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NEW YORK (AP) - A bookstore owner and a jazz musician agreed soon after the Sept. 11 attacks to try to help terrorists in Afghanistan buy weapons and communications equipment to fight American soldiers, the government charged Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Victor Hou said Abdulrahman Farhane, 51, and the musician, Tarik Shah, 42, spoke with an FBI informant about the plot in Farhane's bookstore in December 2001 "while the ruins of 9/11 were still smoldering." The prosecutor asked that Farhane be held without bail on charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and trying to cover up his...

Police contend that a husband and wife who ran a prostitution ring from their home in a prosperous suburban Boca Raton neighborhood kept a list of bad customers, and attracted a clientele from North Miami Beach to Palm Beach Gardens. The trade was so vast for David Bachmann, 41, and his estranged wife, Michelle Harris Bachmann, 42, that David Bachman kept a list of more than 1,600 bad customers, police contend in court documents. Police say David Bachmann kept a computer file that included men who threatened violence and who might be police officers. His notations also suggest his operation...

Family pins hopes for son on stem-cell shotsTIJUANA, Mexico — Slowly, patiently, Dr. Fernando Ramirez del Rio slides on a pair of latex gloves.A nurse tips a 1-inch long vial out of a Ziploc bag and into his palm. It's frozen and white. Ramirez says it contains about 1.8 million stem cells. He says it will take about 10 minutes to thaw the tube using the warmth of his hands. He then has 20 minutes to use the cells before they spoil.He passes the vial to Judy Susser, who looks nervous. She takes it, rolls it between her hands. Then...

FOUR years after the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks, which brought fresh terror to the US days after the September 11 hijackings, the biggest criminal investigation in American history has gone cold. The failure to solve one of the most baffling and sinister terrorist cases of modern times has not only led to intense frustration for the FBI, but has also prompted the British widow of one of the victims to sue the US Government. Bob Stevens, a British picture editor from Berkshire who worked in Boca Raton, Florida, was one of five people who died in and seventeen who became...

A new Islamic advocacy group in Boca Raton is under scrutiny for its ties to William W. Baker, a former chairman of the neo-Nazi political party of presidential candidate David Duke who was run out of town last year when he attempted to speak at Florida Atlantic University. Local Jewish and civic leaders said Friday they were alarmed that the Assadiq Islamic Education Foundation, whose headquarters are listed at 831 E. Palmetto Park Road in Boca, had invited Baker back to Boca as featured speaker at an April 30 banquet at the Boca Marriott. Invited by Muslim students to speak...

A New York martial arts expert who is charged with conspiring to help train al Qaeda members is the victim of a "desperate prosecution on the government's behalf," his lawyer said on Tuesday. Tarik Ibn Osman Shah was arrested on Friday in New York after a two-year sting operation in which prosecutors said he had been taped pledging support to Osama bin Laden. He is charged with one count of conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Shah, who is also a professional jazz musician, was presented briefly in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday...

Scouted L.I. for camp - feds The son of a former Malcolm X aide was nabbed yesterday, along with a Florida doctor, in a plot to start an Al Qaeda training camp in the U.S. - even scouting out a Long Island warehouse for a terror school, officials said last night. Tarik Shah, 38, a self-proclaimed martial arts expert from the Bronx, and Dr. Rafiq Sabir, 50, presented themselves as a "package deal" to help Muslim "brothers" wage jihad here and in the Middle East, said Manhattan U.S. Attorney David Kelley. Kelley said Shah - son of Lieutenant X, one...

ABC News correspondent John Stossel of "20/20" fame will speak at 7 p.m., March 29, at the University Theatre of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. In his talk, "Freedom and its Enemies," the libertarian journalist Stossel will share what he has learned in his 30-year journey from his job as a Portland, Oregon, consumer reporter to his current position as ABC's in-house contrarian. Stossel has received 19 Emmy awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. He is currently co-anchor of ABC News' weekly news magazine "20/20." This free event...

BOCA RATON, Fla. -- A 62-year-old Boca Raton woman died Friday after lighting a cigarette while using an oxygen tank, officials said. Rosalyn Sedlak's death is being termed accidental by Palm Beach County sheriff's officials. She was smoking in a bedroom of her 87-year-old mother's home when the fire started and managed to get into a nearby bathroom, but collapsed there and was dead when firefighters arrived. "You just don't smoke in an oxygen-enriched atmosphere," fire-rescue Capt. Don DeLucia told The Palm Beach Post for its Saturday editions. "The public has to realize that if they absolutely have to smoke,...

