The money quote:

"The Seattle P-I has refused to run the photos, claiming that neither man is a suspect or has been charged with anything. None of the 19 men who hijacked four planes on September 11 were suspects or charged with anything on September 10, either."

Besides setting a scary and paranoid precedent, several of the hijackers were indeed terror suspects and did indeed have charges against them.

With writing like this, you'll fit right in at Wizbang.

Make sure to take no note of their mildly arabic features, nor thier apparent age.

And of course, being aware and alert of what's going on around you is considered "racial profiling" by leftists, those bastions of fairness and tolerance they are.

Perhaps that's why they may be looking to attack there. Very few will say anything because the last thing they would want if for somone to feel uncomfortable.
Well, that and all the papier mache Bush effigies tend to obstruct one's view.

Easy targets.

Rode ferries for years in Seattle.

Not surprised and I would assume most who ride ferries today are not surprised either. On the super jumbo's running between Seattle and Bainbridge of a commute run you are talking easily 3000.

I would say this is just another example of how poorly our Decider dissident has prioritized our dollars. Let's say we'll fight them over there instead of over here.

Oops, egads, they're over here. Let's keep invading and occupying over there That ought to calm them down.

GEEZ.........

CB:
Logic Pretzels are best tossed as they don't go well with beer or ale. Unless you're just an old Steely Dan Fan trolling Wizbang Comments.

civil behavior,

Seattle?! NO! You?

I would say this is just another example of how poorly our Decider dissident has prioritized our dollars.

Of course you would, hence my comment. Don't blame terrorists for wanting to kill you, blame someone completely different (it's less scary that way isn't it!)

What the heck is a "decider dissident"?

Well Heralder there are 2 givens in your discussion.

(1) We should hold the terrorists responsible
the terrorists and make them responsible for their conduct.
(2) We should hold the leader of our country responsible for properly allocating our assets to protect us. Is that so unreasonable?

ooops...that #1 was illiterate.
We should hold the terrorists responsible for their conduct.

Let's keep invading and occupying over there That ought to calm them down.
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To follow the logic here. It is better not to fight them over there at all so that they can devote all their energy to killing us over here?
(not sure this is a joke, an intentional spin, or a simple-minded repetition of a kos kool-aid).

Does the name Ahmed Ressem ring a bell with anyone? It better. He rode the ferry from Canada to Port Angeles, WA with a trunk load of explosives destined for LAX in 2000.

I'm more suspicious of neatly dressed, close-cropped young Arab men who don't want to call attention to themselves via breads, keffiyeh and other forms of traditional Arab dress. Traveling in twos is more than disconcerting as well.

The Seattle P-I has refused to run the photos, claiming that neither man is a suspect or has been charged with anything.

The unabashedly liberal PI not wanting to help authorities possibly find possible terror suspects? Gee, BIG surprise there.

Tell you what: When young, neatly dressed Arab men stop detonating or attempt to detonate themselves in public areas, I'll stop being suspicious of them. In the meantime, call me a racial profiler.

BTW: I can tell that's the ferry from Fauntleroy to Vashon Island/Southworth. I know, I live here.

If they've nothing to hide, then chat with authorities.

CB:
Logic Pretzels are best tossed as they don't go well with beer or ale. Unless you're just an old Steely Dan Fan trolling Wizbang Comments.

I resemble that remark :-P

We should hold the terrorists responsible for their conduct.
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THis is how UPI and other liberal media outlets hold the terrorists responsible for their conduct

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/08/018250.php
Kassam rockets fired on the Israeli town of Sderot have caused the deaths of several innocent civilians. In May, for example, Shirel Friedman and Oshri Oz were killed by Kassams in the space of a week. I wrote about my visit to Sderot in in "A view from the fence." Two days after my vist to Sderot, two Israelis were wounded in another Kassam rocket attack. These rocket attacks have no object other than the murder of innocent civilians. Hamas continues to rain the rockets down on Sderot. UPI headlines its most recent story on the continuing warfare "Hamas harrasses [sic] Israel with rockets."

