[osint] Time to deal with real root cause of terrorism
The root cause of Islamic terrorism is Islam. Bruce http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3301749,00.html Time to deal with real root cause of terrorism ** Alex Epstein - YNET Five years after September 11, with Islamic terrorism flourishing while America's military efforts are floundering, many recognize that we still have not identified - and dealt with - the root cause of the terrorist threat. The most popular theory about the root cause of terrorism is that terrorism is caused by poverty. The United Nations and our European and Arab allies repeatedly tell us to minimize our military operations and instead dole out more foreign aid to poor countries - to put down our guns and pick up our checkbook. Only by fighting poverty, the refrain goes, can we address the root cause of terrorism. The pernicious idea that poverty causes terrorism has been a popular claim since the attacks of Sept. 11. U.N. secretary general Kofi Annan has repeatedly asked wealthy nations to double their foreign aid, naming as a cause of terrorism that far too many people are condemned to lives of extreme poverty and degradation. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell agrees: We have to put hope back in the hearts of people. We have to show people who might move in the direction of terrorism that there is a better way. Businessman Ted Turner also concurs: The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life. Indeed, the argument that poverty causes terrorism has been central to America's botched war in Iraq - which has focused, not on quickly ending any threat the country posed and moving on to other crucial targets, but on bringing the good life to the Iraqi people. Military action needed Eliminating the root of terrorism is indeed a valid goal - but properly targeted military action, not welfare handouts, is the means of doing so. Terrorism is not caused by poverty. The terrorists of Sept. 11 did not attack America in order to make the Middle East richer. To the contrary, their stated goal was to repel any penetration of the prosperous culture of the industrialized infidels into their world. The wealthy Osama bin Laden was not using his millions to build electric power plants or irrigation canals. If he and his terrorist minions wanted prosperity, they would seek to emulate the United States - not to destroy it. More fundamental, poverty as such cannot determine anyone's code of morality. It is the ideas that individuals choose to adopt which make them pursue certain goals and values. A desire to destroy wealth and to slaughter innocent, productive human beings cannot be explained by a lack of money or a poor quality of life - only by anti-wealth, anti-life ideas. These terrorists are motivated by the ideology of Islamic Fundamentalism. This other-worldly, authoritarian doctrine views America's freedom, prosperity, and pursuit of worldly pleasures as the height of depravity. Its adherents resent America's success and the appeal our culture has to many Middle Eastern youths. To the fundamentalists, Americans are infidels who should be killed. As a former Taliban official said, The Americans are fighting so they can live and enjoy the material things in life. But we are fighting so we can die in the cause of God. The terrorists hate us because of their ideology - a fact that filling up the coffers of Third World governments will do nothing to change. What, then, can our government do? It cannot directly eradicate the deepest, philosophical roots of terrorism; but by using military force, it can eliminate the only root cause relevant in a political context: state sponsorship of terrorism. The fundamentalists' hostility toward America can translate into international terrorism only via the governments that employ, finance, train, and provide refuge to terrorist networks. Such assistance is the cause of the terrorist threat--and America has the military might to remove that cause. America must extend its fist It is precisely in the name of fighting terrorism at its root that America must extend its fist, not its hand. Whatever other areas of the world may require U.S. troops to stop terrorist operations, we must above all go after the single main source of the threat - Iran. This theocratic nation is both the birthplace of the Islamic Fundamentalist revolution and, as a consequence, a leading sponsor of terrorism. Removing that government from power would be a potent blow against Islamic terrorism. It would destroy the political embodiment of the terrorists' cause. It would declare America's intolerance of support for terrorists. It would be an unequivocal lesson, showing what will happen to other countries if they fail to crack down on terrorists within their borders. And it would acknowledge the fact that dropping bombs, not food packages, is the only
[osint] Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib
http://www.telegrap http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml h.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml The notorious Abu Ghraib prison Baghdad is at the centre of fresh abuse allegations just a week after it was handed over to Iraqi authorities, with claims that inmates are being tortured by their new captors. Staff at the jail say the Iraqi authorities have moved dozens of terrorist suspects into Abu Ghraib from the controversial http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GGT0404JLQLKLQFIQMGSF FWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/17/wirq117.xml Interior Ministry detention centre in Jadriyah, where United States troops last year discovered 169 prisoners who had been tortured and starved. An independent witness who went into Abu Ghraib this week told The Sunday Telegraph that screams were coming from the cell blocks housing the terrorist suspects. Prisoners released from the jail this week spoke of routine torture of terrorism suspects and on Wednesday, 27 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GGT0404JLQLKLQFIQMGSF FWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2006/09/08/wiraq08.xml prisoners were hanged in the first mass execution since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime. Conditions in the rest of the jail were grim, with an overwhelming stench of excrement, prisoners crammed into cells for all but 20 minutes a day, food rations cut to just rice and water and no air conditioning. Some of the small number of prisoners who remained in the jail after the Americans left said they had pleaded to go with their departing captors, rather than be left in the hands of Iraqi guards. The Americans were better than the Iraqis. They treated us better, said Khalid Alaani, who was held on suspicion of involvement in Sunni terrorism. Abu Ghraib became synonymous with abuse after shocking http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=GGT0404JLQLKLQFIQMGSF FWAVCBQWIV0?xml=/news/2004/05/13/wtort213.xml pictures were published in 2004 showing prisoners being tortured and humiliated, galvanising opposition to the US presence in Iraq. The witness gained access to the prison just days after the Americans formally handed over control to the Iraqi authorities on Sept 1. Inside the 100-yard long cell block the smell of excrement was overpowering. Four to six prisoners shared each of the 12ft by 15ft cells along either side and the walls were smeared with filth. The cell block was patrolled by guards who carried long batons and shouted angrily at the prisoners to stand up. Access to the part of the prison containing terrorism suspects was denied, but from that block came the sound of screaming. The screaming continued for a long time. I am sure someone was being beaten, they were screaming like they were being hit, the witness reported. I felt scared, I was asking what was happening in the terrorist section. I heard shouting, like someone had a hot iron on their body, screams. The officer said they were just screaming by themselves. I was hearing the screams throughout the visit. The witness said that even in the thieves' section prisoners were being treated badly. Someone was shouting 'Please help us, we want the human rights officers, we want the Americans to come back', he said. Prisoners interviewed in the presence of their jailers said they were frightened for their safety. They complained that chicken and milk had been cut from their rations, leaving them on rice and water. They also complained about the oppressive heat. Outside the prison, relatives of some of the inmates said they were being tortured by their captors. One woman, who gave her name as Omsaad, said: My son Saad [who was arrested in Fallujah as a suspected insurgent] said he is being tortured by the Iraqis to confess the name of his leader. I met my son and he told me they were being treated badly by the Iraqis. Haleem Aleulami, who was released from the jail last week, three weeks after being arrested in Ramadi for carrying a pistol in his car, said the Americans had treated him better when they ran the jail. He claimed that visits from the International Red Cross staff had dried up and accused local human rights workers of being members of Shia groups who turned a blind eye to problems in the jail. The people are Iraqis and they are members of the Sciri and al Dawa parties. They have a good relationship with the leaders of the jail and they keep quiet, he said. The guards swore at the ordinary prisoners, he said, but those in the terrorist section were treated more brutally. The guards were swearing at us, but in the terrorist section they were beating them. I heard it all the time. Everyone knows what is happening. And Khalid Alaani, who was also picked up in Ramadi suspected of involvement in Sunni terrorism, said: We preferred the Americans. We asked to move with them to Baghdad airport because we knew the treatment would be changed because we know what the Iraqis are. When the Americans left
[osint] Suicide bomber kills Iraq recruits
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1click_id=3art_id=qw1158008763310B26 2 Suicide bomber kills Iraq recruits By Ibon Villelabeitia in Baghdad September 12, 2006 05:01am Article from: Reuters A SUICIDE bomber killed 12 people in a minibus transporting Iraqi army recruits today, as al-Qaeda said in a video on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks that US forces in Iraq were doomed to fail. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will make his first official visit to neighbouring, Shiite Iran tomorrow, a day later than originally planned, an aide said. Most of the dead in the blast were young recruits who had boarded a public minibus outside the Muthanna base in central Baghdad, which has been targeted in the past by insurgents from the Sunni Arab minority, including al-Qaeda Islamists, who oppose the US-backed Shiite-led coalition government. Recruiting centres are key to Washington's plan to withdraw troops suffering daily losses. At least 2669 US troops have died since the 2003 invasion, which Washington said was partly a response to purported ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have died since the war, which Washington also said it waged to eliminate Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that were never found. As Americans marked the anniversary of the attacks on New York and Washington, Ayman al-Zawahri, deputy al-Qaeda leader, said in remarks apparently addressed to Western leaders: I tell them do not bother yourselves with defending your forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. These forces are doomed to failure. Thousands of kilometres away from New York's Ground Zero, where hijackers crashed two airliners into the World Trade Centre twin towers, US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad told a ceremony in Baghdad there was no alternative to a successful Iraq. A recent Pentagon report warned that civil war is a possibility in Iraq. Repeating Washington's view that a stable and non-sectarian democracy in Iraq was part of a US strategy to stamp out extremism from the Middle East, Khalilzad said: Any other outcome will embolden al-Qaeda and extremists and produce new tragedies and the repetition of old ones like 9/11. The Washington Post disclosed a US Marines report that officials said concluded US forces had effectively lost the vast desert province of Anbar, leaving a vacuum for al-Qaeda. With an eye on the eventual withdrawal of the 155,000 mostly US foreign troops from Iraq, the US military last week handed over formal command of Iraq's army to Mr Maliki, who is struggling to avert a slide into all-out civil war. Shoes and tattered clothes lay amid the mangled wreckage of the bus, where the suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt after boarding near the base. A roadside bomb targeting US soldiers killed three civilians in western Baghdad. Iraq and Iran, both predominantly Shiite, fought a bloody war in the 1980s when Saddam, a Sunni, was in power. But relations are warmer since the empowerment of Iraq's long-oppressed Shiites, unsettling once dominant Sunnis. Washington and other Arab states, dominated by Sunni rulers, are suspicious of non-Arab Iran's influence in Iraq, where the Islamic Republic has an unparallelled ability to affect stability and security across most of the country, a report by the London-based Chatham House think-tank said last month. Facing genocide charges for the killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds in 1988, Saddam returned today to a Baghdad courtroom, where a US-based Iraqi doctor demanded compensation from foreign companies she said supplied the toppled leader with chemicals he is accused of using to gas Kurdish rebels. Saddam used his presence in court after a three-week hiatus to intervene again in current politics, accusing his accusers of seeking to divide Kurds and Arabs and break up Iraq. Five years after the September 11 attacks and more than three since the invasion, violence kills 100 people every day. Demands by Shiite leaders to form a Shiite super-region in the south with similar autonomy to that enjoyed by Kurds in northern Kurdistan region have raised fears of a partition in Iraq that could draw in regional powers. A divisive draft law on federalism, bitterly opposed by Sunnis who fear it would cut them off from Iraq's oilfields in the north and south, was delayed in parliament yesterday. Parliament faces an October 22 deadline to pass a law that defines how Iraq's 18 provinces can form autonomous regions. [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: 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] Missed Opportunities: The CIA and bin Laden
Missed Opportunities: The CIA and bin Laden September 10, 2006 7:35 PM Brian Ross Reports: http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/missed_opportun.html http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/ht2_pakistan02_060524_nr_2.jp g http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/pakistan_cia_map_nr.jpg Pakistan_cia_map_nrThe FBI agent assigned to put the handcuffs on Osama bin Laden had practiced what he would say. I would have said, 'Mr. bin Laden, my name is Jack Cloonan. I'm from the FBI in New York.' Jack Cloonan told ABC News. 'You are under arrest'...Then he would have been handcuffed...And that's what I was looking forward to. But, of course, it never happened. Despite 10 years and tens of millions of dollars spent, the United States government has failed to capture or kill the world's most infamous terrorist. Many CIA officers in the field, including Gary Bernsten, who was assigned to hunt bin Laden, blame officials in Washington. CIA provided an American president, first Bill Clinton, multiple opportunities to capture or kill bin Laden, Bernsten said. We provided those opportunities, tactical opportunities which were not taken. In its exhaustive report, the 9/11 Commission identified at least five separate times in 1998 and 1999 when operations were underway to get bin Laden. In only one case was there a decision to proceed. The commission made no conclusion as to whether they should have gone ahead. I should emphasize, Daniel Marcus, the general counsel for the Commission, told ABC News, that all of these decisions were difficult decisions because of the potential for collateral casualties among civilians and because of uncertainties as to the intelligence. The first plan in 1998 was to use Afghanis working for the CIA to capture bin laden from his Afghan compound, called Tarnak Farms, and turn him over to the FBI for a flight to the U.S. The Afghanis were going to be the vanguard. So they were going to break into the compound essentially, shoot it out, because bin Laden obviously had a coterie of guards to protect him. If bin Laden had survived that assault, he was going to be essentially anesthetized, Cloonan said, removed from that compound. There were four practice rehearsals in Texas and a capture date set, but the Commission said the director of the CIA George Tenet pulled the plug, citing the risk of civilian casualties and the poor odds of success. Bin laden had two tanks. He had machine gun nests. All of these people that CIA had hired would have been gunned down, and so higher levels in the CIA said that plan won't work, and I agreed with them, it wouldn't have worked, Richard Clarke, then White House Director of Counter-terrorism and now an ABC News consultant, said. Two months later al Qaeda attacked two U.S. embassies in Africa, killing more than 250 people. After the embassy bombings, we developed a very elaborate plan to go after bin laden and the al Qaeda network, Clarke said. That plan started with the launch of cruise missiles against a training camp where bin Laden was expected to be. Our mission was clear to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with Osama bin Laden, President Clinton said. But the U.S. missed its primary target, bin Laden. It was clear that he had been there, and the CIA believes he left a couple of hours before the missile struck, said Marcus. But, and there are some officials who think it is likely that some Pakistani official notified someone in the Taliban or al Qaeda and tipped off bin Laden to leave. But we don't know. That was the last time, August of 1998, that the U.S. would actually try to capture or kill bin laden until post-9/11. Each time it would get close, CIA director Tenet would pull the plug, according to Clarke. President Clinton authorized two U.S. cruise missile attack submarines to sit off the Pakistani coast and to sit there for months on end waiting for word that we might have sighted bin Laden, Clarke explained. And on three occasions, CIA sources, not CIA personnel, but people, Afghans, who were working for CIA, said they thought they knew where bin Laden was. And on all three occasions, those cruise missiles in the submarines were activated and began to spin up and get ready to launch. And on all three occasions, the director of the CIA, George Tenet, said he could not recommend the attack because the information from his one source wasn't good enough. CIA officers in the field disagreed. And the 9/ll Commission report calls the third of those aborted attacks, Kandahar, May 1999, the last, most likely best chance to get bin Laden. We thought that was the closest call. And that was one where I think the Commission thought the decision not to undertake that cruise missile strike was relatively murky compared to the decision-making process in other instances, recounted Marcus. Efforts by Richard Clarke to get the U.S. military to bomb the growing al Qaeda training camps were rejected, with generals deriding
[osint] Does al Qaeda's No. 2 Leader Give the Hidden 'Go Signal' in New Tape?
No need for such a complicated signaling system.ridiculous press speculation. A simple phone call would do for the go signal. Bruce Does al Qaeda's No. 2 Leader Give the Hidden 'Go Signal' in New Tape? September 11, 2006 1:45 AM Rhonda Schwartz Reports:http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/al_qaedas_2_lea.html http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/zawahiri_nr.jpg Zawahiri_nrA new videotape message from Ayman al-Zawahiri issued on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks contains a threatening message directed to the Western peoples. Your leaders are hiding from you the extent of the disaster which will amaze you. And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events, with God's permission and guidance, says Zawahiri in a videotape message dated September 2006. The one-hour-and-16-minute videotape entitled Hot Issues was located on the internet earlier today by Laura Mansfield, an Arabic language expert, who has recently published a book about al-Zawahiri's writings, His Own Words. The tape contains numerous threats against Westerners that Mansfield says may be a call to action to al Qaeda followers and may contain what intelligence officials call a hidden go signal. In another statement on the tape, Zawahiri says, I call on every Muslim to make use of every opportunity afforded to him to take revenge on America. In the tape produced by al Qaeda's as-Sahab Media Productions, al-Zawahiri is seated in front of a bookcase answering questions from an unseen interviewer. The tape is in Arabic with English subtitles. http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/ Click here for Brian Ross Investigative Team's Homepage (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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 THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Nato rejects appeal to boost Afghan troops
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2353444,00.html Nato rejects appeal to boost Afghan troops By Michael Evans, Richard Beeston and Tim Albone in Kandahar London Times Septemb er 12, 2006 * Germany, Italy, Spain and Turkey ignore request for reinforcements SOME OF America's closest Nato allies have abandoned Washington on the key battleground of the War on Terror, the bloody struggle against Islamic militants for control of southern Afghanistan. Five years after the world stood shoulder to shoulder with America in the aftermath of 9/11, The Times has learnt that many of the countries that pledged support then have now ignored an urgent request for more help in fighting a resurgent Taleban and its al-Qaeda allies. Turkey, Germany, Spain and Italy have all effectively ruled out sending more troops. France has not committed itself either way, but the military sources in Kabul said that there were no expectations that the French would contribute to a new battlegroup, especially now that they were providing a substantial force in Lebanon. They have rejected an appeal from General James Jones, the American Supreme Allied Commander Europe, for 2,500 more troops to fight alongside American, British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers. The 26-nation alliance has not volunteered a single extra combat soldier. Britain, which has 5,500 troops in Afghanistan, most of them in the south, has told its Nato partners that they must do more if the line is to be held against the resurgent Taleban. The conflict has cost the lives of 33 British troops since June. Pitched battles were raging in Afghanistan yesterday, where Nato estimates that 600 Taleban fighters have been killed in its new offensive. Twenty Nato soldiers, including 14 British servicemen who died when their Nimrod reconnaissance aircraft crashed on the first day, have been killed. Only the newcomers to Nato have indicated that they would be prepared to send more soldiers. Latvia, with an army of 1,817 soldiers, plans to increase its presence in Afghanistan from 36 to 56 people. Neither Norway nor Denmark is planning to send reinforcements. The Netherlands is already playing a significant role in the south. Terrorism remains a threat to all of us. This is why we are in Afghanistan, the cradle of 9/11, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato Secretary-General, said. The muted response from Nato members cast a shadow over solemn tributes in America and Britain yesterday for the nearly 3,000 people killed on 9/11. President Bush travelled from New York to Pennsylvania and finally to the Pentagon for memorial services at the sites where the four hijacked airliners came down. My job is to protect this country, he said. And I am going to, within the law. And it gets second-guessed all the time by people who don't live in the United States. In a clear dig at his critics abroad, he added: Let me remind you: September 11th for them was a bad day; for us it was a change of attitude. The tone could not have been more different from the atmosphere five years ago when allies, and even some traditional American foes, lined up to offer Washington military assistance, intelligence and diplomatic support, in particular for its aim to destroy al-Qaeda and overthrow the Taleban regime in Kabul. Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy leader of al-Qaeda, said yesterday in an internet broadcast that America and Britain had already lost their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and that the terror group was now preparing a new campaign against the Gulf states and Israel. In Afghanistan Nato forces admitted that they were dangerously overstretched, but there was no suggestion that the Taleban and its al-Qaeda allies were winning the battle for control of the country. The Taleban are more ferocious and more determined than any time since they were overthrown by US-led forces in late 2001. As well as carrying out suicide bombing they are also fighting hand-to-hand, occupying and controlling towns and districts for days at a time under the noses of Nato troops. Yesterday battles raged in Helmand and Kandahar provinces, two Taleban strongholds. Five mourners were killed by a suicide bomber in Khost at a funeral for a former governor, assassinated by a suicide bomber on Sunday. In Kandahar, Canadian and other Nato troops entered the tenth day of Operation Medusa to root out hundreds of suspected Taleban fighters just 15 miles from the provincial capital. British troops supported the Afghan Army in recapturing the district of Garmser, only 30 miles from a British base. It fell into Taleban hands last week for the second time in two months. Nato sources told The Times yesterday that no one has come forward with any reinforcements for the war. One military source in Kabul said: We're not just looking for extra troops. We want a proper battle group of fighting soldiers who are prepared to confront the Taleban in southern Afghanistan. No one seems to want to commit combat troops.
[osint] US Embassy in Syria attacked
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/nation/article/0,1299,DRMN_16_4986640, 00.html US Embassy in Syria attacked Updated 9/12/2006 7:46 AM ET USATODAY A Marine stands guard Tuesday on the roof of the U.S. embassy in Damascus. A Marine stands guard Tuesday on the roof of the U.S. embassy in Damascus. By Louai Beshara, AFP/Getty Images DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Islamic militants attempted to storm the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday using automatic rifles, hand grenades and at least one van rigged with explosives, the government said. Four people were killed in the brazen attack, including three of the assailants. No Americans were hurt, and the attackers apparently did not breach the high walls surrounding the embassy's white compound in the city's diplomatic neighborhood. But one of Syria's anti-terrorism forces was killed and at least 11 others were injured, the country's official news agency reported. The wounded including a police officer, two Iraqis and seven people employed at nearby technical workshop. A Chinese diplomat also was hit in the face by shrapnel and slightly injured while standing on top of a garage at the Chinese Embassy, China's government news agency said. A witness said one Syrian guard outside the embassy also was killed, but the government did not immediately confirm that. At the embassy in Damascus, as at most American embassies worldwide, a local guard force patrols outside the compound's walls while U.S. Marine guards are mostly responsible for guarding classified documents and fighting off attackers inside the compound. Witnesses also said the gunmen tried to throw hand grenades into the embassy compound, shouting Allah Akbar! or God is great! It was not clear if any of the grenades made it over the walls, which are about 8 feet high. The attack came at a time of high tension between the United States and Syria over the recent Israeli-Hezbollah war in neighboring Lebanon. In Damascus there has been increasingly anti-American sentiment. Syria has seen previous attacks by Islamic militants. In June, Syrian anti-terrorism police fought Islamic militants near the Defense Ministry in a gunbattle that killed five people and wounded four. After Tuesday's attack, pools of blood lay splattered on the sidewalk outside the embassy, along with a burned car apparently used by the attackers. A sports utility vehicle with U.S. diplomatic tags had a bullet hole through its front window, and the glass windows of nearby guard houses also were shattered. There were conflicting reports of what happened. Syrian TV said one car was rigged with explosives but never was detonated by the attackers. But one witness said a second car did explode, and TV footage from the scene showed a burned car. The Syrian Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, said a fourth attacker now in detention was wounded in the incident, which it called a terrorist attack. The report, carried on state-run television, said anti-terror units brought the situation under control and an investigation was underway. In Washington, a State Department spokesman confirmed the attack by unknown assailants but had few details. Local authorities have responded and are on the scene, said spokesman Kurtis Cooper said. He said he had no further information. A U.S. Embassy statement said the embassy came under armed attack at 10:10 a.m. local time and that all embassy personnel are safe. One Syrian embassy guard was injured by gunfire and is in a stable condition at a local hospital, the statement said. The Embassy's charge d'affairs, Michael Corbin, met with Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Maguid at the scene, and spoke by phone with assistant minister of foreign affairs, Ahmed Arnous, according to the statement. It said the Syrian government has pledged full security cooperation. State television said four armed attackers attempted to storm the Embassy, using automatic rifles and hand grenades. Syrian security guards attacked the gunmen, killing three and wounding a fourth, TV said. The attackers came in two cars and parked one that was rigged with explosives in front of the embassy but did not blow it up, state-run TV reported. Explosive experts dismantled the bomb, it said. But a witness told The Associated Press that two gunmen stopped a car on the street in front of the embassy, got out of the car, shot at the Syrian sentries in front of the building's entrance and then detonated the car. The witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the security personnel shot back, and security forces in the area rushed to the scene. Television footage showed a delivery van loaded with pipe bombs strapped to large propane gas canisters outside the Embassy. Had the bombs detonated, the explosions would have caused massive damage. The footage also showed the charred remains of a smaller car parked several feet behind the van. A Syrian who works at the American Embassy, contacted
[osint] Car bomb attack on U.S. embassy in Damascus fails - van packed with gas canisters and detonators
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryID=2006-0 9-12T103149Z_01_L12741661_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SYRIA.xml Reuters javascript:window.print() Print this article javascript:window.close() Close This Window Car bomb attack on U.S. embassy in Damascus fails Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:31 AM BST By Khaled Yacoub Oweis DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Four men shouting religious slogans tried to blow up the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday but their car bomb failed to go off and Syrian security guards killed three of them in a shootout. No American diplomats were hurt in the assault, a Syrian official said. Syrian-U.S. relations have been tense for many years, mainly over Syria's role in Lebanon, the Middle East conflict and Iraq, and its support of militant groups in the region. The official news agency SANA said three attackers had been killed and a fourth wounded. A Syrian official said earlier that all four assailants had died. A witness said at least one Syrian security guard had been killed by the attackers, who had been shouting Islamic slogans. I saw two men in plain clothes and armed with grenades and automatic weapons, said Ayman Abdel-Nour, a Syrian political commentator who was in the area. They ran towards the compound shouting religious slogans while firing their automatic rifles. Syrian state television said the attackers had tried but failed to detonate a car bomb. Television footage of the scene showed a van packed with gas canisters and detonators taped to them, as well as bloodstains on the pavement and several damaged vehicles, including a white bullet-riddled car that a truck was preparing to haul away. The embassy flag was flying at half-mast, one day after the fifth anniversary of the September 11 al Qaeda attacks on the United States. The Rawda area where the attack occurred is one of the most heavily guarded districts in the Syrian capital. It houses security installations and the homes of government officials. Hours later, the area remained sealed, with sharpshooters deployed on rooftops and top security officials at the scene. Interior Minister Bassam Abdel Majid told state television an investigation was under way. Security officials said the assailants' arsenal included rocket-propelled grenades. It was not known if they had fired them during the mid-morning gunbattle in central Damascus. U.S. CONFIRMS ATTACK In Washington, State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said: We can confirm reports of an attack on our embassy in Damascus by unknown assailants. The event appears to be over. There was no word on the identity of the attackers, but Syrian forces have clashed with Islamist militants several times in recent months, often during raids to arrest them. In June, four gunmen and a guard were killed when Syrian security forces said they had foiled an attack by Islamist militants near the premises of state-run television in Damascus. The United States recalled its ambassador from Syria in February 2005, expressing profound outrage over the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in Beirut. Washington blames Syria for that killing. Damascus denies any involvement. The United States increased its criticism of Syria during Israel's 34-day war in July and August with Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas, who are supported by Syria and Iran. Syria, accused by Washington of helping insurgents in Iraq and backing Hizbollah and the Palestinian Hamas movement, blames the rise of militancy in the region on U.S. policies such as the Iraq war and U.S. support for Israel. In the early 1980s, Syria crushed an armed revolt led by the Muslim Brotherhood movement. The embassy assault occurred one day after the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States by Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. _ C Reuters 2006. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by caching, framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world. javascript:window.close() Close This Window [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: 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
[osint] CANADA: A reporter moves at will inside a major airport
http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/09/11/pf-1825259.html http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/09/11/1825259-sun.html September 11, 2006 It's so easy to get in, it's scary A reporter moves at will inside a major airport By FABRICE DE PIERREBOURG, SUN MEDIA Journal de Montreal reporter Fabrice de Pierrebourg was able to easily gain access to restricted areas of Trudeau Airport without being bothered by security. (Gilles Renauld/Sun Media) MONTREAL -- Five years after the terrorist attacks on the U.S., and despite the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the federal government on beefing up security at Canada's major airports, access to restricted areas is alarmingly easy, a Sun Media investigation shows. Security is so lax at Montreal's international airport that a Sun Media reporter was easily able to get into prohibited zones on seven separate occasions. Twice, it was as easy as crawling under a fence on the outskirts of Trudeau Airport. The other times, the reporter used the entrances of airport employees. He had no uniform or security pass but sailed right through checkpoints by appearing as if he belonged there. The reporter was able to walk onto the tarmac by the international flights, touch aircraft, visit hangars, get into a subcontractor's vehicle and play around with the food carts being prepared for flights. The reporter for the Journal de Montreal wanted to determine whether passengers were really safe after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the recent measures banning all liquids, such as hair gel and toothpaste. Though passengers across Canada are being hit with increasingly severe security restrictions, that's not the case for tens of thousands of airport and airline workers in the country. Why lock the front door when the side doors and those in the back are wide open? a Senate committee on national security concluded in 2003. The security breaches at Trudeau airport could have international ramifications. After Toronto and Vancouver, it's Canada's third-busiest airport with almost 11 million passengers a year flying to points across the country, Europe and to the U.S. It may also furnish more ammunition for U.S. senators who have been urging their government to tighten their northern border, citing Canada's weaker security regulations. The examples of lax security discovered by Sun Media at Trudeau International over the past month include: - The reporter mixed in with workers coming on shift at Cara, the company contracted to prepare and deliver food to airplanes. He walked straight in without ID, put on a white lab coat and toured the facility effortlessly. He spotted food carts for Air Canada, Royal Air Maroc and Cubana among a number of airlines, and opened some of them. - He returned to Cara another day to see whether his ease of entry the first time was a fluke. He sailed right through the security checkpoint again. - Wearing jeans and a T-shirt and carrying a tape measure, the reporter rang the bell at Handlex, a company that deals with baggage, on-board water and aircraft cleaning. Hello, I came to measure the wall because we are redoing the bricks, he said. The reporter was let in and was left alone. He got behind the wheel of a water-supply truck. - The reporter walked through an open door into a deserted hangar at the edge of Trudeau. The hangar is used by Hydro-Quebec, the province's power utility, for its planes. Another open door at the opposite end of the hangar led directly onto the airport tarmac by the international flights. - He also managed to easily gain tarmac access through a hangar next door used by Air Inuit. - The fence around the perimeter of the airport offered a number of entry points. One night, the reporter crawled under the fence and made it to the edge of one of the main runways. He also touched numerous planes parked nearby. - He returned to the same hole in the fence a few hours later and did it again. Airport officials, unaware of Sun Media's discovery of numerous security breaches, say security at Trudeau airport is adequate. We have people who are responsible for the perimeter's security who are always patrolling, said James Cherry, president of Aeroports de Montreal. It is a real challenge but we put in the effort to ensure it is secure. --- TRUDEAU INT'L AIRPORT - SIZE: 1,300 hectares (3,200 acres). - AIR TRAFFIC (2005): 231,982 flights. - PASSENGERS (2005): 10,892,778 (third busiest in Canada behind Toronto and Vancouver). - AIRPORT EMPLOYEES: About 15,000. - AIRLINES SERVICED: International 18 Canadian 14 American 6 [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: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[osint] Four gunmen killed in attack on U.S. embassy in Damascus
Four gunmen killed in attack on U.S. embassy in Damascus www.chinaview.cn 2006-09-12 18:12:35 Breaking News: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/12/content_5082316.htm Chinese diplomat injured in attack on U.S. embassy 2006-09-12 17:57:09 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/12/content_5082379.htm Television footage shows an official preparing to remove a car outside the U.S. embassy in Damascus Spetember 12, 2006. Television footage shows an official preparing to remove a car outside the U.S. embassy in Damascus Spetember 12, 2006. Four gunmen attacked the embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, but failed to harm any American diplomats before all four were killed, a Syrian official said. Syrian state television said the attackers had tried to detonate a car bomb in front of the embassy but had failed. (Photo: Xinhua/Reuters) http://www.chinaview.cn/photos/index.htm Photo Gallery BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Four gunmen were killed as they attacked the American Embassy in Damascus on Tuesday, according to a Syrian government official. The militants launched the attack at about 10:05 a.m. (0705 GMT), using machine guns and rockets from atop a nearby building, witnesses said. No American diplomats were harmed, Syrian officials said. Witnesses said at least one Syrian guard was killed. A Chinese diplomat was slightly injured by a stray bullet while standing atop the Chinese Embassy building, Chinese officials told Xinhua. He has been sent to hospital for treatment. The Chinese Embassy is located close to the U.S. Embassy, both of which lie in the Abu Remmeneh district. The district, which houses many foreign missions, vital security installations, and the most senior Syrian government officials, has been sealed off by security guards. Enditem (Agencies) Related stories: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/12/content_5081849.htm Witnesses: U.S. Embassy in Damascus attacked 2006-09-12 16:09:52 Television footage shows an official preparing to remove a car outside the U.S. embassy in Damascus Spetember 12, 2006.(Photo: Xinhua/Reuters) http://www.chinaview.cn/photos/index.htm Photo Gallery DAMASCUS, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Embassy in Damascus was attacked by a group of militants on Tuesday morning, witnesses told Xinhua. Several militants launched the attack against the U.S. Embassy at about 10:05 a.m. (0705 GMT), using machine guns and rockets from atop a nearby building, they said. Casualties were caused by the attack, they added. The district, where many other foreign missions, vital security installations, and houses of the most senior Syrian government officials are located, has been sealed off by security guards. Enditem Chinese diplomat injured in attack on U.S. embassy 2006-09-12 17:57:09 DAMASCUS, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese diplomat was slightly injured in a militant attack targeting the U.S. embassy in Damascus on Tuesday morning, Chinese embassy officials told Xinhua. The diplomat was injured by a stray bullet while standing atop the embassy building. He has been sent to hospital for treatment. The Chinese embassy is located close to the U.S. embassy, both of which lie in the Abu Remmeneh district. Enditem Blasts heard at US Syria embassy 2006-09-12 16:09:52 BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhuanet) -- Gunfire, explosions were heard outside the U.S. Embassy and exchanged fire with Syrian guards inside Damascus' diplomatic neighborhood Tuesday, a witness said. No casualties were reported. Enditem (Agencies) [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: 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
