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PORTAGE TOWNSHIP -- The sheriff's office questioned two Russian men Sunday who told a deputy they bought more than 200 prepaid cell phones over the weekend from area stores.
Neither was charged with a crime, but the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office notified Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Cleveland of the incident, according to a sheriff's office report. The men, who have lived in the United States for at least five years, told the deputy they bought the Tracfones from stores in the Port Clinton and Sandusky areas to resell to a businessman, according to the report. The businessman, whose name or location they did not provide, then would sell the phones on eBay, they told Deputy George Byington.
Prepaid cell phones have been linked to terrorist activity in the past, causing store officials to consider the men's behavior suspicious. Some stores have limits on the number of prepaid cell phones customers can buy at one time.
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http://www.centralohio.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/BC/20080212/NEWS01/802120303/1002
Nuclear experts kidnapped in Pakistan
February 12, 2008
Two Pakistani nuclear energy officials have been abducted by masked men from a troubled northwestern area near the Afghan border, police said today.
The kidnappers bundled the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) workers and their driver into a vehicle in Sheikh Badin, a town in militancy-hit Dera Ismail Khan district, local police chief Akbar Nasir said. "They were technicians from the PAEC, they were whisked away early Monday morning," Mr Nasir said.
The officials were on a routine visit to conduct a geological survey for mineral exploration in the mountainous area, which adjoins Pakistan's lawless tribal regions, the police chief said. "We don't know if the abductors were militants or members of some criminal gang," he said, adding that they were believed to be from the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan. "A search is underway, we are contacting local people ... We are all trying but so far we have no clues."
The abduction of the PAEC officials came on the same day as the disappearance of Pakistan's ambassador to Afghanistan on his way from the northwestern city of Peshawar to the Afghan capital Kabul yesterday. The envoy, Tariq Azizuddin, was feared abducted in the tribal district of Khyber, raising concern about growing insecurity ahead of parliamentary polls set for Monday.
When counter-terrorism police first screened the video found in Said Namouh's house last September, it looked like an innocuous home movie of little relevance to their investigation. A jerky camera films Mr. Namouh rolling a giant snowball, then cuts away to a set of animal tracks leading into the woods in Quebec's Mauricie region, northeast of Montreal. A 4X4 roars in the background.
But a different story emerged when the soundtrack was translated from Arabic. Mr. Namouh's monologue was about hiding explosives inside the snowball to blow up a passing vehicle, Quebec Court was told during a bail hearing that concluded on Friday.
And it wasn't a snowman's face he was carving into the snowball but the letters " CVC," the initials of the Caliphate Voice Channel, a branch of one of al-Qaeda's most pervasive propaganda groups, the Global Islamic Media Front.
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West Bank money changers arrested on suspicion of funding terror activity (Israel)
02.12.08
IDF forces, along with Judea and Samaria Police and Civil Administration officers raided the homed of five Palestinian money changers in the West Bank Tuesday, seizing over NIS 3 million ($840,000) aimed – according to security forces – to fund terror activity.
The forces confiscated guns and ammunition in four of the five's homes. A similar search was also carried out in the homes of nine other money changers in the West Bank cities of Nablus, Jenin, Ramallah, Hebron and Tulkarm.
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Looking for Map of Cell Phone Purchases
self | August 11, 2006 | madison10
Posted on 08/11/2006 3:01:13 PM PDT by madison10
Has any one made a map, or done any tracking, of cities/towns the cell phones are being purchased? or of where the suspects are being picked up?
Thanks.
You’re welcome Cindy. Thanks for keeping up with the ongoing thread.
Thanks for the info and links MamaD. TSA Phoenix sure doesn’t say much, do they.
You’re very welcome.
I’ve been a bit out of the loop because I’ve been working on taxes.
What’s worse?
Shoveling snow or taxes or the elections?
I cannot wait for spring.
