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Posted on 11/01/2007 8:43:53 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=yemen
http://www.yementimes.com
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2373814
TERRORISM FOCUS
“New Generation of al-Qaeda on Trial in Yemen”
By Brian O’ Neill
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48264
Coalition Troops Detain 12 in Iraq Operations
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2007 – Coalition forces detained 12 suspects during operations today targeting al Qaeda in central and northern Iraq.
— Coalition forces captured a wanted individual during operations in Tarmiyah while targeting a foreign terrorist facilitator and associate of senior al Qaeda leaders. They also detained two other suspects without incident.
— Coalition forces captured a wanted individual north of Samarra during operations targeting foreign terrorist facilitators and senior terrorist leader associates. The wanted individual is believed to be an al Qaeda leader in the area.
— Coalition forces detained four suspects while targeting al Qaeda members responsible for assassination-style murders in Hawija. Coalition forces also targeted their associates in Mosul, detaining three suspects without incident.
— Forces detained one suspect in Bayji while further targeting al Qaeda terrorists involved in kidnappings, money extortion and sectarian-related murders.
“We’re continuously attacking al Qaeda in Iraq to bring down the networks responsible for conducting attacks against the Iraqi people,” said Army Col. Donald Bacon, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
In other operations today, coalition forces killed two armed men and detained five other suspected criminals during operations in the Khan Bani Said area, north of Baghdad.
The targeted individual reportedly was a significant facilitator and trainer specializing in explosively formed penetrators within “special group” criminal elements in the Khan Bani Said area and Baghdad who have not honored Muqtada al-Sadr’s pledge for a ceasefire. The suspected criminal also reportedly was an associate of several other senior-level criminal element leaders who were involved in attacks on coalition forces.
During the assault on the targeted building, two armed men came out of the building with assault rifles aimed toward coalition forces. The ground force engaged the armed men, killing them in self-defense. During the operation, coalition forces detained five additional suspected criminals without incident.
“We will continue to show restraint towards those who honor Muqtada al-Sadr’s pledge to stop attacks,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “While Iraqi and coalition forces are making progress against criminals who are not honoring this pledge, their networks remain a dangerous enemy of Iraq that must be removed.”
In operations earlier this week:
— Apache helicopter crews killed three insurgents southeast of Baghdad after an attack on a coalition forces convoy Nov. 27. The attack originated from a house near the road the convoy was on near the Tigris River. The Apaches, from the 3rd Infantry Division, were called to engage the enemy forces in the house. After positive identification of the enemy was made and clearance was given by ground forces, the Apaches attacked the enemy forces at the house with 30 mm cannon and Hellfire missiles, killing three.
— A group of local citizens turned in a weapons cache to a checkpoint in Hawr Rajab, Nov. 27. The cache consisted of seven blasting caps, 13 pressure plates, two fire extinguishers and 28 two-liter bottles filled with homemade explosives.
— Soldiers from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, were conducting a foot patrol near Maderiyah on Nov. 25 when they found an abandoned house with copper wires extending out of a window. This led them to believe the house was rigged with explosives. Iraqi citizens confirmed the house was abandoned. An explosive ordnance disposal team was called, and saw the copper wires were attached to blasting caps on jugs filled with homemade explosives. It was determined that approaching the house to destroy the bombs would be too much of a risk, so the area was cleared, and an Air Force F-16 destroyed the house.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48268
“Army Funds Crunch Would Affect Installations Worldwide”
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2007
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071129-6.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 29, 2007
“Just the Facts: 2007 War Funding by the Numbers”
“Congress Is Ignoring The Recommendations Of Our Military Commanders By Withholding Funding For Troops In The Field”
White House News
In Focus: Iraq
In Focus: National Security
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/11/20071129-31.html
For Immediate Release
November 29, 2007
President Bush Receives Briefings at Department of Defense
Pentagon
Arlington, Virginia
3:59 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Thanks for coming. I just finished briefings with Secretary Gates, Deputy Secretary England, Admiral Mullen, and the Joint Chiefs. We discussed the long-term needs of our military services and the importance of progressing with modernization.
The men and women of this department, the Department of Defense, are helping to carry out the government’s most important duty: protecting the American people. Every day they confront America’s enemies. Every day they work to stop the spread of dangerous weapons. And every day they guard against those seeking to bring another day of destruction to our shores. The missions of this department are essential to saving American lives. And they are too important to be disrupted, or delayed, or put at risk.
