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I used to wonder what Bono knew that he carried from Ireland, especially the way he involved himself in our politics!
BTW how did you fair from the panhandle being hit so hard?!
THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.iccwbo.org/ccs/imb_piracy/weekly_piracy_report.asp
WHAT? Do you live in a town where the streets have no names?
Glad you've gotten this to some good people
No, I promise you she has been under 'constant' investigation from them
For years trying to help the feds, whenever, wherever they asked, supplied them with everything they required and she had knowledge they did not. So I guess it was an embarassment to them, they had meandering brainfarts, she was the one they should waste their time on, instead of all the valuable , verified, data she acquired , giving them and any prosecutor what was needed to convict the likes of Sami-al-Arian, the moron who still today runs ISNA and a lot of the extremists etal. But instead they hounded her and another FBI agent who did pay attention. Typical of FBI, when there is a whistleblower right?
To add insult they once again opened another investigation into why she knows so much. Thousands of man hours with public records and research thats why and the fact she lived it growing up! But what do they do? Up until as recent as last year they still wirtetapped her, followed her and associates. She wrote the book to help us all in this fight and we need to help her now.
I loved Batman standing up there lalala LOL! But what gives with chicken Robin? LOL!
Tancredo presses White House on control of border
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20040915-121948-8302r
From a list that I find invaluable:
China test fires new cruise missile called as 'dangerous' as ballistic missile
East-Asia-Intel.com, September 14, 2004
China has test fired a new land attack cruise missile (LACM) identified as the Dong Hai-10 (DH-10) or East China Sea-10.
A U.S. defense source identified the DH-10 as a ground launched second-generation land attack cruise missile having a range of more than 1,500 km. It is likely to be equipped with integrated inertial navigation system/global positioning system, terrain contour mapping, digital scene-matching area correlator having a circular error probability (CEP) of 10 meters.
Feng Dawei, a researcher at the No. 3 Research Institute of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, announced on Aug. 16 that an unidentified missile had been successfully launched, according to the Chinese-language Zhongguo Xinwen She. The exact date of the test was not revealed.
The DH-10 is the second LACM that China is likely to field within the next few years. The other is the new Ying-ji-63 (YJ-63) or Strike Eagle-63.
According to the U.S. defense source, the YJ-63 is a first generation LACM with a range of 400-500 km and capable of carrying a 500-kg HE (high explosive) warhead. It will be launched and optically guided from the H-6 bomber. It will be limited by weather and line of sight, with a CEP of 10-15 meters. It is believed to have GPS-inertial measurement unit/electro-optical guidance.
The source also noted that Taiwan faces a serious threat from China's new HARPY Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). Israel sold the system to China in 2001 and it is now operational. "Chinese HARPYs can suppress Taiwan SAM and radar sites for long duration by detecting, attacking and destroying radar targets with a very high hit accuracy."
All three platforms pose new challenges to Taiwan, which has been engaged in a long debate over defense issues focused mainly on China's tactical ballistic missile threat. "Taiwan has not met the growing LACM threat head on," the source said. "LACMs are as dangerous, if not more so, than conventional ballistic missiles. LACMs are at least twice as accurate, carry the same size warhead as a conventional ballistic missile and are generally one-third the cost of a ballistic missile," the source said.
Additionally, China has modified one of its Xian H-6 "Badger" bombers (81217) with four wing-mounted cruise missile pylons. Defense sources said China has the capability of converting up to 25 platforms, giving Beijing the potential of 100 air-launched cruise missiles to join the 200-300 SRBMs that would form the first wave of missiles launched at Taiwan. "Before too long, there will also be ship and sub-launched cruise missiles," a source said. The H-6 is a twinjet medium bomber based on the Russian Tu-16.
And beyond...
http://www.east-asia-intel.com/eai/
ping
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The U.S. military says President Hamid Karzai aborted a trip to an eastern province after a rocket hit near the landing site.
FNC- IRAQI INTERIOR MINISTRY SAYS GUNMEN HAVE ABDUCTED TWO AMERICANS, ONE BRITON IN BAGHDAD
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan's information minister says Pervez Musharraf will continue to be army chief and president, despite a previous agreement.
PA clergy call for genocide of Jews
Use TV broadcasts to urge killing of 'brothers of the monkeys and pigs'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40470
Iran poses unique danger
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40477
TESTING THE FAITH
Ex-Muslim's site trashes Muhammad
Founder challenges: Prove me wrong and I'll take down page
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40473
Kidnapping women and killing children or how Islamic terrorism is morphing
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1443
Johnny Ramone of 'The Ramones' Dies at 55
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20040916/ap_on_en_mu/obit_ramone&printer=1
US debates military strikes on 'nuclear Iran'
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/eed88be8-0741-11d9-9672-00000e2511c8.html
Researching the weapons of the future: genetically modified bioweapons
By Andy Oppenheimer
Advances in nanotechnology, genetics and nuclear isomers are permitting the production of a new generation of unconventional weapons.
