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US Steps Up Security Following Attack in Britain

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff made appearances on several television talk shows.

He told ABC's This Week program there is no indication of a linkage between the events in Britain and any specific attacks on the United States. "We do not have, at this point, specific, credible intelligence that there is an attack, a particular attack, focused on this country," he said.

But at the same time, speaking on CNN's Late Edition program, Chertoff said U.S. authorities are concerned about the threat of terrorism, especially in the coming months. "We have had a number of al-Qaida leaders quite publicly talking about how they want to carry out their threats against the West. So, given that and given the history that we have had over past summers, with attacks in Britain, I think we were clearly focused on this as a possibility," he said. Full story...

	More United Kingdom Attacks Possible
	More US Air Marshals on Flights to Europe
	Officials: Car Bomb Plot Bears al Qaida's Trademark

[Godzilla]

We seem to have an interesting convergence going on here.

1. A third carrier battle group is enroute to the Persian Gulf area, eta within a month.
2. President Musharraf seems to have had a candle lit under his rear and has decided to get real agressive with the Taliban and radical opponents.
3. Things are popping hotter than Orvil Reddenbachers popcorn all of a sudden in DC.
4. Al Z has released three messages all within a matter of days.
5. Failed London bombings.

I think that those who’ve gone back and looked at old threats may be on to something here. If the assumption is correct that they were interrupted/disrupted, they should form a pattern that could tip us off.

I’ll be double checking the ammo and food supplies.

[drymans wife]

They will keep with any plans they have had, for however long it takes them to carry those out. Patience.

Opinion

[Cindy]

Yes, jihad, another day.

The jihadis are patient and focused.
They can fail at something again, and
and again, and again, but because of
their hate — they keep on trying until
they succeed at whatever they are focused
on.

Jihad, another day.

[drymans wife]

Whatever happens, my gut tells me “Jafar The Pilot” will have a part in it.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.rewardsforjustice.net

http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=El_Shukrijumah

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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Jafar+The+Pilot%22&btnG=Google+Search

[Cindy]

Time will tell.

[Oorang]

Police foils terrorism act, suicide jackets recovered (Pakistan)
Friday July 13, 2007

DERA ISMAIL KHAN - Police has foiled an attempt of terrorism by arresting three culprits and recovering weapons, explosives and seven jackets used for suicide attack in the jurisdiction of Saddar Police Station, Dera Ismail Khan on Friday .

Police on suspicion have searched the car bearing no (DNN-7979) standing alongside the under construction bungalow in Akbar Town, Bannu Road and recovered 100 mortar shells, 7 jackets used for suicide attack, 2 anti tank, missile, hand grenade and ammunitions in large number.

Five persons started running standing some distance away near the vehicle after watching the police coming towards them. Station House Office (SHO) Saddar Police Station Bahawal Khan along with heavy contingent of Police managed to arrest three culprits including Jamshed, Ehsan and Nisar while two are still at large. SHO Saddar Office told media men that Police have foiled their major attempt of terrorism in Dera Ismail Khan.

http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?183897

Area to Get More Anti-Terrorism Funds (D.C.)
Saturday, July 14,

The Department of Homeland Security will increase a key anti-terrorism grant for the D.C. area by one-third this year, to $61.6 million, but local officials said the amount still doesn't reflect the grave risk facing the region. "It's better, but not enough," said Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), who disclosed the figure. "This is the capital of the free world. We have to assume it is at or near the top of most terrorists' target lists."

The grant is critical to the area's spending on anti-terrorism equipment, training, planning and exercises. A U.S. intelligence report warned this week that al-Qaeda is becoming better positioned to attack the West. The Homeland Security program will distribute $746 million in anti-terrorism funds, based on risk, to 45 metropolitan regions this year. Officials from the D.C. and New York areas were outraged last year when their grants were cut by 40 percent.

Excerpted

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/13/AR2007071301874.html

Travel bans considered to stop Britons training for terrorism overseas
July 14, 2007

BRITAIN: Criminals in Britain could be barred from traveling to countries suspected of harbouring terrorist camps after officials confirmed the leader of a 2005 bombing plot had been allowed to go to Pakistan despite facing minor charges in Britain.

Failed bomber Muktar Said Ibrahim was an Eritrean refugee given a British passport in 2004 - a fact that has fueled debate in Britain over border controls and immigration. Ibrahim, 29, was among four men sentenced Wednesday to a minimum of 40 years in prison over the failed bombings, which were attempted two weeks after the July 7, 2005 suicide attacks that killed 52 commuters on three London subway cars and a bus.

British authorities had granted Ibrahim British citizenship and allowed him to travel freely although he had prior convictions for assault and, at the time of a 2004 trip to Pakistan, had been charged and due to appear before a court over a disturbance that occurred while he was distributing extremist leaflets.

Excerpted

http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/07/14/wld01.asp

[Oorang]

Terror Cell
14/07/2007

AN al-Qaeda fanatic jailed for inciting murder online was caught creating a website urging terror attacks - from his cell in Britain's most secure prison.

