FAIRHOPE, Ala. -- Fairhope police and fire officials, together with Baldwin County sheriff's deputies, are investigating a bomb threat near the K-1 Center on Church Street. Mayor Tim Kant said the nursing home near the school was evacuated and a several block area cordoned off as a precaution after authorities found suspicious material when searching the area after the threat was called in.
A bomb squad was then called in to investigate the situation further. At least one of the nursing home residents was transported by ambulance after having been taken outside.
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/03/fairhope_authorities_check_out.html
Hezbollah Uses Mexican Drug Routes Into U.S.
Saturday, 28 March 2009
Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement, defense and counterterrorism officials say.
The Iran-backed Lebanese group has long been involved in narcotics and human trafficking in South America's tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. Increasingly, however, it is relying on Mexican narcotics syndicates that control access to transit routes into the U.S. Hezbollah relies on "the same criminal weapons smugglers, document traffickers and transportation experts as the drug cartels," said Michael Braun, who just retired as assistant administrator and chief of operations at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
"They work together," said Mr. Braun. "They rely on the same shadow facilitators. One way or another, they are all connected. "They'll leverage those relationships to their benefit, to smuggle contraband and humans into the U.S.; in fact, they already are [smuggling]."
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/27/hezbollah-uses-mexican-drug-routes-into-us/
I believe this has been going on for a long time. The question I have is how many are here and what are their plans. Probably no one knows, particularly Napolitano. :(
Thanks for the ping.
BEIJING – Authorities in China have ordered an all-out search for a missing nuclear scale that contained a dangerous radioactive component, state press said Friday. The scale, used to make precision measurements, was found to be missing on Monday after workers began dismantling a cement factory where it was used in Tongchuan city in northwest China's Shaanxi province, Xinhua news agency said.
A lead ball containing extremely dangerous Caesium-137 was a major component of the scale, it said. Local government offices in Shaanxi could not be immediately reached for comment on the issue. The report did not say how much Caesium-137 was missing but warned that only a tiny amount could damage the human nervous system and even lead to death. The material could also explode if it comes in contact with water, it added.
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Truck Laden With Explosives Impounded In Afghanistan
March 28, 2009
KHOST -- Security officials in Afghanistan's Khost Province have impounded a truck loaded with more than three tons of explosives, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan (RFA) reports. The chief of the Khost City Security Department, Abdulqayum Baqizoy, told RFA that the truck crossed the Afghan-Pakistani border during the night of March 26.
He said terrorists planned to use the truck for an attack against a local government building on March 27. He said the truck driver and his accomplices escaped, however.
http://www.rferl.org/Content/Truck_Laden_With_Explosives_Impounded_In_Afghanistan/1563561.html
Thanks very much for the ping at #303 & #337. Catching up. Thanks to every poster/linker/researcher/educator on this thread. BTTT!