DUH!

-- ... (...@...com), December 26, 1999

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Sealed with what? DUH! Is this 'DUH!' some new sort of super-glue? Make sense Man!

-- Ocotillo (peeling@out.===), December 26, 1999.

London's going to be sealed? Sounds serious. Maybe someone should post something about it.

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), December 26, 1999.

LOL! LOL!

-- (RUOK@yesiam.com), December 26, 1999.

@....

aren't you that asshole that knows nothing about de Jgers history on y2k, like that other asshole bad company,

and then troll along here and defend the Judas...

brain-dead morons that you are...

-- Andy (2000EOD@prodigy.net), December 26, 1999.

Drudge Report Headlines:

LONDON TO BE SEALED DURING Y2K; 7 CONTROLLED ENTRANCES AND EXITS

http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/1999/12/26/ stinwenws01007 .html?999

December 26 1999 BRITAIN, Nick Fielding and James Clark

Anarchist attack fears turn City into no-go area

THE City of London is bracing itself for violent attacks over the millennium holiday after threats by anarchists to start a new Great Fire of London.

Police are to isolate the City after receiving a warning of the plan, as well as intelligence about Islamic fundamentalists and Irish republican splinter groups. Access will be possible only through seven tightly controlled entrances and exits. "It will effectively be a no-go area," said a Corporation of London spokesman.

Armed troops will also be on stand-by at three bases around the capital in case of public disorder if the millennium bug causes chaos.

The government's emergency planning committee, chaired by Jack Straw, the home secretary, will sit for 24 hours over millennium night and New Year's Day to monitor essential services and public safety. One barracks will be used as a helicopter port. A military communications network, including police and key Whitehall departments, will also stand ready.

Security at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, which will be attended by the Queen, the prime minister and other dignitaries, will be unprecedented. Bridges across the Thames will be closed, tunnels emptied and aircraft forbidden to fly over the site. Up to 32 police vessels will patrol the Thames, including two fire tenders. Members of the navy's elite Special Boat Squadron will be on duty.

Scotland Yard's response is being co-ordinated by a millennium unit involving the anti- terrorist squad, special branch and liaison between MI5 and MI6, the Home Office and other government departments.

The unit's concerns include Islamic terror groups based in Europe and linked to Osama Bin Laden, the terrorist described by the CIA as the world's most wanted man.

The FBI said this week that one such group, based in Frankfurt, Germany, was planning to send a string of parcel bombs to British and American targets over the holiday period. The warning came as anti-terrorist police in Britain arrested an Algerian asylum-seeker linked to an Islamic terror group. Ramdane Zouabri, 26, has been charged with threatening to kill an Algerian community leader after he was allegedly filmed making calls from a north London telephone box.

Zouabri's brother is leader of the Algerian Groupe Islamique Armi (GIA), which killed 30 people on Christmas Eve at a roadblock near Khemis Miliana, west of the Algerian capital, Algiers.

Deputy assistant commissioner Alan Fry, head of Scotland Yard's anti-terrorist branch, has asked members of the public to be on their guard and to contact police if they notice anything suspicious.

-- LockDown (it's@coming.fast), December 26, 1999

-- LockDown (it's@coming.fast), December 26, 1999.

Deputy assistant commissioner Alan Fry, head of Scotland Yard's anti- terrorist branch, has asked members of the public to be on their guard and to contact police if they notice anything suspicious.

So this New Year, rather than having bangers and mash, local bobby's will be reporting suspicious activities. Under normal circumstances City bobby's generally have some grub and then wash it down with a pint or two before reporting anything like vans packed with explosives or abandoned knapsacks.

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), December 26, 1999.

Andy: You sure ask some "leading" questions! (Good ones, too!!) LOL!

-- King of Spain (madrid@aol.cum), December 26, 1999.

Expect the Central Business District (CBD) of big US cities to be in a similar state with access to certain areas only by previous written authorization from Local Law Enforcement Offices and also requiring appropriate identification. Carefully controlled access will last for a predetermined time period of 24 hours beginning shortly before the rollover and lasting shortly after rollover. But don't be surprised to read reports, after the fact, of time periods being extended.

-- snooze button (alarmclock_2000@yahoo.com), December 26, 1999.

A quick geography lesson for Americans: the CITY of London refers to the most central portion of London. This is like shutting down lower Manhatten when 104 heads of state come to address the UN in New York. Before you get too excited, lets find out how many city blocks are part of the lock down. Considering the Brits want every leader at their stupid, expensive and ugly millenium dome, of course they want to increase security.

-- David Holladay (davidh@brailleplanet.org), December 26, 1999.

@,

The humor was lost when your thread showed up on recent answers. (ya see, folks, there were 4 different threads posting this same article in a span of about 15 minutes. @'s thread was the last one...the joke being that enough is enough. But, if ya haveta explain it, it is no longer funny.) BTW, the post by "I'm Here, I'm There" had me ROFLMAO. Oh, well.

-- (ya hadda be there@then.duh), December 26, 1999.

Before you get too excited, lets find out how many city blocks are part of the lock down.

If it is the 'City', it's one square mile.

-- John Whitley (jwhitley@inforamp.net), December 27, 1999.