[osint] Recommendations for the West
Recommendations for the West by Baron Bodissey http://fjordman.blogspot.com/ The Fjordman Report The noted blogger Fjordman is filing this report via Gates of Vienna. For a complete Fjordman blogography, see The Fjordman Files http://kleinverzet.blogspot.com/2006/02/fjordman-files.html . http://chromatism.net/images/bar400.gif The West at the beginning of the 21st century suffers from a lack of cultural confidence, and is in some ways engaged in an internal struggle over the very meaning of Western civilization. This ideological war within the West has helped paved the way for the physical war against the West that is waged by Muslim Jihadists, who quite correctly view our creed of Multiculturalism and our acceptance of Muslim immigration as signs of weakness and that the West has lost contact with its civilizational roots. Jan III Sobieski http://chromatism.net/current/images/sobieski.gif Perhaps we will need to resolve the war within the West before we can win the war against the West. When Westerners such as Polish king Jan III Sobieski led their troops to victory over the Turks in the 1683 Battle of Vienna, they fought for a number of reasons: Their country, their culture and their religion, among other things. People don't just need to live, they need something to live for, and fight for. We are against Islam. What are we for? I would suggest that one thing we should fight for is national sovereignty and the right to preserve our own culture and pass it on to future generations. We are fighting for the right to define our own laws and national policies, not to be held hostage by Leftist Utopians, unaccountable NGOs, transnational progressives or self-appointed guardians of the truth. - - - - - - - - - - Multiculturalism is wrong because not all cultures are equal. However, it is also championed by groups with a hidden agenda. Multiculturalism serves as a tool for ruling elites to fool people, to keep them from knowing that they have lost, or deliberately vacated, control over national borders. Leftists who dislike Western civilization use Multiculturalism to undermine it, a hate ideology disguised as tolerance. Multiculturalism equals the unilateral destruction of Western culture, the only unilateral action the West is allowed to take, according to some. There are also some libertarian right-wingers and Big Business supporters who see man only as the sum of his economic functions, as cheap labor and consumers, homo economicus. They believe not only in free markets but in free migration, and tend to downplay the impact of culture. They are Islam's useful idiots in the fight against the West. Although Leftists tend to be more aggressive, perhaps the dividing line in the internal struggle in the West is less between Left and Right, and more between those who value national sovereignty and Western culture and those who do not. End the nonsense of celebrating our differences. We should be celebrating our sameness and what binds us together. We should clean up our history books and school curricula, which have been infected with anti-Western sentiments. Upholding national borders has become more important in the age of globalization, terrorism and mass-migration, not less. No nation regardless of political system can survive the loss of its territorial integrity, but democratic states especially so. Those who don't want to uphold national borders are actually tearing down the very foundations of our democratic system, which is based on nation states. The fight for national sovereignty is thus the fight for democracy itself, since nobody has so far made any convincing model of a supranational democracy. We now have a political class who spend much of their time travelling around the world. They no longer feel as attached to the people they are supposed to represent as they did in the past. This is perhaps inevitable, but it feeds a growing sense of detachment between ordinary people and their supposed leaders. We need to remind our political leaders that we pay national taxes because they are supposed to uphold our national borders. If they can't do so, the social contract is breached, and we should no longer be required to pay our taxes. National taxes, national borders could become a new rallying cry. The West is declining as a percentage of world population, and in danger of being overwhelmed by immigration from poorer countries with booming populations. Westerners need to adjust our self-image to being less dominant in the 21st century. As such, we also need to ditch Messianic altruism: The West must first of all save itself. We have no obligation to save the Islamic world, and do not have the financial strength nor the demographic numbers to do so even if we wanted to. We are not all-powerful and are not in the position to help all of the Third World out of poverty, certainly not by allowing all of them to move here. We should take a break from massive immigration, also
[osint] The Pizza Connection; Easy Access to Fort Dix
The Pizza Connection; Easy Access to Fort Dix May 08, 2007 1:01 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/the_pizza_conne.html Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report: The six men charged with planning an attack to kill several hundred U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., thought they would have easy access to the base by pretending to deliver pizzas. In a criminal complaint filed this morning, an FBI agent writes that SERDAR TATAR's father owned a restaurant near Fort Dix and made deliveries onto the base. The father, owner of Super Mario's Restaurant, told ABCNews.com today that his staff often made pizza deliveries on to the base and to the nearby McGuire Air Force Base. The complaint says Tatar was able to acquire a map of Fort Dix, labeled Cantonment Area Fort Dix, N.J. and gave it to the five other men arrested by the FBI. Officials say the map was used by pizza delivery men to find their way around the base. According to the complaint, Tatar described a place at Fort Dix they could target that would cause a power outage and allow for an easier attack on the military personnel there. Tatar's father told ABCNews.com he talked to his son only yesterday, and there was no indication of anything unusual, no indication that his 24-year-old son harbored a deep hatred of the United States. There's something wrong here, the father said. I came here from Turkey in 1992, and this is my country. I love this country. He said his son had not worked at the restaurant for at least a year, and he believed his son was working at a 7-11 convenience store in Philadelphia. The criminal complaint tells a much different story, describing Tatar as suspicious of the FBI's undercover operative who infiltrated the group. Last November, Tatar allegedly contacted a sergeant in the Philadelphia police department to check the name of the undercover informant. The complaint quotes Tatar as telling the undercover operative, Whether you are or not (FBI), I'm gonna do it. Know why? It doesn't matter to me, whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away, it doesn't matter. Or I die, doesn't matter, I'm doing it in the name of Allah. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Police janitor was on terrorism watchlist
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/05/08/police_janitor_was_on_terro rism_watchlist/ Police janitor was on terrorism watchlist CHICAGO, May 8 (UPI) -- Background checks file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/# on a janitor at a police station in Chicago didn't reveal he was on the federal watchlist of terrorism suspects. The Chicago file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/# Sun-Times reported police discovered Arif Sulejmanovski, 47, was on the federal watchlist last week when officers ran a check on the license plate of his car, which was parked illegally outside the police station on the city's Northwest Side. Sulejmanovski, who worked for a contractor, was fired, and bomb-sniffing dogs swept the police station, the Sun-Times reported. Sulejmanovski began working as a supervising janitor at the police station and at two branches of the Cook County (Ill.) Circuit Court last month. The newspaper reported the janitor's name was added to the list a few years ago, apparently in a case in which he eventually pleaded guilty to bribing a public official to get a file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/# Social Security card for an illegal immigrant. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Four arrested over 7/7 London Bombings, including MS Khan's widow
Four arrested over London bombings http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/terror.arrest/index.html Story Highlights . Police arrested four people over 7/7 attacks on London's transport system . Suspects include three men and a woman, between the ages of 22 and 34 . UK counter terror police have been conducting covert investigations . Arrests come shortly after five British bomb plotters were sentenced to life LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police arrested four people with suspected ties to the 2005 train and bus bombings in London in a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation early Wednesday, a Scotland Yard statement said. Two men and a woman between the ages of 29 and 34 were arrested by officers from the Metropolitan Police Service Counter Terrorism Command in the West Yorkshire, England area. A fourth man, 22, was arrested in West Midlands. While the identities of the suspects have yet to be officially released, the woman being held is 29-year-old Hasina Patel, the widow of Mohammad Sidique Khan, one of the 7/7 suicide bombers, a Reuters report said. According to Scotland Yard, the four were arrested under the country's terrorism laws on suspicion of the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism. The suspects are being held in a central London police station while police are searching five addresses in West Yorkshire and two in Birmingham. No charges have been filed as yet. CNN's International Security Correspondent Paula Newton said the arrests follow an extensive and lengthy covert operation launched by Scotland Yard following the July 7 London bombings on the city's transport system that killed 52 people and injured 700. Newton said the investigation was an effort to discover who, if anyone, helped the 7/7 suicide bombers. The operation was also an effort to get into the neighborhoods where the suicide bombers lived to set up informants and surveillance. Prime suspects during the covert operation were friends and relatives of the four suicide bombers. But Newton said that many of them expressed shock at what the four men had done and denied any involvement in the attacks. Newton said more arrests were expected when authorities, during the first arrests made in the investigation a few months ago, released details about the police investigation and said there would be more arrests. This remains a painstaking investigation with a substantial amount of information being analyzed and investigated, a police statement said Wednesday. The statement added that investigations are being conducted to identify possible accomplices involved in the July 7 attack. We need to know who else, apart from the bombers, knew what they were planning, the statement said. Did anyone encourage them? Did anyone help them with money or accommodation? In late January, British police arrested seven people in the Birmingham area who allegedly planned to kidnap, torture and behead a British Muslim soldier in the UK. Two of them were released without being charged. These most recent arrests come approximately one week after five Britons were jailed for life after being found guilty of plotting to carry out al Qaeda-inspired bomb attacks across Britain on targets ranging from a nightclub to a shopping mall. The West Yorkshire Police are expected to offer more details on the terror-related arrests at a press conference later today. Reuters contributed to this report. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/terror.arrest/index.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web,
[osint] Terror Watch: The Jersey Plot
Terror Watch: The Jersey Plot
The feds bust up a homegrown jihadist plot to attack Fort Dix. Did Al Qaeda
DVDs and Web sites inspire the suspects from afar?
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek
Updated: 7:59 p.m. ET May 8, 2007
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18560956/site/newsweek/
May 8, 2007 - With the arrest of six men in New Jersey today, the FBI said
it had foiled a frightening terror plot intended to inflict mass casualties
at a major U.S. Army base. But nobody is breathing easy. The case is just
the latest example of how homegrown Islamic militants are indoctrinating
themselves in violent jihad theology by watching videos and surfing the
Web-without any apparent direction from Al Qaeda or other organized terror
groups.
There is no evidence that any of the six men implicated so far in the New
Jersey plot had any contact with Al Qaeda or any other terrorists overseas.
(The same is true of several-but not all-recent terror plots in Europe.) But
that doesn't mean their alleged conspiracy was any less alarming. According
to a detailed FBI affidavit, the suspects-four men from the former
Yugoslavia, a Turkish native and one U.S. citizen who was born in
Jordan-collected handguns, shot guns and semi-automatic assault rifles,
engaged in firearms training in the Pocono Mountains, undertook surveillance
of several U.S. military facilities and openly talked among themselves about
how to carry off multiple spectacular attacks against U.S. military
personnel.
He had only one mind, how to kill American soldiers, one of the plotters
is quoted as saying about a fellow co-conspirator, in a conversation
secretly recorded by the FBI on March 10, 2007.
The apparent leader of the group, Philadelphia taxi driver Mohammed Shnewer,
is quoted in the affidavit as telling a confidential FBI informant that he
envisioned using six or seven jihadists armed with rocket-propelled
grenades, or RPGs, to kill at least 100 soldiers at Fort Dix. Apparently
motivated by his fury at the U.S. military, Shnewer also allegedly talked
about timing another attack on a nearby U.S. naval base in Philadelphia
during a peak period just before the annual Army-Navy football game. (The
root cause of Shnewer's hatred of American armed forces has not yet been
made clear.)
You know where the stadiums are in Philadelphia? Shnewer is quoted as
telling a confidential FBI informant on March 16, 2007, according to the
affidavit. There is the Navy base and every year they have the Army-Navy
ball game and they come and stay one or two weeks . the Navy base will then
be full of people. .You see this is an opportunity, and the beauty of this
location, specifically, if you have the proper weaponry, is that you can hit
it from where, do you know? From New Jersey.
There is no evidence that the suspects ever acquired the RPGs that Shnewer
wanted to use. Nor does it appear that any of the plotting ever got much
beyond the talking stage. But the fact that such a plot could spring up
among U.S. residents-without any overseas guidance or instigation-may be the
most troubling aspects of the case, according to some U.S. security
officials and analysts.
What is most worrisome is that it is homegrown, disaffected young Muslims
who take actions and planning on their own rather than taking direction from
Al Qaeda, said Kenneth Katzman, a counterterrorism analyst with the
Congressional Research Service. This is what we have been expecting for
some time.
While the suspects' alleged terror plotting may not have been directed from
abroad, investigators believe they were inspired by Al Qaeda recruitment
videos and other martyrdom tapes downloaded from the Internet-an indication
that Osama bin Laden's message is reaching U.S. soil, even if his operatives
are not.
The FBI affidavit, attached as an exhibit to an FBI complaint seeking court
authority to arrest the six suspects, says that the Bureau first got wind of
the defendants early last year as a result of what sounds like a tactical
indiscretion. According to the FBI document, in late January 2006, someone
at an unidentified retail store got in touch with the Bureau about a video
that a customer had brought in to be transferred to a DVD. The store
representative told the FBI the DVD depicted activity which appeared
disturbing.
Upon screening the DVD, the FBI affidavit says, investigators found that it
showed 10 young men, all in their early 20s, shooting assault weapons at a
firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in
Arabic 'Allah Akbar' ('God is Great'). After viewing the video, the FBI
affidavit says, the Bureau and a joint terrorism task force immediately
opened an investigation into the people depicted in the DVD.
While the FBI affidavit says that the Bureau identified all 10 men who
appear on the DVD, the document only names six of them-the six defendants
arrested in the case. Authorities said that three of the Yugoslav natives
[osint] Radiation scanning at Port Qasim
http://www.dawn.com/2007/05/08/top9.htm Radiation scanning at Port Qasim WASHINGTON, May 7: The installing of a new radiation scanning system at Port Qasim follows US concerns that Pakistani ports can be used for smuggling out a nuclear weapon, says a senior US official. As fellow members of the world community, preventing a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb attack has to be one of the highest priorities for both our nations, said Jayson P. Ahern, a senior official at the US department for Customs and Border Protection. Mr Ahern, who is assistant commissioner for field operations at his department, said the initiative advances a comprehensive strategy to secure the global supply chain and substantially limits the potential for terrorist threats. The system allows testing of full-scale radiation scanning and X-ray imaging at Port Qasim, with near real-time data transmission to the host government and resources in the United States. Mr Ahern's statement, posted on the official Website of the US Customs and Border Protection, echo similar sentiments by other US experts who also see the possibility of terrorists acquiring a nuclear weapon in Pakistan as a major threat. In his book - At the Centre of the Storm - which was published last week, former CIA director George Tenet warned that Al Qaeda is desperate to acquire a nuclear bomb and has in the past worked with some officials of the Pakistani nuclear establishment to achieve this goal. US intelligence agencies 'established that Al Qaeda had clear intent to acquire chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons to cause mass casualties in the United States, he wrote. Such fears played a key role in the US decision to install the radiation detection facility at Port Qasim, which began transmitting last Monday to a monitoring system at the Department of Homeland Security in the US. The goal of the Secure Freight Initiative is to provide nuclear and radiological detection for shipping containers destined to the US. The Department of Homeland Security, and the Departments of Energy and State plan to establish six Secure Freight Initiative prototype ports in key locations around the world.This facility is a preventive tool in the global war on terror that will make our borders safer and will increase the economic efficiency of Pakistani exports, said US Charge d' Affaires Peter W. Bodde. It will also increase the security of the international supply chain for shippers utilizing Port Qasim, one of only three locations in the world selected for this testing phase, reflecting the close cooperation between our two countries. Port Qasim is part of the first group of ports installing integrated cargo scanning capabilities in Phase I of the Secure Freight Initiative. Under the initiative, the capability to scan 100 per cent of all cargo bound for the United States with radiation detection and non-intrusive imaging equipment will be evaluated at three initial ports. Secure Freight Initiative Executive Director Allen Gina reviewed current capabilities in Pakistan. We have reviewed operations at Port Qasim, one of our first ports testing the new integrated scanning system, and are very encouraged by the results. Data signals from both the first and second radiation portal monitors and the X-ray imaging system were received at the National Targeting Centre in the United States. Alarms were tested and the first container was processed, which did not activate alarms. No notification issues were raised. We now begin ramping up capabilities to scan all US-bound containers.Port Qasim was selected as an initial Secure Freight Initiative port due to the strong political will of the host nation, the unique nature of its operation in a strategic location, and its processing of a significant amount of transhipments. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for
[osint] A lesson in open-borders math
http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070507/OPINION/205070311/1 030/OPINION A lesson in open-borders math MICHELLE MALKIN The New York Times is always ready and willing to serve as lead public relations staffers for the open-borders movement. On May Day, the day of mass illegal alien protests across the country, the paper saw fit to print a front-page sob story decrying rising illegal alien deportations. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, facing intense political pressure to toughen enforcement (read: do their jobs), removed 221,664 illegal immigrants from the country over the last year, the Times reported ominously. That's an increase of more than 37,000 - about 20 percent - over the year before, according to the agency's tally. 221,664. Big number. It certainly sounds like we're getting serious about immigration enforcement, if you believe what the Times tells you. But you know better than that. It's what the paper didn't tell you that provides the truly alarming news. Far from a nation that takes its immigration laws seriously, we remain in a shoddy, dangerous state of immigration non-enforcement nearly six years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks - chaos that will only worsen if Congress and the White House join hands on a comprehensive illegal alien amnesty plan. In March, the Homeland Security Department's inspector general disclosed the feds have lost track of 623,292 fugitive illegal aliens. These absconders were apprehended by immigration officers, placed in the immigration court system, ordered out of the country and released. Never to be seen again. 221,664 removed illegal aliens vs. 623,292 released illegal alien fugitives. In other words: There are nearly three times as many officially designated illegal alien fugitives freed by the feds as there are illegal aliens who have been removed over the last year. This inconvenient truth was glossed over by the Times. So was this: Despite more than $204 million earmarked since 2003 for 52 special fugitive operations teams across the country, the backlog of fugitive alien cases has increased each fiscal year since the 'fugitive apprehension' program was established in February 2002. The DHS inspector general's office explains that thousands of illegal aliens ignore orders to appear at their immigration hearings. Of the 460,000-plus immigration judge decisions and administrative closures issued by the Executive Office of Immigration and Review between 2001- 2004, 39 percent were issued to illegal aliens who had been released but later failed to appear at their respective immigration hearings. And the total number of aliens failing to appear is increasing. In fact, according to DHS's Detention and Removal Office, 85 percent of the illegal aliens released that have been issued final orders of removal will abscond. That goes not just for illegal aliens from Mexico, but for illegal aliens from terror-friendly and terror-sponsoring nations. Homeland security? What homeland security? Compounding the danger: The federal Detention and Removal Office estimates that in 2007, there will be 605,000 foreign-born individuals admitted to state correctional facilities and local jails during the year for committing crimes in the U.S. Of this number, the office estimates half will be removable aliens. Currently, most of these incarcerated aliens are being released into the U.S. at the conclusion of their respective sentences due to the lack of DRO resources. That's upwards of 300,000 convicted criminal aliens who will walk out of their cells and onto the streets. Never to be seen again. Just doing the context-setting and number-crunching the rest of the mainstream media won't do. Now, back to your regularly scheduled, emotion- driven, one-sided coverage of America the Oppressor. Over to you, New York Times. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to
[osint] AP Ignored Al Qaeda 'Fingerprints' in Gaza Elementary School Attack
http://newsbusters.org/node/12579 AP Ignored Al Qaeda 'Fingerprints' in Gaza Elementary School Attack Did you know that the Palestinian Authority believes Al Qaeda-linked groups are trying to assassinate Palestinian political leaders and are responsible for Sunday's deadly attack on a co-ed children's festival at a UN-run elementary school in Gaza? What about the attackers using sharia law as the reason? No? Well, if you weren't reading a handful of the foreign press, you wouldn't know. What little US reporting there was, as is often the case, was based on the AP. Unfortunately, the AP omitted any Al Qaeda references, the rise of Salafism [which the article explained is a branch of Islam that is often referred to as Wahhabism-a derogatory term... to many adherents] as well as the other al-Qaida-linked groups terrorizing Gaza and the resulting violent enforcement of sharia: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1cid=1178431583621pagename=J Post%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The Jerusalem Post's Khaled Abu Toameh led with what should be the most important parts of this story, especially to US readers (emphasis mine throughout): Palestinian Authority security officials accused supporters of al-Qaida in the Gaza Strip of carrying out Sunday's attack on a UNRWA-run school [U.N. Relief and Works Agency] in Rafah in which one person was killed and six others were wounded. There is no doubt that al-Qaida is operating in the Gaza Strip, a senior PA security official said. Today's attack carries the fingerprints of al-Qaida. (...) Local residents and PA security officials said the attackers belonged to a new al-Qaida group identified with Salafism [Wahhabism] - a school of thought that takes the pious ancestors [Salaf] of the patristic period of early Islam as exemplary models. The Jerusalem Post also included this statement by Fatah legislator Majed Abu Shamalah, a speaker at the celebration whose bodyguard was killed in the attack: The celebration did not violate Islamic law, he said. These mercenaries do not represent the real Islam. I call on all Palestinians to stand against this bunch of ignoramuses who are leading the Palestinians toward the abyss. Doesn't that sound like big news? Not for the AP. The two AP articles written by http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/06/AR200705060 0672.html Diaa Hadid and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18517152/ Ibrahim Barzak refer to the attackers as either merely Palestinian militants or Muslim extremists. They also differed in explanations. The Jerusalem Post explained that PA senior officials and eyewitnesses said at least 70 Muslim fundamentalists at the school where both UNRWA and PA officials were present and began chanting slogans denouncing the event as immoral because they claimed girls and boys were asked to dance together in violation of Islamic teachings. While all three articles mentioned recent violence, only the Jerusalem Post linked it to Al Qaeda and explained the group's sharia crackdown: The Salafis and other al-Qaida-linked groups, including the Righteous Swords of Islam, are believed to be behind a series of attacks on young women, Internet cafes, hair salons, restaurants, schools and foreigners in the Gaza Strip over the past two years. The AP's Barzak ignored the reason for the violence and left out the ties to terrorism: While the sides have largely halted their attacks on each other, Gaza continues to be plagued by clan violence, kidnappings and other crime. The violence has included a string of attacks on Internet cafes, music stores and restaurants by Islamic extremists. After all of that, Barzak still couldn't explain the motive for the attack: It was not clear why the extremists objected to the event at the school in the town of Rafah, or whether they were behind the shooting, the officials said. The gunmen were masked, making identification difficult, security officials said. It isn't clear? In the past year, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas stated that Al Qaeda has spread to the West Bank and Gaza Strip and is active--a story the traditional US media largely ignores. In that spirit, the AP, one of the two main wire organizations which provide the source for much of the US media's news, did not include this troubling information about the PA linking the attack to Al Qaeda and targeting Palestinian political leaders. The news is there, the media just aren't reporting it. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT,
[osint] It's Official: Iraq Is Al-Qaeda's Central Front
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cmolin/2007/cdm_05081.shtml It's Official: Iraq Is Al-Qaeda's Central Front By Carol Devine-Molin May 8, 2007 Media overreaction appears to be the norm, particularly when the subject matter is Iraq. The Los Angeles Times and other publications are questioning whether there's a disconnect between Defense Secretary Robert Gates and the Bush administration regarding the troop surge strategy and the way forward in Iraq. Reportedly, Gates has been warning Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that progress is expected, while underscoring that the window of opportunity to get it right in Iraq is closing. So are we to believe that Gates is a loose cannon? That just doesn't sound plausible. In all probability, Gates is operating closely with the president and others in the administration to move the Iraqi government along at an acceptable pace. President Bush is under considerable pressure by the Congress to withdraw our troops if the Iraqi government can't make political strides among the various factions in a rather swift fashion. Unfortunately, the Democrat-led Congress is being shortsighted for reasons to be outlined herein. When the top commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, was recently in the capital to brief policy makers, he discussed the state of the Iraqi government: It is not a government of national unity. Rather, it is one comprised of political leaders from different parties that often default to narrow agendas and a zero-sum approach to legislation. Clearly, cooperation among the Iraqi parties needs to improve. But Gates knows that the time for results is now. The duly elected Iraqi government must yield progress on dividing oil revenues and conducting other business including passing a budget. Otherwise the Congress will continue with its political maneuverings and make troop funding difficult if not impossible. Although Iraq is certainly Jihad Central, for political reasons the Democrats refuse to acknowledge that the Iraq campaign is part and parcel of the war-on-terror. Which brings me to the unconscionable finagling of Democrats that are purposely obfuscating and redefining words to advance their political agenda and worldview. The following is illustrative of hardcore Leftist tactics: In an April 2007 press release from House Republican Leader John Boehner, the congressman states: The attempt by Democrats to erase the words 'global' and 'terror' from our current war is an absurd effort to deny the fact that America is battling terrorism on a global scale. How do Democrats expect America to fight and win a war they deny is even taking place? War? What war? As always, the Left is heavy-handed on the propaganda front. In answer to Boehner's query, obviously the Democrats don't expect us to win against terrorists, and they don't want us to win. The Democrat Party has well-earned its moniker as the anti-war surrender party, despite its protestations to the contrary. That being said, the political Left is committed to depriving the Republicans of any type of victory in warfare, especially in Iraq. On a broader scale, the Democrats will actively attempt to fend off circumstances that could possibly play out favorably for the GOP and impinge on the Democrat Party's ability to win elections. Now let's examine the political landscape: Foremost, it's vital to understand that Democrat elites will say and do anything to implement their agenda, even if their strange machinations are tantamount to twisting themselves into pretzels. As to the issue of Iraq? The political Left wants us out of Iraq, demanding that our troops pursue al-Qaeda, the perpetrators of 9/11. At a superficial glance, the Left's stance appears valid, but, wait, it's totally off the mark! It's now indisputable that Iraq is the primary front for al-Qaeda! If you want to fight al-Qaeda, there's actually no better place than Iraq. General David Petraeus recently stated: Iraq is, in fact, the central front of al-Qaeda's global campaign. Frankly, this has been known for a considerable period, but nevertheless it was Petraeus' turn to put it on the record. One has to ask what's really motivating the Democrats and why they've been obsessed with troop withdrawal from Iraq. The simple truth is that the Democrats and their Leftist cohorts are terrified that our troops might make notable strides in Iraq, which would redound to President Bush and the GOP. That being said, the Left doesn't want our forces where al-Qaeda can be successfully engaged, which, of course, is in Iraq. And for this reason, the Republican rank and file cannot stomach the Leftist elites who are willing to sell out this nation for the sake of political expediency. Doesn't the Left realize that sooner or later the American people will get wise to their political chicanery? Our troops are exactly where they should be - in Iraq - which has become something of a cause celeb for members of al-Qaeda. It must be remembered that a
[osint] 80 Al-Qaeda terrorists attack the independent Radio Dijla
http://nahrain.com/d/news/07/05/08/nhr0508a.html 80 Al-Qaeda terrorists attack the independent Radio Dijla On World Press Freedom Day, coinciding on Thursday 3rd of May 2007, about 80 terrorists of Al-Qaeda network launched an attack on the headquarters of Radio Dijla in Baghdad, killing the head of security Mr Adel Al-Badri and injuring two other guards. This assault was preceded by a failed attempt to abduct four employees as they rode to the station in a company van at 08:30am. Eyewitnesses noticed a group of gunmen closing all ways leading to the radio station before storming the building with RPG missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and 500mm calibre machineguns. Assailants succeeded to make their way through the front entrance, but they could not carry on upstairs as they were confronted with a brave and fierce resistance that lasted about 45 minutes inside the stations corridors. An hour later, National Guard forces showed up despite the fact that their control point falls in a close distance to Radio Dijla, which is about 500 metres. The soldiers gave our employees 15 minutes to get in their military vehicles before withdrawing to a safer place within the capital. After a short time, the terrorists returned to the radio headquarters and occupied the building for thirty hours before setting it ablaze. In spite of being informed and during such a long period, no positive action by the Iraqi authorities was noted. The situation was treated with negligence, and as a consequence, Radio Dijla was left a smouldering. The terrorists indeed succeeded in destroying our walls and equipment, but not our will to continue being a voice for all Iraqis. In their heroic resistance to the attack, our staff became a symbol for all journalists who defend the truth with their own lives. We intend to be back on air as soon as possible, but this time with more power, resilience and determination. Radio Dijla is the first independent radio station in Iraq. The station went on air for the first time in the 25th of April 2004. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] FW: A Bloody Lie of George Tenet
http://uruknet.info/?p=m32701 http://uruknet.info/?p=m32701s1=h1 s1=h1 A Bloody Lie of George Tenet How many lies is George Tenet allowed to tell on TV before he immolates the last shred of credibility? Judging by his latest sad performance on Meet the Press I would say his time is up. Tenet insisted to Tim Russert today that he was crystal clear in debunking the assumption that Al Qaeda and Iraq were in cahoots: Well, Tim, Tim, I will tell you that I had many conversations, particularly on Iraq and al-Qaeda, particularly on the terrorism question, where we drew the line as sharply as we knew how. We were very, very clear about our judgements. We worked very, very hard to make sure that people comported and stayed within the bounds of what the intelligence showed. But George Tenet can't keep his stories straight. For example, as has been widely reported, he starts his book off with an inaccurate account of a conversation with neocon and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle. It is the day after 9-11, Perle is stuck in France, yet Tenet writes that he saw Perle exiting the White House and talking about attacking Iraq. Leave it to George Tenet to make Richard Perle sound sane. George Tenet wants gullible book buyers to believe that he always disputed the notion that Saddam and the 9-11 attackers were working in concert. But the words and actions of George Tenet tell a radically different story. A damning one at that. In March of 2002 George Tenet said: There is no doubt that there have been contacts and linkages of al-Qaeda organization. As to where we are in September 11, the jury is out. . . . . Their ties may be limited by divergent ideologies, but the two sides' mutual antipathy toward the United States and the Saudi royal family suggest that tactical cooperation between them is possible. Why did George Tenet leave open the window of doubt on this critical issue when he now insists that there was no there there? But wait, there is more. CIA Deputy Director, John McLaughlin, sent a letter responding to a query from Senator Evan Bayh on October 7, 2002 that said: Regarding Senator Bayh's questions of Iraqi links to al-Qaeda, senators could draw from the following points for unclassified discussions. One, We have solid reporting of senior level contact between Iraq and al-Qaeda going back a decade. Two, Credible information indicates that Iraq and al-Qaeda have discussed safe haven and reciprocal aggression. Three, Since Operation Enduring Freedom, we have solid evidence of the presence in Iraq of al-Qaeda members, including some that have been in Baghdad. And lastly, We have credible reporting that al-Qaeda leaders sought contacts in Iraq who could help them acquire WMD capabilities. The reporting also stated that Iraq has provided training to al-Qaeda members in the areas of poisons and gases and making conventional bombs. Did anyone hear George Tenet at the time remind anybody that there was no operational tie between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda? He chose to say nothing. Did he challenge those - like Dick Cheney - who suggested there was a substantive ongoing relationship? Nope. George Tenet said nothing to dispel that false conclusion. That same day (October 7, 2002) President Bush gave a speech in Cincinnati, Ohio (this is the famous speech in which Tenet excised the reference to Niger, Iraq, and uranium) and said the following: And that is the source of our urgent concern about Saddam Hussein's links to international terrorist groups. Over the years, Iraq has provided safe haven to terrorists such as Abu Nidal, whose terror organization carried out more than 90 terrorist attacks in 20 countries that killed or injured nearly 900 people, including 12 Americans. . . . We know that Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network share a common enemy - the United States of America. We know that Iraq and al Qaeda have had high - level contacts that go back a decade. Some al Qaeda leaders who fled Afghanistan went to Iraq. These include one very senior al Qaeda leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year, and who has been associated with planning for chemical and biological attacks. We've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda members in bomb - making and poisons and deadly gases. And we know that after September the 11th, Saddam Hussein's regime gleefully celebrated the terrorist attacks on America. George Tenet's CIA approved this language and Tenet was familiar with the speech because he had called the White House to protest another portion of the speech. This provides circumstantial evidence for Richard Dearlove's (George Tenet's British counterpart) now famous memo (the Downing Street Memo) that the facts and the intelligence were being fixed around the policy of going to war with Iraq. In my day we called it cooking the books and George Tenet was one of the chefs. Tenet's participation in the hoodwinking of the American public continued when, on February 4, 2003
[osint] Canadian Terror suspects upset over jail conditions
http://www.mississauganews.com/mi/news/story/3961164p-4573822c.html Terror suspects upset over jail conditions Louie Rosella May 8, 2007 The lawyers for 10 men charged in connection with an alleged homegrown terrorist cell that police say operated out of a Meadowvale mosque say their clients are enduring cruel and unusual punishment. Lawyers are appearing before a Superior court judge in Brampton this week to change jail conditions for their clients. Details of the proceedings remain under a publication ban The 10 accused are being held in solitary confinement at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton and are allowed out for only 20 minutes a day, their lawyers say. They have been in segregation since their highly publicized arrest last June and it could be months, if not years, before their cases go to trial. Prolonged isolation is torture, said lawyer Edward Sapiano, who represents Yasin Mohammed, 23. The Supreme Court of Canada has expressly stated that prolonged isolation is not something that would survive a charter challenge. One of the reasons the 10 accused are segregated from the prison population is because the Crown Attorney's Office wants them not to communicate prior to their trial. Sapiano said the suspects communicate with each other while being transported to and from court, and inside the courtroom, among other areas. The lawyers want a non-communication order issued by the Crown to be dismissed. Proceedings are expected to last two weeks. The men in being held segregation are among 18 adults and youths arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and other police forces last June. The group had allegedly planned to storm Parliament and take hostages. Some were also linked to an alleged plot to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The youngest of the 18 had charges against him stayed earlier this year. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Hollywoodistan v Real Life: Should We Fear Islam Or Islamophobia?
