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Britain holds three under anti-terrorism laws
LONDON (Reuters) - British detectives arrested three men on Monday under security laws as part of "an ongoing investigation into international terrorism overseas".
The men, aged 34, 39, and 42, were held on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism" following their arrest in the Worcestershire area of central England, police said.
"We are not prepared to discuss the location of the alleged terrorist activity or the nationality of the suspects," London's anti-terrorist police added in a statement.(snip)
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-12-05T205946Z_01_HAR575578_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-BRITAIN-ARRESTS.xml
Ok don't tell me, I bet they were Swedish. LOL
Seriously the Brits are doing a pretty good job in capturing these bums!!
They should make their new motto in DC don't do today what you can put off until tomorrow, or next month, or in several months or YEARS.
That particular story merits some checking. If nothing else it could be the premise for a really good book. What happened to this guy?
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ON THE NET...
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP103905
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1039
December 6, 2005
No.1039
"Terrorist and Inciting Messages on Yahoo"
ON THE NET...
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Yahoo%3F+Al+Qaeda+does%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Yahoo%3F+Al+Qaida+does%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
Here's more on the missing retired govt intel worker/authorities think he's dead due to foul play.
Metro/State OTHER HEADLINES
December 05, 2005
Feuding in missing man’s case
By PAM ZUBECK THE GAZETTE
Squabbles are heating up between the father of a New York native who vanished from his rural Fremont County home last year and the man’s wife, who has control of his assets.
The focus is on how to handle his $520,000 estate and if his disappearance warrants a forensic search of the 35-acre home site east of Cañon City, the last place he was seen.
Meanwhile, Fremont County authorities are handling the case as a missing person, although private investigators say they think he’s dead due to foul play.
Eugene Fish, 53, a retired government intelligence officer, left home on June 21, 2004, said his wife, Lynn. She called his father, Bill Fish, in Fultonville, N.Y., a week later saying he had left her.
Since June 21, 2004, Gene Fish hasn’t tapped his $4,621-a-month pension, his savings accounts and credit cards. Nor has he used his passport.
Bill Fish and Gene Fish’s friends call his disappearance out of character for an only child who kept in touch weekly with his ailing parents and contacted friends regularly.
Lynn Fish has given inconsistent versions of his disappearance to friends, family and authorities and is fighting to keep control of his estate.
Fremont County District Judge David Thorson put her in charge in July over Bill Fish’s objections and later waived a bond requirement when two firms refused to bond her, citing “the situation,” according to court papers.
On Oct. 17, she filed a financial plan and sought permission to sell a $17,200 tractor Bill Fish gave his son, and two parcels of land in New York, valued at $58,000.
She wants to use the money to pay off a $5,495 credit-card debt and $1,818 in attorney fees and to pay some of the home’s $210,000 mortgage. She also wants to continue using his pension money for her support. Lynn Fish is unemployed.
Bill Fish objects, arguing in court documents that her property inventory lacks detail and appraisals and that a conservatorship’s chief purpose is to protect the estate, “not to provide Lynn with a means for avoiding work.”
He argues Lynn Fish valued the Fremont County property at $420,000 in October 2003 but now says it’s worth $335,000. That depreciating tract, not the farmland that generates income, should be sold, Bill Fish says.
He also wants Lynn Fish to use estate money to look for his son.
“Looking for Eugene Fish has no benefit to the estate,” Lynn Fish said in her response.
She notes the farmland made no income for at least a year and is difficult to manage long distance.
Gene Fish’s cousin, Frank Hernigle of Fultonville, N.Y., said in an interview he oversaw the farmland for 20 years on Gene’s behalf and offered to continue, but Lynn Fish told him she didn’t want him to.
She accuses Bill Fish of harassing her with legal maneuvers costly for the estate. Also, she, as Gene Fish’s spouse, is entitled to support; her husband didn’t require her to work, she argues.
In October, Bill Fish asked Thorson to allow a forensic search of the Fremont property to hunt for clues. Thorson denied the request but said if a law enforcement agency sub- mitted an affidavit with probable cause “or even reasonable suspicion,” he “might look favorably” on issuing a warrant.
Bill Fish’s private investigators, with a combined 70 years of law enforcement experience, drafted a nine-page affidavit and recently gave it to Sheriff Jim Beicker.
