World Terrorism : Weapons of Disruption Onging...

Whereas we have no masses, it certainly would be seriously challenging to deliver a "weapon of mass destruction" in the vast majority of geographical areas in the American West, as well as in many areas in the East and South. For instance, Montana is approximately the size of Germany, yet the population hovers only around a million (we have one representative in the House). There is no "metropolitan" area anywhere around, though Spokane is about three hundred miles away. Wyoming has more sheep than people. Utah has Salt Lake City and a few nearby populous areas. Nevada has two populated regional areas, Las Vegas and Reno. North and South Dakota have, well, a few folks here and there. Idaho folks are few and far between. I swear you can drive from San Antonio to El Paso without seeing a city policeman, because I've done it several times. Then there are Arizona, New Mexico, eastern California, inter alia. The point is we have a few population points, while the rest of the states are empty excepted for isolated small communities.Thus, out West we probably need to talk more about "weapons of disruption." (Some folks say "weapons of mass disruption," but we have no masses!)

You must ask yourself: What would I do if I were a terrorist (or a terrorism preparedness instructor) looking into the ramifications of launching a rural terrorism attack? Personally, I would concentrate on considering the consequences of disruption rather than mass destruction. Here are a few scenarios you might want consider when your local rural emergency management/response group gathers to discuss terrorism exercises.

1) Wildland Fire Incidents: Incendiary (mostly wildland) warfare has been used by military strategists for at least 2500 years, over a thousand years before the use of gunpowder. The western U.S. is disrupted, seriously disrupted, every year by wildland fires. Quite a few are started by humans, accidentally and purposefully. Starting dozens of major fires in a dozen western states could be a brilliant line of attack if militants wished to disrupt America. Thousands of security personnel could do nothing and the perpetrator/s would probably never be implicated, much less captured. Are you prepared?

2) Railroad Chemical Incidents: Many railroad main lines go through tunnels. A few strategically placed armor-piercing shells in a series of chlorine cars, along with appropriately staged derailments leaving the leaking cars in the tunnels, could shut down many main line routes in the West. Spin-off scenarios are numerous. Ready?

3) Flammable Liquid Incidents: Bridges are not easily brought down from below and approaches to bridge support structures are often highly visible and randomly monitored. However, on CNN we all have seen many tanker truck accidents involving burning hydrocarbons which have made bridge structures unusable. How hard would it be to have a few terrorists steal trucks and drive them (as opposed to hijacking planes and flying them) to strategic bridges over wide rivers or narrow gorges, ignite the gasoline (or diesel or crude), block the approaches with other incendiary or chemical releases, and make the structures extremely dangerous and impassible to highway traffic? Gotcha!

There are many variations of these themes. You probably have or can make up many more plausible, novel, and easily implemented rural-specific attack scenarios. Design exercises around them. If you want to stop terrorist events you must think like a terrorist and quit fighting last year's war!

Frederick J. (Fred) Cowie, Ph.D. E-mail: fredcowie@aol.com Phone: (24 hr cell) 406-431-3531 Website: fredcowie.com

Al Qaeda insider predicts U.S. hit
Claims bin Laden in Afghanistan Spent four years

as his bodyguard
Mar. 31, 2006. 01:00 AM
PHINJO GOMBU
STAFF REPORTER

The possibility exists that Canadian troops stationed in southern Afghanistan could come across the world's most well-known fugitive, Osama bin Laden, according to one of his former bodyguards.

Abu Jandal told the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes bin Laden is hiding in Afghanistan, where Canadian troops are currently stationed, not Pakistan, where he was reputedly being sheltered in the lawless tribal lands.

As part of Task Force Afghanistan, about 2,300 Canadian Forces personnel are deployed in Afghanistan — with the majority of them operating in the former Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan.

Jandal worked as bin Laden's personal bodyguard in Afghanistan between 1996 and 2000.

In the interview, which airs Sunday, Jandal dispels the commonly held notion that bin Laden has taken refuge in the tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan.

"Not Pakistan," Jandal told the newsmagazine. "I know the Pakistani tribes along the border very well. They can be very trustworthy and faithful to their religion and ideology, but they are also capable of selling information for nothing."

