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"'24': Television for a Post-9/11 World"
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 1/31/7 | Cinnamon Stillwell
Posted on 01/31/2007 8:03:24 AM PST by SmithL
"Caldwell told (special agents) that he knew it was illegal to do this, but did not know the consequences," the affidavit said.
Yet another individual with no moral compass. I hope they throw the book at him.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24241_UK_Islamist_Students_Sponsor_War_on_Terror_Week&only
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
"UK Islamist Students Sponsor 'War on Terror Week'"
New Citizens Report on Iraq Makes Case for Victory by Kristinn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1776084/posts
Nice dissemination there, Cindy, thanks!
You're very welcome.
I'm so glad you pinged me.
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"Anti-Violence Campaigner Shot in Mexico"
Newsday ^ | 1/30/07 | n/a
Posted on 01/31/2007 4:47:40 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
ACAPULCO, Mexico
Off Topic...
OPINION: I'm not surprised --- some things just don't change.
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Vietnam Communist Party to Drop Firms
Newsday ^ | 1/31/07 | n/a
Posted on 01/31/2007 4:51:11 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam's ruling Communist Party and the military will relinquish control of dozens of companies, ranging from hotels to telecoms, as part of an ongoing government overhaul, officials said Wednesday.
The 160-member Central Committee last week decided to transfer the companies managed by the Party and the armed forces to the state, said Dao Duy Quat, deputy director of the party's Ideological and Cultural Commission.
He said the move is part of overall government restructuring that will push Vietnam toward a market economy.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
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The jailed radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza could face terror charges in the US after a judge today rejected his attempt to overturn his UK convictions. Hamza, 48, was jailed for seven years in February last year for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred. Abu Hamza was the head preacher at London's Finsbury Park mosque
In the US he faces charges including trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon, conspiring to take hostages in Yemen and facilitating terrorist training in Afghanistan. Washington is seeking Hamza's "temporary surrender" under the 2003 Extradition Act.
London's City of Westminster Magistrates Court today set a date for a four-day extradition hearing after being told that the House of Lords had refused Hamza leave to appeal against his convictions in the UK. Hamza, who appeared via video link from Belmarsh Prison, spoke only to confirm that he understood what was happening.
Once tried in the US he would then be returned to Britain to complete his jail term before being extradited again to serve any sentence handed down in the US. District Judge Timothy Workman remanded Hamza in custody until the start of the extradition hearing on May 16. Earlier this month the radical preacher was ordered to repay more than £1 million in legal aid which he was granted during his Old Bailey trial.
Iraqi embassy in huge passport blunder
Wed. 31 Jan 2007
The Iraqi embassy in Stockholm has admitted issuing 26,000 passports based on false documentation to asylum seekers in Sweden and Norway. Migration minister Tobias Billström is set to meet his Norwegian counterpart in Oslo on Wednesday to discuss the matter.
Details surrounding the fraudulent passport applications first emerged in Norwegian press after police cracked a forgery ring in Oslo. The Iraqi ambassador to Sweden informed Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten that the embassy had issued passports based on false documentation simply because it did not have the resources to check the authenticity of the paperwork.
"We have known for a long time that the Iraqi embassy has been issuing passports on false premises, but what can we do about it? This is a question for the foreign ministry. They know about this. We have presented the information in various reports," Bengt Hellström from the Swedish Migration Board told Metro.
He added that the Migration Board has received numerous tip-offs over the last two years suggesting that people from Syria, Iran, Turkey and Lebanon have been able to get passports from the Iraqi embassy. Gustaf Lind, secretary of state at the justice department, says that his department has known about the problem for a month.
"What we have done is to get civil servants at the justice department and the Migration Board to check out the information. We haven't really formed a judgment yet but the foreign ministry has called the Iraqi ambassador in to discuss the matter on Wednesday," said Lind.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=10030:
Jerusalem - A U.S. court decision allowing victims of Palestinian suicide bombings to sue a major Mideast bank is a "great step" forward in the war against terrorism, Israeli victims said Wednesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon ruled this week that terror victims can sue the Arab Bank for its role in transferring Saudi funds to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers. According to their attorneys, several thousand plaintiffs who have joined the case include 30 U.S. citizens, as well as citizens of Israel, Russia, France and eight other countries.
