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Regulators told to review nuclear facility terrorist threat

 

A federal appeals court blocked regulatory approval to store radioactive waste at a nuclear energy installation in Central California, ruling Friday that federal regulators must first consider the likelihood of a terrorist attack. http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/14733177.htm

 

 

Missile equipment detected in Vienna airport, stranded for Iran

 

A prominent Austrian security official said Monday that the Austrian custom authorities have busted highly sophisticated missile equipment stranded for Iran. The Austrian Radio and TV station quoted Director General Erich Fleck as saying one of the custom officers in Vienna airport opened one wooden box stranded for Iran but it included a very sophisticated system for monitoring nuclear weapon, chemical or biological weapons.

 

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To Stop Terrorism, Think Like a Terrorist

 

The Office of Homeland Security is a bureaucracy. Plain and simple. The decision to cut 40% off the anti-terrorism funds allocated to New York City, arguably the most famous city in the world, is a bureaucratic decision. No guts, no heart, no soul, not even any common sense went into the decision. It is a "just crunch the numbers and make a bureaucratic decision" decision. The same rules of bureaucracy are being applied in the decision that may cut 15% off of New York's bio-terror allocation.

 

http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22805

 

Vatican to press for Christians' rights in Muslim lands

 

The Holy See confirmed its intention to mobilize within the international community in the defense of Christians' fundamental rights in predominantly Muslim countries where religious freedom is denied.

 

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/pda/news.php?article=11091

 

PM in full damage control over terror fears

 

Canada's ambassador to the United States, the country's top military brass and leading civil rights advocates are all part of the political collateral damage of last weekend's high-profile arrest of 17 suspected terrorists in Ontario. Police allegations of a major domestic terrorist conspiracy could hardly have come at a worse time for Michael Wilson.

 

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Iran weapons cache discovered in Basra

 

Weapons smuggled from Iran have been discovered in Iraq's southern city of Basra, the prominent satellite network al-Jazeera reported on Monday. The network quoted an Iraqi cleric, Ayatollah Hassan al-Moyed, as saying that the arms cache was discovered in a shed in Basra, Iraq's second largest city. In a separate report on Monday, al-Jazeera quoted the spokesman of the Sunni group, the Association of Muslim Scholars, as saying that Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) had infiltrated much of Basra.

 

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7491

 

 

Blair backs police '101%' over London terror raid

 

Tony Blair has given "101 per cent" backing to the police raid on a house in east London in which a man was shot. The Prime Minister insisted that police had to act if they had "reasonable" intelligence that a terrorist attack was in prospect. He denied that the raid might provoke a Muslim backlash, saying that Muslims understood fully the need to combat terrorism.  In a webcast interview posted on the No 10 website, Mr Blair said: "I

support the police 101 per cent - and the security services.

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article656440.ece

 

Gunmen kill four Iraqi policemen in Baghdad-police

 

BAGHDAD, June 7 (Reuters) - Gunmen in a car shot dead four policemen and wounded another in an attack on their patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday, police sources said. They said the drive-by shooting took place in the capital's western Mansour district.

 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DAH720797.htm

 

 

Canada record on determining terror threats mixed

 

OTTAWA, June 6 (Reuters) - Although Canada is triumphantly publicizing its arrest of 17 alleged home-grown terror suspects, the country's law enforcement bodies have a mixed record when it comes to determining the threat from militants.  Twice since the Sept. 11 suicide attacks, authorities have mounted major anti-terror operations that produced little.

 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N06389930.htm

 

Canadian Jihadist Plotting PM Beheading Member of Canadian Military

 

The terrorism suspect who allegedly plotted to behead the Prime Minister was a Canadian soldier for four years and likely received weapons training. The Toronto Star has learned that Steven Vikash Chand was a member of the Royal Regiment of Canada, a reservist unit that meets in Toronto. Chand, who later converted to Islam and went by the name Abdul Shakur, is charged with belonging to a terrorist group, receiving training and recruiting or training others to participate in terrorist activity.

 

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Teacher Convicted of Aiding Terror Group

 

A third-grade teacher was found guilty Tuesday of lending aid to a Pakistani terrorist organization, becoming the 11th conviction in what the government called a "Virginia jihad network." Ali Asad Chandia, 29, a teacher at an Islamic school in College Park, Md., was convicted on three of four counts, including providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to do the same.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060601377.html

 

Violent Baghdad deaths top 6,000

 

Iraqis mourn at the entrance of a morgue in a local hospital in Baghdad. Mortuaries have become a focal point for families seeking loved ones The bodies of 6,000 people, most of whom died violently, have been received by Baghdad's main mortuary so far this year, health ministry figures show.  The number has risen every month, to 1,400 in May. The majority are believed to be victims of sectarian killings.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5053134.stm

 

What Do Muslim Women Want? Western Rights, but Not Western Culture

 

 

A new Gallup survey -- which conducted 1,000 face-to-face interviews in countries including Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey -- found most Muslim women wanted the right to vote freely, to drive on their own, to work outside the home, and even to undertake leadership roles within their society.

 

 http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2049051&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

 

Police Detain Man at British Parliament for spraying powdery substance

 

Police briefly locked down Britain's Houses of Parliament on Wednesday after a powdery substance was sprayed in the main lobby.  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-parliament,1,4302877,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

 

 

Terror suspect arrested in London is wanted by prosecutors in NYC

 

An American student who was arrested in London as he prepared to board a flight to Pakistan is wanted in New York for allegedly providing military gear to al-Qaida, officials said Wednesday. The suspect, 26-year-old Syed Hashmi, is charged in an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court with providing military equipment to people who took it to members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization in Pakistan.

 

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--terrorsuspect0607jun07,0,6045664.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

 

Islamic militia used new tactics to win Mogadishu

 

Islamic militias captured Mogadishu – an anarchic city no single group could control for 15 years -- because of superior training, popular support and religious motivation, experts said on Wednesday.  The Islamic fighters, who fought an alliance of warlords widely believed to have been funded as part of the United States' counter-terrorism war, were

also getting external assistance, according to a U.N. report.

 

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L07333949.htm