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Wargod | Friday, October 18, 2002 - 09:49 am     Sorry, Bob! You will almost never hear me talking about bad news. I tend to avoid anyting negative or depressing and focus on the fun, positive stuff. How cool that you know someone on that mission! |
Sherbabe | Saturday, October 19, 2002 - 07:14 pm     Another possible sniper shooting in va. I feared this would happen when they announced last week that the sniper seems to take the weekends off. This time at a Ponderosa restaurant in Ashland Va. |
Kaili | Sunday, October 20, 2002 - 03:18 pm     No a headline, but a newsflash for ya'll- Poor Brett favre just got taken off the field for an injury. I know this isn't news or particularly significant for most people, but hey, I live in Wisconsin and Brett NEVER misses a game or gets hurt. Hopefully he'll recover by next week if for no other reason than to continue his amazing streak of consecutive starts. |
Silksmoke | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 06:39 am     Police are reporting they have arrested a man in a white van with a ladder rack in Richmond Va. Also a swat team has a phone booth surrounded. This story is just breaking and details are sketchy. |
Awareinva | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:47 am     Two men in custody in Henrico County police headquarters; no confirmation but ATF and FBI on scene lead one to believe that this is definitely related to the DC sniper shootings. Press conference scheduled for 1pm. |
Jo_5329 | Monday, October 21, 2002 - 08:51 am     Man held; sniper team sends message RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 21 — A SWAT team working with the sniper task force seized a man in a white van at a gas station Monday, but less than an hour later, investigators issued a statement suggesting the man was not the gunman terrorizing the Washington, D.C., area. And a source close to the case told NBC’s David Bloom that the sniper was not in custody. http://www.msnbc.com/news/816566.asp |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:22 am     Police probe new D.C.-area shooting Too early to tell if attack near bus is work of sniper http://www.msnbc.com/news/816566.asp |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:27 am     http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/21/151354 Monday, Oct. 21, 2002 / Streisand Under Fire In Congressional Race Barbra Streisand has a starring TV role in a hotly contested congressional race, but it's not one she sought. According to the New York Post, Streisand is featured in a controversial TV ad in the role of a "bejeweled Baghdad Babs." In the commercial aimed at Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., by her Republican opponent Dr. Marilyn O'Grady, Streisand is shown as a "gussied-up schoolgirl giddily beaming next to a photo of a grinning Saddam Hussein," the Post reported. "The Post calls her 'Baghdad Babs.' But Carolyn McCarthy calls her a contributor. ... Now McCarthy is silent as her liberal pal bashes our president," the ad says. In the commercial, O'Grady emphasizes a speech Streisand gave at a huge Democratic fund-raising event last month in which she reports that the star used "words like 'dictator' and 'frightening' to attack President Bush." "Maybe that's the way things look out in Hollywood, but back here in Long Island we support our president," the ad says. It then links Streisand to McCarthy, a dedicated gun grabber who was elected to Congress after her husband was killed and son severely wounded by a crazed shooter on the Long Island RR in 1993. Streisand co-produced a TV movie about McCarthy's life and gave her a $1,000 contribution in 1998. A McCarthy campaign spokesman told the Post the ad is "desperate" - but still went out of his way to distance McCarthy from her star supporter. "[The ad] is coming at the 11th hour from a candidate who has no profile and received no help from the national party," McCarthy spokesman Jeffrey Pollock told the Post. "She [McCarthy] supports the president 100 percent. To say she was silent on the issue is outrageous." "There have been issues where Congresswoman McCarthy and Barbra Streisand have agreed, such as the need for gun safety," Pollock added, ignoring the distinction between gun grabbing and gun safety. "But on the issue of Iraq and national security in general, there is a clear and distinct division between the congresswoman and Miss Streisand." Streisand spokesman Dick Guttman joined the fray by blasting O'Grady's ad as "intentionally misleading" and "deceitful." "The O'Grady assertion that 'Barbra Streisand rips George Bush as a frightening dictator' is simply fantasized," Guttman said, deftly linking the words "dictator" and "frightening," which the commercial does not do, merely saying that she used these words in attacking President Bush, which she did. On her own Web site Streisand says that on Sept. 29, she told the National Democratic Gala, an extravaganza that raised a whopping $6 million: "Shortly after George W. Bush was elected - sort of - I saw him on television say, 'If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck-of-a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.' And he laughed - You know people never really joke. That was very revealing - a taste of things to come - the arrogance of wanting unlimited executive power - a government that operates in secret - keeping presidential papers secret - holding secret meetings with oil companies. I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening." Note: "dictator," "frightening." Words Streisand says she used. Fantasy, Mr. Guttman? Guttman practiced a little deceit on his own, denying that Streisand has given money to McCarthy's campaign in the past while McCarthy aide Pollock frankly admitted Streisand's $1,000 1998 contribution to his boss. ---- |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:29 am     Monday, Oct. 21, 2002 9:52 a.m. EDT Condoleezza Nixed From Africare Dinner on Belafonte's Orders Washed-up calypso singer Harry Belafonte has succeeded in getting Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice yanked as the keynote speaker from Africare's annual fundraising dinner this week. Last week Belafonte, who is scheduled to be honored with by the group for his "humanitarian efforts" on Thursday, boasted to MSNBC's Phil Donahue, "If Condoleezza Rice became the keynote speaker at the event.... I would not be able to be there. I told them I would not come." Follow the link for the rest of the story: http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/21/94946 ---- |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:31 am     Monday, Oct. 21, 2002 12:24 a.m. EDT Hillary's Advance Man: We Set 'Goon Squads' on Protesters A Democratic Party political operative who worked for eight years as an advance man for Hillary Clinton has revealed that he routinely employed "goon squads" to intimidate protesters and quash anti-Clinton demonstrations. "Less genteel souls sometimes referred to them as goon squads," writes Patrick Halley in his new book "On the Road with Hillary." "But I objected to that term. I was proud of the fact that not one of them had ever been arrested," he boasts. Rest of the story http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/21/02147 --- |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:32 am     Sunday, Oct. 20, 2002 10:13 p.m. EDT KGB Documents: Jesse Jackson, Ted Turner - Too Close to the Soviets? Peter Schweizer's newly released book, "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism," is getting the typical liberal press attention. We thought that might be due to the media's inbred hatred of Ronald Reagan. But we realize the real problem with Schweizer's book: Using actual KGB, Stasi and other secret communist party archives, he reveals that the U.S. media served as lackeys for the Soviets - and that major Democrats worked behind the scenes to help the Russians. Rest of the story http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/20/213948 --- |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:40 am     SEC to recommend fraud charges against Martha Stewart Oct. 22 — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement staff has informed Martha Stewart that it intends to recommend filing civil securities-fraud charges against her in connection with her sale of ImClone Systems Inc. stock in late December, people with knowledge of the matter say. The Rest of the Story http://www.msnbc.com/news/824036.asp --- |
Laluna | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 06:52 am     This is actually from yesterday, but still may be of interest to some: Deserter on Interpol list: radio PARIS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A French officer cadet listed as AWOL in Paris may be the Washington-area sniper, French media reported Monday. France's RTL radio station, which first reported the news Monday, and various Paris newspapers identified the officer as a 25-year-old from Yugoslavia, who had enrolled in his second year at a French military school. The man, whose name has not been released, was apparently a good marksman. He told friends he would spend the summer in Canada. But he was last seen in the United States, the radio station reported, without identifying which region. Link: http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20021021-124016-9986r |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 07:55 am     ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Beltway Sniper appeared to have struck again Tuesday morning, as a bus driver was shot and fatally wounded in the Aspen Hill area of Montgomery County, Md. The victim suffered a chest wound and was airlifted via helicopter to Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Md. At about 10:30 a.m., Fox News learned that he had died. --- FoxNews.com |
