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Posted on 11/03/2004 12:20:59 AM PST by nwctwx
Extremists Moving Across Iran-Iraq Border
By LOUIS MEIXLER, Associated Press Writer
ANKARA, Turkey - Islamic extremists have been moving supplies and new recruits from Iran into Iraq say Iraqi Kurdish and Western officials, though it's unclear whether Tehran is covertly backing them or whether militants are simply taking advantage of the porous border.
"We are not just talking about Iranians passively dealing with al-Qaida," one former U.S. official who worked in Iraq said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "We are talking about al-Qaida at Revolutionary Guard bases and safe houses. This is active assistance."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=535&ncid=535&e=8&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_iraq_insurgency
fl7
Florida state road 7?
Can't post today (getting ankle treated)--but I would like to add that I recall one of their statements saying we would be hit when we were "preoccupied with football and beer."
Stay safe, all
09nov04 EGYPT'S Suez Canal remained blocked today and shipping could be disrupted for at least two more days after a Liberian-flagged oil tanker broke down in the middle of the strategic waterway, shipping sources said.
Shipping came to a standstill late on Saturday when the Liberian-flagged 154,000-tonne vessel, Tropic Brilliance, broke down while passing through the canal. Port sources said about 104 vessels inside and outside the canal were waiting to pass through the waterway.
Emergency landing at Hancock (11/7/04 - NY)
11/8/2004 6:33 AM By: News 10 Now Staff For the third time in less than two weeks, an F-16 Fighter Jet was forced to make an emergency landing at Hancock International Airport.
It happened Sunday morning. The pilot was forced to land after reporting a afterburner problem shortly after takeoff.
On October 29th, a jet was forced to land because of a brake light malfunction. And brake problems forced another jet to land on November 1st.
No injuries reported in any of the landings. Link to Article
Investigation Into Missing Propane Tanks Spurs FBI Probe (Denver, CO - 11/8/04)
POSTED: 8:53 am MST November 8, 2004 UPDATED: 9:12 am MST November 8, 2004 DENVER -- Members of the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force are alerting their counterparts across the country to check for thefts of liquid propane after dozens of cylinders were discovered missing in Denver. An investigation by 7NEWS reveals that about 100 of the 33-pound propane cylinders have been stolen since July. None of them have been recovered.
Mountain West Printing plant manager Bob Fridlund told 7NEWS that he lost seven cylinders in two different thefts, but police didn't seem concerned. Another large supplier -- Suburban Propane -- has had 34 cylinders stolen in the last 90 days.
FBI special agent Monique Kelso said the stolen propane poses a grave threat if it gets into the wrong hands. The stolen cylinders -- larger than those used for a barbecue grill -- produce propane for forklifts and other commercial uses. The propane in one cylinder can destroy a small building.
Earlier this year, the FBI said highly flammable propane was one of the very elements that terrorists have been trained to use. FBI officials are urging anyone who spots such cylinders in a place where they shouldn't be to contact their office in Denver.
Televised confessions of 19 Arabs provides evidence of Iraq's neighbors' share in the tenacious insurgency (11/7/04)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) Iraqi government television has repeatedly broadcast confessions of what it says were foreign terrorists 17 Arabs and two Iranians who allegedly infiltrated the country's porous borders to fight U.S.-led coalition forces....
Vessel Strikes Oil Platform, Causing Fire (11/5/04 - Texas)
Published November 6, 2004 GALVESTON — U.S. Coast Guard investigators are looking for what caused a freighter to run into a gas platform early Friday.
No one was injured but the 355-foot Antiguan-flagged vessel was slightly damaged and the unmanned platform 17 miles offshore caught fire.
US warship Stops Iranian vessel (11/6/04)
LONDON, Nov 6 (IranMania) - A small American warship and a helicopter stopped an Iranian container ship belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Line on Wednesday and interrogated the vessel, Fars News Agency reported on Friday....
Popular Cruise Ship Struck While Docked (11/5/04 - FLA)
UPDATED: 11:58 AM EST November 5, 2004 KEY WEST, Fla. -- Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas ship was hit Friday morning by a barge while at port in Key West, leaving a 6-foot puncture in the vessel's hull. No one was injured......
