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Europe Braces for al-Qaeda Strikes
MENL ^ | October 5 2005
Posted on 10/05/2005 11:35:57 AM PDT by jmc1969
European intelligence agencies are quietly warning of another major attack by Al Qaida.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497146/posts
Ping
If I recall correctly, it was the middle of July to sometime in August, 2004.
Apologies if this has already been posted - but it sounds as if the US Embassy was one of 11 in Malaysia to receive a suspicious package today. I haven't seen this reported anywhere but its in today's FBIS report...
AFP: Eleven Embassies in Malaysia Receive 'Suspicious' Packages
Wednesday, October 5, 2005 T07:50:48Z
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (AFP) - At least 11 foreign embassies in the Malaysian capital have been sent suspicious packages containing threatening letters linked to the treatment of Muslims, police said Wednesday.
The packages -- which also contained compact discs and an unidentified liquid -- were aimed at taking advantage of the security situation after the bomb attacks on the Indonesian island of Bali, police said.
Five missions -- the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Australia -- received packages on Wednesday bringing the number of missions hit by the scare to at least 11, Kuala Lumpur police chief Mustafa Abdullah told AFP.
"You have been infected with a biochemical weapon. Curse you for what you have done to the Muslim ummah," the note in each letter said, according to the police chief.
Abdullah said police believed the letters were a hoax and the substances were harmless. He accused those responsible of playing on heightened fears created by the weekend attacks in Bali which left 19 dead.
The bombing has been blamed on the Southeast Asian Islamic militant group Jemaah Islamiyah, which is accused of links to the Al-Qaeda network, and Indonesian police are hunting two Malaysian leaders of JI.
The Australian and British high commissions and the United States and French embassies told AFP suspicious packages had arrived on Wednesday morning.
Mustafa said the Russian embassy had also received a package.
"The packages contained a cd-rom together with a greenish liquid, similar to water coolant. We have sent the contents for analysis," Mustafa said.
A French embassy official said their security officers had examined an express mail package, which contained a compact disc wrapped in yellow plastic and had a postmark from the city of Kota Baru in northern Kelantan state.
The police and the hazardous materials unit were called.
US embassy officials also confirmed they received a "suspicious package" but they declined to give details.
Japan, Germany, Thailand, Canada, the Philippines, and Singapore all received parcels on Tuesday by express mail.
The Japanese embassy, the first to receive a package, was evacuated for several hours before police gave the all-clear.
Police have said the packages, delivered by express mail, appeared to originate from the central state of Selangor which surrounds Kuala Lumpur, as well as from Kelantan and northern Terengganu.
Diplomats said most packages contained a compact disc and liquid.
"It contained a broken CD and it was in a transparent envelope and surrounded by a small amount of liquid," said Che van Haastrecht, second secretary at the Canadian High Commission.
The police chief for the main embassy district, Kamal Pasha Jamal, said security had been stepped up following the incidents.
"Security at the embassies has been beefed up, we have deployed more police officers to enhance patrols in the areas," he said.
Most diplomats were tight-lipped about security measures Wednesday, but the Canadian, Singapore, French, Japanese, Thai, Australian, Philippine and British missions said they were open for business.
A Philippines embassy official said security had been tightened.
(Description of Source: Hong Kong AFP in English -- Hong Kong service of the independent French press agency Agence France-Presse)
Looks like Reuters is reporting it too:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-10-05T103456Z_01_MCC532989_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-MALAYSIA.xml&archived=False
Suspected hoax sparks security alert in Malaysia
Wed Oct 5, 2005 11:35 AM BST
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A suspected hoax designed to sow fears of a chemical attack in Malaysia's diplomatic district struck at five more embassies on Wednesday, police and diplomats said.
Slim packages containing a yellow, oily liquid -- and in one case a powder -- have been delivered to at least 10 embassies in the past two days, with a message condemning the countries for mistreating Muslims, Kuala Lumpur's police chief said.
The U.S., British, French and Australian missions all said they had received the suspicious packages in the mail on Wednesday, but none of the missions were evacuated. The packages were handed over to police and sent for analysis.
The Bernama news agency said the Russian embassy also received a similar envelope. An embassy official, however, declined to comment.
"I think it's normal oil, it's nothing dangerous," Mustafa Abdullah told Reuters by phone from police headquarters.
The government said the country remained safe and that foreigners should not be unduly worried.
"Whatever precautionary measure that must be taken will be taken," Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said. "Even after the September 11 (2001), there had been no backlash on foreign missions here."
Diplomats and police had already been put on alert after suicide bombings killed 22 people last Saturday on the resort island of Bali, in neighbouring Indonesia. The security scare coincided with the eve of Ramadan, the holy Muslim fasting month.
"Yes, we received this morning a CD with traces of yellow liquid inside," a spokesman for the Australian High Commission said.
The French embassy reported a similar discovery. "The police came to take a look and they took away the envelope. There was no evacuation," a French embassy spokeswoman said.
On Tuesday, the Japanese embassy was the first to notice the package and evacuated its staff while police and hazardous-chemicals experts swept through the building.
Within hours, similar packages were found at the Canadian, German, Singaporean, Philippine and Thai missions.
"The fact that this scare happened soon after the Bali attack is a warning signal. It may be innocent but we cannot take chances," Syed Hamid, the foreign minister, told reporters.
