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"NIGHTMARE IN QUEENS"
By Michelle Malkin · July 22, 2006 04:52 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "This is a local story with some serious, nationwide homeland security implications. Con Ed still has no clue about what caused the blackout. The state Public Service Commission, which oversees utilities across New York, says a probe will be launched after power is restored. And more to be concerned about from NYT:
Utility officials and others said this power failure was perplexing, unlike previous blackouts that darkened large swaths of the city and were corrected in a day or two. This time, new problems have cropped up day after day: dozens of manhole fires, transformer fires and, most seriously, electrical cables’ burning out and needing replacement.
“This is a very strange phenomenon,” said Joe Flaherty, a consultant to Local 1-2 of the Utility Workers Union of America.
Chris Olert, a Con Edison spokesman, said, “We’ll take those cables that were damaged and analyze them, but until then, we won’t know what happened.”
The blackout has exposed an apparently serious weakness at the utility: its inability to measure the size of a problem.
I hope DHS is paying attention."
ON THE NET...
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19889664-23109,00.html
"Syria 'to come clean' on al-Qaeda cells"
From correspondents in London
July 24, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SYRIA is prepared to tell the US the whereabouts of al-Qaeda cells in Lebanon, Britain's Sky News television reported today.
Sky News said they had spoken to Syrian cabinet minister Amr Salem.
"Syria has real hard knowledge," the channel quoted him as saying.
A Sky News correspondent said the Syrians were offering to tell the US where many fundamentalists were.
He said the channel was told specifically there were cells of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network in Lebanon, and Syria knew of their whereabouts.
Since Syrian troops pulled out of Lebanon last year, the cells have grown, he said."
>>>>manhole fires, transformer fires and, most seriously, electrical cables’ burning out and needing replacement.
“This is a very strange phenomenon...
Not strange if you've been following TM.