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ropi Donating Member (948 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-04 03:11 PM
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terrorist question
Some reporter remarked today that Al Qaeda made postings on its website. If this is correct, then why isn't someone in our most hallowed Homeland Defense Dept tracking them down via ip? It just does not make sense...

any thoughts?
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Sapphocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-04 03:57 PM
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1. They probably are.
On the other hand, I wouldn't credit anybody in this administration with the smarts to track down so much as a spammer in Hong Kong. These were the guys slapped full in the face by Phoenix memos and PDBs with the words "HIJACK" stamped across the front, and somehow, the planes still managed to fly into the towers.

They're reeeeeeeeeeal good at domestic surveillance (Hi, Agent Mike! :hi: ), but they're positively incompetent in dealing with overseas threats (real or imagined) in a practical, actionable way.
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galadrium Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-16-04 03:59 PM
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2. They probably upload remotely with laptops and move around
It is probably hard to track when they do that.
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