Call me a dummy but if Al Quada has websites... for announcements or

[henslee]

recruiting, isn't it sort of easy to track them down? Not saying they will be hanging out at the address but there must be some hot leads.

[Nickster]

1. For some reason, all the addresses lead back to Langley, Virginia

[Gyre]

8. Good one!

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

2. The FBI couldn't find ITSELF

even if it wanted to.

Ever try to call something in? The poor guy who answers the phone is half asleep and hasn't had a pen in his hand for days.

Al qaida? I'm 'way more worried about plain old government stupidity.

[whatever4]

3. Only if they're really looking for them

Like in Iraq, where they target uplinks...and blown up journalists. With barely an apology. And that was all before things got so crazy, with the president below 50%. So, yes I agree with you that they could, but, it presupposes they actually want to. If one flies with any of the LIHOP/MIHOP ideas, it's easy to believe Al Quida is a group of which the covert US is a part, and works with, to achieve certain "goals". Some people even think we invented it ourselves. Our government has a history of working with terrorists, so it isn't beyond reason or even unprecedented...hell, we might even have people on the "inside" right now...working on those websites. Find 'em, hell, we might have made them. It wouldn't be the strangest or most dangerous thing this admin has done. Unfortunately.

And, again, I hope I'm flat fucking wrong, that's just all I can say.

[liberal N proud]

4. You have to have the special decoder to see the message

the decoder comes in a box of Lucky Charms

[rooboy]

5. Like allowing paperless voting machines, the public is far too gullible.

eom.

[leveymg]

6. Shutting down those sites would be like deactivating a homing signal

The NSA wouldn't know what to do with itself if the CIA were to simply destroy the servers or kidnap al-Qaeda bloggers.

Without the recruiters, how else would a dozen allied intelligence services infiltrate the terrorist network?

The question is, if you suddenly withdrew the informants, double-agents, and agents provocateur, how much would be left of al-Qaeda?

That would ruin the game for everyone.:bounce:

[henslee]

7. Good point. About "how much would be left". I remember reading

about the CIA. I think it was "The Man who Kept the Secrets". The story of Helms. At one point we were funneling gold payments for years to operatives deep undercover in Russia who had already been killed by their subjects -- who had since retired and were just living off the gold payments.