Posted on 09/19/2001 9:39:49 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
| Weekend alert as FBI warns of new attack | |
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BY DOMINIC KENNEDY AND DAMIAN WHITWORTH |
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| AMERICA and the West are bracing themselves for another potential “Day of Infamy” this Saturday, when accomplices of the hijackers are suspected of having plotted new outrages. The most solid evidence so far is the discovery that five associates of the suicide gang had booked seats on two internal passenger flights, taking them from Texas to California, in two days’ time. FBI agents are trying to capture as many key operatives as possible before any plot can be put into action. Water, gas and electricity suppliers, bridges, tunnels and underground railways have increased security because of the perceived threat of biological, chemical or physical attacks. In a dramatic development, three Arab airport workers in Detroit were arrested after FBI agents found them in a house with handwritten sketches of an airport, aircraft and runways. They had a notebook containing information about the “American base in Turkey”, “Alia Airport” in Jordan and the “American foreign minister”, legal documents state. The three, Ahmed Hanna, 33, Karim Koubriti, 23, and Farouk Ali-Halmoud, 21, from Morocco and Algeria, worked at Detroit Metropolitan Airport preparing food for airlines. FBI agents stumbled across the trio while searching the address of Habil al-Marabh, a suspected associate of the World Trade Centre hijackers. The Arabs said that they did not know him. They have been charged with conspiracy and having false immigration papers. The FBI is concentrating its energies on deterring more attacks this Saturday. “Yes, we have heard something about September 22 but nothing specific,” an investigative source told America’s Knight Ridder news service. “We have information that leads us to believe that there could be more attacks very soon. The same murky sources that indicated something might be happening in the weeks before the attacks have indicated something may be happening this weekend.” Bob Graham, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the New York and Washington suicide strikes were “part of a larger plan with other terrorism acts, not necessarily the hijacking of airplanes”. The FBI has issued a “watch list” of 223 people suspected of being associates of the hijackers. Nearly a quarter of the people on the list are able to fly aircraft. |
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Just watch for people with .223's were they're not supposed to be.
Seriously, this worries me. These folks are arrogant and have ego's. They want to PROVE how smart they are, "calling" their shots. I fear this isn't over.
Wire these d!cks up for sound already.
Those are what the kooks already did, with slight variation maybe, but same MO.
Regaeds AP
Not by a long shot, I'm sure.
Be alert and stay safe FRiends!
I CANNOT believe that local, state or even Federal emergency managers aren't holding emergency DRILLS! If you don't rehearse what and how you're going to react to such an emergency, you won't see the potential glitches in the plan if you even have one! There are special precautions which MUST be taken in the event of a nerve agent attack. You've got to set up DECONTAMINATION STATIONS with plenty of hot soapy water available, but you've also got to make sure this water is not allowed to run off and absorb into the ground or it will contaminate the water supply. You have to make sure you have adequate supplies of the drug ATROPINE on hand for treating the symptoms of the agent so victims can be stabilized for hospital transport. If atropine is not administered within 15 min of exposure...you're pretty much dead.
'Course in the case of PURE SOMAN, you have just nine seconds from initial exposure until death. That's the "rate of action" for this nerve agent...and you'll die barfing up your lungs....in pure agony.
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