MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Fla. -- Police are investigating a man's intentions after he was arrested for packing a knife in his luggage. Miami-Dade Police arrested Ross Eric Rosenberg of Fort Lauderdale after airport security screeners scanned his bag at Miami International Airport and found a knife at the bottom of it.
The knife was concealed at the bottom of his luggage in several pieces. When authorities asked Rosenberg about the weapon he denied knowing anything about it.
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI47158/
Bomb threat forces evacuation of state ferry(Washington - second incident in two days)
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Ferry service between Bremerton and Seattle resumed Tuesday afternoon, hours after a bomb threat forced the evacuation of the ferry MV Walla Walla. The Washington State Patrol learned of the threat around 1:45 p.m., and bomb-sniffing dogs were on the scene and searching the boat, Sgt. Craig Johnson said.
The Tuesday threat occurred after the vessel had left Seattle, a ferry spokeswoman said. As a safety precaution, troopers also searched the MV Kitsap, which had left Bremerton and arrived in Seattle, Johnson said. As of 3:30 p.m., the Kitsap was still in Seattle because there was no room for it at the Bremerton dock.
The Coast Guard received a call for help from state officials shortly after 1:30 p.m. and dispatched a 25-foot response boat from Station Seattle, Petty Officer Jeff Pollinger said. The boat arrived on scene about 10 minutes later and established a 300-yard security zone around the ferry, he said.
On Monday morning, state officials closed the Edmonds-Kingston ferry route after a bomb threat -- in the form of a note -- was found in a bathroom of the MV Spokane. But investigators found no explosives.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/314833_ferry08ww.html?source=mypi
Tirana - Taking the temperature of Islam in the Balkans this spring is only partly reassuring. In Sarajevo in late March, observances for the 800th anniversary of the birth of the great Sufi poet Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (who is hugely popular, incidentally, with American readers) were entirely in keeping with the moderate, peaceful character of the Islam of the region. Yet at the same time, a visitor to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Kosovo, and Macedonia encountered unmistakable evidence that extremist intruders are opening a Balkan front in the global jihad.
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/612zecct.asp
Last month I posted the article below but I thought it would be timely to post it again.
Wahhabis endangering Serbia
April 4, 2007
Four members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect, known as Wahhabis, have been arrested following a raid on a mountain terrorist training camp in the Rashka region of south-western Serbia on March 18. A large supply of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, facemasks and plastic explosive with detonators was also discovered at a cave at Ninaja Mountain, 30 kilometres from Novi Pazar.
A judge ordered the four to be detained for 30 days to allow police and intelligence officials to investigate their alleged activities at the training site. Dragan Jocic, the Serbian interior affairs minister, said: “We are determined to prevent any form of violence and terrorism. We are continuing to comb the terrain and search for other members of the group.”
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http://www.serbianna.com/columns/borojevic/054.shtml
That knife article is interesting.
The suspect sure looks bewildered in that photo.