<http://rs6.net/on.jsp?t=1101925723979.0.1101491163019.1969&ts=S0304&o=http: //ui.constantcontact.com/images/p1x1.gif>
<http://www.americastruthforum.com/images/atf_newsletter_masthead.gif> December 31, 2007 <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37AZ-Zq_iX6WqMWF4owdetN2XPxMDGrxSvGDL_UP 2MSAnO47_VENKxqRPHVhtKbpBm9mRtmQ5u59OvB2nHXFxZQPqu7VCGQdaEu1aQNFQeSz5CuVONow -0aSz9MLZh_g3y5MkJxjZbJh7w==> Africa: Al-Qaeda Link in Tourist Killings Probed News.com.au/Reuters Mauritania suspects Islamic extremists allied to al-Qaeda <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37A54S6R9Uzm72mDLEzaxlRfRDFb2BwoEAi1IcPO EfPXimFjBkeRTfbKLdRqUt7YXxVUzNS4gO74fOJVdR1lLSytFcW5uPTgMNxO9kcqLjb_C6pZUp2F 1p5p7rfolAHNCpnnmriu99jJnDPSDHDmKNIgpCij7YKtfOethoF1-bCiQcLVNw74cyP4qQjqupzN gbgOmBzvdm0YhPfyeENPqBmtZz9nNcshVhxg_z7rdELZr9dNQ5W3usqf> were among the killers of four French tourists gunned down when they stopped for a Christmas Eve picnic. After initially citing robbery, as the motive for Monday's attack outside Aleg, 250km southeast of the capital Nouakchott, investigators said they were hunting three killers, two of whom were suspected members of Islamic militant groups. They viewed the attack as potentially a high-profile strike by Islamist extremists aimed at Europeans at Christmas, and carried out 12 days before the January start of the Lisbon-Dakar rally that will cross Mauritania. Three turbanned gunmen fired on the picnicking French with automatic weapons at a roadside halt on Monday, killing four of them outright and wounding a fifth...Mauritania's prosecution service said in a statement two of the men being sought were "young Mauritanians suspected of belonging to extremist Salafist groups". This reference pointed to an Algeria-based Islamic militant group formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BYkDqbsws5yLKdUAnMDT6v-axOjJsNI7FTZydW WyJF2noyUoEcJbTnShwJxJQBIpA_LyZvfGSSB8nWhJWH5BjjgzKpH5xzeVFM4a9seDwLJYW9J6Pw 7iEF_WX23w9ZnsZsGMLGS329meeV8ZjRwgtkTqv5RVP_AXMkezZe2CDcMNLZW1UanQ1wfS00CzB5 0wXPQXJL3noKqvCIMp49xgj8_Txu4Fu9yZiIx9uWDKBRaA==> (GSPC), which is accused of attacks in North Africa. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37DibJueeUbuAC6dEiGCoYptL5fYoaVvTwIBSSRi XJh1X-25qdcOD3y2PfRmioNItv4jVS2qIrOZ5Tq55vtbWGeBDE0RKdGWD9t1rmx4psmeBWzoTI3a GBboe_4NMrD8Cdw=> [read more] Asia: Al-Qaeda Chief Masterminded Bhutto Murder Times of London A notorious al-Qaeda leader named Baitullah Mehsud was named by Pakistan's Government last night as the mastermind behind Benazir Bhutto's assassination. The security services intercepted a call from Mehsud yesterday morning in which he "congratulated his people for carrying out this cowardly act," Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, the Interior Ministry's spokesman, announced. In a transcript of the call released by the Government an interlocutor named Maulvi Sahib tells Mehsud that three men were involved in the attack and two -- Badarwala Bilal and Ikramullah -- actually carried it out. Mehsud tells Maulvi Sahib not to tell the men's families yet and adds: "It was a spectacular job. They were very brave boys who killed her." <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37DMcFfqU6nR26hlSru2Qrv_NHF_saIo8lGF7cEu dchD-OdWcr_NckVtOThR8TI9o3HGHNbOPk4Hta2xz79MrZgg1IgLPbAscKsGs9kF7pspc7BytBk3 