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Islamist Video - 150 Bombings of American Targets

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Islamist Video - 150 Bombings of American Targets
Jihad & Terrorism Studies Project
January 12, 2007
No. 1424
Islamist Websites Monitor Project No. 44-47
*Islamist Websites Monitor No. 44

On December 30, 2006, Islamist websites posted a nine-minute video
titled "The Bombings that Destroyed the Myth of the American Military
Machine on Iraqi Soil." According to the Islamist sites, the video
shows "more than 150 bombings in fewer than nine minutes." The video
shows a series of dozens of bombings of moving American targets
(tanks, APCs, Humvees, trucks, and cars) carried out throughout Iraq
at different times by various Sunni jihad groups, some affiliated with
Al-Qaeda and some not. Among the groups are Al-Qaeda, Ansar Al-Sunna,
Al-Jaysh Al-Islami (The Islamic Army), Jaysh Al-Mujahideen, Kata'ib
Thawrat Al-'Ashrin, Jaysh Al-Fatihin, and Jaysh Al-Rashidin. No
mention was made of the video's producer. A copy of the video is on
file in MEMRI's archives.

Islamic State of Iraq Attempts to Establish Its Legitimacy in Online
Book

On January 7, 2007 Islamist websites posted a new book titled "On the
Establishment of the Islamic State," published by Al-Furqan, the
production company of the Islamic State of Iraq, under the supervision
of 'Othman Ibn 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Tamimi, who heads the Islamic State
of Iraq's Shari'a Board. The book states that its goals are: to lay
out the legal, political and pragmatic considerations underpinning the
mujahideen vision for the Islamic State in Iraq; to describe the
circumstances that have led to the prompt realization of this vision;
and to address the debate sparked by the establishment of the Islamic
State.

In the first chapter, the book explains why an Islamic state is
necessary. One of the main arguments presented is that guiding people
to obey God inevitably requires the establishment of a
religious-political entity. Without such an authority, states the
book, no effective guidance can take place. Chapter Two aims to
establish the legitimacy of the Islamic State of Iraq, and
specifically, to show that the Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen legitimately
represents the Muslims in Iraq and effectively implements shari'a law
in all areas of life (e.g. imposes Koranic punishment, collects
Islamic taxes, and wages jihad against the enemy).

Chapter Three, titled "What We Are Accused of and What We Should Say
in Reply," is an attempt to counter the criticism aimed at the Islamic
State of Iraq - for instance, the claim that an Islamic state should
not be established while Islamic territories are still under foreign
occupation and while basic security is not provided.

The fourth and last chapter aims to elicit support for the Islamic
state from religious scholars, Islamic movements, Islamic youth, the
various jihad organizations in Iraq, and the general Iraqi population.
To view a page from the book visit:
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GIMF Responds to Egypt's Alleged New Campaign Against "Media Jihad"

On January 8, 2007, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted a
response on Islamist websites to what it termed Egypt's new campaign
against websites that are helping the "media jihad." In the response,
the GIMF expresses doubt about Egypt's capability to fight "media
jihad," saying: "The Americans themselves have not been able to stop
this... astonishing 'media jihad' on the Internet... How, then, will
the conspirators from the Egyptian intelligence apparatus stop it?"
The message continued, "We would like to tell those who engage in this
failed initiative, You are digging in water. With Allah's help, you
will not succeed in attacking us, no matter what you do... With
Allah's help, we will resist you with our brigades... just as we did
your American lords... We have belief in Allah, knowledge, experience,
and awareness [of technical matters]... We have experts, programmers,
engineers, computer security experts, etc. We will discover your
plans..."

The message ends with a general appeal to Muslims to assist "media
jihad" - not as individuals, but in groups, so that they do not become
easy prey for attacks by the enemy.

*Islamist Websites Monitor No. 45

Video by the Commander of Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiyya Lil-Da'wa Wal-Qital
in Algeria

On January 9, 2007, Islamist websites posted a 23-minute video of a
speech by Abu Mus'ab 'Abd Al-Wadud, commander of Al-Jama'a
Al-Salafiyya Lil-Da'wa Wal-Qital in Algeria (whose real name is 'Abd
Al-Malik Drukdal). The video, dated January 3, 2007 and titled "We Are
Coming," was produced by the organization's Media Committee.

After extending holiday greetings to the Muslims throughout the world
on the occasion of 'Eid Al-Adha, Abd Al-Wadud conveys three messages.
First he proclaims his organization's loyalty to Osama bin Laden,
saying: "Oh Sheikh [bin Laden]... launch us wherever you wish, and you
will [never] find us anything but attentive and obedient... Our
announcement that we have joined [Al-Qaeda] and our oath of allegiance
to you are a thorn in the side of the Alliance of Evil... We eagerly
await your orders and recommendations for the next phase."

The second message is addressed to Algerian President Abdelaziz
Bouteflika. Abd Al-Wadud urges him to support Islam and to implement
the shari'a, and adds: "Your generals should know that we are
courageous in battle, and that we love death as much as they love
drunkenness and debauchery. In [waging] jihad, we are merely
fulfilling a duty that is incumbent upon every individual Muslim since
Andalusia fell, since Palestine was sold off and since we were
separated by borders drawn by the invaders. By Allah, we will not tire
of this essential battle until every foot of Muslim soil is liberated,
or [until] we die."

The third message is addressed to the Algerian people. Abd Al-Wadud
warns them that the U.S. and France are plotting to plunder their
country's treasures, and calls upon every loyal Muslim to "join [him
and his followers] in defending faith, land and honor."

