Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Seven

The Washington Times ^ | 4-26-04 | Bill Gertz

[JustPiper]

"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

Two Chinese diplomats, away from their Los Angeles consulate improperly, recently sped their vehicle past a Los Alamos National Laboratory guard post near classified facilities in what U.S. officials think was an intelligence mission, The Washington Times has learned.

[JustPiper]

Absofrigginlutely!

[JustPiper]

Love it! Love it! and LOVE IT!

[JustPiper]

Taguba, Phillipines, Hilliary....

[JustPiper]

A great addition to any shopping list. Plant the seeds, add a little water, place chia pet deep down in a spider hole and months later your chia pet is ready for negotiations.

Collect the set. Each Chia Dem comes with a long, drawn out disclaimer that their hair is a shrub, and NOT a bush

[JustPiper]

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) Army Pfc. Lynndie England, the woman shown in photographs smiling and pointing at naked Iraqi prisoners, has been charged by the military with conspiring to mistreat detainees and other crimes.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) Former hostage Thomas Hamill, who escaped his Iraqi captors, has landed in a private jet at the Columbus airport.

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) An Oklahoma state board recommends clemency for a death row inmate after Mexico's U.S. ambassador argues on his behalf.

WASHINGTON (AP) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he favors "appropriate compensation" for Iraqis abused by U.S. captors.

WASHINGTON (AP) Energy Department is considering federalizing guards at nuclear weapons facilities, consolidating weapons-usable material to protect against terrorists.

GENEVA (AP) International Red Cross says it warned U.S. officials of prisoner abuse in Iraq more than a year ago.

Teen suspected of creating "Sasser" computer worm arrested in Germany - A high school student from the northern town of Rothenburg an der Wuemme was arrested Friday, police said Saturday.

[JustPiper]

Rumsfeld's opening statement in Senate committee
05/07/04 Here is a text of opening remarks by U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing investigating the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. personnel:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/07/rumsfeld.senate.statement.reut/index.html

Pentagon was warned in 2002 of contractors...Abuse scandal includes use of private interrogators (AP) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4923442/

The Red Cross discovered "serious violations" of the rights of Iraqi prisoners, with abuse so widespread it may be considered to have been tolerated by the U.S.-led coalition, the Wall Street Journal said on Friday. (Reuters) http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5073940

President Bush's campaign on Friday criticized the wife of Democratic candidate John Kerry for calling Vice President Dick Cheney "unpatriotic" while defending her husband's service in Vietnam against critics who had avoided the military. (AP) http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040507/D82DQ02O0.html

Wall Street Journal: Blood in the Water...The target isn't Rumsfeld today, it's Bush in November. http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005047


Bin Laden 'funded Casablanca bomb'
05/08/04 Islamic militants behind the deadly suicide bombings in Casablanca last year were financed by terror leader Osama bin Laden, according to the head of Morocco's security forces.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/05/08/morocco.bomblink.ap/index.html

[JustPiper]

PLAGUE, RODENTS - USA (TEXAS)

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{{Can Hanta be far behind?}}

Source: Texas Department of Health press release [edited]


Plague Identified in Rodents in West Texas, Panhandle

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The Texas Department of Health (TDH) confirmed today that _Yersinia
pestis_, the bacterium that causes plague, has been detected in wood
rats found dead in a rural location near the Midland-Glasscock
counties border in West Texas and in fleas from wild prairie dogs in
Dallam County in the Texas Panhandle.

TDH zoonosis control officials said it is not unusual to have plague
in wild rodents in the western United States, including the western
part of Texas.

"Plague occasionally cycles through the wild rodent population,
sometimes causing large die-offs of rats, prairie dogs and other
rodents," said Tom Sidwa, acting director of TDH's zoonosis control
program, in Austin.

Plague is usually spread by fleas that have bitten an infected
rodent. The illness can be transmitted to dogs, cats and humans.
Plague in humans can be effectively treated with antibiotics if
detected early, Sidwa said. Infection also can occur by breathing in
respiratory droplets from a live animal that has the pneumonic form
of the illness.

The last recorded human case of plague in Texas was in 1993 in a Kent
County resident. An average of 13 human cases a year occur in the
United States.

TDH is issuing a plague advisory to veterinarians and physicians in
the West Texas, Panhandle and South Plains areas of the state and
reminding the public to take routine precautions to reduce the
chances of being bitten by an infected flea. The public is asked to
report large die-offs of rodents to public health officials.

