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SCHOOL + THREAT:

Galion, OH:
Galion High School evacuated after bomb threat
Bucyrus Telegraph Forum .com 11/02/05
GALION — The Ohio Highway Patrol, along with Galion police, are searching Galion High School after the school received a bomb threat this morning.
The patrol, using two bomb-sniffing dogs from Columbus, has searched the entire school, with the exception of the lockers, which necessitated the need for the dogs. Another dog, from Allen County, is on the way.
Six hundred Galion students were forced to evacuate the school and were relocated to the middle school gymnasium. Fifty students were absent, considered a high total for a good weather day.

Williamstown, KY:
Bomb threat - Purses, backpacks checked at GCHS
Grant County News:
A task force associated with the Federal Bureau of Investigations visited Grant County High School on Tuesday, Nov. 1 and planned a meeting with school personnel on Nov. 2 after a bomb threat was discovered in a bathroom.
A student found the message, which said a bomb would go off on Nov. 1, written on the wall on Oct. 31.

Mesa, AZ:
Student admits posting Internet bomb threat
East Valley Tribune - 11/03/05
A student at Pinnacle High School confessed Tuesday afternoon to posting a threat on a Web site that caused about 50 students to avoid the school, a district official said.
A student notified school officials of the threat late Monday afternoon after seeing a posting on the Web site Myspace.com that read, "People who value their lives shouldn’t show up at school Wednesday," said Judi Willis, spokeswoman for the Paradise Valley Unified School District.

BOMB SEARCH RESULTS:

Thailand:
Blackout after bomb blasts
Bangkok Post News:
The whole of Narathiwat town was hit by a power blackout last night following bomb blasts. The lights went out about 7pm when two home-made bombs, tied to a power pole on the way to the province's power plant, exploded. The pole collapsed, bringing down the power transmission lines.
About the same time, two other bombs went off _ one behind the prison wall and the other near a power pole on Rangae-Mangkhala road in tambon Bang Nak of Muang district.
Another bomb was found in front of a restaurant, but did not explode.
A home-made bomb left in an iron box, weighing about 5kg, wired to a mobile phone, was found in front of Sak Pochana restaurant. It was defused by bomb experts.
Another bomb was found, and later defused, at the entrance of the gas depot of Siam Gas Co on Phetkasem road.
In nearby Yala, Rutlipli Sina, a villager, was shot dead by two gunmen on a motorcycle on Kadunung-Pakulo road in Raman district.
The Foreign Ministry yesterday brushed aside a call by the Pattani United Liberation Organisation for self-rule in the South, saying the outlawed group simply wanted to use the situation in Thailand to lift its profile.
The organisation warned the situation would become more violent and become a religious war between Islam and Buddhism.

Madrid, Spain:
Bomb explodes in Spain's Basque country, one defused
Reuters.com
MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb exploded in Spain's Basque country early on Thursday, causing no injuries, and a second bomb was defused, Basque police said.
Police suspect armed Basque separatist group ETA of planting the bombs, a police spokesman said.

Jakarta, Indonesia:
Bomb explodes near a church in Ambon, no one wounded: Police
The Jakarta Post:
JAKARTA (AP): A bomb exploded near a church early Thursday in an eastern Indonesian city, but no one was injured, a police chief said.
Lt. Col. Leonidas Braksan said the blast occurred at 3:30 a.m. in Ambon, the capital of the Maluku island chain, where fighting between Muslims and Christians between 1999 and 2001 killed 9,000 people.

SUSPICIOUS DEVICE/PACKAGE:

Memphis, TN:
"Suspicious Package" Found Near Federal Building
WREG.com
MEMPHIS- Memphis police blocked off an area on Front street near the federal building in downtown Memphis this morning after a report of a suspicious package. Police say an employee on the way to work at the federal building spotted a suitcase in the bushes. The Memphis bomb squad was called. They were able to determine the suitcase contained personal property and nothing suspicious. Officers say the suitcase may belong to a homeless person.

Pasadena, TX:
Suspicious Device Found In Pasadena Building
Local Channel 2 Houston
PASADENA, Texas -- Pasadena police are looking for the person who put what appeared to be a homemade bomb in a building.
(...)The device was made out of several water bottles filled with gasoline, officials said.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

New York, NY:
Judge upholds terrorism conviction of Osama bin Laden aide, but criticizes government
From Newsday.com: NEW YORK -- A judge Wednesday refused to order a new trial for an aide to Osama bin Laden in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, though he found "rampant ignorance" by some government investigators had seriously jeopardized its case.
U.S. District Judge Kevin Duffy wrote there were "grave concerns" that Wadih El-Hage should be retried because the U.S. Marshals Service suppressed evidence by failing to turn over taped interviews of a key witness during El-Hage's 2001 conspiracy trial.

