I thought that Terrorist Missile Sting Operation sounded familiar!

[displacedtexan]

Remember this from last year?
Today's "Trot Out The Terrorist We Caught In A Sting Operation" just sounded oh, so familiar...

Flash Back to this time LAST YEAR:

Three charged in US missile sting

The suspects allegedly planned to trade 50 missiles
A Briton has been charged in the US with conspiring to sell missiles to terrorists with the aim of shooting down American airliners.

Hemant Lakhani was arrested in Newark, New Jersey, after an elaborate sting operation involving Russian and UK intelligence which stretched back 18 months.

Two other men were charged with helping to fund the alleged deal which was exposed on Tuesday when the three were arrested.

US prosecutors described Mr Lakhani, whose lawyer did not comment after the hearing, as an arms dealer and admirer of Osama Bin Laden.

The 68-year-old Briton allegedly tried to sell an Igla missile to an FBI agent posing as an Islamic militant after buying it from Russian intelligence officers posing as suppliers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3146357.stm

Remember? It turned out that our spies had approached this guy and offered to sell him some missiles, and they knew "some guys" who would then buy them from him.

I'm really sick of Karl Rove's playbook! It's getting stale.

He didn't win last time. What makes him think he can win this time? They have to cheat.

[displacedtexan]

1. I'm kicking this because I suck at writing headlines!

I will practice.

[shraby]

3. Highlight the headline with your

mouse then click on edit/copy then go to the post and put your cursor in the subject line and click edit/paste you don't have to type anything.

[AbsolutSprint]

2. I guess

I guess we'll be having much more of this till November. I just can't wait to see the catches we start getting in late October. haha.

[fob]

4. Kicked and nominated for Home page

You're right, apparently Roves 2000 campaign playbook only covered 5 years, March 1999 - March 2004, and now he's just gone back to pick out things he gave 5 stars to the first time around! Dog help us when he get's down to 2 star ideas!!

[displacedtexan]

5. Last Sunday's Terror threat was also a Rove Dupe!

Sources: al Qaeda linked to bank threat

April 20, 2002 Posted: 6:15 AM EDT (1015 GMT)


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI announced Friday that the government has received a new, unsubstantiated terrorist threat against U.S. financial institutions -- a threat, sources said, that was to be carried out by al Qaeda operatives.

"Unspecified terrorists are considering physical attacks against U.S. financial institutions in the Northeast, particularly banks, as part of their campaign against U.S. financial interests," the FBI said.

Sources said the information indicated a possible mode of attack was suicide bombing.

The information that led to the alert, the sources said, came from a variety of intelligence sources, including al Qaeda detainees captured as part of the ongoing war against terrorism. Law enforcement learned the information in the last couple of days, the sources said.

One U.S. official told CNN that Abu Zubaydah, the highest ranking al Qaeda leader in U.S. custody, was a key source in providing the information about the threat. Zubaydah -- al Qaeda's head of operations and man in charge of recruiting -- was arrested in Pakistan earlier this month, handed over to U.S. custody and is being held at an undisclosed location.


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