Bin Laden's last confirmed hiding place was in southeastern Afghanistan, when U.S. forces in 2001 intercepted radio messages of him directing troops in the mountainous region of Tora Bora.

Since then the trail has grown cold with the exception of the occasional statement by him condemning U.S. interventions in the Islamic world.

In the interview, Jandal, who now lives in Yemen and remains a fervent supporter of bin Laden, also said he is certain an attack on the U.S. is being planned.

Under a deal with the Yemeni government, which arrested him after the attack on the USS Cole, Jandal has promised the government there that he would remain in Yemen.

Jandal also told the show the closest the Americans ever came to killing bin Laden was before the 9/11 attacks.

That was when the Americans fired missiles at an Al Qaeda training camp near Khost, Afghanistan to retaliate against the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

According to Jandal, sheer luck saved bin Laden, because the night before the attack, at the very last minute, he decided at a fork in the road to go to Kabul rather than the training camp. The next day, the camp was flattened by U.S. missiles.

Jandal also dismissed as untrue reports that bin Laden was sick with a kidney problem that required dialysis. But he confirmed earlier reports that bin Laden had ordered his bodyguards to kill him rather than allow him to be captured alive.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1143760212927&call_pageid=968332188854&col=968350060724

Interesting story...

A fugitive in Brazil, a mystery in Lebanon
By ERIK SCHECHTER

This was not the way Rana Qoleilat thought things would end. In mid-March, police arrested the 39-year-old Lebanese bank executive at her hotel room in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Rather than going gracefully to jail, Qoleilat offered local officers a $200,000 bribe to release her; three days later, she attempted suicide by cutting her wrists with a tiny blade from an eyeliner sharpener.

Qoleilat once lived the high life back in Lebanon. According to the US News and World Report, she jetted around in her own private plane, had servants and a personal hairdresser and lived in a three-story penthouse - all while claiming to make only $1,000 a month. She even bought a $10 million villa from the son-in-law of Lebanese president Emile Lahoud.

But those care-free days came to an end three years ago when al-Madina Bank, the institution for which Qoleilat worked, came up $1.2 billion short. The resulting scandal landed her in jail for embezzlement, but she only spent a few months there, making bail and then fleeing the country just two months before the assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri, a key opponent of the Syrians.

To say that the fugitive banker is politically connected is an understatement. Qoleilat moved money for Syrian intelligence officials and Hizbullah, and during the Syrian occupation, the Lebanese government squelched reporting on the al-Madina case. Even now, there's reluctance to open that Pandora's Box, though some of the stolen funds may have financed the Hariri murder.

The bank scandal
Before the 1975-1990 civil war, Lebanon was the financial capital of the Middle East, but warring sectarian militias (as well as Syrian, Palestinian and Israeli forces) wrecked the banking industry, along with much of the economy. Now, after years of reconstruction, the country's banking sector is among the largest in the world, with more than 70 private banks holding deposits in excess of $39 billion.

The al-Madina Bank opened in 1982, in the midst of the war, and was bought two years later by a pair of wealthy Druse brothers from the town of Baakline. In the early 1990s, Rana Qoleilat came to work as a clerk for Adnan and Ibrahim Abu Ayash, and after 12 years at the bank, she made executive. Billions of dollars in Russian mafia, Iraqi regime and Saudi charity money washed through the trio's hands.

Who would notice if a few million here or there went missing? However, a run on the bank in early 2003 revealed that $1.2 billion was gone. The Central Bank of Lebanon first froze the accounts of Qoleilat and the Abu Ayash brothers, then mysteriously backed away. The government even intimidated journalists covering the story.

"Al-Madina was one of the rackets that flourished in Lebanon helping Syrian intelligence officers and officials and their Lebanese allies enrich themselves," explains a Beirut-based reporter.

John Walzer agrees.

"When you see the size of the embezzlement, the people [allegedly] involved, and then the inaction [on the part of the government], you have to surmise that they don't want anyone want to look into it," says the former FBI agent and lead investigator for Fortress Global Investigations, who examined the case.

