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<p>CALHOUN, Ga. -- Eunice Stone and her teenage son went out to run errands that morning. When they finished, they stopped for a late breakfast at the Shoney's on Red Bud Road.</p> <p>The date was Sept. 12, 2002. The Bush administration had just issued its first "orange alert," indicating a high risk for a terrorist strike. Nine U.S. embassies were shut. In St. Louis, an American Legion memorial service for 9/11 victims was canceled for fear the ceremony might become a target. In Scott County, Minn., someone reported a suspicious truck parked near a water tower.</p>

Results of an investigation into the case of three Muslim men allegedly overheard plotting a terrorist attack last September will be sent to the Gordon County prosecutor within a week, say officials from the GBI. Gordon County District Attorney Joe Campbell will decide whether state charges should be filed against the three medical students, who were driving from Illinois to Miami when they stopped at a Shoney's restaurant in Calhoun on Sept. 12 and their conversation was overheard by a woman in the restaurant. The woman's report to police -- about three men who appeared to be Middle Eastern talking...

<p>EUNICE STONE, TERROR TIPSTER: I've heard them say that I added salt and pepper to my story. Well, no, I didn't add any salt and pepper. I'm not in the habit of going around cooking up trouble and telling lies, and my response to that is I won't sugarcoat anything.</p>

Eavesdrop if you must, but get facts straight David Porter September 21, 2002 I know how Eunice Stone must have felt. Stone is the woman who was eating in a restaurant near Interstate 75 in Georgia last week when she heard fragments of a conversation that she suspected might have been part of a terrorist plot. The three young Arab men who had been engaged in the conversation were stopped later in Florida and detained for 17 hours while they were checked out by authorities. When you overhear snatches of someone else's conversation, it's easy to reach a distorted conclusion...

<p>The story is over. It's yesterday's headline.</p> <p>Everyone involved has begun to recede back into normal life insofar as they had normal lives. But before it becomes just another strange memory of 2002, a worthy wave goodbye.</p> <p>Eunice Stone of Georgia is reportedly recovering from the chest pains that led her to check herself into a local hospital. The diagnosis was stress. The three young Muslim men with whom she had her now-famous encounter have reportedly announced they will not sue her, which is certainly gracious of them.</p>

Truth and ConsequencesBy Tammy Bruce FrontPageMagazine.com | September 18, 2002 Eunice Stone is a true American. Her actions prove how responsible we are when it comes to how we view our neighbors. Stone, you'll recall, is the woman is called authorities after hearing three men of Arab descent laugh about September 11 and make comments that indicated a terrorist threat. Here's what Ms. Stone, a 44 year-old mother and nurse from Cartersville, Georgia, said to reporters about what she heard at a restaurant on September 12, 2002: "At first, you know, I just went ahead with my breakfast," she said....

Eunice Stone now on Donahue with her lawyer.

ARCADIA, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday he telephoned the Georgia woman who alerted authorities of last week's possible terror threat to thank her for the warning. Eunice Stone said she overheard three men possibly discussing terrorist plans at a Calhoun, Ga., restaurant on Thursday. Ayman Gheith, Kambiz Butt and Omar Choudhary were pulled over early Friday in southwest Florida and, as the nation watched on live television, were detained for 17 hours as their vehicles and possessions were searched. They were released after no evidence of terrorism was found. As recently as live interviews on Tuesday morning television...

Three men detained on terrorist suspicions still under investigation Sheriff Hunter said he had new information on the trio before the medical students appeared on Larry King Live Tuesday, September 17, 2002By MIREIDY FERNANDEZ, mmfernandez@naplesnews.com Just hours before the three men who were detained in Collier County on suspicion of carrying explosives appeared on CNN on Monday night, Sheriff Don Hunter said he had new information on the trio, whose alleged joking comments about a terrorist plot ignited fears across America last week. "We believe the information (in this case) is not over because of other uncorroborated information we have...

AVIE, Fla., Sept. 15 (AP) — Insisting that he and his friends harbored no resentment, one of the three Muslim medical students detained in a terror scare on a Florida highway said today that the situation had been a misunderstanding.The student, Kambiz Butt, 25, said the men simply wanted to clear their names and be allowed to continue their education in the United States."We're medical students; we are not terrorists," said Mr. Butt, flanked at a news conference by the other students, Ayman Gheith, 27, and Omar Choudhary, 23. "Our concern in life is to become doctors. We want...

<p>MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A car, not a building, was what three Muslim medical students were talking about "bringing down" in a restaurant conversation that triggered the daylong closure of a Florida highway, lawyers for the students said Sunday.</p> <p>"Our conversation at Shoney's had nothing to do with terrorism or 9/11 or 9/13," said Kambiz Butt, one of the three students. "We were basically sitting down having a regular conversation about our trip, the experience we were about to face in Miami, we were talking about school and friends."</p>

[Article is from 2000] Ross University becomes the first offshore medical school to move its fifth semester to the United States. Come September, 25 second-year students enrolled at Ross University School of Medicine, Dominica, will take their fifth semester of basic science studies in Miami. Ross officials said that if no challenges are made by the U.S. medical community -- and they believe none is justified -- Ross plans in January 2001 to phase out its final semester in Dominica and require fifth-semester students to complete basic science coursework in Miami. The move will affect about 80 students this school...

Or will they leave her standing alone? I hope she is contacted before the sun goes down, and give her the recognition she deserves! I would hate to have Eunice Stone left twisting in the wind. She is a hero and should be given recognition now!