From Al-Qaeda Training European Recruits to Attack U.S.: Al-Qaeda continues to recruit Europeans for explosives training in Pakistan because Europeans can more easily enter the U.S. without a visa, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said Tuesday. European al-Qaeda recruits in the border region of Pakistan are being trained to use commercially available substances to make explosives, and they may be able to carry out an attack on U.S. territory. “Purposely recruiting an operative from Europe gives them an extra edge into getting an operative, or two or three, into the country with the ability to carry out an attack
Read More +Abbas threatens to boycott peace summit
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A veiled threat from a Muslim Jew-hater. What a surprise considering Mahmoud Abbas and Abu Mazen is the same person – and the engineer behind the “Black September” murder of Israel’s olympic athletes in 1972, including one U.S. citizen, a weightlifter named David Berger who was an American from Cleveland, Ohio. From Ha’aretz: Palestinian authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas will not attend Washington’s regional peace summit in November unless Israel agrees to a reach an agreement with the Palestinians there, Abbas’ associates told Haaretz Sunday, adding the summit could “prove dangerous”. With U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expected to arrive
Read More +Via Daily Alert, from Iran Ordered to Pay Millions to Family of Terror Victim: A District Court in Washington ordered the Iranian government to pay $12.9 million in compensation to the family of Marla Bennett, 24, of San Diego, who was killed in a bombing at the Hebrew University’s cafeteria in July 2002. Judge Royce Lamberth ruled that Iran was legally responsible for the terror attack because it supported and sponsored Hamas, the organization that carried out the bombing. Nine students and workers were killed in the bombing.
Read More +Via Daily Alert, from Iran Must Pay $2.6 Billion for ’83 Attack on Marines in Lebanon: U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth Friday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. Hizbullah carried out the suicide bombing on Oct. 23, 1983, but in a ruling in 2003, Lamberth found that Iran was “legally responsible” for supporting Hizbullah with financial and logistical support to carry out the attack. See also U.S. Defense Secretary: Hizbullah Has Killed Hundreds
Read More +Our greatest fear – for those of us who love, who deeply love our families, who deeply love our spouses, who deeply love our children, for those of us who believe in life, in goodness, and in God, and spring flowers, mountains and rivers, for those of us who yearn for Yom Kippur so that we can atone for our sins, for those of us who anxiously wait for the day we can make aliyah to live in the Jewish Holy City of Jerusalem, our greatest fear might come to pass; we are being warned by terrorism specialists that Muslim
Read More +From Plot Would Have Killed Thousands on U.S.-Bound Flights: Terrorists who had planned to detonate gel-based explosives on U.S.-bound flights from London last August would have achieved mass devastation, according to new information from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “I think that the plot, in terms of its intent, was looking at devastation on a scale that would have rivaled 9/11,” Chertoff told ABC. “If they had succeeded in bringing liquid explosives on seven or eight aircraft, there could have been thousands of lives lost and an enormous economic impact with devastating consequences for international air travel.” Airports in the
Read More +From WND: Medical clinics across the country have been flooded with requests from foreign nationals from Pakistan and other Muslim countries to help them gain visa entry into the U.S. as patients. The post-9/11 trend concerns authorities who fear al-Qaida could be using the medical industry to infiltrate terrorist cells into the country. Some clinics have sponsored foreign patients only to have them fail to show up at their facilities. The Caster Eye Center in Beverly Hills, Calif., for example, stopped granting such foreign requests after a couple of no-shows. In the wake of the recent “doctor jihad” in the
Read More +No doubt. And like I’ve said before, I will watch all the arab stores in my town. When they will pull down their shades and won’t open their shops, then I will know something is up, because that is what they did once before. From Attempts in UK Seen as Model for New Attacks on U.S. Soil: The next terrorist assault on the United States is likely to come through relatively unsophisticated, near-simultaneous attacks – similar to those attempted in Britain over the weekend – U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials believe. The incidents in England and Scotland, counterterrorism officials said,
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