http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2769 http://globalpolitician.com/articledes.asp?ID=2769cid=1sid=19 cid=1sid=19 Hollywoodistan v Real Life: Should We Fear Islam Or Islamophobia? Fjordman - 5/9/2007 I have heard some people say that Western popular culture will destroy Islam. That is possible, but we need to remember that this is not a one-way street. What if the opposite happens? Sometimes the barbarians also influence the civilized people, and there is a disturbing amount of understanding for terrorists in Western movies and media these days. Creeps come crawling out of the woodwork, more or less cheering for the terrorists who are trying to bring society down. There are probably always people who are drawn to blood and mayhem. They would like to destroy the current political order, but arent capable of doing it themselves, so they end up as cheerleaders for those who are attempting to do so. Lets call them terrorist groupies. Im not just talking about the Oscar-nominated suicide bomber film Paradise Now. There are others examples of this mentality. V for Vendetta is a recent movie made by the Wachowski brothers, the men behind the modern sci-fi classic The Matrix. It is set in Britain about a generation from now. The USA has dissolved into chaos and civil war after its involvement in a prolonged war in the Middle East. Great Britain has become a Fascist state. The protagonist, a freedom fighter named V, wants to ignite a revolution and brags about how blowing up a building can change the whole world. He is wearing a Guy Fawkes mask to conceal his identity, and proclaims that he wants to finish at November 5th what Fawkes tried to do in the so-called Gunpowder Plot in 1605: Blowing up Parliament. He gets an accomplice in this task, a young girl named Evey, played by Israeli-born actress Natalie Portman. Portman cites a popular British rhyme that is often quoted on Guy Fawkes Night: Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot. During the movie, we see a gay man keeping a 14th century Koran in a secret room in his house, because he enjoys the beautiful poetry and imagery in it. He is later executed when the authorities discover this, as the Koran is now banned and Muslims are oppressed. What beautiful imagery we are never told. And slay them wherever ye catch them? I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them? At the same time, the Church is shown to be a place of filth, corruption and hypocrisy. Islam is good and misunderstood, Christianity is bad and oppressive. In the final scene of V for Vendetta, the British Parliament is blown up, with hundreds of thousands of people in Guy Fawkes masks watching and Tchaikovskys 1812 Overture blasting from loudspeakers, fireworks crackling and Natalie Portman smiling. * In Hollywoodistan, gays admire the beauty of the Koran. In real life, gays are physically attacked in increasing numbers by Muslims in Europe, and death squads are targeting gays in Islamic countries such as Iraq. * In real life, a gay man, Pim Fortuyn, was de facto executed for criticizing Islam, after having been demonized by Dutch media and the Dutch establishment for Islamophobia and hate speech. * In Hollywoodistan, the Koran has been banned on pain of death in Britain. * In real life, British PM Tony Blair has called Islam progressive and praised the Koran for being practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance. * In Hollywoodistan, Muslims in London are ruthlessly persecuted. * In real life, London has become the Islamic terrorist capital of the entire world, as demonstrated by writer Melanie Phillips in her book Londonistan. * In Hollywoodistan, native Fascists kill British civilians to spread fear and terror and soften them for their goal of overthrowing democracy. * In real life, the only Fascists trying to do this are Muslims, following the example of their prophet Muhammad who bragged about how he had been made victorious by terror. After the Jihadist terror bombings in London in July 2005, not a single Muslim cleric has been expelled from Britain. Historian David Starkey warned that Britain was in danger of sleepwalking into a new era of religious intolerance, as in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What today might be described as thought crimes, such as expressing any sympathy for suicide bombers, would in previous eras have been termed heresy, he said. The right response to the bombings was that Britain should become more tolerant towards Islam. A Chester professor, Ron Geaves, has stated that the attacks that killed 52 people were not the acts of terrorists but just an extreme Muslim demonstration and that the word terrorism is a
[osint] Terror and Internet: Mapping Online Jihad
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/05/terror_and_internet_mapping_on_1.php Terror and Internet: Mapping Online Jihad By Animesh Roul Of late, there is a spurt of literatures regarding the threat of 'online Jihad' (threat about the use of internet web space in fueling, fostering Jihadi terrorism). Terrorist organizations and their sympathizers do maintain Web sites taking advantage of the unregulated, anonymous, and easily accessible nature of the Internet. Thanks to Web logs, discussion groups and social networking groups and free upload servers where one doesn't need to hire a webmaster or to book a server space to run the agenda. It is in common knowledge now that they target a variety of audiences to exploit for raising funds, recruitment, and to spread propaganda, even plan and launch attacks and to publicize their mind-blowing results. Even they have web journals like Technical Mujahid (first ever released late November 2006 al-Fajr Information Center) with a detailed know-how of computer and Internet knowledge and security designed for terrorists only. It is a major concern now in Western Counter terror circle. Large chunks of funding have been channelized to track, translate and thwart jihadi plans before they unleash any mayhem. However, it was non existent in US, UK and Europe before 9/11 and it is now under debate in South Asia and SE Asia. Of course fellow CTBlogger and expert Evan F. Kholman has observed earlier in his work(s) [e.g in http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901faessay85510/evan-f-kohlmann/the-real -online-terrorist-threat.html The Real Online Terrorist Threat Foreign Affairs, Sept/Oct 2006] that even CIA and FBI leaderships gave internet a second thought in their activities in the past. But however, they have mended their misgivings soon after. Also works and observations of http://bookstore.usip.org/books/AuthorDetail.aspx?id=11209 Gabriel Weimann (Haifa University Professor, Israel) on http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr116.html Online Jihad are noteworthy and kind of path breaking in this regard. Early last month I had a chance to be part of a discussion on Online Jihad movement, in New Delhi [at a http://www.idsa.in/events/weekly-seminars.htm Government funded think tank (April 04: Jihadi Propaganda in Cyberspace]. The deliberation largely focused on the global scenario and how India is vulnerable, who are the players and potential outfits that pose a threat to India and is there an online threat lurking or not in the subcontinent. Though the threat has been acknowledged in the forum, the larger threat is either overlooked or underestimated as the region is yet to witness this kind of development in cyberspace and largely on the premise that Arabic language Jihadi portals won't have much impact in the Hindi, Urdu and Bengali speaking Jihadi elements (from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). The discussions though touched upon many issue regarding the online threat, possible actors, target groups and last but the least regarding how to monitor and map these phenomenon. Most part of it agreed on the DOS format IP address tracking, to use Alexa.com and Ranking.com to find out Unique users, visting sessions and page views and most importantly geographic locations (physical distribution of memberships/visitors) where most of the hits are coming. Coincidentaly, when these discussion and brain stormings were underway in Delhi, there has been one important work going on in Singapore which later published as a three page commentary. I would like to highlight Rebecca Givner-Forbes and Clay Shwery's paper on http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=17535 Mapping the Electronic Jihad (Originally published on April 25, 2007 in RSIS, Singapore). The authors did analysis using Alexa.com's tools and reached the conclusion that bulk of visits to jihadi websites come from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region (with 78 per cent) than previously speculated European countries (4.8 percent), where there are large Muslim Diaspora communities with high internet penetration. The generated data also indicated around forty countries around the globe have some percentage (even if negligible) of representation. However, they didnt provide information on the 10 most influential and important jihadi web forums used in the research. In an analysis of 10 of the most influential and important jihadi web forums, we observed that 78.1 percent of visits came from Middle Eastern and North African countries. Visits from nations in the Americas were at a distant second, at around 5.9 percent. Visits originating in European countries made up 4.8 percent of the total. Only 1.4 percent of visits to jihadi websites came from East Asia. Roughly 1.5 percent came from Pakistan, and another 1 percent from Australia (the remaining came from countries whose visit numbers on each site were too small to produce data in the alexa.com program). Although the authors gave a description of
[osint] White House dismisses criticism that Guard lacks equipment
http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6483437 White House dismisses criticism that Guard lacks equipment because it's in Iraq TOPEKA, Kan. The White House is rejecting criticism from the governor of Kansas that the war in Iraq has exposed holes in disaster response to events like the Greensburg tornado. Governor Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) says much of the National Guard's equipment and some key personnel are in Iraq. She says the lack of resources has hurt the response to the twister that killed nine and virtually wiped out the town. But White House spokesman Tony Snow says the National Guard has equipment in place around the country to respond when states need it. Sebelius says she's written to the Pentagon about the problem and that she'll discuss it with President Bush when he visits Greensburg tomorrow. Randy Noller, spokesman for the National Guard Bureau, says equipment needs have been an ongoing issue during the war and there have been repeated funding requests to Congress. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Illegal arms regularly reach Hezbollah via Syrian border
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/857129.html Ban: Illegal arms regularly reach Hezbollah via Syrian border file:///C:/hasen/images/0.gif By Reuters file:///C:/hasen/images/0.gif UNITED NATIONS - Illegal arms traffic into Lebanon across the Syrian border, mainly to Hezbollah fighters, is reported to be taking place on a regular basis, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. In a report to the UN Security Council, Ban said news of arms shipments, including detailed and substantial reports from Israel, and other nations, showed the need for a team he was sending to propose ways of monitoring of the border. Such transfers are alleged to be taking place on a regular basis, Ban wrote. I am deeply worried that the political crisis in Lebanon may be deepened and exacerbated by arms smuggling, most of which are reported to reach the opposition Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah movement. file:///C:/hasen/images/0.gif The secretary-general was reporting on resolution 1559, adopted in 2004 that called for all foreign forces to withdraw from Lebanon and for the Beirut government to assert its control throughout the country. Two years ago all Syrian troops left Lebanon. Syria has repeatedly denied any involvement in arms trafficking and told Ban, during his April 24 trip to Damascus, that it would work with the United Nations toward peace and stability in the region. Ban also singled out Israel Air Force jets and unmanned aerial overflights and said again he had asked the government to cease fully these violations of Lebanon sovereignty. Lebanon is going through its worst political crisis since the 1975-90 civil war, marked by a series of murders of anti-Syrian figures, which many in the government blame on Damascus. Syria has denied involvement. Hezbollah, backed by Iran and Syria, says it gained strength when Israel invaded last summer in retaliation for the abduction of two Israel Defense Force reserve soldiers in a cross-border raid. Hezbollah and other pro-Syrian political figures call the current pro-Western government illegal. Ban noted that the prolonged political crisis has paralyzed Lebanon, raising fears that agreements in the aftermath of the civil war may unravel, lead to widespread rearming and thus raise the specter of renewed confrontation among Lebanese. I am concerned that the existing public and media discourse - whether based on evidence or speculative - may in fact accelerate, if not prompt, a domestic arms race in Lebanon, with unforeseeable consequences, Ban warned. Ban, in his report, stressed the necessity of demarcating the Lebanese-Syrian border and for diplomatic relations to be established between Beirut and Damascus as an important measure to affirm strict respect for Lebanon's sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence. He also said that there was a growing threat from armed extremist Islamist groups who have found safe haven in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Storekeeper Tipped Feds to Jihad Video
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=localid=5284731 id=5284731 Storekeeper Tipped Feds to Jihad Video Officials say a shopkeeper alerted the FBI to a plot to attack soldiers at Fort Dix. _ According to the complaint, he told the FBI about a disturbing video he had been asked to copy onto a DVD. The complaint says the video showed ten men in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range ... while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic God is Great. Six of the ten were identified as those arrested in the plot. The man's name and the store were not disclosed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Malkin on Ft. Dix's John Doe
Subject: Malkin on Ft. Dix's John Doe Terrorist plot in Cherry Hill, NJ; illegal aliens among alleged plotters; a John Doe turned them in; press conference at 2:30pm Eastern; Fort Dix has been a refuge for ethnic Albanians; details from the complaint; Dix responds By http://michellemalkin.com/ Michelle Malkin . http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007477.htm May 08, 2007 08:26 AM http://www.dix.army.mil/dixgarrison/default.html http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007477.htm Update: The names of the suspects via one of the filed http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/Duka%20complaint.pdf complaints: Dritan Duka (illegal alien); Eliver Duka (illegal alien); Shain Duka (illegal alien) Serdar Tatar (the pizza deliverer...his family owns a pizzeria near Ft. Dix) Mohamad Shnewer; Agron Abdullahu Via Allahpundit: According to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/08/terror/main2773084.shtml CBS News, Shnewer is from Jordan and is the lone (naturalized) U.S. citizen of the six; Tatar, from Turkey, and Abdallahu, from the former Yugoslavia, are legal permanent residents. The illegal alien Duka brothers are also from the former Yugoslavia. From the FBI affidavit, here's the John Doe moment: dixaffidavit.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/dixaffidavit.jpg The plotters watched videos of armed attacks on US soldiers, studied the last will and testament of at least two of the 9/11 hijackers, and watched bin Laden exhortations to jihad. They plotted with an FBI informant: dixaffidavit002.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/dixaffidavit002.jpg Here's a glimpse at their surveillance trips: dixaffidavit003.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/dixaffidavit003.jpg They trained, stocked up on weapons, and plotted for the next six months. By February, they were up to this: dixaffidavit004.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/dixaffidavit004.jpg At one point, they contemplated joining the military to wage jihad from the inside: dixaffidavit005.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/dixaffidavit005.jpg Update: Fort Dix responds: FORT DIX SECURITY REMAINS STRINGENT Security at Fort Dix remains stringent in the wake of arrests Monday of six men who were allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on the post. This alleged attack is a reminder that we are a nation at war, and that each of us must be vigilant and aware of our surroundings. On a positive note, the Fort Dix and McGuire AFB law enforcement community has partnered with the FBI and local communities during this lengthy investigation to ensure the safety of our joint installations. Mobilization and training continue as scheduled at Fort Dix, which has mobilized and demobilized more than 95,000 Soldiers since September 11. Those passing through checkpoints onto Fort Dix will notice more frequent vehicle searches and strict adherence to a 100 percent ID check, which may slow traffic. *** The Philadelphia Inquirer reports on a http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_top/20070508_Report__Terrorists_arrest ed_in_Cherry_Hill__plotted__Fort_Dix_attack.html thwarted terrorist plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix: (hat tip- reader David B.) The FBI arrested five people in Cherry Hill and one in Pennsylvania last night for an alleged plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, a federal official said. Some of the six men, who are Algerian [Albanian] citizens, tried to purchase automatic weapons from a local gun dealer, the source said. Carolee Nisbet, a public information officer at Fort Dix, said: I understand that they weren't just targeting Fort Dix, that it was a multiple-base plan to attack several bases in the Northeast. She declined to elaborate. At the base this morning, Nisbet said: They are going to make the security procedures more stringent, but we're not going to increase the threat level. We are just going to make people more aware of their surroundings. WNBC-TV in New York reports that three of the men are brothers and followers of Islam, and have lived in the United States for several years. Five of the men are expected to be arraigned in federal court in Camden today. Updates galore http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/08/breaking-feds-bust-six-in-nj-plot-to- murder-troops-at-fort-dix/ here and http://confederateyankee.mu.nu/archives/225639.php here. http://pajamasmedia.com/2007/05/fort_dix_murder_plot_foiled.php PJM notes that a press conference is scheduled for 2:30pm Eastern. http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/05/6_arrested_in_plot_to_kill_sol.htm l This won't be a surprise to many of you. Not to me: Federal investigators last night arrested six Islamic radicals who were planning a heavily-armed attack against soldiers at Fort Dix as part of a jihad against America, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. In a statement released this morning to confirm a report on The Star-Ledger's Web site, the U.S. Attorney's Office said the men planned to kill as many soldiers as possible. Officials
[osint] Once-dying N.M. town now thrives as anti-terror training ground
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/50936.php Once-dying N.M. town now thrives as anti-terror training ground The Associated Press http://gcirm.tucson.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/news.tucsoncitizen.com/s tories/local/733224154/300x250_1/OasDefault/MHIA_Geo2/MHIA_300x250F.gif/3433 6134653133343436343062623730 http://gcirm.tucson.com/RealMedia/.ads/adstream_lx.ads/news.tucsoncitizen.c om/stories/local/733224154/300x250_1/OasDefault/MHIA_Geo2/MHIA_300x250F.gif/ 34336134653133343436343062623730?_RM_EMPTY_ PLAYAS, N.M. - Inside an adobe house in New Mexico's remote southwestern corner, a terrorist cell has set up shop. Outside, a 12-member SWAT takes up positions, slaps an explosive on the door, blows it in, storms the place, and opens fire, the pop-pop-pop echoing through the desert. Within moments, the terrorists are dead. The town is saved, at least for the day. Because tomorrow, the same SWAT team will have its hands full again, this time confronting a suicide bomber. Playas was once a real community, a place where people raised families, went to work and sent their kids off to school. But now, practically the entire town of more than 250 houses and other buildings is one big, realistic-looking training ground for U.S. law enforcement officers being schooled in anti-terrorism techniques. In the burst of anti-terrorism spending that followed Sept. 11, the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology bought the once-dying town four years ago, using a $5 million Homeland Security Department grant. The university now owns and operates the place, offering instruction to the Pentagon, Homeland Security, the FBI, National Guard units and state and local police departments from around the country. Hardly anyone actually lives in Playas. It is like a movie set, with authentically furnished homes that exist solely for training purposes. Nineteen-year-old Trent Johnson, who grew up in Playas and whose family owns a nearby ranch, has grown accustomed to helicopters overhead. You see soldiers walking down streets. You see tanks and Humvees, he said. You sometimes feel like you live on an Army base. Playas, about 300 miles southwest of Albuquerque, was built in the mid-1970s by a mining company to house workers and had about 1,500 residents at its peak during the '80s. But a nearby copper smelter closed in 1999, and many people moved away. By the time New Mexico Tech came in and bought the 259 company-owned homes and other structures - including apartment houses, a community center, grocery store, medical clinic, airstrip, bank and six-lane bowling alley - Playas was down to 60 or so people. All were given the option to stay, and about 50 are still here. But they were relocated to a few streets on the town's south side. Most of them are now on the university payroll as police officers, security guards, landscapers, custodians and other maintenance workers. Johnson complained it has been two years since he has seen the home where he grew up; it is now in one of the town's heavily restricted areas. Brenda Manos, the training center's business manager, also grew up in Playas and recalls Fourth of July parties and active troops of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. When the smelting plant closed, weeds overtook yards and homes fell into disrepair. It was very depressing, she said. People you knew your whole life were gone. There were rumors the town would be bulldozed. Since New Mexico Tech came in, it's been very positive. They really have taken care of the residents. Still, Manos finds it frustrating she cannot move freely around town anymore. The change was very, very hard for a lot of people, she said. Such restrictions are necessary, administrators said, because of the danger and the sensitivity of the training exercises. The New Mexico town is part of a federal consortium that includes emergency-response training centers in Alabama, Nevada, Texas and Louisiana. New Mexico Tech, whose main campus is in Socorro, about 70 miles south of Albuquerque, opened the Playas training center nearly three years ago. It is a mostly fenced-off expanse, a mile square. Visitors must check in at a main gate. From there, only the residential area, a conference center and the business park are accessible to outsiders, and only under escort. Rows of suburban-style homes make up other parts of town, which are designated for scenarios involving explosives, chemical or biological training. Red lights flash atop locked gates and a siren wails just before training sessions start. One section of town has video cameras mounted on street poles and inside every room in every house. The footage is fed to a control center, where participants can analyze the action on giant screens, like a football team breaking down a game film. Most of the homes are made to appear inhabited - a box of crackers on a refrigerator, wall hangings, playing cards on a table, toys in the yard. And there are lots of places for terrorists to
[osint] Practice in the Poconos: U.S. Details How Men Prepared
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/nyregion/09complaint.html Practice in the Poconos: U.S. Details How Men Prepared By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/alan_feuer/ind ex.html?inline=nyt-per ALAN FEUER New York Times May 09, 2007 It was a terror plot that hinged, in no small part, upon a map snatched from a http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessio ns/newjersey/index.html?inline=nyt-geo New Jersey pizzeria. The plotters honed their shooting skills on semiautomatics at the firing range, though they also spent time conducting what the authorities called tactical training by playing paintball in the woods. They seemed to be prepared: with terror training tapes, with computerized ballistic simulations, even with what appeared to be a template of the last will and testament drawn up by two of the hijackers from Sept. 11. At the same time, one of the men worried aloud to a government informer: I just want to be safe, brother. I got five kids, so I don't want to go down. The narrative of a foiled terror plot spelled out in the federal complaint issued yesterday by officials in New Jersey is full of tiny moments that are clearly chilling yet undeniably strange. Certainly, the 27-page document describing a plot to kill soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey stands out as one of the more detailed descriptions to emerge so early in a terrorism case during the last few years. While the document paints a picture of a bloody-minded, though occasionally unsophisticated, plot, it is worth recalling that acts of terror - even deadly ones - have often included glaring strategic flaws in the past. One of the terrorists in the 1993 scheme to destroy the World Trade Center, in fact, returned to a rental office to claim his deposit for the truck that carried explosives into the complex's garage. The current case came to light in early 2006 when the suspects - four ethnic Albanians, three of them brothers; a Jordanian; and a Turk - asked their local video store to transfer their own improvised jihadist videotape to DVD and a representative of the store called the authorities. Within weeks, federal agents managed to infiltrate the group with an informer who recorded them with apparent ease - at home, in their cars and on the phone for more than a year. The recorded conversations indicate that the suspects shifted between a deadly intent to kill and a fear of losing heart. They appear at times to bolster one another - I'm in, honestly, I'm in, one says - or to give one another pretexts to avoid the plot. One says they need a fatwa, or religious decree, before they actually proceed. Another unwittingly suggests that the informer take the lead in the attack since he is a former soldier and is thought to be more seasoned than the rest. Throughout, however, there are anxieties about the law, resulting in what soon sounds like a plot within the plot. Fearing the informer is betraying them, one of the men confronts him. I don't know whether you're http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal _bureau_of_investigation/index.html?inline=nyt-org F.B.I., he says. But the planning goes on, according to the complaint. The plot began in earnest in late January 2006, the government says, after a video store owner from New Jersey approached the F.B.I., saying a man had recently given him a videotape to transfer to DVD. The tape showed 10 men in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militialike style while calling for jihad, according to the complaint. The F.B.I. identified the men and opened an investigation. As part of that investigation, agents dispatched the informer to befriend the men, and by March he had developed a relationship with one of them, Mohamad Shnewer, the complaint says. Mr. Shnewer showed the informer DVDs with various jihadist images and a voice-over that sought recruits to the jihadist movement. Another informer, who had also penetrated the group, was shown computer videos of attacks on American soldiers and noted that Mr. Shnewer smiled while he watched them. Nonetheless, Mr. Shnewer asks the first informer, who had served with the Egyptian Army, to help lead the attack, the complaint says. As for money, Mr. Shnewer says that he has plenty: I have been saving money for this plan for some time. In mid-August, the complaint says, Mr. Shnewer and the first informer drive to Fort Dix to conduct surveillance - an admittedly dangerous task. Mr. Shnewer counsels taking videos on a cellphone as if you are talking, adding that one can always delete the images if stopped by the police. On the drive, Mr. Shnewer is recorded laying out the ambitious details of the plot: You hit four, five, or six Humvees and light the whole place up, the complaint quotes him as saying, and retreat completely without any losses. By this point, the plot has deepened with additional surveillance trips and
[osint] Demands issued on Johnston tape
BBC NEWS Demands issued on Johnston tape The al-Jazeera Arabic news channel has received a tape purportedly from the kidnappers of the BBC's Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston. It contains no new pictures of Mr Johnston, but shows a picture of his BBC ID card. The tape includes a demand for the release of Muslim prisoners in British jails, and readings from the Koran. Mr Johnston, 44, was seized in Gaza City on 12 March. He had been on his way home when he was taken at gunpoint. The tape was delivered to al-Jazeera in Gaza and was made by a group calling itself Jaish al-Islam (Army of Islam). The BBC has released a statement: We are aware of the tape released by the Army of Islam concerning our Gaza correspondent, Alan Johnston. We have no comment on the demands made of the British government in the tape - we remain concerned for Alan's well-being and call for his immediate release. Specific demand The tape does include one specific demand, the release of Abu Qatada, a Palestinian born Islamic cleric who is suspected of close links to al-Qaeda and is currently held by the UK government as a threat to national security. JAISH AL-ISLAM FACTS Small, Islamist armed group operating in Gaza Splinter group of the Popular Resistance Committees Seeks liberation of Palestine and an Islamic state Influenced by, but not affiliated with al-Qaeda Led by Mumtaz Dugmush, also known as Abu Muhammad, a member of a powerful clan One of three groups allegedly holding captured Israeli soldier Cpl Gilad Shalit Until now, the kidnappers have not made their demands public or made any contact with the media. In April, the previously unheard of Tawhid and Jihad brigades claimed it had executed Mr Johnston, though that claim could not be verified. The Palestinian government says it has received information that Mr Johnston is alive, and is working for his release. The BBC's World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge says that not much is known about The Army of Islam, but that it is a known Palestinian group. He adds that if the tape is authentic, then it does represent a development in the lengthiest kidnapping of a Westerner to take place in Gaza. Diplomacy News of the tape emerged hours after a senior UK diplomat held talks with Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya as part of the effort to secure Mr Johnston's release. Consul-General Richard Makepeace, who is based in Jerusalem, said Mr Johnston's continued captivity remained of great concern to the UK. There have been high-level appeals for his freedom, including from Tony Blair and the United Nations Secretary, General Ban Ki-moon. Mr Johnston joined the BBC World Service in 1991 and has spent eight of the last 16 years as a correspondent, including periods in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. He has lived and worked in Gaza for three years and was the only Western reporter permanently based in the often violent and lawless territory. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6637507.stm Published: 2007/05/09 10:05:01 GMT C BBC MMVII . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32287/stime=1178709461/nc1=4438979/nc2=3848627/nc3=3848644 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an
[osint] Gunmen seize workers in Nigeria
BBC NEWS Gunmen seize workers in Nigeria Four foreign oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta, only hours after 11 Korean and Filipino workers were freed. The workers - including at least three US citizens - were seized off an oil export terminal belonging to Chevron. On Monday, the main militant group in the oil-rich south said it blew up three oil pipelines in Bayelsa State. The militants want a larger share of oil wealth. Their actions cut production by more than 25% last year. The price of oil in London went up to more than $65 a barrel on Tuesday. Armed men on two speed boats with rifles and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) boarded (the barge). Four American personnel were abducted, a source who asked not to be named told Reuters news agency. A US diplomat told AFP news agency that he could only confirm that three of the abductees were American. Warning Many of those kidnapped in the Delta are seized by armed gangs wanting ransom money. But the militant group, Mend, says it wants a larger share of oil wealth for local communities and recently warned that they would step up attacks on oil installations in the region as parting gift to President Olusegun Obasanjo who stands down in three weeks time. MEND Formed early 2006 Close links to militant Mujahid Dokubo-Asari's Niger Delta Volunteer Force Split into two rival groups late 2006 Bayelsa State faction leader - Jomo Gbomo Delta State faction leader - Gen Godswill Tamuno Demand 100% control of Nigeria's oil wealth Demand release from jail of Dokubo-Asari being tried for treason Demand release of impeached Bayelsa governor on trial for money laundering Operate from creeks of Niger Delta Communicate with media by email They say the oil pipeline attacks on Tuesday were also in pursuance of their resolve to cripple the Nigerian crude oil export industry. Mend says it will continue its renewed campaign indefinitely with attacks on all pipelines, platforms and support vessels. There are unconfirmed reports of military personnel being arrested in the Niger Delta suspected of collaborating with militants. The eight Filipinos and three South Koreans, all workers at Daewoo, had been taken at gunpoint from a heavily guarded compound last Thursday. Their Nigerian driver was later released. South Korean government officials said the freed hostages were well. Nearly 100 foreign workers have been abducted this year. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/africa/6637953.stm Published: 2007/05/09 08:58:30 GMT C BBC MMVII mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32288/stime=1178709601/nc1=4438979/nc2=3848615/nc3=3848644 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Reality of the Ft. Dix Six
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/node/996 The Reality of the Ft. Dix Six By Sean Osborne, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Associate Director, Military Affairs As a civilian contractor employee based at the US Army PEO C3T Northeast Regional Response Center, Ft. Dix, New Jersey, I want to make clear the specifics I have determined to be true concerning the radical islamist cell now exposed by the diligent work of federal law enforcement. 1. The now infamous Ft. Dix Six was actually a cell of 10 Al Qaeda jihadists-in-training. 2. The members of this cell were specifically inspired by Osama bin Laden and swore an oath to the Al Qaeda vision of jihad against the United States of America. Period. The cell members were in possession of numerous Al Qaeda media and jihad training products. 3. Their specific intent was to mimic Al Qaeda ambush tactics executed against US troops in Iraq and apply those tactics here in my home state of New Jersey, ultimately resolving their long-term planning to a target environment in which I work in on a daily basis - the cantonment area of Ft. Dix. These statements are my own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, positions, policies, or sentiments of the United States Army, the Department of Defense, or any branch or variations thereof. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Six Ordinary Lives That Took a Detour to a World of Terror
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/nyregion/09suspects.html Six Ordinary Lives That Took a Detour to a World of Terror By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/kareem_fahim/i ndex.html?inline=nyt-per KAREEM FAHIM New York Times May 09, 2007 These are the suspects arrested in connection with a plot to attack Fort Dix. Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer MOHAMAD IBRAHIM SHNEWER, 22, a Jordanian-born American citizen, lives in Cherry Hill, N.J., and drives a cab in Philadelphia. The most outspoken of the six defendants, court papers show, he is quoted as saying, My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers. Mr. Shnewer smiles broadly in his 2003 yearbook photographs from Cherry Hill High School West. Neighbors say they were irritated by the unkempt yard, towering television antenna and cluttered carport of the family's house. Relatives said Mr. Shnewer has two sisters. He attended college for a time, but dropped out to earn money, they said. Eljvir Duka DRITAN DUKA, 28, also known variously as Distan, Anthony and Tony Duka, is - like his two brothers who also were charged yesterday - an ethnic Albanian born in the former Yugoslavia and living in the United States illegally. According to court papers, he operates roofing businesses from a home in Cherry Hill where he lives with his brothers. As he and his colleagues fine-tuned their plans for an attack on Fort Dix, the court papers show, Mr. Duka said: We can do a lot of damage with seven people. You can do big things with seven people. ELJVIR DUKA, 23, was sometimes called Sulayman. But at Cherry Hill High School West everyone called him Elvis, and that is how his name appears in several yearbooks. He, too, is in the family roofing businesses, court papers say. One classmate said he remembered that the three Duka brothers were often in trouble, fighters in a school where there were few fights. In the court papers, some of that pugnaciousness emerges as Mr. Duka says that when someone is attacking your religion or way of life, then you go jihad. SHAIN DUKA, 26, also known as Shaheen, once owned a pizza shop in Turnersville, N.J., about 35 miles from Fort Dix, with his brother Dritan. In June 2005 they sold the place - now known as Tony Soprano's - to Tony Giordano. They always had the Koran out or somewhere on the counter, Mr. Giordano said. He said that when he bought the pizzeria the carpet was filthy, the ceiling had holes and they had no business. As the group watched a terrorist video, court papers say, Shain Duka laughed as the arm of a United States marine was blown off. Serdar Tatar SERDAR TATAR, 23, a legal resident of the United States who was born in Turkey, lives in Northeast Philadelphia and until several months ago worked at a 7-Eleven on the http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/temple_ university/index.html?inline=nyt-org Temple University campus. It was Mr. Tatar, court records say, who took a map of Fort Dix from his father's pizza parlor on the edge of Fort Dix as the six plotted their attack. For a time he delivered pizzas, often to the military base. At one point when Mr. Tatar thought the group had been infiltrated by the government, the papers say, he notified the police in Philadelphia and told them he had been approached by a man who pressured him to acquire maps of Fort Dix. He said he was fearful that the incident was terrorist-related. But the planning went on. AGRON ABDULLAHU, 24, of Buena Vista Township in Atlantic County, N.J., was born in the former Yugoslavia and is living in the United States legally. According to the court papers, Mr. Abdullahu, who is the brother-in-law of Eljvir Duka, held the weapons for the Duka brothers; he took a 9-millimeter handgun and a Yugoslavian semiautomatic rifle to Dritan Duka's house before the group went to the Poconos for a training session, and carried them in a vehicle with a shotgun and a Beretta rifle. In Buena Vista, Mary Williams, a homemaker who lives about a block away, said yesterday, They seemed to keep to themselves, but many of us who live here live here because we can keep to ourselves. According to court papers, Mr. Abdullahu worked at a supermarket in Williamstown, N.J. At the house in Buena Vista where Mr. Abdullahu lives, there were three cars in the driveway yesterday and a boat alongside the house. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32283/stime=1178708813/nc1=4438979/nc2=3848614/nc3=3848542 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not
[osint] Fort Dix: Suspects' Lives Gave Few Clues
