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"LAMBERTVILLE: Restaurant owner jailed on attempted homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and other charges" 14 May 2009 | Uncategorized LAMBERTVILLE — SNIPPET: "Khalid Altawarh, 36, who also goes by the name David Shookby, took the woman’s Jeep Wrangler and fled the scene when she escaped into the arms of a friend who had stopped by to see if she was all right. She had failed to show up for work that morning, May 8, police said. Plumstead Township, Pa., police Chief Duane E. Hasenauer said Mr. Altawarh has been charged with attempted homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and other related...

DALLAS – A 19-year-old Italy resident was arrested by federal authorities after he attempted to blow up a prominent downtown Dallas skyscraper last Thursday. Italy, a town of 2,000 located south of Waxahachie, was home to the Jordanian born Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, who worked at a Shell gas station on Interstate Highway 35 and lived in a Monolithic dome house in town. Smadi was arrested in a sting operation when the phony bombs the Federal Bureau of Investigations provided to him to detonate failed to go off. FBI agents, in widely reported news accounts, monitored Smadi for several months...

A federal grand jury in Dallas indicted a Jordanian teenager accused of trying to bomb a Dallas skyscraper. The U.S. Attorney's Office said Thursday that Hosam Maher Smadi was indicted on one count of attempting to use of a weapon of mass destruction and one count of bombing a public place. Authorities say Smadi parked a truck he thought contained a bomb in the garage beneath the 60-story Fountain Place office building in downtown Dallas. Later, authorities say, he dialed a cell phone he thought would

Channel 33 news is reporting that a suspected terrorist has been arrested along with an "inert" car bomb in downtown Dallas. The is a Muslim jihadi. Details as I find them.

(IsraelNN.com) Former Jordanian prime minister Abd Al-Raouf Al-Rawabdeh delivered a speech recently in which he called Israel “a cancer that must be eradicated.”

A 25-year-old Jordanian national from the Far North Side was arrested and charged this morning with mailing a threatening letter to a Jewish school in response to the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, according to the FBI. At a morning federal court appearance, Mohammed Alkaramla was ordered held pending a hearing Tuesday morning. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison, said Assistant U.S. Atty. Robert Milan. He described Alkaramla as a flight risk, noting his Jordanian citizenship. Neighbors on Alkaramla's block said that about eight FBI agents came to the house around 6:00 this morning to...

A new Palestinian militant group whose members have been trained to carry out rocket-launching and bombing operations was reportedly formed in the southern refugee camp of Ain el-Hilweh to carry out among others an attack on the Egyptian embassy. Al-Balad daily reported on Sunday that a Palestinian named Jamal Hamad formed the organization, which he named "Jihad movement for the victory of Gaza" with the assistance of Ghandi Sahmarani, a Lebanese wanted from the authorities on several terrorist charges. The newspaper said several militants from Jund al-Sham and Osbat al-Ansar have joined the new group. The militants have received training...

The strange case of an Iraqi agent caught operating on American soil. His arrest may be the first of many. KHALED DUMEISI, a newspaper publisher in northern Illinois, was surprised when federal agents showed up at a modest condominium in suburban Chicago to arrest the man known to his colleagues in Iraqi intelligence as "Sirhan." He shouldn't have been shocked. First, the FBI, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday in Illinois, had the goods on Sirhan. Among his offenses: supplying false press credentials for Iraqi intelligence agents; spying on Iraqi opposition leaders--at times, using a mini-camera implanted in the end...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A Greenfield man has been indicted on accusations he tried to sell the names of U.S. intelligence agents to Iraq before the 2003 fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. Authorities: Man Was In Iraq In '02 Shaaban Hafiz Ahmad Ali Shaaban, a 52-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen, was arrested Thursday after an investigation of more than a year by the FBI and other agencies, U.S. Attorney Susan W. Brooks said. Shaaban, also known as Shaaban Shaaban Hafed and Joe H. Brown, is suspected of going to Iraq in 2002 and making a deal to sell the names. He isn't accused...

Expanding Afghan War Awaits New President An expanded U.S. military involvement awaits a new U.S. president in Afghanistan where the unfinished business of September 11 has flared over the past three years into a major insurgency. A raft of assessments and reviews now underway in Washington point to a fundamental rethinking of the Afghan war. But whoever is elected Tuesday will face choices on the size of the military buildup, how to strengthen the central government, how far to go in dealing with insurgent sanctuaries across the border, how to help stabilize Pakistan, and whether and how to reconcile...

