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The Wall Street Journal has an article detailing how the Paris attackers operated out in the open, using their own names, credit cards and drivers licenses. Even more absurd the leader was interviewed for a Terrorist of the Month profile piece in ISIS's english language magazine bragging that he had stockpiled weapons in preparation for an attack.
Combined with the evidence that they communicated over unencrypted SMS the evidence is pretty damning that the surveillance state is in the hands of the Keystone Kops.
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Paris Attacks Plot was Hatched in Plain Sight
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A woman was in love with fourteen soldiers. It was clearly platoonic.
(Score: 5, Funny) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:26PM
Seriously, Terrorist of the month? It's like a script from Blackadder:
Blackadder: So, you say that you had no way of knowing who the terrorists were?
Melchitt: None whatsoever, those nefarious blackguards covered their tracks too well.
Blackadder: But it says here that they planned their attacks out in the open, using their real names and documents, without any encryption whatsoever.
Melchitt: Yes, you see that's the most dastardly bit of all. Everyone knows that terrorists use false identities and super-spy encryption. Of course we wouldn't suspect them.
Blackadder: I see. And when the ringleader was featured as "Terrorist of the Month" on the front cover of "Terrorists Monthly", with a big speech caption above his head saying "I am a big terrorist and I'm going to commit terrorism very soon now", that didn't sound any alarm bells?
Melchitt: Bah! We can't trouble ourselves with tabloid tittle-tattle Blackadder, we have serious counter-terrorism work to do. Now, hand me my golf clubs will you?
Baldrick: If I may sirs, I have a cunning plan to catch the terrrrisms.
Blackadder: Shut up Baldrick, or I'll have you waterboarded with your own emissions. *smack*
(Score: 5, Informative) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:48PM
It's not like the 9/11 hijackers did a great job of hiding their plot either. As in, the US had all the information they needed to stop them at the gate in Boston if they had put the pieces together. They also had all the information they needed to stop the underwear bomber, because the would-be bomber's father ratted him out to the nearest US consulate.
There's a reason that they should be called the "Federal Bureau of Incompetence", the "Central Incompetence Agency", and "National Stupidity Agency".
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:17PM
Federal Bureau of Incompetence", the "Central Incompetence Agency", and "National Stupidity Agency".
Never attribute to stupidity what has been adequately explained to be malice.
You just can't explain their actions as "stupidity". We all know ISIS is a bogeyman coopted by CIA and Israeli Mosad, and 9/11 was an inside job -- Ask any building inspector, those were controlled demolitions. Building Engineers even petitioned to reinspect EVERY NY building because there's no way they could have just collapsed in on themselves. Now people are pointing to photographs with a disturbing lack of blood on the "victims", just like the Boston Bombing, where you can see bottles of fake blood and amputees with prosthetics who later claim to have lost their parts in the explosion on the news. It's all very reminiscent of the Sandy Hook "school shooting" hoax, where "parents" couldn't even keep a straight face before composing themselves for interviews.
No, I'm sorry. It's not correct to just assume that black propaganda isn't being used to create "Pearl Harbor" events to manufacture consent for war and restriction of freedoms... Not saying there are no terrorists, just that they could easily be primed and armed by our own intelligence agencies, and that embellishing the events that take place are so common it's a wonder you believe anything you hear on the news at all. "Like a sitcom" indeed.
(Score: 1) by J053 on Wednesday December 02 2015, @12:42AM
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Tuesday December 01 2015, @03:04PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @03:14PM
You nailed it! Here, have a box of internet cookies
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @04:00PM
Suggested title: Blackadder Goes Five Eyes.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anne Nonymous on Tuesday December 01 2015, @04:53PM
Taking off my shoes at the airport has been worth it after all.