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Originally posted by esdad71
There are terrorists in this country that have NOTHING to do with our government folks. This is not fearmongering but fact.
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
if planes didnt hit the WTC the what did hit it. I must ask.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by justsomeboreddude
if planes didnt hit the WTC the what did hit it. I must ask.
Possibly an orchestratration of planted explosives and holographic special effects co-ordinated by Zioinist Hollywood producers and reform rabbis.
As plausible an explanation as some I've heard.
Mike
The FBI agent with a high-profile role in yesterday's arrests of four men for plotting a terror attack in New York has a pretty interesting -- and controversial -- track record.
Special Agent Robert Fuller, whose name appears at the top of the federal criminal complaint in the case, had a hand in the FBI's failure to nab two of the 9/11 hijackers, had one of his informants set himself on fire in front of the White House, and was involved in misidentifying a Canadian man as a terrorist leading to his secret arrest and torture -- a case that is now the subject of a major lawsuit.
Fuller is listed as the lead agent in the arrests of four men yesterday who officials say were trying to blow up a couple of synagogues and shoot a military jet from the sky. But as in other cases of seemingly inept homegrown terrorists, the four suspects were supplied (inert) weapons from an FBI informant, and in coming weeks we'll learn more about how much that informant goaded the four suspects into carrying out the supposed acts of terrorism. The case is being prosecuted in the Southern District of New York. (James Margolin, an FBI spokesman said the agency declines to comment for this story, because Fuller is a potential witness in an ongoing prosecution.)
Fuller was also on the team that was tasked to track down two of the 9/11 hijackers in August, 2001, prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
The New York Observer reported that after the CIA told the FBI that the two hijackers, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi were in the United States, Fuller was assigned to bring them into custody on Aug. 23, 2001, 19 days prior to the attacks.
A fellow agent, the Observer reported, had labeled the lead "routine," meaning that Fuller had 30 days to catch them. Fuller went through local databases, checked Mihdhar's New York hotel and then let it drop. Standard procedure, the papers said, held that he also should have search commercial databases, but he did not.
He later claimed that he consulted ChoicePoint database on Sept. 4 or 5, but the 9/11 Commission later concluded that the FBI did not consult that database until after the attacks, the newspaper said.
Originally posted by Night Watchman
So, we should not take anything the MSM reports at face value (a sentiment I agree with by the way) but we should take the report from some website at face value?
Unless you have some additional sources that corroborate the report in the OP then that is exactly what you are doing. It constantly amazes me how some here will lecture about the dangers of believing the MSM and yet accept the word of someone like Alex Jones (or the website quoted in the OP).
You can't deny ignorance if you are only skeptical about sources that report news that does not fit into your preconceived world view.
Originally posted by dubiousone
reply to post by dashen
You do know, don't you, that the troll is just encouraged by the attention.
THE NEW YORK TIMES
* * * * *
Thursday October 28, 1993 Page A1
"Tapes Depict Proposal to Thwart
Bomb Used in Trade Center Blast"
By Ralph Blumenthal
Law-enforcement officials were told that terrorists were building a bomb that was eventually used to blow up the World Trade Center, and they planned to thwart the plotters by secretly substituting harmless powder for the explosives, an informer said after the blast.
The informer was to have helped the plotters build the bomb and supply the fake powder, but the plan was called off by an F.B.I. supervisor who had other ideas about how the informer, Emad Salem, should be used, the informer said.
The account, which is given in the transcript of hundreds of hours of tape recordings that Mr. Salem secretly made of his talks with law-enforcement agents, portrays the authorities as being in a far better position than previously known to foil the February 26th bombing of New York City's tallest towers.
The explosion left six people dead, more than a thousand people injured, and damages in excess of half-a-billion dollars. Four men are now on trial in Manhattan Federal Court [on charges of involvement] in that attack.
Mr. Salem, a 43-year-old former Egyptian Army officer, was used by the Government [of the United States] to penetrate a circle of Muslim extremists who are now charged in two bombing cases: the World Trade Center attack, and a foiled plot to destroy the United Nations, the Hudson River tunnels, and other New York City landmarks. He is the crucial witness in the second bombing case, but his work for the Government was erratic, and for months before the World Trade Center blast, he was feuding with the F.B.I.
Supervisor `Messed It Up'
After the bombing, he resumed his undercover work. In an undated transcript of a conversation from that period, Mr. Salem recounts a talk he had had earlier with an agent about an unnamed F.B.I. supervisor who, he said, "came and messed it up."
"He requested to meet me in the hotel," Mr. Salem says of the supervisor.
"He requested to make me to testify, and if he didn't push for that, we'll be going building the bomb with a phony powder, and grabbing the people who was involved in it. But since you, we didn't do that."
The transcript quotes Mr. Salem as saying that he wanted to complain to F.B.I. Headquarters in Washington about the Bureau's failure to stop the bombing, but was dissuaded by an agent identified as John Anticev.
Mr. Salem said Mr. Anticev had told him,
"He said, I don't think that the New York people would like the things out of the New York Office to go to Washington, D.C."
Another agent, identified as Nancy Floyd, does not dispute Mr. Salem's account, but rather, appears to agree with it, saying of the `New York people':
"Well, of course not, because they don't want to get their butts chewed."
Originally posted by masonwatcher
Glad to see we agree on some points. Also what is going on in the ME has nothing to do with religion, it is about power; the pursuit and the application of power. Religion is about mobilising the plebs and pulling the wool over the eyes of the American tax payer.
Originally posted by SKIN-E
Whole time I knew this was bull. I turned on the news and heard this immediately changed the channel. Like the damn media is gullable. The government feels like they find one small thing even if its fluke to just get the attention of the country and expect good graces. Like theyr trying to gain theyr respect back or something
Originally posted by nunya13
The only terrorists we should be afraid of are the ones who are religious fanatics with ties to some big kahunas able to provide the finances and materials in order for them to carry out systematic attacks on American soil. The ones that are motivated by zealotry and ideology, not making money.
These were most obviously NOT those kinds of terrorists. I'm pretty sure that we can't even call these petty criminals "terrorists" at all.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Why are there apologists for people preparing to kill innocent people?
Originally posted by dashen
Yep. And then there's the CIA. Who actually recruits REAL terrorists to do REAL attacks. But you'll never ever see THAT on the front page of the Daily News. Bastards.