Chile: Bomb Threat Near Israeli Embassy Causes Evacuations
November 4, 2009
Chilean police Nov. 4 began an intense operation after having received a bomb threat on a building in the Santiago neighborhood of Las Condes, where the Israeli Embassy also is located, El Mercurio reported. The building was evacuated after the threat was received. A suspicious package reportedly was found in the subterranean level of the building. Authorities have not released any reports or comments.
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CAIR curiously does not claim falsehood in lawsuit
From TROP: Investigative project.org
What’s Missing in the CAIR Lawsuit?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has a message for the authors of a new book alleging a host of secret and nefarious activities by the group: We’ll see you in court!
CAIR filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court Friday against David and Chris Gaubatz, the father-and-son investigative team behind the book Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America. In the book, Chris Gaubatz acknowledges securing an internship at CAIR’s headquarters in 2008 by posing as a Muslim and using an assumed name. Once inside, he took more than 12,000 documents and secretly recorded 300 hours of video, including private conversations with CAIR officials.
Citing those records, the book reports that CAIR officials grossly exaggerate their membership rolls and the depth of their domestic financial support. In addition, they actively thwart law enforcement counter-terror investigations. Following the release of the book, four congressional Republicans sought an investigation into the book’s claims that CAIR seeks to place interns on committees dealing with the judiciary and homeland security.
To this last point, CAIR officials have ridiculed the book’s findings in an attempt to minimize them, and attacked the author’s motives. Suspiciously absent from CAIR’s public shouting fest has been any claim of any falsehood in Muslim Mafia, and there’s no indication CAIR issued a demand letter seeking any retractions.
The suit makes no charge of defamation or libel, instead alleging breach of contract, trespassing, and hacking CAIR computers. Politico reports that CAIR also wants a restraining order blocking the authors from using the internal CAIR documents the younger Gaubatz acknowledges taking during an internship there under an assumed name.
CAIR, rarely shy in promoting itself and its actions, is oddly quiet about the litigation, Politico notes.
Even if they should prevail on the merits of their lawsuit, CAIR officials – via their silence – vouch for the book’s accuracy. It’s not exactly blurb material for the paperback, but it still speaks volumes.
Read more at: http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/#1495
Mystery deepens over Vienna UN death
h/t Islam in Europe
By David Rogers. The Austrian Times:
A British nuclear expert who fell from the 17th floor of a United Nations building did not commit suicide and may have been hurled to his death, says a doctor who carried out a second post-mortem examination.
Timothy Hampton, 47, a scientist involved in monitoring nuclear activity, was found dead last week at the bottom of a stairwell in Vienna.
An initial autopsy concluded that there were “no suspicious circumstances”. But it is understood that Mr Hampton’s widow Olena Gryshcuk and her family were deeply unhappy with that verdict.
Now a doctor who undertook a second post-mortem examination on behalf of the family believes she has found evidence that Mr Hampton did not die by his own hands.
Professor Kathrin Yen, of the Ludwig Institute in Graz, Austria, which specialises in traumatology research, told the Mail on Sunday she had more tests to complete on Mr Hampton, who had a three-year-old son with Ms Gryshcuk.
But she said one possible theory was that Mr Hampton was carried to the 17th floor from his workplace on the sixth floor and thrown to his death. Continue Reading →
Federal Agents Raid Goat Meat Plant
Federal Agents Raid Goat Meat Plant
H/T Solstice
Authorities Confirm Raid, No One Taken Into Custody
Federal agents Sunday afternoon conducted a raid at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois. The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office. CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli reports that on Monday, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.
Spokesman Ross Rice confirms agents were at 6260 Kinsman Road, in Kinsman, Illinois. The business is called First World Management. Rice would not say why agents were there but said nobody was taken into custody.
The FBI said the raid began Sunday morning and ended in the late afternoon. They were at the plant about nine hours total.
FBI officials told CBS 2 the meat plant was shut down and abandoned. A spokeswoman would not comment on whether the plant was processing goat meat illegally.
