Homeland Security

[HisDaughter]

I got this in an email.  If it's true, it's appalling!

What costs more per year than the Iraq War?

I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they are read so many times that the reader gets sick of
reading them. I have included the URL's for verification of the following facts:

   1.  $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
 http://tinyurl.com/zob77   

  2.  $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
 http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

  3.  $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html   

 4.  $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
English!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

  5.  $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html   

  6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html   

  7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..01.html   

  8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare and Social Services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html   

  9.  $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html   
 10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two-and-a-half times that of white non-illegal aliens.. In
particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html   

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal
aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from
the Southern border. Homeland Security Report.
http://tinyurl.com/t9sht   

12.  The National Policy Institute, 'estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'
http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf   

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
their countries of origin.
MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "www.rense.com" claiming to behttp://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14.  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml   

Total cost is a whooping  ...  $338.3 BILLION A YEAR!!!
If this doesn't bother you then just delete the message, but on the other hand, if it does raise the hair on the back of your
neck, then forward it.
Snopes is provided for doubters:
http://www..snopes.com/politics/immigration/bankofamerica.asp


Social Security Change For 2008
The United States Senate voted to extend Social Security Benefits to Illegal Aliens beginning in 2008. The following are the
senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state. If a state is not
listed, there was no voting representative.  < /B>
Alaska : Stevens (R)
Arizona : McCain (R)
Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)
California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D)
Colorado : Salazar (D)
Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D)
Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D)
Flor ida : Martinez (R)
Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D)
Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D)
Indiana : Bayh (D) Lugar (R)
Iowa : Harkin (D)
Kansas : Brownback (R)
Louisiana : Landrieu (D)
Maryland : Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D)
Massachusetts : Kennedy (D) Kerry (D)
Montana : Baucus (D)
Nebraska : Hagel (R)
Nevada : Reid (D)
New Jersey : Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D)
New Mexico : Bingaman (D)
New York : Clinton (D) Schumer (D)
North Dakota : Dorgan (D)
Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R)
Oregon : Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania : Specter (R)
Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D)
South Carolina : Graham (R)
South Dakota : Johnson (D)
Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D)
Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D)
West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting
Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D)   
   
     
THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION, UNLESS THEY DON'T MIND
SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHO DIDN'T PAY IN A DIME.   
 
LET US SHOW OUR LEADERS IN WASHINGTON 'PEOPLE POWER' AND THE POWER OF THE INTERNET. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU ARE

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Ohio Terror Connection Exposed

Reading the Washington Post several weeks ago, a front page article caught my eye: "Imam from VA Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda". The subject of the article, Anwar Al-Aulaqi, was a name familiar to me because of his past association with our former Hilliard terror cleric, Salah Sultan, who fled the country for Bahrain last March after having his citizenship application denied for his terrorist ties. Sultan was subsequently videotaped with several designated terrorists when he was a keynote speaker during a terror confab held in Doha, Qatar back in July. Al-Aulaqi and Sultan are also both tied to a known HAMAS fundraiser, Mohammed Al-Hanooti, who federal law enforcement authorities have claimed has raised millions of dollars for the terrorist organizations and who was also named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombing.

The WaPo article discusses new evidence that after Sultan's friend Al-Aulaqi fled to Yemen in 2002, he began working directly with the Al-Qaeda networks in the Persian Gulf. This is not the first time that Al-Aulaqi has been tied to Al-Qaeda, though, since he has been identified by government sources and media reports as the spiritual mentor to two of the 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf Al Hazmi and Khalid Al Mihdhar. Al-Aulaqi helped the two 9/11 terrorists locate housing in San Diego, and the pair followed Al-Aulaqi when he moved to the Washington DC area in 2001.

Just prior to Al-Aulaqi's flight to Yemen in 2002, he was scheduled to help Salah Sultan lead a ubgone86 tour to Mecca, along with HAMAS fundraiser Al-Hanooti. The trip was coordinated by the DC-area Dar El-Eiman Tour Group, which was run by Fawaz Mushtaha. Mushtaha, a former official with the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), was listed, along with Al-Hanooti, as unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial last year. The Investigative Project has additional info on the background of Mushtaha, his tour company, Salah Sultan, and his Al-Qaeda and HAMAS ubgone86 homeboys.

