Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Six

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627610/posts


"Feds to Retry Man Accused of Lying to FBI"
Associated Press and CBS News ^ | May 5, 2006

Posted on 05/05/2006 5:28:53 PM PDT by bd476

Feds to Retry Man Accused of Lying to FBI

SACRAMENTO, Calif., May 5, 2006

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20406_Intoxicated_Norwegians_Commit_Blasphemy#comments

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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20406_Intoxicated_Norwegians_Commit_Blasphemy#comments

Friday, May 05, 2006

Intoxicated Norwegians Commit Blasphemy
What do you do with a drunk Norwegian,
What do you do with a drunk Norwegian,
What do you do with a drunk Norwegian
Earl-eye in the morning?

Lynch him when he disses Mohammed. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Two Norwegians, part of a group of intoxicated Scandinavian tourists on holiday in Egypt, were nearly lynched at the resort town of Hurghada this week, after their antics deeply offended the local population.

This was the mermaid statue in Hurghada that figured into the Scandinavian tourists’ offensive behaviour. Residents of Hurghada generally tolerate tourists, but the group of Scandinavians went too far.

The two Norwegians and three Swedes ended up being arrested by local police, who protected them from an angry mob.

The troubled started after the five Scandinavian tourists got drunk, dressed themselves up like Muslim pilgrims and started dancing around the statue of a mermaid located in a town square, and pretending she symbolized Allah.

The Scandinavians apparently were trying to parody Muslim pilgrimages to Mecca. When they started stripping off their clothes, the local Egyptians had had enough and went on the attack.

A local policeman told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet that his colleagues had to step in to protect the tourists from angry local residents. “If they hadn’t been arrested, they probably would have been lynched,” an Islamic expert told Aftonbladet.


This was the mermaid statue in Hurghada that figured into the Scandinavian tourists’ offensive behaviour.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060505_5031.html


School Burning Condemned; IEDS, Weapons Cache Found

American Forces Press Service

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan, May 5, 2006 – The commander of Combined Joint Task Force 76 here condemned today a terrorist attack on a children's school in Laghman province.
Eight people set fire to Katal School in Mehtar Lam on May 2, destroying the principal's office and a storage room filled with supplies, notebooks and Korans.

"This is another example of the Taliban's vision for the future of Afghan children," said Maj. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, CJTF 76 commander. "Extremists want to deny children and education in the name of religion, and they demonstrate their point by desecrating their most sacred books."

According to a witness, four of the eight criminals carried cans of gasoline into the school, while others toted rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

Investigators think an RPG was used to spark the blaze. There were no reported injuries to local citizens.

Elsewhere, a Task Force Tiger element discovered a weapons cache in the Parwan province during a patrol today. The cache contained 88 mortar rounds, eight rockets and three rocket warheads. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the cache on site.

"Recovering and disposing these weapons increases the safety and security of Afghans, and reduces the danger in the area posed by enemies who might use those munitions indiscriminately to cause harm to the Afghan people, Afghan National Security forces or coalition forces," said Lt. Col. Paul Fitzpatrick, CJTF 76 spokesman.

Also, Afghan security forces and coalition forces found and disarmed three improvised explosive devices in Paktika, Zabul and Kandahar provinces May 2.

Two other IEDs detonated, one in Kunar province and one in Kabul.

A suicide bomber in Kabul killed himself and an innocent civilian, but failed to harm coalition members traveling in the targeted convoy. The Kunar explosion resulted in no injuries.

"The indiscriminate emplacement of IEDs and use of suicide bombs are the desperate tools of a desperate enemy," said Freakley. "These attacks continue to rob innocent civilians of their lives through the blatant and indiscriminant use of these tactics, which serve only to hold back the growth and progress of the Afghan people."

In other news, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan officials announced today the Afghan government will establish a permanent military presence in Kunar Province on May 7 by creating an Afghan National Army Forward Operating Base.

Coalition and ANA forces have conducted security operations in Kunar before. But the new base marks the first time the Afghan government will establish a military presence in Kunar to further peace and stability efforts reached through Operation Mountain Lion.

(Based on Combined Forces Command Afghanistan news releases.)

[MamaDearest]

including the kind of people who might get preferential access to vaccines and anti-viral medications in case of a pandemic."

Guestimating that would be our nation's medical personnel, law enforcement, and politicians (although the last group has done NOTHING to date to protect citizens from the diseases illegal immigrants bring along with them, which eventually could include the bird flu virus).

[MamaDearest]

{{{I just don't understand how these internet providers can accept money from known terrorist organizations and not be held accountable by law.}}}

Greed.....and protection by the ACLU.

[Oorang]

Thanks very much for posting the symposium info Donna, very interesting.

[LucyT]

Just this minute found an update on another thread:

"As using economic models to plan how to deploy resources and staff during a pandemic, their use may also help work out how to ration limited vaccines and antiviral treatments, says Meltzer.

