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SMiles Lewis writes: Mack, I just read thru the comments on the boingboing link page and one of the notes points out that this article appears to be a ripped off and mutated version (tho nearly verbatim?) to this September article:

UPI Intelligence Watch By John C.K. Daly and Martin Sieff UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Washington, DC, Sep. 23 (UPI) -- At the meeting of the Southern District of the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council held in Houston on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of Texas informed council members of the high probability that a terrorist incident of the magnitude of the 9/11 attacks would occur in the United States within the next six weeks. Shelby told his audience that on Sept. 13, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft had an extremely rare conference call with all 93 federal U.S. attorneys during which Ashcroft shared the grim news of the high probability of an attack in the United States within the next 6 weeks, prior to the elections. Shelby then urgently requested that all law enforcement personnel be aware of any unusual situation and immediately report it. Shelby also asked council members to tell patrol officers and detectives to talk to their informants and report anything odd or remotely suspicious. Shelby concluded that unless we get a bit of "luck" and the attack can be detected and prevented, another attack of 9/11 scale would be carried out. Shelby's office subsequently issued a press release about his ATAC presentation, noting, "Al-Qaida has publicly stated its intention to commit a second major attack in the United States. Historical precedent and current intelligence estimates suggest that such an attempt is likely within the next six weeks, unless local, state and federal agencies redouble their efforts to interdict and disrupt such an action. While the threat of a second attack is serious and requires the full attention of all law enforcement authorities, there is no information that any specific attack is imminent." LINK

See also this Cryptome page: LINK

13 October 2004. This fear-mongering law enforcement memo continues to circulate among credulous police departments despite disavowal by the Department of Justice. To be sure, law enforcement will continue to have it both ways, to spread fear while denying it is doing so, then claim "we told you so, but you wouldn't listen," the exact excuse the military and intelligence services have given for failing to prevent 9/11. Beware believing those who benefit from "unexpected" disasters whether they happen or not. Homeland security is running amok, sucking up dollars to chase chimeras, learning from the military/intelligence racketeers whom many of them worked for before the Cold War teat dried up.

8:14 pm CST
UPDATE: THE AUTUMN OF TERROR …

Yesterday I posted a link to a news story describing Minnesota Senator Mark Dayton's decision to close his Capitol Hill office due to a "top secret" report that a terrorist attack on Washington is imminent. Today I came across a bOING-bOING post (read it HERE) which quoted the following purportedly authentic law enforcement memo:

LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE

At the meeting of the Southern District of the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council (ATAC) that was held yesterday in Houston, US Attorney Michael Shelby informed the group that a terrorist attack of 09/11/01 proportions was going to be carried out on US soil within the next 6 weeks.

Mr. Shelby stated that on 09/13/04, US Attorney General John Ashcroft had a conference call with all 93 US Attorneys, an event which is extremely rare.  The US Attorneys were informed that without a doubt an attack was going to be perpetrated in the US within the next 6 weeks, prior to the elections.  Mr. Shelby urgently requested that all law enforcement be aware of any situation that may be out of the ordinary and report the activity immediately.  Mr. Shelby also requested that we get the word out to patrol officers and detectives to talk to their informants and report anything odd or remotely suspicious.  Mr. Shelby ended this warning by saying that unless we get a bit of "luck" and the attack can be detected and prevented, that another attack of 9/11 scale will be carried out.

Please disseminate to all of your law enforcement contacts ASAP.

New Mexico Investigative Support Center

Direct Line:    505-541-7000
Fax:              505-541-7006

John E. Vinson, Director

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I’m back after another extended absence from the computer. The past few days I’ve been chained to the drawing board working on a project. Then, yesterday, we went out of town again, this time to spend the day in downtown San Antonio. But, now I’m back, getting caught up on the news:

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Friday evening, I-35. Stop for dinner at the Chicken Express in Lorena. Then back on the road, traveling north. At Hillsboro, we leave the thundering herd of cars and trucks and head northwest on the much quieter Highway 171 to Cleburne. There is lightning ahead in the nighttime sky ...

