LOL, I have not read all there is on this, but it is interesting.
In 1924 the Russians then living in Canada, returned to Russia, looking for a better life.
http://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/verigin/suspects/sovietgovernment/indexen.html
There is stolen dynamite, and several other pages to read.
http://canadianmysteries.ca/sites/verigin/suspects/factions/1258en.html
This is the link to Calpernia's blog, she has the article on dangers to our schools.
http://www.justwhatithink.com/blog/index.php?y=2007&m=1&d=25
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
2007-01-25 @ 12:08:15
http://www.policeone.com
Mass Slaughter in Our Public Schools: The Terrorists' Chilling Plan
By Chuck Remsberge
Probably the last place you want to think of terrorists striking is your kids' school. But according to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.
* The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they're going to do it.
* They're already begun testing school-related targets here.
* They've given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we've largely ignored and they've learned more deadly tactics from.
"We don't know for sure what they will do. But by definition, a successful attack is one we are not ready for," declared one of the instructors, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Our schools fit that description to a "T"-as in Terrorism and Threat.
continues.........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802292/posts
(Southwest Virginia) Students charged with plotting attack
The Roanoke Times ^ | March 17, 2007 | Shawna Morrison and Albert Raboteau
Posted on 03/17/2007 4:00:46 AM PDT by Perseverando
Two Auburn Middle School students were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and having a gun at school.
By Shawna Morrison and Albert Raboteau 381-1665 albert.raboteau@roanoke.com 381-1663
RINER -- Two Auburn Middle School students were charged with conspiracy to commit murder on Friday after one of them took a gun to school and they purportedly talked of shooting several people, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said.
The boys, ages 14 and 15, were taken into police custody about 9 a.m. after a student told Deputy Kirk Hendricks, the school resource officer, that the boys had a gun, said Lt. Brian Wright, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
continued...........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802359/posts
Black Panther: We Weren't About Violence; Ex-leader Seale says Party Fought Racism
Madison.com ^ | March 16, 2007 | Katrina Madayag
Posted on 03/17/2007 7:14:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
The Black Panthers tried to fight institutional racism with grass-roots action and coalition-building, not violence, said Black Panthers Party co-founder Bobby Seale at a presentation at Edgewood College Thursday night.
Donning a black beret, Seale dismissed the one-dimensional image of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense as a militant group to a crowd that filled up the bleachers and spilled out to the sidelines of the Edgedome. Seale, now 70, has written several books on the Black Panthers and has starred in a barbecue cooking show with his wife.
continued........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802367/posts
The Secret Rulers of the World: The Legend of Ruby Ridge
BBC Channel 4 Video Documentary ^ | ? | Jon Ronson
Posted on 03/17/2007 7:32:42 AM PDT by amchugh
This is one part of a five part series done for BBC Channel 4. It focusses on Ruby Ridge and the Weaver family, with some digression into seperatists, conspiracy theorists, etc...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1802304/posts
Emergency landing for Howard (Prime Minister John Howard's plane forced to land in Iraq - down safe)
news.com.au ^ | 17th March 2007
Posted on 03/17/2007 5:19:27 AM PDT by naturalman1975
Prime Minister John Howard's Hercules has filled with smoke over Iraq, forcing it into an emergency landing.
Mr Howard had visited Iraq yesterday to meet with Australian troops and US generals.
His Hercules had just left the runway on its way to Baghdad when the cockpit started filling with smoke which spread from the back of the cabin.
Mr Howard and passengers were asked to fit their smoke masks.
The Hercules dropped from just over 1500m and returned to the Talil runway, in southern Iraq.
All left the plane safely as SAS troops surrounded the plane to ward off any potential runway attacks.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
This is where I started on the Nazi in Norway last night, was checking for the dynamite links, see also the links and other info, this will take you on a merry search, that appears to be growing also.
http://www.magasinet-monitor.net/english/dynamite.htm
British and nazis:
http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/
Links to other sites/countries:
http://tumbalalaika.memo.ru/links_eng.htm
I knew that the communist gangs caused trouble, but did not know that so many countries have nazi problems.
