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Posted on 01/02/2007 7:23:18 PM PST by nwctwx
Upates on this incident appreciated.
I wonder what the name is of the cited trucker.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014702.php
January 05, 2007
US man hid brother's intent to be suicide bomber
Indicating perhaps a certain ideological sympathy. From AP, with thanks to Kemaste:
A grocer of Palestinian descent pleaded guilty to misleading FBI agents about his brother's intentions to leave the United States for Israel and become a suicide bomber.
On the day before his trial, Muhammad Subeh, 43, acknowledged in US District Court he deceived federal agents when he denied seeing a letter from his brother that indicated he was going home to the West Bank to join the Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
Prosecutors said Subeh destroyed the letter, but not before investigators had the opportunity to photocopy it and have it translated.
Posted by Robert at January 5, 2007 04:17 PM
I hope 2007 is very, very good to you.
I wonder if we'll ever know. Seriously, I'll keep a look out for more updates.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1741897/posts
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NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014704.php
January 05, 2007
CAIR monitors airport treatment of Muslims
The Council on American Islamic Relations continues its campaign to stigmatize all scrutiny of Muslims in airports as discrimination. From UPI, with thanks to Web:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A U.S. Muslim organization said Thursday it was monitoring the treatment of American Muslims returning from the hajj pilgrimage.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations said it would be organizing interviews with American Muslims who were coming home from the annual pilgrimage to Mecca "to spot-check their treatment by airport security personnel and border protection authorities."
CAIR said an estimated 10,000-15,000 American Muslims went on the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia this year. The group set up a toll-free hotline for travelers who felt that their civil rights had been ignored or over-riden.
Posted by Robert at January 5, 2007 04:47 PM
Thanks Oorang.
BETHLEHEM -- A train tanker car holding 22,000 gallons of highly explosive methanol caught fire at the CSX rail yard in Selkirk Thursday night, prompting an evacuation of about 50 homes. The tanker car had been near about 25 others containing methanol -- and some cars also contained the flammable ethanol -- but the flames did not spread, police said. The blaze started shortly after 7 p.m and was under control by 10 p.m., police said.
Homes within a half-mile radius were evacuated as a precaution, said Lt. Tom Heffernan of the Bethlehem Police Department. "If that (car) exploded it could cause the others to," he said, noting it was concerns of vapors, not fire, that convinced authorities to evacuate homes. "If it's inhaled, it's a toxic fume," he said. The Bethlehem Town Hall was opened to residents displaced by the fire but only one person took advantage of the offer, according to police. South Albany Road in Selkirk was closed to traffic as firefighters worked, as were several other smaller roads.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=550739&category=REGION&newsdate=1/5/2007
It's frankly sickening and madening all at the same time.
Our border is a sieve, who knows what's coming across. Of course we've discussed all the possibilities..terrorists, sickness and low class bottom feeders that are driving this country into a third world nation as fast as possible.
Those who are stopped here by police [if they can even ask them anything] are let go to do who knows what like this guy and yes what was his nationality? If and when he does his deed, then we will know who he is like we do atta et al and obl etc.
Warya Kanie, 39, an Iraqi Kurd, came to Australia about three years ago with his young daughter as part of the humanitarian refugee program to join his three brothers, who were already living in Adelaide.
Mr Kanie, who had divorced his wife, was living in a housing trust apartment on unemployment benefits and receiving additional benefits as a single father. A member of the Australian Iraqi community, who spoke to The Weekend Australian on condition of anonymity, said Mr Kanie was a Sunni and "had extremist views".
Mr Kanie left Adelaide about seven months ago, after gaining Australian citizenship, telling his family that he was going to look for a new wife in Iraq. But he allegedly told a friend that he was leaving Australian "to go on jihad".
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21017088-2,00.html
Tehran Admits Building Underground Atomic Deposits
Tehran, 5 Jan. - The president of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Reza Aghazadeh, admitted Friday that Iran has built underground tunnels to use as deposits for nuclear material. "Right now we have 250 tons of Uf6 (the gas obtained by treating mineral uranium, which is transformed into enriched uranium by inserting it in centrifuges connected to a cascade) deposited in a network of underground tunnels which can't be found anywhere else in the world," he said.
"Each month we put new material and machines worth millions of dollars in these tunnels, as well as in our nuclear installations," Aghazadeh added.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.373899776&par=
Somalia: Kenyans Arrest Somali MPs Opposed To Ethiopian Military Intervention
Mogadishu, 5 Jan. - Police in Kenya have arrested 10 Somali parliamentarians critical of their government's decision to seek the aid of Ethiopian troops to drive Islamists out of the capital Mogadishu, a Somali radio station reported Friday. According to Radio Shabelle it is not clear why the MPs who were visiting the Kenyan capital Nairobi where they were detained following a police raid at their hotel.
Radio Shabelle also said it was unable to confirm if one of those arrested was Somali parliamentary speaker, Sherif Hassan, who in recent weeks ahead of the Ethiopian military operation had attempted to negotiate with the Union of Islamic Courts, provoking the ire of Somali premier Mohammed Gedi.
Ethiopian troops backed by fighters loyal to the Somalia's transitional government led by Gedi occupied Mogadishu last week.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.373815342&par=0
ADDING 1 link )to monitor) to post no. 192.
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&client=news&q=Theodoros-Papadopoulos&ie=ISO-8859-1&spell=1&oi=spell&scoring=d
Hamburg, 5 Jan. - A court in Hamburg on Friday began hearings in the sentencing of Moroccan national Mounir el Motassadeq for his role in the 11 September, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities. The first person to be convicted over 9/11 attacks, Motassadeq faces up to 15 years in jail after the Federal High Court in November convicted el Motassadeq of being a member of a terror network and of being an accessory to the murder of passengers on the four hijacked planes. Two were flown into the World Trade Centre in New York, one into part of the Pentagon and the fourth crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside.