In July 2004, the Central Bank of Lebanon appointed an administrator to run al-Madina, but the authorities are still not releasing bank details to the public. Still, Fortress Global Investigations knows of money transfers to General Rustom Ghazali, who was the Syrian intelligence chief in Lebanon, to then-Syrian defense minister Mustapha Tlass and to Hizbullah.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498768830&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Russia Tells Sweden to Release Russian Scientist Held on Espionage Charges
Created: 31.03.2006 17:01 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 17:01 MSK, 15 hours 33 minutes ago

MosNews

Russia demands the “immediate and unconditional release of scientist Andrei Zamyatnin,” arrested in Sweden suspicion of espionage, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin told the ITAR-TASS news agency Friday.

“The persistent lack of humane action on the part of the Swedish authorities, which is undermining relations between the two countries and arousing the indignation of the Russian public, is a cause for extreme concern,” he said. “Such a situation hardly fits the image of Sweden which exists in Russian public opinion,” Kamynin said.

He also said that the Russian embassy in Stockholm was “maintaining regular contact with the detained Russian national and doing its best to help him deal with the injustice being committed against him”.

Earlier this month, the Foreign Ministry called on the Swedish Ambassador to Russia Johan Molander to request Zamyatnin’s release.

Sources in the Swedish Foreign Ministry said shortly after his arrest that the Russian national was detained on suspicion of espionage, on February 15 in Uppsala, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) north of Stockholm, where he worked as a visiting researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.

The Swedish investigators claimed that the researcher had been engaged in “active undermining work” for about a year and “had undermined the country’s security by his criminal activities”. Officials declined to say what kind of information Zamyatnin was selling. Neither did they disclose what country he was accused of working for.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/03/31/zamyatninstatement.shtml

Google Alert for: al-Qaeda China

Moussaoui's Stunned Submission
PEJ News - Victoria,BC,Canada
... are using electro-shock against the alleged wanna-be â€œal-Qaedaâ€ operative,
is ... technologyâ€ arsenal used by torturers in South Africa, China, and Lebanon. ...

Disingenuous on security
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
... They want to get rid of Al Qaeda but won't let us intercept their communications
... operations at some of our key ports over to the communist government in China.
...
See all stories on this topic

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060330-085453-8010r.htm

Free At Last By Justin Peters
Slate - USA
... Nations like Russia and China fear that the US plans to use tenuous evidence ...
documents made public in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial to compare al-Qaeda and the
...
See all stories on this topic

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://www.slate.com/id/2139095/

The world is waking up to new era of power politics
Times Online - UK
... and Russia, as well as chronic shortages of electric power in China, India and ...
Al-Qaeda has threatened to attack what Osama bin Laden calls the â€œhingesâ€ of

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8210-2113097,00.html
...

Al Qaeda massing for new fight | csmonitor.com
To blunt US air superiority, Al Qaeda forces are attempting to acquire surface-to-air
missiles in China. "Al Qaeda has regrouped, together with the Taliban, ... {already posted 2002 article, above}

Future Terrorist Attacks May Cost Billions Or Doom Insurance Industry
March 31, 2006 10:46 a.m. EST
Ayinde O. Chase - All Headline News Staff Writer
Washington DC (AHN) - The American Academy of Actuaries announced on Wednesday that a future large terrorist attack in New York City might come with a $778 billion price tag in insured losses, and in the event of any other large scale terrorist attack in the nation, it could subsequently spell doom for the insurance industry.
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002998007

Australia Warns of Possible Terrorist Attack in Indonesia
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-03-31-voa20.cfm

Three charged with terrorist links
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/three-charged-with-terrorist-links/2006/04/01/1143441366468.html

Antiwar protesters greet Rice in England
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/31/news/iran.php

Nuclear Reactor Shut Down in Florida
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/3762888.html

Iran will not use oil as weapon in nuclear row: FM
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C04%5C01%5Cstory_1-4-2006_pg4_17