Tariq Al-Daour, 21, used a smuggled mobile phone and modem lead to access the internet on a laptop issued by the Prison Service to help him prepare his court case. The laptop was seized after a violent struggle when prison officers suspected he was misusing it and the hate-filled website called Global Jihad was found.

The Home Office has launched an urgent inquiry to discover how the mobile was smuggled into Belmarsh's High Security Unit, which holds the country's most dangerous inmates. They fear Al-Daour may have used it to contact other al-Qaeda terrorists and are scrutinising calls he made.

A senior prison source said yesterday: "It is frightening that an al-Qaeda prisoner was able to build an extremist website within Britain's supposedly most secure jail. "This is a massive security breach and should never have been allowed to happen. It's a real wake-up call. "The fact he was inside for building terror websites means he should have been watched like a hawk especially as he was given a laptop. "A mobile phone should never have managed to end up in the High Security Unit in the first place. "Prisoners are strip searched every time they enter and leave. "The fear is a corrupt member of staff got the phone in."

Al-Daour's website, built while he was on trial, was full of al-Qaeda propaganda calling on extremists to wage war on the West. The source said: "The website was not finished - but it wasn't far off. "He must have been working on it for some time as there were a lot of pages and text. It is staggering that he was able to work undetected."

Two weeks ago, Al-Daour, born in the United Arab Emirates, and two fellow extremists were jailed for six-and-a-half-years for inciting terrorist murder using the internet. They ran a series of jihad websites containing films of beheadings and instructions on bomb-making. The so-called cyber jihadis were the first to be convicted in the UK of inciting terror online.

Al-Daour's laptop was seized at the South London jail in May. He refused to hand it over sparking a vicious riot in which four officers were battered with pool cues by Al-Daour and other al-Qaeda prisoners.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/07/14/terror-cell-89520-19453764/

[ExSoldier]

'Zilla, that 3rd battle group....do you think it's acting as part of a force to militarily degrade Iran from further nuke production? Or might it be as a potential backup to Israeli action against either Iran or Syria? IF the Israelis pull the trigger on Iran and Syria first what is the liklihood in your estimation of that conflict widening substantially and do you think that any such conflict may increase terror potentials here on home soil?

[Oorang]

Morocco detains 15 terror suspects
Saturday, July 14, 2007

RABAT: Moroccan police have detained 15 radical Islamists on suspicions of plotting terror attacks in the North African country, the justice minister said.

"Arrests had been made, according to the information from the Kingdom's public prosecutor. Fifteen detainees are in custody, three of them had been extradited by Libya," Ahmed Bouzouba told Assabah newspaper in an interview published on Friday.

"Indeed, these people were arrested as they prepared terrorist attacks," he added, declining to give details because of what he called the secrecy of the ongoing investigation. The minister's top aide confirmed to Reuters Bouzouba's remarks. Neither Bouzouba nor his aide gave details on the three Moroccans arrested in Libya before their extradition to Rabat. Police sources said dozens of radical Islamists had fled a police crackdown in Morocco in the 1980s and 1990s to settle in Libya. Last week, Morocco raised the security alert level to the highest rating of "maximum", suggesting an attack was imminent.

Morocco's Interior Ministry said it obtained intelligence information on the threat in recent days but gave no details. The region has been on alert since Al Qaeda's affiliate in North Africa, the Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, which is based in Algeria, threatened to escalate its war against "corrupt" governments in the region and their Western allies.

Excerpted

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/07/14/story_14-7-2007_pg4_3

Haneef charged over terror link
July 14, 2007

GOLD Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef has been charged with providing support to a terrorist organisation, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a statement today.

Police will allege Gold Coast doctor Mohamed Haneef supported a terrorist organisation by "recklessly'' giving his mobile phone SIM card to people planning car bomb attacks in the UK. Dr Haneef, an Indian national who worked as a registrar at Gold Coast Hospital, will today face Brisbane Magistrates Court.

Excerpted

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22072583-2,00.html

[Cindy]

Adding to your links...not the first time regarding the internet and phone access.

http://www.truthusa.com/NewsInternetGuerin.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/6638633.stm

Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 10:46 GMT 11:46 UK

“Birds, booze and drugs found in prison”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “At least eight smuggled mobile phones, three Sim cards, about 150 tablets - including ecstasy, a significant quantity of powdered drugs, a large amount of homemade alcohol and 30 syringes were found.

A budgie which belonged to a long-term prisoner was also confiscated.

It is believed it had been smuggled into the prison by a female visitor who concealed the bird in her body.

A budgie was found in the cell of one prisoner

The search was sparked after armed robber John Daly telephoned a radio programme on state broadcaster RTE from an illegal mobile phone while in his cell last week.

His phone was seized by staff during the programme and the inmate has since been transferred to Cork Prison.

The search was ordered by governor Ned Whelan who drafted in all available staff for the search which began on the EI landing.

The landing houses some of the country’s most notorious prisoners, including John Gilligan, whose gang was responsible for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin in June 1996.”

