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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/25/vancouver_bus040525
Vancouver bus quarantined after mystery substance found
Last Updated Tue, 25 May 2004 23:39:01
VANCOUVER - As many as 19 people were quarantined Tuesday after a suspicious substance was discovered on a Vancouver bus.
A hazardous materials team cordoned off the transit bus and removed the substance. The express bus had arrived at Vancouver's Waterfront Centre from Richmond.
Vancouver police secure the area around the bus.
Police say the substance, which consisted of some kind of brown pellets, made the driver and two other passengers sick.
Ten of the people were checked out and allowed to go. The other nine are being decontaminated on site, going through a series of showers and then taken to hospital for observation until emergency staff are satisfied they're no longer at risk.
Officials have not yet positively identified the substance, but police believe it may be phosphine.
Phosphine is a colourless, flammable and explosive gas used in semiconductor and plastics industries to make a flame retardant and a pesticide in stored grain.
Early exposure symptoms include nausea and vomiting, while high levels of exposure can cause weakness, bronchitis, convulsions and death.
I just jumped in today for the first time myself; let me the first to say: Welcome aboard!
Welcome :) This a great group of people. GOD Bless.
THE PLANS/FORM
ARE A FEW OF MY POSTS UP THE TM THREAD.
Thanks, much.
going beddy bye.
Before I go to sleep, lemme think of Madonna ... well, no, but here's an update:
Madonna says she has canceled three Israeli stops on her "Re-Invention" tour because of violence in the region, including the killing of the leader of the militant group Hamas.
Madonna, who kicked off her worldwide tour in Los Angeles on Monday, told Access Hollywood that her manager wouldn't let her travel to Israel because of the attack.
"It's not a good idea to go there and do concerts," she told the syndicated entertainment TV show in an interview that aired Monday.
London tabloids had reported that the singer backed out of the Israeli stops, scheduled for September, after an unidentified Palestinian terror group threatened her and her children, Lourdes, 7, and Rocco, 3.
Asked by Access Hollywood if she had been threatened, she replied: "No, if I had my way, I'd go. My manager wouldn't let me."
Since 9/11, I've kept disposable N95 respirators stashed around (car, purse, kitchen) to grab just in case I pick up on a suspicious scent such as the odor of new mown hay, green corn, something fruity, or camphor, as described in this old FR post called "Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Warfare Risk Information"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/559320/posts
Although they won't provide the protection that a gas mask will, they may get you to the nearest exit. Bill Frist recommends these masks.
I also keep generic Betadine in case of nukes. This is an alternative to potassium iodide pills as described in this link from Jill's site:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/what_to_do_with_less_than_3_days.htm
No offense to you personally, but I think that's a really bad idea. I know we all have a streak of paranoia in us, but this seems to be taking it a little to far to me. I have a gut feeling this would cause quite a bit of harm to TM and to FR. Just my $0.02.
May 25, 2004
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Was al Qaida Related Media Chief Connected with First World Trade Center Bombing?
The apparently Canadian based operator of a recently defunct Yahoo group known as Global Islamic Media (GIM) may have ties to Islamic militant Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
GIM is believed to be a means of communication for al Qaida members
Yousef was sentenced in 1998 to 240 years in prison for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and to a life term for plotting to blow up U.S. airliners in Southeast Asia and kill as many as 4,000 Americans (www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-24/reg/september_11_suspect.htm ).
Prior to starting the Global Islamic Media group on Yahoo, Abu Banan operated a site called www.guraba.com.
A spokesman for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Phil Gibson, said he was unable to confirm whether Banan was a subject of interest to the Canadian government. "Investigations are matters of operational interest and we don't ever talk about them," Gibson said.
However, an e- mail from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the agency "can't comment on ongoing investigations."
A spokesman for the FBI's Washington office declined to say if Banan is wanted or a person of interest in the United States.
The Istanbul office contact for Guraba was listed as an Abdullah Yolcu (http://web.archive.org/web/20030604184344/http://guraba.com/aaboutus.htm ). It is unclear whether Banan was using an alias or Yolcu was a colleague.
A May 13 1999 article in the Turkish Daily News (http://216.239.37.104/search?q=cache:LSDLEsp3STIJ:www.turkishdailynews.com/past_scanner/05_13_99/scanner.htm+%22Abdullah+Yolcu%22&hl=en&start=8&ie=UTF-8 ) hinted at some sort of connection between Yolcu and Yusuf.
