[osint] Alleged Chechen terrorist arrested at Croatian border
Alleged Chechen terrorist arrested at Croatian border http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2011-09-20/21957/Alleged_Chechen_terrorist_arrested_at_Croatian_border 20091300 A Chechen citizen has been arrested on the Croatian-Slovenian border crossing Macelj. The 33-year-old Aslan Kagermanov got detained according to the international warrant by the Russian police from 2005. His name is on Interpol's list in Moscow with the accusation of Islamic radicalism and membership in one of the terrorist organisations in the Caucasus. In one action he allegedly played a part of the terroristic group that tried to kill police officers with explosives. There have been conflicts going on for more than 20 years between Russian authorities and radical Islamic secessionists in the north Caucasus. The radical Islamic secessionists want to establish wahabi Emirate in Chechnya. Kagermanov escaped Russia to seek political refugee status, allegedly in Austria not in Croatia. He was held in a Croatian Investigation centre of the county court in Zagreb where the judge after a hearing decided on extradition custody. Reports by the Helsinki Human Rights Committee opens doors for many Chechens in applying for political refugee status in Western Europe. -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Results of a Disarmed Societey: Rush Hour Traffic Disrupted as Mexican Gunmen Dump 35 Bodies on Avenue
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-20/drug-war-mexico/50486328 /1?csp=Dailybriefing Mexico horror: Gunmen dump 35 bodies on avenue Updated 2h 9m ago MEXICO CITY (AP) - Suspected drug traffickers drove two trucks to a main avenue in a Mexican Gulf coast city and dumped 35 slaying victims during rush hour while gunmen stood guard and pointed their weapons at frightened motorists. * http://i.usatoday.net/news/_photos/2011/09/20/Mexico-gunmen-dump-35-bodies- 6LDE597-x-large.jpg Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. AFP/Getty Images Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. Mexican authorities at the scene where 35 bodies were found at the Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez Blvd in Boca del Rio municipality. The gruesome scene Tuesday in the downtown of Boca del Rio was the latest escalation in drug violence in Veracruz state, which sits on an important route for drugs and Central American migrants heading north. The Zetas drug cartel has been locked in a bloody war with drug gangs for control of the state. Veracruz state Attorney General Reynaldo Escobar Perez said the bodies were left piled in two trucks and on the ground at an underpass near the city's biggest shopping mall and its statue of the Voladores de Papantla - ritual dancers from Veracruz state. Police had identified seven of the victims so far and all had criminal records for murder, drug dealing, kidnapping and extortion and were linked to organized crime, Escobar said. He didn't say to what group the victims belonged. Motorists caught in the horrifying scene Tuesday afternoon posted warnings on Twitter that masked gunmen in military uniforms were blocking Manuel Avila Camacho Boulevard and pointing their guns at civilians. They don't seem to be soldiers or police, one tweet read. Another said, Don't go through that area, there is danger. Escobar said police were reviewing surveillance video recorded in the area. Local media said that 12 of the victims were women and that some of the dead men had been among prisoners who escaped from three Veracruz prisons on Monday, but Escobar said he couldn't confirm that. At least 32 inmates got away from the three Veracruz prisons. Police recaptured 14 of them. Earlier Tuesday, the Mexican army announced it had captured a key figure in the cult-like Knights Templar http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Knights+Templar drug cartel that is sowing violence in western Mexico. Saul Solis Solis, 49, a former police chief and one-time congressional candidate, was captured without incident Monday in the cartel's home state of Michoacan, Brig. Gen. Edgar Luis Villegas said during a presentation of Solis to the media. Solis is considered one of the principal lieutenants in the Knights Templar, which split late last year from La Familia http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/La+Familia , a pseudo-religious drug gang known as a major trafficker of methamphetamine. Drug violence has claimed more than 35,000 lives across Mexico since 2006, according to government figures. Others put the number at more than 40,000. In northern Mexico, the army announced the detention of two more suspects in a casino fire that killed 52 people last month in the northern city of Monterrey. The two men captured at a bar in Monterrey late Monday confessed to being members of the Zetas drug cartel and participating in the attack, federal prosecutors said. Separately in Nuevo Leon, Mexican marines captured 19 alleged members of the Zetas drug cartel at a ranch that was being used as a training camp in the town of Colombia, the military announced. A navy statement said that seven minors were among those detained and that marines seized four rifles, a pistol, and several military uniforms and boots. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We
[osint] Iran Finally Frees US Hikers on $1 million Bail
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011/09/fox-two-us-h ikers-released-by-iran-to-the-oman-envoy/1?csp=breakingnews Sep 21, 2011 Two freed U.S. hikers head for Tehran airport By Douglas Stanglin http://content.usatoday.com/topics/reporter/Douglas+Stanglin , USA TODAY Updated 12m ago Two U.S. hikers jailed in Iran two years ago on espionage charges have been freed on $500,000 bail. Update at 10:16 a.m. ET: Two Americans jailed in Iran as spies have been released from Tehran's prison after more than two years in custody, the AP reports. AP reporters saw a convoy of vehicles with Swiss and Omani diplomats leaving Evin prison with the freed Americans, heading for Tehran international airport. Update at 10 a.m. ET: Reuters reports that Bauer and Fattal and heading to the airport, according to the BBC. Update at 8:14 a.m. ET: The BBC reports http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15000563 that Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been handed over to the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, which represents U.S. interests in Iran. Update at 7:47 a.m. ET: CNN reports that the pair have been released from prison, quoting an unnamed U.S. official. Update at 7:39 a.m. ET: Iranian state TV reports http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200375.html that the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic Iran has confirmed the release of two U.S. nationals, who had been convicted of illegal entry and espionage in Iran, on bail. Here is Press TV's report: Branch 36 of Tehran's Appeals Court has agreed to reduce the detention sentences of the two U.S. nationals and instead release them on a bail of $500,000 each, a statement released by Iran's Judiciary said on Wednesday. Shane Michael Bauer and Joshua Felix Fattal had earlier been sentenced by Branch 15 of Tehran's Revolution Court to eight years in prison on charges of illegal entry and espionage. Sarah Emily Shourd, who had also been detained along with Bauer and Fattal, was released in September 2010 on a $500,000 bail. Bauer, Fattal and Shourd were arrested on Iranian territory in July 2009 after illegally crossing the border from the mountains of northern Iraq's Kurdistan region. They were later charged with espionage after the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi found compelling evidence that the three U.S. citizens had been cooperating with US intelligence agencies. Update at 7:26 a.m. ET: Iranian State TV says it has learned that the Iranian government has released American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal http://www.presstv.ir/detail/200356.html , who have been held for almost two years for alleged illegal entry into Iran and espionage. The lawyer for the pair says only that a deal has been struck for the release of the pair, the Associated Press reports. Iranian attorney Masoud Shafiei said he planned to go to Tehran's Evin prison to begin the procedure for the release of Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal. The case is over, Shafiei said. The court has ordered that they be freed on bail, he added. Shafiei said the bail of $500,000 for each of the men was posted after some last-minute bank problems were resolved, the AP reports. He did not say who put up the money, The two were arrested along the Iran-Iraq border in July 2009 and sentenced last month to eight years each in prison. A third American arrested with them, Sarah Shourd, was freed last year on bail. Original post: Fox News quotes an unidentified State Department source as saying two jailed American hikers imprisoned in Iran have been released http://www.foxnews.com/ to the Oman envoy. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to:
