Dr. Bill Wattenberg is filling in for Gene Burns tonight on KGO.com, he will be on for 2 more hours.
He is hot over the Los Alamos story, says it was written by an enviromentalist and is not true.
It is a tree hugger scare story.
He just read it on air and will discuss it in detail in the next hour.
Thanks to both you and Davey for the good links.....later.
Hoping that it is indeed an environmentalist whacko story instead of what it appears to be. The track record for Los Alamos has been so bad, it's easy to believe security may not be what it should be. As a matter of fact, knowing illegals (and spys at Los Alamos) have performed work (including at our military bases and for our nation's airlines), we've seen little to document changes have been made and those things won't happen again (reassurances we've never gotten).
Did you see my post above about the fencing company continuously hiring illegals? It is evidence the penalties have obvioulsly been so miniscule as to make the offense laughable. That company ought to be put out of business and the management fined and jailed. It's not as if it hasn't happened to them before. They are spitting at our nation's immigration laws. How can we take immigration speeches seriously when this sort of thing is the norm? End of rant.
I heard a snippet on the radio news, said this man had hid the cyncide and gotten a group of hackers together to do hacking "just for fun".
It also said they had caused electric to stop, many times and that it cost $800,000. to get it back on.
The above link will also allow you to go the news, and read that he was sentenced today to 7 years. granny.............
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/browse_thread/thread/1b14d6abcd2305cd/8315abad8abb7a3b?lnk=st&q=Dr.+Chaos&rnum=2#8315abad8abb7a3b
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Newsgroups: alt.true-crime From: "Michael Newton" - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:30:02 GMT Local: Wed, Mar 13 2002 1:30 am Subject: "Dr. Chaos" Federal prosecutors want 'Dr. Chaos' to remain locked up
By Mike Robinson Associated Press
Last updated 04:14 AM, EST, Wednesday, March 13, 2002
CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors want a court to deny bond for the self-styled "Dr. Chaos" accused of stashing more than a pound of potentially lethal cyanide powder in a Chicago subway tunnel.
Joseph Konopka, 25, was scheduled to appear Wednesday before federal Magistrate Judge Edward A. Bobrick on a charge of possessing a chemical weapon, one scientists said could produce a deadly cloud of gas.
Prosecutors said they would ask Bobrick to deny bond for Konopka, a fugitive from Wisconsin who police there have accused of going on a five-county rampage of vandalism. They claim that he is dangerous and a flight risk.
Konopka could fight in court for release on bail from the Metropolitan Correctional Center or waive his right to a bond.
Konopka, formerly of De Pere, Wis., was arrested Saturday in a steam tunnel under the University of Illinois-Chicago Education Building. Police had staked out the tunnel after campus burglaries.
A 15-year-old arrested with Konopka told police and FBI agents that cyanide was stashed in a passageway in a Chicago Transit Authority subway tunnel, prompting a three-hour shutdown of the CTA's Blue Line, authorities said.
FBI agents said they found the cache a block from the federal courthouse.
It contained enough potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide to create a cloud of lethal gas that could kill everyone in a small house once acid were added, scientists said. They said a canister purportedly containing acid also found in the passageway would be enough to produce the deadly cloud.
"It would be a very big puff," said Professor Wade Freeman of the University of Illinois-Chicago chemistry department. "Released in a confined space with a lot of people, it could be disastrous."
FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents were searching for the source of the cyanide as well as the method by which Konopka obtained keys he used to open transit-system doors that were thought secure.
Freeman said cyanide was once readily available at the drugstore but that chemical suppliers now are more careful about potential customers. But he said a skilled con artist might be able to persuade one of dozens of supply houses throughout the country to sell cyanide to him.
It also might be stolen off loading docks, he said.
Security experts said the case raises serious security questions.
"Am I concerned as a private citizen? Definitely," said Violet Smith, former president of the Chicago chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security. "My first two questions would be where did he get the stuff and how available is it?"
Meanwhile, Door County, Wis., District Attorney Tim Funnell said Konopka was wanted in Door, Shawano, Kewanee and Marquette Counties on vandalism charges and was convicted of another offense in Brown County.
He said Konopka had vandalized power stations and communications towers because "he is an anarchist -- he is sort of disillusioned with society in general and disillusioned with the way society worked and the way government worked," Funnell said. "This is his way of protesting."
Sgt. Teri Vogel of the Door County sheriff's police said Konopka waged a campaign of arson and vandalism at power stations and cellular telephone towers, sometimes using sophisticated flammable chemicals. Vogel said several counties formed a task force just to investigate Konopka.
Vogel said Konopka, who is skilled with computers and had worked in the computer security business, is brilliant but dangerous.
"He definitely has a capability or propensity to do mass destruction," Vogel said. He said Konopka had jumped bond last June, causing his grandmother and other relatives to lose money they posted.
Authorities said he has been living in Chicago's subway.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Dec2005_news57.php
VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH / HANDBOOK, INSURGENTS, MISSING LAWYER
Al-Qaeda remnant in region 'no real threat'
Wassana Nanuam
Al-Qaeda's network in Southeast Asia poses little threat as it was weakened with the capture of its key leader in Thailand three years ago, an army intelligence source said yesterday.
