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Passengers Tackle Man Announcing Bomb Threat -
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L.A. Times

Passengers pounce on man who made threats aboard L.A.-bound flight

Musician Chris Llewellyn was among those who sprang into action after a man shoved a flight attendant and tried to open an exit door.

January 8, 2009

Chris Llewellyn was staring out the window of Delta Airlines Flight 110, watching the landscape of Los Angeles rise up toward the plane, when he heard the screams of a male flight attendant: "Help me! Help me!"

Turning quickly, he saw that a passenger had pushed the attendant to the floor and was trying to open the rear emergency exit.
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Homeland Security's 5-Year Threat Picture
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Homeland Security's 5-year threat picture

Eileen Sullivan ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The terrorism threat to the United States over the next five years will be driven by instability in the Middle East and Africa, persistent challenges to border security and increasing Internet savvy, says a new intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press.

Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear attacks are considered the most dangerous threats that could be carried out against the U.S. But those threats are also the most unlikely because it is so difficult for al-Qaida and similar groups to acquire the materials needed to carry out such plots, according to the internal Homeland Security Threat Assessment for the years 2008-2013.

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Nuclear, Bio Attack on U.S. Likely by 2013--Fox
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WASHINGTON — The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden.

It suggests the Obama administration bolster efforts to counter and prepare for germ warfare by terrorists.

"Our margin of safety is shrinking, not growing," states the report, obtained by The Associated Press. It is scheduled to be publicly released Wednesday.

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Possible Prime Targets of Terrorism
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Marvin J. Cetron, the futurist who predicted 9/11, and who embarrassed the intelligence community with his study “Terror 2000,” said the State Department requested the reference to terrorists using a jet aircraft as a weapon be deleted from the report. Officials feared it might give the terrorists an idea they hadn’t already thought of, Cetron said during an exclusive interview with Newsmax.

"I no longer worry about giving the bad guys ideas. Ordinary citizens need to know where the dangers lie," Cetron said.

This analysis of several possible prime targets of terrorism is based on a new study that Cetron’s Forecasting International carried out for the Pentagon. None of this information is classified.
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The World Still Blames America--Malkin
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Al-Qaida's media relations department must be seething. Or rather, they must be seething beyond the usual Destroy America/Kill the Jews/Behead the Infidels/Convert-or-Die seething that is their second nature. After years of churning out throat-slitting propaganda videos, investing in the finest video editing software and studio sets, and establishing cozy relations with sympathetic international newspapers and global network news channels, the jihadists still don't get no respect from world opinion.

They are the Rodney al-Dangerfields of global mass murderers.

A poll released this week of more than 16,000 people in 17 nations revealed that "majorities in only nine countries believe al-Qaida was behind the attacks on New York and Washington that killed about 3,000 people in 2001." A mere 46 percent of individuals overall said they believed al-Qaida executed the attacks — despite all the back-patting, fist-pumping video productions from AQ's media arm, al-Sahab, claiming credit.

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Never Forget: al-Qaeda's Ultimate Objective--Rosenberg - Sept 11
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

Never Forget: Al Qaeda’s Ultimate Objective

By Joel C. Rosenberg

During his military tribunal at Gitmo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM)– al Qaeda’s chief of external operations until he was captured in Pakistan – admitted that he was not only responsible for the 9/11 attacks. He also the mastermind of “second wave” attacks and other mega-attacks in the United States, Israel and around the globe.
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Iran's Role in 9/11--Timmerman
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Iran’s Role in 9/11 Attack

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size

In an auspicious passage that went virtually unreported at the time, the 9/11 Commission revealed in July 2004 that they “now have evidence suggesting that 8 to 10 of the 14 Saudi ‘muscle’ operatives traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.”

The “muscle” operatives were the 9/11 hijackers who overpowered airline crew members, slit their throats, and terrorized passengers so the al-Qaida pilots could seize control of the airliners and fly them into their targets.

The Commissioners concluded that there was “strong evidence that Iran facilitated the transit of al-Qaida members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11, and that some of these were future 9/11 hijackers.”