[osint] Situation Called Dire in West Iraq
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/10/AR2006091001 204.html Situation Called Dire in West Iraq Anbar Is Lost Politically, Marine Analyst Says By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, September 11, 2006; A01 The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with its contents. The officials described Col. Pete Devlin's classified assessment of the dire state of Anbar as the first time that a senior U.S. military officer has filed so negative a report from Iraq. One Army officer summarized it as arguing that in Anbar province, We haven't been defeated militarily but we have been defeated politically -- and that's where wars are won and lost. The very pessimistic statement, as one Marine officer called it, was dated Aug. 16 and sent to Washington shortly after that, and has been discussed across the Pentagon and elsewhere in national security circles. I don't know if it is a shock wave, but it's made people uncomfortable, said a Defense Department official who has read the report. Like others interviewed about the report, he spoke on the condition that he not be identified by name because of the document's sensitivity. Devlin reports that there are no functioning Iraqi government institutions in Anbar, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, which has become the province's most significant political force, said the Army officer, who has read the report. Another person familiar with the report said it describes Anbar as beyond repair; a third said it concludes that the United States has lost in Anbar. Devlin offers a series of reasons for the situation, including a lack of U.S. and Iraqi troops, a problem that has dogged commanders since the fall of Baghdad more than three years ago, said people who have read it. These people said he reported that not only are military operations facing a stalemate, unable to extend and sustain security beyond the perimeters of their bases, but also local governments in the province have collapsed and the weak central government has almost no presence. Those conclusions are striking because, even after four years of fighting an unexpectedly difficult war in Iraq, the U.S. military has tended to maintain an optimistic view: that its mission is difficult, but that progress is being made. Although CIA station chiefs in Baghdad have filed negative classified reports over the past several years, military intelligence officials have consistently been more positive, both in public statements and in internal reports. Devlin, as part of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) headquarters in Iraq, has been stationed there since February, so his report isn't being dismissed as the stunned assessment of a newly arrived officer. In addition, he has the reputation of being one of the Marine Corps' best intelligence officers, with a tendency to be careful and straightforward, said another Marine intelligence officer. Hence, the report is being taken seriously as it is examined inside the military establishment and also by some CIA officials. Not everyone interviewed about the report agrees with its glum findings. The Defense Department official, who worked in Iraq earlier this year, said his sense is that Anbar province is going to be troubled as long as U.S. troops are in Iraq. Lawlessness is a way of life there, he said. As for the report, he said, It's one conclusion about one area. The conclusion on al Anbar doesn't translate into a perspective on the entire country. No one interviewed would quote from the report, citing its classification, and The Washington Post was not shown a copy of it. But over the past three weeks, Devlin's paper has been widely disseminated in military and intelligence circles. It is provoking intense debate over the key finding that in Anbar, the U.S. effort to clear and hold major cities and the upper Euphrates valley has failed. The report comes at an awkward time politically, just as a midterm election campaign gets underway that promises to be in part a referendum on the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war. It also follows by just a few weeks the testimony of Army Gen. John P. Abizaid, the top U.S. commander for the Middle East, who told the Senate Armed Services Committee early last month that it is possible that Iraq could move toward civil war. It's hard to be optimistic right now, said one Army general who has served in Iraq. There's a sort of critical mass of tough news, he said, with intensifying violence from the insurgency and between Sunnis and Shiites, a lack of effective Iraqi government and a growing concern that Iraq may be falling apart. In
[osint] Iraqi violence unabated with at least 24 killed around the country
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4180099.html Iraqi violence unabated with at least 24 killed around the country Updated 9/12/2006 8:06 AM ET USATODAY BAGHDAD (AP) - A parked car bomb detonated Tuesday in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, killing at least six people and wounding 18 others as violence remained unabated around Iraq. Bombings, mortar attacks and shootings overnight and on Tuesday left at least 24 people dead and dozens wounded around Iraq, police and military officials said. In Middadiyah, a town just outside the city of Baqouba northeast of the capital, a roadside bomb next to a market killed at least four people and wounded 24 others, police said. In the same area late Monday, gunmen assaulted a Shiite mosque with mortars and assault rifles, killing seven people and wounding three. In northern Mosul, gunmen attacked and killed four unidentified Kurds and injured another, said Ahmed Abdul-Aziz, a doctor at of Jumhouri Hospital. A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in eastern Baghdad's Zaiyouna neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, wounding three police officers and a civilian, police said. Gunmen killed police brigadier Ziad Ramzi in central Mosul city. The officer was in plain clothes when he was shot, said Nineveh police brigadier Saeid Ahmeed. Two armed men were killed and four Iraqi soldiers were injured in a firefight between Iraqi forces and gunmen in the Qadisiyah area in eastern Rawah, 175 miles northwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said. The mosque attack occurred Monday at 9 p.m. in the town on Bani Saad just south of Baqouba, located 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, the press office of the Diyala provincial police said. Bani Saad is 12 miles south of Baqouba, and police said the attack began when six mortar rounds were fired at the Huseiniyat Bani Saad mosque, followed by an assault. The gunmen then planted explosives around the mosque and detonated them, damaging the structure, police said. No other details were available. The attack occurred in a mixed but volatile region that in recent months has seen horrific acts of sectarian violence. Jordanian born-terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Sunni extremist who long sought to start a sectarian war in Iraq, was killed just outside Baqouba in an American airstrike on June 7. The attacks came a day after at least 26 people died and five bodies turned up in city streets and rivers. Meanwhile deputies argued over a federalism bill that Sunni Arabs fear will split the country into three distinct sectarian and ethnic cantons. The leader of the largest Sunni Arab group in parliament, Adnan al-Dulaimi, said Monday that political parties opposed to a federalism bill were trying to work together to prevent it from being implemented without changes. One of the amendments Sunnis are seeking would prevent the weakening of Iraq's central government in favor of powerful autonomous regions. Both the north and south are rich in oil, and Sunnis fear they will end up squeezed into Baghdad and Iraq's western provinces, which have no natural resources. The federalism bill submitted to parliament last week by the largest Shiite bloc, the United Iraqi Alliance, calls for a three-part federation. It would create a separate autonomous state in the predominantly Shiite south - much like the zone run by Kurds in the north. Sunni Arabs fear this will split Iraq apart and fuel sectarian bloodshed. Al-Dulaimi's bloc, along with a smaller Sunni Arab group, two Shiite groupings, and a secular party forced parliament on Sunday to postpone debate on the bill for the second time. Al-Dulaimi said parliament should first meet a key Sunni Arab demand to set up a committee to amend the constitution, approved by referendum last October, before discussing any other legislation relating to Iraq's new charter. Objections from Sunni Arabs and an apparent split among Shiites led leaders to delay the debate until Sept. 19. A previous attempt to discuss the bill Thursday set off acrimonious squabbling that led parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani to recess that session. Although the idea of federalism is enshrined in the new Iraqi constitution, and there is already an autonomous Kurdish region in the north, special legislation and a referendum would be needed to turn Iraq into a full federation. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. [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: 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,
[osint] 'AL-QAEDA'S MR. NUCLEAR TO HEAD FRESH ATTACK ON U.S.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorismloid=8.0.338885348par= 0 loid=8.0.338885348par=0 'AL-QAEDA'S MR. NUCLEAR TO HEAD FRESH ATTACK ON U.S.' Dubai, 12 Sept. (AKI) - Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In an interview quoted on the website of the al-Arabiya television network, Mir spoke about his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with al-Qaeda members and Taliban leaders. In his interview with Al.Arabiya.net, Mir said that the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters referred to attacks targeting the US-led coalition forces during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins on 24 September, and that the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden was in good health during a meeting he had recently with the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. Mir also said that bin Laden has assigned a man named Adnan Al-Shukri Juma to carry out a new attack within the US which is intended to be larger than the 11 September, 2001 attacks. According to Mir, Adnan Jumaa has smuggled explosives and nuclear materials into the US through the Mexican border over the last two years and is hiding somewhere in America where the FBI has not been able to locate him. The Pakistani journalist also gave a brief background on Adnan Jumaa. Born in Saudi Arabia, he moved to the US where he met a group of a Al-Qaeda members in the Al-Farouq mosque in New York in 2000. He then traveled to an Arab state and from there to Pakistan then Afghanistan. He left there two years ago and since then has smuggled nuclear material from Mexico to the US. Jumaa has earned the nickname Al-Qaeda nuclear whizz and is tagged to play the same role in a future attack as Mohammed Atta did in the 9/11 attacks. In March 2003 the FBI announced that it was seeking a link between Adnan and others accused of terroris, saying Adnan Jumaa or maybe one of his several nicknames had appeared in intelligence information gathered after the arrest of Khalid Sheik Mohammad. Western media had reported in earlier times that Adnan Jumaa was a Saudi pilot, but the Saudi Ministry of Interior security spokesman lieutanent Mansour Al-Turki said in a statement to Al-Watan newspaper two months ago that Adnan Jumaa is not a Saudi citizen, he was living in the kingdom until he was eleven years old and left along with his parents, who are not Saudis, twenty years ago. Adnan Al-Shukri's name has been mentioned in many Western media reports claiming that Al-Qaeda has acquired nuclear technology. The American writer, Paul Williams, in his book The Al-Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse, says he was among a number of Al-Qaeda members trained for the nuclear technology. On another issue, Hamid Mir spoke to Alarabiya.net of his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with a leader of Taliban named Khaibar in Zabul who claimed that 300 Taliban suicide bombers had managed to sneak into Kabul and Jalalabad to carry out attacks against coalition troops during Ramadan. Mir alleges that there was a meeting between Bin Laden and Mullah Omar several few weeks ago in the mountain area of Zabul where they planned more attacks, I received this piece of information from one of the Taliban leaders who attended the meeting himself and I met him recently in Afghanistan Mir said. He told me that this was the second meeting between the two men since last year and that Bin Laden's health seemed good while he was eating with Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Pakistani journalist expressed his surprise of the changing situation in Afghanistan; saying that the Taliban had come back to rule some areas and spread their special courts, their special administrations, nothing that even some police officials follow their orders. [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: 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
[osint] California Opens Inquiry on Breaches of Computers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/us/12hack.html?_r=1ref=usoref=slogin California Opens Inquiry on Breaches of Computers By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/jennifer_stein hauer/index.html?inline=nyt-per JENNIFER STEINHAUER New York Times September 12, 2006 LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11 - The California Highway Patrol is investigating outside breaches of a computer system used by aides to Gov. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/arnold_schwarz enegger/index.html?inline=nyt-per Arnold Schwarzenegger to store downloaded audio files, a spokesman for the patrol said Monday. In those files, some of which were leaked to The Los Angeles Times, the governor was heard telling Susan Kennedy, his chief of staff, that Cubans and Puerto Ricans were naturally passionate because of their combination of black blood and Latino blood. Mr. Schwarzenegger, who is seeking re-election, apologized for the remarks on Friday after they were reported by the newspaper, and he was criticized by his Democratic opponent, Phil Angelides. We are looking into the security of the governor's office computer system, said Fran Clader, a spokeswoman for the Highway Patrol, which is in charge of policing state facilities. Ms. Clader would not provide details of the investigation, but a person associated with the governor said that three times over the last week of August and the first week of September a person or group of people gained access to the governor's staff computers from outside the Sacramento offices. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter could become the subject of a criminal investigation. There are no immediate theories, the person said, as to who is responsible for the breach, first reported by The San Francisco Chronicle. The governor's legal affairs secretary, Andrea Lynn Hoch, issued a statement Monday night saying that an internal audit had revealed some information about the person involved in the breach and that the information had been turned over to the Highway Patrol. In remarks to Ms. Kennedy and Gary Delsohn, a speechwriter, Mr. Schwarzenegger praised the legislative style of State Senator Bonnie Garcia, who is of Puerto Rican descent, saying: I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot. They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it. On Friday, Ms. Garcia held a joint news conference with Mr. Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles to announce that his remarks had not bothered her in the least, but the governor said that reading the remarks in the newspaper made him cringe. Mr. Delsohn records conversations with the governor to use as reference material when he is writing his speeches, but shares them with a limited number of sources, The Chronicle reported. Some experts on computer security said the person or people who entered the governor's system most likely knew what they were looking for - rather than randomly stumbling across the files - and could have easily stolen the password needed to get them. They said it was likely that the files were not properly secured. Sondra Schneider, the chief executive of Security University, a company that provides training in protecting electronic assets, theorized that someone sent an e-mail message that compromised the governor's computer system when it was opened, allowing the sender to steal the password. Anyone at any time of any day can do that to anyone, Ms. Schneider said. It happens every minute of the day. In the case of the governor's office, Ms. Schneider said: They just had to know that those audio files were in existence. I don't think someone was fishing around on the site looking for it. They knew it was there and it was made available because it was not secured properly. The governor's press office referred all calls to the California Highway Patrol. David Garcia, a spokesman for The Los Angeles Times, said in an e-mail message that the paper had not been contacted by the patrol. Governor Schwarzenegger is in a tough re-election battle. He has been known to get into hot water with his remarks, including once calling a group of legislators girlie men. [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: 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
[osint] Pakistan rape reform fails after Musharraf caves in
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1521834.ece Pakistan rape reform fails after Musharraf caves in By Jerome Taylor Published: 12 September 2006 The Independent In a setback for women's rights in Pakistan, the ruling party in Islamabad has caved in to religious conservatives by dropping its plans to reform rape laws. Statutes known as the Hudood ordinances, based on sharia law, currently operate in Pakistan. They require a female rape victim to produce four male witnesses to corroborate her account, or she risks facing a new charge of adultery. The ruling party in Islamabad, made up of a coalition of groups allied to President Pervez Musharraf, had hoped the new Protection of Women Bill would place the crime of rape within the country's secular penal code, which works in tandem with sharia. But the government said rape would remain a crime punished by Islamic law yesterday after conservatives in an opposition group, Muttahida Majlis-I-Amal (MMA), threatened to walk out of parliament in protest if the government pushed ahead with reforms. If there are four witnesses it will be tried under [Islamic law], if there are not, it will be tried under the penal code, said the law minister, Mohammad Wasi Zafar. In the case of both adultery and rape, the judge will decide how to try the case. A new amended bill will now be presented to parliament on Wednesday. The news is a significant victory for the MMA, which have vehemently opposed any attempts to lessen the influence of sharia. The Hudood ordinances were enshrined in Pakistani law in 1979 by General Zia ul-Haq in an attempt to appease the country's powerful religious elite following his military coup. They have been routinely criticised by local and international rights groups. Previous governments under Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif have tried to repeal the laws but failed. General Musharraf had told rights groups he was willing to back plans for rape to be tried in the secular courts as part of his much trumpeted enlightened moderation ideology. The timing of the amended bill will be embarrassing for the President, who is touring Europe and the United States. Pakistan's Western allies have pressured General Musharraf to improve the rights situation in his country, particularly for women. The failure of the new bill will be also be a bitter disappointment to women's groups in Pakistan, whichhave campaigned against the Hudood ordinances. Most women refuse to report a rape for fear they will be treated as a criminal. Under current laws, a victim risks courting punishment if she reports a rape allegation as the Hudood ordinances criminalise all extra-marital sex. A woman who fails to prove that she was raped could then be charged with adultery under the same legislation. According to a 2002 report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, a woman is raped every two hours and gang raped every eight hours. However, because of social taboos, discriminatory laws and victimisation of victims by police, campaigners say that the scale of rape is almost certainly higher. Despite the dangers, Pakistani women had begun to fight back. In 2002, a woman named Mukhtar Mai forced the government drastically to reassess women's rights in Pakistan after she dared to speak out publicly. She had been gang-raped by a number of men on the orders of a village council. The Protection of Women Bill was, until yesterday, part of the government's attempts to reform Pakistan's laws following her rape. In a setback for women's rights in Pakistan, the ruling party in Islamabad has caved in to religious conservatives by dropping its plans to reform rape laws. Statutes known as the Hudood ordinances, based on sharia law, currently operate in Pakistan. They require a female rape victim to produce four male witnesses to corroborate her account, or she risks facing a new charge of adultery. The ruling party in Islamabad, made up of a coalition of groups allied to President Pervez Musharraf, had hoped the new Protection of Women Bill would place the crime of rape within the country's secular penal code, which works in tandem with sharia. But the government said rape would remain a crime punished by Islamic law yesterday after conservatives in an opposition group, Muttahida Majlis-I-Amal (MMA), threatened to walk out of parliament in protest if the government pushed ahead with reforms. If there are four witnesses it will be tried under [Islamic law], if there are not, it will be tried under the penal code, said the law minister, Mohammad Wasi Zafar. In the case of both adultery and rape, the judge will decide how to try the case. A new amended bill will now be presented to parliament on Wednesday. The news is a significant victory for the MMA, which have vehemently opposed any attempts to lessen the influence of sharia. The Hudood ordinances were enshrined in Pakistani law in 1979 by General Zia ul-Haq in an attempt to appease the country's powerful religious
[osint] UN FORCE IN LEBANON 'ENEMY OF ISLAM'
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorismloid=8.0.338719694par= 0 loid=8.0.338719694par=0 UN FORCE IN LEBANON 'ENEMY OF ISLAM' SAYS AL-QAEDA NO.2 Lebanon, 11 Sept. (AKI) - Al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri has lashed out at the multinational United Nations force deployed to safeguard the ceasefire in Lebanon, describing it as a enemy of Islam. Al-Zawahiri's remarks are contained in a video recording screened by the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera, which seems aimed to coincide with the fight anniversary of the 11 Sept, 2001 al-Qaeda attacks in the United States. The most negative aspect of resolution 1701 [the UN resolution which among other things demands the deployment of the force] is that it decrees the presence of the Jewish state and divides the Palestinian and Lebanese mujahadeen through the international force, an enemy of Islam, al-Zawahiri said. Moreover it criminalises any Jihad against the Jewish state and criminalises the attacks of the mujahadeen, he added. The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera said that in part of the footage Osama bin-Laden's deputy appeals to the Lebanese population to reject resolution 1701 and to take up arms against Israel and the West. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] So this is what they mean by moderate voices
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_arti cle_id=404746 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_art icle_id=404746in_page_id=1787 in_page_id=1787 So this is what they mean by moderate voices By RICHARD LITTLEJOHN Last updated at 22:19pm on 11th September 2006 With exemplary tact and exquisite timing, the 'leader' of Britain's Muslims chose the eve of the fifth anniversary of 9/11 to warn that we are facing the threat of two million home-grown Islamic terrorists. The preposterous, self-aggrandising 'secretary-general' of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), Muhammad Abdul Bari, predicted an angry backlash against what he perceives as widespread 'Islamophobia' in this country. To be honest, I did wonder whether it was worth even dignifying this garbage with a reaction, especially when it comes from a man who appears to wear a ginger wig with a grey beard. But someone's got to do it. Bari and his sidekicks are regularly wheeled out as the authentic voice of 'moderate' Islam. Their victimhood shtick is treated as gospel by broadcasters and they are taken seriously by government ministers and senior police officers. They never miss an opportunity to advance their own agenda. It always the same old song. They utterly condemn terrorism, you understand, but unless we give them exactly what they want, they can't be held responsible for the actions of the more excitable members of their community. Criticise them and you are damned as an 'Islamophobe'. When I described the MCB as a 'self-appointed bunch of chancers' a few weeks ago, Bari's ridiculous Mr Bean-lookalike press officer Inayat Bunglawala wrote accusing me of being a bigot. Yet nothing in that column could remotely be construed as an attack on the Muslim religion, any more than taking the mickey out of trendy vicars is an assault on Christianity. Far from being a bigot, I judge the MCB on exactly the same terms as any other bunch of spivs and opportunists. They are the ones hiding behind religion for political ends. I certainly don't need any lessons in bigotry from someone like Bari, who invites as an honoured guest to his East London mosque a 'radical' cleric who describes Jews as 'monkeys and pigs'. Perhaps while the Muslim Council is accusing others of bigotry it would like to share with us its enlightened views on homosexuality and arranged marriages. 'Islamophobia' is just another of those catch-all, smear-the-messenger fantasies dreamed up to close down debate and stifle free speech. When you examine closely Bari's latest outburst, it is nothing short of monstrous. What he is saying is that every Muslim in this country is a potential terrorist. If anything is guaranteed to increase suspicion of Muslims it is incendiary statements like that. The anniversary of the attacks on America should be an occasion for sober reflection and remembrance. But the MCB has never met an atrocity it didn't try to exploit. Their tactic is always the same. After their perfunctory condemnation of terrorism, there's always the caveat about British foreign policy in the Middle East and the assertion that the real victims are not those who have actually been blown to smithereens but Muslims themselves. While they could never condone what has happened, we are invited to understand the anger and alienation which cause young men to turn themselves into human bombs. The fact is that this jihad started long before 9/11, years before Iraq and Afghanistan. The first attack on the World Trade Centre was in 1993. And I still fail to understand how the mass murder of thousands of people, among them many Muslims, could inspire anyone to become 'radicalised'. You'd expect it to have precisely the opposite effect. Young British Muslims are being poisoned by fanatical elements within their own faith - by the kind of maniac Muhammad Abdul Bari thinks is a suitable person to preach at his mosque. There is undoubtedly alienation and anger out there. And not just among young Muslims. Poverty, discrimination and unemployment is not the exclusive preserve of any one religion or racial background. [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: 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,
[osint] Muslims not behind 9/11
Muslims would be comical if they were not so murderous. Bruce http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20060912-121220-8649r.htm Norwegian imam: Muslims not behind 9/11 Sep. 12, 2006 at 12:21AM The spiritual leader of Norway's Muslims told readers of Aftenposten Monday he doubts Muslims were responsible for the 2001 terror attacks on the United States. Imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni answered questions from the newspaper's readers. There's some good evidence that (U.S. President George) Bush and company were behind this, he said. See the film that's called 'Loose Change.' An American film! He also said he doubts that al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden exist. If everyone respected one another as people, we wouldn't have any problems, the imam said. But it seems everyone wants to show what great power they have. We want peace for everyone. That's what Islam stands for! He said that with his followers he emphasizes that killing or injuring anyone is forbidden by Islam. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Explosives seized in Denmark same as London bomb materials
Islam IS a world-wide threat. Bruce http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_Newssubsec tion=Rest+of+the+Worldmonth=September2006file=World_News2006091242944.xml subsection=Rest+of+the+Worldmonth=September2006file=World_News20060912429 44.xml Explosives seized in Denmark same as London bomb materials Web posted at: 9/12/2006 4:29:44 Source ::: AFP copenhagen . Chemical explosives seized during a raid in Denmark last week are of the same type as those used in the July 2005 London bombings, known by the acronym TATP, tabloid B.T. reported yesterday. A phial seized on September 5 at the home of one of the suspects held in an anti-terror swoop in Odense contains a clear liquid consisting of a synthetic mix for the production of triacetone triperoxyde (TATP) and crystals consisting of TATP, the paper said, quoting a laboratory analysis report. The lab report was found on Saturday in the street outside the Copenhagen laboratory by a passerby, B.T. said. Neither the Danish intelligence service PET nor the Odense police would comment on the newspaper report. Six Danes and a foreigner aged 18 to 33, all Muslims, were arrested in a raid on September 5 suspected of planning terrorist bombings. In addition to the TATP, police seized chemical fertilizers, bottles of natural gas and pieces of shrapnel, B.T. said. TATP is relatively easy to make and has surfaced in a number of recent terrorism investigations, including bombings in the Middle East and the London bombings in July 2005. It was the same type of explosive that Al Qaeda shoe bomber Richard Reid tried to detonate on a Miami-bound flight in December 2001, three months after the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington that killed some 3,000. Although the recipe for TATP is complex, its ingredients can be found in simple household goods: sulfuric acid - found in drain cleaner - hydrogen peroxide, and acetone, often a constituent of nail polish remover. Once assembled and linked to a detonator, the mix is highly unstable and liable to blow up if exposed to heat or sudden movements. Bomb-sniffing dogs do not always detect the substance although they can be trained to detect the residual acetone present in TATP. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Al-Qaeda conflict described as World War IV
Accurate description. Bruce http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1738006.htm Al-Qaeda conflict described as World War IV The World Today - Monday, 11 September , 2006 12:18:00 Reporter: Paolo Black ELEANOR HALL: A former CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) director and chief adviser to New York's Terrorism Preparedness Taskforce has described the conflict against al-Qaeda as the fourth world war, and he predicts it will go on for decades. James Woolsey was director of the CIA under President Clinton and was an arms control negotiator under presidents Reagan and Bush Senior. He's critical of US administrations from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton for failing to tackle Islamic terrorism more robustly. James Woolsey has been speaking to Paolo Black. JAMES WOOLSEY: I think that war will go on for decades, like the Cold War, hopefully just a few decades instead of many decades. But I don't think it's just a war on terrorism, I think it's a war on Islamist fanaticism or fascism, if you prefer, and it won't really be over until the future of the Middle East is clearly tending in one direction or another, either toward chaos and dictatorship, or in the direction that we hope Afghanistan and Iraq can move, toward decent societies, the beginnings of rule of law and some degree of democracy. PAOLO BLACK: Interviewed on Fox news this last July 17, you said I think we ought to execute some air strikes against Syria, against the instruments of power of that state, against the airport, which is the place where weapons shuttle through from Iran to Hezbollah and Hamas. I think both Syria and Iran think we're cowards. JAMES WOOLSEY: I think they think we're cowards because in '79 we tied yellow ribbons around the trees when they took our hostages. In '82, '83, when our embassy and marine barracks were blown up in Beirut we left. It goes on, and in the rest of the '90s we didn't respond to a number of the al-Qaeda attacks. It was not until after 9/11 that we did anything, and I think that they got the impression, just as bin Laden has explicitly stated, Americans won't fight, you can keep doing anything you want to them. And I think that Syria has been a major offender in its support for Hezbollah, in its efforts to undermine decent, largely democratic government in Lebanon, and I think it would've been a good idea to have stopped the Syrians from pumping weapons through their country to Hezbollah. PAOLO BLACK: The Path to 9/11, the ABC semi-documentary series, which began on Australian television last night, blames Clinton, the former secretary of state Madeline Albright and other senior aides for not adequately pursuing bin Laden, leaving him free to plan the attacks. What are your thoughts on that? JAMES WOOLSEY: I think, going all the way back to the Carter era, and including during the Reagan and first Bush era, the United States altogether regarded Islamist terrorism as almost exclusively a law enforcement problem, and some of those failures to go after bin Laden in the late '90s were because the Justice Department or the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations) would say well, we don't have enough evidence to get him extradited if we capture him and so-forth. They looked on it as an individual-by-individual law enforcement problem and that's not really what it is or was. It's far more like a war, but an ideologically motivated one, and we have been the focus of it, at least in part, since 1979, when our hostages were seized in Tehran, our embassy personnel by Khomeini's new regime. And we had a lot of terrorist attacks in the '80s and '90s, and we continued to treat it as a law enforcement problem. But it wasn't just the Clinton administration. I think that continued from really Carter through early Bush. PAOLO BLACK: Your perceptions five years on, are we safer or less safe? JAMES WOOLSEY: It depends on whether you assume that by just sitting here we would have not been hit again. I think that because of the history I described we were looked at as paper tigers by the Islamists, both from the Shi'ite side, like Ahmadinejad, and from the Sunni side, like bin Laden and the Wahhabi. And so I think there was no real option for us, except to begin this long effort to try to bring a different form of government in society to the Middle East, a huge and long-term undertaking, but I don't think we had any choice. You can speculate that if we'd just sat here that al-Qaeda would've left us alone for a while, but I think it would've only been for a while. ELEANOR HALL: And that's James Woolsey the director of the CIA under President Clinton. He was speaking there to NewsRadio's Paolo Black. [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:
[osint] CIA: 5,000 Terrorists Captured or Killed
5,000 out of an estimated (State Dept) force of 400,000 terrorists is not much.over a 5 year period and 2 full scale wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Bruce http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/cia_5000_terror.html CIA: 5,000 Terrorists Captured or Killed September 11, 2006 12:47 PM Brian Ross Reports: http://blogs.abcnews.com/photos/uncategorized/hayden_michael_nr.jpg Hayden_michael_nrMore than 5,000 terrorists have been captured or killed in the five years since the 9/ll attacks, CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden said today. Hayden's remarks were made in a videotape statement distributed to CIA employees around the world. Hayden called the 9/ll attacks an unforgettable blow from a plot we had not been able to prevent. Since then, he said, Al-Qa'ida's core operational leadership has been decimated, and their successors are in hiding or on the run. Hayden paid tribute to four CIA employees killed in Afghanistan: Mike Spann, Helge Boes, Chris Mueller and William Carlson. Veteran CIA officers continue to praise the leadership of Gen. Hayden, who took over earlier this year from Porter Goss. As part of his effort to highlight CIA accomplishments, his videotape statement was distributed to reporters. Statement to Employees by Central Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Michael V. Hayden on the Fifth Anniversary of 9/11, 11 September 2006 Today marks five years since our nation came under brutal attack. September 11th, 2001 was a day that saw the sharpest extremes of human behavior: fanatics filled with hatred who targeted the innocent, and heroes whose compassion for others outweighed concern for their own lives. We witnessed horror on an almost incomprehensible scale. But we also saw with perfect clarity what is best and most inspiring in life: courage and compassion, the strong helping the weak. September 11th was a stark reminder that the values America upholds in the world are worth fighting for. And the old saying that freedom is never free was given new truth and immediacy. Some of you have joined CIA in the past five years as part of our greatest recruiting drive ever. Just as Pearl Harbor rallied an earlier generation to national service, you came here because you wanted to be at the forefront of protecting our country. For those of us already serving on that fateful Tuesday, it was an unforgettable blow to see the terrible consequences of a plot we had not been able to prevent. But as intelligence officers, we had to set aside our shock and focus on our vital work so that those responsible could be identified, the President and Congress could act, and justice could be done. Many of us remember those days and weeks after September 11th as the busiest and most intense of our careers. But our hard work was its own reward. We in the Intelligence Community felt privileged to carry the fight to the enemy. Whether you have been directly engaged in that fight, or you have been working the wide range of other foreign challenges that did not vanish on September 11th, you can be very proud of our achievements in the past five years. The Community adapted quickly to a new type of war, one in which intelligence is at the vanguard. And CIA has played a consistent, central role, from planning the downfall of the Taliban regime to spearheading the human and technical clandestine operations that have scored some of our nation's greatest successes. In five years, more than 5,000 terrorists have been captured or killed. Al-Qa'ida's core operational leadership has been decimated, and their successors are in hiding or on the run. Working closely with our colleagues throughout the US Government and our foreign liaison partners, we have broken cells of al-Qa'ida operatives, associates, and sympathizers around the world. Although the enemy, intelligent and resilient, has managed to launch attacks in Europe, Asia, and Africa, many potential catastrophes have been averted. Our mission is indeed a privilege, but it's also a profound responsibility. The American people are counting on us to protect them. So too are men, women, and children worldwide who want nothing more than to lead their lives in freedom and safety. For the terrorists we pursue not only are enemies of the United States-they are enemies of civilization, of progress, and of mankind. Five years into this campaign, we cannot say when victory will come. But we now know the enemy and understand his methods with far greater depth and precision. We took the initiative early and have held it, forcing our targets to spend most of their time looking over their shoulder. And our resolve to eliminate the threat they pose to humanity only strengthens with time. We draw inspiration from many sources. We remember our obligation to our families, our friends, our hometowns, and to the free and tolerant society we have inherited from past generations of Americans. Safeguarding all that we hold dear is both
[osint] Does Japan have a right to exist as a Japanese state?
