Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Ten

Yahoo News ^ | 6-10-04 | AP

[SwankyC]

It just looks like a left wing hit piece to me. Did I miss something?

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1151881/posts

Tbilisi tells Moscow to stay out of its affairs
Russian Journal ^ | June 03, 2004


Posted on 06/11/2004 1:53:38 PM EDT by RussianConservative


TBILISI - Georgia told Russia on Wednesday to stay out of its affairs in a sharpening dispute over its breakaway South Ossetia region, where Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is trying to re-assert central control. The foreign ministry of the ex-Soviet republic defended its action in sending troops on Monday to the internal border with the region to protect anti-smuggling checkpoints that Georgia said Russian peacekeepers were trying to remove.

That action drew a sharp rebuke from Moscow which complained of "provocative acts" by the Tbilisi government and a danger of "violence and bloodshed". In a statement, Georgia's foreign ministry said: "This affair concerns Georgia's territory and Georgia is a sovereign state and has the right to take action to uphold the law on its own territory, just like Russia and other states."

The turbulent, multi-ethnic region of which Georgia is a part is a transit route for oil from the Caspian basin, making it strategically important for both Moscow and Washington. Saakashvili recently brought Georgia's renegade Adzhara region back into the fold by forcing out the local leader, and has made clear he has now set his sights on regaining control over South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia.

But both have rejected the advances of the U.S.-educated leader who won a landslide election this year after a bloodless revolution. A four-way commission set up after South Ossetia's 1991-2 separatist war met in the region on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse the war of words.

[milkncookies]

Another "exercise" with an unusual name. Seems everybody feels the need to be ready.......for something.

Operation Black Rain gets underway

A top secret anti-terrorism exercise involving hundreds of security personnel is beginning in the North East. Grampian Police have released few details about Exercise Black Rain.

Preparations for the huge training exercise, believed to centre on counter-terrorism have been underway for months. The operation in the North East, codenamed Black Rain has been given the highest possible status.

During the weekend the Cabinet Office's emergency briefing room will be activated and Home Secretary David Blunkett or his designated deputy will oversee the exercise which runs from today until Sunday. A recent high profile exercise in Central London was part of the Government's national programme for contingency exercises.

As well as the emergency services and local authorities, the military will provide engineering support. The Ministry of Defence say there may also be Special Forces involvement, but have refused to comment further.

The five hundred thousand pound exercise will involve around one third of the Grampian police's eighteen hundred employees and is partly funded by the Home Office. Grampian Police are pledging that there'll will be as little disruption to the public as possible.

[rickylc]

I have three dogs, and they would certainly enjoy a nice long walk!!

:D

[swarthyguy]

I shall be with you in spirit, drinking a frostie for good measure.

Ping us a report! What the hey, it's not a crime to irritate.

[Cindy]

You're welcome.

[Calpernia]

What does CME stand for?

[rickylc]

The dogs are leashed up and ready to roll!

On Satan, on Kufar, on Infidel!

(That's their names for this little adventure, should anyone ask, the one I'll call satan is even all black! ;), Their real names are Wadi, Idget, and Miss Henny Penny(aka satan))

[rickylc]

Coronal Mass Ejection, a cloud of particles ejected when a sunspot erupts.

[bored at work]

I would have to say yes. Same general region. . .Yellowstone clips several states. North Dakota is only one state away. . .

ouch. . .from where I sit it is in the same general region. . .its next door. . .

[Calpernia]

>>>>However, you should expect more swelling and itching than you got in third grade.

Swelling or itching was nothing. I remember being unconscious and groggy for days.

Thanks. I didn't know I was still allergic.

[swarthyguy]

IN India a few years ago, I called my cousin's doberman Saddam.

Should be good for a laugh when you stroll nonchalantly near the area.

[Calpernia]

You are really going to do that? Ricky, that is not safe.

[jerseygirl]

I don't know. Hopefully, a hoaxer.

[Calpernia]

Thanks.

[jerseygirl]

I guess it is supposedly part of an "exercise"? (re- Russians airlifting troops to the Far East)

[null and void]

I don't know why I've been stung so often I avoid them and the damn things just find me.

Could be that mango honey shampoo...

*ducking*

[ExSoldier]

The Masons were forced underground in the UK because there were too many charges that Judges and Barristers were fixing the outcomes of cases for fellow Masons. But to my knowledge, it isn't happening here.

[jerseygirl]

Granny, that is so creepy.

The aurora was what I saw in that very intense dream I posted here (reluctantly) several months ago. The aurora covered 2/3 of the night sky.

It was preceded by brilliant stars shooting across the sky- some from the east and some from the west. Then the stars were falling- there were people watching the display from a bridge- oohing and aahhing like they were watching fireworks----

until the stars started blazing across the sky and falling to the ground.

I will NEVER forget that dream. I woke up extremely energized and with a sense of awe, and a need to share that dream with others. The beauty was so very intense.

I usually just dream about things like....taking an exam after forgetting it was scheduled---normal things like that.

[JustPiper]

Safety prayers are with you in Atlanta TMP!