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Posted on 10/01/2005 8:27:27 AM PDT by nwctwx
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"NSW welcomes terror laws plans"
The Australian ^ | 28 Oct 2005
Posted on 10/27/2005 8:29:19 PM PDT by Fair Go
NSW welcomes terror laws plans
28oct05
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW South Wales Attorney-General Bob Debus has welcomed plans by the Prime Minister to have the Federal Government's anti-terrorism laws in place in time for the Melbourne Commonwealth Games.
Prime Minister John Howard today said he was not wedded to any plans to introduce the Bill to Parliament next Tuesday, Melbourne Cup day, as originally planned. But he said he still wanted the terrorism legislation passed this parliamentary session and in place before the March 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Mr Debus, who has been critical of the Federal Government's original plan to introduce the legislation next Tuesday, today welcomed the Prime Minister's comments.
"I see no reason to be rushing quite as fast as has been proposed in recent times," Mr Debus said today.
"We are dealing with laws that represent the biggest change, I would say, in a generation, and it simply behoves us to be careful about how we go about drafting them."
"I heard a report that the Prime Minister wanted to have the laws in Parliament by the Commonwealth Games and I certainly agree with that.""
quite true. many demons invited into people's souls during these times, left to wreak havic. requires so much prayer. we have to remind ourselves that where evil exists, there the Grace of God exists even more!
SNIP:HONOLULU, Hawaii (Reuters) - A former design engineer has been arrested on charges of espionage for selling top-secret information related to the B-2 stealth bomber, the FBI said on Thursday.
Noshir Gowadia, 61, was arrested in Maui, Hawaii on Wednesday. The FBI said he had given information to three foreign countries about the bomber. The countries were not immediately named.
ANAMA will have to check for explosives
SNIP:ANAMA approximates that about 100 missiles exploded simultaneously due to careless handling of a worker. As the result, the shop placed only 200 meters away from domiciles was destroyed completely.
Monitoring and security storage sheds for high explosives still spotty
SNIP:The quality of monitoring and securing storage sheds for high explosives and weapons vary significantly nationwide, leaving loopholes that can be exploited by thieves like those who raided a Crystal Springs Reservoir bunker last summer, according to a new report.
Suspect bombers may be breath-tested
SNIP:Terrorist bomb makers beware -- New Jersey scientists have developed a breath tester that might lead to your arrest.
The portable tester -- called Heartsbreath -- can detect traces of chemicals found in explosives when they are exhaled by people who have handled the bombs.
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Israel fumes over Egypt's talks with Hamas, Islamic Jihad
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/638906.html
Thanks flutters for that link.
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http://www.iaisite.org/
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/JenniferBiddison/2005/10/28/173235.html
"Taking avian flu seriously"
Oct 28, 2005
by Jennifer Biddison
Adding this link from sent in from a special freeper:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=news&cs=utf-8&q=EXPLOSION+IN+AGSTAFA&rys=0&itag=crv&_sb_lang=any
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http://mychristianblood.blogspirit.com/archive/2005/10/23/muslim-blogger-comments-about-what-happened-in-alexandria.html
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http://www.copts.net/detail.asp?id=802
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http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/s05100140.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 2126, Garden Grove, CA 92842-2126 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Thursday, October 27, 2005
COPTS RELEASE VIDEO OF MASS RIOTING, DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES AND BIBLES, FEAR IMPENDING ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
UNION CITY, NEW JERSEY (ANS) -- Fearing a repeat of the recent riots against the Coptic Church in Alexandria, Egypt, which left four dead, more than 80 wounded and seven churches defaced, leaders of the Coptic church in the United States are calling on the U.S. Government and the United Nations to take immediate action to stop the bloodshed and destruction of churches.
Exclusive video footage released by the International Christian Union (ICU) and American Coptic Association (ACA) (ICU/ACA) today, on http://mychristianblood.blogspirit.com reveals the destruction of the Assemblies of God Church for Evangelical Copts in Moharam Bek, on Friday, Oct. 21.
An e-mail report from Dr. Monir Dawoud, president of the ICU/ACA, obtained by ANS says: "We are receiving numerous reports that extremist Muslim groups are planning to surround the Alexandria churches again on Friday, Oct.28, and at the end of Ramadan on the following Tuesday, promising the death of Christians and the continued destruction of churches throughout Egypt."
Dawoud faults the security forces for encouraging violence by first "giving the green light to the mob," and then failing to control the resulting riots. "If the momentum of the riots is allowed to continue, the crowds will be impossible to contain," Dawoud said.
