Coast Guard Office Sprayed by Plane

[ToBeMe]

Boys.......this is not good if it turns out to be Anthrax or........worse...........

• JACKSON, Miss. ?? A tiny Coast Guard post was dusted with white granules sprayed from a small plane, the second such incident in the state in four days, authorities said.
  
  The latest incident happened Monday afternoon at the Shore Side Detachment office in Natchez.
  
  A Coast Guard member who was standing outside is being given antibiotics as a precaution, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Joan Farris in New Orleans.
  
  "As far as they know it was a small white plane," Farris said Tuesday. "They are not sure if it was a crop duster."
  
  Farris said local, state and federal authorities were notified, and a sample of the granules was taken to a state laboratory for testing.
  
  Crop dusters in the region are fertilizing fields with small white pellets this time of year, State Agricultural Aviation Board member Bern Prewitt said Tuesday.
  
  Meanwhile, authorities were awaiting final test results for a Mississippi River towboat and crew that was sprayed with an unknown substance by a crop duster Friday near Rosedale.
  
  Initial tests for chemical and biological agents were negative, and the 11 crew members and towboat were released from quarantine late Sunday.
  
  "It was definitely a criminal act, whether it was a hazardous substance or not," said Bob O'Brien, commanding officer of the Coast Guard's Marine Safety Office in Memphis, Tenn.
  
  While witnesses said the plane near Rosedale was a crop duster, authorities would not give specifics about its color and design for comparison with the plane involved in Monday's incident. Natchez is in southwest Mississippi, 170 miles south of Rosedale.
  
  Federal and state authorities searched crop dusters' flight records for clues to the planes' identities. The FBI is investigating but spokeswoman Deborah Madden said her office could not comment.
  
  Crop duster pilots were shocked and angered by the incidents.
  
  "We're here to help the farmer. We're not here to hurt people," said Karen Brunetti of Shelby Air Service.
  
  "I talked to a couple of my friends who have flying services, and they're just bumfuzzled," said Jimmy Ervin, who owns another flying service. "They can't believe anyone would do that."
  

 

[dman]

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"I talked to a couple of my friends who have flying services, and they're just bumfuzzled," said Jimmy Ervin, who owns another flying service. "They can't believe anyone would do that."
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Pretty sure I knew what the meaning was, but, couldn't find 'bumfuzzled' in the Dictionary. Not that that surprises me.

So I searched and found a page that says it's that special place that rests between perplexed and dumbfounded.

And

TEXAS TALK ---- "Bumfuzzled," at a loss; confused; puzzled. As in "What do you think about this situation? "Welp, I'm jest bumfuzzled." This is a common term in Texas and is pronounced the way it looks.

 

[ToBeMe]

And then there's this new news..................

• Saddam's Bombmaker on Anthrax Attacks: 'This Is Iraq!'
  
  A top Iraqi military scientist who defected to the U.S. in 1994, said late Monday that he's absolutely certain his former boss Saddam Hussein is behind the wave of anthrax attacks that have swept the U.S. in recent weeks.
  
  "This is Iraq," said Dr. Khidhir Hamza, in an interview on CNBC's "Rivera Live." "This is Iraq's work."
  
  Dr. Hamza headed up Hussein's nuclear weapons research program in the early 1990's and has authored the book, "Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda."
  
  "Nobody (else) has the expertise outside the U.S. and outside the major powers who work on germ warfare," Hamza told "Rivera Live." "Nobody has the expertise and has any motive to attack the U.S. except Saddam to do this. This is Iraq. This is Saddam."
  
  The Iraqi weapons expert told CNBC that his homeland had developed the capability to weaponize anthrax even before he defected to the U.S. seven years ago, and continues to maintain that capability.
  
  "I have absolutely no doubt," he said. "Iraq worked actually even before the Gulf War on perfecting the process of getting anthrax in the particle size needed in powder form to disseminate the way it is being disseminated now."
  
  After linking the Iraqi dictator to the U.S. anthrax attacks, the man familiar with Saddam's secret doomsday strategy said he thinks the anthrax contamination of America's postal system is just the opening salvo in Saddam's bioterror war on the U.S.
  
  "Probaby this is the first wave," Dr. Hamza told Rivera. "I'm not trying to frighten everybody in this but probably this is the first wave."
  

 

[Pyroclazm]

Saddam suck..... this sucks...... i hate having to worry... even though everyone says to live your life.... what if?? what if??? i dunno... i really believe there could be a bubble of anthrax over my future.... the worst part is i am only 18.... and of course im going to worry about my future

 

[Balt]

Wow, Natchez is my permanent residence (not there now).

Can you give me a link to the article?

 

[squirrelman]

I think we need to teach ole Saddam a lesson or two. I remember a few years ago hearing that he had cancer, too bad that couldnt do the job either. I would bet it wont be too long before we start bombing Iraq.