[osint] 2012 Presidential Candidates - One Question Only
http://tinyurl.com/5rlpnca 2012 Presidential Candidates http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only.html - One Question Only Tuesday, 20 September 2011 19:04 JB Williams http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,a496c9ca9c25c 3194c23f4518db06afb2333b63a/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-editori al/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092114541/editorial/us-opinion-and-edi torial/2012-presidential-candidates-one-question-only.pdf PDF As the 2012 election cycle heats up, the most pressing issue facing our nation today is the reinstatement of the U.S. Constitution as the Law of this Land, and the survival of our constitutional republic, complete with sovereign borders, the rule of law, states rights and a republican form of government guaranteed every citizen by the Constitution. There is no more pressing issue in America today. As reinstating the U.S. Constitution is the highest priority of the 2012 election, and the fact that reinstating Article II requirements for the office of president is first and foremost in the effort to reinstate the constitution as the supreme law of this land, all presidential candidates must face the most vital question of the day. If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter http://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d6924 66fid=80b67972fb Before being entrusted with the most powerful political office in our land and the world for that matter, I have only ONE question for every candidate seeking the office of President of the United States. rsn_betrayal_175Based upon the mountain of evidence available which has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that Barack Hussein Obama II is not a Natural Born Citizen of the United States, and is therefore, ineligible for the office of President according to Article II - Section 1 - Clause V which clearly states - No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President;- and as a candidate with legal standing to challenge the legitimacy of any fellow candidate, will you challenge Barack Hussein Obama's right to even appear on the 2012 ballot? Every candidate for the office of president has the legal standing to challenge Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility for the office he is seeking re-election to in 2012. The fact that Democrats were able to trick Americans into voting for an totally ineligible candidate in 2008, has no bearing on the fact that the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on American voters cannot be allowed to continue. Simply electing someone else in 2012 will not solve the problem. It will only sweep the problem under the rug, allowing all involved in an overt act of treason against the American people, to walk away free from accountability. The next election will not deliver justice to the American people, nor will it reverse the precedence set in allowing a known ineligible candidate to hold the highest office in our land. The people responsible for the 2008 fraudulent election of Barack Hussein Obama II must be brought to justice. Every 2012 candidate is in a position of legal standing to end the charade. Barack Obama has governed like a foreign-born domestic enemy because he is a domestic enemy with foreign loyalties. Countless private investigations into Obama's past have provided the answers necessary to charge Obama with high crimes. Those investigations have also turned up many more questions about whom and what Barack Obama really is. Hundreds of legal briefs concerning Barack Obama, representing millions of Americans, have been denied access to the courts due to an alleged lack of standing, based upon Rules of Procedure put in place in 1946, to control civilian access to justice. But every candidate for the office of president has legal standing to challenge the constitutional eligibility of any competing candidate and at least one candidate must have the courage to do it, or none of them deserve the support of the American voter. The current anti-American administration has not only driven the nation in over its head in debt and destroyed the American economy. They have systematically destroyed all of the free-market mechanisms necessary for any real economic recovery. It isn't just our economic standing in the world which hangs in the balance, but freedom and liberty itself. Which 2012 candidate for the office of president has the backbone for the job ahead? Enough with the standard political banter over a myriad of side show issues. The Constitution is currently out of force and effect. Before America will have a future, it must reinstate the law of the land, beginning with Article II. The primary job of
[osint] The Arab Spring and Russian Policy in the Middle East
The Arab Spring and Russian Policy in the Middle East http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-sprin g-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east.html Tuesday, 20 September 2011 04:22 Zvi Magen http://www.rightsidenews.com/component/option,com_mailto/link,ad3aecfbce900 0cf3fc9d0394443a6aeda15f348/tmpl,component/ E-mail http://www.rightsidenews.com/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-sprin g-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east/print.html Print http://www.rightsidenews.com/pdf/2011092014538/world/geopolitics/the-arab-s pring-and-russian-policy-in-the-middle-east.pdf PDF In what perhaps can be heralded as a turning point in Russia's Middle East policy, seemingly coordinated statements have recently been sounded in important settings and the media by senior Russian figures (leading experts on the Middle East, politicians, and even the president himself). These statements have included criticism of the revolutionary process underway in the Middle East, portrayed as fundamentally negative and rife with risks for both regional and global stability. According to these pronouncements, the Arab spring gradually evolved into an Islamic summer by paving the way for the rise to power of forces from the radical Islamic camp in an essentially irreversible process. If you like this article, please subscribe to our daily newsletter http://rightsidenews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=1cf0488db68779540d6924 66fid=80b67972fb In the view of these figures, while these unforeseen revolutions were jumpstarted among the younger generation by socioeconomic reasons and demands for political freedom, the younger generation does not have the power to maintain the revolutions' achievements. The reins of government will be assumed by organized systems that joined the opposition to existing regimes, including many Islamic elements that are already poised to take advantage of the situation and are soon expected to reach influential positions in the respective countries. According to the Russians, democracy does not stand a chance in Middle Eastern countries, characterized as they are by archaic societies. Future regimes can be expected to be anti-democratic and primarily Islamic in nature. Thus, these figures predict doom and gloom for most of the region's states, and the process underway is one that in their opinion cannot be stopped. There is a wistful longing for the previous regimes, as corrupt and authoritarian as they were, particularly for their stability and anti-Islamic stances. Likely future regimes will at best follow the Turkish model, or in a worst case scenario, the Iranian. According to the Russians, this reality has dire consequences for regional and even global orders. The situation is likely to be influenced by the negative changes in Turkey, portrayed as striving relentlessly to reconstruct the Ottoman Empire, and the Iranian nuclear program, which apparently cannot be stopped and may be expected to be complete in 2-3 years. This has serious implications for international stability, especially since additional nations in the region will work to attain nuclear power. In turn the international arms control regime is likely to collapse - a potential development that incurs major ramifications. In such a reality, the Islamic forces likely to assume power will not be partners to a dialogue with the international community, rather will strive to realize their own geopolitical ambitions. In this context the international system emerges as inefficient, if not impotent. International organizations such as the UN and NATO have failed to confront the evolving risk and therefore enjoy less importance. The United States is portrayed as losing its influence both in the Middle East and in the international arena. Europe too is retreating under Islamic attack, and sooner or later Islam will overpower it from within. With the West declining both in the Middle East and in the world at large, Islam is set to prevail over the West. This new apocalyptic Russian scenario is surprising, given that until recently Russia appeared as a friend and defender of the nations of the Middle East, including those with Islamic regimes, and various radical organizations (including, for example, members of the axis of evil). Russia has displayed evident support for the collapsing regimes of the Middle East and has labored to preserve the status quo, including its attempt to impede Western involvement in Libya and even more so in Syria. In addition, it enjoys positive relations with Turkey and special relations with Iran. Its warm relations with the Palestinians include support in the United Nations and support for Hamas. At the same time, already from the start of the revolutionary process in the Middle East, Russia has, in its ambivalent way, worked to establish cooperation with the new regimes and elements of the opposition, by laying the groundwork for relations with what will likely be the region's
