The OU Bomber Papers: No Closure

On Nov. 18, U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie K. Couch released previously sealed records related to the FBI/Joint Terrorism Task Force search of Oklahoma University bomber Joel Hinrichs’ apartment, his e-mail account and nine OU computers.

Michelle Malkin obtained the nearly 350 pages of unsealed court documents and has spent several hours scanning and uploading as many of the records as she could.

You can view the first 94 pages of the docs here. (Just a warning: It’s a large PDF file that may take a few minutes to download. Best to right-click and save. She will try and scan and upload the rest when there is more free time–a lot of the attachments are redundant–but this is a good representative sample.)

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Miami Police Take New Tack Against Terror

Police are planning “in-your-face” shows of force in public places, saying the random, high-profile security operations will keep terrorists guessing about where officers might be next.

As an example, uniformed and plainclothes officers might surround a bank building unannounced, contact the manager about ways to be vigilant against terrorists and hand out leaflets in three languages to customers and people passing by, said police spokesman Angel Calzadilla. He said there would be no random checks of identification.

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Dirty Bomb Suspect Padilla Indicted

Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a Navy brig as an enemy combatant for more than three years, was charged Tuesday with being part of a North American terror cell that sent money and recruits overseas to “murder, maim and kidnap.”

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Student Convicted in Plot to Assassinate President Bush

An Arab-American college student was convicted Tuesday of joining Al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush.

The federal jury rejected Ahmed Omar Abu Ali’s claim that Saudi authorities whipped and tortured him to extract a false confession.

Abu Ali, a 24-year-old U.S. citizen born to a Jordanian father and raised in Falls Church, Va., could get life in prison on charges that included conspiracy to assassinate the president, conspiracy to hijack aircraft and providing support to Al Qaeda.

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Radioactive Material On Its Way To Kilgore Is Missing

It made stops in Abilene, Austin, Dallas and Tyler and somewhere along the way radioactive material came up missing before it got to East Texas. A New Mexico agency is hoping that someone in Texas can help them solve a mystery of some missing radio active material, that did not reach its destination in Kilgore.

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How terror scuds pose threat to U.S.

Most of the U.S. civilian population, military bases and nuclear-weapons assembly plants are within range of missile attacks by terrorists or rogue nations using merchant ships as launching platforms, warn counter-terror experts.

Both the U.S. military and foreign military forces %u2013 including Iran’s %u2013 have tested missile launches from non-military vessels.

At the top of the risk list is the Russian-made Scud family of missiles, all too often found on the weapons’ black market, and, according to counter-terror analysts, undoubtedly on the minds of terror organizations such as al-Qaida, which is known to have shown interest in the Scud maritime option.

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Leader of area mosque arrested by U.S. agents

The leader of a Rainier Valley mosque was arrested Monday on an immigration charge, surprising those who knew his work in Seattle’s Somali community.

Federal agents with the Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Abu Abrahim Sheik Mohamed at Sea-Tac Airport as he got off a domestic flight, federal criminal justice sources said.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lorie Haley said only that Mohamed, 37, was “in custody on immigration violations” and is being held at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

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Four arrests linked to Chinese spy ring�

Four persons arrested in Los Angeles are part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering ring, federal investigators said, and the suspects caused serious compromises for 15 years to major U.S. weapons systems, including submarines and warships.

U.S. intelligence and security officials said the case remains under investigation but that it could prove to be among the most damaging spy cases since the 1985 one of John A. Walker Jr., who passed Navy communication codes to Moscow for 22 years.

The Los Angeles spy ring has operated since 1990 and has funneled technology and military secrets to China in the form of documents and computer disks, officials close to the case said.

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Sydney nuclear reactor terror plot target-police

Eight Sydney men arrested on terrorism charges may have been planning a bomb attack against the city’s nuclear reactor, police said on Monday.

Their Islamic spiritual leader, also charged with terrorism offences, told the men if they wanted to die for jihad they should inflict “maximum damage,” according to a 21-page police court document.

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U.S. Preparing for Smallpox, Bio Attack

The U.S. is preparing for a potential bioterrorism attack using the deadly smallpox virus %u2013 federal grants are funding efforts to produce a new, safer vaccine.

The terrorist and anthrax attacks of late 2001 raised concerns about the smallpox virus. Anthrax does not spread from person to person, while smallpox does, and a bioterrorism attack with smallpox could kill millions.

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Three Muslim teenagers with ‘marked’ city map detained

Security officials have detained three male Muslim teenagers for questioning following their arrest at a Bangkok amusement park with a map of the capital with 43 large public gathering spots and the Defence Ministry marked out.

However, the three Muslims, whose names were withheld, denied any involvement in subversive activities, military security sources said.

The teenagers, who were students at a Muslim ponoh school in the deep South, insisted the marked spots on their map, mostly tourist venues and shopping malls, were places they wanted to visit and they had nothing do with any sabotage plot. The Defence Ministry was also one of the 43 marked locations on the map.

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N.Y. Police Step Up Patrols of Hotels

Police have stepped up patrols of hotels in Manhattan as a precaution following the suicide bombings of three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Without providing details, police said Thursday that the number of critical response patrol vehicles was increased, and that special attention was being paid to hotels in midtown and downtown Manhattan.

Stepped up security was visible at several midtown hotels early Thursday. Three squad cars and a number of patrol officers could be seen in front of a midtown Hilton hotel.

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Al-Qaida ops busted at Mexican border?

In announcing the introduction of legislation aimed at preventing illegal aliens from getting driver’s licenses yesterday, a North Carolina Republican member of the House of Representatives casually dropped a bombshell that went over the heads of most of the media covering the event that three members of al-Qaida were recently captured trying to enter the U.S.

“This isn’t aimed at any one race,” said Sue Myrick, who is being mentioned as a potential candidate for governor of the state. “Our main concern is: Who’s in our state? This is a critical issue today. They just arrested, down on the border, a couple of weeks ago, three al-Qaida members who came across from Mexico into the United States.”

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Feds accuse men in scheme to smuggle missiles into U.S.

A federal grand jury indicted two Southern California men Wednesday on charges of conspiracy to smuggle three shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles into the United States for use abroad. Such missiles are designed to bring down aircraft.

The charges against Chao Tung “John” Wu and Yi Qing Chen, both naturalized U.S. citizens born in China, stemmed from an international undercover investigation, federal prosecutors said. The men are accused of agreeing to arrange shipment of the missiles from a country that is not named in the indictment.

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