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Posted on 06/27/2004 2:30:41 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
A New Terror Threat
This holiday, watch out for those floating beer coolers
Sunday, Jun. 27, 2004
As the July 4 holiday approaches, Bush Administration officials are bombarding the nation's police, fire, emergency and corporate-security offices with another round of terrorism warnings. Although there are no plans to raise the threat level from yellow to orange, a senior Justice Department official says, "there's very serious intelligence that's corroborated, that's multiple sourced, that indicates that al-Qaeda is intent on hitting us and hitting us hard this year." The official concedes, however, that "we don't have specific information."
Along with this now familiar general warning, the FBI has introduced the specter of a new terrorism threat: booby-trapped beer coolers. A lightly classified bulletin sent to 18,000 state and local agencies last week advised local authorities to look out for plastic-foam containers, inner tubes and other waterborne flotsam commonly seen around marinas that could be rigged to blow up on contact. Also, the bulletin warned, terrorists might attach bombs to buoys. FBI and Department of Homeland Security officials say no such devices have actually been discovered, nor is there any current intelligence that terrorists are hatching plots involving floating bombs. But some officials believe al-Qaeda may be focusing on harbors and shipping channels in an effort to replicate the success of the October 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in the port of Aden, in which suicide bombers used a small launch laden with explosives to rip a 40-ft. hole in the warship's hull, killing 17 sailors.
Now they have really gone and done it, huh? lol
Umm.. assuming they were weighed down with enough explosives to actually do major damage (like dozens killed), I doubt they'd float too well.
Drop that COLEMAN'S ICE CHEST - NOW!
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Meanwhile, the borders are still open....
DAMN now miltants are targeting NASCAR fan that not good
It's ok. They aren't going to target this area. The Rio Grande too dirty to float down with an ice cooler and beer:')
Years ago, there was a series of pipe bombs found in Colorado, apparently rigged with switches which set them off when the device was moved. The devices were in bags, or set to look like innocuous packages. People got seriously hurt.
I have not been in a great hurry to investigate any unusual package or object since. (Check it out from a distance first.)
Besides, if there was beer in there, they would have turned around and recovered it.
As we were making our way down the rapids on our butts, to get to the canoe, some jerks picked up the floating cooler, and laughed as they paddled away.
I wish that freaking cooler blew up.
All you need is a dinner bell for a switch.
It's time to open up a case of WOOP-AR$E!
They don't wear rags on their heads, they wear sheets on their heads.
Therefore, they are sheet-heads.
Now you could lose your hat, your sunglasses a shoe or two but nobody lost a cooler! I'm pretty sure that's a sin! ;-) On one trip there was a gal that went a$$ over teakettle and she sucked in a bit of water - I swam over and pulled her head up - she thought I'd saved her life and named their kid after me ... so if you ever meet a kid named Tunehead54 you can share this story. ;-)
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