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Here is what alarmed me (and one of the posters checks FR, so I don't feel so guilty about "borrowing"- we need all the insights we can get.

Gadsden
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(2/27/04 9:09)
Reply re: PT replies to Gadsden question

Thanks for the response, PT. I agree that the time is drawing close.

I just read this morning over on the FR Threat Matrix thread that:
1) Chinese troops in the Fujian province have gone on high alert.
2) Nato is conducting an anti-submarine exercise in the Mediteranean.
3) The Navy is conducting an exercise with three carrier strike groups.
4) Some sort of nationwide exercise called Unified Defense 04 'which will involve hundreds of people from more than 60 federal, state and local agencies nationwide'.
5) Bush signed an EO authorizing the interdiction of ships in Cuban territorial waters.

Add to this list the recent Russian exercises, Putin dismissing his government prior to the elections, Al Zawahiri threatening new attacks, and the rumor of Norad on high alert and it feels like we are, as Kerodin suggested, moving into a tactical phase.

P.S. 5) is incorrect. The EO authorizes interdiction of ships in US territorial waters that might be going into Cuban territorial waters. Still interesting.

Gulp.

Edited by: Gadsden at: 2/27/04 12:03

Noswad22
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(2/27/04 10:16)
Reply Bush EO

I've got some inside scoop that is quite interesting on the president's EO about Cuba...

I have to scoot so I'll post it in an hour or so. Stay tuned...

Noswad22
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(2/27/04 11:21)
Reply short range missiles

this might be a false alarm on my part after having read the EO. I thought the EO had different wording on boat travel.

A couple of years ago there was a report leaked about an unidentified "rogue" nation that was discovered to be equiping small ocean-going vessels with short range ballistic missiles. The country went unidentified but a certain congressman stated very plainly that US citizens would be very concerned to learn who was doing this.

I learned by accident that the country in question might be Castro's

Why am I not surprised.

I did the Cuba search, because all of a sudden it dawned on me that Cuba maybe the "Island" that keeps turning up in the threats.

One way to test and find out how serious it is, is to offer the clintons a weekend in Cuba, see if they go. After all they think it is better than America.

Thanks for posting that. I like reading there stuff.

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"rogue" nation that was discovered to be equiping small ocean-going vessels with short range ballistic missiles."

This is ringing bells way back in my mind...like a dream sequence from decades ago. Was this in a movie?