Posted on 12/17/2006 4:03:30 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
[Where is the 3rd person? Dropped off in Canada?..granny]
http://www.glenwoodindependent.com/article/20070119/FRONTPAGE/70119008
Wreckage of second plane found; two killed
By MEAD GRUVER
Associated Press Writer
Glenwood Springs, CO Colorado
January 19, 2007
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The second of two planes that crashed in Wyoming on Wednesday was found high in the Snowy Range on Friday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Two dead bodies were found at the crash site. The whereabouts of a third person believed to have been on the plane wasn’t immediately clear.
Authorities meanwhile identified two men killed in an unrelated crash in western Natrona County. They were David Hinkle, 55, of Lander, and Kyle Moser, 42, of Gillette, according to deputy county coroner Gary Hazen.
Hinkle was the pilot of the single-engine Cessna Skylane that crashed while headed from Gillette to Lander. Hazen said autopsies of both men would likely be done Friday.
The plane found in the Snowy Range was a single-engine Piper Cherokee that had been headed from Vacaville, Calif., to Grand Island, Neb., when it disappeared from radar around 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, authorities said.
Local authorities told the FAA around 10 a.m. Friday that the Piper had been found 34 miles northwest of Laramie, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer said.
Kenitzer said three people were supposed to have been on the flight. It wasn’t known whether one of the three got off at a fueling stop in Elko, Nev., or Rock Springs.
“They’re going to try to confirm that there was a third person on board,” Kenitzer said. “They can confirm from the families or whoever.”
He wasn’t sure whether local authorities were looking for a possible survivor. A message left Friday with Albany County Sheriff Jim Pond wasn’t immediately returned.
But Mike Morris, undersheriff for Carbon County, said a search for a survivor wasn’t likely; the Albany County Sheriff’s Office told his sheriff’s office their help was no longer needed.
Morris said the plane was found near Brown’s Peak, an 11,719-foot mountain in the middle of the Snowy Range in Medicine Bow National Forest.
The plane’s owner was Archer Nevada, a Carson City, Nev.-based aviation firm.
Both planes crashed in clear weather.
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/01/21/ap/us/d8mpl05g2.txt
Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:38 AM CST
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Pilot Dies In-Flight; Co-Pilot Lands Jet
McALLEN, Texas - The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight became ill after takeoff and was later pronounced dead after the plane made an emergency landing Saturday, a company spokeswoman said.
The 210 passengers on the flight, which departed from Houston, were never in danger and the co-pilot landed the plane safely, Continental spokeswoman Macky Osorio said.
The airline said only that the pilot suffered a "serious medical problem." Continental believes the pilot died of natural causes, Osorio said. The pilot's name was not released.
The flight, bound for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, took off from Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport and was diverted to McAllen-Miller International Airport. The flight continued to Mexico with a new crew, Osorio said.
A service of the Associated Press(AP)
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2007/01/21/ap/international/d8mpel000.txt
Saturday, January 20, 2007 10:38 PM CST
Prosecutors: Mexican Police Killed Man
MEXICO CITY - A man who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself onto the tracks of the Mexico City subway was later beaten to death by police, prosecutors said Saturday.
Two policemen who took custody of the man after he was removed from the tracks on Thursday were charged with homicide for allegedly beating him to death in a patrol car, the Mexico City attorney general's office said in a statement.
Truck driver Albano Ramirez Santos, reportedly despondent over the theft of his truck, tried to kill himself by jumping onto the subway tracks. Trains were halted but Ramirez Santos told a subway conductor to leave him where he was because he wanted to die. Station employees removed him from the tracks.
Police were summoned and officers Jose de Jesus Sanchez Lemus and Carmelo Campechano Granados took the truck driver to a police station. But Ramirez Santos was unconscious when they arrived and a forensic report said he died of blows to the chest and head unrelated to the suicide attempt.
Prosecutors offered no motive for the alleged homicide.
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FAA Investigating Near Collision Over Iowa
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AP - The union representing air traffic controllers says a near-miss of two passenger jets over Iowa was due to improper staffing and a lack of fully trained personnel.
The Federal Aviation Administration blames a mistake by a controller at the agency's Chicago Center radar facility in Aurora, Ill., and the agency says that staffing is adequate.
The incident in question involves two jets that were less than two miles apart Tuesday and heading toward each when onboard collision alarms went off. FAA officials say a controller also realized the situation and ordered one of the planes to turn.
One of the planes was a United Express flight headed to O'Hare. The other was a Northwest Airlines flight en route to Denver.
