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PLEASE READ:
BROOKLYN DOCTOR ACCUSED OF TERROR TIES
11/5/2004, 5:56 p.m. ET
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors alleged Friday that a Syrian-born doctor had blueprints for a Washington, D.C.-area overpass in his Brooklyn apartment and tried to help a suspected al-Qaida associate enter the United States.
But a federal magistrate denied the government's request to revoke the doctor's bail on an immigration charge after his attorney blasted the allegations as a smear based on old evidence and guilt by association.
The FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force found the shredded blueprints for a Capital Beltway overpass in Hassan Faraj's apartment after he was arrested in June, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors also accused Faraj of submitting an affidavit saying he would financially support prospective immigrant Amir Abdulrazzak, whom they called a suspected al-Qaida associate.
They asked at a hearing Friday that Magistrate Judge Kiyo Matsumoto revoke Faraj's $100,000 bail.
Matsumoto did not jail Faraj, 39, but placed him under house arrest until a full hearing next week. Faraj's attorney, Stanley Cohen, said he planned to disprove each of the government's allegations.
Cohen said the blueprints, for example, belonged to Faraj's brother, a civil engineering professor who had been teaching at a Washington-area university. Faraj threw out the papers after the brother moved overseas, he said. Cohen declined to identify the university where the brother taught.
As for the alleged al-Qaida connection, "that accusation has no more significance than the rest of the government claims, which are based upon old, unproved and unconnected snippets of information," Cohen said.
He challenged the government to indict his client and prove their allegations.
Faraj was arrested earlier this year and charged with falsely obtaining U.S. citizenship after he arrived from Bosnia in 1993. Prosecutors said he lied to immigration authorities about his refugee status and medical experience.
Prosecutors told the magistrate that Faraj worked in Croatia for a charity front organization that had ties to Osama bin Laden. Faraj's duties included running foreign recruits to camps in Bosnia, they said.
THANKS, freep
I think I'm going to have to look into this a bit further.
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sub6
MORE prayer for our troops...
Islam Memo Reports on Fighting in Fallujah
By SITE Institute
November 5, 2004
Islam Memo, a website that provides news related to Jihad and mujahideen throughout the world, is reporting that American forces have begun an assault on resistance strongholds in Fallujah. It tells of fierce fighting between occupation and resistance forces, claiming that the Americans have already taken casualties.
http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications10304&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Thank you DC.
You are welcome
Thank you Donna.
Prayers on the way.
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "CAPITOL, LAWMAKERS TARGETED, OFFICIALS CONFIRM" by Audrey Hudson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Congressional leaders have been told that federal lawmakers and the U.S. Capitol, in addition to five financial centers identified last week, are targets for attack by al Qaeda terrorists.") (August 9, 2004) (Read More...)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.US (NEWSDAY.COM): "ATTACK ON US 'SCHEDULED' FOR EARLY SEPTEMBER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The operative, described as "credible" by British intelligence, told his debriefers that the attack would take place "60 days before the presidential election" on Nov. 2, according to a former senior National Security Council official. On Sept. 2 President George W. Bush is expected to address the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden. Counterterrorism officials are analyzing data from a computer seized in Pakistan last month to see if financial institutions in addition to the five disclosed Sunday are at risk of attack, U.S. officials said yesterday.") (August 3, 2004) (Read More...)
QUOTE:
Interesting new thread at IH
Terrorist plans revealed on IH
"http://www.itshappening.com/showthread.php?p=1725419#post1725419"
Lord, God Almighty,
Please be with each of our troops in protection and effectiveness multiplied many times over by your angelic forces, in Jesus' Name.
"If that happens, we are in for trouble."
Yep.
Thank you jerseygirl.
Any news on Mt St Helens lately
St. Helens is still steaming a bit and building a new dome with lava. All contained in the crater, no lava flowing over the side. Same thing she's been doing for the last few weeks. Our local evening news has a St. Helens report every evening.
I never leave home without my secret decoder ring!
Captain America, where are you??!!
I think it's bogus. Just like this new tape thing.
Dear Lord,
Please guide and guard our troops.
Please keep them from harm.
Please protect them.
Please keep their eyes and ears open.
We love You Lord.
In Jesus' Holy name.
Amen.
Nov. 4, 2004 19:18 | Updated Nov. 5, 2004 10:07
Police brace for burial march to J'lem
By YAAKOV KATZ
Advertisement
Israel is prepared for a variety of scenarios following Yasser Arafat's demise including the possibility that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will march their leader's body to the Temple Mount for burial, senior police
officers said Thursday night.
The officers downplayed warnings by Palestinian officials who said that if Israel refuses to allow Arafat to be buried on the compound, Palestinians will carry his body from Ramallah to Jerusalem to forcibly bury him there.
"This is not a question that is up to the Israelis and Sharon to decide," Wakf director Adnan Husseini, in charge of the holy Muslim sites on the Temple Mount, told The Jerusalem Post Thursday. "Israel should not be involved in the decision since if they are then Palestinians may decide to do the opposite and bring his body en mass to Jerusalem for burial."
"The question of where Arafat will be buried is up to the Palestinian people and it is a question of Islamic law," he added. "Israel needs to remember that Jerusalem is not an Israeli city but it is a Palestinian city and we decide what happens here."
Police rejected the threats confirming that they are prepared for all possible scenarios.
"We are prepared for all different kinds of scenarios that may happen following Arafat's death including an attempt to carry his body to Jerusalem for burial," said one senior officer, involved in planning for the day-after Arafat.
On Sunday, Sharon told the cabinet that under his watch Arafat will not be allowed to be buried in Jerusalem. Media reports Thursday night indicated
that Israel, if asked by the Palestinians, will only allow for Arafat's burial in the Gaza Strip.
In July, an official defense establishment report was leaked to the press detailing Israeli reactions to Arafat's death. One of the issues dealt with in the report was his desire to be buried on the Temple Mount. The report
recommended burying Arafat in the Palestinian town of Abu Dis overlooking the holy disputed site, in order to avoid confrontations with Palestinian masses.
The last Palestinian to be buried on the Temple Mount was Faisal Husseini, the former PLO representative in Jerusalem, who died of a heart attack in 2001. Husseini was buried at the site despite fierce opposition from some Palestinians, who said the privilege should be reserved only to devout Muslim figures. Police noted however that in Husseni's case, Palestinians received official permission to hold the funeral on the compound.
Meanwhile Thursday, police raised the level of alert following reports that Arafat may have died. Police also pulled out their day-after plan, called "A different reality," which lays out the different scenarios that may happen
after Arafat's demise. Once there is an official statement that Arafat is dead, police said, they will raise the alert to level three of four.
Hearing of the sharp deterioration in Arafat's condition, head of the Prisons Service Yaakov Ganot ordered to beef up security and raise the alert in prisons throughout the country.
Ganot instructed intelligence officers to carefully monitor the some 4,000 Palestinian security prisoners incarcerated in Israel and in the event of Arafat's death to allow them to mourn the Palestinian leader.
In March, Arafat had asked his supporters to look into burying him on the Mount. At the time, Muslim groups distributed leaflets against Arafat's plan. Referring to Arafat, the leaflet said: "We warn this wicked infidel, who married a Christian infidel, against contemplating desecrating the holy Aksa Mosque."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099543822437&p=1006688055060
I noticed this somewhere else; but a muslim holiday called "Lailat ul-Qadr" or (night of power) is on 11/9 this month. Just an FYI.
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