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Posted on 02/05/2004 8:31:17 PM PST by Mossad1967
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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.
LOL it appears not. Theres more than one way to skin a cat.
Hey, hey, hey. Don't Mess With Texas!!
Goodnight all.
Thanks again. I pay for DishNet and other stuff that I never use. My wife and kids are glued to it. I have a pile of movies on DVD that are still in the security wrappers. I'll watch them someday. Didn't have time when they were in the theater...still don't.
WorldNetDaily.com - from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin: "AL-QAIDA SOUTH OF THE BORDER Rumsfeld: Human Smuggling Rings Tied to bin Laden Terrorist Network" (February 16, 2004) (Read More...)
WHIO TV.com: "SHOOTING INVESTIGATION" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Gunshots scatter through a West Carrollton apartment complex sending some residents scrambling for cover.") (February 16, 2004) (Read More...)
YAHOO - News - Photos: (REUTERS): "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)" (February 13, 2004) (Read More/View Photo...)
SEATTLE TIMES.com: "LOCAL SOLDIER ACCUSED OF TRYING TO GIVE AL-QAIDA INFO" by Mike Carter (ARTICLE SNIPPET: " About two years ago, a young man using the screen name "akagunfighter" joined a local Islamic Internet chat room. His real name was Ryan G. Anderson, and he could hardly have been less welcome. Anderson was arrested yesterday by U.S. Army officials, who say the 26-year-old National Guardsman attempted to communicate and provide intelligence to the al-Qaida terrorism network. Anderson, a member of the 81st Armor Brigade about to be deployed to Iraq, has not been formally charged.") (February 13, 2004) (Read More...)
SEATTLE PI.com - SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER: "UJAAMA CASE COMES TO AN END Ex-Seattle Man Gets 2-Year Sentence; Feds Get Information About Al-Qaida" (February 14, 2004) (Read More...)
US DOJ.gov - Press Release: "EARNEST JAMES UJAAMA SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRING TO SUPPLY GOODS AND SERVICES TO THE TALIBAN" (February 13, 2004) (Read More...)
stepping back in time...US DOJ.gov - Press Release: "EARNEST JAMES UJAAMA PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRACY TO SUPPLY GOODS AND SERVICES TO THE TALIBAN, AGREES TO COOPERATE WITH TERRORISM INVESTIGATIONS EARNEST JAMES UJAAMA SENTENCED FOR CONSPIRING TO SUPPLY GOODS AND SERVICES TO THE TALIBAN" (April 14, 2003) (Read More...)GOOGLE Search Term: "UJAAMA" (Read More...)
KOIN.com: "FIVE CHINESE SMUGGLED INTO PORTLAND ON CARGO SHIP Crew Members Face Human Trafficking Charges" (February 13, 2004) (Read More...)
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FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" (Read More...)
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT - Public Announcement - Office of the Spokesperson: "WORLDWIDE CAUTION" (January 9, 2004) (Read More...)
REWARDS FOR JUSTICE.net: "WANTED - ABU MUS'AB AL-ZARQAWI - UP TO $10 MILLION REWARD" (View Photos and Read More Here...)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com (UPI): "TERRORISTS PREPPED FOR A LONG CONFLICT" by Anwar Iqbal, UPI (February 14, 2004) (Read More...)
CPA-IRAQ.org - COALITON PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY: "TEXT FROM ABU MUS'AB AL-ZARQAWI LETTER" (February 12, 2004) (Read More...)
REDIFF.com: "NINE PAK NUCLEAR SCIENTISTS ABANDON JOBS" by Shyam Bhatia in London (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Nine nuclear scientists have abandoned their jobs in Pakistan and secretly taken up jobs in foreign countries where the pay and working conditions are better, Pakistani exiles have told rediff.com. The scientists are all engineers who were previously employed at the Chashma nuclear power plant built with Chinese help in central Pakistan.") (February 13, 2004)STRAITS TIMES.asia1.com.sg: "COPS HUNTING FOR RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN STOLEN CONTAINER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "SHANGHAI - Hundreds of police officers are racing to find a football-sized container of a potentially deadly radioactive material stolen from a power plant construction site in north-west China. The canister of cesium-137 has been missing for five days in Pucheng county, Shaanxi province.") (February 12, 2004) (Read More...)AFTENPOSTEN.no - Search Term: "KREKAR" (Mullah Krekar) (Read More...)
JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "NORWEGIAN COURT ORDERS ISLAMIC MILITANT LEADER HELD ANOTHER MONTH" (February 3, 2004) (Read More...)
MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE - Special Dispatch Series - No. 662: "SAUDI PAYMENTS FOR FOREIGN JOURNALISTS" (February 13, 2004) (Read More...)
To make him look taller, the camera angle often shoots up at him. Regardless of his height, don't mess with Chuck.
By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Roadside bombs killed two U.S. soldiers in separate attacks Monday in Baghdad and a city northeast of the capital, the U.S. military said. Gunmen also killed an American civilian and wounded three others in a weekend ambush south of here.
Also Monday, a grenade exploded near an elementary school in a Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad, killing at least one child and wounding four others. The children apparently triggered the grenade while playing where it was hidden, Iraqi police Sgt. Maher Qassim.
One of the roadside bombs exploded at about 9:40 a.m in the center of Baqouba, about 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing an American soldier from Task Force Iron Horse, the 4th Infantry Division said.
Two Iraqis were arrested, including one who had a cell phone that may have been used to detonate the bomb, according to Master Sgt. Robert Cargie, a division spokesman in Tikrit.
The other fatal bombing occurred in the center of Baghdad about 9:20 a.m., killing one soldier from the 1st Armored Division and wounding another, the military said. The 1st Armored is due to leave Iraq in the coming weeks and be replaced by the 1st Cavalry Division.
The latest deaths bring to 540 the number of U.S. service members have died since the United States launched the Iraq war in March. Most have died since President Bush declared an end to active combat May 1.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy chief of operations, reported an average of 17 engagements a day between U.S. soldiers and insurgents during the past week. The figure is down from an average of about 22-24 engagements each day reported in the previous week.
Also Monday, the U.S. command said gunmen in a white sedan opened fire Saturday on a taxi that was taking Americans from a religious group from the site of the ancient city of Babylon back to Baghdad. The three wounded were taken to a hospital in Mahmudiyah, about 15 miles south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division learned of the attack while patrolling in Mahmudiyah.
The statement did not identify the religious group with which the Americans were affiliated, but a number of Christian humanitarian groups working in Iraq.
Insurgents have been waging a campaign of attacks on U.S. troops and their Iraqi allies and have occasionally targeted aid workers. Robbers also prowl highways outside the capital.
A convoy carrying CNN employees was attacked near Mahmudiyah on Jan. 27. Gunmen opened fire on the vehicles, killing two Iraqis working for the network and wounding a cameraman.
In the northern oil center of Kirkuk, gunmen in a car opened fire at passers-by in a mainly Kurdish neighborhood Sunday night, killing one Kurdish man and wounding two other people, police said. The attackers escaped, Col. Sarhat Qader said.
Ethnic tensions are high in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where Sunni Muslim Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans and others are vying for dominance.
Attacks against the U.S.-led occupation force have continued unabated despite the capture of Saddam Hussein on Dec. 13 and the arrest of numerous figures whom the American military has identified as key figures behind the insurgency.
U.S. officials are divided about whether Iraqis or foreign fighters are responsible for recent attacks, including last weekend's bold daylight assault against police and civil defense compounds in Fallujah in which at least 25 people were killed.
On Sunday, a special Iraqi police unit arrested a senior Baath Party leader on the U.S. military's most-wanted list during a raid Sunday on his home in a Baghdad suburb. The capture of Mohammed Zimam Abdul Razaq leaves only 10 top figures still at large from the list of 55 issued after Saddam's regime collapsed.
Abdul Razaq was No. 41, and the four of spades in the military's "deck of cards" of top fugitives.
Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Kadhum Ibrahim touted the arrest as evidence that the still-rebuilding Iraqi police force "can be depended upon in the fight against terrorism" — looking to give his troops a boost following the rout of security forces in Fallujah.
The United States plans to transfer security responsibility to U.S.-trained Iraqi forces after the handover of sovereignty by July 1. However, the blueprint for the handover is in doubt after the country's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani, demanded early elections to choose members of a provisional legislature.
The legislature will in turn select a government to take power June 30. The Americans say early elections are not feasible because of the country's security situation and the lack of voter rolls. The Americans want the legislators selected in regional causes rather than by the voters.
On Sunday, however, the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, suggested that the Bush administration would be open to compromise.
"The U.S. is here for a long commitment," he said on ABC's "This Week." "The job is to get a democratic, stable, unified Iraq at peace with itself and with its neighbors. And that will take time. It isn't going to end on June 30."
U.S. Reportedly Releases Saddam's Parliament Speaker
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces have released Saadoun Hammadi, former Iraqi parliament speaker and a long-time aide to Saddam Hussein, after nine months in custody, witnesses said Monday.
A guard outside Hammadi's house in Baghdad said he had returned home Saturday. He said he looked frail.
A young man identified as Hammadi's son told Qatar-based television station Al Jazeera his father was freed midday on Saturday.
"He came home and his health is not bad, but he is tired right now and does not want to see or talk to anyone," he said.
Hammadi, a Shi'ite Muslim who worked under Saddam for nearly four decades, was arrested last May, though he was not on a "most wanted" list of 55 former officials of Saddam's government. He is in his early 70s.
There was no immediate comment by the U.S. military on the report.
U.S. forces have released Saadoun Hammadi, former Iraqi parliament speaker and a long-time aide to Saddam Hussein, after nine months in custody, witnesses said February 16, 2004. Hammadi is seen in Baghdad in this April 8, 1999 file photo. (Faleh Khaiber/Reuters)
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration quietly shelved a proposal to ban a gasoline additive that contaminates drinking water in many communities, helping an industry that has donated more than $1 million to Republicans.
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By AZIZ NURITOV, Associated Press Writer
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan's Supreme Court on Monday convicted and sentenced to death a man with ties to al-Qaida for two deadly bombings in neighboring Kyrgyzstan.
Azizbek Karimov, 25, was convicted of organizing and carrying out the bombings at a market in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, in December 2002, and at a Western Union office in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh in May 2003. Eight people died and many were injured in the two attacks, Judge Nuritdin Tuhliev said in announcing the verdict.
Karimov was also convicted of being a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, or IMU, a terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida that in 2001 fought alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan against the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance.
Lawyer Kamolitdin Khudoiberdiev said Karimov would appeal.
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