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April Fool's day joke leads to flight being delayed in Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, April. 3 (PTI): In a belated April fool prank, a man on an AirAsia plane in Malaysia claimed there was a bomb on board forcing the delay of the flight and evacuation of all 91 passengers. (snip)
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200604031225.htm
Case found under Navy car | video (FL)
A shopping center in Kissimmee, Fla., was evacuated today after a suspicious suitcase was placed under a Navy recruiter's vehicle, according to FLORIDA TODAY news partner WKMG Local 6 News.
The recruiter's car was located at the Kissimmee Square on East Vine Street near Michigan and U.S. 192.
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060403/BREAKINGNEWS/60403009
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Thanks for looking- the jury's out, and all the facts aren't in- but let's just say I view the official story with great suspicion.
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005555.html
03 April 2006
"baytalmaqdes.com, down in Atlanta, up in Dallas
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http://www.baytalmaqdes.com
THANKS backhoe for the link.
"...did they find him?"
I found no news updates last night on a status change.
Apparently he was still outstanding as of last night.
Prayers of comfort for the families.
THANKS Velveeta for the info.
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005554.html
03 April 2006
"Global Islamic Media Front Presents...
This just in from the Great Minds at Work Department at al-Qaida in Iraq.
"Civil war in the land of two rivers"
by Abu-Abdulrahman Al-baghdadi:"
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=622612
"Moussaoui Found Eligible for Death Penalty"
Apr 3rd - 3:12pm
By MATTHEW BARAKAT Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal jury found al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui eligible Monday to be executed, deciding that his lies to FBI agents led directly to at least one death in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"You'll never get my blood, God curse you all," Moussaoui said afterward. He had sat in his chair and prayed silently as the verdict was read."
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/04/010873print.html
(MY WEEKLY STANDARD)
April 03, 2006
"Abdul Rahman is not alone"
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000287.html
April 03, 2006
Legal Judgments Soaring Against Iran
JOSH GERSTEIN - The New York Sun April 3, 2006:
The staggering legal bill Iran faces for its involvement in terrorism is mounting, with nearly a third of a billion dollars added to the tab in recent days by a single judge sitting in Washington. The sum of terrorism-related verdicts returned by American courts against the Iranian government and Iranian leaders stands at about $6 billion, according to court records and congressional reports. The rulings hold Iran responsible for terrorist attacks carried out by militant groups the country has sponsored, including Hamas, Hezbollah, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
The most recent financial strike against Iran came on Wednesday, when a federal judge in Washington awarded $12 million in compensatory damages and $300 million in punitive damages to the estate and family of an American, Yonathan Barnea. In 1996, Barnea, 19, was killed in the Hamas-organized bombing of a passenger bus in Jerusalem. Under prevailing law, foreign governments are immune from punitive damages, so the $300 million award was directed specifically at Iran's "supreme leader," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei… Since the cases often involve multiple victims of the same terrorist incidents, one judge, Royce Lamberth, has overseen many of them. Last week, he awarded $2.5 million to the sister of an American serviceman killed in Hezbollah's bombing of the American Embassy compound in Beirut in 1983. Earlier in March, Judge Lamberth ordered Iran to pay $11 million to Seth Ben Haim, an American badly wounded in Palestinian Islamic Jihad's attack on a bus in Gaza in 1995….
Posted on 03 April 2006 @ 16:45 GMT
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http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1095
4/2/2006 Clip No. 1095
"Iranian TV Shows Divers Train in Mine Planting"
"The Iranian news channel IRINN aired this footage of Iranian divers training in mine planting on April 2, 2006."
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/FOR20060403c.html
"Iranian War Games Send Message of Confrontation"
By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 03, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - As international tension mounts over Iran's nuclear program, Iran has launched a week of war games and missile tests."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608539/posts?page=12#12
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"To Soon To See 9/11? Its Been Too Long (El Rushbo On The Forthcoming United 93 Movie Alert)"
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 04/03/06 | Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 04/03/2006 3:37:42 PM PDT by goldstategop
You'd think the powers that be had a clue - but NOOOOOOOOO. Wonder how many billion this bridge cost that could have been far better spent securing the border? This is NOT indicative that the problem with illegals is being taken seriously.