Finally, Abd Al-Wadud commends the jihad fighters in Palestine,
Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Chechnya for their steadfastness in
jihad, and promises that victory is near.
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*Islamist Websites Monitor No. 46

Salahaldin Al-Ayoubi Brigades Claim To Have Launched Missiles Loaded
With Chemicals

The Salahaldin Al-Ayoubi Brigades, the military wing of JAMI, Al Jabha
Al-Islamiyya l'il-Muqawama Al-'Iraqiyya, announced via Islamist
websites that today, January 10, 2007, it had fired four missiles
loaded with chemicals at a U.S. base near Samara, Iraq. The
organization posted a film showing militants wearing gas masks and
filling the missiles with a liquid which the organization claims are
chemicals. For images of the film visit:
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To view the film, go to:
http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=431504&ak=null .

The Islamic State in Iraq Urges Sunnis to Resist the Imminent Attack
Against Them by the Iraqi Government

On January 8, 2007, Islamist websites posted an urgent appeal by the
Islamic State in Iraq to the Sunnis in Iraq. The appeal discusses
first the Al-Maliki government's recently announced "new security
plan," calling it another step "in the long Shi'ite campaign to wipe
out the Sunnis in Baghdad and to destroy and burn their mosques until
the conditions of the Sunnis in Iraq resemble that of the oppressed
Sunnis in Iran." The message, then, calls upon the mujahideen in
Baghdad "to take precaution, to maintain [their] posts in the
streets... and to increase the security around the mosques in order to
block the attacks by Shi'ite crime gangs." The message ends by calling
upon the general Sunni population to stand behind the mujahideen and
to rush to the support of their young state, the Islamic State in
Iraq, in order to secure the existence of the Sunnis in Iraq and to
[ensure] the implementation of shari'a laws..."

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The Islamic Army in Iraq Claims Responsibility for an Airplane Crash
Near Balad, Iraq

On January 10, 2007, Islamist websites posted an announcement by the
Islamic Army in Iraq in which it claimed to have downed the airplane
(operated by a company based in Moldova) which crashed on January 9,
2007. The crash, which occurred approximately two and a half
kilometers northwest of Balad, claimed the lives of the 30 Turkish
workers who were on board. According to the announcement, "the
airplane was about to land in an American base nearby when a
military... unit of the Islamic Army opened fired on the airplane...
using mid-range weapons and single-barrel machine-guns, leading to its
crash..."

*Islamist Websites Monitor No. 47

New Book Describes the Virgins of Paradise

On January 11, 2007, the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF) posted on
Islamist websites a 20-page book titled "The Desire of the Souls for
the Women of Paradise." The book, by Abu Usama Al-'Iraqi, consists
mostly of excerpts from medieval Islamic sources. The text focuses on
the behavior and physical characteristics of the virgins who await
those who enter Paradise, with emphasis on the contrast between them
and earthly women. For example, it is said that the virgins of
Paradise are free of all the physical and mental impurities that
characterize earthly women (e.g., menstrual blood and other bodily
discharges, unclean speech, and inappropriate glances at men other
than their husbands).

The book ends with the following message to the reader:
"...Intelligent people do not forgo [the prospect] of the brides of
Paradise for the sake of false beauty in this world. They do not
prefer forbidden... lust, which dooms one to Hell, over genuine desire
in Paradise."

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Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as
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Fear and Anger in Assam 's Village of Dead (back)

January 10, 2007

by Subir Bhaumik

Some of the young settlers are angry

The dance of death around this town in the northern Indian state of Assam seems to have abated at least for the moment.

But the panic amongst the Hindi-speaking settlers here is all-pervading, despite huge deployment of troops and policemen.

'I don't know why they are killing us. We are poor labourers, we cause no harm to the local Assamese. We only come here to make a living to stay alive,' says Shiv Kumar, who comes from Chhapra district in the impoverished northern state of Bihar .

Kumar has worked in a brick factory in the village of Tingri near here for the last 12 years.

'I lost my brother in front of my eyes. His body was riddled with bullets on Friday night,' says Shiv Kumar.

'We will all die here, the police can't protect us,' adds Kumar's neighbour Prem Nath.

Nath's brother died on Friday, too, when more than 10 suspected members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (Ulfa), clad in olive green fatigues, stormed into the labourer's colony at Tingri and opened fire with assault rifles. They killed five men.

'You Bihari dogs - get out of Assam ,' shouted the rebel commander as the gunmen kept firing.

'They were in no mood to spare any of us,' remembers Prem Nath.

'Give us weapons'

On Monday, the Hindi-speaking settlers of Tingri cried and complained to visiting Indian Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, who himself is from Bihar .

But the younger settlers were angry.

'Give us weapons, we can protect ourselves, we don't need the police, they are useless,' said Abhay Kumar as Mr Yadav went about trying to console the angry crowd.

Angry Hindi-speaking settlers refused to cremate their dead for three days in the village of Longsual , which is near Tingri.

Assurances have failed to calm jittery nerves

They lined up 12 bodies on the highway that goes past the village, and shouted slogans against Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi, and the Ulfa rebel leader, Paresh Barua.

The funeral pyres were lit only after Mr Yadav assured them that 'strong military action' would be taken.

Laloo Yadav asked the Hindi-speaking settlers not to leave Assam at any cost.

'Just stay put and you will be protected. This will not happen again, this place is as much yours as Bihar is,' he said.

But such brave talk has failed to convince most settlers here.

Ever since the rebel attacks started on Friday, thousands of migrants have flocked to railway stations, desperate to catch the first train out of Assam .

'It is true that the trains going out of Assam towards northern India are loaded with these people. Many are not even waiting to buy tickets,' an official of the north-eastern frontier railway said.

'Symbol of India '

Tinsukia, with its hosiery and brick factories, has the thickest concentration of Hindi-speaking settlers anywhere in Assam .

The villages around this town have borne the brunt of the rebel attacks since Friday, in which more than 70 people, almost all Hindi-speaking settlers, have died so far.

Angry settlers refused to cremate the dead for three days (Photo: Subhamoy Bhattacharjee)

Authorities blame the attacks on Ulfa rebels, who began their fight for Assam 's independence in 1979.

