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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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UPDATE:
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=760856
"Suicide Note: Church Poisoner Acted Alone"
Apr 22nd - 10:31am
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""I acted alone. I acted alone. One dumb poor judgment ruins life but I did wrong," read the note, in which the first "I acted alone" was underlined.
The note said Bondeson, 53, did not know that the chemical he put in a coffee pot before the church members gathered after a service on Aug. 27, 2003, contained arsenic.
"I thought it was something? I had no intent to hurt this way. Just to upset stomach, like the church goers did me," the note read."
Snip: The Puget Sound ferry system is believed to be the most likely target of maritime terrorism in the country.
The FBI's Threat Monitoring Unit examined thousands of incidents reported around boats, ports and other maritime facilities between September 2004 and September 2005, according to a Justice Department report released in March.
The greatest concentration of alarming incidents happened on ferries in the Seattle area, followed by oil tankers off of the Gulf Coast.
Cancer deaths feared with British nuclear hit
Snip: successful terrorist plot to crash a hijacked airliner into the Sellafield nuclear energy plant could cause hundreds of thousands of cancer deaths across the British Isles, experts have warned.
Frank Barnaby, a nuclear physicist from the Oxford Research Group think-tank, said a September 11-style terrorist attack would cause 210,000 deaths for each of Sellafield's 14 tanks used to store high-level radioactive waste.
Dr. Death and the Religion of Genocide
Snippets: This is a clear and present danger to us that outweighs Al-Qaeda, Iran and North Korea combined. Why? Because Dr. Death types across academia and their followers have access to the very weapons of mass destruction that would enable them to enact their 'final solution'. Both UT Arlington and UT Austin have contracts with Sandia National Laboratories which includes research related to "chemical and biological weapons." Openly stating a desire to see 90% of humanity wiped out by means of releasing a bio-weapon and also having access to biological weapons is in our eyes an alarming precedent.
When biological terror reigns down on US cities will Pianka and his ilk, those who openly advocated such a scenario and had the means of implementing it, be subject to investigation? Or will it be blamed on terrorists while everyone is forced into quarantine concentration camps and martial law is declared?
Openly stating a desire to see 90% of humanity wiped out by means of releasing a bio-weapon and also having access to biological weapons is in our eyes an alarming precedent.
The guy who said he "has to eliminate all the gringos" is a prof at the UT, Arlington.
Maybe I can find the link again.
Ok, found it:
"WE HAVE GOT TO ELIMINATE THE GRINGOS"
March 30, 2006 - NewsWithViews.com
The words above were spoken by Jose Angel Gutierrez,
professor, University of Texas, Arlington, (Texas)
and founder of the La Raza Unida political party.
http://www.freedominion.ca/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=57529&sid=b189c81f4262d44d820c5c13ea4d9e20
Al-Qaeda Threatens to Attack Saudi Arabia
By AA, Ankara
Published: Saturday, April 22, 2006
zaman.com
An al-Qaeda responsible, Mohammed al-Kahtani, who escaped from the US prison in Afghanistan last July, threatened to attack Saudi Arabia in a video broadcast on a web site run by the terrorist network.
On the video, Mohammed al-Kahtani saying they will expel US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan urged for organization members to wage a war on Saudi Arabia.
"In the near future, we will defeat the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq. Then we will direct Mohammed's Island (Saudi Arabia)," al-Kahtani said, explaining they gained a great deal of military experience.
The Qaeda responsible was among the four who broke into a prison in the US airbase in Bagram, Afghanistan, last July.
The US had earlier defined the four Qaeda members as “dangerous fighters.”
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20060423&hn=32354
Great Post LT...thanks for the ping.
Iran news:
April 22
Iran To Enrich Uranium In Russia
Iran's envoy to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Saturday the Islamic republic had reached a "basic deal" with the Kremlin to form a joint uranium enrichment venture on Russian territory, state-run television reported.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, "spoke of a basic agreement between Iran and Russia to set up a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil," Iranian state television reported.
It remained unclear, though, whether Iran would entirely give up enrichment at home, a top demand of the West, or whether the joint venture would complement Iran's existing enrichment program. Enriched uranium can be used to fuel nuclear reactors that generate electricity or to make atomic bombs.
Russia Warns Against Pressuring Iran
A top Kremlin diplomat warned against threatening Iran with sanctions or the use of force, saying that would only aggravate the international standoff over Tehran's suspect nuclear program, Russian media reports said Saturday.
