Posted on 12/17/2006 4:03:30 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
Mesa CRJ 600 Forced Back to Denver After Uncontained Engine Failure
Washington, DC -- A team of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
investigators, with assistance from other parties, is investigating an
uncontained engine failure on an America West Express jet in the area
near
Denver on Jan. 25.
In an effort to determine the cause of this event, the NTSB is seeking
the
engine components that fell from the airplane, and informing the public
of
how to assist.
On January 25, at 4: 50 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, a Mesa Airlines,
Bombardier CL-600-2B19 Challenger Jet, N17337, operating as America
West
Express Flight 2985, from Denver, Colorado to Phoenix, Arizona, while
climbing through 24,000 feet, experienced an uncontained engine
failure. The
airplane's flight crew declared an emergency and immediately returned
and
landed uneventfully at the Denver International Airport at 5:30 P.M.
The captain, first officer, flight attendant, 1 extra crewmember, and
50
passengers were not injured during the incident. The aircraft itself
sustained minor damage to the fuselage, left engine pylon, and tail
section
during the engine separation.
The left engine cowling, fan, and other forward components separated
over
sparsely populated mountainous terrain in an area beginning just south
of
Woodland Park, Colorado and running south-southwest to 10 miles
southwest of
Cripple Creek, Colorado.
The NTSB has notified local officials in Teller County that this event
occurred, and that there could be engine debris on the ground in their
jurisdictions.
The NTSB has requested their assistance as well as the assistance of
other
state and local agencies in locating the missing engine parts. Members
of
the public should contact the Teller County Sheriff's Department
(Telephone
719-687-9652) of the location, estimated size, and description of the
part
or parts found. These parts could cause injuries if not handled with
proper
precautions, therefore, should not be handled by members of the public.
The NTSB team is being led by NTSB air safety investigator Jennifer
Kaiser
of the Central Mountain Region in Denver. Members of the team include:
NTSB
engineers, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) inspectors; Mesa
Airlines;
Bombardier Canada (the airplane manufacturer); and General Electric
Corporation (the engine manufacturer).
A radar analysis team was assembled and has gathered all FAA, company,
and
military radar information. This information is being correlated with
data
from the airplane's flight recorders in an effort to pinpoint the
potential
locations of the engine parts.
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Taliban militants overrun Afghan town, destroy government centre
CP on Yahoo ^ | 2/2/07 | Jason Straziuso - ap
Posted on 02/02/2007 10:10:59 AM PST by NormsRevenge
KABUL (AP) - Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town where a contentious peace agreement was negotiated last fall, roaming through the town centre, burning its government compound and threatening elders, officials and a resident said.
A resident of Musa Qala in Helmand province said that 200-300 Taliban fighters had overtaken the town, took weapons from the police and destroyed the government centre late Thursday.
Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said an "unknown number" of militants had apparently entered Musa Qala and that NATO had conflicting reports that tribal elders were temporarily taken hostage.
British forces are based in Helmand province but left Musa Qala in October after a peace agreement was signed between local elders and the Helmand governor. According to the deal, security was turned over to local leaders, while NATO forces were prevented from entering the town.
Some western officials complained that the deal put the area, which had seen many clashes between British troops and Taliban militants, outside of government and NATO control.
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Analysis: Sawt Al Jihad: Signs of a Saudi al Qaeda Resurgence?
Islamdaily ^ | 2/2/07 | Fred Burton
Posted on 02/02/2007 7:34:01 AM PST by Valin
Last weekend, a banner ad was placed on a number of jihadist Web sites announcing that al Qaeda's branch in Saudi Arabia is preparing to release a new issue, No. 30, of its Sawt Al Jihad magazine. Sawt Al Jihad (or "Voice of the Jihad") was published as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's biweekly electronic magazine from October 2003 until November 2004.
At the time the magazine was launched, the Saudi al Qaeda node was on the rise. The magazine was actively published during the time al Qaeda 's operations in Saudi Arabia were at their peak. For example, during 2004, the group conducted attacks against Western housing compounds such as the Oasis compound in Khobar, as well as attacks against Western facilities that included ABB Lummus Global Engineering in Yanbu, the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah and the Saudi Interior Ministry in Riyadh.
