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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (234781)7/1/2007 1:40:34 AM
From: c.hinton  Respond to of 281500
 
Wiggle wiggle wiggle ......and you say casualties in iraq are lower than expected......that we should be pleased with the daily deaths now going on for 4 years...you would have us think all is going to plan....and better than expected?
Earth to Nadine ...is anybody home.......



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (234781)7/1/2007 2:06:00 AM
From: c.hinton  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Nadine do you not realize that in victory the public can support losses that number in the thousands...d day was such a victory.

Iraq does not appear to be such a victory any longer......even though initial coverage was all positive.



To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (234781)7/1/2007 10:56:13 AM
From: Proud_Infidel  Respond to of 281500
 
4 Held in Scottish Attack as British See Broader Plot "Allah, Allah!"
New York Times ^ | July 1, 2007 | ALAN COWELL and RAYMOND BONNER

nytimes.com

LONDON, Sunday, July 1 — British officials raised the country’s terrorism threat alert to its highest level on Saturday after two men slammed an S.U.V. into entrance doors at Glasgow Airport and turned the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball.

Less than 38 hours earlier the police uncovered two cars in London rigged to explode with gasoline, gas canisters and nails.

Early Sunday, after a day of fast-moving developments, the London police announced that two people had been arrested in Cheshire, in northwest England, “in connection with the events in London and Scotland.”

The arrests were in addition to those of the two occupants of the blazing car at Glasgow Airport. A witness to the attack said on BBC television that one of the car’s occupants had been ablaze from head to foot, and as he struggled with the police, “was throwing punches and shouting ‘Allah, Allah.’ ”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ....