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US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...

	More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
	More US Air Marshals on Flights to Europe
	Officials: Car Bomb Plot Bears al Qaida's Trademark

[Cindy]

Zawahiri has a photograph of his armed jihadis behind his right shoulder — they appear to have enough fire power to take care of things.

Also, the as-Sahab studio probably dropped in their own background when they edited the film.

Also, Zawahiri was wearing WHITE clothing ...delivering his usual propaganda — just in time for July.

Anyway, that’s my immediate observations.

[Oorang]

Apparently, in Zawahiri's January 2006 video there was no rifle as noted in this article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/30/terror/main1255755.shtml

[Cindy]

stepping back in time...

CNN.com: "AL-ZAWAHIRI: BUSH THE 'BUTCHER OF WASHINGTON'" (Note: Includes Transcript) (January 30, 2006)

REWARDSFORJUSTICE.net: "WANTED AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIRI UP TO $25 MILLION REWARD" (View Poster Here.)

"www.aljazeera.net/mritems/images/2006/1/30/1_594116_1_34.jpg" (View Photo.)

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861578/posts

Iran’s Proxy War (Op-Ed by Joe Lieberman)
Wall Street Journal ^ | July 6, 2007 | Senator Joseph Lieberman

Posted on 07/05/2007 9:29:24 PM PDT by RWR8189

Earlier this week, the U.S. military made public new and disturbing information about the proxy war that Iran is waging against American soldiers and our allies in Iraq.

According to Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, the Iranian government has been using the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah to train and organize Iraqi extremists, who are responsible in turn for the murder of American service members.

Gen. Bergner also revealed that the Quds Force—a special unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps whose mission is to finance, arm and equip foreign Islamist terrorist movements—has taken groups of up to 60 Iraqi insurgents at a time and brought them to three camps near Tehran, where they have received instruction in the use of mortars, rockets, improvised explosive devices and other deadly tools of guerrilla warfare that they use against our troops. Iran has also funded its Iraqi proxies generously, to the tune of $3 million a month.

Based on the interrogation of captured extremist leaders—including a 24-year veteran of Hezbollah, apparently dispatched to Iraq by his patrons in Tehran—Gen. Bergner also reported on Monday that the U.S. military has concluded that “the senior leadership” in Iran is aware of these terrorist activities. He said it is “hard to imagine” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei—Iran’s supreme leader—does not know of them.

(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12696&Itemid=128

July 5, 2007
Release A070705b

Six Suspected Terrorists Detained and One Killed by Coalition Forces in Two Separate Raids

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed one terrorist and detained six suspected terrorists before dawn Thursday in and near Sadr City. It is believed that the suspected terrorists were affiliated with secret cell Special Groups.

Coalition Forces conducted two raids to capture or kill terrorists suspected of providing logistical support to insurgent groups. Intelligence reports indicate that the suspected terrorists targeted during the raid were connected with other key secret cell terrorist leaders and are suspected to have ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Forces.

During the first raid, Coalition Forces were fired upon by terrorists. Coalition Forces returned fire in accordance with the rules of engagement killing one terrorist. There were no Coalition Forces casualties. Coalition Forces confiscated automatic weapons, communications equipment and personal body armor during the raid. In the second raid, Coalition Forces grabbed a single, suspected terrorist without firing a shot.

“Coalition troops will continue to target terrorists who have a penchant for killing Coalition Forces, Iraqi Security Forces and innocent Iraqis.” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesman. “Coalition Forces will target secret cells wherever they are.”

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12685&Itemid=21

July 4, 2007
Release A070704a

Coalition Forces kill 25, detain 5 and uncover caches in Diyala

Coalition Forces prepare to clear a house in a neighborhood in Baqubah during operations in Iraq.

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed 25 terrorists, detained five suspected terrorists and uncovered weapons caches during an operation northeast of Baqubah June 30 – July 2.

Coalition Forces conducted the three-day operation near the town of Mukhisa targeting al-Qaeda operatives in support of Operation Arrowhead Ripper.

During a patrol along the Diyala River near Baqubah, Coalition Forces were engaged by three men with rifles and military-style assault vests from across the river. Coalition Forces returned fire and the enemy fire subsided, but enemy reinforced its numbers and escalated to include rocket-propelled grenades.