Train Leaks Hazardous Substance Across Iowa (11/7/04 - 250+ miles in Iowa)
BOONE, Iowa -- A freight train leaked phosphoric acid across central Iowa early Sunday morning, causing spills of the dangerous substance in towns like Marshalltown and Boone.
Phosphoric acid is a clear, syrupy liquid which is corrosive and can cause burns if touched or inhaled. Hazardous materials crews say the amount of liquid on the ground varied with the speed of the train, but in some places was as much as one-quarter inch thick.
MI5 Chief Warns of 'Serious Terror Threat' to Britons (11/8/04)
Britons face a “serious and sustained threat” of terror attacks at home and abroad, MI5 chief Eliza Manningham-Buller warned today.
Despite the arrest and killing of many senior al Qaida leaders, the organisation behind September 11 can still mount attacks, she said....
“There is a serious and sustained threat of terrorist attacks against UK interests at home and abroad, including against the business community,” she said.
“There might be major attacks like Madrid earlier this year. They might be on a smaller scale. “The terrorists are inventive, adaptable and patient. Their planning includes a wide range of methods to attack us.
You can say that again. One more attack, especially against children, and the "authorities" will not be able to stop what will happen in this country. There are not enough of them.
I'll second that! Many ongoing world-wide conflicts in Africa, Iran, Iraq, Phillipines, Bosnia, etc.; and the one thing they all have in common is Muslim antagonists.
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Posted on 11/08/2004 1:44:10 PM EST by Pegita
Knak had previously requested prayer for her beloved husband. He has liver cancer, and his kidneys have failed. She learned this morning that this failure is permanent and that he will be coming home to spend his last days with his family. She has asked for prayer that he will peacefully be ushered into the Presence of the Lord, and for wisdom in telling their 9-year-old son.
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Oh, what sad news. I'm so sorry knak. Prayers going up for you here and also on the main prayer thread.
From and Nena:
IntelCenter
Intelligence Note
OBL Message Attack Correlation - 67 Days
8 Nov. 2004
POC: info@intelcenter.com
(http://www.intelcenter.com)
If during the past nearly three years (34 months) you said an al-Qaeda attack would occur within 67 days every time an Osama bin Laden audio tape or video was released, you would have been correct 80% of the time or eight out of the last 10 times messages were released.
The statistical backing for this and additional details will appear in v1.1 of the "Osama bin Laden Message Analysis & Threat Assessment" report, which is scheduled to be released within 12 hours.
I earned my private pilot's license while living in San Diego. My cross country flight in a Cessna 150 started at Brown Field (next to the Mexican border, 5 miles inland from the coast). The first stop was at Twenty-nine Palms. I refueled there and flew to Yuma, AZ for the next leg. The third leg was Yuma, AZ back Brown Field. Each leg was required to be over 100 miles. The Piper referenced in the story would have a range of 100+ miles on a single tank.
Mexicali/Calexico is south of El Centro. There are small airstrips all over the desert. I frequently stopped at the Imperial strip. There are many places to re-fuel, so the max range on a tank of gas is not a limiting factor.
IMPORTANT ALERT:
ALERT ISSUED FOR STOLEN CROP-DUSTER
The Transportation Security Administration has issued an advisory that a Piper PA 25 Pawnee crop-dusting aircraft was stolen from Ejido Queretaro, near Mexicali, Mexico, on Nov. 1.
"Although there is currently no indication that this has any connection to terrorist activity," the TSA said, "the theft is cause for concern. Past
information indicates that members of al-Qaida may have planned -- or may still be planning -- to disperse biological or chemical agents from cropdusting
aircraft."
The stolen aircraft is PLEASE NOTE:
registered in Mexico and bears the tail number XBCYP.
If you see the aircraft, the TSA says you should immediately contact the TSA General Aviation Hotline at (866) 427-3287, or contact your nearest office of the FBI.
*** Please give this information widest dissemination.
Source: http://hometown.aol.com/newsoftheforce/myhomepage/military.html
The ISN is an integrated knowledge network
for security and defense policy professionals.
First Hizbollah ‘drone’ enters Israeli airspace
The Lebanese militant group Hizbollah announced on Sunday that it had sent its first reconnaissance drone into Israeli airspace earlier in the day, in response to repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace. Hizbollah said that its military wing, the Islamic
Resistance, had sent its first-ever drone over "occupied northern Palestine, flying over several Zionist settlements, reaching the coastal settlement of Nahariya and returning safely to its baseâ€.
