British Authorities Search for More Suspects and Warn Attack Could Still Be Underway

Thank you, Thank you to the UK!!! If I were a Muslim, I would be working the hardest to find these terrorists because they are making all of Islam lose face.

Now is OK to use all available means to gather intelligence? Still want “better” treatment for terrorist at GITM? Wake up USA!

great, i’m flying to london soon. this makes me feel great.

Cudos for finding these terriorists – put them in an enclosed place and blow it up – help them get to their so called Heaven

we all have to be aware and thanklul that this plot was stopped

I have friends going to Europe in October. I hope they change their plans. It just isn’t safe to fly now!!!

What is wrong with these people? How can a religion/culture (or at least part of one) grow to have such a warped vision of the world where they feel that blowing up airplanes will actually accomplish anything?

And what do some Americans _NOT understand about why we are fighting terrorists in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan? Don’t they understand these people hate us and want to destroy us and our way of life?

now,,does this make you wonder about the 911) egyption missing students(men) that never reported to that montana college since arriving at JFK 2 weeks ago?

this maks me fell grate

Thank you Scotland Yard. Very, very good work.

Hail to the British!!!!!!!

I’m glad the authorities caught them but there will be more people in line to take their place. As fast as we can catch or kill these terrorists, more step up to take their place. There seem to be no easy answers or solutions to problems in the Middle East. These people only know two ways of life; death and war. Heck, they even celebrate people killing themselves and others around them. What kind of screwed up society do these people come from?

Oh great. Why don’t the British take these terrosists and give them equal justice under the law and spend millions of dollars tring to do just that. Equal justice as far as I am concerned is making these boneheads wear vests made of bombs and let them detonate the vests themselves. And then they can die for Allah and not harm anyone else.

everyday im hustling

Why are we STILL allowing ‘students’ from Mid-Eastern countries to attend college here in the US? Are American colleges THAT greedy for money? (foreign students pay as much as 2-3 times the tuition that American do)

Don’t lose your heads. This may have been a big event in the fight against terrorism, but you’re all freaking out about long lines and conspiracy theories.
Also, stop taking snipes at other people. A few bad apples shouldn’t be responsible for condemning an entire race of people.

The airlines better start offering meals again…
Seriously, we’re dealing with highly determined people that also happen to be zealots. No matter how tight the security becomes, they will find a way to thwart it.
Either we unleash bombs over everyone we think are out to harm us and destroy every last person or we deal with the fact that there will always be civilian casualties in war. They aren’t terrorists; they are a well organized guerrilla army. Until we start treating them like an army, we may never win this “war on terror.” The “war on terror” will just become another “war on drugs.”

I’m no wacky conspiracy theory guy…but find it interesting that when the administrations political outlook plumets deeper and deeper towards the shitter, these things pop up.
I mean…take a look at the 11 egyptian students. Why didn’t they post pictures of them on the news or internet? just seems a little timely.

Now I hope all these bleeding heart people get the message, these so-called fanactics are just out to get western cultural people and establish a Islamic world! Its time to get your act together and start pushing them around and be done with them. Remember what the world did for Hitler before they finally did something!

Didn’t the Iranian President say the world would have his response to the U.N. on August 22nd? Sounds like we may have spoiled his “Response” this morning. I’m sure Jimmy Carter and Madeline Albright will say we are just “misunderstanding” their intentions again. Yeah….right.

Lets suspend the US constitution and have our President remain to keep us safe.
Eight more years !
DON’T LET THE DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER AND DO NOTHING ABOUT TERROR !THEY HAD EIGHT YEARS UNDER CLINTON WHICH THEY LET THESE GROUPS GET POWERFUL.IT’S RIDICULOUS TO THINK THEY WILL NEGOTIATE.THEY ARE INSANE.!

This is crazy what the terroist are doing to America. Now that they know they can’t do terroist plots in the United States due to our security they are going to the UK to get on planes torward the United States and are now blowing up planes? This is crazy. Airports need to have way better security. I’ll also add that we might have not captured all of the terroist. Their might be some in-air RIGHT NOW planning to attack citys like Chicago, New York, Boston, Miami every big city in America is at risk.

If we go by most of the posts above, it would seem that the majority of Americans continue to see war and violence as the solution to provide peace. Do people not see the connection between the violence we perpetrate in the Middle East and the violence we reap?

