[osint] Returning Saudi from Iraq continue to give novel details of their exciting trip
Returning Saudi from Iraq continue to give novel details of their exciting trip, 5000 riyal and the need to disguise oneself with as an Iraqi family for the arrival safely in Syria. Abdullah Rational Nasser when he first returned from Iraq told a novel story of their trip to Iraq and details about the detection of the Saudi and Arab youths coming into the country. He refused to spread him the fact that he traveled to Iraq after persuaded of the idea of Jihad with his fellow Muslim brothers against the disbelievers. The returning youths collected by armed commanders confirms not that the fighters ask the volunteers to execute increasingly the suicidal orders in their operations. On the road, he discovered a youth whose personality would not allow him the operation. Whom after a failed operation he had participated in escaped the hell of Iraq. By paying 5000 riyals to an Iraqi family to smuggle him back to Syria with their family. The youth details the exciting trip of how he traveled to Damascus by the land route into the Syrian capital and one of the Syrian Brothers met him when he arrived. Moreover, took him to a special gathering of the citizen council who cooperate with the willing Arabic youths who want jihad in Iraq, and in secret with three Saudi Brothers and the Yemeni he stayed five days in Damascus. With him were some Kuwaiti brothers the returning citizen from Iraq added: That after five days in Damascus he was befriended and motored after sunset along with two other brothers to the Iraqi City of Samara in the dark over passable desert roads. The trip to Samara took about ten hours where there were the interventions and escape from some checkpoints, the driving was with closed lights at times and at times the patrols and American helicopters frightened him the lights were cut almost 80% of the time. At his arrival in Samara, the arrival at the door was not direct and he was sent some distance down the road to wait until the signer indicated the driving to the house that his hand was pointing. The signer them softly disappeared after he collected from the fighters before dawn prayers three thousand Saudi Riyals. He said, the driver's accent was Iraqi and that he appeared to be from Iraq according to his narrative with us as they drove. The driver was smoking many cigarettes and that he requested the reduction in the smoking but he did not seemed to be interested in our request. At our arrival at the house, one Iraqi received them, one of the officials from the group told him to register his names in the Kamel, and he took their integral information such as what area from Saudi Arabia, names of brothers and sisters if married. Father and Brother's person is of the blessings, their fixed mobile phone numbers and asked him for the registration of his blessings on the line by his hand (signature). When ask why he was told the reason for the information was requested was for the notification of them should the situation decay into martyrdom or his detention. The returning Iraqi host said he was to participate on the eighth in an opportunity against one of the Americans, when the operation did not occur, he decided to return to Saudi Arabia because he became convinced of the lack or true Jihad. That he was being double-crossed and without notifying his acquaintance tried to evacuate to Syria. During his wandering inside the District, he befriended a family member of one of the houses in the neighborhood and after becoming acquainted, the man who was a student helped smuggle him back to Syria for 5000 riyals disguised as a family member. The man used his family connections in Syria who befriended him and motor him to an area that he could return to Saudi Arabia. The returning youth said, from his experiences in Iraq there was a large gap foremost in the operations and an absence of confidence and clarity between the fighters and the officials of the group. Who watch for a weakness and whose sole purpose was to encourage the execution of the despotic martyrdom operations? The source: http://www.alwatan.com.sa/daily/200...irst_page02.htm The signature### Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM ~- -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence
[osint] Hints of Thaw Between China and Vatican
May 22, 2005 Hints of Thaw Between China and Vatican By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL, International Herald Tribune ROME, May 21 - The Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese government are actively exploring the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, with contacts between the sides warming to the point that the ailing John Paul II quietly received a quasi-official Chinese delegation in the Vatican late last year. In half a dozen meetings in Rome and Beijing, starting in early 2004, both sides have indicated an increased willingness to yield on their differences, people present at some of the discussions said. Diplomatic ties were cut in 1951. China has indicated that it may allow the Vatican to nominate bishops for the Catholic Church in China. The Vatican has shown a willingness to sever longstanding diplomatic ties with Taiwan, which Beijing considers a breakaway province. About four million Chinese Catholics worship at state-approved churches, where priests must declare allegiance to Beijing rather than to the pope. Millions more worship at underground churches that are loyal to the Vatican and whose members often suffer persecution and harassment. In re-establishing ties with the Vatican, China would strengthen its prestige as a world power and aid its claim, in regards to Taiwan, to be the only true China. So far, the meetings have been unofficial; top officials from the two powers have not negotiated face to face. Rather, the exchanges have brought together leaders of the Community of Sant'Egidio, an international Catholic aid group with close ties to the Vatican, and officials from Chinese government policy research groups and the Chinese Communist Party School, the power base of President Hu Jintao. On Thursday, Pope Benedict XVI publicly took up the effort, telling diplomats at the Vatican that he was thinking of nations with which the Holy See does not yet maintain diplomatic relations, a clear reference to China, diplomats at the meeting said. I wish to address a deferential greeting to the civil authorities of these countries, expressing the wish to see them as soon as possible represented at the Apostolic See, the pope said. Cardinal Pio Laghi, a frequent papal envoy, said in an interview with Corriere Della Sera that China was certainly a priority of the new papacy and that the pope was already contemplating a trip to Beijing. Mario Marazitti, a spokesman for Sant'Egidio, which is based in Rome, said: The Vatican has become really active on this. There is now a convergence of efforts between our work and the Vatican. It is taking its own direct steps. The other side seems receptive. This is a new situation. In a briefing in Beijing on Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, Kong Quan, confirmed China's interest, saying that we are sincere about establishing ties with the Vatican. The spokesman said he hoped the Vatican would create favorable conditions to normalize relations. But he also insisted that the Taiwan issue was vital, saying, The Vatican must follow the decision of the international community to treat Taiwan as an inseparable part of China. Relations were at a low point just five years ago, when John Paul canonized 120 Chinese Catholics as martyrs on Oct. 1, the anniversary of the Chinese Communist revolution, provoking outrage in Beijing. But the bitterness from that episode has obviously faded. It is not clear if any of these early initiatives will lead to diplomatic relations, and there is some skepticism about the possibility despite the eagerness by both sides to establish ties. Beatrice Leung, a Catholic nun and professor of international relations at the Wenzao Ursuline College in Taiwan, said: I feel the Vatican is showing itself to be very anxious to establish relations with China, to help solve the problems of Chinese Catholics. When President Chen Shui Bian of Taiwan traveled to Rome for John Paul's funeral, he was snubbed by Vatican officials, who refused requests for meetings, she said. He was seated between the first lady of Brazil and the president of Cameroon. This is strong political language telling mainland China, 'We are ready,' Professor Leung said. Still, she said she was skeptical that China would allow Catholic bishops the independence required by canon law and insisted upon in other countries. The bishops have to be accountable to the pope and not to civil authorities; they need administrative independence to act as they see fit in their diocese, she said. I can't see China giving this free hand now because of its fears about social unrest. The church emphasizes the need for social justice and democracy, and that's the last thing they want. The current optimism stems, at least in part, from the series of meetings between representatives of Sant'Egidio and Chinese scholars and officials, which started early last year. Although there was no official mandate from the Vatican, the pope was aware of the efforts, Sant'Egidio officials said.
