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TERRORISTS CAUGHT ON I-75

allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,695 ✭✭✭✭
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
They were overheard making their demonic plans by a Shoney's waitress. In other words, terrorists so dumb even the FBI could catch them.

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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    I think that another group of terrorists bought the "Wafflehouse" in Fort Payne,Alabama!

    Just when you think your out of the woods,a tree falls on you!
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    So, we have 3 guys driving to Miami, supposedly running "5 hours late," meaning they could be meeting somebody. One guy asks the other guy if they have enough explosives, meaning he may not actually have laid eyes on them. And we have two cars, both of which alert the explosive dogs, but neither of which may have explosive in them right now -- so my question is, where are those explosives NOW? Do they have all the plotters, or just a few running down from Chicago to watch or help out? And what is it they're worried about "bringing down?" A plane, or a structure? If not a plane, then a building? A bridge? What? The governor is already making noises like he's not worried. I would be scrambling to have local LEOs checking out every landmark in the state... Particularly big impressive ones where a lot of people could be hurt at once... I hope they're not relying on this "crime scene" being their only worry.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Let me and a few of the board members in this forum intarogate the terrorists for a few hours unsupervised and I can guarantee I would have every detail of what they were up to and who they are affiliated with.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I heard this on the radio this morning, anybody got the whole story?
  • susiesusie Member Posts: 7,685 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Add to the same scenario: Men on board an airliner shaving their bodies after having paced the aisles in an agitated manner, and a Libyan registered ship refused entry to a harbor due to detection of radiation. It does appear to be establishing a pattern.

    ***There's a difference between living and living well!***
  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427
    edited November -1
    A thought provoking incident does as much damage as action.

    "A wise man is a man that realizes just how little he knows"
  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, doesn't it sound incongruent that ; one they would be talking in english?, two they would be talking in front of an outsider? i hate it but our enemies are not that dumb. i'm thinking along the lines of 4g'&c', what if the waitress had been armed, or some of the patrons, a few minutes and the panic is over, plus you know where jimmy hoffa is buried . respt submitted dads-freehold

    if your going to be a savage, be a headhunter
  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    I would charge them with inciting a panic and deport the rag headed camel humpers.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,695 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah, freehold, in my sarcastic way in the first post I was implying that this might be a panic over nothing. The badasses who hijacked those planes a year ago were not overheard making plans by waitresses. They didn't do something so stupid as to not pay tolls. I see this hue and cry and closing of the road and bomb squads. When the s### was hitting the fan a year ago all we needed was some pistols on ankle holsters of some pilots and the case would have been closed.
  • nitrouznitrouz Member Posts: 1,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wish the CIA would hire me to do some counter terrorism against the terrorists. If only I knew Arabic......
  • sodbustersodbuster Member Posts: 2,305 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When mislims "in jest", taunt America by saying these things so Americans can hear them, ie,,don't drink Coke, don't drink pepsi,something big is happening in Miami, they are LAUGHING at America. They are LAUGHING at the attack on America on Sept. 11, 2001. They are LAUGHING at the pain and suffering that America has felt, and is feeling. These are DEATH threats,,we are at WAR,,the RAG heads need to know quickly that if they continue this pitiful charade that they are OUT of our country.
    And then also, maybe its a "boy who cried wolf" ploy in which they want us to become numb to the everyday threats, so when the real threats are present we pay them no attention.

    "Just my opinion."
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I heard about the people locking themselves in an aircraft's restrooms, but I didn't know they were shaving their bodies. That's a definite prelim to a terrorist act, I believe. Seems to me the hijackers did that.

    As for the Georgia-Florida story, if you haven't heard it all by now, on Sept. 12 a woman diner and her son were sitting in a Shoney's booth next to 3 middle-eastern young men. There was only a latticework between the two booths, which were side by side. The woman claims she never made eye contact. The men said things in whispers, and other things which she and her son could hear clearly, including, laughing about 9/11, and saying that if people cried on Sept. 11, they will cry again on Sept 13. One of the men said "we're running 5 hours late." One man asked another, "do we have enough to bring it down." The man answered, "Yes; if we don't, I have a contact so we can GET enough."

