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US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...

	More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
	More US Air Marshals on Flights to Europe
	Officials: Car Bomb Plot Bears al Qaida's Trademark

[fanfan]

Boy! No kidding, huh? What a world we live in. ~sigh

LOL!

I know what you mean. There are some people who want to kill me for being an infidel, and the government wants to protect me from .........the cigarette.

Aside from which cigarettes could be currency at some point.

Buy cigarettes, they might not make them for much longer. With apologies to Mark Twain. ;-)

[Cindy]

ADDING links to post no. 280:

Google - Search News: "NASHI"

FreeRepublic.com - Key Word: "NASHI"

Regarding Nashi (More LInks)

[Cindy]

Thanks to Jveritas for the ping to this post and thank you Fakir for efforts.

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Note: The following posts are a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869194/posts?page=98#98

Agreed, this really is the least we can do. And hopefully more people will start doing it. The more participants and complaints there are, the easier it is to put pressure on the hosts.

DOWN:
http://www.alnakshabandia-army.com/
http://theislamsun.com

98 posted on 07/28/2007 9:50:18 AM PDT by fakir

WOW!!! great work Fakir :)
After 5 e-mails to Google they did not “fully” shut down the websites that I asked them to shut but they did a half ass job by disconnecting some links on these websites and make the writing in “gibberish” instead of Arabic. Take a look.

http://mojahidmouslim.blogspot.com

http://albayanat.blogspot.com

99 posted on 07/28/2007 3:49:16 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush.)

[Cindy]

RECAP:

BILL ROGGIO.com - blog: "ISLAMISTS RETAKE RED MOSQUE; SUICIDE ATTACK IN ISLAMABAD" (July 27, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "BLAST NEAR ISLAMABAD'S RED MOSQUE KILLS 11" (July 27, 2007)

YouTube.com: "LAL MASJID REOPENED FRI 27/07/07" (Added July 27, 2007)

YouTube.com - Search Term by date: "LAL MASJID"

More Links (July 14, 2007)

SAAG.org - PAPER NO. 2287: "HOW CHINESE ANGER FORCED MUSHARRAF TO ACT AGAINST LAL MASJID" by B. Raman (July 5, 2007)

BILL ROGGIO.com - Tag Word: "PAKISTAN"

BILL ROGGIO.com - Tag Word: "AFGHANISTAN"

JIHAD WATCH.org: "TWO AMERICAN SOLDIERS CONVERT TO ISLAM, MARRY IN AFGHANISTAN" (SNIPPET: "If the report is confirmed, the two soldiers’ conversion to Islam will be the first such cases among U.S. soldiers since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.") (July 27, 2007)

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=bus

UPDATE - FYI:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1872332/posts?page=10#10

Let me check for updates:

July 28, 2007

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070728/suv.shtml

“SUV in wrong lane hits bus, 1 dead”

MONTGOMERY (AP) —

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Capt. Huey Thornton said the SUV driver, identified as Joseph Rudder, 45, of Hope Hull, was alone in the vehicle and died at the hospital about an hour after the collision.

Thornton said it occurred shortly after police were dispatched at 2:16 a.m. to pursue a vehicle going the wrong way on Interstate 65 near the Hope Hull exit.

He said it was not immediately known why Rudder was traveling northbound in the southbound lane of the interstate.”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The accident marked the second time in four months that a Greyhound bus has collided head-on with a vehicle going the wrong way on an interstate highway in Montgomery during early morning hours. On March 31, a car headed the wrong way on Interstate 85 collided with a Greyhound about 3 a.m., killing the car’s driver and sending 20 people to the hospital with injuries, none critical.”

10 posted on 07/28/2007 5:38:11 PM PDT by Cindy

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873085/posts?page=6#6

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BOOK:

http://www.amazon.com/War-Crimes-Campaign-Destroy-Military/dp/0307338266/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3281799-6524601?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185669938&sr=1-1

“War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our Military and Lose the War on Terror (Hardcover)”
by Robert “Buzz” Patterson (Author)

[Cindy]

ADDING to post no. 2284:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts?page=2284#2284

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=twincities

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=lalmasjid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=redmosque

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873109/posts

600 ‘suicide bombers’ lurking in twin cities
Daily Times ^ | Sunday, July 29, 2007 | Sharif Khan

Posted on 07/28/2007 5:53:09 PM PDT by gandalftb

“Around 600 students of Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia have not returned to their homes after the Lal Masjid operation. These are the people called ‘missing students’ and they are hiding in madrassas and mosques in and around the two cities Islamabad and Rawalpindi. They are walking bombs and are determined to blow themselves up any time, anywhere,” said a source directly involved in the ongoing investigation of suicide blasts in the country.

