[osint] Al Jazeera Arabic Poll: 49.9% Support Osama Bin Laden

[Bruce Tefft]

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22524_Al_Jazeera_Arabic_Poll-_
49.9%_Support_Osama_Bin_Laden
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Monday, September 11, 2006


Al Jazeera Arabic Poll: 49.9% Support Osama Bin Laden 

An Arabic linguist emailed to let me know about this disturbing page at the
Arabic web site of JihadTV (Al Jazeera), with the results of a questionnaire
taken by 41,260 Arab viewers: Google
  translated version.
Note question #2:
1) Is the world safer after September 11? 
Yes - 4.2 % 
No  - 95.8 %
2) Do you support Osama bin Laden? 
Yes - 49.9 % 
No  - 50.1 %
3) Do you think that the war on Iraq is a war on Islam? 
Yes - 79.8 % 
No  - 20.2 %
4) Do you think that there is a link between the war on terrorism and the
war on Iraq? 
Yes - 23.4 % 
No  - 76.6 %
5) Do you wish to travel to the United States? 
Yes - 27.6 % 
No  - 72.4 %


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[osint] Hizballah-Death to America

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Subject: Check this out.
 
 

This is a disturbing video, and that is putting it mildly. If you have any
doubts that we are engaged in WWIII, watch this video twice!  It
should erase any question in your mind about trying to negotiate with these
murdering terrorists!  Feel free to forward this to anyone who
 doubts that these people are a threat to us, Israel, and everyone else in
the modern world. They want you, your family and your friends dead.. nothing
else will satisfy them.
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/v/-HlaVpqUXF0 
  
  


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[osint] West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda's Economic War against America

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.reportingwar.com/pham091406.shtml
 
by J. Peter Pham, Ph.D.
World Defense Review columnist
 
West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda's Economic War against
America
 
Despite the unfortunate tendency among many talking heads to oppose "soft
power" to "hard power" – usually these days to the detriment of the latter –
the truth is that the two aspects of national power are intrinsically
linked.
Take the example of the last "long war" fought and won by the United States,
the Cold War with the Soviet Union and expansionist international communism.
All the attraction and moral superiority of liberal democracy would have
been for naught if Western nations could not shelter behind the protective
shield provided by the brave men and women of America's armed forces. On the
other hand, that military strength alone did not bring about the end of the
Soviet empire. Rather, it collapsed because it could not withstand the
combined trauma of external pressures, political and military, and internal
hemorrhages, physical and economic.
The "long war" with between America and the radical Islamists is no
different, a fact that has not gone unappreciated by our enemies.
For example, in his  
videotaped speech on the eve of the U.S. presidential elections in 2004,
Osama bin Laden himself boasted – with no mention of the massive American
assistance to the Afghan resistance – of how he "alongside the mujahedin,
bled Russia for ten years, until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw
in defeat" from Afghanistan.
Bin Laden went on to assure his audience that al-Qaeda was "continuing this
policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy." The strategy he
outlined was simple: to ensure that the war against the United States ended
the same way as the conflict with the Soviet Union, the terrorists did not
need to defeat the superpower on the battlefield so much as to simply
survive, while draining the resources of their enemy. The al-Qaeda leader
went on to list two ways in which the jihadis hoped to undermine overall
U.S. power by sapping the American economy in what he called the
"bleed-until bankruptcy plan."
First, explicitly citing studies presented at the Royal Institute for
International Affairs, bin Laden boasted of the profitable return he had had
on the 9/11 attacks: "Al-Qaeda spent $500,000 on the event, while America,
in the incident and its aftermath, lost – according to the lowest estimate –
more than $500 billion, meaning that every dollar of al-Qaeda defeated a
million dollars by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge
number of jobs."
Second, the terrorist leader claimed to have forced the U.S. into an
unsustainably high level of spending in the military and security sector in
its efforts to hunt down the terrorists as well as to prevent a repeat of
the attacks on the New York and Washington: "As for the size of the economic
deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more
than a trillion dollars ... [and] all that we have to do is to send two
mujahedin to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is
written al-Qaeda, in order to make the generals race there to cause America
to suffer human, economic, and political losses without their achieving for
it anything of note."
In a subsequent audiotape released a month after the election, bin Laden
returned to the topic of economic warfare and specifically advised jihadis
that "targeting America in Iraq in terms of economy and loss of life is a
golden and unique opportunity ... be active and prevent them from reaching
the oil, and mount your operations accordingly."
Another earlier al-Qaeda communiqué, issued after the French supertanker
Limburg was bombed in 2002, causing $45 million in damage to the vessel and
leaking more than 90,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf of Aden, had hailed
the strike against what it termed "the provision line feeding to the artery
of the life of the crusader nation." (Foreign terrorists and local
insurgents in Iraq obviously took bin Laden's advice, their attacks on
Iraq's oil infrastructure cost the struggling state no less than $6.25
billion in lost revenue in 2005 – to say nothing of the costs imposed on the
rest of the world through the inflationary pressures of decreased petroleum
production anywhere.)
All of this leads to Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically West Africa, which
currently supplies about 15 percent of America's hydrocarbon needs – almost
as much as the amount coming from Saudi Arabia. Furthermore, according to
the National Intelligence Council, this figure is expected to rise to 20
percent in the next five years and increase to a staggering 25 percent by
2015. The catch is that this supply is at far greater risk than most
policymakers may think especially if one takes a careful look at the risk
equation and its three elements: threat, vulnerability, and cost.
Threat is the frequency or likelihood 

[osint] Beware of Al-Qaeda

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/contributors/09-2006/Article-20060914-
ac4b867e-c0a8-10ed-01b6-e3386e998e20/story.html
 

Beware of Al-Qaeda


Hassan Haydar Al-Hayat - 14/09/06//

There is a clear message to the Lebanese people behind the attack on the US
embassy in Damascus. If the Takfiris, regardless of the fact that the
vigilant Syrian security forces foiled their attempt, are capable of
plotting attacks and enjoy free movement in Damascus, where security is high
and no civil war or wars with Israel took place; what will they be able to
do in Beirut, which is suffering from great security loopholes and political
problems? Beirut is a place where patriotism and treason have become unclear
concepts, and where it has become a habit to accuse others, justly or
unjustly. In this atmosphere, everybody derides others for their alleged or
real political affiliations, which insinuates direct and dangerous
provocation against some figures, trends, thoughts and interests.
Over the past few years, since the assassination of late Prime Minister
Rafik Hariri, Lebanon has received several alerts of extremist activities
and potential attacks. The last of these warnings was by Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad, who said that his security forces had spotted some
activities of al-Qaeda operatives targeting Lebanon. In addition, Lebanon's
official apparatuses have expressed concern that Islamic extremists might
have a hand in some of the acts of violence and assassination attempts in
the country. Threats by al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri may
serve to confirm these activities. Marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11
attacks, Zawahiri said that the Jihadist wave was approaching Israel, which
essentially means that Lebanon is the only open Arab front of the conflict
with Israel.
Even if we were to suppose that al-Qaeda does not pose an imminent and real
threat, or that the interest of the terrorist organization is directed
elsewhere, to Iraq and Afghanistan for example; any side whose interests are
harmed by Lebanon's stability and security can exploit the division and
accusations of treason to endanger the country's stability.
Moreover, the fact that weapons of every kind are spread throughout Lebanon,
especially in the Palestinian refugee camps, makes Lebanon a fertile ground
for those who wore the garment of resistance and used the fight against
Israel as a pretext to violate and threaten the public order. Many nascent
Jihadist organizations emerged in the Palestinian refugee camps, which have
become a safe haven for suspected terrorists. Did it not happen in the past
that rockets were suddenly launched from southern Lebanon toward Israel
without the knowledge of the Resistance, and without any party claiming
responsibility, giving the enemy a reason to raid or bombard a village
there?
The persistent implicit and explicit threat of some groups in Lebanon, which
claim to have been exercising great efforts to control their supporters who
are 'angry' at their opponents that question their loyalty, or those who
oppose their policies and stances; only adds to the congestion and concerns.
It may unintentionally pave the way for those who are looking for loopholes
to strike at the heart of Beirut.
Given all that, the Lebanese must be urgently warned of al-Qaeda because it
might be in their midst without their being aware of it.


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[osint] Osama Bin Laden...a guy I met in a bar

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cobain091406.htm
 

Osama Bin Laden...
a guy I met in a bar

By David Cobain
Thursday, September 14, 2006 
A little known but highly important book on Adolf Hitler, the man who
single-handedly conceived and fashioned Germany's Third Reich, closes on a
scene unimaginably removed from the bombast and the bombing, the despair and
the destruction of the National Socialist era. 
The author of the book, one August Kubizek, a close companion of Hitler when
they were in their teens, tells a U.S. Army intelligence officer of their
later meetings, after the Nazi führer seized power in Berlin. 'You were so
close,' the officer says. 'Why didn't you kill him?' 
'Because,' Kubizek answers, 'he was my friend.' 
The book is important, this exchange is important, because the author
depicts Hitler as a human being, not as a demonic fiend that sprang complete
in its malignity from the Waldviertel, the dark 'wooded quarter' of Austria.
He was human, he was a man: he had, once, had a friend. 
I feel rather like that about Osama bin Laden. It's not, of course, that the
Al Qaeda leader is a friend of mine. But I do know him to be a man, a
remarkable man, not a spectral menace. And, while I know nothing of his
capacity for friendship, I can well understand that his admirers are legion.

This is not limp-wristed liberalism, compounded of silliness,
simple-mindedness and sentimentality. It is what remains to me of the
impression Bin Laden made when I met him, one evening in 1982, at a hotel in
Abu Dhabi, up the coast from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. 
I was drunk. That's an admission few professional scribblers would make as
part of an account of an incident or an interview. But it is a condition
familiar to many journalists - it was, in those days, at least - and seldom
regarded as an impediment to accuracy. In any event, I was drunk. 
I and a colleague had arrived by car that afternoon in Abu Dhabi, a
settlement that then looked very much like a suburban Moscow apartment
development with palm trees. We were there for me to familiarize myself with
the place, while my companion interviewed some businessmen. 
There being nothing to see and having nothing else to do, I headed into the
hotel lounge and ordered a beer. Then, I ordered another beer and another,
until I found myself in conversation with a couple of highly articulate
U.S.-educated Palestinians and their American wives. 
Inevitably, we discussed the volatile situation in what is referred to as
the Middle East, the plight of the four million Palestinian refugees, the
creation and likely future of the state of Israel, the role of the United
States in this explosive situation We talked and talked and talked. 
We were still talking, in fact, when the foursome took their leave to head
for the dining room. I remained at the table, occasionally ordering another
beer until my attention was drawn to a figure seated at the other side of
the lounge, a young Arab man dressed in a long white robe. 
As exceptionally tall as he was and as strikingly good looking, it was not
these characteristics that attracted my gaze. Rather, it was his still,
silent intensity. He sat, impervious to the hubbub of drink and talk, gazing
unblinkingly at everything and, it seemed, at nothing. 
It was impossible for me, I found, to take my eyes off him. He had the
extraordinary quality of attracting and holding one's attention inactively,
by his presence, by the impression he gave of focused other-worldliness. He
brought to mind, God help me, an image of the Risen Christ. 
I sat there for an age, my gaze immovable, knowing that he saw me, even
though his eyes didn't move, didn't meet mine, didn't alight on my face.
Then, still without moving head or eyes, he gestured to me. He patted the
empty place to his right on the wall bench where he sat. 
Leaving my beer unfinished, I rose from the table and felt myself impelled
across the room to sit where this extraordinary individual had indicated.
There, at his side, I took my seat and we talked. We talked about...things
that, in truth, I cannot even faintly recollect. 
It would be easy, and it's almost irresistible for the hack in me, to
recreate the conversation we might have had: about the rise of Islam, the
decline of the West, the looming clash between a faith-fuelled system and
the secularism of dominant capitalist consumerism, but 
Drunk as I was, and as affected by the power of this individual, I have no
idea what passed between us, how long I sat there, when my companion
left I remember, though, eventually finding myself with a group of other
Arabs, all cheerfully ignoring Islamic strictures against alcohol. 
How did I know I had been sitting with Osama bin Laden, a
one-day-to-be-infamous Islamic activist? I didn't ­ or I would have
carefully noted his words. It was only much later, after 20 years had
elapsed, after the attack on the World Trade Center, that the young man
again occupied my mind. 
For

[osint] From New York City to Afghanistan to the FBI

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.gcn.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=gcn
 &story.id=41916
 
>From New York City to Afghanistan to the FBI
By Wilson P. Dizard III,

Azmi is CIO of the FBI


 
 

 
The terrorist attacks in 2001 put many federal CIOs into the role of
managing new systems developed for homeland security and law enforcement. 
 
Zalmai Azmi, now CIO of the FBI, is one of them. 
 
But soon after the New York and Washington attacks, he was inserted into
Afghanistan as a member of a special operations unit reporting to the
intelligence community's National Counterterrorism Center. 
 
Azmi was CIO of the Justice Department's Executive Office of the U.S.
Attorneys on the day of the attacks. He was in his office at 600 E St. N.W.
in Washington at the time. 
 
The Justice Department agency launched its continuity-of-operations plan
within hours, he said in a recent interview in his office at FBI
headquarters. 
 
"On 9/12, I was at Ground Zero with my staff, bringing up offices," Azmi
said. "I spent about a week in New York bringing up offices." The Justice
Department quickly deployed new desktops and other systems to revive its New
York operations. 
 
"At the same time, while I was there, I got a call from some of my friends
in the Marine Corps, and they asked me if I would be interested in inserting
in Afghanistan with a special ops group. I said, fine, so I was detailed to
the counterterrorism center at the [CIA], and I spent the next year working
there," Azmi said. 
 
Azmi, who emigrated from Afghanistan with his family as a teenager, brought
his fluency in five languages-Dari, Farsi, Pashtu, German and English-as an
asset to the special operations work. He carried out two tours in
Afghanistan during the year after the 9/11 attacks and also worked with NCTC
in the capital region. 
 
He returned to his previous Justice Department CIO job in 2002, but within
months was plucked again for a counterterrorism assignment. Donna Bucella,
director of the Terrorist Screening Center, asked him to help build the
center's 
 
At that point, FBI director Robert Mueller III tapped Azmi for the job of
evaluating the bureau's computer systems. 
 
He was a special assistant to Mueller for two months and acting CIO for six
months. Azmi rose to permanent CIO in May 2004. 
 
"When I became acting CIO, I started in-house evaluation of the Virtual Case
File program," Azmi said. Later, he hired contractor Aerospace Corp. of
Columbia, Md. to size up the troubled case management system. 
 
In March 2005, the FBI walked away from the VCF program at a cost of $104
million [GCN.com, Quickfind 675]. 
 
Subsequently, the bureau launched the Sentinel case management project in
May 2005. 
 
Azmi noted that the anti-terrorist mission the FBI now has adopted has
changed the face of the bureau's IT, even if some projects have carried over
from before 9/11. 
 
The FBI needed an infrastructure, a case management system, and a
communications and collaboration platform before the terror attacks, he
said. "In that sense, we are working on the same projects." 
 
"But 9/11 has put every one of these activities on a fast track." He added,
"The sense of urgency is the biggest driver for IT transformation within the
bureau since 9/11." 
 
Amid the urgency of standing up the new case management system, Azmi and his
staff have reshaped the bureau's IT acquisition process. 
 
The Sentinel project is progressing through a series of design approval
stages, and Azmi has established several other controls on the activities of
the team led by systems integrator Lockheed Martin Corp. of Bethesda, Md. 
 
"The biggest challenge we had with VCF was . accountability," Azmi said. "We
had runaway requirements, we didn't have good oversight of our contract
management." He cited VCF's problems with lifecycle methodology, meeting
milestones, passing review gates, providing deliverables and assuring the
quality of deliverables. 
 
"Those are the mistakes that we are not going to repeat," Azmi said. "We
have a program management office, we have the policies and procedures in
place. We have the independent validation and verification process
overseeing this program [as well]." The bureau is on track to roll out
Sentinel's first phase next April, he said. 
 
As for Sentinel contractor Lockheed, Azmi said, "The control gate for them
is to pass the final design review that is scheduled for October.". 
 
Intelligence technology programs now are focused on improving information
both horizontally across agencies and vertically within organizations, he
said. 
 
"When we are talking about challenges the government

[osint] Volunteers in Homeland Security

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3

&id=32599

Volunteers in Homeland Security


Integrating volunteers into threat plans

Posted: September 12th, 2006 06:17 PM PDT

 
ART FEMISTER
Volunteers in Law Enforcement Contributor
Officer.com
The old saying, "people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan," could in
some sense be true when it comes to responding to newly discovered planned
attacks against critical infrastructure. While our local, state and federal
governments are undoubtedly working hard to help prevent future attacks by
incorporating anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism plans, there are times
when once a plot is uncovered, the reaction can appear to be confusing and
conflicting, rather then a preplanned, coordinated response. Such was the
case of the London-based terrorist cells who planned to blow up
American-based airlines departing from Heathrow airport en route to the
United States. 
Upon learning of the London-based terror plot, the Governor of California
immediately ordered the deployment of the state's National Guard units to
major California airports, such as Los Angeles International, to provide
additional protection. At the same time, the Mayor of Los Angeles was
holding a press conference with the chiefs of the city's public safety
departments, stating they were confident that everything that could be done
to protect the airports was being done and there was no need for the
National Guard to be deployed to the airports. As the good citizens of Los
Angeles were tuning in to this broadcast on the evening news, California
National Guard troops were packing their bags for immediate deployment to
the airports. Sound confusing? 
I don't question the decision of the Governor or the Mayor of Los Angeles
either way, however, you'd think this was something that would have been
discussed years ago. Perhaps a simple dialogue such as, "if a credible
terrorist plot is uncovered anywhere in the world, outside of California,
threatening the airlines, what should our joint response be? Do we A) agree
to call up the National Guard to be deployed to the major airports? B) put
the National Guard on standby and let the local police agencies beef up
security? C) Agree to immediately conference and then come to an agreement
of what steps should be taken?" 
Having served four years of active duty in the military, plus three years in
the active reserves, I have the highest level of respect for the brave men
and women who serve our nation in both capacities. I also have no doubt the
soldiers who serve in the various National Guard units are ready and willing
to step up and go active as needed to protect our nation. However,
regardless of their dedication and commitment, receiving a phone call at
work in the middle of the day and being told they have less than 24 hours to
be in full gear and report to their Guard base for immediate deployment to
an undisclosed location within the state for an indefinite period of time
has to be unnerving. Who's going to pick up the kids from school, take them
to baseball practice, make the key presentation to a client the next day,
or, worse yet, pay the bills in the coming months, as many Guardsmen and
-women take a drastic cut in pay when activated? 
Using law enforcement volunteers for homeland security 
What's most troubling about this is not the fact that the Governor of
California and the Mayor of Los Angeles had conflicting responses to the
potential threat (that's just a given these days in the world of politics),
but how the Guardsmen were being used. Here, we have highly trained members
of the Army National Guard Infantry, searching handbags for gels and
liquids. Hmmm, I don't seem to recall any part of their training preparing
them for this. Oh that's right, come to think of it, there is no training
required for this type of activity as it's "on the job" training; you see
something liquid or gel and you throw it away, pretty basic. 
The point being, before calling up our state troops and disrupting their
lives while expending millions of precious dollars in so doing, there is an
alternative to the National Guard for activities such as this. They can be
found in virtually all major cities across America, and they're called
civilian law enforcement volunteers. As one example, the City of Palm
Springs, California, is home to a large airport complex that serves as a hub
for regional carriers and visitors to the resort community and surrounding
areas. The city is also home to the Palm Springs Police Citizens Patrol
unit, which is comprised of civilian volunteers who support their officers
in a variety of ways. Before joining the unit, each perspective applicant
undergoes a background check which, in many law enforcement agencies,
exceeds that of military applicants, and once cleared, are trained and
issued distinctive uniforms and equipment. 
The Citizens Patrol are on the street in th

[osint] NY police study terror threat

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=NY+police+study+terror+t
hreat
 &id=93103
 
NY police study terror threat 
Police investigators posing as apple growers secretly built and partially
detonated a fertilizer-based, 1,080-kilogram truck bomb to determine how
easy it would be for homegrown terrorists to launch an attack with homemade
explosives.

The 2004 experiment, known as Operation Kaboom, was part of a New York
Police Department program to monitor suspicious sales of ammonium nitrate
and other common chemicals sold by suppliers in the New York City area.

Testifying in Washington, DC before the Senate committee on homeland
security, the NYPD's top counter-terrorism official, Richard Falkenrath,
said the $7,000 operation "proved the ease with which the fertilizer can be
legally obtained and used as part of an explosive device."

Security enhancements

Falkenrath, a former national security aide for the Bush administration,
criticized Congress and the White House for failing to seek strict
regulations on the sale of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, a key ingredient in
the bomb used in the attack on the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City in 1995.

"It has become commonplace to ask why, five years after September 11,
certain security enhancements have not been implemented," he said, according
to a copy of his prepared remarks provided by the police department. 

"In this case, the question is why has nothing been done about ammonium
nitrate more than 10 years after the Oklahoma City bombing?"

Police officials in New York later detailed how investigators with no
experience in explosives had posed as apple growers in two purchases of more
than 1,000 pounds (1,080 kilograms) of fertilizer from agricultural supply
outlets in Schaghticoke, New York, and Yardley, Pennsylvania. (AP) 


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[osint] The Islamic Fascism Disease

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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/695odaut.a
sp
 
The Fascist Disease 
"Islamic fascism" is an accurate--and important--term. 
by Joseph Loconte 
09/14/2006 12:00:00 AM 

 
PRESIDENT BUSH used the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks to
remind Americans of the nature of the fight against radical Islam. "It's
been called a clash of civilizations," Bush said. "It is a struggle for
civilization." The president warned that a terrorist victory over the United
States would bring a "desert of despotism" and "a totalitarian ideology that
hates freedom." Yet he stopped short of repeating the phrase he used last
month--"Islamic fascists"--to describe terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.
The administration ought to reprise the phrase as a legitimate and important
tool in the war of ideas. 
Many liberals think this rhetoric too simplistic, that it is a moralistic
ploy to justify military adventurism. Others, such as the Council on
American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim Council of Britain, fear it will
spark hate crimes and divide communities. "In the Muslim world you're going
to have a difficult time having the mainstream community marginalize
extremists when they feel that their faith and their culture is under
attack," complained Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR. "And phrases like 'Islamic
fascist' make people feel like the entire faith of Islam is under attack."
This is the language of denial, a refusal to admit spiritual corruption from
within. Nevertheless, advocates of a fascist link to extremist Islam should
recall that it was the West that conceived this corruption in the last
century. We cannot neglect the fact that "Christian Europe" enabled the
growth of fascism in the 1920s and 30s--in states such as Austria, Belgium,
Croatia, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Indeed, the fascist virus even
managed to invade the bloodstream of the Christian church.
Immediately after seizing power in 1933, Hitler and his National Socialist
Party infiltrated the state-supported Protestant churches in Germany. Soon
church bells bore Nazi swastikas, crosses were draped in Nazi flags, and a
new priesthood--the "storm troopers of Jesus"--preached martial sermons of
racial purity and holy martyrdom. The Catholic Center Party supported steps
that gave Hitler dictatorial powers, while the Vatican tacitly backed the
revolutions of Franco and Mussolini. In Slovakia, a Catholic monsignor
emerged as the fascist dictator. In Croatia, the Ustache openly presented
itself as a Catholic movement. 
Why fascism found support among political and religious leaders professing
Christianity is a complex and much-disputed issue. Yet it's clear that many
fascists, Hitler pre-eminent among them, were masterful at enlisting
religious imagery to advance their vision of a re-moralized and
re-militarized society. The "Aryan Christian" movement--call it Christian
fascism--swept through Germany and other parts of Europe with
blitzkrieg-like efficiency.
FASCISM WAS REPUDIATED by the Christian church worldwide, however, and
throughout Europe there were courageous dissenters. Catholic priests were
arrested in large numbers as Hitler tightened his grip on power. Protestant
leaders Karl Barth, Martin Niemoller and Dietrich Bonhoeffer openly
denounced the Nazi takeover of the German church as idolatry. They formed a
"Confessing Church," an underground congregation committed to historic,
orthodox Christianity. Exposing themselves to arrest and execution, they
sheltered Jews and challenged fellow believers not to shrink back from the
moral obligations of the gospel. "Be perfectly clear," Barth wrote after the
fall of France, "that the demonic power of National Socialism . . . is
connected with the fact that Christianity in Germany did thus retreat."
If fascism could entice and manipulate the Christian religion as it did in
the 1930s, why is it hard to imagine it could pervert the religion of Islam?
If liberal political regimes could accommodate an ideology of militarism and
racial supremacy, surely Islamic states are no less inclined to tolerate the
theology of suicide and spiritual supremacy of the new fascists.
THE HISTORICAL PARALLEL HAS ITS LIMITS. European fascism elevated the state
above all else, while today's Islamists regard the state as a means to an
end: the establishment of a vast, borderless caliphate. Nevertheless,
Mussolini's motto--"niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contra lo Stato
("nothing outside the state, nothing against the state")--aptly describes
the totalitarian impulse of Osama bin Laden and his allies.
An American observer, writing in 1939, saw in fascism "a deliberate return
to barbarism." The new barbarians share much with their European
counterparts: a remorseless savagery, an obsession with blood and death, and
a utopian vision of purity and power. If we consider the horrific plot to
blow up 10 airliners bound for the United States; the ethnic cleansing of
villagers in Sudan; the bombs hidden 

[osint] UK: Terror accused 'ran away' to join jihad

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2357829,00.html

Terror accused 'ran away' to join jihad
By Times Online and PA News



One of the accused in the fertiliser bomb terror trial at the Old 
Bailey told the court today how he had run away from home at the age 
of 17 to join a training camp in Pakistan for foreigners who wanted to 
fight in Kashmir.


But he said that his training was interrupted when members of his 
family who worked in Pakistani military intelligence found out where 
he was and sent him a radio message to come down from the mountains 
for a reunion with his grandfather.
Omar Khyam, 24, was the first of seven defendants to testify in the 
trial. The prosecution allege he was a member of a British terror cell 
linked to Al-Qaeda, which discussed bombing nightclubs and other 
targets in the UK.
Mr Khyam, his brother Shujah Mahmood, 19, Waheed Mahmood, 34, and 
Jawad Akbar, 23, all from Crawley, Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, 
Beds, Anthony Garcia, 24, of Ilford, east London, and Nabeel Hussain, 
21, of Horley, Surrey, deny conspiring to cause explosions likely to 
endanger life between January 1, 2003 and March 31, 2004.
Mr Khyam, Mr Garcia and Mr Hussain also deny a charge under the 
Terrorism Act of possessing 600kg (1,300lb) of ammonium nitrate 
fertiliser for terrorism. Mr Khyam and Shujah Mahmood further deny 
possessing aluminium powder for terrorism.
Mr Khyam, who has a dark, closely-trimmed beard, was frequently told 
to speak up and answer questions more slowly as he stood in the 
witness box, wearing a yellow, open-necked shirt. Sometimes he put his 
hands in his pockets and smiled as he recalled his journey from 
British schoolboy to a training camp in the hills of Pakistan.
He said that he was brought up in a secular Muslim home in Crawley, 
West Sussex, with his mother and brothers and went to a predominantly 
white school, where he was captain of the cricket team and did well in 
his GCSEs.
Although his familiy did not pay much attention to religion, Mr Khyam 
said that he became more interested in religion as a teenager at 
college in Surrey, attending meetings locally of a radical group, Al 
Muhajiroun. He also started to learn about fighting in Kashmir between 
India and Pakistan.
It was on a visit to his family's homeland of Pakistan in 1999, he 
said, that he spoke to groups active in Kashmir.
He returned home but within a few months, at the age of 17, he ran 
away to Pakistan, telling his mother that he was going to France to 
study French and asking a friend to post a letter from there for him.
In Pakistan, he made his way to the training camp in the mountains. 
"They taught me everything for warfare," he said. This had included 
firing weapons, including rocket-propelled grenades, and 
reconnaissance. And he had seen others, who were especially chosen, 
receive explosives training.
Mr Khyam said he was at the camp from January to March 2000, when 
members of his family who were in Pakistani military intelligence 
traced him. "They were very quickly able to find out where I was," he 
said.
He received a radio message to go down the mountain where he found his 
grandfather waiting and there was an emotional reunion. Mr Khyam 
added: "He was pleased but just wanted to tell me where I had gone. 
They were worried about me being killed."
After returning to Crawley, he read newspaper reports which reflected 
the horror and concern of the teenager having run away. Mr Khyam said 
they had been originated by an uncle. Most of his family was happy at 
what he had done, except his mother.


