Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread 5

CNN ^ | March 12, 2004

[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.

[Cindy]

Well, I think you just about said it all RR.

[JustPiper]

Glad to meet you gipper!

[JustPiper]

This could mean something

[JustPiper]

Has the tape arrived Gal?

[JustPiper]

Update NJ, My pc went kaput after getting a win update until I restored tonight

[JustPiper]

Gosh DL,from a spiritual perspective I was stunned silent. I did grapple with the excessive violence , cried and was physically ill. I am always the type who must know the 'why' but I could write an essay on what this movie did to me.

[JustPiper]

Well at least Uncle Ray had one saving grace ;)

[JustPiper]

Could the story about the nuke ship being ready to blow be a way to provide "plausible denyability?"

Exactly my tinfoil feeling ;)

[JustPiper]

Yahoo groups are the one that sent me the worm via email, be careful of a Yahoo Group password!

[JustPiper]

I must say I was very proud of our ex-gov Thompson at the hearings grilling Clarke!

[JustPiper]

Did you hear the 'other' Bob Kerry questioning Clarke, he reamed FNC for slanderous reporting!

[JustPiper]

Hate makes us very ill

[JustPiper]

I had my vibe going on yesterday when I couldn't access the net.

The one thing that came up was maritime and Florida, the ship thing was extremely strong

[JustPiper]

But if there are no visitors Gal, exactly what will the affects be?

[JustPiper]

The frequency on cruisers has been steadily climbing for two years. The gastro bug in the guise of all stomach ailments growing at an alarming rate.

Things like this already posted:

A bacterium that is connected to Legionnaires' disease has been confirmed
in Oklahoma, and state health officials said Mon, 22 Mar 2004 that a
Oklahoma hotel was the likely source.

Eyewitness News 5 learned that the Comfort Suites at Interstate 44 and
Meridian was the location where people who were in Oklahoma City for a
basketball tournament were staying when they became ill.


Great link for gastro and all 'unexplained illnesses:
International Society for Infectious Diseases
http://www.isid.org

[JustPiper]

QUOTATION OF THE DAY

"Your government failed you. Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you."
RICHARD A. CLARKE, former counterterrorism chief.
__________________________________________________________

Missed Chances in a Long Hunt for bin Laden
By DAVID JOHNSTON and TODD S. PURDUM

Published: March 25, 2004


WASHINGTON, March 24 — In 1996, the C.I.A. secretly created a special operational unit devoted to tracking a single man, a Saudi-born exile named Osama bin Laden, then living in Sudan and considered a major terrorist financier. By early 1997, the office, known as the bin Laden station, had concluded that he was also a terrorist organizer, based in Afghanistan, with a military committee planning operations against American interests worldwide.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/25/politics/25HUNT.html?th

[JustPiper]

The 'counterterrorism czar': Born-again critic of the Bush administration

Posted: March 25, 2004

Richard Clarke, President George W. Bush's former "counterterrorism czar," accuses the Bush administration of seeking a tie between Iraq and 9-11, and pushing America into an ill-advised war in Iraq. Clarke claims that Bush attempted to "intimidate him" into finding evidence – which Clarke maintains doesn't exist – to establish a connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Clarke accuses Bush of doing little to combat terrorism pre-9/11.

Really?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37737

Clinton stole the silverware, but left the appointees

Posted: March 25, 2004

After his election in 2000, George W. Bush made a big mistake: He didn't clean house of Clinton administration figures. The Senate has confirmed hundreds of President Bush's appointments, but it's Bush's reappointments that have come back to haunt him. While several of the reappointees first served under Republicans, their service in the Clinton administration should have signaled that they would be trouble for Bush.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37738

[JustPiper]

EPA agents search Tulsa oil refinery
2004-03-24
By David Zizzo and Larry Levy
The Oklahoman

TULSA -- Federal officials served a search warrant Tuesday morning at Sinclair Oil Corp.'s Tulsa Refinery, an Environmental Protection Agency spokesman said.
EPA agents executed a warrant at the refinery in west Tulsa, said Dave Bary, EPA spokesman in Dallas. "That's the sum of what at this point I can confirm."

http://www.newsok.com/cgi-bin/show_article?ID=1204211

[JustPiper]

Pontiac fever?" I know those cars have often been lemons but didn't know about the disease thing. ...joking

-smiles-