Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

so many ME are employed at nuke plants

Are there really? I wouldn't have thought that.

Iran is up to something....

U.S. expels two Iranian security guards at Iran's U.N. Mission

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162375/posts

This kinda lends credence to JM's wondering how involved some states are with AQ.

Do a site search for *bang_list

I'm on the internet! Now everyone knows what I look like!;)

Cal, I found this article on Google dated 8/16/2002.

Anti-Radiation Pills Distributed

Yahoo News (Associated Press)August 16, 2002

http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:ZkvXC8w8npcJ:www.etceteraweb.com/IYNC/08-16-02.pill-distribution.pdf+Anti-Radiation+Pills+Distributed&hl=en

The little white pills designed to protect against cancer weren't deemed necessary after thereactor meltdown at Three Mile Island, but area residents are happy to have them now.

A few miles from the site of America's worst commercial nuclear accident, residents Thursdaypicked up potassium iodide pills that could make a difference if the plant has a catastrophe in thefuture.

Since Sept. 11, the risk of that happening feels higher to many people living near Three Mile Island and other nuclear power plants.

Jennifer Albright picked up two pills each for herself, her husband and two sons at a school near the plant.

"If the government's going to provide it to us as a safeguard, we might as well take advantage ofit," said Albright.

More than 650,000 people who live and work within 10 miles of one of the state's five nuclearplants are eligible to get the pills, which are being distributed free by the state Health Department.

About 42,000 pills had been distributed statewide as of midafternoon Thursday, the department said.

The tablets, which are to be taken only upon instruction by the governor — and then, one tablet aday for two days — protect the thyroid gland against cancer in the event of a nuclear accident.

"The most important message we're giving residents is that evacuation is the No. 1 protectionthey can use," said Michael K. Huff, director of the Health Department's Bureau of CommunityHealth Systems. "But potassium iodide is an additional layer we're providing."

Fifteen states have ordered the pills through the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which initiatedthe distribution project, NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said. Pennsylvania is handing out pills topeople living near its Beaver Valley, Limerick, Peach Bottom, Susquehanna and Three MileIsland nuclear plants.

While the pill can help protect the body against one hazard, Huff said it is not a cure-all in anuclear accident.

"Potassium iodide is not a magic anti-radiation pill," he said.

People living in the shadow of Three Mile Island say the added precaution can only help.

"If something happens like the towers in New York and there's no warning ... at least everybodyhas the pill now," said Doug Gellatly, chairman of the board of supervisors in LondonderryTownship, the municipality that encompasses Three Mile Island. "We've been bombarded since Sept. 11 with talk of an attack."

At the elementary school here, a steady trickle of residents picked up pills and listened to precautions from nurses.

The school is just a few miles down the road from Three Mile Island, where one reactor is stillused. The plant's other reactor was the site of the 1979 nuclear accident, in which the reactor'score partially melted. Potassium iodide was stockpiled at evacuation sites but was not distributed during the accident.

Charlene Brinser of Middletown recalled how nervous she was when it happened.

"I had a child in the eighth grade," said Brinser, 66, who worked in the school cafeteria at the time. "It was a little nerve-racking to think that I might not be able to come back home again."

The pills serve as an added security blanket, however slight, Brinser said. "If I have to leave and pack up some things, I at least have a couple of hours," she said.

MSNBC Breaking News

24 die as U.N. helicopter crashes in Sierra Leone -
A U.N. helicopter crashed in Sierra Leone on Tuesday, killing 24 peacekeepers, aid workers and other civilians on board, a U.N. spokeswoman said.

Saddam to be read indictments on Thursday
Fox News | 6/29/04

Posted on 06/29/2004 10:05:31 AM CDT by kattracks

According to Fox news, there will be a TV camera in the courtroom during this proceeding.

I have a friend who lives in New Paltz. I don't know the name of the reactor they live by, but it is allegedly a high target. They received their pills quite a while ago from the government.

