[osint] The Psychology of Suicide Bombing

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Sep 12, 2005 The psychology behind suicide bombings By Pierre Rehov, documentary filmmaker On July 15, MSNBC's "Connected" program discussed the 7/7 London attacks (you can see video of the segment on the linked page). One of the guests was Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker who has filmed

[osint] Ohio Cleric to Be Deported for Terror Ties

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Of course this won't stop him.he'll either sneak back into the US or turn up somewhere else to continue his dirty work. Bruce Ohio Cleric to Be Deported for Terror Ties By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 1:47 p.m. ET CLEVELAND (AP) -- Federal authorities arrested an Islamic religious l

[osint] Democrats: The Crying Game

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
National Review Online November 23, 2005, 8:24 a.m. The Crying Game So near in Iraq, so far at home. By Victor Davis Hanson "The president misled us." "Still no WMDs." "If I had only known then what I do now." This is the intellectual level of Democratic wartime criticism about the Bush admini

[osint] More Stories from Joseph Wilson

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4188_0_2_0_C/ More Stories from Joseph Wilson By Cliff Kincaid | November 24, 2005 At this late date, Joseph Wilson is still trying to cover up the involvement of his wife in his CIA mission, apparently in order to protect a rogue element of the CIA from nece

[osint] American company to fight pirates off Somalia

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
American company to fight pirates off Somalia 25 Nov 2005 16:27:32 GMT Source: Reuters NAIROBI, Nov 25 (Reuters) - The Somali government has signed a two-year contract with an American marine security company in a bid to end an upsurge of piracy off the lawless Horn of Africa country, offic

[osint] CBS News runs story on liberal media bias

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/28/opinion/main620207.shtml Evidence Of A Liberal Media WASHINGTON, May 28, 2004 _ (CBS/48 Hours) Quote "That libera

[osint] Giant mosque for 40,000 may be built at London Olympics

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
About as ignorant an act as not believing the Germans were preparing to attack in 1938-39.. Nothing like inviting the enemy into your backyard... again. J Giant mosque for 40,000 may be built at London Olympics http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1892780,00.html

[osint] Iran offered N. Korea oil for weapons help

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051126/ts_nm/iran_northkorea_dc_1 Iran offered N. Korea oil for weapons help - magazine Sat Nov 26, 6:48 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran has offered North Korea oil and natural gas as payment for help in developing nuclear missiles, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel re

[osint] Egypt police detain 7 more Muslim Brotherhood

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Egypt police detain 7 more Muslim Brotherhood Summary: ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police detained seven supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the port city of Alexandria on Saturday before polling stations opened for legislative elections, the Brotherhood said in a statement.

[osint] Why is No One Blaming Bill Clinton for Understating Terror Threat?

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=10464 Why Is No One Blaming Bill Clinton for Understating Terror Threat? by Barry Weinstein Posted Nov 23, 2005 President Bill Clinton understated the intelligence threats to America after the first bombing of the World Trade Center on Feb. 26, 1

[osint] EGYPT: "Fear from the 'Brotherhood'"

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Fear from the "Brotherhood" Abdul Wahab Badrakhan [From: Al-Hayat, 26 November 2005] There is a story that is being told in whispers and behind closed doors in official Arab circles; the gist is that none other than Ariel Sharon, assumed the role of some Arab governments and succeeded wher

[osint] Paying for Terror

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Paying for Terror How jihadist groups are using organized-crime tactics--and profits--to finance attacks on targets around the globe By David E. Kaplan http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051205/5terror_8.htm The first blast struck at 1:25 p.m., shattering the walls of the Bombay S

[osint] Ramsey Clark, American anti-war leader, to defend Saddam

2005-11-27 Thread Seeker8143
_http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051127/D8E4SKEG1.html_ (http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051127/D8E4SKEG1.html) Clark Arrives to Assist Saddam Defense (javascript:eMail_Friend(540, 540);) _Email this Story_ (javascript:eMail_Friend(540, 540);) Nov 27, 10:01 AM (ET) By BASSEM

[osint] Ramsey Clark, leader of American anti-war movement, arrives to defend Saddam

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20051127/D8E4SKEG1.html <http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051127/D8E4SKEG1.html> Clark Arrives to Assist Saddam Defense Nov 27, 10:01 AM (ET) By BASSEM MROUE BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqi police arrested eight Sunni Arabs in the northern c

