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Posted on 02/09/2009 3:41:05 PM PST by Velveeta
Speaking of bad feelings:
Bin Laden ‘Plotting Attack Against West’
Breaking News1:53am UK, Friday March 27, 2009
Osama bin Laden is plotting an attack against the US and its allies from his secret base in Pakistan, say reports.
Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed senior US official as giving the warning.
No further details are known about the threat at the moment other than it reportedly came from Bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan.
The terror chief has issued more than 60 messages since the September 11 attacks in New York.
More follows...
Latest US strike targets al Qaeda safehouse in North Waziristan
The US conducted another airstrike in Pakistan’s tribal areas. The latest attack took place in a region of North Waziristan known to harbor a senior al Qaeda operative.
Five people were reported killed and four more were wounded after a Predator launched one or more Hellfire missiles into a Taliban compound in North Waziristan. The target of the attack was a compund run by Malik Gulab Khan in the Sokhel region just outside of Mir Ali, Geo News reported.
Al Qaeda operatives were reported to be in the area, but no senior al Qaeda or Taliban leaders have been reported killed.......
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/second_us_strike_tar.php
US places bounty on senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/us_places_bounty_on.php
US airstrike kills 8 in Baitullah Mehsud’s hometown
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/03/us_airstike_kills_8.php
Updates appreciated. I’ve got “bad feelings”, too. The “Messiah” and his lackeys scare the “pee-waddin” (an old Texas term) out of me.
Thanks for the ping and keeping me “in the loop”.
Al-Qaeda Ideologue Describes Alleged Spread of Al-Qaeda in the Levant
A leading jihadi ideologue known as “the Spearhead of the Mujahedeen” claims that al-Qaeda already exists in Palestine and soon there will be “huge good news” to prove its existence.....
Crusades in the Levant 1097-1291
The Crusades in the Lavent involved most of the Christian nations bordering the northern coastline of the Mediterranean. The political regions depicted above are ca. 1300. These regions changed dramatically, with varous small ‘kingdoms’ emerginging and then being overtaken in the eastern part of the Mediterranean, as Muslims societies pushed into Anatolia [modern Turkey] and confronted the Byzantine Empire. However, the focus of the Western military campaigns was to secure the Holy Land. This was temporarly accomplished by the initial Crusades establishing some small ‘kingdoms’ and ‘counties’ in the lands immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean.
***This region was called the ‘Lavent’ [the land where the sun rises], a name given to other regions ‘to the east’.***
Modern scholars also refer to the land held by the Western crusaders as ‘the Latin East’.....
http://xenophongroup.com/montjoie/crusade2.htm
You’re welcome, RR.
I think we’re all in the same boat and feeling generally unsettled and on edge.
U.S. Homeland Security Dept. Preparing for Possible Collapse of Mexican Government - Video 3/26/09
Freedom’s Lighthouse ^ | March 26, 2009 | BrianinMO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2215839/posts
GAFFNEY: Our enemies sense weakness
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/24/our-enemies-sense-weakness/
David Horowitz: ‘100% Chance’ of Terror Strike on U.S. Soil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215871/posts
Gaffney is spot on. 0bama is displaying serious weakness and incompetance, and some one will do something stupid thinking they can get away with it (and probably will)
Thanks for the ping!
Enjoy the weekend
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/deep-roots.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/conflict-terror-extensive-roundup.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/george-carlin-wisdom.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/she-got-up-and-caught-300.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/our-worst-enemy-is-enemy-within-our-own.html
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/03/loss-of-constitutional-rights-for-brown.html
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping!
He seemed to be on every talk show this morning.
FAIRHOPE, Ala. -- Fairhope police and fire officials, together with Baldwin County sheriff's deputies, are investigating a bomb threat near the K-1 Center on Church Street. Mayor Tim Kant said the nursing home near the school was evacuated and a several block area cordoned off as a precaution after authorities found suspicious material when searching the area after the threat was called in.
A bomb squad was then called in to investigate the situation further. At least one of the nursing home residents was transported by ambulance after having been taken outside.
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/03/fairhope_authorities_check_out.html
Hezbollah Uses Mexican Drug Routes Into U.S.
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S. Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"They work together," said Mr. Braun. "They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected. "They'll leverage those relationships to their benefit, to smuggle contraband and humans into the U.S.; in fact, they already are [smuggling]."
Excerpted
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/
I believe this has been going on for a long time. The question I have is how many are here and what are their plans. Probably no one knows, particularly Napolitano. :(
Thanks for the ping.
BEIJING – Authorities in China have ordered an all-out search for a missing nuclear scale that contained a dangerous radioactive component, state press said Friday. The scale, used to make precision measurements, was found to be missing on Monday after workers began dismantling a cement factory where it was used in Tongchuan city in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency said.
A lead ball containing extremely dangerous Caesium-137 was a major component of the scale, it said. Local government offices in Shaanxi could not be immediately reached for comment on the issue. The report did not say how much Caesium-137 was missing but warned that only a tiny amount could damage the human nervous system and even lead to death. The material could also explode if it comes in contact with water, it added.
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Truck Laden With Explosives Impounded In Afghanistan
March 28, 2009
KHOST -- Security officials in Afghanistan's Khost Province have impounded a truck loaded with more than three tons of explosives, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan (RFA) reports. The chief of the Khost City Security Department, Abdulqayum Baqizoy, told RFA that the truck crossed the Afghan-Pakistani border during the night of March 26.
He said terrorists planned to use the truck for an attack against a local government building on March 27. He said the truck driver and his accomplices escaped, however.
http://www.rferl.org/Content/Truck_Laden_With_Explosives_Impounded_In_Afghanistan/1563561.html
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