Tuesday, 7/11
I noticed that too.
India has been hit hard by groups other than al Qaida though.
Snip: Managers at a local Wal-Mart forced employees to search the store after it received a bomb threat, Radio-Canada reported Monday. Some 40 nervous employees searched the store for an hour last Thursday, said Mailie Fournier, a former employee of the store. They were accompanied by six police officers.
Several employees, whose jobs don't include security, found the experience traumatic, said Mr. Fournier.
Inmate confirmed with TB at Seminole jail
Snip: Local 6 News reported that the inmate was tested when he was recently transported to the Seminole County Jail. It was not known when or where the inmate contracted tuberculosis or if any other inmates were infected, Local 6 reporter Erik von Ancken said. "What we do know is that it has an incubation period that can be eight to 10 weeks, and it is possible that the disease was contracted before coming into the facility," Seminole County sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Hoeppner said.
Potato salad sickens 135 at two Toledo area events
Snip: The Toledo-Lucas County health department was cited as saying yesterday that ontaminated potato salad that made about 100 people sick in the Bowling Green area also was the likely source of a food-borne illness that affected as many as 35 more people at two other catered events.
Alan Ruffell, the health department's director of environmental health, was cited as saying that the same potato salad that led health inspectors to Nick & Jimmy's Bar & Grill, 4956 Monroe St., was believed to have been served at an office lunch.
Phoenix seeks restoration of anti-terrorism funding
Snip: Mayor Phil Gordon is meeting Thursday with one of the country's top homeland security officials as he continues his bid to have anti-terrorism funding restored for the Phoenix metropolitan area. Gordon and Phoenix public safety officials will plead their case before George W. Foresman, Under Secretary for Preparedness with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
"We want to understand their logic, if they're willing to share it," Gordon said. "We want them to understand the reality of what Phoenix and this region is." He noted that the metro area is close to the border, has the only Air Force Base that trains F-16 fighter pilots and is home to the nation's largest nuclear power plant.
Snip: Why all the violence in Iraq? Why are people being killed? What causes sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shiites? One Iraqi official has figured it out. According to the Iraq's speaker of parliament, we should just blame the Jews. Some people say, 'We saw you beheading, kidnappings and killing. In the end we even started kidnapping women who are our honor,'" al-Mashhadani said. "These acts are not the work of Iraqis. I am sure that he who does this is a Jew and the son of a Jew."
"Devout Muslim" informer aided in Toronto arrests
Snip: A paid police informant who calls himself "an observant Muslim" infiltrated a group of men and youths arrested last month and charged with plotting to carry out bomb attacks and kidnappings around southern Ontario, CBC News has learned.
Mubin Shaikh spoke exclusively to Linden McIntyre of CBC's The Fifth Estate. (CBC) The informant, who spoke to Linden McIntyre of CBC's The Fifth Estate, is 29-year-old Mubin Shaikh, a prominent member of Toronto's Indo-Canadian Muslim community. He was born in Canada to immigrant parents.
Press reports say Shaikh will testify at the trials of the 12 men and five youths who have been charged in the case. They were arrested in early June.
Snip: "Attacks by the Zionist regime against its neighbors, notably Lebanon, Syria, and its threats against other countries in the region are due to the fact that this puppet regime cannot live normally," IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.
"This situation cannot last, and one day the protectors of the Zionist regime -- the US in particular -- will have to explain themselves and be judged by the conscience of humanity," he added.
His comments came after he warned Israel against conducting any attack against Syria -- the Islamic republic's only ally in the region.
"If Israel commits another act of idiocy and aggresses Syria, this will be the same as an aggression against the entire Islamic world and it will receive a stinging response," he said in a telephone conversation with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad.
25 Islamic newspapers form new association
Snip: Twenty-five Islamic publications in the Arab world have established a new cooperative network, Al-Jazeera reported. The newly-launched Association of the Islamic Press includes periodicals and newspapers in 12 Middle Eastern and North African countries. Its stated aims are to develop more professional journalism among Islamic publications, and to share expertise among its members.
Islamic hardliner heads for Britain
Snip: A HARDLINE Islamist cleric who government advisers wanted banned from Britain is scheduled to fly to London this weekend to attend events alongside Muslim community leaders.
The Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office considered excluding Delwar Hossain Sayeedi, an MP in Bangladesh who preaches violent hatred against the West and is accused of war crimes, last year. But despite a series of e-mail exchanges in September, his visa was never revoked and the Home Office issued no exclusion order.