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Suspicious package prompts Medical Center scare
A suspicious package found in a trash can prompted a scare in the Texas Medical Center, interrupting Metro's light rail service and closing some streets, but was found to contain only innocent items, police said.
The scare began around 1:15 p.m. when police were notified someone had dropped a backpack in a garbage can at the Texas Medical Center Transit Center on Fannin.
Bomb-detecting dogs with the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Police Department indicated there might be something suspicious inside the package, so the Houston Police Department's Bomb Squad was summoned to the transit center, said Metro spokesman Ken Connaughton.
The scare prompted Fannin to be closed to all traffic and suspended light rail service for about 20 minutes, he said.
The bomb squad eventually cut open the backpack and found a knife, some clothing and nitroglycerin tablets intended for medicinal purposes. Whoever tossed the backpack likely intended no harm, police said.
"They apparently just didn't need the stuff anymore and threw it away, but they didn't realize in a modern world, that scares people," said HPD Capt. Mike Walker.
www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2831971
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Bomb dog alerts on vehicle near airport
Traffic around Tucson International Airport is restricted this afternoon while Tucson police investigate a vehicle that a bomb-sniffing dog alerted on.
The vehicle is northeast of the intersection of Medina Road and Tucson Boulevard, said Sgt. Carlos Valdez. (snip)
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/breaking/100504_bomb.html
Schools Abroad Brace Against Terrorism
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=06Terror.h24
Keep up the great work!
And that is about all his darn pledge is worth, IMHO!
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I think they mean that figuratively. I never thought anything more than that when I saw those reports. In other words, there has already been a 9/11, so the next major attack would be a 10/12. The next after that would be a 11/13, etc.
All the terrorists ever do with these ceasefires that they sucker others into is to rest up, rearm and rethink strategy. The 3 R's of terrorist timeouts, so to speak.
"Is the South Korea-U.S. alliance deteriorating?"
No, but the overall situation is.
Rapidly.
Vel, thank you for posting these links from IH. I think it is important for anyone here who does not frequent IH to see some of this "raw" stuff if they so choose. And if anyone visits the links or views the videos, and wants to comment on any of it here, that would be most welcome.
TM is great for thoughts and analyses.
World War IV
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=53720272/K=korea/v=2/SID=w/l=NSR/R=45/SIG=1260uuio3/*-http%3A//straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,276340,00.html
OCT 6, 2004
China could get drawn into war on Korean peninsula
SEOUL - South Korea's military authorities said yesterday they expected that China would be drawn inevitably into any war on the Korean peninsula because of a mutual assistance treaty with North Korea.
'China is expected to provide limited military support to North Korea, according to a provision of the mutual assistance treaty stipulating automatic engagement,' Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman Kim Jong Hwan told a parliamentary hearing.
China would deploy some 400,000 troops in support of North Korea in case of war with South Korea, which would be backed by its ally the United States, according to JCS data provided to the hearing.
China's support would include 800 planes and 150 navy vessels, the JCS data said.
The South Korea-US combined troops would number 720,000, while North Korea's regular 1.17-million-men military would be reinforced with 6.34 million reserve forces, according to the data.
(snip)
Thank you..........the T.M.r's are really a terrific bunch.
Some great mind and bodies.............well, I guess I shouldn't comment on the bodies. This 61 year old body isn't that great. In fact, my little granddaughter walked in on me as I was bathing the other night. She hoped she could grow up fast and have "long boobies" like mine. LOL!
Anyway, the people here are the best!!! All thoughts and opinions are welcome.
Those kinds of numbers would not be feasible to engage in conventional war. China and North Korea would have s simple logistics exercise to keep supplied. South Korea and any helpers would be forced to operate from ships. A few nukes added to the fray would even the odds.
Al-Qaeda agents 'at large in Russia'
From correspondents in Moscow
October 06, 2004
AL-QAEDA terrorists are at large in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, the chief of Russia's FSB state security service said in televised comments today.
"Al-Qaeda is not a myth, it really and truly is present on our territory," Nikolai Patrushev told NTV television, adding that some 10 al-Qaeda agents had been detected in the Caucasus region.
"We know them and we will take measures to neutralise their activity - either by destroying them, or detaining them and bringing them to justice," Mr Patrushev said.
Several separatist chiefs in the war-torn republic of Chechnya were al-Qaeda members, including Khattab, Abu al-Walid and Abu Khabs, Mr Patrushev said.
However, even though claiming that his secret service had prevented more than 500 terrorist acts this year alone, Mr Patrushev had to admit that "we do not work well enough to anticipate" terrorists, and "special services must work more effectively".
Russia was hit by a wave of horrifying extremist attacks in August and September that culminated in a mass hostage-taking at a primary school and left well over 400 people dead, many of them children.
Mr Patrushev also acknowledged that the FSB had not so far managed to lay hands on either Chechnya's separatist president Aslan Maskhadov nor the fearsome rebel warlord Shamil Basayev, both blamed by Moscow for numerous attacks.
Moscow branded Maskhadov a terrorist after the outbreak of the second Chechen war in October 1999, though he has regularly condemned terrorist actions against civilians in Russia and called for talks with Moscow.
Maskhadov also pledged to bring Basayev to justice after the warlord claimed responsibility for last month's school hostage crisis in the North Ossetian town of Beslan.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10987966%255E1702,00.html
"A few nukes added to the fray would even the odds."
Exactly. Hence, World War IV.
Someone posted a Bodansky article (and a related comment by Gen. Myers) on the failure of imagination. Imagine this:
The 21st century Pearl Harbor was not 9/11.
The 21st century Pearl Harbor will be a coordinated nuclear strike designed to saturate any rudimentary missile defense.
Threatened simultaneous launches from China, North Korea, and Iran with missiles that have been covertly transferred (as the USSR did to Cuba in 1962).
Objective is the realization of territorial ambitions without U.S. intervention. That intervention is to be deterred by a missile and martyr capability built over a decade. Nuclear blackmail.
A coerced Korean reunification on North Korean terms. Chinese "reunification" with Taiwan by same method. And Iranian assertion as the dominant regional power by leading a pan-Islamic jihad against Israel beginning with intervention in southern Iraq. (As Khomeini used to say - -the road to Jerusalem - - "Tariq al-Qods" - - runs through Karbala.)
The chaos in Iraq has been engineered. It is the "preparation of the battlefield".
All these military conflicts coordinated and nearly simultaneous. And all three nations now have the theoretical ability to launch against the continental United States.
That has been my "imagined scenario" for the past decade.
Your analyses and commentary have always been interesting to me. Thanks for sharing both here!
Not a problem. It's cheaper than therapy.
I think it is still Sukkot. Maybe it ends 10/7 or 10/8?
My understanding is that Ecclesiastes is read during Sukkot.
As Solomon says in Ecclesiastes (Kohelet):
"I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief."
Also Godzilla's reference to Iran's small but fast navy geared for anti-ship warfare is significant. Disrupt the oil supply from the Gulf and the West's economy and therefore our ability to defend ourselves will suffer.
Thanks for the excellent links MamaD.
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