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Posted on 10/12/2004 8:58:00 PM PDT by nwctwx
Route 85 heads up into Charlotte. There's the NASCAR race on up in Concord this weekend. Apparently there is stepped up security for all sporting events with large gatherings of people.
Good point and probably true!
Radio show aims to give Muslims voice (Chicago)
Omaha World-Herald ^ | 10/16/2004
CHICAGO - Some Chicago-area Muslims have launched their own talk radio program, deciding it will be the best way to break down stereotypes about their faith.
"Whenever I hear the word "Muslims" in the news,
it is always followed by something negative, a car bombing in Iraq..."
said Jenan Diab, producer of "Radio Islam," which debuted recently on WCEV-AM (1450).
"We want something positive for Muslims."
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Another train derails. Hazardous material aboard.
Freight Train Derails in S. California
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Bookmarking.
SEATTLE -- A federal judge in Seattle Friday sentenced a Pakistani cab driver living in British Columbia to 17 months in prison for smuggling nine people across the border near Blaine in May.
Court documents say agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement received intelligence that 31-year-old Muhammad Qasum Lala was smuggling people into the United States.
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ABDURAHMAN ALAMOUDI SENTENCED TO JAIL
IN TERRORISM FINANCING CASE
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S. citizen has been sentenced to 23 years in jail on charges related to his activities in the United States and abroad with nations and organizations that have ties to terrorism, the Department of Justice announced today.
Aldurahman M. Alamoudi, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Eritrea, was sentenced to 276 months in jail by District Judge Claude M. Hilton in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, this morning. On July 30, 2004, Alamoudi pleaded guilty to three federal offenses: one count of violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which imposes terrorism-related sanctions prohibiting unlicensed travel to and commerce with Libya; one count of false statements made in his application for naturalization; and a tax offense involving a long-term scheme to conceal from the IRS his financial transactions with Libya and his foreign bank accounts and to omit material information from the tax returns filed by his charities.
As part of a plea agreement, Alamoudi agreed to cooperate fully and truthfully in any and all investigations, including an ongoing investigation into a plot to assassinate an ally in the war against terrorism. Under the terms of that plea agreement, Alamoudi also agreed that he should be sentenced under the terrorism provision of the federal sentencing guidelines, and he agreed to forfeit all proceeds from his illegal dealings with Libya, which total at least $910,000, including $340,000 seized from him in the United Kingdom.
Alamoudi became a naturalized citizen in 1996. He is the founder and former executive director of the American Muslim Council (AMC), the founder of the American Muslim Foundation (AMF), and was an influential member of other Islamic political and charitable organizations.
Court documents filed in conjunction with his plea agreement describe how, from November 1995 to September 2003, Alamoudi devised a scheme to obtain money from Libya and other sources overseas for transmission into the United States without attracting the attention of federal immigration, customs and law enforcement officials. Alamoudi admitted to participating in a comprehensive scheme to conceal prohibited financial transactions related to Libya, his travel to Libya, and financial transactions designed to evade currency reporting requirements, among other things.
Alamoudi made at least 10 trips to Libya, many lasting as long as five days. According to court documents, while in Libya, Alamoudi participated in meetings with Libyan government officials. Initially, during a meeting on March 13, 2003, Alamoudi and Libyan government officials discussed creating “headaches” and disruptions in Saudi Arabia. As the scheme continued, however, Alamoudi learned that the actual objective was the assassination of Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah. Alamoudi participated in recruiting participants for this plot by introducing the Libyans to two Saudi dissidents in London and facilitating the transfer of hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash from the Libyans to those dissidents to finance the plot.
Alamoudi has been in U.S. custody since his arrest shortly after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sept. 28, 2003. Alamoudi intentionally withheld information about his Libya travel in response to a question from a Customs officer about which countries he had traveled to his itinerary.
“The government’s investigations are designed to prevent acts of terrorism by obtaining cooperation and developing intelligence,” said Attorney General John Ashcroft. “The sentence handed down in the Alamoudi case today shows that the system works: a terrorist facilitator has been sentenced to jail and we have reason to expect that through his cooperation, we will obtain intelligence that will assist us in our ongoing efforts to advance these critical investigations.”
