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Good morning.
Thanks for the update with the licence #.
"Calls received in three states lead to Calif. court evacuations"
The same thing happened on Saturday, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bomb threat, called in from overseas in this instance:
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1100430703109820.xml
Bomb threat clears city hall
Mayor's office searched for explosives; 8-hour incident closes several streets
Sunday, November 14, 2004
BY AMALIE NASH
News Staff Reporter
The Ann Arbor city hall and police department were evacuated and several main downtown streets were closed for nearly eight hours Saturday morning in a bizarre incident that involved a bomb threat phoned to a U.S. government facility overseas.
The FBI received two tips, one at 7:30 p.m. Friday and another at 1 a.m. Saturday, that led them to alert Ann Arbor police about a possible bomb in the mayor's office of the Larcom Municipal Building.
Police searched city hall with a bomb-sniffing dog and at about 4:15 a.m. the dog alerted police to possible explosives in a filing cabinet in a vacant office adjacent to the mayor's office on the third floor.
(Snip)
Should have snipped a little more, no explosives found later, even though the dog alerted.
Deer Gets Past O'Hare Security
Young Buck Enters Through Delivery Doors
POSTED: 6:29 am CST November 17, 2004
UPDATED: 7:59 am CST November 17, 2004
CHICAGO -- A deer was destroyed Tuesday after breaching security at O'Hare International Airport and ending up in Terminal 2.
Images: Deer At O'Hare Airport
The deer's head could be seen peeking through a window.
The young buck avoided security by tripping automatic doors typically used for deliveries. The Department of Aviation said the deer was looking for shelter after being injured on the road.
Airport workers cornered the deer near the Terminal 2 baggage claim area, and animal control officers hauled it away. Authorities tranquilized the deer and, after assessing its injuries, euthanized it.
http://www.nbc5.com/travelgetaways/3924995/detail.html
I've been lost at that website, Ruth.
Now time to get nose to the grindstone and work a bit.
Back later!
I'd be curious to know what court cases are currently on the dockets at these courthouses...
Now that would be interesting.
It's not a very busy courthouse though.
Very little seems to go on. Fairly large moslem population all over southeast Michigan though.
Maybe someone who once lived/studied in the area, or who has relatives around still, made the call.
If 202 or 95 gets shut down my eyebrows will go up.
Like I said, we may be left with no choice. Hundreds of thousands of civilian and military casualties now or millions later. But if there is a way to denuclearize North Korea in the same way as Libya, or promote a regime change from within, then we might prevent the loss of literally hundreds of thousands of American lives.
But again, in the end, we may be left no choice.
For the first time in the decade this crisis has gone on, we issued a warning stating our "red line" (I posted the article last night). Given the stakes, it leads me to believe something is happening that is forcing us to draw the line in the sand.
If we discover they are about to transfer a weapon to al Qaeda, then we have no choice. But the cost in human life could be staggering.
Bush isn't coddling anyone. He is simply trying to secure the country while minimizing the inevitable casualties. It is a tough decision to start a war where 1,000 die. It is far worse to have to decide to send tens of thousands of American troops to their deaths in what would be some of the most intensely violent warfare in human history.
But there was no way to defeat Hitler without D-Day, and if all else fails, there may be no way to prevent the destruction of numerous American cities without this unfathomably costly preemptive action.
As much as I opposed Clinton, I actually empathized with his dillemma in 1994. After ten years, the dillemma is many times worse for President Bush, because the North Koreans can now possibly launch on the continental United States.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/01/21/nkorea.war
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North Korea: The cost of conflict
By Andrew Demaria
CNN
(CNN) --When U.S. President George W. Bush met with South Korean President Kim Dae-jung last October, he was reportedly taken aback by a horrific scenario. . . .
Casualties
When the U.S. drew up plans for a possible military action against North Korea in 1993 -- again over its suspected nuclear weapons program -- a Pentagon estimate suggested four months of high-intensity combat would be required, using more than 600,000 South Korean troops and half a million U.S. reinforcements to the personnel already stationed in South Korea.
