Posted on 04/11/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Velveeta
Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
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Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127761.ece
From The Sunday Times
May 16, 2010
Essex home raided over Iran dirty bomb threat
Wealthy Jarrad Beddows Essex Home.
Customs raided the Essex home of Jarrad Beddow
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David Leppard
A BRITISH chemicals firm is involved in a secret MI5 inquiry into the illegal export to Iran of material that could make a radioactive “dirty bomb”.
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) raided the Essex home of the firm’s former sales manager after a tip that potentially lethal chemicals, including cobalt, were sold to Iran last summer.
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http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=12482549
5/14/10
Lubbock airport contract employee in courtroom after making bomb threats
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By Ann Wyatt Little - bio | email
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) - A federal magistrate decided Friday that the man accused of making threats to put a bomb at the Lubbock Airport is a flight risk, and will stay behind bars through the weekend. Bone has not been set for 20-year-old Johnathan Ivins.
Ivins made his first appearance before a judge Friday morning. When asked by KCBD NewsChannel 11, as he was walking into the courtroom, if he even jokingly made threats to blow up a plane, he said yes.
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Forensic investigators searched Ivin’s computer and according to the indictment prosecutors allege he visited “questionable, disturbing and bizarre sites,” including terrorist Web sites. The motion goes on to read that Ivins admitted to investigators about researching different types of bombs and how to make a timer using an alarm clock.
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This is the post word for word included in the indictment:
“I’m building a bomb as you speak. I work at the airport as a Technician. I go inspect planes and get paid $20 an Hour. You think you won. Well I got plans for implanting a 10 hour bomb in one of the vents. Hahahahaha when that plane goes boom you’ll know what I’m talking about. I don’t care if I get caught. They call me the hero. Your asses is going down I’m just waiting for the right time. I’m also implanting an another bomb somewhere in a big city. Plus there’s muslim country’s who want to destroy the American satellites. I look too much of american but I have a quarter of a muslim in me plus 1/16 of a jew in me so. Don’t worry you’ll go your turn f...... Yankee doodle dandy.”
Ivins is charged with one count of imparting and conveying false information regarding the destruction of an aircraft, one count of making a bomb threat and one count of false information and hoaxes. If tried and convicted, Ivins could face up to 15 years in prison.
Copyright 2010 KCBD. All rights reserved.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/article7127519.ece
Passengers stranded as alarm closes Tunnel
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She added: “Emergency services are trying to work out why the detector went off. We need to understand why it happened.”
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India set to ban 100 Al Qaeda-linked groups
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Islamiyah of Indonesia, Islamic Libya’s Jihad Group, the Islamic Combatant
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Crash investigators search for clues in Libya
By TAREK EL-TABLAWY (AP) – 5 hours ago
TRIPOLI, Libya — Dutch and American crash investigators helped search for clues Sunday in the debris field of the airliner that slammed into the desert short of an airport runway in Libya’s capital last week.
Libyan authorities, meanwhile, determined that one of those found dead among the shattered wreckage was not a passenger but a Libyan airport worker who responded to the scene and died of a heart attack. The new information, however, did not alter the official casualty count from Wednesday’s crash.
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He said there was no explosion until the plane hit the ground. Libya has ruled out terrorism as a possible cause of the crash, although the investigation is still under way.
