Al-Qaida Recruiting African Americans For Suicide Missions

 

Al-Qaida is aggressively recruiting African-Americans for suicide operations against the homeland, say FBI analysts who have reviewed recent videotaped messages from the terror group’s leaders. A speech released May 5 by Osama bin Laden’s deputy confirms earlier fears that blacks are the No. 1 recruiting target for the next generation of attacks.

 

Al-Qaida has been trying to lower its Arab profile to reduce the odds that its terror cells will be subjected to security scrutiny.

 

“Federal and local law enforcement authorities should be aware that al-Qaida terrorists may not appear Arab,” warns a recent Homeland Security intelligence report obtained by WND. “Non-Arab al-Qaida operatives could find it easier to avoid unwanted scrutiny since they may not fit typical profiles.”

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No Leads In Search For Bin Laden

A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase in the movement of al Qaeda operatives and money into Pakistans tribal territories, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the operation.

 

Iraq, the moneymaker

 

In one of the most troubling trends, U.S. officials said that al Qaedas command base in Pakistan is increasingly being funded by cash from Iraq, where the terrorist networks operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the anti-American insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity.

 

Al Qaeda in Iraq has drawn increasingly large contributions from elsewhere in the Muslim world.

 

“Success in Iraq and Afghanistan is the reason people are contributing again, with money and private contributions coming back in from the gulf,” said the senior U.S. counterterrorism official.

 

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What If The Next Attack Is The Last

Recently, I have found myself wondering: What if the next attack on American soil  the one so many experts say they feel is inevitable  is not a single attack?

What if, instead, it is a widespread, crippling blow designed to finish the United States as a world power?

What if it destroys 8-12 of America’s cities with nukes that were gradually put in place during the time interval since 9-11? What if it releases a follow-on biological attack?

Put another way, what if the reason there have been no attacks following 9-11 is that there have been no attacks following 9-11?

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Web Terms Baffle Terrorism Trial Judge

A British judge admitted on Wednesday he was struggling to cope with basic terms like “Web site” in the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the Internet.

Judge Peter Openshaw broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web forum used by alleged Islamist radicals.

“The trouble is I don’t understand the language. I don’t really understand what a Web site is,” he told a London court during the trial of three men charged under anti-terrorism laws.

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Inspectors Cite Big Gain By Iran On Nuclear Fuel

Inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency have concluded that Iran appears to have solved most of its technological problems and is now beginning to enrich uranium on a far larger scale than before, according to the agency’s top officials.

The findings may change the calculus of diplomacy in Europe and in Washington, which has aimed to force a suspension of Iran’s enrichment activities in large part to prevent it from learning how to produce weapons-grade material.

In a short-notice inspection of Iran’s main nuclear facility at Natanz on Sunday, conducted in advance of a report to the United Nations Security Council due early next week, the inspectors found that Iranian engineers were already using roughly 1,300 centrifuges and were producing fuel suitable for nuclear reactors, according to diplomats and nuclear experts here. Until recently, the Iranians were having difficulty keeping the delicate centrifuges spinning at the tremendous speeds necessary to make nuclear fuel, and often were running them empty, or not at all.

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al-Qaeda Says It Has Missing U.S. Troops

al-Qaeda claims to be holding three American troops and states that more information will be released soon.

An al-Qaida front group announced Sunday it had captured American soldiers in a deadly attack the day before, as thousands of U.S. troops searched insurgent areas south of Baghdad for their three missing comrades.

The statement came on one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 124 people killed or found dead. A suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq, killing 50 people, and a car bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed another 17.

Troops surrounded the town of Youssifiyah and told residents over loudspeakers to stay inside, residents said. They then methodically searched the houses, focusing on possible secret chambers under the floors where the soldiers might be hidden, residents said. The soldiers marked each searched house with a white piece of cloth.

Soldiers also searched cars entering and leaving the town, writing “searched” on the side of each vehicle they had inspected. Several people were arrested, witnesses said.

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Terror Warning For Americans In Germany

U.S. and German officials fear terrorists are in the advanced planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany.

Law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that U.S. air marshals have been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States.

“The information behind the threat is very real,” a senior U.S. official told ABC News.

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Face Recognition Next In Terror Fight

Homeland Security leaders are exploring futuristic and possibly privacy-invading technology aimed at finding terrorists and criminals by using digital surveillance photos that analyze facial characteristics.