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Blocking the Path to 9/11
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Blocking “The Path to 9/11”

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/11/2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is John Ziegler, a former talk show host who is the director of the new documentary Blocking 'The Path to 9/11’. Visit the film's web site at BlockingThePath.com.

FP: Let’s begin with The Path to 9/11. What was this documentary about and what happened when it came time for it to be shown?

Ziegler: "The Path to 9/11' was by far the most ambitious of all the 9/11 related films. It was a five and a half hour, two-night mini-series that aired on ABC on the fifth anniversary of the attacks which depicted the real history that connects the first WTC attack in 1993 and 9/11.

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US Remains Dangerously Vulnerable to Attack--Fox
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WASHINGTON — The United States remains "dangerously vulnerable" to chemical, biological and nuclear attacks seven years after 9/11, a forthcoming independent study concludes. And a House Democrats' report says the Bush administration has missed one opportunity after another to improve the nation's security.

The recent political rupture between Russia and the U.S. only makes matters worse, said Lee Hamilton, the former Indiana Democratic congressman who helped lead the 9/11 Commission and now chairs the independent group's latest study.

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Pakistani Woman Carried List of NY Terror Targets--Fox
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NEW YORK — An MIT-educated Pakistani woman charged with trying to kill U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan allegedly carried a list of New York City targets -- including the Statue of Liberty, Times Square and the subway system, NY1.com reported on Wednesday.

Aafia Siddiqui was stopped on July 17 outside a government building in central Afghanistan's Ghazni province, according to a criminal complaint. Police searched her handbag and discovered documents containing recipes for explosives and chemical weapons and describing "various landmarks in the United States, including New York City," according to the complaint.

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The EMP Threat--WSJ
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The EMP Threat

August 9, 2008

Imagine you're a terrorist with a single nuclear weapon. You could wipe out the U.S. city of your choice, or you could decide to destroy the infrastructure of the entire U.S. economy and leave millions of Americans to die of starvation or want of medical care.

The latter scenario is the one envisioned by a long-running commission to assess the threat from electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. The subject of its latest, and little discussed, report to Congress is the effect an EMP attack could have on civilian infrastructure. If you're prone to nightmares, don't read it before bedtime.

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Counterterror Staff Falls by 62%--Wash.Times
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More than one out of every three positions in an elite FBI division that tracks al Qaeda terrorists is vacant, according to an internal bureau document. Efforts are under way at the FBI to canvass for "volunteers" to fill what the agency said is a "critical" need in its counterterrorism efforts.

A senior bureau official said yesterday that because of significant staffing shortages and a lack of experienced managers, the FBI cannot properly defend the United States against "another catastrophic and direct attack by Middle Eastern terrorists."

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Nuclear Lab Fails Terror Exercise--Bill Gertz
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Nuclear lab fails terrorist exercise

By Bill Gertz
May 15, 2008

Armed security agents posing as terrorists broke into a secure area at a nuclear weapons laboratory during a recent test, exposing flaws in the protection of stockpiles of plutonium and uranium coveted by terrorist groups and rogue nations seeking to become nuclear powers.

The "force-on-force" exercise at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California pitted two teams of special-operations-trained commandos: one that attacked use of simulated explosives, and a team of defenders who tried to keep them out, said Bush administration officials familiar with the test.

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Terrorist Threats to the Food Supply
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JWR

High food prices have sparked a great deal of unrest over the past few weeks. Indeed, the skyrocketing cost of food staples like grain has caused protests involving thousands of people in places such as South Africa, Egypt and Pakistan. These protests turned deadly in Haiti and even led to the ouster of Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis.

With global food supplies already tight, many people have begun once again to think (and perhaps even worry) about threats to the U.S. agricultural system and the impact such threats could have on the U.S. — and global — food supply. In light of this, it is instructive to examine some of these threats and attempt to place them in perspective.

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Who Will Stand Against Terrorism?--Emerson
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Who Will Stand Against Terrorism?