'Ulfa sees the Hindi-speaking migrants as a symbol of the Indian control over Assam . They want to play on Assamese sentiments by attacking them. Perhaps they also want to put pressure on Delhi to resume negotiations,' says political analyst Noni Gopal Mahanta.

Ulfa negotiated with the Indian government through a group of mediators for a year until talks collapsed in September.

Since then, the rebels have carried out many bombings and grenade attacks on Hindi-speaking settlements.

And the massacres which began on Friday have been the worst in a decade.

Other idea

But the latest attacks have not gone down well with many Assamese, including some regional groups opposed to migrants.

'Illegal migration from Bangladesh is a more serious problem for us. The Hindi-speaking settlers are a very small part of our population and they do not threaten our identity as the Bangladeshis do,' says Sommujjal Bhattacharya, chief adviser of the All Assam Student's Union (Aasu).

Aasu led a powerful six-year-long campaign against migrants in the 1980s.

'The vacuum that will now be created by the exodus of Hindi-speaking labourers may be filled up by illegal Bangladeshi migrants,' says Mr Bhattacharya.

But Ulfa, it appears, has other ideas.

Before the latest round of attacks started on Friday, 'quick notices' were issued against the Hindi-speaking migrants in many parts of Assam .

'The Ulfa leadership is based in Bangladesh , and that explains their action. The Hindi-speaking migrants are easy whipping boys in Assam ,' says the state's police intelligence chief, Khagen Sarmah.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6244429.stm

Americans Weigh New Bush Plan for Iraq (back)

January 11, 2007

by Erin McClam

Saundra Clagett has spent days bouncing from one conclusion to another about what the United States should do about Iraq . She knew this much: She was glad it wasn't her decision. So Clagett and her husband, both veterans, settled in Wednesday night to watch President Bush explain to the nation why he was sending 21,500 additional U.S. troops into the war. She listened, and was unconvinced.

'The bottom line is that we need to bring our troops home,' Clagett said after the speech from her home in Fayetteville , N.C. , near Fort Bragg . 'I think we've done all that we can do. This is Iraq 's civil war. There comes a time when they have to stand on their own.'

Frustrated by mounting U.S. deaths in Iraq , looking for a way out or a way forward in the nearly four-year-old conflict, Americans considered Bush's plan Wednesday night and responded with a mixture of frustration and cautious, last-ditch hope.

Adam Pollet, a Harvard University student from Atlanta , rushed into the bar Cambridge Common to grab some friends, then focused his attention on Bush's prime-time address.

'I think he's trying to do the best he can,' Pollet said, 'but I don't think he has any idea that's better than anyone else's.'

The reinforcements announced by Bush would bring the U.S. military presence in Iraq to more than 150,000 troops. The president also steeled the country for more violence and said he had made a mistake by not ordering more troops there last year.

He was speaking to a nation that has in large part soured on the war, which last month claimed its 3,000th American life.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll in December put approval of Bush's handling of the war at 27 percent, a record low, and a majority of voters interviewed in exit polls during the midterm elections said they favored pulling some or all troops from Iraq .

Even among Americans who applauded Bush's decision to bolster the American military presence in Iraq , there were questions about why the reinforcements were only being sent now.

'I'd love to know what took him so long to come to this realization,' said Wayne Muller, who watched the speech from his home in Raleigh , N.C. , and whose son, Cpl. Danny Muller, serves in Iraq 's volatile Anbar province.

'We either have to get the troops in there to get the job done or bring them home,' Muller said.

Some who watched the speech said in interviews they were at least hopeful it might quell the raging violence in Iraq _ even if they were unsure the troop surge would be effective.

'I have no idea if this is going to work, but he's got a plan _ let's hope it does,' money manager Richard Earl said at an upscale restaurant in the financial district of Miami.

At the same restaurant, mortgage lender Antonio Ortiz said, 'We can't just leave.'

In other places, there was less reserved support for Bush and the reinforcement strategy. At an American Legion post near Fort Hood , Texas , Vietnam veteran George Payntar said he backed the president's plan.

'I think we need to stop the terrorism, stop it there,' said Payntar, whose daughter has been stationed in Iraq since October. 'If we pull out, they'll be here. I am afraid if we pull out now, we would lose the progress we made and the Iraqi people would suffer greatly.'

The steady slide in public support for the war has been remarkable: Even in Utah , a Bush electoral stronghold, a recent Salt Lake Tribune poll found less than half of respondents supported Bush's war plans.

'I was pleased that he didn't try to be overly optimistic,' said Bart Barker, 52, who watched the Bush address from his home in Draper. 'The way he talked about deploying added troops does give me a little hope.'

Watching with particularly keen interest were the parents of the U.S. troops who have served in Iraq , are serving there now or are soon to be deployed. One was Nancy Caley of Columbus , Ohio , whose son will be dispatched to Iraq early this year.

'If we're going to do that, we need to go in and take care of business,' she said, adding she would like to see more focused fights against insurgents and that the additional troops should lead to a resolution of U.S. involvement in Iraq.

The father of an Ohio soldier who went missing following a 2004 fuel-convoy ambush west of Baghdad said Bush's plan to send more troops is what the United States has 'got to do.'

'It's our job to support him,' said Keith Maupin, father of Army reservist Sgt. Keith 'Matt' Maupin. 'It's a tough call.'

Source: http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC& fn=/2007/01/11/559938.html&cvqh=itn_congress

Islam Close to Seizing Control of Europe (back)

January 10, 2007

If you ever wanted to see Paris or Rome before you die, but haven't had a chance
to do so, you might want to hurry. Soon enough, most of what we now think of as
Western Europe will be transformed into a branch of the Muslim world, which is
sure to make it an even less welcoming place for Americans, Israelis and for
Jews.

That, at least, is the unpleasant, yet entirely unavoidable conclusion to be
drawn from Europe 's headlong demographic drive toward oblivion.

Think I'm exaggerating? Consider a few cold hard facts.

According to a recent report by the Rand Corporation, 'Across Europe, birth
rates are falling and family sizes are shrinking. The total fertility rate is
now less than two children per woman in every member nation in the European
Union.'

