Setanta wrote:In fact, there was a long series of exchanges between Tico and i on the content of the Hanson article he had posted, which you might have noted if you came here with any other purpose than to spew contempt at members. You've added nothing except a witless and uniformed comment about the battleships at Pearl Harbor, which demonstrated how little you know of the subject.
You made a rather large deal, in your usual way, over a passing comment I made to McTag in reference to his rather silly statement about the structure of the WTC.
I really don't
care what you think about much of anything. Especially about my posts or my interactions with other members. You have an especially irritating haughtiness about your posts that I find both revolting and disgusting. It seems that you have an opinion of yourself that you somehow know everything and are the end-all, be-all poster on A2K when all you really are is a joke, and a rather sick joke at that.
Now, you go have a good day.
Cycloptichorn wrote:Heh, I thought I was the only one who had noticed that today, set
Why don't you cowboy up and try making some posts of substance, McG? They generally aren't too bad - when you try.
Cycloptichorn
I observed quite a while ago that McG seems to come here only as a provocateur. I continue to believe that his purpose in posting is the hope that he will elicit a response which will at the least make the respondant look bad, and at best (from his point of view) get them banned. I don't for a moment believe that his purpose has ever been a discussion of or debate about the merits of any idea.
Set, I believe you have identified McG's goals; and it's not about debate. His style eludes common sense and logic.
1996
January: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
January 31: Central Bank Bombing in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
February 9: IRA bombs the South Quay DLR station, killing two people.
May 19: Bin Laden left Sudan -- where he had escaped at least one assassination attempt -- significantly weakened despite his ambitious organization skills, and returned to Afghanistan where he established al Qaeda training bases.
June 15: Manchester bombing by IRA.
June 25: Khobar Towers bombing.
July 27: Centennial Olympic Park bombing, killing one and wounding 111.
A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
1997
February 24: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
November 17: Luxor Massacre – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 62 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
December 22: Acteal massacre – 46 killed while praying in Acteal, Chiapas, Mexico. A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.
1998
January : Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed insurgents in Indian controlled Kashmir city of Wandhama .
August 7: U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
August 15: Omagh bombing by the so-called "Real IRA" kills 29.
1999
January 3: Gunmen open fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people injuring 25.
April: David Copeland's nail bomb attacks against ethnic minorities and gays in London kill three people and injure over 160.
August 31 – September 22: Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
December: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
December 14: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
December 24: Indian Airlines Flight 814from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released.
2000
German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot.
June 8: Stephen Saunders, a British Defense Attaché, was assassinated by Revolutionary Organization 17 November in Athens.
October 12: USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors.
2001
February 5: A bomb blast in Moscow's Byelorusskaya metro station injures 15 people.
August 9: A suicide bomber in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
September 11: "9/11" -- [5 years, 4 months after Bin Laden left Sudan for Afghanistan and established al Qaeda training bases in Afghanistan] The attacks on September 11 kill almost 3,000 in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Paris embassy attack plot foiled.
October 1: A car bomb explodes near the Jammu and Kashmir state assembly in Srinagar, India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
October 20: US invades Afghanistan.
October 25: The pre-9/11 draft presidential directive on al Qaeda evolved into a new directive, National Security Presidential Directive 9, now titled "Defeating the Terrorist Threat to the United States." The directive was extended to a global war on terrorism, not just on al Qaeda. It also incorporated the President's determination not to distinguish between terrorists and those who harbor them. It included a determination to use military force if necessary to end al Qaeda's sanctuary in Afghanistan. The new directive—formally signed on October 25 [2001], after the fighting in Afghanistan had already begun -- included new material followed by annexes discussing each targeted terrorist group. The United States would strive to eliminate all terrorist networks, dry up their financial support, and prevent them from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. The goal was the "elimination of terrorism as a threat to our way of life."
December 13: Terrorist attack on Indian Parliament.
Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, foiled.
Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
December 20: Some al Qaeda fled Afghanistan and established al Qaeda training bases in northeastern Iraq.
2002
March 24: Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
March 27: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 30 and injures 140 during Passover festivities in a hotel in Netanya, Israel in the Netanya suicide attack.
March 31: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa, Israel, in the Matza restaurant massacre.
April 11: A natural gas truck fitted with explosives is driven into a synagogue in Tunisia by an al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack.
May 8: Bus Attack in Karachi.
May 9: A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
June 14: Attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi.
July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself.
September 25: Two terrorists belonging to the Jaish-e-Mohammed group raid the Akshardham temple complex in Ahmedabad, India killing 30 people and injuring many more.
October 2002: Beltway Sniper Attacks around the Washington metropolitan area kill 10 people and leave the region paranoid for weeks, caused by domestic terrorists.
October 6: Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen.
October 12: Bali car bombing of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
October 17: Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
October 18: A bus bomb in Manila kills three people and wounds 22.
October 19: A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
October 23: Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
November 28: Kenyan hotel bombing.
2003
February 7: Car bomb kills 36 and injures 150 at the El Nogal nightclub in Bogotá, Colombia; FARC rebels are blamed.
March 4: Bomb attack in an airport in Davao kills 21.
March 20: US invades Iraq. At that time, al Qaeda controlled about a dozen villages and a range of peaks in northeastern Iraq on the Iranian border.
May 12: Bombings of United States expatriate housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160 in the Riyadh Compound Bombings. Al-Qaeda blamed.
May 12: A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59.
May 14: As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya.
May 16: Casablanca Attacks by 12 bombers on five "Western and Jewish" targets in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead and over 100 injured. Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group.
July 5: 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow.
August 1: An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76.
August 19: Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 22 people (including the top UN representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
August 25: At least 48 people were killed and 150 injured in two blasts in south Mumbai - one near the Gateway of India at the other at the Zaveri Bazaar.
August 29: Car bomb outside Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, kills more than 80 people, including SCIRI leader Sayed Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.
September 3: A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90.
October 4: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 21 and wounds 51 in a Haifa restaurant in the Maxim restaurant massacre.
October 15: A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip, killing three Americans.
November 15 and November 20: Truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey, killing 57 and wounding 700 in the 2003 Istanbul Bombings.
December 5: Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
December 9: A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11.
2004
February 1: 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq.
February 6: Bomb on Moscow Metro kills 41.
February 27: Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
March 2: Ashoura Massacre: Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura.
March 2: Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160.
March 9: Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey.
March 11: Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
April 21: Basra bombs in Iraq kill 74 and injure hundreds.
April 21: Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5.
May 29: Al-Khobar massacres, in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
August 24: Russian airplane bombings kill 90.
August 31: A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
September 1 – 3: Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia, results in 344 dead.
September 9: Jakarta embassy bombing, in which the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
October 7: Sinai bombings: Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
December 6: Suspected al Qaeda-linked group attacks U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing 5 local employees.
December 12: A bombing at the Christmas market in General Santos, Philippines, kills 15.
2005
February 14: A car bomb kills former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and 20 others in Beirut.
February 25: A suicide bombing in Tel Aviv kills 5 Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.
February 28: About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
March 19: Car bomb attack on theatre in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
April: April 2005 terrorist attacks in Cairo – On April 7 a suicide bomber blows himself up in Cairo's Khan al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on 30 April, suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
May 7: Multiple bomb explosions across Myanmar's capital Rangoon kill 19 and injure 160.
June 1: A suicide bomber blows up in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing 20 people.
June 12: Bombs explode in the Iranian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran, leaving 10 dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian presidential election.
July 5: Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi complex in India. Before the terrorists could reach the main disputed site, they were shot down by Indian security forces. One devotee and two policemen were injured.
Wikinews has news related to this article:
Coordinated terrorist attack in LondonJuly 7: 7 July 2005 London bombings - Attacks on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 55+ people and injuring over 700, occur on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference. The attacks are believed by many to be the first suicide bombings in Western Europe.
