I was thinking about Friday the 13th in relation to the Hurricane and the story I posted earlier about the drill where a Hurricane was used as cover for an attack.
It's interesting that you found a completely different threat on the same day.
Are you superstitious? ;-)
I'm not superstitious, but I am cautious on that day. Medical statistics show that there are more accidents on that day than on other days.
I found an interesting article that is unrelated, but it's encouraging because it sounds like the U.N. oil for food scandal may be getting some legs.
Under Eye of U.N., Billions for Hussein in Oil-for-Food Plan
By SUSAN SACHS and JUDITH MILLER
Published: August 13, 2004
Toward the end of 2000, when Saddam Hussein's skimming from the oil-for-food program for Iraq kicked into high gear, reports spread quickly to the program's supervisors at the United Nations.
Oil industry experts told Security Council members and Secretary General Kofi Annan's staff that Iraq was demanding under-the-table payoffs from its oil buyers. The British mission distributed a background paper to Council members outlining what it called "the systematic abuse of the program" and described how Iraq was shaking down its oil customers and suppliers of goods for kickbacks.
When the report landed in the United Nations' Iraq sanctions committee, the clearinghouse for all contracts with Iraq, it caused only a few ripples of consternation. There was no action, diplomats said, not even a formal meeting on the allegations. (snip)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/13/international/middleeast/13food.html