ADDING to post no. 463...more details:
Thanks to Velveeta at The Threat Matrix on FreeRepublic.com for the ping to this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,554220,00.html
“24 People Reportedly Under Observation in NYC-Colorado Terror Probe”
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
SNIPPET: “NEW YORK — As many as 24 people may be under observation in a suspected cross-country terror plot, as police in New York City stepped up patrols and increased random searches on mass transit Wednesday.”
SNIPPET: “The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security bulletins warned law enforcement officials around the country to watch mass transit, stadiums, warehouses with rentable storage units and hotels for any unusual activity. No new search warrants have been filed in recent days, the FBI told FOX.”
bttt ‘til morning
A bit off thread topic, but interesting.
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/sept09/cbrnsu_092209.html
“EXTREME FORENSICS
Analyzing Hazardous Materials”
09/22/09
SNIPPET: “The FBI experts behind this fast response came from our Laboratory’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Sciences Unit, or CBRNSU for short. They coordinated the transfer of the samples to two government labs that specialize in animals and are equipped to deal with hazardous materials.
CBRNSU was created in 2002 on the heels of the anthrax attacks the previous fall. (And the Amerithrax case has been one of its biggest investigations.) The unit’s mission? To develop and maintain the FBI’s ability to conduct or direct high-quality forensic exams of potentially hazardous chemical, biological, and radiological/nuclear materials and all related evidence.
“The threat facing the U.S. today is three-pronged,” explains Supervisory Special Agent Margaret Eason, chief of the unit. “Chemical agents, including traditional chemical warfare agents and toxic industrial chemicals…biological agents capable of causing infectious diseases and special agriculture threats…and radiological materials or nuclear yield devices, including materials that could be used in a radioactive dispersal device or in an improvised nuclear device.”
“The unit’s strategy to combat these threats is also three-pronged,” adds Eason.”