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Philadelphia Police Recover Stolen Buses
(CBS 3) PHILADELPHIA Police recovered two school buses taken from a bus depot in Port Richmond.
Police said the buses were stolen from the 2500 block of Butler Street at about 10 p.m. Sunday.
Authorities located the buses about an hour later on a playground at Castor Avenue and Amber Street after.
Police said before the buses were located they struck several vehicles in the area of Frankford Avenue and Tioga Street.
Police are looking for several Hispanic males who fled the scene.
http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_260085731.html
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‘Jihad Boom’ Postcards Mailed To Schools Feature Threatening Cartoons (FL)
LOCAL 6 ^ | September 17, 2007 | unattributed
Posted on 09/17/2007 10:21:43 AM CDT by LurkedLongEnough
Police Release 9 Threatening Postcards
OCALA, Fla. — Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words ‘Jihad-Boom” and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside.
Investigators released the postcards with the threatening drawings on them Monday in hopes of generating leads in the case.
Officials said that the postcards are made up of various and traditional themes, and each one has a distinctive hand-drawn cartoon on it. Several of the threats arrived on postcards featuring Walt Disney World.
Detectives said the threat-maker crossed his or her No. 7s and attached a suffix to the address. Six of the nine postcards spell the word “Jihad” correctly, while the others are incorrect.
The U.S. Postal Service said that the postcards were all mailed to the schools from the Ocala-Gainesville mailing district before the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
A $10,000 reward has been issued to anyone who provides information which leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for using the postal service to mail the threatening postcards to schools.
[See site for pictures of the postcards.]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897824/posts
pic of postcard
more pics at www.local6.com
Thank you Vel for bringing that picture over here where we can keep it with all of the other stuff that the a$$holes have sent.
Will be interesting to see a comparison of the writing on the old anthrax letters with these.
Thanks, Vel. We need this documented here, also.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22434601-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss
Iran blocks and then unblocks Google
Article from: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Tehran
September 17, 2007 08:21pm (excerpted)
IRAN has unblocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service after briefly filtering them owing to an “error”, the Fars news agency reported.
“Due to an error, the Google site was filtered on Sunday evening but the error was corrected and now Google and its different sites like Gmail can be used,” said an official from the state-run communications company.
Earlier today, Hamid Shahriari, the secretary of Iran’s National Council of Information, had confirmed that the sites were being filtered, without providing further explanation. . . .
That was interesting. I wonder if any of the four radio show hosts read the email on air as he requested. Thanks for posting that Cindy.
NEW YORK: New York police searched Monday for a Bangladeshi man believed to have jumped from a cargo ship traveling between France and the port of Newark, New Jersey. Another man who jumped with him was found early Monday and taken to a hospital. The men were part of the crew on the 797-foot (243-meter) ship, called Manhattan Bridge, that originated in France, police said.
Fishermen spotted one of the men on an island off the coast of Staten Island, which is New York's City's most southern borough, and the police harbor unit picked him up. "The other individual is still missing. They physically jumped off," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The rescued man was taken to a hospital. His condition was not immediately known.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/17/america/NA-GEN-US-Ship-Jump.php
New Delhi - Giving a lie to Pak denials of its links with Northeast India 's insurgent groups, Sri Lankan navy seized a Panamanian registered vessel carrying Pak military supplies to ULFA.
The NE insurgent groups generally pick up their military hardware and weapons from the Chittagong port where these are dumped by the supplier. About a year ago, an arms dump was exposed in the Chittagong port area rather accidentally and the then pro-Pakistan BNP government did its damnest to over up the expose.
This time around, Pakistan and Bangladesh are not that lucky. Vigilant Sri Lankan Navy foiled the plans. Also seized a ship carrying a consignment of explosives from Pakistan Ordnance Factory (POF) which are for delivery at Chittagong area for the use of Indian Insurgent groups, according to delayed reports.
The ship MV MOL Admiration left Karachi on August 14, carrying nearly thirty tonnes of high-grade explosives and arrived in Colombo harbor on August 22. The ship's manifest listed the consignment as "Steel Helmets, Bullet Proof jackets and DMS Boots" but has no documents showing the end users. As the consignment is much heavier than the items declared, Srilanka Naval authorities boarded the ship and opened the consignment ignoring the objections of the Defence Attaché of the Pak High Commission in Colombo. He argued with the naval authorities that the material wad a diplomatic cargo for use of Bangladesh Ordinance Factory (BOF). And tried to exert diplomatic pressure.
To his dismay, Sri Lankan authorities sought confirmation from the Defence Attaché of Bangladesh High Commission. He denied any knowledge of the cargo being ordered by BOF and termed as forged the manifest declaring BOF as consignee. An embarrassed Pakistani High Commission and Pak ordinance factory POF officials wanted to wriggle out and sought release of the consignment. But Colombo refused to oblige them unless the BOF certifies that it is meant for them.
The Defence Attaché in Pakistani High Commission in Dhaka had put in the rescue act, to quote sources in Dhaka familiar with the episode. He approached the Bangladeshi authorities with a request to issue a certificate that the seized consignment was meant for their country. Initially, Dhaka demurred and tried to duck but finally yielded to pressure 'from a brotherly country', as a local media report said. The Bangladesh Ordinance Factory issued the necessary documentation and Colombo cleared the release for the consignment, which was ferried to Chittagong on a Chinese vessel, Yong Yue-8, on August 25.
http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7405
Taxi drivers linked to gangs (Norway)
Monday September 17 2007
A large number of Oslo taxi drivers already have been charged with tax evasion and welfare fraud. Now Oslo police suspect around 40 drivers and even more taxi owners of having close contact with Pakistani gangs, and operating as couriers of arms and drugs.
