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MUGNIYAH ping and pointing to this post by Oorang:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1793738/posts?page=299#299
(Post no. 299)
TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S.): "Argentina accuses Iran of responsibility for the Hezbollah terrorist attack which destroyed Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, 1994. The Argentinean Attorney General's office announced it had found Iran responsible for the terrorist attack and an Argentinean judge issued arrest warrants for seven senior Iranians and one senior Hezbollah member" (November 14, 2006) (Read More...)
"Is that a oxymoron?"
Not in my book.
You stated it perfectly.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=liquidexplosives
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http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=13228
"Liquid explosives found South Lebanon"
3/3/2007 2:00:00 PM GMT
"Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "After nearly six months of extensive search by U.S. and European intelligence agencies for lethal "liquid explosives", that followed a foiled plot to attack passenger aircraft on flights across the Atlantic, the Lebanese authorities reported having uncovered 31 chemical explosive charges in south Lebanon.
Each of the 31 confiscated explosive devices is made of two tubes filled with blue liquid, fitted on a board and connected to a timer-detonator, said one source demanding anonymity.
The confiscated sets included "sophisticated electro-chemical timers-detonators that can be timed to explode after as late as 124 days," a police communiqué said, according to Naharnet."
http://www.fbi.gov/page2/march07/wmd030507.htm
"WMD THREATS
How We Respond"
03/05/07
Adding 2 links to post no. 290:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1793738/posts?page=290#290
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http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3b7_1173233271
(Suspicious Iraqi National Arrested At LAX)
(March 6, 2007)
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Note: Includes Video.
http://ktla.trb.com/news/ktla-suspiciouspkg,0,2079823.story?coll=ktla-home-1
"Iraqi Man Caught at LAX with Weird Item in Body Cavity"
(March 6, 2007, 6:01 PM PST)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070306-1.html
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=3281
"Bush Discusses Emergency Funding For War"
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 6, 2007
Thanks Oorang.
Adding 1 link - a thread to go with your post no. 297.
Thanks for the ping F15 Eagle to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796422/posts
"Dead Russian reporter was investigating arms sales to Iran, Syria"
AFP via Yahoo! ^ | Tue Mar 6, 3:13 PM ET | AFP
Posted on 03/06/2007 5:58:25 PM PST by F15Eagle
MOSCOW (AFP)
http://news.google.com/nwshp?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wn&q=thallium&scoring=d
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.tltnews.net/2007/03/07/american-women-poisoned-in-moscow
American women poisoned in Moscow · 03/07/2007 11:49
Two American women are being treated in a Moscow hospital for thallium poisoning, BBC reported.
Their condition is described as “fairly serious”. They were staying at a Moscow hotel and fell ill on 24 February, but the circumstances are not yet clear.
Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio said doctors had confirmed that the women, a mother and daughter aged 42 and 26, had been poisoned with highly toxic thallium.
According to Kommersant, FSB thinks the poisoning is an attempt to cover up theft traces, the victims’ jewellery was stolen.
49-year-old Marina Kovalevskaya and her 26-year-old daughter Yana emigrated from the USSR to the U.S. in mid-1980s, and settled in Los Angeles. However, they often visited Moscow to see their relatives and friends. Their last visit to Russia began in February. They were staying in Grand Marriott hotel.
The women felt unwell after a party on February 23. Marina Kovalevskaya called American Clinic next morning at 5 a.m. and complained that she and her daughter “have strong pain and numbness in their legs”.
Then they were brought to American Medical Center by ambulance. Yet, the Center’s doctors could not make the precise diagnosis.
Thallium was initially suspected in the poisoning of former Federal Security Service agent Alexander Litvinenko, before it was realised that the toxin was polonium-210.