I am British, and it pains me when I see such prejudiced and sometimes outright comments as are posted here. Are so many Americans so heavily anti-Asian?
In Britain a large part of the population is Middle Eastern, particularly in cities. If there are even as many as a thousand Islamic active terrorrists in the UK, does that mean we should condemn and suspect millions of innocent civilians in a desperate attempt to attatch blame?
Is it fair that THEY should fear racially charged attacks on their homes and families every time a threat like this is uncovered? No!
Our governments are feeding their own campaign of terror to us through our media.
I am not attempting to suggest any resolution to the conflict as it is simply never going to end. However hysteria and racism will not quell this conflict.

Once again we find ourselves on the edge of our(plane)seats.

Hey Joe,
If you think this is BS why don’t you get yourself over to Iraq, Israel or Pakistan and see for yourslef what’s going on! It’s easy to sit in a free society and mouth off. Men and women are putting themselves in harms way every day protecting your right to say whatever you want. These peole mean to eliminate our way of life. If you don’t think that’s true they you are a big part of the problem!

Hey Joe, WAKE UP! It is unfortunate but there is a large group of people that want to destroy you and me. I don’t care what has happened in the past all I know is that we have to do what we can to protect ourselves. Some of these groups have migrated to our country for a better life and now their family members back in the “old country” want to do us in. Of course, after they have established businesses here that provide them with the cash to fuel their terrorist propaganda. IF we are such Bad Guys then why don’t you find a better place to live. This may not be a perfect democracy but it is ours and I defy you to find a better one in this world.

I am a muslim and i am ashamed of those muslims who are willing to kill innocent civilians. I dont think they go to heaven but hell. No religion preaches of killing innocent civilians.
Pakistan and Iran should stop harboring terrorist.

I love Bush, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, British authorities, Scotland Year, and all the other agencies/people involved to ensure that regular Joe’s/Jane’s across the world can go on with their normal lives. God Bless America and may God save the Queen. Amen.

Ladies and gentlemen, let’s try to remain as calm and rational as possible. The goal of these extremists is to disrupt our way of life, to diminish our freedom, and to create chaos as we fight amongst ourselves. Look to history and recognize that hate of any kind, even ours against them, can only bring more pain and suffering. Stay strong and stay united above all else.

July 16, 1945 Hiroshima. “Little boy” was dropped and to this day I still can not fathom why?
Tom, the reason was to save American lives and to end the war! Based on how the Japanese fought for their homeland, it was estimated that it would cost over a million American casualties to invade the Japanese main islands. The objective of war was and still is to inflict heavy casualties on you enemy so that he would lose the will to fight. If you were the President and faced with the decision to invade and have over a million of your countrymen casualties or drop the bomb and save your people and end the war, what would you do?

Of course, such acts are the results of twisted minds. To say, however, that President Bush, or Prime Minister Blair somehow “manufactured” this thing is as wrong as saying President Clinton went into Somalia to take attention off of his problems at home. Wait a minute…..

I don’t expect our prime minister to vacuum my carpets in my house… I do it myself! I think if everybody adopts this phylosophy, the politicians will finally understand, that we want our freedom protected from these “students” and others like them. As of those British citizens, they should be deprived of their citizenship, even if born there, and sent to where their parents came from…forever!

dont people read the bible ? revelation ? well – we are getting some revelation arent we ? didnt we get enough on 9/11? NO ! Dont blame President Bush – he didnt invent Al Queda or Saddam ……could you do a better job with this mess ? NO ! Is this the pre-cursor to trumpet # 6 mentioned in Revelation Ch 9 ? could be but i pray not……….

Nearly six years into the Bush administration, it is clear that Bush administration policies are increasing the number of terrorists around the world, not decreasing them. Certainly, the threat of terrorism will never go away completely, but does it make sense for Bush to repeatedly and severely inflame the Muslim world and isolate the United States from almost all of our former allies?

After this mornings news all I have to say is……….. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!

some of you people are more stupid than i ever thought possible. whoever posted the one about dropping the bomb, great call. if youre looking for ww3 go right ahead. oh yeah and dont let any immigrants in, lets protect the “American people.” this country is a country of immigrants, were all immigrants, there is no true American ethnicity or anything. just because youre an American citizen already doesnt mean youre a saint, nor does being born in the middle east have anything to do with hating the west. you wanna know why they hate us? its just as MT here just said: if u go into an area blowing everything up and telling them how to live, theyre gonna hate you. we all hate each other because liberals wanna tell conservatives how to live and conservatives wanna tell liberals how to live. imagine if we bombed each other it how much more wed hate each other.

