Posted on 04/15/2007 4:43:46 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
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Here is an update to the story I first covered HERE on April 21st:
Accused Nuke Engineer: I Was Showing Off
breitbart.com
May 18 01:36 PM US/Eastern
PHOENIX (AP) - A former nuclear engineer accused of taking software back to his native Iran told authorities he was only trying to show off for family and friends.
Mohammad Alavi, 49, also told FBI agents that he left his job at the nation’s largest nuclear power plant and moved to Iran to be closer to relatives, according to records obtained by The Arizona Republic.
Alavi, who lived in the U.S. as a naturalized citizen for 30 years, is charged with violating a trade embargo with Iran, which carries a maximum penalty of 21 months in prison. Trial is set for July 3.
Alavi worked at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station west of Phoenix for 16 years, until he resigned in August and moved to Tehran.
The software he downloaded onto his personal laptop was part of an emergency-training package containing details of the plant’s control rooms, reactors and designs. It is not classified, has no links to actual plant workings and can’t be used to affect operations.
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Explosives stolen from Whitehorse business
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 | 3:56 PM CT
CBC News
The theft of 250 kilograms of explosives from a Whitehorse business over the weekend is under investigation, RCMP say.
Cpl. Grant MacDonald said RCMP learned Tuesday afternoon of a break-and-enter at Yukon Pump, a mining and construction supply business in Whitehorse.
Ten boxes of Tovite, an explosive blasting agent, were stolen from a Whitehorse business sometime between Friday night and Tuesday morning.Ten boxes of Tovite, an explosive blasting agent, were stolen from a Whitehorse business sometime between Friday night and Tuesday morning.
(Courtesy Whitehorse RCMP)
Upon arriving at the scene, officers discovered that thieves broke into the building over the weekend and stole 10 boxes of an explosive blasting agent weighing a total of 250 kilograms. The business operators did not notice the materials were missing until Tuesday morning.
The stolen boxes contained two cartridges each of a “putty-like substance” in white plastic tube-wraps with the word Tovite written in red on each cartridge. Each tube-shaped cartridge is about 13 centimetres in diameter and 90 centimetres long.
“There is no danger to the public in relation to this blasting agent that has been taken in of itself,” MacDonald said Wednesday.
“My understanding is that in order to cause an explosion … there would need to be something else used, like a blasting cap.”
At the same time, MacDonald said anyone who may spot the stolen explosives should not go near them, instead taking note of their location and contacting police immediately.
The RCMP have asked anyone who has seen the stolen explosives or witnessed any suspicious activity at the Yukon Pump building to call the Whitehorse detachment at (867) 667-5555 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Tas: Explosive stolen from fire training centre
From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: June 2, 2005
AAP General News (Australia)
AAP General News (Australia)
06-02-2005
Tas: Explosive stolen from fire training centre
HOBART, June 2 AAP - Thieves have taken 1kg of a highly flammable and explosive substance
from a maritime training centre in Tasmania’s north.
The natrium - a sodium metal that produces gas, which burns extremely hot and is almost
impossible to extinguish - was stolen from the Australian Maritime College Fire Training
Centre at Bell Bay sometime between May 30 and today, police said.
Because of its explosive nature, natrium is stored in oil or paraffin. Once removed,
it becomes ...
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Laval couple charged with human trafficking
First case in Canada since new law introduced
Last Updated: Friday, May 18, 2007 | 1:03 PM ET
CBC News
The RCMP in Montreal have arrested a couple and charged them with human trafficking in a case they say is the first of its kind in Canada.
Nichan Manoukian and his wife Manoudshag Saryboyadjian were charged in connection with an Ethiopian nanny they brought legally to their home in Laval, north of Montreal, in 2004.
Police said the couple found the woman through an agency in Lebanon.
The charges of human trafficking, withholding or destruction of identification documents, and profiting from human trafficking relate to what police say happened to the woman after she arrived in Laval.
According to police:
* The accused couple refused to let the woman leave the house alone.
