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Good morning JP.
In general, worried about any large crowds.
Yes JustPiper, I live in Eugene Oregon 60 miles from the Pacific ocean and 313 North of Eureka.
We didn’t feel a thing. ;)
I haven’t felt any quakes, since we moved here in ‘90 from the SF Bay Area; when we had plenty of quakes. >:-}
Lotsa good information!
January 10, 2010 - UnitedStatesAction.com Newslinks
Pakistan: US airstrike kills five in Pakistan
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/US-airstrike-kills-five-in-Pakistan/articleshow/5430141.cms
Pakistan: “Fazlullah will not surrender until Sharia implemented”
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/03-fazlullah-will-not-surrender-until-sharia-implemented-ss-02
— Pak troops kill Fazlullah aides, suicide attack injures six
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-troops-kill-Fazlullah-aides-suicide-attack-injures-six/articleshow/5428453.cms
Pakistan: Fifty militants arrested in Kohat and Darra Adam Khel
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/provinces/03-fifty-militants-arrested-in-kohat-and-darra-adam-khel-ss-07
Pakistan: 7 cops injured in suicide attack
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\10\story_10-1-2010_pg7_22
Pakistan’s support vital to Afghan solution: Miliband
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5htNQK_QOkFt2HZCpTpC13AZp0xBA
(Afghanistan/Pakistan) Jordan bomber long aspired for jihad: relatives
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSLDE60801B
Afghanistan: How this suicide bomber opened a new front in Al-Qaeda’s war
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/Afghanistan/article6982465.ece
— “Our James Bond”: Quotes on Jordan double agent
http://bit.ly/50aaJi
Afghanistan: British Journalist, U.S. Soldier Killed in Blast in Afghanistan
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-10/british-journalist-u-s-soldier-killed-in-blast-in-afghanistan.html
— Afghan blast kills Sunday Mirror correspondent
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8450603.stm
http://www.mirror.co.uk/
Afghanistan: UK’s Miliband denies secret talks with Taliban
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\01\10\story_10-1-2010_pg1_3
(U.S.) Continuing Reports on Abdulmutallab Foiled Terror Plot
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/abdulmutallab.html
January 10, 2010 Abdulmutallab Reports
— London Times: “Human rights gagged MI5 over Abdulmutallab - Intelligence on Muslim radicals cannot be passed to the US because of privacy fears”
-— London Times: “MI5 failed to alert America to intelligence highlighting the extremist links of the Detroit plane bomber because of concerns about breaching his human rights and privacy.”
-— “MI5 has privately conceded that as early as 2006 its surveillance operations had picked up ‘multiple communications’ between the 23-year-old Nigerian student and suspected terrorists in Britain.”
-— “Asked why that information had not been passed to the US, a Home Office official with detailed knowledge of the case said the security service did not pass information to its allies about the thousands of Britons who were merely suspected of having radical Islamic views.”
-— “An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that dozens of Britons have travelled to the impoverished Arab country and stayed at colleges linked by US authorities to Al-Qaeda. While many attend the institutions legitimately to study a hardline version of Islam, some end up supporting the jihad.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6982393.ece
— Report blaming misspelling for letting terror suspect on flight contains errors
http://www.detnews.com/article/20100108/METRO/1080449/1361/Report-blaming-misspelling-for-letting-terror-suspect-on-flight-contains-errors
— FBI Tracks Abdulmutallab’s Steps in Ghana
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/world/main6071394.shtml
— What the US knew about Al-Qaeda plot
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hnrVH1UuyhyMyMQKmlozYcDNgaDw
(U.S.) Report: Radical Imam Detained at JFK Airport in 2002 — Anwar al-Awlaki
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582705,00.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/fiend_easy_escape_no4I3fUgiSmzc7WxrV2LLN
(U.S.) Rehab failures put camp closure at risk
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6982404.ece
UK: Jihadists groom children in the UK under 10
— London Times: “Police have identified children as young as seven being groomed for terrorism, with some expressing a wish to become suicide bombers.”
