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Clouds and rain showers didn’t keep
car enthusiasts from enjoying a
classic Shades of the Past weekend
By Katy Palmer
kpalmer@marshallindependent.com
nother round of polished hoods and roaring engines took
place at the Shades of the Past Car and Bike Show on
Saturday.
Dozens of participants from all over the area
brought cars from multiple generations and lined
them up for display outside of the Marshall Runnings.
Everything from classic 1930s cars to current ’09 rides could
be seen. Although there was spitting rain all morning, there was
no sense of dampened spirit among the car lovers. It didn’t
matter whether you were a long-time car enthusiast or a passer-
by, intrigued by the show; it was a great event to catch up with
old friends, meet some newcomers, and spend a day admiring
the cars.
Throughout the morning, an announcer read out raffle win-
ners and occasionally counted down to the launching of a T-
shirt, which could be seen flying through the air toward a group
Containment
cap offers
hope even as
oil spews on
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A
device sucking some of the oil
from a blown-out well in the
Gulf of Mexico offered a bright
spot Sunday for a region that has
seen its wildlife coated in a
lethal muck, its fishermen idled
and its beaches tarnished by the
nation’s worst oil spill.
The containment cap placed
on the gusher near the sea floor
trapped about 441,000 gallons of
oil Saturday, BP spokesman
Mark Proegler said Sunday, up
from around 250,000 gallons of
oil Friday. It’s not clear how
much is still escaping; an esti-
mated 500,000 to 1 million gal-
lons of crude is believed to be
leaking daily.
While BP officials registered
optimism, government officials
monitoring the response to the
spill were more cautious, wary
of drumming up promises they
couldn’t deliver on.
BP chief executive Tony
Hayward told the BBC on
Sunday that he believed the cap
was likely to capture ‘‘the
majority, probably the vast
majority’’ of the oil gushing
from the well. The gradual
increase in the amount being
captured is deliberate, in an
effort to prevent water from get-
ting inside and forming a frozen
slush that foiled a previous con-
tainment attempt.
The next step is for BP engi-
neers to attempt to close vents
on the cap that allow streams of
oil to escape and prevent that
water intake, and Hayward told
the BBC that the company hopes
a second containment system
will be in place by next week-
end.
Hawyard, who has faced crit-
icism over his company’s
response to the spill, said that he
wouldn’t step down and that he
had the ‘‘absolute intention of
seeing this through to the end.’’
‘‘We’re going to clean up the
oil, we’re going to remediate
any environmental damage and
we are going to return the Gulf
coast to the position it was in
prior to this event,’’ he told the
BBC.
Coast Guard Adm. Thad
Allen, the federal government’s
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AVERA WALK
Photo by Katy Palmer
Gloria, left, Linda Haag, along with their companion Cloe complete the breast cancer survivor walk at the
Avera Marshall Race Against Breast Cancer on Saturday in Marshall. They joined the crowd of pink later to
support the runners and share the joy of the event with others.
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J.
(AP) — Two New Jersey men
who talked about attacking
Americans and sought to fight
alongside terrorists in Somalia
were arrested at a gate New
York’s Kennedy Airport as they
were about to board a flight to
leave the U.S. and join the al-
Qaida-affiliated jihadists,
authorities said.
Mohamed Mahmood Alessa,
20, and Carlos Eduardo
Almonte, 26, were arrested
Saturday before they could
board separate flights to Egypt
and then continue on to Somalia,
federal officials in New Jersey
and the New York Police
Department said.
They had been under investi-
gation since 2006. New York
Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly said they had traveled to
Jordan in 2007 and tried to get
into Iraq, but were turned back
by their would-be recruiters.
During the lengthy investiga-
tion, an NYPD undercover offi-
cer recorded conversations with
the men in which they spoke
about jihad against Americans.
‘‘I leave this time. God will-
ing, I never come back,’’ author-
ities say Alessa told the officer
last year. ‘‘Only way I would
come back here is if I was in the
land of jihad and the leader
ordered me to come back here
and do something here. Ah, I
love that.’’