* She wasn’t allowed to make any phone calls.
* She was at the family’s beck and call 24 hours a day.
It was a year and half before someone in the community called in an anonymous tip, and, police said, they removed the woman from the home within a week.
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“She was confused, she was scared. It took a while before we could gain her trust,” RCMP Const. Magdela Turpin told a news conference Friday.
It was another year and a half before police were in a position to lay charges.
Turpin said this is the first time human trafficking charges have been laid under the Canadian Criminal Code, after a new law came into effect in November 2005. In the past, human trafficking was treated as an Immigration Act violation.
No date has been set for the couple to appear in court.
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Brian Sandberg is led out of Kitsap County Superior Court on Wednesday after being arraigned. He was arrested for investigation of unlawful possession of explosives.
Silverdale Man Had Weapons Cache, Possible KKK Ties
By Josh Farley, Kitsap Sun Staff
May 17, 2007
CENTRAL KITSAP
Military issue explosives that included grenades, anti-tank rockets and firing devices were among the cache of weapons discovered at the Central Kitsap home of a 38-year-old man, who made an initial court appearance Wednesday.
Brian K. Sandberg could now face charges of unlawful possession of explosives and possession of stolen government property. He made an initial appearance in Kitsap County Superior Court and is being held on $100,000 bail.
The Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office, with help from other jurisdictions, served a search warrant at a Hamilton Place address Tuesday after Sandberg’s wife reported he had “loaded pistols and rifles around the house in plain view and not locked up,” as well as a rifle with a M203 grenade launcher.
Other items confiscated included at least eight handguns, four rifles, grenades, two shotguns and “thousands” of ammunition magazines, according to court documents. A report also included information that Sandberg had recently went to a store near Fort Lewis to purchase “armored plates” for one of his bulletproof vests, and that loaded pistols were often in plain view of his four children, ages 15, 11, 8 and 5.
Scott Wilson, sheriff’s spokesman, said it is still unclear what he planned to do with the arsenal, but he confirmed that it went well beyond “his Second Amendment rights.”
“The question is ‘How did he come to have this stuff, and what did he plan to do with it?’” Wilson said.
Sandberg was detained Tuesday by members of the Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office SWAT Team while walking in a commercial area near the Kitsap Mall. He was found in possession of a handgun, which he had a concealed carry permit for, and detained without incident.
A statement from the state Department of Labor and Industries filed Wednesday with the Kitsap County Prosecutor’s Office said that Sandberg was not licensed to purchase, use, store, sell or manufacture explosives.
Local, state and federal authorities found most of the weapons in Sandberg’s bedroom or living room when they searched his house, police said.
Sandberg was described by his wife as a “former KKK member” who was on “heavy doses of methadone,” according to the search warrant affidavit filed in Kitsap County Superior Court.
He was arrested and booked into the Kitsap County jail at about 11 p.m. Tuesday.
Prosecutors had requested the bail amount because of the children at his home, and that if he did post bail, “he wasn’t welcome” at the Hamilton Place home he lived in, deputy prosecutor Bonnie Martin said.
Sandberg will be formally charged by Kitsap County prosecutors on Friday.
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Bomb squad responds in Pryor
Melissa McClendon, Sommer Woodward
Staff Reporter
— An explosive devise was detonated behind the building at Steddum’s Payless Car Sales Wednesday.
The device was detonated by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Bomb Squad according to Pryor Police Chief Dennis Nichols.
Nichols said the police department received a call at approximately 11:30 a.m., from a Payless Car Sales employee concerned about a suspicious item in one of the vehicles.
Employees showed officers the device, which was discovered in the glove box of a vehicle. Officers evaluated the situation and determined the object was explosive. Officers secured the area, cleared everyone out and called the Oklahoma Highway Patrol Bomb Squad.
When OHP Bomb Squad officers arrived, they retrieved the device behind and detonated it.
Payless Car Sales Owner, Rodney Steddum, said a car had been stolen from their lot but he wasn’t sure when.
