HOMELAND INSECURITY
Terror checkpoints
at shopping malls?
Congressman demands chemical agent sniffers, high-tech radiation
detectors, evacuation plans
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Posted: June 23, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern
Intelligence indicates malls targeted
The recent plot by an al-Qaida freelancer to blow up an Ohio shopping
center and revelations that the Madrid bombers' next intended target
was a suburban mall – coming on the heels of the terror group's
reported plans to hit the U.S. hard this summer with a massive attack
– is causing at least one congressman to demand security at the
nation's shopping malls be radically beefed up with high-tech,
high-dollar equipment like that used in airports.
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D.-N.Y., says the government's indictment
of Nuradin Abdi for plotting with al-Qaida to bomb shopping malls,
coupled with recently uncovered documents showing the March 11 Madrid
train bombers also planned to attack Parquesur, a large suburban
shopping center there, are "clear proof" the U.S. is not doing enough
to protect the nation's shopping malls from terror attacks.
"Everyone who listened to the audio tapes released by the 9/11
Commission this week couldn't help but feel their hair stand on end
when they heard how unprepared we were to deal with an aerial attack,"
Schumer said while standing in Greeley Square outside the Manhattan
Mall in New York City. "More and more evidence is mounting that if
they want to attack again, they'll do it someplace closer to home like
a shopping center. We've gone all-out to shore up air security, and
now we have to catch up with mall security as well."
According to a press statement, Schumer's proposal includes:
Installing high-tech radiation detectors at malls in high-risk areas
like New York.
Building a new generation of portable detectors and accelerating
research into low-cost chemical agent detectors.
Creating evacuation plans for shopping centers.
However, when New York's WABC-TV interviewed shoppers Sunday on the
mall fear-factor, most didn't sound too worried.
"I'm aware that it's a problem," J. Grier told WABC. "I feel very
confident that we're not any more safe than we were prior to 9-11; in
fact I think we're in greater jeopardy and I can't let it stop me
because life goes on."
"Ya know there hasn't been anything happening in a while around here
and I think people have sort of put it out of their mind. I feel
safe," offered shopper Bruce Heron.
Schumer reportedly wants to spend about $1 billion on his plan.
Last week, the government announced it had indicted a Somali named
Nuradin Abdi for conspiring with al-Qaida to bomb a Columbus,
Ohio-area shopping mall. Abdi was indicted on four charges of
providing material support to al-Qaida and two counts of visa fraud.
Attorney General John Ashcroft also revealed Abdi's relationship with
Iyman Faris, an Ohio truck driver convicted last year of providing
material support to Osama bin Laden's terror group. Faris allegedly
planned to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge and purchased equipment for
proposed al-Qaida attacks, according to documents unsealed last year
in U.S. District Court in Virginia. Faris was sentenced to 20 years in
prison after pleading guilty in May 2003 of conspiring with and
providing material support to al-Qaida.
On another front in the terror war, documents recently recovered show
the Spanish train bombers were also planning to attack Parquesur, a
large suburban shopping center outside Madrid after their successful
train attacks. The documents, recovered when seven of the Madrid
terrorists blew themselves up during a police raid, reveal that the
terrorists probably would have carried out the bombings had they not
been surrounded by the police and decided to commit suicide rather
than be caught.
After the Madrid attacks in March, Schumer says, he asked Homeland
Security Secretary Tom Ridge and Commerce Secretary Don Evans to find
a way to expedite development of devices that can detect traces of
explosives, biological weapons and chemical weapons, without requiring
that individual shoppers be screened.
"One thing the 9/11 Commission showed us this week is just how
detailed al-Qaida's detailed plans to attack us were. The terrorists
are smart enough to hit us where we strongest, not where we are weak.
That means we have to move on mall security, and do it now," Schumer
said.
Vice President ***** Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice
and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have all said they expect
another terrorist attack before the November election.
