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Dana Summers is the creator of the comic strip Bound and Gagged. He also finds time to co-create a second strip, The Middletons, with fellow Orlando Sentinel cartoonist Ralph Dunagin. His third job is editorial cartoonist for The Orlando Sentinel. His editorial cartoons have been in syndication since 1985.
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ANandy said, 2 months ago
Don’t feel badly,”I used to be a Rottweiler”. The guy holding the other end is no better.
crunkbot said, 2 months ago
Funny how when someone says “holding a federal agency to law and Constitution,” a wingnut hears “neutered.”
d_legendary1 said, 2 months ago
Good! We don’t need the C.I.A. acting on its own and torturing people.
oldlegodad
said,
2 months ago
The C.I.A.is NEVER on its own, they are the ultimate CYA organization in government.
GNWachs
said,
2 months ago
I live in NYC. God forbid we ever have another 9/11. Whatever Bush did, however he did it, there has not been another foreign terrorist attack in the US since then. Other countries have not been so fortunate. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
nomad2112 said, 2 months ago
^ I agree.
DrCanuck said, 2 months ago
Why would there be another terrorist attack in the US? bin Laden accomplished what he set out to do. He has no reason to attack again.
GNWachs
said,
2 months ago
So why were there foreign terrorist attacks in Spain, Germany, UK etc? And according to Canadian sources they were able to prevent them from occurring there.
HUMPHRIES
said,
2 months ago
We had a terror attack in Germany? Typical Bushie mental, “the Boogey Man’s everywhere,” You’re a joke GNW.
GNWachs
said,
2 months ago
Sept. 6 (Bloomberg) – Police are searching for at least 10 further suspects in connection with a foiled plot to carry out terrorist attacks on bars, nightclubs and airports in Germany.
“Such terror attacks need logistics and preparations and we’re trying to identify everyone that helped prepare or planned to carry out the attacks,” German Deputy Interior Minister August Hanning, a former head of the Federal Intelligence Service, said today on ARD television.
“We don’t just have 10 people in our sights,” he said, adding that police are hunting suspects of German, Turkish and other nationalities in Germany and abroad.
Police arrested three men on Sept. 4 suspected of planning “massive bomb attacks” on targets in Germany used by U.S. citizens, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said yesterday. The men, two Germans and a Turkish national, were “core” members of a local cell of the terrorist group Islamist Jihad Union that comprised more suspects, it said.
The prosecutor’s office is already investigating seven suspects in connection with the bomb plot, five of whom are known by name, according to Frank Wallenta, spokesman for the Karlsruhe-based office. No arrest warrants have been issued for those living in Germany, he said.
Those arrested, named by the prosecutor’s office as Fritz Martin G., 28, and Daniel Martin S., 21, both German converts to Islam, and Turkish national Adem Y., 28, lived in the western states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Hesse and Saarland. They received training in Pakistan last year on how to carry out attacks in Germany, the prosecutor’s office said.
Liquid Explosives
With the arrests, the authorities foiled “one of the worst terror acts ever planned in Germany,” Chief Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms said yesterday. The hydrogen peroxide-based liquid explosives seized during the arrests were equivalent to 550 kilograms of TNT – more explosive power than in the Madrid bombings of March 2004 or the London bombings of July 2005, according to Joerg Ziercke, head of the Federal Criminal Office.
The plan shows “there is a threat to all of us,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher told reporters in Berlin today. “We have to assume that these plots are going to be ongoing as long as there’s a place to hatch them, train for them, plan them, and the ability to get the supplies and operators. We need to be vigilant on all these fronts.”
The men now being held in jail are seen as part of an underground organization with links to an international network of Islamist extremists prepared to use violence, according to the prosecutor’s office.
Global Jihad
The Islamic Jihad Union is a Sunni group active in central Asia that separated from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, an organization whose original aims included toppling the country’s president, the prosecutor’s office said. The Uzbekistan group later broadened its activities to pursue global jihad under the influence of al-Qaeda, it said.
The U.S. State Department designated the Islamic Jihad Group a terrorist organization in 2005.
While the German cell no longer poses a danger, authorities remain concerned about the threat of attacks in Germany, Hanning said. Leaders of the group may still be in Pakistan, ARD television reported.
Fear among Germans of a terrorist attack is at its highest since Sept. 11, 2001, a poll by market researcher Forsa for N-TV showed today. Seventy-six percent of respondents said they were afraid of terrorism, against 23 percent who said they were not, the poll found.
Hopeless Fight
Seventy-one percent said that they considered the worldwide fight against terrorism to be hopeless and that people must learn to live with attacks. Twenty six percent said that the fight is yielding results, the survey of 1,001 people, conducted yesterday, found. No margin of error was given.
In Germany, “the threat perception has gone up more than any other European country” because of “several near misses,” Ronald Asmus, head of the Brussels office of the German Marshall Fund, said in an interview today. “The threat of terrorism on German soil, even if it’s directed against Americans or American facilities, is very much alive.”
