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Posted on 02/01/2008 6:55:58 PM PST by nwctwx
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You betcha - LOTS of stolen guns! Further links for more thefts on Post 360.
Thanks for the grenades, launchers stolen post.
I added the info to LGF, too.
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Police Seek 4 Suspects In Boy’s Abduction
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Posted on 02/07/2008 5:21:18 PM PST by traumer
Austin, TX — The search is on for four suspects accused of snatching a 5-year-old boy out of his family’s car while his mother and sister sat inches away in Northeast Austin about 7:45 a.m. Thursday.
Adrian Jaimes has black hair and brown eyes. He is about 4 feet tall and weighs 50 pounds. He was kidnapped from the driveway of his home in the 11800 block of Shropshire Blvd.
Adrian was sitting in the car with his mom and his sister, ready to head off to school when he was abducted.
Police said two Hispanic men, possibly in their late teens, ran up to the vehicle, pulled Adrian out of the car, put him in their gray or silver Volkswagen Jetta with two other men of the same description, and sped away.
Adrian’s mother jumped from her vehicle to try to chase them on foot. She saw one of the suspects holding her son down on the front floorboard of the passenger seat in the Jetta.
An Amber Alert is in effect for Adrian, who was last seen wearing a green jacket, black T-shirt and dark blue pants.
Police said the suspects were strangers, but they do not think the act was random.
The three suspects were last seen wearing white-hooded sweatshirts with orange flames and driving a four-door Jetta with dark-tinted windows.
Adrian is in kindergarten at Copperfield Elementary in the Pflugerville Independent School District. Two police cars are on campus, and officers said they are interviewing students and teachers.
“Teachers are cooperating with police’s efforts to gather whatever information the students might have,” said Amanda Brim, community relations coordinator with PISD.
The police department is on ground and in the air, looking for the vehicle and the suspects. Police said they are following every lead after receiving at least 30 calls with tips on the vehicle’s location and the men’s identities.
Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety said road signs between Austin and the border have been activated with information about the kidnapping, including a description of the car. See the Amber Alert issued by DPS, which has descriptions of Adrian and the suspects.
If you have seen a child matching Adrian’s description, call the Austin Police Department at (512) 974-5210.
School Notified APD, Parents Of Suspicious Behavior PISD has confirmed school officials contacted APD on Jan. 23 in efforts to keep Adrian and his sister, Zuleina, safe.
Copperfield Elementary School principal Sandra Bell was notified that Zuleina and Adrian were harassed on the way home from school by a group of men on Jan. 22.
The children came to school the next day and notified staff, who called police to report the incident and spoke with the Jaimes family.
Bell said she recommended the family start driving their children to school. The children previously walked to and from the campus, which is about a mile away from their house.
Zuleina told KXAN Austin News one of the men that harassed her on her way home from school on Jan. 22 was her brother’s abductor.
Bell said she believed her staff took the proper procedures to notify police and the family.
Windows handheld device fights wars on terror, drugs
"It can't tell you if there is a bomb on the kitchen table, but it can tell you if someone built a bomb on that kitchen table," he said.
That's useful as terrorists and insurgents continue to learn to bypass conventional threat detectors. For instance, explosives used in the 2005 London bombings carried out by Islamic terrorist groups used "chemicals that produced no vapor" so that neither "sniffer device nor dog" could detect them, Clift said.
Home Depot seeks to delay cargo security measure
Atlanta-based Home Depot and fellow "big box" chain stores have targeted donations to key lawmakers and stepped up lobbying efforts amid industry resistance to a law mandating 100 percent security scanning for imported cargo.
The new measure - recommended by the commission that examined the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks - requires that every cargo container be scanned for radiation or nuclear hazards before being shipped to the United States.
Business groups, who argue that importers are doing enough to improve cargo security already, are seeking to delay its implementation, which is slated for July of 2012.
"It is not a smart way to conduct cargo security" by checking every container, said Jason Conley, homeland security policy chief for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Foreign seaports would have to buy costly scanning equipment and America's trading partners could retaliate against U.S. exports, he said.
At the retail giants, including Wal-Mart, Target, Home Depot, Best Buy and Circuit City, corporate political action committees have focused campaign dollars on Republican members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, a study of campaign filings by Congressional Quarterly found.
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Pilots stabbed in attack on New Zealand plane
Reuters ^ | Feb 7, 2008 | Adrian Bathgate
Posted on 02/07/2008 5:43:37 PM PST by RDTF
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A woman passenger on a New Zealand commuter plane stabbed both pilots and threatened to blow up the 19-seat aircraft, police said on Friday. The attack on the pilots, who were not seriously hurt, happened about 20 minutes into the flight between the South Island centers of Blenheim and Christchurch, police said.
The plane landed at Christchurch, where police with dogs boarded it and arrested a 33-year-old woman, who is originally from Somalia.
The woman was in police custody in Christchurch but the motive for the attack was still unclear, Canterbury District Commander Superintendent Dave Cliff told Reuters.
