[Newsbot]

Title: Al-Qaida planning Christmas attack?
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-12-16 17:18:44

[GreenTiger]

Hopefully we can stop this one too.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Awww..and I didn't get them anything for Christams Is it too late to send them a B-52 bomb run?

[jeff744]

It seems they really don't want people to leave, nothing better to piss off a population up than completely disregarding an international holiday.

[Thanos]

And during the TSA pat-down uproar of the last few weeks, people have too quickly forgotten that the thing was caused by proven terrorist attacks/attempted attacks including Sept 11, the shoe-bomber, the liquid explosives plot that resulted in all outside fluids being banned from planes, the car bomb attack on the Glasgow airport, and last year's underwear bomber.

It's easy to get cynical about the government but these attacks and what-not keep happening. And so enhanced security for ailines and airports, even the most annoying and intrusive kind, is here to stay for the forseeable future. For all the faults in our reactions to them the fact remains that a large part of the terrorist threat is a grim reality.

[PostFactum]

So let's prepare

[Johnny_H]

I propose that Santa gives them more live ordnance for Christmas. Those North Pole Predator drones can be flown by Elves thousands of miles away.

I love technology & so does Santa!

[Lemmy]

Maybe it's time to fight fire with fire. If something blows up in London, something gets blown up in Riyadh. Something gets blown up in New York, something gets blown up in Jakarta. Something get's blown up in Madrid, something gets blown up in Tehran. It's time to start making the nations that spawn terrorism pay for their citizens' actions...payment in kind.

[QBall]

When aren't the muslims planning an attack? Let CSIS, CIA, MI-5, Mossad, etc worry about it. The rest of us should just ignore it because there's not much the average Joe can do about it.

[PostFactum]

QBall QBall:

When aren't the muslims planning an attack? Let CSIS, CIA, MI-5, Mossad, etc worry about it. The rest of us should just ignore it because there's not much the average Joe can do about it.

Yeah, Russia and Sweden were ignoring too, and just nothing had happened

[GreenTiger]

Thanos Thanos:

And during the TSA pat-down uproar of the last few weeks, people have too quickly forgotten that the thing was caused by proven terrorist attacks/attempted attacks including Sept 11, the shoe-bomber, the liquid explosives plot that resulted in all outside fluids being banned from planes, the car bomb attack on the Glasgow airport, and last year's underwear bomber.

It's easy to get cynical about the government but these attacks and what-not keep happening. And so enhanced security for ailines and airports, even the most annoying and intrusive kind, is here to stay for the forseeable future. For all the faults in our reactions to them the fact remains that a large part of the terrorist threat is a grim reality.

I've got to agree here. We don't like some of the intrusive security measures, but it is better to accept them rather than have a successful underwear or shoe bomber kill a number of people. The terrorists only have to win one in a while, we have to prevent this 100% of the time.

[Lemmy]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

I've got to agree here. We don't like some of the intrusive security measures, but it is better to accept them rather than have a successful underwear or shoe bomber kill a number of people. The terrorists only have to win one in a while, we have to prevent this 100% of the time.

And that's why I say "enough is enough". I'm pretty much a pacifist, but I've had enough of this crap. I say we scrap all this intrusive security protocol. We tell the world "If we find a guy trying to board a plane with C4 in his underwear, then a crowded mosque in the West Bank eats a cruise missile. If a plane blows up over the Atlantic, then a bomb goes off in a crowded Saudi shopping mall. If a package of explosives is found on a cargo plane in Yemen, then a quiet Yemeni neighbourhood gets demolished." No more counter terrorism. You kill one of us, we kill 10,000 of you. Merry Christmas, fuckers.

[GreenTiger]

QBall QBall:

When aren't the muslims planning an attack? Let CSIS, CIA, MI-5, Mossad, etc worry about it. The rest of us should just ignore it because there's not much the average Joe can do about it.

There is something the "Average Joe" can do and that is to go about your daily lives as normal. The whole point of terrorism is to disrupt our lives; by going about our normal business we are effectively telling the terrorist "screw you".

Let CSIS, CIA, MI-5, Mossad and others do their job.

We should just proceed with our own lives.

[GreenTiger]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Awww..and I didn't get them anything for Christams Is it too late to send them a B-52 bomb run?

It isn't late, but Obama is a bit too chicken shit to do it. He doesn't want to offend the terrorists.

[PostFactum]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Awww..and I didn't get them anything for Christams Is it too late to send them a B-52 bomb run?

It isn't late, but Obama is a bit too chicken shit to do it. He doesn't want to offend the terrorists.

He has a little of brain, he don't know where they are and to kill civilians is the highest level of being dumb.