Iranian cataclysm forecast Aug. 22
Islamists seeking heaven could spark apocalypse, Princeton expert warns
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51445
No apocalypse.
We're still here. :-)
US ports vulnerable to nuclear attack from cargo ships
Snip: CBS News reported that according to Michael Wermuth of the Rand Corporation, a security think-tank in Santa Monica, ports in the United States are vulnerable to nuclear terroist attacks from a cargo container. If the bomb were detonated in Long Beach and of similar power to the one used on Hiroshima, at the end of World War II, 60,000 people would be killed instantly in either the explosion or due to severe radiation poisoning. 200,000 more would be exposed to deadly radiation and 3,000,000 residents of southern California would be forced to relocate. In terms of cost, $1 trillion dollars damage, more than 10 times the amount caused by the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
A mystery that surpatheth all understanding
Snip: A Lebanese student suspected of planting a train bomb that failed to explode had contacts in Hamburg, authorities said Tuesday, the latest link to the northern port city where three of the Sept. 11 suicide pilots prepared for their attacks.
The planned attack here stunned Germans who thought the country's vehement opposition to the Iraq war would insulate it from becoming a terror target almost five years after the attacks on Washington and New York.
Snip: For eight years, Haifa University professor Gabriel Weimann has been watching terrorist Web sites spread like a mold in cyberspace. In his new book "Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges," Weimann argues that the Internet — with its anonymous, uncontrollable flow of information to a global audience — is the perfect tool for a new breed of terrorist.
UK Muslim police officer investigated for terror link
Snip: The Metropolitan Police has placed one of its Muslim officers on limited duties while it investigates claims he may have attended a “terror camp linked to Al-Qa’idah” in Pakistan. The officer, in his mid-twenties, who denies the allegations, is one of three Muslim officers quizzed by Scotland Yard.
The inquiry follows disclosures earlier in July that terrorist supporters had aimed to penetrate the intelligence services by applying for posts in MI5, to operate as “fifth columnists” passing on secret operations data to banned groups.
Britain's Muslim clerics command secret militias
Snip: Now that radical imam Abu Hamza is a convicted felon and probably will be extradited and face terror charges in the United States, clerics from other mosques are finally coming forward to tell the world how Hamza sent teams of young supporters out in Britain -- his own private militia -- with orders to takeover other mosques.
Several clerics told stories of being threatened by gangs claiming to be members of Abu Hamza's Supporters of Sharia group. Some of the clerics were beaten inside their own mosques, and worshippers were bullied into finding new places to pray -- and the police refused to intervene, they claim.
One police official, under condition of anonymity, said that law enforcement executives in Britain were overly cautious about their interaction with Muslim leaders and their mosques. He claims that several radical Islamic clerics possess their own private militias -- fully armed and operating in total secrecy.