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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48898)	8/19/2005 4:53:39 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Rights..when British police seek to capture them from their holdout, London bombers 'asked for their rights' sometime 'rights' lead to problems when one is dealing with enemy within.. fwiw this story points to one such oversight, the rights sacrificed over general public good.. <<In the spring and summer of 2000, he said, spreadsheet-style reports by Able Danger identified members of a suspected al-Qaeda cell in Brooklyn, N.Y., that included Mohamed Atta. Other lists of suspected al-Qaeda members included at least three people who would become 9/11 hijackers: Hazmi al-Mihdhar, Nawaf Alhazmi and Marwan al-Shehhi. Shaffer's team sought to brief the FBI, but military lawyers at Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa refused, saying "that because these guys were considered 'U.S. persons,' they had to be given the same rights as you or me. You couldn't target them," Shaffer said. U.S. citizens and foreigners in the country legally are protected from surveillance by U.S. spy agencies.>> news.yahoo.com

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48898)	8/20/2005 7:05:43 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Word of the Day for Saturday August 20, 2005 truculent \TRUCK-yuh-luhnt\, adjective: 1. Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous. 2. Cruel; destructive; ruthless. I ask whether impeachment will become still another arrow in the quiver of the warrior class of ever more truculent partisan politicians in Washington. --"Former Watergate Prosecutors See Censure as Alternative in Clinton's Case," [1]New York Times, December 9, 1998 ...officers mistook his father's cursing and argumentative reception of five men with guns for the actions of a truculent fugitive. --Frank J. Murray, "Media can't join police raids of homes, high court decides," [2]Washington Times, May 25, 1999 Those bamboozled into believing palpable untruths that are recognized as such by the larger community are likely in time to develop an attitude of truculent resentment and outright paranoia rather than self-esteem. --Thomas M. Disch, [3]The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World