The Real Deal.

[Jara sang]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0728/p18s02-hfes.html

And no wonder it's catching on. After all, "aspirational" is a dignified-sounding five-syllable word, which, if you're a government official trying to buy yourself time to think on your feet under hot TV lights, must seem like a godsend. If I were, say, an FBI spokeswoman trying to talk about alleged plotters under arrest who may not be the real deal, I'd rather be able to call them aspirational terrorists than have to call them wannabes. Wouldn't you?


http://americaabroad.tpmcafe.com/blog/americaabroad/2006/aug/10/some_questions_points_on_terror_plot

1)When U.S. counterterrorism officials said that this one is the "real deal" (their words, not mine), what wasn't the real deal? There has been a lot of concern about their crying wolf, and is this their admission that they may have thought the same (i.e. that pesky Miami plot?)


http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5263543&nav=menu78_3_14

"This is not a case of wanna-bes fantasizing about an attack. We believe it was the real deal. To target multiple airlines with such a plan requires a sophistication that strongly points to al Qaeda," a senior U.S. official told Stewart.


http://www.1010wins.com/pages/66921.php

Long Island Congressman Peter King - who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee - said the terror plot was "very, very serious,'' saying "this is the real deal.''


http://www.statesboroherald.net/showstory.php?$recordID=7513

‘‘I’m not going to say it’s business as usual,’’ he said. ‘‘We’re looking at all sources of information — this is a real threat to the nation.’’



http://www.kxmc.com/getARticle.asp?ArticleId=32478

The plan involved airline passengers hiding masked explosives in carry-on luggage, the official said. "They were not yet sitting on an airplane," but were very close to traveling, the official said, calling the plot "the real deal."


http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/article_8604.shtml

Sgt. Karnes did not want to comment on the World Trade Center movie, or the strong, positive reaction audiences have had to his character in the film because, he said, he had not yet seen it. A private screening of the film was scheduled for the Marine Tuesday evening.
And, while he says there are probably some parts of the rescue story that Mr. Stone may have erred on or left out, that is to be expected in a Hollywood film of a real-life event.
“I know the real deal and so do a lot of other people,” he said. “And I am satisfied with that.”


http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/hagmann071106.htm

According to Assistant FBI Director Mark Mershon, head of the FBI’s New York field office, the plot involved at least eight-(8) conspirators based in other countries and was "the real deal."


http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=297535&Category=14

Should it matter that most plotters have not advanced beyond chattering? As a legal matter, no. Even if conspirators haven’t entered the country, acquired explosives or scoped out the target, as was evidently the case in the New York plot, they may be criminally liable under our conspiracy laws. The policy question is whether this plot could have ever gotten beyond the chatter stage. We don’t know, though Mark Mershon, FBI assistant director for New York, called the threat “the real deal.”


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5634298

Now, we recognize these measures are going to be inconvenient, but they are proportionate to the very real threat to the lives of innocent people that was posed by this plot.