[osint] The Hizbolleft
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2006/08/the_hizbolleft.html August 07, 2006 The Hizbolleft From a report in http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=9416 Socialist Worker of Saturday's demonstration in London: While the march encompassed all those opposed to Israel's aggression, those speakers who declared their solidarity with the resistance in Lebanon and Palestine received huge cheers. You see what one word can achieve? The word in this case is 'resistance'. And what it does is draw attention away from the fact that one of the organizations being referred to under this description, namely Hizbollah, is sworn to the destruction of Israel, propagates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Nasrallah#Views hatred of Jews and is supported by a regime whose President has likewise called for Israel's destruction and deals in Holocaust denial. Well, you'll be familiar with and bored by the standard moves: 'just because you're a critic of Israel, it doesn't make you an anti-Semite'; 'but being a critic of Israel doesn't necessarily mean you aren't one'; and so forth. Something I know with some confidence, however, is that there was a time on the left when expressing support for a quite explicitly anti-Semitic organization would have been a matter of disgrace, of shame. Now it can not only be done but done with enthusiasm - and without any supporting explanation. It's just part of the http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2006/07/hymning_hizboll.html%20 normal spectrum of left opinion. How things do move on. Posted by Norm at 06:19 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Prominent Cleric Ousted From Philadelphia Mosque
http://cbs3.com/topstories/local_story_219093021.html Aug 7, 2006 9:27 am US/Eastern Prominent Cleric Ousted From Philadelphia Mosque (AP) PHILADELPHIA A prominent Muslim cleric who was convicted of federal charges has been ousted as leader of his West Philadelphia mosque. Shamsud-din Ali, 67, was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison on racketeering and other charges, part of a string of convictions stemming from the FBI's sweeping probe of city corruption. He remains free pending an appeal. In a court-supervised election on Saturday, registered Muslims voted 160-143 for a new seven-member board headed by Ali's one-time top aide Rafiq Kalam Id-din. Id-din's slate wants to reaffiliate the mosque with American Islamic leader Warith Deen Mohammed, who had appointed Ali to head the congregation in 1976. Ali declined to comment. His slate's attorney, Vincent L. Johnson, said his clients will be discussing legal avenues under the law, citing irregularities in the process. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Mashreqbank plans new Islamic finance unit
http://www.tradearabia.com/tanews/newsdetails_snBANK_article109297_cnt.html Mashreqbank plans new Islamic finance unit Posted: Monday, August 07, 2006 Dubai The Dubai-based Mashreqbank has announced plans to launch an independent Islamic finance subsidiary called Badr Al Islami. Abdulaziz Al Ghurair, chief executive officer of Mashreqbank, said: Badr Al Islami is committed to the framework and values of Shariah. It is an independently managed business comprising Badr Islamic Finance Company, majority owned by Mashreqbank, and Badr Islamic Banking, a division of Mashreqbank. Badr Al Islami will offer the full range of Islamic financial services, retail, corporate and investment banking with an initial capital of Dh500 million ($136.132 million). Islamic financial services are one of the fastest growing fields in the banking and finance industry. Badr Al Islami can bring Mashreqbank's unparalleled track record in customer service and innovation to this field, thereby filling an important gap in the market, Al Ghurair added. We have been extremely thorough in developing Badr Al Islami, appointing a renowned board of Sharia scholars. The chairman of the Sharia Board, Sheikh Abdalla Ben Suliman Al Manei, is one of the world's most respected scholars, and will ensure that Badr Al Islami provides financial services that are in line with the guiding principles of Islamic finance. The Sharia board of Badr Al Islami will meet for the first time in August to review overall operations. Al Ghurair added: We are committed to playing an active role in the growth of Islamic financial services within the UAE and beyond, at both retail and wholesale levels, and look forward to welcoming Muslim and non-Muslim customers. Badr Al Islami will be led by a fully independent management team, which is presently recruiting the most experienced individuals in the fields of Islamic banking from around the region.-TradeArabia News Service [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Morocco Arrests 44 Terrorist Suspects
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207338,00.html Morocco Arrests 44 Terrorist Suspects RABAT, Morocco Moroccan security services have arrested 44 suspected terrorists and dismantled a network allegedly planning attacks in the North African country, the state news agency reported Monday. The suspects, who included five former soldiers with explosives expertise, were tracked down in Casablanca and six other cities and towns, the MAP agency reported, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry. Morocco's government has cracked down on suspected terrorists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 left 45 people dead, and stunned a nation where most espouse moderate Islam. Police also seized explosives, laboratory materials and propaganda leaflets, the report said. The ministry said that the group's leader was a former convict who recruited Islamic radicals to train them in explosives use and planned to wage a holy war. The group allegedly sought to finance its activities through robberies of financial institutions and bank trucks, the statement said. Human rights groups allege that innocent people have been caught up in the government's sweep, and that many are tortured. 060808 013551 Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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 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/ * 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] Authorities looking for 11 Egyptian students in U.S.
Easier to find them if their names were disclosed. Why hide the names? http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/07/national/main1873057.shtml Authorities looking for 11 Egyptian students in U.S. By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Eleven Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month are being sought by U.S. authorities after failing to turn up for a monthlong exchange program in the Western State of Montana. The Egyptian men were among 17 students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas, according to U.S. authorities and university officials. The other six have arrived at the Bozeman, Montana, campus of Montana State University for a monthlong program on U.S. history and culture and English language instruction, university spokeswoman Cathy Conover said. When the 11 had not turned up by the end of last week, the FBI issued a lookout to state and local law enforcers, FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko said. At this point all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, Kolko said. There is no threat associated with these men. They are 18 to 22 years old, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the search for the men is continuing. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement would not disclose their names. The government probably will seek to send the students home once located because they have violated terms of their visas, the official said. The government tightened the student visa process after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks when it learned that four of the hijackers had entered the country on foreign student visas. Montana State has tried repeatedly to contact the students, Conover said, including sending e-mails. When that failed, the school notified Homeland Security officials and registered the Egyptians as no-shows in the system developed after Sept. 11 to track foreign students, Conover said. They were participating in an exchange program Montana State arranged with Mansoura University in Mansoura, Egypt. We hope this doesn't cast doubt on this program because we think it's important to have international students on our campus and in our community, Conover said. 060807 220658 Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. 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 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
[osint] The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth http://www.eureferendum.blogspot.com/ http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/Tyre%20Ben%20Curtis%202.1. jpg Hot off the press from http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06742085.htm Al Reuters comes another heart-rending story from Lebanon, detailing how the genocidal Israelis are once again deliberately targeting innocent civilians with their air strikes. From the story, written by Hussein Saad, we learn that an Israeli jet killed two people with a missile close to a United Nations aid convoy. To lend veracity to his story, Saad calls in aid Robin Lodge, spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme. A vehicle was hit some 15 km (9 miles) north of Tyre as it was travelling a few metres ahead of our convoy, he is cited as saying, It was carrying bread. It was civilians... This has come as a shock and underlines just how dangerous it is right now. We are not told whether Lodge was actually at the scene but he is probably with the UN convoy. His citation continues, with him saying that the convoy stopped but did not offer first aid because local officials were quickly at the scene. We are also told that an un-named witness at the hospital saw the bodies of the two who died in the attack. That is the factual core of the report, which is then padded out with other material. The incident has also been fully recorded by at least three photographers, who just happened to be at or near the scene, even though we are told, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/WFP/ba01ca0847d9a547fbd2077dcfd2cd 05.htm in careful detail, how difficult it is in moving on the roads of southern Lebanon. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/Tyre%20Ben%20Curtis%201.jp g From the three photographers, we have four pictures. The first, shown above left, is from AP's Ben Curtis, who offers this by way of a caption: Emergency workers rush to remove the lifeless body of a victim of an Israeli missile strike in Tyre, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. Israel continued its bombardment of Tyre and surrounding areas Sunday and its assault on southern Lebanon. The second photograph is also from Ben Curtis (above right), while the third is from Al Reuter's Zohra Bensemra, who took a picture of the dead baby at Qana. He offers this caption: A Lebanese rescue worker talks to his colleagues next to the body of Ali Reda Ghabun, who was killed in an Israeli air strike, at the government hospital in the southern port city of Tyre (Soure) August 6, 2006. The final picture of the sequence (below right) comes from our old friend, also of Qana fame, Kevin Frayer, who offers this caption: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/Tyre%20Zohra%20Bensemra.jp g Medics prepare to load the body of a Lebanese man killed in an Israeli missile strike, into a coffin after arriving at the hospital in the port city of Tyre, southern Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006. The man was driving a van full of bread from the city of Sidon north of Tyre when the missile was fired on the vehicle, sources said. Now, from the on-the-spot reporting, by four separate journalists, there can be no doubt that this is another innocent victim of an Israeli bombing raid. But, let us play devil's advocate. If we take the journalistic sources as tainted, the only independent witness cited is Robin Lodge, who says the UN did not offer first aid because local officials were quickly at the scene. You bet they were. One might suggest, with a healthy dose of cynicism, that this was rather convenient. That means no independent witness gets to look inside the van full of bread. Furthermore, we have so far been offered no photographs of this van, exterior or interior. We only get to see one victim. And, as for the local officials so quickly on the scene, one could very well be none other than Mr Green Helmet, Hezbolla scene manager (the cleaner?), to make sure the right things are said and done. He is visible in all four scenes. Lets us add some more factors. Point one: all Hezbolla fighters are prosecuting this war in civilian clothing. Point two: Hezbolla use civilian vehicles (and even ambulances) to transport their Katyusha missiles and other war materiel. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4640/388/1600/Tyre%20Kevin%20Freyer.jpg Putting all this together, let us indulge in some pure invention and offer an alternative, all-purpose caption for the four photographs, as follows: The scenes show the body of a Hezbolla terrorist in civilian clothing, guarded by a Hezbolla minder posing as a civil defence worker. The terrorist was caught by an Israeli precision air strike while transporting war material in a civilian vehicle disguised as a bread delivery van. He was one of two in the vehicle who was killed and, although the strike was only metres away from a UN convoy, no one else was hurt. As I said, this is pure invention. Without a detailed investigation and independent verification, we could
[osint] The Iron Grip of Hezbollah
The Iron Grip of Hezbollah http://www.sundayherald.com/57113 EYEWITNESS: Up close with the organisation Israel is determined to crush, Hugh Macleod sees a fierce determination to fight on in South Lebanon THEY were on to us within a matter of minutes. As the thump of Israeli artillery pounding the valley below shook the house, the two Hezbollah gunmen who had run to intercept our car as we pulled into Arnoun, a strategic mountain-top village 5km from Lebanon's southeast border with Israel, stood blocking the doorway and demanding to know what we were doing here. They were obviously not expecting to see anyone up here, said my translator, looking on nervously as the men, armed with American-made M16 automatic rifles and wearing camouflage, bulging ammo pockets and black beards, radioed a message to their commander. After taking names and numbers from our mobile phones, with a little cajoling and offers of some cigarettes, the Hezbollah men, known for their tight discipline and secrecy, agreed to talk - at least for a few minutes. It is not going to be long before we defeat Israel, said the elder militiaman, pacing around the front room of the house set against the dramatic ruins of Beaufort castle, the mountain top fortress just above Arnoun that has been a strategic stronghold in the wars for the Holy Land for everyone from Christian crusaders and Palestinian militants to Jewish conscripts. They will not succeed with their land incursion because those who believe in God will never surrender, he said, when asked if he was concerned about the prospect that four weeks into its fight with the militant wing of the Islamic group, Israel has launched its largest ground invasion of Lebanon since 1982, placing Arnoun, once again, on the front line. This is a war for Lebanon, not for sects, the gunman insisted, blowing the cigarette smoke from his nose as he moved to the window, from where he could see the houses of Shebaa Farms, the disputed land at the borders of Lebanon, Israel and Syria that Hezbollah says it is fighting to liberate from Israeli occupation, as well as the Lebanese prisoners held in Israeli prisons. In the end, Bush, Blair and all of them are oppressors. Blair has eyes, but he cannot see. We had come to Arnoun to visit a Lebanese Shia who we knew had returned to the village with the intention of defending his house . Though a veteran of the Lebanese civil war, the former fighter had been asked by Hezbollah to leave, assured that his fighting support was not required. There is no shortage of support for Hezbollah here. In this their heartland and bastion, people rally to their cause and the party's grip on the surrounding towns and villages remains tenacious in the face of the current Israeli onslaught. Every Israeli rocket that lands here is like a sugar sweet to us, said 74-year-old grocer Hani Hamad, undaunted by the barrage, sitting beside untouched piles of fruit and vegetables in the once bustling market town of Nabatiyeh, 8km north of Arnoun, where the faces of the martyrs killed fighting Israel fly on flags and Hezbollah security keep journalists away from displaced families sheltering in a local school. As Israel continues to fail to make good on its threat to re-occupy south Lebanon up to the Litani River, around 30km north of the border, the success of Hezbollah's guerrilla warfare - its hit and run strategy, whereby small groups of militants are continuing to fire ever more rockets ever further into Israel - is galvanising unprecedented Arab and Muslim support for a group Washington considers a terrorist organisation. Every day, the skies above Tyre still hum with the sound of Israeli jets, Apache helicopters and drones seeking out the shifting launch sites from where Hezbollah fighters fire Katyusha rockets from the back of mobile launchers before melting back into the landscape. But a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert claimed the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) had made an unparalleled dent into Hezbollah's capability, the militants fired 230 rockets into Israel and on Friday rockets struck near the Israeli city of Hadera, the deepest rocket attack into Israel since the conflict began on July 12. At least 75 Israelis have so far died in such attacks. Israel has put more than 10,000 troops into Lebanon and says it has carved out a zone containing 20 villages up to 7km from its border in an effort to create a buffer zone it hopes will be filled by an international peacekeeping force. But after four weeks of fighting, the first television images of captured Hezbollah fighters continue to be counterbalanced by pictures of anguished and injured Israeli soldiers returning from a front they have failed to wrest from Hezbollah's iron grip. An Israeli commando raid on a flat suspected by the Israelis of being used by a senior Hezbollah figure in the north of Tyre in the early hours of yesterday morning left at least eight Israeli soldiers wounded, with
[osint] MEDIA LIES: Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition
Extreme Makeover - Beirut Edition http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition .html Either this woman is the unluckiest multiple home owner in Beirut, or something isn't quite right. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/beirutwoman1.jpg A Lebanese woman wails after looking at the wreckage of her apartment, in a building, that was demolished by the Israeli attacks in southern Beirut July 22, 2006. REUTERS/Issam Kobeisi (from http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/060722/ids_photos_india_wl/ra40998 6087.jpg Yahoo News) http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/beirutwoman2.jpg A Lebanese woman reacts at the destruction after she came to inspect her house in the suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, after Israeli warplanes repeatedly bombed the area overnight.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla) (from http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/060805/481/6e91ad31bb4847c0906a1cf b98461570 Yahoo News) http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/beirutwoman3.0.jpg Same clothes, same scar on her left cheek, same mark under her right eye. Two pictures of the same woman, maybe even taken on the same day. So, what gives? Update 10.30pm. The BBC is currently using that second picture. Twice. On http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5248500.stm one page. http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/bbcleb.jpg (Hat tip David from the http://www.cabarfeidh.com/blogger.html Cabarfeidh Pages) Update Aug 7, 3.45pm. Stealth edit from the BBC: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4399/1929/1600/bbcleb2.jpg (Hat tip David again) posted by DFH at http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-editio n.html 3:12 PM http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=19485778postID=11548736388391870 4quickEdit=true 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 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/ * 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] 24 killed in Iraqi bombings, shooting
Sounds like a civil war we should leave to the Iraqis. Bruce http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4101439.html 24 killed in Iraqi bombings, shooting By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer Virginian Pilot August 08, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, exposing a rift with his American partners on security tactics, as 24 people were killed Tuesday in a series of bombings and a shooting. An American soldier also died of wounds sustained in fighting in western Anbar province, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The latest violence - in addition to the 10 killed in a suicide bombing in Samarra on Monday - occurred amid a major U.S. operation to secure Baghdad in order to control Shiite-Sunni sectarian bloodshed that many fear will lead to civil war. The U.S.-Iraqi air and ground attack was launched before dawn Monday in Sadr City, which is controlled by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia. Police said three people, including a woman and a child, were killed in the raid, which the U.S. command said was aimed at individuals involved in punishment and torture cell activities. Three people were captured, the U.S. military said. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, said he was very angered and pained by the operation, warning that it could undermine his efforts toward national reconciliation. Reconciliation cannot go hand-in-hand with operations that violate the rights of citizens this way, al-Maliki said in a statement on government television. This operation used weapons that are unreasonable to detain someone - like using planes. He apologized to the Iraqi people for the operation and said this won't happen again. Hours after he spoke, central Baghdad was shaken early Tuesday by three near-simultaneous bomb explosions near the Interior Ministry building in the Al-Nahda neighborhood. Ten civilians were killed and eight people were injured, said police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid. A few hours later, two roadside bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad, killing 10 people and injuring 50, said police Lt. Mohammed Kheyoun. At about the same time, gunmen stormed a bank in Baghdad and killed two guards and a customer. They drove away with an unknown amount of money, said police Sgt. Zakariya Hassan. Also Tuesday, two roadside bombs in Tikrit north of Baghdad killed a policeman, said police Capt. Laith Hamid. Overnight, nine bullet-riddled bodies were found in Kut south of Baghdad, and four Shiites were shot dead by gunmen in Baqouba, northeast of the capital. On Monday, President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, met with the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., to discuss security operations in Baghdad. Talabani said he told Casey it is in no one's interest to have a confrontation with al-Sadr's movement. The public positions taken by al-Maliki and Talabani signal serious differences between Iraqi politicians and both U.S. and Iraqi military officials on how to restore order and deal with armed groups, many of which have links to political parties. Speaking to reporters Monday, Casey made no mention of al-Sadr but said he had discussed plans with Talabani to bring fundamental change to the security situation in Baghdad before Ramadan, which begins in late September. Al-Sadr has risen to become a major figure in the Shiite community and a pillar of support for al-Maliki. The prime minister's apology and criticism of the U.S. forces may have helped placate al-Sadr, who on Monday urged his followers to show restraint. In a statement read at all Mahdi Army offices, al-Sadr urged his militiamen to be calm and patient, and avoid being drawn into civil war, said the cleric's aide, Mohammed al-Fartousi. He said al-Sadr urged the militiamen to purge all those who bring the Mahdi Army into disrepute. They should also denounce the kidnapping of Iraqis, denounce destruction of mosques and denounce killing of innocent people, said his aide, Mohammed al-Fartousi. --- Associated Press correspondents Rawya Rageh, Qais al-Bashir and Bushra Juhi contributed to this report. C 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more about our http://apdigitalnews.com/privacy.html Privacy Policy. [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
[osint] End the Cycle of Militant Islam's Aggression
End the Cycle of Militant Islam's Aggression by Joseph Kellard (August 7, 2006) Article website address: http://www.CapMag. http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4756 com/article.asp?ID=4756 Summary: We should condemn those who condemn Israel's response to Hezbollah's initial aggression of kidnappings and missile fire as disproportionate. Actually, Israel isn't being nearly disproportionate enough in its military campaign in Lebanon. [CapMag.com] Israel's enemies are once again at war with her. Today the enemy is Hezbollah, an Iranian-sponsored terrorist organization whose stated goal is to annihilate Israel. But whether it's Hezbollah, Hamas or the Palestinians wagging war on Israel, you are their accomplice who call these continuous conflicts a cycle of violence, condemns Israel for its disproportionate response, and clamor for a ceasefire. All these reactions are interrelated and illustrate why Israel's death-worshipping enemies survive to relentlessly wage war on the only free, Western nation in that region -- the fundamental reason they want to annihilate Israel. When people talk of a cycle of violence between Israelis and their Muslim enemies, ask them what they mean by violence. This broad word denotes the use of physical force to injure or kill someone else. But there are two distinct forms of violence: the initiation of force and the retaliatory use of force. To initiate violence against others, such as rape, assault or murder, is evil. And once a brute initiates violence, his victim has the unequivocal right to fight back, to protect himself by stopping, evading and perhaps killing his would-be rapist or murderer. Such violence is good; an act of justice. The same holds true for free nations. Since its establishment, Israel has been attacked by its Muslim neighbors, who have always been the aggressors when violence has broken out there. So, the actual cycle involves Muslims initiating force against an essentially free nation, while Israel responds with retaliatory force to stop this aggressive violence. To call these circumstances a cycle of violence is to package together complete opposite forms of violence, wipe out their crucial, life-and-death distinctions, and put Israel on a par with her murderous enemies. Instead, Israel must stamp out militant Islam's cycle of aggression against her, and must do this immediately by crushing all her enemies with whatever force is necessary. This is why we should condemn those who condemn Israel's response to Hezbollah's initial aggression of kidnappings and missile fire as disproportionate. Actually, Israel isn't being nearly disproportionate enough in its military campaign in Lebanon. When an aggressor murderously attacks a free nation, that nation has a moral obligation to try to crush this enemy; anything less is a disproportionate response. So just as the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor and responded with a retaliatory force that eventually decimated two of Japan's cities and lead to the aggressive imperialist regime's ultimate surrender, and just as General Sherman responded to the Confederacy igniting the Civil War by devastating the South, so too must Israel respond with the force necessary to annihilate Hezbollah. And any and all civilian casualties, in Israel and Lebanon, are on Hezbollah's head. But instead Israel continues to tie its hands behind its back, by pulling its punches to avoid enemy civilian casualties, by merely attempting to destroy the enemy's infrastructure instead of its regime and supporters, by negotiating with her would-be annihilators, by conceding more land to them that she rightfully occupied after past aggressions. All of these appeasing steps only sacrifice Israel and her interests, her right to survive as a free nation, and permit her potential killers to live for another day. This vicious cycle starts with calls for a ceasefire. Once Israel shows she is militarily able to defeat her enemies, her foes inevitably call for a ceasefire. And Israel foolishly accepts these ceasefires on the pretext that her enemies will abide by their conditions. But murderous aggressors can never be trusted to uphold anything. In short, the ceasefires simply buys the aggressors more time to regroup and plan their next attacks, as they've done now for decades. Yet crushing Hezbollah, Hamas and the Palestinians, and thereby decisively showing where their death-worshipping ideology leads -- just as the U.S. showed the Nazis that their evil ideas end in their death and destruction -- is not the ultimate solution for Israel's survival, safety and peace. These and other Muslim groups are mere heads of the main hydra in militant Islam's war against the West, the theocracy of Iran. Iran remains the world's premier sponsor of anti-Western terrorism, and its regime's main targets is the U.S. and Israel. This is made crystal clear by Iran's threats to wipe Israel off the map and its emblazoning the words Death to Israel and
[osint] Hazardous rail cargoes easy terror targets
http://www.ble.org/pr/news/headline.asp?id=16649 Hazardous rail cargoes easy terror targets, union says Teamsters want industry to take steps, pursue more federal spending By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DAVID PATCH TOLEDO BLADE STAFF WRITER August 01, 2006 Inadequate security exposes millions of tons of hazardous materials shipped annually by the nation's railroads to terrorist attack, and the rail industry and the government have done little to train rail workers and emergency responders to deal with a chemical release, whether accidental or sabotage, the union representing train engineers and track maintenance workers charges. Based on surveys filled out by 4,034 employees of 34 different railroads, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Rail Conference's High Alert report said trains carrying toxic cargoes like chlorine gas and ammonia are often left unattended or are delayed en route in places where unauthorized parties could gain access to them. The graffiti on some of these cars demonstrates the lack of security. People can walk right up to them, said Bob Kreuzer, a Teamsters Rail Conference organizer and representative. It's a national problem. We need more government pressure on the rail companies to do something about this. Until they're forced to do more, they won't. Peggy Wilhide, a spokesman for the Association of American Railroads, responded that the industry has a pretty darned good record of handling hazardous materials, with 99.997 percent of all shipments travelling without incident and only a very miniscule number involved in accidents resulting in leaks. Railroads have cooperated with government requests to suspend hazardous-materials movements during large public events and heightened-alert periods, she said, even though there has never been a credible, specific threat directed against freight rail transportation. Concern about railroads' handling of hazardous materials gained national attention in January, 2005, when chlorine released from a tank car ruptured in a Graniteville, S.C., crash killed nine people and injured hundreds of others. Other recent accidents included a June, 2004, train collision in Macdona, Texas., in which a chlorine leak killed three people, and a January, 2002, derailment in Minot, N.D., in which anhydrous ammonia killed one man and caused eye and breathing problems for hundreds. Chlorine and anhydrous ammonia represent about 80 percent of the toxic inhalation hazard chemical business railroads handle, Ms. Wilhide said. Such chemicals constitute the greatest public safety risk because they are transported under pressure and create vapor clouds if released. The union report protested that while the federal Department of Homeland Security has spent about $20 billion securing aviation during the nearly five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, only $250 million has been devoted to railroad security and emergency training. Amy Kudwa, a Transportation Security Administration spokesman, responded that freight rail has its own division within the agency, and that high-threat urban area rail corridors have been identified for special attention. The locations of those corridors aren't publicized for security reasons, she said. Mike Wolever, Toledo's assistant fire chief and homeland security coordinator, said he believes Toledo firefighters have sufficient training support for hazardous materials, and that while there probably could be more security at local rail yards, I'm not sure that there isn't adequate protection. The biggest threat Chief Wolever perceives is a deliberate attempt to derail a train, and that's hard to prevent. The union also said that trains are poorly defended against hijacking, and that railroads' growing use of remote-control devices for yard switching further increases the risk, since yards often are near populated areas. Rudy Husband, a spokesman for Norfolk Southern, one of three major railroads operating in the Toledo area, said his company has 21,200 route-miles of track that can't be monitored constantly. We do everything we can, working with public authorities, assessing vulnerabilities, and taking appropriate counter-measures, Mr. Husband said. Mr. Husband questioned the report's timing, noting that it coincides with labor negotiations involving the major railroads and the unions, including the Teamsters-represented crafts. Mr. Kreuzer said that while the report refers to manpower issues that also are on the negotiating table, the report is not a negotiating tactic. The safety of the first responders, our crews, and the public, that is our main concern, he said. Contact David Patch at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 419-724-6094. [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] Agroterrorism: The Plot to Attack Americans' Food Supply Chain
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21231581.shtml Agroterrorism: The Plot to Attack Americans' Food Supply Chain By Jim Kouri Aug 1, 2006 The Post Chronicle One of the most fear terrorist tactics is the use of the United States' domestic food supply chain to kill as many Americans as possible. While airport security, seaport protection, illegal immigration and other functions of the Department of Homeland Security garner more attention and news headlines, intelligence sources believe that this type of terrorist plot is being considered by members of several groups, including Al-Qaeda. In fact, the DHS has a term to describe such a tactic: Agroterrorism. U.S. agriculture generates more than $1 trillion per year in economic activity and provides an abundant food supply for Americans and others. Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, there have been new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. agriculture to the deliberate introduction of animal and plant diseases. Several agencies, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of Defense play a role in protecting the nation against agroterrorism. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, federal agencies' roles and responsibilities were modified in several ways to help protect our agriculture from an attack. First, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 established DHS and, among other things, charged it with coordinating U.S. efforts to protect against agroterrorism. The act also transferred a number of agency personnel and functions into DHS to conduct planning, response, and recovery efforts. Second, the President signed a number of presidential directives that further define agencies' specific roles in protecting agriculture. Finally, Congress passed legislation that expanded the responsibilities of USDA and HHS in relation to agriculture security. In carrying out these new responsibilities, the USDA and other federal agencies have taken a number of actions. The agencies are coordinating development of plans and protocols to better manage the national response to terrorism, including agroterrorism. Along with several states, they have conducted exercises to test these new protocols and the response capabilities. Federal agencies have also: conducted vulnerability assessments of the agriculture infrastructure; created networks of laboratories capable of diagnosing animal, plant, and human diseases; begun efforts to develop a national veterinary stockpile that intends to include vaccines against foreign animal diseases; and created new federal emergency coordinator positions to help states develop emergency response plans for the agriculture sector. However, the United States still faces complex challenges that limit the nation's ability to respond effectively to an attack against livestock. For example, the USDA would not be able to deploy animal vaccines within 24 hours of an outbreak, as called for in a presidential directive, in part because the only vaccines currently stored in the United States are for strains of foot and mouth disease, and these vaccines need to be sent to the United Kingdom to be activated for use. There are also management problems that inhibit the effectiveness of agencies' efforts to protect against agroterrorism. For instance, since the transfer of agricultural inspectors from the USDA to DHS in 2003, there have been fewer inspections of agricultural products at the nation's ports of entry. According to anti-terrorism experts, this is completely unacceptable and the transfer of inspectors from the USDA to Homeland Security should have increased inspections, not reduced them. To enhance the agencies' ability to reduce the risk of agroterrorism, security experts recommended, among other things, that USDA examine the costs and benefits of developing stockpiles of ready-to-use vaccines, and that DHS and USDA determine the reasons for declining agricultural inspections. USDA, DHS, and HHS generally agreed with many recommendations; however, according to officials at the Government Accountability Office, the Defense Department and EPA made technical comments but took no position on the report's recommendations. Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance [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] Turning a blind eye to evil
