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Posted on 12/23/2004 10:30:10 PM PST by nwctwx
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It was a deliberate suicide attempt, driver deliberately parked Jeep on tracks, changed mind at last minute, jumped from Jeep, ran off at last minute. Police still looking for driver of the Jeep.
How does one find a red Jeep that plans to park on the
railroad tracks, before it is too late?
There are brains working out there, shame those brains are not working for peace.
2 FLIGHTS QUARANTINED OVER VIRUS FEARS
Last Updated Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:25:00 EST
CBC News
REGINA - Almost 400 airline passengers returning from the Dominican Republic were temporarily quarantined in Regina and Ottawa late Tuesday following concerns over the highly contagious Norwalk virus.
Passengers arrive in Regina to masked security.
Health Canada decided to keep 200 passengers on board the Regina plane for three hours after one woman became sick and eight others showed similar symptoms.
A doctor on board, who had been consulting with health officials, told passengers the most likely cause of the illness was the Norwalk virus.
The stomach virus, which causes vomiting and diarrhea, is often spread through the vomit or feces of an infected person. The symptoms usually last for 24 to 72 hours.
Emergency vehicles were dispatched and the sick woman was taken to hospital.
"At first, we weren't really worried, and then we started to hear through the grapevine that people were sick," said passenger Lindsay Strass. "Eventually we heard it might be Norwalk, and then we really started to worry."
Passengers were warned to watch for any signs of the virus over the next few days.
FROM CBC OTTAWA: Plane quarantined almost 2 hours in Ottawa
Another plane landing in Ottawa from the Dominican Republic Tuesday night was held up for two hours because of similar concerns.
The 177 passengers on the charter flight were allowed to continue on their way after consultations with Health Canada determined that four sick passengers' symptoms were likely caused by flu, not the Norwalk virus.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/01/26/quarantine050126.html
"I agree with your assessment Teri. I'm not ready to dismiss this whole story into the "ticked off mule looking for revenge" file just yet."
(Bookmarking this and the new story)
By Verena Von Derschau Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 26, 2005
PARIS (AP) - France's counterterrorism agency detained another four people Wednesday, expanding an investigation of a network suspected of funneling French Islamic militants to Iraq, authorities said.
The latest arrests raised the number of people in custody to 10, judicial officials said. The justice minister suggested the roundup, which started Monday in the Paris region, was timed to allow France's domestic counterterrorism agency, known as the DST, to gather better information.
Broken Pipeline Spills Oil Into Kentucky River; Amount Not Yet Known (1/26/05)
The Associated Press Published: Jan 26, 2005
WORTHVILLE, Ky. (AP) - An pipeline broke and spilled crude oil into the Kentucky River early Wednesday, creating a miles-long slick along the tributary of the Ohio River.
Just the Kentucky River was affected so far, said Stacy Floden, a spokeswoman for Kentucky Emergency Management. The pipeline broke above ground, and the oil spread into the river.
Authorities did not know how much oil had poured into the river. Owen County Sheriff Zemer Hammond said the pipeline was shut off and environmental officials were on the scene. He said there had been no injuries or evacuations.
Fox News:
speculating the person who left the car on the tracks knew the trains were coming.
From: CrazyTerroristBomber1 Sent: 1/26/2005 5:26 AM
Supppppp Tig:
Just spoke to amir on the cell, he said he will be online wednesday.he laughed that peeps thought he died.Just a case of same name,different person.Philly b cold ,lol
hey check out the university that R attends http://www.fau.edu/
oh yay...in Philly...with my luck, they're right down the street from me...actually, with my luck, they're more likely across the street.
Going back to your link, though, there's another post in that message with an Egypt address.
By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
January 25, 2005, 3:13 PM EST
VIENNA, Austria -- Trafficking people for forced labor and sexual slavery has become the world's No. 2 most lucrative crime, and terrorists are using shadowy underground networks to move around, a senior U.S. counter-trafficking official warned Tuesday.
Human trafficking, particularly the smuggling and enslavement of young women for prostitution, is tied with weapons smuggling as the second-largest illegal moneymaking activity, said T. March Bell, the Justice Department's senior special counsel for trafficking issues and civil rights.
Only the narcotics trade reaps more profits for organized crime, but traffickers are earning billions of dollars exploiting tens of millions of victims each year, Bell said, calling it "the No. 1 human rights issue today."
The profits are huge, he told reporters, citing the example of a brothel owner in Southeast Asia who typically might pay $8,000 for a young woman. "We think that owner can make a $200,000 profit on that $8,000 investment," Bell said.
Terrorists also are taking advantage of sophisticated smuggling operations to obtain counterfeit passports and transit to Western countries to plot or carry out attacks, he said.
Although the traffickers are dealing mainly with young women peddled to brothels or men, women and children sold into virtual slavery on farms and in factories, "they're moving any kind of people for a price," Bell said. He declined to elaborate, citing classified intelligence.
Despite the massive scale of the crime, law enforcement agencies are having a difficult time bringing perpetrators to justice -- in part because of corruption within their own ranks.
In the former Yugoslavia, there have been numerous cases of corrupt police officers engaged directly in the sex trade or willing to alert a bordello operator to an impending police raid in exchange for a bribe.
