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Michael Reynolds, formerly of W-B, said he was trying to bait an al-Qaida operative. Keeping Michael Curtis Reynolds quiet could prove to be difficult. The former Wilkes-Barre resident accused by federal authorities of plotting to aid the al-Qaida terrorist network kept on talking against his lawyer’s advice on Dec. 15. He is held on unrelated weapons charges and has not been charged with any terrorism-related offenses. Last week he reportedly sent a letter from prison to a newspaper defending himself as someone intent on turning over a suspected terrorist to the proper authorities. And, at the time of his arrest...

Report: Pennsylvania 'patriot' tried to blow up oil pipelines Federal agents think American sought to wreck U.S. economy with al-Qaida Posted: February 12, 2006 5:49 p.m. Eastern © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com Is he an American patriot, or a terrorist trying to kill the U.S. economy? That's the question surrounding Michael Curtis Reynolds, a 47-year-old unemployed resident of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who federal agents say worked with al-Qaida in a plot to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Reynolds is not publicly charged with terrorism, but a federal prosecutor said in...

Michael Curtis Reynolds says he's a patriot. Federal authorities say he's a terrorist. The FBI believes that the unemployed Wilkes-Barre man tried to conspire with al-Qaeda to wreck the American economy. Agents say Reynolds plotted to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery. The sensational allegations, disclosed in a federal transcript obtained by The Inquirer on Friday, reveal a convoluted plot that includes cyberspace intrigue, an elaborate FBI sting, and a clandestine money-drop on a deserted Idaho road. The case also involves a municipal judge from Montana who has devoted the last four years...

Michael Curtis Reynolds says he's a patriot. Federal authorities say he's a terrorist. The FBI believes that the unemployed Wilkes-Barre man tried to conspire with al-Qaeda to wreck the American economy. Agents say Reynolds plotted to blow up the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, a Pennsylvania pipeline, and a New Jersey refinery. The sensational allegations, disclosed in a federal transcript obtained by The Inquirer on Friday, reveal a convoluted plot that includes cyberspace intrigue, an elaborate FBI sting, and a clandestine money-drop on a deserted Idaho road. The case also involves a municipal judge from Montana who has devoted the last four years...

President Mikhail Saakashvili accused Moscow of serious acts of "sabotage" yesterday after explosions ripped apart gas pipelines cutting off supplies to Georgia and neighbouring Armenia. Mr Saakashvili said the blasts were the "attempted sabotage" of his country's energy system and dismissed Russia's explanation - that the attacks were the work of "extremist groups" intent on causing "material damage" - as "unconvincing and contradictory".... "They happened at the same time, and basically they didn't affect supplies to Russia proper, so we can conclude that it was a very well-organised act."

A Russian soldier guards part of the Mozdok-Tbilisi pipeline, twisted by a blast, near the village of Nizhni Lars in North Ossetia. Explosions have ripped through Russia's main natural gas pipeline to Armenia and Georgia as well as a power line, halting supplies amid freezing temperatures and sparking accusations of sabotage from Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AFP) - Explosions ripped through Russia's main natural gas pipeline to Armenia and Georgia as well as a power line, halting supplies amid freezing temperatures and sparking a war of words between Moscow and Tbilisi. Two explosions occurred on the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline in the Russian Caucasus province of North Ossetia early on Sunday, Russian officials said. A third blast in the nearby province of Karachaevo-Cherkesia cut supplies along one of the main electricity cables supplying power from Russia to Georgia, the emergency situations ministry said. Investigators are treating the gas pipeline blasts as sabotage but not terrorism,...

Terrorists are threatening to blow up Alaska oil pipelines. Via Foxnews Alert. Fox said they were going to take guns and shoot them?

B.C.'s energy sector is on heightened alert after an al-Qaida-affiliated Internet blog message called on Canadian and U.S. jihadists to attack an Alaskan oil pipeline. The 12-page posting targets the Trans-Alaska Pipeline specifically and energy infrastructure in California and Mexico in general. It was discovered and translated from Arabic Dec. 30 by the Washington-based SITE Institute. The posting advocates riddling the iconic pipeline with bullets, blowing it up and causing large fires to complicate repair efforts, and attacking ocean-going tankers or fuel depots in Valdez. "The most suitable candidates for these operations are our American Muslim brothers who live on...

Compromise: The accord would divvy up the basin's water during dry years Representatives of the seven Colorado River Basin states announced Friday they have reached a tentative agreement about how the river will be managed during water shortages. The deal culminates a year of sometimes stormy negotiations between upper basin states Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, plus California, Arizona and Nevada in the lower basin over how the river's precious resource should be shared. The stakes are enormous. Interior Secretary Gale Norton late in 2004 gave the seven basin states until February to submit a joint proposal for an...