The government is paying for some of the most advanced research into controversial face-recognition technology, which converts photos into numerical sequences that can be instantly compared with millions of photos in a database.

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Fort Dix Terror Plot Update

The arrests came after a 15-month investigation in which during investigation the F.B.I. and two informers who had infiltrated the group taped them training with automatic weapons in rural Pennsylvania.

They were also seen conducting surveillance of military bases in the Northeast, watching videos of Osama bin Laden and the 9/11 hijackers and trying to buy AK-47 assault rifles.

The authorities described the suspects as Islamic extremists and say they represent the newest breed of threat: loosely organized domestic militants unconnected to but inspired by Al Qaeda or other international terror groups.

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Metro To Release Photos of Luxor Bomb Suspect Vehicle

Las Vegas Eyewitness News is saying Metro will release still pictures of a suspect vehicle in this bombing investigation on Thursday. The pictures will come from the surveillance tape.

There is new information about the man killed in that bomb blast at the Luxor on Monday. Family members confirm the victim’s name. Willebaldo Dorantes-Antonio is from Puebla, Mexico.

The 24-year-old worked at Nathan’s Famous hot dog restaurant in the hotel’s food court. Tuesday morning his family visited the Mexican consulate for help in making arrangements for the funeral. Family members were visibly still shaken over the murder as they walked away from the consulate.

They did not want to go on camera, but told Eyewitness News they are making arrangements for Dorantes-Antonio’s body to be shipped back to his hometown. They hope investigators can find out who set the bomb.

As those arrangements are being made, Metro investigators along with federal agents examined the evidence collected from the Luxor parking garage near the explosion. They will continue to look for who wanted the 24-year-old dead and why.

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Terrorism In The South Plains?

A bulk purchase of disposable cell phones across The South Plains is turning into a federal investigation. Muleshoe authorities have questioned a man, who according to police reports, confesses to buying 60 prepaid cell phones that might later be used to detonate bombs in the Middle East.

The man reportedly bought the phones from stores like Dollar General, Family Dollar and even Wal-Marts across the region. Lubbock is included in the towns he confessed to buying the phones in. Again, in police reports he admits to a store manager the cell phones would eventually be used as bomb detonators in Iraq.

There are still plenty of unanswered questions. Questions we will continue to ask in the days and weeks to come. But what we do know is that a man of Middle Eastern descent, who lives in San Antonio, was questioned by Muleshoe police a week ago this past Monday after he tried to buy more cell phones than allowed by Dollar General store policy.

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Box Cutter Found On United Airlines Jet

A box cutter found by a passenger on a United Airlines plane delayed a flight from Denver to Dallas for nearly two hours.

Federal officials met the plane on the tarmac, re-screened all the passengers and searched the aircraft. Flight 490 was taxiing toward a runway at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when the passenger found the cutting tool.

Terrorists used box cutters as weapons to hijack planes on September 11, 2001.

Transportation Security Administration officials say there are more layers of security now than in 2001, including armed pilots and armed federal marshals.

United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy declined to speculate about how the box cutter ended up on the airplane. 

6 Charged In Fort Dix Terror Plot – Updated

Update: Read the FBI Affidavit

Update: In a criminal complaint filed this morning, an FBI agent writes that Serdar Tartar’s father owned a restaurant near Fort Dix and made deliveries onto the base.”

The father, owner of Super Mario’s Restaurant, told ABCNews.com today that his staff often made pizza deliveries on to the base and to the nearby McGuire Air Force Base.

The complaint says Tatar was able to acquire a map of Fort Dix, labeled “Cantonment Area Fort Dix, N.J.” and gave it to the five other men arrested by the FBI.

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Federal authorities have arrested six New Jersey men for allegedly plotting a terrorist attack against the Fort Dix military base, senior FBI officials have confirmed.

The plot involved storming the base with automatic weapons and attempting to kill as many soldiers and other personnel as possible.

Officials from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Newark and the FBI in Philadelphia were planning a news conference in Camden this afternoon to discuss the case in more detail. A spokeswoman for the FBI in Philadelphia left a message on her voicemail telling callers that no information would be released until then.

One television station said the men were from Albania and the former Yugoslavia but had lived in the U.S. for several years. The suspects had been discussing the plot over the last year, and had gone as far conducting weapons training in the Pocono mountains, the television station reported.

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