TERROR ALERT RAISED

[Lunatic Fringe]

Just breaking on CNN

[gilliam]

I still wish I knew what we're supposed to differently when the level changes. Does the bag limit on arabs go up?

The Emerg. Mgmt. folks have things they do when the level goes to Orange, and Homeland Defense gives them additional information. The public in the respected cities will be asked to keep their eyes open and report EVERYTHING suspicious. They may also be given specific instructions. Now everyone else in the US. You do have an Emergency Management kit at home, right? Don't be afraid: Be Ready! Go here for more information:

http://www.ready.gov/

[Stentor]

I think every color level above green should allow every American citizen to openly carry firearms

Couldn't have that. The crime rate would plummet.

[Right_in_Virginia]

DC? Got my duct tape...set for life!

(Thanks for the ping, Howlin)

[DietCoke]

>>>Both of them are strongly denying this could be a political ploy by Bush administration.

Just saw Dean insinuate to Wolfie the opposite. Wolfie kept telling him that it was a serious accusation. Dean said it was important to do so (increase the terror alert if necessary) but by doing so, it was a political tactic. Idiot.

[hole_n_one]

RED.......

5. Severe Condition (Red). A Severe Condition reflects a severe risk of terrorist attacks. Under most circumstances, the Protective Measures for a Severe Condition are not intended to be sustained for substantial periods of time. In addition to the Protective Measures in the previous Threat Conditions, Federal departments and agencies also should consider the following general measures in addition to the agency-specific Protective Measures that they will develop and implement:

• Increasing or redirecting personnel to address critical emergency needs;
• Assigning emergency response personnel and pre-positioning and mobilizing specially trained teams or resources;
• Monitoring, redirecting, or constraining transportation systems; and
• Closing public and government facilities.

For citizenry....

[Former Military Chick]

Now that you mentioned that, you are right. I recall when the nation moves up, NY remains the same. Will be interesting to see what they do.

[Yaelle]

And if a building gets blown up and no one did anything, THAT would be Bush's fault, too. Bush can't win for losing.

[NautiNurse]

see post #138

[Dog]

Pray to god we never have to go to red...

[Alberta's Child]

New York City isn't going to "Code Red" anytime soon, unless the rest of the country is on the same footing.

I've spent the last two years working on some security-related preparations at specific facilities in the New York City area (I'll leave it at that -- no more detail is needed), and in some respects this color-coded scheme has caused more problems than it is worth.

[AdmSmith]

10-4

[MeekOneGOP]

The timing of this seems MIGHTS suspicious ! < /sarcasm >

hehe!

[hole_n_one]

New York

[lavrenti]

We've always been at orange here in the City. High orange is what we'll get. Probably paramilitaries with burp guns and traffic stops.

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoops! MIGHTY suspicious.

[jimbo123]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=139&art_id=vn20040801121844592C146559

Comrades of terrorist arrested in Texas caught in Pakistan raid?

The family of a South African woman arrested in the United States on suspicion that she may be linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network are protesting her innocence and proclaiming that she is apolitical.

Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed, 48, was arrested in Texas two weeks ago after entering the US from
Mexico.

'I can tell you that she is not linked to al-Qaeda in any way'
Ahmed was the third South African apprehended on allegations of having links with al-Qaeda.

Earlier this week Laudium doctor Feroz Ganchi and Zubair Ismail were arrested during a raid in Pakistan where they had been on a religious holiday.

The pair were captured in Islamabad with Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who was allegedly involved in the bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam in 1998.

Ahmed was stopped at McAllen Miller International Airport while trying to board a plane to New York.

[NautiNurse]

Pray to god we never have to go to red...

Suspect red level is during the terrorist attack (aka incoming).

[Happy2BMe]

GLOBAL JIHAD          

"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law...I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books." -Muslim cleric

Posted: January 26, 2003
© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
In November, Sheik Abu Hamza, long affiliated with Finsbury Park, was caught on film urging his followers to kill non-Muslims – particularly Americans – and to commit other acts of terrorism

As WorldNetDaily reported at the time, in a tape converted to digital files and smuggled onto the Internet, Hamza tells an audience that non-believers should be killed or sold into slavery.

"If a kafir person (non-believer) goes in a Muslim country, he is like a cow," explains Hamza. "Anybody can take him. That is the Islamic law."

"If a kafir is walking by and you catch him, he's booty," he says on one tape. "You can sell him in the market. Most of them are spies. And even if they don't do anything, if Muslims cannot take them and sell them in the market, you just kill them. It's OK."

Praising the al-Qaida bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, Hamza adds: "If Muslims are having a war against these people, than yes, it is legitimate" to kill them. He also praised attacks against ships from non-Muslim countries: "If a ship which loses its way and comes to a Muslim land, they'll take it as booty."

In fact, the 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole killed, which killed 17 American sailors, has been linked to Muslim militants in Britain. But Hamza has never been charged.

When confronted with such charges, Hamza scoffs, saying he can't be accused of inciting people to commit violent acts because he's a cleric who only preaches Muslim law. "I say the reality that's in the Muslim books anyway. Whether I say it or not, it's in the books."

Despite accusations he recruits for al-Qaida, Hamza's only punishment in Britain has been a High Court order banning him from preaching at the Finsbury Park mosque. However, when the Ottawa Citizen visited the mosque recently, worshippers had his phone number handy, the newspaper reported.

Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacharias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.

Blessed Cause

[JediForce]

LOL LOL ...with the religion of pieces blowing up and killing people all over the place today this was much needed humor. Thanks....he he he he he he he he....

[theophilusscribe]

Duct tape is one of the key tools in negotiations with our . . . eh-hem . . . "allies."