Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirteen

WND ^ | 7-11-04 | N/A

[JustPiper]

Picture credit: TheCabal

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

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HOMELAND INSECURITY

Backup electrical systems failed to kick in

A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained – six days later.

Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.

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

Meet It!
Greet It!
Defeat It!

[HipShot]

Thank you very much. No messenger shooting around here. :)

I actually had to wait for a while before I could respond; the letter has a great impact. The problem for me is that it seems so human and rational on one hand, and so inhumanly determined to cause great suffering on the other. Based on their previous actions and statements, there is only one way to dovetail the two seeming opposites, and that is the most alarming.

Their intented method is obvious; the weapon less so. The target would seem to stand out as well.

Thank you again.

Please stay delurked.

[nwctwx]

Anyone here in the Washington DC area?

I have a friend on another message board posting that local news is talking about a Southwest Flight at BWI that had 12 people 'unconscious' on arrival. He says the report also stated that 6 of them were hospitalized, 2 in critical condition.

Can anyone corroborate this report or have further info?

[Calpernia]

Interesting chess move with Cuba:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172354/posts

U.S. Grants Rare Exception to Cuba Embargo

Posted by nypokerface
On 07/15/2004 11:06:48 PM EDT

AP ^ | 07/15/04 | PAUL ELIAS
In a rare exception to long-standing American foreign policy, U.S. officials have approved a small California biotech company's deal with the Cuban government to develop three experimental cancer drugs created in Havana. The agreement announced Thursday by CancerVax Corp. is the first such commercial deal approved by the U.S. government between a U.S. biotechnology company and Cuba, which has spent $1 billion building a biotechnology program that is among the most advanced in the Third World. One of the three drugs included in the deal is a promising drug that attacks a cancer cell in novel way. Government approval comes...

[drymans wife]

I haven't heard. I will do some checking. Has Fox News
reported anything about it?

[nwctwx]

MSNBC just reported this at the half hour...

Reporting 10 people overcome by 'fumes,' 4 critical

[Dysart]

Just heard this as well.

[Dysart]

Originated in Houston.

[nwctwx]

I haven't seen anything other than the MSNBC report and the second hand report from a friend in DC... searching...

[HipShot]

Yup. Just ask my 11 year old. He agrees. :)

[HipShot]

That never gets old, does it. :)

[HipShot]

Kudos to the TB2Ker's that found it all. I'm just a cross poster.

[HipShot]

Babelfish says "bianco".

[drymans wife]

I am checking AP Breaking and there is nothing there.
I will keep looking. I will check Washington area news.

[HipShot]

Money talks. Standards are great all the way up to the point where they impact the wallet.

[Velveeta]

In critical condition? Oh dear.

[nwctwx]

I posted a thread here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1172370/posts

Hopefully some locals will have more information.

[Calpernia]

Not good:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/16/international/asia/16fili.html

Philippines Viewed as Being Forced to Yield on Hostage
By CARLOS H. CONDE

Published: July 16, 2004

ANILA, July 15 - President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo had no choice but to accede to the demands of Iraqi insurgents who abducted a Philippine truck driver last week and threatened to kill him unless the country withdrew its troops by July 20, analysts and critics said Thursday.

The risk of disappointing Washington, her most important ally, was easily outweighed by the potential political retaliation that could have imperiled Mrs. Arroyo's political and economic agenda for the next six years, they said.

(snip)

[Darnright]

10 People Overcome by Fumes aboard Flight at BWI

[nwctwx]

Someone on the other thread indicates that it may have been a fuel line leak.

This thread always makes me think of the worst first. ;-)

[nwctwx]

LINTHICUM, Md. -- A plane landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport late Thursday night apparently with several people unconscious.

A Southwest Airlines flight from Houston that was supposed to dock at BWI's Gate C11 is reported to have as many as 12 people onboard who were not conscious when the plane landed, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter John Sherman reported. It is unclear as to why the people were possibly unconscious.

But airline officials told 11 News that one person was passed out on the plane and others may have been sick. Airline officials believe the illness may be food-related.

Fire-rescue crews from Baltimore and Anne Arundel counties responded to the airport, where as many as 20 ambulances were observed, Sherman reported.

As many as four Anne Arundel County medic units and at least one Baltimore County medic unit remain on standby status, but officials from both county departments said they did not transport anyone to hospitals.

Sherman reported seeing two planes possibly on the airport's runway, surrounded by police vehicles. Since the incident, air traffic at BWI has been slow. In fact, Sherman reported at 11 p.m. that he had not seen a plane land or take off from the airport since arriving at the scene.

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/3536051/detail.html?z=dp&dpswid=2266479&dppid=68758