He then went to Belgium to help run clothes shops owned by his father 
who was divorced from his mother.
After returning to East Surrey College, he failed to take his final 
exams and was advised to take a foundation course, enrolling in 2001 
at the Metropolitan University in north London.


But before his course, he went again to Pakistan for a friend's 
wedding - crossing to Afghanistan to visit the Taleban before 
returning to England.
Mr Khyam was asked what his reaction was to the September 11 attack on 
the Twin Towers in New York. He said: "I was happy. America was, and 
still is, the greatest enemy of Islam. They put up puppet regimes in 
Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt."
He added: "I was happy that America had been hit because of what it 
represented against the Muslims, but obviously 3,000 people died so 
there were mixed feelings."
Mr Khyam said that after a few months of discussions with others and 
considering views of Islamic leaders, he had come to the conclusion 
that it had been tactically unwise.
"I think we would be working better in our own countries, trying to 
establish an Islamic state," he said. 




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[osint] Supreme Leader considers faith, resolve, Jihad as Islam's eternal lessons

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Not exactly what the terrorist leader Khatami spouted at the National
Cathedral and Harvard.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0609141770192959.htm
 
Supreme Leader considers faith, resolve, Jihad as Islam's eternal lessons 
  Tehran, Sept 14, IRNA
 
  Iran-
 Khamenei-
 Students 
Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a
message to the 7th annual meeting of the nationwide universities independent
students Islamic association here Thursday said that faith, resolve and
Jihad are the three elements required to materialize any goal and ideal. 
The Supreme Leader pointed to the three elements as Islam's eternal lessons,
which once elevated Muslims to the climax of history, adding that today they
will serve to rescue them from captivity. 
"There is no doubt that the youth are most capable concerning these three
basic elements," added Ayatollah Khamenei. 
In his message, the Supreme Leader said that a community in which justice,
spirituality and dignity are set on top of its goals is obliged to be
faithful, determined and pursue Jihad. 
"This is the same eternal lesson of Islam to its followers and the entire
humanity," added Ayatollah Khamenei. 
Elsewhere in his message, the Supreme Leader called on the independent
students to trust divine promises, which are to be materialized in light of
the vigilance of world nations. 
Ayatollah Khamenei further called on them to attach value to their
potentials and make optimum use of their capacities in scientific fields,
adding, "The future belongs to you." 





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[osint] Advocates for Muslim Women Face Constant Danger

[Bruce Tefft]

Anyone wonder why?
 
Bruce
 
ER SPIEGEL 37/2006 - September 11, 2006 
URL:
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,436820,00.html

Living under Police Protection


Advocates for Muslim Women Face Constant Danger

By Cordula Meyer 
Those who take a stand for the rights of Muslim women -- by criticizing the
practice of forced in marriage, for example -- put themselves at
considerable risk in Germany. Murder threats and attacks by conservative
Muslims are common, and the police can offer only limited help. 
Seyran Ates has announced she no longer wants to work as a lawyer defending
the rights of Muslim women because she fears for her life.DPA
Seyran Ates has announced she no longer wants to work as a lawyer defending
the rights of Muslim women because she fears for her life.
It happened in April, on the freeway, on the way home from a book reading in
the western German city of Saarbrücken. Fatma Bläser, author of the novel
"Hennamond" ("Henna Moon"), stepped on the brakes -- but nothing happened.
She steered the car into the shoulder, "in a state of panic," she says, and
let it roll to a halt. A mechanic later found that someone had tampered with
the brakes. Bläser, a Kurd who lives in Germany, hasn't pressed charges.
"What can the police do in a case like mine?" she asks.
Bläser once almost became a victim of forced marriage but managed to escape.
She wrote a book about her experience and now lectures in schools. "I always
ask for police protection when I do readings in neighborhoods with a high
immigrant population," she says. Still, she adds, she receives threats
constantly. A young man from Albania recently shouted at her: "Hey, you
tramp, I'll take care of you -- you're stirring our sisters up against us."
Others have threatened to beat her or pursued her in their cars until she
sought protection at a police station. Bläser's car has often been tampered
with.
Bläser is far from being the only person who has been attacked or threatened
by Muslim men because of her work in trying to protect the rights of Muslim
women. Berlin-based lawyer and writer Seyran Ates recently renounced her
accreditation as a lawyer, explaining that she fears for her life after
having been threatened repeatedly by Muslims. She wants to continue her
political work, but she says that direct confrontations in the courtroom
have become too dangerous for her. 
Ates, who is a German citizen of Turkish origin, stood up for Muslim women
for years, attacking their intolerable condition in a way that drew
considerable public attention. As early as 1984, Ates was shot in the neck
by a man associated with the Turkish extremist group known as the "Grey
Wolves." At the time, she was working in a women's store in Berlin. The
bullet hit her carotid artery. Her troubles didn't end there: In 2005, the
Turkish newspaper Hürriyet began to campaign against her. And not long ago
the husband of one of her clients began to beat his wife right front of her
on the street.
Observers of immigrant culture in Germany claim that people who stand up for
the rights of Muslim women and girls in Germany -- be they lawyers, writers
or social workers -- do not receive adequate protection. But they also
remain unconvinced that it is even possible to provide adequate protection
for such workers. 
"The threat to the helpers is very real," says Rahel Volz of the women's
rights organization Terre des femmes (Human Rights for Women). And this
threat "is silencing those who could still be making a difference." It's not
just writers and lawyers whose lives are at risk -- that list also includes
teachers who want to protect their students from forced marriages.
Women with an immigrant background face an even greater risk than German
women, Volz says, because they are considered traitors who are sullying the
reputation of their own people. She says she knows female lawyers who refuse
to represent Muslim women in court when the case involves a familial
dispute.
Those working for the Berlin-based social project Papatya, which provides
support to Muslim girls, also know "the aggression of the families is very
much focused on us," as one counselor puts it. The organization works like a
secret society. Hardly anyone knows its telephone number or address. Even
the girls who seek help there don't know the full names of their counselors.
"We know about the pressure and the threats," says one member of Papatya,
"but think about the pressure the victims are under." She says that many
people working for youth welfare offices have "capitulated because they are
afraid of the families."
Ursula Spuler-Stegemann, an expert on Islam at the University of Marburg in
central Germany, is "horrified and saddened" that Ates, a well-known lawyer,
is giving in to the pressure. Spuler-Stegemann fears that, by pulling back,
Ates may be conveying the wrong message. 
"This goes to the core of the issue," she argues. "This is about freedom of
speech." If those who criticize what is int

[osint] Judge refuses to reinstate key Padilla terrorism charge

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-ap-il-padilla-terrorcha,1
,883477.story?coll=chi-news-hed
 
Judge refuses to reinstate key Padilla terrorism charge
By CURT ANDERSON Associated Press Writer
MIAMI
A federal judge refused Thursday to reinstate a key terrorism charge in the
case against alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla and two other
defendants, raising the possibility of delays in their trial if prosecutors
appeal the ruling.

U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke ruled in August that a charge of conspiracy
to "murder, kidnap and maim" people overseas must be dismissed because it
duplicated other charges in the same indictment. Cooke said at a hearing
Thursday that she stands by that decision.

"I do not think I am in error in this case," Cooke said.

The dismissed charge is important because it is the only one in the
indictment that carries a potential life sentence. Padilla and the others
remain charged with two terrorism material support counts, but a life
sentence is only possible if prosecutors can prove the conspiracy led
directly to someone's death.

Prosecutors are likely to ask the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to
review Cooke's decision, which could delay the planned Jan. 22 trial date.
Cooke asked prosecutors to expedite any appeal in an effort to stay on
schedule.

Padilla, a 35-year-old former Chicago gang member and convert to Islam, is
charged along with his co-defendants with being part of a North American
support cell for violent Muslim extremists worldwide. Padilla was arrested
in 2002 and held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant, initially for what
U.S. officials called a plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" inside
the United States.

He was added late last year to an existing Miami terrorism case amid a
high-level legal battle over whether President George W. Bush had
constitutional authority to hold him without charge during wartime. The
Miami indictment does not mention the "dirty bomb" allegations, only
charging that Padilla attended an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan. 
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[osint] Turkey's top Islamic cleric asks pope to take back remarks about Islam

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20060914-1057-turkey-pope.html
 
Turkey's top Islamic cleric asks pope to take back remarks about Islam
By Benjamin Harvey
ASSOCIATED PRESS 
10:57 a.m. September 14, 2006 
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's top Islamic cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI on
Thursday to take back recent remarks he made about Islam and unleashed a
string of counteraccusations against Christianity, raising tensions before
the pontiff's November visit - his first to a Muslim country. 
The Vatican hastened to defend the pope, saying that the pontiff wanted to
promote respect and dialogue toward other religions, "obviously also toward
Islam."
Ali Bardakoglu, head of Turkey's powerful Religious Affairs Directorate,
said he was deeply offended by remarks about Islamic holy war made Tuesday
by the pope during a visit to Germany, calling them "extraordinarily
worrying, saddening and unfortunate."
Bardakoglu said that "if the pope was reflecting the spite, hatred and
enmity" of others in the Christian world, it would be even more troubling.
In a speech Tuesday, the pope quoted from a book recounting a conversation
between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and an
educated Persian on the truths of Islam and Christianity.
"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the pope
said.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and
there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to
spread by the sword the faith he preached.'"
Clearly aware of the delicacy of the issue, Benedict said "I quote" twice
before pronouncing the phrases on Islam and described them as "brusque,"
while neither explicitly agreeing with nor repudiating them.
The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said Tuesday the pontiff
had not been giving an interpretation of Islam as "something violent,"
although Lombardi said the religion contained both violent and nonviolent
strains.
Bardakoglu said he expected an apology from the pope and said it was
Christianity, not Islam, that popularized conversion by the sword, according
to Turkey's state-owned Anatolia news agency.
"The church and the Western public, because they saw Islam as the enemy,
went on crusades. They occupied Istanbul, they killed thousands of people.
Orthodox Christians and Jews were killed and tortured," he said.
Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, was the capital of the Eastern Roman and
Byzantine Christian empires before being conquered by Ottoman Muslims in
1453.
The Christians "saw war against those outside the Christian world as a holy
duty," Bardakoglu said. "That's why the Western clerics always have in the
back of their minds a crusade mentality and the idea of holy war."
Bardakoglu said he suspected Benedict had the same mentality and asked the
pope to "look in the mirror" before making remarks against Islam.
Benedict and his entourage were heading back to the papal summer residence
near Rome when Bardakoglu spoke. A few hours after Benedict's arrival back
in Italy, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, insisted that
the pontiff respects Islam.
Benedict wants to "cultivate an attitude of respect and dialogue toward the
other religions and cultures, obviously also toward Islam," Lombardi, who
had accompanied the pope in Germany, said in a statement released by the
Vatican.
"It is opportune to note that that which is at the pope's heart is a clear
and radical refusal of the religious motivation of violence," Lombardi said.
In his address Tuesday, Benedict did not touch directly on the current
controversy over Islamic extremism, although it is an issue he follows
closely with concern. He urged Islamic leaders last year to take
responsibility for their communities and teach their young to abhor
violence.
Benedict, who has made the fight against growing secularism in Western
society a theme of his pontificate, is expected to visit Turkey in late
November. He was invited by the staunchly secularist Turkish President Ahmet
Necdet Sezer, who said the invitation was part of an effort to strengthen
dialogue between religions.
Although officially secular Turkey is 99 percent Muslim, the main purpose of
the pope's pilgrimage there is to meet with the spiritual leader of the
world's 200 million Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I,
whose headquarters, for historical reasons, are in Istanbul.
 


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[osint] Turkey: bomb had been placed in thermos; dead mostly children

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http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/5083379.asp?gid=74
 
Diyarbakir bomb had been placed in thermos; dead mostly children



In the wake of Tuesday evening's bomb blast in Diyarbakir, which resulted in
the death of 10 people, including 7 children, it has been confirmed that the
explosives had been placed in a 12 kilogram thermos. The force of the blast
was such that the bodies of the people killed were spread over a wide area,
making identification difficult. The bombers chose to detonate the thermos
in front of a bus stop by the Kosuyolu Park in Diyarbakir, which is also
where the Yunus Emre Primary School is located. 
With hot summer evenings continuing in Diyarbakir, the area around the park
and school was very crowded with adults and children out for walks, and thus
most of the victims were children who had come to play in the park. 
One family hit hard by the blast was the Demir family: mother Faide Demir
(35) and her children Mizgin (13), Dilan (9), Silan (3), Zilan Demir (6), as
well as Faide Demir's sister, Emine Yetisecek, were all buried yesterday at
the Silvan Cemetary. 
Others killed in the blast were also buried yesterday, including Abdullah
and Nazar Cetinkaya. 
Police have focused on the body of a male thought to be around 25 years old
as the prime suspect in the bombing. The material used in the incident is
though to have been either a C-4 or an A-4 explosive. 
 


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[osint] Defense disputes information restriction request in terror case

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http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/09/14/america/NA_GEN_US_Terrorism_Arrest
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Defense disputes information restriction request in terror case 
The Associated Press 
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 
ATLANTA A defense lawyer for a man charged with aiding terrorists told a
judge Thursday he should be able to share any evidence he receives from
prosecutors with his client.

The government has sought to restrict Syed Ahmed's and Ehsanul Sadequee's
access to sensitive material that may be turned over to defense lawyers as
the case against the two men proceeds to trial.

"We object to that as a general matter," Jack Martin, a lawyer for Ahmed,
said during a brief hearing in U.S. Magistrate Judge Gerrilyn Brill's
chambers.

Martin told reporters after the hearing, "I'm likely to miss things if I
can't share it with my client."

Sadequee's lawyer did not make a statement on the issue, but is likely to
object as well. There were no rulings during the hearing, which was
initially expected to be closed to the media but was opened after a lawyer
for several news organizations intervened.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert McBurney said during the hearing that the
protective order regarding sensitive material and proper security clearances
for the defense attorneys needs to be in place before the government can
begin turning over potentially classified documents. Brill gave McBurney the
go-ahead to deal directly with the court security officer on where and how
to store classified material in the case.

Ahmed, 21, and Sadequee, 20, were indicted July 19 on charges of providing
material support to terrorists and related conspiracy counts. Both have
pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Ahmed, born in Pakistan, was a Georgia Tech student at the time of his
arrest. Sadequee was born in Virginia and is of Bangladeshi descent. He has
relatives in the Atlanta area.

The men are accused of discussing terror targets with Islamic extremists and
undergoing training to carry out a "violent jihad" against civilian and
government targets, including an air base in suburban Atlanta.

Authorities say the men's motivation for planning attacks was "defense of
Muslims or retaliation for acts committed against Muslims."

There has been no allegation that the two men obtained or tried to obtain
weapons or explosives to commit terrorism.


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[osint] Campus split hits the wall

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http://www.vuvuzelaonline.com/index.php?option=com_content
 &task=view&id=589&Itemid=51
 

Campus split hits the wall 
 

Written by Naseera Fakira and T Kenichi

Thursday, 14 September 2006 

THOUGH far apart ideologically, the Wits Palestinian Solidarity Committee
and the SA Union of Jewish Students now have something in common: Both have
become the victims of vandalism on campus.
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Both groups had booked the graffiti wall at the Matrix, using proper
university channels, and painted a mural conveying their messages. Both
murals were vandalised.

SAUJS had painted: "Terrorism knows no borders. Never Again. Terrorism is
Everyone's problem." And it listed several cities and dates which referred
to terror attacks.  Those named included Cape Town, New York, and London.

The wall was prepared last Friday and on the following Monday night, the
wall had been vandalised.  Most of the wall was covered in blue paint and
the words, "Was this an act of terror?" written over it in yellow.

Three weeks ago, as previously reported in Vuvuzela, Wits PSC had booked the
wall and painted on it, "Never Again: To any form apartheid.  Israel or
South Africa."  Days later, it was found papered with SAUJS posters.  After
the posters were removed, an obscenity was scrawled on the mural which
accused the PSC of being anti-semitic.
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Caylee Talpert of SAUJS called the society's mural a "memorial to the
victims of global terror".  She condemned the vandalism.

"We think it's an insult to the people who have suffered and died," she
said.

Natasha Vally, a core member of the Wits PSC, said she believed that SAUJS's
mural "portrayed a false message", but that it should also be discussed.

"The wall selectively portrayed [SAUJS's] view on terror.  Terror and
terrorism are subjective words."
But this argument does not hold water with Talpert.  "How can you say
attacks on civilians isn't terrorism?" she asks.
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Vally said that Wits PSC was against any form of vandalism. She said that
there should be freedom of expression at Wits, but that the correct channels
should be followed and that rebuttals should occur so that others could
voice their differing opinions.

Vally  also said that her organisation had not been responsible for the
vandalism. "The PSC didn't do it. It's absolutely crazy."

Talpert said the vandalism had been reported to Campus Control and did not
point the finger at any culprit for the vandalism.  "That's up to the
university," she said.

Dean of Students Prem Coopoo said the university had a "zero tolerance"
policy with regards to all forms of vandalism.  

"This approach extends to vandalism of the graffiti wall as well," she said.
"[The university] will deal with the perpetrators appropriately."

Talpert drew a link between the vandalism performed on SAUJS's mural and
terrorism.  "The same kind of intolerance that destroyed our wall is causing
global terrorism."

Vally called the furore around the wall a "distraction from the real issues,
which are human rights violations".

"Terror is a labelling used to create a culture of fear," said Vally.
"People jump on this bandwagon so more atrocities can be committed."  She
suggested that the actions of Israel constitute terrorism.So the debate
continues. 

Talpert said that SAUJS had planned to ask the university for extra time to
use the wall.  But since the wall is likely to have been booked, they will
now use a flyer campaign.

 
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between the two groups. Jewish students had pitched up at Wits PSC meetings,
explaining their side and what Israel meant to Jews.

But she did not think the exchange could go further.  "We don't think it's
effective to deal with an ideology we can't change," she said.
 


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[osint] 6 men in Britain appear in court

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Britain_Terror_Charges.html
 
6 men in Britain appear in court
By KATIE FRETLAND
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LONDON -- Six men swept up in a terror raid appeared in court Thursday,
including a former spokesman of jailed radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri.
Atilla Ahmet, known as Abu Abdullah, 42, of London, was ordered held along
with five others arrested in raids that targeted an alleged network of
terrorist recruiting and training camps in Britain.
Ahmet, al-Masri's former No. 2 at the Finsbury Park Mosque - now under new
leadership - faces several counts of soliciting murder and possessing a
record containing information likely to be useful to a person committing an
act of terrorism. He was also charged with publishing statements intending
to encourage others to commit acts of terrorism. District Judge Quentin
Purdy ordered him held until an appearance on Sept. 29.
Al-Masri is serving a seven-year sentence for inciting followers to kill
non-Muslims.
Ahmet, a British citizen of Turkish Cypriot descent, told a Kuwaiti
newspaper earlier this year that he feared he would soon be arrested.
"I'm the next in line," he told Kuwait's Al-Anba newspaper. Ahmet stood
silently in the court after confirming his name and date of birth. He tried
to speak to two women in the court gallery but was led out by guards.
The five others who appeared in court were among 14 people arrested
following a Sept. 1 anti-terrorism operation at a halal Chinese restaurant
and other locations in London. Ten have been charged, two others remain in
custody and two were released earlier, police said. 
Muhammad Al-Figari, 42, Kadar Ahmed, 19, and a 17-year-old - who cannot be
identified for legal reasons - were remanded in custody until Oct. 12.
All three are charged with attending terrorism training in a woodland area
near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping Site in Lyndhurst, England, about 90
miles southwest of London.
Al-Figari and the 17-year-old are also charged with possessing information
likely to be useful to a person committing acts of terrorism.
Moussa Brown, 40, is charged under Britain's Terrorism Act 2000 with
providing and receiving firearms training. He was remanded in custody until
Oct. 12.
Saloum Joh, 21, was remanded in custody until Dec. 7 after the judge denied
his bail application. He is charged with illegally possessing a shotgun.



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[osint] UK: Man charged in terror probe

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Man charged in terror probe
8.22, Thu Sep 14 2006
 
A man has been charged with possessing information likely to be useful to a
terrorist and two other terrorism charges.
Scotland Yard said Akber Butt, 19, of Southall, was charged with two counts
of possessing without reasonable excuse, a record of information of a kind
likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism,
contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000.
He was also charged with two counts of possessing an article in
circumstances which give rise to reasonable suspicion that its possession is
for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of
an act of terrorism, contrary to the same Act.
He remains in custody and will appear at City of Westminster magistrates
court tomorrow.
Four other men arrested in the same operation will stand trial in April
accused of having information likely to be of use in terrorism.
Students Aitzaz Zafar, 19, Usman Malik, 19, and Awaab Iqbal, 19, all of
Bradford, and Irfan Raja, 18, of Ilford, Essex, deny possessing and making
documents for use in terrorism.
The charges they face relate to documents, CDs and computers containing
items such as photographs of the 9/11 bombers and a military guide to
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[osint] UK Air baggage rules to be relaxed

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Air baggage rules to be relaxed
4.58, Wed Sep 13 2006
 
Restrictions imposed on hand luggage carried by air passengers are set to be
eased next week.
The restrictions were put in place after last month's alleged terror plot.
There have been complaints among passengers because of the inconvenience
caused and the restrictions have raised concerns about the additional
financial burden on airlines and airports.
The Department of Transport said it would present proposals to industry
representatives next week "aimed at lessening the burden on both passengers
and operators".
It is expected to make an announcement on new regulations later next week.
A statement said: "The measures we introduced in August were in response to
a very real and serious terrorist threat which continues. Since then the
Department for Transport has been working closely with the aviation industry
to see if there are any practical steps that can be taken to lessen the
burden while not compromising on security."
The department said it had been working with airlines to develop common
standards and measures with international partners to address the threat


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[osint] Ugandan Brothers On Terror Charges in UK

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Ugandan Brothers On Terror Charges in UK 

The Monitor (Kampala) 
NEWS
September 14, 2006 
Posted to the web September 14, 2006 

By Moses Nsobya Sebaggala & Agencies
London 
As the world marked the fifth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist
attack on America, two Ugandan brothers living in Norwood, South London,
were being charged with a string of terror offences in the United Kingdom. 
Mr Yassin Mutegombwa and Mr Hassan Mutegombwa originate from Kyagwe County,
Mukono district. 
Yassin Mutegombwa, 22, is accused of receiving weapons training at camps in
the heart of the countryside in the New Forest and Berkshire. 
The Kyagwe boy earned himself the unenviable record of becoming the first
suspect to face British courts under the new Terrorist Act of 2006. He was
arrested a week ago in a Scotland Yard operation, targeting the recruitment
and training of would-be Islamic terrorists. 
Mr Mutegombwa faces three counts of attending weekend training sessions for
terrorism during the months of April, May and June this year. 
He is accused of another charge of receiving terrorist training. 
The Terrorism Act 2006 became law only in March and also makes it an offence
for one to be at a place where training is taking place and includes
controversial clauses banning the glorification of terrorism. 
Each of three charges alleges that Mr Mutegombwa was at a site and "whilst
there instruction or training of the type mentioned in this Act (Terrorism
Act 2006) or the Terrorism Act 2000 (weapons training) was provided wholly
or partly for the purposes connected with the commission or preparation of
acts of terrorism, and he knew or believed that the instruction or training
was being provided there wholly or partly for purposes connected with the
commission or preparation of acts of terrorism." 
Between April 28 and May 1, Mr Mutegombwa is said to have received training
in a woodland area near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping site, Lyndhurst,
Hampshire. 
A second charge alleges that he returned for a second training session at
the same site in the New Forest between June 2 and June 4. Two weeks later
on Sunday June 18 Mr Mutegombwa is accused of attending a third training
session near Pondwood Farm, White Waltham, Berkshire. 
The campsite in the New Forest was run by the Forestry Commission at the
time of the alleged training. The site is described as "a small secluded
site within natural woodland". 
It has no amenities and there is only space for 70 pitches used by campers
and caravaners. Pondwood Farm is at White Waltham near Maidenhead and close
to the M4 highway. The farm is the centre for a complex of leisure and
outdoor activities including paintball, bungee jumping and coarse fishing.
There are also companies involved in security and flood protection. 
Mr Mutegombwa's 20-year-old brother Hassan was also arrested in the raids
and faces a single charge of procuring funds for terrorism in July contrary
to the Terrorism Act of 2000. 
The brothers appeared at City of Westminster Magistrates' court on Tuesday.
They were remanded in custody until Tuesday, October 10, when they will
appear at the Old Bailey. 
They were among 14 suspects arrested eight days ago in connection with
investigations into alleged attempts to recruit and train would-be
terrorists. Two men were released without further action last week and 10
other suspects are still being questioned by police in London. 
When contacted, for a comment, Uganda's High Commissioner to the UK and
Northern Ireland, Ms Joan K. Rwabyomere said she had learnt about the case,
but the matter was with the Police." 
Meanwhile, a Ugandan teacher has been arrested on charges of rape and incest
in New Hampshire, USA. Severine Wamala is accused of sexually assaulting
three women. 