No Sense in pinging Old Sarge anymore:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1604894/posts?page=271#271
Snip: March 29, 2006 -- The bird flu vaccine being stockpiled by the federal government is not very effective, even at very high doses, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Bird flu expected to hit West Coast by summer
Snip: They said some 60,000 birds, mostly waterfowl, would begin their migration south from Alaska in mid-August, working their way down through Oregon, Washington and into California.
Although both coasts have set up monitoring systems for any signs of the avian virus "we expect there will be access (to the United States) through Alaska rather than upstate New York," said Ryan Broddrick, director of the California Department of Fish and Game. He did not elaborate.
The H5N1 virus overwhelmingly infects birds but has sickened 186 people in eight countries and killed 105 of them. Experts believe it poses the greatest threat in recent years of a global flu pandemic that could kill millions, if it acquires the ability to pass easily from human to human.
Update on Cynthia McKinney:
Capitol police ask for arrest warrant for McKinney(on Drudge)
AJC ^ | 3 APr 2006 | Bob Kemper, S.A. Reid
Posted on 04/03/2006 3:42:22 PM EDT by roaddog727
WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill police on Monday asked a federal prosecutor to approve an arrest warrant for Rep. Cynthia McKinney for her role in a scuffle with a police officer last week, the prosecutor's office confirmed.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608440/posts
Straight Out of Science Fiction: Organs Engineered in a Lab [1st total organ regeneration]
ABC News ^ | April 3, 2006 | Joy Victory
Posted on 04/03/2006 9:17:44 PM EDT by AntiGuv
April 3, 2006 — The news is being hailed as a medical milestone: Several years after receiving new bladders engineered entirely in a laboratory, seven young patients are all still healthy.
It marks the first long-term success of total-organ tissue regeneration, an area of medicine that until now was more the stuff of science fiction than clinical reality.
Dr. Anthony Atala, the director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, reports in tomorrow's issue of the medical journal The Lancet on the success of the new procedure, which was performed on children born with birth defects that resulted in damaged bladders.
How it works: Atala and his team of researchers first remove a portion of the child's damaged bladder and single out cells that will turn into muscle cells and epithelial cells, or cells that line the bladder wall. These groups of cells are then grown in a laboratory culture to make enough cells to mold onto a "scaffold" of biodegradable material that resembles the size and thickness of a normal bladder sac.
It takes about eight weeks to grow enough cells to layer over the scaffold. Once ready, the new bladder is stitched to the patient's old bladder, and the scaffold basically melts away, leaving behind a bladder that, while not perfect, works better than what the patients were born with.
Atala was unavailable for comment, but Brian Sender, chief financial officer of the biotechnology firm Tengion, explained how it worked. His firm is developing the "neo-bladder" technology and seeking approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test it further in humans, including adults.
Once implanted in the body, "the regenerative process continues, the body knows what to do with the new cells, and it grows into new tissue layers," Sender said. "It kickstarts the body's regenerative process … by using the right type of bladder cell types, the body knows this is the beginning of a regenerative process."
On the Horizon
The neo-bladder is just one of many different forms of tissue engineering currently being explored. Bone and skin regeneration already exists, and in the future, parts of or entire complex organs like the heart may even be replicated in a laboratory.
Atala's success represents a significant advance in the field of tissue engineering, said A. Hari Reddi, professor and director of the Center for Tissue Regeneration and Repair at the University of California-Davis Medical Center.
"I think this is really important work," Reddi said. "In the future the challenge is going to be the tissue engineering of complex tissue such as the heart, kidney or liver. Of course, the ultimate is the brain, which I'd say is 30 or 40 years away."
While the entire process is technically complex, one of the biggest challenges is finding a way to deliver nutrients to the new cells, said Lawrence B. Schook, a professor of animal science at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
This is normally done by the vascular system, the body's blood supply.
"We can isolate and grow cartilage and muscle cells and that's great, but we have them in a petri dish with lots of nutrients," Schook said. His team is working on how to keep the cells alive even without a normal blood supply feeding into the cells.
Eventually, tissue enginering technology could even replace organ transplants, Sender said.
"The technology uses … cells that come from the patient," he said. "One of the great advantages is that there's no risk for rejection."
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