[Godzilla]

Don't get too far behind, I think things may break wide open this weekend.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

DoD Helps Local, State, Federal Agencies in Disaster-Response Exercise
DoD-AFPS ^ | August 12, 2004 | Petty Officer 1st Class Beverly K. Allen, USN

Posted on 08/12/2004 2:56:02 PM EDT by Ragtime Cowgirl

DoD Helps Local, State, Federal Agencies in Disaster-Response Exercise
By Petty Officer 1st Class Beverly K. Allen, USN
Special to American Forces Press Service

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo., Aug. 12, 2004 -- It was a nightmare worst-case scenario. But that's what U.S. Northern Command officials had intended for "Determined Promise '04."

The exercise, which ran from Aug. 5-10, was designed to test NORTHCOM's ability to respond to multiple, simultaneous homeland-defense and federal-relief efforts.

MORE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190308/posts

[Oorang]

Thanks for the heads up. Wish I had time to take a speed reading course :-)

[JustPiper]

[Rediff] INDIA - Security forces on high alert in J&K

"after receiving intelligence inputs that militants' plan major strikes on the Independence Day" (August 15)

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/11jk1.htm


[Japan Today] IRAQ - Iraq militants reportedly behead Egyptian hostage

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=308373

[Glasgow Evening Times] SPAIN - Five Costa beaches in bomb alert [ETA bomb threats]

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/5029528.shtml

[Reuters] UNITED KINGDOM - Bin Laden calls for attacks on Britain

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=563173&section=news

[Expatica] FRANCE - French jets scrambled for silent Spanish plane

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=10622

[AP] SPAIN - Small Explosions Rattle Two Northern Spanish Cities, Injuring One

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB987A6TXD.html
[The Age] AUSTRALIA - Australia faces bigger terror threat, says Iran

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/12/1092102597006.html

[MOSNEWS] RUSSIA - Oil Experts Kidnapped in Chechnya — Police

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/08/10/oilkidnap.shtml



OLYMPICS ALERT:

[Reality Macedonia] GREECE - Kosovo's Albanians Wait Activation Order For Terrorist Attacks During Olympics

http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=3533

[Novinite] GREECE - Al-Qaeda to Hit Athens, Bulgarian Cell Alert - Report

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=38023