By Steven Emerson

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Eight young men, unarmed and in the relative security of their Jerusalem yeshiva, are gunned down in cold blood. In Gaza, thousands take to the streets to celebrate. Their government encourages them to do so.

How toxic is a society when the governing party suggests celebrating a massacre of teenaged boys?

The brutality of Thursday's massacre at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva exposes some ugly truths about the blood lust that has been fostered by leaders in Palestinian society and the unwillingness of most American Muslim political organizations and the mainstream media to confront it.

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9/11 Redux: Thousands of Aliens in Flight Schools Illegally
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9/11 Redux: 'Thousands of Aliens' in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally

Former FAA Inspector: TSA's Enforcement of Post-9/11 Laws 'Basically Nonexistent'

By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER and ERIC LONGABARDI
Feb. 27, 2008—

Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News.

"Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11 tragedy to happen in the first place are still very much in existence today," wrote one regional security official to his boss at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

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Terror Watch List Swells to 755,000
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USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — The government's terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list's effectiveness.

The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 names a year since 2004. Some lawmakers, security experts and civil rights advocates warn that it will become useless if it includes too many people.

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Airport Security Heading Backwards
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This should make you furious. This should make you angrier than you have been over almost anything since Sept. 11 — and that includes the war in Iraq.

A recent test showed that 75 percent of fake bombs or bomb parts got past TSA security at Los Angeles International Airport, and 60 percent got past TSA screeners at Chicago's O'Hare.

Those are two of the busiest airports in the world. Those are two of the juiciest targets a terrorist could desire.

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Chertoff: We're Preparing for Nuclear Attack
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NEWS MAX

WASHINGTON -- Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The officials told Congress the country is much better prepared to face terror threats than it was then, but that terrorists' desire to attack the United States remains strong — an assertion that has yet to be fully accepted by the American public, according to a new poll.

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Atom Bombs, Suitcase Nukes, and America's Future
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WND

In just one week in July we have been lucidly reminded that the war on terror is alive and well. The question is: Will we turn a blind eye to the evidence or seek to prevent a repeat of summer 2001, when we were given signs of a clear and present danger before Sept. 11?

"Reminiscent of…the summer of 2001"

The London Telegraph noted that "Britain is a centre of intense plotting and faces a terrorist threat of 'unprecedented scale, ambition and ruthlessness'."
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Homeland Security: The Good, the Bad, the . . .
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Homeland Security: The Good, The Bad....
By James Carafano
Heritage Foundation | June 13, 2007

Next to defense, arguably the most important congressional responsibility is ensuring that the federal government has the resources and guidance needed to fulfill its domestic security role. Congress created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2002; however, it has yet to pass a DHS authorization bill--an inexcusable shortfall.

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How the Left Undermined National Security Before 9/11---Sept. 11
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How the Left Undermined National Security Before 9/11
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 11, 2006

(The following article by David Horowitz first appeared in our March 24, 2004, issue. An updated version appeared last September 11. It has been further updated to reflect information that has come to light since then. With last night's premiere of the ABC-TV movie "The Path to 9/11," the truth impact of the Left's policies in bringing about the nation's worst terrorist attack is finally coming to light. -- The Editors) View Full Article

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What Israeli Security Could Teach Us--Jacoby
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What Israeli security could teach us

By Jeff Jacoby

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | The safest airline in the world, it is widely agreed, is El Al, Israel's national carrier. The safest airport is Ben Gurion International, in Tel Aviv. No El Al plane has been attacked by terrorists in more than three decades, and no flight leaving Ben Gurion has ever been hijacked. So when US aviation intensified its focus on security after 9/11, it seemed a good bet that the experience of travelers in American airports would increasingly come to resemble that of travelers flying out of Tel Aviv.

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Hezbollah: Coming to a Town Near You
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Hezbollah coming to a town near you.

Please watch. http://www.youtube.com/v/-HlaVpqUXF0

For those of you who think Hezbollah is a Lebanese/Israeli problem here is some info for you:

Over 300 Hezbollah terrorist have been arrested in America on American soil in the last few years by our government one of them was a general who came through the Mexican border.

