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To: jttmab who wrote (19883)	10/8/2005 2:57:57 PM
From: tsigprofit	Respond to of 20773

Memo: NYC Attack Was Scheduled for Sunday Oct 8, 6:37 AM (ET) By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN NEW YORK (AP) - Details emerged about an alleged plot to attack the city's subways with bombs hidden in bags and possibly baby strollers as local and federal officials jostled over the credibility of the threat. A Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by The Associated Press said the attack was reportedly scheduled to take place on or around Sunday, with terrorists using timed or remote-controlled explosives hidden in briefcases, suitcases or in or under strollers. The memo said that the department had received information indicating the attack might be carried out by "a team of terrorist operatives, some of whom may travel or who may be in the New York City area." The memo, issued Wednesday to state and local officials, said that homeland security and FBI agents doubted the credibility of the information, but it provided four pages of advice about averting a possible attack. (AP) New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg passes through a turnstile as he enters the subway on New York's... Full Image In Iraq, authorities detained a third suspect in the plot and investigated whether a fourth had traveled to New York as part of the scheme, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the case. The official said the man's trip to New York was described by an informant who had spent time in Afghanistan and proved reliable in past investigations. But the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, added that authorities had not confirmed whether the fourth man even exists. Those arrested had received explosives training in Afghanistan, the law enforcement official said Friday. They had planned to travel through Syria to New York, and then meet with operatives to carry out the bombings. A federal official said one of the suspects arrested in Iraq apparently told interrogators that more than a dozen people were involved in the plot, and that they were of various nationalities, including Afghans, Syrians and Iraqis. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Several of these details related to the suspects were first reported by ABC News. (AP) New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg exits the subway at the City Hall stop, Friday Oct. 7, 2005.... Full Image In Baghdad, spokespeople for the U.S. military and the U.S. Embassy declined to comment about the arrests. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle also said the government has no information that the fourth person possibly connected to the plot "is either here or even exists." Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the military obtained intelligence information "during the normal course of our operations." The intelligence led to a military raid in Iraq this week that was conducted by Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. troops, Whitman said, but added that there was no direct link between the raid and the New York subway threat. Homeland security officials in Washington downplayed the threat and said it was of "doubtful credibility." But Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly vigorously defended their decision to discuss the threat publicly Thursday. "If I'm going to make a mistake you can rest assured it is on the side of being cautious," Bloomberg said at a news conference Friday. (AP) Security personnel wearing protective suits clean an area inside Pennsylvania Station in New York... Full Image President Bush, asked Friday if he thought New York officials had overreacted, said: "I think they took the information we gave and made the judgments they thought were necessary." In New York, thousands of extra police officers flooded the city's subway system, pulling commuters out of rush-hour crowds and rifling through their bags or briefcases. "Hopefully, God's with me and I'll be OK," Vinnie Stella said while clutching newspapers under his arm as he entered the subway at Penn Station. An estimated 4.5 million passengers ride the New York subway on an average weekday. The system has more than 468 subway stations. In July, the city began random subway searches in the wake of the train bombings in London. --- apnews.myway.com

To: jttmab who wrote (19883)	10/9/2005 11:02:40 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 20773

It is not easy, caught between the US foreign and domestic politics, good old C-SPAN, CNN-yurope,CNBC and an old Keogh plan.. (plus maybe that 10 year minimum-limit on the US SS-payment plan) Ever thought about rent-a-real-minority-finn?? rent-a-negro.com PS Note, I had to set the alarm-clock once again, just to catch this one, I have learned to know that C-SPAN, BookTV does not internet-archive everything. PPS Note, my minority-of-an-already-minority views on the blessings of having a 5% proportional minority party, a blessing for any minority-village-idiote (the greek definition). That is, we minorities of the 5% minority, we like to swing that little minority, if we have nothing funnier to do. (ouch, consider, from that background, the US 2-party system... my true favorite, the only one left in the world) inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=187321122 Speech How to Rent a Negro Karibu Books Hyattsville, Maryland (United States) ID: 188939 - 09/17/2005 - 1:11 - $45.00 Ayo, Damali, Author Damali Ayo talked about her book How to Rent a Negro, published by Lawrence Hill Books. In this satirical look at race relations the author argues that white people should be charged fees for interacting with blacks, whether it be touching their skin or hair, having them attend a mainly white social event, or getting a black person's opinion on a current race-related topic. ----- However, I think gerrymandering is great for USA, sometimes, almost every tenth year, even inbetween.. Btw, if C-SPAN2 is actually archivingthis one, I will be really angry, because then I would not have had to load my alarm clock . Not even for this one, in case they would archive that too inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=187924589 Btw, C-SPAN2 just said they would do Vonnegut, fresh and alive, soon.. (he too is going very old)