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51381 Turning a blind eye to evil _ Posted: August 4, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern C 2006 Our nation stands at an important precipice: War has been declared against our nation; our people have been killed and wounded in this war, and yet a sizable portion of our population is unwilling to recognize this war and stand up to fight it. The war is of course the battle between Islamic jihadists and the United States of America and our allies in the West. Right now the brave people of Israel are on the front lines of this battle, one that poses a far greater threat to mankind and the civilized world than even the most diabolical machinations of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime. If you think that statement is harsh, then you haven't given much thought to the consequence of a biological or nuclear weapon being used against a civilian population in Israel, the United States or the United Kingdom. Ignoring the Lessons of History The reaction of a large number in this country, and the civilian populations of allied nations, is not altogether that different from the years leading up to full scale combat in World War II. In the late 1930's, Adolf Hitler successfully seized control of greater amounts of land in successive waves of military-free conquest, continuously building an ever-expanding German empire. The response by those who preached diplomacy and appeasement was to bully peaceful, free nations to give up land to the aggressor. In the pre-World War II era, that policy of land-for-peace meant ceding parts or all of Czechoslovakia, Austria and Poland to the Nazis. Today the West, in complicity with the corrupt proponents of tyranny at the United Nations, force Israel to fall for a similarly misguided land-for-peace policy. Even after Hitler attacked Poland, France, the Netherlands, Great Britain and Russia, the people of the United States were unwilling to confront this deadly fascist threat to the free world. ''It's not our war,'' they protested to the media and their elected leaders alike. They were wrong - it certainly was our war, we just waited years to fight it, and unnecessarily sentenced untold numbers of men, women and children to their deaths. Time has passed, but things haven't changed. Regrettably we have failed to learn the lessons of history. Today, Islamic fascists have launched attacks against both our nation and our allies around the world. They currently threaten to wipe Israel off the map. And the response from many Americans is the same as it was in the years leading up to the world's most devastating war. The once-respected conservative wordsmith, Pat Buchanan, recently demonstrated the myopic assessment of the threat posed by Islamic extremist terrorism is not limited solely to the anti-military left. In his July http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51164 20 column, Buchanan wrote an anti-Semitic diatribe headlined: No, this is not ''our war,'' echoing the sentiments of so many Americans and Europeans during the 1930s. Buchanan's isolationist, ignorant and defeatist approach is not difficult to understand, because it seems easier to hide in the closet from danger, than be forced to face reality. But, it does not change the fact that turning a blind eye towards terror and tyranny in the hope that you yourself might be saved - if only you look the other way and promise not to stand up and take action - is immoral, unjust and in the end suicidal. It is ''our war.'' What makes the argument of Pat Buchanan and his anti-war comrades like Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore so intellectually bankrupt is that while this crowd waves the white flag of neutrality in the war against terrorism, they ignore the fact that war has already been declared against the United States by the terrorists themselves. They've announced it in terrorist videos released to TV stations. They've written letters announcing their declaration of war. They've blown up our ships, planes, buildings, and killed thousands of Americans to send the message that their declaration of war is for real. And yet the appeasement and isolationist crowd still doesn't get it! In the case of the current conflict with Israel, the terrorist group that is killing Israeli civilians, Hezbollah, had until September 11, 2001 killed more Americans than any other terrorist group in the world. The fact that the European Union won't call them terrorists is testimony that the lessons of World War II were not learned. But don't tell that to Pat Buchanan's compatriot in the anti-war effort, Michael Moore. Following release of his anti-American propaganda flick, Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore declared, ''There is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie.'' Well, perhaps Moore can take note of the exceptional documentary, ''Obsession,'' which chronicles the growing war against the West by Islamic jihadists. ''Obsession'' shows repeated videoclips of Hassan
[osint] London Bombings - Global Terrorism Revisited
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items05/110705-1.html London Bombings - Global Terrorism Revisited By Ratanapala The terrorists have struck again. This time in London, the so called home of parliamentary democracy. They struck again and without even giving any notice. Apparently, Britain knew that they are going to be attacked and it had been a thing that was waiting to happen. Our sincere thoughts and condolences go out to those who have lost loved ones and for those who are left with scars both physical and mental. The physical scars may heal, but the mental scars will still be lingering for many years to come. As always it is the innocent who pay for the crimes of omission and commission of their leaders. What should Britain do in this instance? Should they sign a Cease Fire Agreement and Memorandum of Understanding as we in Sri Lanka have been so wisely counseled by the Western Powers and the Christian Church? Or should they do what the Israeli's do - target the terrorists, their families and their sympathizers? When September 11th struck the world thought that there will be a world consensus on how to handle global terrorism. America lost half the script when it made it to be an attack against Fortress America. When they attacked the Taliban and deposed them we thought for a moment they were on the right track. When they invaded Iraq they broke the consensus and lost the full script; it was more than obvious that the Americans were making a grab for the Iraqi Oil under the pretext of fighting global terrorism. Britain still reeling from her lost imperial ambitions is seeking some solace playing second fiddle to the Americans. Now for Al Qaeda reeling from their defeat in Afganistan, Iraq became a 'cause celebre' and they took to franchising their know how and technology world wide to other disaffected groups. Therefore it is not wrong to assume that America, Britain and others who made up the Coalition of the willing are the ones who helped Al Qaeda to clone themselves. The Bali attacks came and went. Many including British, American and Australians lost their lives. All these are still construed as attacks on the First World, the Western World and the Christian World by forces inimical to their hegemony on world affairs. Terrorism in the rest of the world has not been a concern for them. Terrorism is a phenomenon which is outside the norms of the civilized world. Therefore it should not be afforded the luxury of being treated under the privileges that are afforded to common law criminals. Terrorists have broken their social contract with society. They should be handled and prosecuted under special laws made especially for that purpose. In the same way the world united to eradicate Smallpox from the world, it should unite to eradicate terrorism. If they try to draw differences with LTTE terrorism and Al Qaeda terrorism then they have already lost the battle against terrorism. On the day the world powers take a clear cut and unbiased stand against terrorism and understand that like smallpox, terrorism too is a universal scourge and that the terrorists and their breeding grounds should destroyed decisively, then only they will be able to say to the rest of the world - You are either with us or against us. This however is not possible by relegating countries like Sri Lanka to sign Cease Fire Agreements (CFA) with terrorist or enter into Memoranda of Understandings. Since signing these agreements and MOUs the LTTE terrorists in Sri Lanka have killed and maimed hundreds, have abducted and continue to abduct hundreds of children for recruitment as child soldiers. While thousands of CFA infringements have taken place the Viking cease fire monitors continue to look the other way and have actually colluded with terrorists to strengthen their armories and other wherewithal. The cancer of terrorism thrives wherever there are disaffected groups of people. The misplaced sympathy towards such groups from interests groups in far away places fuels terrorism. In civilized society there is always recourse to justice however long it takes and therefore no amount of disaffection should be made a cause to take up terrorism. However long such procedure may take in this imperfect world, terrorism should not be an alternative, simply because the victims are innocent people. Addressing of the causes of disaffection if genuine should be given the highest priority. Then there is the dimension of Human Rights activists and Peace Merchants, most of them on the pay of the terrorist organizers and sympathizers. They form a 'strong fifth column' from within the security of the society to white wash terrorist atrocities. For them terrorists are freedom fighters. They defend their atrocities no matter how gruesome such acts are. They too are terrorists in sheep skins! Terrorism in Sri Lanka is a clear case in point. Tamil Tiger Terrorism in Sri Lanka was fuelled, and funded mainly by the misplaced sympathy of the
[osint] Pathways to Jihadi Terrorism
http://www.india-forum.com/articles/135/1/Pathways-to-Jihadi-Terrorism Pathways to Jihadi Terrorism Dr. Babu Suseelan By Dr. Babu Suseelan Jihadi terrorism is as old as Islam. Jihad war, death and destruction have followed in the wake of Islam for hundreds of years. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Spain, Persia, India and several societies have experienced the deadly Islamic conquest. Now Jihadi terrorism has propelled to dangerous proportions and is a major threat to public health and world peace. _ Pathways to Jihadi Terrorism Jihadi terrorism is as old as Islam. Jihad war, death and destruction have followed in the wake of Islam for hundreds of years. Ancient Egypt, Greece, Spain, Persia, India and several societies have experienced the deadly Islamic conquest. Now Jihadi terrorism has propelled to dangerous proportions and is a major threat to public health and world peace. Jihadi terrorists are said to have the unique ability to perpetuate their deadly terrorism wreaking havoc in every city in the world. It's destructive impact on the economy, public health and public safety is widespread, and on the increase. Sensational Jihadi terrorism, mass riots, violence, beheading, suicide bombing and plane hijacking are under constant media scrutiny. Jihadi terrorism is also a compelling subject for terrorism scholars, social scientists and security planners. Nevertheless, agreement on the important underlying causes has been elusive and inconsistent. Liberal left wing social scientists attribute Jihadi terrorism as a product of labeling and social causes including economic deprivation and interference of non-Islamic countries. They romanticize Jihadi terrorists as involved in protest against social injustice. In their eagerness to promote the irrational doctrine of political correctness, left wing armchair speculators see Jihadi terrorists as victims of reactionary, reductionist conspiracy theories that make the terrorists the real victim of unjust society. For phony, left wing, liberal social scientists, suicide bombing, mass murder, riots, arson and public beheading of non-Muslims by Jihadi terrorists are negotiated product of formal responses to political injustices. Numerous empirical evidence and case study analysis of Muslim terrorists proves the unbalance of this equation. Such malicious politically correct statement is misleading and mischievous. The unified left wing explanation of Jihadi terrorism as a social phenomenon in the changing political, economic context is false and falls far short of explaining reliable and stable psychological and religious variables influencing Islamic terrorism. In recent years, studies of risk prediction and identification of both static and dynamic factors associated with Jihadi terrorism have provided a clear understanding of the problem. Empirically based investigations of psychological factors on Jihadi terrorists have indicated important cognitive and behavioral variables acting as pathways for Jihadi terrorism. Focused studies have revealed unusual ways of Jihadi's thinking, asocial attitudes, cruelty, and indifference to the feelings of victims, paranoia and aggressive hostility. ISLAMIC THINKING ERRORS Religious, psychological, educational, and historical factors are implicated in Jihadi terrorism. Static variables (age, ethnic religious background) and dynamic variables (cognitive distortions, thinking errors, negative emotions, maladaptive behaviors, deviance amplifying community networks) also specifically lend itself to the identification of dynamic risk factors of Jihadi terrorism. Muslims think Islam is a perfect and perfected religion. It has perfect answers for science, politics, government, economics, psychosocial problems and human life. As far as the doctrinal tenets are concerned, Islam maintains that Muslims must unquestionably follow the tenets. Muslims should shun everything that is opposed to Islam. Muslims consider Koran, Hadith and sura, which are called Nusoos-e-Qatiyah, are perfect and have no place for criticism. Muslims are indoctrinated at an early age into the rigid, closed, reductionaist Islamic dogma, demanding full faith and devotion and separation from all competing philosophies. They are kept ignorant of the world and other rational thought systems. Islamic schools focus on rote memorization of Koran and discourage critical thinking. Islam regards thinking as a part of worship. Questioning Islamic concepts is the biggest crime, punishable by death. From the beginning, Islamic education starts formulating a conceptualization, which logically connects automatic Islamic thoughts and beliefs. The education system fails to see the larger picture and jump from one core belief to another. It provides a cognitive map that is limited, hostile and untrue. The faulty cognitive map generally resonates with the students for life. These rigid Islamic cognitive schemas have a profound impact on their thinking,
[osint] PSYCHOANALYSIS, TERRORISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM
Unhelpful psycho-babble. Bruce http://human-nature.com/rmyoung/papers/pap139h.html PSYCHOANALYSIS, TERRORISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM by mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert M. Young It is very difficult to characterize the interrelations between the inner world and the outer world, between intrapsychic dynamics, on the one hand, and larger-scale interactions - family, group, institutions, cultures, nations - on the other. Today I will offer a schema for thinking about these things. Freud was notoriously a reductionist, and it is easy to throw up one's hands and say that he left us no way in psychoanalytic explanation to move from the individual to the group. He believed that all social, cultural and political phenomena were only the familiar phenomena of id, ego and superego, along with the Oedipal triangle, operating in a new sphere (Gay, 1988, p. 547). He even avowed that 'Strictly speaking, there are only two sciences: psychology, pure and applied, and natural science' (Freud, 1933, p. 179). There is, according to Freud, no place for truly social explanations; sociology 'cannot be anything but applied psychology' (ibid.). You might think, as many social scientists do, that one can only smile, turn away and walk to the nearest compendium of genuinely social concepts. But stay! I don't think we should move on so quickly. I want to draw your attention to the writings of two psychoanalytic theoreticians who sought to conceptualise social and political phenomena. The first was Harold Lasswell, an American political scientist who flourished in Chicago in the 1930s and then at Yale until he retired in the late 1970s He is the author of what is called 'Lasswell's Formula' (Lasswell, 1930; Wolfenstein, 1981, pp. 17-18), which states that private interests get projected onto the public realm and then represented as the common good. This is a particularly socially harmful form of rationalisation. The ruthless economic self-interest of an oil baron, J. D. Rockefeller, is defended as generating good for all. He used the analogy of competition among roses leading to the American Beauty Rose, his pretty analogy for the competitive success of his firm, Standard Oil, a company which was later cosmetically renamed EXXON, presumably in an attempt to refurbish its tarnished corporate image, since Standard Oil was associated with ruthless monopolistic practices. (This soon backfired when the Exxon Valdeez oil spill occurred off the coast of Alaska. Another instance of this kind was the renaming of Windscale as Sellafield in a vain attempt to escape some of the opprobrium connected with nuclear pollution.) Versions of this rationalising maxim have been offered throughout history, for example, in the self-assigned civilising missions of colonialists or imperialists. It forms the basis of the self-justifications of factory owners throughout the history of the labour process in industrial capitalism (Braverman, 1974; Young, 1974, 1981, including, in our own era, Taylorist 'scientific management' (Haber, 1964; Kanigel, 1997) and softer versions of it in the 'human relations movement' associated with the work of Elton Mayo (Baritz, 1960; Trahair, 1984). At the individual level, politicians from time immemorial have rationalised their private interests and represented them as the common good Young, 1972. A second psychoanalytic thinker, Victor Wolfenstein, who practices in Los Angeles and teaches Political Science at UCLA, rescues Lasswell's Formula by looking behind or beneath it. That is, he starts the story further back. Where did the particular conception of private interests come from before they got rationalised as the public good? This is both a familial and an ideological question. It invites us to look at both the psychoanalytic and the socialising process of development. Freud famously pointed out that the child does not acquire the parents' values but the parents' superego. This has an inherently conservative influence on the personality and provides a significant brake on social change (Freud, 1933, p. 67). It behoves us to look deeper than Lasswell's Formula and investigate how certain public values and structures got into the unconscious before they got projected and rationalised as the public interest. Another aid in connecting the individual and social levels of explanation is adumbrated in a motto of Freud's which appears on the fronticepiece of his masterpiece, The Interpretaion of Dreams: 'If I cannot bend the higher powers, I will stir up the lower depths' (Freud, 1900, p. ix). Wilfred Bion takes us further into those lower depths to the most primitive and most refractory defences of all: defences against psychotic anxieties that arise in the paranoid-schizoid and depressive positions. These positions are the two fundamental stances in the psychic lives of us all. In the paranoid-schizoid position we indulge in extreme splits, e.g., between love and hate, good and evil, us and them, treat others not as full
[osint] Top 10 ways to secure your stored data
_ Top 10 ways to secure your stored data Steps to secure data involve understanding applicable threats, aligning appropriate layers of defense and continual monitoring of activity logs taking action as needed. http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/739757/107300/28706/2/ Top 10 ways to secure your stored data Greg Schulz August 03, 2006 (Computerworld) Securing stored data involves preventing unauthorized people from accessing it as well as preventing accidental or intentional destruction, infection or corruption of information. While data encryption is a popular topic, it is just one of many techniques and technologies that can be used to implement a tiered data-security strategy. Steps to secure data involve understanding applicable threats, aligning appropriate layers of defense and continual monitoring of activity logs taking action as needed. Figure 1 below shows common areas of focus pertaining to securing stored data while at rest (being stored) and while in flight (being moved or accessed). Data movement is required for authorized general access, business continuance (BC) and disaster recovery (DR), general data protection as well as archiving for data preservation and compliance. In no particular order, here are 10 items to consider as part of securing your stored data in addition to those in Figure 1. http://www.computerworld.com/common/images/site/features/data_large.gif Figure 1 Figure 1 (Click image to see larger view) * Implement a tiered data protection and security model including multiple perimeter rings of defense to counter applicable threats. Multiple layers of defense can isolate and protect data should one of the defense perimeters be compromised from internal or external threats. * Include both logical (authorization, authentication, encryption and passwords) and physical (restricted access and locks on server, storage and networking cabinets) security. Hopefully, the closets in your facility for cleaning personal and their tools are separate from where you keep your storage and networking cabling and tools. Physical security includes maintaining a low profile. For example, if yours is the only building with lights on during a heat-wave-induced electrical power blackout, at least turn your outside lights off as well as other lights that can be seen from the outside so as to not draw unwanted attention. * Logical security includes securing your networks with firewalls, running antispyware and virus-detection programs on servers and network-addressed storage systems. No storage security strategy would be complete without making sure that applications, databases, file systems and server operating systems are secure to prevent unauthorized or disruptive access to your stored data. Implement storage system based volume or logical unit number mapping and masking as a last line of defense for your stored data. * Speaking of physical security and access controls, change your key-code or door-lock combinations regularly, informing only those who need access. You might be surprised who stops by to ask for the access for the combination or password for something that you did know that they had access to in the first place. * Some storage and networking tools will encourage you to change management passwords at initial installation. I hope that this sounds like common sense, however, due diligence is to say the obvious -- change default passwords at installation and on an ongoing basis. Likewise, restrict access to management tools to those who need it. * Know who has physical access to fixed and removable data-storage media and devices. Leverage access logs as well as perform background checks of contractor and third-party personnel who will be handling your data and media. Identify where weak links are in your data-movement processes and correct those deficiencies. Data-discovery tools can be used to identify sensitive data that may not be adequately protected. * If you are currently moving data electronically to avoid losing tapes or are planning to, then make sure data being transmitted over a public or private network is safe and secure. Some techniqes to protect data while in-flight include encryption, virtual private networks and the IPSec protocol. * Data encryption is a topic people in the industry like to talk about, however, like other technologies, wide-scale mass adoption has been elusive. However, as a trend, encryption -- in some shape or form -- is here to stay and most likely is in your future. There is plenty of debate as to when (at rest, in flight), where (storage, network, appliance, servers) and how (hardware, software) to implement encryption. For now, consider what the level or depth of encryption you need to counter your applicable threats. Also, consider how key management will be performed for your environment. In
[osint] France deports convicted Tunisian
He's a terrorist; should have been executed. Bruce http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5254016.stm France deports convicted Tunisian Ahmed Shah Masood Ahmed Shah Masood was followed and respected by thousands France has deported a Tunisian man to his homeland despite protests that he could face torture there. Adel Tebourski, 42, was put on an Air France flight back to Tunisia on Monday, officials said. Tebourski had served a jail sentence in France after being convicted of helping the killers of Afghan resistance leader Ahmed Shah Masood in 2001. The French authorities described Tebourski as a serious threat to national security. French campaigners have said he could be tortured in Tunisia, and the UN torture committee last month called on Paris to suspend his deportation, the French news agency AFP reports. A court in Paris handed Tebourski a six-year jail term in 2005 for offering logistical support to the killers of Masood. During the trial, Tebourski admitted he was a member of an Islamist cell linked to one of the Tunisian killers. Three other men were sentenced to between two and seven years by the Paris court. Masood, a leading general in Afghanistan's anti-Taleban Northern Alliance, was blown up in 2001 by two Tunisian men posing as journalists. The death of the man revered as the Lion of the Panjshir Valley stunned the country's then rebel forces, who were soon called to fight alongside US troops in a campaign against the Taleban in late 2001. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Where's Kim? North Korean Leader Shuns Spotlight After Missile Launches
Where's Kim? North Korean Leader Shuns Spotlight After Missile Launches -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il hasn't made any known public appearances since his country test-fired a barrage of missiles that drew international condemnation, leading to speculation of a possible sense of crisis inside the reclusive nation. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207392,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Morocco 'smashes terror network'
Morocco 'smashes terror network' -- Morocco has arrested 44 people suspected of planning attacks in the north of the country, officials say. -- BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/5255654.stm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] In war of 21st century, civilized world is losing to jihadists
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/kondracke1.asp Morton Kondracke In war of 21st century, civilized world is losing to jihadists http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Twenty years ago, during the Reagan administration, I encountered a young producer at National Public Radio who said she and her husband had decided not to have children because they were convinced they'd die in a nuclear war. Immediately, I told her, Please, have children. There's not going to be a nuclear war. I have no idea what she did. Today, I might give the same advice, but not so swiftly. Children born into the 21st century face a far more perilous future than those in the 20th century - partly because adults now seem to lack the courage and wisdom to protect them. After allowing the Nazis and Japanese to overrun Europe and much of Asia, the civilized world, led by the United States, fought for five years and lost 16 million soldiers (including 407,000 Americans) to conquer the enemy. Determined to avoid such a catastrophe again, civilization united to resist global communism, and it spent vast treasure to do so for 45 years. In the process, the United States lost 54,000 lives in Korea and 58,000 in Vietnam. Faced now with a menace from radical Islam, it's not at all clear that the civilized world has the will to fight. The United States has suffered fewer than 3,000 deaths in Iraq, and already 55 percent of the population wants to withdraw immediately or within a year - regardless of whether the country is stable. Only 41 percent, according to the latest Gallup Poll, are willing to keep troops until the job is done or add more. It's true, Iraq is a complicated case. It's not certain that Saddam Hussein's regime was part of the war on terrorism when the United States invaded in 2003. He certainly was no Islamic fundamentalist, and his ties to Al Qaeda were tenuous, at best. Moreover, the Bush administration's handling of the war is open to sharp criticism. We didn't commit enough troops to pacify the country and secure ammunition sites, and we let a savage insurgency arise. On the other hand, there can be no question that Iraq is now the central front in the war on terrorism. And a defeat there would energize Islamic radicals the world over. Every time jihadists have won a victory - in Lebanon in 1983, Afghanistan in 1989, Somalia in 1993, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996, two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998, the USS Cole in 2000, and the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001 - it has energized the movement more, especially when the civilized world's response has been weak. A U.S.-led coalition successfully evicted Al Qaeda from Afghanistan and has disrupted its networks, but the jihadist movement has shown resilience, tenacity and reach. In fact, a reasonable assessment - and this is a dire portent - would be that the forces of darkness are ascendant and those of civilization are in retreat. The current struggle in the Middle East is a case in point. Israel had withdrawn from Gaza and southern Lebanon, yet its reward was to be attacked by Hamas and Hezbollah, Islamic radical groups bent on Israel's destruction. Israel decided that it would eliminate the Hezbollah threat on its northern border to the extent possible, but except for President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, most of the world's leaders publicly have turned against Israel, even if its action is serving their interests. The Arab League, aware that Hezbollah is an instrument of Iran's radical Shiite regime, at first condemned its attack on Israel. Then, as Al-Jazeera broadcast nonstop pictures of civilians killed in Lebanon, Arabs began urging a ceasefire. The same is true in much of Europe. Worse, France's foreign minister, visiting Beirut, said, In the region there is, of course, a country such as Iran - a great country ... which plays a stabilizing role in the region. A nuclear-armed Iran and a nuclear-armed North Korea represent the most profound threats of all in the 21st century. And those could be exceeded if Islamic militants gained control of nuclear-armed Pakistan. Iran's elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has declared that Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth and has stated that a world without America is attainable and surely can be achieved. At the United Nations, he announced that his divine purpose was to prepare the way for the return of the 12th Imam - Shia Islam's vision of the end of the world. The civilized world needs to counter the menace of Iran and radical Islam much as it did the Axis powers in World War II and communism during the Cold War. But it isn't doing so now. Israel is doing its part by seeking to administer a decisive defeat to Iran's agent, Hezbollah, but the world needs to follow up by inserting a robust, willing-to-fight occupation force into southern Lebanon. It's not clear that the will exists. The U.N. Security Council is obligated to authorize economic
[osint] News Flash: Taiwanese Official Admits Meeting with Hezbollah Leader
Taiwanese Official Admits Meeting with Hezbollah Leader -- Taiwan's foreign minister met Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah in April in Beirut, a government spokesman said Tuesday, despite the group being named a terrorist organization by the United States, the island's major ally. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207379,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Bombing of Funeral: False Reporting by Reuters
Bombing of Funeral: False Reporting by Reuters -- The day after it was revealed that a Reuters News Agency doctored photographs to show an anti-Israel bias, the news service incorrectly reported Tuesday afternoon that the IDF bombed a funeral procession in Lebanon. -- Arutz Sheva - Israel National News [ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109521 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: US says Iran may use Lebanon war to hurt Iraq
US says Iran may use Lebanon war to hurt Iraq -- The U.S. ambassador to Iraq accused Iran on Tuesday of having forces in Iraq and said Tehran could use the war between Hizbollah militants and Israel in Lebanon to try and further destabilize the country. -- Reuters [ http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNewsstoryID=13116496src=rss/topNews ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Indonesian Jihad Group Says it Sent Men to Lebanon
Indonesian Jihad Group Says it Sent Men to Lebanon -- An Indonesian Muslim group announced Tuesday that it had sent 20 of its members to Lebanon in order to join the Jihad against the Jewish state. -- Arutz Sheva - Israel National News [ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109492 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Iranian Military Chief: US and Israel Will Not Survive Attack on Iran
Iranian Military Chief: US and Israel Will Not Survive Attack on Iran -- The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday that neither the United States or Israel would survive if they attacked Iran. -- Arutz Sheva - Israel National News [ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109479 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Syria Iran Still Running the War
Syria Iran Still Running the War -- According to a senior officer in military intelligence, briefing the Knesset Foreign Affairs Defense Committee, Syria continues to supply Hizbullah with weapons Iran continues to run the war, giving instructions to the terror organization. -- Arutz Sheva - Israel National News [ http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=109463 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Protesters 'boarded U.S. plane'
Protesters 'boarded U.S. plane' -- British authorities arrested seven anti-war protesters Monday after demonstrators said they boarded a plane at a Scottish airport to search for evidence of U.S. weapons being transported to Israel. -- CNN [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/08/prestwick.ap/index.html?section=cnn_world ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] Taiwanese Official Admits Meeting with Hezbollah Leader
Maybe Taiwan ought to depend on Islamic terrorists for ITS defenses then.
Bruce
Taiwanese Official Admits Meeting with Hezbollah Leader
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Taiwan's foreign minister met Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah
in April in Beirut, a government spokesman said Tuesday, despite
the group being named a terrorist organization by the United
States, the island's major ally.
