Posted on 06/24/2004 12:40:07 AM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
Iran seeks swap of Brits for suicide attackers
Report says 40 Revolutionary Guard 'volunteers' held by UK
Iran apprehended British military personnel and Navy vessels earlier this week in order to secure release of 40 "suicide operations volunteers" held by the UK, according to an Iranian Revolutionary Guard source.
The source told the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that the British Army command in Iraq received the demand from the Revolutionary Guard, reported the Middle East Media Research Institute.
According to the source, the content of the message was very simple: "Release our comrades, whom you are holding, and we will release your soldiers."
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
Prayers. Glad all is well. Thanks for all you do.
*sigh* belts and BAGS! *sheesh!*
No sh*t? Is that for real?
Could both flaws be combined for a simultaneous attack?
Of interest: http://www.goexcelglobal.com/NJ_DefenseForce
See Documents and Downloads, under Hacking
The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from September 11
Although secondary to the human tragedy resulting from the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, telecommunications issues were significant that day both in terms of damage (physical as well as functional) and of mounting response and recovery efforts. The Internet has come to be a major component of the nations (and the worlds) communications and information infrastructure. People rely on it for business, social, and personal activities of many kinds, and government depends on it for communications and transactions with the media and the public. Thus there is interest in how the Internet performed and was used on September 11. Unlike the situation with longer-standing telecommunications services (notably the public telephone network), there are few regulations, policies, or practices related to the Internets functioning in emergency situations. Nor are there many publicly available data to help policy makers or the industry itself assess the Internets performanceeither on a continuing basis or in the aftermath of a crisis. No regular system exists for reporting failures and outages, nor is there agreement on metrics of performance.
Some experiences are shared informally among network operators or in forums such as the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), but that information is not readily accessible for national planning or research purposes. The decentralized architecture of the Internetalthough widely characterized as one of the Internets strengthsfurther confounds the difficulty of collecting comprehensive data about how the Internet is performing. It is therefore unsurprising that no definitive analyses exist on the impact of September 11 on the Internet, though a few conflicting anecdotal reports about its performance that daysuch as several presentations at NANOG indicating relatively little effect and press accounts suggesting that the impact was severe have appeared.
Responding to an initial request in early 2002 from the Association for Computing Machinerys Special Interest Group in Data Communication (ACM SIGCOMM), the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) established the Committee on the Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning from the Impact of September 11.[3] The studys goals were twofold: to organize an exploratory workshop for gathering data and accounts of experiences pertinent to the impact of September 11 on the Internet, and to prepare a report that summarizes the Internets performance that day and offers conclusions on better preparing for and responding to future emergencies.
See link for full PDF file.
Sickening. PC gone crazy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1160317/posts
Bush faces a hostile reception in Ireland
International Herald Tribune ^ | 6/26/04 | Elisabeth Bumiller/NYTimes
Posted on 06/25/2004 5:23:18 PM EDT by The Bandit
ENNIS, Ireland President George W. Bush was set to arrive at the heavily guarded Dromoland Castle in County Clare on Friday night as the authorities braced for what were expected to be large demonstrations across Ireland against the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
In contrast to the jubilant welcomes accorded to Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, Bush's reception was already developing as frosty, if not outright hostile. Widespread opposition to the Iraq war and revulsion at the Abu Ghraib prison scandal have turned a large portion of Irish popular opinion against him.
Big protests were expected in Dublin and in Shannon, where Air Force One was to land before Bush headed to the EU-U.S. summit at Dromoland Castle. Smaller protests were expected for the cities of Galway, Sligo, Waterford and Tralee in County Kerry.
"Fury and fear as town is turned into a fortress," said the headline in the Irish Examiner. The newspaper quoted the mayor of Shannon as saying that the town's residents were being made into potential targets for a terrorist attack.
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REMINDER, Clinton Owns Property In Ireland:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F07%2F11%2Fnclin11.xml
Clinton tees up his dream flat in Ireland
By Thomas Harding, Ireland Correspondent
(Filed: 11/07/2003)
Bill Clinton yesterday united his two loves, Ireland and golf, by buying a two-bedroom apartment that overlooks a Ryder Cup venue.
The property comes with full membership for two to the prestigious Kildare Hotel and Country Club - better known as the K Club - 30 miles south-west of Dublin where an 18-hole round costs £190 and first year membership is £60,000.
The former American president, who has called Ireland his second home, struck a deal with an estate agent friend for an £850,000 flat while playing golf in Northern Ireland last weekend.
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Glad to hear your son is OK Jill. My family will be praying for you guys.
Ref 675:
A few threads back, we observed that websites who kept an eye on the terrorists tended to be taken offline by DOS attacks about 24-48 hours before an attack.
The last time this happened was before the Madrid bombings. I've been keeping a mental note on it and waiting to see if it becomes a trend.
It is the suggestion that everyone can become a Registrar of voters, and then go out and enroll others to vote.
It was done at the Court House In Arizona.
I did many years ago in Wellton. Have not done so here and won't now, as I don't go out.
Have probably felt that way for 30 years.
And I'm further south from you guys and I've commented to several folks over the past month or so that the increase in CHP on freeways and police/sherrif/etc. on surface streets has been AMAZING! I'm sure they'd connect to a crack down on speeders with school getting out and summer travel post Memorial Day...but it really has been unlike what I've ever seen before. They are everywhere...and oodles of them...not just one along a stretch of road, but 2, 3, more...all in a short distance of a few miles, at most. Like you've mentioned seeing...
INTERNET HAGANAH.US: "CONFRONTING THE GLOBAL JIHAD"
http://internet-haganah.us/haganah/global.html
GOODNESS!
PRAYERS, for sure.
God's peace and wholeness to all in your families.
That was exactly my point :-). Besides, no one can replace Charlton Heston.
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