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Calif. Warned of Hospital Terror Threat
NewsMax ^ | 7/23/05 | Limbacher

Posted on 07/23/2005 12:39:55 PM PDT by Tumbleweed_Connection

A California television news program has obtained a memo that warns California hospitals they should consider themselves potential al-Qaida targets.

Sacramento's KCRA reported Friday that earlier this month, the U.S. government learned that hospitals across the country could be terror targets.

As a result, the California Hospital Association sent a letter to hospitals statewide, warning them of the threat.

In the letter, the California Department of Homeland Security warns that al-Qaida may be planning attacks on hospitals in September or October of this year.

Although the government says the information is uncorroborated, it is urging hospital employees to be vigilant.

The source specifically mentioned the Los Angeles and San Diego areas, but emergency centers nationwide have been warned.

"Hospitals are a key piece of infrastructure," said California Homeland Security spokesman Gary Winuk. "If there is to be an attack somewhere, particularly biological or chemical, they're the first line of defense. So, we're very concerned about them and a number of other sectors."

The government source told homeland security officials that nuclear facilities and military and civilian airports are also possible targets.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hospital; hospitals; news; terrorthreat
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To: kellynla

You wascally wabbit...don't you know muslims are the oppressed and we white boys are the oppressors?

I agree with you, though. Time to shoot first and ask questions after the smoke clears. And if the ACLU wants to stand with the muslims, OK with me. The way I figure it they are both under-gunned, at least in Texas.

Another 9/11? fire the FPF! Mad Minute on all mosques in the USA.
Semper Fi to you. 1970-1981.


41 posted on 07/23/2005 3:38:11 PM PDT by Tahoe3002
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To: KylaStarr; NormsRevenge; BurbankKarl; patriciaruth; Brad's Gramma

ping


42 posted on 07/23/2005 3:43:04 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Never avenge yourselves. but leave the way open for [Gods] wrath.)
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To: Velveeta; Cindy; Rushmore Rocks; DAVEY CROCKETT; all4one; appalachian_dweller; ExSoldier; Oorang

ping


43 posted on 07/23/2005 3:44:32 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Never avenge yourselves. but leave the way open for [Gods] wrath.)
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To: WestCoastGal

Thanks for the ping. I remember we were discussing some of this on the TM. I still worry about our schools. Weren't some the bad guys found with blueprints of some schools in California?


44 posted on 07/23/2005 4:04:51 PM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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To: NautiNurse; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; All
INTERNET-HAGANAH.US (NJ.com): "'IT COULD MEAN NOTHING OR IT COULD BE PRE-OPERATIONAL SURVEILLANCE' Incidents Intensify Hospital Vigilance" (July 17, 2005) (Read More...)

45 posted on 07/23/2005 4:06:55 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

Rove is just getting his christian right wing wackos to go martyr themselves for the christian BUSH!
{sarcasm on}


46 posted on 07/23/2005 4:07:30 PM PDT by partyrepub
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To: Rushmore Rocks

Yes.


47 posted on 07/23/2005 4:07:36 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: Rushmore Rocks; KylaStarr
"Weren't some the bad guys found with blueprints of some schools in California?"

Yes, I think it was San Diego.

48 posted on 07/23/2005 4:08:49 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Never avenge yourselves. but leave the way open for [Gods] wrath.)
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To: kellynla
I hope all the Muslims in CA have their bags packed because one more 9/11 type terrorist attack here and every Muslim swinging dick and his family will have to pack up and go back to whatever hellhole they originated from.....Our ancestors didn't come to America and spend the last 200 hundred years trying to make a better life for their families just so a bunch of camel jockeys could come here ... and make hamburger out of our families.

People who lived through the U.S.'s WWII internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II -- including a Japanese-American woman who was interned as a teen -- have told me again and again that one of the reasons for the camps was to protect the Japanese from an angry populace. Yet popular hindsight sentiment on all sides of the political spectrum today is that the internment camps were wrong, bad, horrible, unjustified, and should never be repeated under any circumstances.

I feel like I'm the only person in the country who feels this way, but I am absoltutely convinced that if Muslim terrorists start blowing up shopping malls and especially if they start blowing up hospitals, all of our currently fashionable reservations about internment camps will go straight out the window. And it may just be that Muslims will be as happy to see them as anybody because they know they'll be protected from being hunted down and obliterated by citizens a little too pissed off to give any Muslim the benefit of the doubt.

49 posted on 07/23/2005 4:13:38 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection

If they hit hospitals, churches, theaters and innocents in general, I think this will escalate to where Mosques start becoming targets right back.

I don't see the world getting hit and then begging for another hit. I see the response being rather brutal.