Rather than getting Iran to stop uranium enrichment, a tougher stance could result in Tehran's total refusal to cooperate with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, said Oleg Ozerov, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry's Middle East and North Africa Department, according to ITAR-Tass.
"We firmly stand today for resolving the problems in and around Tehran diplomatically rather than militarily. Increasing international pressure on Iran has no prospects," Ozerov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.
Time not ripe for Iran sanctions, says [Indian] PM
Even as the US stepped up lobbying for using economic sanctions against Iran, India on Saturday said the time was not ripe for such extreme measures and reiterated the need for stepping up dialogue to resolve the Iranian nuclear issue.
"Our position is (that) whatever problems have arisen, they can be resolved through the pursuit of dialogue and discussion. I do not believe the time has come to discuss the issue in those terms," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told reporters on his way to Hanover, the first leg of his four-day visit to Germany.
Iran-India gas link deal close despite US ire
Iran, India and Pakistan are close to signing a gas pipeline deal, the Iranian and Pakistani oil ministers told Reuters on Saturday, defying U.S. opposition to the project.
The plan to pump Iranian gas to India through Pakistan was first proposed more than a decade ago, but progress has been slow because of hostility between India and Pakistan and, more recently, U.S. opposition to Iran because of its nuclear programme.
Iran to offer tenders for development of 10 oilfields
TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) -- The Oil Ministry plans to invite bids for the development of oilfields located in Iran’s oil and gas-rich southern provinces.
The Oil Ministry has issued an invitation to companies to bid for contracts to develop ten Iranian oilfields, the Parsi, Shadgan, Pazenan, Gachsaran, Karanj, Northern Azadegan, Jofair, Marun, and Mansuri oilfields, and one other oilfield, Mehdi Bazargan, the managing director of the Iranian Oil Engineering and Development Company, said here on Saturday.
The development of the oilfields will require some seven billion dollars of investment, he said, adding that the Oil Ministry has also concluded agreements on the development of 14 more oilfields across the country.
A contract signed with Japan’s Inpex on the development of the Azadegan oilfield, slated to produce 150,000 barrels per day, and three more contracts on the development of the Masjid Soleiman, Rag-e Sefid, and Bangestan oilfields have run into rough weather, but the problems should be resolved by late September, the official explained.
Iran to invite tenders for two more N-plants
Iran will within the next month invite tenders from around the world for the building of two more nuclear power stations, a senior official announced, AFP reported.
Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was quoted by state television as saying that the bidding will be "open to all countries" willing to join the country's nuclear issue.
Iran insists its nuclear programme is simply a bid to generate electricity, but the country is widely suspected of also seeking the capacity to make nuclear weapons.
Tehran had already announced in February that it was preparing to invite tenders for further nuclear power stations to be built in Bushehr, where Iran's first nuclear plant is currently being built with Russian assistance.
The latest announcement comes amid mounting tensions over the nuclear programme. The UN Security Council has given Tehran until April 28 to freeze uranium enrichment, a process to make reactor fuel which can be extended to make weapons, AFP noted.
Opinions
+ Iran will have a nuclear bomb this year
Iran will have enough highly enriched uranium to make one or more simple gun-type atomic bombs by the end of this year.
The world intelligence community constantly underestimates Iranian progress. When Isfahan reopened in August 2005, we estimated it would take four months to solve the technical problems. By December 2005, Iran was letting the world know that the process of going from uranium ore to yellowcake to uranium hexafluoride gas had been mastered.
The US administration is exuding optimism regarding its campaign to stop the current Iranian regime from obtaining nuclear weapons. "Iran is a modern country… that does engage with the international community," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told journalists in Chicago April 19. "And so the kind of isolation that Iran is facing if it does not change its behavior is isolation that I don't think either the Iranian people or the Iranian regime can ultimately tolerate."
"That is why if we are really unified and really tough in our response, I think we're going to make the diplomacy work," she said. Another senior State Department official, Nicholas Burns, said in Moscow the same day that the US had "erected a global coalition" and that "nearly every country is considering some form of sanctions; and this is a new development."
Washington is now calling directly on the nations of the world not to wait for the UN Security Council, but to begin by imposing an embargo on arms sales and dual use equipment that could be employed by Iran's nuclear or missile programs. In particular, the US has asked that Russian cancel a planned $900 million sale of Tor M-1 anti-aircraft missiles to Iran. More...