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‘Honour’ killings grow as girl, 17, stoned to death
Kurdish Media ^
Posted on 02/12/2008 3:53:57 PM PST by ddtorquee
It is seven months since Du’aa was stoned to death by a mob in the Kurdish hillside village of Basshiqa, northern Iraq
...Du’aa was taken to the home of Sheikh Sulaiman Sulaiman, the senior Yazidi figure in the village.
...A 65-year-old uncle, Salim, a science teacher, backed the head of their tribe, Omar Hamko, 73, in demanding that she be killed to “cleanse the family honour”.
Her father would not countenance it. He proposed that she be married to a cousin and moved to Syria.
...When the uncle insisted that he would decide Du’aa’s fate as the elder sibling and head of the local Communists, her father ordered him out of the house.
...Salim sent sons, nephews and party supporters to surround the home of the sheikh, firing shots into the air. “They came with guns and stones, shouting and screaming in anger,” the sheikh said last week.
Looking back on the terrible scenes that followed, he lamented the manner of Du’aa’s killing, but not her death.
...the sheikh said. “It was down to her family to cleanse her shame. Maybe kill her with one bullet, electrocution, any manner but not through this awful stoning.
...The mobile phone clips show her being taken straight from the sheikh’s house to the marketplace in a headlock, wailing and screaming as armed police watched in silence.
In the marketplace, she came under a hail of stones and her face and clothes were soon covered in blood. Among those hurling the stones were several male cousins from her father’s side of the family and one – Araas – from her mother’s. It was Araas who approached as she tried to struggle to her feet and smashed a large piece of concrete over her head to finish her off.
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“According to the human rights ministry in northern Iraq, 598 women have been burnt, beaten, shot, strangled, thrown from tall buildings, force-fed with lethal drugs, crushed by vehicles, drowned, decapitated or made to kill themselves so far this year, exceeding the 553 recorded for the whole of 2006. “
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“Homeland Security Chief on Threats - Real and Hyped”
By James Gordon Meek
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “On the fifth anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security, its second leader, Michael Chertoff, talked to me about his deepest fears about terrorist threats and why he frets over Europe and Canada more than Mexico. In the interview published Sunday in the New York Daily News, the secretary of Homeland Security said “more than a dozen” people linked to Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and other extremists have tried to enter the U.S. through ports of entry on the northern border, he said, while there have been almost no such attempts at U.S.-Mexico checkpoints.
Aboard his sleek Gulfstream V jet (callsign “Coast Guard One”), Chertoff also discussed America’s growing complacency toward terror threats, why racial profiling at airports is “foolish” and explained how terror plots get hyped by some in the government.
The former prosecutor and judge often thrust into the political debate over illegal immigration denied that the Mexican border has been an easy way for Al Qaeda to penetrate the U.S.
“When we’ve had instances - and there have not been many - where we’ve caught terrorists trying to sneak in, it’s been through ports of entry using false documents, and I think we’ve been more concerned about Canada as a platform than Mexico,” he said.
Chertoff said “much more than a dozen” stopped at the Canadian border since the 9/11 attacks were connected to “a mix” of terror groups through “either a financial connection, maybe a family connection, maybe communications.”
“I don’t mean that they swore bayat to [Osama] Bin Laden, but [the link to terrorism was] something I would consider to be Al Qaeda-related,” he explained.
Beyond America’s land borders, Chertoff has made a point lately of warning that Europe is “what worries me the most.”
The News reported late last year that counterterror officials were concerned about intelligence indicating a small number of white, Anglo-looking Europeans had joined Al Qaeda and received training in Pakistan’s tribal region bordering Afghanistan - which Chertoff says is precisely why racial profiling “would be foolish.”
“The enemy quite consciously tries to recruit people … who don’t fit a particular image of what a terrorist looks like,” he said. Officials are deeply alarmed by evidence “that Al Qaeda is recruiting Europeans who have clean papers and training them and sending them back, either to attack Europe or take advantage of the Visa Waiver Program and attack us.”
“We’re concerned about people who are European, or at least have European backgrounds, who are able to move around, that don’t have a record and would fit in with local society and therefore are less likely to make a mistake that might call attention to them,” he continued.”
