ISTANBUL - Istanbul police detained Wednesday six members of the terrorist organization PKK _ including a seeing-impaired woman _ and impounded more than 6.5 kilograms of plastic explosives and a bomb vest with a detonator on it, security officials said.
The terrorists were believed to carry out "a sensational bomb attack" as the the seeing-impaired terrorists would blow herself up, officials added. It was not immediately clear when the attack would take place or what its target would be.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=173747
Knife scare disrupts airport (Australia)
4/30/07
A knife has been found wedged between two seats in the Virgin Blue passenger terminal at Melbourne airport. The potential weapon was found beyond the X-ray and metal-detecting screening point about 5.40pm on Friday. It was not known how long it had been there.
Melbourne airport spokesman Tom Perry yesterday said the discovery caused half-hour delays to up to four flights. "The prohibited item was found after the screening point in the Virgin Blue area of terminal three," Mr Perry said. "As a precaution the terminal was cleared. "The response was textbook," he said.
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http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,21644081-27977,00.html
Police seize 'extraordinary' guns and explosives from Vancouver condominium (Canada)
Sunday, April 29, 2007
VANCOUVER - Guns and materials for making explosives have seen seized at a high-rise condominium in downtown Vancouver. But city police say there is no indication the cache is terrorist-or gang-related. Police spokesman Howard Chow says officers arrived at the unit in response to an anonymous 911 call.
Some media reports say machine guns were part of the armoury found in the condo. But Chow would say only that "extraordinary firearms" were among the weaponry seized. Military explosives experts were called in to help police examine the find. Chow says 40 residents from a number of floors in the building were evacuated. A resident of the suite, a man in his 30s, is in custody and charges are pending. Chow says police will not be making further comment on the seizure until Monday or Tuesday. The condominium complex is a half a block from both Science World and a SkyTrain station and a block from the GM Place and BC Place stadiums in downtown Vancouver.
A cache of guns and explosives was also seized in Victoria Friday. Police say a large moving truck was pulled over in the city's downtown core. Inside, police found explosives and restricted firearms including two sawed-off shotguns. Brass knuckles, blasting caps and two crossbows with hunting arrows were also seized as were several boxes of ammunition.
Police believe some of the guns were from the central Vancouver Island community of Duncan. A 28-year-old man was arrested and will appear in court in June.
Syria has built a fortified complex buried deep underground and cloaked in secrecy to manufacture and store ballistic missiles capable of striking Israel, an Israeli newspaper said on Monday.
The complex includes 30 reinforced concrete bunkers, production facilities, development laboratories and command posts, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot quoted "foreign experts" as saying, without specifying its location.
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Qaeda figure urges Hamas "bombs, fire" on Israel
29 Apr 2007
An al Qaeda leader called on the Islamist Hamas group to fight Israel with "bombs and fire" in an Internet video posted on Sunday, days after militants launched rockets into southern Israel breaking a ceasefire. "Where is revenge, where are the bombs, where is the fire?" Abu Yahya al-Libi asked members of the military wing of Hamas in a video posted on a Web site used by Islamist militant groups. "Your loyalty to the blood of your predecessors, those loyal men, can only be through strict commitment to path of jihad ... and rejecting any other way," he said in the undated video.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2961459.htm
Interior Minister Top Taliban Target (Pakistan)
Karachi, 30 April 2007 - The weekend suicide bomb attack targeting Pakistan's interior minister has shone the spotlight on the man heading the only civilian body fully trusted by Western intelligence regarding the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Interior minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao is genuinely anti-Islamist and pro-Western and his special investigation unit works jointly with the American FBI - unlike Pakistan's powerful armed forces and intelligence services - involved in data collection and probes into al-Qaeda and Taliban activities in Pakistan.
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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.409818154&par=0
THANKS to Oorang for pointing to this article:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810409/posts?page=1553#1553
Police In Istanbul Detain Six PKK Terrorists With Bomb Vest (Turkey)
4/30/2007
ISTANBUL - Istanbul police detained Wednesday six members of the terrorist organization PKK _ including a seeing-impaired woman _ and impounded more than 6.5 kilograms of plastic explosives and a bomb vest with a detonator on it, security officials said.
The terrorists were believed to carry out “a sensational bomb attack” as the the seeing-impaired terrorists would blow herself up, officials added. It was not immediately clear when the attack would take place or what its target would be.
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=173747
THANKS to Oorang for this post:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1810409/posts?page=1553#1553
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Police seize ‘extraordinary’ guns and explosives from Vancouver condominium (Canada)
Sunday, April 29, 2007
VANCOUVER - Guns and materials for making explosives have seen seized at a high-rise condominium in downtown Vancouver. But city police say there is no indication the cache is terrorist-or gang-related. Police spokesman Howard Chow says officers arrived at the unit in response to an anonymous 911 call.
Some media reports say machine guns were part of the armoury found in the condo. But Chow would say only that “extraordinary firearms” were among the weaponry seized. Military explosives experts were called in to help police examine the find. Chow says 40 residents from a number of floors in the building were evacuated. A resident of the suite, a man in his 30s, is in custody and charges are pending. Chow says police will not be making further comment on the seizure until Monday or Tuesday. The condominium complex is a half a block from both Science World and a SkyTrain station and a block from the GM Place and BC Place stadiums in downtown Vancouver.
A cache of guns and explosives was also seized in Victoria Friday. Police say a large moving truck was pulled over in the city’s downtown core. Inside, police found explosives and restricted firearms including two sawed-off shotguns. Brass knuckles, blasting caps and two crossbows with hunting arrows were also seized as were several boxes of ammunition.
Police believe some of the guns were from the central Vancouver Island community of Duncan. A 28-year-old man was arrested and will appear in court in June.
1,553 posted on 04/30/2007 2:43:10 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
THANK YOU Oorang for all the posts today.
I was thinking about something while watering the various gardens today.
THINKING OUT OF THE BOX - SPECULATION: I wonder if the big attack by the Global Jihadists does not pertain to just one country, but actually is a multi-country attack on certain targets? Their favorite targets seem to be Jews, Christians, financial, energy (oil, eletrical grids) and other areas of interest (to them).