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There was a shooting at a Las Vegas School bus yesterday, no
one was hit, a little broken glass injuries, per KDWN news.

There was an interview by Jim Bohanon tonight that is at last a book worth reading.

Disinformation by Rich Minter.

He tells all about the WMD's found in Iraq, the truth and the reports that we saw in the photos at FR in "You Gotta see this" threads.

I kept waiting for him to mention the Threat Matrix, but he never said a word about us.

He says the story that OBL has a bad kidney, was put out by the clinton's, as an excuse to not hunt for him.

I am laughing, as I type this the liberal host on the KDWN
program is at this instant, telling the callers how stupid they are to think that the WMD's ever existed in Iraq.

Minter says that there is more danger from the Canadian border than from Mexico, as Canada has more cells of terrorists, due to the fact that they have a welfare state and the orders to the cells, is to go on welfare, so there is not a need to work, and more time can be spent on terror work.......

Jim Bohanon said his website is:

jimbo talks.net

He is one of the best, I do not know if you can listen to
him on the computer.

The link for the book is here:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&q=DisInformation+by+Rich+Minter&spell=1

Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 From: Matias Sacla Source: Yahoo.com [trans. JGM; edited] ______________________________________________________________ Nearly 80 Argentinian cops participating in the safety measures for the 4th Americas Presidential Meeting in Mar del Plata suffered illness after eating. -------------------------------- The agents, who belong to Federal Police and who on the evening of 2 Nov 2005 ate pasta in the hotel where they are staying, received medication, but none of them had to be taken to the hospital, police sources indicated today, 3 Nov 2005. ----------------------------------- Police spokesman, Officer Daniel Rodriguez, pointed out that the group of agents "developed vomiting and diarrhea", and they were cared for by medical personnel from the police force, and he said that "in the next few hours everyone will return to duty. Of the 80 ill police, 7 are women", he pointed out, before adding that "700 officers ate in the same hotel and only a group suffered this problem" in Mar del Plata, where the Presidential Meeting will commence next Fri, 4 Nov 2005. ----------------------------------- 9000 police and military personnel have been deployed in order to guarantee security in the aforementioned meeting, which 34 presidents or heads of state will attend. -- Matias Sacla _______________________________________________________________ [ProMED thanks Matias Sacla for the contribution. Mar del Plata is located about 400 km south of Buenos Aires on the Atlantic Coast in Buenos Aires Province. ------------------------------------ The original posting referred to the food eaten as "rotten." Although the etiology of the outbreak and whether the pasta was indeed the source have yet to be established, food-borne illness is not necessarily caused by 'rotten' but rather by contaminated food. Indeed, the food is likely to look and taste normal. The illness occurred in about 11.5 percent of those eating in the hotel. It is not known if the whole group of 700 ate pasta. ----------------------------------- If the incubation period of the illness was relatively short, the illness may have been caused by pre-formed bacterial toxins such as those produced by _Staphylococcus aureus_, _Bacillus cereus_, and _Clostridium perfringens_ or other toxic substances. These illnesses may cause vomiting, diarrhea, or both and are usually short in duration (less than 24 hours) and not associated with prominent fever. Longer incubation periods (more than 24 hours) are often caused by true infections due to bacteria (salmonella, shigella, campylobacter) or viruses (norovirus, rotavirus), which can cause fever and often last for several days. - Mod.LL]

Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 From: Alfonso J. Rodriguez Source: Boletino Epidemiologico Semanal (Weekly Epidemiologic Bulletin 16-22 Oct 2005) [trans. & edited Mod.MPP] _____________________________________________________________ On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 an outbreak of probable staphylococcal food poisoning occurred in a school in the municipality of Falcon, involving 172 persons. -------------------------------- The patients presented with the clinical picture of vomiting as the primary symptom. The suspected food product is cheese, of which specimens have been taken. ------------------------------- -- Alfonso J. Rodriguez, M.D. -------------------------------- [Falcon is in the state of the same name in the northwest section of Venezuela. -------------------------------- The following is extracted from the USA FDA's Bad Bug Book regarding staphylococcal food poisoning, a disease with an incubation period of 4-8 hours that generally causes an illness with vomiting and little fever : _____________________________________________________________ "In the diagnosis of staphylococcal foodborne illness, proper interviews with the victims, and the gathering and analyzing of epidemiological data, are essential. Incriminated foods should be collected and examined for staphylococci. The presence of relatively large numbers of enterotoxigenic staphylococci is good circumstantial evidence that the food contains toxin. The most conclusive test is the linking of an illness with a specific food, or, in cases where multiple vehicles exist, the detection of the toxin in the food sample(s). ---------------------------------- In cases where the food may have been treated to kill the staphylococci, as in pasteurization or heating, direct microscopic observation of the food may be an aid in the diagnosis. A number of serological methods for determining the enterotoxigenicity of _S. aureus_ isolated from foods, as well as methods for the separation and detection of toxins in foods, have been developed, and used successfully, to aid in the diagnosis of the illness. Phage typing may also be useful when viable staphylococci can be isolated from the incriminated food, from victims, and from suspected carriers, such as food handlers. ----------------------------------- A toxin dose of less than 1.0 microgram in contaminated food will produce symptoms of staphylococcal intoxication. This toxin level is reached when _S. aureus_ populations exceed 100 000 per gram. --------------------------------- Foods that are frequently incriminated in staphylococcal food poisoning include meat and meat products; poultry and egg products; salads such as egg, tuna, chicken, potato, and macaroni; bakery products such as cream-filled pastries, cream pies, and chocolate eclairs; sandwich fillings; and milk and dairy products. Foods that require considerable handling during preparation, and that are kept at slightly elevated temperatures after preparation, are frequently involved in staphylococcal food poisoning." - Mod.LL]

CSIS: terror cell busted
Bomb expert among four Algerians in Toronto

Stewart Bell
National Post

Thursday, November 03, 2005

http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=aa8696a1-5a53-40ca-868a-3c8f6009581c

TORONTO - Canadian counter- terrorism investigators have dismantled a
suspected terrorist cell in Toronto whose members included an
al-Qaeda-trained explosives expert, the National Post has learned.