Adding 1 link to post no. 310:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796576/posts
"American women poisoned in Moscow (thallium)"
TLTnews.net ^ | 03/07/07
Posted on 03/07/2007 12:53:10 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
American women poisoned in Moscow
03/07/2007 11:49
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=terroristfinancing
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/03/follow_the_money_challenges_an.php
"Follow the Money: Challenges and Opportunities in the Campaign to Combat Terrorism Financing"
By Matthew Levitt
(March 6, 2007)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27260
"Muslims Against Jihad"
By Walid Phares
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 7, 2007
Adding to post no. 313:
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24723_CAIRs_Attack_on_the_Secular_Islam_Summit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUJErMA4d9Q&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Flittlegreenfootballs%2Ecom%2Fweblog%2F%3Fentry%3D24723%5FCAIRs%5FAttack%5Fon%5Fthe%5FSecular%5FIslam%5FSummit
"Secular Islam Summit Exposed on the Glenn Beck Show"
(Added March 05, 2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=china
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796587/posts
"China says aircraft carrier possible by 2010: paper"
Reuters ^ | 03/07/07
Posted on 03/07/2007 2:09:50 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07030032.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Thirty-Four Chinese House Church Leaders and Three Church Leaders from South Korea Arrested in Chinese Province of Henan
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
MIDLAND, TEXAS / HENAN PROVINCE, CHINA (ANS) -- Local police raided a house church Bible study in Wancheng District, Nanyang city, Henan province on March 6, 2007. Thirty-four Chinese Christian leaders and three church leaders from South Korea were taken to the police station for interrogation.
According to eyewitnesses, the raid happened around 2:00 p.m. (local time) when these Christian leaders from Chinese House Church Alliance were having their Bible study with three pastors from South Korea.
Pastor Dong Quanyu was one of those arretsed in the police raid.
Policemen from the Public Security Bureau (PSB) of Nanyang city broke into the house of worship, which is the home of pastor Dong Quanyu who is the vice-President of Chinese House Church Alliance.
Background on Chinese House Church Alliance
According to information posted on the CAA website, the vision of the China House Church Alliance is "to serve the multitude of house churches that are in need in the name of Jesus Christ."
The site states: "The work they are involved in includes: Biblical training, building up of churches, establishment of orphanages, adopting street urchins, caring for the elderly, literary services, kindergartens, mission to the minority nationalities, serving refugees from North Korea, providing legal counseling and assistance to the persecuted brothers and sisters. "
The CAA website also stresses: "We know that the Alliance cannot fully satisfy the variety of needs listed above. But we would humbly come before God and beseech that He fulfill these jobs with His almighty hand. We ask all our brothers and sisters and coworkers to pray for the work of the Alliance, and invite brothers, sisters, and churches sharing the same mission to join in our ranks."
The site explains that the biggest need emerging from churches everywhere is that their leaders and younger believers need some training and education. The majority of them have started service after they accepted Jesus as their Savior. They lack the opportunity of receiving systematic and comprehensive theological education, and thus face significant challenges in their service. Right now the Alliance has four schools for Biblical education.
"In cities throughout China," the site says, "you can easily come across quite a few street urchins in train stations and bus stations. The street urchin service of the Alliance is to provide a warm home for these children so they won’t wander in the street, and to feed and clothe them and let them hear the Gospel. At present there are 18 children living in such homes of God's love."
Every pastor of the Alliance is actively involved in the eternal work of building up churches. The aim of the Alliance was to establish 1,000 churches in the year 2006.
Currently about 15 percent of China's population is around the age of 60, while the average life-span of the Chinese is 70, the site says.
"Therefore the majority of these elderly people will not have the opportunity of receiving the Gospel. Moreover, the majority of the younger generation has discarded their responsibility of supporting and caring for their elder parents due to deterioration of morality. Some elderly people simply live on without being cared for as if they never had any children, while China has not set up the social security system for the service of these millions of elderly people. The Alliance thus has established a Home for the Elderly to help such old folks. In the Home, the oldest resident is 103 years of age, and the majority of the rest are around 80 years old. Ninety percent of the old people have accepted Jesus Christ after they were admitted to the Home for the Elderly."
Access to spiritual books is very constructive to Chinese Christians, the Alliance says. The Alliance is engaged in distributing books it has collected to the people who need them.
The Alliance also says Chinese law prohibits preaching the Gospel to anybody under the age of 18.
"There are 300 million children in China. In a good number of home churches there is no worship oriented toward the youth since we do not know how to influence the children. The believers' children refuse to come to the church or participate in worship and service. So we are facing two challenges: extend our hands to help the 300 million children and to educate the believers' children. Please come and help us."