More than 5,000 Muslims demonstrated outside of the Alexandria Coptic Orthodox Church last Friday (Oct. 21) to protest the production of a drama staged at the church two years ago. The protestors said the play blasphemes Islam. According to recent statements by the Coptic Church, however, the play does not defame Islam.
"Copts and other minorities in Egypt are continually subjected to physical and verbal harassment by extremist Muslim groups. Yet we do not destroy their houses of worship or call for bloodshed," said Amgad Zakhari, one of the youth leaders with the ICU/ACA.
In addition to the protests, the Egyptian newspaper, El Fagr, published threats made by Muslim radicals against the Coptic Pope Shenouda III.
According to this report, Muslim radicals publicly announced their threats through mosques in the outskirts of the city of Alexandria and were calling for the death of Pope Shenouda in revenge for an alleged insult to Islam's prophet.
The ICU and the ACA are planning a demonstration in front of the UN next week to protest the persecution of Christians in Egypt.
Contact: Maria Sliwa, Freedom Now Communications, 973-272-2861, SliwaNews@gmail.com
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Garden Grove, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
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France - Islamists threaten to shoot down airliners with SAM-18 missiles from Chechen mafia
Le Figaro via Babelfish translation ^ | October 28, 2005 | Jean Chichizola
Posted on 10/28/2005 2:49:38 AM PDT by HAL9000
TWO GROUND-to-air MISSILES of Soviet manufacture, of type SAM 18, imported into Europe remain untraceable. Acquired in 2002 by a group of French and Algerian islamists near the Maffia tchetchene, these weapons are in the center of a terrorist project aiming at cutting down a civil aircraft near an airport of the Hexagon. Until now, Bruguière judge, who inquires into this cell of radical islamists, suspected them of having prepared attacks chemical or bacteriological in Paris. But the testimony of a high person in charge for Al-Qaida held in Jordan revealed that this group involved in Tchétchénie had other criminal projects.
French ISLAMISTES would intend to make attacks against civil aircrafts in the Hexagon and would have gotten for this purpose two ground-to-air missiles in Tchétchénie. It is only the last bounce of the judicial enquiry of judge Jean-Louis Bruguière on the dies tchetchenes, one of richest and most complex of these last years.
Already suspected of preparing chemical or bacteriological attacks with toxic substances, like cyanide, botulinic toxin or ricine, these militants also has criminal projects against the French airports. If a great part of them were challenged by the DST between 2002 and 2004, some individuals have escaped with the hauls. And no one does not know today if the missiles of the type SAM 18 assets into 2002 were destroyed, carried in other countries European or quite simply stored some share in France for a future attack.
Information is all the more worrying as it emanates from the testimony of a high person in charge djihadist imprisoned in Amman (Jordan) and recently heard within the framework for the French judicial enquiry. This Jordanian, Adnan Muhammad Sadik alias Abou Atiya, is a close relation of its Zarqaoui compatriot, head of Al-Qaida in Iraq. He was especially his representative in the Caucasus. Of these years 2000-2001, and particularly after the fall of the talibans and the end of the Al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan, the role of Abou Atiya consisted in taking again the torch to accomodate the djihadists and to take care of their drive. Once their formation achieved, the recruits set out again in their countries of origin or formed dormant cells in nearby States like Turkey or Azerbaïdjan.
Among much of volunteers of the four corners of the world, Abou Atiya accomodates thus in 2001 a group made up of French and Algerians. A part of them are veterans of Afghanistan. The majority took part in the project of attack against the cathedral of Strasbourg at at the end of 2000. Some have even bonds with those which wanted to make jump the airport of Los Angeles earlier one year. The Jordanian head ties a relation privileged with the Algerian Said Arif. Born in 1965 in Oran, this lieutenant of the Algerian army, which chose the desertion, remained in the Afghan Al-Qaida camps. After having escaped with the police forces German and French, it takes refuge in the Caucasus.
The islamists free-Algerian dream only of one thing: to return to Europe to strike. They intend to make use of all the means at their disposal: toxic products but also of the missiles. A batch of SAM 18 Igla (switches) is acquired on the black market via the Maffia tchetchene. More powerful than SAM 7 Strela (arrow) from which they are derived, Igla are not difficult to find in this vast supermarket of the armament which is the old Soviet Union. Once acquired, SAM would have been sent in Europe via Georgia and Turkey. The cyanide followed the same road and arrived to France.
