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  • Russian Railways to launch poky trains for poor

    07/05/2007 8:27:59 AM PDT · by Webby_surfer · 5 replies · 635+ views
    Russia-IC ^ | 5.07.2007 | Prostoauth
    20 million of Russians do not have enough money to buy even the cheapest ticket for a standard train. Russian Railways offer a salvation of the problem – to launch low-comfort trains, with no air conditioning and one WC per train.
  • Planning Another 9/11 - Sources: ‘Enemy Combatant’ Was Plotting New Round of U.S. Attacks

    06/24/2003 5:47:47 PM PDT · by freeperfromnj · 15 replies · 450+ views
    ABC News ^ | June 24, 2003
    June 24— The Qatari man designated an enemy combatant by the Bush administration was planning another Sept. 11 attack, sources told ABCNEWS. Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, 37, was deemed an enemy combatant by the Bush administration on Monday after officials said he was positively identified by an al Qaeda detainee as being part of a planned second wave of terror attacks on the United States. Government officials said they believed al Qaeda's top leadership sent Al-Marri to the United States to coordinate a new round of attacks. "Al-Marri was sent to the United States as a facilitator for other al...
  • TEXAS A&M STUDENT KILLED WHILE TRYING TO JUMP (0N) TRAIN

    08/28/2006 4:56:25 AM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 98 replies · 2,768+ views
    The Houston Chronicle ^ | 28 August 2006
    COLLEGE STATION — A Texas A&M University student was killed while trying to jump aboard a moving train, police said. Robert Walker Best, 23, was killed early Saturday when he slipped under the train on a rail line located a few blocks from the university campus. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said. Best, of San Antonio, would have been a fifth-year senior biology major when classes resumed Monday. Police said Best was with two male friends when the accident occurred — one a student at Blinn College and the other a University of Texas student. College Station...
  • The Chemical Threat to Subways: Dispelling the Clouds

    06/22/2006 8:29:47 PM PDT · by fight_truth_decay · 5 replies · 955+ views
    Stratfor Terrorism Intelligence Report ^ | 06/21/06 19:21:35 | By Fred Burton
    Recent reports outlining what Time magazine has called the "untold story" of a cancelled al Qaeda plot against the New York subway system have excited considerable media hype and public consternation. The account is part of Ron Suskind's new book, The One Percent Doctrine, that was excerpted in the June 26 edition of Time. According to Suskind, al Qaeda developed a "revolutionary new WMD device" that would generate cyanide gas, and these weapons -- which he refers to as "mubtakkar" devices -- were to have been planted on subways by operatives who were in place and preparing to act in...
  • U.S. Infrastructure: Increasingly Unsafe

    03/21/2005 6:58:20 AM PST · by MikeEdwards · 12 replies · 705+ views
    CFP ^ | March 21, 2005 | Alan Caruba
    Years ago when I had a full head of hair, I worked for the New Jersey Institute of Technology and gained a great respect for engineers and architects. Without them, nothing gets built, nothing works, and we would all be back rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. In early March, my local daily newspaper ran a story that was four paragraphs long and buried at the bottom of the page. Engineers see U.S. Infrastructure Sinking. It was one of those stories deemed newsworthy enough to include since it cited a report by the American Society of Civil Engineers,...
  • Train (Amtrak?) evacuated near Cumberland, MD (FOX)

    06/06/2004 10:43:43 AM PDT · by Phsstpok · 21 replies · 779+ views
    Fox News | 6/6/04 | Fox
    Fox News reporting train (possibly Amtrak) being evacuated near Cumberland, MD, west of Washington, D.C.
  • Amtrak train evacuated in Cumberland, Maryland

    06/06/2004 10:41:18 AM PDT · by myprecious · 80 replies · 1,384+ views
    Fox News | Fox News
    Fox News reporting that an Amtrak Train has been evacuated near Cumberland, Maryland. There appearently were concerns about the route earlier. Updates will follow when available.
  • French railway is sued by son of death camp Jews

    03/16/2003 3:43:13 PM PST · by MadIvan · 11 replies · 302+ views
    The Times ^ | March 17, 2003 | Adam Sage
    KURT SCHAECHTER could have been forgiven for wanting a quiet retirement after twice surviving arrest by the wartime Vichy regime and entering the French Resistance using false identity papers that disguised his Jewish origins. But this week he will take the SNCF, the French railway network, to court for an unprecedented hearing into its role in transporting French Jews to Nazi concentration camps between 1942 and 1944. M Schaechter, 82, is suing the state-owned railway for deporting his father, Emil, to the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943 and his mother, Margaret, to Auschwitz a year later. Neither returned. He is...
  • FBI Says Al Qaeda Targeting Railways

    10/25/2002 5:13:45 AM PDT · by Libloather · 6 replies · 230+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 10/24/02 | Deborah Charles
    FBI Says Al Qaeda Targeting Railways Thu Oct 24, 6:13 PM ET By Deborah Charles WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI sent out a national alert to law enforcement officials on Thursday, warning that al Qaeda may be planning another attack on the United States, possibly targeting the railway sector. The FBI also cited possible future attacks against the global petroleum sector and said U.S. intelligence continues to receive general threats on the airline and maritime industries, the financial sector and government facilities and installations. The FBI said it distributed the warning across the country on Wednesday, citing information from recent...