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QUESTION:

Did any of you come across anything about some terrorist cell and/or arrests in TORRANCE, CA????

I was watching FoxNews yesterday and they mentioned a few places, including the arrests of these ME men with the cellphones who planned to blow up the bridge in Michigan, and mentioned Torrance, CA. I perked up (it's in Los Angeles county, in greater LA) and wondered if I had heard it right, then they put up a map of the US where terror cells were found -- it only had about 4-5 locations, but Torrance, CA was definitely one of them. This is the first I heard of it, and couldn't find anything on it on the internet.

If any of you know any more, could you please post it and ping me. Thanks very much.

I live in LA, less than 20 miles from Torrance, so I would like to find out more about it.

I searched and searched and did find this:

http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/64480.htm

"What you've seen then in the shift over those period of years is that it has gone, in some degree, from being a group with a strong organizational structure almost to a movement or a state of mind. What we see that shift evidencing itself in is events like the Madrid train bombings or the London bombings, either the first instance or the second instance or a case that we had experienced in Torrance, California in the Los Angeles area where a terrorism cell spawned itself from a cell, a prison cell in Folsom Prison where a particular leader appointed himself, recruited others, and then as they got out of jail, sent them out to recruit more and to plan attacks and did so, including obtaining the weapons, selecting the targets, the financing and so on. "

It's interesting it received no publicity.

Have found nothing about Torrance in the hear and now. However, some months ago, there WAS a terrorist bust in Torrance, California. Here is the reference from a June 2006 CBS TV onsite news blurb (also note that two months ago, US officials were saying that there would be a major act or acts of terrorism in the United States before the end of the year, and probably 'soon'. I believe what we are hearing now have all the trappings of such a major plot utilizing hundreds of people perhaps:

Another Terrorist Attack Coming Soon? CBS News: U.S. Officials Believe Recent Incidents Point To An Imminent Threat June 5, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (CBS/AP) Quote "These individuals are often hiding in plain sight in cities like Torrance and now Toledo." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Pistole, FBI deputy director (CBS) U.S. officials believe Canadian arrests over the weekend and three recent domestic incidents in the United States are evidence the U.S. will soon be hit again by a terrorist attack. Privately, they say, they'd be surprised if it didn't come by the end of the year, reports CBS News correspondent Jim Stewart in a CBS News exclusive. The first of the domestic incidents, all of which drew little attention at the time, began with the holdup of a string of Torrance, Calif. gas stations last summer. Muslim converts who bonded together in prison planned to use the robberies to finance attacks on 20 Army