Iran orders military to ’stand ready’: Fears of attack on nuclear sites

The Iranian military has been ordered to stand ready to defend the country’s nuclear sites in case of attack, army chief General Mohammad Salimi said on Wednesday.

“The air force has been ordered to protect the nuclear sites, using all its power,” Mr Salimi said, quoted by the government daily Iran. “The air force has temporarily suspended all its manoeuvres and focused its means on patrolling the sky,” he added.

“All our forces including land forces, anti-aircraft, radar tactics … are protecting the nuclear sites and an attack on them will not be simple,” the general said.

Iran orders military to ’stand ready’: Fears of attack on nuclear sites -DAWN – Top Stories; 23 December, 2004

Web video teaches terrorists to make bomb vest

Posted in a militant Islamic chat room three days ago, a stunningly detailed 26-minute video on how to make a sophisticated suicide bomb vest, along with a demonstration of its kill range, using a mannequin.

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Mosul Attack Was a Suicide Bombing

A day after the devastating attack, another message posted on a Web site, allegedly by Ansar al-Sunnah, provided details of the daring attack. According to the online message, the suicide bomber was a 24-year-old man from Mosul who worked at the base for two months and had provided information about the base to the group.

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Threat to nuke plant revealed

Officials at both the state Bureau of Emergency Management and Seabrook Station say they are aware of intelligence information about an alleged Iranian plot to crash commercial airliners into the N.H. nuclear power plant. However, spokesmen for both organizations discounted those reports.

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Al Qaeda 2.0: Where will it strike next?

Michael Scheuer is a former chief of the CIA’s counter-terrorism centre’s bin Laden unit.

Scheuer, who resigned from the CIA in November after 22 years of service, believes there is a need to build pressure on Al Qaeda inside Afghanistan, and not in Pakistan because Islamabad is already doing a lot in the war against terrorism.

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Osamas Plan B

WHATEVER you do, don’t dismiss Osama bin La den’s newest audio mes sage. Sure, it’s just the latest of 17 cameos by the terrorist thug since 9/11. But it may be his scariest yet.

Why? Because Osama’s latest appearance shows he’s changing tactics, and he’s onto something that just might work this time.

Everyone most of all Osama knows that his al Qaeda movement is losing steam. Today, major al Qaeda terrorism is confined to Iraq, where Abu Musab al Zarqawi, not bin Laden, holds center stage.

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Bin Laden’s dirty bomb quest exposed

NEW evidence of Osama Bin Ladens attempts to acquire radioactive material for a dirty bomb has been revealed by an aide to the Al-Qaeda leader.

In a book to be published shortly, the insider shows that Bin Laden bowed to pressure from hawks within the terror groups leadership to buy the material through supporters in Chechnya. He had initially been cautious about such a dramatic increase in its armoury.

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Local Congressman Says Terrorists Plan To Attack Power Plant

A Pennsylvania congressman who is writing a book about an Iranian plot to conduct an attack on the United States says a terrorist group in that country is planning to attack New Hampshire’s Seabrook nuclear plant.

But state and federal officials are playing down the comments from Delaware County Republican Curt Weldon, reported this week in The New York Sun. They say they know of no specific threat against Seabrook.

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Mullah Omar and Bin Laden on the run as Afghan and American forces close on them

More than 18,000 US troops and innumerable Afghan forces are in the process of searching every inch of Afhganistan and Afghan-Pak border. Many in that region are reporting that Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are on the run towards the Chinese Afghan border area.

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Bush Plans For GPS Shutdown In Event of Terror Attack

President Bush has ordered plans for temporarily disabling the U.S. network of global positioning satellites during a national crisis to prevent terrorists from using the navigational technology, the White House said Wednesday.

Any shutdown of the network inside the United States would come under only the most remarkable circumstances, said a Bush administration official who spoke to a small group of reporters at the White House on condition of anonymity.

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Possible New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces

A man identified as Usama bin Laden bitterly criticized the Saudi regime in an audiotape posted on an Islamic Web site on Thursday.

The voice sounded like the Al Qaeda terror chief’s, and the lengthy tape was posted on a site known as a clearinghouse for militant Islamic comment. The identity of the speaker, however, could not be independently confirmed.

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WND shuts down Hamas websites

Official Hamas websites being hosted in the United States were shut down yesterday following inquiries by WorldNetDaily for an article about the terror group’s online activities in Western countries.

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Australia gets Xmas terror warning

Australians have been given a specific warning to stay away from international hotels in Indonesia over the Christmas period for fear of a terrorist attack.

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Michelle Malkin: The air marshals’ mess

Can you imagine if an al Qaeda bureaucrat had ordered the 19 Sept. 11 terrorists to wear “I heart Osama” T-shirts when they embarked on their murderous flights?

No idiot would send his men on a covert mission wearing clothes that would so blatantly give them away, right?

Wrong. Meet Federal Air Marshal Service Director Thomas Quinn. The man in charge of our in-flight cops, who are supposed to be spying secretly on would-be terrorist hijackers, refuses to allow his employees to dress undercover.

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