-Caveat Lector- >From the SMH website http://www.olympics.smh.com.au/news/2000/09/30/FFXN9PNEQDC.html More than 200 Olympic threats 2:14PM, Sep 30 Police had received more than 200 threats against the Sydney Olympic Games, New South Wales Police Commissioner Peter Ryan said today. All of the threats had been checked and most were determined to be hoaxes, said Commissioner Ryan, who heads security for the Games. No explosive devices had been found. ''We received somewhere on average of about 12 different threats a day,'' he said. ''Many of them were hoaxes, others it was difficult to say, but remedial action was taken by the police and by the defence force working with the police in terms of the bomb disposal and search teams to make sure any threat was thoroughly analysed and neutralised before it became a reality. ''We did in fact respond with bomb search teams to the venues and the places where those threats were made against. ''There were no explosive devices found or dealt with - there were no explosive devices.'' Several people had been interviewed about the threats but no charges had been laid, Commissioner Ryan said. Olympic Security Commander Paul McKinnon said a typical case involved an extortion and bomb threat against Stadium Australia where the perpetrator was caught quickly after a detective traced the call to the north coast of NSW. ''He rang the local cops at Casino, they drove around and the silly bugger was still in the phone-box,'' he told reporters. ''Mainly that was the sorts of things we dealt with. ''The person was taken into custody about a week ago and we were advised by the locals that he had a long history of psychiatric care and it would have been inappropriate to proceed with the matter.'' Commissioner Ryan said that some of the threats had been delivered via the internet. ''We have received threats by the internet which we have traced back to source despite that fact that one of them tried very hard to disguise its source of origin by hiding it through different countries, but we are good enough to be able to track that down,'' he said. ''It turned out it was sourced back to Australia but it bounced all over the world to get here, trying to hide to footprints in the sand, but we got there before the tide came in and that person is helping us with our inquires into that matter.'' Commander McKinnon later said the level of threat received had been comparable to the number usually received during university or HSC exams and had been mainly made by ''fruit loops''. AAP <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
