A New Terror Threat
This holiday, watch out for those floating beer coolers
By ELAINE SHANNON
As the July 4 holiday approaches, Bush Administration officials are bombarding the nation's police, fire, emergency and corporate-security offices with another round of terrorism warnings. Although there are no plans to raise the threat level from yellow to orange, a senior Justice Department official says, "there's very serious intelligence that's corroborated, that's multiple sourced, that indicates that al-Qaeda is intent on hitting us and hitting us hard this year." The official concedes, however, that "we don't have specific information."
Along with this now familiar general warning, the FBI has introduced the specter of a new terrorism threat: booby-trapped beer coolers. A lightly classified bulletin sent to 18,000 state and local agencies last week advised local authorities to look out for plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and other waterborne flotsam commonly seen around marinas that could be rigged to blow up on contact. Also, the bulletin warned, terrorists might attach bombs to buoys. FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs. But some officials believe al-Qaeda may be focusing on harbors and shipping channels in an effort to replicate the success of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aden, in which suicide bombers used a small launch laden with explosives to rip a 40-ft. hole in the warship's hull, killing 17 sailors.
3 different Kidnapping this weekend!
3 Turkish men
1 Pakistani
1 US Marine
There is no other way but to stay the course (continue to pressforward) and that these dear men are under the watchful eye our Heavenly Father!
Their mission will never be forgotten, as well as all of our fallen soldiers for the cause of freedom sadly is the utlimate the price is blood!
When I think of the birth of America it could only happen by those who given their life for others!
It seem in this era the price is even greater for the innocent bystander in this spiritual war is also consider currrency!