May 16, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
(Pakistan/U.S.) ‘D.C. Five’: US terror suspects in Pakistan ‘keen to return home’
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iT6U4F15odZTmToJdSdgPJBViYVg
(Pakistan/U.S.) 5 Virginia men facing terrorism charges in Pakistan write of ‘noble’ motivation
-— Washington Post: “Police and court records charge that the five made contact with a known al-Qaeda operative through social-networking Web sites and that they communicated via a shared e-mail account: ramadanhaji99@yahoo.com“
-— Ramy Zamzam now says he sought “work at an orphanage”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/15/AR2010051503548.html
— January 4, 2010: Ramy Zamzam (DC Howard University student): “We are not terrorists. We are jihadists, and jihad is not terrorism”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6975973.ece
(Pakistan/U.S.) “Peace body vows to foil US plans of action in N Waziristan”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\16\story_16-5-2010_pg7_5
(U.S./Pakistan) Times Square Bomb Case: 3 men in foiled bomb plot identified
-— Boston: Pir Khan, Aftab Khan
-— Maine: Mohamad Rahman
http://www.statesman.com/news/nation/3-men-in-foiled-bomb-plot-identified-689432.html
— Details Emerge About 3 Men Detained in Bomb Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/nyregion/15terror.html
(Pakistan) Audiotape shows top editor spoke to Taliban about Khawaja
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/69892/audiotape-shows-top-editor-spoke.html
— Hamid Mir’s terrifying indiscretions
-— Pakistan Daily Times says television anchor Hamid Mir gave information to Taliban
-— “negative information that Mir passed on to the Taliban could have led to the execution of Khalid Khawaja”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\16\story_16-5-2010_pg1_6
— Transcript of Hamid Mir’s conversation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\16\story_16-5-2010_pg7_8
(Paksitan) Fifteen suspected militants killed in Orakzai
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-fighter-jets-kill-15-suspected-militants-in-orakzai-ss-08
(Pakistan) Militants free 50 hostages kidnapped on Saturday
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-militants-free-50-hostages-kidnapped-on-saturday-ss-04
(Pakistan) Kashmir terrorists get pay hike
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Kashmir-terrorists-get-pay-hike/articleshow/5938412.cms
(AfPak) US still using spy ring to track Taliban militants
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/69907/us-still-using-spy-ring.html
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-private-us-spy-network-still-in-pakistan-afghanistan-report-ss-02
(Afghanistan) Taliban kills four in Afghanistan
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/national_world/stories/2010/05/16/taliban-kills-four-in-afghanistan.html
(Afghanistan) Scores killed as 10 US military tanks destroyed in Helmand: Taliban
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/International/16-May-2010/Scores-killed-as-10-US-military-tanks-destroyed-in-Helmand-Taliban
Afghan police trainers face ‘immense’ challenges
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7127297.ece
India: Government bans 100 terror outfits
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Government-bans-100-terror-outfits/articleshow/5935393.cms
(U.S.) Proposal Would Delay Hearings in Terror Cases
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/us/politics/15miranda.html
(Gaza) Hamas destroys dozens of homes in southern Gaza
— AP: “’They promised reform and change — instead they’ve destroyed our homes,’ shouted Miasar Gan, a 54-year-old woman. Gan said she and her husband had nowhere else to go.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_home_demolitions
(Syria) Russia-Syria arms deal irks Israel
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175655
Israeli army to train on anti-missiles attack next week
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2083840&Language=en
Somali rebels fire mortars at parliament
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=1&art_id=nw20100516135025785C522574
Mauritania puts terror suspects on trial
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gcc9P8sws733yiD_ci1f9o75vpDA
(Canada) New program trains B.C. front-line workers to spot terrorism
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/program+trains+front+line+workers+spot+terrorism/3019986/story.html
Indonesia cleric denies terror group link: report — Abu Bashir
— AFP: “Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir is accused of being the spiritual leader of the Jemaah Islamiyah terror group”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jjw28uuvZJ-R0OzLTGjou4MhDsaQ
Thailand street battles escalate as Red Shirt leader warns of civil war
Thailand street battles escalate as Red Shirt leader warns of civil war
Chile: Pakistani charged in Chile for explosives, not terror
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hIyytWvOnz1YbqtwhwMC6G8fLWFw
— Chile judge frees Pakistani arrested at US Embassy
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/03-chile-judge-frees-pakistani-arrested-at-us-embassy-ss-01
— Chile terror lawyer predicts case will be dropped
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h3JC2CC9PibOrSlb9jM18q1ej6dwD9FMUEO00
Other News:
France: Teacher Clotilde Reiss released from Iran, ‘deal’ claims
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/france-teacher-clotilde-reiss-released-from-iran-deal-claims/
Sweden: R.E.A.L. Condemns Violence Against Cartoonist Lars Vilks
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/lars_vilks/
Swedish Muhammad cartoonist says he doesn’t feel safe at home after arson attack
— Lars Vilks
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/16/swedish-muhammad-cartoonist-says-doesnt-feel-safe-home-arson-attack/
— Two arrested over attack on cartoonist
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/two-arrested-over-fire-attack-on-home-of-swedish-cartoonist-lars-vilks/story-e6frfku0-1225867506682
— Sweden: Two suspects arrested in arson attack
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/sweden-police-arrest-suspect-in-arson.html
— Mohammed cartoonist’s home attacked with firebomb
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7730556/Mohammed-cartoonists-home-attacked-with-firebomb.html
-— April 5, 2010: “Sweden: Muslim community fears violence after attack on elderly couple”
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/04/sweden-muslim-community-fears-violence.html
UK: Stabbed MP Stephen Timms: What made her do this?
