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It was just a joke, folks. You chose the right moment to talk about gasoline
fires and Seattle (or the wrong moment, if you were on I-5 at the time). BTW, our dry/hot season started a month early this year. Usually the rain stops, on schedule, on July 5 (or the 7th if 7/4 falls on a Friday). I moved house on the hottest day of the year last week: 95 degrees isn't much for many of you, but it's plenty for those of us accustomed to a British/PNW climate. It did rain briefly Saturday evening though. -- David Brooks "Newps" wrote in message news:lS2Ra.60447$GL4.15260@rwcrnsc53... It didn't burn anything except the gas in the tank. I rest my case. David Brooks wrote: "Newps" wrote in message et... Oh, please, you couldn't start a fire near Seattle if you had a match and some gasoline. Wrong. You don't need the match. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/...anker12ww.html -- David Brooks |
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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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