Saudi Men Who Got on School Bus Excused

Two Saudi men accused of boarding a school bus full of students won’t be prosecuted if they complete a pretrial intervention program for first-time offenders, the state attorney’s office said Monday.Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were charged with misdemeanor trespassing after boarding the bus bound for Wharton High School on May 19. They told investigators they got on the bus because they wanted to visit the school and didn’t know it was just for students.

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Many questions remain…Was this a simple accident, prank, or dry run? Read the archived article on Michelle Malkins site. We ran the original story on May 20th. read it here.

Letter To The Editors: New York Times

Dear Mr. Keller:

The New York Times decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security of Americans and freedom-loving people worldwide. In choosing to expose this program, despite repeated pleas from high-level officials on both sides of the aisle, including myself, the Times undermined a highly successful counter-terrorism program and alerted terrorists to the methods and sources used to track their money trails.

Read Entire Letter From Treasury Secretary Snow

Michelle Malkin has more comments and info

Fighting Diseases of Terror

Biologists at Fort Detrick’s newest biodefense center may be asked to make some of the world’s deadliest microbes even more dangerous than they already are.

One of the biologists’ jobs, according to chief scientist Bernard Courtney, will be to create pathogens to match strains that terrorists are clandestinely producing and then develop vaccines and drugs to combat them.

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U.S. To Deploy Patriot Interceptors In Japan

The U.S. military plans to deploy Patriot interceptor missiles at its bases in Japan for the first time to bolster its defences amid signs that North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range missile, officials said Monday.

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Rep. Seeks Charges Against Papers Terror Reporting

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee urged the Bush administration on Sunday to seek criminal charges against newspapers that reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists.

Rep. Peter King cited The New York Times in particular for publishing a story last week that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

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Sweden: Man Freed From Bomb Device

A Swedish bomb squad removed a device from around the waist of a man who claimed he was abducted and forced to wear a remote-controlled bomb, police said Sunday.

One man has since been arrested and police are searching for a second suspect.

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Russian Embassy Workers Executed

An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Sunday showing the killings of three Russian embassy workers abducted earlier this month in Iraq. A fourth also was said to have been killed. An accompanying statement by the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization linking seven insurgent groups including al-Qaida in Iraq, said all four Russians had been killed.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it had not yet confirmed the hostages’ deaths.

The 90-second video, posted on an Islamic Web site that frequently airs militant messages, showed the beheading of two blindfolded men and the shooting of a third.
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Although the video is available we have not yet decided whether or not to link it here. This is always a very difficult decision. Let us know your opinion.

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Dirty Bomb Inevitable, Experts Believe

Spy chiefs fear that it is a case of “when, not if” terrorists launch a “dirty bomb” attack against London or another western capital.

Security sources have disclosed that the belief amongst most intelligence agencies is that a chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear (CBRN) attack, using a so-called dirty bomb, is now inevitable.

The warning comes three weeks after 250 police officers stormed the home of two Muslim brothers in Forest Gate, east London, in the mistaken belief that they were attempting to develop a chemical bomb. It follows growing concern among members of Britain’s intelligence and security hierarchy that if a CBRN attack took place in the City of London it would devastate Britain’s economy and severely damage the economies of Europe and America.

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Possible Bomb Parts Left In Backpack On Train

Police are looking for a man responsible for leaving what they believe are bomb components on a southbound TRAX train Thursday.The discovery of the device prompted the closure of the southernmost section of the line for about five hours after a conductor found a backpack filled with suspicious materials.

“It looked like it had all the components to a bomb, but we’re not sure it was actually hooked up to go off,” Sandy police Sgt. Victor Quezada said.

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Al Qaeda Vows Revenge For Zarqawi’s Death

Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television has aired a video of Al Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri vowing to avenge the death of the network’s Iraq frontman Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi was killed in a United States air raid in Iraq on June 7.

In the video, Zawahiri is seated in front of a picture of Zarqawi. He addresses US President George W Bush directly. “Yes O Bush, none of us is killed without us avenging him, with the help of God,” he said.
“Do you remember, O Bush, how the lion of Islam, the mujahed [holy warrior] Osama bin Laden, God keep him, swore that America will not be able to dream of security until it becomes a reality in Palestine and all Muslim lands?”

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Miami Terror Group Members Named

 

Seven people arrested in Miami planned attacks on the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago and other buildings as part of a pledge to al Qaeda to wage war against the United States, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday.

An indictment handed down against the men by a grand jury in south Florida said they sought to gain support from Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda in order to destroy FBI buildings in the United States. At least one of them also plotted to blow up the 110-story Sears Tower in Chicago, it said.

Named in the indictment:

Narseal Batiste aka Brother Naz and Prince Manna
Patrick Abraham aka Brother Pat
Stanley Grant Phanor aka Brother Sunni
Naudimar Herrera aka Brother Naudy
Burson Augustin aka Brother B
Lyglenson Lemorin aka Brother Levi and Brother Levi El
Rotschild Augustine aka Brother Rot

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Read The Eleven Page Indictment Here

U.S. Set To Down Korean Missile

Senior Bush administration officials said publicly for the first time yesterday that the United States is set to shoot down any North Korean missile launch that threatens the United States.

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Media Refuses to Hold Surveillance Story

The New York Times, which in December broke news of an effort by the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ telephone calls and e-mails, declined a White House request not to publish a story about the government’s inspection of monies flowing in and out of the country.

The Los Angeles Times also reported on the issue Thursday night on its Web site, against the Bush administration’s wishes. The Wall Street Journal said it received no request to hold its report of the surveillance.

Administration officials were concerned that news reports of the program would diminish its effectiveness and could harm overall national security.

We agree with the administrations concerns.

Sears Tower Terror Threat – March 06

Some may remember this story we ran from ABC7 back in March of this year. The link is below.

Since 9-11, the Sears Tower in particular has turned up on several lists of possible targets for terrorists. Local news sources have 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.

Read Original Story Mar.06

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