I'm not going to argue this with you other than to say that these things overlap with my civilian job at times.
AQ is not what it once was. These types of attacks (Spain, London) are being done by small loosely organized groups. That's how they stay below the radar. Look at the group arrested in Canada with AQ ties. Yeah, if by ties you mean they were on the same web site that some AQ might have visited once. And that's about all I have to say about that. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Al Quaeda Plot Busted > > > tBone wrote: > > These support estimates mean as much as the "street value" estimates > that we > > get after drug arrests. Nothing. They are made up numbers from some > > analyst. > > > > I don't agree. I think it's safe to assume that for every suicide > bomber there has to be a network of people supporting and supplying > him or her. > > Likely the actual bombers are immigrants to Europe and so also have a > few "control" agents residing else where. > > So, let's put that all together: > > 1.) 10 aircraft x 3 bombers per aircraft (seems low, but we'll go with 3) > = 30 > 2.) Let's say there's 3 local support people for each team of 3. 10 x > 3 = 30 + 30 = 60 > 3.) Then let's say there's 3 overseas support and supply agents for > each team. 90 > > So, just SWAGGING it puts a number of 90 out there. Either way, the > point is, it takes a lot of logistics control to pull something like > this off. That takes people and organization. That means there is > still plenty of that despite Afghanistan and Iraq. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:212931 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
