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Posted on 03/01/2007 8:28:33 PM PST by nwctwx
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Yep...
http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/032807kvuehighrisefire-cb.d8c87b2.html
http://www.kvue.com
Just spoke to my cousin. She's safe and at home. Said it is really windy there today. That won't help the fire.
http://www.barnettimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1292643.0.boobytrap_bomb_to_destroy_evidence_of_july_21_attack.php
"‘Booby-trap bomb to destroy evidence of July 21 attack’"
By Marcus Dysch
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A booby-trap bomb was laid in a New Southgate flat, ready to blow up the whole block, as part of a plotted terrorist attack, a court has heard.
Six men are on trial at Woolwich Crown Court, accused of plotting the attack on London's transport network on July 21, 2005.
Last week, the court was told the ringleader, Muktar Ibrahim, 29, rigged up the device at Curtis House, in Ladderswood Way, so that police would be killed or injured when searching the ninth-floor flat. The bomb was intended to explode if a sideboard drawer was opened, it was claimed."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The court previously heard that four bombs had been made at Omar's New Southgate flat. It is claimed only good fortune' prevented the high explosive TATP detonator from igniting the main charge of liquid hydrogen peroxide mixed with chapatti flour.
The failed bombings on July 21, 2005, were designed to be bigger and better' than those carried out on July 7, 2005, in which 52 people died, the court heard.
Ibrahim, of Farleigh Road, Stoke Newington; Asiedu, of Finsbury Park, and Omar appear with three other defendants. All deny conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause explosions likely to endanger life.
The trial continues.
7:12pm Wednesday 28th March 2007"
Firefighter trapped on 5th floor, they went window by window with the ladder breaking through. They have him, the paramedics are waiting below with the guerney.
"They have him..."
Thank you WestCoastGal.
He's still at the top of the ladder, see the cable Fox has it on now.
Trying to get him down, seems difficult.
Good news.
It's been windy all over Texas today.
We had really bad weather the other day and more coming in tomorrow.
We had rain, fog, hail, lightening, and thunder today. We have a winter storm warning for tonight...........and we are jumping with joy! We really need the moisture, in any form.
Thanks to RDTF for the ping to this post.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808416/posts
Race horses a target in Hong Kong? (Terrorism?)
International Herald Tribune ^ | March 26, 2007 | Keith Bradsher
Posted on 03/28/2007 4:57:15 PM PDT by RDTF
HONG KONG: It was a device worthy of Rube Goldberg or Wile E. Coyote: a dozen remote-controlled launching tubes secretly buried in the turf at Hong Kong's most famous horse race track last week, armed with compressed air to fire tiny, liquid-filled darts into the bellies of horses at the starting gate.
No horses were hurt, because the track supervisor noticed something underfoot before racing started, discovered the elaborate mechanism concealed by grass-colored tape and called in a police bomb squad to remove it.
But the discovery of the device, equipped with elaborate electronic controls, has raised concerns about security during the six Olympic equestrian events to be held in Hong Kong next year.
Few security experts expect a terrorist incident during the 2008 Olympics. But Hong Kong is a far more open, less-controlled city than Beijing, where most of the Olympic events will be held.
The equestrian events will not be held at the 162-year-old Happy Valley Racecourse, where the mysterious device was found, but at Hong Kong's other race track, in Sha Tin, just north of the Kowloon Peninsula.
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"The official website of the BEIJING 2008 Olympic Games - Games of the XXIX Olympiad"
"8-24 August 2008"
"Beijing 2008
One World One Dream"
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"Official website of the Olympic Movement"
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http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=%22Al-Shaalan%22&scoring=d
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As he had diplomatic status, customs officers did not inspect the baggage."
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/administration/afp-news.html?id=070328171135.ggwbnn2d&cat=null
28/03/07 18h12 GMT+1
AFP News brief
"Saudi prince tried in France on cocaine running charges"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A Saudi prince went on trial in his absence Wednesday accused of using his diplomatic immunity to smuggle two tonnes of cocaine into France.
Prince Nayef Bin Fawaz Al-Shaalan is one of 10 people facing charges relating to a shipment that allegedly arrived on his private Boeing 727 at a Paris airport eight years ago.
None of the accused, who include three Colombian drug-traffickers already convicted in the affair in the United States, were present in the courtroom in the Paris suburb of Bobigny.
Prince Nayef, a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founding monarch Abdulaziz, was represented in court by his twin brother and the lawyer Jacques Verges, who specialises in high-profile briefs.
