Posted on 09/11/2004 12:09:10 AM PDT by nwctwx
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TerroristWarning.com Terrorism Headlines 09/24/2004 # 1
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National:
[AFP] USA - US on high alert for terrorism in skies
"...We are taking the precautions that we should be, and we ask the American public to understand the reasons for these security measures,"
http://www.dawn.com/2004/09/24/top15.htm
[USA TODAY] USA - Justice Dept. steps up surveillance amid fears of attack
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-09-23-security-election_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
[AP] USA - U.S. Worries Over Election Terror Threat
"In an unusual move, Attorney General John Ashcroft recently held a conference call with all 93 U.S. attorneys to spread the word that prosecutors and law enforcement officers should take every conceivable step to counter the threat,"
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040923/D859J5RO1.html
[Pottstown Mercury] PENNSYLVANIA - Plane forced down after violating air space
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12985365&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6
[AP] NEW YORK - NYC Imam Convicted of 'massive' Visa Fraud Scheme
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBIK23RHZD.html
[AP] CALIFORNIA - LAPD Counterterrorism Chief, a Former TV Newsman, Detained at Airport With Handgun
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8JG3OHZD.html
[UPI] USA - Security campaign targets businesses
"U.S. Homeland Security department Thursday announced a campaign to help small business owners plan in the event of an attack or disaster"
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040923-083552-8481r.htm
[San Diego Union Tribune] CALIFORNIA - North Island security officer shoots 3 men [Naval Air Station North Island]
",suspects, who apparently had been tampering with a vehicle, tried to flee from the Defense Department employee ..."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040923-1441-coronadoshooting.html
[AZ Central.com] ARIZONA - 26 MVD workers accused of selling counterfeit driver's licenses
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0923mvd23-ON.html
[Click10.com] FLORIDA - Missing Construction Device Contains Radioactive Material
http://www.local10.com/news/3754193/detail.html
[KVBC] NEVADA - First Responders Training For The Worst At Nevada Test Site
http://www.kvbc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2341824&nav=15MVRFjP
[ABC7] ILLINOIS - New security measures in place at Braidwood Nuclear Power Plant
"Nuclear Regulatory Commission has ordered all of the nation's 100-plus nuclear plants to increase their defensive capabilities by the end of next month"
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/092304_ns_nuclearplant.html
[Salt Lake Tribune] UTAH - Photo: Propane Tank Scare [ Possibly fell off truck, near courthouse, next to power box]
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_2418833
[IHT] USA - U.S. prowls in Qaedas cyber sanctuaries
http://www.iht.com/articles/540208.html
[WABC] USA - Report: 15 US Airports Have Sub-Par Security; One Is In NYC
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_092304_airportsecurity.html
[AP] MEXICO - Mexico probes two men for terror links
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Mexico%20Terrorism
International:
[Chosun Ilbo] NORTH KOREA / JAPAN - N. Korea Threatens to Turn Japan into "Nuclear Sea of Fire"
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200409/200409230045.html
[The Age] NORTH KOREA / JAPAN - Pyongyang threatens nuclear fire for Japan
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/23/1095651471731.html
[New York Times] JAPAN - Japan Raises Defenses on Signs North Korea Plans Missile Test
"Japan sent two destroyers and a surveillance airplane to the Sea of Japan on Thursday"
[Radio Australia] JAPAN - Japan says suspected NKorea missile test 'no imminent threat'
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_1206584.htm
[New Zealand Herald] USA / NORTH KOREA - Powell warns North Korea against new missile test
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3594365&thesection=news&thesubsection=world
[Reuters] GERMAN - German Arrested Over Suspected Nuclear Arms Trade
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6317070
[Daily Times] PAKISTAN - 31 Qaeda men arrested on Qari Saifullahs tip off
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_24-9-2004_pg7_4
[Interfax] BELARUS - 20 radioactive burial sites found in Belarus
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10705381
[The Scotsman] SCOTLAND - Security Probe as Intruder Enters Queen's Scottish Palace
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3538738
[UPI] RUSSIA - Russia close to collapse: Zyuganov
"The Russian power system could collapse if more terror acts like the Beslan massacre occurred, Russia's communist leader has warned"
[Itar-Tass] RUSSIA - Two killed in attack on presidential security guard in Chechnya
http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=1280024&PageNum=0
[Interfax] RUSSIA - Several anti-rebel operations held in Chechnya in past 24 hours
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10705626
[UPI] IRAQ/ UNITED NATIONS/ FRANCE - France won't send troops to Iraq
[UPI] MIDDLE EAST - How close was the Mideast to nuclear war?