In Cleburne, we find Chambers Street unchanged; the small brick house where I spent my teenage years looks just the same, though inhabited now by another family …

We arrive at our friend's house and I hand him a copy of Bush Junta and we spend the evening talking--and expecting it to rain. But the storm changes direction …

Before bedtime, our friend tells us that an evicted roommate might return some time in the night. He evicted her due to her drug-addled behavior, but is allowing her to sleep here for one more month. Sometimes she shows up, sometimes she does not …

Lights out, window open, the first cool breezes of autumn wash over us and we sleep comfortably, though the old house is haunted. Troubled spirits knock about and bump in the shadows. Remembering that the Tamale Lady lived in this house before moving to North Main, I put off going to the bathroom, for fear I might see her mournful ghost drifting down the hallway …

The night passes. Then, early in the morning, the bedroom door comes open and we look up to see a wild-haired woman, eyes bulging, with a cigarette in her mouth, looking down at us. But it is no ghost, we realize; it is the evicted roommate. We get up, pack hurriedly, say goodbye to our friend, and leave …

We have breakfast downtown in the Chaf-In Café (unchanged after all these decades), then drive north on Main, very much changed--the street no longer lined with stately old homes, but cluttered with fast-food restaurants and convenience stores. A Long John Silver's stands on the site of the home where I lived that first year in Cleburne, 1965. Where Mr. Barnes lived now stands a McDonald’s …

We drive northwest in good spirits, crossing the Chisholm Trail. Soon, we are driving through wide, rolling ranchland vistas. Outside Weatherford we see a shopping center that did not exist the last time I was here and stop at a Starbucks for espresso. Then we drive into Weatherford and round the historic courthouse square (unchanged) and continue on to Mineral Wells, the town of my birth …

In a park outside Mineral Wells, we attend a family reunion--the reason for this weekend trip. I surreptitiously hand my sister a copy of Bush Junta, telling her to lock it in her trunk quick, thinking I might get lynched if some of my relatives see it. But, later, I'm surprised to hear so many anti-Bush comments from my relatives …

Around 3, we leave the family reunion and drive around Mineral Wells. I'm dismayed to see the Baker Hotel in terrible shape, windows broken out, tiles missing from the roof. How long before it completely falls apart? Strange to think: once it was a mecca for movie stars; now it is a giant derelict, empty of all save ghosts. The nearby Crazy Hotel is also haunted they say …

We stop at the Famous Mineral Water Company, which I used to visit with my grandmother way back on those summer afternoons in the 50s. They still sell mineral water here after all these years. It is not changed at all, except that now there are display cases containing artifacts from Mineral Wells' heyday as a health resort …

We buy two bottles of mineral water and some vintage Mineral Wells postcards for my collection, then drive over to the next street where my grandmother lived …

The house is gone, having burned to the ground several years after her death. Yet still I come here every time I visit Mineral Wells and gaze at the empty lot. In my dreams, though, the house still stands …

Then we leave Mineral Wells, heading north out of town through the land that once was my great-grandfather's ranch--and, before him, was part of the legendary Charles Goodnight ranch--all of this land now subdivided into much smaller plots of land, farms mostly …

Somewhere north of Jacksboro we arrive at a friend's country home. I hand him a copy of Bush Junta and later we grill hamburgers and sit on the deck, talking. The north wind carries the squeaking, creaking sound of an oil well towards us. My friend is pessimistic and the sunset is glum …

In the morning, we drive south through Weatherford to Granbury. In high spirits, we have brunch in a German restaurant, visit an antique mall where I buy vintage Disney books for my granddaughter, then go to the Acton Cemetery ...

It is quiet in the cemetery; somehow the solemnity of Death muffles the sounds from the nearby road and the great pecan trees surrounding the cemetery cover the clutter of convenience stores and other establishments, thus the place feels outside Time …

We walk to the grave of Elizabeth Crockett, widow of Davy Crockett. On top of her grave is her statue; she is shading her eyes as she peers into the west, looking for her husband who will not return. Beside her is buried her son, Robert Crockett, who operated a ferry on the Brazos River for years until he died in a horse accident in 1889. All around are other pioneer graves, also the graves of Civil War veterans, each bearing a small Confederate flag …

And, interspersed among the old graves, are newer graves. One tombstone bears the photo of a young man in black cowboy hat who died just eight years ago. A few objects have been placed at the base of the tombstone--an empty Dr. Pepper can, a toy car, an organ donor medallion. There is a statue of his dog at the foot of the grave, faithfully waiting, like the statue of Elizabeth Crockett …

No matter when they died--1868 or 1998--or how they died--horse accident or car accident--the dead all sleep in the same Texas earth. And around them the world changes--or doesn't, depending …

Later, at nearby Comanche Peak, we drive past the home where my wife's parents lived their final years. Their ashes, she tells me, are spread around the yard. We all sleep together in the same Texas earth …

We leave Granbury and drive to Stephenville through a heavy rainstorm. Then, south of Stephenville, the rain clears up and we drive in high spirits to Austin …