Needless to say, demographers consider a birthrate of 2.1 children per family to
be the replacement level at which a society's population size remains stable.
Barring large-scale immigration, anything less means decline and dissolution.

A research study published last year in the International Journal of Andrology
found a similar trend, concluding that, 'Fertility rates have fallen and are now
below replacement level in all European Union (EU) Member States. In the 20-year
period since 1982,' it noted, 'most EU Member State countries have had total
fertility rates continuously below replacement level.'

At the bottom of the list are Spain , Italy and Greece , where birthrates hover
around just 1.3 per couple, leading some forecasters to suggest, for example,
that Italy 's population could shrink by one-third by the middle of the century.

Others, such as Germany 's 1.37, the UK 's 1.74 and Sweden 's 1.75, aren't all much
better.

The figures are so bad that in many European countries, the total number of
deaths each year has actually begun to exceed the number of births.

Indeed, the Council of Europe's 2004 Demographic Yearbook warned that, 'for
Europe as a whole, more people died in 2003 than were born.' In 1990, said the
yearbook, 'three countries - Germany , Bulgaria and Hungary - had negative
natural growth for the first time. By 2002, it was negative in fifteen
countries.'

LAST YEAR, after the publication of statistics revealing that 30 percent of
German women have not had children, Germany's family minister, Ursula von der
Leyen, caused a stir when she said that if her nation's birth rate did not turn
around, the country would have to 'turn out the light.' And while Europeans may
be busy everywhere but in the bedroom, the Muslim populations in their midst are
proving far more expansive.

Right on!: Say Goodbye to Europe

Islam is perilously close to seizing control of Western Europe .

Source: http://www.nowpublic.com/islam_is_periolously_close_to_ seizing_control_of_western_europe

Anti-Terror Bill Clears US House (back)

January 11, 2007

by David Espo

An anti-terrorism bill sailed through the House on Tuesday, the first in a string of measures designed to fulfill campaign promises made by Democrats in the fall.

Patterned on recommendations of the commission that investigated 9-11, the far-reaching measure includes commitments for inspection of all cargo carried aboard passenger aircraft and on ships bound for the United States .

The vote was a bipartisan 299-128, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the rostrum to announce the passage of the first legislation to clear under the new Democratic majority.

Democrats said the bill's passage was a top priority.

'Our first and highest duty as members of this Congress is to protect the American people, to defend our homeland and to strengthen our national security,' said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Several Republicans called the legislation little more than political posturing in the early hours of a new Democratic-controlled Congress. Democrats want to 'look aggressive on homeland security. This bill will waste billions of dollars, and possibly harm homeland security by gumming up progress already under way,' said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky.

In a statement, the Bush administration listed several objections and said it could not support the measure as drafted but stopped short of a veto threat.

Democrats have pledged to make fiscal responsibility a priority in the new Congress, but they advanced the bill -- their first of the year -- without even a bare-bones accounting of the estimated cost. The funding would require follow-up legislation.

Legislation introduced in the Senate a year ago to implement the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission had a price of more than $53 billion over five years.

Democrats said the anti-terrorism bill would enact virtually all of the unfulfilled recommendations of the 9-11 Commission.

The legislation would direct the Homeland Security Department to establish a system for inspecting all cargo carried on passenger aircraft over the next three years. It would also require using the best available technology to scan all containers bound for the U.S. . Large ports would be given three years to comply, smaller ports five years.

The bill would also require the government to take the risk of terrorism attacks into greater account when distributing homeland security grants to states.

The measure would centralize the government's efforts at preventing nuclear weapons from falling into terrorists' hands and would take steps to disrupt the black market for nuclear material. And it would establish a program of grants to make sure local governments can communicate effectively in the event of a crisis.

Source: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/16425713.htm

Nigeria May Be Hot Spot For Terrorism (back)

January 10, 2007

by Kari Barber

While current U.S. military attention is focused on removing possible al-Qaida cells in Somalia , some analysts say terrorist threats from other parts of Africa should also be closely monitored. They say Nigeria 's violence-wracked, oil-rich Niger Delta could become a new theater for terrorism. For VOA, Kari Barber reports from our regional bureau in Dakar .

Analysts say religious and ethnic divisions coupled with state corruption and severe poverty in parts of West Africa provide fertile grounds for terrorist groups.

Rampant violence and kidnappings in the Niger Delta have analysts examining the roots of the region's discontent. They say poor access to basic social services, gross inequality of wealth and government neglect have created a vacuum for militants to exploit .

International policy analyst J. Peter Pham has written columns for a defense publication warning that West Africa could provide a welcoming terrain for international terrorism.

Pham says he believes violence in the Niger Delta is taking on a radical Islamic dimension.

'One cannot ignore the fact that the current, if you will, resistance movement, there in the delta, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, has outside sources and there is reason to believe that the outside support does come from militant Islamic groups who are exploiting the legitimate grievances in the delta for their own ends,' he said.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, has stepped up its kidnappings and attacks at Western oil facilities. It has also started claiming a string of car bombings, a tactic that has been used very little by violent groups in West Africa . The group says it wants a more equitable distribution of wealth for the underdeveloped region. It also demands the release of movement leader Moujahid Dokubo-Asari who is in prison for sedition.

Asari has drawn parallels between his struggle against the Nigerian government and Osama Bin Laden's terrorist activities.

Pham cites Asari's reference to Bin Laden and the similarities MEND'S attacks bear to those of Middle Eastern terrorist groups as proof that the group is becoming intertwined with Islamic militancy.

But many Nigerian commentators disagree with this view.

Nassir Abbas of the northern-based Civil Rights Congress says citing religion as a cause for the increasing unrest distracts from solving the root problems. He says alleviating unemployment and poverty would remove religion from the equation.

Abbas says the conflict in the Niger Delta is domestic and does not reflect a larger threat to U.S. security.

