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Posted on 02/09/2009 3:41:05 PM PST by Velveeta
Also the Today show was supposed to be in San Antonio on Monday - they canceled.
Al Qaeda agent admits aiding Sept. 11 attacks (Peoria, Illinois)
Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri made a stunning reversal in federal court in Peoria today, pleading guilty to conspiring and providing support for two of the chief architects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Ali Al-Marri entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm in Peoria. He admitted to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
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The government says Al-Marri met with Osama bin Laden in the summer of 2001 and was sent to the U.S. to help Al Qaeda operatives carry out post-Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/04/al-qaeda-agent-admits-to-sept-11-attacks.html
BreakingNewsAP: Health officials: Number of probable swine flu cases in Illinois more than doubles to 41.
That certainly is a big discrepancy. Are they trying to play with the numbers? Or is it that the coroner can’t test fast enough?
Still seems to be spreading here.
Amherst College in Massachusetts says up to 6 students have tested positive for swine flu, according to WWLP-TV.
Of course situations like this don't add a lot of confidence.
Florida Hospital Caught in Swine Flu Cover-Up
READ AND JUST PASS IT ON (Email purporting to detail next terrorist strike in US)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241737/posts
No confidence for sure.
Local news just reported 150 cases in US but state that California, Arizona and Michigan are being under reported by the CDC.
26 in Texas but many more pending testing.
Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued... http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...
I didn’t watch GMA - but they had a panel on. Chris Cuomo Twitters. [reason for abbreviations is you can only use 140 characters per tweet.
swineflu may be because this flu resembles older forms genetically, so older folks have immunity. also say this not spread’g like pandemic.
just because panel didnt seem “freaked” doesnt mean they know this is going to go away, or dismiss it. quite opposite. be on guard.
they say duration unknow, could mutate and get wors, or could subside. tough to guage because this flu coming later than usual
Burglars targeted a Tuscumbia business early Thursday morning. What's most alarming is what the thieves took from business. The stolen property is potential dangerous material.
Approximately 1,000 pounds of high-grade nitrate fertilizer was taken from Greens Keepers on Gann Boulevard in Tuscumbia. The company handles fertilization and weed control for residential and commercial lawns. The owner, John Wagner, says he's been in business for twelve years and nothing like this has ever happened. "It's very unusual," says Wagner. "It was a very big shock to walk in at 7:00 a.m. and see all this gone." Sometime early Thursday morning, burglars broke in the business. First, they tried to bust through this glass window in the front of the building. When that didn't work, police say the crooks pried open the side door.
"It appears that 25 to 30 bags of high-grade nitrate fertilizer was taken off the premises," explains Wagner. The thieves stacked the bags of fertilizer onto one of the company trucks, attached a trailer to the back, and loaded a lawn mower on it. The crooks also rummaged through the office - grabbing two computers, an iPod, and a cordless phone. The stolen property is valued at several thousand dollars. For Wagner, that's not the most unsettling part.
"The cost of the fertilizer is not the issue, it's the quantity and the potential for bad guys," explains Wagner. " Wagner worries that having the large amount of fertilizer in the wrong hands could lead to something very dangerous. "It could potentially be made into a bomb," says Wagner.
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http://www.whnt.com/news/shoals/whnt-fertilizer-stolen-from-greens-keepers,0,2442663.story
Petraeus: Next Two Weeks Critical to Pakistan's Survival
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Central Command, has told U.S. officials the next two weeks are critical to determining whether the Pakistani government will survive, FOX News has learned. "The Pakistanis have run out of excuses" and are "finally getting serious" about combating the threat from Taliban and Al Qaeda extremists operating out of Northwest Pakistan, the general added.
But Petraeus also said wearily that "we've heard it all before" from the Pakistanis and he is looking to see concrete action by the government to destroy the Taliban in the next two weeks before determining the United States' next course of action, which is presently set on propping up the Pakistani government and military with counterinsurgency training and foreign aid.