    The woman admits the men made her angry, while her son thought they were fooling with her through the latticework. She took down the license plate and a description of both Japanese cars when the men left and called police. They were waiting at the toll booth to see if the men continued on the main route to Miami (there are very few through routes down there). Sure enough, the two cars reached the toll booth at the midpoint of Florida's "alligator alley" around 1 a.m. One car stopped to pay the toll but the other circumvented the tollbooth and tried to proceed. 8-10 miles further down the road, the car that blew through the toll booth was pulled over by a black & white, and the other car pulled over behind. The cop called for backup, and the detention and search operation began. Explosives dogs "alerted" on both cars. The bomb squad continued its work, stripping the linings and carpet out of both cars, blowing up one backpack, etc. The police described the men as "extrememly uncooperative." Nothing was found but some medical chemicals, and the three were medical students on their way to a weekend convention. Two are "naturalized" Americans and one is here legally on a visa. They were released after several hours.

    The fact that two witnesses heard them talking, one car blew a tollbooth, the dogs alerted to both cars, and the men refused to cooperate with police when questioned -- including telling conflicting stories, even about who they were, makes it sticky for them to try to claim they were unjustly detained.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878

    Edited by - offeror on 09/14/2002 15:14:08
  • The LawThe Law Member Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nitrouz, Learning to speak arabic is easy, but there is a trick to it...first you have to fill your mouth with camel *...then speak your normal english...it will come out as arabic...you'll also have matched up the breath at the same time...they will then accept anyone, as one of their own...

    "Don't mistake my honesty for weakness...
  • GatofeoGatofeo Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am ashamed of the anti-Arab sentiment in this post.
    When my German/Belgian ancestors were living in wood and mud huts, the Arabs had already built extensive cities. Arabs created the numeral system we now use. If you think that isn't a major benefit to society, try doing multiplication or division with Roman numerals.
    Arabs brought tremendous advances in architecture, medicine, astronomy, international affairs (they had emissaries traveling as far as northern Europe 1,000 years ago) and art.
    The Hispanic gentleman who converted to Islam, and is suspected of smuggling "dirty" radioactive bomb plans, may be a terrorist.
    Why no outcry against Hispanics?
    I don't judge anyone by their religion, language, culture or skin color. I was raised that way, because I'm an American and a patriot.
    If someone's belief or culture runs contrary to America's ideals, then yes, I strongly dislike that.
    But until that person crosses the line into criminal action, he or she has a right to their opinion. The First Amendment says it; I believe it.
    I just think there's entirely too much Arab-bashing going on right now. Let's rain Hell down on those worthy of our wrath, not those we dislike because of their ancestry.

    "A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"
  • The LawThe Law Member Posts: 2,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Geez!...Lighten up! or shut up!...footballs on!...

    "Don't mistake my honesty for weakness...
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To think I was commenting with my son the other day about Half-life
    game easiest way to set up booby traps and mines ,minutes later I see this lady desesperate to make a call (ALL phones were dead) in the place I was, so she desesperately followed me in the street , I saw
    this deaf man (that usualy hangs by the place) and gave him a dollar
    before boarding the bus and spoke in an angle (No lip reading)take
    this message to Bin laden Is urgent .... Quite loud so the lady heard
    and, She just followed HIM ! I am still cracking up !!!!I wonder was she FBI,local police,or plain idiot with James Bond complex....

    I don't want to findout......
    LOL...!!!!
    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gatofeo

    Just immagine if it was not Bin Laden ......

    That the real planers were Puerto Rican macheteros infiltrated In
    Al-quaeda and in the CIA (Latinos)...

    There always strange and worst than fiction may be realitys....

    Ugly cats Anyone ? .....


    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • STEERZ@NDSTRIPESSTEERZ@NDSTRIPES Member Posts: 370 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    JUST TRY IT.

    JUSTICE WITHOUT MERCY
    IS TYRANY, MERCY WITHOUT
    JUSTICE IS WEAKNESS

    CHRISTIAN,AMERICAN
    HETEROSEXUAL,PROGUN
    CONSERVATIVE
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gatofeo --
    You have nothing to be ashamed of. You didn't write anything here until now. We're not mad at all of an ethnic group, at least I'm not. I'm only upset with terrorists and inciters. It's nothing to joke about any more. Al Qaeda is an enemy, self-declared.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Offeror its not a few muslims terrorist anymore ,its 600M muslims
    its just we havebt being told yet......

    Welcome to the Crusades my friend...... it's so tragic sometimes a joke is the only way to keep sanity......