[osint] Why Obama Is Responsible for War in the Mideast
Why Obama Is Responsible for the Mideast Powder Keg Posted By Ben Shapiro On September 21, 2011 President Barack Hussein Obama has a choice this week at the United Nations as the Palestinian Authority led by Mahmoud Abbas calls for a vote on Palestinian statehood, whether or not the vote is actually averted http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-un-palestinians-2011092 1,0,4194458.story?track=rssutm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campai gn=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Fworld+%28L.A.+Times+-+World+News%2 9utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher by some sort of Western payoff to the terrorist organization. As background, it should be noted that it has long been the position of the United Nations that there ought to be a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza Strip. So what would change with any such resolution? Presumably, in any vote, the Palestinians would ask for - and, in the General Assembly, receive - voting rights. They would also attempt to grab East Jerusalem as their capital, including the Temple Mount, and probably ask to control their own borders. Given the presence of Hamas in the middle of this proposed deal - and given the history of the PLO itself - such a demand would create the largest single terror state on the planet. The Palestinians would leave the so-called right of return for another time, a sword hanging over the Israelis' heads. They would not solidify the borders of Gaza and the West Bank, allowing them to terrorize Israel further while demanding more concessions. They would not allow any Jews inside the borders of their new state - no shock, considering that most Arab states ban Jews outright. If the vote goes forward and the United States shoots down the Palestinian resolution in the Security Council, the Arabs in Palestinian-controlled territories will riot. They will demand that Israel withdraw immediately from the territories, and they will call on their allies in the Arab world to jack up oil prices to punish the United States. The long term result could be a move into the Sinai by the Egyptian forces, providing weapons and ammunition to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Abbas will form a unity government with Hamas to attack Israel. Israel will be forced to move into Palestinian-controlled areas and clean out terrorist havens, and the world will condemn them for it. Many Jews will die - but, as we've learned, Jewish blood is cheap for those who live comfortably in Europe. And, apparently, also for President Obama, who has allowed every anti-Israel, anti-American group in the Middle East to consolidate control of government. For all of his flaws - and there were many - President Mubarak of Egypt did not allow his military to threaten Israel. Within the first few months of his departure, however, the Egyptian population has attacked the Israeli embassy and torn down its walls. The military has begun funneling weapons to the Palestinians. In Libya, the Obama strategy has allowed a Muslim Brotherhood-led opposition to come close to power. In Iran, it has allowed the mullahs to crush all legitimate opposition. The Palestinians believe that they have an ally in President Obama, and they mean to exploit it while he is still in office. They may delay the vote for a few months if Obama gives them some goodies in return. But in essence, they know they had best act now. They realize what has now become obvious: if President Obama had been president in 1948, he would have voted against the establishment of the State of Israel. To him, Israel is a historic mistake, and were he not bound by electoral politics and an adversarial Congress, he would undoubtedly do more to aid its enemies. How will all of this end? The same way it always does. Time is the friend of the Arab states, and the enemy of Israel. However the resolution to be introduced at the UN turns out, Iran grows every day closer to a nuclear weapon, which will have only one target. Each day, the Israeli population dwindles and the Arab population grows in relative terms. Without the backing of the United States, Israel will not be able to survive future wars. It will be tough enough to survive the war of words about to begin in New York. _ Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/21/why-obama-is-responsible-for-war-in-the-m iddle-east/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not
[osint] Palestinian State: Next Step in Driving the Jews into the Sea
What Will the New Palestinian State Look Like? Posted By Giulio Meotti On September 21, 2011 Global leaders are so busy pontificating on how essential it is for a State of Palestine to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists. Since the Palestinian Authority was established in 1994, the contours of the State of Palestine have taken form in front of our eyes. So what will this famous State of Palestine look like? It will be a racist state ethnically cleansed of Jews, as the PLO representatives proclaimed the last week. A state led by Holocaust enablers like Hamas or by a Holocaust denier like Mahmoud Abbas, who, in a book, downgraded the number of Jewish victims and denied that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews. In any case, Palestine would be a state committed to the destruction of the nearby Jews' homeland. It will also be a state that will banish freedom of conscience for artists, journalists and writers. A state that will drive away Christians from the land, while proclaiming Jesus the first fedayeen. A state that will stone to death Arab homosexuals and prostitutes, who are now finding shelter in Israel. A state that will torture Arab inmates in prisons and that will throw political dissidents from the roofs of public buildings. A state where the Iranian clergy will preach Khomeinist ideology. A state that will accept money and support from the genocidal Muslim Brotherhood in the name of the caliphate or death, as the Islamists who assassinated Egypt's Anwar Sadat in 1981 decorated their holding cages. A state where the Sharia - the Islamic legal code - will be the only rule of law. A state that will be put to death human beings simply because they are guilty of apostasy (conversion to Christianity). A state where women will be obliged to wear headscarves. A state where honor killings will terrorize the female population. A state that will commemorate terrorists, human suicide bombers and baby killers in public squares, streets and monuments. A state that will not hold democratic elections, but will be a combination of corruption, dictatorship, Islamic theology and Bin-ladenism. A state where terror militias will cut the fingers of smokers. A state where public libraries will become the largest global archives of anti-Semitic books. A state that will ban drinking in public buildings. A state where liquor stores will be blown up by terror groups. A state where men will be banned from women's hair salons. A state where security forces will arrest people for expressing opinions unpopular with the regime, as well as punishing media organizations and journalists for their coverage of such statements. A state where the ratio of militiamen to civilians will be higher than in any other country. A state where worshipers in mosques will be gunned down by terrorists. A state that will encourage a new category of Arab refugees - those who would gladly escape oppressive and murderous Palestinian control. A state where ambulances will be stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded will be shot in cold blood. A state that would be a heavily armed union of rejectionists, all dedicated to destroying any shred of Western values. A state where young couples will not walk hand-in-hand in the Al Manar Square of Ramallah, and where plainclothes officers will halt them in the streets, demanding to see marriage licenses. A state that will declare war on Judaism, depicting Jewish history in the Middle East as no more than an insignificant, brief sojourn by arrogant colonizers. Who would live in such a state? So why is the world swooning over the creation of the State of Palestine? Is it because Arab state number 23 and Muslim state number 58 would be the perfect tool for the vaporization of the lone Jewish state in the world? Six miles is the distance between the Israeli city of Afula from the State of Palestine. Nine miles to the city of Netanya. Eleven miles to reach the skyscrapers of Tel Aviv. Four miles to bomb the Ben Gurion International Airport. Just a mile to the city of Kfar Saba. Building the small Palestinian caliphate on Israel's shoulders is the first step toward driving the Jews into the sea. _ Article printed from FrontPage Magazine: http://frontpagemag.com URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/09/21/what-will-the-new-palestinian-state-look- like/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT,
