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Glendale CA Police/SWAT are searching a school at School St and Olmstead right now...
Not sure what they are looking for...trying to get the students away from campus.
http://www.dhs.gov/xnews/releases/pr_1178811654577.shtm
“DHS Awards $445 Million to Secure Nation’s Critical Infrastructure”
Release Date: May 10, 2007
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today final awards totaling $445 million in grant programs that strengthen the ability of ports, transit, and intercity bus systems to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from terrorist attacks, major disasters and other emergencies. The awards are part of the fiscal year (FY) 2007 Infrastructure Protection Program (IPP), which has provided nearly $2 billion in grants to strengthen critical infrastructure facilities and transportation systems.
“These grants will help to protect our nation’s critical infrastructure from threats and hazards that could cause major loss of life, economic impact, and disruption of services,” said Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael Jackson. “These risk-based investments will increase security for vital assets such as ports, mass transit systems, long-distance bus carriers, chemical facilities, and nuclear power plants.”
Funding was directly allocated in January as part of the IPP to Tier I Transit grants, the Buffer Zone Protection Program and the Trucking Security Program. Today’s announcement outlines the final competitively-bid portions of these grants, which includes Port Security grants, Tier II Transit Security grants, and Intercity Bus Security grants.
Final awards for the FY 2007 IPP include:
Port Security Grant Program (PSGP): $202 million (Tiers I – IV)
The FY 2007 PSGP will provide a total of $202 million to 183 public and private entities to create sustainable, risk-based efforts to protect critical port infrastructure from terrorism. Eight of the highest risk port regions were placed in Tier I and were eligible to apply for a combined total of $120 million, or roughly 60 percent of total FY 2007 PSGP funding. Port areas in Tiers II, III and IV were eligible to compete for the additional 40 percent of available funds. Funding priorities included training, exercises, and other activities to mitigate the risk of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and to improve employee credentialing and access controls. In some cases, multiple port areas were grouped together to reflect geographic proximity, shared risk, and a common waterway.
Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP): $14.2 million (Tier II) and Ferry Security ($7.2 million)
The FY 2007 TSGP will provide a total of $171 million to high-risk urban areas. $141 million was announced in January for the eight highest-risk Tier I urban areas; 24 Tier II urban areas will receive a total of $14.2 million; 17 ferry systems in 13 regions will receive a total of $7.2 million; and the National Passenger Railroad Corporation (Amtrak) will receive a total of $8.3 million. In order to provide local transit agencies greater flexibility in allocating TSGP funds, in FY 2007, DHS combined transit rail grants and transit bus grants to allow them to decide where they can better focus their resources.
Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP): $11.6 million
The FY 2007 IBSGP will provide a total of $11.6 million to owners and operators of fixed route intercity and charter bus companies servicing one or more defined Urban Areas Security Initiative (UASI) jurisdictions. Of this total, $8.2 million was allocated for Tier I to six recipients with the largest bus fleets and most extensive services to high-risk urban areas, and the remaining $3.5 million was allocated for eligible recipients in Tier II. Proposals from 33 Tier II companies were selected for award. DHS places a strong emphasis on preventing and detecting IEDs. Other funding priorities included: the protection of high-risk/high-consequence assets; use of visible, unpredictable deterrence; targeted antiterrorism training emergency preparedness drills and exercises; and public awareness and preparedness campaigns.
The following grant programs received direct allocation funding and were announced in January:
Transit Security Grant Program – Tier I: $141 million
The eight highest-risk urban areas will receive $141 million to protect their mass transit systems. This represents roughly 90 percent of the total FY 2007 TSGP funding for intracity rail and bus systems. In January, DHS identified specific target investment levels for each of these eight areas. Each Tier I applicant must still submit a fully compliant application, which will undergo a preliminary review prior to final submission. Once completed, these grants will be awarded through cooperative agreements with the state, who in turn works with the transit system. Final Investment Justifications are due 90 days from the date the grant is awarded by DHS.
Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP): $48.5 million
The FY 2007 Buffer Zone Protection Program (BZPP) will provide a total of $48.5 million and will be awarded to states through their State Administrative Agency. BZPP provides grant funding to build security and risk-management capabilities at the state and local level to secure pre-designated Tier I and Tier II critical infrastructure sites, including chemical facilities, financial institutions, nuclear and electric power plants, dams, stadiums, and other high-risk/high-consequence facilities.
Trucking Security Grant Program (TSP): $11.6 million
The Highway Watch program is operated under a cooperative agreement with the American Trucking Associations. The TSP recruits and trains truckers and other highway professionals to identify and report security and safety situations on our nation’s roads. It also operates and maintains a Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center located at the Transportation Security Operations Center in Herndon, Va.
In making grant determinations, the department considered the threat, vulnerability, and consequences of an attack on critical infrastructure as well as the effectiveness of proposed solutions. The IPP grants affirm Homeland Security’s commitment to risk-based funding and deepen the department’s commitment to assisting with regional planning and security coordination. The risk-based methodology for the IPP programs is consistent across the modes and is linked to the risk methodology used to determine eligibility for the core Homeland Security state and local grant programs.
For the list of individual grants and further information on the Infrastructure Protection Program, please visit www.dhs.gov .”
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BREAKING NEWS:
Two schools under lockdown
Reports say one boy caught with a BB gun in Toll Middle School; police hunting two more boys
By Jason Wells
WEST GLENDALE — Officials are allowing Keppel Elementary School kindergarteners and first-graders to go home as of 3:20 p.m. today following a brief lockdown there and nearby Hoover High and Toll Middle Schools over a boy wielding a BB gun, police said.
Hoover High School and Toll Middle School were put on lockdown today at about 2 p.m. by campus officials following unconfirmed reports of at least one boy who was brandishing some sort of gun, witnesses said.
It was unclear when Keppel Elementary was locked down.
A boy with a BB gun is being detained by police as they continue to check out the remaining middle and high school campuses before lifting their lockdowns, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
Witnesses who are on scene have reported that the boy with the BB gun was caught in the Toll Middle School cafeteria.
Glendale Police officers have descended upon the area and blocked off surrounding surface streets of the two schools located on the 600 and 700 blocks of Glenwood Road as hundreds of anxious parents line the perimeter waiting for details, witnesses said.
“The school went on lockdown before police were called,” Lorenz said.
Hoover High Principal Kevin Welsh has reportedly announced his school’s lockdown three times over the public announcement system since about 2 p.m. emphasizing “very firmly” that it is not drill, said journalism teacher Brian CrosbyÖ, who was reached from inside his locked classroom via cell phone at about 2:45 p.m.
All 18 of his students are under their desks in the dark classroom text-messaging on cell phones as they await news from the outside, he said.
“Some students were crying, but they’re doing pretty well, considering,” he said. “You’re in a box and you don’t know what’s going. It’s the unknown that’s scary.”
No gunshots had been heard on campus, he said.
The lockdown at Toll has reportedly been lifted.
UPDATE:
http://www.longmontfyi.com/Local-Story.asp?id=16292
Publish Date: 5/11/2007
“School intruders sought
Boulder High kitchen worker saw two men in camouflage; no one found”
By Pierrette J. Shields
The Daily Times-Call
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BOULDER — In the latest of a series of scares at local schools, students at Boulder High School got Thursday off while police combed through the school’s hallways looking for two men wearing camouflage.”
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“Intruders stop school day
Cook scares off 2 in camouflage, 1 of them masked”
By Bill Scanlon, Rocky Mountain News
May 11, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BOULDER - Putting security cameras inside the building isn’t the answer to situations such as the one Thursday that shut down a high school when two intruders were spotted by a cook, Boulder Valley School District officials say.
Boulder High School’s 1,900 students got the day off after the head cook spotted two people in the kitchen about 6 a.m., both dressed in camouflage, one wearing a ski mask.
The pair ran when the cook yelled at them to stop.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “King and Beckner say they don’t know how the intruders got into the building. Motion detectors hadn’t been tripped, and no alarms were sounded that would have indicated forced entry through one of the doors.
Students said it’s possible to enter and exit the building through a maze of utility tunnels, but King said that’s unlikely because the tunnels are locked up.”
