“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
H/T EDL Buck
The package was discovered during the operation at a house on Sholebroke Avenue, Chapeltown.
A West Yorkshire Police spokesman said it was taken to Soldier’s Field in Roundhay Park where a controlled explosion took place.
Dozens of homes were evacuated. A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.
H/T Magic Martin
PARIS – A Paris prosecutor says three young Frenchmen detained last week were plotting an imminent bomb attack in France.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said Monday that one of the men had caught the attention of U.S. authorities by sending an email message to the White House. Molins didn’t elaborate and the U.S. Embassy in France had no immediate comment.
Molins said the three men were in part inspired by Mohamed Merah, a gunman espousing radical Islam who killed Jewish schoolchildren and French paratroopers in a shocking rampage in Toulouse a year ago.
H/T Richard
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A suspected Islamist from Portland, Ore., was nabbed by law enforcement officers on Tuesday and charged with giving advice and financial assistance to one of three Islamic terrorists who perpetrated a 2009 suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, that killed 35 people and injured more than 300 others,according to the FBI.
Pakistani officials stated at the time that 13 of the dead were policemen and seven were intelligence officials.
India:
Fri March 1 2013
Haridwar police is yet to trace the persons who had written several letters threatening to blow up major railway stations, popular religious and tourist destinations during the past few months. In all these letters, the senders had claimed they were members of terrorist organisations like Jaish-e-Mohammad, Lakshar-e-Toiba and other groups.
Dehradun Range Deputy Inspector General Amit Sinha said that Haridwar police had received such letters recently and also in the past. Police are on alert and have been deployed at important religious and tourist destinations to prevent untoward incidents.
Sinha further said that some places in the Dehradun Range like Indian Military Academy, Har Ki Pauri and tourist destinations are sensitive and district police heads were instructed to put the police on high alert based on intelligence reports or inputs received from Union Ministry of Home Affairs. The bomb squad and the dog squad too have been put on high alert.
More here at The Blaze
Dilsukh Nagar Bomb Blast on 21st Feb 2013 – Serial Blast at Hyderabad
Indian sources are telling me that a group called, ‘Indian Mujaheedin’ carried out this attack. This group is said to be the Indian branch of Al-Qaeda
This story, supplied by C Bee, gives some history on the surveillance of the site.
H/T C Bee
These videos are in both English and local.
Thanks Golem Bar for the link and the translation
Published on Feb 13, 2013
The head of CSIS, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, warned Monday that Canadians are involved in every al-Qaeda affiliate group and that these groups have mentioned Canada as a possible target.
Richard Fadden appeared before the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence in Ottawa. He told the committee the threat posed by al-Qaeda is changing and becoming harder for authorities to track.
“Al-Qaeda in the [Afghanistan/Pakistan] area was the directing brain that caused 9/11. It has been much weakened,” Fadden said.
“But on the other hand, all of their affiliates…..they are much, much more operational than they used to be, They are beginning to communicate between themselves far more than they used to. And in every single case, there are Canadians who have joined them,” he said.
“CSIS is currently aware of dozens of Canadians — many in their early 20s — who have travelled or attempted to travel overseas to engage in terrorism-related activites in recent years,” he told the committee. Continue Reading →
From the SDAMATT Youtube site:
Published on Feb 13, 2013
In the wake of an ABC News story detailing claims by victims of the Fort Hood shooting that they have been neglected by the military and ‘betrayed’ by President Obama, the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee has sent a letter to his fellow members of Congress demanding that the Obama administration classify the attack as a terrorist act and provide full benefits to the victims and their families.
“It is time for the administration to recognize the Fort Hood shooting for what it is—an act of terrorism,” wrote Rep. Michael McCaul, R.-Texas, in a letter cosigned by Rep. Frank Wolf, R.-Virginia. “To date, the Department of Defense and the Army classify this attack [as] ‘workplace violence,’ despite mountains of evidence [that] clearly proves the Ft. Hood shooting was an act of terror.”
The letter recommends that members of Congress view the ABC News report, “which highlights the broken promises made to the victims of that attack by the Obama Administration. The video contains never-seen-before footage of the terrorist attack and moving interviews with several of the survivors.”
“As this news piece makes clear,” wrote McCaul and Wolf, “the result of this inexcusable [workplace violence] classification … is that victims and their families have not received the same recognition or medical and financial benefits as those wounded or killed in war.”
It is worth looking in to the history of the US Marines at this point, the creation of which was a reaction to the then enormous ransoms being paid to Muslim naval kidnapping gangs called, ‘The Barbary Pirates’, who’s booty would be used to fund world wide jihad and the white female slaves taken would fill the harems of the more affluent and powerful Muslim war lords.
I wonder when Western nations will decide enough is enough again. Personally, I think not one ransom should have been paid and the already existent potential for projection of force should have been used to send the clearest possible message, perhaps even including the destruction of the Kaaba in Mecca. But it seems that the Islamic forces read us correctly. Too polite to fight back, we see our treasure and our blood and the safety of our women sacrificed for the temporary illusion of good governance.
7:40PM GMT 24 Jan 2013
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones has warned that al-Qaeda’s North Africa branch was funding attacks using millions of pounds in ransom money paid by European governments.
By Noah Barkin
BERLIN | Tue Oct 2, 2012 12:15pm EDT
(Reuters) – Islamist militants are increasingly funding themselves through kidnapping, with al Qaeda’s north African wing likely to have brought in tens of millions of dollars in ransoms in the past few years, a senior U.S. Treasury official said.
The United States estimates militant organizations received $120 million over the past decade, including the ransoms paid to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), said David Cohen, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence.
H/T Fjordman
H/T Snaphanen for this one and special thanks to Hermes for the rush translation and Gates of Vienna for assembling it right away.
Spanish police on Thursday defused a nail bomb found next to a confessional in the Almudena Cathedral in the historic heart of Madrid, officials said.
A priest found the bomb in a bin bag and evacuated the cathedral, a tourist attraction next to the city’s old royal palace, a spokesman for the archbishopric of Madrid told AFP.
A bomb disposal team came and defused the device, “composed of a detonator, 200 grammes (seven ounces) of gunpowder, a metal gas canister-type container full of nails, and an alarm clock,” a police spokesman added.
1 of 3. A security officer runs after an explosion at the entrance of the U.S. embassy in Ankara February 1, 2013. A suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard (not in picture) at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, blowing the door off a side entrance and sending smoke and debris flying into the street.
Credit: Reuters/Yavuz Ozden/Milliyet Daily Newspaper
By Seltem Iyigun and Nick Tattersall
ISTANBUL | Sat Feb 2, 2013 1:24pm EST
(Reuters) – A member of a Turkish leftist group that accuses Washington of using Turkey as its “slave” carried out a suicide bomb attack on the U.S. embassy, the Ankara governor’s office cited DNA tests as showing on Saturday.
Ecevit Sanli, a member of the leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army-Front (DHKP-C), blew himself up in a perimeter gatehouse on Friday as he tried to enter the embassy, also killing a Turkish security guard.
The DHKP-C, virulently anti-American and listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and Turkey, claimed responsibility in a statement on the internet in which it said Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was a U.S. “puppet”.
Bomber already convicted on previous terror related charges
