5] Peace! it is till the break of the morning.

                                      Seriously, where do you get these lies from and why do you insist on repeating them?

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                                      #2.27 - Mon May 14, 2012 9:05 AM EDT

                                      "profiling is necessary to stop this type of terror. these people are walking bombs. i am sorry for the inconvenience but i would hesitate getting on a plane with young male or female muslims."

                                      When was the last time that a female Muslim was involved in a terror attack in the United States?

                                      What's the word for a person who is scared of something that has never happened? A coward?

                                      • 1 vote
                                      #2.28 - Mon May 14, 2012 9:21 AM EDT

                                      Gabriel - I'll take that pork! It sounds delicious!

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                                      #2.29 - Mon May 14, 2012 2:00 PM EDT
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                                      Nobody in Britain takes the Sunday Times seriously - it's owned by the same semi-criminal crew that own Faux News, and tapped cell phones, remember!

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                                      Reply#3 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:28 AM EDT

                                      Robert Malone,

                                      Shows just how much YOU DON'T know (you too lazy to research Facts).

                                      Microsoft owns NBC, as MSNBC. NBC hosts Fox News. Therefore, Bill Gates a Registered Democrat and major contibutor to the Democratic Party owns Fox News, MSNBC, NBC, etc..

                                      Newsvine that you are posting on is owned by MSNBC.

                                      Therefore: Robert Malone = Hypocrite.

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                                      #3.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:43 PM EDT
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                                      Better translate Hippocratic oath into Arabic.

                                        Reply#4 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:38 AM EDT

                                        Actually, one of the first languages that the Hippocratic oath (originally written in Greek) was translated into was Arabic.

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                                        #4.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:45 AM EDT

                                        ironyy

                                          #4.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:10 AM EDT

                                          They take the hipocritic oath.

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                                          #4.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:22 AM EDT

                                          Hippocratic Oath does not matter for Fundamentalist Islamic Believers, that is a "Western Concept" and like all "Western Concepts" ("pieces of paper") ignored by Fundamentalist Islamic Believers (aka completely subjugated to Islam, as Muslims). Other "Western Concepts" ignored (by Actions, not opinions) by Muslims: 1907 Hague Convention, 1949 Geneva Convention, in practice by Muslim Medical Professionals age 10 to adult female genital mutilations (removals of clitoris, labia, etc., vagina stitched shut until marriage), Islamic documents signed by Muslim Medical Professionals stating verification of virginity (females) and verifications of not being a Jew (male circumcision), etc..

                                          Once again observable Actions of the Majority of the Islamic World not opinions or words of the minority living at the US.

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                                          #4.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:58 PM EDT

                                          David, the Muslims also practice circumcision, so they won't be able to identify Jewish men THAT way.

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                                          #4.5 - Mon May 14, 2012 8:17 AM EDT
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                                          TSA...better be careful doing the pat down...the booby trap bomber breast might blow...i sure after a vigorous shaking in these well endowed women will pass thru security...they be singing my milk shake is better than yours...

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                                          Reply#5 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:40 AM EDT

                                          This just tells me that the terrorists are more stupid than it's believable or that they don't really exist. Why go to all this trouble and lose a valuable combatant that does not fear death when you can down a plane with an RPG or whatever?

                                          Maybe the powers that be designed a new type of really expensive x ray machines and are getting us ready for the cost. Hope they don't down a plane to sell it.

                                          • 3 votes
                                          Reply#6 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:41 AM EDT

                                          Most suicide bombers aren't valued anything but a mule to carry the bomb!

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                                          #6.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:53 AM EDT

                                          One "valuable combatant" doesn't matter to them because there are dozens -- if not hundreds -- more "valuable combatants" waiting in line to take their place.

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                                          #6.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:42 AM EDT

                                          Down an airplane with an RPG? You've watched too many movies. The range of the weapon, speed of the projectile v. speed of target...too many variables to deal with. Only 2 instances of successful (or quasi success) use of RPGs against aircraft that I'm aware of: Blackhawk Down and "Carlos the Jackal's" attempt to shoot at jets on the tarmac at Orly Airport.

