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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336210,00.html
Times Square Bombing Possibly Tied to New York Anarchist Groups, Source Says
Sunday, March 09, 2008
NEW YORK — Investigators believe the bicyclist who bombed the Times Square military recruiting station is a local man with ties to chaos-crazed anarchy groups, a high-ranking law-enforcement source said yesterday.
The revelation opened a new avenue after a promising lead connecting the attack to a series of letters shipped to Washington lawmakers’ offices crumbled.
The official said the entire attack - including the dumping of the bike in a trash bin blocks away from the explosion - seemed well planned because it appeared the suspect scouted out his escape route.
“He seems to be toying with everyone,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Cops yesterday pored over dozens of surveillance tapes that tracked the bicycle-riding bomber from Times Square, across 43rd Street to Fifth Avenue and finally to Madison Avenue and East 38th Street, where he ditched his wheels.
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OPINION:
No researcher, analyst, alphabet agency or jihadi should be surprised by these news articles. -Cindy
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Thanks to drymans wife for the ping to this article:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336261,00.html
“Report: Al Qaeda Spies Believed to Have Infiltrated British Police Force”
Sunday, March 09, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The police officers — still on active duty — were identified during an investigation into police force infiltration which has been going on since the July 2005 London bombings, the Mail reported.”
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Thanks to ali veritas for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982839/posts
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=528813&in_page_id=1770
“MI5 targets four Met police officers ‘working as Al Qaeda Spies’”
Last updated at 17:22pm on 9th March 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The officers’ names apparently emerged during a low-profile investigation into police force infiltration which has been going on since the July 2005 London bombings.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Last year MI5 believed there were up to eight police staff—uniform and civilians with links to extremist groups.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”If you are a young Pakistani of English origin and you feel you want to do something for the cause of Islam, what better way than to join the enemy and attack from within?””
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Even exiled cleric Omar Bakri has revealed how Islamic extremists were working at the heart of the NHS and other vital services.
Failed asylum seeker Omar Altimimi was jailed for nine years last July for keeping manuals on detonating car bombs.
Before his conviction he had applied to work as a cleaner for Greater Manchester police.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Numbers of officers from ethnic minorities have risen since the Met was accused of being institutionally racist in the Stephen Lawrence public inquiry report.
MP Patrick Mercer, Tory terrorism advisor, said: “This discovery by MI5 comes as no surprise to me.
“Recruiting ethnic people into key public sector organisations - in place to protect us - is a risk.””
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/iran/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hamas/
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982983/posts
blog:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/09/hamas-iranian-backed-mullah-approved/
“Hamas: Iranian-backed, mullah approved”
POSTED AT 12:00 PM ON MARCH 9, 2008 BY ED MORRISSEY
I understand the title of the blog entry.
It makes the officer/investigator’s job so much easier when the
suspect says exactly what he did and/or wants to do. -Cindy
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/001336.html
March 03, 2008
“AT LEAST HE IS HONEST...”
Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 3, 2008
http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/001335.html
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http://www.youtube.com/user/lioravnon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWTyyQpezps
“hamas militents launching rockets”
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hamas militants launching rockets from an elemntary school based in northen Gaza on 29.10.2007 (less)
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/001334.html
March 03, 2008
IAF AIRSTRIKE ON TRUCK LOADED WITH 160 ROCKETS...
That they knew how many rockets were loaded on the truck should tell you something about the intelligence that led to the airstrike.
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Posted on 03 March 2008 @ 15:14 GMT
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Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17521&Itemid=21
Press Release A080309a
March 9, 2008
Al-Qaeda targeted, weapons caches destroyed; five killed, 26 detained
BAGHDAD – Coalition forces killed five terrorists, detained 26 suspects and found several weapons caches Saturday and today during operations to disrupt al-Qaeda networks operating in central and northern Iraq.
Coalition forces conducted an operation northwest of Samarra today, targeting an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq leader involved in propaganda operations for the network in al-Anbar province. The suspect is believed to be associated with several AQI leaders, including foreign terrorists operating outside of Iraq.
