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Yahoo News ^ | 07-18-04 | Randall Mikkelsen

[freeperfromnj]

Navy: Ship, Small Boat Collide in Gulf

Friday July 23, 2004 11:16 AM

MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - The USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier collided with a dhow in the Arabian Gulf while running night flights in support of U.S. operations in Iraq, the Navy said Friday. The crew of the small boat was missing........

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4342628,00.html

[Labyrinthos]

It's like pornography, you may not be able to define it, but you'll know it when you see it...

We have a winner. That was a great answer to my question. And you're absolutely right.

[HipShot]

From the "troglodyte" Dept:

Broken water main snarls traffic

Witnesses told authorities a manhole cover was blown into the air about 11:30 a.m. near the intersection of 10th Street, Louise Avenue and Central Avenue. At the height of the emergency water shot about 20 feet into the air.

charlotte.com

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Mobile phones used in N.Y. on 9/11 see duty in Salem

They will be removed as early as this morning if Verizon technicians are able to finish repairing cables damaged Monday by a fire in a manhole at East Main Street and Brand Avenue in Salem.

roanoke.com

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Boston security forces taking no chances for convention

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - They're sealing the manhole covers near Boston's Fleet Center, the site of next week's Democratic National Convention.

philly.com

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Police receive calls about manhole cover

Late yesterday afternoon at about 5:30 p.m., Natick Police received numerous calls from residents that the same manhole cover had been lifted out of the ground again.
Natick Police Sgt. Brian Grassey said it appeared the cover had not been placed properly back into its spot, and was lifted by a passing vehicle.
"There's been a lot of people going in and out of it the last couple of days," Grassey said.

Metro West Daily

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NStar comes under legislative scrutiny after manhole accident

NATICK -- The House committee that regulates utilities will investigate NStar's maintenance and budget records after a series of dangerous incidents including Tuesday's manhole cover explosion that critically injured a Holliston teen.

Metro West Daily

[HipShot]

From the "Bring your own marshmallows" Dept:

New Calif. Wildfire Erupts, Others Slow

HEMET, Calif. July 23, 2004 — Just as firefighters were getting a handle on one large blaze north of Los Angeles, a new wildfire ignited roughly 50 miles to the west, spreading across nearly 800 acres.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040723_251.html

[nw_arizona_granny]

Heavy thinking and too early in the morning.

My first thought on the JFK colliding with the dhow , is of the Kitty Hawk and all our research on it.

In our posts #2103 and 2104 yesterday, it was reported that 2 bombs were dropped by planes from this ship, dropped on rebel targets in Iraq.

Tonight as new flights were leaving, a dhow tries to hit them. Hard to buy.

Wednesday night, the guest on Mark Edwards Radio (KDWN)show was a Merchant Marine, who guests with Mark when his ship is in,
he was saying that the the terrorists navy is 200 to 300 ships, he said it included dhows and also all types of ships. He also mentioned cargo ships.

I have listened to the guest before, he knows and tells it as he sees it on his trips. He is Coast Guard trained and is whatever it is that is 2nd to the captain of his ship.

He also talked about the pirates.

Most of what I heard, we already knew here.....Thanks for sharing.

I didn't think that they would take a dhow against a carrier, looks like I was wrong.

[Domestic Church]

"Ed Dames was on Art Bell's show last weekend. He expects a series of coronal mass ejections in rapid succession that literally burns the surface of the earth"

No caffeine yet, Myrddin, can you flesh this concern out....when is it expected to occur? Who the heck is Ed Dames? Will there be any forewarning?(Where is the nearest cave,lol?)

Could this be part of the jihadi calculations?

[Domestic Church]

Sunspot 652 largest ever recorded:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176963/posts

[Domestic Church]

Red Terror:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1176976/posts

[Domestic Church]

From Red Terror:

"The KGB also had plans to put America in the dark."

[Domestic Church]

" Operating from a safe house in Big Spring Park, near
Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, KGB terrorists planned to attack powerline interconnection points
serving the Northeast."