the perception that Israel is a uniquely religious state is not only wrong; it's backwards - Israel has less of an explicit religious identity than many countries http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008836 http://www.opinionjournal.com/federation/feature/?id=110008836 Unasked Questions Does Japan have a right to exist as a Japanese state? BY DAVID E. BERNSTEIN, Wall Street Journal, 24 August 2006 A reader, sympathetic to Israel but troubled by its existence as Jewish state, asks: Can you point me to any case in any example where you would say '[Country A] has the right to exist as a [Race B] or [Religion C] state?' I can think of numerous claims like this by societies in the past, which are now widely condemned. Actually, many, many countries have an official religion, including not only backward countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia that enforce religious law, but progressive liberal bastions such as Norway, Denmark, and Iceland (all Lutheran). By contrast, Judaism is not the official religion of Israel. Jewish holidays are government holidays, but that's like Christmas in the U.S. (Family law is controlled by religious bodies, but that's true for Muslims, Christians, et al., as well as Jews, and is an artifact of Ottoman and British rule. My understanding is that most Jews in Israel are against the religious monopoly on family law, but it survives because the religious parties have disproportionate power. The Arab community, which is far more traditional in its religious practices than is the Jewish community, almost certainly is more supportive of this arrangement than the Jews are, so this has really nothing to do with Israel being a Jewish state, as such.) As for the question of race, the problem can't be self-determination of a group, because the propriety of that principle seems rather well-accepted. Jewishness is not a racial identity, but complaints about Israel being a Jewish state are often put in terms of the Law of Return being racist. The Law of Return is based on ethnic (not racial) heritage and grants anyone with a Jewish grandparent automatic citizenship (the Israeli Supreme Court has held that one is not eligible for the Law of Return if one has adopted the Christian religion, because in the complex area of Jewish identity, Jews who become Christians have left the Jewish people). Non-Jewish immigrants with no ethnic Jewish background can become citizens, with some difficulty, as can, automatically, non-Jewish immigrants closely related to Jews (e.g., spouses), many of whom have recently arrived from the former Soviet Union. Arabs who lived in Israel during the War of Independence (and thus presumptively accepted the existence of Israel and were not engaged in warfare against Israel) and their descendants have full citizenship rights, but they are relieved of one of the major obligations of Israeli citizenship, military or other national service (I think this is a big mistake, but that is a topic for a separate post). One's liberal, progressive or libertarian hackles can easily be raised at Israel's citizenship policies. Why should ethnic background entitle one to citizenship? On the other hand, Israel's defenders would argue that given that the Jews have been the subject of massive state and private violence over the past few centuries, including one attempted genocide (by Hitler) and another one that was averted only by Stalin's timely death, Jews need a homeland/refuge where they can go with automatic citizenship rights. Whatever side you take on that debate, the more interesting question is why the question of basing citizenship (in part) of ethnic descent only calls the right of Israel to exist into question. My correspondent was unaware of any other countries that have an overt ethnic identity, but, judging by immigration laws, there are quite a few, and with a few exceptions (Armenia and Germany), their discriminatory immigration policies exist, unlike Israel's, without any justification resulting from persecution of that group. For example, according to Wikipedia: Japanese citizenship is conferred jus sanguinis, and monolingual Japanese-speaking minorities often reside in Japan for generations under permanent residency status without acquiring citizenship in their country of birth. Why does Japan have the right to exist as a Japanese state? Has this question ever been asked? An Irish government Web site states: If you are of the third or subsequent generation born abroad to an Irish citizen (in other words, one of your grandparents is an Irish citizen but none of your parents was born in Ireland), you may be entitled to become an Irish citizen--if, as I understand it, you register properly. Does Ireland have the right to exist as an Irish state? Several other countries recognize a right of return similar, but often broader, than Israel's (via Wikipedia): . Armenia. Individuals of Armenian origin
[osint] A NEW LOW IN BUSH-HATRED
What's left for them to say about Bush? That they want him killed? They already say it. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/10/ a_new_low_in_bush_hatred/ A NEW LOW IN BUSH-HATRED By Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, September 10, 2006 SIX YEARS into the Bush administration, are there any new lows to which the Bush-haters can sink? George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the ``interesting theory that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a ``fraud that Bush cooked up in Texas for political gain; another ( Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a lying bastard, a filth spewer, an evil maniac, a Führer, and a terrorist guilty of blatant genocide - and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention. What's left for them to say about Bush? That they want him killed? They already say it. On Air America Radio, talk show host Randi Rhodes http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/12/153908.shtml http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/12/153908.shtml recommended doing to Bush what Michael Corleone, in The Godfather, Part II, does to his brother. Like Fredo, she said, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw! -- then she imitated the sound of a gunshot. In the Guardian, a leading British daily, columnist Charlie Brooker http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15659 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15659 issued a plea: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you? For the more literary Bush-hater, there is Checkpoint, http://www.slate.com/id/2104805 http://www.slate.com/id/2104805 a novel by Nicholson Baker in which two characters discuss the wisdom of shooting the 43rd president. I'm going to kill that bastard, one character fumes. Some Bush-hatred masquerades as art http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010150.php http://powerlineblog.com/archives/010150.php : At Chicago's Columbia College, a curated exhibit included a sheet of mock postage stamps bearing the words Patriot Act and depicting President Bush with a gun to his head. There are even Bush-assassination fashion statements, such as the KILL BUSH T-shirts http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002059.htm http://michellemalkin.com/archives/002059.htm that were on offer last year at CafePress, an online retailer. Lurid political libels have a long history in American life. The lies told about John Adams in the campaign of 1800 were vile enough, his wife Abigail lamented, to ruin and corrupt the minds and morals of the best people in the world. But has there ever been a president so hated by his enemies that they lusted openly for his death? Or tried to gratify that lust with such political pornography? As with other kinds of porn, even the most graphic expressions of Bush-hatred tend to jade those who gorge on it, so that they crave ever more explicit material to achieve the same effect. Which brings us to Death of a President, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/world/01cnd-shot.html?ex=1158033600en=b6 77c4a3322453f9ei=5070 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/world/01cnd-shot.html?ex=1158033600amp;e n=b677c4a3322453f9amp;ei=5070 a new movie about the assassination of George W. Bush. Written and directed by British filmmaker Gabriel Range, the movie premieres this week at the Toronto Film Festival http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/default.asp http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2006/default.asp and will air next month on Britain's Channel 4. Shot in the style of a documentary, it opens with what looks like actual footage of Bush being gunned down by a sniper as he leaves a Chicago hotel in October 2007. Through the use of digital special effects, the film superimposes the president's face onto the body of the actor playing him, so that the mortally wounded man collapsing on the screen will seem, all too vividly, to be Bush himself. Channel 4 Television The assassination scene from Death of a President, a television film whose subject is George W. Bush. This is Bush-hatred as a snuff film. The fantasies it feeds are grotesque and obscene; to pander to such fantasies is to rip at boundary-markers that are indispensable to civilized society. That such a movie could not only be made but lionized at an international film festival is a mark not of sophistication, but of a sickness in modern life that should alarm conservatives and liberals alike. Naturally that's not how
[osint] China invents a new Mao myth
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2351131,00.html China invents a new Mao myth Michael Sheridan, Shaoshan, The Sunday Times, 10 September, 2006 THEY came to praise their famous son under a miserable grey drizzle yesterday, but nothing could dampen the spirits of the Mao clan as they took pride in a new, if subtle, rehabilitation of the village boy from central China who shook the world. Thirty years to the day after his death at the age of 82, the anniversary exposed how the memory of Mao Tse-tung has become a potent political issue between reformers and leftists arguing over the direction of the world's fastest-growing economy. Yesterday's edition of the People's Daily in the capital carried an extremely rare article by Mao's surviving son, Anqing, headlined Memories of my father. It praised Mao as a selfless leader who hated corruption and refused to promote his relatives to positions of power. The article, said Chinese analysts, was clearly inspired by powerful leftist figures in the present leadership and was probably not written by Anqing himself, who is in his eighties and is said to suffer from schizophrenia. But it was music to the ears of the Shaoshan villagers, who lined up to place their wreaths of yellow flowers on bamboo frames at the foot of Mao's statue in the valley where he grew up. I saw Mao when he came back to visit us in 1959, quavered Mao Huaying, 91, who shares the surname with four-fifths of the villagers. We loved him from the bottom of our hearts. There was no corruption and no crime in those days. Anqing's article in the People's Daily was the most politically charged work by a member of the family since Mao's death. It struck at the core of the Communist Party's present dilemma over official corruption and the growing wealth gap in China. To Chinese who can decode the political message, it proved that there is real conflict inside the party elite. My father had just two sleeping gowns which he kept all his life, and there were 116 patches on them when he died, wrote Anqing. In Shaoshan they know that is true, because one of those well-patched gowns is solemnly displayed in a lavish new memorial hall built to honour the chairman opposite his statue. My father brought us up to be officials. He never put any money in the bank for us, wrote Anqing. He refused to use his high position to give our relatives any special privileges. The article was a bold assertion by leftist thinkers, who have already influenced the government of President Hu Jintao to modify the policies of growth at any cost pursued by Mao's reformist heirs after 1979. The changes include restrictions on property ownership, a drive to compel factories to recognise unions, and investigations into high-level graft. Hu is said to be holding the ring between the factions, and Shaoshan provides a classic Chinese communist symbol of his balancing act. Displays of official photographs record a visit by Hu, wearing a business suit, who can be seen beaming in approval as he inspects the chairman's humble boyhood home. The new leader has already sided firmly with Mao-era authoritarian policies to stamp out political dissent, to control the media and to curb free speech on the internet. And a surprising encounter inside Mao's memorial hall revealed the new confidence among leftists, who believe the party has no need to apologise for the millions of dead in Mao's man-made famine or for the decade of chaos in the purges known as the cultural revolution, which he unleashed 40 years ago this summer. Mao is still worthy of respect. I believe he was a great man and a lot of things Mao forecast and worried about have come true today, said a teacher in his forties from the Central party school in Beijing, which trains future leaders. Mao was treated very negatively after he died and the main reason was the cultural revolution, but I believe the cultural revolution was very, very necessary, said the teacher, as he surveyed a display of fiery youthful pamphlets written by Mao to incite the peasants of Shaoshan against their landlords. Mao's purpose was to stop capitalism coming back to China and to stop the Communist party itself becoming corrupt, he went on, but the cultural revolution failed. Why did it fail? I believe because at that time the working class did not support it - they had a vested interest in the system. Well, now they regret it because it's too late - they have become laid-off workers without a voice and have lost out. This was heresy enough, given that after the ascent of Deng Xiaoping, China's de facto leader from the late 1970s to the mid 1990s, the party has defined the cultural revolution as an aberration and condemned its excesses. But there was another striking statement from the man from the party school, unaware that he was speaking to a reporter. Although the constitution says the working class is still the leading class in China, it's not. Actually it's now the rich who
[osint] Bush touts anti-terror strategy
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2006/09/12/1829441-sun.html Bush touts anti-terror strategy The U.S. president casts the fighting as protection for civilization. By BETH GORHAM, CP WASHINGTON -- U.S. President George W. Bush warned Americans yesterday they're vulnerable in a sweeping struggle for civilization during a pre-election speech where he tried to convince skeptics Iraq hasn't been a dangerous detour from the anti-terror war. Today we are safer, but we are not yet safe . . . we face an enemy determined to bring death and suffering into our homes, he said in prime-time television address marking the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons. Bush has been blitzing the airwaves in the run-up to the Sept. 11 milestone, hoping to retain the upper hand on terror as the congressional mid-term elections approach this November. He's been casting anti- terrorism as a broad ideological struggle like the Cold War or the fight against Nazism in the Second World War, while insisting that a democratic Iraq is a vital step. He went further yesterday as he spoke from the Oval Office in a speech the White House insisted wasn't political. This struggle has been called a clash of civilizations. In truth, it is a struggle for civilization. We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations, he said. We are in a war that will set the course for this new century and determine the destiny of millions across the world. Americans still give the president, who is riding low in opinion polls, fairly good marks for his response to 9/11. But most are fed up with the Iraq war and question whether the invasion was necessary. Some are so frustrated with the Bush administration they think it was either behind the Sept. 11 attacks or knew about them and did nothing to stop them. And a growing number say reducing the U.S. military presence overseas would decrease the terrorist threat. More people are telling pollsters these days that depending less on Middle East oil and avoiding involvement in the problems of other countries would work better. With such widespread discontent, Republicans are facing a major challenge this fall in retaining control of Congress. Gaining political advantage from the war on terror is key. America did not ask for this war and every American wishes it were over. So do I, said Bush, who appealed for the determined efforts of a unified country. But the war is not over and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious, he said, appealing for unity in the fight. As for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said Bush, he posed a risk that the world could not afford to take. The administration, he said, now has a clear plan to ensure that a democratic Iraq succeeds. Winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country. So we must put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us. We will defeat our enemies, we will protect our people and we will lead the 21st century into a shining age of human liberty. [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: 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/ * 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,
[osint] TURKEY: Coup Intact: Seeking Rights Still a Crime
http://www.bianet.org/2006/09/01_eng/news85122.htm Coup Intact: Seeking Rights Still a Crime Human Rights Foundation Chair Onen says '80 military coup still intact by renewing and sophisticating itself. The culture of conflict is trying to spread into the civilian environment. This is an operation to suppress peace. _ BIA News 12/09/2006 http://www.bianet.org/php/yazarlistex_eng.php?yazar=Tolga%20KORKUT Tolga KORKUT _ BÝA (Ankara) - http://www.tihv.org.tr/ Human Rights Association of Turkey (TIHV) Chairman Yavuz Onen has said that the September 12, 1980 military coup was still intact in Turkey but for renewing itself and using sophisticated methods of existence. A most recent example of which could be seen in Monday's mass circulation Turkish daily Hurriyet in an article by Fatih Cekirge that accused, on behalf of officials, relatives of Turkish soldiers killed in action in the Southeast for reacting to the deaths and branded their verbal frustration as an instrument of terror. Onen said the so-called democracy with muscle created after the 1980 coup era had in today's Turkey declared seeking rights an offence and made it illegal. He said it creates a situation where it appears as if the state of Turkey cannot be in harmony with international values on human rights. Referring to Cekirge's report in Hurriyet that referred to anti-war protests as being part of a terror plot against Turkey, Onen said this news report regards being against war as an act of terror and related to terror organizations. I do not believe it is the product only of Cekirge's pen or a deep conversation. This is result of a psychological operation that has been planned since September 12. This operation is a strategy to make all democratic leaps, the act of using democratic rights an offence. Operation to Suppress Society Bianet interviewed Yavuz Onen on the consequences of the 1980 military coup, those who conducted it, today's Turkey and what it meant to be an advocate of human rights.. What kind of barrier does September 12 and its consequences place in front of today's human rights advocacy? The September 12 law became institutionalized and is continuing by developing. It re-created itself at every stage. It laid the ground for law in Turkey. It destroyed the concept of democracy. A deformed 'muscle democracy' hence became perceived as democracy. September 12 laid the ground for muscle democracy, in other words the authoritarian regime. This was a project to end all oppositions and particularly the left whichever name it existed under. This was a Cold War method. As result of it, they put political Islam in power. This period continues. The greatest barrier in front of us is the September 12 constitution. Not only written documents but also understanding is also a barrier. Before anything, an atmosphere needs to be created to amend the constitution. As for the today's governments that are products of September 12, they hold on to the constitution with all their might and they do not change it. This declares it illegal to seek justice, rights. There is a situation where it appears that the state of Turkey cannot harmonize with international values of human rights. Hurriyet's headline, meanwhile, evaluates being against war as an act of terror or something in relation to a terror organization. I do not believe this comes from Cekirge's pen alone, or from a deep conversation. This is the result of a psychological operation that has been planned since September 12. The September 12 strategy is a strategy of making all democratic leaps and all acts of using democratic rights an offence. We come across this situation in daily life every day. The democracy process which we thought had started in 2000 has not been able to overcome September 12 either. It is frequently voiced that Argentina is similar to Turkey. Argentina can put their coup leaders on trial. Why does this not happen in Turkey? Leave putting them on trial in Turkey alone, those who have served the coup are being rewarded instead, placed under protection. The only person who lives a life in luxury under constant protection is not [1980 coup leader general] Kenan Evren. The richest generals came out of the September 12 generals... The state has the problem of coming face to face with reality. Facing 30 years of a bloody past is tense. The society needs to face this past. Today in Turkey there is the will to make the concept of war a civilian concept. For the war between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK to take a civilian angle brings the threat of being directed to civil war. They want the society to actively be a part of this. They want to spread the culture of conflict to the civilian environment. Developments over the funerals held for martyrs are a product of this. Even though the mothers, fathers, are quite straightforward and crying out with feelings of humanity, they are being displayed as an instrument of terror in
[osint] What turned Mumbai a terror hub
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/what-turns-maharashtra-a-terror-hub/21326-3.html What turned Mumbai a terror hub Mumbai: The tryst with terror began with the deadliest terrorist attack the nation had ever seen. Thirteen explosions rocked Mumbai, the commercial capital, in a span of two hours on March 12, 1993 leaving 257 dead and close to 1400 injured. After 13 years of the deadliest terror attack took place in Mumbai, Maharashtra today has become a preferred target for Pakistan based terrorist outfits. Since 1993, Mumbai alone has witnessed 31 blasts, which include: * The blast in a Best bus in Ghatkopar in December 2002 * The explosion in a local train in Mulund in March 2003 * The twin blasts at the Gateway of India and Zaveeri Bazar in August 2003 * The seven serial blasts in local trains on July 11, 2006 And the Malegaon blasts have shown that the pattern is replicated across Maharashtra, which has seen a total of 110 blasts in the same period. Maharashtra in general, and Mumbai in particular is always in the public view and terrorists basically want to draw attention with spectacular acts, said former IPS officer Y P Singh. Mumbai is a microcosm of modern India and a symbol of its new economy, and therefore a perfect target. In 1993 the ISI, tapped into the anger in the immediate Aftermath of the Babri masijid Demolition, used Dawood's men in the underworld to launch the operations. Many towns like Malegaon had a booming economy, which ironically went bust with the coming of technology as power looms replaced the weaver and unemployment rose. All these small towns have been seeing extremism on the rise and jehadi forces have infiltrated the whole state like a virus, says Konkan Range IG Satyapal Singh. But one of the reasons why the rise of terror cells have been difficult to track is the declining efficiency of the Police, especially the falling numbers of beat policemen. This leads to a decline in the gathering of grass root intelligence, a fact that the police are now attempting to re-build. We are now really working on strengthening our intelligence involving the local people more and more, said Satyapal Singh. The Maharashtra police force is learning the new lessons in taking on a highly motivated and often invisible enemy. But the fear is that, by the time these new strategies become policy, they could have become obsolete in face of fast evolving terror tactics. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Bush: We're facing fight for civilisation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/12/wbush12.xml Bush: We're facing fight for civilisation By Alec Russell in Washington (Filed: 12/09/2006) President George W Bush last night linked the nuclear showdown with Iran to the fight against terrorism as he called on Americans to unite to spare their children a terrible future. In a speech from the Oval Office marking the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, he told Americans they faced not a clash of civilisations but a struggle for civilisation. If we do not defeat these enemies now we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons, he said. His comment was a clear reference to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, whose http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/04/wiran04.xml nuclear ambitions have provoked a confrontation with the West. America and its European allies are pushing for UN sanctions against Teheran after it refused to freeze its uranium enrichment programme, a key part of the process of making a nuclear bomb. Mr Bush was addressing the nation in a televised speech at the end of a moody day of commemorations. America did not ask for this war, and every American wishes it were over, Mr Bush said, according to extracts released ahead of his address by the White House. So do I. But the war is not over and it will not be over until either we or the extremists emerge victorious. Mr Bush called on Americans to put aside their differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us. This struggle has been called a clash of civilisations, he said. In truth it is a struggle for civilisation. He also asked Americans to help him to lead the 21st century into a shining age of human liberty. We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations, he said. His address was the climax to a day of poignant ceremonies. Earlier Mr Bush and the First Lady, Laura Bush, bowed their heads at a fire station in the Lower East Side of New York. It was 8.46am, East Coast time, the exact moment that the first hijacked jet hurtled into the World Trade Centre towers. Mr Bush then flew to Shanksville, Pennyslvania, to lay a wreath in the field where United 93, the fourth hijacked plane, crashed after a passenger revolt. He later attended a ceremony at the Pentagon, the third crash site. White House aides said in advance that he would not be making a political speech and that he would instead focus on the victims of that day and the heroes, the firemen and policemen, whose bravery at the Twin Towers saved countless lives. On 9/11 our nation saw the face of evil, he said. Yet on that awful day we also witnessed something distinctly American - ordinary citizens rising to the occasion and responding with extraordinary courage. Winning this war will require the determined efforts of a unified country. However, he also used the occasion to try to bolster support for his anti-terrorist policies and his desire to spread democracy in the Middle East. The anniversary comes at a testing http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/11/wnine11.xml time for his Republican Party. It is embroiled in a difficult campaign for November's mid-term elections when it risks losing control of the House of Representatives. Opinion polls indicate that half of Americans have lost confidence in his record in fighting terrorism, traditionally his strongest political suit. As the ceremonies began, al-Qa'eda put its own stamp on the anniversary of easily its most murderous atrocity. A new http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/11/unine11.xml video tape issued in the name of Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy leader, warned that the Gulf and Israel would be the next targets of al-Qa'eda and called on Muslims to step up their attacks on Americans. [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: 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
[osint] Fearful Europe feels post-9/11 chill
Europeans are more intelligent than their governments. Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5336596.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5336596.stm Fearful Europe feels post-9/11 chill By William Horsley European affairs correspondent, BBC News On the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks against the US, Europeans agree with Americans that terrorism inspired by Muslim fundamentalism is a big threat to their lives. That new fear, combined with alarm at the conflicts on Europe's doorstep in the Middle East and serious European doubts about US global leadership, means Europe as a whole is marking the anniversary in a mood of pessimism and uncertainty. That is reflected in the statements of European leaders on the anniversary. The government of Finland, which now holds the presidency of the 25-nation European Union, condemned all forms of terrorism, saying that no cause, no grievance, can justify any terrorist acts. But Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, echoing European anguish over reports of secret CIA jails and alleged torture in Europe, said: Our battle against Islamic terrorism will only succeed if we cultivate respect for human rights. Europe's double disillusionment - with its US ally and with the reported growth of fanatically violent Muslim groups in its towns and cities - is apparent from opinion polls. A survey in the US and 12 European countries, released a few days ago by the German Marshall Fund of the US, found that disapproval of US handling of international affairs among Europeans had reached a new peak of 77%. Europeans are also much more fearful of Islamic fundamentalism, with 56% now identifying it as an extremely important threat (compared with 58% of Americans), and another 34% seeing it as an important threat (Americans 31%). Bombs in Europe Five years ago, the French newspaper Le Monde coined the phrase We are all Americans now to express Europe's overwhelming sympathy with the US after the attacks on New York and Washington. That emotional bond and sense of solidarity largely evaporated in the years that followed, as European public opinion turned against America's way of conducting the war on terror - especially the invasion of Iraq and human rights abuses associated with the Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Europeans had to face the discovery that the 11 September al-Qaeda plot was planned by a group of militant Arab Muslim youths in the German city of Hamburg. But at first a belief persisted that European countries would not be targeted, provided they did not actively help the US army in Iraq. European governments began building common defences against acts of terror, including a cross-border European arrest warrant. But it was not enough. The deaths of 191 people in the Madrid train bombings of 2004 were followed by the killing of 52 innocent people in suicide bombings on London's transport system the next year. Both outrages were found to be the work of young Muslims imbued with hatred for the West. The London bombings marked the first case of Islamic suicide bombings in Europe. It also proved the existence of a home-grown terrorist threat: four of the bombers were young British Muslims of Pakistani descent. In a pre-recorded video, one called himself a soldier who wanted to avenge my Muslim brothers and sisters in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. 'No-one immune' Security experts believe Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has inspired an unknown number of self-starter cells, many of them in Europe, each of which has a host of potential targets for attack. Recent threats include an announcement by German authorities of what they called evidence of the gravest threat so far: self-made suitcase bombs on passenger trains. Danish police said they had seized chemicals that could be used to make bombs during the arrest of a group of young Muslim men suspected of planning a terrorist act. And British security services exposed an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic passenger planes flying out of London's Heathrow Airport, with a loss of life which officials said could have been greater than in the attacks on New York's World Trade Center. The UK's top anti-terrorism officer says the number of those suspected of actively supporting terrorism is in the thousands. In Europe, no country now thinks of itself as immune. In an interview to mark this anniversary, France's leading anti-terrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, said France was indisputably among the possible targets and the threat was still at a high level. A wide gulf still divides mainstream opinion among the non-Muslim majority in Europe and most of Europe's 15 million or more Muslims The most recent evidence of the spread of what commentators have called a cult of death among alienated young Muslims in parts of Europe has sharpened the debate. European governments, acting by themselves or together through the European Union, are taking steps
[osint] If security fails, there is always a scapegoat: freedom
http://www.macleans.ca/switchboard/columnists/article.jsp?content=20060911_1 32943_132943# If security fails, there is always a scapegoat: freedom Why the relationship between freedom and security doesn't have to be see-saw ANDREW POTTER The early response last month to the foiled Heathrow bomb plot had the virtue of raising hopes for a new genre of film: the airline terror-comedy, in which incompetent hijackers dentally assault passengers with tubes of Crest or torment them with a thousand paper cuts using pages torn from Clive Cussler novels. It also raised, yet again, the perennial question of how much freedom we should trade for our security. Following the attacks of 9/11, many governments in the West moved to implement a suite of anti-terrorism measures. The most notorious was the U.S. Patriot Act, but Canada's hastily conceived Bill C-36 was actually more draconian, proposing a number of distinctly illiberal measures such as preventive arrest and forced testimony. The general feeling was that we had too much freedom and not enough security, and that the new normal would involve more or less permanently curtailing civil liberties in the name of increased security. Over the past half-decade, there has been considerable public debate over how to strike the appropriate balance between the two, with hawks demanding more security and doves holding out for freedom. But neither side has really questioned the underlying assumption, that the relationship between freedom and security is essentially a see-saw: as one goes up, the other must go down. This is unfortunate, because the idea that freedom and security are values in conflict threatens to lead us to political disaster. The confusion started with Thomas Hobbes. According to Hobbes, in the state of nature -- the hypothetical condition of humanity before the state moved in to assert its monopoly over the use of force -- humans had maximum freedom, in that we all had the right to do anything we wanted. But what this means is that if I have the right to bonk you on the head and steal your supper, you have the right to do likewise to me. As a result of total freedom, everyone lives in a condition of constant fear and total insecurity, what Hobbes famously called the war of all against all. Hobbes's solution was the security state, to which we hand over some of our natural freedom for the sake of increased security. When it comes to dealing with terrorism, we are all Hobbesians. Faced with a new terrorist plot, successful or not, we instinctively blame it on a surfeit of freedom. Were the terrorists radicalized at a mosque in northeast London? There must be too much freedom of religion. Did they try to smuggle a bomb onto a plane by hiding it in a water bottle? Too much freedom of carry-on luggage. The truth is, many of the holes in our security net are the result not of too much freedom, but of poorly designed institutions and infrastructure. For example, before 9/11, airport security in the U.S. was operated by private companies who were employed by either the airlines or the airport operator. For obvious reasons, there were powerful incentives for them to do it as cheaply and unobtrusively as possible, and after the attacks many people were surprised to discover that millions of lives and billions of dollars worth of equipment were being protected by poorly educated and trained security personnel earning something close to minimum wage. At the level of infrastructure, the most important improvements in public security have built on the British idea of removing garbage cans from subway platforms (to minimize potential hiding places for bombs). We have variously put air marshals on high-risk flights, provided better training for flight attendants, and strengthened cockpit doors. All of this has had a tremendous impact on security without affecting civil liberties in the least. Of course there are limits to how effective these sorts of steps can be. A great deal of what passes for security in our society is symbolic, a device for convincing the public that it is okay to go to a hockey game or take a trip to see relatives. At a certain point, though, useful symbolism degenerates into a theatre of the absurd. The public seems to recognize this, if the hostile reaction to the new rules about carry-on luggage is any indication. The argument is not that we have done all we can in terms of public security. We should keep our eyes open for weak points, holes that can be plugged. What we have to guard against is the line where security measures stop providing reassurance and start fuelling paranoia. If there is anything genuinely frightening about terrorism, it is that it will spark an immune response in which we look inward in search of enemies and seek to purge anything that looks remotely threatening. The decision to ban toothpaste and duty-free booze from airplanes is an early sign of that response. If that sounds absurd, you haven't been paying attention.
