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This is an urgent plea for help from Prairie Lady; these are her posts: [copied] I JUST got off the phone with my neice. It seems my sister (her mother) is missing since yesterday between 3pm and 4:40pm yesterday from the SouthCarolina area. She headed north as far as we can track, but then nothing. This is TOTALLY uncharacteristic of her. We need to know if she is on her own willingly making decisions, or if she has been abducted and is in need of help. Is there anybody from that area that can help? ---------------------- ok, she spoke to...

Nurse recalls trauma of working with accused terrorist Battle Battle all smiles 9/11, nurse says Linda Jackson was as surprised as anyone three weeks ago, when authorities arrested three Portlanders and charged them with conspiring to aid al-Qaida in their fight against the United States. But when she heard the names of the suspects, she had one of those "aha" moments. Jeffrey Leon Battle. Hadn't she called it? Hadn't she said to her fellow employees on Sept. 11 last year, "He has something to do with this"? Hadn't she, in fact, quit her job as Jeffrey Battle's supervisor after the...

Can any of you translate the words? Do you think that is the body of Osama Bin Laden? Graphic. Can you figure out how long the video has been up at that site? Any insights, FReepers? Has the FBI etc been notified? Do you think it is a hoax? Please let the page load and view the pictures and video (and have sound on): http://www.hamor.net/media/swf/alkholoud.htm and give your opinion. There is a discussion at http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43702 [UNEX/WAR/WTF?] OSAMA DEAD? *strange* video, look at this and we could not find anything previously posted about this on Free Republic.

<p>WASHINGTON — When Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld travel to India and Pakistan this week, they'll hand leaders of both countries something frightening to think about: a U.S. study estimating that as many as 12 million people would die instantly if the longtime adversaries were to launch a nuclear war.</p>

Shelter In Place: Make Your Kits Shelter In Place aka SIP [ Courtesy of ECHO Caer Group, Emergency Communications for Hazardous Operations, taught through the Portland, Oregon Fire Dept Training Center ] [ Fair Use: For Educational / Research / Discussion Purposes Only ] "There may be a time when an emergency takes place in your community due to an airborne toxic chemical release. The outside air quality may be affected to the point that it is not safe to be outside or evacuate. In a case like this it is usually safer to shelter-in-place until wind disperses and moves ...

[ Fair Use: For Educational / Research Purposes Only ] Dec 28, 2000 - 03:53 PM, by H. Josef Herbert Sticky Oil, Other Energy Problems Await New President WASHINGTON (AP) - Three days before George W. Bush is inaugurated president, OPEC oil ministers will meet in Vienna and in all likelihood slash oil production, raising crude prices worldwide. It's not what the new president will want to see. A former oilman himself, Bush faces a multitude of energy problems beyond resurging oil prices that could present his administration with its first crisis as much of the country copes with a ...

[ Fair Use: For Educational / Research Purposes Only ] Nov 30, 2000 - 05:44 PM Clinton Says a New Florida Count Would Show Gore the Winner WASHINGTON (AP) - If every vote in Florida were counted, Vice President Al Gore would be the next president, President Clinton says, and "America will be embarrassed in front of the world if the votes are not counted." Clinton offered his off-the-cuff observations to two reporters, Hilary MacKenzie, a Southam News reporter writing for the Ottawa Citizen in Canada and Stefan Simons of the German weekly Der Spiegel. They ran into Clinton at ...

[ Fair Use: For Educational / Research Purposes Only ] Officers Raid Kids' Party, Shoot Family Dog Emergency Response Team Members Kicked Off Squad ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia, Posted 10:38 a.m. PDT July 11, 2000 -- Two Abbotsford police officers will be kicked off an elite squad after bursting in on a children's birthday party and shooting the family dog during a botched drug raid. The ruling was handed down Tuesday by the British Columbia Police Complaints Commission. Constables Matthew Sekela and David Schmirler were serving a drug warrant in the incident in January 1999. Fourteen children and 14 adults were ...