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                                          #6.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:55 AM EDT

                                          Mrs Wilberforce - One "valuable combatant" doesn't matter to them because there are dozens -- if not hundreds -- more "valuable combatants" waiting in line to take their place.

                                          Not dozens, not hundreds, but about a Billion Fundamentalist Islamic Believers want to become "Islamic Superstars".

                                          Inside Al Quada (make sure you read the full article):

                                          http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/inside-al-qaeda.html

                                          The only means to stop them is to stop their Fundamentalist Islamic Brain Washing since being born. Stopping the incentives, like life long support of their Families, Relatives, etc., praise forever by the Imams at the Mosques (stated as an example of a Real Muslim, Muslim Martyr), etc. would only be temporary as other incentives would then be used (including "extraordinary" force, persuasion, leverage, etc.).

                                          Aaron-2818923 - Only 2 instances of successful (or quasi success) use of RPGs against aircraft that I'm aware of: Blackhawk Down and "Carlos the Jackal's" attempt to shoot at jets on the tarmac at Orly Airport.

                                          Guess you never Served in the US Military during the Vietnam War, the NVA and VC would line up on the known flight paths of US Military Aircraft especially Helicopters and fire in sequence numerous RPGs. We (US Military Asymmetric Warfare Forces) used this same technique against the USSR 40th Army Occupation against their Tanks, PT-76s, BRMDs, Hind Attack Helicopters and SU-25 Attack Aircraft; after finding out (almost getting killed) that the US Military Stingers would not fire due to the IFF, we raided the USSR 40th Army Occupation Munitions Depots to get the USSR SA-7 Anti Aircraft Missiles, Anti Aircraft Heavy Machineguns, etc. during Operation Cyclone (and NO we did not train the later 1990s Fundamentalist Islamic Taliban or the later Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists of Al Quada, nor was Osama Bin Laden even here since he was living with his Rich Relatives at Saudi Arabia forming his Anti US, Anti US Ally, Anti US Ally Saudi Arabia Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Organization of Al Quada).

                                          Current effective range of RPG-7 is about 800 meters. However, they have been rarely used effectively out to 1,000 meters (actually slightly over 1 kilometer at 1,200 meters.).

                                          What everyone needs to be concerned with is the 20,000 Shoulder launched Anti Aircraft Current Generation (21st Century) Russian Federation SA-7 Missiles now in the hands of the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists. As to what President Obama's Overthrow of Former US Ally President Gaddaffi of Libya Caused. Since 80% (actually more, still classified percentage) of the "Libyan Rebels" (Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists of Al Quada Saudi Arabia (AQ), Al Quada Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Quada Syria (AQS), Al Quada Yemen (AQY), Hezbollah, Al Quada Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), etc. actual percentages by groups to equal over 80% are still classified) were actually at Libya prior to the Civil War to get rid of the Collaborator to the Christians, Jews, Unbelievers President Gaddaffi by starting a Civil War (Asymmetric Warfare, Insurgency, get the People to fight for your Cause(s)) by getting the "Guest Workers" (other nations workers brought in to do the work Libyan Citizens refused to do) to demand Libyan Citizens Rights (in writing Contract to the Libyan Citizens by President Gaddaffi in his Green Book, as Human Rights praised by the UN and UA (African Union)); same as Illegal Aliens at the US demanding, 2006 Nationwide Demonstrations of Illegal Aliens, Lobbying for US Citizens Rights; while not paying State (current California situation) or Federal Income Taxes (no employer paperwork, as employer paperwork is used by ICE for apprehensions and deportations) and Work for Cash Only, this is called Felony Criminal Tax Evasion.

                                          The above and the amounts of Discretionary Spending are the Reasons that the Democratic National Committee removed Libya from President Obama's Successes as extremely adverse publicity. The part that made the US European Allies no longer trust the US, was the Libyan Oil that used to supply the US European Allies (except Germany, Oil and NG from Russian Federation) was negotiated by the Libyan Rebels (aka Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadists) with the Islamic Nation of Qatar, the Islamic Nation of Qatar then sold the Libyan Oil to the Chinese (allies of the Fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran). If you know the Name (Title) of President Obama's March 2009 Policy, then you know why all these Actions adverse to the US and US Allies are occuring throughout the World.