[Reuters] IRAQ - Two Egyptians kidnapped in Baghdad
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5234972
[UTV] IRElAND - Security alerts cause traffic disorder
"Army bomb experts have been called to deal with a series of security alerts which are causing traffic problems in the Greater Belfast area"
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=50681&pt=n
[Scotland on Sunday] UNITED KINGDOM - Ban on Low-Level Flights over London Terror Targets
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3538684
[AP] IRAQ - Mortars explode near Italian embassy in Iraq; three Iraqis wounded
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/268/world/Mortars_explode_near_Italian_e:.shtml
That's quite a story. Rutgers has a huge middle eastern student population. Several months ago they were there was quite a controversy when Palestinian groups wanted to hold a protest there (in the New Brunwsick area). We are hoping my son chooses a school in the south - it will give us an excuse to get out of NJ (even though it may go red this election).
Good luck with your move and thanks for the news summary.
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s04090127.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com, Web Site: www.assistnews.net
Thursday, September 23, 2004
TWO CANADIAN CHRISTIANS KILLED IN IRAQ
As Anti Christian Violence Escalates
By Stefan J. Bos
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
A twisted lump of metal is all that remains of a car believed to have been packed with 330 pounds (150 kilograms) of explosives and parked outside the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. The bomb exploded late Friday September 10, damaging the church but avoiding injury.
Source: Adventist News Network (ANN)
BAGHDAD, IRAQ (ANS) -- Two Canadians have been killed in Baghdad because of their Christian faith as part of an increasing cycle of deadly violence against local and foreign Christians in Iraq, ASSIST News Service learned Thursday, September 23.
The Voice Of the Martyrs Canada (VOM-Canada), a Christian human rights group, reported that officials "initially believed the deaths of Canadians Andrew Shmakov and Munir Toma were the results of a car bombing on September 14 which killed forty-seven people."
However VOM-Canada said it had learned from family members that the two men were "chased down last week, beaten and shot" in Iraq's troubled capital.
"Relatives of Toma in Baghdad (said) that Toma had been shot seventeen times. It has been reported that Toma's wife, Baydah, and six-year-old daughter Rita are in hiding in Iraq, fearing for their lives," VOM-Canada added in a newsletter obtained by ASSIST News Service (ANS).
Toma and Shmakov, who established a construction company as part of the rebuilding of Iraq, were attacked by gunmen when they left their office, VOM-Canada quoted family members as saying. "They escaped in their car, but four other cars followed, ambushed and killed them," VOM-Canada said.
PRAYERS URGED
It urged supporters, which include evangelical Christians, to pray for Toma's child and wife as well as family members and Christians throughout Iraq.
The latest attack has underscored concern among Christians, who VOM-Canada said have "frequently been targeted by militant Muslims because of their faith."
Only a few days before the Canadians were killed, a car packed with an estimated 330 pounds (150 kilograms) of dynamite was detonated outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Baghdad late Friday September 10, the Adventist News Network (ANN) reported.
No one was injured as there were no services in progress at the time, but there was extensive damage, ANN pictures showed. A guard was present on the church compound and escaped unhurt, ANN said.
SECOND ATTACK
It was the second time the church sustained bomb damage in less than a year. Last October a powerful explosion, which destroyed the Red Cross headquarters 200 meters away, shattered the stained glass windows on the other side of the church, ANN reported at the time.
