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Posted on 07/01/2007 2:42:24 PM PDT by nwctwx
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I scanned for any possible coded reference, but the only thing that makes sense is that "the second of two" is an awkwardly translated way of referring to the one man who spoke to the other in the cave.
I'm like you: on high alert for coded messages, especially when they start coming out with more frequency. I don't see it in that phrase, though.
Hah! never mind the fact that the little dope was actually wearing the dress! AZ is mad because sittee (grandmother) was shown wearing it!
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks SlowBoat, I appreciate your feedback.
Man Charged With Bringing Gun Through Airport Security (Florida)
July 11, 2007
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man was charged with trying to bring a gun wrapped in aluminum foil and a towel aboard a plane at Jacksonville International Airport, authorities said Tuesday.
Ahmad Abdallah Abu Ghanam was on his way to Chicago then Jordan on Monday when Transportation Security Administration workers found the .380-calibar semiautomatic gun in his checked luggage. The serial number had been scratched off, said Michael Stewart, director of external affairs for the airport.
Abu Ghanam told police he bought the weapon on the street a month ago and he did not realize the serial number was missing. Travelers are allowed to check unloaded handguns as long as they are declared to airline employees and are stowed in special cases.
Stewart said the discovery was a good sign because it shows an efficient system. "The system worked. The attorneys and courts will handle it from here," Stewart said.
Abu Ghanam was charged with removal of a firearm serial number. He was being held on $10,003 bail, The Florida Times-Union reported.
I don’t know Oorang.
Really.
Maybe they are getting their “maths” wrong again.
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http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/55988.html
Ask Dr. Math
Post no. 1105 is random, probably totally incorrect speculation. Fyi.
That bail seems awfully low.
Thanks Oorang.
Security around the U.S. Consulate on University Avenue was heightened yesterday as Toronto police investigated a report of "suspicious" activity involving a van in the downtown core.
Police said they started looking for the vehicle around 7 a.m., with the help of a Durham Regional Police helicopter and stealth cars that roamed the streets. Emergency Task Force officers were also perched atop a building overlooking the consulate. By early evening, the vehicle in question had not been located.
Police officials would not detail what triggered the investigation, but a source said that two men driving a beige minivan stopped to ask for directions to the U.S. Consulate. It is not clear what raised concerns.
City News reported that the van bore Michigan licence plates and that sometime in the afternoon a vehicle was located on Elm Street. It turned out to be a false alarm, City News reported. When asked whether the suspicious incident could involve explosives, Toronto Constable George Schuurman said, "there's no confirmation of any explosives being in the van. It's a suspicious incident that has to be checked out and ruled out."
Police checked minivans matching the description. The U.S. Consulate remained open. Two security guards were stationed outside the building's front doors, but officials said that had nothing to do with yesterday's activity. "We had a normal day," said Nicholas Giacobbe, spokesman for the consulate.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/toronto/story.html?id=288a254c-7243-4961-b758-a007b71a907b
Terminal A Evacuated At Bradley International Airport (Connecticut)
July 11, 2007
Bradley International Airport is back to normal now after a scare outside terminal A. As many as 1,000 people were evacuated when what turned out to be a fake grenade inside a backpack was discovered by a baggage handler.
Flights were delayed for about half an hour around 9:30 a.m. State police said one man has been arrested, but say they don't believe he had malicious intentions. There's no word yet on what charges he faces.
http://www.nbc30.com/news/13661317/detail.html
www.youtube.com/user/SayfulAdel
www.youtube.com/user/almasri002
Post no. 1105 made my brain hurt.
LOL! I can relate to this snippet of the math post: “but I can’t
understand what the author was trying to say.”
“Does the phrase “second of two”, in the context of that sentence, make any sense?”
I looked up the verses he quoted from the Koran and the footnotes say that the “second of two” in the cave refers to Abu Bakr, companion and father-in-law of Mohammed, and the first caliph (in the eyes of Sunnis). It is odd that Zawahiri is calling Pakistani Muslims to wage jihad in Afghanistan instead of at home. Sounds like a call to the battle of Khorasan.
