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

>>>The problem is figuring out which 1% is not of poultry origin.

Or fish origin! ^-^

Speaking of Anthrax here is the latest scare

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1081413/posts

In the post 911 world early detection of a chem/bio attack is going to be key.

Now Calpernia, behave. After all, fish are friends

That's what they say conventionally and IMO, to fool Americans in particular. It's a nice tactic, IMO.

Would you be willing to put your neck on the line and trust in their mercy? /hus kiddin'

Let's get specific; the wahhab influence in islam is paramount now. Nourished and propogated extensively by the Saudis, under the unwitting tutelage of America, the most demonic, totalitarian brand of islami fanaticism (albeit with a tradition stretching back to AlTammiyya, one of the early fruitcakes of islam, 8-8th century) has emerged supreme amongst the world and claims to speak for all muslims. Other viewpoints are ruthlessly suppressed.
Unfortunately this is the dominant version of islam in America, thanks to it's prodigious funding of mosques, it's inroads to the USmil where only imams certified by a Saudi academy created by a jihadi are allowed.

But we have finally awoken to the threat.

The Wahabs Salafis consider Shiites not only apostates and unbelievers but also that the Shia branch was begun by a Jew; in short, it's a Zionist, so to speak, plot.

But I shall let all you "sons of Ibrahim" figure out who is the real monotheist.

I shall stick to beer.

Avoid Mecca beer, tho, it makes you want to walk around in circles in 120 degree temperature.

CLICK!

ciao for now!

Americans Urged to Leave Haiti

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government, citing continued violence, urged Americans to leave Haiti on Thursday.

Peace Corps personnel are being withdrawn, and other U.S. citizens should leave while commercial transportation is still available, the State Department said.

AP: Accused Nuke Trader Also Helped India

By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - An Israeli businessman accused of being a middleman in the nuclear black market worked to supply not only Pakistan but also its archrival India, court records indicate.

South Africa-based Asher Karni faces felony charges of exporting nuclear bomb triggers to Pakistan. But court files in the case also include e-mail exchanges between Karni and an Indian businessman who was trying secretly to buy material for two Indian rocket factories.

"Be careful to avoid any reference to the customer name," warned one message from Karni's Indian contact, Raghavendra "Ragu" Rao of Foretek Marketing (Pvt.) Ltd.

The messages offer a rare glimpse into such dealings. Federal prosecutors filed them in court as part of their attempts to persuade a judge to keep Karni behind bars before his trial.

After conferring with U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay on Thursday, lawyers for both sides agreed to postpone a bond hearing for Karni until next Tuesday. L. Barrett Boss, one of Karni's lawyers, declined comment after the hearing.

Karni, 50, has pleaded innocent. Federal agents arrested him on New Year's Day when he arrived in Denver for a ski vacation.

Authorities accuse Karni of using front companies and falsified documents to buy nuclear bomb triggers in the United States and ship them to Pakistan.

The United States is pressuring Pakistan to shut down the black-market network it used to supply its nuclear weapons program and in turn to supply Iran, North Korea and Libya with nuclear technology. A key scientist in Pakistan's nuclear program, Abdul Qadeer Khan, said this month that he ran the network but insisted Pakistan's government was not involved.

Rao's e-mails from India ask Karni to procure three kinds of high-tech equipment while concealing that they were meant for the two rocket labs. The United States restricts exports of missile-related material to the two organizations, the Liquid Propulsion Systems Center and the Vikram Sarabhai Space Center.

An August 2002 e-mail from Rao to Karni warns Karni to conceal the final customer of an accelerometer to the LPSC, noting its export is restricted because of its "possibility of being used in guidance systems for missiles."

Rao did not respond to AP e-mails seeking comment Thursday.

Prosecutors said they found his e-mails while searching a laptop computer and six computer discs Karni had when he was arrested.

The court files also include records of other deals Karni made with his contact in Pakistan, Humayun Khan of the company Pakland PME. One involved Khan's urgent request last May for Karni to buy infrared sensors for AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles — which Pakistan uses on its F-16 fighter planes for air-to-air combat.