3Mq1rY2tJ6nQkMM=> [read more] Europe: Bomb Explodes in Spain's Basque Region MyWay News/AP A small bomb damaged the office of Spain's governing party in a Basque town an hour after authorities received a warning call from the armed separatist group ETA, an official said Tuesday. No injuries were reported. The Monday evening explosion coincided with the annual televised Christmas Eve speech by King Juan Carlos, who called for unity among political parties in the fight against terrorism. Spain's Socialist party and the leading conservative opposition Popular Party are divided in recent years over measures to combat ETA, an organization which has killed more than 800 people since the late 1960s in its campaign for an independent Basque homeland in a region straddling northern Spain and southwest France. The group broke a cease-fire with a large car bombing at a Madrid airport parking garage in December 2006, killing two people. It declared the cease-fire officially over in June and since then has carried out several nonfatal bombings and a shooting that killed two Spanish policemen in France. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BIa9pJVmrgjwuxkneHO5dcN2Zkj_07HJAIBztH uQk9teiZrg5mlZfIICUh-dlRM4ZSwov6pyG2VGcwV3wWE9ixiMNyo1vK0EiQ3BGMPbwp3sjOY9DR oR9htCRiWGNg0j0=> [read more] Middle East: New Bin Laden Message: US Is After Iraq's Oil News.com.au/Reuters Al Qaeda <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37CVHQqYyC3LdTAZ5d92AWDxKQ5JIrdJUcdVt8sD EQNEjIUQzNJpzm0FeXfYpnNrF0saZFIkoJprt7m8JMqsJ9xsKNGLhlGTD8YgwBRudOH8ifOrasPp twGS11DVtFqEfuAJTSUgQfySJMez4O5g_T9ZsGlW_VKuCarIAHtFJS-YOobSQVznQ1-xjALh1HuE j-gmyS7Hyv7S9A==> leader Osama bin Laden has accused the US of plotting to take control of Iraqi <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37CdKcgmP3FFuwMvwbc5JxZmGrvbCa6tRyqdM5Ve qGGUrtivVZMkqwjjRZGwDkq1LoJx6bdoJ-DIXBMh1NAo2tqlpnbr1alSLF2d0hvYUm14Jo4_K4iD 9CNrOkLu1BGF4_p90CrocAH-S8O9JF-mBylLUQtPyhXWBQNIsDajN1QCwA==> oil supplies and he urged Iraqis to reject efforts to rebuild a US-backed national unity government. In a statement posted on the internet overnight, bin Laden said Washington wanted to build military bases in the country and dominate the region. The militant leader urged Iraqis to reject the envisaged plan and said those who took part in it would be turning their backs on Islam. It is meant "to give the Americans all they wish of Iraq's oil", he said. Sunni Arabs pulled out of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led government earlier this year, accusing it of being too sectarian. Bin Laden vowed that Islamist militants would expand their holy war to liberate Palestinian land and said his group will not recognize Israel. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37DjsvOXdwy2qsz7mc6DGr0DekFuz5RPt18mbMC9 RkooZEJJ9XQ_rdF27NlBH1z7-lQYh4P6bLHCzloTyXWmZPpL5WHMMKUiyODalw_kAtX5eyxHj708 S7-2uE4lWTh2NUV1vqEeSemetw==> [read more] North America: Ex-Convicts Admit Planning Terror Attack NewsMax/AP Levar Haley Washington was finally free on parole after years in prison for robbery -- but unbeknownst to authorities, the Muslim convert was already plotting more serious crimes. Washington was determined to help his religious mentor and fellow convict Kevin James plan jihad-style attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets, prosecutors