January 2007 Archives

The Toronto Sun is reporting that the RCMP are taking threats to "strategic targets of importance" will be targeted in the western, largely English-speaking part of Montreal between Feb. 15 and March 15, very seriously!

MONTREAL -- The RCMP is taking "very seriously" a recent threatening letter signed by a group claiming to be a new cell of the FLQ, a Quebec terrorist group active in the 1960s and 1970s.

The letter, dated Jan. 15, says "strategic targets of importance" will be targeted in the western, largely English-speaking part of Montreal between Feb. 15 and March 15. It mentions crowded shopping malls, bridges, rail lines, airport facilities, water supplies, municipal buildings and service stations.

"We will especially target traffic on main highways," it warns. The letter says the plan of attack is designed "for maximum impact" and warns "it's possible there will be injuries and deaths."

The letter adds that "a combination of vehicles, letter bombs, remote-control explosive devices will be used and most of these devices are already in place." RCMP Cpl. Luc Bessette said yesterday that businesses which don't conform to Quebec 's French-language sign law were also threatened.

The letter, which is signed: "FLQ, Camille-Laurin Cell," is the second of its kind. The first one was received on Nov. 15, 2006. Camille Laurin was a Parti Quebecois cabinet minister responsible for Quebec 's language law in the 1970s.

The FLQ was a pro-sovereigntist terrorist group that carried out a campaign of bombings in the 1960s and sparked the 1970 October Crisis when British diplomat James Cross was kidnapped and then Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte was kidnapped and later killed.

Bessette said the RCMP is not dismissing the threats. "Anything that has to do with the integrity and security of our citizens is always taken seriously," he said.

But the officer stressed there's no indication those responsible for the letter can carry out their threats. The Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, which includes Montreal police, provincial police, the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service agents are investigating.

The possibility exists of a bloody battle this evening in Baghdad coninciding with a massive cyber attack on major news media websites causing a media blackout!

Thanks god and the prayer and the greeting on the messenger of Allah and on its family and its friends as a wholes then as for till now ....

The High Command of the sheikh brigade declares that refused a complicating that battalions Allah had mercy emigrants inciting about he started its first battle next Friday the permission of the agreeing Allah 19-1 - 2007 the seven o'clock an evening timing of fourth Holy Mecca GMT and that after our declaration of the entrance of the greatest battle of Baghdad then we will fight by our way and will Back our brothers by all what we from experiences and a strength have where we will hit important news agencies at the rejecting with the addition to target of their biggest forums and will be the battles after the battles then we ask you by Allah that you include us in the battle so that we revenge for our sister Fatma and Abir.

The revenge to our brothers of these they violated their honors and their abdomens were filled with Bin Al Alqmi's grandsons not to then to describe an Allah on them as a wholes and on him O the monotheism brothers we call on you for our participation to those the battles where we will support our fighting brothers are with cutting the media the malicious Al Rafdi then you do not become stingy to your brothers with this easy service ......

Fouallh gave the option in us that our opinion our brothers violate their honors and their dignity and about in our delusion and our desires persistent are trod so then you prepare yourselves and they rolled up for God's sake and counted the wage from Allah then our battles will cause God willing grave losses in the lines of Bin Al Alqmi's grandsons ....

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And your supply with the necessary programs will take place before the date by an hour approximately and the advertisement will take place about the targeted site before the battle by quarter hour approximately to and on all who wants that he rolls up with us in the battle writes a phrase " that I am with you God willing " we ask Allah for the guidance, the soundness and the sincerity in the saying, the work and a triumphant Allah on its matter but more is the people that do not know

The High Command of the sheikh brigade emigrants refused battalions Musab Al-Zarqawi the inciting

Your brother :- The machine gun trigger is the battle official in the faithfulness God willing

New Arms Shipments to Iraqi Militia Detected

(ABC News Blotter) US military intelligence sources tell ABC News that large shipments of weapons have been smuggled to Iraqi militia over the past five weeks, including dozens of Iranian supplied EFP's , or Explosive Form Projectiles, highly effective against armored vehicles. The weapons were sent to Moqtada al Sadr's Shi'a militia, known as "Mahdi’s Army" who control Sadr City, a slum in northern Baghdad with a population of 2 million.

