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"Luggage that Didn't Get Put on Sept. 11 Jet Provided Lead to Terrorists"
Newsday (Melville, NY) (KRT)
via NewsEdge
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Apr. 17--Former federal terrorism investigators say a piece of luggage hastily checked in at the Portland, Maine, airport by a World Trade Center hijacker on the morning of Sept. 11 provided the Rosetta stone enabling FBI agents to swiftly unravel the mystery of who carried out the suicide attacks and what motivated them.
A mix-up in Boston prevented the luggage from connecting with the plane that hijackers crashed into the north tower of the trade center. Seized by FBI agents at Boston's Logan Airport, investigators said, it contained Arab-language papers revealing the identities of all 19 hijackers involved in the four hijackings, as well as information on their plans, backgrounds and motives."
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http://www.rewardsforjustice.net
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Wanted_Terrorist
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/fugitives.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/terrorismsi.htm
http://www.ice.gov/pi/investigations/mostwanted.htm
http://www.ice.gov/pi/investigations/wanted/fugitives.htm
http://www.ice.gov/doclib/pi/investigations/wanted/mostwanted.pdf
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"Russia says no to sanctions against Iran"
EuroNews ^ | 19APR06 | EuroNews
Posted on 04/19/2006 12:52:02 AM PDT by familyop
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200604/INT20060418a.html
"China-Japan Dispute Tied to Quest for Energy"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
April 18, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Asia's two biggest economies are locked in a dispute over undersea natural gas reserves claimed by both, a row underlining the increasingly important role energy is playing in China's foreign relations."
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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT - DAILY BRIEFING - APRIL 17, 2006
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2006/64625.htm
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"Iranian official's presence in U.S. raises entry queries"
By Nicholas Kralev
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
April 19, 2006
http://www.mipt.org/murrahfinalrpt.asp
"Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing, April 19, 1995: Final Report"
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"Appointment with The Apocalypse- the Waco Files"
various FR links | 04-28-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 04/28/2003 5:05:20 AM PDT by backhoe
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BBC NEWS - ON THIS DAY - April 19, 1993
"1993: Waco cult siege ends with inferno"
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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: danjuma1@aol.com
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
CHRISTIAN LEADER MAY BE FINED FOR ORGANIZING BIBLE STUDY
By Jeremy Reynalds
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
BELARUS (ANS) -- The administration of the town of Baranovichi in western Belarus, is trying to fine a local Pentecostal leader for organizing a Bible study group within his congregation.
Belarus is located in Eastern Europe, east of Poland.
According to Forum 18 News Service, Tatyana Zhitko, head of the Ideology Department of the town administration had no comment about the situation.
“Why are you calling me?” Forum 18 reported Zhitko said. “I don't know your publication and I'm not prepared to give you any information.” According to Forum 18, Protestant churches have borne the brunt of increased use in recent months of the Administrative Violations Code to restrict the activity of religious communities.
In the wake of a police raid on New Generation Church at the beginning of 2006, local officials accused Gennady Akhrimovich, who chairs the church's council, of organizing a study group of eleven church members without registering its statutes.
Forum 18 reported that in a Feb. 22 report, officials said this violated Article 193 of the Administrative Violations Code - a Soviet-era provision punishing the foundation and leadership of an unregistered religious congregation or a group within a religious community not connected with the performance of religious rituals with a fine of up to five times the minimum monthly wage (up to 53 U.S. Dollars).
However, at its hearing on April 6, at which Akhrimovich set out his position, the Administrative Commission postponed further consideration of the case for another two weeks, complaining that it had insufficient time to prepare properly.
Forum 18 reported that Akhrimovich argued the study group was not a separate organization but an integral part of the church's work, since its aim was “in-depth Bible study, in particular such issues as Biblical foundations of the family and marriage, the nature of faith, prayer, the Holy Spirit, the Church.”
Akhrimovich maintained, Forum 18 reported, that organizing such study groups is within the parameters of his church government as outlined in its statutes, and as a registered religious community under the country's 2002 Religion Law.
Forum 18 reported that under Belarus' “tight web of restrictions on all religious activity - and in defiance of the country's international human rights commitments,” the government maintains that all religious activity without official approval is illegal.
