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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
We're hearing far too many reports of the FBI NOT being responsive/receptive to reports.
When I personally reported the ME's filming specific buildings in Chicago last summer, I never heard a word back from them.
The FBI better get their act together........pronto.
See post # 4,194. Should have added you to the ping.
Have a safe and peaceful weekend.
Ob is used to signify "of" and Bin used as "Son of".
It could be that he signs his name Abu Ob el-Maati. (Abu of El-Maati). Osama Bin Laden is Osama son of Laden.
Got it -- thanks.
I once checked into a local motel for three days when I was having my hardwood floors refinished. Back when I was married, I would often check into a local hotel for several nights when I was on trial in a complicated case because I needed the solitude to stay focused.
Italian politician found slain
POMPEII, Italy, May 28 (UPI) -- Italian police Friday investigated the murder of a city council candidate whose body has been found beheaded, the BBC reported.
Carlo Cirillo, 43, was running as part of a coalition of parties from the left and center in Pompeii, the modern town that has grown up near its ancient namesake buried by the Mount Vesuvius volcano in A.D. 79.
He went missing Monday, and on Tuesday his wife distributed posters of her husband around town. Wednesday night her husband's headless body was found near a road, police said. The head has not been located.
Besides his wife, Cirillo leaves two young daughters.
Some officials said a Naples-area crime family known as the Camorra could be behind the killing, and others have called for the June 12-13 election to be suspended.
Oh no.
LOL!. A masterpiece SP2BF. That your dog?
Love your tagline...When the alert was issued I thought "The next time I see a smelly (as in Ammonia) homeless person with bulky clothing on, I am calling the Feds..."
More on Gadahn:
Father of suspected al-Qaida operative is baffled by accusation
By BEN FOX
The Associated Press
5/28/04 10:21 AM
HEMET, Calif. (AP) -- The father of an American suspected of being an al-Qaida operative said he is baffled by the allegation, saying he has spoken to his son only occasionally in recent years, but still can't imagine that he would be involved with a terrorist network.
Philip Gadahn, speaking Thursday at the edge of the rutted dirt road that leads to his 40-acre property, said he has seen no evidence linking his 25-year-old son, Adam Yahiye Gadahn, to al-Qaida.
"I don't remember him as the kind of person who would do the things he is accused of doing," the elder Gadahn said while taking a break from working at his Winchester ranch. "If he's involved in this, that's going to be really strange."
On Wednesday, the government announced that Adam Gadahn is suspected of attending an al-Qaida training camp and working as a translator for the terror group. The son was the only U.S. native on a list of seven alleged operatives sought by authorities for plotting against the United States.
Also Wednesday, FBI agents came to the father's property and spoke to him.
The elder Gadahn said the family last spoke to Adam several months after the Sept. 11 attacks. He called from Pakistan to say he was married to a refugee and they were going to have a child.
Philip Gadahn said he moved to the ranch southwest of Hemet in the 1970s to escape the noise and traffic of the city and changed the family name from Pearlman because he was starting a new life. He said the Gadahn name was taken from the Bible, but would not elaborate.
Adam was home-schooled, in part because the dirt road outside the property often becomes impassable in winter. His brother and aunt said the family was Christian but not particularly religious. The father described them as Universalist and believers in nonviolence.
"We have four kids; three of them are fairly average Southern California kids," the father said.
A longtime neighbor, Alberto Monroy, said the family would not allow him or other adults on the property when he came to pick up his son from playing with the youngest Gadahn son, but the family was polite.
"When we had to fix the road or stuff, he was always here helping," he said from the porch of his home.
Adam Gadahn didn't attend college, choosing instead to move to the suburbs of Los Angeles where he became a Muslim and worshipped at the Islamic Society of Orange County. The mosque later expelled him for attacking one of its leaders.
He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of assault and battery in connection with the May 1997 fight. He was sentenced to two days in jail and five days of community service, but he never showed up for the community service. There is an outstanding warrant for his arrest.
Adam Gadahn worked in 1997 at Charity Without Borders in Garden Grove, where Khalil al-Deek, a terrorist suspect with alleged ties to Osama bin Laden, also was employed. It is not clear if the two were friends.
Rita Katz, executive director of terrorism research group Site Institute, said al-Deek was a suspected mastermind of the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Day 2000.
Al-Deek was jailed in Jordan for 17 months on suspicion of being involved in a bombing plot, but he was never charged with a crime. He was released in May 2001 and deported to the United Arab Emirates.
FBI officials in Los Angeles said Adam Gadahn was last known to be in Southern California in 1997 or 1998. His father said he traveled to Pakistan with friends and, at first, would write two or three times a year but that became less frequent. "He just faded," Philip Gadahn said.
http://www.nj.com/breakingnews/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0549_BC_TerrorThreat-Gadahn&&news&tradecentercrash
I'm in San Jose...
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