ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=KOSOVO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=MACEDONIA
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6239809.stm
Last Updated: Sunday, 7 January 2007, 22:50 GMT
"Macedonian police in cocaine haul"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police in Macedonia have seized around 400kg of cocaine in the country's largest-ever haul of the drug.
Officers found the cocaine, which has a street value of more than $50m (£26m), hidden in 60 paint tins on a truck which was crossing from Kosovo.
The driver of the vehicle, a Macedonian citizen, was arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling.
A police spokesman said the narcotics - high-quality Venezuelan cocaine - were likely bound for Greece."
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=VENEZUELA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=GREECE
AMSTERDAM — Military police arrested a man who was allegedly carrying eight passports at Schiphol Airport on Thursday. Military police said the man — who was about to board a flight to Istanbul — was carrying seven Swedish and one Finnish passport.
The passports were real and at least four of the Swedish documents were registered as being stolen. The man is being held on remand and authorities are investigating what he was planning to do with the travel documents.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=35383
‘Human pipeline’ of terror linked to Pakistan
Sunday, January 07, 2007
WASHINGTON: There is a “human pipeline” that arranges for alienated British Muslim youths – many of them born in the UK of Pakistani heritage – to travel to Pakistan for indoctrination and training at temporary terrorist “camps”, believed to be operated by Al Qaeda leaders, according to a report in the current issue of Newsweek.
The report quoted US authorities as saying that the UK-Pakistan pipeline had played a role in several planned terrorist plots. A US intelligence official said that agencies on both sides of the Atlantic had information linking a 26-year-old London man, Muhammed Al-Ghabra, as a major organiser for Al Qaeda and other terror groups to some of the well-known plots.
The information that the US Treasury Department made public in its announcement freezing Ghabra’s assets appears to affirm his role as a “terrorist fixer”. The Treasury statement said some of the would-be terrorists that Ghabra allegedly helped travel to Pakistan returned to the UK to “engage in covert activity on Al Qaeda’s behalf”. It said that during a visit to Pakistan in 2002, Ghabra allegedly met and stayed at the home of Abu Faraj Al-Libi, who at the time was believed to have succeeded the 9/11 mastermind as the Al Qaeda operations chief. Ghabra was also accused of training at a terror camp in Kashmir. The US government is the only party involved in designating Ghabra as a terror organiser that has released such detailed information on him.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/01/07/story_7-1-2007_pg1_2
Report: U.K. Army Guarding Energy Plants
Jan 6, 7:34 PM
LONDON (AP) - Britain's army will be deployed at oil, gas and electricity facilities in the country to defend them from potential terrorist attacks, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
The News of the World cited an unnamed security source as confirming security will be increased around the facilities after intelligence suggested terrorists may target the country's infrastructure. The newspaper said the measure would mark the first time soldiers had been called in to guard such facilities. The Home Office said the review of security around key infrastructure did not come in response to any specific threat and added the general threat level to the country has not changed. A Home Office spokeswoman declined to comment further on the report.
UPDATE...
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003534.html
January 7, 2007
"UK: British Muslim Is 'Al Qaeda Banker'"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On December 19, the US Treasury, pursuant to Executive Order 13224, designated a British citizen as a supporter of terrorism. Adam Szubin, director of the US Office of Foreign Assets Control, stated: "Mohammed Al Ghabra has backed al Qaida and other violent jihadist groups, facilitating travel for recruits seeking to meet with al Qaida leaders and take part in terrorist training. We must act against those who fund and facilitate al Qaida's agenda of violence against innocents."
The Sunday Times reports that Britain has agreed with the US and the assets of Mohammed Al Ghabra are now frozen by the UK Treasury, the Bank of England.
Mohammed Al Ghabra lives in Forest Gate, east London. He is a supporter of George Galloway's "Respect" party, He has spoken to the Sunday Times at his home, and denies the claims. He said: "If I am the moneymaker and this is why they have decided to put the sanctions against me, how could I have so many financial problems myself?"
Ghabra admits to being an active member of the Muslim Prisoner Support Group. This is an organization which campaigns for the rights of Muslims who are imprisoned as suspected terrorists.
Ghabra, born in Syria, is a known associate of Haroon Rashid Aswat. This individual, from Dewsbury, west Yorkshire, met Ghabra in a religious school in Lahore, Pakistan.
Aswat is wanted on an extradition order by the United States, for his involvement with Abu Hamza and James Ujaama to set up an AL Qaeda raining camp at Dog Cry Ranch in Bly, Oregon. Aswat was arrested in Zambia shortly after the 7/7 bombings, originally suspected of involvement in the London Transport attacks as an organizer. Aswat is in custody, and he was a member of Al-Muhajiroun.+
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014727.php
TIMESONLINE.co.uk
January 07, 2007
"London resident named as al-Qaeda 'banker'"
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014473.php
NEWSWEEK
December 18, 2006
"Newsweek: 12-man team of Westerners being trained by al Qaeda in Pakistan"
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000649.html
December 19, 2006
"AL GHABRA, Mohammed [SDGT]"
(DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY)
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