Beginning in February, I submitted detailed funding requests to the United States Congress to fund operations in the war on terror. Our military has waited on these funds for months. The funds include money to carry out combat operations against the enemy in Afghanistan and Iraq. They include money to train the Afghan and Iraqi Security Forces to take on more responsibility for the defense of their countries. They include money for intelligence operations to protect our troops on the battlefield.
Pentagon officials have warned Congress that the continued delay in funding our troops will soon begin to have a damaging impact on the operations of this department. The warning has been laid out for the United States Congress to hear. Recently Secretary Gates sought to clear up any misperception that the department can fund our troops for an indefinite period simply by shifting money around. In fact, Congress limits how much money can be moved from one account to the other. Secretary Gates has already notified Congress that he will transfer money from accounts used to fund other activities of the military services to pay for current operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
— and no more money can be moved. So he has directed the Army and Marine Corps to develop a plan to lay off civilian employees, to terminate contracts, and to prepare our military bases across the country for reduced operations. These are contingency steps that a prudent manager must take.
Secretary Gates and America’s senior military officials have made a reasoned case to Congress for the funds they need to keep the military running. They have carefully explained the need to plan prudently should those funds not be forthcoming. Secretary Gates puts it this way: “The Defense Department is like the world’s biggest supertanker. It cannot turn on a dime and I cannot steer it like a skiff.”
The American people expect us to work together to support our troops. That’s what they want. They do not want the government to create needless uncertainty for those defending our country, and uncertainty for their families. They do not want disputes in Washington to undermine our troops in Iraq just as they’re seeing clear signs of success.
Here in Washington, leaders have a responsibility to send the right message to the rest of the world. Let us tell our enemies that America will do what it takes to defeat them. Let us tell Afghans and Iraqis that we will stand with them as they take the fight to our common enemies. Let us tell our men and women in uniform that we will give them what they need to succeed in their missions — without strings and without delay.
I ask Congress to provide this essential funding to our troops before the members leave on their Christmas vacation. And I thank the members of this department for their hard work, their sacrifice, their courage, and their dedication to peace.
God bless.
END 4:04 P.M. EST
Update: pic at link
Fake bomb at ROM part of OCAD student’s project
An Ontario College of Art and Design student who created a video about a bomb going off at the Royal Ontario Museum for a class project was also behind the bomb hoax at the museum Wednesday night that forced its evacuation and disrupted a high profile AIDS fundraiser.
Thorarinn Jonsson, 24, said yesterday he never expected the final piece in his art project to result in such an “overreaction”, since he left a note on the suspicious package indicating it was not a bomb.
“I expected police to take it seriously, and then to quickly realize what they were dealing with,” Mr. Jonsson told City News.........
THE KIMERY REPORT
Vital US Oil Infrastructure in Terrorists’ Crosshairs
Complex in America’s Heartland Vulnerable to Attack
http://www.hstoday.us/Kimery_Report/20071129_Vital_US_Oil_Infrastructure_in_Terrorists_Crosshairs.cfm
Plane carrying 59 missing in Turkey
http://livenews.com.au/Articles/2007/11/30/Plane_carrying_59_missing_in_Turkey
Turkey’s state Anatolian news agency said aviation authorities lost contact with the plane at 2336 GMT on Thursday, just after the pilot said he was preparing to land at Isparta’s Suleyman Demirel airport.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL3045465320071130
Oh brilliant. I bet that student is in a pile of trouble.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - The arrests of three men who allegedly tried to sell contraband uranium for $1 million show how a shadowy black market for nuclear components has survived despite tightened security at nuclear facilities worldwide, experts said Thursday.
Slovak police said the material, believed to have originated in the former Soviet Union, was highly dangerous and could have been used in a radiological ''dirty bomb'' or other terrorist weapon. U.N. and independent experts suggested the uranium may not have been anywhere near that lethal. But officials tracking the illicit global trade in radioactive materials said the arrests underscored the risk of nuclear substances falling into terrorist hands.
Should that happen, ''the consequences would be so catastrophic, the world would be a different place the next day,'' said Richard Hoskins, who supervises a database of stolen, missing, smuggled or unauthorized radioactive materials for the International Atomic Energy Agency. In 2006 alone, the U.N. nuclear watchdog registered 252 reported cases - a 385 percent increase since 2002.
