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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=79588
"Police Nab Baby Formula Theft Ring"
Duffie Dixon reports
Dozens of cans of baby formula, stolen from Wal-Mart and other places.
Reported By: Duffie Dixon
Last Modified: 5/9/2006 9:47:25 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Woodstock Police Detectives show off video surveillance tape from the local Wal-Mart and point to what they say is indisputable evidence. A man and two women pulling cans of Enfamil baby formula off the shelves and heading for the door.
“The man moves a merchandise cart over into the middle isle. He does that so the public can’t see what is going on behind that”, says Detective Sergeant Dan King. "They loaded up a full shopping cart.”
Police say 23 year old Josue Romero and 22 Year old Brenda Romero didn’t get far. A Wal-Mart security officer stopped them for stealing.
When Woodstock detectives arrived, they say they searched the couple’s Ford Expedition and found $11,000 worth of formula. Another woman they believe was working with the couple ran away. They say they are drawing up warrants to arrest her as well."
JPOST.com: "SLAIN AL-QAIDA AIDE WAS PALESTINIAN" by Khaled Abu Toameh (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The sources identified the man as Husam Abu Baker, 32. They said his family, which lives in the village of Ya'bad near Jenin, was notified about his death only this week. His father, Abdel Latif, said he last saw his son about 10 years ago. The family was then living in Saudi Arabia when Husam left the kingdom to join al-Qaida in Afghanistan. Husam, according to village residents, was married to Fatmeh. the daughter of Ayman Zawahiri, the number-two man in al-Qaida.") (Updated April 23, 2006) (Read More...)
Thank you, Cindy.
Updates are greatly appreciated.
You're welcome Jer33 3.
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"74-Year-Old UK Pro-Lifer Jailed, Denied Health Care for Sending Abortion Pics to Hospital"
LifeSiteNews ^ | 5/9/06 | Gudrun Schultz and Hilary White
Posted on 05/09/2006 4:59:12 PM PDT by wagglebee
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NORFOLK, England, May 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A man who sent graphic pictures of mutilated and aborted babies to staff and officials at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn was jailed for a month, given a five-year anti-social behaviour order, and threatened with five years incarceration if he disobeys the order. Atkinson was charged with “sending malicious communications” to the hospital.
74-year-old Edward Atkinson told the judge, “Then you may as well lock me up and throw away the key,” reported the Eastern Daily Press. During the hearing, he said, “Since 1968, seven million unborn babies have been brutally and callously murdered with the full connivance of the state.”
The feisty Mr. Atkinson sent the photos and a video of a child being aborted to hospital chief executive Ruth May who described them as “offensive, horrendous and absolutely disgusting.”
Ms. May said she received an envelope of “very upsetting and offensive literature” and became tearful when she told the Press, “It is upsetting for everyone. I believe people who work for the NHS, and particularly at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, are passionate about providing excellent care for their patients.”
Since the court case, Mr. Atkinson has been removed from the hospital’s wait list for an evaluation for hip surgery and has been banned from anything other than life-saving treatment as a punishment for his activism. A hospital spokesman said he had broken its “zero tolerance” policy by ignoring its warnings to stop. Hospital staff said they were upset and “quite disturbed’ by the images."
I found it interesting how he used the words "coming days." I know we have gone over those types of lines with al Qaida speeches... Take it literally, or assume he is alluding to a future act? There's always something to think about. ;-)
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http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/elshukrijumah.htm
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http://www.ianlivingston.com/archived/2004/shukrijumah.htm
http://images.ibsys.com/2003/0327/2069865_200X150.jpg
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover050806.htm
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"Adnan El Shukrijumah alias confirmed!"
CFP newspaper ^ | May 8, 2006 | Judi McLeod
Posted on 05/09/2006 1:42:40 PM PDT by GPersaud
EXCLUSIVE
FBI, most wanted, at McMaster University
Adnan El Shukrijumah alias confirmed!
"Building super identifies terrorist Adnan El Shukrijumah as McMaster’s student Ciro Vitolo"
By Judi McLeod
Monday, May 8, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A photograph of Al Qaeda terrorist Adnan El Shukrijumah, aka "Jafar the Pilot"--posted to the Internet by the FBI--has been identified as Ciro Vitolo by the former superintendent of the Hamilton apartment building where he lived,
"I can verify that yes, that’s him in the third photograph," Neil Train told Canada Free Press, (CFP) Saturday night.
Train, who was the superintendent of the David Apartments at 47 Duke St., Hamilton, Ont., where El Shukrijumah lived between 1995 and 1998 as Ciro Vitolo, said he had no doubt about making the identity, exclaiming upon seeing the FBI-posted photo, "That’s him, that’s my tenant!"
"He was always sweating and had these shiny ears. The ears are even shiny in the photo", Train said."
ARTICLE SNIPPET#2: "First to report that an FBI informant had tipped off authorities that El Shukrijumah had been spotted in Hamilton, Ont., in 2002, posing as a student at McMaster University, which has a 5-megawatt research reactor on campus, was Bill Gertz, national security reporter for the Washington Times.