The Alliance also has a Mission in the Minority Nationalities Regions of China.
"There are more than 100 million people living in the minority nationalities regions of China. It is not easy to preach the Gospel to them since they live mainly in remote and mountainous localities, or they are Moslem. This presents substantial challenge. Now the Alliance is serving 12 of the dozens of minority nationalities."
It is also involved in working with North Korean Refugees.
"About 2 million North Koreans have fled their country to seek refuge in China. They cannot return for fear of facing severe punishment or even death if they do so. They cannot understand Chinese. The Chinese government does not honor U.N. conventions to treat them as refugees and often repatriate these North Koreans. The Alliance is now doing something to help these refugees."
Furthermore, the Alliance provides a Legal Counseling and Assistance Service.
"The multitudes of China House Churches are often being persecuted due to their faith and courageous preaching of the Gospel. This issue is no longer a secret. The Alliance will provide legal counseling and assistance to those believers who are under persecution."
As part of its mission statement, the Alliance says it: "will faithfully accept the vision that God presents to China, that is to spread the Gospel back to Jerusalem. Between China and Jerusalem lie the great Arabic nations. The Alliance has been prepared to herald this holy mission and train workers to do mission work in the Arabic nations. And the Alliance is willing to work with burdened brothers and sisters so we can jointly achieve this sacred mission."
Pastor Bob Fu, the president of China Aid Association has urged the Chinese government "to immediately release these innocent Chinese and Korean church leaders." You may show your concern by contacting the PSB office of Nanyang City:
Police Special Squad Director Mr. Chang Keying: +86-13837767278 (cell phone)
Deputy PSB Director Mr. Lu (on religious affairs): +86-13603778696(cell phone)
PSB office Tel: +86-377-63311110
More information:
China Aid Association, Inc.
Fax: (432)-686-8355
E-mail: info@ChinaAid.org
Website: www.chinaaid.org/
See also: www.monitorchina.org/
Contact: Bob Fu (267) 205-5210
** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Lake Forest, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station.
** You may republish this story with proper attribution.
Another burqa boy arrested.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1796589/posts
Burqa-clad Taliban leader caught as NATO attacks
Reuters ^ | March 7 2006
Posted on 03/07/2007 2:28:11 AM PST by jmc1969
Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday.
Tuesday's capture in Kandahar province came as NATO launched a major offensive in neighbouring Helmand to secure a key hydroelectric dam and combat the opium trade.
The man was named as Mullah Mahmood and described as an expert bomb-maker. U.S.-led coalition forces also detained five more suspected militants in eastern Khost this week.
Fighting is expected to be heavy in 2007 after the bloodiest year since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. The Taliban warn they have thousands of suicide bombers ready for action.
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U.S. Embassy Nairobi issued the following Warden Message on March 6:
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi wishes to alert American citizens living and traveling in Kenya to recent information emanating from alleged extremist elements that suggests the March 24, 2007 World Cross-Country Championship may be the target of an unspecified terrorist attack. At this time, there are no further details regarding this alleged threat.
The U.S. Embassy is also aware of public statements by leaders of Kenya's Coastal Muslim community threatening to disrupt, through unspecified means, the World Cross-Country Championship if the Government of Kenya does not satisfy various demands.
American citizens are advised to remain vigilant and to use extreme caution when frequenting prominent places in Mombasa and elsewhere.
American citizens with questions or concerns may telephone the consular section of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi at (254) (20) 363-6000 or access their website at http://kenya.usembassy.gov. In the event of an after-hours emergency, the Embassy duty officer may be contacted at (254) (20) 363-6170. In Ethiopia, the US Embassy in Addis Ababa can be reached at 251-11-124-2424; emergency after-hours telephone: 251-11-124-2400; website: http://addisababa.usembassy.gov.
For the latest security information, Americans living and traveling abroad should regularly monitor the Department's Bureau of Consular Affairs internet website at http://travel.state.gov, where the current Worldwide Caution, Public Announcements, and Travel Warnings can be found. Up to date information on security can also be obtained by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll free in the U.S., or, for callers outside the U.S. and Canada, a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8 AM to 8 PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. Federal Holidays.)
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