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Posted on 01/02/2007 7:23:18 PM PST by nwctwx
Well that's interesting, thanks.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic: An anonymous bomb threat closed down Prague international airport for two hours Wednesday, officials said.
Czech authorities closed down the airport shortly after 4 p.m. (1500GMT) and started a search of all three terminals, police spokeswoman Nela Gajduskov. No explosives were found, she said.
The threat was originally received by the Mlada Fronta Dnes daily, she said. All departures were halted in the meantime and passengers on incoming flights had to wait onboard the parked planes.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/17/europe/EU-GEN-Czech-Bomb-Threat.php
Authorities Shut Down Cellular Stations in Moscow Metro After Terrorism Alert
17.01.2007
Russia’s three leading mobile phone operators have suspended services in the the Moscow metro, the RIA Novosti news agency reported Wednesday.
The reason of suspending has not been stated yet but company representatives unofficially said the move was connected to a possible terrorist threat.
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http://mosnews.com/news/2007/01/17/cellphones.shtml
IDF uncovers 2 large explosive devices in Jenin Tuesday night
01.17.07
IDF and Shin Bet forces uncovered during an operation in Jenin Tuesday night two explosive devices weighing 30 kilograms each and detonated them. Four explosive devices were thrown at the forces during the operation, and fire was opened at them three times. No injuries were reported, but an army vehicle was damaged.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3353506,00.html
BANGKOK, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb blast in Thai southern border province of Narathiwat wounded two soldiers on duty Wednesday, Thai News Agency reported.
The mobile phone-detonated bomb estimated at five kilograms went off as a patrol squad of 16 soldiers were escorting a medical unit to Banbukaet among School in Narathiwat's Cho Ai Rong district to offer villagers clinic service.
The blast wounded two soldiers, Private Korday Mantad and Private Sanya Daoruang, who were rushed to the hospital. In nearby province Yala, a bomb was hidden under a pick-up truck belonging to Boontham Bupphachart, a provincial electricity authority official in Yarang district. No one was wounded in the explosion but the vehicle was damaged.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/17/content_5618529.htm
Suspicious Package Shuts Down New Haven Roads
January 16, 2007
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The discovery of a suspicious-looking box shut down several roads in New Haven on Tuesday morning. The box was found on a sidewalk on Whalley Avenue, outside the Westville Bakery near the Amity line.
Police set up a perimeter around the area, and X-rayed the case to see what was inside. Whalley Avenue and the exit ramp of exit 59 northbound on the Merrit Parkway were closed.
http://www.nbc30.com/news/10760735/detail.html
Think our enemies are confined to the Middle East? Think again. Jim Kouri explains. Terrorists Training in South America Threaten US National Security
As Americans remember the horror of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington more than five years ago, the U.S. borders are practically as porous as ever. Yet Americans get few answers during the heated debate. What many hear are abstractions about tightening border security with no mention of how that is to be achieved.
According to testimony given to the US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee by General Peter Pace, then Vice Chairman, now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hamas has joined Hezbollah and al Qaeda in the Triple Frontier Zone in Latin America where the borders of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay converge.
There the Islamic terror groups train recruits, gather intelligence on targets, launder money and sell drugs. There is evidence that these terrorists and narco-terrorists will soon migrate north into the United States. He cited terrorism reports indicating terrorist groups are active in Canada and Central-South America.
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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/terrorism.php?id=609380
Alarm over how-to internet bomb videos
16 January 2007
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch national counter-terrorism chief has raised concern about the rise of so-called virtual terrorist training camps on the internet. Tjibbe Joustra — the chief of the anti-terrorism co-ordination point NTCb — said radical Muslim organisations operate between 100 and 200 websites. He said the websites offer written bomb-making manuals and step-by-step video instructions.
Currently, the websites are in Arabic but Joustra said in the television programme NOVA that he expects Dutch-language versions will soon be able. Written bomb instructions have been circulating around the internet for years. But there are now accompanying pictures and footage to show people exactly how they could make a bomb belt, for example. Joustra said the internet enables radical groups to aim their propaganda at target audiences in Dutch society.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=35594
SEATTLE -- A convicted Taliban collaborator who was arrested in Belize - despite orders that he not leave the U.S. - could face a new trial on charges of offering support to terrorists if he's found guilty of violating his probation, a federal prosecutor said.
James Ujaama, a Muslim convert, was in federal custody without bail after a court hearing Tuesday. Authorities say he fled to Belize, where he was arrested in mid-December with a fake Mexican passport.
Ujaama served two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2003 to conspiring to provide cash, computers and fighters to the Taliban. During three years of probation, he was to surrender his passport and needed written permission from the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle to travel internationally. "I don't know what he was thinking," Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said after the hearing.
Ujaama denied the accusations in his brief court appearance. He faces as many as two years in prison if a judge agrees he violated his probation, and more serious consequences if the government backs out of its plea agreement. In that event, the government could file new charges that he offered support to terrorists, and any statements Ujaama has made to U.S. authorities could be used against him in the new case, Greenberg said.
