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When Syed Haris Ahmed first sat down with counterterrorism agents on March 10, 2006, the Georgia Tech student acted as if he had done nothing wrong. But over the next week, through 12 hours of arduous and sometimes-threatening questioning, the 21-year-old Ahmed changed his story dramatically. He admitted to taking "casing videos" of Washington landmarks, including the U.S. Capitol, that ended up on the computer of a London terrorist. He acknowledged meeting with extremists in Toronto and going to Pakistan for jihadist military training. ...Ahmed told agents, "It was nothing. It was just childish talk and stuff like that." He...

Fox news just reported live that a police helicopter reported seeing an individual setting fires in California. I didn't catch the exact location, nor whether they caught him. Further they reported that an FBI internal memo has stated that a detainee from some time back had given the FBI information that the "next strike would come in the form of wild fires". However, this memo didn't mention California. It did mention Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. The memo originated in Denver. I can not locate any other verification of this at this time, but this was reported live on FOX just...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A 19-year-old handyman at a Black Muslim organization was charged with murder Tuesday in the shooting death of a journalist who was investigating the group's troubled finances. DeVaughndre Broussard, who worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery, appeared in Alameda County Superior Court on charges that he gunned down Oakland Post Editor Chauncey Bailey last week. His arraignment was postponed until Monday so he could hire his own attorney. He was being held without bail.

Goose Creek - Two men are being held in the Berkeley County Detention Center after police find explosive making devices in their car. The quantity of explosive making materials in that vehicle is unclear. The FBI (website) reports that there is no known link to terrorism. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office believes that among materials in the car's trunk were a bomb and bomb making materials that include chemicals, fuses, and igniters. The men 21-year-old Yousef Megahed and 24-year-old Ahmed Mohamed were pulled over Saturday evening during a routine traffic stop near Myers Road and Highway 176. Few details about...

GOOSE CREEK, S.C. --Two men were detained after police found and detonated a suspicious item found in their car during a routine stop for a speeding violation on a highway near Charleston, Berkeley County sheriff's Lt. Vince Lombard said Sunday morning. Lombard said the men were being held pending a charge of unlawful possession of an explosive device, but he would not say what the device was or what bomb technicians from neighboring Charleston County exploded about 2:45 a.m. Sunday. The item made a loud bang, similar to a firecracker, when it was demolished. Authorities closed the road about 7...

Was there a link between last week's near-disastrous Washington State refinery fire and Saturday's detention of 2 ME suspects - with explosives- near a sensitive Naval facility ?

Earlier today, I mentioned the theory of Little Concrete Piranhas that Muslims from Your Black Muslim Bakery murdered classy investigative journalist Chauncey Bailey. Well, deputize those bloggers at LCP, because their hunch, posted yesterday right after news of Bailey's murder, has proven correct. Muslims Murdered Bailey in cold blood. And it appears to have been pre-meditated, too. Reader Kevin sends this report from San Francisco's KTVU--oh, and by the way, note that these holier-than-thou, "pious" Muslims flock like moths to a flame to strip clubs: Muslims Executed Chauncey Bailey . . . Your Black Muslim Bakery Now Your Black Muslim...

Lesbian Muslim Terror Suspects in Texas Arrested; Explosives at House Detonated, Terrorized Neighbors, Tested Police Response July 17, 2007 By Debbie Schlussel How many chances do two Muslim women get to violate the law with terrorist threats and test the system? Many chances, apparently, if they're "Kimberly" Asma Al-Homsi and Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad of Arlington, Texas. Remember them? As I told you in April, Al-Homsi, a Syrian with dual citizenship, was friends with Wadih El-Hage, Osama Bin Laden's personal secretary, convicted of the two 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa. "Kimberly" Asma Al-Homsi & Aisha Abdul-Rahman Hamad: Lesbian Muslim...

It started with a routine domestic disturbance, except that the pair involved has recently been under investigation by federal terrorism officials. Before the day ended, Arlington police had negotiated a six-hour standoff, their robot had been shot at with a paintball gun, and they had called in a bomb squad over four potentially explosive devices. Kimberly Al-Homsi called 911 about 12:40 a.m. Monday. She said her friend, Aisha Hamad, had threatened her with a knife. The two are noteworthy because a few months ago, they were seen at Dallas Love Field, both dressed in camouflage pants under traditional Muslim robes,...

JACKSONVILLE -- (AP) -- A man was charged with trying to bring a gun wrapped in aluminum foil and a towel aboard a plane at Jacksonville International Airport, authorities said Tuesday. Ahmad Abdallah Abu Ghanam was on his way to Chicago then Jordan on Monday when Transportation Security Administration workers found the .380-calibar semiautomatic gun in his checked luggage. The serial number had been scratched off, said Michael Stewart, director of external affairs for the airport. Abu Ghanam told police he bought the weapon on the street a month ago and he did not realize the serial number was missing....

