Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-One

[Oorang]

Two American planes make emergency landings in N.L.
October 1, 2005

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Two American planes - a passenger jet and a military transport - made separate emergency landings in Newfoundland on Saturday.

A Continental Airlines Boeing 767, en route from Newark, N.J., to Paris with 178 people on board, landed in Gander shortly before 8 a.m. local time.

Airport officials said crew reported low oil pressure in one of the engines. The airliner landed safely with one engine idling.

Officials said the plane was waiting for a spare part late Saturday afternoon and was expected to be on its way by evening.

Meanwhile, a U.S. air force plane made an emergency landing in St. John's after a false alarm prompted the crew to shut down one of the aircraft's four engines.

The C-130 Hercules was en route from Illinois on a transatlantic flight to the Middle East and had already been scheduled to touch down in St. John's on a maintenance stop.

The Hercules, with 26 people on board, landed without incident Saturday afternoon, said airport spokesman Kelly Jamieson.

"It turns out there was no immediate fire, so they shut the engine down as a precaution," Jamieson said Saturday.

"These things are quite common, actually. It's really not that serious a problem."

Jamieson said the plane would leave as soon as the crew found what caused the false alarm and fixed the problem.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2005/10/01/1244275-cp.html

[Oorang]

Government anti-terror unit cautions of plans to kidnap Israelis in Sinai
October 1, 2005

JERUSALEM (AP) - The government's anti-terror unit advised Israelis on Saturday to avoid travelling in Egypt's Sinai desert during the upcoming month of Jewish holidays, saying it has information that terror groups plan to kidnap Israeli tourists vacationing there.

The travel advisory went into effect immediately. Tourists were advised not to travel to Egypt, or to leave immediately if already there.

During the holiday season last year, more than 30 people died in bombings of a hotel in the Sinai resort area of Taba, just over the Israeli border, and a nearby beach camp.

Sinai traditionally attracts tens of thousands of Israelis during Jewish holiday seasons.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/WarOnTerrorism/2005/10/01/1244201-ap.html

[Cindy]

Thank you Oorang.

[Cindy]

Ditto.

[TWhiteBear]

Have you come across anything similar to this, recently?

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/washingtonstate/index.ssf?/base/news-16/1128197641237020.xml&storylist=orwashington

"A water tower in east Spokane and a reservoir across the border in Idaho were both broken into recently, and both water systems were found to be contaminated with coliform bacteria"

"Authorities said they do not believe the cases are related to E.coli contamination earlier in the week in north Spokane or to the discovery of a toxic chemical recently in a well in Colbert."

Perhaps, just a run, so to speak, of bad luck.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Biohazard sensors showed the presence of small amounts of

potentially dangerous tularemia bacteriain the Mall area

last weekend as huge crowds assembled there, but health officials
said they believed the levels were too low to be a threat. <<<<<<<<<<<<

I would say it has happened exactly as we feared it would.

It would surprise me to find out the mall has a sick rabbit problem.

I don't know if I can find it again, but I saw a Promed on Tularemia, a release or loss from a lab in ME. I didn't open it as I was trying to delete part of the 10,000 unread alerts and not the good stuff, which did not work, as how do you toss something you don't know what it says?

My computer will not work on the homesite for ProMed.org,
but there will be several for the last year for Tularemia.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> A water tower in east Spokane and a reservoir across the border in Idaho were both broken into recently, and both water systems were found to be contaminated with coliform bacteria <<

>> Biohazard sensors showed the presence of small amounts of potentially dangerous tularemia bacteriain the Mall last weekend <<

Was starting to think these to BIO incidents may have been related. Then I heard a blurb that the bio incident on the Mall happened LAST WEEK. That made my blood boil.

If we're hit with a bio attack, the gov't won't tell the public, well find out from each other when we start getting sick and the hospitals become overwhelmed.

The gov't is making matters much worse by not telling us what's really going on.

[appalachian_dweller]

"The tularemia bacteria was detected over a wide area." - DC Fox 5 News

Then they listed the symptoms of infection and urged folks to see a doctor is they have them. Symptoms the same as the flu.

Methinks there is more to this than we're being told. The bacteria was detected during an antiwar demonstration. Hmmmm.

Of course, terrorism was ruled out. Yea, right.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Bomb Blast at Univeristy of Oklahoma (Breaking on Fox) <<

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts

[appalachian_dweller]

**** RED ALERT *****


from the OK bomb blast thread....


To: blogblogginaway
My wife just called from the stadium. She supervises one of the University sky boxes and said there was a tremendous blast and they wont let anyone have access to thier cars parked in the area of the bomb. It was apparently a suicide bomber who prematurely triggered the bomb. It was just before halftime with 80,000 people in the stands. My guess is an OU student frome a Muslim country. I am so angry I am shaking.



18 posted on 10/01/2005 10:12:27 PM EDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)

[Velveeta]

Quote:

"My wife just called from the stadium. She supervises one of the University sky boxes and said there was a tremendous blast and they wont let anyone have access to thier cars parked in the area of the bomb. It was apparently a suicide bomber who prematurely triggered the bomb. It was just before halftime with 80,000 people in the stands. My guess is an OU student frome a Muslim country. I am so angry I am shaking."



18 posted on 10/01/2005 9:12:27 PM CDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts?page=36#18

[Velveeta]

Explosion kills one during OU game
by Rhett Brackeen and Ryan McGhee

October 01, 2005

One person was killed Saturday night in an explosion during the second quarter of the OU/Kansas State game.

OU police Sgt. Gary Robinson said: "We heard a loud explosion outside the stadium, a device was exploded. We have one fatality and we have the area sectioned off. We are checking to see if there are any devices."

The explosion occurred in the courtyard east of G.L. Cross Hall, Robinson said.

He said after the area was cleared of any other possible devices the police would check on other injuries.

"We're letting the hazardous device units do what they do," Robinson said.

Robinson said after the game fans would be let out on the east side of the stadium towards Jenkins Avenue. During half time fans were not allowed to leave the stadium on the west side.
http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/01/433f3c43d0f24

[Velveeta]

Per update from KWTV-9, authorities on the scene say it was a bomb, and that a second device was also found and has been "taken care of". Occurred outside the stadium around halftime.
Some architecture students working on a project in a nearby building said they saw smoke and saw only one casualty. It's presumed that's the perp. Right now focus is on securing the area and finding an orderly way for fans to make their exit at the end of the game without compromising any possible evidence.



60 posted on 10/01/2005 9:20:57 PM CDT by WestTexasWend
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=60

[nw_arizona_granny]

A very impressive and valuable list of links.

Thank you.

[appalachian_dweller]

Lot of jokes being posted on the other thread.

Staying a RED ALERT here. Praying hard that tomorrow's football games end without incident.

Another preparedness announcement now playing on the TV.

I'm not liking this one bit!!!

We'll all know soon enough if this is the attack we've been expecting or just some idiot college kid.

Waiting......

[Velveeta]

It irks me to no end that something serious and deadly occurs and freepers are cracking jokes.

I'm on pins and needles here too....

Waiting...

[Revel]

"Some architecture students working on a project in a nearby building said they saw smoke and saw only one casualty. It's presumed that's the perp."

Did EOM just blow himself up?

[SlowBoat407]

Thanks for the ping, Ian.

As usual, lately, I'm in and out but keeping up as much as possible.

[Revel]

What is sounds like to me is that some terroist was planning to get in the stadium and blow up a lot of people. It also sounds like he never made it inside....Thank God.

[LucyT]

Granny, here is the ProMed-Mmail post about tularemia:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475392/posts?page=3238#3238