Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Eight

CNN ^ | 5-17-04 | Various

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

Picture Credit:Calpernia

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.

[JustPiper]

'Only nuclear power can now halt global warming'
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=524313

MADONNA has axed three gigs in Israel — after terrorists threatened to kill her and her kids
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004240450,00.html

[JustPiper]

Did you name the new baby Dinty? -g- Yeah, two TM macots!

[JustPiper]

Right in the middle of 1-3 storms daily for four days now, saw the DesPlaines river and it is up to the top of the bridge and hasn't even crested in River Grove,Il. Also Gurnee, Il. (Great America) was evacuated today and main roads closed for fear of flash floods

[nw_arizona_granny]

Every thing we have dug up and posted, is all in your article.

Feels odd to know that you were thinking the right thoughts and didn't need all that tinfoil. (you = me)

[nw_arizona_granny]

Wellll, ahhh, she is Goldy, a lovely red gold.

There was another who had a dog that was going to share the mascot duties, I made a note of the name, can't find it....

I did consider Matty..

LOL

[JustPiper]

You poor soul, is that the only way you can get someone to reply to your post?

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=eastforker&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=

[JustPiper]

From what I knew Chalabi loathed BC?

[JustPiper]

ping

[JustPiper]

Nite Ma and thanks for the DintyMoore tip, going to buy some on the morrow ;)

[JustPiper]

Ma, for oldtimers like us our life's stripes keeps us ahead of the game ~Hugs

[JustPiper]

My Harley is golden/reddish and she is said to be an anomaly by several vets -g-

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

babies trapped in the car

Prayers going up.

[JustPiper]

Mosque foes' fear is clear

Objections in Orland are residue from backlash after Sept. 11, observers say

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsindex/23-ds1.htm

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

I think there was discussion about this the other day.

SUICIDE PIGEONS May 21 2004


Cold War plan to surprise enemy with bird bombs

By Vanessa Allen



PIGEON suicide bombers were Britain's proposed surprise weapon in the Cold War, declassified secret documents revealed yesterday.

Spymasters discussed training flocks of homing pigeons to attack enemy targets with deadly biological weapons.

The plan which sounds more like an episode of the 70s cartoon where Dastardly and Muttley plotted to 'stop the pigeon' involved 1000 of the birds, each armed with two-ounce explosive capsules filled with a biological weapon such as anthrax.

The scheme was revealed yesterday in the latest MI5 files to be released to the National Archives in Kew, west London.

It was the brainchild of an RAF pigeon enthusiast Wing Commander WDL Rayner, who believed his 'revolutionary' theories could change the way wars were fought.

It won the backing of Sir Stewart Menzies, the wartime chief of MI6, and the Joint Intelligence Committee even set up a sub-committee at the end of World War II to discuss plans for 'pigeon warfare'.

The War Office intelligence section warned: 'It is clear that pigeon research will not stand still; if we do not experiment, other powers will.'

Rayner believed that homing pigeons could be trained to attack enemy targets.

In a report, he said: 'A thousand pigeons, each with a two ounce explosive capsule, landed at intervals on a specific target, might be a seriously inconvenient surprise.'

But his plans were defeated by MI5, the internal security service, and a row over who should pay for Rayner's research.

One senior MI5 officer, Lieutenant Colonel Tommy 'Tar' Robertson, wrote: 'Rayner has always been a menace in pigeon affairs.' Carrier pigeons were common in both World Wars.

And during the Cold War, the Army considered packing live chickens inside a nuclear bomb to keep it warm so it would not get too cool that it stopped working.

The plan was never put into practice but it proved that the British were ready to use fair means and 'fowl' as the Cold War hotted up.

Newly released documents also revealed yesterday that the heir to the Russian tsars was secretly found a job at the RA Lister engineering factory in Stafford in 1941.

King George VI pulled strings to help Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich amid fears that the Nazis might try to install the duke as a puppet ruler if they took over the Soviet Union.

However, the duke, who worked there under the alias W Mikhailov, 'apparently did not like hard work' and soon packed in the job.

He left for France where he was interned by the Nazis because he rejected fascism.


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=14260630&method=full&siteid=89488&headline=suicide-pigeons-name_page.html

[Vigilantcitizen]

Can you give us the local reporting on it Citizen?

Sure. There's been little or nothing about the stolen uniform on the news, but, I know some people inside the Douglas county sheriff's department.

I'll see what I can find out.

[Indie]

WEATHER WARNING TORNADOES LATER TODAY

THE SETUP LOOKS FAVORABLE FOR A WIDESPREAD AND SIGNIFICANT SEVERE
WEATHER OUTBREAK ACROSS THE LOWER MO VALLEY AND MID MS VALLEY
TODAY...
TORNADIC SUPERCELLS VERY LIKELY.

THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT EVENT!!!!

[bored at work]

LOL

[Indie]

PING. And keep watch on the sky later. Stay safe.

[bored at work]

We've had seven inches of rain so far this month. Five inches more than normal. Boy, can hardly wait for the mosquitos. . .

[Velveeta]

Is there a pipeline in the area? Or refinery?

I'm not sure. I have learned that there is, however, an LNG storage facility at the Port of Providence which certainly would be a target as well as the LNG tankers coming through.