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http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1202822855108.shtm
“Remarks by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith at a Press Availability Following a Private Meeting on Bilateral Agenda”
Release Date: February 11, 2008
Washington DC
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http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/testimony/testimony_1202483610690.shtm
“Statement of Chief Procurement Officer Thomas W. Essig before the House Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology of the Committee on Homeland Security”
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Cannon House Office Building
(Remarks as Prepared)
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http://chicago.fbi.gov/pressrel/2008/feb11_08.htm
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 11, 2008
“FBI JOINS HUNT FOR MURDER SUSPECT”
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and John Payne, Chief of the Villa Park Police Department (VPPD) are asking for the public’s help in locating ARTUR SHEHU, who is depicted on the attached wanted flyer. SHEHU is wanted for the January 7, 2008 murder of his parents in their Villa Park home.
According to a criminal complaint that was recently filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago , the VPPD received an emergency call on their 911 line from an individual who identified himself as SHEHU. The caller said that he was on his way to a residence, located at 46 West Ridge in the western suburb, where he was going to kill himself. Upon arriving at the scene, VPPD Officers found the bodies of Syria and Safo Shehu, both of whom had been shot to death. Later that day, ARTUR SHEHU’s vehicle was found abandoned in Chicago , in the vicinity of 3700 North Recreation Drive . No further contact with or sightings of SHEHU have been reported since.
SHEHU has been charged in a complaint filed in DuPage County Court in Wheaton with two counts of First Degree Murder and in Federal Court in Chicago with one count of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution (UFAP). SHEHU remains the subject of a nationwide manhunt, which is being coordinated by the FBI in Chicago .
ARTUR SHEHU is described as a white/male, 33 years of age, 5’9” tall, medium build, with black hair and brown eyes. SHEHU is an Albanian national who is a legal resident alien. SHEHU speaks fluent English and Albanian. He has relatives living in Canada and has strong ties to the Albanian community in Chicago .
Anyone recognizing SHEHU or having any information as to his whereabouts is asked to call the Chicago FBI at (312) 421-6700.
The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330415,00.html
“DHS, FBI Warn of Possibility of Female Homicide Bombers”
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The growing use by terrorist groups of women — some disguised as expectant moms — to deliver deadly homicide bombs has prompted the Department of Homeland Security and FBI to issue a rare warning that such attacks could take place on American soil.”
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003978.html
WESTERN RESISTANCE.com - blog: “DENMARK: FIVE ISLAMISTS ARRESTED FOR CARTOONIST MURDER PLOT”
(February 12, 2008)
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/02/20080212-7.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
February 12, 2008
Statement by the President
White House News
After a full debate, the Senate today cast a strong, bipartisan vote in support of legislation that will ensure that our intelligence professionals continue to have the critical tools they need to protect the Nation.
This good bill passed by the Senate provides a long-term foundation for our Intelligence Community to monitor the communications of foreign terrorists in ways that are timely and effective and that also protect the liberties of Americans. It will keep closed dangerous intelligence gaps that threatened our security. And this bill improves on the Protect America Act passed last summer by providing fair and just liability protection to those private companies who have been sued for billions of dollars only because they are believed to have done the right thing and assisted the Nation after the September 11th terrorist attacks.
I commend senators from both sides of the aisle who came together to pass this important bill. I thank Leaders Reid and McConnell and the leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senators Rockefeller and Bond, for finishing work on this bill. Today the Senate demonstrated that protecting our Nation is not a partisan issue.
The House of Representatives now has an opportunity to put aside narrow partisan concerns and come together to pass this bipartisan bill and send it to my desk without delay. Our intelligence professionals and private sector partners need the certainty of long-term legislation that will allow us to keep programs in place to protect the Nation, so that the flow of critical intelligence information is not interrupted.
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Definitely taxes. You have my sympathy.
Thanks Oorang.
I feel better now (and I gave the paper work to my husband and that makes it all better).