The FAA is investigating.
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Teen Charged in Donnellson School Plot Says he's Mentally Ill
AP - One of three students accused of plotting a deadly attack on their high school in southeast Iowa says he's mentally ill.
Stephen Copeland, 16, of Donnellson and two others are charged with conspiracy to plan a forcible felony at Central Lee High School.
Copeland was in juvenile court Thursday where he filed a child in need of assistance request, which was granted.
The Lee County attorney's office says Copeland asked the court to remove him from his family's care because he suffers from mental illness.
Copeland, Jacob Schulte and Dalton Bird were arrested on December 19th after Copeland apparently had second thoughts and alerted a teacher and police.
Officials say the trio had access to several handguns, rifles and shotguns and were planning to attack on December 20th.
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Most of the posts went to All, so you will need to come on over and dig them out.
Odd night, odd news.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/16502620.htm
Posted on Fri, Jan. 19, 2007
Canada investigating terrorist threat
PHIL COUVRETTE
Associated Press
MONTREAL - Canadian authorities said Friday they were investigating terrorist threats against Montreal's English-speaking community by a group claiming links to militant Quebec separatists who kidnapped and murdered a provincial minister in the 1970s.
In a statement dated Jan. 15, a group claiming to be a cell of the Quebec Liberation Front (FLQ) warns that attacks between Feb. 15 and March 15 would use booby-trapped parcels and remote-control devices with the intention of causing "maximum impact."
"It's possible there will be injuries and deaths," warns the document obtained by The Associated Press. The group said it would target shopping malls, bridges, rail lines, airport facilities, water supplies, municipal buildings and service stations.
"Is it a hoax, is it someone who wants to pass as an FLQ cell? This remains to be determined, but we are taking this very seriously," said Luc Bessette, spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The same group issued a warning of attack last November, referring to the same date.
In 1970, the shadowy FLQ demanded "total independence" from Canada. Its members kidnapped and killed Quebec's labor minister and later abducted, then freed, a British diplomat.
The subsequent "October Crisis" was considered one of the darkest periods in modern Canadian history. Canadian troops patrolled the streets of Quebec and jailed alleged FLQ sympathizers, most of whom were later found innocent of having any ties to the militant group.
Since then, the separatist Parti Quebecois has gained seats in the provincial assembly, but twice failed to win referendums calling for independence of the French-speaking province. The political party has never advocated violence in its struggle for sovereignty.
While the Quebec separatist movement has not displayed the militancy of the 1970s in recent years, polls indicate the movement is far from dead, with support for Quebec's independence hovering between 40 to 45 percent.
© 2007 AP Wire and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/breaking_news/16499126.htm
Posted on Fri, Jan. 19, 2007
Counterfeiter hits hair salons
AnnMarie Cornejo
acornejo@thetribunenews.com
Three North County hair salons have received counterfeit $100 bills in the last month, possibly from the same man.
The man believed to have passed the bills at two salons in Atascadero and one in Paso Robles reportedly speaks with a heavy French accent.
Police said he asks for shampoo, then pays with a counterfeit bill.
He is described as five feet, six inches, between the ages of 55 and 70, of thin build, with white short-cropped hair, blue eyes, an unshaven, olive-skin complexion and long yellow fingernails.
Police detectives ask that anyone with information on the case call 461-5051.
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/breaking_news/16510408.htm
Posted on Sun, Jan. 21, 2007
Algerian terror suspects OK deportment
DAVID STRINGER
Associated Press
LONDON - At least three Algerian men detained as suspected terrorists and held without trial have agreed to be deported from Britain, their lawyer said Saturday.
Gareth Peirce said three of her clients chose to return to their native country, despite concerns they are likely to face torture at the hands of Algerian authorities.
One client had told her that after almost five years of detention in Britain, "he preferred a quick death there rather than an endless, slow death here," Peirce said.
The British Broadcasting Corp. reported that a total of five men had agreed to return to Algeria voluntarily. It said the five were part of a group of 27 foreign nationals being held on grounds that they are a threat to national security, several of whom have been in custody without trial for more than four years.
Britain's Home Office refused to confirm whether any suspects had agreed to voluntary deportation and said it would not comment on the status of any of the 27 being held.
Peirce said she was not aware of the total number of men who agreed to be deported.
"For these men there have been no convictions, no proper accusations, no knowledge of what is alleged against them and - astonishingly - for most, no questioning by police," she said in a statement.
