Largest Immigration Raid In History

Federal officials say more than 1,200 people were arrested during raids of meatpacking plants in six states. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the raids uncovered a “disturbing front” in the war against illegal immigration. He says an investigation found that illegal immigrants were using the identities of U.S. citizens to obtain jobs. Chertoff says raids like the one yesterday “protect the privacy rights of innocent Americans while striking a blow against illegal immigration.”

He says an investigation found that illegal immigrants were using the identities of U.S. citizens to obtain jobs. Chertoff says raids like the one yesterday “protect the privacy rights of innocent Americans while striking a blow against illegal immigration.”

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Former CIA Agent – Bin Laden Will Be Back

Interview with former CIA agent Michael Scheuer on the prospects of finding bin Laden, the outlook for al Qaeda and the risk of new terror attacks in the United States.

Spiegel: Mr. Scheuer, five years have passed since the attacks of 9/11. Bin Laden is still free, al Qaeda alive and kicking. Venture a view of the future for us: How will things look five years down the road?

Scheuer: Far worse than today. America is clearly losing the two wars it is fighting, and our political leadership has neither the will nor the popular support it needs to send more forces. So I would anticipate us having withdrawn from both Iraq and Afghanistan in five years’ time, with the two countries largely run by people we aren’t happy with: Islamists.

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U.K. – Christmas Terror Strike Highly Likely

The risk from terrorists in the Christmas period is “very high indeed” and the struggle against Muslim terrorism will last at least 30 years, John Reid, the Home Secretary, said yesterday.

Mr Reid echoed the view of MI5 that there are around 30 major terrorist plots under way and the terrorists only “have to be lucky once”.

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Imams Seek To Settle With Airline

A group of Muslim imams is seeking an out-of-court settlement with US Airways, saying they should not have been removed from a Minnesota-to-Phoenix flight last month and were not behaving suspiciously.
Five of the six Islamic religious leaders have retained the Council on American-Islamic Relations for legal representation and are seeking a “mutually agreeable” resolution, said Nihad Awad, CAIR executive director.

US Airways scheduled a meeting with the imams on Dec. 4 to discuss the incident, but the men canceled it and hired the activist group to act as legal counsel.

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Suspicious Truck Driving Student In Custody

Federal terrorism officials and Rhode Island authorities converged this week to arrest an Indian citizen enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school who was trying to obtain a commercial driver’s license and permit to haul hazardous materials.

The man, Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., is being held in federal custody for overstaying his student visa. State police Maj. Steven O’Donnell said that after two days of truck-driving classes, Mullawala’s behavior was suspicious enough to prompt school officials to contact the Department of Homeland Security late last month.

“His behavior was consistent with terrorist-type activity,” O’Donnell said. “He showed no interest in learning the fine art of driving a tractor-trailer. He had no interest in learning how to back up.”

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Chicago Terror Suspect Named – Derrick Shareef

An Illinois man plotted to set off hand grenades at a Chicago-area shopping mall in a holiday season terror campaign that was thwarted by federal investigators. According to an FBI affidavit, Derrick Shareef, 22, told a confidential source that he wanted to “commit violent acts of jihad,” and spoke of killing judges and blowing up public buildings.

In advance of a planned attack on a Rockford mall, Shareef prepared a martyr’s videotape in which he let the “enemies of Islam” know that “the time for jihad is now.” He added, “This is a warning to those who disbelieve, that we are here for you, and I am ready to give my life…May Allah protect me on this mission we conduct.”

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Chicago Terror Plot Suspect Arrested

A suspect has been arrested in an alleged terror plot that involves a Chicago target. U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez, stated that a suspect was arrested in a case with national security implications.

Law enforcement officials say the man was a U.S. citizen, and planned to commit some sort of terrorist attack in Chicago. The man had “ideas and desires, but no means,” law enforcement sources said.

A source said earlier that the alleged plot might have involved a shopping mall, but later information did not specify what the target was.

Law enforcement officials added that the alleged plot was not on the level of 9/11, and even “three rungs below” the recent Miami plot that was disrupted. That plot involved alleged plans to blow up Chicago’s Sears Tower.

The man arrested Friday is considered a lone operator without ties to any known terrorist organization, law enforcement sources said.