While it is unclear whether that deal went through, the request shows Karni must have known Khan had ties to the Pakistani military, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Bratt argued in court documents.

Another deal which apparently was completed was Humayun Khan's request for a sophisticated oscilloscope, a measuring device that could be used in nuclear weapons programs. For that deal, the documents indicate, Karni used the same U.S. intermediary he used for the bomb triggers: Giza Technologies Inc. of Seacaucus, N.J.

In an August e-mail to Giza head Zeki Bilmen, Karni said he had a "new project" for Giza. "It is very important that they will not know it is coming to S.A. (South Africa)," Karni wrote.

Karni in May had asked the oscilloscope maker, Tektronix Inc., if he could buy an oscilloscope for Pakistan, but the company told him to ask for a U.S. export license first, court records indicate. There is no indication Karni contacted Tektronix directly again.

Bilmen has declined comment. Neither he nor his company have been charged, though Bratt wrote that agents searched Giza's offices in December at the same time South African police raided Karni's offices in Cape Town.

The criminal case against Karni centers on his efforts to buy devices called triggered spark gaps from PerkinElmer Optoelectronics of Salem, Mass. The devices can be used in machines to break up kidney stones, but exports are restricted because they also are key to triggering nuclear detonations.

A PerkinElmer representative in France rebuffed Karni's efforts to buy spark gaps last spring, saying Karni had to certify they would not be used in nuclear weapons. Khan urged Karni to try harder, writing in an e-mail: "I know it is difficult but that's why we came to know each other."

Karni then used Giza as a front to buy 66 spark gaps from PerkinElmer, prosecutors allege.

Giza said on shipping documents the spark gaps were destined for a South African hospital, but Karni repackaged them and sent them on to Pakistan, court documents allege.

A court filing from Karni's Colorado lawyers includes a letter purportedly from the Pakistani user of the triggers, saying they had been sent to "Agha Khan Foundation University & Hospitals" in Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

The Aga Khan Foundation does not have any hospitals in Sri Lanka, however. Its hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, has only one of the kidney stone treatment machines. PerkinElmer executives told U.S. authorities that even the largest hospital would need only two or three of the triggers for a kidney treatment center, not dozens of them.

Pentagon Says Iraqi Officials Held in Falluja Raid

By Charles Aldinger

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former acting mayor of Falluja and two U.S.-trained Iraqi civil defense workers are being held on suspicion of involvement in devastating insurgent raids in the Iraqi town last weekend, the Pentagon (news - web sites) said on Thursday.

At least 27 Iraqis died and 35 people were wounded in last Saturday's well coordinated attacks on a police station and civil defense headquarters in the restive town west of Baghdad.

Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita and Army Brig. Gen. David Rodriguez told reporters at a briefing that the former acting mayor and two civil defense corps workers were among Iraqis being questioned in connection with the incident.

"The mayor was suspected, just based on the situation. And the people on the ground determined that they thought he might have something to do with it. So they detained him and we're interrogating him and trying to get to the bottom of it," said Rodriguez, deputy director of the U.S. military's Joint Staff.

The United States has trained and fielded more than 200,000 Iraqi security personnel. Di Rita said two Civil Defense Corps workers were detained, adding, "So they were obviously vetted and were able to slip through somehow." Rodriguez said U.S. forces were conducting background checks "the best we can" on Iraqis being trained for security jobs.

"But we're not sure we'll ever get that to the perfect level," the general said.

Di Rita said one of the attackers who was killed was confirmed to be a former Iraqi Army major.

HELP FROM IRAQI OFFICIALS

"We have detained the mayor ... several people have been detained. But we have not gotten to the bottom of that. And we continue to do the interrogations and search for the answers on who was actually behind it," Di Rita added.

Di Rita and Rodriguez did not identify by name any of those being questioned or say why they suspected that the attack might have included help from local Iraqi officials.

