Trucker shot by trooper being investigated for terrorist ties

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Authorities say the unusual behavior of a New York truck driver who was pulled over for speeding and then shot during a confrontation with a state trooper has prompted them to investigate possible terrorist ties.

Mohammed Medhat Karim, 46, was pulled over Monday by Tennessee Highway Patrol Trooper Thomas C. Kilpatrick for speeding on U.S. Highway 64 in Wayne County, about 80 miles southwest of Nashville.

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Safety in the Skies Series

This is Part VI of the ongoing series entitled “Terror in the Skies, Again?”

By Annie Jacobsen

Over the weekend, it was widely reported that the two airliners which went down almost simultaneously last week in Russia, killing 89 people on board, were the deadly result of terrorists’ bombs.

What hasn’t been widely reported is that Russian investigators now believe the two commercial aircraft were exploded from their toilets.

According to the Russian newspaper Gazeta, “At first, the experts on explosives were puzzled as they saw no traces of explosions in the passenger salons or noses of the planes. However, when the tail part of the TU-154 was examined, in the area where the toilet is, a piece of the edging with the illuminator had been torn away.”

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Pakistani accused of terrorist ties deported from US

A man accused of attending a terrorist training camp was deported on Thursday to Pakistan.

Sajjad Nasser, 29, was deported under a section of the Patriot Act that expands the legal definitions of terrorist organizations and acts, said Corina Almeida, chief counsel for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Four Pakistani students detained in NY

The heightened security for the Republican convention resulted in four Pakistani students from St. John’s University being detained in Times Square last night.

The four, who were in a burgundy van, were taken into custody shortly after 5 p.m. outside the Marriott Marquis hotel on Broadway and West 45th Street after cops thought they were acting suspiciously.

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Two men charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square

Two men charged with plotting to blow up the Herald Square subway station were also planning a “holy war” rampage against seven other crucial targets around the city %u2014 including at least two other stations, three police precincts and the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, officials said yesterday.

“They had the intention to cause damage, to kill people,” said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. But “they did not immediately have the means to do it.”

Shahawar Matin Siraj, 21, a “loose cannon” from Pakistan, and James El Shafay, 19, a Pakistan-born U.S. citizen from Staten Island, were charged with conspiracy.

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Is a Terrorist Army Massing in the US?

Is there is an invisible army of terrorists gathering in America today? The mainstream media and the Bush administration do not want to talk about it.

In July, Defense Watch reported that, in Arizona, an area called the Naco Strip has become a primary route of illegal entry by “significant numbers of Arab-speaking males.� It took a small town weekly newspaper, the Tombstone Tumbleweed, to reveal that, “males of possible Syrian and Iranian descent have been detained in the past few weeks.� Since October 1, 2003, 5,510 illegal aliens designated “Other Than Mexican� (OTM) have been apprehended while crossing the Arizona terrain. These OTM’s are not here to pick vegetables, mow lawns, pluck chickens, or wash cars.

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Two men arrested in alleged plot to bomb subway station

Two Brooklyn men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday.

At least one of the men may have an affiliation with a terrorist organization, according to two law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The sources said the group in question was not believed to be al-Qaida.

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Toy In Candy Bag Appears To Depict 9/11 Attack

A bag of candy shocked a local grandmother and will most likely shock you. The toy inside looks like a plane flying right into the Twin Towers. Now, that toy is off some local store shelves because of our story.

It doesn’t stop there, though. That grandmother was surprised, again, when she read the numbers imprinted on the toy.

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Montreal man downed U.S. Plane, CSIS told

A captured al-Qaeda operative has told Canadian intelligence investigators that a Montreal man who trained in Afghanistan alongside the 9/11 hijackers was responsible for the crash of an American Airlines flight in New York three years ago.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents were told during five days of interviews with the source that Abderraouf Jdey, a Canadian citizen also known as Farouk the Tunisian, had downed the plane with explosives on Nov. 12, 2001.

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Al Qaeda may target veterans hospitals

al Qaeda and other Islamic militant groups may be considering attacks against Veterans Affairs hospitals in the United States, U.S. law enforcement officials said.

Citing reports of “suspicious activity” at VA hospitals in Colorado and Bethesda, Maryland, the FBI and Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin on Thursday urging law enforcement agencies around the country to be vigilant.

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Italian journalist slain in Iraq

An Italian journalist held hostage in Iraq has been killed, the Italian government confirmed on Thursday.

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi quickly condemned the execution of Enzo Baldoni while his government vowed to stay active in the war against terrorism.

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Militants Eyeing Seaborne Attack U.S General Says

It is “only a matter of time” before militants try to launch a seaborne attack on the United States, but threats of terrorism are greater abroad because they are avoiding hardened U.S. targets, a senior U.S. military official said on Wednesday.

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Looking for High Noon in a Hundred Years’ War

Where are we in the war on terrorism? How are we doing? What’s the score? How long will it last? Americans are asking these questions again and again as we approach the third anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Missing container raises questions about security

It took three days for Canada’s national police force to be told that a suspicious shipping container was missing from a Halifax pier last spring.

The theft of the boxcar-size crate in mid-April and the delay in reporting it initially sent shivers through senior ranks of the RCMP, Canada’s lead federal agency in the war on terrorism.

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