The article read, "According to a report prepared by U.S. terrorism experts, radical Islamist militant Remzi Yusuf, who bombed New York's World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1993, called more than two places in Istanbul more than 10 times prior to the bombing. The mysterious calls were placed from the house Yusuf had been staying at in New York and from a phone in New Jersey. One of these two places is a house in Istanbul's Uskudar district where a man from Kirkuk named Abdullah Yolcu has been staying. The other number belongs to a business place in Istanbul's Aksaray district, an office which Yolcu had later, along with his two Saudi partners, handed over to a textile company named Gureba Tekstil. Yolcu told journalists he did not know who did the World Trade Center bombing and that he did not know the person named Remzi Yusuf. One of these conversations, placed from New Jersey on Jan. 5, 1993, lasted 27 minutes while all the rest were one-minute conversations."
Yousef's real name may be Abdul-Basit Baluchi (www.metimes.com/2K2/issue2002-24/reg/september_11_suspect.htm ). Commenting on Yolcu's claim that he did not know Yousef, a source close to the first World Trade Center bombing speaking on condition of anonymity said, "Just because someone claims not to know him by the name Ramzi Yousef hardly means that someone does not know the person who is actually Abdul Basit."
That same individual added, "I believe (Yousef lieutenant) Mohammed Salameh (http://specials.ft.com/attackonterrorism/FT3FJ5RJMUC.html ) was living with Yousef throughout the latter's stay in the U.S.; they were both using the phone in each location, and I believe -- although this is just educated speculation -- that Salameh used the phone more often (Salameh was much more out front than Yousef was in dealing with the chemical companies and the storage facility, etc")
The source speculated that if "the Istanbul location was an al-Qaeda hostel for the mujahideen as they made their was <--way through Afghanistan ... possibly ... many people were staying there and that, even though the phone may have been registered in one name, the people on this end were actually talking to someone else when they called."
While it is difficult to find out much about Banan, he has been making use of the Internet for some time. This appears to be one of his earlier communications. http://web.archive.org/web/20010815184810/www.angelfire.com/al/guraba/guraba.html
From that page, there was also a link to a Global Islamic site from Montreal; (http://web.archive.org/web/20010828000553/www.angelfire.com/al/guraba/montreal.html ) with a Montreal address and phone number. (7600 Earle Rd. # 1103, Cote St. Luc , Montreal , QC H4w 1N9 Tel: (514) 369-6107). The telephone number is no longer in service.
A floating button outlined in red on that site invited browsers to "click here," and took them to a page apparently hosted at one time on the servers of Montreal's McGill University. (http://web.archive.org/web/20010923221643/ssmu.mcgill.ca/iss/Chechnya2.html ) There readers found an appeal for Muslims in Chechnya.
A McGill University spokesman was not immediately certain of the school's current policy on student run sites, but acknowledged that there had obviously been a lot of changes since 9/11.
Visitors to that same McGill student site (http://web.archive.org/web/20010305214721/ssmu.mcgill.ca/iss/Chechnya1.html ) were invited to donate to among others, the Al Haramain Foundation, some branches of which have been designated by the American government as being supporters of terrorism (www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/js1183.htm )
Another charity on the old McGill site for giving was listed as the Global Relief Foundation, which was also accused by federal officials of providing financial assistance to terrorists (www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/01/28/inv.charilty.lawsuit/) The organization's former president and co-founder, Rabih Sami Haddad, lost his immigration appeal and was removed from the United States (www.ice.gov/text/news/newsrel/articles/removal071503.htm)
Visitors to the site whose "heart did not move much" were invited to look at http://web.archive.org/web/20011003200735/www.amina.com/war/mines/ , where they saw pictures of landmine victims in the war between Russia and Chechnya.
Banan has left many other electronic footprints across the Internet. Abubanan: Global Islamic Media Group (http://web.archive.org/web/20011227153924/groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan/ ) which was started by him on June 29 2001, had 663 members on Dec. 27 the same year. By Feb. 12 2002 the group's membership had increased to 1,042 (http://web.archive.org/web/20020212034232/groups.yahoo.com/group/abubanan )
There was also an invitation on www.guraba.com in late 2002 (http://web.archive.org/web/20021211110048/www.guraba.com/AbuBanan.htm ) inviting those interested to join the Yahoo group.
The www.guraba.com Abu Banan page billed Global Islamic Media as a source that "brings to you the real and true news from trustiest sources."
The Yahoo hosted Abu Banan Global Islamic Media quickly grew in numbers, and later changed its name to Global Islamic Media. The group listed 6,500 members until it was presumably closed by Yahoo in late April.
