Ping to post #448.
Police detain 2 men after alarm raised at Saskatoon airport (Canada)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Two men preparing to board a plane at Saskatoon International Airport were detained by police for several hours Monday after concerns were raised about a possible hijacking. The two men, both 23, had been planning to board a United Airlines flight to Denver. However, at around 4 p.m., some passengers in the boarding area contacted security after overhearing a conversation between the two, Saskatoon police said.
The men were prevented from getting on the plane and police were called. However, the men were not charged and were released several hours later, after being questioned. Police said they are still investigating.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/saskatchewan/story/2009/01/27/saskatoon-airport.html
Bin Laden messages on Bosnian Muslim site January 26, 2009
Messages from Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants have been published on the Bosnian Muslim web site putvjernika.com. Titled “Usama bin Laden: Call to Jihad to stop aggression in Gaza” the text warns that Muslims “have ignored the requirement of Jihad!”.
The web site putvjernika.com is ran by Bosnian Muslims from Gornja Maoca, a village that was ethnically cleansed of Serbs and now occupied by Bosnian Muslims who believe in Wahabism.
Excerpted
Al Qaeda has posted a chilling video threat to Britain on YouTube - showing masked gunmen shooting the Union Flag. Heavily-armed henchmen of Osama bin Laden are seen in a desert area, dressed from head to toe in black, using the flag as target practice.
The video also shows the Stars and Stripes and Israel's flag riddled with bullets as the men unload their rifles. Two men released from America's Guantanamo Bay terror prison appear in the video, which has also been posted on jihadist websites. Abu Hareth Muhammad al Oufi is seen venting his fury at the West while holding an automatic rifle and brandishing a grenade. Former inmate Abu Sufyan al Azdi al Shahri is filmed sitting with two other men before a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq, the symbol for the al Qaeda terror network in Iraq.
Excerpted
'Betty Ford' Islamic militants arrested in Saudi Arabia
1/26/09
Nine Saudi Islamic militants, including former Guantanamo inmates, have been rearrested in the Kingdom despite completing a controversial rehabilitation programme. The arrests follow the embarrassing revelation last week that another Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee who was released to the authorities in 2007 has emerged as the deputy leader of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni branch of the terrorist organisation.
Both incidents are a serious setback for the experimental regime in which Saudi terror suspects are "weaned off" Islamic militancy at the so-called "Betty Ford clinic" for jihadists.
Excerpted
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5591235.ece
Ping to post #448.