Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread TWELVE

CNN ^ | 7-2-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

LINK TO THREAD ELEVEN

FBI urges vigilance for July 4

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A constant stream of intelligence indicating that al Qaeda wants to strike the United States this summer or fall has led federal officials to urge increased vigilance during the Independence Day weekend, but there is no specific threat of an attack timed to the holiday.

We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[Labyrinthos]

10. Dept of Homeland Scty has held a briefing to the public as well as to Congress. Sen Dachel says that the report (classified) is very serious.

Although I realize that Daschole has been occuppied with his own re-election campaign, he's been relatively quiet over the last few weeks on the presidential campaign in general and President Bush's preformance specifically. I'm begining to suspect that he really knows and appreciates the job our president has done in the war on terror and if he can't say anything bad, he's not going to say anything at all.

[Labyrinthos]

A grand total of 68,951 posts on threads 1 through 13.

[Labyrinthos]

Re SNL -- Very funny. Thanks.

[Indie]

I wonder how many people working at Los Alamos have US passports....[i.e. American citizens for those in Rio Linda..lol]

[Labyrinthos]

Did you see MnC's post about Sunday in London?

I missed it. What's the post number?

[Godzilla]

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[WestCoastGal]

Who needs foreign raghead terrorists when we have home grown nutcases!! I wish they would put him in prison with the other foreigners.

Thanks for all your hard work posting the news for us!!

[WestCoastGal]

JP, when I get on a roll I am MERCYless. ;-)

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks Cindy. Sorry I bailed out last night, my computer started one of it's scanning jobs so I let it go.

Checking out the links you gave me now.

[Labyrinthos]

I was getting a bit worried here. From 6:40 a.m. EDT until your posts, this Thread has been absolutely quiet. Doesn't happen very often.

[cibco]

BTTT = Bump To The Top

[milkncookies]

E-Bomb

In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization back 200 years. And terrorists can build them for $400.

BY JIM WILSON

[nw_arizona_granny]

A faint memory.

Two men at Los Alamos, from some Embassy (China?), who forced their way into a closed area.

We had it here, maybe 6 weeks ago.

As I recall, they kinda forced their way in, refused to leave.

It was strange to me, "what do you mean they were allowed to enter a closed area? Why?".

Need more coffee to fuel brain.

[knak]

I haven't been keeping up lately. What Mossad rumor are you referring too?

[milkncookies]

Michael May, a former director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where U.S. nuclear weapons are designed, and now a professor emeritus at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, said the technological hurdles to a terrorist bomb remain, realistically, quite high.

He discounted the possibility terrorists could make use of a stolen warhead because of all the sophisticated security devices built into them. He also said it would be all but impossible for a non-state terrorist group to develop the capability of making its own weapons-grade uranium, because of the industrial infrastructure required.

The real fear, he said, is that terrorists could steal or buy from corrupt officials weapons-grade uranium, either from Russia or perhaps a country like Pakistan, where many government and military officials are sympathetic to radical Islamists. Getting that material is far more difficult than actually creating a workable weapon, he said.

"Scientists have been pointing to this possibility for years," May said. "What higher priority can there be? It's not a high-likelihood event, but the results are so catastrophic you have to pay attention."

He said that a relatively small, 1 kiloton bomb -- about one-fifteenth the size of the weapon that destroyed Hiroshima -- would kill most of the people within an 800-meter radius, or about a half-mile. Depending on the direction and speed of the winds, the fallout could spread for miles and poison huge numbers of people.

Bunn helped prepare a study at Harvard that estimated a 10-kiloton weapon detonated in Manhattan could kill 500,000 people and cause $1 trillion in immediate economic disruption.

One problem with a nuclear attack is that, unlike other kinds of attacks, there is no way of mitigating the devastation. "Once it happens, there's nothing to do except pick up the wounded and care for them," said May.

LINK

[nw_arizona_granny]

I found this site, and did not check it further, think that I read the cache on it, but it is a report of 'suitcase type' incidents.

appears to be a company that sells the scanners to find 'things in cases'.

We are not the only country with the problem, it is amazing how much it is going on.

I checked and it works.

Bombs and Powders May 2004

http://www.scanna-msc.com/latestnews.htm

[British chick]

See post #3608 by Mossad1967. I believe thats the rumor post being referred to.

[mindspy]

Your right. Hadn't thought about that, but after reading your post Dasshole was out of character. How odd of him not to take a jab at Bush when he had the chance. Hmmm?

[knak]

thanks, I'll check.

Just found this one.

Classified Data Missing From Los Alamos
Items Containing Classified Information Missing From Los Alamos Lab in New Mexico