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Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=train
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=trains
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=train&btnG=Search+News
Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this train incident.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/14/content_6529941.htm
“Terrorist attack supposed to be cause of Russian train derailment”
www.chinaview.cn 2007-08-14 15:18:13
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “MOSCOW, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) — A terrorist attack was supposed to be the cause of the derailment of a train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, which injured 60 passengers late on Monday, Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday.
The passenger train derailment in Novgorod region “was caused by a homemade bomb explosion,” officials of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office at the incident site was quoted by Itar-Tass news agency as saying.
A criminal investigation has been launched under terrorism charges into the bomb blast that derailed the express train, said Sergei Bednichenko, head of the Northwestern Federal District Prosecutor’s Office, at the scene.
Sixty people were injured when the passenger train on the Moscow-St. Petersburg route derailed in Novgorod region late Monday, and 25 were sent to hospitals, the press service of Russian Railways reported on Tuesday.”
Punctuation Correction:
blogs:
http://radicalmuslim.blogsome.com/2007/08/13/calling-an-ayatollah/
“Calling an Ayatollah”
August 13, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He may not be a Muslim, but if Salmon Rushdie can receive a fatwa for writing this, then Robert Spencer must definatly be on the fatwa nominee list for writing this propaganda against Islam titled; ‘Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t’.”
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/08/13/233551.php
OPINION
“Surprised We’ve Not Yet Heard from an Ayatollah?”
Written by jamal
Published August 13, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “He may not be a Muslim, but if Salman Rushdie can be the target of a fatwa for writing The Satanic Verses, then Robert Spencer may also be on the fatwa nominee list for writing what could be considered a propaganda attempt against Islam; ‘Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t’.”
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Previously...
http://radicalmuslim.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/the-importance-of-being-fatwaworthy/
“The Importance of Being Fatwaworthy?”
April 12, 2007
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http://radicalmuslim.blogsome.com/2007/04/09/fatwaworthy-in-the-bloggersphere/
“Fatwaworthy in the Bloggersphere”
April 9, 2007
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880844/posts
“’Radioactive Boy Scout’ Waives Preliminary Larceny Trial”
ClickOnDetroit.com ^ | August 13, 2007 | ClickOnDetroit.com
Posted on 08/14/2007 2:21:41 AM PDT by Westlander
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880845/posts
“Hitler architect’s son redraws Beijing”
The Times ^ | 8/12/2007 | Nicola Smith and Flora Bagenal
Posted on 08/14/2007 2:33:31 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “THE son of Hitler’s favourite architect, who was ordered by the Führer to turn Berlin into the greatest city in the world, has designed a key route to the Beijing Olympic site.
Albert Speer Jr, who was born a year after Hitler came to power, was recruited by the Chinese authorities as lead designer on the huge architectural project to redesign the sprawling city ahead of the 2008 Games.
Their choice has stirred ghosts from the past. More than 70 years ago Speer’s father, dubbed the “Devil’s Architect”, was charged with a similar task of rebuilding the Reich capital and turning it into an unrivalled global metropolis.
It was to be called Welthaupt-stadt (World Capital) Germania and designed to be bigger, grander and bolder than any other city to fit Hitler’s obsession with the idea of creating a modern-day Rome as the capital of his empire.
Beijing’s radical reconstruction has been described as totalitarian architecture, similar to Speer the elder’s grandiose but unfulfilled plans.
The most distinctive feature of Speer Jr’s blueprint has been a central five-mile strip, running from a new railway station in the south of the capital past Tianan-men Square and the Forbidden City to the new Olympic Green.
The strip is known as the “central north-south axis” and is still under construction by armies of migrant workers working around the clock.
Critics have suggested an uncanny parallel between Speer’s Beijing axis and the three-mile north-south axis, also flanked by train stations, that was planned by his father for Hitler’s new Berlin.
The Berlin boulevard was never completed because of the outbreak of the second world war, although many of Berlin’s tenements were bulldozed to make way for it.”
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“Torturing cats on Hamas TV for kids”
American Thinker ^ | 8-13-07 | James Lewis
Posted on 08/14/2007 3:42:22 AM PDT by Renfield
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ExZVimjST8
“Cruelty to animals on Hamas TV”
(Added August 13, 2007)
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More Videos Here:
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Thanks very much for the ping.