Nichols said the car may have been stolen or abandoned after a test drive.
Steddum said the car was recovered in the parking lot of Drug Warehouse in Pryor, which is located southeast of the Payless lot.
According to Steddum, once the car was back on the lot, employees of Payless went through the car, which is when the suspicious item was discovered.
“I’m just glad nobody got hurt,” Steddum said.
The Pryor Police Department is investigating where the device may have come from, how it got in the vehicle and who was involved.
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Published: May 17, 2007 09:32 am
Police follow up on school threat
Sommer Woodward
Staff Reporter
Pryor Police are investigating the identity of the person or persons who wrote the shooting threat on a picnic table at the junior high.
A threat was scribbled into a picnic table at the junior high which warned of a shooting at the high school on the last day of school, May 25.
The threat said 13 people would die.
Police Chief Dennis Nichols said the department is looking into a couple of juvenile suspects and possibly more.
In response to the threat, the police department is staffing each school with an officer and school officials are taking extra precautions to make sure the students are safe.
The department is also in the process of identifying the owner of the weapons found across the street from the junior high Monday night.
A rumor is circulating that the weapons were found on school property.
Nichols said the bag with the weapons was found on private property across the street from the junior high, but was not on school property.
Nichols said the weapons may or may not have anything to do with the shooting threat, but the department is looking into the possibility.
May 18, 2007 PM Anti-Terrorism News
(Iraq) Five US soldiers killed in S. Baghdad
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1745538&Language=en
(Iraq) Booby-trapped car blast kills five Iraqis, injures seven in
Tobaji area
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1745520&Language=en
(Iraq) Two corpses of renowned figures found - related to Iraq
parliament speaker
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1745522&Language=en
(Iraq) Political murder called main Falluja Qaeda tactic
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070518/ts_nm/iraq_usa_falluja_dc_4;_ylt=AqTJUniVchWZj72E6qk5l4YwuecA
(Iraq) Four arrested in Iraq ‘honor killing’
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/18/iraq.honorkilling/index.html
(Afghanistan) 14 Taliban killed in western Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence_36;_ylt=An0dfuAXTk4zN_NKHnWUlEPOVooA
(Afghanistan) Taliban claims Kandahar suicide bombing: Web
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070518/ts_nm/afghan_governor_dc
Update (India) 13 die in explosion, clashes in India - clash between
worshippers and police, also Muslims clash with police in three parts of
Hyderbad
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_as/india_mosque_explosion_18;_ylt=AsAp4g6aFj3AwUJNnhY.DvlA7AkB
(India/Bangladesh) Bangladesh terror group responsible for the Mecca
Masjid attack?
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEU20070518113726&Page=U&Title=Hyderabad&Topic=0
Israel considers ground offensive, as Gaza crumbles
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1808685.ece
Israel hits Hamas during Gaza fighting
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_165;_ylt=AmTtWg1cwx4bNOIlTIQsY5HuyucA
(Israel) Three more Kassams fall on Sderot; one house directly hit
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708630900&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Israeli minister threatens Hamas leaders
http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Briefing/2007/05/18/israeli_minister_threatens_hamas_leaders/4743/
Hamas gunmen kidnap senior journalist, office director of top Fatah
official in Gaza City
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/18/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Kidnappings.php
Abu Dhabi TV says Hamas took reporter
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21758234-1702,00.html
Saudi Press Reactions to the Arrest of Seven Terrorist Cells in Saudi
Arabia
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=IA35407
(Pakistan) New Information in the Hunt for One of Pakistan’s Most
Wanted - Matiur Rehman, a senior al Qaeda leader
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/new_information.html
(Pakistan Lal Masjid) Police: Religious students abduct 4 police in
Pakistan capital
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/18/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Radical-Mosque.php
