Fine. But I'm not sure what the point is in telling the next guy(s) how to do it.

Do we really need to help those not-so-sharp tacks?

Big LGF kudos to this unnamed person. Let’s hope CAIR doesn’t sue you.

Something tells me that this unnamed person better sell the business and move. The islamists are seething over this.

Would you mind not giving the terrorists tips?

I'm just glad that John Doe had the foresight to call the FBI about that DVD. What if some leftard or any slack-jaw had been behind the counter? We could be looking at a lot of dead soldiers.

You guys can lighten up a bit. The jihadis are somewhat like Liberal Democrats; they never learn, no matter how much info we give them.

Eh videos are the threat. Id be more worried if charles was giving them info on where to buy guns.

The insanity is not PROFILING muslims who want to kill.

Uh, folks. This is hardly secret information.

But WHY tell them HOW one moment before you have to? And seal that as much as possible.

You guys put the dumb in Martyrdom.

Love ya' Charles, but I'd let them figger that out. But that's just me.

Hmmm, the audio out must be on the other side.

a NY Times moment for Charles?

well, we can forgive him for all the good work he has done in the past

Video out too. LOL

Just read the rebuttal.
Can you delete my last comment...or shoot me? :)

Never discount the stupidity of the jihadis concerning the war on terror. Gawd these people are ignorant...there is absolutely no excuse for these people to be allowed to win anything.

That's why I don't think the next attack will by plane. Most Americans ain't going to wait around in the aisle to see if Abdul is really wired or not. But they will be fired up to do some serious ass stompin'.

Charles ain't giving away anything, this was THE key piece of evidence and had it not been revealed CAIR would be screamin it was a made up case.
Me, I think it was part of their martyrdom video.

Thanks, Charles. Now that the Jihadis know they can go to Radio Shack and buy a CameraMate VideoSafe for $40.00 we are all doomed.

Watch out -- the idiots at Kos will use this as support for the claim that this wasn't a real jihad plot, because no one could be so stupid that they would take jihad video to a store to have it transferred.

Charles, its okay if Ibrahim Hooper is holding you against your will and making you post info for the peace loving jihadis.
We will call Jack Bauer. ; )

A huge galactic thanks to the good person at the video store who blew the whistle on these bastards!

This fact had to be the opening of the FBI affidavit. HAD.TO.BE. It was what initiated the investigation and the FBI had to show that it was lawfully obtained. Lay off.

My 10 is speaking to LE disclosing this info.

#7
lol
actually, quite a few young perps get caught nowadays by taking all sorts of pictures of themselves committing crimes

ya got yer cell phones, yer digital cameras that take snapshots or short movies

and of course ya got the Martyrdom Tapes for posterity

Hoorah for John Doe
we got the bastards this time, anyway

People, please. This is like telling the terrorists that a phone call can be traced. No secrets or even technical info, this is Radio Shack Sunday flyer stuff. My Mom has one of these.

The FBI has a chip in the cameramate which tracks you and what you do with it.

/Did I reveal too much?

7 thedopefishlives 5/08/2007 1:01:22 pm PDT

You guys can lighten up a bit. The jihadis are somewhat like Liberal Democrats; they never learn, no matter how much info we give them.

That's no lie. Heck they tell us point blank they want us dead and hate our way of living yet the libs only hear that it is Bush's fault. They jihadists are stupid enough to not even make their mission secret.

The reason they didn't think there would be a problem sending this out, is because they don't think there is anything wrong about the video.

I have delt with these wacko's and they really don't understand why we are resisting. They have seen the future and it is Islam (Allah willing). Why put up such a fuss?

Again the video doesn't show anything actually illegal, and these idiots thought that was the standard they had to worry about. This sort of thing is sold openly in Mosques all over the world.

It actually was just the ticket to get the attention of the FBI. The scary thing is, of course, we all know the FBI would have ignored this sort of thing only a few years ago.

Oh come on. I suppose that saying that one should release the safety before pulling the trigure is assisting the terrorists? It's not like they're reading this blog.

Here's how to make sure they don't read any potentially dangerous information: before any bit of potentially useful advice, post a pick of a babe in a bikini. That'll keep the jihadis form reading it.

I can't help but think who would have been the people looking like clowns had these clowns succeeded. I also wonder where this would have gone had we not had the patriot act to facilitate the investigation of these clowns.

It's true that there's a gray area between "secret info" and "non-secret info that it's probably better not to disclose in public."

At this point, though, I'd say posting this particular info is harmless. Even if there is another dumb Junior Jihadi cell out there on the verge of sending their "training" video to DVD, at this point they're on notice (from all the headlines) that it's a bad move.

Sheesh. These devices are for sale everywhere, not just Radio Shack. It was a complete accident the jihadis were caught this way, not a secret plan. Come on, folks.

Geez, lighten up, guys, how many splodeydopes read LGF for technical assistance? If they're not bright enough to Newegg or Radio Shock, they're probably not consulting us for ideas. Besides, it's not like Charles is telling them how to bring down a plane with just a roll of adhesive tape and a diode... oops.

In other news: MSM catching up finally...

Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' wants Islam takeover

also on the front page of today's NYDaily News.

I didn't know that.

Anyway...

Cheney in the Middle East: Defining Key Issues and Mutual Interests

Vice President Dick Cheney departed today on a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Jordan. A bland statement issued from his office on May 3 said he was asked to travel by President Bush and would be having "discussions with the leaders of these countries on key issues of mutual interest." No details were offered of the subjects of these discussions, but vice presidents do not travel halfway around the world unless there is important business to conduct.