[osint] Al-Qa'ida From Within, as Narrated by Abu-Jandal, Part 9
Former Bin Ladin 'Bodyguard' Recalls Al-Qa'ida Figures, Views East Africa Bombings London Al-Quds al-Arabi in Arabic 28 Mar 05 p21 [Part 9 of a series of interviews with Nasir Ahmad Nasir Abdallah al-Bahri, alias Abu-Jandal, formerly the personal guard of Al-Qa'ida leader Usama Bin Ladin, by Khalid al-Hammadi in Sanaa; date not given: The Inside Story of Al-Qa'ida, as Told by Abu-Jandal (Nasir al-Bahri), Bin Ladin's Personal Guard (9); Abu-Zubaydah Was No Leading Member of the Organization and Was Running a Guesthouse for Material Benefits; Al-Qa'ida's Leadership Structure Egyptian; Bin Ladin's Ties With Mullah Omar Strengthened After Arab Mujahidin Checked Advance of Tajik Commander Ahmed Shah Masoud] In this episode, Abu-Jandal speaks about several influential figures in Al-Qa'ida and their role in the Organization in addition to other events he had witnessed in Afghanistan. Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri [Al-Hammadi] Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri, the military commander of Al-Qa'ida Organization, became very famous in Africa until he drowned in Lake Victoria. What do you know about him and what role did he play in Africa? [Al-Bahri] Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri, may God have mercy on his soul, was not known to me personally. However, I heard the Egyptian comrades speak about him. They spoke well of him and praised him. They used to say that he was a first-rate military man. He was named Al-Banshiri after the well known Banshir Valley in northern Afghanistan and he was connected with the northern Afghan commander Ahmed Shah Masoud who was assassinated two days before the 9/11 events. Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri was one of the old Arab mujahidin in Afghanistan and he took part in the first battle in which the Arab mujahidin in Afghanistan participated. It was the battle of Gagi. Some of our men described him as a Gagi companion, in allusion to the prophet's companions during the battle of Badr, the first battle in Islam. Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri was deputy to Usama Bin Ladin before Abu-Hafs al-Masri. His ferry capsized in Lake Victoria and he drowned. May God have mercy on his soul. Abu-Ubaydah was far-sighted. He concentrated on Africa in General and on the Horn of Africa in particular and used to say: The United States will certainly control the Horn of Africa and therefore, we must establish a Horn of Africa close to the Arabian Peninsula. He had a far-reaching plan, beginning with Somalia, which he wanted to make a base for the Arab mujahidin, spreading jihad ideas from there, given that it was an open country in which the Arabs used to move about using only their ordinary identity cards without encountering anyone to ask them about their nationality or anything else. It was easy to enter Somalia. The Al-Qa'ida Organization mujahidin did not enter Somalia after the United Sates did. Indeed, the Al-Qa'ida Organization mujahidin were already there when the United States entered because they had a program and camps and a vision to unify the country. They aspired to make of Somalia a stronghold for them close to the Arabian Peninsula because the brothers in the Al-Qa'ida had an aim to liberate the Arabian Peninsula later on. [Al-Hammadi] Did Abu-Ubaydah al-Banshiri play a big role in Africa? [Al-Bahri] Abu-Ubaydah was in effect the general field commander in the Horn of Africa. He used to discuss events and developments with Usama Bin Ladin on a daily basis. Abu-Ubaydah was the supervisor of the activities in the Horn of Africa from Uganda to Somalia and from Kenya to the Horn of Africa and Sudan. All these areas were under his supervision. [Al-Hammadi] Does this mean that he was the mastermind, and that he played the main role in the attack against the two US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam? [Al-Bahri] Yes, he had a big role in planning and implementing these two operations. He was the executive commander of these two attacks. [Al-Hammadi] Did Al-Banshiri propose the attacks against these two embassies? [Al-Bahri] As far as I know, he had the intention to let the Al-Qa'ida Organization hit the two embassies and to let the Egyptian Jihad organization do the job. However, the brothers in the Al-Qa'ida Organization objected. They objected to the idea of bombing the two embassies because they considered Kenya an important passageway to Somalia and they did not want it closed. How could they close this passageway? How could they enter Somalia then? Therefore, at the beginning the brothers in the Al-Qa'ida did not want to do that so that they might not invite Kenya's wrath against them. However, eventually, when restrictions imposed on them increased and after they left Somalia, they decided to carry out the two attacks. That was in 1998. Bin Ladin and Al-Zawahiri [Al-Hammadi] What do you know about the first meeting between Usama Bin Ladin and Al-Zawahiri and how were they able to come together and how were they brought together despite their divergent ideological upbringing? [Al-Bahri] I do not know the
[osint] A Tougher Policy on All Marriages of Convenience-------BELGIANS GETTING NASTY
Undercover Reporter Interviews Belgian Interior Minister on Muslim Extremism Groot Bijgaarden Het Nieuwsblad in Dutch 19 Mar 05 p 4 [Interview with Interior Minister Patrick Dewael and Flemish Social Integration Minister Marino Keulen by Hind Fraihi and Gunther Vanpraet, place and date not given: A Tougher Policy on All Marriages of Convenience--Dewael and Keulen Break Taboos in the Migrant Debate] Whenever a municipality refuses a marriage of convenience, from now on it should immediately have to notify all other municipalities through the national register. In this way, the people involved will be immediately exposed if they go from one municipality to another to get married. That is one of the three new measures being taken by Interior Minister Patrick Dewael (VLD [Flemish Liberal Democrats]) against the attempts by some aliens to obtain a residence permit in our country by means of a marriage of convenience. Federal Interior Minister Patrick Dewael (VLD) and Flemish Social Integration Minister Marino Keulen (VLD) concede they have read the series by our reporter Hind Fraihi in Molenbeek with great interest. [Het Nieuwsblad] It is conspicuous that the average Fleming does not know what should be done about Muslims. This is shown by the bulk of the reactions to the Undercover in Little Morocco series. [Patrick Dewael] We do not know each other sufficiently. That is the result of the old policy that treated Muslims as a separate community. VLD chairman Bart Somers has already urged ceasing to treat migrants as a separate group. We must put an end to the flow of subsidies to youth and sport clubs where, for example, only Islamic youth can come. The result is that communities live next to each