Fort Dix Suspects' Lives Gave Few Clues Suspects Gave Little Clues to What Authorities Say Was a Plot to Harm Soldiers at Fort Dix By KATHY MATHESON The Associated Press CHERRY HILL, N.J. http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=3153512 Each summer, the family two doors down from Michael Levine in this affluent suburb of Philadelphia would bring over baskets of vegetables they had grown in their backyard. The three brothers owned a roofing business, and the women in the ethnic Albanian family wore head scarves. They kept farm animals in the backyard until others in the neighborhood of tidy two-story houses complained, Levine said. Authorities say the brothers' unremarkable blue-collar lives belied the mayhem they allegedly planned to unleash with others in a plot to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix. They and three other foreign-born Muslims living in the area were arrested Monday night. You would not think that they would be capable of plotting something like this, Levine said of the brothers. When I found out this morning, my heart stopped. Eljvir Duka, 23, Dritan Duka, 28, and Shain Duka, 26, were charged in the alleged plot to storm Fort Dix with automatic machine guns and semiautomatic rifles and kill as many soldiers as they could. Also arrested were Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, 22, of Cherry Hill; Serdar Tatar, 23, of Philadelphia; and Agron Abdullahu, 24, of Buena Vista Township. Shnewer and Tatar were charged in the alleged plot; Abdullahu was charged with aiding and abetting the Duka brothers' illegal possession of weapons. The Duka brothers were born in the former Yugoslavia and residing illegally in the U.S. Shnewer, a native of Jordan; Tatar, a native of Turkey; and Abdullahu, who was born in the former Yugoslavia, are legal residents. Dritan and Shain Duka once owned a pizza shop in Turnersville, N.J., about 35 miles from Fort Dix. They sold it in June 2005 to Tony Giordano, who now operates it as Tony Soprano's Pizza, Giordano said. He said it was a filthy rat trap before he remodeled it. I had a brief encounter with Dritan Duka, who goes by Tony, Giordano said. They weren't the friendliest people, but then again, who would know something like that? Levine recalled seeing some of the Dukas shooting paintballs at trees in their front yard, an incident that seemed harmless at the time. Authorities say the group spoke of playing paintball as a training exercise for the attack. Shnewer, a cab driver in Philadelphia who comes across in the criminal complaint as the group's dominant figure, lived just a few miles away. Neighbors there said four or five families appeared to be living in the house and there were frequent visitors, but they did not mingle with their neighbors. They kept to themselves, said Don Bauer, 40, who lives across the street. Abdullahu had worked recently at a ShopRite food market, according to authorities. He worked as a bakery supervisor after emigrating to the United States from Kosovo in 1999, said his cousin, Arsim Abdullahu, of New York City, in a telephone interview. They last spoke by phone about seven months ago and have not seen each other for about five years, he said. Arsim Abdullahu said he could not remember anything that would suggest his cousin would get involved in an alleged terrorist plot. It's nothing I did and it's not like it's my problem, he said. We have a law here. The law should take care of him, not me. According to a neighbor in northeast Philadelphia, Tatar didn't have much money and lived in a large apartment building with his pregnant wife. Authorities said his last known job was at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Philadelphia. Neighbor Stacie Gandlina said she saw the federal agents who raided Tatar's apartment and tried to console his in-laws after his arrest Monday night. I said, 'If he is nice, they will let him go. If he is bad, why do you need a bad son-in-law? They have to check,' Gandlina said Tuesday. According to authorities, Tatar worked at Super Mario's Ristorante in Cookstown, at the northwestern edge of Fort Dix. Mario Tummillo, who lives near Tatar's father in Cookstown, said he knows Tatar and had worked with him at the pizza parlor. Tummillo, 20, described Tatar as a religious man who wasn't violent at all. He recalled Tatar praying in the back of the restaurant and said Tatar often talked about religion, bringing it up in conversations about other subjects. He would start talking about how you should worship God, Tummillo said. Associated Press writers Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pa., Patrick Walters in Philadelphia, Deborah Yao in Cookstown and David Porter in Newark, N.J., contributed to this story. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want
[osint] Update: Police hold 7 July bomber's widow
NOTE: Selly Oak, Birmingham suspect id'd as 22-year-old Imran Motala. Police hold 7 July bomber's widow Last Updated: Wednesday, 9 May 2007, 11:37 GMT 12:37 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6637917.stm Mohammad Sidique Khan Mohammad Sidique Khan bombed a Tube train at Edgware Road The wife of 7 July bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan is among four people arrested in connection with the 2005 attacks, which killed 52 people. Officers arrested Hasina Patel, 29, and two men in West Yorkshire and one man in Selly Oak, Birmingham. Seven addresses are being searched. The four, aged between 22 and 34, are suspected of commissioning, preparing or instigating acts of terrorism. They will be questioned at London's Paddington Green police station later. A search is being carried out of a property in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, believed to be in Leonard Road. The man arrested in Selly Oak was 22-year-old Imran Motala. Police are guarding a student hall of residence in the area, but a University of Birmingham spokeswoman said the man arrested was not a student there. A police lorry removed a silver Peugeot 307 from the Victoria Hall block of flats on Grange Road. A car was also removed from the Handsworth address. In West Yorkshire five addresses are being searched - two houses in Pentland Road and Dale Street, Dewsbury; two in Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds; and one in Hayburn Gardens, Batley. Attacks Among those arrested was Khalid Khaliq, 34, from Tempest Road in Beeston - the street where 7 July Aldgate Tube bomber Shehzad Tanweer lived. Tanweer was one of four suicide bombers to mount the co-ordinated attacks in the capital nearly two years ago, which also injured more than 750 people. Ringleader Khan, 30, killed six people when he bombed a train near Edgware Road station. Police in Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds Bomber Shehzad Tanweer also lived in Tempest Road in Beeston A train travelling between King's Cross and Russell Square was also bombed, as was a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The arrests on Wednesday morning followed an intelligence-led operation involving Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command and units in West Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Armed officers were not used in the operation. Police said the inquiry remained a painstaking investigation into whether anyone knew what the bombers had been planning and who may have helped them. Both West Midlands and West Yorkshire forces said they were keeping the affected local communities informed. Others charged Chief superintendent Barry South, of West Yorkshire Police, said the searches could take a matter of hours or days. We don't perceive any threat from the addresses that we are searching at this moment, he said. It is a high profile investigation but a low key response in terms of how we are policing this operation. Refusing to speculate on the identity of the people who had been arrested, he said the important issue was to reassure the local community. He said meetings had taken place with councillors and key community leaders in the area. Last month the first people to be charged in connection with the bombings appeared at the Old Bailey in central London. Mohammed Shakil, 30, Sadeer Saleem, 26, and Waheed Ali, 23, of Beeston, Leeds, are accused of conspiring with the four bombers to cause explosions. The trio, who came before the court via a video link from prison, were remanded in custody until 8 June. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email
[osint] FW: Fort Dix Jihad: The Media Misses the Point
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjQ5NGUzOGUwNzhiMzU5NTRlNzA4MDY0YzA0YjQ 5MTQ= Fort Dix Jihad: The Media Misses the Point It's not about the organization, it's the ideology. By Andrew C. McCarthy The mainstream media is atwitter this morning over the six Muslim men arrested in south Jersey for conspiring to kill as many soldiers as possible at the Fort Dix U.S. army base. The case, they tell us, reflects the new terrorism: inept, atomized cells, disconnected from al Qaeda or any other regimented international terrorist organization. Here http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09plot.html?_r=1hporef=slogin 's the template setter, the New York Times: The authorities described the suspects as Islamic extremists and said they represented the newest breed of threat: loosely organized domestic militants unconnected to - but inspired by - al Qaeda or other international terror groups. The Washington Post echoes http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/08/AR200705080 0465.html?hpid=topnews : [The group] . was portrayed as a leaderless, homegrown cell of immigrants from Jordan, Turkey and the former Yugoslavia who came together because of a shared infatuation with Internet images of jihad, or holy war. Authorities said the group has no apparent connection to al-Qaeda or other international terrorist organizations aside from ideology, but appears to be an example of the kind of self-directed sympathizers widely predicted - and feared - by counterterrorism specialists. The defendants allegedly passed around and copied images of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and the martyrdom videos of two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers. Meet the new terrorism. Same as the old terrorism. In 1993, Mohammed Salameh, a Palestinian immigrant who was a member of no known foreign terrorist organization, helped bomb the World Trade Center. The attack was carried out by a homegrown jihadist cell that was formed in the late 1980s. The group was inspired by the fiery cleric, Omar Abdel Rahman (the Blind Sheikh). Though Sheikh Abdel Rahman was the head of an Egyptian terrorist organization, Gama'at al Islamia (the Islamic Group), the American cell was not a Gama'at operation. It was a motley crew of Egyptians, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Iraqis, Sudanese, and others. What bound them together was ideology - not connection to a particular organization. That ideologically inspired cell had already claimed some victims. In 1990, Salameh's cohort, a naturalized American citizen from Egypt named El Sayyid Nosair, murdered Rabbi Meir Kahane (founder of the Jewish Defense League) at a hotel in New York City, shooting and wounding a 70-year-old man and a postal police officer as he attempted to flee. Nosair, who had helped organize the paramilitary training, was a ne'er-do-well who kept recordings and notes of jihadist preaching in his home. Salameh, meanwhile, turned out not to be the sharpest tool in the shed - reminiscent of this morning's media depiction of the Fort Dix plotters. He was arrested largely because, after using a rental van to house and transport the bomb into the bowels of the Twin Towers, he figured - even as his co-conspirators fled the country - that it would be a good idea to try to get his deposit back. Investigators, furthermore, found that Salameh and his confederates seemed, at times, to be Keystone terrorists, storing nitroglycerine in a refrigerator, amateurishly mixing chemicals, getting involved in traffic mishaps. None of the ineptitude, however, left the World Trade Center any less bombed or the victims any less dead. It is often assumed, incorrectly, that the '93 bombing was an al Qaeda initiative because its prime-mover, Ramzi Yousef, had trained in al Qaeda camps. But thousands of young Muslim men have been through the rigors of those camps; the vast majority never formally joins al Qaeda. The issue is not, and has never been, membership in an organization. The point is that those who attend the camps are in a process of being catalyzed by jihadist ideology. In any event, it is far from certain that Yousef was ever a formal member of al Qaeda. Even if he had been, the al Qaeda that existed in 1993 was a different and much less capable entity than the organization that carried out the 1998 embassy bombings, and, as noted above, the other conspirators were not al Qaeda operatives. The bombing was almost immediately followed by a second, more ambitious (and thankfully unsuccessful) plot for simultaneous strikes against New York City landmarks - the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the UN complex, and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters. Again, few if any of the rag-tag would-be bombers were members of any formal foreign terrorist organization; they were mostly Sudanese immigrants (one of whom had ties to Sudan's government), a Palestinian with possible Hamas ties, and a pair of Americans. At trial, the evidence showed one of the latter (a Puerto Rican named Victor Alvarez, aka
[osint] Cheney makes unannounced visit to Iraq
http://wjz.com/topstories/topstories_story_129024711.html Cheney, Iraq Prime Minister Discuss Iraq Stability http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_image_347144508 javascript:void(0); CBS News Interactive: Iraq - 4 Years Later (CBS) BAGHDAD Vice President Dick Cheney and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki acknowledged problems in the pace of reducing violence in Iraq on Wednesday, but both pledged their governments would continue working together toward a solution. The meeting with the vice president paved a foundation for practical steps to support our efforts working on both the security front as well as the domestic political issues, said al-Maliki as he and Cheney made brief statements to reporters. Al-Maliki is coming under increasing pressure from Washington to demonstrate progress in easing sectarian violence, and Cheney's unannounced visit to Iraq was depicted by U.S. officials as an attempt to press al-Maliki and other Iraqi leaders to do more to achieve reconciliation among factions. We talked about a way ahead in terms of our mutual interests, Cheney said. Earlier, Cheney got a firsthand briefing on conditions in Iraq and the effectiveness of the U.S. military buildup from the top U.S. commander in Iraq. There's a lot going on. This is a very important time. There's a lot to talk about, Cheney said as he met with Gen. David Petraeus and the new U.S. ambassador here, Ryan Crocker. Petraeus said recently that conditions in Iraq may get harder before they get easier and will require an enormous commitment over time by the United States. Cheney made Iraq the first stop on a weeklong tour of the Middle East that will also include stops in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. The Baghdad stop had not been announced publicly. Cheney also met with Iraq's Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, Sunni and Shiite vice presidents, and other government and political leaders. Aides said the vice president wanted to emphasize that ending the conflict in Iraq cannot done by military means alone and that his mission was to get a sense of the situation on the ground in Iraq and to deliver a message that more work is needed on the political front to overcome divisions and delays. The visit follows a secure video conference earlier this week between al-Maliki and President Bush about the need to move forward on legislation to help repair the rift between majority-party Shiite Arabs and minority Sunni Arabs. Sunni legislators have been threatening to pull out of the government. Cheney also was likely to renew a U.S. request that the Iraqi parliament not take a scheduled two-month break during these troubling times, according to Crocker. For the Iraqi parliament to take a two-month vacation in the middle of summer is impossible to understand, said Crocker, who traveled with Cheney from Washington. He has only been on the job since March. Cheney's message with Iraqi leaders, according to a senior administration official who briefed reporters, was to be: We've all got challenges together. We've got to pull together. We've got to get this work done. It's game time. The official spoke on condition of anonymity since he talked before Cheney's meetings and did not want to upstage the vice president. U.S. criticism of summer break plans of the 275-seat Iraqi house drew a retort Wednesday from the maverick speaker of Iraq's parliament, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. You had better try and control Nancy Pelosi rather than Mahmoud al-Mashhadani, he said in a live address on Iraq's state television, referring to the Democratic speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. His remarks were a clear barb at the Bush administration, though he did not mention any administration official by name. Cheney had lunch with al-Maliki and Iraqi officials and they were then to have dinner. Cheney's public schedule called for him to stop first at the United Arab Emirates, but he came first to Iraq instead. He was later to visit the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan. It is his second visit to Iraq as vice president. The first was in December 2005. News of Cheney's arrival came as a suicide truck bomb exploded at the Interior Ministry in the Kurdish city of Irbil, killing at least 19 people and wounding 80, officials said. CBS News reporter Pete Gow reports Iraqi Kurdistan is a largely autonomous region, ususally spared the violence that is so prevalent in other areas. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of
[osint] Islam and violence
http://peacejournalism.com/ReadArticle.asp?ArticleID=20734 Islam and violence John Esposito Washington, DC - While the atrocities and acts of terrorism committed by violent extremists have connected Islam with terrorism, the Islamic tradition places limits on the use of violence and rejects terrorism, hijackings and hostage taking. As with other faiths, mainstream and normative doctrines and laws are ignored, distorted, or hijacked and misinterpreted by a radical fringe. Islam, like all world religions, neither supports nor requires illegitimate violence. The Qur'an does not advocate or condone terrorism. The God of the Qur'an is consistently portrayed as a God of mercy and compassion as well as a just judge. 113 of 114 chapters start with a reference to God's mercy and compassion; throughout the Qur'an in many contexts, Muslims are reminded to be merciful and just. However, Islam does permit, indeed at times requires, Muslims to defend themselves and their families, religion and community from aggression. Like all scriptures, Islamic sacred texts must be read within the social and political contexts in which they were revealed. It is not surprising that the Qur'an, like the Hebrew scriptures or Old Testament, has verses that address fighting and the conduct of war. Arabia and the city of Mecca, in which Muhammad lived and received God's revelation, were beset by tribal raids and cycles of vengeance and vendetta. The broader Near East, in which Arabia was located, was itself divided between two warring superpowers, the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) and the Sassanian (Persian) empires. However, Qur'anic verses also underscore that peace, not violence and warfare, is the norm. Permission to fight the enemy is balanced by a strong mandate for making peace: If your enemy inclines toward peace, then you too should seek peace and put your trust in God (8:61) and Had God wished, He would have made them dominate you, and so if they leave you alone and do not fight you and offer you peace, then God allows you no way against them (4:90). From the earliest times, it was forbidden in Islam to kill non-combatants as well as women and children and monks and rabbis, who were given the promise of immunity unless they took part in the fighting. But what of those verses, sometimes referred to as the sword verses, that call for killing unbelievers, such as, When the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them, and confine them, and lie in wait for them at every place of ambush (9:5)? This is one of a number of Qur'anic verses that are cited by critics to demonstrate the inherently violent nature of Islam and its scripture. During the period of expansion and conquest, many of the ulama (religious scholars) enjoyed royal patronage and provided a rationale for caliphs to pursue their imperial dreams and extend the boundaries of their empires. They said that the sword verses abrogated or overrode the earlier Qur'anic verses that limited physical jihad (as opposed to spiritual and moral jihad) to defensive war. In fact, however, the full intent of When the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them is missed or distorted when quoted in isolation, for it is followed and qualified by: But if they repent and fulfil their devotional obligations and pay the zakat [the charitable tax on Muslims], then let them go their way, for God is forgiving and kindAnd if one of the idolaters should seek refuge with you, give him refuge so that he may hear the Word of God; then convey him to his place of security. (9:5-6). The same is true of another often quoted verse: Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor hold the religion of truth [even if they are] of the People of the Book, which is often cited without the line that follows, Until they pay the tax with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued (9:29). Throughout history, the sacred scriptures of Judaism, Christianity and Islam have been used and abused, interpreted and misinterpreted, to justify resistance and liberation struggles, extremism and terrorism, holy and unholy wars. Religion does provide a powerful source of authority, meaning and legitimacy. Religiously motivated or legitimated violence and terror adds the dimensions of divine or absolute authority (buttressing the authority of terrorist leaders), religious symbolism, moral justification, motivation and obligation, certitude, and heavenly reward that enhance recruitment and a willingness to fight and die in a sacred struggle. In the same way that the militant (as distinguished from mainstream) Christian Right of a Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell must be distinguished from violent forms of the Christian Right, so must Wahhabi Islam be distinguished from violent forms of Wahhabi Islam similarly infused with a theology of hate. The former do
[osint] Al-Qaeda in North Africa drums up followers
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=20636 Al-Qaeda in North Africa drums up followers Chief of Al-Qaeda branch in North Africa calls on followers to join war against 'infidels'. DUBAI - The purported chief of the Al-Qaeda branch in North Africa urged his followers to join the war between infidels and believers, in a videotape broadcast Wednesday on Al-Jazeera news channel. The tape showed testimonies from the three suicide bombers in April 11 attacks in Algiers that killed 30 people and wounded more than 220 others, and also the preparation of the car bombs purportedly used in the bombings. It is a crusade against Islam and a decisive war between the infidels and the believers, said Abu Mussaab Abdul Wadud in the videotape whose authenticity could not be verified. Who would miss (taking part in) this war will be missing the best chance in his life and will be deprived of (Allah's) reward, added the militant with a long black beard and wearing military fatigue. The group has claimed responsibility for the Algiers attacks targeting the prime minister's office, Interpol's offices in the eastern suburb of Bab Ezzouar, and a police special forces headquarters on the road to the airport. It has also published photographs of the three alleged suicide bombers in an Internet message. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] U.S. ARMY BASE PLOT 'CONFIRMS EXISTENCE OF WHITE AL-QAEDA'
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politicsloid=8.0.4127761 54par=0 loid=8.0.412776154par=0 TERRORISM: U.S. ARMY BASE PLOT 'CONFIRMS EXISTENCE OF WHITE AL-QAEDA' BALKAN EXPERTS SAY javascript:aumenta(); javascript:diminuisci(); Belgrade, 9 May (AKI) - The arrest of four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian and a Turk in the United States on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack on the United States army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey, confirms the existence of a white Al-Qaeda, Balkan terrorism expert Darko Trifunovic told Adnkronos International (AKI) on Wednesday. Trifunovic said the arrests showed white Al-Qaeda at work. He compared the Fort Dix plot to a February attack in Salt Lake City when a Bosnian Muslim youth, Sulejman Talovic went on a shopping mall shooting rampage. Six people including Talovic were killed another four were injured in the attack. Trifunovic, a professor at Belgrade University's Faculty of Security Studies, was the first to develop a theory of white Al-Qaeda, which he said was introduced to the Balkans during 1992-1995 civil war in Bosnia when thousands of 'mujahadeen' from Islamic countries came to fight on the side of local Muslims. Many mujahadeen have remained in the country, and are believed to been indoctrinating local youths with radical Islam and even operating terrorist training camps, Trifunovic said, quoting western and Balkans intelligence sources. Al-Qaeda has adopted a new tactics of using white European youths for terrorist attacks, because of their non-Arabic appearance, Trifunovic told AKI. The strategy is to indoctrinate or poison the hearts and minds of youngsters to psyche them up for the future terror operations, Trifunovic said. And that is exactly what is now happening in the United States, he added. The US authorities arrested three ethnic Albanian brothers from Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province, Sain, Elvir and Dritan Duka, another ethnic Albanian, Agron Abdulahu, a Jordanian, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, and Serdar Tatar, a Turk. Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Newark, New Jersey, said the suspects were planning an attack on Fort Dix in which they would kill as many soldiers as possible. Drewniak described the group as Islamist militants from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, who apparently had no ties to international terrorist organisations, but were organised on a local level. Several of the suspects said they were ready to kill and die ''in the name of Allah,'' according to court papers. The defendants, all men in their 20s, reportedly include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out Fort Dix, three builders and taxi-driver. They were arrested while trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons and M-16s from an informant, authorities said. Many Balkan terrorism experts have been warning for years that Al-Qaeda had active cells in Muslim-majority Kosovo and a training camp in the village of Ropotovo. Kosovo has been under United Nations control 1999, when NATO airstrikes drove Serbian forces out of the province amid ethnic fighting and allegations of gross human rights abuses. International officials have ignored the warnings and minimised the danger Al-Qaeda poses, according to Balkan analysts. In a joint NATO-Bulgarian report in March 2005, the head of Bulgarian state security Kirco Kirov cited Kosovo as a direct source of regional instability and a hub for international terrorism. The report called for joint action by all European countries. The US authorities said that Abdulahu was a sharp shooter in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) before fleeing to the US. Fort Dix is a training ground for American soldiers and reservists before they are sent to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan, but in 1999 it served as a shelter for thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo. Serb immigrants' web sites noted that US officials carefully avoided identifying the four ethnic Albanians as such, calling them only Islamic militants from former Yugoslavia. A commentator on the SerbBlog said that Washington, which backs independence for Kosovo, is embarrassed by the discovery of the Fort Dix plot, because the truth might mess up the PR for Kosovo Albanians getting to rip off a piece of Serbia to create their own country - a move that has the full support of the US State Department. Belgrade military analyst Zoran Dragisic said the Fort Dix plot once again shows that Islamist terrorism is highly organised - from Kosovo to America - and the US intelligence services know this very well. Dragsic expressed doubt, however, that the latest incident would change the American stance on Kosovo, because Washington doesn't change its positions easily. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our
[osint] Sights and Sounds of Terror
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzBhNzcxN2M4M2RlOTU4N2NhMDk5ODcxYTNmODI 4Yjg= Sights and Sounds of Terror Day Night Day Night prizes sensation over explanation. By Peter Suderman Julia Loktevs debut film, http://www.ifcfilms.com/ Day Night Day Night, about a female suicide bomber who sets out for Times Square, is the type that critics love to praise for possessing an artful ambiguity and resisting easy answers. And when they do, theyll be right, except that Loktevs film, for all its art-school bravado and post-modern elusiveness, never gets around to asking very tough or very interesting questions. Day Night is concerned only with terrorism at its most quotidian and banal, willing only to explore the personal at the total expense of the political. It may be the first movie about a terrorist that doesnt care about terrorism. Theres not much in the way of story, more a sequence of wholly expected encounters on the road to what is intended to be a spectacular attack. In parts unknown, an unnamed girl, perhaps 20 years old and of uncertain ethnicity, spends a few days in a hotel room with masked men. There, she readies herself for an attack: repeating instructions, carefully washing herself, sharing a pizza with her handlers, picking out the appropriate outfit for the attack. They prep her for a video message (which we never see) by dressing her up in military garb and giving her a machine gun. Eventually, she meets with a bomb expert. He gives her an explosive-filled backpack, and then she sets out for the hub of the world: New Yorks Times Square. She seems calm, even mildly happy throughout, going about her business as one might when getting a haircut or taking a Saturday afternoon walk. We never find out why shes chosen to give her life and take the lives of many others and Loktev brushes away the question as if it is unnecessary. Instead, the focus is on the minutiae: the pretzel and the candy apple she eats on her way to Times Square, the methodical way she clips her toenails in the hotel room, the exact fit of the explosive backpack. The girls mental state is of little concern either; the film opens with her quietly, but intensely, chanting a list of ways that people might die a heart attack, a knife, mosquitoes and then concluding, But Ive made up my mind. I have only one death. I want my death to be for you. This fanatics mindset evaporates as soon as the scene is over, however. Any information regarding who that you is and how the girl came to be so devoted to him or her is brushed aside in favor of chronicling the moment-to-moment physical experiences on the way to her target. Loktev has no use for motivation or explanation; all shes concerned with is sensation. It isnt so much inside the mind of a terrorist as it is inside her body. And as far as that goes, Loktev works minor wonders. Prior to working in film, shed worked on audio production, and it shows. Her sound design seems to have been recorded from inside her protagonists skull; its a mad jumble of aural textures that laces even the smallest, stillest scenes with an unnerving intensity. During the hotel-room prep, Loktev is particularly attuned to the sounds of the body, including teeth chewing on food and squishy warbles of soap on flesh. At times her sounds carry an almost physical weight; you feel them as much as hear them. Times Square a gluttonous feast of audio-visual information perfect for an exploration of the senses squeals and bleats and rumbles, a traffic jam of conversations in a dozen dialects. Its a marvelous cacophony. But sensation without thought, no matter how stimulating, holds little beyond the momentary experience it affords. One might argue that there is a place for this amidst the distanced, global view of terrorism in films like Syriana. But if the common mistake is to view terror from afar, Day Night makes the opposite blunder, burrowing in so close that the subject can no longer be seen except in unrevealing pieces. Loktev would have us trade the wide, impersonal view of a satellite for the view through a microscope, where the pores and dirt and hairs are clearly visible but one cant get any meaningful sense of the whole. Especially given the subject matter, this isnt enough. By reducing the terrorism down to its bare, experiential details, with nary a sign of the political, historical, or mental, Loktev makes it accessible, even relatable. Here is a seemingly well-adjusted, ordinary girl out for a stroll in New York, trying to run an errand only the errand happens to be the murder of dozens. But we never see images of violence, and there is little concern for the bombs intended victims or, indeed, for aftermath of any kind. Beyond the girls initial announcement that she has chosen her death, she never does or says anything that might separate her from the audience. All the politics and history that would set her apart are left blank; Loktev never
[osint] Jail Hiring Muslim Chaplain After Uproar
http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTIC http://www.comcast.net/news/national/index.jsp?cat=DOMESTICfn=/2007/05/09/ 658388.html fn=/2007/05/09/658388.html Jail Hiring Muslim Chaplain After Uproar NEW CITY, N.Y. - The county jail where a Christian minister handed out anti-Islamic cartoons announced it will hire an imam for its Muslim inmates. The Rockland County Jail also said it will provide religiously appropriate food. Rockland Undersheriff Thomas Guthrie said Tuesday that the imam will work one day a week, joining the jail's priest and rabbi. The Christian chaplain, the Rev. Teresa Darden Clapp, was suspended with pay last month after inmates complained she was passing out anti-Islam booklets. In the cartoon panel stories, a tract titled Men of Peace? said Islamic fundamentalists who commit terrorist acts are not bad Muslims but very good Muslims who act in accordance with their religion. Another tract, titled Allah Has No Son, said Allah is not God, Muhammad was no prophet, and the Quran is not the word of God. Both stories end with people being convinced Islam is false. In one, a Muslim converts to Christianity. Local Muslims have called for Clapp's dismissal, and the county requested an independent investigation. Clapp has not commented public about the controversy and has not responded to messages seeking comment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] CAIR Does the Multicultural Two-Step
Excerpt: CAIR also requested that media outlets and public officials refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam. http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com:80/weblog/?entry=25404 http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com:80/weblog/?entry=25404onlyrsssmall onlyrsssmall CAIR Does the Multicultural Two-Step CAIR has apparently figured out that it looks better if they denounce terror plots instead of reflexively screaming discrimination! CAIR Applauds FBI Efforts to Thwart Fort Dix Attack http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,102604.shtml . WASHINGTON, May 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - The Council on American- Islamic Relations (CAIR) today applauded efforts by federal law enforcement authorities that apparently thwarted a planned attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey. In a statement, the Washington-based Islamic civil rights and advocacy group said: Based on the information gathered in this case, it seems clear that a potentially deadly attack has been averted. We applaud the FBI for its efforts and repeat the American Muslim community's condemnation and repudiation of all those who would plan or carry out acts of terror while falsely claiming their actions have religious justification. We continue to urge American Muslims to be vigilant in reporting any suspected criminal activities that could harm the safety and security of our nation. They just can't resist the opportunity, though, and this perfunctory denunciation is combined with a request that media and politicians keep the public dumb and happy, and an invitation to Muslims to report any backlash. It's the multicultural one-two punch. CAIR also requested that media outlets and public officials refrain from linking this case to the faith of Islam. The council asked mosques and Islamic institutions in New Jersey and nationwide to report any incidents of anti- Muslim backlash. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Truck Bomb Kills 14 in Iraq
http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONAL http://www.comcast.net/news/international/index.jsp?cat=INTERNATIONALfn=/2 007/05/09/658337.html fn=/2007/05/09/658337.html Truck Bomb Kills 14 in Iraq BAGHDAD - A suicide truck bomb ripped through the Interior Ministry headquarters in the relatively peaceful Kurdish city of Irbil on Wednesday morning, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens, officials said. Kurdish officials blamed al-Qaida linked insurgents for the devastating bombing _ the first major attack to hit the regional capital in more than three years. The bombing came as Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad for an unannounced visit that was to include meetings with top Iraqi government officials, leaders of influential Iraqi factions and the senior U.S. military commander here. Cheney's visit was aimed at encouraging rival Iraqi factions to work together to overcome their divisions to work together to end the conflict that has claimed the lives of more than 3,370 American troops. The U.S. military announced Wednesday that an American soldier was killed and four others were wounded the day before in a shooting attack in the volatile province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad. The explosion in Irbil, 215 miles north of Baghdad, underscored how even relatively safe areas of the country were not immune from the violence. Irbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, had been spared much of the sectarian violence wracking the rest of Iraq. But attacks have been on the rise in southern and northern areas in Iraq as Sunni and Shiite militants have fled a three-month-old security crackdown in Baghdad and brought their brutal tactics with them. The Interior Ministry building was badly damaged. Kurdish television showed piles of rubble and twisted metal beams. Rescue workers reached into the wreckage to pull out one of the victims of the blast. Windows were blown out down the street and wreckage was scattered nearly 100 yards away. The nearby security headquarters was also damaged. Zariyan Othman, the Kurdish health minister, initially said 19 people were killed. But the regional minister for the interior, Karim Sinjari, later said 14 were killed and 87 wounded. Officials blamed the discrepancy on the doublecounting of some bodies. Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman blamed the attack on Ansar al-Sunnah, a Sunni Arab insurgent group, and Ansar al-Islam, a mostly Kurdish militant group with ties to al-Qaida in Iraq. Ansar al-Islam has been blamed for a number of attacks, including attempts to assassinate Kurdish officials. Othman said authorities learned that insurgents were planning a large attack a week ago when police arrested a militant cell in the town of Sulaimaniyah. During questioning they confessed that were getting training lessons in a neighboring country and that was Iran, he said. The last major attack in Irbil took place Feb. 1, 2004, when twin suicide bombers killed 109 people in two Kurdish party offices. Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility for that attack. Kurdistan is a safe region and this will have its effect on trade, and companies will fear coming to this region, Othman said. Elsewhere in northern Iraq, gunmen killed two members of the minority Yazidi religious sect and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in Mosul. A car bomb also exploded near an Iraqi military checkpoint in Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding two soldiers, police said. Police found four decapitated heads in the Sabtiyah area north of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, health officials said. The body of a security officer was also found shot in the head and chest in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, police said. The attacks came a day after a suicide car bomber struck a crowded market in the Shiite holy city of Kufa, killing at least 16 people and threatening to further stoke sectarian tensions in relatively peaceful areas south of Baghdad. U.S. officials have expressed fears that Sunni insurgents led by al-Qaida are carefully picking their targets to provoke retaliatory violence to derail efforts to stabilize the country. The predominantly Shiite southern areas also have seen a spike in violence and unrest, blamed in part on militants who have fled a security crackdown in Baghdad. The U.S.-led offensive is intended to curb violence and allow the Shiite-led government some breathing room to implement reforms, including proposals to empower minority Sunnis Arabs and help end the insurgency. There has been little evidence, though, of any movement toward those reforms. The U.S. military, meanwhile, said two children were among five people killed when a helicopter fired at militants operating an illegal checkpoint and planting a roadside bomb near Mandali, a town on the Iranian border 60 miles east of Baghdad. Two suspected militants _ identified as Abd al-Qader Dadoush and Wadeh Kalifa Doudoush _ also were killed, according
[osint] Homeland Security Authorities Fear Chemical Terrorism in U.S.