Coalition Forces determined the enemy fire was coming from an organized terrorist force that had moved into a nearby palm grove. Coalition Forces fired and maneuvered on the enemy and called in close air support from a fixed-wing aircraft. During the engagement Coalition Forces killed an estimated 25 terrorists and the enemy fire stopped. The patrol also observed secondary explosions coming from within the palm grove.

Throughout the firefight, a nearby mosque was broadcasting chants for local residents to “rise up against” the Coalition Forces; the chants were later replaced by a voice that seemed to be giving orders.

Two suspected terrorists were injured in the engagement and were transported to a military medical facility for treatment.

Searches of the area during the operation uncovered weapons caches containing fire extinguishers rigged as improvised explosive devices, mortar rounds, RPG rounds and small arms. Coalition Forces detained five suspected terrorists for their alleged involvement with al-Qaeda in the area.

“We continue to crack down on al-Qaeda operatives, no matter where they’re hiding,” said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. “The terrorists’ brand of violence is inconsistent with Iraqi values, and that violence has no place in the future of Iraq.”

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[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861480/posts

“Kiwis faced dynamite, guns on rig”
The Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) ^ | 6 July 2007 | Dan Eaton

Posted on 07/05/2007 5:22:00 PM PDT by DieHard the Hunter

[Cindy]

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/07/06/Worldandnation/Bomb_making_guide_str.shtml

“Bomb-making guide stresses simplicity
Al-Qaida memo suggests crude, easy-to-get explosives”

By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post
Published July 6, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LONDON - The 39-page memo recovered from an al-Qaida laptop computer in Pakistan three years ago read like an Idiot’s Guide to Bomb Making.

Forget military explosives or fancy detonators, it lectured. Instead, the manual advised a shopping trip to a hardware store or pharmacy, where all the necessary ingredients for a terrorist attack are stocked on the shelves.

“Make use of that which is available at your disposal and ... bend it to suit your needs, (improvise) rather than waste valuable time becoming despondent over that which is not within your reach, “ counseled the author of the memo, Dhiren Barot, a British citizen who said he developed his keep-it-simple philosophy by observing senior planners at al-Qaida training camps.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861596/posts

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56520

“Dump Chertoff”
Posted: July 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

-Commentary by Joseph Farah

COMMENTARY SNIPPET: “He also made one other stunning admission: “We don’t really have the ability to enforce the law with respect to illegal work in this country in a way that’s truly effective.”

Whenever a top official in charge of doing a job says it can’t be done, it’s time for that top official to go.

I’m sure there are many qualified people in this country who agree with me that we can enforce our laws effectively – and that we must.”

[Cindy]

VIDEO:

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/mIiC2sr/Robert-Spencer-on-Jihadi-Doctors

“Robert Spencer on Jihadi Doctors”
(July 5, 2007)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6267616.stm

Last Updated: Tuesday, 3 July 2007, 21:32 GMT 22:32 UK

“Jihad tapes targeted professions”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Videos have tried to attract doctors, lawyers and scientists into Islamic extremism for more than a decade, the BBC has learned.

The tapes were used to try to shame Muslim professionals to get more involved in violent jihad.

One film from 1999 seen by the BBC shows a man claiming to be a third-year medical student in Birmingham.

He is shown claiming: “What we lack here is Muslims who are prepared to suffer and sacrifice.””

[Cindy]

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42469000/jpg/_42469874_haneef203ap.jpg

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6275918.stm

Last Updated: Friday, 6 July 2007, 06:50 GMT 07:50 UK

“New Australia raids over UK bombs”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Computers and other materials were taken from four Western Australian hospitals, two in Perth and two in the Outback mining town of Kalgoorlie.

Police said the doctors questioned had not been charged or arrested.

The raids came as Australian police were given more time to question a relative of two men held in the UK.

Mohammed Haneef was held at Brisbane airport as he tried to leave for India on Monday. He will be questioned by a team that includes a senior counter-terrorism officer from Scotland Yard.

