INS middle-east round-upWhat is crazy, is why would terrorists come to the INS offices? Do they really think that the people who came the INS to cooperate in regards to immagration, are possible threats? It will be interesting to see what comes after the detention.

Do they really think that the people who came the INS to cooperate in regards to immagration, are possible threats? It will be interesting to see what comes after the detentionActually what's really interesting is that this is the same INS that let the September 11th crew through unencumbered due to their Saudi origins....At the same time, Bill Sampson and a couple of other Westerners rot in Saudi Arabia on trumped up charges of a bombing -- which those in the West now taking an interest in the case are speculating was Saudi's own domestic terrorists in action.Be interesting to watch both cases.

This is getting more insane by the minute... Yesterday I posted that the Germans started registering all the Jews initially, then they started arresting them, simply for being registered... is there a next step in the escalation?This is really "The Siege" come alive.... brrrr.

QuoteDo they really think that the people who came the INS to cooperate in regards to immagration, are possible threats? Yep.They would be right to think so.A terrorist who is dumb enough to break immigration rules and not play the game by the book is at more risk.By failing to attend the tedious interviews and mind numbing form filling that bureaucracies generate he draws attention to himself. However, interviews gather low density data that once accumulated can be used to spot patterns. A lot of bad guys have been caught simply because a colleague was dumb enough to ring him from a known location, some have even taken residence near their colleagues, for "safety". Thus getting current and past addresses has value.Maybe INS offices don't catch many, but it is a lot cheaper than full on surveillance. Has the further advantage that if you do it to everyone, you can talk to these people without them realising they've been rumbled. This works both ways.It is also to be remembered that this sort of covert operation is intensely stressful. Your personnel may be prepared to die for their cause, but sitting around waiting to see if you've been found out will degrade, and in a large number of cases break, hardened fighters.Having to speak reasonably to a low level INS officer will be quite stressful, and will degrade them further, even if they don't get caught at that point.