[4.1O dana super trac pak]

This needs a repost.

[maestro]

?....Long Island: Beware of strange men with rocket launchers (Oklahoma terror cell?)

really?

/sarcasm

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thanks for the post. I missed it first time around.

[Mister_Diddy_Wa_Diddy]

The military aren't the only one's on the lookout for middle eastern men carrying rocket launchers and other such munitions.

So am I and all my friends, and to note, we are proud to be racial profilers of said middle eastern men.

[bill1952]

in performing hapless random searches

Hapless??

Has this writer ever passed English?
Pronunciation: ha-pless Function: adjective: having no luck : UNFORTUNATE

The word should be Feckless.

[GOP_1900AD]

Is this or is this not an urban legend? Yesterday here someone was saying it *is* an urban legend. So which is it? Is Malkin blowing it by falling for an urban legend - that does not seem to be like her. Need facts - too much conflicting info at present!

[Fitzcarraldo]

I thought the spy sats could see stuff like this?

[cripplecreek]

Why do so many roads lead to OKC?

[Blood of Tyrants]

The milietary may be looking for rocket launchers, but the civilian LEO's are hamstrung by idiot liberal politically appointed police chiefs who would rather allow a thousand airlines to be shot down rather than risk offending one terrorist.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

TEAM TINKER BATTLE STAFF DIRECTIVE (BSD) BSD # 41 DTG 140825L Jul 05L OPR: All SUSPENSE: Upon receipt SUBJECT: BSD# 40 Amendment SITUATION: On 14 Jul 05, three individuals were observed outside of the perimeter of Tinker AFB, OK. They were looking through binoculars, taking pictures and one appeared to be holding a large weapon at chest level. The weapon appeared to be aimed towards a low flying aircraft. The three individuals were described as being of Middle Eastern decent and left the area when approached. The weapon was later identified as a rocket launcher (MANPAD) and the low flying aircraft to be a B-1 Bomber. FBI in Oklahoma City and AFOSI determined the threat to be credible. Due to this and other recent incidents and security concerns surrounding Tinker AFB, OK, the potential for suspicious activity in the Tinker AFB (TAFB) Area of Responsibility (AOR) has increased. While there is no specific threat information directed towards the TAFB AOR, it is imperative that all personnel remember their responsibilities to report any and all suspicious activity they observe.

'snip'

[WestCoastGal]

I still question why, if they were approached and known to be middle eastern carrying this weapon, were they allowed to escape????

[delacoert]

The Tinker AFB report is bogus. Prior threads here on FR. Someone will link them I'm sure.

[Capriole]

I don't care if this particular report is bogus; I have been concerned about this possibility for years. Of course, it's vanishingly unlikely that any Muslims will again attempt to simply hijack an airliner as happened on 9-11--Americans would never put up with it, and they must know this. But obviously there are other ways to kill the kafir. The necessary tools are not hard to find. Even I, a simple country lady, can tell you where to go to buy a man-portable SAM in Washington DC. There used to be a Chinese arms dealer operating out of a Thai restaurant in Adams-Morgan. . . There is absolutely nothing to stop a guy from renting a townhouse in Ashburn, Virginia, putting his SAM to his shoulder, and knocking two jetliners out of the sky at once. He could be gone before the first wreckage hit the ground. I do not know what could be done to prevent this but the knowledge that it's so very easy to do is enough to keep me from flying.

[Nancie Drew]

From KTOK Radio in Oklahoma City

Air Force Took Seriously Man's Missile Claim
Monday, August 1, 2005 at 2:27pm

Documents show Tinker Air Force base security personnel thought a man's story of seeing three Middle Eastern looking men aiming a shoulder fired missile at a plane was credible, but an FBI spokesman says today that's no longer the case.


By Jerry Bohnen


When Doug Clayton Yeaman went to Tinker Air Force base officials last month with a story of seeing three Middle Eastern looking men aiming a shoulder fired rocket at an approaching military airplane, they took him seriously. The FBI said today, however, that they unable to give credibility to the report.
Military documents obtained by KTOK News reveal Air Force investigators thought his story was 'credible' the day it was filed. Yeaman went to them the morning of July 13th. A so-called TALON report identified the location as 13003 SE 119th street and the Air Base Detachment 114 did the investigation. The documents revealed a day after the incident, the Air Force considered the matter to be 'Open/Unresolved'.
Item eleven of the report described Yeaman as a 'one time source. It read: "Credibility: Source is deemed credible however he has provided no information in the past."
The TALON report went on to describe in detail how Yeaman claimed to have seen the three men while he was visiting a storage shed where he keeps his business equipment. It was a few minutes before 10am on the 13th.
Initially Yeaman went to Oklahoma City police and as reported last week by KTOK News, the police report indicated he saw only two men. But the Air Force documents reveal he clarified things when he was interviewed by the FBI and AFOSI or Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
During the subsequent interviews, Yeaman said he saw three men. One was near the driver's side of the car and was using binoculars to observe the man. A second man was at the passenger's side of the car and was using a camera to take pictures. The third man was holding the weapon at chest level.
The report read: "YEAMAN described the weapon as a military green, tubular object, longer than a shotgun, two trigger grips on the front and rear and a diameter larger than YEAMAN's arm." When the men saw him, they fled in an older model four door GM Model car, a Buick or Oldsmobile.
The documents reveal the Air Force at that point took several actions, among them 'Coordinate with all base commanders, especially those in charge of flying wings.'
Another of the actions of the Tinker personnel was to notify the Air Force Office of Special Investigations Field Investigative Region 1 at Wright Patterson Air Force base in Ohio.
The national advisory was reportedly issued by U-S Army Major Mike Jackson of the
USNORTHCOM J34 Operations, AntiTerrorism/Force Protection.
When contacted today and told he was talking to a reporter, he hesitated and said the reporter should be talking to Public Affairs.
"That's about all I'm going to give you. You can talk to them," he added. While he looked up the Public Affairs telephone number, Major Jackson declined to give the geographic location of the phone number. "Thank you, have a nice day," he said shortly after providing the phone number.