Jim. My dear fellow human being.
On who? I will forgive you for that.

It’s interesting to see everyone so upset and surprised that something like this might happen. Remember, we have declared war on terrorist. Did everyone expect that we could invade a couple of Arab countries and expect that we (except for a few military folks) would be immune from any notion that a war is going on. I doubt that a country can be engaged in a war and not feel it in their homeland. Let’s face it, we aren’t even really feeling the economic crunch. When will that hit? Our good Christian country and those evel Islam countries…. how many civilians have been killed – 9-11 (a few – since none) Afgan and Iraq (more than a few but who’s counting) — buckle up you chin straps folks, maybe they way will come to our shores. We should know that an enemy in this game plays for keeps.

The real danger is that the terrorists may be more clever than we surmise, and this may be a planned failure and a diversion for another attack of a completely different nature.

SELL YOUR STOCK HOLDINGS. The market is going to crash. Even the fed pausing the rate hikes couldn’t help the market to a gain this week. This is a SERIOUSLY bad time for the economy. I just liquidated all of my holdings. I am OUT of the market for the near term.

After this mornings news………I say
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!

Just imagine if this administration reacted differently to 9/11? Image we stayed in Afghanistan, where we had the whole world’s support to go after the Taliban. Imagine we kept our $$ and resources there… to find bin Laden, bring him to justice through our judicial system. What we’ve done by taking our eye off the ball and going into Iraq, is what doctors say about operating on cancer victims… it’s a last resort, because almost ALWAYS.. after they open up, the cancer spreads wildly. This is what this stupid !@#$ administration has achieved. Fan the flames of whackos by saying things like, “Bring ‘em On”. Maybe the pres can be a little more vocal and publicly take it back, more than what he tried to do about 6 weeks ago. Well… they brought it on. Jack-ass.

NOW IS THE TIME TO PRAY! Yes people this country needs God, pick up the Holy Bible and get in to it.
Peace and grace to you all and God Bless
JimBob

I previously worked for a state government office that issues drivers licenses, etc. I was amazed at how many people I myself encountered that should not even be in this country because their visa has expired. I saw so many passports and legal documents that were tampered with, expired, or just plain fakes. I personally think we need to stop the influx of foreigners and look into the ones that are already here. If they don’t belong here, ship them back. As for the students, I also wondered why it took so long for the public to hear about this and where are their pictures? They might be tracked down faster if people knew what they looked like and could possibly alert the authorities. We have so many kids here that would love to attend college and can’t afford it-why don’t we ever help our own first?

profiling – when was last time we encountered a southern baptist terrorist group ? North Korea looks easier and easier to deal with than iran or pakistan or syria.

I can’t believe that anybody is surprised at this. We have tens of thousands of troops in the middle-east who are killing their people. Did anybody expect that they wouldn’t do anything?
I’m tired of this old “our men and women are fighting for our freedom” crap, what EXACTLY was Iraq doing that was restricting our freedom? Unless no one noticed WE INVADED THIER country.
I don’t think what they are doing is right, but neither is what we are doing. Want peace? Get out of their countries!

The danger here is that the terrorists are more clever than we surmise, and that this is a deliberately failed plot and a diversion from a more sinister plan of a completely different nature.

“The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are mentioned in the Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation, which predicts that they will ride during the Apocalypse. The four horsemen are traditionally named War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death.”
Hmmmm… War, Hunger, Disease, and Death… Yeah, The Time Is Near…

What I cannot believe is the number of people (Democrats?) turning this into an anti-Bush rally and/or republican scheme. to those people I say wake up! Terrorists have existed before “W” took office. And before anyone jumps down my throat, I am not a republican

As the US and Britain continue to add more and more people to the already huge list of those who hate us, this will continue. Hate is something that either grows, or ebbs. Currently it is growing at an exponential rate. Are we feeling ‘Safe’ yet ?

It is a shame that “we” as humans have to fear, categorize, discriminate, and kill each other. The sins of our fore fathers have come to bite us. Remember we funded and trained all of these animals to fight communism. Its like a dog you train to hunt and kill that comes at you…you kill it.
I hate to say this but we really need to close our borders, scrutnize all travel into our country and really eliminate any and all threats. I dont really like war but we as a civilized people need to be come uncivilized like these animals. Destroy them and those who harbor them…if that means nuclear weapons are used then so be it. Think of how crazy the world would think we are if we eliminated a whole counrty…they would think twice before messing with us.