But Falluja is a hotbed of anti-U.S. sentiment and lies in an area known as the Sunni Triangle, the former power base for deposed President Saddam Hussein.

Police said dozens of prisoners escaped from jails in the police station during the attack, one of the latest in a series of strikes on U.S.-backed Iraqi forces.

At virtually the same time on Saturday, attacks involving mortars, explosives and light machine guns, occurred on a nearby Iraqi Civil Defense Corps, or ICDC, headquarters as well as the mayor's office, according to Iraqi officials.

Di Rita and Rodriguez said the insurgents cut telephone lines to the police station and that caused delays in response from both ICDC fighters and a U.S. military Quick Reaction Force. The Americans took no part in the fight after civil defense workers said they preferred to handle the matter.

But the Pentagon officials could not explain why the police station apparently had no radio communications with the civil defense office.

"The civil defense corps responded the quickest ... they were about five minutes away and they took up the fight and retook the police station in time," Rodriguez said.

"The American QRF, which was about five to 10 minutes away, responded immediately to the civil defense corps (attack) -- which they obviously had better communications with -- at which time the civil defense corps commander said, 'We can handle it. The only assistance we need right now is ammunition and arms,"' Rodriguez added.

Yes, Salem, Oregon. It was a a week or two ago I read it and involved multiple people.

FYI Link...

U.S. TREASURY - PRESS RELEASES - ENFORCEMENT
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/law-enforcement.html

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NOTE: THE FOLLOWING TEXT IS AN EXACT QUOTE:

http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1183.htm

FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
February 19, 2004
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Treasury Announces Actions Against AL-Haramain

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced a federal search warrant was executed yesterday against property purchased on behalf of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, Inc. in Ashland, Oregon.

The search was led by agents of the Internal Revenue Service-CI as part of a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigation.

This search was conducted pursuant to a criminal investigation into possible violations of the Internal Revenue Code, the Money Laundering Control Act and the Bank Secrecy Act. The suspected crimes relate to possible violations of the currency reporting and tax return laws by two officers of the Ashland Oregon office of Al Haramain Foundation, Inc.

In a separate administrative action today, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blocked pending investigation accounts of the Al Haramain Foundation, Inc. to ensure the preservation of its assets pending further OFAC investigation.

The parent of the Oregon Al Haramain Islamic Foundation is headquartered in Saudi Arabia, and is one of that country’s largest Non Governmental Organizations, with worldwide reach.

In March 2002, the United States Treasury and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia jointly designated the Bosnian and Somalia Branches of Al Haramain as supporters of terrorism. In December 2003, the reconstituted branch of Al Haramain in Bosnia, Vazir, was also designated by both governments as a supporter of terrorism. In January 2004, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Department of the Treasury jointly designated four additional Al Haramain branches – Indonesia, Tanzania, Kenya and Pakistan – as being supporters of terrorism. The United Nations has adopted these Al Haramain designations and imposed an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1267/1390/1455.

Five Britons at Guantanamo to Return Home

Glad to see you. The politics here are difficult. I believe there are few of the regulars here who have kind of put me on there crap list because I dare read a ceartin site that is "not FR correct". First they let me know how terrible it was and now they just don't talk to me because I stood up for myself. But that seems to be life...People like you and then they don't. You have always been a good poster though :)

By there logic we should have every right here in America to gun down Arabs who are trying to convert Christians to Islam.
I can think of someone on a ceartin bulletin board who falls into that catergory. Good thing we are not such animals.

Scientist Remains Free of Ebola Symptoms

The "cough" "star" is engaged to Mr. Barbra's son. Thus the leftist drival.

By the way, there are postings popping up on the Arabic boards with regularity claiming Saddam has escaped, and that Usay and Qusay are still alive and leading the resistance.

They are obviously counting on their countrymen to have been smoking opium to believe in reincarnated Usay and Qusay and Saddam not imprisoned any longer.

