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Thank you for the ping.
Great job as always...Thank you for keeping the thread going!!
British police raid 5 homes in South Leeds West Yorkshire.
Armed police taking up positions around a 6th house and controlled explosions taking place. Evacuation of 500 people. Directly connected to London blasts. A man and his family who recently moved into one of the houses is missing.
Of course they don't give his nationality!! This is from Fox.
Wow - you found that quick. I just got into the city and would have just started looking. They were on a raft. I don't think the tourist line will work here.
You can add Spain to that list today. Thanks as always for keeping us posted and pinged.
Explosion in Spain in the last two days? I didn't see anything on this yet. Did it just happen?
Oorang had posted this and 2 other links, near the last page of the old thread.
What a strange message, I know there is a York in England and had assumed this was New York.
The date of 2020? The 11-9 for our 9-11, that I understand.
granny
Thanks Ian. This photo:
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34 posted on 07/11/2005 9:15:55 PM PDT by Oorang ( A great deal
I'm having trouble posting today, is FR back 100%???
Spain: Bomb explodes at Italian center
BARCELONA, Spain, July 12 (UPI) -- A bomb exploded outside the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona Tuesday, injuring one police officer, El Mundo reported online.
Spain: Bomb injures cop, kills police dog (July 12, 2005) -- A bomb exploded Tuesday outside the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, injuring a police officer and killing a police dog.
The bomb exploded while police were examining a suspicious looking object on the front steps, a metal can with wires coming out of it. A bomb sniffing dog was killed when the device went off.
Police are not ruling out a terrorist attack, nor are they discounting the possibility that it was the work of Basque separatist group ETA.
Some officials, however, said they thought it might be the work of Italian anarchists, as there was graffiti written on a nearby wall of the letter "A" written in a circle, the symbol for anarchy
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050712-08105900-bc-spain-bombing.xml
Here is an article I found quite disturbing, in that I had no idea that this happens with train crews.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20050709-9999-1n9train.html
Railroad officials call idling common practice
By Michael Stetz and Gregory Alan Gross
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITERS
July 9, 2005
Given the recent terrorist bombings in London, it was probably not the best time for a train crew to stop its 44-car freight train in the middle of San Diego, leave the engine humming and disappear into the night.
But that's what happened Thursday.
Officers discovered the train around 11 p.m., parked on Morena Boulevard not far from Mission Bay.
Police Sgt. Kerry Tom said the crew left a little note behind: "We've worked our maximum allotted hours and we took a taxicab home."
"Who would leave 44 cars on a track and the engine running, just abandoned there?" Tom said.
But officials for Burlington Northern Sante Fe railroad say such a move – the crew had worked the federal maximum of 12 hours and had to stop the train – is neither unusual nor dangerous.
In fact, it's typical railroad procedure.
"It's common practice to leave trains idling," said Steve Kulm, a spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration.
Federal law mandates that to prevent fatigue, railroad workers have to stop working after 12 hours even if they haven't reached their destination. A railroad company can be fined if its workers exceed the limit, Kulm said.
The gap between train crews varies, depending on the urgency of the schedule. In this case, it took about 1½ hours for a fresh crew to arrive at the train. There is no federal requirement that crews must stay until they are replaced.
Even if a crew change takes hours, the train engine is left idling, said Burlington spokeswoman Lena Kent. That's because the idling engine serves as a generator to keep the brakes working.
There's no real danger of the train being stolen, the company stressed, because the engine is actually disabled and it takes special equipment to put the train in motion.
"It's not like an automobile," Kent said. "You can't just press the pedal and go."
The amount of training a locomotive engineer needs is not insignificant, said John Bentley, a spokesman for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen in Cleveland. It takes about a year to learn to do the job.
No federal law requires the cab to be locked when the crew is gone, and it's unknown if that was the case in this situation. Some cabs lock only from the inside, Kent said.
A federal Transportation Security Administration official said his office doesn't regard the San Diego incident as cause for alarm.
"TSA doesn't see this as a security or a safety breach," said Nico Melendez, the agency's western field director for public affairs. "It is rather standard for locomotive companies to do this. . . . There are steps they take to disable the train."
But, again, this is all about timing.
In London, dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured Thursday morning when a series of bombs went off in the city's subway system. Another bomb ripped apart a double-decker bus.
It was the worst attack on that city since World War II.
The railroad company believes that if it hadn't been for the bombings, its idling train would have been a nonstory. This was a cargo train, not a passenger train, Kent emphasized. And the cargo cars were empty.
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"It in no way posed a security threat to anybody," she said. "This has been blown way out of proportion and completely sensationalized."
The crew didn't stick around because they were doing what they always do, she said. "They didn't see it as a security threat."
A man who works at a gas station near where the train was found said he has seen crews climb off trains before.
"They will stop up there and climb down off their ladder, go and get something to eat at the Circle K or Santana's Mexican restaurant," said Steven Dix, a cashier at the Arco gas station on Morena Boulevard and West Morena Boulevard. "This last Saturday, there was one out there from 7 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. . . . I don't know if they leave anyone on the train or not."
Although security officials seemed unconcerned, Dix said he thought it was "insane" that a train was left unattended Thursday night.
Not so, says the railroad.
It's ho-hum.
FR is a bit slow today. Thanks for posting the article. ETA and anarchists huh? Will they ever learn?
2020 = 4 man cell / 4 bombs?