As stated previously, this most recent WaPo article was not the first time that Al-Aulaqi had been in the news for his Al-Qaeda connections. In August 2003, Time Magazine asked the question, "Why Did the Imam Befriend the Hijackers?", which observes that despite his association with two of the 9/11 terrorists, after the terror attacks he lied to the FBI claiming not to have known any of the hijackers. The FBI's hands-off approach to Al-Aulaqi prompted criticism by congressional investigators.

And again in June 2004, US News and World Report featured an article on Al-Aulaqi, "The Imam's Very Curious Story," disclosing that the imam was known to have been engaging in some very un-Islamic behavior - namely, prostitution:

    The probe of the 9/11 attacks soon led Washington FBI agents back to San Diego, where they found that al-Awlaki had twice been busted for soliciting prostitutes in 1996 and 1997 but had avoided jail time. Al-Awlaki has previously described these charges as "bogus." But FBI agents hoped al-Awlaki might cooperate with the 9/11 probe if they could nab him on similar charges in Virginia. FBI sources say agents observed the imam allegedly taking Washington-area prostitutes into Virginia and contemplated using a federal statute usually reserved for nabbing pimps who transport prostitutes across state lines.

Salah Sultan's other ubgone86 homeboy, Mohammad Al-Hanooti, was also the subject of an extensive investigative piece in June 2002 by the Albany Times-Union, "Religious leader tied to terror". That report discusses Al-Hanooti's longtime terror associations and activities:

    But a classified memorandum written by the FBI's counterterrorism director less than a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks describes Al-Hanooti as a "big supporter" of Hamas.

    The memorandum from Dale L. Watson, head of the FBI's Counterterrorism Division, was sent to the Department of Treasury as federal authorities prepared to clamp down on what they called terrorist fronts that had set up fund-raising operations on U.S. soil.

    It was during his tenure as imam at a northern New Jersey mosque in 1993 that Al-Hanooti allegedly raised money for Hamas, according to Watson's memorandum.

This information notwithstanding, there are still many in the Central Ohio area who are willing to stand up and defend Sultan and are quick to dismiss his open association with terrorist leaders and organizations, such as his appearance at a June 2005 HAMAS rally in Istanbul, where he spoke along with HAMAS head Ismail Haniyeh.

But even with Sultan's flight to the Middle East, he has been replaced by an endless stream of hate speakers and terror sheikhs who go through some of the Islamic institutions in the Columbus area like a department store revolving door.

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Government outsources U.S. passports to Thailand
Company manufacturing electronic travel document was once victim of Chinese espionage

The United States has outsourced the manufacturing of its electronic passports to overseas companies — including one in Thailand that was victimized by Chinese espionage — raising concerns that cost savings are being put ahead of national security, an investigation by The Washington Times has found.

The Government Printing Office's decision to export the work has proved lucrative, allowing the agency to book more than $100 million in recent profits by charging the State Department more money for blank passports than it actually costs to make them, according to interviews with federal officials and documents obtained by The Times.

The profits have raised questions both inside the agency and in Congress because the law that created GPO as the federal government's official printer explicitly requires the agency to break even by charging only enough to recover its costs.

Lawmakers said they were alarmed by The Times' findings and plan to investigate why U.S. companies weren't used to produce the state-of-the-art passports, one of the crown jewels of American border security.

"I am not only troubled that there may be serious security concerns with the new passport production system, but also that GPO officials may have been profiting from producing them," said Rep. John D. Dingell, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Officials at GPO, the Homeland Security Department and the State Department played down such concerns, saying they are confident that regular audits and other protections already in place will keep terrorists and foreign spies from stealing or copying the sensitive components to make fake passports.

"Aside from the fact that we have fully vetted and qualified vendors, we also note that the materials are moved via a secure transportation means, including armored vehicles," GPO spokesman Gary Somerset said.

But GPO Inspector General J. Anthony Ogden, the agency's internal watchdog, doesn't share that confidence. He warned in an internal Oct. 12 report that there are "significant deficiencies with the manufacturing of blank passports, security of components, and the internal controls for the process."

The inspector general's report said GPO claimed it could not improve its security because of "monetary constraints." But the inspector general recently told congressional investigators he was unaware that the agency had booked tens of millions of dollars in profits through passport sales that could have been used to improve security, congressional aides told The Times.