It seems reasonable to assume that the situation in Iraq and the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear project will be central, with perhaps some discussion of the Middle East peace process. The four Arab countries were named in March as an "Arab Quartet" that Washington hoped would help revive the Arab peace plan. Despite the prevailing congressional and press judgment that Cheney plays a less central role in administration policymaking than formerly, the vice president's agenda likely also includes some issues that can only be decided by the heads of state he meets.

I agree--the video store owner obviously violated the civil rights of these gentlemanly jihadis by boxing them into a stereotypical profile and turning them in to the FBI--in effect they were violated twice: First by our racist, oppressive society which puts obstacles in front of sincere jihadis at every step, and then by our neo-imperialist law enforcement agencies.

Presumably CAIR and the ACLU will be working on the lawsuit by this evening.

I hear a huge sigh of jihadi relief as they all realize that they can transfer their stash of goat videos to DVD without leaving the house...

For instance, as a lawyer I would never, ever publicly disclose that if you are planning on hijacking a plane, and slip the gate agent a note in advance announcing your intentions (and clearly identifying yourself), they are legally bound to help you carry out your plan. Don't anyone tell the jihadis, okay?!

#31 gymnast

Please stop insulting Clowns. Clowning is a respected profession. Also avoid Bozos.

Thank you.

Pepe'
Weekend Clown

I've got a "digitizing unit" but I'm still in favor of keeping the clueless, well, clueless.

CHARLES! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?!?!?!?!?
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/just kidding.

Charles Johnson, where is the location of this secret "Radio Shack" facility?! (kneecaps Charles) TELL US! Tell us and you'll receive medical attention!

Anyway, those cheap video digitizers give you so much aliasing on bullets and shrapnel, and blood always ends up with that cheesy greenish tint...

Charles is the real terrorist!

Problem is that occasionally there are some fairly smart idiots. Some of the boys from 9/11 had a fairly sophisticated education. Granted, its usually dumbos like Reid that get recruited by the old men, but I would never put dumb and "Muslim terrorist" together in the same sentence without saying that "not all are". I would also not put Muslim and terrorist together in the same sentence without saying that also. It is the unfortunate case however that we are getting a fair number of them these days in which the sets overlap.

"Let’s hope CAIR doesn’t sue you."

That would even be more humorous if there wasn't a hint of truth in it!

Charles,
Maybe you should post the directions to each of the police stations in the country and say they are jihadi outfitting stations. Just go and tell them you want to kill in the name of Allah and the nice men in the uniforms will supply you guns and ammunition. I think it might work...

Be prepared. This story just came up on the BBC.

The nutroots will have orgasms over this

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

US attack 'kills Iraqi children'

An attack by a US helicopter against suspected insurgents in Iraq has killed a number of children at a primary school, Iraqi security sources say.
The attack took place in Diyala province north-east of Baghdad, the sources say.

A spokesman for the US military said there had been helicopter activity in the area but he was not able to confirm any other details.

The school is in the village of al-Nedawat close to the Iranian border.

BIG JOHNSON IS RIPPING US OFF!

Charles did nothing wrong here. To tell the truth, we were probably lucky these guys were dumb enough to get caught this way. As more and more younger (and thus technologically educated) Muslims are indoctrinated into radicalism, I think we'll see much more technology savvy terrorism taking place.

Its only a matter of time. I'm willing to bet that over time these people will learn the right way to pull off their destructive attacks on America. The only hope we have is staying vigilant in exposing them for what they are, not what they claim to be.

Until then, we might as well hold seminars explaining better terror techniques for these guys. At least then we'd know which ones to keep an eye on.

How many copies were they after? Did they send any of them anywhere to get funding?

I vote for Peacekeeper's line from last thread as rotating title:

These guys put the dumb in Martyrdom.

If you guys had read the customer reviews for that device, you'd know it sucks.

Charles is actually sending them to ... get this ... RADIO SHACK! Next thing you know, he'll be telling the jihadis to buy a TRS-80 so they can track troop movements!

Bwahahahaaa!

Everyone stop hyperventilating...

These guys will pull something off someday regardless of availalble information or not...

Leave Charles alone...

God bless the video guy!

#47 FriarsTale

I know what you're saying, but posting stuff like that here isn't a good idea IMHO, even if you can easily Google it.

#50 Bill Amos

I have a friend who's there.

If they start reading "Dick Tracy" they'll be unstoppable.

Are there any copies in the local mosque?

/Guess we'll never know that one.

C-Had!

The New York Times will probably seek advertisers to start target marketing these recording devises through their newspaper vending machines outside of mosques before the day is out.

Aiding and abetting terrorists!

I could swear I heard a collective forehead slap coming from the east...

Coulda had a Jihad.

Oy vey.
In case anyone doesnt know what a TRS-80 is (and i get flamed)

The jihadis will continue to make mistakes and we'll get lucky in stopping them. The problem is when we don't. Whether it is due to failing to connect the dots or the jihadi wises up and figures out operational security and doesn't let anyone else know what they're planning, a jihadi can and will eventually succeed again.

Law enforcement has to be perfect 100% of the time to prevent another terrorist attack. The jihadis just have to get one attack right. Their ideology pushes them to keep trying, even if it seems futile. They have to keep attacking the US. But at least there are folks out there who, if they notice something strange, are not afraid to speak out and say something.

Kudos to the person who tipped the law enforcement off to the jihadis.

Not once did I hear any of the people reporting this incident that the perpetrators were followers of the religion of Islam. Hmmm. Wonder why not?

Charles, I agree somewhat with those who say that one shouldn't post this info, but not for the same reason that others have stated: I don't think we've revealed any earthshaking information to the terrorists, but rather the issue is this:

The leftosphere will now accuse you of trying to help the terrorists.

Yes, I know it makes no sense (just like they said Bush was "defunding the troops" when he vetoed their withdrawal bill), but that's how the left operates.

