MSNBC story of "faulty intelligence" that triggered raising alert level

[Postman]

in Dec. 2003

Tom Ridge interviewed about CIA's warning of "hidden messages" in the news crawl at the bottom of Al-Jazeera TV's newscasts.

CIA thought they detected information in Arabic to potential attackers running along the bottom of Al-Jazeera's newscasts so they raised the terror alert code in the US and canceled a series of flights.

Turns out there were no hidden messages.

Sounds like a good cover story for attacking journalists.

[MindPilot]

1. Have they ever been RIGHT?

This just adds more impetus to my theory that this entire "terror" thing is a scam. There are no terrorists, no Al-Qaida, and no Osama bin Laden. Like God and Santa Claus, it's just confabulated tales to keep us in line.

Edit: spelling

[skylarmae]

2. yeah, right, okay....and if I had a big one.....

let's go back and revisit what was politically going on in the life of the one and only, georgie porgie and his cohorts...