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Café Intifada?
Only in California!
This event has passed BUT interesting to note one of the biggest liberals who needs t o be outed for more than that!:
Los Angeles
For Al-Awda Los Angeles Events, please see Al-Awda Los Angeles' Website
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MPAC Media Awards
August 21st, 2004
7:00 PM- 11:00 PM
at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles
The Muslim Public Affairs Council will be honoring actor/activist Alec Baldwin at the 2004 MPAC annual media awards dinner for his contributions to Civil Liberties.
http://www.al-awda.org/losangeles/
The kind of information we get at NoE which will be up later today:
Salem Palestine Solidarity Group
Salem, Oregon
490 19th Street NE
Don't think it is not in your small town!
United Kingdom
For Al-Awda London events see http://al-awda.org.uk/events/upcoming.htm
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Resisting Israeli Apartheid: Strategies and Actions
(An International Conference on Palestine)
Brunei Gallery, SOAS
5 December 2004
Sponsored by
The SOAS Palestine Society, London
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, UK
Muslim Council of Britain, UK
BRICUP -The British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, UK Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel,Palestine
http://www.al-awda.org/unitedkingdom/
http://www.justicewheels.org/
Members of Voices in the Wilderness, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the Middle East Children's Alliance, and affiliates of the International Solidarity Movement take to the road in a colorfully decorated full-size school bus for the Wheels of Justice Tour. Starting in mid-August 2003, this tour will canvass the western United Sates to challenge and educate North Americans on the occupation of Palestine and Iraq.
dekalb, il
Description: details TBA contact Melanie Stibick
QueenBtchGodess@aol.com
Date: Monday, October 11, 2004
Created by: ceylon
http://www.justicewheels.org/calendar/view_entry.php?id=555&date=20041011
We have such a Cafe one block from our large mosque, reported to Chgo FBI
Saddam ‘bought UN allies’ with oil
{Yes including France/Germany}
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1291280_1,00.html
Real chemical cloud interrupts fake emergency
10/3/2004, 1:41 p.m. ET
The Associated Press
PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A small chemical cloud rising from a sewer sickened firefighters taking part in a bioterror preparedness drill in Passaic County.
The drill on Saturday morning was in full swing when the thick cloud set off a fire alarm at the Board of Education offices. Firefighters who responded had to use their respirators after gagging on the fumes.
Firefighters flushed out the sewer line using a hose. They were not sure of the chemicals' origin.
A man walking by the sewer complained of throat irritation and was taken to a local hospital, according to The Sunday Record of Bergen County. His injuries were not believed to be life threatening.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-11/1096818840119170.xml&storylist=jersey
Yep.
Not good my friend:
They were not sure of the chemicals' origin.
Patients possibly exposed to brain disease
More than 500 patients have remote chance of exposure
Friday, October 1, 2004 Posted: 1237 GMT (2037 HKT)
ATLANTA (AP) -- More than 500 patients at Emory University Hospital have a remote chance of exposure to a fatal disease similar to mad cow after a brain surgery patient tested positive for the condition, officials said.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/conditions/10/01/brain.disease.emory.ap/index.html
Democrats Fear 'October Surprise'
By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - In the presidential campaign's closing weeks, Democrats are bracing for an "October Surprise," an event so dramatic it could influence the election's outcome. The capture of Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), for instance.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041003/ap_on_el_pr/october_surprise
Well, goshdern, we didn't know about this!
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:36 p.m. EST
Hillary Predicts October Surprise
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/3/30/123728.shtml
London mosque link to Beslan
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1318445,00.html
Paraguay Tri-Border Area Is Terror Haven
By KEVIN GRAY
.c The Associated Press
CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay (AP) - In this gritty border town known as a haven for drug smugglers, arms dealers and counterfeiters, stacks of money change hands in the open on every corner and thousands of people each day stream across Friendship Bridge into Ciudad del Este. They carry packages on their backs, in wheelbarrows or on carts, and border police stop few.
Such chaotic scenes give life to the city's reputation of lawlessness and U.S. officials' description of the tri-border area where Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina meet as a key South American point for Islamic terrorist fund raising to the tune of $100 million a year. Yet few arrests have been made or assets frozen, and local officials told The Associated Press they are ill-prepared to fully track financial movements and they discount terror links.
``We need more resources and greater controls,'' said Juan Carlos Duarte, a district attorney in Ciudad del Este who recently carried out several raids on currency exchange houses. ``Frequently, it's difficult for even the Paraguayan Central Bank to track these movements. To get to bottom of this we need more staff. We won't be able to solve anything without more help.''
Paraguay, Latin America's second-poorest country after Bolivia, is in the throes of a financial crisis that has left basics like computers for government offices hard to come by.
The raids carried out this spring are aimed, in part, at snuffing out illegal transactions and helping investigators piece together a money trail used by drug runners and counterfeiters and other purported businesses operating in Ciudad del Este, Duarte said.
Dozens of exchange houses - some little more than one-room offices - crowd alleyways offering to send money as far away as Asia and the Middle East. On street corners, money changers' fanny packs bulge with U.S. dollars, euros, Brazilian reals, Paraguayan guaranis and Argentina pesos. Store owners open cash tills brimming with bills.
Coming off Friendship Bridge, which connects Ciudad del Este with sister city Foz do Iguacu in Brazil, people load and unload boxes, carts, even trash bags filled with knockoff brands of televisions, underwear, diapers, leather jackets, and watches.
Meanwhile, street vendors and middlemen shout into cell phones and walkie-talkies. Private security officers, some clutching rifles, stand alongside armored trucks. It all is testament to this region's reputation as South America's contraband and smuggling capital - a place where anything from drugs to arms to pirated software reputedly can be had.
