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Posted on 06/01/2007 7:57:59 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Thank you all for the pings.
You’re welcome Oorang.
PING to post no. 580.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1843491/posts?page=580#580
FBI Investigates Possible Threat Against Davis-Besse Nuclear (Washington)
June 12, 2007
OAK HARBOR — The FBI is investigating a possible threat against the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station near Oak Harbor. Ottawa County Sheriff Bob Bratton says he called the bureau to report the threat on Monday.
Bratton says a waitress in a Port Clinton restaurant overheard two men talking about the nuclear power plant on Sunday. She told police one of the men wrote “boom” on a napkin. Bratton says the waitress told police the men were “arab-looking.”
Patrols have been increased at the plant, but a spokeswoman for First Energy, the owner of the plant, says local authorities don’t think the threat is credible. The FBI continues to investigate.
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http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=6646196
580 posted on 06/12/2007 8:16:24 PM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
Those are informative graphics.
Even I understood them.
I appreciate it.
You’re welcome Velveeta.
THANK YOU Oorang for the heads up.
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&q=%22Davis-Besse%22&btnG=Search+News
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Here’s another detail:
“Port Clinton police Detective Bob Case said a note was written on a napkin with the word ‘boom’ and a depiction of a power plant, not necessarily Davis-Besse.”
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/articles/2007/06/12/front/309244.txt
“FBI investigates possible threat against Davis-Besse”
By JACOB LAMMERS | Tuesday June 12 2007, 9:59pm
PORT CLINTON
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Someone called the Port Clinton Police Department reporting two Arabic men wrote a note on a napkin while at McCarthy’s Restaurant and Pub in downtown Port Clinton, Bratton said.
Port Clinton police Detective Bob Case said a note was written on a napkin with the word ‘boom’ and a depiction of a power plant, not necessarily Davis-Besse.
Read Wednesday’s Register for more details.”
http://news.google.com/news?um=1&tab=wn&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=nuclear+%2B+Idaho&btnG=Search+News
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_ID_INL_Incident.html
Last updated June 12, 2007 2:01 p.m. PT
“INL: Public not at risk as nuclear lab responds to ‘incident’”
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — Emergency crews at the Idaho National Laboratory on Tuesday responded to what officials are describing as a “facility incident” inside the site’s Reactor Technology Complex, but said no radiation was released and the public was not at risk.
John Epperson, a spokesman for the INL’s joint information center in Idaho Falls, said the Advanced Test Reactor, the 40-year-old centerpiece of this 890-square-mile federal nuclear reserve in southern Idaho, was not affected.
The ATR research reactor is inside the Reactor Technology Complex.
“The public is not in any risk or danger” and there was no radiation released, Epperson said, declining to give more specifics about the incident.”
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070612-115913-6523
“Mueller: Nuclear material a terror threat”
Published: June 12, 2007 at 12:11 PM
MIAMI, June 12 (UPI)
http://www.miamiherald.com/509/story/137782.html
Posted on Wed, Jun. 13, 2007
MIAMI
“Expert warns of terrorists’ nuke strategy
An expert in counterterrorism said the U.S. must focus on ways to keep nuclear and radiological weapons from being smuggled into the country.”
BY LISA ORKIN EMMANUEL
Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Authorities need to expand their focus on the ways terrorists could deliver nuclear or radiological weapons into the country, a New York City counterterrrorism official said Tuesday in Miami.
U.S officials and agencies are focused on international shipping containers delivering potential weapons, Richard Falkenrath, the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, told delegates from 28 countries at a nuclear terrorism conference.”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28713
“Training for the Next War?”
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2007
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http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4634
“Israeli Jets vs. Iranian Nukes”
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
June 12, 2007
“[With slight differences from the NY Sun version]”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070612-115212-3769r.htm
Page 1 of 2 next »
“Iran uses fronts to avoid U.N. sanctions”
By David R. Sands
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
June 13, 2007
A few more details UPDATE:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281513,00.html
(AP)
“Report: Indonesian Police Arrest Jemaah Islamiyah Leader Abu Dujana”
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
JAKARTA, Indonesia —
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56147
“National borders erased for airlines in new plan
Aeromexico could get approval to fly Los Angeles-Toronto route”
Posted: June 13, 2007
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=mexico
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6747261.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 04:26 GMT 05:26 UK
“Mexican politician slain in city”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Mexican politician was shot dead as he drove down a main city road in Monterrey, police said.
Gunmen opened fire on Mario Cesar Rios, a deputy from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), as he passed near the Municipal Palace.
The 44-year-old died after being taken to hospital, officials said.
The shooting is the latest in a surge of violence from suspected drugs gangs, which has led President Felipe Calderon to send troops to several states.
Mr Rios was believed to have received death threats, an official for the northern state of Nuevo Leon prosecutor’s office told the AFP news agency.
“In the last days Rios told us that he was going to ask for time off because he had received death threats, and he was planning on leaving Mexico with his family,” he said.”
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=136&art_id=nw20070611214705619C165573
“Aid worker killed in CAR”
June 12 2007 at 12:58AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Paris - French medical charity Doctors Without Borders said one of its aid workers was shot dead in Central African Republic on Monday while on an exploratory mission in the north-west of the country.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=germany
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,487946,00.html
English Site
> Germany
June 12, 2007
“Neo-Nazis Attack Theater Group in Eastern German Town”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A group of actors were beaten up by neo-Nazis in the eastern German city of Halberstadt and have accused the police of being slow to respond. The region’s premier says he is appalled by the attack.”