I don’t keep track of all the verses Zawahiri quotes, but the footnotes also say that this is the only chapter of the Koran that does not begin with an invocation. So I’m not sure how many times he has quoted from this Sura, but thought I’d mention it.
Thank you Joe. I do appreciate you doing that research. It does make sense now.
Long CNN report from tonight:
Al Qa’ida Returns to Pre-9/11 Operational Level
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxBWUb-L90
7/11/07: Will 2007 be a “Summer of Terror?” Increasing violence overseas and refined tactics in Iraq combined with failed car bombing attempts in Britain are only a small aspect of the redevelopment of al Qa’ida. While Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff says there are no specific threats there is still reason for concern based on facts on the ground.
NEW DELHI: Indian investigators have found car bomb designs and an al-Qa'ida-produced film on the computer hard drive of one of the British terror plot suspects. The hard drive of Kafeel Ahmed, who is expected to die in hospital with burns to 90 per cent of his body after he drove a blazing jeep into Glasgow airport last month, could reveal clues about how the plot was hatched.
Reports yesterday said experts were scanning about 12,000 files and 5000 emails and phone numbers contained in the hard drive, which has more than double the capacity of an average home computer. Three CDs and a computer hard drive found at Mr Ahmed's house in Bangalore contained inflammatory speeches by al-Qa'ida leader Osama bin Laden, as well as anti-US and anti-Britain propaganda.
The hard drive also contained videos of bin Laden and messages to al-Qa'ida operatives, the report said, fuelling suspicions that the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow in late June could be linked to the group.
In Scotland, a doctor who has treated Mr Ahmed, 27, said the aeronautical engineer was not expected to live. "The prognosis is not good and he is not likely to survive," a member of the medical team that treated him at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, near Glasgow, said on condition of anonymity.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,22059525-2703,00.html
Pakistan: All illegal structures around the Lal Masjid to be razed
11 July 2007
The Pakistani government has decided to remove the building of Jamia Hafsa, the madrassa or Islamic seminary affiliated with the radical Islamabad mosque Lal Masjid and all other illegal structures in the mosque compound which were established on illegally occupied state land, sources told the Pakistani daily Dawn.
The sources said it had been decided before the current military operation that aside from the Lal Masjid, all other structures including the residences of the radical clerics Maulana Abdul Aziz - who has been arrested - and Maulana Abdul Rashid Ghazi - who was killed on Tuesday - would be demolished.
A senior official of the local administration, who did not want to be named, said the government had decided to bring the Lal Masjid to its original size. However, he did not say exactly how long it would take to raze the illegal structures. The Lal Masjid administration had reportedly been constructing structures and rooms in the mosque complex for the last many years but it accelerated the process during the tenure of the present regime.
Excerpted
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Politics/?id=1.0.1097179039
WASHINGTON - Undercover federal agents were easily able to fool the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into providing them with a license to obtain radiological material that could be used to make a “dirty bomb,” NBC News has learned.
The undercover agents, who work for the Government Accountability Office, filled out forms online and were able to obtain an NRC license to buy several radiological "sources," according to several sources familiar with the GAO report. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
Within four weeks, the NRC mailed a license to the undercover GAO officials, who had posed as a construction company based in West Virginia and never needed to leave their offices to get the license. The NRC only called the phony company once and never conducted a site visit, the GAO report says. The license would have allowed the GAO undercover team to buy moisture-density gauges, which are used in the construction field and contain sealed radioactive material.
Excerpted
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19713189/from/RS.1/
A CNN-IBN-DIG investigations conducted in New York, London and New Delhi has exposed potential loopholes in the international financial system through which terror funds could be routed.
CNN-IBN-DIG reporters went undercover and met Somesh Duggal, a Western Union agent in Delhi and asked him if he could transfer ₤1000 to London. Here are excerpts from the conversation:
DIG: Ek maine bataya tha London ke liye (I had asked you for a transaction for London)
Somesh Duggal: Kitna? (How much?)