A Boca Raton ordinance that bans upright crosses and Stars of David in a city cemetery doesn't violate a state law designed to protect religious freedom, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

BOCA RATON, Fla. – A 3-year-old boy died when his dentist father left him inside a sport utility vehicle for three hours, officials said. Dr. Dennis F. Sierra took his son Andres to work with him Thursday and left the boy in the car, intending to be in the office for only a short time, Palm Beach County sheriff's spokeswoman Diane Carhart said. A relative called Sierra about three hours later to ask about the boy, and the father and office employees rushed to the car to find Andres was not breathing. The boy died about an hour later at...

Who are the G7 finance ministers? Posted: February 10, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Joan Veon© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com BOCA RATON, Fla. – To most people the G7 finance ministers are just a bunch of guys who get together throughout the year and talk over the economy, but it is not just the U.S. economy – it is the global economy. In order to understand their position of power, we must go back to August 1971 when President Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard. The Group of Seven first met in 1973, two years after Nixon severed the last attachment the dollar...

Sabre Technical Services will pump chlorine dioxide through vents, then suck it out Before the end of the year, the AMI building in the Arvida Park of Commerce in Boca Raton should be free of the anthrax spores that have contaminated it since October 2001. BioONE, a joint venture of Sabre Technical Services and Giuliani Partners, will use chlorine dioxide, a yellow-green gas with an odor similar to bleach, as the cleaning agent. Officials at a news conference Tuesday explained the process. Chlorine dioxide, they said, will be pumped into the building through air conditioning ducts. A large, red pump...

By Anthony Man Staff writer July 25, 2003 Boca Raton · Less than a week after filing to become a U.S. Senate candidate, Johnnie Byrd spent Thursday campaigning in the home county of rival Mark Foley. And some supporters of Foley, a Republican congressman from Palm Beach Gardens, came away impressed with Byrd, the speaker of the Florida House. Peter Feaman, the Boca Raton Republican Club president whose group was host to Byrd as a luncheon speaker, said the candidate's performance was so good that he would almost certainly pick up some support. "I'm not saying I'm abandoning Foley, but...

New owners preparing to decontaminate Boca building hit by anthrax in 2001 By Kathy Bushouse and Neil Santaniello Staff Writers July 18, 2003 Moon-suited crews will re-enter the former American Media Inc. headquarters in the coming weeks to collect anthrax samples, destroy documents, and begin formulating a plan to decontaminate the quarantined building. Once inside, teams also will destroy computers and documents hastily left behind when American Media Inc. employees evacuated after tabloid photo editor Bob Stevens died from inhalation anthrax in October 2001. ... The computers' hard drives will be removed, dipped into a bleach-and-water solution.... AMI's files, their...

Tax Reform Tuesday Oppressed by Government Bureaucrats & Local Police April 15th, 2003 the dead line that forces Americans to pay tribute to Caesar and face the undeniable fact, of how against the wishes of our founding fathers the government intrudes into our private lives. My friend John Hallman, South Florida Chapter Leader of Citizens for a Sound Economy and I, had decided on a course of action. We would stand in front of Boca Raton Post Offices with flyers from the C.S.E. declaring “Tax Reform Tuesday”. The flyers for those who chose to inquire about them, would direct people...

We met on the Streets of Boca Raton Florida again today, to rally in support of The United States military and show our appreciation for their bravery in defending our Constitution. Over 100 people showed up, more than double last week’s participation. Many people parked their cars and joined in the tribute and we stayed around till sunset. We were cheered on by honking Bentleys, Rolls, Jaguars, Chevys, Fords, Harleys, Rice Burners and Rust Buckets. Today’s event was a wonderful example of the diversity in our Nation, standing as one to pay tribute to the courage of the men and...

Maccraze and Jacvin put this together Thursday night, we had a pretty good showing, maybe about forty attended. Even some of the local homeless people participated, one of which was a Viet Nam Marine.

Rally for America! When: Saturday, March 29th at 4pm Where: Sanborn Square, Boca Raton (Sanborn Square is on Federal Highway, just North of Palmetto Park Road on the East side of the Street) Bring your Flags & signs! Young Americans are fighting every day for us in Iraq, it is time the Silent Majority raised its voice in support of our Country, our Troops, and our President! If our Troops can sacrifice so much for us, then we can sacrifice our Saturday afternoons for them! We plan to hold a rally every Saturday at this location and time until Victory...

Rally for America! When: Saturday, March 29th at 4pm Where: Sanborn Square, Boca Raton (Sanborn Square is on Federal Highway, just North of Palmetto Park Road on the East side of the Street) Bring your Flags & signs! Young Americans are fighting every day for us in Iraq, it is time the Silent Majority raised its voice in support of our Country, our Troops, and our President! If our Troops can sacrifice so much for us, then we can sacrifice our Saturday afternoons for them! We plan to hold a rally every Saturday at this location and time until Victory...