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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 ...
>>>"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."
And you all please note that NJ never makes those 'known terror cell maps'. Why is that McGreevy? Like those developer dollars from BMI Real Estate Development Inc.!
If only kittys ruled the world.
I agree ... they'll hit us where we least expect it. Mid-sized cities are not immune to these threats.
THANKS TONS,
I just had a momentary flash wondering what side you were on.
No sweat about your concerns. Am concerned that all those bases be touched on and covered, too, including with Jim Rob.
But I usually start with Alamo-Girl's perspective before I bother Jim Rob.
I do think that if we keep the individual reports off the site and just provide a summary graph and comments, that it SHOULD solve a lot of those concerns.
What do you think?
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
THANKS TONS.
I agree with thecabal and granny on this..I feel this should stay off this thread. We have been sent to the chat room before and we don't need this type of scrutiny now. The S is about to HTF, we need to stay on track here.
Please, if you want to do this stuff, keep it in freepmail. I appreciate your concern and wanting to do something to help but this could do more harm than help. Let's stick with the FBI bulletins and news reports etc., things that we can back up.
yes
Looks like we're going to be getting pictures of suspects soon. At least the public will have something to go on.
U.S. TO RELEASE PHOTOS OF POSSIBLE ATTACK PLANNERS, PERSON SAYS
May 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. will release photos of suspected terrorists as it girds against potential al-Qaeda attacks within the U.S. in coming months, according to a government official.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and Robert Mueller, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will describe people ``most likely to have information about the attacks or be involved'' and will show photos of some of those people at a press conference at 2 p.m. in Washington, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
``The intelligence we're receiving suggested that there are people in place that want to carry out attacks against the U.S.,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan told journalists in Washington today. ``Americans should be on a heightened state of awareness.''
McClellan said al-Qaeda's targets are unknown. Large events such as the World War II Memorial dedication in Washington on Saturday, the Group of Eight summit in Sea Island, Georgia June 8- 10, both political parties' nominating conventions and the presidential election in November ``certainly present opportunities for terrorists to carry out their attacks,'' he said.
There are 18,000 potential terrorists at large, and recruitment by groups is accelerating because of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said yesterday in its annual survey.
Reports `Credible'
The information gathered by the U.S. doesn't include a time, place, target or details about the method of attack, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said this morning on Fox News' ``Fox & Friends'' program.
``Several reports, some of which we have deemed credible,'' point to an attack on the U.S. Appearing on NBC's ``Today'' show, Ridge said the stream of threat reports is ``not unlike what we've seen in the past several years.''
The Associated Press said, citing an unidentified intelligence official, said the intelligence indicates that terrorists may have and plan to use a chemical, biological or radiological weapon.
Alert Level
Ridge said there are no plans to raise the nation's terror alert level, currently at ``elevated,'' or yellow, the middle of the five-color threat alert scale.
``There is absolutely nothing specific enough that rises to the level where we would presently, today, as we speak, make the recommendation to the president to raise the threat level,'' he said on Cable News Network's ``American Morning.''
The Homeland Security Department and the FBI alert law enforcement agencies to be on the watch for terrorist attacks when they receive credible intelligence. Last week, U.S. officials warned that suicide bombers may strike within the U.S. and rail agencies were directed to step up security.
The New York City Police Department, in a statement, said there is nothing in the recent reports ``to indicate a specific threat or looming attack against New York City,'' a target of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Still, the statement said, the department ``is taking all necessary precautions'' under the assumption that al-Qaeda still sees the city as a target.
Al-Qaeda Training
As many as 20,000 jihadists, or Muslims recruited to fight a holy war, were trained by al-Qaeda in Afghanistan since 1996, the International Institute for Strategic Studies said.
``Although half of al-Qaeda's 30 senior leaders and perhaps 2,000 rank-and-file members have been killed or captured, a rump leadership is still intact and over 18,000 potential terrorists at large, with recruitment accelerating on account of Iraq,'' the report said. ``Al-Qaeda will keep trying to develop more promising plans for terrorist operations in North America and Europe, ideally involving weapons of mass destruction.''