DIG: ₤1000
In no time Duggal fixed a hawala transaction from Delhi to London. The key to a hawala transaction is the authentication code that must be quoted to receive the funds. In most cases it is the number on the currency note, and a name.
Somesh Duggal: Note number le lena. Panch pound ko note number le lena. (Take the number on the note)
DIG: Panch pound ke note ka number lena hai. Vaise bhi kal aayega wahan collect karne. (I have to take the number on the ₤5 note?)
Somesh Duggal: (Talks to someone on the phone): ₤1000 de dena. Naam vaam kal bata dega. Telephone number vahin hai na? Javed naam de doon na? Number kya hai uska? 884 - theek hai main de doonga. Theek hai aap yahan se paise mangwa dena. (Give him ₤1000. HeÂ’ll tell you the name tomorrow. Should I give him JavedÂ’s name? His number is 884?)
The CNN-IBN-DIG team is asked to contact a Javed Bhai in London at 00-44-7950259676 and the recipient of the hawala money had mention his name as Arup Laisram to quote the number - JD36 240101 - on a ₤5 note to authenticate the transaction.
Armed with these details our correspondent in London posing as the recipient of the hawala money called Javed Bhai. HereÂ’s the excerpt of the telephone conversation between Investigator in London and Javed Bhai
DIG: Hello. Kahaan par aana hai? (Where do I have to come?
Javed Bhai South Hall, Broadway.
The rendezvous was fixed for the next day in South Hall, a relatively crowded area and which seems to be Javed BhaiÂ’s home turf.
In Southall CNN-IBN-DIG were asked to come to a shop and met Javed Bhai. All we had to do was tally the number on the ₤5 note - JD36 24010 - and mention the agreed name to get ₤1000. Money that had no document trail, and a money transfer that breached all the security guidelines meant to prevent illegal money transfers.
So a fake name and a number was all that was needed to get ₤1000. There were no details given, no questions asked.
The wide sprawl and sheer convenience of the hawala system makes it widely used and deeply entrenched. International experts and authorities are aware of problem but acknowledge that it is a challenging issue to address.
“There's no doubt that there are holes in the system. The question is, are those holes big enough to justify another layer of regulation. I don't know the answer to that,” says terror finance expert, Raymond Baker. London bombings cost as little as less ₤8000, or equal to seven or eight hawala transactions similar to the one the investigation unearthed. And that's how easy it was to execute a simple operation that wreaked havoc on a mass scale.
And the numerous hawala operators mushrooming in the shadow of dubious Western Union agents make the system very powerful. On the other hand, cracking down on informal money-transfer services in the name of fighting terrorism might simply drive this age old businesses further underground.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/how-dirty-money-flows-easily-from-delhi-to-london/44590-3.html
The New York Times is reporting that Kafeel Ahmed — the man named by British Police as the driver of the Jeep Cherokee loaded with gasoline canisters and driven into the Glasgow Airport — worked as an aeronautical engineer until July 2006.
BANGALORE, India, July 9 — Kafeel Ahmed, the engineer identified by police as one of the two main suspects in the British car-bomb plot, worked for much of last year as an aeronautical engineer for an Indian outsourcing company that designs aircraft parts for Boeing, Airbus and other manufacturers.
Mr. Ahmed worked in the Bangalore office of the company, Infotech Enterprises, between December 2005 and July 2006, K. S. Susindar, a company spokesman, said in a telephone interview today. Mr. Susindar offered that information after checking an employee database that listed Mr. Ahmed as having degrees from universities in India and Northern Ireland; he had a master’s in aeronautical engineering. The company, which employs 5,500 people, did not say exactly which aviation projects Mr. Ahmed worked on.
And while it remains unclear as to which aviation projects the terror suspect actually worked on, the Associated Press raises important questions about the serious security concerns inherent to some of those possibilities:
The services Infotech offered its clients was not immediately clear, but most of the aviation work outsourced to Indian companies includes software support for cabin lighting, display of information in the cockpit, in-flight entertainment and communication.
