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Exclusive:Terror plot on US carrier foiled By Pamela Hess UPI Pentagon Correspondent Published 12/28/2001 4:59 PM WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (UPI) -- Acting on U.S. intelligence gathered in Afghanistan, the Singapore government earlier this month raided a "terrorist nest" and arrested 12 alleged al Qaida members suspected of planning an attack on the island nation's deep-water Navy port, top Pentagon and other government officials said. Two suspected terrorists escaped arrest, Pentagon officials said. Singapore officials have also failed to locate two tons of explosives intended to be used in the attack or attacks, a military official said. Neither the Singapore government ...

<p>An important message — actor Sayed Badreya discusses his new documentary about Muslim militants recruiting on American soil.</p>

22:00) Lebanese Christians charged with contacting Israel By The Associated Press BEIRUT, Lebanon - A military prosecutor today charged three Lebanese Christians with contacting Israel and meeting officials from the Jewish state, crimes punishable by death. Military prosecutor Abdullah al-Haj also charged the men with harming Lebanon's relations with Syria. Those charged were journalist Antoine Bassil; a senior official of the disband Lebanese Forces group, Toufic Hindy; and Ghassan Touma, one of the group's security chiefs during Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war. The Lebanese Forces was banned in 1994 and its leader Samir Geagea has been in jail since for killing ...

<p>KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CNN) -- U.S.-led airstrikes targeted the Kandahar city airport Tuesday as the night and day assault on the last major Taliban stronghold in the country continued, CNN sources said.</p> <p>Facing little threat from the ground, warplanes could be seen flying very low over the city. Sources in Kandahar told CNN that residents of the city were on edge, fearful of an attack. North of the city, two villages fell to anti-Taliban forces. Sporadic gunfire and artillery outbursts could be heard.</p>

<p>After more than five hours of closed-door talks, the Israeli Cabinet early Tuesday called the Palestinian Authority a "terrorist-supporting entity" that must be dealt with as such.</p> <p>"The government determines the lethal and cruel terror attacks over the last weekend shows the lack of inhibition of our enemies and calls for a larger scale activity than has been taken to date against Palestinian terror," the Cabinet said in a statement.</p>

F-16s firing on Jenin in Israel.

Palestinians: Israel simply is not yours BY NEIL STEINBERG SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Why does the United States control immigration from Mexico? The answer is simple. As much as the United States is a melting pot of races and cultures, it does have a certain makeup, a comfortable balance. The Latino population is 12 percent and growing. Should the floodgates open and the nation suddenly find itself 40 or 50 percent Latino, well, it would be a different sort of place. Maybe better, maybe worse-I won't enter into that. But I think it is fairly uncontroversial to say that the United ...

I am given to understand that the original post on the USO Canteen had to be pulled because of its length. However, there are developments which make this post even more special and relevent, so I am reposting it to its own thread with updates. My apologies to anyone I might have offended by posting too many graphics. Sometimes, I think pictures speak volumes, but they ain't good if you are printing out a whole thread full. So here, with a minimum, are updates along with the original post---minus most of the graphics. Both articles have updates. DEDICATED TO ALL ...

<p>While our soldiers, sailors and airmen are fighting in Afghanistan, and our president and security services are struggling to stay a step ahead of the next terrorist attack, far lower down on the political food chain some of the usual suspects are shrewdly looking for partisan advantage.</p>

<p>The Pentagon is set to dispatch a fourth aircraft carrier battle group to waters near Afghanistan, and the ships could depart for the region as early as this weekend, defense officials said yesterday.</p> <p>The battle group, led by the San Diego-based carrier USS Stennis, is being dispatched to provide additional aerial firepower, officials said in an interview.</p>

US freezes Arab terror groups' bank accounts By Janine Zacharia WASHINGTON (November 4) - In a move applauded by pro-Israel advocates, the US has added anti-Israeli terrorist groups Hamas, Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to a presidential executive order that instructs foreign banks and financial institutions to freeze terrorists' accounts or face American sanctions. The decision came as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs David Satterfield said on Friday that the Palestinian intifada had "become an ongoing process of calculated terror and escalation," and blasted the Palestinian leadership for failing ...