As Coalition forces arrived in the area, they received enemy fire from four individuals they observed departing the target building and moving into a nearby field. Responding in self-defense, the ground force engaged, killing the four armed terrorists. As they secured the area where the terrorists were located, the ground force found various equipment and weapons, including four military style assault vests, machine guns, ammunition and magazines, bomb-making materials and medical supplies.
The ground force moved to a nearby building and discovered a large weapons cache that included machine guns, rockets, grenades, numerous magazines and ammunition, mortars, improvised explosive device materials and initiators, detonation cord, ball bearings, military-style assault vests, medical supplies, and various other military hardware items. A vehicle found in the target area also contained numerous AQI propaganda materials. During their final sweep of the area, Coalition forces found another weapons cache and a building with several false floors containing weapons and ammunition. Once the area was clear, Coalition forces called supporting fixed-wing aircraft to conduct precision airstrikes, destroying two buildings, two vehicles and the two weapons caches to prevent further use for terrorist activities.
In Mosul Saturday and today, Coalition forces detained six suspected terrorists, including an alleged leader involved in the AQI network operating on the east side of the city. The suspect is reportedly associated with several senior leaders of the AQI network in the region, to include Abu Yasir al-Saudi, also known as Jar Allah, the former Saudi AQI leader and foreign terrorist facilitator killed Feb. 27 (see MNF-I press release A080301c, “UPDATE: Coalition forces identify AQI leader, associate killed in Mosul raid,” dated March 1, 2008).
As Coalition forces began to enter the target building, they encountered a terrorist armed with a suicide vest. The ground force evacuated before the terrorist detonated his vest, killing himself, but causing no harm to Coalition forces. The ground force continued to clear the area and found a vehicle loaded with several weapons, which they destroyed on site to prevent further use for terrorist activity. Also in Mosul, another three suspects were detained during a separate operation targeting a senior leader for the city’s AQI network.
Northeast of Balad this morning, Coalition forces detained three suspected terrorists while targeting an alleged explosives facilitator connected to the Baghdad AQI network. Coalition forces also discovered 30 bags of Urea, a common precursor for homemade explosive materials, in one of the target buildings, which was safely destroyed, along with a vehicle allegedly used for terrorist activity. Nearby, another four suspects were detained during an operation Saturday targeting an alleged AQI associate involved in the facilitation of foreign terrorists and smuggling weapons and IED materials.
Coalition forces detained another 10 suspects today near Taji, during an operation targeting an alleged associate of the senior leader for the northern belt AQI network.
“Al-Qaeda’s indiscriminate violence has no place in Iraq’s future,” said Navy Capt. Vic Beck, MNF-I spokesman. “While a tough fight remains ahead of us, Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue take the fight to al-Qaeda, keeping the terrorists on the defensive and diminishing their ability to attack innocent civilians.”
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blog:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/03/09/investigating-criminal-alien-arrests-in-milwaukee/
“Investigating criminal alien arrests in Milwaukee”
By Michelle Malkin • March 9, 2008 02:58 PM
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080307lascruces.htm
ICE arrests two men connected with smuggling 30 illegal aliens in a U-Haul van
N.M. judge ordered both Mexican nationals detained with no bond in alien smuggling scheme
LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A U.S. federal magistrate here on Thursday ordered two Mexican men detained with no bond after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents arrested them in connection with unlawfully transporting 30 illegal aliens inside a U-Haul van.
Agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Border Patrol responded Saturday evening to a call from a concerned citizen who reported that he saw a large group of aliens get into a white commercial van on Arizona Highway 80, near the Arizona-New Mexico state line.
Border Patrol agents conducted an immigration check on the van on New Mexico Highway 80, south of Roadforks, N.M. They discovered the driver and two passengers in the cab of the van, and 27 others in the cargo box. All were in the country illegally, and appeared to be in good health. Border Patrol agents contacted ICE and detained the U-Haul driver, Rosendo Gamez-Avila, 30, from Los Mochis, Mexico. The ICE investigation determined that Gamez-Avila was promised to be paid $100 per illegal alien.