http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/Article.aspx?id=762 Homeland Security Authorities Fear Chemical Terrorism in U.S. Richard Weitz | Bio file:///C:/author.aspx?id=102 | 09 May 2007 World Politics Watch Exclusive http://www.worldpoliticswatch.com/ WASHINGTON -- In recent months, federal and state homeland security officials have become increasingly concerned that terrorists and other groups might attempt to imitate the insurgents in Iraq and employ chlorine-bombs and other chemical weapons within the United States. Even before insurgents in Iraq began detonating trucks carrying bombs combining conventional explosive with industrial chlorine, U.S. government and non-government experts had identified the United States as potentially vulnerable to terrorist attacks against chemical plants or rail tankers transporting toxic chemicals such as chlorine. In their National Planning Scenarios http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/earlywarning /NationalPlanningScenariosApril2005.pdf http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/earlywarning /NationalPlanningScenariosApril2005.pdf (pdf file), analysts at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified a dozen possible homeland security incidents the department views as most plausible or devastating. One scenario involved the hypothetical detonation of a large chlorine storage tank that killed 17,500 people and injured more than 100,000. In the annual FBI threat assessment http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/011107transcript.pdf http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/011107transcript.pdf (pdf file) delivered to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in January 2007, Director Robert Mueller stated that the acquisition of WMD by terrorist groups continues to be a growing concern. In Mueller's assessment, while terrorists may not currently possess the capabilities to produce the complex biological and chemical agents necessary to carry out a large-scale attack, their capability will improve as they pursue enhancing their scientific knowledge base, including recruiting scientists to assist them. In late February 2007, then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte stated http://www.iwar.org.uk/homesec/resources/threats-2006/negroponte-02-28-06.p df http://www.iwar.org.uk/homesec/resources/threats-2006/negroponte-02-28-06.p df (pdf file) that U.S. intelligence reporting indicates that nearly 40 terrorist organizations, insurgencies or cults have used, possessed, or expressed an interest in chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear agents or weapons. He added, however, that most of these groups are only able to carry out small-scale unconventional attacks such as employing poisons or using improvised chemical devises like the chlorine bombs in Iraq. Nonetheless, according to Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/022707maples.pdf http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_hr/022707maples.pdf (pdf file), the U.S. intelligence community believes that al-Qaida and other terrorist groups are pursuing the capability to employ biological and chemical agents such as ricin, botulinum toxin, cyanide, anthrax, sarin, and mustard gases. Suicide terrorists may prove especially effective at using CW. Since they are prepared to die in the attack, they do not wear CW defensive gear or take other measures that might alert authorities to the threat. The most likely target for terrorists seeking to release large quantities of chlorine are the railcars that traverse the United States carrying enormous 90-ton tanks of chlorine. U.S. railroads annually carry 1.7 million shipments of hazardous materials, of which 100,000 are toxic chemicals prone to become airborne in an accident. About 80 percent of these latter shipments consist of chlorine. Thirty-seven water utilities in the country still receive chlorine gas by rail, generating 45,000 shipments annually. A March 2007 report by the Center for American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/pdf/chemical_security_report .pdf http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/04/pdf/chemical_security_report .pdf (pdf file) cited the Iraqi insurgent attacks to justify its assessment that railcars of chlorine gas represent a distinct national security vulnerability. In announcing various measures to increase domestic rail security, http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2006/press_release_12152006.shtm DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff warned http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2006/press_release_12152006.shtm ,A toxic emission from an attack against a chemical facility or hazardous chemicals in transit is among the most serious risks facing America's highest threat areas. The U.S. Naval Research Lab estimated that, depending on weather conditions and time of day, a rupture of a tanker car containing chlorine in the Washington, D.C., area could kill 100,000 people in half an hour. Other experts anticipate that a 90-ton release of
[osint] Hezbollah builds a Western base
The CIA singles out the Mexican border as an especially inviting target for Hezbollah operatives. Many alien smuggling networks that facilitate the movement of non-Mexicans have established links to Muslim communities in Mexico, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17874369/ Hezbollah builds a Western base From inside South Americas Tri-border area, Iran-linked militia targets U.S. By Pablo Gato and Robert Windrem NBC News Updated: 7:29 a.m. MT May 9, 2007 CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay - The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S. officials and police agencies across the continent. From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war. An investigation by Telemundo and NBC News has uncovered details of an extensive smuggling network run by Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group founded in Lebanon in 1982 that the United States has labeled an international terrorist organization. The operation funnels large sums of money to militia leaders in the Middle East and finances training camps, propaganda operations and bomb attacks in South America, according to U.S. and South American officials. U.S. officials fear that poorly patrolled borders and rampant corruption in the Tri-border region could make it easy for Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate the southern U.S. border. From the largely lawless region, it is easy for potential terrorists, without detection, to book passage to the United States through Brazil and then Mexico simply by posing as tourists. They are men like Mustafa Khalil Meri, a young Arab Muslim whom Telemundo interviewed in Ciudad del Este, Paraguays second-largest city and the center of the Tri-border region. There is nothing particularly distinctive about him, but beneath the everyday T-shirt he wears beats the heart of a devoted Hezbollah militiaman. If he attacks Iran, in two minutes Bush is dead, Meri said. We are Muslims. I am Hezbollah. We are Muslims, and we will defend our countries at any time they are attacked. Straight shot to the U.S. U.S. and South American officials warn that Meris is more than a rhetorical threat. It is surprisingly easy to move across borders in the Triple Frontier, where motorbikes are permitted to cross without documents. A smuggler can bike from Paraguay into Brazil and return without ever being asked for a passport, and it is not much harder for cars and trucks. The implications of such lawlessness could be dire, U.S. and Paraguayan officials said. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Hezbollah militiamen would raise no suspicions because they have Latin American passports, speak Spanish and look like Hispanic tourists. The CIA singles out the Mexican border as an especially inviting target for Hezbollah operatives. Many alien smuggling networks that facilitate the movement of non-Mexicans have established links to Muslim communities in Mexico, its Counter Terrorism Center said in a 2004 threat paper. Non-Mexicans often are more difficult to intercept because they typically pay high-end smugglers a large sum of money to efficiently assist them across the border, rather than haphazardly traverse it on their own. Deadly legacy of a lawless frontier Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Tri-border has become a top-level, if little-publicized, concern for Washington, particularly as tension mounts with Iran, Hezbollahs main sponsor. Paraguayan government officials told Telemundo that CIA operatives and agents of Israels Mossad security force were known to be in the region seeking to neutralize what they believe could be an imminent threat. But long before that, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies regarded the region as a free zone for significant criminal activity, including people who are organized to commit acts of terrorism, Louis Freeh, then the director of the FBI, said in 1998. Edward Luttwak, a counterterrorism expert with the Pentagons National Security Study Group, described the Tri-border as the most important base for Hezbollah outside Lebanon itself, home to a community of dangerous fanatics that send their money for financial support to Hezbollah. People kill with that, and they have planned terrorist attacks from there, said Luttwak, who has been a terrorism consultant to the CIA and the National Security Council. The northern region of Argentina, the eastern region of Paraguay and even Brazil are large terrains, and they have an organized training and
[osint] US oil workers abducted in Nigeria
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=9273 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=9273sectionid=3510205 sectionid=3510205 US oil workers abducted in Nigeria Wed, 09 May 2007 17:29:21 Four oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta only hours after 11 Korean and Filipino workers were freed. The four men were on a vessel off the oil-rich southern coast which was attacked late Tuesday by almost 40 gunmen on six small boats, an industry source said. Nigerian military personnel fought the attackers but could not stop the abductions. The attack came shortly after three oil pipelines were blown up in Niger Delta, home to Nigeria's multi-billion-dollars oil and gas industry. Sources described the attack as fairly well organized. No one has claimed responsibility so far. A US diplomat said that three Americans were definitely among those seized and the nationality of the fourth was being checked with a possibility that he may be Canadian. The state government is trying to make contacts with the boys holding these men through community and opinion leaders in the area, a senior government official in the state capital Asaba told reporters. We appeal for calm and the understanding of our foreign partners. This is not a pleasant situation but everything will be done to reach a truce in the best interest of the captives, he added. More than 150 foreign workers have been kidnapped in the Niger Delta since the start of last year, most of them connected to the oil industry. There was a lull in kidnappings during the Nigerian elections in April but the armed groups have made up for lost time since. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 4 Iraqi journalists killed by gunmen
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=9272 http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=9272sectionid=351020201 sectionid=351020201 ý4 Iraqi journalists killed by gunmený Wed, 09 May 2007 17:28:58 Four Iraqi journalists working for a US backed local newspaper have been killed in northern Iraq after gunmen fired into their minibus. A police officer told reporters on Wednesday that gunmen fired automatic rounds into the bus carrying the journalists in the city of al-Rashad, some 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of the oil hub Kirkuk. Their bodies were riddled with dozens of bullets, the officer said. Among the dead was Raad Mutasha al-Issawi, the 42-year-old editor of an Iraqi newspaper called Al-Iraq al-Ghad (Iraq Tomorrow). Local journalists say the Kirkuk based paper receives US sponsorship. At least 164 journalists and media professionals, the vast majority of them Iraqis, have been killed in Iraq since the US led invasion in March 2003. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fort Dix: Security Remains Stringent
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_128105345.html Fort Dix: Security Remains Stringent http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_image_309222913 http://wcbstv.com/local/local_file_128103015 Read The Full Federal Indictment (CBS) FORT DIX, N.J. Six men described by federal prosecutors as Islamic militants have been arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army post and kill as many soldiers as possible, federal authorities said Tuesday. Fort Dix responded to the plot on Tuesday. Below find the full statement from the Fort Dix Public Affairs Office. FORT DIX SECURITY REMAINS STRINGENT Security at Fort Dix remains stringent in the wake of arrests Monday of six men who were allegedly plotting a terrorist attack on the post. This alleged attack is a reminder that we are a nation at war, and that each of us must be vigilant and aware of our surroundings. On a positive note, the Fort Dix and McGuire AFB law enforcement community has partnered with the FBI and local communities during this lengthy investigation to ensure the safety of our joint installations. Mobilization and training continue as scheduled at Fort Dix, which has mobilized and demobilized more than 95,000 Soldiers since September 11. Those passing through checkpoints onto Fort Dix will notice more frequent vehicle searches and strict adherence to a 100 percent ID check, which may slow traffic. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Hezbollah builds a Western base
Hezbollah builds a Western base From inside South Americas Tri-border area, Iran-linked militia targets U.S. By Pablo Gato and Robert Windrem NBC News Updated: 8:32 a.m. ET May 9, 2007 CIUDAD DEL ESTE, Paraguay - The Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia has taken root in South America, fostering a well-financed force of Islamist radicals boiling with hatred for the United States and ready to die to prove it, according to militia members, U.S. officials and police agencies across the continent. From its Western base in a remote region divided by the borders of Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina known as the Tri-border, or the Triple Frontier, Hezbollah has mined the frustrations of many Muslims among about 25,000 Arab residents whose families immigrated mainly from Lebanon in two waves, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and after the 1985 Lebanese civil war. An investigation by Telemundo and NBC News has uncovered details of an extensive smuggling network run by Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim group founded in Lebanon in 1982 that the United States has labeled an international terrorist organization. The operation funnels large sums of money to militia leaders in the Middle East and finances training camps, propaganda operations and bomb attacks in South America, according to U.S. and South American officials. U.S. officials fear that poorly patrolled borders and rampant corruption in the Tri-border region could make it easy for Hezbollah terrorists to infiltrate the southern U.S. border. From the largely lawless region, it is easy for potential terrorists, without detection, to book passage to the United States through Brazil and then Mexico simply by posing as tourists. They are men like Mustafa Khalil Meri, a young Arab Muslim whom Telemundo interviewed in Ciudad del Este, Paraguays second-largest city and the center of the Tri-border region. There is nothing particularly distinctive about him, but beneath the everyday T-shirt he wears beats the heart of a devoted Hezbollah militiaman. If he attacks Iran, in two minutes Bush is dead, Meri said. We are Muslims. I am Hezbollah. We are Muslims, and we will defend our countries at any time they are attacked. Straight shot to the U.S. U.S. and South American officials warn that Meris is more than a rhetorical threat. It is surprisingly easy to move across borders in the Triple Frontier, where motorbikes are permitted to cross without documents. A smuggler can bike from Paraguay into Brazil and return without ever being asked for a passport, and it is not much harder for cars and trucks. The implications of such lawlessness could be dire, U.S. and Paraguayan officials said. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Hezbollah militiamen would raise no suspicions because they have Latin American passports, speak Spanish and look like Hispanic tourists. The CIA singles out the Mexican border as an especially inviting target for Hezbollah operatives. Many alien smuggling networks that facilitate the movement of non-Mexicans have established links to Muslim communities in Mexico, its Counter Terrorism Center said in a 2004 threat paper. Non-Mexicans often are more difficult to intercept because they typically pay high-end smugglers a large sum of money to efficiently assist them across the border, rather than haphazardly traverse it on their own. Deadly legacy of a lawless frontier Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Tri-border has become a top-level, if little-publicized, concern for Washington, particularly as tension mounts with Iran, Hezbollahs main sponsor. Paraguayan government officials told Telemundo that CIA operatives and agents of Israels Mossad security force were known to be in the region seeking to neutralize what they believe could be an imminent threat. But long before that, U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies regarded the region as a free zone for significant criminal activity, including people who are organized to commit acts of terrorism, Louis Freeh, then the director of the FBI, said in 1998. Edward Luttwak, a counterterrorism expert with the Pentagons National Security Study Group, described the Tri-border as the most important base for Hezbollah outside Lebanon itself, home to a community of dangerous fanatics that send their money for financial support to Hezbollah. People kill with that, and they have planned terrorist attacks from there, said Luttwak, who has been a terrorism consultant to the CIA and the National Security Council. The northern region of Argentina, the eastern region of Paraguay and even Brazil are large terrains, and they have an organized training and recruitment camp for terrorists. Our experience is that if you see one roach, there are a lot more, said Frank Urbancic, principal deputy director of the State Departments counterterrorism office, who has spent most of his career in the Middle East. A mother lode
[osint] NKorean Delegation Travels to Iran
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politicsloid=8.0.4120476 81par=0 loid=8.0.412047681par=0 IRAN: NORTH KOREAN DELEGATION TRAVELS TO TEHRAN javascript:aumenta(); javascript:diminuisci(); Tehran, 8 May (AKI) - A North Korean delegation travelled to Tehran on Monday night to discuss with Iranian authorities political and military cooperation. The North Korean delegation is headed by foreign minister Kim Young Il and includes top military officials. North Korea and the Islamic Republic have been cooperating on the technological development of long and medium-range missile systems and North Korean technicians are suspected of involvement in Iran's nuclear programme, which has sparked an international crisis over fears that Tehran is trying to build atomic weapons. North Korea's resumption of its nuclear weapons programme has also alarmed its neighbors and much of the rest of the world. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] EU: Galileo project in deep 'crisis'
100 percent useless and redundant. Will Sarko scrap this anti-American boondoggle? http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/05/08/galileo.troubles.ap/index.html EU: Galileo project in deep 'crisis' AP, 8 May 2007 BRUSSELS, Belgium - Europe's $4.9 billion satellite navigation system is in deep crisis and will require more public funds to get back on track, the European Union said. The Galileo project -- Europe's rival to the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS -- has already seen major delays because the eight companies in the consortium are arguing over how to divide the workload. The consortium of companies from France, Germany, Spain, Britain and Italy has been given until Thursday to set up a joint legal entity to run the project or risk losing control of it. But German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee, speaking on behalf of the EU, said he had little hope left the consortium will end the infighting in time. Galileo is in a profound and serious crisis. We're in a dead-end street, Tiefensee said. The cardinal problem is that the companies still have not been able to agree on the way forward. We need to find an alternative solution. The European Commission is to present a proposal on May 16 on how to overhaul the system, which Tiefensee said Monday would not likely be operational in orbit until 2012 -- a year later than had been expected. Tiefensee said Germany, which holds the rotating six-month EU presidency, also wants more public funding for the project. Under the original plan, European taxpayers were supposed to cover roughly one-third of the $4.9 billion project, which is to create some 150,000 jobs. We will hope to find another form of financing, of distributing the cost (within) a public-private partnership, Tiefensee said, adding it has not been decided whether the consortium will be able to hold on to some of the contracts. Only one out of 30 planned satellites in the system has been launched -- in December 2005. The second satellite missed its autumn 2006 launch date after it short-circuited during final testing. Galileo was originally to have started launching its 30 satellites -- compared to GPS's 24 -- by 2008. However, that date was postponed to 2011 due to previous disagreements between EU governments on how to pay for the system. Now, Tiefensee says it won't likely be operational until 2012. Like GPS, Galileo is envisioned to be a network of satellites orbiting Earth that will beam radio signals to receiving devices on the ground, helping users pinpoint their locations. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] RUSSIAN STRATEGY, EU DRIFT IN ESTONIA
Their sudden combined deployment against Estonia suggests that the Kremlin may be testing here a strategy of political entry into the sovereign spaces of other states, so as to erode their sovereignty. RUSSIAN STRATEGY, EU DRIFT IN ESTONIA By Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor, 8 May 2007 Russia's ongoing political offensive against Estonia - and implicit challenge to the European Union - constitutes the first serious attempt to reverse the post-1991 status quo in Europe. Moscow seems to be targeting Estonia as a first test case of such a process. Further Russian challenges to the existing European order are likely to ensue if European governments and institutions tolerate, as seems mostly to be the case thus far, the assault on Estonia. Ostensibly reacting to the relocation of the Red Army monument (Bronze Soldier) from downtown Tallinn, the Kremlin is actually targeting Estonia's state sovereignty, its internal political stability, and its links with the EU. This campaign can only make headway if the EU or at least some major member governments act as passive onlookers. Such seems almost to be the case at the moment, nearly two weeks into the crisis. Moscow's first goal is to dilute or negate Estonia's sovereignty. Russian high-level authorities pressured Estonia to revoke the sovereign decision of its democratically elected parliament (to relocate the Bronze Soldier) and are now denouncing Estonia for noncompliance with that demand. They have also called openly for a change of government in Estonia. The Kremlin's IT units have hacked the Estonian government's computer systems - an unprecedented act in international relations. Russian state television channels seek to inflame inter-ethnic relations in Estonia while lionizing local Russian rioters as political protesters. Kremlin-created rowdy organizations besieged Estonia's Moscow embassy in yet another negation of that country's sovereignty. Apart from the inflammatory TV broadcasts, all the other methods are being implemented for the first time since 1991. Their sudden combined deployment against Estonia suggests that the Kremlin may be testing here a strategy of political entry into the sovereign spaces of other states, so as to erode their sovereignty. A full-fledged strategy in this regard will use control over energy supplies as a tool. For now, Russia has imposed temporary restrictions on railroad transport as well as petroleum products and coal deliveries to Estonia (BNS, May 3). The second prong of Russia's campaign aims to fragment the European Union by neutralizing EU support for a threatened member country in the East. Moscow hopes to demonstrate that Estonia (or some other new member country next time around) will receive only limited support from EU authorities and major West European governments, if Russia initiates a confrontation with such an insubordinate country. The Kremlin seeks to create a perception of the EU divided into first-class (old) and second-class (new) member countries in terms of the EU's security and economic priorities. Such a perception could, if created, lead to tacit acceptance of special Russian interests with regard to the EU's new member countries. Related to this goal is Moscow's systematic use of the term fascism to mislabel democratic Estonia. Such usage is part of classical Soviet political-warfare techniques (undoubtedly studied by the KGB alumni who are now in charge of Russia) to singularize a designated opponent while attacking it, so as to inhibit general solidarity with that targeted opponent. The third aspect of Moscow's offensive aims to mobilize Russian compatriots in Estonia on the basis of residual Soviet values - in this case the Soviet liberation of the Baltic states from fascism. Furthermore, Moscow now seeks for the first time since 1991 to justify that liberation and stigmatize the opposite viewpoint at the international level. The Bronze Soldier's relocation from downtown Tallinn is not only a pretext for assailing Estonia. By defending this Soviet symbol and the whole legacy associated with it, the Kremlin rejects coming to terms with Russia's recent history of communist crimes against its own and neighboring nations. To resist such coming to terms at home, Russian authorities apparently feel that they must resist that process in neighboring countries as well. By stirring up enmity within Russia against Estonia over the Bronze Soldier, the Kremlin seeks to immunize the public against any Russian form of Vergangenheits-Bewältigung (Germany's post-Nazi comprehension of its history) so as to avoid internal challenges to the Soviet-successor ruling elite. The European Union collectively and its current German presidency in particular, do not seem to have thought through the implications of Moscow's strategy in this crisis thus far. Instead of dealing with Russia's assault on Estonia as an EU problem, most member governments and most authorities in
[osint] Russian President Putin Snubs Sarkozy After French Poll Victory
Russian President Putin Snubs Sarkozy After French Poll Victory By Henry Meyer, Bloomberg, 8 May 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to congratulate French President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy almost two days after his poll win. Analysts said relations between the two nations may worsen under the new French leader. [so much the better] Sarkozy still hasn't heard from Putin, his spokesman Franck Louvrier said today by telephone in Paris. The Kremlin press service said it wasn't aware of any message of congratulations. U.S. President George W. Bush, U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and German Chancellor Angela Merkel all congratulated Sarkozy on the night of the May 6 election after it was clear he had won. Russia is sending a signal to Sarkozy that it is not happy with his election victory,'' said Yevgeny Volk, an analyst in Moscow for the Washington-based Heritage Foundation. Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant who fled to France to escape Communist rule, signaled during the election campaign that he would take a tougher line toward Putin than his predecessor Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy said in February that France can't remain silent about killings in Chechnya. Human rights groups have accused Russian forces of torture and extra-judicial killings of civilians in the war-ravaged southern republic. The end of Chirac's presidency deprives Putin of another close ally in Europe, following the defeats of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in 2005 and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi last year. Under Chirac, there was a triangular partnership that doesn't exist anymore,'' said Vyacheslav Nikonov, a political analyst in Moscow, who advises the Kremlin. He was referring to the Putin-Chirac-Schroeder alliance that opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and remained close thereafter. Relations between Russia and the European Union worsened in recent months amid EU concerns about Putin curbing democracy in Russia and his more assertive foreign policy. A dispute between Russia and Estonia over the relocation of a Red Army statue from the capital Tallinn prompted NATO and the EU to condemn Russia's harassment of Estonian diplomats in Moscow. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Senate Urged to Rethink Immigration Bill After NJ Arrests
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200705/POL200 70509b.html Senate Urged to Rethink Immigration Bill After NJ Arrests By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor May 09, 2007 The arrest of six foreign-born Muslims accused of plotting to attack Fort Dix, N.J., should stop the Senate from producing an immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship or any other let-them-stay-here program, said a group that strongly opposes amnesty for illegal aliens. Three of the Islamic radicals arrested in New Jersey were illegal aliens; two had green cards; and one was a U.S. citizen. Four of the suspects were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. The suspects apparently had no connection to al Qaeda. The Federation for American Immigration Reform called the arrests strong proof that lax enforcement of our immigration laws does pose a severe threat to the security of the nation, and that the government's screening process for granting green cards and other immigration benefits is perilously flawed. News of the arrests came as a bipartisan group of Senators is trying to write an immigration reform bill acceptable to both sides -- a task that's proving difficult to accomplish. Many conservatives insist that such a bill must concentrate on enforcement of current immigration law as well as border security. -- keeping foreigners out of the country unless they go through proper immigration channels. Others, including President Bush and Senate Democrats, want the bill to include a guest worker program and a pathway to citizenship for the millions of people who have sneaked into the country illegally -- and can't easily be shipped out, they say. Given [Tuesday's] events, the American public has a right to demand, not ask, that Congress and the Bush administration drop all talk of amnesty and guest worker programs and get to work on the single most important priority: controlling our borders and fixing an immigration system that allows terrorists and just about anyone else to enter and hide out in this country, said FAIR President Dan Stein. Luck was on our side this time, but luck is not a substitute for due diligence and an immigration enforcement policy that protects the nation and its people, he said. FAIR said the arrests in New Jersey prove that terrorists can and will take advantage of unenforced immigration policies that have flooded this country with illegal immigrants. The arrests also show that terrorists understand the nation's vulnerabilities, FAIR said. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says the Senate will begin floor debate on an immigration bill on May 14, and if the new bill is not ready, he'll substitute the bill passed by the Senate last year. Reid insists his fellow senators have had plenty of time to produce a bill. Slow down, Republicans say. Press reports on Wednesday quoted Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) as saying that the bipartisan working group is close to agreement. We've been close for several days, wire reports quoted him as saying. There is not full bipartisan agreement on all of the major issues. Until we have that agreement we should not move forward. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL
[osint] Assault on Assyrian Christians: CONVERT OR DIE
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28217 Assault on Assyrian Christians By Paul file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/aut hors.asp?ID=4163 Isaac International Herald Tribune | May 9, 2007 A militant Islamic group in Iraq recently issued a fatwa, or religious edict, to the Assyrian Christian residents of the Baghdad suburb of Dora: Convert to Islam within 24 hours, or face death. At the same time, Muslim neighbors were instructed, over the loudspeakers of local mosques, to confiscate the property of Christians and enforce the edict. The response was as swift: The majority of Assyrians remaining in Dora immediately gathered whatever they could carry and fled the city. Iraq's Assyrian Christians know quite well that these latest threats are not empty promises. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, over 25 churches across Iraq have been bombed, in highly symbolic and coordinated manners. The Islamic group claiming responsibility for the bombing of four churches in August 2004 issued a warning. To the people of the crosses: Return to your senses and be aware that God's soldiers are ready for you. You wanted a crusade and these are its results. Several priests have been abducted and beheaded, one in apparent retribution for the pope's public musings about Muhammed and the nature of Islam in October 2006. In March, two elderly nuns were reportedly stabbed to death in Kirkuk. Several Christian women have been beheaded or doused with chemicals for failing to wear the veil. And last October a 14-year-old Assyrian boy was crucified near Mosul. For the Islamists, the violence has certainly had the desired effect: The massive exodus of Assyrian Christians from Iraq. The UN High Commission for Refugees estimates that as many as a third of the 1.8 million refugees now outside Iraq are Christian. A similar percentage of the 1.6 million internally displaced within Iraq are likely Christian, many of whom have fled Baghdad, Basra and Mosul to the relatively stable Northern Iraq. The Catholic Bishop of Baghdad, Andreos Abouna, recently stated that as many as half of Iraqi Christians, perhaps half a million people, have fled the country since the 2003 invasion. Assyrian Christians, the indigenous people of Iraq, the inheritors of the ancient Mesopotamian civilization and the world's earliest converts to Christianity, are at risk of being completely eradicated from their homeland. In a case of tragic irony, the liberating international forces have done nothing to protect Iraq's Christians. Not wishing to admit the catastrophic security failure nor be seen as intervening on a religious basis, U.S. officials have simply stood aside and watched. The State Department's recent offering of 7,000 visas for refugees is not only woefully inadequate but will merely encourage the flight of Assyrians from Iraq. The United States has been complicit with the destruction of an entire people and should be held liable for the rectification of this misfortune. Many Assyrians have pled for the establishment of an autonomous region for Christians in Iraq. This zone would likely be situated around the Nineveh Plains, the Assyrians' ancestral homeland, where Christians still comprise the majority. Sargis Aghajan, the finance minister for the Kurdistan Regional Government and himself an Assyrian, has called for autonomy in the Nineveh Plains. He also has financed the construction of thousands of homes in the area and to the north, to prevent those Assyrians fleeing Baghdad and elsewhere from leaving the country altogether. In March, I joined 1,200 Assyrian intellectuals and civic leaders, both from the diaspora and around Iraq, in attending a conference in Erbil which formalized Iraqi Christians' demand for autonomy. An autonomous region for Assyrians will convince those remaining in Iraq that their faith, language and way of life has a future in Iraq and persuade many of those who have fled to return. The Bush administration and its Iraqi allies should support this development and ensure its realization. The fate of an entire people lies in the balance. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods,
[osint] RI Students Must Watch Al Gore Propaganda to Graduate
http://www.cnsnews.com:80/ViewCulture.asp?Page=/Culture/archive/200705/CUL20 070509a.html RI Students Must Watch 'Inconvenient Truth' to Graduate By Randy Hall CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor May 09, 2007 To receive a degree from Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, students are being forced to watch An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary on global warming produced by former Vice President Al Gore. The science class requirement has prompted one conservative student to declare that we should stop calling these schools 'bastions of knowledge' since they're really bastions of leftist thought. The controversy at Roger Williams University (RWU) in Bristol, R.I., began the week before Earth Day, when the professors teaching the laboratory portion of Core 101: Science, Technology and Society required their students to watch Gore's Oscar-winning film in class. The course is one of 12 that students at the university must take in order to graduate. However, Dana Peloso, an RWU junior and president of the school's chapter of the College Republicans, sent a letter questioning the course requirement to Jeffrey Hughes, assistant dean of marine and natural sciences. With the issue of global warming being such a highly politicized topic, with the scientific community unsure if global warming is man-induced or part of the natural cycle of the earth, do you think that it is intellectually honest to only show the alarmist viewpoint? Peloso asked. If the movie is still shown, what plans are there to incorporate the ideas of leading global warming skeptics into class discussion? he added. In his email response, Hughes stated that I only recently saw 'An Inconvenient Truth' and have to think that it's an ideal subject for a Core lab, because the point of Core is to inform students of scientific principles and help them make decisions on issues with a scientific basis in their everyday lives. After an initial and heated debate, scientists no longer question whether the atmosphere is being warmed due to human activities and instead are increasingly impressed with the speed and impact of the process, Hughes wrote. I repeat: there is no doubt that we're warming the earth and that a continuation of our activities will lead to profound changes. Penguins, polar bears and your unborn children have no vote in this. They must live with decisions we make today, the assistant dean said. As educators, we're charged to encourage your intellectual growth, Hughes added. That can (actually, will) be uncomfortable at times, and we're also here to help you deal with that discomfort. It's truly what makes being a human such a joy, privilege and challenge. Peloso told Cybercast News Service on Tuesday that his fellow students have reacted to the situation in one of two ways. Those who understand that there are multifaceted points of view are really troubled by this, he said. But others are so naive that they take Gore's position as gospel, the final word on global warming. They see Al Gore is a former vice president, so it's got to be true. The RWU junior approached other members of the faculty and staff regarding the matter, but I can count on one hand the number of conservative professors I actually know of at the university, he stated. Peloso also sought assistance from the conservative Young America's Foundation, and Jason Mattera, a spokesman for the group who graduated from RWU in 2005, responded that Hughes' behavior amounted to gross intolerance at a university that promotes itself http://www.rwu.edu/about/mission as a place that values collaboration of students and faculty in research and appreciation of global perspectives. That aside, it's a bold-faced lie for him to argue that all scientists agree with Al Gore, Mattera added. Cybercast News Service previously reported that climate change skeptics have called An Inconvenient Truth a sci-fi disaster movie http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200703/CUL20070319a.html , and scientists who do not agree with the former vice president's view claim their perspective is being shunned http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200702/CUL20070208c.html in favor of trying to attain a consensus on the subject of global warming. Mattera told Cybercast News Service that he wasn't surprised to hear about the situation because liberal professors often use their positions of authority to indoctrinate young minds. This happens all the time, so we might have to stop calling these schools bastions of knowledge since they're really bastions of leftist thought, he said. However, Susan Rivers, vice president of public affairs for RWU, told Cybercast News Service on Tuesday that this semester is the only time the film has been shown to students and as to whether it will be shown in the future, the faculty and the deans agree together as a group what the content of these courses will be. Rivers said Peloso was not enrolled in the course and therefore did not see the film. He had
[osint] Illicit Nuclear Networks Still Pose Threat, Expert Says
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/2 00705/FOR20070509a.html Illicit Nuclear Networks Still Pose Threat, Expert Says By Monisha Bansal CNSNews.com Staff Writer May 09, 2007 The Pakistan-based black market network responsible for providing Iran, North Korea and Libya with nuclear technology could resume nuclear proliferation, an international think tank is warning. Despite the Bush administration's assertion that the network headed by disgraced former Pakistani nuclear weapons scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has been rolled up, experts are not convinced that it no longer poses a threat. Khan sold designs for centrifuges -- devices that spin at high speed and extract fissile material from uranium for building nuclear weapons. Not long after his illicit activities were exposed http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200402/FOR20040203b.html in 2004, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf pardoned Khan. Mark Fitzpatrick, a senior fellow for non-proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said Tuesday that Khan's network is the biggest problem of proliferation of the past decade. At least a dozen countries sought to acquire nuclear technology through black market means, he said at a press conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. This is a global problem of proliferation. Fitzpatrick is the author of a new IISS report on the network, which operated for almost two decades. He said Khan had significantly lowered the technical barriers to nuclear weapons development, by digitizing the information necessary to create nuclear weapons so it can be easily disseminated. After Khan confessed to passing on nuclear know-how to rogue states in the late 1980s and 1990s, President Bush said his network was out of business. Governments around the world worked closely with us to unravel the Khan network, and to put an end to his criminal enterprise, Bush said http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/02/text/20040211-4.html in February 2004. A.Q. Khan has confessed his crimes, and his top associates are out of business. The government of Pakistan is interrogating the network's members, learning critical details that will help them prevent it from ever operating again, the president added. But Fitzpatrick argued that there remained unknown elements that have not been rolled up. Fitzpatrick acknowledged that today's black market suppliers are far less integrated than Khan's one-stop shopping. His enterprise was unique in its ability to provide nearly the entire array of materials and services needed to produce highly enriched uranium. At the same time, Fitzpatrick added, at least some of Khan's associates appear to have escaped law enforcement attention and could, after a period of lying low, resume their black market business. The IISS report says that Khan was not the only nuclear arms merchant and Pakistan was not the only country implicated in the network. Most of Khan's foreign accomplices remain free, it states. The few prosecutions and light sentences that have been imposed to date are not commensurate with the scale of the proliferation that the Khan network abetted. Nor do they create a credible deterrent to any future proliferation networks, the report says. At the time, Bush hailed Khan's arrest as a victory and pointed to other programs including the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200508/FOR20050817a.html , a multi-nation effort to stop and search ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction-related cargoes. Fitzpatrick said international efforts that are underway are not enough to stop proliferation. He said there were not enough laws in place. Fitzpatrick also blamed lax enforcement of the laws that do exist and a lack of strict penalties for violating those laws. A State Department official Tuesday disputed Fitzpatrick's remarks, saying statements like that are meant to be provocative and they are provocative. We take them seriously but we've put a number of safeguards in place to try to prevent proliferation networks, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on behalf of the State Department. We're doing everything we can to make sure these networks don't reconstitute, and Khan's isn't the only one. There's a number of safeguards that are in place now that weren't before, the official added. The official cited the PSI http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200508/FOR20050817a.html , financial tracking and U.N. Security Council Resolution 1540. The resolution, unanimously adopted in April 2004, mandates governments to put in place and enforce appropriate and effective laws, controls and security measures to make it more difficult for terrorists to acquire WMDs or the means to deliver them. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to
[osint] Judge Tosses Indictment of Cuban Militant Luis Posada Carriles
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Judge Tosses Indictment of Cuban Militant Luis Posada Carriles
A federal judge on Tuesday threw out Cuban militant
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indictment accusing him of lying to immigration authorities, criticizing the
government's actions in the case and the interpretation of Posada's
naturalization interview.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Cardone ruled on a motion by Posada's attorneys
seeking to throw out statements he made during the interview in April 2006.
