[COEXERJ145]

And this time they really, really, really mean it!

[jolie560]

I think so: Muslims here have been buying lots of chocolates during the past week, readying for another celebration.

[DallasMike]

I can't really get too worked up over something called the "Yemeni Tagamoo Party." Do the Yemeni Tagamoos have a mascot? Do they call themselves the Fighting Tagamoos?

[Revel]

LINK TO THREAD TWO

Thread Two

[flutters]

bookmark bump

[labolarueda]

About correcting "Queda" to "Qaeda"?

Thanks

[Admin Moderator]

You all might want to come up with a name for your thread. You know, there's the canteen, there's the foxhole, etc. You all need a catchy name. We can't keep calling it 'those posters who blew the end of the world as we know it with their countdown thread on 2-2-4' thread. :) That's it for us, over and out, thanks for starting a new thread, it's a hugh help, and please, start a new thread around 5000 posts or so, thanks, AM.

[Calpernia]

In Reference to this post:

This should make everyone who flies feel really secure!!!

February 6, 2004 Report Faults Lax Controls on Screeners at Airports By PHILIP SHENON

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — An internal investigation at the Homeland Security Department has found that hiring of tens of thousands of airport screeners after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was so haphazard that many screeners were allowed to remain on duty at security checkpoints for weeks or months after it had been determined that they had serious criminal records.

The department's inspector general issued a report on the findings on Thursday. It said screeners remained on the payroll and retained their badges even after the findings that they had been convicted on charges as serious as manslaughter. The department often took weeks or months to discharge the screeners, the report found.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1065689/posts?page=6808#6808

I'm linking to this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/nyregion/04security.html?ex=1076475600&en=6f04116db636ac43&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

Security Firm Charged With Bribing Company Executives By RONALD SMOTHERS

Published: February 4, 2004

NEWARK, Feb. 3 - A Newark-based security company and its top executives have been charged with failing to do required background checks on employees who guarded area airports, utilities, bridges and other places vulnerable to terrorism, and with bribing officials to help them keep their contracts, Attorney General Peter C. Harvey said on Tuesday.

I'm going to SEC after I'm caught up on the OLD thread 2 to see if Haynes is a franchise.

Be back.

[Oorang]

Well if that don't beat all get out. I was about to reply to your post #6833, hit preview, and wham, "this thread is locked". Huh? Figured Daleel, EOM and Co. finally came through (just joking folks).

Anyway, re #6833

Good snips. I should have continued with my thought. I do not believe that Russia is going to attack us in their upcoming exercises. I could be wrong, wouldn't be the first time, but I don't think that is their plan.

As I've said, I do not trust Putin, or his administration or his military officials. I do believe that Russian made weapons and materials of all sorts have been sold to others. I firmly believe that Putin will make promises and shake hands with Pres. Bush, Sec. Powell, Rumsfield, Rice, etc. and turn around and quietly sell whatever he can to the highest bidder with no thought to his "customers" being in the "axis of evil" or not.

In that regard, yes, I believe that Russia will attack us. But, at this time, I do not believe we will be attacked by Russia in an overt manner. Just my opinion. But, lets all keep the info coming. That's what this thread is about. It's an education, for all of us, in more ways than one. And I for one am always open for new info.

[nicmarlo]

maybe I can keep up with thread number 3???? (I doubt it, lol!)....BTW, I'm still here, in CENTRAL New York.... : )

[Calpernia]

I was pinging StillProud to the post: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1065689/posts?page=6816#6816

Not asking you to put her anywhere ^-^

[sissyjane]

1-800-BITE-me!!

I'll believe it when I see it!

I'm OVER the empty threat bu**sh*t.

[JustPiper]

Nothing like being moved again in a middle of a post! I thought we were going to get fair warning?

[Calpernia]

I think we have a much cosier relation with India than Pakistan. It seems like we have had a cautiously friendly relationship with Pakistan. But this may only be a matter of expediency in relation to the Afghan offensive as well as the fact they have been a known nuclear power for some time. With these new developments, I don't understand how we can have anything close to a neutral/friendly relationship with Pakistan. It truly appears they have sold us down the river.

6,821 posted on 02/05/2004 11:34:44 PM EST by rickylc

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I hope this is true. This is what I felt too. But now that I sit and think, I've never seen India mentioned in any coalition reports. Hopefully, they will babysit Pakistan for us.

Anyone else have any input on the India Pakistan relationship?

[JustPiper]

Al Queda again threatens America (Thread 3)

Al Queda? argh ;)

[Calpernia]

Good Carry Over

To: Oorang
>>>I also feel that the brewing's in South America are more of a concern, given a few years.