In retrospect, Sawt Al Jihad seems to have functioned as a barometer of the Saudi node's strength. When it was published regularly, the group was very active operationally; shortly after the regular publishing ceased, the group's activity level dramatically declined.
The emergence of a new edition of Sawt Al Jihad should therefore be carefully watched, as it could be a harbinger of things to come.
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Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang [UK]
The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | February 2, 2007 | By MATTHEW HICKLEY, BEN TAYLOR and DAVID WILLIAMS
Posted on 02/02/2007 7:59:47 AM PST by aculeus
Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged.
The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" in an attempt to catch the extremists plotting to kidnap them.
The soldiers - who are not thought to have told their families that they were potential targets - were placed under unprecedented surveillance for weeks as officers waited for the terrorists to strike.
And as they tried to carry out their ordinary duties, the pair were aware that if the gang attempted to stage their abduction they could be attacked and bundled into a waiting vehicle at any time.
To prevent this, the security forces mounted a sophisticated surveillance operation.
In an operation reminiscent of a spy drama, their every move was monitored by a team of crack MI5 agents - linked to the soldiers by the latest in modern technology.
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Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave (Islamic Republic of Iran's global plan)
The Australian ^ | Feb. 3, 3007
Posted on 02/02/2007 10:44:57 AM PST by PRePublic
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21161016-2703,00.html
Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave.
JERUSALEM: Seven Iranian weapons experts were seized yesterday in a raid by Fatah-affiliated security forces on the Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City.
Amid an escalation in the confrontation between Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions, an eighth Iranian was reported to have committed suicide rather than be taken prisoner.
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Dial Joe-4-Chávez (Your Chance For FREE CHAVEZ OIL!!)
WSJ Opinion ^ | 11-28-2006 | WSJ
Posted on 02/02/2007 10:20:53 AM PST by Registered
Dial Joe-4-Chávez
Massachusetts Dems love Venezuela's strongman.
Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez is an ally of the Iranians, a supporter of North Korea, a close friend of Castro and a good customer for Russia's weapon factories. Now he's also a business partner of Joseph P. Kennedy II.
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Muslim rebels lead Philippine jail break
AFP ^ | February 2, 2007
Posted on 02/02/2007 9:07:35 AM PST by Mount Athos
Muslim insurgents using grenade launchers blasted their way into a prison in the southern Philippines early today and freed 49 inmates, including suspected bombers.
Three guards were wounded in the pre-dawn attack on Kidapawan City prison on Mindanao island, in the latest violation of a truce between the Philippine government and the Muslim separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Jail warden Red Marasigan said about 20 MILF guerrillas attacked the prison, blasting a hole in the wall with grenade launchers.
As some insurgents kept guards pinned down with rifle fire, others entered the jail to free prisoners.
The six guards on duty at the time were outnumbered and outgunned by the large attacking force, jail officials said.
Most of those who escaped faced serious charges such as bombing, kidnapping and murder.
Among them was Ali Sultan, a suspected MILF member being held for allegedly bombing Kidapawan's commercial district in October 2003, Marasigan said.
It was the second jail break in the area involving suspected MILF members in recent months.
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Man was arming for 'war,' FBI says
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 02/02/2007 | Robert Patrick
Posted on 02/02/2007 8:59:28 AM PST by Mount Athos
A St. Charles man obtained fully automatic weapons and tried to buy as many explosives as possible in preparation for what an associate called "war," the FBI says in court documents.
He bought three rifles and a Claymore anti-personnel mine and negotiated for a case of hand grenades, documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch show.
Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Franjoe Court, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged on complaints accusing him of three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.
Abuelawi, a Palestinian immigrant free on $50,000 bond, could not be reached. His brother declined to comment on his behalf. His lawyers, Scott Rosenblum and Gil Sison, did not return calls.
The context of the word "war" was not explained in court filings; the FBI declined to comment.
The man to whom the word was attributed, Thaer Abde Sumad, said in an interview Thursday that the purchases were not intended for terrorism but to make money supplying street gangs in a St. Louis turf war.