The ICE investigation further determined that Douglas, Ariz., Border Patrol agents detained Miguel Trejo-Meraz, 52, on Arizona Highway 80 earlier that same evening. Trejo-Meraz, a border-crossing card holder, was identified as the individual who drove the U-Haul van from a business parking lot in Douglas, Ariz., to Arizona Highway 80, where he delivered it for Gamez-Avila to load and transport the illegal aliens. Trejo-Meraz was to be paid $200, according to the ICE investigation. He was waiting on the side of the road for a ride back to Douglas when Border Patrol agents encountered him.
Gamez-Avila is charged with alien smuggling/transporting; Miguel Trejo-Meraz is charged with conspiracy to commit alien smuggling. Both are detained in the Doña Ana County Detention Facility in Las Cruces pending trial.
All 30 illegal aliens discovered in the U-Haul were Mexican nationals. ICE agents interviewed the van occupants and determined that each alien paid between $800 to $1,800 to be smuggled into the United States and taken to their final destinations: Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz.; Chicago; Ill.; and Dallas, Texas. The group included a woman and a teen-age boy; the others were men. Border Patrol agents voluntarily returned most of the aliens to Mexico.
Roberto G. Medina, special agent-in-charge for the ICE Office of Investigations in El Paso, said ICE special agents are committed to work alongside their local and federal law enforcement partners to identify and dismantle alien smuggling networks.
“Alien smuggling organizations are driven by greed,” he said. “ICE will not allow the border to be used as an opportunity for criminal smugglers to profit from their crimes. We will continue to work together with the Border Patrol and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to bring these human smugglers to justice.” Medina oversees an area that includes western Texas and the state of New Mexico.
El Paso Sector Chief Victor M. Manjarrez Jr. stated, “This is a text-book example of how the community can participate in the homeland security process. Members of the community should feel comfortable in reporting any suspicious activity.”
The public is encouraged to report suspicious activity by calling ICE’s toll free hotline at 1-866-347-2423), or the Border Patrol’s hotline at 1-800-635-2509.
— ICE —
So, how’s that Border Fence coming along?
Never mind....
One would think this was a third world nation.............
Syria is in the midst of "intensely" arming itself, placing into position rockets and missiles capable of striking the entire Jewish state, according to an assessment presented to the Knesset today by multiple Israeli security agencies.
Taliban in Pakistan - bin Laden not an enemy
Snippets: A pro-Taliban leader in Pakistan's tribal area on Sunday said that al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and fugitive Taliban militant leader Mullah Omar were "not enemies of Pakistan."
"We do not want to capture the government, but we want imposition of Islamic system in the country." Addressing a press conference in December Mohammad had said that bin Laden could be in "some safe area inside Afghanistan," adding: "If he comes to Bajaur, we will give him a warm welcome."
Latest terrorists are looking for thrills
THE third wave of terrorism facing the world is a leaderless mishmash of young and bored terrorist wannabees, according to a leading US expert.
Former CIA officer and now author Marc Sageman says that the latest jihadis taking up the global call for action more closely resemble criminal gang members than religious fanatics.
The invisible fence? (sarc.) I'd like to see the mountains of debris left by illegal aliens cleaned up by those who fail to see there is an ongoing unresolved illegal alien problem within this nation....just saying......
NAFTA may be at center of election
Among the issues behind the strike at American Axle and Manufacturing Inc. are the company's plans to shift production to Mexico.
“he invisible fence?”
Yep, the invisible and the visible fences.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3517024,00.html
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“Three men charged with honor killing in Jordan”
Published: 03.09.08, 22:18
blog:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29197_Britain_Bans_Likud_Member_Allows_Hizballah&only
“Britain Bans Likud Member, Allows Hizballah”
Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 10:40:05 am PST
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08030056.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net — E-mail: assistnews@aol.com
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Jordan Deports Evangelical Christians
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
AMMAN, JORDAN (ANS) — Evangelical Christians are being criticized in Jordan where dozens of seminary students and missionaries have been deported, a report said.
According to a report by United Press International (UPI), the deportations could affect Jordan’s $2.3 billion tourism industry, which markets the country’s Biblical sites heavily to evangelicals around the world, The Washington Times reported.
“The king has to realize there is a cost to this reaction. Christians are an important part of the economic well-being of Jordan,” UPI reported that Keith Roderick, a Washington representative for Christian Solidarity International, said.