Personal precautions include: removing food and shelter sources for
rodents around homes, work sites and recreational areas; using safe
insecticides to kill fleas around property; applying a
DEET-containing repellent to exposed skin and clothing when in
flea-inhabited areas, especially when camping or in other
rodent-inhabited areas; and treating pets with long-acting flea
control products.

TDH also advises wearing gloves if it's necessary to handle an animal
that could have plague. Because some rodents also carry hantavirus,
rodent nests in closed-in areas should be aired out before removal,
and any rodent nests and droppings should be wetted down with a 10
percent bleach - 90 percent water solution before removing.

The Texas Panhandle is the column of land that juts out in a
northerly direction from the rest of Texas. It borders New Mexico.
However, the western portion of New Mexico, on the other side of
state from the Texas Panhandle, has the highest prevalence of human
cases

[JustPiper]

Soldier Who Killed 2 in Iraq Jail Defends Actions ("I did it to save my fellow soldier's lives")
Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | Fri May 7,10:09 PM ET | By Adam Tanner

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131793/posts

Hillary May Regret This. . .
EIB ^ | 5-07-04 | Rush Limbaugh
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131765/posts

[Lucy Lake]

Is Specialist Graner the boyfriend of Lynndie England? She is the young woman in the pictures, and she was reported to be pregnant.

Google Lynndie England.

[I want to know]

Yes. Graner is the boyfriend of England. England has now been charged in connection with the abuse of prisoners. And she is reportedly 4 months pregnant.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Yes

Interesting....

Did the Arab "Street" Geta Message We Didn't Mean to Send?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1131670/posts

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good

[Velveeta]

Rat delays Dubai-bound Saudi Airlines Flight in Chennai


By IndiaExpress Bureau

The presence of an "intruder", a rat, in a Dubai-bound Saudi Airlines flight, shortly before take-off from Chennai, delayed its departure.

The aircraft arrived from Dubai at 9.30 am and all 117 passengers had boarded it when a rat was found beneath a seat, airport sources said.
(snip)http://www.indiaexpress.com/news/regional/tamil_nadu/chennai/20040508-0.html

[Velveeta]

Glad you're back up and running!

Your margin looks just fine to me.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

When she was in Iraq for Thanksgiving she always sat with troop's form New York.

http://clinton.senate.gov/tripreport.html

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Who is this guy?

Soldier's Family Set in Motion Chain of Events on Disclosure
By JAMES DAO and ERIC LICHTBLAU

Published: May 8, 2004


UMBERLAND, Md., May 7 — Ivan Frederick was distraught. His son, an Army reservist turned prison guard in Iraq, was under investigation earlier this year for mistreating prisoners, and photographs of the abuse were beginning to circulate among soldiers and military investigators.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/national/08IMAG.html?ex=1084680000&en=4c657637d2755141&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

And the plot thickens...

The irony, Mr. Lawson said, is that the public spectacle might have been avoided if the military and the federal government had been responsive to his claims that his nephew was simply following orders. Mr. Lawson said he sent letters to 17 members of Congress about the case earlier this year, with virtually no response, and that he ultimately contacted Mr. Hackworth's Web site out of frustration, leading him to cooperate with a consultant for "60 Minutes II."

same link as before

[Velveeta]

The World Chess Championships (to be held in Libya of all places) falls within that June date that Jill mentioned a week or so ago. Seems tensions surrounding the event are already running high.

Wasn't there also a mention of "pawns" in one of the jihadi messages? Could be some dots lining up here.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1083813027422

[WestCoastGal]

"While we are at it lets ask Floridians to vote out Meek! "

He was the most disrespectful twit of them all (including Hillary) she has a more evil agenda. I wondered to myself yesterday, in addition to why these pictures were taken and who released them BUT WHO VOTED IN SOME OF THE IDIOTS DOING THE QUESTIONING YESTERDAY!! Absolutely unbelieveable how ignorant they were and didn't even know it.

[ExtremeUnction]

Test (sorry)

[WestCoastGal]

Saving for research. Thanks JP for all the work putting this together. I don't know if it will be that easy for us to find, but I am sure those at DOD, the WH FBI/CIA are looking hard.

Someone had to come up with this idea and have those scenes posed, take the pictures etc etc. It would be just too easy to say those involved in the pictures are sadistic pigs. If they had half a brain they should have wondered why they were being shown in the pictures. Why were most of the Iraqis heads covered. ID us not them??

I believe as I have said before this is an evil plot to either.

1. Get us out of the ME (AQ)

2. Get George Bush & Co out of office (Dem/Hit)