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Thank you Karl.
http://www.whiotv.com/news/4120446/detail.html
"Train Derails In Dayton"
POSTED: 3:59 p.m. EST January 22, 2005
DAYTON, Ohio --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The cars were full of steel and headed for Middletown.
The cars collided with a propane tank used to heat the switches.
The propane started leaking.
Right now, it's not known what caused the cars to jump the track."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326518/posts
"The scariest prospect of all: Iran with the bomb"
telegraph.co.uk ^ | 23/01/2005 | Edward Luttwak
Posted on 01/22/2005 10:32:50 PM PST by F14 Pilot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1326537/posts
"Mofaz: Abbas secures cease-fire with Hamas, Islamic Jihad"
haaretz.com ^ | January 23, 2004 | Arnon Regular
Posted on 01/23/2005 12:04:49 AM PST by HAL9000
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has secured an agreement with leading Palestinian militant groups for a cease-fire of about a month, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said on Sunday morning.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad had agreed to the cease-fire in return for a future role in the Palestinian Authority, Mofaz told Israel Radio in an interview.
"As far as we understand, there is an agreement between (Abbas) and the heads of Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a cease-fire for a certain period ... about a month," said Mofaz.
Officials from Abbas' Palestinian Authority and the two militant groups were not immediately available for comment on Mofaz's comments. Abbas has been holding cease-fire talks with militant factions in the Gaza Strip in the last few days."
CDC.gov: "TRAVELERS' HEALTH"
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,145164,00.html
"Over 250 People on Cruise Get Stomach Virus"
Sunday, January 23, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. —
Michael Sheehan, a spokesman for Royal Caribbean International (search), described the illness as "your typical 24-hour stomach virus and nothing more" and blamed a sick passenger for bringing it on board.
The Mariner of the Seas was also being checked for bacteria, the company said."
FOOGLE News - Search Term: "FARC"
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22FARC%22&hl=en&lr=&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050196.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
January 22, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-96
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INSURGENTS CAPTURED IN MOSUL
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Soldiers from the Iraqi Army’s 1st Division, 1st Battalion, received mortar fire in Mosul on Jan. 21.
The Soldiers observed insurgents firing a mortar from about 500 meters away and engaged the enemy with direct fire. They found one abandoned 82 mm mortar tube and captured an insurgent.
While searching a house in the vicinity, Iraqi Soldiers engaged the enemy again and captured one insurgent who was using a cell phone to provide positions for attacks. A search of a nearby school yielded one sniper rifle.
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050192.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
January 22, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-92
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INSURGENTS ATTACK FROM MOSQUE, ONE DETAINED
MOSUL, Iraq -- Multi-National Forces from 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division (Striker Combat Team), and Iraqi Security Forces were fired upon by anti-Iraqi insurgents from a mosque in northern Iraq on Jan. 21.
Iraqi Intervention Forces and Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, were patrolling in eastern Mosul when their convoy came under attack by anti-Iraqi insurgents firing from the Al Sabrine Mosque. The IIF conducted a cordon and search of the mosque. They detained an individual, and found and confiscated weapons. The suspect is in custody with no ISF or MNF injuries reported.
Firing from the mosque clearly is a violation of the law of war. Iraqi authorities have stated that those insurgents using a religious center as their headquarters or as a place to attack Iraqi Security Forces or Multi-National Forces will not be safe.
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20050191.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
January 22, 2005
Release Number: 05-01-91
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
201st IRAQI ARMY SOLDIERS DETAIN AIF SUSPECT
TIKRIT, Iraq – 201st Iraqi Army Soldiers detained an anti-Iraqi force suspect at a traffic control point in northern Tikrit at about 11:10 a.m., January 20. The individual is suspected of funding insurgent cells in the Tikrit area. The detainee was taken to a Multi-National Forces detention facility.
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ON THE NET...
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ON THE NET...
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Hi DC....thankfully we had power.....but still shoveling....and laundry, laundry...cooking...and no time for freeping!