Last Updated: September 6, 2007 11:26 EDT
d_legendary1 said, 2 months ago
We had no terror attacks since 9/11? What about those anthrax attacks. You know. The ones that targeted Tom Brokaw and a Democratic Senator? They ended up killing some poor guy in Florida? Remember those? Be afraid. They are out there!
believecommonsense
said,
2 months ago
I used to be a rottweiler
yes, a rottie with bad judgement who missed significant intelligence info prior to 9/11, forgot to pass some info onto the FBI (about Muslims asking to learn how to fly a plane, but not being interested in take-offs and landings), had little intelligence of real value in Iraq after 9/11 and misread the intelligence that existed, promising the president that WMD’s in Iraq were a “slam dunk.”
guess you were a really stupid rottweiler
petergrt said, 2 months ago
He has not been a Rottweiler since at least the 70’s, when Democrats turned him into a miniature poodle. And in the aftermath of our winning the Cold War they, the Democrats wanted to disband it all together, as a war dividend. They sure know how to spend the dividends. Haven’t a clue how to make them (the dividends) though.
What’s next?
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago
Petergrt,
Is this what you are talking about?
“President Carter affirmed restrictions imposed by President Ford on the Central Intelligence Agency to bar spying on Americans and engaging in assassination. But no one has contended that there were significant changes in intelligence-gathering.”
When has the CIA been any danged good for this nation? When they installed the first Shaw of Iran in power? With all their monkeyshines in Central and South America. How about when they built the embassy in Russia? Remember that one? When they used Russian labor that built the place riddled with listening devices?
petergrt said, 2 months ago
ReasonsVentriloquist:
Your observations and understanding of history are nothing short of brilliant!
I particularly like the: ” … installed the first Shaw of Iran in power?”
After all, isn’t the democratic Iran so much better than “Shaw” ever was for America, indeed the World?
nospam4me said, 2 months ago
1/20/2013 - Chairman Maobama’s administration is “put to sleep”. And not a moment too soon.
believecommonsense
said,
2 months ago
spam4all, your comment is obnoxious as usual
HUMPHRIES
said,
2 months ago
GNW, what news source are you using. One bumbled attempt at a train station by crack-pot Al Queda wanna-be’s and this is a terrorists net work ? The PKK is more worisome than that “group”. There are more traffic death each year than a terror group could ever hope to achieve but you wennies wet your pants every time uncle Dick tells you you’re living in peril .
HOWGOZIT said, 2 months ago
Bleeding heart moralistic BS filled lefties.
HUMPHRIES
said,
2 months ago
Aw, come on Howiee … you can do better.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago
Petergrt,
“After all, isn’t the democratic Iran so much better than “Shaw” ever was for America, indeed the World?”
When plotting International policy, it is important to think in terms of centuries, not lifetimes.
When you install a man in power, the job isn’t done. You must make sure that the ultimate power remains with the people. This is the only way to make sure that those in power live in fear of losing it.
You want them to live in fear of losing power so that they will continually try to do what is in the best interests of the people.
The CIA has never lived by this coda. Perhaps because it was founded and staffed by the born elite in the first place. These people tend to look down on the ordinary people as the sort of persons forbidden to join their clubs. They tend to naturally agree with “The Prince” and see control of the masses as the objective.
Today’s Iran is directly attributable to the failures of the CIA. They allowed the first and the second Shaw to murder all of their opposition (The Shaw of Iran made Saddam Hussein look like a choir boy, he murdered hundreds of thousands of his citizens) so that when they (he) fell, there were no moderates in positions of power to take his place. So the church organization filled the void.
As to the brilliance of my understanding of history… What I’m having trouble with, is understanding you.
petergrt said, 2 months ago
It is Shah, not Shaw …, please.
ReasonsVentriloquist,
I am afraid that you are way too afflicted by the inbred leftist intellectual degeneration for me to attempt to have an intellectual banter with you in this limited venue.
You might want to read up on history of Persia - that’s how Iran used to be called.
Start with Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BC). After you have learned a bit more, then reread your comments - you’ll be enlightened, I promise.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago
Sooo…. The CIA has been around since 1559 years before God made the Earth?
Wow!
Now I know why He messed that up too!
nospam4me said, 2 months ago
communistsenseless conveniently ignores the fact that KKKlinton flunky Gorelick set up the blocking of information sharing of the muslim terrorists between the CIA and FBI - the infamous “firewall”. Instead of being part of the 9/11 commission she should have been interrogated for her part, tried, convicted, sentenced and hung for her treason.
parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago
HEY … WHERE’S SOOKY??
petergrt said, 2 months ago
” … set up the blocking of information sharing of the muslim terrorists between the CIA and FBI …”
Actually, the ‘firewall’, a legal separation between CIA and FBI was initially installed by the Democrats during their post Watergate bash.
This wall proved so effective that it precluded a CIA operative, by way of a CIA attorney, from giving a warning about several of the 911 attack team members coming to the US.
Road to hell is paved with good intentions …!!!
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago
Yeah ‘cause the only two agencies in the whole wide country are the FBI and the CIA!
If the CIA can’t talk to the FBI then they can’t talk to ANYONE!
Why don’t you people try to process the disinformation spoon fed to you before you vomit it up on good folks?
petergrt said, 2 months ago
“If the CIA can’t talk to the FBI then they can’t talk to ANYONE!”
Watch it ReasonsVentriloquist!
You are beginning to sound like a Republican wing-nut.
ramguy2014 said, 2 months ago
I personally think that the CIA and the FBI should talk to each other because they both know something the other doesn’t and that shouldn’t happen