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IEDs seen as a rising threat within U.S.
Chertoff vows to step up planning for bombs that have ravaged Iraq
By Spencer S. Hsu and Mary Beth Sheridan
The Washington Post
Updated: 9:28 p.m. PT Oct 19, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has not provided adequate money and training for a concerted national effort.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who told the Senate last month that such bombs are terrorists' "weapon of choice," said yesterday at a local meeting that President Bush will soon issue a blueprint for countering the threat of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs. Chertoff's department said in a draft report on IEDs earlier this year that national efforts "lack strategic guidance, are sometimes insufficiently coordinated . . . and lack essential resources."

Among the shortcomings identified in the report: Explosives-sniffing dogs are trained differently by various federal agencies, making collaboration between squads "difficult if not impossible." Federal agencies maintain separate databases on bomb incidents. Separately, bomb squad commanders have complained of inadequate training for responding to truck bombs.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21386918/

Now, before you dildoes start into your worn out Karl Rove bullshit, take note:

"""But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has not provided adequate money and training for a concerted national effort"""

This means that OTHER PEOPLE think it's a bigger problem than Bush is giving this credit for...

I know how you $400 haircuit guys think this is all ginned up....

-- Modified on 10/19/2007 10:13:02 PM

TedFuckinNugent1578 reads

apart from Chertoff's colonic feelings.  Maybe they've still got Nancy's astrologer hanging around.

Seems like a very good excuse to avoid actually finding Osama to me.

We definitely need more panicked, deer-in-the-headlights leadership.

But the solution is obvious.  Take away everybody's nail clippers and shampoo, then deputize them to concealed carry their sawed off shotguns.  You see anybody looks like they're planting an IED, like on an airplane or something, just do like me, whip out your gun & BLOW EM AWAY!!

-- Modified on 10/20/2007 8:02:34 AM

5 Deferments Dick1197 reads

I feel it in my gut!

If you had Jesus in your heart, and were a True Patriot (TM Reg) you know you don't need evidence when you have hallucinations, I mean faith.  Evidence requires work, but faith is easy as pie, I mean dump.  Just get your faith from your gut every morning when you squeeze it off.

of terror threats is the clearest indication of the media‘s demonstrations of promoting Sen. Hillary Clinton as the President Elect and it is despicable. Allow me to explain.

Our intelligence operatives have successfully thwarted attempts to cause mayhem and kill our people. They did it with the Sears Tower raid, the Brooklyn Bridge, the jet-fuel pipe explosion attempt on JFK airport, Ft. Dix and most recently last year the terror attack of ten planes over the Atlantic. There is many more, but even I cannot keep count.

The media portrays the attackers as clowns and our homeland security forces as lucky or worse as bumblers and fear mongers. More talk, print and time is spent on President Bush and his aggressive law enforcement tactics, and the grilling of Alberto Gonzalez over the firing of lawyers than on the jihad enemies we face.

Fact is, the media do not take the terrorist’s threats seriously because they want us to vote Democrat rather than Republican. To me though this partisanship is unfair. Our law enforcement actions and their work are belittled who work every day to protect us from real dangers the public chooses to be clueless about.  

I am afraid my friend, not until I.E.D.’s start detonating on Rodeo Drive will the Americans wake up to these dangers. So far, it’s a good day, I didn’t use my AK.

Stay disciplined, be humble.



-- Modified on 10/21/2007 12:35:45 AM

Here, they want into Uncle Sam's fat wallet so it's okay to scream like their hair is on fire about this impending problem....

but if it were the White House bringing it to the publics attention they'd be saying it's just another Karl Rove scare tactic.

lying hypocrites.....

Hairupmyass2148 reads

based on colonic information.   How can we believe you know how to RTFM well enough to find the spellcheck, eh??!!

Who's the lying hypocrite?  Have you & BSD been communicating diseases, or what?  

"Terrorists' use of IEDs cannot be extrapolated into anything other than a major threat to this country," Supervisory Special Agent Barbara Martinez, a senior official at the FBI's Critical Incident Response Group, said yesterday at a discussion organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

"National coordination of IED prevention efforts is absolutely crucial," said Lt. Shawn E. Stallworth, a Michigan State Police detective and member of the National Bomb Squad Commanders Advisory Board. The group this year called for "urgent action" to increase training in handling the threat posed by large-vehicle bombs.


RTFM indeed.

Don't they realize it's all just a Karl Rove bumpersticker



-- Modified on 10/20/2007 2:59:54 PM

Hairupmyass1344 reads

Because they're CYA?   Or because there has ever been any actual EVIDENCE that this is likely?


Asteroids have hit the USA, and another could hit any day, killing thousands of people.  Why aren't you worried about that?  


