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Posted on 07/11/2005 8:12:04 PM PDT by nwctwx
There are many links to the worlds latest reports on terror news at this site.
http://www.terrorism.com/
Regarding the 'perfume', that came up during Zawahiri discussions. If I recall correctly, Zawahiri had wanted to package anthrax or cyanide into perfume bottles to spray in trains.
So now it's a helicopter, I could have sworn it was a jet that I read about in the Seattle PI today
amas camp: Sun, fun ... indoctrination
What Palestinians view as respite from poverty, Israelis call terror
training for youth
San Francisco Chronicle
Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, July 31, 2005
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/31/HAMAS.TMP
Seventeen-year-old Osama Abu Asi knows what Hamas stands for: swimming
lessons, horseback riding, potato sack races and other summertime fun
-- including religious education and paramilitary training.
This is summer camp in the Gaza Strip, as organized by Harakat
al-Moqawama al-Islamiyah, the Islamic Resistance Movement, better known as
Hamas -- which is officially regarded by the United States and many other
countries as a terrorist organization that has killed hundreds of
Israelis.
All summer long, at camps in playgrounds, in dirt-poor neighborhoods
and on glittering Mediterranean beaches, Palestinian boys and young men
get together in safe, well-managed, comfortable facilities decorated
with the fluttering green flags of Hamas.
"In this camp we learn the important things of life -- good behavior,
respect," said Osama, who was spending the summer at a Hamas-run camp on
the beach outside Gaza City.
They also learn how to sing "intifada songs," including one urging them
to "kill Zionists wherever they are, in the name of God."
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's spokesman Ra'anan Gissin
described the summer camps as "indoctrination camps" comparable to the Hitler
Youth camps, and accused Hamas of taking advantage of Gaza parents'
desperate economic straits by offering to care for and feed their children
while concealing the organization's true motives.
"This is where you create cultural hatred, so by the age of 15 or 16
you can send them out as suicide bombers. That's the whole purpose of
them," he said.
Osama didn't see it that way. "They are not terrorists. We've been
trained and taught to live and forgive. That is the lesson here."
As he spoke, fellow campers ran laughing through the shimmering
breakers, rolling in the white sand. Nearby, a group of camp "graduates" --
young men now regulars in Hamas -- played volleyball in an enclosed area.
Up the beach, families relaxed under tents, while women walked into the
sea wearing long dresses and with their hair covered by a hijab,
maintaining their modesty in the surf.
Other campers gave similar responses when asked what they were learning
from the bearded instructors who stood nearby as they spoke and
sometimes whispered suggested answers.
"Math, sports, swimming, Islamic behavior," said Ibrahim El-Kanua, 12,
at a camp in a playground near the Jabaliya refugee camp where he
lives. "I learned how to respect and honor."
The camps are especially popular with Palestinian families in Gaza,
where Hamas is perceived as both less corrupt and more administratively
competent than the ruling Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas.
The movement did well in municipal elections in December, January and
May, and now controls 50 of 121 Palestinian local governments, mostly in
the Gaza Strip. Observers believe it would have done equally well in
parliamentary elections that have been postponed.
For Gaza parents, the camps provide an alternative for their children
during the summer school holidays when there is little to offer in the
way of recreation on Gaza's dusty streets, and kids are often seen
playing in the raw sewage that flows to the sea.
"The Hamas summer camp is teaching them good behavior, teaching them to
honor and respect people, instead of losing them to the streets," said
60-year-old Abdullah Fatah, as he came to check on his four
grandchildren enrolled in a playground camp near his home in the Jabaliya refugee
camp.
"(Hamas) follows Islam. Because they follow Islam, I trust them. I
would follow them anywhere."
More than 80 percent of the 1.3 million people in the Gaza Strip live
below the poverty line, with an unemployment rate of 50 percent. More
than half of the population is 14 years old or younger.
"If Hamas won't watch them, who would keep them busy during the summer
break?" asked Ibrahim Salah, an accountant who is also head of Hamas'
education department. "When they're in the hands of Hamas, they're in
good hands."
