Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"

LINK TO THREAD SEVEN

BREAKING NEWS

Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.

Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.

[Selene]

Brandon Mayfield, with his daughter Sharia son Famir, leaves the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon.

"I want to thank my friends and family for what I'll call a harrowing ordeal," Mayfield, a Muslim convert, said as he walked out the federal courthouse in Portland, grasping his wife's hand and holding a Koran and a Muslim prayer rug.

In Arabic and then in English, Mayfield recited the Muslim prayer: "God is great. There is no God but God."

[Honestly]

According to the map showing where the different cells have been located, Columbia, Missouri, is home to Al Qaeda, Algerian Islamic Salvation Front, and Hamas. Perhaps a foreign MU student or professor is using the local population as guinea pigs?

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the link. It's not enough that an infrared sensor was purposely placed there and hidden and could be used as a triggering device. But then we have this......

"Meanwhile, the New Jersey attorney general's office is investigating at least 7 instances in the last week of suspicious surveillance activity along Amtrak and New Jersey Transit commuter rail lines between Philadelphia, Trenton and New York."

"The activities ranges from persons walking under a train trestle and filming it to persons trying to enter parking garages adjacent to train rail tracks or train stations filming those parking garages as well as filming the rail stations themselves."

Who are these people, give us a description, were the police called and how long did it take them to get there if at all? If I were a news reporter I would track down the people who called these reports in, I would want to know exactly what else they saw. Seems to me it would take a few minutes to film what they wanted and were there long enough for someone to see them as suspicious, so I would guess there is a description. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A lot of reports today Philadelphia, New Jersey and NY.

[Quix]

Ahhh.

Thanks.

[tbird1]

Wendell Willkie: Republican Presidential candidate,from
Indiana. Ran against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940. Was a
Wall Street Lawyer.

[Quix]

THANKS.

[Indie]

not good/ But not unexpected either, thanks to this thread.

[Myrddin]

Think about all the extra tax $$$$ going straight to the bottom line of the deficit as a result of the increased gas prices. Won't the dems be surprised when they figure that out?

Federal gasoline tax is a fixed amount PER GALLON. Higher prices PER GALLON means people will buy fewer gallons of gas. That means LESS tax revenue going to the bottom line. Only a sales tax that is a percentage of the total price would exact a greater tax collection, but that would be offset by reduced consumption caused by higher prices.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

NEIN it on Coast to Coast

Douglas Hagman? I think is his name.

[little jeremiah]

placemark.

[BurbankKarl]

oh yes...there are 7 million riders easy....you cant get anywhere without the subway

[BurbankKarl]

Yes, heard that hour on Coast to Coast....thanks to my local station KFI delaying the show, I have to switch between San Diego 600, Albequerque 770, Las Vegas 830 and St George Utah 890.

Scary stuff. What was the diver they were talking about in NYC?

[JustPiper]

sounds like jiggers!

[JustPiper]

Where have you been?

[JustPiper]

But if a media type gets blown up from a terrorist act it will be Bush's fault!

[JustPiper]

PLAGUE, PRAIRIE DOGS - USA (TEXAS)

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From: James Alexander James.Alexander@tdh.state.tx.us


The Rita Blanca National Grasslands (RBNG), located in Dallam County in the
north west corner of Texas, is currently the site of a plague outbreak in
prairie dogs. So far plague has been confirmed in fleas from sites 9, 19,
23, and 35. Other sites are suspected to have experienced plague based on a
visual inspection of the towns where no, or minimal prairie dog activity
was observed. These sites are 7, 11, 14, 21, 22, 40, 46, and 89.

Warning posters have been placed throughout the area, but all areas with
prairie dog towns have not been inspected, and posters may not be at the
entrance to every site with a prairie dog town. All prairie dog towns in
the RBNG should be considered as potential sites of plague infection. While
infection has not been confirmed outside the RBNG, spread is possible to
adjacent areas.

Normally, the area is sparsely populated. In the past 2 weeks, however,
prairie dog hunting enthusiasts from multiple states have been frequenting
the RBNG to pursue their avocation. If a person presents with symptoms that
could be due to infection with _Yersinia pestis_, a history should be
obtained to determine whether the individual has recently been to the RBNG.
If affirmative, appropriate diagnostics and prophylaxis should be pursued
immediately.

VESICULAR STOMATITIS - USA (TEXAS)

From: Thomas E Walton Thomas.e.Walton@usda.gov
Source: USDA official release

Emergency management warning 1: positive case of vesicular stomatitis in
horses in Texas

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On 18 May 2004, the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in
Ames, Iowa, confirmed the finding of vesicular stomatitis (VSV) in horses
at one premises in the State of Texas.

VSV is a viral disease which primarily affects horses, cattle, and swine.
The virus that causes VSV has a wide host range. VSV also occasionally
affects sheep and goats. In affected livestock, VSV causes blisterlike
lesions to form in the mouth and on the dental pad, tongue, lips, nostrils,
hooves, and teats. These blisters swell and break, leaving raw tissue that
is so painful that infected animals generally refuse to eat and drink and
show signs of lameness. Severe weight loss usually follows, and in dairy
cows, a severe drop in milk production commonly occurs. Affected dairy
cattle can appear to be normal and will continue to eat about half of their
feed intake.

On 10 May 2004, a foreign animal disease investigation was initiated at a
roping facility in Balmorhea, TX, just south of the New Mexico State line,
due to a report of tongue lesions in horses on the premises. There are 6
additional horses and 8 steers on the infected premises that show no signs
of lesions. Serum was taken from all 9 horses on the premises and submitted
to NVSL for testing.

[JustPiper]

Bump! and :

MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) Nearly 20,000 SBC Communications workers in Connecticut, Ohio and Michigan begin four-day strike over health care benefits and job outsourcing.

[JustPiper]

How many Mickey D's does that make, 3-4?

What is the symbolism of this?

[JustPiper]

The color code alert level has moved from yellow to orange?!

[JustPiper]

I tellya we've always felt Los Alamos would be hit since Clinto screwed up selling the security