The cell consisted of four Algerian refugee claimants who had lived in
Canada for as long as six years and were alleged members of a radical
Islamic terror faction called the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

The central figure of the Toronto-area cell was a former al-Qaeda
training camp instructor who studied bomb-making at Osama bin Laden's Al
Farooq and Khaldun training camps in eastern Afghanistan.

The group was watched by intelligence officers before being broken
apart in an inter-agency operation involving the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service, Canada Border Services Agency and police.

A senior CSIS counterterrorism official, Larry Brooks, announced the
dismantling of the cell at a closed-door national security workshop held
this week at a hotel north of Toronto.

Mr. Brooks told workshop delegates that three members of the group were
deported this summer and the key figure left Canada voluntarily in
March, 2004, after he was confronted by investigators.

The investigation was described as ongoing.

The group was unrelated to Canada's most notorious Algerian terror
network, the Groupe Fateh Kamel in Montreal, whose most infamous member,
Ahmed Ressam, tried to blow up Los Angeles airport in 1999.

But there were parallels between the Montreal and Toronto groups,
notably that the members of both were failed Algerian refugee claimants who
had learned how to manufacture explosives at the Khaldun training camp.

The case "is a prime example of inter-agency co-operation," Mr. Brooks
told delegates. CSIS was the lead agency in the investigation, but
police and immigration enforcement officers from the CBSA in the Niagara
region were also involved at various stages.

"CSIS's mandate is to collect, analyze and report threat-related
intelligence to government. This means that effectively, our intelligence is
shared with a variety of domestic and international security
intelligence and law enforcement partners," Barbara Campion, the CSIS
spokeswoman, said yesterday.

"CSIS does not discuss details of specific cases," she added.

But on Monday, Mr. Brooks, the chief of counterterrorism for the
Toronto region, gave an outline of the case to delegates at the National
Security Workshop 2005, a federal initiative that brought together security
officials and representatives of Ontario industries involved in
critical infrastructure, such as telephone, hydro and transit.

Mr. Brooks did not name the alleged terror-cell members, but during his
presentation he showed several photographs, including what appeared to
be surveillance photos taken in a parking lot.

A recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies
in Washington, D.C., claimed 600 of the estimated 3,000 foreign fighters
in Iraq are Algerians, making them the largest contingent, ahead of
even Saudis.

The Salafist group, better known as the GSPC (short for Groupe
Salafiste pour la Predication et le Combat), is the leading Algerian terrorist
group. It is a breakaway faction of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group
and is aligned with bin Laden and al-Qaeda's Iraq leader, Abu Mussab
Zarqawi.

The federal Cabinet added the GSPC to Canada's list of banned terrorist
groups in November, 2002. "The GSPC is a radical Sunni Muslim group
seeking to establish an Islamist government in Algeria," Public Safety and
Emergency Preparedness Canada said in a background report.

"The GSPC has adopted a policy that violence should be targeted on
security or military targets, foreigners, intellectuals and administrative
staff. The GSPC is believed to have been active outside Algeria. The
group has been affiliated to Osama bin Laden and groups financed by him."

The ringleader of the Toronto cell was an Algerian-born member of the
GSPC who entered Canada on Aug. 8, 1998, using a forged Saudi passport
and made a refugee claim that was ultimately turned down.

Initially, CSIS began preparing a national security certificate that
was to be used to deport him, but instead authorities subjected him to
"confrontation interviews," a counterterrorism tactic that is sometimes
used to make suspected terrorists know they are being closely watched.

The explosives expert left on his own shortly afterward on March 7,
2004, and the three others were later arrested and deported to U.S. border
crossings because they had entered Canada from the United States.

The operation is the latest indication that trained terrorists, some of
whom are versed in bomb-making methods and have links to bin Laden and
his al-Qaeda network, have been living in Canada.

"We know that terrorists are in our own backyard," Inspector Jamie
Jagoe, the officer in charge of the RCMP Integrated National Security
Enforcement Team for Ontario, which co-hosted the workshop, told delegates.

During his presentation, Insp. Jagoe showed slides of several suspected
terrorists who had lived in Canada, including Amer El-Maati, Abderraouf
Jdey, Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohamed Mahjoub, Ressam, Mohammed Jabarah,
Abdul Rahman Jabarah and Ahmed Said Khadr.

While few terrorists in Canada aside from Ressam have built bombs here,
he said they are "involved in other aspects of terrorism" such as
fundraising, recruiting, propaganda and arms trading. "All of these
contribute to the cause as much as someone building a bomb in their basement."

The terrorist presence in Canada must be taken seriously because both
bin Laden and an al-Qaeda targeting manual have listed the country as
one of a handful of nations that should be attacked, Insp. Jagoe said.