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To: riri
"If I am not mistaken, chicken pox usually manifests itself as shingles in adults. Please correct me if I am wrong."

Depends if the adult has had them or not. If no, then they get a very NASTY case (I was one of them), but generally any recurrance manifests itself as shingles.

821 posted on 05/19/2004 11:30:49 AM PDT by Godzilla (If Kerry is the answer, it must have been a stupid question.)
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Al-Qaida-linked group discussed Olympics

The Associated Press
5/19/2004, 1:46 p.m. ET

PERTH, Australia (AP) — The alleged Southeast Asian operations chief of an al-Qaida-linked terror group expressed interest in attacking the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, according to notes by a British-born terror suspect.

But ranking al-Qaida members suggested that the group, Jemaah Islamiyah, instead attack a prominent Jewish-linked target — either the Israeli embassy or well-known Australian Jewish businessman Joe Gutnick, said the notes taken by Islamic convert Jack Roche.

Details of the notes emerged Wednesday during the third day of Roche's trial for allegedly plotting to blow up the Israeli embassy in Canberra. Roche, who has pleaded innocent, faces a maximum 25-year sentence if convicted.

Gutnick, a Melbourne mining magnate and rabbi who is one of Australia's richest men, is an outspoken supporter of Israel and known for large donations to the Israeli government.

In a notebook shown to Perth District Court by prosecutors, Roche wrote about meeting Jemaah Islamiyah's Southeast Asian operations chief, known as Hambali, and senior al-Qaida officials.

Roche wrote that Hambali, the alleged mastermind of the October 2002 bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, was interested in "doing something" at the Sydney Olympics. The notes did not elaborate.

Roche, writing in Indonesian, detailed how he was to be paid, how he was to recruit three Australian Muslims to help him carry out the plot, and that he received 10 days of explosives training with al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

On Tuesday, prosecutors said Indonesian terror suspect Hambali, whose name is Tiduan Isamuddin, paid Roche $80,000 to carry out an Olympics bombing to draw attention to the plight of Palestinians.

Hambali, who also is accused of masterminding the August bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta that killed 12 and other deadly attacks, was captured in Thailand in August and now is being held by U.S. authorities at an undisclosed location.


823 posted on 05/19/2004 11:33:15 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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