    (see my latest post) NO joke to it.....

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31071


    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • GatofeoGatofeo Member Posts: 230 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I didn't take exception to your post, Offeror.
    I took exception to others posts that included, "rag-headed camel humpers," the wish by another that he torture them for information (without benefit of any Constitutional Rights, presumably), and to speak Arabic one need only fill his mouth with camel dung.
    Such bigoted statements are unAmerican.
    I can understand the hatred, however. I just can't condone it.
    If anyone is convicted of terrorism, I'll be the first to volunteer for their firing squad.
    And I daily wish that Hell rains down on members of the Taliban, and sears their flesh in unending agony. I'm human; I have deep hatreds.
    But until the terrorism suspects we hold are found guilty, they are protected by the U.S. Constitution. It's what makes this country great and worth fighting for.
    "Innocent until proven guilty" is not just for people of European ancestry, such as I am. It is for all, citizens and non-citizens held on American soil.
    That's the ideal we should respect and strive for.
    I served my country in the Air Force from 1974 to 1979. I now work for the U.S. Army as a civilian.
    It's strange, but I don't hear much "raghead" talk from the troops who may soon be fighting in Iraq. Most of them hate the Taliban and want to slaughter them, but I hear no blanket hatred of Afghanis.
    It bothers me when I see people forget or ignore an ideal of this country, that all men (meaning women as well, of course) are created equal and are to be treated equal under the Law.
    I know that sounds rather Boy Scoutish of me, but I believe that it should be strived for at all times. I know .. I know .. if you have enough money you can buy your "not guilty" pronouncement in this country, but at least it isn't as pervasive as it is in many other countries.
    We all need to remember, especially during these trying times, that the First and Fourth Amendments are not merely words, but a code to live by and protect.
    Some in our government would like to weaken or totally subvert those amendments, in the name of security. I see little security in no-knock searches, calls for stifling the media and holding people for months without charging them.
    God help us all if we become victims of such practices. All it takes is a hateful --- and unstable --- neighbor placing a phone call about "that gun nut down the street" and claiming he heard you planning to mow down a mosque, kill "ragheads" or even help arm the Taliban. Who among us are immune from such slander?
    We are all particularly susceptible to this kind of malice right now; The nation and its law enforcement agencies are on edge, understandably.
    I too have difficulty containing my anger at the Afghans, but I try to remember what a great country I live in and I thank God(s) that I was born here.
    Both my parents fought in World War II. My father as a G.I. in Europe and the South Pacific. My mother, as a member of the Belgian Resistance. My mother was twice imprisoned by the Gestapo and her first husband was thrown into a German toture camp. He was executed two weeks before D-Day.
    Both my parents witnessed what blind hatred and an air of superiority does to a nation and its people.
    Enough said. I won't respond further to this post as I have no desire to flog a dead horse.
    We are all entitled to our opinion. The problem is, some opinions are downright dangerous and unAmerican, especially during these times.

    "A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"
  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gatofeo you are right ,psycologicaly its the scapegoat sindrome the need to make and manufacture an scapegoat for all the evils in the world, Adolph Hitler made good use of it but the new generation does not like to read history books, a historian can predict the future of
    America as some did with Germany......


    Hail bush ! our savior and lord, long live.....



    ZIG HEIL !

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    JD: I thought WE were the scapegoat???
  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's what is going to make this war on terrorists so interesting. We are all getting a remedial education on who is covered by the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Please note that only American citizens are protected by U.S. constitutional rights. Foreigners must trust our good will and good human rights record, and our willingness to be peaceful with peaceful people.

    Never assume prisoners of war, alien detainees, or enemies are protected by U.S. constitutional rights, nor will they be tried in U.S. civil or criminal courts. Enemy soldiers are captured, held, and tried by the military, when and where it is feasible to take prisoners. If they are captured in-country, they may be held by law enforcement, but they may also be turned over to the military if they are aliens. And war prisoners may be interrogated by us or our allies, at our discretion. Don't forget that huge difference.

    We are fortunate to be American citizens, and not foreign enemies of America. Our foreign enemies will be in for a big surprise if they try to hide behind our Constitution. There is no legal obligation to abide by it in time of war, with non-American enemies. They are not covered by any of our precious documents of freedom, and if they choose to attack us, they do not have the right to expect leniency.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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