Hi y’all!
I’m glad the accusations are loud and in the MSM. They’ve stepped over a line here and the bias and Bush bashing is now blatantly obvious to every security-seeking American. Especially as more and more information is coming out.
That New Yorker article was excellent. Besides the overall drift there were a couple of things that screamed at me. One was what the French counter-terrorism judge told the author…
“The Spanish police had made him wait a year before allowing him to interview Zougam. After BruguiËre went back to Paris, the Spanish police put Zougam under surveillance and searched his apartment, finding jihadi tapes and videos. The authorities briefly renewed their interest in him after the 2003 Casablanca bombings, but once again there was insufficient evidence to arrest him.”
Emphasis mine. I wonder what it will take before various European countries get their own ‘Patriot Act’? I wonder if that would even help, though, as I doubt we could arrest someone only because they’re in possession of jihadi videos. But dropping interest in someone like that makes you wonder.
Of course it didn’t take the Spanish long to find the perpetrators of Madrid….after the fact…and that just isn’t good enough.
Speaking of the Patriot Act, I wish Glen Reynolds would actually, you know, tell us which specific parts of it bother him and why. I wouldn’t mind his or anyone’s thoughts on the difference between absolute civil liberties and those that may be compromised temporarily during times such as these…or if some people feel that absolutely NO civil liberty EVER should be denied to citizens or non-citizens. Not now though…another thread, another time.
The other thing that caught my eye was
“in Chechnya many recruits are being trained to exploit the technical advantages of developed countries. ìSome of these groups have the capacity for hijacking satellites,î he told me. Capturing signals beamed from space, terrorists could devastate the communications industry, shut down power grids, and paralyze the ability of developed countries to defend themselves.”
You know, it doesn’t matter if the internet stays up if you don’t have the juice to use computers.
And (thanks for the link, Knucklehead) I’m really glad that Khan is turning out to be such a big fish! Yes, AQ will have to make some changes but any organization on its toes knows immediately to change codes and such when someone is captured.
Oh, just heard on the news that the Brits had told us (because of information from someone captured there) that a specific time frame for the attacks was given as two months before the election here…the early part of September.
I don’t have a good feeling about this…except that our getting the word out may inhibit the planned attack(s) and I’m sure they’re working furiously to find whoever the wouldbe perpetrators are.
Poll watching and daily talking points seem so frivolous now. Like waiting to catch the sports news for the results of your favorite team while your house is burning down.