"Each believes he faces torture or death, not because he has committed any offense, but because he has been branded" as a terrorist by British prosecutors, Peirce said. "Those who work to eradicate torture do not see these deportations as a victory."
Britain instituted a policy of holding terrorism suspects without trial following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, but the practice was outlawed by a House of Lords decision in 2004.
Since then, dozens of suspects have been held under immigration powers - which allow the detention of illegal immigrants - pending attempts to deport them to their native countries.
Court documents show several Algerian suspects are accused of being connected to Abu Doha, an Algerian described by U.S. prosecutors as a key al-Qaida figure who oversaw a plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999.
Doha, 40, is currently being held by British authorities pending an appeal against a decision to deport him to Algeria.
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Stacking my soapboxes:
Down a little ways on the above page, is a photo, of good looking American women, protesting for the right of having an abortion, what a shame they are to the roll of being a woman.
What caught my eye, is the big red clenched fist, on the golden yellow banner in the very front.
Brainwashed by the marxist and too dumb to know it.
For them abortions are good, makes for less Americans to defend America.
It is a lot easier to kill a baby, than a man on the battle field.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/british-police-have-identified-litvinenko-killer-friend/2007/01/21/1169096035147.html
British police have identified Litvinenko killer: friend
January 21, 2007 - 1:04AM
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British police have made a breakthrough and identified the man they believe poisoned Alexander Litvinenko, a friend of the murdered former Russian spy told The Times newspaper.
Police tracked down the mystery man, who was introduced to Litvinenko and his associates as "Vladislav", using details that the ex-agent recounted on his deathbed.
The suspected killer travelled to London on a forged European Union passport and slipped the radioactive isotope polonium-210 into Litvinenko's tea, according to Oleg Gordievsky, a friend of the defector to Britain, who has worked closely with detectives on the murder investigation.
Litvinenko's death in London on November 23, in agonising pain after being administered a huge dose of polonium, caused a storm of media speculation and strained ties between Britain and Russia.
"This man is believed to have used a Lithuanian or Slovak passport," Gordievsky, a former KGB Soviet agent, told The Times.
"He did not check into any hotel in London using the name or that passport, and he left the country using another EU passport."
Police sources told The Times it had not previously been revealed that Litvinenko visited a fourth-floor room at the Millennium Hotel in London to discuss a business deal.
He went to the room with Russian businessman Dimitri Kovtun and Andrei Lugovoy, another former Russian agent.
The trio were joined in the room by a mystery man who was introduced as "Vladislav".
"Vladislav was described as someone who could help Mr Litvinenko win a lucrative contract with a Moscow-based private security company," Gordievsky said.
"Sasha (Litvinenko) remembered the man making him a cup of tea.
"His belief is that the water from the kettle was only lukewarm and that the polonium-210 was added, which heated the drink through radiation so he had a hot cup of tea. The poison would have showed up in a cold drink."
London's Metropolitan Police refused to comment on the report.
Lugovoy and Kovtun deny any part in Litvinenko's death.
AFP
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/police-defend-lockdown-after-shooting/2007/01/21/1169330767453.html
Police defend lockdown after shooting
January 22, 2007
REDFERN was locked down and trains stopped for four hours on Saturday night after police were shot at, but the Police Minister, John Watkins, says crime in the suburb has dropped significantly since the riot three years ago.
Police approached two men near the railway station late on Saturday but they fled, firing one shot as they went. They were still at large last night.
The shot prompted a lockdown around the station and the Block, the site of the February 2004 riot, and disrupted CityRail services for four hours.
Defending that decision, Mr Watkins said: "I don't want my frontline officers in any way in danger from people firing weapons at them. There was a danger that the offenders were in or around the rail network, and there was a potential danger to our customers as well as to police."
He denied that Redfern remained a crime-ridden area despite efforts to clean it up after the riot. "Crime at Redfern has dropped substantially since those awful days of the Redfern riot … and that has been due to a concerted effort by NSW Police and the community to change what's happening in Redfern … What happened last night was unusual," he said.
The Deputy Commissioner in charge of specialist operations, Terry Collins, also defended the police response. "The police responded as quickly as possible," he said. "We have to make sure we protect the community as well as our police officers, when someone has taken such a drastic step [as] to fire at police."
A RailCorp spokesman, Matthew Vane-Tempest, said the Western, Illawarra, Northern, South and Inner West lines were all affected.
"We co-operate with the police and if the police request us to close a railway line, we'll do that," he said.