According to sources, the plant provides goat, beef and lamb meat which is prepared in the Halal way in accordance with Muslim custom.
The government workers inside First World Management meat packing plant in Kinsman Monday wouldn’t say why they were there or why scores of FBI agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there Sunday.
The trouble is the FBI isn’t saying much about what happened at this rural Grundy County plant. A spokesman confirms that the plant, which has a Muslim prayer room, was raided as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
Several witnesses reported that the Grundy County Sheriff’s office was involved, as well, saying sheriff dept. vehicles were visible at the scene. The Sheriff’s department denies it was present.
When asked if the raid had something to do with undocumented aliens, the person wouldn’t say. A neighbor suggested that undocumented immigrants live in a trailer behind the facility and work there.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the agency assisted in the raid, but had no further comment. According to sources, many of the FBI and ICE agents were armed.
Several USDA criminal investigators were on site at the plant on Monday, but they would not comment on the situation.
One man who was talking about the raid was Jim Cavaness. He’s a handyman who occasionally works at the plant where goats, sheep and cows are slaughtered. On Sunday, he witnessed the raid and says he was questioned by FBI agents.
Cavaness says the FBI asked him if he had seen anything unusual at the plant. He says he’s never seen anything unusual, but, he says, judging by the amount of firepower on the scene, the FBI wasn’t just working an immigration case.
“Way too much overkill for immigration,” Cavaness said.
Neighbors who saw the raid on Sunday told CBS 2 it was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.
Sources say during the raid, the driveway was filled with more than 50 government vehicles. There was a helicopter flying overhead and a command center set up. On top of it were government sharpshooters with rifles at the ready.
George Jackson III is an attorney hired by one of the plant operators, Dr. Syed Hamid. Jackson and Dr. Hamid spoke briefly while on their way to a meeting with the federal prosecutor Monday.
Jackson says it’s too early to say why there was such a huge show of force at the plant.
“Obviously, it was more than what was needed here, but why they felt the need to come forward with that much manpower allegedly, it’s too early to say,” Jackson said.
Jackson said federal agents confiscated the company’s computers, effectively shutting down the business. Dr. Hamid chose not to weigh in Monday.
“I don’t want to comment at this point,” Dr. Hamid said.
Sources tell CBS 2 there are only six employees at the plant. An FBI spokesman would not confirm that but does say that no one has been charged.
CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli contributed to this report.
Goat meat plant is in Kinsman Il. There appears to be a large number of nuclear related plants and production facilities within a dozen miles of this particular Muslim owned goat butchering plant. Also, the scale and method of the raid does seem to indicate more than a casual search for a few illegal immigrants.
Dozens of Westerners attending terror camps
Officials: Americans, Europeans travel to Pakistan, Afghanistan for training. MSNBC-washington post
The Washington Post
Flow of terrorist recruits increasing
BERLIN – Midway through a propaganda video released last month by a group calling itself the German Taliban, a surprise guest made an appearance: a cleanshaven, muscular gunman sporting the alias Abu Ibrahim the American.
White Al Queda
The gunman did not speak but wore military fatigues and waved his rifle as subtitles identified him as an American. The video contained a stream of threats against Germany if it did not withdraw its troops from the NATO-led mission in Afghanistan. Although the American’s part in the film lasted only a few seconds, it has alarmed German and U.S. intelligence officials, who are still puzzling over his background, his real identity and how he became involved with the terrorist group.
U.S. and European counterterrorism officials say a rising number of Western recruits — including Americans — are traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan to attend paramilitary training camps. The flow of recruits has continued unabated, officials said, in spite of an intensified campaign over the past year by the CIA to eliminate al-Qaeda and Taliban commanders in drone missile attacks.
Since January, at least 30 recruits from Germany have traveled to Pakistan for training, according to German security sources. About 10 people — not necessarily the same individuals — have returned to Germany this year, fueling concerns that fresh plots are in the works against European targets.