Police officers in many poor, developing countries where trafficking is widespread tend to be poorly paid, making them particularly susceptible to bribes, Bell said. In Cambodia, the average officer earns just $35 a month, he said.
Law enforcement is trying to counter that by improving the training of police officers, ensuring they are paid professional salaries, and making anti-trafficking units the envy of police forces by equipping them with the latest technology and holding them to higher standards, Bell said.
While the most effective weapon against traffickers is "street-level law enforcement," police agencies increasingly are turning to undercover operations in an effort to infiltrate clandestine rings, often using officers who pose as brothel customers or as middlemen looking to hire cheap laborers, he said.
In the United States and many European countries, ex-victims are getting increased protections and refugee status in the hopes of persuading them to testify against their former captors, Bell said.
A key challenge is winning the trust of former victims who all too often are "frightened, scared, intimidated and coerced" by traffickers who confiscate their identity papers, skim their earnings and threaten them or their families with violence, he said.
"Unless a victim feels safe, they're not going to provide much information to prosecute the perpetrators," he said.
well, anyone in Glendale knows those trains are coming....they come through every 5 minutes during the commutes.
A U.S. Marine Corps assault on Los Angeles? Precision bombing of gang members on U.S. soil? I'm not sure I like that approach. The specter of that type of action is exactly why we have a 2nd amendment.
"Still unanswered is what someone will do with 74, or 144, two-way radios that have a fairly limited range and only operate on a narrow band of frequencies"
Comment: Maybe the fact that they only operate on a narrow band of frequencies is what made them so appealling.
Question: I'm not going anywhere with this question so no need for tinfoil hats but does anyone know whether two-ways can be used, like cell phones, in order to set off something like a bomb? I only ask because everytime I see this story, the first thing that pops into my tired little mind is all the stolen propane tanks and trucks and the like.
"'page can not be found'"
I got a lot of that this morning when googling the dead scientists.
Someone operating with that motive would purchase a scanner with cash at the local Radio Shack with a "straw" purchaser to cover even the video camera record of the transaction. Such monitoring is a passive activity. No transmitters required. The bus radio thieves were looking for two-way radios with a common model. They intend to transmit and receive.
The radios stolen are not portables. They are Kenwood mobile rigs. They need to be plugged into a healthy 12 volt power supply. A cigarette lighter plug and mag mount antenna is the quickest, most portable way to press the radios into quick service. That's the same scheme I use for a similar radio for Amateur Radio Emergency Services or RACES emergency service.
The next thing I would expect is the rental of 100 small vans to carry personnel and equipment....one radio each for coordination. Two or more radio/van combos per "target" area. Plausible speculation in a total information vacuum.
By Foster Klug Associated Press Writer Published: Jan 26, 2005
BALTIMORE (AP) - A Johns Hopkins University senior was killed in her off-campus apartment in the second slaying of an undergraduate there in nine months......
Trinh, 21, was a biomedical engineering major who had been a sorority president and member of the volleyball team.
A two-way isn't necessary to set off a bomb. A simple receiver will do. A simple trigger circuit with a touch tone decoder attached to the earphone jack on a cheap 49 MHz FRS radio would be satisfactory. A cellphone with auto-answer with a similar circuit would work too. This stuff is really low technology.
The jihadis really like cheap Casio watches with an alarm function. The alarm "beep" triggers a simple SCR circuit to boost current carrying capacity to an electric blasting cap. Simple, cheap, effective.
A "dirty bomb" alert in Boston last week was caused by a Mexican hoaxer trying to take revenge on Chinese immigrants who did not pay him for smuggling them across the U.S. border, Mexican prosecutors said on Wednesday.
The tip about a purported bomb plot involving Chinese nationals, which surfaced days before the Jan. 20 U.S. presidential inauguration, spurred a manhunt for 14 people and had police using radiation sensors in Boston's subway system.
Baja California state prosecutors said the tip was made by People trafficker Jose Ernesto Beltran, who called a law enforcement agency in California while high on drink and drugs to warn that a group of Chinese migrants planned to launch an attack.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1895&ncid=1895&e=2&u=/nm/20050126/us_nm/security_boston_hoax_dc
FOX: suspect from train crash is in custody. faces murder chrages
Driver ID'd here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1329104/posts
Thank you much :)
"Baja California state prosecutors said the tip was made by People trafficker Jose Ernesto Beltran, who called a law enforcement agency in California while high on drink and drugs to warn that a group of Chinese migrants planned to launch an attack."
Not only are there a few versions of this story still going around, looks like there's even a few different versions of updates to the stories. I forget who found this link already but according to this story, Jose Ernesto wasn't the who called the law enforcement agency while high on drink and drugs. It was Jose and his son who called authorities and let them know that a smuggler had gotten into an argument over a deal and that the smuggler made hoax call for revenge. According to this article, Jose and his son have already been let go.
Snipets:
"Jose Ernesto Beltran Quinones...was detained over the weekend...His son, also named Jose, was detained Monday..."
"...the two men...told investigators that smugglers had squabbled over a deal, and that one had anonymously called in the false tip to U.S. authorities as revenge."
"The official from the Baja California Attorney General's Office said the men told investigators the claim was nothing more than a tall tale."
"The two were later released because they had obtained a court injunction preventing their arrest."
Lots of versions of this story are still going around.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/4128993/detail.html
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