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In the following posts I will do my week in review:

THE PAKI CONNECTION:

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistani interior minister says arrested al-Qaida suspect has given authorities "very valuable" leads, but declines to give details.7/29 TM KNEW!

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Pakistan's interior minister announces the arrest of Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian al-Qaida suspect wanted in connection with U.S. embassy bombings in Africa.

PAKISTAN Tells US It Captured Al-Qaeda Suspect Ghailani
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
... who is on the US's ``most wanted terrorists'' list ... in New York in late 1998 in connection with the ... and diskettes and an unspecified amount of money, according to ...
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2228

PAKISTAN reports arrest of a top terror suspect
International Herald Tribune - Paris,France
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who is among the 22 people on the American FBI's most-wanted-terrorist list, has been arrested, an official here ...
http://www.iht.com/articles/531938.htm

PAKISTAN: Top Terror Suspect Arrested
Voice of America - Washington,DC,USA
Pakistan's interior minister says his country has arrested a suspected al-Qaida terrorist wanted for involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa. ...
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=D599B0BD-360A-47B2-8ABA4A42EBB85544

PAKISTAN Tells US It Captured Al-Qaeda Suspect Ghailani
Bloomberg - USA
... who is on the US's ``most wanted terrorists'' list. ... in New York in late 1998 in connection with the ... diskettes and an unspecified amount of money, according to ...
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aT_flUqXWsu4&refer=top_world_news

THE Pakistan connection and the US silence over an execution Taipei Times - Taipei,Taiwan
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2004/07/27/2003180668

ALERTS:

LA On Heightened Terror Alert
NBC4.TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
LOS ANGELES -- Authorities in Los Angeles and a number of other major metropolitan areas are on heightened anti-terror alert Friday following an FBI request
http://www.nbc4.tv/news/3596813/detail.html

FBI warns police in California, NM about possible terror threat
San Diego Union Tribune - San Diego,CA,USA
By Ted Bridis. WASHINGTON - The FBI warned police in New Mexico and California that it received information about possible terrorist activity in their states. ...
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040729-1516-wst-terrorwarning-west.html

BOMBS

BOMBS HIT US, ISRAEL EMBASSIES
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
July 31, 2004 -- Three terrorists blew themselves up in separate attacks yesterday at the US and Israeli embassies in Uz bekistan and at the office of the ...
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/25919.htm

2 kids poisoned by abandoned Japanese chemical bombs
Xinhua - China
CHANGCHUN, July 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Two Chinese children became ill last week after touching liquid leaking from a chemical bomb deserted by the Japanese army ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/29/content_1673812.htm

JAPAN sending team to probe toxic bombs
Xinhua - China
BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhuanet) -- Responding to China's solemn representations,the Japanese Government will dispatch a team of experts to investigate the latest ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/29/content_1670687.htm

BOMBS found in Troy man's home
Edwardsville Intelligencer - Edwardsville,IL,USA
... Apartment B, and quickly discovered a half dozen viable bombs inside,along with a stash of bomb-making materials such as fuses, lighter fluid,.22 calibre ...
http://www.goedwardsville.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12532827&BRD=2291&PAG=461&dept_id=473648&rfi=6

HOMEMADE bombs
Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
PATASKALA -- Two homemade bombs went off in the parking lot of the Pataskala Square apartment complex at midnight on Tuesday. No one was injured. ...
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/news/stories/20040728/localnews/934058.html

Nukes and other things that go bump in the night:

SANDIA technology focused on peace in Mideast
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
... One idea is to build components of power plants and nuclear fuel ...and North Korea, and remain responsible for disposing of the nuclear waste and maintenance of ...
http://www.abqtrib.com/archives/news04/073104_news_mideast.shtml

NANOTECHNOLOGY Precaution Is Urged
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... means minimizing the release of the particles into standard waste streams and ... fate of negative public perception that has hobbled nuclear power and genetically ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25675-2004Jul29.html

PINNACLE West sells subsidiary to USEC
Phoenix Business Journal - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... the largest fleet of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste transportation casks ... a major supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants ...
http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2004/07/26/daily55.html?jst=b_ln_hl

NUCLEAR recycling plant to be kept on schedule
Paducah Sun (subscription) - Paducah,KY,USA
... will be members of the Paducah nuclear workers' union ... Jay Stoll,president of the plant security workers' union ... 11 attacks and recent security incidents near the ...
http://www.paducahsun.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200407/28/+0kcQ_business.html+20040728+business

NUCLEAR fuel rods may stay for years
Berkshire Eagle - Pittsfield,MA,USA
... The Yankee Rowe nuclear power facility closed in February 1992, after producing electricity ... decommissioning process in 1993, shipping much
of its waste to a low ...
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/Stories/0,1413,101~7514~2298731,00.html

NUCLEAR fuel report just another coverup?
The Japan Times - Japan
... which indicate the cost to bury nuclear waste is lower ... the cost of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is ... that neither the government nor the power industry wanted ...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040728f1.htm