US and Iraqi intelligence units on the ground detected the shipments which are believed to be of Iranian origin. In addition, US military sources tell ABC, Al Sadr has been working on his own "surge," actively recruiting hundreds of residents of Sadr City to supplement the 8 to 10,000 militiamen already believed to make up the "Mahdi Army" in Baghdad.

Bahaa al-Araji, one of Moqtada al-Sadr's representatives in the Iraqi parliament, has told ABC News that the radical Shiite cleric has ordered his Mahdi Army not to attack US forces -- even if targeted. But the increased arms shipments from Iran and intensified recruiting are yet another troubling sign of the difficulties facing the new Bush war plan which Ambassador Negroponte alluded to in his congressional testimony yesterday.

"One has to wonder why it is they (Iran) have increased their supply of these kinds of lethal weapons to extremists Shi'a groups in Iraq, provoking violence, attacks on coalition forces and others. And one wonders if their policy towards Iraq may not have shifted to a more aggressive posture than it has been in the past."

ATHENS (AFP) - Greek police sealed off one of Athens' main avenues after a loud explosion was heard inside the American embassy, police and fire department sources said. Four fire engines rushed to the scene, amid reports that the explosion struck the embassy building's third floor at 5:55 am (0355 GMT), the fire department said.

A US State Department spokesman in Washington said there were no casualties. "At approximatly 11 pm eastern time, 6 am local time (0400 GMT) there was an explosion at the US embassy in Athens," US State Department spokesman Kurtis Cooper said in a brief statement in Washington. "There are no injuries or casualties of any kind. Police have responded. As a result, the embassy will be closed today Friday the 12th of January." Curtis said that US officials "will endeavour to have further information Friday morning Washington time."

One witness said the blast hit in the courtyard near the embassy's front entrance. "The explosion sounded in the courtyard, then a fire broke out over the central entrance, where the emblem is situated," a Greek motorist told private Skai radio. The American embassy is among the best-guarded buildings in the Greek capital. Police said they are investigating with sniffer dogs.

ATHENS, Greece - A rocket was fired at the U.S. embassy early Friday, striking the front of the building but causing no injuries. A senior police official said the blast was an act of terrorism.

Police cordoned off streets around the heavily guarded building after the explosion shortly before 6 a.m. The shell struck the third floor and smashed glass in nearby buildings. Investigators found the device used to fire the rocket shell at a construction site near the embassy.

"This is an act of terrorism. We don't know where from," Attica Police Chief Asimakis Golfis said. "There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building ... It was fired from street level."

Embassy officials confirmed that an explosion had taken place and said that no one had been injured. U.S. ambassador Charles Reis said the damage was "not extensive." "There can be no justification for such a senseless act of violence ... The embassy was occupied at the time (but) nobody was hurt, he said.

Authorities were searching apartment buildings near the U.S. Embassy and a nearby hospital for evidence. "I heard a loud bang I didn't realize what was going on," said Giorgos Yiannoulis, who runs a kiosk near the embassy. Traffic came to a standstill across parts of central Athens, as police and emergency services scrambled to the embassy building, which is a frequent destination for protest groups.

It was the first major attack against a U.S. target in more than a decade, following the arrest of members of Greece's far-left November 17 terrorist group. The group was blamed for killing 23 people — including U.S., British and Turkish officials — and dozens of bomb attacks. In 2003, a special court gave multiple life sentences to November 17's leader, chief assassin and three other members. Lesser sentences were given to 10 others.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki recognizes that the American ambassador requested the postponement of Saddam's execution

The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki yesterday recognized, that the American ambassador in Baghdad Zalmay Khalilzad requested from him the postponement of the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein execution ten days or two weeks but he was refused . And the Malki said in a dialogue with a television a " the Arab " it informed a food " that we do not want keeping the door an open on the disorders, and we do not want to the victims families the exit in demonstrations " .