[osint] CAIR: 'No Muslim support for Al Qaeda worldview'
CAIR lies. http://www.dawn.com/2006/09/12/top7.htm 'No Muslim support for Al Qaeda worldview' By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Sept 11: Muslims cannot allow terrorist groups like Al Qaeda to be their voice or to represent Islam to the rest of the world, says Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council American-Islamic Relations. The umbrella group, which represents more than a dozen Muslim organisations across North America, assured people in the US and other Western nations on the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11 terrorist attacks that the overwhelming majority in the Islamic world believes as strongly in peace as any other religious group. This is simply unacceptable and we will not allow terrorists groups like Al Qaeda to be the voice of Muslims or the representation of Islam to the rest of the world, said Mr Awad while responding to Al Qaeda's taped message. Rejecting Zawahiri's rhetoric and his worldview, Mr Awad told a news conference in Washington that Islam teaches tolerance, freedom and compassion. Unfortunately, for many who know little of Islam or Muslims, Al Qaeda has come to represent both, he said. Al Qaeda has done a great deal of harm to Muslims in the last five years, killing Muslims and also providing justification for the policies in the West that have harmed the Muslims the world over, Arslan Iftikhar, CAIR's national legal director said. Ibrahim Hooper, the group's communications director, said that there were 'legitimate political grievances in the Muslim world today but Islam has never, and will never, justify the killing of innocent civilians in order to achieve political religious goals. Mr Awad described Al Qaeda's worldview as a complete distortion of Islam because Islamic teachings clearly state that the killing of one innocent life is the moral equivalent of the killing of all humanity. In a survey published in the US newspapers on Monday, Britain's Royal Society for International Affairs reported that Al Qaeda was weaker than it was in 2001. The respected analysis group, also known as Chatham House, said that most Muslims reject Osama bin Laden's organisation as un-Islamic. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Web Site Posts Full Pre-Sept. 11 Al Qaeda Video
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Web Site Posts Full Pre-Sept. 11 Al Qaeda Video
Sunday , September 10, 2006
CAIRO, Egypt - A purported javascript:siteSearch('Al%20Qaeda'); Al Qaeda
video posted on the Internet late Sunday showed footage of a smiling
javascript:siteSearch('Usama%20bin%20Laden'); Usama bin Laden meeting with
top planners of the javascript:siteSearch('Sept.%2011%20attacks'); Sept.
11 attacks in a mountain camp believed to be in Afghanistan.
It also showed young men wearing Arab headdresses and sitting on the ground,
watching a recorded speech by the Al Qaeda leader on a laptop computer.
The calls of the Mujahid Sheik Abu Abdullah Usama Bin Laden awakened the
consciousness of the youth of Islam... and awakened their spirit of
sacrifice, defiance and love of martyrdom, an unidentified narrator on the
tape said.
Excerpts of the footage aired on Al-Jazeera television on Thursday, and Al
Qaeda announced it would later release the full video on the Internet.
The 55-minute tape - with English subtitles - surfaced late Sunday on the
eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, on a Web site that
frequently airs tapes and messages from bin Laden's terror network.
It came about 2 1/2 hours after another video, apparently made by producers
of the Internet site itself, and not by Al Qaeda. That video showed a medley
of previously aired images of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Get http://www.foxnews.com/national/911/index.html complete coverage of
the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in FOXNews.com's special Sept. 11 Center.
The bin Laden video was stamped with the emblem of As-Sahab, Al Qaeda's
media branch. It showed the Al Qaeda leader meeting other commanders in a
mountain camp, apparently planning the attacks on New York and Washington.
Planning for Sept. 11 did not take place behind computer monitors or radar
screens, nor inside military command and control centers, but was surrounded
with divine protection in an atmosphere brimming with brotherliness... and
love for sacrificing life, the narrator said.
The video included the last testament of two of the hijackers, Wail
al-Shehri and Hamza al-Ghamdi, and showed bin Laden strolling in the camp,
greeting followers.
Among the devout group which responded to the order of Allah and order of
his messenger were the heroes of Sept. 11, who wrote with the ink of their
blood the greatest pages of modern history, the narrator said, referring to
the Sept. 11 hijackers.
In the footage, Bin Laden wore a dark robe and white headdress, and was
shown sitting alongside his former lieutenant Mohammed Atef and Ramzi
Binalshibh, another suspected planner of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Atef, also known as Abu Hafs al-Masri, was killed by a U.S. airstrike in
Afghanistan in 2001. Binalshibh was captured four years ago in Pakistan and
is currently in U.S. custody, and last week President Bush announced plans
to put him on military trial.
Bin Laden was shown expressing his appreciation for the Taliban, the Islamic
regime that ran Afghanistan and gave refuge to Al Qaeda until the U.S.-led
invasion that toppled the government in late 2001.
They allowed us to prepare and train, despite international pressure, and
knowing that we were getting ready to strike the idols of this age - the
American forces and the NATO pact, the Al Qaeda leader said.
The footage was the fourth in a series of long videos that Al Qaeda has put
out to memorialize the suicide hijackings against the Pentagon and World
Trade Center, said Ben Venzke, head of IntelCenter, a private U.S. company
that monitors militant message traffic and provides counterterrorism
intelligence services for the American government.
The previous ones were issued in April and September 2002 and September
2003, each showing footage from the planning of the suicide hijackings and
hijackers' last testimonies, Venzke told The Associated Press on Thursday,
when the excerpts aired on al-Jazeera.
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the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in FOXNews.com's special Sept. 11 Center.
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[osint] The case of Muslims v sport shoes!
Fifth Column internal subversion.this is a war with Islam and not only fought with guns and bombs. Bruce by Daniel Pipes New York Sun September 12, 2006 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3960 [NY Sun title: How Terrorism Has Failed The Cause of Radical Islam] Five years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, it is clear how terrorism has set back the cause of radical Islam. The horrors of 9/11 alarmed Americans and fouled the quiet but deadly efforts of lawful Islamists working to subvert the country from within. They no longer can replicate their pre-9/11 successes. This fits an ironic pattern whereby terrorism usually (but not http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3914 always) obstructs the http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2888 advance of radical Islam. For an illustration of this change, consider an example from radical Islam's halcyon days in the late 1990s - how a prominent Islamist organization, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, easily humiliated the giant manufacturer of athletic gear, Nike, Inc. Nike had introduced its Air line of basketball shoes in 1996 with a stylized, flame-like logo of the word Air on the shoe's backside and sole. When the elders at CAIR nonsensically declared that this logo could be in-terpreted as the Arabic-script spelling of Allah, Nike initially protested its innocence. But by June 1997, it had accepted multiple measures to ingratiate itself with the http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/2919.php council. It: * apologized to the Islamic community for any unintentional offense to their sensibilities; * implemented a global recall of certain samples; * diverted shipments of the commercial products in question from 'sensitive' markets; * discontinued all models with the offending logo; * implemented organizational changes to their design department to tighten scrutiny of logo design; * promised to work with CAIR to identify Muslim design resources for future reference; * took measures to raise their internal understanding of Islamic issues; * donated $50,000 for a playground at an Islamic school; * recalled about 38,000 shoes and had the offending logo sanded off. The offending Nike shoe logo, where Air supposedly looks like Allah in Arabic script. The sole of a Nike Air shoe. Giving up all pretense of dignity, the company reported that CAIR is satisfied that no deliberate offense to the Islamic community was intended by the logo. The executive director of CAIR, Nihad Awad, arrogantly responded that, had a settlement not been reached, his organization would have called for a global boycott of Nike products. A spokesman for the group, Ibrahim Hooper, crowed about the settlement: We see it as a victory. It shows that the Muslim community is growing and becoming stronger in the United States. It shows that our voices are being heard. Emboldened by this success, Mr. Awad traveled to the headquarters of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, a Wahhabi http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6425 organization in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, one year later to announce that Nike had not lived up to its commitment. He flayed the firm for not recalling the full run of more than 800,000 pairs of shoes and for covering the Air logo with only a thin patch and red paint, rather than removing it completely. The patch can easily be worn out with regular use of the shoe, he complained. Turning up the pressure, Mr. Awad proclaimed a campaign against Nike products worldwide. Nike again capitulated, announcing an agreement in November 1998 on the method used to remove the design and the continued appearance of shoes in stores worldwide. It coughed up more funding for sports facilities at five Islamic schools and for sponsorship of Muslim community events, and donated Nike products to Islamic charitable groups. The trade press also suggested a financial contribution to CAIR. Today, all this is distant history. CAIR still can bully major corporations, as it did in 2005 with the Canadian http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2919 Imperial Bank of Commerce, but it can no longer shake them down for cash, nor can it ride a bogus issue http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/513 like Air=Allah. The public is somewhat more skeptical (though not always http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=24324 enough so). Successes like the Nike capitulation inspired an Islamist triumphalism http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/146 pre-9/11. One apologist, Richard H. http://www.mepc.org/forums_chcs/19.asp Curtiss, captured its flavor in September 1999, when he called a decision by Burger King to shut a franchised restaurant in a Jewish town on the West Bank, Ma'aleh Adumim, the battle of Burger King. He hyperbolically compared it to the battle of Badr in 624 A.D., which was the first victory of the vastly outnumbered Islamic community. Portraying a trivial lobbying success as similar to a world-shaking
[osint] Big city terror you
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1975637.cms Big city terror you Big city terror you Anshul Chaturvedi [ 10 Sep, 2006 2058hrs ISTTIMES NEWS NETWORK ] It's been 5 years since 9/11. How has that day, the chain of responses to it since, impacted our lives? Cities are the richest of terrorist targets.- Dr Russell W Glenn, US based defence and political analyst Intelligence agencies warn of a further intensification of violent activities, with the possibility of more 'fidayeen' attacks; use of suicide bombers; attacks on economic and religious targets; targeting of vital installations, including nuclear establishments, Army camps; and the like. Reports also suggest that terrorist modules and 'sleeper cells' exist in some of our urban areas... In the battle against terrorism, the role of the public will be vital. A major effort is necessary on our part to sensitise the public into becoming allies in this war and persuade some of them to function as counter-terrorist 'wardens', who would report on any kind of unusual activity.- PM Manmohan Singh, during his speech to chief ministers at a recent meeting on internal security You're neither a terrorist sympathiser nor part of the security system. You want to live your life, your way. As an urban resident, you've chosen to live and work in a large city - be it Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore - you travel by plane, rail or the underground metro, shop at crowded malls, chill out at multiplexes, generally live your life the way you want to... 9/11, Al Qaeda and all the terror jargon's got nothing do with you, right? Wrong! You're just the person it's got everything to do with... The big city as terror target is here to stay, and here's why The bustling metropolis has been, and in the post 9/11 world will very probably stay as, the prime target for terrorist organisations worldwide. The urban citizen, and more importantly, his way of life, are a key target for the terrorist. Many reasons make the big city the perfect arena for terrorist activity. One is media spotlight: The impact of any event is magnified by the magnitude of media attention given to it, and terrorism is no exception. Media organisations are typically based in the biggest cities and so they respond immediately and intensely - the episode is relayed across a national and increasingly, global, audience. Think 9/11 and your mind will in all probability recollect the clip of the plane crashing into the second tower that you watched on TV. Those planes crashing in remote rural interiors would have also claimed a toll of lives, but it wouldn't have come into our homes with that sense of reality, with no cameras around. The second factor is the heterogenous mix of people in a bustling metropolis that provides much greater scope to disappear, or for 'sleeper cells' to exist unnoticed till they are called upon to act. A third factor is the repercussions beyond the city itself: An attack on Parliament nearly triggers off an Indo-Pak conflict, blasts in Mumbai impact the stock market - which a blast in Srinagar won't, even if the toll in human lives is similar. Even an aborted threat at Heathrow leads to a ripple impact across the world that effects hundreds of flights and thousands of flyers. The more high-profile the target, the greater its relevance, the greater the fallout. In a sense, it's about terror TRPs. And they are only guaranteed in big cities. You can't shrug it off as the government's responsibility In the post 9/11 world, those of us who live in metropolises need to accept the inevitability that these factors will position our cities as targets, so long as international terrorism exists in its present form. There's no sarkari solution that'll change things overnight. To what degree incidences of terror in our vicinity can be checked will increasingly depend on our responses. That's the only way urban terror can actually be fought - by the urban resident, who is its prime target. A smaller town like Malegaon will be targeted on account of its history of communal tension. But a Delhi or a Mumbai may well be targeted for no reason other than that it is Delhi or Mumbai. Still, the reality is that despite the Sarojini Nagar blasts in Delhi or the train explosions in Mumbai, many, many more people in these cities fall victim to road mishaps than to terrorism; no matter how persistent the threat, it's been handled reasonably efficiently, and we just have to get on with our lives. Key targets, and the global connect of your daily commute Typically, the terrorist will try to cause panic at the airport, the railway station, the metro, a major multiplex or mall. This would be the way he would work in any urban centre. So the commuter upset with frisking needs to realise that the Delhi Metro or the Mumbai suburban trains are not random targets - in February 2004, 39 people were killed in blasts in the Moscow underground, in March that year, 191 died in
[osint] UK: Four in court after terror swoop
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6074099,00.html Four in court after terror swoop Press Association Tuesday September 12, 2006 6:48 AM Four men charged in connection with an anti-terror operation targeting an alleged network of terrorist recruiters are due to appear in court. All were held during a series of raids across London overnight on September 1, including at a Chinese restaurant in the Borough area of the city. The operation has also involved anti-terror officers searching an Islamic school in East Sussex. Musa Akmet, 47, Mustafa Abdullah, 24, and brothers Hassan Mutegombwa, 20, and Yassin Mutegombwa, 22, were all charged under anti-terrorism legislation in connection with the operation. All four men will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates in London. Akmet, of Eltham, south east London, was charged with one count of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist contrary to Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He was also charged with possessing a firearm - a 16mm mini flare launcher - without a firearms certificate. Abdullah, of Stockwell, south London, was charged with one count of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Scotland Yard said Hassan Mutegombwa had been charged with one count of procuring funds for terrorism contrary to section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Yassin Mutegombwa was charged with three counts of receiving training for terrorism, a new offence contrary to section 6 of the Terrorism Act 2006. A total of eight men remain in custody in connection with the investigation. The terrorism-related charges against Musa Akmet and Mustafa Abdullah allege that, on September 1 this year, they without reasonable excuse possessed a record containing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism. The charge against Hassan Mutegombwa alleges that, on July 23 this year, he invited another to provide money and intended that it should be used, or had reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used, for the purpose of terrorism. The first two charges against Yassin Mutegombwa allege he received terrorism training at a woodland area near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping site, Beaulieu Road, Lyndhurst, Hampshire. The third charge alleges he received terrorism training near Pondwood Farm, White Waltham, Berkshire on June 18 this year. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Iran Is Cuba
http://www.nysun.com/article/39450 Iran Is Cuba BY JOHN BATCHELOR September 12, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/39450 What's wrong with a revolutionary, terror-sponsoring state, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, acquiring nuclear weapons? The Washington case is that nuclear warheads in the hands of a messianic cult led by the race-supremacist Council of Experts at Qom and the Holocaust-denying Ahmadinejad at Teheran means that the world is again on the brink. Can this be verified? The Iranian Revolutionary Guards cannot prove the negative - that they won't use atomic weapons and Washington can't prove the positive - that Teheran will distribute weapons to proxies to use pre-emptively. Recent history is a good guide to what it means for a revolutionary rogue state to possess a first strike nuclear arsenal while it is protected from United Nations Security Council sanctions by veto-bearing facilitators (i.e. Russia and China), and the record is both dire and prescient. We remember the episode as the Cuban missile crisis, though it is better recalled as a time when America and Russia came so close to mutually assured destruction that principals in Washington and Moscow separately assumed that the last sunset was at hand. In 1962, Nikita Khrushchev, enraged by the forward deployment of American nuclear-tipped missiles in Turkey, launched Operation Anadyr to forward deploy up to forty Soviet medium-range nuclear warhead missiles in the revolutionary rogue state of Cuba. Dictator Fidel Castro, his homicidal brother Raul, and their pet anarchist, Ernesto Che Guevara, were delighted: their collective interpretation was that they could now avenge themselves for the Bay of Pigs fiasco of the year before. Soon, in Byzantine secrecy, up to fifty thousand Soviet military personnel, including first-rate combat troops, were billeted throughout the island while the rocket teams made the R-12s and R-14s operational. By accident, an American U-2 discovered the threat on October 16. The defenseless, midterm-election-challenged Kennedy administration panicked. President Kennedy's first instinct was to order air strikes on the missile sites. But when he was told the Soviets would be a less than 100% success, the president blinked. Working through a partisan council of wise men - led by the undisciplined Bobby Kennedy - President Kennedy opened clumsy, inarticulate negotiations with Khrushchev at the same time he ordered a blockade of Cuba and an immediate buildup of an invasion force at nearby Puerto Rico. A week passed without clarity, with finger-wagging hysteria on both sides, and then on Saturday, October 27, all reason failed. First, a drunken Fidel Castro wrote Khrushchev to demand a nuclear launch immediately. Then a Soviet Sam-2 killed a U-2 over Cuba. Simultaneously another U-2 violated Soviet airspace at the Bering Strait and both sides scrambled interceptors with shoot to kill orders. Meantime, an error at a Minnesota airbase mobilized nuclear-armed long-range fighter-bombers and then a radar facility in New Jersey identified a Cape Canaveral test as a Soviet missile launch from Cuba. By late afternoon, when news of the U-2 shoot-down reached the White House, Defense Secretary McNamara was morbid and the Kennedy brothers were desperate. The executive decision was to surrender by offering Khrushchev a secret withdrawal of the Turkey missiles in exchange for the Soviets' announcing publicly a withdrawal of the Cuban missiles. Khrushchev went along with the ploy, boasting about the U-2 kill, . we received a pledge not to invade Cuba. Not bad! The general staffs in Washington and Moscow were disgusted with their posturing leaders, and the Air Force tyro Curtis LeMay told Mr. Kennedy in person, it was the greatest defeat in our history. (The crisis is recounted starkly in Niall Ferguson's bold new book, War of the World.) Forty-four years later, it is easy to see that the clear winners of the Cuban missile crisis were the criminal Castro brothers. As soon as the warheads reached Cuban soil - and Cuba was a nuclear power - the Castros worked to guarantee themselves a lifelong reign that was so successful it easily outlasted the Soviets. Even as Fidel lies dying now, he is plotting with the mini-me of Chavez to collaborate with the rogue states of Iran, Syria, and North Korea in WMD proliferation. The Castro brothers are a virus that was let loose on the day of the American surrender to the nuclear threat of a rogue state - Saturday, October 27, 1962. Iran is the Twenty-first Century's Cuba, and it is fair-minded to ask if, five decades from now, our children will look back to the Bush administration's surrender to Iran's nuclear blackmail-scheming with Russia and China at the United Nations Security Council as the source of all those catastrophes in Asia to come. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our
[osint] Kofi Annan warns against confrontation in Iran nuclear row
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/printer_1199975.php Kofi Annan warns against confrontation in Iran nuclear row By DPA Sep 10, 2006, 19:00 GMT Paris - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned Sunday against a confrontation with Iran over its nuclear programme as likely to generate 'enormous problems.' 'The best solution is negotiations,' Annan told French radio station Europe 1, saying he feared a confrontation would create 'enormous problems,' particularly in a region already in the throes of several crises. Tehran rejected a UN ultimatum which expired on August 31 ordering it to suspend uranium enrichment or face possible sanctions. The United States is now pushing for sanctions, while the European Union is calling for further negotiations. Following talks with chief Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Vienna, European Union policy chief Javier Solana on Sunday said 'misunderstandings' about Western incentives proposed to Iran and Tehran's response had been cleared up. Both diplomats reported some progress towards resolving the dispute. The UN head, who first met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad only a few days ago, assured that Iran was open to talks on all issues. What Tehran did not accept was to halt uranium enrichment before entering negotiations, Annan said. The Iranian president had assured him of the peaceful intent of Iran's nuclear activities, he said. Annan had, for his part, advised Ahmadinejad to allow visits by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), saying the inspectors must be allowed wide access to show the world it had nothing to fear from Iran's nuclear programme. Annan called for dialogue with the Iranian president, who has recently called for the destruction of Israel. Ahmadinejad must first be told he is wrong about Israel and that the Jewish state will continue to exist as a democratic country, Annan said. Then, on the nuclear issue, Ahmadinejad should be reminded that if a country wants to be accepted as a responsible member of the international community, it must accept certain rules, he said. The most important thing was to hold talks with Iran, he emphasized. Annan also said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would participate in the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, adding the US would not be able to prevent him from attending. [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: 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/
[osint] Yadlin: World unlikely to stop Iran
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913599814 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913599814pagename=JPost%2FJ PArticle%2FPrinter pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Yadlin: World unlikely to stop Iran _ Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 10, 2006 _ International pressure and UN sanctions will not stop the Iranian march toward nuclearization, the head of military intelligence told the cabinet Sunday. OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin's words need to be seen within the context of a debate in Jerusalem regarding how Israel should react to the international community's slow and so-far ineffectual international response to the Iranian nuclear threat, and the widespread assessment in Israel that the US will be unlikely to take military action against Iran any time soon. In recent weeks there have been high-level voices in Jerusalem arguing that it is becoming clear, judging by the world's reaction to Iran's decision to continue with uranium enrichment, that Israel may have no other choice but to act alone to slow down the Iranian nuclear program. According to Yadlin, the Iranians are playing for time, and the UN Security Council was acting slower than expected regarding clamping sanctions on Teheran. He said that Iran's confidence in this matter was growing, and that this was causing concern in the Sunni World. Representatives of an American Jewish Committee delegation that met in Cairo last week with senior Egyptian officials told The Jerusalem Post that some of these officials were in favor of UN imposed sanctions on Iran, and that Cairo had strategic concerns about Iran remarkably similar to those in Jerusalem. Yadlin told the cabinet there is less supervision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Iran than in the past, and that the supervision that exists is not of the same quality as it was previously. He also said that Iran's nuclear aspirations were held by both extremists like President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the so-called moderates, such as former president Muhammad Khatami. Turning to Lebanon, Yadlin said that it was too early to judge how the war has impacted on Israel's deterrence in the region. On the one hand he said that the Arab world saw that Israel was very determined and willing to go to war over the kidnapping of its soldiers and the firing of Katyusha rockets. On the other hand, he said, Hizbullah was spinning the war as a victory, and we are to close to be able to judge the ramifications. Yadlin said that the Lebanese Army was deploying in south Lebanon in an effective manner, and it would enable an IDF withdrawal, although he did not give a timetable. He said that there was an internal struggle in Lebanon taking place between the camp affiliated with Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, and the camp affiliated with Hizbullah and Syria. He said that the battle over implementation of UN Security Council resolution 1701 could spill over from a political disagreement to a military confrontation between these two camps, and that Hizbullah had no intention of disarming on its own volition, or letting anyone else do it for them. According to Yadlin, Hizbullah has - a month after the war - carefully complied with the cease-fire and does not want a second round of fighting at this time. He said that the organization was busy with the rehabilitation of south Lebanon. It was also trying to rehabilitate its military capacity, but at a very, very low volume, he said. Yadlin said that while Hizbullah was not interested in a second round, it was interested in encouraging Palestinian terrorism, and in carrying out actions that would not lead to an all-out Israeli military offensive. At the same time, Yadlin said Hizbullah was unlikely to carry out attacks abroad, because since 9/11 the international community no longer saw these types of attacks as legitimate. He also said that Hizbullah did not want to be identified with Al-Qaida and world Jihad. Yadlin said that Syria was considering encouraging terrorism on the Golan, but that according to his assessment Damascus would think 10 times before actually employing this policy. Yadlin came under criticism inside the cabinet for what is widely perceived as a major intelligence failure during the war - not knowing the extent of the bunker system Hizbullah had built in south Lebanon. Yadlin said that the bunkers were extremely well camouflaged, often using fiberglass rocks as cover. He said that the IDF knew about the existence of the bunkers, but did not know where each bunker was located. He said that this type of information is difficult to get from the air. When you haven't crossed the border since 2000, you are not going to know the location of every bunker, he was quoted as telling the cabinet. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[osint] Terror Attacks Leave U.S. Economy More Vulnerable to New Shocks
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101sid=a.Btk74nUhdYrefer=japa n sid=a.Btk74nUhdYrefer=japan Terror Attacks Leave U.S. Economy More Vulnerable to New Shocks By Rich Miller and Matthew Benjamin Sept. 11 (Bloomberg) -- The terrorist strikes of Sept. 11, 2001, changed the U.S. economy in ways that no one expected five years ago. Instead of plunging the U.S. into a recession, as many economists predicted, the attacks helped set the stage for a consumer-powered recovery as the Federal Reserve slashed interest rates and the federal government increased spending and cut taxes in response. Since the tragedy, the economy has grown at an average annual rate of 3.1 percent, close to the pace set in the 1990s. The economy's resilience came with a half-trillion-dollar increase in government spending on homeland security and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a $4 trillion jump in household debt and a 50 percent increase in house prices. While these helped speed the recovery from the attacks, they may have left the economy more vulnerable should such a shock occur again. ``We've become more unbalanced and fundamentally more precarious as a result,'' says Stephen Roach, chief global economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. Back in 2001, the government ran a budget surplus of $128 billion. Now it's in deficit to the tune of $318 billion in the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, according to the Congressional Budget Office, thanks in part to spending on the war on terror and tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Consumer debt, including mortgages, credit cards and car loans, mushroomed in five years to $12.2 trillion from $7.9 trillion as Americans used the low interest rates engineered by the Fed to finance a spending spree. The median price of an existing home ballooned to $230,000 from $153,000 in September 2001. Oil Prices War in the Middle East following the Sept. 11 attacks helped push the price of a barrel of crude oil to $68 this month from $28 five years earlier. A gallon of regular gasoline averaged $2.73 last week, compared with $1.53 on Sept. 10, 2001, according to Energy Department figures. The combination of increased consumer and government debt, an inflated housing market and elevated energy prices means the U.S. may find it harder to weather another shock like Sept. 11. ``The U.S. economy is more fragile now,'' says Allen Sinai, president of consultant Decision Economics in New York. Not all economists agree, pointing out that in some ways, the economy is better off now. When the terrorists struck in 2001, the economy was already struggling, having grown at an annual rate of just 1.2 percent in the second quarter of the year. In the second quarter of this year, the economy grew at a 2.9 percent rate. ``Because the economy is still expanding, we are in a much less vulnerable position,'' says Anthony Chan, chief economist at JPMorgan Private Client Services in New York. Living With Threat And Americans, having already suffered one terrorist attack, may be better prepared to handle another without losing confidence. ``People get used to things and Americans have learned to live with the threat of terrorism,'' says Richard DeKaser, chief economist at National City Corp. in Cleveland. That wasn't the case in 2001. In the wake of the terror attack, economists threw out their predictions for growth in the fourth quarter and said the economy would shrink at a 1.3 percent annual pace during the period, according to the October 2001 Blue Chip survey of leading forecasters. Instead, the economy rebounded, growing at a 1.6 percent pace in the fourth quarter, aided by an easing of monetary policy under then-Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. By the close of the year, the central bank had cut its benchmark rate in half, to 1.75 percent, and by 2003 had reduced the rate even further, to 1 percent, to help spur growth. Less Leeway The Fed may not be able to be as aggressive now. Powered by consumer demand and the rise in oil prices, inflation is running at a year-on-year rate of 4.1 percent now vs. 2.7 percent in August of 2001. That limits the leeway the central bank has to cut interest rates. Even if the Fed were to cut rates now, its easier monetary policy might not have as big an impact. ``A lot of the monetary stimulus the last time worked through asset prices,'' says Philip Swagel, an economist at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute and a former White House and International Monetary Fund official. ``It's hard to imagine housing prices are going to take off again even if the Fed cut rates.'' The federal government's reaction after the terrorists struck also stimulated growth. Congress authorized $40 billion in emergency spending to pay for relief efforts and ended up accelerating tax cuts already on the books to aid the economy. Lawmakers have appropriated $430 billion to the war on terror and conflict in Iraq, the Government
[osint] The Airborne Law Enforcement Response: 9/11
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=24 http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=24id=32516 id=32516 9/11/01: The Airborne Law Enforcement Response One of the longest days in American history Posted: September 8th, 2006 05:08 PM EDT KENNETH J. SOLOSKY Aviation Operations Contributor Officer.com Certainly, the events of September 11, 2001 have had a profound impact on all Americans. Whether you were a responder to the scenes, or, like millions of Americans, sat riveted to the television watching in horror and disgust as the events unfolded across America, this could easily be categorized as a milestone historical event in our lives. The Airborne Law Enforcement Response September 11, 2001 was a picture-clear and beautiful day in New York City. In aviation terms, it was CAVU: clear and visibility unlimited, the perfect fall day. The morning rush carried on, with millions of New Yorkers going to work and starting their day. The NYPD Aviation Unit had no significant activities planned for the day, and the early part of the day tour was spent on mundane and routine activities such as pre-flighting aircraft and the usual banter of cops. No one could have dared imagine that events were unfolding on board commercial airliners in the skies of America that would change the course of history. Things changed dramatically at 8:46 AM, when the first jetliner was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. The NYPD Aviation Unit responded with a patrol aircraft, a Bell Jet Ranger 206B3 and a Bell 412 Air-Sea Rescue aircraft. In addition to the numerous radio reports of a plane crash and fire, the flight crews needed no additional confirmation of the event. A large plume of black smoke was visible upon departure form Floyd Bennett Field, almost 15 miles away. Their worst fears were becoming a stark nightmare. Arriving airborne units were dismayed and horrified by what they saw. The North Tower was seemingly cut in half and consumed by a ring of fire. The crews watched helplessly as several persons desperately jumped from the tower. Another Bell 412 was launched in anticipation of possible rescue. Suddenly, one member of a Bell 412 flight crew saw a second airliner, moving fast from the south. The airliner was headed straight for their aircraft, and they had to take evasive action to avoid a midair collision. Within seconds, the second airliner plunged into the south tower. The airborne flight crews were absolutely speechless. One crew landed in order to regain their composure, and immediately re-launched in order to help in any way they could. There was complete and utter pandemonium. The radio waves were jammed with radio transmissions as responders desperately attempted to communicate with Central and with each other. With both towers burning, the Aviation Unit was faced with several challenges, including the relay of intelligence about the structure to ground units, and the feasibility of rooftop rescue and medevac of the injured. The Federal Aviation Administration grounded all aircraft except law enforcement and military. The airborne helicopters did relay events as they were taking place. In one transmission, chronicled in the 09/11 Commission Report, an aviation unit aircraft reported that the structure did look tenuous and a collapse was indeed possible. They reported on the condition of the structure. The south tower roof could not be accessed in any way. It was completely shrouded in a thick cloud of black smoke from the burning north tower. The north tower rooftop was also shrouded in a veil of smoke, as well as airborne debris. Any attempted rescue on the north tower roof would have been virtually impossible and exceedingly dangerous. Keeping in mind that turbine engines are extremely temperature-sensitive, the heat and smoke being generated by the fire would have been a major problem, along with the blowing airborne debris. Should this debris be ingested into the turbine engines, it would quite possibly have flamed them out and caused the third aircraft accident of the day. Finally, there was no sign of any persons on the rooftop. By 10:30 AM, both towers had fallen, taking the lives of over 3,000 Americans. Mutual Aid Aviation units from the Nassau County Police Department, the Suffolk County Police Department, and the New York State Police arrived at Floyd Bennett Field. This was another great example of the police fraternity that is always hard to define. These agencies simply sent their assets without being asked, because they knew the gravity of the situation. In the coming months, these same agencies also helped the NYPD Aviation Unit with ceremonial flybys at many responders' funeral services. On certain days, there were simply too many funerals that could be handled by the NYPD Aviation Unit. On one day alone, there were ten line-of-duty funerals for responders. The surrounding airborne units always provided a helicopter and covered many of
[osint] America? Or AMERICANS? (By a NY Cop)