[osint] CNN Fake War Video Exposed
CNN: first the Communist News Network, then the Clinton News Network and the Crescent News Network. Not news at all. B The lame stream media will go to any length to frame your perception of events, and the war in Libya is no exception. CNN gets busted, again... Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/4999.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctMzsjAzMrJyMtEa0jIzsrOwMbKw= - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 To unsubscribe or change subscriber options visit: http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?zAxs7OwctCzsnIzsrBystEa0jIycbOwMrEw= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] America: The Chief Subsidizer of UN Rapists and Traffickers
America: The Chief Subsidizer of UN Rapists and Traffickers Posted By Phyllis Chesler On September 21, 2011 In early September, the world's most ineffective collection of low life thugs had what they like to call http://www.un.org/en/ga/info/meetings/66schedule.shtml high level meetings [1] on disease, disabilities, and the rights of migrant workers. And, on September 13, 2011, the 66th session - drum roll, please - of the United Nation's General Assembly formally convened. On September 22, they will get down to the real business at hand, the only thing the UN has ever really done effectively, namely, the legalization of Jew hatred. That's the day the UN will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their Durban (anti-Semitic, pro-racist) conference in which they named Israel as the world's only racist state. On September 23, former terrorist turned President Mahmoud Abbas will request that the UN admit a twentieth Arab Muslim (so-called Palestinian) state. http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/solzhenitsyn.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/solzhenitsyn.jpg [2] This global pogrom against Israel is being waged with a weapon of mass destruction, namely the Orwellian propaganda machine which has demonized the Jewish state so effectively that were it to be militarily attacked (as it has been, over and over), few nations would come to its aid (none have) and most would condemn its right to defend itself; indeed, they would label Jewish self-defense as an act of naked aggression for which Israel would be expected to apologize and pay Muslim-style blood money. This, too, has already happened. Were our nation to come to the aid of its ally, Israel, America would also be further demonized. But I do not want to focus on the subjects of racism, Judeophobia, Islamophobia, or on the rights of Palestinian Arabs. Many other journalists are doing so. Actually, I do but from an entirely different point of view. I want to discuss the kind of human beings who are employed at the UN, how they treat each other on the job, but especially how they treat the vulnerable civilians who are under their protection. In other words: I want to focus on the professional ethics of the people who are voting on such weighty, global issues, and on the institutionalized crimes they commit under the auspices of the UN. Nearly forty years ago, in his 1972 Nobel Prize acceptance speech (some honorees are actually worthy), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said: A quarter of a century ago, with great hopes from all mankind, the United Nations Organization was born. Alas, in an immoral world it too grew up immoral. In 1973, Shirley Hazzard, an Australian civil servant who had worked for the UN Secretariat for a decade in New York, published a book about it. In Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations, Hazzard described a level of mediocrity, incompetence, petty despotism, corruption, hypocrisy, and overall impotence, which was so non-redeemable that, in her view, the otherwise lofty UN ideals were being defeated by the manner in which the present body executes, or claims to execute them. And in 1990, Hazzard wrote another book, Countenance of Truth: The United Nations and the Waldheim Case, in which she indicted the UN again, explaining that the problem of the Austrian (and one-time Nazi) UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim was merely symptomatic of the (ongoing) structural defects at the UN which include non-accountability, non-transparency, incompetence, cowardice, and exaggerated self-importance. Only in such a setting, Hazzard writes, could such a deceitful figure be presented as a paragon, his very deficiencies exalted into talents, and his fawnings on tyrants rationalized as consummate diplomacy throughout ten of this world's most cruel and dangerous years. I wonder what either of these whistleblowers might have to say about the UN today. http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/the_whistleblower_poster_2.jpg http://pajamasmedia.com/files/2011/09/the_whistleblower_poster_2.jpg[3] God must love whistleblowers - I surely hope so, because no one else really does. Those whom whistleblowers expose - and that includes the bystanders and the bureaucrats - hate them. Whistleblowers ruin the party, and threaten the high life and the even higher self-regard that the scams allow. Therefore, the evildoers demean, ostracize, impoverish, ignore, crush, and, if necessary, try to kill the whistleblowers. Even when whistleblowers are willing to risk their jobs and their lives, they do not always win their cause. And, when a whistleblower does succeed, he or she may still end up in hiding or unemployed or murdered while evil-doers soon pick up the old scam. In the early 1970s, Detective Frank (police corruption) Serpico was the torchbearer for whistleblowers. He passed that torch along to Karen (plutonium) Silkwood in the 1980s and to Erin(hexavalent-chromium) Brockovich in the 1990s. One 21st century heroic torchbearer,
[osint] Obama Ignored Saudi Pleas to Combat Takeover of Lebanon
Obama Admin. Ignored Saudi Pleas to Combat Takeover of Lebanon Posted By Phillip Smyth On September 20, 2011 Once a key U.S. partner in the Middle East, the Saudis are unhappy with the Obama administration, and thus the United States. They are angry that the White House never consulted them about helping to bring down the Mubarak regime in Egypt. But their greatest wrath is reserved for the U.S. government's failure to oppose the Iranian regime's expansionism and subversion. In one Wikileaks-leaked State Department document after another, Riyadh's anger is apparent. The traditionally confrontation-averse Saudis - as a phrase in one of the reports calls them - also make clear that the threat of force as well as words is necessary to stop Iran. A recently released secret 2009 U.S. State Department memo written for General Petraeus discussed this Saudi view of Iran and U.S. policy toward Iran at length: The Saudis see a dangerous Shia power bent on destabilizing the region. . They remain concerned that we might be prepared to accept an enhanced role for Iran in the region in exchange for concessions on its nuclear program. In other words, the Saudis thought the United States might sell them out. The king correctly predicted that the Obama engagement policy toward Iran would fail. The Saudis described Iran's power, the spread of its radical Shia Islamist ideology pushing Shia minorities to revolt in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and its nuclear program as the main threats to Saudi Arabia. Israel and the Palestinian issue didn't make the list. In a meeting with U.S. Air Force Lt. General Mike Hostage, Saudi Air Force General Faisal al-Saud asserted that he had conclusive proof of Iranian involvement in the Houthi insurgency in Yemen. In the spring of 2011, Saudi forces arrived in Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, to quash a mainly Shia uprising - in part backed by Iran - against the ruling Sunni minority. Additionally, the Saudis didn't stand idly by as pro-Iranian Houthis (whose slogan is: God is greatest, death to America, death to Israel, God curse the Jews, victory for Islam) in neighboring Yemen attacked Saudi forces in 2009. In private, the Saudis were vocal in calling for Israel