[austechwriter] Re: OT: How To...

Before everyone panics...

From the ABC (Australian) news site: 

"US terrorism warning mistaken: Govt
The Federal Government says the United States Government is correcting an
intelligence advisory which warns of a terrorist attack in Australia....."

See full story at http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s913173.htm



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Hallett [mailto:mhallett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 30 July 2003 9:21 AM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [austechwriter] Re: OT: How To...
> 
> 
> Hi there George,
> 
> Thanks for the report. On the face of it that does look scary 
> but it's not so bad. NSW's powergrid is pretty bad, some 
> areas often have outages and I just saw a report in a 
> newspaper which says Western Sydney will have continuous 
> outages in the future due to problems with power. Important 
> sites have independent backups and UPS. I think we could 
> manage through that.
> 
> It's a while since I've been to the centre but I think 
> terrorists would look very obvious hanging round in places 
> like Katherine, Woomera and Ceduna. Most small towns in the 
> centre are Anglo-white and Aboriginal black, an Arab face 
> would stand out.
> 
> Severing communications between east and west might be bad 
> for the west but not really for the east and not really for 
> the economy. Despite the mineral wealth in the west, most of 
> the Australian economy happens in the east.
> 
> The information about the oil and gas pipelines around 
> Melbourne might be scary, it could burn the town hurting 
> friends I value. Someone from Melbourne might be able to tell 
> you how they would cope with that.
> 
> I also think our troops would keep fighting as long as the 
> government undertook to look after their families and I think 
> it probably would. Our prime minister would lose votes if he didn't.
> 
> I think we do need to be on guard against terrorism and I 
> appreciate your sending the report but if terrorists wanted 
> to destroy Australia, these are probably not the ways.
> 
> Hope things are going well for you.
> 
> Michelle
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Mena" <George.Mena@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:42 AM
> Subject: [austechwriter] OT: How To...
> 
> 
> > This link takes you to the daily newsletter of the US State 
> > Department's Overseas Security Advisory Council -- and to a rather 
> > disturbing story:
> >
> > 
> http://www.ds-osac.org/view.cfm?key=7E445D4B4556&type=2B170C1E0A3A0F16
> > 2820
> >
> > George Mena
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