Here's the full text Oorang:
Fugitive seen as link between 9/11, Madrid
1/22/2005, 6:53 p.m. ET
By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — International counterterrorism authorities are looking for a Moroccan fugitive who may have attended a pivotal meeting with the Sept. 11 plotters and is believed to have played a logistical role in the train bombings last year in Madrid, Spain.
The fugitive, Amer Azizi, appears to connect a group of terror operatives and may exemplify al-Qaida's decentralization — a trend about which U.S. intelligence officials have warned.
New information from federal authorities indicates Azizi may have provided lodging to people involved in the backpack bombings of the Spanish commuter trains, according to U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Coming days before Spain's national elections in March, the attacks killed nearly 200 people and are considered largely responsible for the defeat of the conservative Popular Party.
One of the U.S. officials also said Azizi may have met with two Sept. 11 plotters — hijacker Mohamed Atta and coordinator Ramzi Binalshibh — in Spain in July 2001. Investigators are trying to determine Azizi's involvement in the meeting.
A Spanish judge has indicted Azizi on charges related to the 2001 attacks, including his role in providing lodging to the conspirators. According to the Sept. 11 Commission's final report, Binalshibh said during interrogation that he and Atta met with no one else during roughly 10 days in the Tarragona region of Spain.
Counterterrorism authorities are looking at Azizi, who may use the alias Othman al Andulusi, as a possible link in the attacks, the U.S. official said.
The 2001 meeting is considered an important planning session. Atta and Binalshibh discussed the timing of the attacks, whether to target the White House or other American icons and whether to use box cutters as weapons.
While al-Qaida has taken responsibility for the strikes against the United States, U.S. government officials say the Madrid attack appears to have been carried out by a group that shares al-Qaida's mind-set.
The possibility of ties to Osama bin Laden's network illustrates why U.S. intelligence leaders have warned in recent months that al-Qaida may be transforming itself from a once-consolidated network largely based in Afghanistan to a loose coalition of extremists around the globe.
In a report declassified this month, senior analysts at the National Intelligence Council warned that 15 years from now the United States may be dealing with an array of Muslim extremist groups, cells and individuals.
Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism analyst with the RAND Corp., said people such as Azizi are becoming "an essential cog in the wheel" because they know local conditions. For instance, Tarragona is a tourist destination largely off the radar of Spanish law enforcement.
"Terrorism couldn't succeed without someone like Azizi. Otherwise you have either radical immigrant groups or foreign terrorists sort of stumbling around clueless and therefore ... leaving themselves much more vulnerable to interception or identification and apprehension," Hoffman said.
The U.S. officials and Spain's counterterrorism chief, Fernando Reinares, say Azizi may have served as a middleman or a facilitator between the local cell of mainly North African immigrants in Spain and bin Laden's network.
Reinares described al-Qaida as a nebulous group with three main components: al-Qaida itself, 20 to 30 associated groups and cells that pop up across the globe and "take it upon themselves to carry out an attack on their own."
"In the case of March 11 it is possible that to a large extent, all three came together," Reinares said last summer.
The Spanish government considers Azizi a suspect in the Madrid attacks. Counterterrorism Judge Baltasar Garzon also has indicted him on charges of helping to plan the Sept. 11 hijackings.
In an April indictment charging Azizi with multiple counts of murder, Garzon said Azizi assisted with the July 2001 meeting by providing lodging and acting as a courier to pass messages between plotters.
U.S. authorities are somewhat more cautious about his involvement in Sept. 11.
A U.S. official said Azizi was believed to be part of a Spanish organization known as the Barakat Yarkas Group — named after Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, the leader of an al-Qaida cell in Spain who was arrested in November 2001. But the official said they have yet to find evidence indicating Azizi or Yarkas were directly involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
Late last year, the State Department offered $5 million for information leading to the capture of another man believed to oversee Azizi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar. The al-Qaida operative ran a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
With his red hair, fair skin and Spanish citizenship, Nasar is thought to be of high-value to extremist Islamic causes because of his ability to blend in to Western society, a U.S. official said.
