Someone besides the President gets it.
Terror threat 'could last decades'
From correspondents in London
January 16, 2007
BRITISH Home Secretary John Reid predicted today that the struggle against al-Qaeda could last for as long as the Cold War.
Questioned about the threat from Islamist terrorists, Mr Reid told MPs in the lower chamber of parliament the House of Commons: "My own estimate is that this will last probably as long as the Cold War did.
"We now know that the first al-Qaeda-related plot was in the year 2000. Since then, the threat has grown.
"It is serious and it will, I believe, be with us for a generation," Mr Reid said, echoing Prime Minister Tony Blair's assessment of the terror threat.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21066668-1702,00.html
CHENGDU, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- A man was detained on Sunday at Dazhou Airport in southwest China's Sichuan Province for carrying weapon, local police said. According to the police, a pistol was found in interlayer of the man's handbag during the security check before he attempted to go aboard an Airbus 319 to Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province.
The airplane was scheduled to take off at 4:30 p.m. and delayed about one hour due to the incident. It took off at 6 p.m. The police is conducting investigation on the incident.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/14/content_5605609.htm
AM CID investigates into aircraft parts found hidden inside a cargo ship bound to KKS harbor (Sri Lanka)
1/15/2007
Harbour Police in Colombo has discovered with the help of the Sri Lanka Navy parts of an airplane hidden inside a cargo ship owned by the United National Party parliamentarian T.Maheshwaran. The UNP Tamil parliamentarian has reportedly bought the ship to transport goods to Jaffna from Colombo.
The police investigations will proceed to determine whether the parts of the aircraft are in anyway related to the air force the warring Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is slowly but steadily building in the North. Air craft in the hands of the LTTE have been considered an extremely dangerous element by the US as well as Indian intelligence for the security of the region and for the security of the world at large as far as terrorism is concerned since the terrorist group owns the worlds most advanced technology regarding suicide bombers.
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20070115_04
Couple beheaded after shot dead in Yala (Thailand)
January 16, 2007
Yala - A married couple were beheaded after they were shot dead apparently by Muslim insurgents in this southern border province Sunday morning police said. The bodies of Ging Khachaging, 39, and his wife, Ruangrong Kaewkrai, 35, were found about three metres away from their heads in a village in Tambon Taseh of Yala's Muang district.
Police said the couple were riding their motorcycle back from their rubber plantation when they were shot by insurgents. Each was shot three times on their body.
http://nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30024095