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Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207379,00.html
com/story/0,2933,207379,00.html ] Taiwanese Official Admits Meeting with
Hezbollah Leader
Tuesday , August 08, 2006
TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's foreign minister met
javascript:siteSearch('Hezbollah#39;s'); Hezbollah's leader
javascript:siteSearch('Hassan%20Nasrallah'); Hassan Nasrallah in April in
Beirut, a government spokesman said Tuesday, despite the group being named a
terrorist organization by the United States, the island's major ally.
James Huang met Nasrallah during a visit to Lebanon in April to strengthen
relations with the Middle Eastern country, Foreign Ministry spokesman Michel
Lu said.
Hezbollah was a member of Lebanon's ruling coalition, so it is normal for
Taiwan to have contacts with government parties to strengthen relations, Lu
said.
Both the U.S. and Israel asked Taiwan for a clarification following Huang's
visit, but discussion of the matter has now been shelved, Lu said. Taiwan
has had no contact with Hezbollah since the meeting with Nasrallah, he
added.
. CountryWatch: http://www.countrywatch.com/fox/country.asp?vCOUNTRY=83
Israel | http://www.countrywatch.com/fox/country.asp?vCOUNTRY=97 Lebanon
Hezbollah, which Nasrallah has headed since the early 1990s, carried out a
1983 attack on a Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 U.S. servicemen.
It is included on a list of terror organizations compiled by the
javascript:siteSearch('U.S.%20Department%20of%20State'); U.S. Department
of State.
Most recently it has been involved in more than three weeks of deadly combat
with Israel. The fighting broke out after Hezbollah guerrillas captured two
Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid on July 12.
Taiwan maintains good relations with both the Jewish state and the United
States, its major arms supplier and key diplomatic benefactor.
. Visit http://www.foxnews.com/world/mideast/index.html FOXNews.com's
Mideast Center for more in-depth coverage.
Ruth Kahanoff, Israel's representative in Taiwan, said despite the
Huang-Nasrallah meeting, relations with the Taiwan government are normal.
We have an open and positive dialogue with the Foreign Ministry on many
issues of mutual concern including the issue of Hezbollah, and we keep the
ministry abreast of our views and developments in the region, she said.
There was no immediate comment on Huang's meeting from the U.S.
representative office in Taiwan.
The Huang-Nasrallah meeting was first reported by Taiwan's mass circulation
Apple Daily. Hezbollah also referred to it on its Web site.
Taiwan has been eagerly searching for diplomatic allies as it attempts to
break out of a straitjacket imposed on it by China, from which it split amid
civil war in 1949.
Beijing claims sovereignty over the self-ruled island and denies its right
to conduct diplomatic relations or join major international organizations
like the javascript:siteSearch('United%20Nations'); United Nations.
On Sunday, Taiwan said it was breaking off ties with Chad in a pre-emptive
move before the central African country could switch its recognition to
Beijing.
Chad's defection reduced the number of countries recognizing Taipei to 24,
most of them small, impoverished nations in Latin America, Africa and the
Pacific.
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[osint] News Flash: U.S. Beefs Up TV Transmissions to Cuba
U.S. Beefs Up TV Transmissions to Cuba -- The United States beefed up its television transmissions to Cuba over the weekend through its Miami-based TV Marti station in response to reports that Cuban President Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207402,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Seized speaker in Israel hospital
Seized speaker in Israel hospital -- The Palestinian parliamentary speaker detained by Israel on Sunday has been taken to hospital with chest pains and dizziness, the Israeli army says. -- BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5256534.stm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] Bernard Lewis - August 22
August 22 By BERNARD LEWIS Wall Street Journal August 8, 2006; Page A10 During the Cold War, both sides possessed weapons of mass destruction, but neither side used them, deterred by what was known as MAD, mutual assured destruction. Similar constraints have no doubt prevented their use in the confrontation between India and Pakistan. In our own day a new such confrontation seems to be looming between a nuclear-armed Iran and its favorite enemies, named by the late Ayatollah Khomeini as the Great Satan and the Little Satan, i.e., the United States and Israel. Against the U.S. the bombs might be delivered by terrorists, a method having the advantage of bearing no return address. Against Israel, the target is small enough to attempt obliteration by direct bombardment. It seems increasingly likely that the Iranians either have or very soon will have nuclear weapons at their disposal, thanks to their own researches (which began some 15 years ago), to some of their obliging neighbors, and to the ever-helpful rulers of North Korea. The language used by Iranian President Ahmadinejad would seem to indicate the reality and indeed the imminence of this threat. Would the same constraints, the same fear of mutual assured destruction, restrain a nuclear-armed Iran from using such weapons against the U.S. or against Israel? * * * There is a radical difference between the Islamic Republic of Iran and other governments with nuclear weapons. This difference is expressed in what can only be described as the apocalyptic worldview of Iran's present rulers. This worldview and expectation, vividly expressed in speeches, articles and even schoolbooks, clearly shape the perception and therefore the policies of Ahmadinejad and his disciples. Muhammad's night flight on Buraq. Even in the past it was clear that terrorists claiming to act in the name of Islam had no compunction in slaughtering large numbers of fellow Muslims. A notable example was the blowing up of the American embassies in East Africa in 1998, killing a few American diplomats and a much larger number of uninvolved local passersby, many of them Muslims. There were numerous other Muslim victims in the various terrorist attacks of the last 15 years. The phrase Allah will know his own is usually used to explain such apparently callous unconcern; it means that while infidel, i.e., non-Muslim, victims will go to a well-deserved punishment in hell, Muslims will be sent straight to heaven. According to this view, the bombers are in fact doing their Muslim victims a favor by giving them a quick pass to heaven and its delights -- the rewards without the struggles of martyrdom. School textbooks tell young Iranians to be ready for a final global struggle against an evil enemy, named as the U.S., and to prepare themselves for the privileges of martyrdom. A direct attack on the U.S., though possible, is less likely in the immediate future. Israel is a nearer and easier target, and Mr. Ahmadinejad has given indication of thinking along these lines. The Western observer would immediately think of two possible deterrents. The first is that an attack that wipes out Israel would almost certainly wipe out the Palestinians too. The second is that such an attack would evoke a devastating reprisal from Israel against Iran, since one may surely assume that the Israelis have made the necessary arrangements for a counterstrike even after a nuclear holocaust in Israel. The first of these possible deterrents might well be of concern to the Palestinians -- but not apparently to their fanatical champions in the Iranian government. The second deterrent -- the threat of direct retaliation on Iran -- is, as noted, already weakened by the suicide or martyrdom complex that plagues parts of the Islamic world today, without parallel in other religions, or for that matter in the Islamic past. This complex has become even more important at the present day, because of this new apocalyptic vision. In Islam, as in Judaism and Christianity, there are certain beliefs concerning the cosmic struggle at the end of time -- Gog and Magog, anti-Christ, Armageddon, and for Shiite Muslims, the long awaited return of the Hidden Imam, ending in the final victory of the forces of good over evil, however these may be defined. Mr. Ahmadinejad and his followers clearly believe that this time is now, and that the terminal struggle has already begun and is indeed well advanced. It may even have a date, indicated by several references by the Iranian president to giving his final answer to the U.S. about nuclear development by Aug. 22. This was at first reported as by the end of August, but Mr. Ahmadinejad's statement was more precise. What is the significance of Aug. 22? This year, Aug. 22 corresponds, in the Islamic calendar, to the 27th day of the month of Rajab of the year 1427. This, by tradition, is the night when many Muslims commemorate the night flight of the prophet Muhammad on the winged horse
[osint] EGYPTIAN STUDENTS VANISH IN BIG APPLE By DAN MANGAN - New York Post Online Edition: News
Yes and we have let in thousands of Saudi's and others in our Universities. http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/egyptian_students_vanish_in_big_appl e_regionalnews_dan_mangan.htm EGYPTIAN STUDENTS VANISH IN BIG APPLE By DAN MANGAN _ * Aug. 5: Feds issue a nationwide alert, saying the students are wanted for questioning. * Aug. 5: Feds issue a nationwide alert, saying the students are wanted for questioning. August 8, 2006 -- Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday. The students - who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt - had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said. The other six students made it to the college. The FBI and ICE [Immigration and Custom Enforcement] would like to locate these 11 students in order to speak with them, said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko after the be-on-the-lookout alert was issued to all police in the United States. Kolko said there is no reason to believe the missing students, all men around 20 years old, represent a threat. At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked, Kolko said. We do not know of any association with any terrorist or criminal groups. There is no threat associated with these men. We have simply asked law enforcement's assistance in locating them so that the FBI and ICE may interview them. Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said the situation has to be taken very seriously. Having a number of students from an Arab country arriving on student visas and disappearing is cause for concern, he said. Montana State University Provost David Dooley said 17 Mansoura University students signed up for a 32-day cultural-exchange program to intensively study English, learn about Montana history and go on several field trips. They arrived at JFK on a flight from Egypt on July 29, but only one managed to clear immigration in time to make a connecting flight, Dooley said. By July 31, five others had arrived in Bozeman, but the rest were unaccounted for. Dooley said the ones who showed up were not certain about the status of their fellow students and why they haven't made it. MSU alerted federal Homeland Security and Mansoura officials and notified the students via e-mail they had 24 hours to show up in Bozeman. None of them did, Dooley said. He added, We're very disappointed by this. It would be regrettable if the misadventures or irresponsibility of a number of students damaged these kinds of programs. Officials at the Egyptian Consulate in New York and the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, D.C., said they were unfamiliar with the situation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Standard Developed For Collection Of Suspicious Powders
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060807121419.htm Source: http://www.aoac.org AOAC International Posted: August 7, 2006 Standard Developed For Collection Of Suspicious Powders Federal, state, and local agencies have reached consensus on the first validated national standard for collecting, packaging, and transporting samples of visible powders that are suspected of being biological threat agents, such as anthrax. The new standard meets the needs of the first responders to test the powders on site, and the needs of the federal agencies to conduct tests on the same, uncontaminated powder samples for forensic and confirmatory analysis. The national sample collection procedure was developed and approved by AOAC INTERNATIONAL, which is a worldwide provider and facilitator in the development of analytical standards. The new standard is applicable to nonporous surfaces only and incorporates reference guidance for packaging and transport of suspicious powders to comply with all appropriate federal regulations regarding bio-safety and bio-security. The development and testing of the standard were supported by the Science Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a need for a coordinated effort with federal agencies and emergency responders to standardize activities related to anthrax and other biological agent incidents. The development of this AOAC/ASTM standard represents an important step towards building consensus between the emergency responder communities and the federal agencies on national standards for responding to possible terrorist attacks, said Bert M. Coursey, Director of DHS Office of Standards. [For reference to ASTM, see last page of release.] The purpose of the sampling procedure is to have a standard that is accepted and followed by emergency responders for suspicious powder collection in order to reduce exposure risks, reduce the variability associated with sample handling and analysis, and increase the reliability of sampling visible powders from nonporous surfaces. Emergency responders need to sample a suspicious powder in order to do a presumptive analysis. Federal agencies also need a sufficient quantity of the powder to do confirmatory testing. The new method provides both groups with sufficient powder to perform their tests in a manner that protects the powder from contamination. Training emergency responders who collect and disseminate the powder is planned. The development of a national standard for the collection of suspicious powders is an important step forward, said Chief John Eversole (Ret), Chairman, Hazardous Materials Committee, International Association of Fire Chiefs. This standard provides a uniform and systematic procedure whereby accurate, presumptive information can be determined by the First Responders and ensure the preservation of sample evidence for confirmatory analysis and criminal prosecution. Our next step must be to broaden the scope to do sampling in other situations. This is a major achievement. With this standard, a confidence can exist among all of the partners engaged in the response, testing and investigation of suspected biological agent releases, said David Ladd, Director, Hazardous Materials Emergency Response for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Department of Fire Services. The sample collection standard is a two-step procedure that is performed after an initial risk assessment is conducted and a visible powder is deemed a credible biological threat. The first step of the procedure, or Method A, covers the bulk collection and packaging of the suspicious visible powders from solid nonporous surfaces. Bulk samples are collected and transported in a manner that permits public health and safety, and law enforcement agencies to obtain uncompromised samples for confirmatory analysis and forensic testing. The second step, or Method B, covers swab sampling of residual suspicious powders for presumptive on-site biological screening. A study was conducted in March 2006 to validate the reliability of the sampling procedure at the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground. The study demonstrated that the sampling procedure can be used by trained emergency responders in simulated emergency conditions to consistently recover samples. The study also proved that sufficient number of Bacillus anthracis spores can be detected by emergency responders to make a presumptive, on-site determination even after all bulk samples have been collected. The evaluation study was designed to determine the recovery efficacy on seven environmental surface types that included stainless steel, food-grade painted wood, rubber, tile, concrete, finished wood, and plastic. The study involved six teams, including four National Guard Civil Support Teams, the Navy's Chemical Biological Incidence Response Force (CBIRF) as well as a hazmat team from the Florida Hazard Materials Response Unit. Team members were dressed in Class C
[osint] BOLO: Text of FBI alert for missing Egyptian students
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/bolo_missing_egyptians.pdf NEONN - NLETS National BOLO REQUEST NATIONWIDE BROADCAST THERE ARE 11 MISSING EGYPTIAN STUDENTS WHO WERE DUE TO REPORT TO MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BUT DID NOT. THESE STUDENTS ARRIVED AT JFK IAP ON 29 JULY 2006, BUT NEVER CONTINUED THEIR TRAVEL ON TO MONTANA. THESE 11 EGYPTIAN STUDENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. IBRAHIM, EL SAYED AHMED ELSAYED; DOB OF 4/29/1986, PASSPORT 954757 2. EL DESSOUKI, ESLAM IBRAHIM MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/21/1985, PASSPORT 1002756 3. EL BAHNASAWI, ALAA ABD EL FATTAH ALI; DOB OF 04/02/1986, PASSPORT 934679 4. ABD ALLA, MOHAMED RAGAB MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/15/1984, PASSPORT 860972 5. EL LAKET, AHMED REFAAT SAAD EL MOGHAZI; DOB OF 09/01/1986, PASSPORT 943306 6. EL ELA, AHMED MOHAMED MOHAMED ABOU; DOB OF 02/02/1985, PASSPORT 595081 7. EL MOGHAZY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM ELSAYED; DOB OF 08/08/1986, PASSPORT 861073 8. ABDOU, EBRAHIM MABROUK MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 02/25/1984, PASSPORT 828682 9. EL GAFARY, MOUSTAFA WAGDY MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 07/01/1988, PASSPORT 861673 10. MARAY, MOHAMED SALEH AHMED; DOB OF 09/12/1985, PASSPORT 862634 11. EL SHENAWY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM FOUAAD; DOB OF 08/12/1988, PASSPORT 862534 THIS IS NATIONWIDE, WITH SPECIFIC REGION OF INTEREST IS THE EASTERN SEABOARD--FROM MA TO FL. THE PREDICATE FOR THIS ACTION IS THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY AND ARE WANTED FOR QUESTIONING. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THERE ARE NO KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS TO ANY TERORRIST GROUPS. APPROACH WITH CAUTION. THE LAST KNOWN LOCATION OF THESE STUDENTS WAS JFK IAP, NEW YORK ON 29 JULY 2006. ONCE LOCATED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, ALL SUBJECTS ARE TO BE DETAINED AND HELD FOR QUESTIONING BY THE FBI AND ICE AGENTS. POINTS OF CONTACT: SALT LAKE CITY FIELD OFFICE: SA MARK SEYLER OFC: 406-443-6912, C:406-431-2241) SA JAMES DOBIE, JTTF/ICE (OFC: 406-324-3906, C: 406-431-1595) IF LOCATED, STOP AND HOLD FOR THIS AGENCY. PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH ONE OF THE ABOVE AGENCIES UPON LOCATING THESE INDIVIDUALS. APPRECIATE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS MATTER. AUTHORITY/SA S CRUSE.AGENCY/FBI LOCATION/SALT LAKE CITY, UT --END-- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] BOLO: Text of FBI alert for missing Egyptian students
http://abcnews.go.com/images/WNT/bolo_missing_egyptians.pdf NEONN - NLETS National BOLO REQUEST NATIONWIDE BROADCAST THERE ARE 11 MISSING EGYPTIAN STUDENTS WHO WERE DUE TO REPORT TO MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BUT DID NOT. THESE STUDENTS ARRIVED AT JFK IAP ON 29 JULY 2006, BUT NEVER CONTINUED THEIR TRAVEL ON TO MONTANA. THESE 11 EGYPTIAN STUDENTS ARE AS FOLLOWS: 1. IBRAHIM, EL SAYED AHMED ELSAYED; DOB OF 4/29/1986, PASSPORT 954757 2. EL DESSOUKI, ESLAM IBRAHIM MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/21/1985, PASSPORT 1002756 3. EL BAHNASAWI, ALAA ABD EL FATTAH ALI; DOB OF 04/02/1986, PASSPORT 934679 4. ABD ALLA, MOHAMED RAGAB MOHAMED; DOB OF 02/15/1984, PASSPORT 860972 5. EL LAKET, AHMED REFAAT SAAD EL MOGHAZI; DOB OF 09/01/1986, PASSPORT 943306 6. EL ELA, AHMED MOHAMED MOHAMED ABOU; DOB OF 02/02/1985, PASSPORT 595081 7. EL MOGHAZY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM ELSAYED; DOB OF 08/08/1986, PASSPORT 861073 8. ABDOU, EBRAHIM MABROUK MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 02/25/1984, PASSPORT 828682 9. EL GAFARY, MOUSTAFA WAGDY MOUSTAFA; DOB OF 07/01/1988, PASSPORT 861673 10. MARAY, MOHAMED SALEH AHMED; DOB OF 09/12/1985, PASSPORT 862634 11. EL SHENAWY, MOHAMED IBRAHIM FOUAAD; DOB OF 08/12/1988, PASSPORT 862534 THIS IS NATIONWIDE, WITH SPECIFIC REGION OF INTEREST IS THE EASTERN SEABOARD--FROM MA TO FL. THE PREDICATE FOR THIS ACTION IS THAT THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE HERE IN THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY AND ARE WANTED FOR QUESTIONING. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THERE ARE NO KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS TO ANY TERORRIST GROUPS. APPROACH WITH CAUTION. THE LAST KNOWN LOCATION OF THESE STUDENTS WAS JFK IAP, NEW YORK ON 29 JULY 2006. ONCE LOCATED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT, ALL SUBJECTS ARE TO BE DETAINED AND HELD FOR QUESTIONING BY THE FBI AND ICE AGENTS. POINTS OF CONTACT: SALT LAKE CITY FIELD OFFICE: SA MARK SEYLER OFC: 406-443-6912, C:406-431-2241) SA JAMES DOBIE, JTTF/ICE (OFC: 406-324-3906, C: 406-431-1595) IF LOCATED, STOP AND HOLD FOR THIS AGENCY. PLEASE MAKE CONTACT WITH ONE OF THE ABOVE AGENCIES UPON LOCATING THESE INDIVIDUALS. APPRECIATE YOUR ASSISTANCE IN THIS MATTER. AUTHORITY/SA S CRUSE.AGENCY/FBI LOCATION/SALT LAKE CITY, UT --END-- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Dealing with the Devil: A diplomatic disaster in the making.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODQyMGNlYWM5NzIzZGFhOTNlZDAxMmM2YTRkOWR jYzE= Dealing with the Devil By Anne Bayefsky, NRO, 7 August 2006 A diplomatic disaster in the making. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on the brink of handing President Bush the worst diplomatic disaster of his presidency. She is poised to agree to two United Nations resolutions that will tie the hands of both Israel and the United States in the war on terror and, in particular, inhibit future action on its number one state sponsor - Iran. The catastrophe is the brainchild of Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has effectively turned the United Nations into the political wing of Hezbollah. Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns are working furiously to satisfy a timetable dictated by Annan, not by the interests of the United States. How did the United Nations become the forum for producing peace between Israel and its neighbors, which have rejected the Jewish state's existence for the past six decades? In the last three weeks, a multi-headed hydra of U.N. actors has risen to defeat Israel on the political battlefield in an unprecedented disregard of the U.N. Charter's central tenet: the right of self-defense. Existing Security Council resolutions have for years required the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, [and] ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it. A combination of Iranian aggression, Syrian support, and Lebanese impotence and malfeasance, has actively prevented the implementation of the existing resolutions. But how did the U.N. respond to the aggression against the U.N. member state of Israel, which was launched once again from Lebanese territory and which continues to the present hour? By accusing Israel of murder, mass genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the deliberate attack of children, and racism. U.N. actors have even denied that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and analogized it to anti-Nazi resistance movements. In the last three weeks, we have heard: Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Israel's excessive use of force is to be condemned; Israel has torn the country to shreds. Israel's disproportionate use of force and collective punishment of the Lebanese people must stop© Israel is apparently guilty of the murder of U.N. soldiers. The U.N. interim-force (UNIFIL) soldiers were killed by Israel after it responded to Hezbollah attacks on Israeli civilians. One of the soldiers had reported only days before he died that Hezbollah's nearby actions meant Israel's response has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity. Yet without any investigation, Annan immediately called it an apparently deliberate targeting - an accusation he has yet to retract. Israel has committed grave breaches of international humanitarian law and has caused, and is causing, death and suffering on a wholly unacceptable scale. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown: Hezbollah, the Iranian-proxy currently fighting Israel, is not a terrorist organization. It is not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism, said Malloch Brown, claiming Hezbollah is completely separate and different from Al Qaeda. Jan Egeland, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency-relief coordinator: The excessive and disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces©must stop. Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for human rights: In comments Arbour directed at Israel, she said: the bombardment of sites with alleged military significance, but resulting invariably in the killing of innocent civilians, is unjustifiable, suggesting that Israel was perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity for violating the obligation to protect civilians during hostilities. Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for Children and Armed Conflict: In comments directed even-handedly to Israel and Hezbollah, Coomaraswamy strongly condemned the repeated attacks on civilians, and especially on children, noting that callous disregard for the lives of children has permeated this conflict from its start. Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF: Veneman claimed Israel is engaged in the continued targeting of civilians, particularly children. Agha Shahi, Pakistani member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Would Israel have resorted to the bombing of civilian infrastructure if it were fighting a non-Arab force? It was a war between different ethnic groups, the Arabs and the Jews. Jose Francisco Calitzay, Guatemalan member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Commenting on events in Lebanon,
[osint] Dealing with the Devil: A diplomatic disaster in the making.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ODQyMGNlYWM5NzIzZGFhOTNlZDAxMmM2YTRkOWR jYzE= Dealing with the Devil By Anne Bayefsky, NRO, 7 August 2006 A diplomatic disaster in the making. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on the brink of handing President Bush the worst diplomatic disaster of his presidency. She is poised to agree to two United Nations resolutions that will tie the hands of both Israel and the United States in the war on terror and, in particular, inhibit future action on its number one state sponsor - Iran. The catastrophe is the brainchild of Secretary General Kofi Annan, who has effectively turned the United Nations into the political wing of Hezbollah. Rice and Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns are working furiously to satisfy a timetable dictated by Annan, not by the interests of the United States. How did the United Nations become the forum for producing peace between Israel and its neighbors, which have rejected the Jewish state's existence for the past six decades? In the last three weeks, a multi-headed hydra of U.N. actors has risen to defeat Israel on the political battlefield in an unprecedented disregard of the U.N. Charter's central tenet: the right of self-defense. Existing Security Council resolutions have for years required the Government of Lebanon to fully extend and exercise its sole and effective authority throughout the south, [and] ensure a calm environment throughout the area, including along the Blue Line, and to exert control over the use of force on its territory and from it. A combination of Iranian aggression, Syrian support, and Lebanese impotence and malfeasance, has actively prevented the implementation of the existing resolutions. But how did the U.N. respond to the aggression against the U.N. member state of Israel, which was launched once again from Lebanese territory and which continues to the present hour? By accusing Israel of murder, mass genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, the deliberate attack of children, and racism. U.N. actors have even denied that Hezbollah is a terrorist organization and analogized it to anti-Nazi resistance movements. In the last three weeks, we have heard: Secretary-General Kofi Annan: Israel's excessive use of force is to be condemned; Israel has torn the country to shreds. Israel's disproportionate use of force and collective punishment of the Lebanese people must stop© Israel is apparently guilty of the murder of U.N. soldiers. The U.N. interim-force (UNIFIL) soldiers were killed by Israel after it responded to Hezbollah attacks on Israeli civilians. One of the soldiers had reported only days before he died that Hezbollah's nearby actions meant Israel's response has not been deliberate targeting, but has rather been due to tactical necessity. Yet without any investigation, Annan immediately called it an apparently deliberate targeting - an accusation he has yet to retract. Israel has committed grave breaches of international humanitarian law and has caused, and is causing, death and suffering on a wholly unacceptable scale. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown: Hezbollah, the Iranian-proxy currently fighting Israel, is not a terrorist organization. It is not helpful to couch this war in the language of international terrorism, said Malloch Brown, claiming Hezbollah is completely separate and different from Al Qaeda. Jan Egeland, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency-relief coordinator: The excessive and disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces©must stop. Louise Arbour, U.N. High Commissioner for human rights: In comments Arbour directed at Israel, she said: the bombardment of sites with alleged military significance, but resulting invariably in the killing of innocent civilians, is unjustifiable, suggesting that Israel was perpetrating war crimes and crimes against humanity for violating the obligation to protect civilians during hostilities. Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, U.N. special representative of the secretary-general for Children and Armed Conflict: In comments directed even-handedly to Israel and Hezbollah, Coomaraswamy strongly condemned the repeated attacks on civilians, and especially on children, noting that callous disregard for the lives of children has permeated this conflict from its start. Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF: Veneman claimed Israel is engaged in the continued targeting of civilians, particularly children. Agha Shahi, Pakistani member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Would Israel have resorted to the bombing of civilian infrastructure if it were fighting a non-Arab force? It was a war between different ethnic groups, the Arabs and the Jews. Jose Francisco Calitzay, Guatemalan member of the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Commenting on events in Lebanon,
[osint] News Flash: FBI: Approach Missing Egyptians with Caution
FBI: Approach Missing Egyptians with Caution -- The FBI has issued an urgent nationwide alert for 11 Egyptian students who entered the United States last week but failed to show up for their courses at Montana State University. -- ABC News - The Blotter [ http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/fbi_approach_mi.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Israelis phone targeted buildings before air strikes
Israelis phone targeted buildings before air strikes -- Israel's military has begun calling Palestinians whose homes have been targeted as terror sites in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. -- World Tribune [ http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2006/me_palestinians_08_08.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Israel to evacuate 25,000 residents near border
Israel to evacuate 25,000 residents near border -- Israel's military plans to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from the north. -- World Tribune [ http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2006/me_israel_08_08.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Hizbullah 'far better equipped' than Palestinian fighters
Hizbullah 'far better equipped' than Palestinian fighters -- Israeli sources said Hizbullah has deployed a new Russian-origin anti-tank weapon. -- World Tribune [ http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2006/eu_russia_08_08.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: CIA man said he kicked Afghan detainee: witness
CIA man said he kicked Afghan detainee: witness -- A CIA contractor accused of beating an Afghan prisoner so badly that he later died told a colleague afterward that he had kicked the detainee in the groin, a prosecution witness told a federal court on Tuesday. -- ABC News [ http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2287422 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] Warning: To The Uncivilized Of Islam