— Roshonara Choudhary
— UK Mirror: “From his hospital bed, the Labour MP for East Ham praised his assistant Andrew Bazeley and a security guard who disarmed the woman in Muslim dress after she knifed him twice in the abdomen.”
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/05/16/stabbed-mp-stephen-timms-what-made-her-do-this-115875-22261209/
— British MP recovering after being stabbed by Muslim woman
http://story.irishsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/88176adfdf246af5/id/635751/cs/1/
(UK) “Radical Muslims lose grip on London council”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7728272/Radical-Muslims-lose-grip-on-London-council.html
Germany: NYT reports “Munich Imam Tries to Dull Lure of Radical Islam” — Hesham Shashaa
— NYT: “A growing number of imams in Europe and the Middle East have denounced suicide missions and terrorist acts. Many of these imams, however, still view Al Qaeda, the Taliban or Hamas as legitimate resistance movements, while Mr. Shashaa openly declares that they are violating the tenets of Islam.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/world/europe/16imam.html
“Belgium: New radical group to protest against European oppression”
— New “Muslim Rise” group invites Anjem Choudary
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/belgium-new-radical-group-to-protest.html
(Iran) A harrowing account of Iran’s green revolution details the horrific torture of those who dared to defy the regime
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article7124388.ece
Kenya: Kung fu grannies ready to fight rapists
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37134218/ns/health-womens_healt
Sudan arrests Islamist opposition leader Turabi: party
http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/sudan-arrests-islamist-opposition-leader-turabi-party
Pakistan: “Muslim rocker wields guitar in rock’n’roll jihad”
— Pakistani Salman Ahmad spends most of his time in NYC
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127684.ece
Saudi journalist who interviewed and traveled with bin Laden resigns from leading newspaper
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-saudi-editor,0,4780038.story
(Canada) Vancouver flight bomb threat was a ‘false alarm’
http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100515/threat-plane-Vancouver-100515/20100515/?hub=TorontoNewHome
(U.S.) California: Madera Deputies Investigate Oakhurst Church Vandalism
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/california-madera-deputies-investigate-oakhurst-church-vandalism/
(U.S.) Michigan mosque vandalism twice in one week
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/michigan-mosque-vandalism-twice-in-one-week/
The Middle East’s new war: Facebook popularity
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=175713
Against Totalitarianism News:
North Korea: Warning shots fired at N. Korean boats
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/05/16/south.korea.warning.shots/index.html?hpt=T2
Against Nazi News:
Greece: Three arrested for Nazi slogans at Greek Jewish cemetery
http://www.ejpress.org/article/43986
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U. S. NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACCIDENTS
by Jaya Tiwari and Cleve J. Gray
http://www.cdi.org/Issues/NukeAccidents/Accidents.htm
Japan, China in spat over nuclear arsenal
AFP ^ | 05/16/10
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4 DECAPITATED BODIES FOUND IN NORTHERN MEXICO
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“Decapitated bodies with women’s underwear found in Juárez”
By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Posted: 05/16/2010 04:14:26 PM MDT
SNIPPET: “The mutilated bodies of two men left wearing women’s underwear were found early this morning in Juárez, Chihuahua state police said.”
