Posted on 02/12/2003 7:02:03 PM PST by areafiftyone
I'm having the same problem even when I know I have made comments. I reload and just keep getting the same thing.
I don't know. America uses corn for a lot of food stuffs. I was picturing green mantles.
I think they're 4 handles that are used to carry a coffin, but if it was a message, it could be "green" or "Mantles" or both. Hmmmm.
The "belly" would be in the middle of the country?
Any nuke plants with green in their name in the center of the country? Maybe painted green? (I'm really guessing here).
Well that rules that out.
He wants to do it himself. In America. Underground?
NY has too much security for that. Unless he's had plastic surgery.
Somehow, he's suppose to come here? In the eagles "belly."
Glad I'm not working for the CIA. We'd all be dead.
I believe there was a BOLO issued a few days ago for a truck full of boric acid...
http://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78426,00.html
Nation Braces for Possible Terror Attack
Thursday, February 13, 2003
WASHINGTON — Terror attack precautions were being taken nationwide Wednesday, one day after a new audio message attributed to Usama bin Laden urged Iraqis to stage homicide attacks against Americans.
Meanwhile, a report surfaced Wednesday of a new audio recording by Usama bin Laden in which the Al Qaeda leader purportedly predicts his own death in an unspecified act of "martyrdom" against the United States.
Al-Ansaar, a British-based Islamic news agency, said it believed the 53-minute tape, allegedly recorded earlier this month and acquired from an unidentified man on the Internet, was a carefully worded last will and testament from bin Laden.
U.S. counterterrorism officials said they were reviewing a transcript of the tape but could not verify its authenticity without hearing the actual recording.
CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee he is worried that the previous bin Laden message is a prelude to a strike.
"He's obviously raising the confidence of his people. He's obviously exhorting them to do more," Tenet said. "What he's said is often followed by an attack."
In New York, hospitals were placed on high alert based on government intelligence of a potential threat, naming cyanide as the specific terror agent.
NYU Medical Center's Chief Medical Officer Eric Rackow wrote in a staff memo Wednesday that the hospital was taking all necessary precautions.
"NYU is working to ensure that we have adequate levels of the proper antidotes and pharmaceutical agents to treat patients should they be exposed to cyanide," Rackow wrote.
The weekly FBI bulletin circulated to 17,000 law enforcement agencies urged police to be extra vigilant for possible chemical, biological and radiological attacks. The bulletin asked local officials to consult a CIA handbook on how to respond to dangerous substances should such an attack occur.
In addition, the National Infrastructure Protection Center, which assesses and warns about threats to critical U.S. infrastructure, issued an advisory describing a heightened chance of global computer hacking as tensions increase with Iraq.
The U.S. remained under a Code Orange "high risk" of attack status for a sixth day, and no change was in sight.
Counterterrorism officials said the level of threat information pointing to an imminent attack remained high, but steady.
FBI personnel assigned to rapid response teams that would react to any terrorist attacks have been told to have a bag packed for three days' deployment and put on standby.
Anti-aircraft missiles guarded Washington's skies and Capitol police were told to carry gas masks at all times. They are in a small, handheld black knapsack about six inches long. Every officer has them, including those in plainclothes who provide security for leaders and in the congressional chambers.
White House security was not noticeably tighter but presidential aides said they were spooked by the intelligence and felt more vulnerable than they had since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many were taking the government's advice, socking away water and food at home and making plans to meet up with family in the event of an attack.
Precautions were taken throughout the federal government. For example:
-- Food safety officials were put on heightened alert but were told the threat did not involve food, said Agriculture Department spokesman Steven Cohen.
-- Nuclear power plant operators were issued reminders of precautions they should take under a Code Orange.
-- The Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation has increased security at its 58 hydroelectric dams and 348 reservoirs that serve 31 million people in 17 Western states. Precautions include limiting access, closing visitors centers and some roads and conducting random vehicle inspections at some facilities.
To prepare for a potential chemical or biological attack, the Federal Emergency Management Agency advises Americans on its Web site to purchase battery-powered radios, duct tape, scissors and plastic sheeting to cover doors, windows and vents. The agency also suggests stocking up on food and drinking water.
Citizens apparently were paying attention. Hardware stores and food clubs were reporting an increase in sales. And stores like Home Depot were bringing in more supplies to meet the demand.
"If given the choice, Al Qaeda terrorists will choose attacks that achieve multiple objectives, striking prominent landmarks, inflicting mass casualties, causing economic disruption and rallying support through shows of strength," Tenet said.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said the tape linked to bin Laden was evidence that Saddam and Al Qaeda are linked.