Is it that they do not want to be left behind, with the muslims taking over?
[This from Anna P. book, it is not a surprise she was murdered, before it could be published ...granny]
Guardian: 'Fascism is in fashion' [re: Politkovskaya, "A Russian Diary"]
'Fascism is in fashion'
Murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya was fearless in her pursuit of
truth. In this shocking extract from her final book, she chronicles the
death of Russian democracy
Saturday March 17, 2007
The Guardian
December 7 2003
The day of the elections to the Duma, the [same] day Putin began his
campaign for re-election as president. In the morning he manifested
himself at a polling station. He was cheerful, elated even, and a
little
nervous. This was unusual: as a rule he is sullen. With a broad smile,
he informed those assembled that his beloved labrador, Connie, had had
puppies during the night. "Vladimir Vladimirovich was so very worried,'
Mme Putina intoned behind her husband. "We are in a hurry to get home,"
she added, anxious to return to the bitch whose impeccable timing had
presented this gift to the United Russia party.
Article continues
That morning in Yessentuki, a small resort in the North Caucasus, the
first 13 victims of a terrorist train attack were being buried. It had
been the morning train, known as the student train, and young people
were on their way to college. When, after voting, Putin went over to
the
journalists, it seemed he would express his condolences. Perhaps even
apologise for the fact the government had again failed to protect its
citizens. Instead he told them how pleased he was about his labrador's
puppies.
My friends phoned me. "He's really put his foot in it this time.
Russian
people are never going to vote for United Russia now." Around midnight,
when the results started coming in, many people were in a state of
shock. Russia had mutely surrendered herself to Putin.
Reports we received from the regions show how this was done. Outside
one
of the polling stations in Saratov, a lady was dispensing free vodka at
a table with a banner reading "Vote for Tretiak", the United Russia
candidate. Tretiak won. One opposition candidate twice had plastic bags
containing body parts thrown through his window: somebody's ears and a
human heart.
December 8
Were we seeing a crisis of Russian parliamentary democracy in the Putin
era? No, we were witnessing its death. In the first place, the
legislative and executive branches of government had merged and this
had
meant the rebirth of the Soviet system. The Duma was purely decorative,
a forum for rubber-stamping Putin's decisions.
In the second place the Russian people gave its consent. There were no
demonstrations. The electorate agreed to be treated like an idiot. The
electorate said let's go back to the USSR - slightly retouched and
slicked up, modernised, but the good old Soviet Union, now with
bureaucratic capitalism where the state official is the main oligarch,
vastly richer than any capitalist. The corollary was that, if we were
going back to the USSR, Putin was going to win in March 2004. It was a
foregone conclusion.
December 23
Ritual murders are taking place in Moscow. A second severed head has
been found in the past 24 hours, this time in the eastern district of
Golianovo. It was in a rubbish container. Yesterday evening, a head in
a
plastic bag was found on a table in the courtyard on Krasnoyarskaya
Street.
Both men had been dead for 24 hours. The circumstances are almost
identical: the victims are from the Caucasus, aged 30-40 and have dark
hair. Their identities are unknown. Such are the results of racist
propaganda in the run-up to the parliamentary elections. Our people are
very susceptible and react promptly.
December 26
Putin does not simply lack competitors. The whole background is an
intellectual desert. The affair has no logic, no reason, no sparkle of
genuine, serious thinking. Candidate No 1 knows best and requires no
advice. There is nobody to moderate his arrogance. Russia has been
humiliated.
December 28
Ivan Rybkin has announced he will stand [against Putin]. He is the
creature of Putin's main opponent, Boris Berezovsky, now in exile
abroad. Rybkin used to be the speaker of the Duma and chairman of the
National Security Council. Who is he today? Time will tell.
January 6 2004
Those at the top and bottom of our society might as well be living on
different planets. I set off to see the most underprivileged of all:
Psycho-Neurological Orphanage No. 25 on the outskirts of Moscow. The
surroundings here are warm and clean. The patient carers are kind, very
tired, overworked women. Everything here is good, except that the
children don't cry. They are silent or they howl. There is no laughter.
