Re: Homegrown terror, or hype?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Maybe that's why I'm getting so distracted with stuff like this:

 http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-have-one-simple-request-to-have.html

Talk about your diversionary tactics...  ;-)

- ferg

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 03:25:44 -0000, Fergie said:
> Don't you feel sometimes like you're watching a game of three-card
> monte? Sleight of hand?  I mean, the timimg is amazing:
>
>  "Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror"
>  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23intel.htm

Well, you *know* it wasn't cause-and-effect.  If these guys had enough
money to be caught by mining bank data, they'd have *bought* themselves
the means to carry out an attack.

More likely, the mining revealed the group was mostly harmless, so they
cut them loose and waited for when they needed a diversion.....


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
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