Thanks for your encouragement. This is a premonitions that smacked me in the face today, and I can't shake it because of the recent assassination threats. After seeing Portland on the map, it looks like a tricky place to secure because of it's proximity to the border and Vancouver specifically. The fact that the president's father coined the name "Little Beirut" really jumped out at me too.
U.S. Nears Deal to Free Enemy Combatant Hamdi
American Citizen Who Was Captured in Afghanistan Has Been Held Since 2001 Without Being Charged
By Thomas E. Ricks and Jerry Markon
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, August 12, 2004; Page A02
The U.S. government, which has held Yaser Esam Hamdi incommunicado in a Navy brig for two years without charges, much of the time without a lawyer, indicated yesterday that it is nearing a deal that would free him altogether.
The government is negotiating with Hamdi's lawyers about "terms and conditions acceptable to both parties that would allow Mr. Hamdi to be released from . . . custody," according to documents filed in federal court in Norfolk. The legal papers, submitted jointly by federal prosecutors and Hamdi's attorneys, asked the court to stay all proceedings for 21 days while negotiations continue. (snip)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58002-2004Aug11.html
Two of Three Terrorists Apprehended – Terror Alert Continues
Arutz 7 ^ | 21:05 Aug 12, '04 / 25 Av 5764
Posted on 08/12/2004 11:42:07 AM PDT by priceofreedom
Two of Three Terrorists Apprehended – Terror Alert Continues 21:05 Aug 12, '04 / 25 Av 5764
(IsraelNN.com) Police report that two of three terrorists were apprehended while the third remains at large at this time. As a result, the Jerusalem terror alert remains in effect at this hour as the manhunt continues in the hope of preventing a major terror attack in the capital.
The alert was implemented on Wednesday afternoon at about 14:00.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190300/posts