In 1994, advisers to then President Bill Clinton predicted 52,000 U.S. casualties in the first 90 days of combat alone, Don Oberdorfer, a former Washington Post reporter, wrote in his book The Two Koreas
.
To put that figure in perspective, 55,000 U.S. military personnel were killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, and about 58,000 in the 1957-75 Vietnam War.
Some estimates went as far as forecasting a million casualties, not to mention economic damages and war-related costs that ran into trillions of dollars.
Now, the casualty estimates are higher, with North Korea's massive firepower moving closer to U.S. and South Korean forces stationed on the border.
To wage a campaign against North Korea would require hundreds of thousands of extra U.S. troops.
That's a tough demand -- despite Washington's claims to be able to fight two separate conflicts simultaneously -- given the military build up in the Persian Gulf and ongoing operations in Afghanistan.
Lack of options
This lack of military options is at the forefront in Washington's pursuit of diplomatic efforts in trying to resolve the current nuclear standoff with Pyongyang.
The U.S. has categorically said it has no intentions of taking any military action against North Korea.
For its part, Pyongyang has been seeking a non-aggression treaty from Washington -- a pledge from the U.S. not to attack.
Any strike, no matter how covert or pin-point should the U.S. choose to hit one of North Korea's nuclear facilities runs the risk of pushing the standoff into a full-scale war.
On Sunday, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice rejected comments from South Korean President-elect Roh Moo-hyun who said some officials in Washington were talking about striking North Korea.
Bush decided for diplomacy over force "at the very beginning" of the confrontation with North Korea, Rice said.
Roh has since backpedaled from the remarks, saying he had been misunderstood and was referring instead to media accounts of Washington's policy towards the situation.
The president-elect added he was "well aware" the U.S. had no intentions to attack the North.
Roh, a backer of his predecessors so-called 'Sunshine Policy' of engagement with Pyongyang, is no doubt also well aware of the consequences of any conflict.
The frightening image of a smoldering Seoul, and a Korean Peninsula once again engulfed by war, will be weighing heavily on his mind.
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Russia is developing a *new* nuke:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1282127/posts
News from Cuba, several subjects.
This is Nukes for sale in Miami:
http://www.warriorsfortruth.com/news-miami-nuclear-smuggling.html
It began when an ethnic Russian from Lithuania, with known links to the Russian
mafia, offered to ship luxury vehicles stolen in Florida back to former Soviet bloc
countries. Unknown to him, he was talking to an undercover cop posing as a member
of a Colombian drug cartel.
To the surprise of the agents who were secretly taping the conversations, the
Lithuanian, Alexandr Pogrebevskij, soon upped the ante. He offered to procure
Soviet-made military weapons and brought in his partner, Alexander Darichev, who
had the contacts in Russia who could broker a deal for arms. Darichev, a veteran of
the Lithuanian military and also an ethnic Russian, opened a briefcase filled with
shiny brochures from a company in Bulgaria called Armimex which was licensed to
manufacture Soviet weapons. It had everything from automatic rifles to
shoulder-to-air missiles that could shoot down jet planes. The undercover U.S.agents
said they would go for the missiles.
Then came the bombshell. If that missile deal went through, asked the Lithuanians,
was there interest in small nuclear devices? The undercover cops said they would be
very interested. They nicknamed this new deal "Project 2" and agreed to put it off
until the missile deal was concluded.
US Customs set up a front company called Phoenix International and proceeded with
a plan to buy 40 "Stinger-type" Russian missiles. By now, the meetings were
frequent and the negotiations sophisticated. From the beginning, the Lithuanians
emphasized that the deal had to look legitimate. So they set up super secret
accounts in off-shore companies to handle the money -- they had a document from a
company called OCRA on the Isle of Mann rumored by confidential sources to have
connections to international arms dealers.
