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Posted on 08/01/2006 9:51:52 PM PDT by nwctwx
I agree. IF they were really reselling the things, the people buying them must be dumber than rocks paying that price when they could go to their local Walmart and pay less. If not terror, the only other thing would be drug trade, which also uses these type of phones.
I didn't eat all of it, but a fair amount of it....
Just an interesting story.
Mysterious SOS signals from cordless phone baffle coast guard
CHOSHI, Chiba -- Japan Coast Guard officials investigating nearly 280 false emergency signals they received in June and July tracked the source to a cordless phone in a house here, but remain baffled over what caused the signals to be sent.
Officials said a total of 279 SOS signals, usually sent by ships or planes via satellite when they become stranded, were detected off the coast of Choshi in June and July this year. Japan Coast Guard officials sent out rescue workers more than 20 times but they found nothing, leading them to consider the possibility of pranks or terrorism.
It was realized on June 25 that a signal was continuously being sent out, but searches at sea turned up nothing unusual. The signal continued to be emitted during the day and at night, and on July 9 the coast guard received a total of 17 SOS signals.
Officials said that when an emergency button on vessels is pressed, a 243-megahertz signal is sent out and relayed via satellite to the Japan Coast Guard. To investigate the mystery SOS signals, the coast guard sent out a total of 18 patrol vessels and 19 aircraft.
Since nothing unusual was happening at sea, officials presumed that the signals were coming from the coastline. They used direction-finding equipment on a sophisticated jet to track the signal down to a house along the coast of Choshi.
The Kanto Bureau of Telecommunications, which monitors illegal radio signals, conducted an inspection with the Japan Coast Guard on July 20, with the homeowner's permission. They found that strong signals matching the SOS signals were being sent from a cordless phone produced in 1991.
To the owner's surprise, when the phone was switched off, the signals ceased.
The reason the signals were being sent, however, remains a mystery. The telecommunications bureau asked the phone's manufacturer to investigate the reason, but, perhaps because the phone was reset when it was switched off, the false signals stopped being sent.
"If we can't reproduce the signals, we'll never know the reason," a perplexed official said. (Mainichi)
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August 11, 2006
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20060811p2a00m0na013000c.html
JERUSALEM (AP) — The army says 19 Israeli soldiers were killed Saturday in Lebanon, making it Israel’s highest one-day toll in the war.
The killing of a religious leader in Kyrgyzstan has increased tensions in Russia's Fergana Valley, where radical Islamists and authorities continue fighting.
Mohammed Rafik Kamalov, the popular imam of a mosque in the town of Korasuv, died Aug. 6, reportedly in a shootout between police and the two passengers of his car, who were also killed. Kyrgyzstan authorities allege that the two men were Islamic militants planning terrorist attacks, the Los Angeles Times said Saturday.
In the initial official account of events, Kamalov, a self-proclaimed opponent of violence, was allegedly working secretly with Islamic fighters. But many of his supporters asserted that security forces had killed an innocent man.
Authorities eventually backtracked, saying they did not rule out the possibility that Kamalov had been a hostage.
On Friday, several thousand people turned out for a protest, demanding that the terrorism accusations against Kamalov be dropped and that he be declared a martyr, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
For years, Kamalov had openly defended the right of Hizb ut-Tahrir members to attend services at his mosque, while criticizing the group's ideology. Hizb ut-Tahrir issued a statement from its London office describing Kamalov's death as an "extrajudicial assassination."
Any more news on the pipe bombs in Salem and Dallas? Salem is one of the main cities along I-5, and lots of deranged minds travel our nation's highways, and in particular, I-5. Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and Randal Woodfield (the I-5 Killer) immediately come to mind. Someone needs to locate this person before they (he/she/them) kills someone.
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You're sure welcome. He is one courteous, caring and personable guy and I wish him happiness and success in his new job and the coming days of his life. Hoping eventually - one day he finds his way back to TM.
Too many years ago to count I bought a car from a guy named Mohammed.....something I think about a lot now.
Snip: Had I been an explosives-carrying terrorist, I'd have had no problem carrying out my evil act at the Ottawa train station yesterday, killing scores of people.
Without even a ticket, and one hour before the next train was to leave (for Montreal), I walked with a small satchel through the front doors of the station, across the main concourse to the top of the winding passageway, down the empty passageway, along an empty corridor to an empty escalator, up the escalator to the outside rail platform where two empty trains stood, along the empty platform, up to the open door of one of the empty coaches, turned around, walked across the platform to the station building, ducked under a yellow chain across the open door, and strolled past a sign in the concourse saying: Visitors Not Allowed On Platform. Had I been a terrorist, I could easily have concealed a bomb with a timing device in the empty coach and sauntered away. I could have bought a ticket at the wicket and taken a bomb on board in my carry-on luggage, unchecked. I could have detonated the bomb in the concourse area that was filled with passengers. Scores of people were in the line-up at the head of the passageway for the Montreal train, all with suitcases, backpacks, purses, shopping bags -- none of which were checked by VIA personnel, the passengers simply waved through.
Malaysia braces for ruling on Islam conversion
Snip: Malaysia is expecting a court ruling any day now that could shake society to its foundations: does a Muslim have the right to convert to another faith?
Wave of attacks planned say investigators
Snip: Suspected terrorists were planning to unleash a wave of "apocalyptic" attacks on land and air, using an arsenal of bombs and weaponry, including firearms, investigators have discovered.
Police and intelligence sources have indicated that the alleged plot which was thwarted last week was targeted at the UK, as well as at airliners heading for the US, and could have caused devastating loss of life and destruction on the British mainland. One Whitehall source said "many dozens" of plots were under investigation, involving "hundreds" of suspects.
Yes Revel, that is interesting.
Thank you.
Heartbreaking...thank you Jellyjam.
Thanks Oorang.
That's sad.
Thanks nw.
Haven't heard any more news but I'll post anything new that I come across.
It's a bit stunning to me that it will take a court ruling for someone to not be a muslim. Scratch Malaysia off my travel list.
Excellent links, thank you MamaD.
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=7574
Updated: August 12th, 2006 10:23 AM EDT
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"Liquid Explosives among Terrorist Tools Israel Has Guarded against for Years"
Arthur Max
The Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Airports have the technology to detect liquid explosives, but it's a time-consuming process and must be coupled with passenger profiling to narrow the pool of suspects, Israeli aviation security experts said."
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Passenger's Claim Shuts Down Customs at Detroit Airport
AP via WXYZ-TV ^ | August 12, 2006 | AP
Posted on 08/13/2006 1:04:55 AM PDT by conservative in nyc
The U.S. Customs area at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was briefly shut down today after a passenger claimed he had contaminated everyone on a flight from Amsterdam.
Officials say a U.S citizen got off a Northwest Airlines flight and implied to the crew he had a biological agent of some sort and had contaminated the flight.
Airport emergency medical technicians examined the man and decided that he did not pose a health risk.
The man was eventually allowed to leave.
It took about 90 minutes to investigate, and other passengers from Amsterdam were delayed in leaving. Passengers on two flights from Japan were not allowed to enter the customs area for about an hour during the investigation.
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