Military ready if terrorists hit Kansas farms

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, Aug. 07, 2004

Military ready if terrorists hit Kansas farms

One practice session has already been held as the state readies plans to protect livestock and crops.

BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press


With the public's attention riveted on terrorism threats against urban financial icons, Kansas agriculture officials have been quietly building defenses to protect the nation's food supply.

Their newest ally is the U.S. military.

Since the terrorist attacks made agroterrorism a part of the language, rural states such as Kansas have struggled to protect the nation's crops and animal herds from a biological attack.

Kansas officials say the state has received no specific terrorist threat against agriculture. But limited state resources, vast distances and the ease with which a crop or herd can be infected make agriculture an easy target for terrorists.

Earlier this month, state agriculture and emergency disaster agencies put that military support to the test with an agroterrorism exercise they dubbed High Plains Guardian. The scenario played out was a simulated outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
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http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/business/9341209.htm

[blackcat77]

1. Soybeans and Swine, Sleep Safe! nt

[Tight_rope]

2. Okkk...I doubt terrorist will go that far...Especially when Texas is close

to the border.

[fearnobush]

3. This is all BUSHIT, please, everyone send below story to the world.

<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626850>

Pakistan: U.S. blew undercover operation
Al-Qaida suspect was secretly cooperating with counterrorist sting

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week’s terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location.
Under pressure to justify the alerts in three Northeastern cities, U.S. officials confirmed a report by The New York Times that the man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, was the source of the intelligence that led to the decision.

A Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters on Friday that Khan, who was arrested in Lahore secretly last month, had been actively cooperating with intelligence agents to help catch al-Qaida operatives when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers.

[burrowowl]

4. Like Plame!?

U$ blew undercover operation

When are we going after Carlye and Halliburton?
Oh! we got Marthat, that will show them!
Fascism should be called Corporatism, now who said that? Begins with an M.

[saigon68]

5. MEANWHILE IN THE " BEAN FEED " CAPITAL ERIE KANSAS

Erie, KS
City
Population 2000: 1,211
Latitude: 37.568N
Longitude: -95.243W
Time zone: Central Daylight Saving

"Bean Feed Capital"

On the Neosho River

http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4619

The Terra Alert was raised to ORANGE

[Eat_The_Rich]

6. Kansas Terrorists

I will be comforted by the fact that the gubmint will prevent the anal rape of my livestock. I'm Rick James Bitch!