other instead of with each other. In the past, we have not sufficiently encouraged Muslims to live together with us. In Flanders we are now dotting our i's and crossing our t's: integration and naturalization are a duty, although in an atmosphere of tolerance and humanism. Our task is to see to it that there is something offered in the field of naturalization, but we also note that the integration process does not go smoothly because there is a trend within the Muslim community that does not accept women's rights and naturalization. We must make it clear we do not put up with that. On the other hand, migrants also have to struggle against discrimination in the job market. I oppose a quota system, but it is a fact that a Muslim with a university diploma has one-sixth the chance of getting a job than a native. We score much lower than other European countries. [Marino Keulen] I am pleased that this week the Association of Christian Employers (VKW) once again called on its business leader members to use talent in the migrant community. Muslim Executive Useless [Het Nieuwsblad] Is there a difference in mentality between Flemish and Wallonian politicians in the debate over migrants? [Dewael] We are farther in Flanders, there are fewer taboos. [Het Nieuwsblad] What has the Muslim Executive done so far? No one can tell us. [Keulen] The Muslims are very disappointed in the Muslim Executive, which has not succeeded in being representative for its voters. I hope that this time it will indeed be representative. That is important to us because the executive must become a contact point for everything having to do with Islam. We have made every kind of appeal to mobilize people and inform them about their registration for the elections. As it looks now, things are going much better than with the last elections. But we must wait to see whether there will be new (genuine) leaders. There is certainly a need. [Dewael] Apart from the elections, it is important to conduct a debate as in France over the headscarf. My position as that anyone in an official function, and this is once again the important principle of separation of church and state, must renounce religious symbols. The Flemish Parliament must consider a general rule in public education for the neutrality of education. Schools must have the same approach to the headscarf, including for students. Everyone must be able to take part in gymnastics and swimming classes with the same clothing. I want integration, not assimilation, and that means respect for fundamental principles. Forced marriages and marriages of convenience must not be tolerated, because in that case I feel there is a wrongful omission. Under the incorrect pretense of tolerance, the women's movement has stood aloof in this debate for much too long. Most of the municipalities are already very vigilant and refuse many marriages, which the CD and V [Christian Democrats and Flemish] also calls for. But we are going to adopt three extra measures against marriages of convenience. The first is to make them liable to punishment (there is now only a refusal, no prosecution), then informing all municipalities of the denied marriages through the national
[osint] Curing the symptoms - Ignoring the disease: An approach to fighting terror by intelligence and counterterrorism experts
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/006276.php An original Jihad Watch article by Patrick Boylan. Curing the symptoms - Ignoring the disease: An approach to fighting terror by intelligence and counterterrorism experts On a one week tour of the various agencies responsible for Homeland Security, a simple question What do you think is the cause of terrorism now? put forward to a number of terrorism experts, got me various answers such as illiteracy, to believe it or not, American policy abroad, but Islam was definitely not the problem! Some of the experts who did part of the PowerPoint presentations seemed to be more impressed with themselves than with getting to the true cause of terrorism. At the Department of Homeland (in)Security, four, yes four! experts had that Deer caught in the headlights look when asked the simple question, What do you think is the cause of terrorism now? The standard response was, Our Mr. Expert will answer that when he gets up here. When Mr. Expert was in the hot seat he was put about by my simple questions about his presentation such as: Why do you have Conventional and Un-Conventional Terrorism on that slide, and what exactly does that mean? Mr. Expert answered Well, Im not sure. No one has ever asked me that question before. Now that gave me a real warm fuzzy feeling. One of Mr. Experts slides had the words Takfirs = sleeper cells, Of course Im sure he meant Takfiris who are members of the extremely violent Al Takfir Wal Hijra whose more notorious and deadly members include Zawahiri, and allegedly Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Youssef and Atta. Another interesting word was Shahidaa. Your guess is as good as mine, but I will lay my money on Shaheed(martyr) or Shahada(Concept of Martyrdom). At least Mr. Expert was honest in saying he had no idea how the words were pronounced and what they meant. Asked after the presentation by me if he had read the Quran, he said no, but one of his senior bosses was Ali Mustapha, as if having a Muslim boss was reason enough that Mr. Experts presentation, which he declared was not for the publics viewing, was correct and educational. Far from it! He hadnt read the Quran, but he was definitely sure that Islam was a religion of peace! I wonder if Mr. Expert knew DHS policy director of the departments Security Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Faisal Gill too? Gill a thirty three year old Muslim lawyer with no intelligence experience, was appointed to his position through the recommendation of Grover Norquist, buddy of White House power broker, Karl Rove. Faisal Gill is also a well known associate of Alamoudi, (close associate of Al Arian, on trial) now under indictment on terrorism related charges. This association of course was left out when Gill filled out his SF86 forms for employment with DHS. Oops! Lots more to come. Mr. Experts two lady assistants, I thought they said they were agents, who deferred any terrorism questions to Mr. Expert, were more interested in bragging about how the department had caught and fined an American chicken farmer $11 million for hiring illegal workers. With a flourish, one of the ladies even did the worn out Ka-ching hand pull. What a victory! Asked whether any terrorists had been apprehended, there was that deer in the headlights look and quick response, Mr. Expert will answer those questions when he addresses the group. Of course! Oh yes, a fourth highly paid lady ran the computer. Good enough for government work I guess. The expert also said Al-Qaeda was degraded and had franchise operations. Does that mean they now operate like a convenience store franchise? And if they