Dec 24 2005
The Council Has Spoken!
The Watcher’s Council’s weekly selection of top posts is out.
This week the council category winner was The Idiot’s Guide To Victimhood — Getting It and Keeping It by Dr. Sanity, with second place going to Gender Warfare Without the Glass Ceilings by Gates of Vienna.
In the non council category the winner was Legal Analysis of the NSA Domestic Surveillance Program by The Volokh Conspiracy. There was a tie for second place between Planned Parenthood Boasts It Covered Up an 11-Year-Old’s Rape by The Dawn Patrol and December 15th 2005: A Day of (Cautious) Hope and Optimism by The Belgravia Dispatch.
You can see the entire results here, and all this week’s submissions here.
There is a report called “Financing Terror” on FOX about companies that are supporting the insurgents.The news person speculated that NSA might evesdrop on them.
I think they will have more details later.
There has been a chemical attack in St Petersburg Russia
http://www.rambler.ru/db/news/msg.html?mid=7082880
This unknown gas has hospitalized 66 shoppers and employees at a store called the Maxidom.
Ambulances were called about 10 AM.
The authorities found cylinders with ampules in four stores. they had timers in them.
The gas made people cough and have a fast heart rate… (?)
This may not be exactly right. I read Russian but am not perfect and am not looking up words I don’t know. Also the print is small.
Employees at one store found a box (that may have been a bomb) but it didn’t explode.
They found boxes with ampules and timers in some stores and even in a bathroom of a store.
The state security is not commenting yet.
I suppose it could be some kind of extortion or Chechens.
Here is an English article
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/26/stpetersburggas.shtml
This sounds more like some criminal extortion than terrorism to me.