Khalifa Rejects Threat of Terrorism in UAE

UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has rejected recent warnings by foreign governments about the threat of terrorist attacks in the United Arab Emirates.

Sheikh Khalifa said the warnings issued by the UK and US less than two weeks ago were “part of custom followed by them in dealing with any piece of information or rumour that reach them”, quoted UAE daily the National on Saturday, citing an interview with Lebanese newspaper Al-Nahar.

The UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on June 14 upgraded its UAE terrorism threat level from “general” to “high”, but said it was not advising people to change their travel plans.

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Terror Watch Uses Locals To Spot Suspicious Activity – 181 Trained In Colorado

Several police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers are being trained and dispatched as “Terrorism Liaison Officers” in Colorado and a few other states to hunt for “suspicious activity”.  If suspicious activity is observed, under a new program they  will be reporting these activities and the information will be collected in secret government databases.

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Iran Digs Thousands of Graves For Enemies

Iran is to dig 320,000 graves in border districts to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory, a top commander said today. In implementation of the Geneva Conventions … the necessary measures are being taken to provide for the burial of enemy soldiers,” the Mehr news agency quoted General Mir-Faisal Bagherzadeh as saying.

“We have plans to dig 15,000 to 20,000 graves in each of the border provinces or a total of 320,000,” the general said, adding that some of them would be mass graves if necessary.

Mr Bagherzadeh said Iran was keen to “reduce the suffering of the families of the fallen in any attack against our country … and prevent any repetition of the long and bitter experience of the Vietnam War”.

His comments came as the United States continued to refuse to rule out an eventual resort to force against Iran over its contested nuclear program, which the West fears is cover for a drive to build an atomic weapon.

They also came as Israeli officials spoke of their determination to prevent Iran developing a nuclear capability at all costs.

A former head of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence agency said in comments published today the Jewish state had one year to destroy Iran’s nuclear program or face the risk of coming under nuclear attack.

Shabtai Shavit told a London weekly the “worst-case scenario” was that Tehran would have a nuclear weapon within “somewhere around a year”.

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Lieberman Believes U.S. May Be Attacked In 2009

In describing the reasons he believes the Republicans’ presumptive nominee for president would be better prepared than the Democrats’ to lead the nation next January, Sen. Joe Lieberman said that history shows the United States would likely face a terrorist attack in 2009. Read more

KC Man Recovering After Chemical Assault

A Kansas City man is recovering after someone attacked him with chemicals in a Union Station parking lot.

Jeff Meuschke said he was driving out of the lot when he noticed an oily substance on his steering wheel. Moments later, his hands, face and eyes started stinging.

A surveillance camera in the parking lot recorded what happened. While Meuschke was at the Union Station post office, a man got out of a black pickup truck and poured something on his Meuschke’s car’s dashboard. Read more

Eighth Person Admits Role Commercial Truck License Scam

The former superintendent of a trucking school in West Plains pleaded guilty on Thursday for his role in a scheme to help immigrants get unearned commercial drivers licenses. Dean Proffitt ran the South Central Career Center, which closed after a federal investigation found citizens of Bosnia and Somalia were given passing grades without completing their driving exams. Proffitt is the eighth person to plead guilty in the case. Read more

Britain Worried Terrorists Might Launch Surprise Attack Using Private Jets

As for the origins of the cargo, there was dispute even among the best-informed rumour-mongers of Waziristan.

Some said the uranium had come from the Iranian nuclear plant at Natanz. Others believed it was from North Korea, or even dissident elements in the Russian Federation.

Whatever the source, though, the outcome was the same. Read more

Top Immigration Attorney Charged With Taking Bribes

A top federal immigration attorney and his wife were arrested Thursday on suspicion of accepting bribes from immigrants seeking to remain in the United States, according to the FBI.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and his wife, Maria Kallas, 39, both of Alta Loma, were arrested by FBI agents at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland after they allegedly accepted a $20,000 bribe from an immigrant seeking documents to stay in the country, said U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Thom Mrozek. Read more

Iraq – Police Say al-Qaeda Has Infiltrated Force

Police in the Iraqi city of Falluja have said that al-Qaeda members have infiltrated the country’s security forces.

“Now we have the proof that al-Qaeda terrorists have managed to infiltrate the Iraqi security forces,” said the head of police in Falluja, Faysal al-Zubei in an interview with the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper. Read more

Iran Could Have Nuclear Weapon In 6 Months – IAEA Chief

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency Mohamed ElBaradei, said Iran could create a nuclear weapon in six months. Yes, this is the same guy that a couple of months ago said we have a few years before Iran would have that capability.

ElBaradei spoke on Al-Arabiya television on June 20, discussing Iran’s nuclear program, and the potential for the Middle Eastern country to produce a nuclear weapon. Read more

Terrorists Could Launch Satellite Strikes In 12 Years

The Defense Intelligence Agency believes that terrorists could be able to “disrupt” American satellites by 2020 and that states like China could have “robust destructive capabilities” in space around the same time. The question is, how good are the Pentagon’s spies at figuring out our enemies’ space programs, really?

In a presentation obtained by DANGER ROOM, Randy Jones, the associate technical director of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile & Space Intelligence Center, warned that terror groups could use lasers, radio frequency jammers, and even nuclear weapons to knock out U.S. satellites. Countries like China might launch anti-satellite [ASAT] ballistic missiles or position weapons in orbit. These states might be “hesitant,” at first, to start blasting American orbiters, Jones observes, “but [would] probably be willing under appropriate conditions” to attack.

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JFK Airport Terror Suspects Extradited

Three men accused of plotting to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport pleaded not guilty on Wednesday after they were extradited to the United States from Trinidad.

Trinidadian Kareem Ibrahim, 62, and Guyanese citizens Abdul Kadir, 59, and Abdel Nur, 57, were flown by private jet overnight to Miami International Airport en route to JFK, the same airport they are accused of plotting to bomb. Read more

Saudi Arabia Disrupts Planned Terror Attacks on Oil Facilities – Arrests Hundreds

During the last six months, Saudi security forces have arrested 701 militants for allegedly plotting to carry out terrorist attacks on oil facilities and other vital installations across the Kingdom, the Interior Ministry announced yesterday.

“Some of the arrested suspects were planning to stage terrorist attacks on oil fields and installations,” Maj. Gen. Mansour Al-Turki, spokesman for the ministry told Arab News. Read more

Man Admits Making Cyanide Extortion Threats to Wal-Mart Store

A man accused of trying to extract $200,000 from a Kansas City retailer by threatening to poison its food products pleaded guilty today in federal court.

Hugh L. Riley, 34, was a Missouri prison inmate in October 2006 when he sent a letter to a south Kansas City Wal-Mart demanding money, according to federal court records. Prosecutors contended that Riley threatened “to injure Wal-Mart customers by lacing edibles … with cyanide.”

According to a preliminary estimate in his plea agreement, Riley faces a sentence of about five years in federal prison.

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