LOL - We've been hoarding survival things for months now and everytime we go to the store we add more to the list. Petty arguments over exactly how many matches and/or lighters do we really need. Don't forget your pets - we have 3 month supply of food/feed for all of them. Will buy more as the budget allows.
I bought my doggie some of those booties from Petsmart. They are really for icy conditions, etc., but I thought they'd be great if she has to walk across some unpleasant terrorist stuff. Anyway, just in case, she needs them anyway. :)
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.
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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