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                                          #6.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 6:50 PM EDT

                                          It's very difficult to take out a high-flying plane with a rocket launcher. Since suicide bombers aren't valued as anything more than mules, they are very cheap to train and equip. All they have to do is learn how to blow themselves up in a way that causes maximum damage.

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                                          #6.5 - Sun May 13, 2012 7:12 PM EDT
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                                          And why didn't we have this cooperation earlier? Then it would not have taken over ten years to nail Bin Laden and his cronies...

                                          Better late then never?

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                                          Reply#7 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:41 AM EDT

                                          Wm. Sanders - And why didn't we have this cooperation earlier? Then it would not have taken over ten years to nail Bin Laden and his cronies...

                                          GET THIS THRU YOUR HEAD:

                                          The Original Mission here (Afghanistan) was NOT to get Osama Bin Laden.

                                          The Mission to Locate, Capture or Terminate Osama Bin Laden was ADDED to the rest of the list of Missions AFTER President Bush Amended the US No Assassination Policy in 2006 by Executive Order to bypass the oppositions of the US Congress.

                                          Osama Bin Laden after going into hiding was MARGINALIZED. Everyone was just waiting for Osama Bin Laden to use any Electronic Communications, the information of his Couriers was being intercepted, Osama Bin Laden's Couriers would compromise the other Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Al Quada, Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Pakistanis Taliban, Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Haqquini Network, Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Army of Islam (not the US Ally Pakistanis Government Military), etc. by physically getting in contact with them. Most of Osama Bin Laden's Associates were also Marginalized, with us spending weeks to months observing them, then calling in an MQ strike; as to why one of Osama Bin Laden's last orders was for the Al Quada leaders to go into hiding. So by terminating Osama Bin Laden no more Osama Bin Laden Couriers to follow to the Fundamentalist Islamic Jihadist Al Quada International Franchise 2nd in Command/Operations Officer for us to target and terminate to cause extreme disruption of Al Quada Worldwide Activities, internal in fighting for control of Al Quada, inexperienced being put in Charge of Al Quada, etc..

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                                          #7.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 7:23 PM EDT
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                                          Refuse to allow any Arabs on planes, then maybe they will put a stop to the terrorist activity on innocent travelers. What option are they giving the rest of the world? Terrorism will not end until they are de-funded by the Arab community.

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                                          Reply#8 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:41 AM EDT

                                          While the 9/11 hijackers were all Arab, most terrorists are not. The last couple of attempted airplane bombers were not Arabs. And none of our domestic terrorists have been Arabs - they've all been very, very Caucasian.

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                                          #8.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:11 AM EDT

                                          Don't confuse the masses with facts.

                                          So many people in this country are so ignorant of the rest of the world that it should be funny; instead it's incredibly sad.

                                            #8.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:59 AM EDT
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                                            Diabolical is the only word that comes to mind.

                                            Let's subcontract the elimination of these doctors to the Israelis, since they seem to have a good track record with taking out the Iranian nuclear scientists.

                                            I just wonder the effect on the aviation industry if one of these Muslim extremist wet dreams comes to fruition.

                                            • 3 votes
                                            Reply#9 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:41 AM EDT

                                            As evil as Al-Qaida is, it was only a matter of time until this happens. Remember Islam is the religion of peace.

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                                            Reply#10 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:55 AM EDT

                                            CREATOR of AL-QAIDA is USA GOVERNMENT, Mrs. Clinton nortured Al-Qaida and rasied with great care, now the question that I want to ask the Terrorist Government of USA; that who trained their doctors how to plant BOMB in human??!!.......lollllllz

                                              Reply#11 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:56 AM EDT

                                              This must make the TSA very happy! Now they can spend money with no accountability and no opposition from Congress. After all, what politician wants to say "No" to protecting the public in an election year?