[osint] Reformist Saudi Author: Religious Cassettes Advocate Jihad by Emphasizing Martyr's Sexual Rewards

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD103205 Reformist Saudi Author: Religious Cassettes Advocate Jihad by Emphasizing Martyr's Sexual Rewards In a November 15, 2005 article in the Saudi daily Al-Iqtisadiyya, Sa'ad Al-Sowayan, a reformist Saudi researcher and columnist argued that religious

[osint] Pentagon Expanding Its Domestic Surveillance Activity

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
"The White House is considering expanding the power of a little-known Pentagon agency called the Counterintelligence Field Activity, or CIFA, which was created three years ago. The proposal, made by a presidential commission, would transform CIFA from an office that coordinates Pentagon security ef

[osint] Shiite Urges U.S. to Give Iraqis Leeway In Rebel Fight

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
"...Hakim asserted in a rare interview late last week, the United States is tying Iraq's hands in the fight against insurgents. One of Iraq's "biggest problems is the mistaken or wrong policies practiced by the Americans," he said. In more than an hour of conversation at his Baghdad home and offic

[osint] Shiite Cleric Increases His Power in Iraq

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
"Wielding violence and political popularity as tools of his authority, Mr. Sadr, the Shiite cleric who has defied the American authorities here since the fall of Saddam Hussein, is cementing his role as one of Iraq's most powerful figures." It is a safe bet that as U.S. forces withdraw, al-Sadr, f

[osint] Border Security an Issue for GOP

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
Until SOMEBODY does something about better border security, we remain just as vulnerable to another homeland terrorist attack as we were on 9/11, because terrorist attack squads can infiltrate our borders with Mexico and Canada at will. Not to mention hostile intelligence agents of all stripes bei

[osint] Putin Pulls Assad’s Chestnuts out of the Fire

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
"...Syrian president Bashar Assad has managed to hold back his strongman brother-in-law Gen. Assef Shawqat from interrogation at UN headquarters in Vienna as a suspect in the Hariri assassination." "...he persuaded Russian president Valdimir Putin to underwrite Mehlis’ pledge to comply with his t

[osint] US criticized over alleged Kosovo prison camp

2005-11-27 Thread David Bier
"...Gil Robles said he had visited Bondsteel to investigate reports from human rights organizations that NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping forces (KFOR) were making extrajudicial arrests in the province - an accusation US military officials have denied. The envoy said he was “shocked” at the condit

[osint] Murtha's sentiments not echoed by his constituents

2005-11-27 Thread Seeker8143
_Murtha's sentiments not echoed in area_ (http://www.heraldstandard.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15647739&BRD=2280&PAG=461&dept_id=480247&rfi=6) Uniontown Herald Standard - Uniontown,PA,USA ... While all three men had differing views on the war in general, they all agreed that Murtha's comments

[osint] Bruce Willis

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
“I am baffled to understand why the things I saw happening in Iraq are not being reported,” he told MSNBC, the American news channel. ANGERED by negative portrayals of the conflict in Iraq, Bruce Willis, the Hollywood star, is to make a pro-war film in which American soldiers will be depi

[osint] Urban II (1088-1099): Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Some fascinating history here. --S. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html Urban II (1088-1099): Speech at Council of Clermont, 1095, Five versions of the Speech In 1094 or 1095, Alexios I

[osint] Bosnia: Haven for Islamic radicals?

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Bosnia: Haven for Islamic radicals? By Nicholas Wood International Herald Tribune SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2005 http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/11/27/news/bosnia. php SARAJEVO A police raid last mon

[osint] Thai Authorities Refuse Entry to Cambodian Muslims

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
As the world awakens to the Islamic threat, this will become more commonplace. Bruce Thai Authorities Refuse Entry to Cambodian Muslims By VOA News 27 November 2005 Thai military officials say they have refused a group of Cambodian Muslims entry into the country for security reasons amid unres

[osint] The Iraq story: how troops see it

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
The Iraq story: how troops see it By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor November 28, 2005 BROOK PARK, OHIO - Cpl. Stan Mayer has seen the worst of war. In the leaves of his

[osint] Teheran 'secretly trains' Chechens to fight in Russia

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Tefft
Teheran 'secretly trains' Chechens to fight in Russia Con Coughlin http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SOKLFPK05APSDQFIQMGSFF WAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wchech27.xml