[FairOpinion]

I think the threat is MUCH MUCH more serious, than most people think.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

ping

[FairOpinion]

Anthrax ping

"The possibilities, as described by three intelligence officials, include releasing an undetectable biological agent such as smallpox or anthrax aboard a plane that passengers would then unknowingly spread"

[g35x]

Minor nit - you can't transmit anthrax from person to person - it isn't "contagious"

[jrlc]

For John Kerry's attitude on the military -- what he would do to support our enemies -- check this thread. Particularly illuminating is the cover to his book with the photo mocking the Iwo Jima flag raising. John Commie-Kerry.

[knak]

I wonder why they have'nt raised the alert status?

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[Publius Maximus]

Obviously the threate isn't very serious. After all, we're still at yellow.

(Yeah, that was sarcasm...)

[GeronL]

so thats where thse WMD's went!

The joys of Eviction

[Indie]

I am trying to figure out why on earth the public has not had access to the smallpox vaccine that few health care providers volunteered for? [Probably threat of legal action for bad reactions concerns the guvmint more than the lives of my family]

[BiffWondercat]

Why don't your medevil minds build ICMBs? That's right, y'all can't read anything besides the Qu'ran, Haddiths, Sha'Ria, whatever....

Well, we have thousands of thermonuclear warheads left - far more enough to turn this planet uninhabitable. We will always maintain the power to destroy this planet. This ain't 670ad. Welcome to the 21 Century.

Get with the program before we encode a retrovirus to remove you idiots from the planetary genome and erase any memory of your "culture". Just a freindly suggestion from your neighborhood Kaffir!

[pax_et_bonum]

What courageous warriors of Allah.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[Small amounts of chemical, biological or radiological material would be difficult to detect.]

Small amounts also would'nt do much harm. IMO the WMD angle is a misnomer. I beleive they would much more prefer to crash an airliner into a high value target. This has been their only "claim to fame" so far.

[FreedomCalls]

[FairOpinion]

Continental cancels flight amid terror alert

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/01/1075570283534.html

"It was also announced today that Continental Airlines had cancelled today's 12.15pm (23:15AEDT) Flight 17 from Glasgow, Scotland, to Los Angeles with an intermediate stop in Newark, New Jersey.

British Airways and Air France yesterday cancelled seven flights to and from the United States after US officials said they had new intelligence pointing to an al-Qaeda plot to target the planes. "

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/02/01/1075570283534.html

[arete]

Sure as heck looks like more administration fear mongering. Got to keep the sheepster thinking they are under attack while the crooks rob the bank. Anyone who thinks that AQ is going to jump on a plane from Paris to NYC when they can fly to Mexico and walk across the border anytime they want just isn't thinking. Rove needs to hire a new batch of fiction writers. Some of this stuff is getting stale.

Richard W.

[blackbart.223]

"I think the threat is MUCH MUCH more serious, than most people think."

It may or may not be. But I'm certain of one thing. If these turds pull off another large attack the gloves will come off.

Americans are getting pissed off at a rate these rag headed idiots won't believe. They might want to ask The Japanese and Germans about that.

[japaneseghost]

Most people don't realize that smallpox nearly wiped out the German population exactly 300 years ago - it seems to work worst on whites and Semites (Jews & Arabs) while the recent influenzas kill Asians first. Just reality.

I've had 2 smallpox vaccines in my lifetime.

I'd be more afraid of whatever Asian bird-flu is coming up next. There must be a damn good reason why the WHO is so upset about it.

[dmzTahoe]

Maybe someone can help answer these questions:

1. If they have info someone is going to be on a specific flight, why cancel the flight? Why not wait and find the suspect redhanded?

2. Are the terrorists so stupid that they can't figure out to use another set of flights, different airlines and different ports?

3. If in fact the threats are real and we have specific details, we must have some deeply placed infiltrators in the terrorist network, or else they would surprise us with other flights. Correct?

Just trying to make sense of this, as my daughter and wife will be flying to London in the summer.

[tubavil]

It is. Major prep. in Seattle.

[BurbankKarl]

they are going to plant the bird virus