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Posted on 01/02/2007 7:23:18 PM PST by nwctwx
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videotaping airplanes questioned
Richmond Times-Dispatch Jan 15, 2007
A person who saw three men on Richmond International Airport property videotaping airplanes taking off and landing notified Henrico County police, leading to the arrest of one of the men on a charge of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, police said.....
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855935074&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192658400&path=%21news%21localupdates
Sorry for the repost. I didn't read ahead before posting.
Someone besides the President gets it.
Terror threat 'could last decades'
From correspondents in London
January 16, 2007
BRITISH Home Secretary John Reid predicted today that the struggle against al-Qaeda could last for as long as the Cold War.
Questioned about the threat from Islamist terrorists, Mr Reid told MPs in the lower chamber of parliament the House of Commons: "My own estimate is that this will last probably as long as the Cold War did.
"We now know that the first al-Qaeda-related plot was in the year 2000. Since then, the threat has grown.
"It is serious and it will, I believe, be with us for a generation," Mr Reid said, echoing Prime Minister Tony Blair's assessment of the terror threat.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21066668-1702,00.html
CHENGDU, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- A man was detained on Sunday at Dazhou Airport in southwest China's Sichuan Province for carrying weapon, local police said. According to the police, a pistol was found in interlayer of the man's handbag during the security check before he attempted to go aboard an Airbus 319 to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province.
The airplane was scheduled to take off at 4:30 p.m. and delayed about one hour due to the incident. It took off at 6 p.m. The police is conducting investigation on the incident.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/14/content_5605609.htm
AM CID investigates into aircraft parts found hidden inside a cargo ship bound to KKS harbor (Sri Lanka)
1/15/2007
Harbour Police in Colombo has discovered with the help of the Sri Lanka Navy parts of an airplane hidden inside a cargo ship owned by the United National Party parliamentarian T.Maheshwaran. The UNP Tamil parliamentarian has reportedly bought the ship to transport goods to Jaffna from Colombo.
The police investigations will proceed to determine whether the parts of the aircraft are in anyway related to the air force the warring Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is slowly but steadily building in the North. Air craft in the hands of the LTTE have been considered an extremely dangerous element by the US as well as Indian intelligence for the security of the region and for the security of the world at large as far as terrorism is concerned since the terrorist group owns the worlds most advanced technology regarding suicide bombers.
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070115_04
Couple beheaded after shot dead in Yala (Thailand)
January 16, 2007
Yala - A married couple were beheaded after they were shot dead apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Sunday morning police said. The bodies of Ging Khachaging, 39, and his wife, Ruangrong Kaewkrai, 35, were found about three metres away from their heads in a village in Tambon Taseh of Yala's Muang district.
Police said the couple were riding their motorcycle back from their rubber plantation when they were shot by insurgents. Each was shot three times on their body.
http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30024095
GAZA - Palestinian security forces uncovered an extensive network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip that the Fatah faction said on Monday could have been used to assassinate its top leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas. The ruling Hamas faction would not say whether it dug the tunnels, discovered by Fatah-dominated security forces in central and northern Gaza on Monday and over the weekend.
A Fatah spokesman, Abdel-Hakim Awad, held Hamas responsible but stopped short of accusing the group of being behind any specific assassination plot. Awad said some of the tunnels were lined with explosives and ran directly beneath the homes of prominent Fatah members.
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Six go on trial for failed July 21 'suicide bombings' (UK)
January 15, 2007
A group of six Muslim men plotted a series of "murderous suicide bombings" on London's public transport system just days after the July 7 London bombings, a court has heard. At the opening of a high-profile trial of the men, Woolwich Crown Court heard that they were engaged in an "extremist Muslim plot" to target the capital using bombs made partly of chapatti flour.
The alleged attacks would have occurred on July 21, 14 days after the "carnage" of the July 7 London bombings, Nigel Sweeney, QC, for the Crown, said. Police found a bomb factory where the explosives were to be put together and timetable for doing so, he added.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2548394,00.html
Alleged terrorist plot hearing underway (Canada)
January 15, 2007
BRAMPTON, Ont. (CP) - A preliminary hearing is underway for four young men charged in an alleged terrorist plot to attack targets in Ontario. The four, who cannot be named under the terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, asked for a preliminary hearing and requested their cases be heard by judge and jury. Evidence at the hearing, which will determine whether the case should proceed to trial, is covered by a publication ban.
The four youths, arrested last summer along with 14 adult suspects, are charged with belonging to a terrorist organization and attending a terror camp.
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http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2007/01/15/3383553-cp.html
Thank you Oorang.
Glad they got the gun before going on the plane.
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"Prayer Space Requested (Muslims say they need quiet room at Welsh-Ryan Field)"
The Daily Nortwestern ^ | 1-9-2007 | Dan Fletcher and Paul TakahashiIssue date: 1/9/07 Section: Campus
Posted on 01/15/2007 2:06:40 PM PST by Cagey
Pakistan 'nuclear' kidnap foiled
Monday, 15 January 2007
Police in north-west Pakistan say they have foiled a bid to abduct six officials working for the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). Police say the gang seized the staff south of Peshawar late on Sunday, but were stopped at a security checkpoint.
Three would-be kidnappers were shot dead in the gunfight, while two others were arrested. Police say they have yet to establish a motive. PAEC set up an office in the area after high-grade uranium was discovered.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6264173.stm
City Bomb Defused In North-west Pakistan
January 15th 2007
Security agencies defused a time bomb near the parliament of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in the city of Peshawar, news reports said Monday.