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Iranian Arrested In Erbil Is Wanted In Austria
Tehran, 17 Jan. 2007 - One of the five Iranians arrested last week by the US army in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil is wanted in Austria in connection with the assassination of Kurdish leader Andol Rahman Ghassemlu in 1989. Mahommad Jaafari Sharoudi was one of five Iranian officials detained last week in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
Abdol Rahman Ghassemlu, the historic leader of Iranian Kurds, was killed in an apartment in the outskirts of the Austrian capital Vienna where he was scheduled to meet a delegation sent by then Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
However, shortly after the start of the meeting between a delegation of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) and Tehran's delegation, a special unit of the Pasdaran is believed to have stormed the apartment and killed Ghassmlu and his aides. According to the Austrian police, the killers escaped arrest by hiding in Iran's embassy in Vienna.
Austrian sources claim that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was at the time a Pasdaran official, was the logistics' head of the commando group responsible for the Kurdish leader's death while Jaafari Sharoudi was one of the killers.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.377268905&par=0
A Yemeni immigrant caught with a knife hidden in a book at Detroit Metropolitan Airport was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and faces possible deportation.
Wayne County Circuit Judge James Callahan agreed the small blade posed little threat as a weapon, but was troubled about why Mohammed S. Ghanem of Hamtramck would bring it. "It didn't really have any sharp edges to it," Callahan said of the 2 1/2 -inch blade. "Why would someone do it? One of the possible reasons to do that was to see if the security system could be breached. Thank God, it was not."
Ghanem, 22, insisted he had no idea the blade was embedded in his address book before a one-way flight to Yemen on Sept. 7. He said he was returning to his country to find a bride. Callahan ordered Ghanem to complete two years of probation after a year in jail.
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http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070117/METRO01/701170348/1006
Use children as troops, says cleric
January 18, 2007
SYDNEY'S most influential radical Muslim cleric has been caught on film calling Jews pigs and urging children to die for Allah.
Firebrand Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, delivered the hateful rants on a collection of DVDs called the Death Series being sold in Australia and overseas.
"Today many parents, they prevent their children from attending lessons. Why? They fear that they might create a place in the their hearts, the love, just a bit of the love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah," Sheik Feiz says in the video.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam. Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior). Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
An Australian citizen born in Sydney who has spent the past year living in Lebanon, Sheik Feiz was exposed this week in a British documentary Undercover Mosque. Investigators found Sheik Feiz's DVDs being sold by children in the carpark of the Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham and other Islamic bookshops. The entire set can be bought online for $150.
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Damascus, 17 Jan. 2007 - Iran's national security council president, Ali Larijani, who is also the Islamic Repbublic's top nuclear negotiatior, will visit Syria in the coming days, sources in the capital Damascus said Wednesday. Larijani is expected to deliver a letter from Iranian president Mahomoud Ahmadinejad to Syrian president Bahsar al-Assad.
Teheran and Damascus have recently intensified their relations in the face of growing criticism from the United States in relation to their support for Hezbollah in Lebanon, their role in conflict in Iraq and Iran's nuclear ambitions which Washington opposes.
Larijani's visit is likely to anger those Arab leaders in the region such as in Saudi Arabia and Egypt who are trying to isolate non-Arab Iran in an effort to curb what is seen as its growing influence.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.377316254&par=0
Indonesia: International Forum Of Muslim MPs To Start
Jakarta, 17 Jan. 2007 - Muslim parliamentarians from 28 countries worldwide are expected in Indonesia's capital Jakarta for a four-day meeting starting Thursday, the International Forum for Islamic Parliaments.
The gathering, organised by members of the Indonesian parliament, is aimed at fostering solidarity among Muslims at a time when "Islam is under trial due to war and terrorism," organizers said.
Lawmakers from countries including the Palestinian territories, Jordan, Malaysia and Thailand will attend the gathering in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will open the forum on Thursday.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.377328653&par=0
Al-Qaeda Linked Algerian Group Resurgent Says Intelligence Expert
Casablanca, 17 Jan. 2007 - Al-Qaeda linked Algerian terror formation the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) is still active in Algeria and is setting its sights on Morocco and Tunisia in a bid to become an international network, according to an expert interviewed on Wednesday by Spanish daily El Pais, Khadija Mohsen-Finan, a Tunisian researcher at France's Institute of International Relations. Tunisian and Moroccan police also back her conclusion, El Pais said.
Tunisian and Moroccan security forces have in recent weeks carried out raids aimed at breaking up alleged terror cells, and in Morocco, smashed a cell believed to be recruiting youngsters to fight holy war in Iraq, El Pais reported.
It is also possible that the GSPC's ranks may have been swollen by Algeria's president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika's amnesty last year for Islamic militants, under which the authorities have reportedly freed 2,200 jailed militants. The amnesty, approved in a 2005 referendum, was part of the reconciliation process following a civil war in which and estimated 200,000 people have died.