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[osint] Terror tipster gets Hillary aid

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/452215p-380594c.html
 

Terror tipster gets Hillary aid 

 

BY JOHN MARZULLI
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER 


 
Sen. Hillary Clinton has asked the feds to look into claims by a key
informant that his handlers have reneged on promises to reward him for
exposing a plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station, it was
disclosed yesterday. 
Osama El-Dawoody, an Egyptian-born nuclear engineer recruited to spy for the
NYPD Intelligence Division, wrote a letter to Clinton (D-N.Y.) last month
complaining about his treatment. 
El-Dawoody was hailed for his undercover work, which helped lead to the
arrest of wanna-be terrorist Shahawar Matin Siraj on the eve of the 2004
Republican National Convention. Siraj was convicted of the bomb plot last
May. 
"The NYPD promised me the best quality of life and security ... and all of
their promises were gone after the arrest [of Siraj]," El-Dawoody told the
Associated Press. 
El-Dawoody and his family have been relocated to Pennsylvania. where they
are struggling to make ends meet on a $3,200-a-month government stipend, he
told the AP. 
El-Dawoody testified at Siraj's trial that government officials promised to
help him get a job with the State Department "in one of the embassies." 
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement: "He's a hero who did
a great service for the people of New York. We will continue our dedicated
efforts to assure the safety and well-being of him and his family." 
Clinton's office forwarded El-Dawoody's letter to federal prosecutors, who
promptly filed it under court seal. 
Lawyers for Siraj, who argued their client was entrapped by El-Dawoody,
contend the letter contains "significant new evidence" and want the judge to
unseal it. 
A spokesman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf declined to comment
 


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[osint] U.N.'s Kofi Annan Cashes in With Two Pensions

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U.N.'s Kofi Annan Cashes in With Two Pensions 
Stewart Stogel, NewsMax.com
Thursday, Sept. 14, 2006 
UNITED NATIONS -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who will end his
10-year term on Jan. 1, 2007, will have no trouble making ends meet during
retirement. 
NewsMax.com has learned that the U.N. chief will not only collect a
life-time pension in excess of $12,000 a month, tax-free, but was allowed to
cash in a second pension valued at more than $1 million - also tax-free -
when he became secretary-general in 1996. 
Prior to becoming secretary-general, Annan held various posts in the U.N.
system for more than 20 years, including under-secretary general for
peacekeeping affairs. 
Since becoming secretary-general, Annan has steadfastly refused to release
any financial records other than his U.N. salary. 
This pension news comes on the heels of the exploding Iraq oil-for-food
scandal. More than $2 billion of that aid money remains unaccounted for in
what is considered the worst embezzlement in U.N. history. 
Additional money Annan has received from speaking engagements or other
"outside" activities have never been disclosed. Nor has the United Nations
ever released a listing of Annan's bank accounts, stocks or any real estate
holdings. The only exception came when Annan and the United Nations were
joint winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. In that instance, Annan's award was
donated to charity. 
An earlier NewsMax.com investigation of Annan's financial records showed
that the U.N. chief made approximately $315,000 for fiscal 2005 and paid
less than $8,000 in taxes or "staff assessments." 
Since the United Nations is an international organization, its staff does
not pay conventional national taxes. 
Annan not only is the highest salaried international "civil servant," but he
also paid one of the lowest staff assessments in the U.N. civil service
system. 
This revelation comes at a time when the United Nations is under increasing
pressure to reform its cost structure and to look for financing of a major
structural renovation of its New York City headquarters. 
The so-called "capital renovation" project is seeking more than $1 billion
in long-term financing to repair a U.N. headquarters that Sen. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y., has called a "safety hazard." 
Meanwhile, next week, Annan will officially welcome numerous world
dignitaries - including President George W. Bush - to the 2006 General
Assembly. The 2006 General Assembly will be Annan's last as
secretary-general. 
A successor to Annan has not yet emerged. 
The United Nations is expected to elect a new secretary-general in
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[osint] Why Europeans Just Like to Watch

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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20060914.aspx
 

Why Europeans Just Like to Watch

September 14, 2006: German counter-intelligence officials are dismayed at
how passive German Moslems have been towards the threat of Islamic
terrorism. A tip line for Germans to call in information about suspected
terrorist activity has received little use by the 3.5 million Moslems living
in Germany. The tip line has German, Arabic and Turkish speaking operators
available. 

While there have not been any major al Qaeda terrorist attacks in Germany,
the police and intelligence agencies know they have an Islamic terrorism
problem. Surveys have shown that about three percent of their Moslem support
al Qaeda's objectives (Islam becoming the only religion on the planet, and
using force to make it happen). These Islamic radicals do not support
violence, but would give aid to al Qaeda terrorists. More worrisome, the
Germans believe that about 3,000 of their Moslem residents would commit
terrorist acts to further the al Qaeda cause. The Germans also noted that
there were 24 active Islamist groups in the country, with over 31,000
members altogether. 

Many of those young al Qaeda enthusiasts lack the leadership and technical
knowledge to pull off a major attack. While these 3,000 men are all for
terrorist actions, only a few are willing to kill themselves doing it. This
shows the importance of the former al Qaeda bases in Afghanistan. There, al
Qaeda could select and train men who could whip a bunch of local enthusiasts
into a team capable of carrying out an act of mass murder. The camps also
trained people to make bombs and deal with the more mundane problems of
avoiding detection and capture by the police. 

German counter-terrorist forces know of al Qaeda trained Moslems living in
Germany. But German law prohibits preventive detention, so the best the
Germans can do is try and identify the most likely al Qaeda terrorists and
keep an eye on them. 

Britain thought they had a similar situation, and had it under control. The
July 7, 2005 bombing made it clear that some British Moslems were actually
very eager to act, and the government surveillance program had not caught
them. After the 2005 attacks, an opinion survey found that some 18 percent
of British Moslems felt little, or no, loyalty towards Britain. Worse yet,
about six percent of British Moslems (largely males, and younger ones) are
in favor of the attacks. That's over 100,000 people. This percentage is
similar to estimates in France and Germany, 

Tips from British Moslems did pick up after the 2005 attacks, but there was
not much reaction in Germany or France. Meanwhile, the Europeans can only
envy the FBI, which has a very active tip line. Despite a large number of
American Moslems who are not happy with the war on terror, they do report
anything that appears to be terrorist activity. This program has been so
successful that the number of terrorist prosecutions is declining. This is
due to several factors. First, the pro-al Qaeda crowd, at least the ones not
sharp enough to keep their heads down, have been caught. Second, you have to
assume that there are pro-al Qaeda American Moslems still out there, and
smart enough to avoid being detected, but are proceeding with extreme
caution, and taking their time. 

Europeans tend to leave terrorism suspects under observation for a long
time, while the FBI tends to pick up suspects as soon as there seems to be
enough evidence to get a conviction. The European method is necessary
because the Moslem community is not providing information. So the police
have to observe the terrorists, see who they work with, and generate tips
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[osint] CBC's 9/11 Slanders

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=24401
 
CBC's 9/11 Slanders
By Stephen Brown  
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 14, 2006
It was the Canadian Left at its absolute insensitive and appalling worst. 
On the eve of the 9/11 remembrance ceremonies, the leftist, anti-Bush
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's national public broadcaster,
aired an outrageous and disgraceful documentary on a Sunday news program
regarding half-baked 9/11 conspiracy theories that only served to insult the
memories of those who perished that tragic day.
Titled 9/11: Truth, Lies and Conspiracy, the only fascinating thing about
the CBC show was its complete absurdity and the fact that it actually made
it to air. 
 
On the conspiracy side, it featured a young, budding "film-maker" whose
online documentary portrays the destruction of the World Trade Center towers
as the result of a bomb in the basement, demolition explosives planted
beforehand throughout the buildings, and the airliner crash, which, it
claims, was not enough in itself to topple the towers. According to this
masterpiece of misleading fiction, the Pentagon was also hit by a missile,
not by an airplane; and the passengers of United 93 didn't crash into a
Pennsylvania field, but disembarked at an airport. 
 
This is a widely downloaded internet conspiracy film that is being
translated into different languages. The CBC swallowed it whole. 
 
Giving his reason for making his documentary, the rather inarticulate
20-something director told the CBC interviewer: "Uh, well, the original
project started out what was supposed to be basically just me getting into
film-making." Which is really all one needs to know about this film. Oh, and
by the way, the budding Michael Moore also subscribes to the theory that the
US government made 9/11 happen and didn't just allow it to take place, as
some other conspiracy wackos believe. I guess that's known as taking a
principled stance in their warped world.
 
David Ray Griffin, who lost a child on 9/11, was the other conspiracy
theorist on the CBC program. Griffin, a theologian, has written a book
expounding his views which are somewhat similar to those of the film-maker.
Lee Hamilton, the 9/11 Commission co-chair and author of his own book on the
9/11 tragedy represented the show's anti-conspiracy side along with Jim
Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, which also published a book
refuting the 9/11 conspiracy myths.
 
One Canadian viewer, Toronto Sun columnist Joe Warmington, who covered 9/11
and the War on Terror, said he was incredulous when he watched the show.
 
"I thought it was doing a fictional story picked up on the internet and
legitimizing the conspiracies," he said. "It's like the guy who caught the
300-pound bass and they put the doctored photo on the internet. The network
picks up the story and asks whether it could be true. You don't cover a
story like that. It is basically the internet swallowing a network. They
were giving legitimacy to a kid who is basically a wannabe film-maker."
 
The leftist CBC's reasons for allowing this travesty of journalism to be
broadcast to a countrywide audience are probably several. Perhaps first and
foremost, the innate anti-Americanism of CBCers, like the anti-Bush attitude
of CBS journalists involved in the Dan Rather scandal, causes these America
haters to lose journalistic perspective. As well, the anti-Bush position of
the two conspiracy theorists matches the CBC's anti-American agenda. Many
such theorists believe 9/11 was government engineered, so the Republicans
would have a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq. And while the CBC may
not go along with this theory, it will give a nudge and a wink to it, since
it is against the Bush administration's foreign policy. 
 
An example of this nudge and wink on the show, Warmington said, concerned
the use of cell phones on United 93. The conspiracy theorists said the
phones wouldn't work at 30,000 feet and thus no calls were ever made. The
CBC interviewer attempted to back up their claim by saying his cell phone
didn't work at 35,000 feet.  
 
"It was a feeble attempt to lend credibility to a charge that he has no way
of verifying," said Warmington. "This kind of thing wouldn't get by a
college journalism professor to freshman students on their first day."
 
The frat boy film-maker also rarely mentioned bin Laden or their
accomplices, or examined their culpability for 9/11 or for the attacks on
the USS Cole or the American embassies in Africa. 
 
"When the so-called film-maker suggests that airplanes and the passengers on
it vanished harmlessly into thin air is when a real news organization would
walk away," said Warmington. "To me, it is just as ugly as the fabrications
about President Bush's National Guard record that cost Dan Rather and others
their careers. The National Enquirer would not even have run this." 
 
In the long term, the CBC production is

[osint] The Region and the World Five Years After 9/11

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=commentary
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&alt=&trh=20060914&hn=36505
 
The Region and the World Five Years After 9/11
by
Richard Falk
This is an excellent moment to evaluate what has happened since September
11, 2001. Five years have passed since the dramatic attacks on the highly
symbolic American targets, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 
The US Government has launched wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. A third
war, with likely graver consequences, is threatened in the months ahead
against Iran. In a speech given in Atlanta, Georgia in early September,
President Bush declared that "America is safer" than it was five years ago,
"and America is winning the war on terror." Bush also insisted that this is
not only a war against Islamic extremism, but is also "the decisive
ideological struggle of the 21st century," a struggle that "threatens all
civilized nations." The American president claimed that "today the civilized
world stands together to defend our freedom.to defeat the terrorists" and
thereby "secure the peace for generations to come." A sober appraisal of the
facts do not support the American president on any these contentions. 
Much of the world, including the peoples of the Middle East and countries
long allied do not share such a self-congratulatory interpretation of the
American role in the post-9/11 world. According to independent polls taken
in a variety of countries the Bush approach to world order is not popular
elsewhere. When asked if they approved of the American 'global war on
terror,'84% in Egypt, 77% in Turkey, and 74% in Jordan responded 'No.'
Similar results were found among America's traditional allies. 76% of those
polled in Spain and 57% in France expressed their overall disapproval of the
American response to September 11th. A reliable survey of world opinion also
found that in recent years that far more people fear the role of the United
States in the world than that of al Qaeda. 
What has troubled thoughtful observers more than anything else has been the
stubborn American insistence that the only viable response to the 9/11
attacks was to declare 'war' on a violent adversary such as al Qaeda, a
shadowy transnational network without either a distinct territorial base or
allegiance to any specific state. This mistake was further compounded by
extending the orbit of the war far beyond al Qaeda to encompass all forms of
non-state violence within the operative definition of the 'terrorist'
threat. Such an extension of the conflict by the US Government encouraged
such countries as Israel, Russia, and China to treat self-determination
movements within and near their borders as belonging to the war against
terror. Both the futility and injustice of treating the Palestinians, the
Chechens, and the people of Singiang as part of the same struggle as that
unleashed by the 9/11 attacks was to distort and deflect a more genuine
pursuit of security, and give governments around the world an unconditional
mandate to engage in uncontrolled violence against non-state movements
seeking human rights and self-determination. 
Additionally, two closely linked counter-terrorist policies were enunciated
by President Bush that further escalated and spread the war zone: states
that 'harbored' terrorists within their borders would be held as responsible
as the terrorists, and would be regarded as legitimate targets for attack;
and it a state does not join the US in the counter-terrorist war, then it
will be viewed as an enemy ("You are either with us or you are with the
terrorists). This logic was initially applied, with some plausibility, to
justify attacking Afghanistan, and overthrowing its Taliban government. This
seemed reasonable to many moderate observers at the time, although
stretching the limits of international law, because Afghanistan did seem to
provide a safe haven for the leadership of al Qaeda, as well as providing
the site for extensive terrorist training facilities that led more or less
directly to the 9/11 attacks. It did seem necessary at the time to destroy
this al Qaeda base of operations to lessen the prospect of future attacks.
Waging war against Afghanistan as a whole was always more problematic,
especially if considered a precedent for future wars. It is true that the
Kabul government had few friends among governments, and the Taliban regime
had surely committed some severe Crimes Against Humanity that shocked the
world. The American claim that it was rescuing the people of the country
from oppression and famine seems much shakier after five years than it did
at first. The latest reports indicate the highest ever production rates of
narcotic drugs, a revival of the Taliban and armed struggle, and much
evidence of corruption and warlordism arising from the Ame

[osint] Sept. 11 Creates New Lexicon

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,213240,00.html
 
Sept. 11 Creates New Lexicon 
Monday , September 11, 2006
By Michael Y. Park


 
Maybe you hear it when your co-workers mock the office manager, who's
declared a "jihad" on the petty theft of office supplies. Or, it could be
your grandmother, who's still at "Sept. 10" when it comes to accepting your
divorce and pretty much still wears a "burqa" to the beach.
Though linguistics experts disagree on exactly how powerful an effect the
attacks of Sept. 11 and the War on Terror had on American English, it's
clear in everyday speech that the terrorist-driven tragedy and the years of
conflict that have followed have added a long list of words to our language.
"It was a powerful event, and it had far-reaching consequences for our
society afterward, like the changes in security and the wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq," said John McCarthy, professor of linguistics at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst. "These all had their further effects on the language,
because it wasn't just one day, it was years, and it's still going on."
Click   Here for the Sept.
11 Content Center
The one phrase that nearly everyone agrees will be a permanent addition to
the dictionary is the very term we use to refer to the 2001 terrorist
attacks - 9/11, pronounced "nine-eleven," along with its permutations, like
"Sept. 11," post-9/11" and "pre-9/11."
It refers both to the actual date of the attacks, the attacks themselves,
the concept of a world-changing event and a whole slew of other associated
meanings, and was used as early as Sept. 12, 2001.
"It's an all-encompassing term, meaning all of the planes that were
involved," said Grant Barrett, a vice president of the American Dialect
Society and editor of "The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English," "The
Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang" and project editor of the
"Historical Dictionary of American Slang."
"It's such a vague shorthand and draws up emotions of anger, fear and
uncertainty, a sense of vengeance, shame even. And yet if you need to define
'9/11' you can briefly say 'the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,' but
there's so much more there."
David K. Barnhart, editor and publisher of the "Barnhart Dictionary
Companion" and president of the Dictionary Society of North America, said
9/11 will likely take its place alongside the terms we use for momentous
events in U.S. history, like   D-Day or
 Pearl Harbor.
"Like 'Pearl Harbor,' it runs in that vein as a watershed event that led to
substantial changes in the attention people were giving items at the time,"
he said.
Another variant that still sees some use is "Sept. 10," which can be used to
refer to someone with a perilously outdated outlook or who's Pollyanna-ishly
naive or who clings to the notion of returning to an era of "normalcy" that
he or she believes existed before the attacks.
"If they describe someone with a 'Sept. 10' mentality, they believe
everything is fine and we ought not to change our behaviors," Barrett said.
Other words that suddenly entered the American consciousness may have
existed before, but took on new relevance by Sept. 12, such as
 jihad,
 Ground Zero,
 first responder,
 burqa,
 Islamist, and
 groundstop (when a terror alert
grounds all air traffic).
Jihad in Arabic literally means "holy struggle," but Americans most commonly
use it now to mean a holy war or a crusade in the negative sense.
"'Jihad' was probably hardly known to [any Americans] before this, but
people now use it to refer to things other than the so-called holy war,"
McCarthy said. "'He's on a jihad against people who throw litter on the
highways,' that kind of thing. It refers to any kind of zealotry."
He also noted that "Islamist" - once a 19th-century word that simply meant
having to do with Islam - has warped into a very different meaning, someone
who professes to hold strictly to the tenets of Islam but is actually an
extreme religious zealot who embraces ideas mainstream Muslims reject.
Other terms were either resurrected or mutated from existing terms. 'Ground
Zero' already was in the American vocabulary, starting among World War II
military men and then firmly rooting itself in the mainstream lexicon after
the atomic bombing of   Hiroshima. As
the nuclear threat diminished, so did its use, until Sept. 11 gave it
brand-new prominence.
Barnhart has traced "security mom" back to 2003, a variation on "soccer
moms" who some say played heavily into the outcome of the 2004 elections.
  "Homeland security" was probably stolen from the
Brits but caused temporary murmurs because of what some saw as its echoes of
Nazi propaganda. And tangentially, the mail attacks on media centers and
politicians right after Sept. 11 led to people using the word "anthrax" as a
verb.
The Sept. 11 attacks led almost directly to the U.S. war in Afghanistan and,
arguably (and more circuitously) to the invasion of Iraq. Politician

[osint] War on terror loses focus

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://www.nationnews.com/287031461789083.php
 
War on terror loses focus
Published on: 9/14/06. 

THIS WEEK the United States and the world remembered the horrors of the
September 11 attack five years ago. Barbados shared in the sorrow as it lost
five of its citizens on that sad day. 
The world watched in stunned horror as the televised images of those planes
slammed into those towers. Many may have thought it was a movie; such was
the disbelief that this was a live shot. Not only was it the worst act of
terrorism ever committed on American soil, it was the "ultimate meshing of
technology, media and malevolence". 
These images are forever seared into the psyche of those who witnessed them.

Few could have predicted back then that just five years later, the United
States, having interpreted the attacks as a justification for a dramatic
shift in foreign policy, would be either directly engaged in or actively
supporting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. 
Addressing a joint session of Congress soon afterwards, President George
Bush declared war on terrorism and started making preparations for the
invasion of Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and its terrorist leaders had been
given shelter. 
But since then, the United States has shifted its focus away from al-Qaeda
and toward a new and ever-growing list of "terrorist threats", including
Sunni insurgents in Iraq, elected leaders in Iran and Palestine, Shiite
militants in Iraq and the resistance movement Hezbollah in Lebanon. 
The difference is, however, that any honest assessment must acknowledge that
these diverse groups do not form a unified front, neither does the tiny gang
of criminals responsible for the September 11 attacks pose the same kind of
threat to civilisation as did Hitler or Stalin. 
Many believe al-Qaeda could have been defeated had United States channelled
all of its resources into pursuing this threat. But instead of destroying
al-Qaeda, a new list of new foes in the ever-broadening war on terror has
been created. 
In doing so, the popular impression has been bolstered that the United
States is waging a crusade against Islam - an impression which al-Qaeda
skilfully exploits in order to garner more support among many Muslims. 
After five years of bloodshed, and with no end in sight, it is time for an
evaluation of the policies in the war on terror. 
A good start could be to draw a distinction between terrorists such as
al-Qaeda and legitimate resistance groups such as Hizbullah and Hamas, whose
aims are largely political and nationalist. 
These groups, unlike al-Queda, have a territorial base and legitimate
political grievances that can be resolved. Addressing these grievances
through an even-handed peace process would go a long way toward making the
United States and indeed the world safer. 
We share the sentiment of Minister of Foreign Affairs Dame Billie Miller
that acts of terrorism have no place in a modern civilised world. 
Diplomacy and dialogue, rather than guns, are indeed the best means of
resolving conflict.


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[osint] Pak`s bid to nab Osama superficial

[Bruce Tefft]

Kind of like the U.S.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=322467
 &sid=SAS
 

Pak`s bid to nab Osama superficial: Pallone 

 

Washington, Sept 14: A US Democrat lawmaker has come down heavily on
Pakistan saying that Islamabad could not be "wholly trusted" as a legitimate
supporter of US goals and interests in South Asia, until it proactively
dismantles the terror infrastructure. 

Frank Pallone, the Founder of the Congressional Caucus on India and Indian
Americans, also told House of Representatives that Pakistan`s efforts to nab
Bin Laden were "superficial", and accused Islamabad of engaging in the war
on terror for securing US assistance and worldly praise.

"The fact remains that Pakistan cannot be wholly trusted as a legitimate
supporter of US goals and interests in South Asia, until it proactively
disarms all militias and dismantles the Jihad infrastructure," he said.

"They must also either actively seek out Bin Laden and his associates or
allow US forces to do so. They need to distinguish between simply assisting
the US war on terrorism and truly defending the world`s freedom against
terrorism," the Congressman from New Jersey said.

"Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has been praised as an important ally
in the war against terrorism, giving the impression that he and his
government share the US perception about terrorism being a shared threat,"
he said.

However, Pallone said Musharraf was "only willing to fight terrorists
affiliated with al-Qaeda to the extent of securing US assistance and worldly
praise".

Musharraf is still unwilling to clamp down on jihadi groups within
Pakistan`s borders that may or may not be connected with al-Qaeda, but are
still a part of the bigger problem, Pallone said.

Contending that there was "great substance" to the argument that Laden was
hiding in Pakistan, he said there were thousands of US and international
troops inside neighbouring Afghanistan, "but none are able to go into
Pakistan".

"That is because the government does not allow foreign troops on its
territory. So Bin Laden is safe from US forces because they cannot actively
pursue him," Pallone said.

"Yet, Pakistan won`t make a concerted effort to find him either," Pallone
said, emphasising that Pakistan has made things worse by signing a "truce"
with "militants" on the bordering regions of Afghanistan.

"The US must proceed with caution with Pakistan. Even though it has helped
capture some of al-Qaeda`s leadership, these efforts are nothing more than
superficial attempts at camaraderie," he said.
 


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[osint] Military will meet '06 recruiting goals

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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060913-112353-8168r.htm
 

Military will meet '06 recruiting goals

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
September 14, 2006 
 
The U.S. Armed Forces will meet wartime recruiting goals for the fiscal year
that ends in two weeks, military officials said yesterday. 
Despite Washington's heated political debate on the worthiness of the
Iraq war, frequent overseas war deployments and daily casualties, officials
say a sufficient number of young men and women are signing up with the Army,
Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps in fiscal 2006 to maintain an active-duty
force of about 1.4 million. 
The Army, which has suffered the largest death toll as the chief
provider of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, reports that it has exceeded a
goal of 70,200 recruits by signing up 72,997 as of August. Officials say
they expect to meet a Sept. 30 goal of 80,000 for the fiscal year. 
The Army missed its goal two years ago for the first time since 1999,
sparking fears that the stress of the global war on terrorism and daily
reports of soldier deaths were discouraging high school graduates from
joining. 
Hitting the mark in a time of war has cost the Army more money -- and
style. In June, it raised the maximum age for recruits from 38 to 42, and
says it has attracted scores of veterans. And it relaxed tattoo rules. Now,
body art can extend above the neck. 
"We learned more and more teenagers have tattoos, so we relaxed the
tattoo policy," said Maj. Nathan Banks, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon. 
The Army also is offering increased college tuition reimbursement and
sign-up bonuses up to $40,000. 
Of exceeding the recruiting goal, Maj. Banks said, "It's always better
to have more than less. We don't stop." 
The Marine Corps, which has troops in the restive and deadly Anbar
province in Iraq, also will meet its goal this fiscal year of 32,701
active-duty recruits and 5,930 reservists, said Maj. Wes Hayes, a spokesman
for Marine Corps Recruiting Command. He said the Corps has not increased
incentives. 
"Our success is all attributed to those 2,650 Marine Corps recruiters,
their tireless efforts, their professionalism at informing and educating
young men and women about the Marine Corps," he said. 
The Pentagon reports that the Navy and Air Force also are meeting
recruitment goals. 
The Army is still encountering shortfalls in Reserve recruiting. It
stands at 94 percent of a targeted 33,124 by the end of August. The Army
National Guard is a few tenths of a percent below its goal. 
  


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[osint] Key Terror Leader Captured in Iraq

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 


Key Terror Leader Captured in Iraq; Security Focus in Baghdad Expands

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2006 - Iraqi and coalition forces captured a key al
Qaeda operative and some 70 more terror suspects in Iraq during a series of
25 raids in and around Baghdad Sept. 12, a senior Multinational Force Iraq
spokesman told reporters in Baghdad today. 
The raids netted a personal associate of Abu Ayyoub al-Masri, Army Maj. Gen.
William Caldwell said. Masri took control of al Qaeda in Iraq after a
U.S.-led air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in early June. 

While not revealing the detainee's name, Caldwell called him "the leader of
assassination, kidnapping and IED (improvised explosive device) cells in
Baghdad." He "is known to have directly participated in numerous terrorist
acts" and to have contributed to sectarian violence throughout the city,
Caldwell said. 

In addition, the detainee played a key operational role in terrorist
activities leading up to and during operations in Fallujah in November 2004,
he said. 

The Sept. 12 raids, which also netted dozens of other terror suspects and
multiple weapons caches, is part of an ongoing effort to help secure Baghdad
during Operation Together Forward, Caldwell told reporters. 

Iraqi and coalition forces have been focusing on five specific neighborhoods
that were experiencing the most sectarian violence. During the past two
weeks, more than 150 focused operations resulted in 66 terrorists killed and
830 terror suspects detained, Caldwell said. 

The focus expanded today into the Shaab and Ur neighborhoods, he said. 

This approach appears to be working in the focus areas, where violence is
down, Caldwell said. 

However, he acknowledged that violence in other parts of Baghdad experienced
a "spike" yesterday and noted that terrorist death squads "are clearly
targeting civilians outside the focus areas." 

"Overall, Baghdad's level of sectarian violence has been reduced," he said,
"but remains above the levels of violence we saw before the Golden Mosque
bombing in Samarra in late February." 

Iraqi and coalition forces are working together to help bring these levels
down, particularly with Ramadan just 10 days away. "As we approach Ramadan,
we know there is generally an increase in violence, and the government of
Iraq has ongoing plans to address this," Caldwell said.
 