VIT plant accident possible, report says
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Mid-Columbia,WA,USA
... already has had eight melter-related incidents, he said ... consequences at Hanford's Waste Treatment Plant are comparable to those at a large nuclear reactor," he ...
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/5348101p-5286584c.html

DOE orders hit Oak Ridge
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
... missions - building and dismantling nuclear warhead parts ... Bill Wilburn, a plant spokesman, said Monday that ... Alamos were not isolated incidents, but symptomatic ...
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_3066334,00.html

WANT A JOB?:
LOC board to meet
Oak Ridger - Oak Ridge,TN,USA
... facil... Roane Transportation Services is seeking TriAxle Dump Drivers Must have two yrs driving experience Must have Hazmat ...
http://www.oakridger.com/stories/072704/new_20040727017.shtml

SA to test storing nuke waste in boreholes
Independent Online - South Africa
... The radioactive waste consists of sealed sources used in ... not include spent radioactive fuel from power stations. ... be on site at the Nuclear Energy Corporation ...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=14&art_id=vn20040727054632363C386860
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CHEM:

SEACOR Holdings Announces Second Quarter Results
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... and 1 used vessel, 183 new dry cargo hopper barges, 39 new chemical tank barges ... dependence of spill response revenue on the number and size of spills and upon ...
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040729005432&newsLang=en

MOSQUES:
Do all have your Mosqueteer Ears?

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE:
MOSQUES hosting electoral registration
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Yesterday, sermons at local mosques had an earthier, but no less urgent message: Get out and vote. About eight mosques from Olympia ...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/184399_muslimvote31.html

THE Giving Problem: Terror links pose dilemma for devout Muslims
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... as the nation's largest Muslim charity, funneled $12.4 million to Hamas,a Palestinian group that the US government has designated as a terror organization. ...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/072904dnediislam.95187.htm

TAKE A HINT DC:

JEWISH groups: Raze mosques, rebuild Temple
Al-Jazeera - Qatar
The al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock Mosques have come under several attacks since 1967 as Jewish groups prepared for construction of the Third Temple.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/58087655-FE76-4764-9598-A952E08FEFC8.htm

RADICAL Islam grows among Iraq's Sunnis
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... No longer constrained or exiled by a repressive regime, they are preaching jihad at key mosques and pushing to make Iraq an Islamic state. ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0728/p01s04-woiq.html

GENERAL TERROR IN A NEIGHBORHOOD NEAR YOU:

CAN WE GET A BIG AWWWWWWWW:

US Arabs feel squeezed by tighter security
Christian Science Monitor - USA
... Arab-Americans and other Muslims to ask them about their travels and whom ... Four years ago, Arab-Americans voted overwhelmingly for President Bush, who told them ...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0730/p02s02-usgn.html

TERROR WAR TAKEDOWN
Yahoo News - USA
... that - despite what you might have heard from the folks up in Boston this week - America and its allies are making real progress in the War on Terror. ...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=106&ncid=742&e=4&u=/nypost/20040731/cm_nypost/terrorwartakedown

FIRST hearing held for terror detainee; 600 await their turn
San Jose Mercury News (subscription) - San Jose,CA,USA
By Anne Gearan. WASHINGTON - For the first time in the nearly three years since the Sept. 11 attacks, a prisoner picked up as a potential ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/9289488.htm

UN sanctions had little effect on Hussein, cronies
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... On a separate tour of a medical warehouse west of Baghdad, doctors found vast storage facilities filled with pharmaceuticals. "It ...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/stories/080104dnintsanctions.d4c8f.html

ALL local security is national security
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Unfortunately, there is no way to ensure that a similar level of security will be implemented at the thousands of other explosive storage facilities
that dot ...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/07/30/EDGBA7V7KJ1.DTL

ISOLATED incidents are adding up
Natick Tab - Framingham,MA,USA
... later, an explosion ripped loose a manhole cover on Rte. ... for the wires below the manhole, called it ... Other isolated incidents involving NStar's system include a ...
http://www2.townonline.com/natick/opinion/view.bg?articleid=57278

THIS N' THAT TERROR:

PAKISTAN claims first crack at terror suspect
CTV - Canada
... is complete. Top government officials said the arrest showed Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terror network was crumbling. A Pakistani ...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1091222411965_86631611?hub=World

PAKISTAN caught in terror tit-for-tat
Asia Times Online - Hong Kong
... They support the Iraqi insurgency and oppose the House of Saud for supporting the US-led "war on terror". Both Pakistan and Saudi ...
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/FG31Df04.html

INTERPOL Urges More US Coordination on Terror
Reuters - USA
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is not coordinating enough with police forces ...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=5831816

DETAINEES in France admit links to terror
Miami Herald (subscription) - Miami,FL,USA
... Kanouni, 27, who also has Moroccan nationality, spent time in Germany in the 1990s and is suspected of contacts with a terror cell based in Frankfurt, Germany. ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/9268004.htm