He has an appearance in Chicago’s federal court at 11:45 a.m.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said a written statement and comments from U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI special-agent-in-charge Robert Grant will soon be provided.

Video of the news conference is available at the link below.

Source – cbs2chicago.com

Spy Death Tied To American Hiroshima?

By Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. and Lee Boyland
Source – Family Security Matters

The death of Alexander Litvinenko by radiological poisoning points to the possibility that the former Soviet spy may have been involved with Islamic terrorists in the preparation of tactical nuclear weapons for use in the jihad against the United States and its NATO allies.

Litvenenko, a former KGB agent, died in London on November 23 after ingesting a microscopic amount of polonium-210. In a deathbed statement, Litvinenko blamed Russian President Vladimir Putin for the poisoning – - an accusation which the Kremlin has vehemently denied. The denial is fortified by the fact that polonium-210 is a very rare radiological substance that is man-made by bombarding Bismuth-209 with neutrons within a nuclear reactor.

It is expensive to produce and difficult to handle. When Russian officials resorted to nuclear poisoning in the past – - including the assassination of two Swiss intelligence officials who were engaged with Russia and South Africa in the nuclear black market – - they relied on such readily available radiological substances as cesium-137 in salt form. According to nuclear expert David Morgan, killing a spy or political dissident with a grain or two of polonium-210 is as ludicrous as shooting a rat with a howitzer.

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Suspicious Powder At Natl. Guard Office

A suspicious powder has turned up at the National Guard Association of Kentucky in Frankfort, sending one worker to the hospital.

A National Guard spokesman says the worker was taken to Frankfort Regional Medical Center last night after her eyes and lips started burning. She had opened what appeared to be a piece of junk mail when she saw the powder. A hospital spokesman says she was being evaluated.

Hazardous materials workers were dispatched to collect samples of the powder and its packaging.

Brother of OU Bomber Charged

The brother of a University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up outside the OU football stadium last year has been charged with threatening a second FBI agent.

The additional charge against Thomas Carlisle “Tom” Hinrichs of Colorado Springs is contained in an indictment that was made public Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver.

Hinrichs originally was charged Nov. 21 with threatening during Nov. 15-16 interrogations to assault or murder an FBI agent identified only as “Todd” in Colorado Springs.

The new charge alleges that Hinrichs threatened in an Oct. 12 telephone call to “bury” William Burruel, another FBI agent in Colorado Springs.

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Tale of The Imams On Flight 300

As we first suspected, the six imams bounced from a US Airways flight misled the public about the incident and likely staged the whole thing as a scheme to weaken security.Their actions undermine any good will and trust Muslim leaders have built since 9/11. And they call into question what we really know about these supposedly virtuous men we invite to the White House and other halls of power in gestures of tolerance.

Are they really moderate? Do they really mean it when they renounce terrorism? Do they really have America’s best interests at heart?

The timeline in this article is a “must read”.

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Probes Dismiss Imams Racism Claim

Three parallel investigations into the removal of six imams from a US Airways flight last month have so far concluded that the airline acted properly, that the imams’ claims they were merely praying and their eviction was racially inspired are without foundation.

An internal investigation by the airline found that air and ground crews “acted correctly” when they requested that the Muslim men be removed from a Minneapolis-to-Phoenix flight on Nov. 20. 

“We believe the ground crew and employees acted correctly and did what they are supposed to do,” US Airways spokeswoman Andrea Rader said.

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West Told To Follow God Or Vanish

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today warned Western leaders to follow the path of God or “vanish from the face of the earth”, the semi-official news agency Mehr reported.

“These oppressive countries are angry with us … a nation that on the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their power,” Mr Ahmadinejad said in a speech in the northern town of Ramsar.

“They are angry with our nation. But we tell them ’so be it and die from this anger’. Rest assured that if you do not respond to the divine call, you will die soon and vanish from the face of the earth,” he said.

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Package Tossed Near White House

Streets around the White House were closed Tuesday morning after a woman threw a package into the courtyard of the adjacent Old Executive Office Building.

The woman was taken into custody without incident and was being questioned by the Secret Service, said Darrin Blackford, a spokesman for the service. The package was being investigated but no immediate details were available.

The president was in the White House at the time of the incident.

Streets were closed along Pennsylvania Avenue, between 17th and 18th streets, and along 17th Street between State Place and H Street.

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