U.S. Anti terror Aid OK For Police Salaries in Six Places Including New York City

"The six metropolitan areas deemed at greatest risks for a terror attack now will be able to use federal grants to pay salaries of police officers assigned to counter terrorism jobs like guarding city bridges and subway tunnels, the New York Times reports. The rules change will apply New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Washington, and San Francisco. "

"These six urban areas will share $411 million in antiterrorism grants this year, while 39 other areas will compete for the remaining $336 million in available grants. New York City had lobbied for the change. Previously, while some grant money could be used for overtime, federal officials pushed cities to use the money to buy antiterrorism equipment like gas masks or surveillance systems rather than for salaries." - Crime and Justice News

The Port of Miami was hit by its second terrorism scare in two days Monday when a package that was to be loaded onto a cruise ship tested positive for plastic explosives. Authorities later determined it was just a box of sprinkler parts...READ MORE

MIAMI - A package that was going to be loaded onto a cruise ship at the Port of Miami tested positive for plastic explosives Monday, the Coast Guard said. The package was tested six times and each time it came back positive for C4, said Petty Officer James Judge. Miami-Dade police were examining the package. See related here and here.

A judge Monday dropped all charges against three Middle Eastern men whose miscommunication with guards at the Port of Miami had sparked a terrorism scare...."Due to a miscommunication between the gate security personnel and the truck driver, we believe there was a discrepancy in the number of people in the vehicle," Goldberg said. "This, and the fact that one of the individuals did not have any form of ID, raised our level of concern." READ MORE

NEW YORK - Authorities were investigating the source of a mysterious gas-like odor Monday that stretched across a large part of Manhattan, including Rockefeller Center The Fire Department began getting calls about the odor around 9 a.m. Monday, said spokesman Tim Hinchey. No source had been identified. There also were unconfirmed reports of a similar smell across the river in New Jersey. Utility officials with Consolidated Edison had no immediate comment.

AUSTIN, Texas - Police shut down several blocks of businesses in the heart of downtown Austin early Monday after dozens birds were found dead in the street.Experts were testing for any sort of environmental contaminant or gas or chlorine leaks that might of killed off the animals, police spokeswoman Toni Chovanetz said. The carcasses were found overnight along Congress Avenue between Sixth and Eighth streets. There were no reports of any humans harmed, but the main north-south route through downtown, several side streets and all buildings in the area were blocked off and expected to remain closed until about noon, Chovanetz said

The secretive leader of a Nigerian terror group is threatening "a more ruthless" set of attacks on U.S. and European oil facilities, including burning workers alive on offshore oil rigs. READ MORE

The 15-year long struggle between the Algerian regime and the Islamist Group for Call and Combat continues. Head of the group, known by its French-language acronym GSPC, 'Abd Al-Malik Dourkdel, vowed on Saturday to continue with the armed struggle and called on Osama Bin Laden to provide the group with instructions, the Jordanian news agency Al-Bawaba reported. Read More

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Taliban chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden, saying he hasn't seen his ally and fellow fugitive since US-backed forces toppled the Taliban from Afghanistan in late 2001. "No, I have neither seen him, nor have I made any effort to do so, but I pray for his health and safety," Omar said in an e-mailed response to questions. Read More

AMMAN: The death row wait of two of Saddam Hussein's top aides who were due to hang with the ousted Iraqi president last month is "more terrifying" than the execution itself, their lawyer said yesterday.

Saddam's half-brother and intelligence chief Barzan Ibrahim Al Tikriti and revolutionary court chief Awad Ahmed Al Bandar "were told by the Americans they would be executed the same day as Saddam", Jordanian attorney Issam Ghazzawi said. Read More

London, England (AHN) - A British man charged of being a banker for the al Qaeda terror network on Sunday denied accusations from London and Washington that he played a key role in the Osama bin Laden organization. The U.S. Treasury and the Bank of England, both froze the assets of Mohammed al Ghabra last month in connection with the sanctions imposed by the United Nations to choke the finances of the terrorist network.

Ghabra was being pinpointed for supporting al Qaeda and other violent jihadist groups by assisting recruits to travel to meet al Qaeda leader in Pakistan and take part in terrorist training. He is also accused of helping some British nationals to travel to Iraq to fight coalition forces, which is becoming a growing concern among intelligence agencies alongside radicalization of British Muslims in Pakistan.

But Ghabra denied the allegation and told the Sunday Times, "If I am the money-maker and this is why they have decided to put the sanctions against me, how could I have so many financial problems myself?" He adds, "I don't have the capability of supporting anyone financially, barely myself. If anyone has the evidence, please show it to me. I am not the banker."

A message to the Americans and their allies on the occasion of the new year

On the occasion of the advent of the new year we loved that we do not be forgotten that we send to the American people and its allies the crusade coalition peoples are some important messages ..
And we are since we send to you these messages, we wish for you from our hearts that they are the new year the more bloodthirsty on you from the year that left ...

