New York: Targeted For Terror By Tehran?
February 27, 2007
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Increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran have revived New York Police Department concerns that Iranian agents may already have targeted the city for terror attacks. Such attacks could be aimed at bridges and tunnels, Jewish organizations and Wall Street, NYPD briefers told security execs last fall, according to a person with access to the briefing materials who asked for anonymity because of the sensitive subject matter.
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Terror Type Incident At University of Missouri-Rolla
February 27, 2007
Nearly two dozen people were being decontaminated Tuesday after a white, powdery substance was found on a man threatening “terrorist-type” actions at the University of Missouri-Rolla, school officials said.
“Possible bomb materials” were also found with the man, identified only as a student at the south-central Missouri university, school officials said in a statement.
The student was in custody and being questioned, the statement said.
Twenty-three people were sent through a decontamination process at the university’s civil engineering building, where a police standoff with the student had started around 2:30 a.m.
The university was shut down during the standoff and classes for its 5,850 students were canceled.
The school’s primary focuses are engineering and technology.
Developing…
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Britain’s Terror Threat Worst Since Sept. 11
February 25, 2007
The threat of homegrown terrorists attacking Britain is greater now than any time since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, a British Sunday newspaper reported, citing a leaked intelligence document.
More than 2,000 British-based Islamic terrorists are believed to be plotting attacks, according to a government threat assessment prepared this month, which The Sunday Telegraph said it had seen.
“The scale of Al Qaeda’s ambitions towards attacking the U.K. and the number of U.K. extremists prepared to participate in attacks are even greater than we previously judged,” the newspaper quoted the document as saying.
The newspaper said the document was being circulated between the Home Office, defense ministry, M15 intelligence agency and Scotland Yard’s Anti-Terrorist Branch.
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Sky News Video Shows Pakistan Terror Camps
February 19, 2007
Video and images obtained by Sky News appear to show terrorist training camps are still operating in Pakistan.
The Taliban is threatening to launch a spring offensive involving thousands of fighters although local authorities insist they are doing all they can to crack down on terrorists.
Sky’s Asia correspondent Alex Crawford was escorted by the Pakistani military to the mountainous border region with Afghanistan.
This is the area which is believed to be home to some of the world’s most wanted terrorists, including Osama Bin Laden.
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Questions Linger In Zondervan Evacuation
February 19, 2007
Mystery still shrouds most of the circumstances surrounding a mysterious package delivered to Zondervan Publishing that caused the evacuation of hundreds of employees Monday.
Two employees became ill after opening the package that contained an unknown substance, coughing and having difficulty breathing.
The rest of the employees were evacuated to a business across the street.
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Al Qaeda Rebuilds Terror Network
February 18, 2007
Senior leaders of Al Qaeda operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once-battered worldwide terror network and over the past year have set up a band of training camps in the tribal regions near the Afghan border, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.
American officials said there was mounting evidence that Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, had been steadily building an operations hub in the mountainous Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan. Until recently, the Bush administration had described Mr. bin Laden and Mr. Zawahri as detached from their followers and cut off from operational control of Al Qaeda.
The United States has also identified several new Qaeda compounds in North Waziristan, including one that officials said might be training operatives for strikes against targets beyond Afghanistan.
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Grocers Prep For Pandemic Run On Food
February 18, 2007
Stocking up on food is as simple as a trip to the grocery store, a veritable land of plenty for Americans.
“It’s so easy when you have three grocery stores in your vicinity,” said Becky Jones of Omaha, who stocks up once a week for her family of three. “You think: how could you possibly not get what you needed?”
But will fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, bread, milk and other household staples still be available if the U.S. is hit with an anticipated bird flu pandemic? If state and federal officials urge people to stay away from public places, like restaurants and fast-food establishments, will they be able to get the groceries they need to prepare food in their homes?
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FBI Works to Counter Kitchen Sink Bomb
February 18, 2007
Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to help the FBI defend against what officials say is the next frontier for terrorists in the United States.
Ten years ago, peroxide-based bombs were mostly the work of young pranksters. But the easy-to-make yet deadly chemical cocktails were embraced in the late 1990s by Palestinian militants and homicide bombers bent on killing large groups of people.
Now, Yeager says, such explosives are considered the most likely weapon that terrorists will use against the U.S.
“Every serious terrorist group knows about them and knows how to make them,” Yeager said. The forensic scientist heads the explosives unit at the FBI’s laboratory.
The bombs are made by mixing chemicals used in common household items and easily found at drugstores or hardware stores. Experts know them as TATP, short for triacetone triperoxide, and HMTD, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.
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Buzz Over Mystery Weapon Found in Iraq
February 18, 2007
The photo of a “mystery weapon” found by GIs and a Web journalist in Iraq two years ago has captured the imagination of bloggers around the world eager to answer the question: What is it?
The photo, which shows what appears to be a weapon, about 3-feet long, resembling a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, was taken by Michael Yon, a writer and photographer currently based in Iraq.
He photographed the “weapon” in 2005 as he was cataloging a huge cache of munitions discovered by Iraqi police under a barn in Mosul and later destroyed by the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment.
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What We Don’t Know About The Trolley Square Shooter
February 15, 2007
Debbie Schussel continues an in-depth analysis on the Trolley Square Shooter.
I’m learning more about the Muslim Trolley Square terrorist murderer, Sulejman Talovic. Yet, the Mainstream Media continue to ignore his religious background.
Worse, it sounds like Salt Lake City police are getting in on the denial act. They refused to seize or search Talovic’s computer, as terrorism expert and investigator Bill Warner points out. From the Salt Lake Tribune:
Salt Lake City police spokeswoman Robin Snyder said Wednesday that police have not discerned a motive or found anything resembling a suicide note. With the permission of Talovic’s parents, detectives searched their home but did not take any computers or video games, she said.
Why the heck not? What kind of investigation is this? What kind of investigators are these? Not very good ones. Five people are dead, five more in critical or serious condition, including a pregnant woman. The guy is Muslim and apparently a jihadist who wanted to kill as many people as possible and had on his person the ammo to do it. And they aren’t going to search his computer?! Hello . . .? Did the country not learn a thing from the episode of FBI Agent Harry Samit being repeatedly denied the right to look at Zacarias Moussaoui’s hard drive . . . and then 3,000 Americans were murdered?
We need to know how he got the firearm and ammo, from whom, and whether he was working with anyone. Not seizing and searching the computer is sheer idiocy.
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