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OPINION: Another one of Ahmadinejad's (Iran) buddies is taking on the media.
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"Chavez to shut down opposition TV"
BBC ^ | Dec 28, 2006
Posted on 12/28/2006 5:22:32 PM PST by jdm
All passengers were evacuated from terminal areas at Nashville International Airport today after some unscreened passengers slipped around security lines, airport officials said.
The passengers could not be located, prompting the evacuation of all passenger areas so that travelers could be re-screened.
People had begun moving back through the security checkpoints as of 1 p.m., airport officials said. p>http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061228/NEWS03/61228012
FBI probes suspicious substance (Texas)
December 28, 2006
An unidentified white powder found in an envelope inside the Commissioners’ Court building on Main Plaza sent hazardous material crews and two FBI agents to the building Wednesday evening on suspicions of anthrax, according to New Braunfels Battalion Chief Mike Wehman.
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http://herald-zeitung.com/story.lasso?ewcd=992518bd5f782a8a
Suspected bomb blast wounds three people in Philippine mall, officials say
December 28, 2006
MANILA, Philippines: A suspected homemade bomb exploded Thursday in a shopping mall in a southern Philippine city, wounding three people and setting off a security alarm, police said.
The explosion happened in a counter where shoppers deposit their bags and packages at the Kim San Plaza in Tacurong City in Sultan Kudarat province, which have been hit in the past by bomb attacks, police Chief Superintendent German Doria said.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/28/asia/AS_GEN_Philippines_Mall_Explosion.php
MOSCOW - The patients and staff of Hospital 4 in the Chechen capital Grozny is being evacuated and Hospital 9 has been cordoned off by police, first deputy chief of the local Emergency Situations Department Colonel Akhmed Dzheirkhanov told Interfax by telephone on Thursday.
"Units of the [local] military commandant's office, Emergency Situations Department and the Interior Ministry are in Hospital 4. All patients have been evacuated and moved to the surrounding buildings. The search for explosives is underway," he said, adding that similar measures will be applied to Hospital 9.
A source in the Chechen Interior Ministry told Interfax that a message had been found at Hospital 9 at 1:45 p.m. threatening terrorist acts both there and at Hospital 4 unless one of the senior managers of Hospital 9 was dismissed. Steps are being taken to identify the man behind the message.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11655514
US Embassy in Malaysia receives suspicious package
Dec.28.2006
Kuala Lumpur - The U.S. Embassy in Malaysia on Thursday called police to investigate a suspicious package it received, an official said.
Police isolated the package, and there was no evacuation at the embassy in Malaysia's biggest city, Kuala Lumpur, said U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Kathryn Taylor.
Taylor said she couldn't immediately provide details of how the package had been delivered or what its contents appeared to be. Police officials handling the case were not immediately available for comment.
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200612281211.htm
Chemicals seized from two train passengers (India)
Nagpur, Dec 27: Two persons were arrested and some chemicals seized after a bomb detection squad searched the Delhi-Chennai Tamil Nadu Express here today, following a bomb scare.
The superfast train was on its routine journey to Chennai when a ticket inspector found two youths carrying some materials in 40 bags.
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Anti-terror cops have visited a leading UK university amid fears that extremists may steal steal radioactive materials to make dirty bombs.
Investigators from Scotland Yard's Counterterrorism Command toured London's Imperial College to inspect its science facilities.
Detectives fear the university - which attracts large numbers of overseas students - is being targeted by extremists.
It boasts some of the best nuclear research facilities in the world, including its own nuclear reactor.
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Army defuses bomb on bus (India)
Guwahati, Dec. 28: Army personnel today recovered a 3.6-kg improvised explosive device (IED) from a Guwahati-bound bus at North Guwahati even as Dispur moved the Centre for upgrading chief minister Tarun Gogoi’s security cover following revelations of Ulfa’s plans to assassinate top leaders.
An army spokesman said a major disaster had been averted following recovery of the powerful IED.
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http://www.telegraphindia.com/1061229/asp/frontpage/story_7196911.asp
Sahiron appointed Abu leader after Janjalani's death
December 28, 2006
A military official said Thursday that Radulan Sahiron was appointed leader of the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group after the alleged death of its spiritual leader Khadaffy Janjalani.
Brig. Gen. Juancho Sabban, 3rd Marine Brigade commander, said that based on intelligence information, ASG sub-commanders immediately held a meeting and declared Sahiron as their new leader after Janjalani died last September.
He added that with Sahiron as leader, ASG stands to lose its ties with international terror groups, particularly Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network.
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A citizens' group in Berlin turned out this week for a candlelight vigil to protest plans for a new mosque in their neighborhood. It will be the first to be built in the former East Berlin, where almost no Muslims live -- but no one can quite explain why it shouldn't be there.
At the end of a rundown suburban street lined with bare trees and flaking apartment facades, a small group of people hold candles or colored Glo-sticks. A few hold signs -- "Democracy yes! Caliphate no!" -- and some carry German flags.
"The mosque is supposed to go up right here," says Günter Bronner, a blustery white-haired man with glasses pushed up on his forehead who's lived in the neighborhood for 42 years. He points to a drab piece of land at the end of the street where a defunct sauerkraut factory stands. "They want to have a minaret with a muezzin who gives the call to prayer five times a day. Can you imagine? Five times a day over our rooftops."
