Another Terror Plot in NYC foiled

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http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2007/06/02/679149.html&cvqh=itn_terrorplot

So another plot gets foiled. I wonder how they cuaght the perps. I notice the article doesn't mention ethnicity or nationality of the person. We can't always assume it's some mid-easter dude after Mr. McVeigh blew up a bunch of kids in Oklahoma City. ( One year ago today, he was convicted). I say that if it means the safety of my family and my ass from getting blown up, profile everyone. I lived in NYC when 9/11 happened, and it wasn't cool. That's why I live in MD now. Who's to say that we can catch em all or keep track of all these terrorists in our borders?
 
I thought McVeigh was executed one year ago?

Back on topic......this is why it's time to move to the midwest. We just have to worry about home grown terrorists and the KKK there.
 
[quote name='depascal22']I thought McVeigh was executed one year ago?

Back on topic......this is why it's time to move to the midwest. We just have to worry about home grown terrorists and the KKK there.[/quote]
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

Nah, conviction. The midwest!? That's too much of a change. I like to live around people. Not cows. That's why I stayed on the east coast. No fearing tornadoes where I'm at either. But yeah.... why wasn't any kind of terror alert raised?
 
[quote name='vasco']http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/

Nah, conviction. The midwest!? That's too much of a change. I like to live around people. Not cows. That's why I stayed on the east coast. No fearing tornadoes where I'm at either. But yeah.... why wasn't any kind of terror alert raised?[/quote]

Maryland isn't that much of a difference from Indiana. Not a single cow for miles in that section for the country. You're thinking about Minnesota and Wisconsin.

EDIT -- Oh and Timothy McVeigh's listing as a dead person as of June 11, 2001.

http://www.nndb.com/people/936/000031843/

EDIT -- I think you meant to put he was convicted TEN years ago in the OP.
 
I think your comment about profiling is retarded, considering McVeigh was 6 years before 9/11, and we never fought a war on terror against Americans.
 
[quote name='Ikohn4ever']nice work, but why wasnt the terror alert raised to salmon pink in response[/QUOTE]

Damn threads on CAG have increasingly taken a lesser amount of posts until someone posts something laughable and witty. Its quite great actually.

With the topic at hand, I just saw this on FOX News and noticed none of the other news networks were covering the story at that time. We shall see how this unfolds. I used to jump at any mention of a terrorist plot, but now I've just become rather skeptical until all the news comes out. Remember, when that one lady supposedly heard people planning a terrorist attack at a diner in Florida, and it ultimately was just talk. Granted thats the better outcome, however, I just wait longer now to reserve judgement on the matter.
 
[quote name='depascal22']I thought McVeigh was executed one year ago?

Back on topic......this is why it's time to move to the midwest. We just have to worry about home grown terrorists and the KKK there.[/QUOTE]

And Ray Liotta as a ghost playing baseball.
 
I think they were alerted to the case when somebody involved tried to recruit an undercover agent. I don't believe it had anything to do with profiling.
 
[quote name='the ender']
Now let's hear some bitching about airport security. Americans love us when something bad happens, but only for about a week. Then we're back to red-headed step-children.[/QUOTE]
Eh, I respect the airport security people for the most part; they're just doing their jobs, and they are for the most part decent people. I just hate the absurdity of some of the regulations they have to follow that are of no fault of them, such as the liquids thing. If these items may be so dangerous, why are you emptying them out into one big container, or donating them to charity (some of the things I have heard airports do with the items)?
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']I'm more embarrased the OP relied on Comcast to get him news.[/quote]

LOL!! Yeah, so am I. But it's the first thing I see when I check my email. Plus, I learned this before I even saw it on CNN. For once, TV was late for me. Sometimes the crappy stuff is helpful.
 
[quote name='Dead of Knight']Eh, I respect the airport security people for the most part; they're just doing their jobs, and they are for the most part decent people. I just hate the absurdity of some of the regulations they have to follow that are of no fault of them, such as the liquids thing. If these items may be so dangerous, why are you emptying them out into one big container, or donating them to charity (some of the things I have heard airports do with the items)?[/quote]

If other airports are disposing of said liquids in that manner, then that is foolish and a bit of a safety hazard. As for my airport, we throw away all the non-hazardous liquids/gels (water, coke, juice, shampoo, lotion) into the dumpster. The potentially hazardous ones (cologne, aerosols, anything compressed or alcohol-based) are stored in hazmat bins and are picked up regularly by the state for disposal.

To be fair to you Dead, I've learned that my airport tends to be the exception rather than the rule. We are kind and understanding to passengers, strict on the rules, and we go by the book at all times. I know "kind" and "strict" seem contradictory, but the nature of our job requires that type of rigidity. However, it can be done with a smile and a kind word.

Anyway, I'm not saying that all complaints against TSA are invalid. On the contrary; in my travels, I've met some real dick-headed TSA personnel. But I can only affect my own little sphere. ;)
 
Oh damn, your all not falling for this crap are you? It's just more scare tactics. This is the same as the miami terror plot thing, where it was just some half retarded/crazy people who are infiltrated by a government informer/provecetur to try and get them to pull off a terror plot.

I'll make a bet right now, no one even will get convicted.
 
[quote name='NWgamer666']Oh damn, your all not falling for this crap are you? It's just more scare tactics. This is the same as the miami terror plot thing, where it was just some half retarded/crazy people who are infiltrated by a government informer/provecetur to try and get them to pull off a terror plot.

I'll make a bet right now, no one even will get convicted.[/quote]

We're ignoring you.
 
Oh that's good.

Probably should have let them have their fun since "it's only a little fire" according to them.

I like to see fire on my plane and around the airport before I take off.
Flames make you go faster.
 
[quote name='dallow']Oh that's good.

Probably should have let them have their fun since "it's only a little fire" according to them.

I like to see fire on my plane and around the airport before I take off.
Flames make you go faster.[/QUOTE]

F15Flameout.jpg
 
[quote name='depascal22']Maryland isn't that much of a difference from Indiana. Not a single cow for miles in that section for the country. You're thinking about Minnesota and Wisconsin.

EDIT -- Oh and Timothy McVeigh's listing as a dead person as of June 11, 2001.

http://www.nndb.com/people/936/000031843/

EDIT -- I think you meant to put he was convicted TEN years ago in the OP.[/QUOTE]

I'm from Minneapolis. And it was a lot more metropolitan and sophisticated than where I live now, a block south of Baltimore's city limits. Maryland is quite a target as well, what with all the federal installations. And tornadoes rarely pose a threat to the Twin Cities, just the country. And yes, rural Minnesota and Wisconsin are boring, flat hell, but you don't have to go too far out here to see the same thing.
 
I actually like Bloomberg's response to all of the commotion over this "plot." Get a life. We're waging a war against something that kills less people in a year than drowning. Where's the War on Drowning or the War on Car Crashes for that matter?
 
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