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SCHOOL + THREAT:

Cleveland, GA:
School Evacuated Following Bomb Threat
(Cleveland)-Everything has returned to normal at White County High School, following a call early Tuesday to 9-1-1, that there was a bomb at the school.
(...)[White County Sheriff Neal] Walden said no explosive devices were found and the students were allowed to return to the building.

Amity, OR:
Police accuse teenage boy of making Amity school threat
AMITY, Ore. - A teenage boy was accused Tuesday of making threats that prompted hundreds of students in the Amity School District to stay home one day last month.
The student, who was not identified, was cited for criminal mischief and disorderly conduct, said Chief Dan Brown of the Amity Police Department.

Students Arrested In Connection With Junior High Threat
BENTONVILLE -- Three students were arrested Monday in connection with a threatening message written at Washington Junior High School.
The students, all males, are being held at the Benton County Juvenile Detention Center, according to a news release from Bentonville Police.
(...)A threat was found at Lincoln Junior High School, and two threatening messages were reported at Bentonville High School.
A 17-year-old girl was arrested and charged with first-degree terroristic threatening, a Class D felony, and first-degree criminal mischief, a Class B misdemeanor.

BOMB SEARCH RESULTS:

Srinagar, India:
Five killed in Kashmir car bomb blast
Five people including a suicide bomber were killed and more than a dozen wounded on Wednesday in a car bomb blast that Islamic militants said was a "gift" to Indian Kashmir's incoming chief minister.
Police said the explosion took place in the Nowgam area on the outskirts of the summer capital Srinagar.

UPDATED NEWS FROM INDIA:
Ten killed, Fifteen wounded in Kashmir car bomb explosion
Srinagar: Barely few hours before the swearing in of Congress Legislature Party Leader Ghulam Nabi Azad as the tenth Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, a suicide attacker detonated a powerful car bomb explosion at Nowgam area in the city outskirts near the old residence of his predecessor Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, killing at least 10 people and wounding about 15 others, some of them critically.
The deadly explosion took place about 15 km from Sher-i-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC), the venue of the swearing in ceremony.

Bomb shakes two British offices in Tehran
[Webpage say updated every 15 mins. - LR]
TEHRAN, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Two British businesses were targeted in a bombing in a Tehran office building Wednesday, but no one was injured.
Police said the device detonated on the 10th floor of an office block outside the offices of British Airways and British Petroleum, ITN reported.

SUSPICIOUS DEVICE/PACKAGE:

Jacksonville, FL:
Suspicious Bag Downtown Turns Out Harmless
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Police in Jacksonville have determined that a suspicious bag found downtown early Tuesday does not pose a threat.
The backpack was spotted hanging off a transformer, about three feet from the ground, at the corner of Bay and Pearl Streets.

Los Angeles area, CA:
Suspicious fire damages Apple Valley church
APPLE VALLEY — A suspicious early morning fire at the Church of the Nazarene has investigators looking into the intentionally set blaze as arson, as well as a potential hate crime.
Although an arson dog from the city of San Bernardino was called to the location in the 12900 block of Central Road and "hit" on three different locations that tested positive for ignitable liquids, investigators have yet to term the fire as arson.
(...)Because the fire is believed to have been set, investigators urge anyone with information about the fire to contact WeTip at (800) 78-CRIME.
In the case of arson, informants are eligible for up to a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of an arsonist.

EXPLOSION/EXPLOSIVE:

South Korea:
Truck Explosion in Tunnel
The explosion of a cargo truck loaded with missile parts in an expressway tunnel in Taegu on Tuesday is shocking enough to drive everyone into a panic even though there was no loss of life or injuries. It is not hard to imagine the blast could have turned into a mammoth disaster if the truck driver had not taken immediate steps when his vehicle caught fire in the 2.4 kilometer-long tunnel. He gave hand signals to the drivers of some 70 vehicles then passing through the tunnel, to make sure they evacuated before the situation worsened.
The truck was one of the four cargo vehicles carrying warheads and boosters for Nike-Hercules missiles from an air base in Sunchon, South Cholla Province, to another base in Taegu.
As anticipated, the Air Force tried to tone down the incident as they said that the fire only blasted the truck. They said that the warheads didn’t contain detonators and the boosters did not explode because they were filled with solid fuel, which is not volatile, only combustible. But the Air Force’s reasoning fails to convince the general public.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Elite Marine Unit to Help Fight Terrorism
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday announced creation of a force of about 2,600 highly specialized Marines intended to address a shortage of elite troops available for counterterrorist operations and other missions requiring exceptional skills.
But in a marked departure for the fiercely self-reliant Corps, the new contingent will report not to the Marine leadership but to the multi-service command responsible for other Special Operations troops.