"In addition, the informant said at least three other al Qaida terrorists were seen in Hamilton in 2002. They include Anas al-Liby, one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, Jaber A. Elbaneh and Amer El-Maati," Gertz wrote on Oct. 17, 2003."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #3: "The Vernon Director at Hamilton Public Library shows Ciro Vitolo as a resident of 47 Duke St. between 1995 and 1998, and shows no record of his address after 1998."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #4: ""When I was super at the David Apartments, Ciro, who told me his name was Richard, had a wife and a couple of kids. He was the only tenant who paid his rent directly to Frank," Train said. "She (his wife) had a nickname for him. She called him Jaf."
"He was always very cordial with me and I had no reason to be suspicious of him. He never seemed to work, but he did tell me that he had some sort of association with McMaster. "
Train recalled both tenants as chain smokers.
"They lived in the basement apartment and he had lots of male, Middle-Eastern visitors, who never seemed to stay very long when they visited him."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #5: "Vitolo-Richard-El Shukrijumah-Jaf spoke fluent English, and once when he fell behind in the rent, the landlord asked Train to collect it."
Flying robot attack "unstoppable": experts
"It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers and hijackers could be made redundant by flying robots is a real one, according to experts.
The technology for remote-controlled light aircraft is now highly advanced, widely available -- and, experts say, virtually unstoppable."
More:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/09/060509055355.jjazoykq.html
Thanks Revel.
It's not far-fetched to me.
OPINION: FARC, Arafat at one time and other terrorists have been interested in flying, unmanned "toys" with bombs attached.
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005167.htm
"AAYAN HIRSI ALI AT HARVARD"
By Michelle Malkin · May 09, 2006 05:54 PM
"coming days" does imply a future day/date.
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Reward offered in explosives theft in San Bernardino County
modbee ^ | 5-9-6
Posted on 05/09/2006 7:40:19 PM PDT by LouAvul
Authorities offered a $25,000 reward Tuesday for information about the theft of more than 500 pounds of explosives from a storage bunker near a gold mine.
"The big concern for us is who took these explosives and why did that person take them," said John D'Angelo, spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The agency is investigating the theft with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and sharing information with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force and U.S. Forest Service.
The theft was reported on May 3 at Gold Mountain Mine Co. about 90 miles east of Los Angeles. Associates of the mine owner found someone had broken into the explosives storage facility and 686 sticks of dynamite and a 30-pound bag of ammonium nitrate were missing, D'Angelo said.
He declined to give further details.
Officials with the Gold Mountain Mine Co. could not be reached for comment because the firm has an unlisted phone number.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2006/20060509_5067.html
Florida National Guard Ready to Respond to Wildfires
By Capt. Steve Alvarez, USA
American Forces Press Service
ORLANDO, Fla., May 9, 2006 – More than 8,000 citizen-soldiers and airmen are ready to assist the state of Florida in fighting wildfires that have plagued the state for several weeks, Florida National Guard officials announced today.
Guard officials said that more than 8,000 acres have burned in Florida, particularly in Volusia, Brevard, Hillsborough and Lee counties. The fires have caused portions of Interstate 95, a widely traveled roadway that links the state to the rest of the East Coast, to close periodically in recent days, and many residences have been destroyed. If the fires persist, they will threaten more homes and businesses, state officials said.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of emergency when he signed an executive order yesterday, directing the state's response to the wildfires. The order enables the Florida National Guard to provide emergency support to Florida's Division of Forestry and to the Division of Emergency Management if needed.
Florida National Guard officials said aviation personnel are on standby and awaiting orders to deploy to fight the fires if the Florida Division of Emergency Management calls for help. The aircrews would work under the control of the Division of Forestry.
Army Guard helicopters were standing by today for wildfire assistance missions. According to state officials with Florida National Guard Army Aviation, a UH-60L Fire Hawk and two UH-60 Black Hawks are available for fire-suppression missions.
Guard officials said from their headquarters in St. Augustine that while the governor's executive order requests the Guard to mobilize for fire duty, full-time aircrews employed by the Guard who manage day-to-day operations at the Brooksville, Fla.-based unit will deploy first. If more aircrews are needed, the Guard will then mobilize more traditional guardsmen -- those who perform duty one weekend per month -- and place them on state active duty.
The Florida Guard has specially equipped Black Hawk helicopters outfitted with buckets that can carry water over blazes. In addition, it has a UH-60L Fire Hawk helicopter that it can deploy to combat the wild fires. The Fire Hawk is a modified version of the UH-60 Black Hawk transport.
The Fire Hawk retrieves water through a snorkel and can hold 1,000 gallons in its external tank. Foam can be mixed with the water to make the aircraft more effective in fire-suppression operations. In addition, the Fire Hawk can hold 220 more gallons than Black Hawks equipped with buckets, and Fire Hawks can extract water from water supplies that bucket-equipped helicopters normally cannot use.
