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String 'em up ... along with their parents.
Mild form of avian flu found in New Jersey
Reuters (via Drudge) ^ | Mon May 1, 2006 | Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Authorities have discovered a mild form of avian influenza at a live bird market in New Jersey, but it is not the deadly H5N1 strain governments around the world are trying to contain, the state's agriculture department said.
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"May 1 closures: who to boycott? Rallies (Live thread)"
05/01/06
Posted on 04/30/2006 9:38:02 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
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http://hotair.com/archives/top-picks/2006/05/01/may-day-el-gran-boicot/
"May Day: El Gran Boicot"
posted at 1:58 am on May 1, 2006 by Allahpundit
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "We’ll be updating this post throughout the day with links to articles, blog posts, and assorted multimedia related to the protests."
Adding to post no. 985:
Live Coverage/Online Videos, etc regarding today's "rallies":
http://bareknucklepolitics.com/?p=1268
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193848,00.html
AP
"Natural Gas Industry"
Monday, May 01, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LA PAZ, Bolivia — President Evo Morales nationalized Bolivia's natural gas industry and oil Monday, ordering foreign energy companies to send their supplies to a state company for sales and industrialization.
Speaking at the San Alberto gas and oil field in the south of the country, Morales warned that companies that reject the decree will have to leave Bolivia within six months.
The main oil companies operating in Bolivia are Brazil's Petrobras, the Spanish-Argentine company Repsol YPF, British companies British Gas and British Petroleum and Total of France."
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/pij.html
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/05/judge_calls_alarian_pij_leader.php
"Judge Calls Al-Arian PIJ Leader, Hands Down Maximum Sentence"
By Steven Emerson
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/05/011263print.html
May 01, 2006
"Al-Arian to be sentenced today"
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US DOJ.GOV
http://www.usdoj.gov
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2006/April/06_crm_221.html
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 2006
WWW.USDOJ.GOV
CRM
(202) 514-2007
TDD (202) 514-1888
Sami Al-Arian Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To Provide
Services To Palestinian Islamic Jihad
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a specially designated terrorist organization, in violation of U.S. law, the Department of Justice announced today.
In a closed proceeding before a federal magistrate at U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida last week, Al-Arian pleaded guilty to Count Four of the indictment against him – a charge of conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The plea hearing was closed over the objections of the government and unsealed today. The guilty plea was accepted by U.S. District Court Judge James S. Moody, Jr. this afternoon. Sentencing was scheduled for May 1, 2006.
Al-Arian’s agreement with the government calls for a recommended prison sentence of 46 to 57 months in prison, based on a five-year maximum statutory sentence. Al-Arian, 48, who has been in custody since his arrest on Feb. 20, 2003, has agreed to stipulate to deportation to another country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement once his prison sentence has ended. Al-Arian has lived in this country for approximately 30 years.
“We have a responsibility not to allow our Nation to be a safe haven for those who provide assistance to the activity of terrorists,” said Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales. “Sami Al-Arian has already spent significant time behind bars and will now lose the right to live in the country he calls home as a result of his confessed criminal conduct on behalf of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is the same conduct he steadfastly denied in public statements over the last decade.”
“The United States stands committed to bringing terrorists and their supporters to justice,” said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division. “Al-Arian has now admitted providing assistance to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad—a specially designated terrorist organization with deadly goals—as the government has alleged from the start.”
“This conviction is the result of years of exhaustive investigative and prosecutorial work, during which the government utilized the many tools we have available to us in the ongoing war against terrorism,” said U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez of the Middle District of Florida. “Because of the painstaking work of the prosecutors and agents who pursued this case, Al-Arian has now confessed to helping terrorists do their work from his base here in the United States – a base he is no longer able to maintain.”
In the plea agreement, Al-Arian admits that he was associated with several organizations, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in the late 1980s and early to mid-1990s. He also admits that co-defendants Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, Bashir Musa Mohammed Nafi and Mazen Al-Najjar were associated with PIJ. President Clinton issued an executive order in January 1995 which banned certain transactions with organizations and individuals who were “specially designated terrorists,” including PIJ, Sheik Abd Al Aziz Awda and Fathi Shiqaqi and later, Ramadan Shallah.
Al-Arian admits that he performed services for the PIJ in 1995 and thereafter, when he was a professor at the University of South Florida and after he knew that the PIJ had been designated by President Clinton as a terrorist organization. Al-Arian also acknowledges in the plea agreement that he knew the PIJ used acts of violence as a means to achieve its objectives. Nevertheless, Al-Arian continued to assist the terrorist organization, for instance, by filing official paperwork to obtain immigration benefits for PIJ associate Bashir Nafi, and concealing the terrorist associations of various individuals associated with the PIJ. He further admits to assisting PIJ associate Mazen al-Najjar in a federal court proceeding, a proceeding in which al-Najjar and Nafi both falsely claimed under oath that they were not associated with the PIJ. Moreover, Al-Arian acknowledges that in late 1995, when Ramadan Shallah, co-conspirator and former director of Al-Arian’s “think tank,” the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) was named as the new Secretary General of the PIJ, Al-Arian falsely denied to the media that he knew of Shallah’s association with PIJ.
