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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 09:31 AM
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Coincidence? Padilla planned natural gas terror AND propane trucks stolen
I know I'm a day late, but here's something I just found too coincidental. Alert for stolen propane trucks comes on same day DOJ reveals Padilla's "plan" to use natural gas:

FBI Issues Alert For Propane Trucks Stolen In S.A.

Wed Jun 2,11:09 AM ET

The FBI (news - web sites) issued an alert Tuesday (June 1) for two propane trucks and 15 gas canisters that were stolen over the Memorial Day Holiday weekend in San Antonio.

FBI Agent-In-Charge Patrick Patterson, of San Antonio, said the possibility that the propane could be used to create a bomb prompted him to notify the National Joint Terrorism Task Force in Washington and law enforcement officials in Texas.

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'Dirty bomb' suspect Jose Padilla planned to blow up apartment buildings, government says

By Larry Margasak
ASSOCIATED PRESS

3:31 p.m. June 1, 2004

WASHINGTON – Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla is a trained terrorist who met with top al-Qaeda leaders, discussed detonating a nuclear bomb in the United States and accepted an assignment to use natural gas to blow up high-rise apartment buildings, the Justice Department alleged Tuesday.

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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 10:00 AM
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1. Perhaps they are setting us up
for the October surprise. This whole Padilla thing stinks to high heaven. Is Asscroft writing the script?
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BabsSong Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 10:03 AM
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2. Yep, again one of those damn Bush "coincidences"...I could write
a book on the convenient coincidencs. And it happens in the land of Texas where people like DeLay can arrange anything. Too bad, so sad, George----between the lawyer thing and the Tenent thing it isn't even being noticed on the news.
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troublemaker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 10:08 AM
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3. Coincidence
It's not that gas is a particularly good way to blow up an apartment building. The point of blowing up buildings with natural gas is that many buildings have natural gas pumped into them by the gas company... it's convenient.

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nodictators Donating Member (977 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 10:10 AM
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4. The 2 trucks have been found
Near the Mexican border. They were both still filled with propane.

Sorry, no link.

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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-03-04 10:15 AM
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5. The point is the false impression given to the people
Hmmm, here's some propane tanks stolen for possible terrorist use...hmmm, here's Padilla, planning on using a natural gas for terrorism. One essentially reinforces the other.

Distractions and distortions to keep the people in fear.
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