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To: long-gone who wrote (82831)	3/3/2002 9:00:36 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116814

That is how they did it in Nam. Fed the soldiers Dak ham and beans and holed up making lots of noise and waiting to get surrounded. "Brrrps, faaaaaaht. brraaaaap." "Well Sarge, do you see the enemy herabouts?" Sarge: "brrrrrap. whatzaat? can't make out what yer sayin., brrriiip." Pretty soon the smell drifted downwind. Let off one round and the whole place erupted with a blue flame. Light a match and point posterior to the enemy and they would be engulfed in sulphurous smoke. You could always get away downwind. Coughing and hacking NRVN would stumble about blindly never making any headway. To this day they can't convince them to become garbagemen, eat beans or visit the US. "Bad smell over there, eeeyuck. Me stay in jungle where it's safe." EC<:-}

To: long-gone who wrote (82831)	3/3/2002 10:34:45 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116814

I believe the US government will continue to issue security warnings regularly if only to keep Americans on the alert (that is, even though there may be nothing to worry about). -------------------------- US authorities kept mum about nuclear bomb scare: Time mag NEW YORK -- One month after the Sept 11 terrorist onslaught on the United States, senior US officials were informed that terrorists had obtained a 10-kiloton nuclear bomb and were planning to smuggle it into New York, Time Magazine reported. In its latest edition due out on Monday, Time reported that the highly classified intelligence alert was circulated to only a few top US officials and was deliberately kept secret so as not to panic New Yorkers. The intelligence report was based on information from a US agent codenamed 'dragonfire', described as of 'undetermined' reliability by intelligence officials. However, the alert dovetailed with reports that nuclear devices had gone missing from the Russian arsenal during the 1990s, specifically a report from one Russian general who maintained that his forces were missing a 10-kiloton bomb, Time reported. The nuclear bomb, if detonated in Lower Manhattan, could kill some 100,000 civilians, contaminate 700,000 more with radiation and flatten everything within 0.8km of the blast, the news weekly reported. The intelligence alert was so secret that New York's mayor at the time Rudolph Giuliani reportedly said that he was kept in the dark and top FBI officials were also out of the loop. An intensive investigation was launched, and when counterterrorism investigators turned up nothing, according to Time, they concluded that the information from 'dragonfire' was false. However, the alert drove home continued US vulnerability to terrorism despite increased security following Sept 11. -- AFP