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged
to stick with possibilities:truth isin't"
Mark Twain
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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| Title: Re: Terror checkpoints at shopping malls? |
26 Jun 2004 11:47:48 AM |
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I wondered around the SUPER-WALMART for 5 hours last week during a
thunderstorm and saw some of the strangest looking people I have ever
encountered and I thought.......who let the freaks out? Must be "freaks
day out" at Walmart!
Even the employees seemed strange, one clerk was snatching hangers with
clothes on them so frantically and enraged that you dared not ask her
for any assistance and then I heard on the Wally-com "Code 1000 in the
garden center parking lot". Then I overheard a clerk saying 911 has been
called and later on someone said "they caught him". What ever a "code
1000" is......can't be good!
I never saw any terrorist shopping that day......just a bunch of freaky
looking fat American mental cases. I saved a bunch, though! :)
Su Zee
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| User: "dreamwalker" |
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26 Jun 2004 08:13:29 PM |
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"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:9079-40DDA8B4-42@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net...
I wondered around the SUPER-WALMART for 5 hours last week during a
thunderstorm and saw some of the strangest looking people I have ever
encountered and I thought.......who let the freaks out? Must be "freaks
day out" at Walmart!
Even the employees seemed strange, one clerk was snatching hangers with
clothes on them so frantically and enraged that you dared not ask her
for any assistance and then I heard on the Wally-com "Code 1000 in the
garden center parking lot". Then I overheard a clerk saying 911 has been
called and later on someone said "they caught him". What ever a "code
1000" is......can't be good!
I never saw any terrorist shopping that day......just a bunch of freaky
looking fat American mental cases. I saved a bunch, though! :)
Su Zee
Wal-Mart sucks. Never shop there.
BTW, I'm sure you fit right in. Blond, white, wears a tank top and lives in a trailer court. That's
our Su Zee! Now go eat your tuna noodle casserole, white trash.
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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26 Jun 2004 11:47:12 PM |
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He's back from the movie.....and he's pissed! LOL!
dw wrote:
Wal-Mart sucks. Never shop there.
Did you know they now carry TLC's "Trading Spaces" brand products in the
craft section? Like WOW!
Yeah!.....And I bought the coolest fabric marked down to $1 a yard!
BTW, I'm sure you fit right in. Blond,
white, wears a tank top and lives in a
trailer court. That's our Su Zee! Now go
eat your tuna noodle casserole, white
trash.
Our APN "Tepee *****" should know all about trailers and trashy
whores....huh? :)
/Begin flashback sequence.....
That's funny. I remember begging quarters from fisherman at the Lac du
Flambeau flowage. I was 11 at the time. White fisherman in their $20,000
boats have big egos and are even bigger assholes. I had no difficulty
taking their money. I danced for a pair of guys who made referrence to
the "cute little tee pee niger". Oh well,. I ate good that night. You
and Peter are making way too much out of this subject. Maybe white
guilt? Frankly I could care less.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cute+little+tee+pee+group:alt.prophecies.nostradamus&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.prophecies.nostradamus&selm=vp977g79q6qh96%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1
end flashback/
I do love tank tops! (Feminine tanks - not the kind you wear when you
slap your wife around) That's the only thing you have right, but I do
know you're a liar as you've been caught in them more than once here.
Filthy lying NEOCON ***** WANNABE
Now go back to your REAL JOB standing in front of the smoke shop. :)
Susan - white like winter lily~
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| User: "dreamwalker" |
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27 Jun 2004 12:46:18 AM |
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"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:19416-40DE5150-169@storefull-3218.bay.webtv.net...
He's back from the movie.....and he's pissed! LOL!
dw wrote:
Wal-Mart sucks. Never shop there.
Did you know they now carry TLC's "Trading Spaces" brand products in the
craft section? Like WOW!
Yeah!.....And I bought the coolest fabric marked down to $1 a yard!