At Hamas camp, every camper gets a crisp green baseball cap. Camp
officials said they have already given out 12,000 caps this year in 60 Gaza
summer camps, out of 100,000 caps they ordered from a Chinese company.
"This is one of the basic things we can provide these kids -- a cap and
a T-shirt," said Jasser Shameyah, a Hamas administrator. "We try to
take them once in a while to a playground, special beaches with entry fees
-- we can pay up to five shekels a kid."
At four separate camps visited earlier this month, the campers, who
ranged in age from about 8 to 18, were organized into groups of a dozen or
so with individual instructors, playing tug-of-war and wrestling,
learning the Quran -- campers easily recited long sections by heart -- and
munching on pita bread stuffed with hummus and a mystery meat as
unidentifiable as that in any Boy Scout lunch.
Fatah, the ruling Palestinian party in the occupied territories, and
other groups -- Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, for example
-- also offer camps. But a tour of camps in Gaza found most bearing the
green flag of Hamas.
Some American and European programs offer summer camps in Gaza, which
bring Jewish and Muslim children together and emphasize peace and
reconciliation. But those groups tend to attract far fewer children, from
mainly well-to-do backgrounds, and put them in a Western environment, one
Hamas instructor asserted, where girls without head coverings are
thrown in with boys, something many Muslim parents consider unacceptable.
Hamas, following its interpretation of Islamic principles, runs
separate camps for boys and girls. The children pay for the camp on a sliding
scale -- from a shekel (about 25 cents) to 10 shekels for the duration,
depending on their ability to pay, Hamas officials said.
"The main reason for Hamas summer camp is just for fun, to take them
from the killing environment. They've gone through things they weren't
prepared for," Salah, the Hamas education chief, said. "The main thing is
to teach them to love their nation, Palestine. We're all one nation."
But while Hamas leaders point to their social programs as the reason
for the camps' popularity, Israelis -- and some Palestinians -- are far
more critical of what the young campers are learning besides horseback
riding and the backstroke.
At one beach camp, attended by approximately 100 kids, an instructor
wore a heavy flannel shirt under which a webbed belt could be seen
strapped to his stomach. Asked by a reporter what it was, he answered, with a
broad smile, "Boom!"
The instructor led a group of young teenagers through marching drills
on the sand -- facing movements, close quarter drill. With a smile at
the reporter, he put a megaphone to his lips.
"What are you?" he called.
"Monsters!" the kids replied.
"What are you?!"
"MONSTERS!"
As the instructor, Sa'eb Dormush, stepped aside for an interview, a
youth in the group shouted out "moqawama!" -- resistance.
"That is the first word they learn when they are born," Dormush said
with a laugh. "This is the next generation."
Across camp, a group of younger children -- most between 10 and 12 --
sat in a circle in the sand singing one of the "intifada songs" they
learn at camp. One boy sang verses in a rolling soprano as the others
joined in on the one-word chorus.
"We don't want to sleep.
HA-A-MAS!
We want revenge.
HA-A-MAS!
Raise it up.
HA-A-MAS!
Rifle fire.
HA-A-MAS!
If it will take a thousand martyrs.
HA-A-MAS!
Kill Zionists.
HA-A-MAS!
Wherever they are.
HA-A-MAS!
In the name of God.
HA-A-MAS!"
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http://www.news4jax.com/news/4795098/detail.html
"Florida Men Accused Of Smuggling 200 Pounds Of Pot In Load Of Seafood"
POSTED: 2:11 pm EDT August 1, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police said two south Florida men were arrested as they drove into Florida on Interstate 95 with nearly 200 pounds of marijuana in their truck.
The pair were arrested Sunday after a routine inspection of their refrigerated truck at the northbound agricultural interdiction station allegedly turned up 13 boxes of marijuana mixed among the boxes of seafood. Agricultural law enforcement agents said the marijuana had a street value of about $400,000.
