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OTT.YEST StatesmanJournal.com 9C STATESMAN JOURNAL SUNDAY, MAY 25, 2003 Boeing security official warns of surveillance known to be a trademark of al-Qaida. The most recent warning went out shortly after this month's bombings in Riyadh. "Almost all of the attacks, including the 911 hijackings, were preceded by some sort of pre-event activity, either surveillance or dry runs," he said. The local FBI office has investigated a number of similar reports of suspicious activities during the past two years, he said. In some cases, the purported suspects were involved in normal activity that was misinterpreted; in others, the FBI was unable to verify that a threat existed.

Gwash's e-mail carries a tone of urgency. "Work to make your site a hard target, not an inviting one!" he wrote. "Let's resist complacency and the distraction of day-to-day issues, maintain constant awareness and demonstrate our professionalism to make sure we have a future!" An e-mail to staff tells of suspicious activities near its facilities. The Associated Press SEATTLE Boeing's head of security sent his staff an e-mail this month warning that people had been conducting "very disturbing surveillance" of the company's facilities in western Washington and elsewhere. The e-mail, as described in Saturday's editions of The Seattle Times, offered no details beyond that "apparent Middle Easterners" were seen conducting the surveillance.

Chief Security Officer Greg Gwash urged his personnel to heighten "surveillance detection measures especially during hours of darkness, to detect any reconnaissance being done in advance of a future attack," The Times reported. Boeing often has been mentioned as a hypothetical target since Sept 11, 2001. Company spokesman Dean Tougas confirmed the existence of the e-mail in an interview with The Associated Press on Saturday but declined to comment further. Charles Mandigo, special agent in charge of the FBI's Seattle office, said the agency is not aware of any specific threats against Boeing. Gwash's e-mail was sent May 14, two days after three Boeing workers were slightly injured by a series of terrorist attacks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that killed 34 people.

The Department of Homeland Security raised the national terrorism threat level from yellow, or "elevated," to orange, or "high," on Tuesday. Since the World Trade Center attacks, the FBI has put out several security alerts to U.S. businesses operating both domestically and abroad, warning them to be on the lookout for surveillance of their facilities. Mandigo said such activity is DICE otoest Tree theft nets man prison time MONTESANO, Wash. A Grays Harbor County Superior judge has sentenced an Aberdeen man to 714 years in prison for stealing three old-growth cedar trees from Olympic National Forest Daniel Hughes, 39, also must pay $145,000, the estimated value of the trees, Judge Gordon Godfrey ruled.

Hughes was found guilty in April of stealing the trees in September. This is the second time in less than a year that he has been sentenced for stealing old-growth cedars. He served a few months in prison last year for cutting seven trees. Hughes' attorney, John Farra of Ocean Shores, said he will appeal TACOMA HALTS PART OP BRAME INQUIRY TACOMA, Wash. The Tacoma City Council has agreed to halt one investigation into the life and death of Police Chief David Brame, after the Washington State Patrol claimed that the investigation could hinder its own inquiry.

Brame fatally shot his estranged wife and himself April 26. After the shooting, the city asked the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs to start looking into Brame's career. The State Patrol asked the City Council to suspend the administrative investigation, however, because any documents pertinent to it would be subject to public disclosure requests. Statesman Journal news services Judge: Web site can list officers area but the Social Security numbers of some police on his Web site, justicefiles.org. A check of the site Saturday showed that had not happened, Sheehan contends that posting such information is the best way to hold police accountable for their actions.

A spokesman for Attorney General Christine Gregoire, who defended the law passed by the 2002 Legislature, said Friday that Gregoire might appeal The statute barred the distribution or release of such sensitive information about law-enforcement officers "with the intent to harm or intimidate" without written consent of the employ ees, and established penalties. "The statute punishes the communication of truthful, lawfully obtained, publicly available information," Coughenour ruled. The judge said he did not intend to minimize the "fear of harm and intimidation that law enforcement-related, corrections officer-related and court-related employees, and their families, may experience" from threats and harassment However, he wrote, "In this society, we do not quash fear by increasing government power, proscribing those constitutional principles and silencing those speakers of whom the majority disapproves." The Associated Press SEATTLE Afederal judge has struck down a state law designed to protect police personal information, effectively reviving a private Web site that posted names, addresses and home phone numbers of police in western Washington. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour ruled Thursday that the law was too vague, too broad and violated the 1st and 14th amendments to the U.S.