were degraded why would anyone want their franchise? These terrorists are getting really smart, like our intelligence agencies, and operating like corporate America. At the FBI, another wonderful PowerPoint presentation with nothing you couldnt find on the internet, except the fact that there are separate divisions, or cells, or groups or something like that, that study Sunni Terrorist Groups and Shia Terrorist Groups in the FBIs war on terror. Of course the presenter whose knowledge of events was impressive, regurgitated the Islamic apologist line when asked what was the cause of terrorism now. Its a coupla things like poverty, some of those places are real hell holes, and lack of education, and resentment towards American policy in the Middle East. (Then why the separate cells studying Shia terrorist groups and Sunni Terrorist groups? I wondered. I left that one alone, the young man was doing such a fine job!) That line about American policy has been used so often, its even worse than the ka-ching. Of course I couldnt leave that alone, maybe it was the pain killers I was on, maybe it was the ankle holster the agent wore (Ive always wanted one of those) so I proceeded to give him a quick history about recent Islamic terrorism. I
[osint] Fundraising for the HAMAS fundraiser
http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/ Northern Virginiastan http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/05/fundraising-for-hamas-fund raiser.html http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/05/fundraising-for-hamas-fundr aiser.html Monitoring how Islam is subverting public institutions in Northern Virginia and the greater DC Metro Area Friday, May 20, 2005 Fundraising for the HAMAS fundraiser Abdulhalim Ashqar - fundraising for the HAMAS fundraiser On Sunday, May 22, a fundraising dinner to support http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2004/08/three-indicted-in-raising- funds-for.html Abdulhalim Ashqar, http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2004/08/three-indicted-in-raising-f unds-for.html charged with raising funds for HAMAS, and aspiring assassin Ahmed Abu Ali, will be held at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Tysons Corner. Confirmed speakers include our old buddies Shaker Elsayyed and Mahdi Bray and Imam Seraj Wahhaj, identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 WTC bombings. What makes the Sheraton Premiere, aside from its central location, the go-to place for holding Islamic functions? CAIR is hosting two events - its http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/03/cairmd-va-announces-its-an nual.html MD-VA chapter annual fundraiser http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/03/cairmd-va-announces-its-ann ual.html and its http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/03/news-for-march-31-2005.htm l Islamophobia conference http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/03/news-for-march-31-2005.html there. Does the Sheraton Premiere not have any scruples about who books its facilities? As noted by Caroline Glick in her article http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CarolineGlick/cg20050507.shtml#%3Ed80b6c e.jpg Wake up Washington! (thanks to http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/006092.php Jihad Watch), HAMAS and Al-Qaeda share ideological roots in the Muslim Brotherhood (as does the Muslim American Society), and financial and operational networks. HAMAS is not just a danger to Israel, http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/05/hamas-preparing-for-terror ist-attacks.html HAMAS is a danger to the US. Our reporting on Northern Virginiastan has made apparent these connections: Ideology from the Muslim Brotherhood (which of course is based on the Quran and Sunnah) Operations by HAMAS and Al-Qaeda Funding from Saudi Arabia and it's all happening here in the DC Metro area! posted by Northern Virginiastan @ http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/05/fundraising-for-hamas-fund raiser.html 8:00 PM http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7570456postID=11166339790022904 8 http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7570456postID=111663397900229048 quickEdit=true http://www.haloscan.com/comments/northernvirginiastan/111663397900229048/ Comment (1) Comments | http://www.haloscan.com/tb/northernvirginiastan/111663397900229048/ Trackback (0) Trackback http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/ Home The Muslim community's newspaper http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/ The Muslim Link http://www.muslimlinkpaper.com/ is a newspaper distributed free of charge, primarily through Muslim businesses. It's a good way of keeping tabs on the Muslim community in the DC-MD-VA metro area and to realize that there's a whole parallel culture. Unfortunately, its Web archives are not kept current. - a flattering interview with http://www.connaughton4ltgov.com/ Sean Connaughton, who is running for Lt. Governor of Virginia in the June 14 primary. Connaughton is currently the Chairman, Board of County Supervisors, Prince William County. The article speaks glowingly on how Connaughton's office supported the mosque-building activities of the Dar Al Noor Masjid and http://local.google.com/local?q=mosquehl=enlr=sa=Gnear=Manassas,+VArl= 1sc=1radius=0latlng=38750833,-77475556,3440285758207788700 Manassas Mosque. - a sidebar on the front page concerning the trial of Ali Al-Timimi. Here is a link to the website of http://altimimi.org/ Dr. Ali Al-Timimi's Support Committee. http://altimimi.org/ Gee, he seemed like a nice American kid until his parents moved him to Saudi Arabia when he was 13! posted by Northern Virginiastan @ http://northernvirginiastan.blogspot.com/2005/04/muslim-communitys-newspape r.html 6:29 PM http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=7570456postID=11140373682527630 1 http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7570456postID=111403736825276301 quickEdit=true [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM ~- -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our
[osint] The Islamic Poltical Party of America calls for a Day of Outrage on May 23 plus IPPA statement of principles