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[osint] Bush wants to solve N. Korea dispute peacefully

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Now if the NKoreans will play along.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews

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Bush wants to solve N. Korea dispute peacefully
Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:57 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Thursday said the United
States and its allies seek a peaceful solution to the North Korean nuclear
dispute, but Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions pose a threat.
Bush said North Korea's refusal to return to six-party talks had
"strengthened" the alliance of the five nations trying to convince Pyongyang
to abandon its nuclear program.
He said the alliance was "determined to resolve this issue peacefully but
recognizes a threat posed by a country in the region armed with a nuclear
weapon." He made the comment after meeting with South Korean President Roh
Moo-hyun.
North Korea has refused to return to the talks among the two Koreas, China,
Japan, Russia and the United States, saying Washington first must end a
crackdown on its finances.
But Bush said North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has an incentive to return to
the talks to end his country's isolation and improve the lives of his
people.
"We are working very hard on restarting the six-party talks," Roh said.
"This is not the appropriate time to think about the possibility of a
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[osint] Muslims demand Pope apologise for linking Islam with violence

[Bruce Tefft]

Would the word "Chutzpah" be appropriate.  On top of which, the Pope was
absolutely correct, historically, in all of his remarks?
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=26521
 
Muslims demand Pope apologise for linking Islam with violence 

PARIS AFP 14/09/2006 20:05 
Pope Benedict XVI was facing sharp reactions to a lecture in which he linked
Islam with violence, with Muslim leaders in several countries demanding he
apologise. 
"We hope that the Church will very quickly... clarify its position so that
it does not confuse Islam, which is a revealed religion, with Islamism,
which is not a religion but a political ideology," the head of the French
Council for the Muslim Religion (CFCM), Dalil Boubakeur, told áFò Thursday. 
Benedict provoked the outcry with comments on Tuesday in a theological
lecture to staff and students at the University of Regensburg, in the most
political part of a largely personal visit to his native Bavaria in southern
Germany. 
Couching his criticism in a historical reference to a 14th century Byzantine
emperor, the pope implicitly denounced connections between Islam and
violence, particularly with regard to jihad, or "holy war". 
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and
there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to
spread by the sword the faith he preached,'" Benedict said, quoting the
Byzantine source on the Prophet Mohammed, founder of the Muslim faith. 
The comments provoked an outcry among Muslims in several countries. 
Turkey's top Muslim religious leader described the pontiff's remarks as
hateful, prejudiced and biased. 
"It is a statement full of enmity and grudge," said Ali Bardakoglu, the head
of Turkey's state-run religious affairs directorate. He also expressed
opposition to the pope's planned visit to Turkey in November. 
Senior Islamic officials in Kuwait demanded an immediate apology from the
pope to the Muslim world. 
Haken al-Mutairi, secretary general of the Umma (Islamic Nation) party,
urged him to apologise for "calumnies against the Prophet Mohammed and
Islam". Sayed Baqer al-Mohri, head of the assembly of Shiite ulemas, or
theologians, echoed the call. 
The speech at Regensburg University explored the historical and
philosophical differences between Islam and Christianity, and the
relationship between violence and faith. 
"Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the
soul," Benedict said. 
Justo Balda Lacunza, a Vatican-based priest specialising in Islamic affairs,
said the speech was not intended to look unfavourably on Islam, but was an
"examination" of this relationship. 
His reaction followed that of Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi,
who said earlier that he did not believe the pope's words were meant as a
severe criticism of Islam. 
"He certainly doesn't want to give... an interpretation of Islam as
violent," he said. 
But in Morocco, the daily Aujourd'hui warned of the possible damage done by
Benedict's words. It called on him to "prove that his ambition is not to
spark a war of religions by pointlessly upsetting almost a billion
faithful". 
The president of Germany's Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek,
responded to Benedict's comments by recalling violent chapters in the
history of the Roman Catholic Church, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper
reported on Thursday. 
"After the bloodstained conversions in South America, the crusades in the
Muslim world, the coercion of the Church by Hitler's regime, and even the
coining of the phrase 'holy war' by Pope Urban II, I do not think the Church
should point a finger at extremist activities in other religions," he said. 
Benedict had also drawn criticism on Wednesday from a leading Muslim figure
in Italy. Ejaz Ahmad, a member of a governmental consultative committee on
Islam, called on him to retract his comments. 
"The Muslim world is currently undergoing a deep crisis," Ahmad was quoted
as saying by the ANSA news agency. "Any attack from the West can aggravate
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[osint] News Flash: Spain admits possible CIA flights

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[osint] News Flash: Iraq suicide blast kills 2 U.S. soldiers at Army outpost

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[osint] Muslims Fume at Pope's Islam Jibe

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http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2006-09/14/04.shtml
 
Muslims Fume at Pope's Islam Jibe  
WORLD CAPITALS - Pope Benedict XVI's criticism of Islam and the Islamic
concept of Jihad as unreasonable and against God's nature has sparked furor
in the Muslim world on Thursday, September 14, amid calls for the pontiff to
retract his remarks.
"These remarks are unacceptable and demonstrate ignorance of the Muslim
faith," Mohamed Kanaan, the chief judge of the Supreme Shari`ah Courts in
Lebanon, told the Doha-based Al-Jazeera channel.
"The remarks only play into the hands of those seeking to tarnish the image
of Islam."
In what some Vatican watchers see as a watershed speech to academics on
Tuesday, September 12, Benedict had portrayed Islam as a religion which
endorses violence, where faith is "spread by the sword".
Using the words, "Jihad" and "Holy War" in lecture at the University of
Regensburg, he quoted criticism of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be
upon him) by a 14th Century Byzantine Christian emperor.
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the
faith he preached," Benedict quoted Manuel II.
In Morocco, the daily Aujourd'hui said the pope's remarks have upset a
million Muslims around the globe.
"The global outcry over the calamitous cartoons (of Prophet Muhammad) has
only just died down and now the pontiff, in all his holiness, is launching
an attack against Islam," it said.
Last September, a series of lampooning cartoons of Prophet Muhammad printed
by a Danish daily and republished by European newspapers sparked a global
outcry.
The daily urged the pope, as political leader of the Roman Catholic Church,
to "quickly prove that his ambition is not to spark a war of religions."
Hatred
Chief judge Kanaan asked Pope Benedict to retract his insulting remarks.
"He must apologize," he told the Doha-based broadcaster.
The remarks have also drawn fire from Turkey's highest religious authority,
reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
"The remarks reflect the hatred in his heart. It is a statement full of
enmity and grudge," Ali Bardakoglu, the head of Turkey's religious affairs
directorate, told the NTV news channel.
"It is a prejudiced and biased approach," he added.
Bardakoglu said the pope was not welcome in Turkey unless retracting his
remarks.
"I do not think any good will come from the visit to the Muslim world of a
person who has such ideas about Islam's prophet. He should first of all
replace the grudge in his heart with moral values and respect for the
other."
Pope Benedict is expected in Turkey on November 28-30 on an invitation from
the Turkish government and the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul.
In 2004, the pontiff caused a stir by opposing Turkey's accession into the
European Union.
He said Turkey should seek its future in an association of Islamic nations,
not with the EU, which has Christian roots.
Bloody History
Ejaz Ahmed, a member of an Italian governmental consultative committee on
Islam, also criticized the Vatican pope, reported Italy's ANSA news agency.
"In his speech the pope overlooks the fact that Islam was the cradle of
science and that Muslims were the first to translate Greek philosophers
before they became part of European history," he said.
"The Muslim world is currently undergoing a deep crisis and any attack from
the West can aggravate this crisis," he said.
Aiman Mazyek, the president of Germany's Central Council of Muslims, said
the history of the Roman Catholic Church had violent chapters.
"After the bloodstained conversions in South America, the crusades in the
Muslim world, the coercion of the Church by Hitler's regime, and even the
coining of the phrase 'holy war' by Pope Urban II, I do not think the Church
should point a finger at extremist activities in other religions," he told
the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Haken al-Mutairi, Secretary General of Kuwait's Umma party asked Pope
Benedict to immediately apologize "to the Muslim world for his calumnies
against the Prophet Muhammed and Islam".
Mutairi hit out at the pope's "unaccustomed and unprecedented" remarks, and
linked the Catholic Church leader's comments to "new Western wars currently
under way in the Muslim world in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq and
Lebanon".
The pope's statements amounted to "the pursuit of crusades", he told AFP.
"I call on all Arab and Islamic states to recall their ambassadors from the
Vatican and expel those from the Vatican until the pope says he is sorry for
the wrong done to the Prophet and to Islam, which preaches peace, tolerance,
justice and equality."
Mutairi urged Christian and Muslim religious leaders to "spread the values
of tolerance and clemency preached by the prophets Jesus and Muhammed". 


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[osint] Syria's defense of U.S. embassy doesn't make it an ally in terror war

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Especially when they were behind the attack in the first place.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-editorial1sep14,0,2607835.story?coll=a
ll-opiniontop-hed
 

Syria's defense of U.S. embassy doesn't make it an ally in terror war

When does a foe become a friend? What do terrorist attacks against Americans
in another country say about the war on terrorism? What do those attacks say
about the efficacy of our foreign policy in the Middle East?

The foiled terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria, raised
all these questions. A small band of Islamic militants linked to an al-Qaida
splinter group assaulted the embassy Tuesday with hand grenades, automatic
weapons and a truck bomb. Syrian guards shot and killed three of the
attackers immediately. The driver of the truck bomb, which never detonated,
died of gunshot wounds he received when he tried to flee. None of the
Americans at the embassy were wounded.
The Bush administration was in the unusual position of thanking a government
it often criticizes for its own destabilizing influence. ''I do think that
the Syrians reacted to this attack in a way that helped secure our people,
and we very much appreciate that,'' said Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice. White House spokesman Tony Snow offered Syria an invitation ''to
become an ally'' in the war on terrorism as Libya has rather than
''harboring'' and ''fomenting'' terrorists and terrorism.

You might call that opening the door a crack with considerable caution.
Historically, U.S. officials have branded Syria as a sponsor of terrorism
and a proven enemy of Israel. For years the Syrians controlled affairs in
Lebanon, treating it almost as a puppet state until they were implicated in
the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005.
More recently, it was accused of helping arm Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
in Hezbollah's fight with Israel.

Rather than accept the White House's backhanded invitation, the Syrian
government responded that it only did its duty under the Geneva Convention,
adding the U.S. would do well to consider the ''root causes of terrorism and
broker a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.'' Meanwhile, U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan, on a tour of 10 of the region's capitals, including
Damascus, said the area's leaders consider the U.S. involvement in Iraq and
Afghanistan ''a disaster.'' Why? Because the unrest it has caused threatens
some of their regimes. Some of these nations are U.S. allies in the
so-called war on terror - Egypt, Turkey and Jordan. All have secular
governments. Some come closer to being democratic than others. Some, like
Syria, have reason to be concerned about discontented populations unhappy
about how their governments treat them.

One event doesn't make Syria a friend. And those who say terrorist attacks
there, rather than here, are an indication that we're doing better in the
war on terror can't deny the attacks are still happening. As far as whether
U.S. policies in the Middle East are working? Well, the region has been in
turmoil a long time and there's still no lasting peace and none in sight. 


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[osint] New al-Qaeda message threatens France

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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1201373.php/New_al-Qaeda_m
essage_threatens_France
 
New al-Qaeda message threatens France
By DPA
Sep 14, 2006, 19:00 GMT
Paris - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened
France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported
Thursday. 
According to a transcription of a video released earlier this week,
al-Zawahiri announced the official alliance between al Qaeda and the
Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and threatened that
it would be a 'thorn' in the throat of the French. 
'Our soldier sheikh..., Osama bin Laden, has charged me to announce that the
GSPC has joined al-Qaeda. We pray to God that they become a thorn in the
throats of the American and French crusaders and their allies,' al-Zawihiri
said in the video, which was primarily concerned with the September 11
terrorist attacks. 
The substance of the video statement was made public on Monday. 
Al-Qaeda messages directly targetting France are rare. The last one dates
back to 2004, when bin Laden criticized the French for banning the wearing
of the Islamic headscarf in public schools. 
The GSPC was created at the end of the 1990s by dissidents of the Algerian
Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and in September 2005 declared France to be
'public enemy number one, enemy of our religion, enemy of our community.' 


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[osint] Charges dropped in O'Hare penis pump scare

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-pump14.html
 

Charges dropped in O'Hare penis pump scare 

September 14, 2006 
BY STEFANO ESPOSITO   Staff Reporter 
Mardin Amin's mother is probably still wondering why people made such a big
fuss over a silly pump: the kind used to inflate soccer balls and the like. 
An embarrassed Amin told his mother it was that type of device -- not, in
actuality, a penis pump -- that got him in trouble with O'Hare Airport
security in August and prevented him from boarding an international flight
with her. 
But at least now the embarrassment and worry of having to appear in criminal
court is over. Cook County prosecutors agreed Wednesday to drop a felony
disorderly conduct charge against the Iraqi man, who faced up to three years
in prison if convicted. 
"You don't believe it -- I was dreaming about this court and what was going
to happen," said Amin, wearing a new, $250 blue suit he bought just for his
date at the 26th and California courthouse. "It's like a nightmare." 
Amin's odd brush with the law began Aug. 16, when the 29-year-old, his two
children and his mother were going through O'Hare security on a trip to
Iraq. A security guard plucked a small, black rubber object from Amin's hand
luggage, and asked him about it. Unwilling to openly say the words "penis
pump" while his mother stood near, Amin twice whispered something that,
according to Amin, the guard misinterpreted as "bomb." 
Amin, who lives in Skokie, was promptly arrested and charged with a felony. 
His attorney, Eileen M. O'Neill, said this week common sense demanded the
Cook County state's attorney's office drop the charge. 
"Right from the get-go, it made no sense that a guy who has worked as a
translator for [the U.S.] Army in Iraq wouldn't know the consequences of
saying, 'I have a bomb,' " O'Neill said. 
John Gorman, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office, said the charges
were dropped because the U.S. Transportation and Security Administration
sent Amin a letter saying they only wished to issue a warning. 
"Because the TSA was our victim and they didn't wish to pursue [the case],
we dropped the charges," Gorman said. 
A beaming Amin said he will now travel sans penis pump. 
"Hell no," he said. "That pump give me a lot of trouble."


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[osint] No Iran strike -- Rumsfeld

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http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060914-08455
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No Iran strike -- Rumsfeld
 
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor Emeritus 
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The iron triangle may be bending. According to
military and former high-level administration sources, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld is raising serious objections to what President George W.
Bush calls "the military option" that could prevent Iran from developing
nuclear weapons. 
This heralds the first important policy breech between the triumvirate of
Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld, sometimes known in Washington
as "the iron triangle," in almost six years of the Bush administration. 
The Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington shorthand for Rumsfeld
and his immediate staff, is not so much saying 'No' directly, the sources
told United Press International, as listing a series of important objections
to the military option. 
By contrast, added the sources who asked to remain anonymous, Cheney has
stepped up his advocacy of the military option by saying that the recent
hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon have made it more
feasible, by weakening the prospect that Iran could retaliate by pressing
Hezbollah to unleash a wave of rocket attacks against Israel. 
The OSD objections to a military strike against Iran's nuclear sites are not
new, and have been cited by other critics in the past, but the fact that
they are being taken seriously by the Pentagon adds a new complication to
the Bush administration's decision-making at the highest levels. 
The first objection is that the OSD is not convinced that U.S. and friendly
intelligence have yet assembled a complete target list of Iran's clandestine
and underground nuclear research and development facilities. A series of air
and cruise missile strikes against known sites would amount to an act of
war, a very high-risk undertaking if Iran retains undamaged sites that can
maintain a basic nuclear credibility. 
The second objection is that Iranian retaliation against the 130,000 U.S.
troops in neighboring Iraq, and other U.S. bases in Central Asia and the
Middle East, could both complicate military operations and the political
stabilization program in Iraq, and inflict serious casualties on U.S.
personnel. There are some different perspectives on the military option
among the different services. A military strike would be largely in the
hands of the Air Force and of the U.S. Navy, who deploy the warplanes and
cruise missiles that give the military options its credibility. But the
Army, with its troops on the ground, would likely suffer the bulk of any
retaliation. 
The third objection being cited by the OSD is a somber warning from the
State Department that a military strike before all diplomatic options have
been explored would have serious political consequences among the NATO and
other U.S. allies. The likelihood of civilian casualties in a U.S. air
strike, when so many of Iran's underground facilities are dangerously close
to schools, hospitals and other civilian centers, would intensify the
likelihood of international condemnation of a military strike. 
The fourth objection is that Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons is not
imminent. The OSD reports that most U.S. and friendly intelligence
assessments suggest that Iran is three to five years away from being able to
produce a workable nuclear device. And by that time, the Bush administration
would be out of office and the decision left to a new president. 
The fifth objection is that the very prospect of the military option is
itself a powerful diplomatic tool, a constant threat as the diplomacy
proceeds without any immediate need to use it. The diplomacy, however,
appears to be moving at a snail's pace, with Iran invoking yet another delay
in the latest round of discussions with the European Union's top diplomat,
Javier Solana, a former secretary-general of NATO. 
But Cheney's office, along with supporters of the military option outside
the administration, claim that there is strong time pressure for a firm
decision to be taken, since Iran is expected to deploy a new Russian-built
anti-aircraft and anti-missile system next year. 
"We've signed a contract for supplying (Iran) with air-defense missile
systems for defense purposes," Mikhail Dmitriyev, head of Russia's Federal
Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, announced in February this
year. 
The deal, worth a total of $700 million, provides Tehran with 29 Tor-M1 and
two smaller Pechora-2A systems. The Tor-M1 is a mobile ground-to-air missile
system designed to shoot down targets at medium, low, and very low altitudes
and can engage two targets simultaneously at a maximum range of seven miles.

Israeli intelligence sources have claimed that this deal is just the tip of
the iceberg, and that the Tor-M1 systems are designed to protect the

[osint] Saving the 'men who lean against walls'

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0914/dailyUpdate.html 
Saving the 'men who lean against walls' 
Experts warn a growing number of disaffected Muslim youths in the Middle
East will turn to radical Islam. 
posted September 14, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. 
By Tom Regan  | csmonitor.com
The Toronto Star reports that in the foreseeable future, groups like the
Taliban and Al Qaeda will "have no problem replenishing their stock of young
fighters, suicide bombers, explosives experts and logistical planners,
virtually at will."
The reason for the ease with which these groups will be able to recruit can
be found in the demographics of the Middle East. The Star notes that between
"the 1970s and 1990s, a dramatic drop in infant mortality coupled with high
fertility rates and migration into cities" has led to an enormous population
boom in the Middle East. Between one-half and two-thirds of the 380 million
people who live in the region are 24 years old or younger.
The region's demographic profile is the exact opposite of the West's, where
populations are aging and fertility rates dropping. Canada's birth rate is
1.5 per woman; the global average 2.2. But the majority of Muslim states
still average three-to-seven births per woman. At the same time, the
region's illiteracy rate, though starting to drop, is still higher than the
international norm. The World Bank estimates there are 10 million youngsters
not in school, a figure that could rise to 14 million within the next
decade.
Another problem is that many of these youths live in authoritarian regimes
that haven't been able to compete in the global marketplace, leading to
economic and political conditions that make it easier for Islamists to
recruit them. The Star notes that there is a name for these disaffected
youths, the hayateen, "the men who lean against walls."
In a major report on the implications for US foreign policy, a Brookings
Institution task force cautioned that it's not the youth boom alone that
matters, but the specific conditions in which it is emerging. To wit: Tens
of millions of young Muslim men are living under regimes that are
politically oppressive, economically incompetent, virulently anti-American
and awash in an "us vs. them" view of the world. Militant Islamism, said the
report, serves as a "vehicle of protest" everywhere except where it is
actually in power, as in Iran.
"In societies where justice is patently absent, the stimulus to radicalized
action is high. Youth have far less to lose, are less patient, less
cautious. They're more susceptible to overdrawn and simplistic analyses of
existing social problems, their source and their solution."
The Star reports that Cheryl Benard, a senior analyst at the RAND
Corporation and director of its initiative on Middle Eastern youth, says
that "after the [Iraq] war, the US dropped the ball. We should have been
hiring and inspiring kids. The terrorist groups are doing that. We aren't."
One example of how Western policy may be contributing to this crisis can be
seen in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. 
Reuters reports how students who attend public schools in these areas are no
longer in school because their teachers are on strike after not being paid
for three months or longer. These schools were run on funds that came from
Western donors, which have now halted their donations after the election of
the Hamas government. But private schools run by Hamas are still running and
crowded with students.
When the United States and other Western powers cut off direct aid to the
government in March, Washington's goal was to undercut support for the
Islamic militant group, not increase demand for its network of private
schools and health clinics.
Then Middle East envoy James Wolfensohn warned at the time that the aid
freeze might backfire. He called the threat of a school shutdown, which
would turn youths onto the streets, "the worst-case scenario" that could
fuel a new cycle of violence.
MSNBC reports on how Muslim youth in Britain hear many different voices.
Many are trying to move away from extremist teachings.
White Chapel in East London - home to one of the city's most established
Muslim communities. It's also home for 18-year-olds Eklima Begum and Navida
Quadi. Both openly denounce terrorism.
"I'd use the example of our prophet to tell them that it's not the right
way," Navida Quadi says. "It not going to be effective."
But others here see it differently. This area has the city's highest
concentration of young Muslims, many of whom are the targets for radical
recruiters. Yet some Muslim leaders are trying to make sure young people
hear other voices, too. "If we can articulate their views in ways which are
part of the mainstream, I don't think there would be as much problem as you
see now," says Muslim youth leader Sheik Aliur Rahman.
But MSNBC notes that young Muslims often disagree with US and British
foreign policy in the Middle East, and that can make it less likely to feel
harmony with Western ideals.
"T

[osint] Rift erupts between Hezbollah, anti-Syrian bloc in Lebanon

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Naturally, Iran and Syria are the principle backers of Hizballah.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762839.html
 

Rift erupts between Hezbollah, anti-Syrian bloc in Lebanon



By DPA



BEIRUT - A deep rift erupted Thursday between two of the major political
blocs in Lebanese politics, the Shiite Hezbollah group and the anti-Syrian
majority bloc known as the March 14 forces.

The rift is the culmination of a period of intense tension and bitter
exchanges of accusations related to the conflict between Israel and
Hezbollah, in which more than 1,200 people were killed.

The crisis surfaced after Hezbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah accused
the majority bloc of "stabbing his guerrillas in the back" while fighting
Israel. 



The military conflict with Israel broke out on July 12 after Hezbollah
captured two Israel Defense Forces soldiers in a cross-border raid, and
Israel launched a wide-scale offensive against the militant group.

Hezbollah deputies and leaders have also been calling for the past two days
on the government of Premier Fouad Siniora to "step down and pave the way
for a national unity government."

Hezbollah has two ministers in Siniora's government.

A member of the parliamentary majority, acting interior minister Ahmed
Fatfat described Thursday the hardline tone of Nasrallah and his 14-member
parliament bloc as an "invitation to kill."

MP Samir Franjiyeh, member of the March 14 forces, said that the current
dispute with Hezbollah reflected a crisis inside the party.

Franjiyeh called on Hezbollah to open up to all political forces in order to
confront the crisis that resulted from the war and learn from mistakes to
avoid another disaster.

"What is needed is for Hezbollah to admit that what happened was wrong ...
to return to calm and stop accusations of treason," Franjiyeh said.

Sources close to Shiite House Speaker Nabih Berri, who has close links to
Hezbollah but also maintains good relations with the majority, said Berri
had sent his aide Ali Hassan Khalil to meet majority leader Saad Hariri and
some Hezbollah officials.

Khalil was quoted Thursday as saying that "the priority now should be given
to ways to reinforce the government, not to changing it," indicating a
difference in views between the movement headed by Berri and Hezbollah
 
 


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[osint] COLORADO: Suspicions of terrorism can be reported online

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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4985746,0
0.html
 
Suspicions of terrorism can be reported online
By Rosa Ramirez, Rocky Mountain News 
September 12, 2006
Coloradans who suspect someone is committing a terrorist act can alert the
state's homeland security office through a new online reporting system. 
The system, at [EMAIL PROTECTED], allows tipsters to notify the Colorado
Information Analysis Center of suspicious activity by submitting information
electronically, said Capt. Brenda Leffler of the Colorado State Patrol.
People can also call. 
Citizens can provide the date, time and brief description of the incident
electronically. Tips can be submitted anonymously. 
The online reporting system encrypts the data. Analysts at CIAC receive the
report immediately. The data is then analyzed by agents and stored in their
databases. 
If there is imminent threat, center analysts will contact federal, state or
local agencies. They will also notify affected schools, fire departments or
other groups. 
Colorado State Patrol Chief Mark Trostel said combatting terrorism is
everyone's responsibility. "One person can make a difference in thwarting
terrorism in Colorado and the United States," he said. 
Created in 2001, shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, CIAC operates under the
umbrella of the Office of Preparedness, Security and Fire Safety. The agency
is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and alerting other federal, state
and local agencies of the potential danger. 
Leffler said there are 42 similar centers across the country.
 


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[osint] US seeks support against Iran financing "terrorism"

[Bruce Tefft]

Should have been doing this since 1979.
 
Better late than never.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?dist=newsfinder

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US seeks support against Iran financing "terrorism"
PARIS (MarketWatch) -- Senior U.S. Treasury officials will try to enlist
support among the world's finance ministers and central bankers in Singapore
in the coming days for the Bush Administration's efforts to crack down on
what it says is Iran's support of terrorism, a U.S. government official said
Wednesday. 
Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey said
the discussions to be held on the fringes of the annual meetings of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank will be private and aren't
likely to be reflected in the statements to be released at the Singapore
events. 
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected to raise the Iranian issue when
he meets with his Group of Seven counterparts Saturday. 
Iran has pumped $200 million into Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia
that provoked the recent five-week conflict in southern Lebanon, Levey said.

Levey is on a swing through Europe for talks with government and financial
sector officials and to explain last week's decision to cut off Bank
Saderat, a leading Iranian bank, from direct and indirect access to the U.S.
financial system. 
The Treasury official will meet with officials in Switzerland before
traveling on to Singapore. Noting that Swiss bank UBS AG (UBS) has cut its
business ties to Iran, Levey said the fact that other banks haven't
announced similar plans doesn't necessarily mean they aren't scaling back
the business they do with Iran. 
But he stressed that the Bush Administration isn't trying to twist anyone's
arm. "We're not here to make any specific requests of anyone," he said.
"There have been cutbacks by a number of European banks in their business
with Iran, but this is their business decision," he said. 


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[osint] Tracking Terror: LIQUID BOMBS

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b-squad.85eda3a.html
Tracking Terror: LIQUID BOMBS
More than a dozen suspects remain locked up in London tonight accused of
planning to blow up airplanes headed to the United States. 
The alleged terror plot was uncovered in August and a month later, airports
remain on high alert. 
An expert from the Mesa bomb squad demonstrated how much damage a liquid
bomb can cause. 
He also talks candidly about the terrorists who are determined to do us
harm. 
"Whatever they've seen in their lives -- whether it's losing their mother,
father, brother, sister in wars for most of their lives, obviously they
think differently than we do," said Lt. Kevin Kazmaier. 
It's a thought process that's so different, it drives men to mass murder.
More than a dozen men now stand accused of conspiring to blow up airplanes
headed to the United States. 
According to authorities, the suspects were planning to smuggle bomb-making
chemicals in their carry-on bags. The materials are made to look like every
day items such as sports drinks or shampoo. 
Unbelievably, they were allegedly planning to mix the liquid explosives on
the plane. 
"They are always going to be trying to match what they did on 9/11 --
bringing down two huge buildings like they did -- as astronomical," Kazmaier
said. 
The plot to use liquid explosives seemed shocking to a lot of people, but
not Kazmaier. 
He said when it comes to explosives, bad guys can be creative. 
They use the Internet and any other means within their reach to come up with
deadly recipes. 
"Explosives are made as tools to do certain jobs," he said. "For terror they
are going to use whatever explosive they can manufacture and make. Their job
is to destroy and terrorize." 
To most people, it is nothing more than a sports drink, but to a terrorist,
the bottle could become a liquid bomb. 
"As soon as you add this to this substance, you now have made a stick of
dynamite," said Kazmaier. 
A relatively small vile of bomb-making material can have a tremendous amount
of power. 
Metal can be ripped to shreds. 
"You can just think what that would do to some commercial form of
transportation," Kazmaier said. 
Weeks after the alleged terror plot was uncovered in London, airports around
the world remain on high alert. 
Here in the states, liquids are no longer allowed in carry-on luggage. 
Kazmaier acknowledges that life has changed. 
"The world is not the place it was in the 50's with Rin Tin Tin and Ozzie
and Harriett," he said. 
Those images have faded and have been replaced with images that are much
more sobering. Still Kazmaier said there is still a silver lining. 
"We still have some of the greatest freedoms in the world and to ensure
those freedoms we may have to be more careful in how we move large numbers
of people," he said. 
And he said large numbers of people need to be on alert, watching for
suspicious activity. 
"If something doesn't seem right to you, something is out of the ordinary,
call us," he said. 
Because now we know, even the most innocuous of items like a sports drink
can be transformed into a terrorist weapon. 
Kazmaier agreed to the story because he believes that the American public
has a right to know what's going on and believes the more educated people
are, the more alert people will be. 
He said help from the public is imperative and to travelers, he said if
something seems out of the ordinary, report it to law enforcement
immediately. 


