Archive for November, 2004
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The letter below was recently posted on an open forum on Timebomb2000.com. I had to share it here, as I feel it truly describes the bravery of our men and women in uniform. Please support and pray for our military in every way you can…
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Before the Battle of Fallujah, we saw an email from Dave to his dad. This one is after the battle.
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- Nov 19, 04
Dear Dad -
Just came out of the city and I honestly do not know where to start. I am afraid that whatever I send you will not do sufficient honor to the men who fought and took Fallujah.
Shortly before the attack, Task Force Fallujah was built. It consisted of Regimental Combat Team 1 built around 1st Marine Regiment and Regimental Combat Team 7 built around 7th Marine Regiment. Each Regiment consisted of two Marine Rifle Battalions reinforced and one Army mechanized infantry battalion.
Regimental Combat Team 1 (RCT-1) consisted of 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion (3rd LAR), 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines (3/5); 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1)and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry (2/7). RCT-7 was slightly less weighted but still a formidable force. Cutting a swath around the city was an Army Brigade known as Blackjack. The Marine RCT’s were to assault the city while Blackjack kept the enemy off of the backs of the assault force.
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This story is a MUST READ.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/21/BURRESS.TMP
Unthinkable?
An attack on an American city by terrorists armed with a small nuclear device is an even bet within a decade, some experts sayCharles Burress, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Imagine a relatively small nuclear bomb of 10 kilotons exploding in San Francisco’s Union Square. “Everything to the Museum of Modern Art would vaporize,” writes Harvard security analyst Graham Allison in his chilling new book, “Nuclear Terrorism.”
“Everything from the Transamerica building to Nob Hill would be sites of massive destruction; everything within the perimeter of Coit Tower and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge would go up in flames.”
No survivors would be found amid nearly 100 square blocks, and buildings in about 400 square blocks would be totally destroyed or left looking like the Oklahoma City federal building after it was crushed by a truck bomb.
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Big thing in the news the past week, regarding the Marine shooting of an apparently unarmed and injured Iraqi. Many claim murder…video of the event is making the rounds of world media, and the Islamic world is claiming ANOTHER piece of proof of the evil of American infidels. Hogwash, I say.
Never been in combat…but many of my friends have. After much study on this incident, and understanding of just HOW BAD the battles are going over in Iraq right now, I must say the story below is the one *I* believe. Remember Vietnam, and the kids that were booby trapped to kill Americans? Same thing, different hemisphere. What goes around, comes around. What’s old is new again…to the bad guys.
Read for yourself…comment if you like. Thanks, Ollie, for digging out the truth here.
By Ollie North
WASHINGTON, D.C. — By now, almost everyone in the world with a television has seen the videotape that appears to show a U.S. Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi terrorist inside a mosque in Fallujah. For the record, here are the facts, because facts — not rumors or emotions — really are important. Here is what those who were there told me:
On Friday, Nov. 12, U.S. Marines were fired upon by terrorists armed with AK-47s, RPD machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire, first with M-16s and 240G machine guns, and then, as they continued to take fire and casualties, they escalated to an MK-19, a 40mm grenade launcher and then an AT-4 missile.
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In my last email I sent out to my email lists yesterday, I referenced the report about Osama Bin Laden getting approval from Muslim Clerics to use Nukes on America. Today, the following story below hit, with some interesting details about CURRENT threats, but with NO PROVABLE VERIFICATION…hence, the reason I forward this to my lists. Can ANY of you verify ANY part of the FIRST story below? If so, please let me know, asap.
Thanks, Richard…
( Forwarded from Richard@survivalring.org )
First found here, on Timebomb2000.com open forum…
original link
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
ACSA Reporting US Faces an Imminent Nuclear Threat
Source: ACSA | 10:32:19 AM EST
Please note we fought for a few hours deciding whether or not to report this on our website, simply because the evidence cannot be corroborated and confirmed. However, because we do not believe in hiding or suppressing any information, no matter how far out there they are, we will post the alert in its entirety. Please know that TrackingTerrorism is in no way affiliated with ACSA and the views of this article do not necessarily express the views of our analysts.
