Thought for the day: We just passed a bill for $740B for security and a suicide bomber just blew up Nashville using propane and an old motorhome. Although he wasn't on the FBI's radar his girlfriend had ratted him out to police for making bombs in his motorhome a year earlier.
Oddly enough angry white guys blowing up downtowns in vehicles is in right in the FBI's sweet spot. But the FBI's annual budget doesn't break $10 billion. fbi.gov/news/stories/2…
You can excuse the fact that looking for angry white guys with trucks might deter the FBI from looking at Saudis in a dozen flight schools who don't want to land...but remember 9/11 was a domestic suicide attack using explosives and vehicles. abcnews.go.com/Blotter/911-fl…
9/11 was actually part two of " angry guys using a truck to try to blow up a large building". Truck bomb didn't work but it got attention. But the lesson was "angry guy+large truck or plane is a domestic crime. fbi.gov/history/famous…
Even 9/11 wasn't really new . The first attempted U.S. use of an aircraft as a VBIED was in April of 1994. When Auburn Calloway tried to hijack a Fedex jet with a hammer and a scuba speargun He wanted to fly the aircraft into the Memphis HQ. Amazing pilot. aenlogistics.com/general-intere…
The GIA hijack an Air France aircraft in Algeria and wanted to blow it up over the Eiffel Tower the day after Christmas 1994. They didn't get the chance. The French GIGN were ready for them. airlive.net/history-in-199…
The number of "jihadi" attacks in the US is almost nil. But domestic terrorism has been normalized by the media. The "Lone Wolf" scenario by white males appears to be unnewsworthy even while Trump promotes concepts like Antifa, Proud Boys and violence. csis.org/analysis/war-c…
So let's just never stop reminding Trumptars that another word for "The Base" is better known as al Qaeda
Bin Laden didn't like U.S troops overseas, hired war criminals, angry men and castoffs to be his inner circle. Channeled money from special interest groups to plan fuckery and violence. Hired his family, made long boring angry speeches, loved media attention, I could go on.
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