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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread 5
CNN ^ | March 12, 2004

Posted on 03/12/2004 8:23:06 PM PST by thecabal

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- This week's deadly train bombings in Spain will not lead to a rise in the U.S. color-coded terror threat alert system, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman said Friday.

"Based on the current intelligence, we have no specific indicators that terrorist groups are considering such an attack in the U.S. in the near term," said department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse.

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No usable voices on copter recorder

By ERIC HANSON

No usable voices were found on the cockpit recorder of a helicopter that crashed in the Gulf of Mexico last week after leaving Galveston for an oil-drilling ship, federal officials said Tuesday.

The voice recorder was recovered Saturday from the sea floor and taken to Washington, D.C., where experts hoped it would provide clues about the cause of the crash that killed 10 people.

The final two bodies were recovered Monday night by searchers in the area where other bodies had been found, about 70 miles south of Galveston. The bodies were taken to the Galveston County medical examiner's office in Texas City.

Autopsies showed all 10 died from blunt force trauma, said Dr. Stephen Pustilnik, chief medical examiner.

Officials said the bodies of Jason Petitjean, 34, of Rayne, La., and Jeff Langley, 42, of Kountze, were found on the sea floor near the area where aircraft debris had been found.

The bodies of all 10 people on board the Sikorsky 76-A helicopter, owned by Alaska-based Era Aviation, have been found.

The aircraft, carrying two crew members and eight passengers and chartered by Unocal, left Galveston's Scholes International Airport about 6:45 p.m. March 23. One of the eight passengers was a Unocal employee, and the other seven were contractors. They were headed to an offshore drilling ship near South Padre Island.

At 7:23 that evening, a company dispatcher tried to contact the aircraft by radio but received no response.

An air and sea search-and-rescue operation was launched and floating wreckage was found March 24. Later that day, four bodies were found floating in the water about 70 miles south of Galveston. Four more were discovered Friday morning on the sea floor in the aircraft wreckage.

4,721 posted on 03/31/2004 9:39:37 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: Domestic Church
General Islamomania.

Along with oil/gas.

Also, a big US presence, and their president, Islam Karimov is a well known hardass when it comes to Saudi funded jihadis in his country.

4,722 posted on 03/31/2004 9:41:37 AM PST by swarthyguy
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To: All
To all of you that are cubicle bound, the 4 contractors that were killed and brutilized in Fallujah were all Americans and some Arab tv stations are showing the brutal, horrific scene in its entirety.
4,723 posted on 03/31/2004 9:47:19 AM PST by TexKat (Just because you did not see it or read it, that does not mean it did or did not happen.)
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To: LayoutGuru2
Nah, He himhawwed around about the whole thing.

It was actaully quite irritating, he started spouting off the "Bush knew" and said Haliburton about 20 times.

I was a bit upset and disgusted.
4,724 posted on 03/31/2004 9:50:24 AM PST by rickylc
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To: rickylc; WestCoastGal; JustPiper; Cindy; All
More Islamic militants who are causing problems around the world. I am not sure if it is the alignment of the planets, the coming Christian and Jewish Holidays; the death of the blind sheik or a combination of all, but these militants are making themselves busy creating chaos, murder and mayhem everywhere. I pray that we all stay safe.

Thai Militants Steal Huge Explosive Cache

BANGKOK, Thailand, March 31 (UPI) -- Militants staged an armed raid on a quarry in southern Thailand and stole more than a ton of explosive fertilizer, dynamite and detonators, the BBC reported.

The attack by 10 masked men took place in Yala province, one of three mainly Muslim states under martial law since unrest started in January.

After tying up two security guards, 10 masked men took 1.4 tons of ammonium nitrate, commonly used as a fertilizer, 58 sticks of dynamite and 180 detonators, police said Wednesday.

Interior Minister Bhokin Bhalakula, said he feared the militants would attack tourist destinations during April's water festival, known as Songkran.

"I suspect that the culprits behind this heist are aiming to strike before or during Songkran in order to terrify tourists and make a strong impact on the tourism industry," he said.

Saturday, a motorcycle bomb exploded outside a tourist bar in the town of Sungai Kolok, in Narathiwat province. About 30 people were injured, including a number of Malaysian tourists.

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4,725 posted on 03/31/2004 9:57:08 AM PST by all4one ("...a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)
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To: Indie
I'm with ya Indie.

Looks like some serious mopping up is called for in Fallujah!
4,726 posted on 03/31/2004 10:09:25 AM PST by rickylc
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To: all4one
I am so angry, I can hardly function.
4,727 posted on 03/31/2004 10:21:59 AM PST by Letitring
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To: TexKat
that's just sick, showing it in it's entirety. They love it though. I find it hard to even think these people are human beings.
4,728 posted on 03/31/2004 10:29:20 AM PST by knak
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To: Letitring; WestCoastGal; JustPiper; Cindy; rickylc; knak; All
Letitring...you may not want to read the following...and I feel your pain. I find it amazing that while so much turmoil is happening everywhere, the media is focused on the Jackson family and other idiotic non-stories.

I haven't heard of John Bolton before, but I hope that someone is listening to him and his reports about Cuba.

U.S. Official Says Cuba Still 'Terrorist Threat'

By Rafael Lorente South Florida Sun-Sentinel

WASHINGTON — Repeating and strengthening previous allegations about Cuba's alleged weapons-of-mass-destruction program, a Bush administration official yesterday told Congress in written testimony that the island "remains a terrorist and (biological weapons) threat to the United States."

