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Investigators Discover Suspected Terrorists In 5 Countries Have Links To Pakistani Tribal Area

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(CBS)  Five European countries are investigating suspected terrorist plots, which track back to al Qaeda's sanctuary in the tribal areas of Pakistan, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.

U.S. officials don't know if it's coordinated, but terrorists arrested in Spain for plotting suicide attacks against the Barcelona subway had traveled to the tribal areas.

They, in turn, had links to suspected terrorists in Germany, France, Great Britain and Portugal, where U.S. officials believe similar plots are in the works.

Martin reports that when U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey was asked how concerned he is on a scale of 1 to 10, he said, "11."

U.S. officials are so worried about the al Qaeda sanctuary in Pakistan, they have offered to send combat troops.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf has publicly rejected that, but he admits the stakes are high.

"We have to win," Musharraf said, "because if we lose, I think it will have an impact on the region and the world, maybe in the streets of Europe."

The United States also has plans to increase its training of the Pakistani army -- but that would take years, and the threat is now.

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by mcvet January 25, 2008 7:33 PM PST
What?? The threats are NOT coming from Iraq?? That isn''t what the Nazi''s and Sir Lies-A-Lot told us when they left Al Queda and went off to fight the "Front in the War on Terror"! ROFLMAO I''ve come to the conclusion that the entire Republican Party is just plain INCOMPETENT.... How else can you explain the mess we find ourselves in. We have given these quacks 6 long years and spent ONE TRILLION Dollars we do not have only to find out that the threats are coming from the area we LEFT to invade Iraq. What part of Butt Whoopin don''t the Fascist understand???? Sieg Heil Bush!!
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 8:29 PM PST
We have to win," Musharraf said, "because if we lose, I think it will have an impact on the region and the world, maybe in the streets of Europe."


Win what??? The surge worked?? Did we kill them all or scare them out of Iraq? Now, we''re going to ship American troops all over the world to "get em"?

Kinda like going after the last fish in the ocean!

These American leaders should all be in straight jackets--on trial for for the mere fact of being nuts!

They talk so tough, but most of these repug leaders never sported a uniform-they aren''t even good enough to say they were boy scouts.

Living their war dreams vicariously through OUR kids!

Musharraf allows these criminals to live in his country--let him take care of them!

If these two military evaders in the White House want to save the world---put on your superman cape with your GI Joe undies and go get them--leave Americans alone--we can take care of ourselves!


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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:00 PM PST
Well lookie here with the idiot who I have conversions with before:
What?? The threats are NOT coming from Iraq?? That isn''''t what the Nazi''''s and Sir Lies-A-Lot told us when they left Al Queda and went off to fight the "Front in the War on Terror"! ROFLMAO I''''ve come to the conclusion that the entire Republican Party is just plain INCOMPETENT.... How else can you explain the mess we find ourselves in. We have given these quacks 6 long years and spent ONE TRILLION Dollars we do not have only to find out that the threats are coming from the area we LEFT to invade Iraq. What part of Butt Whoopin don''''t the Fascist understand???? Sieg Heil Bush!!
Hi moron - you still on dupe ?
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:07 PM PST
If these two military evaders in the White House want to save the world---put on your superman cape with your GI Joe undies and go get them--leave Americans alone--we can take care of ourselves!
Here is another smart maron ! Intelligence at its best !
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 9:11 PM PST
What''s a maron?
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:15 PM PST
You - maron ! I might as well spell it wrong since you libs love to put everybody down ! Right maron ! - Tell me - where did you receive such wonderful intelligence ? Maybe, Mikee Moore !
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 9:22 PM PST
Um---intelligence comes from education and experience.

For example, I have an 8 year old grandaughter that had that word in a spelling test--she got 100! I figure she''s on her way to being intelligent!

"Putting down" Bush and Cheney--is fair, because they are responsible for "putting down" thousands---permanently!

If you are a war lover killer at heart--put on a uniform, pick up a gun and march yourself to Pakistan!

M O R O N--moron
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:27 PM PST
If you are a war lover killer at heart--put on a uniform, pick up a gun and march yourself to Pakistan!
Well see, I support the troops while fools down''t. - By the way, what 1960/1970 peace university did you attend ?
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 9:33 PM PST
Well see, I support the troops while fools down''''t. - By the way, what 1960/1970 peace university did you attend ?
Posted by jb01201a at 09:27 PM : Jan 25, 2008

Peace University??? lol

I do support our troops---for having been put in a position of killing for Bush instead of going after Bin Laden!