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=19 http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=19id=32487 id=32487 America? Or AMERICANS? People who believe in a concept make this country great Posted: September 8th, 2006 05:08 PM EDT FRANK BORELLI Equipment Reviewer Officer.com Just recently, I received an e-mail from my editor at Officer.com: in essence, he was looking for articles having to do with the attacks of September 11, 2001. With the fifth anniversary upon us, much of the media (in all its forms) is looking to report on how the country has changed, or what we still need to do. Officer.com, to their credit, wasn't looking for any of the usual sensationalistic hype. A few years ago I was honored to work with the United States Army in an effort to increase the efficiency that does or would exist between the military and civilian law enforcement, in the event of a national disaster or emergency. Oddly enough, this effort initialized in August of 2001, and not as a result of nine-eleven. As a result of that work effort, I had the unique opportunity to examine the response of civilian public safety, as it was affected by the Department of Defense, to the attack on the Pentagon. I need to acknowledge the information received from Captain Tom Panther of the Arlington County Police Department, and Mr. David Grow, a Department of Defense/Army civilian employee. Captain Panther and Mr. Grow are largely responsible for the information covered here and the development of this perspective that compares military response to civilian response in a crisis situation. The Timeline Let's remember that morning...as much as sometimes we don't want to: * At 8:20 AM, American Airlines Flight 77 departs Dulles Airport, approximately 20 miles from the Pentagon. * At 8:50 AM, radio communications with that flight are lost. At that time, the flight is about 280 miles from the Pentagon. * At 8:56 AM, the transponder signal from Flight 77 is lost. It would have been approximately 335 miles from the Pentagon. As a matter of reference and to show how compressed time became, it would usually take us close to six hours to drive that distance (335 miles). * 34 minutes after the transponder signal is lost, at 9:30 AM, radar picks up a plane approaching Washington, D.C. * At 9:33 AM, a plane crosses the Capital Beltway, with an estimated speed of 400 mph. * At 9:35 AM, the plane banks steeply in an apparent attempt for a second approach to the Pentagon. In less than two and a half minutes, the plane drops 7,000 feet. * At 9:37 AM, the plane drops off the air traffic control radar. * At 9:38 AM, at an estimated speed of 460 mph, the plane slams into the Pentagon, flying so low that it clipped the tops off several street lights on the way in. At this point we need to recognize something: official response--that coming from any governmental body--is almost always slower than the natural response of people. The impact of the plane into the Pentagon occurred (officially) at 9:38 AM. The first responding fire trucks and other emergency apparatus arrived within ten to fifteen minutes (some reports put it at eight minutes, other at as much as seventeen). The first responding fire truck was from Reagan National Airport, and self-dispatched after being notified that a plane was crashing somewhere in the vicinity. So, using the eight- to seventeen-minute window, the first responding fire truck was on scene between 9:46 and 9:55 AM. A state of emergency, allowing outside agencies access to the Pentagon property, wasn't declared until 11:39 AM. That's almost two full hours after the impact. People responded within eight to seventeen minutes. The bureaucracy responded in two hours. Witness just one of the ways AMERICANS can outperform AMERICA. Crashing into the side of the Pentagon between Wedge 1 and Wedge 5, directly to the right of the helipad used by high-ranking government officials, the plane reportedly penetrated the outer three of five rings. Explosion, fire, expanding heat, expanding sonic wave...all took place immediately. Two workers standing next to the heliport building had a quick choice to make: seek shelter under a nearby fire truck, or behind the building on a side away from the incoming plane. They chose the building...and it's a good thing, because the fire truck was captured in the expanding fireball from the explosion and destroyed by the fire. Immediately upon impact of that plane, multiple mission mandates existed, but there were also multiple jurisdictional claims. Who had priority? It's a Department of Defense property--military jurisdiction. It was believed to be a terrorist act--FBI jurisdiction. There is a working fire--fire department jurisdiction. The crash involved a plane--NTSB jurisdiction. If any ranking dignitaries were on hand, the Secret Service had jurisdiction. Number one priority: FIRE The working fire put the
[osint] News Flash: Syrian Security Foils Attack on U.S. Embassy; Al Qaeda Group Eyed
Syrian Security Foils Attack on U.S. Embassy; Al Qaeda Group Eyed -- Three Islamic militants suspected to have Al Qaeda ties were killed Tuesday after a failed attempt to attack the U.S. Embassy with automatic rifles, hand grenades and a van rigged with explosives. A Syrian security officer was also killed, but no Americans were hurt. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213425,00.html ] CNN [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/12/syria.embassy/index.html ] MSNBC [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14794377/ ] Reuters [ http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryID=2006-09-12T150640Z_01_L12741661_RTRUKOC_0_US-SYRIA.xmlWTmodLoc=NewsHome-C1-topNews-2 ] BREITBART.COM (AP) [ http://breitbart.com/news/2006/09/12/D8K3C9MG0.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Why we fight
http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MarkMAlexander/2006/09/08/why_we_fight Why we fight By Mark M. Alexander Friday, September 8, 2006 Five years ago, we Americans awoke to the horrifying reality that -- like it or not, accept it or not -- our nation was at war with a terrifying and mysterious enemy. Significantly, it was a group of ordinary Americans who launched the first counteroffensive in this new war. They, of course, were the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93, and they were led in their charge by the battle cry of Todd Beamer: Let's roll! Having been made aware of the World Trade Center attacks via cell-phone communications with their loved ones, the men of Flight 93 acted swiftly and surely -- and they died as free men in defense of their beloved country. In the weeks preceding this five-year commemoration http://patriotpost.us/September11/ of 9/11, this column has examined the locus of the threat http://patriotpost.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=494 we face. The so-called war on terror, we concluded, is a misnomer. Terrorism is a tactic, a means to an end. Islam, conversely, is the ideology behind modern terrorism. It's an ideology that is also inherently fascist. It is no coincidence that these terrorist-fascists happen to be Muslim, for Islam itself is a clerical-fascist system of belief. Next, having identified the origin of the threat, we examined the nature of it http://patriotpost.us/alexander/edition.asp?id=495 . While the September 11 attacks constitute a grave tragedy, it is hardly the gravest possible. Far more worrisome, we argued, is the stated intention of our jihadist foe http://patriotpost.us/papers/primer01.asp to detonate nuclear weapons -- preferably several simultaneously -- in major U.S. urban centers. With our borders virtually unguarded and only five percent of incoming containers at our shipyards being inspected, it's possible that one or more such weapons are already within our borders. Many prominent voices in the security community agree that such an attack is probable, if not inevitable. As we approach the anniversary itself, we are reminded of the words of President Bush: These terrorists target the innocent, and they kill by the thousands. And they would, if they gain the weapons they seek, kill by the millions and not be finished. The greatest threat of our age is nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in the hands of terrorists and the dictators who aid them. That statement wasn't part of the Bush/Rumsfeld rhetorical onslaught of recent days. Nor was it poll-driven spin with an eye toward November's crucial congressional elections. Rather, it was part of a speech to British lawmakers at Whitehall Palace, London, in November 2003. Notably, President Bush's language has changed little since then. Addressing the Military Officers Association of America earlier this week, the President again intoned the threat of a WMD attack from jihadists: Bin Laden and his terrorist allies have made their intentions as clear as Lenin and Hitler before them, he said. The question is: Will we listen? Will we pay attention to what these evil men say? We're taking the words of the enemy seriously. While the President's view of the conflict has only galvanized in the past five years, his view of the enemy has matured significantly. He is no longer reflexive in affirming Islam as a religion of peace, as he did at a mosque in the days following 9/11. Instead, President Bush has finally begun to speak bluntly about the threat posed by Islamic fascism. Regrettably, the same cannot be said of other Beltway voices. The facts do not lie, said Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid in response to the President's recent remarks. Under the Bush administration and this Republican Congress, America is less safe, facing greater threats and unprepared for the dangerous world in which we live. Reid and his cohorts, who cannot or will not see the connection between the war in Iraq and the global war on Islamic fascism, reinforce and are reinforced by Americans who insist we are engaged in a war for oil. 9/11 Scholars for Truth, a group of pseudo-academic conspiracy theorists, claim that the Bush administration itself (after eight whole months on the job) orchestrated the 9/11 attacks. Indeed, the movement has grown to such an extent that it has produced the Journal of 9/11 Studies under a veneer of scholarly respectability. The picture abroad is little better. Only this week, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ran up the white flag, rejecting any talk of a war on terror, much less a war on Islamic fascism. We will only end this curse, he said, if we also fight against injustice, violence and these crises. Thanks to the likes of de Villepin and Reid, we now not only fight Muslim fascism abroad but also defeatism at home and throughout the West. As we've stated before, we should call political opportunists such as Reid, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi precisely what they
[osint] Mayor's 'Anti-Muslim' Remarks Offend Advocacy Group
Calling a 'wing-nut' a 'wing-nut. Bruce http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200609/CUL20060 912c.html Mayor's 'Anti-Muslim' Remarks Offend Advocacy Group By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor September 12, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - Either the Judeo-Christian philosophy will survive or the Islamic philosophy will survive, said Ken Murray, the mayor of Redding, Calif., last week. That remark and others upset the Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which is urging Californians to repudiate Murray's remarks. Murray, speaking last Thursday at a 9/11 commemoration on the Shasta County Courthouse steps, reportedly criticized Shiite Muslims as people who are willing to do anything as long as they believe it glorifies Allah. Folks, they're not like us, the Redding Record-Searchlight quoted Murray as saying. Murray also drew a distinction between mainstream Muslims and Shiite Muslims, whom he called wing nuts. Since the Crusades, there's been a spiritual battle for the hearts and minds of people. I think it's a historical reality, and the rubber's meeting the road again. Either the Judeo-Christian philosophy will survive or the Islamic philosophy will survive. The Council on American Islamic Relations, always on the lookout for comments it deems insulting to Muslims, was critical of Mayor Murray. The unthinking bigotry and ignorance of such remarks are unworthy of an American public official and should be repudiated by all those who seek tolerance and mutual understanding, said Basim Elkarra, the executive director of CAIR's Sacramento Valley chapter. In the five years since the 9/11 attacks, CAIR has had its work cut out for it, as CAIR's own polling shows that a majority of Americans holds anti-Muslim views. On Monday, the five-year anniversary of the terror attacks, CAIR released a statement defending Islam - and repudiating al Qaeda's latest videotaped warning to the world, in which Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, threatened to carry out attacks in Israel and the Gulf region. To more than a billion Muslims worldwide, Islam is a religion that teaches tolerance, freedom and compassion, said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. Those who understand Islam and know Muslims as friends and colleagues realize that Islam is one of the three Abrahamic faiths and that Muslims are contributing members of societies around the world. Unfortunately, for many who know little of Islam or Muslims, Al-Qaeda has come to represent both. Awad said Muslims will not allow terrorist groups like al Qaeda to speak for Muslims or represent Islam to the rest of the world. Notwithstanding the fact that there are legitimate political grievances in the Muslim world today, Islam has never, and will never, justify the killing of innocent civilians in order to achieve political or religious goals, Awad said. As Muslims, we will continue to condemn Al-Qaeda and ensure that the rest of the world learns the true message of Islam and its teachings of peace, justice and compassion for all. In his speech Monday night, President Bush condemned what he called a perverted vision of Islam...that hates freedom, rejects tolerance, and despises all dissent. President Bush said America's terrorist enemies seek to build a radical Islamic empire where women are prisoners in their homes, men are beaten for missing prayer meetings, and terrorists have a safe haven to plan and launch attacks on America and other civilized nations. The problem for many Americans is not knowing which Muslims espouse what views. At an interfaith gathering in Boston on Monday, local religious leaders urged their Muslim counterparts to do a better job of separating Islam from terrorism, the Boston Globe reported. Cardinal Sean O'Malley told the newspaper that Islam did not invent terrorism...but all of us need to condemn this tactic that has been used to manipulate people in the world, and we need to recognize in what context it comes about and try to deal with that context. [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: 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,
[osint] News Flash: Kurd tells Saddam court relatives found in graves
Kurd tells Saddam court relatives found in graves -- An Iraqi Kurd told Saddam Hussein's genocide trial on Tuesday how his mother and sisters' remains were found in a mass grave more than 200 km (120 miles) from their village, which he said was razed by Saddam's troops. -- Reuters [ http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNewsstoryID=13459524src=rss/topNews ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: Qaeda leader claims beheading of Sudan editor
Qaeda leader claims beheading of Sudan editor -- A man purporting to lead an African branch of al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the beheading of a Sudanese newspaper editor who was found dead last week. -- Reuters [ http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryid=2006-09-12T144751Z_01_L12581610_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUDAN-QAEDA.xmlsrc=rssrpc=22 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Gun Foes Charge Congress 'Hasn't Learned Lessons of 9/11'
No, it's the left which never learns. Bruce http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200609/CUL20060 912a.html Gun Foes Charge Congress 'Hasn't Learned Lessons of 9/11' By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor September 12, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - A coalition of anti-gun groups is accusing Congress of not having learned the lessons of 9/11 for considering a bill that would make it harder for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to share information to prevent violent crime and terrorist attacks. However, an attorney who specializes in federal firearms laws called the claim a publicity stunt to try to take advantage of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. President Bush and Republicans in Congress have made homeland security their focus leading up to the mid-term elections, the Coalitions Against Trafficking Handguns stated in a news release. But if they had truly learned the lessons of 9/11, members of Congress wouldn't be erecting barriers to prevent local, state and federal law enforcement from working together, the group added. The Coalitions specifically criticized members of the House Judiciary Committee for considering H.R. 5005 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5005: , the Firearms Corrections and Improvement Act, which was sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and has 119 cosponsors. According to the release, the passage of H.R. 5005 would handcuff law enforcement by: * Preventing police from conducting investigations across jurisdictional lines in order to establish patterns of criminal activity and threats to national security; * Restricting law enforcement access to a national databank that traces guns used in crime; * Barring law enforcement from learning which gun dealers are supplying the bulk of guns to criminals and would-be terrorists through an illegal pipeline; and * Keeping local law enforcement authorities in the dark about possible criminal activities in their communities. After 9/11, we criticized law enforcement and intelligence agencies for not connecting the dots. So what are we doing now taking the dots off the paper? asked Joe Vince, former chief of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and current president of the firm Crime Gun Solutions LLC. In the same manner that we are taking our fight to the source of the terrorists, let's take our fight against firearms-related violent crime to the source of the guns, Vince noted. In this post-9/11 world, police must have all the tools at their disposal to keep our communities safe, he added. But if Congress passes this bill, it will have chosen to side with criminals and terrorists instead of law enforcement. H.R. 5005 states that ATF trace data shall not be admissible as evidence, and testimony or other evidence relying on the information shall not be admissible, in any civil action in a State or Federal court, or in any administrative proceeding other than a proceeding commenced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. (Emphasis added.) Attorney and firearms law expert Richard Gardiner told Cybercast News Service that the bill says information can be released to law enforcement agencies -- federal, state or local -- in connection with a bona fide criminal investigation or prosecution, so law enforcement still would have access to the records if they request it. Gardiner also said that using ATF trace data is not an effective means of fighting crime since not all trace guns are 'crime guns,' and not all 'crime guns' are traced. In fact, a law enforcement agency request for ATF to trace the ownership of a firearm -- from manufacturer to distributor to retailer to buyer -- does not necessarily indicate that the firearm was used in a crime or that it was even possessed illegally. Gardiner also called the concept of tracing guns a giant fraud and a worthless tool because law enforcement officials routinely trace many guns that are not connected to the commission of any crime. As an example, Gardiner cited the case of a woman who was killed in her home, and when the police arrived to investigate, they found guns that had belonged to her husband and hadn't been used since his death 20 years earlier. They traced all those guns, he said, and, not surprisingly, came up with nothing. Gardiner described the Coalitions' linking of gun control and 9/11 as a publicity stunt since no guns were involved in the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists used knives, box cutters and fake bombs to turn airplanes into flying weapons. Cybercast News Service previously reported http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200603/NAT20060331a.html that one of the most vocal opponents of H.R. 5005 is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was quoted in the Coalition's news release as emphasizing the need to work together to 'connect the dots' in order to establish patterns of criminality and
[osint] News Flash: Official: U.S. Moves to Sanction N.Korea
Official: U.S. Moves to Sanction N.Korea -- The United States is moving to impose sanctions on North Korea for test-launching a series of missiles in July, a senior South Korean official said Tuesday. -- TBO (AP) [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KOREAS_NUCLEAR?SITE=FLTAMSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Australia rules out barring Muslim immigrants
Howard's first big mistake! http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Aus+rules+out+barring+Mu slim+immigrants http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Aus+rules+out+barring+M uslim+immigrantsid=93059 id=93059 Aus rules out barring Muslim immigrants _ Tuesday, September 12, 2006 (Canberra): Prime Minister John Howard, who has expressed concerns that an Islamic minority is failing to integrate into Australian society, has ruled out barring Muslims from immigrating. I don't believe in abandoning a nondiscriminatory immigration policy, Howard told Macquarie Radio on Tuesday. That would send the wrong signal to moderate people around the world. They would feel they are excluded and would feel there was a universal hostility to a particular religious group and I don't think that is helping the global war on terror, Howard said. But he said moderate Muslims had an obligation to vocally condemn terrorism. Justifying terrorism by reference to Islam is the common thread of all the terrorist attacks we've had, Howard said. It puts obligations on all of us, including in particular moderate Islamic leaders because it's their faith that's being blasphemed and wrongly invoked, he added. Question of debate Howard said he would consider an opposition Labour Party proposal that Australian visa forms include a statement of Australian values so newcomers would know what was expected of them. What constitutes Australian values remains a question of debate. What you have to do is to get people to integrate and if part of that integration process is to better understand and more strongly commit to Australian values, then I'm all for it, Howard said. An advocate group for immigrants dismissed the concept of new arrivals signing a statement of values as absurd. Getting visa-holders to tick a box saying that they support hard work is hardly the key to making Australian multiculturalism work or defeating terrorism, Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria state said in a statement. But Labour Leader Kim Beazley said requiring immigrants to state that they would respect different religious and political views as well as respect women would help moderate Islamic leaders counter the spread of extremism. (AP) [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: 12 Taliban Militants Killed in Shootout
12 Taliban Militants Killed in Shootout -- Afghan forces killed 12 suspected Taliban militants Tuesday in a shootout south of the capital, while more than 30 suspected insurgents were detained as security forces fought back against a deadly spike in violence, officials said. -- ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2424179CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Stop blaming America for terrorism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/09/12/do1202 .xmlsSheet=/opinion/2006/09/12/ixopinion.html Stop blaming America for terrorism By Anne Applebaum (Filed: 12/09/2006) Daily Telegaph 'Poised as I am, halfway between the two cultures, it was a little strange watching British reactions to events in America last week. It was a little strange even being in Britain last week. On Tuesday after hijacked planes had hit targets in Washington, where my family live, and New York, where most of my friends live, I was standing in Bond Street, dialling and redialling their numbers on my mobile telephone, unable to get through. No, that wasn't plagiarism: it was the opening paragraph of an article I wrote five years ago in The Sunday Telegraph, describing British and American reactions to the events of September 11, 2001. Yes, I realise that it's bad taste to quote oneself. But in truth, I can no longer remember the events clearly. I see them now through the haze of everything that happened afterwards: Afghanistan, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Madrid, London. Inevitably, I also see them through the haze of cliché. The image of the Twin Towers burning and collapsing no longer feels shocking. advertisement Nevertheless, I think it's worth looking back at what people really felt on September 11, 2001, because not everyone felt the same, then or later. Certainly it's true that, five years ago, Tony Blair spoke of standing shoulder to shoulder with America, that Iain Duncan Smith (remember him?) echoed him, and that Jacques Chirac was on his way to Washington to say the same. But it's also true that this initial wave of goodwill hardly outlasted the news cycle. Within a couple of days a Guardian columnist wrote of the unabashed national egotism and arrogance that drives anti-Americanism among swaths of the world's population. A Daily Mail columnist denounced the self-sought imperial role of the United States, which he said had made it enemies of every sort across the globe. That week's edition of Question Time featured a sustained attack on Phil Lader, the former US ambassador to Britain and a man who had lost colleagues in the World Trade Centre who seemed near to tears as he was asked questions about the millions and millions of people around the world despising the American nation. At least some Britons, like many other Europeans, were already secretly or openly pleased by the 9/11 attacks. And all of this was before Afghanistan, before Tony Blair was tainted by his friendship with George Bush, and before anyone knew the word neo-con, let alone felt the need to claim not to be one. The dislike of America, the hatred for what it was believed to stand for capitalism, globalisation, militarism, Zionism, Hollywood or McDonald's, depending on your point of view was well entrenched. To put it differently, the scorn now widely felt in Britain and across Europe for America's war on terrorism actually preceded the war on terrorism itself. It was already there on September 12 and 13, right out in the open for everyone to see. Since then, the changes in both foreign and domestic policy in the US have been profound. Although I don't need to remind anyone of the former, the latter have been largely invisible abroad. Living in Washington for the past four years, I watched as the American government reorganised itself, often clumsily, much as it reorganised in the late 1940s, at the start of the Cold War. The Bush Administration with the support of the Democrats in Congress and elsewhere created an enormous new Department of Homeland Security, a new directorate of intelligence. The Department of State finally shifted its attention to the Muslim world; new funds were made available for the study of Arabic and Farsi. For better or for worse, the conversation in Washington changed dramatically, too, and as a result is now largely focused on problems of Islamic fundamentalism, the Middle East, and democracy (and the lack thereof) in the Arab world. For better or for worse, the war on terrorism has become what the Cold War used to be: the focal point of American foreign policy, the central concern around which everything else is organised. The same cannot be said of Europe. Despite the fact that the worst subsequent terrorist attacks have taken place here, not in the US and although it now appears that the most dangerous pool of Islamic fanatics is here, not the Middle East I don't detect a similar desire in London or Berlin to rearrange priorities or to change the tone of national debate, let alone to forge a stronger alliance with the US or to engage in what ought to be a joint project. In part, this is thanks to the extraordinary diplomatic failure of the Bush Administration, which, believing its military power entitled it to arrogance, spurned America's traditional alliances and launched a war in Iraq without making any preparations for the consequences. Although much of the past year has been spent
[osint] News Flash: Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue
Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue -- An Algerian terror cell linked to Al-Qaida that was broken up by Italian police last fall was planning to carry out attacks on targets in Oslo, Norway, including the city's main synagogue. -- Jerusalem Post [ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullcid=1157913614750 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Iran sets list of conditions
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=35265 Iran sets list of conditions From correspondents in Vienna, Austria September 12, 2006 05:52am Article from: Agence France-Presse IRAN has set a list of conditions, including no UN actions against Tehran, in offering to consider a two-month suspension of uranium enrichment, a Western diplomat said today. In giving details of a closed-door meeting between top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and European foreign policy chief Javier Solana last weekend in Vienna, the diplomat said Iran had a long list (of conditions) including (a) complete and total halt in activity at the UN Security Council, an absolute stepping down from going for sanctions and that Iran would have the right to nuclear fuel technology on its soil. In return for this, Larijani said the Iranians would consider, consider not actually carry out, a two-month halt in enrichment. It was all very conditional, the diplomat said, in relating a briefing from Mr Solana. The Iranian offer first revealed yesterday had raised hopes of a breakthrough in the international standoff over Iran's nuclear ambitions but the diplomat said that Mr Larijani's conditions dashed these hopes. The conditions are unacceptable to the six world powers offering Iran talks on a package of trade and other benefits because they would guarantee Tehran the right to sensitive nuclear fuel work and protect it from any punitive UN action, said the diplomat, who asked to remain anonymous due to the confidentiality of the information. Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States want a full and unconditional suspension of uranium enrichment to start the negotiations, the diplomat said. Enrichment is the strategic process which makes nuclear reactor fuel but also atom bomb material. There was not any new offer on the table from the Iranians. It was all incredibly conditional and all temporary, the diplomat said, adding that the suspension would come before negotiations. The details on the Larijani-Solana talks come with the United States warning today at a meeting of the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna that it is still seeking sanctions against Tehran. Gregory Schulte, US ambassador to the IAEA, said Washington welcomed progress made in the Larijani-Solana talks at the weekend in Vienna but that as long as Iran has failed to suspend uranium enrichment we will be looking to move forward in the (United Nations) Security Council with the sanctions regime. Mr Schulte told reporters today that if Iran did suspend enrichment this would have to be not for one or two months but for as long as negotiations proceed and without preconditions. The six nations threaten UN sanctions if Tehran does not comply. Iran refuses, however, to suspend enrichment and defied a UN Security Council August 31 deadline for it to freeze the strategic nuclear fuel work. The diplomat said: The condition laid out in 1696 (the Council resolution setting the deadline) is really a simple one, a sign of good faith to stop their enrichment. An EU diplomat confirmed that Mr Larijani had made the offer to Mr Solana yesterday in Vienna. He offered a two-month suspension but there were no details and it was not clear when it would start, the diplomat said. But Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the Iranian ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog in Vienna, denied that Mr Larijani had said this. Mr Schulte said that if Iran did suspend enrichment this would have to be not for one or two months but that the suspension needs to be in place as long as negotiations proceed. Mr Solana and Mr Larijani said yesterday they had made progress in last-ditch talks to avert UN sanctions and would meet again this week. Mr Solana and Mr Larijani were believed to be trying to find a face-saving deal. Diplomats said the formula for a compromise revolved around whether an enrichment suspension would start before, during or after negotiations and how long it would last. IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said today that negotiation remains the best option to find a durable solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis. But he said: The window of opportunity however is not very long. [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: 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
[osint] News Flash: Nasrallah blasts Blair's Lebanon visit
Nasrallah blasts Blair's Lebanon visit -- Hizbullah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah strongly condemned British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Lebanon, saying he was a partner in the killing of Lebanese, according to a televised interview aired Tuesday. -- Jerusalem Post [ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullcid=1157913614980 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] ONE ARAB'S APOLOGY
Amazing.minority view of one and too little too late.but still nice recognition of the fact that without ISLAM there is no ISLAMIC terror. Bruce http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/one_arabs_apology_opedcolum nists_emilio_karim_dabul.htm ONE ARAB'S APOLOGY By EMILIO KARIM DABUL September 12, 2006 -- WELL, here it is, five years late, but here just the same: an apology from an Arab-American for 9/11. No, I didn't help organize the killers or contribute in any way to their terrible cause. However, I was one of millions of Arab-Americans who did the unspeakable on 9/11: nothing. The only time I raised my voice in protest against these men who killed thousands of innocents in the name of Allah was behind closed doors, among the safety of friends and family. I did at one point write a very vitriolic essay condemning their actions, but fear of becoming another Salman Rushdie kept me from ever trying to publish it. Well, I'm sick of saying the truth only in private - that Arabs around the world, including Arab-Americans like myself, need to start holding our own culture accountable for the insane, violent actions that our extremists have perpetrated on the world at large. Yes, our extremists and our culture. Every single 9/11 hijacker was Arab and a Muslim. The apologists (including President Bush) tried to reassure us that 9/11 had nothing to do with Islam, but was a twisting of a great and noble religion. With all due respect, read the Koran, Mr. President. There's enough there for someone of extreme tendencies to find their way to a global jihad. There's also enough there for someone of a different mindset to find a path to enlightenment and peace. Still, Rushdie had it right back in 2001: This does have to do with Islam. A Christian who bombs an abortion clinic in the name of God is still a Christian, at least in his interpretation, and saying otherwise doesn't negate the fact that he has spent a goodly amount of time figuring out his version of the one true and right thing to do. The men who killed 3,000 of our citizens on 9/11 in all likelihood died saying prayers to Allah, and that by itself is one of the most horrific things to me about that day. And, while my grandparents never waged a jihad, their attitudes toward Jews weren't that much different than Mohammed Atta's. No, they didn't support the Holocaust, but they did believe that Jews were trouble in many different ways, and those sorts of beliefs were passed on to me before I'd ever actually met a Jew. I'm sorry for that, for ever believing that anything that my grandparents or other relatives had to say about Jews or Israel, for that matter, had any real resemblance to truth. It took me years to realize that I'd been conned into believing the generalizations and stereotypes that millions around the Arab world buy into: that Jews, America and Israel are our main problem. One look at the average Arab regime should alert us to the fact that the problem, dear Achmed, lies not overseas or next door in Tel Aviv, but in the brutal, corrupt despots that we have bred from country to country in the Mideast, across the span of history. That history and its corresponding economic devastation is the main reason I reside on New York City's West Bank - New Jersey - not the one near Jerusalem. On my worst day, I'm happy about that fact. I'd rather be here than there, and experience the freedom and boundless opportunities that were mostly unknown to so many generations of my family in the Mideast. For as long as I live, the image of those towers falling, as I watched in horror and disbelief from the corner of 40th and Fifth, will be for me my Pearl Harbor, for in that instant I recognized that not only was our city under attack - so was our freedom. It still is. And will continue to be for years to come. And the threat is not from within, but from Islamic fascists who desperately want to destroy the freedom and opportunities that millions the world over still seek. Five years after that awful day, it's time for all Arab-Americans, and Arabs around the world, to protest against Islamic fascism, to raise our voices - and, where necessary, our arms - against these tyrants until their plague of terror has been driven from the face of the earth forever. Emilio Karim Dabul is a freelance writer and PR consultant living in New Jersey. [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: 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
[osint] How New York City fights terror now
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0911/p01s03-ussc.html How New York City fights terror now By http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=C1ECE5F8E1EEE4F2E1A0CDE1 F2EBF3 Alexandra Marks | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor September 11, 2006 NEW YORK Just after dawn, more than 75 police cars race to Times Square, lights flashing, then converge in what's called combat fashion. Each backs halfway onto the sidewalk in a daunting show of municipal muscle and readiness. Across town on the Gowanus Expressway, three heavily armored SUVs suddenly pull over. Helmeted antiterrorism officers jump out and survey the Brooklyn scene around them, guns cocked and ready. Meanwhile, in Lyon, France, a New York Police Department detective is being briefed on Interpol's latest terrorist intelligence and immediately relays it back to One Police Plaza in Manhattan. NYPD intelligence gathering and drills such as these happen every day. Five years after 9/11, New York has emerged as an international leader in urban security and counterterrorism measures. On any given day, more than 1,000 uniformed officers are tasked with ensuring that New York City - still the world's No. 1 terrorist target, according to analysts - is doing everything in its power to prevent another attack. Indeed, the city's police department has developed a wide variety of tactics, from positioning detectives abroad to reaching out to the Muslim community at home. Terrorism experts applaud the city's approach in part because of this comprehensive nature. That reflects a growing consensus among security analysts that five years after 9/11, the United States must readjust its thinking and behavior in the fight against terror: It should not only continue to implement on-the-ground security measures, they say, but it should also reaffirm and cultivate bedrock American values that could counterbalance terrorist efforts. In the final analysis, our security is not going to be a matter of barriers and bollards and electronic surveillance or keeping shampoo from carry-on luggage, says terrorism expert Brian Jenkins, who created the terrorism unit at RAND Corp. more than 30 years ago. It is really going to be found in our own courage and our continuing commitment to our own values and the rule of law - our sense of community, our tolerance, our historic traditions of self-reliance and resilience. That spirit of self-reliance is what motivated New York to create its unique counterterrorism and intelligence units within the police department, as well as to post detectives in 10 different countries. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the city had no choice, if it wanted to protect itself. I would like to think we perfect and hone our skills virtually every day, says Commissioner Kelly. But we're not in a position to declare success. New York now spends $200 million a year on counterterrorism measures - most of it coming from the city's coffers, not the federal government. The approach taken by the city of New York is absolutely essential, says Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland's Center on Health and Homeland Security. On a broad array of issues, the federal government has let the states and cities down. But federal government has also increased its homeland security spending to an estimated $49 billion this year, up from $20 billion five years ago. According to the White House, those increased funds have helped transform the federal government so that it is now better informed of terrorist threats, with improved intelligence collection. Over the past five years, we have waged an unprecedented campaign against terror at home and abroad, and that campaign has succeeded in protecting the homeland, President Bush told the Georgia Public Policy Foundation in Atlanta last week in the final of three speeches addressing the national threat five years after 9/11. At the same time ... we've seen that the extremists have not given up on their dreams to strike our nation. That is foremost in the minds of independent terrorism experts. They acknowledge that progress has been made, but they contend that the federal government still hasn't addressed huge gaps in the nation's security, from a lack of screening of cargo on passenger planes to failures to properly harden and protect the nation's nuclear and chemical plants. We're not doing enough, quickly enough, in almost every area, says Lee Hamilton, vice chair of the 9/11 commission and president of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. We're now going about things with a 'business as usual' attitude, without the sufficient urgency that I think is warranted. At a conference called Rethinking the Future Since September 11th at Pace University, located a few blocks from ground zero, Mr. Hamilton argued that security needs to include more than physical protection and integrate such things as foreign policy, community outreach, and economic and educational