Decision to outsource

GPO is an agency little-known to most Americans, created by Congress almost two centuries ago as a virtual monopoly to print nearly all of the government's documents, from federal agency reports to the president's massive budget books that outline every penny of annual federal spending. Since 1926, it also has been charged with the job of printing the passports used by Americans to enter and leave the country.

When the government moved a few years ago to a new electronic passport designed to foil counterfeiting, GPO led the work of contracting with vendors to install the technology.

Each new e-passport contains a small computer chip inside the back cover that contains the passport number along with the photo and other personal data of the holder. The data is secured and is transmitted through a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points and compared to the actual traveler carrying it.

According to interviews and documents, GPO managers rejected limiting the contracts to U.S.-made computer chip makers and instead sought suppliers from several countries, including Israel, Germany and the Netherlands.

Mr. Somerset, the GPO spokesman, said foreign suppliers were picked because "no domestic company produced those parts" when the e-passport production began a few years ago.

After the computer chips are inserted into the back cover of the passports in Europe, the blank covers are shipped to a factory in Ayutthaya, Thailand, north of Bangkok, to be fitted with a wire Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, antenna. The blank passports eventually are transported to Washington for final binding, according to the documents and interviews.

The stop in Thailand raises its own security concerns. The Southeast Asian country has battled social instability and terror threats. Anti-government groups backed by Islamists, including al Qaeda, have carried out attacks in southern Thailand and the Thai military took over in a coup in September 2006.

The Netherlands-based company that assembles the U.S. e-passport covers in Thailand, Smartrac Technology Ltd., warned in its latest annual report that, in a worst-case scenario, social unrest in Thailand could lead to a halt in production.

Smartrac divulged in an October 2007 court filing in The Hague that China had stolen its patented technology for e-passport chips, raising additional questions about the security of America's e-passports.

Transport concerns

A 2005 document obtained by The Times states that GPO was using unsecure FedEx courier services to send blank passports to State Department offices until security concerns were raised and forced GPO to use an armored car company. Even then, the agency proposed using a foreign armored car vendor before State Department diplomatic security officials objected.

Concerns that GPO has been lax in addressing security threats contrast with the very real danger that the new e-passports could be compromised and sold on the black market for use by terrorists or other foreign enemies, experts said.

"The most dangerous passports, and the ones we have to be most concerned about, are stolen blank passports," said Ronald K. Noble, secretary general of Interpol, the Lyon, France-based international police organization. "They are the most dangerous because they are the most difficult to detect."

Mr. Noble said no counterfeit e-passports have been found yet, but the potential is "a great weakness and an area that world governments are not paying enough attention to."

Lukas Grunwald, a computer security expert, said U.S. e-passports, like their European counterparts, are vulnerable to copying and that their shipment overseas during production increases the risks. "You need a blank passport and a chip and once you do that, you can do anything, you can make a fake passport, you can change the data," he said.

Separately, Rep. Robert A. Brady, chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, has expressed "serious reservations" about GPO's plan to use contract security guards to protect GPO facilities. In a Dec. 12 letter, Mr. Brady, a Pennsylvania Democrat, stated that GPO's plan for conducting a security review of the printing office was ignored and he ordered GPO to undertake an outside review.

Questionable profits

GPO's accounting adds another layer of concern.

The State Department is now charging Americans $100 or more for new e-passports produced by the GPO, depending on how quickly they are needed. That's up from a cost of around just $60 in 1998.

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Internal agency documents obtained by The Times show each blank passport costs GPO an average of just $7.97 to manufacture and that GPO then charges the State Department about $14.80 for each, a margin of more than 85 percent, the documents show.

The accounting allowed GPO to make gross profits of more than $90 million from Oct. 1, 2006, through Sept. 30, 2007, on the production of e-passports. The four subsequent months produced an additional $54 million in gross profits.

The agency set aside more than $40 million of those profits to help build a secure backup passport production facility in the South, still leaving a net profit of about $100 million in the last 16 months. GPO was initially authorized by Congress to make extra profits in order to fund a $41 million backup production facility at a rate of $1.84 per passport. The large surplus, however, went far beyond the targeted funding.

The large profits raised concerns within GPO because the law traditionally has mandated that the agency only charge enough to recoup its actual costs.

According to internal documents and interviews, GPO's financial officers and even its outside accounting firm began to inquire about the legality of the e-passport profits.

