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Posted on 07/01/2007 2:42:24 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Busy day in Columbus:
No explosives found
Bomb squad responds to 6 calls
Checking packages delayed commuters
Friday, July 6, 2007 3:27 AM
By Encarnacion Pyle
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
A sixth suspicious package closed Downtown streets late last night and tested authorities’ last nerves after hours of chasing one report after another.
Columbus police said video captured two men leaving a gift-wrapped package at the Ohio Department of Education headquarters, on Front Street near Broad Street.
A Fire Division bomb squad cut the red-and-white package open after a robot scanned it and determined it did not contain a bomb. Authorities would not say what, if anything, was in the box.
“It’s been a long, hot, difficult evening, but we must respond very quickly,” Columbus police Lt. Rod Wittich said around midnight.
“My gut tells me we had several incidences and the smart thing to do was to look at each one of them individually and see if we can determine a link and be prepared to respond at a moment’s notice,” he said.
Someone reported the package on Front Street about 9:21 last night, about 2½ hours after a wave of reports about unattended packages that tied up traffic as Downtown workers headed home. A bomb threat also was called in to Mount Carmel West.
Authorities had downplayed the earlier incidents as coincidental and unrelated, perhaps the result of local residents’ heightened vigilance after several attempted terrorist attacks in Great Britain. Two car bombs were discovered last Friday in London, and the next day, two men drove a Jeep Cherokee into the main airport in Glasgow, Scotland.
Columbus officials said there was no indication that yesterday’s incidents involved terrorism.
“Our residents are safe. That’s the first thing I want you to understand,” Mayor Michael B. Coleman said after the first five incidents.
“With unattended packages, we sometimes want to jump to the conclusion that these are suspicious packages,” he said. “Ever since 9/11, we look at things different.”
The first incident began about 4:30 p.m., when authorities closed part of High Street in the Short North after a passer-by called police about two red suitcases outside the American Apparel store at 5th Avenue.
Police discovered a tag on one piece of luggage, but the owner said she hadn’t seen the cases in more than a decade.
The area was sealed off for more than an hour as police waited for a Fire Division bomb squad. One of the squads was tied up in Marion on an unrelated matter.
“We’re a city that is prepared and has been tested,” Coleman said.
At 4:38 p.m. police received a call about a briefcase Downtown at 129 Nationwide Blvd. Bomb-squad technicians detonated the case. A portion of Nationwide was closed for a short time.
At 5:48 p.m., a bomb squad crew blew up a black briefcase found plopped near several gas pumps at a Marathon station on E. Hudson Street.
Between 6:10 p.m. and 6:49 p.m., police responded to calls about suspicious packages at I-70 and Mound Street and near N. Broadway, but neither turned out to be anything.
Mount Carmel West also received a bomb threat about the same time, causing its security officers to evacuate the emergency room and lock down the remainder of the hospital for a short time.
Hmmmm,guess I haven’t paid enough attention. Must be trying to project a kinder, gentler AQ (/sarc) Thanks for point that out
July, yes.
I think like Laura has mentioned - Zawahiri is attempting to appear more ‘statesman-like’.
Terror links man jailed for nine years
snippet:
Also found was a recipe for creating poisonous cyanide gas using tablet capsules which would kill humans within minutes, a shopping list of common substances for use in homemade bombs and a “chilling” reference to the use of radioactive radium in explosives.
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.1524702.0.terror_links_man_jailed_for_nine_years.php
“Global warming” as code for suicide bombing:
Glasgow attack: suspect’s ‘global warming’ project
...snippet...
“I am involved in a large-scale confidential project. It is about global warming. I cannot reveal the details,” he told his family in Bangalore, southern India, before leaving for Britain in May, the paper reported.
“It involves a lot of travelling ... the project has to be started in the United Kingdom,” he was quoted as saying. “Various people from various countries are involved in this.”
On June 30 — the day after two car bombs in London were discovered and defused and just prior to the Glasgow attack — Ahmed told his family in India that his “earlier presentation failed” and asked them to pray for him, the paper said.
Interesting.....
“radioactive materials”
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3351832&page=1
FBI Probes Goldman Sachs Threat Letters
Death Threats Target Home of Wall Street’s Biggest Bonuses
July 6, 2007 —
(excerpt)
The FBI is investigating anonymous threats against Goldman Sachs, the world’s biggest securities firm, contained in handwritten letters warning that “hundreds will die.”
The letters, sent to newspapers nationwide, read: “GOLDMAN SACHS. HUNDREDS WILL DIE. WE ARE INSIDE. YOU CANNOT STOP US. A.Q.U.S.A.” The letters, all mailed from Queens, N.Y., were sent to nine newspapers including publications in Newark, N.J.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Boise, Idaho, the Star-Ledger of Newark reported. . . The letters were postmarked late June from New York and were handwritten in red ink on loose-leaf paper. . .
