Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

[Mossad1967]

SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.

The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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[tmp02]

Powder found in NJ post office

10:55AM: Market takes a sharp dive into negative territory on the heels of reports that suspicious powder was found at a post office in New Jersey... Traders have used the news as an excuse to sell into the week's gains as the indices move to their worst levels of the day... As a result of this move, the Nasdaq is now poised to finish the week lower, while the Dow and S&P 500 are set for incremental gains... Investors have rotated out of technology issues in favor of areas that have trailed the stock market's rally in 2003...

http://finance.yahoo.com/mo

[freeperfromnj]

I was just about to post the same thing - here's a link from another source

http://www.wnbc.com/news/2845436/detail.html

Powder Sparks Probe At Jersey City Post Office

POSTED: 10:41 AM EST February 13, 2004
UPDATED: 10:57 AM EST February 13, 2004

JERSEY CITY, N.J. -- Authorities were investigating a report of a suspicious powder at a post office branch Friday morning.

A hazardous materials team was sent along with fire department crews to the Bergen Street post office after a woman reported coming in contact with an unidentified powdery substance, police Sgt. Edgar Martinez said.
"We're taking precautions and going in and checking it out," he said.

It was not immediately clear whether the woman was a postal worker or a customer, or whether the building was being evacuated.

The incident is the second this week involving a post office in New Jersey. A post office in Gloucester County was evacuated Tuesday morning after several workers there said they found a white powdery substance in their mail.
Postal officials said later they were looking into whether a mailing containing a powdery energy supplement burst open or at the possibility that there was no powdery substance -- dangerous or otherwise -- in the Williamstown post office.
Postal authorities are on high alert for dangerous substances in the mail after a powdery substance determined to be the poison ricin was found last week in a Senate office building in Washington, D.C. Officials have said they don't know if the ricin was mailed to the office.
A mail processing facility in Hamilton was shut down in October 2001 after letters containing anthrax passed through the building. Officials announced this week that the anthrax had been cleaned from the facility.
© 2004 by The Associated Press

[freeperfromnj]

Since you're in NJ, I have to ask if you heard anything similar stories: Early yesterday evening my son came in with a small plastic pouch with powder in it. He jokingly said - hey mom I found anthrax in our driveway. Of course, I took it seriously and told him to drop it. It turned out to be some sort of promotion for a diet powder. It just seemed odd that in these times someone would leave packets containing a powdery substance in neighborhood driveways. Very weird.

[Calpernia]

>>>>Alliance on the rocks: Saudis rejecting U.S. in favor of China

China.

http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/1998/March/099.htm.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CRM THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1998

(202) 616-2777

TDD (202) 514-1888

CRIMINAL INFORMATION FILED AGAINST JOHNNY CHUNG

The Justice Department's Campaign Financing Task Force filed an information today charging Johnny Chung with using straw donors and his own donations to exceed federal limits in contributing to the Clinton/Gore reelection campaign, and to U.S. Senator John Kerry's 1996 reelection campaign.

Filed in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, the information also charges Chung, 43, with one count each of tax evasion and bank fraud. He is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time on Monday, March 9 on the 14th Floor of the Roybal Building in Los Angeles.

"This is the Campaign Financing Task Force's third prosecution in five weeks," said Attorney General Janet Reno. "This investigation is moving forward, but we are not going to let up now."

The information charges Chung with violating the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) by conspiring to contribute, and causing to be contributed, funds exceeding the statutory limitations on campaign contributions, as well as conspiring to contribute and causing to be contributed funds in the name of others. (18 U.S.C. § 371 and 2 U.S.C. §§ 437g(d), 441a and 441f).

The information refers to two fundraising events, one a Clinton/Gore '96 fundraiser held in Century City, California on September 21, 1995. The second was a September 9, 1996 fundraiser for Senator John Kerry in Beverly Hills, California.

According to the information, Chung attended the Clinton/Gore fundraiser with approximately 20 guests. The cost of attending the event was $1,000, the maximum federal law permitted one person to contribute to Clinton/Gore '96. In order to pay for his guests without appearing to exceed the statutory limitation, Chung used a series of conduit contributors totaling at least $20,000. As explained in the information, he caused one of his employees to recruit conduit contributors by having them write individual checks in the amount of $1,000 payable to Clinton/Gore '96. Chung then caused cash to be withdrawn from his personal banking accounts, and had an employee reimburse the conduit contributors.

The information details a similar scheme to violate the FECA through conduit contributions to the Kerry Committee. The September 9, 1996, Beverly Hills fundraiser for Senator Kerry was hosted by Chung. The federal limit on personal contributions was $2,000 ($1,000 for the primary campaign and $1,000 for the general election campaign). Chung attended the event with several guests. As set forth in the information, Chung contributed $8,000 of his own money disguised as contributions from four of his guests. Chung and one of his employees asked the four guests to write checks drawn on their own accounts in the amount of $2,000 payable to the Kerry Committee. Chung and his employee then reimbursed the four conduit contributors with checks drawn from Chung's personal bank account.

