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Posted on 02/09/2009 3:41:05 PM PST by Velveeta
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I haven’t been here long enough to really deserve any kind of kudos. This thread is amazing and the people who really kept it going deserve some kind of award. This thread is encyclopedic with the vast amount of information it contains, off, as well as on, site.
If I wore a hat, I would take it off to each and every one of these posters who put so much time and thought into this thread alone.
I’m what other people around here call a noob. Been flamed for it a couple of times too. But I figure if I stick around long enough, I won’t be a noob anymore. Here’s hoping.
If you see a story from any one of those sources, the facts are a 90% chance to be a direct opposite. If all come up with the same line, those odds go to 99.9999.
Got too many friends dead because of those bast***s to think any better of 'em, and the rule has saved my butt more than once over the years.
As far as The intel collected and analyzed here is pretty amazing. It makes stock in Rolaids a sure bet, I'll just add my kudos and make the modest claim that better bets would be had in stocks of food, fuel and ammunition.
I've been putting away all of the above for most of the last three years. (Oddly, that's about the same time I started FReeping and lurking around here.)
Radical Islam takes over Chicago hotel
A group with ties to terror activity hosted its first recruitment conference on U.S. soil over the weekend, Fox News reports. Hizb ut-Tahrir — which does not appear on the State Department’s list of known terror groups — hosted its conference, “The Fall of Capitalism and the Rise of Islam,” at the Hilton Oak Lawn in Chicago yesterday.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is not a terror group per se, but rather a school of sorts. The organization targets Muslim youths, teaching its followers to work toward the goal of a global caliphate — a government that rules all peoples according to Islamic law.
http://www.metro.us/us/article/2009/07/20/02/3144-82/index.xml
It’s a joint effort by all TMers.
Boy, many of us have been here a long time.
Mega kudos to Cindy for her efforts in keeping TM going for so long.
TM certainly is a safe haven, when times get edgy.
Posts have dwindled, as we all are busy with this...that..or the other thing.
But, we all know where to congregate if the need arises. ;-)
Thank you Vel...that’s kind of you.
You’re right...team effort.
Stunning how blatant.
Hopefully, the alphabets gleaned good info.
There’s an amazing body of work on TM and your organization of posts and links was and is, always enlightening.
U.S.-born militant who fought for Al Qaeda is in custody
Since his capture at an extremist training camp last year in Pakistan, Bryant Neal Vinas of Long Island, N.Y., is working with authorities in investigations rooted in many countries, authorities say.
An American Muslim convert from Long Island, N.Y., who was captured while fighting for Al Qaeda in Pakistan is now cooperating with authorities, opening a rare window into the world of Western militants in the network’s hide-outs, U.S. and European anti-terrorism officials said.
Bryant Neal Vinas, 26, is one of the few Americans known to have made the trek to Al Qaeda’s secret Pakistani compounds, the officials said.
Vinas has admitted to meeting Al Qaeda chiefs and giving them information for a potential attack on New York commuter trains, conversations that resulted in a public alert in November, said the officials, who requested anonymity because the case was ongoing......
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-american-jihad23-2009jul23,0,4748631.story
Feds: Long Island man gave Al Qaeda info on city subways, LIRR
A Long Island man confessed to feeding Al Qaeda information about New York’s subways and LIRR trains, triggering last year’s Thanksgiving Eve terror alert about a plot to hit Penn Station, the feds say.
Bryant Neal Vinas
Massachusetts company hid fact that the firm is part owned by a Saudi jihad terrorist
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The indictment alleges that they failed to disclose one of the major owners of PTech: Yassin Kadi, who was listed in 2001 by the U.S. government as a specially designated global terrorist. Mr. Kadi is a Saudi Arabian national who invested about $10 million in PTech from 1994 through 2001 through companies he owned, controlled or had an interest in, including one called Sarmany Limited, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Boston.
Because of the government designation, transactions with Mr. Kadi are prohibited.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/
Six people shot during drive-by at Texas Southern University campus
HOUSTON, Texas (BNO NEWS) — Gunfire erupted at and near the campus of the Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston on Wednesday evening, officials told BNO News. Several people were injured.
It happened just before 9 p.m. local time when shots were fired from a car near the Trae Day concert at the TSU campus, which was being hosted by Peter Brown who is running for Mayor. The event had just ended when the incident began. Dozens of gunshots rang out.
One of the victims is a student at TSU, said Eva Pickens, who is a spokeswoman for the university. She said the incident happened on the east side of the campus, near the parking garage. The spokeswoman conformed that a total of six people had been shot....
http://news.bnonews.com/gu9e
Thanks to all.
Kuwaiti Financier Sued By SEC Over Takeover Hoaxes
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/07/23/business/business-us-harman.html
U.S. Recruit Reveals How Qaeda Screens Foreigners
Bryant Neal Vinas, the once-aimless young man who journeyed from Long Island to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda, agreed to carry out a suicide bomb attack last year....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24terror.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
Police Arrest Jakarta Blast Suspect With Follow-Up Bomb
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A National Police counterterrorism source told the Jakarta Globe that authorities believed Noordin, a Malaysian who is suspected in last week’s attacks and other bombings in Jakarta and Bali since 2002, planned to hijack an aircraft and crash it into one of Jakarta’s high-rise buildings....
http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/police-arrest-jakarta-blast-suspect-with-follow-up-bomb/319921
Note: the “T” word is back in fashion:
Holder: Homegrown Terror Threat Increasing
In ABC News Exclusive, Attorney General Eric Holder Says ‘American People Would be Surprised by the Depth of the Threat’
Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News in an exclusive interview today that he is increasingly concerned about Americans becoming radicalized and turning to terrorism.
In an interview with ABC, attorney general recounts personal profiling incident.”I mean, that’s one of the things that’s particularly troubling: This whole notion of radicalization of Americans,” Holder told ABC News during an interview in his SUV as his motorcade brought him from home to work. “Leaving this country and going to different parts of the world and then coming back, all, again, in aim of doing harm to the American people, is a great concern.”
more at link, including video:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8202511&page=1
Note: There’s that “T” word again:
Security Chief Urges ‘Collective Fight’ Against Terrorism
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urged Americans on Wednesday to join a “collective fight against terrorism” that combines the efforts of individuals, companies and local, state and foreign governments.
Answering critics who have accused the Obama administration of downplaying the risk of terrorist attacks, Napolitano said the threat has not abated and outlined an approach that emphasizes burden-sharing as federal spending and political support for post-Sept. 11 security measures wane....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072901604_pf.html
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