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To: jlallen who wrote (5569)	2/5/2003 4:20:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

With a little help from our friends.... Va. Trooper Shot During Water Supply Probe Wed Feb 5,11:50 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! ACCOMAC, Va. - A Virginia state trooper was shot and wounded and the suspected shooter was shot to death after officers went into a house to arrest a man accused of plotting to poison water supplies, according to police and court records. Space Shuttle Columbia Special Coverage Phil Mann, chief division counsel with the Norfolk FBI (news - web sites) office, said the trooper was shot in the arm and was in good condition. Virginia State Police did not release the trooper's name. Mann said a shootout erupted as officers were attempting to arrest Ipolito "Polo" Campos at his home on Virginia's eastern shore Tuesday night. He said another occupant of the house shot and wounded the trooper, and authorities returned fire, killing the shooter. Campos was taken into custody. Mann would not identify the person who was killed or give any other details. Charges were filed against Campos earlier Tuesday in federal court. They included accusations of using phony immigration documents and a false Social Security (news - web sites) number. An unidentified person had contacted the Accomack County Sheriff's Department and said Campos was connected to a plot to poison Virginia's waters, according to federal court records. Mann said the reported threat was being investigated by the region's Joint Terrorism Task Force, but added that no credible evidence exists that any plan was in place to carry out such an attack. The informant told authorities Campos had said he was from an "Arabian" country and "if he did not poison the water someone would kill him," the court records state. The court records said Campos had recently been fired from Eastern Shore Seafood Products of Mappsville after failing a random drug test. They also said he had provided someone else's Social Security number to that business. A woman who answered the telephone Wednesday at the company said no one was available to comment. story.news.yahoo.com

To: jlallen who wrote (5569)	2/5/2003 4:30:15 PM
From: louisebaltimore	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

November 12 2002 Al-Jazeera broadcasts an audiotape purporting to be by Bin Laden in which he praises terrorist attacks in Bali, Moscow and against a French tanker off the coast of Yemen. On November 18, after completing a technical and linguistic analysis, US intelligence officials confirm that it is Bin Laden and that the recording was made in recent weeks. This makes the tape the first definitive evidence in almost a year that the al-Qaida leader is alive, but doubts emerge over its authenticity in the weeks that follow. The recording warns US allies against following the "oppressive American government", naming Britain among a handful of western countries. It is also critical of Australia's role in East Timor. "They ignored our warning and woke up to the sound of explosions in Bali, but the government pretended they were not the target," the voice says.