An FBI informant helped agents uncover a visa fraud and gun smuggling scheme run by two Annandale men, one of whom told the informant he could sell him a missile that “can reach the Pentagon,” according to a sworn statement unsealed Monday. The investigation started when the informant met with Amjad Hamed, a Jordanian native and legal U.S. resident since 1978, in Hamed’s Annandale home in April 2006, the affidavit said. Hamed reportedly asked the informant to obtain visas for six associates who wanted to immigrate to the U.S. from Jordan and the West Bank. Hamed reportedly told the informant...

RIVERSIDE, California: The Jordanian business partner of a prominent Florida businessman, who has raised more than $500,000 for Senator John McCain, appears to be at the center of a cluster of questionable donations to his Republican presidential campaign. Campaign finance records show that McCain collected a little more than $50,000 in March from members of a single extended family, the Abdullahs, in California and several of their friends. Amid a sea of contributions to the McCain campaign, the Abdullahs stand out. The checks come not from the usual well-off coastal addresses, but from lower-income inland California towns like Downey and...

(IsraelNN.com) Jordanian University lecturer Ibrahim Alloush recommended on Al-Jazeera television this week that suicide bombers be equipped with small nuclear bombs. According to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Dr. Alloush said, "Whoever managed to get a martyrdom-seeker into Dimona, should consider how to get martyrdom-seekers into Dimona and elsewhere armed with non-conventional explosives - and perhaps even small nuclear bombs," he stated. "We should think in this direction." Alloush lived for 13 years in the United States, earning graduate degrees at Ohio University and Oklahoma State University, where he earned a doctorate in economics....

Jordanian University Lecturer Ibrahim 'Alloush Suggests Sending Suicide-Bombers Armed with "Small Nuclear Bombs" to Israel Following is an excerpt from an interview with Jordanian university lecturer Dr. Ibrahim 'Alloush, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV on May 13, 2008. Dr. Ibrahim 'Alloush: Whoever managed to get a martyrdom-seeker into Dimona armed with conventional explosives should consider how to get martyrdom-seekers into Dimona and elsewhere armed with non-conventional explosives and perhaps even small nuclear bombs. We should think in this direction.

The following are excerpts from interviews with Al-Zarqawi sympathizers in Jordan following his assassination. The interviews aired on New TV on June 12, 2006; on Al-Arabiya TV on June 14, 2006; on Al-Jazeera TV on June 12, 2006; and on Al-Jazeera TV on June 8, 2006. TO VIEW THIS CLIP: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1169 "I Believe Your Son is a Martyr and a Mujahid"Banner: "The Wedding of the Heroic Martyr Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi" Reporter: "The condolence visit paid by members of parliament, from the Islamic Action Front and from the Muslim Brotherhood movement, to the Al-Zarqawi [family] was denounced officially, as well as...

MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Feb. 2, 2006 – The Jordanian military continues to help Iraq's fledgling military forces and provide Afghan and Iraqi citizens with medical care they have lacked for decades, Jordanian officials said here this week. Jordan is part of a 63-nation coalition that has its headquarters at U.S. Central Command, in Tampa, Fla. "We have two hospitals, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan," Royal Jordanian Air Force Col. Nart Alkhas said. "This is something we agreed to do with the American people. This is something we share." A 50-bed Jordanian military hospital located in Masar-e...

Friday, December 16, 2005 03:21 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS Top Jordanian downplays belligerence By Ryan Jones December 15th, 2005 Jordan's former ambassador to the United Nations, Hassan Abu Nimah, has criticized leaders of the Western world for their “hysterical” reaction to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's denial of the Nazi Holocaust and suggestions that Israel be replanted in Europe. Earlier this month, Ahmadinejad told Iranian TV while on a visit to Mecca that Muslims “don't accept this claim” that “some European countries” make “saying that Hitler killed millions of innocent Jews in furnaces.” He went on to say that “if the...