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Ahmadinejad: Iran Defends World’s Free Peoples
In a speech to Basij commanders, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran’s steadfastness in the face of the West was not restricted to Iranian soil alone, but included defending the rights and identities of the free peoples in the world.
On the same occasion, Iranian Majlis Speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel said that thanks to the Basij, Iran had final say in region and in the world.
The paramilitary Basij organization numbers some 12 million volunteers.
Source: Javan, IRNA, Iran, May 9, 2007; Kayhan, Iran, May 10, 2007
Posted at: 2007-05-10
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TERRORISM MONITOR
“South Waziristan’s Maulvi Nazir: The New Face of the Taliban”
By Hassan Abbas
(May 10, 2007)
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TERRORISM MONITOR
“Afghanistan’s Drug Trade and How it Funds Taliban Operations”
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Defining Terror Down
IBD Editorials ^ | 11 May 2007 | Staff
Posted on 05/11/2007 6:14:44 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Media: In covering the Jersey Jihadists case, pundits did their best to play down the religious factor that screamed as loud as the suspects’ “Allah Akbar!” shouting and shooting in the Poconos.
Others yawned at the news of several Muslims plotting to kill 100 soldiers on U.S. soil. “Lot of hoopla,” sniffed a spokeswoman for the NYU Center on Law and Security during a segment on the “CBS Evening News.”
Such skepticism was music to the ears of left-wing bloggers who posit that such publicized arrests are part of a Karl Rovian conspiracy to frighten Americans into supporting the Iraq War. Apparently they also think the Circuit City clerk who tipped off the feds was in on the conspiracy.
The Philadelphia Inquirer chimed in that such anti-terror arrests are “often overblown.” The same paper ran a long piece interviewing neighbors and relatives of the six Muslim suspects that studiously avoided mentioning that anyone involved is Muslim. After making a point of saying the FBI “alleged” the men are “Islamic radicals,” the article proceeded to try to shoot that description down.
Sources close to the men were “shocked” and “blown away” that they could be tied up in terror. They were so “nice.” One even shared backyard-grown cucumbers with his neighbors!
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
blog:
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Friday, May 11, 2007
“VDH: Al Qaedism, Again”
Thank you M. Espinola for updating this thread...more photos:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828722/posts?page=224#224
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“Communist symbol returns to Russian Army’s flag”
AuBC News ^ | Saturday, May 5, 2007. 12:06pm (AEST)
Posted on 05/04/2007 8:48:35 PM PDT by james500
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“Pet Food Recall/Tainted Animal Feed”
Updated: May 9, 2007
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Interstate Brands Corporation Issues Recall of Mispackaged Hostess Mini Pound Cake Bearing Code Date MAY 28 53 122; Product May Contain Walnuts (May 10, 2007)
Agriculture Department Warns Consumers of Tainted Raw Milk Sold by Berks County Dairy (May 10, 2007)
FDA Issues Health Risk Alert for ‘True Man’ and ‘Energy Max’ Products(May 10, 2007)
Gurley’s Foods, Inc. Issues Allergy Alert Due to Undeclared Sulfites in their Gurley’s Golden Recipe Cranberry Trail Mix (May 8, 2007)
Allergy Alert on Undeclared Peanuts in Mayfield Turtle Tracks Ice Cream (May 8, 2007)
FDA/USDA Joint News Release: Scientists Conclude Very Low Risk to Humans from Food Containing Melamine (May 7, 2007)
Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. Issues Voluntary, Nationwide Recall for Cardiac Marker (May 4, 2007)
Aulcorp Food Marketers Inc. Conducts Nationwide Recall of Archer Farms Four Cheese Risotto, 6 oz., “Best if Used by 16JUL2008AA” Because of Possible Health Risk (May 4, 2007)
SmartPak Canine Voluntarily Recalls LiveSmart Adult Lamb and Brown Rice Formula (May 3, 2007)
Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Healthy Chekd Calcium Enriched Fat Free Milk (May 3, 2007)
Menu Foods Adds to Recall List (May 2, 2007)
Galliker Dairy Issues a Product Recall on Half-Gallons of Acidophilus Plus Reduced Fat Milk (May 2, 2007)
FDA Requests Recall of All Shelhigh Medical Devices (May 2, 2007)
FDA Proposes New Warnings About Suicidal Thinking, Behavior in Young Adults Who Take Antidepressant Medications (May 2, 2007)
FDA Warns Consumers about Counterfeit Drugs from Multiple Internet Sellers (May 1, 2007)
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CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
FSIS-RC-023-2007
“MICHIGAN FIRM RECALLS BEEF PRODUCTS DUE TO POSSIBLE
E. COLI O157:H7 CONTAMINATION”
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2007
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CLASS I RECALL
HEALTH RISK: HIGH
FSIS-RC-022-2007
“MINNESOTA FIRM RECALLS BEEF TRIM DUE TO POSSIBLE
E. COLI O157:H7 CONTAMINATION”
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2007
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“Border Patrol agent found dead near Salton Sea”
May 11, 2007 09:51 PM
News More >>
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “If you have any information on this case, you can call the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department at 1-800-452-2051.”
