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<p>As the nation lurches from orange to yellow on the terror alert scale for the fourth time, Arizona officials are considering not following the federal moves in the future.</p> <p>"It creates incredible problems: overtime, financial, functional," said Frank Navarrete, the state's homeland security director. "It's not quite to the point where it creates havoc, but it's quite disruptive."</p>

The National Terror Alert is going back to Yellow. Breaking news, could not find a link to anything about it, even at FEMA's site. As of 2:20 Eastern Time, they still have Orange posted.:

<p>SARS. Orange alerts. Mad cow in Canada. West Nile mosquitoes hatching in your gutters.</p> <p>"I think the odds are no better than 50-50 that our present civilization on Earth will survive to the end of the present century," Martin Rees writes in a new book merrily titled Our Final Hour.</p>

Deadly Accidents Mar U.S. Holiday Travel 11 minutes ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! Americans by the millions, undeterred by a soggy economy and an elevated terror alert, are hitting the highways, airways and rails this Memorial Day weekend. AAA predicts record numbers of travelers on the road for what is traditionally the kickoff of the summer driving season. AP Photo   Travel in the Midwest was complicated when a bridge over Interstate 80 collapsed in Nebraska after being hit by a semi-trailer. The accident, which killed the driver, shut down a 10-mile stretch of the interstate....

Relax and Stay Alert, the Government Says, Sending Another of Its Mixed MessagesBy Siobhan McDonough Associated Press WriterPublished: May 23, 2003 WASHINGTON (AP) - Relax and have a leisurely Memorial Day weekend, the government says. But watch out for terrorists. It's sort of like saying, "You have a dentist appointment. Have fun." Sometimes the government seems to be sending mixed messages, as if it wants all things at all times. And it's not just nuanced messages about terrorism. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spends millions to trumpet anti-smoking campaigns. Meanwhile, tobacco farmers get millions in disaster payments...

A California Highway Patrol officer checks behind the seat of the driver in a random truck stop in the main truck artery of San Francisco on May 20, 2003. The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin last week warning of the possibility of a truck bomb and spelled out measures to help preempt such an attack. Photo by Susan Ragan/Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin last week warning of the possibility of a truck bomb and spelled out measures to help preempt such an attack. In a Homeland Security Information Bulletin...

As if the New York Times doesn't already have its hands full with the burgeoning Jayson Blair scandal, Times executives picked this week to begin a new regimen of anti-terror training. "Hooded, orange gas masks are being distributed this week as part of a chemical weapons response plan," the New York Post reported on Thursday. "Times staffers have been lining up for hourlong sessions instructing them how to use the ominous-looking devices. " "We began offering safety training sessions on May 13," a Times spokesman told the tabloid. The regimen includes instruction in the use of escape hoods in...

HOMELAND INSECURITY WASHINGTON -- As the Pentagon deploys more Stinger missiles around its perimeter to guard against new al-Qaida threats, an Army fort out West plans to issue axes to beef up security. Actually, axes isn't quite accurate. Some sentries at Fort Huachuca in Arizona will only get the wooden part of the ax -- sans blade. "No firearms for sentry duty. They get ax handles!" said a U.S. official, who finds the plan ridiculous. Indeed, a post-wide memo, "Operations Order for Force Protection Delta Procedures," advises: "Soldiers ... will be issued a flashlight, batteries and an ax handle to...

WASHINGTON — U.S. counterterrorism officials say a key reason for raising the national terror alert on Tuesday had to do with the suspected activities of senior Al Qaeda (search) operatives thought to be in Iran (search) -- a country the Bush administration has long accused of harboring terrorists. "There's no question but that there have been and are today senior Al Qaeda leaders in Iran, and they are busy," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told reporters Wednesday. A surge in threatening communications, some given publicly, others intercepted covertly, was another critical factor, as were the recent attacks in Morocco...

<p>After terrorists set off explosives in gated compounds in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the looks of stunned disbelief on the faces of Saudi officials was reminiscent: How could this happen here?</p> <p>Subsequent analysis gives some hints. The Saudis failed to respond to intelligence reports that attacks were imminent. Security at likely attack sites, such as the gated compounds where dozens died, was not bolstered.</p>

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has raised its warning of possible terror attack against military facilities and bases in the United States to its highest level, defense officials said on Wednesday. Responding to a change in threat warning from "significant" to "high," the military has decided to deploy additional anti-aircraft missile systems and increase air patrols in the Washington area, according to the officials who asked not to be identified. The DIA warning was issued late on Tuesday as the U.S. government raised its general terror alert status to the second-highest level, citing the risk of attacks...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal counterterrorism authorities called for increased security nationwide by raising the security alert to "high" but provided few specifics on where al-Qaida could strike inside the country. Officials, fearful al-Qaida could expand its plans for a wave of attacks overseas into the United States, said they had nothing credible suggesting a time, location, method or target. The decision to raise the national alert to orange, signifying a "high" risk of attacks, from yellow, meaning an "elevated" risk, came after a review of intelligence information by President Bush's homeland security council Tuesday, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said....

Heightened Alert Administration Increases Terror Threat-Warning Level to Orange; E-mails Cited May 20— The Bush administration raised the domestic threat level to orange, or "high," today, a decision made in part because of a series of threatening messages found on the Internet, ABCNEWS has learned. An FBI bulletin obtained by ABCNEWS points to two recent e-mails intercepted by U.S. intelligence. One message, according to the bulletin, warns of "a possible devastating attack in the next 48 hours and urged all Muslims to leave all cities, especially Boston, New York and the commercial coastline." However, one government official said intelligence analysts...

Announced earlier on WABC Radio [770AM NY METRO AREA]: New York City to remain on heightened (orange) alert while U.S. goes up to orange level... NYC increasing police and National Guard presence at bridges, hotels, subways, other targets... National Guardsmen who were sent home after protecting NYC during Iraq war have been recalled... Airports also to receive increased security... -sdk

Governor Pataki expected to make statement regarding the terror threats, at news conference scheduled to begin shortly.

<p>Washington, May 20 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. terrorism threat indicator will be raised today to its second-highest level, ``high risk,'' because of signals that terrorist groups are planning attacks in the U.S. or against U.S. interests abroad, administration officials said.</p>

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