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200701/FOR20070131e.html
Senior Jihad Terrorist Nabbed in Shechem (Israel)
Feb 01, '07
The IDF arrested a senior Islamic Jihad fugitive Wednesday night in Samaria. Nasser Jubara of Nablus had been involved in terror activity against the IDF and planning of suicide bombings in Israel.
According to the IDF spokesman, Jubara had served 4 years in jail after being convicted of terror activity in the Shechem area. Immediately upon his release in 2006 he returned to terror activities and renewed his connection to the Islamic Jihad Command in Syria.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120699
ONE of Australia's best-known Islamic colleges has been raided by police and government investigators on suspicion its three campuses have rorted the student subsidies payable for non-government schools. The Australian Islamic College's campuses at Kewdale in Perth's south and Dianella and Thornlie in the city's north were raided at 9am (ACDT) yesterday by 28 fraud squad officers and 10 investigators from the Federal Department of Education, Science and Training investigations unit.
The officers took three truck- loads of computers and documents from the college campuses and the college's headquarters in the southern Perth suburb of Booragoon. The raids followed an investigation of several months into the school's use of student subsidised funding programs by the Commercial Crime Division. The Federal Government gave the college $13.3 million in funding in 2006.
It is possible for schools and colleges to make fraudulent subsidy claims by "double counting" students, "ghosting" students or inflating rent payments. "You can do all sorts of things hypothetically (to rort the subsidy system)," Detective Inspector Arno Albrecht, from the Commercial Crime Division, said He said that as far as he was aware, the Major Fraud Squad had not been involved in a raid on a school in the state before. The Australian Islamic College has 2000 students from kindergarten through to Year 12 across its three campuses, which are staffed by 250 teachers.
The founder and current director and administrator of the college, Abdallah Magar, refused to comment on the raids. Mr Magar founded the school in 1986. "The outcome of this environment would be full academic achievement, protection from social diseases coupled with success in the Hereafter by being saved from the hellfire," he said. In November last year, it was one of 35 signatories to a letter accusing the media of hysteria and sensationalism in reports on Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali's comments likening scantily clad women to uncovered meat.
An internal investigator last year accused Australia's peak Islamic council of funding its activities with public money siphoned off from a non-profit Muslim school. The Sydney-based accounting firm Worrells was commissioned to prepare a report on the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils' finances after members raised concerns about theuse of funds within the federation. The resulting report alleged AFIC was artificially inflating rents to milk federal and state government funds from the popular Malek Fahd school in western Sydney.
AFIC charged the school $900,000 a year in rent for the 3.62ha property, up from $418,750 in 2000 and $67,500 in 1999. In March last year the property, zoned general rural, had an unimproved land value recorded by the Bankstown Council of $3 million - leading to an annual average rental return of about $240,000. AFIC also bills the school for accounting fees, cleaning costs and other charges, which provide two-thirds of AFIC's budget of more than $2 million a year.
The school receives $11 million a year from the federal Government on condition the funds are used only for educational purposes and the school only uses surplus profits for its own activities.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21145215-5005941,00.html
BIRMINGHAM, England: Wasim Raja, 25, and Imran Khan, 19, are leaning on the grills of a general store in Alum Rock, Birmingham, watching the police activity on Jackson Road opposite with interest.
"Every time they're coming into Muslim areas, blasting open their doors ... They wouldn't like it if they dragged their mum and dad out of bed in the middle of the night. They're scum," says Khan, spitting on the pavement.
Raja is more conciliatory, although, like many here, he doubts the man arrested in a dawn raid yesterday on suspicion of involvement in a terror plot was guilty of anything. "I've known him since I was little... He's not that type of person. If they've got a proper lead, then OK. But you've got to be 100 per cent. Maybe it's wrong information."
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http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=168940&Sn=WORL&IssueID=29318
Bookshop linked to Bin Laden's 'general' (UK)
01/02/2007
The Islamic bookshop raided yesterday has been at the centre of controversy for seven years. The Maktabah store has been raided three times under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. It has links with several past and present terror suspects including Moazzam Begg, who was held in Guantanamo Bay, and Dhiren Barot, 34, jailed for 40 years last November for planning attacks and said to be Osama bin Laden's "UK general".
