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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Article Launched: 04/29/2006 04:31:02 AM PDT
"Cops warn of pipe bombs, explosions near Windsor"
Staff Report
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Sonoma County Sheriff's Department is warning residents about pipe bombs after a rash of explosions around Windsor.
At least four instances of explosions have been reported, but there have been no reports of injuries."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Anyone with information on the bombs is encouraged to call Sgt. Robert Douglas at 707-545-2917."
So true, Ruth. It is my hope that all extremists on this issue do the right thing by doing nothing provocative and downright stupid.
Thank you granny.
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Iran's Hardliners Go Ballistic Over Stadium Sex Threat
YahooNews/AFP ^ | Apr. 30, 2006
Posted on 04/30/2006 6:22:02 PM PDT by nuconvert
Iran's hardliners go ballistic over stadium sex threat
Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is coming under heavy fire at home -- and it's not because of the worsening international standoff over the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
Last week the president revealed his seldom-seen softer side by ordering an end to a decades-old ban on women entering stadiums for major sporting events, including football matches.
But this directive has not gone down well among religious right-wingers eager to maintain the male-female segregation ushered in by Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Furthermore, some members of Iran's left are also sceptical.
"It would have been better if you had avoided a hasty announcement and consulted," fumed the hardline Jomhuri Eslami newspaper, which usually praises Ahmadinejad as a champion of revolutionary values.
Allowing the fairer sex into stadiums has "emboldened those loose elements that cruise streets and parks of Tehran", it said, evoking fears that Islamic Iran may experience some kind of 'Summer of Love'.
Ahmadinejad announced a week ago that despite reservations, "experience has proven that when women and families are allowed into stadiums, ethics and chastity will prevail".
But the hardline Kayhan newspaper was also working up a sweat. It voiced astonishment that the austere president could even think of letting women into such an "awfully unethical and corrupt environment".
A string of far-right MPs have been warning of "bare legs" and obscenities shouted at referees, while powerful right-wing Shiite clerics have also started a pitch invasion.
Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi -- considered to be Ahmadinejad's ideological godfather -- has filed a complaint from his office in Qom, the clerical nerve-centre just south of Tehran.
Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Fazel-Lankarani, another Qom-based Shiite cleric with clout, has also ruled that "women looking at male bodies, even without enjoyment, is not permissible".
"When everyone can easily watch a match live at home, what's the necessity of having women and families in stadiums?" chimed in another grand ayatollah, Nasser Makarem-Shirazi.
And Ayatollah Mirza-Javad Tabrizi has also raised the red card over the "gathering of men and women for corruption-driven actions and the committing of harams (actions forbidden by Islam)."
But Ahmadinejad is sticking by his guns.
"Any distinction between men and women that leads to their separation hurts women. In places where women are present, the atmosphere is healthier," he was quoted as saying in Saturday's press.
And in comments that could easily come from the mouth of a feminist, he argued that "sadly, when we speak of corruption the finger is pointed at women. Are men without reproach?"
"Some people think that women are the cause of corruption, but they are wrong," said the president, who is not known to back down.
Iran's Physical Education Organisation has meanwhile sought to calm tensions by asserting the directive will take time to implement -- given the need for special seating arrangements and women's toilets.
It has also asserted that single ladies would remain excluded from stadiums.
Ahmadinejad's ruling was initially greeted with surprise and relief from women's rights activists, who have for years been campaigning for access to football matches given that both sexes in the Islamic republic share an intense passion for the beautiful game.
But some left-wingers remain cynical, arguing the directive was more of a propaganda exercise that will never be put into practice.
"This is like a beautiful giftwrapped package that is empty inside," pro-reform journalist Isa Saharkhiz told AFP.
"Ahmadinejad wanted to soften the atmosphere ... to earn popularity. But he cannot deliver on this promise and he has to back down. He may not openly back off, so there will be glitches so the decision is not implemented, and people will gradually forget," he predicted.
Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh, a feminist activist, is also cynical.
