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PEORIA — Ryder has canceled all truck rentals for the coming week due to credible but unconfirmed threats of terrorist attacks in the wake of the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

A customer who did not want to be identified told the Journal Star that she had been informed by Ryder of the cancellation by phone call Friday. A Ryder representative told the Journal Star all local rentals for the weekend had been canceled, though that person declined to elaborate on the reason.

Further questions were referred to the head of rentals for the local arm of the company. That person did not...

Al-Qaeda followers are inside the United States and would like to attack targets here and in other countries, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday night.

Catholic churches in southern New Jersey are taking extra precautions since the Diocese of Camden received a letter saying biological agents would be placed in holy-water fonts and ventilation systems, a diocesan spokesman said Tuesday. The diocese received an anonymous letter last week threatening to put biological contaminants in Catholic churches in New Jersey, said Andrew Walton, a spokesman for the diocese. The letter, which was mailed May 1 and has a Bellmawr postmark, was received in the Camden office May 4 and opened May 5. The letter has been turned over to the Camden County Prosecutor's Office, which is...

Television talk-show host Montel Williams threatened to find and "blow up" the homes of three Savannah Morning News reporters Friday while he was in town promoting free prescriptions for poor people. ...snip... "As we were preparing to film, Montel walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott's face pointing his finger telling her, 'Don't look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I'm a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,' " Cosey said. "At this time he was pointing randomly at all of us." "He...

Saturday, February 25, 2006Iran, Hamas, and the Threat of Nuclear Holocaust The front page of the Arabic website of the military wing of Hamas, the Ezzedeen alQassam Brigades, features an animated graphic at the top on the right hand column. It's a black rectangle with a red Star of David. The Jewish star shatters with a nuclear explosion. This graphic is notably missing from the English language website. Only the Jerusalem Post and a few pro-Israel blogs found this particularly newsworthy. Interestingly enough this graphic appeared on the exact same day Iran offered to fund the Hamas-lead Palestinian government. For...

A videotape televised on Sunday purportedly from a U.S.-member of al Qaeda threatened Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia, on the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks. ABC News said it had received the video in Pakistan. It reported the masked speaker appears to be Adam Gadahn, from southern California, who threatens attacks on the two cities, "Allah willing," and warns that the attackers will show no compassion. "Yesterday, London and Madrid. Tomorrow, Los Angeles and Melbourne," he said. "We love peace, but peace on our terms," the speaker said. Gadahn was believed to have been the young American who...

American defense chiefs faced condemnation last night for banning U.S. airmen from entering London, the Uk's DAILY MAIL will report on Tueday. All 12,000 members of the U.S. Air Force stationed in Britain have been told not to travel inside inner London because of the risk of further bomb attacks. The news provoked fury from British MPs who pointed out that the UK had been America's staunchest ally in the wake of September 11. They said it handed a symbolic victory to the terrorists. Even as news of the order emerged yesterday, President Bush was promising that America 'will not...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States government could not protect its citizens from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks because it failed to appreciate the threat posed by al-Qaida operatives who exploited those lapses to carry out the deadliest assault ever on American soil, the chairman of the Sept. 11 commission said Thursday. In issuing the panel's 567-page final report, commission chairman Tom Kean said none of the government's efforts to thwart a known threat from al-Qaida had "disturbed or even delayed" Osama bin Laden's plot. "(They) penetrated the defenses of the most powerful nation in the world," Kean said. "They...

French authorities rushed thousands of tourists out of the Eiffel Tower after receiving a warning that a plane was about to crash into the famous Paris landmark, police and the tower's management said. Around 4,000 people were evacuated from the 324-metre (1,070-foot) structure, which was closed for two hours before police ascertained that the threat was a hoax and it was re-opened. The company managing the tower, SNTE, said in a statement it had received "an anonymous message" which triggered the alert. It refused to elaborate on the threat, but a police source said a caller had spoken of a...

WASHINGTON - U.S. investigators are searching for a small number of people who failed to show up at the Paris airport to board flights to Los Angeles that fell under close scrutiny in a possible terrorist plot, a U.S. official said Friday. One of those people was receiving pilot training, but was not yet certified, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Investigators remain interested in talking with those people to ease concerns some passengers aboard those flights might have intended to use them to launch terror attacks against the United States, the official said. Discussions between U.S. and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials say they have no plans to raise the nation's terrorism alert level despite warnings that five-man al-Qaida teams may be planning to hijack and crash more airplanes, similar to the Sept. 11 attacks."The hijackers may try to calm passengers and make them believe they were on a hostage, not suicide, mission," a warning distributed over the weekend to airlines and law enforcement agencies said. "The hijackers may attempt to use common items carried by travelers, such as cameras, modified as weapons."Officials said the credibility of the threat was still being evaluated. But they noted there...

http://www.daily-times.com A6 Thursday, February 20, 2003 LOCAL/MORE FROM PAGE 1 Four bills expand emergency powers By Paula Pennell Daily Times Santa Fe Bureau chief SANTA FE The House of Representatives passed four bills Wednesday relating to public emergencies, including a measure giving the governor express authority to order an evacuation during an emergency, such as a terrorist attack. House Bill 253, sponsored by Rep. Gloria Vaughn, R-Alamogordo allows the governor to set curfews, restrict the possession of firearms to residences or businesses, except for peace officers, and order the evacuation of the population during emergencies. Rep. W. Ken Martinez, D-...

The US has closed its consulates in Zurich and Geneva after receiving intelligence warnings that terrorists were planning attacks against them. Israel Radio reports a US consulate spokesperson in Switzerland saying that threats against US interests and property were received , but declined to give further details.

Airport parking lots may reopen Closures prompted by 9-11 attacks; D/FW not notified of change 12/09/2002 Associated Press WASHINGTON - Beginning Monday, the government will open parking lots at the country's biggest airports that have been off-limits since Sept. 11, 2001, because of worries about car bombs. Federal officials also will change the way air travelers are screened after they pass security checkpoints over the next few weeks, checking them only at randomly selected gates, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Robert Johnson said. "We're trying to avoid screening grandma two or three times as she makes her way home for...

With Al Gore sticking his head back up in the political arena, and the recent missile fired at an Israeli passenger jet I'm reposting this from last year on our "would be President:" What Was Al Gore's Role?Neal BoortzMonday, Sept. 24, 2001Did Al Gore let the airlines off the hook so he and Bill Clinton could have a little more campaign cash? Here's the story, according to NewsMax.com and the Boston Globe. After TWA Flight 800 crashed in 1996, Al Gore was named chairman of the White House Commission on Aviation Safety. It came to be known as the "Gore...

POLICE fear Islamic terrorists could target a ceremony attended by Australians at the Bali bomb site today. Bali police confirmed yesterday they had received warnings of an attack on a purification ceremony to be attended by more than 30 families of victims of the October 12 bombing. Indonesian chief investigator, Inspector General Made Pastika, confirmed police were hunting six more men connected to the bombing. He said he was "very worried" about being unable to find 900kg of explosives missing from the terrorist's arsenal. Bali police chief Budi Setyawan confirmed he was aware of an intelligence report warning of a...

Did anyone else notice the very intriguing similarity between these two cases, about a year apart? Take a look!

<p>NAPLES, Florida (CNN) -- The Georgia woman who prompted Friday's terror scare was "flat-out lying" when she told authorities she overheard three Muslim men at a restaurant laughing about September 11 and making suspicious comments, one of the men said late Friday.</p>