About 9000 Australians are expected to attend the Dawn Service at Anzac Cove on Wednesday, and Turkish authorities are on high alert. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has received "credible reports" of terrorist groups planning attacks in Turkey. Potential targets include beaches and national parks.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21601200-2,00.html?from=public_rss
Secret Service warning of Al Qaeda activity in Spain
Apr 23, 2007
El Pais newspaper has said the Spanish Secret Service has warned of a possible attack in Spain or France.
The Spanish Security Service, the CNI, has warned the Government of the increased risk of a new Islamic terrorist attack in Spain. A report in Sunday’s El Pais newspaper indicates that Al Qaeda has an active cell in Spain and that Spain and France are the two most likely targets in Europe following the recent attacks in the Magreb region.
In Algeria a series of explosions killed 33 and there were several suicide attacks in Casablanca, two of them outside United States diplomatic offices. The CNI believes that there are people receiving money and undergoing training in Spain, before being sent to either Africa or Iraq. French and Spanish authorities are reported to be working closely together, especially to see if they can follow the money to the terrorists.
A recent statement from Al Qaeda said that they wanted to recover lands which used to be Muslim, such as Al Andalus in Spain. The Spanish authorities have already increased security levels in Ceuta and Melilla and in provinces along the Mediterranean coast. The Government says it is taking precautions and there is no cause for alarm.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10069.shtml
80 Qaeda suspects arrested in Algeria
Monday, 23 April, 2007
ALGIERS: Algerian security forces have arrested 80 Algerian Islamists who made recent visits to Iraq for questioning about suicide bomb attacks in Algiers, a leading newspaper reported yesterday.
The daily, Echorouk, said the 80, suspected of having had links to Al Qaeda in Iraq, were being questioned about whether there was any connection between that branch of Al Qaeda and the bombings that killed 33 people in Algiers on April 11.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - Workers putting down carpet in a hotel room discovered four suspicious devices under a bed Sunday night, prompting authorities to clear the building and call in a bomb squad, police said.
A robot removed the devices from the Ramada Limited in this western Ohio city and carried them to a grassy area behind the building, where they were detonated about 11:30 p.m., the Springfield News-Sun reported. Authorities were concerned that the devices might have contained explosives, but whether they did hasn't been determined, police Sgt. Dan Harris said. A wick was sticking out of at least one of the devices, Sgt. Brett Bauer told the News-Sun.
Police haven't determined who put the devices under the bed or how long they were there, Harris said. Workers renovating the room found the devices about 6:50 p.m. Sunday and took them to the front-desk clerk, who called police, Harris said. The police department called in the bomb squad from nearby Dayton and guests were evacuated to the parking lot of a neighboring shopping center, the News-Sun reported. Guests returned to their rooms around midnight, said a hotel clerk who declined to give his name. The clerk said he didn't know how many guests were forced to leave the hotel because he wasn't on duty when the evacuation began.
http://www.wbns10tv.com/?sec=home&story=sites/10tv/content/pool/200704/164450318.html
Thank you for pointing to the Secret Service Warning article regarding Spain.
Let’s a take a look at this Canadian article too, Oorang.
Note to the Brits on TM, this article goes along with your other pings, today.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822448/posts
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=20189aeb-a66e-43e0-8ed7-7cf59db55ef8&k=90968
Al-Qaida toying with radioactive weapons for mass-casualty attack against West
Ian MacLeod, CanWest News Service
Published: Monday, April 23, 2007Al-Qaida leaders in Iraq are planning a mass-casualty attack against British and other western targets, possibly with radioactive-dispersal weapons, according to a secret British security intelligence assessment.
The warning is one of two reported since Friday from British and European counter-terrorism officials that a reinvigorated al-Qaida is mustering fresh resources for a major strike against the West.
“They have got to do something soon that is radical otherwise they start losing credibility,” a British security source told London’s Sunday Times. The newspaper reported Sunday that al-Qaida leaders in Iraq are planning “large-scale” terrorist attacks on Britain and other western targets with the help of supporters in Iran. The other western nations were not named.
The information, from a leaked report by Britain’s Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - the country’s premier organization for assessing international and domestic terrorist threats - appears to provide evidence that al-Qaida is active in Iran and has ambitions far beyond the improvised attacks it has been waging against British and American soldiers in Iraq, the newspaper said.
Produced earlier this month, the intelligence assessment quotes one al-Qaida leader in Iraq saying he was planning an attack on “a par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki” in an attempt to “shake the Roman throne,” a reference to the West.
Analysts believe the reference to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where more than 200,000 people died in nuclear attacks on Japan at the end of the Second World War, is unlikely to be a literal boast, the newspaper said. Despite aspiring to a nuclear capability, al-Qaida is not thought to have acquired weapons-grade material.
However, several plots involving “dirty bombs” - conventional explosive devices surrounded by radioactive material - have been foiled. What’s more, an al-Qaida leader in Iraq last year called on nuclear scientists to apply their knowledge of biological and radiological weapons to “the field of jihad.”
“It could be just a reference to a huge explosion,” a counter-terrorist source, referring to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki claims, told the newspaper.”
Thanks to Oorang for this post.
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Anzac terrorism fears put Aussie visitors on alert
April 23, 2007
About 9000 Australians are expected to attend the Dawn Service at Anzac Cove on Wednesday, and Turkish authorities are on high alert. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has received “credible reports” of terrorist groups planning attacks in Turkey. Potential targets include beaches and national parks.
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21601200-2,00.html?from=public_rss
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1810409/posts?page=1223#1223
El Pais newspaper has said the Spanish Secret Service has warned of a possible attack in Spain or France.
The Spanish Security Service, the CNI, has warned the Government of the increased risk of a new Islamic terrorist attack in Spain. A report in Sunday’s El Pais newspaper indicates that Al Qaeda has an active cell in Spain and that Spain and France are the two most likely targets in Europe following the recent attacks in the Magreb region.
In Algeria a series of explosions killed 33 and there were several suicide attacks in Casablanca, two of them outside United States diplomatic offices. The CNI believes that there are people receiving money and undergoing training in Spain, before being sent to either Africa or Iraq. French and Spanish authorities are reported to be working closely together, especially to see if they can follow the money to the terrorists.
A recent statement from Al Qaeda said that they wanted to recover lands which used to be Muslim, such as Al Andalus in Spain. The Spanish authorities have already increased security levels in Ceuta and Melilla and in provinces along the Mediterranean coast. The Government says it is taking precautions and there is no cause for alarm.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10069.shtml