Eight people, all linked to Britain’s National Health Service, have been arrested over the failed attacks in Glasgow and London.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mr Keelty said the investigation had also widened to a third state - New South Wales.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Mohammed Haneef is the relative of two of the suspects being held in Britain - Kafeel Ahmed, who was badly burned during the attack on Glasgow airport, and his brother, Sabeel, who was arrested in Liverpool.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It has emerged that the Ahmed brothers applied to work as doctors in Western Australia on numerous occasions but were rejected.

“We checked their qualifications and references and decided that they did not meet the standard required,” Geoff Dobb, the president of the Australian Medical Association in Western Australia, told the Associated Press.

“It had nothing to do with suspicions of any terrorist associations,” he said.

Dr Haneef trained as a doctor in his native India, graduated from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences in Bangalore in 2002.

He arrived in Australia in September 2006 following a period spent in Liverpool.

He took a job as a registrar at the Gold Coast Hospital.

A police spokesman said they were still analysing some 18,000 files on the Indian doctor’s laptop.

Meanwhile, British police on Thursday searched an address in Cambridge as part of their investigation.

It has emerged that four of the suspects were in Cambridge in 2005 and that they knew each other.

Dr Ahmed and Dr Bilal Abdullah, both arrested at Glasgow airport after a burning car was driven into doors of main terminal, were “best mates”, their associate in Cambridge, Shiraz Maher, has told the BBC.

Dr Abdullah was a resident in the city in 2001 and again in 2005.

It has also emerged that Dr Ahmed worked and studied at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for almost three years.”

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2288.html

Paper no. 2288
06.07.2007

“AL QAEDA RECRUITS WAHABISED INDIAN MUSLIMS FOR OPERATIONS IN WEST - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 251”
by B. Raman

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2286.html

Paper no. 2286
04.07.2007

“AL QAEDA AND INDIAN MUSLIMS - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: PAPER NO. 250”
by B. Raman

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2267.html

Paper no. 2267
14.06.2007

“AL QAEDA’S SHADOW OVER INDIA? INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO.242”
by B.Raman, (Camp LANKAWAI, MALAYSIA)

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2285.html

Paper no. 2285
04.07.2007

“THE JUNDULLAH IN UK? - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR-—PAPER NO. 249”
By B. Raman

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2284.html

Paper no. 2284
04.07.2007

“DOCTORS’ JIHAD: NEED FOR CAUTION ON ALLEGED INDIAN INVOLVEMENT - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR-—PAPER NO. 248”
By B. Raman

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2283.html

Paper no. 2283
03.07.2007

“DOCTORS TAKE TO JIHAD:AN INDIAN TOO? - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR-—PAPER NO. 247”
By B. Raman

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http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2282.html

Paper no. 2282
02.07.2007

“JIHADI TERRORISM IN UK - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR: PAPER NO.246”
by B.Raman

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1861606/posts

MEDICINE’S MURDERERS
NY Post ^ | July 5, 2007 | BARRY RUBIN

Posted on 07/06/2007 12:37:24 AM PDT by neverdem

THE arrest of seven doctors in the attempted British terror bombings has shocked many people. Sadly, it shouldn’t.

All seven are Muslims working at government-financed hospitals, their salaries paid by the British taxpayer. Dr. Muhammad Hanif practiced at Halton Hospital in Runcorn, Cheshire; Dr. Muhammad Asha, at the North Staffordshire NHS Trust’s University Hospital.

So can doctors be terrorists? Can people who are financially well-off be terrorists? Absolutely. It is ideology, after all, that turns people into terrorists - not suffering.

Indeed, the No. 2 leader of al Qaeda is Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri - who was previously a stalwart of the Muslim Brotherhood in his native Egypt. Zawahiri made the connections that led to his role in al Qaeda when he went to Afghanistan in 1980 to provide medical care for jihadists fighting the Soviets. Later, he was a key architect of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed hundreds of innocents, and of the 9/11 attacks.

Other...

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Consider, too, the kind of people who become doctors - relatively intelligent, well-organized, hard-working. These are valuable skills both in leading terrorist groups and in carrying out operations.

Yes, we in the West expect the study of medicine to produce humanists - men and women who view all life as sacred, dedicated to broad service for humanity.

But it is also an intellectual endeavor - exposing one to other intellectual currents in the surrounding world. And in much of the Muslim world, the strongest currents have been the various extremisms that promote terrorism.

