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Feds Cite Racist Chatter for ‘Higher State of Alert’ in Inauguration
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Federal agents are on “a higher state of alert” because of hate talk by white supremacists about Barack Obama’s Inauguration, officials told the New York Daily News on Tuesday.
“That chatter is out there, no doubt about it,” one senior FBI agent in Washington told me this afternoon, adding that no credible plots against the 56th Presidential Inauguration have been detected. The Bureau has ordered agents in all 56 field offices to “shake the trees” in advance of the Jan. 20 swearing-in of the 44th President, who will become the first African-American to occupy the Oval Office. “They’re talking to sources to determine if there is any threat information in regard to the Inauguration,” the FBI source said.
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FBI shares threat-tips with local police agencies
1/13/09
The FBI has launched a system to share tips about possible terror threats with local police agencies just in time for the presidential inauguration. The program aims to get law enforcement at all levels sharing data quickly about suspicious activity and people, particularly in and around the nation's capital in the week leading up to the historic ceremony.
Officials say they are getting as many as 1,000 tips a day from the public. Called e-Guardian, the program had been delayed and underwent a smaller pilot project before launching New Year's Eve as a system available to law enforcement agencies around the country. Federal authorities hope the new system overcomes a drawback of another version, which lets police report their suspicions to the FBI but doesn't allow officers to search the system for similar patterns in other jurisdictions. The program "will allow all law enforcement to share threats and suspicious activity and hopefully prevent a terrorist attack," said FBI supervisor Gerald Rogero, in Washington. Of the 1,000 tips, a dozen might be worth noting in the new system.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hL3umBJaWDcpCfHcC8dYusyy-gIQD95MI9BG1
Somali Militants Issue Biography of American Jihadist
1/13/09
The NEFA Foundation has obtained and translated a biography issued by the Shebaab al-Mujahideen Movement in Somalia of an American jihadi recruit recently killed in a missile strike in southern Somalia.
Former Seattle, Washington-resident Ruben Shumpert (a.k.a. Amir Abdul Muhaimeen) was allegedly under investigation by the FBI for distributing jihadi video recordings and providing weapons training before Shumpert fled the U.S. with the help of local Somali Islamic extremists living in Washington.
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http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents-original.html#shumpert0109
On Aug. 4, 2001, a young Saudi named Mohammed Al-Qahtani tried to gain entry into the United States via the airport in Orlando Florida but was denied by an immigration inspector who found him highly suspicious. Al-Qahtani was sent home.
What the immigration inspector did not know, but the 9/11 Commission Report would later reveal, was that Mohammed Atta was in the airport's passenger pick-up area awaiting Al-Qahtani's arrival. Atta made several telephone phone calls from an airport pay phone while Qahtani was being questioned. Al-Qahtani was later captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan, in late 2002.
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http://www.theaviationnation.com/2009/01/14/what-will-obama-do-with-mohammed-al-qahtani/