On a more mundane note: that Radio Shack site is freezing my browser, and I get a default error page there anyway.

Imagine what Muslims could achieve if they were actually smart...

It's simply a learning curve for these nuts. It will be only a matter of time before they figure out something big again. Despite these six being caught, how many more do you think are out there (in the USA) drumming up some other plan? My guess is a more than we'd like to admit.

Oh, sh*t... I just realize that on the previous thread, I inadvertently informed the jihadis that the Pentagon is located in Virginia!

That, plus Charles exposing this secret "Radio Shack" black ops project... man, LGF has screwed up BIG TIME today.

#47 FT

Want to bet that stuff is the reason Abu Hamza has to wipe with hooks? (Wonder if he has to use the left hook for that?)

64 ben hur
Like this, you mean?

NoSubmission,

In case you are interested, Code Pink is staging a Mothers Day Parade in Manhattan this Sunday.

Here's the info:

Meet: at Columbus Circle (59th St. & Broadway) by the statue step off 11:15, ending at 1:30. Stroll for as long as you can.
Route: up Broadway to 66th Street, right to Columbus Avenue, up Columbus, through the flea/farmer's market at 77th Street, to the Columbus Ave. Mother's Day Art Fair around the American Museum of
Natural History. We'll read the proclamation on the steps of the museum, and then go into the park and head for the boathouse. Energy, time and weather permitting, we'll finish at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art.

Operators are standing by...

#65 Hooray:

In case anyone doesnt know what a TRS-80 is

They say that by the late 1980s, every home in America will have one.

Occasional Reader

While you're at it why don't you tell prospective bank robbers to bring a weapon into a bank and pass the teller a note demanding money.

The nerve.

NoPasaran has new video of the valiant French yoot raging against Democracy, Capitalism and Automobiles.

It's simply a learning curve for these nuts. It will be only a matter of time before they figure out something big again.

There is only one way to solve this, and that is to ban Muslim immigration. Islam cannot be reformed.

According to the Democrats, the leftists kooks, the Koskooks, the HuffPokooks, Michael Moore, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, all leftist's in generl, etc, there is no terrorist threat.

"Lighten up Francis", as some like to say on here.

Sheesh. These devices are for sale everywhere, not just Radio Shack. It was a complete accident the jihadis were caught this way, not a secret plan. Come on, folks.

"Charles Johnson, webmaster of ultra-conservative, jingoistic LittleGreenFootballs website, is suspected of provided highly confidential trade secrets to foreign terrorists like those who recently tried to bomb our American military installations."

//Future NYTimes Page 1

Posted this on the thread below, but it's probably dead now... So here it is again...

OT

Dems Offer Reparations to Guam For Japanese War Crimes

Un-freakin'-believable.

(Found the link to this at MM)

The real hero of the Fort Dix attack plot is the video store worker who reported these would-be jihadis, when one of them brought in a terror training videotape he wanted to transfer to DVD. Big LGF kudos to this unnamed person.

It was Karl Rove. This latest terrorist plot is all a ploy to boost President Bush's sagging polls numbers and rally public support for "Operation Iraqi Fiasco".

You people need a remedial course in dot connecting. Laughingstock! ! ! 1

/Channeling Gordon.

75 Ringo the Gringo
Thanks! What the hell are they protesting now? Motherhood?

#25 friarstale

lol
actually, quite a few young perps get caught nowadays by taking all sorts of pictures of themselves committing crimes

"Videotaping this crime spree is the best idea we ever had!"
Jimbo, from The Simpsons

Puh-lease...we are not going to get advance notice of the tools and tricks the next, or current crop of jihadi plotters are using...we got lucky that these ones didn't do their own videos, but it was the vigilance of the clerk that was the really important part. The lesson is not "don't talk about the thingamajiggie from Radio Shack", but rather TRUST YOUR INSTINCT IF SOMETHING SEEMS SUSPICIOUS AND REPORT IT.

#65 Hooray for Captain Spaulding

OT: Apparently the ultra-super-secret encrypted Russian circuit board on 24 has been identified by a viewer as a garden-variety BASIC Stamp processor board that's commonly used by hobbyists.

More evidence that 24 is going down the crapper...

And the ever popular Charles answers his critics.

But we should be glad that holy warriors are often not the sharpest tacks in the drawer.

So true, unfortunately that doesn't always help in the paradigm that Mohammed invented.

If, as Muslims believe, martyring yourself for Allah grants you entrance into eternal paradise, then they can live like the "heathen" in the mean time without penalty. What a scam!

They can soak up all of the world's modern decadence (drinking, porn, fornication, etc.), that mullahs' decry as being against Islam, as long as they go out with a bang.

The thing that always amazed me about the shoe bomber is that he made it to custody alive. I've got to say, I admire the restraint of his intended victims for not turning him into a red smear on the carpet.

-jcr

#85 Dirk Diggler

YOU IDIOT! What kind of a stupid lizard gives away Commander Rove's code name?

DELETE THAT POST!

SHTUPID!

religion of bacon

More evidence that 24 is going down the crapper...

This season has been such a let down. It's like a soap opera...

I sure hope THIS doesn't leak to the terrorists, but... I also happen to know that there's a chain of underground tech shops that could provide terrorists with highly effective portable communications devices. They go variously by the names of "Verizon", "Cingular", "T-Mobile", and others.

75 Ringo the Gringo 5/08/2007 1:23:55 pm PDT

Code Pink? Doesn't that mean someone is about to start menstruating?

#90 PK: Ever noticed how "street thugs" from 1980s movies look like either The Village People or the cast of "Fame"?

Fjordman, banning Muslim immigration only stems the tide of the incoming; what about the ones who are already here and breeding like gnats?