To cut off the debate, GPO's outgoing legal counsel signed a one-paragraph memo last fall declaring the agency was in compliance with the law prohibiting profits, but offering no legal authority to back up the conclusion. The large profits accelerated, according to the officials, after the opinion issued Oct. 12, 2007, by then-GPO General Counsel Gregory A. Brower. Mr. Brower, currently U.S. Attorney in Nevada, could not be reached and his spokeswoman had no immediate comment.

Fred Antoun, a lawyer who specializes in GPO funding issues, said the agency was set up by Congress to operate basically on a break-even financial basis.

"The whole concept of GPO is eat what you kill," Mr. Antoun said. "For the average taxpayer, for them to make large profits is kind of reprehensible."

Likewise, a 1990 report by Congress' General Accounting Office stated that "by law, GPO must charge actual costs to customers," meaning it can't mark up products for a profit.

Like the security concerns, GPO officials brush aside questions about the profits. Agency officials declined a request from The Times to provide an exact accounting of its e-passport costs and revenues, saying only it would not be accurate to claim it has earned the large profits indicated by the documents showing the difference between the manufacturing costs and the State Department fees.

Questioned about its own annual report showing a $90 million-plus profit on e-passports in fiscal year 2007 alone, the GPO spokesman Mr. Somerset would only say that he thinks the agency is in legal compliance and that "GPO is not overcharging the State Department."

Mr. Somerset said 66 different budget line items are used to price new passports and "we periodically review our pricing structure with the State Department."

Public Printer Robert Tapella, the GPO's top executive, faced similar questions during a House subcommittee hearing on March 6. Mr. Tapella told lawmakers that increased demand for passports — especially from Americans who now need them to cross into Mexico and Canada — produced "accelerated revenue recognition," and "not necessarily excess profits."

GPO plans to produce 28 million blank passports this year up from about 9 million five years ago.

A State Department consular affairs spokesman, Steve Royster referred questions to GPO on e-passports costs.

Congress to weigh in

GPO's explanations have not satisfied lawmakers, who are poised to dig deeper.

Mr. Dingell, the House Commerce chairman, said The Times' findings are "extremely serious to both the integrity of the e-passport program and to U.S. national security" and he has asked an investigative subcommittee chaired by Rep. Bart Stupak, Michigan Democrat, to begin an investigation.

"Our initial inquiry suggests that more needs to be done to understand whether the supply chain is secure and fully capable of protecting the manufacturing of this critical document," Mr. Dingell told The Times.

Mr. Stupak said that considering the personal information contained on e-passports, "it is essential that the entire production chain be secure and free from potential tampering." He added: "The GPO needs to make every effort to ensure that future passport components are made in America under the tightest security possible."

Michelle Van Cleave, a former National Counterintelligence Executive, said outsourcing passport work and components creates new security vulnerabilities, not just for passports.

"Protecting the acquisition stream is a serious concern in many sensitive areas of government activity, but the process for assessing the risk to national security is at best loose and in some cases missing altogether," she told The Times.

"A U.S. passport has the full faith and credit of the U.S. government behind the citizenship and identity of the bearer," she said.

"What foreign intelligence service or international terrorist group wouldn't like to be able to masquerade as U.S. citizens? It would be a profound liability for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement if we lost confidence in the integrity of our passports."

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U.S.-based RevolutionMuslim.com spreading messages of hate
'May lead people who become radicalized by it to turn to other, more dangerous websites'

On any given day, log on to RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of startling images appear:

— The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side;

— Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead ";

— Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq;

— The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the murder of non-Muslims.

Even more surprising is that RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York City Borough of Queens.

And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of speech, all the authorities can do is watch.

Formerly known as Joseph Cohen, al-Khattab is an American-born Jew who converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox Rabbinical school, which he later described as a “racist cult.”

The 39-year-old New York taxi driver launched RevolutionMuslim.com with the mission of “preserving Islamic culture,” “calling people to the oneness of God” and asking them to “support the beloved Sheik Abdullah Faisal, who’s preaching the religion of Islam and serving as a spiritual guide.”

In 2003 Faisal was convicted in the U.K. for spreading messages of racial hatred and urging his followers to kill Jews, Hindus and Westerners. In sermon recordings played at his trial, Faisal called on young, impressionable Muslims to use chemical weapons to “exterminate unbelievers” and “cut the throat of the Kaffars [nonbelievers] with [a] machete.”

