War on Terror

Port Everglades Weapons of Mass Destruction Drill Is Going Down Today

By Chris Joseph Wed., Apr. 10 2013 at 10:56 AM
Categories: News, War on Terror
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WARNING: This is only a simulation.

Oh hey, Broward County. If there are sudden whispers in your office about a possible deadly chemical leak or some other man-made terror disaster, it's only a rumor. So no need to hide under your desk.

The Port Everglades Department and Emergency Management Division are conducting a "weapons of mass destruction" full-scale security exercise at the Port today.

Fun!

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First Amendment

Margate Persecutes Human Sign Spinners

By Stefan Kamph Tue., Sep. 18 2012 at 6:37 AM
Categories: First Amendment, Get Off My Lawn!, War on Terror
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How big must a man's sandwich board be before the strong arm of the state comes down to crush his minimum-wage shenanigans? How long is too long for a giant arrow pointing to a mattress store where everything is always 75 percent off?

Yeah, uh, six square feet, says the Margate City Commission.

These down times have spawned a lot of makeshift solutions in Florida, such as businesses inside storage units. None, perhaps, is more iconic than the guy sweltering in a chicken suit, holding a big sign. All this makes the sub-suburban enclave Margate, which is basically just one big median swale, feel like it needs to take action.

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War on Terror

Florida's September 11 Connection: Bob Graham to Talk at Journalism Fundraiser Tonight

By Stefan Kamph Tue., Sep. 11 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: War on Terror
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You've seen the pattern in Broward: Bad people come here to plot their schemes, nobody cares, and they operate with impunity for years until some journalist finally stumbles upon them. Then everyone is outraged. This isn't true just of Ponzi schemers and fraudsters. Terrorists do it too. 

Bob Norman revealed in a five-part series that the 9/11 terrorists, who struck 11 years ago today, were aided by lax immigration policies in South Florida. 

The terrorists had several South Florida haunts, pictured here.

Last year, Dan Christensen broke the story that a well-connected Saudi family had fled their Sarasota home, which had been visited by Mohammed Atta three days before the 9/11 attacks, but that Congress and the 9/11 Commission had been kept in the dark. Sen. Bob Graham called this lack of communication "total B.S." 

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Editorial

The Hunger Games, Afghanistan Edition

By Lisa Rab Thu., Apr. 26 2012 at 6:06 AM
Categories: Editorial, War on Terror
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Flickr user: The U.S. Army
It's not just a movie.
This week, Army Pfc. Michael Metcalf, a 22-year-old soldier from Boynton Beach, was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan. I read the headline in the the Palm Beach Post yesterday morning and, in the evening, met a friend at Cinemark Boynton Beach to watch The Hunger Games.

Now, I realize that some people who drooled over the book trilogy are disappointed in the movie. It's a gory blockbuster, long on blood and short on character development. It sells out to Hollywood while attempting to critique our culture. Fine. But that's not what I noticed. I came to the film ignorant of Suzanne Collins' books and their backstory. Metcalf More »

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Joe Kaufman Tells BSO to "Cease All Activities" With Muslims

By Lisa Rab Thu., Apr. 5 2012 at 11:08 AM
Categories: Law & Order, Politics, If You Can Call It That, War on Terror
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Kaufman believes he knows better than the sheriff how to deal with terrorism.
South Florida's favorite anti-Islam nut bag masquerading as a Republican congressional candidate has his knickers in a twist over a recent meeting between Broward sheriff's officials and Muslim leaders.

Joe Kaufman, head of the hate-mongering group Americans Against Hate, is upset because the sheriff's office had the gall to host a meeting two weeks ago between cops and leaders representing South Florida mosques, the local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA).

"I like and respect Sheriff [Al] Lamberti, but I think it is very unwise to allow radicalMore »

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Because It's Nice

South Florida Muslims Meet With BSO Officials, Urge Collaboration

By Lisa Rab Tue., Mar. 27 2012 at 12:08 PM
Categories: Because It's Nice, War on Terror
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BSO gave out this Crime Stoppers flier at the meeting.
​The men file in slowly to the meeting room at the Broward Sheriff's Office headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. "As-Salaam-Alaikum," they greet one another, shaking hands, smiling warmly at a Sunrise police officer they recognize from prayer services.