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[osint] Coast Guard urges boaters to report suspicious activity

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60911007/1002
 

 

Coast Guard urges boaters to report suspicious activity
Bay City News 

The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is asking commercial and recreational boaters
to help prevent potential terrorist attacks by calling in all suspicious
behavior to the agency's America's Waterway Watch program. 
Boaters can call the watch program at its toll-free number to report
suspicious acts and illegal activity occurring on the water or near the
shore, the agency reported in a written statement. 
The information called into the program goes to the Coast Guard's National
Response Center, which is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Callers to the program should be able to describe the individuals, vessel or
vehicle involved and what sort of unusual activity was taking place. Callers
are encouraged to take photographs of the suspicious activity, the statement
reported.

Boaters are urged not to take action themselves. The watch program can be
reached at 1 (877) 24-WATCH or by contacting the U.S. Coast Guard on Channel
16 of a VHF-FM radio. 


 


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[osint] Bomb Suspect "happy at 9/11"

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-13542426,00.html
'I Was Happy At 9/11'
Updated: 14:55, Thursday September 14, 2006

One of the men accused of a fertiliser bomb plot has spoken in court about
his admiration for the September 11 attacks.

Omar Khyam, 24, was arrested in 2004 after fertiliser explosive was found in
a storage depot in west London.

He told the jury at the Old Bailey that he went to a predominantly white
school, was captain of the cricket team and did well in his GCSEs.

He said that, while his family was Muslim, they "did not pay much attention
to religion".

He said he became more interested in religion as a teenager at college in
Surrey, attending local meetings of radical group Al Muhajiroun.

On a visit in 1999 to his family homeland of Pakistan, he spoke to groups
active in Kashmir, he said.

Asked what his reaction was to the September 11 attacks in the USA, Khyam
said: "I was happy that America had been hit because of what it represented
against the Muslims, but obviously 3,000 people died so there were mixed
feelings."

The prosecution alleges he was a member of a British terror cell linked to
al Qaeda, which discussed bombing nightclubs and other targets in the UK.

Khyam, his brother Shujah Mahmood, 19, Waheed Mahmood, 34, and Jawad Akbar,
23, all from Crawley, Salahuddin Amin, 31, from Luton, Beds, Anthony Garcia,
24, of Ilford, east London, and Nabeel Hussain, 21, of Horley, Surrey, deny
conspiring to cause explosions likely to endanger life between January 1,
2003 and March 31, 2004.

Khyam, Garcia and Hussain also deny a charge under the Terrorism Act of
possessing 600kg of ammonium nitrate fertiliser for terrorism.

Khyam and Shujah Mahmood further deny possessing aluminium powder for
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[osint] 30 Taliban militants killed in central Afghanistan

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http://english.people.com.cn/200609/14/eng20060914_302622.html
 

30 Taliban militants killed in central Afghanistan



 
Thirty Taliban insurgents were killed Wednesday in the central Ghazni
province of Afghanistan
 , an official told
Xinhua. 
The militants were killed in Andar district by Afghan forces and police,
said Abdul Ali Fakuri, the spokesman for Ghazni governor. 
The conflict started in the morning in three villages of the district and is
still ongoing, he said, adding there were no casualties of the forces and
police. 
Fakuri also said four foreigners were among the killed, but declined to
identify them. 
Meanwhile, Afghan police detained a Taliban commander named Mullah Aminullah
and a foreign national in the province on Wednesday. 
The U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces had killed three militants on
Tuesday afternoon in Qarabagh district of Ghazni. 
Ghazni has been a hotbed of Taliban and other anti-government insurgents,
who clash with government and foreign troops as well as Afghan police
frequently. 
Afghanistan is suffering from a rise of Taliban-linked violence this year,
during which more than 2,300 people, mostly Taliban militants, have been
killed. 
Source: Xinhua 
 


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[osint] How Secure is Air Travel?

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http://www.alpa.org/DesktopModules/ALPA_Documents/ALPA_DocumentsView.aspx?it
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How Secure is Air Travel?
Largest pilots' union issues analysis of progress and gaps in aviation
security
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. and Canada have made significant advancements
in securing their air transportation systems since the 9/11 attacks, but
serious gaps remain, according to an analysis issued today by the Air Line
Pilots Association, Int'l, (ALPA). 
The world's largest pilots union report, titled Aviation Security, Five
Years After the 9/11 Attacks, provides pilots' perspectives on the
accomplishments of the past five years and the challenges that lie ahead as
the U.S. continues to secure its air transportation system.
"The 9/11 attacks dramatically altered our nation's perception of aviation
terrorism," said ALPA President Duane Woerth. "Aviation security has greatly
improved since 9/11, but our system remains too focused on finding objects,
rather than the intent to do harm."
ALPA's analysis revealed gaps in the current security system, including the
need to:
. Implement individual risk assessment
The government's heavy emphasis on the detection of possible threat objects,
with less attention given to the detection of those with destructive intent,
leaves aviation vulnerable to future attacks.
. Improve identity verification and access controls
Effective aviation security must verify the identity and employment status
of those individuals who are granted access to airport secured areas and
airliners-the current system could better use technology to become more
efficient and accurate.
. Enhance cargo security
While the recently-released FAA Air Cargo Security Regulations final rule
has improved the security of the air cargo supply chain, much work remains
to be done to secure air cargo personnel, equipment, and operations.
. Put secondary cockpit barriers in place
Developing and deploying secondary cockpit barriers, both as retrofit
devices and as standard equipment in future aircraft designs, will enhance
the security of the flight deck.
. Continue to develop the Federal Flight Deck Officer program
The FFDO program has been a tremendous success in providing another reliable
layer in airline security, but the need to enhance training, protocols and
legal protections remains.
. Secure U.S. airport facilities
Perimeter security of air operations areas and terminal buildings must
improve, especially at airports that service air freight operations.
. Focus on risk-based funding
Government and industry must assess the costs and benefits of any proposed
countermeasure and allocate limited resources in the most effective way
possible.
ALPA's analysis also highlighted significant accomplishments in airline
security since 9/11, including strengthening the Federal Air Marshal and
Aircraft Protective Officer programs, establishing the Federal Flight Deck
Officer program, instituting reinforced flight deck doors, implementing
restricted area identity cards, and fostering government-industry
partnerships.
Please click here for a full copy of
 Aviation Security, Five Years After the
9/11 Attacks.
Founded in 1931, ALPA is the world's largest pilot union, representing
62,000 pilots at 40 airlines in the United States and Canada. Visit the ALPA
website at www.alpa.org.
 


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[osint] Aviation Security, Five Years After the 9/11 Attacks

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Aviation Security, Five Years After the 9/11 Attacks
 
To take aviation security to the next level, the government needs to deploy
a proactive, humancentered, and threat-driven security system which
harnesses the expertise and experience of all parties- regulators, airlines,
airports, and labor.
 
The 9/11 terrorist attacks revealed an underlying weakness in the
government's approach to protecting aviation from criminal acts,
namely, a reactive, regulatory-compliance-driven approach to
security. In spite of this failing, which still exists, our view is that
aviation
security is markedly better than it was prior to 9/11, in no small measure
because of improvements that the Air Line Pilots Association, Int'l (ALPA)
has successfully promoted. To take aviation security to the next level, the
government needs to deploy a proactive, human-centered, and threat-driven
security system which harnesses the expertise and experience of all parties-
regulators, airlines, airports, and labor. As part of this endeavor, there
must be
a shift away from unsophisticated screening for threat items toward a
determination
of the presence of hostile intent. Trusted airline employees should be
positively identified and used as the "eyes and ears" of security, rather
than
being treated as potential threats to aviation. A new paradigm for
cooperation,
coordination and communication among all affected parties will enhance our
ability to detect and counter all terrorist threats. ALPA has a history of
building
strategic alliances between stakeholders to achieve our common goals, and
we enthusiastically rise to this challenge yet again.
The following two sections describe the most important accomplishments
of the past five years and the most needed, specific improvements.
Most Significant Accomplishments Since 9/11
. Common Strategy-Passenger and All-Cargo Domains
ALPA played a significant role in the pre-9/11 development and
implementation
of the Common Strategy, a standardized crisis response plan, shared by the
aviation industry and critical government agencies, for dealing with defined
criminal and terrorist acts perpetrated on board U.S. and Canadian aircraft.
Because the events of 9/11 clearly demonstrated that the plan needed
revision,
ALPA was asked by the FAA Administrator to lead a coalition of industry
stakeholders to develop a new Common Strategy. Subsequently, ALPA and
other critical industry stakeholders provided their expertise to the FAA,
TSA,
and Transport Canada in their efforts to reform this critical program. This
undertaking was successful, not only with the creation of a new Passenger
Common Strategy, which is more reflective of today's world climate, but also
with the issuance of an All-Cargo Common Strategy, marking the first time
that
this standardized security plan has included crewmembers who fly all-cargo
aircraft.
In Canada, ALPA worked closely with Transport Canada in the development
of a program and guidelines that closely paralleled the Common Strategy
in the U.S.
The revised Common Strategy is the foundation of many security enhancements
that have been developed in the past five years.
. Federal Air Marshal and Aircraft Protective Officer Programs
On September 11, 2001, U.S. passenger airliners were thinly protected by a
small cadre of 33 federal air marshals who were managed by the Federal
Aviation Administration and flew primarily international routes. Today, a
significantly bolstered Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS) is managed by the
Transportation Security Administration and protects U.S. carriers
domestically
and internationally. The FAMS is deeply embedded in the U.S. aviation
domain, working closely with ALPA, government agencies, and critical
industry stakeholders to accomplish its mission. Some of the many
responsibilities
it has undertaken include management of the Federal Flight Deck
Officer and Crewmember Self-Defense Training programs.
After 9/11, ALPA was successful in convincing the Canadian Transport
Minister that Canada needed an air marshal program. The Royal Canadian
Mounted Police (RCMP) instituted the Canadian Air Carrier Protective
Program (CACPP) that puts armed RCMP members, designated Aircraft
Protective Officers (APOs), on selected flights into and out of Canada.
These
officers operate under training regimes and rules of engagement very similar
to the FAMs. ALPA has developed a close working relationship with the
RCMP and is working to improve communication and coordination procedures
between the flight deck and APOs on board.
. Federal Flight Deck Officer Program
Following the tragic events of September 11, 2001, ALPA was instrumental in
calling for the creation of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program. With
the
President's signing of the Homeland Security Act in November 2002, this
vision became a reality. In April 2003, the first class of 44 pilots was
deputize

[osint] Lawmakers question DHS preparedness for fighting cyberattacks

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic

&articleId=9003267&source=NLT_SEC&nlid=38
 

Lawmakers question DHS preparedness for fighting cyberattacks

Jaikumar Vijayan
September 13, 2006 (IDG News Service) The ongoing delay in appointing an
assistant secretary for cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) may be hindering the agency's ability to fend off
cyberattacks against the nation's critical infrastructure, lawmakers
suggested today. 
In response, DHS Undersecretary for Preparedness, George Foresman said his
agency is in the final stages of reviewing the credentials of a "very
qualified" individual and that the position is likely to be filled "very
soon." 
"This has been, and remains a top priority" at the DHS, Foresman said during
a hearing on cybersecurity for the national infrastructure. The hearing was
conducted by the House Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Telecommunications
and the Internet. 
DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff announced the creation of a new assistant
secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications last October. The move
was widely welcomed at that time because it was seen as recognition of the
need to elevate the importance of cybersecurity issues within the agency.
Before Chertoff's announcement, cybersecurity issues were being handled at a
director-level position at the DHS. Since Chertoff's announcement, however,
the position has remained vacant. 
In his opening statement at the hearing, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) said
that the failure to appoint an assistant secretary "conveys a lack of
appreciation" of the nation's cyberthreats by the DHS. Dingell noted that
cyberattacks against the critical infrastructure are growing and that any
failure to prepare for them could be "devastating." He added that the
country shouldn't have to wait for a "massive cyberdisaster" to put plans in
place. 
Reacting to similar concerns from Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.), Foresman noted
that the absence of an assistant secretary had not stopped the DHS from
moving forward with response planning. "We have been in overdrive the whole
time," he said. 
Criticism for the DHS at today's hearing was not limited to that one issue,
however. David Powner, director of IT management issues at the U.S.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted that DHS had so far failed to
establish a comprehensive plan for responding to cyberthreats against
critical infrastructure. 
He said that criminal groups, foreign intelligence services and terrorists
all have the ability to launch disruptive physical and cyberattacks. While
the DHS developed high-level plans for infrastructure protection, components
that address Internet recovery are "incomplete", Powner said. In addition,
while the DHS has begun working with private industry on processes for
jointly responding to cyberattacks, the initiatives are "immature" and lack
deadlines for completion, he said. 
Also, hampering the department's efforts to establish a recovery plan is a
lack of agreement over what the agency's role should be when a disruption
does occur and when it should get involved, he said. In addition, the
private sector has been reluctant to share information with the DHS because
"it doesn't see a value in sharing" and lacks trust in the leadership,
Powner said. 
Those comments echoed a July GAO report (download PDF)
 , which said the government is
not prepared to effectively coordinate public and private-sector plans for
recovering from a major Internet attack. "Until these challenges are
addressed, DHS will have difficulty achieving results in its role as a focal
point for helping the Internet to recover from a major disruption," the
report noted. 
Meanwhile, in an unrelated development, the DHS today released a report
highlighting the findings of its Cyber Storm Exercise involving simulated
cyberattacks against the nation's critical infrastructure that were
conducted in February. Among the key findings in the report is the need for
a well-established chain of command in a time of crisis, the importance of
information sharing across government and industry sectors and a better
ability to correlate incident information across the two groups. 
Cyber Storm was conducted by the DHS's National Cyber Security Division on
Feb. 6-10. More than 110 public, private and international organizations
took part in the exercise, which simulated a cyberattack directed at
critical infrastructure.
 


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[osint] Why We Can't Send More Troops...to Iraq

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091301
575.html
 
By Lawrence J. Korb and Peter Ogden
Thursday, September 14, 2006; A21
In "Reinforce Baghdad" [op-ed, Sept. 12], William Kristol and Rich Lowry
argue that the United States needs to deploy "substantially" more troops to
Iraq to stabilize the country. Aside from the strategic dubiousness of their
proposal -- Kristol and Lowry's piece might alternatively have been titled
"Reinforcing Failure" -- there is a practical obstacle to it that they
overlook: Sending more troops to Iraq would, at the moment, threaten to
break our nation's all-volunteer Army and undermine our national security.
This is not a risk our country can afford to take.
In their search for additional troops and equipment for Iraq, the first
place that Kristol and Lowry would have to look is the active Army. But even
at existing deployment levels, the signs of strain on the active Army are
evident. In July an official report revealed that two-thirds of the active
U.S. Army was classified as "not ready for combat." When one combines this
news with the fact that roughly one-third of the active Army is deployed
(and thus presumably ready for combat), the math is simple but the answer
alarming: The active Army has close to zero combat-ready brigades in
reserve.
The second place to seek new troops and equipment is the Army National Guard
and Reserve. But the news here is, if anything, worse. When asked by
reporters to comment on the strain that the active Army was under, the head
of the National Guard said that his military branch was "in an even more
dire situation than the active Army. We both have the same symptoms; I just
have a higher fever."
Already, the stress of Iraq and Afghanistan on our soldiers has been
significant: Every available active-duty combat brigade has served at least
one tour in Iraq or Afghanistan, and many have served two or three.
Likewise, the vast majority of Army National Guardsmen and Reservists have
been mobilized since Sept. 11, 2001, some more than once.
Thus the simple fact is that the only way for Kristol and Lowry to put their
new plan into action anytime soon without resorting to a draft -- and
thereby dismantling the all-volunteer Army, [false dilemma] which, as the
authors themselves would certainly admit, could be strategically disastrous
[so therefore the VOLAR constrains American strategy??]-- is by demanding
even more from our soldiers by accelerating their training and rotation
schedules. While there is no question that the soldiers would respond to
more frequent calls to duty, it is doubtful that they would be supplied with
proper equipment and training for their mission in the near term. Moreover,
the long-term toll on the cost and quality of our troops would be threatened
by the added strain.
First, the equipment shortage that the U.S. Army faces at the moment is
making it difficult to train troops even at current levels. The service has
been compensating for this $50 billion equipment shortfall by shipping to
Iraq some of the equipment that it needs to train nondeployed and reserve
units. Increasing the number of deployed troops would compound this
readiness problem and leave the Army with little spare capacity to respond
to other conflicts around the globe that might demand immediate and urgent
action.
Second, the long-term costs of leaning even more heavily on our ground
troops to fight what is an unpopular war will take its toll on the quality
of our Army. At present the Army is compelled to offer promotions to an
unprecedented number of its personnel to retain them. Some 98 percent of
captains were promoted to major this year, and the quality of the next
generation of military leaders will suffer if this process is not made more
selective once again.
In addition, even the quadrupling of recruitment bonuses since 2003 has not
been enough to attract adequate numbers of talented men and women to meet
the Army's personnel goals. Although the Army has accepted more troops with
lower aptitude scores and raised its maximum enlistment age, it still must
grant waivers to about 1 out of 5 new recruits and has had to cut in half
the number who "wash out" in basic training.
While we disagree with Kristol and Lowry's contention that sending more
troops to Iraq would bring peace and stability to the country, the U.S. Army
and National Guard and Reserve should nevertheless possess the capacity to
respond to such a plan or other deployments without undue strain and
long-term costs. The solution is to do two things that the Bush
administration has not: permanently increase the number of troops in the
active Army and fully fund its equipment needs. Let this, not the
expenditure of more blood and treasure in Iraq, be the "courageous act of
presidential leadership" that Kristol and Lowry desire.
Lawrence J. Korb was assistant secretary of defense for manpower,
installations and logistics during the Reagan administration. He and Pete

[osint] Western-born Muslims seen as biggest threat

[Bruce Tefft]

 

Western-born Muslims seen as biggest threat

Richard Kerbaj, Herzliya, Israel 
September 14, 2006
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20408791-2703,00.html

YOUNG Western-born Muslims recruited in universities, mosques and on the
internet are increasingly being turned to jihad by terrorist networks, which
train them in Islamic countries to support and conduct attacks on their
homelands.

The return of brainwashed sleeper agents trained in counter-intelligence and
covert fundraising, as well as the use of explosives, was the "biggest
threat to humanity in modern times", said Boaz Ganor, founder of the
Israeli-based Institute of Counter-Terrorism. 
"They are looking for them in mosques ... in the youth centres ... on the
web ... relying on social acquaintances and also family ties and
universities," Dr Ganor told a conference hosted by the institute in the
resort city of Herzliya yesterday. 
He said terror organisations used psychological strategies to win the hearts
of "specific" young Muslims through either indirect recruitment platforms
such as the internet, and direct ones such as combing radical mosques and
prayer halls. 
Extremists looked for recruits who were not integrated into Western society
and wanted to reinvent themselves. 
"They are looking for people who are alienated from society, they're looking
for people that have religious devotion, they're looking for those who
believe that they are discriminated against," Dr Ganor said. 
Converts to Islam with a proclivity for violence and fanaticism were also
considered good recruits. "They are using this idea of divine command,
saying 'we are just messengers and it is God that demands you to do this job
... we have to save Islam'. 
"(But) when you spread a network like that, sometimes you get fissures that
you don't expect to get because these alienated, frustrated youngsters are
not just in the Muslim society, and therefore we see another phenomenon,
which are converts." 
Last month, The Australian revealed that dozens of violent criminals in
Sydney were being brainwashed by hardliners and converting to radical Islam
in jail, creating a serious national security time bomb. 
Dr Ganor said of the recruits: "They are usually being trained in other
countries - it could be Pakistan or another place - and then they are
infiltrated again into the old society as an indoctrinated, trained sleeper
that are just sitting and waiting for the order. 
"Some of them are being used for fundraising missions, some of them are
being used for collection of intelligence and for recruiting others. But we
have to understand ... that some of them are being used for this mission of
launching a terrorist attack on Western society." 
Another expert on Islamic terrorism who spoke at the conference, Steven
Emerson, told The Australian that terrorist organisations were increasingly
shifting towards training their recruits on how to become better
intelligence agents and expose the weaknesses of their enemies. 
"It's in al-Qa'ida's manual to do better counter-intelligence, to do
observation, surveillance, reconnaissance," he said. "That's critical to any
good terrorist apparatus. You always have to have a reconnaissance man. 
"Hezbollah excels in reconnaissance - sending back to Tehran videos that
they have witnessed in terms of the vulnerabilities." 
Dr Ganor said Muslim communities worldwide needed to take the initiative in
exposing and thwarting the actions of radicals.
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[osint] Hezbollah's Shi'ite youth movement, "The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts"

[Bruce Tefft]

 


Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center 
at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S) 
http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/html/hezbollah_scouts_e.htm
September 11 , 2006
 

 
 

 
Hezbollah's Shi'ite youth movement, "The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts," has tens of
thousands of members. According to captured documents, they are
indoctrinated with the principles of radical Iranian Islam. That
indoctrination includes the personality cult of Iranian leader 'Ali Khamenei
and Hezbollah's "battle legacy;" national Lebanese symbols are minimized.

 


Hezbollah scouts wearing uniforms and carrying plastic rifles in a parade on
the anniversary of the outbreak of the second (Al-Aqsa) intifada (Mohamed
Azakir/Reuters, September 27, 2002)

Children [belonging to the Hezbollah scout movement] in a parade in Beirut
commemorating " Jerusalem Day." Next to them is a [Hezbollah] instructor
wearing a camouflage suit (Jemal Sayidi/Reuters, November 2003) 


 
Overview 
*   The Imam al-Mahdi Scouts1 are a Hezbollah youth movement which was
established in May 1985, after the IDF withdrew from the security zone in
south Lebanon . It has branches in the Shi'ite communities of Beirut , the
Beqa'a Valley and south Lebanon . It received a permit for its activities
from the Lebanese ministry of education in September 1992, seven years after
its founding, and today they associated with the Federation of Lebanese
Scouts. There are approximately 42,000 male and female Imam al-Mahdi scouts
between the ages of 8-16 organized into 499 groups.2 

The emblem of the Imam al-Mahdi Scouts. The fleur-de-lis is the
international scout emblem, however, every scouting organization adds its
own elements. In this case the additions are two swords and a hand raised as
if taking an oath. The inscription under the emblem reads, "Obey!" The
clearly implied messages are militarism, belligerence, obedience and
commitment. 
*   The objective of the Hezbollah scout movement, as stated in its 2006
calendar, is to prepare an Islamic generation according to the Iman
Khomeini's perception of "Wilayat al-faqih."3 Hezbollah established the Imam
al-Mahdi Scouts to attract Shi'ite children and adolescents, to influence
their hearts and minds and to prepare new generations of youth indoctrinated
with radical Shi'ite Islam, which propounds the idea of the return of the
Mahdi as one of Hezbollah's central principles . Hezbollah wants to create a
new generation of operatives for its own ranks who will take part in its
violent campaign against Israel . Furthermore the issue is part of the
competition between Hezbollah and the secular Amal movement for control of
the Shi'ites. 
The Iranian aspect 
*   Since Hezbollah was founded, the Iranians have participated in
directing its ideology and in spreading religious Shi'ite culture among the
Shi'ites in Lebanon in general and Hezbollah in particular. Hezbollah did
not create a culture of its own, but rather imported that of Iran along with
the principles of the Iranian Islamic revolution . Farsi, the language
spoken in Iran , was not an obstacle and Iranian cultural and religious
products have been translated into Arabic in Lebanon .4 
*   Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, who have accompanied
Hezbollah since its founding, have played a central role in its activity and
in recruiting youths into its ranks. By the second half of the 1980s they
had already organized camps for school children who were brought to the
Beqa'a Valley from south Lebanon and Beirut and who received military
training and cultural and religious instruction during the summer vacation.5

*   Twenty years later, during the second Lebanon War, a great deal of
Imam al-Mahdi Scouts material was found illustrating how members of
Hezbollah's youth movement had been indoctrinated with the principles of the
Iranian Islamic revolution and the personality cult of 'Ali Khamenei, and
how the Shi'ite community in Lebanon had been indoctrinated through them . 
Basic military training in the summer camps 
*   Most Imam al-Mahdi Scouts activity is social (games, competition,
trips, sports, summer camps) and doctrinaire (inculcating Hezbollah and
Islamic revolution principles). In addition, there are camps where the
participants learn the basic use of arms along with physical training and
marching exercises while dressed in scout uniforms or camouflage suits. 
*   An investigative report published on August 8, 2006 in the Egyptian
daily Ruz al-Yusuf stated that "Hezbollah has always recruited adolescents
and children and trained them for fighting from a very young age. [They are]
children who are younger than 10 years of age, who wear camouflage suits,
paint their faces black, swear an oath to jihad and belong to the al-Madhi
Scouts, which is an association linked to Hezbollah ." 


An Imam al-Mahdi Scouts camp6
 

An Imam al-Mahdi Scouts camp. One youth is holding a yellow (apparently
Hezbollah) flag while another holds the scou

[osint] Former Head of Washington Islamic Center on Iranian TV: "The events of 9/11 were planned by the American administration."

[Bruce Tefft]

Former
  Head of Washington Islamic Center on
Iranian TV

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
Appearing on an Iranian TV 9/11 special, the former head of the Islamic
Center in Washington DC, Muhammad Al-Asi, accused the US government of
carrying out the September 11 attacks. (Video courtesy of MEMRI TV
 .)
Please note: earlier this month Al-Asi presented a paper titled
"Islamophobia: Its Causes and Cures" at the second annual conference of the
Muslim Congress
  in Houston,
Texas.



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  Media Player.)
Presenter: "According to initial speculations, Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden
himself were identified as the main culprits [in 9/11]. Further expert
analysis, however, raised other possibilities."
[...]
Muhammad Al-'Asi, former head of the Islamic Center, Washington, D.C.: "The
events of 9/11 were planned by the American administration, to be used as a
pretext and justification to fight terrorism."
[...]
French author Thierry Meyssan: "Organizing acts of terrorism on such a scale
and with such precision would not have been possible without the aid of
American administration bodies, such as the White House and the Pentagon."
[...]
"Donald Rumsfeld said, several days prior to 9/11, that a tremendous, unique
disaster was going to occur. He said he was wishing for such a thing to
happen, so that there would be a national leap and so that he would be able
to carry out his policy."
[...]
David Musa Pidcock, leader of the Islamic Party of Britain: "Pearl Harbor
was similar to 9/11 in that they were both planned in advance. Twelve days
before the attack on Pearl Harbor, [U.S. Secretary of War] Stimson, one of
America's lords of war, went to the White House with several navy
commanders, and talked about the war against Japan. The question was how
they could trick the Japanese into firing the first shot, without any great
danger being directed against the Americans. Therefore, the attack on Pearl
Harbor in 1941 was similar to what happened on 9/11. We know very well that
it was planned with precision."
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[osint] Terror suspect incited murder of non-believers, court told

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2357694,00.html
Times OnlineSeptember 14, 2006
Terror suspect incited murder of non-believers, court told
By Times Online and agencies

A 42-year-old man appeared in court today accused of encouraging people to
murder those who do not believe in Islam.

Atilla Ahmet, from south east London, is also accused of publishing
statements intended to encourage people to commit acts of terrorism.

He was appearing at Westminster Magistrates' court with four other men and a
youth in connection with an anti-terror operation targeting an alleged
network of terrorist recruiters.

The men, who were taken to court in a high-security police van with a police
convoy, were held after a series of raids across London overnight at the
beginning of the month, including one at a Chinese restaurant.

The operation also involved anti-terror officers searching an Islamic school
in East Sussex.

Mr Ahmet, who was remanded in custody until September 29, is charged with a
total of eight counts, including three of soliciting or encouraging people
to murder those who do not believe in the Islamic faith.

Mr Ahmet is further charged with soliciting or encouraging people at a
meeting between March 31 and April 1 this year to murder those who do not
"implement Allah's law".

All four soliciting murder charges are contrary to Section 4 of the Offences
Against a Person Act 1861. He is also charged with two counts of publishing
a statement intended to encourage members of the public to commit, prepare
or instigate acts of terrorism.

