Posted on 07/28/2008 8:37:15 AM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Is U.S. Bioterror Attack Just A Matter of Time?
The overriding question is whether the U.S. is “ready” for a bioterror attack. The answer could well rely on the “other” question of what bio-agent and what’s the source? In 1991, 40,000 Russian scientists dispersed throughout the World, with knowledge of what the U.S.S.R. was doing in chemical and biological weapons. The question is to whom did they sell their knowledge? Some believe former Soviet scientists sold technology to countries like Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Lurking is the spectre of al-Qaeda, a group that the Pentagon says continues to pursue biological weapons.
Another scenario is an outbreak of a pandemic. How would the U.S. deal with an infectious disease outbreak? The picture, despite reassurances, is not pretty. Until now, the U.S. has experienced two major biological attacks.
In 1984, the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and his followers attempted to take over the town of the Dalles, Oregon by contaminating salad bars in the town. In 2001, there was the as yet unsolved mystery of the anthrax letters that killed five people.
But the question of bioterrorism extends to potential threats against our food supply and our clean water resources. It also extends to the threat of outbreaks of diseases in our animals populations. Here, the concern are diseases that attack animals but that can jump to humans. These are referred to as zoonotic diseases. The World Health Organization defines zonnotic diseases as:
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Also on radio today I heard an add for city council in Knoxville Tenn. the guy running, English was so bad I could hardly understand his add.
Also some kind of accident at Oak ridge Nuke Plant.
Hey RR happy to see you ;)
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ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL PLEADS GUILTY TO PARTICIPATING IN WIRE FRAUD SCHEME ARISING OUT OF AL-HILLAH , IRAQ
WASHINGTON – Debra Harrison, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, pleaded guilty today to honest services wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Coalition Provisional Authority - South Central Region (CPA-SC) in Al-Hillah, Iraq, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division.
Harrison, 50, of Trenton, N.J., entered her guilty plea today before the Honorable Mary L. Cooper at the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, Trenton Division. At the plea hearing, Harrison admitted that in August 2004 she received a Cadillac Escalade from Philip Bloom, a contractor at the CPA-SC. The Escalade was financed through a series of wire transfer payments, which form the basis of the wire fraud charge. Harrison also admitted that she took more than $300,000 from the CPA-SC while deployed there and that she used some of the stolen money to make improvements at her home. Harrison also admitted that in July 2004 she helped to move unregistered firearms from a hotel in North Carolina to the home of Robert Stein, a co-conspirator who worked with Harrison at the CPA-SC.
Harrison’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 19, 2008. Harrison faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a three year term of supervised release and a fine of $250,000.
On Jan. 29, 2007, co-conspirator Robert Stein was sentenced to nine years in prison for related charges of conspiracy, bribery and money laundering, as well as weapons possession charges, for his role in the same scheme. Stein was also ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in the bribery and money laundering scheme.
On Feb.16, 2007, co-conspirator Philip Bloom was sentenced to 46 months in prison for related charges of conspiracy, bribery and money laundering for his role in the scheme. Bloom was also ordered to forfeit $3.6 million for his role in the bribery and money laundering scheme.
On June 25, 2007, Lt. Col. Bruce Hopfengardner was sentenced to 21 months in prison for conspiracy and money laundering related to this scheme. Hopfengardner was also ordered to forfeit $144,500.
On Feb. 1, 2007, Col. Curtis Whiteford, Lt. Col. Michael Wheeler, and civilians Seymour Morris Jr. and William Driver were charged in a 25-count indictment for related charges including conspiracy, bribery and money laundering in connection with this scheme. Trial in this case is scheduled to begin Sept. 9, 2008, in Trenton.
These cases are being prosecuted by Trial Attorneys Ann C. Brickley and John P. Pearson of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section, headed by Section Chief William M. Welch II. The cases are being investigated by the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI-Washington Field Office.
