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8. Didn't need to bomb them. Intelligence work

Thu Sep 25, 2014, 02:29 PM

Sep 2014

could have prevented 9/11.

The hijackers were based in Hamburg then San Diego and Sarasota IIRC.

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Major terrorist attack is �inevitable� as Isis fighters return, say EU officials [View all] CJCRANE Sep 2014 OP

How about not getting involved in the first place? Helen Borg Sep 2014 #1

Sure. That always works. TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #2

How many terrorists were on the loose in Iraq before 2003? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #4

How many were in Afghanistan before 9/11? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #5

Didn't need to bomb them. Intelligence work CJCRANE Sep 2014 #8

So you bomb the plotters but the hijackers are already in situ... CJCRANE Sep 2014 #15

Blow up the operations--the funding, the plots, the communications--in places TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #18

How can you blow up the funding? CJCRANE Sep 2014 #19

You don't think there's a headquarters of sorts? Master planners who TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #20

Master planners who live in an underground supervillain lair CJCRANE Sep 2014 #21

Why are you pretending there's no central organization to these groups? TwilightGardener Sep 2014 #22

We were talking about 9/11. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #23

ISIS and the Taliban are also military forces CJCRANE Sep 2014 #24

Too late now. You can't kill millions of people and not expect them ballyhoo Sep 2014 #6

+100! n/t 99th_Monkey Sep 2014 #17

I'd be ok with either taking their passports christx30 Sep 2014 #9

Exactly. jwirr Sep 2014 #10

The UK was/is considering not letting them back... Helen Borg Sep 2014 #11

I think that's unfair to other countries. CJCRANE Sep 2014 #12

Not sure if they actually doing it or what... Helen Borg Sep 2014 #14

So the other country just treats them christx30 Sep 2014 #16

They haven't assimilated and don't want to TexasMommaWithAHat Sep 2014 #25

But we're fightin' 'em over there! arcane1 Sep 2014 #3

Why not arrest all returning "fighters" cosmicone Sep 2014 #27