Adventists in Iraq have been on high alert since six bombs went off outside Christian churches on Sunday, August 1, killing at least 11 people.
Michael Porter, president of the Adventist Church in the Middle East, expressed concern about the escalating insecurity in Iraq. "Last month, a member of the (Adventist) Baghdad Church, a mother of three young children, was caught in cross fire on her way to a relative's wedding in Mosul and lost her life," he told ANN.
"It is hard to imagine the daily stresses the people are under. We earnestly pray for restraint and that the various factions in Iraq will end their quarrels so the wonderful people of this beautiful country may be given a chance to flourish once more," ANN quoted Porter as saying.
THOUSANDS FLEE
However thousands of Iraqi Christians have already fled in recent months because of the attacks to countries such as neighboring Jordan and other Middle East nations, human rights watchers say.
News of the violence directed against foreign and Iraqi Christians came as television footage showed how British people prayed for the release of a British hostage, pleading for his life on a video posted on an extremist Internet Web site.
The captive, Kenneth Bigley, appealed to British Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene. Time is running out for British hostage Kenneth Bigley, 62, as shown on website by extremist Islamic group.
"I think this is possibly my last chance," he said in television footage aired throughout the world on Thursday, September 23. "I don't want to die." Bigley, 62, was being held by a militant group led by Jordanian-born terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
TWO BEHEADINGS
The group already beheaded Americans Eugene (Jack) Armstrong, who grew up in Hillsdale, and Jack Hensley of Marietta, Ga., who were abducted along with Bigley from their Baghdad home last week. Al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group had demanded the release of all female prisoners in exchange for the three hostages.
But the American military said it has only two Iraqi women in custody. They were identified as Rihab Rashid Taha, a scientist who became known as 'Dr. Germ' for helping Iraq make weapons out of anthrax, and biotechnology expert Huda Salih Mahdi Ammash, dubbed 'Mrs. Anthrax', who has also been accused of playing a key role in Saddam Hussein's weapons programs.
Iraqi and American officials seemed reluctant to free the women, as both Washington and London have said they would not negotiate with terrorists, apparently for fear it could spark more hostage takings. In another hostage drama, two statements surfaced on the Internet from different groups, each purporting to have killed two Italian aid workers.
The second statement said a video of the slaying of the two women, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, would be made public, but Italy cast doubt on both statements' authenticity, The Associated Press (AP) news agency reported Thursday, September 23. Despite the dangers, several Christian mission organizations are still active in Iraq with a variety of projects, and local church leaders have reported a growing interest in Bibles and the Gospel among Muslims and other Iraqis.
Read more on these and other news stories on news agency BosNewsLife at website http://www.bosnewslife.com
Award winning Journalist Stefan J. Bos was born on the 19th of September 1967 in a small home in downtown Amsterdam, in the Netherlands not far from the typewriter of his father, who was (and still is) a Reporter and ghostwriter. Already at a very young age Bos decided to become journalist and finally arrived in Hungary, the same country where his parents had smuggled Bibles during Communism.
Bos has traveled extensively to cover wars and revolutions throughout the region and received the Annual Press Award of Merit from the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for his coverage about foreign policy affairs including Hungary's relationship with NATO and the European Union. Stefan J. Bos can be reached at: stefan@bosnewslife.com.
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Posted on 09/24/2004 8:02:58 AM EDT by Momaw Nadon
On our way back home from a family drive on 8/29/04 my wife and I noticed a peculiar mushroom cloud just east of our home in Wellington, UT. We ran into the house and brought our both of our digital cameras and started snapping pictures. Within 2 hours there were three different explosions resulting in mushroom clouds.
We emailed a local news station; they looked into the pictures but to no avail. There were truck drivers parked at the gas station just down from our home, the drivers did not dare drive the road for fear of whatever was happening out there. Pretty scary afternoon, especially during this time of heightened alert in our nation.
--Brian Justice
Heavenly Father, we return to give You thanks for the Suffering Christ, hated by the world which was created by Him, that He might save by His Blood, His very own creation. Were it not so, we would be eternally lost.
