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Posted on 10/01/2005 8:27:27 AM PDT by nwctwx
Amazing season... 3 cat 5s (record), 21 named storms (ties record), deepest in history.
Fortunately Wilma will weaken a good bit before hitting land. She's also in an environment of lower than normal pressure, so she isn't quite the strongest ever... just the lowest pressure.
Update on the NJ sniper:
2 sniper suspects taken; cops swarm building
A Conrail worker was shot in the back by a BB gun-wielding rooftop sniper yesterday in an incident that shut down a Hudson-Bergen Light Rail station in Jersey City and all three Bayonne stations, officials said.
The victim was working near the intersection of Princeton and Linden avenues, where Conrail train tracks run parallel to the light rail line, officials said. He was not seriously injured, police said.
Police arrested Rosa Deldalle, 33, and Andy Laroche, 23, both of Princeton Avenue, and charged them with aggravated assault and weapons offenses, Police Sgt. Edgar Martinez said. Inside the apartment they share police found a BB pistol and a BB rifle, Martinez said.
(snip)
http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1129713239270180.xml&coll=3
Miami sniper (non-sniper) update:
No sniper in downtown Miami; man kills himself during domestic dispute, police say
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12942889.htm
Thanks for the update Velveeta.
>> A Conrail worker was shot in the back by a BB gun-wielding rooftop sniper <<
The MSM never ceases to amaze and disgust me. Sniper w/ a BB gun. LOL!!! When I was a kid, we played 'War' with BB guns. You always knew when you were hit.
The way the MSM portrayed this, you'd think the guy had a .50 cal or something similar. Just more anti-gun bias BS from the liberal MSM.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505301/posts
Russian trawler holding Norwegian inspectors
reached Russian waters
AFP ^ | Oct. 19
Posted on 10/19/2005 9:22:06 AM PDT by george76
A Russian trawler which took flight with two Norwegian inspectors on
board after refusing to obey orders to halt, crossed into Russian
waters and was on its way to the northern port of Murmansk, Russian
fleet officials said.
The trawler Electron, accompanied by the Russian anti-submarine
frigate Admiral Levchenko which joined it at midnight, "crossed into
Russian territorial waters and are going to Murmansk along the
border," the Russian navy spokesman Igor Dygalo said as quoted by
the ITAR-TASS news agency.
On the other side of the border, they are trailed by the Norwegian
ships in constant communication with the Admiral Levchenko," Dygalo
said, adding assurances that "the situation is under control and is not
conflictual."
The Electron took off with two Norwegian inspectors, who had stopped
the vessel to investigate it for illegal fishing in the Barents Sea, on
Saturday, and had been fleeing the Norwegian coast guard since then.
continued....
Thank you, Lord for hearing our prayers!
Dang deer, should have learned to read and cross at the sign!
Kewl links! Thanks Cindy.
You're welcome AD.
Thanks to JustPiper for pointing to this article:
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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3402846
Oct. 18, 2005, 10:44PM
"FBI investigates claims of bomb threat on campus"
By EDWARD HEGSTROM
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The FBI is investigating allegations that a Prairie View A&M student arrested last week on charges of trying to pass off counterfeit bills may have also had bomb-making materials in his dorm room.
Okwudili Franklin Aluka, 30, faces forgery charges and is being held in the Waller County Jail as officials also try to determine whether he is in the country legally. Court papers list a home address of Katy."
THANKS Velveeta for that update.
I couldn't find anything when I checked earlier.
Oh brother, now we have to deal with idiot terrorists who are suffering from the green monster! If that's all it was he needs to be put to work post haste to pay off a very large bill for all the time spent on this supposed threat.
Well now, that's interesting granny.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505459/posts
Detainees in US (Baltimore) tunnel case to be
deported
Jerusalem Post ^ | Oct 19, 2005 | AFP - none
Posted on 10/19/2005 2:36:23 PM PDT by VRWCTexan
Updated Oct. 19, 2005 23:05
By ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE
Federal officials are moving forward with deporting four men from
Egypt and Jordan who were detained on immigration charges as part
of an investigation into a potential terrorism threat in a Baltimore
highway tunnel, a federal official said Wednesday......
link:
(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505455/posts
Uniform Subversion (view from Pakistan)
Outlook India com ^ | October 19, 2005 | Amir Mir
Posted on 10/19/2005 2:30:21 PM PDT by Hunden
The silent tug of war between Islamists and Reformists in the Pakistan
army reaches a boiling point as a hapless Musharraf's enlightened
moderation yields way to extreme measures.
The notion that all is not well in the Pakistan Army has been reinforced
with the unprecedented execution on August 20, 2005, of Abdul Islam
Siddiqui, a member of the armed forces, on charges of plotting to
assassinate President General Pervez Musharraf in collaboration with
the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
(continued at above link)
adding to your last link:
PRAIRIE VIEW A&M BOMBER ARRESTED? LONESTARTIMES.COM LAUNCHES OPEN-SOURCE JOURNALISM INVESTIGATION
http://lonestartimes.com/?p=1770
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Public records research by LST strongly indicates that Okwukili Aluka is closely related to a Prairie View A&M employee.
Both a law enforcement official close to the investigation and a representative of Prairie View A&M told LST they were informed the individual arrested was the employee’s son; the editor of the campus student newspaper tells LST that the person arrested was the employee’s brother.
Public records indicate a roughly 21 year age gap between the person arrested and the university employee.
When contacted by LST this afternoon and presented with our findings, the employee in question refused to confirm, deny, or clarify the relationship, and declined our invitation to make an official comment in response to the Chronicle’s story.
Although rumors regarding the arrested individual’s particular religious faith are rampent, LST has not been able to come to a firm conclusion on the matter at this time.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1505453/posts
Suspicious Package Found at Metro Center (DC)
WMATA ^ | 10/19/2005 | n/a
Posted on 10/19/2005 2:23:39 PM PDT by Pyro7480
MPD reports that there is a suspicious package at Metro Center at
11th & G street NW. Metro Center is closed pedestrian traffic. The
road closure are reported to be 11th & H, 12th & G street and the
1100 Blk G street NW. MPD and Metro police are on the scene. EMA
will continue to monitor.
Oh boy, lookie here:
Aluka Prairie View TX search pulls up:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Aluka+%22prairie+view%22+TX&btnG=Search
Prairie View As & M University Department of Physics
Professor Innocent J. Aluka
Also an Egboaka Aluka
who plays for the Texas A&M Falcons
Yes...
Falcons
Be careful!
You could shoot your eye out with that thar BB gun.
I had one too. Loved it.
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