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Terrorist dry runs: another argument for citizen involvement
By WDavidStephenson | July 25, 2007
The news of a variety of chillingly-similar incidents at airports around the country involving suspicious packages that included bomb components but where the “fuel” was bricks of cheese is a reminder that Al-Qaeda:
- is extremely patient
- puts a lot of emphasis on dry runs to check its plans
- and that — unless these incidents are just caused by pranksters, which seems highly unlikely — there really are sleeper cells in the US, and the warnings several weeks ago that Al-Qaeda really is planning a “summer spectacular” might be true.
If all that is true, why — sorry for being so insistent about this, but our lives may depend on it — do DHS and the FBI continue to do such a pathetic, negligent — you supply the adjective — job of trying to productively involve the general public in detecting and reporting possible attacks? CONTINUED…
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