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Iraq Imam who criticized al-Qaeda beheaded. Savage attack allegedly by men in Iraqi military uniforms, cleric’s severed head hung on an electrical pole in ...
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Iraq Imam who criticized al-Qaeda beheaded
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May 17, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
(U.S.) Times Square Car Bomb Plot: E-mails paint Times Square suspect as frustrated Muslim
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/05/17/times.square.suspect.emails/index.html
— Terrorist Faisal Shahzad: “Why do you have to follow Democracy (Human made Laws) if you’re already given Laws revealed from Allah, Quran, and Sunnah. Khilafath is what we Muslim ruled the world with, weren’t we successful in world then?”
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/blog/times-square/shahzad-emails.pdf
(U.S.) NY man said to use computer skills to aid al Qaeda
— Sabirhan Hasanoff and Wesam El-Hanafi
— Reuters: “accused of pledging allegiance to al Qaeda and using their computer expertise to aid the group”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64G6IY20100517?type=domesticNews
— Adelaide-born man Sabirhan “Tareq” Hasanoff to fight terror charges
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/world/adelaide-born-man-to-fight-terror-charges/story-e6frea8l-1225868106992
(U.S./Yemen) Yemen Qaeda threatens attacks on U.S. over cleric: website
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64F1I420100516
— Al-Qaeda: American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki praised in al Qaeda audio message
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/16/yemen.video.cleric/
— Al Qaeda In Yemen Vows To Attack U.S.
http://mystateline.com/fulltext-news/?nxd_id=162385
— US giving Qaeda ‘1,000 reasons’ to attack: Yemen chief
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCyR_Cr8xbzjTlwivMcH-CzhvFrA
(U.S.) Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial: Move an omen of switch on 9/11 mastermind
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/18/move-an-omen-of-switch-on-911-mastermind/
Pakistan: Confronting the Taliban apologists by Ammar Zafarullah
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\18\story_18-5-2010_pg3_4
Pakistan Daily Times: “The Taliban come to Hamid Mir’s aid”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\18\story_18-5-2010_pg1_3
— The Hamid Mir affair
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\18\story_18-5-2010_pg1_4
(Pakistan/U.S.) U.S. to Press Pakistan on Bomb Plot Inquiry
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/world/asia/18pstan.html
(Pakistan/U.S.) Pakistan seen restricting data obtained from captured No. 2 Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/18/pakistan-restricts-data-obtained-captured-taliban/
— CIA director, national security adviser to meet with officials in Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/17/AR2010051703624.html
(Pakistan) Taliban attack Pakistani troops, spark clashes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100517/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorthwest
(Pakistan) TTP leader surrenders in Sargodha
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\18\story_18-5-2010_pg1_6
(Pakistan) Experts on militancy to meet in Peshawar
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\05\18\story_18-5-2010_pg7_30
(AfPak) Militant splits span AfPak border
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LE18Df03.html
(Afghanistan) Taliban still hold sway in Marja, farmers say
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100517/ZNYT03/5173006/1051/news?Title=Taliban-still-hold-sway-in-Marja-farmers-say
Afghanistan - CNN: “Can the Taliban really be reintegrated?”