[osint] Al-Qaeda is everywhere
In the sense that Islam is 'everywhere'.al-Qaeda is simply the armed wing of Islam. Bruce http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=142727 Al-Qaeda is everywhere Friday Sep 8 10:00 AEST By Hal Crawford The consensus emerging from a welter of commentators, analysts and experts is that after five years of war on al Qaeda, the United States and its allies are engaged in not physical but conceptual conflict. This is a war against an idea. Al-Qaeda has no rigid structure. It has no fixed HQ, no lines of command or supply, no superannuation. It can't be bombed into the Stone Age or any other historical era, because the organisation distributes itself among innocent populations. Most insidious of all, the more global attention al-Qaeda gets, the more it grows. I call it 'dog whistle terrorism', says Damien Kingsbury, an Associate Professor at Melbourne's Deakin University and keen observer of international terrorism. A global call is being made which doesn't register with the majority of the population. It's only picked up by those attuned to it. And in the case of al-Qaeda, hearing the call is enough to qualify for the club. All you have to do is subscribe to a few key elements - Islam, the violent struggle against the West - and you can call yourself an al-Qaeda operative. Although this puts the terrorist organisation on the flimsier end of reality, it does exist, according to most analysts. Al-Qaeda is a great example of 'leaderless resistance', says Dr Kingsbury. The structure is atomised, there's no formal hierarchy. You can't lop the head off, because there is no real head. Bizarrely, this kind of organisation was pioneered by ultra-rightwing white supremist groups in the US. Organisations such as the US-based Aryan Nations have made themselves impossible to shut down, and al-Qaeda has learned the lessons. The result is a loose association which actually benefits from persecution, the 'dog whistle' getting louder with every mention by presidents, law enforcers, and journalists. The situation is getting worse, there's no doubt in my mind, says Dr Kingsbury. In an open example that this is a struggle of ideas, an al-Qaeda video emerged last weekend urging US soldiers to switch sides in Iraq and Afghanistan. A 28-year-old American, Adam Yehiye Gadahn, was the one selling Islam to the GIs. And although such direct appeals are unlikely to have soldiers defecting in droves, they give the illusion of al-Qaeda offering a real alterative. This, in turn, reinforces its righteousness in the Arab world. In the war of ideas, al-Qaeda's leadership from Osama bin Laden down have made use of old concepts of Arab nationalism, according to Professor Fred Halliday of the London School of Economics. Bin Laden says countries are occupied by foreigners and have the right to fight. With him . . . 80 percent of the rhetoric is secular nationalism reconfigured, Dr Halliday says. The solution most people point to is to encourage the voice of moderate Islam, a competing idea which rejects indiscriminate slaughter as a perversion of its religion. The real battle against al-Qaeda is going to be won or lost on the basis of ideas, at the moment military actions are having the opposite effect, Dr Kingsbury says. Other commentators agree that military intervention has worked against the US by making the voice of moderate Islam - one of the most effective weapons against the idea of al Qaeda - less credible. American actions against political Islam after September 11 have ironically contributed to its further rise and emergence, even in its most fanatical, extremist forms, says US-based academic As'ad AbuKhalil. The use of military force alone actually plays into the terrorists' hands, by promoting a backlash in the countries where Western troops are active. Unless you tackle this at an ideological level, [al-Qaeda] will be with us for decades, Dr Kingsbury says. Remember, for these extremists, it's the struggle that constitutes their religious observation - struggle is the purpose. with Reuters [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: 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
[osint] News Flash: Bush assassination film set for U.S. release
Bush assassination film set for U.S. release -- After you kill off President George W. Bush in a fictional film, what do you do? How about make a deal. -- Reuters [ http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNewsstoryid=2006-09-12T050038Z_01_N11475432_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-FILMFEST-PRESIDENT.xmlsrc=rss ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Al-Qaeda, Muslims are Infidels of Bush's Freedom Agenda
Original Article at http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mohamed__060911_al_qaeda_2c_muslims_ ar.htm _ September 11, 2006 Al-Qaeda, Muslims are Infidels of Bush's Freedom Agenda By Mohamed Al-Azaki Sana'a, Yemen -- The al-Qaeda threats have actually bedeviled president Bush for the five years since the September 11 attacks. President George W. Bush now has no opportunity to bring it to an end. This is not in the interests of Americans, Europeans, and the US closet allies of Arab regimes in the Middle East that prefer peace to war. From the perspective of the United States, this global war has become a strategic imperative. A new counterterrorism strategy released eight days ago by the White House believed in President Bush's freedom agenda of promoting democracy as the leading long-term weapon against the evolving nature of the terrorist threats. While the fact on the ground is that many Arabs and Muslims are now infidels of Bush's freedom agenda that are currently applying in Iraq, they do no longer believe in the US-style democratic project in the Middle East; I'm not talking about dictatorial Arab regimes, but major hungry people in the Arab and Muslim world. Many Arabs know the fact that the United States support of its Arab 'friendly' regimes prevented spreading real democracy to the Islamic world. The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism in its new counterterrorism strategy described al-Qaeda as a significantly degraded organization, but outlines potent threats from smaller networks and individuals motivated by al-Qaeda ideology. Oh great! It's maybe true that al-Qaeda and jihadist movements have lost secure shelters and the open battle fronts. This situation, according to Arabic-language al-Qaeda's strategy released through jihadist web sites, led al-Qaeda to build self-controlled small cells - in nearly most countries, including the United States and Britain � deeply believing in al-Qaeda idea of the holy war against the political, economic and military power of America and its Western and Arab allies. The counterterrorism strategy came from the fact that Bush administration believes in a global vital organization of al-Qaeda that its organizations rang from a fully functioning state such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Jordan to small groups of individuals in British and American cities. In addition, the US administration in its new strategy admitted the bitter fact that al-Qaeda was no longer a smaller group fighting a losing battle with that US-led coalition on Pakistani-Afghanistan borders; it's widely dispersed Islamic youths who are often isolated and linked by little more than the Internet from Afghan capital Kabul into Washington, New York and London. The al-Qaeda tendency to be formed as smaller networks and individuals has made it a striking force in all over the world; the White House recognized this fact probably due to all terrorist attacks have been carried out by smaller networks whether in the September 11 attacks or London bombings. After September 11, the Arab public became sympathizers to those al-Qaeda-related terrorists, describing them as an opposition group against Israel and the presence of US military bases in the Middle East. The US strategy failed to find out the next step for al-Qaeda attacks that will be in Israel and Israeli interests within its friendly countries. According to al-Qaeda's strategy, its attacks will be different than assaults of Palestinian jihadist movements and Hamas... it will be an anther September 11, 2001. Absolutely, the five years since September 11 attacks on American soil have proven the previous counterterrorism strategies wrong. Only the coming days will also prove this new counterterrorism strategy as additional Bush's grave blunder. The bad managing of the US war on terrorism succeeded not only in inflaming anti-U.S. opinion throughout the Islamic world, including, significantly, the US allies in Europe, according to most regional experts in Washington, but also in weakening the pro-Western Islamist-dominated governments � notably Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan � that, as before 9/11, remain Washington's only allies in the region. Many Muslims are now laughing at Bush's freedom agenda of promoting Palestinian democracy that led Hamas government under the siege! Here is al-Qaeda has won in its propaganda against the unfair democracy and freedom in the Arab public that led them not to believe any future US project for the region. I think it's easy for everyone loves peace to conclude that if the United States really wants to improve its image in the Middle East, it must find a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a first step, and to stabilize Iraq after the war. These are a critical component for Bush administration to winning the war of ideas in Muslim world and defeating the recruiting processes of Arab youths by al-Qaeda that exploits the American
[osint] Our secret agents fight al-Qaeda
Even if true, hardly necessary to tell the enemy. Bruce http://www.smh. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/australian-secret-agents-fight-alqaeda/200 6/09/09/1157222384437.html com.au/news/world/australian-secret-agents-fight-alqaeda/2006/09/09/11572223 84437.html# Our secret agents fight al-Qaeda September 10, 2006 A TEAM of secret agents bringing together the US, Australia and four other countries to fight al-Qaeda has been based in Paris since 2003, France-Info radio has reported. The existence of the team, codenamed Alliance Base, was reported last year by The Washington Post newspaper but officials have never confirmed the report. France-Info said it had access to documents that referred to the creation of the secret cell in 2003. The base was made up of secret agents from the US, with the CIA and the FBI represented; Britain, with MI5 and MI6 agents; Canada, Australia, Germany and France, the station said. The cell was partly funded by the CIA. France-Info said the documents provided the location of Alliance Base at L'Ecole Militaire in Paris's chic 7th district. The arrest of a German man, Christian Ganczarski, who was described by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy as a ranking al-Qaeda member with contacts with Osama bin Laden, was attributed to Alliance Base by The Washington Post. The newspaper, which cited anonymous US and European intelligence sources, said the base was set up to track the transnational movement of terror suspects. Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly's adoption of a counter-terrorism blueprint has disappointed many nations because it does not include a definition or say anything about states that commit terrorist acts. The document, adopted by consensus, is the result of a year of often bitter work to meet world leaders' demands that the UN help its 192 members fight the scourge. Much of the strategy, distributed yesterday, repeats previous commitments, for example, promises to implement earlier General Assembly and Security Council resolutions. Yet there are some nuggets that are considered useful, including suggestions that the UN and member nations develop a database on biological incidents to counter the threat of bio-terror, take measures to combat terrorism on the internet and clamp down on the counterfeiting of travel documents. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] War continues till terror is wiped out
http://www.ibnlive.com/printpage.php?id=21290 http://www.ibnlive.com/printpage.php?id=21290section_id=4 section_id=4 Washington DC: United states President George W Bush says America will continue its war against terror till terror itself is wiped out. Addressing Americans on Monday night, he said, the country faces a struggle for civilization as it fights the war on terrorism sparked by the 9/11 attacks five years ago. In an address from the Oval Office, the President stressed the necessity of victory, tying together conflicts from Afghanistan to Iraq to Lebanon as a struggle between tyranny and freedom that rivaled World War II. Do we have the confidence to do in the Middle East what our fathers and grandfathers accomplished in Europe and Asia? Bush asked. If we do not defeat these enemies now, we will leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons, Bush said. We are in a war that will set the course for this new century and determine the destiny of millions across the world, he added. We are fighting to maintain the way of life enjoyed by free nations, and we are fighting for the possibility that good and decent people across the Middle East can raise up societies based on freedom and tolerance and personal dignity, Bush said. By standing with democratic leaders and reformers, by giving voice to the hopes of decent men and women, we are offering a path away from radicalism. Bush said the invasion of Iraq was a necessary part of the war on terror because the regime of Saddam Hussein was a clear threat that posed a risk that the world could not afford to take. The President pledged not to waver in Iraq so terrorists would not gain psychological and tactical victories. If we yield Iraq to men like (Osama) bin Laden, our enemies will be emboldened, Bush said. They will gain a new safe haven, and they will use Iraq's resources to fuel their extremist movement, he added. During the speech, the president acknowledged setbacks in Iraq. Whatever mistakes have been made in Iraq, the worst mistake would be to think that if we pulled out, the terrorists would leave us alone. They will not leave us alone. They will follow us, he said. The safety of America depends on the outcome of the battle in the streets of Baghdad, Bush said. Bush said doubts about promoting democracy in the Middle East had led to 60 years of failed policy. On a bright September morning, it became clear that the calm we saw in the Middle East was only a mirage. Years of pursuing stability to promote peace had left us with neither, he said. Bush said the war on terror was unlike any we've ever fought before, but said the sacrifices Americans made to defeat Japan and Germany in World War II, and to prevail in the Cold War, are akin to what is needed now. America has confronted evil before, and we have defeated it, he said. The President called on the American people to put aside our differences and work together to meet the test that history has given us. We will defeat our enemies, we will protect our people, and we will lead the 21st century into a shining age of human liberty, Bush said. The President also saluted the heroism exhibited by Americans after the terrorist attacks in 2001. On 9/11, our nation saw the face of evil, he said. Yet, on that awful day, we also witnessed something distinctly American - ordinary citizens rising to the occasion and responding with extraordinary acts of courage. He praised those who had volunteered for public service since the 9/11 attacks, saying 1.6 million people had joined the nation's armed services during that time. The speech capped a day of tributes at the sites where terrorists piloting hijacked airliners struck five years ago - New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed as passengers tried to wrest back control of the airplane. The President and first lady laid a wreath at the site of the Flight 93 crash and Bush exchanged hugs and greetings with people who lost family members onboard. In Monday evening's speech, Bush saluted those who fought the hijackers on Flight 93, saying they gave America our first victory in the war on terror. After the Shanksville ceremony, the Bushes went to the Pentagon for a wreath-laying ceremony. Bush shared private words, handshakes and hugs with victims' family members among the 100 people gathered at the Pentagon, at one point appearing to wipe away a tear. The Bushes began their day in New York, having breakfast with first responder personnel at a firehouse before attending the ceremony to commemorate the fifth anniversary of 9/11. An estimated 2,973 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks
[osint] Bin Laden's Victory
Bin Ladens victory will come with the victory of Islam its not over yet. Bruce http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091100 880.html Bin Laden's Victory By Richard Cohen Tuesday, September 12, 2006; A23 NEW YORK -- I hear Osama bin Laden laughing. I heard him all day on Sunday and Monday as the mass murder of Sept. 11, 2001, was memorialized at the Pentagon and in that field in Pennsylvania and especially here, where the most people died and where countless cameras recorded it all for posterity and an abiding, everlasting anger. He laughs, the madman does, whenever George Bush says, as he has over and over, that America is winning this war on terror. Bin Laden knows better. He has already won. It is not merely that bin Laden has not been captured or killed and that videotapes keep coming out of his hideout like taunts. It is, rather, that his initial strategy has borne fruit. It was always his intention to draw the Americans into Afghanistan, where, as had been done to the Soviets, they could be mauled by the fierce mujaheddin. He tried and failed when he blew up the USS Cole off Aden at 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 12, 2000, killing 17 sailors and crippling the ship. But he succeeded beyond his wildest expectations when the United States responded to the Sept. 11 attacks by invading Afghanistan and, in a beat, then going to war in Iraq. It remains mired in both countries to this day. From bin Laden's standpoint, this has been a glorious victory, made possible, it has to be said, by the totally unforeseen incompetence of the Bush administration. It was so intent on going to war in Iraq that it would not finish the job in Afghanistan. So, to bin Laden's absolute amazement -- I am guessing here -- the United States took on his enemy, the secular and ungodly Saddam Hussein, whom bin Laden himself would gladly have murdered. It has to be a wonderful thing when your enemy vanquishes your enemy. On Meet the Press on Sunday, Dick Cheney said that if he had it to do all over again, he would still go to war in Iraq -- we'd do exactly the same thing, he said. Why? Is the man incapable of learning from experience? We now know from umpteen reports that there was no link between bin Laden and Hussein. We now know, the Weekly Standard notwithstanding, that Mohamed Atta did not meet in Prague with someone from Iraqi intelligence. We now know that Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and that the Iraq war -- which has cost America more than 2,500 lives, 20,000 casualties, the respect of the world and billions of dollars -- is for naught. Talleyrand said of the Bourbons that they forgot nothing and learned nothing. It will be said of Cheney that he forgot everything and learned nothing. How did bin Laden get so lucky? How did he get so fortunate in his choice of enemies? The Bush administration not only validated his wildest dreams -- dreams that even some of his aides thought were unrealistic -- but went even further. By using torture, by the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, by employing extraordinary renditions of suspects to countries where they could be tortured, by insisting on going it almost alone in Iraq, by telling the international community to shove it, by declaring a war for an idée fixe -- this fierce obsession with Hussein goes back a long way -- the United States has made itself reviled in much of the world. And here at home, here in the United States of America, it will be a long time before lots of people trust their government again. Little wonder that 16 percent of respondents said in a recent poll that it was very likely that the government played some role in the Sept. 11 attacks to justify a war in the Middle East. This is a shocking figure, a measure not just of irrational thinking but of the cost of the Bush administration's mauling of the truth in its mad march to war. Bush has damaged his country more than bin Laden ever could on his own. I was here on Sept. 11, 2001 -- downtown when the twin towers collapsed. My instantaneous reaction -- the thought that came to my mind as I heard the sound of the buildings coming down -- was for revenge. I would, to this day, kill Osama bin Laden with my own hands. But as much as I hate the man, I have to recognize that from his vantage point, from his mountain fastness somewhere on the Pakistan-Afghanistan frontier, he has won. What he had set out to do, he has done. That is more than we can say. [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: 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
[osint] News Flash: AFP: 6,000 troops now pursuing Sayyaf chief, JI bombers
AFP: 6,000 troops now pursuing Sayyaf chief, JI bombers -- Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon disclosed on Monday that 6,000 government troops have been deployed to intensify the ongoing pursuit operations against the band of Abu Sayyaf leader Khaddafy Janjalani and two Jemaah Islamiyah bomb experts in the jungles of Sulu. -- Philippine Star [ http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200609130403.htm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: 'AL-QAEDA'S MR. NUCLEAR TO HEAD FRESH ATTACK ON U.S.'
'AL-QAEDA'S MR. NUCLEAR TO HEAD FRESH ATTACK ON U.S.' -- Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. -- AKI - Adnkronos International [ http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorismloid=8.0.338885348par=0 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Scottish terrorists in water threat
Scottish terrorists in water threat Monday, September 11, 2006 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=19554 http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=19554in_page_id=2 in_page_id=2 Water reservoir Some water, yesterday The Scottish National Liberation Army, a tiny group of extremists dedicated to removing the English from Scotland, have threatened to poison the water supplies of England. The threat came in an email sent to the Glasgow offices of The Sunday Times, which warned that they group planned to poison the public water supplies in England only, and claimed: 'We have the means to do this, and we shall. This is a war and we intend to win it.' The SNLA - which may be no more than only one or two people - includes in its aims the reversal of 'mass English immigration' to Scotland, and the restoration of Scots Gaelic (spoken by just over 1% of the population) as the national language. They were most active in the early 1980s, sending letter bombs to politicians including Margaret Thatcher, as well as to Princess Diana. More recent SNLA terror attacks include a package of fake anthrax, sent to St Andrews University in the months before Prince William started University there - with the chilling result that the Prince came within weeks of being in the same building as a substance that looked like but wasn't anthrax. And in 2002 they sent caustic soda to Cherie Blair, disguised as aromatherapy oil. Most terrifyingly, they also struck a significant blow against the British state by targeting a Cape Cod firm that sold HP Sauce to British expats in America. The water-poisoning warning was accompanied by the publication on the website of the Scottish Seperatist Group - the SNLA's 'political wing' - of instructions for how to carry out the attack, under the heading 'HOW TO MAKE AND USE A HOME-MADE WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION.' The document, which perhaps gives away that crucial element of surprise, details how the attack would be conducted via fire hydrants, and suggests that just 'ten kilograms of [the substance] in a city's drinking water supplies can kill up to 200,000 people.' It fails to mention that this would require those 200,000 people to drink an entire city's water supply between them. Police have confirmed that they are looking into the threats under the 2006 Terrorism Act. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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 THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [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: 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
[osint] 12 Taliban Militants Killed in Shootout
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2424179 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2424179CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds03 12 CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 12 Taliban Militants Killed in Shootout Afghan Forces Kill 12 Suspected Taliban in Shootout South of Kabul; 30 More Detained By AMIR SHAH The Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan forces killed 12 suspected Taliban militants Tuesday in a shootout south of the capital, while more than 30 suspected insurgents were detained as security forces fought back against a deadly spike in violence, officials said. A fierce gunbattle broke out in Ghazni province's mountainous Andar district as Afghan soldiers and police, backed by U.S.-led coalition forces, entered an area where insurgents were holed up, said Mohammed Ali Fakuri, spokesman for the provincial governor. Twelve militants were killed in the ensuing clash and their bodies left at the scene by comrades who fled, Fakuri said. Two policemen and one Afghan soldier were wounded. Ghazni and other southern provinces, particularly Kandahar and Helmand, are gripped by the deadliest spate of fighting since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks for harboring al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. A U.S.-led coalition soldier was also killed and another injured when their Humvee rolled over Monday in Kunar province's Asadabad district, a coalition statement said. Police arrested nine people accused of helping Afghan and Pakistani militants prepare for suicide attacks, said Taj Uddin, spokesman for Afghanistan's counterterrorism department. The nine were arrested Friday in the eastern Logar province and transferred to Kabul for questioning. We have reports that four suicide bombers were aided by this group and coming from Logar, said Uddin, who added one of the four was killed in a recent attack on the Jalalabad-Kabul road. Uddin had no details on whether the group was linked to the suicide bombing in Kabul that killed at least 16 people, including two U.S. soldiers. Logar province tribesmen rejected the claim that the detainees, including a child about 15 years old and an elderly man, were part of a militant cell. They had a dispute with a man in their village, who accused them of being involved with suicide bombings, said Haji Alkum, who traveled from Logar to Kabul to try ensure their release. They were shepherds, not terrorists. Police also confiscated several Iranian, Chinese and Russian-made weapons, including machine-guns, bomb-making materials and thousands of rounds of ammunition, from a house in the province allegedly linked to the nine, Uddin said. American and Afghan soldiers also detained nine suspected terrorists belonging to the radical Hezb-e-Islami group of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the al-Qaida network, the U.S. military said. U.S. and Afghan soldiers also arrested two men suspected of being midlevel commanders of the Hezb-e-Islami militant group in the Khost province area of Gorcak, the coalition said in a statement. One of the men was a suspected bomb-making expert who was allegedly linked to attacks in the Shembawot Bazaar village in Gurbuz district, a May bombing of an Afghan army checkpoint in Khulbesat and the July murder of an Afghan army lieutenant colonel. Seven other militants, including a Hezb-e-Islami commander, were arrested Monday in eastern Nangarhar province, the U.S. military said. The other six were suspected al-Qaida members. Separately in Wardak province, west of Kabul, police surrounded a fortified compound at about 3 a.m. and arrested 12 Taliban, including the head of the cell, said provincial police chief Gen. Mahboobullah Amiri. NATO said its soldiers captured seven suspected insurgents and disrupted supply and communication routes through Helmand and Kandahar provinces. Taliban forces also attacked a police checkpoint near the district chief's office in Daychopan district of southern Zabul province Monday, said provincial police chief Noor Mohammed Paktim. One militant was killed and three wounded. Associated Press writer Noor Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report. Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Copyright C 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures [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: 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
[osint] U.S. Politicians Should Focus On Tehran
U.S. Politicians Should Focus On Tehran, Netanyahu Says BY DANIEL FREEDMAN September 8, 2006 NEW YORK - Benjamin Netanyahu, as part of an American tour repositioning himself for a return to the Israeli premiership, told an audience in New York yesterday that President Bush is preparing to ditch the United Nations to take on Iran alone and that American politicians of all parties would do well to stop squabbling about Iraq and join the president in focusing on threat from Tehran. The former prime minister, who leads the right of center Likud Party in opposition to the current government, went on to tell lunch guests of the Hudson Institute that another war between Hezbollah and Israel is inevitable and that a shift in Israeli politics is about to take place with his return to power and a return to the principles that guided thinking in Jerusalem until the Oslo Accords. Largely ignored in the coverage of Mr. Bush's speech Tuesday on the war on terror, Mr. Netanyahu told his audience more than once, was Mr. Bush's statement that the world's free nations will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. Not that the United Nations won't allow, said Mr. Netanyahu, but that the free nations of the world won't allow. Mr. Netanyahu called it a sign that on the Iranian problem the president was preparing to stop working through the United Nations and instead work with whoever would join him. Unfortunately, said Mr. Netanyahu, Britain and America, along with Israel and Iran, are the only countries at the moment that understand what is at stake if Iran acquires the bomb. Meantime, the Europeans . Mr. Netanyahu trailed off, struggling to find the right word, at which point members of the audience interjected with inaudible, although apparently uncomplimentary, suggestions. I'm trying to be diplomatic, Mr. Netanyahu replied before saying, for the sake of mankind, Iran couldn't be permitted to have a nuclear weapon. Israel's one-time ambassador to the United Nations urged Americans of all political persuasions to not get caught up arguing about Iraq. Mr. Netanyahu dismissed the argument that fears of Iranian plans for WMD might be false in the way that predictions on Iraq have come under question. Mr. Netanyahu said Israel had told America that claims about Iraq's weapons were based on conjecture, while with Iran we're not guessing. We know. Americans should be focusing on Iran, Mr. Netanyahu said, because while Iran is now focusing its attention on Israel through its proxy terrorist organization, Hezbollah, Israel is merely the first step. There's a reason, he reminded the audience, that Israel is only called the little Satan. No guessing who is next said Mr. Netanyahu. Mr. Netanyahu's spoke of what he would do when prime minister - or if as he laughingly (while winking) had to correct himself. While Mr. Netanyahu refused to criticize Prime Minister Olmert, he predicted the collapse of Mr. Olmert's political party, Kadima. The way to defeat Hezbollah next time - Mr. Netanyahu said as a matter of fact that another war was coming - is to act quickly and decisively. Anyone who thinks Israel's military can't defeat a few hundred armed Iranian proxies fundamentally underestimates the capability of Israel's military, Mr. Netanyahu said. The time to act after being attacked is straight away - when world opinion, even the Europeans and most Arab nations, is outside. A quick victory is needed to win the diplomatic war as well. Mr. Netanyahu, the son of a distinguished historian, used sweeping historical references throughout his remarks. He told of how, when questioned in London about the proportionality of Israel's response in Lebanon, he told British audiences that the number of rockets Hezbollah fired at Israel was 4,000, the same number as the Germans fired at London during the Second World War. Britain's response to the 4,000 rockets led to the death of hundreds of thousands of German civilians. This is not, he hastened to add, to say that Winston Churchill was wrong - but to put Israel's actions in context. That quickly silenced them, Mr. Netanyahu said. Responding to a question asking whether the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s created Hezbollah, Mr. Netanyahu said that the Israeli occupation of London doesn't exist and yet you have militant Islam there, as well as in Rotterdam and in other places across the globe where Israeli troops have never visited. Hezbollah is not a creation of Israel, he said. Israel's occupation may have been used as a pretext by Hezbollah, but would have happened anyway - it's part of the rise of radical Islam. What really encouraged Hezbollah's rise, Mr. Netanyahu said, was the manner of Israel's withdrawal - without victory or a peace agreement. The sight of Israeli troops leaving and Hezbollah terrorists taking their place while celebrating encouraged Palestinian Arab terrorists to hope for the same. To defeat Militant Islam, Mr. Netanyahu said, one must deprive it
[osint] Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullci d=1157913614750 cid=1157913614750 Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue _ Michael Freund, THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 12, 2006 _ An Algerian terror cell linked to Al-Qaida that was broken up by Italian police last fall was planning to carry out attacks on targets in Oslo, Norway, including the city's main synagogue. Interviewed by phone from Oslo, Anne Sender, president of Norway's Jewish community, told the Post that local authorities had informed her shortly after the suspects were arrested in November that there existed a credible terrorist threat against the synagogue. The plot came to light only this week in the wake of a report on Monday in the Norwegian Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper. At the time, we were informed by the government that some people had been caught in Italy and that police had found plans indicating that they were targeting the synagogue in Oslo, Sender said. She added that the threat was considered sufficiently serious that in its wake, Norwegian police decided to adopt additional, unspecified measures to boost security at the synagogue. The terrorists, who resided in Italy but were allegedly plotting attacks against sites in Oslo, belonged to an Algerian-based group known as the GSPC, a French acronym which stands for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat. The GSPC, which has links to Al-Qaida, is a splinter faction that broke away from Algeria's Armed Islamic Group in 1996. Sender praised Norwegian police, but nonetheless expressed concern over the community's security with the approach of the High Holidays. To be honest, I do think people are a bit nervous now, she said. We have good contact and cooperation with the police, but we need to be prepared and to put more security measures in place. In the past few months, Oslo has been the scene of a number of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist incidents, including an attack on the synagogue last month, where an unknown perpetrator smashed glass windows and scrawled graffiti on the site after defecating near the entrance. 99 percent of the time it is fine, it is safe, and there is no problem at all, but we do have these incidents, added Sender. Maybe we are a little na ve, but we always seem to think that Norway is separate, that it is different and that it is unaffected by what goes on in the rest of the world. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] CAIR's Congressional Candidate
CAIR's Congressional Candidate http://www.townhall http://www.townhall.com/content/ee0024bc-6019-493c-89e2-707bda99c371 .com/content/ee0024bc-6019-493c-89e2-707bda99c371 CAIR's Congressional Candidate By Joel Mowbray Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Today's Democratic primary in Minnesota's very blue fifth Congressional district could prove historic. If he wins, Keith Ellison would be all-but-assured to be the first Muslim ever elected to the U.S. Congressman. It would also mark the first time that someone ascended to Capitol Hill courtesy of key support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Ellison has received financial and other help from executives at CAIR, which has deep connections to supporters of Islamic terrorism. Also among those who have contributed money to the candidate are an official from a group that participated in a tribute to the Iranian despot Ayatollah Khomenei and leaders of what is considered the political front in the U.S. for the Muslim Brotherhood. While Ellison could be genuinely ignorant of the disturbing records of some his supporters, he at least owes voters an explanation-and hopefully, an apology. Assuming he does, though, he needs to re-build his credibility by being more forthcoming about the true extent of his past with the Nation of Islam. It appears he's not ready to apologize anytime soon, however. Though his campaign staff initially gave assurances that Ellison would be available for interview, the candidate for reasons unknown never returned this columnist's repeated phone calls. Awad's assistance At a fundraiser two weeks ago that the campaign estimates raised approximately $15,000 to $20,000, one of two speakers besides Ellison was Nihad Awad, the founder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This wasn't Awad's first assist. A month earlier, he apparently delivered to the campaign bundled checks amounting to just over $10,000. (Bundling is the practice of one person soliciting multiple checks for a campaign.) The campaign denies the contributions were bundled, but seven checks from residents of Virginia, Awad's home state, and Texas, where Awad has strong ties, were received by the campaign on July 22. One of the checks was for $2,000 from Awad himself, and on the next day, the campaign logged a contribution from CAIR's Director of Government Affairs, Corey Saylor. Though it claims to be simply a civil rights group for Muslims, CAIR is at best agnostic on Islamic terror, and at worst, a cheerleader for it. Two of its officials have been convicted on terrorism charges, and as an organization, while CAIR forcefully attacks critics of radical Islam, it has yet to condemn by name any Islamic terror organization other than al Qaeda-which it denounced only reluctantly several months after 9/11. CAIR's former communications and civil rights coordinator was convicted in 2004 on terror-related charges of plotting to wage violent jihad against the U.S., and the founder of its Texas branch last year was convicted of terror-related charges. Given CAIR's history, though, the convictions are not exactly surprising. The parent organization of CAIR is the Islamic Association of Palestine. Though CAIR bristles at that characterization, its two founders, Awad and Omar Ahmad, were both high-ranking IAP officials when they founded CAIR in 1994, and they maintained close relations for years afterward. IAP, which appears to have ceased operations within the past two years, was an openly anti-Semitic organization long believed to be Hamas' political front in the U.S. A civil court judge in Illinois last year confirmed those suspicions when he declared that there was strong evidence that IAP was supporting Hamas. Both of CAIR's founders have given rhetorical support to Islamic terrorism. In a speech at Barry University in Florida in 1994, Awad declared, I'm in support of the Hamas movement. Addressing a youth session at the 1999 IAP annual convention in Chicago, Ahmad praised suicide bombers who kill themselves for Islam: Fighting for freedom, fighting for Islam, that is not suicide. They kill themselves for Islam. (Transcript provided by the Investigative Project.) Although CAIR has repeatedly condemned terrorism, it has pointedly refused invitations to do so by naming specific Islamic terrorist organizations. In November 2001, the Washington Post asked a CAIR spokesman to condemn Hamas or Islamic Jihad. He refused, explaining, It's not our job to go around denouncing. Given a similar opportunity to denounce Hamas and Hezbollah by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in February 2002, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper called such queries a game, and added, We're not in the business of condemning. But for those unfamiliar with the group, CAIR is very much in the business of condemning-but only when it comes to TV shows, Israel, or U.S. policy. Cash from Awad's Associates Also of concern are other contributors to Ellison's campaign.
