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ELITE UNIT SETS SIGHTS ON OSAMA
New York Post ^ | 2/24/04 | NILES LATHEM

Posted on 02/24/2004 3:26:55 AM CST by kattracks

February 24, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has dispatched the elite commando force that hunted down Saddam Hussein to Afghanistan for a new operation aimed at getting Osama bin Laden, officials said yesterday. Military sources confirmed that members of the shadowy Task Force 121, the unit that conducted the high-tech search for Saddam and his henchmen, have recently begun operating in the remote mountainous region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border where bin Laden and key al Qaeda and Taliban fugitives are believed to be hiding.
The Task Force is made up of highly trained Delta and SEAL commandos, as well as CIA paramilitary operators. It operates outside normal military channels.

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It isn't that hard to believe the guys on C to C.

With all the bombs and explosions that are going off all over the world, in the past few months, it is going to have an effect on our weather.

Imagine a bunch of Indians, doing a Rain Dance........

From the beginning of time, they have stomped the ground, to change the vibrations and make rain fall from the sky.

The say that the killing fields at Flanders, France bloomed after WW1, with poppies, a million of them. (hope that I have the correct town in France).

The poppy seed is hard and needs to be "upset" to sprout, so they bloom in fields that have been worked or vibrated.

I have seen the California Poppy, suddenly bloom after a lot was graded.

EPA team studies El Dorado asbestos
Sacramento Bee ^ | February 23, 2004 | Chris Bowman

Posted on 02/24/2004 1:49:09 AM CST by farmfriend

EPA team studies El Dorado asbestos
U.S. officials will visit public areas as possible Superfund cleanup sites
By Chris Bowman -- Bee Staff Writer - (Published February 23, 2004)

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering Superfund cleanups of El Dorado Hills schoolyards, parks and other public grounds contaminated with asbestos, the result of foothill development carved through veins of the hazardous minerals.

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Winter Weather Wonder, Part II.
Tech Central Station ^ | 02/24/2004 | Willie Soon, Lucy Hancock and Sallie Baliunas

Posted on 02/24/2004 1:05:52 AM CST by farmfriend

Winter Weather Wonder, Part II.
By Willie Soon, Lucy Hancock and Sallie Baliunas

January 2004 was unusually cold for most of the Northern Hemisphere (see previous TCS CharTiFact). The cold prompted the UK's Independent to link the weather in a recent op/ed to increased carbon dioxide in the air saying, "Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades'." This is hype.

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Deeper, colder lake key to solving Basin water dilemma (Klamath)
Herald and News ^ | Feb. 23, 2004 | ROBERT W. GARDNER
Posted on 02/24/2004 12:23:33 AM CST by farmfriend

Deeper, colder lake key to solving Basin water dilemma
Published Feb. 23, 2004

By ROBERT W. GARDNER
Guest columnist

I am writing in regard to the Klamath Basin water problem. Though it is believed there is no easy solution, I believe there is a way to meet the needs of all.

When Fremont came here in the mid-1800s, he found a huge, shallow lake covering most of the basin at the foot of Crater Lake. It was so foul-smelling and dirty-looking with green algae in it that his horses wouldn't even drink from it. In the winter and spring, the lake would overfill and flush itself. In the summer and fall it would dry up, shrinking considera

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SAUDIS LAUNCH MILITARY EXERCISE NEAR ISRAEL
IMRA ^ | February 23, 2004 | MENL

Posted on 02/24/2004 12:06:08 AM CST by yonif

ABU DHABI [MENL] -- Saudi Arabia has launched a major military exercise.

The Saudi Defense Ministry said the exercise began on Saturday in northwestern region near the Israeli and Jordanian borders. The ministry said the exercise would last five days and include live ammunition fire.

The exercise was deemed as under the responsibility of the Northwestern Regional Command. A military statement said the exercise would include a series of maneuvers.

The military plans at least another exercise over the next few weeks. The Saudi ministry said the Royal Saudi Navy would launch a live fire exercise in the Red Sea in March.
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Ricin letter wanted rollback on truck regulations
Washington Times ^ | 2/24/04 | Jerry seper

Posted on 02/24/2004 12:04:39 AM CST by kattracks

A ricin-tainted letter mailed to the White House in October threatened to turn the nation's capitol "into a ghost town" if new trucking regulations were not repealed, according to the FBI, which has posted a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

The White House letter, processed through a postal facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Oct. 17, was the second one intercepted that demanded an end to new regulations mandating more rest and orienting drivers toward a 24-hour work-and-rest cycle.

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