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Military on Highest Domestic Terror Threat Alert
The Washington Post ^ | May 21, 2003 | Charles Aldinger

Posted on 05/21/2003 6:02:23 PM PDT by caa26

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has raised its warning of possible terror attack against military facilities in the United States to its highest level, defense officials said on Wednesday.

Responding to that change in threat from "significant" to "high," the military will deploy additional mobile anti-aircraft missile systems and increase air patrols in the Washington area, according to the officials, who asked not to be identified.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dia; highalert; intelligence; orangealert3; usmilitary
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This has been done before. The only thing that concerns me is too many people, will not take elevated terror warnings seriously if there are no terror attacks. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but people might start treating these alerts as "boy cries wolf".
1 posted on 05/21/2003 6:02:23 PM PDT by caa26
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To: caa26
Boy cries wolf is if the Administration knows about the warnings and gets complacent and does nothing about them, i.e. the clinton administration.
2 posted on 05/21/2003 6:12:23 PM PDT by rs79bm (The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit ... R. Limbaugh)
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To: caa26
They placed the military only on the highest domestic alert? Man, I believe the only step left is RED alert. And we dont yet know what happens during a red alert, although there has been some discussion...
3 posted on 05/21/2003 6:14:45 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (When news breaks, we fix it!)
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To: Lunatic Fringe
Is there any more informed analysis of this "tail of the snake" remark?
4 posted on 05/21/2003 6:24:00 PM PDT by We Happy Few ("we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother;")
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To: caa26

5 posted on 05/21/2003 6:24:04 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Bu-bye Dixie Chimps! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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To: rs79bm
Boy cries wolf is if the Administration knows about the warnings and gets complacent and does nothing about them, i.e. the clinton administration.

If Mr. Bush didn't raise the alerts and warn us, then the demoncrapts would yell "What did Bush know and when did he know it?" Better to raise the alerts and snuff the attacks than let it lie, as the creep (a.k.a. klintoon) did.


6 posted on 05/21/2003 6:44:27 PM PDT by Ethyl
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To: Ethyl
hey ethyl!!!!!!!your right
7 posted on 05/21/2003 7:08:39 PM PDT by gdc61 (Crow, the main coarse at every liberal luncheon)
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To: caa26
So this is what a 'regional red' looks like?
8 posted on 05/21/2003 7:13:17 PM PDT by ewing
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To: ewing
Yup. When they issue live ammo to everyone, you know it's red time.
9 posted on 05/21/2003 7:34:14 PM PDT by Beck_isright (When Senator Byrd landed on an aircraft carrier, the blacks were forced below shoveling coal...)
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Military on Highest Domestic Terror Threat Alert

What, Hillary threatening to pose nude in Playboy?

10 posted on 05/21/2003 7:41:13 PM PDT by chance33_98 (www.hannahmore.com -- Shepherd Of Salisbury Plain is online, more to come! (my website))
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Terror threats mentioning LOS ANGELES now...

Arabic language message board with terror threats, places, timeline:
Arabic language website with terror threats

That website has updated with a new round of posts, equally as disturbing. You can do your own interpretations:

Posted Wednesday May 21 (Everything from here down is excerpted/copied directly from that website!):

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I will not elaborate on the explanation .. But were on a confidence that the swords will quench thirst and Awad ’s California will cry the tears a blood ..
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As for remainder of the mockers ... Then ÏÚåã them they in their delusion waver ...

Do she is a blade ..!!
Do there a thing what is a relative ..!!
I believe a Thalk .. Then the matter is suspicious ..!!

To the dog Bush¡¡ to thousands by me any the failures¡¡ to Si any the dirty stop it¡¡ he to each hypocrite stood with them and helps them and serves them¡¡¡¡ a Haqd came the settlement moment to the Allah wanted¡¡¡¡ that the hit is next and next and except the Allah will not stop her¡¡¡ oh Allah ! aim our throwing¡¡ oh Allah ! aim our throwing¡¡¡ oh Allah ! aim our throwing ¡¡¡¡

To all wish Moslem the remoteness about the main cities in the American failure states and the departure is to the near countries like Canada and Mexico or the small cities and the remoteness about the coastal cities near from the sea ¡¡¡

To our leader and our responsible the sheikh Osama ben Ladin the Allah kept him¡¡¡ an expectation a fragrant present by the blood from your cells¡¡¡¡
Oh Allah ! aim our throwing ¡¡¡¡
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Oh Allah ! aim our throwing ¡¡¡¡

The American military inquiries are a haughtiness the readiness to the highest degree is 1746 ( a GMT is 04 : 00 ) - 21 / 05 / 03

The readiness degree in a continuous height is Washington¡ the United States ( a CNN - - raised the American military intelligence agency is the level of the threat of the military terrorism from a degree " an important " to " a high "¡ she in a step agrees with the degree of the civic readiness .

