Hezbollah night-vision gear manufactured in Britain

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Originally Posted by 9th Engineer

Our spy web was neatly dismanted during the Clinton administration and we need to double it from what it was before that.

Then you were not following the news in 2000, 2001, etc. You did not even pay attention to details in ABCs "The Path to 9/11" In Clinton's time, even the Syrians were providing the US with intelligence. Even Libya was a source of American intelligence. When a nation is so responsible as to have a 70% approval rating, then people do want to help. People volunteer intelligence which is why Ramsey Yousef was even caught.

America's government today has so much disdain that not a single useful tip on bin Laden has been received in two years. Even the bin Laden task force was shutdown due to total lack of information. That loss of intelligence (and allies) is directly traceable to the George Jr administration and people like MaggieL that somehow just know from a political agenda - facts and the little people who do the work be damned. This George Jr need first to restart the cold war so as to even shutdown all pre- 11 September investigations. Same cold war mentality even demonstrated by a large monolithic chart of Al Qaeda everywhere.

I've seen their terrorist network chart. Chart includes names such as Ali Hussein, Al Sistani, Abdul Qasim, Muqtada Al Sadr, Saddam Hussein and his sons, Abu Musah al-Zarqawi, Tariq Aziz, Ahmad Chalabi, Iman Abbas, Muhammad Sadr, and Ahmad Hashim. Some represent various wings of Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda wanna-bes (better known as Muslim Brotherhood). Some are or could have been American allies. And yet on administration charts, all are part of a united terrorist network. It’s the 'them and us' mentality that will only confirm two American defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan. Same mentality that does not understand why intelligence sources no longer walk into American embassies with information.

We will be bled to death by a government that does not even try to get bin Laden. This because no one more destroyed our intelligence sources more than George Jr and his extremist agenda.

The intelligence network dries up when our leaders lie. We have never seen so much lying since Nixon.