#84 christheprofessor:

I'll offer you a two-fer. I say get rid of the HR 1595, relating to the reparations for Japanese atrocities on the island of Guam from 1941 to 1944 and use the $130 million set aside for that purpose and buy Kansas its national guard equipment the Governor is whining the state doesn't have even as she sent only 110 national guardsmen to the disaster area and requested only radios from the federal government.

#81 Fjordman

I agree. But the horse is already out of the barn and the fox is in the hen house. And it doesn't look like we'll be closing our borders anytime soon. Especially, if a demoncrat is elected in '08.

I think if you overlaid YMCA to that clip you'd have sumpin'

77 Occasional Reader They say that by the late 1980s, every home in America will have one.

My home doesnt have ONE (PC).
It has 4 WindowsXP, 3 Windows 2003 EE, 1 SuSe Linux, and 1 Mac.

(Geeks?)

life was so much simpler then.

/smiles and waves to allen

True jihadists record child porn, beheadings, and stoning of young girls to death on the DVD then praise allah. Did this reveal too much?

#90 PK

Heh. I went to high school with his wife (the last one, not Jill Ireland)...

86 NoSubmission,

I'll be going to their Mothers Day funeral at the Santa Monica Pier here in LA.

Code Pink is going to place 3000 grave markers in the sand on the beach and march down the pier frightning children on Mother's Day.

#96 Rootless,

Code Pink? Doesn't that mean someone is about to start menstruating?

That thought, in conjuction with Cindy Sheehan, just caused my ears to pop and my nose to bleed...

#95 O.R

Jeeez...why don't you just write an editorial in the New York Times about it...at least the terrorists read that, and pay attention.

Next thing you know, the terrorists will start trying to hijack airplanes and learn about explosives using the Internet.

#99 lawhawk

Excellent thinking!

Charles, you are one brilliant man!

Like Rush says, "with half of my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair."

The left and the jihadi's really are easy to figure out.

Fjordman, banning Muslim immigration only stems the tide of the incoming; what about the ones who are already here and breeding like gnats?

Make it impossible for them to practice sharia in any way, shape or form. Force them to assimilate or leave. We need separation from the Islamic world.

Read the reviews on the cameramate product. Two reviews say that it didn't really work. Being in the business, that little box isn't going to do you any good if you don't have a good hardware/software package to handle the incoming video.

My .02 worth

#94 loppyd

At least Milo was killed, so no more Milo / Nadia soap opera.

As Dave Barry said, after this season's over, we need to call for a Congressional inquiry into what happened to 24.

Be funny if it turns out Geek Squad busted them.

Is there a John Doe fund somewhere to help pay the bills of the thousands of people CAIR will wind up suing? Or at least one for the people currently being sued in the non-Flying Imams case?

Bomb Iran

NOSUB!

Just like that! LOL!

That was the printed version of the thread in his hand!

113 Fjordman

Spot on.

I called the cops after 9/11. Driving home from Maine I saw a minivan full of middle eastern men on 95 in NH and they were pouring over papers in the back with the light on. The weird thing was the back seats were facing each other instead of forward. It had Quebec plates. All I could think of was that they had crossed the border and were headed to who knows where. They were driving VERY slowly in the right lane and when I looked at the van as I passed they put their papers away and shut out the light

The state trooper was very nice and didn't make me feel like a fool. I told him they were driver was erratic and he said they would check it out. I don't know what - if anything ever happened, but it would have nagged at me for a long time if I hadn't done something.

91 Kaboomboom They can soak up all of the world's modern decadence (drinking, porn, fornication, etc.),

You say "decadence" like it's a bad thing.

#101 TimeQuake But the horse is already out of the barn and the fox is in the hen house.

You seem to like animal metaphors a lot.

It was OBVIOUSLY another Zionazi FALSE FLAG operation. The global TRANS-NATIONAL corporations along with the Invisible Army are one step CLOSER to their plan of establishing A FASCIST REICH in the United Snakes of Amerikkka. September 11th wasn’t first and Katrina wasn’t the last. Capitalism, Nation states and a culture of consumerism have conspired to make our planet more and more unstable. The fear inspired by disasters plays into the hands of those destroying people, animals and the planet for profit. Sarkozy has spoken of ending the uprising of May, 1968, for once and for all. But in 1968 already there were groups of rich white kids roaming the streets and beating up on workers and students. Each of us, six billion people was created from orgasm. What would happen if we addressed this fundamental aspect of being human directly? The appropriate term is precarity- the regime by which human beings are treated like other "inputs" in the production process like fuel or soy beans.

We're the bitchiest gang in town. Butch up, fellas! It's time for a rumble with the Garlands. Who have all the fashion sense of a Japanese teenager! [snap][oh no you di'int!]

#102 Peacekeeper

How about this?

Speaking of Code Pink:

If anybody's in the Downtown/Civic Center area of San Francisco, The Code Pinkos and their cohorts will be holding a protest of some kind in Front of Pelosi's office starting at 2:30:

Student-led Protest @ Nancy Pelosi's office, Tues, May 8, 2:30 PM

What: press conference, protest, and delegation
When: 2:30 PM, Tuesday, May 8
Where: SF Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, near Civic
Center BART
...
...to present the following demands:

1) Immediate withdrawal of all US forces, personnel, and contractors from Iraq
2) Iraq for Iraqis - no permanent military bases, no control over Iraqi oil, no US intervention in their democratic political process
3) Fully fund veterans' benefits and health care, including mental health care
4) Reparations to the Iraqi people, no strings attached
5) Ban the use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq
6) Money for Jobs & Education, not for War and Occupation

Don't forget to bring your camera!

I, unfortunately, cannot make it.

107 Ringo the Gringo

I'll be going to their Mothers Day funeral at the Santa Monica Pier here in LA.