http://afghanistan.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/17/can-the-taliban-really-be-reintegrated/
(Afghanistan) Bill for Afghan War Could Run into the Trillions
http://www.ipsnews.net/login.asp?redir=news.asp?idnews=51468
(Bangladesh) Hizb ut-Tahrir leader’s house raided
— Sheikh Omar Sharif Al Maruf Russell and Nazmul Haque
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=138848
India: 44 killed as Maoists blow up bus in Dantewada
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/44-killed-as-Maoists-blow-up-bus-in-Dantewada/articleshow/5942531.cms
Iraq: Cleric who criticized Al Qaeda beheaded in Iraq
http://thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=239887
Iraq: Al Qaeda’s Iraq network replaces slain leaders
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64F0SJ20100516
Iraq: Saudi army officer held in Iraq for World Cup terror plot
— Saudi Colonel Azzam al-Qahtani, also known as Sanan al-Saudi, linked to Ayman al—Zawahiri
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/international/article432313.ece
Iran: White House Keeps Sanctions on Table After Iran Announces Nuclear Fuel Deal
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/17/iran-check-nuclear-swap-deal/
— Iran uranium deal met with suspicion in West
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7734082/Iran-uranium-deal-met-with-suspicion-in-West.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7128738.ece
— Iran to resume uranium enrichment despite Turkey deal
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/05/17/iran.nuclear/index.html
(UK) Essex home raided over Iran dirty bomb threat
— London Times: “A British chemicals firm is involved in a secret MI5 inquiry into the illegal export to Iran of material that could make a radioactive ‘dirty bomb’”
— Remet UK, Jarrad Beddow
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7127761.ece
-— U.K. Firm Investigated Over Sale of “Dirty Bomb” Material to Iran
http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20100517_7415.php
(UK) “Hizb-ut-Tahrir: Jihad, Caliphate and the Tories”
http://hurryupharry.org/2010/05/17/hizb-ut-tahrir-jihad-caliphate-and-the-tories/
UK: Anjem Choudary threatens new Muslim minister
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2010/05/uk-choudary-threatens-new-muslim.html
(UK) Pakistanis want British MP to remove terror stigma
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100516/tts-uk-pakistan-british-minister-ca02f96.html
(U.S.) Florida: Jacksonville - Investigators: 4 Leads In Mosque Bombing
http://www.news4jax.com/news/23529601/detail.html
(U.S.) Obama nominates FBI official John Pistole to head Transportation Security
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/17/obama-nominates-fbi-official-to-head-transportation-security/
(U.S.) Hutaree: Appeals court denies en banc rehearing in Hutaree case
http://michiganmessenger.com/37881/appeals-court-denies-en-banc-rehearing-in-hutaree-case
Egypt detains 16 Islamic Jihad members
http://en.trend.az/regions/met/arabicr/1689146.html
South Africa: Al-Qaeda said to be plotting World Cup attack
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7129273.ece
Mauritania starts trials of al Qaeda suspects
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64F14220100516
Sudanese army declares full control of JEM hideout in Darfur
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2084188&Language=en
German Synagogue Arson Attack - Letters Left Behind
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/german-synagogue-arson-attack/
(Canada) Ontario Appeal Court hearing set for Khawaja, appealing terrorism convictions
— Momin Khawaja
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/810314—ontario-appeal-court-hearing-set-for-khawaja-appealing-terrorism-convictions
(Indonesia) Fugitive able to post jihad notes on internet
— Abdullah Sunata used “deradicalization” program to engineer early release from prison
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/fugitive-able-to-post-jihad-notes-on-internet/story-e6frg6so-1225867910022
— Sonata’s blog messages show RI’s terror war is far from over
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/05/17/sonata%E2%80%99s-blog-messages-show-ri%E2%80%99s-terror-war-far-over.html
Philippines: “Islamic rebels ready for dialogue with Aquino”
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamic-rebels-ready-for-dialogue-with-Aquino-18432.html
Chile: Pakistani held at US embassy in Chile freed
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/pakistani-held-at-us-embassy-in-chile-freed-750
Other News:
Egyptian Convert from Islam Mohammed Hegazy Lawsuit Delayed by Court
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/05/egyptian-convert-from-islam/
Pakistan bars Danish journalist after Mohammed cartoons
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pakistan-bars-Danish-journalist-after-Mohammed-cartoons/articleshow/5939175.cms
— April 16, 2008: Pakistan PM Gilani at National Assembly meeting calling for international death penalty for “blasphemy”
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\04\16\story_16-4-2008_pg7_6