While New Generation Church has managed to re-register under the 2002 law, it has encountered difficulties acquiring a place of worship. Last year Pastor Leonid Voronenko told Forum 18 that, although his 150-strong congregation bought a 530-square-yard warehouse in 1997 with the intention of converting it into a church, the town authorities refused to allow the designated purpose of the building to be changed or to give the church full rights over the land beneath it.
In long-running correspondence on the issue between the church and Baranovichi Municipal Executive Committee seen by Forum 18, committee chairman Mikhail Pavlov claimed in July 1997 that conversion of the warehouse was “inexpedient.”
Forum 18 reported that his successor Viktor Dichkovsky wrote to Voronenko in Aug. 2004 that there was “no basis” to alter the building. He warned, Forum 18 reported, that if the designated usage of the plot of land was not complied with - in this case, storage of goods and products - then the church's right to use it would be terminated in accordance with the Land Code.
With the help of public pressure, Forum 18 reported that New Generation Church has so far managed to resist state threats to seal and demolish the building (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=619).
A fellow Full Gospel Association congregation in a similar predicament is the Minsk-based charismatic New Life Church. On April 18, Forum 18 reported that its administrator Vasily Yurevich told the news service that the church had just received a court summons from Minsk City Economic Court to attend an April 24 preliminary hearing on the forced sale of the church's worship building to Minsk City Property Department.
Yurevich told Forum 18 that the church is still considering its response, but is determined “not to sell our church building at any price.” A copy of the summons was seen by Forum 18, the news service reported.
In late Oct. 2005 New Life Church lost its challenge in the same court against Minsk City Executive Committee’s Aug. 17 instruction curtailing the church's land rights and ordering the sale of its worship building, a disused cowshed it purchased in 2002 (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=700).
The Executive Committee's decision was based on the church's alleged violation of Article 49, Part 4 of the Land Code, Forum 18 reported, which states that rights to land may be curtailed if it is not used in accordance with its designation.
Forum 18 added that the 2002 Religion Law requires state permission for religious gatherings in premises not specially designed for worship, but the Minsk municipal authorities have consistently refused to grant both this - on the grounds that the building is a cowshed - as well as permission to change the designated usage of the building and reconstruct it as a church (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=516).
Two Protestants have recently been freed after each serving ten days in prison for religious activity the government regards - against international human rights standards - as illegal, Forum 18 reported. Sergei Shavtsov, a religious rights lawyer who was imprisoned for ten days on charges of organizing an unapproved Christian seminar in a privately owned restaurant, was freed at the end of his sentence on 3 April (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=750).
“Conditions in prison were not too bad,” Forum 18 reported he told the news service, “though of course it was not up to the standard of foreign prisons.”
On April 5, Vladimir Bukanov, a Reformed Baptist pastor based in Gatovo (Minsk region), told Forum 18 that neither his congregation nor that of Pastor Georgi Vyazovsky had encountered any restriction since Vyazovsky's release from prison on 13 March (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=737).
Also facing charges for leading unapproved home worship is the Pentecostal bishop of Minsk region, Sergei Tsvor, but he told Forum 18 that he as unaware of further developments since the March 9 postponement of a court hearing to consider his case (see F18News
www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=743).
“They told me to wait for a summons,” he told Forum 18, “but all has gone quiet.”
Meanwhile, Forum 18 reported, Christians and political opponents of President Aleksandr Lukashenko, detained by police during election demonstrations in Minsk and elsewhere, are now gradually being released from prison.
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) observers found that the March 19 presidential election “failed to meet OSCE commitments for democratic elections,” and that “arbitrary abuse of state power, obviously designed to protect the incumbent President, went far beyond acceptable practice.”
Freed on March 28, Kristina Shatikova from the town of Mogilev, told the opposition news website Charter 97 that members of the OMON special riot police confiscated Bibles from some female demonstrators as they arrested them. Forum 18 reported she claimed that when they asked for their Bibles back, the OMON members laughed and threatened to rape them. Members of some Christian churches took part in the demonstrations and a number were detained for up to two weeks.
In the wake of the expulsion from Belarus in Dec. 2005 of the Catholic parish priest of Borisov, Polish citizen Father Robert Krzywicki, Forum 18 reported that a group of his parishioners wrote to the government's Religious Affairs Committee demanding that he be allowed to return (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=715).