It’s a pretty sad release by the Mayor saying “We want the public to know in this particular area that they are safe. It has been determined that this is not an airborne threat,”
No one could even know that in the first hours. The person bringing this in if it’s real could be exposed, where was he previously and with whom etc.?
If this is what we can expect in an emergency from these idiots then we are all sitting ducks.
https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=72141
“you are here: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report
Warden Message: Pakistan Independence Day, Aug 14
Consular Affairs Bulletins
South / Central Asia - Pakistan
13 Aug 2007”
THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT - REPORT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Weekly Piracy Report
8-14 August 2007
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 8 to 14 August 2007.
ALERT
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
Fifty two incidents have been reported since 28.01.2006. Pirates are targeting ships preparing to anchor. Ships are advised to take extra precautions.
The 2006 Annual IMB Report on Piracy and Armed Attacks against Ships is now published. Please see the end of this page to order.
Suspicious crafts
16.07.2007: 2000 UTC: Off Somalia
Inspite of rough weather, one suspicious boat tried to approach a ship underway. The boat stopped altered course and moved away when she noticed alert crew on board
Recently reported incidents
05.08.2007: 0119 LT: Ango-Ango, Matadi port, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Armed robbers, in two canoes, boarded a refrigerated cargo ship at anchor. They threatened the deck watchman with a knife and chased him; luckily, the watchman managed to escape and raised the alarm. Meanwhile other robbers stole ship’s stores. On seeing the alerted crew, the robbers jumped overboard and escaped.
05.08.2007: 0225 UTC: 06:18.6N – 003:23.9E, Lagos anchorage, Nigeria.
A boat with six robbers approached a tanker at anchor from the stern. The watchman on duty spotted the robbers trying to board the ship by hooking a bamboo pole onto the ships rail. He informed the bridge. The alarm was raised and the whistle sounded. The robbers aborted the attempt and escaped. An investigation carried out later found nothing stolen.
11.08.2007: 1200 UTC: 01:13N – 052:38E, Somalia.
Pirates, in a trawler, attempted to attack a refrigerated cargo ship underway. The ship altered course and the trawler altered onto a collision course. The ship took evasive manoeuvres, increased speed and attempted to contact the trawler on VHF, but without any response. After following the ship for one hour, the pirates aborted the attempt and moved away.
07.08.2007: 1910 UTC: Posn: 01:24S – 050:45E, Somalia.
A suspicious boat crossed the bow of the ship underway from stbd to port. There was no data found in the AIS. The boat altered course and headed directly for the ship. The ship increased speed. Another suspicious boat approached on the port bow. The boat was chasing the ship. After more than 1 hour, the suspicious boat reduced speed and stopped the chase.
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3437459,00.html
Fuel truck bomb damages bridge north of Baghdad
Published: 08.14.07, 13:01 / Israel News
A suicide truck bomb killed two people, wounded five and badly damaged a bridge linking Baghdad to northern Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
Part of the bridge collapsed in the attack, using a fuel tanker, near Taiji. The bridge had been damaged by a previous bombing in May. (Reuters)
One thing that strikes me from the news channel 5 article:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6927100&nav=menu374_2
“The department will be closed for at least the next day as the investigation continues.”
My Comment: Doesn’t that seem rather longer than we usually see as an estimate in an unknown hazmat report? I seem to recall that they usually say something like “several hours” or such. Knowing this early in an investigation that you will have to close a POLICE STATION for “at least the next day” seems to me to be rather telling.
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Piper said it was some type of foreign substance...”
That could be why it is taking longer.
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123370
30 Av 5767, August 14, ‘07
“Calling for a Global Caliphate in Ramallah”
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(IsraelNN.com) An international movement that has made the Islamic call for a worldwide Caliphate its trademark held a conference in Ramallah on Saturday. With this conference, Hizb Ut-Tahrir Al-Islami (the Islamic Liberation Party) has formally established a branch in the Palestinian Authority. PA media reported that the event was attended by thousands of participants under the banner, “Caliphate: The Coming Force”.