Uzbekistan: Large raid and almost immediate trial starts against registered church
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=1444
Nigerian police kill and torture suspects, claims report
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/17/nigeria-police-killing-torture-report
Indonesia: Aggressive Church Closures
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=12355&PHPSESSID=3bd6e544c6b60d2498b82275294259db
Israel: ‘Trafficked women neglected’
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175828
(U.S.) Dow Jones Islamic Market Index Wins Best Shari’ah-Compliant Index Provider
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/dow-jones-islamic-market-index-wins-best-shariah-compliant-index-provider,1301303.shtml
(U.S.) NYC: Masjid Manhattan seeks to build Masjid according to Sharia in NYC
http://www.masjidmanhattan.com/
— related FOX News report
http://bit.ly/bh5sCm
(U.S.) NYC: Alysssa Lapan background on Faisal Abdul Rauf
http://bit.ly/a6GuSZ
— Kamran Pasha says Faisal Abdul Rauf is “progressive”
http://huff.to/duJ7Ct
(U.S.) “Christian leader faces questions about Muslim past”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_REL_PREACHERS_PAST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-05-17-03-10-50
Saudi newspaper head resigns after run-in with conservatives
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gf-BSqGrt0Tpo_oj694sxlOtiN-A
Against Nazi News:
(U.S.) DOJ Won’t Release Report on Nazi-Hunters
http://www.mainjustice.com/2010/05/16/doj-wont-release-report-on-nazi-hunters/
(U.S.) Florida: Exhibit showcasing Nazi persecution of homosexuals opens
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100516/ARTICLES/100519514/1002
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Al-Qaeda number two plotting World Cup terrorist attack
The Telegraph ^ | 5/17/2010 | Richard Spencer
Posted on May 18, 2010 1:15:26 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Osama bin Laden’s closest al-Qaeda lieutenant has been plotting a terrorist attack on the World Cup, Iraqi police said.
According to investigators, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden’s number two, was conspiring with an al-Qaeda operative who was arrested in Baghdad two weeks ago.
The operative, named as Abdullah Azzam Saleh Misfar al-Qahtani and said to be a former Saudi army colonel who had travelled to Iraq and become security chief for al-Qaeda’s local branch, has been accused of organising suicide bombings in two cities south of Baghdad.
Abdullah Azam al-Qahtani
Major General Qassim Atta, head of security in Baghdad, said he was also believed to have made contact with al-Zawahiri, the man generally regarded as al-Qaeda’s second-highest leader after bin Laden.
“He participated in the planning of a terrorist act in South Africa during the World Cup,” Maj Gen Atta said. “He was in contact with the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri to organise the plan hatched by al-Qaeda.”
Maj Gen Atta gave no details of what the plot was or how far it had been developed. But last month a jihadist website published a statement in which al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African branch, suggested an attack might be made on England’s opening game, against the United States.
The bulk of South Africa’s police work in advance of the World Cup, starting next month, has been aimed at controlling high rates of violent crime.
Precautions have been laid against terrorist attacks, but police said they were still investigating the latest claims.
“The South African police are still working on getting confirmation,” Nonkululeko Mbatha, a spokeswoman, said.
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by JESSICA VESS / KVUE News
One in custody after hotel fire
One man is in custody after confessing to setting the fire that destroyed a Southeast Austin hotel.
Officials say Mohamed Amine Lahlou, 33, confessed Sunday night to setting the fire.
He called 911 around 6 p.m. and described details of the fire that investigators say no one would have known unless they were there.
“When questioned, all the details that he gave us match up with all the witness information that we have. It matches up with the fire patterns that we have in the building and we’re confident based on that confession that he is the person (who) did start that fire,” Capt. Andy Reardon of AFD said.
He told detectives he set sheets on fire in between the two beds in his room. That fire spread quickly through America’s Best Value Inn on South Interstate 35 near Oltorf. The flames trapped several guests in their hotel rooms.
“I opened the door and the smoke was black that’s when I knew I needed to bust out the windows and hang out,” said Laureen Wright, trapped guest.
Firefighters used ladder trucks to reach up to the third floor so that they could rescue guests, including Wright, through the windows.
“She could feel the heat from the door and there was smoke coming behind her but no flames. She was distraught obviously and wanted out of the window. My goal was keeping her from jumping out the window until we got a ladder to her,” said Alex Vanegas, AFD.
