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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas
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http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan08/0,4670,HamasTrial,00.html
(AP)
"Prosecutors: Men Were 'Players' in Hamas"
Monday, January 08, 2007
By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer
CHICAGO —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Former Chicago grocer Muhammad Salah and co-defendant Abdelhaleem Ashqar were "important players" in the Hamas terrorist network, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Ferguson told jurors. The closing arguments capped a three-month trial with witnesses including a torture expert and Israeli agents.
"The Hamas organization engaged in a purposeful and strategic campaign to spread death, destruction, fear and terror in pursuit of its overall objective to remove the State of Israel from the map," Ferguson said.
Salah, 53, and Ashqar, 48, a former assistant professor of business at Washington's Howard University, are charged with participating in a racketeering scheme that provided money and men to the Hamas organization in the early 1990s."
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23960_Hamas_Prof_Caught_Through_Phone_Calls&only
Thursday, January 11, 2007
"Hamas Prof Caught Through Phone Calls"
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http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/2188-Hamas-Professor-in-Mississippi-Caught-Through-Eavesdropping.html
Thursday, January 11, 2007
"Hamas Professor in Mississippi Caught Through Eavesdropping"
BLOG SNIPPET: "Remember the kerfuffle about the US eavesdropping program on international calls from America to known terrorists? The Democrats' position was essentially that the need did not exist.
This story reports on a Mississippi professor who was actually a Hamas leader who had made 568 phone calls to a single Hamas terror leader in the Middle East."
BERLIN - A bomb scare had the rear parking lots of a Taco Bell and Pep Boys automotive store on the Berlin Turnpike shut down Wednesday afternoon as officials examined a white Buick Century believed to have contained a bomb. At around 5:30 p.m., Berlin police officers and firefighters had put up police tape around the parking lot behind the Taco Bell restaurant near Rowley Street and were investigating what was believed to have been a bomb that detonated inside the vehicle.
"Somebody put some explosive devices in there and blew it up," said Berlin Police Capt. Larry Schubert. The windows of the vehicle were cracked and there was a fire inside the car, Schubert explained. "We put the fire out," he said. "We have one person in custody who admitted being a part of this and there'll be more arrests to be made because there's more than one person involved."
Police didn't release the name of the person arrested. The state Police Bomb Squad was called to the scene to make sure there was nothing else inside the vehicle, Schubert said. A bomb squad official dressed in protective gear searched the car with a flashlight. About an hour later, fire marshals and the bomb squad declared the scene was once again safe.
Officials are continuing to investigate why the bomb was detonated and what types of explosives were used. "It's too early in the investigation to find out," Schubert said.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17696464&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6
Authorities on lookout for stolen trailer containing explosives (Georgia)
January 10, 2007
Authorities were on the lookout Wednesday for a trailer containing 100 pounds of explosives stolen from a Henry County construction site.
McDonough Police say sometime between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday, a trailer containing construction equipment and 100 pounds of gunpowder was stolen from a construction area behind the Henry County Courthouse.
A worker with Faith Technologies, an electrical contractor working on the renovation of the 110-year-old courthouse, told police the trailer contained a number of small canisters loaded with gunpowder used to charge a welding machine. The cargo trailer, a 2000 Pace trailer registered to Jimmy Spang of Jasper, Ga., also contained more than $3,600 in construction equipment, including 16 500-foot rolls of copper wire, according to a police report. The wire alone was valued at $800, the report said.
McDonough Police Detective Scott said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was notified of the theft and a description of the trailer, which had a Faith Technologies company logo on the back, was given to authorities in the area. “We’re pretty sure that whoever stole it did not know of the gunpowder and they were stealing the trailer for the tools,” Zebrowski said. “Hopefully, we’ll come across the trailer shortly,” he said.
http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_010195709.html?keyword=topstory
Bomb Scare Evacuation (UK)
Jan.11.2007
Police evacuated part of the city of London financial district near the Bank of England on Thursday because of a suspect package near a Turkish bank. "We were alerted to the incident shortly after 3.30 p.m. and officers are on the scene," a spokesman for the City of London police said.
He said the suspect package was on Prince's Street which is next to the Bank of England. He did not name the Turkish bank.
http://www.londonist.com/archives/2007/01/bomb_scare_evac.php