Stars & Stripes letter on terror plots against the US

[lebkuchen]

The Dumb and Dumber

...I don’t believe for a moment that a terrorist group would go to Circuit City to dub its VHS terror video to DVD. Helicopters, kidnapping, suicide bombings — all are horrible things they do, but probably take skill, training and intelligence. But they can’t video edit? Do you expect me to believe that this is what stumps them? They can make a bomb from a 7-Up can and some yarn, but game over when it comes to video editing?

I don’t buy it that all this stuff is real. They show a grainy black-and-white video with some bomb dropping on some building somewhere and tell me they killed a top leader in the war on terrorism. Now they tell me that after entering the U.S. and establishing a cell, identifying a target and doing some training, they get stumped on putting a VHS tape onto DVD.

I am not that dumb or brainwashed yet to believe this. The American public should question the credibility of some of the claims the media makes, which I believe are fabricated to create fear and ratings, which sell papers, airtime and commercials.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=125&article=46437

[DeSwiss]

1. Yeah, that one had me raising my eyebrow too...

...have you seen this?

"Experts cast doubt on credibility of JFK terror plot

AFP
by Luis Torres de la Llosa
Mon Jun 4, 8:20 PM ET

NEW YORK (AFP) - An alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks and pipelines at New York's JFK airport had little chance of success, according to safety experts, who have questioned whether the plot ever posed a real threat. US authorities said Saturday they had averted an attack that could have resulted in "unfathomable damage, deaths, and destruction," and charged four alleged Islamic radicals with conspiracy to cause an explosion at the airport. But according to the experts, it would have been next to impossible to cause an explosion in the jet fuel tanks and pipeline. Furthermore, the plotters seem to have lacked the explosives and financial backing to carry out the attack."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/usattacksairportskepticism