The evidence is overwhelming that the Government improperly manipulated the
administration of criminal justice in order to secure a criminal
indictment(s) against defendant, Cardone wrote in her 38-page ruling.
Cardone said the interpretation of the interview is so inaccurate as to
render it unreliable as evidence of defendant's actual statement.
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Castro, was scheduled to stand trial next week in Texas on immigration fraud
charges.
Cuba and Venezuela want Posada extradited for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban
airliner, but the United States has refused to send him to either country.
Posada has denied involvement in the bombing that killed 73 people.
Posada's attorneys argued in their motion that the interview was just a way
for the government to get more information about the ongoing investigation
against him.
As part of her ruling, Cardone excluded all transcripts and tapes of
statements that Posada had made during the naturalization interview.
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[osint] Two Britons Convicted of Leaking Bush, Blair Memo on Iraq War
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102sid=agtg0HWwQxFQrefer=uk sid=agtg0HWwQxFQrefer=uk Two Britons Convicted of Leaking Bush, Blair Memo on Iraq War By Megan Murphy May 9 (Bloomberg) -- Two British civil servants were convicted of leaking a secret memo about a 2004 meeting between U.S. President George Bush and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair about the war in Iraq. David Keogh, 50, a former Cabinet communications officer, and Leo O'Connor, a political researcher, were found guilty today of breaching Britain's Official Secrets Act by a London jury after 10 hours of deliberations. Prosecutors claimed the two men put troops' lives at risk by attempting to leak the document, which contained sensitive military and political information. Both Keogh and O'Connor denied the charges, which carry a maximum sentence of two years in prison. Rex Tedd QC, Keogh's lawyer, last week said that his client intercepted the memo because he felt its contents were ``utterly wrong'' and would cause embarrassment for Bush. The men intended to put the document in the hands of John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Tedd said. Instead, O'Connor slipped the document into the papers of his boss, former Labour Member of Parliament Anthony Clarke, who alerted authorities. Both men will be sentenced today or tomorrow. O'Connor was convicted on a 10-1 vote of the jury. Keogh was convicted unanimously on one count and by a 10-1 vote on a second charge. Bush-Blair Meeting Large segments of the three-week trial were conducted in private, to preserve the confidentiality of the contents of the memo. Prosecutors said it records key details from an April 16, 2004, meeting between Bush, Blair and other senior officials, just two months before coalition forces relinquished governing authority in Iraq. Keogh admitted making a copy of the memo while working alone in the government's ``Pindar'' communications center, which frequently receives sensitive intelligence documents. He passed it to O'Connor, in a bid to push it into the public domain. Both men claim that its disclosure wouldn't have increased the risks for coalition troops, who were already facing backlash in Iraq. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal, involving the abuse of detainees by U.S. military police at a Baghdad correctional facility, also first broke into the news in April 2004. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US State Department Releases Report on Terrorism
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=7128 US State Department Releases Report on Terrorism Jim Kouri May 7, 2007 Five years after 9/11, the international community's conflict with transnational terrorists continues. Cooperative international efforts have produced genuine security improvements -- particularly in securing borders and transportation, enhancing document security, disrupting terrorist financing, and restricting the movement of terrorists. The international community has also achieved significant success in dismantling terrorist organizations and disrupting their leadership. This has contributed to reduced terrorist operational capabilities and the detention or death of numerous key terrorist leaders. Working with allies and partners across the world, through coordination and information sharing, we have created a less permissive operating environment for terrorists, keeping leaders on the move or in hiding, and degrading their ability to plan and mount attacks. Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and many other partners played major roles in this success, recognizing that international terrorism represents a threat to the whole international community. Through the Regional Strategic Initiative, the State Department is working with ambassadors and interagency representatives in key terrorist theaters of operation to assess the threat and devise collaborative strategies, action plans, and policy recommendations. We have made progress in organizing regional responses to terrorists who operate in ungoverned spaces or across national borders. This initiative has produced better intra-governmental coordination among United States government agencies, greater cooperation with and between regional partners, and improved strategic planning and prioritization, allowing us to use all tools of statecraft to establish long-term measures to marginalize terrorists. Despite this undeniable progress, major challenges remain. Several states continue to sponsor terrorism. Iran remains the most significant state sponsor of terrorism and continues to threaten its neighbors and destabilize Iraq by providing weapons, training, advice, and funding to select Iraqi Shia militants. Syria, both directly and in coordination with Hezbollah, has attempted to undermine the elected Government of Lebanon and roll back progress toward democratization in the Middle East. Syria also supports some Iraqi Baathists and militants and has continued to allow foreign fighters and terrorists to transit through its borders into Iraq. International intervention in Iraq has brought measurable benefits. It has removed an abusive totalitarian regime with a history of sponsoring and supporting regional terrorism and has allowed a new democratic political process to emerge. It also, however, has been used by terrorists as a rallying cry for radicalization and extremist activity that has contributed to instability in neighboring countries. Afghanistan remains threatened by Taliban insurgents and religious extremists, some of whom are linked to Al Qaeda (AQ) and to sponsors outside the country. In Afghanistan public support for the government remains high, national institutions are getting stronger and the majority of Afghans believe they are better off than under the Taliban. But to defeat the resurgent threat, the international community must deliver promised assistance and work with Afghans to build counterinsurgency capabilities, ensure legitimate and effective governance, and counter the surge in narcotics cultivation. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict remains a source of terrorist motivation. The holding of free elections in the Palestinian Territories was a welcome sign of democratization, but Hamas' subsequent refusal to disavow terrorism or accept Israel's internationally accepted right to exist undermined the election's impact. Terrorist activity emanating from the Palestinian Territories remains a key destabilizing factor and a cause for concern. The summer war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah was a prime example of how Hezbollah's continued efforts to manipulate persisting grievances along the Israeli/Lebanese border can quickly escalate into open warfare. The conflict did force the international community again to demand Hezbollah's complete disarmament, in UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1701, and generated a renewed international commitment to support a peaceful, stable, multi-sectarian democracy in Lebanon. Even so, Hezbollah, a designated foreign terrorist organization, in combination with state sponsors of terrorism Iran and Syria, continues to undermine the elected Government of Lebanon and remains a serious security threat in the Middle East. AQ and its affiliates have adapted to our success in disrupting their operational capability by focusing more attention and resources on their propaganda and misinformation efforts. They
[osint] Balkan Muslim Gratitude
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28234 Balkan Muslim Gratitude By Julia file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/aut hors.asp?ID=629 Gorin FrontPageMagazine.com | May 9, 2007 On Monday, the FBI arrested six Muslims who were planning a commando-style attack on Fort Dix in New Jersey, to kill as many soldiers as possible, authorities said. Four of the six men are Albanians, a fact that Fox News - which apparently thinks that Yugoslavia and Albanians are the same, and isn't sure what those two things might have to do with the Balkans - http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270601,00.html reported thus: The Associated Press reported that those captured were nationals of the former Yugoslavia, but the law enforcement source told FOX News that not all of them are of Albanian ethnicity. Federal sources also said the group is from the Balkans. The only clue we get from other news sources that the four Yugoslavs are Albanian, and from Kosovo, is in sentences like these, which appeared in an earlier version of an AP http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070508/ap_on_re_us/fort_dix_plot report: In 1999, [Fort Dix] sheltered more than 4,000 ethnic Albanian refugees during the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia.After that war, refugees were allowed to return to the U.N.-run province of Kosovo in Serbia or to seek permanent residency in the United States. Pat ourselves on the back for resettling those rescuees here. Terrorism aside, the Albanian mafia has already http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/08/18/albanians.mob/ overtaken both the Russian and Italian ones. There was also that Kosovo Albanian whose al-Qaeda http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/11/26/cover.htm application was discovered in Afghanistan, to name just one of many such collaborators. This is Balkan blowback, and it's been happening since we stuck our nose where it didn't belong throughout the 1990s and, for good measure, bombed the wrong side. Maybe one day we'll finally start talking about it. This morning, Balkan experts Jim Jatras, director of the http://www.savekosovo.org/ American Council for Kosovo, and Dr. Serge Trifkovic alerted all major on-air media of their availability to discuss this development and were told, We have our usual terror experts. Those would be the same terror experts who, in their daily opining on the War on Terror, haven't touched the Balkans - a key region in the War on Terror, as it was the site of al-Qaeda's proliferation into a truly global network and now serves as the organization's European base and entryway for attacks on that continent and others. (Note to Fox News: Balkans includes Kosovo, Bosnia, Albania and others.) So, we're in for yet another round of terror experts painting terrorism in and from the Balkans as a unique thing, suspended in a vacuum of context, lest Americans start piecing things together and surmising that perhaps what happened to the Serbs is in some way related to what's happening everywhere else on the globe. Just so no one has to look too far, here's an excerpt from a New York Times http://www.newsmax.com/articles/?a=1999/4/8/213303 article that was written before we decided that, in the Balkans, the terrorists are the good guys: A young Army conscript of ethnic Albanian origin shot up his barracks, killing four sleeping Slavic bunkmates and wounding six others. The army says it has uncovered hundreds of subversive ethnic Albanian cells in its ranks. Some arsenals have been raided. But watch the Fort Dix story go away faster than the one about the Bosnian Muslim who killed five Americans and injured another four in Salt Lake City for Valentine's Day three months ago. Who even knows that at least two of the 9/11 hijackers were veterans of the Bosnian jihad, as Muslim sources now openly call it? http://www.wnbc.com/news/13274813/detail.html?dl=mainclick Reports NBC: The alleged terror cell is described by investigators as disciples of Osama Bin Laden. Among the evidence seized was the downloaded will and testament of two Sept. 11 hijackers.On the videotape there is significant discussion of martyrdom. As I always say, Damn those Serbs! Good thing we were busy http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=657 deporting those and not these ones who are trying to kill us - such as the killer Bosnian Sulejman Talovic in Salt Lake City or, for example, Agron Abdullahu (one of the six arrested on Monday), who was a http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087sid=agUG0413ZFIgrefer=home sniper in Kosovo and residing here legally. Speaking of Serbs, one wonders how soon the arrested parties will think of pinning this one on the Serbs the way the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret Morning News http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=773 managed to do in reporting on Talovic (eventually coaxing his family to follow suit). But those Balkan people were supposed to be only nominal Muslims! Secular, we were told. Europeans,
[osint] Al Qaeda Trying to Place Moles in British Intelligence
AND in the CIA and FBI... Bruce http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/6465 AL QAEDA FANATICS IN BID TO JOIN MI5 AL QAEDA extremists are trying to infiltrate Britain's spy agencies. Dozens of suspected Islamic fanatics have been weeded out after attempting to join MI5 and MI6. They were identified by the vetting process applicants go through over six to eight months. The success in exposing the moles has underlined the dangers faced by the security services as they seek to recruit more Muslims. Britain is also facing a bigger threat from home-grown extremists than has so far been admitted, say experts. Police and MI5 say they are working at full stretch to defend Britain from Al Qaeda attacks. Last week MI5 declared there were 2,000 terror suspects and their supporters active in the UK. Lord Stevens, former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, believes the true figure is nearer 4,000. They are allowed to stay here because their own countries won't tolerate such evil Lord Stevens He called on the Government to increase the manpower of police and intelligence services to combat Al Qaeda-linked terror gangs. Lord Stevens highlighted the evil influence of preachers of hate like hook-handed Abu Hamza, the Egyptian-born cleric now serving seven years for inciting murder and race hate. Lord Stevens says they should be thrown out of the country. He added: They are allowed to stay here because their own countries won't tolerate such evil. MI5 says the threat level currently faced by Britain is severe meaning that an attack is highly likely. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Plans of al-Qaeda 3.0
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/187762.php The Plans of al-Qaeda 3.0 You hear Rusty talk about al-Qaeda 3.0. Where small self starting al-Qaeda inspired cells without direct connections to al-Qaeda's leadership form, plan and direct independent attacks againt the west. Today's arrests in NJ speak to the fact that such cells exist. Laura Mansfield has http://www.lauramansfield.com/j/default.asp posted an explanation of how these al-Qaeda 3.0 cells are formed and how the al-Qaeda leadership views their purpose. Of course the internet plays a crucial role. Laura Mansfield: News media reports describe this morning's terrorist suspects, who planned an attack on Ft. Dix, NJ, as homegrown with no ties to al Qaeda or any other international terrorist organization. This isn't surprising in the least. It is very likely that this cell, like numerous others that have been uncovered in the past year, falls into the category of ?Individual or Small Group Terrorism?, as espoused by the Al Qaeda ideologue Abu Mus?ab al Suri in his book ?Call to Global Islamic Resistance?.. The doctrine of ?Individual or Small Group Terrorism? is a major concept in al Suri?s 1604-page manifesto, published on the internet in December 2004. Al Suri, who is believed to be currently in US custody, describes three primary phases of Jihad in the book: # Organizations # Open Fronts # Individual/Small Groups He explains in depth each of these phases, and makes a strong case that the wave of the future is individual and small group terrorists. ...There's certainly no shortage of training materials for would-be jihadists on the internet ? from instructional videos detailing the brewing of explosives, the construction of a suicide bomb vest, and multiple kinds of improvised explosives devices, to detailed recipes for creating chemical and biological weapons. Detailed training manuals provide the trainee with a roadmap to physical fitness. Online publications, the most famous being Moaskar al Battar, detail how to maintain and use firearms from pistols to automatic weapons, as well as operational plans such as how to plan an ambush, a kidnapping, and an assasination Security is easier, he believes, because the individuals and groups don?t have to take marching orders from the Al Qaeda leadership. Instead, they can act on their own, inspired by events in their own countries. The glue bonding them to the organization is a shared ideology and theology, and a commitment to jihad. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] France's Thatcher
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28219 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28219 Frances Thatcher By file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/aut hors.asp?ID=1021 Kenneth R. Timmerman FrontPageMagazine.com | May 9, 2007 Sarko, the American. For much of the French presidential campaign, it was an epithet used by the enemies of conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy to suggest that he was not his own man but a handmaiden of Washington. Instead of complaining, or accusing his detractors of defaming his character, the former Chirac protégé adopted the slogan and wore it as a badge of honor. Imagine that, a French political leader, proud of being called an American! Thats just the first of many things that will change when Nicolas Sarkozy takes office on May 16. Less than seven minutes into http://www.election-presidentielle.fr/?p=973 his victory speech on election night, Sarkozy sent a message to America. I want to launch an appeal to our American friends, he began to a cheering audience, that they can count on our friendship, forged in the tragedies of history we have confronted together. I want to tell them that France will be at their sides when they need her. But I also want to tell them that part of friendship is accepting that friends can think differently. There was a huge gasp in the room, as the shadow of Jacques Chirac appeared to descend from the ballroom ceiling, threatening to shatter the magic of the renewed France that Sarkozy seemed to embody. But then the French president-elect veered off in an unexpected direction. He wasnt about to chastise America over the war in Iraq, or the ongoing war on terror. He wasnt even going to raise the very real difference he has with President George W. Bush over the entry of Muslim Turkey into the predominantly Christian European Union (Bush favors Turkeys entry as part of his politically-correct salaam to Islam, religion of peace; Sarkozy is against). No, it was about global warming. A great nation such as the United States has a duty to not become an obstacle to the struggle against global warming but instead to take the lead in this battle, because whats at stake is the fate of all humanity, Sarkozy said. He capped it off by vowing to make the fight against global warming his first battle as president. Before you laugh, be thankful. Sarkozy wasnt pledging to create a Palestinian state over the bodies of dead Jews, as is predecessor had done. He wasnt vowing to dislodge America from its super-power status, nor was he demanding that http://www.kentimmerman.com/french-betrayal.htm America subordinate its right to self-defense to a show of hands at the United Nations among countries who wish us ill. Instead, he was calling on America to take a leadership role. This is a new France, indeed. (And there is more than just puffery in Sarkozys choice of global warming as his signal foreign policy issue. Remember that France has some of the most advanced nuclear power technology in the world, and wants to perfect and export 4th generation reactors to developing countries. As he reminded his Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal, during their two hour mano-a-mano last week, nuclear power is clean energy and does not contribute to greenhouse gases.) But while Sarkozy says there is much to admire in America, his real aspiration is to become Frances Thatcher. Indeed, the task facing Sarkozy is dreadfully similar to the one that faced Margaret Thatcher when she first assumed office in 1979, after decades of disastrous socialist economic and social policies. Sarkozy inherits an economy with high unemployment, little job mobility, and a massive social welfare state supported by powerful trade unions that fear losing their influence. Like Britain a generation ago, today more than 50% of the French gross national product is spent by the state. That compares with 42% in todays Britain and the United States. Sarkozy has pledged to renew a country demoralized by 12 dismal years of Jacques Chirac, undoubtedly the worst president the French have ever had the misfortune to elect. The Chirac era was fraught with corruption and baseness of all sorts. If the French were to apply the letter of the law, Chirac could be headed for the housegaw after losing his presidential immunity on corruption charges stemming from his 18 years as mayor of Paris. (I doubt Sarkozy will allow Chirac to be prosecuted, and personally I think he should pardon him not because of any love lost for Chirac, but because the French would prefer to forget that Chirac ever existed and dont want to be reminded of him in the news. Neither should we.) When Chirac was first elected in 1995, unemployment topped 10%. After spending tens of billions of euros on make-work programs and various social welfare fixes,
[osint] Bombing in Iraq kills 14
http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/may/09/bombing-iraq-kills-14/ Bombing in Iraq kills 14 A suicide truck bomb ripped through the Interior Ministry in the relatively peaceful Kurdish city of Irbil today, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens, officials said. Kurdish officials blamed al-Qaida linked insurgents for the attack. Meanwhile, Vice President Dick Cheney met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mouri al-Maliki today on an unannounced visit to Baghdad. They acknowledged problems in the pace of reducing violence in Iraq, but both pledged their governments would continue working together toward a solution. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Al-Qaeda copycat ideology gains ground in Gaza
It is not 'copy cat' it is al-Qaeda; nor is it about an organization; it is the ideology. Bruce Al-Qaeda copycat ideology gains ground in Gaza http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1095814 GAZA CITY: A purported claim by an extremist group to be holding a BBC journalist highlights the growth of copycat Al-Qaeda-style ideology and rising Islamic fundamentalism in the Gaza Strip, experts say. The Army of Islam, which first stepped out of the shadows with a joint claim to have captured an Israeli soldier in June, apparently broadcast an audio clip on an Internet site, Al-Boraq, commonly used by Jihad groups in Iraq. In the recording, the group demanded the release of Muslim prisoners from impious governments and chiefly of Palestinian-born cleric Abu Qatada, held in Britain and once fingered as Al-Qaeda's spiritual chief in Europe. The audio clip, as presented on the Internet, was accompanied by a picture of BBC journalist Alan Johnston's BBC press card. The Gaza Strip, where Johnston was the last Western journalist working full-time in the territory when he was snatched, has become increasingly dangerous -- rife with political tension and rising Islamic fundamentalism. In recent months, dozens of Internet cafes have been attacked and a Christian bookshop bombed. On Sunday, a party at a UN-run school was attacked by a Salafist group opposed to such a celebration and one Palestinian killed. One Western official monitoring events in the Gaza Strip said the ideology behind Wednesday's claim was treading in the same footsteps as those who kidnapped two Fox TV journalists for last August and held them for two weeks. It's the same kind of ideology. We saw it the first time with the Fox journalists. The kidnappers wanted all the Muslim prisoners to be freed with an anti-British and American rhetoric, the official said. The Fox journalists were captives of the previously unknown Holy Jihad Brigades, which demanded that all Muslim prisoners be freed from US jails. Israeli incursions, poverty, violence a more than year-long Western boycott and an abundance of weapons all come together to lay the foundations of growing Islamist radicalism in the Gaza Strip, says the official. The people are influenced by Islamist rhetoric that is available on the Internet. Because of the situation in Gaza, certain groups of young people feel they've been alienated and driven to this ideology that they find attractive. I don't see the thing going down but I see more radicalisation ... That's worrying, the source said. An Israeli intelligence official, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to speak to the media, agrees. There's no real Al-Qaeda masterminds entering Gaza, it's more inspirational and ideological. They (groups in the Gaza Strip) have adopted ideas, methods and thought patterns of the international jihad, the official said. Moin Rabbani, an expert on Palestinian affairs at the International Crisis Group think tank, said it was difficult to know whether the Army of Islam proclaims its affiliation with Al-Qaeda or whether it existed in reality. But it does show there is increasing fertile ground in the Gaza Strip for this kind extremist movements and ideology, said Rabbani. While kidnappings have been a growing scourge in the Gaza Strip, most abductors have merely sought to lever concessions from local authorities rather than make demands of foreign governments. In another indication of differences between the Army of Islam and longer established Islamist organisations with nationalist agendas, Hamas moved swiftly to slam the group's extremism and declare all ties had been cut. Only last year did the armed wing of Hamas, which is the senior coalition partner in the government and blacklisted as terrorists in the West, claim joint responsibility for the raid to capture the Israeli serviceman. From the start, the Army of Islam and Hamas were connected only over Gilad Shalit. After a while, these ties were cut after the Army of Islam changed its approach, said Hamas spokesman in Gaza, Ayman Taha. We reject these methods used by certain Muslim believers because they harm Islam. The affair of Alan Johnston is immoral and we call on his holders to release him, he added. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups
[osint] State Department says chances bleak for return of USS Pueblo
Chances were bleak from the moment the US Navy let the NKoreans hijack the ship in international waters without a fight in the first place. Bruce http://www.examiner.com/a-718264~State_Department_says_chances_bleak_for_ret urn_of_USS_Pueblo.html State Department says chances bleak for return of USS Pueblo By JENNIFER TALHELM, The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The State Department says it can't negotiate the return of the USS Pueblo from North Korea while the United States is trying to get the communist nation to drop its nuclear ambitions. A State Department official turned aside a suggestion by Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., that the U.S. demand the North Koreans return the Pueblo, taken in 1968. Allard suggested offering to swap a Korean flag captured in the 19th century in exchange for the ship. Allard said his constituents are eager to see North Korean return the Pueblo, which is named for a Colorado town and is the only active-duty U.S. warship in the hands of a foreign power. In a letter to Allard last week, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, Jeffrey Bergner, said there are substantial barriers to getting the Pueblo back. The two countries have no formal diplomatic relations, Bergner wrote. Also, the North Koreans haven't offered to return the ship. The State Department sees little near-term prospect of negotiating the return of the USS Pueblo, Bergner wrote. Allard hasn't given up, spokesman Steve Wymer said. Allard introduced the resolution in Congress last month demanding that North Korea return the Pueblo. He will wait and see what happens and follow up in a few weeks, Wymer said. Sen. Allard wants the Pueblo back, Wymer said. Anyhing he can do to make that happen, he will look into it. The Pueblo was taken Jan. 23, 1968, after being sent defenseless on an intelligence-gathering mission off the North Korean coast. Navy records show it was in international waters when it was captured, though the North Koreans insist it was inside the Korean coastal zone. The North Koreans display the ship as a trophy. U.S. officials have been told North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, decreed that the ship should be used for an anti-American education. The U.S. government believes the Pueblo is being held illegally, Bergner wrote to Allard. North Korea has occasionally suggested to private citizens that it would trade the ship for high-level bilateral talks or for large compensation, Bergner wrote. But the U.S. rejects the idea of such a trade because it would legitimize North Korea's action. Advocates in Colorado argue that the United States should at least return the flag to the Koreans as a show of good intentions. The flag was captured from Korean Gen. Uh Je-yeon in an 1871 battle after American ships attempting to open Korea to trade invaded Kanghwa Island, outside Seoul. It is on display at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] It's All Good For Usama And Al-Qaeda
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/24926.html# It's All Good For Usama And Al-Qaeda The War on Terror is not a hot agenda item for the Democratic presidential candidates. In fact, one would be hard pressed to conclude that there even is such a thing. The only time we hear about terrorists from the Democratic candidates is when they open their traitorous mouths, proudly voicing their cut-and-run strategy. In their view, Iraq will magically become an earthly Shangri-La as soon as the last of our troops fly out. My, my, my - http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/jon/061118 it is exactly what clear-thinking conservatives have been writing about - the perception that everything is going to be just wonderful as soon as the Democrats are in control of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oval_Office Oval office, that is. Soon thereafter will come the Main Scream Media's full-blown campaign, unleashed upon Joe and Jane public, the goal being to completely brainwash us into believing that the Democrats have the magic cure for whatever ails us. No? Shame on you. For more than six years (of the Bush regime), we have been repeatedly told that the Democrats are superior to the lying, no good Hitler who sits in the White House... the dummy who can't do anything right. The Republicans might as well give up trying to combat the calamity that will follow the 2008 general election and kiss our country good bye right now. Didn't you hear? We have already lost the war in Iraq, according to the Grand Poobah Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and his sidekick, Al-Qaeda's number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri. I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week, Reid told journalists. I know I was the odd guy out at the White House, but I told him at least what he needed to hear... I believe the war at this stage can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically. Let's get one thing straight. The Democrat leadership are a bunch of far Left, calculating, undermining socialists, who have the biased media on their side. Yep - those patriotic folks who have been emboldening terrorists just like the ones who attacked our country on that unforgettable morning of September 11, 2001. Excerpts from Associated Press: In New Video, Al Qaeda No. 2 Mocks Congress Bill, President Bush CAIRO, Egypt - Al Qaeda's No. 2 mocked both U.S. President George W. Bush and the U.S. Congress bill setting a pullout timetable for U.S. troops from Iraq, in a new insurgent video obtained Saturday by a U.S.-based group. In the video, Ayman al-Zawahiri - who acts as Usama bin Laden's deputy - is shown in a white Arab robe and white turban, seated before a bookshelf, the Washington-based SITE Institute said. Al-Zawahiri speaks sarcastically of the U.S. troop pullout tying war funding to a withdrawal timetable, said SITE, which tracks terror messaging. The one hour seven minutes long video was dated May and had English subtitles. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,270241,00.html Link The Democrat National Party keeps the good times coming as they continue to encourage the haters of America to Keep on Truckin'. Under the leadership of the Democrats, the Department of Homeland Security will be peachy perfect. There will be no more intelligence-gathering tools. The Patriot Act will be watered down. Many other programs in place for our protection will be removed. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/11/232727.shtml After all, it was President Bill Clinton who managed to cut our military almost in half when he was in office. Let us look at the big picture. After the Democrats win the presidential election, it won't be long before all the good President Bush accomplished to protect us from radical Islam will be removed and we will be at their mercy. They say what they mean and do as they say. Do you understand? Capisce? America will be caught with her proverbial pants down once again, as we were in the days that led up to 9/11. Aren't we lucky? Ah... yes, and all for the sake of the political far Left agenda that 90% of us don't want but which only about 20% of us are willing to fight against. With the help of the media and political whores, our great nation has become a paper tiger. The chaotic path down which we will be led can only be characterized as disastrous. At one time, America knew good from evil and right from wrong. We stood tall for freedom. That's all changed, however - and no one seems to mind. We have become weak, fat, ripe, and ready for the pickin' by our enemies. America has indeed been lulled into a collective coma by the liars of defeatism... and it's all good for Usama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and America's other foes. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[osint] Ongoing police operation against possible Al Qaeda cell
