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Posted on 03/12/2004 8:23:06 PM PST by thecabal
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- This week's deadly train bombings in Spain will not lead to a rise in the U.S. color-coded terror threat alert system, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said Friday.
"Based on the current intelligence, we have no specific indicators that terrorist groups are considering such an attack in the U.S. in the near term," said department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse.
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Cockroach more aptly - he is attempting to spread his vermin anywhere they will listen. CBS should be ashamed - they are as non-partisan as the Move-On group.
We can all reward those biggoted newsstations by obtaining our news elsewhere. They will be obsolete soon enough anyway. Thank God for the internet and the ability we have to glean the facts from the fiction they would have us believe.
Mr. Clarke can justify anything in his mind that he wants to justify. Doesn't mean it's correct. Second time I've had to say it this week: Liar Liar Your Pants are on Fire.
Russia Warns America Over Caspian Sea The Associated Press
The United States should not interfere in talks on delineating the oil-rich Caspian Sea, a top Russian diplomat said in an interview published Tuesday.
The legal status of the inland sea -- believed to contain the world's third largest reserves of oil and gas -- was governed by treaties between the Soviet Union and Iran.
But since the 1991 Soviet collapse, the five states that border the sea -- Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan -- have repeatedly failed to reach a new five-way agreement.
"The countries of the Caspian region should settle the problems by themselves, in a family way, so to speak, without attracting mediators," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny, a presidential envoy on the Caspian basin, said in an interview published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, adding that "the external factor will only cause problems."
Last month, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld emphasized U.S. interest in the Caspian region during a visit to Kazakhstan, noting that its security is important for the entire world. The United States is also planning upcoming military exercises with Azerbaijan in the Caspian.
"One should understand the essence: U.S. interest toward the Caspian region has to do only with oil," Kalyuzhny said.
"Imagine if Russia said it had interests in the area of the Great Lakes and even appointed a special envoy there -- how would the White House react to that?" Kalyuzhny said, referring to the U.S. envoy to the Caspian region.
www.themoscowtimes.com/st...4/044.html
And also this one here (didn't Russia just recently complete large-scale nuclear war simulations, and even more recently successfully test fire two missiles? ) 2004-03-22 19:59 * RUSSIA * DEFENSE MINISTRY * FLEET * EXERCISES * RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET TO HOLD MAJOR EXERCISES MOSCOW, March 22 (RIA Novosti) Major exercises will be held on the Black Sea Fleet, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said at a meeting of the president with government members. "A major exercise of a formation of surface ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in interaction with aviation groups and units of the fleet's coast guard will be taking place from March 22 to 27 under the guidance of Black Sea Fleet Commander, Admiral Vladimir Masorin. The Black Sea Fleet press service said the main aims of the exercise will be the improvement of commander and staff training, and practicing tactical groups' interaction while performing combat tasks. The exercise involves about 20 combat ships, the fleet's aircraft and helicopters, 10 auxiliary ships, over 100 marines and 30 pieces of coast guard battle vehicles. en.rian.ru/rian/index.cfm...do_alert=0
By HUSSEIN DAKROUB Associated Press Writer
3/23/2004 5:04:00 PM
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- Israeli helicopter gunships fired on gunmen in southern Lebanon late Tuesday, killing two and wounding one, a Lebanese security official said.
The official said the helicopters opened fire on Palestinian guerrillas who had fired rockets toward Israel from Wadi Sluqi, about five miles north of the Israeli border.
In Israel, a statement from the Israeli Defense Force said the air force hit a "terror cell" that had set up rocket launchers aimed at Israel.
"The IDF will act insistently against any force that uses terror and supports the use of terror against the residents of the state of Israel."
The attack came a day after a short flare-up in south Lebanon between Hezbollah guerrillas and Israeli troops following the assassination of Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder and spiritual leader of the Islamic militant group Hamas.
In addition to Hezbollah, the main militant
force in south Lebanon, Palestinian groups are also known operate in the area.
The Lebanese security official said the wounded Palestinian guerrilla was taken into custody.
While Lebanon's government strongly supports the Lebanese Hezbollah, it has opposed Palestinian guerrillas using southern Lebanon to attack Israel. Palestinian attacks in the 1970s and early 1980s brought harsh Israeli retaliations, including two full-scale invasions.
It was not immediately known which faction the guerrillas belonged to.
My father forbid us to use the word "hate." It was permissible to use the phrase "I dislike them intensely." I have to agree now with my departed Dad, hatred is being just like them.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON March 23 — The security situation in Iraq is dangerous and the threat to all Americans there remains extremely high, the State Department said Tuesday.
Remnants of the deposed regime of President Saddam Hussein, foreign terrorists and criminals remain active in the country, the department said in a notice warning Americans not to go to Iraq.
There is credible information that terrorists have targeted civil aviation, the statement said.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040323_1609.html
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