Authorities believe Faisal’s sermons have influenced 2005 London transport bomber Germaine Lindsay and "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, who attended mosques where Faisal preached.

At times, al-Khattab's postings are farcical, such as a picture of him holding the book "Nuclear Jihad" with a wry smile on his face. Other messages call for radical Muslim rule worldwide.

Al-Khattab claims the Sept. 11 terror attacks were an “inside job,” and he blames U.S. foreign policy for spawning the terrorism that carried out the attacks.

He calls Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, “a convicted spy.”

“I could care less about Daniel Pearl,” al-Khattab said in an interview with FOXNews.com. “I’m happy to see that he’s gone.”

The content changes constantly. One reason is that the fast flow of information allows messages to spread through cyberspace quickly. Another, terrorism analysts say, is to make it difficult for law enforcement to monitor the site.

Despite his radical anti-Western views, al-Khattab says he does not support terrorism of any kind.

Yet, RevolutionMuslim.com claims to be the official site of “North American representatives” for Sheikh Faisal, and it appears dedicated to spreading his radical doctrine.

He says Faisal “never said to kill innocent people” and was unjustly imprisoned. He says the real terror organizations are the U.S. Army, the CIA, and the FBI — and the National Coast Guard, “to a lesser extent.”

According to RevolutionMuslim, Faisal — who was deported to his native Jamaica in 2007 — is now receiving donations solicited on the site, including money for a new laptop and DVD burner to spread his message.

It's not illegal to post these messages or collect money for Faisal, but it would be if Faisal were designated a terrorist by the U.S. government. He currently is not listed on any government terror list; a Department of Justice spokesman could not confirm or deny if Faisal is being investigated for any terror related activity.

RevolutionMuslim may look amateurish when compared with other extremist Web sites, but it is no less of a threat, says Mia Bloom, political science professor at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs.

“It may lead people who become radicalized by it to turn to other, more dangerous Web sites,” such as those run by terrorist organizations, she said.

Bloom characterized al-Khattab’s message as “narrow” and “misinformed” and said he is attempting to “proselytize or radicalize people who share some of these same ideas.”

“[He] has obviously been duped or is duping others because that’s not what Islam preaches,” she said.

On his site al-Khattab appears to condemn the very democracy that guarantees him the freedom to express himself — a freedom he cites in a disclaimer on his homepage:

“We hereby declare and make absolute public declaration that revolutionmuslim.com operates under the first amendment right to freedom of religion and expression and that in no way, shape, or form do we call for war against the U.S. government or adhere to the enemies of the United States elsewhere.”

Under the law FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said it is difficult to bring criminal charges against the operators of Web sites like RevolutionMuslim.com unless specific threats are made against an individual or individuals.

Kolko while not speaking directly about RevolutionMuslim said radical sites like these are not often prosecuted.

"It's usually a First Amendment right if they don't cross the threshold of making any threats," said Kolko. "There's nothing we should or could do."

“Until the rhetoric reaches the point in which it’s no longer protected speech under the first amendment, it’s hard to stop it,” said security expert, Harvey Kushner.

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Authorities warn of growing jihad threat in U.S.
NYC police commissioner: 'The public is getting complacent'

Jihad USA: Confronting the Threat of Homegrown Terror

 Law enforcement officials and security experts are warning against the threat of homegrown terrorism as several cases involving alleged American jihadists enter the courts.

"The public is getting complacent," New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tells FOX News. Kelly, who was the police commissioner during the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, has developed a task force of counterterrorism officers trained to spot jihadists.

Although there has not been a major terrorist strike in the U.S. since Sept. 11, 2001, Kelley says the country cannot let down its guard.

"We can't afford to be complacent in law enforcement, and I don't think we are," Kelly says in the new FOX News documentary, "Jihad, USA," which will air at 9 p.m. ET on March 29.

Several terror-related cases now in the courts highlight this need for continued vigilance, experts say.

— In Florida, the retrial of six of the "Liberty City Seven" is coming to a close. The group members, who allegedly plotted to destroy the Sears Tower in Chicago and swore allegiance to Al Qaeda on a secret FBI surveillance tape, were arrested in June 2006. Their first trial ended in a not-guilty verdict for one defendant and a mistrial for the other six.

