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More and More points to Bin Ladin

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Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:17 PM
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Reading the news/Yahoo... its looks like MORE people have been arrested trying to board planes with fake ID's..some of which were pilots licenses and fake crew badges. Those arrested "apparently" have relation to Bin Ladin. I'm thinking this guy is in deep shit... but thats just my opinion.
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Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:22 PM
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Did you hear about the two guys arrested off a train in Texas? They had tickets for a flight from Tuesday that got grounded partway through it's itinerary, they had five grand in cash, and expired visas. All these people they are finding that were probably associated just means that this thing could have been a lot bigger than just 4 planes.
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Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:24 PM
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I hate to sound selfish, but if they could only be a little more strict on people driving without a license, then I'd be a little bit happier. =)
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Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:26 PM
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Considering that more terrorists wanted to board and had fake crew and pilots licenses (or stolen), I suspect that it was to not only be bigger, but go on much longer (and it may!?).

Apparently we rushed a plane with some of these fake id's in the last 24hrs with 20 armes (unholstered) policemen, and 1 guy resisted (/lol) for a while :-)

The others came more quietly... and all were handcuffed and taken away.

I do suspect that there was/is even a bigger plan of terrorism and death planned for the American soil, sadly.

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Old Sep 13, 2001 | 10:43 PM
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We don't know everything that's going on down there in the clean up. I know this guy who's a fireman reserve, and he says they're finding car bombs and chemical weapons. They just called the Feds when they came across such items. Someone had a huge operation going, and it sounds like they had a plan B.
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 03:54 AM
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Osama bin Laden has not only been implicated in Tuesday's mayhem, but also the bombing of the U.S. embassies a few years ago and the more recent bombing of the Cole. He is even suspected in the original bombing of the WTC.

This guy is a gangster who needs to be brought to trial and put to death, terminated, taken from the planet, period. if we don't do it, who will? The Taiban in Afghanistan should be asked to surrender this criminal or be prepared to suffer the consequences for failure to do so. Those countries who harbor or otherwise support terrorism should be prepared to suffer the same fate as those terrorists.
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 04:25 AM
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Originally posted by S2R
We don't know everything that's going on down there in the clean up. I know this guy who's a fireman reserve, and he says they're finding car bombs and chemical weapons. They just called the Feds when they came across such items. Someone had a huge operation going, and it sounds like they had a plan B.
Are you saying there's been a cover up?
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 05:28 AM
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Hmmm. Cover up... I don't know about that, but I would be HIGHLY surprised if the government is telling us the whole story. Can you imagine how difficult it is to restore some sense of normalcy, some shred of "safety" to be perceived by those of us who must trudge on with our silly little jobs and our silly little lives?

An operation taking place on such a grand scale, professionally orchestrated and executed... it would really, really shock me to learn that their plans were 100% successful and made no provision for failure contingencies...

I wouldn't call it cover-up so much as information control. For the sanity and safety of our citizens, the gov't has to carefully manage the spread of information, rumors, speculation... etc.

I hope I'm wrong and that this whole thing has come to an end, but I suspect this is the beginning stages of a much more complicated effort to undermine the American way of life and strike fear into the hearts of the "evil infidels."
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 06:53 AM
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everyone needs to CHILL

did you see? did you hear? a friend of a friend saw a report on CNN that ...

there's so much mis-information and rumor floating around it's unreal ...

1. The news organizations are falling over themselves attempting to report everything that happens as soon as it happens. They don't have the time or resources to fully verify every story before broadcasting it.
2. Everyone is in an extremely heightened state of alert for suspicious packages, behavior, looks, etc. Arrest / evacuate / etc first, then ask questions later.

combine these two ... and you're seeing the result. Just think about all the false / blown out of proportion stories we've seen in the past couple days ...
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Old Sep 14, 2001 | 03:07 PM
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I'm sure Osama is the one that has done it. Even though he denies it, I'm sure he's behind it. With the arrest in recent days, it does look like it was going to be a much bigger thing.
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