Sumad, 23, is not charged, although he is identified in an FBI affidavit as being present for one of the transactions.
He told a reporter he had no role in handling the firearms or explosives. He said he was at a meeting between Abuelawi and a federal informer outside a St. Louis gas station where Sumad works only because he knows both and wanted to say hello.
Sumad suggested that he and Abuelawi attracted special attention because of the sound of their names and their Arab ethnicity.
Abuelawi's lawyers have said he is a Palestinian immigrant.
Sumad is of Palestinian descent but was born in Indiana and raised in St. Louis, he said.
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White House Conference Center Evacuated
February 2, 2007
Posted on 02/02/2007 7:17:54 AM PST by Howlin
Evidently they have evacuated the press area....
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149 cases of nuclear trafficking in 2006: IAEA
Hindustan Times ^ | Feb. 2, 2007 | Staff
Posted on 02/02/2007 5:15:26 AM PST by Schnucki
The United Nations atomic watchdog agency has reported 149 incidents of illicit trafficking and other unauthorised activities involving nuclear and radioactive materials in 2006.
Of these, 15 involved the seizure of nuclear and radioactive materials from individuals who possessed them illegally, according to preliminary figures released by the UN International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Office of Nuclear Security.
"Some of these individuals were attempting to sell the material or smuggle it across national borders," IAEA said in a statement on Thursday.
"Six of these incidents involved nuclear materials. Five involved materials such as natural uranium, depleted uranium, and thorium and one involved high-enriched uranium (HEU)," it said.
In the latter case, Georgia reported that in February last year, 79.5 grammes of uranium enriched to 89 per cent was seized from a group of criminals in Tbilisi, the capital.
The other incidents of illegal possession reported involved radioactive sources. Just last week, the IAEA noted another reported case in which Georgia seized about 100 gms of uranium enriched to a level considered to be weapons-grade in a sting operation.
Over the past several years, the agency has been assisting Georgia in the effective monitoring, control, and recovery of nuclear and radioactive materials.
The other 134 incidents reported to the IAEA in 2006 included 85 involving theft or loss of nuclear or other radioactive materials, mainly radioactive sources.
In about 75 per cent of the cases, the materials lost or stolen had not been recovered at the time of reporting, it added.
The remaining 49 involved other unauthorized activities, primarily unauthorized disposal of radioactive sources and radioactively contaminated materials and discovery of uncontrolled, or orphan, radioactive materials.
Another 103 incidents were reported in 2006 that occurred in previous years.
Hello Granny,
I do not know why but your Thread posts do not word-wrap to regular webpage width and are about twice as wide as they should be. Making them almost impossible to read as you then have to scroll to a double page width, including each and every line being far too long and disappearing into the right margin.
This basically only happens with your threads and not other posts on FR.
Could you try to find out why and see if someone can help you adjust your posts so they word wrap or zoom to page width? I am not an expert and can only you provide you feed back, not a solution.
Curenntly I am having to copy and paste them into a MSWord file to have what you post appear between normal margins.
I'll go on doing that if you cannot find out what is causing this but it would be so much easier for it appear a single page width wide instead of two pages wide.
Best wishes,
As you can see from my last post, when I post a reply, it is a regular one page width. Incidentally, I am using IE7.xx as my web browser.
The title of your posts are also over one page wide, so this maybe setting the trend/default for the rest.
They are normal on my screen, not wide at all.
I have found that if I read the pings sent to me in the pings folder, they will have wide posts.
Often have to go to the thread to read.
I don't know enough about computers to know what the problem is.
Alternatively, it is this FR created line of links (shown below) at the very top of the page - which appears in one LONG line, not broken up as below - that is setting the default width as it is very long and needs a page break at the margin
SCOTUS | ProLife | Terrorism | WOT | Korea | PreWarDocs | Aliens | BangList | Taxes | Homosexual Agenda | Corruption | Congress | Bush | Elections | Rally | WalterReed | TalkRadio | Donate to FR
Actually, this is how long it appears on the Ping page, when I go there, not on the regular pages.