About 25 men are here, some wearing skull caps, others wearing police uniforms. The civilians represent mosques from all over South Florida -- Pompano, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Pembroke Pines, Cooper City. They gathered last Wednesday evening to meet the police officers from their towns.

It's the first meeting of its kind in Broward, organized by the Florida Muslim Congress, a group that promotes education and cooperation between Muslims and law enforcement officials. The goal is to help ordinary citizens understand terrorism laws and avoid being accidentally linked to extremists. Nezar Hamze, a member of the Florida Muslim Congress and executive director of the South Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, is leading tonight's meeting. "Our community leaders saw a need to deal with some serious issues," he says.

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Florida Man Sues "Barack Hussein Obama," Citing Six Constitutional Amendments and Magna Carta, for Condemning His Property

By Stefan Kamph Thu., Mar. 15 2012 at 6:28 AM
Categories: War on Terror
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​We're not usually in the business of passing on meandering, typewritten pro-se lawsuits filed in federal court, but this one contains such impassioned language and has obviously annoyed a judge so much that we're presenting it for your perusal.

George May, who says he owned land in the "East Everglades" underneath which Shell Oil Co. discovered "huge pools of oil" that were "worth over $10 billion dollars in reserves," appears to be pissed that his land was condemned at one point.

Or, as Judge Rosemary Collyer put it, "while the Complaint is garbled and difficult to follow, it seem[s] to hinge on an allegation that the defendants condemned Mr. May's property in Florida without due process or compensation."

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Allen West Pushing for War, Says "Iran Is as Dangerous as Nazi Germany"

By Rich Abdill Wed., Mar. 7 2012 at 1:02 PM
Categories: War on Terror, Wild, Wild West
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​It's the perfect storm of Allen West talking points: His arguments for war with Iran combine his love of hyperbolic rhetoric (a "second holocaust" is coming), his ardent defense of Israel, his need to disagree with Barack Obama on every possible issue, and his insistence that diplomacy is for weenies.

West said in a press release yesterday that "we're running out of time" to deal with Iran before they attack Israel with nuclear weapons that it doesn't have, and said Obama's promises to protect the Jewish state are contradicted by his statement that "it is deeply in everybody's interests -- the United States, Israel and the world's -- to see if this can be resolved in a peaceful fashion."

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Religion, or Something Like It

FBI Purges Anti-Islam Training Material

By Lisa Rab Thu., Feb. 16 2012 at 12:20 PM
Categories: Religion, or Something Like It, War on Terror
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​A graph contends the more devout a Muslim is, the more likely he is to be violent. An instructional document saying that in Islam, "war is the rule and peace is only temporary." The paperwork sounds like propaganda produced by Joe Kaufman or U.S. Rep. Allen West. But the documents were used to train FBI agents in counterterrorism.

Prompted by an investigation by Wired.com, the FBI this week purged hundreds of pages of similar training documents, saying they contained "factual errors," promoted stereotypes, or were in "poor taste."

And the bureau is continuing to review its training materials, with more questionable documents expected to be revealed.

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TSA Officers Take a Passenger's Pen? Grand Theft. They Take $400,000? All in a Year's Work.

By Stefan Kamph Fri., Jan. 13 2012 at 2:07 PM
Categories: War on Terror
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​If you've flown recently, you probably have some dim memories of loose change rattling around in a plastic bin at the security checkpoint. If you're careful, you pour all those coins back into your bag or pocket before heading to the gate.

If you don't, the Transportation Security Administration keeps the change. And over a year, that change adds up to a lot of money.

We told you the story of a TSA officer who took home a passenger's $450 pen -- and now faces grand theft charges. In the case of the loose change, though, nobody's pressing charges.More »

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