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CAIR Given VIP Tour of Airport Security
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The Department of Homeland Security took a Muslim group with known past ties to terror organizations on a VIP tour of security operations at the nation's busiest airport at the same time British authorities were working to break up a plot to blow up U.S. airlines.

On June 21, a senior DHS official from Washington personally guided Muslim officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations on a behind-the-scenes tour of Customs screening operations at O'Hare International Airport in response to CAIR complaints that Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed as they entered the U.S. from abroad.

CAIR is a spin-off of the Islamic Association for Palestine, identified by two former FBI counterterrorism chiefs as a "front group" for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Several CAIR leaders have been convicted on terror-related charges.

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Lunacy Occupies our Airports--WND
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"Keep it random" is the motto of the madmen who run the Transportation Security Administration."Unpredictability," says the TSA's website, is key to securing (or is it tormenting) the traveling public. One moment an inspector may be lifting La Prairie face toner from well-to-do matrons; the next she'll be stealing anti-acne lotion from teenagers, or grabbing Gerber juice bottles from chubby cherubs. As one of Chertoff's chicks told MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, the terrorists are changing their methods all the time, and so must we.

Sounds more like a headless and very malevolent chicken (although to be fair to fowl, they're too stupid to harbor complex emotions).

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Why We Must Profile--Spencer
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Why We MUST Profile
By Robert Spencer

To profile or not to profile? Some recent suspicious incidents involving mass purchase of cell phones by Middle Eastern men have given this debate a new urgency.

On Tuesday, terrorism charges were dropped against two Muslims from Dearborn, Michigan, who had been arrested in Ohio. Ali Houssaiky and Osama Sabhi Abulhassan had been stopped for a traffic violation a week before; in their car, sheriff’s deputies found $11,000 in cash, airline passenger lists, material about airport security procedures, and twelve cell phones. It turned out that they had bought 600 cell phones recently.

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Shockingly Ignorant of the Muslims Among Us
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Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us

By Mark Steyn

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | This week's Voldemort Award goes to the New York Times for their account of a curious case of road rage in North Carolina:

"The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could 'run over things and keep going.' "

The driver in question was Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar.

Whoa, don't jump to conclusions. The Times certainly didn't. As the report continued:

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Homeland Security Debacle
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Homeland security debacle
TODAY'S EDITORIAL

As the legislative session in Annapolis grinds on, it looks less and less likely that anything will be done to alter what has become a national embarassment: the fact that Maryland has become one of the easiest states in the country when it comes to permitting illegal aliens to obtain driver's licenses.

We oppose permitting the federal government to micromanage the issuing of driver's licenses, which is clearly a state responsibility. But if we have learned anything from September 11, it is the ease with which the hijackers were able to obtain driver's licenses and use them as a form of identification. America is only as strong as its weakest link. And among the 50 states, Maryland has one of the worst records when it comes to protecting the integrity of its licenses.

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The Enemy Within--Hal Lindsey
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The Enemy Within

Since the 9-11 Muslim terrorists attacks against the United States, I have been seeking to warn Americans in general, and Christians in particular, of the enormous threat posed to our country by radical Islam. That has gotten me on the wrong side of the politically correct, even among other Christians.

Some Christian leaders have not understood this God-directed emphasis to my prophetic ministry. They have told me that my emphasis "puts Arabs in a bad light," "is too anti-Muslim" and "hinders evangelism to Muslims."

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How the Left Undermined America's Security Before 9/11--Horowitz
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THE SEPTEMBER 11 ATTACKS on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center marked the end of one American era and the beginning of another. As did Pearl Harbor, the September tragedy awakened Americans from insular slumbers and made them aware of a world they could not afford to ignore. Like Franklin Roosevelt, George W. Bush condemned the attacks as acts of war, and mobilized a nation to action. It was a sharp departure from the policy of his predecessor, Bill Clinton, who in characteristic self-absorption had downgraded a series of similar assaults—including one on the World Trade Center itself—officially regarding them as criminal matters that involved individuals alone.

