Dear Brigade, "... Federal law enforcement officials said there was no indication Gurung was involved in terrorism ...The investigation does not seem to reveal any illicit, suspicious or nefarious intent about his trip to Omaha,'' said Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago..." Let's see Brigade: * illegally in the US since 1994 (expired student visa) * buys one-way ticket to Omaha - home of USSTRATCOM - "the nerve center of the United States Strategic Command" * carrying seven knives, a stun gun, and tear gas Yet, there was nothing suspicious? Brigade, the borders need an immediate lock down and all criminal aliens - that is, all persons who are in the USA illegally - need to be rounded up, background checked, and either incarcerated or shipped out. Until then we cannot trust the sincerity of our government to protect us. How they can talk about "Homeland Security" while keeping a straight face is beyond me. FTC-Linda ------ From: "Gene A. Nelson" To:"'Linda Muller'" Subject: Gene Nelson, Ph.D.'s email to the FBI 11/06/2001 Date sent: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 23:35:37 -0600 Dear Linda: I have sent several different messages to the FBI since Tuesday, Sept. 11. Gene https://www.ifccfbi.gov/complaint/terrorist.asp Tuesday, November 06, 2001 11:00 PM CST This is a follow up to my email of Wednesday, October 31, 2001 6:55 AM CST I have made presentations at the Dallas, Texas FBI field office on September 25, 2001 and Washington, DC FBI field office. The latter presentation was on October 2, 2001. Gene A. Nelson, Ph.D. (214) 455 - 8065 Cell c0030180@airmail.net email 1. Contacts with Subash Gurung should be carefully investigated. 2. The validity of his Nepalese passport should be carefully confirmed. Is "Subash Gurung" just an alias? 3. Does Subash Gurung have relevant piloting experience? 4. Did Subash Gurung ever sign a visitor's register at a tour or open house of USSTRATCOM? Even with an assumed identity? 5. Why did he choose to fly to Omaha, Nebraska? Some news accounts indicate that he paid cash for a one way ticket. Such an itinerary would make it harder to identify a hijacking with an intended USSTRATCOM target until it could not be intercepted and halted. 6. In an earlier analysis, the strategies of using such means as Mace and/or "stun guns" could facilitate a single hijacker taking control of an aircraft. 7. Even a "near miss" with a passenger aircraft used as a "cruise missile" against USSTRATCOM, in Omaha, Nebraska, described below, could require extremely costly repairs to restore functionality. A USSTRATCOM attack would also diminish the perception that the U.S. was capable of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan or other terrorist nations. 8. Large amounts of information about USSTRATCOM are readily available via the internet. This information could guide terrorists to identify and harm ground - based assets. Examples appear below. ________________________ U.S. Strategic Command Public Affairs (J020), 901 SAC BLVD STE 1A1, Offutt AFB, NE 68113-6020 www.etak.com will "geocode" this address and show its precise location on a map. >From Expedia.com for Offutt Air Force Base: Latitude: 41.120182 N, Longitude: 95.902351 W http://www.stratcom.mil/factssheets/cmdctr.html Strategic Command Command Center As the nerve center of the United States Strategic Command, the USSTRATCOM Command Center is prepared to transmit National Command Authority directives to strategic aircraft, submarines and missile forces. The USSTRATCOM Command Center is located in the Underground Command Complex. Also located within this complex are the Intelligence Operations Center, Weather Support Center, Force Status Readiness Center and other support offices. The USSTRATCOM Command Center is a specially-designed, two- level, 14,000-square-foot reinforced concrete and steel structure containing the critical information management and communication systems to provide the Commander in Chief of USSTRATCOM (CINCSTRAT) an assured capability to manage forces worldwide. In time of war, the underground would be sealed off. An underground emergency power supply, a well supplying an emergency water source, and rations would allow continuous operations without outside support for an extended period of time. Electromagnetic pulse protection is provided for critical command, control and communications equipment as well as supporting utilities. This allows CINCSTRAT to continuously exercise command over USSTRATCOM forces, even in the disturbed electromagnetic environment which would follow a high altitude nuclear burst. When the Command Center is self-contained, CINCSTRAT and members of the senior staff would work in the lower level senior battle staff area, while support staff members would take designated positions in the support battle staff area on the second floor..... 12 pages of detailed information about Offutt AFB and the environs is available at: http://www.occe.ou.edu/ap/sg/offutt.pdf See also: http://www.spacecom.af.mil/norad/ __________________ November 7, 2001 - O'Hare probe finds no foul play CHICAGO (AP) - Stunned by what they described as a major security breach, federal transportation officials launched an investigation into how a man carrying seven knives, a stun gun and tear gas got through an airport checkpoint. Subash Gurung, 27, a Nepalese citizen in the country on an expired student visa, was held without bond pending a Thursday hearing on a federal felony charge of attempting to board a jetliner with weapons at O'Hare International Airport. ``The O'Hare failure was a case of dramatic dimensions,'' Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta told reporters on Monday. Security employees at the checkpoint Saturday night did confiscate two folding knives that Gurung told them were in his pocket. But they failed to notice seven other knives, a stun gun and tear gas in his carry-on luggage. They were discovered by United Airlines workers who made a hand search of his luggage at the gate. Federal law enforcement officials said there was no indication Gurung was involved in terrorism, and in a statement the FBI said reports that Gurung shared an address with alleged terrorist suspects were not accurate. Law enforcement officials said Gurung told them he mistakenly packed the knives in a plastic bag rather than his luggage before leaving for the airport. ``The investigation does not seem to reveal any illicit, suspicious or nefarious intent about his trip to Omaha,'' said Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago. The company that operates the security checkpoints for United Airlines at O'Hare, Atlanta-based Argenbright Security Inc., said eight employees including one supervisor had been suspended from duty pending an internal company investigation. Company spokesman Brian Lott said they would be fired only if the investigation showed that ``there was wrongdoing.'' Chicago police charged Gurung with two misdemeanors and released him on bond early Sunday. The FBI rearrested him on the federal charge later Sunday when he returned to O'Hare to retrieve his luggage. The luggage that came back from Omaha contained two more knives, one of them with a seven-inch blade, the FBI said. Gurung told WLS-TV in Chicago that he collects knives and that the stun gun was for protection. ``I was living there in Chicago and I don't have any friends at the time,'' he said. ``Two years I was completely alone there, totally insecure and lonely there.'' In court, Gurung's lawyer, Piyush Chandra, declined to answer questions from reporters. Lawmakers seized on the incident as ammunition in the fight over whether the job of securing the nation's airports should be federalized as Democrats would prefer or stay in private hands as President Bush wants. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said that if they were federal workers it would be impossible to fire them, even if they were guilty of a security breach, because they would have job protection. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., said the security system would never be as efficient as it should be unless those running it were federal employees ``like the Customs Service, like the FBI.'' Copyright 2001 Associated Press. ------- end ------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T H E I N T E R N E T B R I G A D E Linda Muller - WebMaster 47671 Whirlpool Square, Potomac Falls, Virginia 20165 Email: linda@buchanan.org Web: http://www.buchanan.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ T H E B R I G A D E E M A I L L I S T To Subscribe/Unsubscribe send an email with: SUBSCRIBE BRIGADE - or - UNSUBSCRIBE BRIGADE in your message to: MAJORDOMO@BUCHANAN.ORG ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~