INTO the belly of the GOP beast
Boston Phoenix - Boston,MA,USA
... the Democratic National Convention kicks off in Boston, the Hendersons' travels bring them ... flat TVs that run the same video loop of President Bush in action ...
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/04013027.asp

HOW to Lose the War on Terror: a CIA bin Laden expert's lament
Collective Bellaciao - Paris,France
... only as "Anonymous," he is the author of the new book Imperial Hubris -a scathing look at the way the United States has conducted the War on Terror thus far. ...
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=2173

US: The Institute for Genomic Research; Genomic Powerhouse ...
UN Observer
... As with other institutions, such as Rockefeller University, the Department of Homeland Security's Plum Island, and the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Lab, if ...
http://www.unobserver.com/layout5.php?id=1828&blz=1

NOTEWORTHY:

MICHAEL Moore Looms Large at Democratic Convention
Muslim American Society - Falls Church,VA,USA
... intently concentrating on the speeches by former president Bill Clinton and others as they tore into Bush. Moore was scheduled to speak at a "Take Back ...
http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=1461

TERROR LAST CHAPTER:

ANOTHER HMMMMM:

POLICE find 27 locks cut on storage sheds
Lahontan Valley News - Fallon,NV,USA
The sheriff said a 9 pm fire at Maine Street Self Storage in unit 13 led to the discovery of damaged locks at storage facilities throughout the county. ...
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040728/News/107280006

WEAKNESS Invites Terror, Cheney Tells Democrats
Reuters - USA
... Cheney said the United States had the right to attack foes before it was attacked and described the invasion of Iraq in terms of the wider US-led war on terror ...
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=5790078

US Hands Over 4 French Terror Suspects
ABC News - USA
... the release was a result of "the cooperation we've enjoyed with France on this matter and we look forward to continued close partnership in the war on terror.". ...
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040727_1145.html

OVER THERE:
MELBOURNE terror investigation confirmed
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer says the Australian Federal Police are investigating an alleged terrorist cell in Melbourne. Melbourne's ...
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/1090693943643.html

JUST BECAUSE:

KERRY'S stepsons serve up political comedy alongside breakfast
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... rebuttals to Democratic rhetoric against President Bush. ... delegation Monday, comparing Bush's foreign policy ... out of the literary classic Gulliver's Travels. ...
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_3066591,00.html

HEADLINES ONLY:

GENEVA (AP) Ministers at the World Trade Organization have approved a framework agreement for global trade.

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A militant group that claims al-Qaida links says it tried to kill the Pakistani prime minister-designate

UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. Security Council has adopted a resolution threatening economic consequences for Sudan.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) Police say Pakistan's Prime Minister designate Shaukat Aziz has survived assassination attempt.

AMERICAN AMONG THREE FOREIGNERS TAKEN HOSTAGE BY PALESTINIAN GUNMEN
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CAN I GET YET ANOTHER AWWWWW:
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Organizer says Iraqi national conference has been postponed for two weeks.

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and Saudi officials discuss possibility of sending Muslim force to Iraq.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) Indonesian police say they will not charge militant cleric Abu Bakar Bashir with involvement in the 2002 Bali bombings.

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) A Jordanian company says it will withdraw from Iraq to free its hostage workers.
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cnn BRIEFS:

Report: Ridge may resign after election
07/30/04
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, who sought to reassure Americans amid frightening warnings about possible terror plots, has told colleagues he probably will resign after the election because of his personal finances and stress of his job,
officials told The Associated Press.

Study: Fear shapes voters' views
Responses to candidates differ after thinking about tragedy
07/30/04
President George W. Bush may be tapping into solid human psychology when he invokes the September 11 attacks while
campaigning for the next election, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

FBI: Ghailani 'friend of al Qaeda'
Wanted in U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa
07/29/04
Baby-faced and slightly built, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani didn't present a physical threat, but his knowledge of explosives and commitment to radical Islam made the Zanzibari one of the most sought-after accused terrorists in the world.

The State of Our Defenses
07/29/04
The U.S. has spent tens of billions over the past three years to bolster domestic security. But in critical areas, the homeland remains at risk

Halting the Next 9/11
The commission report proposes reforms. But will they be implemented?
07/29/04
On Sept. 11, declared the commission investigating the 9/11 attacks in its 567-page report, the "United States became a nation transformed."

Woman with altered passport detained
07/28/04
Authorities have detained a woman who had six pages ripped from her passport and are investigating whether she has ties to terrorist organizations, government officials said Wednesday.

U.S. indicts Muslim charity on terror charges
Ashcroft to outline case against Texas group, individuals
07/27/04
U.S. authorities planned to announce Tuesday charges against a Texas-based Muslim charity and seven individuals on charges related to financing terrorism, law enforcement sources said.