Italian Government Admits To Aiding Terrorists

The former President of Italy has admitted that his country provided Palestinian terror groups with sanctuary and the ability to establish internal bases in a secret pact in which the terrorists pledged not to target Italian interests.

“I always knew, though not by official documents and information kept from me, about the existence of an agreement based on ‘don’t harm me and I won’t harm you’ between the Italian Republic and organizations such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the PLO,” Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga revealed in a letter to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

Cossiga was responding to an interview the newspaper conducted last week with Bassam Abu Sharif, a top Popular Front for the Liberation, or PFLP, leader who claimed Italy provided his group in the 1970s with safe haven in a non-aggression pact.

“The terms of the agreement were that the Palestinian organizations could even maintain armed bases of operation in the country, and they had freedom of entry and exit without being subject to normal police controls, because they were ‘handled’ by the secret services,” Cossiga wrote.

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Olympic Terror Threat Posted Online

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With only a day left until the opening ceremonies for the Olympic games in China a threat has been posted online by a little known Chinese Islamist group known as Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), an ethnic Uighur and Muslim organization seeking to create an independent state out of China's heavily Muslim Xinjiang province.

The group has claimed responsibility for a number of recent attacks in the region and are now threating to strike the Olympic games and are warning other Muslims to stay away.

The video put out by the terrorist group can be seen below.

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UPDATE: On Los Angeles Earthquake

The Magnitude of the earthquake has been reduce to 5.4 from an original magnitude of 5.8 within an hour of the quake striking.

There was no major structural damage reported though some minor damage to older brick structures and some broken windows, with no major injuries reported.

The reduction in major damage is being credited by tougher building codes that were put into place after the 1994 Northridge quake.

Though this was considered to be only a moderate quake experts are warning that there is still a great potential for a powerful and destructive earthquake to hit California in the next 30 years.

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5.8 Earthquake Hits Los Angeles

BREAKING NOW:

5.8 Earthquake hits LA, lasting about 30 seconds in duration with aftershocks already being reported.

No Major
damage reported at this time. However Cellular communications are being overloaded and authorities are asking people not to use cell phone unless it is an emergency.

Also a 2.2 earthquake also hit this morning in Hayward, CA.

We will provide an update later when we have more information.

MI5 Warns of Al-Qaida Suicide Bombers Using Ambulances Filled With Explosives

This is not really a new threat, as it was considered a possibility for sometime that this could happen.

What is new however is that it was recently uncovered by MI5 during an investigation that Al-Qaida was using the website auctioneer eBay to make purchases of emergency vehicles such as Ambulances, with the intent of using them as IED's (Improvised Explosive Devices) within the United Kingdom.

Even more disturbing it seems that eBay, who was asked by Counter-terrorism officials in the U.K., to stop selling emergency service vehicles, equipment and uniforms. However, eBay refused saying it would only do so if a new law is passed.

Assistant chief constable Steve Watts of Hampshire police is chairing a national security committee which is drawing up plans to tackle the terrorist threat. He said: “What concerns me is the lack of legislation available for the police service to adequately address the threat of pseudo-emergency service vehicles used in such an environment.”

Carlile said: “As independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, I take this issue very seriously. In my view, as a general rule, all emergency service vehicles should be clearly decommissioned so they cannot be used to imitate emergency services.”

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