But the differences between the September 11 attacks and Pearl Harbor were also striking. The latter was a military base situated on an island 3,000 miles distant from the American mainland. New York is America’s greatest population center, the portal through which immigrant generations of all colors and ethnicities have come in search of a better life. The World Trade Center is the Wall Street hub of the economy they enter; its victims were targeted for participating in the most productive, tolerant and generous society human beings have created. In responding to the attacks, the president himself took note of this: “America was targeted for attack,” he told Congress on September 20, “because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.”

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Al Qaida's Efforts to Infiltrate U.S. Intelligence
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Al Qaeda Answers CIA's Call

LA Times | July 25, 2005

As many as 40 possible terrorists may have attempted to infiltrate U.S. intelligence agencies in recent months, CIA expert Barry Royden reported at a national counterintelligence conference in March. If that news isn't sufficiently terrifying, consider this chilling paradox: Though the agencies caught the potential spies at the job application stage, post-Sept. 11 pressures to quickly boost staffing make it increasingly likely that a terrorist could sneak into the intelligence community's ranks.

Since Al Qaeda's attacks on New York and Washington four years ago, the Sept. 11 commission and other investigative bodies have criticized intelligence agencies for failing to hire enough qualified personnel. President Bush ordered the CIA to increase analytic and operational personnel by 50%.

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How Terrorists Are Buying Us from Within
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Dollars of Terror

When referring to the enemy’s money we are usually concerned with how the terrorists collect the funds they need. As we know, the government efforts to stop terrorists financing have not been very successful thus far. However, equally, if not more disturbing is the possibility that terrorists may be using their money to buy into our national infrastructure in order to undermine our economy and security from within. Was Ptech, the Massachusetts-based company, used in this manner?

The privately owned technology company, based in Quincy, Massachusetts, received at least $20 million in financing from Saudi investors between 1994, when it was founded, and 2001. Fourteen million came from Yassin Al-Qadi, who was listed as a specially designated global terrorist on October 12, 2001.
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Infiltration: How Muslims and Subversives Are Penetrating Washington--Forum
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(HEAR PAUL SPERRY ON OUR MARCH 19,2005 RADIO SHOW ON "RADIO ARCHIVES".--jm)

Infiltration
By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com

Frontpage's Interview guest today is Paul Sperry (sperry@sperryfiles.com), a Washington, D.C.-based investigative journalist, Investor's Business Daily veteran, Hoover Institution media fellow and author of the blockbuster new book, Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington (Nelson Current, 2005)."

FP: Paul Sperry, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Sperry: Thanks, it's a pleasure.

FP: What inspired you to write Infiltration?

Sperry: My children. I wrote it in the hopes that my kids and their kids won't have to live under terror alerts. Washington hasn't leveled with us about the full scope and depth of the Islamic threat not only inside America but inside the government, just as it hasn't leveled with us about the true nature of Islam. We've been lulled into a false sense of security, and we're just inviting another 9/11. So I wrote this book to expose the elaborate fraud that's been orchestrated by our leaders in the Washington establishment and the leaders in the Muslim establishment, who are playing us all for suckers. Infiltration is 350 pages of cold hard politically incorrect facts the American people haven't heard since 9/11 and deserve to hear without the PC spin from Washington. At first some will feel mugged by the truth, but then it will make you hustle-proof about the Islamic threat, which is my goal -- to simply arm you with the facts. And unlike The 9/11 Report, I name names and hold people accountable, from Norman "No Profiling" Mineta and his civil-rights lawyer Sam Podberesky to Democratic congressman John Conyers to GOP powerbroker Grover Norquist. This is the 9/11 Report the 9/11 Commission was afraid to publish.

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Terrorists Training To Build Bombs In Mid-Flight?--Farah
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GLOBAL INSECURITY

Terrorists building bombs in mid-flight?

