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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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"TERROR'S NEW HOMELAND"
NY Post ^ | May 31, 2006 | Ralph Peters
Posted on 05/31/2006 10:19:17 PM PDT by MassRepublicanFlyersFan
May 31, 2006
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http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/05/russias-federal-security-service-fsb.html
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) on high state of alert
Russia's security services are on high alert following a number of explosions in Moscow.
Recent bombings are being investigated to determine if they were the work of criminals or Chechen rebels. A report is due June 7 on Russia's role on the war on terrorism.
posted by Marko at 5/31/2006 09:51:00 PM
ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html
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http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/05/denmark-creates-anti-terror.html
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
"Denmark Creates Anti-terror Intelligence Analysis Unit"
COPENHAGEN (AP)--
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Denmark has upgraded its two intelligence agencies following the terror attacks in the U.S., Madrid and London. Both have recruited new analysts and Arab-speaking staff.
Danish intelligence officials have noted a rise in threats of violence after the Scandinavian country early this year became a target of angry Muslim protests against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, which first appeared in a Danish newspaper."
ON THE NET...
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/grants_st-local_fy06.pdf
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/states.htm
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http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/press_release/press_release_0921.xml
Press Releases
DHS Announces $1.7 Billion in Homeland Security Grants
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
Contact: 202-282-8010
May 31, 2006
FY2006 Homeland Security Grant Program Allocations
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced today the recipients of $1.7 billion in fiscal year 2006 Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) awards. The grants will enhance the ability of states, urban areas, and territories to prepare for and respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters.
“Our goal is to greatly enhance the collective preparedness of the nation while making certain that finite resources are directed to areas most at risk and to solutions that are innovative and regionally driven,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “The department is committed to ensuring that our partners have the training, equipment, and resources they need to become better prepared.”
In fiscal year 2006, DHS adopted a risk and effectiveness-based approach to allocating funding for certain programs within HSGP. This approach aligns federal resources with national priorities and targets capabilities established by the Interim National Preparedness Goal to generate the highest return on investment in increasing the nation’s level of preparedness.
“Preparedness must be a shared responsibility,” said Tracy Henke, Assistant Secretary for the DHS Preparedness Directorate’s Office of Grants and Training. “State and local homeland security professionals from across the nation played a significant role in the design and implementation of this fiscal year’s grant program. By collaborating, we ensure consistency of effort and a common vision of preparedness.”
HSGP funds can be used for planning, organization, equipment, training, exercises, management, and administration costs. The 2006 funds are in addition to the approximately $10 billion already delivered to state and local governments by the department’s Office of Grants and Training since September 11, 2001.
HSGP includes five separate grant programs: State Homeland Security Grant Program, $544.5 million; Urban Areas Security Initiative, $757.3 million; Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program, $396 million; Metropolitan Medical Response System, $29.7 million; and Citizen Corps Program, $19.8 million.
Under the State Homeland Security Grant Program and Law Enforcement Terrorism Prevention Program, each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico receives a base amount of .075 of the total award. The territories of Guam, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, and Virgin Islands receive a base amount of .025 of the total award. The remaining funds are allocated on risk and the effectiveness of applicants’ proposed solutions to identified needs. All Urban Areas Security Initiative funds are allocated based on risk and the effectiveness of the applicants’ proposed solutions to identified needs. The Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS) grant program distributes funds equally among each of the 124 MMRS jurisdictions. Under the Citizen Corps grant program, each state and territory receives a base allocation, with remaining funds distributed based on population.
Grants and Training, a component of the DHS Preparedness Directorate, partners with federal, state, local, and private sector officials to strengthen the capabilities of state, local, tribal, and regional authorities to prepare for, prevent, and respond to terrorist acts and other catastrophic incidents. Grants and Training provides a broad array of assistance to America’s emergency responders through funding, coordinated training, exercises, equipment acquisition, and technical assistance.
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"ZIMBABWE: $100,000 banknote is enough to buy a loaf"
The Times ^ | June 1, 2006 | Jan Raath
Posted on 05/31/2006 11:53:41 PM PDT by MadIvan
Adding 3 links to post no. 3001:
(Note: Includes a segment on Somalia.)
May 15, 2006
http://www.clandestineradio.com/gcw/gcw_060515.mp3?PHPSESSID=d1b5fa0101b9728ade2c0e30e2eee07f
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http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/TimChapman/2006/06/01/199371.html
"An unconstitutional act"
Jun 1, 2006
by Tim Chapman
COLUMN SNIPPET: "If Democratic Sen. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii gets his way, the Senate next week will pass S. 147, a bill that would for the first time create a race-based system of governing in the United States.
Akaka’s bill, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, would erect a new governmental structure to have jurisdiction over American citizens who have “one drop” of Native Hawaiian blood. As many as 400,000 American citizens across the nation would be subject to this new governing body.