When he is not grinding his teeth, 15-month-old Danila is silent,
peering attentively at the strangers. He does not look at you as you
would expect of a 15-month-old baby; he peers straight into your eyes,
like an FSB interrogator. He has catastrophically limited experience of
human tenderness.
The wave of charitable giving in Russia stopped in 2002 when the Putin
administration revoked tax privileges for charities. Until 2002,
children in our orphanages were showered with gifts and new year
presents. Now the rich no longer give them presents. Pensioners bring
them their old, tattered shawls.
Meanwhile, our nouveau riche are skiing this Christmas in Courchevel.
More than 2,000 Russians, each earning over half a million roubles
[£10,000] a month, congregate for the "Saison russe". The menu offers
eight kinds of oysters, the wine list includes bottles at £1,500, and
in
the retinue of every nouveau riche you can be sure of finding the
government officials, our true oligarchs, who deliver these vast
incomes
to the favoured 2,000. The talk is of success, of the firebird of
happiness caught by its tail feathers, of being trusted by the state
authorities. The "charity" of officialdom, otherwise known as
corruption, is the quickest route to Courchevel.
January 16
The body of Aslam Davletukaev, abducted from his home on January 10,
has
been found showing signs of torture. He has been shot in the back of
the
head. Aslan was a well-known Chechen human rights campaigner. Our
democracy continues its decline. Nothing in Russia depends on the
people; Putin is resuscitating our stereotype: "Let us wait until our
feudal lord comes back. He will tell us how everything should be." It
has to be admitted that this is how the Russian people likes it, which
means that soon Putin will throw away the mask of a defender of human
rights. He won't need it anymore.
February 6
8.32am: there has been an explosion in the Moscow metro. The train was
heading into the city centre during the rush hour when a bomb exploded
beside the first door of the second carriage. Thirty people died at the
scene, and another nine died later from their burns. There are 140
injured. There are dozens of tiny, unidentifiable fragments of bodies.
More than 700 people emerged from the tunnel, having evacuated
themselves without any assistance. In the streets there is chaos and
fear, the wailing sirens of the emergency services, millions of people
terrorised.
At 10.44 the Volcano-5 Contingency Plan for capturing the culprits was
implemented, more than two hours after the explosion. Who do they think
they are going to catch? If there were any accomplices they will have
fled long ago. At 12.12 the police started searching for a man aged
30-35, "of Caucasian appearance". Very helpful.
February 7
Ivan Rybkin has disappeared. A bit of excitement in the election at
last. His wife is going crazy. On February 2, Rybkin harshly criticised
Putin and his wife believes that did for him.
February 9
No details have yet been established of the type of bomb used in the
metro. Putin keeps repeating, as he did after Nord-Ost [the attack by
Chechen militants on a Moscow theatre in 2002, which ended with 130
hostages killed when special forces gassed and stormed the building],
that nobody inside Russia was responsible. Everything was planned
abroad. A day of mourning has been declared but the television stations
barely observe it. Loud pop music and cheerful TV advertisements make
you feel ashamed.
Two of those who died are being buried today. One is Alexander
Ishunkin,
a 25-year-old lieutenant in the armed forces. His Uncle Mikhail
identified his body in the mortuary. Seven years ago Alexander's father
was killed, and since then Alexander had been the very dependable head
of the family. Even in issuing his death certificate the state can't
refrain from dishonesty: the box for "Cause of death" has been crossed
through. Not a word about terrorism.
