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Thanks FreeperfromNJ.
Correct. The long time between exposure and expression of the disease makes it difficult to track. A big outbreak of CJD was observed in an area on the east coast. The only thing the victims had in common was a regular patronage of a race track cafe. The association would have been completely missed absent the driving curiosity of a researcher to find an explanation.
Olympic Airlines, Target of Another Bomb Threat
Source: Associated Press | 3:38:03 PM EST
DJ Bomb Threat Diverts London-Bound Greek Airliner To Corfu 10/04/2004 Dow Jones News Services (Copyright © 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.) ATHENS (AP)--A Greek airliner bound from Athens to London was diverted Monday to the Ionian Sea island of Corfu after a bomb threat, police said.
The Olympic Airways (OAI.YY) Airbus A300-600 plane, carrying 215 passengers and nine crew members, landed at Corfu airport after an anonymous telephone call to the company's Athens headquarters. The airplane, flight OA265, was being searched. Police said they expected it to depart for London at 6 a.m. (0300GMT) Tuesday.
It was third such incident involving the Greek airline in just over a week. The other two involved an Olympic Airways plane flying to New York on Sept. 29 that landed in Shannon, Ireland, and another on Sept. 26 that landed in London.
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/Default.asp?dismode=article&artid=365
28 days until the election.
I'm expecting an attack at any time now. My personal threat level now at EXTREME. That does not mean that I'm hiding my a closet or basement somewhere. I have a job to do and these bastards are not going to keep me from doing it.
To counter this very real threat:
Pray!
Never leave home unarmed. Have at lease 100 rounds extra ammo.
Never leave home w/o 3-day emergency kit (includes cloths, food, water and misc. survival gear). See my FR Homepage for a complete list.
Keep gas tank at least ½ full at all times.
Have at LEAST 30 days of food, water, meds, etc. at home.
Be prepared to shelter in place. When the attack comes, everyone is going to panic. Roads will become impassable. Cell phones will be inoperable.
A good hunting buddy of mine and I bought those new RF walkie talkies w/ a range of 9-12 miles. This will enable us to keep in contact and increase situational awareness.
If we lose power for more than 3 days, expect looting and rioting. Be ready to defend yourself and your loved ones.
Pray!
Yes, this is worst case scenario. Pray for the best. Prepare for the worst.
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200410%5CSPE20041004a.html
"Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties"
By Scott Wheeler
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 04, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The source of the documents
A senior government official who is not a political appointee provided CNSNews.com with copies of the 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service documents. The originals, some of which were hand-written and others typed, are in Arabic. CNSNews.com had the papers translated into English by two individuals separately and independent of each other."
MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Special Dispatch Series No. 785: "AL-ZARQAWI'S MESSAGE TO THE FIGHTERS OF JIHAD IN IRAQ ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2004" (September 15, 2004) (Read More...)
"fayrouz.blogspot.com/2004_09_01_fayrouz_archive.html#109415983198622045" - "IRAN AND AL-ZARQAWI" - "posted by Fayrouz 9/2/2004" (ARTICLE - TRANSLATION - SNIPPET: "A former corps chief said Abu-Mosaab Al-Zarqawi escaped to Turkey last year, after being in Iran and entered Iraq more than a year ago. He confirmed to the newspaper that a meeting was held last June between Al-Zarqawi and a Lebanese fugitive, Emad Mughania, at one of Al-Quds corps centers in Kermanshah providence in western Iran. The source said Mughania played an influential role in forming the Al-Mahdi Army. Al-Mahdi Army belongs to the strict Shia religious cleric, Muqtada Al-Sadr, and trains its members in camps inside Iran. He also mentioned the entrance of Shia fighters from Lebanon to Iraq dressed as religious studies students. These fighters then join Al-Madi Army under the supervision of Emad Mughania. Mughania underwent a cosmetic surgery recently in a sanitarium for the revolutionary guards in northern Iran to change his face. This is the 5th surgery for Mughania, who's been chased by Western and Arabic intelligence organizations for a number of years now. The source said Mughania kept his relationships with Aymen Al-Thawahiri, the number-two man in Al-Qaida organization despite the difficulty of contacting him lately. He added that Mughania submitted a report early this year to chief of the revolutionary guards intelligence after a visit to Iraq. The report outlined the importance of expanding a framework of collaboration between Al-Mahdi Army and Al-Zarqawi's group. Muqtada has lost his standing among the Iraqi shia, especially Al-Najaf, while gaining more supporters in the Sunni triangle.") (Read More...)