Sorry for som many broken up posts as I try to define the challenge.
Not a problem, test as you need to.
Today, all of the messages and threads that I have read, are normal, one screen wide.
At times, I have had the wide post problem, and it is often in one group from chat, that i get pings too.
I had the same problem sending private messages for years, but when I got Netscape as a browser, that stopped.
If you figure it out, be sure to let me know, there may be others with the same problem, and I am always interested in learning..........
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020101152_pf.html
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, February 2, 2007; A01
A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources familiar with the document.
In a discussion of whether Iraq has reached a state of civil war, the 90-page classified NIE comes to no conclusion and holds out prospects of improvement. But it couches glimmers of optimism in deep uncertainty about whether the Iraqi leaders will be able to transcend sectarian interests and fight against extremists, establish effective national institutions and end rampant corruption.
Source: Washington Post [edited]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/01/AR2007020102089.html
Maryland health officials have confirmed the presence of the same type
of
botulinum bacteria in 2 infants living on the same street at Fort
Meade,
each of whom was recently diagnosed as having botulism, the Army said
yesterday, 1 Feb 2007.
The 1st case was diagnosed in October 2006, the other in December 2006.
The
children, each of whom was under 6 months of age at the time, live on
Oliver Court, a residential area on the Anne Arundel County Army
post. Both children have been treated and are recovering, according to
a
statement from Fort Meade.
The _Clostridium botulinum_ bacteria found in stool samples from both
infants can be found naturally in some soil as well as in contaminated
food. Finding the same type in both infants is an indication that the
cases
could be related, and further testing may be done, officials
said. "There's interest in 2 cases being close by," said Travis
Edwards, a
Fort Meade spokesman.
In January 2007, Fort Meade authorities used hay to cover soil and keep
down dust at a work site about a quarter of a mile from the childrens'
homes. The investigation is also looking into whether the 2 children
could
have eaten the same food or otherwise been similarly exposed to a
source
for the illness.
Soil at the site is being tested, but results are not available,
Edwards
said. The lot will be sodded and no longer used as a work site. Col.
Kenneth McReedy, the installation commander, has directed that no lots
near
residential areas be used in the future for construction activities,
Edwards said.
[Byline: Steve Vogel]
--
Brent Barrett
Indianapolis, Indiana
salbrent@sbcglobal.net
[Two cases of infant botulism such as occurred at Fort Meade are
unusual,
and ProMED awaits more information. The toxin type is not mentioned in
the
posting.
In ProMED posting 20070112.0159. Dr. Stephen Arnon outlined the use of
specific antitoxin treatment for infant botulism:
"Human Botulism Immune Globulin (Intravenous) (BIG-IV, BabyBIG) for the
treatment of infant botulism types A and B was licensed on 23 Oct 2003
by
the FDA to the California Department of Health Services (CDHS).
BabyBIG is
a public service orphan drug that is available nationwide (and
internationally by special arrangement) from the Infant Botulism
Treatment
and Prevention Program, CDHS, through its 24/7 telephone number
510-231-7600. Additional information on obtaining BabyBIG, infant
botulism,
diagnostic specimen collection and management may be found at the
IBTPP's
website, http://www.infantbotulism.org
Treatment with BabyBIG is based on clinical findings and should not be
delayed for laboratory confirmation of diagnosis, as early treatment
(within 0-3 days of hospital admission) shortens hospital stay
significantly more than does later (4-7 days) treatment. The results
of
the clinical studies that qualified BIG-IV for licensure were published
in
2006 (Arnon SS, Schechter R, Maslanka SE, et al: Human botulism immune
globulin for the treatment of infant botulism. N Engl J Med 2006;354:
462-71). Treatment with BabyBIG significantly shortened mean hospital
stay
and costs, intensive care unit stay, ventilator time, and iv or tube
feeding time."
Fort George G. Meade, is 5 miles northeast of the city of Laurel,
Maryland.
The fort is named for General George Meade, a Union Army general in the
USA
Civil War. The general location can be found at:
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9907/12/patients.rights/maryland.laurel.jpg
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