"Ahmadinejad is playing the good cop," she said, arguing that the president needed to drum up support at home while he defied UN Security Council demands that Iran freeze its disputed nuclear programme.
"The government is being very calculating, with the president suddenly coming up with such a decision at the same time as the problems with the Security Council," she said.
Well now, a blog and an email form.
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Snip: Five children in the Pierre area are being treated after coming in contact with a stray cat that tested positive for rabies.
NJ raccoon test positive for rabies after attacks
Snip: ROCHELLE PARK -- A raccoon suspected of biting two women has tested positive for the rabies virus, officials said Friday.
WA state agent kills coyote, bullet damage prevents testing for rabies
Snip: BELLEVUE, Wash. -- A coyote that had apparently lost its fear of people was shot and killed Friday in this east Seattle suburb by an agent of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife. The young male is believed to be the same coyote that nipped two children in the area Tuesday, officials told KING-TV. Both children, and a woman bitten in March, are undergoing rabies shots.
Snip: As would be expected, he said, raccoons were No. 1, and skunks No. 2. Both animals had large numbers submitted for testing. Of the raccoons submitted, 42 percent tested positive for rabies. Of the skunks, 37 percent tested positive. Third-highest were foxes — 17 percent testing positive — although only 511 foxes were tested, compared to 5,107 raccoons and 3,223 skunks.
Mr. Leger said people might be surprised to learn that the fourth-highest percentage testing positive for rabies was cows. Thirteen of 83 were found to have rabies. Pigs were next: Three of 23 proved to be rabid. Coyotes, at 9 percent — six of 65 tested positive — were sixth.
High percentages, although smaller samples, included chinchillas— one was rabid — and two of four otters. There were also two fishers found to be rabid of 21 tested. The largest numbers tested were domestic cats — 13,094 — but both cats and dogs were found to be rabid in only 1 percent of the cases. Also lower on the list were woodchucks, 6 percent rabid; bats, 5 percent; and horses, 3 percent.
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Terror group threatens to ‘slaughter’ Fatah top echelon
Press Trust Of India ^ | April 30 2006
Posted on 04/30/2006 7:14:02 PM PDT by jmc1969
‘‘We hereby declare that we have begun operating in Palestine,’’ the leaflet distributed in the name of Al-Tawhid and jihad said heaping praises on Al-Qaeda head Osama bin Laden and Abu Musab Zarqawi.
‘‘We have decided to revive the Sunnah (one of the sources of Islamic jurisprudence) of slaughter against these people to avoid dissension,’’ the Jerusalem Post quoted the leaflet circulated in Gaza as saying.
This is the first time the group, believed to be headed by Jordanian terrorist Zarqawi, has issued a leaflet in Gaza.
A Hamas spokesman denied any connection to the threats, saying they did not believe Al-Qaeda had set up cells in Gaza. “Hamas does not have any links with Al-Qaeda,’’ government spokesman Ghazi Hamad was quoted by the daily as saying.
(Excerpt) Read more at indianexpress.com ...
Snip: Some big businesses are shutting down operations, corporate spokesmen said: Six of 14 Perdue Farms plants will close; Gallo Wines in Sonoma, California, is giving its 150 employees the day off; Tyson Foods Inc., the world's largest meat producer, will shut five of its nine beef plants and four of six pork plants.
Greg Schirf, owner of Wasatch Beers in Utah, said that when some of his Latino employees sheepishly asked if they could take off Monday, he responded: "How about this? We'll just take a company holiday. We'll call it 'Latino Appreciation Day.' "
Canada to probe Islamic terrorist cell claims by US
Snip: Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants to see if his officials come to the same conclusions as a US Government report. The White House released a report on Friday claiming Islamic terrorists cells are continuing to operate in Canada.
The Bush administration blamed "Canada’s liberal immigration laws" for allowing terrorists to infiltrate the country.