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PCP Trafficker Sentenced to Life in Prison
—Defendant Arranged for PCP to be Smuggled by Drug Couriers on Commercial Airlines—
Washington, D.C.– Troy Hopkins, a 31-year-old Lanham, Maryland resident, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton to life imprisonment for his role in a large-scale PCP distribution network. Hopkins, a career offender, was convicted of narcotics conspiracy in November of 2007, after a two-month trial.
The government presented evidence at trial that established that Troy Hopkins, one of the principal leaders of the conspiracy, developed relationships with California PCP suppliers who sold gallon quantities of the drug. Hopkins and other co-conspirators then used drug couriers – often young women – to carry gallons of PCP aboard airline jets that flew from Los Angeles International Airport, Long Beach Airport, and Burbank Airport into Baltimore Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport and Dulles International Airport. These drug couriers carried the PCP in mouthwash, body lotion, or shampoo bottles packed in their checked luggage, while Hopkins took later flights to distance himself from the couriers during the transportation process. Hopkins alone made in excess of 25 trips to Los Angeles during a three-year period in order to purchase the PCP, and he established a network of more than 10 drug couriers. In a 24-month period alone, Hopkins and his co-conspirators were responsible for transporting in excess of 30 kilograms of PCP from California to the Washington metropolitan area.
Once the PCP arrived in the Washington area, local members of the conspiracy “cut” the PCP with car starter fluid in order to extend their profits. The conspirators then sold the PCP to wholesale customers. The PCP would be resold on the streets of the District of Columbia and Maryland. Hopkins made an estimated $20,000 to $40,000 profit per gallon reselling the PCP.
The prosecution was the result of a multi-year investigation and was led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it involved the OCDETF and HIDTA task forces.
In announcing the sentence, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor commended FBI Special Agents Timothy Ervin, Tucker Vanderbunt, Kevin Ashby, Timothy Foster, Jesus Gomez, and John Bevington, and FBI Supervisory Telecommunications Specialist Daniel Wentz, Prince George’s County, Maryland Police Detective Sean Deere and the Prince George’s County Police Major Narcotics Enforcement Division, Calvert County, Maryland Sheriff’s Detective Scott Parrish, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agents Amin Fard, John Haggerty, and Cindy Buskey, Supervisory Special Agent James Benicek, and Chemist Steven Demchuck, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy John Cater, Los Angeles Police Officer John Ashpaugh and Detective Daniel Armand, and Burbank, California Police Department Detective David Kleinfeld and Deputy U.S. Marshal Richard Kelly for their work on the investigation of this case. In addition, U.S. Attorney Taylor commended Paralegal Supervisor Mary Downing, and Paralegal Specialists Mia Beamon and Carolyn Carter-McKinley who assisted in the investigation and prosecution, as well as Litigation Support personnel Thomas Royal, Errol Spears, Tim Linder, Victim Witness Unit Specialist Dawn Tolson-Hightower and former Criminal Division Intern Ivanna Deyrup. Finally, U.S. Attorney Taylor praised Assistant U.S. Attorneys S. Elisa Poteat and Emory V. Cole, who investigated and prosecuted this matter.
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LOBBYIST PLEADS GUILTY TO DESTROYING EVIDENCE IN PUBLIC CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON—A partner in a Pennsylvania-based lobbying firm pleaded guilty today to destruction of evidence, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor for the District of Columbia, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Joseph Persichini Jr., and Special Agent in Charge C. André Martin of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation announced.
Cecelia Grimes, 43, of Parkesburg, Penn., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr., in U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. At sentencing, Grimes faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
According to the evidence presented at the plea hearing, Grimes was a registered lobbyist whose firm submitted requests for appropriations to the office of a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Representative A). Beginning prior to October 2006, the FBI opened an investigation into certain activities of Representative A, including whether Representative A agreed to support appropriations requests made by Grimes’s firm in return for the payment of fees to Grimes’s firm by its clients.
As part of that investigation, on Oct. 16, 2006, FBI agents served Grimes with two grand jury subpoenas after questioning her in relation to the investigation. One subpoena was for her lobbying firm’s custodian of records and the other was for the custodian of records of another lobbying firm of which Grimes was the sole proprietor. Both subpoenas were issued on behalf of a grand jury of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The subpoenas instructed the custodians of records to produce by Oct. 27, 2006, a series of records, including all documents relating to: several of Firm A’s clients; Representative A; Representative A’s campaigns; or Grimes’s travel.
