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El Al bomb-plot foiled, but plotters go free
What's up with that???
BERLIN · Six people are under investigation in Germany in an alleged plot to blow up an Israeli airliner by bribing an airport worker to smuggle a bag packed with explosives on board, officials said Monday.
Several of the accused approached a person with security clearance at an unidentified airport last summer, who agreed to smuggle an explosives-filled bag onto a plane in exchange for money, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said in a statement that some of the accused then contacted their "so far unknown" terrorist backers, but could not agree on a payment amount.
What the hell did they use to 'contact' their backers that prosecutors couldn't trace - mental telepathy?
These people must think we were born yesterday.
A security official said the plot was centered on the Frankfurt airport.
Didn't they just say that the airport where the unnamed person with security clearance was approached was 'unidentified?'
This is very confusing.
The plan apparently was to attack a plane belonging to Israel's El Al. Three suspects were apprehended in Hesse state, where the airport is located, the official said.
Doesn't that pretty much identify the airport? How many airports are located in Hesse?
The six, who could face charges of belonging to or supporting a terrorist organization, were temporarily detained Friday, but five of them were released Saturday after questioning.
The remaining suspect was kept in custody over an unrelated matter.
What are they holding the last one for? A parking violation???
This is beyond absurd.
Some of these guys are caught BRIBING AN AIRLINE EMPLOYEE TO SMUGGLE A BOMB ONTO A PLANE and almost all of them are released???
Under German law, authorities must release suspects after a maximum of 48 hours unless they have enough evidence to convince a judge that they can be held in long-term investigative custody.
After everything described here, they couldn't gather enough evidence to prosecute???
"This case is encouraging in that our security authorities are clearly very observant, get very close to possible [terrorist] structures and, at least so far, have succeeded in intervening early enough," said Stefan Kaller, an Interior Ministry spokesman. He declined to offer further details on the alleged plot.
What a joke.
This isn't encouraging - this is EMBARASSING!
And, apparently, it's routine.
In a similar investigation, police in the northern city of Hamburg in 2002 arrested seven suspected Islamic extremists who were believed to be plotting new terrorist attacks, only to release them several hours later.
Authorities there later said that through five months of surveillance they had not managed to come up with enough evidence to charge the men, but that they were convinced they were getting ready to act and wanted to thwart their plot.
A testament to the abysmal state of law enforcement in the 'global war on terror'.
In medicine, they call these people paranoid delusionals for acting out their fantasies. Yet, in law enforcement and politics, they're considered efficient.
There is, of course, another more sinister explanation - there was a bomb plot - but investigators don't want us to know WHO was behind it.
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Murk
I would draw folks' attention to this post by Jeff Wells, wherein he makes the link with Dan Hopsicker's investigations of the Atta-Bohringer-Russian/Israeli Mafia connection.
I'm sick of this pattern
On 9/11 suspicions are aroused by some moving company workers celebrating the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers. They are arrested only to discover they were Israeli operatives so they are released. Soon afterwards the moving company disappears like a James Bond side show. Then in October of 2001 terrorists with bombs and weapons are seized while trying to enter the Congress of Mexico. Soon after the arrest they are returned to Israel. There's just two more examples of the same Mossad game being played with this German bomb plot. This stinks and I'm sick of smelling it along with the smell of an apartheid nation of holier then thou bigots. When have they not been up to no good?
Falsehoods and Fabrications
Proponents of Zionism view the war in Iraq as fulfilling biblical prophecy.
Israel will have an easier time removing Christians and Muslims from Palestine (the land Israel believes is theirs by divine right) if Islamic military forces are weakened or eliminated.
The United States military (which happens to be led and advised by many Fundamentalist / Evangelical Christians) is helping to make that happen.
A weaker Muslim world means a stronger Israel, and that will help the Israelis secure the land it believes God has promised them (even if they secure it through violence and human slaughter). This, Christian Zionists believe, will usher in the return of Jesus Christ.
Zionism is based on a distorted and erroneous reading of Scripture, and began with the English preacher John Nelson Darby.
Zionism was perpetuated in America by Cyrus Scofield during the early 20th century, who published the popular Scofield Reference Bible in 1909.
Zionist eschatology is held by most Fundamentalist, Pentecostal, and Evangelical Protestant sects, and is one of the biggest falsehoods ever fabricated about the end times.
what's a muzzleloader?
I saw the headline a couple of days ago but did not have time to read it - thanks for sharing.
I'm not a gun expert, however, so can you please explain what a muzzleloader is?
Also, how old was the gunman? Just curious.
And yes, it's pretty outrageous that investigators can never know anything for certain EXCEPT that they are not to blame.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Reread the article, folks
Let's say the press stated that I was driving under the influence. Let's also say that I wasn't charged and that I was promptly let go.
What's wrong with that picture? Muslims thinking of doing evil things are promptly pounced on. The same goes for those with alcohol on their breath pulled over in cars in the Province of Ontario.
I think we can safely conclude that there was severely insufficient evidence to support the charges. We can also assume that this story would be embarassing to unsay. Like the mandatory wearing of patches by Jews in Iran, this falsehood has the misfortune of not having anyone powerful enough to challenge it in the public eye.
you lost me
I'm sure I understand what you're trying to say. What do you mean by "unsay?"
If the information they're reporting about the conduct in question is true - that alone is enough to prosecute for attempting (not just conspiring or soliciting) to commit a terrorist act.
This MUST be 'enough evidence' unless it is (1) NOT TRUE; or (2) true but, for some reason or another, they don't want to prosecute.
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