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SCHOOL + THREAT:

Staten Island, NY:
HS Bomb Threat
NYPost - 11/06/05 - EXCERPT:
November 6, 2005 -- A student at a Staten Island high school threatened to "blow up the school to stop the spread of capitalism," but wasn't arrested until three days later when cops learned of the threat through hallway gossip.
On Halloween, Ze Li, 16, told another student at Curtis HS in St. George that he planned to "blow up the school with a bomb made from gun powder, vinegar and sodium dust," according to court documents.

More on Staten Island Threat:
CURTIS STUDENT ARRESTED FOR TERROR THREAT
Staten Island Advance - 11/06/05
A 16-year-old Curtis High School student is charged with threatening to blow up the school, and law enforcement sources say administrators waited three days before alerting authorities about the Halloween incident, which took place during a debate class.
The suspect, Ze Li, who police say lives on the 300-block of Richmond Terrace in St. George, is accused of threatening to blow up Curtis High School "to avenge capitalism" during a heated classroom debate last Monday, the sources said.
School officials did not notify police until Thursday.
(...) "It apparently started in a debate class. It was about whether or not it would be good to do something destructive if it meant something good would come out of it, if the end justified the means," the law enforcement source said. "It got carried away to the point where he (Li) made a threat to blow up Curtis High School to avenge capitalism."
He's since been suspended from school, and a court order prevents him from going near Curtis, a law enforcement source said. He's scheduled to return to court Nov. 17.
And authorities are bristling over the way education officials handled the incident.
"Nobody takes the kid seriously and three days later somebody realizes, what if this kid follows through?" said one high-ranking law enforcement source.

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Phoenix, AZ:
JDL Member Imprisoned in Bomb Plot Killed
ABCNews.com - 11/06/05
LOS ANGELES Nov 5, 2005 — A Jewish Defense League activist imprisoned for his role in a plot to bomb a California mosque and the office of a Lebanese-American congressman was killed at a federal prison in Phoenix, an FBI spokesman said Saturday.
Earl Krugel, 62, was killed in an assault Friday evening at the Federal Correctional Institution, said FBI agent Richard Murray.
(...)Earl Krugel, a former dental assistant from Reseda, and late JDL leader Irv Rubin were arrested in 2001 and charged with conspiring to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and a field office of Republican Rep. Darrell E. Issa, who is Lebanese-American.
Krugel pleaded guilty in 2003 to one count of conspiracy to violate the civil rights of worshippers at the mosque and one count of carrying an explosive device in connection with a conspiracy to impede or injure an office of the United States.
Despite the plea, he was sentenced in September to 20 years in prison.

Harare, Zimbabwe:
14 held in bomb attack on police station in Harare, report
M&C News - 11/06/05
Harare - Fourteen people were arrested in Harare Saturday when a petrol bomb was thrown at a police station during a demonstration against this month's senate elections, state radio said.
A policeman was seriously injured in the attack in Harare's main shopping street, the report said.
'About 20 members of the NCA (National Constitutional Assembly) and its associated organisations were demonstrating when the incident occurred,' the radio quoted police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena as saying.
The chairman of the NCA, a grouping of churches, civil rights groups and other pro-democracy activists, denied demonstrators had anything to do with the bombing.

SUSPICIOUS

Xiangtan, China:
China Reports Three Suspicious Pneumonia Cases
CRIOnline - 11/06/05
Chinese Ministry of Health has reported on Sunday three suspicious cases of pneumonia in the Xiangtan county of central China's Hunan province.
The three cases involve a 36-year-old man, a deceased 12-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy. The three people have tested negative to the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus.
Since the avian flu broke out recently in the region, experts have warned that one of the cases might be a strain of the virus. Further laboratory tests are now underway.

EXPLOSION/EXPLOSIVE:

Logan, OH:
Explosion Outside Ohio Wal-Mart May Have Been Caused By Meth Lab
Van Explodes In Parking Lot
NewsNet5.com - 11/06/05
LOGAN, Ohio -- Police said a possible mobile meth lab exploded at about 4 p.m. Saturday in Logan, in front of a Wal-Mart store, WCMH-TV in Columbus reported.
Witnesses told authorities that they heard a loud bang coming from a van in the parking lot. Then they said they saw men running from the vehicle, while rubbing their eyes and coughing.

Mogadishu:
Explosion kills three, wounds 20
News.com.au - 11/07/05(Australia)
The blast occurred close to a convoy of vehicles ferrying Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Gedi from an airstrip to the centre of the city after he arrived at the start of a visit to the lawless capital, they said, adding Mr Gedi was unharmed.
It was not immediately know what caused the explosion but militia officials said they suspected it was caused by a landline[landmine?-LR] planted by the side of the road.

TERRORISM/TERRORISTS:

