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Thanks to Oorang for the ping to this post on The Threat Matrix on FreeRepublic.com:
Quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181917/posts?page=440#440
Al-Qaeda terrorist prisoners plotted to escape in hijacked helicopter
3/31/09
Accomplices on the outside were to hire the helicopter for “business” then force the pilot to land in prison at gunpoint. Nine Muslim inmates plotted to kidnap the jail imam during prayers with weapons hidden in the prison mosque. According to the plan they would then move to a sports field using the imam as a shield and be picked up by the helicopter.
Wardens at Full Sutton prison in Yorkshire, acting on a tip-off, went to the plotters’ cells hours before the escape attempt was due to start. The nine, including convicted terrorists, will now be transferred to other jails. A source told the Sun: “This would have been one of the most damaging escapes ever. The intelligence was very strong and from a good source. It had to be acted on immediately.
“It involved some of the most dangerous al-Qaeda terrorists in jail, all of whom are a massive threat. It had been planned for months and the use of a helicopter shows it was sophisticated.”
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Hundreds of police uniforms seized in flat raid (U.K.)
Tuesday 31st March 2009
Hundreds of police uniforms seized in flat raid Police warned people to ask officers for ID today following the recovery of a stash of police uniforms and equipment at a flat.
More than 100 PCSO uniforms and hundreds of batons, jackets, body armour, handcuffs and CS spray holders were found following a raid committed by bogus officers. The uniforms, which had old Metropolitan police badges sewn on to them, were used in a burglary at the Royal British Legion club in Walkden, Greater Manchester, in the early hours of yesterday.
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http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2009-03-31-Hundreds-of-police-uniforms-seized-in-flat-raid
440 posted on April 1, 2009 1:44:36 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
Back to Iran... here’s a little news trivia:
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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/15165.htm
Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Malaysia to Build Refinery in Syria
On March 31, 2009, the Iranian and Syrian Oil Ministers met in Damascus and discussed the construction of a refinery in Homs (western Syria), to be built within three years as a joint project involving Iran, Syria, Venezuela, and Malaysia.
In addition, the two ministers discussed advancing the project of exporting Iranian gas to Turkey via Syria.
The Iranian Oil Minister said that talks are being held on the path that an oil pipeline from his country to Europe is to take, and that it is expected to run through Iraq, Syria, the Mediterranean, and Greece, and then continue into Italy.
Source: Al-Thawra (Syria), April 1, 2009; Mehr (Iran), March 31, 2009
Posted at: 2009-04-01