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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294779,00.html
“Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won’t Run ‘Opus’ Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam”
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Suffolk Police are currently investigating a bomb threat outside of the U.S. Joint Forces Command in Suffolk. At approximately 11:15 a.m. a man driving a pick up truck drove up to the guard post of a delivery entrance to the facility. Security requested the delivery papers and that's when police say the driver gave a guard a piece of paper saying there was a bomb that was going to explode.
Security contacted the Suffolk Police Department and they responded to the scene. The man stayed in his vehicle until police arrived. Police removed the subject from the vehicle. Suffolk Fire and Rescue responded. Portions of College Drive were shut down. Evacuations of area businesses were conducted including a strip mall nearby. Virginia State Police's bomb squad was requested and responded. They examined the vehicle. No explosives were located. Traffic was reopened and access to businesses was allowed at approximately 1:20 p.m. Police and Fire Investigators and Federal authorities are interviewing the suspect. The investigation is ongoing.
http://www.wtkr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6995170
'We Are Going to Get Hit Again'
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center speaks out on Al Qaeda's plans, America’s readiness—and the nature of the war on terror.
Excerpted
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20466414/site/newsweek/page/0/
U.S. Embassy in Yemen Warns Staff of Al-Qaeda Threat
Aug. 28, 2007
The U.S. Embassy in Yemen told its employees to avoid restaurants, shopping areas, hotels and tourist attractions in the capital, Sanaa, because of an active al-Qaeda presence.
Westerners may be targeted in Yemen and U.S. citizens in the country are urged to exercise caution and avoid crowds and demonstrations, according to a notice on the mission's Web site. The embassy didn't say whether a specific threat prompted the warning. Calls to the embassy weren't answered.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a1vIqmiHQLK8&refer=us
Updates appreciated regarding Virginia.
THANKS Oorang.
Another link to the incident:
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6995665
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47205
Coalition Troops Kill, Detain Dozens, Seize Weapons in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2007 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed and captured dozens of insurgents and seized scores of weapons during operations in Iraq over the past three days, military officials said.
Combined forces killed eight terrorists and detained 11 suspects during raids today targeting al Qaeda leaders and their networks in central and northern Iraq.
During operations southeast of Kirkuk, coalition forces targeted a regional terrorist unit commander, also referred to as an “emir,” and one of his operatives, both of whom are believed to facilitate the movement of foreign terrorists in Iraq, military officials said. As the assault force approached the target site, troops observed the two armed men in tactical fighting positions poised to attack.
Coalition forces called for close-air support, which engaged the two armed terrorists, killing them. Once the assault force was at the target location, four armed men attempted to maneuver around them into tactical positions, but coalition forces engaged and killed them using fire from the supporting aircraft. Ground forces surveyed the area and found weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, an RPG sight and a suicide vest. An explosives team safely destroyed the materials on site.
During two coordinated operations at the border of Salah ad Din and Tamim, northeast of Tikrit, troops targeted a senior-level al Qaeda advisor operating in the Kirkuk area. The targeted individual is believed to be tied to the international terrorist Khalid al Turki, who was killed in an operation June 23, and several other al Qaeda leaders in the area, military officials said.
As coalition forces arrived at the first location, they received small-arms fire from a nearby rooftop. Troops responded to the enemy fire, calling for close-air support to engage and kill two armed men identified on the roof.
When coalition forces secured the building, they discovered two women and a boy who were injured in the engagement. The assault force treated the three civilians and transported them to a military medical facility for further treatment. Troops detained six suspects during the operation. At the second location, coalition forces detained two additional suspects with alleged ties to the al Qaeda advisor.
During a raid in southern Baghdad, troops targeted al Qaeda leaders associated with a car-bomb network that operates in the Iraqi capital. Ground forces captured three alleged members of the cell with ties to both its current leader and a suspected former leader detained in an operation May 5, military officials said.
“We continue to seek out terrorists wherever they hide, to diminish their ability to attack the Iraqi people,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “We work very hard to avoid injuring innocent bystanders and provide immediate medical care if we do.”
