Posted on 09/22/2001 3:08:14 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Sources tell TIME that U.S. officials suspect that bin Laden conspirators may have been planning to disperse biological or chemical agents from cropdusting planes
Saturday, Sep. 22, 2001
New York -- U.S. law enforcement officials have found a manual on the operation of cropdusting equipment while searching suspected terrorist hideouts, government sources tell TIME magazine in an issue out on Monday, Sept. 24th.
The discovery has added to concerns among government counterterrorism experts that the bin Laden conspirators may have been planning — or may still be planning —to disperse biological or chemical agents from a cropdusting plane normally used for agricultural purposes.
Among the belongings of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, sources tell TIME, were manuals showing how to operate cropdusting equipment that could be used to spray fast-killing toxins into the air.
The discovery resulted in the grounding of all cropdusters nationwide on Sunday Sept. 16th. The dusters have been allowed back up, but are not allowed to take off or land from what traffic controllers refer to as Class B airspace, or the skies around major cities.
One senior official cautions that because corroborative evidence is lacking the FBI does not place "high credibility" in the notion that the hijackers were in fact exploring the idea of stealing or renting cropdusters. However, the FBI is advising members of a crop-dusters' group to report any suspicious buys of dangerous chemicals in the wake of last week's terrorist attacks.
Last week, the National Agricultural Aviation Association, a crop dusters trade group, posted a message from the FBI to its membership: "Members should be vigilant to any suspicious activity relative to the use, training in or acquisition of dangerous chemicals or airborne application of same including threats, unusual purchases, suspicious behavior by employees or customers, and unusual contacts with the public. Members should report any suspicious circumstances or information to local FBI offices."
Islamic cultures have a reputation for being agreessive and violent in a real petty way. No other culture on the face of the earth does. The Irish don't. The Irish don't involve other people either. The Islamic jihadists do.
On 9-13 I interfered on 2 separate occasions where arabs were being threatened by an angry mob. I exited both times, because they were shooting off their mouths about how it's the US's fault. Guess how the angry mobs gathered? High school arabs started it by shooting off their mouths with the same gutter rubbish. It's time to shut down all their cultural centers of hate. Permanently.
See my last post.
China is picky about who can go and who can't. But some can go.
Sure makes me feel better. I am planning on being around the next few years. I am saddened and angered by the fact that all of this should never have happened in the first place. I think you know what I mean.
We thus far have treated Arabs and Muslims as we treated Germans in the 1940s.
False-o
Germans were put in camps even though a very large portion of the US population was always of German descent. My own 2nd or 3rd cousins were because they had just arrived from Germany at that time to join relatives here when the war broke out.
America's Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II: Memory & History. xxiv + 379pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. Paper. (Table of Contents and ordering information).
You can even search the internet and find that German American internment was a fact.
Now's not the time to be taking off your tinfoil hat and in addition to it, you should have your gas mask ready to put on.
While I think we need to be diligent about fighting biological weapons (especially a mass production of smallpox vaccinations), everything I've read that sounds credible seems to suggest that isn't the case. There is a link (http://www.nov55.com/athr.html I don't feel like looking up the link command now) where the guy here claims that getting anthrax into the form where it is sprayed out in a crop duster is still technically hard to do. Still, it wouldn't bother me for crop dusters to be registered and have some sort of tracking on them so if they are near a city, they can be shot down or whatever if they don't get back on course...
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