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
Thanks for the post Cindy! Field Day is kinda like the Super Bowl of ham radio.
I broke the code, the terrorists are using a Mary Higgins Clark novel for instructions.
I knew that I had felt it before, the suspense, building, the unseen attacker, never knowing............when?
Always the when.
And yet, you and I know, that as in a good novel the time comes when least expected.
Maybe we are all past the tinfoil stage, we are ALL living a real life fiction story.
Talking about Saudi Arabia and the Qur'an and all sorts of things :) She's getting ready to take calls now.
GOOGLE Search Term: "Madred"http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Madred%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&filter=0
We need a powerful Anti ACLU Organization.
The ACLU and Left seem to get empowered by the NGO and funds (I'll assume from outside the USA).
Any groups that try to oppose them don't have the same strong backing of supporters and funds.
Most people on the right work multiple jobs and don't have the time. Many on the left don't seem to have this issue.
Yep.
Did you find my Freep mail to you?
Yep. (Smiling.)
Ever see the series of movies called "The Matrix?" Watch the first one and you'll see how creepy your hypothesis makes me feel!
I'm now having flash backs of all the section 8 housing families (welfare housing is called Sect. 8 in NJ) that were bused-in in droves during the Clinton elections.
Thanks, I thought it was an interesting read. I clicked on your profile and enjoyed reading the historical results of gun control. Hopefully Australia will wise up.
Important Freep Mail for the Laurie Roth Show!
Boy did that just lead me into a peculiar rabbit hole.
Thanks for the google link :(
Trying to be sure I understand well.
It appears that you are saying that 7 out of 7 Jihadi sites went 404.
And that they tend to do that just before major attacks.
Do I have the gist of it right?
THX MUCH.
adding 1425 to madred and madrid changes this search.
Of course, it helps if you read spanish, which I do not.
Therefore everything looks exciting.
No, on the movies, don't go to them and don't have a TV.
For me, all the real stars are dead.
We won't mention age, but with out Lee Marvin, John Wayne and Gary Cooper, I don't see many MEN on the screen.
Besides all that moving on the screen, puts me to sleep.
My last movie, was when we still went to the drive-ins.
Looks like the Mad Cows may be back in the U.S.:
Release No. 0263.04 USDA Press Office (202) 720-4623
BY
DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DR. JOHN CLIFFORD FOR THE ANIMAL PLANT HEALTH INSPECTION SERVICE
JUNE 25, 2004
At approximately 5:30 this evening, we were notified that an inconclusive BSE test result was received on a rapid screening test used as part of our enhanced BSE surveillance program.
The inconclusive result does not mean we have found another case of BSE in this country. Inconclusive results are a normal component of most screening tests, which are designed to be extremely sensitive so they will detect any sample that could possibly be positive.
Tissue samples are now being sent to USDAs National Veterinary Services Laboratoriesthe national BSE reference labwhich will run confirmatory testing.
This animal did not enter the human food chain nor the feed chain.
I know that there will be great interest in the specifics surrounding this inconclusive test result, such as what type of animal was tested, where the animal was from, and which lab did the testing. Because this test is only an inconclusive test result, and because of the chance the confirmatory results will be negative, we are not going to disclose that information at this time.
APHIS has begun internal steps to identify the animal to be prepared if further testing were to return a positive result.
Confirmatory results are expected back from NVSL within the next 4 to 7 days, and we will announce the test results then. And, if the test comes back positive for BSE, we will of course provide additional information about the animal and its origin.
In the meantime, there are two particular points I would like to make:
First: no matter how the confirmatory testing comes back, USDA remains confident in the safety of the U.S. beef supply. Again, this animal did not enter the human food chain or feed chain. Our ban on specified risk materials from the human food chain, provides the protection to public health, should another case of BSE ever be detected in the United States. By banning SRMor skull, brain, trigeminal ganglia, eyes, portions of the vertebral column, spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia from cattle aged 30 months or older, and tonsils and the small intestine of cattle of all agesUSDA ensures all SRMs, or those materials most likely to contain the BSE agent, are removed from a suspect animal.
Second, this is not at all unexpected. Screening tests are often used in both human and animal health. They are designed to cast a very wide net in order to catch any possible patient that may have the condition, many of which will end up negative during further testing glucose testing for diabetes is a good example. This is the type of screening test we are using for BSE surveillance testing.
And some subset of these animals may even turn out to be positive for BSE. While none of us wants to see that happen, that is not unexpected either. Our surveillance program is designed to test as many animals as we can in the populations that are considered to be at high risk for BSE. If we test 268,000 animals in the next 12 to 18 months, which we are fairly well on track to dowe will be able to find the disease if it occurs in as few as 1 in 10 million adult cattle with a 99 percent confidence level. In other words, our program could detect BSE even if there were only five positive animals in the target population in the entire country.
Additional measures to strengthen public health safeguards include the longstanding ban on imports of live cattle, other ruminants, and most ruminant products from high-risk countries; FDA's 1997 prohibition on the use of most mammalian protein in cattle feed; an aggressive surveillance program that has been in place for more than a decade; the banning of non-ambulatory cattle from the human food chain; the process control requirement for establishments using advanced meat recovery (AMR) systems; prohibiting the air-injection stunning of cattle; and, if an animal presented for slaughter is sampled for BSE, holding the carcass until the test results have been confirmed negative.
In 2001 and again in 2003, Harvard University conducted an independent assessment that affirmed USDAs BSE control and prevention measures. This assessment further affirmed that even with one or more detections of BSE in this country, U.S. control efforts will minimize any possible spread of the disease and ultimately eliminate if from the U.S. cattle population.
http://www.usda.gov/Newsroom/0263.04.html
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