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BADEN, Austria --Leaders of the breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo will not negotiate the future status of the province after a December 10 UN deadline, its representatives said Tuesday after talks with Serbian officials.
"Kosovo is not ready to continue any sort of engagement after December 10," Skender Hyseni, a spokesman for the Kosovo delegation, told journalists on the second day of talks with Serbia on the province's future. The ethnic Albanian dominated province, which has been ruled by the U.N. since an international campaign to end a Serbian crackdown in 1999, wants self-government but Serbia is refusing to let Kosovo go.
European Union, Russian and U.S. mediators are leading the latest talks and are to submit a report on Kosovo to U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on December 10, effectively ending negotiations between the two sides. Serbia, backed by its ally Russia, has said it is prepared to continue talks after the deadline. Hyseni noted, however, "until December 10, Kosovo will continue to be open, constructive." Belgrade and Pristina have so far failed to reach any agreement on the future of the province.
Hyseni said that Serbia refused to face up to the fact that there already existed "a de facto independent Kosovo which is awaiting international formal recognition." "I'm afraid that nothing spectacular will happen" and no agreement will be reached during the gathering in Baden, seen as a last-ditch attempt to solve the Kosovo issue, he added. "Kosovo continues to present a vision for the future, a vision of partnership...which will help both countries build up a brighter future for both their peoples," Hyseni said.
Serbia's proposals on the other hand "are a recipe for frozen conflicts... for half-solutions, which do not take neither Kosovo nor Serbia anywhere." Serbian President Boris Tadic on Tuesday detailed a proposal for self-governance for Kosovo but this was rejected by the Kosovo delegation, Belgrade sources said.
UNITED NATIONS - Al-Qaida remains determined to mount major attacks and has extended its base of support and become more adept at communicating its message and operational plans, a U.N. report said Tuesday.
At the same time, Taliban rebels fighting to regain control of Afghanistan have increased their influence not only in Afghanistan but in northwestern Pakistan and have money from the drug trade to hire foot soldiers and buy sophisticated weapons, the report said.
The report by terrorism experts working for the Security Council committee monitoring U.N. sanctions against the Taliban and al-Qaida painted a grim picture of the "persistent and real" threat from both groups whose relationship "appears close."
Since its last report a year ago, the committee said "there may have been fewer major operations than al-Qaida leaders would have liked, but the arrest or death of suspected al-Qaida-related terrorists in more than 40 countries around the world ... suggests a high volume of terrorist planning." "The frequent and widespread warnings by world leaders and counter-terrorist professionals that more attacks could occur at any time, acknowledge al-Qaida's spread, its patience and its determination," the report said.
Excerpted
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071127/ap_on_re_us/un_terrorist_sanctions
Somali immigrant gets 10 years for plotting with al-Qaida terrorist to bomb Ohio shopping mall
Nov 27, 2007
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A Somali immigrant was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall with a man later convicted of being an al-Qaida terrorist.
Nuradin Abdi, a cell phone salesman before his arrest, pleaded guilty in July to conspiring to provide material support for terrorists. He will be deported to Somalia after serving the federal sentence. In a 20-minute statement to the court, Abdi's attorney Mahir Sherif said his client apologized to the people of the United States, the people of Ohio and the Muslim community. He said Abdi regretted that his conviction might lead to problems for other Muslims.
Excerpted
GREENBELT, Md. - A former security guard at Andrews Air Force Base who failed to put his Muslim name on a job application was trying to conceal his ties to a controversial Washington imam, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
U.S. District Court jurors began hearing the case against Darrick Michael Jackson, who failed to list ''Abdul-Jalil Mohammed'' as an alias on an application for a job at the suburban Washington base, home to Air Force One.
Jackson's attorney, David Chamble, said that Jackson used the Mohammed name only while at mosque or with Muslim friends, and that he didn't consider it a true alias that he needed to disclose. Chamble called it ''an innocent omission'' and excoriated the government for pursing criminal charges against Jackson. Jackson is charged with making a false statement and could face five years in prison if convicted.
He already was a security guard at Andrews when he reapplied in 2005 after the contract for security at the base changed. He had to fill out a federal form, which asked whether he had any aliases. At the time, he was affiliated with the Masjid Al-Islam mosque in southeast Washington, which is led by a fiery imam named Abdul Alim Musa. Musa is not on trial in the case, but prosecutors said Jackson tried to hide his ties to Musa and the mosque to avoid an investigation that might have led to the denial of his application.
Federal prosecutor David Salem told jurors, without elaborating, that Musa ''has made some inflammatory statements about the United States.'' He told jurors the government was not pursuing the case because of Jackson's religion. Musa, who was not at the trial, did not immediately return a phone call left Tuesday at the Masjid Al-Islam mosque seeking comment. Some of his public comments have included praise for Palestinian suicide bombers and a paraphrasing of the former 1960s Black Panther H. Rap Brown, now known as Jamil Al-Amin, saying, ''We're going to burn America down.''