In some cases, it could involve designing software for flight control systems, navigation and surveillance.
http://www.theaviationnation.com/category/the-al-qaeda-threat/
Moroccan authorities have arrested 15 people suspected of links with an al-Qaeda cell planning attacks on sensitive targets in the country, Moroccan daily al-Masa reported on Wednesday citing local security sources.
The suspects allegedly entered Morocco illegally through Algeria, where security officials believe they were recruited by the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb to carry out attacks in Morocco. The group, previously known as the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), changed its name after pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda and has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks in North Africa, notably the Algiers suicide bombings in April in which 33 people were killed.
On Friday, the Moroccan interior ministry said it had risen the alert level in the country after reliable intelligence revealed an attack was imminent just as thousands of Moroccans living abroad and foreigners are preparing to spend their July and August holidays in the North African country.
The newspaper report has not been confirmed by official sources but an interior ministry official has said 13 Syrians who had illegally entered Morocco through Algeria were recently arrested as they were attempting to flee to Spain.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096849673
Pakistan: Security alert all over the country
11 July 2007
The Pakistani government tightened security in major cities and at sensitive sites immediately after gunbattles between law-enforcement agencies and the Lal Masjid militants ended on Tuesday.
According to sources, security along the Pakistan-Afghan frontier was beefed up while areas along borders between Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and tribal areas were under strict surveillance to stop the entry of supporters of the Lal Masjid militants, they added.
Foreign nationals, especially Chinese, have been advised to restrict their movement and avoid going to public places and gatherings without adequate extra security, the sources said. They said that major cities, including the provincial capitals, had been put on high alert to avert any untoward incident. Police and paramilitary forces have been posted at police stations, sensitive installations, places of worship and airports.
Security precautions included the setting up of checkpoints around major government offices and foreign companies. People entering government buildings were being searched. Public areas, including shopping centers, cinemas, parks, restaurants and hotels are being watched.
Personnel of intelligence agencies have been asked to keep an eye on all seminaries and the movement of activists and supporters of religious organisations is also being monitored. All vehicles coming from the NWFP and tribal areas and in places near Indian-administered Kashmir would have to undergo strict checks.
All state-run hospitals in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, including the Combined Military Hospitals, were put on alert after Monday midnight. Relatives of victims were seen protesting after they were stopped from entering hospitals. Journalists were also not allowed to go inside the hospitals.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096996031
Algeria: Al-Qaeda threatens French president, 'Sons will avenge Fathers'
Algiers, 11 July 2007
The leader of the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Emir Abu Musab Abdel Wudud threatened French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a statement issued on Islamist websites Wednesday, the second of the president's two-day visit to North Africa's biggest country.
Sarkozy on Wednesday will have a working lunch with Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian president, and then travel to Tunis to meet his Tunisian counterpart Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali before returning to France on Wednesday.
In the message, the leader of the former Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which changed its name in January after pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda said that "as far as Sarkozy is concerned and his will to proceed on an old path by saying that the 'sons cannot apologize for what the fathers did', we tell him that he should wait and see because the Algerian sons will not remain in silence over what their fathers suffered, until Allah will not govern."
The militant leader was referring to Sarkozy's refusal on Tuesday to express remorse for his country's colonial past there - reiterating a long-held position. "I am for a recognition of the facts, but not for repentance, which is a religious notion that has no place in relations between states," the French president said, arguing that the objective should be to reach a "common reading" of history.
"We refuse any friendship with France," the militant's statement also said. "The real Islamic religion refuses any friendship with the unfaithful...and the true history of Algeria only boost the determination of the Algerian people to refuse any hypothesis of a friendship." Algeria gained independence from France in 1962 after an eight year war in which 1.5 million Algierans died, according to the Algerian government. Many French also perished. The country was then wracked by a brutal civil war in the 1990s in which an estimated 200,000 people died.
The GSPC, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda last September and changed its name in January to the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, is the only militant group to have remained active in the country after it refused to abandon the armed struggle in exchange for an amnesty in August. The group claimed responsibility for triple suicide bombings on 11 April that killed 33 in Algiers - the deadliest in the capital since 2002, when a bomb in a suburban market killed 38 people.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096695232
Moroccan authorities have arrested 15 people suspected of links with an al-Qaeda cell planning attacks on sensitive targets in the country, Moroccan daily al-Masa reported on Wednesday citing local security sources.
