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The Counter Terrorist Your bi-monthly update on Homeland Security
July 2007
Police Says London Bomb Could Have Killed
Michael Holden and Luke Baker, Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Explosive experts defused a car bomb packed with petrol, gas and nails on Friday which could have caused huge loss of life in London's busy theatre district and raised fears of a terrorist attack, police said.
The bomb was found in a green Mercedes car parked outside a night club shortly after 1 a.m. (midnight GMT) when several hundred people were still in the area, about half-a-mile (one km) from the prime minister's Downing Street residence.
The police, who were alerted by ambulance workers who noticed smoke inside the car, said they did not know who left the bomb but launched a counter-terrorism investigation.
The Home Office has raised the national security alert to 'critical', the highest threat level, after a suspected car bombing attempt that has closed Glasgow airport.
Witnesses said two Asian-looking men crashed a four-wheel drive vehicle into the doors of the airport's main terminal building. One of the men got out of the Jeep Cherokee with his clothes on fire. He was restrained by passengers while others put out the flames with a fire extinguisher. The two men were later arrested.
The Paisley hospital where the injured was being treated was evacuated after a suspect device was found, said Chief Constable Willie Rae of Strathclyde Police, who also revealed that the attack was being linked to the two car bombs discovered in London yesterday.
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Outrage Over SEC Terrorism 'Blacklist'
Some of the world's biggest companies are outraged by a website link launched by US regulators aimed at exposing which of them could be "indirectly subsidising a terrorist state".
By Jeremy Grant in Washington
The Securities and Exchange Commission this week linked to a list of five countries - Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria - designated by the State Department as "sponsors of terrorism".
By clicking on each country, investors see a list of companies that mention that country in their latest annual reports. The companies are mostly non-US and include Unilever, Cadbury, HSBC, Nokia, Siemens and Total.
Christopher Cox, SEC chairman, described the site as falling under the commission's investor-protection mission. "No investor should ever have to wonder whether his or her investments or retirement savings are indirectly subsidising a terrorist haven or genocidal state."
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FBI Probes Bomb Claim: Animal rights extremists say they planted a device under the car of a UCLA doctor conducting primate research By Larry Gordon, Times Staff Writer
The FBI and the Los Angeles Fire Department are investigating an anonymous claim that animal rights extremists placed an unexploded incendiary device found under the car of a prominent UCLA eye doctor last weekend. The incident was similar to one last year in which another UCLA researcher was the intended target.
A gasoline-filled device was discovered Sunday by the car outside the Westside home of Dr. Arthur Rosenbaum, who is chief of pediatric ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute. The device did not ignite despite evidence of an attempt to light it, authorities said Thursday.
An e-mail on Wednesday signed by the Animal Liberation Brigade said the group put the device there to stop experiments on animals in Rosenbaum's laboratory. The message claimed a gallon of fuel was set alight under the vehicle, but authorities said there was no fire.
FT: SCHOOLS ARE LEGITIMATE TERRORIST TARGETS By Judith A. Klinghoffer
Sometimes I believe I live in the world of Alice in Wonderland. Today's Financial Times Amy Kazmin writes an article entitled Thai Islamic insurgency escalates. I would think that escalation would mean that terrorist moved from targeting soldiers, policemen or other public officials to targeting civilians or worse of all, women and children. For Ms. Kazmin attacking schools, i.e., buildings, teachers, librarians and perhaps even students is legitimate because they are symbols of the state:
Rebel attacks once mainly targeted government officials and symbols of the state, such as schools. But targets now include any member of the area's ethnic Thai Buddhist minority and Muslims perceived as hostile to the separatist cause. With the state still unable to provide basic security, analysts also fret about the danger of unrestrained sectarian conflict between Muslim and Buddhist residents of the region.
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Happy Fourth of July. To mark this Wednesday's holiday, I share a small moment that happened a year ago in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. I was at a wake for an old family friend named Anthony Coppola, a retired security guard who'd been my uncle Johnny's best friend from childhood. All the old neighborhood people were there from Clinton Avenue and from other streets in Brooklyn, and Anthony's sisters Tessie and Angie and Gloria invited a priest in to say some prayers. About a hundred of us sat in chairs in a little side chapel in the funeral home.
Cache of Chemicals Found in 2 Spots on Staten Island Prompts Evacuations By AL BAKER and JENNIFER 8. LEE
Dozens of residents were evacuated from their homes on a street on western Staten Island last night as the New York City police and federal law enforcement officials raided a house believed to be involved in the Internet sale of commercial chemicals, including potassium nitrate and sulfur.
A man who lives at the raided house, and who was identified by neighbors as Miguel Serrano, 57, was in law enforcement custody last night for questioning by federal and local investigators. He had not been charged with a crime, a law enforcement official said.
NYPD: Huge Amount Of Chemicals Found In S.I. Home NEW YORK -- Police raided a home on Staten Island Thursday evening because a man allegedly ordered 5,000 pounds of chemicals from an Ohio company.Several homes along Ada Drive at Arlene Court have been evacuated as a precaution. The NYPD bomb squad is on the scene along with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and local environmental protection officials. Law enforcement sources told NewsChannel 4 the investigation does not appear to be terror-related. They said the investigation may have begun as a result of the suspect making apparent Internet sales of "rockets." Sources said police are not sure what kind of chemicals were in the Staten Island home. NewsChannel 4 has learned the federal investigators and the NYPD plan to get a warrant for a storage facility as well.
Ever since the Twin Towers disintegrated into rubble Sept. 11, 2001, the cries of "Death to America!" coming from Arab streets have sounded more ominous than simple posturing. The recently squelched plot to blow up JFK Air port and the prospect of Iran becoming a nuclear power fill Americans with unspoken dread that catastrophe lurks.
That's just how terrorists want us to think. Terrorism may seem to be arbitrary and senseless killing, but it's actually sophisticated psychological warfare. Terrorists (and the states supporting them) seek to foster fear and panic in order to change the policies of nations they cannot defeat by conventional means.
Armed & Dangerous: How Extremists are Infitrating the Military By Joe Jackson
Lt. Cmdr. John Forrest Sharpe Jr. would appear to be the ideal Navy officer. A 1993 graduate of the Naval Academy, he is athletic and trim, with short blonde hair and eyeglasses. A March 19, 2007 story in The Navy News described him as someone "sent straight from central casting in Hollywood." Originally a submariner, Sharpe was later assigned to work under the Navy Chief of Information in the Pentagon, then as public affairs officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. On the phone, moreover, he comes across as friendly and intelligent-even when asked questions about off-duty activities that may sink his career.
The questions concern his involvement with the Legion of St. Louis and the IHS Press, which he runs from his home in Carrolton, Isle of Wight County. In March 2007, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)-a national watchdog organization that tracks hate groups and racism-identified them as among "the most nakedly anti-Semitic organizations in the entire radical traditionalist Catholic pantheon." This pantheon is bound by the certainty that Jews, Masons and others have conspired to topple the Catholic Church for 300 years. The SPLC's report, entitled "The Dirty Dozen," claimed that "Sharpe blames the 9/11 attacks not on Al Qaeda but on 'Judeo-Masonry.'" Sharpe's writings were quoted, including his assertion that the "temporal power that the Jews have achieved since . . . 1798 is both pervasive and relatively unchallenged."
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