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Cotabato City, Philippines - An abandoned car rigged with about 200 kilos of improvised explosives was recovered by police and military operatives in the southern Philippines, an armed forces spokesman said Sunday.
Lieutenant Colonel Julieto Ando, a regional military spokesman, said the car bomb was recovered on Saturday parked at the side of a road in Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao province, 960 kilometres south of Manila.
The car bomb was found as the military braced for retaliatory attacks from the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf rebel group for the death of two top leaders - chieftain Khadafi Janjalani and main planner Abu Solaiman - in separate clashes with government troops.
Ando said residents in the area tipped off the police about the car, which was allegedly parked on the road since late Friday. 'The explosives were wired onto each other and it was fitted with alarm clock as a timing device,' he said. 'The car bomb was intended for a major attack.' Security forces also found in the car an 81-millimetre mortar shell, three 60-millimetre mortar shells and one live shell of shoulder-fired recoilless 90-millimetre anti-tank weapon.
Investigators were still determining the identities of the people who left the car in the area. On January 10, three explosions allegedly perpetrated by Islamic militants rocked three cities in the southern region of Mindanao - General Santos, Kidapawan and Cotabato - killing seven people and wounding more than 30 others.
Sun Country Airlines passengers who flew from the Twin Cities to New York on Saturday morning underwent special security screening after landing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Crew members noticed "irregularities" with a security seal covering a smoke detector in one of the lavatories, said Sun Country CEO Shaun Nugent.
Smoke detectors on the airline's Boeing 737 airplanes have tape seals, so it can be readily detected when someone tries to remove a smoke detector cover.
Flight 245, which had 43 passengers and six crew members on board, landed in New York without incident, but the plane was routed to an undisclosed location at the airfield for security reasons, Nugent said.
Passengers were taken off the plane, screened and released. "One passenger was temporarily detained by local authorities and the FBI and then released," Nugent said.
After airport and federal authorities searched the aircraft, it was released back to Sun Country.
The Mendota Heights-based carrier flies to New York and other major U.S. destinations. Those flights originate from the Humphrey terminal at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Intelligence sources tell us several Americans — or at least people holding U.S. passports — were captured among the 6,000 Islamists fighting on behalf of the ousted Islamic Courts Union (ICU) during the ongoing conflict in Somalia.
The recent fighting by Ethiopian and transitional federal government forces against the partially ruling ICU forced thousands of Islamist fighters of the ICU to move south to Kismayo and Ras Kamboni, on the Kenyan border.
Army Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told the Senate intelligence committee in written testimony last week that Ethiopian forces were in hot pursuit of the Islamists.
"Ethiopia likely intends to eliminate as many of the radical Islamists and their camps as possible before withdrawing," Gen. Maples said. He said "multiple reports" from the region indicate "the presence of foreign trainers in Somalia from Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula." "Al Qaeda is assessed to be assisting the radical Islamist elements of the [ICU] with leadership and training with hopes of establishing a future Talibanlike state," he said.
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070118-110938-8432r.htm
Five Algerian terror suspects agree to leave UK
Jan. 20, 2007
Five Algerian men being held without trial on suspicion of terrorism have agreed to be voluntarily deported from Britain, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday.
It said the men were part of a group of 27 foreign nations being held on the grounds they are a threat to national security, several of whom have been held in custody without trial for more than four years.
Britain's Home Office refused to confirm whether any suspects had agreed to voluntary deportation and said it would not comment on the status of the 27 being held.
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Four arrested with explosives in India
Sunday, January 21, 2007
MUMBAI: Four people were arrested with 6 kg (13.2 lb) of powerful explosives near a crowded railway station in Mumbai on Saturday, six months after a string of train bombings that killed 186 people in the financial hub.
The arrests were made near the Andheri station, one of the busiest halts on Mumbai’s suburban railway network, following a tip-off by intelligence agencies, police said.
“We can not say now if these people are just carriers of the explosives or they were planning any attack,” said a senior officer, who declined to be identified.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/01/21/story_21-1-2007_pg4_12
"I cannot shake your hand, sir. I'm a Muslim and you're a man"
I haven't read this article Oorang, but I have read of incidents like this before online.
It is shocking.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/21/newsid_2506000/2506807.stm
JANUARY 21, 1981
"1981: Tehran frees US hostages after 444 days"
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JULY 22, 1987
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/22/newsid_2516000/2516089.stm
"1987: Cartoonist shot in London street"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Palestinian cartoonist has been shot in the face and critically wounded in London.
Naji Salim al-Ali was gunned down outside his office on Ives Street, Chelsea at 1700 BST.
The most famous cartoonist in the Middle East, Mr al-Ali's work satirises Arabic politics and is especially critical of Iran leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but has been transferred to the neurosurgical department at Charing Cross Hospital.
Eyewitnesses described Mr al-Ali being approached by two men - aged 25 to 30, with olive complexions - when one of them drew a gun and shot him at point blank range on the right side of his face.
