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PARIS (AP) Justice Ministry says French officials investigating threats from radical Islamic group.

NEW TERROR THREAT AGAINST FRANCE
Sky News ^ | 3/16/04
Posted on 03/16/2004 11:31:56 AM CST by areafiftyone

France has received a new terror threat by an Islamist group and is taking it "very seriously", according to Reuters.

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Also From Reuters:

PARIS, March 16 (Reuters) - An Islamist group has threatened to stage attacks in France, a Justice Ministry spokeswoman told Reuters on Tuesday.

The warning spoke of possible attacks within France and against foreign interests, she said.

No further information was immediately available.

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At least 24 killed in Russian apartment blast, gas likely cause - Tue Mar 16,11:58 AM

ARKHANGELSK, Russia (AFP) - At least 24 people, including three children, were killed and dozens more feared dead after an explosion at an apartment building in northern Russia that officials said was likely caused by a gas leak.

And the fire from the other day:

Two Russian firemen killed in huge blaze near Kremlin Sun Mar 14

MOSCOW (AFP) - At least two Russian firemen died battling a huge blaze that engulfed a historic exhibition hall in central Moscow and sent 30-meter flames shooting up into the night sky next door to the Kremlin.

Fire in Kremlin area mars Putin's likely victory MONDAY, MARCH 15

MOSCOW: A huge fire broke out Sunday night at Menezh exhibition hall, a historic building located just 200 metres away from Kremlin walls, in central Moscow, diverting Russian people's attention from the projected landslide victory of Vladimir Putin in presidential polls.

The fire, which sent flames high into the air and thick smoke billowing over Kremlin towers, was reported shortly before 9.30 pm (00.00 hrs IST), when Russia's chief election commissioner had just begun announcing the preliminary results of presidential polls.

PROMED ALERT!

TYPHOID FEVER - RUSSIA

Typhoid fever case was registered in Komi, Russia

A case of typhoid fever was registered in the Siktikvar district of
the Komi region in Russia. For Komi, it is an extremely rare
disease. No cases were recorded for years, and only 2 cases were
registered during 2003.

According to Tatyana Petunina, a chief physician of Epidemiologist
and Surveillance Center, a young woman from Siktikvar has been
diagnosed with typhoid fever.

The source of infection is not yet known; epidemiologists are
currently investigating. According to preliminary data, a woman had
contacts with relatives from Dagestan. Besides that, she works as a
cleaner. At present, all people who had contacts with her are being
checked, and the woman herself is undergoing treatment in the
hospital.

Typhoid fever is transmitted through contaminated water and direct
contact with people. As a rule, typhoid fever is more common in the
southern part of Russia.

To prevent spread of infection, the following measures are being
taken: market sanitary hygienic control, and checking places where
people from the southern regions of Russia reside.

GLOBAL JIHAD
Al-Qaida plotted attacks to split Spain from allies
Document shows strategy to topple pro-U.S. government

Posted: March 16, 2004

Al-Qaida planned to carry out attacks to sever Madrid from the U.S. and its other allies in the war on terror, according to a document published months before Spain's national elections.

CNN said it obtained a copy of the document, posted in December on an Internet message board used by al-Qaida and its sympathizers.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37605

WAR ON TERROR
Threats, action brought Gadhafi's in line Bush's bloodless victory in Libya shows role of force in diplomacy

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37594

ETA and Al-Qaeda Are in Effect Political Allies
Arab News ^ | Amir Taheri

Posted on 03/16/2004 10:02:47 PM CST by Eurotwit

PARIS, 17 March 2004 — It may take weeks before the identity of those responsible for the March 11 tragedy in Madrid is established. But one thing is already certain: Europe has not yet taken the full measure of the terrorist threat to its way of life, indeed its existence as a zone of peace and prosperity in an unstable world.

Moments after the attacks, the Spanish Cabinet, with the notable exception of Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, was mobilized to pin the blame on ETA, the Basque terrorist organization that has killed hundreds of people in its 30-year campaign for a breakaway state in northwest Spain. Because the attacks came just two days before a general election, the assumption was that Aznar’s People’s Party would benefit from the voters’ anti-ETA reflex.

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