I agree with Nate– why are we letting Arab Muslims come here to study? When I was in college in the 1980′s — studying computer science — many Arab Muslims were my classmates. We spent long hours in the computer lab and in class — these folks would pray to Allah five times a day (I have no problem with that — and actually I respect it), but the problem that I had with them is that their hobby seemed to be “hatred of Jews” — that’s all they talked about. And I wondered, don’t they think that’s kind of odd — to pray and then talk about hatred? Do the Muslims had any kind of Golden Rule or anything as part of their faith?

Another NEOCON false flag.

I’m pretty disgusted with most of the comments on this page. I usually never post anything, but the level of hatred and idiocy here is unbelievable.

Dropping bombs is not the right thing to do. My son is a Lt. Col in the Army and fighting for all of us on a daily basis. Please remember all the military personnel who are trying to keep us safe. Don’t panic, this is going to be resolved.

One way to get the israeli/lebanon war of the TV. and remind us how
scared we should be.

Hmmm, lets see the last three holiday seasons have seen flights diverted from Heaththrow and De Gaulle airports. We have seen increased security responses in various cities from Boston, NY, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, & Chicago as a result of threat assessment from intelligence gathering. And that is a partial listing of various releases over 5 years.
Where would you think the next attacks would occur doing your own intelligence analysis?
Clinton was in office when the US embassies were bombed in Africa and the USS Cole was attacked. You are sheep if you think this is related to Bush.
The purpose of our enemy is to reinstall the Caliphate and enforce total Islamic law on everyone. Who the current puppet at the podium is doesnt matter to those with extremists views. They dont just hate Bush and our military. They hate all of you.
How many of you have remembered to take the advice of the government and stock pile water and goods and have a save room? Hmm, I would imagine the latest news on Entertainment Tonight or moveon.org has been more important.

Thank goodness that the plot was discovered and not a lesson learned after the fact. And will people stop making snide remarks about President Bush and Prime Minister Blair please? This is not a political issue, but an issue of the survival of freedom. These two men have helped keep us safe and know more than the media or any of us could dare to imagine or will ever know about the threats to our countries. And quite frankly I am sick of the media’s input on all of the crises. The arrogant banter about ulterior motives of our leaders is ridiculous. If any have an ulerior motive, it would be the media and others of their persuasion. Please wake up enough, psuedo- intellectual journalists and others of that ilk, to realize that it is entirely possible that President Bush and Prime Minsister Blair are actually the reason we still live in free countries, not bowing to Allah and we should be grateful. I thank God (the One that doesn’t ask me to blow people up in order to go to Heaven)that we are safe today. May He help us find the missing others who were part of the plot. President Bush and Prime Minister Blair, you are in my prayers and I thank you for standing up to the excessive, undeserved criticism. Please know there are millions of us who stand with you in gratitude.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdon to know the difference.”

“GOD Bless America”
There has always been a fight between good and evil. There will always be a fight between good and evil. The only thing we can do is pray that GOD will protest us. “In GOD We Trust”. GOD is loving and caring. He would never want us to harm or kill others. What good does killing do? Humans are the only species that kills for sport.
It is hard at times to keep from discriminating against another race but at times it is thrust upon us. When we look at a race and judge them for what evil people do, it doesn’t make us any better.
The world is in sad shape folks. We are destroying everything around us. GOD gave us everything that we would ever need but we aren’t smart enough to figure that out.
Now, I know we don’t live in a perfect world, but keep this in mind. “Life is what you make it.”
GOD help us!

Al-Qaeda: Let’s go blow up planes and everything else! That would be the right way!
Ignorant American: Let’s drop a bomb on the Middle east, that would solve our problems!
People who think: Question #1:How many Al-Qaedans you produce by invading a country and dropping off bombs on civilians? Answer: Millions
Question #2: How many ignorant Americans you produce by taking down World Trade Center? Answer: Millions
Don’t they think there has to be some reason for all this? Hate = War, Love = peace. Why it’s so difficult to understand? I guess common sense is not that common.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in. Thank God this witless act was stopped. This should not shock anyone as it is part of our daily lives and will never go away.
It might get suppressed on occasion, but it will always be there. Live your life and move on.

