Bay terror fears (Suspicious man on ferry)

The Examiner (SF) ^ | 06/12/2002 | Richard Byrne Reilly

[lawdude]

How dare they characterize these people as Arab or middle-eastern. Everyone knows that is racist. They are by definition, INNOCENT. Case closed. Continue on in ignorance, please.

[NormsRevenge]

"Maybe it's nothing, but when you put it all together, it starts to add up,"

Well, This IS Baghdad by the Bay, after all ...

[Chad Fairbanks]

"Suspicious man on ferry" is actually news in SF??????

Oh... never mind... ;0)

[Aria]

They are so blatant it's contemptuous - they don't even fear us.

[Mo1]

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[TomGuy]

Middle Eastern men. Can we assume they were:

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[TBall]

Unbelievable!!! You would think that some of the tourists would have noticed and at least snapped off a couple of pics of the guy. Would it be asking too much if someone was even as bold as to try and engage this man in a conversation?

[Shermy]

USS Cole-style attacks coming up.

[dawn53]

Was it in California where the ME men tried to buy 5 heavy duty ocean kayaks and became enraged when the dealer didn't have them in stock?

[quark]

Kick 'em all out!!! Every last one!!!

[Quix]

Have long had a deep and settled conviction that Golden Gate will either be nuked or destroyed by a quake. I more strongly feel nuked. . . of course, a nuke could trigger a quake. . . for whatever use the added wham was. And I have a close stock broker friend living within sight of the bridge.

[Quix]

There's enough specifics in this post to make someone's skin crawl. They'd better be insisting on ID's with photos for all ferries, busses etc. and ignoring the ID aspect of the uniforms given that it's probably too expensive to flush all the old uniforms. Then again, getting nuked would be a bit expensive, too.

The actions reported are not . . . possibilities, folk. THEY WERE/ARE working to act out a major terrorist act there. No doubt. What does it take--neon skywriting for people to wake up there? From this distance, it sounds like the response has been rather feeble.

What will it take before more effective actions are taken in such situations? Sheesh! Perhaps lives there have become as cheap as they are in Asia? Well, if everyone believes that man is nothing more than a rat, a pidgeon or a radish to quote Skinner, I guess that's reasonable.

[TBall]

I bet this guy could not speak a lick of English, but was quite proficient at the ATM machine.

[SamAdams76]

This reads like an old article. All the events described here occurred in October.

[TomGuy]

What else is relative to the San Francisco area?
Uh...thinking...perhaps...Marin County...Johnny Taliban?

Marin County is just north of SF, across the Bay. Maybe Johnny Taliban suggested some "tourist" sites for his colleagues.



The City of Novato, California is the northernmost city in Marin County, approximately twenty-nine miles north of San Francisco and thirty-seven miles northwest of Oakland. Novato covers twenty-eight square miles

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

This seems like the Al Qaeda equivalent of 'casing the joint'. Meaning, getting a sense of the timings, IN CASE it becomes a target. It doesn't mean an attack is imminent. It does not mean it is not, either. It's probably been shelved now that suspicion has been raised. We can but only hope.

[First_Salute]

 

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

Just doing a search on "Middle Eastern Men Found at" here of FR produced an entire page of similiar events. These various reports clearly show that 'someone' is methodically making their way across the country all the while capturing this great land on film.

I am getting tired of seeing all of these stories, but am getting even more tired of hearing updates like 'they were on top of a water treatment plant filming the sunset'.

Pray that TPTB are keeping close records of situations like this...situations that all resemble each other much too close for comfort!

[First_Salute]

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