“If you wish to vaccinate those most at risk of death, it’s granny and grandpa at the head of a plan,” he says.

"But if this healthcare decision were to be taken on the basis of economics those of working age, 20 to 65, would be top priority. And especially the high-risk in that group, such as those with asthma.

"They would be followed by high-risk children, since the young are the economic future.

"In fact, in the US, the influenza pandemic vaccine priority list takes account of both. The top tier for receiving vaccines in the event of a pandemic is vaccine and antiviral manufacturers and medical health workers in direct contact with patients. They are then followed by those at high-risk of death over 65."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1626762/posts

[LucyT]

Uh,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617489/posts?page=1092#1092

[Oorang]

"What Happened at Bank al-Madina?"

Well that's a interesting blog posting.

Thanks for all the recent pings Cindy.

[Oorang]

Wachovia bank closes Muslim charity account

Well now, I have a feeling that Wachovia knows more than what theamericanmuslim.org press release was saying. Hmmmm.

[Smartass]

 

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Friday, May 5, 2006 5:36 p.m. EDT

Judge: Wiretap Rules 'Gobbledygook'

A U.S. appeals panel sharply challenged the Bush administration Friday over new rules making it easier for police and the FBI to wiretap Internet phone calls. A judge said the government's courtroom arguments were "gobbledygook."

The skepticism expressed so openly toward the administration's case encouraged civil liberties and education groups that argued that the U.S. is improperly applying telephone-era rules to a new generation of Internet services.

"Your argument makes no sense," U.S. Circuit Judge Harry T. Edwards told the lawyer for the Federal Communications Commission, Jacob Lewis. "When you go back to the office, have a big chuckle. I'm not missing this. This is ridiculous. Counsel!"

At another point in the hearing, Edwards told the FCC's lawyer that his arguments were "gobbledygook" and "nonsense."

The court's decision was expected within several months.

In an unrelated case last year affecting digital television, two of the same three judges determined the FCC had significantly exceeded its authority and threw out new government rules requiring anti-piracy devices in new video devices. Lewis was also the losing lawyer in that case, and Edwards also was impassioned then in his criticisms of the FCC.

In the current case, Edwards appeared especially skeptical over the FCC's decision to require that providers of Internet phone service and broadband services must ensure their equipment can accommodate police wiretaps under the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, known as CALEA.

The new rules go into effect in May 2007.

The 1994 law was originally aimed at ensuring court-ordered wiretaps could be placed on wireless phones.

The Justice Department, which has lobbied aggressively on the subject, warned in court papers that failure to expand the wiretap requirements to the fast-growing Internet phone industry "could effectively provide a surveillance safe haven for criminals and terrorists who make use of new communications services."

Critics said the new FCC rules are too broad and inconsistent with the intent of Congress when it passed the 1994 surveillance law, which excluded categories of companies described as information services.

The FCC asserted that providers of high-speed Internet services should be covered under the 1994 law because their voice-transmission services can be considered separately from information services. "Congress intended to cover services (in the 1994 law) that were functionally equivalent" to traditional telephones, Lewis said during the hearing in U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.

"There's nothing to suggest that in the statute," Edwards replied. "Stating that doesn't make it so."

The panel appeared more inclined to support the FCC's argument that Internet-phone services - which allow users to dial and receive calls from traditional phone numbers - may be covered under the 1994 law and required to accommodate court-ordered wiretaps. The technology, popularized by Holmdel, N.J.-based Vonage Holdings Corp., is known as "voice over Internet protocol," or VOIP.

"Voice-over is a very different thing," U.S. Circuit Judge David B. Sentelle said. He said it offered "precisely the same" functions as traditional telephone lines.

Edwards told the lawyer for the civil liberties groups, Matthew Brill, that on his challenge that VOIP services aren't covered under the surveillance law, "I didn't think you have it."

Education groups had challenged the FCC rules because they said the requirements would impose burdensome new costs on private university networks.

The third judge on the panel, Janice Rogers Brown, did not comment or ask any questions during the arguments.

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Edwards, Harry Thomas

Born 1940 in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. Court of Appeals for District of Columbia Circuit
Nominated by Jimmy Carter on December 6, 1979, to a seat vacated by David L. Bazelon; Confirmed by the Senate on February 20, 1980, and received commission on February 20, 1980. Served as chief judge, 1994-2001. Assumed senior status on November 3, 2005.

Education:
Cornell University, B.S., 1962

University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1965

Professional Career:
Private practice, Chicago, Illinois, 1965-1970
Professor of law, University of Michigan Law School, 1970-1975, 1977-1980
Labor arbitrator, 1971-1980
Professor of law, Harvard Law School, 1975-1977
Chairman of the board, National Railroad Passenger Corporation, 1978-1980

Race or Ethnicity: African American

Gender: Male

[MamaDearest]

***it’s granny and grandpa at the head of a plan,” he says.***

The sick and the elderly are most fragile and therefore most vulnerable. In recent norovirus events recently in Canada and Vancouver, Washington, the elderly became the fatalities.