February 10
Rybkin has been found. A very strange episode. At midday he announced
he
was in Kiev. He said he had just been on holiday there with friends and
that, after all, a human being has a right to a private life! Kseniya
Ponomaryova promptly resigned as leader of his election team. His wife
is refusing to talk to him. In late evening he flew into Moscow from
Kiev, looking half-dead and not at all like someone who has been having
a good time on holiday. He was wearing women's sunglasses and was
escorted by an enormous bodyguard. "Who was detaining you?" he was
asked, but gave no reply. He also refused to talk to the investigators
from the Procurator's Office who had been searching for him. It was
later announced he might withdraw his candidacy. In St Petersburg,
skinheads have stabbed to death nine-year-old Khursheda Sultanova in
the
courtyard of the flats where her family lived. Her father, 35-year-old
Yusuf Sultanov, a Tadjik, has been working in St Petersburg for many
years. That evening he was bringing the children back from the Yusupov
Park ice slope when some aggressive youths started following them.
In a dark connecting courtyard leading to their home the youths
attacked
them. Khursheda suffered 11 stab wounds and died immediately. Yusuf's
11-year-old nephew, Alabir, escaped in the darkness by hiding under a
parked car. Alabir says the skinheads kept stabbing Khursheda until
they
were certain she was dead. They were shouting, "Russia for the
Russians!" The Sultanovs are not illegal immigrants. They are
officially
registered as citizens of St Petersburg, but fascists are not
interested
in ID cards. When Russia's leaders indulge in soundbites about cracking
down on immigrants and guest labourers, they incur the responsibility
for tragedies such as this.
Fifteen people were detained shortly afterwards, but released. Many
turned out to be the offspring of people employed by the
law-enforcement
agencies of St Petersburg. Today, 20,000 St Petersburg youths belong to
unofficial fascist or racist organisations. The St Petersburg skinheads
are among the most active in the country and are constantly attacking
Azerbaijanis, Chinese and Africans. Nobody is ever punished, because
the
law-enforcement agencies are themselves infected with racism. You have
only to switch off your audio recorder for the militia to start telling
you they understand the skinheads, and as for those blacks ... etc,
etc.
Fascism is in fashion.
February 11
The Candidate Rybkin soap opera continues. Before this, Rybkin had the
reputation of being a meticulous person, not a heavy drinker and even
slightly dull. "Two days in Kiev" are very much out of character.
Rybkin
reports that after he disappeared he spent a certain amount of time in
Moscow Province at Woodland Retreat, the guest-house of the
Presidential
Administration. He was taken from there and found himself in Kiev. He
says further that those controlling him compelled him to call Moscow
from Kiev and talk lightheartedly about having a right to a private
life.
February 12
Alexander Litvinenko in London and Oleg Kalugin in Washington, former
FSB/KGB officers who have been granted political asylum in the west,
have suggested that a psychotropic substance called SP117 may have been
used on Rybkin. [Litvinenko died in London last November after being
poisoned.] This compound was used in the FSB's counter-intelligence
sections and in units combating terrorism, but only in exceptional
cases
on "important targets". SP117 is a truth drug that prevents an
individual from having full possession of his mind. He will tell
everything he knows. These statements will not save Rybkin. Putin has
won this round against Berezovsky, now his sworn enemy, but his pal in
the late 1990s.
February 13
Ivan Rybkin has announced that he will not be returning from London. A
defecting presidential candidate is a first in our history. Nobody now
has any doubt that the regime drugged him.
February 15
The Sultanovs, the family of the little girl Khursheda who was murdered
by skinheads in St Petersburg, have abandoned Russia and gone to live
in
Tajikistan. They took a small coffin containing the child's remains.
March 5
Everything is being reduced to absurdity. The appointment of [Mikhail]
Fradkov as prime minister by the Duma deserves an entry in the Guinness
Book of Records. 352 votes in favour of a man who, when asked what his
plans for the future were, could only blurt: "I have just come out of
the shadow into the light." Fradkov is a man of the shadows because he
is a spy. We have a truly third-rate prime minister. The country is
sinking into a state of collective unconsciousness, into unreason.
March 12-13
Silence and apathy. Nobody can be bothered to listen to the drivel
coming from the television. Let's just get it over with.
March 14
Well, so he's been elected. By and large, the concept of ruling the
country by the same methods used in conducting the "anti-terrorist
operation" has been vindicated: L'Etat, c'est Putin.