Secret prison system detains high-level terrorism suspects
[VERY long detailed article at link - LR]
WASHINGTON — The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al-Qaida captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.
The secret facility is part of a covert prison system set up by the CIA nearly four years ago that at various times has included sites in eight countries, including Thailand, Afghanistan and several democracies in Eastern Europe, as well as a small center at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, according to current and former intelligence officials and diplomats from three continents.

Related to the above article:
Thailand Rejected Existence of Prisons for Al Qaeda’s Members
Bangkok Authorities in Thailand rejected the information of an American report that there are secret CIA prisons in the country in which leading Al Qaeda members are detained, AFP reported, citing a statement of the spokesperson of the Thai government.
An article in the Washington Post newspaper reads that the CIA has detained Al Qaeda members in secret prisons dubbed “black sites” in Thailand, Afghanistan and other countries, including east European ones.

Iraq blames a Syrian-based terrorist for triple bombing
BAGHDAD -- The Iraqi government yesterday blamed a Moroccan based in Syria for a triple car bomb attack that killed at least 60 people north of Baghdad Saturday, and the defense minister called on Arab governments to demand that Syria curb the movement of foreign fighters into Iraq.
The Iraqi government identified the bomb planner as Muhsen Khayber, also known as Abdul- Majid al-Libi and Abdul-Rahim, who is also wanted in Morocco for the terror bombings in Casablanca in May 2003.

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

Disillusioned Palestinian terrorists join al-Qaida
Israeli official: They didn't think Hamas was radical enough
JERUSALEM – Jailed Hamas members disillusioned with the Palestinian terror group because it's not radical enough for them renounced their Hamas membership and attempted to set up an al-Qaida cell to direct attacks against the Jewish state, Israeli prison officials said yesterday.
The revelation is the latest evidence the global terror network has established itself in the Palestinian territories, with Israeli security officials telling WND al-Qaida agents infiltrated the Gaza Strip after Israel's military withdrawal from the area in September.

Accuracy in Media Editorial:
Al-Jazeera and Al Qaeda
The Washington Post on September 11, in a page 16 story, noted that a Spanish court had sentenced 18 people to prison on charges of cooperating with Al Qaeda and facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America. The story also noted that "Tayssir Alouni, a journalist with the Arabic-language television network al-Jazeera, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Prosecutors used an interview that Alouni conducted in 2001 with Osama bin Laden as evidence that he had a link to al Qaeda."
The evidence of his cooperation with Al Qaeda was that he had interviewed bin Laden? In fact, he was accused and found guilty of carrying money for Al Qaeda, and was a member of that Spanish-based Al Qaeda cell. Reports indicate that he took over $4,000 to terrorists in Afghanistan on two occasions. Some of the money went to Mohammed Bahaiah, one of Osama bin Laden's closest aides, who is still at large.

COLLEGE CAMPUS RELATED:

University of Oklahoma ID Ring
From OU Daily:
November 1, 2005:
Fraternity starts probe into fake ID case
The president of Kappa Sigma said he is working with police.
A fraternity began to conduct its own search for answers as the Norman Police Department investigation of a student selling fraudulent IDs on campus continues.
(...)Norman Police have yet to release the name of the individual in question. Andrew Smith, mechanical engineering senior and Kappa Sigma fraternity president, said Norman Police have also asked him not to release the name.
(...)Younger said that though Norman police are involved in this multi-state investigation, they do not know how many states and other college campuses are involved.

October 31, 2005:
Fake ID case leads to fraternity
(...)Police discovered an OU student’s connection to fraudulent Texas driver licenses that were being mass produced in Dallas, Texas, according to a press release.
(...)The police investigation began in September after several individuals were caught using the fake identifications.
Texas law enforcement officials consider the IDs the best fake licenses they have ever seen, according to the release.
Norman police detectives Todd Gibson and Chris Amason turned over the fraternity member’s computer to the United States Secret Service after searching his room.