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Woman reports suspicious phone call
From Staff Reports
(Elizabethton, Tennessee)

An elderly county woman reported to police that she received a suspicious phone call where the person on the other end of the line wanted her bank account information to collect funds to offset the costs of the war in Iraq.

http://www.starhq.com/html/news/articles/articles.asp?day=Wednesday&article=nw-funnyphonecall.html
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Explosion That Killed Pregnant Woman A Mystery, Police Say

PORT TOWNSEND,WASHINGTON

Police in Port Townsend have a mystery on their hands.
There was an explosion inside the car, and I attempted to approach there were two more explosions

http://www.komotv.com/stories/42278.htm
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IDAHO - Mystery powder rains on Idaho

A strange white powder fell on Idaho Falls, Idaho last Friday. Utah Power officials blame the unusual dust for knocking a power plant out of commission. From KIFI:
Power workers says the dirt created an arc across the insulators. It acts like a groundwire and shorted out the power. The power crews rerouted the power, but Tuesday morning, they'll have to fix the insulators.

What is the mystery dirt? Utah Power officials say it's salt from the Great Salt Lake. It blew in with the storm. Salt is a conductor.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/07/mystery_powder_rains.html
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Suspicious Substance Found in Letter Sent to (R)Rep. Doolittle (CA)

Placer County Sheriff's personnel and hazardous materials teams are investigating a letter containing an unknown substance that was sent to the Granite Bay office of Rep. John Doolittle.

Malim said a female employee opened the letter, which contained a white, powdery substance that allegedly caused the woman's thumb to tingle. The woman was treated at the scene and released, Malim said.

http://www.news10.net/storyfull2.aspx?storyid=16351

NEW JERSEY - Terror alerts on stolen truck

http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1141812760249350.xml&coll=3
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NJ Starts Suspicious Boater DatabaseCOMMERCIAL TOWNSHIP, NJ-March 9, 2006

State police in New Jersey have launched a Web site to gather information about suspicious activity on the state's waterways.

more info:
http://www.state.nj.us/njsp/maritime/msi_report.html
article:
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=3976139

Bridgeport oil site has Saudi links

BRIDGEPORT — As controversy rages over a proposed Dubai-based operation running key U.S. port terminals, a company with direct ties to Saudi Arabia has quietly owned and operated petroleum storage facilities in Bridgeport and New Haven for years.

Motiva Enterprises has owned an oil tank farm within Bridgeport's port since 1998 and a similar facility in New Haven since 2000. The company is jointly owned by Shell Oil and Saudi Armaco, Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil-refining business.

http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_3583974

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Nuclear bomb material sailed from Dubai

The issue: Selling our ports to the United Arab Emirates

Our view: Dubai's dubious past isn't a mystery, so why risk it?

How many weighing in on the ports controversy know or care that the tools to make a nuclear bomb set sail for Libya from the ports of our new good friends and prospective business partners in Dubai? Had there been a serious review of the Dubai ports deal, such warning signs about the United Arab Emirates could not have been missed, unless, of course, the desired outcome was politically - or and/or financially - predestined.

http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2006/02/28/opinion/opinion01.txt

lots of news posted today

N. Korea launches 2 missiles
By wire services
Published March 9, 2006

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea test-fired two short-range missiles Wednesday, an unsettling reminder of the reclusive communist regime's ability to cause instability in the region where a standoff persists over its nuclear program.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/09/Worldandnation/N_Korea_launches_2_mi.shtml