Jackson's lawyer said his client did not try to cover his tracks. His application included references that had ties to the mosque and an e-mail address that incorporated part of his Muslim name. And some of the documents he faxed as part of his job application contained the fax heading of the mosque. ''The government, in their hysteria to try to prove they are doing something, has gotten this whole case wrong,'' Chamble said.
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=NATIONAL&ID=565129018232670515
Michael Savage: The Battle Between Taquiya and Talk Radio
Written by Selwyn Duke
~snip to last sentence~
So it shouldn’t be hard to figure out who to support in this battle between taquiya and talk radio, not even for us pigs and monkeys.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/27/172719.php
UWM’s Muslim Student Association and Walid Shoebat
Charlie points out that some students at UWM don’t want former PLO terrorist Walid Shoebat to speak on campus.
This, of course, is the same university that opened its arms to 9/11 conspiracy nuts Kevin Barrett and James H. Fetzer.
But when someone like Shoebat is invited to deliver a lecture detailing the REALITY of his experiences and his transformation from a terrorist to a supporter of Israel, that’s a problem. That presents a danger to students.
~snip~
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2007/11/uwms-muslim-student-association-and.html
Al-taquiya (deception) is just fasad (mischief) and is makrooh (reprehensible), but inflicting it upon us is probably wajib (obligatory). Found this Oink oink at Sydney:
Pigs heads staked at Islamic site
The heads of two pigs have been found on stakes at the site of a proposed Islamic school in Sydney's south-west. About 6am today, police were called to the site, on Cawdor Road, Camden, where they found the animal remains and a number of other items, a police spokesman said.
The pig heads had been "elevated off the ground" using stakes, he said. The spokesman would not say what the other items left at the site were. He said he was not aware of any messages being left behind.
The Quranic Society's plan to build a primary and high school for 600 students at the Camden site has sparked a strong backlash from residents.
The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l (ALPA) presented Capt. Clarence “Clancy” Prevost with its 2007 Presidential Citation for his exemplary efforts to alert the FBI to Zacharias Moussaoui’s attempts to learn to fly an airliner. Moussaoui would later be identified as the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 plot.
Man demandiing plane ticket to India causes bank evacuation
Investigators said bank workers inside the Wachovia Bank located on Sand Lake Road in Orlando noticed a man police identified as Nirvair Singh, 31, acting suspiciously and called 911.
Sudbury Regional Hospital is under increased security today after officials received a written bomb threat. Hospital officials held a news conference Monday morning to announce security will be beefed up until Friday because of a bomb threat deemed to be low-risk.
Active pipe bombs may still be in Bakersfield
Bakersfield Police Department officials said there may still be some active pipe bombs somewhere in Bakersfield after three were found last week.
Three pipe bombs were recently found at an apartment complex on 18th Street. Police said their investigation found that seven bombs may have targeted specific individuals.
"The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned that terrorists might detonate a "dirty bomb" in a major city sooner than later" "William Nye, Home Office director of counter-terrorism and intelligence, told delegates that al-Qaida is actively seeking high-grade uranium and plutonium in order to detonate a "dirty bomb" in major cities such as London or Washington"
Top police officer warns nuclear attack inevitable
A NUCLEAR attack by terrorists causing widespread panic, chaos and death is inevitable and will happen soon, a senior Scottish police officer has warned.
Ian Dickinson, who leads the police response to chemical, biological and nuclear threats in Scotland, has painted the bleakest picture yet of the dangers the world now faces.
Efforts to prevent terrorist groups from obtaining materials that could be made into radioactive dirty bombs - or even crude nuclear explosives - are bound to fail, he said. And the result will be horror on an unprecedented scale.
"These materials are undoubtedly out there, and undoubtedly will end up in terrorists' hands, and undoubtedly will be used by terrorists some time soon," he declared. "We must plan for failure and prepare for absolute terror."
CAMDEN (AP) ― A paid government informant who infiltrated a group of men accused of plotting an attack on soldiers at the Army's Fort Dix was an Egyptian national on probation for bank fraud, an attorney in the case said Tuesday.
Less than two weeks after 38-year-old Mahmoud Omar was taken off probation and free to leave the United States, the FBI arrested the men who came to be known as the Fort Dix Six.
Until Tuesday, Omar was publicly known in court records only as CW-1 -- for Cooperating Witness No. 1 -- an Egyptian man older than the plot suspects who had been helpful to federal authorities in the past. A second paid informant remains unidentified.
The actions of CW-1 have raised questions of whether the government crossed the line and pushed the six men down a path they would not have otherwise followed.