The source was commenting on a website posting claimed by a militant group calling itself al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian Division, warning Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to expect attacks on government, military and economic targets.
The source said al-Qaeda's network in the region had been all but destroyed after the capture in Ayutthaya of Hambali, an Indonesian believed to be Osama bin Laden's key link man in Southeast Asia, in 2003.
The remaining members were unable to set up an effective network, he said.
Intelligence units thought the group was probably an offshoot of the insurgency movement in southern Thailand which wanted to fabricate news that al-Qaeda groups were operating in the region.
However, the website posting served as a warning to step up security measures at important locations.
Intelligence passed from friendly countries had earlier warned Thailand there could be a terrorist attack on Khao San road in Bangkok.
"In fact, Khao San road is already an important target as there are plenty of foreign tourists there. Authorities have already paid close attention to it," said the source.
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Chidchai Wannasathit said the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) was studying the possibility of seizing the assets of people for whom arrest warrants had been issued on terrorism charges.
Amlo secretary-general Pol Maj-Gen Peeraphan Prempooti said seizing the assets of terror suspects became government policy after some organisations were found to have been involved in the drug trade, avoided paying customs duties or provided financial support for insurgents operating in the deep South.
Violence continued in the deep South yesterday.
An elderly man was shot dead by suspected militants in Muang district of Yala, police said.
Manoon Sangkul, 71, was gunned down by the pillion rider of another motorcycle when he left his house in tambon Tha Sap to go a tea shop along Phetkasem highway.
About three months ago Manoon's nephew, Puang Sangkul, 51, was shot dead near near the same location.
No arrests have been made in that case.
Is/was this part of the OBL navy?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533179/posts
Navy sinks Palestinian boat off the shore of Gaza
Jerusalem Post ^ | 12/2/5 | JPost.com Staff
Posted on 12/02/2005 9:26:05 PM PST by SmithL
An Israel Navy ship sank a Palestinian boat off the shore of the Gaza Strip early Saturday morning.
The small Palestinian craft, designed to carry one or two people, was apparently attempting to re-enter - without permission - Palestinian waters after leaving them, Army Radio reported.
Despite repeated calls from the navy to stop, the Palestinians continued sailing.
At this point, shots were fired at the navy ship from the direction of the Gaza shore.
Seeing that the Palestinian boat was trying to escape, the navy opened fire and sank it. The fate of the boat's passengers was unknown.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533174/posts
#3 leader killed in Pakistan:
‘Senior Al Qaeda commander killed ’
By Ismail Khan
PESHAWAR, Dec 2: A senior Al Qaeda commander has been killed in the Thursday missile attack at a house in the North Waziristan Agency, sources said.
The sources said that Al Qaeda operational commander Hamza Rabia, said to be of Syrian origin, was among the five killed in the missile attack on a mud-house in Asoray village in Mirali tehsil, to the east of North Waziristan’s regional headquarters, Miranshah.
Officials and tribal witnesses said that among those killed were three foreigners of Middle-Eastern origin. While the administration in Miranshah claimed the casualties were the result of an explosion inside the house, tribal witnesses insist that a hail of missiles fired from unmanned air vehicle struck the house at around 1.45 am.
A drone is usually armed with two hellfire missiles and judging from the six explosions, the locals claimed they had heard, it is possible that more than two UAVs took part in the Thursday’s action.
The sources said that Hamza, who carried the local alias of Nawab to disguise his identity, was among those killed but his body as well of two other foreign militants were quickly taken away by their comrades and buried at an undisclosed location.
Hamza had escaped a similar attack at his location in Mosaki in Mirali on Nov 5 that had left eight people dead including his wife and children. Hamza was said to have been slightly wounded in the leg.
The authorities then had also attributed the incident to an explosion caused by an improvised explosive device.
37 posted on 12/02/2005 9:32:50 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (John 6: 31-69)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533146/posts
FORCING ENTRY: Vandalized, burned corner liquor shop is looted of remaining stock (Muslim Criminals)
SF Gate ^ | 12/1/05 | Suzanne Herel and Henry K. Lee
Posted on 12/02/2005 7:51:34 PM PST by wagglebee
In the course of one week, New York Market in West Oakland has been vandalized and set afire, and its owner reported being kidnapped. On Wednesday, police said someone broke into the burned-out building overnight and looted what was left of the stock, including beer and cereal.
The burglary was discovered shortly after 4 a.m. during a check of the store at 3446 Market St., said Officer Danielle Bowman, an Oakland police spokeswoman.
The extent of the loss was unknown, but much of the store's merchandise already had been ruined by a fire that was reported at 1:19 a.m. Monday. Investigators say the blaze appeared to be arson.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Some will consider this off topic, still it applies to this era, the end of the report is up to date.......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532996/posts
Polish Archive Reveals Soviet Attack Plan
NewsMax/Associated Press ^ | Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005
Posted on 12/02/2005 3:13:32 PM PST by anymouse
WARSAW, Poland -- Poland is risking further strains in relations with Russia by throwing open Cold War-era archives that include a 1979 Soviet retaliation plan that envisaged nuclear strikes on western European cities in the event of a war with NATO
Continued at link.