I come from a long line of military--my daughter is a veteran amoung many cousins and uncles--have a grandson that was supposed to go back to Iraq last October, but has been put on standby instead---

how about you?

Pretty insecure aren''t you?
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:50 PM PST
Actually, I come from a long line of vets myself - my Dad and Mom - Korean war vets, uncles - WW2 - DDay vets. I don''t put down any miliary what so ever. I congrads you and your family for military service. However, it does not help when you put our service people down, regardless if there is a left or right president. You people have a long record of killing our military. I don''t need to give you any examples - other words, you are a smuck !
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 9:51 PM PST
I don''t put down the military either--only our corupt government!
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 9:57 PM PST
I don''''t put down the military either--only our corupt government! - well, why don''t you move to castros country, the soviet union and ole - how about your Hollywood friends - Sean Penn and that fool down in South America. You all are a great bunch of people. While you are at it - take Jane, Barbs, Jonnie and Danny with you. You make me sick ! Ole by the way, you are a smuck !
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 9:59 PM PST
Are you on 24 hour pass? Are you allowed to write with anything other than a crayon?

I believe I have plants with a higher IQ than you!
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:06 PM PST
liberalme - see, proves my point. Intelligence at its best, especially from you. Put downs, etc. You are always right and people MUST, MUST listen to you. By the way, have you had dinner with Jane yet in Hanoi ? or maybe with Penn in Venezuela ? You are still a smuck !
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by ioweign January 25, 2008 10:09 PM PST
"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him." George Bush - Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001


"I don''t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don''t care. It''s not that important. It''s not our priority." George Bush - Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

"Can we win? I don''t think you can win it." George Bush after being asked whether the war on terror was winnable, "Today" show interview, Aug. 30, 2004


Come on George - you are either with us or against us...

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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:12 PM PST
Hey IOWEIGN, you joining liberalme for a good ole fashion dinner with Jane and Sean ? By the way, you are a smuck too !
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 10:15 PM PST
Psssst IOWEIGN

He''s a Rush Lintball fan--no facts, just a lot of name calling.
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:19 PM PST
Psssst IOWEIGN

He''''s a Rush Lintball fan--no facts, just a lot of name calling.
Well, yes and my best of all Mark Levin. Thats were i get the smuck from - you smucks ! Tell me, still trying to figure out what kind of George and Dickie UFO killed the 3,000 people on 9/11 - oh, I forget - they bought the pipeline in Afganistan and got oil. Geez, what a brilliant deduction !
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by ioweign January 25, 2008 10:21 PM PST
Hey IOWEIGN, you joining liberalme for a good ole fashion dinner with Jane and Sean ? By the way, you are a smuck too !

Posted by jb01201a at 10:12 PM : Jan 25, 2008


Put your energy to good use - enlist !
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:26 PM PST
IOWEIGN - I have enlisted, my entire lifetime of protecting America from people like you. Oh, no, a facist nazi here. People who seek to destroy America, enact social medical care, raise taxes, take rights away, destroy the US military. When I am at a airport, I clapped at our miliary personnel instead of spitting at them like a bunch of you did during the 1970''s. Discussing !
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by ioweign January 25, 2008 10:29 PM PST
IOWEIGN - I have enlisted, my entire lifetime of protecting America from people like you. Oh, no, a facist nazi here. People who seek to destroy America, enact social medical care, raise taxes, take rights away, destroy the US military. When I am at a airport, I clapped at our miliary personnel instead of spitting at them like a bunch of you did during the 1970''''s. Discussing !


Posted by jb01201a at 10:26 PM : Jan 25, 2008


Really - What branch and when ??
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:35 PM PST
Well, I think maybe the smuck service ! Enlisted means my entire lifetime of protecting America from people like you ! Get it ? Too old for Military service since I spent most of my 20''s and 30''s in school receiving multiple college degrees including one from a liberal arts school - that word - yuck ! And to think I voted twice for Billie and once for peanut head. 9/11 changed forever.
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by liberalme January 25, 2008 10:41 PM PST
I have this eerie feeling jb01201a is George.
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by ioweign January 25, 2008 10:44 PM PST
jb01201a -
Unlike Cheney and Bush - I enlisted in 1968 in the Navy and got my Honorable discharge in 1972. I got a couple of years in college and got a degree in electronics which got to use while in the USN. I have a daughter serving in Iraq now. I believe Iraq is a drag on the war on terror mission and the original goal of Afghanistan has suffered because of this mistake.
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:44 PM PST
liberalme - no, I am you best friend Jane. Give me a nice kiss. Oh, by the way, did you go down to your energy company and sell your carbon footprint for money or did you go down to the food store and get your one use of tiolet paper ? Hows Al doing ?
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by ioweign January 25, 2008 10:51 PM PST
I have this eerie feeling jb01201a is George.