'It is just an internal problem,' he said. 'Once that is addressed, you will not have any spillover. The government of the United States of America has been supportive of Nigeria ever since. So I would not think it would transgress to meet the interests of the United States , no not at all.'

Analysts, both inside and outside Nigeria , do agree the violence is extremely worrisome.

Paul Wee, who is program officer for religion and peacemaking at the U.S. institute for Peace, says the stability of Nigeria is paramount to the stability of the region because of its size, energy production and balance of Christian and Islamic populations.

Wee says that although the pressure is there, he does not expect Nigeria to fall to extremists.

'They are quite aware of the fact that some of the influence comes from other parts of Africa and the Middle East that would like to see more disruption and more anarchy, more chaos, but I think to the credit of Nigerians they have rejected this,' he said.

Nigeria is scheduled to hold presidential elections in April. Analysts say a smooth democratic process is crucial to regional security as well as energy interests in the United States . Nigeria is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the United States .

Source: http://voanews.com/english/2007-01-10-voa19.cfm

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Muslim violence, Islamists
A letter to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada

By Gary Reid

Friday, January 12, 2007

I am writing to you about a terrible mental disorder. It has caused widespread problems throughout Western Europe and elsewhere in the world, and, although there are indications it has begun to manifest itself in Canada, it is not too late to tackle the problem and fix it before it spreads further.

About a year ago, 17 males were arrested in the Greater Toronto Area on charges of planning terrorism. Among other things, they wanted to cut your head off.

The police and intelligence services, at the press conference announcing the arrests, went out of their way to avoid saying the "M" word; i.e., Muslim. In an excess of political correctness they announced that these suspects "came from all sectors of society."

The truth was they were and are Islamists, and it is through their Islamist connections that they were able to overcome the difficulty of being "from all sectors of society" to organize a criminal plot. In saying this, I recognize that these charges remain to be proven in a court of law.

Some time after their arrests, e-mail messages that had passed amongst their wives and girlfriends were published in newspapers. The women agreed that Canada is "a filthy country", meaning it is not an Islamic state, and they agreed that Muslims should not participate in the exercise of democracy in Canada. They are also Islamists.

Before you became Prime Minister, your predecessor, Paul Martin, informed us that the Khadr family, another bunch of Islamists from Pakistan, were entitled to return to this country and take advantage of its free health care system because they are Canadian citizens, notwithstanding the fact that the matriarch and her daughters said contemptuous things about Canada and openly support Osama bin Laden's goal for an Islamist caliphate over the entire globe.

The American Middle East expert, Dr. Daniel Pipes has dubbed the Khadrs as Canada's "first family of terrorism."

This past week, the Toronto Star, carried a story headlined, Top Islamist ponders return. Apparently, Mr. Abdullahi Afrah, who for several years was a grocer in Toronto, and who is both a Somalian and Canadian citizen, went back to Somalia and became a major figure in a temporary Islamic government in that country, enforcing a Taliban-like control of the populace.

The Union of Islamic Courts, Mr. Afrah's government, was recently chased away by an Ethiopian army sent to protect the United Nations' approved government.

What is interesting about this is that Mr. Afrah, having spent enough time in Canada to gain citizenship, did not see the value of our liberal democracy as a model for the new government of Somalia. He would rather have one that imposes the strictest of interpretations of the Sharia, because his loyalty is to Islam and not to any nation-state, and certainly not to Canada.

In light of this, I have a question. What are we doing in Afghanistan?

Our soldiers are being killed by Islamists. We label the enemy militia as the Taliban, but the fact is that they are Islamist Afghans. They want to impose a strict Islamic theocracy on the country. Of course, you can point to United Nations backing, NATO participation, democracy building, terrorism prevention, and a host of utilitarian reasons why we are there and doing what we are doing, but, the most fundamental reason is that we are killing Afghans because they are Islamists.

So, I have another question. Is Islamism an enemy of Canada?

If so, then what are we doing permitting the likes of the Kadhrs and Afrahs, and some of the 17 charged terrorist plotters, and perhaps many others, to become citizens of our country, and to remain so when their Islamism is revealed?

If not, then why have we unleashed our soldiers to kill Islamists in Afghanistan and to be killed in turn by them?

Generally, a foreigner cannot immigrate to Canada if he or she is infected with HIV, for obvious reasons. Islamism is a virus of the mind. It is spread throughout Canada by its host, Islam. It is just as dangerous to the welfare of our liberal democracy as HIV is to public health.

Why do we protect Canadians from the AIDS virus but not from Islamism?

Global estimates of the number of Islamists suggest that about 10% of Muslims have this disease. If Islamism is widely dispersed amongst Muslims globally, that would imply that Canada currently harbours about 50,000 people infected with it. Islamism is also the fastest growing cult within the wider religion of Islam.

Isn't it time that Canada formulated a consistent and effective policy for confronting and curing Islamism, not just in Afghanistan, but here at home?
Gary Reid is a freelance writer and a public affairs consultant.
Gary Reid, letters@canadafreepress.com
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Hybrid Youth Gangs, illegal aliens
Illegal Alien Gangs Flourishing in America

By Jim Kouri

Friday, January 12, 2007

Law enforcement officers from communities unaffected by gangs until the 1980s or early 1990s often find themselves scrambling to obtain training relevant to what are called hybrid youth gangs in the 21st century. These include gangs with large memberships of illegal aliens from Mexico (Mexican Mafia), El Salvador (MS-13), the Dominican Republic, and others.

When gang-related training first became widely available in the early 1990s, it often emphasized historical information, such as the formation of the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods in the late 1960s or the legacy of Chicago-based gangs (the Black Gangster Disciples, Latin Kings, and Vice Lords).

As law enforcement officers learned about the origins of these influential gangs, they sometimes attempted to apply this outdated information in their efforts to deal with illegal immigrant gangs in their jurisdictions.