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Warden Message: Chad Holiday Security
U.S. Embassy N’Djamena issued the following Warden Message on May 11, 2007:
Mobilization and movement of troops has been observed in N’Djamena over the last two weeks. As noted in the Chad Travel Warning, there is a potential for further clashes between rebel movements and government forces in eastern and southeastern Chad before the onset of the rainy season. Americans are reminded to remain vigilant in regards to their personal security, to carry a reliable communication device, and to let others know where you are going and when you’ll be back. Americans not affiliated with humanitarian relief efforts are advised by the State Department’s most recent travel warning to Chad to avoid travel to eastern Chad and the Chad/Central African Republic border.
Americans are urged to register with the Embassy. For updated information on travel and security in the region, go to http://travel.state.gov . The U.S. Embassy is located in N’Djamena on Avenue Felix Eboue; mailing address is B.P. 413; telephone: (235) 51-62-11, 51-70-09, 51-77-59, 51-90-52, 51-92-18, and 51-92-33; fax: (235) 51-56-54. All telephone numbers listed here function during and after regular working hours. For more information, please contact the Regional Security Office or Consular section of the US Embassy.
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“Earth study in intelligence bill”
By Christina Bellantoni
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 12, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Republicans, accusing Democrats of caring more about “bugs and bunnies” than hunting for al Qaeda, yesterday failed to strip a global warming study from an intelligence policy bill as lawmakers tacked a similar climate change provision onto a separate defense bill.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=5294384
“Possible Security Gap at Philly Airport”
By David Henry
May 11, 2007
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=45998
Bomb-Builders Killed in Raid; Troops Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 11, 2007 – A terrorist bomb-builder was killed with three accomplices during a coalition raid near Taji, Iraq, today, U.S. officials said, and other operations over the last few days netted more terror suspects and weapons.
One of the individuals killed in the Taji raid was a suspected vehicle-bomb cell leader with alleged ties to al Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders. Two others detained in the raid also have alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq, officials said.
Coalition forces also detained two suspected terrorists today during separate raids targeting a vehicle-bomb network in Mosul. Four other suspected terrorists were detained yesterday in a coalition operation focused on destroying a network that allegedly supplies roadside bomb components to terrorists operating in Baghdad.
West of Baghdad yesterday, soldiers of 1st Squadron, 89th Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) out of Fort Drum, N.Y., working with Iraqi Army soldiers, found a weapons cache during a combat patrol.
The cache contained four rocket-propelled-grenade warheads, three mortar boosters, an RPG accelerator and two flares. An explosive ordnance team destroyed the cache.
Also yesterday, Iraqi security forces detained 20 suspects believed to have ties with al Qaeda during a cordon-and-search operation in a Muqdadiya neighborhood in eastern Iraq. The search also yielded weapons, ammunition and improvised explosive device material.
In other news, Iraqi special operations troops caught three suspects during a May 9 raid in Baghdad. The detainees are believed to be involved in an April vehicle-bomb attack on a bridge.