And were it not that men are called out from the world, the Gospel of Christ would not go forward. But You have commanded that we are to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation .." Mark 16:15.
We thank You, O God, for those who have been obedient ... who have been hated because they bring the Light of Truth into a darkened world ... who have been slain because they are Christians. Unknown numbers have been brought into the Kingdom because they lived, and died. Bless the works of their hands from generation to generation, for "greater love has no man than this, that a man gives up his life for his friends." John 15:13.
Comfort the families of those so cruelly slain ... their grief is but brief in the span of eternity, but so extraordinarily painful in the confines of daily life. Their mourning shall turn to joy because of their love for You.
And so may it be, Merciful Father, that those who now hate You and Your children, will be awakened by the Power of the Holy Spirit, they will repent, and they will be cleansed by the Blood of the Lamb. Such is the love and prayer of those who go forward as missionaries. Thank You, O God, for these, and for those who come after. In the Name of Jesus, we praise You, Amen ...
Donna, I magnified one of those photos, the url is www.danheller.com
"what about the nuke that goes off here"
That *may* be inevitable. But there are *much* worse scenarios than the "suitcase bomb" - - dozens of warheads inbound atop missiles (launched from one or more countries) rather than a few smuggled in on ships, trains, or trucks.
Each warhead on any missle would be much more powerful than most smuggled improvised devices.
Japan will lay waste to North Korea if the North Koreans were so foolish as to launch a nuclear pre-emptive strike on American bases in Japan. North Korea threatened less than 48 hours ago to turn Japan into a "sea of fire" - - a loaded phrase with great significance - - that remark in March 1993 in Seoul directed at South Korea marked the beginning of this decade-long nuclear crisis. We would do the same to North Korea if the North Koreans were to have sold plutonium in Macao to the east Asian al Qaeda arms network they have supplied for a decade and that material finds its way into a nuclear device detonated in the U.S.
"I suspect they are already nuclear "in pectore"."
Agreed. I would imagine that the components are already idenitified and in place. All that would remain is the final turn of the screwdriver . . . the question is not *if* they would go nuclear but to what extent.
Ichiro Ozawa a couple years ago (longtime LDP godfather, super-nationalist and former(?) Tokyo mayor) talked of an ability to produce *thousands* of weapons.
That may be exagerrated, but China needs to think very carefully about a former enemy that could easily surpass them as a nuclear power within a matter of months.
China is largely responsible for this North Korean Frankenstein. Or at the very least, they looked the other way for too long as a nuclear threat to the U.S. was being armed.
Two can play that game.
If China wants a nuclear/SDI/military high-tech arms race in the region, they'll get one. That didn't turn out well for the USSR.
China needs to "end" this North Korean threat for all of us, but most of all, for themselves and their own future.
It looks this morning as if everyone is trying to calm the situation. Saying it is an exercise and giving them a way of walking this back.
The threat to turn Japan into a "sea of nuclear fire" is the most explicit threat in years if not decades. They didn't threaten a retaliatory nuclear strike on Japan for an American nuclear strike on North Korea.
They threatened a *pre-emptive* and *nuclear* strike against Japan even if we never so much as lift a finger to attack them.
Running your mouth off like that during a period of extreme tension is a provocative and reckless brinkmanship even for the North Koreans.
Saying that kind of thing while you are at that moment mobilizing troops and equipment at missile bases is not "brinkmanship".
It is an attempt at "suicide by cop".
Kim is losing it. The boys in Beijing better do something quick or we will end up staring each other down through nuclear gunsights.
World War I started with an individual act of violence and pulled all the nations of Europe into a war none of them expected or wanted.
The next World War could start with a sudden and unexpected act that escalates into open war that pulls us all into an Asian conflagration that no one wanted.
