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DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY LINKS TO ARTICLES OF ARABS TAKING PICTURES OF DAMS, BLDS, CHEMICAL PLANTS, ETC?
not sure yet ^ | 02/09/02 | RaceBannon

Posted on 02/09/2002 4:16:51 PM PST by RaceBannon

VANITY POST: I have been trying recently to compile any articles of Arabs within the United States or Europe taking pictures of Nuclear Plants, Chemical Plants, large buildings.


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To: RaceBannon
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "FEDERAL AGENTS NAB AFGHAN MAN STOPPED IN PENNSYLVANIA" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Mohomad Omar Popal of Kabul, Afghanistan) (070702)

441 posted on 07/07/2002 7:00:00 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon
From this thread: Report: 5,000 al Qaida men in US

U.S. intelligence officials also said they detected signs of a plot against a cruise ship in Los Angeles in late May, the Times said. A dockworker at the Port of Los Angeles World Cruise Center in San Pedro, Calif., about 25 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, spotted two men videotaping and measuring the length of the pier near the cruise center, officials told the Times.

They left the area before being identified or questioned, however. Officials did not rule out that their activities may have been unconnected to terrorism.


442 posted on 07/11/2002 9:14:47 AM PDT by Dixie Mom
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To: RaceBannon
"U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCIES ARE ON ALERT FOR A TERRORIST ATTACK" (090802)

443 posted on 09/08/2002 10:33:35 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon
Here's another, Race.....I don't know if you're still collecting these:

Cops arrest men they say were filming bridge

444 posted on 04/21/2003 4:23:35 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: All
LINKS OF INTEREST
http://www.truthusa.com/LinksOfInterest.html
445 posted on 11/29/2003 10:58:34 AM PST by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon; All
http://www.nbc5.com/news/2770051/detail.html

"Videotape Leads To Deportation For Three Men"

"Immigrant Rights Groups Call Decision Unfair"

POSTED: 7:58 AM CST January 16, 2004
UPDATED: 10:27 AM CST January 16, 2004
CHICAGO -- To three men, the videotape was just a visual record of a day spent admiring Chicago's landmarks.

"To the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the tape told a different tale. Now, the three men are being thrown out of the country."

 FeedRoom

"Videotape Leads To Deportation"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NBC5's Jennifer Mitchell reported on Thursday that the three men, Eric Estrada, of Mexico, and Miguel Chan and Andres Vicente, from Guatemala, were detained around New Year 's Day and are expected to be deported within the month. All three men have reportedly been in the country for less than three years.

Federal officials said the trio's tape was unlike a video that a tourist would shoot."
446 posted on 01/17/2004 1:34:27 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064351/posts

"BASF guard shot Freeport, Texas Chemical Plant Complex"
The Facts online newspaper ^ | 1-24-2004 | Staff Reports


Posted on 01/24/2004 6:54:06 AM PST by buffyt




ARTICLE SNIPPET: "FREEPORT — Police were looking for a man Friday night who they said shot a BASF security guard at the perimeter of the plant near FM 1495 and Highway 36.

Freeport Police Chief Henrietta Gonzalez said the guard approached a suspicious truck about 9:20 p.m. and the man inside said he had been taking pictures. He then shot the guard in the shoulder area, Gonzalez said.

“He was shot at point-blank range,” said Detective Sgt. Sue Dietrich. “You could see the powder burns.”

Police did not release the guard’s name, but said he was doing well at Brazosport Memorial Hospital late Friday night.

The guard told police the shooter was a man of Middle-Eastern descent with bushy hair and a mustache, and had been driving a white pickup with tinted windows and a black stripe. The truck did not have a front license plate, according to police radio reports.

BASF spokeswoman Sharon Rogers said there is no indication the shooting is linked to terrorism."
447 posted on 01/24/2004 12:50:09 PM PST by Cindy
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http://www.wnbc.com/news/2790708/detail.html

"Cab Driver Says He Wanted Explosives For Jewel Prospecting"

POSTED: 1:43 PM EST January 24, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK -- A cab driver from Afghanistan who was jailed after he asked how to make a bomb said he wanted explosives in order to blast for jewels in his home country -- not to carry out a terrorist attack.

