US MIlitary Facilities Placed on Highest Alert Starting Friday/ Memorial Day Weekend [debka]

DEBKAfile Security /Anti Terrorism Report ^ | May 23, 2003 | Gioria Shamis -Retired Economist Magazine Reporter n

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just the headline for now, no details

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Is this a 'regional red alert?

[ChadGore]

Please stop posting DEBKA drivel.

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I made an exception for 'code red' --what if a Freeper was outside a base on private property and could report something to authorities?

[Cachelot]

Please stop posting DEBKA drivel.

Debka has had history of more rights than wrongs, particularly in the context of the ME. The anti-debka psychosis of some posters here is starting to seem downright... odd :).

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I think some of DEBKA's stuff comes straight from ex-Mossad sometimes..

[SubMareener]

Maybe, but this is about the United States Military, and it is bunk.

[leadpencil1]

"You decide" is much better than "We'll decide for you", isn't it?

Censorship is the inferior alternative.

[Cachelot]

Maybe, but this is about the United States Military, and it is bunk.

"Military on Highest Domestic Terror Threat Alert", Washington Post May 21th.

Looks like multiple sources to me. Does it grate having those sneaky Israelis having the nerve to publish US domestic news?

[John H K]

Debka has had history of more rights than wrongs, particularly in the context of the ME. The anti-debka psychosis of some posters here is starting to seem downright... odd :).

People actually miss the main point, which is 95% of what the post is actually hours or days old material they bodily lift from other sources (sometimes bordering on plagarism because they don't cite those sources); this is the case with this posting.

Thus DEBKA is irrelevant in that sense.

The other 5% they either fabricate or are fed BS by dubious sources.

[John H K]

Looks like multiple sources to me.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Not "multiple sources." A COPIED SOURCE.

See, when DEBKRAP runs something on their page that appeared in a major US newspaper or a newswire or on a news network 3 days ago, that isn't CONFIRMATION of DEBKRAP; it means that DEBKRAP COPIED those sources. Amazes me that DEBRKAP's butt-buddies on FR haven't figured that out yet.

All of the accurate info DEBRKAP publishes they simply get from reading the paper and watching TV and surfing the internet. FR itself does a better job if you just want collection and regurgitation of info.

[SubMareener]

Obviously, the Washington Compost isn't any more reliable than Debka! The terror alert has been raised to "high", but that is NOT the highest level.

[Cachelot]

Not "multiple sources." A COPIED SOURCE.

Not exactly the sqame story, is it? A bit more as to timeframe and so on on Debka.

So, anyway, that Debka's story is backed up by an American source actually means that Debka is even worse than if it had been unsubstantiated? Because "those cr*ppy Joos stole American cr*p", no doubt :)).

Geez. You folks really are dropping the mask here, huh?

[Cachelot]

Obviously, the Washington Compost isn't any more reliable than Debka! The terror alert has been raised to "high", but that is NOT the highest level.

Ho hum....

Unlike civilian facilities throughout the nation, which depend on the new Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for possible terrorist attack alerts, the military uses warnings issued by the DIA.

"We've always had our own system of threats, which now consist of low, moderate, significant and high," said one official.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Exactly; I am amazed at the anti-Debka crowd.

[aristeides]

I was on two military bases just outside D.C. this afternoon (Walter Reed Army Hospital Annex and Bethesda Naval Medical Center,) and the security didn't look all that much different from what it has been in recent months to me.

[SubMareener]

Do you know this is true from your own knowledge, or are you trusting that neither the Washington Post reporter, nor the un-named "official" are making this up?

[Cachelot]

Do you know this is true from your own knowledge, or are you trusting that neither the Washington Post reporter, nor the un-named "official" are making this up?

< benighted>Of course they are making it up! Probably to make Debka look good! </ benighted>

West Point definition of threat levels

Actually, there are four levels, although the terminology may vary from the "civilian" style of low to high, to the military Alpha to Delta.

[SubMareener]

I did some more research, and it seems that the "highest" DIA terrorist alert level is indeed "high". That fact and the fact that the DIA assigned that level to America last week is unclassified.

[RightWhale]

Looks like the red alert worked. We got through the weekend. Most of us.

[Cachelot]

I did some more research, and it seems that the "highest" DIA terrorist alert level is indeed "high".

Yes. The alert structure for the military seems actually to have changed sometime after 9/11, I think there were five levels prior to that.