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MADRID, Spain (AP) — Basque police say they have found an unexploded car bomb in northern Spain.
Thank you TWhiteBear for the heads up.
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Sixth man arrested for Madrid bombing
From correspondents in Madrid
January 05, 2007 07:38am
Article from: Reuters
SPANISH police have arrested a man on suspicion that he supplied money to a suspect in the Madrid train bombings, the Interior Ministry said today, a day after police arrested 5 people for links to the 2004 attack.
Police arrested Taha Seghrouchni in a town in Catalonia on suspicion of transferring significant amounts of money into the account of Daoud Ouhnane, one of the suspects believed to have fled Spain after the bombs, which killed 191 people.
Mr Seghrouchni is also suspected of having been in telephone contact with Ouhnane before the bombings, the Ministry said.
It did not give the nationality of the man.
Police arrested five people on Wednesday who could have helped two suspects escape after the train bombings.
A Spanish court is due to start in February the trial of 29 people for their part in the train bombings, most of them Spaniards and Moroccans.
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"220 Pounds of Explosives Found in Spain"
By DANIEL WOOLLS Thursday, January 04, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MADRID, Spain - Police in the Basque region said Thursday they had found a bomb in northern Spain, five days after a car bombing in Madrid that was blamed on the separatist group ETA and killed one person.
Nearly 220 pounds of explosives were found in a drum near an abandoned car outside the Basque town of Amorebieta, and they were rigged to be used in an attack, a spokesman for the Basque police said.
On Dec. 23 police found an arms cache near Amorebieta with around 120 pounds of explosives.
The Basque interior department said the explosives found Thursday were ready for "immediate" use and only lacked a detonator.
Police searching the area noticed the car had been parked for several days, and upon examining it found suspicious stains inside. They expanded their search and found the drum with the explosives, the department said.
Meanwhile, the prime minister toured the bombed wreckage of Madrid's airport parking garage Thursday and warned the Basque separatist group ETA that neither the Spanish government nor its citizens will be intimidated."
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Iraqi, Coalition Troops Detain Suspects, Find Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4, 2007 – Iraqi and coalition forces detained five suspected terrorists and found numerous weapons caches in operations throughout Iraq today and in recent days, military officials reported.
Iraqi army troops from the 5th Special Troops Company, 2nd Brigade, 9th Iraqi Army Division, teamed with soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 37th Field Artillery Regiment, and Macedonian forces to find three weapons caches today in Fehamah, a village near Taji.
The Iraqi-led operations involved a cordon-and-knock mission and cache searches conducted after coalition forces observed suspicious activity in the area, officials said.
The 37th Field Artillery Regiment soldiers found one of the caches while searching a car parked in the village and the other caches while searching homes in the area. Some of the items found during the operation included mortar tubes, mortar rounds, rockets, rocket launchers and a video camera.
Elsewhere in Iraq, officials reported that soldiers from the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division(Light Infantry), detained three suspected terrorists during an operation in Albu Farris Jan. 1.
The operation, coined “Terminator Lasso,” was conducted to detain an improvised explosive device cell in Abu Farris. The combined force air assaulted into the target area and searched specified locations for IED-making materials and individuals linked to attacks in the area.
During the operation, Iraqi troops entered a mosque, with permission from the imam, near the targeted location. No contraband was found and the soldiers left the mosque after thanking the imam for his support.
At the target house, the soldiers discovered a false wall containing IED timers, triggers and detonators and two shovels. They detained the owner of the house for further questioning.
On the return route, the troops found two men at a known IED trigger area and detained the two suspected triggermen for questioning. One was found with a 9 mm pistol and the other with a camera flash IED detonator.
In another operation, soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, and the 2nd Battalion, 15th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), along with the Rasheed Iraqi police, detained two suspected terrorists and found IED-making materials during an operation in Rasheed Jan. 1.
The operation was conducted following a tip identifying a possible IED cell based out of Rasheed.
The troops and Iraqi police found bomb-making materials in a Rasheed residence. The items uncovered included two shovels, electronic circuit boards, various wires and telephone, cell phones and radio parts. The radio and phone parts were consistent with those typically used in fabricating remote-controlled IED detonators. Two gas masks were also found in the house.
The detainees were taken into custody for further questioning.
Separately, Marine engineers attached to 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5, uncovered 12 large caches during Operation River Sweep west of Habbaniyah Jan. 1.
"The importance of the find deals directly with the insurgents' ability to wage anti-coalition force insurgent warfare," said 1st Lt. David Bradt, the 3/2 engineer platoon commander. "By taking away the materials that the insurgents use to conduct attacks, be they IEDs, indirect fire, or small-arms fire engagements, we are making the local area that much safer for Marines and Iraqis."
The engineers, who were operating in concert with elements of the 1st Iraqi Army Division and 3/2, discovered the stockpiles in a combined cache hunt designed to interrupt insurgent activity in the area.
The Marines discovered three Soviet-made hand grenades, four type 86P grenades, two TM 57 antitank mines, two 57 mm high explosive antitank rockets, one 107 mm high-explosive rocket, 14 120 mm high-explosive mortars, eight 122 mm high-explosive projectiles, one 160 mm high-explosive mortar, 12 130 mm high-explosive projectiles, 100 7.62 X 54 rounds, 12 warheads, five 50 kg bombs, four acetylene tanks, one 60 mm high-explosive mortar and one guided missile.