Then they managed to get an authentic end-user certificate from the Lithuanian
minister of defense saying that the missiles were intended for the military forces of
the Republic of Lithuania.The arms company Armimex could only sell these kinds of
weapons to a government. (But of course, the undercover cops' story was that the
real end user in this sting operation was to be a Colombian cartel that wanted the
missiles to shoot down U.S. DEA helicopters.)
All this made U.S. Customs suspicious that the two Lithuanians had contacts
reaching into high government offices (read the interview with U.S. Customs official
Michael Turner). In a meeting in London, wiretapped by Scotland Yard, Darichev
made calls to a man named Valerii Donitzovich at a mysterious scientific institute in
St. Petersburg. Donitzovich said he had contacts with then Russian defense minister
Pavel Grachev. Grachev was described to FRONTLINE by one top U.S. law
enforcement official as being "bigtime corrupt."
"Jupiter Z" -- as the institute was called -- was part of the Russian Academy of
Natural Sciences, Section of Geopolitics and Security, and is known for its ties to
former military and KGB officials. This scientific technical center was suspected by
U.S. Customs to be the shadow broker for the missiles and the nukes.
From the beginning of this two year odyssey, the undercover cops and the
Lithuanians were suspicious of each other. Could the Lithuanians really deliver the
weapons? Were the agents working for a drug cartel? Fears heightened when the
customs agents intercepted a letter from Jupiter Z to Darichev warning Darichev that
the men he was dealing with might be FBI or CIA agents. But the two sides
continued to deal, and a $50,000 downpayment was made.
In the meantime, for more than a year this case was the subject of high-level
meetings in Washington involving all the agencies concerned with a possible nuclear
smuggling incident -- the FBI, the CIA, NSC, State, DOD and DOE. With the support
of their bosses at Treasury, U.S. Customs in Miami wanted to continue the
investigation to find out who in Russia was really involved (read the interview with
agent Keith Praeger.) But there was substantial skepticism from some quarters and
resistance to expanding the investigation. U.S. agents are not permitted to go
undercover overseas without the signoff of other intelligence agencies. And if they
notified the Russian or Lithuanian governments, possible co-conspirators in the
Russian or Lithuanaian military would just cover their tracks.
Even more important, according to confidential sources, is the fact that U.S. national
security policy prohibits any sting operation that might bring nuclear devices or
material onto American soil. So, in the end, Washington pressured Miami to wrap up
their case.
After one final video-taped undercover meeting in 1997 at the Hampton Inn in
Miami, agents arrested and indicted Pogrebevskij and Darichev. The U.S. District
Court indictment also named "Jupiter Z" and the Russian Academy of Natural
Sciences for "conspiring to locate and negotiate the source of weapons of mass
destruction."
After the arrest, Darichev cooperated with the U.S. Attorney and made monitored
calls to Armimex confirming that 40 shoulder-to-air missiles were indeed waiting to
be shipped to Phoenix Arms International. The Justice Department also determined
that the Lithuanian end-user certificate actually had been signed by a former
minister of defense who has since stepped down.
Alexander Darichev and Alexandr Pogrebevskij were convicted on charges of
smuggling, money laundering and conspiracy. They are each serving 48 months in a
federal penitentiary
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Islamic Media posting forwarded by the Khattab Yahoo! group
Advice message and a pity to my sitting brothers about the jihad [Machine Translation]
Two audio file links in the message:
http://shiva.dip.jp/up3/box/up1441.ra
http://heretic.maid.to/cgi-bin/stored/serio0073.rar
Domestic terrorism: New trouble at home
By Larry Copeland, USA TODAY
ATLANTA — Since Sept. 11, the nation's attention has been focused on possible threats from Islamic terrorists. But home-grown terrorists have been steadily plotting and carrying out attacks in unrelated incidents across the nation, according to federal authorities and two organizations that monitor hate groups.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-14-domestic-terrorism_x.htm
MOSCOW (AP) ITAR-Tass news agency is reporting that President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is developing a new form of nuclear missile.
one of the handful of experts I listen to for sure
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