“The drone attacks seriously weaken these organizations, but you can’t rely on that alone,” said Guido Steinberg, a researcher at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “They obviously have no problem recruiting new members. In the long run, they won’t have any problem replacing the leaders who have been killed.”
On Saturday, the Pakistani military deployed 30,000 troops into South Waziristan as part of a broad offensive against the Taliban and other militant groups. U.S. and European officials have said they hope the mission will force many of the training camps to shut down. Continue Reading →
Immigrant attacks Italian police station
From Stratfor:
Italy: Milan Police Barracks Attack Injures Two
October 12, 2009
Two people were injured in an attack on a police barracks in the northern Italian city of Milan, including the attacker who threw an explosive device, Agence France-Presse reported Oct. 12. Television news channel Sky TG-24 said that the attacker is a foreigner who is in serious condition. Local police and Carabinieri military police rushed to the scene of the attack.
Fears Al Qaeda-linked scientist was planning nuclear attack on UK after MI5 learn he worked at top-secret British lab
From the daily mail: h/t gar
- MI5 investigate brilliant scientist’s links to world-famous Rutherford Appleton nuclear research centre
- French Interior Minister claims ‘worst may have been avoided’ after brothers’ arrest
- Uncanny parallel to Dan Brown novel as scientist hunting for ‘God particle’ is held over fears he planned to attack Britain
Raid scene: French police at the modest flat in Vienne where Adlene and Halim Hicheur were arrested on Thursday
Mysteries of the universe: An aerial view of the Rutherford Appleton lab where Dr Hicheur worked
British intelligence service mistakenly recruited Al-Qaeda sympathizers
I believe it was in the 1960s that the British Secret Service had as it’s head, an actual KGB agent. As I recall, after he was busted, it was noticed that he had a picture of the Ural mountains on his office wall,, but taken from the other side. A sort of private joke of his I suppose.
This begs the question,
Are the British not capable of having an intelligence service without actually staffing it with the enemy? Or are they so anxious to put a Muslim face on England that they recruit recklessly.
From Jihad Watch: H/T A Millar
No surprise here. Given the dogmatic insistence at the highest levels that Islam is a Religion of Peace, MI5 probably wouldn’t even have known the proper questions to ask in order to try to determine if recruits had such sympathies, and if they did know those questions, political correctness would have made them not dream of asking them.
“Al-Qaeda supporters ‘joined MI5,'” from the BBC, August 1 (thanks to Stday):
A senior Tory MP has asked the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5.Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Home Affairs counter-terror sub-committee, said he was told six recruits were ejected after worries about their past.
Two allegedly attended al-Qaeda training camps while the others had unexplained gaps in their CVs, Mr Mercer told the Daily Telegraph.
A Home Office spokeswoman declined to comment on the claims.
‘Took advantage’
Mr Mercer said he had learned that MI5 had dismissed the six recruits some time between 2005 and 2007.
The MP said he feared that, in the aftermath of the bombings on London’s transport network in July 2005, the security services had rushed to try and take on Muslim recruits, and that had potentially allowed al-Qaeda sympathisers to infiltrate the security service.
He has written to the Home Secretary Alan Johnson asking for further details….
Nuclear Physicist arrested for terrorist ties.
France: Nuclear Physicist Accused Of Militant Ties
October 9, 2009
An unidentified nuclear physicist has been arrested in Vienne, France, for alleged ties to Algerian militant groups, The Associated Press reported Oct. 9, citing the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The scientist was one of more than 7,000 working at CERN and he was on a contract project. He was not assigned to anything that could be used by militants; he has worked at the Large Hadron Collider experiment along its tunnel under the Swiss-French border since 2003. The Paris prosecutor’s office’s anti-terrorist section has taken the case.
Unidentified ay? I wonder how he managed to work at CERN without anyone actually ever asking his name? Must be easier to get high security jobs in Europe than I thought. His degree must just be blank I suppose. Mistake by the internet diploma company? I suppose he will now be known as a “UNP” Unidintified Nuclear Physicist.