Hizbollah's al-Manar TV station said the "Mirsad 1" drone had flown over Israel at a low altitude for 20 minutes, without providing further details. “Mirsad†means "observation post" in Arabic. It is believed to be the first aerial military incursion from Lebanon into
Israel since members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command flew over the border in a hang-glider in 1987 and killed six soldiers before being shot dead. It was unclear whether the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was a homemade, makeshift
aircraft or a commercial model, and whether it had been acquired abroad. A Hizbollah official contacted by ISN Security Watch refused to give any further details on the type or capacity of the aircraft.
The Israeli army blamed the incursion on the “support of Iran and Syria†enjoyed by Hizbollah, confirming that the UAV had penetrated Israeli airspace early on Sunday and had flown over the western Galilee. Hizbollah said it retrieved the drone safely, but Lebanese TV station LBC quoted witnesses as saying the aircraft had crashed
into the sea off the border town of Naqoura, adding that fisherman had retrieved the aircraft's remains and given them to Hizbollah fighters. The Israeli army described the flight as evidence of Lebanon's lack of control over its territory. "This incident is part of the terrorist activity carried out by the Hizbollah terrorist
organization with the support of Iran and Syria under the auspices of Lebanon, with the aim of targeting Israeli citizens," the Israeli army statement said. Hizbollah pledged more drone flights, and the group’s political bureau chief, Ibrahim Amin al-Sayyed, said his
group had more drones. It was unclear whether the drone was equipped with a camera, as the Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported, and if so, whether it was transmitting real-time images to its operators in
Lebanon. The Lebanese military said that two Israeli drones had twice violated Lebanese airspace on Sunday afternoon, reaching the coastal town of Damour, south of the capital, Beirut. Since the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in May 2000, Israeli planes have
frequently violated Lebanese airspace on reconnaissance missions, drawing anti-aircraft fire from the Lebanese army and Hizbollah.
On 29 October, Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned that his group was adopting a new strategy to confront Israeli warplanes entering Lebanese airspace. Israel accuses Hizbollah, which is considered a “resistance group†by many Lebanese, of acquiring new,
longer-range rockets that could strike deep into Israel.
The Shi'ite party refuses to confirm or deny the missile claims, but it is known to possess thousands of 127-mm Katyusha rockets with a range of up to 27 kilometers. Military drones, such as the Hermes 450 used by the
Israeli military, have an operational range of about 200km and can reach top speeds of up to 220km per hour. Their maximum payload, depending on the type of engine used, is 150-200kg. Military UAVs have evolved from simple target drones used in air force and anti-aircraft weapons drills to sophisticated, autonomous weapons and intelligence-gathering platforms. The US military and the CIA have
made use of Predator drones equipped with Hellfire missiles to find and kill militants in Afghanistan.
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NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) The U.S. military says two Marines have been killed in overnight offensive in Fallujah.
Contradiction:
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) Palestinian official says Palestinian leaders have canceled trip to Paris after comments by Yasser Arafat's wife.
Thank you WK that's interesting; however, I believe in the original message it was determined that the message was F17.
That said, I learn something new every day.
So, Florida state road 7 is fl7.
Thank you.
Same area as the Arab-Israels were found about 6 or so months ago...leveled a reinforced concrete building
Plant Explosion Update
News Channel 11
Nov 7, 5:39 PM EST
We now know the name of the worker killed in a Tri-Cities plant explosion early yesterday morning.
Officials with Ross Prestress concrete company say 65-year old night watchman Curtis Davis was killed in the blast that leveled a reinforced concrete building, sending flames some 30-feet in the air.
Sullivan County Volunteer Fire officials say judging from the conditions they were faced with, the fact that it happened on the weekend probably saved more lives from being lost.
The exact cause of the incident is still under investigation.
http://www.wjhl.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=TRI/MGArticle/TRI_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031779010684&path=Variables.path
Just for argument sake...
What if OBL was running out of resourse to attack the UK, US, etc...Knowing that the US is waiting for an attack after his latest video, would the video do more harm since everyone would be anticipateing an attack that may never happen. Since the 2/10 times nothing happened, we could also assumbe that OBL is loosing resourse to do his dredfull deeds. At this point in the game OBL's video may be all he has to attack the US at this time.
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