"This is the nightmare that people have warned about, the linking up of Iraq with Al Qaeda," Fleischer said, denouncing what he called "an unholy partnership."
Fox News' Heather Nauert and The Associated Press contributed to this report
I am beginning to think we should unleash the CIA to find these SOBs, get up close and quietly assassinate them. Mail the body parts back home as a deterrent.
Until last fall, I lived in a highrise condo building.
Management had been informed about ventilation systems as a means of attack quite some time ago, I believe it was spring of last year.
Florida Plant Reported Used to Export Cyanide 09/18/1990
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DALLAS (AP) The Iraqi architect of a Libyan chemical weapons complex invested $5 million in a Florida cherry flavoring plant in an apparent bid to export cyanide to the Middle East, a newspaper reported in Sunday's editions.
Two former associates said deceased financier Dr. Ihsan Barbouti used the Boca Raton plant to establish a front through which he could export deadly hydrogen cyanide and the technology to produce it in quantity, The Dallas Morning News reported.
The former associates said Barbouti sought to export the poison to Middle East countries identified by the U.S. government as supporters of terrorism. Barbouti acknowledged contracts with Iraq and Iran, they said.
Barbouti has been identified in Western news reports as the architect of Libyan Col. Moammar Gadhafi's chemical weapons plant in Rabta. He died July 1 in London on lung and heart complications, according to his death certificate. He was 63.
A federal lawsuit filed in Oklahoma City in 1989 claims that Barbouti schemed to take over TK-7 Corp., an Oklahoma City fuel additive manufacturer, so he could have a licensed source of chemicals for diversion the Rabta plant. The 1 lawsuit, filed by TK-7 president Moshe Tal, is still pending.
The president of the Florida flavoring plant said he had no role in the diversion of any toxic material, but acknowledged that at least 150 gallons of a cyanide compound was unaccounted for. The cyanide was a byproduct of a process used to extract bitter almond oil, a concentrate for cherry flavoring, from apricot pits.
The cyanide could have been taken from Product Ingredient Technology Inc. without his knowledge, Louis S. Champon said.
"My feeling is that it was his intention to ship out (cyanide) to overseas," Champon said.
Peter Kawaja, whose company installed a $1 million security system at the plant, said the cyanide was removed during "night trips" to another site in Florida he declined to identify.
"Shipments have left the U.S. and technology has left the U.S.," said Kawaja. "We're talking about the research and development of chemical weapons in the United States."
Kawaja declined to identify the final destination of the potentially lethal chemical.
The newspaper said U.S. Customs and the FBI have accelerated their investigation of Barbouti's role in the flavoring plant since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait last month. They are examining his vast holdings in Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Tennessee, New Jersey and New York.
The federal agencies declined comment.
"If there's an ongoing investigation, we're not going to comment on it. Those are attorney general's guidelines ... I'm not confirming that there is an investigation. I don't know if there is or there isn't," FBI spokesman Jeffrey W. Maynard told The Associated Press on Saturday.
The Central Intelligence Agency also refused to discuss the investigation.
"We decline to comment at this time. I would say, though, that if there is any indication or intelligence of hostile activities we would bring that to the attention of the appropriate law enforcement authorities," CIA spokesman Peter Earnest told the AP.
Customs Service spokesman Cliff Stallings in Miami said Saturday that he had been in Washington last week and was unaware of the case.
"You can quote me saying if it's under investigation, then we won't talk about it," he said.
Barbouti's holdings are 1 controlled by his son, Haidar Barbouti, who lives in New York City. The younger Barbouti has been president and director of 20 to 30 of his father's companies.
There was no answer at Barbouti's Manhattan residence or at the Barbouti holding company, IBI Industries Inc., Saturday.
Champon said he has filed a lawsuit to sever his business ties with the Barbouti family. Champon said he and Barbouti often quarreled about disposal of the waste cyanide and that Barbouti's funding "stopped when we flatly refused to send out any cyanide complex."
"Dr. Barbouti many, many times mentioned that he wanted this cyanide ... shipped to Germany," Champon said of the cyanide waste from the plant.
And according to Kawaja and Champon, the Barboutis asked the plant's architect to computerize the blueprints of the operation without Champon's knowledge.
"They were trying to steal the plans," Champon said.
On second thought...
IF he ist still on this side of the grass (and that's a HUGE "IF"), I would interpret "the eagle's belly" to mean Washington, D.C. before anywhere else. I'm thinking this character would like to be remembered as the mutha of all martyrs by going directly to Washington and flipping off "The Great Satan" in person.
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