AAP
Odd that they say there is no reason for her to be dead, she wore designer clothes and worked for a defence contractor...granny]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/01/20/1169096030983.html
Stop digging or get hurt, parents of Gap victim warned
Eamonn Duff
January 21, 2007
Mystery ... Katrina Ploy, whose body was found near The Gap at Watsons Bay on Christmas Day.
Mystery ... Katrina Ploy, whose body was found near The Gap at Watsons Bay on Christmas Day.
Photo: Janie Barrett
PARENTS of a young woman found dead near a suicide spot have been told they will be killed if they continue to investigate her death.
Katrina Ploy's body was found floating near a beach at The Gap at Watsons Bay on Christmas Day.
Ploy, 25, was last seen in Sydney's west on December 17. The following day, her handbag and car were found on the cliffs, close to where her body was found.
Following her death, friends told her parents, Peter and Catrina, that she had developed links to organised crime. Last week the couple received a message that their lives were in danger.
Mr Ploy said he was told by an associate of his daughter to "stop digging, stop asking questions. You are dealing with very powerful people who will come after you if you don't".
Mr Ploy said: "He said they would first hurt my wife, then me."
Mrs Ploy said her daughter's friends had also been silenced.
"They are scared. They believe she was murdered. They tell us their lives are also in danger but won't say why," she said.
Speaking at their western Sydney home, the couple said they had raised their daughter to live happily and to "always be kind and respectful to others".
They said they were proud of the woman she had become but acknowledged she had always shielded her private life from them.
"She was 25, we are in our 60s, a large generational gap," Mr Ploy said. "We loved her and cared for her but she had a life which she kept very separate from us."
Ploy split from her husband when she was 21 and had become involved with another man in recent years.
She had worked for 10 years as an office administrator for Bellinger Instruments, a defence contractor in Sydney's west.
Her parents believe she was well paid as she was "never without money".
Mr Ploy said: "She had a great social life and could afford everything she wanted. She wore designer-label clothes and everything she bought had to be the best. She was proud, happy and had her whole life ahead of her."
But he said his daughter's life had been plagued in recent times by a string of disturbing incidents, which he was now struggling to dismiss as coincidence.
"Two years ago, Katrina was badly beaten in a townhouse she bought in Seven Hills. The house was full of valuables but the man never stole anything," he said.
"Her face was all bashed in. She spent three days in Westmead Hospital and had weeks off work."
Police confirmed yesterday they were aware of the incident, which they said happened in 2003, but refused to comment further because of "operational reasons".
Mr Ploy said when she returned home to live with them last year, trouble followed her.
"Our front window was smashed. Car tyres were let down all the time."
Mr Ploy also revealed that, late last year, somebody spray-painted the family's double garage with "bad words" about his daughter.
He said: "Our family have lived in this area for more than 40 years and never had one problem. Then, for reasons we don't know, everything changed."
Mrs Ploy said: "If there is anyone who knows the truth, please help us by contacting police."
Source: The Sun-Herald
http://www.montrosepress.com/articles/2007/01/19/local_news/1.txt
Pilot safely lands troubled plane
Katharhynn Heidelberg
Daily Press News Editor
MONTROSE— There were tense moments for a pilot Thursday afternoon when the landing gear on the single-engine plane he was flying apparently malfunctioned.
Police and Montrose Regional Airport officials said it appeared the gear hadn’t properly deployed, making it difficult for the 1960, 250 Comanche craft to land safely. The dispatch call came at around 3 p.m. Thursday and prompted a massive response from law enforcement agencies and emergency services.
But pilot Tim Heavers was able to put enough force on the gear to bring the plane in, landing safely on the runway at 3:59 p.m.
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“What happened today was, it was a mechanical failure of the landing gear,” Heavers said a short time later. “I had to execute an emergency procedure to get the gear down.”
Because of cold weather, Heavers was performing a test flight on the Comanche craft for its owner, Art Rice of Norwood. Heavers explained the type of Comanche he was flying is considered a “complex” aircraft, because it has retractable gear in the nose and body, which operate in concert.
“It only came halfway down,” he said. “You can’t land like that.”
Instead, Heavers said he circled the airport, but flew far enough away so as not to interfere with operations there.
While the plane was still in the air, Airport Manager Scott Brownlee said an airport mechanic was communicating with Heavers by radio and offering advice.
“At this point, we’re in radio communication with the pilot to see if there’s anything we can do to fix the situation before he attempts a landing,” Brownlee said at the scene.
