- I'm sure that you've all noticed the drop in email volume recently.... Well you haven't been the only ones. Since our little discussion on tennis ball cannons, we've been monitored by high ranking officials. Now the media is noticing the drop in our email volume too. TOP OF THE NEWS Ominous drop in 'chatter' by terrorists WASHINGTON A DROP in so-called 'chatter' among suspected terrorists is raising concern among United States counter-terrorism officials, who noticed a similar fall in intercepted communications prior to the Sept 11 terror attacks. US government sources told CNN that security experts are still trying to fathom the reason for the troubling ebb in recent days. While there have been several similar quiet episodes in the past, the 'chatter' continued as before even after the mid-July arrest of key Al-Qaeda suspect Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan by Pakistani security forces, which was announced last week. The fall-off in chatter comes at a sensitive time in the war on terror. Information obtained in the Pakistani crackdown on Al-Qaeda pointed to a possible attack on US financial institutions as well as British targets. It triggered a heightened security alert in the United States and prompted anti-terrorist sweeps in Britain, which netted over a dozen suspects. Full story : http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4386,265908,00.html? --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field