Alejandro Martin Ponce, 42, the driver, along with co-driver Jose L. Ortega, 37, were charged with trafficking in excess of 25 pounds of marijuana, a first-degree felony."
Could be...sure is high dollar value.
Wonder who they work for?
http://www.abcactionnews.com/images/stories/2005/08/0801snail.jpg
http://www.abcactionnews.com/images/stories/2005/08/0801snails.jpg
http://www.abcactionnews.com/stories/2005/08/050801snails.shtml
" Super-sized alien snail threatening Florida's ecosystems"
an ABC Action News report 08/01/05
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LAKELAND - It moves real slow, but that hasn't stopped it from multiplying and spreading across much of Florida.
It is not hard to miss the South American Apple Snail because it is the size of a fist. The alien creatures have both a gill and a lung, and they eat almost all aquatic plant life, which could lead to damaging algae blooms.
"If algae blooms become bad enough, it can remove the oxygen from the water game. And then you can have fish die in the water, including game fish," explained Dana Denson of the Department of Environmental Protection.
The snail, as its name implies, is from South America. They most likely entered Florida's waters when homeowners tossed them out of their aquariums or started trying to farm them for commercial sale."
"C Ebola???"
Oh they're cooking with more than ebola...they've spiced H5N1 up with bubonic plague and another mystery bug (fungus amongus?) in addition to ebola....read the dialogue with Dr. Wang but have the salt shaker ready:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413888/posts?page=707#707
... it's just one thing after another in Florida.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/31/wfilm31.xml
"Hollywood producers revise film script involving suicide bombers"
By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles
(Filed: 31/07/2005)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hollywood producers of the black comedy American Dreamz are reconsidering the script after the London attacks because it involves suicide bombers attempting to assassinate the American president.
The film, starring Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid and Willem Dafoe, features a group of Pakistani terrorists, who target a mentally frail president played by Quaid."
I asked a man who had been arrested for growing marijuana, what the value of his plants were, (they were large ones).
He told me that the value was $1,000. per square foot of his 'garden'.......
God was just, he let him grow them to full size, then when he took the buyer to see them and arrange to harvest them, the Police followed the known buyer......LOL
And arrested both of them in the 'garden'. On a part of the BLM Land.
Smiling...that's the way it goes sometimes.
Zawahiri had wanted to package anthrax or cyanide into
perfume bottles to spray in trains.<<<
You are correct, I think of perfume as any bio-hazard, that can be sprayed, by bottle, can or airplane.
Sure glad that you are home, missed you.
Imagine sitting at your local emergency room with such a patient being rolled in.....and how the ER personnel would be able to deal with it! Hoping our nation's hospitals are capable of dealing with bioterrorism on a massive level if it would ever be required of them.
All the reports that I have heard or seen said helicopter.
I thought it interesting that there is already a local riot and they are questioning the crash.
He was missing several hours, before they admitted that there was a crash, or so I was hearing on the radio news reports.
The ER personnel should be given awards, imagine having to
take care of someone with a deadly and catching disease.
Or some of these "packages" that make people so ill.
People have no idea of what the Police, nurses, doctors, and all the others first on the scene must gamble on taking home to their own families.
http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/newsrel/mia072805.html
News Release [print friendly page]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2005
"50 Arrested in Palm Beach County Drug Operation"
THANKS to Ernest_at_the_Beach for the ping to this thread:
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Crackdown nets 103 members of Honduran gang known as MS-13 ~~
KRON4 ^ | August 1, 2005 | AP
Posted on 08/01/2005 7:48:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
WASHINGTON Federal agents have dealt a serious blow to the violent Honduran street gang known as M-S-13.Using information from local and state law enforcement agencies, federal agents charged 103 members with a range of criminal and immigration counts.
The arrests came in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Newark, Miami and Dallas metropolitan areas over the last several weeks.
The Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which headed up the operation, calls M-S-13 one of the largest and most violent street gangs in the U-S with the majority of its members in the country illegally.
The gang has carried out beheadings and grenade attacks in Central America and here in this country is known to hack its enemies with machetes in cities along the East Coast.
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