Numerous emergency personnel were onsite Thursday, including the airport’s fire crew, Montrose Fire Protection District, emergency medical services, the Colorado State Patrol and Montrose Police Department. Sgt. Mark Schelling, an accident investigator with the MPD, flashed a thumbs-up as Heavers touched the maroon-and-white Comanche to the ground without incident.
Heavers said he followed the aircraft’s handbook for manual landing procedures.
“The good thing is, we were able to, after an hour, get enough force on the gear to get it in manually,” he said, adding that he focused on flying, not on what could have happened.
“You can’t be nervous and fly. There’s not enough room. No matter what’s going on, you can’t forget to fly the plane.”
Heavers praised the airport’s handling of the incident. “They’re just the greatest bunch of people. They were so helpful during that emergency.”
The near miss hasn’t dampened his enthusiasm for flying.
“I’m just glad to get down and I have every intention of getting back up,” he said.
The 250 Comanche was grounded and will go into maintenance, according to Heavers.
Brownlee said a report on the incident was being prepared Thursday.
January 21, 2007 Anti-Terrorism News
(Iraq) 6 die, 10 hurt as bomb hits Baghdad bus
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence
(Iraq) Two explosions in Baghdad kill seven
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070121-073217-7994r.htm
Nineteen U.S troops die in one day in Iraq
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070121-070719-1111r.htm
British soldier killed in Iraq bombing
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=OQVX2DSMY2C2FQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/01/21/nsold121.xml
Three Iranians arrested in Iraq
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070121-072029-6120r.htm
Iran plans to conduct missile war games
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_missile_tests
Taliban to open schools in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070121/ap_on_re_as/afghan_taliban_schools_3
Bomb suspects arrested in Afghanistan - 11 suicide bombers arrested in
past week, including 2 Pakistan nationals
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21094065-401,00.html
Are Pakistani intelligence agencies promoting Islamic insurgency?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/asia/web.0121pakistan.php
Pakistani intelligence secretly encourages Taliban: report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070121/wl_sthasia_afp/uspakistanafghanistantalibanintelligence_070121085942
"Pakistani circles" behind Afghan violence: Karzai
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070121/ts_nm/afghan_pakistan_dc_1
(Pakistan) Waziristan teenager "kidnapped" from Peshawar for suicide
mission in Karachi
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C01%5C20%5Cstory_20-1-2007_pg12_3
(India) Boy arrested for grenade attack, says he got Rs 500 for it
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1906259,000900010002.htm
(India) Dialogue cannot replace guns: LeT
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Top_Headlines/Dialogue_cannot_replace_guns_LeT/articleshow/1343429.cms
Two South African NRIs accused of Al-Qaeda links
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1906253,00050006.htm
(UK) Terror watch on Mecca pilgrims - British Islamic terrorists have
visited the city before carrying out attacks in Britain and abroad
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2558373,00.html
Britain open to terror suspects in EU loophole -- EU "wanted" list
cannot be checked by British immigration officers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/21/nimm21.xml
(UK) I cannot shake your hand, sir. I'm a Muslim and you're a man
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=430249&in_page_id=1770
Somalis urged to meet Islamists - US Ambassador to Kenya
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6281961.stm
Update: (Turkey) Pro-Armenian journalist shot dead in Turkey --
Teenager "shouted 'I shot the infidel' as he ran away"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/19/wturkey119.xml
Turkish police arrest teenage suspect in editor's killing
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/21/news/web.0121turkey.php
Judge tells wife in terror-linked divorce to go home -- Woman claims
husband has threatened to kill her, 2 boys if they don't follow Islam
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53843
January 20, 2007 PM Anti-Terrorism News
U.S. copter down in Iraq; 13 aboard dead -- At least 20 killed in Iraq
attacks - and 29 corpses shot execution-style found -- and -- 5 U.S.
soldiers killed in Iraq attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21094094-1702,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldiers_killed
British bomb plot suspects no strangers to the police - Authorities
were familiar with at least some of the men said to be involved in a
failed attack on the transportation system.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-london20jan20,1,690122.story?track=rss
(UK 7/21 Trial) Defendants 'attracted to Islam'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6272847.stm
(Thailand) Thai Intelligence: Bangkok bombings the work of Jemaah
Islamiah
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21088087-601,00.html
(Australia) Police seize Muslim 'kill enemies' videos - Sheik Feiz
Mohamed's DVD calling for violent Jihad
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21089068-2,00.html
http://www.suntimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=363428
UN links SA men to al-Qaeda
Xolani Xundu
21 January 2007
Listed: Dentist Junaid Dockrat
Cleric and dentist accused of funding and recruiting for terror group
TWO South African cousins have been named as international terror suspects by the United Nations Security Council.