Evidence presented at the plea hearing revealed that within six days of the FBI’s service of the two grand-jury subpoenas, Grimes placed some documents that she had stored in her house into trash bags, which she then brought to the front of her house for collection as garbage. These documents included items related to Grimes’s travel and to Representative A’s campaigns. FBI agents retrieved the garbage bags that contained the discarded documents, which were never produced to law enforcement authorities.
Evidence also presented at the plea hearing revealed Grimes destroyed e-mails that were stored on her BlackBerry device. In early November 2006, Grimes placed her BlackBerry device in a trash can near a restaurant in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Grimes discarded her BlackBerry for the purpose of keeping the FBI from reviewing certain e-mails of hers that would be of interest to the FBI.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Howard Sklamberg, Trial Attorney Gregory C.J. Lisa of the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, Trial Attorney Armando O. Bonilla and former Trial Attorney Natashia Tidwell of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section. The case is being investigated by the FBI and IRS Criminal Investigation. The investigation of this case is ongoing.
[Who is “A”? granny]
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FORMER TOP SAS CARGO GROUP A/S EXECUTIVE AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY TO PARTICIPATING IN PRICE-FIXING CONSPIRACY
WASHINGTON — The former highest-ranking cargo executive in the United States for SAS Cargo Group A/S (SAS), a Scandinavian-based airline, has agreed to plead guilty and serve six months in jail for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices for air cargo rates, the Department of Justice announced today.
According to the charges filed today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Timothy Pfeil, while in his capacity as SAS’s area director of sales and marketing for North America, conspired with competitors to fix the rates charged to U.S. and international customers on air cargo shipments, in violation of the Sherman Act. In accordance with the plea agreement, which is subject to court approval, Pfeil has agreed to cooperate with the Department’s ongoing investigation.
In July 2008, SAS pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $52 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix prices on air cargo rates.
The air cargo conspiracy affected billions of dollars of consumer and other goods –including produce, clothing, electronics and medicines –shipped by air cargo companies. Including today’s charges, nine companies and two executives have been charged in the Antitrust Division’s ongoing investigation into the air cargo industry and more than $1.2 billion in criminal fines have been imposed.
“The air transportation of industrial and consumer products is a critical part of the global economy,” said Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department’s Antitrust Division. “The Department will continue its investigation of this important industry, and we remain dedicated to aggressively pursuing all those who engage in criminal conduct that harms American consumers.”
According to the charges, beginning at least as early as January 2005 and continuing until at least February 2006, Pfeil and his co-conspirators:
Participated in meetings, conversations and communications in the United States and elsewhere to discuss the cargo rates to be charged on certain routes to and from the United States;
Agreed during those meetings, conversations and communications, on certain components of the cargo rates to be charged for shipments on certain routes to and from the United States;
Charged cargo rates in the United States and elsewhere in accordance with the agreements reached; and
Engaged in meetings, conversations and communications in the United States and elsewhere for the purpose of monitoring and enforcing adherence to the agreed-upon cargo rates.
In August 2007, British Airways Plc pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $300 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix cargo rates for international air shipments, including to and from the United States, and to fix passenger fuel surcharges for long-haul international air transportation, including between the United States and United Kingdom. The same day, Korean Air Lines pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $300 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix cargo rates charged to customers in the United States and elsewhere for international air shipments and to fix wholesale and passenger fares for flights from the United States to Korea.
In January 2008, Qantas Airways Limited pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $61 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix cargo rates to customers in the United States and elsewhere for international air shipments.
In May 2008, Japan Airlines pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $110 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix rates for international cargo shipments.
Also in May 2008, Bruce McCaffrey, Qantas’ former highest-ranking executive employed in the United States, pleaded guilty to fixing cargo rates to customers in the United States and elsewhere for international air shipments, and agreed to serve eight months in jail, and to pay a criminal fine.