— In Washington state, the murder trial has begun for Pakistani-American Naveed Haq, who is accused of opening fire in Seattle's Jewish Federation Building in July 2006, killing one woman and wounding five others. Haq allegedly said he was mad at the Jews and how they are running the country.

Two other cases are to enter court next month.

— In Michigan, a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Houssein Zorkot, a Lebanese-born medical student at Wayne State University in Detroit who posted on his Web site in September 2007 that he was launching a personal jihad. He was arrested that same day in a nearby park, wearing camouflage paint and holding a loaded AK-47.

— In South Carolina a trial is set for Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed, two University of South Florida students who officials say had pipe bombs in their car when they were caught speeding near the Goose Creek weapons base.

Terror experts say these and other cases since Sept. 11 illustrate an emerging threat from homegrown terrorists, people who have been radicalized by extreme Muslim doctrine within the U.S.

"Al Qaeda is depending today upon the spontaneous emergence of these jihadist cells that are not tethered to the leadership of Al Qaeda by either telephone or e-mail," terror investigator and author Steve Emerson told FOX News.

But others say the threat of homegrown Islamic terrorism is overstated.

In "none of these cases brought in the United States did the government ever produce any evidence suggesting that someone had prepared a bomb," says Jim Wedick, a former FBI agent. "Someone's actual ability to do harm needs to be taken into the equation."

Wedick consulted with the defense on the Liberty City Seven case.

"The solution is not to treat the whole Muslim community as a suspect community," says Hussam Ayloush, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. "This is not about ignoring a threat, but this ... should not be about exaggerating any threat in a way that promotes certain political agendas."

Kelly says the threat is real and the only way to combat it is through prevention.

"Just imagine if the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11 were arrested on Sept. 10," he says. "How would that have been characterized?"

"Jihad, USA," a new FOX News documentary hosted by E.D. Hill, airs on the FOX News Channel at 9 p.m. ET on March 29.

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Iraqi Currency and Bomb Discovered In Stolen Car - New Mexico

The FBI is now involved in the theft of a car after it was found in Los Lunas with an explosive device and Iraqi currency inside.FBI agents say that they have ruled out terrorism.

The car was reported stolen last week. After the theft, the car’s owner was fueling his motorcycle when he spotted his stolen car.

“While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also,” said Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes.

The car’s owner pulled the keys out of the ignition of his stolen car and the people in the car fled.

When police arrived, they found the explosive device and less than $1,000 worth of Iraqi cash.

“We don’t know what their intentions were,” said Nuanes. “We don’t know what they were planning on doing with any of this.”

Police suspect Toby Jaramillo, who is well known to Valencia County law enforcement, was behind the car’s theft. He’s in jail charged with stealing another car.

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When police arrived, they found the explosive device and less than $1,000 worth of Iraqi cash.

“We don’t know what their intentions were,” said Nuanes. “We don’t know what they were planning on doing with any of this.”

Can't we make an easy guess? They were going to blow some Americans up. This is thanks to DERELICTION OF DUTY in leaving our borders WIDE OPEN. There will be a price to be paid.

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 2 SoCal freeway shootings, 1 fatal

Police said Monday they do not believe the weekend death of a motorist was connected to a monthlong string of other Southern California freeway shootings.
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The latest shooting occurred Sunday along the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley, where police found driver Mario Gordillo Sical, 20, in a crashed sedan with a gunshot wound to his head.

Police Officer Sara Faden said authorities were investigating the shooting but did not think it was connected to any previous cases.

The shootings have made some drivers concerned about road rage.

"I have to be careful, maybe not cut in line. Or if someone does something, I shouldn't honk my horn," Lize Park, 50, said at a gas station near a 101 Freeway off-ramp.

Another case occurred late Saturday about 30 miles away in Long Beach, when a man was shot in what the victim called a road-rage incident. He was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening.

On Feb. 27, a 46-year-old man was shot in the upper body and right arm while driving on the 210 Freeway northeast of Los Angeles. He survived.

A co-worker of that victim was arrested two days later and charged with attempted murder, Azusa police Detective DeWayne Eldridge said.

In another incident, a 26-year-old man died after a March 1 shooting on the 101 Freeway in the San Fernando Valley that followed an argument on Hollywood Boulevard.

A 54-year-old woman was found about two weeks later shot in the head in a car crashed on the San Bernardino Freeway in eastern Los Angles County. She died at a hospital.

It was not known if arrests had been made in those shootings.