Farhad Ahmed Dockrat, an Islamic cleric and businessman from Erasmia near Pretoria, and Dr Junaid Ismail Dockrat, a dentist based in Mayfair, Johannesburg, were on Friday evening named on the UN Security Council list of terror suspects for allegedly having links with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda and the deposed Taliban in Afghanistan.
Their listing means that the 192 UN member states have to freeze the men’s assets and bank accounts and prevent them from travelling internationally. This responsibility will mainly fall on South Africa (which assumes the presidency of the UN Security Council in March).
Papers submitted by the US to the Security Council allege that Farhad is an al-Qaeda “facilitator and terrorist financier”.
The US says that in 2001 he gave about R400000 to the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, “intending” that it would be forwarded to the Al-Akhtar Trust headquarters in Pakistan, which had been identified as a fundraiser for al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The trust has been identified by the US as a Special Designated Global Terrorist in terms of Executive Order 13224, designed to block financial and material support to terrorists and their facilitators.
The trust is also on the UN 1267 Committee’s list of individuals and entities associated with al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and the Taliban.
The US government claims Junaid is also an al-Qaeda “financier, recruiter and facilitator”.
It alleges that he recruited for al- Qaeda in 2004 and was in contact with its late operations chief, Hamza Rabi’a, co-ordinating the travel of South Africans to Pakistan to train with al-Qaeda. The US accuses Junaid of raising 120000 that Rabi’a received in March or April 2004.
Sniper Africa, a camouflage clothing company, registered in South Africa as Sniper Outdoors, is also listed by the UN because, the US claims, it is 70% owned by Junaid.
Contacted for comment, both Dockrats denied having links with al-Qaeda or the Taliban.
Foreign Affairs spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa said South Africa had noted the listing of the two South Africans and would await direction from Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
The Sunday Times understands that Foreign Affairs officials and South African intelligence agencies have been in discussions for almost a year with US intelligence agencies and the US State Department regarding the two. The Bush administration refused to divulge its evidence because this would expose its intelligence-gathering methods.
Yesterday an official close to the process said: “Once South Africa is forced by the Security Council to do these things — freeze assets, take their passports and deny these people their civil rights — they will go to court and challenge the government. As there is this legal vacuum, there is nothing the South African government can do to defend itself.”
However, it is understood that SA could use its new position in the UN Security Council to delay any action against the two suspects on the basis of needing to engage the US in further discussions.
By doing so, South Africa would risk the US accusing it of protecting “terrorists” and this could be embarrassing for the country.
This did not prevent the US from unilaterally listing the two on its domestic terrorist list, which would affect the suspects’ bank accounts immediately because the four big South African banks were linked to US banks.
Speaking from his home, Junaid Dockrat, chairman of the Mayfair Community Police Forum, said he was overwhelmed by the UN Security Council decision.
He had suspected he was being watched because he was once questioned while travelling to Mecca and he had for some time believed his phones were tapped.
He denied having provided funding for al-Qaeda.
“We are public figures, law-abiding citizens. I will absolutely contest this ... I am not involved in funding al-Qaeda. Nobody has come to me to explain why the US has put me on the list.
“My life is going to be messed up. This means every time I travel, I will have to be worried. I need to travel frequently to show my clothing range abroad and I fear that I will not be able to do that now.
“I have faith in our government, which will see that this is global harassment. I expect protection from my country,” he said.
Speaking from his home, Farhad Dockrat denied being a facilitator and financier for the terrorist group.
“I have never paid any money to al- Qaeda in my life. If one is Muslim and has Muslim concerns at heart, then one is considered a terrorist by the US .”
He said he and his family had been “harassed in the past three years”.
“First me and my son, Muwz , were arrested and detained for three weeks while doing aid work in Gambia. After being released, we returned home and we found spy cameras planted outside my house.”
Farhad denied ever having met any al-Qaeda leader, but said he was a Muslim and “Muslims meet other Muslims. But I have never met any members or people in structures of al-Qaeda.”
Farhad a Moulana, a Muslim cleric at an Islamic school in Laudium, Pretoria, tutored Zubair Ismail, who was previously arrested in Pakistan with Fordsburg trauma surgeon Dr Feroz Ganchi and 14 others.