The movement said that the establishment of a Caliphate, a global Muslim empire, is the only way to liberate Muslims from “racism,” “degradation,” and “occupation.” Hizb Ut-Tahrir leader Ata Khalil Abu Al-Rashtha said that the Ramallah gathering was the first of its kind in the PA. Al-Rashta is a civil engineer from Hevron region.”
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Tue Aug 14 2007 04:22:51 GMT-0700.
Worldwide Caution
April 10, 2007
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
Russia launches terror probe after train bomb
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2256570.ece
Hate to be naive here but isn’t russia an AQ enemy cuz of the whole chechyna deal? black widows etc?
looks like this has their fingerprints all over it.
-h
Interesting and thank you for the ping, as I had missed it.
It leaves me feeling as tho they are going to be lovely to see there, and the tourist will not see the real way many live.
” . . .In this context, we should be paying attention to what a senior Syrian official told the New York Sun about a month ago. Should the Golan not be in Syrian hands by August-September, Syria would be allowed to embark on a “resistance” campaign, including raids and attacks on Jewish targets, the official said.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3437324,00.html
Arab official: Syrian general mulling war with Israel
Diplomats say head of Syrian military intelligence has convinced Assad that only war will bring Israel to negotiation table
Smadar Peri (excerpted)
In Damascus, it is forbidden to photograph him and diffuse pictures that can identify him. He has tight security around him at all times and avoids attending public events. General Asef Shawkat, the head of Syrian military intelligence, has good reasons to be in hiding. “If military confrontations break out between Syria and Israel, that would be the fulfillment of the general’s plan,” a Lebanese official told Yedioth Ahronoth.
Having opened the doors of the Syrian Army to Iranian experts, now he is seeking to relocate hundreds of young Syrians eligible for army service to the Golan Heights. “In any case,” he recently told President Bashar Assad, “there is no chance of a political channel to return the Golan Heights.” That was Shawkat’s pretext to sideline the old guard within the ruling Baath Party, most of whom are well-versed in peace negotiations with Israel. Former foreign minister and Vice President Farouk al-Shara has been marginalized and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem has been banned from hosting American, Arab and European officials. Arab officials believe Shawkat, Assad’s brother-in-law, wants to drag Israel into a conflict in Lebanon, and possibly Syria, next month. . .
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/893269.html
Last update - 03:45 14/08/2007
Intelligence attempts to clarify Assad’s intentions
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent (excerpted)
. . . A senior security source told Haaretz Monday that “as far as we can assess, Assad does not really want war with us. He is concerned about a scenario that will drag us and them [Syria] to war, either through mutual escalation on the Golan Heights, or through growing tensions between the United States and Iran.”
. . . Syrian forces have also been reinforced along the border, and training of units has been stepped up. In discussions held in recent weeks, under strict gag orders, a number of intelligence assessments have been evaluated. Various sensitive questions on the preparedness of the home front have been deliberated, including the possibility of distributing gas masks to the public, and systems for dealing with dangerous materials stored in factories in the area around Haifa Harbor. A decision has been made at this stage to refrain from taking any unusual steps. Since January, the defense establishment has been collecting gas masks distributed to civilians before the Gulf War in 1991 as part of a plan to refurbish and redistribute them. The proposal was rejected, however, out of concern that this might suggest to the Syrians that Israel was planning to initiate a war and was preparing its home front for possible retaliatory strikes.
. . . In closed meetings, Barak and Ashkenazi have said that the intelligence assessments regarding the likelihood of war with Syria in the near future are constantly changing. It appears that even they are finding it difficult to form a clear opinion on the matter. Both Barak and the chief of staff are concerned by the situation in the region. However, in their limited public statements on the likelihood of war with Syria, the main aim is to radiate calm.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1186557431453&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
IDF assessment: Syria thinks Olmert wants to launch war
Herb Keinon and Josh Brannon, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 13, 2007 (excerpted)
Damascus does not believe Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s public statements of reassurance that Israel has no intention of attacking Syria, and is genuinely concerned about an Israeli preemptive attack, according to official Israeli assessments. Olmert’s attempts over the last few weeks to calm Syrian jitters have not been overly successful, and Syrian President Bashar Assad still believes he plans to attack, according to these estimates. . .