As one of the most rapidly moving areas of scientific research today, biotechnology presents the most immediate emerging threat for weapons development. The revolution in genetic modification (GM) techniques could create even deadlier strains of disease and provide cheaper methods of development, as well as blurring the dividing line between curing disease and causing it. Terrorists and nation-states with adequate biological expertise could capitalise on the GM revolution using minimal resources and equipment. Unscrupulous scientists lending or selling their services to terrorist groups could also exploit many advances taking place at medical and biological institutes as civilian research and development.
An obvious conclusion is that smallpox, anthrax and other diseases are deadly enough without being modified. While smallpox itself is believed to kill 30 per cent of the people it infects, it is not likely to affect vaccinated populations; a GM smallpox virus, however, that cannot be countered by vaccination would doubtless be much more lethal.
GM weapons are not new. The Soviet civilian biological warfare agency, Biopreparat, from 1973 experimented with various harmful and antidote-resistant organisms, including a combination of smallpox with Venezuelan equine encephalitis, known as ‘Veepox’. Russia also developed ‘Obolensk’ anthrax - a strain resistant to both vaccines and antibiotics.
With the application of GM techniques, up to 100 times more pathogens or toxins could be produced per cell than by naturally occurring strains. It would be possible to insert genes into infectious micro-organisms to increase their antibiotic resistance, virulence and environmental stability. For example, the gene for antibiotic resistance could be removed from the notorious hospital ‘superbug,’ staphylococcus aureus, which is antibiotic-resistant. This could then be transferred into a far more dangerous organism like the plague, thereby making plague, which in its bubonic form is curable, extremely difficult to treat.
One of the problems of creating and delivering a biological weapon is maintaining its survival once it has been dispersed. The agents in many existing bioweapons do not spread easily or at all. Bioagents could be genetically modified to have enhanced hardiness to facilitate delivery and dissemination and to increase infectivity. Making a pathogen survive longer under specified environmental conditions, and be difficult or impossible to detect, may soon be possible.
Source: http://www.janes.com/security/international_security/news/jcbw/jcbw040914_1_n.shtml
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Microsoft warns of poisoned picture peril
By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus
Published Wednesday 15th September 2004 07:39 GMT
The old bromide that promises you can't get a computer virus by looking at
an image file crumbled a bit further Tuesday when Microsoft announced a
critical vulnerability in its software's handling of the ubiquitous JPEG
graphics format.
The security hole is a buffer overflow that potentially allows an attacker
to craft a special JPEG file that would take control of a victim's machine
when the user views it through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, and other
programs. The poisoned picture could be displayed on a website, sent in
email, or circulated on a P2P network.
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Office XP are vulnerable. Older versions
of Windows are also at risk if the user has installed any of a dozen other
Microsoft applications that use the same flawed code, the company said in
its advisory. The newly-released Windows XP Service Pack 2 does not contain
the hole, but vulnerable versions of Office running atop it can still be
attacked if left unpatched. Patches are available from Microsoft's website.
The company said it's not aware of the hole being publicly exploited in the
wild, and has not seen any examples of proof of concept code.
The JPEG bug rounds out a growing menagerie of vulnerabilities in code that
displays image files. Mozilla developers last month patched the open-source
browser against a critical hole discovered in a widely-deployed library for
processing PNG images. And last July, Microsoft simultaneously fixed two
image display holes in Internet Explorer: one made users potentially
vulnerable to maliciously-crafted BMP images, the second to corrupt GIF
files. The GIF bug had been publicly disclosed 11 months earlier.
There was a time when the idea of a malicious image file was absurd enough
to be the topic of an April Fools joke. One early and widely-circulated hoax
message dating from 1994 warned users of a computer virus infecting the
comment field of JPEG files.
"It was someone saying that just looking at a JPEG on your screen can get
you a virus," recalls Rob Rosenberg, editor of the debunking site
Vmyths.com. "In '94 it was a myth, but in '04 it's the real thing... We've
got the JPEG of death now."
I believe Robin was some way behind and was told "Stop or we'll shoot!" Basically he didn't fancy his chances.
The police are threatening that if anything like this happens in the future, the will shoot first and ask questions later. They reckon some al qaeda type might give it a shot in a superhero costume. Only in Britain!
I'm glad I'm runing OS X on my iMac.
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/milinfo/affacts/blmoab.htm
Watch the little video clip - a big, beautiful explosion. Here are a pic of the beauty.
My bad. Sorry.
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