UPDATE...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070613.ROB13/TPStory/TPNational/Ontario/
“CRIME: BEDLAM IN VAUGHAN
Sleepy burb rattled by chase, shootout
Robber attempts to hold up jewellery store, grabs two hostages and takes on police with pellet gun”
ALEX DOBROTA
June 13, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Monday at noon, few shoppers other than Catholic school students on lunch break bustled around Promenade Mall, in a tony part of Vaughan, north of Toronto. Soft rock music greeted store clerks punching in for what was shaping up as a quiet afternoon shift.
At a nearby school in a predominantly Jewish neighbourhood, Grade 4 pupils were basking in the midday sun during an outdoor gym class.
And, across the schoolyard’s fence, landscape workers repaired the gardens of well-to-do homeowners.
But the suburban idyll was shattered when a man armed with a pellet gun burst into one of the mall’s jewellery stores. He started a skirmish with police that sent students into a lockdown as pellets whizzed in the schoolyard. And he took two hostages from a nearby house, leading officers in a high-speed chase that rattled the sleepy quarter.
No one was injured and both hostages escaped. Still, the botched robbery strained the nerves of residents, school staff and mall employees, few of whom had heard of crime in the neighbourhood apart from the occasional theft.
Police arrested a 30-year-old man, Quincy Cave, with a history of run-ins with the law. Mr. Cave now faces 30 charges including various weapons offences, breach of recognizance, and possession of marijuana.”
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.assistnews.net/Stories/2007/s07060070.htm
ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA
Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net — E-mail: assistnews@aol.com
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Muslim men sodomize a Pakistani Christian youth
Mother faces threats to lose her job
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
Special Correspondent for ASSIST News Service in Pakistan
MANDI BAHAWALDIN, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A Christian youth was critically manhandled and sodomized by several unidentified Muslim men on the night between June 2 and 3 rd after he picked up a quarrel with his Muslim age fellow while playing Cricket in a play ground near District Headquarter (DHQ) Hospital MandiBhawaldin, ANS has learnt.
The trouble for 16-year-old Christian man, Imran Masih started when his Muslim friend, Naveed called him by the words “ Essai and Choora,” the bywords for Pakistani Christians used often by the Muslims to disgrace them.
Not knowing that his protest against the unwelcome language would make his position more vulnerable, the youth expressed his anger in a bid to stop Naveed from using the offensive language against him. This triggered a physical altercation between them. Naveed’s father, Muhammad Sadique, an ambulance driver of the DHQ Mandibahwaldin as well as the private driver of the Medical Superintendent, Amjad Iqbal arrived at the scene of incident and took the Christian youth to his home under the pretext of “reconciliation”.
As the Christian youth entered Sidique’s drawing room several Muslim men, who were waiting for their “victim” started forcing the minor boy to convert to Islam. Imran did not knuckle under the pressure and refused to embrace Islam. This angered the Muslim men and they started thrashing Imran with kicks and fists while some even bit him at his chest and other parts of his body to bully him into submission.
The Rays of Development (ROD), a non-governmental organization that investigated the case told ANS that most of the assailants were drunk.
“They threw liquor on his face and slapped and kicked him before subjecting him to sexual abuse”, Farhan Mazhar , Chairman of the ROD told ANS.
He went on to say that the Muslim men tucked his mouth in a sofa and stood on his hands and feet.
Later, they subjected him to sexual abuse one by one, he added.
The Muslim men allegedly continued to bugger the Christian youth throughout the night between 2 nd and 3rd June and threw the unconscious youth in the street outside their house.
Imran was picked up by his family members the next day.
“Imran could not move any part of his body. He was not in his senses. We wondered what had happened to him, “ Imran’s family members told ROD.
The youth revealed the traumatic incident to his family when he restored his senses after some time.
Imran’s mother, Kaneez bibi, who is a janitor at the hospital took his son to the Medical Superintendent of District Headquarter Hospital Mandi Bhawal Din for medical examination but he told her she was lying and showed him the door.
When the family approached the City Police Station Mandi Bahawldin for lodging a Police First Information Report (FIR) the police used dilly-dallying tactics and told them they should first obtain the Medical report.
The family members of the victim told the ROD that the hospital authorities and the Police kept them shuttling from the hospital to the police station and vice versa.
Imran’s family members further told ROD that the Police have been pressuring them for reconciliation. The high-ups of local district administration, and some local members of the provincial assembly Punjab are allegedly forcing the Christian family not to file the FIR. They threatened them with dire consequences if they did not change their mind, the ROD told ANS.
The police filed a fake theft report against Imran wherein he has been accused of stealing cash worth Rs 50,000 (US$ 833.3) and a mobile phone.
The ROD told the ANS that the police did file a report number 82 but have not filed FIR against the Muslim men who manhandled and abused the Christian youth sexually.
The accused are yet to be brought to the book despite the passage of a week. The incident has only come as a strain on the budget of the poor Christian family. After they are shunned treatment from government hospital the family is buying basic medicines like painkillers from the private chemists.
The writer is a freelance journalist based in Pakistan.
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