The two South Africans held in Pakistan by intelligence agents were caught with a top al-Qaeda operative, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of Tanzania, who was hunted around the globe for the 1998 al-Qaeda bombings of the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam that left more than 200 people dead.
The two were released after three months and returned to South Africa last year. Their families claimed Ismail was in Pakistan to study while Ganchi was there doing relief work.
Dockrat’s brother Iqbal confirmed that Ismail had been a student at his brother’s school.
“This thing [that Ghailani has links to al-Qaeda] has been coming up time and time again,” said Iqbal.
Additional reporting by Henriëtte Geldenhuys, Subashni Naidoo and Dumisane Lubisi
Qassam brigades' member mistakenly injured in Gaza
Qassam brigades' member mistakenly injured in Gaza
Date: 20 / 01 / 2007 Time: 20:08
www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=18797
Gaza - Ma'an - A member of the Al-Qassam Brigades, a militant wing of
the
Hamas movement, has been injured on Saturday after he mistakenly
received a
bullet to the head, during military training near "Netsarem," which was
an
Israeli settlement before the disengagement from Gaza.
Medical sources said that the 22 year old man received a bullet in the
head
and is being operated on at the Ash-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip.
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/6453/emerson.html
The following is the official prepared statement of Steven Emerson before the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information, on February 24, 1998. It was obtained through the Federal News Service via the Library of Congress. No part of this statement has been edited, altered, or rewritten in any manner, and appears exactly as downloaded from the Library of Congress. Also I have not added the necessary HTML tags to allow the document to appear with the normal expected formatting. It may look like one large paragraph, and any special formatting that may have appeared in the original will have been lost.
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Introduction:
The subject of today's hearing, the foreign terrorist threat in the United States, is one of the most important issues we face as a society today. With the advent of chemical and biological weapons, we now face distinct possibilities of mass civilian murder the likes of which have not been seen World War II. The specter of terrorism carries with it the threat of violence aimed at targets merely because of their religious, ethnic or national identities. The threat of terrorism, particularly in the age of instant telecommunications, also carries a major psychological dimension-through an electronic multiplier effect that has the ability to inject fear and fright into the hearts and minds of tens of millions of Americans. At the outset it important to note several points about these hearings: One. Foreign terrorists and..........................
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Teens cautious on streets where people get shot for no reason
- Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, January 20, 2007
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For young men in Oakland like Travis Barrow, the key to staying alive is making sure no one -- in the split second that it takes to pull a trigger -- mistakes you for a rival gang member or an intruding drug dealer or someone who simply cast a dirty look.
That means watching what you wear, where you hang out and looking carefully at everyone around without "mean-mugging." Some young men rarely leave their own neighborhoods except to go outside Oakland. Others won't travel in a posse larger than three to avoid becoming a target.
"I don't want to get shot again," said Barrow, 17, a senior at McClymonds High School who said he has been wounded twice by gunfire in West Oakland for no apparent reason. "Except for my own block, I try to stay off the street. Just go from Point A to Point B and watch your back every step of the way."
It's not an idle fear. Oakland police said at least three teenage boys were killed in 2006 in separate, unsolved cases in which they apparently were mistaken for members of a rival gang or group. In all three killings -- of Ever Ramos, Jaee Logan and Andrew Porter -- police said the victims had no ties to gangs or neighborhood drug crews. In some other cases -- homicides and nonfatal shootings -- police said mistaken identity was likely, but they weren't ready to rule out all other motives.
The problem is not limited to Oakland. Richmond police report that Omar Villalobos, 31, a recent immigrant, was shot to death in October when he apparently was mistaken for a gang member because he was wearing red.
"We have a lot of mistaken-identity cases where people assume by how you dress, where you hang out or even your ethnicity that you must be part of a gang," said Richmond police Lt. Mark Gagan. "It's not like they mistake you for another person. It's more like they assume you are part of the gang lifestyle when you're not."
Police say that in most street shootings, the gunman knows the identity of his intended target. But police said an assailant sometimes will start shooting based on a hasty presumption that the targeted person is part of a rival gang or a potential threat. In other cases, gunmen may open fire from a passing car and spray a street corner simply because it's where rivals often hang out.
The victims in these cases are nearly always young African American and Latino men. For them, navigating their way around Oakland can be a treacherous undertaking. The Chronicle interviewed 15 young men about their experiences, and most reported losing friends or relatives to violence and close calls of their own.
David Lewis, 17, a senior at Castlemont High School in Oakland, said he has been cautious ever since gunfire erupted outside his cousin's 13th birthday party in 2004.