(B (B http://www.ippausa.org/home/outrage.htm CLICK TO PARTICIPATE! (BThe Islamic Political Party of America ( IPPA ) $B!|(B National headquarters (B1101 Tyvola Rd. $B!|(B Charlotte, N.C. 28217-3515 (B (B (B (Bhttp://www.ippausa.org/home/index.htm (B (B (B (Bhttp://www.ippausa.org/home/outrage.htm (B (B (B (BOn Monday, May 23, 2005, the Islamic Political party of America is calling (Bon every Muslim, Man, Woman, in the United States of America to call the (BOffice of the President of the US, Vice President, Secretary of State (BCondoleeza Rice, voice your Outrage over the interrogators tormenting Muslim (Bprisoners by the worst act of $B!H(Bblasphemy$B!I(B ever devised by man (Bagainst (BIslam and the Holy Quran. (B (B (B (BDOWNLOAD THE FLYER FOR PRINT AND DISTRIBUTION (B (B (B (B (B (B (B (B (B (BYou can also participate by emailing the office of the President and (BVice-President and your Congressman and your Senators to find your (BCongressman and Senators use the application below. (BContact George Bush; President of the United States. (BContact Dick Cheney; Vice President of the United States. (BContact Condoleeza Rice; Secretary of State. (BContact Donald Rumsfeld; Secretary of Defense. (B (B (B (BNewsweek is being attacked by the neocons whose ultimate aim is censorship (Band a curtailment of freedom of the press. (B (B (B (BRemember the one thing that they can not endure is E X P O S U R E. (B (B (B (B The Bush Administrations' side show can not be allowed to shift the (Battention from the fact that Newsweek is not the cause of the Muslims' (Brighteous indignation over the desecration of the Word of The Almighty, nor (Bthe cause of the assaults against Islam which have become institutionalized (Bpolicy of the current administration. (B (B (B (B Let us not forget that Condoleeza Rice was promoted, partially as a result (Bof her success in distorting the Quranic enlightenment regarding the conduct (Band the dress of Believing women. Esquire magazine, in fact, reported that (Bthe Secretary of State was heralded as a mistress of deception through the (Brelease of daily misinformation concerning the Taliban's treatment of women (Bin Afghanistan, which was instrumental in the propaganda offensive leading (Bup to the war of aggression that was launched in that nation. (B (B (B (B The same people who are attempting to set Newsweek up as a scapegoat in (Btheir nefarious scheme to silence all opposition, particularly in the Free (BPress, are feigning outrage at the reporting of their actions and attempting (Bto label that reporting as the cause of the trembling that is shaking the (Bearth. (B (B (B (BIf IPPA does not rise to confront these acts of $B!H(Bblasphemy$B!I(B, it (Bmight as (Bwell "Get Back In The Alley" (B (B (B (B Contrary to White House spin, the allegations of religious desecration at (BGuantanamo published by Newsweek on May 9, 2005, are common among (Bex-prisoners and have been widely reported outside the United States. (BSeveral former detainees at the Guantanamo and Bagram prisons have reported (Binstances of their handlers sitting or standing on the Koran, throwing or (Bkicking it in toilets, and urinating on it. Prior to the Newsweek article, (Bthe New York Times reported a Guantanamo insider asserting that the (Bcommander of the facility was compelled by prisoner protests to address the (Bproblem and issue an apology. (B (B (B (BOne such incident (during which the Koran was allegedly thrown in a pile and (Bstepped on) prompted a hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees in March (B2002. Regarding this, the New York Times in a May 1, 2005, article (Binterviewed a former detainee, Nasser Nijer Naser al-Mutairi, who said the (Bprotest ended with a senior officer delivering an apology to the entire (Bcamp. And the Times reports: $B!H(BA former interrogator at Guantanamo, in an (Binterview with the Times, confirmed the accounts of the hunger strikes, (Bincluding the public expression of regret over the treatment of the (BKorans.$B!I(B (B (B (B (BThe toilet incident was reported in the Washington Post in a 2003 interview (Bwith a former detainee from Afghanistan: (B (B (B $B!H(BEhsannullah, 29, said American soldiers who initially questioned him in (BKandahar before shipping him to Guantanamo hit him and taunted him by (Bdumping the Koran in a toilet. $B!F(BIt was a very bad situation for (Bus,$B!G(B said (BEhsannullah, who comes from the home region of the Taliban leader, Mohammad (BOmar. $B!F(BWe cried so much and shouted, $B!H(BPlease do not do that to (Bthe Holy (BKoran.$B!I!G(B (Marc Kaufman and April Witt, $B!H(BOut of Legal Limbo, Some (BTell of (BMistreatment,$B!I(B Washington Post, March 26, 2003.) (B (B (B (BThe Devil Must Be Unmasked (B
[osint] Al-Qa'ida From Within, as Narrated by Abu-Jandal, Part 8
Former Bin Ladin 'Bodyguard' Discusses Al-Qa'ida Stance on Saudi, Iraqi Affairs London Al-Quds al-Arabi in Arabic 26 Mar 05 p 17 [Part 8 of a series of interviews with Nasir Ahmad Nasir Abdallah al-Bahri, alias Abu-Jandal, formerly the bodyguard of Al-Qa'ida leader Usama Bin Ladin, by Khalid al-Hammadi, in Sanaa; date not given] [Al-Hammadi] Did you know anything about Bin Ladin's position on the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? [Al-Bahri] I would like to say that according to the religious background and Salafi education we received in Saudi schools, institutes, and mosques, the Ba'th Party ideology was atheist and had nothing to do with Islam. We were brought up and educated on these ideas. The majority of people there continue to consider the Ba'th ideology atheist because it is based on the ideas of Michel Aflaq and the Arab Ba'th Party theoreticians. Therefore, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin opposed Saddam Husayn's invasion of Kuwait. He called on the Saudi Government to allow for the recruitment of youths and to open the door of jihad in the land of the two holy mosques in order to defeat the Iraqi invasion and expel the invaders from Kuwait. That call was not meant to fight the Iraqi people. Bin Ladin had many reasons to call for jihad. His intentions were geared toward ending the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait and rescuing the Iraqi people from the domination of the Ba'th Party. Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin was dreaming of this. Therefore, he asked the Saudi Government to open the door for him. He said he was ready to prepare more than 100,000 fighters in three months. He used to say: I have more than 40,000 mujahidin in the land of the two holy mosques alone. These were trained in Afghanistan. He said he was ready to prepare them within a few days. The number of other mujahidin outside Saudi Arabia was many times more. Had Saudi Arabia allowed that to happen, all would have participated in expelling the Iraqi forces from Kuwait, especially since Saudi Arabia enjoys a special religious status that concerns all Muslims because the two holy mosques are located there. [Al-Hammadi] It is well known that the Salafi current in Saudi Arabia is dominating all other currents. How could it agree with the jihadist current adopted by Usama Bin Ladin under the umbrella of the Al-Qa'ida Organization? [Al-Bahri] As I said, events make events. Shaykh Salman al-Awdah once delivered a beautiful lecture under the headline Our Role in the Midst of Events. It spoke about events outside Saudi Arabia like Palestine, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Bosnia, and Somalia. It noted that these events were far from Saudi Arabia but were taking place in our Islamic world. It hinted at plots against the Gulf region and oil wells. These lessons and hot news changed the awareness