Terror Updates
Jeff Quinton is collecting them.
Meanwhile, the breaking news headline on CNN reads:
bq. Intelligence indicates suspected al Qaeda operatives in Pakistan "contacted" at least one person in the U.S. in recent months, sources tell CNN. Details soon.
Read into that what you will. I'm waiting for the update.
Update: Like most of you, I'm just wondering why CNN considers that worthy of a breaking news headline. And why is contacted in square quotes?
Comments
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39765
Not that I am implying anything.
Posted by: StumpMan | August 4, 2004 02:37 PM
I don't get why that's "breaking news" to CNN... don't we assume al Qaeda's contacting all sorts of people all over the place?
Posted by: Tyler | August 4, 2004 02:43 PM
Not a shock. Its a big country so some of their "supporters" are here.
Posted by: drew | August 4, 2004 02:46 PM
Tyler, that's what I'm wondering. Why it's important enough for a breaking news headline.
Posted by: michele | August 4, 2004 02:49 PM
Also "breaking" yesterday on CNN was that small-plane crash in Austin, TX, so take it as you will.
I do have to question the timing of this, however...
Posted by: Mark | August 4, 2004 02:52 PM
This is deliberately timed to focus attention away from Kerry's corn-waving in Iowa.
Posted by: Britton | August 4, 2004 03:47 PM
cuz it's allterror allthetime....
See we don't ever have to be attacked. just kept at a constant, numbing alert!
Posted by: earl | August 4, 2004 04:54 PM
It's in scare quotes because no one knows what "contacted" means.
Did they have a relationship - or contacts? See? Also someone said it.
Posted by: Andrew | BB | August 4, 2004 04:56 PM
Could it be that "contact" is not a verb? One does not "contact" someone. One makes contact. Is it possible that there is an editor, reporter or english teacher left that knows the language?
Posted by: Peter | August 4, 2004 06:42 PM
Maybe the quotes are there because the "contact" was made ironically, as in so-called contact.
Overuse of quotes like this, much like apostrophes used for plurals, drives me crazy.
A sign saying: "Apple's" - 5 for a dollar could drive me into an apoplectic fit.
Posted by: Bob SF | August 5, 2004 11:20 AM
You're all absolutely shit scared, aren't you? I'd love it if someone were to decide a terrorist faction in your country was worth going to war over. Maybe the KKK could cause us to come and bomb your civilians - then you'd really be scared.
How come this war on terror doesn't include Ireland. China has a seriously oppressive regime - far worse than Iraq and you can't say we've not attacked communist states before.
I guess there's just not enough oil in China and all those products made there would have to be sourced elsewhere.
God Bless the western world and it's money driven politics.
Posted by: Will | August 6, 2004 10:05 AM