And on the variation of the stair of the civic readiness¡ then a degree " a high " is in the military investigating system considered the highest readiness grade to opposite terrorism .

And he was the readiness level improvement have the civic sides to " a high " the declaration about him has completed tuesday .

And in the time that in him the military officials and the civilians in the United States about a time and the place of the expected attack did not disclose¡ then the officials said " the information are respect this threat came as a result the contacts blockage that completed between the terrorists the suspect in them ."

And may tell the decision of the military intelligence agency to the military leaders on the world level¡ for the sake of the reconsideration of the security readiness in their rules from now on¡¡ where the leaders will decide there criteria " the protection of their forces " and what if she was by a need to modification¡¡ and the essence of the explanations of the security criteria that will make her to the insurance of the military rules .

And he is not clear until now¡ what if was there is a definite influence to the decision of the military intelligence agency that calls for the arrival identification to the foundations from the authorized employees¡¡ and the operation of the operations of the observation of the identity cards¡ as to the leaders addition enables other operations .

And the readiness degree improvement in the American army did not accompany specific orders to the increase of the combating airs raids over the United States or the spreading of Stinger missile batteries¡ as completed in the past .

But one of of the officials said such as that orders she can appear in a next stage¡ and that there changes the security operations in the army can catch an Almriki during the next .

And believes the investigating sources also that activists from the rule their sending to the United States completed .

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And the virgin infant will get out that will in Anglis ’s Los Angeles so that he starts with the life and his life the end of his mother is born .

Bush : taste a regret and a grief on your country that will form a print after eye .

Ç to an outside that you dream .......
Then we were formed from your destructive ideas that and ÃÍäÇ by thousand his blessings to the Allah wanted

11 posted on 05/21/2003 7:45:20 PM PDT by BagCamAddict
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To: BagCamAddict
What tolerant people... It's a religion of peace. < /sarcasm>
12 posted on 05/21/2003 7:58:47 PM PDT by Dengar01
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To: BagCamAddict
Not too arrogant, huh?

"I on a certainty that the next days pregnant by the shock and the frightening to America¡¡ and this is Oun free the appearance has started¡ and the pains devastate in America and she a Ttshht in her confinement."

Amazing. If they want to see fear, look at their own devastation they live among in the Mid East. It took our service men a few weeks stay during a regime change to figure out how to grow watermelons. Yet, the Arabs live among wastelands.

Such projection. They are already dancing at victory because our alert system was raised. Yet our lives go on. Children go to school, people go to work, progress is made. Total paper tigers.
13 posted on 05/21/2003 8:04:08 PM PDT by Calpernia (The person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.)
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To: caa26
Okay, I know it's just FEELings, but I really have bad vibes about this.
14 posted on 05/21/2003 8:04:55 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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Makes me wonder if they are thinking dirty bomb, or worse, for either D.C., Boston, or NYC. Given our borders anything is certainly possible, maybe even overdue.

After all, just because we may loose a city or two, we sure wouldn't want to impede the progress of illegal Mexican voters into the country who celebrated 9-11 with such gaity in the streets of Mexico since they are being so heavily counted on to change the concept of sovereignty in the Western hemisphere.

15 posted on 05/21/2003 8:07:35 PM PDT by MissAmericanPie
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To: ReligionofMassDestruction
Why are we afraid to mention them.? They're not afraid to mention us! Kill the Jews and Americans! That's what they're saying.
17 posted on 05/21/2003 8:33:22 PM PDT by Lijahsbubbe
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To: BagCamAddict
bttt
18 posted on 05/21/2003 8:49:44 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma
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To: MissAmericanPie
Dirty bomb might not be too effective in the next few days in DC, NYC or Boston because of the rain forecasted. Earlier in the thread there was an interesting link to an Arabic website that has a cryptic warning.

Whenever the terror level is raised, I just wish had an idea of the intelligence that was used to make the decision.
19 posted on 05/21/2003 9:03:06 PM PDT by caa26
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Military on Highest Domestic Terror Threat Alert

So I take it that military bases are at Threatcon Delta right now.

20 posted on 05/21/2003 9:14:48 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Beware of Doug.)
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