That reputation brought U.S. scrutiny in the post-Sept. 11 era. Much of the focus has fallen on the 25,000-strong Muslim community in the area built up by former Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner during the 1970s as a trading hub for his iron-fisted regime.
Yet after more than three years under U.S. watch, American and some regional officials remain divided over the potential for terrorist links, and unregulated trade flourishes.
U.S. officials suspect as much as $100 million a year flows out of the region, much of it diverted to Islamic militants linked to Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Authorities in Ciudad del Este say many among the Middle Eastern immigrant community send money home, but it is difficult to determine where the funds end up. Contributions to religious groups are even harder to trace.
U.S. officials say much of the money is sent back through an assortment of difficult-to-trace means - via couriers, complex wire transfers, some hand-carried.
``We are concerned about material support emanating from the area and its weaknesses: the ability to move people, goods, and money in a way that goes largely untracked,'' said Juan Zarate, the U.S. Treasury Department's deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes.
In June, the Bush administration ordered U.S. banks to freeze any assets found belonging to a Ciudad del Este-based businessman. The Treasury Department accused Assad Ahmad Barakat of using his electronics store as a cover for Hezbollah fund raising, saying he mortgaged his import-export business to borrow from a bank in a fraud scheme and ``coerced'' other Arab merchants into making Hezbollah contributions.
However, some regional officials question assertions of terrorism links and maintain that fund raising for Hezbollah is legal here since it is recognized as a political party.
Paraguayan Foreign Minister Leila Rachid recently told the Argentine newspaper, La Nacion, that the fact that Hezbollah supporters send part of their salaries to the political party in Lebanon ``does not mean there are terrorist cells'' in the tri-border area.
Many in the Arab community have expressed outrage over increased scrutiny of the community, saying most are traders and small business owners from Syria and Lebanon.
At the Mosque of the Prophet Muhammad, the main mosque in Ciudad del Este, several people gathering for Friday prayers recently complained of unfair treatment.
``They say there are terrorists here or terrorist support only because they think there must be with so many Arabs living in one place,'' said Hassan Ali, an electronic salesman. ``But where is the proof? Not one person has been convicted of terrorism here.''
Yet, U.S. and Argentine officials point to arrests, including Barakat's, that they say prove the area has been a base for several people with alleged links to Hezbollah and other groups.
Another arrest involved Mohammed Ali Hassan Mokhlis, an Egyptian who reportedly spent time in the tri-border area, according to regional intelligence officials.
A suspected planner of the 1997 Luxor massacre of 58 foreign tourists at the Temple of Hatshepsut in southern Egypt, he was extradited to Egypt from Uruguay last year after he tried to cross into Brazil using a false Malaysian passport. Four Muslim militants also were killed.
Still, Brazilian and Paraguayan law enforcement see the main problems as drug and contraband trafficking. U.S. officials, who believe the terrorist risk is real, say they are helping train Paraguayan authorities to better monitor financial transfers and bolster border controls.
Meantime, the Brazilian city of Foz do Iguacu across the river from Ciudad del Este is fighting to improve the tri-border image. Last year, the city launched an advertising campaign in Latin American newspapers trying a lighthearted touch to play down claims of terror links.
Hoping to attract more tourists to a region that includes the world-famous Iguazu waterfalls, the city ran full-page ads featuring a photograph of fugitive al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and the caption: ``If bin Laden would ever risk a visit to Foz do Iguazu, it's only because it's worth it.''
Source: AOL News, AP
Fresh blasts hit north-east India
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3710966.stm
Agents applaud merger of border air, marine force
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20041003-124753-7490r.htm
Feds puzzled by sheriff's terror alert
Contrary to Leis' warning, threat has not escalated
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/10/01/loc_terroralert01.html
Women to the forefront in Chechen terrorism
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/sw/details.cfm?ID=9781
Mobile-Phone Ban May Be Near End
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,65099,00.html
Troops capture Saddam general
http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10956695%255E1702,00.html
Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:36 p.m. EST
Hillary Predicts October Surprise
With this announcement in MARCH, so far in advance of the election, someone made sure they had plenty of time for their plans to be carried out.
Interesting, insightful article:
New tome: War vs. Saddam hit al-Qaeda hard
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234284/posts
Beneath all the public reasons for invading Iraq lies a secret war agenda that has paid off in the war on al-Qaeda, according to a leading intelligence analyst.
Friedman's book, ``America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between America and its Enemies,'' which goes on sale Tuesday, argues that midway through the war on terrorism, America has made major gains while al-Qaeda has failed in most of its goals and is on the defensive. Iraq, he argues, is a keystone of American strategy against al-Qaeda.
America's invasion of Iraq put pressure on the Saudis that forced them to act against al-Qaeda sympathizers within Saudi Arabia in ways the Saudis had been unwilling to do, Friedman said.
``Doing nothing would have been disastrous,'' Friedman said.
Gains against al-Qaeda so far, he said, include:
action to isolate nukes, include undercover special operations agents monitoring Pakistan's nuclear weapons facility;
significant damage to al-Qaeda's fund-raising aparatus.
better cooperation from intelligence agencies in Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.
I noticed in the recent jihadi messages they seem to be taking credit for the hurricanes that have hit Florida and Tony Blair's dodgy heart. I'm just waiting for them to claim Mount St Helen's!
I knew it! WMD stands for Weapons of Magma Destruction!
Why is he still here, here as in America?
marc
CJD is a prion disease and you can't kill it by autoclaving.
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