Some Jordanians reportedly feel American evangelicals are trying to bring down their beliefs and customs by pushing American values.
“They come as individuals, and they exploit the citizens of this nation, recruiting them for their interests,” UPI reported World Council of Churches representative Awda Qawwas said.
UPI reported that religious leaders in Amman said they have “been complaining for many years about the role of missionary groups in Jordan.”
The proselytizing of Muslims to Christianity is against the law in Jordan.
The expulsions were reported Jan. 29 by the evangelical news service Compass Direct. On Feb. 20, the acting foreign minister, Nasser Judeh, read a statement by the Council of the Church Leaders of Jordan condemning the Compass report.
Compass reported that following Judeh’s statements about foreign groups that “broke the law and did missionary activities,” the Jordanian parliament on Feb. 21 passed a resolution condemning the Compass article.
“We categorically condemn and reject the false report which is aimed at damaging Muslim-Christian relations in Jordan,” the lower house of parliament said, according to Agence France-Presse.
More Deportations
Compass commented it has been unclear what the government considered false in its report. The news service said the fact of Christians being deported was further verified as authorities on Feb. 10 expelled an Egyptian pastor with the Assemblies of God church in Madaba – one of five evangelical denominations registered with the government.
Married to a Jordanian citizen and the father of two children, Compass said Sadeq Abdel Nour was handcuffed and blindfolded and taken to the port city of Aqaba. There he was placed on a ferry to Egypt.
The week prior, Compass said an Egyptian pastor from a Baptist church in Zarqa was arrested, held for three days and also returned to Egypt by ship from the port city of Aqaba.
The 43-year-old pastor is married to a Jordanian woman and the father of three children.
In addition, Compass reported, a foreign Christian studying Arabic left Jordan on Feb.18 after intelligence police ordered her to exit the country by February 20. Officers accused the student of studying Arabic to conceal her work evangelizing Muslims, based on the fact that she attended an Arabic-speaking church.
Compass said that authorities did not provide a written explanation for the deportation of either of the two Egyptian pastors. A government minister contacted by Compass did not respond to numerous requests for information regarding the expulsions.
According to Compass, pastors from both the Assemblies of God and Baptist denominations, officially recognized by Jordanian authorities, declined to comment on the incidents.
However, Compass reported, a member of the Council of the Church Leaders of Jordan, which includes clergy from the Catholic, Orthodox and Armenian churches, confirmed the deportations.
“The government said they have their own reasons to kick them out, but personally I don’t know why,” said council secretary John Nour.
Government Urged Council’s Statement
Compass reported Nour told the news service that an official from Jordan’s Foreign Ministry had approached the council, Jordan’s highest Christian body, requesting that it respond to accusations of increased pressure on foreign Christians printed in the Jan. 29 Compass article.
“They gave us a paper about why (the foreigners) have been deported,” Nour told Compass by telephone from Amman. “None of them were working legally under a church name, and if they were working under a (registered) church in the country, they were not doing what they were supposed to do.”
Compass said the bishops’ Feb. 4 response, posted in English on Jordan’s U.S. embassy website until it was removed several days later, received widespread coverage in Arabic media.
The statement said that errors in the Compass article “distort the truth and harm relations between Muslim and Christian citizens.”
Compass said but other than disagreeing on the number of Christians in Jordan, 4 percent as opposed to 3 percent, and denying claims that local Christians feared the government might regress on its policy of religious tolerance, the statement failed to identify any specific inaccuracies in the Compass article.
Contacted about the council’s statement, Nour complained that the article failed to obtain comment from a council member or from a government official regarding the missionary accusations, although the Jan. 29 story did quote a Jordanian official who requested that his name not be used.
Compass said the head of Jordan and Palestine’s lay Orthodox council told Compass that the article was incorrect in its claims that religious freedom in Jordan was under threat.
“We Christians in Jordan have all the rights and freedoms of every citizen,” Dr. Raouf Abu Jaber said from Amman.
The Feb. 4 statement denounced around 40 foreign groups that it said came to Jordan under the “guise of charitable organizations,” and were a “threat to public security.”