In a separate raid this morning, Iraqi and coalition forces captured a highly sought weapons facilitator before dawn in Baghdad, military officials said. Combined forces captured the suspected senior weapons distributor, who allegedly is connected to a network of “special groups” that receive arms — including explosively formed penetrators, the most deadly form of improvised explosive device — and funding from Iran. The suspect, who allegedly is linked to senior terrorist commanders, is responsible for distributing such Iranian weapons and other forms of lethal aide across the Iran-Iraq border, military officials said.
During the raid, troops detained two others who are suspected of distributing weapons smuggled into Iraq from Iran. Coalition forces confiscated money and identification documents from one of the targeted buildings for further analysis and evaluation.
“We assess that this capture will degrade the weapons smuggling network,” Garver said. “Coalition forces will continue their focused operations to interdict Iranian supported terror groups operating in Iraq.
“We remain committed to dismantling terror networks that seek to kill innocent Iraqis, Iraqi security forces, and coalition forces,” he added.
During operations in Iraq yesterday:
— Iraqi and coalition forces launched “Operation Church,” an air and ground operation in Diyala province aimed at clearing out insurgents and reopening the Khalis spillway, which regulates water flow to the town. Troops killed 33 armed insurgents, nabbed three others and seized three weapons caches. Water currently is flowing unimpeded to Khalis, military officials said.
— Iraqi army scouts and U.S. Special Forces advisors detained a suspected terrorist cell leader near Tikrit. The suspect is believed to be responsible for a May 13 suicide-car-bomb attack on the Kurdish political headquarters in Makmoor, a Feb. 13, 2005, attack that killed three Iraqi National Guard members, the June 16, 2004, assassination of a sheik in northern Heychel, and the May 14, 2004, assassination of Ninewa province’s governor, military officials said.
— Iraqi special operations forces and U.S. Special Forces advisors detained a battalion commander of the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and one suspected insurgent during an operation in Baghdad. The suspect allegedly directs a group that targets Iraqi citizens and he also maintains connections to insurgents in the Hayani area, Baghdad and Basrah, military officials said.
— During four raids across Iraq, coalition soldiers seized weapons caches that included stockpiles of improvised explosive devices, mortars, a grenade launcher and ammo, and an explosively formed penetrator. Military officials said the recovered weapons demonstrate to neighborhood residents that coalition and Iraqi security forces are there to protect them.
In Iraq on Aug. 26:
— Iraqi security forces repelled a series of attempted insurgent attacks in Nineveh province, killing five armed combatants and detaining two suspects. Iraqi troops also destroyed five car bombs and seized small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
— Soldiers with 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team nabbed three suspected insurgents while patrolling eastern Baghdad’s Rusafa district. Troops were monitoring the Gailany gas station, where 20 insurgents had attempted to steal gasoline earlier in the day, when soldiers discovered three men attempting to hide firearms, including a locked and loaded pistol. Troops seized the weapons and detained the suspects, who are being held for further questioning, military officials said.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq, Multinational Force Iraq and Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Arabian Peninsula news releases.)
Sunday’s national meeting for the radical Hizb ut-Tahrir included incitement to destroy Israel and a re-establishment of the Caliphate Islamic empire Controversial Islamic organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir celebrated its annual congress in Copenhagen on Sunday with words of anger against Jews and the West, reported daily free newspaper Nyhedsavisen.
Nearly 600 Muslims attended the meeting at KB Hallen in the city’s enclave of Frederiksberg, where religious leaders spoke of the rise of an new Islamic Caliphate and the fall of Western powers. ‘The Caliphate can arrive in an hour, two months or two years from now,’ said Fadi Abdullatif, Hizb ut-Tahrir’s president, who owns a previous conviction for publicly urging his members to kill Jews. ‘We are working for a Caliphate from Morocco to Indonesia and from Khazakhstan to Saudi Arabia.’
The union of nations under a common Islamic law could be created by force if necessary, according to another of Hizb ut Tahrir’s leaders, Atta bin Khalil. Khalil also told those in attendance to ‘continue their state of war against the Jewish nation’. A third speaker at the congress, Emir Shamil, said that ‘heads may roll’ in the recreation of the Caliphate.
