Can anyone help me confirm 2 news stories heard today?

1) On Headline News crawl (idiots don't even have story on their website!):

Nebraska bank limiting cash withdrawls to $3k until Jan. 10, 2000 No further info. No bank name was given.

2 Heard on WGST News Atlanta Radio:

FBI/ATF has uncovered plot to blow up Federal Bldg. in Atlanta. Also, plans to rob National Guard Armories for weapons. Arrests made in GA and FL. Again - no further info.

Has anyone heard these reports?

-- farf (madeupguy@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999

Answers

No. I too would like validation.

Tim

-- tim daniels (timdaniels@commonsense.com), December 09, 1999.

Eight Accused of Plotting Year-End Terror Attacks Targets in California and Nevada, FBI says

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999 /12/09/MN28540.DTL

-- hamster (hamster@mycage.com), December 09, 1999.

Florida arrest was extensively covered on local Tampa television this morning. A man -- former, present (?) militia member -- was arrested for alleged plans to rob a national guard armory? take out some transformers, blow up power facilities so that Atlanta would lose power ??? ... sorry I was not listening carefully. His plans were outed by an undercover Haines City Florida law enforcement officer.

I promise I will take notes at the 6 pm news.

-- (normally@ease.notnow), December 09, 1999.

Uh Oh...These people can be like cockroaches...finding one means there are 20 others behind the baseboard.

Let's hope they can infiltrate the entire organization, and keep this from becoming a reality!

-- Duke 1983 (Duke1983@AOL.com), December 09, 1999.

20 hell - we'll see hundreds in a few weeks.

-- Dan G (thepcguru@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.

Why would a militia WASTE their time on Atlanta's infrastructure? You don't put burnt toast back in the toaster do you?

-- paul leblanc (bronyaur@gis.net), December 09, 1999.

Another now-you-see-it-now-you-don't scary story:

Looking for leads on an NBC-TV story about a secret list of high risk terrorist targets.

Oh well, I suppose it's for our own good....

-- Lewis (aslanshow@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.

Alleged militia leader indicted

TAMPA -- A man identified by authorities as a militia leader was arrested on Wednesday on charges of plotting to burglarize National Guard armories and steal explosives to blow up transmission towers and power lines.

    Donald Beauregard, 31, leader of the Southeastern States Alliance for the past three years, was picked up without incident after a federal grand jury indicted him on charges of conspiracy, providing support or resources to commit terrorist acts, and four weapons violations.

    Investigators said Beauregard was the brigadier general of the alliance, a coalition of state militia groups in the Southeast, created to perform violent, retaliatory acts against government facilities and personnel.

    Beauregard is accused of planning:

    >To destroy power lines feeding St. Petersburg and Atlanta.

    >To break into National Guard armories in central Florida to steal explosives, weapons and equipment to attack transformers at the Crystal River Power Plant.

    >To train co-conspirators in the construction of explosives, bombs, incendiaries and mines.

   To discuss plans to kill a person thought to be an informant against the militia.

    >To possess and transfer firearms, including a sawed-off shotgun and silencer.

    >To hand out a memo entitled "project worst nightmare" to all militia commands describing plans to shut down federal operations, disrupt communications and begin guerilla actions against selected targets.

    >To fax a threat to FBI agents in Orlando as a result of efforts in the 1996 standoff between federal lawmen and the Freemen group in Justus Township, Mont.

    >To use encrypted sound cards and blow up a federal building.

    Beauregard's arrest is the culmination of a 31/2-year investigation of militia groups in the Southeast, prosecutors said.

    If convicted on all charges, Beauregard could face a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine.

   

-- Bob (bob@bob.bob), December 09, 1999.

Hamster -- can't get that sfgate.com link to fly. Can you hotlink it?

Lewis --you're right about the now you see it now you don't media bytes. Thanks for the link to: Federation of American Scientists Will spend some time over there. Looks like a good link.

-- farf (madeupguy@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.

