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August 13, 2003

"Missile-smuggling plot"? What plot?

God knows, I'm all for blowing to hell any terrorist fuckers than want to mess with the U.S. of A. However I suspect that this latest "missile-smuggling plot" is basically a PR stunt by the FBI, perhaps motivated by the upcoming elections. I was watching an interview with a former FBI chief investigator, and listened to him answer questions for several minutes about the "foiled plan." Guess what he said? NOTHING. He went on and on about how terrorists were bad (um, DUH!), how terrorism is a global problem, blah, blah, but nothing whatsoever about what this "plot" was about. Methinks, some undercover FBI agents promised this Indian guy a ton of money in exchange for smuggling a "package" into America. Meanwhile, the Russian security agents working with the FBI conveniently sold it to him. That's all that ever happened -- no plot to shoot down any airliners ever existed, and no sale would have happened if some poor sucker hadn't been convinced to smuggle a package accross the 'lake'. Meanwhile, while the FBI is pulling publicity stunts, Congress is restricting the military's abilities to take out the real terrorists. Good planning, guys.

Posted by David at August 13, 2003 01:47 AM | TrackBack
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