An al-Qaeda linked group said it carried out attacks on commuter trains in Madrid in March that killed 191 people, citing Spain's involvement with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.
The war in Iraq has increased the risk of terrorism, John Chipman, director of the International Institute, said yesterday.
``The Iraq intervention was always likely in the short term to enhance jihadist recruitment and intensify al-Qaeda's motivation,'' Chipman said in London.
Re: 911 Service in DC down...
Heard about this last night on the local news. Will be interesting if we ever learn why the system failed. Another probe? I just don't know.
>> baseball bat in a gang infested area <<
I'd rather have my AR-10 and my Beretta.
Wouldn't you thinks they'd have some sort of a back-up systems? Especially in DC?
Thanks very much for the sarin and VX info. Could come in handy, but I'm praying hard it won't be needed.
Dear TM' er's....I've been over at TB 2000 for the past half hour or so. There is alot of information there- some reports suggesting we are to go to Orange Alert tomorrow. Also there is mention of the mobilization of emergency responders.
"....keep it to FReepmail."
Sound advice.
By Afzal Nadeem Associated Press Writer Published: May 26, 2004
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - Two cars exploded minutes apart Wednesday outside an English-language school near the U.S. consul's residence in Karachi, killing a policeman and wounding 25 other people, officials said.
A bomb planted inside the first car detonated outside the gate of the school, called the Pakistan-American Cultural Center, said Ghulam Mohammed Dogar, senior superintendent of police in this southern city. Twenty-five minutes later, a larger blast ripped through a second car parked nearby.
Wreckage from the second car flew in the air and hit bystanders. Some stumbled away with minor wounds. At least one other was carried away in a stretcher, bleeding heavily, as the second car billowed fire and smoke.
The blasts killed one policeman and wounded 25 other people - including 12 police, said Kamal Shah, the provincial police chief.
The injured were taken to two hospitals in Karachi. TV video showed some being treated on the floor in an overwhelmed ward of one of the hospitals. There were no reports of any Americans hurt, a U.S. diplomat said on condition of anonymity. The Cultural Center is a privately run English-language school and not affiliated with the U.S. government. It is located four houses from the U.S. Consul's residence on a leafy street, just outside gates manned by guards. The Consulate itself sits across a park.
After the first car exploded in Wednesday's attack, police sealed off the area as bomb disposal experts arrived to examine the wreckage. The second blast damaged the outer wall of the school, but the building itself was undamaged.
The bomb experts checked a third car parked a few yards from the school but found no more explosives. Some Pakistani students from the center were injured in the first blast. Others were taking classes at the time and were told to stay inside.
Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who was in Karachi, condemned the attack and blamed "enemies of Pakistan." "We are playing a front-line role in the war against terrorism, and terrorists are of course not happy," he told AP. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. About two hours after the second blast, two senior police officers received calls of a third bombing in another district of Karachi. Police and ambulances rushed to the scene, only to find it was a hoax...... Link to the Rest of the Article
Actually, my goal would be to take it off even FREEPMAIL to private email with just the graph and summary stuff being reported to FR as just another source of information.
What would you think about that?
Besides, we only have 3 participants at present. It will take at least a dozen to be very significant.
Fox news alert: 2 Canadians yanked off plane in Buffalo, NY - they were talking about Sept. 11 attacks
Please see #2936 and let me know what you think.
Paris Airport Victim had Stolen Passport
PARIS, May 26 (AFP) - One of the four people killed in Sunday's roof collapse at Charles de Gaulle airport may never be identified because she was travelling under a stolen Czech passport, French justice officials confirmed Wednesday.
"We can assume she was Ukrainian because the plane ticket was bought in Kiev. But if this person was travelling in a clandestine manner, then we may never find out her nationality," an official said.
The woman was on a stop-off in Paris from Kiev en route for Miami when she was caught in the disaster at Terminal 2E.
She was initially thought to be the 39 year-old Czech nurse whose name appeared on the passport, but the real Martina Mala was found to be alive and well in Prague. Her passport had been stolen in January 2003.
The three other dead in the accident were a Lebanese woman, a Chinese man and a Chinese woman. Link to Article
What!. . .gotta be more to that story. Since when is it illegal to talk about 9-11
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