I just saw this earlier thread is in Breaking News.
Here is the link to the FoxNews article, in case you want to add it to the top of the thread:
Port of Miami on Heightened Alert
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,242265,00.html
There is something happening in West Palm Beach too .
The have a large area closed off near Lantana with police and government veichles all over the place.
Leni
Look what I found...
"Port of Miami or Port of Jihadi"
Read it all...especially note these lines:
The report also had something ominous to say about easy access to the port. Jim McDonough, Florida Drug Control Director stated, “I think we have to be very prudent about who we put in the hen-house. We generally don't put the wolf in the hen-house, based on the promise that reform has taken place.”
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000505.php
"Khalid Salahuddin, or Brother Khalid as he is affectionately known, is the Deputy Director for the Seaport of Miami. He received the position via an appointment from Director Chares Towsley, shortly after scandal had rocked the port when illegally diverted port funds had made their way into Democratic Party coffers.
As Deputy Director, Salahuddin’s responsibilities are many. He solicits Miami business via cargo and cruise ships; he attends and participates in various diplomatic functions, including trade missions, symposiums, news conferences and government briefings, with members of the international community; and he oversees port employment.
That last part came under scrutiny in late 2001, when an NBC 6 news report emerged questioning the hiring practices of the port. In it, it was stated that, out of 1300 members of the three major Longshoremen’s unions listed in port records checked, every one in five were convicted felons in Florida, with offenses that included “attempted murder, armed robbery, assault and battery, trafficking in cocaine, grand theft, auto theft, and sex with a child.”
When confronted about this, Salahuddin had this to say: “From our standpoint, what benefit would it do to kick him out on the street? We see none”
The report also had something ominous to say about easy access to the port. Jim McDonough, Florida Drug Control Director stated, “I think we have to be very prudent about who we put in the hen-house. We generally don't put the wolf in the hen-house, based on the promise that reform has taken place.”
But almost two years later, is the wolf still guarding the hen-house?
Aside from being the Deputy Director of the port, Salahuddin is also the imam of what is said to be the oldest and largest mosque in South Florida, Masjid Al-Ansar. That in itself doesn’t pose a problem, but his views and affiliations do."
Being away from my base of operations and cut off from my supplies (including weapons and ammo) is a cause for concern. Sure I could carry a B.O.B. and a basic load of ammo for a 45 or two, but that would not lend itself to protracted survival in the aftermath of another 911.
No shelter, food & water, or friends....that puts us in the status of refugee. Therefore doomed.
I maintain that we should restock our hurricane supplies early and shelter in place. Even a WMD attack won't necessarily impact us even indirectly. Unless it's really big and then it won't matter.
Comments?
ping for read!
The character-generator operator at FNC must be a FReeper...he spells "no one" as "noone."
Dry run at work to test US reaction to possible teror attack?
New time of presser?
Non-event............
Nothing to be concerned about. All they found was some large shiny CD or video in a case gadget, maybe a timed game of some sort, as a big clock in a large screen was ticking down apparently waiting for an opponent's move. No weapons or liquids found so no reason to hold them. The driver is waiting for a cab as he says he was not trained how to back up the big rig. /sarc
It was also the usual puffery with everyone in the presser and the guests in the studio ranting about how smoothly and efficiently everything worked........how every part of security worked like clockwork (endlessly and repetively).
The completely vacuous Fox studio infobabe just agreed with everyone and repeated every thing she heard as though we didn't listen. Not one original idea or question. I wanted to feed her a cracker.
Then after everybody waiting for hours, the networks abruptly shut the presser out. Man what a letdown. It went down like that meteor in the news.
One thing I wanted to know was where the electric parts were headed. They can be used by terrorists. The port infobabe dodged the question. I would have asked how long they've been in the country and what part of the country they came in.
I bet at least one or more is illegal or a fugitive and the driver was trying to smuggle him (or them) into the port complex. Then he or they would try to stow away on a ship somewhere. There may be contacts they have on cargo ships who will help smuggle.
Well, she said they're all legal. We'll see.
The legals are the scary ones because they have a cover.
Leni