Pakistan: Thousands mark death of suspect of Daniel Pearl murder - Saud
Memon
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.416159592&par=0
(Pakistan) ‘Britain wants Pakistan to crack down harder on terrorists’
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=74568d18-11ec-4c97-b02c-789db353d4af&MatchID1=4464&TeamID1=10&TeamID2=6&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1109&MatchID2=4466&TeamID3=2&TeamID4=4&MatchType2=1&SeriesID2=1110&PrimaryID=4464&Headline=’Britain+wants+Pakistan+to+crack+down+harder+on+terrorists';
(Pakistan Unrest) Reporter attacked as media feels heat from Pakistan’s
political crisis
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/18/asia/AS-GEN-Pakistan-Free-Press-Threatened.php
(UK) Hamza ‘was behind ambush death plot’ - Abu Hamza masterminded a
terrorist kidnapping plot that led to the deaths of three British
tourists and an Australian
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23396791-details/Hamza+’was+behind+ambush+death+plot’/article.do
U.N.: Members States “must participate” in counter-terrorism
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.415985928&par=0
(USA) ‘Lackawanna Six’ Member Says Al Qaeda Ran Afghanistan Camp Linked
to Padilla
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273755,00.html
US mosque where Fort Dix terror plot suspects prayed defends teachings
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/18/america/NA-GEN-US-Fort-Dix-Plot-Mosque.php
(USA) Lawyers of Gitmo detainees suing for data
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/05/18/lawyers_of_gitmo_detainees_suing_for_data/5918/
(USA/Iran) Accused nuke engineer: I was showing off
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070518/ap_on_re_us/power_plant_software_1;_ylt=ArcQCGfW5PSOhfmivBzCbzNSw60A
(Iran) Friday Sermon in Kerman, Iran: If Iran Is Attacked, Tens of
Thousands of Missiles Will Be Fired at Israel; President Bush Should Be
Sentenced to 100 Deaths
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD157807
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1444
Bosnia: Muslim Presidency member “fostering fundamentalism”
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.416117422&par=0
FBI’s Mueller: Bin Laden Wants to Strike U.S. Cities With Nuclear
Weapons
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/14/162425.shtml?s=al&promo_code=33FD-1
(Columbia) Escaped hostage from FARC: American has hepatitis
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070517/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/colombia_american_hostages_3;_ylt=Ahf7MACdLCzszFrsJeL83hqwv7kA
Muslim Brotherhood: A Reprise on Sheikh al-Qaradawi
http://www.douglasfarah.com/article/202/a-reprise-on-sheikh-al-qaradawi.com
Muslim Brotherhood: Sheik Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: Our War with the Jews Is
in the Name of Islam
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1052#
ABC: 9/11 Conspiracy Documentary: Loose Change Creators on The View May
24th
http://www.watchingtheview.com/loose-change-creators-on-the-view-may-24th/
LTTE stole 130,000 Norwegian Passports and sold some of them to Al Qaeda
“LTTE stole 130,000 Norwegian Passports and sold some of them to Al
Qaeda” -
Sri Lankan Ambassador to Washington Post Radio
Created 2007-05-18 16:33
By Walter Jayawardhana
Washington DC, 18 May, (Asiantribune.com): Bernard Goonetileke, the Sri
Lankan Ambassador in Washington DC interviewed by the Washington Post
Radio
Thursday said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) operatives
have
stolen 130,00 Norwegian passports and sold them to the highest bidders
including the terrorists of Al Qaeda. Bernard Goonetileke said that the
LTTE
had employed a corrupt police officer to steal the passports for them
and
when it sold the passports they also sold them to an Al Qaeda group in
Algeria.
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Bernard Goonetileke said that the LTTE had employed a corrupt police
officer
to steal the passports for them and when it sold the passports they
also
sold them to an Al Qaeda group in Algeria.
“One of them surfaced with 700 of the stolen passports in Thailand and
got
caught to the police,” the Ambassador told J.J. Green, the National
Security
Affairs Correspondent of the Washington Post Radio.
Green said due to the easy access of European Union citizens to the
United
States this could make a real risk for even this country.
The Radio Station introduced the LTTE as the assassins of the former
Prime
Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and friends of the Al Qaeda terrorists
of the
Middle Eastern notoriety.
