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I agree with your Williams assessment.
Thanks for the new thread.
Building Near White House Ordered Evacuated
WASHINGTON -- A federal building close to the White House was ordered evacuated Friday because of a bomb scare.
The White House Conference Center on Jackson Place is serving as the temporary residence of the White House press corps. Deputy press secretary Scott Stanzel said a car checked by a bomb-sniffing dog had tested positive.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/10911278/detail.html
Suspicious packages turn up in Chicago, Kansas City
Federal agents are investigating an explosive device sent to a Loop office building Thursday afternoon that was similar to a pipe bomb mailed to a Kansas City office building the day before, the Associated Press reported.
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The Associated Press said both the Chicago and Kansas City devices were defused without incident.(snip)
Though Obritsch described Wednesday's bomb as an "actual I.E.D., improvised explosive device,'' he said it appeared more designed to frighten than kill.
"This was the real deal, but it was not primed to go off,'' Obritsch said. ``To some extent, it was a device meant to scare people.''(snip)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-060202pipe-bombs,1,4082789.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
placemark
yeah. Bears win 21 - 9
Then you should be able to make a mint?
Thank you Ian!
Thank you for starting the new thread. I read here almost every day. The amount and quality of information about terrorism presented by the mods is fantastic.
Thank you all.
3 held with bogus papers at Chennai airport (India)
2/2/07
CHENNAI: I mmigration authorities at the Chennai airport detained three persons -- a Sri Lankan national, a Swiss national and a carrier -- after they were found to have used fake documents to board different flights past midnight on Wednesday.
The immigration authorities said the Sri Lankan national, Somasundaram Mayuran, took the boarding pass in the name of S. Martin to board a Mumbai-bound flight. The carrier, Gopalan Sarveswaran, also obtained a boarding pass for the same flight. Both waited in the security hall area. The Swiss national, Scheidner Martin, holding a Swiss passport, checked in for a Lufthansa flight bound for San Francisco via Frankfurt. He came to the security hall, where he exchanged his boarding pass with Mayuran.
On suspicion, the immigration authorities interrogated Sarveswaran and detained Mayuran. The authorities seized a fake Indian passport from Mayuran, issued in the name of Solomon Martin.
While the interrogation was on, the Swiss national left for Mumbai. The immigration authorities alerted their counterparts in Mumbai, who sent him back to Chennai. The immigration authorities said Shiva, a Jakarta-based person, was the operator.
http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/02/stories/2007020204320400.htm
Powerful Explosion at Post Oil Plant (Texas)
2/1/07
An investigation continues into a powerful explosion at an oil plant in Post Thursday night. The blast happened at the George R. Brown Oil Plant in Post about 7:30 in the evening.
Few details are available at this time as authorities are still investigating the exact cause of the explosion and fire. There were no reported injuries.
http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6027179&nav=3w6y
Muslim soldiers serving in the Spanish army in the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla are sparking controversy among security experts. Some doubt their loyalty to Spain and fear they could side with neighbouring Morocco in case of a conflict between the two countries. Located on Morocco's Mediterranean coast, Ceuta and Melilla have belonged to Spain for centuries, but Rabat continues to claim sovereignty over them.
About a third of the enclaves' population of some 70,000 each is estimated to be Muslim, a proportion corresponding to their number among the total 8,000 soldiers stationed in the two strategically important military outposts. Officially, Ceuta and Melilla are presented as models of a harmonious coexistence between Catholics, Muslims and the smaller Jewish and Hindu communities, but the reality is less rosy.
If a conflict erupted with Morocco over sovereignty or some other issue, "I'm not certain the Muslim soldiers would obey me," one commander said. Recently, the Ceuta command refused to renew the contracts of about 15 Muslim soldiers on the basis of confidential information, angering Muslims and creating tension between them and the Christians in the enclave.
"This has given rise to suspicions and rumours," complains lawyer Mohammed Ali, leader of the Muslim party Ceuta Democratic Union.
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Pakistan says arrests Afghans for fake passports
1 February 2007
KARACHI - Pakistani authorities have arrested more than 500 people in recent days, all believed to be Afghans, for travelling on fake Pakistani passports, an immigration official said on Thursday. The suspects were arrested in the southern port city of Karachi after they were deported from Jeddah, having gone to Saudi Arabia for the annual Haj pilgrimage.
“They have been arrested under the foreigners act and investigations are being conducted to find out how they obtained these passports,” senior immigration official Khaleeq-uz-Zaman told Reuters. He said 202 of them were arrested at Karachi airport after they were deported from Saudi Arabia in two batches beginning on Tuesday. They included 45 women.
He said 305 others had been arrested in similar circumstances since Jan. 20.