The assumption that new gangs share the characteristics of older gangs can impede law enforcement’s attempts to identify and effectively counter local street gangs, and actions based on this assumption often elicit inappropriate responses from the community as a whole. Citizens may react negatively to law enforcement efforts when they sense that gang suppression actions are geared to a more serious gang problem than local gangs appear to present.

Because of uncertainty in reporting on problem groups such as "cliques," "crews," "posses," and other nontraditional collectives that may be immigrant gangs, some police department staff spend an inordinate amount of time trying to precisely categorize local groups according to definitions of traditional gangs.

When training law enforcement groups on investigative issues surrounding drug trafficking or street gangs, instructors must resist the tendency to connect gangs in different cities just because the gangs share a common name. If the groups engage in ongoing criminal activity and alarm community members, law enforcement officers should focus on the criminal activity, regardless of the ideological beliefs or identifiers (i.e., name, symbols, and group colors) of the suspects. This practical approach would circumvent the frustration that results from trying to pigeonhole hybrid gangs into narrow categories and would avoid giving undue attention to gangs that want to be recognized as nationwide crime syndicates.

The expanded presence of gangs is often blamed on the relocation of members from one city to another, which is called gang migration. Some gangs are very transient and conduct their activities on a national basis. This is especially true of illegal immigrant gangs.

However, the sudden appearance of Rollin’ 60s Crips graffiti in a public park in rural Iowa, for example, does not necessarily mean that the Los Angeles gang has set up a chapter in the community. Gang names are frequently copied, adopted, or passed on. In most instances, there is little or no real connection between local groups with the same name other than the name itself. Gang migration does occur, however.

According to the National Youth Gang Survey, 18 percent of all youth gang members had migrated from another jurisdiction to the one in which they were residing. Although gang migration is stereotypically attributed to illegal activities such as drug franchising, expansion of criminal enterprises is not the principal driving force behind migration. The most common reasons for migration are social considerations affecting individual gang members, including family relocation to improve the quality of life or to be near relatives and friends.

Moreover, in the National Youth Gang Survey, the vast majority (83 percent) of law enforcement respondents agreed that the appearance of gang members outside of large cities in the 1990s was caused by the relocation of young people from central cities.

Thus, the dispersion of the urban population to less populated areas contributed to the proliferation of gangs in suburban areas, small towns, and rural areas.Law enforcement professionals may not be able to differentiate among local gangs that have adopted names of the same well-known gangs from other locales but have no real connection with each other until they begin to interact with gang members through interviews, debriefings, and other contacts.

"Hybrid" versions of illegal alien gangs will begin to display variations of the original gang, such as giving different reasons for opposing rival gangs or displaying certain colors. Investigators who take the time to cross-check their local gang intelligence with that of other agencies concerning gangs with identical names are likely to find some subtle and some glaring differences.

Source: Institute for Intergovernmental Research National Youth Gang Center, National Association of Chiefs of Police Organized Crime Committee

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country.

Jim writes for many police and crime magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer, Campus Law Enforcement Journal, and others. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com, Booksamillion.com, and can be ordered at local bookstores.

Jim holds a bachelor of science in criminal justice and master of arts in public administration and he's a board certified protection professional.

© Copyright 2007 by Jim Kouri

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Complacent, Ignorance & Apathy disease
Save Canada campaign "Six Cents Solution" - CIA disease reaching epidemic proportions

By Randy Hillier, President, Ontario Landowners Association

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Due to the alarming spread of Complacent, Ignorance & Apathy disease (CIA) the Landowner magazine has initiated a Six Cents Solution to this mysterious disease. There are two variants of CIA disease, covert and overt, which generally attacks individuals living in dense urban settings. Evidence proves CIA is spreading throughout suburban Canada, and may eventually reach rural Canada.

CIA disease strikes the central nervous system and those areas of the brain that control motivation, reason, and memory. Once infected there is no known cure, the patient becomes addicted to watching the CBC, desires social housing, seeks out either welfare, or bureaucratic employment, and has a strong preference for public transportation. Complete dependence upon government leading to eventual death is inevitable.

First symptoms of Covert CIA disease are; a pervasive reliance on political correctness both in thought and expressions, followed by over powering hallucinations of social and economic utopia, complete blindness to reality is certain if not diagnosed in the early stages.

The variant, Overt CIA, causes outwardly odd behaviour and phobias and in addition to the above symptoms includes; Fear of church suppers, farmers markets, fresh milk, cheese, eggs, and local baked goods. Food must be wrapped in cellophane or packaged in plastic to insure safety. Although infected people fear human contact they frequently spend extended periods in shopping malls and always carry their emergency pack: containing insect repellents, sun block, anti bacterial soap, I Pods, and cell phones. This emergency pack continues to grow and is the leading cause of DSD "Degenerative Spinal Disappearance."

The only remedy for CIA is prevention through education and isolation from others who are infected. Do not approach infected people unless fully armed with knowledge, reason, and common sense. To combat this debilitating disease and as a public service " The Landowner" offers the " Six Cents Solution" for a mere six cents a day ($20.00 per year) Landowner members and subscribers can send a magazine subscription to their "at risk" friends, relatives and family members living in large urban centers.

Scientists and medical researchers at UTLA (University of Tatlock in Lanark) are confident that six doses of the landowner magazine (one issue every two months) will prevent and cure individuals, without adverse side affects. Support our "Save Canada Campaign" and call 1-877-258-6108 or 613-831-2668 to enroll your "at risk" friends and family members. Visa, MasterCard, cheques, or money orders are accepted or fill in the application on the magazines front cover and mail to "The Landowner" 6588 Fallowfield Road, Stittsville Ontario.

Don't delay, Save Canada today, your children's and the country's future is at stake.

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In the interest of public safety notify "The Landowner" in writing if you encounter individuals or government agents exhibiting these symptoms for possible quarantine, this disease is contagious - and must be stopped.

