Tag: terrorism
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hillary takes flak for mixing politics & terror
from ny daily news: Fellow democrats blasted Hillary Clinton yesterday for speculating about the political fallout of a potential terrorist attack before the 2008 election, accusing her of exploiting voters’ fears to bolster her campaign. “Frankly, I find it tasteless to discuss the political implications when talking about a potential terrorist attack on the United…
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padilla convicted of terrorism support
from ap: Jose Padilla was convicted of federal terrorism support charges Thursday after being held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant in a case that came to symbolize the Bush administration’s zeal to stop homegrown terror. Padilla, a U.S. citizen from Chicago, was once accused of being part of an al-Qaida plot to…
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nypd warns of homegrown terror threat
from ap: Average citizens who quietly band together and adopt radical ways pose a mounting threat to American security that could exceed that of established terrorist groups like al-Qaida, a new police analysis has concluded. The New York Police Department report released Wednesday describes a process in which young men – often legal immigrants from…
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israeli terror expert: US terror attack ’90 days at most’
from fox: Counterterrorism expert Juval Aviv spoke with FOX Fan Central about what Americans can do to protect themselves in case of a terror attack. Fox: Do you believe another terrorist attack is likely on American soil? Aviv: I predict, based primarily on information that is floating in Europe and the Middle East, that an…
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chertoff has ‘a gut feeling’ about more terror
from abc: Senior U.S. intelligence officials tell ABC News new intelligence suggests a small al Qaeda cell is on its way to the United States, or may already be here. The White House has convened an urgent multi-agency meeting for Thursday afternoon to deal with the new threat. Top intelligence and law enforcement officials have…
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santorum suggests new terror will change view of war
from paul joseph watson: In an alarming display of fearmongering, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum has suggested that a series of “unfortunate events,” namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen’s perception of the war. Appearing on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Santorum also hyped the necessity of “confronting Iran…
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crying wolf over more fake terror
my worry here is that we’re being softened up by all these phony terror plots. so that when al-CIAda really hits, we’ll be completely blindsided & dumbfounded… so incompetent as to be almost laughablefrom talking points memo: “So incompetent as to be almost laughable.” That’s how former Scotland Yard detective John O’Connor described the botched…
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london police defuse car bomb
from npr: Police defused a car bomb in the busy Haymarket area of central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack. Police said the car – a silver Mercedes parked near busy Piccadilly Circus -…
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police seize huge cache of explosives
but say it’s not enough “for a terrorist action”from winter patriot: A Colorado man is free on $50,000 bond after a police search of his house discovered a cache of weapons, explosives and volatile chemicals. Ronald Swerlein of Longmont, CO, attracted the attention of his neighbors by setting off explosions in his garage. Police had…
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fbi terror watch list ‘out of control’
from abc: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. A…
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posada: terrorism made in usa
from google video: This well-documented film provides damning evidence of the U.S. role in training and directing the terrorist actions of Luis Posada Carriles, and reviews his whole terrorist history. It features testimony from Venezuelan, Cuban and other victims of Posada’s torture and murderous past. “Posada: Terrorism Made in U.S.A.” is a carefully documented and…
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jfk airport plot has all the hallmarks of staged terror
from paul joseph watson: An alleged plot to blow up fuel tanks, terminal buildings and fuel lines running beneath Kennedy International Airport has all the hallmarks of being another staged terror alert, having never advanced beyond a rudimentary planning stage while being prodded and provocateured by a paid government informant. In every single major terror…
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another phony terror bust
from raw story: Authorities have arrested three suspects and are in pursuit of a fourth in connection to a plot to blow up a fuel line running through New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. “The plot, which never got past the planning stages, did not involve airplanes or passenger terminals, according to the…
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thank you but our terrorist is in another castle
from the talent show: I’ve been saying for years that those Ataris and Nintendos are the cause of violence, but you fools weren’t listening. Now the video game threat has reached our shores: FBI agents say one of the six men accused of planning a shooting spree at Fort Dix conducted surveillance at several military…
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noble resolve ’07: 4 days of simulated terror
from false flag news: From April 23-27, the elite echelon of the military are running Noble Resolve 07, a 4-day marathon of “simulated” terror attacks across the US and Europe. This includes a simulated detonation of a “loose” 10-kiloton nuclear weapon Virginia harbor, smuggled in by a “foreign nation.” This week Dick Cheney has also…