Britain studies bomb plot for links to al Qaeda
Fri Jul 6, 2007 12:45 AM IST
By Mark Trevelyan, Security Correspondent (excerpt)
LONDON (Reuters) - Investigators are tracing their way through a maze of foreign links to a failed bomb plot in Britain to establish the possible role of al Qaeda’s inner circle or its Iraqi arm, security sources said on Thursday. . .
An intelligence paper leaked to the Sunday Times in April said the country faced threats not only from “core” al Qaeda, based in Pakistan and Afghanistan, but also increasingly from al Qaeda in Iraq (AQ-I). It said AQ-I networks were “active in the U.K.” and there was intelligence that AQ-I’s Kurdish network in Iran might be planning a large-scale attack on a Western target. . .
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/08/01/terror.threat/index.html
U.S. raises threat level at key financial sites
New York City, Washington, northern New Jersey affected
(excerpt)8/1/2004
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Security at financial sites in New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C., increased significantly Sunday after the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror threat level for those areas to orange, or high. “Alarming” intelligence from multiple sources indicates that al Qaeda terrorists could be poised to strike financial institutions, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said. . . .
Ridge said the plans appeared to include car and truck bombs, aimed at “the attempted physical destruction of these facilities.” Ridge also said “we’re concerned about targets beyond these and are working to get more information about them.” “The quality of this intelligence, based on multiple reporting streams in multiple locations, is rarely seen and is alarming in both the amount and specificity of the information,” Ridge told reporters at a news conference Sunday. . .
In New York, a law enforcement source said the information that prompted the alert is so specific — down to details about meeting rooms and parking structures — that it appears surveillance might have been conducted inside the buildings. Senior intelligence officials in Washington characterized al Qaeda’s reconnaissance information as “chilling” in its scope and breadth. . .
Both the World Bank and IMF — which are across the street from each other in downtown Washington, just a few blocks from the White House — said they would be open for businesses as usual Monday morning, albeit with additional security measures in place. . . .
City officials have been considering activating the National Guard as the Republican convention approaches, Bloomberg said, adding that officials began been weighing that idea before they received word of the threat. Ridge said in early July that al Qaeda was planning a large-scale attack in “an effort to disrupt the democratic process” before Election Day on November 2.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595081268,00.html
Deseret Morning News, Monday, August 02, 2004
Targeted companies labor to assure workers on security
By Justin Bachman
AP business (excerpt)
. . . Citigroup sent employees an e-mail telling them its security department is taking new, unspecified measures and is making “every effort to ensure your safety at all times and particularly in light of recent reports of possible threats and the upcoming Republican National Convention in New York City.” The threat was posted for Citigroup properties in the New York area. . .
New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly met with the security directors of 13 major financial institutions Sunday evening to discuss the intelligence reports about New York targets and to review police and private security measures in response to the intelligence. Police officials from the department’s counterterrorism bureau and intelligence division also participated. The 13 institutions are: Morgan Stanley Inc., the Nasdaq Stock Market, the American Stock Exchange, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.,
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.,
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bear Stearns Cos. Inc., Wachovia Corp., American International Group Inc., Citigroup, MetLife Inc., JP Morgan Chase and Co., and the New York Stock Exchange. . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7913-2004Aug17.html
Britain Charges 8 In Alleged Terror Plot
Plan Targeted U.S. Financial Buildings
By John Mintz and Kamran Khan
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, August 18, 2004; Page A01 (excerpt)
British authorities charged eight alleged al Qaeda operatives yesterday with conspiracy to commit murder and other counts in connection with a reported plot to attack the International Monetary Fund building in Washington and other sites in New York and Newark.
One of those charged was Dhiren Barot — known publicly until yesterday as Eisa Hindi — who is suspected of conducting surveillance of U.S. financial buildings that was detailed in computer files seized recently in Pakistan. The discovery of the computer documents led the U.S. government on Aug. 1 to raise the terrorism alert to orange, or “high risk,” for the financial sectors in Washington, New York and Newark. . .
Barot, 32, who was reared in a Hindu home and who converted to Islam, has used other aliases, including Issa al Britani. The commission that investigated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks referred to him by that name in its final report, released last month. It said that an al Qaeda leader in custody told interrogators that in early 2001, Osama bin Laden had sent “Britani” to the United States “to case potential economic and ‘Jewish’ targets in New York City” for possible attack. . .
Besides Barot, the names of most of the seven other men charged had not been disclosed publicly until yesterday.