I can't believe there's noone entertaining the thought of these men being framed. Isn't this what that "whacko" was talking about not too long ago? TPTB would round up all those militia guys in the first couple weeks of December? Hmmmmmm? Just a thought.

-- uhhhh (uhhhh@whatif.com), December 09, 1999.

Earlier today Taz posted this about limited $3000 bank withdrawls. http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001xlX

CNN Headlines..bank limiting amount of withdrawls to $3000 until Jan 10th.

Chubby Hubby just caught this on the headlines that run along at the bottom of the screen, but didn't catch the Bank name. I have to leave the house and he has his orders to watch CNN until he finds out which bank! Don't know if $3000 is total withdraw or per day or per week. Yep, its starting! Personaly, if I still had all my money in the bank, seeing that would have made me make a run on the bank. I would have transfered it to a number of banks with new acc't and then cashed them in as fast as I could.

Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), December 09, 1999

-- flb (fben4077@yahoo.com), December 09, 1999.

Just makes me damn glad we left the St. Pete area.

-- D.J. Phillips (gardengal@land.com), December 09, 1999.

Uhhh -- yep been entertaining that previous heads up. That's why I wanted more info. That blue list/red list thing. Their list couldn't a been very long, or there will be alot more forthcoming.

-- farf (madeupguy@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.

How do we know that the second story is not just a "plant" by the government to give Klinton a reason to declare Marshall Law and take away our rights?

-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), December 09, 1999.

>To use encrypted sound cards and blow up a federal building.

What the heck does that mean? Is PGP actually explosive? Digital boomboxes with firmware that really goes *boom*?

I MUST keep up on my IEEE reading. They're obviously coming up with some weird stuff lately...

-- Mac (sneak@lurk.com), December 09, 1999.

>To use encrypted sound cards and blow up a federal building.

Say what?? PGP + MP3 = bomb?

-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), December 09, 1999.

I live in Central Nebraska.

Woke up to the radio this morning and heard the tail end of a story that a local bank is limiting withdrawals to $3000.00

That was enough incentive for me to drive 30 miles into town this morning and withdraw some cash before other banks in the area limit withdrawals. As a side note I just got a call from the bank,(6:00 PM) they wanted me to come in to the bank and sign something concerning my withdrawal, the person on the phone said that they had forgotten to have me sign it at the time I made my withdrawal. I asked them to mail it to me and I would see about signing and mailing it back. I have never been called after hours at home before about a banking transaction. ?

-- Rick Jammy (rickjam@hotmail.com), December 09, 1999.

Two other disappering stories: The helicopter crash was not mentioned on Peter Jennings tonight. NADA anywhere on the explosion at the Oak Ridge, Tn plant. Sure give a penny to knw why the bank wanted the guy to sign something for getting the cash out of bank...unless it was $10K or greater. Don't forget that law about if you know there is a problem with the bank and you withdraw your money, they can make you give it back. Remember that one? I remember it happened in Knoxville, Tn. I am sure thats in the archives. So once the word is on the street and the lines begin to form, you are breaking the law taking your money out.

Taz

-- Taz (Tassi123@aol.com), December 09, 1999.

Anyone who was actually a member of a militia would know that the National Guard doesn't have any ammo, let alone explosives. They are lucky to have enough parts to make a gun, after the feds have striped them of equipment. The story smells. The militia guys are being framed.

-- opinion (opinion@southnorth.com), December 09, 1999.

One more to add to the list of missing news stories. Yesterday morning (12/9/99, 6:00am ET) on the CBS Radio News there was a story about ATM machines being filled with only 50's & 100's because of a cash crunch. I looked everywhere on the net yesterday trying to find that story, but couldn't come up with a text version. Did anyone else hear it? It makes me wonder if bank-related stories are being spiked.

-- Coder (Coder@Work.Now), December 10, 1999.

Others (at least two) heard it on CBS network radio news, but at least one of them and myself tried to find text and came up empty.

Who knows?

-- nothere nothere (notherethere@hotmail.com), December 10, 1999.