And the doctrines of radical Arab nationalism and Islamism (like the one that motivated those totalitarians working in concentration camps six decades ago) view their enemies as sub-human. Toward them, those trained in healing are quite willing to become doctors of death.

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Who forgets Mengele or Che Guevara? Why did Pol Pot go after the docs?

1 posted on 07/06/2007 12:37:25 AM PDT by neverdem

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017262.php

July 5, 2007

More Islamic war crimes

When the going gets tough, Allah’s brave soldiers hide behind women and children.

“Pakistan Says Militants Prevent Surrender by Students,” by Khalid Qayum and Khaleeq Ahmed for Bloomberg:

July 5 (Bloomberg) — Thirty ‘’hardcore’’ militants are preventing students at the Red Mosque in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, from surrendering amid a siege of the mosque by security forces, the government said.

The militants ‘’are using women and children as shields,’’ Javed Iqbal Cheema, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, told reporters in Islamabad today. A total of 1,146 students have surrendered since yesterday, he said. At least 16 people have been killed in gun battles between students and police.

Despicable.

Crossposted from The American Israeli Patriot.

Posted by Jay at July 5, 2007 8:22 AM

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861621/posts

Musharraf plane fired on -Pakistan security official
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | July 6, 2007 | Mian Khursheed

Posted on 07/06/2007 2:10:13 AM PDT by HAL9000

Excerpt -

ISLAMABAD, July 6 (Reuters) - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s plane was fired on as it took off on Friday from a military airfield in Rawalpindi, an intelligence officer said, contradicting official denials.
Musharraf’s plane arrived safely in the southwestern town of Turbat, where the president visited flood victims, and the military denied there had been any attack.

But an intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there had been an unsuccessful attempt on Musharraf’s life, and no arrests were made.

A Reuters photographer saw two large guns mounted on the roof of a two-storey house in the congested area close to the airport, and a neighbour said he heard the firing.

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(Excerpt) Read more at alertnet.org ...

[Cindy]

RECAP AND UPDATES:

BBC NEWS: "NEW AUSTRALIA RAIDS OVER UK BOMBS" (Last updated July 6, 2007 06:50 GMT, 07:50 UK)

More Links (July 6, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "UK TERROR INVESTIGATION - NEWS ROUNDUP - JULY 5" by Jeffrey Imm (July 5, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "UK TERROR PLOT INVESTIGATION - NEWS ROUNDUP - JULY 4" (July 4, 2007, 11:07 a.m.)

CNN.com: "UK TERROR POLICE FIND SUICIDE NOTE" (July 4, 2007)

SKY NEWS: "FULL TEXT OF VICAR'S TERROR WARNING EMAIL" (updated July 4, 2007, 11:52)

JIHAD WATCH.org (THE TELEGRAPH): "'The people who cure you would kill you'" (July 4, 2007)

GUARDIAN.co.uk: "MASTERMIND BASED ABROAD SUSPECTED OF GUIDING PLOT" (July 4, 2007)

BBC NEWS: "TERROR SUSPECTS ALL LINKED TO NHS" (Last updated July 4, 2007, 06:11 GMT, 07:11 UK)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "AGITPROP - "'Were the attacks in the UK justified?'" (July 3, 2007)

CBS NEWS.com: "TWO MEN LINKED TO BOTH U.K. PLOTS" (July 3, 2007)

REWARDS FOR JUSTICE.net: "ABU AYYUB AL-MASRI" (Note - akas: "Abu Ayyub al-Masri, aka Abu Hamza al-Muhajir)

More Links

FOX NEWS.com: "AUSTRALIAN POLICE FREE DOCTOR IN U.K. ATTACK PROBE" (July 3, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Glasgow, Scotland - "BRITISH TERROR PROBE FOCUSES ON DOCTORS" (July 3, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "UK TERROR PLOT INVESTIGATION - NEWS ROUNDUP - JULY 3" by Jeffrey Imm (July 3, 2007, 7:39 am)

BBC NEWS: "AUSTRALIAN ARREST IN TERROR PROBE" (July 3, 2007, 04:29 GMT, 05:29 UK)

More Links

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "DENIAL IN BRITAIN" by Robert Spencer (July 3, 2007)