Relations Worsen Between the Egyptian Regime and the Muslim Brotherhood
February 2, 2007
Relations between the Egyptian government and the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt, never less than tense, have recently taken a turn for the worse. Following a December 10, 2006 march at Al-Azhar University in Cairo by masked, black-garbed students of the university who were Muslim Brotherhood members, the movement was accused of operating a "militia" that endangers state security and damages Egypt's image in the world. Following this event, the Egyptian authorities went on the offensive against the Muslim Brotherhood, moving against it in the security, economic, and media spheres.
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Thank you Oorang.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=morocco
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778204/posts
Morocco jails Islamists for Qaeda ties, attack plans
reuters ^ | Feb. 2,2007 | reuters
Posted on 02/02/2007 12:34:43 PM PST by mdittmar
A Moroccan court on Friday jailed eight Islamists for up to 10 years for plotting attacks and belonging to the al Qaeda network, court officials and lawyers said.
The court in Sale, a twin city to Rabat, convicted Ben Moujane Mohamed for "belonging to al Qaeda and preparing terrorist attacks".
Mohamed, who was captured in 2002 by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and jailed at Guantanamo Bay prison, was handed over to Morocco early last year.
He was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday, Sale court officials and lawyers said.
The court, in a separate case, condemned six Islamists to between one and 10 years for plotting attacks and attempting to get military training with al Qaeda-linked guerrillas in Algeria. Algerian authorities seized the six men early in 2006 before they joined the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which led an insurgency in Algeria.
Last month, the GSPC adopted the name Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, saying it had the approval of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the change.
In another case, Islamist Anouar Majrar was jailed for seven years for "preparing terrorist attacks with the aim of undermining public order".
Majrar had worked in France as a waiter before returning home in 2005.
Morocco has been on alert since 2003 when suicide bombings killed 45 people in Casablanca.
The authorities said police had arrested more than 3,000 people since and broken up more than 80 cells.
Posted on 02/02/2007 8:59:28 AM PST by Mount Athos
A St. Charles man obtained fully automatic weapons and tried to buy as many explosives as possible in preparation for what an associate called "war," the FBI says in court documents. He bought three rifles and a Claymore anti-personnel mine and negotiated for a case of hand grenades, documents obtained by the Post-Dispatch show.
Mousa M. Abuelawi, 22, of Franjoe Court, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged on complaints accusing him of three counts of illegal possession or distribution of a machine gun and conspiracy to violate machine gun statutes.
Abuelawi, a Palestinian immigrant free on $50,000 bond, could not be reached. His brother declined to comment on his behalf. His lawyers, Scott Rosenblum and Gil Sison, did not return calls.
The context of the word "war" was not explained in court filings; the FBI declined to comment. The man to whom the word was attributed, Thaer Abde Sumad, said in an interview Thursday that the purchases were not intended for terrorism but to make money supplying street gangs in a St. Louis turf war.
Sumad, 23, is not charged, although he is identified in an FBI affidavit as being present for one of the transactions. He told a reporter he had no role in handling the firearms or explosives. He said he was at a meeting between Abuelawi and a federal informer outside a St. Louis gas station where Sumad works only because he knows both and wanted to say hello.
Sumad suggested that he and Abuelawi attracted special attention because of the sound of their names and their Arab ethnicity. Abuelawi's lawyers have said he is a Palestinian immigrant. Sumad is of Palestinian descent but was born in Indiana and raised in St. Louis, he said.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said Friday.
The assault, days after a Taliban commander was killed outside the town of Musa Qala, raises doubts about the future of the peace deal, which has been criticized by some Western officials as a NATO retreat in hostile Taliban territory.
Two residents of Musa Qala estimated that between 200 and 300 Taliban fighters had overtaken the town. They said the fighters took weapons from the police on Wednesday and destroyed the town's government center late Thursday.
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Fears of terror mole in UK defence
03feb07
DEFENCE chiefs have launched an urgent investigation into how a gang of suspected Islamic terrorists obtained a list of names and addresses for 25 serving British Muslim soldiers as part of an alleged plot to kidnap and behead a serviceman.
Senior officers are alarmed that the hitlist includes home addresses as far apart as Glasgow and the West Country. A priority will be to ensure that no Ministry of Defence "mole" provided the suspected terror cell with such top-secret personal information.
All those on the hitlist are understood to be serving members of the regular army. The main targets identified by the gang are understood to have served a recent tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Police in the West Midlands were given seven more days yesterday to hold nine men arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday. The men are being held in connection with a suspected plan to abduct and murder a serving soldier, whose execution was to be broadcast on the internet.
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http://www.ntnews.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,21163287%255E401,00.html
Freed Terrorist Arrested in Shechem (Israel)
Feb 02, '07
Army and security officers Thursday evening arrested two wanted terrorists near Shechem in central Samaria, who were involved in preparations for a suicide attack in Israel. One of them, Natzar Jubara, was freed last year by Israel and became one of the leaders of the Islamic Jihad in Shechem.
