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Posted on 10/01/2006 5:29:13 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Bookmarking.
Any word on Aaron yet?
Nothing yet, Palladin.
Congregation robbed during church (Chicago)
Three armed men held up a church congregation during evening services in the Lawndale neighborhood on the city's West Side tonight, Chicago police said.
None of the about 40 parishioners was injured in the robbery, which occurred around 8:20 p.m. at the Israel of God's Church at 3737 W. 18th St., according to a Harrison Area detective who asked not to be named. (snip)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061018church-robbery,1,5664018.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Pardon or not: Debate rages in cyberspace
NEW DELHI: Afzal debate has reached cyberspace. The nationwide debate on whether Parliament attack conspirator Mohammed Afzal — whose mercy petition is pending before the President — should be hanged or not has led to a feverish signature campaign on the Internet. (snip)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2201304.cms
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Gitmo Terror Suspect Sends Kin a Message
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - The Red Cross said Thursday it had passed a message from an alleged Southeast Asian terror chief held at Guantanamo Bay to his family in Indonesia.
It was the first time the detainee Hambali has been allowed to contact his family since his arrest in Thailand in 2003, said Marcal Izard, a local spokesman for the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross. (snip)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6156894,00.html
Snippets: U.S. officials have also announced that the United States, Bahrain, Kuwait, France and Britain will conduct a joint naval exercise in the Persian Gulf Oct. 31 to practice halting ships carrying weapons of mass destruction and missiles and missile technology.
According to the study, a terrorist attack on cruise ships and ferries could kill and injure massive numbers of passengers and cause serious financial losses.
Report co-author Henry Willis added: "Focusing solely on securing the container supply chain without defending other parts of the maritime environment is like bolting down the front door of a house and leaving the back door wide open."
The authors report that while the most spectacular maritime disaster would involve detonating a nuclear weapon, most likely smuggled into a major U.S. port in a shipping container, the possibility of such an attack is far lower than for other types of attacks, arguing that bomb or chemical weapons attacks on passenger ferries or cruise ships are more probable.
Now that sounds like a timely exercise.
PROPAGANDA On The Net...
http://press-release.blogspot.com/
http://albayanat.blogspot.com/
Note: The following text is a quote:
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013641.php
Jihad Watch: not suitable for airport viewing
This morning I was in an airport, waiting to board a plane to come to speak at Ohio State University, which I just did. My flight was delayed, so I opened up the laptop and began to work. Not too long after I began, however, I was approached by two very kind but unmistakably forceful policemen. They explained that they had been told that I was looking at a website about jihad, and they'd like to ask me a few questions.
Of course I was able to explain to them that I was on their side, and that was the end of the matter. But there were a few things that I did not do:
1. Complain about the profiling of swarthy men with black beards.
2. Whine about discrimination.
3. Claim that law enforcement had obviously declared open season on anti-jihad activists.
4. Threaten to sue.
5. Call the ACLU.
I'm glad I was questioned. It shows someone was on the ball -- obviously there was no way to tell from a glance at my screen that Jihad Watch is part of the anti-jihad resistance. I'm glad that political correctness and fear of "profiling" didn't keep the police from approaching me.
Muslims who may find themselves subjected to extra scrutiny at airports should, if they have nothing to hide and truly abhor jihad terrorism as we are told again and again that they do in overwhelming numbers, likewise cooperate with alacrity with authorities.
And in the airport next time I will find a seat against the wall.
Posted by Robert at October 18, 2006 09:41 PM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1722042/posts
"Woman shoots would-be burglar in Canyon Country (CA)"
LA Daily News ^ | October 18, 2006 | ALEX DOBUZINSKIS
Posted on 10/18/2006 9:34:20 PM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CANYON COUNTRY - A woman shot a gang member Wednesday who had broken into her Canyon Country home while his mother waited outside in the getaway car, sheriff's deputies said.
The 29-year-old suspect, whose wounds were not life-threatening, snapped the lock on the homeowner's screen door and barged in, as the woman retreated to the back yard, gun in hand, according to a sheriff's report.
"To be honest it's fairly rare, but occasionally it does pay off to own a gun," sheriff's Lt. Tom Bryski said.
When suspect Mike Lugo of Palmdale approached the woman about 10:45 a.m. through her back door, yelling at her as he advanced, the woman shot him with a Smith & Wesson .38-caliber revolver. Frightened, she hit him twice in the abdomen and once in the leg, missing a fourth shot, Bryski said.