said. James, who was still in prison, instructed Washington to recruit five men, obtain two pistols with silencers and make sure one of the men was trained in bomb-making. "Be careful (brother), there are agents everywhere looking for (Al-Qaeda <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37CVHQqYyC3LdTAZ5d92AWDxKQ5JIrdJUcdVt8sD EQNEjIUQzNJpzm0FeXfYpnNrF0saZFIkoJprt7m8JMqsJ9xsKNGLhlGTD8YgwBRudOH8ifOrasPp twGS11DVtFqEfuAJTSUgQfySJMez4O5g_T9ZsGlW_VKuCarIAHtFJS-YOobSQVznQ1-xjALh1HuE j-gmyS7Hyv7S9A==> ) recruiters or any other threat to national security," James wrote to Washington in 2005. "Your squad will be engaged on all levels." Police uncovered the plot later that year when they connected it to a string of gas station robberies in the Los Angeles area. On Friday, James and Washington pleaded guilty to conspiring to levy war against the United States and affirmed that the elements of the plot, as presented by prosecutors, were true. Washington also pleaded guilty to using a firearm to further that conspiracy. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37Ai1gbRRzsWgYlaDAHDtA8UeKN_RROPgPN3gN0p x-hUaqr_t06szDoeCZyzWGUfDHl9mAcbeBF8qWywfTF70wgC6xO_I-7Ul08XJoTT7Fz0FH083k1c 3SL0yOwx2LjYNFKSXzt0NDK51g==> [read more] South America: FARC Video Shows Long-Held Hostages News.com.au/Reuters Colombia's <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37B3pMhDZWqpYis1gu1qxtypT4fnmlDTT76ZqC9u BuGZN9YnPfhsE1igRcp_5UUtSC1M84EoTUCqhDVfNM1SQHYlzPnPAwPASscArN-JqzAJvH55557q XLjBUbrv-SgN6WkiODCNIcotnMMe6zfBkcM3V-NMaysamJENfYflp7siDw==> Government today broadcast videos of rebel-held hostages, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and three US contract workers, including images apparently recorded in October. The images, confiscated from three suspected guerrillas captured in Bogota, would be the first proof Ms Betancourt and the Americans are alive in rebel captivity since a video of the hostages was released in 2003. Ms. Betancourt, a dual French-Colombian citizen and former presidential candidate captured in 2002, and the Americans, are among the highest profile captives held by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37DJWN9IF4oPJHn44Mr2bTBvO3Pw6Ktil6s_DWNq UxeveTY9BfDj9MEhzQXd5QyDqdD54P42DnCtWad2fJV46OgZ2u5lf-w__sgG8zH5HEfDvALSLQfX wLgqGI4m5grxBoMZcj9WTZJbHdwuX5dXbb3Nb7kYW5PD7fnELlfPsfjDxrE01GwbbRIm4Tjaz3EH SKmpJ4pPlSDVJ8EBzTjWVsvCOaxoHpmvDj4_fEHALLFjwFJLC6-Q2M2hEtb_j3ZE2GQ=> rebels waging Latin America's oldest insurgency. The FARC wants to exchange the four as part of a swap of key hostages for jailed rebel fighters, but recent efforts by Venezuelan <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BmlBAv29x0T8Ymn15EDcs1KkT-qOUtEw5Pv8wB 0pLfRRnPKNwWYMo_At17AqNM2BNDBtC53ebg4SLjk8Z6ju5Lxd-QPs3VHya4QUm6S-Hq7AP1gPLm 78WKau8KXhQRWqhwAE5MZaqFdjd5T33aG4JMZcw6UnmdINU12Kf1fnvjPQ==> President Hugo Chavez to broker a hostage deal fell apart after Colombia suspended his role as mediator in any talks to free rebel kidnap victims...Mr. Restrepo said letters and photographs from hostages were also found. Started in the 1960s as a leftist insurgency, the FARC is now deeply engaged in Colombia's cocaine trade and has kidnapped scores of police, soldiers, business owners and lawmakers for ransom and political leverage. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37CBZ-u04gGj3CNmCvQt0WqROFnc72-H4Akhs4A5 cQ6miNOGlAGlG36SmvrCYi6rSa6UxGv6aut3BSlQhT0xvgMylyDgiL0FytXqdpUaCzc0qsW1gUvn KljtdQn7AbdxPJholMet4LT8Gw==> [read more] South Pacific: Man Arrested with 'Christmas Day' Bomb News.com.au/AFP Police in the southern Philippine <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BGNCEGaq9CcfTeqak6y-VmGux62VdtM0AoRjBA vAhE8494C9_hdw0wAtc2Ji0obZeZUxgtnqGQmefWg2kr8pT4S_Y46mHi5mpP4_9GDtFvlPxQqFud TKZzDhmXrp3T7M_JcvMs_6GkZZBmbBMIdL4cmj7b0DzvOcTw0dpF-diRjQ==> city of Cotabato have arrested an Egyptian man allegedly plotting a bomb attack on Christmas day. The suspect, identified as Egyptian national Mohamad Sayed, was arrested during a raid on an apartment inside the Majad Islamic School in Cotabato. Recovered from his room was an explosive device fashioned from a 60mm mortar shell and ball bearings attached to a timing device, which was later safely detonated...Local police chief Superintendent Willie Dangane said intelligence reports indicated Mr. Sayed planned to detonate the bomb at an undisclosed location in the city on Christmas Day...Among the items recovered from his room was a booklet on the organization of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37By4rmvXKf8Xzgyj5CO7LNmiSArDkRx-4JWLoNX NX7jRspT9mo7-6OVZTIPhQc1gcyxojD8_Ew7aLS7TsxnhJBr-8HWSgX3xnehKonW-fdE8z8YN5Ai C17CIM54f_JnnKKwmRXxy_vOPI1CNEybIXJz8pHpqirsXQVFtLqSOcbRqrWpl95yaYz1C9kH7UI5 0iyLt5Nd89kpv-w2H2yvd8wk1QxfX8yhH81Y2PwVTD0zFg==> , a rebel group that has been fighting to set up an Islamic state in the southern Philippines. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BUr57v31YwUcztxCk-jI1iSuU--dZd37mCD5X9 ffHBQKMNJPb4naztyfik-2auhgvMd-guJhLGRbjdL4aVR6DJcahZla2lwrRdfCfBfvl3BSbOE4dq jvD27gr6J9rW5cPf7mXygZ_qgQ==> [read more] Commentary Gitmo Terrorist Freed to Kill Again New York Daily News Yes, you could argue, were you so inclined, that Benazir Bhutto might well be alive today if only Washington had not leaned on her to return to Pakistan for the sake of a US-brokered political deal that was perhaps not in her personal best interest. More to the point, you could argue that Benazir Bhutto might well be alive today if only Abdullah Mehsud had not been let loose from Guantanamo, where he plainly belonged, regardless of what the bleaters and hand-wringers thought about that. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37CvS3x7H46hmKVIzYbQLKIEgNpqrZ0YZQDkUrfz Y-jHDqpZL-43cLxXbD1HHk8U1aiiabRLiMiiKE93hGPt3-O19POQcIR_1NpfFb4XMj2RTLWkAvaP XrQ0PmTdgvZkbk0eF-cckQHdbQ==> [read article] Spotlight Dissecting the 'Party of God' Fred Burton and Reva Bhalla, Stratfor In Beirut, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, a renowned Syrian stooge, has stepped down, creating a political vacuum large enough to send the country back to its dark days of civil war. Hezbollah ("the Party of God") stands in the middle of this political battle, aiming to expand its power, ensure its long-term survival as a militant movement and serve Damascus' interests in selecting Lebanon's new president. Hezbollah intends to meet these objectives through force, and it already has plans to launch a government takeover should the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora act unilaterally and appoint a president. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BBjGqCdWSPgRBwr-W7oRAIcuTIjkcV2BAlE94G m44oRCC80OJpeo88eaFmaaukzcfCcRJt27IL2yy-PS5lOrGfZLWY1VErXm6XWfZ_UhhjzWHJIpZ4 BiO5lt3EgRcThJIZ6x7Fn16ctQ==> [read article] Advertisement <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37AB_a7N2jMpJDq9faQsBEzaAtAcf_NWa-P77dNC FT8JdWQm6aWGqj04DdjVz649LxGtIQxEfQxNx_dt3QeCqttB-Z-2HbNZ8kBD7vv7Udbf3kv83FKy ycJhFVHYO7CpyEAqPnTUzXc2P5hm5_y7BXgQ9qF-cCYPW9gAuC1m8pWT0hvKoTciISJDkukhNb8i pUP3CyHWB29BxA==> Acknowledgments United American Committee <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37B5JuPni9mMAMrGzmZvdtg83kUNHt0-Q13C_paK I-qxdQd17-bTgo0t8kMZAxM30ASnyEGTyuZVk7_YkCQdZO1frdsFbAIc4sCsGwdK6InTi2UWqafh EIq_50MuOtzl9_s=> Educating the citizenry on the threats facing our nation B <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37A-ptxpUEgzXavZ2pytFR3HKi-vybKkOe3-ithN zu2C6G7eYGHWRNQJGEsSqiWICar_JPdulJWODt4m3pKO9CnRqJbustGCZtLU5qXammzKWA==> 'Nai Elim An activist organization dedicated to the protection and defense of the Jewish people Outback Kodiak <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37BBII56m77UWdMG1rmVrN1TRe1lLSxWh7MSn2I9 IDw7QSAnzUuk4tkHFoyr0oIoL6ExQLyc9rf6xLQ6DTejr9ZWXqCjwzuSllxL1du5RhIIMw==> The best in Alaskan adventure vacations The New Media Journal <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37AyHF7GEOWtEpmYkblqXMg8JzEc9FtEaURa-9Yd fhfXvV6c3WJ8iBuJYEyriXjqE09BdQHwZmseHL57dLv3BKtWdJUYPPykuqUdRvJzWqjczD-MFYNp yj8a> Researched Opinion. Cogent Headlines. Truth to Power. Basics Project <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37B9EvxqzGMkM03JIv_klPPnjhu_KmabwggyxvMH oIWj6R9VOFRuH2e7bQAqdiCEeKsogdUAy8GFD3OszJUaNN7abWbk7Zza9kyp3UJJ3Dl5Ng==> A non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) education and research initiative. Battalion of Deborah <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xEK8JKmc37DtJQ-OqDIYlFBbFFiaMWyPoHbRC-wpqVbxDhfU GHOHsWMZ82caOq_FgcPgGWYvunfsckus8ap7lRgYRvUfNC9sd5o4GJY0PLJAGJyC7RsRprYUw5R7 e1qn> Bring the message of Israel to our community. America's Truth Forum Copyright C 2007 Forward email <http://ui.constantcontact.com/sa/fwtf.jsp?m=1101491163019&ea=beowulf%40thed urendal.com&a=1101925723979> <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=un&v=0012iKnLLe-neLBZ7yZgxGhTIt9 VmFIEqI8v8XHyfouKco8Tpz1oAHvkGzJLATOAO5IeFxKKTJVr5z2sR_shqW-aw%3D%3D> This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], by [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update Profile/Email Address <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=oo&v=0012iKnLLe-neLBZ7yZgxGhTIt9 VmFIEqI8v8XHyfouKco8Tpz1oAHvkGzJLATOAO5IeFxKKTJVr5z2sR_shqW-aw%3D%3D> | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe <http://visitor.constantcontact.com/d.jsp?p=un&v=0012iKnLLe-neLBZ7yZgxGhTIt9 VmFIEqI8v8XHyfouKco8Tpz1oAHvkGzJLATOAO5IeFxKKTJVr5z2sR_shqW-aw%3D%3D> T | Privacy <http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp> Policy. Email Marketing <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=custom01> by <http://www.constantcontact.com/index.jsp?cc=custom01> America's Truth Forum | PO Box 802 | Glastonbury | CT | 06033 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- 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: [email protected] 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