The suspects allegedly entered Morocco illegally through Algeria, where security officials believe they were recruited by the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb to carry out attacks in Morocco. The group, previously known as the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), changed its name after pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda and has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks in North Africa, notably the Algiers suicide bombings in April in which 33 people were killed.
On Friday, the Moroccan interior ministry said it had risen the alert level in the country after reliable intelligence revealed an attack was imminent just as thousands of Moroccans living abroad and foreigners are preparing to spend their July and August holidays in the North African country.
The newspaper report has not been confirmed by official sources but an interior ministry official has said 13 Syrians who had illegally entered Morocco through Algeria were recently arrested as they were attempting to flee to Spain.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096849673
Pakistan: Security alert all over the country
11 July 2007
The Pakistani government tightened security in major cities and at sensitive sites immediately after gunbattles between law-enforcement agencies and the Lal Masjid militants ended on Tuesday.
According to sources, security along the Pakistan-Afghan frontier was beefed up while areas along borders between Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and tribal areas were under strict surveillance to stop the entry of supporters of the Lal Masjid militants, they added.
Foreign nationals, especially Chinese, have been advised to restrict their movement and avoid going to public places and gatherings without adequate extra security, the sources said. They said that major cities, including the provincial capitals, had been put on high alert to avert any untoward incident. Police and paramilitary forces have been posted at police stations, sensitive installations, places of worship and airports.
Security precautions included the setting up of checkpoints around major government offices and foreign companies. People entering government buildings were being searched. Public areas, including shopping centers, cinemas, parks, restaurants and hotels are being watched.
Personnel of intelligence agencies have been asked to keep an eye on all seminaries and the movement of activists and supporters of religious organisations is also being monitored. All vehicles coming from the NWFP and tribal areas and in places near Indian-administered Kashmir would have to undergo strict checks.
All state-run hospitals in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, including the Combined Military Hospitals, were put on alert after Monday midnight. Relatives of victims were seen protesting after they were stopped from entering hospitals. Journalists were also not allowed to go inside the hospitals.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096996031
Algeria: Al-Qaeda threatens French president, 'Sons will avenge Fathers'
Algiers, 11 July 2007
The leader of the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Emir Abu Musab Abdel Wudud threatened French president Nicolas Sarkozy in a statement issued on Islamist websites Wednesday, the second of the president's two-day visit to North Africa's biggest country.
Sarkozy on Wednesday will have a working lunch with Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the Algerian president, and then travel to Tunis to meet his Tunisian counterpart Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali before returning to France on Wednesday.
In the message, the leader of the former Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which changed its name in January after pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda said that "as far as Sarkozy is concerned and his will to proceed on an old path by saying that the 'sons cannot apologize for what the fathers did', we tell him that he should wait and see because the Algerian sons will not remain in silence over what their fathers suffered, until Allah will not govern."
The militant leader was referring to Sarkozy's refusal on Tuesday to express remorse for his country's colonial past there - reiterating a long-held position. "I am for a recognition of the facts, but not for repentance, which is a religious notion that has no place in relations between states," the French president said, arguing that the objective should be to reach a "common reading" of history.
"We refuse any friendship with France," the militant's statement also said. "The real Islamic religion refuses any friendship with the unfaithful...and the true history of Algeria only boost the determination of the Algerian people to refuse any hypothesis of a friendship." Algeria gained independence from France in 1962 after an eight year war in which 1.5 million Algierans died, according to the Algerian government. Many French also perished. The country was then wracked by a brutal civil war in the 1990s in which an estimated 200,000 people died.
The GSPC, which pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda last September and changed its name in January to the al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, is the only militant group to have remained active in the country after it refused to abandon the armed struggle in exchange for an amnesty in August. The group claimed responsibility for triple suicide bombings on 11 April that killed 33 in Algiers - the deadliest in the capital since 2002, when a bomb in a suburban market killed 38 people.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1096695232
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