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Posted on 05/30/2004 12:05:02 AM PDT by JustPiper
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"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
KHOBAR, Saudi Arabia - Tens of American, European and other hostages were released Sunday and a gunman believed to be the lead Islamic militant holding them was arrested, a Saudi security official said, adding that two other gunmen were "in the process of being arrested."
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
GWEN is curiouser and curiouser, thanks for the link DL!
No updates, other than I checked with the dispatcher and she hadn't even heard a thing about it. I drove around everywhere in the direction of the smoke plume and didn't see a thing. My neighbors and I wondering if we're collectively losing our minds....LOL
I'm not going to worry about it for now, but I'm heading out to buy more supplies as a result. ;-)
Here is a tidbit from Mutter's:
North Korea Threatens 'Merciless Blows' if Seoul Violates Sea Border
Steve Herman
Tokyo
09 Jun 2004, 11:58 UTC
North Korea is warning of new clashes at sea, accusing South Korean naval vessels of violating their disputed maritime border. The charge comes just days after the two Koreas agreed on measures to prevent maritime disputes.
Communist North Korea says the South is engaging in reckless actions by deploying naval ships, patrol boats and helicopters along their common but disputed border in the Yellow Sea.
The official Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang Wednesday quotes the North Korean military command as saying if Seoul continues such acts, it will be forced to deliver what it called "merciless blows."
The report accuses South Korea of deploying the vessels as a pretext to tighten control over fishing boats and inspections.
It adds that the security and firing exercises of the South Korean Navy are "seriously getting on the nerves" of North Korean seamen.
The two Koreas, in what was heralded as a significant breakthrough, last week agreed on measures to reduce border tensions. Those pledges include sharing radio frequencies and other forms of communication to reduce the chances of confrontation.
Naval boats from both sides engaged in deadly clashes in 1999 and 2002 during the fishing season.
Regional analyst Robert Broadfoot, the head of Political and Economic Risk Consultancy in Hong Kong, says North Korea's latest rhetoric is nothing surprising.
"Talks are something that have been on and off for years and years," he said. "It's like spinning wheels. So to make any conclusions because North Korea makes some accusations after a set of talks, no one's going to lose any sleep over that."
Last Friday, Seoul said two North Korean patrol boats briefly crossed the disputed Yellow Sea border, just hours after the inter-Korean agreement.
The two Koreas technically remain at war since their 1953 armistice. The North does not recognize the de facto sea border - drawn up by the U.S.-led United Nations forces at the end of the Korean War. Pyongyang wants the sea frontier redrawn farther south.
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www.voanews.com/article.c...%20Pacific
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Just a thought on NK. If they were dealing with chem/bio tipped missiles, I would be willing to bet that Syria and Iran also have those tips, as well as the nuclear ones.
The plane was not off course!!! That is the first time I heard that. Also saw footage of people running from the Capital. I can't imagine being in that situation. There were also officers shown looking under cars and other items, so the plane connection seemed odd.
One of the female reporters was telling how the officers were telling women to take off their shoes and run. Sounded pretty serious.
It would be interesting to know who serviced those planes at Manchester Airport-- bet you anything his name is Mohamed.
Outsourcing Causes 9 Pct. of U.S. Layoffs - Govt.
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Bookmark At 4191. Back later.
Stay safe, everyone.
Had it been a real threat it would have saved lives. At the time the threat was credible. If on 9/11 more people had run instead of walked more would be alive today. Some was told to stay in the buildings that fell.I think it was good advice to tell them to run for their lives, had the threat been real it would have been just that.
Too, too many MNC! Uncomfortable knowing a little here, a little there, and we have a disabled railway system and chem spills etc.:
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=freight+train+derailed&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-news-t&cop=mss&tab=5
http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=amtrak+train+derailed&ei=UTF-8
"tried to enter the Baghdad headquarters of the U.S.-led administration!!!
Thu Jun 10, 2004 11:04 AM ET By Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four Arab men posing as journalists were arrested this week when explosives residue was detected on them as they tried to enter the Baghdad headquarters of the U.S.-led administration, a senior U.S. army officer said.
The officer, a top security official in the compound which hosts news conferences given by senior U.S. and Iraqi officials and houses the U.S. consulate, said explosives were found in the men's hotel room after the arrests on Sunday.
They were posing as employees of an international television company and carried fake identification cards and were trying to drive a van into the compound when they were arrested, he said.
"The IDs looked real. But when we called the organization and asked if they were employees, they said they had not heard of them," the army officer, who asked to remain anonymous, told Reuters.
Scores of Western, Iraqi and Arab journalists as well as Iraqi employees of the U.S.-led administration enter the complex each week after tight security checks. The area, part of the heavily fortified "Green Zone" in Baghdad, is often hit by mortar attacks.
"The four who were arrested may have just been gathering information on the compound or maybe they were just scouting it out. This case is serious," the officer said. He declined to comment on the nationality of the men.
U.S. military officials say foreign fighters are heavily involved in bombings gripping Iraq, including deadly attacks at the gates of the Green Zone that have killed dozens of Iraqis queuing up for work inside. One of the checkpoints at the compound includes an itemizer, a high-tech machine that scans equipment such as cameras for bomb residue. Some people who accidentally pick up explosives residue, such as journalists who cover bombings, sometimes set off the machine.
But the senior army officer said his troops arrest three to four people per week in cases similar to the four Arab men seen as security threats. The U.S. military said explosive devices have been found inside the green zone but there have been no reports of bombings inside the area that includes palaces formerly belonging to toppled Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
"The last time there was a bomb just outside here we tested the machine to make sure it works. Everybody that was near the bomb site that passed through here set off the system. It worked," the officer said. Link to Article
RIP Ray Charles ;(
Just heard Hit the road Jack and your cartoon was dancing to it
You certainly find the intriguing news!
Someone at the final phase posted this:
6.9 quake hits Kamchatka Peninsula (Russia)
www.iris.edu/seismon/zoom...&lat=55.77
Whoaaa!!!6.9!!! That is big, is that a populated area?
to see if this post has any validity at all
There it is
A little over 400,000.
Hmmmmmm before 9/11 similar 'reporters' bumped off the commander of the Northern Alliance.......
They have UBL? -g-
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