This article mentioned the G8 summit so I just wanted to reply to that.

I just got back from a visit to the Golden Isles and the Secret Service and CIA were overrunning the place as I understand. I talked to several locals while I was there who were not to happy with it.

What I heard reported was that they had been wanting to scope out every building not only on sea island but also on Jekyll and St. Simons. One hotel owner has said they'd pretty much demanded to go up to the rooftop of the hotel to 'look around.'

I saw several military deployments as well, including a radar and communications unit from what looked like Army Signal on Jekyll. Lots of mobile radio as well.

Decius wrote:
] ] Analysts say the intelligence chatter about an attack on
] ] the United States has shown up in open Internet
] forums
] ] and is similar to message traffic that preceded the
] ] Madrid bombings. "It's not just the official [terrorist]
] ] websites but also the chat rooms and Web forums," says
] ] Gabriel Weimann, a scholar in residence at the U.S.
] ] Institute for Peace. "The picture is not looking very
] ] good." Messages posted before the attacks in Madrid,
] ] Weimann says, described the Spanish government as "the
] ] first domino."
]
] The correct incantation into google will present the discourse
] of the people who are trying to kill you.

RE: USNews.com: Suspicions about a new terrorist attack have U.S. spies scrambling (5/31/04)