In war, there are no rules. It is folly to pretend otherwise. And as for battlefields, the entire earth is now a battlefield along with the minds of all human beings. If we do not adjust to this reality, we will not survive as a free society. We have to be more resolute than the most ruthless of our enemies. Self defense and self preservation at all costs are necessary and are moral imperatives. We should not be so naïve as to believe otherwise.

I am saddened and frightened by the attempted terrorist attack. Many US citizens are feeling the same way. This fear many times comes out as aggression. It is understandable. When attacked, the human animal is programmed to do one of two things: fight or flight.
I regret the feelings of hatred that are evidenced here, but it is almost inevitable. I say almost because we all have the power to choose, at least in the western world.
Blaming President Bush or Prime Minister Blair for terrorism in the 21st century is at best unfair. The modern terrorism movement can be traced to 1954 Algeria where terrorism was used to oust the French. From this conflict the islamic world learned the way to gain political power is to indescrimantely kill any and all. Algeria became the first hot bed of terrorism schooling. This cannot be blamed on the USA or the UK. Terrorism has become a cultural norm for the middle east.
Ismael, congratulations on your statement and thank you. Many muslims feel the same way. To the one who asked what Ismael is doing to counteract terrorism within the islamic world, I ask what are you doing? Are you teaching hatred in any form. I’m not suggesting tolerance, but bigotry is as unacceptable and dangerous as what you are condemning.
As a final word, US citizens are not “anti-asian” we are anti-terrorist. That we link “terrorist” and those of middle eastern heritage together is not a lark on the part of the US population. We have good reason, as does the rest of the world. We in the US are also not “white supremacist trolls” simply because we are fed up with the violence directed at our families and way of life. We are scared and we are mad.

You people that continue to be in denial about the instability of a free world due to terrorism will probably never wake up (alive). And those of you who do live to continue to live freely, if we’re smart enough to elect another administration that’s not afraid to fight for our freedom, will continue to whine in your world of pathetic denial and find something else to bash those who are trying to save us. If you think this administration is responsible for what’s going on in the World today, then pack your bags and go buddy up with your islamist co-conspirators.

Umm, Susan..you just posted on the iternet for ALL THE WORLD TO SEE. Duh, everything we do is being watched by who? Our government. We are all just a number. World War III right around the corner folks.

This just again emphasizes the fact that we are not doing enough on the war on terror. We need to go after that actual people (not a race of people) who are wanting to create terror in the world. The war against Saddam was entered into only to remove him as a dictator. Our money, time and unfortunately loss of lives would have been better spent on the war on terror. The war in Iraq has now only increased the amount of people wanting to create terror, not reduced it. When are we going to implement the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission? Why haven’t we already? We need to be asking those questions. Forget the the hatred. Hatred breeds hatred. Should all white people be rounded up and eliminated because of the Ted Bundy’s of the world? Every race on earth has it’s good and bad people. We need real leadership and results. The definition of insanity is to continue to do the same thing expecting different results. We’ve stayed the course and we are still getting the same results. Let’s implement the 9-11 Commissions ideas and then move on from there.

Wow-
Sheep all ’round here. You are all fear addicts.

Is a person who is born in the middle-east taught to hate those from the west?
I believe so.
Is a person who is born in the west taught to hate those from the middle-east?
I think not. I”m raising my kids to be careful, but to take everyone at face value, and to embrace others from all ethnicities. As for arabs, My kids won’t need to be taught to give arabs a wide birth, arabs will do that on their own. They make me sick.

One thing I noticed, that every time a terrorist attack occurs or is thwarted, we pull together! There should be a lesson here. Those who choose to point to our leaders should have alarms going off to make them stop and think. These Islamic militant terrorists are a self-conflicting self-destructing irrational evil–lead by Satan himself. Take the vision of martyrdom with 70 virgins being their reward for slaughtering innocent women and children–that is NOT heaven! Hell, I have enough problems with one woman.
Our history is a direct conflict to the fanatical tribalist terrorists, who want to pound the entire world back into the stone-age. I cannot accept these insane suicidal fanatic idiots poison my heart to God and my fellow man–that is what they want! This foiled attack has ntohing to do with the war in Iraq, it goes back thousands of years of tribal war and murder. Remember, that Mohammed and Jesus were both killed because of their beliefs and
teachings of peace and love. I do hope that the world of Islam will wake up and police itself by eliminating these radical vendors of hate and hurt. It is long past time for Islam to honor Allah’s universal love and Mohammed’s message of peace, and add a seventh pillar — “Do no harm!”. Some Pakistani villages (and leaders) would do well to learn from the example of Sodom and Gomorrah (AKA: cinders and ruins).
Personally, regarding a divided nation here at home, I remember the forced racial segregation and hatered of the ’60′s and earlier. The then Democratic party laced with KKK, spewing hatred at every turn and the Republican party turing away. Thank God we have learned and changed since then. We, the people, have never been more united. We, the people, seem to recognize differences, appreciate diversity, tolerate free speech and thought far more than in modern history. god, I love the internet(a product of the cold war)!
God bless us all,
tmblweed
LTC, Signal Corps
US Army Retired Reserve

