March 30, 2005

Palestinian gunmen fire at Abbas' presidential headquarters A group of Palestinian militants lobbyists fired Wednesday at Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' West Bank headquarters while he was in the compound, officials said. Abbas was not injured in the attack. Message sent. 3:41:39 PM

Former Alberta Canada man charged in plot to wage worldwide jihad Edmonton Journal - A former Edmonton-area cinema owner has been charged in the United States with raising cash and recruiting Muslim extremists in North America throughout the 1990s to help wage a worldwide Islamic jihad. Kassem Daher, linked by CSIS to al-Qaeda, is a Lebanese native who came to Canada in the 1980s as a business immigrant. Daher, who once ran movie theatres in Leduc and Ponoka, left Canada in 1998. A criminal complaint unsealed this week in Florida named Daher -- along with three other men, including a former Detroit public school administrator -- as co-conspirators in a network aimed at supporting terrorist activities around the globe. 1:57:24 PM