The Algerian authorities, after inital hesitation, sent the list of freed militants to European countries, including France and Spain. The Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla - where Muslims form a sizeable group - are Islamist militant 'hotspots', and the Spanish authorities have raised their alert levels there.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.377271988&par=0
Thank you for adding that research post piasa.
"Quite chilling, I'd say."
Yep, and if 24 caused anyone who doesn't usually think about terrorism and the war on terrorism to think about this subject; then the show provides a public service, in my opinion.
"This POS..."
Yep.
You reading my thoughts?
I meant to check out Hammorabi before bedtime, but something else came up.
Jan. 17 -- The U.S. government will cut in half the ``no fly'' list of terror suspects banned from flights so it can better focus on people who pose the greatest threat, the head of the transportation security agency said.
The paring, to be complete in a month, will drop ``those who were feared to have presented a threat in the past but no longer do,'' said Kip Hawley, chief of the Transportation Security Administration.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aHpWQYTxWtXg
Terror plan foiled in Delhi; 2 militants arrested
January 17, 2007
Two suspected Harkatul-Jihad-e-Islami militants planning to strike terror in the capital during the Republic Day celebrations were arrested with 1.6 kg of RDX, police said on Wednesday.
Lutful Rahman and Mohd Amin Wani were arrested earlier this month, but the police had kept it under wraps as an operation was on to find out their contacts in the capital on the basis of their interrogation.
Rahman, a Bangladeshi national, was arrested in Adarsh Nagar locality of North-West Delhi, while Mohd Amin was nabbed in South Delh's Nizamuddin area on January four by the Special Cell sleuths of the Delhi Police. Amin hails from Jammu and Kashmir.
"We have recovered 1.6 kg of RDX, a detonator and a timer from Mohd Amin and Rs 4.5 lakh from Lutuful Rahman," Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar told PTI.
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/jan/17arrest.htm
Kenya: 17 Youths Held Over Terror Link
January 17, 2007
Seventeen Kenyan youths are held by police in Nairobi and Mombasa over possible links to terrorism or Somalia's Union of Islamic Courts (UIC).
Also in custody are 42 Somalis. The 59 suspects are being interrogated by a combined team of the National Security Intelligence Service, the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit and the Immigration Department.
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An Afghan governor today showed the media photographs of arrested Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif, claiming he had been picked up in a house containing packets of anthrax powder.
Gul Aghar Sherzai, governor of Nangarhar Province, where Hanif was arrested late on January 15, did not say how it had been proven the powder was the deadly anthrax bacteria or what quantity had been found.
Intelligence officials and police did not confirm the discovery of anthrax.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/1/A11BEC8C-1663-4DC7-9540-C0587CD66E02.html
Background on arrest:
Iraqi National-WNA / Basra Office / Um Qaser side police found yesterday evening 3 launchers and 11 missiles ready for launch.
A source in the Basra governorate police said that the police of Um Qaser found those missiles launchers in the road connecting Al-Zubair district with Umm Qasr area in southern city of Basra, without arresting who sited up the platforms. p>http://www.wna-news.com/inanews/news.php?item.2888.15
Wowser, this guy seems to have a one track mind.
Thanks for pointing to this article, Velveeta.
"Man Charged In Chemical Explosion At Miami Condo"
http://www.nbc6.net/news/10770715/detail.html
OPINION: Ditto that or keep him and throw away the key.
London - Humberside Police in the United Kingdom said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) might have stolen hundreds of thousand Pounds or some times millions of pounds from citizens of the United Kingdom by cloning ATM bank cards of customers who visited a cash withdrawing machine and withdrawing money from similar machines all over the world.
According to the initial police investigations the money by the cloned bank cards have been withdrawn by suspected Tamil Tigers in countries like Germany and Thailand where the LTTE is very active.
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http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/4187
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014863.php
January 17, 2007
Australia: Muslim cleric calls Jews pigs and urges children to die for Allah
In accord with Qur'an 2:62-5; 5:59-60; and 7:166. "Sydney cleric ridicules Jews: report," from AAP, with thanks to David:
Sydney's most influential radical Muslim cleric has been reportedly caught on film calling Jews pigs and urging children to die for Allah.
Sheikh Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Centre in Liverpool, delivers the hateful rants on a collection of DVDs called the Death Series, sold in Australia and overseas, News Limited newspapers report.
An Australian citizen born in Sydney, he has spent the past year living in Lebanon.
Sheikh Feiz was exposed this week in the British documentary, Undercover Mosque.
"Today many parents, they prevent their children from attending lessons," he says in the video.
"Why? They fear that they might create a place in the their hearts, the love, just a bit of the love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah."
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam.
"Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior).
"Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom."
British investigators found the DVDs being sold by children in the carpark of the Green Lane Mosque in Birmingham and other Islamic bookshops.
The entire set is available on the internet for $150.
His rants on video include denouncing "kaffirs" or non-Muslims.
"(Kaffir) is the worst word ever written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt," Sheikh Feiz says.
In an excerpt from a video lecture series called Signs of the Hour, he ridicules Jews as pigs.
Posted by Robert at January 17, 2007 03:52 PM
""Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid (holy warrior).
"Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.""
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