Watch Terry Gilliam’s movie “Brazil”, it is a vision of our future.
btw, in the US you are much more likely to die from a drunk driver than you are from a terrorist attack.
‘There is nothing to fear but fear itself’

I’m an American and this summer I vacationed in Russia for three weeks. Their security is a bit tight but I felt very safe there. I could walk the dark streets of Moscow or St. Petersburg at midnight and never had a problem or felt threatened. The police and military are everywhere and are ready for trouble. They don’t play politically correct head games. They enforce their laws and keep their citizens safe.
Tourists must get a stamp when arriving in any city and be stamped leaving. You have three days to transit to the next city and then get stamped again, arriving and leaving. You violate their laws and you’re screwed big time.
You provoke any policeman and you’re in the slammer NOW. You drive after one beer and you’re in the slammer for one year, first offense. You use profane language in public and you’ll be in the slammer NOW.
Leaving through a Moscow airport was a real adventure. We had to go through three checkpoints BEFORE checking our bags. They searched carry-on’s and checked bags and didn’t miss anything. Then we had to pass through two more checkpoints before boarding our aircraft. At the fifth checkpoint and fifth metal detector they frisked us, head to toe. And I mean FRISKED! This guy went through my hair, shirt, collar, pockets, sleeves, pants – all the way down including shoes. It was slightly insulting but I felt safer as a result.
When we arrived in America we had to fill out this little customs paper and say “nope, I don’t have anything.” That was it – NO SECURITY!!! It was obvious why we have hijacking problems and Russia doesn’t. They are TOUGH and we are warm and fuzzy, feelgoodies.
America will have to get REAL TOUGH if we’re going to win the terror war. Racial profiling is GOOD!! A nice BIG concrete and barbed wire and mined wall at the Mexican border is GOOD!! Strict and properly enforced immigration laws are not racist, they’re NECESSARY!!! Wake up Bush and the rest of you weenies in congress!!!
RFC

The world is not ending. War is nothing new. War in the Middle East is nothing new. Crazy people have always said the world was about to end, and thus far they have always been wrong, and I assume they will continue to be wrong until the sun burns out.
What really disgusts me is that so many people in this thread seem to think that we can prevent these attacks by exerting force, as if guns, bombs, and sanctions could stop the ideology that says we are an evil nation. There are only two ways to stop that ideology: 1) killing each adherent (which inevitably recruits more, so it involves quite a lot of killing), or 2) proving it wrong. We’re choosing #1.
They aren’t necessarily an immoral enemy. We just call them that because they’re trying to kill us. But we are the ones who battered them into submission and left them with few other options. They aren’t necessarily cowardly either, as I’ve seen written here – it does take some balls to be willing to die for a cause, to push that button that activates the bomb on your chest.
We’ve lost empathy for them, and that is a problem. You might say that they gave up any claim to empathy or mercy on 9/11. That, however, is probably the same line of reasoning that motivated those attacks in the first place. Hate and retribution will only lead to more hate and retribution, more terror attacks and attempts…
But terrorist attacks can’t actually _destroy_ our freedoms, as the President claims they can. We can only choose to destroy them ourselves as a defense mechanism. We’re much, much stronger and bigger than anything a terrorist can stop. Maybe, just maybe, we would be better off conceding to some of their demands, rather than holding on to our belief that we are called by God to dominate and oppress the world. If we show kindness, and stop acting solely in our own interests, terrorists will have no reason to exist. That is the only way to win on the “battlefield of hearts and minds,” – by taking the moral high ground.
It takes courage to let go of a fight. If some of us are going to die, then some of us are going to die. I’m not afraid of dying by a terrorist’s hands any more than I’m afraid of being struck by lightning. I’m not afraid of a tall building falling down or a revered monument being destroyed. I’m not afraid of small pox or a dirty bomb. If you are afraid of terror attacks, then the terrorists have achieved their objective. You’ve already surrendered. What is the point of living with so much fear and hate?