Posted by liberalme at 10:41 PM : Jan 25, 2008

No - it is Friday and no high school tomorrow.
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by jb01201a January 25, 2008 10:51 PM PST
Hey IOWEIGN, thank you for serving our country and also your daughter.
As far as Iraq and Afghanistan, it really would not make a difference with Iraq, meaning if we had not gone into Iraq. You libs would be complaining about Afgan as well. Simply, put, you hate George Bush. Now, next November, when your heroes, Hill and Barack get into the whitehouse, just see how amazing it is how all of a sudden Iraq is going good.
But thanks for serving our country. You and your daughter are truly American heroes regardless of political views.
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by brianbwb-2009 January 25, 2008 11:45 PM PST
Does CBS and the rest of the media never learn?

Now you choose to help beat the drums for an illegal invasion of Pakistan, printing ridiculous circumstantial and unprovable BS given you by those with the war agenda.

So what if they went to tribal areas in Pakistan? Tim McVeigh passed through several small towns and larger cities on his way to Oklahoma City, so by this logic, those towns, and the people who sold the ingredients for his truck bomb should be implicated as promoting terrorism.

Later, when the dead are decaying, the families are grieving, The US economy collapsed from war profiteering corruption, and the stories turn to be unsubstantiated lies, exactly like Iraq, are you again going to shed a couple crocodile tears about how the press was remiss in its duty to verify information, and sincerely regrets the millions of dead that resulted from their contribution to fomenting war?

This story is nothing more than agitprop, trying to seek justification for another illegal invasion. If Britain feels the threat, it is Britain''s problem, not Americas. They don''t pay taxes to support our military, and so are not under American protection, let them take care of their own.
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by rowdytexan2 January 25, 2008 11:51 PM PST
Posted by brianbwb at 11:45 PM : Jan 25, 2008

Well said!
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 12:57 AM PST
illegal invasion - like the illegal invasion of Haiti when your bud Billie was in the white house ?
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by brianbwb-2009 January 26, 2008 1:15 AM PST
illegal invasion - like the illegal invasion of Haiti when your bud Billie was in the white house ?
Posted by jb01201a

Same principle, but different outcome, much more death and destruction due to George, and much more war profiteering corruption. Clinton''s crimes were real, but comparisons of Bill to George are like comparisons between a firecracker and a nuclear bomb.
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by brianbwb-2009 January 26, 2008 2:09 AM PST
illegal invasion - like the illegal invasion of Haiti when your bud Billie was in the white house ?
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Not to forget that Haiti was a country in disarray, in a state of anarchy, having ousted Aristide, but Iraq was not. Clinton didn''t lie us into Haiti, Bush lied us into Iraq.

Having said that, basically I am for taking care of us first, and against invading any other country for any reason. If a country truly threatens us, (and by "us", I don''t mean corrupt multinationals interfering with other countries for their own profit, I do mean US territorial integrity and domestic citizens) we can easily eliminate that threat with a well placed nuclear strike, there is no need for protracted battle. What is happening in Iraq is simply corruption, and the theft of money from the US treasury.
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 2:42 AM PST
Oh, thats right, I forgot, Bush did lie about Iraq, about Afgan, about the 3,000 people that died on 9/11, lied about marrying barbara, lied above owning the Texas Rangers, lied about being the governor of Texas. OH, and you are a smuck you brainless wonder - brianbwb - oh, this is suppose to be a nice forum. Sorry smuck !
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 2:45 AM PST
Hey smuck:
Same principle, but different outcome, much more death and destruction due to George, and much more war profiteering corruption. Clinton''''s crimes were real, but comparisons of Bill to George are like comparisons between a firecracker and a nuclear bomb.

Being a womanizer certainly qualifies your hero as a lousy prez !
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by feelfree1 January 26, 2008 4:19 AM PST

Re: "Investigators Discover Suspected Terrorists In 5 Countries Have Links To Pakistani Tribal Area"

Thanks for the "links" CBS, but it is "believed" that this is just more *********. It has all the hallmarks.
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 4:49 AM PST
FeelFree1 - another smuck !
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by skyk-2009 January 26, 2008 5:13 AM PST
Oh, thats right, I forgot, Bush did lie about Iraq, about Afgan, about the 3,000 people that died on 9/11, lied about marrying barbara, lied above owning the Texas Rangers, lied about being the governor of Texas. OH, and you are a smuck you brainless wonder - brianbwb - oh, this is suppose to be a nice forum. Sorry smuck !