He and Mohammed Naveed Bhatti, 24; Abdul Aziz Jalil, 31; Omar Abdul Rehman, 20; Junade Feroze, 28; Zia Ul Haq, 25; Qaisar Shaffi, 25; and Nadeem Tarmohammed, 26, were charged with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit a public nuisance by using “radioactive materials, toxic gases, chemicals and/or explosives to cause disruption.”
THANK YOU Velveeta for the link and snippet:
QUOTE:
Terror links man jailed for nine years
snippet:
Also found was a recipe for creating poisonous cyanide gas using tablet capsules which would kill humans within minutes, a shopping list of common substances for use in homemade bombs and a “chilling” reference to the use of radioactive radium in explosives.
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He sure is an m.f. to say the least.
Now, let’s roll this video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU7XUKdOZno
“Man found guilty of terrorism offences”
(Added July 5, 2007)
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...and watch the blogs:
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&tab=wb&q=Altimimi&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
Here’s the youtube.com account that has the same name.
http://www.youtube.com/user/mujahidfisabeelillah
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Thanks for the link, Velveeta:
http://mujahidfisabeelillah.wordpress.com/
Speaking of Pakistan...
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/07/storms_in_pakistan_1.php
“Storms in Pakistan”
By Aaron Mannes
(July 6, 2007)
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/07/uk-terror-july-6.php
“UK Terror Investigations - News Roundup - July 6”
By Jeffrey Imm
(July 6, 2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taliban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=taleban
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www.alemarah.org/
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(Note: Contacting the Taliban — email address included.”
blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/188597.php
July 06, 2007
“The Taliban Challenges Jawa, Jawa Responds”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “No joke, the Taliban have posted a message on a well-known Islamic forum addressing me, Rusty Shackleford, indirectly. In it, they gloat that their website is back online.”
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26151_Video-_Glasgow_Airport_Jihad_Doctor_Arrests&only
~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz2EbnvUF5k
“Glasgow Airport; New Arrest Footage.”
(Added July 6, 2007)
Yep, and the profile for the post, (Country: “Albania”), has other videos in his collection, too.
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www.youtube.com/user/albmus
Still ON THE NET...
www.youtube.com/user/tawheedist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hatecrimes
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hatecrime
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Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861920/posts
NEA donates thousands to pro-homosexual activist groups, pushes for ‘hate crimes’ law
OneNewsNow.com ^ | 7/4/2007 | Jim Brown
Posted on 07/06/2007 2:40:29 PM PDT by GFritsch
The National Education Association is using its annual meeting to once again reaffirm its embrace of the homosexual political agenda.
The 2.8 million-member liberal teacher’s union is meeting in Philadelphia for its annual convention, which wraps up Thursday. The NEA’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identification Committee has called on the union to “develop public and member support” for the passage of federal hate crimes legislation, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, and other measures that award homosexuals with special protected status.
The committee is expressing frustration over what it calls “the continuing lack of empirical or even anecdotal data on the experiences and the rate of harassment” against GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) school personnel. At the same time, it also wants the NEA to expand its existing GLBT web page and “develop and implement a marketing and communications strategy to enhance the visibility of GLBT issues.”
Diane Gramley, who heads the American Family Association of Pennsylvania, says the union has made a concerted effort to support and promote homosexuality including contributing $5,000 to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance against Defamation and $10,000 the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
“When you look at surveys, we see that people ages 18-25 are much more tolerable to the concepts of same-sex marriage and homosexual relationships,” says Gramley, “and I believe the results of that are because organizations such as the National Education Association are promoting the concept that ‘gay is okay’ in our schools.”
The NEA is also partnering with the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) to deliver so-called “anti-bias trainings” nationwide.
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Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859752/posts
“US INPAC - Duncan Hunter (on Hate Crimes)”
US India Political Action Committee ^ | 2007 | Staff/Duncan Hunter
Posted on 07/02/2007 11:54:53 AM PDT by pissant
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Rep. Hunter on Hate Crimes
“In the past, Congress has considered legislation that would allow the federal government to assist local authorities in the investigation and prosecution of crimes motivated by a person’s race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, or religion. Current law allows the federal government to intervene in cases deemed hate crimes only if they occur on federal property, or if the victim was participating in one of six very specific activities, such as voting.
“I have always voted against this type of legislation because I firmly believe that the use of violence against any innocent person is wrong, regardless of that individual’s race, religion, nationality or sexual orientation. Despite the intentions of these bills, I sincerely doubt that increased federal involvement in these state issues would have any significant effect on these crimes. If crimes are prioritized based on the victims’ status, we threaten the very tenet of equal protection under the law that is the foundation of our legal system.
“Instead, all violations of the law should be dealt with in a manner that delivers justice on behalf of the victims and their families. I support strict punishment for heinous crimes, like murder, regardless of the social circumstances. The idea espoused in so called “hate crime” legislation that some murders are less serious than others rebukes common sense.””
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