[osint] Marine Corps Special Operations Command Activated

2006-02-25 Thread Seeker8143
Marine Corps Special Operations Command Activated By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA American Forces Press Service CAMP LEJEUNE, N. C. , Feb. 24, 2006 – The Marine Corps officially joined the ranks of U. S. Special Operations Command here today in a ceremony that Defense Secretary Donald H.

[osint] Pentagon: Iraqi troops downgraded

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
No Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support As we see more of these Iraqi forces in the lead, we will be able to continue with our stated strategy that says as Iraqi forces stand up, we will stand down, President Bush said last month. Oh well, looks like the troops will be home

[osint] Reporter hanged by Sadam for spying....

2006-02-25 Thread D Omega
Proved innocent Observer reporter Farzad Bazoft was hanged by Saddam in 1990. Now we have tracked down his interrogator who admits: 'He was no spy' Ed Vulliamy in Nasiriya Sunday May 18, 2003 The Observer His eyes are like stone, but his smile is a ready one, his handshake is firm.

[osint] Why Bush is stuck on the port deal

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
The energy-rich Persian Gulf nation is currently taking delivery of about US$8.4 billion worth of military equipment, mostly state-of-the-art fighter aircraft, ordered from the US ($6.4 billion) and France ($2 billion) over the past five years. The delivery of 80 US-built F-16 E/F fighter planes -

[osint] The superhawk's big flap

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
How would you feel if, in the aftermath of September 11, the US government had decided to contract out airport security to the ... country where most of the operational planning and financing of the attacks occurred? he asked in his weekly column in the right-wing Washington Times, February 14. It

[osint] A British bastion in the heart of Taliban territory

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
Please don't call it our Dien Bien Phu, said a senior officer, referring to the siege of French forces that brought their occupation of Vietnam to an end in 1954. When the Afghan war began Tony Blair said: This time we will not walk away, as the West had done when it used and then abandoned

[osint] Identity of Official to Be Kept From Libby

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
During a hearing Friday afternoon, Walton said Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald can keep secret the other government official's identity because that person has not been charged and has a right to privacy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5646110,00.html Identity of Official to

[osint] Washington told to justify port deal in court

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
The Port Authority said it has a right to review changes in port management under the existing lease agreement. The lawsuit, filed in the Superior Court in Newark, urged the court to declare that the purchase of PO requires consent of the Port Authority under the lease, that the container terminal

[osint] Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
and at least one company in one of the ports is also filing suit and DPW has delayed the transaction. Hadley may be able to get in the Famous Last Words record book. David Bier http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_go_pr_wh/ports_security Homeland Security Objected to Ports Deal By TED

[osint] Russia ready to supply Tupolev-204 planes to Iran

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
That's our buddy...KGB Officer Putain in charge of Russia! Always willing to give us a hand. -Bruce TEHRAN, February 25 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is ready to supply Tupolev-204 planes to Iran, the head of Russia's Federal Atomic Energy Agency, Sergei Kiriyenko, said. Our plant at Perm has done

[osint] Al Qaeda renews oil threat

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
Count on more refinery fires and explosions and attacks against pipelines and shipping. Bruce Al Qaeda renews oil threat From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Dubai February 26, 2006 AL-QAEDA's Saudi network has vowed to attack more oil facilities, according to an

[osint] UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060223-051657-4981r UAE terminal takeover extends to 21 ports By PAMELA HESS UPI Pentagon Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- A United Arab Emirates government-owned company is poised to take over port terminal operations in 21

[osint] FW: Emirates - DUBAI

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
_ From: Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 5:33 PM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: Emirates Bruce, I have been going through the recovered documents from Afghanistan and came across this one on the emirates, note the infiltration they acknowledge into the security services in Paragraph 3.

[osint] FRANCE: Muslim Barbarians Inside the Gate

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114083643710283317.html EDITORIAL BOARD Barbarians Inside the Gate By MATTHEW KAMINSKI, 25 February 2006; Page A10 PARIS -- In life, Ilan Halimi sold cellular phones on a boulevard named after

[osint] Islam: A Totalitarian Ideology?

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15393 Islam: A Totalitarian Ideology? By FrontPage http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1492 Magazine FrontPageMagazine.com | October 18, 2004 Below, Ibn Warraq, the author of Why

[osint] Al Qaeda Claimed To Have Infiltrated DUBAI/ UAE Government Three Years Ago

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/64126.htm Al Qaeda Claimed To Have Infiltrated UAE Government Three Years Ago by Joe Gandelman http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/64126.htm This New York Post report could prove one more headache for the Bush administration as it digs in its heels on its

[osint] RE: Al Qaeda Claimed To Have Infiltrated DUBAI/ UAE Government Three Years Ago

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
_ From: Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 8:12 PM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: RE: Al Qaeda Claimed To Have Infiltrated DUBAI/ UAE Government Three Years Ago The Author was Bin Ladin _ From: Bruce Tefft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:39 PM To:

[osint] Re: FW: Emirates - DUBAI

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
I'm sure paragraph 3 is very interesting, BUT, it was not included in your post. I even tried three different browsers and two different ISP's this time. Please transcribe the text or provide a link or don't bother because, apparently, Yahoo considers attachments non-text and deletes them.

[osint] Harris Got Illegal Donations

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
The contractor, Mitchell Wade, former chief executive of MZM Inc. in California, pleaded guilty to paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to Republican Randy Duke Cunningham of California and receiving more than $150 million in Defense Department contracts in return. He also pleaded

[osint] Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
Outcry in Germany as anti-Semitic film sells out By Tony Paterson in Berlin (Filed: 26/02/2006) Sunday Telegraph A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country's 2.5 million-strong Turkish

[osint] Data mining program continues after lawmakers order it closed

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
Research under the Defense Department's Total Information Awareness program -- which developed technologies to predict terrorist attacks by mining government databases and the personal records of people in the United States -- was moved from the Pentagon's research-and-development agency to

[osint] The FBI seizes suspicious documents in raid of Yemen airline Yamaniya offices in

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
The raid was carried out after Yemeni president Ali Abdallah Salah refused a White House request to arrest the prominent radical Sheikh Abdul Majid Zindani, head of the powerful Islamist al-Islah (Reform) party and Iman University of Sanaa, for inciting to terrorism... ...although the sheikh is on

[osint] Shia-Sunni talks on Iraq killings

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
Moqtada al-Sadr's militia and the Sunni Association of Muslim scholars vowed to help each other defend holy places. Not surprising as al-Sadr has had extensive Sunni insurgency contacts for a long time and is suspected, in conjunction with Imad Mughniyeh who is a senior leader of both Hizballah

[osint] High health costs to hurt troops

2006-02-25 Thread David Bier
By now you have probably heard that the Department of Defense (DoD) proposes to raise the Tricare fees for those military retirees under age 65. They also want to raise the pharmacy fees, and this will affect Medicare-eligible military retirees and active duty/Guard/Reserve families, as well.

[osint] A Statement Praising Usama bin Laden and Jihad

2006-02-25 Thread Bruce Tefft
A Statement Praising Usama bin Laden and Jihad Against the Alleged Aggression by the West upon Islam By SITE Institute February 24, 2006 http://www.siteinstitute.org/images/hr.gif A statement praising Usama bin Laden and discussing his sayings was recently distributed by a