Wiseolowl | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:27 am     I don't know if it's possible or practical but it at least to get the school system back and going and to relieve parents's concerns and reduce risks maybe it's time to call up the national guard and regular army if necessary to station guards around the schools of southern Maryland and Nothern Virginia. If you had ten guards placed 300 yards or so around the schools - just for the hour or so in the mornings and afternoons as the kids were coming and going I doubt the shooter would take the risk. There are probably many schools that might not need them, or as many, depending on their geographic location. This guy always chooses sites where there is a concealed area that he can slip out of. It doesn't mean he won't keep killing but at least there would be a small risk that school kids would be the targets. |
Wiseolowl | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 08:42 am     Sorry posted the above in the wrong thread |
Jo_5329 | Tuesday, October 22, 2002 - 10:17 am     Details of Apparent Sniper Message Leaked to Media ROCKVILLE, Md. — The news media have become an integral part of the Beltway Sniper story, with the Montgomery County, Md., police chief using press conferences to communicate with a note writer and telephone caller who apparently claims to be the shooter. Read the Rest of the Story http://www.foxnews.com/ --- |
Jo_5329 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 04:48 am     U.S. to release some Gitmo prisoners Rumsfeld: ‘Relatively small number’ could be freed soon WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 — The U.S. government is preparing to free a small number of prisoners from its high-security jail in Cuba, in what would be the first release of combatants who are no longer considered a terrorist threat, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said. Read the Rest of the Story http://www.msnbc.com/news/824770.asp?0si=- --- |
Jo_5329 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 06:35 am     Raw Data: Text of Latest Police Statement From: Fox News Tuesday, October 22, 2002 SILVER SPRING, Md. — Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose, head of the task force investigating the Beltway sniper, has attempted to deliver messages to the suspect. On Tuesday night he said: "These past several days, you have attempted to communicate with us. "We have researched the options you stated and found that it is not possible electronically to comply in the manner that you requested. However, we remain open and ready to talk to you about the options you have mentioned. "It is important that we do this without anyone else getting hurt. Call us at the same number you used before to obtain the 800 number that you have requested. If you would feel more comfortable, a private post office box or another secure method can be provided. --- |
Car54 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 07:07 am     Question... this morning several news shows mentioned a major "attack" on some internet servers that happened on Monday. I feel like I was on-line all day that day, and listening to news, but never read anything about it. Has anyone read or heard any details? |
Vanillarose | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 08:00 am     Here's the story on the internet server attack: CLICK HERE FOR STORY |
Car54 | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 08:08 am     Thanks so much Vanillarose... I am shocked there has not been more in the press about this... I guess everyone is focussed on the Sniper story. This seems pretty serious to me, so much of our economy and infrastructure is computer based now. The whole story seems so matter of fact. Interesting. |
Silksmoke | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 11:33 am     Twenty armed men in Russia stormed a theater and are holding 700 hostages who were attending a performance of a popular musical. No demands being made yet. In another story a flight from Russia at JFK airport has a "situation" in progress. The plane has been boarded by port authority police. Fox news has no idea what the "situation" may be about. This is all I have, as this news is just breaking. |
Misslibra | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 11:52 am     Thanks Silksmoke I'll turn on fox news. I heard about the internet server attack late last night. |
Hillbilly | Wednesday, October 23, 2002 - 12:49 pm     FBI agents board plane at JFK By The Associated Press October 23, 2002 Federal agents met an airliner from Moscow at Kennedy Airport on Wednesday after receiving a tip that it may have radioactive material on board, law enforcement officials said. A law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that the Aeroflot plane was ordered to keep its distance from the passenger terminals. "They had advance information of possible radioactive materials for us to be looking at this flight," the official said. The official would not elaborate on the information. Innvestigators were allowing the plane’s 176 passengers off the flight in small groups. "The only thing I can tell you is that it’s because we’re intending to interview one of the passengers on the plane," FBI spokesman Joe Valiquette said. |
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