to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Faisal al-Saud offered a parable to show the Saudis' critical view of U.S. policy toward Iran: A neighbor's house bursts into flame, and the closest neighbor [the United States] says he will come to help soon but then doesn't, citing policy as preventing him, but hoping he will still be considered a very good friend. Meanwhile, others who are not close friends are helping. In Lebanon, the government was ruled by the pro-Western, pro-Saudi March 14 alliance. That Sunni Muslims, Christian, and Druze coalition was a bulwark against the heavily armed, pro-Iranian Hizballah, and to Iranian and Syrian influence. The Saudis early on appreciated the danger of a takeover by radical forces and the need to do something about it. In 2007, Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Abdulaziz Khoja told then-U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman that he doubted whether the GOL [Government of Lebanon] and the March 14 forces had the strength to sustain the fight over the long term without significant outside help. He urged that Washington support a covert program of arming the moderates, telling Feltman: We must help [March 14 leaders] Saad (Hariri), Walid (Jumblatt), and even (Samir) Geagea with money and arms. While some Christian and Druze militias trained, they lacked arms. They were in no way as strong as the immensely equipped Hizballah. There is no real trained and equipped Sunni Muslim armed force at all. Apparently, the U.S. government did nothing. A little over a year later, Hizballah defied the government's demand to shut down its fiber optic network that some Lebanese leaders claimed was being used to spy on the government and others. In response, Hizballah mobilized its military forces, briefly seized half of Beirut - an easy task since there were few organized Sunni Muslim, pro-government defenders - and attacked the Druze-inhabited Shouf region with artillery and armed units. The martial Druze stopped the advance. In the middle of this heavy fighting between often ill-equipped pro-March 14 forces and Hizballah, Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal discussed the Saudis' preferred solution to the situation with U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield. According to the report, Faisal stated: The effort by Hizballah and Iran to take over Beirut was the first step in a process that would lead to the overthrow of the . government and an Iranian takeover of all Lebanon. Faisal wanted an Arab force that would work with UNIFIL, which according to Satterfield is sitting doing nothing. NATO and the United States would provide the Arab force with air and naval power. Faisal suggested this would be an easier battle to win than fighting Iraqi insurgents or Palestinian Hamas, both groups that the
[osint] Gov. Rick Perry: Obama's Middle East Policy Is Naive, Arrogant, Misguided and Dangerous
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/09/20/gov-rick-perry-obamas-middle-east- policy-is-naive-arrogant-misguided-and-dangerous/?singlepage=true Gov. Rick Perry: Obamas Middle East Policy Is Naive, Arrogant, Misguided and Dangerous Thank you. Let me begin by thanking Dr. Solomon Frager and Aron Hirtz for helping us organize this press conference today. I am joined today by a diverse group of Jewish leaders from here and abroad who share my concern that the United Nations could take action this week to legitimize the Palestinian gambit to establish statehood in violation of the spirit of the 1993 Oslo Accords. We are indignant that certain Middle Eastern leaders have discarded the principle of direct negotiations between the sovereign nation of Israel and the Palestinian leadership, and we are equally indignant that the Obama Administrations Middle East policy of appeasement has encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. Simply put, we would not be here today at the precipice of such a dangerous move if the Obama Policy in the Middle East wasnt naïve, arrogant, misguided and dangerous. It must be said, first, that Israel is our oldest and strongest democratic ally in the Middle East and has been for more than 60 years. The Obama Policy of moral equivalency which gives equal standing to the grievances of Israelis and Palestinians, including the orchestrators of terrorism, is a dangerous insult. There is no middle ground between our allies and those who seek their destruction. America should not be ambivalent between the terrorist tactics of Hamas and the security tactics of the legitimate and free state of Israel. By proposing indirect talks through the U.S. rather than between Palestinian leaders and Israel, this administration encouraged the Palestinians to shun direct talks. Second, it was wrong for this Administration to suggest the 1967 borders should be the starting point for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. When you consider this suggestion was made on the eve of the Israeli Prime Ministers visit, we see in this American Administration a willingness to isolate a close ally and to do so in a manner that is insulting and naïve. Third, by injecting the issue of 1967 borders in addition to a construction freeze in East Jerusalem and Israeli settlements, the Obama Administration has put Israel in a position of weakness and taken away their flexibility to offer concessions as part of the negotiation process. Indeed, bolstered by the Obama Administrations policies and apologists at the U.N., the Palestinians are exploiting the instability in the Middle East hoping to achieve their objective without concessions or direct negotiations with Israel. The reason is simple: if they perceive they can get what they want from the U.N. without making any concessions why should they negotiate with Israel? While the administration is right to finally agree to fight the Arab resolution at the U.N., it bears repeating that we wouldnt be here today if they had stuck to some basic principles concerning Palestinian statehood * First, Palestinian leaders must publicly affirm Israels right to exist, and to exist as a Jewish state; * Second, President Abbas must persuade all factions including Hamas to renounce acts of terrorism and release kidnapped Israeli Gilad Shalit, and; * Third, Palestinian statehood must be established only through direct negotiations between the Palestinian leadership and the nation of Israel. By not insisting on these principles, the Obama Administration has appeased the Arab Street at the expense of our own national security interests. They have sowed instability that threatens the prospects of peace. Israels security is critical to Americas security. We must not forget it was Israel that took out the nuclear capabilities of Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. In both instances, their actions made the free world safer. Today, the greatest threat to the security of Israel and, by extension, a threat to America, is the Iranian government developing a nuclear arsenal. One thing is clear: we must stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Economic sanctions must be tightened and increased and all options must remain on the table to stop a brutally repressive regime from acquiring a nuclear capability. To date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. As average Iranian citizens were marching on Tehran in the Green Revolution in 2009, America was wasting precious time on a naïve policy of outreach to both the Iranian and Syrian governments. Who knows what the leadership of Iran would look like today if America had done everything in its power to provide diplomatic and moral support to encourage the growing movement of dissidents who sought freedom. Our actions in recent years have destabilized the Middle East. We have been complacent in encouraging revolt against hostile governments in Iran and Syria and we have been slow to recognize
[osint] Obama is Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy
I accuse President Barack Obama of Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Posted By Barry Rubin On September 19, 2011 Think of how outrageous my headline is: Destroying Western Interests in the Middle East, Helping Destabilize the Region, and Putting Millions of Lives in Jeopardy Do you think that's extremist, crazy, can't be true because you're not seeing that stuff in the New York Times? You must be a right-wing Republican, you say? No, just a serious Middle East analyst. The tenth anniversary of September 11, almost three years after Obama's election, is a suitable time to confront this issue honestly and fully. So consider fairly and honestly the list of points below. Egypt: Obama supported a revolution overthrowing a U.S. ally - rather than a smooth transition replacing the dictator and instituting some reform without dropping the entire regime - disregarding State Department advice and not even consulting with Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia! He also unilaterally announced his readiness to see the Muslim Brotherhood in power. His analysts denied that the Brotherhood is a radical, anti-American Islamist organization that supports terrorism. The resulting dangerous crisis, including Egypt becoming a new type of Iran, is now clear to all. Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: By distancing himself from Israel, removing all pressure from the Palestinians, unilaterally proposing a freeze of Israeli construction on settlements, and repeatedly messing up the effort to restart negotiations, Obama made the peace process situation worse. His failure to handle properly the Palestinian UN unilateral independence bid has put U.S. policy in a terrible mess, with an American veto leading to large-scale anti-Americanism and probable violence both by Palestinians against Israel and by Muslims against the United States. Israel: The damage the Obama administration did to Israel was not in bilateral relations or even in the peace process, but by its role in the deterioration of the regional situation to a dangerous extent. As a result, the two most powerful regional powers that had decent relations with Israel - Egypt and Turkey - turned around 180 degrees; Hamas' rule was entrenched in the Gaza Strip; and Hizballah's rule was entrenched in Lebanon http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-admin-ignored-saudi-pleas-to-combat-take over-of-lebanon/ . That's four of Israel's neighbors that became effectively hostile while the Obama administration didn't even notice. As the level of threat rose, U.S. political-diplomatic support for Israel declined. Turkey: As Turkey continued to move toward being a repressive Islamist state allied with revolutionary Islamism, the U.S. government didn't notice. Farcically, it promoted the Turkish model and made Turkey its mediator over Syria's future! Lebanon: As Lebanon fell under Syria-Iran-Hizballah control, the Obama administration did nothing. It failed to support the moderates and so they surrendered. Syria: The administration pursued the ridiculously doomed effort to pull Syria away from Iran and engaged it even as Damascus escalated its support for terrorism, aggression toward Lebanon, killing Americans in Iraq, and then repressing its own people. Gaza: The administration gave Hamas indirect aid, made no serious effort to overthrow a radical, anti-American, genocidal-oriented regime, and pressed Israel to reduce sanctions to a minimum. This ensured the survival and strengthening of a pro-terrorist revolutionary Islamist state on the Mediterranean. Saudi Arabia: Repeated slaps in the face and failure to confront advances by revolutionary Islamists - especially Iran and Syria, as well as abandonment of Mubarak - disgusted this ally. Seeing U.S. weakness, it concluded it has to take care of itself Iran: After wasting a long time in engagement, the administration finally (at the slowest possible speed) did push sanctions. Yet it still has no strategy for opposing Iran's non-nuclear methods of subverting neighbors and expanding its influence. Danger: Obama failed to realize it or to define properly friends and enemies. Leadership: Despite being begged by different allies, the Obama administration failed to demonstrate leadership. Empowering Islamism: In his Cairo speech and thereafter, Obama emphasized the Muslim identity of Middle Easterners thus undermining Arab identity and nationalism. Endangering the lives of American soldiers and civilians: By refusing to allow a proper analysis of Islamism and terrorism. Consider, for example, the Fort Hood attack in which Americans were killed because military officers feared to do their job lest it hurt their promotions. Libya: Obama entered a war without any strategy for what would happen after Gaddafi fell or any knowledge of who he was helping to promote as the new leadership. Rejection of basic diplomatic principles: Supporting friends and
[osint] 1930s Deja Vu All Over Again
Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism Is Finally Pushing Jews to the Right Posted By Abraham H. Miller On September 21, 2011 A Republican win in an historic Democratic congressional district in New York and an art exhibit canceled http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how-the-left-uses-childrens-art-in-the-war-aga inst-the-jews/ [1], after public outrage, at a childrens museum in Oakland, California, seem to be unrelated events. But the relationship between these events would be apparent to anyone who took note of the claim of Svein Sevje http://www.jinsa.org/jinsa-reports/twisting-terror-so-israel-deserves-it-no rway-doesnt [2], Norwegian ambassador to Israel, that the lives of Norwegian children slaughtered by a crazed fanatic were worth more than the lives of Jewish children slaughtered by Palestinians. Or anyone who observed that, this month, the government of Turkey conspicuously separated Israeli passengers http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2011/09/turkeys-chosen-scapegoat.php?pf=yes [3] arriving at the Istanbul airport, had them strip searched, held them incommunicado for ninety-minutes, and then released them without explanation. For Jews, it is the 1930s all over again. We are living in the early days of the garden of beasts, although this time the appellation is not about one country, but about much of the world. The various campaigns against Israel have long ago crossed the line from legitimate criticisms of a states policies to demonizing the Jewish people. The signs are everywhere, from the rhetoric of the good people at the local peace and justice brigade, to the flagrant anti-Semitism at our colleges and universities. These institutions have decency and sensitivity codes to protect every identity group, but find anti-Semitism the one hate speech protected by the First Amendment. When the Middle East Childrens Alliance (MECA), a Bay Area group known for its virulent hostility toward Israel, sponsored an art show titled A Childs View from Gaza at Oaklands Museum of Childrens Art (MOCHA), the museum agreed to accept the exhibit. I have no doubt that if a group of yahoos decided to have a childrens film festival showcasing films that looked terribly like the racist The Birth of a Nation, it would have taken the museum directors six frames to decide on the inappropriateness of the subject matter, especially for a museum whose mission is to make all children feel safe and comfortable. Yet, initially, the museum had no trouble accepting the exhibit, allegedly the work of Gazas children, 8-11 years-old, that depicted Israeli soldiers committing grotesque acts of violence on innocent Palestinians. The exhibit was a crude propaganda display. It attributed to Israeli soldiers what Palestinian terrorists routinely do: target children. There was Maalot with 22 children dead out of 25, the attack on the nursery at Kibbutz Misgav Am with 2 children dead out of 3, the Dolphinarium bombing with 21 teens dead, and the long inventory of children and young people purposely targeted at discos, fast-food restaurants, and malls. Palestinian terrorists conduct willful campaigns of genocide by deliberately targeting children and places where young people are known to congregate. The Palestinian Authority celebrates these murderers as heroes, names public places after them, and holds them up as role models. The propaganda display at MOCHA turned reality on its head. And much of the art work seemed far and away too advanced for the age group. People who have some expertise in these matters saw the art as the work of much older and more sophisticated hands. Would Jewish children have felt safe and comfortable viewing this one-sided exhibit? Would the Jewish community have been then permitted to launch an exhibit titled The Art of Jewish Victims of Terrorism, depicting the consequences of death and destruction wrought by suicide bombings and rockets? And would that have made Arab children feel safe and comfortable? The exhibit was canceled because of the strong efforts of the Jewish communitys official organizations. Left-leaning to a fault, incredibly cautious about anything remotely looking like censorship, the community groups finally recognized that a line leading straight into the depths of perdition had been crossed. The Jew haters were hijacking a childrens museum for their filth. Those who had far too long tolerated the anti-Semitism of the Berkeley Daily Planet http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-demise-of-the-berkeley-daily-planet/ [4], the hostile environment http://spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=7075 [5] on the Berkeley campus, and the transformation of the local Hillel http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/whither-american-jewry-and-berkeleys-hillel/ [6] into a propaganda mill for the pro-Palestinian campus groups now saw something that even for them had gone too far. It reminded me of a scene in Solzhenitsyns Gulag Archipelago http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/01/home/solz-gulag.html [7].