In a separate case, the California Highway Patrol said Monday it is investigating a series of apparent BB gun attacks that shattered rear passenger windows of six vehicles on Interstate 10 in eastern Los Angeles County, near the town of Baldwin Park. No one was been injured in those attacks, in a 15-minute span during the Monday morning rush hour.

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4 Local Schools Close Due To Threats At St. Xavier - Threats Refer To Possible Campus Attacks on 4/14

Chicago - Saint Xavier University and four other nearby schools will be closed Monday. Graffiti found in a dorm on the St. Xavier campus threatened a deadly attack Monday.

Each of the schools’ websites informs students and parents about today’s school closings. Some say it’s because of their proximity to St. Xavier, some say they are closing in solidarity with the college campus.

The schools closed Monday are Mother McAuley High School, Brother Rice High School, Queen of Martyrs Elementary School and Evergreen Park Southwest Elementary. Altogether, more than 6,200 students are enrolled at those four schools.

Mother McAuley and Brother Rice high schools share a property line on the western edge of St. Xavier’s Chicago campus. Queen of Martyrs is just east of St. Xavier and Evergreen Park Southwest is also nearby.

The Brother Rice and McAuley websites indicate that all athletic practices, home activities and events are cancelled as well and that everything will resume as scheduled on Tuesday.

The closings follow Friday’s shutdown of both campuses of St Xavier. All students were asked to leave the Chicago and Orland Park campuses by noon Saturday. Non-essential staff also are not allowed on campus.

Campus employees found two threatening messages in Regina Hall, a freshman dormitory. The second one caused university officials to take extreme precautions because it warned “Be prepared to die on 4/14.”

St. Xavier University President Dwyer said, “This is a real enough threat we do not have these types of threats and when it was so specific to name a date, law enforcement said this is different from what we’ve seen at other college campuses and certainly at St. Xavier.”

The president has not decided when to re-open the college. She said students and staff will be notified by e-mail, text messages and telephone.

Meantime, another university in Michigan is also closed Monday due to threats of violence specific to Monday’s date.

Threatening graffiti found in three men’s restrooms led Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., to cancel campus classes, sports and cultural activities for two days.

The school said it sent out a security alert Saturday after finding one threatening message, and officials said they found similar messages in men’s restrooms in two other buildings later that day.

The school didn’t reveal contents of the threats. But university Police Chief Sam Lucido told the Detroit Free Press that they referred to possible campus attacks on “4/14.”

That is the same date noted in the threatening graffiti found at St. Xavier.

Lucido spoke Sunday with the head of security at St. Xavier, Oakland spokesman Ted Montgomery told The Associated Press.

“I don’t think as of yet they’ve established any connection that seems reliable,” he said.

Lucido told the Free Press that the Oakland University threats didn’t target anyone specific, and that authorities believe the same person left all three threats.

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Miami terrorism case to get 3rd trial
6 men accused of seeking help from al-Qaida to blow up Sears Tower in Chicago

U.S. federal prosecutors on Wednesday said they will try for a third time to convict six men accused of seeking help from al Qaeda to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago as part of a holy war.

Prosecutors announced the decision at a hearing in the same U.S. District Court in Miami where a mistrial in the second trial involving the men was declared last week. Jurors could not agree on a verdict after 13 days of deliberations.

The first trial in the so-called "Liberty City Seven" case also ended in a mistrial last December, when jurors failed to reach a verdict for six defendants. A seventh won acquittal.

When the seven were arrested in June 2006, authorities said they had scored a major blow against terrorism and a breakthrough in efforts to speedily dismantle home-grown "sleeper cells."

The suspects, who operated out of a warehouse in Miami's poor Liberty City neighborhood, were accused of conspiring to bomb America's tallest building, the Sears Tower, the FBI's Miami office and other federal buildings.

They were filmed swearing an oath of allegiance to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda group. Their lawyers argued they were only playing along, hoping to get money out of a man claiming to have ties to al Qaeda who was actually an FBI informant.

Prosecutors offered no comment on last week's mistrial. Lawyers for the defendants, who face four terrorism-related conspiracy charges that carry a combined maximum of 70 years in prison, said they could not comment because of a gag order imposed by U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard.

It was not immediately clear when the third trial would get under way. Lenard set a status conference for next Wednesday.

