Multiple blasts paralyse London
BLAST AT CITY TUBE STATION (London) -- Beeb report here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659093.stm
They knew where to hit us:
Posted on 07/07/2005 10:21:18 AM PDT by backhoe
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Possible Connection To Terrorism Locally [Los angeles]
'University of Jihad' teaches students hate and bigotry
Finally, a working generator- one that my wife can operate without strain ( electric start ).
In the raw- chromate primer, and vee-clamp holding the engine instruments- but it runs and puts out 120/240 volts AC.
Wowser...now that is some contraption!
It scared the dog real good when I dragged it out into the yard and cranked it up this morning for the first time.
My wife simply refuses to evacuate for hurricanes ( won't leave her Mom- who is very old & sick, and who also refuses to evacuate- or her animals, no inland shelter will accept them ) and can't live without air conditioning. The small Coleman plant we have on the porch isn't big enough to run AC's and it's a manual start, which she utterly hates anyway.
This thing starts like an old-time car-- turn it on and mash a starter button- so hopefully she can use it even if I'm hors d'combat for any reason.
Got to ramp it up to the back porch, make some cables for two AC's and the refrigerator, and then we're set as long as the house stays together.
That is pure genious.
Thanks for posting the photo, too.
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Police snipers track al-Qaeda suspects
The Sunday Times ^ | July 17, 2005 | David Leppard
Posted on 07/16/2005 4:14:12 PM PDT by MadIvan
UNDERCOVER police sniper squads are tracking as many as a dozen Al-Qaeda suspects because security services fear they could be planning more suicide attacks, writes David Leppard.
The covert armed units are under orders to shoot to kill if surveillance suggests that a terror suspect is carrying a bomb and he refuses to surrender if challenged.
The deployment of the teams in the past week signals the huge “intelligence gap” that has opened up since the London bombings.
Police fear the suspects could be planning a further wave of attacks but do not have enough evidence to arrest them, or place them under the government’s new anti-terror control orders.
Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, warned last week that there was a “very strong possibility” of more terrorist bombings.
Scotland Yard and MI5 say there may be more “bomb factories”. However, officers admit that they have no idea which suspects could be planning the next attacks so they are deploying the sniper squads as an emergency measure.
A member of S019, Scotland Yard’s elite firearms unit, said: “These units are trained to deal with any eventuality. Since the London bombs they have been deployed to look at certain people.”
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=355990&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=&
"Was Parliament on bombers' hit list too?"
by GORDON RAYNER, Daily Mail08:31am 16th July 2005
??ARTICLE SNIPPET: "?Possible target: Parliament
Suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan was given a guided tour of the House of Commons last year - raising the disturbing prospect that Parliament was on the hit list of targets.
Khan, 30, was a guest of Labour MP Jon Trickett, whose wife Sarah is head of a school where the bomber taught.
During the visit in July he also met International Development Minister Hilary Benn, whose constituency includes the school, and was shown areas of Parliament which are off-limits to unaccompanied members of the public.
They included Portcullis House, the new extension where many MPs have their offices and where security has been exposed as worryingly lax in recent years.
'Disturbing'
News of Khan's visit raised alarm bells in Parliament, which was already on a state of high alert after the bombings.
Detectives believe at least one other member of the terror cell which carried out the suicide attacks is still at large."
Yea, wish he was around today ..we need him.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/LondonBlasts/story?id=943648&page=1
"?London Bombers Have Ties to United States
Phone Records Show Link to Suspected Terror Recruiter"
By BRIAN ROSS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "July 15, 2005 — One of the bombers in last week's attacks made a direct phone call to a suspected recruiter for an extremist group in New York.
Authorities told ABC News that records show Mohammed Sidique Khan, the eldest of the bombers now believed to be the field commander of the attacks, had called a person who is associated with the Islamic Center, a mosque in Queens, N.Y. Yet, a member of that mosque claimed they had no knowledge of the phone call.
In addition to Khan, two other men linked to the London bombings also had direct ties with the United States.
"Whilst we are watching the ports and the airports trying to prevent people from coming in," said M.J. Gohel, a terrorism analyst at the Asia-Pacific Foundation, "al Qaeda and its global jihadi friends are a step ahead. They have already penetrated into the West and are recruiting Western born Muslims to join terrorism."
Lindsay Germaine, one of the four dead bombers and a Jamaican who left behind a pregnant wife, had recently traveled to see relatives in Ohio.
Furthermore, Magdy El Nashar, 33, who was captured last night at his family's home outside of Cairo and then questioned by British agents, studied at North Carolina State University. Police believe he helped the bombers build their explosive devices. Now they want to know if there are more bombs and would-be bombers."
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