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To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (9785)	9/1/2007 12:02:18 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

Major Toronto highways shut as police transport live bombs Man faces attempted murder charges over series of letter blasts after cops find explosives in car Chris Wattie and Matthew Coutts, CanWest News Service Published: Saturday, September 01, 2007 TORONTO -- Torontonians were transfixed yesterday by the spectacle of police gingerly transporting three live bombs through their city, while shutting down two of Toronto's busiest roadways for more than an hour after a man was arrested for a series of letter bombings earlier this month. As news helicopters buzzed overhead, a 17-car police convoy crept slowly down the normally bustling Don Valley Parkway and under the Gardiner Expressway to a deserted spit of land on the Lake Ontario waterfront, carefully towing a trailer containing the three explosive devices seized earlier from a rental car. Bridges over the parkway were sealed off and pedestrians and other vehicles kept hundreds of metres away until the bombs could be carefully deposited on an isolated peninsula jutting into Lake Ontario and blown up in a controlled explosion that could be heard kilometres away. View Larger Image Emergency units containing explosives make their way down Leslie Street in Toronto yesterday. Adel Arnaout, 37, was arrested after police found three bombs when they descended upon on a car at a gas station. Brent Foster, CanWest News Service Deputy Toronto police chief Tony Warr said officers found the three devices, each "14-18 inches long," when they swooped down on a car late Thursday at a gasoline station in north Toronto. An area several blocks around the site was sealed off while bomb disposal experts disarmed the devices and loaded them into an armoured cylinder for the trip to the waterfront. "If they had exploded on the way down, as we say, we don't know what the explosive is, we don't know what the extent [of damage] would be," he said. "We were on a gas station lot, so obviously we don't want to set any bombs off there ... a little bit of traffic inconvenience, I think, is worthwhile for everybody's safety." Adel Arnaout, 37, a landed immigrant from Lebanon, was charged yesterday with three counts of attempted murder, three counts of delivering and setting off a bomb and one of illegal possession of explosives. He was also charged with criminal harassment. Arnaout, handcuffed and clad in an orange jumpsuit, made a brief appearance in an east-end court, staring sullenly at the justice of the peace as a bail hearing was set for next Wednesday. Warr said police had a suspect under surveillance for at least a day before they made an arrest, but would not say what motivated the three letter-bomb attacks in the past month, including one in Toronto that caused minor burns to the recipient and two similar packages sent to addresses in Toronto and Guelph which did not explode. "There's a pattern in his logic. They weren't just random [victims] picked out of a phone book," he said. "I can't get into the details of why they're connected, [but] we're just trying to emphasize the fact this is not an ideological or a political type of attack. These were more personal attacks." "There's absolutely no pattern as far as any religion, ideology, or nationality." © Times Colonist (Victoria) 2007 canada.com

To: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck who wrote (9785)	9/3/2007 8:58:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 20106

Taleban vows to abduct more foreigners Khaleej Times and Associated Press ^ \| 31 August 2007 \| Chris Brummitt, Fisnik Abrashi khaleejtimes.com Taleban militants vowed to abduct more foreigners after ending a six-week hostage drama by releasing the last seven of a group of kidnapped South Koreans under a deal with the Seoul government. We will do the same thing with the other allies in Afghanistan, because we found this way to be successful,’ Taleban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told the Associated Press via cell phone from an undisclosed location. The seven hostages were handed over Thursday to the International Committee of the Red Cross in two separate exchanges close to the central Afghan city of Ghazni, Red Cross officials and an Associated Press reporter said. The freed hostages did not speak to reporters. The South Korean government and relatives of the hostages _ all of whom belonged to a Presbyterian church close to Seoul _ have insisted they were not engaged in missionary activities, but were doing aid work such as helping in hospitals. In Washington, the State Department welcomed the hostages’ release. When asked if South Korea’s negotiations with the Taleban set a dangerous precedent, spokesman Tom Casey refrained from directly criticizing the Seoul government. I’d simply reiterate that the long-standing US policy is ... not to make concessions to terrorists,’ (Excerpt) Read more at khaleejtimes.com ....