KOA radio, Denver says a 6.8 earthquake off the shore of
Japan and 80 people have been hurt.
Six people who died in the crash were alive when the plane crashed, chief Athens coroner Fillipos Koutsaftis said Monday. It remained unclear whether they were conscious, he said.
"We have performed autopsies on six people. Our conclusion is they had circulation and were breathing at the time of death," Koutsaftis said.
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New word:
Jihadistan it means a nation of jihadi warriors, without borders.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Jihadistan&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&start=10&sa=N
It is all America's fault, even when the nuts won't grow.
granny
IranMania News - www.iranmania.com
Unprocessed pistachio export
unprofitable
LONDON, August 16 (IranMania) - An Agriculture Jihad
Ministry official said that export of unprocessed pistachios is
not a profitable business under the circumstances.
Behrouz Gheibi, the ministry?s director general for pistachio
affairs, told ILNA that only 1,500 tons of unprocessed
pistachios are consumed domestically, adding that export of
unprocessed pistachios would need certain transportation
facilities, which are not available in Iran.
?Unprocessed pistachios have to be transported in
refrigerated containers and in special packages which do not
exist in Iran,? he said, adding that if necessary facilities are
provided, some 2,000-3,000 tons of unprocessed pistachios
could be exported to Persian Gulf littoral states each year.
He further noted that Iran exported 25,300 tons of pistachios
to the Persian Gulf littoral states during March-July this year.
He said that the annual unprocessed pistachio production in
the northeastern city of Damghan and the central city of
Saveh stands at some 150,000 tons.
The official said processed pistachio production is expected
to reach 120,000 tons by March 2006.
Global demand for pistachios currently stands at several mln
tons while Iran can at best export 150,000 tons per annum.
In recent years, the United States has turned into a major
pistachio producing country.
Some experts say thanks to the cultivation and marketing of
pistachios by the Americans, Iran could easily take
advantage of the current situation to improve its pistachio
exports.
Late frosts destroyed 35-55 % of pistachio crop last year.
Iran exported 136,000 tons of pistachios worth over $800
mln during March 2004-2005.
Pistachio production could decline by over 60 % in the year
to March 2006 due to unseasonably hot weather in March
and frosts in April that hit almost all parts of the pistachio
growing region in the southern province of Kerman.
The yield in Iran remains low at one ton per hectare,
whereas other pistachio producing countries harvest three
tons per hectare.
August 16, 2005
More extremists to be expelled
By Richard Ford and Daniel McGrory
The London Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1736555,00.html
The Home Secretary moves against 'preachers of hate' and warns of third
attack
A FRESH set of expulsions of extremists from Britain is being prepared
as part of the Government's clampdown on "preachers of hate".
Charles Clarke plans to move against scores of militants accused of
stirring up hatred as soon as new immigration rules come into force at the
weekend.
The Home Secretary said that further expulsions were imminent and that
it would be "absolutely foolish" to assume that there will not be a
third terrorist attack in London.
The security services and immigration officials are understood to have
drawn up a list of foreign extremists to be deported. Many are
understood to be young clerics who have come in recent years from Pakistan and
North Africa. These so-called preachers of hate are not as well known
as clerics such as Abu Qatada and Omar Bakri Mohammed but are seen as
stirring up hatred and extremism among young followers.
Muslim leaders have been consulted about a number of the suspects who
are expected to be arrested shortly. Their identities are being kept
secret for fear that the men may go into hiding before arrests can be
made. As well as clerics, the list is understood to include owners of
radical Islamic bookshops, writers, a number of teachers and website
operators of different nationalities.
Mr Clarke spoke of further action against extremists after visiting the
Metropolitan Police yesterday — his first day back at the Home Office
since returning at the weekend from a holiday in the United States. He
said that the Government would continue looking at people in this
country whose presence was not conducive to the public good.
"Now we are consulting on the list of unacceptable behaviours and that
consultation ends on August 19. After that we will still be looking at
further steps that need to be taken to ensure that those people who are
working against the interests of this country are properly dealt with."
While on holiday Mr Clarke ordered the deportation of ten Islamic
extremists. Among them is Abu Qatada, 44, described as al-Qaeda's spiritual
ambassador in Europe. He also banned the extremist cleric Omar Bakri
Mohammed from Britain and stripped him of his leave to remain in the
country.
A two-week consultation period which ends on Friday will allow the
Government to introduce new rules to exclude people from Britain. In future
unacceptable behaviour will include fomenting terrorism or seeking to
provoke others to terror, justifying terrorism, fomenting other serious
criminal activity, fostering hatred which may lead to intra-community
violence, advocating violence in support of particular beliefs and
expressing what the Government considers to be extreme views conflicting
with Britain’s culture of tolerance.
It will apply to anyone preaching, public speeches, websites and those
writing, publishing or distributing such material. British diplomats
have been told to speed up their negotiations to get more countries to
sign a deal to take militants who have been expelled.
The Government had hoped to secure written agreements with Algeria and
Lebanon by now to add to the deal with Jordan signed last week. The
priority is to swiftly iron out disagreements with Algeria since nine of
the men arrested last week on Mr Clarke's orders are believed to come
from there.
