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FBI seeks man in subway mercury spill (Los Angeles)
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"We don't think it was intentional, he wasn't at the apartment that day," Moss said.
The above was stated by Detective Delrish Moss of the Miami Police Department. I'm speechless.
Radical cleric sparks fury in Australia
1/18/2007, 2:51 p.m. ET
By MERAIAH FOLEY
The Associated Press
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) — A radical Australian cleric drew widespread condemnation Thursday over a series of videos in which he encourages children to become martyrs for Islam and ridicules Jews as pigs.
Sheik Feiz Mohammed, head of the Global Islamic Youth Center in western Sydney, made the remarks on a series of video lectures for sale in Australia and overseas.
"We want to have children and offer them as soldiers defending Islam," the Australian-born cleric said in one video broadcast on Australian television.
The lectures were denounced as offensive by Australian government leaders and as not helpful by the head of the Islamic Friendship Association. The chief of the opposition Labor Party called them an incitement to terrorism.
In one video, the cleric said many parents were stopping their children from attending Islamic lessons for fear that they "might create a place in their hearts, the love, just a bit of love, of sacrificing their lives for Allah."
"Teach them this: There is nothing more beloved to me than wanting to die as a mujahid," or holy warrior, he added. "Put in their soft, tender hearts the zeal of jihad and a love of martyrdom.".
He also ridicules Jews as pigs, snorting and saying they will go to hell.......[MORE]
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/base/international-1/1169150341242740.xml&storylist=international
Chemical Reactions Taught
Updated: 20:11, Thursday January 18, 2007
One of the alleged July 21 bombers studied chemistry at college, where he would have been taught about rates of reaction for substances, their trial has heard.
Yassin Omar, who is accused with five others of trying to target London's transport network, took a GNVQ intermediate course from 1998 to 1999.
Omar would have learnt how different factors, such as temperature, could increase the chemical rate of reaction of substances, Woolwich Crown Court was told.
After the alleged failed bomb attacks in July 2005, notes from a GNVQ intermediate chemistry course were found at Omar's home - the alleged "bomb factory" in New Southgate, north London, it was said.
They included a description of the components of fertiliser and the ionic bonding of magnesium oxide, and made references to other substances including silver nitrate and barium chloride.
"In the name of Allah" was also written on one of the pages, the jury heard.
The six accused Omar's Enfield College chemistry teacher, Ann Obatomi, told the southeast London court that when he took the course, the syllabus included "looking at the effects of temperature, the use of catalysts, to increase the rate of reaction".
Mrs Obatomi said hydrogen peroxide could be used to investigate rates, and it was used in a very diluted form in the college laboratory.
Omar took four hours of chemistry a week but at the end of the academic year, in summer 1999, his attendance tailed off and he failed the course, it was said.
Earlier, the prosecution said it was unclear if the suspects' bombs failed to detonate because they had been manufactured incorrectly or because of hot weather on July 21 affecting the chemicals.
Omar, 26, Muktar Said Ibrahim, 28, Ramzi Mohammed, 25, Hussain Osman, 28, Manfo Kwaku Asiedu, 33, and Adel Yahya, 24, all deny charges of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life. The trial continues.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-13563579,00.html?f=rss
THANK YOU Jeff for the free download.
Smiling back at you.
Thanks for that update Velveeta.
I appreciate it.
I wonder if he left the area already.
Thanks for the update, Oorang.
You're welcome and good Thursday to you Cindy.
Thanks for pointing to this article/update.
From your article on page two:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Australian federal police said it would investigate the videos to determine whether the sheik had breached laws against sedition and inciting acts of violence.
It is the latest in a string of controversies sparked by some of Australia's top Muslim leaders."
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico: Someone has stolen a fake nuclear bomb, according to its owner.
The faux 500-pound (225-kilogram) nuke was somehow hefted from a Los Alamos salvage store, the Black Hole, the Los Alamos Monitor reported in Thursday editions. The store is run by Ed Grothus, a Los Alamos peace activist who sells salvage from Los Alamos National Laboratory and other places.
Grothus said he bought several so-called "practice bombs" in Oklahoma about three years ago. He said he last saw it Monday morning, but he noticed it was gone when he was ready to go home that evening.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/18/america/NA-ODD-US-Fake-Bomb.php
2 "suspicious devices" found in northeast EP, Police seek suspect
Jan 15, 2007
EL PASO, Tx. - El Paso Police, Emergency crews and Fort Bliss officials go on alert after two suspicious devices are found buried in a northeast El Paso neighborhood.