and realization of the youths of what was taking place around them. I recall that when Shaykh Salman al-Awdah called in his tape The Industry of Death for jihad in Somalia, concentrating on the US offensive on the Horn of Africa, the youths were at that time heading toward Bosnia-Herzegovina and a few went to Chechnya. Only a few remained in Afghanistan. He drew our attention to the importance of the issue of the Horn of Africa. Also we did not understand the dimensions of many of the developments taking place around us. All this was unknown to us. We might have heard the news of these developments in a transient manner without realizing their dimensions. Developments here and there, especially after 1991 and the war on Iraq, as well as the 1993 events in Saudi Arabia, which witnessed the arrest of shaykhs and men of religion, and the 1994 war in Yemen and the Saudi support for the socialists during that war and the ulema position on the Yemen war, all opened large horizons we did not think of before. In the past, our work was purely charitable and all our problems were internal. We did not have a strong connection with outside events. This continued until the events of Yemen, which, I think, shook many and created some sort of distinction between events. True, the Gulf crisis was strong, but it did not have a strong impact on the youths. Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin spoke about this. He then went to the men of religion and told them: Fear God. How can you issue a fatwa [religious ruling] sanctioning the Americans' entry into the country. This is inadmissible. All these events took place inside the palaces of the ruling family. The public did not know what went on. The rulers even aired on television a fatwa by Shaykh Bin-Baz allowing the foreign forces to enter the country. We were very surprised how Shaykh Bin-Baz, who was known for his popularity and educational status, could sanction this. We did not know what was going on. Shaykh Bin-Uthaymin appeared on television the next day and addressed the people. He, too, sanctioned the entry of foreigners. At that time we were not aware of the issue of ideological argument against the unbelievers' deeds. Ideological education for the Saudi
[osint] Iraqi Insurgent Sniper Training
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/ppt/iraqi_insurgent_sniper_training.ppt Iraqi Insurgent Sniper Training Gathered from the pro-insurgency militant website Baghdad Al-Rashid.com on 10 May 2005 Another look into the mind of the enemy Target enemy snipers and surveillance teams learned this lesson in Fallujah, where mujahideen were handicapped more by U.S. Marine snipers than by air raids or other artillery and cover fire. 7 Duties of a Sniper 2. Target commanders, officers, and pilots, that is to target the head of the snake and then handicap the command of the enemy. the replacement of officers and commanders is expensive for the enemy, since it may take two to four years and cost more than $500,000 to put someone through the famous West Point college. 7 Duties of a Sniper 3. Assist teams of mujahideen infantry with suppressive fire. These groups may include RPG brigades or surveillance teams. 7 Duties of a Sniper 7 Duties of a Sniper 4. Target U.S Special Forces. they are very stupid because they have a 'Rambo complex', thinking that they are the best in the world; don't be arrogant like them. Engage specialty targets like communications officers to prevent calls for reinforcements. Likewise, tank crews, artillery crews, engineers, doctors, and chaplains should be fair targets. a tank driver was shot while crossing a bridge, resulting in the tank rolling off the bridge and killing the rest of the crew. Killing doctors and chaplains is suggested as a means of psychological warfare. 7 Duties of a Sniper 6. Take care when targeting one or two U.S. Soldiers or [Iraqi] agents on a roadside. a team of American snipers [may be] waiting for you. They [may be] waiting for you to kill one of those agents and then they will know your location and they will kill you. 7 Duties of a Sniper 7. In the event of urban warfare, work from high areas and assist infantry with surrounding the enemy, attacking target instruments and lines of sight on large enemy vehicles, and directing mortar and rocket fire to front-line enemy positions. 7 Duties of a Sniper Who would you shoot? A training exercise. Examine the next few pictures and decide who would you shoot first and why. If you had only one shot, who should you kill? If you chose to kill the Soldier, you are wrong. The remaining Soldiers will kill the remaining detainees, or you might miss and kill a detainee. If you said you would kill the Soldier in the forefront of the picture with a SAWMG, you are wrong because there are civilians around him and several will die. Also, if the American Soldier feels that he will die, he will kill everyone around him in revenge (either we all live or we all die). Now you can shoot at the targets without any fear of hurting civilians. If you see a line of Soldiers, kill the one who you think is the officer. Then, shoot the communications officer, then the MG [machine-gunner] - then the doctor - if he's there, you'll know by the red cross on his arm - (you don't need to respect the Geneva Treaty as long as the enemy does not respect it) and shoot at the Soldiers. If you said the Soldier manning the gun, then you are right. He is the equipped [with the most important weapon]. If you said the Soldier manning the gun, you are wrong. You must kill the sniper first. If you said the civilian, you are right. If you killed this person, you would know the next day that you have killed Paul Bremer without knowing it, because they don't provide such protection for anyone else. If you said the commander of the tank on the left, you are wrong. Do not engage in close combat, arrogance will kill you. They will outnumber you unless you are sure of your ability to kill them and escape. You are wrong if you said you would shoot the tank commander on the left, because there are children nearby. If you said the Soldiers, you are wrong. Kill the gunner on the left; then, the driver on the right. These are agents of the army. You do not need to fight them because you are more important as a sniper, but they are a target for the RPG [brigades]. If you said the American Soldier, you are wrong. Kill the Soldier on the hummer. The first one is the Soldier (second from right) because he has a MG, heavy machine gun. Then is the stupid Soldier on the left. He is a very easy target (look how he is elevated from the ground), then the Soldier or the reporter carrying the camera. First, because the camera can be used as binoculars; second, it is the most difficult thing to hide the death of a reporter in Iraq. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give underprivileged students the materials they need to learn. Bring education to life by funding a specific classroom project.
