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Al-Qaida targeted Western forests, memo says
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...tterror11.html
"I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" |
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"Mutts" wrote in message ... http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...tterror11.html "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" About as easy as it would be to drive through throwing them out the window. |
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Natalie" wrote: "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" About as easy as it would be to drive through throwing them out the window. but guess which threat will receive the most press. :-( (actually, a drive-through would be easier). -- Bob Noel |
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I forget the news story I saw it in, but some official was quoted as saying
dropping from a plane could reach very inaccessible areas, giving the fires more time to get going before firefighters arrived. The story also mentioned the preferred plan ended up being to leave time-delay incendiary devices hidden deep in the woods which were carried in by person. "Bob Noel" wrote in message ... In article , "Ron Natalie" wrote: "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" About as easy as it would be to drive through throwing them out the window. but guess which threat will receive the most press. :-( (actually, a drive-through would be easier). -- Bob Noel |
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"Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message et... I forget the news story I saw it in, but some official was quoted as saying dropping from a plane could reach very inaccessible areas, giving the fires more time to get going before firefighters arrived. The story also mentioned the preferred plan ended up being to leave time-delay incendiary devices hidden deep in the woods which were carried in by person. Allows you to place it where it might actually get a fire started. Dropping them out of planes is sort of random. |
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Drop an incendiary device anywhere in a western forest at this time of
year and it will start a fire. Ron Natalie wrote: "Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message et... I forget the news story I saw it in, but some official was quoted as saying dropping from a plane could reach very inaccessible areas, giving the fires more time to get going before firefighters arrived. The story also mentioned the preferred plan ended up being to leave time-delay incendiary devices hidden deep in the woods which were carried in by person. Allows you to place it where it might actually get a fire started. Dropping them out of planes is sort of random. |
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What I find to be the most interesting part is how the actual terrorists
talk about going in on foot yet the threat our government worries about is completely different. I guess they figure they can't stop people walking in so they talk about the threat from the air. "Ron Natalie" wrote in message m... "Peter Gottlieb" wrote in message et... I forget the news story I saw it in, but some official was quoted as saying dropping from a plane could reach very inaccessible areas, giving the fires more time to get going before firefighters arrived. The story also mentioned the preferred plan ended up being to leave time-delay incendiary devices hidden deep in the woods which were carried in by person. Allows you to place it where it might actually get a fire started. Dropping them out of planes is sort of random. |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:24:18 GMT, Bob Noel
wrote in Message-Id: : In article , "Ron Natalie" wrote: "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" About as easy as it would be to drive through throwing them out the window. but guess which threat will receive the most press. :-( (actually, a drive-through would be easier). Here's a little incident that should interest US airmen of Arab descent: http://tinylink.com/?82VaTW15ZV FBI Apologizes For Detaining Indiana Muslims Eight Men Detained After Sept. 11, 2001 The Indy Channel - April 24, 2003 EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The head of the FBI in Indiana publicly apologized for the detention of eight Egyptian men from Evansville, who were held as part of a terrorism investigation just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Saying the secretive detentions came at a time of unprecedented fear in the nation, FBI Special Agent Thomas V. Fuentes acknowledged Wednesday that the detention caused the men and their families distress and humiliation long after the government cleared them of suspicion. "The situation that happened to you was horrible," Fuentes told former detainee Tarek Albasti during a meeting at the Islamic Center of Evansville. "On behalf of the FBI, I will apologize." Fuentes, in front of a crowd of about 100 local Muslims, also said he would push through paperwork that would formally clear Albasti, an Evansville restaurant owner, and the seven other men detained for a week with him by federal terrorism investigators in October 2001. Details Tonight's TV news report indicated, that Tarek Albasti (a naturalized American of Arab descent, apparently married to a non Arab, and raising a family) received flying lessons as a gift from his father-in-law, a pilot. He was held by the government without benefit of council nor being charged with a crime for days (as a material witness). Being of Arab descent and taking flight instruction was all the FBI needed to violate the former Constitutional rights of this American airman. We Airmen are now targets for arrest as a result of the 9/11/2001 acts of 19 terrorists. Given the gestapo mentality unleashed by baby Bush, it has me wondering who will be next? ----------------------------------------------------------------- |
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 23:24:18 GMT, Bob Noel wrote in Message-Id: : In article , "Ron Natalie" wrote: "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" About as easy as it would be to drive through throwing them out the window. but guess which threat will receive the most press. :-( (actually, a drive-through would be easier). Here's a little incident that should interest US airmen of Arab descent: http://tinylink.com/?82VaTW15ZV FBI Apologizes For Detaining Indiana Muslims Eight Men Detained After Sept. 11, 2001 The Indy Channel - April 24, 2003 EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- The head of the FBI in Indiana publicly apologized for the detention of eight Egyptian men from Evansville, who were held as part of a terrorism investigation just weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Saying the secretive detentions came at a time of unprecedented fear in the nation, FBI Special Agent Thomas V. Fuentes acknowledged Wednesday that the detention caused the men and their families distress and humiliation long after the government cleared them of suspicion. "The situation that happened to you was horrible," Fuentes told former detainee Tarek Albasti during a meeting at the Islamic Center of Evansville. "On behalf of the FBI, I will apologize." Fuentes, in front of a crowd of about 100 local Muslims, also said he would push through paperwork that would formally clear Albasti, an Evansville restaurant owner, and the seven other men detained for a week with him by federal terrorism investigators in October 2001. Details Tonight's TV news report indicated, that Tarek Albasti (a naturalized American of Arab descent, apparently married to a non Arab, and raising a family) received flying lessons as a gift from his father-in-law, a pilot. He was held by the government without benefit of council nor being charged with a crime for days (as a material witness). Being of Arab descent and taking flight instruction was all the FBI needed to violate the former Constitutional rights of this American airman. We Airmen are now targets for arrest as a result of the 9/11/2001 acts of 19 terrorists. Given the gestapo mentality unleashed by baby Bush, it has me wondering who will be next? ----------------------------------------------------------------- What is astounding was the blatant presence in the mid 90's of so many overtly militant Arabs at flight schools here in central Texas. We used to joke we were training our own hijackers; Nobody noticed. I take that back. In Arizona I think it was, one FBI type noticed and was ignored. The feds did not recently get smarter, either. H. N502TB |
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:44:17 -0700, Mutts wrote:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articl...tterror11.html "I thought about it a lot after 9/11," said Don Riddle, the law enforcement officer for the Manti-LaSal National Forest in Utah. "How hard would it be for someone to get in a small plane and fly over a forest dropping fusees (flares) or firing off a flare gun as they flew over?" A lot harder than committing arson from a ground vehicle or even on foot. |
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