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Posted on 11/01/2006 8:20:24 PM PST by nwctwx
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Just a wee bit of an update:
Sources say nuke/cyanide files on arrestee’s laptop aren’t the usual Internet fare
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/11/16/sources-say-nukecyanide-files-on-arrestees-laptop-arent-the-usual-internet-fare/
Hmmmmmmmmm.
That was my reaction as well.
Thank you Velveeta.
I appreciate these updates.
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"A BRITISHER’S VIEW: Will Democrats Dance With Terror Networks, or Destroy Them?"
http://www.kingscourier.net ^ | 11/16/2006 | Shavana Abruzzo
Posted on 11/16/2006 4:04:26 PM PST by bitt
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I saw that this morning and it disgusts me......bump Cindy's
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Thanks for the bump bitt.
I understand how you feel.
Really, I do.
Until there is solid proof that this is somehow an aberration, I demand proof that Islam has not been "hijacked." The daily atrocities don't seem to be slowing down.
This is quite an interesting read:
NYPD says al-Qaida operative favored limo bomb for U.S. targets
ASSOCIATED PRESS
An al-Qaida operative conducting surveillance on U.S. soil in 2000 favored using a limousine packed with explosives or a hijacked oil tanker truck to attack financial institutions in Manhattan and New Jersey, police officials said Thursday.
"The most obvious technique to utilize, that comes to mind ... would be a limousine in the VIP underground car park," the operative, Dhiren Barot, wrote in a memo about the Prudential Building in Newark, N.J.
Barot also suggested that "arson may be the best choice" and advised "ramming trucks (oil tankers, etc.) straight through the glass front entrance into the lobby area."
Hijacking a truck "will probably be much easier here in New Jersey than in New York since there is less security and no tunnels to pass through," added Barot, who spied on one location while sitting at a nearby Starbucks.
The memo was quoted during a New York Police Department briefing on terror threats for private security officials from Wall Street firms and other businesses. The memo and briefing shed more light on the designs of Barot, a 34-year-old British convert to Islam who was sentenced to life in prison in Britain last week after pleading guilty to conspiring to commit mass murder.
Prosecutors in Britain said Barot shelved the plan to attack the U.S. financial industry targets after Sept. 11, 2001, and instead focused on using limousines loaded with gas, napalm and nails to attack landmark London hotels and railway stations.
The proposals for the strikes in Britain and for those against the Prudential Building, the International Monetary Fund in Washington and the New York Stock Exchange and the Citigroup headquarters in New York were sent to al-Qaida leadership like "corporate reports going to head office," a British judge said.
Investigators said they uncovered some of the evidence stored on computers seized at the home of an al-Qaida computer expert in Pakistan in July 2004, prompting the NYPD to heighten security around the city.
During his recognizance mission in the summer of 2000, Barot became fixated on the black sedans regularly used by corporate executives, according to an NYPD analyst citing the computer evidence.
Barot noticed the chauffeured cars were given easier access to parking in and around corporate offices, a security lapse that enhanced the potential for a car bomb.
The operative "picked up on that - preferential treatment given to the black cars of the corporate officers," an NYPD analyst, Peter Patton, told the private security officials.
Barot shot video and took extensive notes while patiently assessing the buildings, the analyst said.
"He sat in a Starbucks for days just looking at one target," he said. "He was just looking at his target, trying to figure out the best time to conduct an attack that would result in the most casualties."
In one instance, he noted, "The guards are a combination of male and female. The uniform is that of blazer, white shirt and trousers. They all carry wireless radios. Impersonating one would not be difficult, but it would be very hard to fool the other guards."
Patton said Barot considered trying to rent office space in one of the buildings to ensure easy access. His notes show he also was drawn to targets with vast expanses of glass - a legacy of the al-Qaida attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa.
"One of the lessons learned after the 1998 embassy bombings was that 80 percent of the casualties were caused by flying glass," Patton said.
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Thursday, Nov 16, 2006
Breaking News
Posted on Wed, Nov. 15, 2006
"Man arrested at airport with information on nuclear materials"
By David Ashenfelter
Detroit Free Press
(MCT)
DETROIT -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "His lawyer, Deputy Federal Defender Leroy Soles , couldn't be reached for comment."
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from your post, freeperfromnj:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Investigators said they uncovered some of the evidence stored on computers seized at the home of an al-Qaida computer expert in Pakistan in July 2004, prompting the NYPD to heighten security around the city."
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NYPD Holds Conference On New Tactics Terrorists Use
ny1.com ^ | 11/16/06 | ny1
Posted on 11/16/2006 5:17:30 PM PST by Ellesu
NYPD intelligence analysts showed video by aspiring terrorists to private security officers Thursday to demonstrate the kind of detailed surveillance terrorists do before an attack. NY1’s Solana Pyne filed the following report.
NYPD officers showed notes Dhiren Barot, also known as Abu Esa al-Hindi, the man just sentenced in Britain for plotting terrorist attack in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, made about methods of attack for the Prudential Building in New Jersey.
"The most obvious technique to utilize, that comes to mind -- if you do not mind history repeating itself, would be a limousine in the VIP underground car park," said Barot in his notes.
Police warned that terrorists in other countries are increasingly using such so-called Trojan vehicles.
"A Trojan vehicle is a vehicle that is being used for other than it's intended purpose, such as an ambulance," said Detective John Quinn of the NYPD Counterterrorism Division.