Mother's Day Funeral. UCH!
Are you bringing a digital camera?
You got me thinking now I should go this thing on Sunday...

religion of bacon

When Milo bought it I was happy. That says a lot about the season.

alleged conspirator Dritan Duka spoke about the need for secrecy. "I got five kids so I don't wanna go down," said Duka, who added that were he to be caught, people might think, "I'm a terrorist."

you got to be kidding me.

Which proves my theory that centuries of incestual breeding practices makes on retarded.

Was that insensitive?

Okay Charles, I am going to stop hyperventilating over this post now because I DO see your point. But just because this information is so readily available, so obvious, so easy to obtain, doesn't mean these Orcs can find it on their own, and you just gave their lame brains a little boost. More importantly, Kos is probably busy printing up informational flyers and directions to Radio Shack stores in all major cities and sending them out as a courtesy to all his Muslim readers, along with coupons for 10% off.

Writermom totally pwned you OR

when one of them brought in a terror training videotape he wanted to transfer to DVD.

You just can't make this stuff up !

But we should be glad that holy warriors are often not the sharpest tacks in the drawer.

Remember the numbnuts who rented the truck filled with fertilizer that did the first World Trade Center job got caught when he went to get his deposit back.

Gd help us if they ever get real smarts to go with all that oil money...

#120 loppyd

Good for you. These things don't have feedback loops, but I'm sure they did look into it.

You goin DOWNTOWN TO CHINATOWN!

And I guess that answers that question. Even he sees himself as a terrorist.

Oh sorry, Trevor Wrist.

Charles,

40 bucks? What a rip off when you have craiglisters willing to do it for 10!

[Link: sfbay.craigslist.org...]

Zombie...

If you get pictures from anyone who can attend...PLEASE post them. I am addicted to your site, it is a great service. My wife gets mad at me because she is from California and already feels persecuted enough for the activities of her home-staters.

Busy today, WriterMom?

NoSubmission,

You got me thinking now I should go to this thing on Sunday...

That's why I let you know.

And yes, I'll be bringing my camera to the beach..er, I mean Arlington West.

TRS-80's beat today's computers because they could do everything you ever needed with 640k rams.

John Doe, video store worker of NJ, I salute you. Thanks.

Loppyd is a good American.

Remember the numbnuts who rented the truck filled with fertilizer that did the first World Trade Center job got caught when he went to get his deposit back.

That wasn't quite as much stupidity as necessity. He wanted to get his deposit back because he needed the money for an airline ticket to Amsterdam.

Ramzi Yousef promised to wire him money, but stiffed him.

Charles Johnson strikes fear in the hearts of jihadis!

Know what a TRS-80 is? I owned one! Had to program everything myself. Don't miss it.

PREVENTING TERRORIST ATTACK:
How You Can Help.

08/02/04

Counterterrorism This is a message that bears repeating, no matter where you live in the world: Your assistance is needed in preventing terrorist acts.

It's a fact that certain kinds of activities can indicate terrorist plans that are in the works, especially when they occur at or near high profile sites or places where large numbers of people gather--like government buildings, military facilities, utilities, bus or train stations, major public events. If you see or know about suspicious activities, like the ones listed below, please report them immediately to the proper authorities. In the United States, that means your closest Joint Terrorist Task Force, located in an FBI Field Office. In other countries, that means your closest law enforcement/counterterrorism agency.

Surveillance: Are you aware of anyone video recording or monitoring activities, taking notes, using cameras, maps, binoculars, etc., near key facilities/events?

Suspicious Questioning: Are you aware of anyone attempting to gain information in person, by phone, mail, email, etc., regarding a key facility or people who work there?

Tests of Security: Are you aware of any attempts to penetrate or test physical security or procedures at a key facility/event?

Acquiring Supplies: Are you aware of anyone attempting to improperly acquire explosives, weapons, ammunition, dangerous chemicals, uniforms, badges, flight manuals, access cards or identification for a key facility/event or to legally obtain items under suspicious circumstances that could be used in a terrorist attack?

Suspicious Persons: Are you aware of anyone who does not appear to belong in the workplace, neighborhood, business establishment or near a key facility/event?

"Dry Runs": Have you observed any behavior that appears to be preparation for a terrorist act, such as mapping out routes, playing out scenarios with other people, monitoring key facilities/events, timing traffic lights or traffic flow, or other suspicious activities?

Deploying Assets: Have you observed abandoned vehicles, stockpiling of suspicious materials, or persons being deployed near a key facility/event?

If you answered yes to any of the above...if you have observed any suspicious activity that may relate to terrorism...again, please contact the Joint Terrorist Task Force or law enforcement/counterterrorism agency closest to you immediately. Your tip could save the lives of innocent people, just like you and yours.
/bears repeating

Since this story apparently hinges on a video store clerk's willingness to following the suggestion "if you see something, say something"... does anyone know what has become of the republican-sponsored bill to protect "John Doe" informants from lawsuits? There was talk of it about two weeks ago, but I've seen/heard nothing since then. This is exactly the sort of situation that it would deal with.

Well, dammit, I thought I'd check it out since my DVR is such a pain to work with, but the review of it said it doesn't work as advertised and, basically, sucks.
So we may WANT the jihadis to go for it...
/grin/sarc/

I say kudos to the paid informants as well. they're front-line if you ask me.

140 Ringo the Gringo
Okay. I checked the weather. Supposed to be sunny and 66 degrees. Sounds like a date.
Hey, what else do I have to do on my days off but follow crazy lunatics around with my shiny new camera? LOL!

Hm, didn't even see that which got deleted... was it the top-secret eetay arsay essay - eightysay information?

