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How else to describe his comments on Fox News Live only moments ago? This is not an exact quote but here is the gist of what he said from memory: "Why are we having all these terror alerts? I think people are getting tired of them. I wish we could go back to the way it was before when we were thwarting terrorists and nobody ever knew anything. I would rather our intelligence community just thwart the terrorists, if they can, without telling us anything about it." Huh? One is left wondering how in the world Mr. Crowley ever came...

Hastert Reveals Three Other Planes Hit Distress /// Buttons Tuesday... Amid the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) informed Members at a closed-door briefing Tuesday night that three commercial planes overseas had pressed their "terrorist button" and were still in the air as of 5:30 that evening. Although someone on the plane had pressed the device designed to indicate a hijacking, Hastert reported that there was no foul play involved on the planes and that intelligence officials were simply responding to "false alarms," ROLLCALLDAILY reports...

A local dive shop owner says FBI agents are wasting their time scouring Keys dive shops for information about suspicious people who took scuba classes. On May 23, the FBI released a warning that some terrorists had been seeking "an offensive scuba diver capability." Concerned that future terrorist attacks might come by sea, the bureau apparently is compiling a database of all the country's certified scuba divers. "Why spin your wheels interviewing the dive shops when they should be going right to PADI?" asked Capt. Bill Grosscup, owner of Captain's Corner on Greene Street. The Professional Association of Diving Instructors,...

United States Attorney Eastern District of Virginia District of Columbia TO: Anti-Terrorism Task Force FROM: Frank Shults Chief Information Officer RE: Kayak rentals The ATTF CIO in Milwaukee obtained the following information from an intelligence summary report of an Army CID ATTF rep. It is passed on to you for information purposes. (U//FOUO) California: On 21 May 2002, US Coast Guard (USCG) personnel were notified by a kayak distributor in Wilmington, CA, in metropolitan Los Angeles, that three or four men appearing to be of Middle-Eastern descent attempted to purchase four small "sit on top" kayaks several weeks ago. The...

POLITICS IN BRIEF Kucinich says alert used as scare tactic 12/28/2003 The Bush administration is using elevated terror alerts for political gain, Democrat Dennis J. Kucinich said. The Ohio representative, campaigning at a library services company in central New Hampshire on Friday, said that if administration officials have information about terror threats, they should act on it, instead of advertising the threat to scare Americans. "Why didn't they just put extra security out?" he asked. "They are building up fear to become more powerful politically." Kucinich, who will begin airing TV ads in New Hampshire on Jan. 4, said he...

THE ELIJAH LIST http://www.elijahlist.com Prophets and Pastors Call for Prayer for the President's Safety and Even Prophesy VINDICATION! from Many Pastors and Prophets Around the World Date: Oct 2, 2003 ===================================== Prophets and Pastors Call for Prayer for the President's Safety and Even Prophesy VINDICATION! ===================================== First, Kim Clement, who did our Elijah List August Conference prophesied the following on September 3, 2003 (as sent in by Martha Lucia via Dana Millar) Martha Lucia can be found at: www.watchmannetwork.org Steve Shultz, THE ELIJAH LIST www.elijahlist.com Martha Lucia's report on Kim Clement's prophecy: "Please continue to pray for President Bush as...

Air Quality Alert! (True or False?) Monday, July 28, 2003 -- You don't want to walk around with a Hershey bar in your pocket, today. It's summer inversion time and day by day working toward one hundred degrees. Do you recognize this logo? It belongs to the Department of Environmental Quality. If you click on it, you will go to their Oregon webpage, where you will see, among other things, links to news releases like the one we have reprinted in full, here. Take note of the following line from the release, below: " ... urgent pollution prevention message ..."...

Mike Emmanuel of Foxnews is reporting that a new terror threat has been issued for Nuclear Power Plants. Plots have been uncovered that facilities have been targeted. Keep your heads up everyone!!