I’m English and living in London, and I’m likely also flying out to the US soon.I’m only really posting to say how appalled and shocked I am by a great many of the ignorant comments.
A number of posters have written that all middle-eastern people should ‘go home’ or that the US should stop letting middle-eastern (and I presume the poster does realise that Pakistan isn’t really the middle-east, and that fundamentalist muslims can be found on every continent?). I simply cannot believe how stupid that is. Do you not get it? The terrorists are a TINY minority of people. They WANT to make you hate muslims, they are HAPPY when idiots in the US & UK say such things. It is that ignorance and hate that can potentially destroy our nations, that is what they want.
Be an American and stand up for freedom and equality, that’s who you’re supposed to be y’know.

Racial profiling… I hate that phrase. When a young black guy gets pulled over in a white neighborhood for no reason, that’s racial harassment, and it’s wrong. When someone is scrutinized because they appear to have the physical characteristics of a person native to a country loaded with terrorists, I don’t have a problem with that.

I can not believe there are still people who want to hide their heads in the sand and deny there is real threats being made to America. Someone said it was a plan by Bush/Blair to help boost their low approval ratings. How idiotic can one be? We have soldiers fighting for our country, to keep it safe. Fighting the very terrorist who took down our trade towers and tried to blow up planes and kill more innocent people. You know, if you can’t support your president or your country, maybe YOU should find a different country? God Bless America! Go BUSH

Let me tell you what’s so frightening about the direction the Muslim world is heading. I am a non-Muslim but I live in a Muslim country. Mosque sermons on a daily basis are preaching hatred (all non-believers are their enemies and the ‘West’ are conspiring and plotting against the whole Muslim world to keep it backward, etc, etc, ) and the righteousness of the jihad, and that it is every good Muslim’s duty to be martyr-ing for Allah! Children from a very young age are made to discriminate against non-Muslim – they are advised not to eat or drink when offered by a non-Muslim because the drink and food may not be halal, even the glass holding water may be contaminated by the lips that previously drank from the glass. So from a very young age we have children being taught to think that other not Muslim like them are inferior beings, and not to be mixed with? In my younger days, I mixed with many Muslim friends who even today are still my friend – but their children, the younger generation in my country, these young people, who are supposed to be better educated than their parents – they are the ones who will stay away from my house when invited for a function – a house of an infidel! And so their parents apologize on their behalf, “These young people, I don’t know what they teach them in religious class.” And this is the progress the Muslim countries are heading? This is the dawn of a new civilization; of enlightenment for many a Muslim countries? It is frightening isn’t it? It is tragic . Let me relate a true story, my friend got converted to a Muslim as he fell in love with a Muslim girl. After his honeymoon, on his first day back in his office, he was greeted by many of his fellow-Muslim colleagues who welcomed him into their ‘Brotherhood’. My friend got a bit embarrassed and said, “Heh man, we’ve been brothers from before, I’m the same me, OK?” Hearing this, one of his colleagues retored, “Abdullah, please, my friend, there is no such thing as the brotherhood of man, its all BS, but the brotherhood of Muslim, we are real man, and we are here for you!” In this kind of environment and where we are heading, I fear for my children and my children’s children. God help us all.

I hate to say it, but the only way to stop these people is to start profiling. We can’t keep up with the technology for their bombs, so we just have to go after the ones who look the part, who fit the profile. Sorry, but it has to be done.

Fear brings out the best and worst in most people. A large statement I know. Anger brings on racist comments that you see. Fear brings on racist comments that you see. If you were scared for your life from the “bear” wouldn’t you want all the “bear” GONE? It’s a frame of mind in thinking during fear and anger, even in sorrow. Less we forget how many have died to save freedom. How many are fighting today for what they believe in. How many have died in this present war to save what they believe is the freedom of you, themselves, their children, and their children’s children. You can’t down someone for fighting for freedom. As for Bush he is a man of action no doubt? Weither that action is right/wrong will forever be in debate. As with any former President’s decisions. Until “we the people” take back control of the USA things will not improve. Instead of sitting in anger, fear, and just bloggin away. . . when will someone with the “people” truely at heart run for president. Run for any office. Stand up together and take back “we the people” of the USA!