In August 2006, Russell “Mohammed” Defreitas, a retired employee of New York’s JFK Airport, confided to an acquaintance his “vision” for a jihad terror attack that, he said, would make the attack on the World Trade Center seem small. The plot involved placing bombs in jet fuel lines in the airport, thereby destroying the airport and probably killing thousands. Besides the mayhem and economic devastation this plot would cause, Defreitas seemed to have been fond of it because of its symbolic value: “Anytime you hit Kennedy, it is the most hurtful thing to the United States,” he told his acquaintance,...

NEW YORK - Three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plan to set off explosives in a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, officials close to the investigation said. The plot, which never got past the planning stages, did not involve airplanes or passenger terminals, according to the two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because details of the arrests had not yet been announced. Details were to be given out at a 1 p.m. news conference. The pipeline takes fuel from a...

JFK Screeners Find Bomb Residue, Let Man Go Man Released After Positive Explosives Test At JFK Image Scott Weinberger Reporting Save It Email this Article Email It Print this Article Print It (CBS) QUEENS A man's sneakers tested positive for explosives at JFK airport. The sneakers were confiscated, but the man walked free. However, federal screeners didn’t tell any member of law enforcement what happened for days. The man used the name Gamal Badawi with U.S. immigration officials last Friday at JFK airport. At the time, authorities were unable to use the computerized system that takes a visitor's fingerprints and...

Lauderdale woman dragged for miles, killed after confronting hit-run driver UPDATE: Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne announced Monday afternoon the arrest of a man at New York's John F. Kennedy airport in the dragging death of Sandra Hall, 44, of Fort Lauderdale, according to news reports. Sheriff Jenne identified the suspect as Abdelaziz Hamze, 24, of Coral Springs. He said BSO investigators were on their way to New York to interview him.

Report confirms terror dry run By Audrey Hudson THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published May 30, 2007 Download the inspector general report (PDF) A newly released inspector general report backs eyewitness accounts of suspicious behavior by 13 Middle Eastern men on a Northwest Airlines flight in 2004 and reveals several missteps by government officials, including failure to file an incident report until a month after the matter became public. According to the Homeland Security report, the "suspicious passengers," 12 Syrians and their Lebanese-born promoter, were traveling on Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on expired visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...

A Van Nuys man carrying a one-way ticket to Bangladesh has been arrested at a Phoenix airport in connection with the deaths of two Anaheim Hills residents last week, the beating of a third, and a house fire, Maricopa County Superior Court officials confirmed Tuesday. Iftekhar Murtaza,22, is identified in court papers as the ex-boyfriend of Shayona Dhanak, the 18-year-old daughter of one of the two murder victims, Jayprakash Dhanak, 56. The other victim, Karishma Dhanak, 20, was Shayona Dhanak’s sister. Jayprakash’s wife, Leela Dhanak, 53, was severely beaten in the attack but survived. The victims were stabbed, strangled and...

A man was busted for pelting someone with flaming material in Times Square, burning his victim's hand and causing more than $5,000 in damage to a tour bus parked nearby, authorities said yesterday. Ahmed Said, 42, attacked the 38-year-old man in front of the bus on West 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth avenues at around 7:40 p.m. last Wednesday. Said was charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, authorities said.

A bookseller was sentenced yesterday in Federal District Court to 13 years in prison for plotting to buy arms for Islamic fighters in Afghanistan. Prosecutors say that the bookseller, Abdulrahman Farhane, 53, met with an undercover federal informant in his bookstore in late 2001 to discuss ways to send money overseas to buy weapons for the fighters.

WASHINGTON — Members of extremist groups have signed up as school bus drivers in the United States, counterterror officials said Friday, in a cautionary bulletin to police. An FBI spokesman said "parents and children have nothing to fear." Asked about the alert notice, the FBI's Rich Kolko said "there are no threats, no plots and no history leading us to believe there is any reason for concern," although law enforcement agencies around the country were asked to watch out for kids' safety.

He confided in his girlfriend the night before the massacre He never told his relatives that he would do anything else with the guns besides sell them. However, according to the American press, Talovic on the night before the massacre told his girlfriend that “I will do something that will make tomorrow the best day of my life”. “Tomorrow something will happen, something that you will not be able to forgive me” he told her that night. 17 year old Monika was also a refugee from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and lives in Texas. She and Sulejman have never met, but...