The prince is alleged to have made contacts with Colombia's Medellin cartel via a woman whom he met while studying at the University of Miami in the 1980s.
According to the prosecution, in May 1999 he arranged for the cocaine to be packed in briefcases and flown with him to Le Bourget airport outside Paris where it was picked up by aides. As he had diplomatic status, customs officers did not inspect the baggage."
I believe that's where it was.
We have it in our TM archives.
Yes, this is interesting.
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stepping back in time...
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Blast Kills Chechen Leader, Russian Gen. [31 killed]
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, May 09, 2004 | SERGEI VENYAVSKY
Posted on 05/09/2004 1:52:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Blast Kills Chechen Leader, Russian Gen.
2 minutes ago
By SERGEI VENYAVSKY, Associated Press Writer
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia - A land mine exploded in Chechnya (news - web sites) Sunday during a World War II ceremony, killing Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov and a senior Russian military commander, the Chechen Interior Ministry said.
An Interior Ministry official speaking on condition of anonymity said at least 10 people were killed and up to 100 wounded in the blast in Grozny, the Chechen capital.
A Chechen Interior Ministry officer said that Kadyrov — the Moscow-backed leader of the rebel region — died of wounds 30 minutes after the explosion, and that Gol. Gen. Valery Baranov, head of the Joint Army Command of the North Caucasus, died at the scene.
The explosion happened underneath a VIP-seating area during a Victory Day ceremony in a stadium in Grozny, the capital, that was attended by senior Chechen officials. An Associated Press photographer at the scene said numerous people were injured.
Russia's NTV television broadcast footage of the seating section collapsing into a jagged hole of torn wooden planks, sending up a plume of brown smoke.
Panicked people dressed in their Sunday best clambered over the seating bleachers. One man was shown carrying a bloodied child, while men in uniform dragged a man covered in blood away from the broken seating area. Shots rang out into the air.
Sergei Kozhemyaka, a duty officer at the Emergency Situations Ministry in southern Russia, said the stadium was quickly evacuated. Kozhemyaka said that a second land mine was found near the VIP seats. Russia's Echo of Moscow radio reported that numerous people were detained.
Russia marks the Allied victory over the Nazis every May 9 with military parades and fireworks around the country.
Security was especially tight across Russia. In 2002, a bomb exploded during a Victory Day military parade in the Caspian Sea port of Kaspiisk, killing 43 people, including 12 children.
Russian troops have been fighting Chechen insurgents from much of the last decade. The latest war began in September 1999. Despite superior numbers and fire power, Russian troops have been unable to uproot the rebels from their mountainous hideouts or banish them entirely from Grozny.
That's it.
Thanks.
Thanks MamaD. Sounds like Odum, Georgia is a place to watch.
Oh great, here we go again. Thanks for the post Cindy.
You're welcome Oorang.
It must be getting to be spring time.
You're welcome Jet Jaguar.
http://www.satp.org
http://www.saag.org
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http://www.saag.org/papers22/paper2185.html
Paper no. 2185
27.03.2007
"LTTE'S AIR STRIKE---AN ASSESSMENT -INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO.211"
by B.Raman
UPDATE:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070328-115324-2328r.htm
"Saudi king hits U.S. in Iraq"
March 29, 2007
From combined dispatches
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi King Abdullah, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East, yesterday slammed what he termed the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of neighboring Iraq and called for an end to the "unjust" U.S.-backed financial blockade of the Palestinian government.
In a rare public spat, both the White House and State Department quickly rejected the king's description of the U.S. mission in Iraq."
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000963.html
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3382241,00.html
"Rejecting peace plan is like asking for war, say Saudis
Saudi foreign minister says that Israel will put its fate in the hands of war mongers if it turns down peace initiative; Both sides must want peace equally, he says"
Ynet
Published: 03.28.07, 12:08 / Israel News
Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Tuesday that if Israel rejects the Arab peace proposal, its fate will be determined by the "lords of war."
He said this in an interview to the British Daily Telegraph ahead of the Riyadh Arab League Summit, starting Wednesday.
According to the Saudi peace initiative, all Arab countries will officially recognize Israel in return for its withdrawal from all land occupied in the 1967 war."
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BOTTOM LINE:
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Palestinian PM says no compromise on refugee rights
Published: 03.28.07, 12:25 / Israel News
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh urged Arab leaders meeting at a summit in Riyadh on Wednesday not to compromise on the Palestinian refugees' right to return to their homes in what is now Israel.
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