This is the article that graced the front page of the Boston Globe today:
9/11 ties suspected in plot
More than 70 held as Al Qaeda link is probed By Bryan Bender and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | August 12, 2006
LONDON -- US, British, and Pakistani investigators suspect the foiled plot to bomb airliners bound from London to the United States was organized with support from surviving elements of the Al Qaeda network that launched the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, government officials and terrorism specialists said yesterday.
Dozens of arrests were made in Italy and Pakistan yesterday as investigators pressed their probe in Europe and South Asia. The new arrests brought the total of those in custody in the case to more than 70. In Britain, law enforcement authorities searched the homes of those arrested in connection with the bomb plot and froze their bank assets.
No specific link has been disclosed between the plot and fugitive Al Qaeda leader Osama bin laden or his deputy Ayman al- Zawahiri -- who are believed to be hiding along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
But Pakistani authorities said they detained a leading suspect in the London plot who is a ``key person" in the Al Qaeda inner circle. US and Pakistani officials identified him as British national Rashid Rauf, and described him as a suspected facilitator of the plot.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/08/12/911_ties_suspected_in_plot/ What John Kerry told 65 million Americans (and countless others watching globally) during the first Presidential debate on 9/30/04 about the real war on terrorists:
KERRY: I believe in being strong and resolute and determined. And I will hunt down and kill the terrorists, wherever they are.
But we also have to be smart, Jim. And smart means not diverting your attention from the real war on terror in Afghanistan against Osama bin Laden and taking if off to Iraq where the 9/11 Commission confirms there was no connection to 9/11 itself and Saddam Hussein, and where the reason for going to war was weapons of mass destruction, not the removal of Saddam Hussein.
This president has made, I regret to say, a colossal error of judgment. And judgment is what we look for in the president of the United States of America.
(About the military brass supporting a Kerry PResidency ...) And they believe it because they know I would not take my eye off of the goal: Osama bin Laden.
Unfortunately, he escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora. We had him surrounded. But we didn't use American forces, the best trained in the world, to go kill him. The president relied on Afghan warlords and he outsourced that job too. That's wrong.
That idiot Romney doesn't have the first clue as to what is happening in Iraq or Afghanistan. He believes in a policy of 'lie and die' that would have our soldiers stay in a civil war situation, while the real terrorists who actually attacked America hide in the hills of Pakistan. Romney is just another clueless Rethug who doesn't give a damn what happens in this war as long as he gets to cut taxes for very rich people like himself and doesn't have to ask any of his five kids to enlist and actually fight them 'over there.'
Mitt Romney is a dangerous charlatan who promises one thing and then goes and does something else. This incarnate insult to human intelligence had the gaul to tell the good voters of Massachusetts that he had accomplished everything that needed doing in his 'home state' of Massachusetts with the following interview in the Boston Globe:
With his wife, Ann, standing next to him, Romney said he concluded that he had accomplished most of the goals he had laid out when he took office in January 2003.
''Frankly, what's happened is that we got a lot more done than I expected we would," Romney said, adding that he felt he had accomplished just about everything he promised in his campaign. ''I've got the job done I set out to do."
The governor lay claims to closing a $3 billion budget deficit without raising taxes, streamlining government, enacting a rebate for capital gains taxes, and student scores that are first in national math and science tests. Critics of his tenure say Romney has failed to work with lawmakers to build a credible record, and note that many of his efforts -- to restrict gay marriage, to enact the death penalty, to limit stem cell research -- were rejected or ignored by the Democrat-dominated Legislature.
Asked why he would not want to run for another term, Romney said: ''There was very little that had to spill into a second term that we had any prospects of ever getting done. . . . The vision that I ran for and that I promised to the people of Massachusetts I've delivered to the extent that I possibly can." He choked up briefly as he finished his prepared remarks.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/12/15/its_1_term_for_romney_he_says_future_is_open/ This despicable son-of-a-bitch then abandoned the State. The only reasons we ever see his sorry ass anymore is when he thinks he can squeeze a few more drops of blood from the people of Massachusetts to further his Presidential ambitions. That's why we saw him after the devastating spring floods and after a woman was killed by a tunnel collapse. That tunnel collapse happened, by the way, three 1/2 years into a Romney Administration. It took 'Mr Take Charge' 3 1/2 years to actually give a crap about the Big Dig and then only after someone died. He only cares about Mitt and nothing else.
Romney isn't fit to scrape dog crap off the bottom of John Kerry's boots, never mind debate him on the topic of Homeland Security or the situation in Iraq. Romney is a fraud, a liar, a panderer and someone who will abandon the very people who elected him. I wouldn't vote for him for shit-can collector in hell. And that's the truth.
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