Alessa also was allegedly
recorded telling Almonte that he
would outdo Maj. Nidal Hasan,
the Army psychiatrist accused of
killing 13 people at Fort Hood,
Texas, last year.
‘‘He’s not better than me. I’ll
do twice what he did,’’ Alessa
allegedly said.
Kelly said Alessa, of North
Bergen, and Almonte, of
Elmwood Park, are American
citizens.
N.J. men accused of trying
to join Somali terrorists
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Photos by
Katy Palmer
Joey Burner of
Marshall
enjoyed peeking
under the hoods
of various cars
during the
Shades of the
Past Car Show
on Saturday in
Marshall. This
was his first time
he and his family
walked through
the show to see
the variety of
cars and bikes
on display. More
photos on
PAGE 7A.
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images from
Saturday’s
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Brian Baulson walked through the project corral of in-progress cars
Saturday. He knows a lot of people who come to the show, and enjoys vis-
iting with them and seeing what they bring each year.Cap PAGE 8A Hood PAGE 8A
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2. Alessa was born in the
United States and is of
Palestinian descent.
Almonte is a naturalized cit-
izen who was born in the
Dominican Republic.
They are the latest of
many Americans or immi-
grants to the U.S. accused of
joining or trying to join al-
Shabab, a violent extremist
group based in Somalia and
connected to al-Qaida. Al-
Shabab was designated by
the U.S. as a terrorist group
in 2008.
Investigators say they’re
also among many U.S. ter-
rorism suspects to have
been inspired by two well-
known U.S. citizens who
have recruited terrorists
through the Internet: Adam
Gadahn, an al-Qaida
spokesman in Pakistan, and
Anwar al-Awlaki, believed
to have helped inspire
recent attacks including the
Fort Hood shooting, the
Times Square bombing
attempt and the failed
Christmas Day airline
bombing.
Both men have made
public calls for smaller, sin-
gle acts of terrorism and
court documents show
Alessa and Almonte appear-
ing to be inspired by that
idea.
Alessa and Almonte face
charges of conspiring to
kill, maim, and kidnap per-
sons outside the United
States by joining al-Shabab.
Teams of state and federal
law enforcement agents
who have been investigat-
ing the men took them into
custody, authorities said.
They are scheduled to
appear Monday in federal
court in Newark.
Kelly on Sunday cited
the ‘‘excellent work’’ done
by the undercover officer,
who Kelly said was of
Egyptian descent and in his
mid-20s. The officer joined
the department in 2005.
No one answered the
door at Almonte’s house
and the blinds were drawn.
A man who said he was
Almonte’s father walked
into the home shortly before
1 p.m. with another man.
‘‘I’m very confused by
all this. He’s my son,’’ he
said before he went inside.
‘‘I just don’t understand it.’’
David Castro, 56, of
Elmwood Park, is an Army
reservist who lives across
the street from Almonte. He
said he doesn’t know the
suspect but knows his father
and described the family as
friendly.
Terrorists’ recruiting
techniques ‘‘almost seem
better than the U.S. Army,’’
Castro said. ‘‘This is hap-
pening not just in bad
neighborhoods. This is hap-
pening in good neighbor-
hoods like this one.’’
Alessa lived with his
parents in the densely popu-
lated New York suburb, said
Hemant Shah, the family’s
landlord. Alessa was attend-
ing Bergen County
Community College, Shah
said, and his father worked
at a convenience store.
The FBI was at the home
until 2 a.m. and removed
several boxes, Shah said.
‘‘It’s surprising,’’ he said
of the arrests. ‘‘If it’s true,
it’s very scary.’’
He checked on Alessa’s
parents Sunday and said
they didn’t want to talk to
reporters.
While court documents
paint a picture of two men
deeply committed to terror-
ism, their training was
apparently scattershot. They
lifted weights, hiked in the
snow at a local park, bought
military-style pants and
water bottles, played violent
video games and watched
terrorist videos online.
The men said they
planned to get weapons
when they went abroad. The
only weapons they pos-
sessed were two folding
knives Alessa said he would
use to kill police if they
tried to get near him: ‘‘I’m-
a cut them in half with it,
even if I die,’’ Alessa said,
according to court docu-
ments.