Maktabah, Arabic for library, is in Sparkhill and sells DVDs of bin Laden as well as books calling on British Muslims to rise up against the West. Titles include 21st Century CrUSAders: A War On Muslims In Iraq And Palestine and Heroes of Islam. It also published a book by Barot which was used in evidence against him when he was jailed for planning a "dirty bomb" attack on London.
In 2000 the store, then based a few hundred yards from its current location, was raided by 60 officers, who took away books, files, computers and questioned staff. It was owned by Imran Khan, a former stockbroker, and Begg. No one was charged and Begg later left to set up a school in Afghanistan. He was picked up by US officials and spent three years at Guantanamo before being released without charge in 2005.
Khan (also known as Ash or Ashraf), moved the Maktabah store to its current location sandwiched between the Bank House social club and the Elegant beauty salon. He also opened Blade Communications, a mobile phone shop, computer store and internet cafe, 200 yards away which was also raided yesterday.
In Nov 2003, both stores were raided along with an office he retained above the book store and his parents' home in Birmingham. It was revealed last year that Maktabah also commissioned Barot, a Hindu convert to Islam, to write a book about his travels to Pakistan in 1995 when he was in campaigns against Indian forces in Kashmir. The 1999 book The Army of Madinah in Kashmir formed part of the case which saw Barot jailed.
Nanji Gohil, who owns the premises from where the shop operates, yesterday confirmed that he rented it to Imran Khan for £1,000 a month. He said: "Mr Khan has run it for five years and was never any trouble. "It does have a reputation for being slightly dodgy because it is always being raided." A website linked to the shop was still selling radical books yesterday.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/01/nplot201.xml
The counterterrorism division of the Justice Department is investigating whether a private equity firm in Boston that manages hundreds of millions of dollars for Muslim investors overseas violated tax laws.
The investigation of Overland Capital Group was disclosed in a filing with U.S. District Court in Boston and reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday. The filing makes no mention of a terrorism investigation, only that Overland and a subsidiary of Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami Trust (DMI), a financial group in Geneva, conducted acts "that implicate potential violation of the Internal Revenue Code." It was submitted by a U.S. attorney who works in counterterrorism.
Subsidiaries of DMI, an umbrella organization for Islamic financial institutions, have been named as suspects in probes by U.S. counterterrorism agencies. DMI also is a defendant in a civil lawsuit brought by families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, who claim that it funded al-Qaeda. DMI has denied those claims and noted that none of its officials has been charged with terrorism-related crimes.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013101900.html
Libyan Islamist group vows to fight regime
Wed Jan 31, 2007
DUBAI (AFP) - A Libyan Islamist group vowed to fight the regime of the country's leader Moamer Kadhafi in a message posted on a web site typically used by Al-Qaeda-linked militants.
"The regime of Kadhafi, the apostate, pretends that Jamaa al-Islamiya al-Muqatila (the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) is on the path to reconciliation... and that the group will give up its armed jihad (holy war)," the message said. "This apostate regime has a habit of lying... we are going to pursue jihad against the regime which has monopolised power for more than 37 years."
The LIFG was formed in the 1990s in Afghanistan by Libyan militants who were fighting Soviet influence and officially announced its presence in 1995. Its aim is to install an Islamic state in Libya and overthrow Kadhafi. The group is considered a "terrorist" group by the United States. Several dozen of its members are behind bars.
Bryan Preston looks at the latest example of US mainstream media disseminating the propaganda of Islamic terrorists: Lara Logan and her terrorist footage: It is too important to ignore.
If you’re not familiar with it, here’s the gist: CBS News reporter Lara Logan, currently the network’s correspondent in Baghdad, used clips in a story about fighting on Haifa Street in Baghdad that apparently came from a video that Al Qaeda’s media arm also used. In her story she didn’t attribute the video to Al Qaeda, but described it as “gruesome pictures obtained by CBS.”
They’re gruesome indeed, depicting slain Iraqi Army soldiers after the battle, and showing people walking around the room where the dead men are laying and even apparently picking through their uniforms.
In looking at both the Logan report and the video that Al Qaeda released after the January 7 battle, I’ve come to the conclusion that not only did Logan use the same video that Al Qaeda used, but that she worked from the same source tape as well. That means that in all likelihood her source and the source from which Al Qaeda obtained the video (which may be someone actually in AQ or merely connected to it) are one and the same.
