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Posted on 06/10/2004 2:28:29 PM PDT by JustPiper
Picture credit: TheCabal
"I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
U.S. Charges Australian Linked to al-Qaida
WASHINGTON - An Australian held at the Navy's prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will face a military tribunal for allegedly training and fighting alongside members of al-Qaida in Afghanistan (news - web sites), the Pentagon (news - web sites) announced Thursday.
We are the "Stotters" who make ourselves aware of the enemy who wishes to do us harm
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IIRC, didn't they cut his throat hand dump him on the tarmac?
I'm pretty sure he was shot.
The guy behind his death is Mugniyeh, who is believed to be in Iran now. Mugniyeh is still killing Americans. I strongly suspect he is involved in the planning of many of the attacks in Iraq now.
The only case of bad food poisoning I've ever had was from a Burger King.
I won't eat at fast food resturants now.
Another one bites the dust....from Fox.. Somali man indicted for plans to blow up mall.... I've gotta go. But he fits the profile!!!!
They can't do it.
We ARE winning this war.
By Associated Press June 14, 2004, 10:56 AM EDT
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations asked New York City experts Monday to analyze white powder found in the U.N. headquarters building on Manhattan's east side.
The suspicious material was discovered on the 27th floor of the 39-story building overlooking the East River, a U.N. spokesman said.
The United Nations was not evacuated, and it was business as usual in the building where the U.N. Security Council was holding an open meeting on the protection of civilians in armed conflict.
More info.....
Emergency Crews Check out Suspicious Powder at UN
14 Jun 2004 14:38:27 GMT
UNITED NATIONS, June 14 (Reuters) - Hazardous material experts were called to U.N. headquarters on Monday after a suspicious powder was discovered in the 27th floor offices of the U.N. Department of Management, although there was no evacuation.
"A suspicious powder was discovered. Hazardous materials experts have been called in as a precautionary matter," a U.N. spokeswoman said.
The building was not evacuated.
"There is no cause for alarm. Business can proceed as usual," a security office aide said in a message to staff broadcast on the U.N. headquarters building's public address system.
A hazardous materials van, several fire trucks and police cars showed up at the U.N. compound on Manhattan's East Side at about 10 a.m. (1400 GMT).
TWA Flight 847:
Trans World Airlines Flight 847, from Rome to Athens, was hijacked on June 4, 1985 by Islamic terrorists demanding the release of all Shiites captured by Israel in Lebanon, international condemnation of Israeli military activity in southern Lebanon and condemnation of US actions in the Middle East. The flight landed in Beirut where the terrorists picked out US Navy Diver Robert Stetham. They beat him, shot him in the head and threw his body from the plane onto the tarmac.
Curiouser and curiouser.
What is your location? (again, generally speaking)
That makes 4 in 4 days, this is too strange.
That's two from that general region.
Here's a thread on the Somalia plot to blow up mall in Ohio
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153251/posts
I saw that!! Yay!!
The sun has been very boring for quite some time.
Maybe we'll get some action now!!
:)
Now we know for sure that shopping malls are indeed on the short list of targets.....AND in Ohio.
I think we can be certain that this is NOT THE ONLY mall that there are plans for attacks against.
Shows their hand pretty plainly and will hopefully yield some useful intel.
Indeed. I'm sure there are many more where he came from.
POSTED: 11:21 am EDT June 14, 2004
UPDATED: 11:40 am EDT June 14, 2004
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Federal authorities said Monday that they have charged a man from Somalia with plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall.
According to the FBI, Nuradin M. Abdi (pictured, left), a 32-year-old Somali national, was indicted and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda, and two counts of fraud and misuse of government documents.
The FBI said that in June 1999, Abdi re-entered the United States from Africa, using a fraudulent immigration document. According to the FBI, one of his co-conspirators was Iyman Faris, a convicted al-Qaeda operative, who picked him up from an airport.
Upon their return to the Columbus area, Abdi, Faris (pictured, right), and other co-conspirators, initiated a plot to blow up a Columbus area shopping mall. It is also alleged that in pursuit of this plot, Abdi received bomb-making training from one of the co-conspirators.
The indictment alleges that on April 27, 1999, Abdi applied to immigration officials for a travel document, allowing him to leave the United States and later return. Abdi indicated in the application that he intended to visit Germany and Saudi Arabia.
Watch NewsChannel 4 and refresh nbc4columbus.com for additional information.