· In G2 on Monday: Politkovskaya's devastating report on the Beslan
school hostage disaster; and on Tuesday, her interview with Ramzan
Kadyrov, the Chechen warlord suspected of involvement in her murder.
Extracted from A Russian Diary, copyright © Anna Politkovskaya 2007.
English translation copyright © Arch Tait 2007. Published by Harvill
Secker next month at £17.99. To order a copy for £16.99 with free UK
p&p
go to guardian.co.uk/bookshop or call 0870 836 0875
Serbian police crack down on alleged Muslim terrorist group, arrest 4
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/17/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Terrorism.php
Serbian police crack down on alleged Muslim terrorist group, arrest 4
The Associated Press
Published: March 17, 2007
BELGRADE, Serbia: Serbian police said Saturday they discovered the
training camp of an alleged Muslim terrorist group in a tense southern
region, and arrested four Serbian Muslims.
In a statement, the police said they found several tents and a cave
that
allegedly served as a training ground for the Wahhabis — an austere
brand of Sunni Islam promoted by extremists, including Osama bin Laden
and his al-Qaida fighters.
The camp was located on a mountain near Novi Pazar, in the center of
the
predominantly Muslim region of Sandzak along the border with Bosnia and
Montenegro, police added.
In a dayslong operation, the police found large quantities of plastic
explosives, ammunition, face masks, military uniforms, bombs, food,
water and other equipment, the police statement said.
Also found were "propaganda terrorist material, military survival
instructions, geographic charts and several CDs," the police added.
Four
people were arrested, all from Novi Pazar, while one person managed to
escape, the statement said.
The police statement did not specify whether the alleged terrorist
group
was planning any attacks in Serbia or elsewhere, or whether it had ties
to other Islamic terrorist groups.
Western intelligence reports leaked recently have suggested that
Sandzak, as well as Muslim-dominated regions in neighboring Bosnia,
could be an ideal recruitment spot for the so-called "white al-Qaida"
—
Muslims with Western features who could easily blend into European or
U.S. cities and execute terrorist attacks.
Several incidents have been reported in Sandzak within the Muslim
community, with the Wahhabis accusing local Muslim clerics of failing
to
practice "true" Islam, and disrupting prayers at local mosques.
No terrorist attacks have been reported.
Book on Cuban spy sparks call for report
http://www.miamiherald.com/416/story/44113.html
Posted on Fri, Mar. 16, 2007
Book on Cuban spy sparks call for report
BY PABLO BACHELET
pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com
WASHINGTON --A new book on convicted Cuban spy Ana Belén Montes
prompted calls by lawmakers Friday for the Bush administration to
reveal more on the damage done by a spy who may have caused the death
of a U.S. green beret.
Miami Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen said Montes ''may well turn
out to be one of the most notorious spies to infiltrate'' the Defense
Intelligence Agency, where she worked as the top Cuba analyst with
access to secret documents and intelligence gathering methods for
years.
Ros-Lehtinen and fellow Miami Republican Reps. Lincoln and Mario
Diaz-Balart have requested ''a top to bottom assessment'' of the
damage caused by Montes, who was arrested shortly after the Sept. 11,
2001 attacks.
''Our questions are simple,'' they said in a joint statement. ``How
many reports did Montes write? How much influence did she have on the
final reports the policymakers read? The persons she met with? What
was the extent of her spying?''
In his new book True Believer, Scott W. Carmichael, the senior
counterintelligence investigator for the DIA, suggests Montes was at
least ''partially responsible'' for the death of Army Sgt. Gregory
Fronius, a green beret who died in a battle with leftwing guerrillas
that overran a Salvadoran army camp in 1987.
The book, which was cleared by the DIA, is unusual because Carmichael
is an active agent who investigated Montes for five years before her
arrest. He told The Miami Herald Friday that he wanted to raise public
awareness on the threat posed by Cuban intelligence services and their
ability to penetrate the U.S. government.