The Marines destroyed all of the caches.
Elsewhere in Iraq, soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, "Polar Bears," 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry), captured and extracted two anti-aircraft systems during a combat operation in Yusufiyah Jan. 1, officials reported.
The operation, dubbed “Polar Pounce,” was intended to seize anti-aircraft weapons identified by aircraft earlier in the afternoon.
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 2nd BCT found the two 57 mm anti-aircraft weapons and evacuated them from the area. During the same operation, soldiers of Task Force Iron Claw discovered an IED made from a 120 mm mortar, a bottle of homemade explosives and a crushed wire initiator as they were clearing the route for the crane and trucks to load and extract the guns. They took the guns to Patrol Base Yusufiyah.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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Just hours later, police said they found 100kg of ammonal explosives ready for use in a container in the Basque Country town of Atxondo today.
Kabul- Five Afghan security force personnel were killed and four wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled bomb in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an army official said. The blast happened in Urozgan province as the soldiers were patrolling jointly with NATO troops, General Rahatullah Raufi, regional Afghan army commander, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"Five Afghan soldiers were killed on the spot and four were wounded," Raoufi said. The wounded were evacuated to hospital where their condition was declared stable. NATO forces had escaped harm.
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Thai govt warns of more bomb attacks in Bangkok
1/5/07
The Thai government has warned people to be prepared for repeats of the bomb attacks which killed three people and wounded dozens of others in Bangkok on New Year's Eve. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont has told parliament that forensic tests showed the bombs were not of the same type as those used by the separatists in the south of the country. And he says Thais should brace themselves for more such attacks.
In another development, the Thai foreign ministry has met with diplomats in the Bangkok to try to ease international concerns over the security situation. Many foreign governments have issued travel advisories since the blasts.
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1821751.htm
Teacher's 'threats' to attack police
January 04, 2007
A BRISBANE high school teacher has been accused of threatening to attack Queensland police with rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles during raids by al-Qa'ida terrorists.
John Howard Amundsen, 41, the first Queenslander charged under the national anti-terror laws, allegedly warned that al-Qa'ida would attack suburban homes and streets at random across southeast Queensland. At a bail hearing last month, Supreme Court judge John Muir said prosecutors did not appear to have a strong case to support the terrorism charge and needed to prove Mr Amundsen was planning the alleged attacks to advance a political, religious or ideological cause.
But in an affidavit filed the day of the hearing and relied on by the judge and prosecutors, police alleged Mr Amundsen made threats on May 9 last year in an email to the Queensland Police Counter Terrorism Co-ordination Unit. The email, purported to be from "Zelcari Le Sahaenda", the "operation chief" of al-Qa'ida in Australia, was sent from an internet cafe at Indooroopilly Shoppingtown in Brisbane's west.
"Infidels," the email said, "We are now amongst you. We have successfully developed methods for gaining access to Australia through entry points other than your airports and ports. We now have three active foreign-sourced cells in Brisbane.
"We are now fully resourced. Our targets have been exhaustively researched and finalised. Our teams are experienced operatives from the war against the Americans in Iraq ... we have imported RPG 7 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and AK-47s for hit-and-run attacks on your facilities and police patrols. "We will strike within the next three weeks."
In the police affidavit, seen by The Australian yesterday, Detective Sergeant Sean Edwards of the Organised Crime Investigative Unit said that on the same day, police received another email containing an identical message. The second email contained a photograph of an explosive device similar to those allegedly found when police raided Mr Amundsen's house in the north Brisbane suburb of Aspley the next day.
Police found 53kg of explosives and 10 detonators during the raid. They alleged some of the explosives had been used to assemble four powerful bombs, two of them packed with large nails.
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WASHINGTON: U.S. Navy vessels are deployed off the coast of Somalia to make sure al-Qaida and allied jihadists are not able to escape the country by sea now that the once-dominant Islamist forces in Somalia are in retreat, the State Department said Wednesday.
Of particular concern is the fate of three al-Qaida militants who were believed by U.S. officials to be under the protection of the Islamic Courts Union in Mogadishu until Ethiopian forces drove the Courts from power in recent days.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack noted that the missions off the coast are being carried out by a U.S. task force based in the Horn of Africa,
The al-Qaida militants are believed to have had a role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and in the 2002 bombing of a hotel in Kenya.
Kenya sent extra troops to its border with Somalia on Wednesday to keep Islamic militants from entering the country
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/03/america/NA_GEN_US_Somalia.php
Kenya on alert as fighting nears border
Thu, January 4, 2007
Kenyan soldiers and helicopters bolstered defences at the Somali border yesterday to stop fighting from spilling over after Ethiopian warplanes attacked fleeing Islamists on the other side of the frontier.
A local police commander said a Kenyan helicopter had escaped undamaged after being shot at by Somali militia and an Ethiopian missile targeting Islamists strayed into Kenya late on Tuesday.
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Just heard this one over the scanner. A United Airlines service vehicle was stolen from O'Hare. License 671 1278. It has a City of Chicago decal allowing it access to ALL secured areas of the airport. Hopefully they will find it quickly.
I'll post updates as I hear them.
What color are those vehicles -- white?
Do they have a UA logo on it?
and THANKS Right Handed Writer.
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