You dumb shit, an IED might take out a couple vehicles.   If somebody wanted to do that, it'd make more sense to sabotage a vehicle in a parking lot, so it'd wreck on the hiway.  We have more problem than that with homegrown criminals, but they're not nearly as exciting, nor half the axcuse to gut the constitution and Treasury.

So what are you gonna do?  Establish checkpoints and search all cars and confiscate all liquids?  What about the fuel, oil & coolant?  Why, all those cars could be rolling bombs!!


Panic away, don't think, and sure as shit be asking Bush questions.  Hell, he couldn't explain if he spoke English.

And for CHRISSAKES, don't be looking for Osama.  Hell no, let's hire Blackwater to go shoot anybody they feel like, and see if that doesn't piss off enough people to come looking for the fucking idiots who had THAT idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"""We have more problem than that with homegrown criminals, but they're not nearly as exciting, nor half the axcuse to gut the constitution and Treasury.""""

according to the story it's your "pigs at the trough murtha-crats" that are screaming we're not spending enough or quick enough

of course it's okay if your buddies wanna feast at the trough....

that's what hypocrites do

Hairupmyass3365 reads

Maybe you feel threatened by that particular fellow.  I see it more as federal agencies crying and making excuses in hopes of getting money to CYA, which is not entirely bad - it's a matter of opinion what is doing the job to CYA to slopping the hogs.

From the article;

"Chertoff cited the example of Raed al-Banna, 32, a Jordanian identified through his fingerprints as the perpetrator of a February 2005 suicide car-bombing in Iraq. In 2003, he was flagged as a potential terrorist by customs inspectors at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago and ordered to leave the country."

If he was a potential terrorist, why wasn't he arrested?

the hypocrite murtha-crats want to have it both ways when it comes to domestic terrorism

when DHS/Chertoff posts a warning or some such things, the hair on fire crowd screams that "it's Karl Rove scaring the citizens so they can steal their civil rights"

but when it comes to getting Federal $$$$$$$ for IED protection, suddenly the Feds can't act fast enough..

The Murtha-crat hypocrites have been, and continue to, play politics with the safety of the American people.

Hell, the #1 strategy for piglosi to get her party in power was to motherfuck everything that happened in Iraq.....

Remember the term, "Coalition of the bribed??""

fk ths gys....

Hairupmyass1309 reads

We've been over the media bias.  The media bias is to sell papers.  They have a better sense for what will sell than most, they're in the biz.

It really doesn't take anything except recitation of the facts for people to conclude that confiscating toenail clippers and shampoo is something only a bumbler does.

It really doesn't take much to think that maybe we're led by a bumbler when you consider the last few years' history.

The fault the media has, is putting the facts in front of you.  Given all the information out there, you've got a wide choice.

But for me, invading the wrong country is a clue that the HMFIC may indeed be a bumbler.

I cannot convince myself that the GOP is that stupid as a group, and I think they know what they are doing, or they'd change course; and they are doing what they are because they regard it as good for them.

and our intelligence agencies who are working to protect us every day from our jihad enemies. The policy of the President to engage with these terrorists as a military activity is the correct methodology. To think otherwise is delusional.

The reason for the toenail clippers is because our homeland security forces have their hands tied because of politics. The most effective security technique and the most politically unfavorable is to profile the enemy. The public would also would not have the patience for pat downs.

If the Democrats retake the White House, our law enforcement agencies will be even more disabled by politics. That is why I fully expect I.E.D.s on Rodeo Drive during the a Democrat's tenure.

By the way your use of an alias is cowardly.

-- Modified on 10/21/2007 1:55:47 PM

Wow. I really, really hope that was tongue in cheek, because if it isn't, you need some help man. Like, soon.

You don't rule a populace through fear. You do it through courage and hope. That's how the greatest generation did it, and that's how WE should be doing it.

But... the current administration doesn't have any true moral legs to stand on, so they have to use fear.

These guys keep talking about WWII and comparisons.. why don't they ever talk about the Democrat who prosecuted the war in the first place?

Oh right. They hate FDR.

an Al Qai'da Operational Commander in Oman. Our military has taken out Al Qai'da operatives from Oman to the Phillipines. If we wait for law enforcement officals to bring a case to court it will be too late because these jihadists will have already attacked us and caused mayhem.

No I am not being tongue-in-cheek, the Bush administration tactics against these jihadists has been superlative and successful. I do however will disagree with the Bush administration in defining this war on terror in the context of World War II. The war on the jihadists is a different enemy then the Axis powers our fathers fought.





-- Modified on 10/21/2007 10:50:07 PM

Hairupmyass1707 reads

Tell us here, how do you tell a jihadist from a non-jihadist?

I'm serious.  What distinctions do you draw?  

Are you going to approach every Paki, Afghan or Iranian as if they were jihadist?

Hairupmyass1672 reads

but what I'm really interested in is your theory that using a (secondary) alias is 'cowardly'.

You wanna explain that?  

Take your time.  Make it just as long as you can.

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