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To: steve harris who wrote (10242)	9/26/2007 9:36:25 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

Al Qaeda recruits Europeans to train Washington Times ^ \| September 26, 2007 washingtontimes.com Al Qaeda continues to recruit Europeans for explosives training in Pakistan because they can more easily enter the United States without a visa, the nation"s top intelligence officer said yesterday. Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell said European al Qaeda recruits in the border region of Pakistan are being trained to use commercially available substances to make explosives, and they may be able to carry out an attack on U.S. territory... Europeans are being recruited specifically because they generally do not need visas to enter the United States, he said. "Purposely recruiting an operative from Europe gives them an extra edge into getting an operative, or two or three, into the country with the ability to carry out an attack that might be reminiscent of 9/11," he said. Adm. McConnell"s threat warning echoed what he told Congress in July at a time when he and the Bush administration were pressing Congress for swift passage of a new law designed to ease warrantless eavesdropping on overseas calls and e-mails. Adm. McConnell warned then that the existing law, which dictated when the government must obtain warrants from a secret intelligence court to eavesdrop, had become a dangerous blockade to spying on terrorists overseas. Adm. McConnell told the Senate panel yesterday that half of "what we know" comes from electronic surveillance and that the outdated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had degraded those intercepts by two-thirds. Under the new law, the government can eavesdrop without a court order on communications conducted by a person reasonably thought to be outside the United States, even if an American is on one end of the conversation — so long as that American is not the intended focus or target of the surveillance... (Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ....

To: steve harris who wrote (10242)	9/27/2007 6:53:32 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20106

Videos spur Va. appointee's resignation AP via Yahoo ^ \| September 27, 2007 \| BOB LEWIS news.yahoo.com RICHMOND, Va. - A member of the state's Commission of Immigration resigned Thursday, a few hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about online videos showing the appointee condemning Israel and advocating "the jihad way." Kaine learned of the videos from a caller to his live monthly radio program and accepted the resignation of Dr. Esam S. Omeish about three hours later. "Dr. Omeish is a respected physician and community leader, yet I have been made aware of certain statements he has made which concern me," Kaine said in a news release announcing the resignation. The governor said Omeish resigned because he did not want the controversy to distract from the work of the 20-member commission appointed to study the effects of immigration and federal immigration policies on Virginia. Omeish, who is president of the Muslim American Society and chief of the division of general surgery at INOVA Alexandria Hospital, is shown in a video on YouTube denouncing an invasion of Lebanon by the "Israeli war machine" during an Aug. 12, 2006, rally in Washington. He also accuses Israel of genocide and massacres against Palestinians and says on the video that the "Israeli agenda" controls Congress. In a separate, undated video, Omeish tells a crowd of Washington-area Muslims, "...you have learned the way, that you have known that the jihad way is the way to liberate your land." The video was credited to Investigative Project, a Washington-based organization that investigates radical Islamic organizations. Omeish did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mahdi Bray, a spokesman for the MAS, said Omeish was not available. The commission met in Richmond for the first time Tuesday. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ....