Are You On Terrorist List

Have we gone totally overboard in respect to finding terrorists. The stoyr below would tend to show that we are nuts over terrorist suspects!!

The US terrorist watch list includes more than 755,000 names and continues to grow, the US Government Accountability Office said Wednesday. The list exploded from fewer than 20 entries before the September 11, 2001 attacks to more than 150,000 just a few months later, after the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) was created in December 2003 to keep tabs on terrorist suspects, according to the GAO, the non-partisan investigative arm of Congress. Including known pseudonyms of suspects, the list's 755,000 names as of May 2007 represents, in fact, around 300,000 people, according to TSC estimates.

Are you on the lists???


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al-Qaeda Backlash?

Did the assassins of Adbul-Sattar Abu Risha, turn the tide against al-Qaeda operatives in Iraq?

Some 1,500 mourners called for revenge Friday as they buried the leader of the Sunni revolt against al-Qaeda, who was assassinated by a bomb after meeting with President Bush earlier this month. An al-Qaeda front in Iraq claimed responsibility for the blast that killed Adbul-Sattar Abu Risha, 37, and three companions. A statement posted on the Internet by the Islamic State of Iraq called Abu Risha "one of the dogs of Bush" and described Thursday's killing as a "heroic operation that took over a month to prepare."

This could be the proverbial "straw that broke the camels back", as al-Qaeda has caused thousands of deaths since the beginning of the insurgency and they may have over-stepped their bounds by killing this sheik.

I am not sure how this will work out for the people in this region of Iraq, but the foundation of revenge attacks against al-Qaeda have been sown and only time will tell whether that is good or bad for Iraqi's and for our troops, who are stuck in the middle of this violence!



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al-Qaeda Plots To Hit West

There is an interesting story indicating that al-Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West. The United States knows about it but doesn’t have enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level, says Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center. In an interview at his headquarters near Washington, D.C., Redd told Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey Bartholet that the country is better prepared than ever to counter such threats. But he also believes another successful terror attack on the U.S. homeland is inevitable.

Please take a few moments to read the entire story as it is quite interesting and parellels what many of us believe, and have said or written about in recent weeks. It is not so we can be convinced it is alright to attack another country, (Iran?), but so we can remain vigilant everyday!

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Hillary Is Right?

It is a shame that she has said a truth, but Senator Hillary Clinton said on Thursday, the New York senator told supporters in Concord that she could defeat any Republican nominee, in part because she already knows how her opponents will go after her and because she is good at handling the unexpected. But, if there is another terrorist attack before the election, the Republicans will win. This is not only a truth, but a certainty, because the al-Qaeda Democrat Party is not a "choice" in defending this country from attacks, as they have done everything they can to "assist" in getting americans killed.

An internet aquintance of mine, Lionus Unleashed has an excellent post on MySpace.com about why Hillary Clinton is the Republican's candidate of "choice". If you get a chance please read it and you may concur with his conclusions. I am a Independent/Republican by nature, so I am not the one to say who should be the Democratic candidate. I kind of liked Hillary before she recanted her vote for the war in Iraq, as I thought it would be fun to watch all of the "my" age white men having heart attacks if she was elected President in 2008. That hope was purely for the entertainment value, rather than a political reason, as sometimes I have a sadistic nature as well.

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General's Say Stay

United States military commanders said Friday the troop buildup in Iraq must be maintained until at least next summer and they may need as long as two years to ensure parts of the country are stable. The battlefield generals' pleas for more time come in the face of growing impatience in the United States and a push on Capitol Hill to begin withdrawing United States troops as soon as this fall.

