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MEMRITV.org - Transcript: "ENGLISH SPEAKING AL-QAEDA TERRORIST: OH PEOPLE OF THE WEST.... IT IS TIME FOR US TO BE EQUALS -- AS YOU KILL US, YOU WILL BE KILLED (Fuller Version)" (TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an Al-Qaeda tape featuring a Western Al-Qaeda terrorist, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on August 9, 2005. Al-Arabiya claims he is Irish.") (Note: To view the video clip go to memritv.org.) (August 9, 2005) (Read More...)
Checking in. Got the boat out this evening for a lovely sunset cruise away from all concerns. Couldn't you folks have gotten this whole "terrorism" thing cleared up while I was out? Sheesh. Now I have to think about it again.
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Santa Monica Playing It Safe
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 13, 2005 | Rong-Gong Lin II & Martha Groves
Posted on 08/13/2005 11:09:49 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
Santa Monica Police Chief James T. Butts Jr. met with reporters this week and declared a potential homeland security threat.
Police received a call last month from a citizen who had taken photos of "Middle Eastern individuals" as they shot video of the Santa Monica Pier and surrounding area in a manner that authorities said was "inconsistent with tourist documentary." ...
(Councilman Herb Katz) said the three photos Butts showed the council during the closed session meeting left him with concerns.
"There were three people taking pictures on a pier that's a tourist attraction," he said. "They were going under the pier and looking at pilings." ...
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,165656,00.html
AP
"8 Children Among Dead in Jet Crash"
Sunday, August 14, 2005
ARTICL SNIPPT: "GRAMMATIKO, Greece — A Cypriot plane crashed into a hill north of Athens (search) on Sunday, killing all 121 people aboard — a third of them children — in Greece's deadliest airline disaster. At least one of the pilots was unconscious when the plane went down, apparently from lack of oxygen.
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The cause of the crash was unclear, but it looked like a technical problem — possibly decompression — and not terrorism. "The first indications, in Cyprus and in Greece, are that it was not caused by a terrorist act," said Marios Karoyian, a spokesman for Cypriot President Tassos Papadopoulos."