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_10372.shtml Ongoing police operation against possible Al Qaeda cell There are reports that 17 arrests have been carried out so far The Guardia Civil are looking for an Al Qaeda cell from the Magreb region which is thought to be in Málaga or on the Levante Coast. It follows a large scale operation carried out in Alicante where nine people from Algeria were arrested yesterday. Reports indicate that two of those detained work in the Algerian Consulate. More than 70 Guardia Civil from Alicante, Málaga, Sevilla and Madrid took part in the operation in Alicante yesterday. Those arrested are alleged to have been falsifying documents and carrying out credit card fraud, drug trafficking and bribery. There are reports this morning that now a total of 17 arrests have been made, and two of those detained are known to have links to the Jihad in 2005. Officers hid their faces with balaclavas as they made searches of homes and commercial premises, seizing computers and computer material, and a large amount of documentation. The police operation remains open. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] PROPAGANDA: African Liberation Fronts and al Qaeda: a Most Disastrous Confusion
Interesting African propaganda, but it does acknowledge that the Somali Islamic Courts are an al-Qaeda ally. Bruce http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=26584 African Liberation Fronts and al Qaeda: a Most Disastrous Confusion We have repeatedly illuminated the dangers ensuing from the continuation of the existence of the bogus-Ethiopian Tyranny; Tigray dictator Meles Zenawi's involvement in Somalia made the situation even more difficult, as it exposed numerous Liberation Fronts to the eventuality of a fruitful cooperation with the Islamic Courts of Justice, al Qaeda's most notorious ally in Africa. This is no good news for the West, and the entire world. This combination of struggles, of oppressed African nations for Independence, and of fanatic Islamists for World leadership, would bring forth the ultimate collapse of the West, helping Africa become a vast tinderbox from the Horn of Africa to the Atlas mountains. The effects would be cataclysmic if compared with the insignificant repercussions of 60 years of Palestinian 'problem' and the somewhat important consequences of the failed US-led invasion of Iraq. The Western administrations have no other choice but to satisfy the need for Independence, Democracy, Self-determination, and Freedom of numerous African peoples, from the Oromos, the Sidamas, the Afars, and the Ogadenis of Abyssinia, to the Furs, the Nuers, the Dinkas, the Bejas, and the Nubians of Sudan, and from the Berbers of Kabylia to the Banaadiris of Somalia. It has to be immediately assessed and ultimately understood that numerous decades of political oppression and economic dispossession of natural resources, and two centuries of cultural alienation and colonial education have created an explosive amalgamation of extreme despair and utmost deception; when you have nothing more to lose, you can cooperate - in order to get your national target materialized - with absolutely anyone. This has not happened so far; the African Liberation movements displayed refrain and reserve of an unparalleled political maturity. The US administration must seize the opportunity as long as it stands. Perpetuating the despair and the deception or pushing African Liberation leaderships to the menacing embrace of al Qaeda can bring only disaster - to the West, not to Africans, as they have already attested disaster, it's nothing new to most of them. The Game is Over: you Cannot Save Tyrannical bogus-Ethiopia! In this regard, it is of seminal importance for world diplomats and apprentice mass media representatives to refrain from making the confusion of the utmost catastrophe, namely the equation between the African Liberation fronts and the al Qaeda allies. In reality, the former are numerous and the latter are scarce. Under terms of true judgment and accurate estimation of the African societies' conditions, the former control vast oppressed masses and few guns, whereas the latter, being few, have already formed a vast arsenal that they intend to make available to the former within the context of an Anti-Western alliance. The situation is at the brink of abyss, with irresponsible UN diplomats and corrupt media representatives having crossed the Rubicon only to weep tremendously on their fallacious assumptions. We take as example a recent press release issued by the OLF (Oromo Liberation Front) whereby the leading Oromo Liberation organization denounces categorically the unwise discourses of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia that shamelessly associates the OLF with the Islamic Courts Union. The press release that we publish hereby integrally reports a similarly irresponsible attitude displayed by the Associated Press. The UN, the African Union, the US, China, the EU and other global players must realize as soon as possible the reality: - You cannot save the collapsing, bogus-Ethiopian Tyranny; save at least Africa from the clutches of Islamic Terrorism! UN Monitoring Group on Somalia and the Associated Press; they have it wrong! In October 2006 the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia reported to the Security Council Committee on Somalia that that the OLF was fighting on the side of the Islamic Courts Union. At the time the OLF rejected this baseless Ethiopian propaganda that turned into UN news stating as a matter of policy the OLF does not interference in neighboring states internal affairs, and that Somalia is no exception. The UN Monitoring Group on Somalia simply copied Ethiopian propaganda without any legitimate substantiation and converted it to news. The occupying forces of Ethiopia in Somalia have captured thousands of Ethiopian refugees who lived in Somalia for years, killed many of them, and tortured even more to submission and admission of guilt. These individuals are then used through state owned Ethiopia mass media as evidence of OLF armed presence in Somalia. Because of the track record of the Ethiopian regime, this propaganda should not have
[osint] U.S. ANALYST ARRESTED IN TEHRAN
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politicsloid=8.0.4129653 69par=0 loid=8.0.412965369par=0 IRAN: U.S. ANALYST ARRESTED IN TEHRAN javascript:aumenta(); javascript:diminuisci(); Tehran, 9 May (AKI) - A US Middle East expert of Iranian descent who had been prevented from leaving Iran since last December has been arrested and is detained at Tehran's Evin prison, the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center at which she heads the Middle Eastern programme said Wednesday. Hales Esfandiari, who has double US-Iranian citizenship, left Iran in 1979 but had been returning twice a year for the past ten years to visit her 93-year-old mother, her husband Saul Bakhash, an historian at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, said. Last year another academic with double Iranian-Canadian citizenship, Ramin Jahanbegloo, was detained in Iran for a few months and released after he 'confessed' that foreign agents could have used his work for political ends. Esfandiari had organized on behalf of her think tank conferences on the Iranian nuclear programme and on the future of reformists in Iran. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Al-Qaeda message aimed at US living rooms
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IE10Ak08.html Al-Qaeda message aimed at US living rooms By Michael Scheuer In an hour-plus videotaped interview broadcast last Saturday, al-Qaeda deputy chief Ayman al-Zawahiri answered questions from an unnamed interviewer from al-Qaeda's video arm, Al-Sahab Productions. The topics addressed covered the range of issues usually focused on by al-Qaeda leaders in videos, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and most other ongoing Islamist insurgencies. Zawahiri also again attacked the perfidy of Hamas and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for cooperating with, respectively, the Arab-state allies of the United States - calling them US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's boys - at the recent Riyadh conference on Palestine and Egyptian Hosni Mubarak's regime. In the video, however, Zawahiri's presentation introduces several new elements that may portend an increasing al-Qaeda effort to make itself part of domestic US politics and to appeal to the religious sentiments and societal and economic dissatisfactions of American Muslims, especially black Muslims. The new video maintains the high tempo of Zawahiri's media appearances in 2007. Zawahiri's May 5 appearance is his seventh of the year, of which two have been on videotape and five on audio. Overall, Al-Sahab media organization has released 35 videotapes in 2007, which is a rate of one video every 3.6 days. [1] The frequency with which these al-Qaeda media products are released, as well as their professional production values, strongly suggests that Al-Sahab is headquartered in an area where its employees have easy access to high-quality media gear and which has been reliably secured against intrusions by al-Qaeda's enemies. Al-Qaeda has previously tried to impact US domestic politics through its video and audio tapes. Osama bin Laden's Speech to the American People on the eve of the 2004 presidential election is perhaps the most famous of these efforts (Al-Jazeera, October 30, 2004). Zawahiri's May 5 statements, however, were much more specifically targeted than bin Laden's message, and were meant to inflame further the ongoing confrontation between President George W Bush's administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress over the future of the Iraq war. In response to the interviewer's request for his views on the Iraq war funding bill, which includes a withdrawal timetable for US forces, Zawahiri replied that the measure reflects Americans' failure and frustrations and added that the US failure is allowing the mujahideen to move from the stage of defeat of the Crusader ... to the stage of consolidating a Mujahid Islamic Emirate [in Iraq] which will liberate the homelands of Islam, protect the sacred things [sites] of Muslims, implement the rules of sharia ... and raise the banner of jihad as it makes its way through a rugged path of sacrifice and giving toward the environs of Jerusalem, with Allah's permission. While accurately reflecting al-Qaeda's goals, Zawahiri's words were likely meant to provide quality fodder for those in US politics who argue that the Iraq war must be won to prevent the rise of a new Islamic caliphate that will be ruled by a doctrine of Islamofascism and threaten the United States and Israel. For US politicians opposed to the war, Zawahiri offered grist of a similar quality. When asked about his view of the US troop surge in Baghdad and those who claim it is beginning to bear fruit, al-Qaeda's No 2 claimed that the surge certainly is bearing fruit, but only in Bush's pockets and the pockets of Halliburton. Then, turning to ridicule claims of the surge's success, Zawahiri invited the US president to join him for a glass of juice ... in the cafeteria of the Iraqi Parliament in the middle of the Green Zone - referring to the deadly insurgent attack on that heavily defended site last month. Finally, Zawahiri expressed some mock anguish over what he sees as a too-early US withdrawal from Iraq. Such an action, he said, Will deprive us of the opportunity to destroy the American forces which we have caught in a historic trap. We ask Allah that they only get out of it after losing two or three hundred thousand killed. Citing the supposed greed of US war industries, focusing on the US-led coalition's inability to protect facilities in the Green Zone, and displaying zealousness to kill many more US troops, Zawahiri provided ammunition to those in US politics who argue that the war is being lost, too many Americans have already died, and only war profiteers have an interest in staying the course in Iraq. Zawahiri's May 5 statements greatly expanded previous al-Qaeda efforts to portray the Islamist movement as part of a world liberation campaign that is meant to destroy US imperialism - the most powerful tyrannical force in the history of mankind - and assist all the weak and oppressed in North America and South America, in Africa and Asia, and all over the world. [2]
[osint] Fort Dix jihad plotters recruited through Internet
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016361.php Fort Dix jihad plotters recruited through Internet How do jihadists recruit peaceful Muslims? By making the case from Islamic sources that jihad warfare is their religious responsibility. And they make this case on the Internet, making it easier for them than ever before to reach their target audience. They don't have to deal with law enforcement officials in majority-Muslim countries who may be trying to put a lid on the jihad; they don't have to cross borders or find hideouts or hazard open activity in areas where it might be viewed unfavorably. All they have to do is go online. The Internet's Role In Fort Dix Plot, by Robert Windrem for http://dailynightly.msnbc.com/2007/05/the_internets_r.html MSNBC (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): Six men described by federal prosecutors as Islamic militants were arrested on charges they plotted to attack the Fort Dix Army base and kill as many soldiers as possible, authorities said Tuesday. A former senior U.S. intelligence official tells NBC News do not lose sight of the role the Internet played in inspiring these prospective jihadis. The FBI affidavits note that among the materials used in organizing, training and proselytizing the jihadis were al-Qaida training videos, the video wills of two 9-11 hijackers, and videos of U.S. soldiers being killed in Iraq He noted that the Internet also helped in the recruitment and inspiration of jihadis who planned terrorist attacks in places like Singapore and England. The guys in Singapore, all middle class, were all recruited off the network of jihadi Web sites, he added. What is missing and needed, he added is, a countervailing message from moderate Islamists. Where is the countervailing message from Islam on the Internet?, he asked. They aren't going to believe anything we in the West have to say. It has to come from Islam. Quite so. And where is that countervailing message? Why isn't it out there? That's the 800-pound gorilla in the room that no one wants to notice. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Al Qaeda's new enemy
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0705080694may09,1,5479897 ,print.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed Al Qaeda's new enemy May 9, 2007 Al Qaeda's terrorists in Iraq now face a new enemy: Sunni tribesmen in Anbar Province. These tribal leaders in the heart of the insurgency are now backing coalition and Iraqi forces against the terrorists. You want good news from Iraq? There it is, in flashing neon. These Anbar leaders aren't just jawing. Thousands of Sunnis have rushed to join local police forces, with tribal leaders' encouragement. The progress has inspired an optimism in the American command that, among some officials, borders on giddiness, The New York Times reported. There are some people who would say we've won the war out here, one Marine officer said. That's a phrase you don't hear often in Iraq. While the Sunni tribal leaders probably haven't developed a sudden fondness for U.S. forces, they have apparently developed a deep disgust for the Al Qaeda agenda. The Sunnis don't want what Al Qaeda is peddling: a soul-crushing fundamentalist Islamic dictatorship. About a year ago, Army Col. Sean MacFarland began exploiting that split. He defied conventional wisdom by negotiating with a group of Sunni sheiks to fight Al Qaeda, according to USA Today. He built small, more vulnerable combat outposts in Ramadi's most dangerous neighborhood to expel insurgents and provide security. I was going the wrong way down a one-way street, MacFarland told the newspaper. Turns out it was the right way. Violence is down in Ramadi and the surrounding province. MacFarland's alliance has ultimately expanded to include more than 200 sheiks, the paper reported. The tribes started attacking Al Qaeda leaders on U.S. target lists. A rare success story? Yes. Like everything else in Iraq, caution is advised. The tribal elders might change sides again. The notion of a Sunni-U.S. alliance may not translate to other parts of Iraq, especially Baghdad. And Al Qaeda is still fighting. On Monday, for example, two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing 13 people. They committed this crime because we have identified their hideouts and we are chasing them, a Sunni police officer told The Associated Press. Many in Congress and across America will say any progress in Iraq is too little too late. They believe, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has said, that the war is lost. But it is not. In a recent op-ed in The Times, Owen West, a major in the Marine Reserve who has served two tours in Iraq, said that after years of failed strategies, the military is finally making meaningful adjustments to the complex fight. Iraq can be solved, he suggests, but only by military and political strategies that complement one another. His suggestion: Double the size of the Iraqi army. Starting this fall, Iraqi units with American advisers would take the lead in fighting what he calls a law enforcement war. American troops could be embedded with bulked-up Iraqi units -- even as the U.S. force level declines. It's an intriguing idea. And the success in Ramadi is encouraging. But no strategy can work if Iraq's leaders don't meet the political and economic benchmarks that confront the government. Some of those benchmarks may be enshrined in a new U.S. military spending bill that the president and Congress are negotiating. That's an excellent idea: It dials up the pressure on Iraqi leaders to act. One thing we know: No compromise bill will include a timetable for withdrawing troops; that's a deal-breaker for President Bush. But there is a deadline of sorts for widespread, tangible progress. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, says we'll know by fall if the troop surge is working. That's when Petraeus has promised Congress a progress report. Rep. John Boehner, a key Republican House leader from Ohio, said Sunday that if the surge strategy has not yielded results by autumn, Congress will demand a Plan B. But many Democrats are impatient. They may push a stopgap spending bill that would fund combat operations only through midsummer. The rest of the money would be withheld pending a progress report. In a Web video posted last weekend, Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahri, declared victory in Iraq. He pointed to the withdrawal timetables in the bill that Congress passed and President Bush vetoed. He's wrong. That's not proof of defeat; it's proof of growing American impatience. Mustering more patience is a herculean effort for many Americans. But the surge strategy deserves a fair chance through the summer to work. Anbar suggests that a change in strategy can bring a welcome change in results. Remember: Al Qaeda doesn't have a Plan B. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[osint] Balkans used as logistics base for Islamic terrorism
http://www.makfax.com.mk:80/look/novina/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1 http://www.makfax.com.mk:80/look/novina/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1IdPublicat ion=2NrArticle=66775NrIssue=341NrSection=30 IdPublication=2NrArticle=66775NrIssue=341NrSection=30 Balkans used as logistics base for Islamic terrorism Washington /09/05/ 15:08 US officials said intelligence reports from the Balkans have identified a support structure for several terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, among the Muslim communities in Albania and in the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia, Washington Times writes in today's edition The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the US military base included four ethnic Albanians, and US officials say their arrests highlight how Islamist groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism. US officials said the Islamists were motivated by al Qaeda sympathies and that ringleader Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, who was born in Jordan, had copies of the wills of two September 11 terrorists on his laptop computer. Prosecutors described the men as radical Islamists, with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Suspect Agron Abdullahu, who faces only weapons violations in the case, was described in court papers as a sniper in Kosovo. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Ag terrorism on agenda at Wyoming Homeland Security conference
http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6490924 Ag terrorism on agenda at Wyoming Homeland Security conference CHEYENNE, Wyo. The potential for terrorism aimed at the nation's farms and food supply is on the agenda today (Wednesday) for the second day of the Wyoming Office of Homeland Security's 2007 conference. The meeting is being held at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, and runs through tomorrow (Thursday). Today, attendees will hear from Professor David Franz of Kansas State University. He'll discuss the potential dangers facing farmers and ranchers in the current homeland security environment, including some vulnerabilities in the system and how best to proceed from here. This afternoon's keynote address will be delivered by Commander Bob Broadhurst of the New Scotland Yard in London. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fort Dix jihadists had video of bin Laden calling people to join the jihadist movement
http://www.jihadwat http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016350.php ch.org/archives/016350.php May 08, 2007 Fort Dix jihadists had video of bin Laden calling people to join the jihadist movement Fort Dix Jihad Update. Document links Fort Dix suspects to radical terrorism, from Gannett News Service http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0508fortdixdets08-on.html : WASHINGTON - The plot to attack Fort Dix in south central New Jersey began to unravel on Jan. 31, 2006, when a retail store employee called the FBI about a disturbing video a customer had dropped off to be converted into a DVD. The video showed 10 men who appeared to be in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic ... God is Great,' according to a 27-page federal criminal complaint the U.S. Department of Justice released Tuesday. Six of the 10 men identified in that video were arrested on charges of trying to attack Fort Dix, an installation whose layout one of the men - Serdar Tatar - purportedly knew like the palm of his hand, according to an affidavit submitted by FBI Special Agent John J. Ryan. And no doubt no one would have dared to ask him what he thought of jihad and Islamic supremacism before letting him roam free around Fort Dix. To have done so would have been Islamophobic. Left unexplained was why only six of the 10 were arrested and whether more arrests were forthcoming. The employee who alerted the FBI wasn't identified; the store's name wasn't disclosed. The complaint said Tatar and five other men arrested - Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka and Agron Abdullahu - amassed firearms, sought illegal Russian-made AK-47 assault rifles, viewed terrorist-training videos on their computers and trained in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. One of the videos appeared to be the last will and testament of two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, and another contained images of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic extremists making various speeches in which the speakers call the viewer to join the jihadist movement, according to the complaint. Jihad is an Arabic word that means holy war. Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka are illegal aliens, according to the complaint. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=12603557/grpspId=1705303296/msgI d=201560/stime=1178671274/nc1=4438967/nc2=3848604/nc3=3848429 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] U.S., Germany Fear Imminent Terror Attack
U.S., Germany Fear Imminent Terror Attack May 09, 2007 2:15 PM http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/05/us_germany_fear.html Brian Ross, Richard Esposito Chris Isham Report: U.S. and German officials fear terrorists are in the final planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany. Law enforcement officials tell ABCNews.com that U.S. air marshals have been diverted to provide expanded protection of flights between Germany and the United States. The information behind the threat is very real, a senior U.S. official told ABC News. German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schauble told reporters, The danger level is high. We are part of the global threat by Islamist terrorism. Of particular concern, according to U.S. and German law enforcement officials, is the U.S.-European Command at Patch Barracks, near Stuttgart. Security at all U.S. military and diplomatic facilities has been increased in the last month, following reports that suspected terrorists had conducted surveillance of the Patch Barracks facility. The attack would be designed to create high numbers of casualties among both Germans and the U.S. military, said ABC News consultant Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterror official. The 9/ll hijackers planned their operation out of Hamburg, Germany, and the country continues to be known as a staging area for al Qaeda and groups affiliated with it. There are 300 to 500 people who are suspected to be part of al Qaeda cells in Germany, said Col. Andrews Pratt (Ret.) of the George Marshall Center in Germany. In a democratic state like Germany, you just can't go out and arbitrarily arrest people because they are under suspicion, Pratt said. German officials have called for enhanced police powers to keep suspected terror groups in check. Several radical Islamist groups have threatened violence unless Germany withdraws its troops from the NATO force in Afghanistan. An al Qaeda-connected group in Iraq took a German woman and her adult son hostage in February, threatening to execute them if Germany did not pull its troops out of Afghanistan. The two are still being held. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Police raid G8 'terror attackers'
Police raid G8 'terror attackers' POSTED: 11:52 a.m. EDT, May 9, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/09/germany.raids.reut/index.html BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) -- German authorities on Wednesday launched raids in six northern states and said they impose new border controls over fears left-wing radicals were planning attacks to disrupt a June G8 summit on the Baltic coast. Some 900 security officials were searching 40 sites in Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Bremen, Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement, adding it had opened two separate investigations. We suspect those targeted, who belong to the militant extreme-left scene, of founding a terrorist organization or being members of such an organization, that is planning arson attacks and other actions to severely disrupt or prevent the early-summer G8 summit in Heiligendamm from taking place, the prosecutor's office said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel will host the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States at the June 6-8 summit, which will focus on climate change, African poverty and economic cooperation. Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble announced a tightening of border controls ahead of the G8 summit. The actions are similar to those taken by Germany during last year's World Cup tournament to prevent an influx of soccer hooligans. We are particularly focused on dangers arising from violent globalization opponents, the ministry said. Prosecutors suspect the left-wing militants they are investigating of being behind nine minor attacks in the Hamburg area and three in the Berlin region in the past two years. Those attacks include an incident last December when a car was set on fire in front of the home of deputy finance minister Thomas Mirow and windows and walls of his house were splattered with paint. Anti-G8 group Gipfelsoli denounced the raids, accusing authorities of a wave of repression to dismantle the movement's communication network All attempts to criminalize us do not change the fact that we will use the G8 (summit) to cast a spotlight on the injustices of this world, Hanne Jobst, a Berlin-based member of the group said in a statement. Germany has not experienced any major left-wing violence since the militant Red Army Faction (RAF), which waged a bloody two-decade long campaign of killings and kidnappings, announced in 1998 that it was disbanding. But authorities are taking aggressive pre-emptive measures to ensure the summit goes as smoothly as the World Cup did. A 2.5-meter high steel fence, topped with razor wire, has been placed in a 14-km ring around Heiligendamm and police will control access through airport-style X-ray machines. Around 40 km down the coast from the Kempinski Hotel where the leaders will meet, officials in the city of Rostock are expecting a demonstration of up to 100,000 people on the weekend before the event. Copyright 2007 http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html#Reuters Reuters. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message
[osint] Jihadis in New Jersey?
Jihadis in New Jersey? The FBI arrested six men Monday over a plot to attack Fort Dix Army base. from the May 10, 2007 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0510/p01s03-usju.html By Ron http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=D2EFEEA0D3E3E8E5F2E5F2u rl=/2007/0510/p01s03-usju.html Scherer and Faye http://www.csmonitor.com/cgi-bin/encryptmail.pl?ID=C6E1F9E5A0C2EFF7E5F2F3u rl=/2007/0510/p01s03-usju.html Bowers | Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor Some of the six men played paintball together and took target practice in the Poconos. One delivered pizzas to Fort Dix, the sprawling Army base in New Jersey. Such unremarkable activities, though, form part of the backbone of a federal conspiracy case against the men - all Muslims, all immigrants - for allegedly plotting to kill at least 100 soldiers at Fort Dix. Their motive, according to a federal indictment: a perception that Islam is under attack. To authorities making the arrests, the men signify that the threat of home-grown terrorist cells, inspired by Al Qaeda but not actually connected to it, is a very real one. To others, the six are an aberration, disavowed by Muslims in the US who see the alleged plot's violent intent as damaging their efforts to become part of the American fabric. But for many security experts, the men's motivation is what serves as the starkest warning. The animosity felt toward the United States isn't something just outside our borders, says Bruce Hoffman, a professor of securities studies at Georgetown University in Washington. There are obviously people inside this country who have the same hostility and are prepared to use violence. The men in New Jersey aren't the first group arrested for allegedly plotting attacks against this country. In 2006, federal authorities arrested seven mostly inept militants in Miami for their alleged discussions about blowing up the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI's Miami headquarters. In June 2003, government officials thwarted a plot to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. And in 2002, authorities rounded up six Yemeni-Americans from Lackawanna, N.Y., for having ties with Al Qaeda. According to the Justice Department, the latest group included three ethnic Albanians living here illegally, another ethnic Albanian living here legally, one Jordanian-born US citizen, and an ethnic Turk who lived in Philadelphia. Muslims caution that the Muslim-American community should not be judged by the alleged actions of a few. One must view it as isolated and the stuff of which Tom Clancy novels are made and the reality of modern terrorism, says John Zogby, president of Zogby International in Utica, N.Y., whose polling firm has surveyed the Muslim-American community. It is nothing intrinsic to the Muslim or Islamic experience in the US. Still, some experts point out that this group is not entirely unlike the group that carried out the London train and bus bombings in July 2005, or the group responsible for the Madrid train bombings in March 2004. European authorities, after those attacks, said that both terror cells were home grown and inspired by, but not directed by, Al Qaeda. Much later, The Spanish and British found direct connections to Al Qaeda, says Seth Jones, an expert on terrorism at RAND Corp. in Washington. Contrary to what many people believe, he says, Al Qaeda's numbers are increasing and their global breadth is increasing, and the US is a major target. Zogby cautions, however, that the European Muslim experience is quite different than the American Muslim. Here they assimilate: They buy into the American dream, and surveys suggest they succeed. They are not locked in as a permanent underclass. Al Qaeda's number of targets Jones has been tracking Al Qaeda attacks, and he says that through 2001, Al Qaeda averaged one attack per year. Since 9/11, he says, Al Qaeda has averaged about seven or eight attacks per year. And they span a variety of places - in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, he says. Though no link between Al Qaeda and the New Jersey group has been established, the target allegedly picked by the group is a classic terror target: the military. This is traditional terrorism, says Dave Brannan, who teaches terrorism studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. It's a symbolic target coupled with the religious terrorism - the catharsis of killing many, not just one. Dr. Brannan goes on to say, This plot appears to be theologically motivated, not just generally religious: They make repeated comments about how their brothers, their religion is under attack. For example, the affidavit quotes one of the accused, Eljvir Duka, as stating, and at the end when it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying [to attack] your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad. Yet John Mueller, a professor of national-security studies at Ohio State University, says the arrests don't prove there are countless groups dreaming up plots.