[osint] Germany's Woeful Security Council Record
09/21/2011 10:42 AM Shrinking Influence Germany's Woeful Security Council Record By Ralf Neukirch Berlin had hoped that its current stint on the United Nations Security Council would ultimately be a springboard to permanent membership. The opposite has proven to be the case. The country's international influence is shrinking and diplomats in New York have lost faith in Germany. Peter Wittig is sitting in the briefing room of the United Nations Security Council, between his counterparts from India and Gabon. The Iranian nuclear program is on the agenda. Wittig is criticizing Tehran for its continuing violation of UN resolutions. The French and American ambassadors are in support of his position, while the Russian and Brazilian ambassadors see things somewhat differently. The back-and-forth once again highlights where the front lines are to be found in the Security Council, the most powerful body in the UN. The exchange is a reflection of which countries usually band together in the Security Council, the most powerful body of the UN. Such was the case, at least, until March 17 of this year. That was the day on which the Security Council passed its Resolution 1973 on Libya, which called for the implementation of a no-fly zone and the use of military force to protect the civilian population. All Western and African members of the council voted in favor of the resolution. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,783322,00.html Except for one. A Break with German Foreign Policy Wittig, the German UN ambassador, was forced to abstain from the vote, on instructions from Berlin. It was a decision which redrew the Security Council alliances -- Germany suddenly found itself grouped together with Russia, China, India and Brazil. More than that, the vote represented a http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,783043,00.html break with Germany's foreign policy maxim to never oppose its European partners and the United States. It was just one year ago that Germany was elected to serve a two-year stint as a non-permanent member of the council. The choice was seen as Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle's greatest success to date. And it was intended as a first step on the road to a UN reform and a permanent German seat on the council. But with Westerwelle in New York this week to attend another session of the UN General Assembly, Germany's record on the Security Council to date is worse than even the greatest pessimists had expected. The Germans had hoped to portray themselves as a force for good and to exert a positive influence on Western policies. Instead, Berlin must now prove to its partners that it remains reliable. Germany, at the moment, has little leeway at the UN. Furthermore, Berlin's declared goal of becoming a permanent Security Council member has receded far into the distance. Why should the Americans, French or British stand behind a partner who cannot be relied upon in an emergency? Its election last year to the council has harmed more than it has benefited Germany. Small Steps At the Deutsches Haus, located across from the UN headquarters building, Wittig tries to sell Germany's eight months on the Security Council as a success. The ambassador is a calm, competent man. He has an excellent reputation in New York, even among those who believe that the German government's foreign policy has been a failure. But it is Wittig who must take the blame for contradictions in German foreign policy; he cannot act against instructions from Berlin. And there are some successes he can point to. Under the German presidency, the Security Council approved a statement on climate protection and security policy. It wasn't easy, especially given the Russians' prolonged opposition. Wittig also mentions the resolution to protect children in armed conflicts, the result of a German initiative. Small steps to be sure, but important nonetheless. Still, big mistakes are of much greater consequence. A conversation with Wittig's counterparts on the Security Council reveals that the Libyan case still overshadows everything. The incident, after all, revealed a fundamental problem of German foreign policy. The German economy is one of the world's strongest and the country has the largest population in the European Union. It is natural, and perfectly legitimate, for Berlin to want a say in key issues. Strategy of Avoidance But the government cannot then limit its engagement to climate protection and the rights of children. Such issues are not morally complicated. But a country that is trying to win a permanent seat on the Security Council must also be prepared to answer the most important question when necessary: War or peace? Simple answers to that question are rare. Both Westerwelle and Chancellor Angela Merkel underestimated the impact of their strategy of avoidance http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,782757,00.html when it came to Libya. If there was a message behind
[osint] Beheading in Saudi
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/starcmc/ http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/beheading-in-saudi/ Beheading in Saudi http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/author/starcmc/ StarCMC | September 21, 2011 at 10:50 AM | Tags: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=beheading beheading, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=saudi-arabia Saudi Arabia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?tag=sharia Sharia | Categories: http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=4115925 Creeping Sharia, http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/?cat=29069 Sharia | URL: http://wp.me/pbU4v-9CO http://wp.me/pbU4v-9CO This time it's for practicing sorcery. Ah! Sharia law - ain't it grand? From ahramonline.com http://english.ahram.org.eg/~/NewsContent/2/8/21715/World/Region/Saudi-Arab ia-beheads-Sudanese-sorcerer.aspx : A Saudi Arabian ministry statement carried by the state news agency, SPA, stated that Abdul Hamid al-Fakki practiced witchcraft and sorcery, which are illegal under Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia law. Al-Fakki was beheaded in the western city of Medina on Monday, the interior ministry announced. In October last year, Amnesty International said it had appealed to King Abdullah in a letter to commute Fakki's death sentence. His execution brings to 42 the number of people beheaded in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP tally based on official and human rights group reports. In June, London-based watchdog Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia to stop applying the death penalty, saying there had been a significant rise in the number of executions in the previous six weeks. It said 15 people were executed in May alone. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi Arabia's strict interpretation of Islamic sharia law. Sharia law is evil. That is all. UPDATE - whoops! Sorry for the incorrect link! Fixed now. (Thanks for the heads up Un:dhimmi http://www.undhimmi.com !) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: osint-dig...@yahoogroups.com osint-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Saddam: What We Now Know
Re-examining the facts Audio of the article, and comments, at source. Further Note: In the comments there are several requests for documentation. In a short follow-up piece, the writer, Jim Lacey, explained that his article relies on the Duelfer Report as source. That piece is presented here ahead of the main article. There are 48 comments (so far) to that also--I included just one here. In that piece, Mr. Lacey provides a link to a report he and Kevin Woods prepared for the Federal Government: Iraqi Perspectives Report Saddam and Terrorism: Emerging Insights from Captured Iraqi Documents.The URL and material including the links to download the pdf are below the line of ==='s. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lace y http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey Saddam, WMD's, and Terror http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey September 15, 2011 7:28 P.M. By http://www.nationalreview.com/author/206811 Jim Lacey Regarding http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-l acey my most recent column, several commenters are asking for my sources on Saddam's WMD plans and links to terror. All of the WMD information comes from the Duelfer Commission Report particularly the second and third volumes. The report can be found http://www.gpoaccess.gov/duelfer/index.html here. The Left said this document proved there were no WMDs of course, they only read the executive summary. The commission was put together to look into what went wrong with prewar intelligence, and that is what they reported out on. However, in the two volumes no one bothered to read, the commission members detail all of the stuff that was actually present. You have to read almost to the end of volume three to learn about the real bio-warfare labs. As for Saddam's links to terror, http://www.archive.org/details/IraqiPerspectivesReportSaddamAndTerrorismEme rgingInsightsFromCaptured here is a short version of a report I co-wrote. All of the information in volume one of the report comes from captured Iraqi documents. There are four succeeding volumes in which all of the documents used are reproduced in the original Arabic and in translation. [Just one of the 48 comments to this piece. --J.]: Silent Cal : 09/20/11 08:04 I recall watching David Kay testifying on CSPAN many years ago and saying he thought Iraq was more dangerous then previously thought. Then I read the papers the next day and the gist was that there was no WMD, there was nothing going on, etc. The press completely