Excerpted
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/30/petraeus-weeks-critical-pakistans-survival/
“...1,000 pounds of high-grade nitrate fertilizer...”
Thanks for the ping Oorang.
Thanks for the ping. If I remember correctly, this has happened rather frequently. I wonder where it is all going....
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2009/05/al-qaeda-no-2-now-calls-the-sh.html
. . . U.S. intelligence officials have said Bin Laden is too concerned with his own personal security to oversee Al Qaeda plots, while Zawahiri has increasingly appeared to benefit from protection of current or former Pakistani army or intelligence operatives.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/national-security/story/67379.html
“Clearly we have a rising threat level,” said a U.S. defense official, who requested anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. “I don’t think it likely that the jihadists will make a mad dash tomorrow (to seize a nuclear site). But in the course of time, I see a rising threat.”
. . . The senior U.S. defense official declined to discuss how the United States would react if militants seized a Pakistani nuclear facility. However, he added: “We have to have a strategy to deal with that. You can be certain that kind of planning is ongoing.” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was less sanguine than the president. She said that the insurgency now poses a “mortal threat” to the United States and the world. “If the worst, the unthinkable, were to happen, and this advancing Taliban encouraged and supported by al Qaida and other extremists were to essentially topple the government for failure to beat them back, then they would have the keys to the nuclear arsenal of Pakistan,” she said in an April 26 interview with Fox News.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/may/01guest-can-terrorirsts-get-hold-of-pakistani-nukes.htm
. . . I would divide Pakistan’s nuclear capability into three groups and grade the likely threats to them from the Taliban and other jihadi groups as follows::
a. The nuclear arsenal consisting of its stockpile of nuclear weapons: Their physical security is very tight with American inputs into strengthening it and with US monitoring of the state of physical security. Threat low unless and until the Taliban captures power in Islamabad.
b. Sensitive nuclear establishments such as the Kahuta uranium enrichment plant and the Khusab plutonium facility. Their physical security is equally tight, but there are no American inputs and monitoring. Threat low to medium.
c. Other nuclear establishments such as the Chashma nuclear power station constructed with Chinese assistance and the one at Karachi and the various sites in the NWFP and Balochistan where nuclear waste is stored: Their physical security has not received much attention either from the Pakistanis themselves or from the Americans. Moreover, since the Chinese are associated with some of them, they would not like the US to have any role in their physical security. Threat medium to high.
The greatest danger in my view is the Taliban and other jihadi groups attacking one of these less guarded facilities falling in the third group. They have the capability to target them in order to create panic in the Pakistani population and demonstrate their prowess in the non-Pashtun areas of Pakistan.
India and other regional countries should have strong reasons to be worried over this possibility because the environmental and health hazards arising from a terrorist attack on these facilities would affect not only Pakistan, but also its neighbours. A terrorist-caused Chernobyl is a danger of greater possibility than the terrorists capturing the nuclear arsenal.
40% or better is the number to worry bout......thanks Cindy !
There’s probably not just “Af-Pak” (Afghanistan-Pakistan), but “Ir-Pak” (Iran-Pakistan).
You break one and you’ve bought the other . . .
Pakistan biggest threat to Israel: Israeli FM
April 23rd, 2009 - 12:56 pm ICT by ANI
Tel Aviv, Apr.23 (ANI): Israel considers Pakistan as its biggest strategic threat rather than Iran.
Expressing concern over the increasing Taliban threat in Pakistan, Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq were the three countries from which Israel faces an immediate threat.
“Pakistan is nuclear and unstable and Afghanistan is faced with a potential Taliban takeover, and the combination forms a contiguous area of radicalism ruled in the spirit of Osama bin Laden,” The Daily Times quoted Lieberman, as saying. . .
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Schwarzenegger Just got my flu update. CA DPH will report 29 confirmed cases and 130 probable cases in CA. Keep washing hands and stay home if you’re sick.
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