Intelligence indicates dry runs in attempt to blow up airliners

(c) 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Islamic terrorists are trying to get past airport security screeners by placing only the components needed to assemble explosive devices onboard and then building the bombs in mid-flight.

Intelligence souces believe they've already conducted ''dry runs'' of the new terror tactic on planes flying between the Middle East, North Africa and Western Europe, reports the London Observer.

Middle Eastern intelligence services have warned Western agencies that scores of terrorists have been trained in the new tactic and at least 12 dry runs have been successfully completed in preparation for an attempt to bomb a transatlantic route.

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Cheney: War On Terror Could Last Generations
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Cheney: War Could Last Generations

NewsMax.com Wires

Vice President Dick Cheney warned that the battle against terrorism - like the Cold War - could last generations, according to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle.
In a major address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, Cheney devoted a good portion of his significant speech to a grim picture of the war on terrorism and the new kind of mobilization he said it demanded.

Sounding a strident alarm about the increasing prospects of a major new terrorist attack and the extraordinary responses that are required, the vice president suggested that only an administration of proven ability could manage the dramatic overhaul necessary for the nation's security apparatus:

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A Call For Intelligent Profiling--Pipes
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A Call for Intelligent Profiling

by Daniel Pipes

In mid-November, Yusuf Suleman Motala, a Muslim leader in the United Kingdom said to be highly regarded and have a vast following, was at Heathrow Airport on his way to the lesser pilgrimage in Mecca. But British officers stopped him and Mr. Motala reports they asked him questions about the Islamic religion, the instruction at schools under his guidance, and his association with "jihadi groups." The resulting delay caused him to cancel his pilgrimage.

The Muslim Council of Britain responded with "outrage and shock" and demanded that such "profiling of Muslims " not recur.

Is this demand reasonable? What, in an effort to ferret out the enemy, is the proper place of profiling? For that matter, what is profiling?

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Terrorism Alert Tips
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Terrorism Alert-Tips

LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Police Department, responding to the national security terror threat being upped from yellow to orange, issued a list of precautions in case of an act of terror:

Don't touch or move any potentially dangerous device
Be aware that there could be a secondary bomb or destructive device
Conduct evacuations as necessary;
and notify your local law enforcement agency or the FBI.

If you are in a high-rise building that is targeted:
Seek shelter under desks or tables and get away from exterior walls, windows or balconies
Don't use elevators and don't be surprised if alarms or sprinkler systems come on;
Know where emergency exits are and evacuate to a safe area if able;
and leave rescue efforts to public safety personnel.
If outdoors near an attack site, take whatever cover may be available such as a tree or doorway.

Authorities urged people to live their normal lives but remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to (877) A-THREAT.

Copyright 2003 KABC-TV and the Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

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U.S. Fails To Follow Terror Money Trail--Farah
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FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN

U.S. fails to follow terror money trail

New laws haven't helped track funding sources

Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com - a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for the last 25 years.

(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Criminal investigators of all kinds have long believed the best route to solving crimes is by "following the money."

So far, according to government investigators, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies trying to track the funding sources of international terrorists haven't done such a good job.

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How Terrorists Hide Among Us
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Al-Qaida's operational approaches

By Tom Marzullo
(c) 2003 WorldNetDaily.com

Have you ever wondered how the dispersed terrorist groups manage to operate so discretely and persistently in the West?

In considering the unconventional nature of al-Qaida and the other groups aligned against us, it can be immediately noted that the larger, more spectacular attacks are few and far between. What follows is an analysis and discussion of only one of the methodologies used to create major attacks that will be mounted against the United States.

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How Americans Can Protect Themselves From Terror Attacks
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How Americans Can Protect Themselves From Terror Attacks

NEW YORK - Americans shouldn't be surprised if they are victims of a terrorist attack this summer, according to a counterterrorism expert who wrote a book on how to protect yourself from such attacks.

"America has taken a role as peacekeeper all over the world. If you're getting into hotspots, you're going to get burned," former Israeli counterterrorism intelligence officer Juval Aviv (search) told Foxnews.com in an interview.

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