[osint] Theme parks still vulnerable to attack, analysts say
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/world/15486566.htm?template=cont entModules/printstory.jsp Theme parks still vulnerable to attack, analysts say By Scott Powers The Orlando Sentinel (MCT) ORLANDO, Fla. - Motor vehicles are kept at a distance. The skies over Walt Disney World are clear of aircraft. Back entrances are well-guarded and in some cases even fortified. Delivery trucks are searched. And millions of visitors' bags are checked. Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks changed the world, theme park operators insist they've also taken stronger, less-visible measures to tighten security that they won't talk about. It's really become the new normal, said SeaWorld spokeswoman Becca Bides. Yet some analysts are concerned that theme parks remain highly vulnerable. The parks face the challenge of allowing tens of thousands of strangers to enter and congregate each day and keep them safe while not letting them feel caught up in a security net. For many visitors, the bag checks are the only security measures they notice. David Cid, a former FBI counterterrorism specialist who is deputy director for the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism in Oklahoma City, said nothing short of airport-style security could keep the parks as safe as they should be. Person-by-person searches. Metal detectors. Bomb-sniffing stations. If you want to make sure somebody is not bringing a weapon into a facility or wearing some sort of device under their shirt, you've got to put them through some sort of detection system, Cid said. He acknowledged the huge and disquieting inconvenience of such measures. And he said they could be impractical. But he worries the parks might one day be sorry they aren't doing them already. The first time somebody walks into a theme park with a bomb, everything will change, and then everyone will expect you to do this sort of thing, Cid said. It's a prospect the tourism industry doesn't like to talk about but clearly thinks about. The bag check. It's very cosmetic. It just puts people at ease and once in a blue moon might prevent something, said Abe Pizam, dean of the Rosen College of Hospitality Management at the University of Central Florida and editor of the book Tourism, Security and Safety: From Theory to Practice. But somebody who is very sophisticated, they can slip through. And many visitors also recognize the risk. Janene and Andy Bougetz of Cambridge, Minn., who were visiting Disney-MGM Studios last week, were pleased to see more uniformed security guards. But much like Cid and Pizam, Janene Bougetz scoffed at the bag checks. It's pretty lame. If you really wanted to get something in here, I think you could, she said. They never check the guys' pockets. He had a camera in it. Theme park officials say they are doing all they can. The safety of all of our guests and cast members is our top priority, said Disney World spokesman Jacob DiPietre. In today's environment, like all Americans, we are exerting extra vigilance and asking our guests and cast members to do the same. Such vigilance, in the nation's family playground, begins largely at the airports. A record 51 million people are expected to visit Central Florida this year with Orlando International Airport serving as the gateway for many. Their experience flying is far different from the one shared by travelers before the terrorist attacks five years ago. Passengers these days likely head to the gates by themselves, with no loved ones to say goodbye or talk to before their flights; their carry-on luggage may be swabbed for traces of explosive material; and they may be on a flight with an air marshal. Last month's undoing of an alleged plot to blow up planes departing England for the United States has prompted further restrictions, including prohibitions on liquids and gels in carry-on bags. At the parks, the only security measure many visitors see is the bag checks, begun at the gates shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. For some, as Pizam suggested, they offer visitors some comfort. I know I don't have anything to hide, but I don't know about the next person, and I feel safer because of it, said Vivian Jones of Detroit, who was visiting Universal Orlando last week. SeaWorld, Universal Orlando and Disney officials all said they work closely with local, state and national law enforcement and security officials. That includes sharing ideas, receiving briefings and hosting mock emergency drills. It also probably includes intelligence information, Cid said. And that, he said, likely would be as crucial as any physical precautions. The parks all were designed so that cars and trucks park far enough from the fence lines that they would be unlikely weapons, and that defense has been strengthened. At Disney, all the employee and vendor entrances were outfitted two years ago with gates that could withstand a crashing truck. Trucks frequently are searched at all the theme parks. Disney also got the airspace above
[osint] Hitler-Ahmadinejad soul mates? You decide
http://www.fortwayn http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15491342.htm e.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15491342.htm Hitler-Ahmadinejad soul mates? You decide By Peter A. Brown (MCT) For many years, the late Richard Neustadt and Ernest May taught a course at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School on the uses of history so those who aspire to political power could understand the wisdom of governmental decisions. With anyone who has ever taken a high-school history course, it seems, arguing about whether Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is auditioning to be the next Adolph Hitler, this might be a good time to put their method to work. The course is summarized in their book ``Thinking In Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers.'' Neustadt and May emphasized that history does not necessarily repeat itself. But, they argued, there is symmetry to human behavior that can be useful in understanding matters of state. The two Harvard professors, however, also warned about the tendency of those in power to bend inexact analogies to suit their purpose. The Bush administration's argument is that Iran is behaving like Nazi Germany in the late 1930s, before World War II. Some analogies are obvious: _There was obviously an anti-Semitic motivation to Germany's actions then to cleanse Europe of its Jews, as there is in Iran's stated aim of destroying Israel. _Also clearly true is that Iran currently lacks the military and economic strength to win a war to accomplish its stated aim, just as Germany in the '30s did not then have the muscle it would later develop. _And, like Hitler, Ahmadinejad has visions of changing the world map to enhance the power and prestige of the nation he rules, although his ambitions seem limited to the Middle East while the Nazis wanted to rule the world. Others are just as clearly less exact: _The region in which Iran is located is considered more backward - with the exception of its one major resource, oil - than was Europe in the 1930s. _Hitler did not make his claims based on religious teachings, and therefore had no huge reservoir of potential natural allies in other countries as does Ahmadinejad, who hopes to make his an Islamic crusade. _In the 1930s, Americans didn't worry about their safety because the Atlantic Ocean offered the needed protection from the Nazi weapons of the time. _In the post-9/11 world all Westerners, and especially Americans, understand that an Iranian bomb would be a threat to their existence, not just Israel's. _Hitler did not act through proxies. The Iranian government has helped fund and train anti-Western terrorists. Presumably, that makes the threat of an Iranian nuclear bomb more worrisome. _In the 1930s, Americans believed domestic politics ended at the waters' edge and the two political parties presented a united front to the rest of the world. In the Red State/Blue State America of the 21st century, that is no longer true. Finally, there are issues on which the aptness of the analogy is open to interpretation, hence the political argument about how to deal with Iran. We now know that in the late 1930s President Franklin D. Roosevelt realized he eventually would have to go to war with Germany. It is not clear if George W. Bush has reached that point. In the '30s, England, France and Russia, the European powers of the day most able to stop German expansion, were more concerned with their own internal problems. They sought to ensure peace by not confronting Hitler, even though at that time Germany was not then nearly strong enough. Unknown at this point is whether the European powers of today, which have been reflexively opposed to using military force in recent years, will be willing to change their tune if they perceive Iranian nukes as a threat to their existence. Perhaps the largest question is what Israel, likely the initial target of any Iranian aggression, will do. Such a well-armed entity did not exist in Europe in the `30s with the ability to act on its own if need be. Is history going to repeat itself? You decide. --- ABOUT THE WRITER Peter A. Brown is the assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute and a former editorial columnist for the Orlando Sentinel. His e-mail address is peter.brown@ mailto:peter.brown%40quinnipiac.edu quinnipiac.edu --- [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: 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
[osint] Will Islam Conquer Europe?
More than half way there already and they don't even realize. Poor fools. Bruce http://www.realtruth.org/articles/0205-wice.html Will Islam Conquer Europe? A new religious movement is sweeping across Europe. Can the traditional Christian world absorb this into the fabric of Western society, or will this movement swallow the traditions of the West? What does the future hold for these two religious cultures? Some observers are saying that Europe is becoming a post-Christian society with an ever-diminishing understanding of its historical Christian values. Many are calling this the hallowing out of traditional Christianity. In her new book, The Force of Reason, famed Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci claims that Christianity's ancient stronghold on the European continent is rapidly giving way to the ambitious and assertive religion of Islam. Analysts estimate that in Britain, for example, Islamic mosques host more worshippers each week than the Church of England! Filling the void of traditional Christianity is a robust, energetic and youthful movement afoot in Europe. If this continues at the present rate, cathedrals will appear as vestiges of a civilization of times past. The great national cultures of Italians, French, Germans and others may be replaced by a new transnational Muslim identity. This is not a new 21st century prediction, but one that was actually brought out in 1968 by the British politician Enoch Powell. That year, he gave his famous speech, Rivers of Blood, in which he warned that by allowing excess immigration, the United Kingdom was heaping up its own funeral pyre, bringing major religious/cultural changes. His message damaged what, at that time, was a promising career. Recently, an Israeli foreign ministry report stated that Islam is now the second largest religion in Europe. According to this report, most EU nations perceive the presence of radical Muslims as a threat to state security and the fabric of life. The Muslim population in Europe is growing rapidly and may now be approaching 15 million. The report states, According to the demographic data, the number of Moslems will continue to steadily rise due to a high birth rate and the continued mass immigrations. This means that such a rise could be the increased influence Moslems have on the shape of Europe in the future. Understanding the Past How does Islam, the fastest growing religion in the western world, conflict with the goals of the new mighty European Superstate? To understand this, we must briefly examine the past. For centuries, Europe has had a commonality that united all of the peoples speaking different languages. That common element was their Christian heritage. This common religious heritage has an interesting past that cannot be denied. History has proven that the powers that have sought control of the European continent in the past have had a standoff with the religion of Islam for the greatest influence of the European continent and the Holy land. The major Christian influence of Europe during times past has always proven to come from the smallest country on the continent-the Vatican. From the time of Justinian in A.D. 554, the Roman Empire became known as the Holy Roman Empire. Historians almost universally acknowledge that the Pope's crowning of Justinian, after he defeated the Ostrogoths, signaled this change. Events in Europe, surrounding the Holy Roman Empire, rose and fell for many centuries. Periodically, new rulers appeared-Charlamagne (A.D. 800), Otto the Great, (A.D. 962), Charles V (1520), which in turn was followed by Napoleon's reign (1805). The Crusades During these years, the Vatican's influence was the glue that held together the Holy Roman Empire. The Popes held ultimate power and gave their blessing to the secular leaders to carry out their agendas. This unity was forced on its peoples most of the time, with the secret police and state military extinguishing hundreds of thousands of non-compromising Muslims (as well as Jews and Protestants for that matter) during the Crusades. This powerful influence was responsible for the slaughtering of vast numbers during the Inquisition. And through the centuries, this influence continued to force millions, on the pain of death, to convert to Catholicism. When Islamic forces gained control of the Holy Land shortly after the death of their prophet, Muhammad, in A.D. 632, it sparked a religious conflict that has remained in that region to this very day. Early on, Arab forces allowed Roman Catholic Europe to maintain a presence in Jerusalem. Muslim leader Harun al Rashid even christened the Roman Emperor Charlamagne as protector of Jerusalem and owner of the sepulcher. After Charlamagne died in A.D. 814, Catholic Europe gradually lost its influential hold on Jerusalem. But when the Roman Empire revived in the tenth century (via Otto the Great), the tide of power began to shift from Islam to Catholicism. It was against this backdrop
[osint] Los Angeles Ponders Overseas Links to Counter Terrorism
Following New York's lead in preempting and bypassing the FBI. Bruce http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=32564 http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=32564siteSection=1 siteSection=1 Los Angeles Ponders Overseas Links to Counter Terrorism Posted: September 11th, 2006 03:00 PM PDT Xinhua General News Service Los Angeles, the second largest metropolis in the United States, is working on the idea of establishing overseas links to help head off terrorist plots, officials said on Saturday. A high-level panel, the Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Advisors Council, had suggested that the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) should have officers overseas gathering information to prevent terrorist plots. The panel had also asked the city to appoint a regional recovery czar to handle plans for dealing with disasters as well as terrorist attacks. All of these are innovative ideas that we are trying to move ahead on, Deputy Mayor Maurice Suh said. The suggestions would be presented to the City Council on Monday. The council includes former Mayor Richard Riordan, former Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner, Police Chief William Bratton, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, other officials, and executives from private industry. Other recommendations include setting up a system in which Los Angeles companies would provide water, food, shelter and supplies in a disaster. The New York Police Department already has officers in several overseas countries, according to the Los Angeles Times. Riordan, who pushed for the idea of the regional recovery czar, said his experience as mayor convinced him that a central authority was needed for quick recovery. Somebody's got to be there to make decisions, Riordan told the Los Angeles Times. Riordan said the mayor is the ultimate decision maker, but a recovery czar could speed up response. _ FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [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: 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/ * 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:
[osint] Today's Terrorists are not Tomorrow's Freedom Fighters
Islamic terrorists are not even today's freedom fighters. Bruce http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0462 Today's Terrorists are not Tomorrow's Freedom Fighters Beryl P. Wajsman http://www.judeoscope.ca/auteur.php3?id_auteur=38 The Islamo-Fascists we now fight in this World War that began five years ago have emptied the category of the innocent. They claim butchery as their right, slaughter as their legacy. The deep moral and political significance of this change has been too often - and too consciously - ignored by those in the West pandering to Islamic blackmail. And this could have graver consequences because of the deep-rooted cowardice of response in the media and academe. On this fifth anniversary of 9/11 it is important to note that too many in the Canadian media have once again begun to question the meaning of what terrorism is and by whose definition. This query would get sterling grades in any university's political science department because it exhibits a total grasp of moral relativism, political equivalency and complete inability to reach a just conclusion. This is what passes for intellectual rigour today. Tarring the righteous with the same brush as the barbaric; compromising truth with the half-truths of apologists. It reminds me of what one Canadian writer said about another's book he had reviewed. The writer, said the reviewer, could think of no solutions to the problems he had devoted his book to examining. Rather than asking why bother writing the book, the reviewer - in typically correct Canadian fashion - went on to compliment the author with the accolade that, This is not a weakness but a credit for it is proof of his intellectual honesty. If weakness be honesty then perhaps this nation needs rogues with courage. Too many Canadian journalists seek the neutral path, and litter their articles with copious quotations to support their contention that it is impossible to define terrorism and that the word is pejorative at best. They are wrong and here's why. Terrorism cannot be smugly dismissed by the old canard that One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Terrorism is characterized by five singularly identifiable elements. 1.Terrorism seeks the destruction of civilian populations as the rule not the exception. 2.Terrorist activities are carried out by killers driven by psychotic and homicidal hatreds of peoples based not so much on any political grievance but more on revulsion toward their victims' race, color or creed. 3.Terrorists measure their success in sheer bloodlust and body parts ( particularly today's Jihadist variety ) divorced from any agenda of freedom from oppression. 4.In fact, as we see today, terrorism is employed not by movements of resistance and liberation, but by movements of tyranny and oppression. 5. Terrorism is almost exclusively practiced by actors, state and non-state, for the purposes of aggression and acquisition not for the purposes self-defense and self-determination. Any violent actions that meet these five criteria can, and must, be labeled terrorism with the utmost vigour and vehemence. Anything less would be nothing but submission to appeasement and cowardice resulting in the slow undoing of our most cherished liberties. The present-day terror of Islamic fundamentalism is not the modernist version of the past politics of assassination. This is not about the killing of particular people thought to be guilty of particular acts. This terror is random murder and thuggery. A radical transformation of past practices of political violence characterized by unknown victims innocent of any act. Let me relate a few examples. Not bedtime reading or fairy tales. But in this depraved world where, ...one must be a hero just to be a man..., they have an almost perversely transformational comforting remembrance of times past. *In the 1870's, a group of Russian revolutionaries decided to kill a Czarist official, the head of a police agency, a man personally involved in the repression of radical activity. They planned to blow him up in his carriage, and on the appointed day one of their number was in place along his usual route. As the carriage drew near, the young revolutionary, a bomb hidden under his coat, noticed that the official was not alone. On his lap he held two small children. The revolutionary looked, hesitated, and decided not to throw his bomb. He would wait for another occasion. As Camus wrote in The Just Assassins, Even in destruction, there is a right way and a wrong way---and there are limits. *During the years 1938-1939 the Irish Republican Army waged a bombing campaign in Britain. In the course of this campaign, a republican militant was ordered to carry a pre-set time bomb at a London power station. He traveled by bicycle, the bomb in his basket, took a wrong turn and got lost in the maze of the city. As the time for the explosion drew near, he panicked, dropped his bike and ran off. The bomb exploded killing
[osint] U.S. official says disagreement over counter-terror policies .......
How naïve of course it will hinder cooperation if you cant agree on what you are cooperating on. Trust the State Dept to be obfuscatory. Bruce http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/ap/2006/09/11/europe/EU _GEN_Italy_US_Terrorism.php U.S. official says disagreement over counter-terror policies should not hinder cooperation The Associated Press http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=ROMEsort=swishrank ROME A visiting U.S. official said Monday that disagreements between the U.S. and Europe over anti-terror policies should not get in the way of fighting terrorism. Cooperation between the U.S. and Europe has been hampered by controversy over U.S. policies and practices, especially those related to the detention, questioning and transfer of suspected members of al-Qaida, U.S. State Department legal adviser John Bellinger III said at a counterterrorism conference in Rome. To cooperate effectively, we must overcome the divide that has developed across the Atlantic, Bellinger said at the conference, which was attended by U.S. ambassador to Italy, Ronald Spogli, and Italy's Interior Minister Giuliano Amato. The one-day conference, held at the Center for American Studies, gathered dozens of scholars, students and security experts. It coincided with worldwide commemorations of the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Some in Europe including Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Council of Europe used the day to reiterate criticism of controversial global methods of fighting terrorism and to urge more attention be paid to human rights. U.S. President George W. Bush recently acknowledged for the first time that the CIA was running secret prisons overseas. EU lawmakers and civil rights campaigners had long called on U.S. officials to admit using a network of secret prisons and transferring prisoners between them on covert flights as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. Controversy also sparked over alleged prisoner abuse at the U.S. detention center for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Many in Europe have called for its closure. Bellinger said concerns over alleged abuse of detainees have snowballed into an avalanche of suspicion and politicized investigations that now threaten to undermine a level of cooperation between our governments that is absolutely vital. To bridge the growing divide between the United States and Europe, we need to improve the quality of the dialogue on counterterrorism, he said. Meanwhile, bells tolled in Rome's Capitoline Hill for one of several ceremonies throughout Italy commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. 9/11 will be in our memory forever, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni said during the ceremony attended by about 100 people. We all remember where we were, what we were doing, what our first reaction was. Veltroni said he would rename a few streets in the Italian capital after the victims of the attacks. And on this day we want our American friends to feel our closeness and our friendship, the mayor said. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] 911 and Choosing Leaders Who Can Identify Problems
http://americandaily.com/article/15506 911 and Choosing Leaders Who Can Identify Problems By Mary http://americandaily.com/author/23 Mostert (09/11/2006) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Five years ago today Americans experienced a sneak attack on two major American cities, New York and Washington, D.C. that resulted in a larger death toll than Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor led to Congress declaring war on both Japan and Germany by December 9, 1941. Five years after 9-11, on the other hand, we are facing an election in less than 2 months which will decide whether or not Americans will choose to run and hide from our enemies by denying they even exist or whether we will choose leaders who realize they need to figure out how to .save not only the United States but the civilized world. Two years ago, following a terrorist attack in Madrid, Spain that killed 191 people and wounded over 1700. President George W. Bush spoke to members of his administration and Congress, reminding them that they were part of a new kind of war, (where) civilians find themselves suddenly on the front lines. He reminded us that terrorists have struck from Spain, to Russia, to Israel, to East Africa, to Morocco, to the Philippines, and to America. They've targeted Arab states such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Yemen. They have attacked Muslims in Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. No nation or region is exempt from the terrorists' campaign of violence. And, then he described the kind of world war it is: .There is no neutral ground -- no neutral ground -- in the fight between civilization and terror, because there is no neutral ground between good and evil, freedom and slavery, and life and death. However, it appears that a very large number of people in America do not agree with President Bush. They clearly think that there IS neutral ground between good and evil, freedom and slavery, life and death. One of them appears to be the Chairman of the Democratic Party, Howard Dean, who said only two days ago: Things are going badly for us around the world , our troops deserve better than this. If the Republicans would listen to the military before we go on these adventures rather than afterwards we would have a better shot . Iran is a greater danger, North Korea is a greater danger and the president has done very little about these. To Howard Dean, it's not a fight for civilization - it's merely a political adventure. Actually, of course, the issue here is leadership. Who can identify and formulate action to address problems that may come up? President George W. Bush on January 29, 2002 in his State of the Union address angered the Democrats and much of the world by saying: My hope is that all nations will heed our call, and eliminate the terrorist parasites who threaten their countries and our own. Many nations are acting forcefully. Pakistan is now cracking down on terror, and I admire the strong leadership of President Musharraf. But some governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will. (Applause.) Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. Some of these regimes have been pretty quiet since September the 11th. But we know their true nature. North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom. Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror. The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. Well, Iraq no longer has Saddam Hussein threatening Kurds and others with anthrax and nerve gas, nor is he in a position to develop, or to hide, his nuclear weapons program. Iraqis now are governed by a new Iraqi Constitution and newly ELECTED representatives. According to Howard Dean and many others - this is not progress, but to their credit many of them have finally figured out that there IS some sort of problem out there, although so far I've not heard any plan to actually DO anything about it. However, George W. Bush figured out 5 years ago what the problem was and he immediately formulated a plan to DO something about it. He even told us what he intended to do and has DONE what he told us he would do. The Democrats under Howard Dean would like for us to believe this is merely a passing POLITICAL problem that could be easily corrected by choosing Democrats to run
[osint] Change of Subject: Are We Safer?