He has worked for the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas for three years and moved to London after he was expelled from Kuwait two years ago.
Under threat
Colleagues at the newspaper reported a Kuwaiti gang had tried to kill him before he left the country and he did not want to live in another Middle Eastern country because he feared for his life.
Mr al-Ali told the specialist journal Index on Censorship his life was in danger two weeks ago.
An Al Qabas spokesman says he has received over 100 death threats during his career.
Mr al-Ali's colleague revealed a senior member of Yasser Arafat's PLO telephoned the cartoonist in the middle of June and said: "You must correct your attitude."
"Don't say anything against the honest people, otherwise we will have business to sort you out," the caller continued."
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Thanks to JVeritas for the translation and posting this thread.
Note: The following text is a quote:
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Iraqi Document: Boutrous Ghali Ex-UN Chief To Benefit from Oil for Food Program (Translation)
Pentagon/FMSO website for Iraq Pre-war documents http://70.168.46.200/ ^ | January 2 2007 | jveritas
Posted on 01/02/2007 11:29:15 AM PST by jveritas
Document CMPC-2004-003015 (pages 90-91-92) contain a letter dated May 1993 from Hussein Kamel Hassan the former head of the Iraqi Military Industrial Committee to Saddam Hussein regarding lifting the oil export embargo on Iraq. Kamel Hassan mentioned the name of “Samir Vincent” and Iraqi ex-pat living in the US and who according to the letter has good relation with the Iraqi regime for a long time and that Samir Vincent is helping the Iraqis to have the oil export embargo lifted through his contacts with the US State Department and the U.N. Also in the letter was mentioned the name of “Boutrous Boutrous Ghali” the United Nations secretary general back then and according to the same letter Ghali “expressed his initial welcoming of the oil export embargo lift in addition to the expected financial profit for him personally”.
Samir Vincent pleaded guilty in 2005 for lobbying on behalf of the Iraqi government and make illegal deals to help lift the oil export embargo on Iraq and what is known now as the “Oil for Food Scandal”. Boutorus Boutrous Ghali was not found yet to be involved in the Oil for Food scandal.
PS: Hussein Kamel Hassan who is more known as Hussein Kamel was the son in law of Saddam Hussein and he fled to Jordan in 1995, but later on Saddam tricked him to come back to Iraq telling him that he is pardoned, once he got into Iraq Saddam ordered him killed, and he was killed.
Partial translation of document CMPC-2004-003015
In the name of God the Most Merciful
The Republic of Iraq
The Presidency of the Republic
The Military Industrialization Commission
Mr. President the Leader-God protect and shepherd you
Subject: Oil export
The relative calm in the political relation with the Western World and in particular with the United States (and after the cease fore from our side), has helped to create positive atmosphere for the optimism of our people to partially lift the unjust economic embargo and the possibility of oil export and what will lead to reduce the great suffering of our people to obtain food and medicine.
…In this regard it was welcomed by the friends and honest people in all over the world, and in the hope that it will give the new American Administration an opportunity to review the Iraqi Dossier and to look at it objectively and justly, and on the other hand the hate filled dishonest enemies are attempting furiously to encircle any possibilities for positive reflection to ease the economic embargo and in particular with the neighboring states.
We see that the relative calm is turning to recession that can afford for the hostile elements the opportunity to market its plans on the international level for the continuity of the Iraqi people suffering and the increasing harm caused by the embargo hoping to achieve their malicious and known goals-God Forbid- without any initiatives to abort these plans… Therefore there must be a movement of the political relation and in particular with the American side and the United Nations through partially flexible positions to remove the embargo through two routes, the first route is to implement article (22) of resolution (687) and which collide with the obstacle of accepting of resolution (715) and its unjust rules and the obstacle of proving the name of foreign firms, and the second route is the implementation of resolution (706) which collides with principles obstacles that undermine the sovereignty.
The route of resolution 706.
The Iraqi ex-pat (Samir Vincent) and that connect us with him long and good relationships, has been trying hard for almost a year to find a way to export oil according to this resolution through his contacts with the US State Department and the Secretary General of the United Nations and taking in consideration our justified concern with its unjust rules and implementation… and there were a lot of meetings with Mr. Tarek Aziz the last one was on 18/4/1993.
Lately Mr. Samir Vincent and through a capable legal consultation has shown the a proposal by the Iraqi side to be shown to the Security Council by the Secretary General of the United Nations, that will avoid Iraq in a good proportion the unjust conditions and with some flexibility to achieve the approval of the Security Council on it, and therefore he suggests with insistence that Mr. Tarek Aziz goes to New York to meet Mr. Boutrous Ghali (who expressed his initial welcoming with the proposal in addition to the financial benefit for him personally) and before the end of this month of May, and that he will be authorized from the leadership to finalize this subject with a closed meeting between both of them.
… and you long live Mr. Leader.