Officials tell ABC-7 a driver called authorities shortly after 10am Sunday to report a man burying a suspicious object near the intersection of Justus and Pierce. The location was just down the street from William Beaumont Army Medical Center. According to authorities, the same man buried another object, about a block and a half up the road from the first device.
The El Paso Police Department, Fire Department, Fort Bliss Military Police and officials with the Department of Defense were then dispatched to the area to investigate. When they arrived, crews quickly determined that the devices appeared to be "possible explosive in nature." Crews cordoned off several blocks around Pierce and police officers told area residents not to leave their homes.
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=5938195
Bomb blasts in Hub, Mastung (Pakistan)
January 18, 2007 Thursday Zilhaj 27, 1427
QUETTA, Jan 17: Two powerful bombs exploded in Hub and Mastung, while rockets were fired at two security checkposts in the Karmo-Wadh area of Kahan tehsil and the Pat Feeder area of Nasirabad district on Wednesday.
Police foiled an attempt to blow up a pylon of power transmission line by defusing two bombs in the Mastung area. According to officials, a bomb was planted beneath a 12-inch diameter pipeline supplying gas to the Hub area that exploded in the Public Health Engineering Colony near the Lasbela Canal area. The pipeline was damaged but gas supply was not interrupted.
Another bomb exploded in an isolated place in the Mastung town late night. No serious damage or casualty was reported. Police defused two powerful bombs planted under a pylon of transmission line in a village, some 10km off Mastung on the RCD Highway.
Meanwhile, militants fired eight rockets at a checkpost of the Frontier Corps in the Karmo-Wadh area of Kahan tehsil. But they exploded in an open area. The militants also attacked a checkpost in the Pat Feeder area of Nasirabad district. "At least eight rockets were fired but none of them hit the target," police said.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/01/18/top11.htm
I wonder if those "practice bombs" can be filled?
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive recovered a huge quantity of explosives, jehadi books, cassettes and CDs from Mohidpur at Savar Thursday morning.
According to confessional statements of Aiyubur Rahman, who was arrested earlier, RAB members raided the house of Ainal Haque in the area. Sensing the presence of RAB members, the militants managed to escape.
The recovered explosives include 10 bodies of grenade, substantial amount of bomb-making chemicals, 500 ml of chloroform, 2.5 liters of sulphuric acid, power-gel, a map of Dhaka, jehadi books and CDs.
http://nation.ittefaq.com/artman/publish/article_33423.shtml
Colombia rebel bomb hits local Nestle milk plant
Thu 18 Jan 2007
BOGOTA - Colombian guerrillas exploded a car bomb at a milk storage plant run by a local Nestle S.A. subsidiary , injuring one man and severely damaging the facility, police said on Thursday.
Rebels waited for the last delivery trucks to enter the plant in southern Caqueta province on Wednesday night before driving in a jeep carrying explosives, National Police Col. William Orrego said. One man was injured as workers fled.
"It wiped out about 55 to 60 percent of the plant," Orrego said, blaming the bomb on Colombia's largest rebel group, the FARC.
Excerpted
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=N18482434&WTmodLoc=World-R5-Alertnet-4
ExSoldier, do you know anything about "practice bombs"? Check out the article titled "Fake nuclear bomb stolen from Los Alamos scrap yard" in post #1032. Thanks.
I'm only posting a link as it's CNN. Additional information in the link and also a link to watch the surveillance video.
That's good news that the devices were fakes.
The bad news is that the suspect was able to plant
the fakes and it makes one wonder if that was a test.
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from your article in post no. 1032 regarding "2 'suspicious devices'"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "After careful examination of both devices, officials concluded they were actually a fakes. EPPD Spokesman Chris Mears tells ABC-7, "They were both designed in a way to, anyone that was to look at them that wasn't an expert, would think they probably were."
EPPD investigators are looking for the person who caused the scare. They say he is a white man in his 40's, wearing a baseball cap and blue jeans. They believe he was last seen driving south on Alabama street in a newer model gray vehicle.
Officials are asking anyone with any information to call CrimeStoppers at 566-TIPS."
WASHINGTON - Authorities in the region are looking for weapons and other equipment stolen from FBI vehicles. The equipment was taken from two FBI vehicles Sunday morning while the cars were parked with other government vehicles on a storage lot on Capitol Hill. FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman says the cars were among 20 vehicles parked in the lot that were vandalized at that location.
Weapons were among the FBI equipment taken from the scene,Weierman says. She refused to be more specific about the types of weapons and other equipment that were taken. Security cameras reportedly captured images of five suspects, but the incident remains under investigation. The FBI has informed several local and federal law enforcement agencies of the theft.
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=596&sid=1036223
"and other equipment..."
Wonder what that was.
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