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=12200 Warning: Behold The Uncivilized Of Islam Should Know -- Israel May Erase Them From The Map Any Day Those in the violent world of Islam must read this, so that they may know that it is they - not Israel - that are threatened to extinction from the face of the earth. Waging a proxy war in southern Lebanon against Israel using Hezbollah, Hamas and other mercenaries from terrorist-harboring countries, the uncivilized from the primitive world of Islam led by Iran and Syria still don't get it - modern nuclear-armed Israel can wipe them off the map in any rocket-raining day. Right now Israel is the only nuke power in the Middle East. With this deadly nuclear capability which Israel may use anytime, consider Iran's warning of making Israel disappear from the map a bubble threat non sequitur [meaning, Iran cannot carry out the threat, therefore that threat is useless]. But the Israelis are still trying to be as civilized as possible in this conduct of war because of hostile world opinion being whipped up against them even as they defend themselves from barbaric Hezbollah-Hamas attacks. This answers the internationally snowballing question as to why the invasion of Lebanon is still being held up to this day as I write this editorial scrutiny of the landscape of war in the Middle East, with a turned on possibility that the blazing inferno of the conflict could engulf the world into a total thermo-nuclear conflagration. Note that Israel's strategic military incursions into southern Lebanon has just been decided as a calculated response to Hezbollah-Hamas savage rocket attacks. This option was aimed primarily to neutralize the terrorists' firing of rockets from terrorist-occupied cities and suburbs of southern Lebanon which terrorists used as a civilian cover. For, world opinion is harder to defeat than Hezbollah-Hamas and the forces of the Axis of Evil that are hiding behind civilians as shields, even with Israel's limited use of nuclear weaponry if necessary to end the conflict as quickly as possible. It has come to a point where Israel realizes that by responding to relentless Katuysha rocket attacks with a continuous bombardment of southern Lebanon where scores of civilians are killed, Israel may win the battle but loses the political war. We all know - and the whole wide world knows - that rocket-firing terrorists do not only use human shield even in field combat but for decades now had adopted Arafat's PLO strategy of mounting artillery and rockets on trucks that would fire at Israeli positions and then move away. When Israelis fire back their rockets, civilians are killed in the area where the terrorists' rocket-firing trucks had moved out. For example, deadly shells and rockets were fired hitting Israel from the area where foreign embassies in Beirut were located in a night time sporadic terrorist attacks. Israel responded and stopped the terrorists' barrage but hit seven embassies. [1] NBC reports made the world angry on this Israeli barbarism. NBC's indiscretion in reporting the responding attack created a domino effect on the rest of the news-syndicated Media, collectively drumbeating the terrorists' claim that they have no military positions in the area hit by Israeli bombardment. Israelis killing internationally protected personnel in their counter-attack therefore committed a crime against humanity - a violation of international law -- so terrorists chirped to the listening world like leaping insects in the darkest of nights, thanks to the news-starved Media. Notice also that this terror attack on Israel coming from the Lebanon side of the border was purposely carried out under cover of darkness. When reconnaissance photos were processed and released thereafter, the embassy area [was] honeycombed with tanks, mortars, heavy machine guns and antiaircraft positions . that mounted the terrorist attack which had then moved away immediately from the area after the attack. [See note [1] for ref..] In other words, Israel was lured into attacking foreign embassies in Beirut when terrorists put the diplomatic community in harms way; it was a blood-curling Satanic way of Islamic murder without conscience. Hezbollah-Hamas terrorists are now adopting this method of attacks for purposes of beguiling and capturing world opinion to their side at the expense of innocent human lives. Dull-headed opinions are hooked to this trickery, most especially the attitudinal judgment of pea-brained Cyprinus Carpios [Latin to fishermen's carps] amongst us that can see only the yummy worm but not the hook, thus swallowing this lip-smacking sting of terrorists in this unsettling river of deception. In this particular instance, like the beast of the wild, the feeding Media had already masticated and ingested their prey. Media hardly throw up what it had swallowed alive as news, in this case Israel's savagery in bombing foreign embassies in Beirut. No
[osint] Warning: To The Uncivilized Of Islam
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=12200 Warning: Behold The Uncivilized Of Islam Should Know -- Israel May Erase Them From The Map Any Day Those in the violent world of Islam must read this, so that they may know that it is they - not Israel - that are threatened to extinction from the face of the earth. Waging a proxy war in southern Lebanon against Israel using Hezbollah, Hamas and other mercenaries from terrorist-harboring countries, the uncivilized from the primitive world of Islam led by Iran and Syria still don't get it - modern nuclear-armed Israel can wipe them off the map in any rocket-raining day. Right now Israel is the only nuke power in the Middle East. With this deadly nuclear capability which Israel may use anytime, consider Iran's warning of making Israel disappear from the map a bubble threat non sequitur [meaning, Iran cannot carry out the threat, therefore that threat is useless]. But the Israelis are still trying to be as civilized as possible in this conduct of war because of hostile world opinion being whipped up against them even as they defend themselves from barbaric Hezbollah-Hamas attacks. This answers the internationally snowballing question as to why the invasion of Lebanon is still being held up to this day as I write this editorial scrutiny of the landscape of war in the Middle East, with a turned on possibility that the blazing inferno of the conflict could engulf the world into a total thermo-nuclear conflagration. Note that Israel's strategic military incursions into southern Lebanon has just been decided as a calculated response to Hezbollah-Hamas savage rocket attacks. This option was aimed primarily to neutralize the terrorists' firing of rockets from terrorist-occupied cities and suburbs of southern Lebanon which terrorists used as a civilian cover. For, world opinion is harder to defeat than Hezbollah-Hamas and the forces of the Axis of Evil that are hiding behind civilians as shields, even with Israel's limited use of nuclear weaponry if necessary to end the conflict as quickly as possible. It has come to a point where Israel realizes that by responding to relentless Katuysha rocket attacks with a continuous bombardment of southern Lebanon where scores of civilians are killed, Israel may win the battle but loses the political war. We all know - and the whole wide world knows - that rocket-firing terrorists do not only use human shield even in field combat but for decades now had adopted Arafat's PLO strategy of mounting artillery and rockets on trucks that would fire at Israeli positions and then move away. When Israelis fire back their rockets, civilians are killed in the area where the terrorists' rocket-firing trucks had moved out. For example, deadly shells and rockets were fired hitting Israel from the area where foreign embassies in Beirut were located in a night time sporadic terrorist attacks. Israel responded and stopped the terrorists' barrage but hit seven embassies. [1] NBC reports made the world angry on this Israeli barbarism. NBC's indiscretion in reporting the responding attack created a domino effect on the rest of the news-syndicated Media, collectively drumbeating the terrorists' claim that they have no military positions in the area hit by Israeli bombardment. Israelis killing internationally protected personnel in their counter-attack therefore committed a crime against humanity - a violation of international law -- so terrorists chirped to the listening world like leaping insects in the darkest of nights, thanks to the news-starved Media. Notice also that this terror attack on Israel coming from the Lebanon side of the border was purposely carried out under cover of darkness. When reconnaissance photos were processed and released thereafter, the embassy area [was] honeycombed with tanks, mortars, heavy machine guns and antiaircraft positions . that mounted the terrorist attack which had then moved away immediately from the area after the attack. [See note [1] for ref..] In other words, Israel was lured into attacking foreign embassies in Beirut when terrorists put the diplomatic community in harms way; it was a blood-curling Satanic way of Islamic murder without conscience. Hezbollah-Hamas terrorists are now adopting this method of attacks for purposes of beguiling and capturing world opinion to their side at the expense of innocent human lives. Dull-headed opinions are hooked to this trickery, most especially the attitudinal judgment of pea-brained Cyprinus Carpios [Latin to fishermen's carps] amongst us that can see only the yummy worm but not the hook, thus swallowing this lip-smacking sting of terrorists in this unsettling river of deception. In this particular instance, like the beast of the wild, the feeding Media had already masticated and ingested their prey. Media hardly throw up what it had swallowed alive as news, in this case Israel's savagery in bombing foreign embassies in Beirut. No
[osint] Truth is Not Bigotry
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=23759 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=23759 Truth is Not Bigotry By http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=3 Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | August 9, 2006 Frontpage Interview's guest today is D.C. Watson, a former wrestler and bouncer. He is nationally certified in Neuromuscular Physiology and is a licensed X-ray technologist. He is the author of the new book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847280404/sr=1-1/qid=1154933845/ref=sr_1_ 1/104-3926889-9266337?ie=UTF8s=books Truth is Not Bigotry. FP: D.C. Watson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Watson: Thank you for having me. FP: Tell us in general what your book is about and what inspired you to write it. Watson: Well, the first few chapters of this book have nothing at all to do with anything other than stories being told by several of my friends about some of my wrestling and bar bouncing escapades. The reason for this was to keep things in a light-hearted format so that readers could see that I am just like many of them: an average American who was comfortably cruising through life until our nation was attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. After the attacks, as the people of this great country came together, I began to research and took notice that Muslim organizations--in particular the Council on American Islamic Relations--were going on the offensive, popping up on the news and in the newspapers. It seemed that the more the American people learned about true Islam and spoke out about it, the more this group engaged in name-calling tactics and the labeling of honest, hard working Americans as anti-Muslim bigots and their commonly used term Islamophobes. Although America and its people are tolerant, tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide. In the book, I attempt to pass the message along to all Americans and Westerners: this is still our country, we owe Islam nothing, and we have been infiltrated by some very unsavory houseguests whose actions cannot go unanswered. Terrorism is not their only weapon. They are also fighting a political jihad. This is not a conservative or liberal issue. This is an American issue. It is a Western issue. FP: What are your thoughts about CAIR? Watson: Like flies at a picnic, they've certainly done an outstanding job of making pests of themselves. In all actuality, it is my opinion that they are talking puppets for the promoters of Wahhabism (Islam's most radical form), that all in all they are bad for this country, and that it is not the American flag that they would like to see flying all around Washington, D.C. This can certainly be verified by their tactics (which have included filing lawsuits in attempts to intimidate and quiet their critics), and many of the public statements made by their leadership, which have been nothing shy of disgraceful. Appeasing them only emboldens them. They are undeserving of having that type of luxury handed to them. Instead, confronting them at every turn has been more effective, because when they're challenged with the facts they have no argument. Thankfully, CAIR has been consistently challenged by quite formidable opponents such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Andrew Whitehead, Michelle Malkin, Joe Kaufman, and many others who are well known in the ever growing anti-jihad community. They are the ones who people now gravitate toward, because they not only speak the truth about Islam and organizations like CAIR, but because they don't sugar coat anything. What they have said in the past has come true. What they have predicted would happen, has happened. Without their knowledge, and willingness to share it, the West would be much less informed about groups like the CAIR and other like minded organizations. Instead of them being permitted to conduct Muslim sensitivity classes for American law enforcement (which is a curious issue in itself, especially with their public record), they should be conducting classes to help Muslims assimilate into American society. And by that I don't mean distributing Muslim community safety kits or presenting know your rights workshops, but actually assisting Muslims who are new to America in learning how to be Americans. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen though, because I'm not sure that they can teach anyone how to be an American when they don't behave like they know how to themselves. FP: What are your findings on the behaviour of many Imams in mosques and the role of Saudi Arabia in this behaviour? Watson: The Imams in the mosques are an undeniable problem. There have been documented reports showing that literature preaching hate for the United States and for Americans has been found in approximately 80% of the mosques in America. This literature was reported to have been bought and paid for by the Saudis. If the Imams weren't a problem, Muslim organizations wouldn't throw such
[osint] Truth is Not Bigotry
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=23759 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=23759 Truth is Not Bigotry By http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=3 Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | August 9, 2006 Frontpage Interview's guest today is D.C. Watson, a former wrestler and bouncer. He is nationally certified in Neuromuscular Physiology and is a licensed X-ray technologist. He is the author of the new book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1847280404/sr=1-1/qid=1154933845/ref=sr_1_ 1/104-3926889-9266337?ie=UTF8s=books Truth is Not Bigotry. FP: D.C. Watson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Watson: Thank you for having me. FP: Tell us in general what your book is about and what inspired you to write it. Watson: Well, the first few chapters of this book have nothing at all to do with anything other than stories being told by several of my friends about some of my wrestling and bar bouncing escapades. The reason for this was to keep things in a light-hearted format so that readers could see that I am just like many of them: an average American who was comfortably cruising through life until our nation was attacked by Islamic terrorists on 9/11. After the attacks, as the people of this great country came together, I began to research and took notice that Muslim organizations--in particular the Council on American Islamic Relations--were going on the offensive, popping up on the news and in the newspapers. It seemed that the more the American people learned about true Islam and spoke out about it, the more this group engaged in name-calling tactics and the labeling of honest, hard working Americans as anti-Muslim bigots and their commonly used term Islamophobes. Although America and its people are tolerant, tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide. In the book, I attempt to pass the message along to all Americans and Westerners: this is still our country, we owe Islam nothing, and we have been infiltrated by some very unsavory houseguests whose actions cannot go unanswered. Terrorism is not their only weapon. They are also fighting a political jihad. This is not a conservative or liberal issue. This is an American issue. It is a Western issue. FP: What are your thoughts about CAIR? Watson: Like flies at a picnic, they've certainly done an outstanding job of making pests of themselves. In all actuality, it is my opinion that they are talking puppets for the promoters of Wahhabism (Islam's most radical form), that all in all they are bad for this country, and that it is not the American flag that they would like to see flying all around Washington, D.C. This can certainly be verified by their tactics (which have included filing lawsuits in attempts to intimidate and quiet their critics), and many of the public statements made by their leadership, which have been nothing shy of disgraceful. Appeasing them only emboldens them. They are undeserving of having that type of luxury handed to them. Instead, confronting them at every turn has been more effective, because when they're challenged with the facts they have no argument. Thankfully, CAIR has been consistently challenged by quite formidable opponents such as Robert Spencer, Daniel Pipes, Steve Emerson, Andrew Whitehead, Michelle Malkin, Joe Kaufman, and many others who are well known in the ever growing anti-jihad community. They are the ones who people now gravitate toward, because they not only speak the truth about Islam and organizations like CAIR, but because they don't sugar coat anything. What they have said in the past has come true. What they have predicted would happen, has happened. Without their knowledge, and willingness to share it, the West would be much less informed about groups like the CAIR and other like minded organizations. Instead of them being permitted to conduct Muslim sensitivity classes for American law enforcement (which is a curious issue in itself, especially with their public record), they should be conducting classes to help Muslims assimilate into American society. And by that I don't mean distributing Muslim community safety kits or presenting know your rights workshops, but actually assisting Muslims who are new to America in learning how to be Americans. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen though, because I'm not sure that they can teach anyone how to be an American when they don't behave like they know how to themselves. FP: What are your findings on the behaviour of many Imams in mosques and the role of Saudi Arabia in this behaviour? Watson: The Imams in the mosques are an undeniable problem. There have been documented reports showing that literature preaching hate for the United States and for Americans has been found in approximately 80% of the mosques in America. This literature was reported to have been bought and paid for by the Saudis. If the Imams weren't a problem, Muslim organizations wouldn't throw such
[osint] Soldiers recall bloodiest day