General Hussein Kamel Hassan
5/1993
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"Patrolling with the Snake Eaters
On the streets with the Iraqi soldiers of the 3/3-1"
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"Habbaniyah and the 3/3-1 Snake Eaters
Joint Army, Marine Military Transition Team works with the Iraqi Army in one of the most dangerous regions in Anbar province"
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1427
January 17, 2007 No.1427
"Sheik Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi Eulogizes Saddam Hussein in Friday Sermon on Qatar TV"
SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an address by Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi, which aired on Qatar TV on January 5, 2007.
TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1354 "
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"American terrorists (Islamists holding U.S. passports captured in Somalia)"
Washington Times ^ | 1/19/07 | Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough
Posted on 01/20/2007 11:44:37 PM PST by NormsRevenge
https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=62237
you are here: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report
"Warden Message: Guinea Insecurity Persists"
Consular Affairs Bulletins
Sub-Saharan Africa - Guinea
20 Jan 2007
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07010106.htm
Saturday, January 20, 2007
"Christian Believers Executed in N. Korea"
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NORTH KOREA (ANS) -- Reports about four Christians being executed for their faith in North Korea are circulating in the Christian media.
North Korea
According to Mark Kelly of Baptist Press: "The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea is well-known as a country where Christians are persecuted for their faith. Because the government there keeps a tight lid on communication, however, only rarely does specific information leak out."
Quoting the World Bible Translation Center’s Gary Bishop in a conversation with Mission Network News (MNN), Kelly reports that one man who worked as an evangelist was executed after being caught with two Korean New Testaments in his possession.
Bishop says North Korean Christians are becoming increasingly uneasy about possessing a Bible.
He said: "A man that's known to be an evangelist. He's probably not an evangelist to anyone other than his family members, but he was caught with two of our Korean New Testaments in his possession and he was executed for that."
Kelly writes that Bishop also told Mission Network News: "A woman and her grandmother were washing clothes when a New Testament fell out of the woman’s clothing. Somebody reported it, and both she and her grandmother were quickly executed. And an army general who had become a believer was caught evangelizing men in his unit and was executed by a fellow officer."
Kelly says Bishop told MNN that despite the oppression -- or perhaps because of it -- God seems to be working.
Bishop said: "In response to a very, very oppressive government (and) human injustices people are looking for an answer other than their own government. And, I believe that's awakening the resilience of believers in North Korea to say, 'We have another answer. There is another way to believe.'"
MNN reports that thousands of North Korean Christians have been killed for their faith. Many more are in work camps."
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07010110.htm
Saturday, January 20, 2007
"Honduran Christian Leader In Hiding"
By Dan Wooding
Founder of ASSIST Ministries
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS (ANS) -- Carlos Hernandez, president of the Association for a More Just Society in Honduras, is in hiding following a death threat immediately after the killing of well-known lawyer Dionisio Díaz García who was often called the “lawyer for the poor.”
Hernandez of the Association for a More Just Society received the death threat immediately after his associate, attorney Dionisio Diaz Garcia, was shot to death on his way to court on Monday, December 4th, Steve Geurink of Worldwide Christian Schools told Mission Network News.
Dionisio Díaz García was shot to death in his pickup truck while driving to court by two masked gunmen on a motorcycle. The gunmen shot Díaz in the head and chest from close range. This murder was the first time in years that a human rights advocate has been murdered in Tegucigalpa.
According to Mission Network News, both men have ties to the ministry of Worldwide Christian Schools (WCS) in Honduras."
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07010108.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Saturday, January 20, 2007
"Pakistan acquits mentally ill Christian accused of blasphemy
Christian lawyer says his work brought threats on him"
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
LAHORE, PAKISTAN
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Sun Jan 21 2007 03:16:54 GMT-0800.
Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
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"Iran to conduct missile test"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "State-run television reports Tehran plans three days of military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests, beginning Sunday. Meanwhile, Iranian president says UN Security Council resolutions against his country will not affect its nuclear policies even if 10 more of them are ratified
Associated Press
Published: 01.21.07, 10:42
Iran plans three days of military maneuvers, including short-range missile tests, beginning Sunday — its first since the UN Security Council imposed sanctions against it in late December, state-run television said.
"The elite Revolutionary Guards plans to begin a three-day missile maneuver on Sunday near Garmsar city," said the broadcast. The city is located in northern Iran on the edge of Kavir desert, about 60 miles southeast of Tehran.
"Zalzal and Fajr-5 missiles will be test fired in the war game," the television quoted an unnamed commander of the guards, as saying. Both are considered short-range missiles."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24083_Media_Blackout_Continues-_I_Shot_the_Infidel&only
Sunday, January 21, 2007
"Media Blackout Continues: 'I Shot the Infidel'"
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"U.S. CIA director praises Philippines for fight against terrorists"
International Herald Tribune ^ | January 18, 2007
Posted on 01/21/2007 1:31:50 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/179601/
"Waiting to be terrorists"
Bradley R. Gitz
Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007
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"Bacteria tests reveal how MRSA strain can kill in 24 hours"
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 1/19/07 | Ian Sample
Posted on 01/21/2007 12:20:09 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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