Terrified here, guys. News says Al Qaeda is recruiting more WESTERN-LOOKING fighters

[Bluebear]

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSN30326316

[saltpoint]

1. I just peed my pants in sheer terror. Imagine the recruitment posters.

"Wanted -- Western-looking guys for clandestine revolutionary acts against the Great Satan."

[Echo In Light]

2. LOL

[Fridays Child]

3. Al Cowda.

[cliffordu]

12. LOL.!!!!! Now I peed my pants!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bluebear]

30. :)

[DJ13]

4. Yep, perfect headline for the fear factor

Ever notice these things (including Osama tapes) never happen until were nearing an election?

[yurbud]

5. al Qaeda is a big whopping maybe thousand guys in Iraq and hated by iraqis

[Echo In Light]

7. I remember a journalist who had just returned from Iraq being interviewed/CSPAN...

He'd written a book of course. This was going back two or three yrs now I guess...but I remember him saying that of the entire "insurgency" mess, the actual "terrorists"/al Qaeda group maybe represented a marginal 2% of it.

Then get a dose of what info our corp media feeds the public mind with.

:wow:

[yurbud]

11. MSM makes up for it by calling anyone fighting occupation ''terrorists''

[Echo In Light]

27. Clearly, yes. Like if someone had broken into your house, and you fought back...

Only to be labeled the perpetrator in the equation.

[zonmoy]

29. if even that

more like a couple hundred guys on the cia payroll.

[MuseRider]

6. Guess I had better

start fitting my horses with English tack and maybe I should stash my chaps. :scared: Don't want to have to try to out run the posse.

[patrice]

13. MuseRider in those funny looking pants and jacket and wearing that beanie thing!! LOL!!

:hi: Hi MuseRider! :hi:

[MuseRider]

17. Hey Patrice!

I look better in a cowboy hat and chaps, that is certain and my horses revolt if I try beauty school on them so I guess I am stuck in full western mode.

How are you?

[patrice]

18. A little lower than usual, but OK overall.

I like my new job a lot!

I also like the thought of those horses, without beauty school, free to be what Horses are; cheers me up some. I'm proud of you.

[Muttocracy]

8. glad our airport security is based on how exotic they look

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda is training fighters that "look western" and could easily cross U.S. borders without attracting attention, CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Sunday.

The militant Islamist group has turned Pakistan's remote tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan into a safe haven, and is using it to plot further attacks against the United States, Hayden said.

"They are bringing operatives into that region for training -- operatives that wouldn't attract your attention if they were going through the customs line at Dulles (airport outside Washington) with you when you were coming back from overseas," Hayden said during an interview on NBC's television show Meet the Press.

"(They) look western (and) would be able to come into this country without attracting the kinds of attention that others might," Hayden said, without offering further details.

[MindPilot]

9. This could turn out to be al kada's biggest mistake

I've spent most of my life in the west--Colorado & California--and I know of nothing that will reduce brain function to near zero more effectively than a cowboy hat.

Just think, a move like this by al kada could effectively ban country music. Bring, it ON!!

On edit: Just my observation over the years; Mexicans look very macho in a cowboy hat--real men who work hard for a living. White guys on the other hand just look kind of goofy.

[patrice]

10. Another reason "The War on Terror" is so FUCKED up.

Think of the effect of dozens and dozens over time of "smaller" terror strikes all over the U.S. Small to "us", but not small at all to those who are hurt or killed and to those who live around these "mini-strikes". Think of the increasing probability of disaffected "Americans", like Timothy McVeigh.

I see a letter in today's paper by a guy who says he was beat up, by Black Americans, in his own neighborhood regularly during the '60s. And of course, we know what violence Whites did to Blacks. Both sides feel justified by the behaviors each evokes in the other.

Suppression or Repression of Both, socially and legally, is NOT a solution. It only makes all of it worse.

This is one of the reasons I am supporting Obama's candidacy.

In light of events like the VENOM you hear coming from Pat Buchanan these days, let's just go ahead find out who is who/what and proceed from there.

[NV Whino]

14. Got it.

John Wayne in a turban.

[Hugabear]

15. Does this mean we'll have to start taking our spurs off when we fly?

That would suck.

[Initech]

16. Well, we've got a president who thinks he's a cowboy, so it makes sense that the villains are.

[marmar]

19. I'll be frightened when they start recruiting coffee-house dwelling GenXers...

.... and java houses start going :nuke:. I'm a dead slacker duck at that point! :scared:

[newspeak]

20. so, how will we know them from our own

home, grown terrorists? I'm reminded of McVeigh and don't forget the Anthrax attacker. Neo-con wackos who could cause harm just to pin it on some other group--maybe to fuel their hopes for an Armageddon scenario?:shrug:

[trof]

21. I think we should license cowboy hats.

So the terraiss can't buy 'em.

[Kindigger]

22. Good idea

I watched "Midnight Cowboy" last night. Dress them all up like that. Yep, tight polyester "cowboy" pants & a transistor radio against their ear.

[spanone]

23. i saw one of them on the highway just the other day...

beware of dude ranches

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Be on the lookout...

[HughMoran]

25. Yee Haw!

Ride that nuke!

[enid602]

26. export

And they said the US has nothing left to export.

[ShaneGR]

28. The 9/11 hijackers were dressed in western clothes, shaved, and had short haircuts......

Honestly, the whole article is stupid.

[malaise]

31. See one here

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/11/21/bush2_wideweb__470x358,0.jpg

[Bluebear]

32. WESTERN looking, not STRICKEN looking.

[malaise]

33. LOL

:rofl:

[L. Coyote]

34. RUMOR: They are lurking in Starbucks looking for guys in ties!

They do not recruit. Bush does that for them!

[L. Coyote]

35. K & R

[earth mom]

36. No doubt the perfect way to disguise another 911 LIHOP/MIHOP.

:tinfoilhat: