FBI’s Mueller: Hezbollah Busted in Mexican Smuggling Operation
March 30, 2006
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FBI Director Robert Mueller said this week that his agency busted a smuggling ring organized by the terrorist group Hezbollah that had operatives cross the Mexican border to carry out possible terrorist attacks inside the U.S.
“This was an occasion in which Hezbollah operatives were assisting others with some association with Hezbollah in coming to the United States, Mueller told a House Appropriations subcommittee during a Tuesday hearing on the FBI’s budget.
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Al-Qaeda preparing for biological warfare: Interpol
March 30, 2006
The terrorist group Al-Qaeda was preparing to engage in a biological warfare, an Interpol official said on Monday.
Ronald Noble, secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol), told a conference here that captured terrorist suspects have admitted that their groups are plotting potential biological attacks.
There is enough evidence to show that Al-Qaeda was preparing to engage in biological warfare, Noble said.
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American sentenced for Bush plot
March 29, 2006
An American Muslim was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for joining al Qaeda and plotting to assassinate President Bush.
Prosecutors had asked for the maximum — a life sentence — for Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and raised in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Teens Arrested in Water Facility Break-In
March 29, 2006
Authorities charged two teenagers in connection with a break-in at a water facility and expected to charge a third as more than 9,000 area residents waited Wednesday to hear if their drinking water had been contaminated.
The teens are suspected of cutting the barbed wire at the facility late Monday, cutting lines to an alarm, and then damaging an electrical panel and a vent at the top of a 1.3-million-gallon water storage tank, said Blackstone Police Lt. Gregory Gilmore.
A 5-gallon container with an odor was found on top of the tank, but authorities do not yet know what, if anything, was put into the water.
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Officials probe possible contamination of water system after break-in
March 28, 2006
Residents stocked up on bottled water and wondered where they would shower Tuesday, after someone broke into the area’s water supply facility and left behind a 5-gallon container that had an odor.
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Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S.
March 27, 2006
Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
The investigators purchased a “small quantity” of radioactive materials from a commercial source, according to a Government Accountability Office report prepared for Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Norm Coleman, a Minnesota Republican
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Moussaoui Says He Was to Hijack 5th Plane
March 27, 2006
Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.
Moussaoui’s testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom. His account was in stark contrast to his previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release a radical Egyptian sheik imprisoned on earlier terrorist convictions.
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Curt Weldon: Bin Laden Is Dead
March 17, 2006
Rep. Curt Weldon, who broke the Able Danger story last year revealing that military intelligence had identified lead hijacker Mohamed Atta as a terrorist threat before the 9/11 attacks, now says that Osama bin Laden has died.
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Police probing suspicious activity around Loop buildings
March 16, 2006
Chicago police are investigating cases of suspicious activity at two Loop buildings. One of them is the Sears Tower.
Since 9-11, the Sears Tower in particular has turned up on several lists of possible targets for terrorists. ABC7 news has reported sightings of suspicious looking individuals photographing the building numerous times in the past several years. Law enforcement officials have always publicly downplayed these incidents and they attempted to do that again Thursday.
Sears Tower employees Thursday reportedly received bulletins from building management reassuring them that there is no terror threat. But those bulletins failed to explain the incident ABC7 reported, that three suspicious looking men in a rental car pulled up to the building recently, got out and began studying the building. According to law enforcement sources, they took pictures before building security ran them off, but they never got their identification. Those sources tell ABC7 the car was rented to a fake name.
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Air base gate-crasher had gun, but no known terror ties
March 15, 2006
The driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a vehicle barrier at Davis Monthan Air Force Base possessed a possible drug substance and had a .45-caliber revolver under his feet, Tucson police said Wednesday.
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