Many politicians have unsuccessfully attempted to dissolve the organisation in the past, but Sunday’s congress may have been the straw that breaks its back. Nearly all political parties are in agreement that some type of action must be taken against the organisation. ‘The sooner the organisation is broken up the better,’ said Tom Behnke, the Conservative judicial spokesperson. The Social Liberals cultural spokesperson, Simon Emil Ammitzbøll, is now requesting the Justice Ministry to conduct surveillance on Hizb ut-Tahrir, saying the congress proved that it is not merely individual members inciting racial and religious violence but the organisation as a whole. Hizb ut-Tahrir has more than one million members worldwide and an estimated 200 full-time members within Denmark.
http://jp.dk/uknews/article1061170.ece
Pakistan’s Islamist press calls for jihad
Fresh demands for violence against India escalated weeks before Hyderabad bombings
Tuesday, Aug 28, 2007
NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s Islamist media published a series of explicit calls for violence against India in the six weeks before the Hyderabad bombings — a development that analysts believe reflects the weakening of General Pervez Musharraf’s regime, and raises fears of a renewed wave of terror strikes.
In an editorial published in the Jamaat-e-Islami-affiliated Daily Jasarat’s August 19 Friday supplement, the newspaper demanded that the “slogan of jihad should reverberate in every nook and corner of Pakistan. If Pakist an allows jihadis to infiltrate into India then Kashmir could be liberated in six months.” “Within a couple of years,” the newspaper asserted, “the rest of the territories of India could be conquered as well, and we can regain our lost glory. We can bring back the era of Mughal rule. We can once again subjugate the Hindus like our forefathers.”
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http://www.hindu.com/2007/08/28/stories/2007082855781200.htm
You’re welcome. I’ll check later for updates.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47207
Afghan, Coalition Troops Kill, Capture Insurgents, Find Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28, 2007 – Afghan and coalition forces killed 21 insurgents, nabbed 12 others, discovered a weapons cache and thwarted two ambushes in Afghanistan over the past two days, military officials said.
Afghan National Police members from Chamkani and coalition forces detained a key Taliban leader and six other insurgents in a targeted strike near Sultak village in the Patan district of Paktia province.
The high-profile suspect, Zakir Shah, is a mid-level Taliban field commander who helps transport foreign fighters and supplies between Afghanistan and Pakistan, military officials said. He also allegedly is responsible for the murders of Afghan civilians.
“The Afghan National Police in Chamkani have quickly developed into a well-trained and effective force,” said Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokeswoman. “Coalition forces provided only minimal assistance to the (Afghan National Police) during planning and execution of this operation and the (Afghan National Police) performed all of their tasks flawlessly.”
During an operation southwest of Kandahar City this morning, Afghan National Security Forces and coalition forces advisors killed two Taliban insurgents and detained five others. Credible intelligence led combined forces to a compound suspected of housing the militants. Troops there shot and killed two insurgents.
One detainee is suspected of being a Taliban leader who has facilitated improvised-explosive-device attacks against combined forces in the Kandahar City area, military officials said. He and the other suspects are being held for further questioning.
“This operation was directed at al Qaeda and Taliban extremist fighters who have historically planned and launched attacks aimed at terrorizing innocent non-combatants,” Bowman said. “This operation is simply another step in the (Afghan national security forces’) deliberate and systematic plan to rid Afghanistan of al Qaeda and Taliban extremist fighters who continue to attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.”
In Afghanistan yesterday, Afghan and coalition troops foiled an insurgent ambush in northern Kandahar province. Combined forces were on combat patrol near Tughrak village in the Sha Wali Kot district when they spotted 20 insurgents moving into fighting positions. With Afghan troops in the lead, the combined forces killed seven before the remaining insurgents fled. Afghan forces confiscated weapons and equipment from the site after the fighting ceased.
“Afghan national security forces are becoming increasingly capable of providing the security that Afghans want and need,” Bowman said. “Today, this alert and combat-ready (Afghan forces) patrol spotted the enemies of peace and stability before they could carry out their act of aggression. The insurgents’ appetite for senseless violence cost seven insurgents their lives.”
In eastern Musa Qalah Wadi, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, combined forces thwarted a separate attempted Taliban ambush yesterday. Troops were patrolling north of Regay village, in Helmand district, when an unknown number of insurgents attacked the patrol with small-arms fire, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
The Afghan-led force repelled the attempted ambush with accurate small-arms fire and artillery. When the insurgents reinforced their fighting positions with additional fighters, the Afghan troops requested coalition close-air support. Coalition aircraft aided in spotting targets for the ground forces, which killed a dozen insurgents during the engagement.
Combined forces later destroyed or confiscated rifles, mortars, a motorcycle, insurgent propaganda and numerous pieces of IED materials, military officials said. They also discovered a trench-bunker system and the bodies of three insurgents killed during the fight.
“Enemy forces have repeatedly attacked those who support the legitimate government of Afghanistan,” Bowman said. “This is especially true in the Musa Qala area, which is an area the enemy has used as a base of support for a long time. The amount of weaponry found and destroyed by the (Afghan military) demonstrates how the enemy is using the area as a resupply point for insurgents.
“This latest mission by the (Afghan military) has once again interdicted the enemy fighters ability to rely on this area to support their acts of violence against the innocent people of Afghanistan,” she added.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)
The U.S. Defense Department says a high-profile Taliban field commander has been captured in Afghanistan during recent operations. Over the past two days Afghan and coalition forces have killed 21 insurgents and have apprehended 12 others. Officials also say a weapons cache was discovered.
Additionally, coalition forces along with the support of the Afghan National Police from Chamkani have detained a high-profile suspect Taliban field commander. Zakir Shah and six other insurgents were captured near Sultak village in the Patan district of Paktia province.
“This operation was directed at al-Qaida and Taliban extremist fighters who have historically planned and launched attacks aimed at terrorizing innocent non-combatants,” said Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokeswoman, in a statement. “This operation is simply another step in the (Afghan national security forces’) deliberate and systematic plan to rid Afghanistan of al-Qaida and Taliban extremist fighters who continue to attempt to destabilize the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.”
Officials say Shah allegedly helps transport foreign fighters and supplies between Afghanistan and Pakistan and is responsible for the murders of Afghan civilians. “Afghan national security forces are becoming increasingly capable of providing the security that Afghans want and need,” Bowman said. “Today, this alert and combat-ready patrol spotted the enemies of peace and stability before they could carry out their act of aggression. The insurgents’ appetite for senseless violence cost seven insurgents their lives.”
Opps, my apologies. My post #1888 is the same info as your post #1887 :-)
Certainly has been an abundance of “incidents” recently.
Smoke in subways and metros, missing school busses, ferry surveillance.........and the list goes on...........and on.
Great minds...smiling at you.
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“3 Disciplined Over Fatal Fire at [NYC] Bank Tower”
NY Times ^ | August 28, 2007 | AL BAKER
Posted on 08/28/2007 3:36:31 PM PDT by neverdem
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883312/posts
“Firefighters Die in Blaze By Ground Zero”
Yahoo News, AP ^ | 8/19/07 | Verena Dobnik
Posted on 08/19/2007 1:50:32 AM PDT by Freedom of Speech Wins
Police and bomb squad officers were called to the Hathaway Retail Park in Chippenham this evening. It is believed an abandoned Citroen car sparked the alarm.
Police arrived at the scene just before 5pm and cordoned off part of the car. A bomb squad van arrived just around 7pm and items were taken from the car and placed in clear plastic bags in the car park close to Halfords.
It is understood it was feared items found in the car raised concerns after a man was seen acting suspiciously around the car at about 4.45pm today. By 9pm around 12 police officers and three bomb squad officers were still at the scene. Half of the car park closest to Halfords remained closed.
A Tesco security guard said a man had been seen running from Halfords this afternoon and had been chased by staff and caught on the roundabout at the entrance to the retail park. It was believed a man was later arrested. The car part shop was closed earlier than usual but the Tesco Express and other stores remained open until their usual closing times. A police spokesman said she was unable to give details about the incident.