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24235&only&rss
Yemen probes whether al-Qaida behind killing of alleged informant
January 31, 2007
SAN'A, Yemen: Yemen has launched a probe into whether al-Qaida is behind the killing of a man who may have led security officials to an associate of Osama bin Laden, a Yemeni security official said on Wednesday.
Alsayed Ali al-Hajeri, a 50-year-old father of two, was stabbed and shot to death Tuesday night when masked gunmen broke into his home in an upscale suburb of the Yemeni capital, the official said. Al-Hajeri is believed by locals to have informed on Qaed Salim Sunian al-Harethi, an associate of bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terror network.
Al-Harethi died in a 2002 U.S. missile strike on terror suspects in Yemen, the United States first such operation outside Afghanistan against suspected al-Qaida members.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/31/africa/ME-GEN-Yemen-al-Qaida.php
A BUSINESS daily newspaper in the United States has stated that Al Qaida is setting up one of its cells in Trinidad. In its January 23 publication, Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) stated that Al Qaida has launched a movement to replace the democratically-elected Government. IBD said that the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) are fearful that Trinidadian jihadists could train and export terrorists to strike the United States.
According to the newspaper, Trinidad might be harbouring the “next Mohammed Atta,” a college-educated English-speaking Saudi native known within Al Qaida as “Jafar the Pilot.” His real name was given as Adnan El Shukrijumah, and the FBI considers him “armed and dangerous.” He has been connected to Al Qaida plots to attack America with dirty bombs. The FBI’s website says Shukrijumah carries a Guyanese passport, but may attempt to enter the United States with a Trinidadian passport. His father is Guyanese, but he taught Arabic in mosques there and in Trinidad before moving to the US to work for the Saudi Embassy and then run a small radical mosque in Florida.
US authorities are worried that Caribbean blacks have been targeted by Al Qaida for Islmalic conversion and recruitment along with African-Americans.
http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,51570.html
Police dismantle pipe bomb at investment company office
1/31/07
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A pipe bomb that arrived in an investment company's mail was dismantled without incident Wednesday, and federal authorities were helping investigate the case, the FBI said.
Police were called about 11 a.m. to a midtown office building housing some operations of American Century Investments and found the device in a package that had been opened by an employee, FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said. "It was a functional pipe bomb, and it contained a threat directed to American Century," Lanza said, declining to be more specific.
Officers from the Kansas City Police Department's bomb squad dismantled the device, and no one was injured, Lanza said. The site is a few blocks from American Century Investments' national headquarters building. Investigators from the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service are working on the case, Lanza said.
That's sad and scary about Trinidad. The Trinidadians are nice people. We have friends there.
I hope Al Quada's plot to convert that small island nation fails miserably.
D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel fought a fire that occurred on a bus traveling through downtown Washington early Wednesday morning. Witnesses say the fire broke out following an explosion that occurred just after it passed the Farragut North station located on "K" Street, Northwest. The incident occurred just after 5:30 a.m.
A local news station reported that there were three passengers and a driver on the bus when the explosion occurred. The people were able to get off the bus before the fire intensified. Personnel from the D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department quickly extinguished the flames. The disabled bus is located in the 17-hundred block of "K" Street, Northwest. The incident remains under investigation.
The incident did not affect Metrorail operations at either the Farragut North or Farrragut West stations which are both located nearby.
Suspicious luggage causes delays outside D.C.
Jan 31, 2007
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Hundreds of commuters who use the Washington area’s transit system endured delays Wednesday morning because of a slow investigation of suspicious items found near a Metrorail station just outside the nation’s capital.
About 3 a.m., a Metro employee spotted two suitcases and a backpack near the bus waiting area of the Braddock Road station in Alexandria. But the items sat there for at least two hours because the city’s police do not have a bomb squad and “apparently, they couldn’t get a hold of anybody from Metro (police) until after 5 a.m.,” Alexandria police Lt. James Bartlett said. The station was closed when the luggage was discovered and did not reopen until about 7:30 a.m.
I hope so too Palladin. Terrorism is like an insidious virus the way it keeps spreading. *sigh*
A "blunder?"
Oh.
I can't post what I'm thinking.
I'd be banned.
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