— “Up to 10 primary school pupils, aged between seven and 10, have been placed on a government outreach programme for individuals considered at risk of being radicalised and turning to violence.”
— “Some have taken inspiration from jihadi websites or after viewing extremist material in Islamic bookshops.”
— “One child was referred to the programme by his teacher after writing on a school book: ‘I want to be a suicide bomber.’ “
— “At least 228 people, mostly teenagers and young men aged 15-24, have been referred to the anti-terrorism Channel project after being singled out as ‘potentially vulnerable to violent extremism’ “
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6982399.ece
— Police discover children as young as seven being groomed for terrorism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/6961431/Police-discover-children-as-young-as-seven-being-groomed-for-terrorism.html
UK Muslim TV Channel Linked To Terrorism
— “A London-based satellite broadcaster that describes itself as “the voice of authority for Muslims in the UK” has been accused of giving a platform to Anwar al-Awlaki, the extremist cleric with alleged links to al-Qaida and to the man charged with trying to blow up a transatlantic jet on Christmas Day.”
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/-UK-Muslim-TV-Channel-Linked-To-Terrorism_21401.html
(UK) Report: Islam4UK Group to be Banned Next Week
— “Home Secretary Alan Johnson will use his powers to smash warped organisations run by hate-preacher Anjem Choudary”
http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/news/668251/WAR-ON-HATE-Home-Secretary-Alan-Johnson-to-impose-anti-terror-laws-on-Anjem-Choudarys-organisations.html
Gaza: Palestinians claim IDF killed 2 in Gaza; army denies report
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339440112&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
— Medics: Two Palestinians killed in Gaza
-— Haaretz: “Witnesses said they had heard an explosion in the area but the source of the blast wasn’t clear.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141532.html
— KUNA - “Israeli forces kill two Palestinians in Gaza”
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2053069&Language=en
Algerian forces kill 10 armed Islamists
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2053130&Language=en
“Yemen needs U.S. development aid to stop al-Qaeda”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902009.html
Yemen: “Why it’s wrong to rule out nation-building in Yemen”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010902011.html
-— Comment: Shouldn’t “nation-building” begin with consistent support for unqualified universal human rights among the nation’s leaders? Otherwise - what are we “building” exactly? This is problem with ALL of the OIC nations and their alternate universe code of human rights called the “Cairo Declaration of Human Rights” which only allows human rights based on Sharia. It is unacceptable for a nation that prizes our universal human rights of EQUALITY and LIBERTY for all - a truth that we hold self-evident, remember? Nation-building begins with insisting on support for UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS — FIRST.
-— What does it take for us to LEARN the lessons from our failures in Paksitan?
Yemen president wants dialogue with al-Qaida
‘We are ready to reach understanding with anyone who renounces violence’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34790787/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/
Yemenis Consider Sending al Qaeda to Rehab
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126299677407522423.html?mod=rss_whats_news_us
(Sudan) Deadline Nears For Sudan But Peace Seems Far
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122416339&ft=1&f=10
Togo abandon tournament after terror attack
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6982742.ece
Greece: Bomb explodes in central Athens, no one hurt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/09/AR2010010901324.html
http://www.news.com.au/world/bomb-explodes-outside-greek-parliament/story-e6frfkz9-1225817735851
Australia: US raises full body scanners in fly-by visit over terrorism
http://www.smh.com.au/national/us-raises-full-body-scanners-in-flyby-visit-over-terrorism-20100110-m0u6.html
Malaysia: Fifth Church Attacked, Failed Attempt on Catholic Convent
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/malaysia-fifth-church-attacked/
— Six churches attacked in Muslim protests
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/six-churches-attacked-in-muslim-protests/story-e6frg6so-1225817854306
Malaysia - Fourth church attacked in Malaysia as Allah row deepens
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/fourth-church-attacked-in-malaysia-as-allah-row-deepens/
Philippines: Grenade hurled at cathedral in southern Philippines
— AFP: “A grenade went off on Sunday outside a Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island which has seen bloody Muslim extremist attacks in recent years, the military said.”
