Amerika's Midwestern Barney Fifes

“Yeah I love this. These were some of Amerika's "finest".
Barney or Sheriff Wiggins.....take your pick.


FBI Fury As Men With Nuke Plans,
Valid ISRAELI Passports Escape
By Katty Kay
The Times, London
11-2-1

WASHINGTON - With America on top security alert, the FBI was hunting yesterday for six men of Middle Eastern appearance carrying plans of a nuclear power plant and the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline who were picked up by police in the Midwest over the weekend but then released.

The incident is thought to be connected with the latest FBI alert and senior intelligence officials are furious that the men were set free before they could be fully questioned.

The men were travelling in two groups of three in white saloon cars when they were pulled over by police officers in the Midwest, according to the Knight Ridder News Service. Security officials have refused to disclose further details.

The men were searched and questioned and the state officers discovered detailed plans and photographs of a nuclear power plant in Florida, along with box cutters-the weapons used in the September 11 attacks- and other equipment.

The men, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern origin and held Israeli passports, were then interviewed by immigration officials. When their passports and visas were found to be in order the officers, who were not aware of the country's imminent security alert, let the men go without first calling in the FBI to question them more thoroughly.

It is not clear why the men were pulled over in the first place nor why intelligence officers were not given a chance to interview them. Agents suspect that the men will by now have switched cars and tried to flee the country, possibly to Canada.

Intelligence officials were especially concerned about the nuclear plant details. America's nuclear facilities received special attention in the latest FBI alert. The men were also carrying plans of the 800-mile Trans-Alaska pipeline, which delivers 17 per cent of America's oil.

There are three nuclear facilities in Florida, which have now been advised to step up security. One of the plants has called in local police as an extra security precaution.

The news came as the US banned private flights near US nuclear facilities for the next ten days, in connection with the warning of another terrorist attack, and National Guard troops were deployed at nuclear power plants in three southern states. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the nation's 103 nuclear power plants to increase security.

At a time when police have unprecedented powers to arrest and detain people who are merely suspected of having links to terrorist activities, the release of these six men has infuriated the FBI.

The incident suggests a dangerous lack of co-ordination between different law enforcement bodies. Under America's new anti-terrorist laws, police can hold someone almost indefinitely on charges of being a "material witness" to terrorism. Canada announced that it had given the US important intelligence about another possible imminent terrorist attack. Canadian secret services intercepted telephone calls and e-mails from al-Qaeda operatives in Canada that referred to a major event taking place "down south" this week.

Law enforcement officials said that the US military intercepted numerous other calls leading up to the alert, which all used the same coded phrases. The FBI received intelligence about the new threat on Monday.

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Another Mossad Operation?

In 1956, Israel was engaged in one of its periodic wars with its Arab neighbors. To get the United States to enter the conflict on its behalf, the Jews of Tel Aviv thought they had the perfect plan. They would blow up the U.S. information center in Cairo and blame the Arabs. Americans, being incredibly naîve in these matters would automatically blame the Arabs, rally around the flag, and--voilà-- it's off to war they go.

Only problem: The scheme backfired and the culprits were caught. The upshot was a scandal which brought down one Israeli government--although the Jewish state continued to sail right on, collecting its billions from Uncle Sap while viciously trying to sink one of America's unarmed communications ships, the USS Liberty. Are we about to see a repeat of the old game? Stay tuned.”

“that one was from www.rense.com”

“Yeah...but *security* is getting MUCH better nowadays. Cause you gotta love 'em when they just take yer contraband then let you go ;)”

“What about the midwestern Floyd the Barbers?”

“Let me help you, SH.”

“Oh no! Tag Team!”

“Now where have I seen this before?

Next thing we know, SH will be using the Onion as a source.”

“What are "white saloon cars?"

HMMMMMMMMM????”

“Good to see you back, Matt.”

“An obviously racist reference to Midwesteern drinking establishments on wheels. In Western Iowa we used to use saloon cars to do our drinking before we were of legal drinking age. Usually they cruised the rural dirt and gravel roads of the state dispensing beer and whiskey to be hidden in culverts for later consumption.

(Saloon cars is a UK reference to sedans or large 4 door cars!)”