Not me! In 1979, I was working at Miami International airport for Wackenhut Security, manning the X-Ray machine, when a really obnoxious passenger came down the concourse cursing everybody for her delays. I watched the monitor closely, hoping I could find maybe a pair of long sharp scissors, and got something MUCH better. The woman started to grab her cosmetics case off the belt when I sternly told her to bring the bag back. The cop behind me, concerned at my harsh tone came up next to me and visibly unsnapped his holster. Suddenly MS OBNOXIOUS was reeeaaal quiet. I flipped open the case and reached inside, rumaging around for the deadly weapon.....I slowly withdrew a HUGE fleshtoned knobby ridged VIBRATOR loudly announcing to the concourse that I had seen evidence of "wires..." I wanted to check to see if it was a.....BOMB!
At the moment I uttered that word, everybody for 100 yds turned to stare. When I held the object up like a sexy imitation of the Statue of Liberty and the cop dissolved into gales of laughter, rolling on the floor as MS OBNOXIOUS started to sink her way into the carpet and slime her way to the aircraft....very quietly. I gave it back to her and warned her not to "BRANDISH IT AT ANYBODY" and she softly took it and scurried away. My boss was less than pleased, but he was chuckling too. The cop never recovered. He had to go on break and tell the rest of them.....
Adding insult to injury, I later heard that the same MS OBNOXIOUS was really nasty and mean to the ticket agents. They were kind and polite all the while. But they got even by deliberately sending her checked luggage to BOMBAY instead of her stated destination of Cincinnatti. Imagine going through all of that and then finding out your bags have been redirected to BOMBAY, India! I wonder if she might think that maybe somebody "upstairs" might have been trying to send her a message?
From Jill's site today:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/a_vision_of_the_sheikh_ubay_bakr.htm
...And this vision she to the His Eminence Sheikh Ubay Bakr Algzaeri that Allah guided and in it says :
I saw the American president George Bush crucified between the sky and earth, and it has crossed it ( he means himself ) with the fall of America . And the vision that the sheikh saw is three times in three successive nights .Allah is the greatest and the praise Allah
"And the vision that the sheikh saw is three times in three successive nights."
Interesting. Three attacks for three nights in a row?
Could be that the sheikh saw the vision three times in three consecutive nights. If there's an attack at night, however, I'll be braced for three more.
from MICHAELMBATES.com:
http://pages.prodigy.net/michaelmbbates/column450.htm
"Thoughts on Iraq and terrorism"
by Michael M. Bates
September 30, 2004
I'm still dying here! Thats a hilarious story. You dont owe me a keyboard, however. I needed a good belly laugh and I'll pay for it myself...LOL
In all my years of law enforcement, the one thing I found out was this: The most obnoxious people have the most to hide...literally.
Most of my old stories arent for a public board, but believe me, I've seen some goodies. Like the transvestite who was PO'ed because a hospital wouldnt finish a sex change procedure....and held him self hostage with a scalpel from a crash kit and demanded a surgeon or he would cut it off (imagine the negotiations involved with that...)
Its a wierd, wierd world out there...thats why I like the country...LOL
http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD79304
Special Dispatch Series - No. 793
October 5, 2004
No.793
"Abu Mazen: The Whole Intifada Was a Mistake"
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=israel&ID=SR01503
Special Report - No. 15
April 29, 2003
No.15
"Abu Mazen: A Political Profile"
By Yael Yehoshua*
It seems that these nuts speak about future attacks in terms of "visions".
The same was being said just before 9/11.
OBl seemed to be sharing a "vision" of the 9/11 attacks with that other Sheyk(nut) who turned himself in over the summer.
from the October 05, 2004 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1005/p01s04-wosc.html
Next wave of Al Qaeda leadership
As the group's Arab core is captured or killed, a new generation of Pakistanis fills the void
By Owais Tohid | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
KARACHI, PAKISTAN - After leaving university, Atta-ur Rehman traded his jeans and T-shirts for a beard and cap, his civil-service aspirations for a martyr's spot in heaven.
He used to spend his time playing cricket, but he is now in a Pakistani jail facing a death sentence on terrorism charges. Mr. Rehman, along with nine other "comrades," is charged with carrying out a deadly June attack against a senior Pakistani Army general in Karachi. The general escaped narrowly but 10 people, including seven soldiers, were killed.
Rehman's circle call themselves Jundullah (God's Army) and have close ties to Al Qaeda. Most are young, educated men, whom Rehman allegedly sent to training camps in Pakistan's remote tribal areas.
Rehman doesn't fit the mold of the typical Al Qaeda leader. Traditionally, most were Arabs who gained status by resisting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Younger, educated recruits tapped for suicide missions like 9/11 typically came from Middle Eastern countries with long histories of pan-Islamic resistance. What sets this new breed apart is that they are joining from places like Pakistan, where the focus has been on regional grievances, like independence for the disputed area of Kashmir. But as the Al Qaeda leadership ranks begin to thin, men like Rehman are starting to climb the ladder.
