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To: ExSoldier

I never knew I was a goblin. Thanks for the heads up...

Wait a minute... could I get "special status" if I claimed to be a lesbian trapped in a man's body?


3,143 posted on 08/19/2004 8:14:19 PM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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*** BREAKING NEWS ***

South Bend Tribune

Thursday, 19-Aug-2004 22:16:05 EST

FBI warning military recruiters of terrorism threat
By ADAM JACKSON
Tribune Staff Writer

Federal Bureau of Investigation officials contacted armed forces recruiting centers across the country this week, The Tribune has learned, to notify recruiters of intelligence pointing to possible terrorist attacks on the centers sometime in the next two months.

FBI Indiana spokeswoman Wendy Osborne said she could neither confirm nor deny the report, saying that it was “at the law enforcement sensitive level.” But other law enforcement officials and representatives of the armed forces have confirmed the report.

“This was a nationwide alert sent to recruiting centers,” said Public Affairs Officer Mary Auer with the Army Recruiting Center state headquarters in Indianapolis. “So far, I am not aware of any incidents that have occurred.”

Auer said the alert was on her e-mail when she came into work Thursday morning, adding that Army officials wasted no time in getting the word out across the state.

“We have been in contact with law enforcement agencies near our recruiting centers to advise them of the situation,” she said.

What will those law enforcement officials look for? Mike Samp, chief of the investigative division of the Mishawaka Police Department, said police officers with the department will be keeping a closer eye on the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on West McKinley Avenue, just looking for anything out of the ordinary.

“Every time they pass through that area, they will be on the alert for anything that’s out of place,” he said. “I don’t think (Osama) bin Laden has a vendetta against the Princess (Mishawaka), but we will be keeping an eye out.”

The alert did not include specific information on the type of terrorist threat that might be aimed at the recruiting centers.

Nor did it indicate what type of measures might be effective against the threat.

But measures are being taken. Sgt. David Lee, commander of the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Plymouth, acknowledged that the staff at his office would take precautions against the threat but refused to elaborate.

Auer also was tight-lipped about what personnel at individual centers might do to combat the threat.

“We have appropriate force measures in place in case something happens,” she said.

But in South Bend, Indiana Northwest Region recruiting commander Capt. Rick Sweet said he and his staff would try to keep business as usual in the face of the FBI warning, without resorting to measures such as adjusting the hours of business or locking the doors.

“There’s been some stuff about a potential threat,” he said. “Nothing substantiated or anything like that.”

Whether or not an attack ever comes, people such as George Noirot, public affairs chief for the Great Lakes Army Recruiting Battalion in Lansing know that increased vigilance has become the norm, whether a threat is specific or not.

“We live in a different time than we did five years ago,” he said. “Times are different, so we take every caution with a great deal of concern.”

Tribune staff writers Melissa West, Josh Stowe and Heather Thomas contributed to this story.
http://www.southbendtribune.com/breakingnews/posts/1519.html


3,144 posted on 08/19/2004 8:18:14 PM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo
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