Welcome Cassy!

I see you're also being quickly introduced to several of our leftist trolls. Don't take their nonsense personally - just consider it a manifestation of the failures of public education.

So if we follow the lead of the P-I, and do nothing, will it be Bush's fault if they bring down a ferry?

If I were a terrorist, I'd attack a looney left area first. Sadly, it might take that for them to finally wake up that this isnt a game.

Ask the Berg family if jihadists care if the kill liberals or not.

Leftist trolls 4 of whom happened to descend in the first 12 minutes and 3 of those in the first 6 minutes.

They may have different owners, but I get the feeling sometimes these socks sit in the same drawer.

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Anyway, is anyone surprise they'd be attracked to the State like Washington these days? States with the highest political correctness and denial would make the easiest game.

On the upside jpm, that means 4 morons sit around all useless day long, with nothing else to do, and no one else in the world to pay them any mind.

Must suck to have such an empty life. Keep posting trolls, or, maybe, you can start riding fairies all day long. Oops, thats for those in SanFran.

JFO:

(2) We should hold the leader of our country responsible for properly allocating our assets to protect us. Is that so unreasonable?

Not at all. When was the last time we were attacked?

U.S. Attorney John McKay, officials in the U.S. Coast Guard and other members of Seattle's Joint Terrorism Task Force all share in that conclusion.
From linked Seattle Times article

Why should I listen to this USA? He was fired by the Bush administration for being incompetent, so clearly he doesn't know what he's talking about.

/sarc off/

When was the last time we were attacked?
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Should the leader of the country deserve some praise and support as well for all the hard work ?

In only 4 years the US has ousted one of the world's most brutal dictators ever and helped replace his regime with a democratically elected government- Doing this without the backing of one political party, without liberal Hollywood, with numerous security leaks, with interfering politicians, and with a hostile antiwar press that continually misfires with bogus news stories.
Not bad!

Pretzel-Logic: lol!

I'm glad this crap is going on in Seattle. How will the time feel when several of their employees perish on a ferry capsized due to a couple of arabic looking muslim terrorists? "Ooooh, we did not want to publish their pictures as that would be racial profiling".

/spit

Tell that to the families of your dead employees Seattle Times.

Welcome these muslim assholes to your backyard Seattle. With your heads in the sand, your backsides make inviting targets.

These guys are probably Seattle P-I reporters getting ready for their front page story detailing the best places and times for the terrorists to plant their bombs to cause maximum damage and casualties.

Welcome these muslim assholes to your backyard Seattle.

Oh, we already do!

Then we like to say that they (Islamofacsicts) are just "mentally disturbed", claim their acts of violence as a "hate crime" and then sweep it under the rug like it never happened.

Woo-hoo!

I'm sure these two fellas are just out for a little harmless (recon) mission.

As someone who was once questioned for "suspicious phototaking" (by the police, FBI was sent our info; no follow-up), I think that it's only responsible for the paper to want more info before plastering people's faces across the front page with a "suspected terrorist" label. I certainly wouldn't have liked that, but then I'm probably not dark-skinned enough to be real suspicious.

The onus is on the FBI to provide the justification for such an action. Newspapers are not government entities.

matis:

As someone who was once questioned for "suspicious phototaking" (by the police, FBI was sent our info; no follow-up), I think that it's only responsible for the paper to want more info before plastering people's faces across the front page with a "suspected terrorist"

Not a surprising attitude coming from you.

Would it make a difference to you if the description was "wanted for "suspicious activity?"

Any fool knows that the ferries are a prime target because they are easy points of attack with LOTS of people on a run. (Peter f.) Wouldn't matter if the picture was taken on a Southworth boat most of those boats on a commute run are packed. (The Bainbridge run more so). And every ferry rider is smart enough to know exactly WHY a boat my be targeted. These are the people who invented this computer you tap on daily. Most don't ride daily twice a day in fear because they know they could be next target but the caliber of intelligence on those boats also know WHY they are a target.