Goonetileke said that the LTTE had employed a corrupt police officer to
steal the passports for them and when it sold the passports they also
sold
them to an Al Qaeda group in Algeria.
The Sri Lankan ambassador said the LTTE was banned in India in 1991 and
the
second country they were banned was the United States in 1997, about a
decade ago. He said when these countries banned them they simply did it
because they realized that the Tamil Tigers behavior was really
dangerous to
the world. He said the proscription of the group was thereafter
followed by
Canada and the 27 member European Union.
Answering Green Goonetileke reminded the grave terrorist acts they
committed
included the assassination of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India and
said
the pioneering acts of terrorism the LTTE gave to the world of terror
included the devastating C-4 explosives laden suicide jackets currently
used
by the Middle Eastern terrorists. The Sri Lankan ambassador said after
the
USS Cole was blasted the Sea Tigers head Susai had boasted that it was
their
suicide boat method the Middle Eastern terrorists had copied. In fact,
Goonetileke said the LTTE had done similar acts by blasting a Sri lanka
Navy
vessel carrying sailors and in blasting a Chinese fishing vessel in
2000.
Their latest pioneering act of terrorism is to fly low flying aircraft
and
bomb places, the ambassador said.
Green: How did they manage to do that?
Goonetileke: It is nothing amazing. Once a small Cessna was flown by a
German youth to the Red Square in Moscow with all its security and
radar.
Green: How do they manage to buy all these aircraft and other weapons?
Goonetileke: If you have the resources there is no shortages of planes
and
weapons in the black market.
The Sri Lankan ambassador during the 30 minute interview said there
were
800,000 estimated Sri Lankan Tamils spread in North America, Australia
and
Europe. He said money is being bilked from them using sophisticated
methods
of extortion. He said the terrorist group has forcibly taken over
places of
worship like Hindu temples to steal money given for charity.
Goonetileke
said narcotic sales, credit cards frauds of large scale, and owning
businesses and shipping lines are some other methods they used to earn
money. He said they maintained bank accounts like those of the
Bhumiputra
Bank of Malaysia to siphon money.
He said it was true the LTTE signed a Ceasefire Agreement in 2002 but
soon
after the agreement was signed they started showing the insincerity by
killing Tamil opponents and continuing with child abductions and
assassinating some members of the security forces. They started sitting
down
for negotiations and thereafter left the negotiating table showing that
they
would never be satisfied with anything else other than a separate
state.
He said they kept on raising funds using front organization because of
the
proscriptions in the Western countries. He said when the pseudo charity
called Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) was discovered by the
Commissioner of Charity in UK they restarted it under the name White
Pigeon.
When White Pigeon was caught they transferred 500,000 sterling pounds
to
another one called International Tamil Rehabilitation
Organization(ITRO).
Then they were transferred to World Tamil Movement. He said it was
always a
name game to siphon off charity money for terror.
Goonetileke admitted that that Sri Lanka government and the US
government
exchange information about the terrorist organizations.
Goonetileke said mainly two teams related to the LTTE have already got
caught trying to buy weapons and influence in the US and one team has
already pleaded guilty. In those sting operations one LTTE team offered
one
million dollars as bribes to US officials, hoping to get the ban on the
group lifted, as one of the expectations.
In the attempt to buy surface to air missiles and other military
equipment
to down airplanes 70,000 dollars exchanged hands as initial payments to
undercover agents. Those figures would indicate, Goonetileke said, the
kind
of money the terrorist group was able to spend.
Answering questions the ambassador said due to the focus was mainly on
Islamic terrorists the resources may have been limited in the past to
catch
the LTTE in the US. But he said he hoped the government would use
resources
as much as possible to bring them to books since it was one sure way of
quelling the terrorism back at home.
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Global Net Censorship ‘Growing’
http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/05/18/global-net-censorship-growing/
Global Net Censorship ‘Growing’
By BBC News.
The level of state-led censorship of the net is growing around the
world, a study of so-called internet filtering by the Open Net Initiative
suggests.
The study of thousands of websites across 120 Internet Service
Providers found 25 of 41 countries surveyed showed evidence of content
filtering.
Websites and services such as Skype and Google Maps were blocked, it
said.
Such “state-mandated net filtering” was only being carried out in “a
couple” of states in 2002, one researcher said.
“In five years we have gone from a couple of states doing
state-mandated net filtering to 25,” said John Palfrey, at Harvard Law School.
What’s regrettable about net filtering is that almost always this is
happening in the shadows.
John Palfrey, Harvard Law School
Mr Palfrey, executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, added: “There has also been an increase in the scale, scope and
sophistication of internet filtering.”
ONI is made up of research groups at the universities of Toronto,
Harvard Law School, Oxford and Cambridge.
It chose 41 countries for the survey in which testing could be done
safely and where there was “the most to learn about government online
surveillance”.
A number of states in Europe and the US were not tested because the
private sector rather than the government tends to carry out filtering, it
said.
Countries which carry out the broadest range of filtering included
Burma, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab
Emirates and Yemen, the study said.
Full list of countries from the survey that filter content
The filtering had three primary rationales, according to the report:
politics and power, security concerns and social norms.
The report said: “In a growing number of states around the world,
internet filtering has huge implications for how connected citizens will be
to the events unfolding around them, to their own cultures, and to
other cultures and shared knowledge around the world.”
Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at
Oxford University, said the organisation was also looking at the tools
people used to circumvent filtering.
“It’s hard to quantify how many people are doing this. As we go forward
each year we want to see if some of these circumvention technologies
become more like appliances and you just plug them in and they work,” he
added.
“Few states restrict their activities to one type of content,” said
Rafal Rohozinski, Research Fellow of the Cambridge Security Programme.
He added: “Once filtering is begun, it
is applied to a broad range of content and can be used for expanding
government control of cyberspace. It has become a strategic forum of
competition between states, as well as between citizens and states.”
Mr Palfrey said the report was an attempt to shine a spotlight on
filtering to make it more transparent.
“What’s regrettable about net filtering is that almost always this is
happening in the shadows. There’s no place you can get an answer as a
citizen from your state about how they are filtering and what is being
filtered.”
The survey found evidence of filtering in the following countries:
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Burma/Myanmar, China, Ethiopia, India, Iran,
Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South
Korea, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, UAE,
Uzbekistan, Vietnam and Yemen.
Right now for those with Direct tv.
Granny I will try and find the transcript for you.
It is unbelievable! I can’t believe it is on tv?
CIA BLEW it. The Dutch had khan and Cia said let him go and lets watch him. Mean while he set up Pak. Libya and Iran with nukes.
Once his headquarters were set up in UAE and we managed to infiltrated and stopped one ship going to China.
One-Third America: U.S. Minorities at 100 Million
Tell Me More, May 18, 2007 · The latest United States Census Bureau data shows ethnic minorities now account for one-third of the population. The effects of America’s shifting demographics can be seen in states across the country, including New Jersey. Immigration reporter Elizabeth Llorente talks with Michel Martin about how the growth in Asian and Hispanic residents is changing the state.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10254916
This is so funny passing around.
CIA
Company In-behalf of All-world-goverment.
What a traitorous lot so many seem to be.
Five Islamist suspects’ supposed farewell videos led to terror warning
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=45904
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=45904
Five Islamist suspects’ supposed farewell videos led to terror warning
By mailto:montgomeryn@estripes.osd.mil
Nancy Montgomery, Stars and
Stripes
European edition, Wednesday, May 16, 2007
HEIDELBERG, Germany - Five Islamists from Frankfurt who had supposedly
filmed farewell videos for use after suicide attacks on U.S. military
bases
were the impetus of last month’s terror warning, a German news magazine
has
reported.
The magazine, Focus, quoted police sources and said that the five
included
two Germans who had converted to Islam and three Germans of Turkish
origin.
