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US Asks Pakistan To Live Up To War on Terror Commitment
Posted: 06 May 2008 02:01 AM CDT
The United States has said it wanted Pakistan to live up to its commitment of urgently bringing security under control in its remote tribal areas allegedly used as safe haven by Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants.
The call came amid worries in Washington that the new coalition government led by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, which is negotiating with a Taliban commander, may strike a deal with militants and undermine a long “war on terror” partnership.
Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Islamabad recognized that bringing the mountainous and unpoliced Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) under control was an urgent priority for Pakistan’s own sake.
“But let me be clear: we will not be satisfied until all the violent extremism emanating from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas is brought under control,” he said Monday at a forum of the Washington-based National Endowment for Democracy.
“It is unacceptable for extremists to use those areas to plan, train for, or execute attacks against Afghanistan, Pakistan, or the wider world,” he said. “Their ongoing ability to do so is a barrier to lasting security, both regionally and internationally.”
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Hospital Emergency Rooms Are Unprepared for Terror Attack
Posted: 06 May 2008 02:01 AM CDT
The nations emergency rooms and hospitals are still, nearly seven years after Sept. 11, not prepared to deal with the “surge” of patients that could be caused by a terror attack, according to a House oversight committee.
Whats worse is that its a situation that could be compounded, hospital officials from both coasts and a state disaster planner said today, if the Bush administration is able to take hundreds of millions in Medicaid funding from public and teaching hospitals.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said the changes the Bush administration is trying to make in the way the government reimburses state and local governments for the services provided by public and teaching hospitals could be “disastrous” to the nations preparedness for a terror attack and called them an abdication of responsibility.
Waxmans oversight committee conducted a survey of 34 hospitals on March 25 and found that not one was prepared at that moment on that day for a terror attack.
“The situation in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles was particularly dire.
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FBI Confirms Terror Cells Identified In U.S., Credits U.S. Muslim Community
Posted: 06 May 2008 01:46 AM CDT
FBI Director Robert Mueller said last week that the FBI has uncovered small groups of Al Qaida terrorists in the United States, although he declined to provide details.
In House Judiciary Committee testimony, Mueller was asked about cells of Al Qaida in the country.
“As to your first question as to whether we have found affiliates or, as you would call them, cells of Al Qaida in the United States, yes, we have. Again, I cannot get into it in public session, but I would say yes, we have.â€
Mueller defended the FBI’s Muslim outreach program that critics say have put the bureau in a role of providing legitimacy to Muslim groups that support overseas extremists.
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Maryland Teen Arrested After Homemade Chemical Bomb Detonates in Classroom
Posted: 05 May 2008 09:03 PM CDT
A Prince George’s County high school freshman has been charged with taking an explosive to school after it went off unexpectedly in class.
Firefighters were called to Crossland High School in Temple Hills around 8:30 a.m. Monday for the report of a chemical explosion.
Fire spokesman Mark Brady said the 15-year-old showed other students at the bus stop an explosive device he made, but it didn’t detonate. So he put it in his bag and carried it to his chemistry class, where it exploded unexpectedly.
The school had to be evacuated. There were no reported injuries.
The teen has been charged as a juvenile with manufacturing and possessing a destructive device and reckless endangerment. Investigators say the student learned how to make the explosive online, but they don’t believe he meant to hurt anyone.
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Suspicious Ferry Passengers Identified and Cleared After Global Manhunt - Seattle
Posted: 05 May 2008 08:41 PM CDT
Two men who the FBI had been looking for since passengers reported them acting strangely on a Washington state ferry last August have been found and are not considered a threat.
The FBI says the two European citizens showed up at the U.S. Embassy two weeks ago as the men in the photographs released to the media. “They didn’t want to be arrested by they did want to keep coming to the United States, so they came to the U.S Embassy about two weeks ago to identify themselves,” said Laura Laughlin, FBI Special Agent in Charge.
The pair was spotted on ferries taking pictures last July. Other passengers told police, who then notified the FBI. When they feds couldn’t find them, they went public.
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Man Possibly Sickened By Tampered G2 Energy Drink - Riverside California
Posted: 05 May 2008 08:24 PM CDT
A 50-year-old Riverside man who sipped an energy drink that may have been tampered with became sick over the weekend, police said.
The man purchased a six-pack of Gatorade G2 on Friday night at the Vons supermarket at La Sierra and Magnolia avenues in Riverside, said spokesman Steven Frasher of the Riverside Police Department.
On Sunday, he drank from one of the bottles, noticed the taste was not right and became ill a short time later, Frasher said.
He experienced a burning sensation on his tongue, intense thirst, sweating and accelerated heart rate, KNBC’s Mary Parks reported.
A neighbor took him to Parkview Community Hospital Medical Center, where he was treated and released, he said.
It was unclear whether the drink had been tampered with, but as a precaution, the Gatorade G2 fruit punch product was removed from the La Sierra Vons store shelves, Frasher said.
Vons, a division of Safeway Inc., is cooperating with the investigation, Frasher said.
Gatorade and similar products have a consumer safety seal that should be intact when purchased.
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60 Gunmen Attack Ranch in Mexico, Kill 9
Posted: 05 May 2008 08:16 PM CDT
About 60 gunmen launched an attack on a ranch in Mexico’s southern Guerrero state yesterday, killing nine people on the property of the head of the Guerrero Cattlemen’s Association and leaving another six wounded, authorities said, the second such incident in two days. Property owner Rogaciano Alba Alvarez was not among those killed.
Hit men arrived at his ranch in six pickup trucks and opened fire with AK-47s, killing the ranch workers.
The violence came just 24 hours after Mr. Alba narrowly escaped an attack by another hit squad Saturday. Seven people were killed in that incident and eight wounded.
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Sorry about the terror posts, almost sorry, as there are a couple in the last post that go with this thread, poison food and poor planning at hospitals....
Guess it is true, I cannot keep two threads separate, as I have also poste from her on the other thread.