Swine Flu Probe Widens as Mexico Finds Lung Illness Posted: 24 Apr 2009 01:26 AM PDT
An urgent probe into an unusual flu outbreak that’s infected seven people in the U.S. was widened after Mexico sought assistance to investigate more than 130 cases of severe respiratory disease that may be related. Authorities in Mexico asked the Public Health Agency of Canada to help identify the cause of the lung illness linked to 20 deaths, including two in cases include five health- care workers, the Ottawa-based agency said in an e-mail today.
Tests in Mexico found patients were infected with H1N1 and type-B influenza strains and the parainfluenza virus, the agency said. In the U.S., doctors County and Imperial County, California, and in San Antonio, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said today. "It will be critical to determine whether or not the strains of H1N1 isolated from patients in Mexico are also swine flu,” Donald Low, an infectious Press. Canada’s National Microbiology Lab received 51 specimens from public health agency said. Thirteen fatal cases of severe respiratory illness were reported in Mexico City, four in San Luis Potosi, a city north of the capital, and another in Oaxaca city in the south. Most cases occurred in southern and central Mexico in previously healthy adults aged 25 to 44 years old.
Canada Issues Travel Advisory Canadians who have recently returned from Mexico should be on alert for flu-like symptoms that could be connected to a severe respiratory illness, A severe respiratory illness appears to have infected 137 people in south and central areas of Mexico, with cases concentrated in Mexico City and three other areas, including 20 deaths, the Public Health Agency of Canada said. In the United States, health officials in Texas and California were scrambling this week to deal with a new strain of swine flu, which has been diagnosed in The states share a border with Mexico not far from a town where two deaths were reported. The U.S. cases are unusual, because it appears none of the patients had contact with pigs, and the virus is one that health officials have never seen
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Pakistan - Taliban Nuclear Nightmare Posted: 23 Apr 2009 11:59 PM PDT
Nuclear-armed Pakistan is unraveling at a frightening pace and if it doesn’t worry you, it should. Imagine al Qaeda having it’s finger on the button mortal danger (as Hilary Clinton called it earler this week) the world is facing should Pakistan fall. Amazingly, most Americans seem unaware or simply unconcerned.
Equally alarming, Pakistan’s leaders appear far less concerned than their American counterparts. You have to wonder what they’re thinking in Islamabad, the capital. Rather than fighting back against Taliban militants, the government of Asif Ali Zardari (who became president after his wife, Benazir Bhutto, was murdered by extremists) has been acquiescing, in a deluded belief it can appease its way to peace. It can’t. Recent evidence ought to be a jolting, 11th-hour wake-up call. After gaining control of the Swat Valley, a once-prosperous tourist haven 100 miles from the capital, and getting government permission to impose The Taliban’s ambitions are no secret. Two prominent clerics have broadcast their intent to spread Islamic rule throughout the country. The implications of that are captured on an Internet video showing the public flogging in Swat of a woman suspected of adultery. The stakes for the United States are enormous. Taliban forces attack U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan from their havens along the Pakistan 9/11 are thought to have refuge and be plotting new attacks. The ultimate nightmare is that extremists will gain access to Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
The United States is stepping up efforts to prod official Pakistan out of its officials are belatedly beginning to acknowledge that appeasement does not work. But saying the right things under U.S. pressure falls short of effective action.
Does Pakistan’s Taliban Surge Raise a Nuclear Threat? The prospect of turmoil in Pakistan sends shivers up the spines weapons. Pakistan is thought to possess about 100 — the U.S. isn’t sure of the total, and may not know where all of them are. Still, if Pakistan collapses, the U.S. military is primed to enter the country and secure as many of those weapons as it can, according to U.S. officials.
Pakistan Paramilitary Force Routed as Taliban Militants The fall of Buner does not pose an immediate threat to Islamabad. The capital lies across a mountain range and the river Indus. But the speed and Pakistan’s western allies, and, increasingly, at home. On Wednesday the US secretary of state, Hilary Clinton, accused Taliban and the extremists”. After an outcry from Pakistani officials, she modified her tone yesterday, conceding there was an "increasing awareness” of the threat within government circles. Sam Zarifi of Amnesty International said the government had left the 650,000 residents of Buner, particularly women and children, “at the mercy” of the Taliban.
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Pakistan PM Under Terror Threat in 3 Cities Posted: 23 Apr 2009 02:19 PM PDT
agencies have claimed in a letter addressed to concerned quarters of the The PM could be targeted in Islamabad, Lahore or Multan, the sources, quoting the letter, added. Tribal area based terrorists are planning to explosion and a suicide attack, or gorilla attack similar to the Sri Lankan cricket team and the Manawan police training centre, the report said. Three teams of terrorists are reported to be working simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Multan. Meanwhile, to counter serious threats to Islamabad, the federal government has called troops of the Northern Area Scouts (a paramilitary force under the Army command) to aid the and sensitive installations of the capital city, Interior The ministry has asked concerned authorities to arrange the required force of the Northern Area Scouts (NAS) to counter threats from extremists. At least, 20 companies of the NAS are required to tackle any possible untoward situation, the sources said. The NAS would be deployed at sensitive installations and SSP (Security Division) Zubair Hashmi, when contacted, confirmed the report. A proposal to summon the NAS has been sent to the concerned authorities. Meanwhile, the capital city police are hunting for an explosive laden ambulance and a car bearing a Press Plate on the information of an intelligence agency, sources said. However, it could be a mock exercise, they added.
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Top Iraq Al-Qaeda Boss Abu Omar al-Baghdadi Captured Posted: 23 Apr 2009 02:06 PM PDT
Iraqi forces said today that they had arrested one of the most wanted al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq, even as his suicide bombers killed more than Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, a leader of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq, The Islamic State of Iraq is a shadowy, al-Qaeda-linked, Islamist umbrella group that in 2006 declared an independent caliphate in mainly Sunni West Iraqi security forces have reported al-Baghdadi’s death and capture on several believed to be al-Qaeda’s overall leader in the country, Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Some intelligence sources have denied that either man even exists, claiming that they are fronts either to throw the security forces off the scent or, in the case of al-Baghdadi, to give the terrorist network an Iraqi face.
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Woman, 20, Jailed In SFA Massacre Threat Posted: 23 Apr 2009 10:40 AM PDT
A 20-year-old Stephen F. Austin State University student was in signs on and near campus last week that threatened a deadly mass shooting. Jennifer Grant, a sophomore from Palestine, is a tenant of The Grove, the They warned that “10 people will be killed and shot at The Grove.” A notice on the university Web site said campus police arrested Grant and being arraigned Thursday morning. The signs were found on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead. SFA Police Chief Marc Cossich said in Thursday’s Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel the investigation remained active but that no more arrests were Officials said it was too early to comment on a possible motive. A student who said he knew Grant said he was surprised by the
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