Earlier in the day, security forces arrested a senior Tanzim operative in Tulkarm, east of Netanya. He was involved in rocket manufacturing and also tried to recruit a suicide bomber.
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf conceded that some border guards had turned a "blind eye" towards Taliban militants launching attacks in Afghanistan. But Musharraf, a key US ally, angrily rejected allegations that Pakistan's intelligence services or the army were fostering an increasingly deadly Islamist-led insurgency in the neighbouring country.
The president also said that Pakistan was starting to fence a stretch of its mountainous northwestern border with Afghanistan in an effort to stop infiltration by the rebels. "We had some incidents I know of that in some posts, a blind eye was being turned," Musharraf told a press conference when asked about criticism of Pakistan's cooperation in the US-led "war on terror."
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Kenya holding 2 Americans as suspects
Feb.2.2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Two Americans were among at least 10 foreigners caught by Kenyan police at the Somali border after allegedly fighting with Somalia's ousted Islamic movement, an official said Friday.
One of the Americans is wanted in the U.S. for links to radical movements, the Kenyan police official said. Kenya was preparing to deport the foreigners, seized after escaping advancing Ethiopian troops who helped oust the Islamists, to their home countries.
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Indonesia: Poso Residents Fear Alleged Arrival Of Militants
Poso, Central Sulawesi, 2 Feb. 2007 - Residents of the troubled Muslim town of Poso, in Central Sulawesi province, have expressed concern over allegations that jihadist paramilitary troops have left Java and are due in Poso, where another police raid led to the arrest of two suspected terrorists on Thursday. The latest raid followed two more in January that left 17 Islamic militants dead. Levi Bagu, resident of the Kapompa Village, Labuan, Poso, is worried that the arrival of militants could unsettle Poso even more. "I just want to live in peace," Bagu told Adnkronos International (AKI).
Sectarian violence has continued to erupt in Central Sulawesi, the battlefield for bloody 1999-2001 warfare between Christians and Muslim militias that left 1,000 dead.
In the last 24 hours, news reports have indicated that members of the officially disbanded Laskar Jihad militia have left the East Javanese city of Surabaya and are on their way to Poso.
In a previous interview with AKI, Laskar Jihad chief, Jaafar Umar Thalib, denied the allegation. “It is all a lie, maybe it is someone else using our name,” he said.
Adnan Arsal, one of Poso’s most influential Islamic leaders and the chairman of the Silahturrahim Forum and the Struggle for Poso Muslims, denied the news report. He also said that the Poso conflict was not connected with Al-Qaeda or Jemaah Islamiyah, as claimed by Indonesia-based experts in terrorism. "All that is simply untrue. I really do not know where the existence of Jemaah Islamiyah in Poso is,” he said.
Arsal’s son in law, Hasanuddin, is currently on trial in Jakarta for a string of vicious crimes, including the beheading of three Christian schoolgirls. Hasanuddin, who gained military training in the Philippines island of Mindanao, is considered the leader of Poso’s JI cell.
Also worried for the alleged arrival of the jihadi is Rev Rinaldy Damanik, Chairman of the Christian Central Sulawesi Council of the Church Synod, who stressed with AdnKronos International that the police must stop them. "I am worried that large scale violence may break out again. But I think this is the police's responsibility,” Rev Damanik told AKI.
In the meantime, local police officials have played down the allegation while however tightening the entry points to the town. “This matter is only a rumor,” spokesperson of Central Sulawesi Regional Police, Muhammad Kilat, said. “However we stay alert. Whether there is or not a real possibility of any jihadi arriving in Poso, we will keep a close check at several entry points,” he added.
It is understood that extra troops have been deployed at Palu airport, the Pantoloan Seaport and at several other entry points. Extra security has also been extended in several ports in South Sulawesi, where it is believed the jihadi should moor.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.382590357&par=0
"freed terrorist arrested..."
I so totally not surprised.
I read the same thing about another suspect last week.
Slow learners or jihad -- another day.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778221/posts
"Serial Criminal in Jail One Day and Out the Next"
KSL-TV, Salt Lake City ^ | 2/1/2007 | Sam Penrod
Posted on 02/02/2007 1:26:44 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "This man was arrested for burglary and dealing drugs, but a judge let him out of jail on his own recognizance; and to make matters worse, he has a long criminal history.
We found he's sat in the Utah County jail 28 times, including ten arrests in just the last two years. Sam Penrod discovered Michael Pino was already back on the streets, and he told the police about it!"
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2905
Air Strike Targets al Qaeda Leaders; Insurgents Captured
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2007 – A coalition air strike targeted al Qaeda leaders today in Iraq, and Iraqi and coalition forces detained 45 terrorists and foiled attacks throughout Iraq this week, military officials reported.