The aircraft has not yet been deployed to fight fires in Florida since it arrived in 2002. Wildfire seasons in Florida in the past few years, which run from December to June, have not given the Guard cause to utilize the Fire Hawk. However, this year's low precipitation has caused an outbreak of fires, and the aircraft is ready for deployment.
Florida National Guard officials said state officials are tracking more than 50 active wildfires throughout the state. According to the Florida Division of Forestry, wildfires peak during May and June in Florida. Lightning strikes usually cause most of those fires during this period, but law enforcement officials in Florida have said some of this year's fires are linked to arson.
More than 1,500 Florida National Guard troops were trained for the wildfires in 1999 and were employed in support of the Division of Forestry around the state that year. The Florida Guard currently has forces deployed around the world in support of the Global War on Terror.
Rain is forecasted for the next three days throughout most of central and northern Florida, but the National Weather Service indicates that the dry conditions here are creating wildfire dangers that will persist in the state for the next 90 days. Residents in the fire's path have been asked to evacuate, although mandatory evacuations are not being enforced.
The governor's executive order also invokes the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, or EMAC. These agreements exist between Florida and other states and are implemented during times of crisis or disaster. They allow the coordination and allocation of resources from other states similar to the multistate response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 when several states mobilized their National Guard assets and sent them to help the Gulf States.
In addition, Florida can now ask the federal government for assistance in combating the wildfires.
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http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=30308
"The Border of Terror
Al Qaeda activity in Mexico"
Updated: May 8th, 2006 07:13 PM PDT
HENRY MORGENSTERN
Counterterrorism Contributor
Officer.com
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=590c7b12-5b88-4474-8ac4-f8de6b1f136a
"Al-Qaida assault on Canada 'probable,' head of spy agency warns"
Jim Bronskill, Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, May 09, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "OTTAWA (CP) - While the threat from al-Qaida remains strongest overseas, a terrorist attack on Canadian soil is "now probable," the head of Canada's spy agency has quietly advised the government.
In his annual report to the public safety minister, Jim Judd says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's highest priority involved trying to prevent assaults occurring in, or originating from, Canada.
"The threat of further attacks by Sunni Islamic extremists and other like-minded groups continues, bringing with it elevated demands on the service's resources," says the report, which covers the year 2004-05."
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369991
Terrorism Focus
Volume 3, Issue 18 (May 9, 2006)
"Reinforcing the Mujahideen: Origins of Jihadi Manpower"
By Michael Scheuer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The justifications offered by Arab governments for these releases vary. Some claim they are to commemorate religious holidays or political anniversaries; others claim they are part of national-reconciliation plans. In some of the official statements announcing prisoner releases, Islamists are said to be excluded from the prisoners freed; in others, they are specifically included. In all cases, the releasing governments are police states worried about internal stability in the face of rising Islamist militancy across the Islamic world, the animosities of populations angered at Arab regimes for assisting the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and the powerful showings Islamist parties have made in elections across the region. While the motivation of Arab governments in releasing large numbers of prisoners is impossible to definitively document, it seems fair to conclude that those governments are not ignorant to the attraction that the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan will exert on newly freed Islamists, nor of the chance that it might take no more than a slight incentive to dispatch some of the former prisoners to the war zones. It may well be that the West is seeing but not recognizing a reprise of the process that supplied manpower to the Afghan mujahideen two decades ago."
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP116006
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1160
May 10, 2006 No.1160
"Al-Qaeda Fugitives from an American Prison in Afghanistan Continue to Promote Jihad via the Internet"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On July 10, 2005, four Al-Qaeda operatives escaped from the American Baghram Prison in Afghanistan. [1] Since then, two of them, Abu Nasser Al-Qahtani and Abu Yahya Al-Liby, have appeared on Islamist websites, in video-taped footage of anti-American operations and in interviews.
The following are excerpts from video footage of Al-Qahtani, which was posted on various Islamist message forums, and from an interview with Abu Yahya Al-Liby, which appeared in the Tora Bora online magazine.
Al-Qahtani Shows Footage of Terror Attack on American Military Post in Afghanistan
As part the Jihad and Terrorism Studies Project, MEMRI's new initiatve, Monitoring Islamist and Jihadist Websites, has translated excerpts from footage of Al-Qaeda member Abu Nasser Al-Qahtani, which was posted on www.alsaha.com on April 23, 2006, under the title: "The Holocaust of the Americans in the Land of Khorasan" series. [2] To view the clip, visit: http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1130 ."
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http://www.saag.org
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http://www.saag.org/papers18/paper1793.html
Paper no. 1793
10. 05. 2006
"EVOLUTION OF INDIA'S COUNTER-TERRORISM CAPABILITIES
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO.55"
by B.Raman
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "( PRESENTATION MADE BY THE WRITER AT A CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL HOMELAND SECURITY ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE (RUSI) FOR DEFENCE AND SECURITY STUDIES, LONDON, ON MAY 10,2006)"
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