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/147940/reftab/149/t/Grenade-hurled-at-cathedral-in-southern-Philippines—/Default.aspx
Other News:
(UK) Hizb ut-Tahrir: Member of Parliament Goodman Concerned about Govt Adviser’s Links to Hizb ut-Tahrir
— Express: “A Senior Tory has raised concerns about the appointment of a former Muslim student leader as a Government adviser on faith issues.”
— “Former Shadow Communities Minister Paul Goodman said he was worried about Wakkas Khan’s links to hardline Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir”
— “Mr Khan was appointed to the Government’s new 13-strong panel of faith advisers by Communities Secretary John Denham last week”
— “Mr Khan is now the director of the Exploring Islam Foundation.”
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/150771/Fears-over-Islam-adviser
(UK) Guardian urges “Protect healthy extremism”
— asking: “It is difficult to know where to draw the line, particularly when it comes to Islam: should groups advocating the recreation of the Khalifah (caliphate) – a unified Islamic government – be disbanded or denied university support?”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/jan/09/university-islamic-extremism-students?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments
(UK) War march fanatic Anjem Choudary runs secret sharia weddings
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1242014/War-march-fanatic-Anjem-Choudary-runs-secret-sharia-weddings.html
(U.S.) ‘Jihad’ jitters at Metropolitan Museum of Art
-— NY Post:
-— “The Metropolitan Museum of Art quietly pulled images of the Prophet Mohammed from its Islamic collection and may not include them in a renovated exhibition area slated to open in 2011, The Post has learned.”
-— “The museum said the controversial images — objected to by conservative Muslims who say their religion forbids images of their holy founder — were ‘under review.’ “
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/jihad_jitters_at_met_76yj3VNUy4hcRAnhOcPCHP
(U.S.) NJ: A ‘Romantic’ Now in Trouble Over an Airport Kiss
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/nyregion/10newark.html
Iran’s opposition spreads to heartland
http://www.realcourage.org/2010/01/irans-opposition-spreads-to-heartland/
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Ping to self to read later. Thanks, Ruth. That’s quite a reading list. Mr. RR and I are burning brush piles this afternoon. Lots of snow, so we need to do it while it’s safe to do so.
SANAA -- Yemeni anti-terror forces have arrested seven suspected members of an al-Qaida-linked sleeper cell in a quarter, adjacent to the U.S. embassy in Sanaa, a higher-ranking security official of Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
The anti-terrorism forces on late Tuesday raided al-Houri house at Sawan quarter, and captured three members of the family Esam, Majid and Kamal al-Houri, the official said on condition of anonymity. One of al-Houri members was reportedly killed in Iraq three years ago, as he was fighting alongside al-Qaida.
The house and the U.S. embassy are all located in Sawan district in Sanaa. A tip from an observant security officer in the area also led to the arrest of another four suspected members from the same quarter, said the official.
Excerpted
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/11/content_12787176.htm
India tightens security for scientists after terrorist threat
1/10/10
New Delhi - The Indian government has tightened security for 10 scientists working in sensitive areas after threats from a terrorist group, news reports said Sunday. The scientists, who were not identified, are working in the nuclear, defence and space fields, PTI news agency reported, citing intelligence sources.
The enhanced security measures were taken after threats from Pakistan-based Islamic militant group the Lashkar-e-Taiba, the sources said. The names of the scientists were mentioned by two alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba pointsmen who were recently arrested on separate occasions.
Excerpted
Napolitano is shocked? I can't believe she is in a position of power. Pitiful and pathetic.
Security forces in Somalia's northern breakaway enclave of Somaliland said on Saturday they had foiled an attack on a mosque in Hargeisa where the imam had spoken out against militant suicide bombings.
Somaliland prides itself on its relative stability, unlike southern parts of the failed Horn of Africa state, where hardline rebels from the al Shabaab group control large swaths of territory and are battling a weak Western-backed government. But al-Shabaab, which Washington says is al-Qaeda's proxy in Somalia, wants to extend its influence north into Somaliland and neighboring, semi-autonomous pro-government Puntland.
Mohamed Saqadi Dubbad, the commander of Somaliland's security forces, said six rockets and two mortar bombs were recovered from Imam Sheikh Aden Sira's mosque after a local woman saw a suspected bomber carrying the explosives in a jacket.
Excerpted
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/01/09/96826.html
London Library Ban On Sermons of Hate
Sunday January 10,2010
Hundreds of taped sermons by Al Qaeda hate cleric Anwar al-Awlaki have been withdrawn from public library shelves after questions were raised by the Sunday Express.
Muslim-led Tower Hamlets Council in east London removed 258 “talking book” cassettes on Friday after we asked bosses to justify being the only authority in the capital stocking his work. The tapes were available to borrow from the council’s main library in Whitechapel, a few hundred yards from where Detroit bomber Umar Abdulmutallab worshipped at the controversial East London Mosque.
American-born Awlaki, who records his messages from his base in Yemen, has been named as the 23 year old’s spiritual mentor and the man who encouraged him to try to murder innocent civilians. His sermons on “The Lives of the Prophets”, “The Life of Mohammad” and “The Hereafter” were ordered by council library managers in 2004, just a few months after he gave a series of lectures in Britain extolling the rewards of martyrdom.
Last Thursday, more than half of Tower Hamlets’s tapes were out on loan.
Excerpted
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/150772/Library-ban-on-sermons-of-hate
Yemen open to dialogue with Qaeda: president
1/10/10
SANAA — Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh said he is open to dialogue with Al-Qaeda militants, as a top official warned that dozens of foreign jihadists are grouping in a remote part of the impoverished country.
"If Al-Qaeda (militants) lay down their arms, renounce violence and terrorism and return to wisdom, we are prepared to deal with them," Saleh told Abu Dhabi TV in an interview carried by Yemen's Saba news agency on Sunday. "We are prepared to deal with anyone who renounces violence and terrorism," he said.
Excerpted
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iSAyH4AzZ2wL3tZOJ7e9bs7swcYw
Sanaa, Yemen -- Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab disappeared in Yemen for more than two months before he allegedly tried to bring down a Northwest Airlines jet with explosives concealed in his underwear. Investigators want to know if, during that time, he heeded the call to prayer coming from the hills above Yemen's capital, where an Islamic university headed by a fiery cleric has helped the country earn its reputation as an incubator of extremism.
The students who pray at Al-Iman University now, two weeks after that failed Christmas Day attack, say the school has been made a scapegoat, and that what AbdulMutallab is accused of having done is wrong. "It's against Islam," one says. "The thoughts in their heads go against Islam," says another. AbdulMutallab's alleged attempt to ignite explosives as the jet approached Detroit, Michigan, resulted in a fire on his lap -- and serious burns -- before passengers and flight crew subdued him and put out the flames.
Al-Imam's leader is Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, a provocative cleric with a flaming red beard. The United States considers him a terrorist, accused in 2004 of supplying weapons to al Qaeda. But in Yemen, al-Zindani is a free and influential man.
Every year, thousands of Islamic students from Yemen, Africa and around the world are cocooned in al-Zindani's compound, where they study their faith and are instilled with a strident defense of that faith. Last year, al-Zindani made a public plea to recruit millions of young men to fight jihad against Israel.
But the students say they don't think AbdulMutallab was ever at the school, and investigators don't appear to have come to ask. Yemeni authorities, it seems, have taken a hands-off approach to the university. "To my knowledge, no security, no investigation teams came here," political science professor Ismail al-Suhaili said. "Nobody thought that AbdulMutallab was here." In Yemen, Al-Iman University is highly respected and its leader admired, making it difficult for investigators to find out for sure if the Christmas Day bombing suspect was ever there.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/08/terror.yemen.university/
Taliban fighters have developed a deadly new generation of their most lethal weapon, the improvised explosive device, or IED, which is almost undetectable because it has no metal or electronic parts, military experts said last week. IEDs have proved the Taliban's most deadly weapon: three out of five coalition troops killed last year in Afghanistan were victims of the bombs. At least 48 of the 108 British fatalities were caused by IEDs.
