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lpetrich
Skeptic Friend
USA
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 Posted - 11/17/2001 : 06:03:57
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First Senator Tom Daschle, now Senator Pat Leahy. Who is the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
This most recent anthrax letter was written in the style of the others, and shared a fake return address -- which suggests that its creator was the same as that of the others.
But why him? This suggests a detailed knowledge of how the US political system works in practice. Which some foreign Islamist terrorist is not likely to have, but which some US right-winger is. Especially someone who follows right-wing talk-radio broadcasts such as Rush Limbaugh's, which often feature vilification of Congressional Democrats as guilty of terrible crimes against humanity.
I suspect that some Islamist terrorist would target Congress collectively, without regard for who's who, if he thought it worth targeting. In particular, our current President would be an especially juicy target, since he's the son of the President who first sent troops to Saudi Arabia to fight Iraq.
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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
417 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2001 : 13:15:52 [Permalink]
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I agree. Looks like this was home-grown terrorism, taking advantage of the 9/11 horror.
A quibble: the President isn't part of Congress; he's the head of the Executive branch, whereas Congress is the Legislative branch. But I know what you mean 
-- Donnie B.
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lpetrich
Skeptic Friend
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 11/17/2001 : 16:27:14 [Permalink]
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Sorry if I was a bit careless and let myself imply that the President is from the Congress. But the President is the Big Leader, and would thus be a juicy target; from a distance, Congress would look like a giant committee.
Our political system is somewhat complicated, and one would have to be intimately familiar with it to know how Congressional committees work.
And why target the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee? If I was some Islamist who wanted to terrorize the US Congress, my biggest villains would be those whose activities most immediately affect me and my fellow Islamists, such as the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Why would I care about a committee involved in selecting judges? As opposed to one involved in agriculture or appropriations, for example?
URL for Congressional committees: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/committees.html
I recall something from some weeks back about how some suspected Al Qaeda members had considered hitting the US "foreign minister" (Secretary of State), which is consistent with this view.
But if I was a real Islamist, I'd try to make the idol in NYC harbor go the way of the Bamiyan Buddhas 
Edited by - lpetrich on 11/18/2001 00:17:46 |
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ljbrs
SFN Regular
USA
842 Posts |
Posted - 11/24/2001 : 11:15:02 [Permalink]
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quote:
Our political system is somewhat complicated, and one would have to be intimately familiar with it to know how Congressional committees work.
And why target the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee? If I was some Islamist who wanted to terrorize the US Congress, my biggest villains would be those whose activities most immediately affect me and my fellow Islamists, such as the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Why would I care about a committee involved in selecting judges? As opposed to one involved in agriculture or appropriations, for example?
I agree that it must be a religious wacko who is involved here with the anthrax.
Don't these religious imbeciles realize that they are suggesting that their deity is so impotent that he/she/it cannot take care of the job by himself/herself/itself! Their deity needs an intermediary (them) to take care of things. That sounds immensely blasphemous to me. Any godhead worth his/her/its salt would become enraged at the very idea. Fire and brimstone for them!!!
Our religious wackos in this country have the same capability as the religious wackos of any faith. They are blasphemous to the core in their attempt to help their deity out! This sounds like a deity mafia of some kind or another -- getting the little guys to do the dirtywork.
ljbrs   
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