Alessa and Almonte had
planned their trip to
Somalia for several months,
saving thousands of dollars,
officials said. Both had
bragged about wanting to
wage holy war against the
United States both at home
and internationally, accord-
ing to a criminal complaint.
Officials said the two
men were not planning an
imminent attack in the New
York-New Jersey area and
weren’t suspected of plot-
ting any violence on their
flights.
The two men knew early
on they had come to the
attention of law enforce-
ment.
By the end of 2006
agents had talked with
Almonte and a family mem-
ber, and in March 2007 the
FBI conducted a consensual
search of his computer,
revealing documents advo-
cating jihad against the per-
ceived enemies of Islam,
court papers show.
Last November, investi-
gators recorded Alessa
telling Almonte that lots of
people needed to be killed.
‘‘My soul cannot rest
until I shed blood,’’ Alessa
said, according to court doc-
uments. ‘‘I wanna, like, be
the world’s known terror-
ist.’’
Almonte told the under-
cover officer in April that
there would soon be
American troops in
Somalia, which he allegedly
said was good because it
would not be as gratifying
to kill only Africans.
Somalia, an impover-
ished East African nation of
about 10 million people, has
not had a functioning gov-
ernment for more than a
decade, although the U.S. is
backing a transitional gov-
ernment there. The
Pentagon’s top commander
in the region has included
Somalia on a list of coun-
tries where clandestine
American military opera-
tions designed to disrupt
militant groups would be
targeted.
Over the past year, a
number of Somali youths
have traveled from the U.S.
back to Somalia to fight
with al-Shabab insurgents.
At the same time, battle-
hardened al-Qaida insur-
gents have moved out of
safe havens along the
Pakistan-Afghanistan bor-
der into Somalia, where vast
ungoverned spaces allow
them to train and mobilize
recruits without interfer-
ence.
ANDREWS AIR
FORCE BASE, Md. (AP)
— A string of setbacks for
al-Qaida’s affiliate in Iraq
has left the insurgent group
‘‘devastated’’and struggling
to cope with a double
whammy of a leadership
vacuum and a money
squeeze, the top U.S. mili-
tary officer said Sunday.
Adm. Mike Mullen,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, said he found it par-
ticularly encouraging that
gains against al-Qaida have
been made in operations car-
ried out jointly by U.S. and
Iraqi military forces. That
makes it more likely, Mullen
said, that after U.S. troops
leave in 2011 the Iraqi gov-
ernment will be able to han-
dle what remains of al-
Qaida’s capability to launch
terror strikes.
Mullen’s remarks echoed
an assessment made Friday
by Gen. Ray Odierno, the
top American commander
in Iraq. Odierno told
reporters that over the last
three months, ‘‘we’ve either
picked up or killed 34 out of
the top 42 al-Qaida in Iraq
leaders.’’ He said the group
is trying to reorganize but
has ‘‘lost connection’’ with
the top-rung al-Qaida lead-
ers who are hiding in west-
ern Pakistan.
In a brief interview at
Andrews Air Force Base
upon his return from visit-
ing the National D-Day
Memorial at Bedford, Va.,
Mullen said he has been
encouraged at progress
against al-Qaida in Iraq,
which is known for grisly
suicide attacks that have
killed thousands.
‘‘I’ve watched this over
an extended period of time
where we have just devas-
tated them by removing
their leadership’’ and mak-
ing it harder for the organi-
zation to get financing,
Mullen said. ‘‘We’ve
watched them struggle in
that regard.’’
point man for the response,
took issue on CNN’s ‘‘State
of the Union’’ on Sunday
with BP officials who said
they were pleased with
results of the latest effort.
He said progress was being
made, ‘‘but I don’t think
anybody should be pleased
as long as there is oil in the
water.’’
He said on ‘‘Fox News
Sunday’’ that he doesn’t
‘‘want to create any undue
encouragement’’ and that
‘‘we need to underpromise
and overdeliver.’’
While BP plans to even-
tually use an additional set
of hoses and pipes to
increase the amount of oil
being trapped, the ultimate
solution remains a relief
well that should be finished
by August.