He is further charged with two counts of possessing information of a kind
likely to be useful to a person committing an act of terrorism, contrary to
Section 58(1)(B) of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Next to appear was Moussa Brown, 40, who is accused of two offences under
the Terrorism Act 2000.

It is alleged that between May 1, 2004 and March 19 this year he provided
training in the making or use of firearms, contrary to Section 54(1) of the
Act.

The second charge alleges that between the same dates he received training
in making or use of firearms, contrary to Section 54(2).

There was no application for bail and Mr Brown was remanded in custody until
October 12 when he will reappear before the court via video link.

Three other men charged in connection with the investigation appeared
alongside each other.

Muhammad Al-Figari, 42, of Tottenham, north London, Kadar Ahmed, 19, of
Plaistow, east London, and a 17-year-old youth, who cannot be named for
legal reasons, are charged with attending a woodland area near Matley Wood
Caravan and Camping Site in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, between June 2 and June 4
this year for terrorism training.

It is also alleged they attended an area near Pondwood Farm in White
Waltham, Berkshire, on June 18 this year for terrorism training.

Mr Ahmed and the 17-year-old are further charged with attending the woodland
area near Matley Wood Caravan and Camping Site for terrorism training
between April 28 and May 1 this year.

The charge in each case alleges that while there training was provided
"wholly or partly for the purposes connected with the commission or
preparation of acts of terrorism".

Both Mr Al-Figari and the 17-year-old are further charged with one count of
possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing
acts of terrorism.

All three spoke only to confirm their identity during this morning's
hearing.

No application for bail was made on behalf of any of the three and they were
all remanded in custody until October 12 when they will reappear before the
court via video link.

A sixth man who was arrested in connection with the investigation also
appeared in court today on a firearms charge.

Saloum Joh, 21, of Putney, south-west London, is accused of possessing a
prohibited firearm contrary to the Firearms Act 1968. This was allegedly a
.410 shotgun with a barrel of less than 12in (30cm) in length.

He was remanded in custody until December 7 when he will appear at Middlesex
Crown Court.

Two men remain in custody in connection with the investigation.

Four men who were also arrested in the raids appeared in court earlier this
week. They were remanded in custody to appear on October 10 via video link
before a committal hearing on October 24.



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[osint] Protecting Terrorist Detainees

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Critical legislation that will further deteriorate our ability to protect
our nation, our democracy, and our lives.
 
 
 
Terror's Trojan Horse
By   Janet Levy
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 14, 2006
 
New legislation to be introduced in Congress this week may provide greater
protections for terrorist detainees than those extended to American
servicemen who defend our country and fight to preserve our rights and
freedom. Bowing to a recent Supreme Court decision that outlawed
Bush-created military commissions to try suspected al-Qaeda members, the
Bush administration has now agreed to reject those commissions and follow
standards of international law and the Geneva Conventions. Enemy combatants,
including the alleged mastermind of 9/11, will enjoy the same rights under
the law as legitimate prisoners of war.
 
An amendment by Sen. John McCain proposes a further expansion of rights for
terrorist detainees that includes the inadmissibility of coerced testimony
and the release of classified material. These misguided policies completely
undermine prosecution of terrorist operatives. These policies could present
a serious hindrance to fighting the global jihad, endanger the safety of
American troops and make it more difficult to obtain convictions for some
detainees.
 
Following the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration issued a military order
to deny prisoner-of-war status and protections to "unlawful enemy
combatants." The government's policy was based on Geneva Convention
standards that reserve prisoner-of-war status for uniformed representatives
of signatory nations who openly bear arms, follow established rules of
engagement and protect civilians. Clearly, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and other
terrorist groups have not signed Geneva Convention treaties and are not
military combatants who fight in a standing state army. Furthermore, members
of these groups conceal their weapons, hide among civilian populations and
routinely slaughter non-combatants.
 
Before the Supreme Court struck down military tribunals in a case involving
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the former aide to Osama bin Laden, those military
commissions were part of a system of existing legal protections and humane
conditions afforded terrorist suspects. Those protections called for trials
presided over by commissions comprised of military officers and a presiding
military judge for death-penalty cases. In addition, since 2001,
anti-torture standards for in-custody terrorists have prohibited "severe
physical or mental pain or suffering," clear, easily understood language.
These standards have been in force in facilities such as U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay (GITMO) for more than five years. Further, prisoners receive
regular and nutritious meals, Korans and prayer rugs, opportunities to
exercise, and access to legal counsel and medical attention.
 
The McCain Amendment, supported by an overwhelming majority of Senate
Democrats and a few Republicans, would increase detainee protections to
unacceptable and unworkable levels. Under the proposed legislation,
detainees would be allowed access to classified information used to support
the government's case against them. If this classified information were not
released, charges against them would be dismissed.
 
In addition, the standard for torture would be broadened to include more
encompassing language, which would newly define torture as "cruel, inhumane,
or degrading" treatment. Any admissions made by suspected terrorists under
conditions deemed to violate this much broader standard would be deemed
inadmissible. Such language could open the door to label as torture strip
searches for contraband, physical discomfort from a malfunctioning air
conditioner, assignment of prisoners to bathroom cleaning duty or even
interrogation of Muslim men by female officers. This is not a far-fetched
scenario. A prominent Muslim advocacy organization recently labeled as
torture forced feeding of GITMO hunger strikers, even though it was
undertaken to save their lives.
 
Jihadists are well schooled in deception and don't necessarily respond, as
expected, to direct questioning. Al-Qaeda manuals instruct terrorist
detainees to insist that they have been tortured and to call attention to
"mistreatment" through hunger strikes. The Koran and Hadith, collections of
the the words and deeds of the prophet Muhammad, require that Muslims engage
in deception and lying to confuse the infidel or non-Muslim. This practice
encompasses the disguising of one's intentions (Taquiya), the purposeful
providing of limited information (Kitman) and the attack on another as a
diversionary tactic (Tu-Quoque). At his trial in March of 2006, the "20th
hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui, stated "You're allowed to lie for jihad.
You're allowed any technique to defeat your enemy."
 
Yet, the MCain bill would restrict our ability to interrogate this crafty
enemy. Under the proposed McCain standard of tr

[osint] Bali II bomb conviction

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5344396.stm
Indonesian jailed for Bali bomb

An Indonesian man has been found guilty of involvement in the 2005 Bali
bombings and sentenced to 15 years.

Former mobile phone salesman Anif Solchanudin, 24, was found guilty of
helping to plan the attacks.

The judge said Solchanudin was "proven without doubt to have participated in
acts of terrorism".

Three other people have already been sentenced in connection with the triple
suicide blasts, which killed 20 people and injured more than 100 others.

Solchanudin admitted during his trial that he had been interested in
becoming a suicide bomber.

But he had denied knowing anything about the bombings before they took
place.

Noordin

Solchanudin is the fourth man to be jailed over the attacks.

Earlier this month, Mohammad Cholily was found guilty of supplying equipment
and jailed for 18 years.

Dwi Widyarto was found to have helped produce a disc of Noordin Mohammad
Top, the plot's alleged mastermind and South East Asia's most wanted
militant.

Another man, Abdul Aziz, was jailed for eight years for sheltering Noordin,
and Solchanudin was also found guilty of concealing information about him.

The October 2005 attacks were the second major bombing on the resort island.

In 2002, more than 200 people died in the bombing of a bar and nightclub in
Bali.

The Indonesian government blamed the regional Islamist militant group,
Jemaah Islamiah, for both attacks.

Noordin Top is wanted in connection with both attacks, as well as a string
of others in Indonesia.

Noordin was previously believed to be one of al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah
Islamiah's key financiers and recruiters but analysts now think he may have
broken away to form a new militant group.

The man thought to have been his closest ally, bomb maker Azahari Husin, was
killed during a police raid in November 2005, but successive attempts to
locate Noordin have failed. 


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[osint] News Flash: Police Find 'Terror Items'

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[osint] Politicizing Intelligence - Yet Again

[Bruce Tefft]

 
Politicizing Intelligence - Yet Again
By Kenneth R. Timmerman
 
FrontPageMagazine.com
  | September
14, 2006
If you thought efforts were over to rewrite history on the lead-up to the
war in Iraq and to smear the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad
Chalabi, then think again.

A remarkable pair of reports released last week by the Senate Select
committee on Intelligence re-examine for the umpteenth time the pre-war
intelligence on Iraqi WMD programs and Saddam's alleged ties to al-Qaeda.
The reports were produced at the demand of committee Democrats as part of a
vast fishing expedition aimed at buttressing their old saw, Bush lied-People
died.

What's remarkable about these reports are not the facts they contain,
although they are jammed packed with new information, culled from the more
than 40,000 finished intelligence reports produced by CIA on Iraq in the six
years leading up to the war.

The absolutely stunning news, totally unreported by the formerly mainstream
media, is the scurrilous effort by committee Democrats to falsify the facts,
introduce phony and erroneous conclusions, and then parade about on their
political high-horse to journalists who never bothered to read the actual
reports.

In an unprecedented move for a committee that until 2004 was known for
bipartisan efforts to conduct oversight of the intelligence community, the
committee chairman -Sen. Pat Roberts (R, Ks) - actually dissented from the
report's published conclusions on intelligence provided by Chalabi's Iraqi
National Congress, as did most of the majority members.

The full report, accessible 
as a PDF file here, makes fascinating reading. To understand what actually
happened, readers need to turn directly to page 123 of the printed report,
which details how the committee arrived at the final version.

Here you read how Vice Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV, D-WV, outvoted
Roberts thanks to the defection of Senators Olympia Snowe, RINO-ME, and
Chuck 
Hagel, R-France, and succeeded in superimposing totally bogus conclusions on
an otherwise factual report.

"Paraphrasing the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan," Roberts wrote in his
dissent, "everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own set
of facts. I will continue to draw the line when it comes to amending
conclusions in a way that mischaracterizes or ignores the underlying facts."

Roberts then dissected one by one the "myths" about alleged INC efforts to
influence the judgment of the U.S. intelligence community on Iraqi WMD
programs and Saddam's ties to terror that the Democrats (plus Snowe and
Hagel) adopted in the report's conclusions.

Primary among them was the myth that the INC was "engaged in a
disinformation campaign to supply erroneous information to the Intelligence
community" that 
influenced the now infamous October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on
Iraqi WMD programs.

"The facts detailed in the findings portion of this report. do not support
this theory," Roberts stated blandly. On the contrary, "INC information did
not significantly affect intelligence judgments" on Iraqi WMD programs. Nor
did the INC supply information "used to support the Intelligence community's
key judgments about Iraq's links to terrorism."

For example, "of the 45 human intelligence (HUMINT) sources cited in the WMD
NIE, only two were affiliated with the INC - and that does not account for
the vast amount of information in the WMD NIE derived from signals
intelligence, imagery, and HUMINT sources not specifically cited," Roberts
wrote.

In addition, he stated, "the INC did not supply information used to support
the Intelligence Community's key judgments about Iraq's links to terrorism."

Despite this, Rockefeller and his colleagues asserted that "false
information from the Iraqi National Congress-affiliated sources was used to
support key Intelligence Community assessments on Iraq and was widely
distributed in intelligence products prior to the war," and cited "over 250
intelligence information reports" from just a single INC-affiliated
defector.

And of course: the chief villains in this enterprise to peddle "false"
intelligence from the INC were the Office of the Vice President, and
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Doug Feith, Rockefeller and his
colleagues claimed.

Even the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), often
cited by the New York Times and SSIC Democrats for its wisdom in resisting
INC information, couldn't quite stomach this blatant twisting of the truth.

Referring specifically to the two INC-affiliated defectors whose information
was included in the 2002 NIE, the INR told the committee that the defectors
"did not influence any INR assessments 

[osint] Eight jailed for anti-Western plot

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20408716-1702,00.html

Eight jailed for anti-Western plot

>From correspondents in Amman, Jordan
September 13, 2006 11:08pm
Article from: Reuters
JORDAN jailed eight Islamist youths for 10 to 20 years for plotting to
attack US citizens who frequent luxury hotels and work in the country,
judicial sources said.
A state security court said the eight were found guilty of "conspiring to
carry out terrorist acts and of illegal possession of automatic weapons," in
two separate security plots foiled last year to attack US citizens in the
country.
Along with tourists, they also planned to kill US instructors heading to a
US-funded police centre on the outskirts of Amman that trains Iraqi police
recruits.
Jordanian authorities uncovered the plot in August last year after arresting
one of the suspects and finding cameras used for surveillance during the
planning of the attacks.
They also uncovered AK-47 automatic weapons in the homes of some of the
detainees.
The court also sentenced in absentia two fugitive Palestinian refugees
living in Lebanon who abetted the militants to 15 years of hard labour.
The verdict was the latest in a series of jail sentences passed this year
against dozens of Jordanian militants, many of whom were either detained or
charged last year for plotting attacks on Americans and other Westerners.
Security officials in Jordan, a staunch US ally, say the rise in militancy
was tied to growing anti-American sentiment after the invasion of Iraq. 
  


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[osint] News Flash: EGYPT: FBI HELPING AL-QAEDA HUNT, PRESS REPORTS

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[osint] News Flash: Bali bomb recruiter Umar Patek shot dead

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ONE of Australia's most wanted terrorists, who recruited the 
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[osint] News Flash: U.S. Flies Non-Essential Personnel Out of Syria

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[osint] News Flash: Senior al-Qaida member arrested in Iraq

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[osint] News Flash: Al-Qaida number two calls for attacks on France

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[osint] News Flash: Poland pledges 1,000 troops in Afghanistan by February

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[osint] News Flash: U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Hit 2,671

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[osint] News Flash: Judge In Saddam Trial Says He Was Not A Dictator

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[osint] Unvesity bans books on jihad

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20408624-661,00.html
 
Uni bans books on jihad
 
THE University of Melbourne has been forced to remove from its library
so-called hate books that may breach new anti-terror sedition laws.
Three books on militant jihad and arguing for martyrdom, including suicide
bombings, have been removed from shelves in the Baillieu library at the
university. 
An honours student requesting access to one of the books has already been
refused permission to borrow or even view it. 
Melbourne University made the censorship decision on the basis that federal
authorities could argue the books may be used to encourage terrorism by
students. 
Two of the books, Defence of the Muslim Lands and Join the Caravan, were the
subject of an investigation by the Federal Government's Classification
Review Board in July which imposed a ban on their sale or importation into
Australia. 
The books were investigated after being found for sale in Islamic shops in
Brunswick and Sydney. 
The federal censor found Defence of the Muslim Lands -- which carries an
endorsement by Osama bin Laden -- incites "terrorism acts, including the
plan, action and execution of martyrdom operations". 
The review board also found that Join the Caravan was a "real and genuine
call" to incite Muslims to carry out terrorist acts against "disbelievers". 
The decision to ban the books is the subject of an appeal by the NSW Council
of Civil Liberties. 
But the University of Melbourne's lawyers and library officials have gone a
step further, taking the two banned books and a third, The Lofty Mountain,
off their shelves. 
The Lofty Mountain, by the same author -- Sheik Abdullah Azzam, an alleged
inspiration to bin Laden -- contains similar subject matter. 
Associate professor Richard Pennell, the university's lecturer in Middle
Eastern history, is understood to have bought the three books over the
internet more than a year ago to help teach an honours course. 
"I am certainly pretty worried about the handling of these books," Dr
Pennell said. 
Deputy vice-chancellor Peter McPhee said academic research would suffer as a
result of the laws. 
"It contravenes a fundamental principle of academic life that students and
academics need to be able to access research materials," he said. 


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[osint] U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says

[Bruce Tefft]

That is why it is necessary to target terrorists.
 
Bruce
 
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/washington/13chertoff.html?_r=1
 &oref=slogin
 
U.S. Can't Protect All Targets, Chertoff Says 
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 - Congress and the American public must accept that the
government cannot protect every possible target against attack if it wants
to avoid fulfilling
 Al Qaeda's goal of bankrupting the nation,
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a Senate committee
Tuesday.
 
 Osama bin Laden, Mr. Chertoff said, has made it
clear that scaring the United States into an unsustainable spending spree is
one of his aims. In a 2004 video, Mr. bin Laden, the Qaeda leader, spoke of
"bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy."
"He understood that one tool he had in waging war against the United States
was to drive us crazy, into bankruptcy, trying to defend ourselves against
every conceivable threat," Mr. Chertoff said at a hearing of the Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. "We have to be realistic about
what we expect and what we do. We do have limits, and we do have choices to
make."
The direct reference to Mr. bin Laden echoes what is now a week's worth of
tough talk by the Bush administration about him, a move
 Democrats call a politically motivated
effort to refocus the nation, and its voters, on the war on terror instead
of the troubled conflict in Iraq.
Mr. Chertoff said his message was not political, but simply a recognition of
reality and the tough choices he must make.
Moving ahead will require billions of dollars in spending to finish
installation of radiation detection equipment at ports by next year, build
fences or high-tech barriers at borders to control illegal
 immigration, enhance railroad
safety programs and install new explosives detection equipment at airports.
In the short term, money will be spent to inspect all cargo packages
delivered by individuals to the airports, closing what has been a loophole
in the security system. The department, in the next month, will also
announce new freight rail regulations for trains that carry highly toxic
chemicals. The rules may limit how long railcars are allowed to sit in place
and how they are built.
But the list of initiatives cannot be limitless, Mr. Chertoff said. A
mandate, for example, that every cargo container headed into the United
States be X-rayed and subject to a radiation scan before it leaves a foreign
port to search for a possible nuclear bomb is not now feasible, he said.
Senator
 Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey,
was trying on Tuesday to persuade him to consider such an effort.
"I put my daughter in my car," Mr. Chertoff told Mr. Lautenberg. "If I
wanted my daughter to be 100 percent safe, I'd put a five-mile-an-hour speed
limit cap on the car." But that is not an option, he added, "because that's
more safety than we can afford."
Mr. Lautenberg seemed unimpressed. "If we inspected one out of 20 people
going into the White House for tours, or coming into this place, would we
feel secure?" he said. "I don't think so."
Others who spoke at the hearing, including Richard A. Falkenrath, the deputy
commissioner for counterterrorism at the New York City Police Department,
questioned just how good a job Mr. Chertoff was doing divvying up his
limited resources.
Mr. Chertoff, since he was named secretary in February 2005, has talked of
the need to make spending risk-based, but his department has also been
lambasted for compiling a list of possible targets that included a petting
zoo, a bourbon festival and a popcorn factory, while at the same time it cut
antiterrorism grants to high-risk cities like Washington and New York.
Mr. Falkenrath said the department was focusing too much on screening cargo
containers, when the greater threat in American ports, like the attack on
the destroyer Cole in Yemen in 2000 showed, was from a small boat packed
with explosives pulling up aside a ship or a ferry. It is spending $9 on
security per airplane passenger, he said, but less than half a penny on each
mass transit rider. 
"There's something wrong with this," said Mr. Falkenrath, a former White
House deputy homeland security adviser. "Terrorists are attacking the subway
system worldwide."


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[osint] 17 Dead Including 2 US Soldiers in Iraq

[Bruce Tefft]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
 
2 U.S. soldiers among 17 dead in Iraq 
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN, Associated Press Writer 57 minutes ago 
Car bombs and drive-by shootings on Thursday killed at least 17 people -
including two U.S. soldiers - in a series of attacks around central Iraq,
officials said.
The U.S. command said the first soldier died from wounds in the early
morning hours after his unit same under attack by small arms, while the
second was killed after his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb south of
Baghdad. At least 2,673 members of the U.S. military have died since the
beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press
count.
The attacks came after day that was especially bloody even by Baghdad's
standards, when car bombs, mortars and other attacks killed at least 39
people and wounded dozens. Police also uncovered the tortured bodies of 65
men dumped in and around the capital.
The violence persists despite a monthlong security operation by thousands of
U.S. and Iraqi troops around Baghdad aimed mostly at stopping the killings
carried out by Sunni and Shiite death squads.
A car bomb Thursday targeting a police patrol in a Shiite neighborhood of
northern Baghdad missed, instead killing a civilian and wounding 13 others,
police said.
Another car bomb then blew up bear the government's passport office in
central Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 17. The injured included
four police officers,said police Lt. Bilal Ali.
The blast created a large crater in the street in front of the office,
destroyed at least three cars, scattered debris and knocked down the walls
of a neighboring house, according to AP Television News video.
Gunmen in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killed two police officers
in a drive-by shooting. Another group of gunmen shot and killed three people
in Ghazaniya, just north of Baqouba.
Police also found the body of a brigadier in the former Iraqi army two days
after he was kidnapped Mahmoudiya, 19 miles south of Baghdad, said Cap. Udai
Abdel-Rihda.
Also Thursday, the U.S. military said its forces have arrested a senior
al-Qaida figure and personal associate of the group's new leader.
The man, who was not identified, was arrested Tuesday and led assassination,
kidnapping and bomb-making cells in Baghdad, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell
said.
He also played a key role in al-Qaida's activities in Fallujah before it was
attacked by U.S. troops in November 2004, Caldwell added.
According to Caldwell he was a "personal associate" of Abu Ayyoub al-Masri,
who took over al-Qaida in Iraq from Jordanian-born terrorist mastermind Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi after he was killed in a U.S. airstrike north of Baghdad on
June 7.
After the discovery of the bodies Wednesday, the head of Iraq's largest
Sunni Arab political bloc called on Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to
honor a pledge to disband militias - blamed by Sunnis of being behind many
of the death squads.
An influential Sunni Arab political party said that U.S. forces raided its
Baghdad headquarters early Thursday and briefly detained one of its
legislators.
Ahmed al-Janabi a spokesman for the National Dialogue Council, a Sunni party
that is part the Iraqi Accordance Front - a Sunni Arab coalition - said U.S.
forces broke into the group's offices in western Baghdad and detained and
interrogated deputy Abdel-Nasir al-Janabi for two hours. The party has 12
deputies in the 275-seat parliament.
The reasons for the raid were not clear and coalition forces had no
immediate comment, but al-Janabi alleged the raid seemed to be "an American
message to the groups and lawmakers who demanded a timetable for the
withdrawal of foreign forces from Iraq."
Earlier in the week, a group of Shiite and Sunni legislators tried to take
advantage of the unpopularity of U.S. troops to seek approval of a
resolution setting a timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign troops -
which the mainstream Shiite-dominated government has so far refused to do.
The resolution was sent to committee - essentially shelving it for months. 
Sunni Arabs fear more sectarian violence will break out if the largest
Shiite political bloc in parliament succeeds is passing legislation that
will set in place the mechanism for establishing autonomous regions as part
of a federal Iraq. 
Parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani urged that a bill drafted last week
by the dominant Shiite United Iraqi Alliance not to be submitted to the body
on Sept. 19. Instead he has called for its postponement until parliament
amends the country's new constitution, a time consuming affair that could
drag on for months. 
Sunni Arabs have said the bill could split the country into three distinct
sectarian and ethnic cantons and have vehemently opposed it. 
Although federalism is part Iraq's new constitution, and there is already an
autonomous Kurdish region in the north, special legislati

[osint] Colorado Officials Ask for Public's Help in Detecting Terrorists

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1

&id=32606


Colorado Officials Ask for Public's Help in Detecting Terrorists

Posted: September 13th, 2006 11:11 AM EDT
Story by thedenverchannel.com  
Since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, more than $100 million has been spent
to ensure that Coloradoans are better prepared to handle a major
catastrophe. 
State leaders said they want more input from the public state clearing house
for terrorist threats. 
Since the Colorado Information Analysis Center opened in 2005, it has sent
300 terrorist threats to the FBI, but analysts said they need more to work
with. 
Analysts said if people have any information on suspects including
descriptions, digital pictures or even pictures on a camera phone, they want
to see them. 
State emergency directors said five years after Sept. 11, 2001, Colorado
should have the equipment it would need in the event of a disaster to better
communicate and protect. 
The rolling responder debuted in March and is made up of flat screens,
satellite TVs and computer boards. 
"As a result our community is safer today than it was in March," said
Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson. 
While suspects can be followed while in motion, Robinson said people are
never fully protected from terrorism. 
"We are never as good as we need to be. We need to strive everyday to be
better than we were yesterday," said Robinson. 
The Department of Homeland Security bought five mobile command posts for
Colorado at roughly $530,000 each. 
Outside each truck there are four digital wireless cameras that can be
placed up to a quarter of a mile away giving incident commanders a
multi-perspective, real-time look at the situation on the ground. 
They have tested the interoperable radios in large-scale disaster exercises.
Although Colorado's Federal Security funding has dropped from $36 million in
2005 to $21 million in 2006, state directors said that should be enough for
better response planning. 
"We've spent a lot of money to get the radios and we have make sure that we
have the plans in place to use it most effectively," said George Epp of the
Division of Emergency Management. 
Homeland Security has unveiled an encrypted secure Web site dedicated to
terrorism-related tips from the public. 
Since 2001, Colorado received $130 million from the federal government for
Homeland Security. However, state emergency directors said key information
from a citizen could prove to be very useful in detecting terrorists. 
For more information on the Colorado Information Analysis Center, visit
www.ciac.co.gov   or
call 720-852-6705. 