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Posted by jb01201a at 02:42 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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What is WRONG with you people?? I mean it''s okay to support a Political Party but to be SO stuck on one that you refuse to acknowledge the reality is next to being a cultist! I''m a Veteran of Vietnam and as such have followed this VERY closely. I also went to the Web Site where they have LISTED in Black and White the lies, dates, places and names. I KNOW George Bush LIED to us... I sat right there and LISTENED to him do it but I did not know it had been as much as it was. 935 different times he and his Administration LIED about the events leading up to and the events causing the death of almost 4000 of America''s best and brightest. I can not find ONE, not ONE, case where the statements listed was a truth.. not ONE. If you can I''d like to hear it!
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 5:16 AM PST
skyk - ok, I lied too. Does that make your liberal brain happy ?
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by skyk-2009 January 26, 2008 5:17 AM PST
illegal invasion - like the illegal invasion of Haiti when your bud Billie was in the white house ?


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Posted by jb01201a at 12:57 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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We are not here to debate Haiti.. Could you PLEASE stick to the subject at hand. George Bush went on National TV and said he could NOT give the UN Inspectors more time. He had to send our kids into Iraq right then. The reason given was that Saddam had WMD''s ready to us AND he, George Bush, had the "smoking gun". THAT was a LIE and it''s well documented. By the way, we didn''t INVADED Haiti... if your going to hate at least be accurate.
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by jb01201a January 26, 2008 5:21 AM PST
skyk - oh, ok. So, does this mean you are feeling better about yourself ? Libs like to feel good about themselves.
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by January 26, 2008 9:21 AM PST
Go After Al Qeada anywhere in the world that they are hiding ,The Murders they commited outway everthing ealse!
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by underdogus January 26, 2008 12:40 PM PST
liberalism is a mental disorder....
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by libsluvsuvs January 27, 2008 12:15 AM PST
Posted by skyk at 05:17 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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if recent history serves me well..was it not that the UN was heavy in the oil for food scandal?? meaning they were under saddam''s payroll all that time..second..history and pre-ronald reagan liberals were screaming about giving saddam wmd...and trust me..these weapons are not like milk..they dont expire
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by libsluvsuvs January 27, 2008 12:17 AM PST
Posted by FeelFree1 at 04:19 AM : Jan 26, 2008
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come on feelfree..everybody knows where you stand when it comes to terrorism and the deeds they do..
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by runningralph January 27, 2008 2:30 AM PST
Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Iran has the Russian missiles. The jihadists have their deepest desires almost within their grasp. This war is not about Iraq or Afghanistan or any other country. It is about stopping Islamic jihad. If the West doesn''t fight the game is over. The next game will be between Islam and China.
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by prinzowhales January 27, 2008 12:39 PM PST
Iraqis already feel that the US is the biggest exporter of terror in the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19186.htm

In Palestine, after fifty years of promises, they are beginning to see that negotiating with the Israelis and Americans is a waste of time...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19195.htm

On 9-11, as the planes struck their targets, the head of Pakistani intelligence was having breakfast in Washington with Senator Graham and Representative Porter Goss...the former CIA head appointed by Bush43.
Here he is pictured in Mexico City with the rest of the CIA''s OPERATION 40...an assassination team involved in the JFK assassination and drug dealing.

http://www.masterjules.net/cianewguy.htm

He was meeting on 9-11 with the ISI general who wired the alleged head of the 9-11 plot, $100,000....Now, we know who the real terrorists are...

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by winnerindia January 28, 2008 5:48 AM PST
" Pakistan''s Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf has publicly rejected that, but he admits the stakes are high. "

CBS news still doesn''t know that Pervez Musharraf is Pakistan''s President not their Prime Minister. So what news could you expect from them? lol
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by winnerindia January 28, 2008 6:15 AM PST
" Pakistan''''s Prime Minister Pervez Musharraf has publicly rejected that, but he admits the stakes are high. "

CBS news still doesn''''t know that Pervez Musharraf is Pakistan''''s President not their Prime Minister. So what news could you expect from them? lol


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by winnerindia January 28, 2008 6:16 AM PST
Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Iran has the Russian missiles.
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Posted by runningralph at 02:30 AM : Jan 27, 2008
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and that''s why we don''t call Pakistan as ''Axis of evil''. Pakistan is our friend.
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by mattcbsmatt January 28, 2008 6:50 PM PST
THE EPIC BATTLES OF explosive dingleberries and explosive diarrhea : )

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