But Sayed Abdul Malike, 43, pleaded guilty Friday to making false statements to FBI agents in Brooklyn federal court, saying he had lied in May when he claimed not to have sought the explosives in the first place.

Malike was a "sadly misunderstood, very depressed individual who was just trying to find a way to better support (his) family," one of his attorneys, Alan Gardner, told the New York Times for Saturday editions.


Yet prosecutors said Malike's story didn't explain other suspicious acts reported to the FBI about him beginning in March, when a Queens store owner said he had asked for information on how to build a bomb. Malike also allegedly wanted to buy bulletproof vests, night vision goggles and Valium.

Later that month, Malike traveled to Miami, where a tourist boat captain reported that he asked about the infrastructure of bridges and how close boats could get to them."
448 posted on 01/25/2004 1:53:04 PM PST by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon; Cindy; JohnHuang2
Texas plant guard sticks to story

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Texas plant guard sticks to story
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Posted on 01/28/2004 3:40:08 AM EST by JohnHuang2

HOMELAND INSECURITY
Texas plant guard
sticks to story

Man shot near port facility
says FBI doesn't believe him


Posted: January 28, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

The guard shot at a chemical plant near a Texas port is sticking to his story about a Mideast gunman, but he says the FBI doesn't believe him.

The shooting in Freeport at a BASF ammonia depot occurred late Friday night in a muddy lot outside the plant.

Robert House was working security when he said he noticed a suspect in a white pickup truck taking pictures of the facility's lights.

House says when he confronted the driver, a Middle Easterner with a thick accent, the unarmed guard was shot in the shoulder.

Hours after the incident, FBI agents came to the hospital and gave House a lie detector test.

"The test was telling him that I shot myself," said House. "And I told him no, that I didn't, and he said that he could see it in my eyes that I was crying out for some type of help."

On the record, investigators said House has no criminal record, and that police are still investigating his initial story.

The FBI has insisted from the beginning the shooting does not have any connection to terrorism.

House is recuperating at home and has hired an attorney.

The mystery continues to raise questions about terrorism. Despite the FBI's assurances, investigators from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs, the U.S. Coast Guard, state police and local law enforcement are all involved in the probe.

Some of those sources have told Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin they suspect the guard stumbled into a terrorism reconnaissance operation.

The gunman, described as a mustachioed man with a dark complexion, dark hair, heavy 5 o'clock shadow and a thick Middle Eastern accent, was driving a white, club cab, half-ton Chevrolet pickup with black trim at the bottom and dark-tinted windows. The truck had no front license plate.

House said he questioned the driver of the truck about why he was in the vicinity of a large, multi-story ammonia tank. He told police the truck driver explained that he was taking pictures of it. When the guard turned to radio for help, the driver pulled out a handgun and shot House in the shoulder.

Freeport is about 60 miles south of Houston, but only a few miles from Texas City on the gulf coast, where one of the worst disasters in the history of the United States took place April 16, 1947, when the French ship SS Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, exploded at the docks. The entire dock area was destroyed, along with the nearby Monsanto Chemical Company, other smaller companies, grain warehouses, and numerous oil and chemical storage tanks.

Smaller explosions and fires were ignited by flying debris, not only along the industrial area, but throughout the city.

Fragments of iron, parts of the ship's cargo, and dock equipment were hurled into businesses, houses, and public buildings. A 15-foot tidal wave caused by the force swept the dock area.

The concussion of the explosion, felt as far away as Port Arthur, damaged or destroyed at least 1,000 residences and buildings throughout Texas City. The ship SS High Flyer, in dock for repairs and also carrying ammonium nitrate, was ignited by the first explosion; it was towed 100 feet from the docks before it exploded about 16 hours later, at 1:10 a.m. the next day.

