How do we KNOW there have been "no new attacks?"

[Atman]

Okay, so we have the back-pack bomb on the NY subway. Nothing to see here, move along Johnny.

And then I see this, buried on page b-8 of the Hartford Courant. Now, I'm not saying this is a terra attack. I'm one of those guys who thinks IF BushCo attacks again...er, I mean, the terrorists...it won't be at a shopping mall (Bush wants us to shop!) or at a high school football game in Iowa. In that vien, Hartford isn't much of a target, either.

Or is it? If there was a big attack again, again there's be a rush of insurance claims. That's the best connection I can come up with so far. If I had any more tin-foil hats left, I might be polishing one up. It isn't a big catastrophe, no one appears to have been hurt or anything. But...how on earth would we know? Does ANYONE reading this actually trust the Homeland Terror Department to tell us what is really going on, ever? I just don't trust anyone anymore, not this close to the election. Here is a link to the buried story...

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Power Outages Being Probed
Some Businesses Disrupted Wednesday

July 22, 2004
By TINA A. BROWN, Courant Staff Writer

Connecticut Light & Power officials were still investigating Wednesday what caused a cable failure and underground fire Tuesday night that knocked out power to 7,000 customers in downtown Hartford.

The incident, which disrupted businesses and caused flames to shoot out of a manhole at Pearl and Trumbull streets, was part of a string of fires, outages and transformer explosions within a few hours of each other.City and CL&P officials said Wednesday they could not comment on whether the incidents were related or what specifically caused them.

Hundreds of insurance and financial workers from Lincoln Financial and MassMutual were forced out of work Wednesday because of the problems.

Officials provided this sequence of events:

A laundry dryer fire was reported at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday at MassMutual, Lt. Frank Carter of the Hartford Fire Department said.

A fire alarm went off at 755 Main St. after a power surge about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday, Carter said. About 30 minutes later, the manhole cover blew off at Pearl and Trumbull streets and flames shot into the air.

CL&P spokesman Chris Riley said a cable failed at about 10:45 p.m. at Pearl and Ford streets, knocking out power to the downtown business district. Power was restored to all but one building by 3 a.m. Wednesday and all customers had their power back by 10 a.m., Riley said.

At about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, a transformer in an electrical vault caught fire inside the Hartford Insurance Co. at 690 Asylum Ave., Carter said.

Lincoln Financial gave 700 workers the day off Wednesday after a generator overloaded and caused a fire on the seventh floor at 35 Main St. The time of that fire was not available.

All businesses inside the Metro Center, which houses Lincoln, were closed Wednesday because the power supply system was down, said Lincoln's corporate spokesman Rob Fleener from his office in Philadelphia. That equipment is not owned by CL&P.

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