Bomb Scare
Suspicious vehicle, area shut down
http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_3660136

`````````````Warning XXX rated article, I dont know what to make of this.......
Five members of Wes tennis arrested for Al Qaeda ties
This past Saturday, as the Wesleyan Tennis team came back from the annual tennis trip in California, five dark skinned members of the team were arrested at the ...
http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=3174

Pakistani Admits Plotting In S.D. To Aid Al Qaeda
(AP) SAN DIEGO A Pakistani man has admitted he was part of a plot to obtain and sell Stinger anti-aircraft missiles to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_089221912.html

Israel suspects journalists of spreading bird flu
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=268248&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

China Southern Airlines to resume flights to Moscow
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/01/content_4370449.htm

Earthquake hits NE China province
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-04/01/content_4370452.htm

Russia to send two planes with aid, rescuers to quake-hit Iran
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060331/45055345.html

India, China remain Russia's main defence buyers: Putin
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200603312122.htm

Five members of Wes tennis arrested for Al Qaeda ties
This past Saturday, as the Wesleyan Tennis team came back from the
annual tennis trip in California, five dark skinned members of the team
were arrested at the ...
http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=3174

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Another of those stories that we won't hear any details about for the next 3 years, until they go to court.

More than likely either raising money or involved in selling something.....or here without a visa.

___________

I had to stop and think today, when the radio had the President on the air, offering earthquake help to Iran.

I thought of the last one, when we sent help and they took it and then threw us out for being spies.....

Laughing.......

Wise move to make the offer by President Bush.

Now Iran has to accept it, or be made to look foolish in front of the whole world for not accepting help from us.

Laugh.....think of the photos and information that the
crew on the the airplanes will be able to get, as they fly
in the supplies.......those planes will have the largest crews ever and hit more "air turbulance" and need to make slight changes in their courses, than any other pilot in the history of flying over Iran.

When they had the big tsumui wave that killed so many people, I found a group on Yahoo, that was there and reporting on it, they had the photos of the how the U.S. worked, it was amazing how fast they could unload those planes and the locals were on the ground, forming human chains to do the unloading in minutes.

An army of walking boxes, there were lovely photos of them
showing their thanks and all were working, never mind the rank on their uniforms.......

I was proud of our efforts and the planning that had gone into it.

They brought out sick and injured folks and went back for more......

And then it dawned on some muslim what was happening, and it was ordered stopped, but not until the worst was over.

Come to think of it, a lot of the rescue work there by the UN and other well known groups who rushed in, was as bad as the New Orleans storm.

I think it was the UN, that instead of shipping in food and supplies for the natives, they shipped in fancy tents and all the luxury wanted for the "rescue workers" a whole town, but nothing to help the people, except more people to look out for........They were doing nothing, and our Military was showing them how it could and should be done.

Take a line by line check on WCGals post #4791.

Note the random '0's there and also several lines of words with a * in the middle, that would be an 8.

Some thing that I read tonight was full of 0's, but I can't recall and have been zoning out, so many times, that the mind has quit. I hate it when I do that.

If I get brighter, I want to google the post 4791, it has some odd stuff in it.

I do not know anything about your subject, but do know what you are talking about.

I do not accept that the world will end, due to the fact that a bunch of indians, didn't have enough education to see more years in the future.

Death comes to all of us, when it is, that is the day the world ends.

My opinion.......LOL

But I do keep in mind the muslims interest in the stars, moon and other things that make no sense, so it would fit in their pattern of codes, to use something like the mayan calandar.......plus it would fit in their time plan to rule the world, they aimed for 1990, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020......

With the progress they have suddenly made, 2012 is possible.

Play with it and see what you can do, Velveeta like the numbers too, I do them only lightly, to see what they say.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607313/posts

Congress worried over Iranian-Al Qaida link
Middle East Newsline ^ | 2006 Mar 31

Posted on 04/01/2006 12:49:31 AM MST by Wiz

WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. intelligence community has briefed
Congress on the increasing cooperation between Iran and Al Qaida.

Congressional sources said congressional committees have been told
that Teheran has sought to use Al Qaida in any Iranian war with the
United States. The sources said Iran has harbored leading Al Qaida
operatives and enabled them to plan major attacks that would be
launched upon Teheran's approval.

"Teheran has been seeking a range of terrorist options against the
United States in case it strikes Iran's nuclear weapons facilities," a
congressional source said. "Al Qaida has played a role in these
options, although it's unlikely to be a leading element."

On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council gave Iran a month
to honor a demand to end uranium enrichment and related activities.
The council decision was reached after the United States dropped its
demand for a two-week deadline for Teheran.

(Excerpt) Read more at menewsline.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607068/posts

American Citizen arrested in Russia (Degestan)
Ria Novosti ^

Posted on 03/31/2006 3:01:43 PM MST by b2stealth

http://www.rian.ru/defense_safety/investigations/20060331/45036510.html

In Dagestan the third day conduct consequence concerning Kelly
Makevers 13:10 | 31/03/2006

MAHACHKALA, 31 mar - RIA of News. Police of Dagestan the third day
spend investigatory-remedial actions concerning a citizen of the USA,
employee of university John Hopkins Kell Makevers.

As has informed RIA of News a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs
of Dagestan, in Iaeyaa?n environment was drelivered to
Hasavjurtovsky GOVD.

After ten hours of interrogation the camera, a dictophone have been
withdrawn from it, some computer disks and notebooks.

On Thursday Makevers it has been delivered in Soviet ROVD
Makhachkala. There she have been interrogated, then employees
pravoohranitelnyh bodies have conducted a search in the house where
she has stopped. From the house has been withdrawn belonging it
laptop, lawyer Jusup Dzhahbarov representing interests of a citizen of
the USA has informed RIA of News.

Today in the morning, according to the lawyer, Makevers it was
interrogated in UBOP the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan. On
what basis she is held it is not clear yet.

Officials in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and UFSB a situation yet do
not make comments on Dagestan.

Everyone, save this one, as it is one of those we will be asking questions about for years....be sure to check the comments......granny...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607280/posts

Iraqi Man Arrested in Rural MO w/ U-Haul plus 2
stolen cars and $25,000 money wire receipt
St. Louis KMOV 10 o'clock news ^ | 3/31/06 | kmov TV news in St. Louis

Posted on 03/31/2006 9:56:07 PM MST by stlnative

Tonight I was watching the news from St. Louis. The had a story on
about how an Iraqi was arrested in rural Missouri today. He was on a
gravel road and had 2 stolen cars and a U-haul with him. He was
acting odd and someone happened to notice him and called police.
They also found on him a money wire receipt for $25,000 that he sent
to Iraq. He claimed he was from Dearborn, MI and he kept changing
his story of why he was in Missouri. He was also a soldier in the Iraq
war.

His name is Nazar Malla (I got two hits on him when I googled his
name, one includes a picture of him that matches up with the guy they
showed on the news tonight. The picture was taken in Dearborn, MI
during the Iraq election)

The area they caught him in is very rural and there are no Arabs living
in this area so he of course would stick out big time. They busted him
near Irondale, MO.

The FBI now has him in custody.

[photo and story continued at link]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607334/posts

Freed U.S. Journalist Lands in Germany
Associated Press ^ | 1 April 06 | MATT MOORE

Posted on 04/01/2006 3:57:46 AM MST by SkyPilot

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany - Smiling broadly, journalist Jill Carroll
arrived Saturday under U.S. military protection in Germany, the first
stop on her return to the United States after 82 days in captivity in
Iraq.

28-year-old U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, left, is welcomed by Base Commander,
Col. Kurt Lohide after she landed at the U.S. Airbase in Ramstein,
southwestern Germany, Saturday, April 1, 2006. Carroll was a hostage in Iraq
for 82 days and was released last Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Gone was the Islamic headscarf and dress robe she had worn as a
hostage. Instead she was wearing jeans, a bulky gray sweater, and a
desert camouflage jacket.

Col. Kurt Lohide, commander of the 435th Air Base Wing, welcomed
her to Ramstein.

"I'm happy to be here," she said.

Carroll, a 28-year-old freelancer for the Boston-based Christian
Science Monitor, was seized Jan. 7 in western Baghdad by gunmen
who killed her Iraqi translator.

[continued]

[more deaths for the Clinton death list]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607331/posts

Crafty Sea Lion Befuddles Fish Biologists
http://www.comcast.net/ ^ | 3 31 06 | JOSEPH B. FRAZIER

Posted on 04/01/2006 2:59:35 AM MST by freepatriot32

