Earnhardt Jr. leaving DEI

 

Dale Earnhardt Jr. officially will say goodbye to Dale Earnhardt Inc. on Thursday morning, Yahoo! Sports has learned.

jr.jpgA highly placed source within DEI as well as additional sources familiar with the situation told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday afternoon that both Junior and teammate Martin Truex Jr. will announce Thursday morning that they are leaving the DEI camp at the end of this season and will drive for Earnhardt’s heretofore Busch Series operation, JR Motorsports.

Sirius Radio also reported late Wednesday afternoon that the Earnhardt/Truex split with DEI was a done deal and that the new Cup team entry will field Chevrolet chassis built by Hendrick Motorsports and will use Hendrick engines as well. Sources at Hendrick Motorsports reportedly disavowed knowledge of a pending partnership, however.

Sources tell Yahoo! Sports that Earnhardt Jr.’s primary sponsor, Budweiser, will follow Junior to JR Motorsports. Budweiser’s contract with DEI is due to expire at the end of 2008, but Yahoo! Sports sources believe there are provisions within the contract for an early exit if Earnhardt Jr. does not drive the No. 8 Chevrolet for DEI.

The press conference, which will be televised nationally, will take place at JR Motorsports headquarters in Mooresville, N.C., at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday.

Source: sports.yahoo.com

JR takes a giant step out of his father’s legendary shadow.

He has been one of the most popular drivers in NASCAR for years. The next question from fans, and novelty salesmen alike will probably be, “Will his contract with DEI allow him to continue driving his #8 Chevy?

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Okefenokee Fires (Update #2)

First Coast News has a video report at this LINK

HAMPTON, FL — The wildfire in Bradford County has grown to 18,000 acres and is just 20% contained.

Governor Charlie Crist is surveying the fire lines from the air.

Ryan Duffy has the complete report here

Swampwoman brings this report:

US 1 remains closed from Waycross, GA to Folkston, GA except for local residents (must show identification). Route 177 is closed south of Hwy 121. Okefenokee Swamp Park and Dixon Memorial State Forest/WMA are closed. The Okefenokee NWR, including the visitor center and refuge headquarters, is closed as of May 8th. Charlton County Schools are closed today.

A mandatory evacuation is in effect for the Davis Community, located approximately 8 miles west of Folkston, Georgia.

A precautionary evacuation has been ordered for the areas including: Chesser Island Road from the swamp boundary to Hwy 121, north on Hwy 121 to El Terrace Road north to Grace Chapel Road to Spanish Creek Road south to Dinkins Road back to the swamp boundary. This includes some portions of the City of Folkston and the City of Homeland. Only the areas of the cities west of Hwy 121 are affected by this order. A precautionary evacuation means residents in the affected area should begin to prepare to evacuate now and be prepared to evacuate on short notice within the next 12-24 hours when notified.

Ft. Dix Six and the “white alqaeda”

ABC News6 in Philly has the latest roundup of the six muslim jihadists captured yesterday.

ftdix.jpg PHILADELPHIA – May 9, 2007 – The 6 suspects in the terror ambush plotted for Fort Dix are due back in court Friday. But Action News has learned more details about the plan, and how the suspects intended to protect their families.

The men remain held at the Philadelphia federal detention center without bail. During a federal court appearance in Camden Friday, a judge will hear arguments on whether or not to set a bail amount.A federal source tells us that the group intended to move their families out of the country, before carrying out a commando-style murder spree at Fort Dix in New Jersey. In fact, Action News found that some of those relatives are already gone.

The six men are of Eastern European and Middle Eastern descent. Three are in the country illegally; two had green cards, the sixth is a U.S. American citizen. Five of them are charged with conspiracy to kill U-S military personnel.

The other, 24-year-old Agron Abdullahu, is charged with trying to obtain weapons for illegal immigrants. Abdullahu was a supervisor at a bakery in South Jersey. A co-worker says he spoke fondly of the leader of al-Qaeda. “He used to make jokes about how the U.S. Government could not find his uncle Benny referring to Bin laden–Osama Bin Laden,” according to Bob Watts, a former co-worker, “…used to call him his uncle Benny.”