The urgency of that task
was apparent along the Gulf
Coast nearly seven weeks
after a BP rig exploded
April 20, killing 11 workers
and rupturing the wellhead
a mile below the surface.
Since then, millions of gal-
lons of oil have been rising
to the surface and spreading
out across the sea.
As the oil comes ashore
from Louisiana to Florida,
pelicans struggle to free
themselves from oil that
gathers in hip-deep pools,
and dead birds and dolphins
are washing up. Scientists
say the wildlife death toll
remains relatively modest,
though, because the
Deepwater Horizon rig was
50 miles off the coast and
most of the oil has stayed in
the open sea.
‘‘These waters are my
backyard, my life,’’ said
boat captain Dave Marino,
a firefighter and fishing
guide from Myrtle Grove,
La. ‘‘I don’t want to say
heartbreaking, because
that’s been said. It’s a night-
mare. It looks like it’s going
to be wave after wave of it
and nobody can stop it.’’
The oil has steadily
spread east, washing up in
greater quantities in recent
days. Government officials
estimate that roughly 23
million to 49 million gal-
lons have leaked into the
Gulf.
A line of oil mixed with
seaweed stretched all across
the beach Sunday morning
in Gulf Shores, Ala. The oil
was often hidden beneath
the washed-up plants. At a
cleaning station outside a
huge condominium tower,
Leon Baum scrubbed oil off
his feet with Dawn dish-
washing detergent.
Baum had driven with
his children and grandchil-
dren from Bebee, Ark., for
their annual vacation on
Alabama’s coast. They had
contemplated leaving
because of the oil, but
they’ve already spent hun-
dreds of dollars on their get-
away.
‘‘After you drive all this
way, you stay,’’ Baum said.
At Pensacola Beach,
Buck Langston and his fam-
ily took to collecting globs
of tar instead of sea shells
on Sunday morning. They
used improvised chopsticks
to pick up the balls and drop
them into plastic containers.
Ultimately, the hoped to
help clean it all up,
Langston said.
‘‘Yesterday it wasn’t like
this, this heavy,’’ Langston
said. ‘‘I don’t know why
cleanup crews aren’t out
here.’’
With no oil response
workers on Louisiana’s
Queen Bess Island,
Plaquemines Parish coastal
zone management director
P.J. Hahn decided he could
wait no longer, pulling an
exhausted brown pelican
from the oil, slime dripping
from its wings.
‘‘We’re in the sixth
week, you’d think there
would be a flotilla of people
out here,’’ Hahn said. ‘‘As
you can see, we’re so far
behind the curve in this
thing.’’
At the mouth of
Alabama’s Mobile Bay,
hundreds of seagulls
squawked on a beach dotted
with countless small tar
balls but not a cleanup crew
in sight.
of hopeful, outstretched hands.
Along with the rows of fin-
ished cars, there was a project
corral for those cars that were
not quite complete.
The level of completion of
those cars varied greatly. Some
were nearly done, others just
started.
One car that was just starting
to be rebuilt was a 1930 Ford
Model A that belonged to Josh
Anderson of Tracy.
He decided to bring what he
had, just the body, to the show
this year.
Like many of the participants
and admirers at the show,
Anderson has always been inter-
ested in cars and has made it his
hobby.
“My dad used to drag race,”
he said, which is what sparked
his interest.
Anderson came across the
Model A when he was in
Kansas. He noticed it in some-
one’s yard and the owner luckily
“just wanted to get rid of it,” he
said.
Anderson has had it for about
six years, but just recently decid-
ed to start working on it.
He works on all of his proj-
ects, including this one, by him-
self. He does not know when he
will be finished with it, but he
plans to bring it back to the
Shades of the Past show every
year to show the progress he has
made.
Rebuilding this car will
require Anderson to “custom-
make everything,” he said.
Since all he brought to the
show was the body, taking on
this project is ambitious, but
surely rewarding.
Josh Anderson,
left, of Tracy
explains a bit of
his progress on
the 1930 Ford
Model A he
brought to the
Shades of the
Past car show
Saturday.
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