Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirteen

WND ^ | 7-11-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

Backup electrical systems failed to kick in

A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained – six days later.

Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[judicial meanz]

You could be right...Its been almost three years since that training session.

[hotrod45]

see, this is the info we really need. good work.

[Calpernia]

Two tidbits on Timothy McVeigh and Sahim Alwan.

They were both security guards for private companies.

McVeigh worked for Burns Security in upstate New York.

Sahim Alwan was a former security guard at a local Blue Cross/Blue Shield office in upstate New York.

[HipShot]

I'm thinking about the DC snipers. I wonder if there are any goblins planning crap like this.

[ExSoldier]

"a rescue attempt by German police failed, and all nine hostages were murdered."

Thus directly leading to the formation of perhaps the first of many specialized hostage rescue/counter terror teams: GSG9.

[Domestic Church]

Bookmarking 1247!

[HipShot]

"A little knowledge and experience of the game of "Go" will be a valuable addition to the American political and military wisdom,"

A little knowledge of which way to point the missiles goes a long way too, IMHO. Go is good, but still two dimensional box thinking. Sun Tzu would better server our officers.

[JellyJam]

(this bloody bloke is getting a pretty good deal)

Terrorist suspect bailed to live with family

By Richard Ford, Home Correspondent and Sean ONeill

AN ISLAMIC terrorist suspect wanted in the US for al-Qaeda attacks which killed 224 people will today be reunited with his family after being freed on bail from a mental hospital.

The Egyptian-born suspect is to leave Broadmoor top- security hospital to live at a designated address in London after David Blunkett agreed he could be released on bail.

The Home Secretary agreed the release of the man, who can only be known as Mr X for legal reasons, because he is suffering from terminal bone cancer. But a senior judge urged the Home Secretary to speed up making a final decision on whether to extradite Mr X, who has been in custody in Britain for five years.

Mr X, aged 43, a married man with six children, is facing extradition to the United States where he is accused of being a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organisation that merged with al-Qaeda in 1997.

He is also accused of conspiring to murder US citizens abroad and of giving direct orders to the cell that carried out the bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998 that killed 224 and injured 4,000. He denies the charges.

Mr Justice Collins granted him bail late yesterday with conditions which mean the suspect will live under virtual house arrest. He will be electronically tagged and allowed to leave the address only to undergo medical treatment for bone cancer.

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[HipShot]

Serve, too.

[JellyJam]

I've always felt that there was an OKC-Al Qaida link ... McVeigh and Nichols weren't/aren't the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree; there's no one way they did that on their own.

[HipShot]

I think we can solve the Greek security problem once and for all.

Let the IDF provide security for everyone.

[Labyrinthos]

Here's the link to Aljernaan Spencer's web profile on Geocities.

http://uk.geocities.com/aljernaan/

[Vigilantcitizen]

One thing regarding the theory you posted in #1407....

A devalued dollar hurts the Russians and kills the Chinese. Both are heavily invested in the dollar.

[hotrod45]

weird. not my type but that's besides the point.

any way one can tell how long this profile has been in operation?

[Myrddin]

Would six channels be a reference to ham radio? Would that mean Channel Six? Anything significant about Channel six?

Unlikely. Nothing is "channelized" in ham radio. The likely alternatives would be citizens band radio, FRS (family radio service) or GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service). Walmart and others sell FRS radios for unlicensed use and GMRS (requires a $75 license) for business use.

TV stations and satellite services are also channelized. The audio portion of TV channel 6 can be picked on a standard FM radio (88 MHz to 108 MHz). Ch 6 audio is found near 88 MHz.

[Calpernia]

I don't need no steeckin ceeegars :D

[Labyrinthos]

I think its a year old. Like I said, she seems to morph a lot. Unless you're muslim guy or female, I don't think you have to worry about her being your type

[Quix]

U R quite welcome!

THANKS for providing the list

AND THANKS TO texasbluebell for making the map!

AND

to HipShot for posting it.

[JellyJam]

(no link yet)

WASHINGTON (AP)— The government is quietly shipping stocks of antidotes against chemical weapons to states under a long-awaited program to boost response to a potential terrorist attack.

New York and Boston, sites of the upcoming political conventions, are among the first areas to receive the “chem-packs.”

Within two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to have the allotments dispersed to every state.

“It’s a quick way for hospitals to know they’ll have the antidotes they need,” Donna Knutson, CDC’s deputy director of terrorism preparedness, said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press.

The program was begun in part because there has been “an uneven level of protection across the country,” added Steve Adams, deputy director of the Strategic National Stockpile Program.

Much of the nation’s efforts to prepare for terrorism have focused on biological attacks. For example, the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile contains tons of drugs, vaccines and other medical supplies in storage around the country, so that any U.S. city could receive an emergency shipment within 12 hours.

That’s probably plenty of time to react to an incubating infection like anthrax, but the ability to survive a chemical attack depends on immediate decontamination and rapid administration of appropriate antidotes.

Yet the antidotes are expensive and have fairly short shelf lives, making them hard for many states to keep stocked.

Enter the chem-packs, which CDC began shipping four months ago.

The gurney-sized packs come with an assortment of antidotes to the many chemicals available to a terrorist; atropine to fight nerve agents, for instance, or amyl nitrite for cyanide. Some are in autoinjectors for use at the site of an attack, others packaged for emergency-room use.

The CDC won’t say which states have received how many chem-packs so far, for security reasons, but did confirm that New York and Boston received shipments earlier than initially planned because of the approaching Republican and Democratic conventions.

The number distributed depends upon each state’s population, and state health departments decide which hospitals will store chem-packs. Hospitals will be able to decide when it’s time to break one out and use the contents.

“When minutes matter, if they need it to save lives, they have the authority to break the seals and go do the right thing,” Adams said.

The CDC spent $56 million last year in creating the chem-packs and has budgeted about $34 million this year as the distribution begins, officials said.

“It’s the next logical step,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association, which long urged the federal government to increase chemical-attack preparedness.

The chem-packs will ensure “you have a ready cache of supplies if you have a large number of chemical victims,” he said. Plus, “the right doses will be there, and hopefully you don’t have to worry about people making up medications and overdosing or underdosing patients.”

While CDC would not provide details, hospitals expect each chem-pack to be able to treat 1,000 patients, said James Bentley, the American Hospital Association’s disaster-readiness chief.

Nor are the packs reserved solely for terrorist attacks. The same antidotes would be useful for a major factory accident or train wreck that spilled hazardous chemicals, Bentley said.

The specially sealed packs come with environmental sensors to ensure the materials are stored properly. That is crucial: Until the seal is broken, the chem-pack contents qualify for a federal program that extends their expiration dates for several years, potentially saving thousands of taxpayer dollars, Adams explained.

“That’s why it makes sense for us to be in the business,” instead of just funding states to buy their own drugs, he said. “That’s the benefit the locals see — it’s not a one-time deal.”

[drymans wife]

Maybe we could send our terrorist detainees to China.