A 17-year-old St. Johns County student was arrested Friday afternoon in connection with a lewd act with three unwilling girls on a school bus, the Sheriff's Office said. St. Johns County Sheriff's Spokesman Kevin Kelshaw said Eyad Adieh was arrested on three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior and three counts of battery. ============================================ Where is this one from? He sure ain't a Redneck boy! I suppose it only happened because the girls were not wearing burqhas! http://www.staugustine.com/stories/121005/new_3506433.shtml

Insurgencies are not put down in a fortnight. But considering the successes in the recent counter-insurgency sweep in Iraq's Al Anbar Province, one fact becomes obvious to anyone with so much as a sliver of an understanding of ground combat operations: Eliminating the insurgency in Iraq is best left to those who best know how to do it.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. military is holding five U.S. citizens suspected of insurgent activities in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. They were captured separately and don't appear to have ties to one another, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. He declined to identify them, citing a Pentagon policy that prohibits identification of detainees. Three of those being detained are Iraqi-Americans; another is an Iranian-American; the fifth is a Jordanian-American, Whitman said. The three Iraqi-Americans were captured in April, May and June, officials said. The Iranian-American was captured May 17, one official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of...

The biggest mistake we can make in the War on Terror is to underestimate our enemies. As we watch terrorists in Iraq increasingly target civilians, so-called “soft targets,” it’s tempting to think they’re doing so merely out of frustration or sheer rage. While individual, low-level terrorists may even be dull-witted enough to think that blowing up innocent men, women and children advances their cause -- to enslave the world under fundamentalist Islam -- those who pull their strings are anything but stupid. As the terrorists in Iraq switched their main focus from American military personnel to civilians, the Iraqis began...

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday "accepted the resignation of the government of Faisal Fayez as of today," Petra news agency reported. According to press reports, the next Prime Minister will be Prof. Adnan Badran, the current President of Philadelphia University. Badran, 70, got his Ph.D. in 1963 from Michigan State University. During 1988 and 1989, Badran served as Jordan's Minister of Education and Minister of Agriculture.

CHICAGO -- A federal judge Tuesday sentenced a Jordanian woman to 15 months in prison for illegally entering the United States, despite her tearful explanation she believed her family in her native country wanted to kill her. In handing down the sentence for Wafa Mustafa, 35, U.S. District Judge David H. Coar said he was troubled by the defendant's long history of felony convictions in the years she spent in the United States. "Every country has the right to protect itself and its citizens," Coar said. "You have shown a flagrant disregard for the laws of our nation." Mustafa last...

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Wedneday affirmed that political, economic, administrative and social development is an integrated process and stressed the need to broaden public participation. "As political development is a gateway to the full participation of all segments of the grassroots and civil society institutions in the various aspects of the development process, I assert here that political development should start at the grassroots level, then move up to decision-making centers, and not vice-versa," King Abdullah said in a televised address to the nation. The King also stressed the necessity to reconsider the current administrative divisions of the Kingdom...

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Munich: Bavaria has deported a suspected Islamist supporter of terrorism. He is a Jordanian, who is accused of having collected money for a terrorist association and having contacts with organizations close to the Al-Qa'idah terrorist network. In addition, he is reportedly connected with planned attacks on Jewish facilities in Duesseldorf and Berlin. According to Interior Minister Guenther Beckstein (Christian Social Union), Bavaria is demonstrating "that it is serious about the deportation of persons posing an Islamist danger." On Friday [27 August] the minister announced that additional deportations will be carried out as soon as the new Immigration Law comes into...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Census Bureau has provided population data on Arab-Americans to the Department of Homeland Security, including their ancestry and the cities and postal areas in which they live, The New York Times reported on Friday. While the information sharing is legal, so long as the data do not identify individuals, civil liberties and Arab-American groups called it a breach of public trust and likened it to steps taken against Japanese-Americans in World War II, the newspaper said. One set of data listed cities with more than 1,000 Arab-Americans. The other, more detailed set, provided ZIP...

Authorities questioned four men Friday for possible involvement in an alleged plot to kill Gov. Jeb Bush and held two others on immigration charges, but by day's end they had all but wrapped up the case after their most promising lead collapsed. The lead: a van investigators thought might contain traces of explosives after bomb-sniffing dogs reacted to it. Late Friday night, residue tests proved negative. Investigators already were skeptical of information provided by a jailhouse informant that four South Florida men with Arab names had plotted to blow up the governor in Tallahassee Friday. Additional information about the inmate ...