#98 American Jewess in Jerusalem

Fjordman, banning Muslim immigration only stems the tide of the incoming; what about the ones who are already here and breeding like gnats?

Yes, like the Hizballah sleeper cells in Detroit, MI, or Plainfield, IL., or Virginia, or any of the other states and American cities.

These lesser acts of terrorism and attempted terrorism, are attempts to "probe" America, for how America reacts, while CAIR uses every one of these attempt by the terrorists, to try and pull some kind of a "lawsuit" aginst Patriotic Americans, to try and make it a crime to even report a serious, confirmed attempt at terrorism.

We have the Democrats, who have done, and continue to do, everything in their power to obstruct our government from protecting us from these vermin, and then we have CAIR, who may be running a "legal"/deception front group for these very terrorists, in my opinion.

Islamic terrorists strike, or attempt to strike, and CAIR then screams "ISLMOPHOBIA", to try and throw people off.

Meanwhile, the Democrats aid CAIR, by refusing to pass legislation protecting any American who may report suspicous, or even confirmed terrorist activity.

Good campaign commercial fodder for the GOP.

WriterMom
I felt that the cop meant it when he said he would check it out.

NoSubmission
Why thank you.

Face it. Criminals are STUPID.
One time a couple of psycho nutcases killed and cut up a man and photographed the whole sick thing and THEN BROUGHT THE FILM IN TO BE DEVELOPED!

loppyd,

As Dave Barry said, after this season's over, we need to call for a Congressional inquiry into what happened to 24.

Nothing happend. 24 has always been stupid.

#145, goodbye/N,
Since you brought him up, the funniest thing I've heard in a while is a Weird Al parody of American Idol winner's song ' Do I Make You Proud' called ' Do I Creep You Out'. You have to hear it...
:)

The President should take Tenet's medal of freedom away and give it to the video store worker. I mean, he actually prevented a terrorist attack.

"Dry Runs": Have you observed any behavior that appears to be preparation for a terrorist act, such as mapping out routes, playing out scenarios with other people, monitoring key facilities/events, timing traffic lights or traffic flow, or other suspicious activities?

Like the "Flying Imams"?

Dirk Diggler

I like 24 a lot. That being said, this season blows.

#139 fjordman

LOL. Are you being serious or sarcastic? I'm a very busy gal, but if I don't get my LGF time, my brain cells start to deterioriate...

Err, post #156 should be directed at religion of bacon, not loppyd.

Dirk..
(No it hasn't been... Sit down with the season two, three, or five DVD's and reconsider).

Loppy: The writers are well aware that they effed up this season, and promise next time to quit jackin' around with the plot line.

#128 loppyd

Doesn't Jack have another brother that can be tortured or something? Or can't they say "perimeter" more often so we can get a few more drinks in?

btw, since Morris has dumped Chloe (soap opera subplot #8), either or both of them must die now. Hopefully.

Charles has had to make a number of deletes today. We could work at easing his work load.

Err, post #156 should be directed at religion of bacon, not loppyd.

Jack Bauer would never make that kind of mistake.

#162,
(Gee thanks, dirk...)
:)

hey no sub, have you heard what's shakin' in the city for memorial day? i got a beautiful flag at a yd sale when i was home. it's all cotton, not poly/nylon crap. the stripes are french seamed (well freedom seams now friendship seams) it's nice. i can't wait to wave it.

Please...
Part of my business depends on people not knowing how to use these tools.

151 NoSubmission,

Now I've got to convince my wife and daughter to spend Mothers Day at the Santa Monica Pier so that I can pretend like we just happened upon a moonbat parade and, since I also happen to have my camera with me, I might as well go and take some pictures.

At least that's my plan.

#164,

They could shiite-can Morris tomorrow as far as I'm concerned, but Chloe has umm, a development that will preclude her dusting just yet.
(So 'they' say).

religion of bacon

Ah yes, the perimeter.

btw, since Morris has dumped Chloe (soap opera subplot #8), either or both of them must die now. Hopefully.

Please let it be Chloe if it's only one of them.

Nadia could take two in the hat and I wouldn't shed a tear.

And do we have to keep watching the skank assistant to the VP roll around with the spy?

OK. I'm done. I feel better! :)

168 nyc redneck

hey no sub, have you heard what's shakin' in the city for memorial day?

Hey NYC REDNECK!
Flag sounds beautiful!
Not sure but Fleet Week is coming up! whoot!

The Republicans better damn well hold the Democrats to account for the "John Doe" legislation not being moved forward.

The GOP should be all over, explaining that the Democrats are making America less safe, by not supporting Americans who are vigilant to keep Islamic terrorist attacks from happening.

I've almost given up hope, of the Republicans taking the gloves off, and fighting both the Democrats and Islamic terrorists, the way they need to be fought.

tradewind

That is encouraging...I feel badly because I recommended the show to a friend who kept resisting and she finally watched this season and hazes me at every chance now.

#170 Ringo the Gringo
Sounds good! I'm sure your wife and daughter won't mind. Afterall, its for a good cause!

#156 Dirk Diggler

24 has always been stupid.

It's always been low on believability and high on cheese (both of which I used to find entertaining), but it didn't used to be so damned boring, with such heavy use of the Wooden Dialog Generator and long talking scenes, instead of action.

Koskidz are getting up to speed...
Breaking news; Lies in terrorist story

Do you think this is one more lie? The capture was said to be the work of the justice department; if so it would be a feather in the cap Attorney General. Or it could be a twofur things or not going well in Iraq a little saving Americans might get him a raise in the polls.

Do you think it is a lie and more Republican propaganda?

yes 62%

no 11%

may be a half truth 25%

DVD mistake aside, NJ doesn't issue concealed permits.

Had these jihadis taken themselves to a "softer target" (ie a mall) with their AK-47s, nobody would have been able to fight back, and even if armed security would have been present, they probably wouldn't have stood a chance.