[Cindy]

Speaking of Belmarsh...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1603333/posts?page=19#19

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005716.html

26 August 2006
“This little jihadi went to prison...”

SNIPPET: “And this little jihadi cried, “Alluha Akbar! Alluha Akbar!” all the way home to Belmarsh Prison”

[Cindy]

Regarding post no. 1331

Regarding my BBC prison article, that was a different prison, but you get the idea.

PHOTO caption from the BBC article:

“An inmate at Portlaoise Prison called a radio show from his mobile phone”

[callmejoe]

http://www.startribune.com/722/story/1297582.html

U.S. carriers bridging the gulf

U.S. carriers there have 2 missions: aircover for the Iraq and Afghan wars, and signaling resolve to Iran.

By Borzou Daragahi, LOS ANGELES TIMES

Last update: July 11, 2007 – 10:37 PM

ABOARD THE U.S.S. JOHN C. STENNIS (excerpt)

Iran and the United States remain so far apart on so many issues that they refuse to talk about them. But in the cramped sea routes of the Persian Gulf, U.S. and Iranian warship sailors and fighter pilots speak to each other daily. They have to. They’re practically jostling one another in courteous games of surveillance and geopolitical posturing.

“We are operating very close to their territorial waters in a very confined space with a tremendous amount of traffic,” said Navy Capt. Sterling Gilliam Jr., commander of air operations for this nuclear-powered supercarrier and its task forces. Even mundane changes of direction require chitchat with Iranian counterparts. When sedate gulf winds fade to a whisper, for example, this 100,000-ton carrier whips up to the 25 knots required to hurl jets into flight from the 1,092-foot-long flight deck. But first the vessel alerts the nearby forces of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the organization’s navy. . .

Nearly half the U.S. Navy’s 277 warships are stationed close to Iran, alongside most of Tehran’s estimated 140 naval surface ships and six submarines, according to GlobalSecurity.org. More than five dozen aircraft are aboard the Stennis, along with dozens more aboard the Nimitz, another carrier in the gulf. . .

Positioning two aircraft carrier groups in the gulf gives the United States the capability to operate 24 hours a day and potentially conduct about 180 daily bombing and surveillance operations over Iran. It also means the United States may be deploying nuclear weapons, believed to be aboard some of the ships in the carrier groups, within 10 miles of Iran’s shores. . .

[eastforker]

I know I don’t post here very often but don’t think I don’t read what y’all post, please don’t forget me in your pings, thanks

[Cindy]

Hi Eastforker.

I don’t have a formal ping list and nwctwx uses his pings once in awhile and for threat changes.

If you aren’t on that ping list, just send nwctwx a freepmail.

[Cindy]

Penguino, your post must have been the shot, er, the post most read around the internet. That is why you MUST post more often. -Cindy

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Thanks to Calpernia for the ping to this thread.

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865792/posts

Al-Qaida Tape Includes Secret Code?
newsmax.com ^ | Friday, July 13, 2007 9:43 p.m. EDT

Posted on 07/13/2007 9:32:18 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch

U.S. officials are taking a close look at the latest audiotape of al-Qaida’s second-in-command to see if it contains a coded message to launch a terrorist attack.

The tape of Ayman al Zawahri was posted Wednesday on the Internet, and ABCNews.com says one phrase is repeated three times at the end:

Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness.

Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness.

Story Continues Below

Have I not conveyed? Oh God be my witness.

An FBI analysis of al-Qaida messages, obtained by ABCNews.com, warns that “continued messages that convey their strategic intent to strike the U.S. homeland and U.S. interests worldwide should not be discounted as merely deceptive noise.”

[eastforker]

I am on that list cindy but when you find out something unusual I still appreciate the ping. I just wanted you all to know how much this thread means to everyone even though it does not get the recognition it deserves.

[Cindy]

Ok Eastforker.
Thank you.

[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=denmark
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=cartoonjihad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865433/posts

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Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L13929400.htm

“Muslim group loses cartoons libel case in Denmark”
13 Jul 2007 14:00:55 GMT
Source: Reuters

By Gelu Sulugiuc and Rasmus Nord Jorgensen

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “COPENHAGEN, July 13 (Reuters) - A Muslim group lost a libel case on Friday against the leader of a Danish anti-immigrant party who had accused its members of treason for publicising cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
A court ruled that Pia Kjaersgaard, leader of the Danish People’s Party (DPP), did not libel the Islamic Faith Community when she accused some of its members of treason for travelling to the Middle East to publicise a Danish newspaper’s publication of the drawings, which caused a worldwide uproar in 2006.

The court said the term “treason” was not libellous because it was used extensively in public debate. It ordered the plaintiffs, a loose network of Danish Muslim organisations which says it represents 50,000 members, to pay Kjaersgaard 40,000 Danish crowns ($7,400) in costs.

In September 2005, the newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons of the Prophet which were later reprinted elsewhere and provoked outrage among Muslims.

Three Danish embassies were attacked and at least 50 people were killed in rioting in the Middle East and Asia. Most Muslims regard any depiction of the Prophet as offensive.”