Along with SAS, in July 2008, Cathay Pacific Airways Limited ( Cathay), Martinair Holland N.V. (Martinair), Société Air France (Air France) and Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) pleaded guilty to conspiring to fix prices on air cargo rates. Cathay was sentenced to pay a $60 million criminal fine, Martinair was sentenced to pay a $42 million criminal fine, and Air France-KLM, which now operates under common ownership by a single holding company, was sentenced to pay a $350 million criminal fine.
The ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Antitrust Division’s National Criminal Enforcement Section and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Anyone with information concerning price-fixing or other anti-competitive conduct in the air transportation industry is urged to call the National Criminal Enforcement Section of the Antitrust Division at 202-307-6694 or the FBI Washington Field Office at 202-278-2000.
New York Jihad Birthday Invitations Warn of Terror Threat In Lower Manhattan
National Terror Alert ^ | 072808
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Posted on 07/28/2008 2:06:02 PM PDT by mimmson
New York Jihad… It could be a hoax but it could also be an actual terror threat. At this time, no one is sure but investigators are not taking any chances. Cards that look like birthday invitations, sent to seven New York residents including a Fox News producer contained a serious terror threat and are now being tested for fingerprints and DNA.
The story bears some similarity to the Jihad Boom postcard story followed last year.
In September of 2007, investigators in Marion County, Fla., announced that they were searching for the author of nine postcards sent to different schools on the same day, with the words “9-11? 10-10 ‘Jihad-Boom” and cartoons drawn by hand, of a building being blown up with people inside.
From RB post do you remember the 2 guys in Tenn. in the moving truck?...”Israeli police have arrested and charged six Israeli-Arabs”<<<
Yes, and I still think that they were not real Israelis, here is the link:
Israeli official says detentions of 2 men ‘comedy of mistakes’
Johnson City Press ^ | May 20, 2004 | Ron Scalf
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139211/posts
I haven’t heard anything on a nuclear incident, but did hear on the radio news than another Quantas [sp?] plane had returned to the airport, the wheels did not work, or rather the wheel cover door did not close....this morning.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052765/posts
Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Sean Hannity on accused shooter’s reading list
Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | July 28, 2008 | Hayes Hickman, Don Jacobs
Posted on Monday, July 28, 2008 3:26:23 PM by Monitor
Edited on Monday, July 28, 2008 3:29:06 PM by Jim Robinson. [history]
Police found right-wing political books, brass knuckles, empty shotgun shell boxes and a handgun in the Powell home of a man who said he attacked a church in order to kill liberals “who are ruining the country,” court records show.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxnews.com ...
Davey here is the research that I did on them last night, with the links to the cards sent to the schools in 2007:
More links for the 2007 terror post cards:
With some details:
http://www.local6.com/news/14129427/detail.html
This says there was a man taking pictures at the school, says she is a teacher in one of the schools that got a card:
The photo that I sent to you:
http://cristyli.blogspot.com/2007/09/school-terror-threat-jihad-boom.html
The threat of today:
TERROR THREAT IS IN THE CARDS
EERIE MAILINGS PREDICT NYC BOMBINGS
By BRAD HAMILTON and MURRAY WEISS
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Posted: 4:06 am
July 27, 2008
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[From Google, school fire links:]
Chief: Fire at school started by vandals
TheChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
By AMY PUGSLEY FRASER Staff Reporter A fire outside a Dartmouth elementary
school Sunday afternoon is considered vandalism, fire officials say. ...
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Police appeal for information following suspicious fire at school ...
NSW Police Online (press release) - Australia
Police are appealing for public assistance following a suspicious fire at a
school in Hurstville yesterday afternoon. About 4.30pm on Sunday, 27 July,
...
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Crews work to reopen burned Wheaton school
Chicago Tribune - United States
By Joseph Sjostrom | Chicago Tribune reporter Workers taking apart Briar
Glen Elementary School in Wheaton after a rooftop fire on July 18 hoped,
...
