From the CNN article here..., which now has a different title, but was about security tightening due to terror threats
Another government source told CNN there was uncorroborated intelligence mentioning Rappahannock in Virginia. But County Administrator John McCarthy said he was puzzled by the reference to his county of about 7,000 people, "with twice that many cattle" located about 70 miles south of Washington.
Does that strike anyone else as a strange aside in a terrorism/security concerns article considering we are facing the first EVER case of Mad Cow disease in the US?
Yes. I wouldn't put it past al Qaeda OR domestic PETA/green types to consider going after the US economy that way. If someone gae the Chiron bombers the right stuff they would be the sort to use it.
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But I need to mention Las Vegas, (which was mentioned a few times here on this thread...) Las Vegas was where back in '98 two men were being investigated over anthrax concenrs. One of those men had two civilian biochem labs, one in the US and one in Frankfut, Germany, home of yet another al Qaeda cell. Both had claimed before 911 that Iraqi students had been referring to a strike on NY City, etc, and they claimed in 98 that they were going about the region administering anthrax vaccine to people to prepare them for this event- presumably the people in question were their fellow white separatists, or something like that.
Las Vegas is also where the 9/11 hijackers hung out after each practice flight, I suppose to run over their game plan and work out any bugs. (Amid other things.) They may have been meeting people there.
There was also just after 9/11 or on that very day an incident where Nevada troopers pulled over a foreign national under suspicion of terrorism, I believe he was Iranian, and this was reported in one source in Las Vegas. This was not all that surprising except the story dissappeared as quickly as it was posted, and I only had a glimpse of it. The individual was named but for the life of me I cannot think of what it was. Has anyone else heard of arrests or detentions in Las Vegas related to terrorism in 2001 or 2002?.
And there ws the Al Qaeda Detroit Cell's Omar Shishani, who is also linked to Las Vegas.