CONFIRMATION OF ACSA WARNINGS REGARDING A NUCLEAR BOMB: THE DEVICE BEING SOUGHT BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE DOD IS A FORMER USSR “LARGE SUITCASE” BOMB IN THE POSSESSION OF PAKISTAN INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVES. IT IS REPORTEDLY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING TRANSFERRED TO AL QAEDA FOR USE AGAINST THE US MAINLAND. THIS IS THE THREAT THAT WAS VOICED BY BIN LADEN, ASSAM THE AMERICAN AND THE ANSAR AL MASRI BRIGADE, SAYS THE ACSA.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, this being a blog and all…
YOU may post a comment on any article I post here…this lets you, and I, and everyone else *discuss* the specific things I bring to light here… Take advantage of this opportunity…
It’s open now. You can post, and it’ll show up…but, I’ll moderate it if abused ( which happens sporadically…but it happens…)
So, what do YOU think of this stuff?
Rich
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Last nite was one of those once in a lifetime ( ok…maybe more than once) events…down here in mid America, the Northern Lights paid us a visit…
Drove a few miles NW of town to complete darkness in the middle of Central Wyoming, and enjoyed a magnificent light show…writhing, twisting sheets of electrons…multicolor displays…wave upon wave of curtains of glowing particles….simply incredible beauty…
Did a few googles when I got back home and thought I’d share more with you…
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/aurora_predict/map4/255.html
Produces Aurora Forecasts for north America, so click the above for the latest prognostications…
This link gives you the latest NOAA space weather info…
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/today.html
This link give you the RIGHT NOW imagry, and is where the above image came from…
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/Aurora/globeNW.html
SpaceWeather.com has a photo gallery of images from across America of this magnificent event….
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/Aurora/globeNW.html
AND, there is supposed to be more tomorrow, thanks to Sunspot 696
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It’s about that time again…the ANNUAL Leonid meteor shower. Unfortunately, we’re a couple years past the 33 year cycle of the super meteor storm such as in 1966 and 1999/2000, but this particular shower ALWAYS gives good show for those who enjoy flaming rocks falling from the sky.
Read all about it, and get the best times, locations, and directions to watch below…
Rich
http://science.nasa.gov/images/leonid18nov/1966.gif
2004: TOUCHING ON TWO DUST TRAILS NOVEMBER 19
Jeremie Vaubaillon, Esko Lyytinen, Markku Nissinen, and David Asher have arrived at a common prediction for this year’s 2004 Leonids. It was found that Earth will pass close to two dust trails, those of 1333 and 1733. Any outburst from the 1333 trail will peak at 06:42 UT, November 19, well positioned for U.S.A. observers. Rates will not be high, ZHR = 10 at best. The second 1733 trail will arrive at 21:49 UT, when the rates can go up as high as ZHR = 65. That outburst is best seen in Asia. Even though rates will not be as high as in past Leonid storms, it is important to continue observe these showers to learn how dust is distributed by the parent comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle.
And from this site…
http://www.imo.net/calendar/cal04.html
Leonids
Active : November 14-21;
Maximum : November 17, 8h 25mUT (sol = 235.27°);
ZHR = 10-50+
Radiant : alpha = 153°, delta = +22°;
Radiant drift: see Table 6;
V = 71 km/s;
r = 2.9;
TFC : alpha = 140°, delta = +35° and
alpha = 129°, delta = +6° (beta>35° N); or
alpha = 156°, delta = -3° and
alpha = 129°, delta = +6° (beta<35° N);
PFC : before 00h local time alpha = 120°, delta = +40° (beta>40° N);
before 04h local time alpha = 120°, delta = +20° (beta>0° N);
and after 04h local time alpha = 160°, delta = 0° (beta>0° N);
before 04h local time alpha = 120°, delta = +10° (beta<0° N)
and after 04h local time alpha = 160°, delta = -10° (beta<0° N).
In theory, the ending of the strong to storm Leonid returns between 1998-2002 associated with particles accompanying the shower’s parent comet, 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which had returned to its perihelion in 1998, should mean 2004 will see a continuing decline in activity back towards its earlier ZHRs of 10-15. Certainly, no enhanced activity is predicted, although as meteor enthusiasts know well, surprises can occur from even the best-known showers on occasion! Observers should be alert to covering whatever the shower produces, as following the post-storm phases after this best-ever observed run of storm returns is as vital to our understanding of the stream as seeing the storms themselves. The Leonid radiant rises usefully only around local midnight (or indeed afterwards south of the equator), splendid news, as the waxing crescent Moon will have set long before this time on November 16/17. If the peak occurs close to the nodal crossing time above, it will favour sites across the Americas, but other peak times cannot be excluded, and observers should be watching as often as conditions allow throughout the shower, in case something unexpected happens. All observing techniques can be usefully employed.