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Fire rages unchecked near Yosemite
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
At a Red Cross evacuation center at Mariposa Elementary School, where more
than 15 people slept on green cots Saturday night, kids watched an animated
movie ...
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Schools fire up Labor PC spend
Australian IT - Australia
AUSTRALIAN public schools have begun buying PCs as part of Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd’s plan to equip each secondary school student in Years 9 to 12
with a ...
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Funeral for Pulaski fire chief
WKBT - La Crosse,WI,USA
A public visitation and wake was held Sunday at Pulaski High School for
76-year-old Frank Wichlacz (WIK’-lash). He was killed last week when an ...
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Toledo sports bar fire
13abc.com - Toledo,OH,USA
A program that allows Ohio prison inmates to earn high school equivalency
diplomas is showing signs of success. The Short Term Offender program began
in ...
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Washington firefighter dies battling Calif. blaze
Seattle Times - United States
... The Washington man who died on his first day working a northern
California fire line had graduated one month earlier from Port Townsend
High School. ...
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School bus catches fire
Gold Coast News - Molendinar,Queensland,Australia
A QUICK-thinking passing mechanic pulled the fuel line off a burning school
bus yesterday afternoon, stopping the engine and the fire. ...
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New drama block for fire-hit school
A new £717000 drama hall is set to replace one destroyed by arson a year ago to be built at Lord Williams’s Lower School, in Thame.
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St. Francis, WI School For Deaf Fire, Aug 1907
By Stu Beitler
FIRE RUINS AN ST. FRANCIS. CATHOLIC DEAF INSTITUTE PARTIALLY DESTROYED BY FLAMES — LOSS $35000 — TWO OVERCOME BY THE SMOKE. read more »
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wildfire - day one
By .m.(.m.)
We rolled into camp at about three pm, and it was clear that the Cub Complex fire had taken over the sleepy little lakeside town. The high school and elementary school fields were packed wall to wall with firefighter sleeping tents. ...
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Telegraph Fire - 26130 acres 10%
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Active fire behavior is being observed in all directions primarily on the south and east flanks. A Community Meeting is being planned for night at the Mariposa High School. Click Here for more information. CAL FIRE Incident Command Team ...
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California Fire News - Structure,...
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The Daily Progress - Jul 27 7:49 PM
Lab results could determine if a device causing a bomb scare in Albemarle County last week was a hoax or an explosive that hadn’t gone off. The results of investigations could be enough to cause increased suspicion among some local residents, a Fire Rescue official said.
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Honolulu Advertiser - Jul 28 12:30 PM
An improvised explosive device blew off the driver’s side mirror and damaged the driver’s side door of a woman’s vehicle early this morning.
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WEAU Eau Claire - 4 minutes ago
A man who holed up in a city hall restroom in southern Wisconsin claiming to have an explosive device has been taken into custody.
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KRON 4 Bay Area - Jul 28 12:49 PM
PEWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) - Authorities say a standoff has ended in an arrest at City Hall in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. They say a man had holed up in a restroom claiming to have an explosive device. The building was ordered evacuated.
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Pioneer Press - Jul 28 11:02 AM
PEWAUKEE, Wis. — A bomb squad and other law enforcement officers are at Pewaukee City Hall in a standoff with a man who holed up in a restroom and claimed to have an explosive device.
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New Kerala - Jul 27 10:21 PM
Tiruneleveli, Jul 27 : City Police today arrested a suspect here for possessing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and other explosive materials, meant for producing bombs.
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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune - Jul 28 10:31 AM
PEWAUKEE (AP) A man who holed up in a Pewaukee City Hall restroom and claimed to have a bomb was arrested Monday after a standoff with police. It was not yet clear whether the bomb was real, police said Monday afternoon. The city hall was evacuated Monday morning after a man in a unisex public restroom said he had an explosive device attached to him. Officers evacuated the building and ...
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Man arrested after standoff in Pewaukee Open this result in new window
Stevens Point Journal - Jul 28 11:10 AM
PEWAUKEE A man who holed up in a Pewaukee City Hall restroom claiming to have an explosive device has been taken into custody. Pewaukee police Capt. Daniel Meister says police negotiated with the man through the bathroom door and eventually arrested him. Meister says he doesnt know yet whether the device the man was wearing was actually a bomb. The Milwaukee County Sheriffs Department bomb squad ...