Security folks almost always do double duty with intel chores. That's goes for our guys, too. But this is disturbing, without a doubt. We usually like to leave folks alone and keep them under surveillance as they putter around and try to turn up intel. We expect them to do the same for our guys overseas. That's how the game is played. When you start expelling folks it only leads to tit for tat expulsions then you have to go to the trouble of finding suitable replacements and emplacing them after background checks, ad nauseum. Expulsions are a really hard knuckle rap to make a point. I wonder who's hand got caught in which cookie jar?

80% of US Engineers are foreign born.

Scores of Israeli Casualties in Gaza Blast
Sun Jun 27, 2004 03:21 PM ET

GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants blew up an Israeli military post in the southern Gaza Strip Sunday, causing a large number of Israeli casualties, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
Jewish settlers said scores of Israeli soldiers were either killed or wounded in the explosion. Rescue workers said a large number of soldiers were trapped in the rubble

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5523267

Bump. Thanks.

Oceanview, ping: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1159172/posts?page=2470#2470

Are you in this area? Any knowledge?

no, I live on long island - but I know the Monmouth County NJ pretty well. I believe Toms River is near that plant (??), and that's a bad area for birth defects and such, the water and this plant are suspect.

And now that my country has decided to still suck on the hind tit we all need to worry. More terrorists coming in to Canada. The good old Liberals, Come One, Come All. I am just so disgusted today. I don't know what needs to be done to wake this country up. I used to be a proud Canadian. Now, I love British Columbia and Alberta, and to hell with the rest of the country. You will reap what you sow. To bad it will be at the expense of Western Canada, and possibly the United States. I am soooooo disheartened. I had hoped that the Conservatives could pull it off this time. The East screwed us again. :0(

Jacqui, have you checked out this thread.

We also pick up info on Australia and the world.

Now we know where the F117As are. I had never considered the possibility that they'd end up in South Korea.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/92682/1/.html

Throat slitters, Decapitators, Carvers, Ear cutters, Acid throwing UPDATE AND SUMMARY.

The districts of Rajouri and Poonch witnessed a sharp surge in particularly gruesome attacks in the months of November-December 2002. A jihadi outfit had imposed the wearing of the burqa in Rajouri a few weeks earlier. They slit the throats of girls who defied the diktat.

Both Hindus and Muslims have been beheaded by the jihadis over the past 15 years. In 2001, the beheading of two Hindu priests in Poonch triggered immense rage in the district, prompting the security forces to impose a curfew in the area. More Muslims have, however, been beheaded or subjected to gory forms of torture and killing. Muslims suspected of being informers are seen as the worst "traitors" of the jihadi cause.

There have been cases of children being beheaded on the suspicion that their fathers were informers and of women being injected with poison as punishment for their fathers, brothers and husbands working with the local police. In 2002, three teenage girls were killed in Hasiyot in Rajouri district. Two of them were beheaded, the third shot dead. Militants accused them of being informers but the girls' families believe that the girls were killed because they were going to school. In March this year, five-year-old Zahida and her four-year-old brother were executed by the Lashkar-e-Toiba in Jammu's Doda district because her parents refused to provide sanctuary to militants.

Meanwhile, several cases of beheading came to light in the run-up to the recent general elections. The Hindustan Times reported an incident where militants chopped off the ears of two village elders they had abducted in Jammu's Udhampur district. The victims had been severely beaten before their ears were chopped off. The militants then took the two victims back to the village and showed the chopped ears to the terrified villagers. This was followed by a warning to the villagers not to vote in the general election.

The cases of beheading and chopping off of noses and ears are far too numerous and horrific to be recounted here. Suffice to say, the cases that appear in the Indian media are but the tip of the iceberg.

What sets apart the beheadings in Kashmir from the recent ones in Iraq and Saudi Arabia is that militants here have not used the Internet or videos to draw international attention to themselves. Their aims are local. They want to intimidate and terrorize local people into obeying their orders and falling in line with their thinking. And they are succeeding.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FF30Df03.html

Well, some time back I wanted to participate actively in this thread, but had to take a sanity break. HOWEVER, if there is room for one more, I'd like to join the club..... ESPECIALLY since for the last week or so I keep hearing "special report" music coming up on standard TV stations (it isn't, but I just keep getting really jumpy), since this has something in common with 9/11 events, and my 20 year old (who lives at home) keeps hearing it too, perhaps you will put up with someone who has background as an investigative reporter but also has a bit of paranoia....My "gut" just says time is shorter. We need to work together, and make it faster.