In his March 22 response, however, Forum 18 reported that Committee deputy chairman Vladimir Lameko said the complaint had been sent on to the Minsk regional executive committee as this group had originally given Father Krzywicki permission to serve in the parish. At the same time, Lameko pointed out that, as the Catholic leadership holds the exclusive right to name priests to parishes, Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek appointed Father Zbigniew Grigorzewicz to the Borisov parish. “The state does not interfere in the activity of religious organizations.”
Local journalist Viktoriya Ravinskaya wrote on a Borisov website, Forum 18 reported, that the parishioners said the response had been as they had predicted.
For additional information, see Forum 18's Belarus religious freedom
survey at www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=478
Jeremy Reynalds is a freelance writer and the founder and director of Joy Junction, New Mexico's largest emergency homeless shelter, http://www.joyjunction.org or http://www.christianity.com/joyjunction. He has a master's degree in communication from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in intercultural education from Biola University in Los Angeles. He has five children and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. For more information contact: Jeremy Reynalds at jgreynalds@aol.com. Tel: (505) 877-6967 or (505) 400-7145. Note: A higher resolution JPEG picture of Jeremy Reynalds is available on request from Dan Wooding at danjuma1@aol.com.
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"Professor Who Trashed Pro-Life Abortion Display Apologizes, Will Retire"
LifeNews ^ | April 19, 2006 | Steven Ertelt
Posted on 04/19/2006 2:01:59 AM PDT by rhema
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Highland Heights, KY -- The Northern Kentucky University professor who encouraged her students to vandalize a pro-life display -- and then led them in trashing it -- has apologized. Dr. Sally Jacobson, a tenured 27-year British literature professor, issued her apology just days after saying she saw nothing wrong what she did. "I deeply regret my impulsive action in dismantling that display," Jacobson said late Tuesday. "It was a mistake of judgment for me to invite my students to participate in that action."
Jacobson told WKRC-TV in a taped interview that she hoped her actions did not damage the reputation of the college.
"I really love NKU and care very much about my students and don't want them to be harmed," she said. "At this point, I really want the university to be able to defuse the firestorm of attention around this."
NKU has suspended Jacobson and she will officially retire at the end of the school year. WKRC reports that other professors have taken over her classes for the remainder of the semester.
Local police are investigating the vandalism, which saw Jacobson and several students destroy a pro-life cross display Northern Right to Life set up in the grass outside the student center. A reported from the student newspaper caught Jacobson and her students destroying the display.
University officials authorized the pro-life display, meant to memorialize the 47 million babies who have died since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
NKU President James Votruba, who issued a statement Monday apologizing on behalf of the school, appreciated Jacobson's apology but said the infringement of free speech and the disregard for the exchange of ideas couldn't be tolerated on a college campus."
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France and Italy detain suspects (Algerians)
BBC ^ | 19 April 2006
Posted on 04/19/2006 2:09:39 AM PDT by csvset
French and Italian police are reported to have arrested at least 10 people in a joint anti-terrorism operation.
The suspects, who are mainly Algerian, were detained during raids in Naples, Milan and Marseille.
Reports say police are investigating groups believed to be helping fund Islamic terrorism.
The suspects are thought to have links to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - an armed splinter organisation operating mainly in eastern Algeria.
Gratzi, for remembering...
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"China's Fear of Freedom"
By Don Feder
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 19, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "On Thursday (April 20), Hu Jintao will visit the White House for the first time as China’s leader. Hu wants to talk trade. President Bush will seek more cooperation from the People’s Republic in reining in rogue states like Iran and North Korea.
Taiwan should also be discussed, along with China’s rapid militarization. The two are intimately connected.
China poses the principal military challenge to the United States, now and in the foreseeable future. The communists’ obsession with free, democratic Taiwan is the principal source of instability in East Asia.
For an apparchik, Hu is not completely devoid of pr finesse. To pave the way for his visit, China’s president dispatched a delegation to America to purchase an estimated $16.2 billion in aircraft, farm goods, computer software, auto parts and telecommunications equipment.
This trip to the mall is supposed to allay American anxiety over our burgeoning trade deficit with China – a record $203 billion last year.
