February 12, 2010 8:51 PM

Terror Talk Growing Louder on the Web

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(CBS)  CBS News has learned that U.S. Intelligence officials are seeing a marked increase in terror-related Internet chatter with a frightening focus: Jihadists bent on finding gaps in airport security - all linked to al Qaeda in Yemen, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian.

On one radical website, a writer invites fellow members to post information on how to bypass airport screening.

Another member asks about explosive detection devices, writing: "We have that system in place in Algiers...does anyone know if it's capable of detecting [the flammable gas] butane?"

On another Jihadist site, a visitor questions security involving 3D scanners at British airports asking: "Can I refuse [to pass through] for religious reasons?"

Before long comes this answer: "…advise those who wish to avoid the Heathrow scanners to take the train to Paris... and then board a plane from there."

Perhaps most disturbing -- the recent discovery of a confidential TSA document on a Yemeni Web site discussing the rules for searching passengers.



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by erasmus111 February 14, 2010 10:35 PM EST
"CBS News has learned that U.S. Intelligence officials are seeing a marked increase in terror-related Internet chatter with a frightening focus: Jihadists bent on finding gaps in airport security - all linked to al Qaeda in Yemen, reports CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian."


Maybe they just want you to THINK that's where there focus is, but it's really on something else.
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by curse914 February 14, 2010 12:24 AM EST
by 7276sps February 13, 2010 11:02 PM EST
Yes Curse but you never denied shopping at Whole Foods did you? Take a lesson from Simone Weil " The most important part of education is to teach the meaning of to know" In the literal sense. Although agnostic at heart it is suspected she was baptized at the end of her life? Why you ask? Because she woke up to the world around her! a violent vicious world where dolts like you who got their rear ends kicked in high school use the internet to spread fear about this great country of ours. God Bless "Dutch" the greatest president to serve. God Bless George Bush and his Father for protecting this country. When the Black helicopters start flying across this country out in the open it will be a great day and it will be good americans like myself who will be keeping lists on our neighbors like someone in your neighborhood will be doing and we will be calling in our Chips!!!!!

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A little over the top. You need to work on the believability if you want to be a top notch Troll with a capital "T".
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by wyodutch February 13, 2010 7:51 PM EST
BOY!!!! THIS TERROR TALK IS REALLY GETTING LOUD< HUH?
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by 7276sps February 13, 2010 7:14 PM EST
hey Curse Hey Enza; Life is difficult and you left out PolPot killing 8 million. Its Human Nature Man is Violent and woman as evidenced by Amy Bishop yesterday. War is good for America it feeds people! What would the unemployment rate be if not for these wars 16/ 17 percent?
You should be on your knees thanking the great one percent in the political; military industrial complex along with the banks and insurance companies for the great country that this is! An AIG big wig gets a 60 million dollar bonus and your Mad. Shame how much did AIG make for Me; lots of dollars. You guys are to busy buying stock in Whole Foods or Trader Joes. Good Luck with that by the way.
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by curse914 February 13, 2010 7:24 PM EST
I still rank you as a lower echelon Troll. You went over the top in your evocative language. It has to be believable. Although, you are right on the cusp of channeling your typical Tea Party follower.

Not once did I defend Pol Pot. You go and find the quote. I pointed out that Dogma is Dogma, whether it is Jim Jones or Stalin.
My response to Chenns, religious tirade;

Hitler claimed to be a Christian and Mussolini brought the Papal system back to Rome after 59 years of exile. Stalin just replaced one form of Dogma with another. And the Cultural Revolution in China was founded on anti-intellectual tenets and Dogma. That would more closely associate these ideological movements with Religions history of anti-intellectualism and authoritarian rule guised as populist egalitarianism.

I tried to find an authoritarian government based on the principles of science. Maybe you can help me find one.

There is no doubt that many scientists act as if they operate in a moral vacuum . The science in of its self is not evil. It is what is done with it that makes it as such. Why are we afraid of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon? I will give you a hint; it is not because they are atheists.
by 7276sps February 13, 2010 11:02 PM EST
Yes Curse but you never denied shopping at Whole Foods did you? Take a lesson from Simone Weil " The most important part of education is to teach the meaning of to know" In the literal sense. Although agnostic at heart it is suspected she was baptized at the end of her life? Why you ask? Because she woke up to the world around her! a violent vicious world where dolts like you who got their rear ends kicked in high school use the internet to spread fear about this great country of ours. God Bless "Dutch" the greatest president to serve. God Bless George Bush and his Father for protecting this country. When the Black helicopters start flying across this country out in the open it will be a great day and it will be good americans like myself who will be keeping lists on our neighbors like someone in your neighborhood will be doing and we will be calling in our Chips!!!!!
by wyodutch February 13, 2010 6:59 PM EST
You folks seem to have yellow stripes down your back.
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Me? I'm not frightened of some turbaned fellow. I trust in the Constitution of the United States.
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You want to pee your pants every time some malcontent lights up his jockstrap? Shame on you.
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The real threat to the Bill of Rights isn't Al quaeda... it's the republican thief or democrat liar you elected to office.
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by JJHH3000 February 13, 2010 6:06 PM EST
Luckily for Al-Qaeda, American Political Correctoids are enforcing a policy of open immigration which will make it easier for terrorist groups to get more people on the ground in the U.S.
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by curse914 February 13, 2010 7:11 PM EST
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I never heard a peep out of Bush when they were pouring across the border. Was he one of the political "correctoids"? Or did he remain silent because his pals benefited from, naked, cheap and scared labor crossing the border?

That huge cheap labor pool has a downward effect on wages. Jeb Bush wanted to give them drivers licenses so they could get to his buddies factories, but they would still remain sufficiently afraid of deportation to keep their yappers shut should work violate labor laws with regard to, hours, pay, you name it.

Oh, and the crowning jewel in the captain of industries turd pie, was when the corporation that was given the contract to build a fence on the boarder hired illegals to build it.
by erb0087 February 13, 2010 5:00 PM EST
by jchenn February 13, 2010 11:30 AM EST
Last century the greatest lost of civilian life last century resulted from:

1) The Stalinist purges - 20,000,000
2) German death camps - 11,000,000+
3) The Cultural Revolution (China) - 40,000,000
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Obviously culture is taken very seriously in China...
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by erb0087 February 13, 2010 4:58 PM EST
"what Rush does not have the freedom of speeh?"

He can speeh all he wants as long as he puts the lid down afterwards.
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by erb0087 February 13, 2010 4:56 PM EST
When I saw this breaking story I thought I was at "Onion News" by mistake.

"NEW YORK (CBS) An interior designer is suing CNN anchor Anderson Cooper after she took an unusual fall at an old Manhattan firehouse that he is converting into a new home.

Killian O'Brien, of Brooklyn, said in her suit that she plunged 17 feet through the hole that once held the station's fire pole."
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by recon28romeo5 February 13, 2010 8:15 PM EST
Did she fall before, after, or during the dance???
by fedup12 February 13, 2010 4:52 PM EST
Still haint skeered.
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