"It is a new generation of Al Qaeda," says Riffat Hussain, a leading defense and security analyst based in Islamabad, Pakistan. "These are new converts to Al Qaeda. They may have no links with Al Qaeda in the past, but now they are willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause as they feel Al Qaeda is the name of defiance to the West. They are young and angry, and their number has swelled in the aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq."
A voice on an audiotape last weekend, purported to be that of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, called on young Muslims to continue the global fight even if Al Qaeda's leaders are killed or captured. It is people like Rehman and his colleagues that Mr. Zawahiri could have been talking about.
Police here suggest that Pakistan's newly organized jihadis and educated radicals might number in the hundreds. Police say that more than 600 suspected Al Qaeda militants have been rounded up by security forces over the past three years.
Two types of recruits
Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, the 28-year-old known as Al Qaeda's computer man, is among them. A middle-class engineering graduate, Mr. Khan is believed to have played an important role in planning terrorist attacks in the US and Britain before he was arrested in Lahore on July 13.
Khan visited Afghanistan during his student days and later became a bridge between Al Qaeda leaders and their operatives. He helped Al Qaeda operatives send encrypted messages over the Internet.
"His journey to Al Qaeda started from outside a mosque in his Karachi neighborhood where he met extremists," says his old friend named Khurram. He watched his friend's transformation but "never imagined that he would become such a man."
Under interrogation, Khan exposed part of Al Qaeda's intricate web of contacts in Pakistan, Britain, and the US. The information led to the July arrest of Tanzanian terror suspect Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani and a top Al Qaeda operative, Musa el Hindi, in Britain.
"There are two types of recruits," says a senior Pakistani counterterrorism investigator. "There are Islamist-educated young men from middle-class and upper-middle-class families whose feelings are ignited in Islamic congregations at private houses, mosques, and madrassahs and are subsequently picked up by Al Qaeda men from there," he says. "Then there are jihadis who were trained by Arabs and Taliban in Afghanistan and have now been approached by Al Qaeda operatives or their trusted extremists."
Drawn from local ranks
Some of the jihadis are drawn from the ranks of local militant organizations, including Al-Badr (backed by the extremist religious party Jamaat-e-Islami), the Kashmiri outfits Harakat-ul Mujahideen and Jaish-e Mohammad, and the Sunni group Lashkar-e Jhangvi. Most of these groups have, until recently, focused their energies on Kashmir or sectarian conflicts.
The new independent splinter groups are small, receive funding from Al Qaeda, and attack Western targets using tactics like suicide bombings - once unheard of in Pakistan. Investigators in Karachi say several such groups of around 10 members each are operating in the city alone.
"They [Al Qaeda] are mostly banking on local jihadis," says one police investigator. "They themselves don't want to be seen on the ground as they don't feel safe, so they rely on these brainwashed jihadis."
To recruit, Al Qaeda leaders or operatives rely on trusted contacts, preferably people who have fought with Arabs or have been trained by them, says a senior Karachi police investigator. The go-between appoints a group of leaders, who in turn hires the services of members and assigns tasks mostly on the instructions coming from the go-between. For the jihadis, the work can be lucrative - they are paid $170 to $340 a month.
Amjad Farooqi, a top militant reportedly killed by security forces Sunday, was a main recruiter. A veteran of the Afghan resistance in the early 1990s, he linked up with Al Qaeda operatives following Sept. 11, 2001. Security forces arrested some 10 suspected Al Qaeda-linked Pakistani militants following the interrogation of two arrested accomplices of Mr. Farooqi.
The rise of splinter groups has made the task of investigators much more difficult. The police recently recovered a booklet of instructions from a jihadi in the wake of ongoing crackdown.
"Don't roam around with beard and Islamic dress in fashionable neighborhoods," read the instructions. "Always take out the chip of the mobile [phone] while sleeping to avoid being caught. Use mobile [phone] from a crowded place so police don't locate the positioning. Don't write the original numbers of mujahids in a notebook, try to memorize the last three digits."
To bolster secrecy, group members do not know the real names of their comrades, and only group leaders know the whereabouts of other members, says a police official. Suicide bombers are mostly young and usually live and operate separately, he adds.
'The battle is on'
The growing influence of militant groups within the law enforcement agencies has also set alarm bells ringing. Three policemen acted as suicide bombers in the Shiite mosques in Karachi and Quetta. Several low-ranking personnel from the armed forces were arrested for their alleged involvement in the foiled assassination attempts against President Pervez Musharraf.
"It is difficult to monitor the profiles of these new recruits and the new groups," says Karachi police chief Tariq Jameel. "If we want to defeat them then there is a need of collective effort from the entire society to eliminate terrorism and extremism. They are chasing us and we are chasing them. The battle is on."
Good advice!
You raise an EXCELLENT point. I'll worry about it when we get past the AQ threat on our immediate horizon. Before I worry about the next five years, let me worry about the next five weeks. LOL
Sounds like a Dog Day Afternoon alright!
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