Al-Arian was arrested by the FBI on Feb. 20, 2003 following the return of an indictment by a federal grand jury in Tampa, charging him and several co-defendants. Al-Arian was acquitted of eight of the 18 counts against him following a six-month trial on Dec. 6, 2005, but the jury deadlocked on three of the four most serious conspiracy charges against him, including the charge of conspiracy to provide services to the PIJ.
This case was prosecuted by Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Terry Zitek and Assistant U.S. Attorney Walter Furr of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Middle District of Florida, and Trial Attorneys Cherie Krigsman and Alexis Collins of the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. The investigation was conducted by a Task Force led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with assistance from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Internal Revenue Service and state and local law enforcement officials, among others.
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Successes Continue in Afghanistan Operations
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 30, 2006 – Coalition and Afghan forces have found many weapons caches, taken suspected insurgents into custody, and provided medical care to civilians in recent operations in Afghanistan.
Successes continue in the Afghan government's "Peace through Strength" program, designed to encourage reconciliation with legitimate authorities. The program allows Afghans to reconcile with provincial and national authorities at any time by turning in illicit arms and pledging allegiance to the legitimate Afghan government. In return, the Afghans become eligible for allied employment and assistance programs.
Sixteen local nationals turned in a variety of weapons April 22. The Afghans, from Kunar province, turned in two AK-47 assault rifles, seven British rifles, 25 rockets, 10 mortar rounds, five 82 mm rounds, and four improvised explosive devices to authorities in Nurgal and Shigal districts.
Two village elders in the Korengal Valley region, working in cooperation with Task Force Lava leaders, also delivered two low-level fighters to program director Haji Rosie Khan April 23.
On April 26, nineteen Afghans also reconciled with the Afghan government and were released from the Bagram Detention Facility to Afghan authorities. They were detained for conducting militant activities against the Afghan government and the coalition. They have reconciled, swearing allegiance to the government and promising to reenter society as productive members supporting the growth and progress of their country.
Reconciliation offices are located in Kabul, Jalalabad, Gardez, Kandahar, Herat and Kunduz. Several reconciliations have taken place in Kunar province since the beginning of Operation Mountain Lion, U.S. officials said.
"Employment is the key; if you're employed and you have a good source of income, you won't be tempted to accept $5 to put an IED in the ground," U.S. Army Lt. Col. Michael Forsyth, of Task Force Spartan, said. "You can then remove fighters from the fight, encouraging security and reconstruction."
In other news from Afghanistan, enemy fighters shot an Afghan boy from the district of Nuristan in the thigh April 25. A village elder from Daba contacted Afghan and coalition forces to seek medical assistance for the 16-year-old boy. He was treated at Forward Operating Base Naray and sent to a local clinic for further medical evaluations.
"I think this shows the callousness and the complete disregard for the people of Afghanistan by the enemy," Forsyth said. "They state they care about the people in this region, but their actions clearly reveal their true intentions."
U.S. soldiers of Task Force Vanguard discovered a weapons cache in Paktia province during a patrol April 27. The cache contained 17 rockets, 155 mortar rounds, 1,000 machine-gun rounds and 38 rocket-propelled-grenade rounds. A coalition explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the cache.
"Recovering and disposing of these weapons increases the safety and security of Afghans and reduces the danger in the area posed by criminals and insurgents who might use those munitions indiscriminately to cause harm on the Afghan people, Afghan security forces, and coalition forces," Army Lt. Col. Paul Fitzpatrick, a Combined Joint Task Force 76 spokesman, said.
Task Force Titan soldiers found 20 pounds of explosives, a mine, a rocket motor, and an improvised explosive device detonator near the Chawkay district, in Kunar province, April 25. An IED team safely disposed of the munitions.
Task Force Iron Grey soldiers also found a weapons cache in the district of Jaghatu, in Ghazni province. A search-dog team discovered nine boxes of Dishka machine-gun rounds, controlled-detonation cord, 30 mortar charges, and 13 live-fire fuses. An explosive ordnance disposal team safely removed the cache.
"IEDs and caches and explosive devices are a threat to all Afghans," Forsyth said. "People should notify Afghan or coalition authorities whenever they suspect such dangerous explosives are in their areas for use by terrorists and extremists."
(Compiled from Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news releases.)
Well, I've been out shopping, shopping, shopping and more shopping. Just doing what needs to be done today! (smiling). By the way, no slowdowns or marches in my area! Appears the hardworking people here are working hard and don't have time or sentiment for protests against this wonderful country (that some who don't belong here feel is oppressive). They should go home to wherever they send their money and feel less oppressed.
