Semi-automatic Shotgun Taken From Vehicle
UPDATED: 9:48 am CDT April 5, 2005
SAN ANTONIO -- The Bexar County Sheriff's Department is searching for a thief who stole about $4,000 worth of SWAT team equipment -- including a semi-automatic shotgun -- from a deputy's vehicle Friday...
AThe thief got away with body armor, a whisper microphone, three magazines for a glock pistol, a weapons of mass destruction kit and a Banelli entry semi-automatic shotgun.
Illegal Immigration Costs Texans $4.7 Billion a Year (TX - 4/5/05)
Finds New Study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
Mass illegal immigration is costing Texas more than $4.65 billion a year finds a new report released today by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The Costs of Illegal Immigration to Texans, examines the fiscal costs being borne by the state to provide education, health care and incarceration for an illegal alien population now estimated to exceed 1.5 million....
Van Load of Illegal Immigrants Flee Authorities on Foot (Iowa - 4/5/05)
WILTON, Iowa Authorities caught 15 suspected illegal immigrants who fled on foot today after the van they were in was stopped for speeding on Interstate 80 in eastern Iowa near Wilton.
NY Islamic Finance Conference (NY - 4/19/05)
Bahrain: Tuesday, April 05 - 2005 at 06:14 A conference on Islamic finance will take place in New York on April 19, organised by the Arab Bankers Association of North America. The half-day forum will look at trends and products for retail, real estate, private and public funds and sukuks. Representatives from the Dow Jones, the Federal Reserve Bank and the Bahrain Monetary Authority are among the speakers.
Muslim Cleric Urged Jihad (VA - 4/5/05)
Soon after 9/11, he called the victims of the attacks legitimate war casualties
BY PAUL BRADLEY TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Apr 5, 2005
ALEXANDRIA - Five days after the Sept. 11 attacks, a noted Islamic cleric called the victims legitimate casualties of war and implored the Muslim faithful to prepare for violent jihad on a global scale, a former follower said.
During the first day of the trial of Ali al-Timimi of Fairfax County, Muhammad Attique said al-Timimi made his case to about a dozen men taking part in a secretive meeting inside a Fairfax County apartment on Sept. 16, 2001.
"He said these attacks are legitimate," Attique testified yesterday. "He encouraged us to go participate in the coming fight. He said it is right because these people are combatants."
The 41-year-old al-Timimi, an American citizen who has lectured on Islamic issues around the world, faces a six-count federal indictment accusing him of exhorting his followers to wage war against Americans on the side of the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan. If convicted, al-Timimi could be sentenced to life in prison.
Muslim-Americans Seek Answers For Border Detention (4/5/05)
AMHERST, N.Y. Muslim-Americans who were detained at the border after a religious conference in Canada got few answers when they met with a Homeland Security civil rights official.
More than three dozen people were held without explanation for as long as six hours in December while trying to re-enter the United States in western New York. They were fingerprinted, photographed, searched, and questioned...