Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

To: WestCoastGal

Thank you. My brain just isn't with it today!

2,101 posted on 05/23/2004 7:40:25 PM PDT by Oorang ( When all else fails, simply revel in the absurdity of it all.)

>>>>Evidence Is Cited Linking Koreans to Libya Uranium
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1140538/posts

Another article today about NK
(Remember about the McCarthy transcripts, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/940575/posts , There were investigations into the infiltration of our servicemen during the Korean War)

World - AP Asia

Alleged U.S. Deserter Won't Leave N. Korea

Sat May 22, 1:32 PM ET

By ERIC TALMADGE, Associated Press Writer

PYONGYANG, North Korea - Nearly 40 years ago, Charles Robert Jenkins allegedly deserted his U.S. Army unit to start a new life in North Korea (news - web sites). He taught English, acted in propaganda films, married a woman 20 years his junior and had two daughters.

Then, two years ago, his life started to fall apart.

In an unprecedented summit with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il admitted in September 2002 that Jenkins' wife, Hitomi Soga, had been abducted and brought to the North against her will. With four other abductees, she was allowed to return home.

But what North Korea claimed was supposed to be a short homecoming became a prolonged political tug of war, with Tokyo refusing to send Soga and the others back, and Pyongyang keeping their families virtual hostage.

For the other families, that saga ended Saturday: Koizumi returned for his second summit with Kim and won the freedom of the five abductees' North Korea-born children in exchange for 250,000 tons of rice and 10 million worth of medical supplies.

Jenkins, however, refused to leave.

"Kim said he would leave the decision up to Jenkins," Koizumi said after a one-day summit with the reclusive North Korean leader. "I met with Jenkins and his daughters for an hour after the summit. But I was unable to sway him."

The fate of Jenkins is a major issue in Japan, mainly because of an outpouring of sympathy for his wife, who has lived alone in her hometown on a small island since her return one month after the 2002 summit.

Before leaving for Pyongyang, Koizumi vowed to bring home all the relatives — including Jenkins and his daughters. But officials said Jenkins balked at the plan because he fears he would be extradited to the United States to face a court martial.

"We have been forced to give up on bringing them back right away," a senior government official traveling with Koizumi said. "But we will continue our efforts to reunite them."

Little is known about Jenkins.

According to American military officials, he was a 24-year-old sergeant when he left a border patrol on the South Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone to defect to the North. For defecting, the North Korean government gave him a car and a job teaching English. Soga was his student.

Jenkins, a native of Rich Square, N.C., a small town near Raleigh, also acted in low-budget propaganda films. In one, he wore a skinhead wig to portray an evil American.

Tokyo has asked Washington to give him special consideration, and perhaps a pardon. But U.S. officials, wary of taking such an action while soldiers are risking their lives in Iraq (news - web sites), have provided no such guarantees.

"I'm sympathetic from a human point of view," U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard H. Baker Jr. told reporters. "But he's classified as a deserter."

From the start, Jenkins' position complicated efforts to bring the others to Japan.

Shortly after the repatriation of his wife, he met with a Japanese media team in Pyongyang, where he was hospitalized, reportedly because of the stress of the separation. He called for his wife to return to the North.

His daughters, Mika, 20, and Belinda, 18, are students at the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies.

Koizumi suggested that, if Jenkins was afraid of going to Japan, he meet to discuss his future with Soga in a third country, such as China.

"I hope all four them will be able to be reunited as soon as possible," he said. "Jenkins said he welcomed that idea."

In an optimistic tone before the summit, Soga, whose mother is also a suspected abduction victim but remains unaccounted for, said she wanted her family to be united and "never separated again."

But she added that her daughters would likely face a major culture shock were they to join her in Japan.

"They don't speak much Japanese," she said. "Maybe they could say `hello.'"

2,102 posted on 05/23/2004 7:43:28 PM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

An empty message....how could that be?