The first explosion had killed 26 Texas City firemen and destroyed all of the city's fire-fighting equipment, including four trucks, leaving the city helpless in the wake of the second explosion. No central disaster organization had been established by the city, but most of the chemical and oil plants had disaster plans that were quickly activated. Although power and water were cut off, hundreds of local volunteers began fighting the fires and doing rescue work. Red Cross personnel and other volunteers from surrounding cities responded with assistance until almost 4,000 workers were operating; temporary hospitals, morgues, and shelters were set up.

Probably the exact number of people killed will never be known, although the ship's anchor monument records 576 persons known dead, 398 of whom were identified, and 178 listed as missing. All records of personnel and payrolls of the Monsanto Company were destroyed, and many of the dock workers were itinerants and thus difficult to identify. Almost all persons in the dock area – firemen, ships' crews, and spectators – were killed, and most of the bodies were never recovered; 63 bodies were buried unidentified. The number of injured ranged in the thousands, and loss of property totaled about $67 million.

The Texas City incident was the result of an accident. Terrorism experts have been examining the tragedy to determine the potential damage in a deliberate attack on a port city by a ship laden with chemicals, explosives – even, perhaps, a nuclear weapon. And that was before this latest, highly suspicious attack.

Other gulf ports have been on heightened terrorist alert.

G2 Bulletin sources say a mysterious armada of al-Qaida ships has been purchased to target, among other things, civilian ports, cruise ships and oil rigs.

Chemical plants and refineries have tightened security since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for fear they may be targets in a future attack. Ammonia can be explosive when mixed with air. In addition, it should be noted that BASF is the second largest producer in the world of ammonium sulfate, a fertilizer with explosive tendencies.

The Ludwigshafen, Germany-based BASF is one of the world's largest chemical manufacturers. The Freeport complex includes 16 plants, including an ammonia plant next to the deepwater cargo port. The facility produces adhesives, super absorbers, paints, nylons and plastics.

"We don't believe we have any kind of a terrorist threat or that there was any way any kind of a terrorist planning or organization was going on with what occurred last night," said Bob Doguim of the FBI's Houston office immediately following the attack.

But other law-enforcement sources say common sense dictates that, in this case, with this extraordinary set of circumstances, "terrorism is everyone's first guess."

One law enforcement source said the signs point to this incident being a "terrorist reconnaissance operation."

"There are no signs of any explosives," he said. "There are no signs of any renegade ships in the area. But there is a strong likelihood this shooter and any companions that may have been with him were scoping out a possible target for terrorism."

449 posted on 01/28/2004 2:45:40 AM PST by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon
Two Middle Eastern Men Arrested with video of Sears Tower
451 posted on 03/17/2004 5:54:25 PM PST by Eva
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To: kphockey2
Is there any way you can release this information without being fired?
453 posted on 03/18/2004 2:57:46 AM PST by RaceBannon (John Kerry is Vietnam's Benedict Arnold: Former War Hero turned Traitor)
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To: RaceBannon; backhoe
UPDATE:


ABClocal.com - WPVI: "VIDEOTAPING OUTSIDE NEARBY REFINERY" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "But after several hours of detention and questioning by the F-B-I two of the men were released a third held on immigration violations.") (March 17, 2004) (Read More...)

454 posted on 03/18/2004 12:38:55 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
I think a better idea would be to let the ones that were posted already stay up, and just not do them in the future. Thanks, LM
456 posted on 05/07/2004 2:04:53 PM PDT by Lead Moderator
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To actively monitor the question posed on this thread, search the FR search engine.

Do not use the quick search, Use:
Archive
All
by post time

Search Keyword: Dams


457 posted on 05/25/2004 1:43:11 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy

Thanks for the ping Cindy....even more incidents than I remember. I will be looking for additional articles.


458 posted on 05/26/2004 3:10:42 AM PDT by all4one ("...a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)
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To: all4one

You''re very welcome all4one.


459 posted on 05/26/2004 3:22:12 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: RaceBannon
Crosslinking ... what's with all the "removed by AM" posts?
ARREST of Pakistani- videotaping bank buildings in Charlotte, NC
460 posted on 08/10/2004 10:55:52 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Kerry is endorsed by the Communist Party USA!)
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