Ironically, Abdullahu and his family are from Kosovo. The U.S. government gave them protection from the Serbs, during the Kosovo War in the late 1990s. “He never really came out and said he had a hatred towards Americans and I told him many times, ‘Look, you would have been left there if it wasn’t for us helping you out.’ And if Clinton didn’t bring them in, he never would have had the chance that he had. And this is how he repays us,” Watts told Action News reporter Dann Cuellar.

Our source also says he is not surprised that the group’s targets would be limited to soldiers. Another site that was considered for an attack: last year’s Army Navy game in Philadelphia. Authorities say the group abandoned that idea because they weren’t ready.

Finally, investigators will not reveal the identity of a video store clerk they are calling the unsung hero of the case. The clerk called authorities more than a year ago, when one of the suspects asked him to transfer video to a DVD. The video featured 10 men shooting weapons at a firing range and calling for jihad. Four of the men in the video who were not arrested, remain under a cloud of suspicion.

Our source tells us prosecutors are far from done. They are looking to obtain enough evidence to pursue terrorism charges, which would carry higher prison terms.

Salt Lake City:  Trolley Mall murderer also a  balkan muslim

Islamist recruitment in bosinia:  a “white alqaeda”

Terror cells proliferating in balkans, “white” alqaeda recruited 

And this…….

Terrorism: US Army Base Plot– Confirming the existence of “white alqaeda”

Belgrade, 9 May (AKI) – The arrest of four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian and a Turk in the United States on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack at the United States army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, confirms the existence of a “white Al-Qaeda”, Balkan terrorism expert Darko Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Wednesday. Trifunovic said the arrests showed “white Al-Qaeda at work.” He compared the Fort Dix plot to a February attack in Salt Lake City when a Bosnian Muslim youth, Sulejman Talovic went on a shopping mall shooting rampage. Six people including Talovic were killed another four were injured in the attack.

Trifunovic, a professor at Belgrade University’s Faculty of Security Studies, was the first to develop a theory of “white Al-Qaeda”, which he said was introduced to the Balkans during 1992-1995 civil war in Bosnia when thousands of ‘mujahadeen’ from Islamic countries came to fight on the side of local Muslims. Man y mujahadeen have remained in the country, and are believed to been indoctrinating local youths with radical Islam and even operating terrorist training camps, Trifunovic said, quoting western and Balkans intelligence sources.

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Cate Blanchett morphs into David Bowie…

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This is the mid-week Open Thread.

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Maliki, Mookie and Quds

An investigative article by journalist Mahdi Mustafa, published March 31, 2007 in the Egyptian government weekly Al-Ahram Al-Arabi, featured photographs of documents indicating that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki has ties with Muqtada Al-Sadr and with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.”          (h/t Captain’s Journal)

“Secret, Personal and Urgent

“Based on a phone conversation with Sayyid Muqtada Al-Sadr and [after] consulting with [Iraq’s National Security Advisor] Dr. Muwafaq Al-Rubai’i, in order to preserve our great achievements and in light of what the present circumstances demand, we ask to temporarily conceal the commanders of the Mahdi Army, who are connected to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, [and to remove them] from the front line [of battle] in order to protect them from being arrested or killed by the American forces. [The names of the commanders] are listed below. It would be best to send them to Iran for the time being, until the crisis passes.

“In addition, [we ask] to send the commanders from the second line [of battle] to the southern regions, since we know that intensive efforts are underway to persuade the Americans to leave the situation [there] as it is. All administrative and security arrangements for the transportation of these commanders have [already] been made.

“We ask you to implement [these orders] and report to us.

“[Signed,] Nouri Al-Maliki, Prime Minster [of Iraq]

“[List of commanders]…

“Cc:

“The Iranian Embassy [in] Baghdad,

“The presidency of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq,

“The office of Al-Shahid Al-Sadr.”

Source:  MEMRI 

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