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blog:
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“Video: The untimely death of Nahoul, the Jew-hating bee”
POSTED AT 12:56 PM ON FEBRUARY 12, 2008 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
A Look at Hamas ON THE INTERNET:
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Travel Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Tue Feb 12 2008 18:45:43 GMT-0800 (PST).
Mali
February 12, 2008
This Travel Alert is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to security concerns in Mali . Due to recent armed conflict, kidnappings, armed robberies, and the presence of landmines, the Department of State advises U.S. citizens to avoid travel to northern Mali . Areas of particular concern include the Mali-Niger, and Mali-Algeria borders, the Kidal region, areas north of Timbuktu and the city of Tinzawaten . This Travel Alert supercedes the Travel Alert for Mali issued on November 2, 2007, and expires on August 6, 2008.
Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has a presence in northern Mali, and was designated as a terrorist organization by the United States . The presence of AQIM and other armed groups in the north present potential dangers to travelers.
On December 24, 2007, bandits, possibly connected to AQIM, killed four French tourists outside of Aleg, Mauritania . Several days later, four Mauritanian soldiers were killed by suspected terrorists near El Ghallawiya, Mauritania .
On January 3, 2008, four Italians were robbed at gunpoint near Araouane, 150 miles north of Timbuktu by assailants whose affiliation is unknown. This recent activity and the porous nature of Mali ’s northern borders reinforce long-standing concern about security for travel in northern Mali . The Department of State strongly urges citizens to avoid traveling to Northern Mali, including Timbuktu and Essakane.
On August 26-27, 2007, Tuareg dissidents attacked and kidnapped civilian and military convoys near the Mali-Niger border. On August 30, a truck transporting civilians from Algeria to Tinzawaten hit a landmine, killing at least 14 people. In September 2007, the Malian military garrison at Tinzawatan clashed with armed rebels. While the government of Mali is working to strengthen security in northern Mali and achieve a peaceful settlement, the area remains unstable.
Many people who reside in or visit northern Mali travel with security escorts. However, the August 2007 convoy attack on agricultural researchers (escorted by Malian military personnel) illustrated that this does not ensure safety. U.S. government employees, including those on temporary duty, must be given special permission before traveling north of the Niger River, including to Timbuktu, Essakane, Kidal, Tessalit, Lere, Goundam, and Menaka towns.
Americans planning travel to the northern regions of Mali despite this Travel Alert, including those planning to attend music festivals like the Festival in the Desert in Essakane or Sahara Nights Festival at Essouk, as well as Americans residing or traveling in Mali, are urged to register with the Department of State or the U.S. Embassy through the State Department’s travel registration website, https://travelregistration.state.gov. By registering, American citizens make it easier for the Embassy to contact them in case of emergency. The U.S. Embassy is located at ACI 2000 at Rue 243, Porte 297. The Embassy’s mailing address is B.P. 34, Bamako, Mali . The telephone number is (223) 270-2300. The consular fax number is (223) 270-2340. The Embassy webpage is http://mali.usembassy.gov.
Updated information on travel and security in Mali may be obtained from the Department of State by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States and Canada, or for callers outside the United States and Canada , a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. For further information, please consult the Country Specific Information for Mali and the Worldwide Caution Travel Alert, which are available on the Bureau of Consular Affairs Internet website at http://travel.state.gov.
As the Department continues to develop information on any potential security threats to U.S. citizens overseas, it shares credible threat information through its consular information program documents, available on the Internet at http://travel.state.gov. In addition to information on the Internet, travelers may obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the U.S. or outside the U.S. and Canada on a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444.
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“U.N. Weighs a Ban on Weapons in Space, but U.S. Still Objects”
The New York Times ^ | February 13, 2008 | By Nick Cumming-Bruce
Posted on 02/12/2008 6:51:39 PM PST by JACKRUSSELL
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(GENEVA) — The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, on Tuesday presented a Russian-Chinese draft treaty banning weapons in space to the United Nations Conference on Disarmament, an idea that was quickly rejected by the United States.”
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