<p>PARIS, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- A CIA agent allegedly met with suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in July, while the Saudi underwent treatment for kidney problems at an American hospital in Dubai, France's Le Figaro newspaper reported Wednesday.</p> <p>Besides a stream of local dignitaries and family members, bin Laden's visitors included a local CIA agent, the newspaper reported. The agent was widely recognized locally, Le Figaro said, and later told several friends of the meeting.</p>

Tuesday October 30, 2001 1:10 PM THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic told the U.N. tribunal Tuesday that Osama bin Laden was in Albania last year. Milosevic again flared up in court at a hearing to schedule his trials for war crimes in Kosovo and Croatia. The Kosovo trial was tentatively set for Feb. 12, but could be delayed by months if combined with other cases against him. Milosevic dismissed the indictments as documents written at the level of ``a retarded 7-year-old child.'' He said the U.S. government had turned to him for help in tracking ...

Was Tim McVeigh an agent of Iraq? Top Defense officials think so, reports U.S. News © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com A few top Defense officials believe Timothy McVeigh, executed for his role in the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, was an Iraqi agent, reports U.S. News in the Oct. 29 issue. The stunning news item is buried in the "Washington Whispers" column of the magazine under the byline of Paul Bedard. "Some dismiss it as being akin to Elvis sightings, but a few top Defense officials think Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh was an Iraqi agent," Bedard writes. "The ...

Chinese fighters killed in U.S. strikes At least 15 dead found fighting on side of Taliban -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Military sources in Dushanbe and Bishbek, capitals of Tajikistan and Kyrgizstan respectively, report at least 15 Chinese fighting men on the side of the Taliban, were killed in last week’s U.S. bombing over Kahandar and in a separate incident on the ground, according to the DEBKA intelligence news service. This report was confirmed, reports DEBKA, by Pakistani sources in Peshawar, who discovered the Chinese presence alongside the Taliban from their own intelligence reports on the death of the commander of Arab Afghan troops ...

(12:55) Hizbullah attack on northern border Hizbullah began shelling IDF outposts in the Har Dov area on the northern border a short time ago. There are no reports of injuries to army forces. Hizbullah fired several volleys in the combined misile and mortar attack, Israel Radio reports. IDF artillery is returning fire. Helicopters are circling the area. This is the second attack against IDF forces in the vicinity of Har Dov in the last two weeks. The entire length of the northern border is under a high state of alert for possible attacks against civilians. IDF Deputy Chief of General ...

I am waiting to hear this with baited breath.

We have known for some time that Bin Laden had gotten his hands on Promis Software. Hanssen sold it to the Russians who in turn sold it to Bin Laden. The worst of Hanssen's most damaging breeches of US security were during the C/G adnministration. Was he somehow protected? Why hasn't anyone connected Clinton/Gore's ties with the Russian Mafia to this sale which protected their buddy Yomama? Why isn't there a full blown investigation into this corruption now that x42 is out of office? It isn't as if there is much secret to the fact that Gore especially was a ...

Liddy visits Israel - Hosts show from Jerusalem Post Radio studios. The Army, the FBI, the Nixon Administration, the Watergate scandal, and Jail. He is a man of courage and honor to some, a disgrace to others, and fascinating to all. From his involvement in Watergate, to his controversial radio program, which reaches some 8-10 million Americans daily, he is a man who has cast himself in his own action adventure story. Who is this? G. Gordon Liddy or the G-Man as he is known to his talk show listeners, a national political personality and host of the nationally ...

(14:00) Report: Hizbullah terrorist leaves Iran A former Lebanese Hizbullah security chief, who is on the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list, has left Iran on the advice of the Iranian government, a leading Arabic newspaper said today. Imad Mughniyeh left Iran voluntarily after being told that his presence in Iran "is not in the interest of the country and his safety is not guaranteed," Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper said. It attributed the information to an unidentified source close to the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite military force. The Saudi-owned daily, based in London, is known for maintaining close relations with some influential ...