                                              I believe a whole new approch is needed in stopping this crap. We need some thinking from outside the box (DC).

                                              If the Israelis can keep their flying public safe, why can't we? What do they do that we don't/can't?

                                              • 3 votes
                                              Reply#12 - Sun May 13, 2012 8:59 AM EDT

                                              Okeeboy, it is obvious that you have no clue on what the Israelis do different from what we do. One thing you may want to consider is that if you're a woman traveling over sea's you may be subject to a search and it may not be a woman searching you. I know of someone that was subject to a strip search in Italy. Two men in the room having an American woman strip, no woman there doing it just two men. So know your facts before you speak please. If TSA did what other countries did, this country would be in such an uproar over their rights.

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                                              #12.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 1:06 PM EDT
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                                              Botched boob job? It could be worse.

                                                Reply#13 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:00 AM EDT

                                                I think we need to stop allowing immigrants over here for awhile, this is getting really scary now, I think america need's to stop flying to them countries and flying these people back here, what the heck can you do when its inside of there bodies, the only solution is stop these people from coming here.

                                                • 3 votes
                                                Reply#14 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:03 AM EDT

                                                The US is a nation made up of immigrants. Who are "these people" and "them countries" you are talking about.

                                                • 7 votes
                                                #14.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:07 AM EDT

                                                LOL

                                                flying to them countries

                                                That says it all.

                                                :D

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                                                #14.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 12:17 PM EDT

                                                the terrorists and the media have successfully completely brainwashed diane

                                                  #14.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:04 PM EDT

                                                  Too late Diane. They are already here!!!

                                                    #14.4 - Tue May 15, 2012 1:36 PM EDT
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                                                    Great, now people will be put on the no fly list because of breast implants.

                                                      Reply#15 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:04 AM EDT

                                                      after reading this...people will be to...skeerd to go to Hooter's...

                                                        #15.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:18 AM EDT

                                                        Men have breasts too. This stuff could be put into them also..

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                                                        #15.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:52 AM EDT

                                                        Ah, but bombs are bulky enough to be noticed.

                                                          #15.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 7:14 PM EDT
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                                                          It is just hard for me to grasp how much hate these people have in them to even think of such a thing.

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                                                          Reply#16 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:05 AM EDT

                                                          It's hard for me to grasp how much hate there is lurking on internet boards when I read some of the posts.

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                                                          #16.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:10 AM EDT

                                                          It's hard for me to grasp how many people would open their doors to their own doom with PC delusions.

                                                          • 1 vote
                                                          #16.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:59 AM EDT

                                                          Are you talking about terrorists or Republicans?

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                                                          #16.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:00 AM EDT

                                                          @ Jam3965

                                                          Are you talking about terrorists or Republicans?

                                                          There's a difference? LOL

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                                                          #16.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:38 AM EDT
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                                                          Enjoy your new full cavity search travelers. You thought it was bad when they were just feeling you up through your clothes? The TSA now plans on "upgrading" their services to include a full strip down, bend over, and cough, just like in prison.

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                                                          Reply#17 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:06 AM EDT
                                                          happy-aliDeleted

                                                          Right on cue with the fear mongering! Am I the only one that thinks this is yet another terror-related fabrication, trotted out to support the ever expanding police state?

                                                          Is any scenario too absurd not to be exploited? Yes, it's possible to implant bombs in people. It's possible to implant explosives in jelly beans as well. It's also possible that a meteor will hit the earth and destroy us all.

                                                          Are these things probable? No, they're not.

                                                          If you want to live your life in fear of everything - go ahead. You'll make excellent, compliant slaves, mindlessly believing everything that comes out of State's mouth and their media mouthpieces.

                                                          Just look at that picture they show to back up this story - the guy looks like he came right out of central casting for a diabolical plotter. Unfortunately - that's probably exactly what happened.

                                                          Maybe, just maybe if our politicians would stop waging senseless wars, stop ripping apart civilians with predator drones, stop occupying countries and acting like Roman overlords, stop embargoes that kill half a million children, stop the overall insanity of "us vs them" ... maybe then we wouldn't have to worry so much about terrorism. Just a thought. (Who ever wages war against Switzerland, or threatens them with terrorism?)

