Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

To: grizzfan; technochick99; Right_Handed_Writer; EternalVigilance; TheRightGuy; RedWing9; ...

To my Chicago Freeper's Read Grizz's post:

the Sears Tower in Chicago

3,181 posted on 08/20/2004 4:58:29 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

To: Imperialist; nwctwx; All

I'm around my friend...NWCTWX will be most upstanding, after all look at his Mom ~wink

3,182 posted on 08/20/2004 5:01:37 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

To: callmejoe; All

We live or die based on knowing who the enemy is. And who the enemy is not.

These words should be heeded in every aspect of life

3,183 posted on 08/20/2004 5:03:13 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

To: Donna Lee Nardo

Oh and my job is cut out for me the way Chicago's liberal media is slamming my Alan!

Trailing off singing:
I've got work to dooooooo....I can’t sleep ( can’t sleep )
I can’t keep ( hey ) Both ends burning this way for long...

3,184 posted on 08/20/2004 5:07:14 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

From Riley's Mommy:

http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/babypage_view.asp?URLID=1H7G6G8O9F

To everyone that has sent their love and well wishes,thank you from the bottom of our hearts!You will never know what it has meant to us!God Bless
Mommy and Daddy

To my heart,you were more than worth the wait!You will always be mommy's heart and soul!Your smile,your eyes and your touch are precious!I love you!
Mommy

3,185 posted on 08/20/2004 5:10:24 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

To: Donna Lee Nardo; MamaDearest; Labyrinthos; drymans wife; nwctwx; Quix; DAVEY CROCKETT; ...

3,186 posted on 08/20/2004 5:17:26 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

Second Gas Blast Rocks Texas Facility
Friday, August 20, 2004

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129507,00.html

NOTE:

Everyone within a three-mile radius of the facility was being evacuated after the second blast and additional shelters were being set up, authorities said. The first explosion had prompted evacuations within a one-mile radius and surrounding highways were closed.

The cause of the new blast had not been determined.

3,187 posted on 08/20/2004 5:29:14 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

Bombs Target U.N. Afghan Election Office
{Get Ready People}

A series of bombs went off at a U.N. voter registration office in western Afghanistan (search), injuring six policemen, setting vehicles ablaze and shattering windows, police and the United Nations (search) said Friday. It was the latest in a string of attacks targeting election workers.

The blasts occurred late Thursday at a voter registration site in Farah City, near the border with Iran and about 465 miles southwest of the capital, Kabul, said Mohammed Rasool Khan, the deputy police chief for the province.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,129509,00.html

3,188 posted on 08/20/2004 5:31:27 AM PDT by JustPiper (I once had a pinglist a mile long....took me BumPING all day long)

Awesome post. Thanks for that analysis. Oil could touch $50 as early as today.

It seems to me if we are not prepared to eradicate a nuclear Middle East (excluding Israel), then we are looking at a potential geo-political chessboard comprising the United States, China, Iran, and North Korea (and to a lesser extent, Russia and the U.K.). Israel, at that point, would have to depend on M.A.D. as their only umbrella against a rain of missiles coming from Tehran.

That said, contemplating a long-range nuclear Iran brings an even greater urgency to the matters at hand. Should a pre-emptive strike take place against, say, a carrier group in the Gulf, our government would surely have to respond conventionally. Tehran, I believe, would cling precariously to M.A.D. since a flattened capital does nothing to advance the cause of Islam - especially Shiite Islam, which is not exactly a bell ringer for pan-Islamic jihad. The al Qaeda Wahabbi variety seems much more capable of uniting the Arabs against the West.