2,103 posted on 05/23/2004 7:46:06 PM PDT by MamaDearest (Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust")

To: nw_arizona_granny; Jill St Claire

Last month, on thread six, #3772, it was asked if anyone knew of any media drawing events on or around June 23rd, and all I found was Madonna at MSG, which seemed insignificant at the time. I just saw that she canceled her Israeli concerts because of threats to her children from an unnamed Palestinian group. She was going to beef up security, but since the threats referred to in-depth information about her closest aides, she canceled. The Israeli concerts were going to be on September 11th.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004240450,00.html

2,104 posted on 05/23/2004 7:48:46 PM PDT by Honestly

2,105 posted on 05/23/2004 7:49:48 PM PDT by eastforker (The color of justice is green,just ask Johny Cochran!)

Well, isn't it the truth? At least that's what I'm picking up from these reports --- they can't possibly be a danger to us now, can they? What really irks me is that if we did some of the things these people do on our turf, we'd be in jail for longer than we'd care to know. I wonder if we apologize to them for wasting their time?

2,106 posted on 05/23/2004 7:49:55 PM PDT by MamaDearest (Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust")

I believe that is true!

2,107 posted on 05/23/2004 7:52:38 PM PDT by MamaDearest (Then conquer we must, when our cause is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust")

No problem, just happened to be one I could get my hands on. There are so many I can't remember at all. ;-)

2,108 posted on 05/23/2004 7:54:21 PM PDT by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)

To: nw_arizona_granny

"Looks like the DM stew should be kept as an emergency food for the babies"

LOL Our emergency storage cupboard is FULL of Dinty Moore stew. Every time I go to the store I buy a few more cans. It's actually quite delicious. I can understand why the baby kittys love it. The ultimate survival food.

2,109 posted on 05/23/2004 7:54:41 PM PDT by toomanygrasshoppers ("Put down that fiddle and DO SOMETHING!")

Will it never end?

"Chalabi a clinton plant?"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1141009/posts

2,110 posted on 05/23/2004 7:58:50 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You can help win the election by becoming a REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, easy go to Court House and sign up)

To: toomanygrasshoppers

Just a few tanker crashes. Some of these are register site's. The common denominator is all WERE TANKER TRUCKS!

TANKER hauling hazardous liquid crashes, but no spill Kansas City Star (subscription) - Kansas City,MO,USA ... The wreck occurred about 1:20 pm in the eastbound lanes, between Lee's ... crash, witnesses said, a fire erupted in the pickup truck and the cab of the tanker. ...

DRIVER dies in crash of gasoline truck that shut highway Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA ... of woods near the gulch where the tanker landed. ... driver, who was either thrown from the wreck or crawled ... Martin Petrik said it was possible the truck was going ...

FORMER Oklahoma legislator charged in double fatality The Trucker - USA ... by Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Drew Hamilton concluded that the wreck was caused ... It was struck by a tanker truck driven by James Ritchey, 49, of Stillwater ...

HAPPY just to be alive Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada ... Ursel, 42, nearly died in the same six-vehicle wreck on the Yellowhead Highway ... the collision when her vehicle was pinned underneath a milk tanker truck but she ...

WRECK blocks Corpus freeway San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA PARENTS 'cheated' Winnipeg Sun - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada ... The next thing he knew his tanker was on top ... the cars, colliding with vehicles as the truck continued to ... no criminal convictions and prior to the wreck had an ...

2,111 posted on 05/23/2004 8:05:54 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)

To: Indie; WestCoastGal; Rushmore Rocks

Indeed the language barrier is curious.

Coupled with the fact that these guys are out in a boat in the dark and fog.

Why did they mention the Pomham Lighthouse?

According to the article they were found far from the lighthouse. IMO, they had either already been there, or it was a destination.

So what is it about, around or near that lighthouse that needs attention?

2,112 posted on 05/23/2004 8:17:12 PM PDT by Velveeta

To: DAVEY CROCKETT

So the Indian vacationed with Hillary, eh? LOL

We'll wait and see.

