The Reids

Following up to Tim Challenger

    >I'm sure Mike doesn't think all Americans (not even all citizens of the USA
    >- see other thread) blame Europe

I've even met (well eventually) an American who posts here who
does not think that.
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Olivers

The Reids extrapolated from data available...

    > Following up to Miss L. Toe
    >
    >>Dont worry - It'll all get remarkably quiet after November.
    >
    > It seems the info may be 3 years old, so one has to be a little
    > suspicious.

The problem facing the US "Dept of Homeland Security" (and the Security
Forces of any country with an open society and uncontrolled - or mostly so
- media)....

Issue a warning of a specific threat and be accused of playing politics.

Don't issue a warning and when an incident occurs, bear the onus of massive
political and real blame.

In this case, the "package" appears to be a compendium of a shadowy
existing collection of INTEL, much of it dating back to or before 9/11,
combined with a recent arrest in Pakistan of an individual deemed to be of
high 'rank" by the local security service.

Interrogated (and who knows to what extent force was applied, the
Pakistanis being more than theoretically capable of applications from the
bastinado and up) "jointly", he apparently has sung like a canary but with
untestable accuracy about matters connected with this already existing
"package".

TMO

Poldy

In article <[email protected]>,
Rita <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Will he continue to say the Iraq war has made America
    > safer? Of course he will. Do I feel safer? No. I'd be a fool to
    > do so. I have always held that Al Queda is our enemy and not Iraq.
    > Our resources now are split and strained.

Bush and Frank blundered according to the anonymous CIA operative who's
written those books, when they let Osama and hundreds of AQ operatives
escape at Tora Bora. They relied on the Northern Alliance to cut off
their retreat instead of using US ground forces.

And shortly thereafter, according to Woodward's book, Bush
administration diverted funds earmarked for Afghanistan operations into
planning for the Iraq war. Bush also ordered Franks to plan for Iraq in
the spring of 2002.

And of course, Iraq is where most of the troops and intelligence
resources (agents who spoke Arabic) were deployed, again diverting much
of the latter from Afghanistan.

So while we're "safer," we still have to worry about AQ. Which was
allowed to escape.

Poldy

In article <[email protected]>,
The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:

    > Following up to Nils Zonneveld
    >
    > >> I apologize. Posted this to the wrong newsgroup. Mea culpa.
    > >
    > >
    > >If you interpret it very broadly, it's still on topic: it could be of
    > >concern to Europeans traveling to New York :-)
    >
    > I was waiting for the bit about why it was all Europes fault and
    > the cheese eating surrender monkey stuff, but it never came!

Those would be the French. Not the compliant Blair.

Michael Kennedy

"poldy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
    > In article <[email protected]>,
    > The Reids <[email protected]> wrote:
    > > Following up to Nils Zonneveld
    > >
    > > >> I apologize. Posted this to the wrong newsgroup. Mea culpa.
    > > >
    > > >
    > > >If you interpret it very broadly, it's still on topic: it could be of
    > > >concern to Europeans traveling to New York :-)
    > >
    > > I was waiting for the bit about why it was all Europes fault and
    > > the cheese eating surrender monkey stuff, but it never came!
    > Those would be the French. Not the compliant Blair.

And this relates to European travel how ?

M Kennedy

The Reids

Following up to Michael Kennedy

    >> Those would be the French. Not the compliant Blair.
    >And this relates to European travel how ?

I assume some americans have made travel plans based on avoiding
France? Or do those who post anti French stuff never leave US?
The latter I suspect.
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Mike Reid
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