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Posted on 01/02/2007 7:23:18 PM PST by nwctwx
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Wed Jan 10 2007 03:40:56 GMT-0800.
Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
Thanks for posting the entire article.
Mega kudos to the owners of the trucking school for their diligence.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/sns-ap-nicaragua-ortegas-return,1,4669637.story?coll=chi-newsroom-hed
Ortega Returns to Power in Nicaragua
MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Former revolutionary Daniel Ortega takes office Wednesday in a ceremony attended by more than a dozen world leaders, many Latin American leftists celebrating their latest ally in the region.
Ortega has promised a delicate balance between taking a moderate economic and social stance while cultivating close relationships with U.S. opponents such as Venezuelan Hugo Chavez and the communist Cuban government. Ortega was once one of the most bitter foes of Washington, which secretly backed a rebel insurgency aimed at toppling him.
Chavez, who has called President Bush the "devil," is using his inaugural visit to play up his support of Nicaragua, promising the impoverished nation 32 desperately needed electricity plants, low-interest loans to the poor from a branch of his state development bank and help in improving the country's health and education systems.
Another guest attending will be Bolivian President Evo Morales, a close ally of Chavez and ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Morales has expressed doubts about the U.S. drug war efforts in the Andean region and recently announced that U.S. citizens would need visas to visit Bolivia. The U.S. is wary of Morales' ties to Chavez and Castro.(snip)
ALERT
Indian airports on terrorist alert
2007-01-10 23:36:34
NEW DELHI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- All Indian airports have been on high alert Wednesday after warnings by intelligence agencies that terrorists may hijack a plane, according to Indo-Asian News Service.
The alert has been sounded on the basis of certain reports sent by intelligence agencies to the home ministry. Security at all airports across the country has been tightened and the Civil Aviation Ministry is closely working with security agencies.
Airlines have been advised to inform passengers to reach airports well ahead of time so that no delay due to security checks, said the service.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/10/content_5590151.htm
Family of would-be Herald Sq. bomber arrested
Eyewitness News
(New York-WABC, January 10, 2007) - Federal immigration officials plan to deport the family of a man convicted of plotting to bomb the Herald Square subway station.
Shahwar Matin Siraj was sentenced to 30 years in prison Monday for a 2004 plot to blow up the subway station located right below Macy's flagship store.
A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the New York Times that the parents and sister of Siraj were arrested and detained on other immigration violations.
The family had been reportedlyseeking asylum in the U.S. since 2003.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4922388
Gang of seven grabs $1,200 from register (NJ)
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She and another clerk described the suspects as four women wearing Burqas -- Afghan clothing that covers the whole body -- one young male in black clothing, and an older, heavier male wearing a green coat, blue jeans and blue hat.
http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1168441008284700.xml&coll=10
Wow. That's quite a story. Only in New Jersey.....
Terror Suspect Halts British Court Hearing With Outburst, Threatens to Kill Himself
By TARIQ PANJA
LONDON Jan 10, 2007 (AP)— A terror suspect who is subject to severe restrictions on his movements launched a furious outburst in court Wednesday in which he threatened to take his own life......
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2784787
"Only in New Jersey"
LOL, 'gang of seven' with only 6 perp descriptions.
Thanks Velveeta.
French officials have arrested two Serbs on suspicions of having imported explosives to France, a judicial source said on Tuesday. Officials found four kilograms of the powerful explosive pentrite in northern Paris, the source said.
Police suspected the men of wanting to sell the material to members of organised crime groups. One of the suspects was a bus driver regularly driving from Belgrade to Paris, the source said.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3350451,00.html
Sri Lankan army captures truck with explosives
9 January 2007
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s elite anti-terrorist commandoes seized a truck packed with explosives when they overran a key Tamil rebel base in the country’s east. The military said the vehicle was destined for targets in the capital.
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Five dead, scores wounded in bomb blast in Philippines
Wednesday January 10, 2007
General Santos City, Philippines- Five people were killed and scores injured Wednesday when a homemade bomb exploded in a public market in the southern Philippines, police said. The blast occurred at a lottery outlet inside the public market in General Santos City, 1,080 kilometres south of Manila, as dozens of people queued up to place their bets.
Superintendent Alfredo Toroctocon, city police director, said there were no immediate suspects in the bombing, but investigators were considering terrorism might be behind the attack.
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http://rawstory.com/news/2006/Five_dead_scores_wounded_in_bomb_bl_01102007.html
Three bombs explode in Philippines ahead of Asian summit
2007/1/11
Bombs exploded in three southern Philippine cities on Wednesday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, just days before a summit of leaders from 16 Asian countries.
Western governments have warned of bomb attacks by Islamic militants during the Jan. 13-15 summit in the central city of Cebu, and said the violence-prone Mindanao region in the south of the country was a likely target.
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I wonder if they are from Canada.
BIG DITTO.
Police are investigating a security scare at south suburban hospital. A man wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope apparently followed an employee of Advocate South Suburban Hospital into the building in Hazel Crest Tuesday morning.
An alert nurse spotted him and asked him for an ID. Security was called, but the man managed to escape. While the man was trying to get away in his car he hit and injured a security guard. He will be okay.
Hospital officials say their security procedures worked and that the man never got close to any patients.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=politics&id=4921415
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Oorang's thoughts on article below - Either this guy was really stupid or was up to something. Both ammonia and bleach could be readily purchased at his destination but he took them both on the airplane. Combine bleach and ammonia, breathe the fumes, and you're dead.
Chemical Found in Passenger's Baggage (Jackson, Mississippi)
01/09/07
There was a scare at Jackson-Evers International Airport Tuesday when screeners found a chemical in some baggage. Emergency crews were called in to investigate. A passenger apparently needed the chemicals for his job and put them inside his checked baggage.
Officials say a passenger told them the substance was "water treatment chemicals." Sources tell us the chemicals were ammonia and bleach which becomes hydrochloric acid when combined.
Three Transportation Security Administration employees were taken to the hospital as a precautionary measure after complaining of breathing problems. No flights were affected and no charges are expected to be filed against the passenger.
"...Both ammonia and bleach could be readily purchased at his destination..."
You're exactly right and you nailed it.
COMMENT: Does the war in Iraq seem remote to you? It shouldn't.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014775.php
(AP)
January 10, 2007
"Michigan: Sunni Group wants FBI help in investigating vandalism of Shi'ite mosques"
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014765.php
(DETROIT FREE PRESS)
January 09, 2007
"Sunni/Shi'ite jihad violence in Detroit?"
COMMENT: Does Sharia/Shariah Law seem remote to you?
It shouldn't.
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