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Another terrorist attack could hit the United States in the next five years — and North Texas could be a key target next time. By 2013, the U.S. “more likely than not” could be hit by another deadly attack, this time using something possibly like anthrax, according to the new report, World at Risk. And some fear that North Texas, with its population, sports and entertainment venues and businesses — not to mention the fact that President George W. Bush is moving back here after he leaves office in January — could be a target next time. “Everybody should be...

American Civil Rights Union TheACRU.org As usual, the ACLU misreads the Constitution, and sides with those who would attack America and murder Americans, instead of following the Constitution and protecting Americans and America. The latest example is the ACLU promotion of the interests of an Al Qaeda representative in the US. The facts for this article, but not all of the legal conclusions, come from an article in the Los Angeles Times on 5 December, 2008. It concerns an apparent representative of Al Qaeda in the US, who is also a legal resident in the US. On 5 December, the...

"grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within" Islamic Society of Boston Mosque Madness Update. "Texas Terrorism Trial Ties Boston mosque leaders to Extremist Network," from Citizens for Peace and Tolerance (thanks to Jerry): Dennis Hale, President of Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, called today for a public investigation of the Boston Redevelopment Authority’s sale of land to the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) for the construction of New England ’s largest mosque. Hale noted that officers of the largest Muslim charity in America , The Holy Land Foundation (HLF), convicted in Texas last week of funding Middle...

"I believe he would have loaded up that gun and gone to town because he was praying for Allah to help him carry out his mission." In a Burger King in Tulsa, Oklahoma, last week. "Trooper honored for subduing man with a gun," by Tom Lindley for Tulsa World, December 5 (thanks to James): OKLAHOMA CITY All Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Sheldon Robinson was looking for was a burger and an oil change on his day off. But Thursday he got a standing ovation from members of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority for his heroic actions in between. On Sept. 5,...

"It was one of those deals of being in the right place at the right time," Robinson said. "I believe he would have loaded up that gun and gone to town because he was praying for Allah to help him carry out his mission." Jerome Norvell Denson, 24, of Tulsa was arrested on charges of attempting to perform an act of violence and possession of a firearm while in the commission of a felony. He remains in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing....

WASHINGTON: US Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday the United States would have jurisdiction to prosecute the surviving gunman captured during the deadly attack in Mumbai, where six Americans died. But he did not say whether there are plans to do so. Mukasey also said he did not believe the US was more vulnerable to a terrorist attack during the presidential transition period, although security will be heavy for president-elect Barack Obama's inauguration. ``Terrorists will strike when they feel the moment is right, not according to the political calendar,'' he said. The United States has ``all of the surveillance...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — After three grueling years of compulsory service in the Israeli military, 21-year-old Arbel Altschuler is heading for some peace and quiet in what has become the most popular haven for thousands of recently discharged Israeli soldiers — India. Even after last week's deadly attacks in Mumbai, where the 171 killed included six people at a Jewish center, four of whom were Israelis, he says he's undeterred, despite pleas from his parents to reconsider. "I'm not looking for trouble," he said. "But it's not much different from what I am familiar with here." Accustomed to war...

-snip- FP: How do we stop the stealth jihadists? Spencer: Enforce existing laws. Section 2385 of the federal criminal code states that “whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government…shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for...

NEW YORK—Shortly after news spread that gun-toting terrorists had launched a deadly siege on Mumbai, 75 blue-and-white police cars carrying 150 officers fanned out across Manhattan, lights flashing. The response, though strictly precautionary, demonstrated that the deadly attack in India had far-reaching implications for police and private security officials in New York and other U.S. cities with downtowns dotted with potential hotel targets. SNIP Hotels and security experts also say that hotels face a delicate balancing act as they try to protect guests. SNIP In Los Angeles, police have been studying the Mumbai attacks and are considering sending investigators there...

t was a bizarre and abrupt way to die for a man who, by all accounts, went at life full-bore and was fit and agile from riding his bicycle everywhere he went ... Doctor killed in mysterious elevator shaft fall It was a bizarre and abrupt way to die for a man who, by all accounts, went at life full-bore and was fit and agile from riding his bicycle everywhere he went. But as San Francisco police combed over the evidence Tuesday, investigators said this is what appears to have happened: Dr. Daniel J. Kliman, an Alameda physician and one...

MUMBAI: Even as India seeks Dawood Ibrahim's extradition yet again, the don is ensconced safely in his plush bungalow in Karachi. Security agency sources told TOI on Wednesday that it's business as usual for the underworld kingpin. A few days ago, a couple of his relatives, including Salim Ansari, flew to Pakistan (using their valid Indian passports) to meet him. Sources said the don was so confident that he would not be touched by the Pakistani establishment that he had made no changes in his daily routine. He continues to phone his contacts in Mumbai. Recently, a contact who fronts...

