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Youth held over 'links to terrorists'
9 July 2007
HYDERABAD — Hyderabad police have arrested a youth on suspicion that he has links with terrorists in India and abroad. 19-year-old Shaik Abdul Kaleem, alias Rafi, was been arrested by the police on Sunday.
Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said he was suspected to have procured more than two dozen SIM cards by producing forged documents and stealing identities to hoodwink security agencies. One SIM card in the name of complainant B. Vinay Venkatesh and a cell phone was recovered from Abdul Kaleem. He is suspected to have even stolen identities of people who are abroad.
The police commissioner claimed that Abdul Kaleem confessed to have acquired the SIM cards to carry out Jehadi' activities and he was suspected for links with terrorists.
Hundreds of police and rescue scuba team divers, long tasked with pulling bodies and crime-scene evidence from the murky depths, are being trained by the Coast Guard as part of a new post-9/11 mission to help protect the nation's ports and harbors against terrorists.
"For the first time in the (scuba) industry, we have a malicious threat to manage," Steven Orusa of the International Association of Dive Rescue Specialists said. "Any place that has water in its jurisdiction may have a risk - recreational, shipping or industrial."
No one keeps count of how many dive teams there are across the country, but those who work in the field say there are hundreds, maybe thousands. The Coast Guard encourages the port-based teams to take advanced training courses in underwater security. Some teams get underwater sonar systems. More than 600 divers have been trained.
In Jacksonville, Fla., the 16-member dive team responsible for underwater security is part of the Sheriff Department's Homeland Security division. In the past two years, the team has received $596,000 to buy equipment, including boats, a sonar system and an underwater remotely operated vehicle, according to Roy Henderson, the city's Homeland Security chief.
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LOL........took your advice and opened a bottle of “Toasted Head” Chardonnay. Mr. RR buys it because it has a really neat lable with a bear on it, and the cork does too. When you live right behind “Bear Country U.S.A.”, you tend to buy things that have bears on them.
This one glass and I’ll be ready for bed........well, maybe two.