If we back down from Iran, we will follow the blueprint in the Korean Peninsula, which, for the lack of China's presence, would have likely already resulted in some kind of N. Korean attack on the South (likely WMD). That scenario is still very much in play, and with the United States shifting troops out of that theatre, it seems to be a ringing endorsement of Li'l Kim's lunacy and burning desire to punish Seoul. Without digressing too much further, let me just say that I think the United States will act quickly to relieve Li'l Kim of his existence before his submarines can be outfitted with U.S.-range WMD. Politics after a while becomes nothing but window dressing. At some point, the powers that be will resort to instinct (we pray), where survival becomes the only goal. There is no risk too great when dealing with a rabid dog like Kim, who has repeatedly threaten the destruction of Seattle and L.A. by nuclear force.

In summary, it's my opinion that we are clearly in the nascent stages of World War III. Unless the regimes in N. Korea, Tehran, and Syria are overturned and al Qaeda is legitimately crippled, there is only one course when it comes to this rogue's gallery of Madmen: Bloody conflict.

Have a nice day everyone!

3,189 posted on 08/20/2004 5:48:35 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever

Have a nice day everyone!

back at ya . . .

3,190 posted on 08/20/2004 6:04:40 AM PDT by bored at work

To: bored at work

Crops sprayed with chemical, killed

Associated Press
August 20, 2004

LaPORTE-- A farmer lost eight acres of corn valued at $30,000 after someone filled a crop sprayer with weed killer instead of insecticide.

"It couldn't have been accidental or a mistake. It was obviously done purposefully by someone," Mike Garwood said Thursday.

Police said Garwood noticed the crop appeared unhealthy on Aug. 12, shortly after it was sprayed. By Saturday, all eight acres of corn on the parcel at Garwood Orchards had turned brown.

Garwood told police he suspected a disgruntled former employee poured herbicide into the sprayer's tank after being fired. Another worker who later sprayed the crop did not realize that the tank contained the wrong chemical.

"It took us about a week to notice it," said Garwood.

Garwood said the two gallons of weed killer in the tank was enough to kill about 25 percent of the corn planted on the farm about 30 miles west of South Bend.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/171866-9737-102.html

3,191 posted on 08/20/2004 6:34:04 AM PDT by 4thygipper

To: Donna Lee Nardo

"Bin Laden, he believes, is not a lonely maverick, but draws support from much of the Islamic world, which resents the US not for what it is, but for what it does - supporting Israel almost uncritically,....."

"...the conflict with Islamic extremism will continue to spiral without a fundamental rethink of US priorities in Iraq and a relationship with Israel that "drains resources, earns Muslim hatred and serves no vital US national interest".

It seems that Mike Scheuer, senior intelligence office at the CIA just doesn't get the fact that Islam wants to wipe all infadels off the face of the planet. How can someone who is in charge of the "Bin Laden Issue Station" still be buying into the PC crapola about Islam being a "religion of peace".

The fact that we exist as a free society, with religious freedom is the reason that the islamists want to kill us now, and will always want to terrorize and kill us. It does not matter one iota that we have an alliance with Israel, it just makes the islamists job much more difficult. If we were to cut all ties with Israel and the Islamics were to take over the land and people in Israel.....guess what the U.S. would be next!!! So our ties with Israel make no difference, it is just another excuse that the Islamics use to bolster their hatred against us.

The scary part is that Mr. Scheuer and those like him who are in charge of helping gather intelligence and protecting the U.S., are still playing the blame game...with the U.S. as the main source of their blame...once again the enemy within.

3,192 posted on 08/20/2004 6:44:00 AM PDT by all4one ("..a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents" Sir W. Churchill)

Hopefully everyone will click on the link and read this important article.

From the article:

at least 160 of the 650 detainees being held in Guantanamo, Cuba, are from Saudi Arabia. That's almost a quarter of those picked up in Afghanistan and Iraq during the active phase of the conflicts in those two nations.

They do not include the Saudis who, immediately following 9-11, were allowed to be flown out of the US, even when all other aircraft were grounded.

That permission was granted by none other than Richard Clarke, the former staff member of the National Security Council who then wrote a book that criticized the Bush administration for its presumed failures.

3,193 posted on 08/20/2004 6:49:55 AM PDT by Lucy Lake