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To: Sharck who wrote (15394)	4/6/2001 4:24:19 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 37746

You're from up in the great north ? --->Canada plays down talk of foot-and-mouth terrorism Hmmmmm...so all this foot and mouth disease might have been terrorists? By David Ljunggren OTTAWA, April 6 (Reuters) - Canada's counterintelligence service played down speculation on Friday that the country was under active threat from bioterrorists armed with foot-and-mouth disease to devastate Canadian agriculture. Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) spokesman Dan Lambert said an outbreak of the disease in Europe had triggered excessive levels of anxiety about the potential spread of foot-and-mouth to Canada. A senior official at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) triggered alarm bells on Thursday by saying CSIS was assessing whether bioterrorists could introduce the disease, which is not harmful to humans, into Canada. CFIA executive vice-president Dr Andre Gravel -- questioned about comments by the head of an animal rights group who expressed the hope that foot-and-mouth would cross the Atlantic -- told a parliamentary committee that it would be very hard to stop someone from bringing the disease into the country. "The threat of foot-and-mouth as a bioterrorism agent is no different than it is from anthrax and all types of different things that CSIS deals with every day. So it's not greater or less," Lambert told Reuters. "I think there's some measure of, I don't want to say hysteria, but over-anxiety because of what is going on in Europe. There are many terrible things that can happen along the lines of bioterrorism." Last week the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an influential hard-line animal rights organization, said she hoped the disease would infect animals in North America. "I think it's important here not to make a bigger issue (of this) than what it is. There was a statement made by PETA, there was an interpretation made by their doctor, Mr Gravel," said Lambert. He would not comment on whether CSIS was probing the possible introduction of foot-and-mouth into Canada. "If we're aware of something to investigate we investigate it, but I don't think it's any different from any other potential biological threat, of which there are many," he said Inside the CFIA itself there were plenty of tight lips and none of the eloquence that Dr Gravel had shown on Thursday. "The only thing that I can properly say to you is that any information we had indicating there was some active threat we would refer to CSIS," said Susanne Frost, the CFIA's director of enforcement and investigation services. "It's not appropriate for me to speak to their mandate. You should be following it up with CSIS," she told Reuters. More than one million animals in Britain have been killed or marked for slaughter in an attempt to halt the spread of the disease, now in its seventh week. The epidemic has also devastated the country's thriving tourism industry. ((Reuters Ottawa Bureau 613-235 6745; fax 613-235 5890)) REUTERS * end of story *

To: Sharck who wrote (15394)	4/8/2001 7:29:32 AM
From: eims2000	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 37746

They were kicking off anyone that was short it seems. But I dont blame them at all, some people were getting out of hand. As far as their methodology of trading, I guess it could be said to be Buy and Hold and Hope. Imagine that if you could only go long and you would get a good feeling of the futility. Too bad a few got out of hand. I dont mean those that were asking legitimate questions concerning the very idea about going long in a bear market, but those that made personal comments. Also, what was with that guy on the audio, going long for a rate cut? Geez, learn to trade for days, not minutes.