Randy Hillier, President, Ontario Landowners Association. Randy can be reached at: randy@ruralrevolution.com

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Samantha
The princess of Lighthouse Point

By Judi McLeod

Monday, January 8, 2007

One of the joys of living in our new Collingwood digs is the splendid boardwalk that runs at the back of the house.

The boardwalk, surrounded by trees, fields and marshland, more than two miles from start to finish, is a bonus for dog walkers at Lighthouse Point.

There are dogs of all ages and breeds out on the boardwalk in rain or shine. There's Bear, whose sight and hearing are not the same now that he's in his dotage, but his human companion, Harold treats him like a beloved pup. There's the unbelievable cute and clever, Gracie, a Coton de Tulear taken for walks by the humorous Bob. But the one dog that seems to take most delight in daily gambols on the boardwalk is a heart fetching Golden Retriever, known to one and all as, Samantha.

The archly ladylike Samantha truly suits her somewhat sophisticated name.

Here since her nuzzled-in puppy days, Samantha has grown the same way she gambols the boardwalk, in delighted leaps and bounds.

All outsized paws and thumping tail in her gangly puppyhood, it didn't take Samantha long to claim young ladyship. Although she hasn't yet moved to pearls and perfume, almost overnight, the somersaults of a clumsy pup were replaced by a sleek, sophisticated Queen of the Prom.

At our house, watching from the windows, we call Samantha the "Princess of the Point". Everyone who comes her way out on the boardwalk, falls in love with this big-eyed miss.

Samantha, who triples Canada Free Press mascot, Prince Kiko, weighing in at all of 14 pounds, seems to know she must be gentle with playful smaller dogs.

Samantha's human companions, Bruce and Stacey take their growing girl for plenty of long walks. On those occasions when Kiko is out and Samantha is not, the retriever renders heartbreaking calls from her window sentry.

So patient is she for a glimpse of Kiko, she's often still there when he comes prancing back past Samantha's from his two-mile jaunts.

In any season and on special occasions like Halloween or Christmas, Bruce and Stacey decorate the lawn in front of their house.

A huge blow-up plastic bubble with an interior storm of broom-riding witches, ghosts and flying bats, didn't rate much of Samantha's attention. But when it was replaced with tiny trains on a track, perpetually on the move and lighted with miniature white lights, Samantha was as enrapt as any five-year-old girl dreaming of Christmas.

Kiko, who regularly had to be pulled away from the house of a white Coton de Tulear named Kylie, seems to have replaced the now missing Kylie with Samantha. He often has to be dragged away from the house whether Samantha's calling from the window or not.

The only wrinkle in Samantha's transition from puppyhood to princesshood was when the Point's popular canine, brought to the animal hospital for an ear infection, came down with a worrying kennel cough.

The landscape was bleak sans Samantha and we began to worry that her human companions had moved away.

The day she appeared gamboling once again along the boardwalk made for the most welcome of sights.

It was akin to coming across an old friend thought to be gone away never to return.

Samantha's favourite girl, Stacey is a favourite of Kiko's too. It's almost as if Kiko understood when Stacey one day announced, "Kiko has plenty of personality."

Stacey was walking the princess when she made the comment. Anything that would make Kiko look the hero within Samantha's earshot would be bound to endear Kiko to Stacey forever.

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant.
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Violent Crimes in Toronto
Year to Date 2007 in Toronto

Shooting Incidents 7
Persons' Shot 9
Stabbing Incidents 2
Persons' Stabbed 2
Persons' Killed 2

Year to Date 2006 in Toronto

Shooting Incidents 171
Persons' Shot 163
Stabbing Incidents 81
Persons' Stabbed 95
Persons' Killed 38
Guns in Toronto 2006
Guns in Toronto 2005
Guns and Stabbings in Toronto 2006

* Jan 11 - Shooting - Around 3 p.m., police found two men in their 20s who had been shot. They were found in a parking lot in Flemingdon Park in the Don Mills and Eglinton Ave. area. One man was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was taken to hospital and underwent surgery. Police are looking for witnesses and suspects.

* Jan 10 - Shooting - Around 10 p.m, a man was shot in the leg during a home invasion in an apartment on Oak St. in the River St. and Dundas St. area. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Police are looking for suspects.

* Jan. 8 - Shooting - Around 4:30 p.m., a 46-year-old man was shot in the stomach on a street in the Kipling Ave./Rexdale Blvd. area of Etobicoke. He was rushed to hospital in critical condition. Police are seeking a suspect and trying to ascertain a motive for the shooting.

* Jan 6 - Stabbing - Around 10 p.m., 3 masked men knocked on the door of a home in the Bloor St. and Dufferin St. area. The man who answered the door was stabbed in the neck. He was taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Police are investigating and looking for suspects.

* Jan 6 - Stabbing - At about 8 p.m., a woman in her 30s was stabbed in the back in the Main St. subway station. It is believed the assailant was attempting to cut the strap of her purse and missed. The woman was taken to hospital, treated and released. Police are examining surveillance tapes.

* Jan6 - Shooting - Around 7 p.m., a man was returning to his vehicle after making a night deposit at a bank in the Finch Ave. and Keele St. area when he was shot. There was no attempt at robbery and the man was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

* Jan. 2 - Shooting - Two men were shot as they were in the proceess of being evicted from the Guvernment nightclub at Queen's Quay and Jarvis St. Both men were taken to hospital after the 3 a.m. shootings and are suffering from non-life-threatening wounds. Police are searching for suspects.

* Jan. 2 - Shooting - Around 1 a.m., a woman in her late teens or early 20s was shot in the face in an apartment building in the Lawrence Ave. and Weston Rd. area. She was rushed to hospital in critical condition and the homicide squad has been called in.

* Jan 1 - Shooting - Around 2:30 p.m., a woman believed to be in her 60s answered the door at her home and was shot in the face. The incident happened on Snowball Cresc. which is in the Sheppard Ave./Markham Rd. area of Scarborough. The woman was rushed to Sunnybrook Hospital where she was pronounced dead. The shooter had fled the scene.