Constitution, dealing with free speech and due process. Plaintiff William Sheehan said Friday that he would resume posting not only the names and home addresses of police in the ELAINE THOMPSON The Associated Press ART OR DISTRACTION? "High-rise" monuments commemorating the Holocaust, the American Indian struggle and Christian faith with statues or symbols atop 100-foot-plus steel-pipe towers stand in a field near Toledo, Wash. Officials worry about drivers on Interstate 5 slowing to view the display. Safety of motorists towers over debate about man's art Villains catering 4 Event Design Washington officials worry about distracted drivers near a display. Ml TO MAKE SOME NEW FRIENDS? at UfeSetsrce Natural Foods WANT Shop 503-371-7815 www.willabyscatering.com Fhvsenting JPremier Event Facilities Wllin Willamette Valley ballroom ona VINEYARDS NATURAL FOODS K4 The Grand Ballroom 187 High Street NE Salem, OR 97301 503-362-9185 BY PEGGY ANDERSEN The Associated Press TOLEDO, Wash.

Whatever drive-by critics think of Dominic Gospodor's one-man show a highly visible monument park just off northbound Interstate 5 state transportation officials have concluded that it is plenty distracting as is. A Lewis County hearing examiner this week rejected Gospodor's plan for a Sr 2649 Commercial St. SE 503-361-7973 495 State Street Salem, OR 97301 503-399-2112 8800 Enchanted Way SE Turner, OR 97392 503-588-4024 M-F 9am-9pm, Sat 9am-8pm, Sun. 10am-7pm second round of construction at the 10-acre site. The state Department of Transportation advised against it, citing slowdowns as and a nice thing," March said.

There is less enthusiasm from commuters. "At 60 to 70 miles per hour, it's difficult to actually take it in," March said. "So people slow down." That's the problem, especially as the summer travel season starts. "It's just not safe not in the Washington State Patrol's opinion," March said. The state transportation department agrees.

New construction likely would increase traffic backups, said Paul Simonsen, DOT'S maintenance operations supervisor in the area, who presented agency concerns at the county hearing. There were marked slowdowns through the Thanksgiving holiday before Gospodor covered an explanatory sign that passers-by apparently slowed down to read and on two recent sunny weekends. During this weekend, DOT planned to use electronic signs to advise northbound vehicles of congestion ahead, Simonsen said. Neither the patrol nor DOT could say exactly how many accidents are attributed to slowdowns at the site. Three accidents have occurred in the past three weeks, Simonsen.

There have been no fatalities, he said. Gospodor had planned five more monuments. Two large ones near the road were to honor African-American history and the 17,000 people killed each year by drunken driving. Also, three statues were to note polio-vaccine developer Jonas Salk, women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony and William Seward, who bought Alaska from Russia in 1867.

Gospodor GAMP RUGGED OUTDOOR GEAR 1 people take in the three towering memorials erected last summer. "We had to assign extra troopers out there" to deal with "the collateral collisions that go along with traffic backups on an interstate freeway," said Washington State Patrol spokesman Garvin March. There is an appeal process, but Gospodor said that if the issue is public safety, "there's not much point in trying to fight them." His three existing "high-rise" monuments commemorate the Holocaust, the American Indian struggle and Christian faith with statues or symbols atop 100-foot-plus steel-pipe towers. Visible for miles, especially at night, the site draws mixed reviews from area residents, "with some thinking it's pretty neat I I I IT HH1 (I ji A Great Selection of Outdoor Gear Sportswear Tents Sleeping Bags Camp Stools Backpacks 0 Shirts Shorts rf TLC MORTGAGE Joe Hydes Example $10.000 Down 30 Year Fixed $90,000 Loan 525 Total Interest $88,914.00 APR 5373 uof 52303 3853 River Rd. Keizer 503-304-3001 OUTLET liKlO 111.

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