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  • FBI raid nets alleged terrorist sympathizers in Florida (Barf Alert)

    06/22/2006 10:33:01 PM PDT · by mimmson · 16 replies · 893+ views
    Sun Herald.com ^ | 06/22/06 | AVID OVALLE, EVAN S. BENN, LARRY LEBOWITZ AND LUISA YANEZ
    Seven men, some of whom lived in a Liberty City, Fla., warehouse, have been arrested as potential homegrown terrorist sympathizers who discussed blowing up Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI headquarters in Miami-Dade County, multiple sources told The Miami Herald on Thursday. They posed no immediate danger to the community, federal officials said Thursday. Details will be revealed Friday morning at a press conference in Washington. Agents must now figure out if the men were actually capable of mounting attacks. Several sources described them as homegrown wannabes with no known connection to foreign terrorists. No explosives or guns were found, sources...
  • TERRORISM: THREAT TO 'DECAPITATE' BERLUSCONI (BUSH, BLAIR, KOIZUMI, HOWARD) on Islamic website

    11/24/2005 10:13:31 PM PST · by FairOpinion · 26 replies · 1,029+ views
    ADNKI ^ | Nov. 24, 2005 | AKI
    Rome, 24 Nov. (AKI) - A message menacing Western leaders including Italy's prime minister Silvio Berlsuconi appeared on an Islamist website on Thursday. The message - whose authenticity has yet to be verified - threatens to "decapitate" US president George W. Bush, Britain's prime minister Tony Blair, Berlusconi, Japan's prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, and Australian premier John Howard. A section of the message - which reveals a good knowledge of Italian affairs on the part of its author- attacks Berlusconi, announcing: "the plan for his abduction has been laid - it only needs the go-ahead to be given." "Our appointment...