A Jordanian court has sentenced eight Islamic militants to death for the murder of a United States diplomat in the capital Amman 18 months ago. Jordanian authorities say the men are linked to the Al Qaeda terror network. Laurence Foley, a diplomat with the US Agency for International Development, was shot dead outside his Amman home in October of 2002. The Jordanian court also sentenced two other men to 15 years in jail in connection with the killing. Jordanian authorities say at least one of the men sentenced to die - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - has connections with Al Qaeda....

A team of 20 soldiers works relentlessly behind the scenes to maintain a firm foundation of around-the- clock logistical support to the Jordanian Medical Field Hospital. The Jordanian hospital, located in the northern province of Balkh, provides medical care to countless Afghans, but it's the daily support of the U.S. soldiers that keeps this facility running. Twenty soldiers from several units and job specialties make up what's called a forward logistical element, or FLE to support the hospital. The FLE is responsible for a variety of support duties, – such as providing security for a nearby air field to ensuring...

With a $10 million bounty on his head, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is one of the most hotly sought Islamic extremist leaders with links to al-Qaida. The Jordanian is suspected of planning some of the worst terror bombings in Iraq and is believed to have written a captured document sent to al-Qaida commanders outlining a campaign to foment civil war between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite Muslims. He was linked to deadly bombings last year in Turkey and Morocco and accused of orchestrating the 2002 assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Jordan. And Britain tied him to a foiled ricin poisoning plot....

WASHINGTON: A Jordanian hijacker has been sentenced to 160 years in prison for an attempt to divert a Pan Am plane flight from Mumbai to New York in Karachi, the US Justice Department announced. Nineteen people were killed during the botched attempt led by Zaid Hassan Abd Latif Safarini, who has admitted his responsibility for the raid. The incident unfolded on September 5, 1986 , when Safarini and three accomplices took control of the plane at a stop in Karachi . The pilot and flight engineer managed to escape through a cockpit window, thus making takeoff impossible. The hijackers demanded...

DUSSELDORF, Germany (AP) -- A Jordanian was convicted of helping plan terror attacks in Germany and sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday, but he received less than half of the maximum term after giving what prosecutors said was valuable testimony about al-Qaida during his trial. A Duesseldorf state court found Shadi Abdellah, 27, guilty of membership in a terrorist organization and falsifying passports. He had faced a possible maximum term of 10 years. Abdellah, who testified he once briefly served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, was one of nine alleged members of the Al Tawhid group arrested in Germany...

The United States has offered up to $US5 million for clues leading to the arrest of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a one-legged Jordanian linked to Al Qaeda and said to be recruiting fighters in Iraq. The US State Department originally published a reward of $US25 million, matching those offered for bin Laden and ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, neither of which the US military has managed to capture. Later, the "Rewards for Justice" program's website (www.rewardsforjustice.net), which is run in coordination with the State Department, corrected the amount to $US5 million. "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has had a long-standing connection to senior...

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden told his followers in early 2000 to "pray for your brothers" because an attack was in the offing, a witness told a German court on Wednesday. Shadi Abdellah, who claims to have been briefly a bodyguard for Bin Laden, said he heard the Al-Qaeda mastermind speak while he was undergoing military training at a camp in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, in spring 2000. "Pray for your brothers, there will be an attack," he quoted Bin Laden as saying. Abdellah said it was not explained when, where or how the attack would take place. Al-Qaeda is blamed...

HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) - A Jordanian who says he served as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard told a German court on Wednesday he had seen a Moroccan charged with helping the September 11 hijackers at an al Qaeda hostel in Afghanistan. Shadi Abdalla, who has since turned informant, said he spotted the accused, Abdelghani Mzoudi, both alone and with key figures in the 2001 suicide plane attacks on U.S. cities at lodgings frequented by al Qaeda trainees in mid-2000. Mzoudi, a 30-year-old electrical engineering student from Morocco, is charged with 3,066 counts of aiding and abetting murder, and membership of a...