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Dog the Bounty Hunter, Make a wish Foundation
For a lad called Steven, Santa comes with tattoos

By Judi McLeod

Monday, December 18, 2006

This is a story that makes you hear Christmas bells ringing, even though you know that the town church pealing out on frosty air burned down years ago. This is the kind of story that makes you want to count your blessings; a story that gives people everywhere-- no matter how down at heart--something to believe in.

This is the story of 15-year-old Steve Eltz, who even after a long history of surgery and medical procedures, including cerebral palsy, hydrocephalus, seizures and orthopedic problems, retains a sense of humor marked by an infectious chuckle that would just melt your heart.

It’s the story of a perpetually playful lad, who’d sooner be down at the local creek catching tadpoles than in hospital for another operation, and the tale of a youngster who can still tease his sister, Laura when he thinks she needs a little cheering up.

With setbacks that would discourage the strongest of adults, Steven dares to dream-- something always encouraged by the sunshine of his life, his mother Barb Eltz.

“Dog the Bounty Hunter has been Steven’s hero for ages,” says his Mom. “And it’s noteworthy that it was really the repeated failure of the shunt that controls his hydrocephalus that led to his neurosurgeon completing an application for the Make-A-Wish process.

When the Make-A-Wish Foundation offered to grant Steven any wish he wanted, you can depend it was to meet Duane, Dog the Bounty Hunter, Chapman. Not only did he want to meet Dog face-to-face, being the generous guy that he is, he wanted his Dog-admirer 7-year-old friend, DJ to have the same thrill.

When Steven can’t see Dog on his A&E reality television show, he’s in his room imagining that he’s tagging along with Dog as he catches up the with all the bad guys.

Not for Steven the teen idols like everybody else. His favorite poster girl happens to be Doug’s wife, Beth.

So when was given the word by his Mom that his wish was about to come true, Steven wasn’t taking any chances. He asked to wear his favorite green tee-shirt, the one with the words “Chick Magnet” emblazoned right across the front.

“Beth—I have a crush on her!” Steven `fessed up as soon as he was introduced to Dog. Seeing all the kisses Beth was bestowing on the North Dakota teen, Dog put the laughing suitor into a headlock for the cameras.

Going all the way from North Dakota to Hawaii was the trip of a lifetime—especially when Dog and Beth were at the end of the journey.

The Make-A-Wish gift made Steven feel important, as not only D.J., but also Mom and sister Laura could make the trip. The family photo with Diamond Head in the backyard flanked by Mom and Laura is now the last thing he sees as he closes his eyes at night.

“Make-a-Wish treated us like royalty, as did Dog’s publicity agent, Mona Wood,” said Barb.

Of the tee shirt, Steven advised surrounding male reporters: “It attracts girls better.”

Steven and D.J. became Dog fans by watching Hawaii’s world famous bounty hunter every chance they could. They daydreamed between episodes and told each other often how wonderful it would be if they could ever meet Dog in person.

As it happened, the crew was shooting for a future episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter on the day of their visit.

Chapman, who receives 7,000 requests for visitors a week, told Steven and D.J., “It’s my honor that you wanted to meet me.”

“I’m amazed that kids that age would like the show. Very scary. Be very careful, Dog, because people are watching,” he joked.

Imagine the thrill for Steven when Beth played “popping wheelies” with him in his wheelchair, giving him a wild ride through the parking lot that he’ll “NEVER” forget!

“What touched me, though was how Dog and everyone in the office treated us like family from the minute we walked through the door,” said Barb. “They got right down there and made the boys feel as if nobody else in the world mattered, and they laughed and they played like they were children themselves.”

Chapman, approaches children who hold him as a hero, the same way he approaches everything else in life—by throwing his heart into it.

Big as they are, the bad guys always head for the hills—some all the way to Mexico-- when they hear the spurs on Dog’s cowboy boots coming their way.

Beth proved even nicer in person than she is on television, and there’s a teenager somewhere in North Dakota today who took her home in his heart.

“It was the tender hug and the one last “I love you,” Barb recalls fondly.

“When Dog, Beth and family show kindness to the people they capture, people who are ignored, shunned and written off by society, I think it speaks to people with disabilities who might feel the same way,” said Barb. “I think Steven also sees a strong paternal figure in Dog, the way he teases yet shows unvarnished admiration for his own children. Steven lost his father when he was four, so I think that’s part of the appeal as well.”

When Steven and D.J. returned home, they told everyone who would listen about meeting true-life hero Dog the Bounty Hunter.

There may be other youngsters faster on rollerblades, better at video games than Steven and D.J. But who could ever really boast having met the real Dog in person? Besides it is Steven and D.J. who will star in an upcoming Dog The Bounty Hunter episode.

The stars may fade from the sky in the morning, but the stars in Steven’s eyes are there forever.

Dog reinforced Steven’s belief in himself and made him look a hero in the eyes of the younger D.J.

For Barb it was coming home with new faith. “When you have a child that has something life threatening, I think you treasure the little things in life a lot more, and Dog did that for us.”

To Steven, who’s not in his wheelchair when he goes out with Dog in his night dreams, Dog is the hero who catches the bad guys and Santa Claus all wrapped in one.

But this Santa Claus is unique. He comes with tattoos and puts you in a headlock.

Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck and The Rant.
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A recent bomb threat at Kingwood Township School remains under investigation by N.J. State Police. A note threatening to blow up the school was found by a custodian in a middle-school girls' lavatory at about 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 19.
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OSLO, Norway, Jan. 12 -- An unexploded bomb believed to be around 300 years old has been found under the Old Riding House at the Akershus Fortress in Oslo, Norway.
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Shore Regional High School was evacuated Wednesday after a bomb threat, the third of this school year, police said.
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A pair of bomb threats scrawled on the walls of the West Bend High Schools this week are being taken seriously by city police and school district officials.
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