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                                                          Reply#19 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:10 AM EDT

                                                          Well said.

                                                          When I read this article I could only sit and shake my head. It sounded exactly like some propaganda sheet from Nazi Germany or North Korea. I mean really.

                                                          People have bandied about the notion of implanted bombs for years and years. I think the first time I ever came across the idea was back in the 70's. While I am sure there could be someone out there who will try to perfect this approach to killing innocent people, it has so far been discredited over and over again. This exact same scenario, except for the "boobs" part was trotted out only a few years ago, (maybe even less), by the government.

                                                          What I think is really funny is that in all of these so called plots, especially the current ones, the government keeps telling us about "non metallic" devices and detonation; making it seem really new and scientific and therefore even more scary. I am guessing that they don't think any of us are smart enough to know that pacemakers or similar devices are not only metallic but electrical in nature. If someone wanted to detonate a "body bomb" wouldn't it be really easy just to implant the detonator with the explosives?

                                                          Ah, but that would make an entire group of people with health problems immediately suspect wouldn't it? And Americans might not like being suspected terrorists because they have heart problems. It is all getting to be a little too ridiculous.

                                                          Yemen is now the big Al Qaida hot-spot. It is the @!$%#-hole of all @!$%#-holes and should not even be on the radar, but because of their geographic location, (can you say oil boys and girls), we have been bombing and drone striking them for several years in order to "keep order". They don't even have a government to complain about it. Every time we send a rocket their way all it does is turn more starving desperate people into would be terrorists. Why do we never learn that lesson?

                                                          I am not an isolationist. I think if we must spend our tax dollars overseas it should be in areas like Yemen, Somalia and some of the other African nations that have descended into hellish chaos and brutality and not just the ones with oil interests. In those nations we could use our "might" and our money to really make a difference in peoples lives. You know, instead of just killing them when they become problematic.

                                                          But that's just me I guess.

                                                          It also saddens me when I think about how much money we spend on war while our own citizens go hungry, without health care and are living under bridges, while the profiteers in Congress cut ever more money from programs to help them so that they can continue to raise the spending on the military.

                                                          BTW, anyone notice how we never hear about the tent cities anymore? They are still around, growing ever larger, but you know, that was yesterday's news and everything is fine here. Nothing to see. Move along.

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                                                          #19.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:41 AM EDT

                                                          It will sadden me when terrorists set off a dirty bomb in your neighborhood or some of your relatives get blown out of the skies by people that were merely the target of "propaganda" tactics. If there is such a thing as reincarnation you will most definitely be coming back, along with a few others on this blog, as lemmings near a high cliff! We SPEND so much money on war because most of the people and all of the politicians in this nation have forgotten how to fight a war once we get into one. When around 70% of people who want to go into the military are rejected, and 90% of the 30% that COULD go into the military DON'T because they are too busy occupying places, running their mouths, or generally calling for the kumbayaniziation of the world, and 40% of those that DO go into the military are there due to political correctness and social reengineering - it's no wonder we can't even beat a bunch of illiterate savages in the Middle East. In addition, you can only go hungry in American if you're too friggin stupid to apply for food stamps, AFDC, and about 64 other programs designed to make those that work pay for those that don't, or in the case of illegal mexicans, don't know how to lie on the Child Tax Credit portion of your 1040. My solution, bring back the draft, conscript every street person, unemployed person, and those that contribute nothing to the nation (likes students in college) and put them on our borders or send them to obliterate our enemies when talk and negotiation has failed. When the elites, their kids, and the pacifists have to go serve - it will be a different story concerning how willing we are to go to war in the first place and how long it will take us to win the damn thing.