Chris Hunter, a former bomb disposal expert who served in Iraq and now runs his own consultancy said the new weapons were being manufactured from wood in Pakistan. "The expertise for this new generation of bombs is likely to be coming from foreign fighters from places such as Chechnya," he said. "But they are being mass produced in Pakistan and are being wheeled out on an industrial level. You see them everywhere."
Earlier in the war, IEDs would be mostly triggered by two hack-saw blades separated using a spacer. When the blades were stepped on or driven over they would complete an electronic circuit which so detonated the explosive – often an artillery shell. Mr Hunter added that the metal saw blades have now also been replaced with graphite blades and the artillery shells with ammonium nitrate. The damage is caused by the power of the blast rather than metal fragments, or shrapnel.
Excerpted
http://www.military-world.net/Afghanistan/3014.html
Sounds good in theory. But, theory seldom transfers to reality.
Thanks for all your very informative posts.
Bombs made from wood.
Does this mean that our struggling wood products business may have a future after all? I guess we can give up on our cutting boards, window moldings, cabinet frames, wine crates, furniture parts, rifle stocks, etc.
We can just make bombs. Problem solved. Our company is saved.
Thanks for the ping Oorang.
Oh what a sales trip that would be....?(cheshire cat smile).
Iran uses fear of covert nuclear sites to deter attack
Taliban can target media offices
Question for high court - in terror war, to hell with international law?
Thanks for the ping Mama Dearest.
Largest Muslim community in US only musters 50 to protest Islamic terrorism
The Associated Press reported Saturday that only 50 Muslims showed up at a "Muslims Against Terrorism" protest at the federal court in Detroit on Friday while Flight 253 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was being arraigned inside. The local Detroit press were more generous with their estimates, That the largest Muslim community in the United States (aka Dearbornistan) could only muster such a tiny number to protest Islamic terrorism is an indication of how great a problem our country faces concerning the sentiments of the Muslim-American community.
From the AP report: Outside the courthouse, authorities set up metal barricades and limited foot traffic. One demonstrator held a sign that read: ''No U.S. Rights For Terrorists.'' About 50 men and women identifying themselves as Detroit-area Muslims chanted ''We are Americans'' as they marched behind the barricades to denounce terrorism. About a dozen of them carried U.S. flags or signs with messages such as ''Not in the name of Islam.''
Police discover children as young as seven being groomed for terrorism (in Britain)
You’re welcome Cindy!
“sales trip”
We’ve been all over China, South America, Russia and Eastern Europe pushing our wood products.
Actually our new business (wine imports from So. America) is really doing great). In this economy, people are not building new homes nor buying kitchen cabinets. But, they are still drinking. Sad, but true.
If I can handle those places, (and we’ve had some scares in each one of those) I can deal with the MidEast. (extreme sarcasm.....we’re not about to sell wood to make bombs!)
Did I ever tell you about the Burqa(sp) clad women I saw in South America?
Snip: According to one CIA analyst I spoke with last week, al Qaeda sleeper cells are embedded in most U.S. cities with sizable Islamic communities. "Why do you think 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta traveled to Maine the night before the attacks?" asked the analyst. The obvious answer, he explained, was that Atta was meeting with a "handler" to receive final instructions. There is no doubt, explained the analyst, that thousands of al Qaeda sleeper agents, including conspirators involved in the Sept. 11 attacks, remain in the country.
These covert networks are ticking time bombs that wield the capacity and hatred to carry out acts worse than 9/11. What's shocking, explained the analyst, is not the existence of this widespread covert network, but that law enforcement has largely been neutered in its response. According to the analyst, "the Agency" knows where most terrorist cells are located in the United States. But their hands are tied until the cells actually "go hot," or move into action.
Obviously, this is not the most effective way to combat terrorism. The most effective way to prevent another 9/11 style attack is to root it out before it even starts. That means taking advantage of the modern intelligence we have and abducting members of domestic terrorist cells before — not after — they "go hot."
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