“Big 'pot' stash was only hay

January 24, 2003

BY CHRIS FUSCO STAFF REPORTER


Had it actually been marijuana, the three wise men might be viewed in a whole new light.

What Chicago police thought was more than $660,000 worth of dope in a pickup truck last month turned out to be hay from a Roman Catholic church's nativity scene.

Prosecutors dropped felony drug charges Thursday against Jose Galvan, 43, and his co-worker, Juan Luna, 21, after crime lab tests confirmed the mistake, said Jerry Lawrence, spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office. The two remained at Cook County Jail as federal immigration officials checked to see if they are in the country legally.

Also, Luna will appear in court Jan. 28 on an unrelated felony marijuana delivery charge he thought had been dismissed, said attorney Peter Vilkelis, who is representing both men.

Chicago police got an anonymous tip on Dec. 30 that a major marijuana stash was being moved in a truck that looked like the one Galvan was driving. After two officers pulled over Galvan and Luna in the 3800 block of North Pulaski, two small plastic bags with crushed green plants fell out of the cab, police spokesman Pat Camden said.

Police tests in the field showed those plants to be marijuana. Camden did not know if the about 220 pounds worth of plants beneath the truck's liner were field-tested.

Galvan and Luna had been planning to haul the hay from St. Wenceslaus Roman Catholic Church, where they are parishioners, back to a far south suburban horse farm where a friend had loaned it to them, Vilkelis said. They were coming home from work in Skokie when they were arrested.

"Somebody must have seen these two big bales, saw the men were Mexican and made an assumption," Vilkelis said.

"These guys were treated like they were cartel drug traffickers," he added. "Once we finally secure their release, we will be talking to a civil rights lawyer."”

“Pssst, kid, wanna buy some hay?

Yo, what are you talking about?

Hay kid, ya wanna buy some?

You a cop or what?

No kid, it's hay, wanna buy some?

It's pot, isn't it?

No kid, it's hay, wanna buy some?

Yeah, right, okay, I'll take a lid!

You mean a bale? $45 for you.

$45 for all that grass? Man, I can roll a joint as big as Cleveland!

Enjoy kid, nice doing business with you.

No, nice doing business with you. You're busted man, you have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney ...

It's a bale of hay, copper!

Yeah, right, it's grass, right?

Yeah, it's grass, but the kind you mow, not the kind you smoke. Cows eat it and horses eat is. You smoke this stuff you'll choke to death.

That's it, up against the wall!”

“You start ignoring recreational amounts of hay, and pretty soon alfalfa starts popping up in the lockers at the local high school.”

“FBI Finds Explosives in Nichols' Old Home

WASHINGTON - The FBI is facing the possibility it made an embarrassing oversight in the Oklahoma City bombing case a decade ago after new information led agents to explosive materials hidden in Terry Nichols' former home, which they had searched several times before.


FBI officials said the material was found Thursday night and Friday in a crawl space of the house in Herington, Kan. They believe agents failed to check that space during the numerous searches of the property during the original investigation of Nichols and Timothy McVeigh.


"The information so far indicates the items have been there since prior to the Oklahoma City bombing," Agent Gary Johnson said in a telephone interview from Oklahoma City.


FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said in Kansas the materials were found in boxes, much of them wrapped in plastic, and were being sent to the FBI lab for analysis. The bureau is operating on the assumption the evidence was from the original Oklahoma plot based on information developed in recent days, he said.


Agents now will be looking for any fingerprints and other clues on the evidence that might show where the explosives originated and who may have possessed them before they got into Nichols' home.


The extraordinary discovery, just three weeks from the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people, could prove a new embarrassment to an FBI already burned by missteps in this case and the pre-Sept. 11 period.


Nichols, who is serving multiple life sentences on federal and state charges, hasn't lived at the property for years. FBI officials said the information that led to the discovery indicated Nichols had buried the evidence before the attack on April 19, 1995.


One of Nichols' attorneys said Friday the discovery was either a hoax or a major failure by the FBI.


"They were there often," said attorney Brian Hermanson, who represented Nichols in last year's Oklahoma state murder trial that ended with Nichols' conviction. "It's surprising. I would think they would have done their job and found everything that was there."

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