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Channel 4 - Jul 28 5:30 AM
At least 17 people were killed and more than150 wounded in the blast. The first device went off in the residential neighbourhood of Gungoren just after 10pm local time. As people rushed over to help those caught up in the blast a second bomb was detonated ten minutes later.
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Authorities Investigating Bomb Threat At Credit Union Branches In Tyler Open this result in new window
Tyler Morning Telegraph - Jul 25 3:12 PM
Authorities this afternoon are at Kelly Tire Federal Credit Union branches in the Tyler area in response to a bomb threat. Each site has been evacuated as officials check for an explosive device.
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HT via Yahoo! India News - Jul 27 12:40 PM
As police was trying to identify the culprits behind Saturday’s deadly serial blasts, live explosive devices were defused in Ahmedabad and Surat. On Sunday morning, police in the two cities found live explosive devices, similar to the ones used in Saturday’s blasts. While a sweeper found the explosive device in a garbage dump in Ahmedabad’s Hatkeshwar area, the device was found planted at a ...
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The Arizona Republic - Jul 28 9:33 AM
A 23-year-old man was shot in the leg and a 43-year-old man suffered a severe hand injury from an explosive device during a large brawl that erupted in south Phoenix when a partying gang became upset with a family’s nearby birthday celebration, police said.
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Pipe bomb found north of Great Falls Open this result in new window
Billings Gazette - 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
GREAT FALLS - The Cascade County sheriff’s office is looking into who made apipe bomb that was found by a member of the public north of Great Falls.
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Associated Press - July 28, 2008 4:44 PM ET GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - The Cascade County sheriff’s office is looking into who made apipe bomb that was found by a member of the public north of...
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Grenade found in car on Ambassador Bridge Open this result in new window
Detroit Free Press - Jul 27 9:15 PM
U.S. Customs officials at the Ambassador Bridge found a grenade in a car entering the United States Sunday night.
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Grenade found in car on Ambassador Bridge Open this result in new window
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids - Jul 28 4:48 AM
Grenade found in car on Ambassador Bridge
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Bangalore IEDs concocted locally Open this result in new window
HT via Yahoo! India News - Jul 26 1:20 PM
The first leads in Friday’s serial blasts have started emerging after investigators found, defused and analysed a live unexploded Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in the posh Kormangla area of the city on Saturday morning. The IED was recovered metres away from where a woman was killed in the serial blasts on Friday.
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More bombs, nation on alert Open this result in new window
Hindustan Times - Jul 28 3:44 AM
As police was trying to identify the culprits behind Saturday’s deadly serial blasts, live explosive devices were defused in Ahmedabad and Surat. On Sunday morning, police in the two cities found live explosive devices, similar to the ones used in Saturday’s blasts.
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Albemarle bomb scare under review Open this result in new window
The Daily Progress - Jul 27 7:49 PM
Lab results could determine if a device causing a bomb scare in Albemarle County last week was a hoax or an explosive that hadn’t gone off. The results of investigations could be enough to cause increased suspicion among some local residents, a Fire Rescue official said.
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Students’ Device Aims to Protect Electric Utility Workers Open this result in new window
PhysOrg - Jul 28 12:47 PM
Engineering students at Johns Hopkins have invented a tool that would allow utility workers to disconnect power lines from residential transformers at a safe distance, beyond the range of dangerous electrical arcs.
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Alleged gang fight leaves man critically wounded Open this result in new window
Chicago Sun-Times - Jul 28 5:20 AM
An alleged gang member was critically injured when he was stabbed after the van he was inside broke down in rival gang territory early Sunday in the Back-of-the-Yards neighborhood on the Southwest Side.
