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Terrorism? What Terrorism?

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Posted on Nov 28, 2007

All but two of the nation’s 43 “fusion centers,” information-sharing offices set up after 9/11 to help uncover terrorist activity, have been distracted by local crime and other distinctly non-terrorist intrigue, according to a Government Accountability Office report obtained by the Associated Press. The problem, like so many facing our nation, apparently stems from the lack of funding and oversight by the Bush administration.

To top it all off, administration officials have argued that the centers’ chaotic approach to information sharing (as in the opposite of what they’re supposed to accomplish) is actually good for America. Right.

AP via Google:

WASHINGTON (AP)—Local intelligence-sharing centers set up after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have had their anti-terrorism mission diluted by a focus on run-of-the-mill street crime and hazards such as hurricanes, a government report concludes.

Of the 43 “fusion centers” already established, only two focus exclusively on preventing terrorism, the Government Accountability Office found in a national survey obtained by The Associated Press. Center directors complain they were hampered by lack of guidance from Washington and were flooded by often redundant information from multiple computer systems.

Administration officials defended the centers and said encompassing all sorts of crimes in the intelligence dragnet is the best way to catch terrorists.

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By Paracelsus, November 30, 2007 at 11:41 am #

Quick, somebody do some terrorism, so the fusion centers will have something to do. Look, a crazy man drew a red queen and now he is holding Hillary’s staff hostage. He has a bomb on his back. It’s on CNN. I wonder what crazy laws are going to be passed in Congress while the media is diverted. Right now the Home Terrorism bill is being kicked around the Senate. Oh my, what a coincidence!! We are being played like a cheap fiddle.

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By 1drees, November 30, 2007 at 8:21 am #
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What Terrorism ?

Well I can tell you what terrorism, its the terrorism that was caused by an inside job and blamed on Muslims All over the world which adversely affects about 1.5 billion people who through the ZIONIST MEDIA were painted as Terrorists as the already prepared scripts were read over and over again for 21 days to brainwash people into thinking that his was an attack on their land due to certain “liberties/freedoms” that they got where as people are now beginning to realize that it was all a ZIONIST setup to further the New World Order onto the World. And people are also the Liberties/freedoms were never really their ever coz it was all false perceptions conveyed to them always.
Also it is the Same terrorism that causes Normal people travelling by air to limit their belongings by many objects and the list of banned objects keeps growing, and the travel business like ordianry life has been limited to a ludicrus affair that no longer resembles travels. while the checks and the technology to check keeps increasing a growing number of security failures keeps comming up which exhibits that its all a FARCE.
Also it was the same terrorism that caused a new fast growth of an Industry called Security business for which experts from Israel found fast lucrative employments.

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By 1drees, November 30, 2007 at 12:09 am #
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What Terrorism?
Intresting,
let me remind you.

The terrorism that has made airport checks complicated and conditional to the point of grave inconveniences and yet the checks fail to apprehend the banned materials that the agencies ran through just to benchmark the state of security, and then a man was able to book himself from coast to coast in a box and made it undetected.

The terrorism that is affecting normal peoples lives in a very adverse manner BUT is a great boost to the Military aspirations of many a politician.

Its the terrorism that is blamed on IRAQ, IRAN and what not BUT is certainly not found in Israel as they are running the show.

Its the same terrorism that gave birth to the SECURITY business which has sprouted into a multibillion dollar industry, whose main experts were again imported from Israel.

And again it was Terrorism that killed about 4000 americans on 911 BUT the ONE MILLION plus that died in IRAQ was COLLETERAL DAMAGE and is not even worth the mention in the daily news ever.

Of course there was Terrorism in 1993 too when some agencies paid a couple of Arabs “real” Explosives to blow up the WTC.

TERRORISM and its NEGATIVE EFFECTS ARE A REALITY FOR ATLEAST 1 BILLIONS MUSLIMS WHO WERE PAINTED TERRORISTS VIA THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA which RAN NONSTOP PROPAGANDA FOR DAYS EFFECTIVE BRAINWASHING PEOPLE and SOME ARE STILL NAIVE ENOUGH to believe it

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By Stefan Batchvarov, November 29, 2007 at 11:23 pm #
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You are so ridiculous! You wouldn’t stop in front of anything because of your political preferences, would you?! There are decent ways to disagree with a political oponents let alone a president!
I do not know which one is worse - you or Moveon.org

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By cyrena, November 29, 2007 at 12:33 am #

Very appropriate title. What terrorism?

If these centers were actually dealing with terrorism, they’d be focusing all of their efforts on the White House. That’s where all of the terror is coming from.

Maybe these centers should first try to figure out what TERROR is, before they try to stomp it out. They keep looking for Muslims and Arabs, and they haven’t been doing any terror lately.

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