The information also charges Chung with tax evasion. In 1996 Chung filed a personal income tax return stating that his 1995 taxable income was $14,236, and the amount of income tax due and owing was $2,134. In fact, according to the information, his taxable income for 1995 was substantially in excess of that reported. As a result, a substantial additional tax was due and owing. (26 U.S.C. § 7201)

The information also charges Chung with bank fraud. It alleges that around January 1997, in an effort to obtain a bank loan secured by a mortgage on his Artesia, California residence, he engaged in a scheme to defraud the lender. As set forth in the information, Chung transferred his ownership in the residence to his wife, Katharina Chung, who then applied for a loan secured by a mortgage on the residence. The loan application filed by Katharina Chung falsely stated that she was the comptroller of C.M. Information, Inc., a corporation in which Chung was an officer. As set forth in the information, Chung signed the name of the president of the company on the loan application without any authorization to do so. Katharina Chung was subsequently issued a $157,500 loan secured by a mortgage on the Artesia residence. (18 U.S.C. § 1344 , 18 U.S.C. §2 )

On January 29, 1998, Charlie Trie was charged in a 15-count indictment with a variety of crimes related to fundraising activities, as well as with obstruction of justice. Trie returned to the United States and surrendered to federal authorities on February 3, and is scheduled to be tried on October 7, 1998.

On February 18, 1998, a six-count indictment was returned against Maria Hsia, a Los Angeles Democratic fundraiser. Hsia was charged with conspiring with the Hsi Lai Temple of Hacienda Heights, CA by using Temple funds to make illegal campaign contributions to federal, state and local candidates and their political committees. Hsia was also charged with causing false statements to be made to the FEC. Her trial is set for April 27, 1998.

The United States Code provides maximum penalties of thirty-seven years and $1.45 million for the charges Chung faces. Under the federal sentencing guidelines, actual sentences imposed under the law can vary substantially.

All charges made by the government are merely accusations, and all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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98-099

[Calpernia]

Diet powder? Please, what was this a promotion for?

[StillProud2BeFree]

Remember that the smallpox vaccine is made using a live attennuated form of the vaccinia virus, NOT the smallpox virus. Vaccinia causes a very mild pox illness related to cowpox. It isn't possible to get smallpox from the vaccine because there isn't any smallpox virus present, although you can get vaccinia and it is somewhat contagious (and is very very rarely serious). Any live virus vaccine poses some risk of infection in an immunocompromised host - that's why there's no way they can use live smallpox virus in the vaccine.

[Calpernia]

I told you to go make a cup of tea young lady!

[freeperfromnj]

It said diet powder - I don't recall the name - I'll have to check when I get home to see if my son remembers the name. It was a yellowish powdery substance and my son said it was in a couple of driveways. We didn't open it and my husband told him to throw it out and told me not to make a big deal of it - you know, they think I'm just a paranoid arm-chair terror tracker who spends too much time on the interent. I just thought it was odd.

[watchwoman]

Please forgive if this has already been discussed, but the NEIN.com website was finally updated yesterday evening, and they mentioned some new threats in the jihadi forums...

Quote from NEIN.com website:
Specific threats against the "Building of Valentine Lovers", which we suspect may be the Empire State Building in New York City. As is always the case, we have forwarded the intelligence behind this threat to the proper authorities, and we have every reason to believe that they will handle this appropriately. Extra vigilance would be prudent should you be in that area this weekend, however, and please report anything out of the ordinary to law enforcement.

Why do they they think this is the Empire State Building? I wouldn't think of that as a terribly romantic place. Any other ideas on what this "Building of Valentine Lovers" might be?

[Calpernia]

If there is a way for you to recall the name, it actually would be helpful. If not, I understand.

[watchwoman]

OK I think I just answered my own question...I did a Google search, and it seems that every Valentine's Day, a select group of couples is married at the Empire State Building.

Link:

http://www.whatsonwhen.com/events/~69007.jml

[Rutles4Ever]

Not a building, but I recall the image of Niagara Falls, a honeymooner mecca...

[freeperfromnj]

Check out this updated link. I think I found the answer to my questions. It's an update on the NJ Post Office closing earlier today. It seems postal officials are saying they were looking into whether a mailing containing a powdery energy supplement leaked out.

http://www.nj.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1076687045225550.xml

[freeperfromnj]

You'd think they'd ban the mass mailing and distribution of this type of stuff in light of the bio fears we now live with.

[Calpernia]

One would think common sense would kick in and actual 'bans' wouldn't be needed.

Note to self, check link upon return.

[TexKat]

Ryan Anderson walks handcuffed past his rifle after being arrested by a Snohomish County Sheriff in this May 22, 1998 file photo when police responded to a call of a man with a firearm near an elementary school near Everett, Washington. U.S. Army Spc. Ryan Anderson, a recent Muslim convert, was charged on February 12, 2004 with trying to pass military secrets to the Islamic militant group al Qaeda after being caught in a sting operation, military officials said on Thursday. (Michael O'leary/The Everett Herald via Reuters)

[TBall]

The Senate Dirksen office building has been evacuated.

[river rat]

The very instant that a freeper can't call for the execution of war time spies or traitors -- then I will excommunicate myself...

Won't wait for the "moderator"...

Waste too much time here anyway ....Just ask my wife!

Semper Fi

[Safetgiver]

You misspeled that. It's a Tag-a-Moose. His sister also plays on the team.

[freeperfromnj]

This is a really big story. This guy reminds me of McVeigh. Wonder how many more brainwashed muslim converts are out there.