According to some earlier reports, Azizi may have connections to the top al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. But now U.S. officials say there is no evidence of that.
Instead, al-Zarqawi and Nasar may have indirect connections through the higher echelons of the group.
U.S. officials would not say where Azizi or Nasar are believed to be.
We are buried here on Monmouth County and it's still coming down. Can't even see where the road ends and the sidewalk begins. Going out to help my husband dig out. Did you get your power back?
BREAKING
Germany nabs 2 suspected al-Qaida members
1/23/2005, 9:54 a.m. ET
The Associated Press
BERLIN (AP) — Two suspected al-Qaida members were arrested by German authorities Sunday, federal prosecutors said.
Police arrested the pair on Sunday in Mainz and Bonn for allegedly breaking German laws forbidding membership in a foreign terrorist organization, federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said.
A 29-year-old Mainz resident from Iraq is suspected of planning suicide attacks in Germany. A 31-year-old Palestinian who was believed to have been planning the theft of uranium in Luxembourg was also arrested.
On Jan. 12, police took 22 suspects into custody during nationwide raids on a network of Muslim extremists that turned up militant Islamic propaganda and forged passports. In December, police arrested three suspected members of the Ansar al-Islam terror group who allegedly planned to attack Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during a visit to Berlin.
Recruit married to Pakistani 'militant' fired
http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=B20447:312D3A4
Terror threat still there, experts say
http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=B20439:312D3A4
Railing for safety
http://www.ldnews.com/Stories/0,1413,139~10141~2668108,00.html
Cheney: Iran major threat to world peace
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=10618
EXPERTS WARN OF FOOD POISONING ON FLIGHTS
Source: Middle East Newsline
The indepth regional news service
ARMS, DEFENSE, STRATEGY
Jan. 21, 2005
MORNING REPORT
Vol. 7 No. 30
http://www.menewsline.com/
Cleric accused of handing $20 million check to bin Laden
January 20, 2005
BY MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
NEW YORK -- Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a major blow in the war on terror in March 2003: The government had charged a Muslim cleric with personally handing $20 million to Osama bin Laden.
But as the trial approaches for Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan al-Moayad, the jurors are unlikely to hear that spectacular allegation. Its sole source, an FBI informant from Yemen, set himself on fire in front of the White House late last year, and it is all but certain prosecutors will not put him on the stand.
''The government has acted outrageously and unethically by trumpeting charges that it was not prepared to prove,'' said al-Moayad's attorney, William Goodman. ''Now they're hanging by their fingernails.'' U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf declined to comment.
Al-Moayad, 56, and his Yemeni assistant, Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed, are charged in federal court in Brooklyn with supporting al-Qaida and the Palestinian extremist group Hamas. Opening statements could start as early as next week.
They were arrested in January 2003 after meeting two men they believed to be Muslim radicals at a hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. The radicals were actually FBI informants. Before German police burst into the room, Al-Moayad and the informants discussed funneling $2.5 million into the fight against America's ''Zionist government.''
Prosecutors' star witness was supposed to be one of those informants, Mohamed Alanssi. But he attempted suicide outside the White House in November, telling the Washington Post that the FBI had broken a promise to make him a millionaire and a U.S. citizen for helping snare al-Moayad.
AP via Chgo Sun Times
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"Germany nabs 2 suspected al-Qaida members"
The Associated Press ^ | 1/23/2005, 9:54 a.m. ET
Posted on 01/23/2005 7:25:59 AM PST by freeperfromnj
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BERLIN (AP) — Two suspected al-Qaida members were arrested by German authorities Sunday, federal prosecutors said.
Police arrested the pair on Sunday in Mainz and Bonn for allegedly breaking German laws forbidding membership in a foreign terrorist organization, federal prosecutor Kay Nehm said."
Post to the "Khattab" (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Khattab/) Yahoo! group this morning...
"Network of the Jihad den" (Tarjim translation)
http://66.148.86.188/
Thank you Layoutguru2.
Thanks. I appreciate you posting that ffnj.
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