Muslim Council of Britain issues omminous terror threat
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NY plot Muslim associated with militants-expert
Snip: A Muslim accused of helping an FBI informant in a fake plot to kill a diplomat has associated with known Islamist militants and sympathized with their violent causes, a terrorism expert testified at his trial on Wednesday.
More US Hispanics drawn to Islam
Snip: The growth in the Hispanic Muslim population is especially prevalent in New York, Florida, California, and Texas, where Hispanic communities are largest. In Orlando, the area's largest mosque, which serves some 700 worshipers each week, is located in a mostly Hispanic neighborhood. A few years ago it was rare to hear Spanish spoken at the mosque, says Imam Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida.
A Georgetown professors Islamic connection
Snip: Professor John Esposito of Georgetown University is a mentor and collaborator of Azzam Tamimi, a British-based Muslim academic who recently publicly espoused the so-called "martyrdom" of Islamic terrorists....
Snip: These techniques, using the vibrators of mobile telephones to simultaneously detonate several bombs, were taught in a camp near Jalalabad run by the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM), said the report.
Madrid suspect freed by mistake
Snip: Saed El Harrak was set free after completing the maximum two-year period for which suspects can be kept in prison without trial. Authorities can apply for the power to hold suspects for a further two years, something they failed to do. El Harrak was arrested after telephone records showed he called several men implicated in the attacks that killed 191 people, days before the event.
His number was also found in the rubble of a flat where suspects blew themselves up as police closed in on them a month after the commuter train blasts. El Harrak later admitted he knew one of men who committed suicide in the flat explosion.
Locust swarm hits Cancun Mexico
Snip: Clouds of locusts have descended around the Mexican beach resort of Cancun, destroying corn crops and worrying officials in a region still recovering from the devastating fury of last year’s Hurricane Wilma. Traveling in dark fogs, locusts are grasshoppers that have entered a swarming phase, capable of covering large distances and rapidly stripping fields of vegetation. “Imagine, they fly in the form of a flock. Imagine the width of a street,” government official Martin Rodriguez said Tuesday, describing the fields around Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula.
2 Mexican customs inspectors arrested in cross border tunnel dig
Snip: Mexican federal police arrested two customs officials and three others on charges of digging a secret tunnel that was presumably to be used for funneling drugs to the United States, authorities said Wednesday. The tunnel, which stretched about 25 yards on land owned by the Mexican customs authority, did not cross the U.S.-Mexico border. It was about 100 yards from the San Ysidro border crossing, which connects Tijuana and San Diego.
Beijing secretly fires lasers to disable US satellites
Snip: China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive surveillance devices, it was reported yesterday.
Call to investigate infected fish from Iran
Snippets: Al-Mutairi admitted Zubaidi and shrimps in Kuwait’s territorial waters are also infected with the virus but in lesser amounts compared to the fish imported from Iran.
Meanwhile, the Food Safety Committee asked for the continuation of the ban on the import of all kinds of fresh, frozen and canned poultry products from Denmark, reports Al-Qabas.
Pfizer antibiotic may bring re-infections according to study
Snip: Pfizer Inc.'s Zithromax antibiotic may quadruple the risk of being re-infected with a potentially blinding eye infection that the drug is intended to treat, researchers said. While Zithromax worked against the initial outbreak of the infection, called trachoma, those taking the drug were more likely to be re-infected than those treated with surgery alone, said a study published yesterday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.