All belonged to the Islamic Jihad Union, a group affiliated with
al-Qaida,
the magazine said, and some had undergone military training in
Pakistan.
The five at one point were detained after surveilling a U.S. base in
Hanau,
the magazine said. But because of insufficient evidence of criminal
wrongdoing - and infighting and mistakes by intelligence agencies,
Focus
said - the men have not been charged.
“The federal prosecutor has so far not been successful in submitting
enough
incriminating evidence against the Islamist group. During a raid of the
apartments of the suspects in January this year, the investigators
found a
lot of propaganda material, but it was not sufficient to get an arrest
warrant from the investigating judge in Karlsruhe,” according to an
English
translation of the story, which ran Saturday.
The story doesn’t say how its authors know about the farewell videos,
only
that “according to the most recent intelligence, members have already
filmed
farewell videos.”
U.S. European Command officials said Tuesday that they could not
comment on
the story. But they said nothing had changed since the U.S. Embassy on
April
20 put out a warning of an increased terrorist threat and increased its
own
security.
“The message is still valid, and we ask Americans to continue to be
vigilant,” said Maj. John Dorrian, a EUCOM spokesman.
Dorrian said that anonymously sourced reports Friday by ABC and CNN
news
that there was an “imminent” threat of an attack with guns and bombs at
EUCOM in Stuttgart had been unfounded.
“There was nothing that warranted those stories, in our estimation,”
Dorrian
said. “There have been no new developments that would drive the U.S.
European Command to change our force-protection condition in theater.
We
remain at a high level of alert, and we have for several days conducted
exercises to assure our force protection measures are very sharp.”
The information about the five men in the Focus story initially came
from
the Central Intelligence Agency and was passed along to Germany’s BfV
Office
for the Protection of the Constitution.
The two agencies agreed to keep surveillance of the men secret, and not
tell
local German police, to avoid leaks, the magazine said. U.S. military
officials and intelligence were alerted to the threat, however, and
themselves told German police, the magazine said.
According to Focus, the U.S. Air Force’s intelligence arm, the Air
Intelligence Agency, told the Stuttgart chief of police about the
surveillance of the group, and the Stuttgart police alerted other
police
agencies.
But according to the magazine, whose sources were German police, it was
the
German BfV agents who erred in the case. For instance, the story said,
the
agents pulled up to one of the suspect’s apartments in a freshly washed
car
and were quickly identified by the suspect.
Oliver Mueller-Fuhrmans, vice-spokesman for the BfV, said the agency as
a
rule doesn’t comment on its operations. “Especially if we are
criticized for
operational mistakes, we just say ‘No comment,’ “ he said.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe spokesman Capt. Chris Watt also declined to
comment on whether - and, if so, why - the Air Force agents had given
the
information to Stuttgart police. Watt referred questions to EUCOM, but
EUCOM
declined to comment.
U.S. Army Europe also declined to comment about whether there are
USAREUR-
wide warnings out about the five men among military police and
contracted
Ponds guards who check identification at base gates.
But on March 27, three weeks before the embassy warning, the 21st
Theater
Support Command sent out an e-mail warning to an undetermined number of
recipients.
“We have a credible threat that an extremist organization is targeting
U.S.
kasernes,” according to an e-mail given to Stars and Stripes by U.S.
military authorities. “Intelligence and security agencies from the U.S.
and
other countries are currently working this threat.”
The e-mail also had attached a “BOLO” - or “Be on the Lookout” for at
least
three men “suspected for recruiting for jihad.”
The BOLO - given to personnel guarding U.S. bases - contained their
photographs, passport numbers, birth dates and cars they might be
driving.
One was a 27-year-old German; one was a 22-year-old man of Turkish
origin
but with a German passport. Both had been arrested in January 2005,
according to the BOLO. The third man was a 23-year-old Iranian.
Dorrian would not comment on whether any of the men on the BOLO were
among
the group of five referred to by Focus magazine.