''They run those people as agents right under our noses without [our]
detecting them,'' he said. ``That's what makes them good.''
His book says that Montes visited a Salvadoran army camp known as El
Paraíso just weeks before the guerrillas attacked it on March 31,
1987. Fronius was killed in the battle.
''I cannot blame her for his death because there is no hard evidence
to directly connect her to his death,'' he told the Herald. ``There is
circumstantial [evidence] to suggest that she provided some input that
contributed to his death.''
At the time, Montes was an intelligence analyst on Central America and
met with Cuban intelligence operatives every two weeks.
The book's proceeds will go to Fronius' son and daughter.
The lawmakers said they believe Havana shares intelligence with U.S.
foes like China, North Korea, Iran, Russia and Venezuela.
''Our intent is to make sure that every U.S. policymaker is aware of
the great harm Ms. Montes caused to our nation and to try and stop any
other Cuban agents from divulging our secrets to our enemies,'' they
said.
The U.S. intelligence community's damage assessment report on Montes'
activities is classified.
Intelligence officials believe Montes provided Cuba with detailed
information on U.S. eavesdropping programs against the Castro
government, allowing Havana to mount effective counterintelligence
operations for years. She is now serving a 25-year prison term.
Taliban extend hostage deadline
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2F7EB2A1-EFA4-480D-BD90-842D29176965.htm
Taliban extend hostage deadline
The Taliban have extended its deadline to kill a kidnapped Italian
journalist by three days to Monday to give Rome more time to respond
to the group's demands.
Mullah Hayatullah Khan, a Taliban spokesman, said: "We are extending
the deadline for three days from Friday.
"We will wait for the response in regard to our demands."
Khan said there had been "contacts" for Daniele Mastrogiacomo's
release, but did not elaborate.
On Friday, the Taliban killed one of the two Afghans seized alongside
Mastrogiacomo, saying "he was confirmed to be a spy for foreign
military forces".
On Saturday, the UN mission in Kabul appealed to the abductors to
"show their humanity" by releasing him and his colleagues.
"Mr Mastrogiacomo is a well-known journalist whose sympathies for the
people of Afghanistan should be beyond doubt to anyone," a UN
spokesman said in a statement.
The La Repubblica reporter and his two colleagues were seized in the
southern province of Helmand and the Taliban claimed that he had
confessed to spying for British troops.
Contact made
Massimo d'Alema, the Italian foreign minister, asked on Friday for
more time to negotiate Mastrogiacomo's release.
"The complex affair ... needs time," he said.
D'Alema denied that the Italian government was negotiating with the
Taliban, but said that contact had taken place via "humanitarian
sources".
"Even the other side has perceived that an initiative is under way to
find a solution," D'Alema said, without naming the Taliban.
"I want the other side to understand that the situation needs a
reasonable time to develop and obtain the desired results."
The Taliban had said that the Italian and his Afghani translator would
be released if the Kabul government agreed to release three Taliban
prisoners.
Mastrogiacomo appeared in a video, released on Wednesday, appealing to
the Italian government to work for his release.
Source: Agencies
http://www.khq.com/global/story.asp?s=6242115
FBI might be called after college instructor gets death threats
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Police in the northern Idaho city of Coeur d'Alene say they will likely ask the FBI for help in investigating e-mail death threats made against a North Idaho College instructor.
Coeur d'Alene police Sergeant Christie Wood says the threats were sent to the e-mail account of Jessica Bryan from people across the country.
Bryan is a part-time instructor who teaches English 102, a class where she says she uses outlandish examples of opinions as a way to spark discussion in the class that focuses on critical thinking and persuasive writing.
But she offended one student who asked for her money back after Bryan allegedly making negative comments about Republicans.
That student, Linda Cook, says she is appalled by the death threats against her former instructor.
(The Associated Press contributed to this story.)
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6228526&nav=menu438_2
Explosive found in repossessed car
POST FALLS, Idaho - Wednesday morning Post Falls police were called after an explosive device was found in a repossessed vehicle at Green Acres Auto Sales, at 2835 West Seltice Way.