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Border fence opponents go green
Letter criticizing U.S. security plan also cites 'endorsement' from Job

Opponents of a plan to make the U.S. more secure by building fencing along its porous border with Mexico have gone green, claiming such homeland security efforts will harm the environment.

And they even have cited a dispensation from the Bible, quoting the Old Testament suggestion from Job 12:7-10, which begins, "But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds of the air, and they will tell you…"

The arguments have been launched in advance of a showdown hearing scheduled April 28 in Brownsville, Texas, where two subcommittees of the House Committee on Natural Resources are holding a joint oversight field hearing on arguments that a Department of Homeland Security decision to waive environmental and land management laws to build an expedited fence will cause irreparable damage.

On April 1, the Department of Homeland Security announced its intent to issue waivers to certain laws to complete by the end of 2008 some 470 miles of expedited border fence in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

The laws to be waived include sections of the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Endangered Species Act.

DHS signed a second waiver for the levee-border barrier project in Hidalgo County, Texas.

"A substantial portion of the project areas addressed by these waivers have already undergone environmental reviews," the DHS said. "The department remains deeply committed to environmental responsibility, and will continue to work closely with the Department of Interior and other federal and state resources management agencies to ensure impacts to the environment, wildlife, and cultural and historical artifacts are analyzed and minimized."

But an "interfaith letter" sponsored by a coalition of 20 "religious groups" as diverse as the Alliance of Baptists, the Hispanic Coalition for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and NETWORK, self-described as a "national Catholic social justice lobby," is being circulated to House of Representative members. It says one-third of the U.S. border lies in public hands, "including natural wildlife refuges, national parks and natural forests."

"Large swaths of pristine land provide habitat for an abundance of plant and animal life, including many species that are found nowhere else in the U.S.," the interfaith letter continues.

Calling the U.S. border with Mexico a "fragile ecosystem" that the governments of Mexico and the United States have worked together for years to protect, the letter contends, "Now, hasty construction of hundreds of miles of fencing along the border is destroying decades of cooperation and preservation."

The letter, which then cites the injunction to seek advice from the animals and birds, is being quoted by Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., who introduced H.R. 2593, the Borderlands Conservation and Security Act, on June 6, 2007.

WND has obtained a copy of a letter Grijalva is circulating to House colleagues, citing the interfaith letter and asking for co-sponsors to his plan to require DHS to comply with environmental and land management laws and to consult with Native American Indian tribes and local communities when deciding to build any fence along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Scheduled to appear at the hearing is Joan Neuhaus Schaan, a Fellow for Homeland Security and Terrorism Programs at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, and George Zachary Taylor of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers.

Schaan and Taylor both are expected to testify that uncontrolled illegal immigration and the drug war currently raging along the U.S. border with Mexico are doing far more damage to the border ecosystem than building a fence ever would do.

Schaan is prepared to present data on the violence along the border, including increased levels of smuggling activity, burglary and theft, as well as murders resulting from the drug war and lawlessness entailed by the drug war.

Taylor is planning to present evidence of wildfires started by illegal immigrants causing environmental damage to the Pajarita Wilderness area, near his home in Arizona.

The hearing is scheduled at 10:00 a.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Science, Engineering and Technology Building (SET-B) at the University of Texas-Brownsville.

The hearing is a joint oversight hearing of the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, together with the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans.

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Bluntly, environmentalists will eventually be responsible for killing a huge and unknown number of people, and let's not even consider the chaos and destruction they've already accomplished to our economy. This will be their legacy.

[Soldier4Christ]

Personally I don't think that the majority of these people are truly environmentalists. They are just political dissenters that are jumping on the environmental band wagon in order to achieve their goals of creating chaos and destruction.

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Operation Torch - Anti Terror Police Take To New York Subways

Operation Torch - Part of New York City’s new effort to better defend against terrorism will include the introduction of machine-gun toting NYPD “Torch Teams” in the city’s subways.

In addition to the automatic weapons, the teams will also be patrolling subways with bomb-sniffing dogs. They will be outfitted with body armor as well. Beginning Thursday they will board trains and patrol platforms in Penn Station, Rockefeller Center, and Times Square.

The teams are a first for mass transit in the U.S., made possible in large part by a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant.

Other NYPD units, called “Hercules Teams,” are similarly equipped and have patrolled Wall Street in the past, as well as the empire state building and other above-ground landmarks in the city, following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.