Coalition forces targeted the leadership of an al Qaeda in Iraq-related car bomb network during today’s air strike operation near Arab Jabour.
Intelligence reports indicated that this network is responsible for a large and devastating number of car-bomb attacks in the Baghdad area. It also is responsible for roadside-bomb and sniper attacks against the Iraqi people and Iraqi and coalition forces, officials said.
Coalition officials said they believe several key terrorist leaders were killed during the air strike, but that results are still being assessed.
In another operation, coalition forces yesterday captured a suspected insurgent allegedly responsible for planning and conducting several improvised-explosive-device and car-bomb attacks in western Baghdad and Fallujah. The capture occurred in the Abu Ghraib district, east of Baghdad International Airport. Three additional suspected insurgents were detained by coalition forces.
Elsewhere, soldiers of the 1st and 9th Iraqi Army Divisions detained 11 suspected insurgents yesterday in northeastern Ramadi during operations with coalition advisors to capture the leader of an insurgent cell network.
The Iraqi-led operation was targeting a man who is believed to be running two cells conducting IED attacks and murders against Iraqi civilians and Iraqi security forces, officials said. The cell leader is suspected of being directly involved in the deaths of two Iraqi soldiers.
In Ramadi, coalition forces used precision-guided munitions in two separate incidents during hostile actions today and yesterday. Eighteen insurgents were killed in the attacks.
In both instances, coalition forces were attacked with small-arms fire from several insurgent positions. Coalition forces returned fire, and when the attacks did not cease, used machine-gun fire and tank main-gun rounds. The insurgent attacks continued and coalition forces used precision-guided munitions to halt the attacks.
In other news, coalition forces killed a foreign terrorist facilitator and detained 29 suspected terrorists while conducting operations yesterday throughout Iraq.
In Tarmiyah, coalition forces detained 18 suspected terrorists who reportedlyre a involved in al Qaeda kidnapping operations, IED emplacement and terrorist safe-house activities.
Intelligence reports indicated that a foreign-fighter network involved in vehicle hijackings, kidnappings and insurgency funding was operating in Muhammadi. As coalition forces approached the targeted area, one armed man chambered a round and attempted to fire at ground forces. Coalition forces shot and killed the armed terrorist and detained one suspected terrorist.
Coalition forces also detained five suspected terrorists northwest of Rutbah tied to foreign fighter activities in Syria and Iraq.
Four suspected terrorists were captured by coalition forces in the Baghdad area with ties to car bomb manufacturing and emplacement and foreign terrorist facilitation.
One suspect with ties to al Qaeda in Iraq was detained in Tikrit.
In a separate operation, special Iraqi army forces captured a suspected death squad leader yesterday during operations with coalition advisors in southern Baghdad.
The death squad leader allegedly is responsible for carrying out kidnappings and murders against innocent Iraqi civilians in the Hai al Aamel, Bayaa and Sayidiyah neighborhoods. The leader and his cell are implicated in the kidnapping of three Iraqi civilians Dec. 10 and burning them alive.
In another operation, coalition forces, with the help of a local imam and the Iraqi army, detained two suspected terrorists and uncovered a weapons cache yesterday inside a mosque near Tarmiyah.
Intelligence reports indicated that al Qaeda in Iraq foreign-fighter facilitation cells were operating in the area and were using the mosque for weapons storage.
The local imam and Iraqi army personnel entered the mosque and secured the two suspects, handing them over to coalition forces for questioning. The weapons cache consisted of several AK-47s and 10 60 mm mortar rounds.
In Baghdad, Iraqi national police and Multinational Division Baghdad troops discovered two caches in a joint operation in al Doura, a southern neighborhood, yesterday.
The munitions caches included multiple side-arms, an AK-47 with 3,000 rounds, a complete IED, 15 pounds of homemade explosives, two pounds of plastic explosives, a 125 mm projectile with detonation cord and fuse, 239 57 mm projectiles, and various protective gear.
An explosive ordnance team destroyed the confiscated materials at the site.
Elsewhere, the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 5th Iraqi Army, took quick action and prevented a car bomb attack on their compound when a member of al Qaeda attempted to penetrate the perimeter of the post Jan. 31 in Muqdadiya, Iraq.
At about 8:30 a.m., a fuel truck attempted to breach the gate of the compound. The guards immediately attempted to stop the truck with small-arms fire, killing the driver. The car bomb detonated outside the compound.
The detonation wounded 13 Iraqi army soldiers.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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"Gates, Pace: No Plans for War, But U.S. Won’t Tolerate Iran’s Interference"
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2007
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2910
"China Relationship Key to U.S. Strategy, Official Says"
By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2007
Thanks for the ping on the fake document guys.
Is there any info as to what they were up to?
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