[osint] Friday Sermon in Iran: President Bush Should Be Sentenced to 100 Deaths
VISIT THE NEW MEMRI BLOG AT www.thememriblog.org Special Dispatch-Iran/Jihad Terrorism Studies Project May 10, 2007 No. 1578 Friday Sermon in Kerman, Iran: If Iran Is Attacked, Tens of Thousands of Missiles Will Be Fired at Israel; President Bush Should Be Sentenced to 100 Deaths To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD157807 . The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon in Kerman, Iran, delivered by Sayyid Yahyah Ja'fari. The sermon was aired on Kerman TV on May 6, 2007. To view this clip: http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9P1=1444 . Sayyid Yahyah Ja'fari: As you can see, the killing in Iraq is outrageous. That international criminal, George Bush... If there is any justice in the world, undoubtedly, this man and his ilk, without a doubt, should be sentenced to 100 deaths. There is no doubt about it. Meanwhile, they hold all the power in their hands, and the world has not yet begun to confront them the way it should, even though these peoples have great power. The power of the world of Islam is great. The governments are dependent [upon America], and so they prevent the Muslim peoples from doing anything, and even if they were to do anything, it would be ineffective. These occupying, racist, and plundering Zionists kill the Palestinian children and youth on a daily basis. This is so sad, you could die of sorrow. They drive a people out of its land, and then, when it wishes to defend itself, they accuse it of terrorism. This is so sad. The international community remains silent. It has never done anything about it. On the other hand, if some Zionist goes to hell, then all the Western, American, and European media, as well as the Security Council, the U.N., and everyone else, go into action. However, if 100 Palestinians unjustly die a martyr's death on a single day - they don't care about it. The American threats are psychological warfare. You must know this. The Supreme Leader [Khamenei] recently said so. But let's assume that it isn't psychological warfare; with God's grace, our people, our strong army, our powerful Revolutionary Guards, our brave Basij volunteers - in sum, all our armed forces, of which we are proud - are in full readiness, and they will rub the invaders' noses in the mud. Crowd: Allah Akbar Allah Akbar [...] Sayyid Yahyah Ja'fari: According to our officials and political analysts, this will not happen - I only said it for the sake of argument - because some of the American officials have a little sense, and they realize that their interests throughout the world would be in danger, and that the plundering Israel would also be attacked severely by us. America is doing all these things in order to ensure Israel's security. If it acts stupidly and invades an Islamic country - especially a country like Iran - it should bear in mind that Israel will come under a very severe attack. Several days ago, the stupid Israeli prime minister said: 'We can attack the Iranian nuclear industry with 10,000 cruise missiles, and delay it for another 10 years.' Our response is that if he is planning to fire 10,000 missiles, we will fire tens of thousands of missiles on Tel Aviv and Israel. Crowd: Allah Akbar Allah Akbar. * The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent, non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background information, are available on request. MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be used with proper attribution. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) P.O. Box 27837, Washington, DC 20038-7837 Phone: (202) 955-9070 Fax: (202) 955-9077 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Search previous MEMRI publications at www.memri.org -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair
[osint] Moroccan Machete attack on two Aussies
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21704692-1702,00.html Machete attack on two Aussies By Paul Carter and Denis Peters May 10, 2007 12:52am Article from: AAP * Hacked while relaxing poolside in Morocco * Attacker claimed to be 'mentally disturbed' * Everybody else ran away screaming TWO Australians relaxing by a hotel pool in Morocco with other guests have been hacked with machetes in a senseless, unprovoked attack. Hotel guests say John Parkinson, from Victoria, and Dianna Knox, from NSW, were slashed a number of times about the arms and shoulders by a man wielding a machete in each hand. The attacker's rampage began after he climbed a wall into the pool area of the Morocco capital's Sofitel Marrakech about 11.15am local time yesterday. The pair's travelling companions say there was no apparent motive for the disturbing attack, and no one else was attacked. Security staff caught the attacker, handing him over to police as the Australians were taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. They had arrived in Marrakech the day before, part of a Pharmaceutical Society of Australia study tour involving 190 society members and their partners. Society vice-president Debbie Rigby said the pair were sitting about the pool relaxing when the man came over the wall and started hacking them with two machetes. Everybody else was running away screaming, she said in a telephone call to Sydney from the Marrakech hotel. As far we can tell it was an isolated incident, and the tour will continue. Ms Rigby said the pair's injuries were not life-threatening. The injuries to both of them were to the arms and shoulder, she said. Ms Rigby said the attack had disturbed everybody on the tour, but that a counselling expert with them was available to help anybody who needed it. A hotel worker said the Australians were struck three or four times each by the attacker, suffering cuts to their arms, legs and upper body. They are our guests, they told us that they are Australian, the hotel worker said. They are not too badly injured, he said. The attacker had previously received hospital treatment in the central town of Fes for mental problems, a police source said. Hotel manager Najib Mountassir said: It's an isolated act, the woman is resting in her room, but we have done tests for the man although his head injury is light. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32356/stime=1178750757/nc1=4438979/nc2=3848608/nc3=3848533 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Four journalists shot dead
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09633068.htm Four journalists shot dead From correspondents in Kirkuk May 09, 2007 09:54pm Article from: Reuters FOUR Iraqi journalists were killed when gunmen opened fire on their car near the northern city of Kirkuk today, police said. They said one of the journalists was the well-known director of a local media organisation which publishes several newspapers. The attack took place southwest of Kirkuk near the small town of Rashad. It was unclear if the shooting was random or because the four were journalists. Iraq is the most dangerous country in the world for reporters. The Vienna-based International Press Institute said in April that 46 journalists were killed last year in the country, of whom 44 were Iraqis. On Sunday, a Russian freelance photographer was killed in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad while on patrol with US forces. Six soldiers were also killed in that attack. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=32358/stime=1178751341/nc1=4438979/nc2=3848601/nc3=3848530 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Nation Unprepared for Mega-Catastrophe
1001 PENNSYLVANIA AVE., NW SUITE 500 SOUTH WASHINGTON, DC 20004 TEL 202-289-4322 FAX 202-628-2507 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fsround.org Impacting Policy. Impacting People. http://www.fsround.org/media/pdfs/MegaCatRolloutRelease.pdf Contact: Gina Maffei, 202-589-2427 Nation Unprepared for Mega-Catastrophe Business Leaders Step Up with Solutions, As Hurricane Season Approaches Washington, D.C. - May 4, 2007 - Federal, state and local governments, the private sector, and American citizens themselves, must be substantially better prepared to face the devastating impact of future mega-catastrophes Governments at all levels, together with the private sector, must do a better job of attending to the human and economic needs of victims immediately after mega-catastrophes. These are two of the findings released in a new report A Call To Action by the Financial Services Roundtable Blue Ribbon Commission on Mega-Catastrophes. The report identifies other disaster preparedness needs and offers 25 recommendations to better prepare the nation for future catastrophes. The Blue Ribbon Commission was formed to develop a comprehensive report and to make recommendations to: reduce the impact of mega-catastrophes (mega-CATs) on human life and the economy, pay for the costs of rebuilding and reconstruction after mega-CATs in an efficient and equitable manner, and improve the immediate responses to and recovery from mega-catastrophes. We urge policymakers at all levels of government to take prompt action to implement the recommendations, said Edward Rust, Jr., chairman and CEO of State Farm Insurance Companies and Blue Ribbon Commission Chairman. We must learn lessons from previous disasters. We must apply those lessons to minimize the consequences of future mega-catastrophes. The report includes a total of 25 recommendations on how the United States can best prepare for and recover from mega-catastrophes. The recommendations are divided into the following three areas: 1. . Reducing the human and economic impacts of future mega-CATs, . Paying for the costs of future mega-CATs more efficiently and fairly, and . Improving response to victims and expediting recovery from future mega-CATs. Above all else, we certainly know one thing from past such event: preparation makes all the difference, said Kerry Killinger, chairman and CEO of Washington Mutual, and Blue Ribbon Commission Vice Chairman. Although events never unfold exactly as we have planned, having no plan is simply a plan for failure. A mega-CAT is a natural or man-made event that has significant adverse national impacts on economic activity, property or human life; and the report covers a wide range including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, pandemic, and terrorist attacks. Please click here for a full copy of the report: http://www.fsround.org/media/pdfs/FINALmegacat4.pdf The Financial Services Roundtable represents 100 of the largest integrated financial services companies providing banking, insurance, and investment products and services to the American consumer. Member companies participate through the Chief Executive Officer and other senior executives nominated by the CEO. Roundtable member companies provide fuel for America's economic engine, accounting directly for $65.8 trillion in managed assets, $1 trillion in revenue, and 2.4 million jobs. # # # (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list,
[osint] NETworked Radicalization: A Counter-Strategy
http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/reports/NETworked%20Radicalization_A%20Counter%20Strategy.pdf NETworked Radicalization: A Counter-Strategy (PDF; 1.59 MB) Source: Homeland Security Policy Institute From press http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/news/index.cfm?d=4098 release: Through a compelling ‘call to action’ based on myths and falsehoods, terror networks have made savvy use of the Internet to radicalize potential recruits worldwide. With the “war” now shifting to one of ideology, cyberspace is the battlefield, and the United States has not yet developed an effective narrative as part of its counter strategy. That’s the conclusion of a new report issued by The George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) and the University of Virginia’s Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) titled, “NETworked Radicalization: A Counter-Strategy.” The report is the second in a series addressing the issue of terrorist radicalization. Frank J. Cilluffo, Director of HSPI, presented the report’s findings and recommendations before the May 3 hearing of the Senate on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to address extremist use of the Internet to spread radical ideology and the impact of those efforts on potential followers. He described how terror networks have moved from using the Internet for operational planning (such as 9/11) and propaganda (videos of beheading of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl) to a means of social networking to radicalize new recruits. According to the report, Internet chatrooms are now major venues for recruitment and radicalization by terrorist groups like al Qaeda, and video-hosting websites like YouTube broaden the outreach. The report also indicates that websites are being used more and more to feature extremist interpretations of religious doctrine with little being done on the other end to refute, counter, or when appropriate, shut down the dialogue. _ HOMELAND SECURITY POL IC Y IN S T I T U T E A Special Report by The George Washington University Homeland Security Policy Institute The University of Virginia Critical Incident Analysis Group NETworked Radicalization: A Counter Strategy Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) and Critical Incident Analysis Group (CIAG) Task Force on Internet-Facilitated Radicalization* ... TASK FORCE SPECIAL REPORT ON INTERNET-FACILITATED RADICALIZATION Introduction Savvy use of the Internet has empowered terror networks to expand their reach beyond national borders by enabling wide distribution of a compelling message and social connectivity with new audiences. Use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) has made a range of terrorist operational activities cheaper, faster, and more secure, including communications, fundraising, planning and coordination, training, information gathering and data mining, propaganda and misinformation dissemination, and radicalization and recruitment. The list is long, and not even complete. Before the Internet, terrorists seeking to communicate with one another through electronic means used telephones or radios, which could be tapped. Terrorists seeking to offer training meant congregating trainers and trainees in a fixed training location, exposing the group to capture or worse. Terrorists or their supporters engaged in fundraising or recruitment often pursued these aims in public settings. And terrorists researching a potential target often did so at public libraries and bookstores, subjecting them to surveillance in these public spaces. Now, with the Internet, all of these same activities can be conducted in relative anonymity from safe locations across the globe: Terrorists can draft an email message and save it as a draft rather than sending it, so that anyone with access to that email account can log in and read the message. Known as “dead drops,” these communications are less subject to interception.1 Terrorists can post training manuals online or even hack into a legitimate website and hide training materials “deep in seemingly innocuous subdirectories of the legitimate site,” a process known as “parasiting.”2 Terrorists can conduct research on potential targets online, where both text and imagery, including satellite photography, is frequently available. Google Earth, for instance, has been used to target British soldiers in Iraq with increasing accuracy.3 Terrorists can appeal anonymously for donations of financial or other support via websites. Planning and preparations for the 9/11 attacks were facilitated by the Internet. Operatives engaged in the attack used it to communicate. Flight schools were researched through it, as were targets. Its uses have evolved over time and to increasingly gruesome creative effect – witness the videotaped beheadings of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl circulated online to the four corners of the earth. These uses of the Internet,
[osint] Document links Fort Dix suspects to radical terrorism
Document links Fort Dix suspects to radical terrorism Gannett News Service May. 8, 2007 10:38 AM http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0508fortdixdets08-on.html WASHINGTON - The plot to attack Fort Dix in south central New Jersey began to unravel on Jan. 31, 2006, when a retail store employee called the FBI about a disturbing video a customer had dropped off to be converted into a DVD. The video showed 10 men who appeared to be in their early 20s shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic ... God is Great,' according to a 27-page federal criminal complaint the U.S. Department of Justice released Tuesday. Six of the 10 men identified in that video were arrested on charges of trying to attack Fort Dix, an installation whose layout one of the men - Serdar Tatar - purportedly knew like the palm of his hand, according to an affidavit submitted by FBI Special Agent John J. Ryan. http://www.azcentral.com/imgs/clear.gif http://gcirm.azcentral.com/RealMedia/.ads/adstream_lx.ads/www.azcentral.com /news/articles/0508fortdixdets08-on.html/1488597196/ArticleFlex_1/OasDefault /cingular_moms_rich_ros_160/cingular-moms-rich-160.html/30633233643661323362 66636130?_RM_EMPTY_ http://www.azcentral.com/imgs/clear.gif Left unexplained was why only six of the 10 were arrested and whether more arrests were forthcoming. The employee who alerted the FBI wasn't identified; the store's name wasn't disclosed. The complaint said Tatar and five other men arrested - Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka and Agron Abdullahu - amassed firearms, sought illegal Russian-made AK-47 assault rifles, viewed terrorist-training videos on their computers and trained in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains. One of the videos appeared to be the last will and testament of two of the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers, and another contained images of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic extremists making various speeches in which the speakers call the viewer to join the jihadist movement, according to the complaint. Jihad is an Arabic word that means holy war. Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka are illegal aliens, according to the complaint. Two unnamed informants - identified as cooperating witnesses 1 and 2 - who infiltrated the group taped numerous conversations and telephone calls with the suspects, apparently with their consent. Though the group conducted surveillance of Fort Monmouth, Lakehurst Naval Station and Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the suspects settled on Fort Dix apparently because they believed the installation was less heavily fortified. When one informant, who had been a member of the Egyptian military, asked Shnewer why Fort Dix was an attractive target, Shnewer said in August: My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers, according to the complaint. This is exactly what we are looking for. You hit 4, 5 or 6 Humvees and light the whole place (up) and retreat completely without any losses. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by
[osint] Report: Terrorists cooperating in training
Here goes RAND reinventing the wheel again. Throughout the seventies, Palestinian terrorist organization, especially PFLP, ran training camps throughout Lebanon which offered training to European (RAF, RB), Japanese (JRA) and Latin American terrorist groups. We performed research that demonstrated how the various training models were reflected in group tactics and operations, and could be used as a predictor of tactical MO elements. _ Report: Terrorists cooperating in training Published: May 9, 2007 at 6:21 PM http://washtimes.com/upi/20070509-050054-6028 WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- A report from California-based RAND Corp. Wednesday found that terrorists of different ideologies have been exchanging skills by training with one another. A news release from the nonprofit think tank said that by training one another in areas such as guerrilla warfare and bomb-making, terrorist groups have been able to vastly improve their individual effectiveness. Terrorist groups that have little in common and with very different goals are sharing knowledge for their mutual benefit, and that's bad news, report co-author Brian A. Jackson said. The report found that in addition to expanding as separate ideologies, such training exchanges have taken place between groups of different religious and ethnic backgrounds. In most of the instances we studied, both groups experience some type of operational benefit from the effort, Jackson added. It's that shared benefit that usually drives the relationship, not just shared philosophies or goals. Entitled Sharing the Dragon's Teeth: Terrorist Groups and the Exchange of New Technologies, the report was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is
[osint] Plot illustrates Balkans' role as Islamist foothold
Plot http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070508-110153-5728r.htm illustrates Balkans' role as Islamist foothold By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published May 9, 2007 _ The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four ethnic Albanians, and U.S. officials say their arrests highlight how Islamist groups are using the Balkans region to help in recruiting and financing terrorism. Prosecutors described the men as radical Islamists, with four coming from the province of Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia, where the ethnic Albanian population of Muslims fought one of the several wars that grew out of the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Suspect Agron Abdullahu, who faces only weapons violations in the case, was described in court papers as a sniper in Kosovo. U.S. officials said the Islamists were motivated by al Qaeda sympathies and that ringleader Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, who was born in Jordan, had copies of the wills of two September 11 terrorists on his laptop computer. The other suspect in the group -- accused of seeking to kill hundreds of soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J. -- was born in Turkey. U.S. officials said intelligence reports from the Balkans have identified a support structure for several terrorist groups, including al Qaeda, among the Muslim communities in Albania and in the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia. When it comes to extremists, we're talking about very, very small pockets in Albania, as well as among the ethnic Albanian populations in Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and other parts of the Balkans, said one official with access to intelligence reports. The official pointed out that the Albanian government has been supportive of U.S. efforts to counter Islamic terrorist activities, including curbing logistics and financial aid, and working to prevent terrorists from receiving training and weapons. But a Congressional Research Service report produced in 2005 said instability in Albania during the 1990s gave al Qaeda a foothold there. Poor internal security, lax border controls, and high rates of crime produced an environment conducive to terrorist activity, said the report by CRS specialist Steven Woehrel. Some foreign Islamic extremists used Albania as a safe haven and gained Albanian citizenship. Balkan Muslims also have been targets of al Qaeda recruitment efforts because they have an easier time blending in or evading U.S. and European security measures and border controls, which often are geared to identifying Middle Eastern extremists. The State Department's latest annual report on international terrorism said the Albanian government has taken steps to stop terrorism financing but noted that government and police forces faced substantial challenges to fully enforce border security and combat organized crime and corruption. The Albanian government identified seven financial holdings by terrorist groups last year that were frozen. Israeli government sources have said that agents for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as well as the Shi'ite Hezbollah, have been actively buying weapons from organized-crime groups in the Balkans. Bosnia also has a large Muslim community that in the past has provided a base of support for al Qaeda and other terrorists. After the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords, most Islamic radicals, who were helping Bosnia's Muslims fend off the Orthodox Christian Serbs, left the Balkans, but some remained behind. It is estimated that several hundred former fighters stayed behind in Bosnia after the war and became Bosnian citizens by marrying Bosnian women, the CRS report said. Some al Qaeda operatives in Bosnia reportedly had connections to members of Bosnia's intelligence service. European intelligence agencies estimate that as many as 750 Muslim former fighters remain hidden in Bosnia and have acted as a supply network to send guns, money and documents to terrorists passing through the region. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders often mention Bosnia as an important example of jihad, or holy war. Terrorist recruiting videos often include footage of combat in Bosnia, the CRS report said. According to the Associated Press, a joint U.S.-Croatian intelligence report produced last year stated that Algerian extremists were active in the Balkans. Bosnia's intelligence service last year published information on 15 extremists living in that country: eight Algerians, two Syrians, two Tunisians and an Egyptian, Kuwaiti and Yemeni. Officials also said the nongovernmental organization Revival of Islamic Heritage Society remains active in the region and spreads the radical Wahhabi form of Islam that animates al Qaeda. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted
[osint] Al-Jazeera airs suicide-bombing video
Al-Jazeera airs suicide-bombing video
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. Arab network shows what it says is April suicide blast in Algiers
. Video reportedly created by North African al Qaeda affiliate
. Blast targeted office of Algeria's prime minister, killed 24
(CNN) -- The Al-Jazeera television network Tuesday aired footage purportedly
showing one of the suicide bombings last month in Algeria that killed at
least two dozen people.
According to the Arabic-language network, the video was created by al Qaeda
in the Maghreb, a regional al Qaeda affiliate in North Africa that has
claimed responsibility for the April 11 terrorist attacks, which targeted
the prime minister's office in Algiers and a police station in the eastern
part of the capital.
Al-Jazeera did not say how it obtained the material, the authenticity of
which CNN has not independently verified. (
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The portion aired by Al-Jazeera showed preparations being made for the
bombing, followed by the actual blast and a statement from the leader of the
group, Abu Musab Abdel Wadud, promising more attacks and urging young
Muslims to volunteer for martyrdom.
He who misses this war misses the opportunity of a lifetime and gets
deprived of the reward, he said in the video.
Algerian Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem was not hurt in the bombings,
but at least 24 people were killed and 222 were wounded.
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[osint] Cellphones to be used in Iraq
He admits that he is buying terrorists' detonators and he is released with no charges filed? Bruce [KCBD] TEXAS - Suspicious Muleshoe Purchase Alarms Federal Authorities [cellphones] According to police reports, Muleshoe authorities have questioned a man who confessed to buying sixty disposable cell phones in a variety of Muleshoe stores. He reportedly went on to admit that the phones would eventually be used as bomb detonators in Iraq http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6493913 http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6493913 5/9/07 Suspicious Muleshoe Purchase Alarms Federal Authorities http://kcbd.images.worldnow.com/images/6493913_BG1.jpg http://kcbd.images.worldnow.com/images/6493913_BG2.jpg A bulk purchase of disposable cell phones in Muleshoe is turning into a federal investigation. According to police reports, Muleshoe authorities have questioned a man who confessed to buying sixty disposable cell phones in a variety of Muleshoe stores. He reportedly went on to admit that the phones would eventually be used as bomb detonators in Iraq. The man has since been released, and no charges were filed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] CAIR Gives Sensitivity Training to the FBI
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/cair-gives-sensitivity-trainin g-to-the-fbi/ http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/cair-gives-sensitivity-traini ng-to-the-fbi/ CAIR Gives Sensitivity Training to the FBI Excuse me while I choke on my kibbles-n-bits. I think CAIR has this backwards, they are the ones who need some, sensitivity training from the FBI. It's as stupid as Al Capone giving the FBI a workshop on Mafia sensitivity training - they could have called it, know your Sicilians. And, http://www.wws/artiorldnetdaily.com/necle.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41721 this isn't the first time this has happened, but now they are going nationwide. Terrorist Front Group Trains FBI On Islam The United States government is allowing a renowned terrorist organization that preaches radical Islamic ideology to conduct http://www.cair.com/default.asp?Page=articleViewid=2734theType=NR Muslim sensitivity training for sworn federal officers across the nation. Earlier this year the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) led a workshop on Islam and the American Muslim community for Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and Joint Terrorism Task Force supervisory personnel in north Florida. This week the national organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, conducted its Islamic diversity and sensitivity training at the FBI's New Haven Connecticut office. A few months ago a federal government agency actually published a press release authored by CAIR, which has been described by top FBI terrorism chiefs as an entity that, not only promotes terrorism, but also finances it. Published by the Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the release said that CAIR approved of the special training that 45,000 TSA workers received about Islamic traditions related to a Mecca pilgrimage known as Hajj. This cozy relationship between the United States government and an organization with well-documented terrorist ties may seem strange to most Americans considering what happened on September 11, 2001, not to mention the subsequent and ongoing threats to the country. After all, a top CAIR official was sentenced to 20 years in prison for participating in a network of militant jihadists, another was convicted of bank fraud for financing a major terrorist group, a board member was a co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a fundraiser identified by the U.S. Treasury Department for financing Al Qaida. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Will CAIR sue to stop DVD Profiling
http://politicalbeachgirl.blogspot.com:80/2007/05/will-cair-sue-to-stop-dvd- profiling-in.html Will CAIR sue to stop DVD Profiling in alleged Muslim plot to attack Fort Dix? Will CAIR sue to stop DVD Profiling in case of 6 Muslims held in plot to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix? In a case tailor-made for CAIR in their seeming assertion that any strategy used in protecting America and Americans from death at the hands of terrorists is somehow anti-Muslim and discriminatory against all those oppressed foot-washing taxi drivers and imams, the plot uncovered by federal law enforcement and reported by Jerry Seper in http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070509-121340-6717r.htm 6 held in plot to hit Fort Dix deserves a look. In a case ripe with possibilities for extortion, who knows, maybe DVD profiling could be the next great extortion plan. Maybe there's gold in them thar DVDs! Who knows exactly how many sit-ins can be funded by our own dollars paid out through absurd lawsuits filed to right wrongs that are created by the victims themselves. We all know of the flying imams and Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. wrote of common sense and prudent directions in http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/fgaffney.htm Does guard which is well worth a read and goes to the heart of the frivolity and imaturity of the CAIR suit against airline passengers and crew, not to mention deep pocket airlines. [Wrongo, there CAIR. The airlines lost their deep pockets on 9/11.] If you want to hear and read for yourself what CAIR plans for the strategy in the flying imams case, see http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/910blog/2007/05/03/cairs-strategy-to-win-the -6-imams-case-audio-and-transcripts/ CAIR's Strategy to win the 6 imams case. Also another post worth your time is http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/910blog/2007/05/03/a-passengers-right-to-sur vive/ A Passenger's Right to Survive. See http://www.vigilantfreedom.org/910blog/ Vigilant Freedom Blog. [I've been busy analyzing the transcripts but you might find that fun for yourself. How many times can an organization trying to increase membership and paint Muslims in American as oppressed invoke the name of Rosa Parks and not be laughed right out of town. The insult to American blacks and whites as well as Muslims just working and supporting their families is astonishing and shameful.] In this war against Islamic terrorists, each American citizen has a citizen's right and responsibility to make any authority aware of suspicious behavior by anyone boarding an airplane, taking extensive pictures of reservoirs, air fields, highway overpasses, skylines, electricity-generating dams. Now while it may be true that all Muslims are not terrorists; proof just keeps on building that ALL terrorists are Muslims, home grown or imported. If our government is just so all-fired intent on winning this war on terror and maintaining national security, just exactly why are any Muslims from any nation, and especially terror-supporting nations, being allowed into the United States at this time? Let me close with the very appropriate words of Eljvir Duka, one of the alleged plotters in the plan to attack Fort Dix. Perhaps we should take his words to heart and apply them ourselves, for our own survival - non-violently, of course, such as enforcing our immigration laws and denying visas to anyone at all from terrorist-sponsoring nations. From Seper's news article: Eljvir Duka, according to the complaint, was recorded as saying: At the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad. Again it is the old canard, We'll attack your Twin Towers, et al, and when you defend yourselves, the we'll shout we are the victims. You are attacking our religion. Same ploy that CAIR is using with the 'flying, self-initiated victim, imams.' And I say, Bull crap! But on a gentler note, I say, Well, old son, if your so-called religion will leave us alone, we'll leave you alone. How about that for a plan? No? Don't be surprised if one day we get really grumpy. You see, to the radical Islamists, their religion is their culture - part and parcel of the State/the government. We refuse to take them seriously. We, as a people, continue to drift in our ambivalence and denial - a dangerous and poisonous mix. What if the Muslim terrorists attack a school; what if these 6 had been successful in attacking a military base here in the United States? What if they had brought the Kobalt Towers to us? Would we take them seriously then? Will we finally accept what they are screaming at us to hear, that they are dedicated to destroying our way of life? When will we take the threat of organizations such as CAIR against our collective freedoms seriously? When will we understand that the imposition of Sharia (Islam) Law upon us spells death? Islam has a political/ideological side set to re-make and re-shape our nation. Just look at the legislation
[osint] Brooklyn Muslim School
http://www.nysun.com/article/53991 Brooklyn Arabic School New York Sun Editorial May 8, 2007 Backers of the proposed http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Khalil+Gibran+International+A cademy Khalil Gibran International Academy are insisting that their plan for a middle school that would teach Arabic is still alive, even though the department of education has decided against situating the school at PS 282 in http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Park+Slope Park Slope. Others suggest it's a fine moment to put the plan to rest for good. Our own view is that it's a good moment to review yet again the whole idea of parental choice in schooling. If there is a logic to the http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Khalil+Gibran Khalil Gibran school, there's a logic to a lot of other things, too. We have no apologies for the skepticism and passion with which some of our columnists have reacted to the school. Its principal, Dhabah http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Debbie+Almontaser Debbie Almontaser, accepted an award in 2005 from the Council on American-Islamic Relations. When http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Michael+Bloomberg Mayor Bloomberg in 2002 named a CAIR official to the city's human relations commission, it set off a firestorm of complaints. CAIR had cosponsored an event at http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Brooklyn+College Brooklyn College where attendees chanted no to the Jews, descendants of the apes, and the organization posted a letter on its Web site suggesting that Muslims could not have been responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001. CAIR is a highly divisive institution in this city and country. It is funded in part by the same Saudi prince, Alwaleed bin Talal, whose $10 million donation Mayor Giuliani rejected after the terrorist attacks of September 11, when the prince called for America to rethink its support for http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Israel Israel. When one of our reporters asked Ms. Almontaser whether she considers http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Hamas Hamas and http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Hezbollah Hezbollah to be terrorist organizations and who she thinks was behind the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, she declined to answer, suggesting she shouldn't be singled out for such questions. Yet if Ms. Almontaser cannot bring herself to address such questions from a newspaper, how is she going to do it in school? We do not believe such skepticism makes one intolerant, or, as some have insinuated, an anti-Arab or anti-Muslim bigot. Arabic Islamist terrorism in http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Brooklyn Brooklyn is a genuine threat. This is a city that saw Ari Halberstam shot to death on the Brooklyn Bridge after his assailant, Rashid Baz, listened to a sermon at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge. And more recently saw a clerk at an Islamic bookstore in http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Bay+Ridge Bay Ridge, Shahawar Matin Siraj, convicted of a plot to blow up the http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Herald+Square Herald Square subway station. Not long ago, a man from Yemen who owned an ice cream shop in Brooklyn was convicted of sending nearly $22 million abroad for use by a sheik with ties to Hamas and Al Qaeda. The landmarks plot to blow up the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels was hatched on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn by Omar Abdel-Rahman and others. A civil rights lawyer and her interpreter were convicted of aiding Abdel-Rahman by transmitting messages from him to a terrorist organization in Egypt. This is not a time when concern over these issues can be dismissed as bigotry. The majority of Arab Americans and American Muslims are law-abiding, patriotic, and peace-loving. Ms. Almontaser herself has won many admirers, including some New York Jewish leaders. She's been a driving force in allowing trusting and really deep dialogues with not only the Jewish community but with other communities around the city, the Jewish Community Relations Council's director for intergroup relations, Robert Kaplan, said. The New York regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, Joel Levy, has said, I have a lot of confidence in her and am optimistic she's going to create an appropriate school. The city's schools chancellor, Joel Klein, starts out with credibility on the issue of Israel and the war on terrorism. He unceremoniously shut down a program in which Columbia's Rashid Khalidi, a professor known for making sloppy accusations against Israel's American backers, was training New York City school teachers. More broadly, he is a partisan of the Americanizing role of universal public education. It's hard to peg either him or Mayor Bloomberg as a Balkanizer. At the same time, growing politicization within the city's public schools - such as Beacon - is an alarming trend they will need to start addressing somewhere.
[osint] Fort Dix Plot: One suspect, a pizza delivery driver, had access to base
Six Arrested in Plot to Storm N.J. Army Base Group Planned to Use AK-47s to Conduct Commando-Style Assault, Officials Say By Richard Esposito May 8, 2007 http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=3150833 Six members of an alleged homegrown terror cell that intended to launch a commando-style attack on a military base in New Jersey were arrested by the FBI Monday night after a 15-month investigation. Their alleged intention was to conduct an armed assault on the army base and to kill as many soldiers as possible, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney in New Jersey said. The Fort Monmouth Army base in New Jersey, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the FBI building in Philadelphia were considered as targets and put under surveillance by a New Jersey-based terror group before members settled on Fort Dix, where one alleged cell member had unfettered access as a pizza delivery man, ABC News has learned. Three high-level law enforcement sources told ABC News that the investigation into the plot had been ongoing for 15 months. On Monday night as they allegedly accepted delivery of automatic weapons from a man working for the FBI, six ethnic Yugoslavians men were arrested and the plot was brought to light. It began when a man walked into a photo shop and asked to convert a tape to a DVD, two law enforcement officials said. The tape contained scenes of men conducting weapons training in an isolated area of the Pocono Mountains in New Jersey, using handguns and rifles and firing live ammo, senior law enforcement officials said. It was intended for training purposes and to recruit more members to the group's cause, according to those officials. The technician making the dub from tape to DVD saw the content and notified authorities. The case was passed from regional counterterror officials in New Jersey to the Philadelphia FBI Joint Terrorist Task Force. It was soon determined that the men allegedly intended to assault a military base using automatic weapons. Electronic eavesdropping and a confidential informant determined that the men were serious in their intent. Though the plot did not reach an operational phase, the alleged cell members completed their surveillance and selected Fort Dix as their target. It was chosen because one cell member's family owned a pizza parlor near the base and that member was able to enter the base to deliver pizza. The group believed this access would enable its attack to succeed. Early today about six members of the group were arrested after what appeared to be a sting operation in which an informant was willing to procure Russian-style assault rifles described by authorities as AK-47s and U.S. M-16 automatic rifles for the men. Jihadist propaganda material, including generalized messages from Osama bin Laden and other leaders, was seized, authorities said. It had been downloaded from the Internet. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without
[osint] Do not purchase Pepsi...
