West Baton Rouge Sheriff Mike Cazes says that his deputies made a grizzly discovery late Sunday at a local church. Cazes says that his deputies and the State Police Hazardous Material Unit were called out to the scene of a bomb threat at Erwinville Baptist Church.
Cazes says that when they arrived, they found an Improvised Explosive Device inside a suitcase left at the front door of the church. You may have heard of IEDs in reports from the War in Iraq where they are common, but not in the small community of Erwinville. State Police brought in their bomb robot, which picked up the device and dropped it into a pit. The device was covered with sandbags and detonated.
Bomb experts are looking for more explosives that might be in the area of the church. Cazes tells 9News that the FBI has been called in to work the case. They will continue to investigate Monday.
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Bombs found hidden in toys (India)
January 01, 2007
Two suspected Islamic militants had been arrested with explosives hidden inside toys which they planned to blow up at a busy market in New Delhi, Indian police said today.
Samimullah and Ali Mohammad, both from Indian Kashmir, were arrested at a New Delhi railway station on suspicion of belonging to pro-Pakistan militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, senior police official Karnal Singh said.
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Jordan Baathists pledge loyalty to Saddam deputy
Dec. 31, 2006
A previously unknown group of Iraqi Baathists pledged allegiance to Saddam Hussein's fugitive deputy Izzat Ibrahim and named him the "legitimate president of Iraq," a statement issued by the group said Sunday.
SNIP:Ibrahim, Saddam's former deputy and now a fugitive with a US$10 million (€7.59 million) bounty on his head, has not been seen since the fall of Saddam's regime in April 2003. He is believed to be leading Baathists participating in the insurgency that has left thousands of US and allied troops dead.
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THE hunt for Saddam's missing billions was stepped up yesterday amid speculation he amassed a $57 billion fortune during his 30-year reign. Much is said to be invested through dummy corporations in Switzerland, Japan and Germany and some is hidden as cash and diamonds in numbered bank accounts in Europe and the Middle East. But Iraqi and US investigators, led by the FBI, US Treasury agents and State Department accountants, have been unable to identify the fake companies or the numbered accounts.
After a brief period of co-operation when he was first captured, the dictator refused to help further.
In a report submitted to the CIA in 2005, former UN arms inspector Charles Duelfer estimated that Saddam had amassed more than $15 billion "through illicit means" between 1990, when UN sanctions were imposed, and 2003. But Iyad Allawi, who was interim prime minister of Iraq in the aftermath of the allied invasion, said the figure was far higher.
He said information suggested Saddam had salted away an astonishing $57 billion through a network of bank accounts around the world. $5.5 billion came from an illegal oil-for-trade deal he signed with Syria between 2000 and 2003.
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'Islam will dominate the world'
January 1, 2007
NAZARETH – Islamic groups held a large militant march down the main streets of Nazareth this weekend, highlighting for some here the plight of Christians in this ancient city where Muslims have become a majority and members of the dwindling Christian population say they suffer regular intimidation.
Nazareth, considered one of the holiest cities for Christians, is described in the New Testament as the childhood home of Jesus. It contains multiple important shrines and churches, including the famous Church of the Basilica of the Annunciation, the site at which many Christians believe the Virgin Mary was visited by the Archangel Gabriel and told that she had been selected as the mother of Jesus.
The Islamic Movement, the main Muslim political party in Nazareth, said it organized yesterday's march to celebrate Eid ul-Adha, or the Feast of the Sacrifice, which commemorates the Muslim belief Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Ishmael for Allah. Christian and Jewish faith dictates it was Isaac, not Ishmael, whom Abraham almost sacrificed.
Islamic Movement leaders paraded down Nazareth's main thoroughfare brandishing their party's green flag. Young Muslim men in battle gear marched and beat drums as a man on loudspeaker repeatedly exclaimed in Arabic, "Allah is great."
Hundreds of activists strutted screaming Islamist epithets, including "Islam is the only truth" and "Islam shall rule all."
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"Bombs found hidden in toys (India)"
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OPINION: The depth of hate the terrorists hold seems to know no bounds -- pure evil.
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Sporting goods shop burglarized; over 100 guns stolen
01:08 PM CST on Monday, January 1, 2007
WWLTV.com
Over 100 guns were stolen Monday morning from a Metairie sporting goods shop, Jefferson Parish authorities reported.
The burglary took place around 6 a.m. at Puglia’s on Veterans Boulevard.
Police said 115 assorted make, model and caliber handguns were stolen, along with four shotguns and two assault rifles.
Anyone with information has been asked to call the JPSO burglary division at 364-5300.