Officials gave the go-ahead last Friday for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association to build a new mosque in Heinersdorf, an eastern neighborhood of Berlin where very few Muslims live. It will be the first mosque on the once-Communist eastern side of the city, and an organization of locals turned out Wednesday to protest. "It was pretty brazen to hand this (approval) to us as a Christmas present," quipped Joachim Swietlik, head of the citizens' group, who claims that 90 percent of Heinersdorf doesn't want the mosque.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,456751,00.html
Plan B: Syria’s forgotten — but dangerous — nuclear program
Dec 28, 2006
WASHINGTON - The Iraq Survey Group is calling for open negotiations with Syria, but new reports show that Damascus is up to no good. Indeed, while world attention is rightly focused on the nuclear capabilities of Iran and North Korea, Syria has been quietly — but quickly — advancing its own secret nuclear program.
The first signs appeared in 2003 when the Russian Foreign Ministry inadvertently revealed that a Russian-Syrian agreement for the delivery of a nuclear power plant in an undisclosed Syrian location had been signed.
In 2004, Syrian President Bashar Assad made a point to say that Syria would not dispose of its WMD program until Israel did the same. “Since some of my country is occupied,” Assad added, “Syria can legitimately use all the necessary means to liberate its territories.”
German magazine Der Spiegel revealed in March 2004 that Swedish authorities and the CIA were investigating a very likely Syrian nuclear program secretly developed in Homs in the northern part of the country. That July, investigators looking into the Pakistani nuclear network of A.Q. Khan pointed out that Syria may have procured centrifuges capable of enriching uranium to produce a bomb.
This fact was confirmed in May 2006 in a declassified report to the U.S. Congress on the acquisition of technology relating to weapons of mass destruction. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Syria also got help from Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Keep in mind that Syria’s economy was very dependent on Iraq’s trade, especially oil-smuggling revenues. Sunday Telegraph journalist Con Coughlin affirmed in a September 2004 article that 12 Iraqi nuclear scientists — who were transferred to Syria and given new identities before the war — were on their way to Iran to assist their counterparts there in building a nuclear weapon. “The results of the research would then be shared with Syria,” Coughlin added.
But what really broke the camel’s back was a recent report from the well-informed Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al Seyassah. It quoted European intelligence sources as saying that “Syria has an advanced nuclear program” in a secret site located in the province of Al Hassaka, close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders. British sources quoted by the paper believe that “it is President Assad’s brother, Colonel Maher Assad and his cousin Rami Makhlouf, who supervise the program.”
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BEIJING - Chinese president and commander-in-chief Hu Jintao urged the building of a powerful navy that is prepared "at any time" for military struggle, state media reported on Thursday.
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Hizbullah paying for Kassam attacks
Dec. 28, 2006
Hizbullah is paying Palestinian splinter groups "thousands of dollars" for each Kassam rocket fired at the western Negev, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
According to Israeli intelligence information, Hizbullah is smuggling cash into the Gaza Strip and paying "a number of unknown local splinter groups" for each attack.
Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) sources said the Islamist organization paid several thousand dollars for each attack, with the amount dependent on the number of Israelis killed or wounded.
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881992801&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UK Police Force to host Muslim Summit in February
LONDON (UK): Representatives of all 43 mosques in South Yorkshire, Northern England will gather for the first Muslim community conference hosted by the county’s police force in February next year.
About 150 delegates are expected to attend the event, entitled Advancing Community Cohesion, in Sheffield.
Speakers will include Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, head of Muslim Council of Britain and Abdul Basit, Deputy High Commissioner for Pakistan. Top police officers will also address the meeting at the city’s Mega Centre.
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Keep 'em comin', Oorang! Great stuff.
Thanks JJ! Hope you have a great 2007.
Airport security probe reveals gaps Only Miami asks journalists to leave areas near planes
Qods Force: Iranian regime's instrument for extraterritorial terror activities
Chalk up another victory for the terrorists' Fifth Column -- the Council on American-Islamic Relations. After much prodding and capitalizing on phony incidents of racial profiling, CAIR has achieved something few Americans have achieved -- they got airport security officials to back off.
The Transportation Security Administration announced a new training program -- some may call it an indoctrination program -- that will be mandated for more than 45,000 security officers and supervisors. No, it's not training that'll be used to identify terrorists or protect airline passengers. This training program is being billed as "Muslim Sensitivity Training."
In a press release sent to US media organizations, CAIR said it welcomed the "special training about Islamic traditions" including the Hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, which entails thousands of Muslims traveling to Saudi Arabia.
The TSA cultural sensitivity training includes details about the timing of Hajj travel, about items pilgrims may be carrying and about Islamic prayers that may be observed by security personnel.
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Quite the collection of articles.
Pasadena Police To Begin Parade Watch Program
CBS) PASADENA, Calif. People camped along the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade will be asked to keep their eyes open for suspicious activity as the Pasadena Police Department begins its Parade Watch Program Friday.
The program is modeled after the Neighborhood Watch Program, but works with the help of people staying in motor homes and recreational vehicles near the parade route.
"Essentially, we are asking people who will be right there on the route to be our eyes and ears. We are asking them to get involved and report any type of suspicious activity ...," said Pasadena Police Chief Bernard Melekian.http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_362195326.html
Thanks Vel. I worry about these type of parades. Unlike big arena events (Super Bowl) you can't check everyone at the gate when it's a parade.
"Keep 'em comin', Oorang! Great stuff."
Ditto that.
Good idea.
I agree.
Someone's out there thinking. ;-)
OPINION: Yep, prevention and capturing terrorists are all about thinking outside of the box -- outside of the comfort zone.
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