U.S. officials say no terror threat linked to disk with school data

By Curt Anderson, Associated Press, 10/8/2004 17:58

WASHINGTON (AP) Federal officials said Friday there is no terrorist connection to a computer disk found in Iraq that contained information about schools in six states.

The disk was made by an unidentified Iraqi man who was doing research and had no connections to al-Qaida or the Iraqi insurgents battling U.S. forces, according to the FBI. The man did have links to the Baath Party that ruled Iraq under Saddam Hussein, but that's true of many former government officials and community leaders.

Some material on the disk appeared to be randomly downloaded from a publicly accessible Education Department Web site and included such things as manuals on workplace safety, crisis management studies, student codes of conduct and building security diagrams. It also contained an Education Department report on school crisis planning that was published in May 2003.

''It's not about schools, it's about policy,'' said FBI Agent William Evanina, spokesman for the FBI field office in Newark, N.J. ''There's no terrorism threat to these schools.''

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/282/wash/U_S_officials_say_no_terror_th:.shtml

isn't being repeated over and over on all the Networks this morning?

was known BEFORE the 'news' about the disks hit the air waves. No doubt it was nothing more then another Rovian scare tactic.

These guys are so transparent.

This administration has no shame whatsoever.

When stories like this start showing up on MSNBC and FAUX you can be sure the blood is in the water.

I think that if Kerry goes on O'Lielly you'll be amazed at how much fair and balanced brown-nosed asskissing the host indulges himself in.

It's the Mordor rule: these guys can't visualise having power and not using it to crush their foes. O'Lielly won't want to have our new FCC commissioner jumping down his throat in 2005, nor will FAUX.

How much will it hurt Murdoch to have to old rules back in place?
Lot$ and lot$.