[osint] Al-Sadr steps out of hiding into middle of Shiite-Sunni divide
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/142/world/Al_Sadr_steps_out_of_hiding_inP.sh tml Al-Sadr steps out of hiding into middle of Shiite-Sunni divide By Paul Garwood, Associated Press, 5/22/2005 18:53 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) After eight months in hiding, the firebrand Shiite cleric who launched two uprisings against U.S. forces last year is back in the limelight railing against America, denouncing terrorism and mediating a sectarian rift that threatens to plunge Iraq into civil war. Muqtada al-Sadr's return last Monday, in a news conference at his Najaf home, seemed perfectly timed. Fellow Shiites now rule Iraq's political scene, the U.S. forces he opposes are struggling against a raging insurgency, and he has taken on a statesmanlike role to resolve a bloody feud between Shiite and Sunni leaders. On Sunday, al-Sadr dispatched top aides to patch up a troubling dispute threatening to inflame wider Shiite-Sunni violence. Ten Shiite and Sunni clerics are among more than 550 people killed in a wave of attacks following April 28's announcement of the new Shiite-led government. Al-Sadr's team met the Association of Muslim Scholars, an influential Sunni group accusing the Badr Brigades, the armed wing of Iraq's largest Shiite group, of killing Sunni clerics. ''There is a wound that needs to be treated and Muqtada was the first to offer his medicine,'' said the association's spokesman Sheik Abdul Salam al-Kubaisi. The Badr Brigades, which denies the association claims, will soon meet with al-Sadr's officials in an effort to find a way to end the bloodshed and acrimony. If successful, al-Sadr will win political credence in a troubled country where all sides U.S.-led forces, Iraqi authorities and ordinary citizens alike are tired of incessant insecurity and mayhem. Laith Kuba, spokesman for Iraq's prime minister, urged Sunni Muslim leaders to take a strong stand on the killing of security forces and others at the hand of the insurgents. Sunni extremists are believed to be driving Iraq's insurgency. ''They should also give their opinion about the killing of civilians,'' he said. ''The Iraqi people want to hear that.'' Many regard the Sunni fall from grace as a key factor in Iraq's insurgency, which claimed more victims Sunday with gunmen killing Trade Ministry official Ali Moussa and his driver while they headed to work. In a sign of official intolerance of the violence, a court on Sunday sentenced to death three Sunnis linked to the feared Ansar al-Sunnah Army terror group for killing three police officers last year. U.S. forces, backed by at least 2,000 and Iraqi troops, launched a major offensive against insurgents in Baghdad's western Abu Ghraib district, where attacks along the dangerous airport road and the notorious U.S. detention facility have been commonplace. A ''substantial'' number of suspected insurgents were captured, the military said without elaborating. Also Sunday, two U.S. soldiers were killed one in a car bomb attack just north of Tikrit and another in a vehicle accident near Kirkuk. Separately, the government said its security forces captured Ismail Budair Ibrahim al-Obeidi, a ''terrorist'' close to the network of Jordan-born militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Tuesday in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad. The terror suspect had planned Baghdad car bomb attacks and rigged booby-trapped cars for foreign fighters, the statement said. Iraqi authorities also announced that Ghazi Hammud al-Obeidi, 65, one of the most-wanted officials from Saddam Hussein's former regime, was released last month because he was apparently terminally ill. Al-Obeidi, suffering from stomach cancer, was the former regional chairman of the ruling Baath Party in the southern Iraqi city of Kut. He was detained May 7, 2003, and released April 28, making him the first of the 55 most-wanted Iraqis to be freed. He was No. 51 on the most-wanted list. Three Romanian journalists and their Iraqi-American guide who had been held hostage for nearly two months in Iraq were released. The Romanians newspaper reporter Ovidiu Ohanesian, TV reporter Marie-Jeanne Ion and cameraman Sorin Miscoci were kidnapped in Iraq on March 28, along with their Iraqi-American guide, Mohammed Monaf. Their kidnappers had threatened to kill them unless Romania pulled its 800 troops out of Iraq, but the Romanian president had refused. Iraq's government joined U.S. calls in demanding Syria do more to stop foreign fighters from crossing the porous border into Iraq to fight coalition forces. ''It is impossible for about 2,000 people coming from the Gulf to pass through Syria and cross from Qaim or other border points without being discovered, despite our repeated calls,'' government spokesman Kuba said. Al-Sadr ordered mass rallies Friday to protest a U.S.-Iraqi raid days earlier on one of his offices south of Baghdad that netted 13 supporters. Thousands responded by stomping on American and Israeli flags painted outside Shiite
[osint] Iran: One agent's tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methods
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2158 Iran: One agent's tortuous path throws light on VEVAK methodsSun. 22 May 2005 Iran Terror M.H. Sobhani, kingpin of Human Rights Watch's new report, is veteran Iranian intelligence agent London, May 22 - An internal memorandum of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security, known as MOIS or VEVAK, obtained by the Iranian opposition's sources in Iran and published in August 2002, identifies Mohammad Hossein Sobhani as a team leader and a veteran agent of VEVAK. Research into Sobhani's long years of service for the Iranian secret police and interviews with former VEVAK agents and active Iranian dissidents familiar with his case chart a tortuous path that throws light on the methods and tactics of an intelligence service that has become one of the world's largest, and most feared, secret organizations. Sobhani was one of several VEVAK agents who were sent to Europe from Tehran within a short period in the spring of 2002. German asylum records show that he applied for political asylum in that year. Farhad Javaheri-Yar and Akbar Akbari were among the members of a team of VEVAK agents led by Sobhani. The spring of 2002 was a particularly busy time for VEVAK's senior officials in Tehran. Iranian leaders felt strongly that with the U.S. now free from the burden of the conflict in Afghanistan, a war with Iraq was afoot. Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the country's top security body, had instructed the Ministry of Intelligence and Security to work on plans on how to use the combination of anti-terrorism alarm in Western countries in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and an imminent conflict in Iraq as a means of dealing a fatal blow to the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MeK), the most active opposition group to Iran's clerical regime. VEVAK's Third Department, which deals exclusively with the MeK and its allied or associated organizations, already had an elaborate disinformation operation in the pipelines. It was giving instructions to a group of VEVAK recruits, all former MeK members, to go to Europe, apply for political asylum, and begin a new disinformation exercise against the MeK, alleging a range of human rights abuses by MeK against its former members. Parliamentarians, human rights groups, and security agencies of Western governments were to be targeted. Soon after the arrival in Germany of members of the Sobhani ring, Persian-language websites and journals working as a front for VEVAK, such as Mahdis, Iran Didban and Iran-Interlink began highlighting their gory accounts of solitary confinement and physical abuse in MeK camps in Iraq. These accounts remained essentially confined to VEVAK-operated disinformation outlets, however, until Human