The group achieved recent notoriety in part because in Dec. 2003, Islamic militants discussed the possibility of a terrorist attack designed to affect the Spanish general election.
In a March 2004 Agence France Press (AFP) story, the news agency reported that Britain's Channel 4 News revealed that a Dec. 10 posting on GIM, which had previously carried statements purporting to be from Al-Qaeda affiliates, suggested that attacks could help bring about a Socialist election victory and the withdrawal of Spain's troops from Iraq.
According to Channel 4 News, the GIM posting was issued under the name of the Centre for Services to the Mujahideen and read, "The approaching general elections in Spain in March next year must be exploited to the extreme. We think that the Spanish government will not stand more than two blows, or three at the most, before it will be forced to withdraw (from Iraq) because of the public pressure on it. If its forces remain after these blows, the victory of the Socialist party will be almost guaranteed, and the withdrawal of Spanish forces will be on its campaign manifesto."
After the bombings, which killed 200 people and injured 1,500, Spain's conservative party was defeated. Spain's new Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero who criticized President George W. Bush for the Iraq campaign, has withdrawn Spanish troops.
In late April the group changed its name to Global Islamic Media Centre and again opened up on Yahoo. Soon after a story aired on CNN about GIM, that group also ceased operating.
Yahoo has repeatedly refused to answer media inquiries about its hosting of radical Islamic sites, but did send this written statement some weeks ago to a reporter. It was from Mary Osako, Yahoo's Director of Communication. She said that those wishing to use Yahoo Groups "agree to not use the Service to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable. When notified of content that may be in violation of our Terms of Service, we are committed to reviewing each report and taking appropriate action, generally within 24 hours."
Banan has a variety of e- mail addresses that include abubanan@hotmail.com, abobanan@hotmail.com and guraba@hotmail.com. Requests for information to those addresses about his on- line activities were not answered but an e- mail to Banan at bnmnet@yahoo.com, an address given for him as administrative and technical site administrator of guraba.com, was answered with a terse, "I am not Abu Banan. It's wrong e mail!"
In addition to the possible alias mentioned above, Banan could be using a variety of other names that include Abu Banan Ayad, Abu Banan Ayad Abdul Hamid, Ayad Kerkukly, Ayad Hamid Kirkukly, and Ayad Yolcu AbuBanan Kirkukly
While www.guraba.com is not currently operational, the name is still reserved and the administrative contact is listed as an Abdullah Banan, with a false address in the United Kingdom. Billing and registrant information for the site is listed as an Abdulaziz Almahyoubi, with an address of "Riyadh, UK 11322 SA."
(The archival research for this article was provided by a concerned citizen who wishes to remain anonymous).
I went to Safeway to buy some bottled water. It was almost completely sold out. Strange considering half of one isle is all water.
Must be new because they didn't have one for LA Times;)
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Security at record high for WWII Memorial ceremony
According to a Homeland Security official, Metro buses and trains will be swept for explosives starting at 4 a.m. ET. Road closures will go into effect at 6 a.m. At the same time, pedestrian access points will be established. The event will not open to the public until 8 a.m.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/25/memorial.security/index.html
ON THE NET...
http://www.ntv-news.de/foren/nachrichten/ausland/FORUM86/msg243324.php
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Thank you Dweller
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller plan a news conference Wednesday to outline an intensive effort by law enforcement, intelligence and homeland security officials to detect and disrupt any potential plots. And the FBI plans to dispatch a bulletin to some 18,000 state and local law enforcement agencies warning of the threat.
Beginning with Saturday's dedication of the new World War II Memorial in Washington, the summer presents a number of high-profile targets in the United States. They include the G-8 summit in Georgia next month that will attract top officials from some of America's closest allies, the Democratic National Convention in Boston in July and the Republican National Convention in August in New York.
The FBI and Homeland Security Department also are concerned about so-called soft targets such as shopping malls anywhere in the United States that offer a far less protected environment than a political convention hall.
There also is concern terrorists might try to mount an attack to coincide with the November election.
Garcia said his agency also is working to "tighten the investigative system" to ensure that terrorists do not enter the United States by way of human smuggling operations or through the vast, largely unprotected border with Canada.
{{{Hello! What about freakin' M<exico?!?}}}
Welcome aboard JJ and you posed a good question...why won't they raise the alert? Or better still 'when' will they?
I will never get how no specific info but they say it is a valid threat
We should keep the threat level until W is reelected and thru 12/31/04 until 2005
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