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6/17/2006

TIME Prints Terrorist Blueprint . . . Luckily, Terrorists Prefer NEWSWEEK

Filed under: Morons,Terrorism — Patterico @ 9:28 pm



TIME reports on how Al Qaeda was going to poison the NYC subways:

Fearing that al-Qaeda’s engineers had achieved the holy grail of terror R&D — a device to effectively distribute hydrogen-cyanide gas, which is deadly when inhaled — the CIA immediately set about building a prototype based on the captured design, which comprised two separate chambers for sodium cyanide and a stable source of hydrogen, such as hydrochloric acid. A seal between the two could be broken by a remote trigger, producing the gas for dispersal.

Wow. A blueprint for how to poison us. Right there in the pages of TIME.

Thank God the terrorists don’t read TIME. They prefer NEWSWEEK:

Newsweek also acknowledges, albeit grudgingly I’m sure, that found among the debris of Zarqawi’s safe house was the May 2 Arab-language edition of … Newsweek magazine. The cover story was about Iraq. The title? “No Exit.” Something to bear in mind the next time our lefty friends claim that the media’s defeatism is lost on the terrorists in Iraq.

I sure hope NEWSWEEK doesn’t print any blueprints for terrorists. I hope they all stay in the pages of TIME!

14 Responses to “TIME Prints Terrorist Blueprint . . . Luckily, Terrorists Prefer NEWSWEEK”

  1. Not hard to do, either:

    Obtain a few widely available chemicals, and you could construct it with a trip to Home Depot – and then kill everyone in the store.

    We should immediately declare war on Home Depot for its WMD programs and precursors.

    See-Dubya (a661de)

  2. Patterico, if you really think Time disclosed dangerous information by printing that story you shouldn’t be calling attention to it.

    James B. Shearer (49e6cf)

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  5. Wow. A blueprint for how to poison us. Right there in the pages of TIME.

    Up next: google is the enemy.

    [It is to the Chinese. — P]

    actus (6234ee)

  6. >>>Something to bear in mind the next time our lefty friends claim that the media’s defeatism is lost on the terrorists in Iraq.

    Terrorism is by definition psychological warfare. For Lefties to believe even for a split second that terrorists aren’t keeping tabs on our morale shows what kind of dreamworld Lefties live in.

    Carlos (98df3a)

  7. >>>Up next: google is the enemy.

    Sweet irony:

    Google Agrees to Censor Results in China:

    http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html

    Carlos (98df3a)

  8. We also better hope that AQ doesn’t read books.

    Geek, Esq. (43f64e)

  9. Wouldn’t “No exit” be bad news for Zarqawi? Interesting spin there! I mean, he would have like to have seen us planning to leave, right?

    Psyberian (dd13d6)

  10. time magazine didn’t print anything not already known to any first-year chemistry student, chill out!

    assistant devil's advocate (6d4fc7)

  11. Of couse they read Newsweek. Where else are they going to find out about non-existent Koran abuses?

    Ed C:\> (d72d01)

  12. The story is more than just irrational. How in the world is anyone going to buy the cyanide? The reason AQ killed the plot is the Timothys buying the stuff would have been arrested pretty much on the spot and the cell compromised. So much is known about the government’s reporting of cyanide sales now a days, that it would have been a dead ringer.

    Orlando Armaswalker (259251)

  13. “time magazine didn’t print anything not already known to any first-year chemistry student, chill out!”

    How many terrorists do you think are chemistry students?

    There is no need to print the details of the planned attack, except for the shock value. This is like a “story” by WCCO news a year or two ago about the “lax” security of some of the oil refineries around Minnesota. Not only did they report how the gained access without clearance, they actually showed how they did it! It’s interesting how they didn’t show that the “investigative reporters” were spotted and arrested soon after entry. I guess that wasn’t news worthy.

    Ray (be81f9)


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