Another example of a Trojan vehicle would be a sewage truck, which carried the explosives in this Baghdad suicide bombing near the Palestine Hotel. In the last three months, authorities in Mississippi and Louisiana stopped several so-called cloned vehicles, including a fake Mountain Dew promotional truck, and found them to be transporting drugs and money. So the NYPD wants private security to be on the lookout.
“They operate checkpoints on a consistent basis, on a daily basis, and they need to be aware that this tactic has the potential for use,” said Quinn.
At the conference held at Police Headquarters, which was closed to cameras, intelligence analysts also asked security to be on the lookout for suicide bombers who do not fit conventional stereotypes. People like Muriel Degauque, 35-year-old Belgian woman who was a suicide bomber in Iraq last year, the first European, female, suicide bomber.
“This is a woman who had a very typical story,” explained NYPD Intelligence Analyst Rebecca Ulam Weiner. “She was raised in a Catholic home, from a working-class town in Belgium, and found her way in Iraq.”
One of the suspects in the foiled plot to bomb airliners flying from the U.K. to five U.S. cities was a woman who was allegedly planning to put explosives in her baby's bottle.
“Now you see brigades of women who are being trained, you see internet sites that are directed toward recruiting women for that particular task,” said Weiner. “So again, it's a sort of strange kind of emancipation and egalitarianism.”
And an example of the constantly evolving strategies law enforcement must keep abreast of if they hope to stop the next attack.
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1360
November 17, 2006 No.1360
"Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander Yahya Safavi on Iranian TV: ‘The Americans Have Many Weaknesses’; ‘We Have Planned Our Strategy Precisely on the Basis of Their Strengths and Weaknesses’; U.S. Forces in Iraq ‘Are Very Cowardly’; ‘We Never Reveal All Our Cards to the Enemy’"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an interview on Iran's Channel 2, that aired on November 12, 2006, Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi stated that Iran had based its strategy on the U.S. military's strengths and weaknesses. He discussed the capabilities of the Shahab missiles and the weaknesses and the cowardice of the U.S. military, claiming among other things that the Iranian military could disrupt enemy satellite systems
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Iran's speaker praises N Korea
ndtv.com ^ | November 17, 2006 | (AP)
Posted on 11/16/2006 5:36:31 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
Iran's parliament speaker has admired North Korea for its anti-US stance.
He has also said that Washington's pressure on Pyongyang over its testing of nuclear weapons would not affect the communist country.
The comments by speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel came in talks on Thursday with his North Korean counterpart, Che Tai Buk, who is in Tehran for a gathering of the Association of Asian Parliaments for Peace.
"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea enjoys special respect by the Iranian people because of its resistance against the arrogant policies of the United States," Adel said.
"As long as a government has support from its people, pressures and sanctions by the US will not have any affect," he said.
Both countries are locked in diplomatic standoffs with the West over their nuclear programmes.
The United Nations imposed sanctions on North Korea after it conducted its weapons test last month.
The United States and Europe are pressing for tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to suspend its uranium enrichment programme, which they believe is part of a secret drive to develop weapons.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is peaceful and has shrugged off threats of sanctions, insisting that eventually the West will have to agree to negotiate with it over its nuclear programme.
Its ally, Russia, has opposed tough punishment for Iran, calling for a negotiated solution. (AP)
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"Ponchatoula Man Pleads Guilty To Plot To Kill DEA Agent"
New Orleans Times Picayune ^ | November 16, 2006 | Gwen Filosa
Posted on 11/16/2006 5:50:36 PM PST by mcg2000
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Federal prosecutors on Thursday came a step closer to putting away a Ponchatoula man charged with hatching a murder-for-hire plot against the DEA agent who made a big drug bust against him last fall.
Johnnie Sims, 26, of Robert, La., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to charges of plotting to kill a federal agent and conspiring to deal cocaine and marijuana in and around Tangipahoa Parish.
Sims agreed to testify against his alleged narcotics selling cohort, Chris Walker, 31, who faces trial next month on charges he not only trafficked in crack cocaine, but also tried to have his accusers gunned down."
Man Arrested on Allegations of Spying
Josh Pringle
Thursday, November 16, 2006
A man has been arrested at a Montreal airport on allegations of spying.
It's the first time in more than a decade the Canadian Government has arrested someone on suspicion of espionage
Canada Border Service Agency guards arrested the man Tuesday night in Montreal.
The National Post says the man was arrested as he was about to board a flight to leave the country.
The Post adds the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is working to identify the man, who entered Canada illicitly several years ago.
CTV News reports the man is possibly from Russia who was masquerading as a Canadian citizen.
He is being held under a government security-certificate.
A security certificate allows the government to deport an accused spy or terrorist based on secret intelligence.
It is well known that foreign countries send agents to Canada in pursuit of economic and military secrets.
Another is called Prospect Airport Services located in Des Plaines. That company in the past hired a Des Plaines man now on trial for being an Iraqi spy. Other former employees were arrested in Detroit for having fake social security numbers.
It's for exactly these reasons I never sleep on a flight. I have over 70 flights this year so far, all without incident, but many with at least one person I "kept an eye" on. The further we move from 9/11, the more uneasy I get on these flights.
THANK YOU fanfan.
Updates appreciated on this spy.
I wonder if he was boarding a flight because he knew he was outed?
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"BBC: Spy lifts lid on al-Qaeda"
BBC ^ | Thursday, 16 November 2006, 21:01 GMT | Gordon Corera BBC security correspondent
Posted on 11/16/2006 6:13:48 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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