Holy moly. Anyone ever do a South America search here at FR? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/keyword/south%20america

I even found an article about an Egyptian Sailor dying of Anthrax in Brazil!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/901851/posts

6,823 posted on 02/05/2004 11:35:31 PM EST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

[Calpernia]

Another carry over:

To: Oorang
>>>I am not ready to assume that Russia is ready or willing to attack the USA


>>>>(snip)
the United States most likely will face ICBM threats from Russia, China, and North Korea, probably from Iran, and possibly from Iraq. The Russian threat, although significantly reduced, will continue to be the most robust and lethal, considerably more than China's, and orders of magnitude more than that potentially posed by the others, whose missiles are likely to be fewer in number, constrained to smaller payloads, and less reliable and accurate.

The new missile threats are far different from the Cold War threat, which involved accurate, survivable, and reliable missiles deployed in large numbers. By contrast, the new missile threats involve significantly less capable forces. Even so, they are threatening, but in different ways.
(snip)
>>>
http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/us/cia/cia-walpole-nie.html
>>>>

(snip)

Russian entities last year continued to supply a variety of ballistic missile-related goods and technical know-how to countries such as Iran, India, China, and Libya. Indeed, the transfer of ballistic missile technology from Russia to Iran was substantial last year, and in our judgment will continue to accelerate Iranian efforts to develop new missiles and to become self-sufficient in production.


Russia also remained a key supplier for a variety of civilian Iranian nuclear programs, which could be used to advance its weapons programs as well.


Russian entities are a significant source of dual-use biotechnology, chemicals, production technology, and equipment for Iran. Russian biological and chemical expertise is sought by Iranians and others seeking information and training on BW and CW-agent production processes.
(snip)

http://www.iraqwatch.org/government/us/cia/tenet-test-2-7-01.htm

(snip)
>>>>>
Center for Security Policy
DECISION BRIEF No. 00-D 90

20 November 2000

Over the weekend, the Iraqi News Agency trumpeted the arrival in Baghdad of the latest planeload of foreign visitors to breach what little remains of the Clinton-Gore Administration's effort to contain Saddam Hussein. According to the state-controlled press, a Russian-built passenger plane brought "around 100 prominent Bulgarians, including members of parliament, former ministers, businessmen, doctors and university professors." The question is: Was there something or someone else whose presence aboard went unmentioned by Saddam's wire service?

Unfortunately, Bulgaria joins a growing list of nations -- including the likes of Russia, Libya and Syria -- to take advantage of the United States' understandable reluctance to enforce the no-fly zone against unarmed passenger flights. No one in the West knows for sure exactly what coming into (and, for that matter, out of) Iraq via these flights but, given many of the regimes in question, it strains credulity that there is nothing untoward going on.

This is especially true in light of the fact that it is obvious to Saddam Hussein, and virtually everybody else, that the Americans' will to resist his comeback is falling apart. Less well appreciated in the West, at least, is how dangerous the latest erosion -- to say nothing of the complete collapse of the containment strategy that it portends -- may prove to be.

(snip)
http://www.iraqwatch.org/perspectives/cfsp-00-d-90.htm

6,833 posted on 02/05/2004 11:45:23 PM EST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)
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To: Revel; JustPiper
JP tried to get the thread name updated many times.

Just ensure, if a thread 3 is started that everyone is able to migrate.

6,834 posted on 02/05/2004 11:46:44 PM EST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

[Calpernia]

Another good carry over:

To: Myrddin
WOW! Take a look in here on the documentation!

http://www.iraqwatch.org/search/search.asp?qu=pakistan&sc=all&sm=exact

I never did a search here for Pakistan before.

Pardon me while I go get sick.

6,836 posted on 02/05/2004 11:49:30 PM EST by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

[timydnuc]

I have read these threads for I don't know how long. Come and get me or stand down.

Our enemies wipe their a$$es with their hands, they can't make change, and they are mental morons. They can't come out and fight, they don't have the guts. They are cowards that kill innocent people to aggrandize a religion that oppresses people and enslaves them. The 'so called' heroes of Islam are the cowards of human kind. They crawl on the earth and kill the lambs of God.

You come and get me, you idiots, you come right here and get me! You bring your AKs and I'll just stand here with my arsenal. We'll see who walks away. You come after me, you camel jumping son of a bitch! I'm waiting with a smile!

[ex-Texan]

"They Really, Really Mean It" Of Course they do, really!

Read reports about al Qaeda's suit case nukes, chemical and bio-weapons HERE and pray the U.S. and British Inel serices are wrong. I believe they are not wrong. Feel free to fame away . . .