50 posted on 07/23/2005 4:17:54 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Finny

Oh you don't have to worry about internment camps because there won't be any...
The 1993 WTC was "shame on them" and 2001 was "shame on us" because we should have been known about it in advance and been prepared but the next one is STRIKE THREE. And as any good American worth his or her weight in hot dogs knows. Three strikes and you're outahere!
These towelheads don't like Americans, America, our culture and our religions, well FINE!
GET THE HELL OUT!


Semper Fi,
Kelly


51 posted on 07/23/2005 4:30:30 PM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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To: ScudBud

The Liberals would be very upset if the terrorists target the hospitals. Where would all the illegals go for their free gold-plated medical care? Now that would be something that would upset them.


52 posted on 07/23/2005 4:56:07 PM PDT by holyscroller (A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him to the left)
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To: kellynla
The possibility of internment camps doesn't worry me. I think they were probably justified in WWII; what wasn't justified was the selling-off of the homes, farms, and property of the folks who were being interned.

What I'm saying is I bet they'll make an encore if Muslim terrorists start screwing with malls and hospitals and if American vigilantes start a bloody vendetta. As with those orignal Japanese internment camps, they would serve two purposes: to prevent those among the Muslim population who were traiterous from helping the enemy, and to protect innocent Muslims from being injured or killed by vengeful citizens.

53 posted on 07/23/2005 4:58:39 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, safety and success.)
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To: CyberAnt
This is so weird - yesterday I saw a black helicopter twice - and this morning I saw another one. I'm on a helo airport flight path so I probably see more than most people. I know there is a "classified" hangar at the airport - which I'm assuming is where the blackies hang out.

I had the same thought yesterday...

And .. we have a large childrens hospital and another big hospital within a few miles of each other who both have helo pads. We also see a lot of TV helos. We also have a very large Muslim community here in San Diego - and 2 of the 9/11 bombers came from this group. Very unsettling.

Alright, now I'm really scratching my head. Yesterday, I saw a black helo hovering in the afternoon while setting up equipment off North Harbor Drive. Were we watching the same thing?

54 posted on 07/23/2005 6:06:00 PM PDT by Squeako (ACLU: "Only Christians, Boy Scouts and War Memorials are too vile to defend.")
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To: Squeako

Hmmmm?? I actually see the black one - sort of small for a helo - and it will zip past my back door (which faces Hwy 8) heading east - so fast that by the time I hear it - it's almost past my house.

I'm not sure if they are NSA or CIA - absolutely NO MARKINGS - not even anything indicating it's from the USA.


55 posted on 07/23/2005 8:34:38 PM PDT by CyberAnt (President Bush: "America is the greatest nation on the face of the earth")
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"GET ROVE!"

That's right! Get Karl Rove. Hospitals and our nation's security are of secondary importance. Karl Rove must be indicted and through him W can be brought down and DemonRATS all over the nation will sleep better at night. GET KARL ROVE!!

56 posted on 07/23/2005 8:40:39 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: SheLion
This is BS. How do they know it will be September or October? If if they know THAT much, why don't they give us more information to protect ourselves.

This is not the first warning concerning hospitals.

U.S. Warns: Al-Qaida Might Target VA Hospitals

It's possible giving out too much information will tip the enemy how the information is being obtained. Warning about attacks on California hospitals in a very narrow time frame is pretty specific. If we assume the information is "B.S." as you say and therefore don't plan accordingly, and are wrong then the worst case scenario is a lot of devastation and fatalities. However if we assume it is at least possible and plan accordingly but are wrong then the worst case scenario is nothing happens. I choose the latter.
57 posted on 07/23/2005 9:14:31 PM PDT by Man50D
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To: omega4412
If there is a terrorist attack on a US hospital, your views will be considered moderate.

There are really many targets besides trains and planes. Churches, theaters, Amusement parks, malls, etc. Any further attack on America needs swift brutal retaliation. The message will need to be sent to the countries they originate from and those that sponsor terrorism, starting with Saudi Arabia.

58 posted on 07/23/2005 9:25:57 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: Man50D
If we assume the information is "B.S." as you say and therefore don't plan accordingly, and are wrong then the worst case scenario is a lot of devastation and fatalities.

They could play us like a fiddle. Put out the info/intel that it's hospitals, then hit the big churches. The misinformation could easily be put out, tying up resources, and leaving other targets sitting ducks.

Bottom line, real strict immigration reform now, and real border security. This should have been done years ago, right after 911.

59 posted on 07/23/2005 9:31:04 PM PDT by Black Tooth
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To: Black Tooth
...many targets besides trains and planes. Churches, theaters, Amusement parks, malls, etc...

Or an American Beslan.

...starting with Saudi Arabia.

A simultaneous strike against the madrassas in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. During business hours.

60 posted on 07/24/2005 9:03:13 AM PDT by omega4412
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