Nuradin M. Abdi
Iyman Faris
Hundreds Gather For Islamic Leader's Burial In South Florida
FBI Suspects Leader's Son To Be Terrorist
UPDATED: 8:54 AM EDT June 14, 2004 COOPER CITY, Fla. -- More than 600 men and boys stood shoulder to shoulder and whispered prayers to Allah as they buried Gulshair El Shukrijumah, a revered Islamic leader, Saturday.
El Shukrijumah died Friday after suffering a series of strokes in the last year.
His son, Adnan El Shukrijumah, is accused by the FBI as being a terrorist.
Just weeks ago, Attorney General John Ashcroft singled out the younger El Shukrijumah as a terror suspect who could effectively carry out attacks because of his knowledge of English and the United States.
The elder El Shukrijumah was fired from his Miramar mosque after the accusations about his son emerged.
A native of Guyana, El Shukrijumah retired to Florida after 10 years of leading a Brooklyn mosque that was attended by at least one suspect from the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Link to Article
This is really creepy. I think there are a lot more cells here than we realize. I think they are in the beginning stages of activating.
Somali man detained in government probe
Tuesday, February 10, 2004
Kevin Mayhood THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Early in the morning of Nov. 28, federal agents swept into a North Side neighborhood and arrested a Somali immigrant.
They searched the home of Nuradin Abdi, his family said, and then took him to his business where agents confiscated his cell phone and computers. Leaving business cards identifying themselves as agents for the FBI and the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, they then drove Abdi to Cincinnati. The government charged him with lying on his application to enter the United States six years ago, but also accused him of connections with a terrorist plot, members of the Somali community say.
After two months behind bars, without communication with his wife and children or his mother and brothers in Columbus, Abdi, 31, appeared in Detroit’s federal immigration court Jan. 28 for a hearing closed to the public.
In a rare move, federal authorities are trying to deport him to Somalia, an African country now controlled by warlords, his attorney said. Although Abdi is jailed, the case is a civil, not a criminal action.
Government officials here, in Detroit and in Washington refuse to talk about Abdi’s case. One official confirmed, on condition of anonymity, that the hearing in Detroit was sealed because authorities are in the midst of a sensitive investigation linked to Abdi. Officials refused to say whether the investigation is a terrorist threat.
"We came here because human rights are respected," Nadifa Hassan, Abdi’s mother, said with the help of an interpreter yesterday. "My son was taken and there was no criminal charge and he has had no access to his family."
Hassan, a U.S. citizen, wants him released.
The case has instilled fear in Columbus’ Somali community of nearly 20,000 that government agents could arrest people for no reason, said Maryan Warsame, head of the Somali Women and Children’s Alliance.
"People are profiling this community because of our religion," Warsame said. "We are Muslims, but we are not terrorists."
Some Somalis here speculate the government is interested in someone Abdi knows or knew. His family says Abdi may be a target because he regularly attends prayer services at a Columbus mosque and he speaks Arabic. When he was younger, he was among a number of Somalis who fled to the Middle East to escape the civil war.
"It’s a witch hunt," said Abucar Yusuf, an architect who moved to Columbus 20 years ago. Yusuf has been told, "They are arresting him for knowing someone he went to school with 20 years ago."
Abdi is married with two children and another on the way. He is the family’s sole breadwinner. His family got only a brief glimpse of him in Detroit.
Asked why the government is taking such measures, Abdi’s attorney, Douglas Weigle of Cincinnati, said only, "There’s a certain aura around this case."
Abdi probably didn’t mind the hearing was closed, Weigle said. "He didn’t want anyone to hear any wild accusations about him." So far, this is simply an immigration case. "There are no allegations of terrorism in his immigration charge," Weigle said. "He has not been criminally charged with anything."
He said the country’s treatment of immigration cases has changed drastically since the Sept. 11 attack. "If you have any kind of Islamic background — I don’t care what John Ashcroft and Tom Ridge say — you’ll be subject to a different kind of scrutiny."
Hassan Omar, leader of the Somali Community Association of Ohio, said the Somali community is not blindly protecting one of its own. "If someone commits a crime, we don’t mind if they go to jail," Omar said. He called for state and local, civic and community leaders to speak up on Abdi’s behalf.
In Abdi’s case, scheduled to resume March 9, the community of war refugees sees no substance to the charge.
"People who lie on their applications do so because they want to stay in the United States and make a future for their children," Warsame said, "because they have no home to go back to."
"Faris, an Ohio-based truck driver originally from Kashmir, admitted plotting to sever the cables supporting the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and to derail trains in New York or Washington."
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