Veterans of Afghanistan
The terrorists prepare their projects then, hesitant between targets symbolic systems (embassy of Russia, police stations) and attacks bloody (department stores, Eiffel Tower...). When the DST challenges large troop in Courneuve and Romainville at at the end of 2002, it finds a fusing. It will still have to be waited months so that the assumption of a chemical attack is specified. But not of trace of missile.
However, in February 2003, two months after the haul of the Parisian suburbs, and just a month after a British operation counters returned djihadists of the Caucasus, the London airport of Heathrow is placed in red alert. According to information collected on the other side of the channel, islamists were on the point of drawing on a plane with the landing or takeoff. And the "pipe" obtained by the famous service of British against-espionage Mr. I5 announced portable ground-to-air missiles "come from the continent".
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http://www.infovlad.net
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051093.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
October 27, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-93
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
INSURGENTS KILLED, WEAPONS SEIZED IN RAMADI
CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq – Coalition Forces killed terrorists in Ramadi Oct. 27 while conducting a cordon and search operation at the Malaab Soccer Stadium in the eastern part of the city.
At approximately 11:00 a.m. a sniper team that was conducting security for the operation observed a military age male surveying the stadium with binoculars shortly after Coalition Forces were attacked with a rocket propelled grenade. The sniper team determined hostile intent and engaged the terrorist with one round, resulting in the death of the insurgent.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Coalition Forces were attacked with small arms fire from multiple positions on rooftops surrounding the stadium. Coalition Forces returned fire, but were not able to confirm damage to the enemy. At 11:45 a.m., a sniper team at the stadium observed two insurgents armed with AK-47s southwest of their location moving into position on the roof of a building. The sniper team engaged the terrorists and were able to confirm both enemy killed in action.
No Coalition Forces were injured in today’s attacks.
The cordon and search resulted in the seizure of 30 lbs. of plastic explosives, typically found to be used in Improvised Explosive Devices and vehicle car bombs. The contents of the cache will be destroyed.
A few weeks ago, Coalition Forces uncovered a significant weapons cache on the Soccer Stadium premises.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-WEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT CEPAOWO@CEMNF-WIRAQ.USMC.MIL.
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http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
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October 27, 2005
Ahmadinejad off the deep end: "I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible"
It hasn't been widely reported, but Ahmadinejad called not only for the destruction of Israel, but of America as well. From Asia Times, with thanks to Craig:
Addressing a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, entitled "The World Without Zionism", Ahmadinejad said, "To those who doubt, to those who ask is it possible, or those who do not believe, I say accomplishment of a world without America and Israel is both possible and feasible."
To a cheering audience that at several points erupted with chants of "death to Israel, death to America, death to England", Ahmadinejad continued, "Once, his eminency Imam [Ruhollah] Khomeini - leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution], stated that the illegal regime of the Pahlavis must go, and it happened. Then he said the Soviet empire would disappear, and it happened. He also said that this evil man Saddam [Hussein] must be punished, and we see that he is under trial in his country. His eminency also said that the occupation regime of Qods [Jerusalem, or Israel] must be wiped off from the map of the world, and with the help of the Almighty, we shall soon experience a world without America and Zionism, notwithstanding those who doubt."
Posted at October 27, 2005 08:08 PM
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GJ28Ak03.html
Oct 28, 2005
"Iran on course for a showdown"
By Safa Haeri
PARIS
WASHINGTON TIMES.com: Ramallah, West Bank - "IRAN LEADER PREDICTS ISRAEL'S DEMISE" by Joshua Mitnick (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday predicted a wave of Palestinian attacks that would erase Israel "from the face of the Islamic world," just hours before a suicide bomber killed five Israelis in a marketplace. The attack, which wounded about 30, also made a mockery of a major speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who appealed in Ramallah yesterday for an end to attacks that he said were undermining attempts to establish a Palestinian state.") (October 27, 2005)
MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 929: "Al-Arabiya TV Report: Iranian Volunteer Suicide Bomber Organization of 40,000 'Time Bombs; Recruited to Target Americans in Iraq and Israel" (July 6, 2005) (Read More...)
MEMRI TV.org - Transcript - Clip No. 736: "ON THE IRANIAN MOVEMENT OF 'MARTYRDOM SEEKERS'" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from a report about the movement of "martyrdom seekers" in Iran. Al-Arabiya TV aired this report on July 2, 2005.) (Read More...)
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