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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (56851)	1/10/2009 9:08:58 PM
From: SmoothSail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

Until we knew the real threat and started dismantling the terrorist organization, it was bound to happen. That's pretty scary. It can happen again. We did know it was a real threat - we knew it then and still do. The main thrust of all this started with the Iranian Revolution 30 years ago and it's grown to the point where now it's almost impossible to imagine dismantling it. The only hope is to contain it as best as we can. We have a presence in Iraq and Afghanistan - on Iran's borders. But that doesn't even begin to address the other radical terrorists organizations that have cropped up around the world, almost all of them radical Islamist groups that had their origins in Iran. A smattering of communist groups: Abu Nidal Organization (ANO) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) Al-Jihad (Egyptian Islamic Jihad) Al-Qaida (The Base) Ansar al-Islam Armed Islamic Group Asbat al-Ansar (Band of Partisans) Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) Communist Party of Philippines/New People’s Army (CPP/NPA) HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement) Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM) Hezbollah (Party of God) Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM) Jama'at al-Tawid wa'al Jihad Jamiat ul-Mujahideen (JuM) Jemaah Islamiah (JI) Kahane Chai (Kach) Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM) Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a.k.a. Kurdistan Freedom and Democracy Congress (KADEK) Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) Lashkar I Jhangvi (LJ) Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO) National Liberation Army (ELN-Colombia) Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Revolutionary Nuclei Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17 November) Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (RPLP/F) Salafist Group for Call and Combat (GSPC) Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path or SL) United Self-Defense Forces/Group of Colombia (AUC) Al-Badr Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI) Eastern Turkestan Islamic Movement First of October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO) Great East Islamic Raiders- Front (IBDA – C) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HuJI) Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B) Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin Hizb ul-Mujahedin Islamic Army of Aden (IAA) Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade Jamiat ul-Mujahedin Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia (KMM) Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM) New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party (BR/PCC) Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti (NTA) People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) Peoples War Sipah-I-Sahaba Special Purpose Islamic Regiment The New Red Brigades/Communist Combatant Party The Nuclei Territoriali Antimperialisti (NTA) The Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG) Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) Turkish Hizballah

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (56851)	1/12/2009 5:30:37 AM
From: SmoothSail	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 57110

About the demise of newspapers and the migration to the internet: We all get the headline news from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Firefox or whoever your ISP is based on your previous surfing history. They deliver filtered news to you because of what they've collected before - don't have to explain that to you. If you're a sports nut - you get a lot of sports news; if you surf entertainment, you get a lot of celebs. What concerns me is the divisiveness that's growing. It's not just the headlines that we get, it's threads and blogs we visit to get information. If you're a middle-roader and lean slightly right or left, you tend to go to the places that share your own opinion, places where people all mostly agree. PfP is an example. Most of the people there are Republican, conservative, Middle America, and people with whom I have a lot in common. We all mostly agree. And I honestly believe that the news that's posted there is the way it is. It's the close to what's happening as you can get. The trolls that come around dropping bombs are mostly ignored or banned. But go over to the left leaning threads and the atmosphere is completely different. Very hard to get straight information. But that may have to do with the fact that I've already made up my mind. My point is that I don't got there, I don't go to HuffPo or Koz because I don't want to read that stuff. (Just ran out of battery, so have to continue this post later.)