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To: lorne who wrote (46040)	12/16/1999 4:15:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116753

OT(?) The Enemy Within They call themselves the 77th regiment of the Florida Militia. Now, reports CBS News Correspondent John Blackstone, one of their leaders is under arrest. The FBI says he had plans to blow up electric transmission lines near St. Petersburg. "They were talking about that the first thing they had to do was go out and get the explosives," says FBI special agent Frank Gallagher. In California, the FBI says it has thwarted plans to blow up propane storage tanks, a TV transmission tower, perhaps even the massive aqueduct that carries water from one end of the state to the other. These were potential targets, prosecutors say, of two anti-government militia members arrested last week. "We are organized and we are going to make sure this community stays safe," says assistant U.S. attorney Jodi Rafkin, The arrests come as local police departments across the country are being warned about the threat of millennium terrorism. The warning comes from the FBI in a report with a sobering title: Project Megiddo, named after a place in Israel also known as Armageddon. The report says "armed with the urgency of the millennium," extremists may be moved to violence. Margaret Singer, an expert in extremist groups who contributed (cont) iwon.com\|cbs,00.html