In the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dzakovic says, the team was able to breach security about 90% of the time, sneaking bombs and submachine guns past airport screeners. Expensive new bomb detection machines consistently failed, he says...
"Immediately (after 9/11), numerous government officials from FAA as well as other government agencies made defensive statements such as, 'How could we have known this was going to happen?' " Dzakovic testified later before the 9/11 Commission. "The truth is, they did know."
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"There is no Al-Qaeda in Iraq." - Nazi Pelosi
If anyone still thinks the democrats aren't the terrorists' party, you are an idiot/lib.
Mike
Able Danger
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp9H2hJv45o
Tube-tummy
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_j_m__ber_061121_terry_nichols_3a_i_hav.htm
Bruce Willis
Hugh Chavez = idiot communist = lib hero
If you also want to make sure that terrorists have constitutional protections, vote for Michael T Justice and the other insane, traitor libs.
Mike...death to the communists
U.S. has most prisoners in world due to tough laws
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-12-09T161427Z_01_N09449134_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-PRISONERS.xml&WTmodLoc=USNewsHome_C1_%5bFeed%5d-2
Coffee cannon
I hate staying up until 2 am to find out that kc will be playing music. What a rip! Will you tell us when you are not going to be there???
George the racist
The Saudi Factor
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Posted 12/11/2006
Mideast: Missing from the Baker report's 79 recommendations for stopping the
violence in Iraq is perhaps the most obvious one: getting our "ally" Saudi
Arabia to stop funding the insurgency there.
The 160-page report reveals on page 29 that the Saudis are backing the Sunni
terrorists who are killing U.S. soldiers next door. But then it never
returns to the subject. Poof! It's as if it were never mentioned.
"Funding for the Sunni insurgency comes from private individuals within
Saudi Arabia," the report says, almost as a footnote, even as the kingdom
pledges cooperation with U.S. military operations in Iraq and the broader
war on terror.
It's odd that the Iraq Study Group, led by Bush family friend James A. Baker
III, fails to follow up on such an outrage. It's worth noting, however, that
Baker's Houston-based law firm represented Saudi Defense Minister Prince
Sultan in the $1 trillion lawsuit against members of the Saudi royal family
filed by relatives of 9/11 victims. Sultan eventually was dismissed as a
defendant.
Riyadh insists it knows nothing of such payments to Iraqi insurgents. But
the Associated Press reports that boxes of cash collected from Saudi mosques
and charities are being trucked and bused across the border into Iraq.
In one recent case, $25 million in Saudi money went to a top Iraqi Sunni
cleric and was used to buy weapons, including a shoulder-fired anti-aircraft
missile. Last month the U.S. lost an F-16, possibly to such a missile. It
went down over western Iraq.
The kingdom's denials ring hollow against another little-reported fact: Most
of the foreign fighters captured or killed in Iraq hail from Saudi Arabia.
The statistic was never mentioned in the Baker report. But it's well known
among U.S. military and Iraqi officials who have complained about the steady
supply of jihadists coming from Saudi.
After U.S. officials took the issue up with Saudi officials last April, the
Saudi interior minister allowed that some Saudi youth were being lured to
fight in Iraq (by Saudi clerics, including the chief justice of Saudi's
sharia court, according to Senate testimony last November). He made
overtures about building a fence along Saudi's frontier with Iraq. The
oil-rich kingdom still has not built the fence.
But it has released another 29 former Gitmo detainees from jail. We agreed
to hand them over into Saudi custody, and the Saudis thought it would be a
nice gesture to spring them during Ramadan last month.
We've warned in earlier editorials of the danger of releasing suspected
terrorists to Saudi and Pakistan. Many have simply been turned loose to
rejoin the jihad against the American "crusaders."
We wouldn't be surprised if the 29 freed Saudi men show up in Iraq as
recycled terrorists. And there are many more where they came from. Detainees
from Saudi make up the largest group at Gitmo, and additional repatriation
plans are in the works.
They may not even bother joining the battlefields overseas. They could end
up in our own backyard. It bears repeating that three-fourths of the 9/11
hijackers were Saudi nationals.
Back to Iraq. By focusing on negotiations with Iran and Syria to help
stabilize Iraq, the Baker report ignores the larger and more direct role
played by Saudi in destabilizing Iraq.
In fact, the Baker group has it backward: Saudi, not Syria or Iran, is the
supplier of the greatest number of foreign terrorists and amount of funding
for jihad in Iraq, and is most deserving of firm diplomatic intervention.
Yet Baker lets the kingdom off the hook � even praising it for holding a
recent Islamic conference in Mecca with Iraqi clerics � as if they are in
full cooperation with our efforts in Iraq and in full alignment with our
interests in the region.
The White House, for its part, is silent on what looks to be a far more
egregious example of a state sponsoring terror in Iraq. In the dark days
after 9/11, the president warned such states: "From this day forward, any
nation that continues to harbor or support terrorists will be regarded by
the United States as a hostile regime."
Saudi Arabia since then has been rewarded with a mass evacuation of its
citizens, most of whom were not interviewed by the FBI; censorship of a
congressional report documenting its role in 9/11; entry into the WTO; and
an additional 21,000 visas for a wave of young Saudi men to attend colleges
here. They are flooding campuses across the nation right now.
Why is Saudi Arabia still getting a pass?
Orange Safari
Big Dog,
Having no balls defines white male libs...hence the high, whiney voices and weak foreign policy. Why would you expect anything else?
Mike...count 'em
No, I don't think you can save him. He'll believe anything if it makes white people look bad or black people look like victims...if not both. For example, he still believes the CIA (whitey) pushed crack into the ghettos to destroy the blacks (victim).
If you are 40 and a lib, you have no mind.
Mike...for 2
Despite the volumes of books which could be written on MTJ's ineptitude, the worst part is that he walked out on Him.
mike
A duck and a pigeon sitting at a bar discussing hobbies: one says to the other "I drink for glory, what are your hobbies?" The other bloke says "I keep bees." The drunk says " Really, how many bees do you have?" Inresponse "Roughly 50,000." A blurred reference "Where does a man keep 50,000 bees?" The jew says "..in a shoebox in my closet."
Robert Novak
That was antisemitic. I guess Russ is back.
Mike
Great. MTJ is going to be replaced by a muslim terrorist.
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