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Gang rivalry boils over in Little Elm shooting Open this result in new window
The Little Elm Journal - Jul 28 8:59 AM
People associated with the Tre’ Squad Clique, or TSC, and G-Shine gangs reportedly argued and shot at each other in Little Elm on June 22. Five suspects affiliated with TSC went to a house on Sunbeam to fight a person who was possibly a member of a rival gang, G-Shine, Little Elm police said.
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Gang fight stabbing victim, 21, dies in hospital Open this result in new window
Yorkshire Post Today - Jul 27 11:11 PM
A YOUNG man murdered in a vicious street fight between rival black and Asian gangs has been named by police. (28/07/2008 06:51:10)
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Man knifed to death in Bradford gang fight Open this result in new window
Daily Mirror - Jul 27 12:18 AM
A man has been stabbed to death and two others seriously injured in a fight between two rival gangs.
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Police: Gang-Related Fight Inside Shopping Center Open this result in new window
WITN 7 North Carolina - Jul 27 5:06 PM
Police say between 200 and 300 people joined the fight that began inside Raleigh mall.
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Raleigh Police: 200-300 People Involved In Mall Fight Open this result in new window
WSPA Spartanburg - Jul 27 1:06 PM
Police say between 200 and 300 people joined a fight that began inside Raleigh mall. Raleigh Police Department spokesman Jim Sughrue said Sunday the gang-related brawl began inside Triangle Town Center Mall on Saturday night.
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Alleged gang leader faces additional charges Open this result in new window
The Clarion-Ledger - 1 hour, 39 minutes ago
Additional charges have been brought against alleged Simon City Royals gang leader Thomasa Parker, who along with nine other people were arrested in Richland two weeks ago on a variety of drug and assault charges.
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Police: Raleigh gang problem ‘significant’ Open this result in new window
WRAL.com Raleigh - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago
Two days after hundreds of youths joined in a melee at a Raleigh mall that police described as gang-related, Police Chief Harry Dolansaid the city has a “significant” problem with gangs that requires a community response.
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Greenville police hoping state legislation will help fight gang activity Open this result in new window
The Daily Reflector - Jul 24 8:41 PM
Local law enforcement agencies and state legislators are hoping that two bills passed by the General Assembly this session will provide the strength police need to fight gang activity and rescue youth from a hard life on the streets.
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Federal grants to aid drug fight in Western Massachusetts Open this result in new window
The Republican - 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The federal government is sending nearly $3 million to Massachusetts, including $200,000 to Springfield, to fight illegal drug use.
News Stories for gangs making the news
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Fighting off the great spam attack Open this result in new window
The New Zealand Herald - Jul 27 8:44 PM
The internet is under attack like never before, with spam accounting for 80 per cent of all emails sent worldwide, many of them money-making scams run by criminal gangs.
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Nigeria oil cut by rebel attack Open this result in new window
BBC News - Jul 28 4:55 AM
A militant attack on two pipelines cuts oil production in Nigeria, as five kidnapped oil workers are freed.
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Frantz: NFL right to crack down on gang signs Open this result in new window
The San Francisco Examiner - Jul 28 10:58 AM
It does not take a battle-hardened 30-year veteran of an urban police force to recognize that street violence perpetrated by young gangbangers and wannabes remains a serious, ongoing problem in American cities. Sure, the names may be different than some of the groups that terrorized inner city landscapes in the 1980s and 90s, and the methods may have evolved (or more appropriately, devolved) ...
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Television - Politics Open this result in new window
Scoop.co.nz - 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
Foreign affairs minister Winston Peters flies back into the country tomorrow and into mounting controversy over exactly where the money went in the New Zealand First donations saga.
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Scoop.co.nz - Jul 28 11:25 AM
Professor Malcolm White was at the meeting between Winston Peters and Sir Robert Jones when Jones made a $25,000 donation.
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Camacho Looks Ahead Open this result in new window
The Morning News - Jul 28 12:56 AM
BENTONVILLE - After the signature dries on the plea and the cell door swings shut, an accomplice to murder faces the rest of his life.
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More, cheaper heroin seen in Shore area Open this result in new window
Asbury Park Press - Jul 28 3:21 AM
Recent larger-than-usual heroin seizures have underscored the presence of the deadly powder, and law enforcement agencies report seeing larger quantities flowing into the Shore area.
