Health Dept. Urges NYC Hospitals To Prepare for Imminent Cyanide/Nerve Gas Attacks

NY Channel 7 ^ | Feb 13. 2003 | Jeff Rossen

[ewing]

If city cops are on edge, they have got good reason. Law Enforcement and city hosptials have been told that the thread of a cynaide attack or something similar is an immediate danger here in New York City.

Hospitals across the city are keeping an eye on this new terror warning because of the specific language that the city health department is using. They are talking about a possible cynaide gas attack. All the hospitals in the city are now on 'Code Red' high alert.

George Tenet CIA Director: [This Threat] 'It points to a plot to occur at the end of the Hajj, which occurs late this week.'

The Hajj runs through Saturday and so the NYPD has increased the number of officers on counterterrorism assignments from 1,000 to more than 1,400.The health department notified hospitals it has mass antidotes on hand for cynanide and nerve gas poisining.

[RecentConvert]

"Also, the danger is not just Al-Qaeda. According to the CIA, Saddam Hussein may have operatives in the U.S. for a preemptive assault of his own.

Thanks our politicians for our immigration policies.

One thing Americans must understand is that our country is not the same country of 60 years ago. The makeup of our country is changing, and changing at frightening speed for the worst. We're a few steps away from the abyss.

Until Americans understand the immigration issue, America is doomed. Noone will be spared when "the day" comes, noone. Some may naively think that they and their loved ones will be spared because they have the wherewithal to escape. There won't be time to escape.

The water in the pot is getting warmer and warmer. I hope Americans who read this tonight will do some honest soul searching and see the writing on the American wall.

[areafiftyone]

I just work in the city but I am on the 39th floor and the windows are sealed.

[ewing]

I think the only way to combat all these constant warnnings is the type of humor we see here on FR.

Its a very healthy thing..

[ewing]

I think FOX has someone monitoring FR pretty regularly.

[Bob J]

That would be me posting under Dio's login...heheh. For some reason I can't login to chat on Anna's 'puter.

[mel]

You are so right, last night at work, I said something about war and two technicians started saying Bush is an evil man, he is going to get us all killed. What idiots.

[ez]

They indicated that there is a real and credible threat to the subway system. They also indicated that if a bio attack occurs they will seal all stations affected and not allow anyone out."

My wife follows nothing about current events. Today, she asked why the condition was High and I told her that there was information that an attack could occur this week. She waited about 30 seconds and said "Somethings going to happen to the Subway." I had a cold chill...

I just had a second one when I read your post.

PS Re my wife, this is not the first time this has happened...

[takenoprisoner]

If we had a congress and a president with guts, they would be busy broadcasting to muslim terrorists worldwide that if anything else harmful occurs to any Americans sourced by muslim terrorists, then Mecca is history.

No we don't need plastic and duct tape for our windows. We need a congress and a president with balls to tell them what's coming if they don't quit *&^*&^& with us.

JMO

[JustPiper]

With 37 of them in the city of Chicago were do you start?

[JustPiper]

Never go against instinct, it is insync!

[sweetliberty]

"FOX just reported that 5 Iraqis were stopped at the Mexican border"

Everybody knows that the only people who cross the Mexican border are Mexicans that we need to do the jobs that Americans don't want to do. < /sarcasm >

[sweetliberty]

Have y'all seen this?

[Lion's Cub]

Re: cyanide antidote stock in NYC hospitals:

This is from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/842004/posts?page=51#70

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

As someone else pointed out, death from the gas is pretty quick, so I don't know how many drugs the hospital would stock.

[nicmarlo]

OMG....no, at first I thought this was the thread I read the other day.....this is frightening......I live upstate new york.....but you could draw a line between the Buffalo terror cell and NYC, and I'm probably in the middle.....thanks for the ping, sweetliberty.

[nicmarlo]

NY Ping!!! All the hospitals in [New York] city are now on 'Code Red' high alert.

Beware, be careful, be safe....especially those of you in NYC area.

[sweetliberty]

I worry about my New York FReeper friends. Do keep me posted.

[correctthought]

Thanks,

Will try to.

-Alex

[conservativemusician]

Thanks for the ping, Nic, but I'm business as usual. I'm not gonna duct tape my apartment, walk around in a bio-hazard suit, or wear a gas mask.

I refuse to get paranoid. Last night I heard on the radio that a Army Surplus store in Albuquerque was sold out of chem-suits and gas masks. Albuquerque? Please.

I appreciate the warning, but I've had my eyes open since 9-11.

[verity]

This must do wonders for the tourist industry.