Rights Watch gave them prominence in a report released on May 18, 2005. The report, a litany of allegations of human rights abuses by MeK, is particularly focused on the accounts given by Mohammad Hossein Sobhani and makes much of his claim that he was held for more than eight years in solitary confinement. Ironically, Sobhani has changed a key part of his story in the Human Rights Watch report from earlier accounts he gave after he first arrived in Europe. According to the Human Rights Watch report, Sobhani escaped from a low security detention center in Iran. In a June 11, 2002, interview with Mahdis, a Persian-language website that acts as a front for VEVAK, Sobhani said that he escaped when he was in a vehicle being transferred to another location and got away when there was a shoot-out. The discrepancy is very revealing, because it points to a critical part of Sobhani's whole story. After Sobhani's arrival in Europe in March 2002, his VEVAK handlers realized that his story had one major foible that would give it away: if he was, as he claimed, an opponent of the Iranian regime, how could he travel to Germany directly from Tehran? VEVAK tried to cover up Sobhani's real story by planting an interview with him on one of its websites, Mahdis, on June 11, 2002. Sobhani claimed that although he had returned to Iran from Iraq on January 21, 2002, and had been handed over to the Iranian authorities, he managed to escape following a shoot-out in Tehran. Three years later, he has given an entirely different account of how he escaped, as his testimony in the new Human Rights Watch report shows. Sobhani's escape story required a long stretch of imagination to believe and was obviously a hastily-arranged effort to protect Sobhani. Those familiar with the situation know that in 26 years of clerical rule in Iran, there have only been a handful of successful escapes from the hands of Iran's dreaded security services. Sobhani, who claims he was a long-time member of MeK, would have been such a high-value prize for VEVAK that the chances of his getting away in a shoot-out would have been next to nil. Moreover, what about the other members of his ring? How did they leave Iran and join him in
[osint] Beheading in the Name of Islam
http://www.meforum.org/article/713 Beheading in the Name of Islam by Timothy Furnish Images of masked terrorists standing behind Western hostages in Iraq and Saudi Arabia have become all too common on Arabic satellite stations such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Manar. Islamist websites such as Muntadiyat al-Mahdi[1] go further, streaming video of their murder. The February 2002 decapitation of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, true to its intention, horrified the Western audience. Chechen rebels, egged on by Islamist benefactors, had adopted the practice four years earlier,[2] but the absence of widely broadcast videos limited the psychological impact of hostage decapitation. The Pearl murder and video catalyzed the resurgence of this historical Islamic practice. In Iraq, terrorists filmed the beheadings of Americans Nicholas Berg, Jack Hensley, and Eugene Armstrong. Other victims include Turks, an Egyptian, a Korean, Bulgarians, a British businessman, and a Nepalese. Scores of Iraqis, both Kurds and Arabs, have also fallen victim to Islamist terrorists' knives. The new fad in terrorist brutality has extended to Saudi Arabia where Islamist terrorists murdered American businessman Paul Johnson, whose head was later discovered in a freezer in an Al-Qaeda hideout. A variation upon this theme would be the practice of Islamists slitting the throats of those opponents they label infidels. This is what happened to Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh, first gunned down and then mutilated on an Amsterdam street,[3] and to an Egyptian Coptic family in New Jersey after the father had angered Islamists with Internet chat room criticisms of Islam.[4] The purpose of terrorism is to strike fear into the hearts of opponents in order to win political concession. As the shock value wears off and the Western world becomes immunized to any particular tactic, terrorists develop new ones in order to maximize shock and the press reaction upon which they thrive. In the 1970s and 1980s, terrorists hijacked airliners to win headlines. In the 1980s and 1990s, the car bomb became more popular; Palestinian terrorists perfected suicide bombings in the 1990s. But what once garnered days of commentary now generates only hours. Decapitation has become the latest fashion. In many ways, it sends terrorism back to the future. Unlike hijackings and car bombs, ritual beheading has a long precedent in Islamic theology and history. Apologetics and Reality Some American commentators say that Islamist decapitations are intended as psychological warfare and devoid of any true Islamic content. Imam Muhammad Adam al-Sheikh, head of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, for example, claimed incorrectly that beheadings are not mentioned in the Koran at all.[5] Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, also misrepresented Islamic theology and history when she told a reporter, There is absolutely no religious imperative for this.[6] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as well as the American Anti-Arab Discrimination Committee (ADC) have both signed on to a statement that such killings did not represent the tenets of Islam.[7] Sam Hamod, former director of the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., claimed that the Qur'anic passage on beheading unbelievers did not actually mean that people should be killed.[8] Such fulminations have had an effect: the Western news media has, perhaps as a result of political correctness or its own bias, twisted the reality of Islamic history and propagated such revisionism. With such apologetics, Western academics either display basic ignorance of their fields or purposely mislead. The intelligentsia's denial of any religious roots to the recent spate of decapitation has parallels in the logical back flips and kid-glove treatments in which many professors engaged in order to deny a religious basis for violent jihad.[9] Afsaruddin and Hamod aside, Islamists justify murder and decapitation with both theological citations and historical precedent. Decapitation in Islamic Theology Groups such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al-Tawhid wa al-Jihad (Unity and Jihad) and Abu Abd Allah al-Hasan bin Mahmud's Ansar al-Sunna (Defenders of [Prophetic] Tradition)[10] justify the decapitation of prisoners with Qur'anic scripture. Sura (chapter) 47 contains the ayah (verse): When you encounter the unbelievers on the battlefield, strike off their heads until you have crushed them completely; then bind the prisoners tightly.[11] The Qur'anic Arabic terms are generally straightforward: kafaru means those who blaspheme/are irreligious, although Darb ar-riqab is less clear. Darb can mean striking or hitting while ar-riqab translates to necks, slaves, persons. With little variation, scholars have translated the verse as, When you meet the unbelievers, smite their necks.[12] For centuries, leading Islamic scholars have interpreted this verse literally. The
[osint] FW: Newsweek
From a friend of mine, I cannot vouch for the translation being 100%- the cover story shows an American flag, dirtied and tossed in a trash can, its staff snapped in two. The large white text reads, Amerika ga shinda hi, which translates to The day America died. The red text at the left just above the Newsweek logo says: America forsaken. The big white and yellow text says: The Day America Died - The ideal of 'freedom' falls to the ground due to Bush continuing in office. http://www.nwj.ne.jp/public/toppage/20050202/toppage.html http://www.nwj.ne.jp/public/toppage/20050202/toppage.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM ~- -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