Illinois man charged in bomb plot
Stratfor:
September 24, 2009
Michael Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested in Springfield, Ill. on Sept. 23 and charged with attempted murder of federal officer or employees and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, Reuters reported Sept. 24. Flinton tried to use a cell phone to detonate a bomb he believed was inside a van he had parked outside of a federal building.
Al Qaeda in Brazil, Part 3: The Land of the Dumb and the Stupid
Another stunning post right from Gates of Vienna:
by Baron Bodissey
Our Brazilian correspondent Rocha has translated a fascinating article about the activities of Al Qaeda in Brazil. Here’s what Rocha has to say about it:
Once in a while I see interesting news stories about Brazil. Here is one of them. The writer is Josias de Souza, a columnist who writes for Folha de São Paulo, the biggest Brazilian newspaper.
He is also a leftie, but apart from Reinaldo Azevedo and Olavo de Carvalho, who isn’t in Brazilian newspapers?
And the translated article:
Police chief describes how “terrorism” infiltrates Brazil
- In the past, extremists used the country as a stopover
- Then they adopted children of prostitutes to stay in the country
- After that, they seduced Brazilians with a “radical song”
- Now they prepare actions from here against targets abroad
The revelations above were made by Police Chief Daniel Lorenz. Until the beginning of June he was the director of intelligence of Policia Federal [Brazilian FBI]. A week after leaving his office, he spoke to an audience at the Commission of Public Safety of the House of Representatives.
The session was convened by Raul Jungmann (PPS-PE), president of the commission, with the purpose of identifying the “actions of members of terrorist groups” in Brazil. The reporter received, last week, copy of the transcript from the audience. This Sunday (23), Jungmann published the full text on his blog.
Lorenz measured his words: “As the session is an open one, I will not enter into details in this matter.” Yet he delineated a crystal-clear scene. He said that PF only began to worry about terrorism in 1995.
Since that time the problem has been aggravated. Lorenz divided the crisis into four stages. In the beginning, Brazil was used by terrorists as a stopover. Today, said the Police Chief, the country is already a headquarters for the preparation of attacks on targets abroad.
Below is a summary of the four stages described by the Police Chief:
1. First stage: It was in this stage that PF determined that foreign “extremists” were using Brazil as an stopover. They passed mainly through the region of the tri-border area (Brazil-Argentina-Paraguay).
Lorenz confirmed something that was already in the news. In 1995 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who would be known as the third man in the hierarchy of Al Qaeda, “entered by Rio de Janeiro and left by São Paulo.” The terrorist stayed briefly in Foz do Iguaçu.
The Police Chief was sorry because he could not go into details. But made it clear that Shaikh Mohammed was not here on vacation. “He was there, evidently, not to drink a beer nor to be a part of Carnaval, much less for the end-of-year festivities.”
Arrested in Pakistan in 2003, Shaikh Mohammed was taken to the yankee prison of Guantanamo and accused of participating in the September 11 attacks.
2. Second stage: Extremists used the laxness of Brazilian laws to “legalize” their permanence in the country. “I will not enter into details, because I can’t talk about it,” was the excuse again for Lorenz. But he specified:
“They sought a permanent visa in the country by means of […] adoption of Brazilians. That is, the adoption of the children of other people. They got close to women of easy living [prostitutes], adopted their children, and gained the condition of permanent residence in Brazil. That happened, that was the result, and that was very much followed by us. That would be the second moment.” Continue Reading →
‘Jihad Shielas’ showing that Islam really is for psychopaths
These women love the ‘clay pot’ logical fallacy. “I never borrowed your clay pot and it was broken when I got it.” It is their defence for nearly every time they are caught working with the enemies of Western Civilization.
It is also critical to understand what she and other Muslims mean when they say “Defend Islam with my life.” It means enforce Islam’s laws customs rules and edicts on us as Islam commands. Islam has many examples of lingusistic slight of hand and these women use them all. ‘Defence’ means attack you if you stop us from ruling you. ‘Innocent’ means a Muslim and ‘Guilty’ means an infidel. ‘Peace’ means we agree not to attack you until we have a strategic advantage and so on. This documentary is made from the perspective of these two Muslim converts. So stop it now and again and think about what you hear and see from these women. It’s like the old joke:
‘How do you know XXX is lying? Her lips are moving.’