It is understood the Citreon car was abandoned serveral days ago but it was not until the man was seen acting in a suspcious way around the car this afternoon that the alarm was raised. Three Halfords staff members approached the man and when he ran off they gave chase and caught up with him and held him until the police arrived at about 4.45pm. They examined the car and then alerted the bomb squad.
It is the second time this year there has been a major incident at the retail park. In January armed raiders struck at Tesco and escaped with thousands of pounds after holding security guards at gun point. A 25-year-old man from the Chippenham area was arrested on suspicion of theft, obtaining property by deception and unlawful possession of an explosive substance. A police spokesman said: "There is no threat to the public in relation to this incident."
Whoa, that Suffolk thing was close to home.
Ping to Oorang’s post no. 1893.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1893#1893
“Bomb Squad on alert at Hathaway Retail Park (U.K.)
New Delhi, Aug. 28: Another industrial camera with enough radioactive iridium to endanger people within a quarter-kilometre radius has gone missing, this time from Tata Steel’s Jamshedpur plant.
The “theft”, discovered yesterday, two days after the Hyderabad blasts, has sent the country’s nuclear regulators into a tizzy because of fears that such radioactive sources could be misused to make “dirty bombs” — or conventional explosives laced with radioactive material.
Experts say such bombs could cause fatalities in the immediate vicinity of detonation, and a range of health complications over a wider area. In April, an industrial camera was stolen from a factory in Uttar Pradesh. The cameras, which have a core of iridium 192 with a casing of depleted uranium 235, can cause cancer in anyone who rips the protective shell.
Sources in the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) said experts, armed with a sensitive survey meter, are being rushed to Jamshedpur “immediately”.
Excerpted
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070829/asp/nation/story_8249727.asp
Stay safe and keep the sailboat ready :-)
Why Won't James Ujaama, US Citizen, Testify Against Abu Hamza? (Part Two of Three)
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“HAMAS Kindergarten Ceremony”
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This video was introduced by the Government in their case against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). The video, which was broadcast on Hizballah’s Al-Manar television station, is from the Islamic Society of Gaza and shows children dressed up as terrorist leaders including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder of HAMAS who was killed by an Israeli missle attack on March 22, 2004, and the leader of Hizballah, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. The Islamic Society was a longtime recipient of HLF money. (less)
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Over the past decade, more than a hundred thousand visitors have strolled into the Oakland Marriott Hotel and convention center, where among the first faces they encountered were those of well-dressed young men sporting bow ties. These men are the hotel's private security officers, who also happen to be members of the Black Muslim clan believed responsible for the assassination of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey.
Even after Bailey's brazen murder just a few blocks from the hotel on August 2, the Black Muslims remained at the Marriott, roaming its giant lobby and each of its 21 floors. Marriott spokesman Chris Daly said that in addition to providing security for hotel guests and the city's main convention center, the men "even perform bellhop duty if need be."
When asked why an international company with $12.2 billion in sales last year would continue to employ kin of the late Yusuf Bey, disgraced patriarch and founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, Daly argued that the security firm is entirely separate from the bakery. Nineteen-year-old bakery handyman Devaughndre Broussard has been charged with Bailey's murder, and Broussard's attorney has indicated that bakery CEO Yusuf Bey IV was the likely mastermind. The Marriott spokesman maintained that the bakery and the security company "share no employees, no board members, and no monies." But a review of public records reveals that the relationship between the two is murky at best, and connections abound.
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http://www.eastbayexpress.com/2007-08-29/news/your-black-muslim-hotel/
Lebanese helicopters pound Islamic militants in northern refugee camp
08.28.07
Fighting between Lebanese troops and al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic militants resumed on Tuesday after a two-day lull, with military helicopters bombing a besieged Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Army helicopters fired at least three rockets at suspected underground bunkers of Fatah Islam militants in the Saassa neighborhood of the Nahr el-Bared camp, destroying a nearby building, the report said.
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