News.Sky.com - SKY NEWS: "FIVE DOCTORS HELD OVER ATTACKS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Five doctors are now being held in connection with the recent attempted terror attacks - one is an Iraqi doctor who trained in Baghdad.") (Updated July 2, 2007, 22:50)

BBC NEWS: "TWO MORE HELD OVER BOMB ATTACKS" (Last Updated July 2, 2007, 11:19 GMT, 12:19 UK)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog (OBSERVER.GUARDIAN.co.uk): "REFORMED AL MUHAJIROUN MEMBER: 'MUSLIMS MUST RENOUNCE TERROR'" (July 1, 2007)

ABC NEWS.COM - THE BLOTTER: "SECRET DOCUMENT: U.S. FEARS TERROR 'SPECTACULAR' PLANNED" (July 1, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "CAR BOMB JIHAD" by Dr. Walid Phares (July 2, 2007)

YNET NEWS.com: "AL QAEDA'S CAR BOMB GUIDE" by Yaakov Lappin (July 1, 2007, 16:18)

ISLAM ONLINE.net - Cairo: "UK FAILED ATTACKS SHOW TACTIC CHANGE" (July 1, 2007)

BBC NEWS.com: "CAR BOMBINGS SUSPECT 'ON THE RUN'" (Last Updated July 2, 2007, 9:35 gmt, 10:35 UK)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "SKY NEWS: TWO JIHAD SUSPECTS ARE HOSPITAL DOCTORS" (July 1, 2007)

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "JIHAD IN GLASGOW" by Jacob Kaksin (July 2, 2007)

BBC NEWS: "POLICE CONFIDENT IN BOMBERS HUNT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The man has been identified by the BBC as Dr Mohammed Asha, from Iran.") (Last updated July 1, 2007, 21:48 GMT, 22:48 UK)

A Link

BBC NEWS: "FOUR HELD AMID UK TERROR ALERTS" (Last updated July 1, 2007, 08:16 GMT, 09:16 UK)

BBC NEWS.com: "UK TERROR THREAT NOW 'CRITICAL'" (June 30, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "UK AT HIGHEST 'CRITICAL' TERROR LEVEL" by Jeffrey Imm (June 30, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "(UK) SCOTLAND: TEROR STRIKE AT GLASGOW AIRPORT" by Jeffrey Imm (June 30, 2007, 02:31 p.m.)

HOT AIR.com: "BREAKING: CAR ON FIRE DRIVES INTO GLASGOW AIRPORT TERMINAL; UPDATE: GAS CYLINDERS IN JEEP? UPDATE: SUSPECT IN CRITICAL CONDITION; UPDATE: SCOTTISH COPS BELIEVE INCIDENT IS LINKED TO CAR BOMB PLOT" (June 30, 2007, 11:09 A.M.)

More Links (June 30, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ABC NEWS - THE BLOTTER): "US WARNED OF POSSIBLE GLASGOW ATTACK TWO WEEKS AGO IN CONNECTION WITH OTHER THREATS" (June 30, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (THE TIMES OF LONDON): "REPORT: LONDON NIGHTCLUBS WARNED BEFORE ATTEMPTED BOMBING" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nightclubs across Britain were warned they could be terrorist targets just days before yesterday's attempted double car-bomb attack in London, according to a report in the Times of London.") (June 30, 2007)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "LONDON CAR BOMB FOUND; SECOND CAR BOMB AND SUSPECT IDENTIFIED (Updated)" by Jeffrey Imm (June 29, 2007, 5:00 pm)

OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (blogs.ABCNEWS.com - THE BLOTTER): "WHY WE SUPPORT THE PRACTICE OF PREVENTIVE DETENTION" (June 29, 2007)

BBC NEWS: "POLICE AVERT CAR BOMB 'CARNAGE'" (Last updated June 29, 2007, 12:07 GMT, 13:07 UK)

A Link (June 29, 2007)

CBS NEWS.com: "WAS LONDON BOMB PLOT HERALDED ON WEB? Internet Forum Comment From Night Before: 'London Shall Be Bombed'" (June 29, 2007)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "The 'Top Twelve' list of Arabic Salafyist/Jihadist forums."