Excerpted
CALA, Fla. — Investigators in Marion County, Fla., are searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day with the words ‘Jihad-Boom” and handwritten cartoons of a building apparently exploding with people inside.”
That is not good !!!!!
AL-Qaeda called on Islamists to sow terror in the West to create a climate of fear, in a third video marking the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, which was posted on the internet today.
Called "reasons and motives for the attacks on New York and Washington," the video features a montage of images of the burning World Trade Centre towers and scenes from Islamist training camps.
"We must take Islamist terrorism to Western countries so that it becomes a normal part of life like natural disasters," a voiceover says. "In that way, we will have acts of mass extermination in which people will feel that their affluence also brings death... and we will have created a balance of deterrence between us and them," the unidentified voice adds.
The new video also includes clips from old voice recordings of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, as well as a short video clip of Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, also known as Sheikh Said, the group's commander in Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda already released a videotape and an audiotape featuring bin Laden earlier this month to mark the sixth anniversary of the attacks that killed nearly 3000 people in the US.
A third release had been trailed by al-Qaeda's media arm, As-Sahab. In the event the new video was issued in the name of al-Tanzem, prompting suggestions the network has launched a new media arm.
Dubai, 17 Sept. 2007 - Al-Qaeda released the third 9/11 video on Islamist websites on the internet on Monday.
The 26-minute video is a montage of audio and video footage showing previous messages by al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on the reasons behind the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States.
Al-Qaeda released Osama bin Laden's first video in three years on 9 September. A second message was then made available on the sixth annivesary of the 9/11 attacks. The second message featured a still image of bin Laden with a voice praising Waleed al-Shehri, one of the 9/11 hijackers. There was also footage of al-Shehri, speaking about his motivation for the attack.
Monday's video, the third on the 9/11 anniversary, is different from previous al-Qaeda footage as it does not carry the logo of al-Sahab - the logo is known to refer to al-Qaeda's communications arm. The video instead carries a new logo, al-Tanzim.
Entitled, "The attacks in New York and Washington - reasons and motives", the video begins with a message from Abu Yahya al-Libi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
Al-Libi, who escaped from the US detention centre in Bagram in 2005, praises the role of Osama bin Laden's network in defending the principles of Islam. A voice on the video also gives an account of the war in Chechnya, blames the West for having committed a mass extermination and calls for revenge for this action.
Also included is footage of interviews carried out by the Arab satellite TV network, Al Jazeera, with university professors, Arab commentators and editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper. The video ends with a speech by an ideologue of Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam. The entire video describes various events that occured before the 9/11 attacks, in particular the conflict in Chechnya, and tries to explain the reasons behind the terror attacks.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1313947293
Ping to Velveeta’s post # 1521. 2 School buses recovered; police are looking for hipanic males who “fled the scene” in Philadelphia.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890027/posts?page=1521#1521
Now, if someone could find those 17 stolen school buses out of Houston.
Ping to Velveeta’s “Jihad Boom” postcards to schools’ links.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1890027/posts?page=1523#1523
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1890027/posts?page=1524#1524
A British born Muslim student found guilty of Islamist terrorism offences was a "wannabe suicide bomber" who police believe could have been planning to take part in alleged al-Qa'eda attacks in Canada.
Mohammed Atif Siddique, 21, who has been described as Scotland's first homegrown terrorist, provided instruction on weapons and booby-trap bomb making over the internet, and showed videos of beheadings and suicide bombers to fellow students at the Glasgow Metropolitan College.
The small town shopkeeper's son told friends that Osama Bin Laden was his god, and one classmate overheard him saying that he wanted to "bomb Glasgow". He was convicted of possessing and distributing terrorist material through websites and could face up to 15 years in jail when he is sentenced next month. Following the verdict it can be revealed that Siddique was detained at Glasgow airport last April amid fears that he was might have been on his way to Canada via Pakistan to join alleged Islamic extremists in Ontario.
Excerpted
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/17/nterror317.xml
Thanks Velveeta.
I added your post no. 1520 to the German thread I’m updating.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1891316/posts?page=151#151
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/904447.html
Last update - 17:54 17/09/2007
Iran says French minister stoking crisis with talk of war
By News Agencies
Iran on Monday accused French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner of stoking a crisis after he said France must prepare for the possibility of war over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
The official IRNA news agency quoted Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini as saying Kouchner’s remarks were not in line with European Union policies.
“Using crisis-making words is against France’s high historical and cultural position and is against France’s civilization,” he said in a statement.
An earlier IRNA story quoted the spokesman as using the term “provocative words” in his statement, but in a later update the agency changed this to “crisis-making words”. . .
I didn’t hear Hannity read it (yet); and I posted it around in the wee hours just in case the talk show hosts do not understand the importance of this article.
WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda is trying to expand through corporate-style takeovers of regional Islamic extremist groups, The Los Angeles Times reported on Sunday.
Citing unnamed US intelligence officials and counterterrorism experts, the newspaper said these moves indicated a shift in strategy by the terrorist group as it sought to broaden its reach and renew its ability to strike Western targets. “Certainly we do see Al Qaeda trying to influence the broader movement and to control some of these affiliates in a more direct way,” the paper quotes a senior counterterrorism official as saying.
Bruce Riedel, a senior CIA counterterrorism official until late last year, said Al Qaeda “central” stands to gain hundreds or even thousands of foot soldiers, many of whom carry European passports and do not require a visa to travel to the United States, The Times said. “I think what we are seeing is the reconstitution of their capabilities to strike targets in Western Europe and ultimately North America on a scale identical or bigger than September 11,” Riedel is quoted as saying. The report said Al Qaeda leaders - based in northwestern Pakistan - have rebuilt a network of field commanders that was largely decimated in the post-September 11 attacks on its bases in Afghanistan.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\09\17\story_17-9-2007_pg7_41
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