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[osint] Clausewitz On Terror

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
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From: CodeTen7 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
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Subject: Clausewitz On Terror
 
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5849
 
Clausewitz On Terror
September 13th, 2006
Are we losing the War on Terror? Five years after 9/11, the question is
being asked with some urgency, and not by appeasers, defeatists, or the
general run of whiner, but by individuals of respect, people of considerable
expertise and experience, people deserving of close attention under any
circumstance.
They have come to believe that at worst, the war is being lost, and at best,
the war effort is losing steam, that we've begun to cede the initiative to
the Jihadis, an error that may cost us a terribly high price not far down
the line.
The pessimistic scenario
This school of thought holds that the U.S. is courting political and
military disaster through an inflexible approach to the war in general and
Iraq in particular. Jihadi ability to adapt to American tactics has left the
U.S. and its allies in a precarious position. A single sizable disaster -
something on the order of the Tet Offensive - could destroy support for the
current war strategy and leave the U.S. facing an impasse even worse than
that of Vietnam, a trap in which the U.S. would be unable disengage and at
the same time incapable of mustering the public support or the political
will to prevail.
On the face of it, little evidence exists for this stance. The Jihadis
certainly can't claim any serious recent successes. This past summer has
seen bombing plots in Britain, Toronto, the U.S., and Germany broken up,
with most of the conspirators in custody. Only sporadic individual attacks
have occurred, carried out by misfits with no evident connections to
Al-Qaeda or related networks. Iraq, after a very rough few months, is
starting to look up. The most serious problem there is not the Jihadis per
se, but the festering sore of Moqtada al-Sadr and his nearly out-of-control
militia forces, which will have to be dealt with sooner rather than
later.Similarly, Afghanistan has seen a series
  of
Allied successes in recent weeks, with a resurgent Taliban suffering heavy
casualties in nearly every encounter.
The only visible exceptions involve Pervez Musharaff's effective surrender
concerning Jihadi activities in Waziristan (which merely formalizes the
situation on the ground), and the ambiguous Lebanon conflict, which left
Israel  reeling from its "victory" over Hezbollah, a victory which cost most
of its martial reputation and all of its peace of mind.
This can't honestly be called "losing". But there is one sense in which the
feeling of disquiet is justified: all these are defensive victories, in
which offensive plans by the Jihadis were broken up. On the other side, the
all-important Western effort against the Jihadi networks and sanctuaries,
there's little to show. True, Zarqawi has been killed and his deputy
al-Saeedi

captured
 , but
these too were essentially defensive actions. Osama, Zawahiri, and Omar
still roam Waziristan, their networks still exist - and may in fact have
grown in efficiency - and their supporters among the Muslim states and in
the West remain unidentified and untouched. Ahmadenijad and the mullahs
continue to bluster. The bombers keep coming.
And so we get a sense of running in place, a feeling that events have
somehow escaped our grasp, that the vast tide of will and determination has
begun to ebb, leaving our enemies standing untouched.
The estimable Victor Davis Hanson  identifies
  this as a "bellum interruptem" - "a sort of war, a sort of peace"
caused by either 
"exhaustion from this long war in Afghanistan and Iraq, or. our very success
hitherto in preventing jihadists from enacting mass murder in the United
States."
He identifies two previous such episodes, from 421-415 during the
Peloponnesian War, and between October 1939 and May 1940 during World War
II. Both ended in catastrophe for the democratic states, with Athens and
Western Europe suffering defeat, occupation, and tyranny. Dr. Hanson views
the recent calm with foreboding, fearing that we are simply waiting, all
unknowing, for the next blow to fall.
But such interludes have occurred in other wars as well, and did not
necessarily end badly. Several others of shorter duration occurred during
the twenty-eight year conflict between Athens and Sparta. Most of the
Hundred Years War between England and France was made up of such calm
periods, as the contenders jockeyed for support, built up their forces, or
fought among themselves. In our own time, the Cold War was marked by lengthy
intervals of quiet and even cooperation between crises 

[osint] Canadian Forces release hard-hitting ads today

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060913/CF_ads_060913/2
0060913?hub=TopStories
Canadian Forces release hard-hitting ads today
An aggressive new Canadian Forces ad campaign was launched Wednesday,
drawing a tough response from some Canadian Muslims and an opposition MP who
described the spots as war mongering. 
The ads are designed to trigger new interest in the military and boost
recruitment numbers, said CTV's Graham Richardson. 
"They're a long way from 'There's No Life Like It,'" Richardson told CTV
Newsnet, referring to a long-running Canadian Forces recruitment slogan. 
The first of two 90-second ads features stark music and grainy images of
what appear to be actual combat operations, with soldiers carrying guns,
raiding homes, kicking in doors and rescuing a hostage. 
Then the words 'Fight Fear, Fight Distress, and Fight Chaos, appear on the
screen, closing with the slogan "Fight with the Canadian Forces." 
The second begins with similar music, and features scenes of a helicopter
rescue, burning forests and operations in a flood zone, before the same
message flashes across the screen. 
Early versions of the ads reportedly contained the words "Fight Terror,"
which were removed after the commercials were pre-screened for audience
reaction. 
The final versions of the ads were set to be released in Atlantic Canada
Wednesday in movie theatres and on TV, in the region where the military
hopes to see the biggest spike in recruitment numbers. 
The economically challenged area already provides a disproportionate
percentage of the military's numbers, and the ads are intended to
demonstrate the Canadian Forces can offer an exciting, rewarding career to
Canadians. 
"It is certainly an aggressive push for more soldiers, a move that the
forces desperately need to make. They want to grow the forces significantly,
and that is challenging at any time, and they're finding it challenging
now," Richardson said. 
Commodore Roger MacIsaac, the military's head of recruiting, said the $3
million campaign provides an accurate depiction of life in the navy, army or
air force. 
"All of the focus groups that we went through prior to putting the video
together said, `Tell your story. Show people what it is you do,''' MacIsaac
told The Canadian Press on Tuesday, after showing the ads to 14 new recruits
in a Halifax movie theatre. 
But the ads have drawn opposition from some groups. The Canadian Islamic
Congress requested to view the ads prior to their release, and was granted
the opportunity, Richardson said. 
The group objected to the use of the word "fight," and scenes from
Afghanistan that showed doors being kicked in. 
NDP Defence Critic Dawn Black called the ads war-mongering and said they
were a heavy-handed approach to drawing new soldiers. 
"They do need recruits, but I'm not sure Rambo ads are the way we want to
portray military service," Black was reported as saying. 
"I think there's a lot more to the Canadian military than fight, fight,
fight and war, war, war." 
However, Richardson pointed out, the ads don't tone down the danger involved
in military service -- an important element when Canadian soldiers are being
killed regularly in Afghanistan. 
"Canadian Forces can't be faulted for hiding what this is all about,"
Richardson said. "You know, if they went soft people would say 'wait a
second here, there are lots of soldiers dying.' Again, guns are clearly
drawn and it is not necessarily a nice picture." 
The Canadian military has set aside a $15.5-million promotional budget, for
the task of recruiting an additional 13,000 people for the regular forces
and 10,000 reservists within the next 10 years. 
This year's target is 6,400 recruits -- an increase of 1,400 over last year.

MacIsaac told CP he is confident the ambitious goal will be met. 
"Applications are up and we're processing those but we do have some
shortfalls, such as doctors and nurses and some of the tech trades with
which we have to compete with the rest of Canada.'' 
The military also intends to streamline its hiring process by October by
easing physical fitness requirements for entrance. 
MacIsaac said the military will take on some of the responsibility for
improving physical fitness once the recruits have been brought into the
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[osint] Communist Statement on Italian military intervention abroad : MARE NOSTRUM

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=3730 
 
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MARE NOSTRUM

The Italian army has taken up position on Lebanon's southern border. The fleet 
will be patrolling the coasts, now that Israel has lifted its naval blockade. 
As far as the rebuilding of Lebanon is concerned, Italy has good hopes of doing 
business with Beirut's powerful construction companies. 
Hezbollah is contented. Israel says thank you. Syria, for the first time in 
ages, is spoken to firmly, but this time without threats. Italy's head of 
government receives the Iranian delegation on the "nuclear question". France, 
Spain and Turkey follow behind and join up. On the Mediterranean front of the 
great conflict there is now the chance for a break in the war that nobody wants 
to win because it never ends. 
In fact, after half destroying Lebanon, Israel goes on destroying and spreading 
terror in Gaza and the West Bank, but announces that it is looking forward to 
the Palestinian factions forming a government of national unity that could be 
the precursor to a ceasefire. A ceasefire which would bear the guarantee of the 
very clever Nasrallah, who is busy trying to reconcile the image of national 
liberator with that one regret (for the consumption of all those who 
reprimanded him for having caused the disaster). 
So how long will it last? Maybe not very long - depending on the other fronts. 
It may also depend on a couple of questions (questions which lie behind the 
ongoing war) that have an audience on opposing sides and that are probably at 
the root of Italy's eagerness to be involved, in the name of the EU. 
First, the energy question. Within a few years, 3 pipelines bringing oil from 
Russian and the Caspian Sea will reach the Eastern Mediterranean (Turkey and 
Greece). "Peaceful" access to those terminals requires potential purchasers to 
agree with the local geopolitics. Israel has insured itself against local 
competition by destroying Lebanon, but Europe too, thirsty for oil and gas, is 
in the game. Italy's in Lebanon is a message to Algeria, which has made 
agreements with Gazprom (Russia); it is a message to Syria, which will be home 
to a Russian naval base in Tartus; it is also a message to Iran, which is 
seeking outlets to the west for its gas and for oil. European access to these 
energy resources and terminals, providing support for the USA but with a change 
of tactics on the Mediterranean front, military intervention in Lebanon along 
the lines of Bosnia and Kosovo, containing Russian expansionism: these are the 
goals of Italy's renewed enthusiasm for a central role within the dynamics of 
imperialism - one step up in the system of dependencies between world and 
regional powers. But only by hoping that Israel renounces the next slaughter. 
Then there is the security question. If there is one thing in the European 
Mediterranean and in the Near East that, propaganda and appearances aside, 
everyone agrees on - States, real or supposed national liberation movements, 
various military elites - it is the fear of Al-Qaeda (itself or by proxy) 
taking root in the Mediterranean with a consequent contamination à la Iraq. 
Europe fears it, Israel fears it, the regimes in power in Arab countries (all 
traitors in the eyes of Al-Qaeda) fear it, and above all it is feared by Hamas, 
who realise that they cannot prolong the crisis without running the risk of 
contamination and losing control of its own supporters. It is probably not a 
good idea even for Iran, which is seeking to impose its own "pax" as a regional 
power. 
But Italy has not developed an alternative to, nor has it districated itself 
from, US unilateralism. It has not given the UN any sort of boost, neither does 
it go any further to promote the much talked-about multilateralism. It is just 
that the never-ending trouble on the Afghan and Iraqi fronts demanded a break 
in hostilities on the Middle-Eastern front. That the showdown between the USA 
and Iran could not count on an adequate and approving audience. Hence this new 
opportunity for Italy's general. 
The mission in Lebanon will cost €160 million every six months, to be added to 
the €1,396 million for Kosovo, €155 million for Bosnia, €1,612 million for 
Afghanistan and €1,611 million for Iraq. Italy's economic recovery is going 
towards financing military expenditure rather than social expenditure. But what 
does the centre-left government care, given the "strategic" financial gains to 
be made? There is always Article 11 of the Constitution, which can be waved in 
an attempt to save face and consciences [1]. 
The anti-war movement which blossomed throughout Italy between 2003 and 2005 
has become bogged down with its former leaders busy in parliament or involved 
in political musical chairs between the various factions in the ruling 
coalition. Many are fooling themselves into believing that somehow our presenc

[osint] Bali blast recruiter killed in shootout

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20408790-5001561,00.html
 

Bali blast recruiter killed in shootout

Natalie O'Brien 
September 14, 2006

ONE of Australia's most wanted terrorists, who recruited the suicide bombers
to carry out the 2002 Bali bombings, has been killed in a shootout with
Filipino soldiers.

Umar Patek, a recruitment specialist for the Indonesian-based terror group
Jemaah Islamiah, died in a stronghold of the Philippines militant group Abu
Sayyaf. 
The group had been hiding Patek and his Bali bombing compatriot Dulmatin. 
Patek, who had a $US1million ($1.3million) bounty on his head, was killed
during the largest military offensive launched against Southeast Asian
terrorists hiding out in the region. 
The head of the Philippines security forces hunting the terrorists,
Brigadier General Juancho Sabban, said Patek "died from the wounds he
suffered" after forces attacked the Abu Sayyaf camp at Luba Hill in the
village of Barangay Tugas on the island of Jolo. 
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Keelty said last night the AFP
"is aware of the reports (of Patek's death) and is optimistic there might be
yet another breakthrough by the law enforcement and intelligence community
in the disruption and dismantling of terrorism networks in the region". 
The AFP has previously listed Patek, Dulmatin and the Bali bomb mastermind
Noordin Top as Australia's most wanted terrorists. 
The US Government has a $US10million bounty on Dulmatin's head, which is
surpassed only by the $US25million offered for Osama bin Laden. 
Late last week, soldiers stormed the Abu Sayyaf area and discovered
terrorist manuals and bomb parts in a sign the al-Qa'ida-linked militants
had been training and planning for future attacks. 
Some of the evidence uncovered included bullet-resistant camouflage vests,
bomb-making manuals and four compact discs containing letters and plans. 
They had been written in the Indonesian Bahasa language and were believed to
have been owned by Patek and Dulmatin. 
Security officers are translating the documents. 
Earlier this year, Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered the
military to crack down on terrorists in the south of the country and hunt
for Dulmatin, Patek and the head of the Abu Sayyaf group, Khadaffy
Janjalani, who were believed to be hiding out together. 
In the past fews weeks, the fighting has concentrated on the island of Jolo
and there have been reports that more than 40 militants and six soldiers had
been killed in clashes as they attempted to capture Janjalani and his
cohorts. 
Dulmatin and Patek fled to The Philippines after the 2002 Bali bombings to
avoid capture. 
They formed an alliance with Abu Sayyaf, a radical group listed as a
terrorist organisation by the US, and have been recruiting and training
terrorists sent from Indonesia to their training camps in the southern
Philippines. 
Both JI and Abu Sayyaf have been linked with bin Laden's al-Qa'ida network. 
Dulmatin, an electronics whiz, was a protege of master JI bomb-maker Azahari
Husin, who was killed in Indonesia late last year. He allegedly helped
assemble the bombs used at the Sari Club and Paddy's bar in the Bali
bombings that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians.


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[osint] Britain Rejects Sending Troops to Iran

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http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/13126
 
Britain Rejects Sending Troops to Iran
 
Many Britons believe their government should not participate in any military
effort against Iran, according to a poll by YouGov released by Sky News. 67
per cent of respondents think Britain should refuse to send troops if the
United States decides to take action against Iran. 
Britain committed troops to both the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and the
United States-led coalition effort in Iraq. In his address to the U.S.
Congress in September 2001, U.S. president George W. Bush declared, "America
has no truer friend than Great Britain."
After being branded as part of an "axis of evil" by Bush in January 2002,
Iran has contended that its nuclear program aims to produce energy, not
weapons. In June 2005, former Tehran mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won Iran's
presidential election in a run-off over Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with
61.6 per cent of all cast ballots.
In July, the five permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security
Council agreed on a resolution which calls for Iran to suspend uranium
enrichment before the end of August, or face the threat of sanctions. Iran
ignored the deadline.
On Sept. 11, British prime minister Tony Blair discussed the situation,
saying, "I think for a president of a country to say they want to wipe
another country off the face of the earth and at the same time he's trying
to acquire a nuclear weapons capability-if we don't get worried about that,
future historians will raise a few questions about us and our judgement."
Polling Data
If the United States decides to take military action against Iran, Iraq's
neighbour to the East, and asks for Britain to send troops to support the
American action, how should Britain's government respond?

Britain should agree to send troops
16%

Britain should refuse to send troops
67%

Don't know
18%
Source: YouGov / Sky News
Methodology: Online interviews with 2,131 British adults, conducted from
Sept. 4 to Sept. 7, 2006. No margin of error was provided.


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[osint] War on Terror: In It to Win It?

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http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,213663,00.html
 
War on Terror: In It to Win It?
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
By E.D. Hill
 

 
Yes, you heard it correctly: 190  
Taliban fighters were in sight of a U.S. drone when U.S. intelligence
officers were told they could not bomb them because they were standing in a
cemetery.
The fighters were gathered, close together, to attend a funeral, but soon
disbanded and quickly disappeared into the mountainsides. NBC News reports
that U.S. Army officers were blocked by the rules of engagement that forbid
a missile or bomb strike in a cemetery although, in Iraq, battles have
occurred in cemeteries before.
Keep in mind this order came as   NATO was
being asked to send in more troops to Afghanistan because the Taliban had
been regaining strength so quickly it had been able to take back the areas
it had been swept out of. Eliminating the Taliban has proved difficult,
largely, because it is nearly impossible to find them in their hideouts. A
large gathering like this appeared to be a gift until our military was told
it was a "no go." Are we fighting a war to win it or not? It sure feels like
our brave armed forces are being hamstrung.


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[osint] 6 Powers Can't Agree on Iran Statement

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http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/feeds/ap/2006/09/12/ap3012329.html
 
6 Powers Can't Agree on Iran Statement 
 
Six world powers abandoned attempts Tuesday to issue a joint statement
criticizing Iran's nuclear defiance after China and Russia refused to
endorse U.S.-backed tough language, diplomats said. 

The split, at a 35-nation meeting of the International Atomic Energy
Agency's board, reflected indecision on how to react to Tehran's weekend
suggestion that it might temporarily suspend uranium enrichment - but only
on its own terms. 

The White House dismissed the suggestion on Tuesday, saying "there's been no
change in the Iranian position." 

Russia and China have both signed off on U.N. sanctions as a way to punish
Iran for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment, which was first requested
and then demanded by the U.N. Security Council. Russia and China are both
permanent council members with veto power and part of the six-nation
coalition trying to pressure Tehran to give up enrichment. 

Both, however, have resisted U.S.-led efforts to move to sanctions quickly,
despite the expiration of an Aug. 31 deadline for Iran to freeze work on
developing the technology, which can be used to help make nuclear arms.
Instead, they favor continued negotiations with Tehran. 

Diplomats accredited to the IAEA, who demanded anonymity in exchange for
sharing confidential information with The Associated Press, said Iran's
readiness to consider a temporary enrichment freeze appears to have
exacerbated differences over U.N. sanctions. 

Iran's offer of a freeze for up to two months was unofficial and tentative,
made during weekend talks between European Union top foreign policy official
Javier Solana and senior Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani. It was
revealed by officials from delegations familiar with the outcome of those
talks. 

Expanding on the Iranian overture Tuesday, those same officials told AP that
Tehran was willing to freeze enrichment temporarily once it begins talks
with the six powers that are meant to defuse the nuclear crisis. The six are
formally demanding a stop to enrichment before such talks. 

The Bush administration on Tuesday dismissed suggestions that Iran might
suspend uranium enrichment for up to two months. 

"To the best of my knowledge there has been no Iranian proposal," State
Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said. "There's been no change in the
Iranian position." 

Casey said the Bush administration was proceeding with discussions with
other nations on pursuing sanctions against Iran in the U.N. Security
Council. 

He said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will take up the sanctions issue
with other diplomats attending the special session of the U.N. General
Assembly next week in New York. 

Casey's comments came a day after Rice left the door open to pursuing a
possible compromise with Iran, based on reports that Tehran had proposed a
temporary enrichment suspension. But Rice said she had not had a chance to
learn all the details of the Iranian suggestion. 

The IAEA's chief U.S. delegate, Gregory L. Schulte, said America welcomed
"the open channel" Solana had established, but emphasized that Iran had yet
to make a formal offer on freezing enrichment. 

"We would like very much to hear ... that Iran is suspending," Schulte told
AP. "But in the meantime, the intention is to move forward with the
(Security Council) sanctions package." 

Still, the failure of the six powers to come up with a common Iran statement
at the board meeting indicated that some preferred to wait on tough
punishment until Iran offered more details about its suggestion. 

The six-power talks are aimed at persuading Iran to agree to a long-term
moratorium on enrichment. But Tehran has said it would not give up its right
to the full range of nuclear technology and expertise, including enrichment,
which it says it needs to develop to meet future nuclear power needs. 

Tehran's readiness to consider even a temporary pause is significant because
it could de-escalate the nuclear standoff if the six powers agree that
Iran's terms on enrichment and other conditions are acceptable for a start
to negotiations. 

Iran's oil minister, Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, told reporters at an OPEC
conference in Vienna on Tuesday that progress in talks between Iran and the
EU had eased the crisis. 

"Many points are now clear," Hamaneh said. "I don't see a standoff" any
longer. 

The United States has led the drive to haul Iran before the Security Council
to face economic or other sanctions if it does not roll back its nuclear
program. Slow diplomatic work to do that began after Iran missed the Aug. 31
deadline. 

The West, and the U.S. in particular, says that pause is essential to
prevent Iran from gaining ground toward a weapon if that is its hidden aim.
Iran voluntarily did suspend uranium activities during two years of
negotiations with European nations, but those talks fell apart last year. 

The latest offer, with t

[osint] DOJ Meth Webcast And Satellite Broadcast

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=9

&id=32321
 

DOJ Meth Webcast And Satellite Broadcast


Centers on localized partnerships

Posted: August 24th, 2006 01:47 PM EDT
GRETA MENARD
Concepts, Inc.
WASHINGTON, DC (August 23, 2006) - On August 22, several thousand
individuals from across the nation tuned in to view a free public webcast
and satellite broadcast addressing methamphetamine prevention in our
nation's communities. Jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice's
(DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), the Drug
Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America
(PDFA), the broadcast featured a panel of law enforcement and drug
prevention specialists who discussed the importance of community
partnerships and prevention in the nation's fight against the meth epidemic.
Individuals who missed the live broadcast can view an archived video of the
program or read a text transcript by visiting DOJConnect.com
 . 
In a taped message, U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales opened the
broadcast by highlighting DOJ's heightened focus on combating illegal drugs
like methamphetamine. "With the passage of the Combat Meth Act, which
President Bush signed into law in March, we now have additional tools for
targeting meth traffickers," said Attorney General Gonzales. "We all share
the responsibility to work together on this issue until we ensure a bright,
successful and drug-free future for our children and grandchildren," he
said. 
Following this introduction, panel moderator Les Witmer led two round table
discussions about meth prevention strategies and best practices for
approaching them. 
Experts on the initial panel discussed the law enforcement challenges that
are inherent in the fight against meth. 
"Meth is an insidiously addictive drug with a lot of tentacles," said Dr.
Ronald Glensor, Deputy Chief with the Reno, Nevada Police Department. "It
does not lend itself to traditional street enforcement. Rather, it lends
itself well to community partnerships and problem solving." 
Panelists cited Meth 360 - a PDFA program funded by COPS - as a strategy for
success. Piloted in several markets nationwide, this approach leverages
grass roots educational presentations delivered by teams comprised of
prevention, law enforcement and treatment representatives. 
"We call it Meth 360 because meth comes at you from all directions and
affects the whole community," said Michael Townsend, Executive Vice
President and Director of the Methamphetamine Demand Reduction Program of
the PDFA. "It's important that everyone get involved at the local community
level to give everyone a 360 degree view of the problem." 
Another cited best practice was the SARA Model, which involves Scanning,
Analysis, Response and Assessment. Communities can use this model as a tool
to identify local law enforcement problems and formulate tailored responses.
Because it focuses heavily on the planning and assessment process, it forces
communities to be strategic before diving into action. 
"At each stage of the SARA Model, you're better off because of a
partnership," said Paul Evenson, Project Evaluator for the Kansas
Methamphetamine Prevention Project. "You're better off with more people,
more sources of data and more points of view from people who understand. And
at each step, a partnership can do more than any small group of people or
one agency could ever hope to do." 
Assembling the right team can mean leveraging existing organizations and
partnerships, according to Nina Manganaris, Coalition Coordinator for the
Prince William Health Partnership Authority in Northern Virginia. "In our
community, we looked at the whole spectrum," she said. "Not just formal
government agencies or formal treatment agencies, but our hospitals, our
schools, PTAs to reach the parents and faith-based [organizations]. We're
trying to be as comprehensive in our scanning of our community as we can,
trying to identify the best points to connect with and educate people." 
Evenson underscored the power of the Meth 360 approach and encouraged state
and local communities to start building partnerships now, even if all the
players aren't in place. "At the very least, make sure you have law
enforcement involved, make sure you have treatment involved and make sure
you have prevention involved," said Evenson. "Start with those key partners,
and it will snowball from there." 
The second panel focused its discussion on partnerships for interdiction and
clandestine meth lab identification. 
"Labs are one of the threats that come with methamphetamine," said Glensor,
who advised communities to partner not only with treatment and prevention
groups, but with fire departments, hazardous materials teams and
environmental protection agencies. Additionally, motel owners, business
owners and managers of storage facilities can he

[osint] AQ Cells Tracked in Palestinian Territories

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,436824,00.html 
Terror Cells Tracked in Palestinian Territories 
Intelligence officials in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are
tracking active al-Qaida cells in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. 
Five years after the September 11 attacks in the United States, Osama bin
Laden's terrorist network now has expanded its tentacles deep into the
Palestinian territories. Both the Palestianian and Israeli intelligence
services report that terrorist cells with connections to al-Qaida have been
established. "We have evidence of a Qaida presence in the Gaza Strip and the
West Bank," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently conceded. Jordan's
King Abdullah II, whose secret service has solid West Bank intelligence, has
also confirmed activity within the terror cells. And in Israel, six
Palestinians from a refugee camp will soon be brought to trial on charges
that they are members of the al-Qaida network. 
The lion's share of the al-Qaida sympathizers are young Palestinians who
have visited Koran schools in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia or Yemen. Foreign
al-Qaida agents then recruit the fanatics after they return home to the
Palestinian-controlled areas. Bin Laden's agents are believed to be
infiltrating the Palestinian areas through the border between Egypt and the
Gaza Strip at Rafah, the only border check-point that is controlled solely
by the Palestinians. European Union border patrols are also stationed at
Rafah, but they only have observer status and can do little to stop the
problem.
 
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[osint] Use 12,000 troops to guard Canadian border, U.S. urged

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Use 12,000 troops to guard Canadian border, U.S. urged

ALAN FREEMAN 
>From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
WASHINGTON — A task force appointed by a Republican congressman from Georgia
has recommended that at least 12,000 National Guard troops and additional
agents be deployed on the U.S.-Canada border to halt what it fears is a
growing flow of illegal immigrants.
"We're talking about tens of thousands of illegal immigrants a year coming
from Canada," said John Stone, deputy chief of staff to Charlie Norwood -- a
Republican who is active in the immigration reform caucus, which is pushing
for tough measures to stop illegal immigration, particularly from Mexico.
Mr. Stone and four retired military and border-patrol officials named by Mr.
Norwood have recommended the deployment of 8,000 National Guard soldiers to
secure the border with Canada, including round-the-clock surveillance of
1,000 hard-surface roads crossing the border that are currently not
patrolled.
In a 22-page report, the task force says that these unmanned roads
"currently provide . . . quick exit for intruders."  
"Closure of these crossings would turn the time factor back in favour of
U.S. and Canadian authorities."
It also recommends deploying 1,600 Coast Guard and other naval reserves and
400 patrol craft to secure coastal and inland waterways, plus 160 aircraft
and 1,280 Air National Guard for increased air surveillance. It recommends
adding 1,000 U.S. Border Patrol agents, plus a 25-per-cent boost in the
number of customs personnel.
The report includes photographs of unmanned border points in the woods and
complains that "some roads actually cross the border with no obstacles or
checkpoints." Describing an unmanned road on the New York border with
Canada, it says "the only obstacle to crossing at the first inspection point
was a three-foot ditch and some boulders placed on the old roadway. The
crossing was monitored by sensors on both sides of the boundary, but a
simple hike through the woods 100 yards in either direction would avoid
them."
It quotes a sheriff from Jefferson County in upstate New York as saying that
"the normal encounter of aliens is from Islamic groups going from Canada to
southern New York as well as some Russian groups going through the county
stealing air bags from vehicles."
The group acknowledges that the scale of the Canadian problem is tiny
compared with the massive influx of undocumented workers across the southern
border, but says there is still reason to worry.
In an interview, Mr. Stone said a "large percentage" of those trying to
enter the United States from Canada illegally are "Middle Easterners," plus
Chinese, Thais and Pakistanis.
"We can't overlook the northern border because it has been overlooked in the
past," said Mr. Stone, saying he fears a displacement of illegal activity to
Canada if there's a crackdown on the Mexican frontier.
Mr. Stone was vague when asked about his assertion that tens of thousands of
illegal immigrants cross from Canada every year, saying the figure comes
from officials he has met on both sides of the border.
According to a statement last month by U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, there have been 4,011 apprehensions along the U.S.-Canadian
border this year, down 19 per cent from the same period in 2005. The service
intercepts more than 200 fraudulent documents, arrests more than 60 people
and refuses entry to hundreds of non-citizens every day, it said.
A task-force panel that met Canadian officials and toured border points in
New York, Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire praised Ottawa's "honest and
vigorous effort" to secure the frontier.
"This good-neighbour policy stands in stark contrast to the hostile acts of
the government of Mexico against the immigration laws of the United States,"
the report says. It praises RCMP co-operation but says border-patrol agents
in New Hampshire, which borders Quebec, complained that the Sûreté du
Québec, though not actively antagonistic, is "not reported co-operative."
There is also concern that Canadian and U.S. enforcement agencies operate on
different bandwidths, making car-to-car communication between border
authorities "very difficult."
As for the cost of a northern deployment, Mr. Stone guessed between
$700-million and $800-million -- a fraction of the $2.5-billion (U.S.) cost
of deploying 36,000 National Guard troops to the Mexican frontier.
He said he hopes some of the panel's recommendations will end up in
border-security legislation that may pass Congress later this month, before
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[osint] Pope lashes evil of jihad

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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20408318-663,00.html
 
Pope lashes evil of jihad
POPE Benedict has hit out at Islam and its concept of holy war during a
visit to his Bavarian homeland.
The thinly veiled attack on extremist Islam's justification for terrorism
came during a theological lecture to staff and students at the University of
Regensburg, where the former Joseph Ratzinger taught theology in the 1970s. 
Using the words, "jihad" and "holy war", the Pope quoted criticisms of the
prophet Mohammed by a 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor, Manuel II,
during a debate with a learned Persian. 
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the
faith he preached," Benedict quoted the emperor as saying. 
"The emperor goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the
faith through violence is something unreasonable," the Pope said. 
"Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the
soul," he added. 
But in reiterating his concerns about a modern world "deaf" to God, he
warned that other religious cultures saw the West's exclusion of God "as an
attack on their most profound convictions". 
"A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the
realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of
cultures," he said. 
Though the section of the lecture dealing with Islam was relatively short,
its inclusion made his address at Regensburg the most political of the
German pope's six-day visit. 
Presiding later over an ecumenical prayer meeting with Orthodox Christian
and Protestant leaders, the Pope led prayers for the success of discussions
with other churches aimed at uniting Christians. 
At an earlier giant open-air mass attended by some 250,000 pilgrims, the
Pope urged them to stand up for their beliefs in the face of the "hatred and
fanaticism" tarnishing religion. 
"Today, when we have learned to recognise the pathologies and
life-threatening diseases associated with religion and reason, and the ways
that God's image can be destroyed by hatred and fanaticism, it is important
to state clearly the God in whom we believe," the Pope said. 
"Only this God saves us from being afraid of the world and from anxiety
before the emptiness of life." 