Hoskins cautioned that the spike probably was due at least in part to better reporting and improved law enforcement efforts. Of the 252 cases, about 85 involved thefts or losses, and not all the material was suitable for use in a weapon, he told The Associated Press.
But small amounts can add up, and this week's arrests heightened long-standing concerns that Eastern Europe is serving as a source of radioactive material for terrorists and criminals.
Excerpted
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=565130117744298707
24 year old idiot thinks he’s cute.
I think he should spend some time in jail and call it ‘performance art’.
Federal agents arrest six in St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Florida - A federal investigation involving firearms ended today in the parking lot of a St. Petersburg business.
A spokesman with The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms won’t say much about the operation but says 5 men and 1 woman were arrested this afternoonin the parking lot of Lowe’s on 22nd Avenue North in St. Petersburg.
AFT spokesman Paul Canup says this was a long term investigation involving a dangerous group of suspects and guns.
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?storyid=68739
update
Turkish plane carrying 56 people crashes: CNN-Turk
ANKARA, Nov 30, 2007 (AFP) - A Turkish plane carrying 56 people crashed Friday as it was preparing to land in the southwestern province of Isparta, the CNN-Turk news channel reported.
The wreckage of the plane, operated by the private carrier Atlasjet, has been found in the village of Cukuroren, it said, without giving details......
update
56 killed as plane crashes in Turkey - airline exec
ANKARA, Turkey - An Atlasjet plane crashed, killing all 56 people on board, shortly before it was to land in central Turkey early Friday, the airline’s chief executive said.
A rescue helicopter had reached the wreckage of the plane on a mountainous region near the town of Keciborlu, in Isparta province, and reported back that no one had survived the crash, airline CEO Tuncay Doganer said.
The MD 83 jetliner took off from Istanbul at 01:55 a.m., headed to Isparta, but went off the radar just before landing.
Helicopters took off from Ankara, the capital, to search for the plane, which went missing after it reported it was approaching the airport near the city of Isparta.
Doganer said the cause of the crash was not known. He ruled out weather conditions as a possible cause, saying there was no fog or strong winds at the time of the crash.
Families of the passengers first rushed to the airports of Istanbul and Isparta for news of their loved ones and later began heading toward the crash scene, private NTV television reported.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/70839/56-killed-as-plane-crashes-in-central-Turkey
Not funny.
This young man needs to do something productive for his OCAD projects.
UPDATE:
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=031030120071130090053
“Plane Crash Kills 56 in Turkey”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “ANKARA, Turkey, Nov 30—An Atlasjet plane crashed just before landing in central Turkey early Friday, killing 56 people aboard, state-run television reported.”
Thanks Oorang.
Sorry, you got it.
Sad news.
Smith: Serious Threat Of Terror Attack
There is a serious threat of a dirty bomb terrorist attack in the UK, according to the Home Secretary.
Experts say attack would be worse than 21/7 blasts
The warning comes as police in Slovakia continue to question three people caught trying to sell enriched uranium, for possible use in a radiological device.
In an exclusive interview for Sky News on her department’s efforts to counter the terrorist threat, Ms Smith said intelligence analysts had told her the number of plots is likely to grow in the months ahead.
She said: “The regular threat assessments I receive make sobering reading........
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1295059,00.html
Some 2,400 cancer patients may have been exposed to tuberculosis. The patients were treated during the past year at the Arizona Cancer Center at the University Medical Center North in Tucson, officials said.
The TB exposure was a result of patients possibly being exposed to another cancer patient suffering active TB, said county health officials, who will start the testing this week.
The unidentified female TB patient was in outpatient cancer treatment at the cancer center from January through August, while her tuberculosis went undiagnosed and untreated.
Man's TB triggers vast investigation
At first, the news that a Beaverton worker was infected with tuberculosis was unusual but not alarming.
Yet as Washington County health officials began to investigate, they soon realized they faced a "perfect storm": The man had highly infectious mucus in his lungs. He kept going to work. And he worked in a large, open call center with a highly mobile work force.
The "index person" had potentially exposed more than 1,600 people to a serious bacterial disease.
Now, nine months later, the Stream call center case has turned into the largest disease investigation county health officials can recall. The cost is $60,000 and counting. Health workers don't expect to wrap up their detective work for 11/2 years as they try to track down and complete evaluations for 900 more people.
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