Subject: FBI Warns Of Possible Terror Link To Storage

[mom cat]

Subject: FBI Warns Of Possible Terror Link To Storage Units
Message:
FBI Warns Of Possible Terror Link To Storage Units
Ohio Storage Facilities Have Been Alerted

POSTED: 7:39 am EDT August 13, 2004
UPDATED: 9:35 am EDT August 13, 2004

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The FBI is taking an interest in public storage facilities across Ohio, NBC 4's Elizabeth Scarborough reported.


Self-storage units have already been searched in Toledo, and alerts have gone out in several cities, including Columbus, Scarborough reported.

Managers of self-storage units in the Columbus area say that in the past two weeks, they've received warnings from several different agencies, including the FBI, to be on the lookout for possible terrorist activity.

http://www.nbc4i.com/news/3651020/detail.html

Also beware of people who have little black dogs.

[Massacure]

1. Must be worried about how Ohio just turned Blue again...

http://www.electoral-vote.com

[Bluebear]

2. So odd these terra alerts are all in swing states! nt

[Skip Intro]

3. Similar report in SC recently

Local (Charelston) tv reported at least once that dangerous chemicals were found in a local self-storage unit. TERROR!!!!!

Later that same day, the same find was reported as a discovery of meth-lab componenets.

But let there be no doubt, this is a nation under threat, and we must remain vigilant....

Two words for you and your scare tactics, gwb and co: shove it.

[SoCalDem]

4. Okay..Can we just admit that there "could" be a link to EVERYTHING

when it comes to terrorism??? and just be DONE with it..

Shit.. what's to prevent the terra-ists from packing Barbie dolls full of C-4???

Or exchanging the contents of Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix boxes with explosives??

or kitty litter
or cans of crisco
or bags of lawn food
or iv bags filled with liquid nitroglycerine
or skate boards with exploding wheels


It sounds to me as if we have some very inventive folks sitting around a big table, trying to come up with stuff to scare people..

The terra-ists must be ass-less these days...(having laughed them off after reading our newspapers)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. More excuses to pry into

people's personal lives. More reasons for them to place surveillance cameras in ridiculous places.

[annabanana]

8. It's so easy to scare people

(damn those sneaky terrists)

[Zorra]

5. "Labrador Retrievers To Carry Out Terrorist Plot In Florida"

Homeland Security has announced that Labrador Retrievers have been conspiring to overthrow dog pounds in areas hit by Hurricane Charlie. Citizens of Florida suspected of harboring these canine terrorists can expect to have their homes searched without warrants as authorities search for evidence of the conspiracy.

The plot was uncovered when HS discovered 4 year old veterinary documents with paw prints all over them, and the FBI paw print center identified one set of prints as belonging to the doggie terrorist mastermind Panchita del Perra, a Labrador Retriever said to have been illegally smuggled into Texas from Northern Mexico.

Del Perra is a black Labrador Retriever that may be identified by her black fur. Anyone seeing a Labrador Retriever with black fur is requested to call authorities immediately. If your neighbor has a black Labrador Retriever, or a dog that looks like a black Labrador, please call the HS Hotline at 555-5555.

(sarcasm off)

[mom cat]

7. This was great! thanks. Post this one separately so it can get more

visability. :toast: :yourock: :toast:

[leesa]

9. The FBI appears to be the enemy of the United States. They are always

playing the straight man for these bogus scare-em techniques of the Bush Crime Family. Need to scare the folks of Ohio back into the red vote zone? Crank out a terrorist plot or two. Will these treasonous bastards EVER be stopped?

[Eurobabe]

10. So basically, what you are telling me is

that the minute Virginia goes Blue, we'll get some creative terra alert designed speshully jes fer us? Hmmm...

[daleo]

11. What about "Storage Jars" (classic Monty Python)

As usual, Monty Python could see the future.

Presenter
Good evening and welcome to another edition of 'Storage Jars'. On tonight's programme Mikos Antoniarkis, the Greek rebel leader who seized power in Athens this morning, tells us what he keeps in storage jars. (quick cut to photo of a guerrilla leader with a gun; sudden dramatic chord; instantly cut back to the presenter)

From strife-torn Bolivia, Ronald Rodgers reports on storage jars there. (still of a Bolivian city and again dramatic chord and instantly back to the presenter)

And closer to home, the first dramatic pictures of the mass jail-break near the storage jar factory in Maidenhead. All this and more in 'Storage Jars'!


Cut to a road in front of a heap of smouldering rubble. Dull thuds of mortars. Reporter in short sleeves standing in tight shot. Explosions going off behind him at intervals.

Rodgers This is La Paz, Bolivia, behind me you can hear the thud of mortars and the high-pitched whine of rockets, as the battle for control of this volatile republic shakes the foundations of this old city. (slowly we pull out during this until we see in front of him a fairly long trestle table set out with range of diffrent-sized storage jar) But whatever their political inclinations these Bolivians are all keen users of storage jars. (the explosions continue behind him) Here the largest size is used for rice and for mangoes - a big local crop. Unlike most revolutionary South American states they've an intermediary size in between the 2 lb and 5 lb jars. This gives this poor but proud people a useful jar for apricots, plums and stock cubes. The smallest jar - this little 2oz jar, for sweets, chocolates and even little shallots. No longer used in the West it remains here as an unspoken monument to the days when La Paz knew better times. Ronald Rodgers, 'Storage Jars', La Paz.

[DeepModem Mom]

12. I'm as skeptical of warnings as any, but explosives were found in a UK...

storage facility not too long ago that were pretty clearly meant for eventual use in an Oklahoma City-type attack, and some people were apprehended. The material was found thanks to good, quiet law enforcement work by Brit authorities. It's unfortunate that the Bush administration's political use of "terra" warnings is close to eliminating its credibility when it might need to deal with a truly imminent danger at some point.


UK Guardian, 3/30/04:

"Police today seized half a tonne of potentially explosive material and arrested eight men in a major anti-terrorist operation.

Scotland Yard said that ammonium nitrate - a widely available fertiliser that can be used to create powerful explosive devices - had been found at a self-storage facility in Hanwell, west London, in one of 24 raids on addresses across London and the south-east."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1181017,00.html