Anyway, first of all, I did want to respond to the query about medication on hand for those near nuke plants.... In our area (E TN, you can read between the map lines), there was a buried story that supplemental area supplies had been obtained. Can't tell you where, how, when or IF they would be distributed to the general public, but it was in the news (sort of) about a month ago.

What spurred me to come back today, though, was a mention yesterday on this thread to--- not the dates--- but the impact of the importance of other details in the possibility of attacks.

This thread is HUGE, and I have read a great deal of it, still, I may have missed this, or maybe it was not discussed, but at the time of 9/11, I was turning up info left and right which seemed to be important at the time. Where outlets like talk shows found it "interesting," I always felt that there was no real venue to have the possible "bigger picture" really magnified.

Well, the time has come, and this is the place (hopefully) to bring it up again. It may take a while to find and/or remember some of it, but I wondered if anyone else had found the "hidden" 9/11 mysteries as compelling as the portions of the story the media presented.

For example, the WTC seemed to be chosen not only for its OUTWARD representation, but for the history it was sitting on top of: IE, the church across the street from the tower which was damaged, but not destroyed.... the church where our FIRST President gave the FIRST speech in acknowledgement of our new nation and its FIRST seat of government.....NYC.....in addition, the Masonic Bible (remember its prevalent (and poignant) part in the Bush 2 inauguration? was brought by COURIER to D.C. for the event.....for one of (if not the FIRST) time in US history. It is usually stored in a vault in NYC. Why? Because it figured prominently in this "first" inaguration of George Washington in NYC Just steps from the tower's collapse!!!! Guess I'll just start with that first, and try to add some of the documentation I found before.

Maybe it is another red herring, but I kept feeling at the time that there was either an entirely second message which was being deleted at the time of the attack. While the location COULD have been a coincidence, if not, it was MORE than carefully chosen as the necessary place for the FIRST attack, despite other failures at the same location which SHOULD have made it much harder.

It would seem that someone with even more insight to our own history (at least far more historical knowledge) than mainstream America had carefully crafted this message to hit us to the heart.

Some of the initial clues seemed to be aligned with the church (and the attached cemetery).... some are items within the WTC.... some of the more important art works for example....as well as some of the information/objects/documents housed in offices there....Anyway, if you all feel that I am barking up the wrong tree, just let me know, but if this background MIGHT be of any help, advise me as well. If I can be useful in looking into any additional areas, just assign me where you will.

Anyway, it is a valiant fight we must engage in, and the work in these threads has been an incredible resource, so just know that I admire everyone's efforts and hope that my own can come close to measuring up.Thanks all, for the opportunity and the insights.

Here is the first of two posts, regarding the FIRST inaguration. Hope this is at least of interest, if not help in adding some insight:

President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)

On April 16, 1789, two days after receiving official notification of his election, George Washington left his home on the Potomac for New York. Accompanied by Charles Thompson, his official escort, and Col. David Humphreys, his aide, he traveled through Alexandria, Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, Princeton, New Brunswick, and Bridgetown (now Rahway, NJ). At these and other places along his route, the artillery roared a salute of honor and the citizens and officials presented him with marks of affection and honor, so that his trip became a triumphal procession. On April 23, he crossed the bay from Bridgetown to New York City in a magnificent barge built especially for the occasion.

Lacking precedents to guide them in their preparations for the first Presidential inaugural, Congress appointed a joint committee to consider the time, place, and manner in which to administer to the President the oath of office required by the Constitution. Certain difficulties in planning and arrangements arose from the fact that Congress was meeting in New York’s former City Hall, rechristened Federal Hall, which was in process of renovation under the direction of Pierre L’Enfant. On April 25, Congress adopted the joint committee’s recommendation that the inaugural ceremonies be held the following Thursday, April 30, and that the oath of office be administered to the President in the Representatives’Chamber. The final report of the committee slightly revised this plan with its recommendation that the oath be administered in the outer gallery adjoining the Senate Chamber, “to the end that the Oath of Office may be administered to the President in the most public manner, and that the greatest number of people of the United States, and without distinction, may witness the solemnity.”

