Small town beefs up terror patrol (more bush* failures)

[diamond14]

Small town beefs up terror patrol

Friday, December 26, 2003

(CNN) -- The Tappahannock Police Department doubled its typical Christmas Day task force Thursday to handle the remote possibility that the small Virginia town may be the target of a terrorist attack, Mayor Ray Gladding said.

Instead of one officer patrolling the streets, the town will have two of its 10 officers working the holiday shift to keep Tappahannock's 2,000 residents safe. "The FBI just told us they intercepted some chatter. They just heard the name," Gladding said. "Somewhere, in translation, the name Tappahannock, Rappahannock -- they weren't really sure."

At the downtown Super 8 Hotel, Keesha Taylor -- in charge of the front desk and housekeeping -- said the 45-room hotel had just four guests, but that was not unusual and she was not aware of any cancellations. She was keeping an eye open for people who might be terrorists even though she's not sure what one might look like. "A terrorist wouldn't look like somebody from around here," she said.

Still, he (Edward L. Hammond, retired mayor) said, "You don't know. You got to believe something could happen." And, he added, he was increasing his vigilance when looking at strangers -- for example, checking out people more closely than usual at the local McDonald's, where he usually eats breakfast. "You'd be surprised," he said. "You set there and just watch the people. You never know."

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/US/12/25/tappahanock.terror/index.html

[fishguy]

1. Al Qaeda has said that their main targets are small towns in VA with

Super 8 motels.
As they say, the heathen and unbelievers could only have a Super 8.
The righteous would stay at a Days Inn.

These people make Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith show look sophisticated.

[pinniped]

2. I heard some "chatter" on my scanner too.

Should I call Johnny Asscrock?

"She was keeping an eye open for people who might be terrorists even though she's not sure what one might look like. "A terrorist wouldn't look like somebody from around here," she said."

Here ya go! The world's #1 terrorist:



Sorry about the bad picture. Think they caught monkeyboy while he was in the middle of being spoonfed some monkey chow or Gerber babyfood.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. BushCo spreads holiday fear

yep we are winning really....

Now how much is this costing the local EMS, and Emergency teams?

How fast will they be reimbursed for the cost? If every

How many cops will be laid off after there is no money to pay them?

Yep, America cower and live in fear

[pinto]

4. didn't any one mention that Rappahannock (w/an R) is home to Quantico?

[IMayBeWrongBut]

5. What creeped me out was that...

When I looked this town up on Yahoo maps it's got one highway going through it and it's called the "George Washington Memorial Hwy" Could the true target be the Washington monument? I think that's just as likely as some tiny town in VA...

[diamond14]

6. maybe it's the entire Rappahannock RIVER !!! (not the town?)

which covers a BIG section of Virginia....

look at the RIVER here....
http://www.virginiaplaces.org/watersheds/rappa.html

hope that 'homeland security' can think further than two places in
America that sound alike..."Tappahannock or Rappahannock?"

this CNN story represents so much that is wrong with shrub's policies and shrub's 'homeland security'....

it all feels like 'Iraqmire'...where bush* is spending millions $$$ looking everywhere for WMD, that he knows never were in Iraq....

BOOT BUSH in 2004....save America !!!

[pinto]

7. Unnamed CIA sources tell me it's about towns w/2 p's and 2 n's, classified

<sarcasm>

[xchrom]

8. creating vigilantes

you have to believe that is one of the side goals here with this stupid elmo alert.
easier to convince those folk that the new god-emperor is doing all he can to protect them.

[Robb]

9. It's finally happened.

Life is imitating my Lounge threads.

Now that's frightening. :eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

10. Looking for terrorists but she is not sure what one looks like? Here's one

http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/29/profile.mcveigh/index.html

<snip>McVeigh traveled to Waco, Texas during the March-April 1993 standoff between the Branch Davidians and federal agents, and was said to have been angry about what he saw. He sold firearms at a gun show in Arizona and was heard to remark on one weapon's ability to shoot down an ATF helicopter.

Although both Arizona and Michigan are host to militant anti-tax, anti-government, survivalist and racist groups, there is no evidence that he ever belonged to any extremist groups. He advertised to sell a weapon in what is described as a virulently anti-Semitic publication. After renting a Ryder truck that has been linked to the Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh telephoned a religious community that preaches white supremacy, but no one there can remember knowing him or talking to him. His only known affiliations are as a registered Republican in his New York days, and as a member of the National Rifle Association while he was in the Army.

more

[Bombero1956]

11. in light

of the recent news regarding Mad Cow Disease, we shouldn't be beefing up anything.

[Bandit]

12. If they are nice looking women I really check them out more now

:evilgrin: Hell you never know they could be hiding something.