                                                            #19.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:53 AM EDT

                                                            Right Jaque - and my warning about the use of hijacked jet aircraft by terrrorists when teaching anti-terrorism 15 years ago that was seen as implausible was "fear mongering" - until 9/11~! It always amazes me how people come out of the wood-work spouting off about that which they know nothing and then are the first one's to scream and blame people when something happens. You really need to read up on methods of attack that terrorists use, and have used, going back to the time of Julius Caesar. If there is anything they rely on it's doing the unpredictable to achieve the predictable, and usually the naive, unprepared, and stupid are the victims.

                                                              #19.3 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:59 AM EDT

                                                              And, in response, you invent conspiracy speculations which are so much more intelligent.

                                                                #19.4 - Sun May 13, 2012 2:07 PM EDT

                                                                Right Jaque - and my warning about the use of hijacked jet aircraft by terrrorists when teaching anti-terrorism 15 years ago that was seen as implausible was "fear mongering" - until 9/11~! I

                                                                You can't mean you ACTUALLY BELIEVE the 9-11 report - can you? My god, have you never done ANY independent research on the web? The list of impossibilities is longer than a politicians nose - staring with the actual "hijackers" - almost 1\3 of whom are alive and well walking the earth.

                                                                WTC Building 7 - which fell free fall style - after being hit with NOTHING!

                                                                A BBC commentator reading a "news report" indicating WTC 7 had already fallen - when in LIVE coverage behind her - it was still standing - a half hour before it actually collapsed?

                                                                The Pentagon hit - which although the most security "cameraed" building in the USA - can't release the actual footage of being hit? (The inane footage released shows nothing.)

                                                                The black boxes of two jetliners go missing, yet a pristine passport of one of the alleged hijackers is found amid a million tons of dust and rubble?

                                                                Hijackers who could hardly fly a prop plane turn into top ace commandos, doing maneuvers that are all but physically impossible for even the most experienced fighter pilots to achieve?

                                                                Jets that leave a crash impact SMALLER than the plane's imprint?

                                                                And dozens and dozens of impossibilities more, just sitting there in plain view... yet no one in the main stream media even seems to give a sh* t?

                                                                A gibbering idiot can see this is all absurd... yet you still want to believe the "official story?"

                                                                I'll retire to Bedlam.

                                                                  #19.5 - Sun May 13, 2012 7:11 PM EDT

                                                                  Hijackers who could hardly fly a prop plane turn into top ace commandos, doing maneuvers that are all but physically impossible for even the most experienced fighter pilots to achieve?

                                                                  yeah, because it's soooo difficult to fly straight and level like the planes that hit WTC....

                                                                  WTC Building 7 - which fell free fall style - after being hit with NOTHING!

                                                                  little detail of having several main structural cross-beams being severed by a chunk of the first building notwithstanding... (we won't talk about the stupidity of the "free-fall" non-argument)

                                                                  The black boxes of two jetliners go missing, yet a pristine passport of one of the alleged hijackers is found amid a million tons of dust and rubble?

                                                                  not impossible, just unlikely, yet thousands upon thousands of pristine pieces of paper managed to survive,

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                                                                  #19.6 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:28 PM EDT
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                                                                  Panetta will recommend a zillion $$$ more US tax dollars to protect the sheeple, and Israel, from a dreamed up threat. No more of our money for the military complex hoax. Remember, the joke's on you $$$$.

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                                                                  Reply#20 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:12 AM EDT
                                                                  Comment author avatarGay Mellow-Everettvia Facebook

                                                                  The 9/11 terrirists were saudi nationals yet we attack every other country except the one that trains and carries ouit terrorism worldwide.

                                                                  The whole terror plot is just mmore war profiteering just as this latest underwear bomb scam has already proven.

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                                                                  Reply#21 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:14 AM EDT

                                                                  want to hear something funny. We fund Al Qaeda, it's the CIA. It's all over non main stream media and many people in the middle east refer to them as Al CIADA. The war in Syria and Libya is a joke and false flag attacks are happening everywhere. This fear mongering by the US government is meant to enslave it's own people under communism or corporate fascism. Take your pick. The real terrorists r in WASHINGTON. <WAKE UP and don't listen to them anymore>

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                                                                  Reply#22 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:15 AM EDT

                                                                  Thank God For Some Real Sanity and Clarity on this Board! Thank You Gary Mello-Everett, thrill22 and malcchio Thank You!