They say it was dangerous but the only way to get inside.
“The hallway itself was already on fire. There (were) already flames in the hallway...they have no way to protect themselves. They have one way in and one way out and that’s what makes it so dangerous,” said Vanegas.
Firefighters say no one was seriously injured. EMS transported one person to the hospital.
Investigators say the hotel is destroyed. Damages were estimated around $1.5 million.
Actually, I think he is clueless. A clueless commie scumbag, yes, but still clueless.
Its the folks pulling his strings that are conniving, dishonest snakes...
Boston.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Boston, MA - "TWO CHINESE NATIONALS CONVICTED OF ILLEGALLY EXPORTING ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS USED IN MILITARY RADAR AND ELECTRONIC WARFARE" (SNIPPET: "...ZHEN ZHOU WU a/k/a Alex Wu, YUFENG WEI a/k/a Annie Wei, and CHITRON ELECTRONICS, INC. ("CHITRON-US"), were convicted...") May 17, 2010)
Boston.FBI.gov - DOJ Press Release: Boston, MA - "THREE CHINESE NATIONALS AND TWO CORPORATIONS CHARGED WITH ILLEGALLY EXPORTING DEFENSE ARTICLES AND COMMERCE CONTROLLED ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS TO CHINA AND CONSPIRING TO VIOLATE U.S. EXPORT LAWS" (October 5, 2009)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2516275/posts
Homeland Security Alert: Terror suspect may be headed to Texas through Mexico
KVUE.com ^ | May 18, 2010, 7:40 am | by Shern-Min Chow/11 News
Posted on May 18, 2010 4:34:31 PM PDT by Cindy
SNIPPET: “HOUSTON — A Homeland Security Alert is asking Houston police and Harris County Sheriff’s deputies to keep their eyes open for a potential terrorist.
The alert focuses on Mohamed Ali, a suspected member of the terrorist group Al Shabaab. It indicates he may be traveling to the U.S. through Mexico.”
SNIPPET: “In 2007, former Houstonian Daniel Joseph Maldonado was brought back to Houston by the U.S Attorney in the Southern District after he was captured in Somalia reportedly training with terrorist groups.
“He had initially been on the frontlines of Al Shabaab, but when they realized he was an American, they pulled him back because they had plans for him to come back to the U.S. and recruit female suicide bombers,” said Neuhaus Schaan.”
SNIPPET: “U.S. Homeland Security officials confirmed the Muhamed Ali alert, but declined to comment on it.”
SNIPPET: “If authorities are right, Mohamed Ali is hardly alone and a terror network is following well-worn human smuggling routes into the Lone Star State.
“There would be a reasonable chance to have him [Mohamed Ali] coming through Houston,” Neuhaus Schaan said. “They [Al Shabaab] have been pretty busy in Texas.”
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Foreign Assistance: U.S. Assistance to the West Bank and Gaza for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2009
GAO-10-623R, May 14, 2010
Summary (HTML) Full Report (PDF, 19 pages) Accessible Text
Terrorist Watchlist Screening: FBI Has Enhanced Its Use of Information from Firearm and Explosives Background Checks to Support Counterterrorism Efforts
GAO-10-703T, May 5, 2010
Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 17 pages) Accessible Text
Anti-Money Laundering: Better Communication Could Enhance the Support FinCEN Provides to Law Enforcement
GAO-10-622T, April 28, 2010
Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 18 pages) Accessible Text
Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Manage Risk, Improve Coordination, and Measure Performance, but Additional Actions Would Enhance Its Efforts
GAO-10-650T, April 21, 2010
Summary (HTML) Highlights Page (PDF) Full Report (PDF, 21 pages) Accessible Text
Officials say Mohamed Amine Lahlou, 33, confessed Sunday night to setting the fire.<<<
One of the jihadi videos, recently had a statement that made me think of the jihadi fires.
I don’t remember which one, just that I stopped for a minute and recalled past fires they set in the U.S.
Firemen and Police never get the credit they are due for the work they do each day.
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