Posted by
Undaunted on Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:25:48 PM
Two young men busted for having pipe bombs in their car in South Carolina. A neighbor of the two, Sherri Jackson, said things seemed suspicious. She says she saw lots of traffic, a lot of people going back and forth, oxygen tanks being delivered UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and a lot going on.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=60669
She should have told the FBI her neighbors were probably terrorists, not the other way around.
Straight from the DHS website: Terrorists often keep irregular hours, seek short-term accommodations and leave unexpectedly. They rarely lodge alone and often pay with cash, even for extended stays. They try to avoid contact with outsiders and prefer to keep landlords and housekeepers from inspecting their rooms. They may use rented lodging as meeting space and have frequent visitors. They may use pay phones at night in order to keep their conversations from being overheard or traced and recorded.
Terrorists and those who assist them rarely participate in health insurance programs, and seek medical care only when absolutely necessary, even for their children. They usually pay for medical care with cash. Sometimes they seek vaccines or prescriptions for reasons that seem unwarranted or questionable.
Occasionally terrorists mishandle chemicals or toxic substances, creating health problems that require immediate medical attention. Often, their explanations of the origins of their injuries are suspicious or difficult to verify. Terrorists sometimes seek access to unusually large quantities of controlled substances, for use in contamination attacks as well as to protect themselves.
Make the call.
Law enforcement agencies get bits and pieces of information from many sources that may indicate criminal activity. This information is called "raw data." Most agencies will conduct a brief investigation into the data to determine if a crime has been or may be committed and open a full investigation if the evidence indicates it’s appropriate. Raw data is a license plate number, a scream from a particular place at a particular time, people moving what appears to be laboratory equipment into a residential building, an unusual happening or circumstance, someone purchasing several throw-away cell phones at one time, unusual conduct and demeanor such as the witness above saw.
You, the average citizen, are the main source of raw data. Providing it to your local police or to the FBI is not spying, it’s not tattling, it’s not betraying a trust to your neighbor. Don’t allow denial that there is a terrorist threat, and that you may come across some element of that threat in your daily life, turn into negligence. Negligence means that you didn’t do something you should have done. When you give raw data to the police, you are providing information to them that could prevent an attack and save lives. If you don’t provide raw data to the police, you could be, in effect, allowing an attack; permitting a death. So if all you have is a any information no matter how insignificant it may appear, call it in ASAP.
Do not hesitate.
The SC terrorists didn't have to be headed for the Navy base, as some speculate. They could have been heading for a local mall, a soft target. They could have been planning on tossing the pipe bombs into a church. Only they know.
If you see something SAY something.