You understand only the language of blood and remains ..
And you understand only the language of explosion and destruction ..
You rejoice by what he displeases in these years ...
Fouallh Lithiqnkm is the Islam heroes what your eyes did not see is from ...
And you will see God willing what he makes forget terrors the battles of New York and Washington ...

And know you that the Muslims did not wrong you but you who wronged yourselves with your standing in front of the jihad knights and the monotheism heroes ...

And will try I to he explained for you some what he waits in this new year until they learned the extent of this way bloodthirstiness on you God willing ..

In Afghanistan Taliban and Al-Qaeda operations will increase until they afflict God willing in north of the country .. Until he does not remain to you a span there you devote in it with the security .. As the militants are Sikthfoua from the use of the strategic weapon of the nation ... You know what is he ? that it is the martyrdom operations weapon, that will transfer your night to a day and your day to a hell ...
And the one can will not from you that he feels the security in any span from the moist earth of Khorasan countries ...

In your fortified bases they expected the fall of missiles on your heads at any moment .. And these missiles might have fallen on the ammunition depots then burns your bases on you, like what happened of your brothers in the falcon base in Baghdad ...
And the militants might have broken into your bases on you .. And they preferred your killing by their special way that taught them her their prince the living martyr Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi .. Where Sistkhsr the militants are your killing by shooting .. You know why ؟ because you do not equal at them the price of this bullet .. But you meaner than that .. Therefore they will prefer your slaughter by the knives ...
And if you got out of your rules then expected in each street an explosive device .. And in each way an ambush ..

And however, in Iraq, they expected the increase of the militants operations on you, their breakthrough of your bases and their slaughter of you in all places of and at any moment ... Or perhaps the effect of some of you is captive in the militants hands and its hour you will slaughter the slaughter of ewes since your leaders will refuse your change by the Muslims prisoners .. You know why ؟ because your life has not a value at you, but they seek the achievement of their aspirations and the personal interests ..
And the country of Islamic Iraq will widen its influence until it includes Iraq all God willing ..

And however, in the Arabian Peninsula, the companions of the Prophets grandsons will return peace be upon him to your fight and your causing the grave losses in the lives and the equipments ... And Saloul's family can will not protect your interests from the blows of militants ...
And know you that the militants are resolute on the expansion of their targeting circle for you ... The militants will not be content with your hitting in the two Holy Mosques countries, but you will give of all of the Arabian Peninsulas ..
They might have hit your supplies convoys in Kuwait or in Qatar and they might have broken into your embassy in the United Arab Emirates or dragged one of your experts in Bahrain streets ...

And as for in Yemen ... He has prepared to you a black Islam is what will lose the sleep from your eyes ... They expected the destruction of a naval battleship or the explosion of a crusade embassy ... Or a big killing from your seniors ...
This the countries of belief and piety .. And your obedient slave will not be useful for you Abdullah the libertine where he can will not God willing protect himself from the blows of militants besides that he protects you ...

And as for in Somalia ... The heroes of the Islamic courts will return to your minds your defeat by the Islam heroes in Mogadishu .. Where the militants will intensify the attack and retreat operations on your ally Ethiopia and their apostate slaves .. And you will not devote in it one day with the security and the safety ..

And as for the Egypt, the Islam heroes will transfer it to a volcano that burns the crusaders and the Jews and the dressed ones on the ground .. They expected an explosion in your hotel or a martyrdom operation on your embassy or a sinking of your ships ... And the betraying cuckold can will not protect you from the hands of the true militants .. And the beggary scholars and the retreating who sold their religion with a presentation from the world can will not few that they stop the jihad extension on the regions of the blessed Egypt ...
And you will see the honest joining results from the Islamic group sons to Al-Qaeda in the real world God willing ...

And as for Lebanon, Syria and Jordan .. Have he prepared punching pupils Al Zarkoi that Allah had mercy what will make you lament a blood .. They expected a missile attack on the sons of Zions country or a targeting the forces of the international false witness the atheist nations or an explosion of your embassies in Oman or destruction of your interests in Damascus .. How no and these are Al Zarkoi's sons and their men who were brought up on their hands and took from them their experience ...