If attacked, Iran planning major response, including use of chemical weapons
Snip: The source concluded by saying the last stage would be a go-ahead for more than 50 terrorists cells in Canada, the US and Europe to attack civil and industrial targets in those countries, which would see terror groups making use of chemical and biological weapons to “maximize civilian casualties.”
Gallo Wines are not on my wine list for those special dinners.
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Thank you nw.
I'm interested.
By the way, I love your photo The Capitol at Dusk.
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"Why a jihad in Jammu-Kashmir?"
Jihadwatch.org ^ | Hugh Fitzgerald
Posted on 04/30/2006 9:22:07 PM PDT by Raj13008
Just for fun -- RECAP:
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369974
Terrorism Focus
April 25, 2006
"Fears of Intelligence Penetration of the GIMF"
By Stephen Ulph
http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/04/terrorist-e-mail-dodge-revealed.html
Sunday, April 30, 2006
"Terrorist e-mail dodge revealed"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The New York Times MADRID, Spain — One of the leading figures indicted in the March 11, 2004, train bombings in Madrid used a simple trick that allowed him to communicate with his confederates on ordinary e-mail accounts but still avoid government detection, according to the judge investigating the case.
Instead of sending the messages, the man, Hassan el Haski, saved them as drafts on accounts he shared with other militants, said papers issued by the judge, Juan del Olmo. They all knew the password, so they could access the accounts to read his unsent notes and post replies the same way, the judge said. This way, the notes left less of a digital trail that the government could track.
Intelligence officials have said in the past that some terrorist groups were using the method, which investigators call a "virtual dead drop.""
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The indictment includes testimony from a man named Attila Turk, a native of Turkey who was arrested on terrorism charges in France in 2004. Turk was trying to flee Europe after the Madrid bombings, fearing arrest. He asked Haski for help, he testified.
"Hassan had given me an address on the Internet the day that I left," the indictment quotes Turk as testifying. "I was to check the Internet address in question every day and to go to the draft menu to check for messages."
"The only way to get in touch with him was through the e-mail address Babana12002 with password Wahd11," Turk said. "Hassan told me that the address worked in Yahoo or in Hotmail.""
The "It's not okay to kill us because we don't believe in Muhammad" photo was worth a thousand words IMHO. Thanks for posting it!
Thanks to Jet Jaguar for the ping to this thread:
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"Some See Hints of Disharmony in Qaeda Tapes"
NY Times ^ | May 1, 2006 | DAVID JOHNSTON and MARK MAZZETTI
Posted on 04/30/2006 9:24:35 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON, April 30
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"A Cheaper Way to Fight the Flu"
ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 26 April 2006 | Martin Enserink
Posted on 04/30/2006 9:40:41 PM PDT by neverdem
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"Israel OKs Jerusalem Fence Construction"
AP on Yahoo ^ | 4/30/06 | Steve Weizman - ap
Posted on 04/30/2006 10:14:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JERUSALEM - Israel modified the route of its West Bank separation barrier on Sunday, moving forward with Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's plan to quickly define the country's final borders as his Kadima Party secured a parliamentary majority.
The Israeli Cabinet voted to reroute an area near the major settlement of Ariel deep in the West Bank and approved putting temporary fencing around areas of Jerusalem abutting the West Bank. The moves will put thousands of Palestinians on the "Palestinian" side of the enclosure, officials said.
Palestinians said Israel is imposing its will over disputed land and trying to strengthen its claim to sovereignty over Jerusalem.
"We must make a supreme effort to complete the security barrier wherever possible," Olmert told the ministers. "The decisions we take today will allow us to complete the construction of the fence very quickly in critical areas, and therefore improve our ability to thwart attempted attacks."
Israel began construction of the barrier four years ago, saying it needed to keep suicide bombers out of the country. Olmert says the barrier will serve as the basis for Israel's final border with the West Bank, which Israel won from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war.
Olmert, whose Kadima Party won March 28 elections, says he hopes to reach an agreed settlement with the Palestinians but will move forward unilaterally if he concludes there is no negotiating partner on the other side."
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