BTW, I'm sure you fit right in. Blond,
white, wears a tank top and lives in a
trailer court. That's our Su Zee! Now go
eat your tuna noodle casserole, white
trash.
Our APN "Tepee *****" should know all about trailers and trashy
whores....huh? :)
/Begin flashback sequence.....
That's funny. I remember begging quarters from fisherman at the Lac du
Flambeau flowage. I was 11 at the time. White fisherman in their $20,000
boats have big egos and are even bigger assholes. I had no difficulty
taking their money. I danced for a pair of guys who made referrence to
the "cute little tee pee niger". Oh well,. I ate good that night. You
and Peter are making way too much out of this subject. Maybe white
guilt? Frankly I could care less.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=cute+little+tee+pee+group:alt.prophecies.nostradamus&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=alt.prophecies.nostradamus&selm=vp977g79q6qh96%40corp.supernews.com&rnum=1
end flashback/
I do love tank tops! (Feminine tanks - not the kind you wear when you
slap your wife around) That's the only thing you have right, but I do
know you're a liar as you've been caught in them more than once here.
Filthy lying NEOCON ***** WANNABE
Now go back to your REAL JOB standing in front of the smoke shop. :)
Susan - white like winter lily~
You're the one who shops there.
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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| Title: Re: Terror checkpoints at shopping malls? |
27 Jun 2004 03:40:31 AM |
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dw wrote:
You're the one who shops there.
And that makes me tuna casserole eating trailer park living white trash?
And blonde? Hah!
I don't exclusively shop there!
I also shop at Dillards, Sears, Penney's, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's,
K-Mart, Kirkland's, Spencer's Gifts, The Body Shop, American Eagle
Outfitters, Old Navy, Sam's Wholesale Club, Big Dog Clothing, Harley
Davidson and Indian/Big Dog Motorcycle, Office Depot, Best Buy and
Circuit City, Hot Topic and Cato's and Western World. That's all I can
think of at the moment and I have been in all but 5 of them this past
week alone. At least once a week I have to hit a Starbuck's for my
favorite frozen Caramel Frapaccino and dark chocalate covered coffe
beans.
Tuna casserole sounds disgustingly nauseating and I am quite the
international chef. I must confess.......watermelon (seedless) is my
favorite and could eat nothing but that all summer.
So there! I shop!
So now you should feel silly for your stupid unwarranted remarks.
SuZeeee
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| User: "dreamwalker" |
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| Title: Re: Terror checkpoints at shopping malls? |
27 Jun 2004 02:00:32 PM |
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"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:5120-40DE87FF-191@storefull-3214.bay.webtv.net...
dw wrote:
You're the one who shops there.
And that makes me tuna casserole eating trailer park living white trash?
And blonde? Hah!
I don't exclusively shop there!
I also shop at Dillards, Sears, Penney's, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's,
K-Mart, Kirkland's, Spencer's Gifts, The Body Shop, American Eagle
Outfitters, Old Navy, Sam's Wholesale Club, Big Dog Clothing, Harley
Davidson and Indian/Big Dog Motorcycle, Office Depot, Best Buy and
Circuit City, Hot Topic and Cato's and Western World. That's all I can
think of at the moment and I have been in all but 5 of them this past
week alone. At least once a week I have to hit a Starbuck's for my
favorite frozen Caramel Frapaccino and dark chocalate covered coffe
beans.
Tuna casserole sounds disgustingly nauseating and I am quite the
international chef. I must confess.......watermelon (seedless) is my
favorite and could eat nothing but that all summer.
So there! I shop!
So now you should feel silly for your stupid unwarranted remarks.
SuZeeee
Sweet. Now go join your America hating Euros for a watermelon sandwich.
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| User: "Uncle Wallys World" |
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28 Jun 2004 09:32:51 PM |
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(Su Zanne) wrote in message news:<9079-40DDA8B4-42@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net>...