Russia:
Putin Says Russia Defends Europe’s Interests While Fighting Terrorism in North Caucasus
Mosnews.com
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Russia was defending not only its own interests while fighting terrorism in the North Caucasus but the Europe’s, too.
Speaking at the press conference in The Hague on Wednesday, Putin quoted by BBC said “if we let terrorists lift their heads up in any region, they will left them up in the other regions, too. We suffer big, often irreplaceable losses,” the Russian president said, “but if we show our weakness only for a minute, those losses will rise many times.”

Singapore:
Singapore's Muslim community rejects those who support terrorism: Dr Yaacob
Channel New Asia:
SINGAPORE : Malay-Muslims in Singapore celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri on Thursday, and many of them began their day with prayers at mosques.
They were joined by the Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, and Malay Members of Parliament.
In his traditional Hari Raya message to the community and all Singaporeans, Dr Yaacob emphasised that the Singapore Muslim community rejected any individual or group that subscribed or supported the terrorist ideology.
And he stressed that whatever the political reasons that their promoters claimed, they would not be allowed to hide under Islam.

London:
Blair loses key cabinet minister, forced to withdraw terrorism...
The Globe and Mail:
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair suffered twin blows to his authority yesterday when a close ally quit government and he was forced to back down on terrorism laws to avoid the first major defeat during eight years in office.
Cabinet minister David Blunkett resigned for the second time in less than a year, just months after Mr. Blair had returned him to government, over accusations he violated a ministerial code of conduct. His resignation prompted a blistering opposition attack on the Prime Minister's judgment.

Jerusalem:
Arab Terrorist Stabs Woman in Jerusalem
IsraelNationalNews.com
(IsraelNN.com) An Arab terrorist stabbed a female Jerusalem teenager several minutes ago in the Liberty Bell Park in the capital. She suffered light to moderate wounds, and police have arrested a suspect who had in his possession a knife with fresh bloodstains.
In the shelling attack on Moshav Netiv Ha'Asara an hour ago, one vehicle was hit and one person was slightly injured. A high-tension wire and a nearby house were damaged, and at least four people were treated for shock. The shelling caused a power blackout in the community.
There were conflicting reports on whether the blasts were from Kassam rockets or mortar shells. One moshav resident was killed in a shelling several weeks ago and attacks have increased in the area, adjacent to the northern Gaza border, since the expulsion of all Jews from Gaza, and the withdrawal of the IDF.

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

Madrid, Spain:
Al Qaeda funding trial resumes
CNN - 11/02/05:
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- The trial of two men charged with financing global al Qaeda activities has resumed in Madrid in a basement courtroom under tight security.
(...)The defendants were identified on Wednesday as Spaniard Enrique Cerda Ibanez, 43, and Pakistani-born Ahmed Rukhsar, 40. Both are businessmen and were arrested in 2003 in Spain.
The prosecution alleges that Cerda sent money to al Qaeda operatives and they also link him to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the court official said.
Sheikh Mohammed, who is in U.S. custody, is considered to be a mastermind of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Sheikh Mohammed also is linked to the Djerba, Tunisia synagogue bombing in 2002 that killed 21 people and a suicide bomber. Thirty others were wounded.
(...)The prosecution alleges that Rukhsar, in March 2002, just weeks before the synagogue bombing, transferred 9,500 euros ($11,400 USD) from his account to Muhammad's account. Rukhsar's lawyer, Gerardo Rubio, told CNN that the transfer had indeed occurred, but it was not for terrorist ends.

Islamabad, Pakistan:
Pakistan captures two Al-Qaeda suspects after shooutout - officials
Forbes - 11/03/05:
ISLAMABAD (AFX) - Two Al-Qaeda suspects were seized after a shootout in Pakistan and the authorities are investigating whether one is a Syrian with reported links to the Madrid and London bombings, security officials and a government official said.
Pakistani forces raided a house in the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday and arrested two men believed to be Arabs after a gunbattle in which another suspect was killed, one security official told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity.
Intelligence agencies are trying to establish if one of the men is wanted Syrian national Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, the government official said.

COLLEGE CAMPUS RELATED:

Univ. of Oklahoma...
Protesters rally on South Oval
From OU Daily:
Students and Normanites protested the treatment of detainees in Iraq.
Compelling and disturbing article regarding a new group on the campus of OU.
Please read it at the paper site or at this FR Thread.

More Coverage:
Protest elicits strong feelings on both sides
The Norman Transcript:
"We wanted to stop and speak up against this corruption by organizing to make something happen," said OU graduate student Dan McRaniels and member of World Can't Wait.
McRaniels said his group organized protests on campuses and communities across the nation Tuesday because it marked the one-year anniversary of the president's reelection.