From an interview with Dr Mike Osterholm in the Minneapolis City Pages. He's speaking of a possible flu epidemic,
but
this will apply to any major disaster, think nbc. (Nuclear, biological, chemical)
"It doesn't matter if we invent vaccines if we can't manufacture them. This is a point I've tried to make over and over again. We also are approaching this from a very American-centric point of view, which in the end will be the death of us.
"What's going to happen is, even if we could produce vaccines for our country in a timely manner, this global just-in-time economy we live in today is going to see the rest of the world shut down.
"Eighty percent of all the drugs we use in this country—all the childhood vaccines, everything—come from offshore.
"Your cardio drugs, your cancer drugs, your diabetes drugs, 80 percent of the raw ingredients come from offshore. I could go through a whole laundry list of other critical and essential products and services that come from offshore.
"If the rest of the world experiences a pandemic, we're still screwed. That's what people don't understand."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1601130/posts?page=44#44
More:
"Right after Katrina, when FEMA was trying to rescue itself, they put out a call for anyone who had a refrigerated truck unit to come and sit in one of several parking lots in the Gulf states down there, in case they had 10,000 bodies, etc. A contingent of them went. Not all of them, by any stretch of the imagination.
"Within 72 hours, major food manufacturers throughout the United States reported that they couldn't ship their goods. They had no trucks. We have a razor-thin capacity in this country right now on virtually everything. They had to get FEMA to release the trucks."
"Cities like Seattle have already come to the conclusion they won't be able to have refrigerated trucks, because of that issue. For their work with corpse management, for example, they've already mapped out where every one of the ice arenas in Seattle is. Because you won't be able to bury people, either."
You beat me to it.
THANKS Donna.
ON THE NET...
http://worldanalysis.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224&sid=9c3ff02c3e73adeb873559a4628fc810
"al Qaeda warns Argentine Government"
(April 22, 2006)
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http://www.elojodigital.com/internacionales/2006/04/21/1075.html
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http://worldanalysis.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=225&sid=9c3ff02c3e73adeb873559a4628fc810
"Al-Qaeda Threatens to Attack Saudi Arabia"
(April 22, 2006)
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"Iranian used green card to enter"
By Nicholas Kralev and Jim McElhatton
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 20, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In 2003, the new green card was sent to an address in McLean about one mile away from CIA headquarters in Langley.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Mr. Moshir said that the two met while in graduate school at the George Washington University, and that Mr. Nahavandian uses Mr. Moshir's address for correspondence and stays in the house when he visits the Washington area.
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Mr. Moshir also said that Mr. Nahavandian spent a night at his friend's home at the beginning of his current visit and then went to New York to attend a United Nations-related conference. Over dinner, they talked about various matters, but Mr. Nahavandian did not even mention that he had taken a government job in Tehran."
That should read Article Snippet #3 instead of #2 regarding post no. 332.
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Posted on 04/22/2006 3:39:26 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
By Jim Brown
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Quick action subdues man who tried to open jetliner door in air [Secret Service heroes]
AP ^ | 4/22/6
Posted on 04/22/2006 6:33:34 PM PDT by SmithL
DENVER -- Passengers aboard a United Airlines flight had some help when they had to take matters into their own hands to prevent Jose Manuel Pelayo-Ortega from bringing their plane down.
Three Secret Service agents headed west to join President Bush's entourage joined with passengers to subdue Pelayo-Ortega when he tried to open one of the doors on the Airbus A-320.
"Had he opened the door, we'd all be dead," passenger Donna Bell of Visalia, Calif., told the Sacramento Bee after the plane was searched and allowed to continue westward.
Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahensaid three agents between assignments help detain Pelayo-Ortega, who was taken off the plane after it made an emergency landing in Denver.
"That saved us," Ian Grossman of Chicago told the Bee. "You don't know what will happen if a guy like that is loose in the cabin."
The Bee reported that passenger Joe Pena, a senior airman at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, Calif., described the incident as like a bar fight. "I heard a bunch of commotion, and I heard somebody yell 'What are you doing' and 'Get down,' then I saw the guy put into a chokehold, put on his back and pinned down so he couldn't move," Pena said in Sacramento, after hugging his tearful wife, Candy.
While Pelayo-Ortega was being detained, two F-16 fighter jets from Buckley Air Force Base east of Denver scrambled to intercept the plane, which carried 138 passengers and six crew. Had the plane "been judged as a threat by the highest levels of our government, they could make the decision to have the plane shot down," said Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a spokesman for NORAD, a U.S.-Canadian military command based outside Colorado Springs that monitors missiles, aircraft and space objects and warns of threats.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Two explosions shook the main coalition airbase in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, military officials said.