NEW DELHI: Nearly 1,200 uninhabited islands in the Indian seas pose a major security threat as these are being scanned by Pakistan-based terror outfits - Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) - to make new bases to launch jihadi operations against India. Although the vulnerability of these islands has been discussed in every high-level meeting ever since the home ministry made a detailed presentation before the country's top cops in November 2006, no one in the security establishment is sure whether these uninhabited tracts are actually free from any jihadi element. A detailed note of the ministry, accessed by TOI, shows...

Militants are being encouraged to use the online site through postings on other Islamic forums on the Internet. Wednesday, December 3, 2008 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic extremists are being instructed on how to use the popular video-sharing site YouTube as a way to disseminate propaganda videos, a U.S.-based terrorism monitor said on Tuesday. Militants are being encouraged to use the online site through postings on other Islamic forums on the Internet, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. Last week, an extremist authored step-by-step instructions on posting video to YouTube, which he described as "one of the most famous and biggest...

(IsraelNN.com) Qatar and Turkey have joined Libya in an intensified attempt to break Israel sovereignty over the Gaza Coast. The Israeli government blocked the Libyan ship from landing at Gaza this week but refused to comment on further actions. However, Palestinian Authority legislator Jamal al-Khodary said that the boat, reportedly loaded with 3,000 tons of food and medicine, will try again. "We are holding pressing contacts with Ahmed al-Tibi, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset, the Libyan health minister Mohammed Rashed and the ship's crew who are determined to go to Gaza," he told the Chinese news agency Xinhua....

Students vow to defend Pakistan against any aggression Islamabad, (ANTARA News/AFP) - Some 2,000 students vowed on Wednesday to defend Pakistan against any aggression amid growing tensions with India over last week's attacks in Mumbai. Participants of the "Defence of Pakistan" rally, staged by students from Islami Jamiat-e-Tulaba in front of the parliament building, chanted slogans against the United States, India and Israel. The bearded youths carrying blue, red and green party flags shouted: "Those who befriend America are traitors"; "God is greater" and "Jihad (holy war) is the answer to US and Indian conspiracies". Zubair Safdar, an IJT leader,...

NEW DELHI: The Mumbai terror attacks were originally planned for September 27 but Lashkar mastermind Zakiur Rahman suddenly aborted the plot, arrested terrorist Ajmal Amir has told his interrogators. He also said that Abu Hamza, the Lashkar jihadi who carried out the attack on Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, had, citing his own example, reassured that the gang would get away after the strike on Mumbai. Five IM members were arrested in Mumbai on September 24 in the aftermath of the Delhi blasts and the Lashkar bosses and their ISI handlers thought the operation might fail in the face...

Australians are closely following the trial of five Muslims charged with plotting a terrorist attack on Australian soil. While few details have been released about the target of the plot, the prosecution says the men tried to obtain sulfuric acid, acetone and other chemicals that could be used in explosives and that they buried weapons and ammunition in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. Police raids on the homes of the five, who were arrested in 2005 and face life in prison if convicted, are said to have turned up a trove of extremist literature and videos. The trial, which started...

Right Side News reads from Douglas Hagmann's website about Mumbai and Minneapolis. The only difference between the two is the passage of TIME. Mumbai is headed here and sooner or later, we will be hit hard and fast by Islamic terrorists. What are we doing now to stop them? When will our government wake up and call these terrorists by name and stop banning the terms from their own dictionary? Policital correctness has the potential of killing hundreds and perhaps thousands of innocent Americans. The Third Jihad and other films all warn of the inevitable attacks in the US, such...

Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, Church leaders have said. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want special toilet facilities in schools to be adapted for Islamic cleaning rituals. Their demands will shock both Catholic parents and the Government because they go way beyond the legal requirements on catering for the rights and needs of religious minorities. But the bishops are keen to answer critics who say religious schools sow division - and to show that they are leading the way in building bridges between people of different faiths. The bishops acknowledge in...

Right Side News previously published a Refugee Resettlement Watch paper exposing the security breach in the P-3 Program which has allowed thousands of illegal aliens from Islamist activist countries like Somalia. Fraud Pervasive in African Refugee Program FairUS.org The State Department has suspended the Africa Priority Three (P-3) Program because of an investigation into the refugee family reunification program that revealed that less than 20% of the African applicants were able to prove familial ties. Since it began in 2003, nearly 36,000 African nationals have come to the United States as P-3 Program refugees. The State Department report also indicates...