Assad, according to this school of thought, believes Olmert’s public comments that Israel has no belligerent intentions toward Syria are merely part of a “conspiracy” to lull the Syrians into complacency. This Syrian concern, according to these assessments, has been fanned by the largest IDF maneuvers in the Golan Heights in some five years. The Syrian jitters are indeed so real that, according to some reports, the Syrian military has canceled large-scale summer training exercises so as not to give Israel a pretense for military action.
Military sources said intelligence shows Syria was nearing the end of an accelerated deployment of a large rocket arsenal of Katyusha and Scud missiles, including Scud D and other improved missiles supplied by Iran, that can deliver 500-kilogram payloads to Tel Aviv with a destructive force large enough to damage entire blocks of buildings. According to the military sources, launchers now known to be located on the Syrian side could potentially unleash a barrage on IDF installations, infrastructure and civilian targets with missiles numbering in the hundreds within an hour.
IDF officials have said off the record that thwarting such a potentially catastrophic bombardment would be problematic for the Israel Air Force, and that ground forces would therefore need to get deep into Syrian territory quickly to stop the firing at its sources. Also, according to the officials, Syria had accelerated training periods for its troops, emphasizing guerrilla tactics utilized by Hizbullah against the IDF. The sources said Syrian commandos equipped with advanced antitank missiles had learned from Hizbullah and were known to be stationed along the length of the border. However, the latest Military Intelligence assessment said these forces remain in a defensive position, and that Syria did not attend to initiate an all-out war with Israel. . .
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3435543,00.html
Syrian rockets aimed at Tel Aviv
Long-range rockets already in place on Golan; is Syria preparing for war?
Ron Ben Yishai (excerpted)
The latest official IDF intelligence branch assessment, adopted by the Israeli government, is that Syria is not planning to attack Israel. At least not in the coming months. The accelerated preparations for war undertaken by the Syrian army recently, according to the assessment, are not aimed at launching an offensive, but rather, stem from fears in Damascus that the IDF plans to attack Syria. As proof of this, IDF intelligence researchers point to the fact that the Syrian army has not fundamentally changed its deployment, which is still mostly defensive, vis-à-vis Israel.
However, intelligence officials estimate that there is still a risk of a war breaking out even in the near future as a result of a wrong estimate (here or there) regarding the other side’s intentions – a “miscalculation” as it is referred to by IDF intelligence officers. This is why Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made sure to declare Wednesday that he was not seeking war. This is the official assessment. Yet this is not the complete picture. The truth is that there is no certainty within Israel’s intelligence community that Syria is not planning to initiate a military confrontation with Israel. Quite a few researchers in the IDF intelligence branch and Mossad suspect that Syria is waiting for a convenient point in time – which is not necessarily in the distant future.
We’re not talking about the kind of war we’re familiar with like the Six Day War or Yom Kippur War, but rather, a Hizbullah-style war – but on an immense scale. These arguments and assessments are being taken very seriously by officials in Jerusalem, and this is the reason why the cabinet tasked with monitoring home front preparedness convened again Wednesday for its third or fourth session in order to discuss the possibility of a massive Syrian missile offensive. . .
Teheran is investing efforts to convince Syria that Israel is about to§ attack it “in order to erase the shame of the defeat in Lebanon” or as part of the clash that will develop as a result of an American assault on Iran’s nuclear sites. The Iranians tell the Syrians that President Bush intends to strike in the summer or fall, and they expect Damascus to join Iran’s counter-attack on western interests in the region. Therefore, Teheran says, there is a need to prepare and possibly even launch a pre-emptive strike, before Israel possesses effective systems for intercepting rockets. Iranian figures who visited Syria convinced Damascus that the Israeli home front is the Zionist enemy’s Achilles heel and that hitting it gravelly would force Israel to accept the Arab dictates on the Golan. In this context, we should be paying attention to what a senior Syrian official told the New York Sun about a month ago. Should the Golan not be in Syrian hands by August-September, Syria would be allowed to embark on a “resistance” campaign, including raids and attacks on Jewish targets, the official said. . .
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