I shudder to think what 6 well-trained but evil-intentioned people could do with semi-automatic rifles in a crowded public place.

OR,

Jack Bauer would never make that kind of mistake.

Jack Bauer's gay as a French horn.

#175, Lop,

I just heard a podcast interview with a couple of the writers and J. Surnow, and they were mea culpa'ing all over the place. It was a little lame, though, when one of their excuses was ' well, it's season 6, and you always will end up with one bad year in that many'.
There wasn't enough Jack, and too much CTU, and they promise to fix it** next time. I'll give 'em one more chance.
**it's gonna take a hacksaw...

148 bofh

After a heated debate and calls for order, the motion to recommit the Democrats' Rail and Public Transportation Security Act of 2007 back to committee with instructions to add the protective language passed on a vote of 304-121.

I am not sure if it will need to come out of committee for a revote or not. They made it retroactive to the 6 flying imam date.

#178,

It's what you'd expect from the WhatReallyHappenedOn9-11 crowd.
Sad thing that they can vote, though.

#178 Killgore Trout

They should correct their polls to what they really are.

Do you thinkfantasize it isto be a lie and more Republican propaganda?

#184 Roger
They are so predictable. They never fail to crack me up.

What's really funny about all these terrorism cases is that every time the jihadis get around to purchasing their illegal weapons, they try to buy them from an FBI agent.

/what morons

#180 Dirk Diggler

Jack Bauer's gay as a French horn.

Wow, French horns are pretty gay.

/Jack must be a raving Queen

these guys could have gone to Radio Shack and bought a CameraMate VideoSafe for $40.00, and transferred the tape themselves.

If these guys aren't the sharpest tools in the box, then WHY are we giving out helpful terror tips?

Interesting the John Mohammed DC Sniper links in this case?

pretty much diagram worthy...probably similar to the one from the weekend?

That video store guy is an honorary lizard.

180- Dirk Diggler

Jack Bauer's gay as a French horn.

Them's fightin' words! Jack could kick your sorry ass while he's sleeping.

#121 Hooray for Captain Spaulding

You seem to like animal metaphors a lot.

LOL

I must need rehab.

33 Charles 5/08/2007 1:10:10 pm PDT
Sheesh. These devices are for sale everywhere, not just Radio Shack. It was a complete accident the jihadis were caught this way, not a secret plan. Come on, folks.

I totally agree with Charles. There are quite a few of these devices. Charles mentioned only the cheapest(?) one. There sre some very advanced ones which convert video to MPEG-2 and/or MPEG-4 on the fly. Man, do they rock or what?

#163 Tradewind

What about season 4 - I think that's the best season.

#172 loppyd

Nadia could take two in the hat and I wouldn't shed a tear.

Whoa, whoa - she's the only hot Arab Republican in all of Los Angeles - there are laws against harming endangered species!

Charles, have you actually used one of these? On Radio Hack's site, it has only two customer reviews, and they only gave it one star.

They'd be better off with a Sony DVDirect. But it ain't 40 bucks.

#180 Dirk

Gay as Old Parreee?

/benny hill - rest in peace

#178 Killgore Trout

Koskidz are getting up to speed...

Conspiracy theory as reality avoidance.

Invincible Ignorance in action™.

#196 Ward

Oh, nice going! You just blew the cover on Charles' disinformation campaign! He was trying to steer any future jihadis towards buying inferior equipment.
/Sheesh!

I have a Sony DVMC-DA2. It ain't $40 either.

Stuck-in-CA 5/08/2007 2:20:37 pm PDT

180- Dirk Diggler

Jack Bauer's gay as a French horn.

Them's fightin' words! Jack could kick your sorry ass while he's sleeping

2 years in China does really screwsmesses you up!

#200 Jimash

Wow, they've changed the DVDirects. I've got one of the original VRD-VC10s, and it doesn't look anything like those.

I remember a red head French horn player in college orchestra; she was not gay.

#180 Dirk Diggler

Jack Bauer's gay as a French horn.

#188 Killian Bundy

Wow, French horns are pretty gay.

There's this annoying woman who plays French horn in the DSO, and every time she gets a break, she spins the horn around to clear the spit out of it -- no, I'm not kidding. After reading these "gay horn" comments, it's going to be really hard not to bust out snickering the next time she does that.

202- akak

2 years in China does really screwsmesses you up!

Don't you worry...Jack will singlehandedly save us from Armageddon one more time. Tune in next week...

#201 ,
(great call)

#192,
..., if Jack's' gay as a French Horn', there's a whole girl band out there willing to sacrifice themselves to the turn-around effort.

No mas on the bauer power hour, I promise..

My colleague and I have a running joke, where he calls up and asks if I'll shoot a beheading video.
I always tell him to stop it.

A single French horn could be gay, but three French horns is a wolf. And everyone knows wolves aren't gay.

#208 song_and_dance_man

If you saw a picture of her, it would be one of those magic pictures; in ~5 minutes a gay French horn would appear.

#75

"In case you are interested, Code Pink is staging a Mothers Day Parade in Manhattan this Sunday.

Here's the info:

Meet: at Columbus Circle (59th St. & Broadway) by the statue step off 11:15, ending at 1:30. Stroll for as long as you can.
Route: up Broadway to 66th Street, right to Columbus Avenue, up Columbus, through the flea/farmer's market at 77th Street, to the Columbus Ave. Mother's Day Art Fair around the American Museum of
Natural History. We'll read the proclamation on the steps of the museum, and then go into the park and head for the boathouse. Energy, time and weather permitting, we'll finish at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art."

