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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Funny how "and Christians" was left out of the article's title yet the first sentence clearly states:
"Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.
Nevertheless, good post.
I agree...
The title is misleading. whereas, Christians should have been included. But, make no mistake though, Christians and Christianity are the Mad Mullahs targets too. Their hate, rants and writtings always speak of Jews, and Christians as being in lock step with Satan!
At first sight it looks like a regular cell phone — same size, same shape, same overall appearance.
But beneath the digital face lies a .22-caliber pistol, a phone gun capable of firing four rounds in quick succession with a touch of the otherwise standard keypad.
The US Department of Homeland Security and the FBI are aware of the device and have instructed baggage screeners to be on the lookout for suspicious mobile phones. This is especially after 9/11.
European law enforcement officials — stunned by the discovery of these deadly decoys — say phone guns are changing the rules of engagement in Europe.
Airport authorities across Europe are implementing systems to X-ray all cell phones.
“We find it very, very alarming,” says Wolfgang Dicke of the German Police union. “It means police will have to draw their weapons whenever a person being checked reaches for their mobile phone.”
The FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the U.S. Customs Service say they’ve been briefed on the new weapons.
“This criminal invention represents a potentially serious threat to law enforcement and the public,” said U.S. Customs Service Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly.
“We received word about these guns last month. We have since alerted our field personnel to be on the lookout for ‘cell phone guns’ at U.S. ports of entry.”
Guns on the Move
These new covert guns were first discovered in October when Dutch police stumbled on a cache during a drug raid in Amsterdam.
In another recent incident a Croatian gun dealer was caught attempting to smuggle a shipment through Slovenia into Western Europe.
Police say both shipments are believed to have originated in Yugoslavia.
Interpol sent out a warning to law enforcement agencies around the world.
European border police and customs officers are at a heightened state of alert at all ports, airports and border crossings.
Realistic Appearance
‘If you didn’t know they were guns, you wouldn’t suspect anything,” said Ari Zandbergen, spokesman for the Amsterdam police.
“Only when you have one in your hand do you realize that they are heavier,” says Birgit Heib of the German Federal Criminal Investigation Agency.
The guns are loaded by twisting the phone in half. The .22-caliber rounds fit into the top of the phone under the screen. The lower half, under the keyboard, holds the firing pins. The bullets fire through the antenna by pressing the keypad from numbers five to eight.
Amsterdam police says they are very sophisticated machines constructed inside gutted cell phones which do not light up or operate as real phones.
“These are very difficult to make. We believe experts are involved,” says Zandbergen.
U.S. authorities, including the FBI, ATF, Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Customs Service Authority have been supplied detailed information and pictures of these new weapons.
“They’ve been given a heads up,” said Jim Crandall, ATF spokesman.
To date no phone guns have been discovered either in the United States or in the process of being smuggled in, authorities say. But they know it’s only a matter of time.
FAA spokeswoman Rebecca Trexler said airport security officers had been trained to deal with this new threat.
“We don’t want to tell the bad guys exactly what we’re looking for,” she says, “We are trying to stay one step ahead.”
Will Affect Travelers
Airport authorities across Europe are implementing systems to X-ray all cell phones, those procedures will likely be followed by airports around the world.
“This is just one more item that we need to pay special attention to because nowadays, of course just about every passenger carries a mobile phone,” says the spokesman for Frankfurt airport security.
Customs officials in the U.S. say their safety procedure has normally been to require travelers to turn their phones on, however that may no longer be enough. Cell phone users will have to be made aware that reaching for their phones in some circumstances could be misinterpreted as a threat by authorities.
Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
HOLY #$%!
"Antiquated technology! Q-Branch has had those for years!"
Oh, come on...a .22 caliber? What ya gonna do with that...piss an Air Marshall off? ROTFLMAO!
Thanks for the video. It seems highly unlikely that all rounds emerge through the antenna. Maybe one round, but the rest appear to be in parallel chambers from which they are fired.
http://www.internet-haganah.com/hmedia/18may06-gimf-chinese.jpg
Note: The following text (minus the graphic) is a quote:
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005607.html
19 May 2006
SLOW NEWS DAY OR WHAT?
Does anyone have a good explanation for why the Global Islamic Media Front is translating news stories about Chinese nuclear power projects?
Posted on 19 May 2006 @ 10:07
ON THE NET...
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http://rabdullah.net
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http://www.islamapex.com
Thank you very much!
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http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=IA27506
Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 275
May 17, 2006 No.275
"Al-Tajdeed Versus Al-Hesbah: Islamist Websites & the Conflict Between Rival Arab & Muslim Political Forces"
Did you see this one yet?
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/05/17/bombsdagestanschool.shtml
#####Six Bombs Found on School’s Sports Ground in Russian Dagestan
Created: 17.05.2006 11:16 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:16 MSK
Six trinitrotoluene (TNT) blocks were found on the sports ground of a school in the Dagestani town of Kizilyurt, believed to be the target of a school hostage seizure, sources from the republic’s Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
According to the sources, bombs ware found when specialists were checking the school and its compounds after an operation to liquidate two gunmen had been completed.
“A scheme of the school with ways of approach to it plotted was found in the pocket of one of the killed gunmen,” they added. According to operation information “militants were planning to seize the school and take hostages,” they stressed.
Two militants so-called Emir of the Buinaksk Zone, Ibragim Ibragimov and Abdulmajid Kabashilayev, were wiped out in a special operation held in Kizilyurt on Tuesday. Eleven policemen, two staffers of the emergencies ministry and a local resident were wounded, one officer of police task force was killed in the operation.
The rebels had blockaded themselves in an apartment in Kizilyurt, a town northwest of the local capital, Makhachkala. Special forces surrounded the block of flats and stormed the building.
Both killed militants are on the federal list of wanted criminals for a number of terrorism-related crimes. On May 6 they managed to escape, when a special operation was held in the Buinaksk district of Dagestan.
The poor and mainly Muslim North Caucasus is a hotbed of violence and instability. Gun battles are common in Dagestan, a patchwork of ethnic groups and powerful clans that neighbors Chechnya, where separatist guerrillas have fought Russian rule for more than a decade.
Ok, let's try this again and I promise I'll get some coffee soon.
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Thanks to a Special Freeper for freepmailing these links:
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http://blog.lauramansfield.com/2006/05/19/federal-judge-blocks-prayer-at-high-school-graduation-ceremony.aspx
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http://www.whas11.com/education/stories/WHAS11_TOP_SchoolPrayer.549dba28.html
"Student questions constitutionality of prayer"
06:09 PM EDT on Thursday, May 18, 2006
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http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4925927&nav=0RZF
"Federal Judge Blocks Prayer At High School Graduation Ceremony"
(LOUISVILLE)
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