In this case, its a studied practiced and codified system of fooling the non Muslim in order to rule them dating back to the time of Mohamed. Even Thomas Jefferson was taken in by a fake ‘peace treaty’ one in English, and the other not and the two treaties said radically different things.
Could someone please explain this?
I will go forward with the assumption that this is not how it looks. So please someone who understands these sorts of things, explain to me, and any other readers here, why this is actually normal, and benign. h/t R from Oz
The Last Crusade.org: FBI CIA fund gala Islamic festival.
From The Last Crusade.org:
h/t jdamn
by
Paul L. Williams, Ph.D.
Obama’s America: Jews and Christians stay out!
Welcome to Obama’s America, where Islam represents the favored religion and a vital political force.
The transformed land of liberty was very much on view at the 14th Annual Arab International Festival in Dearborn, Michigan from June 19 to 21. Most readers, in this day of two-bit journalism and bughouse blogs, might dismiss the following account as phantasmagorical, save for the fact that friends of the Last Crusade has managed to capture the gala event on video. Click, watch, and scream.
The event was sponsored not only by the Ford Motor Company (we thought they were bankrupt) and the American Arab Chamber of Commerce but also (get this) by the FBI, the CIA and various representatives of the U.S. Military.
The 250,000 people who attended the event munched on rolled pita sandwiches, shawarma, tabouli, hummus and baklava. The men, in many cases, wore throbs and ghutras; the women were draped in black burqas, or western jeans, accented with veils.
The ribbon cutting, which got the festival underway, was conducted by State Senator Irma Clarke Coleman, Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, and Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly.
Note the Arabic inscription on the Government Issue T-Shirts
Representatives from the all branches of the U.S. Military – – Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force Armed forces – – promised American citizenship to every Mid-Eastern immigrant willing to enlist – – as long as they were Muslims – – Christians and Jews were excluded from the offer. G.I. Issued uniforms were emblazoned with Arabic script in case prospective recruits could not understand terms such as “United States Army”.
The FBI, not to be undone, set up a booth to recruit Muslim agents, and the CIA conducted raffles in order to entice young Islamists to enter the cloistered world of U.S. intelligence.
http://www.americanarab.com
The FBI, not to be undone, set up a booth to recruit Muslim agents, and the CIA conducted raffles in order to entice young Islamists to enter the cloistered world of U.S. intelligence.
The few Christians, who dared to venture forth on Warren Street to attend the festive gathering, were prohibited by law from distributing religious tracts and materials.
The order, which prohibited religious freedom to the Christians, came from U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmonds.
While there never has been a disruption of the public peace by Christians during the annual event, the Dearborn police kept vigilant watch for any Baptist or Pentecostal intrepid enough to violate the ruling to suppress their religious freedom.
No such stout-hearted soul appeared with tract, rosary, or Bible in hand, except for an inspired group of young Arab Christians and ex-Muslims. Rick Warren’s disciples and the Joel Osteen militia were conspicuously absent as innocent Christians were set upon with violence and threats.
Serving their Islamic masters, the Dearborn Police defied their oath of office to protect the violent 5th columnists and joined in the unconstitutional intimidation of the Christians. Continue Reading →
Second war in Georgia imminent?
Multiple analysts are speculating that Russian recent activities such as vetoing continuation of the OSCE observation mission point towards plans for Second Russia-Georgia War shortly after the Kavkaz 2009 exercise by Russia. Last year’s Russia-Georgia War began after the Kavkaz 2008 exercise.
Postimees citing BNS citing kasparov.ru citing Andrey Illarionov: http://www.postimees.ee/?id=135012
The Moscow Times, Yulia Latynina: <http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/1029/42/379020.htm>
Times Online, Tony Halpin: <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6571961.ece>
Thank you to our friend in Russia’s near far.