Mystery Surrounds FBI Raid In Pittsburgh

FBI agents yesterday raided a North Side residence known to many in the neighborhood and the Pittsburgh Islamic community as both an Islamic school and mosque.

The agency would say only that the search was in connection with a “criminal investigation” and wouldn’t elaborate.

The raid began around noon when authorities shut down the intersection of Boyle and Hemlock streets, residents said. The activity centered around a three-story green house located in the 1300 block of Boyle Street.
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Second Bin Laden Video On The Way?

As Sahab Productions announced that a Video message by UBL”is coming” without a specific date. The announcement in the web site Marquee cites a message addressing the Jihadists in Iraq and Somalia.

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Another Israeli Soldier Kidnapped

The Palestinian militants have kidnapped a second Israeli soldier and have threatened to kill him unless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced overnight on Friday.

In a statement received by AFP in Gaza City, the armed group, loosely affiliated to Fatah Party, called for “the end of the Israeli offensive” and “the lifting of the blockade” in the territories.

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Iran Backed Terrorists Plotting Horrific Attacks On UK

Iran backed terrorists are plotting horrific attacks on the UK and British subjects around the world, Tony Blair was told last night. Intelligence chiefs specifically warned the Prime Minister of the threat — if the stand-off with Iran over its nuclear programme escalates. The Commons security and intelligence committee’s warning comes in a report released just a week before the anniversary of the 7/7 bombing. Read Article  

USA Today Issues A Note To Readers

USA Today acknowledged in a “note to our readers” Friday that it could not establish that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the National Security Agency to provide it with customer calling records, as it previously reported.

Based on its reporting after the May 11 article, USA TODAY has now concluded that while the NSA has built a domestic calls record database involving the domestic call records of telecommunications companies, the newspaper cannot confirm that BellSouth or Verizon contracted with the NSA to provide bulk calling records to that database.

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Bin Laden Releases New Video Tape

An audio message attributed to Usama bin Laden, the Emir of al-Qaeda, in which he speaks of the martyrdom of the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was issued today, June 29 2006, by as-Sahab. The 19:16 minute speech features two panels atop Arabic subtitles; one panel featuring a static image of bin Laden and the other of footage from Zarqawi’s video speech, “A Message to the People,” from April 2006.

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Terror Suspects Had FBI Targets

One of seven men accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower has admitted swearing allegiance to al-Qaida and told investigators he and the others planned to bomb five FBI buildings, a prosecutor said Thursday.

Lyglenson Lemorin, a Haitian national, also admitted to attending military training in Miami and other parts of Florida to carry out the mission, Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard Getchell said during Lemorin’s hearing before a U.S. magistrate.

Getchell also said that the alleged ringleader, Narseal Batiste, had told an FBI informant that his contacts from a delivery job he once held were going to help his group use tunnels under Chicago to stage an attack.

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L.A. Port Inspection Urged

The nation’s largest port complex is looking to check shipping containers on site for “dirty bombs” or other terrorist threats amid fears that trucking the cargo miles away for inspection endangers heavily populated neighborhoods and packed freeways.

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Plane Diverted Following Bomb Threat

A Southwest Airlines flight was diverted to Ontario International Airport on Wednesday after a threatening note was found on board, authorities said.

Passengers were still waiting for the plane to be cleared nearly seven hours later.

The plane, which took off from John Wayne International Airport in Orange County en route to Las Vegas, landed in Ontario around 9:50 a.m., said Maria Tesoro-Fermin, spokeswoman for the Ontario airport.

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Gaza Militants Fired Chemical-tipped Warhead

A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the claim by the spokesman from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement.

The group had recently claimed to possess about 20 biological warheads for the makeshift rockets commonly fired from Gaza at Israeli towns. This was the first time the group had claimed firing such a rocket.

“The al-Aqsa Brigades have fired one rocket with a chemical warhead” at southern Israel, Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the group, said in Gaza.

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Bin Laden To Issue Tribute In New Video

Osama bin Laden will issue a videotaped message paying tribute to slain al-Qaida in Iraq chief Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a message posted on an Islamic militant Web site said Wednesday.

The message did not say when the video would be posted or whether bin Laden himself would appear in the video or just speak in a voice-over. The al-Qaida leader has issued three audiotapes this year but has not appeared in a video since one issued on Oct. 29, 2004.

The banner flashed the message, “Good News Soon,” followed by a picture of a smiling al-Zarqawi and the words, “A tribute to the martyr of the Islamic nation and prince of the martyrdom-seekers, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, God rest his soul, from Sheik Osama bin Laden, God preserve him.” The banner then flashes a picture of bin Laden.

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Putin Wants Hostages Killers Hunted Down

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s special services to hunt down and “destroy” the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin said.
Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service, the main successor to the Soviet KGB later said that everything would be done to ensure that the killers “do not escape from responsibility,” the Interfax news agency reported.

“The president has ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals who killed Russian diplomats in Iraq,” the Kremlin press service said in a brief statement.

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Sentenced To Write An Essay

Authorities are now satisfied the two Saudi students meant no harm by hopping on a public school bus. Rather than spend jail time, they face … an essay assignment.

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England:Terror Manual Found In Police Raids

Instructions on how to make bombs using parts from children’s toys have been discovered by police during an anti-terrorist operation. A suspected terror manual found during the raids also details the production of poison dust clouds, counter-terrorist sources disclosed.

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