[MamaDearest]

Nominated by Jimmy Carter

I actually read that "nauseated" by Jimmy Carter. All I had to see was that name in red!

[MamaDearest]

***Hmmmm.***

I agree - wishing I could know what the auditors at Wachovia have seen on that account. Never fear for the Muslim charity account - they have someone to CAIR for them!

[Smartass]

Good evening Mom:

Yeah, some of Lyndon Johnson, and many Jimmy Carter nominations are still creating havoc in the federal courts. Not to mention the myriad of Slick Willy's lurking behind the benches too.

I'm very unconvinced, of the claim by federal judges to be non political.   If the truth were to be known, every one of them paid for their positions.

[MamaDearest]

Off Topic: Kansas lawmakers set minimum marriage age to 15

Snip: On Thursday, the Kansas House vote 119-0 to approve a bill that would prohibit anyone under the age of 15 from marrying in Kansas and would set strict limits for would-be brides or grooms under the age of 18. The Senate approved it a day earlier, 36-4.

Juror's view jihad film found in accused's home

Snip: THE words appear in flames across the screen. "In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate," according to a translation. Then there are images of devastated towns and exploding tanks against a soundtrack of thunder and lightning.

The video is said to depict mujahideen tramping through the forest, across mountains and sliding down snowy slopes, to the sound of chanting and verses from the Koran.

Jihad's fellow travelers

Snip: One consequence is the Westerners’ loss of the sense of propriety over their lands. Before 1914, both the West and the Muslim world could define themselves against each other in a cultural sense. What this elite-mandated is to cast aside any idea of any specifically "Western" geographic and cultural space that should be protected from those who do not belong to it and have no rightful claim to it.

Pentagon surfing THOUSANDS of jihad sites

Snip: A Pentagon research team monitors more than 5,000 jihadist Web sites, focusing daily on the 25 to 100 most hostile and active, defense officials say.

The team includes 25 linguists, who cover multiple dialects of the Arabic language and provide reports on events sparking anger on extremist Web sites, Dan Devlin, a Pentagon public diplomacy specialist, said Thursday. The researchers, for instance, focused in November on the backlash caused by the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad.

Saudi cleric sees US collapsing, Muslim victory

Snip: Jihad is now taking place in Afghanistan, "Palestine," Iraq, Chechnya, Kashmir and the Philippines, he said.

Meanwhile, the sheik asserted to his audience, love for America is "now disappearing from the hearts, within America itself and elsewhere, whereas Islam is growing even within America, my brothers."

"Islam is making steady progress in America," Al-Omar said. "Twenty-five thousand people have converted to Islam every year since 9-11, and an even larger figure was mentioned in the New York Times."

The sheik cited a report "submitted by the American intelligence to the American officials, regarding the religion of Islam, which some think is defeated or weak today," saying Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world and Muslims soon will become one-third of the world's population.

[MamaDearest]

If the truth were to be known, every one of them paid for their positions.

When I think of our nation's judges, teachers and professors who instruct our youth, and politicians, all of whom should be shining examples of dignity, patriotism and fairness, it has become a troubling thought instead of one exemplyfying decency, ethics, or morality in any of these groups. Conservative teachers (like ExSoldier) seem to be far and few between.

[nicmarlo]

DUBAI CO. TAKES OVER 9 US MILITARY FACILITIES

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
May 5, 2006
NewsWithViews.com

As I warned earlier in this column, a United Arab Emirates company has been given control of some 9 U.S. military facilities. The deal is now official.

According to an AP report that ran in my hometown newspaper, The Pensacola News Journal, on Saturday, April 29, 2006, "President Bush has approved the takeover by a Dubai-owned company of American plants that make parts for jets and tanks after a review that seems to have satisfied lawmakers who helped block an earlier Dubai deal." The AP report also said, "Initial reaction from Capitol Hill was favorable."

Specifically, the Dubai company takes over control of at least nine factories, including military production facilities in Connecticut and Georgia. Dubai settled the deal for $1.2 billion.

Therefore, Dubai will now take over operations of factories that produce engine components and turbine blades for military platforms. Clients include Boeing, General Electric, Honeywell, and Pratt and Whitney. Please understand that when we talk about a Dubai company we are talking about a foreign government!

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin298.htm

[MamaDearest]

**The deal is now official. **

****Please understand that when we talk about a Dubai company we are talking about a foreign government!****

Official, passed, Green light and without a whimper from just about anyone! Can hardly wait to see what the next Dubai deal will be...(sarcasm).