Beicker said Thursday that he doesn’t know when, or if, he’ll seek a search warrant. He said evidence gained from a search could be suppressed if the warrant was found to be issued without probable cause.
“If there’s a criminal case here, I can’t jeopardize it,” he said. “If leads or evidence lead us to probable cause and we consider it a criminal matter, we could end up back at that property.”
For now, Beicker considers it a missing-person case.
“I feel like I have to play by the rules and look at every aspect of the case,” Beicker said, including checking Fish’s DNA against bodies that turn up elsewhere.
“I do not know Mr. Fish’s fate,” he said. “I don’t know if he’s alive or whether he’s dead and buried. I can’t say with certainty where he is. But it’s common sense he isn’t well.”
Describing the investigation as a “slow methodical march,” Beicker said he and District Attorney Molly Chilson feel no sense of urgency. Bill Fish, who has cancer, wants to know what happened to his son before he dies.
http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1312626&secid=1
Foggy memory, but during those fires in California last summer, weren't there reports of a white car?
Yeppers. There's a whole lot of difference between announcing a solution and IMPLEMENTING a solution. Could be years..... what could possibly go wrong between here and there?
LOL, Swedish monks. ;-)
Check this out........
EXCLUSIVE: Sources Tell ABC News Top Al Qaeda Figures Held in Secret CIA Prisons
ABC News ^ | December 5 2005 | BRIAN ROSS and RICHARD ESPOSITO
Posted on 12/05/2005 7:35:03 PM CST by jmc1969
Dec. 5, 2005 — Two CIA secret prisons were operating in Eastern Europe until last month when they were shut down following Human Rights Watch reports of their existence in Poland and Romania.
Current and former CIA officers speaking to ABC News on the condition of confidentiality say the United States scrambled to get all the suspects off European soil before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived there today. The officers say 11 top al Qaeda suspects have now been moved to a new CIA facility in the North African desert.
All but one of these 11 high-value al Qaeda prisoners were subjected to the harshest interrogation techniques in the CIA's secret arsenal, the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" authorized for use by about 14 CIA officers and first reported by ABC News on Nov. 18.
Sources tell ABC News that the CIA has a related system of secretly returning other prisoners to their home country when they have outlived their usefulness to the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland
Ibn Al-Shaykh al-Libi: Held in Poland. Previously held in Pakistan/Afghanistan
Abdul Rahim al-Sharqawi: Held in Poland
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri: Held in Poland
Ramzi Binalshibh: Held in Poland
Mohammed Omar Abdel-Rahman: Held in Poland
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: Held in Poland
Waleed Mohammed bin Attash: Held in Poland
Hambali: In U.S. custody. Kept isolated from other high-value targets.
Hassan Ghul: Held in Poland.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani: Held in Poland
Abu Faraj al-Libbi: Held in Poland
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534617/posts
It does merit checking.
A Navy intelligence officer & pilot plu nuclear expertise....missing....makes you pause.
Snip: “We don’t think anything’s missing,” spokesman Don Ami of the National Nuclear Security Administration said. “We just think there’s a discrepancy.”
US eyes relaxed rules for foreign scientists
Snip: Scientists are cautiously optimistic that the U.S. government will relax some proposed security restrictions that would limit foreign-born researchers' access to sensitive technology when the rules are issued next year.
"If these rules were implemented as suggested, it would have a dramatic and very harmful effect," said Tobin Smith, senior federal relations officer at the Association of American Universities (AAU). "It's antithetical to what we do at universities," he told The Scientist.
In March, 2005, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued proposed regulations to restrict scientists born in India, China, Russia, and certain other countries from using sensitive laboratory equipment, or having access to information or technology with military potential without an export license. The Department of Defense followed suit in July by requiring these foreign-born nationals wear special identification badges and be restricted to "segregated work areas" at universities and companies conducting unclassified DOD-sponsored research. Currently, an exemption for basic research has allowed these scientists to have access to sensitive technology while working in U.S. academia and industry.
>>>>“Looking for Eugene Fish has no benefit to the estate,” Lynn Fish said in her response.
Quite the cold fish, isn't she?
Who the heck keeps leaking to ABC news?