MOSCOW. Jan 4 (Interfax) - Russia and Ukraine have signed a five- year contract on the delivery of Russian natural gas to Ukraine at a price of $230 for 1,000 cubic meters, Russian gas giant Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller told journalists after negotiations with Naftogaz Ukrainy head Olexiy Ivchenko.

VIENNA, Austria -- Gas supplies to much of Europe fell sharply Monday in the fallout of Moscow's pricing dispute with Ukraine while several nations urged energy-hungry industries to switch to oil and rationing began in Serbia. Serbia was worst affected, with its gas deliveries cut in half. But other nations also reported susbtantial losses of between 18 and 40 percent. Apart from Serbia, gas was flowing normally to homes and businesses thanks to stored supplies. Despite the dispute, gas prices rose only marginally on Monday on world markets. Still, with the 25-nation European Union counting on Russia for a quarter...

WESTERN officials are to meet in Washington later this week to discuss the precise implications of U.S. sanctions against the Soviet Union on the construction of the 5,500km Siberia-West Europe gas pipeline. The Reagan Administration has long argued that the pipeline will make West Europe dangerously dependent on the Soviet Union. EEC countries say it would be “very wrong” for the U.S. to use the present situation to destroy the pipeline.

Driving to New York City this holiday season? What if you couldn't drive through New Jersey because that state and New York had been unable to agree on the tolls at the Lincoln Tunnel? [...] Up to 80 percent of Russia's gas exports to Western Europe pass through Ukraine, and this accounts for about 25 percent of Western Europe's supply of natural gas. The two sides had originally agreed to sign an agreement by July 1 on gas rates for 2006. But Ukraine's strategy was evidently to delay. Aleksey Ivchenko, head of the Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz, was reported by...

MOSCOW. Jan 1 (Interfax) - Ukraine is reportedly siphoning off Russian gas intended for European consumers, Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said at a press briefing at the company's main office. Kupriyanov said verified information on this score is likely to be released at a press briefing at noon, Monday. "We'll be able to announce tomorrow exactly how much gas has been stolen today. Right now I'll announce latest reports on Gazprom's balance at Ukraine's western borders, at the exits from the Ukrainian gas pipeline system: minus 18% at the Kapushany gas-metering unit from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; plus...

MOSCOW. Jan 1 (Interfax) - Gazprom has started to reduce pressure in pipelines that deliver Russian gas to Ukrainian consumers, Russian gas giant spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said in Moscow on Sunday. Gas shipments transiting Ukraine en route to Europe are proceeding in full, he said. On Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Ukraine a three-month gas price freeze as long as the Ukrainian authorities agreed to pay what Gazprom sees as the market price of $230 for 1,000 cubic meters, Kupriyanov said. "We were ready to accommodate the Ukrainian people's needs and maintain comfortable conditions for our work during...

MOSCOW, Russia (UPI) -- The energy watchdog founded by industrial nations after Arab nations launched an oil embargo is sounding alarms over Russia`s plans for Europe`s gas supply. One of the world`s largest natural gas producers, Russia is building a pipeline under the Baltic Sea directly to Germany in a venture that Poland and its Baltic state neighbors see as a prelude to commodity-based blackmail. The Kremlin has responded to such concerns by hiring former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who helped negotiate the project, as chairman of the so-called North European Gas Pipeline. But this week, the International Energy Agency...

MOSCOW, December 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russian energy giant Gazprom said Thursday it would step up cooperation with Gaz de France on potentially supplying natural gas to France and neighboring countries through the North European Gas Pipeline (NEGP). The agreement to build the 4.7 billion euro 1200-km NEGP was signed September 8 by Russian energy giant Gazprom and Germany's BASF AG and E.ON AG. The first leg of the pipeline, connecting the Baltic seashore near the Russian city of Vyborg with Germany's Greifswald region, is set to come on-stream in 2010. Offshoots may then be built to link it with...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - An antitrust lawsuit filed Monday against Exxon Mobil Corp. and BP PLC claims the two oil giants are restricting the nation's supply of natural gas and keeping prices at record highs. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Fairbanks, says the two companies acted together to eliminate competition for the exploration, development and marketing of natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to U.S. markets. "The only reason for them to collusively not to sell is to try to continue the scarcity that has driven natural gas prices to historic highs," said David Boies, the...

On Wednesday December 14 an event occurred which does not leave much space for doubts that the “gas blackmail” exercised by Russia has got nothing to do with the gas itself. The “Gasprom” stand with regard to the price of gas had undergone a miraculous change. The price that the Russian monopolist is demanding for its product has gone up from $160 per 1000 cubic meters to $230. This means that a fair price is absolutely out of the question if to consider the Russian motivation in this matter. Simply because prices for such a commodity never undergo rapid changes,...