Lugo manage to run from the Canvas Street street house and got into the Dodge Intrepid, his mother, Cynthia Brandon, behind the wheel, Bryski said.
Brandon, 55, drove off, but the Palmdale resident didn't know where a local hospital was, Bryski said. So she flagged down a sheriff's deputy speeding by on Soledad Canyon Road and Deep Creek Drive. The deputy was responding to the victim's 911 call.
The victim, who was not identified for her protection, was within her rights, shooting Lugo in self defense, Bryski said."
Snip: Two Iranian men have been arrested on federal charges of violating the US embargo against Iran in 2005, according to a statement released by US Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylorl
Babak Maleki, 28, of Los Angeles, California, and Shahram Setudeh Nejad, 53, of Newport Beach, California, were arrested and presented on October 5, 2006, before a federal judge in California.
Following their removal hearing on October 12, 2006, the two defendants were ordered to appear in US District Court for the District of Columbia on November 2, 2006, for their arraignment before the Judge John D. Bates.
The men have been charged in a previously sealed two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”), and the Iranian Transactions Regulations (“ITR”), and making an unlawful export in violation of IEEPA and the ITR. Also charged in the indictment is Mojtada Maleki-Gomi, 57, of Los Angeles, California. Maleki-Gomi is currently in Iran.
According to the indictment, Babak Maleki and Mojtada Maleki-Gomi did business as M&M Investment Co... (“M&M”) of Beverly Hills, California. M&M sold and exported textile machinery and other commodities. Nejad worked for M&M in coordinating and facilitating exports and sales.
In or around July 2005, a cooperating source for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) made an inquiry to M&M in response to an advertisement on a website that Babak Maleki had posted seeking to sell a type of textile machinery known as Knitde- Knit (“KDK”) equipment. Nejad responded to the inquiry and, after learning that the cooperating source and an undercover agent wanted to ship the textile machinery to Iran, he put the government agents in contact with Mojtada Maleki-Gomi.
Maleki-Gomi explained to the undercover agent how he was able to evade the US embargo against Iran by shipping commodities to Iran through Dubai, United Arab Emirates. During the fall of 2005, Nejad and Maleki-Gomi worked on the logistics of sending a container of 30 KDK machines to Iran through Dubai.
On December 7, 2005, the container with the KDK machinery that M&M had sold to the undercover agent left the United States for Dubai. A short time later, US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) recalled the container and detained it.
Amen!
The Jihad Against the West: The Real Threat and the Right Response
http://www.objectivistconferences.com/fordhall06/
Conference in Boston Oct. 20-22
http://www.objectivistconferences.com/fordhall06/events.htm
Thanks FairOpinion for the info.
Possibly somone in the area may be interested and will be able to attend. Sounds like a very interesting conference.
If I had known about it earlier, I might have tried to attend, but as it is, I can't.
This forum has a lot of lurkers.
Maybe somebody will attend and give us a report.
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=alamoudi
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=abdurahmanalamoudi
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/October/04_crm_698.htm
"ABDURAHMAN ALAMOUDI SENTENCED TO JAIL
IN TERRORISM FINANCING CASE"
WASHINGTON, D.C.
(October 15, 2004)
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/alamoudi_clinton.jpg
"Abdurahman Alamoudi with President Clinton, Vice President Gore"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52519
"Terror suspect contributed
to school 'religion guidelines'
Issued by Clinton, rules let students
pray to Allah, but banish Christmas"
Posted: October 19, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A man arrested as a terror suspect for allegedly trying to transport $340,000 from a group tied to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, and who reputedly had connections to Osama bin Laden, helped write the "Religious Expression in Public Schools" guidelines issued by President Clinton during his tenure in office.
And that could explain why students at a California school were told as part of their required classes they would become Muslims and pray to Allah – and a federal judge approved that, and why an Oregon school this year is delivering similar lessons to its students, as WND has reported.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was president of the American Muslim Council and a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah, worked with President Clinton and the American Civil Liberties Union when the guidelines, launched by Clinton in 1995, were being developed, according to reports.
Those are the same guidelines that the ACLU's Nadine Strossen referred to for authority when supporting organization lawsuits to restrict Christmas celebrations and the removal of the Nativity from public display, the reports said."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23007_TV_Spot_Counters_Jihad_Propaganda&only
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
"TV Spot Counters Jihad Propaganda"
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ON THE NET...
http://www.noterror.info/OurCampaign-arb.aspx?ID=281&MID=114&PID=111
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
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