If there's any justice, the statue of Theodore Roosevelt will come alive and the "warmonger" (not to mention, "friend of the Jews") TR will "bully" whip the women back into their Upper West Side brownstones and condos. TR was a lot of things but "friend of the pacifists" was not one of them.

Thankfully the clerk was not a moonbat.
The odds of a moonbat clerk informing the FBI would be considerably lower.

Confucious say: "Stupidity can sometimes help you."

You can just hook up a camcorder or VCR with a homemade tape directly into a DVD recorder's composite inputs with a cable. No gizmo needed.

If those "militants" had just asked me, I could have saved them a world of trouble!

/sarc

#213 hous bin pharteen

Thankfully the clerk was not a moonbat.
The odds of a moonbat clerk informing the FBI would be considerably lower.

We should initiate a survey on Kos asking this question:

If you were the clerk, would you:

1. Congratulate the perps and ask to join them;
2. Just do your job, because saying anythign would be racist and insensitive; or
3. Called Nancy Pelosi for a screening?

Yo, Charles! Ya think it was the smartest thing to bring to the jihadiots attention, not only their mistake but a $40 solution to correct it?

We know they read LGF - in the future let's let them find their own technological fixes for their teeny tiny terrorists minds.

Love you, respect you, always faithful to LGF but, this was not your finest hour buddy.

7 dopefish...hahahahha!Lololol.
they never learn, Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids...
But don't tell them too much-- unless it is wrong info.

Again.

The video converter above is available at every Radio Shack in the United States (more than 6,000 at last count), and the need to convert videotape to DVD is so common that there are (probably) dozens of similar products.

And don't shoot me for even mentioning it, but there are (gasp!) other ways to convert tape to DVD as well.

This is not even remotely secret information, and it was a complete accident that these guys were caught this way. And it wasn't LGF that revealed how they were caught -- it was the feds.

With all respect to the lizard army, there's a whole lot of over-reacting going on here.

Charles - I wasn't crucifying you. It's just that giving them anything, any intel at all that hasn't cost them in some form (like an accidental detonation) is more than I want them to have.

Let them earn every damn thing they get - the hard way.

Charles, please take it down.

I agree with the peanut gallery: why educate our intended murderers? Is this providing 'aid and comfort' to our enemies?

Please take it down. It may be common knowledge to you, but not to the average jihadi.

What if the next group of jihadis is caught by a vigilant Radio Shack clerk, who notices suspicious behavior from the guy who's buying the CameraMate VideoSafe?

Terror attacks are not going to be prevented by "hiding" commonly available information. They're prevented when people use their eyes and brains, and all the information they have -- as in this case.

I can't get that device to work very well for me. I have yet to be able to record a video on my computer with it. Tried to move it to my laptop from my desktop and the anti piracy crap kicked in and wouldn't let me. Sheesh! Waste of my money.

Charles' post wont lead to the next terrorist attack. Relax folks. But, what I don't understand is why the feds announce how they caught the guys. Why announce publicly that an informant was involved? Next up, why does the Fort Dix spokesperson announce the security procedures on base? Then, why does our military announce its next tactic in Baghdad or its new weapon introduced in the campaign? Those are bigger gaffs in my estimation. Shut up about it.

Thats pretty crazy this is what we have in these pretty lame terrious. I like to know who we caught that they the enemy does not know

I'm not advocating "hiding" anything - impossible to hide anything anymore anyhow.

I'm also not comparing the idiocy of the Feds or the morons at Dix gift wrapping their security procedures nor in-theater military administrators showcasing how smart or technologically superior we are to the detriment of the ground forces to Charles' post.

I am not implying the post will lead to an attack - I am simply saying that we shoudn't give them a fucking thing. Nothing. Nada. Zero. Zilch.

The reasoning and rationale of that basic concept should be self-evident.

#134 Nekama

It's so nice to read your return to this web log! I read with pleasure your "Troll Hammer", and I've looked forward to your return. That was a very well written piece, and it was a very enjoyable read. Due, probably, to my inexperience, I think it's a shame that we have so few trolls to whack with it. Again, welcome back.

And, if you're another Nekama, oops, my bad.

Maybe the would-be terrorists were dumb enough to not have known how to convert a video tape into a dvd,but from now on,no matter how dumb they were,they got the clue,they studied the above picture and mapquested the directions to their nearest radio shack store...

#219, 222 Charles

I know these are good, well intentioned folks, but, regarding this topic, I refer you to the Prime Directive regarding trolls. Don't feed it, let it starve. They obviously don't get the idea that we are swimming in a sea of information, and that dripping bits of data while we are several fathoms deep is insignificant. BTW, I love the looks of derision that I get while wearing my LGF T-shirts; they get the sweetest smile I have ever given in return. Pinheads.

Charles has too much class to tell you people this (I have none)

GET A LIFE! Radio Shack is open to everyone. WHat next? You cant talk about cell phones because someone might use it to detonate a bomb? How about info on reloading bullets.

Drop the nonsense.

wow these guys flew planes into the towers they are not dumb but we are not too when I hear of these stories I always think what we don't know,

Loose lips sink ships.

One more time: please take down the link and the photo and info! It's pretty simple: if the dork who made the video and wanted to copy it had had knowledge of the gizmo pictured above, he wouldn't have gone to the video store, the vid clerk wouldn't have been able to tip the FBI, and we wouldn't be relieved these turkeys failed...because they might not have been caught in time and might not have failed. Don't educate the enemy.

This is really getting silly. Now I'm "educating the enemy?"

Maybe I should just shut down LGF altogether. After all, almost every post here contains information that might "educate the enemy."

Please, people. Use your heads. I've explained my position on this over and over, and I'm not going to take down the post.

I concur. Privacy doesn´t kill people, people kill people.

That Radio Shack device could make great DVDs of globular clusters!