July 12: Islamic Jihad takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya, Israel, which kills 5 people at a shopping mall.
July 16: A suicide bomber blows up an oil tanker in the predominantly Shiite town of Musayyib in Iraq, killing 98 people.
July 21: 21 July 2005 London bombings - Small explosions in 3 London Underground stations and 1 double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage at the 7 July 2005 London bombings but the explosive had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
July 23:Sharm el-Sheikh bombings: Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
2006?
April 20?: [5 years, 4 months after Bin Laden left Afghanistan and established al Qaeda training bases in Iraq]
All ACFR articles, at least by me, are automatically discarded; for they have no link, and have shown to be faulty in the past.
Nothing more than propaganda
Cycloptichorn
If you look back a way, Cyclo, you will see a post of mine in which i dug up info on ACFR at Media Transparency . . . they are supported by foundations which fund conservative media outlets, and all the evidence is that ACFR is just another conservative propaganda organ . . .
McGentrix wrote:[...a passing comment I made to McTag in reference to his rather silly statement about the structure of the WTC.
Several people have jumped on me for this, taking my comment deliberately out of context.
Tico said the 9/11 attack was worse: I contend that is nonsense. The air crash killed a few hundred people. The collapsing buildings killed a few thousand. The buildings collapsed before the firemen could deal with them, because they were inadequately built. Fact. A collision from an aircraft containing aviation fuel was a predictable hazard.
No, the Japanese attack was worse. Japan had already declared war. Smirking George still had the choice to take a better decision. He blew it.
Such vitriol McG . . . you protest too much . . . and Cyclo was right, you really are in form today, and you display nothing but a penchant for sneering at others. Have fun yourself . . .
Setanta wrote:...they are supported by foundations which fund conservative media outlets, and all the evidence is that ACFR is just another conservative propaganda organ . . .
I hope no one confuses the ACFR with the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). The Council on Foreign Relations was founded in New York in 1921, publishes a quarterly journal, and is independent and non-partisan. I would not be surprised if the ACFR intends to confuse people that they are the CFR.
Of course they do!
Cycloptichorn
The day you spread your blanket of criticism to encompass your sycophants may be the day I actually take you seriously. Until then, you just keep reflecting that haughtiness that you nurture so well...
You're a hoot . . . sycophants . . . your delusions of adequacy have finally overwhelmed what little grasp on reality you once had . . .
Oh, c'mon Set. You know you bask in their adoration! That's why you never give them the stick while applying it liberally to those with the opposite view. Everyone knows it, so you can drop the charade.
You are hilarious. Can't you even see the idiocy of such a contention? If someone posts something with which i agree, there is no reason to comment, let alone "give them the stick." If someone posts something with which i disagree, i'll post a rebuttal. If in the process of their posting, they have smeared an individual or a group, i'll "give them the stick."
As a matter of fact, i rarely comment on Cyclo's posts, and he rarely comments on mine. I have not the least doubt that stating that simple fact will have no effect whatsoever on you maintaining your paranoid fantasy.
Everyone knows it . . . god, you're a hoot ! ! !
McGentrix wrote:Oh, c'mon Set. You know you bask in their adoration! That's why you never give them the stick while applying it liberally to those with the opposite view. Everyone knows it, so you can drop the charade.
What about you, McG? Do you ever give your own cohorts the stick?
What am I going to do, sit around patting people on the back? If I wanted that I would post at DailyKos, and not here.
You're currently fighting with JW for the title of 'consistnently empty, insulting poster,' McG. And the sad part is, unlike her, that you can do so much better; why, in the past, you've been quite the font of discussion.
Why this sinking into snark and insult?
Cycloptichorn
He who presents little but his own opinion about the sources of opinions with which he disagrees -- and not these opinions themselves -- provides pesuasive evidence that he is incapable of rationally refuting those opinions with which he disagees.