Lawyers for Abu Qatada and the others have to lodge their first appeals
by tomorrow and all are expected to demand a swift hearing before the
Special Immigration Appeals Commission. The Jordanian authorities are
finalising details of their extradition request for the cleric, whose
real name is Omar Mahmoud Abu Omar.
# A terror suspect accused of recruiting and converting the Madrid
train bombers could face a widescale breach of his human rights if returned
to Spain, a British court was told yesterday.
Moutaz Almallah Dabas, who was arrested in Slough in March, is accused
of being the manager of an al-Qaedainspired group which included some
of the Madrid bombers.
Under the current terrorist threat, the Spanish legal authorities
operated a system where suspects faced ill-treatment and possible torture,
Bow Street Magistrates' Court, in London, was told.
hechnya car bomb kills boy, wounds 7
Aug. 15, 2005 at 11:12PM
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20050815-105846-8926r.htm
At least one person was killed when a suspected car bomb exploded near
Government House in the Chechen capital Monday afternoon.
Chechen Deputy Interior Minister Akhmed Zakayev said a young boy
was killed and seven people were wounded, RIA-Novosti reported.
The blast interrupted a government session on taxes under the
chairmanship of Chechen President Alu Alkhanov.
Alkhanov said the blast and recent attacks in the republic are
links in a terrorist chain acting across the globe.
"Even the leading world powers have not found a way of preventing
such attacks," said Alkhanov.
He said the terrorists who perpetrated the blast and recent
attacks in Chechen settlements aim to destabilize the situation in the North
Caucuses republic.
Mon, Aug. 15, 2005
Chicago man admits giving FBI bogus terrorism tips
Associated Press
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/12391038.htm
CHICAGO - A Chicago man admitted Monday that he falsely told federal
agents his relatives were linked to Osama Bin Laden's terrorist network
and plotted to blow up the Sears Tower and other landmarks.
Abdul Rauf Noormohamed pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of
making false statements to federal agents and now faces up to five
years in prison.
A phone message left with Noormohamed's attorney Monday was not
immediately returned.
When Noormohamed was arrested, FBI agents said he named five relatives
and two others as members of bin Laden's al-Qaida network and the
Islamic Jihad terrorist organization because he had been quarreling with
them.
Authorities say Noormohamed made 10 phone calls to state and federal
officials between Dec. 12, 2003 and Jan. 5, 2004. The first call was to
the Illinois deputy governor's office. Other calls went to the
Department of Homeland Security and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection.
During the calls, Noormohamed falsely told authorities the "terrorists"
were planning to detonate bombs to blow up the Sears Tower, Soldier
Field, City Hall, O'Hare International Airport and the Lake Point Tower
apartments.
Authorities said members of an FBI-led terrorism task force spent
hundreds of hours investigating the accusations.
Noormohamed was arrested in January of 2004 at O'Hare while preparing
to board a plane bound for Egypt.
Dynamite found in curbing at construction site
12/08/2005
(SPRINGFIELD, Ma) - Interstate 91 was shut down for about 20 minutes
yesterday afternoon after construction workers discovered a stick of
dynamite protruding from a granite slab left under the highway at West
Columbus Avenue near State Street.
Traffic along West Columbus Avenue and northbound and southbound
lanes of I-91 came to a halt while members of the city Arson and Bomb
Squad removed the slab containing the explosive.
Squad members Lt. John Friberg and Brian Strout donned protective
suits and secured the slab onto the arm of a crane, which gently lifted
it into the bed of a Water Department dump truck. The bed was filled
with sand.
The dump truck was driven to Bondi's Island in West Springfield so the
dynamite could be detonated, said Fire Department spokesman Neil
Hawley.
The highway and West Columbus Avenue were reopened at 4 p.m.
The dynamite apparently was brought to Springfield inside the slab
from a quarry in Georgia, Hawley said.
It could not be determined if a blasting cap, which could trigger an
explosion, was attached, he said. All the bomb squad could see was a
piece of dynamite and some wires sticking out of the slab.
It was also not clear how long the slab had been piled under the
highway.
Police were called to the scene shortly after 2 p.m. The bomb squad
arrived about 20 minutes later.
The granite slab with the dynamite was lying in a pile with other slabs
just under the highway overpass at West Columbus Avenue and State
Street, near the entrance to Riverfront Park.
It was discovered by city Water Department workers who parked their
truck next to the pile.
Water Department employee Joseph Connor said he noticed the wires
sticking out from a hole in the slab and went to take a closer look.
Connor, who said he used to drill holes for dynamite demolition at a
previous job, said he recognized it as a single stick with a blasting cap
attached.
"It must have come from the quarry like that," he said. "If they cut it
with a saw or hit the cap, it could explode."
Connor said he tried to warn a fork truck driver who was about to start
moving slabs from the pile, but the driver did not believe him.
After that he ran to find a supervisor, who took him seriously, he said.
"If he hit it (with the fork truck) and it exploded, we'd be dead," he
said.
By PATRICK JOHNSON
pjohnson@repub.com
http://www.aggregateresearch.com/article.asp?id=6934
The Venezuela crash thread, the first 40 or so posts have a lot of info on the Greece crash, 20 bodies not frozen, Pilot and a passenger still not found, no recording in the voice box.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1464210/posts