I sure hope there aren't repercussions to our friends in Poland.
Well, isn't that nice...he doesn't "think" so.
Complete September 2005 Interview with Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri Conducted by al-Sahab
By SITE Institute
December 5, 2005
An English-subtitled video containing the complete interview from September 2005 with Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, conducted by al-Sahab, an al-Qaeda production company, was issued today, December 5, 2005. This interview, 43:45 minutes in length, is the full recording of which the Arabic satellite channel, al-Jazeera, aired 5:30 minutes on September 19, 2005.
The video begins with Zawahiri’s critique of the United Nations. He claims that the “United Nations is part of the crusader kingdom,” but is conspicuously silent on the effects of the Iraqi embargo, while loudly announcing the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan.
Further, Zawahiri tells the interviewer that “al-Qaeda is spreading, expanding, and growing in numbers and strength,” adding that “the battle [against the west] is still in its first skirmishes.”
He goes on to dismiss criticism that al-Qaeda no longer exists as a group but only as an ideology, reiterating that the group is growing in numbers. He adds here that “the Qaida al-Jihad Group’s latest operation was the blessed raid on London.” He spends several minutes justifying these attacks and verbally assailing the state of Britain and its latest deportation of several radical clerics, including Abu Qatada, who Zawahiri states that England has no room for, while allowing Salman Rushdie to take refuge.
Several times throughout the interview, Zawahiri states that one of the great blunders of the U.S. and Britain was announcing shortly after the London attacks that it was preparing plans for a withdrawal from Iraq. This, Zawahiri remarks, is “the blundering that comes before defeat,” adding that the “specter of Vietnam blocks all their escape routes.”
Zawahiri, throughout, addresses the Muslim masses and the mujahideen, calling for everyone to stand up in the name of jihad, and to attack oil reserves in Arabia. Likewise, he addresses westerners and in particular, Americans, asking them to sit and ask themselves clear, honest questions about their thoughts on their country’s policies, and the reasons behind past attacks from Muslims.
In closing, Zawahiri asks all media production and internet companies to release the interview in “all languages and as widely as possible.”
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications126205&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Talk about a big 'fish'. :)
Abu Zubaydah: Held first in Thailand then Poland
I'm wondering how we possibly could hold him safely in Thailand? And now moving them all to North Africa somewhere in the desert???? Libya? Why didn't they just telegraph everything to the terrorists. I just don't understand how anyone in the CIA could leak this and then ABC reports it. I'm just hoping it's false information. Doubtful.
Snip: WASHINGTON: President George Bush has been faulted for asserting that “Islamic extremism” is akin to communism and advised not to repeatedly invoke the adjective “Islamic” when referring to terrorism.
This “rap across the knuckles” comes from Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser under President Jimmy Carter...
Personal Note: Terrorist supporters Carter and Brzezinski ought to be ashamed....(but we know they never will be). Islamists demand death for Christian teachers
Snip: Three Indonesian teachers have been sentenced to prison for teaching their students about Christianity. The trial began in June with mobs of Islamists calling for the death of the teachers and specifically one named Rebekkah. They shouted "Hang them! Hang them! Hang Rebekkah!" and “Punish her! Kill Rebekkah! Hang her!"
Although the Indonesian Constitution provides for "all persons the right to worship according to his or her own religion or belief", it is being speculated that the judges and court were placed in fear of their own lives by the Islamists. Therefore, the Christian women were convicted of the ‘Christianization of Muslim children’. Indonesia is one of the countries Islamic Jihadists have vowed to turn into a sole Muslim state.
Wedding night terror and a speechless bride
Snip: Dec. 5. — On the night of her “wedding,’’ Malika Shabi watched Al-Qaida videos of beheadings and listened toher partner rail against Dutch politicians he wanted to kill, according to a police statement read in court today.
In the statement, she said Mr Bouyeri performed her wedding to Nourredin El Fatmi, though they did not have permission from her parents or the blessing of an imam. Fatmi had insisted on the hasty marriage because it “was the duty of Muslim men to marry before they die,’’ she told investigators. She said the newlyweds watched fundamentalist propaganda videos on their wedding night, including statements by Osama bin Laden and films of ritual murders carried out by the Chechen rebels.
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