Here's another mention of him similarly:
from link http://www.alb-net.com and link to original 1999 bbc article
*** DEMAND MACEDONIA TO RETURN MONEY STOLEN FROM YUSUF ISLAM (CAT STEVENS) MEANT TO AID REFUGEES.
Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, was robbed by Macedonian border guards who took 60,000 deutsch marks from him as he crossed into Albania to distribute aid to Kosovar refugees according to an AP report. Macedonia continues to have a hostile attitude towards the poor refugees and is impeding aid from reaching them. Please call the Macedonian Embassy and demand that they immediately return Yusuf Islam's money to him for distribution among refugees and stop aiding Serbs and their genocide.
But this says otherwise -- did he get into islam by meeting up with this group in Pakistan? I don't know:
"Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) of Pakistan, headed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Nasir, former Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistans external intelligence agency, and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) have supported Islamist extremist movements in different countries, including amongst members of the Muslim community in the US.... Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, a famous pop singer, who embraced Islam after coming into contact with the TJ in Pakistan; Dr. Saghir of Algeria; and Dr. Israr Ahmed, the Amir of the Tanzeem Islami of Pakistan and a worker of the TJ.
From today's readings:
There is an appointed time for everything,
and a time for every thing under the heavens.
A time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to tear down, and a time to build.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather them;
a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sew;
a time to be silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate;
a time of war, and a time of peace.
Below is just the one paragraph that I excerpted above, but LOTS more besides this at that link in #1875 (I added a little format here to make it easier to read):
Tablighi Jamaat (TJ) of Pakistan, headed by Lt. Gen. (retd) Javed Nasir, former Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistans external intelligence agency, and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) have supported Islamist extremist movements in different countries, including amongst members of the Muslim community in the US.
HuM terrorists have been active in Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Burma, Philippines and Jammu and Kashmir. HuM terrorists maintain strong links with terrorist outfits based in countries like Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan primarily following their mutual association during the Afghan war.
Among the foreign terrorists trained by the HuM at its training camps in Pakistan, Pakistan controlled Kashmir (PcK) and Afghanistan were 16 African-American Muslims from various cities of the US. Funds for these activities were traced to Muslim businessmen of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UK. TJ had/has many offices in the US, Russia, the Central Asian Republics, South Africa, Australia and France. Amongst the organisations/outfits in the US with which the TJ is linked are the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the Muslim Youth of North America (MYNA).
A past president of ISNA is Sheikh Abdullah Idris Ali, an American immigrant of Sudanese origin, who also functioned as the Pesh Imam (chief priest) and Khatib of a mosque in New York. The annual convention of the ISNA held at Columbus, Ohio, from September 11,1995, was addressed amongst others, by Hamza Yusuf, an American citizen of Greek origin, who, consequent to embracing Islam, had lived for six years in Mauritania to study Islam and also work as a TJ preacher; Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, a famous pop singer, who embraced Islam after coming into contact with the TJ in Pakistan; Dr. Saghir of Algeria; and Dr. Israr Ahmed, the Amir of the Tanzeem Islami of Pakistan and a worker of the TJ.
The convention observed that the ISNA had a US $ 100 million budget for spreading Islamic education in the US primarily through the publication of text-books, setting-up of week-end Islamic schools and also a weekly TV programme called "Onsight".
Amongst the suspected members of the TJ in the Muslim community in the US is Louis Fara Khan, the Afro-American Muslim leader. The TJ operates in the US and the Caribbean islands directly through its own preachers deputed from Pakistan and also recruited from among the Pakistani immigrant community in the US, besides through front outfits such as the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra.
The HuM, which works in close association with the TJ, has been training Afro-American Muslims from the US in its terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
About that Pottstown incident... 84 year old pilot?????
placemarker
Re: your watchlist of schools.
Speaking Truth to Duke's Academic Terror
The following letter from Rabbi Steven Ballaban to the president of Duke University deals with Duke's agreement to host the Fourth Annual Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement in mid-October. FrontPage Magazine exposed this story, and we have since drafted our own letter to Duke, asking them to open its proceedings to the media. Past annual conferences -- one of which was addressed by Sami al-Arian -- have justified suicide bombing and featured violent rhetoric. Click here to sign our letter. -- The Editors.
More at link.
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