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=%0D%0A11/9/2020%20
Take a look at the results, sports and dates.....above.
Sky News.....bus bomber one of 13 bodies has been positively identified. Police are ready to make a number of arrests.
I hope so!!
Reuters ^ | 12 Jul 2005 12:55:39 GMT
Posted on 07/12/2005 10:44:00 AM EDT by Esther Ruth
MADRID, July 12 (Reuters) - Four explosions struck near a power station in Spain's northern Basque country on Tuesday after a warning call in the name of Basque separatist guerrillas ETA, police said.
This is why we are still at war, and they blame it on OBL.
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CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT: Iraq and America's war on Islam,
Dr Abu Muhammad (Iraq)
uploaded 18 Sep 2002
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“Verily those who disbelieve spend their wealth to hinder (men) from
the way of Allah and so they will continue to spend it, but in the end
will become an anguish for them. They will be overcome and those
disbelievers will be gathered in Hell" [TMQ Al-Anfal: 36]
This verse from the Quran puts into context America’s war against
Islam under the guise of the ‘War against terror’.
With America beating the drums of war regarding Iraq and
attempting to build an opinion for an invasion, it is of vital
importance that the Muslims of the world are aware of the reality of
America’s intentions and what our response should be.
Despite the President of America, George Bush’s elaborate attempt
to justify an invasion of Iraq in his recent speech at the UN, it should
be clear that America and the Western Capitalist nations undertake
actions only to further their material interests.
Bush’s attempts to veil his real intentions under issues such as
Iraq’s so called weapons of mass destruction and the possibility of it
acquiring nuclear weapons. The entire world knows that America’s
interest in Iraq is due to the vast oil resources known to be one of
the world’s largest.
When America invaded Iraq in the last gulf war its goal definitely
was not the liberation of Kuwait; rather it was a struggle over the
petrol interests and spreading its influence. As one of the American
Senators said, "We came to correct the mistake of the Lord".
Referring to the fact that Allah (swt) placed vast oil resources in the
Gulf instead of the West.
Senator Bob Dole spelt this out when he said at the time of the last
Gulf War; “we are not going to war to bring back the Amir of
Kuwait because that does not deserve a single American life”
The foreign policy of America and the Capitalist states has nothing to
do with saving the people of Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam
Hussein or safeguarding the rights of the people, it is purely based
on colonialism, that is the economic, political, military and cultural
subjugation of people.
America doesn’t care for the Muslims of Iraq. 200,000 people were
killed in 1991 during the “Desert Storm” campaign spearheaded by
the US against Iraq. Since then, sanctions have been responsible for
at least one million deaths, including those of children and babies –
a direct and tangible result of American foreign policy in the Middle
East. When asked about the number of people who have died in Iraq
since 1991, Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, could only reply
arrogantly, “It’s really not a number I am terribly interested
in”.
This pirate-like US attitude was echoed by Brigadier General William
Looney who said in The Washington Post, “They know we own
their country. We own their airspace... We dictate the way
they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right
now. It's a good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out
there we need.”
It is clear that the objective of war against Iraq by America is to
replace the Iraqi regime with an Iraqi version of Hamid Karzai,
someone who will be a stooge for America allowing it to control the
oil resources as well as allowing the US to dominate the region. It is
clear that America wants to weaken Iraq as it knows that any strong
nation in the Muslim world could be a threat for it in the future and
can be used as base for an Islamic Khilafah state.
The Muslims of Iraq and the world realise that Saddam Hussein is a
tyrannical dictator like all the other rulers of the Muslim world,
including the self appointed ruler of Pakistan and America’s new
found friend, General Parvaiz Musharraf, King Fahd of Saudi Arabia,
Mubarak of Egypt, Bashar of Syria and all the other rulers.
The Muslims of the world should not remain silent whilst America
prepares to attack Iraq, rather they should work to remove the
tyrannical rulers imposed upon her by force who stand by idly whilst
the Muslims are butchered in front of their eyes, they keep silent
regarding the violation of the Israeli State to all UN resolutions, and
its possession of all weapons of mass destruction whether nuclear,
biological, bacterial or chemical. They also remain silent over the
possession by the superpowers of massive amounts of all types of
weapons of mass destruction. They do not stand in the face of
America to prevent her from her hostile stance against Iraq, rather
they enable her to set up military bases for her armies in our
countries.
The Muslims of Iraq and the rest of the Islamic world must take their
affairs into their own hands by re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah
state, which will implement the Shari’ah of Allah (swt) and ensure
justice for its citizens.
Justice cannot be achieved by removing a tyrant like Saddam and
replacing him with an American stooge loyal to the West. Therefore
Muslims should not call upon the Western Nations and its organs like
the UN to resolve their affairs as it is nothing more than an entity
based upon the corrupt values of Capitalism. Rather they must make
all efforts to further intensify the intellectual and political struggle to
liberate themselves from the shackles of colonialism by
re-establishing the Khilafah state.
The Muslims of the West must remember that they are part of this
global Ummah, the Muslims or Iraq are their brothers and sisters as
are the Muslims in the rest of the world. They should never forget
this fact and exhorts all efforts to aid the work for this Ummah’s
liberation.
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“And say Do deeds! Soon Allah will see your deeds, and (so will) His
Messenger and the believers.” [TMQ 9:105]
Source: Khilafah.com Journal
Little slow here today..
I give up.
Can't get in today.
FR keeps timing out on me.
me too . . .
I thinks we're back to normal as of this minute.
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