Police were told the vehicle was repossessed one month ago, and during an inventory an employee found the device in a woman's purse.
Police officers secured the area and notified the Spokane Bomb Squad. The bomb squad determined it was in fact and explosive device and removed it from the area.
Post Falls Police will be continuing the investigation on the vehicle's owner and the where the device came from.
http://www.khq.com/Global/story.asp?S=6205380&nav=menu438_2
Marshall's office sealed off after suspicious vial delivery
1:55 p.m. LEWIS COUNTY, Idaho - Police have determined that vials found inside a suspicious package in a donation box Thursday pose no threat of contamination.
Around 5 p.m. Thursday a Kamiah deputy received two bags containing dozens of small vials labeled with different names including: Hepatitis A, Influenza, Diphtheria, and TB.
Apparently the items were put in a donation box in Kamiah, discovered by an employee, and then taken to the police. The Lewis County Sheriff's Office and a HAZMAT team from Lewiston responded, sealing off the Kamiah Marshall's office.
Tests found no dangerous organisms or threat of contamination. The items appeared to be part of a homeopathic kit people would use to immunize themselves. Lewis County Sheriff's Office says there is very little to no danger of any contamination.
Lewis County Sheriff Phil Steen was pleased with the emergency response, saying, "Our emergency community really pulled together and were quickly able to assess the situation, receive almost immediate test results, and safely say there is no danger."
Vietnam to consider freeing journalist - Post
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070317/3/2z2ss.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_World&set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=nw20070317163453610C774014
Saturday March 17, 10:42 PM
Vietnam to consider freeing journalist - Post
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vietnam has agreed to consider releasing an
imprisoned journalist, after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
raised his case in a discussion on human rights, the Washington Post
reported on Saturday.
It said Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Khiem said in an interview with
the Post that Vietnam would consider amnesty for the journalist, who
has been held since 2002 and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
Rice raised the case of Nguyen Vu Binh, 39, in the meeting on
Thursday. He was arrested after posting articles on the Internet and
accused of "spying" for passing information to overseas Vietnamese
groups, the newspaper said.
Family members have said the journalist's health in prison has
deteriorated. The Post quoted Kristin Jones of the Committee to
Protect Journalists as saying Binh suffers from high blood
AP: Passerby killed, 3 police wounded in shooting in Dagestan's capital
Passerby killed, 3 police wounded in shooting in Dagestan's capital
The Associated Press
March 16, 2007
MAKHACHKALA, Russia: A passerby was killed and three police wounded in
a
shooting attack on a police vehicle in the capital of the restive
Russian region of Dagestan, authorities said Friday.
The shooting took place late Thursday in Makhachkala, when three men
armed with assault rifles jumped out of a car that police had been
following and opened fire, the republic's Interior Ministry said.
Police had demanded the car stop for a documents check, but the driver
initially refused, then stopped unexpectedly, the ministry said. A man
standing nearby was killed and the assailants fled, the ministry said.
Dagestan is plagued by violence, some of it seen as a spillover from
neighboring Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been fighting
Russian
soldiers for most of the past dozen years
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/chechnya-sl/
Iran develops new air defence system
Iran develops new air defence system
Agence France-Presse - 17 March, 2007
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The Iranian military has developed a new air defence system with a
boosted
ability to hit targets by firing two missiles simultaneously, state
radio
said on Friday.
"This new air defence system which can shoot one or two missiles
simultaneously... has been designed by army ground forces and tested
successfully," the radio said.
"It has high mobility and flexibility, and can pursue aerial targets in
any
climate. Simultaneous firing increases the chances of defence missiles
hitting" their targets, it added.
Iran is heading for a showdown with the UN Security Council over its
disputed nuclear programme, which the West fears could be diverted
towards
weapons development.
Teheran vehemently denies the charges, insisting that its atomic
programme
of uranium enrichment is peaceful in nature.
Iranian leaders have repeatedly said the country's armed forces are
ready
for any eventuality in the current nuclear stand-off.