“It was not against the (local) evangelical people,” Nour told Compass. “The evangelical churches have a lot of respect here from the traditional churches and from the government.”
The Baptists, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Nazarene Church, Assemblies of God and Free Evangelicals have been in the country for decades and are registered with the government.
However, Compass reported, as some of the deportations have showed, the government opposition is not limited to missionaries unaffiliated with the five registered evangelical denominations. Nour said that foreign missionaries even with permission to work under registered evangelical churches had been deported for breaking the law by passing out Bibles in Muslim areas.
“Here the religion of the country is Islam, and according to the law you are not allowed to go out and reach Muslims,” Nour told Compass. But he later modified this statement, saying that everyone was free to share his faith with anyone who came to a church to request information.
Further questioned by Compass about Jordanian law, Nour specified that all Jordanian citizens were guaranteed freedom of religion as long as it did not “interfere with other religions.”
Compass reported that many of those deported in 2007 told Compass they were questioned by intelligence police about alleged evangelistic activity among Muslims.
Dr. Jaber of Jordan’s Orthodox lay council explained that Jordan’s traditional churches generally reject the idea of evangelizing Muslims, or vice versa, in order to preserve mutual respect between the religions.
“We (Christians) are well represented on all levels of government, and therefore we would like to keep this balanced society,” Jaber told the news service. “To co-exist we must have a respect.”
Jaber told Compass that evangelists from the United States who came to Jordan to preach often caused problems by angering Muslims and Christians alike and breaking the law. But he said he was unaware of which specific law forbade preaching to members of another faith.
Seminary Harassed
Compass said that following the council’s statement, Al-Jazeera and Saudi newspaper Al-Watan claimed on Feb.17 that the Jordanian government had decided that it would expel 40 Christian missionary groups. The government minister did not respond when contacted by Compass regarding the claims.
In his comments to parliament, Compass reported that acting Foreign Minister Judeh did not identify any groups that had been carrying out “illegal” missionary activities. Neither did he specify the details of these activities.
In an apparent reference to the Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary (JETS), Compass reported the church council said it had asked the government not to allow foreign missionary groups to establish a “theological institute” in Jordan.
“They attract poor and unemployed youths, drawing them from our churches, and tempting them with facilitations and missionary jobs in Jordan and various Arab countries,” Compass reported the Feb. 4 statement said.
Compass said that at least 10 foreign students attending JETS were denied entry and deported last August and September while returning for the 2007-2008 academic year.
Though recognized by several international accrediting organizations, the seminary has been unsuccessful in its attempts to acquire official accreditation under Jordan’s Ministry of Higher Education.
Compass said that JETS eventually registered under the Ministry of Culture in 1995, five years after its inception, but the government continued to regularly deny a number of its foreign students and professors residency.
Many have been forced to enter the country on tourist visas and have overstayed the time limit in order to complete their studies.
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico’s largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master’s degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. His newest book is “Homeless in the City: A Call to Service.” Additional details about “Homeless” are available at http://www.HomelessBook.com He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jeremyreynalds@comcast.net. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A higher resolution JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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Freepers have attempted to keep this thread on the Las Vegas Ricin story thread alive, as they have put so much work into it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1978737/posts?q=1&;page=1301
AMom made a good time line for the thread, it is #1301, and now, like so many incidents, it has vanished from the news.
If you find anything on the ricin incident, and feel so inclined, will you also put it at the above.
Please.
Thanks.
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08030055.htm
Sunday, March 9, 2008
“New Delhi Christians Protest against Attacks”
By Jeremy Reynalds
Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NEW DELHI, INDIA (ANS) — Christians in New Delhi demanded on Sunday that attacks on the community and its places of worship in various parts of the country be stopped immediately.
According to a story published on the Times of India web site, they also urged the government to take action against perpetrators of the attacks.”
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2008/s08030039.htm
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
“Pastor Killed in Sri Lanka”
Gospel for Asia
For Immediate Release
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “SRI LANKA (ANS) — A gunman shot and killed Christian pastor Neil Edirisinghe, February 17 outside his home in Sri Lanka. His wife also received a critical injury from the attack. She was holding their baby son at the time she was shot, but the child escaped serious injury.”
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