And as for Algeria and the Maghreb countries the Islamic then you will see in it God willing the brotherhood joining fruit in the Salafist Group for Call and Combat to your brothers in the Al-Qaeda network where the militants will widen their operations that will deprive you of your minds .. And these operations might have broadened so that they include France and Spain ...

As for the attacks that will fall in your house middle then this is the real present that will guide it to you the militants .. The coming explosion might have been in Rome or in the Vatican or in Copenhagen or London or Washington ... And the militants fires might have come to Texas and California or until Tokyo Wmalbourn ...

As bombard that you bombard and as kill that you kill ...

Not I believe for you that it will be by Allah ability a bloody way on you and on your allies ؟؟
I will not extend on you then the news is what you see no what you hear ..

Fouallh that it is good for me that you leave this nation and its affair or then they waited for us next and next and worse and bitterer with God's Help ...

And he will know the ones who wronged any overturned turns back

He wrote it an incitement of the believers and teasing of the enemies of religion and religion

Nasser the militants
The Al-Qaeda soldier

The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution is in Iraq the presidency

Plane vanishes over Indonesia

RESCUERS are scouring Indonesia's Sulawesi island after a plane went missing with 96 passengers and six crew on board.

The Adam Air Boeing 737-400 lost contact with the ground yesterday about an hour before it was due to land in Manado in North Sulawesi, Tatang Ikhsan, director general at the transport ministry, said. It had been flying at 10,670 metres. An official said efforts to reach the co-pilot by mobile telephone indicated the plane was on the ground rather than in the sea, where the telephone would be unlikely to work.

"There was a ring tone, but no answer," said Abdul Gani, a Search and Rescue duty officer at Makassar, capital of the region from where a distress signal was picked up by satellite. Speaking to Reuters by telephone, Gani said the signal indicated the plane might be in a mountainous area. Air and sea searches would begin in the morning, he said.

Ikhsan said the flight had originated in Jakarta, taken off from a stopover in Surabaya on Java island at 1pm local time (1700 AEDT) and been scheduled to land just over two hours later in Manado. At a news conference late yesterday he said the satellite, in Singapore, had dectected the distress signal 154 km north-west of Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, 1,400 km east of Jakarta.

"We call on other flights which crossed this route to provide information on any distress signal," he said. Transport Minister Hatta Rajasa said the plane had been sighted by another plane above the Mamuju forest on Sulawesi. "Let's hope it made an emergency landing," he told Elshinta radio, adding that rescuers had been sent to the area. At Jakarta's main commercial airport, where the flight began its journey, taxi driver Oswald Mamalani told Reuters his younger sister and her child were aboard the plane. "When I arrived home, I got a phone call from a relative in Manado asking me to pray... for the safety of my sister," he said. "So far I feel that my sister is still alive."

First Marshal Eddy Suyanto, commander of Hasanuddin air base in Makassar, told Metro television: "We have contacted related agencies and several groups have travelled by road to locations where we think the plane might have gone down but so far there has not been any information." The transport ministry's Ikhsan said the plane was airworthy and last serviced in December 2005. It has 45,371 flying hours, and according to Adam Air the 17-year-old aircraft's engines are CFM56-3C1 models made by General Electric.

"The weather conditions all over our country are not very good. We have notified all airlines ... All flights should have received complete information," he said. Much of Indonesia was cloudy with rainfall yesterday. An Adam Air Boeing 737-300 plane was forced to make an emergency landing in February at a small airport in East Nusa Tenggara province after a navigational failure caused the pilot to lose contact with the destination airport in Makassar.

Adam Air, one of about a dozen budget airlines in the world's fourth most populous nation, operates 19 Boeing 737 jets. It serves dozens of domestic routes in Indonesia and also flies to Singapore. The airline was established by two Indonesians, Agung Laksono, the speaker of the house of representatives, who is chairman of the company, and Sandra Ang, in 2002 and commenced operations on Dec. 19, 2003. In January a newspaper report said Adam Air was planning a share listing in Singapore for 2008. Air travel in Indonesia, home to 220 million people, has grown substantially since the liberalisation of the airline industry after the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s, which enabled privately owned budget airlines to operate.

Sen. Boxer Recalls Award to Muslim Activist

Sen. Barbara Boxer recalled an award she recently gave to an Islamic activist because of his ties to a major American Muslim organization, that critics say has ties to terrorist activities.