The 21st TSC e-mail said Hanau had been watched, and possibly Mannheim,
Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern, as well. It directed that people be
aware of
suspicious activity, and to note time, location, activity and the
looks,
clothes and cars of anyone doing something suspicious, and to call
military
or German police.
The message instructed that soldiers and families should read the
e-mail,
that they should not wear their Army uniforms until arriving at work,
and
that they should remove anything identifying them as American from
their
cars and houses.
Stars and Stripes learned of the message in late March. On two
occasions,
editors met with U.S. military officials about the possible threat. At
that
time, the newspaper agreed not to release specific information on the
individuals for fear its disclosure could compromise the German
investigation.
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WLEX-TV Lexington - May 18 4:32 PM
Woodford County schools were placed under lockdown for several hours Thursday morning after a former student was seen intruding in the county’s high school.
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Sun-Sentinel - May 18 3:16 PM
A lunchtime disturbance at Blanche Ely High School on Friday caused Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies to lockdown the campus for the remainder of the day, police said.
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Asbury Park Press - May 18 11:47 AM
Jackson school officials notified police this morning when a suspicious male entered Jackson Memorial High School. The school was under lock down for about 30 minutes until the man was apprehended, and the police conducted an investigation. According to a message on the school district’s web site, “While students were arriving at school this morning, an alert student informed the building ...
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WCMH Columbus - May 18 9:20 AM
A learning center was under lockdown for a short time a threat of gun violence was made.
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WNCT Greenville - May 16 10:03 AM
By George A. Crocker Jr. The lockdown at Eastern Elementary in Pitt County is now over. The school says children are now going back to classes. The school was under lockdown after students reported seeing someone who might have a weapon.
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The Journal News - May 16 11:42 PM
PEARL RIVER - Pearl River schools were on a modified lockdown yesterday after a Pearl River High School girl reported being approached by a stranger on her way to school.
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The Springfield News-Leader - May 18 2:24 PM
By Amos Bridges abridges@news-leader.com Several Nixa schools were locked down Friday after a man fled law enforcement during a routine stop. Superintendent Stephen Kleinsmith said Matthews and Espy Elementaries, as well as the high school, were locked down a little after 1 p.m. when the district received a call from the Missouri State Highway Patrol. “We got a call from the Highway Patrol that ...
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TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — Students have been allowed inside Tonganoxie High School after police searched the building for a man wanted for rape and attempted murder in Topeka.
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Cullman Times - May 15 3:18 PM
Several county schools were placed on lockdown Tuesday as Cullman County law enforcement officials were searching for a suspect in an attempted burglary in Vinemont, Sheriff’s Lt. Phillip Patterson said.
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WFMJ Youngstown - May 18 1:23 PM
A Chaney High freshman is suspended and faces possible expulsion for allegedly making threats. School officials say the teen said he was going to kill every girl who turned him down.
And was all this CIA failure with clinton pals?
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May 18, 2007
Worried about Al Qaeda and your water? So is NATO
Gertz-TEL AVIV — NATO has awarded a research project to a university to protect the Western alliance from a nonconventional insurgency strike.
NATO has agreed to finance research by the Technical Institute or Technion to protect the water supply from an Al Qaida biological or chemical strike.
The research by the Technion’s Grand Water Research Institute is the first in Israel since the Al Qaida suicide air strikes in the United States in 2001. The project also seeks to rapidly identify cholera and other pathogenic bacteria in water.
“Now, we are developing a scanner that is rapid, specific and sensitive in identifying specific bacteria,” said Yechezkel Kashi, a biotechnology professor.
The Technion project includes the identification of chemical and biological agents as well as the installation of monitoring stations.
“It became apparent that water distribution systems in the United States, Israel and the rest of the world’s developed nations are totally exposed,” said Israel Schechter, a chemistry professor at the Technion.
“These systems are situated outside without any protection.” Schechter said his research concluded that a chemical strike on a city’s water supply would have a low prospect of success. He said the water supply would probably dilute the chemical agent.
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