New York: Targeted For Terror By Tehran?

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

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.

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Britain’s Terror Threat Worst Since Sept. 11

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Source – Debbie Schlussel

Salt Lake Jihad?

When Sulejmen Talovic entered the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City Monday night with a shotgun, a pistol, and a backpack full of ammunition, he intended to “kill a large number of people,” according to Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. Talovic killed five people and wounded four before he himself was killed by an off-duty Ogden police officer who happened to be in the mall.

Why did Talovic do it? No one knows. Talovic’s aunt, Ajka Omerovic, told reporters: “We want to know what happened, just like you guys. We have no idea…We know him as a good boy. He liked everybody, so I don’t know what happened.” Talovic, who was eighteen at the time of the murders, was a Bosnian Muslim who came to the United States with his family in 1998. Could he have been motivated by jihadist sympathies?

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American Daniel Maldanado Faces Terror Charges

An American citizen charged with receiving terrorist training at an Al Qaeda camp in Somalia including classes in how to become a homicide bomber and “wage violent jihad” was taken into custody by FBI agents and returned to the U.S. Monday night night..

An indictment unsealed Tuesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Houston charges Daniel Joseph Maldanado, 28, a.k.a Daniel Aljughaifi, whose last known address was in Houston, with receiving training from a foreign terrorist organization and conspiring to use an explosive device outside the United States.

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Malls Emerge As Another Front In Terror War

“For suburban America, the mall is the gathering place,” said Mitchell Moss of New York University’s Center for Catastrophe Preparedness and Response. “It’s much more than just a place to shop. It’s where huge numbers of people gather to go to the movies, eat and socialize — therefore, making it a potential terror target.”

Roosevelt Field, the state’s largest mall, may draw as many as 100,000 people a day at holiday peak one reason Nassau police conducted a training exercise there a year after 9/11, based on the scenario of a plane crashing into the mall’s food court.

The Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly warned that malls are potentially attractive targets for terrorists, although officials say there is no credible intelligence of imminent plots.

Source – Newsday.com

Trolley Square Shooter Bosnian Muslim Refugee

Police have identified the victims shot at Trolley Square on Monday, as well as the man believed to be the shooter.

Killed were Jeffrey Walker, 52; Vanessa Quinn, 29; Teresa Ellis, 29; Brad Frantz, 24; and Kirsten Hinckley, 15.

Hospitalized were Allen Walker, 16, son of Jeffrey Walker; Carolyn Tuft, 44; Shawn Munns, 34; and Stacy Hansen, 53.

The 18-year-old man who shot and killed at least five people Monday night has been identified as Sulejmen Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim refugee who lived in Salt Lake City.

Little additional information was released about Talovic.

The Bosnian community, which numbers about 3,000 in Utah, planned a news conference later this afternoon.

Talovic parked his car in the west parking lot and walked into the mall, encountering two people, whom he shot. Then he walked further into the mall and shot a woman, said Police Chief Chris Burbank.

He then walked to a gift shop and shot five people. He shot several other people before he was gunned down by an off-duty Ogden police officer assisted by four Salt Lake City police officers, Burbank said.

He had a backpack that carried numerous rounds of ammunition as well as a .38-caliber handgun, said the chief.

Police have no motive in the killing.

After several hours passed with no description of the shooter last night, many of you suspected there was something being held back by the media. It appears you were on the right track. Debbie Schussel provides her analysis of the media spin on this story, while Terrorism Expert Bill Warner offers insight on possible motives.

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