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UPDATE...
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/01/004610print.html
January 11, 2005
"Prosecution Setback In Brooklyn Terror Trial"
"Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad update, from 1010 WINS:"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK Lawyers for Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad, a Yemini sheik charged with raising money for terrorism said American officials canceled visas this week for four men who were expected to become defense witnesses when testimony was set to begin.
Al-Moayad and his aide Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed are accused of raising money for al Qaeda and Hamas at Brooklyn Mosques and other places. Opening statements in their trial at Brooklyn Federal Court are expected on Jan. 25.
During a hearing on Monday, Johnathan Marks, Zayed's lawyer told Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. that he was told the visas for the men, who were from Yemen, had been canceled for national security reasons, The New York Times reported in Tuesday editions."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=14281_Indonesian_Aid_Workers_Warned&only=yes
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20050111/wl_nm/quake_dc
"Indonesia Warns Tsunami Aid Workers on Safety"
Tue Jan 11, 4:14 PM ET
World - Reuters
By Dan Eaton and Jeff Franks
"BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia told aid workers helping tsunami victims in its worst-hit region Aceh on Tuesday not to venture beyond two large cities on Sumatra island because of possible attack by militants."
and Amen.
WTOP.com (AP): Oxon Hill, Maryland - "HELICOPTER CRASHES INTO POTOMAC RIVER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into why a medical helicopter crashed into the Potomac River near the Wilson Bridge Monday night, killing two people and injuring a third. "This is the 11th medical evacuation accident this year. We've had seven of those involving medivac helicopters and 34 dead," says National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Ellen Engleman Conners." (Updated January 11, 2005) (Read More...)
AP.TBO.com (AP): "TWO KILLED IN CIVIL AIR PATROL PLANE CRASH IN NORTHEASTERN LOUISIANA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A small Civil Air Patrol plane crashed during a training exercise in a swampy area of northeastern Louisiana, killing the pilot and a second man on board, authorities said Tuesday. The men were among at least six people killed Monday night in separate small plane crashes in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Florida and South Carolina, officials said.") (January 11, 2005) (Read More...)
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05010044.htm
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
RELIEF ORGANIZATION TAKES STEPS TO COUNTER SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN WAKE OF TSUNAMI
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
FEDERAL WAY, WA (ANS) -- The devastation caused by the tsunami has left thousands of children orphaned or separated from their families and more than 100,000 in refugee camps.
Child advocacy organization Plan International ( http://www.plan-international.org/wherewework/asia/tsunami04/protection/?view=textonly ) has reported that reports of “criminal exploitation” of tsunami victims have emerged recently. Although the stories are unsubstantiated, governments are being urged to act.
As a result, the Indonesian government has banned children under 16 being transferred from Aceh. Sri Lanka’s National Child Protection Authority has directed people to report unaccompanied children to the authorities while the government is compiling a register of orphaned children.
According to Plan International, there are currently no reliable figures of the number of children who survived but are now separated from their family. And child protection experts in general agree, saying it is still too early to know the full extent of the devastation.
However, a World Vision official said the youngest survivors of the disaster will be at greater risk of neglect, disease, and sexual and physical abuse, unless aid workers and local officials take special precautions to protect them.
“Children are among the hardest hit by this catastrophe,” said Joe Mettimano, World Vision's senior policy advisor for child protection, in a press release. “The pictures of dazed and grieving children wandering around the streets underscores the extraordinary vulnerability they face in this disaster.”
In response to reports of children missing from hospitals and emergency shelters, the government of Sri Lanka has issued warnings about the dangers of inadequate procedures in the movement, treatment, and care of children. Child protection experts fear some children are being trafficked for work or for sexual exploitation, World Vision reported in a press release, and are recommending that relief organizations set up “child-friendly” shelters to keep children safe.
World Vision is establishing these centers across the region as part of its relief effort. For example, in Indonesia, World Vision reported it is setting up 20 children’s centers that will include special tents next to temporary shelters where traumatized children can receive psychological support.
The typical temporary shelter has a very large number of children and adults together, making it easy for children to become separated from family members, World Vision reported. If separated, children's specific needs are neglected, placing them at risk of missing out on receiving life-saving aid such as vaccines, clean water and food, and leaving them vulnerable to mistreatment.
“After surviving the greatest tragedy of their lives, these children are incredibly vulnerable,” Mettimano said in the release. “It is the job of relief organizations and child protection experts, like World Vision, to make sure these children are properly cared for and protected from greater suffering.”
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico and is a candidate for the Ph.D. in intercultural education at Biola University in Los Angeles. He is married with five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jgreynalds@aol.com. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145.
UPDATE and RECAP...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144086,00.html
"More Reports of Lasers Shot Into Cockpits"
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
WASHINGTON —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Cathy Viray, spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles, said the bureau is looking into a report that a green light was beamed onto the nose of an aircraft last week as it was taking off from the Burbank airport.
"It's happening all over the place," Viray said Tuesday.
Beginning on Christmas night, there were reports from all over the country of lasers pointed at aircraft cockpits: in Cleveland, Houston, Colorado Springs, Colo., Medford, Ore., and Nashville, Tenn. Many of the reports described a green beam."
I believe it....someone launched fireworks at a plane on New Years Eve at Burbank.