Police checked the liquid found in the Japanese embassy package and deemed it harmless, police chief Mustafa said on Tuesday, but checks were still being made on the other packages.
Mustafa and one diplomat said the packages contained a note accusing the respective countries of abusing Muslims.
Mustafa quoted one note as saying: "You have been infected with a biological and chemical weapon. May Allah curse you for what you have done to the Muslim ummah (community)."
The packages were all sent from Malaysian addresses, including the northeastern states of Kelantan and Terengganu, he said. These states are strongly Muslim.
Mustafa declined to speculate on who was behind the packages.
In March 2004, a small explosive device was hurled outside the Australian embassy in Kuala Lumpur but caused no injuries or damage. No one claimed responsibility and no arrests were made.
ON THE NET...
http://www.ice.gov
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Note: Thanks to WestCoastGal for pointing to this incident:
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/immigration.arrests.ap/index.html
AP
"Language instructors arrested at Fort Bragg
3 charged with immigration violations"
Wednesday, October 5, 2005; Posted: 10:30 a.m. EDT (14:30 GMT)
ARTICLE SNIPPET#1: "FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) -- Three people who taught foreign languages at the Joint Special Operations Command Center at Fort Bragg were arrested on immigration charges, federal officials said."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Two Indonesian natives, Nurkis Qadariah, 34, and Sayf Rimal, 37, were arrested Tuesday and charged with possessing and using false documents, U.S. Attorney Frank Whitney said.
Ousmane Moreau, 38, of Senegal, was arrested Monday and charged with being in the United States illegally, Whitney said.
Qadariah and Rimal are accused in a complaint of using counterfeit resident alien cards and falsely saying that they were lawful permanent residents of the United States in order to get a job with Florida-based B.I.B. Consultants Inc. to teach foreign languages at Fort Bragg.
All employees of the company must go through background checks, and checks on the three men "came back clear," Daniel Guillan, director of government and contracting for the company, told WTVD-TV in Durham."
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2005/october/10_06_1.html
LONDON [MENL] -- European intelligence agencies are quietly warning of another major attack by Al Qaida.
European intelligence sources said at least one security agency in the European Union has received information of Al Qaida plans to strike either Britain, Italy or the Netherlands this month. The sources said insurgency cells in Europe were being directed by Abu Mussib Al Zarqawi, commander of Al Qaida in Iraq.
"European security services right now are obsessed with the problem of European Muslims going to Iraq and returning to their countries for violence," Daniel Byman, director of Center for Peace and Security Studies, said. "And this is a problem that's likely to grow in the coming years."
The planned Al Qaida strikes were meant to coincide with the Islamic fast month of Ramadan, expected to begin over the next 48 hours. Islamic insurgency groups have reserved Ramadan for major strikes in such places as Algeria, Iraq and Israel.
***A big heads up. (RED ALERT)***
Thanks Cindy. I'll probably scan through when I get home.
A big THANKS stillproud2befree.
You're the greatest backhoe;
I'll ping you to another round of links today.
You're welcome.
UPDATE - OKLAHOMA - Interesting Links ON THE NET...
http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/1005/266002.html
"OU Student Tried To Buy Ammonium Nitrate Before Explosion"
Wednesday October 05, 2005 10:41am
Norman (AP)
http://www.channeloklahoma.com/news/5057494/detail.html
http://www.newsok.com/video/1633639
http://newsok.com/article/1633302/?template=home/main
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008444print.html
October 05, 2005
"Oklahoma suicide bomber attended local mosque"
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008445print.html
(AP)
October 05, 2005
"Oklahoma Bomber's Roommate Held Briefly After Attack"
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/04/oklahoma.explosion.ap/index.html
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1497194/posts
Links Roundup (Thanks backhoe.)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4142#4142
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4234#4234
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4237#4237
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4334#4334
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=43348#43348
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1495058/posts?q=1&&page=4408#4408
http://floppingaces.blogspot.com/2005/10/oklahoma-bombing-update.html
http://lawhawk.blogspot.com/2005/10/moussaoui-connection.html
http://texasrainmaker.blogspot.com/2005/10/boomer-sooner-details-are-still.html
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17762_Jihad_at_the_University_of_Oklahoma&only
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/003668.htm
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008441print.html
October 05, 2005
Arab escapee vows jihad against US
Because, of course, nothing has disabused him of the jihad ideology. He escaped from Bagram airbase. From Pajhwok Afghan News, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
KANDAHAR CITY, October 5 (Pajhwok Afghan News): An al-Qaeda escapee from the US detention centre in Bagram, has vowed to continue fighting the United States.
The Lebanese national Abu Naser, along with three others, had managed to escape from the heavily guarded Bagram airbase on July 11.
In a 30-minute video-tape released here, Abu Naser vowed to continue jihad against the 'infidels'. He hoped their struggle would bring emancipation to Palestinians.
Clad in military fatigue and holding a missile, Abu Naser praised Osama bin Ladin, saying his followers would continue the 'holy war' in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He also recited an Arabic poem to incite youths against the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Let us refresh our memories of the courageous strikes of September 11 and defeat the crusaders."
Posted at October 5, 2005 10:48 AM
Thank you for the Embassy report.
There is no end to the threats is there?
It is not Done. Word is that it passed the Senate. Not that it is law yet.
Could someone please post the text from this link
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Oct05/Gerard1003.htm
My internet is having problems right now and cannot access that site.
Is this a trusted site ?
Thank you.
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