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. - In his way, C404 is kind of cute, with those
sea-lion whiskers, soft brown eyes and furry little head. But to many
he is a sea lion either from hell _ or from Harvard.

C404 has driven the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Bonneville Dam
to near distraction as he and his ilk sit at the base and munch salmon
gathered to continue upriver to spawn.

Numerous sea lions head for the dam each spring, but C404 is in a
class by himself.

He has figured out how to get into fish ladders that help fish past the
dam _ where endangered salmon and other fish become his easy
prey.

The engineers have used everything legal to get rid of the California
sea lion, who may weigh 1,000 pounds or more. They have installed
grated exclusion gates and tried huge firecackers, rockets, rubber
bullets, and noises sea lions don't like.

But C404 has given them the flipper.

He and a handful of cohorts already are waiting for the spring run of
chinook salmon, which starts in earnest in April.

Then C404, named because of a brand applied by a state and federal
program, will personify a larger problem, as 100 or more of his
buddies join him.

Last year they ate about 3.5 percent of the migrating run at a time
when salmon numbers were down and demand was up. This year's
commercial salmon season may be cancelled because of river
problems elsewhere. The loss percentage is climbing.

Robert Stansell, a fish biologist at Bonneville with the Corps of
Engineers, knows the lively and alert C404 all too well.

"If he were in a litter of puppies, he's the one you would pick," he
said.

He said C404 has been showing up each year since at least 2003 and
has learned to rub it in. Last year he appeared in a window where fish
counters keep track of salmon migrating upstream. The data helps
predict the size of future runs.

"He even rolled over a little so we could get a look at his brand,"
Stansell said.

Other marine mammals haven't learned to pull that trick off.

Stansell says the sea lions are intelligent and can be taught. He would
rather they not be taught by C404.

But he said the animals are showing up earlier and in greater
numbers, and they are staying later. Now they have begun crawling
onto the rocks to rest.

"They're becoming comfortable here," he said.

The run peaks in about September, but the sea lions head back to
southern California breeding grounds around late May when the water
temperature in the river rises.

They'll be back next year with their friends, and maybe their friends'
friends too.

The animals have always been in the river. But now that the fish mass
at the base of the dam, they provide a quick and easy meal for the
sea lions.

C404 and his kind aren't endangered, but they are protected under
the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act and can't be killed.

Incorrigibles can be singled out for "lethal removal," a long,
complicated process, Stansell said.

He said that nearly happened at the Ballard Locks in Seattle, where
sea lions that nearly wiped out a winter steelhead run in the 1990s
were marked for death.

But the Humane Society sued and then-President Clinton urged
clemency. The worst of the miscreants were packed off to Sea World
in Orlando, Fla.

Then-Vice President Al Gore called Sea World to say thanks.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`

[If you have never been in the observation room of a fish ladder, make a real effort to do so, you will never forget the sight of those fantastic fish only a sheet of glass away as they manage to up and over you,, Beautiful experience.
granny]

[file in the 'odd car attack' file]

Not the one I just heard on the kgo.com radio, has old reports: [at this time, nothing in news, maybe later]

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=vehicle%20hits%20CHP%20substation

This is interesting, several we know of, but the most important one, could be the CA. driving group, in googles groups, the timelines may be interesting, I cannot go to groups with this browser, and often not with explorer either, it is fouled up. The groups link is at the bottom.

Remember the search that was on a couple years ago, for 4 or 5 semi's, on calif. freeways, w/muslim appearing drivers, were they ever found?

The first report here, the Officer who got a Metal for Valor, can you imagine, fighting a car / building fire, wearing a belt with bullets, a gun with bullets and who knows what in the Taser gun and mace can?

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=vehicle%20crashes%20into%20CHP%20building

See about #3, Highway 101, Big Rig crashes into apt. bldg, police search for "the hit and run car" that caused accident.

http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=car%20hits%20CHP%20building%20San%20Mateo

I give up, this has the report of a police car that hit the Nursing Home and started a fire, on 3-25.

http://news.google.com/news?client=googlet&q=car+hits+CHP+building+San+Mateo&sa=N&tab=wn

As I heard the story on the radio, happened in the San Francisco area, San Mateo, I thought.

Vehicle crashed into the CHP building.

Vehicle has been towed.

Driver has been arrested.

No other details......

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