“Atif Irfan said in an interview with CNN that federal authorities removed him, seven family members and a friend from the flight after passengers overheard members of the group talking about the safest place to sit on the plane. He said they were being careful to avoid any ‘buzz’ words like ‘bomb’ that would trigger a security alert.” [Link]
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“While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of the country’s roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations. In their efforts to win over notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains, the officials say, the agency’s operatives have used a variety of personal services. These include pocketknives and tools, medicine or surgeries for ailing family members, toys and school equipment, tooth extractions, travel visas, and, occasionally, pharmaceutical enhancements for aging patriarchs with slumping libidos, the officials said. ” [Link]
“The Supreme Court today said it would hear the case of accused al-Qaeda operative Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, setting up an almost immediate decision for the Obama administration about whether to support President Bush’s policies on the chief executive’s broad right to detain terrorism suspects.” [Link]
“The only gunman captured during the terror attack on Mumbai says he was promised that his impoverished family would get $1,250 if he died fighting for militant Islam, security officials said Wednesday.” [Link]
“The terrorists who attacked various locations in southern Mumbai last week used digital maps from Google Earth to learn their way around, according to officials investigating the attacks. Investigations by the Mumbai police, including the interrogation of one captured terrorist, suggest that the terrorists were highly trained and used technologies such as satellite phones and the Global Positioning System (GPS), according to police.” [Link]
“Sharpshooters and Indian Army commandos launched stakeouts across the heart of India’s financial capital on Thursday, trying to rescue hostages trapped in a series of attacks by militants that have left at least 101 people dead. At least four dead bodies and a trickle of hostages were escorted out of the iconic Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel — a castle-like 1903 landmark that was set on fire during the attacks and has been transformed into a smoldering symbol of a city under siege. ” [Link]
“Frederick Purvis, 42, is accused of sending e-mails to two local media outlets and to the FBI threatening Paul Brown Stadium, four bridges over the Ohio River, the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, and an Indiana casino, FBI spokesman Mike Brooks said. Brooks said Purvis was arrested Thursday at a hotel in Erlanger, Ky., near the airport. He was being held on federal charges of making bomb threats and distributing a bomb hoax.” [Link]
“In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—’house negroes.’ Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term ‘abeed al-beit,’ which literally translates as ‘house slaves.’ But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as ‘house negroes.’ ” [Link]
“‘If he is the one who sent the letter, I do not believe in any way, shape or manner that he is the only person involved in this attack on Congress and the American people,’ Leahy told FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III at a hearing yesterday. ‘I believe there are others involved, either as accessories before or accessories after the fact. I believe that there are others who can be charged with murder.’ ” [Link]
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