A man who said he’d been a kidnap victim turned himself in to Iraqi army troops at a traffic control point in western Baghdad May 9, telling the soldiers he had been ordered to drive a car bomb to the checkpoint.
The man approached the control point in a vehicle, then stopped short, got out and ran up to the Iraqi security forces, claiming he had been kidnapped two days earlier. He said he had been ordered to drive his vehicle to the checkpoint. Moments later, the car exploded. There were no injuries from the detonation.
American attack helicopters attacked a terrorist group’s anti-aircraft gun near Iskandariyah, Iraq, May 9. AH-64 Apache helicopters from the 4th Squadron, 227th Combat Aviation Battalion, spotted an anti-aircraft gun emplaced and ready to be used. The pilots fired about 40 rounds and destroyed the system before it could be used against coalition aircraft.
Iraqi soldiers in western Baghdad found a large cache of mortar rounds near a joint security station May 9. Once the cache was identified, Iraqi troops from 2nd Battalion, 5th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, secured the area and waited for an Iraqi explosive ordnance team to inspect the site.
The Iraqi army requested help from the 2nd Battalion, 32nd Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, located at Joint Security Station Torch. The cache contained 46 57 mm mortar rounds that could be used to build roadside bombs. The rounds were removed from the site for disposal.
American soldiers with the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, thwarted an attack on an Iraqi National Police station near the town of Salman Pak on May 9. The attack began when several gunmen engaged the station with small arms and mortars. AH-64 helicopters engaged and destroyed one enemy vehicle with 30 mm cannon fire after identifying the occupants as hostile. The helicopters fired on three more gunmen as they fled through a palm groove, killing two.
Also on May 9, paratroopers found and destroyed 10 improvised explosive devices in Iraq’s Babil province. In four days, officials said, the paratroopers found and destroyed 39 IEDs. All of the devices were destroyed in place or taken by explosive ordnance disposal teams for further investigation prior to destruction.
On May 8, coalition forces killed several terrorists and destroyed three trucks with mounted anti-aircraft weapons after discovering a pack of terrorists firing on a house northeast of Karmah, Iraq. Intelligence reports led coalition forces to three trucks, two of which carried mounted anti-aircraft artillery weapons.
A fixed-wing aircraft was called in to destroy the vehicles. One truck with an anti-aircraft weapon and two sedans associated with the trucks were destroyed, killing an estimated 10 to 14 terrorists.
The two remaining trucks departed the strike scene in different directions, but coalition forces continued to follow them. Each was destroyed in a separate air strike after the vehicle’s occupants abandoned it and fled the scene.
Coalition forces followed an additional vehicle from the scene of the first strike and targeted the building it returned to in an overnight raid. Eight suspected terrorists were detained in the raid, and one was treated for shrapnel wounds he received from the air strike earlier in the evening.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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posted at 9:20 pm on May 11, 2007 by Allahpundit
Cheney’s ‘unannounced’ visits to key countries/leaders in the Persian Gulf area has me a little concerned. In the past, such whirlwind visits have been precursors to other events. References to keeping the gulf open for oil passage are concerning. Not quite ready for the tinfoil yet, but what say you?
“In the past, such whirlwind visits have been precursors to other events.”
Yep.
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http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=Ahmadinejad
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=148
http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=148&P3=2
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http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46000
“Five Soldiers Killed in Iraq, Three Missing”
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, May 12, 2007 – Five soldiers were killed in Iraq today and three others are currently missing following an attack near Mahmudiyah, a senior U.S. military officer reported.
“This morning at 4:44 a.m. in Iraq, a coalition force team of eight soldiers (seven Americans and an Iraqi Army interpreter), were attacked 12 miles west of Mahmudiyah,” Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman, said in a written statement. “As a result of this attack, five soldiers were killed in action and three are currently missing.”
A nearby coalition unit heard explosions during the attack and unsuccessfully attempted to establish communications. Coalition forces arrived within an hour, secured the site, and immediately initiated a search, Caldwell said.
The general said coalition forces are currently using every means at their disposal to find the missing soldiers, and will continue these efforts until all are accounted for.”
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