The 1.5-kilogramme improvised explosive device wrapped in a grocery bag was found Sunday outside the meteorological office by the parliament building, local police chief Saad Khan told the Dawn newspaper.
The bomb was removed by disposal experts, preventing an act of sabotage by "terrorists" to disturb peace in the provincial capital, Khan said. Nine explosions hit Peshawar in recent months, including a suicide attack. The NWFP government led by opposition parties has accused the country's intelligence agencies of trying to destabilize the province.
http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_9105-City-Bomb-Defused-In-North-west-Pakistan.html
Let's hope they get all the info they need from the two remaining live kidnappers to see how large this group really is and who all is connected to it. (re Pakistan kidnap attempt)
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000737.html
(FARS NEWS AGENCY)
January 15, 2007
"Cell phone PSYOPS reported in Iran"
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2704
Weapons Cache Seized; Ceremony Held for Iraqi Police Graduates
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2007 – U.S. soldiers assisted in the removal of a makeshift bomb near Baghdad after Iraqi police seized the devise along with a weapons cache during a raid on Jan. 13, U.S. military officials reported.
The weapons cache included 60mm mortars, 81mm mortars, a 60mm mortar launcher, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and nine rockets, explosive formed charges, a 120mm artillery round, 107mm rockets, blasting caps and timers, officials said.
Also on Jan. 13, a ceremony was held in recognition of Ramadi Iraqi police graduates. A total of 58 Iraqi police officers graduated from their weeklong advanced training course at the Ramadi Training Center.
Iraqi police officers train at the center after completing a five-week basic training course at the Jordan International Police Training Center, said U.S. Army Capt. Stewart H. McFall, the officer in charge of the RTC.
While in Jordan, the Iraqis learn basic skills in police work, McFall said. Upon completion, they return to their assigned Iraqi police station and begin working with police transition teams and Iraqi police liaison officers until there is an opening for advanced training at the RTC.
There has been a recent surge in qualified police candidates in Ramadi, with more than 1,000 applicants this month, McFall said.
RTC students completed intensive training which includes, detainee operations, cordon searches, dismounted patrols, building searches, traffic control point operations, and reflexive fire training, McFall said.
“I'm living the good life now because it's harder for the terrorists to do their job against the U.S. forces, Iraqi police, and Iraqi army combined,” one graduate said through a translator. “Now that I work as an IP, my family feels much safer ... I'm ready to go to the streets to do my job here and help the Iraqi people.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq news releases.)
Off Topic...
EVENT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768045/posts
VAN NUYS, Calif. -- Employees and customers at a Costco store in Van Nuys were evacuated Monday after a package with green tape and protruding wires was found at the front door of the business, prompting a bomb squad response, authorities said.
Police were sent to the warehouse store at 6100 Sepulveda Blvd. at 12:30 p.m., after someone called in a report about the package from a cell phone, said Officer Karen Smith of the Los Angeles Police Department's media relations office. The bomb squad was called to the scene to investigate, Smith said.
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/10754105/detail.html?dl=headlineclick
No updates yet.
THANK YOU Oorang.
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"What happens if we lose?"
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"Video: UPI’s Pentagon reporter says media is ignoring consequences of withdrawal"
posted at 2:43 pm on January 14, 2007 by Allahpundit
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"Holocaust naysayer ousted in New York"
JPost.com ^ | Jan. 16, 2007 | MICHAL LANDO
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:17:46 PM PST by mdittmar
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Iran Wants Germany to Swap Assassin for Jailed Tourist
spiegel online ^ | January 15, 2007
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:25:03 PM PST by nuconvert
Iran Wants Germany to Swap Assassin for Jailed Tourist
January 15, 2007
A German tourist who has been held in an Iranian jail for over a year because his fishing boat accidentally entered a restricted zone in the Persian Gulf has become a bargaining chip of international dipomacy. Iran wants to swap him for a convicted assassin serving a life sentence in a German jail.
Iran wants Germany to release a convicted killer in return for a German tourist who was jailed after his boat strayed into Iranian territorial waters by mistake.
Iranian officials have responded to German appeals for his release by linking the case to that of Kazem Darabi, who is serving a life sentence in Germany for the 1992 assassination of four Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders in a Berlin restaurant. The court that convicted Darabi in 1997 said the orders for the killings came from the highest state levels in Tehran.
The tourist, Donald Klein, 53, from Lambsheim in southwestern Germany, was jailed for 18 months by an Iranian court for illegally crossing a border. The sculptor, a passionate angler, had been on vacation in Dubai in November 2005 and had hired a boat to catch swordfish and parrot fish in the Persian Gulf.
His French skipper steered the vessel into the Strait of Ormuz and close to the island of Abu Mussa, a restricted zone. They were arrested, interrogated and sentenced within weeks.
Klein's wife Karin has made numerous appeals for clemency to Iranian officials. When his mother died, she sent them a copy of the death certificate, hoping the mullahs would show compassion. There was no response.
Klein has lost a lot of weight -- 32 kilograms -- while in jail, where he has shared a cell with 13 other inmates,
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
and from NY to the middle East...Adding to post no. 837...
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1425
January 16, 2007 No.1425
"Criticism of Tehran Holocaust Denial Conference in Arab and Iranian Media"
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"US Hunts 'Rogue' Agents"
skynews ^ | Jan. 15, 2007
Posted on 01/15/2007 3:31:45 PM PST by nuconvert
"US Hunts 'Rogue' Agents"
January 15, 2007
Sky News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The US will "go after" Iranian and Syrian agents which it says are operating in Iraq."
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