Don't Buy Pepsi in the New Can http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/postcards/images/support1-flag1.gif http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/postcards/images/support1-toprightcorner.gif http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/postcards/images/support1-flag2.gif Subject: DON'T BUY PEPSI IN THE NEW CAN! Don't buy Pepsi in the new can. Pepsi has a new patriotic can coming out with pictures of the Empire State Building , and the Pledge of Allegiance on them. However, Pepsi left out two little words on the pledge, Under God. Pepsi said they didn't want to offend anyone. In that case, we don't want to offend anyone at the Pepsi corporate office, either! So if we don't buy any Pepsi product, they will not be offended when they don't receive our money that has the words In God We Trust on it. HOW FAST CAN YOU FORWARD THIS ONE? http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/images/1x1spacer.gif http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/postcards/images/support1-bottomleftcorner.gif http://cdn-cf.aol.com/se/postcards/images/spacer.gif _ See what's free at AOL.com http://www.aol.com/?ncid=AOLAOF0002000503 . _ See what's free at AOL.com http://www.aol.com/?ncid=AOLAOF0002000503 . _ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF0002000437 AOL.com. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] COUNTERING JIHADI TERRORISM IN UK
COUNTERING JIHADI TERRORISM IN UK INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO. 230 By B.Raman Paper no. 2235 5.05.2007 http://saag.org/%5Cpapers23%5Cpaper2235.html (To be read in continuation of my paper of October 29, 2000, titled ISLAMIC JEHAD THE US, which is available at http://www.saag.org/papers2/paper154.html and my paper of June 21, 2002, titled THE TERRORIST METEORITES THE PAKISTANISATION OF AL QAEDA which is available at http://www.saag.org/papers5/paper480.html) The post-9/11 security and immigration control measures taken by the US have made it very difficult for the Arabs to operate again in US territory and do a repeat of 9/11. Al Qaeda is as determined as ever to repeat 9/11 in US territory. At the same time, it has realised that it might not be able to use Arab terrorists for this purpose since they are subjected to strict checks in the US. It has, therefore, been wanting to use non-Arabs for this purpose. Muslim migrants from Pakistan, who have settled down in the UK and North America, are its favourite choice. 2. The trend towards the Pakistanisation of Al Qaeda to which I had drawn attention on June 21, 2002, has since spread to the UK and is threatening to spread from there to the US and Canada. The presence of a large number of persons of Pakistani originPakistani as well as local nationals---in the UK, the US and Canada has provided a fertile soil for Al Qaeda. It has already taken advantage of this to develop extensive roots in the UK. It is still to develop similar roots in the US and Canada, but there is a danger of this happening in the not too distant future if the local authorities in the two countries do not take precautions to protect their countries from the ideological ill-winds of the Al Qaeda inspired jihad blowing from the UK and to prevent jihadi foot-soldiers from the UK extending their operations to North America. 3. The role played by some members of the Pakistani diaspora in the UK in the London blasts of July, 2005, is well-known. So too the unsuccessful attempts of some other members of the diaspora in August last year to mount an audacious operation to blow up a number of US-bound planes through explosives fabricated on board the aircraft by mixing chemicals of ordinary day-to-day use. More details of the role of some members of the UK-based Pakistani diaspora have since become available from what has come to be known as the fertiliser bomb case which ended in conviction on April 30, 2007. 4. London's Old Bailey Court convicted that day five British Muslim males aged between 24 and 35 of conspiring to carry out Al-Qaeda-inspired bombings of targets across Britain that ranged from nightclubs to trains, football stadiums, a shopping centre, part of Britain's gas and electricity supplies, as well as the Parliament. They have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. 5. The group had procured about 600 kilos of ammonium nitrate for this purpose. Four of the five convicted jihadis Jawad Akbar, Omar Khyam,the leader of the group, Salahuddin Amin and Waheed Mahmood are of Pakistani origin. The fifth , Anthony Garcia, was born Rahman Benouis in Algeria. All five had visited Pakistan and four had reportedly attended jihadi training camps there. Amin emigrated to Pakistan sometime after '9/11' and acted as a jihadi facilitator, according to the Deputy Assistant Metropolitan Police Commissioner Peter Clarke. A key piece of evidence linking them to Al Qaeda was the sighting on four occasions by officers from Britain's Security Service known popularly as MI5 of at least one of them in the company of the London suicide bombing ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan and his alleged accomplice Shehzad Tanweer. 6. Two other persons of Pakistani origin from the US and Canada were also involved in this plot. Mohammad Junaid Babar, a US national of Pakistani origin, reportedly organised the training of the plotters in Pakistan. Momin Khawaja, a Canadian national, allegedly helped them in the procurement of detonators. The security agencies of the UK, the US and Canada got scent of the plot before it could be carried out and arrested the perpetrators in March,2004. The Pakistani-American has made a plea bargain with the Federal Bureau of Investrigation by helping in the investigation and prosecution. The Canadian is being tried separately before a Canadian court. It has been alleged that all the perpetrators were in contact with Abdul Hadi, stated to be a senior Iraqi member of Al Qaeda, who is presently in US custody. 7. A study of the details of the case leads to the following observations: * The perpetrators were radicalised and motivated to take to terrorism by Omar Bakri Mohammed , a radical cleric of al-Muhajiroun, who used to live in the UK and now lives in the Lebanon. * None of them was a product of the anti-Soviet Afghan jihad of the 1980s. The jihads in Chechnya, Bosnia and Iraq had
[osint] Madrid bombers 'planned more terrorist attacks'
Madrid bombers 'planned more terrorist attacks' 8 May 2007 http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81 http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=81story_id=39521 story_id=39521 MADRID - Kamal Ahbar, arrested in Spain for recruiting jihadists to go to Iraq, told a court the organizers of the March 2004 bombings planned more terrorist attacks. They never did carry them out, although they had 200 kilos of explosives, the Algerian citizen said at the trial of 29 mainly Middle Eastern men for the massacre of March 11, 2004, when explosions on Madrid commuter trains left 191 dead and more than 1,800 wounded. Ahbar said that the train attacks were perpetrated by seven men who committed suicide at a residence in the Madrid suburb of Leganes three weeks after March 11 when they found themselves surrounded by police. He also blamed a certain Elias El Harruchi, Mohammed Afalah and Daboud Ouhnane, who fled after the attacks and who, according to various accounts, might have died in Iraq. On the other hand, Ahbar exonerated Abdelmajik Bouchar, who supposedly escaped the police cordon in Leganes and who is among those being tried by the National Court. With regard to other possible strikes the terrorists were preparing, Ahbar mentioned a number of separate attacks against the Civil Guard Academy in the southern city of Jaen that could not be carried out due to problems with the dates, and against the seat of the National Court. He said that Abu Jaber, imam of a mosque in the eastern city of Valencia and a police informant, met with Ouhnane in October 2004 and proposed an attack against the National Court because there were 200 kilos of explosives left over from the March 11 massacre. Ouhnane, the witness said, expressed his disagreement with committing any attack in Europe. From that moment, the witness said, the police began arresting people and it was rumored that the imam might be a police spy. Ahbar said that the terrorists were acting on the orders of Abu Jaber and of Sawfan Sabagh - an Algerian living in Valencia where he ran a roast-chicken establishment - and it was they who announced that they had to attack before March 11, 2004 on direct orders from Iraq. The witness admitted that all the information that he had about the attacks came from Afalah, supposedly killed in Iraq in 2005, from Ouhnane, who he believed also died in that Arab nation, as well as from news stories and from his contacts in Iraq. Nonetheless, he admitted when questioned by the prosecution that part of the information he offered Monday he found out this weekend in the Alcala Meco jail, where the March 11 defendants Basel Ghalyoun, Mohammed Larbi Ben Sellam, Fouad El Morabit and Rashid Aglif were also being held. Monday's other witness was a member of the Italian police's DIGOS counter-terrorism unit who confirmed that chief defendant Rabei Osman El Sayed was the mastermind of the March 11 attack. The man known as Mohammed The Egyptian purportedly made the admission in a telephone conversation intercepted by Italian authorities. According to the transcripts, Osman said: The attack in Madrid was my project and those who died martyrs are my dearest friends. The Egyptian was arrested in Milan on June 7, 2004. Osman was being investigated in Italy for allegedly recruiting Muslims to go to Iraq; Italian security forces hastened his arrest due to suspicion that that he intended to leave the country and was planning new attacks in Europe prior to the June 13, 2004, European Parliament elections. He was convicted in Italy on terrorism charges on Nov. 6, 2006 - having been sent back there from Spain in April 2005 to face trial - and sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to the judges' decision in that case, Osman was an influential member of Al Qaeda and (a member of) the Islamic cell accused of the Madrid tragedy. Spanish prosecutors have asked that, if convicted of the 191 murder counts and 1,825 counts of attempted murder corresponding to those wounded in the bombings, Osman be sentenced to nearly 39,000 years in jail. According to Spanish law, however, the maximum sentence that he can receive is 40 years. Osman, the first of the defendants to testify in the current trial, denied any role in the bombings and denounced violence as contrary to the tenets of Islam. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making
[osint] U.S. debates deterrence for nuclear terrorism
Hold Iran responsible. Bruce U.S. debates deterrence for nuclear terrorism By David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker Monday, May 7, 2007 http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/08/america/08nuke.php WASHINGTON: Every week, a group of experts from agencies around the government - including the CIA, the Pentagon, the FBI and the Energy Department - meet to assess Washington's progress toward solving a grim problem: if a terrorist set off a nuclear bomb in an American city, could the United States determine who detonated it and who provided the nuclear material? So far, the answer is maybe. That uncertainty lies at the center of a vigorous, but carefully cloaked, debate within the Bush administration. It focuses on how to refashion the American approach to nuclear deterrence in an attempt to counter the threat posed by terrorists who could obtain bomb-grade uranium or plutonium to make and deliver a weapon. A previously undisclosed meeting last year of President George W. Bush's most senior national security advisers was the highest level discussion about how to rewrite the cold war rules. The existing approach to deterrence dates from the time when the nuclear attacks Washington worried about would be launched by missiles and bombers, which can be tracked back to a source by radar, and not carried in backpacks or hidden in cargo containers. Among the subjects of the meeting last year was whether to issue a warning to all countries around the world that if a nuclear weapon was detonated on American soil and was traced back to any nation's stockpiles, through nuclear forensics, the United States would hold that country fully responsible for the consequences of the explosion. The term fully responsible was left deliberately vague so that it would be unclear whether the United States would respond with a retaliatory nuclear attack, or, far more likely, a nonnuclear retaliation, whether military or diplomatic. But that meeting of Bush's principal national security and military advisers in May 2006 broke up with the question unresolved, according to participants. The discussion remained hung up on such complexities as whether it would be wise to threaten Iran even as diplomacy still offered at least some hope of halting Tehran's nuclear program, and whether it was credible to issue a warning that would be heard to include countries that America considers partners and allies, like Russia or Pakistan, which are nuclear powers with far from perfect nuclear safeguards. Then, on Oct. 9, North Korea detonated a nuclear test. Bush responded that morning with an explicit warning to President Kim Jong-il that transfer of nuclear weapons or material to other countries or terrorist groups would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and that the North would be held fully accountable. A senior American official involved in the decision, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was discussing private national security deliberations, said, Given the fact that they were trying to cross red lines, that they were launching missiles and that they conducted the nuclear test, we finally decided it was time. Bush was able to issue a credible warning, other senior officials said, in part because the International Atomic Energy Agency has a library of nuclear samples from North Korea, obtained before the agency's inspectors were thrown out of the country, that would likely make it possible to trace an explosion back to North Korea's nuclear arsenal. The North Koreans are fully aware, government experts believe, that the United States has access to that database of nuclear DNA. But when it comes to other countries, many of that library's shelves are empty. And in interviews over the past several weeks, senior American nuclear experts have said that the huge gap is one reason that the Bush administration is so far unable to make a convincing threat to terrorists or their suppliers that they will be found out. I believe the most likely source of the material would be from the Russian nuclear arsenal, but you shouldn't confuse 'likely' with 'certainty' by any means, said Scott D. Sagan, co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, who has studied the problem known in Washington and the national nuclear laboratories as nuclear attribution. Sagan noted that nuclear material in a terrorist attack might also come from Pakistan, home of the network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, who sold nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya. The Bush administration is also finding a skeptical audience when it warns of emerging nuclear threats, since its assessments of Saddam Hussein's nuclear capacity in advance of the 2003 invasion proved wildly off the mark. On Sunday, defending his new book during an interview on the NBC News program Meet the Press, George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence, made the case that any past
[osint] Four females among six Muslims held in Barisal, Bangladesh
Four females among six 'militants' held in Barisal Monday May 07 2007 23:57:55 PM BDT http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2007-05-08 http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2007-05-08hidType=TOP; hidRecord=159167 hidType=TOPhidRecord=159167 Six suspected Islamist militants, including four women activists belonging to Hijbut Tawhid were arrested in Barisal city yesterday. (The New Nation) Besides, police arrested seven outlaws in capital Dhaka and Rajshahi, while five Shibir cadres were arrested in Rajshahi and Barguna yesterday on charge of snatching and other criminal offences. They included Barguna district Shibir president and general secretary. Following the arrest of six Hijbut Tawhid members, including four female activists in Barisal city yesterday, police took them to their custody for questioning. However, the arrested activists of Hijbut Tawhid told police that they were just inviting people to Islam by distributing leaflets and books. They were arrested from Rupatoli, Zia Sarak and Nalchity upazila by police conducting operations since after Sunday midnight. The arrested were identified as ABM Moinuddin Ahmed, former district ameer, and four sisters--Hena Nazneen,Nasima Akter, Renu Begum, Niru Begum, and Noor Hossain, husband of Hena. Khan Sayeed Hassan, Barisal Metropolitan Police (BMP) commissioner, Hayatul Islam, assistant police commissioner and Khorshed Alam, inspector of Barisal Kotwali police station said they learnt from local people that some women were distributing Jihadi books and leaflets. Later, police raided the house of Renu Begum at Rupatoli area of the city and found some jihadi books, leaflets of Hijbut Tawhid. Police arrested Renu Begum and her sister Nasima Akter from the house. According to their confession, police arrested Niru Begum from the same area and Hena Naznin and her husband Noor Hossain from adjacent Vorkati area. ABM Moinuddin, former district Amir was arrested from Zia Sarak area of the city. Police officials said the arrestees were detained for interrogation about their suspicious activities in the name of religion and probable link with Islamic militants. The recovered religious books were written on Islamic ideology and founding procedure of Islamic state and society. The recovered leaflet was written in 2003 by Mawlana Abdul Jabbar, Amir of Islami Biplobii Porishad, giving a 15 days ultimatum to the government to declare Bangladesh as an Islamic state and establish Islamic government within June 30 to July 14, 2003. If this demand is not fulfilled then Hijbut Tawhid will perform their duty, in the leaflet stated without mentioning any procedure of that work. Questioning of the arrestees were going on till filing this report and they might be sent to jail under Section 54, the police sources said. Six outlaws arrested in Rajshahi Our Rajshahi Correspondent reports: Police, in a pre-dawn raid yesterday, arrested six members, including a top leader, of an outlawed party from Bagmara upazila of the district. The arrested regional commander of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Lal Pataka) was identified as Asiruddin, 50, of village Khalishpara. He was wanted in three murder cases. Other arrested members are Banisar, 32, of Bhangapara, Aynal, 28, Layeb, 40, and Abdur Rashid, 38, of Palashi, and Altaf, 26, of Udpara. They were sent to jail following a court order. Our Barguna Correspondent reports: Police arrested Barguna district Islamic Chhatra Shibir (ISC) president Abdul Latif, secretary Nasir Uddin and two ICS cadres yesterday on charges of snatching and other criminal offences. Police said the ICS leaders recently kept confined Barguna College student Zahid, beat him and snatched away his mobile phone set and some cash. They were arrested after Barguna Chatra League leader Palash filed a case against them with Barguna Police station. Our Staff Reporter adds: An outlawed party cadre and 11 others were arrested in the Dhaka city yesterday. Detective police arrested a cadre of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party and 11 other criminals in Dhaka city during the 24 hours ending 6 am Monday, police press release said. Arindam Mallik, an identified cadre of Purba Banglar Communist Party, was arrested from a hideout in Uttara. Hailed from Dumuria in Khulna district, Arindam is wanted in a number of criminal cases. Eight members of doping party (members of the gangs who make people unconscious) were arrested from a slum at Jinjira across the Buriganga river. Doping materials were also recovered from their possession. In another drive, three alleged frauds--Habibur Rahman, Aman Ullah and Miza Altaf - were arrested from Paltan area. Police recovered fake BRTA registration book, driving license, insurance papers, different types of seals and materials from their possession. Our Rajshahi
[osint] Palestinian Mothers who Become Suicide Bombers
Palestinian Mothers who Become Suicide Bombers By Tim McGirk / Jerusalem Thursday, May. 03, 2007 http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1617542,00.html In late March, a macabre music video appeared on a television show for Palestinian children. Duha, 4, as pale as a porcelain doll, is sitting on a bed, watching her mom dress before leaving home. Mommy, what are you carrying in your arms instead of me? the girl sings. The next day, Duha gets the answer from the evening news. It turns out her mother was carrying explosives and had blown herself up, killing four Israelis. The final scene shows the girl wistfully rummaging through her dead mother's bedside table. She finds a hidden stick of dynamite and picks it up. The implicit message is that someday Duha will follow her mother into blazing martyrdom. Abhorrent as such images might seem, the story behind them is even more wrenching. Aired on a TV channel run by the Islamic militants of Hamas, the two-minute re-enactment was based on the life of Reem Riyashi, 22, a Palestinian mother of two who blew herself up in a suicide attack against Israeli soldiers at a Gaza border crossing in January 2004. Riyashi is hailed as a courageous resistance fighter among Palestinians throughout Gaza and the West Bank, but the truth about what drove her to such a terrible act is much more complex. Palestinians in Gaza and Israeli internal-security experts who studied the background of her case say Riyashi's husband had discovered that she was having an affair with a senior Hamas commander. Among conservative Palestinians, as in other parts of the Islamic world, an adulterous woman is often punished with death. Riyashi was given a second option: she could become a martyr. In a video statement released hours before her death, Riyashi, garbed in a militaristic uniform and holding a semiautomatic rifle, sounds tough. I have always wished to knock at the door of heaven carrying skulls belonging to the sons of Zion, she says. But the pained expression on her chubby, homely face conveys considerably more ambivalence about the idea of annihilating herself to kill Israelis and restore her family's honor. For Israeli counterterrorism officials, understanding the mind of a Palestinian woman suicide bomber has become an urgent priority. Since 2002, 88 Palestinian women have attempted suicide bombings, though just eight have been successful. Most were conducted during the height of the second Palestinian intifadeh, before Israelis launched a punishing war against terrorism and erected a security fence to separate themselves from the Palestinians. Since November 2006, Hamas, the ruling Palestinian party, has intermittently observed a truce with Israel. But on April 25, the militant wing of Hamas announced that it had abandoned the cease-fire. The militants oppose a move by Prime Minister Ismail Haniya, a moderate within Hamas, to form a unity coalition with President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the Fatah movement, and to take steps toward negotiating with Israel. Now there are signs that armed cells within Hamas are gearing up their assembly line of suicide bombers. As a renegade Hamas military commander says, We are preparing for the possibility of a third intifadeh. If so, it's likely that more Palestinian women will end up meeting the same fate as Reem Riyashi. Though there were just six suicide attacks against Israelis in 2006, two were carried out by women. There's a growing involvement of Palestinian women in terrorism, everything from scouting targets and smuggling guns and explosives to becoming suicide bombers, says Anat Berko, an Israeli counterterrorism expert at the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, who spent 13 years inside Israeli high-security prisons interviewing convicted terrorists. And yet it remains difficult to pinpoint why certain women turn to martyrdom. Behind the motives of religion and rage at Israeli occupation, Palestinian women, far more than men, tend to choose self-sacrifice as an exit from personal despair, while others are pushed into it for having broken taboos in strict Palestinian society. These women are both victimizers and victims, Berko says. Until recently, most female suicide bombers were recruited not by Hamas but by Fatah's armed brigades. The fundamentalist leaders of Hamas, on the other hand, have a more protective view of women and at first were reluctant to sacrifice them. But the Riyashi video, broadcast on Hamas' TV station and produced by Hamas (it can be viewed on YouTube), may signal that the group is using Riyashi's martyrdom to advertise for new female volunteers. In Gaza on April 26, four hooded women in military fatigues announced to the press that they were suicide bombers and vowed, We will turn Gaza into the Israelis' graveyard if they invade. After years of study by Berko and other counterinsurgency experts, a profile of Palestinian women suicide bombers is emerging.
[osint] Tension between GSPC and AQIM
Terrorists surrender and new commands in al-Qaida after Algiers attacks on Tuesday, May 08 @ 05:43:57 EDT http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesi d=6129 file=articlesid=6129 Repentant terrorists who gave up « al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb » said the leader of the armed organisation Abdelmalek Derdegual; alias Abu Musab Abdelwadud faced a strong opposition. The opposition is against bombings in public places, stealing Muslims money and panicking them, say repentant terrorists. According to Brahim Boufarik, a repentant terrorist alias Abu al-Baraa, major references in the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) are against the current way of al-Qaida in Algeria such as suicide bombings, killing innocents in public places, fake roadblocks to steal Muslims money and kidnap them. Abu al-Bburaa told Echorouk that among these references, there is the current legal officer of the armed organisation Abderachid al-Blidi. His real name is Rachid Helwiya in addition to Cheikh Abdenacer, a former member of consultation council in the armed group. Ahmed Djebri alias Abu Kheitama, the current member of consultation council, Abu Abbas, the legal officer of the second zone and other references expressed their opposition to the current way adopted by al-Qaida in Algeria. The armed organisation command has adopted for months a new strategy consisting in recruiting new members and involving them, as a first assignment, in big terrorist acts especially bombings in public places. Then, they take them to mountains, said Brahim Boufarik. Security services in Boumerdes have received a written letter from a terrorist called Abdeldjabar. He is a prominent member of Nour brigade. He said in the letter he had nothing to do with Algiers attacks on April 11. The letter contains details about the current situation of al-Qaida. It also deals with the position of some references in the armed organisation in the second zone concerning Musab Abulwaduds method such as lying in communiqués and hiding the acts of killing civilians fearing of the reaction of Ousama Ben Laden and Aymen Douahiri. Additionally, the letter says the leader of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, Abu Musab has appointed a new chief in the second zone of the armed organisation who is called Sofiane Facila. He is responsible for preparing attacks that target Algiers. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this
[osint] HOME-GROWN JIHADIS (JUNDULLAH) IN UK US
HOME-GROWN JIHADIS (JUNDULLAH) IN UK US INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR---PAPER NO.231 By B. Raman Paper no. 2236 06.05.2007 http://saag.org/%5Cpapers23%5Cpaper2236.html (To be read in continuation of my earlier article of 3-5-03 titled AL QAEDA LASHKAR-E-TOIBA at http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper678.html , the article of 2-7-03 titled LET: Al Qaeda's Clone at http://www.saag.org/papers8/paper729.html, and the article of 5-5-07 titled Countering Jihadi Terrorism in UK at http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2235.html. Jundullah means Army of Allah or Soldiers of Allah. The free-lance jihadis, who have been increasingly taking to terrorism in different parts of the world since the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, look upon themselves as the Soldiers of Allah, not belonging to any organisationnot even to Al Qaeda) This is my second article analysing the British fertiliser bomb case in which the judgement was delivered by a British court on April 30,2007. In my earlier article, I had referred to the extensive roots taken by the Pakistanised version of Al Qaeda in the UK and the danger of this spreading to the US and Canada. 2. From this, one should not jump to the conclusion that the US is not yet facing threats from home-grown jihadis of Pakistani origin in its territory. It has been since the 1980s. The very active US and Canada-based cadres of the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra (JIF), a Pakistani jihadi organisation with headquarters in Lahore, were the first generation of home-grown jihadis in the US and Canada. They used to indulge in fire-bomb attacks on Hindu and Jewish places of worship in different parts of these two countries in the 1980s. They had also alarmingly penetrated the security forces of some States in the Caribbean. At that time, there was no Al Qaeda or the International Islamic Front (IIF) and yet, the intelligence agencies of these two countries were greatly concerned over the threat posed by this organisation to their internal security. The intelligence officers of the US and Canada, with whom I used to interact, used to describe the JUF as the most secretive and security-conscious jihadi organisation of Pakistan. Daniel Pearl, the US journalist, paid with his life in the beginning of 2002 for trying to make enquiries into the suspected links of Richard Reid, the so-called shoe bomber, with this organisation. 3. After 9/11, many US cells of Pakistani jihadi organisations have been detected and neutralised by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). I would give two examples only. There are many more. On June 20, 2003, FBI officials had disclosed that they had arrested in April Lyman Faris, also known as Mohammad Rauf, originally a resident of Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), who had migrated to the US in 1994 and was working as a truck driver in Ohio and charged him with having links with Al Qaeda and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. According to FBI officials, as quoted in the US media, Faris had visited Afghanistan and Pakistan a number of times between 2000 and 2002, met Osama bin Laden and worked with Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, in organising and financing jihadi causes. After returning to the US from Pakistan in late 2002, officials said, he began examining the Brooklyn Bridge and discussing via coded messages with Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan ways of using blow torches to sever the suspension cables. The plotting continued through March, as Faris sent coded messages to operatives in Pakistan. One such message said that the weather is too hot. FBI officials were quoted as saying that meant that Faris feared the plot was unlikely to succeed---apparently because of security and the bridge's structure-- and should be postponed. He was arrested soon thereafter. According to media reports, the interrogation of Khalid led the FBI to Faris. Sources in Pakistan described Faris, aged 34, as a Punjabi ex-serviceman settled in POK, before he migrated to the US. He was associated in the past with the JUF, before he gravitated to Al Qaeda. 4. On June 27, 2003, the FBI charged seven men in the Washington area and an eighth in Philadelphia with stockpiling weapons and conspiring to wage jihad against India in support of a terrorist group in Kashmir. The FBI's charge-sheet against them described them as members of the Lashkar-e-Toiba ( LET). It also said that three others involved in the case were absconding and were believed to be in Saudi Arabia. Although the FBI officials said that there was no evidence of a plot against the US, the members of the group had pledged support for pro-Muslim violence overseas, hoarded high-powered rifles and received military training in Pakistan. Nine of the 11 accused are American citizens, and three had served in the US armed forces for some time in the past. The charge-sheet said that seven members of the group had travelled to Pakistan in the last several years, and some received military training in small arms,
[osint] Risk to Humans from Food Containing Melamine
http://www.emergencyemail.org:80/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=194 http://www.emergencyemail.org:80/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=194z=1 z=1 Risk to Humans from Food Containing Melamine - FDA/UDSA finally issues official statement. Says low. According to the FDA... There is very low risk to human health from consuming meat from hogs and chickens known to have been fed animal feed supplemented with pet food scraps that contained melamine and melamine-related compounds, according to an assessment conducted by scientists from five federal agencies. In the most extreme risk assessment scenario, when scientists assumed that all the solid food a person consumes in an entire day was contaminated with melamine at the levels observed in animals fed contaminated feed, the potential exposure was about 2,500 times lower than the dose considered safe. In other words, it was well below any level of public health concern. The risk assessment is an important new science-based component of the continuing federal joint investigation into imported wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate from China that contained melamine and melamine-related compounds. The risk assessment was conducted by scientists from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This team is now compiling a scientific assessment of the risk to animal health associated with ingestion of animal feed containing melamine and its compounds. FDA and USDA are in the process of identifying a group of experts to convene a scientific advisory board that would be charged with reviewing the risk assessment. This group would also be asked to contribute to future scientific analysis related to the risk of melamine and its compounds to humans and animals. In the course of the investigation, it was discovered that pet food was contaminated by wheat gluten and rice protein concentrate that contained melamine and its compounds. Subsequently, scraps of contaminated pet food that contained only low levels of melamine were distributed to farms in a limited number of states and added to the feed consumed by swine and poultry. These scraps constituted only a small percentage of the farm animal rations. In addition, melamine is known to be excreted in animal urine. When exposure levels are much higher, as was the case with cats and dogs, the melamine and its compounds appear to cause the formation of crystals in the kidney systems, resulting in kidney damage. There was no indication of kidney damage in hogs. Both hogs and chickens known to have been fed contaminated feed appear to be healthy. This dilution factor was an important piece of data considered in the multi-agency science-based human risk analysis and helps to support the conclusion that there is very low risk to human health from eating meat from animals that were fed the contaminated product. This conclusion supports the decision announced on April 28 not to recall meat from animals that were fed contaminated product. Currently, swine and poultry on farms suspected of receiving contaminated feed are being held under state quarantine or voluntarily by the owners. In several cases, feed samples have tested negative for melamine and related compounds. These tests were conducted by federal laboratories or state laboratories using approved methods. It is assumed that because only small amounts of the contaminated feed were mixed with other rations, the melamine and related compounds were no longer detectable. USDA has concluded that, based on the human risk assessment and the inability to detect melamine in the feed samples, these animals no longer need to be quarantined or withheld from processing. In other cases, feed samples have tested positive for melamine and related compounds; feed samples were not available; or feed samples have not yet been submitted for testing. These animals continue to be withheld from processing, but are not yet being culled, pending the results of the animal risk assessment. This assessment is expected to be completed within one week. At that time, USDA will determine whether these animals can be released for inspection and further processing. USDA and FDA continue to conduct a full and comprehensive investigation. As additional information is confirmed, updates will be provided and decisions will be made using the best available science to protect the public's health. To ensure no further contaminated products enter the U.S., the federal government will continue to monitor imported wheat and corn gluten as well as rice protein concentrate and isolates arriving from all countries destined for human and animal consumption. The FDA import
[osint] 5 Muslim Insurgents Killed In Clash With Philippine Military
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7007277627 5 Muslim Insurgents Killed In Clash With Philippine Military May 8, 2007 7:26 a.m. EST Komfie Manalo - AHN Correspondent Manila, Philippines (AHN) - Philippine security forces announced that five Moro National Liberation Front insurgents were killed in a clash with military troopers in Sulu province south of the Philippines at dawn Tuesday. Reports from Camp Aguinaldo, the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in Quezon City, Lieutenant Colonel Ariel Caculitan said the MNLF rebels were killed in a fresh encounter at around 5:55 am (local time) between the Marines and Muslim insurgents. The MNLF fighters were led by commander Ustadz Habier Malik. The group was chanced upon by patrolling Marines near Kambin village in Kalingalan Kaluang town in Sulu. After a fierce firefight, four bodies believed to be members of the MNLF were recovered by the military. Subsequent mop-up operations led them to another body and a rifle. AFP spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro said the military has been hot on Malik's trail after he allegedly ordered mortar attacks on the municipal hall and a Marine detachment in Panamao last April 13 that killed three soldiers and a civilian and touched off two weeks of running gunbattles that have displaced over 40,000 villagers. Malik is blaming the military for the fresh clashes between the AFP and his group alleging the military killed civilians in an earlier raid. The military denies the claim. The Philippines and the MNLF signed a peace deal in 1996, ending a decades-old separatist campaign in return for limited Muslim self-rule. The government is now in talks with a second faction, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Some MNLF fighters have been integrated into the armed forces. However, poverty is still rampant in the autonomous regions despite government efforts to pour in millions of dollars in development aid. Some disgruntled MNLF fighters joined forces with the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf which was responsible of deadly attacks in the Philippines and kidnappings of foreign nationals. The Abu Sayyaf is included in the U.S. list of most wanted terror groups in the world. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Three dead, dozens hurt in Philippine bombing
http://rawstory.com:80/news/afp/Three_dead_dozens_hurt_in_Philippin_05082007 .html Three dead, dozens hurt in Philippine bombing A powerful homemade bomb tore through a packed public market in the southern Philippine city of Tacurong on Tuesday, killing three people and seriously wounding 33, police said. They said it was not immediately clear who was behind the bombing, which came just a week before national file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/# elections and two weeks after US and Australian warnings of imminent terror attacks in the area. But police foiled a bomb attack in Tacurong late last month and found a device made from 81-millimetre mortar rounds, a trademark of Muslim militants operating in the southern file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/# Philippines who have been linked to Al-Qaeda. Witnesses reported a horrific scene of the dead and bleeding wounded strewn about the smoking rubble of a billiards hall in the market where bomb squad officers said the device had been placed. Provincial police chief Teng Tacao said two were killed on the spot, but the military reported that another died later. Thirty-three others were in serious condition with shrapnel and burn wounds. Separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels are known to operate in areas near Tacurong and other parts of Mindanao island, but the group's spokesman denied it had a hand in the attack. That is not our style, Eid Kabalu told AFP. It may be some groups out to sow terror ahead of the elections. National mid-term elections will be held on May 14, and the run-up to the vote has been marred by assassinations and other violence. Police said Wednesday that 20 people had been killed in election-related violence. Philippine troops in the south of the country have been stretched in an ongoing campaign with several Muslim militant groups as well as by the pre-election bloodshed. Eight people were killed and dozens were injured in January when crude bombs exploded in three Mindanao cities ahead of a Southeast Asian summit on the central island of Cebu. No one has been arrested for those attacks. In late April the US embassy in the Philippines issued an alert about travel to central Mindanao, the second-largest island in the country. The embassy has information that a terrorist group may be planning to carry out bombing attacks in central Mindanao over the next several days, it said, urging Americans to carefully consider plans to visit the area. Australia also warned of a very high threat of attacks, including kidnappings. Recent credible information indicates terrorists may be in the advanced stage of attack planning, it said. The attacks may be imminent and could occur at any time, anywhere in Mindanao. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Muslim Students Invite Terror Supporters, Holocaust Denier to Speak at Holocaust Week
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/187755.php Muslim Students Invite Terror Supporters, Holocaust Denier to Speak at Holocaust Week The University of California Irvine Muslim Student Union has invited terror supporting Imam, Abdel Alim Musa of Washington, D.C., and fraudulent academic Ward Churchill to speak during Holocaust Week. Musa openly supports Palestinian terrorists and denies that al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks. He is also a holocaust denier and an antisemitic conspiracy theorist (see this http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/02/steven_emersons_investigative.php , this http://stand4facts.org/bin/access.cgi?Action=Displayuser_id=testAuthCode= Area=researcherscs=1Request=SpeakersSpeakerID=AIS-20050222-26SpeakerInf o=Overview , or video here http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/186613.php ). Ward Churchill is the University of Colorado Professor who called those killed on 9/11 little http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/066995.php Eichmann's proclaiming, just like Osama bin Laden, that American civilians were legitimate military targets. It was later discovered that Churchill had made up several sources in his academic papers, actually citing his own pseudonymn. The purpose behind inviting the pair seems to be to deflect public attention from the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany, and instead try to focus it on the historical injustices of American slavery and treatment of Native Americans. No speakers seem to have been invited from Darfur, where Arab Muslims are in a continuing genocide against Black Muslims, or other areas of the Sudan, where Muslims have long been engaged in genocide against Christians and animists. Nor will speakers address the very real problem of slavery in its last remaining stronghold---Muslim nations. The UCI Muslim Student Union invites terror supporters and Holocaust deniers to speak during Holocaust week. I'd like to say un-freaking-believable, but I won't. This is totally believableand sad...and disgusting. Student of Objectivism has more http://studentofobjectivism.blogspot.com/2007/05/alert-muslim-student-union -at-ucis.html of the details. UPDATE and Related: I just opened an e-mail from Brian at Snapped Shot. Bad http://www.snappedshot.com/archives/814-Some-are-More-Equal.html things are happening at that long-time bastion of liberty, George Mason University. I'm all for tolerance and accomodation. But at some point there is a line which is crossed in which tolerance for Islamic practices becomes a pretext for the introduction of islands of sharia. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fort Dix Terror Plot: 6 Recent Islam Converts Backyard Jihadists
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21279411.shtml Fort Dix Terror Plot: 6 Recent Islam Converts Backyard Jihadists By Staff May 8, 2007 The six terrorists arrested in NJ for their plot to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix were recent Islam converts and were considered backyard Jihadists. The suspects also performed surveillance on the US servicemen. The 6 men, from Albania and the former Yugoslavia, trained for their murder plot through sources such as the internet. Three of the suspects are here illegal, and are believed to be Muslim. The terrorist suspects, considered to be Islamic radicals, were arrested for a death plot against American soldiers. Five of the suspects currently live in Cherry Hill, NJ. The suspects were actually lured in to buy AK47s from an arms dealer, but the arms dealer secretly worked for the FBI and set the suspects up. According to federal authorities, the terrorist men wanted to kill as many soldiers as possible. A Press Conference is said to be set for 2:30 EST in Camden, NJ. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Pakistan: Gunmen ban music in new push for jihad
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178431597817 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178431597817pagename=JPost%2FJ PArticle%2FPrinter pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter Pakistan: Gunmen ban music in new push for jihad Islamic gunmen are confiscating music cassettes from public buses and ordering shops to only sell CDs promoting jihad in the latest push to Talibanize a lawless Pakistani frontier region, residents said Tuesday. The campaign was launched on Sunday in North Waziristan, a tribal region where the government reached a peace deal with pro-Taliban armed groups last fall, an intelligence official confirmed. Bands of gunmen have visited shops selling music cassettes and CDs in the main town of Miran Shah, warning owners to only sell jihadi cassettes - featuring sermons by clerics or songs without musical accompaniment that praise holy war and those who fight it. They came to us and said, 'Do not sell music and song cassettes and CDs,' shop owner Omar Jan said. They warned us to close our shops or they would punish us. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