During a court proceeding Tuesday, defense lawyer Michael Huff said that CW-1 was named Mahmoud Omar, and that on one tape he made for the government, Omar mentioned he was on probation............. According to court documents, CW-1 railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
The Fort Dix Six were arrested in May after a 15-month FBI investigation that relied heavily on two paid informants who secretly recorded meetings and telephone conversations in which the suspects talked of killing "in the name of Allah."
Prosecutors portrayed the six foreign-born men -- Serdar Tatar, 23; Agron Abdullahu, 24; Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22; Dritan "Anthony" or "Tony" Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir "Elvis" Duka, 23 -- as driven by hatred of America, a description disputed by relatives and acquaintances.................
http://cbs3.com/topstories/Fort.Dix.Bank.2.597291.html
Thanks, All4one. Sorry we missed you on our last trip out your way.
Paid informants typically are not the crem de le crem of society. Certainly activist organizations are working overtime to release these men back into America.
“Curious here as to what the next UBL tape will bring.”
It will jihad — another day.
Smiling just a bit...the good old days are here again...
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The negotiations continued until shortly before 2 p.m. when a deputy drove up in a white Big Apple cab strung with Christmas lights and parked in outside the bank in the middle of vacant South Orange Blossom Trail.”
Seriously...Testing, testing — 1-2-3.
RE L.V.:
“””No immediate threat was determined.””
That’s an interesting statement.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A suspicious brief case with tape and wires...”
Testing, testing, 1-2-3
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=794950&auth=Laura+Stradiotto%2fThe+Sudbury+Star
“Man threatened to bomb school: police”
Posted By Laura Stradiotto/The Sudbury Star
Posted 4 hours ago
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Hanmer man is in custody after police learned of a bomb threat made against a high school.
Greater Sudbury Police said Tuesday a man threatened to blow up Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School.
Donald Rouleau, 62, was charged with uttering a threat to cause death or bodily harm and uttering a threat to damage property. He is expected to remain in police custody until Friday when he is scheduled for a bail hearing.
With the arrest, there is no longer a threat against the school, said deputy police chief Frank Elsner.”
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48238
Afghan Forces Seize Ammunition Cache in Nangahar
American Forces Press Service
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, Nov. 27, 2007 – Afghan national security forces confiscated an ammunition cache in Khana village in the Sherzad district of Afghanistan’s Nangahar province yesterday.
The Afghan-led forces planned and executed the mission after receiving credible information of a possible ammunition cache in their area. The forces located and searched the suspected area where they found and recovered 70 rocket-propelled grenade boosters.
Afghan citizens receive compensation for their efforts through the Small Rewards Program when they facilitate the recovery and turn-in of armament caches. The program is designed to encourage and compensate Afghan citizens for their efforts to free Afghanistan of weapons used by insurgents and foreign fighters.
“Afghan citizens have taken an active role in improving the security and stability in their villages by facilitating the recovery of munitions caches,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman. “We value all credible information provided by Afghan citizens and protect their confidentiality.”
(From a Combined Joint Task Force 82 news release.)
Note:
The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48239
Troops Kill Four, Seize Large Weapons Cache in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces killed four suspected terrorists yesterday in an operation that also claimed the life of a child. Meanwhile, combined forces uncovered a significant weapons cache, military officials said.
In a raid targeting al Qaeda networks north of Beiji, coalition forces saw several individuals maneuvering near an area reported to be a terrorist logistical base and safe haven, military officials said. The ground force called for supporting aircraft, which engaged and killed two suspected terrorists.
Later in the operation, troops saw two men in a vehicle approach a road block at high speed. The driver failed to comply with coalition forces’ instructions to decelerate. The ground force fired warning shots, but the driver attempted to speed through the road block. The ground force engaged and killed both men in the vehicle.
Upon inspecting the vehicle, troops discovered a child inside who had been wounded during the engagement. Coalition forces administered immediate medical care before transferring the child to a military medical facility, where the child later died.
“We regret that civilians are hurt or killed while coalition forces work diligently to rid this country of the terrorist networks that threaten the security of Iraq and our forces,” said Navy Cmdr. Ed Buclatin, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
Elsewhere in Iraq, national police members from the Khansa police station and coalition forces are conducting joint patrols around Baghdad to maintain momentum of security efforts in the Iraqi capital, military officials said.
During a recent joint training patrol in a junkyard filled with abandoned automobiles, soldiers from 54th Military Police Company, 95th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, found a weapons cache containing five handheld radios, more than 2,000 7.62 mm rifle rounds, a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher, 29 metal plates, and four protective vests. Military officials said the amount of items seized in the cache likely will prevent future deaths in the al Khansa district.
Iraqi police requested explosive ordnance teams to dispose of the cache.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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