Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2894-1002963508-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Sat, 13 Oct 2001 02:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 14783 invoked by uid 510); 13 Oct 2001 08:58:17 -0000 Received: from n32.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.82) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 13 Oct 2001 08:58:17 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2894-1002963508-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.224] by n32.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 13 Oct 2001 08:58:29 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 13 Oct 2001 08:58:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 17062 invoked from network); 13 Oct 2001 08:58:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.224 with QMQP; 13 Oct 2001 08:58:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Oct 2001 08:58:28 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id BAA01520 for iwar@onelist.com; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:58:28 -0700 Message-Id: <200110130858.BAA01520@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:FBI:.'No.specific,.credible.threats'.to.drinking.water] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit FBI: 'No specific, credible threats' to drinking water From Karla Crosswhite-Chigbue, CNN, 10/11/2001 <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/10/rec.fbi.drinking.water/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/10/10/rec.fbi.drinking.water/index.html> WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI said Wednesday there are "no specific, credible threats" to the nation's drinking water at this time. Ronald Dick, director of the FBI's National Infrastructure Committee, told a House subcommittee hearing that the nation's water supply may seem to be a logical target for a terrorist attack. "In reality, targeting the water supply may prove difficult," said Dick. "To contaminate a water supply with a hazardous industrial chemical, it would take truck loads of chemical to have any effect." Dick also said that "contamination of a water reservoir with a biological agent would likely not produce a large risk to public health because of the dilution effect, filtration and disinfection of the water." But Dick added that "while there are no specific threats, due to the vital importance of water to all life forms, the FBI considers all threats to attack the water supply as serious." Mike Parker, assistant secretary of the Army, told the House Transportation and Infrastructure panel that risk is everywhere and impossible to eliminate entirely. "The subject of this hearing has been posed in the form of a question: 'Terrorism: Are America's Water Resources and Environment at Risk?' and the answer can only be a reluctant sobering, yes," he said. A representative of the nation's water utilities said Congress needed to spend $5 billion to both improve water infrastructure and protect wastewater plants. John Sullivan of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission testified that since September 11 the nation's drinking water utilities have been on a heightened state of alert to protect against the potential disruption of water service and biological or chemical contamination of drinking water. Sullivan's group is a nonprofit organization representing the nation's largest publicly owned water utilities, which provide drinking water to about 160 million people. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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