Posted on 10/30/2001 7:46:57 PM PST by KQQL
FBI searches for six men who had nuclear, pipeline information
Updated: 10:55 p.m. EST Tuesday, Oct. 30
By MARTIN MERZER, LENNY SAVINO and SUMANA CHATTERJEE
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON — As the nation again stands on high alert, the FBI is searching for six men stopped by police in the Midwest last weekend but released — even though they possessed photographs and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline, a senior law enforcement official said Tuesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration imposed new flight restrictions around nuclear plants nationwide Tuesday, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission advised the nation's 103 nuclear plants late Monday to fortify security.
The FAA temporarily banned all flights near New York's Yankee Stadium, where President Bush stood before a huge crowd at a World Series game Tuesday night and — wearing a New York City Fire Department jacket — tossed the ceremonial first pitch.
"It helps to keep the fabric of our country strong," said spokesman Ari Fleischer.
Before 9-11, each one of us would be more that happy to help anyone, anywhere. Not so anymore, I would not give the time of day to any mid eastener and will watch them like a hawk. I will not shop their stores, buy their gasoline, sleep in one of their nasty (as in only gets cleaned after guest #10 has left),flea bitten motels/hotels.
They don't like profiling, though. Watch their every move. We need to "Head em up, and move em out" and quick.
Not one iota. Our police chief is on paid leave of absence due to 'another' staff complaint of discrimination. I think this last one was, "my seniority rights were violated."
"Just a question to ponder: to each person reading this thread, how confident do you feel that the law enforcement community in your area is realistically capable of protecting you and yours? What about the Federal government?"
That sounds just like the police we have around here and I have no confidence in them. They won't be able to protect us because they aren't smart enough to figure out what's going on and they aren't really brave enough...they'd end up running in terror and leaving everyone to take care of themselves or due to lack of intelligence and because of ignorance they'd do something to make the situation worse and/or give out wrong info that will get many people killed or injured, in my opinion.
Because they were dumbed down in our socialistic public school system and now employers are stuck with hiring the products of our socialistic public school system, graduates whom are probably average to cream of the crop in said dumbed down system?
Each individual's protection is that individual's responsibility. The government is just as incompetent as it was prior to 9/11. Remember that everybody? When most of us here were making daily posts scoffing how incompetent this that or the other agency was? What has changed since then, other than the atmosphere of fear? Sure, most people are concerned about this, but truth be told, the one job that the Govt. is *supposed* to do is being terribly neglected. Meanwhile, we get the Patriot Act and other such worthless toilet paper legislation, we get the Office of Homeland Defense straight from a Nazi Germany horror file, as if we are the criminals or something.
You want security? Buy a firearm, get proper training in its use, and carry it concealed, laws to the contrary be d@mned. Buy decent ceramic filter water filters and make sure your stock of non perishable food is up to date. Insure that you have an alternative light and heat source. Not "survivalism" in the sense of wackmobile fatigue wearing 50 year olds, but rather good preparations for a threat that has been publicly made and carried out in portion by people meaning to destroy our nation, our lives, our children, our Constitution.
Or would you rather line up behind the scarce "relief" trucks that *might* show up in the event of a WMD attack? You're much more trusting than I am if that is the case. But then hey, what do I know, right?
Lumberjack - aka Michael - former U.S. Army Military Intelligence
Right after the attack, very confidant. Before the attack , zip, nada, zilch.
Yea,Like lots of Clinton holdovers.
The Barney Fifes should have called the FBI first !!
Never mind. I give up trying to pose my question.
MM
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