In 2003, the Hamburg court found el-Motassadeq, 32, guilty of abetting multiple murder and belonging to a terrorist organisation in connection with the 9/11 attacks. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but won an appeal against his conviction in the German Federal High Court in March 2004. His conviction was later upheld, but his sentence was reduced to only 7 years in prison because he was found guilty of being a member of a terror network but not of the murder charges.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=
Italy: Government To Control Foreign Funding Of Mosques
Rome, 5 Jan. - Italian interior minister Giuliano Amato has announced government controls on foreign funding of mosques. "The creation of mosques with money sent from abroad is unacceptable," Amato was quoted as saying on Friday by the Italian media. "There is something I don't like about this and I want to understand who funds what." There are approximately 1.2 million Muslims in Italy, of whom 20,000 are Italian converts.
The Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII), the largest Muslim group in Italy, and other Muslim organisations have invested two million euros in the past few years to buy 13 mosques across Italy - sparking allegations that part of the money came from fundamentalist foreign groups.
Amato suggested Italy could import the French model to control foreign funds with the "institution of a partly state-owned foundation where the money funding religious and civil initiatives is funnelled."
He also called for more controls on "Islamic schools which must respect national quality standards especially as far as teachers are concerned."
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.373657791&par=0
Yep, and I wonder where the package was sent from. That should be interesting.
er...interesting, too.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2602
Iraqi Forces Rescue Hostages, Detain Suspects, Capture Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2007 – Iraqi soldiers freed two hostages, detained 10 suspects, and seized a weapons cache in several recent incidents throughout Iraq, coalition officials said.
Soldiers of the 2nd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, freed two hostages held by insurgents during a raid yesterday in eastern Baghdad, U.S. military officials said.
The raid also uncovered a weapons cache, including mortars, 60 mm mortar rounds, 130 mm projectiles encased in concrete, homemade bombs and blasting caps.
A day earlier, Iraqi army special forces captured four suspects during operations in Sadr City, a Baghdad neighborhood, officials said. The suspects are believed to be leaders of a kidnapping and murder cell responsible for the deaths of Iraqi civilians.
The Iraqi-led operation, with coalition advisors, targeted men suspected of violence against innocent Iraqis, including kidnapping, illegal trials and executions. They also are suspected of organizing and directing sectarian-based mortar attacks on neighborhoods surrounding Sadr City.
Iraqi forces detained three additional people for questioning.
On Jan. 2, 1st Iraqi Army Division forces, with coalition advisors, captured the suspected leader of an insurgent cell during operations in Ramadi, officials said. The suspect is thought to be responsible for trafficking weapons and homemade bombs used in attacks against Iraqi civilians and security forces.
Officials said the insurgent cell is believed to be using a section along the banks of the Euphrates Canal as a staging area for explosives and weapons handling and distribution. The cell also is suspected of coordinating and conducting small-arms and bomb attacks in the Ramadi area.
Iraqi forces detained two additional suspects for questioning.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
(MOGADISHU) — Somali government troops backed by Ethiopians prepared Friday to launch a major assault on the last stronghold of Islamic movement militiamen. U.S. warships patrolled off the Somali coast to prevent militiamen from escaping by sea. The U.S. 5th Fleet said in a statement Thursday that coalition ships were boarding vessels as part of the effort to deny an escape route to al-Qaida suspects believed working with the Somali Islamic movement.
Somali and Ethiopian force captured a southern town near the Kenyan border Thursday evening. Col. Barre "Hirale" Aden Shire, defense minister in the U.N.-backed transitional government, said Islamic militiamen were dug in with their backs to the sea at Ras Kamboni at the southernmost tip of Somalia.
"Today we will launch a massive assault on the Islamic courts militias. We will use infantry troops and fighter jets," said Shire, who left for the battle zone Friday. "They have dug huge trenches around Ras Kamboni but have only two options: to drown in the sea or to fight and die."
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http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article19601
UK Muslim guilty of soliciting murder
January 5, 2007
A British Muslim was convicted today of soliciting murder by calling at a London demonstration for the United States and Denmark to be bombed.
Umran Javed (27) was also convicted at a London court of inciting racial hatred during the protest last February against the publication of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Mohammad. He faces a jail sentence and will be sentenced at a later date.
Prosecutors said there was no doubt Javed had intended to incite murder and racial hatred. "If you shout to your audience 'bomb, bomb Denmark, bomb, bomb USA', there is no doubt what you intend your audience to understand," said prosecuting lawyer David Perry.
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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0105/breaking67.htm
MOGADISHU, Somalia - January 5, 2007 - Islamic fighters hiding in Mogadishu since their movement's main force was driven from the Somali capital say they will heed al-Qaida's call for guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings against Ethiopian troops whose intervention was key to the Islamists' defeat.
"I am committed to die for the sake of my religion and the al-Qaida deputy's speech only encourages me to go ahead with my holy war," 18-year-old Sahal Abdi told The Associated Press, referring to an audio message posted on the Internet on Friday.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4907030
Sanctions imposed on Iran, Syria arms suppliers
January 5, 2007
The Bush administration is imposing economic sanctions on Chinese, Russian and North Korean companies for selling missiles and weapons goods to Iran and Syria, administration officials said. The sanctions were imposed earlier this week on three Chinese state-run companies, three Russian firms and a North Korean mining company under a 2000 arms proliferation law that was renamed Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act in 2005.
Excerpted
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070104-112337-4050r.htm
Thanks, Oorang. The best blessings to you in 2007!
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