HOT AIR.com (JIHAD WATCH with Robert Spencer) - VIDEO/blog: "THE RUSHDIE AFFAIR" (June 29, 2007)

July 11, 2007: "JULY 11, A DAY FOR VIGILANCE AGAINST JIHADIST INTIMIDATION" -Robert Spencer (posted June 15, 2006, FrontPageMagazine.com)

YouTube.com: "4/23/07: STEVEN EMERSON ON 'SPECTACULAR' THREAT FOR BRITAIN" (Added July 3, 2007)

[Cindy]

Well now, this is NOT nice.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/017274.php
July 5, 2007
“’you racist sepremesist evil jew’”

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

[Cindy]

June 29, 2007

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/2007/nh062907a.htm

THREE BRIDGEPORT MEN CHARGED WITH RACKETEERING MURDERS

Kevin J. O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an Indictment charging AZIBO AQUART, also known as “Azibo Smith,” “Azibo Siwatu Jahi Smith,” “D,” “Dreddy,” and “Jumbo,” age 26; AZIKIWE AQUART, also known as “Z” and “Zee,” age 28, and, EFRAIN JOHNSON, also known as “Pootney,” age 25, all of Bridgeport, with three counts of Murder in Aid of Racketeering and one count of Conspiracy to Commit Murder in Aid of Racketeering in connection with the August 24, 2005 murders of Tina Johnson, age 43; James Reid, age 40, and Basil Williams, age 54. The seven-count Indictment was returned yesterday, June 28. Each of the three defendants appeared today before Senior United States District Judge Peter C. Dorsey and entered a plea of not guilty to the charges.

The Indictment alleges that AZIBO AQUART was the leader of a drug trafficking group that primarily sold crack cocaine in the Charles Street Apartments in Bridgeport, and that AZIBO AQUART and his associates participated in acts of violence, such as threats and assaults, to maintain their control over the group’s drug distribution activities at the Charles Street Apartments. The Indictment further alleges that, in the summer of 2005, the group became involved in a drug trafficking dispute with a rival, and that, on August 24, 2005, AZIBO AQUART, AZIKIWE AQUART and JOHNSON participated in the assault and murder of Tina Johnson, James Reid and Basil Williams.

The Indictment charges each of the three defendants with Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering (VCAR) Conspiracy to Murder the three victims. If convicted of this charge, each defendant faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of up to $250,000.

The Indictment further charges each of the three defendants with VCAR Murder. If convicted of this charge, each defendant faces a mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment, on each count. In addition, because the VCAR Murder counts are death penalty eligible, the Indictment sets forth a Notice of Special Findings as to each defendant that details the death penalty qualifying factors and the aggravating factors the Government would have to prove if it decides to seek the death penalty.

AZIBO AQUART and AZIKIWE AQUART are also charged with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and distributing more than 50 grams of cocaine base (“crack cocaine”). If convicted of this charge, AZIBO AQUART faces a mandatory lifetime term of imprisonment due to his prior narcotics trafficking convictions, and AZIKIWE AQUART faces a minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years and a maximum term of life.

AZIKIWE AQUART is also charged with possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base. If convicted of this charge, he faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 20 years.

Finally, AZIBO AQUART is charged with possession of firearms and ammunition by a previously convicted felon. If convicted of this charge, he faces a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 15 years.

As each of the defendants is charged with death penalty eligible murder offenses, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will review the case as to each defendant and will submit a recommendation to the Department of Justice’s Capital Case Unit. The Attorney General of the United States will determine whether the Government will seek or not seek the death penalty as to each defendant. As revealed in court proceedings today, the death penalty review process in this case will begin immediately.

U.S. Attorney O’Connor stressed that an indictment is only a charge and is not evidence of guilt. Each defendant is entitled to a fair trial at which it is the Government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

U.S. Attorney O’Connor commended the joint investigation of this matter, which is being conducted by the Bridgeport Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Connecticut State Police, the Bridgeport States Attorney’s Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

This case is being prosecuted by James I. Glasser, Counsel to the U.S. Attorney, and Assistant United States Attorney Alina P. Reynolds.

[Cindy]

http://www.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, Fri Jul 06 2007 04:37:18 GMT-0700.

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April 10, 2007