I'm trying to care here, but mmmm can't do it.
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Government officials credited the new program with uncovering several terrorist plots, including one by Iyman Faris, an Ohio trucker who pleaded guilty in 2003 to supporting Al Qaeda by planning to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge, the report said.
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1994 Faris enters America
1999 Becomes a U.S. citizen
2000 Meets Osama bin Laden at Afghan terror training camp
2000-01 Buys equipment in Pakistan for al Qaeda
2002 Returns to the U.S.
2002-03 Works on plot to destroy New York bridge and derail Washington train.
2003 Surrenders to authorities and agrees to plea agreement
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Maybe thats why. All the monday morning quarterbacks and whine about liberties they never lost, and the same people would have been whining if we didn't do 'enough' to stop an attack. We haven't had a successful terrorist attack on the US since 9/11, and quite frankly I'm shocked (as would be most of the pundits if you asked them in 2001) and I still think we are 'due'. Perhaps it is such programs which have helped us prevent such attacks. I do hope the lefts constant mewling about necessary actions don't become such a distraction that we have more people die, perhaps they can come up with better ways to prevent such attacks in the future, or does the left just accept them as inevitable in a free society and schedule more sensitivity training for the police? Or perhaps more money for 'first responders' so they can buy more body bags, sutures, and hire more grief counselors.