One of the Crips killed a prison guard today. I heard on the news that all of the california prisons were on lock down.
There's a lot of stupid and/or just plain evil people in this world.
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/mex011005.htm
News Release
January 10, 2005
ICE DEPORTS 60 MEXICO CITIZENS FROM 6 STATE REGION
CHICAGO— José De Lira-Trancoso, a 25-year-old convicted of criminal gang activity for carrying an unlicensed handgun within 1,000 feet of Chandler Elementary School in Goshen, Ind., and Luis Salgado-Alvarez, a 20-year-old convicted of aggravated battery for stabbing his victim several times in the back during a gang-related dispute in Green Bay, Wis., were two of 60 Mexico citizens deported Friday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Thirty-six of those deported had criminal convictions for violations ranging from aggravated assault, burglary and forgery to sexual offenses and drug possession.
This large number of removals in one week reflects the national trend of increased deportations as ICE restores integrity to the nation’s immigration system.
ICE's Chicago office, which encompasses Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas and Missouri, is responsible for detaining and deporting aliens in accordance with immigration laws.
“A priority for ICE is to get criminals off our streets and keep America secure,” said ICE Field Office Director Debbie Achim, who leads detention and removal operations for Chicago. “We are bringing to bear the full force of our authorities to locate and remove illegal aliens from the country."
Chicago ICE deported 6,077 criminal and illegal aliens living in the agency's Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas operational area in fiscal year 2004, an increase of 24 percent over the previous year.
—ICE—
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"Iraqi insurgents seem worried bin Laden will hijack their cause"
Boston Globe ^ | 1/12/2005 | By Salah Nasrawi, Associated Press
Posted on 01/12/2005 12:15:15 AM PST by Jim Robinson
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Osama bin Laden has vowed to turn Iraq into the front line of his war against the United States, but Iraqi insurgents seem worried that he's out to hijack their rebellion."
Note: See photos.
http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/jan2005/a011105wm4.html
"Raid yields enough explosives to assemble more than 50 improvised explosive devices."
By U.S. Army Spc. Al Barrus
122nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
AL RASHID, Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 11, 2005
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2988772
"Angry protesters demand return of courthouse Bible"
By BILL MURPHY
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle
January 11, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "U.S. District Judge Sim Lake ordered the book removed, ruling that the county appeared to be showing a preference for Christianity over other religions by allowing it to be displayed."
PERSECUTION.org
http://www.persecution.org
LOL I'd forgotten there was more than one model in the RPG series. I think the last one I was familiar with (actually got to fire one once) was RPG4. Does that make me an old fart? What # is the current issue? I was also guessing that the explosives were CEMTEX, which is the poor man's (aka 3rd world) C4 which is almost so available in those places you can get it at the pharmacy with all your other prescriptions.....or it can rather easily be a homemade remedy.
Thanks Cindy for the updates on the plane crash stories. After finding those yesterday, I did another search for any new stories on lasers....it looks like you found it! It just seems that there are too many incidents recently....it gives me the gut feeling that there is some type of coordination behind these incidents; if indeed they are related in any way to lasers.
Businessman Charged by Feds with Aiding Iran Nuclear Program (CA & CT - 1/11/05)
By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer January 11, 2005, 7:59 PM EST
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- An Iranian-born businessman illegally smuggled equipment to support the Iranian nuclear missile program, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
Mohammad Farahbakhsh, 43, an Iranian-born U.S. citizen living in Los Angeles, was arraigned in U.S. District Court Tuesday on charges that he sent pressure sensors and other equipment from Stamford to the United Arab Emirates, where they were to be shipped to Iran........
A tense day in Carter County. The bomb squad was called in after a man found a suspicious device in his truck. State Police say the device appeared to be a pipe bomb. The state bomb squad was called in from Frankfort. Police shutdown a stretch of Highway 1496 that runs in front of the home....
Suspicious Car seen Tailing School Buses (Oregon - 1/12/05)
January 12, 2005 Marion and Clackamas County sheriff's deputies are on the lookout for a suspicious vehicle that was seen following two school buses in recent days near the Butte Creek School.
The vehicle appeared to be a former police car with a spotlight near the door and a CB antenna, the Silver Falls School District said. The driver also was described as wearing some type of uniform.
The license plates on the car might be WDY279.
Butte Creek School, between Molalla and Silverton, is in the Silver Falls School District. Parents and students are urged to take extra precaution at rural and isolated bus stops.
Suspicious Package Shuts Down Corps of Engineers (GA - 1/11/05)
A package arrived at a federal building in Savannah this morning with a powdery residue coming from inside the box. So, in the wake of post-911 anthrax scares, no one was taking any chances.....
Police Close Store after Suspicious Bag Found (Rochester, NY - 1/11/05)
A bomb scare shut down the WalMart Supercenter on Hudson Avenue in the city for nearly 3-hours Tuesday.
Rochester Police say an employee called for help after finding a suspicious duffle bag inside the store near the front entrance. While investigating, police blocked-off the parking lot to incoming traffic. Employees were told to wait outside. Police say there was nothing dangerous in the bag. “All they found was a bunch of tools but they did make the bag extremely heavy and there was wires sticking out and it was all just part of some property that was inside the bag,” said Sergent Charles Zlotkus from the Rochester Police Department. The store re-opened around 1:30 p.m.
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