Is there some way of getting them to target San Francisco? :)

http://news.myway.com/top/article/id/380613|top|02-19-2004::10:31|reuters.html

Bird Flu Spreads in China, Experts Ring Alarm Bells
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Feb 19, 10:25 AM (ET)

Darren Schuettler

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Asian countries should intensify their war on a deadly bird flu that shows no signs of receding with fresh outbreaks in China and which threatens to evolve into a SARS-like epidemic, health experts said on Thursday.

The World Health Organization said authorities were rushing to declare the disease ravaging their poultry flocks under control and it warned people were still at risk from the H5N1 virus that has killed 22 people in Asia. "We are in an emergency, urgency mode," Bjorn Melgaard, the WHO representative in Thailand, told regional health experts gathered in Bangkok to compare notes on fighting the virus.

"The bird epidemic is unfolding and continuing to spread at an unprecedented rate."

China confirmed three outbreaks among poultry in three provinces on Thursday, but so far no human cases of the virus that has killed 15 Vietnamese and seven Thais.

In Vietnam, a 16-month-old baby girl was confirmed with H5N1 on Thursday, a day after a three-year-old boy died in the country's latest death from the disease.

Melgaard recalled that a year ago Asia faced an even deadlier epidemic of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) that killed more than 800 people before it was finally brought under control.

"We are again confronting yet another emerging disease with the potential of causing a global epidemic," he said, urging nations not to relax their surveillance and detection efforts.

"We would expect that we will see human cases in other countries that have the bird epidemic," Melgaard said.

Thailand and Vietnam, where all the human cases have been reported, have talked about declaring victory over the virulent H5N1 virus in a matter of weeks.

Thailand, which found recurrences of the disease in 14 areas this month, still says it expects to do so next month.

The Thai government, with an eye on the country's shattered $1 billion-a year poultry trade, is eager to resume exports and sent a high-level delegation to top-buyer Japan this week.

VIGILANCE

In Vietnam, Premier Phan Van Khai urged officials not to let their guard down despite his earlier orders that the disease be brought under control this month.

Khai said they "must continue directing prevention efforts without allowing any early complacency among certain agencies, officials and residents," said the state-run Vietnam news daily.

Outbreaks have been reported in 57 of Vietnam's 64 provinces and 27 million birds have either died or been destroyed.

Another 30 million birds have been slaughtered in Thailand, and Taiwan said on Thursday it would slaughter 13,000 fowl as a milder form of bird flu hit two more chicken farms.

The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization said it would be at least a year, perhaps never, before the virus was under control. And health experts say the risk of a human pandemic grows the longer the virus lingers.

"If you allow this virus to keep on entering the human population over and over again, you could have the virus learning to transmit effectively from human to human," said Malik Peiris, an influenza expert at the University of Hong Kong.

"This is clearly what happened with SARS last year."

"INEVITABLE" PIGS WILL BE INFECTED

Experts worry the virus could infect a person who also has the human flu virus, allowing it to mutate into a strain that could spread through people with no immunity.

This month there were fears, quashed quickly by the FAO, that the virus had infected pigs in Vietnam and that could speed up the mutation process.

But Peiris said it may be inevitable. Hong Kong studies on pigs imported from China had found them infected with the human influenza virus.

With pigs and chickens living side-by-side on most farms in southern China, where outbreaks of avian influenza among poultry and ducks have been reported, the threat of human and H5N1 viruses mixing in pigs to create a "super virus" is real.

"Inevitably, pigs are going to be exposed to this (H5N1) virus," Peiris told the Bangkok meeting.

Pet cats and a rare clouded leopard have already died of bird flu after eating infected chicken in Thailand, increasing fears the disease can jump easily to other non-avian species.

Thai authorities were also checking nearly 200 cows and buffaloes that apparently died of cold weather to be sure they were not infected with the virus.

(Additional reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat in BANGKOK, Christina Toh-Pantin in HANOI, Niu Shupping in BEIJING)

Good find - very interesting article.

Too bad we weren't "targetting" that meeting.