[Odd that the ones I heard in Las Vegas and Denver are not on this list...granny]
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Car fire slows traffic on Rt. 80 Open this result in new window
Daily Record - Jul 28 8:08 AM
DENVILLE — Traffic is backed up on eastbound lanes of Route 80 the Denville area because of a car fire, authorities said. The car fire is reported near exit 39, according to state police.
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Ramon Road Re-Opened After Car Fire Open this result in new window
KESQ Palm Springs - Jul 27 8:37 PM
A car fire closed down a section of Ramon Road near Cathedral City this morning. The fire started around 5:00 Sunday morning at the intersection of Ramon and Landau Blvd.
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Foul play not suspected in car fire death Open this result in new window
Fond du Lac Reporter - Jul 27 1:08 PM
GREEN LAKE Foul play is not suspected in the death of 51-year-old Green Lake County man found inside a car that was destroyed by fire Friday. The remains of Joseph J. Malecki of N4986 Judy Lane were found in the car parked in his driveway in the town of Princeton. The results of the autopsy are pending, however, smoke inhalation and alcohol consumption are believed to be factors in the death, ...
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Granville prepares for fire dept. 100th, car show Open this result in new window
La Salle News Tribune - 11 minutes ago
GRANVILLE — The village of Granville will offer a blast from the past Aug. 1 and 2 during its annual cruise night and celebration honoring Granville Fire Department’s 100th anniversary.
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Car fire on I-75 near Franklin Open this result in new window
The Pulse-Journal - Jul 27 6:14 AM
A car was reported on fire on southbound Interstate 75 at mile-marker 39, near the Franklin exit. According to Warren County Sheriff’s dispatch, the car is pulled over to the side of the road. No injuries are reported at this time.
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Streets flooded after car strikes fire hydrant in SLO Open this result in new window
The San Luis Obispo Tribune - Jul 26 6:45 PM
A car sheered off a fire hydrant in San Luis Obispo on Saturday, flooding nearby streets with thousands of gallons of water. The man, whose name was not available, was reportedly driving west on Tank Farm Road near Broad Street around 5:30 p.m. when he crossed into southbound lanes for unknown reasons and slammed into a fire hydrant on the south side of the street, according to San Luis Obispo ...
[Note there have been several cars into hydrants the last few days, on the police scanners, also cars into buildings.
granny]
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Authorities Investigate Church Explosion And Death
Monday, Jul 28, 2008 @11:15am CST
(Bates City, MO) — Authorities are waiting on autopsy results to learn more about what killed a man, whose body was found in a church explosion.
Saturday afternoon, firefighters were called to Kingdom Hall in Bates City, after an explosion sparked a fire.
After putting out the flames, firefighters discovered the body.
Investigators suspect the man committed suicide.
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3 libraries closed after electrical explosion
09:06 AM MST on Monday, July 28, 2008
PHOENIX (AP) — An electrical explosion at a central Phoenix high rise knocked out the network servers at three regional Maricopa County libraries, forcing them to close.
A large commercial breaker box shorted Saturday afternoon, causing a small explosion while several people were doing electrical work at the high rise. One worker had minor burns.
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Border Patrol agent pelted by rocks near Douglas
12:54 PM MST on Monday, July 28, 2008
Associated Press
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol agent required medical treatment after he was pelted with rocks while trying to arrest five illegal immigrants near Douglas.
The Border Patrol says as the agent sustained a 5-inch cut on his head Sunday night when he was showered with rocks thrown over the fence along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Condition of hurt Tohono O’odham officer upgraded
08:54 AM MST on Monday, July 28, 2008
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A Tohono O’odham (toh-HO’-noh OH’-tuhm)police officer hospitalized after being involved in a fiery wreck early Saturday south of Tucson has had his condition upgraded.
Passing motorists found Officer Nocolas Romero’s patrol car on fire in the median of I-19 near the Papago Road exit, and pulled Romero from the car through the windshield.
continued, under investigation, may be hit and run.
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