Driver Tells Troopers of Terror Plans

A driver stopped on an Iowa highway this month was found with flight-training manuals, Arabic documents and night-vision goggles, and he told troopers he knew of terrorist plans to shoot up trains in San Diego, according to court papers. Michael Wagner, 44, of San Diego, said he had knowledge of terrorist activities and people and groups tied to al-Qaida and the Taliban. Wagner also said that he knew about things in the Muslim communities in San Diego that would interest federal authorities.

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From Michelle Malkin: Just as Customs agent Diana Dean pulled over Ahmed Ressam for acting nervously and conducted a vehicle search that saved untold lives by averting the Los Angeles millenium bomb plot, Iowa State Trooper Kenneth Haas decided to search Wagner’s vehicle during a routine traffic stop because Wagner repeatedly gave a false name, couldn’t produce an identification card, and showed signs of nervousness.

Wagner reportedly told a federal agent about “a man in San Diego who he said wanted him to shoot at trolleys there…Wagner also told the agent “he knew of activities and people involved in al-Qaida and Taliban.” Better keep an eye on this story.

Syrians flew with expired visas

Almost all of the Syrian musicians who were questioned by law-enforcement officials after exhibiting suspicious behavior aboard a Northwest Airlines flight were traveling on expired visas. The 14 men in the band were questioned by several agencies that make up the Joint Terrorism Task Force after the pilot aboard Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29 radioed for law-enforcement assistance.

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Islamic terror group warns Italy to withdraw its troops from Iraq

Al-Qaida-linked Islamic militants on Monday threatened to “shake the earth” everywhere in Italy if Rome does not withdraw troops from Iraq.

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Turkey Warned Of Al-qaeda Airplane Attacks: Report

Turkey has received intelligence the al-Qaeda network may try to carry out attacks in the country similar to the plane hijackings in September 11, 2001 in the United States, the Milliyet daily said Tuesday.

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Feds Probing Former Mass. Cabbie’s Alleged Terror Links

The Federal Bureau of Investigation in Boston is investigating whether a former cab driver linked to terrorists was part of an al-Qaida sleeper cell. The Lebanese man, who says he attended an al-Qaida training camp, was charged Friday with lying to federal authorities about shipments of communications equipment seized by the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

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Powerful Bomb Explodes In Volusia County Park

A powerful bomb exploded in a Holly Hill park. Now investigators are on the scene to try to figure out what the bomb was made of and who set it off. They’re saying it’s a good thing no one was around when it went off, because this was a big bomb. Investigators are still looking for pieces of the bomb, which are scattered all over the place. The bomb was in a trashcan there. Investigators say, this was no ordinary pipe bomb.

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Virus purporting Bin Laden suicide hits Web

A virus purporting to show images of Osama Bin Laden’s suicide popped up on the Internet Friday, designed to entice recipients to open a file that unleashes malicious software code, security experts said. The virus was attached to a message that was posted on over 30,000 usenet newsgroups and is not being spread via e-mail, said Web security vendor Sophos.

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Kuwait police find attack plans

KUWAIT police had found documents detailing an apparent plot to attack the head of Iraq’s caretaker government during a planned visit here next week, a security source said today.

A plan to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was uncovered in documents seized … and related to suspects, the source told AFP, requesting anonymity.

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CIA official says agents have infiltrated Al Qaeda

The CIA has intelligence agents inside Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network — as it did before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks — but they are not within the terrorist leader’s inner circle where key information about any future attack would be discussed, a senior intelligence official said yesterday.

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Islamist takeovers a real threat

The threat of Islamist extremists taking over Pakistan or Saudi Arabia is real and could “fundamentally change the balance of security in the world,” September 11 commission member John F. Lehman said yesterday

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Al-Qaida Statement Threatens Australia

An online statement by a group representing itself as al-Qaida’s European branch threatened on Saturday to turn Australia into pools of blood if it doesn’t withdraw its troops from Iraq.

It was the second statement in a week by the Tawhid Islamic Group, a previously unknown group which on Wednesday threatened attacks in Bulgaria and Poland if their troops remained in Iraq.

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Iraq Insurgents Issue Brash New Challenge

Iraqi insurgents issued a brash new challenge to the country’s interim government, capturing an Egyptian diplomat as he walked out of a mosque and making new demands for the release of seven hostages that will almost certainly go unmet.

On Saturday, kidnappers struck again, taking the head of an Iraqi government-owned construction company in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. Police Col. Adnan Abdel-Rahman said unidentified armed men riding in two cars snatched Ra’ad Adnan, the general director of Al-Mansour Contracting Co., as he drove through the southeastern Baghdad area of Zaieuna.

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Berger Probe Focuses on Terror Plot Docs

The Justice Department investigation into whether Sandy Berger copied and stole terrorism documents from the National Archives is focused on one highly classified report about the Clinton administration’s response to a plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport, FOX News has learned.

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Claim: 2 Groups Of Middle Eastern Men Captured By Border Patrol In Arizona In The Past 6 Weeks

Information officer Andy Adame, from the Border Patrol Tucson sector says, I guarantee its not true.

However, seasoned Border Patrol field agents have shared some disturbing information with the Tumbleweed as well as other civilian sources with the hope the information will make it to the general public.
The Tumbleweed has verified information that a flood of middle-eastern males have been caught entering the country illegally east of Douglas, Arizona. The increased patrols in the Huachuca Mountains area of Cochise County, seems to have diverted the flow of OTMs, other than Mexicans east to the Chiricahua Mountains.
Adame, who says many of the agents in the area are green, questions why they would have shared the information with the Tumbleweed or any other source. Our policy is to turn any OTMs over to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, Adame said in a phone call made to the Tumbleweed Wednesday morning.

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