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CHILLING RICIN TWIST
By NILES LATHEM
From the NY Post today, you can read the whole article online.
WASHINGTON - The terrorists arrested in Europe for planning to carry out attacks there with ricin are part of the vicious Algerian network behind the millennium bomb plots in the United States, sources say.
U.S. officials are monitoring the recent arrests in Britain and France amid concern that the "Algerian wing" of Osama bin Laden's terror empire has been activated for assassinations and biological and chemical attacks in America and Europe.
Sources told The Post that the 20 Algerians arrested in the ricin plot in Europe are part of a network now being directed from al Qaeda's European branch.
By NILES LATHEM
From the NY Post today, you can read the whole article online.
WASHINGTON - The terrorists arrested in Europe for planning to carry out attacks there with ricin are part of the vicious Algerian network behind the millennium bomb plots in the United States, sources say.
U.S. officials are monitoring the recent arrests in Britain and France amid concern that the "Algerian wing" of Osama bin Laden's terror empire has been activated for assassinations and biological and chemical attacks in America and Europe.
Sources told The Post that the 20 Algerians arrested in the ricin plot in Europe are part of a network now being directed from al Qaeda's European branch.
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Actually pnj, the GIA (one of the most active Algerian terrorist groups have been active long before there ever was any "Al Qaeda" created by Bin Laden.
I had bombs go off near where i used to live outside Paris back in 95 from these nutcases and although they might read literature common to Bin Laden's little extremists, they arent Al Qaeda.
Just a new case of confusing our public (which already knows very little about whats going on in other parts of the globe) with what is rapidly becoming a convenient brand name when speaking about terrorists from our current leadership's point of view. Not all Islamic terorist groups are part of Al Qaeda and not all have the same specific aims or targets.
The protests to date whilst encouraging are no real hinderance to what our leaders fully intend to do in the world.
How utterly non-PC of you to publicly challenge clandestine's attempt at obfuscation...
Careful there...
You will be the next for clandestine to call a "nazi"... :rolleyes:
My vote is for S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
See, now, that'd be funny unless you're me.
In which case, while finding it funny, my brain went in to overdrive trying to remember what the hell that stood for.
And for the life of me, I can't.
I'm sure extortion/extermination? Chaos?
Come on, someone must know what SPECTRE means?
Please.... help a guy out here? I can't cope!
SPECTRE: the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.
SPECTRE: Some people have an alarming amount of time on their hands. *coughs*
SPECTRE, of course, was derived from SMERSH, an amalgam of Smyert Shpionam (Death to Spies), which was based on a Russian unit of the same name, apparently.
Okay... I can go do work now. My attack of curiosity for the day has been alleviated.
Tell me about it.