John Bolton, undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, said there is a strong case for believing Cuba has a biological weapons research-and-development program. He made the allegations in a 25-page written statement on the development and spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Bolton also said Cuba has successfully hidden details of its weapons program, thanks to information passed to Havana by convicted spy Ana Belen Montes, the former senior Cuba analyst for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. Montes is serving 25 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to spying in 2002.

Montes "participated in interagency coordination of a national intelligence estimate on (biological weapons) and passed some of our most sensitive information about Cuba back to Havana," Bolton's written testimony said.

"Additionally, Montes' espionage materially strengthened Cuba's denial and deception efforts; the data Montes passed gave Havana ample opportunity to generate controlled information that could, via defectors and émigrés, reach Washington."

Bolton never verbalized his Cuba allegations during remarks before the House Committee on International Relations yesterday. Instead, he answered questions about the threats posed by Pakistan, Iran, North Korea and Libya. Asked about his stronger comments on Cuba after the hearing, Bolton shrugged and said his written statement spoke for itself.

During testimony, Bolton said the United States has no evidence implicating senior Pakistani government officials, such as President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, in taking part in the network that was selling nuclear secrets to countries such as Libya.

Bolton first made allegations about Cuba in May 2002, on the eve of former President Carter's trip to the island. At the time, Bolton's charge, which was later repeated by other officials, was much more circumscribed. He said Cuba had "at least a limited, developmental offensive biological warfare research-and-development effort." Bolton said then that Cuba was providing some of its technology to rogue states.

Cuban President Fidel Castro has denied the allegations. Carter said he never received information about the allegations as part of the preparation for his visit to the island.

A spokesman for the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., ridiculed Bolton's allegations yesterday. "Those are the usual, ridiculous lies that this man habitually makes about Cuba," said Lazaro Herrera Martinez, first secretary of the Interests Section. "It is ridiculous to say that Cuba poses a threat to the national security" of the United States.

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4,729 posted on 03/31/2004 10:32:23 AM PST by all4one ("...a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)
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To: All
This is supisus to me.. I wasn't paying attention to all the train wrecks until I saw above post of all that have happened. There was also one in South Georgia last week will try and find.

Also another point...There have been at least 3 fires to big shopping malls in the Knoxville area all were started on a Sunday night.No evacuations needed after chemical leaks from railcar

Butanol alcohol leaked from a Norfolk Southern railcar Sunday.


March 28, 2004

KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- Cleanup crews were called to the scene of a railcar spill in Knoxville Sunday afternoon.

A rail car from Norfolk Southern Railroad was leaking butanol alcohol on the railyard grounds on Old Rutledge Pike near Rutledge Pike, a Norfolk Southern spokesperson said.


http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=1742575
4,730 posted on 03/31/2004 10:32:49 AM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Everything I know I learned on Free Republic)
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To: TexKat
I pray for these Americans and their families. The brutality in these attacks is unbearable. That they commit these acts in the name of Allah, is all I ever need to know about their so-called faith. I pray for the future of our children, knowing what I know and seeing what I've seen of these barbarians. These Iraqi people that have been viewed in the videos and pictures should be annihilated post haste, and that includes the children amongst them who participated, they are not innocent they are ruined.
4,731 posted on 03/31/2004 10:40:49 AM PST by all4one ("...a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)
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To: knak
They are not humans beings, they are animals.

They just happen to have human form.
4,732 posted on 03/31/2004 10:45:13 AM PST by rickylc
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To: all4one
I'm so tired of these rabid, anti-American cretins. I refuse to call them people. Mexico and her 'from hell' government, is trying to drown us in her useless citizens. Sending criminals over here to murder, rape, rob and who knows what else to our Citizens, and THEN have the GAUL to take us to freakin WORLD court, protesting the way we deal with the JERKS. I'm burning up the phone lines and the key board with letters to editors, etc. I am SO TICKED!!!!!!!
I just know the democrats are stirring these pots. They will do any and everything to get President Bush out of office and put us back under their hell hole leadership.
4,733 posted on 03/31/2004 10:45:25 AM PST by Letitring
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To: all4one
AMEN!!!!!!!!!
4,734 posted on 03/31/2004 10:46:20 AM PST by Letitring
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To: Letitring
Gaul=GALL.
4,735 posted on 03/31/2004 10:46:54 AM PST by Letitring
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To: Letitring
Gaul=GALL.

That did seem a bit French on the first pass :-)

4,736 posted on 03/31/2004 10:48:11 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: all4one
There is video of all those who participated. The city should be locked down by our Marines, and every house searched untill all involved are rounded up.

4,737 posted on 03/31/2004 10:49:57 AM PST by rickylc
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To: JustPiper
I'm in the middle of reading it now. Fascinating book. Not only is she a good "terrorist hunter" but a good writer as well, IMO. Since she is no longer "anonymous" (her identity was revealed due to a lawsuit) she has a website. Here is the link:

SITE Institute

4,738 posted on 03/31/2004 10:52:08 AM PST by Oorang (The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it)
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To: Braak
Help out with what, maybe I can.
4,739 posted on 03/31/2004 10:53:00 AM PST by angcat
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To: Letitring
If it were up to me I would send the World Court a video of an aircraft dropping all 52 convicted murdering Mexicans into a tank of sharks. To show just what we think about the World Court and their intrusion, and to serve as a warning to future criminal immigrants.

I hope that the sheeple in American wake-up. If Kerry is elected we will be bowing at the alter of the UN and the World Court on their every demand.
4,740 posted on 03/31/2004 10:57:52 AM PST by all4one ("...a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)
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