Off-Duty Officers to Patrol 24-7 against Terrorists

The Federal Government calls on El Paso Police to help keep the country safe during the election and through early 2005. Beginning Wednesday, off-duty El Paso Police Officers will patrol potential terrorist sites around the clock.

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SKorean military units on highest alert over possible border breach

South Korea’s frontline military units were put on their highest state of alert over fears that North Korean agents may have infiltrated the South through the tense border, officials said.

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What Happened on United Airlines Flight 925?

Meanwhile, the Captain radioed in to Heathrow airport, asking that the men’s names be re-checked against the terrorist “no-fly” list. Word came back from the Captain to the crew that two of the nine men were on the “no-fly” list.

“We were horrified,” one flight attendant told me. “I heard the Captain wanted to divert — I don’t know why we didn’t. We made sure the passengers didn’t notice but we were all horrified.”

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Adult Israelis seen as `targets’ by foe

The president of the Canadian Islamic Congress is under fire for saying all Israelis above the age of 18 are legitimate targets of attack.

Mohamed Elmasry made the comments Tuesday on the Michael Coren Live TV show and was criticized yesterday by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

When asked whether “anyone over the age of 18 in Israel is a valid target,” Elmasry replied: “Anybody above 18 is part of the (Israeli) army.”

The show’s moderator followed with another question: “Anyone in Israel, irrespective of gender, over the age of 18 is a valid target?”

“Yes, I would say,” Elmasry responded.

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Shipping dangers more troublesome than airborne security, military commanders say

U.S. military commanders say one worrisome potential threat from terrorists would be tougher to stop than South American cocaine shipments, which have given military leaders and police headaches for decades.

Protecting American shores from terrorist-run ships quickly is becoming a top priority for leaders at U.S. Northern Command in Colorado Springs, Colo.

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FBI hunting 4 Middle Eastern men in Florida who tried to buy emergency vehicles

Four men described as Middle Eastern tried to buy a surplus ambulance, two former police cruisers and an old truck from St. Petersburg College this summer, prompting college employees to alert authorities, SPC administrators said Thursday.

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Arrests Made in Possible Election Day Plot

FBI investigators have made new arrests and developed leads that reinforce concerns that terrorists plan to strike around the presidential election, officials said Saturday, even though the CIA has discredited a person who told its agents of such a plot involving Al Qaeda (search).

A senior FBI official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said some of the leads were culled from interviews with thousands of individuals that agents have conducted in the Muslim community.

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Tycoon foils ‘nuclear bomb sale’ plot

The London-based Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky has claimed that the intelligence services helped to foil a plot by Chechen terrorists to sell a nuclear device on the international black market.

Berezovsky last week described the curious events that led to him tipping off the authorities about the plot.

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Bin Laden is located, says 9/11 panelist

The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can’t get to him, John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 Commission, said Thursday.

Lehman’s remarks echoed those made Tuesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said the al-Qaida leader was alive and operating in the western part of Pakistan.

Bin Laden is living in South Waziristan in the Baluchistan Mountains of the Baluchistan region, Lehman told the San Bernardino Sun after delivering a keynote speech on terrorism at Pitzer College in Claremont.

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Official says bin Laden in Pakistan

The Pentagon knows exactly where Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, it just can’t get to him, a member of the 9/11 Commission said Thursday.

Commissioner John Lehman’s remarks echoed those made Tuesday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who asserted the al-Qaida terror kingpin was alive and operating in the western part of that country.

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Spain says terrorist plotted biggest blow

The suspected leader of a militant Muslim cell plotted to deal Spain the biggest blow of its history a suicide truck bomb laden with half a ton of explosives aimed at killing the countrys top judges investigating Islamic terror and destroying their case files, officials said Wednesday.

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After the Madrid train bombings, Spain took several steps to appease the terrorists , in an effort to ward off any future attacks. It is clearer than ever before that giving into such demands in no way minimizes the risk of attack.

FBI Probing Punctures in US Airway Jets

Puncture holes were found in the bellies of two US Airways jets at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, which the FBI said was not likely caused by normal wear and tear.

Officials said the punctures discovered Monday morning during routine visual inspections are similar to damage recently found on another US Airways jet in Florida.

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Secretary-General of the Egyptian Labor Party: ‘Those Who Bomb Fallujah Cannot Prevent Me from Bombing Los Angeles’

Magdi Ahmad Hussein, the Secretary-General of the Egyptian Labor (Islamist) Party, recently appeared on Al-Jazeera TV, declaring that attacks against U.S. troops and civilians in Iraq are legitimate, and that hostage taking is permitted by Islam. He also called for clerics and fighters to go to fight in Iraq, defended the bombings in Taba, and argued that the American attack on Fallujah legitimizes a future terror attack in Los Angeles.

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Al-Zarqawi’s Group in Iraq Changes Name

Tawhid and Jihad, the Iraqi militant group of terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, apparently has changed its name two days after announcing its merger with Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization.

An Internet statement released Tuesday under the purported new name, al-Qaida of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, claimed responsibility for an attack on a U.S. military convoy west of the Iraqi city of Fallujah the same day. The two rivers in the new name refers to the Euphrates and Tigris rivers in Iraq.

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