2,113 posted on 05/23/2004 8:19:09 PM PDT by Velveeta

To: DAVEY CROCKETT

So Anne....how's the hotseat??

2,114 posted on 05/23/2004 8:21:55 PM PDT by Velveeta

Is it far out and secluded?

Good meeting place?

the first article said that the intruders had forced entry.

Maybe to pick up explosives, men or messages?

2,115 posted on 05/23/2004 8:22:36 PM PDT by nw_arizona_granny (You can help win the election by becoming a REGISTRAR OF VOTERS, easy go to Court House and sign up)

Yep it would appear so;) I will see him next week and keep you posted.

2,116 posted on 05/23/2004 8:22:37 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (There is no such thing as coincidence, GOD is in control.)

>>>>Black Death 'is lying in wait'

NM_AZ_Granny sent me a notifier from ProMed about Russia Warning of Plague:

"On April 23, 2004, Moscow News reported a warning to their citizens to prepare for an outbreak of plague. The International Society for Infectious Diseases is actively seeking more information."

And this I found from: http://helicop.chat.ru

Translated from a Russian website:

Completion of program the "genome of man" - the triumph of large-scalest and potentially dangerous for humanity program of the "dual purpose" on the creation of biological weapon, including its most inventive variety - so-called. the "genetic weapon", which selectively acts on the carriers of genes, specific for the specific racial or ethnic groups.

Parallel studies of the genome of man in THE USA and Great Britain (states of one military and political bloc, which half a century ago carried out another weapons mega-program - atomic project) they only emphasize the presence in NATO alliance countries of excess potential in the field of molecular genetics, directly applicable for the creation biological weapon of new generation.

The biological weapon of the first generation - agents and toxins of "traditional" acute epidemic diseases with the short incubative period - plague, cholera, anthrax - was tested on the people in the course of World War II the group of the Japanese war criminal of Colonel isii, who is later, similar to Werner von Brown, Gelenu, etc., together with the colleagues and by archive it passed at the disposal of Americans. The Japanese "tests" of biological weapon in China cost life, as a minimum, to millions of people.

(snip)

The following biological bomb of the second generation - multistable to the majority of antibiotics tuberculosis, whose epidemic began in the Russian prisons, and soon will begin in the Moscow and St. Petersburg metro, where will arrive consumptive zeki after amnesty.

The completion of program the "genome of man" will make it possible to switch over to the biological weapon of the third generation, which has selective action on one or several "ethnic" genes (or antibodies), and to create "magic tablet" for the protection of biological aggressor.

If we draw analogy with the nuclear program, then the interpretation of genome is compared with obtaining of enriched uranium or launching the reactor: this yet not completely bomb, but the already far from refined science.

2,117 posted on 05/23/2004 8:29:51 PM PDT by Calpernia (http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)

Thanks for passing them on. ;-)

2,118 posted on 05/23/2004 8:31:23 PM PDT by Velveeta

To: nw_arizona_granny

Unidentified Virus Sweeps Through Assisted Living Home In Fla.

POSTED: 10:52 pm EDT May 22, 2004
HUDSON, Fla. -- A flu-like virus has sickened about 60 residents and employees of a retirement home in Pasco County, sending eight to the hospital.

County health inspectors visited Baypoint Village on Friday, but could not determined a cause of the virus. More tests were being done this weekend.

"Our biggest concern is whether there was any food borne aspect to this," said Dr. Marc Yacht, head of the county Health Department. "At this point, I don't know whether that's true."

More:

http://www.local6.com/health/3336271/detail.html

2,119 posted on 05/23/2004 8:35:27 PM PDT by Revel

To: nw_arizona_granny

Dinty Moore, who knew???

Take care of yourself on your shopping trip.
You'll be missed, hurry back!

2,120 posted on 05/23/2004 8:36:42 PM PDT by Velveeta

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