Each of your right handed ridge runners want so badly to believe that the occupation of Iraq and the pending tough guy military intervention being pondered and likely planned for Iran is somehow innocuous. How could the Islamofascists dare to respond to an orchestrated plan by the superpower of the US to implant freedom and democracy in the MIddle East. It's for their own good, right? Couldn't possibly be or matter that they are smart enough to know we are there for the oil. It amazes me that each of you refuses to acknowledge the fact that they are much smarter than you are willing to accept. You really think they are stupid don't you?

Immigrant.....GW made Iraq the front on terror. Before that is was in Afghanistan. Remember OBL?

Heralder.......Terrorists want to kill us. No one thinks that's a game. But I refuse to be scared about it. I'm more afraid of the decisions of the oilygarchs in my own govt. The reason we have terror in the first place is because we occupy their territory and want to steal their oil. That is what you would like to avoid admitting. You'll never admit that. Thats what makes your argument so banal.

So keep poking the stick in the eye ok? Keep poking.

I'm more suspicious of neatly dressed, close-cropped young Arab men who don't want to call attention to themselves via breads, keffiyeh and other forms of traditional Arab dress. Traveling in twos is more than disconcerting as well.

Indeed. I run screaming anytime I see two Arabs (first I ask if they are in fact Arabs, of course. Could be harmless Pakistanis!).

Btw, most of those Muslims you see who are "neatly dressed, close-cropped" and "don't want to call attention to themselves" are not terrorists, but rather are assimilating themselves to western culture (assuming they are immigrants in the first place). I thought that was a good thing...

Tell you what: When young, neatly dressed Arab men stop detonating or attempt to detonate themselves in public areas, I'll stop being suspicious of them. In the meantime, call me a racial profiler.

Yeah, I wish we could go back to those halcyon days before all these politically correct types went and ruined everything.

Would it make a difference to you if the description was "wanted for "suspicious activity?"

Yes, because if someone is "wanted" by the FBI then they are suspects, but the FBI specifically told the PI the men are not suspects. Tell me this, why should a newspaper print photos of people and label them suspected terrorists (in whatever way you want to phrase that), when the feds themselves don't consider them suspects and will provide no further information?

(2) We should hold the leader of our country responsible for properly allocating our assets to protect us. Is that so unreasonable?

Excellent point:

1) The poorly equipped and poorly armored force left on Mogadishu
2) The African Embassy bombings
3) The Khobar Towers
4) The USS Cole

Cassie is right: CAIR will be in high dudgeon about this.

Righto mantis, let's just wait to sift through the body parts. If they're guilty, we're bound to yield some good prints or DNA samples, from what's left of a ferry attack. (I say this with the full confidence that you would've supported questioning Mo Atta and co. since they were about to vaporize themselves so we couldn't rely on prints and DNA to ID them. Course, you and I know it wasn't really them anyway, right my man ?)

CB

And every ferry rider is smart enough to know exactly WHY a boat my be targeted. These are the people who invented this computer you tap on daily. Most don't ride daily twice a day in fear because they know they could be next target but the caliber of intelligence on those boats also know WHY they are a target.

Check the link below, CB. These people were smart enough to know of the threat....hell, the bad guys tried to blow up the same place before in 1993. What makes your ferry boat occupants any more alert?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5474006551011489413

Why do I get the feeling that C'B' is a pimple face nerd?

Civil, Microsoft did not invent computers. You knowledge of history is a faulty as your knowledge of current events, politics and anything important. Idiots out there can blame Bush all they want, but the terrorist know that would have a difficult time attacking the President so they will try to kill you. I know that is Bush's fault. After they attack Seattle, I can only hope they find their way to San Francisco and on down to LA.