ISMAILIA, Egypt - Egyptian police seized 250 kg (550 lb) of explosives destined for smuggling into the Palestinian territories, police officials said on Tuesday.
They said the explosives were hidden in four big plastic sacks in the Rafah area near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip.
Three men were spotted next to the explosives and ran away towards the Sinai peninsula once they saw police approaching, said the officials, speaking on a customary condition of anonymity.
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Philippine troops seize al-Qaida explosives
Nov. 7, 2006
Philippine troops on Tuesday seized explosive chemicals that were allegedly to be used by al-Qaida-linked Muslim terrorists in planned bomb attacks in the country's troubled south, the military said. The chemicals, consisting of 125 kilos of ammonium nitrate, were seized aboard a truck that passed by a military checkpoint in the coastal village of Rio Hondo in Zamboanga City, 875 kilometres south of Manila, according to Major Eugene Batara.
The truck driver, identified as Jasimin Sahid, was detained for interrogation. The seizure brought to more than 900 kilos the total amount of ammonium nitrate confiscated in Zamboanga City since October.
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Jihadi Forums Tune into History Channel for Counter-Terrorism Intelligence
Recent chatter on jihadi websites has focused on monitoring the counter-terrorism strategies of the United States and its allies in the global war on terrorism. Jihadi websites and forums are studying and translating the texts of Western analysts who assess current counter-terrorism efforts. The jihadis use these self-critiques by Western analysts to find areas of weakness and tension in U.S.-led counter-terrorism strategy; through this information, they are better able to devise physical and psychological operations to exploit these weaknesses.
Additionally, their monitoring of U.S.-led counter-terrorism efforts is an attempt to lift the morale of jihadis by: showing that vulnerable points in the U.S.-led terrorism coalition exist; disseminating false analysis on the plans and intentions of those states allied against the mujahideen; and publicizing artificial casualty accounts of these states, especially those of the U.S. military.
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http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370197
Thank you Oorang.
The terrorists have been busy lately.
The people who've been fighting terrorists
have been busy lately.
Belgium plans to set up a school for imams by the end of the academic year to offer civic training to the Muslim spiritual leaders. The school, requested by the Muslim Executive in Belgium, will be run by a mufti, an Islamic scholar who is an interpreter or expounder of Islamic law. The mufti will not be allowed to issue any fatawa -- which would normally be one of his privileges -- because such decrees would violate Belgian law, the government said.
A similar structure exists in France, the Expatica news service reports. A Belgian professor will give civic training in both French and Dutch, and 15 trainers from Morocco, Turkey and Egypt will give training in Arabic, Turkish and Urdu, the national language of Pakistan. The school will be subsidized by the Belgian government, which seeks to control the foreign financing of Belgian mosques to reduce outside ideological influences on Belgian imams.
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20061108-080754-4194r.htm
UK: Policeman Demoted For Links With Extremist Islam
November 8, 2006
News from various sources, inlcuding the Daily Mail, This is London, Guardian, and the BBC reports that a UK policeman removed from duties guarding high profile public figures, is suing the Metropolitan Police. The reason for 39-year old PC Amjad Farooq being removed from the Diplomatic Protection Group (SO16 or DPG) is that he was considered a security risk.
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