Surely, a United States Senate composed of 55 Republicans and at least a handful of right-thinking Democrats could stop this nonsense in its tracks -- or better yet, not even allow such an atrocity to come to the floor for a vote."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641621/posts
"Taiwan leader surrenders powers(only oversees defense and foreign affairs)"
BBC News ^ | 06/01/06
Posted on 06/01/2006 1:52:59 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Iran ready to talk with US, but won't halt enrichment - foreign minister
Forbes ^ | 6/1/06 | AFX News Limited
Posted on 06/01/2006 2:02:12 AM PDT by jankp
TEHRAN (AFX) - Iran is ready to hold talks with the US but rejects the Bush administration's demand that it first suspend sensitive nuclear enrichment work, Iran's foreign minister said.
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"Security tight for "Satanist" date (Norway)"
www.aftenposten.no ^ | 31 May 2006, 14:23 | Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB
Posted on 06/01/2006 2:22:40 AM PDT by Kurt_Hectic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641579/posts
"Multinational North Korean nuclear project halted"
AP/CTV ^ | May. 31 2006
Posted on 05/31/2006 9:19:23 PM PDT by ncountylee
NEW YORK
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Last Updated: Thursday, 1 June 2006, 10:33 GMT 11:33 UK
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'Many hurt' in Istanbul explosion
A massive explosion has rocked the Turkish city of Istanbul, causing many injuries, according to media reports.
The blast is said to have taken place in the basement of a five-storey building in the district of Uskudar in eastern Istanbul, which lies in Asia.
The cause of the blast was not initially known.
There have been several bomb attacks in Turkey recently, blamed on Kurdish or Islamist groups.
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Small Plane Breaks Apart Midflight, Killing Four (NJ)
Two New Jersey couples were killed yesterday when the single-engine plane they were in broke apart and crashed in a wooded area in Ocean County, scattering small pieces of the craft on rooftops and in the yards in a small community of bungalows and narrowly missing a major highway, the authorities said.
The plane's main wreckage was found just north of Route 72. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said the plane, a Piper Dakota, took off from Old Bridge Airport in Middlesex County at 10:17 a.m. with four people on board. It was bound for Bader Field in Atlantic City but plummeted to the ground about 11:20 a.m. The spokesman, Jim Peters, said the cause of the crash was unclear.
"...the cause of the crash was unclear."
"...split their times between the U.S. and Israel."
THANK YOU all4one.
Updates appreciated.
Adding these links to all4one's post no. 2974 and post no. 3014...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1617489/posts?page=2974#2974
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1617489/posts?page=3015#3015
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"'For some unknown reason the plane changed its course ' (archive photo) Photo: Haim Ziv"
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3257908,00.html
"Disaster Strikes
Israeli couple killed in US plane crash"
"Small plane breaks apart over southern New Jersey neighborhood, narrowly missing homes before plunging into wooded area; Israeli couple, two of their Jewish friends killed"
Ynet and AP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A small plane broke apart over a southern New Jersey neighborhood Wednesday (early Thursday Israel time), narrowly missing homes before plunging into a wooded area, killing two married couples, one of them Israeli and the other Jewish.
Debris rained down on houses and yards as the single-engine Piper dropped out of the clouds, passing over Route 72 — a major beach-access road — and crashing about 500 feet into woods some 40 miles north of Atlantic City.
Nobody on the ground was hurt.
The victims — two married couples — were all found strapped into their seats. Police identified them as Israelis, ages 53 and 40, of
Basking Ridge and David and Karen Nimrod, ages 48 and 50, of Manalapan. Ronald Ziv was piloting the plane, police said.
Captain Charles Schweigart of the Stafford Township Police Department told Ynet “Ronald and Rachel Ziv picked up their friends, the Nimrods, at the Old Ridge Airport and asked to fly to Atlantic City. For some unknown reason the plane changed its course and was making its way back. At a certain point the plane exploded and shrapnel was scattered everywhere, hitting roads, yards and even a house in Stafford. Fortunately, there were no injuries on the ground."
The Israeli consulate in New York and the Foreign Ministry said they are looking into the incident."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The plane left Old Bridge Airport at about 10:15 a.m. headed for Bader Field in Atlantic City, according to Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters.
The first phone calls alerting authorities to the crash were made at 10:43 a.m., police said."
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Methinks there is much more to this story.
Maybe.
At this time, it does seem interesting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641187/posts?page=4#4
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1641187/posts
"Two most-wanted Saudis held in Iraqi Kurdistan (two on the Saudi Arabia's 36 most wanted list )"
AFP via Kurdish Media ^ | 2006 May 31
Posted on 05/31/2006 7:46:18 AM PDT by Wiz
RIYADH (AFP)
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