Portland has been identified as one of the three most likely targets for a false flag operation.
I found this article very interesting. I cannot speak to its authenticity but it is certainly worth considering.
False Flag Prospects 2008
This is from a Capt. Eric H. Mays

The easiest way to carry out a false flag attack is by setting up a military exercise that simulates the very attack you want to carry out. As
I'll detail below, this is exactly how government perpetrators in the US and UK handled the 9/11 and 7/7 "terror" attacks, which were in reality
government attacks blamed on "terrorists."
My aim, as a former military intelligence officer who spent five years with the U.S. Army 75th Division conducting military war games, is to convince
the American people that the "next 9/11" -- constantly promised by officials and the media -- is likely to be carried out under the guise of future
military exercises. If the American people are aware of pending exercises and the danger they represent, then the exercises cannot "go live" and
effect the very terror events that they are supposed to be rehearsing against.
Capt. Mays goes on to name three cities which he believes would be targets of a false flag operation. Portland is one of the three.

Tertiary Target: Portland. Portland, called "Little Beirut" by Bush cronies because of its enmity to Bush 41 and Bush 43, only made my top three
list last summer, when it was designated as a target for a nuclear attack by successive exercises Noble Resolve and TOPOFF. The language in an
official press release stated the case plainly enough: "Noble Resolve will coordinate with officials in Oregon to model a nuclear attack on
Portland." In the course of researching Portland for a series of articles I wrote about the city and its exercises. I discovered that Stanford and
Harvard had prepared a detailed nuclear fallout map for it, that national military commanders and state National Guard commanders were telling
different stories about what the exercises were trying to accomplish, and that Portland's The Oregonian newspaper was doing everything it could to
avoid investigating the frightening anomalies. I wasn't at all surprised that the last day of the exercises found the Homeland Security director
Michael Chertoff in downtown Portland, which was largely closed down by an "unexpected" bomb threat. For another professional perspective on how
great the danger was -- and may be again -- I refer the reader to the analysis of my colleague, Major William B. Fox (USMC):
www.lonestaricon.com...
This article is quite disturbing. Given the topic of your thread I thought it might be informative.
One more piece of information may be an alert put out last Friday warning of terror risks to trains. I only present this because of the timeliness of
this report.
Government Warns of Terror Threat to Trains

In a bulletin released Friday to U.S. law enforcement officials, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is warning of “continued
strong terrorist interest” in targeting mass transit systems in the U.S. The 10-page threat assessment, labeled “Unclassified/For Official Use
Only” and obtained by NBC News, cautions that the “U.S. mass transit and passenger rail systems are vulnerable to terrorist attacks because they
are accessible to large numbers of the public and are notoriously difficult to secure.” Previous rail attacks in Madrid, London and Mumbai “could
inspire terrorists to conduct similar attacks in the United States,” the report adds.
However, the authors of the intelligence analysis make clear that there are no known, immediate dangers. “At this time, there is no credible
intelligence regarding specific plans by any extremist groups or individuals to perpetrate an act of terrorism against the U.S. mass transit
system,” they write.
Just trying to share information that was available.
Peace.
[edit on 5-3-2008 by DancedWithWolves]