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Newt Gingrich – We Are Living At The Edge Of Catastrophe


Posted: 20 Jul 2009 10:38 PM PDT


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Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered a what many are calling a major
speech on national security and defense spending on Monday. The speech was
the closing address to Protect America Month, The Heritage Foundation’s
month-long campaign to raise awareness about the current issues facing our
men and women in uniform.



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Hillary Clinton Says Bin Laden, Zawahiri in Pakistan


Posted: 20 Jul 2009 10:20 PM PDT


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U.S. officials “firmly believe” that al-Qaida leaders who
planned and carried out the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are
hiding in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday.


At a news conference concluding three days of meetings, Clinton
said Washington has told the Pakistani government what it believes about
the location of al-Qaida leaders on its soil.


“With respect to the location of those who were part of the
planning and execution of the attack of 9/11 against our country, we
firmly believe that a significant number of them are in the border area of
Pakistan,” she said when asked about the U.S. view.


“We are actively looking for additional information that would
lead us to them,” she added.


The Pakistani government denies that al-Qaida leader Osama bin
Laden and his senior lieutenants are hiding on its territory.


via Newsmax.com
– Hillary Clinton Says Bin Laden, Zawahiri in Pakistan
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UK Drops Terror Alert Level To Lowest Level In 2 Years


Posted: 20 Jul 2009 10:11 PM PDT


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Britain’s government reduced its terror alert level Monday to
its lowest level since the July 7, 2005 bombings of the London transport
system but warned that the threat remains serious.


The government did not explain its decision to downgrade the
threat from “severe,” which Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 describes on
its Web site as a “high likelihood” of future terror attacks” to
“substantial,” which means that such an attack remains a “strong
possibility.”


Terror experts were divided on the thinking that lay behind the
change.


Bob Ayers, a London-based former U.S. intelligence officer,
said officials may have reduced the threat level in an effort to show that
the war in Afghanistan — where British soldiers are engaged in an
increasingly bloody fight with Taliban rebels — is helping keep the
country safe from extremists. But he said the move sat uneasily with dire
warnings voiced last year that British security services were tracking
2,000 people and dozens of suspected terrorist plots.


“Where did they go? Have they just disappeared?” Ayers
asked.


via The Associated Press: UK drops terror alert level to lowest in 2
years
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Berkeley Cops Seize Bomb Materials From Home


Posted: 20 Jul 2009 10:05 PM PDT


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A 27-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing
explosive materials at a home in the Berkeley hills, police said
today.


Emoru Oboke Obbanya, 27 was arrested at 976 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
links.sfgate.com/ZHRK by officers investigating a 911 hang-up call at
about 12:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.


Obbanya refused to open the door at first, then came outside
and immediately closed the door, police Lt. Andrew Greenwood said. He
appeared nervous, cursed the officers and refused to provide evidence that
he lived there, police said.


Officers decided to search the home to make sure no one inside
needed help, Greenwood said. They obtained a search warrant and found
bomb-making chemicals and other items used to make explosives, police
said.


Police said they didn’t know what Obbanya planned to do with
the material. He was arrested on weapons and explosives charges and is
being held on $121,500 bail.


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‘Rumor Mongers’ of Radioactive Leak Caught in China


Posted: 20 Jul 2009 12:22 PM PDT


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Police have caught five people who incited public panic by
making up rumors of radioactive leak last month at a foods sterilization
plant in Qi County of Kaifeng, in Central China’s Henan Province, Dahe.cn
reported Monday.


They five had spread false information on the internet about an
alleged radioactive leak at the Limin Irradiation Factory in Qi County,
increasing concern about radiation poisoning among local residents and
badly affecting social stability.


The government had kept silent for a month after the accident,
causing local residents to panic because they couldn’t get any information
on the leak and creating an opportunity for the rumors to spread.


The rumors had prompted some residents to move out of their
houses in fear of the radiation, until local officials confirmed that no
radioactive leak had occurred. They explained that on June 7, the
radiation source in the plant was accidentally blocked and cannot be
replaced to its storage place.


However, they reassured that no radiation pollution will occur
and the problem is expected to be resolved by the end of August.


Residents have since moved back to their homes.


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