“This is a clear victory in the war against terrorism,” said U.S. Attorney Paul J. McNulty of the Eastern District of Virginia. “Terrorists need money to operate, and the defendant was caught in the act of financing their deadly schemes.”
Michael Garcia, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), stated: “The sentence handed down today reflects the seriousness of Alamoudi’s crimes. His conviction is the result of an extensive joint investigation by ICE, the FBI and IRS, in which agents tracked suitcases stuffed with cash, unearthed Swiss bank accounts, and documented meetings with shadowy figures around the globe. This case demonstrates how ICE is applying its legal authorities under the Joint Terrorism Task Force umbrella to address threats to our homeland.”
“The ability to detect and analyze complex financial information from numerous sources is essential to the government's fight against terror,” said Nancy Jardini, Chief, IRS Criminal Investigation. “The IRS has committed extensive civil and criminal resources to shut down terrorist financing from domestic sources, including charities.”
The case is being investigated by agents of the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security, Criminal Investigations at the Internal Revenue Service, and the Washington Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Gordon D. Kromberg and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven P. Ward, on detail from the Tax Division of the Department of Justice, prosecuted the case.
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"Oil for food: A scandal"
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 16 October 2004 | Editorial
Posted on 10/16/2004 8:10:00 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
I am a bundle of nerves tonight. Feeling really really edgy and there is an abundance of noise/static tonight. However, I have noticed I mostly get like this prior to a big happening in Iraq and that is like saying there is going to be an earthquake somewhere in the world.
Some other consequences of an Iranian Bomb
Hope Not Hate Conference at U of CA 10/19 at 5:00 PM at Weaver Center
Iraq spy chief accuses Iranian embassy of killing agents
SNIP:Zarqawi Threatens to Disrupt Fuel Imports
BAGHDAD, Iraq,
Oct. 16--Jordanian militant Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi has threatened to attack foreign trucks carrying imports of refined oil products into Iraq, an Iraqi Oil Ministry official said on Saturday.
A pamphlet the official said was from Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group said non-Iraqi trucks, which carry the bulk of Iraq's imports of refined products, would be attacked, Reuters reported.
Iraq already suffers shortages of oil products, partly due to insecure land routes and sabotage attacks on refineries. "Tawhid and Jihad has already killed a number of drivers. The Turks you hear are killed or kidnapped mostly drive fuel trucks," said the official, who asked not to be named. "The attacks by Zarqawi and others are helping disrupt supply. We are taking the threat seriously," he added. The pamphlet was distributed to oil officials in the north, including the city of Mosul, and to traders who import refined products, such as petrol and diesel, the official added.
"Any car from outside Iraq will be subject to destruction. Iraqi trucks will be allowed movement," said the pamphlet, which was shown to Reuters.
"Some were mistaken when they understood that the goal of the holy warriors is to prevent the flow of refined products and damage people's interests."
Iraq, which has one of the largest oil reserves in the world, imports around $2 billion worth of refined products a year. It has a nominal refining capacity of 550,000 barrels per day, but sabotage and postwar looting have lowered output.
We've covered that for awhile your correct CG
I miss you too
I am back periodically M'Dear
6 Killed in Arizona As SUV Flees Deputies
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041017/ap_on_re_us/smuggling_crash&cid=519&ncid=716
Where I'm staying in the burbs of Chicago:
New neighbors across the street, last Sunday a man trying to look Arab, was blatantly a white man with a beard who was dropping off women dressed in full garb at the house, escorts them to the door and would leave. He did this with 6 women and only one was not in full garb. There is never activity in this house, at times two vehicles parked in driveway, very weird
I help run the Homosexual Agenda Ping list - there have been quite a number of articles lately about Proctor and Gamble's support of the homosexual agenda.
I'll freepmail you something I got recently about them. There have been several acrimonious threads about P&G on FR lately.
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