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<http://www.americastruthforum.com/images/atf_newsletter_masthead.gif> January 7, 2008 <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QQGpCO2HW-FSkW8_nnU8sYvWXqq0c41JqA0MMIu 0QLFrGOP9Ko1vToLdP_2qaC6t8KxwMoDfHpH1pVVxrfzJhofaIiefF6VffwH2UX7BlfqkaLWjRqj 8Jbc> Click here for PDF version <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QTBwGpR6tl7xdCNhrSathwQgy55Ha-DsyICc6Ta W7HwXcHiNolwCoHPTkbstAVlTSR_dROAGJ6_eWa6tIvTV6A7f5iZHZ0sZ7b2bUEh8jHd4-TNtG5b uW9UYGcQK-YbtxoP7bprjEM8cA==> Africa: Fighting Erupts Near Key Sudan Oil Areas News.com.au/AFP Fresh fighting erupted between southern Sudanese forces and Khartoum-backed Arab tribesmen near key oil areas of the country on Friday, former southern rebels said, further denting hopes of an end to north-south hostilities. Dozens of people have been reported killed since fighting first erupted late last month near the disputed Abyei oil areas between Arab tribesman and ex-rebel south Sudanese army units...Clashes had first erupted in December when tribesman, backed by militiamen, attacked a southern army garrison, the former rebels said, although the tribesmen say they were bombarded first. Major General Mai Hoth, deputy chief of the southern former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, said that Khartoum had missed a new deadline to withdraw its troops from south Sudan, breaching a deal that saw the former rebels rejoin the national government last week after a two-month boycott. The violence has erupted shortly before the third anniversary of the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement on January 9, 2005 that ended 21 years of north-south conflict in Sudan, Africa's longest-running civil war. An estimated two million people were killed and another six million displaced in the two-decade-long conflict. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QR8LlI9PcbeWa_UJcZPNzbUSZSlo-A93LyfbT7v zWKEB7XY9CtjsiRBIUlFEvBF7VTsgbDbiilkb9ZoOd8pxe8VxZfLe2sCZP1WgrVZpRK9WLrf_Kee xKYsH9D2qJ9nLpc=> [read more] Asia: Military Flags All-Out Onslaught in 'Badlands' The Australian Pakistan <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QSxh9sQLDoNZACdo9yItlhRj_Opz2Hz53jLvRg7 MUgwq4hduzLzS0PWVLqTlS4xXZwNOnlSL9CRC_zXGXZyThH_dgrwEji8CzOBbjrjZLDNSd9CHZcP ARs9L1D-XDCec1jIPIUgE3Ucg4FWtctMvZ4LRlCJij-uTQ6zs7hs1bDH2A==> yesterday signaled it would launch a "massive military operation" into the al-Qaeda- and Taliban <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QSbNX5jgwXJaTYGG-TkkXUA19lzaL2FYCKtp00Z KQa90UYz0j5UD5CMf5EngmQCL5jehw7i0ivHl5zNebiM5BFnF6Nb1VwoTpT-OK6t95XwDKYE80Qh 5kHZVIyUV8Rcl9EIZzdjlw9dm1ApDukByGopJKSfpH4GPM1VPdiecSX2Va4y1cZOskrCk4YTs9Jx Ytxbn3LRxRPI_w==> -infested "badlands" of its North West Frontier Province, aimed at killing the jihadi militant leader blamed for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. In preparation for the offensive, Lieutenant General Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP and architect of Islamabad's repeated attempts over the past year to reach peace agreements with the militants, was removed from his job and replaced by the hard-line Governor of restive Balochistan, Awais Ahmad Ghani. Pakistani commentators said the move was the forerunner to the biggest military offensive launched in North and South Waziristan, where militant leader Baitullah Mehsud has his stronghold. North Waziristan is also where Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QT_O6q_uFMytX71YfoxIT0JzcV87VaSA21AvkH7 UZ28HbmlSnvXsOW7DfPDm6blcU6RIn9ubIpgcm2PkjSZi3l4ydwkw5znR7nznldb86KPS_3O14VE FqLiSIxxcKmQ8b4lX_DCVJfPqNLn84pHBo6SWZE8xpU2rMTaMB7TuY9Js8eIrlu2VZobuDtwPV7f Qj7bCpx51R_BzA==> leadership is believed to be located, and sources said the removal of General Aurakzai was likely to signal a new offensive against the terror group. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QSJQ7uHhNQuKq085hrbmyk4T5mU2ON1Ci5vXwPM aVmYKGRnzKqizQCmseCqHSjwNuctfU4VDeRHtNWb2oaag5onPQPPsGZaztxPivGL4oLqttm3_kcA O8paHvI1U0CCTK4=> [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=001FcfuJz6q6QTQk15p8VF3v1k1YXaoEPGiNNX4kp8-xKjrHzph Y_gls7we3ZgTGGWP83PPygQqYpmHYWAzBXyCs1OE2HXF6MY5LnNNlnhTIewPn28tjkH9xFrfnOhY BrFFBg5wlksikoQ=> [read more] Middle East: American Al Qaeda Urges Attacks on Bush Khaleej Times/Reuters American Al Qaeda <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QT_O6q_uFMytX71YfoxIT0JzcV87VaSA21AvkH7 UZ28HbmlSnvXsOW7DfPDm6blcU6RIn9ubIpgcm2PkjSZi3l4ydwkw5znR7nznldb86KPS_3O14VE FqLiSIxxcKmQ8b4lX_DCVJfPqNLn84pHBo6SWZE8xpU2rMTaMB7TuY9Js8eIrlu2VZobuDtwPV7f Qj7bCpx51R_BzA==> militant Adam Gadahn urged Islamist militants to welcome US President George W. Bush with bombs when he visits the Middle East this week. 'Welcome him not with flowers and applause but with bombs and traps,' he said in an Arabic aside on a 50-minute video posted on the internet on Sunday, which was mostly recorded in English and aimed at the American public. Gadahn, who is also known as Azzam the American, devoted most of the tape entitled 'An Invitation to Reflection and Repentance', to a detailed explanation of the shortcomings of US foreign policy and Western Christian civilization and their defeat at the hands of Islam and Muslims...'American and coalition officials have stated repeatedly that they are unable and unwilling to face the mujahedeen in Afghanistan and Iraq militarily but are still trying to win the battle for hearts and minds, which they have also lost in spectacular fashion despite the equally spectacular amounts they have spent in pay-offs and propaganda.' Gadahn also listed Pakistan <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QSxh9sQLDoNZACdo9yItlhRj_Opz2Hz53jLvRg7 MUgwq4hduzLzS0PWVLqTlS4xXZwNOnlSL9CRC_zXGXZyThH_dgrwEji8CzOBbjrjZLDNSd9CHZcP ARs9L1D-XDCec1jIPIUgE3Ucg4FWtctMvZ4LRlCJij-uTQ6zs7hs1bDH2A==> , Chechnya, North Africa and Somalia <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QR4VwhtuqKAbNg_Yt8hGtslsf05BLGHKC90-uEj rjkk0arUPM7H1zfCcnV0Bd-6VhHxufckhhoJqWDiF_FqyfT-3eD2yW_FbWPrYFccH74VuGohRjGE VsZJRrJotXW__g4LSnSIgozbtd1DaYaPgiHvJKccNXhDeG3M0fEsAohtRQ==> as areas where the United States was losing its battle against Islamist groups. The authenticity of the tape could not immediately be verified, but it was posted by As-Sahab, Al Qaeda's media arm, and had been advertised in a banner on an Islamist site for days. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QRV-gCSrdgO_iY31vSqzYg1SGCRjTjNkA8fsmAd _CkOOVqPoNbC4gwsUCch1kbCQeAI9hWOYgIVOBJ-uSN2QR-JgLglNHksM9SRqGn5ku2S5o0D0iLo 2JqH1t7fjAQeWb2k1mFLBxDd4g==> [read more] North America: US Officials 'Sold Nuclear Secrets' The Australian A whistleblower has made extraordinary claims about how corrupt US government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, 37, a former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency's Washington field office. She approached London's The Sunday Times last month after reading about an al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. Ms. Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions. Among the covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington. The agents sold the information to black market buyers including Pakistan. The name of the official, who has held a series of top government posts, is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims. However, Ms. Edmonds said: "He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives." She claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials, including household names, who were aiding foreign agents. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QRnnHtEYvK6Qra1_e7Gg2bV5W-hCGOuo_A506iS 3azaJF1D4sXP-InYxm8PazavATFjTwMt2tw_HujoTT1YJnj1qWo5TMwbXT6I_rnOHoqu6sLbWJ_E btC7ZmMkRgLOiuhWAbNYa2IFIA==> [read more] South America: FARC Video Shows Long-Held Hostages News.com.au/Reuters Colombia's <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QTkVIO9es3ubT7nWt9omRFE0hBhV5MN58tpYD3d rDm070cN_k2EIJUrN7dhnfV1kh9B2l5-U-p_oUB-5XiYJ02d-geQuAaQ4jfRtL1lqMu5fCToxacT UG9ivImbU8SAfz0i1oHdyULYmzOF7pG1kGdkTeQTBGGyWpo2Hg6NoXKSdQ==> 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=001FcfuJz6q6QRMm2slE1JgSOZ-f5805cFjnGuDqCS7SD52apup M6JXkwyrNYTxTwG060ofPvO6_mFoPtehVJbk23tYDtX2CjvCZ_7qIC1IDJ_uyakv16Eil4VdrwQS EPd5Sqnm58i75Wk9nGbsPKScPkcmKQwkld8Yu_p-40rG11F2LbBrnFCJ7-TEXmsIt6rQXbxm2NbG MLyAzuF7WFDKeNLlgugpHFmTiWmb4XYdNwJjcdZy2hSXppcx0ZV-KHVWDh5kYlVuppI=> 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=001FcfuJz6q6QSW106GRaaEXjRGyinnkRuN8xGFvt8Qlf3gBiLh BqZMrLM_7do4GW1NtHCr9TEgcgWIoLr6Njt60KF0jBycMi9dssJ0WL5cFz78omor3bB1w8yciFzJ BGc8NrzptzX8MWi3t26mkzuCNCfuGs3btqNlZYrwoMaeAq7nTTWDwesa0g==> 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=001FcfuJz6q6QRmbHTB7K0dIayvswH8FcHwhVKv01-_X6yCI2Z9 -G-zx2BucJHKqRrVYJWdsL7ZMREiYDP0tfPV2Pc9oObUIPqprXqBLxpUKAO6yXLSZrx68lJdtgII Tt7O8ydZ7QdOphN-B_t55inBkw==> [read more] South Pacific: Dozens Injured in Thailand Blasts News.com.au/AFP Up to five explosions rocked Thailand's <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QTBJRLmq1q9gCPNZZlDe3t7uZGtrrNclwq51y0b 9ZAO21Hho3mVUjWxpjZ8aFue6n4JDMK5Z88BKZkY3oM2F5AFfeZPOiOsEgn7JaJErYORlyVoWqTX zCcoVH2wQCELN83j8fYtsE0kBVDoLlaE7Pho24Lv0qCBmv5b-ramHzAMfQ==> troubled south early today, injuring dozens of people in a town on the Malaysian border. Bombs planted at entertainment venues across Sun Ngai Kolok town in Narathiwat province wounded 27 people, police said..."It was likely done by militants who target innocent people during new year," said police Colonel Prabphan Meemongkon. More than 2800 people have been killed in four years of separatist violence in Thailand's south, which was an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago, provoking decades of tension. Today's attacks come one year after blasts hit the capital Bangkok on New Year's Eve 2006, killing three people. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QQ1gMNOjax_QGrN3UM5R1pDvdmmQRY4GXq5x58w 9XvpDauH33QbdpPoW0uGVk_C0Vx2q2ucRJRUy2mZ6bQXAxP4b8WCdm28iTBt4gYo2DCbQAwcLQvV 3XgcabN62yw99ohJkahi1JfcrQ==> [read more] Commentary 2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation Dr. Walid Phares, New Media Journal The conflict we call the War on Terror still continues at the end of 2007 and all indications are that its battlefields are expected to spread further, and escalate, in the upcoming year. The following is a global assessment of the confrontation that has taken place since 2001, though the systematic war waged by the Jihadi forces against democracies and the free world began at least a decade before 9/11. This evaluation isn't comprehensive or definitive, but a collection of observations related to major benchmarks, directions and projections. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QR5KnT0aGafQLlvsaq3G-fdzZ8CggRfsozAlMVM OAc2vPuPmBt9m0G1YNoZjAS363Vxh3qJXu8KuPWLIEJCQAkA9Spkabf0wl9D54YcP_-oEx7Yh5ad 9v72URrjqhODAWPa2QFg3BVO0g==> [read article] Spotlight Al-Qaeda Adapts its Methods in Iraq as Part of a Global Strategy Abdul Hameed Bakier, Jamestown Foundation For the last few months, reports from Iraq have been indicating a tangible decline in insurgency and terrorist operations. For the first time since 2003, the Iraqi people are enjoying a sense of security in the streets of Iraq, although skeptics claim it is the calm that precedes the storm. The stabilizing security situation comes amid claims that al-Qaeda has been defeated or at least has been seriously crippled in Iraq . Has al-Qaeda actually been defeated and subjugated by the coalition forces in the Iraqi arena? Taking al-Qaeda's past and current behavior into account while monitoring Iraq's jihadi websites, one is presented with strong indications that al-Qaeda is adapting to the new realities on the ground while avoiding direct confrontation with the coalition forces. The global strategy of al-Qaeda since 9/11-as posted in al-Qaeda's internet forums-sheds further light on the terror plans it has designed to lure and engage Americans in various fronts in the region. <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QRIQRvcWM6rvfc_tFpF8W6poPWuNpvrwQ1Gxdoy QBe2D7NKH6ZPh87LtSVyLEhf3csDiUl-XhTEbvq2a3WiBnjV5FZKuOPrqhsH39pX606K9ZuBocFI VzHfI3zjExRKDCSjHpR1ZNs9ww==> [read article] Advertisement <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QTzQzjm0JIj5Hbj0vPGR-Sf5CQSWsD6ohYCsit1 5QGKFz63JLM0e1xP70cTcB9oYSDYVP9wqT7VGW9QETQ4O0zlYZpqS8i1R7BhNoy9Nd389ekihNii lfC6xGehTH6wq_lGNWOoVTIZSNhooZ8pF1wQfkNrBcO-VarpA-3IKJJcnZHVUOu0EeG_0fCHCGcL MxYSb4KrtuFxsg==> Acknowledgments United American Committee <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QSvRhEIkYsafNV8oa5ZxmZK-3-02_yJ6dg-rneO djGh1SR6_oycY2CbA5uF7ZQ6uwTWwNjZ6BzELR89dQgg3YOvGBgwN5Z65HUnQUbXotyMBltZMIWu qU2Lph1xE4WDPB0=> Educating the citizenry on the threats facing our nation B <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QRTsbIzXM7nPNpw5bKx1mgeF1m3dFR-AT0BQb6a MCGPGJ6UwUlKKw2DOZJxQ1WLNQaGjCanuHyYBnA3ojLmKdWCYS4CQ3Q7KN1pct7eypK0BA==> 'Nai Elim An activist organization dedicated to the protection and defense of the Jewish people Outback Kodiak <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QS9ENhnMdEgo0v_5laa2c4EPGH4Per4aacNFkGb dyKe_AwthcS5_vD4HzjN7IiknMQ5wF4LFu6tAmB5zneZePTOTDc5Y0bDClnWAl5I3081vQ==> The best in Alaskan adventure vacations The New Media Journal <http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001FcfuJz6q6QQwCaWgN1ZaoAGrUw4b-22mjdBwq6cKiIqccGtF ZOQThD23gvmiw5vJd-y8xNdLTiVS7SaoLxLYs_18BAKb2kd20NIWRRY7K-ojMsTEgOHNu6R_LKkO XVSS> Researched Opinion. 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