http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2006/09/are_we_safer_t o.html http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/ Change of Subject A Chicago Tribune Web log Are we safer today than we were on 9/11/2001? I heard the are we safer? question batted around quite a bit on chat shows over the weekend and even batted it around myself on Beyond the Beltway http://www.beyondthebeltway.com/ , and have come to the conclusion that, yes, by many measures, we are safer -- the risk of a terrorist attack against American citizens on American soil is lower today than it was five years ago. We are more vigilant as citizens to potential threats and security is tighter virtually everywhere one goes. The U.S. and allied forces have killed thousands of terrorists and terrorist leaders and hampered their ability to communicate, to train and to infiltrate. The problem with that answer (with which most of you disagree, according to the accompanying click poll) is that it's similar to the answer that a homeowner might give after installing high-tech, ultra-secure locks on all his doors after a burglary: He and his possessions are safer, yes, so long as the next burglars follow the script, attempt to break through the doorways and then skulk away in frustration to seek another target elsewhere. If the next burglars who come along prefer to break and enter through the windows, the homeowner's increased sense of safety becomes simply an illusion, and his vulnerability the result of a combined lack of imagination, determination and resources. Given that our nation is, analogously, a house with thousands of doors and windows that can't all be perfectly secured, the more relevant safety question is whether there are now more terrorists wanting to kill us -- to break into this metaphorical house -- than there were five years ago today. My fear -- bolstered by the speculations of those who follow this stuff more closely than I do and by the reports of increases in http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14390584.htm terror incidents worldwide -- is yes. Yes, there are more terrorists in the world now than there were five years ago today. Why? Terrorists were emboldened by Al Qaeda's success on 9/11, and their surviving leaders have used anti-American sentiment (fueled by our misadventures in Iraq) as a recruiting tool. Nations and armies can be beaten into surrender. Terrorist forces can only be hindered and marginalized. Our success in hindering them -- which leads me to feel, personally, safer today than I did on the terrible afternoon of 9/11 -- has been offset by our failure to marginalize them. That effort will require deft leadership, skillful diplomacy and international consensus of the sort we haven't seen since shortly after the towers fell. I pose this question: Flash back five years ago plus one day. If I'd asked you, on the evening of Sept. 10, 2001, if you thought Americans were safer from the threat of domestic terrorism than they were in the wake of the earlier bombing of the World Trade Centers parking garage and the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, what would you have said? I would have said yes. And it would have been little better than my answer today -- a fairly wild, basically hopeful guess. Either way, would your answer have been any better? Did you have any idea what barbaric plots were being hatched in the darkest resources of terrorist cells? What makes you think today is, really, any different? Real poll results: ABC News: Compared to before September 11, 2001, do you think the country today is safer from terrorism or less safe from terrorism? Safer Less Safe No Difference Unsure % % % % 9/5-7/0655 37 6 2 6/22-25/06 59 33 7 1 3/2-5/0656 35 8 1 1/23-26/06 64 30 6 - 8/18-21/05 49 38 11 2 1/15-18/04 67 24 8 1 9/4-7/03 67 27 4 2 CBS News/New York Times In the five years since the attacks of Sept. 11th, do you think the threat of terrorism against the U.S. has increased, decreased, or has it stayed about the same? Increased Decreased Same Unsure % % % % 8/17-21/06 41 14 43 2 | Permalink http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2006/09/are_we_safer_ to.html Comments As you implied, we're only safer against yesterday's threats. Which is as true today as it was on 9/10/01. People keep saying that 9/11 changed everything. It did not. The terrorists finally got lucky - terribly lucky (they really didn't think the towers would fall down did they?). And our bubble of invincibility was broken. Let's hope it forever remains broken. But somehow I doubt it. Complacency always awaits. Posted by: JimMc
[osint] Syria accuses US of fueling terrorism after embassy
Yeah, right.Syria a state-sponsor of terrorism, ruled by the Nazi-like Ba'athist Party (same as Saddam Hussein's). Bruce Syria accuses US of fueling terrorism after embassy 09.12.2006, 01:57 PM WASHINGTON (AFX) - Syria's embassy in Washington has accused the United States of fueling extremism, terrorism and anti-US sentiment in the Middle East, following a foiled attack on the US embassy in Damascus. http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2006/09/12/afx3010975.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use 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 THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] SYRIAN EMBASSY ATTACK SET-UP
URL not available. US embassy: Assad allows attack, offer protection and aim at confusion By Walid PHARES According to well informed Syrian sources, today's Terrorist attack against the US embassy in Damascus is one of the Machiavellian Assad operations. Let's remind ourselves that the Syrian regime's senior strategists and intelligence officers were trained by the sophisticated intox schools of the former Soviet's KGB. One of the main tactics of this old school, refined by Hafez Assad during his rule of Syria is based on the following concept: If the equation is to your disadvantage, create a new problem, offer to solve it, obtain recognition; and by that you'd change the equation. The strategic objective of the Assad regime today is to deter Washington from further pressures against Syria, in the form of the Hariri investigation, the US pressure through the Security Council to deploy forces along the borders with Lebanon and the American ongoing support to the anti-Syrian Government in Beirut. Tehran-Damascus-Hezbollah axis is in dire need to contain Washington's pressures and gain time, as much possible of time. Why would they need time? Because they have to rearm Hezbollah, crumble the Lebanese Government, and face off with UN pressures on the nuclear. Syria has the marching orders to disorient the United States, and hence it adopted a twin approach: a. Allow a Jihadist-type terror attack to take place against a US interest in Damascus. And how can that be possible? The seasoned experts on Syria knows all too well that the Assad Mukhabarat are in control of, or have access to the overwhelming Terrorist organizations in Syria and Lebanon. They've had thirty years of deep involvement to accomplish this take over. In addition to Shia Hezbollah, Syria has a control, a remote-control of, or an access to Sunni Salafists groups, including networks that connect with al Qaeda. In short, Syria's intelligence services can prepare the ground to persuade Jihadist's to strike at some point. The Jihadist's have an ideological and strategic enmity with the US; the Assad regime has the ability to have the mob unleash attacks, in the same way the Baath regime of Syria has allowed thousands of Jihadist's to cross the border to Iraq to kill US and coalition troops. Assad the father also allowed Jihadis to attack U.S and French interests in Lebanon during the 1980s. More recently, Assad allowed' violent demonstrations to attack embassies in Damascus. Knowing that Syria's State police control the country with an iron hand, these precedents are too bright to ignore. In today's apparatus two men dominate the Terror web from their security intelligence positions: Mohammed Nassif, the director of State Security and Ali Yunis, the assistant of Asaf Shawkat, the regime's security commander. Nassif and Yunis are the team that controls and connects with the Jihadist underworld in the Levant. b. Stage the protection: After the operation happens, the regime allows some of their men to be killed in action against the Terrorists. Obviously, this move will be hard to absorb by Western and American public psychologically. Maybe Hollywood movies writers can. In short (as an analytical projection) the regime allowed the operation to happen, knew it would happen, and let the security guards on the ground sacrifice themselves in the line of diplomatic duty. The Dividends: 1. Sending a message to the U.S as follow: al Qaeda can strike you in our midst (Syria and Lebanon) and we can't do much about, except the classical protection once the cells would be about to engage or have already engaged. In short we are extending the measures under international laws, not more. 2. But, can stop them. Meaning that our powerful intelligence and security agencies can go after these Terrorists (who aren't Syria's friends to start with) and offer them to you, as we used to do in the good old days: We'd send Hezbollah to kill your Marines in Lebanon and allow the Salafists to kill the Marines again in Iraq, but at the same time we can do business with you and protect your embassies from the Terrorists we are harboring anyway. Yes a good Levantine maze. 3. Your public, via international media, saw that we are defending your embassy and have lost security guards while defending it. So what are you going to tell your public? That we, the Syrian regime, are the terrorists? It will look bad when after we sacrificed our men for your diplomats, your diplomats would call us Terrorists. 4. Secretary Rice had to issue a statement to thanking Syria. In Assad's mind, it would be an embarrassment for the U.S to attack Syria for being a harbor to Terrorism when Damascus has just being thanked for fighting those Terrorists. This, basically, would gain some more time for Assad. Enough time needed to: 5. Rearm Hezbollah, prepare attacks against UN and other multinational forces to come closer to the Syrian borders, and of course to allow the other pressures
[osint] Plans to Honor L.A. Muslim Leader Bring Out Animosity
Like giving a Nazi sympathizer a humanitarian award during WWII. Bruce _ http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hathout12sep12,0,4581971,full.story Plans to Honor L.A. Muslim Leader Bring Out Animosity By Teresa Watanabe Times Staff Writer September 12, 2006 In a public hearing spiced with accusations of Jew-hating and Muslim-bashing, nearly four dozen religious, ethnic and civil rights activists spoke out Monday on whether a prominent Los Angeles Muslim should be disqualified from receiving a prestigious humanitarian award because he has expressed some views critical of Israel. Maher Hathout, chairman of the Islamic Center of Southern California, is the first Muslim chosen for the award from the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. But some Jewish groups have vehemently objected to the selection, calling Hathout an extremist masquerading as a moderate, and are urging the commission to rescind the award before it is presented next month. At Monday's commission hearing, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, an umbrella organization of 22 groups representing 40,000 donors, stepped forward as the latest and most influential opponent to Hathout. Federation President John R. Fischel told commissioners that Hathout's false and controversial statements about Israel - that it is an apartheid state, for instance - had offended and angered many Jews. Dr. Hathout takes partisan positions which do not foster harmonious and equitable intergroup relations.. His words regrettably create the very fissures and divides that the [commission] is seeking to repair, Fischel told commissioners. But Hathout's supporters Monday were more diverse and outnumbered opponents 2 to 1. Christians, Muslims and Jews, blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans, and such civil rights leaders as Connie Rice, who received the 2002 award, spoke forcefully in support of Hathout, describing him as a tireless proponent of interfaith and interethnic harmony. Rice said it was difficult for her to break with her longtime Jewish friends on the issue, but that Hathout had taken extraordinarily difficult actions in promoting tolerance and moderation. The furor over the award, she said, had turned the issue into a seminal struggle over whether Los Angeles would be seen as embracing or rejecting a man who preached tolerant Islamism. If we send a message to Muslims in Southern California that someone who has tried so hard to bridge . all of our communities cannot be acknowledged, we would have done extreme damage, Rice said. Hathout also won support from the man that the 14-member commission originally chose for the award - the Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., a civil rights leader and president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles, who was unavailable to accept the award because he is teaching in Nashville. In a letter read to commissioners Monday, Lawson urged them to reject what he called extremism which seeks to vilify Dr. Hathout's name and character. He praised the Muslim leader as a person of immeasurable integrity and honesty who reflects the best not only of the Muslim faith, but the finest of any faith. In addition, several rabbis and the Progressive Jewish Alliance spoke in support of Hathout, saying that criticism of Israel should not be equated with backing terrorism or the destruction of the Jewish state. Despite the deeply felt views and occasional outbursts of name-calling, the hearing remained largely calm and controlled. Commissioners will meet again Monday to vote on a final resolution. The award was established more than a decade ago to honor outstanding contributions toward fostering better relations among diverse communities. Last year's winner was Zara Buggs Taylor, who was honored for her work in fighting discriminatory hiring practices and biased portrayals in the media. In 2002, the award was given to Rice, a director and co-founder of the Advancement Project, which is dedicated to building a racially just democracy and breaking down barriers to real opportunity. Hathout has said - and repeated again Monday - that he supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In introductory remarks to commissioners, the Egyptian native and retired cardiologist said he came to the U.S. 35 years ago with his family seeking freedom. In 1989, Hathout said, he was an early Muslim voice to condemn the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's fatwa against Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie. Two years later, he said, he barred from speaking at his mosque the extremist Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted in 1995 of seditious conspiracy in connection with a plot to blow up several New York-area landmarks. Hathout also said he wrote two books undermining any Islamic justification for suicide bombings and other terrorism, and initiated the city's first dialogues among Muslims, Christians and Jews. I am very proud of my record, he said. I
[osint] ICE Criticized Over Internal Corruption
This is from today's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/11/AR2006091101 219.html WASHINGTON IN BRIEF Tuesday, September 12, 2006; A11 ICE Criticized Over Internal Corruption U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has failed to root out internal corruption because it does not reliably track cases, decide them quickly or set uniform punishments, according to a inspector general's report made public yesterday. ICE has no coherent system to promptly and fairly oversee allegations of bribery, smuggling, falsification, sexual harassment or mismanagement against agents, the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general reported. From January 2003 to August 2005, agency supervisors failed to take disciplinary action in 147 of 246 cases when allegations were substantiated by investigators, the report said. More than 60 cases lingered for a year or more, some for as long as four years, it added. ICE relies on five different sets of penalties for workers, the report said, resulting in the perception that a 'good old boys' network still existed where certain infractions were simply made to go away. Agency officials agreed to centralize case management, decide cases more quickly, standardize penalties, and provide more notice when investigations are completed and disciplinary actions are taken. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] Religious leaders urge Muslims to distance faith from terrorism
Easy for non-Muslims to say. But then the God of the Jews and the God of the Christians has nothing to do with the moon-god, Allah, of the Arabs. Bruce http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/09/12/religiou s_ http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/09/12/religious _ leaders_urge_muslims_to_distance_faith_from_terrorism/ Religious leaders urge Muslims to distance faith from terrorism By Michael Paulson, Globe Staff | September 12, 2006 BROOKLINE -- Several leading local religious leaders, meeting together to pray and reflect on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, called on their Muslim counterparts yesterday to do a better job of distancing their faith from terrorism. ``The God of the Jews and the God of the Christians and the God of the Muslims cannot and does not sanction violence, Metropolitan Methodios, the longtime Greek Orthodox hierarch of Boston, said in an interview. ``We spoke about the need for the Islamic community to be more vocal in disavowing itself from these radicals . . . The Islamic community really has to be much more forceful. Methodios recently began traveling monthly to Turkey for meetings in Istanbul, where, he said, Jews and Christians are suffering at the hands of ``this radical element of the Muslim community. Methodios and others spoke after what participants described as an unusually candid, two-hour conversation among many of the most important religious leaders in Massachusetts, including rabbis, imams, and bishops, as well as several dozen clergy and lay leaders. The group prayed together and lit candles in memory of the victims of the 9/11 attacks, but also aired concerns and fears about prejudice, warfare, and terrorism. Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, in one of his first major public interfaith appearances, said it is incumbent on religious leaders to call on their membership to ``help build up the human family. ``We have to stand with the Muslim leaders who are willing to come out with us and condemn terrorism and violence -- that voice needs to be loud and clear, O'Malley said in an interview. ``Islam did not invent terrorism -- we had the IRA, the ETA, the Red Brigades, the Sendero Luminoso [Shining Path] -- but all of us need to condemn this tactic that has been used to manipulate people in the world, and we need to recognize in what context it comes about and try to deal with that context. Several Muslim leaders attended the gathering, and some suggested that the news media had failed to amplify the voices within the Muslim community that condemn terrorism. ``I know that my religion does not permit that. Imam Farouk Taalib of the Mosque for the Praising of Allah in Boston said of terrorism. ``The media will try to say that we're insane, but it's not true. I know what the book says, and I know what the tradition of the prophet says, and I know that mercy, loving kindness, and acts of concern for our fellow human beings are of quintessential importance. The faith leaders have been gathering annually since 9/11, when Cardinal Bernard F. Law called them together to talk about the terrorist attacks and to speak out unanimously against possible hate crimes directed against Muslims. Yesterday, for the first time, the group tried a form of conversation they called ``sacred sharing, in which leaders spoke about their concerns and no one responded, a tactic that was supposed to encourage listening. The conversation, which took place at the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Diocese of Boston, was closed to the media, but according to participants, Jewish leaders spoke about their fears of anti-Semitism, Muslims about concerns about discrimination, and Christians about a variety of concerns, including the increasing polarization of American culture. ``It had more depth and breadth than I have seen in quite a long time, said Nancy K. Kaufman, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council. ``It gave people a chance to think and reflect. There was a real desire to engage and be in dialogue. After the meeting, the group lit memorial candles and issued a statement of shared values, declaring: ``We acknowledge that participants in faith communities sometimes have fostered destructive negativity. We reject such negativity in all its manifestations. The group agreed to meet more frequently and to encourage conversations at the community level. ``We all have histories, some of which we celebrate, and other parts of our histories about which we might want to repent, said the Rev. Diane C. Kessler, executive director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a coalition of Protestant and Orthodox churches. ``There was a strong commitment . . . to find peaceful ways to address differences. Michael Paulson can be reached at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our
[osint] Media abhors Washington's response to 9/11
Media abhors America. Bruce http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.aspx?cu_no=2item_no=107227v ersion=1template_id=43parent_id=19 item_no=107227version=1template_id=43parent_id=19 Media abhors Washington's response to 9/11 HONG KONG: Newspapers yesterday strongly criticised the US response to September 11, accusing the Bush administration of bungling its war on terror and squandering global goodwill by invading Iraq. On the fifth anniversary of Al Qaeda's assault on New York and Washington, editorials around the world united in condemning the attacks and expressing revulsion for the Islamic extremists who carried out the atrocity. While papers said many people were still grappling with the immensity of what happened on that day, nearly all agreed the world had since become a more dangerous and uncertain place. Much criticism, especially in the Midde East and Europe, was reserved for US President George W Bush's decision to invade Iraq under the banner of the war on terror. The New York Times acknowledged the United States had lost the feeling of unity and purpose which gripped the nation in the aftermath of the attacks, and lamented a lost opportunity. When we measure the possibilities created by 9/11 against what we have actually accomplished, it is clear that we have found one way after another to compound the tragedy, said the paper's editorial. It said the war against extremists in Afghanistan was stuck in neutral and complained that Iraq, which it said had nothing to do with 9/11, had been turned into a breeding ground for a new generation of terrorists. Britain's Independent also remembered the goodwill of five years ago when there were images of a world briefly united in sympathy for an America reeling and grieving from the attack on the Twin Towers and the deaths of almost 3,000 New Yorkers. How moving but dated they seem today, the paper said. Summing up the mood in the British press, the Financial Times said: The way the Bush administration has trampled on the international rule of law and Geneva Conventions, while abrogating civil liberties and expanding executive power at home, has done huge damage not only to America's reputation but, more broadly, to the attractive power of Western values. Left-leaning French newspaper Liberation said Bush's leadership of the war on terror had been disastrous. The Bush administration has succeeded in destroying the huge pool of compassion and solidarity which gripped the world after September 11, said the paper. German daily Handelsblatt said the war in Iraq had been erroneously started in the name of September 11, while Spain's El Pais said the Bush administration used the attacks to impose a neo-conservative foreign policy. The result, five years after, is a more dangerous world, said El Pais. But the worst is that the methods of the terrorists contaminated the spirit of the democracies which fight them. The criticism, and in particular the condemnation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, was echoed in newspapers across the Middle East and Asia. Many Arab newspapers said the US campaign and the invasion of Iraq had pushed the world closer to a clash of civilisations between the West and the Muslim world. The administration of George W Bush used a vengeful mentality in dealing with the 9/11 crime and has turned the entire world into a battleground, wrote the editor-in-chief of the independent Al-Ghad daily in Jordan, Ayman Safadi. Saudi Arabia's Al-Jazira said US policy had turned Iraq into an incubator for terrorism. US policy has failed and has turned the war on terror into a clash of civilisations, said the paper. The UAE daily Al-Khaleej added: Bush's policies have not brought security to Americans and have instead brought chaos to the entire world. The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party, said the world had been changed more by the US response to 9/11 than by the attack itself. It's fair to say that September 11 changed the United States. But what really changed the world was the erroneous US response to September 11, especially the war in Iraq, it said. In Pakistan, a key US ally in the battle against Al Qaeda, The News daily wrote a hard-hitting editorial entitled Five Years of Nothing. Looking back it would be hard to say whether the years have been spent in something meaningful or constructive, it said. Many would agree the world is a more dangerous place and the United States is nowhere close to winning the war on terror. The US administration received some support from the media in Australia, where the government has been a staunch supporter of US policy since the 2001 attacks. The Australian newspaper said terrorist strikes against Western interests since 9-11 in London, Madrid, Indonesia and elsewhere had left no doubt the world faced a concerted attack by extremists. In Thailand, The Nation said the impact of September 11 on Asia was much
[osint] LARRY C. JOHNSON (DoS) The Declining Terrorist Threat (just prior to 9/11)
Bruce-- I think you should regurgitate this great piece of former DoS analysis from Larry Johnson...who has been a constant critic of the Bush Administration and consultant for one of the networks and political candidates. ...here is what someone who was with State had to say about the US and terrorism shortly before we were attacked and thousands of our countrymen killed. I've also attached a piece written about Mr. Johnson this past June further below. New York Times July 10, 2001 The Declining Terrorist Threat By LARRY C. JOHNSON WASHINGTON -- Judging from news reports and the portrayal of villains in our popular entertainment, Americans are bedeviled by fantasies about terrorism. They seem to believe that terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States and that it is becoming more widespread and lethal. They are likely to think that the United States is the most popular target of terrorists. And they almost certainly have the impression that extremist Islamic groups cause most terrorism. None of these beliefs are based in fact. While many crimes are committed against Americans abroad (as at home), politically inspired terrorism, as opposed to more ordinary criminality motivated by simple greed, is not as common as most people may think. At first glance, things do seem to be getting worse. International terrorist incidents, as reported by the State Department, increased to 423 in 2000 from 392 in 1999. Recently, Americans were shaken by Filipino rebels' kidnapping of Americans and the possible beheading of one hostage. But the overall terrorist trend is down. According to the Central Intelligence Agency, deaths from international terrorism fell to 2,527 in the decade of the 1990's, from 4,833 in the 80's. Nor are the United States and its policies the primary target. Terrorist activity in 2000 was heavily concentrated in just two countries - Colombia, which had 186 incidents, and India, with 63. The cause was these countries' own political conflicts. While 82 percent of the attacks in Colombia were on oil pipelines managed by American and British companies, these attacks were less about terrorism than about guerrillas' goal of disrupting oil production to undermine the Colombian economy. Generally, the guerrillas shy away from causing casualties in these attacks. No American oil workers in Colombia were killed or injured last year. Other terrorism against American interests is rare. There were three attacks on American diplomatic buildings in 2000, compared with 42 in 1988. No Americans were killed in these incidents, nor have there been any deaths in this sort of attack this year. Of the 423 international terrorist incidents documented in the State Department's report Patterns of Global Terrorism 2000, released in April, only 153 were judged by the department and the C.I.A. to be significant. And only 17 of these involved American citizens or businesses. Eleven incidents involved kidnappings of one or more American citizens, all of whom were eventually released. Seven of those kidnapped worked for American companies in the energy business or providing services to it - Halliburton, Shell, Chevron, Mobil, Noble Drilling and Erickson Air-Crane. Five bombings were on the list. The best known killed 17 American sailors on the destroyer Cole, as it was anchored in a Yemeni port, and wounded 39. A bomb at a McDonald's in France killed a local citizen there. The other explosions - outside the United States embassy in the Philippines, at a Citibank office in Greece, and in the offices of Newmont Mining in Indonesia - caused mostly property damage and no loss of life. In the 17th incident, vandals trashed a McDonald's in South Africa. The greatest risk is clear: if you are drilling for oil in Colombia - or in nations like Ecuador, Nigeria or Indonesia - you should take appropriate precautions; otherwise Americans have little to fear. Although high-profile incidents have fostered the perception that terrorism is becoming more lethal, the numbers say otherwise, and early signs suggest that the decade beginning in 2000 will continue the downward trend. A major reason for the decline is the current reluctance of countries like Iraq, Syria and Libya, which once eagerly backed terrorist groups, to provide safe havens, funding and training. The most violent and least reported source of international terrorism is the undeclared war between Islamists and Hindus over the disputed Kashmir region of India, bordering Pakistan. Although India came in second in terms of the number of terrorist incidents in 2000, with 63, it accounted for almost 50 percent of all resulting deaths, with 187 killed, and injuries, with 337 hurt. Most of the blame lies with radical groups trained in Afghanistan and operating from Pakistan. I am not soft on terrorism; I believe strongly in remaining prepared to confront it. However, when the threat
[osint] Key Italian suspect in alleged CIA kidnapping of Muslim cleric dies
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=322182 http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=322182sid=WOR sid=WOR Key Italian suspect in alleged CIA kidnapping dies Rome, Sept 12: A top Italian intelligence officer under investigation over the 2003 alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric has died, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Gen. Gustavo Pignero died of cancer in a Rome hospital yesterday, lawyer Giulia Buongiorno said. She declined to say what kind of cancer the 58-year-old Pignero had suffered from. Pignero, a former head of counterespionage at the Sismi military intelligence agency, and fellow Sismi officer Marco Mancini had been arrested and charged with kidnapping in the disappearance in Milan of Egyptian cleric and terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr. Prosecutors in the northern city are also seeking the arrest of 26 Americans, all but one believed to be CIA agents. The prosecutors say that top officials at Sismi - including the agency`s director, Nicolo Pollari- collaborated with the Americans to snatch Nasr - also known as Abu Omar - from a Milan street, then fly him via the Aviano joint Italian-US air base and Germany to Egypt, where the cleric says he was tortured. The operation is believed to be part of an alleged CIA program in which terrorism suspects are transferred to third countries. Pollari and the Italian government have repeatedly denied knowledge of and participation in the kidnapping. But a conversation between Mancini and Pignero, recorded by Mancini before their arrest, gives proof that Pollari knew and approved of the CIA operation, according to Mancini`s lawyers. Buongiorno, Pignero`s lawyer, refused to comment on how her client`s death would affect the investigation and prosecutors in Milan were not immediately available. [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: 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: Nasrallah demands militant freed
Nasrallah demands militant freed -- Hezbollah's leader has said two Israeli soldiers held by his group will only be released if a Lebanese militant held by Israel for 27 years is also freed. -- BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5340364.stm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] U.S. thanks Syria
Diplomatic hogwash.any terrorists in Syria are operating with the government's complicity. Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5339834.stm US thanks Syria over embassy raid http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif Syrian emergency services at scene of clash http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42077000/jpg/_42077580_firetruck_ap_2 03body.jpg Firefighters and other emergency services were sent to the scene http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/3681938.stm Scene of the attack The US has thanked Syria for foiling an attack on its embassy in Damascus. Syria said three attackers were killed and a fourth captured as they tried to drive two cars at the compound. One security officer was killed. Syrian media blamed Islamic extremists but no-one has said they carried out the attack. One car went up in flames but the second bomb failed. The US, which lists Syria as a sponsor of terrorism, said it was grateful that the embassy staff's safety was ensured. There were no reports of US casualties. There is currently no US ambassador to Damascus and very limited contact between the governments. Damascus has seen sporadic unrest in recent years, including a reported attempt to bomb the Canadian embassy. Grenades Security forces sealed off the Rawda area, which also houses other embassies and security installations. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif AREA OF EMBASSY ATTACK Syria map http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42078000/gif/_42078046_syria_maarrat_ map2032.gif http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5337866.stm In pictures: Embassy clash Three terrorists were killed and one was wounded, said Interior Minister Gen Bassam Abdel Majid. It was, in his words, a terrorist operation targeting the US embassy and involving home-made bombs and automatic weapons. Ayman Abdel-Nour, a Syrian political commentator who was in the area, said the attackers had run toward the compound shouting religious slogans while firing their automatic rifles. Grenades were reportedly thrown at the embassy's wall, said to be about 2.5m (8ft) high. Witnesses said that after an initial exchange of fire, two of the attackers sought refuge in a nearby building but were pursued and gunned down by security forces. Heightened tension US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thanked Syria's security forces and expressed condolences over the death of the guard. I do think that the Syrians reacted to this attack in a way that helped to secure our people and we very much appreciate that, she said. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42079000/jpg/_42079932_condy.jpg Rice said Syria had helped to secure our people I think it's very early to try and speculate why this may have happened, she said. White House spokesman Tony Snow said the US was grateful for the assistance the Syrians provided in going after the attackers. We are hoping they will become an ally and make the choice of fighting against terrorists, he said. The attack comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and Damascus, with bitterness in Syria over US support for Israeli military action in Lebanon. The US accuses Syria of supporting the insurgency in Iraq and not doing enough to prevent weapons going to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. BBC Arab affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi says it is difficult to see what Islamic militants could gain by undermining stability in Syria. But, our correspondent says, it is also probable that some elements have been angered by Syria providing intelligence to Washington on al-Qaeda. On the fifth anniversary of the 11 September attacks, al-Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri had warned there would be more attacks in Israel and the Gulf. [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: 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
[osint] News Flash: Chavez: Theories that US orchestrated 9/11 plausible
Chavez: Theories that US orchestrated 9/11 plausible -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today said theories of US government involvement in planning the September 11 attacks are not absurd and that it is plausible Washington might have had a hand. -- BreakingNews.ie [ http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/09/12/story276541.html ] Santa Fe New Mexican [ http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/49090.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: Terrorist Ali Hamadi Rejoins Hezbollah Following Release From Prison
Terrorist Ali Hamadi Rejoins Hezbollah Following Release From Prison -- One of the most infamous terrorists of the 1980s has rejoined Hezbollah following his release from a German prison and deportation to his native Lebanon in December 2005, a senior Bush administration official told FOX News. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,213521,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: US Homeland Security Official Concerned About WMD Threat
US Homeland Security Official Concerned About WMD Threat -- The top official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned about the possibility of an attack in the United States involving weapons of mass destruction. -- VOANews [ http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-09-12-voa70.cfm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: NATO Forces Recapture Afghan Territory
NATO Forces Recapture Afghan Territory -- NATO forces have recaptured territory in southern Afghanistan from Taliban insurgents during an 11-day operation that has killed at least 510 suspected militants, the alliance said Tuesday. -- TBO (AP) [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHANISTAN?SITE=FLTAMSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: At Least 24 People Killed Across Iraq
At Least 24 People Killed Across Iraq -- Violence killed at least two dozen people across Iraq on Tuesday, including six who died when a car bomb blew up in western Baghdad. -- ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2425681CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] Ali Hamadi Rejoins Hezbollah Following Release From Prison
That's the problem with life sentences vs death penalty.they rarely are. Son
of a bitch should have been executed.
Bruce
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Terrorist Ali Hamadi Rejoins Hezbollah Following Release From Prison
Tuesday , September 12, 2006
By James Rosen
WASHINGTON - One of the most infamous terrorists of the 1980s has rejoined
javascript:siteSearch('Hezbollah'); Hezbollah following his release from a
German prison and deportation to his native Lebanon in December 2005, a
senior Bush administration official told FOX News.
javascript:siteSearch('%20Mohammed%20Ali%20Hamadi'); Mohammed Ali Hamadi
was released despite strong U.S. objections, FOX News learned. Those
objections were raised in phone calls to German authorities by Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller, as well as by
top-level State Department and administration counter-terrorism officials.
[The Germans] ignored us and didn't give us enough time to pursue it
through legal action, an official told FOX News on the condition of
anonymity. They gave us very short notice.
U.S. officials said they can't rule out the possibility that Germany
deported Hamadi, after he had served 19 years of a life sentence, in
exchange for the release of Susanne Osthoff, a German archeologist taken
hostage in Iraq and freed four days after Hamadi's deportation. German
authorities have denied any such deal was made.
Click here to go to http://www.foxnews.com/world/mideast/index.html
FOXNews.com's Mideast Center.
In June 1985, Hamadi was one of four Islamic militants who commandeered
javascript:siteSearch('TWA%20Flight%20847'); TWA Flight 847 - en route
from Athens to Rome - and hijacked it to Beirut. The ensuing hostage ordeal
lasted 17 days, with the plane shuttling among various Mediterranean
airports.
On the second day of the hijacking, Hamadi and his accomplices learned that
U.S. Navy diver javascript:siteSearch('Robert%20Dean%20Stetham'); Robert
Dean Stethem was on board. Hamadi and his co-conspirators beat Stethem
unconscious, then shot him to death and dumped his body on the tarmac of the
Beirut airport. The hijackers later escaped.
In 1987, Hamadi was arrested in Frankfurt, Germany, for carrying explosives
in his bag at the airport. He was convicted both on that charge and of
Stethem's murder and sentenced to life in prison. Late last year he was
paroled by the German authorities and deported to Lebanon.
On Dec. 21, 2005, shortly after Hamadi's return to Lebanon, State Department
spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters: I think what I can assure anybody
who's listening, including Mr. Hamadi, is that we will track him down, we
will find him and we will bring him to justice in the United States for what
he's done.
We will make every effort, working with the Lebanese authorities or
whomever else, to see that he faces trial for the murder of Mr. Stethem.
At a press briefing Tuesday, State Department spokesperson Tom Casey
confirmed that contact had been made with the Lebanese government regarding
Hamadi, and that the case remains active.
The United States still believes that he and anyone else who is responsible
for such heinous acts should face justice, Casey said. And we do continue
to wish to see him be brought to the United States to face trial here.
Hamadi's alleged accomplices - Hassan Izz-Al-Din, Ali Atwa and Imad
Mughniyeh - were never captured.
Mughniyeh is also believed to be responsible for the 1983 barracks bombing
that killed 241 U.S. Marines in Lebanon and for the 1984 torture and murder
of William Buckley, the CIA Station Chief in Beirut.
Mughniyeh, who is believed to have undergone extensive plastic surgery to
make himself unrecognizable, has been described in the media as probably
the world's most wanted outlaw.
Upon hearing news of Hamadi's release in 2005, Stethem's family members said
they would keep pressuring the U.S. government to seek extradition from
Lebanon.
We'll be after him, Stethem's mother, Patricia, said of Hamadi. We won't
let it rest.
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[osint] US Homeland Security Official Concerned About WMD Threat
http://www.voanews. http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-09-12-voa70.cfm com/english/2006-09-12-voa70.cfm US Homeland Security Official Concerned About WMD Threat By Deborah Tate Washington 12 September 2006 Secretary Michael Chertoff Secretary Michael Chertoff The top official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is concerned about the possibility of an attack in the United States involving weapons of mass destruction. A day after the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Secretary Michael Chertoff testified about future threats to the homeland before a Senate committee. He told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the gravest threat facing the United States is one involving weapons of mass destruction. A nuclear bomb is at the end of the scale, a biological attack, even a serious radiological attack, would have very, very powerful effects on the entire country. The good news is that a nuclear bomb, the likelihood of that happening, the threat in terms of capability is low at this point. On the other hand, I have no reason to believe that that threat is going to diminish over time, and I do have reason to believe it is going to increase over time, he said. Chertoff says the federal government is taking steps to prevent such a scenario by improving intelligence and establishing radiation detection systems. He says by the end of next year, all cargo containers coming from foreign ports will be screened by radiation monitors once they arrive at U.S. ports. Chertoff says the United States is also working with foreign governments to have cargo scanned before it is loaded onto U.S.- bound ships - an effort that he acknowledges may not be immediately embraced by many countries. When containers go through the system that we are proposing to start to deploy, when they hit a red light, the container has to be pulled out and you have to inspect it. The authority to do that lies with foreign governments. We work with them, but it is their authority that we use to open the containers. They rightly worry about the burden on their own customs officials in terms of whether they have the manpower and the capacity to do that, he said. As Chertoff testified, U.S. Treasury officials were briefing another Senate committee about progress made in cracking down on the flow of money to terrorist groups. Daniel Glaser is the Treasury Department's deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes. We have elevated the costs, risks and difficulties for terrorists to raise and move funds in support of their operations, he said. But Glaser acknowledged more needs to be done. The committee's chairman, Senator Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, agreed, saying terrorists have shown the ability to adapt. Charities closed by governments have resurfaced under new names. Exploitation of formula banking systems have been replaced by the increasing use of bulk cash couriers. And of particular concern to this committee, the use of shell and front companies continue to constitute a serious weakness in even our own anti-money laundering and terror finance regulatory regimes, he said. In its latest action Friday, the Treasury Department barred Iran's state-run Bank Saderat from having any links with U.S.-owned banks, citing what it called the bank's support for terrorism. [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: 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/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join
[osint] News Flash: U.S. military plays down report on Anbar
U.S. military plays down report on Anbar -- The senior commander of U.S. forces in western Iraq on Tuesday played down a classified intelligence report indicating that American troops had failed to dampen the insurgency in the volatile Anbar province. -- MSNBC [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14800970/ ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: Iraq Asks Iran to Reign in Militants
Iraq Asks Iran to Reign in Militants -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki made his first official visit to Iran, a close ally, asking the Islamic regime on Tuesday to crack down on al-Qaida militants infiltrating his country and seeking new deals to help Iraq's troubled oil industry. -- TBO (AP) [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_IRAQ?SITE=FLTAMSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
[osint] News Flash: Ship with N. Korean weapons seized enroute to Syria
Ship with N. Korean weapons seized enroute to Syria -- The Republic of Cyprus has stopped a ship full of North Korean weapons systems bound for Syria. -- World Tribune [ http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2006/ea_nkorea_09_12.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- 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/ * 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/