"Somebody drove up and saw people leaving the party and just started shooting," said Lewis. "I dropped (to the ground) and wasn't hit. But it was close."
D'Andre Johnson, 19, grew up in East Oakland and said he never felt safe until he moved to Fairfield six months ago.
"It's the first time in my life when I can just take a walk and I'm not worried about a stray bullet or some fool who wants to shoot me to buff up his street reputation," said Johnson, who works as a peer counselor at Youth Uprising community center in East Oakland.
Johnson said he was nearly shot when a car drove up to him slowly in East Oakland, the window was rolled down on the passenger side, and someone opened fire.
"I have no idea why he was shooting at me," said Johnson, shaking his head. "I still don't."
Johnson said he adopted a more clean-cut look in part to avoid getting shot, cutting off his shoulder-length braids and losing his flashy jewelry. Several young people said that the dreadlocks and teeth grills popularized by rappers also are associated with "grinders" or street corner drug dealers.
"There's a lot of guys grinding on corners with grills and dreads, and if you got a beef with one, don't look my way," Johnson said.
Jaee Logan might have been shot because of his dreadlocks, his family and friends said. A popular 14-year-old football player who was preparing to start Oakland Technical High School, Jaee was shot to death July 2 while waiting for a friend in the 800 block of 45th Street.
Jaee's father said witnesses told him that gunmen were looking for a young adult who wore dreadlocks. They saw Jaee, who didn't normally frequent that area, and chased him for half a block until the 14-year-old collapsed from his gunshot wounds.
Investigators said the father's scenario might be correct, but they won't rule out other possible motives until they can get more evidence about the killers, who remain unidentified.
"I'm not sure why the shooter came to that corner," Sgt. Lou Cruz said. "There's nothing to indicate that (Jaee) was the personally intended target."
One year ago this week, Ever Ramos, 17, and two friends were walking to a convenience store near his home on Coolidge Avenue when someone in a white minivan drove up and asked him what neighborhood he was from. Ramos, who arrived from Honduras in 2004, apparently didn't understand the question. As he started to reply, someone in the van opened fire, killing Ramos and wounding his friends, police said.
Ramos, who was working construction and going to school part time to improve his English, had no gang ties, but police said his killers might have assumed he was a member of the Norteños gang. In early 2006, there was a series of back-and-forth, nonfatal shootings between Norteños in the Fruitvale district and members of the Border Brothers gang, who claim turf near Seminary Boulevard in East Oakland.
With the Norteños wearing red, their longtime rival Sureños favoring blue and the Border Brothers in brown or black, young Latinos who want to avoid gang attire have limited fashion options. Police and community activists agree that among young Latinos, the only safe colors are green or white.
Several young people said that is one reason so many young Latinos favor baggy white T-shirts.
"You want to be cool, but you want to be neutral," said Danny Mora, 21, a self-described former gang member who just transferred into UC Berkeley. "There are plenty of people in Oakland who get shot for what they wear or where they walk."
Mora said he swore off the gang lifestyle after more than five friends or acquaintances were killed in the past three years. He said some victims were shot because they were "in the life" as gang members or associates. But he said that others were killed or wounded without provocation.
Andrew Porter, 16, might have been killed in August because a gunman in East Oakland mistook him and his friends for a different group of young men. Porter, a starting linebacker at Oakland High School, and a group of fellow football players and friends had just gotten off a bus and were walking to a party on 82nd Avenue when someone starting shooting at the group without warning.
Porter's friends have no idea why he was shot. But police and some witnesses said a member of an unrelated group of young teenagers that walked down 82nd might have mean-mugged a person hanging out across the street. Another possible theory is that Porter's group was targeted simply because no one in that neighborhood recognized them. Porter grew up near Lake Merritt, about 4 miles away.
At 6-foot-2 and a muscular 220 pounds, Barrow, the high school senior at McClymonds, doesn't look like someone with anything to fear. But after he was wounded by gunfire at ages 13 and 15 near his home in the Ghost Town neighborhood of West Oakland, he's very careful. He spends most of his free time in an after-school program called Bridge, where he wants to learn to produce hip-hop videos and CDs.
"The first time, they were just trying to hit anybody who was there. I don't think it was me in particular," Barrow said as he showed off his scars. "The second time was really scary. I don't know if they wanted to shoot me, you know, personally or they just wanted to shoot someone from Ghost Town to prove themselves, or something stupid.
"It's crazy out there, and I just want to stay alive."
E-mail Jim Zamora at jzamora@sfchronicle.com.
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