No damage or casualties were reported at the base, where Canadian troops are stationed.
Maj. Scott Lundy, a spokesman for Canadian brigade headquarters, said explosives experts believe two 107-mm rockets may have been fired at the airfield. Those are the same type of weapons fired at the airfield on at least two other occasions.
Coalition helicopters were scrambled within minutes of the explosions and the base remained locked down for the better part of the night.
Most of Canada's 2,300 troops in Afghanistan are based in Kandahar, where they have taken over security from U.S. forces.
The explosions followed Saturday's deadly attack on Canadian forces, in which four soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while returning to Kandahar.
Thank you nw for the info and updates.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2006/20060421_4894.html
Afghans Report IEDs; Afghan Aviators Complete Historic Mission
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2006 – Afghans reported improvised explosive devices to local officials in two separate incidents today, and Afghan National Army aviators completed their first combat-support mission April 15, military officials in Afghanistan reported today.
Afghan National Army Sgt. Abdul Khaliq, of the ANA's Central Movement Agency, hands a box of food to U.S. Army Sgt. Juan Trejos on an Afghan Air Corps Mi-17 Hip helicopter at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, April 12. Soldiers from ANA's Central Movement Agency trained with their coalition counterparts prior to the ANA Air Corps first aerial resupply mission in partnership with the coalition's Task Force Falcon. Trejos is assigned to the 600th Quartermaster Company, deployed from Fort Bragg, N.C. Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael Rautio, USA (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.
An Afghan man reported an IED placed inside a mosque today in Khost province. The Afghan disclosed the location of the IED to Afghan National Police officers in the city of Bakh Tana, who in turn notified coalition forces. With permission from local religious leaders, a coalition explosive ordnance disposal team entered the mosque and rendered the IED harmless.
In the village of Wesh, in the Kandahar province, Afghans notified local officials of three IEDs emplaced throughout the village. One IED exploded, but no one was injured, and it caused only minor damage to a school. Coalition forces safely disposed of two more IEDs.
"These devices are the tools of terror, used by criminals in their ruthless pursuit of their oppressive ideals," Army Lt. Col. Paul Fitzpatrick, a Combined Joint Task Force 76 spokesman, said. "That an Afghan turned over the location of the device to coalition forces clearly shows that the country is united and confident in its stand against these brutal oppressors."
In another development, Afghan National Army aviators completed their first combat-support mission April 15 in partnership with the coalition's Task Force Falcon.
Two Afghan National Army Air Corps crews arrived at Bagram Air Base April 10, completed several days of training, and then flew supplies aboard their Mi-17 Hip helicopters to Afghan and U.S. forces in Jalalabad.
Afghan and coalition participants are calling the mission a success.
"It was special to me to be part of the first time we've done this mission together with the coalition. We had no problems and executed the mission properly," said Col. Nematullah, an Afghan National Army Air Corps pilot who, like many Afghans, uses only one name.
"Everything ran smoothly," said Army Maj. Brian Serota, Task Force Falcon's operations officer. "We started mission planning on (April 12) with the embedded trainers, went through some planning stages -- map reconnaissance, flight routes, weather, terrain and possible enemy action -- then did a rehearsal on (April 13). On (April 14), soldiers from the Joint Logistics Command came to help load the aircraft, and (April 15) the aviators executed the mission. It was excellent."
The first group of Afghan aviators conducted after-action reviews to identify areas in which they could improve, and then continued to fly missions for the remainder of their 10-day stay, Serota said. A second group was scheduled to replace them as soon as they departed.
"We want to rely on the Afghan Air Corps, to be able to give them a mission, or part of a ring route, and have them plan, coordinate and execute it themselves," Serota said.
Separately, soldiers from the Afghan National Army's Central Movement Agency trained with members of the coalition's Joint Logistics Command detachment at Bagram Air Base to improve the Afghan National Army's logistical support capabilities.
From April 12 through April 14, Afghan and coalition soldiers practiced preparing cargo for various modes of delivery -- in cargo holds, in sling loads and by parachute.
The training culminated with the presentation of an Afghan-U.S. partnership pin to members of both organizations.
"This is just the beginning of a partnership between ANA logisticians and coalition logisticians," said Army Col. Larry Wyche, commander of the Joint Logistics Command detachment.
(Compiled from Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news releases.)
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