On inauguration day, the city was crowded with townspeople and visitors. At half past noon, Washington rode alone in the state coach from his quarters in Franklin Square to Federal Hall on the corner of Wall and Nassau Streets. Troops of the city, members of Congress appointed to escort the President, and heads of executive departments of the government under the Confederation preceded the President’s coach, while to the rear followed ministers of foreign countries and local citizenry.

At Federal Hall, Vice President John Adam, the Senate, and the House of Representatives awaited the President’s arrival in the Senate Chamber. After being received by Congress, Washington stepped from the chamber onto the balcony, where he was followed by the Senators and Representatives. Before the assembled crowd of spectators, Robert Livingston, Chancellor of the State of New York, administered the oath of office prescribed by the Constitution: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” After repeating this oath, Washington kissed the Bible held for him by the Chancellor, who called out, “Long live George Washington, President of the United States,” and a salvo of 13 cannons was discharged. Except for taking the oath, the law required no further inaugural ceremonies. But, upon reentering the Senate Chamber, the President read the address that is featured here. After this address, he and the members of Congress proceeded to St. Paul’s Church for divine service. A brilliant fireworks display in the evening ended the official program for this historic day.

(Information excerpted from Washington’s Inaugural Address of 1789. National Archives and Records Administration: Washington, DC, 1986.)

President George Washington's First Inaugural Speech (1789)

Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives:

Among the vicissitudes incident to life no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the 14th day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years--a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me, being sufficient to awaken in the wisest and most experienced of her citizens a distrustful scrutiny into his qualifications, could not but overwhelm with despondence one who (inheriting inferior endowments from nature and unpracticed in the duties of civil administration) ought to be peculiarly conscious of his own deficiencies. In this conflict of emotions all I dare aver is that it has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected. All I dare hope is that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens, and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which mislead me, and its consequences be judged by my country with some share of the partiality in which they originated.

Such being the impressions under which I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow- citizens at large less than either. No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency; and in the important revolution just accomplished in the system of their united government the tranquil deliberations and voluntary consent of so many distinct communities from which the event has resulted can not be compared with the means by which most governments have been established without some return of pious gratitude, along with an humble anticipation of the future blessings which the past seem to presage. These reflections, arising out of the present crisis, have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed. You will join with me, I trust, in thinking that there are none under the influence of which the proceedings of a new and free government can more auspiciously commence.

By the article establishing the executive department it is made the duty of the President "to recommend to your consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." The circumstances under which I now meet you will acquit me from entering into that subject further than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which, in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute, in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments, no separate views nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests, so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world. I dwell on this prospect with every satisfaction which an ardent love for my country can inspire, since there is no truth more thoroughly established than that there exists in the economy and course of nature an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Besides the ordinary objects submitted to your care, it will remain with your judgment to decide how far an exercise of the occasional power delegated by the fifth article of the Constitution is rendered expedient at the present juncture by the nature of objections which have been urged against the system, or by the degree of inquietude which has given birth to them. Instead of undertaking particular recommendations on this subject, in which I could be guided by no lights derived from official opportunities, I shall again give way to my entire confidence in your discernment and pursuit of the public good; for I assure myself that whilst you carefully avoid every alteration which might endanger the benefits of an united and effective government, or which ought to await the future lessons of experience, a reverence for the characteristic rights of freemen and a regard for the public harmony will sufficiently influence your deliberations on the question how far the former can be impregnably fortified or the latter be safely and advantageously promoted.

To the foregoing observations I have one to add, which will be most properly addressed to the House of Representatives. It concerns myself, and will therefore be as brief as possible. When I was first honored with a call into the service of my country, then on the eve of an arduous struggle for its liberties, the light in which I contemplated my duty required that I should renounce every pecuniary compensation. From this resolution I have in no instance departed; and being still under the impressions which produced it, I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department, and must accordingly pray that the pecuniary estimates for the station in which I am placed may during my continuance in it be limited to such actual expenditures as the public good may be thought to require.

Having thus imparted to you my sentiments as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness, so His divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

Transcription courtesy of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School