Pinging you to post 2729!!!!

[Domestic Church]

Ping to 2729... " "Target Granit." Under cover of darkness, agents who had infiltrated the United States, most likely from Canada, would recover high explosives and attack the network of piers and warehouses that line the Port of New York."

Seems the KGB had done their homework on the old faultlines...no doubt the suitcases were an update.

[Velveeta]

"Osama Bleach Laden" LOLOLOL!

[Velveeta]

Feb 1998 statement:

http://www.fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/980223-fatwa.htm

[freeperfromnj]

Tug boat on Hackensack River hits bridge

7/23/2004, 8:18 a.m. ET
The Associated Press

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A tugboat pushing a barge full of coal up the Hackensack River early Friday crashed into the Whittpenn Bridge connecting Jersey City and Harrison, authorities said......

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/109058578057720.xml&storylist=jersey

[freeperfromnj]

SENIOR CIA OFFICIALS: BIN LADEN WILL BE CAUGHT

By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER
The Associated Press
7/23/04 3:08 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Al-Qaida's leaders have faced increasingly aggressive Pakistani military operations in June and July, a senior CIA official said as the agency came under attack for failing to combat the threat from Osama bin Laden before Sept. 11.

U.S. intelligence officials think bin Laden is hiding somewhere along the rugged Afghan-Pakistani border. Military and intelligence agencies from numerous countries, but most significantly Pakistan as of late, have assisted in the search for him over the nearly three years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin has pledged recently that bin Laden will still be caught.

"We have pins on a map. We have reports," said a second senior CIA official, speaking of bin Laden's whereabouts. The officials briefed reporters at CIA headquarters about a highly critical report released Thursday by the presidential commission investigating Sept. 11.

Still, bin Laden remains elusive.

The commission's report detailed a series of strategic and tactical mistakes made by the intelligence community, including missed opportunities to go after terrorist operatives and thwart the attack.

Even today, intelligence veterans have said the agency has no useful idea where bin Laden is.

"It is the same as always. They have a general idea, but they don't have specifics. They can put a pin on a map, but that pin is going to cover 40 square miles, and there is no guarantee he is in the pin area," said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief.

Federal officials have warned of a heightened risk of attack leading up to this country's November elections. The first CIA official said credible evidence suggests that bin Laden and other senior leaders called "al-Qaida central" are thought to be currently planning attacks.

Other groups sharing the same militant ideology are plotting as well.

"You're seeing parallel things going on. You're seeing the continuation of the remnants of the al-Qaida that we began destroying over time," the official said. "At the same time, you're seeing organizations that took ideological inspiration, themselves trying to conduct attacks.

"That gives you a picture of the world."

http://www.nj.com/breakingnews/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0435_BC_Where‘sbinLaden?&&news&tradecentercrash

[freeperfromnj]

Tanker Hauling 9,000 Gallons Of Gas Overturns Near Hudson River

POSTED: 8:02 am EDT July 23, 2004

OSSINING, N.Y. -- An 18-wheel tanker hauling up to 9,000 gallons of gasoline overturned on Thursday and began leaking, polluting the nearby Hudson River, police said....

http://www.wnbc.com/traffic/3568601/detail.html

[freeperfromnj]

MALAYSIA MONITORING TERRORISM THREAT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, July 23 (UPI) -- Malaysia is working closely with Thailand on the possibility of a terrorist attack in southern Thailand between by the month.
Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday "our forces are on alert. We are gathering intelligence reports, so we are monitoring the situation."

He said that the two countries' intelligence agencies had been exchanging information following a report from Thailand indicating there would be an attack in southern Thailand during the period......

http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/07230000aaa05252.upi&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News

[Domestic Church]

This guy got kicked out of the SF for supporting OBL and the he gets a job as a TSA screener?!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177047/posts

[freeperfromnj]

You've got to be kidding me! But I shouldn't be surprised. When I checked my baggage curbside in Newark last week my screener's name was Mohammed - had the long beard, the little cap, the whole look. Only thing missing was the prayer rug.