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Missing Hostages May Be Dead

It was another bloody weekend in Iraq as 14 more United States troops were killed while performing cordon and search operations near of Baghdad.
This is an area near where our troops were attacked and three not killed on scene were taken by the terrorists. One soldier was later found dead during the search, but the other two are still missing.
On Monday, a faction of al-Qaeda called the Islamic State of Iraq, released a video in which they say that its' militants killed all three United States soldiers after capturing them last month.
The video shows footage of the nighttime attack on our troops and the aftermath, but does not show the three soldiers taken hostage, so there is still a possibility that the two who have not been found are still alive.
In addition, a website associated with the terrorists claims that it will release videos of the murdered soldiers in the near future.
The body of one of the soldiers was found on May 23 in the Euphrates River and later identified by the United States military as Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, California. The two other United States soldiers, Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Massachusettes and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Michigan, remain missing.
The deaths this weekend raised to at least 3,493 members of the United States military who have died since the war started in March of 2003.
I think there is probably little hope of finding these young men alive and if they are imagine how much torture they are being put through. After all it was just over a week ago that our troops rescued Iraqi's who were being held and tortured by their al-Qaeda captors.
Their techniques are brutal and meant to inflict pain upon the recipient, so I fear for our two troops and what they are going through if they are still alive.
May the troops be found soon, dead or alive, so at least their families will know what happened to them, and be happy if they are alive and mourn if they are not.
The number of insurgents/terrorists continue to grow as everyone runs to Iraq to "kill" Americans, I hope that we have enough troops to keep up the fight and perhaps wear their numbers down before we leave, so fewer will want to come here and finish the job of "killing" Americans.
To our troops in harm's way, throughout the world, please be safe and godspeed!
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Foiled Plot To Destroy JFK

In a story I have been reading rivals if not surpasses the World Trade Centers destruction. It said Federal authorities had broken up a suspected Muslim terrorist cell planning a “chilling” attack to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods.
Three men, one of them a former member of Guyana’s parliament, were arrested and one was being sought in Trinidad as part of a plot that authorities said they had been tracked for more than a year and was foiled in the planning stage.
In an indictment charging the four men, one of them is quoted as saying the foiled plot would “cause greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks,” destroying the airport, killing several thousand people and destroying parts of New York’s borough of Queens, where the line runs underground.
One of the suspects, Russell Defreitas, a U.S. citizen native to Guyana and former JFK air cargo employee, said the airport named for the slain president was targeted because it is a symbol that would put “the whole country in mourning.”
Authorities said the men were motivated by hatred toward the U.S., Israel and the West. Defreitas was recorded saying he “wanted to do something to get those bastards” and he boasted that he had been taught to make bombs in Guyana.
Despite their efforts, the men never obtained any explosives, authorities said.
Federal officials told NBC News that Defreitas, the alleged mastermind of the plot, looked for others to work with him and that one of the first people he turned to, unbeknownst to him, was an FBI informant.
According to officials, the FBI tracked Defreitas when he went to Guyana to recruit help for his plot, meeting with radical Muslims there, including Abdul Kadir, a member of the Guyana parliament who is a former town mayor.
Investigators allege Defreitas was dispatched from Guyana to conduct video and photo surveillance of JFK four times in January. Investigators told NBC News they tracked Defreitas as he identified targets and escape routes and assessed airport security.
Richard Kuprewicz, a pipeline expert and president of Accufacts Inc., an energy consulting firm that focuses on pipelines and tank farms, said the force of explosion would depend on the amount of fuel under pressure, but it would not travel up and down the line.
He was arraigned Saturday in federal court in Brooklyn, where he was held pending a bail hearing Wednesday. His court-appointed lawyer told the judge that officials were not revealing the full story, according to reports.
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Do we really need to worry about terrorists crossing our borders when we have so many homegrown crazies ready to harm us. Of course the answer is yes, we do need to worry about the borders, but my god, we really are lucky no further terrorist attacks have occurred with so many willing participants in our own country.
It angers me that these people live in the most privileged nation on earth and the only thing they can think about is destruction and death for their fellow citizens. Don't these people have cable t.v.? Isn't there something better they could be doing with their lives. People if you hate America that much, please just leave and let us be.
One last thing, how do you hatch a plot and the first person you talk to is an FBI informant. I read this in all of these stories and wonder is everyone but me an FBI informant?Obviously it was fortunate for the folks at JFK as it really would have been a disaster of monumental proportions.
Stay vigilant and keep "informing". Thanks!