I wondered around the SUPER-WALMART for 5 hours last week during a
thunderstorm and saw some of the strangest looking people I have ever
encountered and I thought.......who let the freaks out? Must be "freaks
day out" at Walmart!
Even the employees seemed strange, one clerk was snatching hangers with
clothes on them so frantically and enraged that you dared not ask her
for any assistance and then I heard on the Wally-com "Code 1000 in the
garden center parking lot". Then I overheard a clerk saying 911 has been
called and later on someone said "they caught him". What ever a "code
1000" is......can't be good!
I never saw any terrorist shopping that day......just a bunch of freaky
looking fat American mental cases. I saved a bunch, though! :)
Su Zee
Nuthin' to sweat about, mon petite sweetie-flower-pots ;-)
They were probably only Gerbils !!!!
HOOROO :-)
uNCLE wALLY ;-)
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| User: "Mondo" |
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26 Jun 2004 03:14:04 PM |
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But you weren't one of them were you? Mrs. Smell-bad.
I wondered around the SUPER-WALMART for 5 hours last week during a
thunderstorm and saw some of the strangest looking people I have ever
encountered and I thought.......who let the freaks out? Must be "freaks
day out" at Walmart!
"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:9079-40DDA8B4-42@storefull-3216.bay.webtv.net...
Even the employees seemed strange, one clerk was snatching hangers with
clothes on them so frantically and enraged that you dared not ask her
for any assistance and then I heard on the Wally-com "Code 1000 in the
garden center parking lot". Then I overheard a clerk saying 911 has been
called and later on someone said "they caught him". What ever a "code
1000" is......can't be good!
I never saw any terrorist shopping that day......just a bunch of freaky
looking fat American mental cases. I saved a bunch, though! :)
Su Zee
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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26 Jun 2004 06:53:52 PM |
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mon doo-doo wrote:
But you weren't one of them were you?
You have that right! :)
I wasn't.
Mrs. Smell-bad.
Like a man who has had his nose buried up another man's buttocks all his
life would be a fair judge of what smells good and what doesn't. LOL!!
Back so soon? <G>.....you must have missed me.
:)
Su Zeeeeeee
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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26 Jun 2004 12:41:29 PM |
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Excuse me for obsessing...... :)
That *should* have started off like:
I wondered as I wandered around the SUPER-WALMART...
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I wondered around the
SUPER-WALMART for 5 hours last
week during a thunderstorm and saw
some of the strangest looking people I
have ever encountered and I
thought.......who let the freaks out? Must
be "freaks day out" at Walmart!
Even the employees seemed strange,
one clerk was snatching hangers with
clothes on them so frantically and
enraged that you dared not ask her for
any assistance and then I heard on the
Wally-com "Code 1000 in the garden
center parking lot".
Then I overheard a clerk saying 911 has
been called and later on someone said
"they caught him". What ever a "code
1000" is......can't be good!
I never saw any terrorist shopping that
day......just a bunch of freaky looking fat
American mental cases. I saved a
bunch, though! :)
Su Zee
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| User: "Absolute Zero" |
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27 Jun 2004 05:52:43 AM |
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"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message news:301-40DDB549-96@storefull-3213.bay.webtv.net...
Excuse me for obsessing...... :)
That *should* have started off like:
I wondered as I wandered around the SUPER-WALMART...
:)
-A
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| User: "Su Zanne" |
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| Title: Re: Terror checkpoints at shopping malls? |
29 Jun 2004 12:30:51 AM |
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amy wrote:
: )
Probably not obsessing. More like women are conscientious about doing
things right and that's what makes us superior!
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| User: "Mondo" |
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29 Jun 2004 11:57:57 AM |
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Ha Ha!!!!
"Su Zanne" <tugbertswife@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:26081-40E0FE8B-419@storefull-3212.bay.webtv.net...
amy wrote:
: )
Probably not obsessing. More like women are conscientious about doing
things right and that's what makes us superior!
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