Phillipines:
Dawud Santos: I’m no terrorist
Phillipine Daily Enquirer - 11/06/05
A MUSLIM convert accused by the military of planning bomb attacks in Metro Manila denied yesterday he was a terrorist or had jumped bail, and declared he was ready to face new charges of rebellion filed by the government recently to ensure he remained in jail.
In a radio interview, Tyrone “Dawud” Santos denied military claims he had jumped bail, pointing out he had attended all legal proceedings since his arrest last March on charges of illegal possession of explosives.
(...) Tyrone Santos belongs to a group of converts to Islam called the Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM), started by his brother Hilarion “Ahmad” Santos, who was arrested last week in Zamboanga City. The military has linked the RSM to the Southeast Asian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah and the local Abu Sayyaf Group, both of which have been linked to al-Qaida.
Both the Abu Sayyaf and RSM have been blamed by the military for terror attacks in Manila and elsewhere in the country early this year.
(...) A military intelligence officer who asked not to be identified lest his cover be blown said the military was not taking any action against Santos because he was legitimately out on bail and there were no pending arrest warrants against him.
“Unless the court declares a violation of his bail contract... we can (not) go after him,” added the official.
(...) Meanwhile, two administration lawmakers said yesterday that the television and radio network ABS-CBN and its broadcaster Julius Babao should answer allegations made by Jonathan Tiongco and the Armed Forces that they had expedited Tyrone Santos’ bail. Citing military intelligence, President Macapagal-Arroyo had claimed earlier that Babao had posted Santos’ bail.
Babao has denied putting up Santos’ bail and the network has said it was conducting an investigation to see if Babao had violated journalistic ethics in his exclusive interview of Santos shortly after he was freed on bail last April 26.

Southern Phillipines:
Top terrorist suspect arrested in southern Philippines Australian Broadcasting Corp. - 11/06/06
Authorities in the southern Philippines have arrested one of the top leaders of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group.
Radulan Sahiron was linked to 21 kidnap-for-ransom cases, including the abduction of Western tourists and Asian workers in Malaysia in 2000.
(...) The Abu Sayyaf has been behind kidnappings, and has been accused of staging bomb attacks in recent years.
It has been linked by Philippine authorities to the operations of other militant groups such as Jemaah Islamiah and the al-Qaeda Network.

AL QAEDA/AL QAIDA:

Teheran, Iran:
Teheran 'providing refuge for al-Qaeda terrorists'
Telegraph.co.uk - 11/06/05
About 25 al-Qaeda leaders, including three of Osama bin Laden's sons, are running terrorist operations from their refuge in Iran rather than languishing under house arrest as the Teheran regime claims, intelligence officials have said.
(...)A "top-ranking Western secret service agent" has told Cicero magazine that the senior al-Qaeda operatives, who fled across the border from Afghanistan into Iran after the fall of the Taliban regime in late 2001, have been provided with a secure hiding place, logistical support and equipment by the Revolutionary Guards.
Cicero is a German investigative publication known for its strong intelligence contacts.
(...)Iran claimed that it put the al-Qaeda leaders under house arrest after they crossed the border, saying it would put them on trial. But there has been no legal action and Teheran has also ignored requests from Saudi Arabia and the West for access to the wanted men.
(...)In an indication of the men's continued involvement in acts of terrorism, Saudi intelligence recorded a telephone call from al-Adel in Iran in May 2003 giving orders for the Riyadh bombings that claimed more than 30 lives, including eight Americans, Cicero said.
(...)Iran is run by Persian Shia hardliners and al-Qaeda is an Arab-led Sunni extremist operation - two schismatic Islamic factions that have a long and bloody history of antipathy. But they have forged their alliance around a shared hatred of the West, particularly America.

Islamabad, Pakistan:
One Al Qaeda militant caught, another killed in Quetta
The Peninsula (Qatar English Newspaper) - 11/06/05
ISLAMABAD: A suspected Al Qaeda militant has been killed and another captured during a shoot-out with Pakistani security men in the southwestern city of Quetta, a government minister said on Thursday.
Al Jazeera television said it had received a statement that two people had been arrested, identifying one as Mustafa Setmariam, a Syrian with a $5m U S reward on his head.
But Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said authorities were still trying to determine if the arrested man was Setmariam. He believed neither the arrested man nor the man killed in the Tuesday shoot-out were "high-value targets".

PARIS RIOTS:

Summary - Violence has now spread across the country and into the French Capitol of Paris. Over 1,000 reported car fires last night. Police have found a bomb-making factory in a close southern suburb of Paris which they say proves that these riots are organized and that the kids are not just "improvising" these bombs "in their bathrooms". Youth quoted in news coverage say that the remarks of French officials insulting them are tantamount to a "declaration of war" and they will keep fighting so that their friends' deaths are not "in vain"...

Thousand Cars Torched in Latest French Riots - link at MyWay.com found via DrudgeReport - written by Reuters.

Police find bomb-making factory

FR THREAD/Drudge Report link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516740/posts

Virgin.net Coverage: Police find bomb-making factory

FR THREAD/Yahoo!News link: Police Find Bomb-Making Factory in Paris

A country in flames… French cities teeter on the edge of anarchy
News.Telegraph.UK - 11/06/05
Gangs of youths were once again on the rampage across France last night as the guerilla warfare, which has engulfed a string of Paris suburbs for more than a week, took hold in cities throughout the country.
(...) Despite a string of emergency meetings and the drafting of 1,500 members of the CRS riot squads into the Paris suburbs, police and politicians have failed to control the worst violence the city has experienced since the riots of May 1968.
(...) Above one desolate street on the outskirts of Paris, a helicopter clattered but firefighters were forced to watch helplessly as a car burnt itself out. Any attempt to approach it resulted in a terrifying hail of stones, Molotov cocktails and other missiles.
Elsewhere in France, fire officers were pelted with metal petanque balls, car batteries and even cooking pots. (...) Angry youngsters have pledged to keep fighting so their friends did not "die for nothing".
Many of them also blame the tough-talking interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, for making matters worse. He has described the rioters as "scum" and threatened to "hose down" the estates to get rid of them.
"He's disrespected us, which is a declaration of war," one young man told the Sunday Telegraph as he surveyed one of Clichy's housing estates that was dotted with piles of ash and broken glass. "Those guys, our friends, died for nothing and we're being dissed. Someone has to say sorry."