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[osint] Video shows (exposes) US anti-terror techniques

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/new_us_governme.html 
Exclusive: New U.S. Government Videotape Simulates Terrorist Attacks 
September 12, 2006 7:41 PM 
Brian Ross and Asa Eslocker Report: 
ABC News has obtained videotapes of dramatic U.S. government field tests of
new methods to thwart terrorist attacks against U.S. embassies abroad.
In the videotape tests, government scientists stage real terror attacks --
slamming trucks at high speed into barriers and exploding bombs near
buildings. 
Multiple camera angles capture the blasts' effects on test dummies, posing
as diplomats seated at their desks. 
The U.S. Department of State spends $2 million a year to develop better
boundary security equipment against such potential assaults.  
The tape also shows the results of tests of promising new technology to
protect lives. 
Here, removable bollards, or waist-high concrete posts used in driveways,
resist the impact and the slow motion video shows the strength of the new
materials being tested at a 50mph collision with a two-ton truck. 
Watch the collision in slow motion:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426306 
Watch the collision in real time:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426337 
Large, flat bed diesel trucks loaded with barrels and traveling between 50
and 60mph were used in these "anti-ram" tests.  
Watch the "anti-ram" tests:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426388 
An incredibly strong "super fence" proves to be a formidable barrier against
this truck traveling at 50mph. 
Watch the truck's collision with the super fence:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426418 
An armored steel beam is the barricade in this video. 
Watch the collision with the armored steel beam:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426451 
And in the case of a larger explosion, new technologies in wall, door and
window protection are in development against terrorist attacks as well. Wall
fabrics and polycarb window retentions prevent shrapnel and shattered glass
from entering the building, while armored and reinforced doors and walls
absorb much of the explosion without collapsing.
Watch how shrapnel does not penetrate the wall fabric:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426479 
Watch how the reinforced doors and walls stay standing during the explosion:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426515
One of the new products being tested is a thermoplastic window curtain
designed to protect embassy employees sitting at their desks from blown out
windows. More than 200 people were killed by flying glass when terrorists
bombed the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998.
Watch how blown out windows have affected embassy employees in the past:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426578
Finally, repeated blows by sledgehammers barely dent this armored window. 
Watch how the sledgehammers fail to damage the armored window:
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2426550 
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[osint] Poland to boost Nato Afghan force

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Poland to boost Nato Afghan force 
Poland has announced it will send 1,000 troops to Afghanistan next year as
part of the Nato peacekeeping force there. 
They will join 100 Polish soldiers already on the ground in Afghanistan, but
will not arrive until February. 
The announcement comes after Nato generals met on Wednesday to demand an
extra 2,500 troops for the operation in southern Afghanistan. 
Nato forces in the south are facing mounting casualties as they engage in
fierce fighting with the Taleban. 
There are at least 18,500 foreign, mainly Nato soldiers in Afghanistan in
addition to about the same number of US troops deployed. 
Half of them are in the south where Canadian and British forces are sharing
the burden with US aircraft support and special forces on the ground. 
Maintaining momentum 
The Nato commanders wanted a battalion of troops to make up a reserve force
in Afghanistan - a battle group which could be moved around as required to
help take more of an offensive against the Taleban, the BBC's Alastair
Leithead in Kabul said. 

 
Poland understands that Nato will have to be more active in Afghanistan. We
are well aware of that, and that is why we decided to increase the size of
the force 
Defence Ministry spokesman Leszek Laszczak 
The fighting in southern Afghanistan continues to be intense and commanders
there wanted reinforcements almost immediately to keep the momentum of their
operations going and to help their mission, which they admit is stretched. 
"We know this will be a dangerous operation," defence ministry spokesman
Leszek Laszczak said when announcing the extra troops. 
"Poland understands that Nato will have to be more active in Afghanistan. We
are well aware of that, and that is why we decided to increase the size of
the force," Mr Laszczak added. 
According to Defence Minister Radoslaw Sikorski the Polish troops will
primarily take part in operations in the east of Afghanistan. 
Iraq question 
Poland is a staunch ally of the United States and it currently has about 900
soldiers in Iraq, leading a multinational force south of Baghdad. 

 
ISAF TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN 
Total Isaf troops - 18,500 
Contributing nations - 37 
Isaf - International Security Assistance Force 
*A further 18,000 non-Isaf, US-led troops also in country 




Mr Sikorski insists that even though Poland has indicated that it is set to
reduce its troop numbers in Iraq, this further deployment to Afghanistan
does not mean Poland is quitting Iraq. 
"No decision has been made on that," Mr Sikorski said. 
The announcement comes while Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is on
a three-day visit to the US, which included a brief meeting with President
George W Bush on Wednesday. 
However, since the Polish troops will not be arriving until February, our
Kabul correspondent says pressure will continue to be put on countries
already supplying significant forces to Afghanistan, but which lack the
political will to join the fighting in the south. 
Aircraft, both fixed-wing and helicopters, are also an essential part of the
reinforcements which the Nato supreme commander has asked nations to
contribute. 
The International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) needs to be seen to be
winning the war against the Taleban before the onset of winter, when the
fighting will slow down, our correspondent says. But without the extra
troops they wanted straightaway, that could be more difficult. 
Story from BBC NEWS:
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[osint] Pakistan Expert Discusses Powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban Network

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/09/pakistan_expert_finds_powerful.php


Pakistan Expert Discusses Powerful Al Qaeda-Taliban Network in Waziristan


By Andrew Cochran

One of the premier experts in Washington on Pakistan,
 Alexis Debat of the   Nixon Center and
 ABC News, traveled again to Pakistan
last month and gave a briefing yesterday to invitees. Alexis is a daily CTB
reader, and we've traded valuable background information and timely
intelligence. He met there with numerous government officials and
non-governmental personnel, including those in league with the terrorists.
His findings and conclusions are extremely troubling, not only for the
future of Pakistan but also for the future of a democracy in Afghanistan.
It's difficult for me to imagine either country's continuing to serve as an
ally with us against Islamic terrorism given the near-permanent Al
Qaeda-based network in the Pak western provinces, especially after the
recent "peace agreement" between the militants and the Musharraf government.
Alexis provided two charts of the Al Qaeda support network, linked below. I
invite your comments and counterpoints, and please consider, as Alexis
pointed out yesterday, the questionable reliability of some of the
information he received (a daily risk in this business). Here are some of
his main points which he invited me to post:
● Al Qaeda is not just an ideology or label in Pakistan, but a live
organization with deep roots in Pakistani civil society. They've reorganized
brilliantly in Waziristan with financial assistance and personnel from
outside the country.
● Osama Bin Laden doesn't move often and is well protected. Ayman
al-Zawahiri is assumed to operate within a 40 square kilometer area between
Kunar in Afghanistan and Bajaur in Pakistan, is personally involved in all
operations, and is therefore more vulnerable. OBL and Zawahiri communicate
often through couriers, which takes up to 8 weeks and is vulnerable to
Pakistani intelligence and law enforcement (top operative al-Libi was caught
there thanks to the capture of an Al Qaeda courier). Matiur Rehman, whose
leadership role in Al Qaeda was announced in
 a report
by Alexis for ABC News, has been involved in every major Al Qaeda plot in
Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks. (My note: Alexis is not convinced that the
Pakistanis have him in custody, and
 ABC News
report of Rehman's capture on August 17 was not based on his reporting.)
● The Al Qaeda support groups in
 Pakistan and
 Kashmir (Word files) provide protection, muscle, and logistical support.
Protection: The clerics in Waziristan have overtaken the tribal leaders in
authority by acquiring more guns and money, and Al-Zawahiri is protected by
the tribes and clerics and married into the local tribe. Muscle: The clerics
recruit from the thousands of madrassas in Pakistan. Alexis heard of
considerable sexual abuse in the madrassas, which is then exploited in the
recruitment phase. The Musharraf government has made an effort to register
the madrassas, but with no impact thus far on the recruitment dynamics. The
local Taliban provide sanctuary to Al Qaeda, and other groups have come
together in the past year as indicated in the charts. The "peace agreement"
protects the local Taliban there, and the stipulation in that agreement that
the Taliban turn over foreigners cannot and will not be enforced. Logistics:
Al Qaeda now has links to numerous institutions and political parties in
Pakistan, assiduously built over the past two years, which have been
exploited to assist Al Qaeda and the local Taliban. Alexis believes that
some of those parties are not inherently anti-American might be amenable to
discussions with the U.S.. Alexis had no information on the extent of
foreign financial support for Al Qaeda in Waziristan or the primary country
of origin of the outside funds.
● Musharraf is weaker than ever. He is slowly losing the military, his best
ally, as indicated in the killing of
 Baluch tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti on August 26, which Alexis
believes was done without Musharraf's orders. Other elites in Pakistan,
including lower levels of the ISI (Pakistani intel) are also turning against
him and the U.S., for a variety of reasons (more detailed than needed for
this post). This also raises concerns over the control of Pakistani nuclear
weapons. The timing of the recent North Waziristan "peace agreement" was
probably purposeful and further highlights Musharraf's weakness.
● 50 Pakistani m

[osint] News Flash: Pope Still Catholic

[Bruce Tefft]

 
 
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/184628.php
 

September 13, 2006


News Flash: Pope Still Catholic

It always amazes me when some people become concerned or alarmed when the
Pope says anything critical of another religion. It's almost as if they
expect religious leaders to not really believe that they have the truth and
that the other guys are wrong.
We'll see how much flack the Pope gets for this statement, even if he was
quoting another source. NY Times: 
He began his speech, which ran over half an hour, by quoting a 14th-century
Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologus, in a conversation with a "learned
Persian" on Christianity and Islam - "and the truth of both." 
"Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread the sword by the
faith he preached," the pope quoted the emperor, in a speech to 1,500
students and faculty.
He went on to say that violent conversion to Islam was contrary to reason
and thus "contrary to God's nature." 
And look at some of the reactions: 
Several experts on the Catholic Church and Islam agreed that the speech - in
which Benedict made clear he was quoting other sources on Islam - did not
appear to be a major statement on, or condemnation of, Islam. 
Not a major one, just a minor one. 
Still, they said that the strong words he used in describing Islam, even
that of the 14th century, ran the risk of offense.
Wouldn't want to offend those Muslims. Those guys are loco esse. However, no
word yet on whether the Pope's stance on Protestantism might be offensive
to, you know, Protestants. 
"Certainly he closes the door to an idea which was very dear to John Paul II
- the idea that Christians, Jews and Muslims have the same God and have to
pray together to the same God," [Marco Politi, the Vatican expert for the
Italian newspaper La Repubblica ] said. 
I love how a simple statement about the wrongness of forced conversions and
the silliness of citing Islam as the source for unique ideas now becomes we
don't worship the same God. 
At the end of that summer, he devoted an annual weekend of study with former
graduate students to Islam. In that meeting, and since, he has reportedly
expressed skepticism about Islam's openness to change, given its view of the
Koran as the unchangeable word of God. 
The shock! The horror! The eye-clawing madness of learning that the Pope is
not a Unitarian-Universalist minister!


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[osint] A Profile of Iraq's Rising Shiite Leader

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370129
 

Mahmud al-Hasani: A Profile of Iraq's Rising Shiite Leader
By   Sami Moubayed
The Arabic-language website of the Grand Ayatollah Mahmud al-Hasani, the
rising Shiite leader of Iraq, speaks volumes about the man making headlines
in Iraq and challenging the cleric-turned rebel Muqtada al-Sadr. All that is
known about him is that he is anti-American, anti-Iranian, anti-Sunni and at
odds with most of the Shiite community as well. Many of the facts for this
article were collected from the abundant information posted on al-Hasani's
website (http://www.alhasany.net) and from Arabic articles written on the
internet by his supporters or insiders in the Iraqi Shiite community [1].
Al-Hasani's name first began appearing in the Western press in June, when
his supporters stormed the Iranian Consulate in Basra protesting a talk-show
that was aired on the Iranian TV channel al-Kawthar criticizing Ayatollah
al-Hasani. His men burned down parts of the Iranian Consulate, then took
down the Iranian flag and replaced it with an Iraqi one, demonstrating their
anti-Iranian credentials.

Al-Hasani's website carries a photograph of him with light shining from his
face, as if he were blessed by a holy spirit. Each time his name is
mentioned, the phrase "May God Preserve his Shadow" is found and so is "Wali
Amr al-Muslimeen" (in charge of the Muslim ummah). It dates his ancestry
back to Imam Ali, the icon of the Shiite faith in Islam. Al-Hasani grew up
under the influence of his father, an educated man who surprisingly was not
a cleric but rather a practicing lawyer and then judge in al-Kazimiyah. Born
in 1960, Mahmud al-Hasani studied civil engineering at Baghdad University
and graduated in 1987. In 1994, he joined the al-Hawza seminary to study
Islam at the hands of the veteran Shiite scholar Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr.
This is where he first met al-Sadr's son Muqtada, and the two men became
friends, sharing a fierce hatred for Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Although
al-Hasani has since developed great disrespect for all scholars at al-Hawza,
he continues to revere the elder al-Sadr until this day, referring to him as
"leader of the majestic awakening of the Iraqis." 

In 1999, the elder al-Sadr was assassinated by agents of Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein. Freed from his master's guidance and influence, al-Hasani
began charting out his own religious career and promoting himself as the new
grand ayatollah of Shiite Islam. He was a prolific writer, authoring many
books and articles on religious science and sending them to be critiqued at
al-Hawza. Not many veteran scholars took him seriously, seeing him too young
to master Shiite Islam. This infuriated him and led him to challenge all the
authorities of the Shiite faith, claiming that he was the finest, most
knowledgeable Shiite cleric in the Muslim world. He claimed that he was more
of an authority on Shiite Islam than Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani of Iraq and
the Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran, two towering and unchallenged
religious authorities. The Shiite community was dubious and they continued
to ignore his writings and lectures during the years 1999-2003.

This is where reality and fiction became blurred in the life of Mahmud
al-Hasani. Highly egocentric, he started to see himself in a divine manner,
unchallenged by mortals. He claimed that fearing his authority and
education, the scholars at al-Hawza went mad. They cut off the salaries of
his supporters, burned his books and said that he was a "lunatic" and a
"thief." Speaking about himself, al-Hasani says that he is the "only real
danger to al-Hawza" because he unmasks their "fraud." The high criticism
that he has had of al-Hawza earned him many enemies among the Shiites. This
was increased when he began criticizing Iran after the Anglo-American War in
March 2003, claiming that the mullahs of Tehran were interfering in the
day-to-day affairs of Iraq. He was also very critical of all politicians who
were allied to Iran, such as former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and
Abdul Aziz al-Hakim of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq
(SCIRI). 

This again is where he found common ground with Muqtada al-Sadr. Both were
opposed to Iranian interference in Iraqi affairs. Also, both wanted to
create an Iran-style theocracy in Baghdad, yet independent of Iranian
influence. Both were also Arab nationalists at heart, refusing to partition
Iraq and create an autonomous Shiite region in the south, as demanded by
some Iranians, Hakim and SCIRI. His anti-Iranian stance (which is uncommon
for Shiites) along with his dislike for al-Hawza made many in Iraq say that
Mahmud al-Hasani is "made in America" to discredit both the scholars of the
Shiite community and their backers in Tehran. 

Shortly before the war of 2003, al-Hasani was arrested by Saddam Hussein for
his views. He was sentenced to death but

[osint] Cartoon jihad

[Bruce Tefft]

 
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/12/cartoon-jihad-iran-shutters-reformist-
newspaper-over-subversive-sketch/
 

Cartoon jihad: Iran shutters reformist newspaper over subversive sketch


 

It's been said before but bears repeating: everything the left thinks Bush
is, the mullahs actually
  are.
 
 sharq.jpg
The donkey's mouth is open and there is some light around it. Journalists
say judicial officials apparently took the donkey as representing Iran in
nuclear negotiations with the West. Donkeys in Iranian culture represents
[sic] a man who is unintelligent.
The Danish paper Dagbladet Information published
  six of
the Iranian Holocaust cartoons this week. Jyllands-Posten, which ran the
Mohammed cartoons, hasn't followed suit. I'm not sure why since (a) no one
would mind, and (b) not doing so leaves them wide open to a charge of
hypocrisy. But perhaps that's the point: to publish nonsense just to show
you're willing to publish it is an awfully feeble principle to stand on. And
since Iran gives not a shinola about free speech anyway, what would
publishing the cartoons prove to them? Worrying too much about what they
think of us is how we ended up building an ergonomic
  chair for Osama.
The full gallery of Iranian cartoons is here
 . It's every inch the
Muslim pity party you'd expect it to be. And here's the response: a (much
smaller) gallery of Holocaust cartoons drawn
  by Israelis as part of a contest designed to prove that Jews
can face their demons in a way the infantilizing Palestinian victim industry
can't. Compare this
  entry in the Israeli contest from
February to this Iranian
  entry from late
summer; even their attempts at anti-semitism are banal and predictable.
The best entry from either contest? This
  one, of course:
jewish-mohammed.jpg
Elsewhere: one of our friends in Palestine says he wishes every
  day was 9/11;
Israel enlists someone whose moral authority isn't quite as absolute as
Cindy Sheehan's to help get Iran
  kicked out of
the UN; and Khatami learns the hard way that there are many
  weapons in the Zionist arsenal, guns and bombs being the
least of them. 


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[osint] 'Grenade' perfume evacuates terminal

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20403685-1702,00.html
 

'Grenade' perfume evacuates terminal

>From correspondents in New York 
September 13, 2006

NEW York transport authorities shut down part of the city's main bus
terminal after someone spotted an object that resembled a hand grenade but
was in fact a bottle of perfume.

Half of the terminal was evacuated at 11:00am yesterday (0100 AEST today)
and reopened just over an hour later, a spokesman said, with normal services
resuming shortly afterward.
"They discovered a suspicious package, which turned out to be a bottle of
perfume," Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Tony
Ciavolella said. The item was found sitting on a plastic bag in a public
area.
Officials evacuated one of New York's biggest stations over a security alert
on Monday, just minutes before commemorations began for the fifth
anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
In a fresh reminder of the constantly elevated state of security in the
city, passengers and staff at Pennsylvania Station, New York City's main
intercity railway station, were ordered out of the building after a
suspicious bag was found, officials said.
One of the legacies of the September 11 attacks and the ensuing "war on
terror" has been the constant state of heightened security, notably in the
air travel industry and in communal areas.
Frequent false alarms result in passenger planes being diverted and public
spaces being evacuated on a regular basis. 


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[osint] Cell phone makers fight overseas resales

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.readingeagle.com/re/business/1567021.asp
 
Cell phone makers fight overseas resales 
Authorities worry that profits could be funding terrorism
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins 
The Associated Press
 
Updated: 2:43 p.m. ET Sept 11, 2006
COLUMBUS, Ohio - People moving state to state, armed with cash and tricks to
avoid scrutiny, are buying cheap prepaid mobile phones by the thousands with
plans to sell them in Latin America and Hong Kong.
Cell phone companies say the practice is costing them millions of dollars,
and some have hired private investigators to document what they say is
illegal tampering with their phones. Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and other
retailers are limiting how many phones they will sell at one time.
The buying has raised concerns the phones might be used to aid terrorism,
though those in the trade say it's nothing but capitalism at its best - no
different than reselling stock for more than you paid.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Homeland Security
issued nationwide bulletins earlier this year warning police to be on the
lookout for bulk purchases of cell phones. Authorities are worried that
profits from the trade could end up financing terrorism or that the phones
could be used as detonators in attacks.
The practice - at the center of court cases in Florida, Ohio and Michigan -
appears widespread and in no danger of subsiding soon. Participants in the
trade don't appear very bashful.
"Don't leave a phone behind. To make real money buy them all," urged an
e-mail by Larry Riedeman of Larry's Cell in Altamonte Springs, Fla., that
was included in a lawsuit against that entity by TracFone Wireless Inc.
"Thousands a day if you can!"
Riedeman and other small companies are considered the middlemen in a system
that starts with buyers snapping up phones at retailers such as Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. and ends with resale of the phones overseas.
In Ohio, two men acknowledged last month to authorities that they had
delivered 600 TracFones to a middleman over three months.
Also in August, three Dallas men briefly charged in Michigan with
trafficking counterfeited goods told the FBI that several businesses in
Texas buy telephones "from hundreds of people like themselves," according to
an FBI filing in that case. The phones are then sold to middlemen in
California, New York or Miami.
Another buyer, Bilal Mustafa, 22, of Minneapolis, told The Associated Press
he travels around the Midwest a week at a time in search of phones. He and a
buddy will buy four to six at once at small-town department stores, as many
as 250 a day.
Buyers scoff at accusations
Mustafa sells them to a cell phone business he wouldn't identify. He says
he's doing nothing illegal and scoffs at FBI concerns that the practice
could aid terrorists.
"If it did, I wouldn't do it," said Mustafa, a Palestinian immigrant from
the West Bank. "I'm not stupid."
Purchasing cell phones in bulk is not illegal and authorities haven't had
much luck trying to prosecute the buyers. Earlier this week, a federal judge
threw out the charges against the men in the Michigan case, saying there
wasn't enough evidence to take the case to trial.
The Michigan charges alleged that by removing the cell phones from their
original packaging, the men made it easier to repackage the phones with
counterfeit trademarks in violation of federal copyright law.
The men arrested in Ohio in August face a low-level charge of giving
misleading information to police, including changing their story about why
they had so many cell phones when they were first stopped.
Terrorism charges were leveled in both cases but quickly dropped.
The middlemen indicate an apparently insatiable hunger for the phones, with
profits in some cases of 100 percent for a handset that retails for as
little as $20.
The phones are so cheap because TracFone and other providers of prepaid
cellular service sell them at a loss to create a market for their real
profit maker, selling customers more call time.
For example, a Nokia 1100 - one of the phones referenced in TracFone's
lawsuit against Larry's Cell - was being sold in stores for about $20 a
phone. However, it probably cost TracFone about $25 per phone wholesale,
said Paul Sagawa, an industry analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New
York.
The Dallas men arrested in Michigan said they had spent $20,000 on phones
within just a few days.
The Riedeman e-mails promise earnings of $10,000 a month for aggressive
buyers. Riedeman offered bonuses to such suppliers, from $120 to anyone
bringing in 400 phones a month to $2,000 for someone buying 2,000 a month,
according to court documents.
Mustafa wouldn't say how much he earns on each $20 phone but said it's a
reasonable profit.
"I don't think I'll make a million bucks," he said. "Just enough to take
care of my car, my gas, a hotel and make a little money."
Buyers - often young men - pay cash, frequently making purchases in the
middle of the night to avoid scrutiny and to skirt store sales lim

[osint] On Another Grim Day, Bodies Lie Everywhere in Baghdad

[Bruce Tefft]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/middleeast/14iraq.html?_r=1&hp&ex=11
58206400&en=7d2bd3ea22a49966&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin 

On Another Grim Day, Bodies Lie Everywhere in Baghdad 

By
 RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
New York Times
September 14, 2006
BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 - Nearly 90 Iraqis were killed or found dead here on
Tuesday and Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official said, making for a
particularly grim day even amid the intense sectarian violence. 
At least 60 bodies were found throughout Baghdad between 6 a.m. Tuesday and
6 a.m. Wednesday, the ministry official said. Forty victims were unknown; 20
were identified. 
Nearly all were shot in the head, had clear signs of torture, or were
blindfolded, bound or gagged, and most were discovered in neighborhoods of
western Baghdad with heavy Sunni Arab populations, he said. The other deaths
reported by the ministry were in bombings and other attacks on Wednesday. 
American military officials, who have been more aggressive in challenging
body counts if they consider them inaccurate, disputed the number found,
saying the actual number was roughly half what the ministry had reported. 
According to the Baghdad morgue, whose statistics often prove to be higher
than figures reported by news services or the Interior Ministry, the bodies
of 1,535 victims of violent deaths, an average of 50 a day, were received in
August. In July, the average was 60 a day. A recent study of civilian deaths
by the
 United Nations found that by June, Iraqis
across the country were being killed at a rate of more than 100 a day.
As the Iraqi police gathered up the bodies, several car bombs rocked
Baghdad, killing or wounding dozens more. Among the attacks was a bomb that
detonated shortly after 9 a.m. in southern Baghdad, killing 15 people,
including 7 Iraqi police officers, and wounding 25 police officers and
civilians, an American military spokeswoman said.
The Interior Ministry also said a bomb planted in an unattended car near a
police station in eastern Baghdad exploded about 11:30 a.m., killing eight
policemen and wounding 19 civilians.
The United States military also said two American soldiers had been killed.
One died Monday from wounds sustained in fighting in Anbar Province, the
largely insurgent-controlled region west of Baghdad. Another was killed
Tuesday south of Baghdad when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
In the capital's heavily fortified Green Zone, a prosecutor in the genocide
trial of
 Saddam Hussein demanded Wednesday that the judge
be removed for showing bias toward the former dictator and for letting him
harangue witnesses. 
Mr. Hussein is on trial for his role in the so-called Anfal military
campaign in 1988 against Kurdish villages in northeastern
 Iraq. He and his co-defendants are accused of
genocide in the killing at least 50,000 Kurds, including many in chemical
weapon strikes. 
He was tried earlier this year in the killing of 148 men and boys in 1982 in
a Shiite village, Dujail, but that verdict is not expected for another month
or two.
During the court session on Tuesday, Mr. Hussein called the Kurdish
witnesses who had described atrocities at the hands of Mr. Hussein's
military "agents of Iran and Zionism." And he warned witnesses that he would
"crush your heads," according to an account by The Associated Press. 
As the trial resumed Wednesday morning, a prosecutor, Munqith al-Faroon,
accused the judge of letting "the defendants to go too far, with
unacceptable expressions and words," according to a pool report filed by a
reporter for The Daily Telegraph of London. Mr. Faroon said the judge had
allowed defendants to "treat the chamber as a political forum." 
The judge, Abdullah al-Amiri, who was a judge during Mr. Hussein's rule,
responded coolly, not raising his voice. "The judge coordinates and makes
peace among the people in his presence," he said.
The court heard a powerful and graphic account from Omer Othman Mohammed,
who said he was a member of the Kurdish pesh merga militia who was caught in
a chemical-weapon strike by Iraqi jets in April 1988 that left him badly
burned from his chest to his legs. 
"It was so fast, we were shocked," Mr. Mohammed testified, according to The
Daily Telegraph's pool report. "The rockets did not explode, but they just
broke. One hit close to me. When it broke, the chemical inside, it covered
me. It was a liquid, not a gas. I was shocked. I was in pain. 
"There was severe pain as if there was a high pressure on me or as if I was
touching an electric current, or as if boiling water wa