Comments on: Operation Holy Tuesday

Operation Holy Tuesday

crunchburger — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:00:14 -0800

Why use an ax when you can use a bulldozer? Der Spiegel article, summarizing what we have learned about the inception and planning of the 9/11 attack from interrogating captured planners.

By: angry modem

angry modem — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:18:20 -0800

Most of all, they demonstrate that the world's second-most-wanted man (after Saddam Hussein), prince of terror Osama Bin Laden Hmm.

By: rushmc

rushmc — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 19:49:42 -0800

The powerfully built, portly sheik has repeatedly surprised his interrogators in recent months with such insider views of the Al Qaeda network...Ever since American interrogation specialists began taking him to task, he has been talking profusely. Hmm.

By: Keyser Soze

Keyser Soze — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:24:41 -0800

And now that his right-hand man, Ramzi Binalshibh, who has been in custody since September 2002, has delivered a life confession of sorts, the documented confessions can be used to precisely reconstruct the genesis of the most spectacular act of terrorism in history Hmm.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:48:26 -0800

I don't know why, but I'm laughing. You people are such goofs.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:16:02 -0800

"Nevertheless, each interrogation report on Sheik Mohammed and Binalshibh begins with the disclaimer that one cannot be sure where the real information ends and where the lies begin." Hmph!

By: msacheson

msacheson — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 22:58:07 -0800

Yussuf, a bearded, brooding, introverted man with enormous ears A-ha!

By: euphorb

euphorb — Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:16:32 -0800

The article was previously linked in this thread. The surprise is how they finally got Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to start talking.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:14:18 -0800

I don't know why, but I'm laughing. You people are such goofs. hmm.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 07:39:16 -0800

What thread, euphorb? You linked to the article. In any event, I missed the link in whatever thread it was, and I'm very glad to have read it. Thanks, crunchburger.

By: reality

reality — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:48:08 -0800

cool, so time to use the bulldozer on the backward apes in pakistan that are still protecting osama

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 09:59:24 -0800

The Daisy-cutter (and soon-to-be-developed sub-nuclear warheads) serves as our bulldozer in the Pakistan/Afganistan region.

By: euphorb

euphorb — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:12:59 -0800

Oops, that would be this thread.

By: furiousthought

furiousthought — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:42:03 -0800

This is what I call good newsfilter.

By: crunchburger

crunchburger — Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:22:40 -0800

Newsfilter you can Usefilter