Snippets: "At McMaster University, where the al Qaeda agents may have registered under fictitious names, Shukrijumah and friends wasted no time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 pounds of nuclear material for the creation of radiological bombs."
Among his known aliases, the FBI lists el Shukrijumah’s al Qaeda nickname: Jaffar Al-Tayyar ("The Pilot"). As of September 2005, "The Pilot" is under suspicion of having helped himself to a missing crop duster in California.
Born in Saudi Arabia but thought to be a Yemen national, el Shukrijumah was raised in Miramar, Florida, where his father was a radical Islamic Iman.
Having found and exclusively interviewed Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir, Williams and Dastych told WorldNetDaily "al-Qaeda has already obtained nuclear suitcase weapons from the Russian black market, weapons that have been tested in Afghanistan in 2000, and may have already been forward-deployed inside the U.S.
Williams says that Osama has already smuggled seven to ten suitcase nuclear bombs into the U.S. through the Mexican border.
Williams and Dastych believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant. "The face of el Shukrijumah should be thrown up on the television screen on an upcoming segment of America’s Most Wanted", Williams told the American Truth Foundation symposium.
Snip: One-by-one, opponents of illegal immigration have been sending lawmakers real, red bricks with angry messages written on the side: "Build a wall. Deport them all."
Myth vs facts of illegal immigration
Snippets: Harvard Professor Borjas reports that illegal aliens displace Middle American workers out of $200 billion annually in lost wages. Bear-Sterns report shows that illegal aliens work off the books and do not pay over $301 billion annually in uncollected IRS income taxes. You make up the difference. The illegals no longer work on the farm. They move into every Middle Class job in America and they undercut wages for America’s working poor and destroy the living wages of the Middle Class.
You won’t have to deport any of them. It’s called “attrition through enforcement”. You demand the president and Congress enforce our immigration laws. We prosecute and jail employers of illegal aliens starting in Maine and sweeping slowly and effectively across the nation. We delete social services to illegals, housing, medical and all welfare of any kind. Without jobs and a free ride, they have only one choice and that is to move back home and make a better life in their own country by changing their own country for the better. At that point, gosh, 18 million unemployed American workers will enjoy jobs that must rise to the market value of a First World nation. It means those CEOs at major corporations will not be able to pay for their Lear Jets and fifth $10 million Aspen home, but Americans will get the job done.
Giggling..just got back from shopping, shopping, shopping.
My husband bought take out for lunch today and he asked the clerk, "How has the boycott affected you?"
The clerk said, "What boycott?"
Yep.
We're having an All American dinner tonight.
No marches, no signs and no boycotts in our area either.
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OFF TOPIC: No press release here Murasel, comprende?
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Anyway, glad your day was another GREAT DAY IN AMERICA MamaDearest.
Ditto here. One new mattress, two recliners, three bird feeders, a dozen free-range chickens, and a final stop at Wal-Mart. (this is beginning to sound a bit like a Christmas carol.) Glad to to my part as a real American.
No protests, no demonstrations, no marches.......and no "undocumented workers" around here, as far as I know. Perhaps they don't like snow. But, in time, I'm sure they will come.
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"Of a Fire in a Field (Moving Tribute to Heroes of FL93 and World Trade Centers)"
American Digest ^ | 04/30/06 | Gerard Vanderleun
Posted on 05/01/2006 1:44:59 PM PDT by mojito
I went shopping for my pets
I bought "American" tobacco
Food
Also been emailing like crazy today to all the news channels and they must have overloaded email for they are kicking Many opf them back
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MEMRITV.ORG - VIDEO CLIPS - SEARCH TERM: "LIBYA"
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http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1121
4/10/2006 Clip No. 1121
"Libyan Leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi: Europe and the U.S. Should Agree to Become Islamic or Declare War on the Muslims"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Following are excerpts from a speech given by Libyan leader Mu'ammar Al-Qadhafi, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on April 10, 2006."
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'VAMPIRA' STALKS QNS. HIGH
NY Post ^ | May 1, 2006 | KIERAN CROWLEY
Posted on 05/01/2006 3:04:30 PM PDT by MassRepublicanFlyersFan
May 1, 2006 -- A twisted teenage vampiress attacked three girls who attend her Queens high school - savagely sinking her teeth into their necks in a series of bizarre bloodlettings, a shocking new lawsuit charges. Lawyer Jeff Lisabeth is filing a multimillion-dollar suit today against Hillcrest HS in Jamaica for failing to prevent the unprovoked slashings and neck-biting attacks by the 15-year-old girl, whom police have arrested but will not identify because of her age.
One of the victims, Michelle Melendez, 16, told The Post that the girl drew blood from her neck and face, leaving disfiguring teeth marks on her jaw line...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Wish I could remember what I heard about the avian on this very busy day
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