Of more concern to the security-conscious is what China’s doing with at least part of that windfall. The People’s Liberation Army has been on a 15-year buying spree of its own."
You're welcome backhoe.
I'll never forget.
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"Chavez begins training civilian militia"
Miami Herald ^ | April 19, 2006 | FABIOLA SANCHEZ, AP with Natalie Obiko Pearson, AP
Posted on 04/19/2006 2:33:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
CARACAS, Venezuela -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Critics of Chavez say the real goal of the mobilization is to create the means to suppress internal dissent and defend Chavez's presidency at all costs. Thousands of Territorial Guard volunteers - housewives, students, construction workers - are undergoing training, earning $7.45 per session."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Chavez also recently said the National Guard has even enlisted an army of 500 Indians to defend the country with poison-tipped arrows. He added: "If they had to take a good shot at any invader, you'd be done for in 30 seconds, my dear gringo.""
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=104&sid=760872
April 19th, 2006
"Cops Rescue Passengers From NYC Cable Cars"
Apr 19th - 3:52am
By ELIZABETH LeSURE Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "NEW YORK (AP) - All 69 people trapped for hours in two cable cars that were suspended above the East River after losing power have been rescued, police said Wednesday.
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The cause of the outage of the Roosevelt Island Tramway cars was not known, said Herb Berman, president of the agency that operates the system, which offer breathtaking views of the city from up to 250 feet high."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17629557.htm
"Palestinian militants threaten to attack Jews abroad"
17 Apr 2006 12:48:56 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "GAZA, April 17 (Reuters) - Palestinian militants linked to President Mahmoud Abbas's increasingly fractured Fatah movement threatened on Monday to attack Jews overseas to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners from its jails.
Two other main Palestinian militant groups, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, also said they supported violence to free more than 8,000 prisoners held by the Jewish state, but neither explicitly backed attacks on Jews outside Israel."
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Wed Apr 19 2006 03:19:14 GMT-0700.
Worldwide Caution
December 12, 2005
This Public Announcement updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests overseas. This supersedes the Worldwide Caution dated August 2, 2005 and expires on June 12, 2006.
The Department of State remains concerned about the continued threat of terrorist attacks, demonstrations and other violent actions against U.S. citizens and interests overseas. Ongoing events in Iraq have resulted in demonstrations and associated violence in several countries. Americans are reminded that demonstrations and rioting can occur with little or no warning.
Current information suggests that al-Qa’ida and affiliated organizations continue to plan terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in multiple regions, including Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. These attacks may employ a wide variety of tactics to include assassinations, kidnappings, hijackings and bombings.
Extremists may elect to use conventional or non-conventional weapons, and target both official and private interests. The hotel bombings in Jordan in early November illustrate how terrorists exploit vulnerabilities associated with soft targets. Additional examples of such targets include residential areas, business offices, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools, public areas and locales where Americans gather in large numbers, including during holidays.
In the wake of the July 2005 London bombings and the March 2004 train attacks in Madrid, Americans are reminded of the potential for terrorists to attack public transportation systems. In addition, extremists may also select aviation and maritime services as possible targets.
U.S. citizens are strongly encouraged to maintain a high level of vigilance, be aware of local events, and take the appropriate steps to bolster their personal security. For additional information, please refer to “A Safe Trip Abroad” found at http://travel.state.gov.
U.S. Government facilities worldwide remain at a heightened state of alert. These facilities may temporarily close or periodically suspend public services to assess their security posture. In those instances, U.S. embassies and consulates will make every effort to provide emergency services to U.S. citizens. Americans abroad are urged to monitor the local news and maintain contact with the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate.
As the Department continues to develop information on any potential security threats to U.S. citizens overseas, it shares credible threat information through its Consular Information Program documents, available on the Internet at http://travel.state.gov. In addition to information on the Internet, travelers may obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the U.S. or outside the U.S. and Canada on a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444.
http://www.dhs.gov
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"Little chance of delay in border ID cards: U.S. czar"
The Canadian Press
Published: Tuesday, April 18, 2006
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"9/11 gets the comic book treatment"
The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 19, 2006 | Catherine Elsworth
Posted on 04/19/2006 3:31:42 AM PDT by MadIvan
Thanks for the ping nw. Great start to another thread. WOW
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