"If our bullying enemy wants to do something insane, it will surely be
taken
by surprise," army chief Major General Ataollah Salehi said on Friday,
in
remarks quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
The United States, which accuses Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon, has
never
ruled out a military option to halt Teheran's atomic drive.
Israel also considers the nuclear programme to be an "existential
threat"
after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeatedly called for the
Jewish
state to be wiped off the map.
Its Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said Israel did not "rule out"
taking
military steps against Iran.
Israel is believed to be the region's sole if undeclared nuclear power.
Airplane makes emergency landing in Moscow
MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - A passenger jet has made an emergency
landing at a Moscow airport, an emergency service official said
Thursday.
The twin-engine Tu-204 aircraft, which is capable of carrying 210
people,
was en route to the Far East city of Khabarovsk Thursday evening when
it had
to return to Domodedovo Airport after an airborne equipment failure,
according to preliminary information.
The Domodedovo Airport press service cited Dalavia, a Far Eastern
airline
that owns the jet, as saying there were 142 people on board.
"Nobody was injured during the emergency landing," said Viktor Beltsov,
the
official spokesman for the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
He said experts were checking the technical condition of the airliner.
"Presumably, its engines were in order, and its equipment issued a
false
failure signal," Beltsov said.
But the Ministry of Transportation said engine failure was the cause of
the
emergency landing.
"At an altitude of 2,400 meters [7,870 feet], a malfunction of the
right
engine occurred, and the crew decided to burn off fuel and land at
Domodedovo Airport," the ministry's press service said.
The service said the airliner's design allowed it to make a successful
landing even with only one engine working.
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070315/62080918.html
Man accused of belligerent behavior on flight
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A man accused of becoming belligerent and
claiming
he had a gun in his carry-on bag after a flight attendant stopped
serving
him alcohol was scheduled to appear in court Friday.
James Joseph Egan was being held until a detention hearing on a charge
of
interfering with the duties of a flight attendant.
Egan was returning to his home in San Diego on Monday after attending
his
mother's funeral when he become belligerent, according to a criminal
complaint. Authorities say he had been drinking and the Southwest
Airlines
flight attendant stopped serving him.
Egan spoke loudly, threatened to assault passengers and crew members,
and
said he had a gun in his carry-on luggage, the complaint said. The
plane,
flying from Pittsburgh to Phoenix and then San Diego, was diverted to
the
Amarillo airport.
During questioning, authorities say, Egan told them he had 12 beers and
admitted to being disruptive during the flight. He told authorities he
was
simply "calling the bluff" of the flight attendant who wouldn't serve
him
anymore alcohol.
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FAA issues emergency AD on B737-800 SFP spoiler actuator jams
The FAA issues an emergency AD for Boeing 737-800 SFP airplanes after
reports of seven flight spoiler actuator jams on 737-800 Short Field
Performance (SFP) airplanes. Two reports involved in-service airplanes
that
were discovered during a routine maintenance walk-around and were
believed
to have occurred on the previous landing during auto speedbrake
extension.
Five other reports occurred during spoiler system testing at Boeing
prior to
delivery. (FAA)
http://www.airweb.faa.gov/Regulatory_and_Guidance_Library/rgAD.nsf/NewEmerge
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ATSB releases final report into Boeing 777 in-flight upset event
In August 2005, Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-2H6ER 9M-MRG suffered an
in-flight upset en route from Perth to Kuala Lumpur. A safe landing was
made
back in Perth. The Australian ATSB concluded that a contributing safety
factor was that an anomaly existed in the component software hierarchy
that
allowed inputs from a known faulty accelerometer to be processed by the
air
data inertial reference unit (ADIRU) and used by the primary flight
computer, autopilot and other aircraft systems. Other safety factors
identified were: 1) The software anomaly was not detected in the
original
testing and certification of the ADIRU; and 2) The aircraft
documentation
did not provide the flight crew with specific information and action
items
to assess and respond to the aircraft upset event. (ATSB)
ATSB Occurrence 200503722
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