March 18 — With the nation back on high alert and officials warning that terrorists may already be planning major new attacks, ABCNEWS has learned the government will begin detaining dozens of suspected Saddam Hussein sympathizers in at least five U.S. cities this week. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge today cited the danger of attacks by Iraqi agents in the United States and overseas when he announced the national threat level was moving from yellow, or "elevated," to orange, which means "high." "Iraqi state agents, Iraqi surrogate groups, other regional extremist organizations and ad hoc groups, disgruntled individuals may use...

<p>Terrorists linked to al Qaeda have targeted U.S. military facilities in Pearl Harbor, including nuclear-powered submarines and ships, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>Intelligence reports about the terrorist threat to the Hawaiian harbor bombed by the Japanese in World War II were sent to senior U.S. officials in the past two weeks and coincided with reports of the planning of a major attack by Osama bin Laden's terrorist group. Officials said the reports were one of the reasons that led to the recent heightened security threat alert. The alert status has since been lowered.</p>

A LITANY FOR TODAY God save New York. God save Washington, D.C. God save Houston. God save Chicago God save Boston. God save Philadelphia. God save Baltimore. God save Miami. God save Dallas. God save Denver. God save Detroit. God. save New Orleans. God save Cincinatti. God save Memphis. God save the Twin Cities. God save San Antonio. God save Seattle. God save Calgary. God save Portland. God save San Francisco. God save Pittsburgh. God save St. Louis. God save us all.

ST. LOUIS - The FBI has issued a "very vague" alert warning that people with ties to terrorist groups are downloading images of U.S. stadiums from the Internet, an agency official said Wednesday. The intelligence bulletin was sent in recent days to law-enforcement agencies nationwide. "There's no specific threat," said Bill Eubanks, head of the FBI's St. Louis office. "They just simply accessed the Web site." Images downloaded from www.worldstadiums.com. included the Edward Jones Dome, home to the NFL's St. Louis Rams, and Indianapolis' RCA Dome, he said. The FBI said it has contacted authorities in both places about security...

Wednesday, July 3   People with terrorist ties downloading stadium images ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Associated Press ST. LOUIS -- The FBI has issued a ''very vague'' alert warning that people with ties to terrorist groups are downloading images of U.S. stadiums from the Internet, an agency official said Wednesday. The intelligence bulletin was sent in recent days to law-enforcement agencies nationwide. ''There's no specific threat,'' said Bill Eubanks, head of the FBI's St. Louis office. ''They just simply accessed the Web site.'' Images downloaded from www.worldstadiums.com. included the Edward Jones Dome, home to the NFL's St. Louis Rams, and the RCA Dome,...

<p>The evildoers are coming. Again.</p> <p>No really, they are. This time we really mean it. Those last 17 times we only partially meant it but this time we really really mean it and look even pallid and barely animate VP Cheney is muttering through the scary side of his disquieting mouth that fresh terrorist attacks on the US are "almost a certainty."</p>

<p>More than eight months since the events of September 11th, many people are still grappling with the emotion and anxiety resulting from that day. Longtime mental health advocate Tipper Gore spoke with CNN's Paula Zahn about the issue.</p> <p>PAULA ZAHN: It seems to me that it's time for us all to grow up. I mean, we now know that a third of all New Yorkers are suffering from some kind of posttraumatic stress syndrome. Does that make any sense to you at all?</p>

The Houston Chronicle June 23, 2001, Saturday 3 STAR EDITION SECTION: A; Pg. 1 LENGTH: 750 words HEADLINE: U.S. forces put on alert in Mideast; Terrorist threat perceived SOURCE: Staff BYLINE: MICHAEL HEDGES, Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau DATELINE: WASHINGTON BODY:WASHINGTON - A Marine Corps mission in Jordan was abruptly halted Friday and Navy ships were hustled out of a Persian Gulf port in Bahrain after a threat against Americans was received, military officials said. At the same time, the State Department was preparing to update a worldwide caution to Americans of security concerns abroad, a spokesman said. The threat was...