ignored the most interesting parts of the testimony. Hmguess it did not fit the story line. MAIN ARTICLE: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-la cey# http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/277115/saddam-what-we-now-know-jim-l acey SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 4:00 A.M. Saddam: What We Now Know Bin Laden struck first, but Saddam was at least as big a terror threat. http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml http://podcast.outloudopinion.com/nro/nro.xml Listen to the Audio Version http://media.blubrry.com/outloudopinion/traffic.libsyn.com/nro/20110914Lace y.mp3 EDITOR'S NOTE: Additional sources for the information in this column are available http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/277391/saddam-wmd-s-and-terror-jim-lac ey here. Saddam Hussein was a WMD threat and a terror threat to the United States and its allies. Too many of the post-9/11 critics have forgotten or were never aware of this fact. Even in last week's NRO symposium, writers called the invasion of Iraq an unjust war, an optional war, and finally a result of the flawed intelligence that skewed the perceived threat posed by Saddam Hussein's regime to the United States. There is little doubt that the pre-war intelligence on Iraq was faulty, mostly because of Saddam's continuing attempts to convince Iran that he still maintained a potent WMD capacity despite years of sanctions. Unfortunately, in the years of recriminations following the invasion of Iraq the actual truth was lost, until it became commonplace for even those who supported the invasion to admit that Saddam did not pose a WMD threat. Likewise, as he was not responsible for the 9/11 attacks, many believe he was not a terror threat either. Before the consensus is written in stone, it is worth going over the evidence collected since the removal of the Saddam regime. Leaving aside the fact that he slaughtered more than a million of his own people and was prone to launching unprovoked wars against his neighbors both good reasons for his violent removal what threat did Saddam actually pose? Let's go through just a sliver of the evidence. SADDAM AND WMDS When American tanks
[osint] LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday
http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/ LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ barenakedislam | September 21, 2011 at 1:48 PM | Categories: http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/?cat=6479022 Islamization of the West | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-zR8 http://wp.me/peHnV-zR8 LAMPEDUSA: Muslim savages are rioting, attacking police and locals, after setting the Immigrant Centre on fire yesterday Posted: September 21, 2011 | Author: barenakedislam http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/author/barenakedislam/ | Filed under: Islamization of the West http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/category/islamization-of-the-west/ | http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/#comments 9 Comments Crazed Muslim barbarians from Tunisia and Libya are wilding in the streets, fighting police, and now they have started attacking and robbing the people of Lampedusa, while threatening to blow up gas stations. So why aren't the police shooting them dead yet? UK TELEGRAPH http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8778844/Lampedusa-fi re-Centre-burned-down-by-Tunisian-refugees.html (H/T Maria) The devastating fire started on Tuesday night when the Tunisian MUSLIM invaders, protesting against their immediate repatriation, allegedly set fire to their bed mattresses. The blaze reduced much of the controversial centre to a smoking ruin. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/migrants-gather-near-a-burning-caravan-on-a-pier-at-the-old-po rt-of-the-italian-island-of-lampedusa-4/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/07202649-66646a9b20e8dba7f 96d4b812c9c99632.jpg?w=590h=388 On Wednesday violence broke out between riot police and refugees on the island. Three Italian Carabinieri, a policeman and seven Tunisian MUSLIMS have been injured. (Only 7 wounded? Why aren't 7 or more dead?) The fire dealt a heavy blow to Italy's ability to deal with a continuing flood of refugees from North Africa in the wake of the popular revolts in Tunisia and Egypt and the civil war in Libya. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/illegal-immigrants-from-north-africa-arrive-on-the-southern-it alian-island-of-lampedusa-2/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/llegan-lampedusa-997-inmig rantes-tunecinos-pateras_1_589061.jpg?w=590h=385More than 48,000 Muslim rats have reached the shores of southern Italy since the start of the year. Many of the 1,200 MUSLIM invaders held in the centre fled like rats when three fires set by the invaders out late on Tuesday. As police stationed on the island rounded them up, the fires blazed out of control and destroyed three buildings in the complex. http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/lampedusa-blaze_1299280i/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/lampedusa-blaze_1299280i.j pg?w=590h=380The fires were allegedly lit deliberately by Tunisian MUSLIMS protesting against their imminent return home, having been ruled to be economic migrants rather than bona fide asylum seekers. Bernardino De Rubeis, the outspoken mayor of the island, said he had been warning the government in Rome for days that tensions among the migrants were increasing to breaking point. He said islanders were fed up with having to host so many MUSLIM savages. We're in a war, and the people will react. There are people here who want to go out into the streets armed with clubs. (Forget clubs, take guns) http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/lampedusa-muslim-savages-are -rioting-attacking-police-and-locals-after-setting-the-immigrant-centre-on-f ire-yesterday/photo_1302554551423-1-0/ http://barenakedislam.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/photo_1302554551423-1-0.jp g?w=590h=377 The mayor demanded that Italian navy ships be sent to the island immediately in order to transfer the migrants to camps in Sicily and the mainland. (Transfer? How about sending them back to Tunisia?) We can't understand why police and Carabinieri go in hard against fans in football fans - their own compatriots - while on Lampedusa it's completely different. We need a strong hand on the island too. People are tired of all this, they want to get back to living in peace.
[osint] The media’s love affair with a disastrous president
Sometimes foreign commentators either are off the mark, or have ‘no right’, but every now and then, even a foreign commentator can have useful insight. Rex Murphy is a crusty left oriented TV columnist. Canada.com Network http://www.canada.com/ nationalpost.com http://www.nationalpost.com/ financialpost.com http://www.financialpost.com/ http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/ Today's Paper http://www.nationalpost.com/contact/subscriptions/ Delivery http://www.nationalpost.com/contact/ Contact http://digital.nationalpost.com/epaper/viewer.aspx Digital Paper National Post http://www.nationalpost.com/ http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/category/full-comment/ Full Comment Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president Description: Larry Downing/Reuters Larry Downing/Reuters Since 2008, much of the Obama coverage has been nothing more than orchestrated sycophancy. · Comments http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/09/17/rex-murphy-the-medias-love-affair-with-a-disastrous-president/#disqus_thread · Email http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/email-form/?email-post=50938 · Twitter http://twitter.com/share?text=Rex+Murphy%3A+The+media%E2%80%99s+love+affair+with+a+disastrous+presidenturl=http%3A%2F%2Ffullcomment.nationalpost.com%2F2011%2F09%2F17%2Frex-murphy-the-medias-love-affair-with-a-disastrous-president%2Frelated=postedtoronto,nationalpostvia=fullcomment · · · Rex Murphy http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/author/rmurphynp/ Sep 17, 2011 – 7:00 AM ET | Last Updated: Sep 19, 2011 4:36 PM ET As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since. Much of the Obama coverage was orchestrated sycophancy. They glided past his pretensions — when did a presidential candidate before “address the world” from the Brandenberg Gate in Berlin? They ignored his arrogance — “You’re likable enough, Hillary.” And they averted their eyes from his every gaffe — such as the admission that he didn’t speak “Austrian.” The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jeremiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.” The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency. Palin, in particular, stands out as Obama’s opposite in the media’s eyes. As much as they genuflected to the one, they felt the need to turn rottweiler toward the other. If Obama was sacred , classy, intellectual and cosmopolitan, why then Palin must be malevolent, trashy, dumb and pure backwoods-ignorant. Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.) As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength. To the degree the press neglected its function as watchdog and turned cupbearer to a Styrofoam demigod, it is a partner in the flaws and failures of what is turning out to be one of the most miserable performances in the modern history of the American presidency. National Post Rex Murphy offers commentary weekly on CBC TV’s The National, and is host of CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup. · Posted in: Full Comment http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/category/full-comment/ , U.S. Politics
