Terrorist Alert color level raised to orange(High Risk)

CNN

[newsperson999]

Breaking on CNN

[piasa]

I'm just wandering how long before some shyster trial attorney will talk an orange grower into suing the government/agencies/individuals for decreased fruit sales because now the word orange is equated with danger?

Well, look at it this way... at least it bodes ill for the PR team of Jesse jackson's Rainbow Coalition.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

It seems the Stock Market is handling the increased threat level without alarm.

[aristeides]

Orange was already associated with danger in the Godfather movies.

[aristeides]

Threatcon was only Bravo on the USS Cole before the attack, despite warnings and an alert at the US Embassy in Yemen.

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

[colette_g]

Some interesting extra info :

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1063911,00.html

Car bombings

Al Qaeda operatives have been "storing" explosives since January and could launch a wave of devastating car bomb attacks on US interests in Islamic countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and the Middle East.

The specific threat came from the debriefing of one key al Qaeda operative who said the terror network wanted to 'celebrate' the 9/11 attacks.

"US intelligence has received information from debriefing of a senior al Qaeda operative of attacks to coincide with September 11," Mr Ashcroft said.

[Diverdogz]

I hear "Bravo Plus". More than Bravo, not quite Charlie.

[piasa]

Yeah, this has all the sniffings of a General Quarters drill on an amphib ship at 2 in the morning because the radar operator misread a seagull as a fighter jet.

LOL, don't be too complacent. There have been boat crews have made 2 AM visits up against warships without them ever knowing they were there... until told to look over the side to see who had dropped in.

[xzins]

USS Cole Remembrance....

US Embassy in Yemen. that embassy was at the highest alert level and let our ship enter harbor at the 2nd lowest level.

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"I stocked up on everything yesterday. (after they cleared out the traffic from the chemical plant that blew up in my community yesterday)"

Gee, THAT must have been a joy. Stay safe, and good luck.

[tomkat]

is anyone else watching W's press conference on Fox ?

FoxNews caption:

Bush: American Muslims share our grief

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"OK...I'll unspook myself :-)."

LOL...good. If we're afraid, we'll be paralyzed. Fear is as much an enemy as rabid, bloodthirsty Muslim extremists.

[cake_crumb]

"Why would any American with half a brain think that Bush and Co. will avert a tradgedy this time when he and the boys sat on their hands while 9/11 happened."

The "What did Bush know and when did he know it" BS has been thoroughly debunked. Just thought you should know.

[Marobe]

BS has been thoroughly debunked. Just thought you should know. If that thought makes you feel safer, I'm happy for you. Bush 'knew nothing' and Clinton 'respects women'. There now you should feel extra secure.

[aristeides]

I just left my downtown D.C. office building for a few minutes to pick up a takeout lunch. The homeless who are normally panhandling around here are not in evidence today. I wonder if they know something.

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There is also the case of Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, a US citizen from Somolia was also arrested in Portland for having "explosive residue" - which could be nothing, but the airport security said it was TNT residue - on his luggage.

He's being charged with having applied for, and got, three different Social Security cards between the mid-1980s and 1990's.

He pled innocent at his hearing yesterday, but there were also about 100 Musims there showing 'support'. Kariye's an imam at the Islamic Center of Portland-Masjed As-Saber. I get goosebumps whenever the word 'imam' is used with '100 Muslims showing support.'

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"Bush 'knew nothing' and Clinton 'respects women'."

You know, it's neither safer nor wiser to take the opposite view of everything. Bush did not know there would be an attack on 9/11, and we ALL know Clinton respects no one, least of all women. Those are simple facts.

You sound as though if President Bush said the sky is blue or the sun rises in the east, you'd take the position the sky is supposed to be bright purple and the sun rises in the west.

[scoopscandal]

Yeah...I think Bill Gertz made reference to bin Laden appearances and terrorist events on Rush's show last week...he also made a comment about how something as simple as this trend was ignored by the previous administration so...when I heard the news report this morning about this audio tape(?)...I immediately thought "oh s**t".

Anyway...Stay safe.

Best Regards,

[Marobe]

You sound as though if President Bush said the sky is blue or the sun rises in the east, you'd take the position the sky is supposed to be bright purple and the sun rises in the west." That made no sense at all. The problem with our disagreement is that I prefer not to trust a man who has a history of infringing on American's rights. He, Bush, represents Globalists, learned it from his ol man, and anyone that thinks his concern is for our Republic and our Sovereignty is in for a rude awakening. He's for power and profit. If using the disguise of "stopping terrorism" achieves his goals and places Arab oil in his reach, the number of poor American pheasants that are going to come home in body bags won't cause him to flinch even a tad. If Saddam was the threat he's alleged to be, why are our borders as porous today as they were last year on 9/11 ? Why did he drag his feet on arming pilots ??? Why are Montana State Troops in another country going door to door confiscating guns from citizens ??? Why are there a million Muslims still here illegally ??? Bush needs more dead Americans to justify his War on Terrorism.