Truck driver found dead at ConAgra – Alton, Illinois

ALTON – Workers at the ConAgra flour mill in Downtown Alton discovered a truck driver dead in his cab late Tuesday morning.

The cause of death is under investigation, but authorities do not consider it suspicious.

Police radio traffic monitored by The Telegraph’s newsroom scanner indicated that the unidentified man worked for Dove Transportation in Iowa and had backed his tractor-trailer to Dock 5 at the rear of the ConAgra Foods flour mill, 145 W. Broadway.

Authorities said the man was awaiting service in his air-conditioned cab when he died; an autopsy is expected to help determine whether he suffered a heart attack or other cause of death.

The man’s age also was not available Tuesday.  More from The Telegraph.com

Otay Mesa Port of Entry Marijuana Seizures

San Diego, California – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana in two commercial vehicles/trailers at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility in California, Friday, August 1, in a three-hour time frame.

CBP officers became suspicious when a 32-year-old Mexican citizen driving a tractor without a trailer arrived at the Otay Mesa port of entry at 3:30 p.m. Friday. An intensive examination by CBP officers revealed anomalies in both saddle tanks. Upon further inspection by a human/narcotics detection dog that had a positive alert, officers removed 10 packages of a green leafy substance that field tested positive for marijuana. The packages weighed 350 pounds and were valued at more than $1 million.

At approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday, a 25-year-old Mexican citizen applied for entry at the Otay Mesa Cargo Facility. CBP officers noticed an anomaly within the front wall of the empty tractor trailer. A human/narcotics detection dog screened the vehicle, and CBP officers probed the wall of the trailer and punctured a package. A green leafy substance was extracted and tested positive for marijuana. A total of 42 packages were removed weighing 621 lbs and valued at $1.8 million.   More from Imperial Valley News

Another job well done by the CBP!

Something Ain’t Kosher in Postville

By Rick Biesada, American Patriot

Last week, demonstrations took place in Postville Iowa against ICE, ( Immigration Customs Enforcement ) because ICE finally did what the American tax payers have been paying them to do — enforce the law against criminal employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens in violation of federal law.

Described as harsh, and punitive immigration raids, by the open border panderers, ICE raided Agri Processors, the nations largest scab labor, kosher meat packing plant, who hires only those who will work for the price below a living wage.

Over twenty years ago, back in 1986, Congress viewed illegal immigration as an out of control economic problem. Their remedy to their abrogation of responsibility, was to grant amnesty to nearly three million illegal aliens under President Reagan and the Simpson – Mazzoli Act; which they all swore would solve all of our immigration problems for ever more… Amen. More from the Federal Observer

KBR Bans Cell Phones in Entire Middle East and Central Asia

04 AUG 2008: A clarification was issued by KBR management late yesterday afternoon regarding the ban on personal cell phone use
by its OCONUS deployed employees. The clarification states “… the direction from [redacted] to all [KBR] employees in the Middle East and Central Asia is that you not use your personal cell phone. You can remove the battery and store it.“

03 AUG 2008: Yesterday CNN reported that the Houston-based U.S. defense contractor KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) banned its employees in Iraq from using their private cell phones. In its report CNN appears to make the assumption that the cell phone ban was the result of a “security breach” involving one of KBR’s employees. That kind of a security breach is more commonly known as a breach of Operational Security (OPSEC) guidelines.

However, CNN’s assumption is completely erroneous. While the ban is a uniquely KBR initiative, the cause of the ban has been known by the Northeast Intelligence Network since early Saturday morning and efforts to corroborate the KBR rationale have been successful. KBR banned cell phones in Iraq specifically due to a perceived significant threat to its personnel and facilities based on Forward Operations Bases (FOBs). A KBR communication stated the following in the directive to all employees:

“Earlier today I sent out a message prohibiting the use of cell phones. At that time I was not able to share with you the reason. I can now. Cell phone technology has come a long way in recent years. The ability to track a cell phone using GPS and triangulation provides a capability to locate a cell phone within meters of a point. This morning IDF [Indirect Fire] rounds hit one of the sites where we live and work. There was a fatality. A review of the scene later revealed that a cell phone was used immediately prior to and after the attack – an outgoing call and two incoming calls. The phone was found within meters of the impact area.”

Clearly the KBR management believes that insurgents have attained a capability to target American personnel, military or civilian contractors, in Iraq via GPS and or other triangulation methods.  More from HomelandSecurity.US

My only question is this – what took them so long?