                                                                  You ever notice how more and more Bazaar and Stupid these Dumb Ass Alcrappa Stories become, by the Dumb Asses perpetrating them, followed by they can neither confirm or deny?

                                                                  Exactly fueled by The real Corrupt Corporate Fascist/Socialist/Marxist Thugs,Gangsters, who are in Washington,followed by don't listen any of the Bull Sh it!

                                                                  This whole Terrorist Boogey Man Bull Sh it,is fueled by a Billions of Dollars for a Military Hoax.

                                                                  Unfricken Believable anmd pathetic, how all these people fall for, and swallow this ton of Bull Sh it.As P.T. Barnum,may or may not have said THERE'S A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE!

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                                                                  #22.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 11:54 AM EDT
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                                                                  Thats nothing, the Americans can put a cruise missle up the ass of a camel from a thousand miles away.

                                                                    Reply#23 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 AM EDT

                                                                    Nothing new here, this has been talked about for at least a decade by terrorism analysts and trial runs, such as a notable assassination attempt in the Arabian Peninsula, prove that the modal concept is indeed ready for operational deployment. And no specialized technical training is needed, only aseptic surgical technique, which any competent doctor with surgical training and additional access to anesthetics and wide-spectrum antibiotics can perform. It is amazing that terrorists have not engaged in this inventive modus operandi before now.

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                                                                    Reply#24 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:24 AM EDT

                                                                    I know a few congressmen that could use a nice implant.

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                                                                    Reply#25 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:37 AM EDT
                                                                    jeff0052Deleted

                                                                    no more stupid than congressmen that say the earth was created in a literal 6 days and only 6000 years ago

                                                                    (which implies an iq test should be given to congressmen)

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                                                                    #25.2 - Sun May 13, 2012 5:09 PM EDT
                                                                    jeff0052Deleted

                                                                    Spoken of in the bible? Let's talk about what's "spoken" of in Harry Potter books. Really...

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                                                                    #25.4 - Mon May 14, 2012 12:26 AM EDT

                                                                    jeff, pick a creation myth, ANY creation myth. can you "positively prove" that any or all of them are completely false?

                                                                    but actually, yes, it has been repeatedly proven, through physics, geology, biology, astrophysics, etc. that it is impossible for the Earth to be only 6000 years old.

                                                                      #25.5 - Mon May 14, 2012 2:30 AM EDT
                                                                      jeff0052Deleted

                                                                      and what will be found out? ...

                                                                      nothing, i'll be dead just like I was before I was born.

                                                                      prove that you won't come back as a horse or something, you can't

                                                                      your empty threats from ancient texts are meaningless

                                                                        #25.7 - Tue May 15, 2012 12:08 AM EDT
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                                                                        There is something seriously wrong with those people. They follow one really sick religion. If I'm a "bigot" for not wanting to "honor kill" my children, blow people up, or have sex with a dead woman, than please--call me a bigot!

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                                                                        Reply#26 - Sun May 13, 2012 9:41 AM EDT

                                                                        I'm going to call you what you are a simple white man; that rapes his own children's. A sick S.O.B. Now get on the road and give me the finger.

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                                                                        #26.1 - Sun May 13, 2012 10:56 AM EDT

                                                                        I wouldn't be giving you the finger Julius-- I don't want my head cut off or to get blown up. Is that 6 hours after your wifes' dead that you people can still have sex with them? That's really civilized John, really, really civilized--shows a lot of respect for women. I don't think even animals behave like you people. Nothing SIMPLE about you, that's for sure, Islam is one complicated, well developed illness.

                                                                          #26.2 - Mon May 14, 2012 8:30 PM EDT

                                                                          georgethetroll : Take your meds. Racism is now proven to be a treatable problem with some medication.

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                                                                          #26.3 - Thu May 24, 2012 7:48 AM EDT

                                                                          India??you're kidding--they have computers in India??

                                                                            #26.4 - Thu May 24, 2012 8:26 PM EDT
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