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post #1 of 11
2/24/11 at 11:59am
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This guy was arrested yesterday in Lubbock, where I was. And he was planning a terrorist bombing not very many blocks from where you are, at President Bush's home in Dallas.

Texas Terrorist Plot
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post #2 of 11
2/24/11 at 12:06pm
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Originally Posted by mrblanche View Post
This guy was arrested yesterday in Lubbock, where I was. And he was planning a terrorist bombing not very many blocks from where you are, at President Bush's home in Dallas.

Texas Terrorist Plot
Oh man! That is scary! Glad he was arrested! Yep, Pres. Bush does live very close to me and his place of work will be even closer - only a few blocks away, making it another target for these lunatics. Proud to see that these guys are getting caught too - that is definitely a good thing to watch.
Thanks for posting, I guess we need to be more attentive now, which kind of sucks, really...
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post #3 of 11
2/24/11 at 12:16pm
More here: U.S. Arrests Saudi Student in Bomb Plot
Saudi bomb suspect eyed home of President Bush, dams, nuclear plants
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post #4 of 11
2/24/11 at 12:58pm
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Very strange side story.

Dottie's uncle was an Air Force career fighter pilot, and was stationed for a while in Lubbock (Reese Air Force Base). He was an instructor, and one of his students was the son of the Shah of Iran. Apparently Texas Tech there is also a pretty big draw for middle-eastern students.

(This was the uncle who actually retired in Iran and ran an English language school in Tehran. He and his wife barely escaped with their lives during the revolution there.)
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post #5 of 11
2/24/11 at 2:03pm
The key lesson in this story is that he was caught through good intelligence and law enforcement. Not through the military. As has been shown time and time again the best and frankly only way to fight terrorism is through the use of intelligence and law enforcement operations. There is no need for a $700 billion military budget to fight terrorism, actually more like +$1.0 trillion once you consider all security spending (Homeland Security, etc.). We could cut the military budget in half.
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post #6 of 11
2/26/11 at 3:54am
When it comes to the military and fighting terrorism there is only a small fraction of the military that even has the capability for actual counter-terror ops anyway (ie- SEAL Team 6 and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta).
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post #7 of 11
2/26/11 at 7:42am
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We could cut the military budget in half.
We probably could. But it might well cause another recession. Remember, it's mainly Americans we pay that money to. Americans who are serving in the military, Americans who are making their equipment, Americans who are researching improvements in that equipment, Americans who are transporting those people and equipment, Americans who are maintaining that equipment, and so on.

Still, there are massive cuts that can be made, such as closing a number of foreign bases.

This particuarly nasty fellow was caught through a tip from a chemical sales company, not some clever intelligence by any law enforcement agency.
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post #8 of 11
2/26/11 at 1:37pm
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Still, there are massive cuts that can be made, such as closing a number of foreign bases.
Overseas deployments being brought home and the money spent inside the country would create employment, keep those bases open - not to mention keeping a lot of military families happier!


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This particuarly nasty fellow was caught through a tip from a chemical sales company, not some clever intelligence by any law enforcement agency.
At least the FBI keeps an eye on materials that can be used to make bombs. And he complied all too well by being stupid enough to try to buy large quantities of materials that any reasonably intelligent "operative" would know would raise red flags. Small comfort if you are neighbors with the guy, though, I'm sure.
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post #9 of 11
2/26/11 at 3:39pm
my goodness!....
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post #10 of 11
2/27/11 at 10:01pm
Wow I didn't even see or hear this on the news!
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post #11 of 11
2/28/11 at 4:05am
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At least the FBI keeps an eye on materials that can be used to make bombs. And he complied all too well by being stupid enough to try to buy large quantities of materials that any reasonably intelligent "operative" would know would raise red flags. Small comfort if you are neighbors with the guy, though, I'm sure.
Good theory, but as I understand it, he did just fine with a number of other constituent components and even this particular shipment would have gone through, had the salesman not gotten suspicious.
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