“Once the full statements are taken from the pilots and the witnesses we’ll be able to get a full picture of what happened, but at the moment we’re going through the process,” Cliff said.
The plane was left on the runway while a bomb squad was called in, but no bomb was found on board, Cliff said.
The two pilots were taken to Christchurch hospital but their wounds were not life-threatening. One passenger and the woman were treated for minor cuts.
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“LET’S HOPE PAKISTAN’S NUKES ARE MORE SECURE THAN ITS PRISONERS”
February 6, 2008 1:00 AM
aaarrrggghhhh
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“New Report: Super Bowl massacre averted at last minute”
KNXV.com ^ | 2/8//08
Posted on 02/07/2008 7:02:28 PM PST by LdSentinal
Check for updates here — unknown cause (at this time) for explosion at sugar refinery:
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Good grief, a person in a position of power (Chairman of the Iranian Guardian Council) said this!?! I don’t know if it’s the desert sun or something in the water over there but rational thought and behavior do not prevail. I do appreciate the ping and link though Cindy :-)
Shooting at City Council Meeting:
“Gunman Opens Fire On City Council Meeting”
KIRKWOOD (AP)
You’re welcome Oorang.
It’s global jihad — another day.
My feelings exactly!
Adopt sharia law in Britain says the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop provoked the row by saying Britain had to "face up to the fact" that some citizens did not relate to this country's legal system and argued that officially sanctioning sharia law would improve community relations.
Islamic law not coming to Australia
Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland has ruled out the introduction of Sharia law in Australia.
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U.S. military officials wary of China’s expanding fleet of submarines
Int’l Herald Tribune (NYT) ^ | February 7, 2008 | David Lague
Posted on 02/07/2008 9:30:00 PM PST by fishhound
BEIJING: For a procession of senior U.S. military commanders who have visited China in recent years, the complaint has become almost routine.
As part of a sustained military buildup, they say, China is investing heavily in so-called area-denial weapons without explaining why it needs them.
The term area-denial weapons refers to a combination of armaments, technology and tactics that could be used to dominate a specific area or keep opposing forces at bay in a conflict. And one of the most formidable examples U.S. commanders identify is the Chinese Navy’s rapidly expanding fleet of nuclear and conventional submarines.
“I would say that the U.S. feels a strong threat from Chinese submarines,” said Andrei Chang, an expert on Chinese and Taiwan military forces and editor in chief of the magazine Kanwa Defence Review.
“China now has more submarines than Russia, and the speed they are building them is amazing,” Chang said.
U.S. and other Western military analysts estimate that China now has more than 30 advanced and increasingly stealthy submarines, along with dozens of older, obsolete types. “China is capable of serial production of modern diesel-electric submarines and is moving forward with new nuclear submarines,” the Pentagon said last year in its annual report on the Chinese military.
By the end of the decade, experts say, China will have more submarines than the United States, although it will still lag in overall capability.
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Checking in on the “peace” process:
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Qassam lands near Sderot, no injuries
Published: 02.08.08, 07:59 / Israel News
A Qassam rocket launched from northern Gaza on Friday morning landed near the town of Sderot, causing no damage or injuries.
This is the fourth rocket fired towards the western Negev since the early hours of the morning, no injuries or damage were reported in any of the attacks. (Shmulik Hadad)
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Qassam lands in western Negev, no injuries
Published: 02.08.08, 07:20 / Israel News
A Qassam rocket launched from northern Gaza on Friday morning landed near an Israeli community in the western Negev.
No injuries were reported and no damage was caused. (Shmulik Hadad)
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US calls on Israel not to exacerbate humanitarian situation in Gaza
Published: 02.08.08, 00:53 / Israel News
The US State Department on Thursday called on Israel to refrain from exacerbating the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. This following Israel’s decision to cut back half a megawatt of its supply of electricity to Gaza every week for 10 weeks.
State Department Spokesman Tom Casey said that while the United States respected Israel’s right to defend itself, it did not believe measures that may harm Gaza’s populace should be taken. (AFP)
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“Hijacker ‘wanted plane taken to Australia’”
February 8, 2008 - 4:49PM
Source: ABC
SNIPPET: “The 33-year-old woman allegedly threatened to blow up the 19-seat plane and stabbed two pilots.”
SNIPPET: “Police say a Somali woman charged with trying to hijack an Air New Zealand flight this morning wanted the plane taken to Australia.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Police say they found a knife on the tarmac near the aircraft and another on the woman.
Flights to and from Christchurch were suspended for two hours and the domestic terminal was evacuated while the plane was searched.
The pilots were taken to Christchurch Hospital. One has undergone successful surgery to his hand, while the other has been released.
Air New Zealand is reviewing its security systems after the incident.
It is believed there was no barrier in the plane to separate passengers from the cockpit.
Passengers taking domestic flights out of Blenheim airport are not subject to security checks, and hand luggage is not scanned.”
Travel.State.Gov - Country Specific Information: “GERMANY”
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Travel Alert
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Fri Feb 08 2008 01:05:45 GMT-0800 (PST).
TAJIKISTAN
February 7, 2008
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