Lal Masjid prayer leader Maulana Abdul Aziz said that five to six hundred students of the two madrassas had been trained, equipped and brainwashed to carry out suicide attacks. These students left the madrassa according to a plan before the final operation against the mosque was launched.”

“During the debriefing of students captured from Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa, the security agencies learnt that the teenaged students believed that President Pervez Musharraf and his team were kaafirs (non-believers) and agents of the US and had to be killed. The bombers are targeting army and law enforcement personnel to avenge the killings of their colleagues and Abdul Rashid Ghazi.”

“Investigations have revealed that these operatives are operating from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.”

(Excerpt) Read more at dailytimes.com.pk ...

[Cindy]

OFF TOPIC:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1873110/posts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471537&in_page_id=1770

“The abandoned ducklings raised in a teacup”
Last updated at 22:39pm on 28th July 2007
Comments

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A pair of tiny abandoned ducklings found battling against waves after being washed out to sea are being nursed back to health - in a teacup.

The fluffy birds were saved from a watery grave when they were found by passing canoeist Chris Murray.”

Photos of the duckling in a tea cup:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/mallardMS2807_468x397.jpg

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/07_03/mallardMS2807_468x339.jpg

[Cindy]

www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134762

“Ummah.com - Muslim Forum > Main > General
Impermissible to kill women and children in All circumstances?”

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http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26441_Ummah.com-_Is_It_OK_to_Kill_Children_and_Rape_Women&only

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873136/posts

“Lawyers sap our will to combat terrorism[UK]”
Times Online ^ | 27 July 2007 | Michael Burleigh

Posted on 07/28/2007 7:26:12 PM PDT by BGHater

[Rushmore Rocks]

Speaking of abandoned ducklings, and very off topic..........

My granddaughter just brought me four baby wild turkeys. They came to her deck at her apartment complex a few days ago. She returned them to the woods behing her complex twice and they came back. She didn’t know what to do with them, so she put them in her cat carrier and brought them to me. We have hundreds of wild turkeys that roam around here all the time. We turned the babies loose when a bunch of hens showed up. They just shuffled off down the hill with the other broods. Guess they were adopted. Nature is wonderful.

[Rushmore Rocks]

behing=behind

[nw_arizona_granny]

Lovely, glad they went with the flock.

[Godzilla]

placemark

[Cindy]

“Guess they were adopted. Nature is wonderful.”

That’s cute.

Smiling at you RR...

[Cindy]

Thanks to jveritas for the ping to this post:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869194/posts?page=103#103

Just down a website site for Al Furqan which is Al Qaeda media wing in Iraq
http://alfurqan.my-place.us

103 posted on 07/28/2007 10:08:32 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush.)

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this article:

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDA1ZGMyYzNhNDM0NDRhYzFlN2NjZjllNGJiZmYwNGQ

July 27, 2007, 6:30 a.m.

Hot in Tehran
“Iran’s global-warming agenda.”
By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “On the same day that Tony Blair debuted in Portugal as Middle East envoy for the Quartet, a group attempting to advance peace efforts in the Middle East, another kind of meeting convened in Syria. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in Damascus on July 19 with leaders from Syria, Hizballah, and Hamas to chart a different course for the Middle East. Asked in a joint press conference with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad if he expected another “hot summer,” Ahmadinejad said, “We hope that the hot weather of this summer would coincide with similar victories for the region’s peoples and with consequent defeat for the region’s enemies.”

Indeed, although a number of conflicts could erupt in a variety of Middle Eastern countries this summer, Iran is the common denominator among them.”

[Cindy]

Ignore post no. 2298.
Those are separate incidents.
Thank you.

[Cindy]

RECAP and UPDATE:

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (FROM COMBINED DISPATCHES): Ghazni, Afghanistan - "END ORDEAL BEGS CAPTIVE OF TALIBAN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The woman, one of 18 female hostages among the South Korean Christian volunteers kidnapped in Afghanistan more than a week ago, spoke to Reuters news agency on the mobile phone of a Taliban fighter.") (July 29, 2007)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1669: "ISLAMIST WEBSITES MONITOR NO. 125" (July 27, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - "TALIBAN KILL 1 SOUTH KOREAN HOSTAGE, RELEASE 8 OTHERS" (July 25, 2007)

FreeRepublic.com (KYODO NEWS - July 23, 2007): "TALIBAN MILITANTS SEEK $100,000 FOR CALL TO S. KOREAN HOSTAGES" (July 24, 2007)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com (AP): Kabul, Afghanistan - "TALIBAN MIGHT EXECUTE CAPTIVES" (July 21, 2007)

ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Kabul, Afghanistan - "OFFICIALS SAY TALIBAN KIDNAP 23 KOREAN BEIEVERS FROM AFGHAN BUS" by Michael Ireland (July 20, 2007)

TRAVEL.STATE.GOV - Travel Warning: "AFGHANISTAN"