Jordan's new parliament has rejected two proposals giving women more rights because, some deputies say, they contradict Islamic teachings. While parliament was dormant in 2001, the government amended the two bills to allow women to file for divorce and to give courts the leeway to impose harsh punishment on what has become known as honor killings—men who kill women relatives who are perceived to have shamed family honor. Sunday, in just its third session since the June 17 parliamentary elections, the 110-seat Chamber of Deputies rejected the amendments to the Civil Status Law and the Penal Code by acclamation. The...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - A Jordanian who said he served as a bodyguard to Osama bin Laden has told a German court how he and others returned from military camps in Afghanistan fuelled by hatred for Israel and the West. Shadi Mohammed Mustafa Abdalla said on Thursday he later rejected violence, bringing him to admit to belonging to al Tawhid, a Palestinian group the United States says has links to al Qaeda, and planning grenade attacks on Jewish targets in Germany. "You lived in the desert," Abdalla told the court in Arabic, speaking of his 18-month stay in Afghanistan. "They...

<p>July 8 (Bloomberg) -- Members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network are living in a number of German cities, a Jordanian terror suspect told a court hearing, DPA reported.</p> <p>The terrorists are living in Duisburg, Cologne, Krefeld and Haan, all cities in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, DPA cited Shadi Moh'd Mustafa Abdellah as telling a court in Dusseldorf today.</p>

DÜSSELDORF - A radical Palestinian group plotted to attack the Jewish Museum in Berlin and a Jewish-owned disco in Düsseldorf last year, a Jordanian terror suspect testified at his trial Friday. The suspect, Shadi Abdellah, 26, told a state court in Düsseldorf that the buildings were studied before his arrest in April 2002, but that no decision had been made on when to carry out attacks. "We hadn't yet decided whether we would do it with a car bomb or some other way," he added. Abdellah was among nine people detained by the German authorities on suspicion of plotting attacks...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) -- A Jordanian accused of helping plot terror attacks by a radical Palestinian network went on trial in Germany on Tuesday accused of membership in a group that supports al-Qaida. Shadi Abdellah, 26, who has said he served briefly as Osama bin Laden's bodyguard at a camp in Afghanistan, was among nine alleged extremists detained across Germany in April 2002 on suspicion of plotting imminent attacks. He is charged with belonging to a terrorist organization, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and forging passports. Prosecutors allege the German cell was acting under...

BERLIN (AP) -- German federal prosecutors announced terror charges Friday against a Jordanian man accused of belonging to a radical Palestinian network that was allegedly preparing attacks in Germany. The suspect, identified as Shadi Moh'd Mustafa A., 26, was among nine alleged Islamic extremists detained after investigators searched 21 apartments throughout Germany in April 2002. They are accused of being members of a cell of the radical Palestinian network al-Tawhid and were believed to be plotting attacks on at least two German cities. Four, including the alleged cell leader, are in custody while the investigation continues. Another four have been...

Fears grow that extremists are ready to cross another threshold of terror Evidence gathered in Iraq and Afghanistan lends credence to claims that radical Islamic groups are dabbling in lethal toxins BEIRUT: A few days ago, Japanese prosecutors demanded the death sentence for the guru of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) doomsday cult, Shoko Asahara, for masterminding the sarin gas attack on Tokyo’s subway system on March 20, 1995. Twelve people were killed and 2,500 sickened. A year earlier, sect activists had released sarin in a residential neighborhood in the Nagano Mountains, killing seven people. Those atrocities crossed a moral...

Text of report by Israeli Channel 2 TV on 8 March [Announcer] We report this evening that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has held secret meetings with Jordan's King Abdallah. Our political correspondent Udi Segal discloses the holding of these meetings. What was the purpose of the meetings, Udi? [Segal] The prime minister, we have learned, met several times with Jordan's King Abdallah in the past year. The last secret meeting between the two was held about three months ago on Jordanian soil. This is a clear expression of the close relationship between the two, which is based on the premise...

He admitted considering suicide-bomb attack 02/08/2003 By TODD BENSMAN / The Dallas Morning News In a rare glimpse at the government's domestic war on terror, a Jordanian student from Arlington admitted in court Friday that he had considered becoming a suicide bomber if the United States invaded Iraq. Tahir Ibrihim Aletwei, a 30-year-old software engineering graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington, spoke freely about his inclinations toward terrorism and divulged details of his interviews with federal agents during his deportation hearing. "I was looking at America as my enemy," he said. "If someone would have approached me...