Urgent Alert 11/01/2005 # 1
Australia has apaprently learned of a specific and immediate terror threat, and is recalling their legislature to deal with the threat. While the information made available to the public and news media is limited, there must be a very serious level of concern to take this action, to recall legislature to work overnight to pass new anti-terror laws to deal with the threat.
[Bloomberg] AUSTRALIA - Australia Has Advice of Specific Terrorist Threat
[Herald Sun] AUSTRALIA - Immediate terrorist threat, PM warns
"After question time today, the attorney-general will introduce into the House an urgent amendment to the existing counter terrorism legislation,"
"We will seek passage of that amendment through all stages this evening."
National:
[Southern Maryland Online] MARYLAND - Explosive Devices Left at Doors in Waldorf [Multiple devices, locations]
[nbc4i.com] OHIO - Suspicious Package Found Outside Police Headquarters [ Chemicals, odor, arrest]
[El Paso Times] USA - Soldiers report immigrants to Border Patrol [TW Editor - This is overdue and should be happening all along our borders]
[Voices Magazine / Jim Kouri] USA - U.S. Missile Base Being Invaded By Illegal Aliens?
[KWTX] TEXAS - Three Texas Air Force Workers Die In Mysterious Accident
"car in which they were riding slammed into a concrete barrier at a base entrance gate"
"Base officials say there is no indication that the crash was a terrorist attack"
[Voices Magazine / Jim Kouri] USA - DHS To Increase Private-Sector Security
[UPI] USA / SAUDI ARABIA - Saudi student numbers in U.S. rise
[Counterpunch] VERMONT - The Vermont Independence Convention [ TW Editor: United We Stand, Divided we fall ]
"to provide an example and a process for other states and nations which may be seriously considering separatism, secession, independence, and similar devolutionary strategies"
[WSBTV] GEORGIA - Midtown Street Reopens After 'Suspicous' Device Scare [False alarm]
[AP] CALIFORNIA - Suspicious package shuts down Hollywood Boulevard
[Science News] USA - After a dirty-bomb attack, special formulations could counter radioactive contamination
[AP] USA - Government Misses Dozens of Security Deadlines Since Sept. 11 Attacks From Asap
[SysInternals.com] USA - COMPUTER SECURITY - Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far
[kBSD] KANSAS - Suspicious device found in Pratt
[Los Angeles Times] USA / MEXICO BORDER - Violent Border Clashes Surging
[WRAL] NORTH CAROLINA - Missing Gauges Containing Radioactive Material Believed To Be In Durham
[KOTV] OKLAHOMA - State Officials Seeking Help In Finding A Missing Radioactive Camera
"stolen from an office on West 41st Street Monday"
[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] PENNSYLVANIA - Teen injured by explosive device in West Mifflin
[First Coast News] FLORIDA - Suspicious Bag Downtown Turns Out Harmless
"backpack was spotted hanging off a transformer"
[Daily Record] NEW JERSEY - Fake bomb in Chatham station derails commuters [Dry run, or hoax?]
"device left on a Chatham platform apparently built to resemble a bomb"
[AP] COLORADO - Colorado Springs Testing Radiation Monitors
"network to cover 100 intersections"
[San Mateo County Times] USA - Report blasts security at explosives facilities
International:
[Reuters] UNITED KINGDOM - UK police foil terrorist attacks
[Telegraph] EUROPE - Terror cell 'smuggled missiles into Europe'
"Islamic terror cell has smuggled two surface-to-air missiles into Europe in a plot to shoot down planes at one of France's main airports"
[AP] ISRAEL - Israeli missile kills Islamic Jihad official in new offensive
[WND] ISRAEL - Abbas-linked group involved in Hadera blast - Terror leader of Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades promises more attacks to come
[Voices Magazine] ISRAEL - Palestinian Authority Says Militants Will Cease Attacks Against Israel
[AP] IRAN / ISRAEL - World Expresses Dismay Over Iran Remarks
[AFP] IRAN - Iran Says Not Afraid Of War, Sanctions
[Iran Focus] IRAN - Iran’s Supreme Leader appoints new defence intelligence chief
[MENL] IRAN - IRAN VOWS REGIONAL INTERVENTION
[Iran Focus] IRAN - Iran’s military hails anniversary of U.S. embassy seizure
[MENL] LEBANON / ISRAEL - LEBANON ALLOWS INCREASE IN HIZBULLAH
[Reuters] IRAQ - Two al Qaeda members killed in Iraq - US military
[Stars and Stripes] GERMANY - ‘Suspicious package�?triggers evacuation at Darmstadt
[National Post] CANADA - Accused terrorist's low-key life
[Belfast Telegraph] IRELAND - Experts tackle explosive device
[AP] IRAQ - Gunmen Assassinate Brother of an Iraqi Vice President; Another U.S. Service Member Dies
[New Zealand Herald] NEW ZEALAND - Suspect white powder harmless
[VOA News] NORTH KOREA - N. Korea: U.S. Flew 180 Spy Missions in October
[Guardian] AMSTERDAM - Trains Halted at Amsterdam Central Station
"suspicious package was found on an international train arriving from Frankfurt, Germany"
"package belonged to two Dutch-speaking men in tradition Islamic dress who were arrested after initially hiding in one of the train's bathrooms"
[National Ledger / Jim Kouri] IRAQ - Rebuilding Iraq: Challenges Remain for Security and Stabilization
[AP] RUSSIA - Russia says it's not building Asian military alliance
[AFP] ETHIOPIA - Five killed, 13 wounded in clashes in Ethiopian capital
[AKI] SYRIA - Muslim Brotherhood Denis Requests For Links With U.S.
[Arutz Sheva] ISRAEL - IDF Kills Hadera Attack Mastermind
[UPI] DENMARK - Danish arrests tied to terror cell
[AP] INDONESIA - Indonesian security forces on high alert
[Sofia News Agency] EGYPT - Al Qaeda Threatens Actor Omar Sharif - Report
[AP] SRI LANKA - Bomb attack by suspected LTTE militant kills policeman in Lanka
[Pravda] RUSSIA - Teenager detained on terrorist charges
"court found insufficient evidence that he had prepared attacks on Schiphol international airport or the Dutch nuclear reactor"
[China Daily] CHINA - Radioactive metal bar kills 1, poisons 100
[Epoch Times] CHINA - Mystery Surrounds Hunan Girl’s Death; Are Chinese Authorities Covering Up Again?
"He Yin and her brother became ill after eating infected poultry"
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