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1 http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti cle_Type1c=Article c=Article pubid=968163964505cid=1154952611335col =968705899037call_page=TS_Newscall_ pageid=968332188492call_pagepath=News/News Soldiers recall bloodiest day Aug. 7, 2006. 04:50 PM TERRY PEDWELL CANADIAN PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The day started as expected, with the soldiers of Charlie Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry setting out in the early morning darkness on orders to root out Taliban fighters. It was Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006. What they would not discover until many hours later was that they had witnessed what would become known as Canada's bloodiest day of combat so far in Afghanistan. We got our orders early in the evening for the mission, recalled Sgt. Patrick Tower, a blond, bespectacled 34-year-old whose body language displays a sense of authority. The mission was to move into a school in Pashmul, which is in Panjwaii District, he said. The troops drove out in their heavy green machines under cover of darkness, heading west, and almost instantly got into a fight. As we were coming up to the objective . . . we saw an enemy position lined up in front of us, Tower recalled. Master Cpl. Tony Perry was the 2nd Platoon crew commander of the Light Armoured Vehicle, or LAVIII, at the front of the assault. He radioed his commanding officer, asking if there were Afghan National Police patrolling the area, to make sure he wasn't about to hit friends. No, there's not, was the response heard back on his headset, clearing the way for Perry to light up the guns, the loud rat-tat-tat of machine gunfire cutting through the night air. Within only a few minutes, the initial engagement over and the enemy destroyed, Two Platoon moved forward. They were far from being out of danger, however, as the third vehicle in the convoy, another LAV, was struck by two roadside bombs. It would be their first casualty of the day. Despite valiant efforts to save him, Cpl. Christopher Reid would later succumb to his injuries from the bigger of the two blasts. The vehicle's platoon commander was also hurt, but survived. Once the casualties were in the hands of medics, the troops moved on to what would become a 12-hour battle marked by blood, heat exhaustion and a storm of grenades and bullets. Even under heavy fire, the Canadians were able to overtake a school that was at the heart of their mission. On the initial assault, I was on the first wave, explained Cpl. Jason Hoekstra, describing how Afghan police officers who were part of the mission were being overwhelmed. We took a lot of fire, but they're just police officers, he said. So we took the initiative and we took the school. But the Taliban - between 150 and 200 of them - weren't about to give up without a fight. Forming a horseshoe and nearly surrounding the building, they attacked with a vengeance. At that time, we started taking fire from multiple spots, Hoekstra recalled. The Canadians fought back hard. We just, we hammered them, said Hoekstra. If we had four deaths, I can guarantee you we had four times that. We gave it to them. Military officials refused to say how many Taliban fighters were killed. Sources say, however, that dozens of bodies littered an area around the schoolyard. As bullets flew and rocket-propelled grenades smashed the building, at one point coming every few seconds, it's unclear when the Canadians realized that they were literally in the middle of a killing field. The Taliban had strategically planted landmines throughout the compound. With nine soldiers down, three of them dead, they knew they had to get out. Are you sure you guys want to do this? the LAV platoon commander asked his fellow soldiers as they desperately pleaded to move in to save their brothers in arms. No one who was there will reveal the identity of those who risked their lives by literally driving through a daisy chain of mines to reach their comrades. The actions of one should never overshadow the actions of many, they insist. Every one of the soldiers that were there can be proud of the way that they acted, with heroism and bravery and courage, said Tower. I don't want to take away from any one of them by trying to identify a specific soldier who outshone the rest, he explained. They're all heroes to us, and that's how they'd want to be thought of. Canadians also need to understand, Tower stressed, that those who lost their lives that day were not unwilling participants. Everyone knew the risks of the six-month tour of duty. The soldiers that died weren't victims, he said. They were fighting. And they were fighting for each other. People at home should be proud of the quality of soldier that's over here. On Saturday, many of the 10 Canadians injured in the operation shed tears on the tarmac of Kandahar Air Field as they watched four
[osint] Rights Activists Confirm Gross Violations
Very little criticism of terrorists violating human rights. Bruce http://www.bianet.org/2005/12/01_eng/news68564.htm Rights Activists Confirm Gross Violations The Human Rights Foundation and representatives of the European Parliament reported rights violations--especially the mutilation of corpses--are occuring during military operations in Southeastern Turkey due to a lack of oversight. _ BIA News Center 12/10/2005 http://www.bianet.org/php/yazarlistex_eng.php?yazar=Tolga%20KORKUT Tolga KORKUT _ BÝA (Ankara, Mardin, Van) - Human Rights Foundation (IHD) representatives said that the foundation is recieving reports of corpses being mistreated and mutilated in military operations in the southeast of Turkey. Hüseyin Cangir of the IDF's Mardin office and Zeki Yüksel of the IDF's Van office told Bianet of reports that had reached them about body parts being cut from the bodies of PKK militants killed in the course of military operations. Mehdi Perinçek, the IHD advocate responsible for this region, said that these complaints were similar to many others that had not yet been made concrete. Richard Howitt, a British MEP and member of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee, told the British newspaper The Guardian that he had heard reports of shocking torture in Turkey on a recent investigative trip. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Namik Tan called these reports silly stories...completely the products of fantasy; they have nothing to do with the truth. Nobody trustworthy in Turkey can be heard saying such things. According to the Guardian report, recounted in Hürriyet newspaper, Howitt said, What we heard was shocking. There were accounts of soldiers cutting off people's ears and tearing out their eyes if they were thought to be Kurdish separatist sympathisers ... You can't hear these things without being emotionally affected. Alatas: this is a general practice IHD General Director Yusuf Alatas, asked for his view on these accusations, said that the abuse of corpses was a general practice. He added, The shape in which bodies are found will not be known. Limbs are cut off or in pieces. Cangir described the case of a crime in the spring of 2004: Meaz Resit Reso was killed in a skirmish at Sirnak. There was no damage to his face in the skirmish, but his ears and a part of his nose were cut off. This is an announcement of a crime. We have photographs. His family's claim is that he was captured while wounded. We are not able to confirm whether the cutting of his organs took place during the skirmish, or afterwards. Cangir said there have not been any developments whatsoever concerning the crime. As for the reply to the queries that he had written to the Military Police General Headquarters, it claimed that Reso's ears and nose had been cut off by his friends. Zeki Yüksel of the Van branch describes another case that had come to the attention of the IHD, in which the bodies of several dead PKK militants were found with their throats and ears cut, along with already being riddled with bullets. Yüksel said that a mass grave containing an estimated 21 bodies was found in Bitlis in 2000, and that many of the corpses were headless. Explaining that the objection made to the Bitlis Public Prosecutor's decision not to pursue the crime in the Mus Criminal Court had been ignored, Yüksel said they were thinking of taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Lack of oversight Alatas warned that military operations are closed to independent oversight: Neither human rights nor internal rights rules are applied in battles and skirmishes that take place in this region-because the military operations are far from oversight. Answers to questions of who was captured alive, who was killed and why and how they died, are not forthcoming. Because in this subject there is no independent ability to oversee conduct during conflict, all of the operations carry grave flaws. In general there is an agreement that the law pays little attention to this. The perceptions of people in the region are particularly disregarded. He went on to say, in areas of warfare, aid organizations and the press are generally present. They televise military operations. Here, there is nothing of the sort. The media does not enter the regions where these operations occur. They are far from the eyes of both the country and the world. Outside of the press releases of the General Staff, no one knows anything. As long as there is no oversight, they will feel completely free. Alatas said that when the psychology of soldiers is considered, the importance of oversight becomes clear. These sorts of environments are extremely provocative. Think of the psychological condition of a soldier whose friend is killed in a skirmish. Without transparency and oversight, with such psychological conditions anything can occur. Recall the stories told by soldiers who have been discharged from service in this region. The media
[osint] In Politics Even A**es Need Credibility
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16713.html# In Politics Even A**es Need Credibility The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato (427 BC-347 BC) America is a nation where the power of government theoretically rests in the hands of the nation's citizens. The people's power over the politician, and the majority of government, is dependant on the citizen's vote. In a society where speech is not censored and a wide range of ideas are expounded upon regularly; one would think access to information critical to choosing those who desire to lead would be readily available to, if not thrust upon, people from every media type. Although each of the two political parties prevalent in American politics is guilty of misdirection and omission, only one has truly used these methods as an essential tool to preserve its dwindling power: the Democrats. By nature, the purpose for any political party is to consolidate a mass of people with common ideas and common goals into a single voting block to shape American government. Democrats laud themselves as a 'big tent' party that has room enough for everyone. But does not diversity in itself by definition negate the necessity of a political party? How does a party with hundreds of splintered ideological views and perhaps thousands of individualized goals bind millions of people together under one banner? The composition of the Democrat party prevents definitive statements on issues which result in a lack in sincerity and substance. In place of idea's to restore, improve, or strengthen America, Democrats give voters rhetoric, generalities, and hopeful speculation of scandals to degrade the opposition. How could a party with a bounty of charismatic political pundits but a near absence of conviction or objective, remain in contention for power in America? Democrats, with good reason, believe that Americans are gullible fools. DNC chairman Howard Dean claims that his party is full of ideas on how to save America from the ominous 'religious right' which has overtaken the Republican Party and has begun a process of destroying the essence of America. Democrats know what to do to rebuild America's squandered global reputation, he assures. Yet Mr. Dean, like many Democrats, will not reveal these ideas to the public prior to assuming power. Why? It would help the Republican Party, of course. Chairman Dean's politics, like so many other politicians, is getting in the way of his patriotism. By withholding ideas that could benefit the nation, the DNC is in effect hindering the countries ability to recover - provided there really is a danger. By refusing to participate in campaigns consisting of national ideas and national direction the democrats reveal their contempt for the American experiment. A child, while being quizzed by a parent, saying 'I know what 9 times 4 is' and flatly refusing to say the answer would not be tolerated. Yet those very same parents would vote for a political party that hides its ideas, its solutions, and its vision for America? A parent will invest hours a day going over math, history, science and spelling with their child, but not devote 2 hours a week to finding out about the people who are seeking influence their family's future? Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts ran for President of the United States in 2004 without any real platform. Remarkably, just about any statement Senator Kerry made was either already in contrast to his previous statements or actions, or would be contradicted by something the Senator would soon say or do. Yet Mr. Kerry's http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16713.html anti-Bush, substance void, 'say anything to please' crusade managed to cajole greater than 48% of the American vote. How? The Democrats and media spent years discrediting everything President Bush said or did without regard to the benefit to the nation or America's war against terrorism. The public was led to believe that President Bush was a complete imbecile. When painting the President as a fool didn't work the democrats portrayed him as a diabolical mastermind with sinister motives. The end result of this lengthily media blitz was a gradual turning of the population against a leader who had safely led the nation through perilous times, weathered a recession, cultivated a strong economy, fostered all time high levels of home ownership levels, maintained record low unemployment numbers, and reduced taxes for the majority of the nation. But 48% of the voting American public ignored facts, focused on conjecture and voted against President Bush in 2004. Mr. Kerry showed the politicians, but apparently not all of the American people, that a political campaign doesn't necessarily need facts, substance, or ideas to persuade voters. To contend a politician simply needs charisma, audacity, good communication skills, and most importantly the ability to create anger or fear in voters minds. The Kerry
[osint] Soldiers recall bloodiest day
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1 http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Arti cle_Type1c=Article c=Article pubid=968163964505cid=1154952611335col =968705899037call_page=TS_Newscall_ pageid=968332188492call_pagepath=News/News Soldiers recall bloodiest day Aug. 7, 2006. 04:50 PM TERRY PEDWELL CANADIAN PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The day started as expected, with the soldiers of Charlie Company of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry setting out in the early morning darkness on orders to root out Taliban fighters. It was Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006. What they would not discover until many hours later was that they had witnessed what would become known as Canada's bloodiest day of combat so far in Afghanistan. We got our orders early in the evening for the mission, recalled Sgt. Patrick Tower, a blond, bespectacled 34-year-old whose body language displays a sense of authority. The mission was to move into a school in Pashmul, which is in Panjwaii District, he said. The troops drove out in their heavy green machines under cover of darkness, heading west, and almost instantly got into a fight. As we were coming up to the objective . . . we saw an enemy position lined up in front of us, Tower recalled. Master Cpl. Tony Perry was the 2nd Platoon crew commander of the Light Armoured Vehicle, or LAVIII, at the front of the assault. He radioed his commanding officer, asking if there were Afghan National Police patrolling the area, to make sure he wasn't about to hit friends. No, there's not, was the response heard back on his headset, clearing the way for Perry to light up the guns, the loud rat-tat-tat of machine gunfire cutting through the night air. Within only a few minutes, the initial engagement over and the enemy destroyed, Two Platoon moved forward. They were far from being out of danger, however, as the third vehicle in the convoy, another LAV, was struck by two roadside bombs. It would be their first casualty of the day. Despite valiant efforts to save him, Cpl. Christopher Reid would later succumb to his injuries from the bigger of the two blasts. The vehicle's platoon commander was also hurt, but survived. Once the casualties were in the hands of medics, the troops moved on to what would become a 12-hour battle marked by blood, heat exhaustion and a storm of grenades and bullets. Even under heavy fire, the Canadians were able to overtake a school that was at the heart of their mission. On the initial assault, I was on the first wave, explained Cpl. Jason Hoekstra, describing how Afghan police officers who were part of the mission were being overwhelmed. We took a lot of fire, but they're just police officers, he said. So we took the initiative and we took the school. But the Taliban - between 150 and 200 of them - weren't about to give up without a fight. Forming a horseshoe and nearly surrounding the building, they attacked with a vengeance. At that time, we started taking fire from multiple spots, Hoekstra recalled. The Canadians fought back hard. We just, we hammered them, said Hoekstra. If we had four deaths, I can guarantee you we had four times that. We gave it to them. Military officials refused to say how many Taliban fighters were killed. Sources say, however, that dozens of bodies littered an area around the schoolyard. As bullets flew and rocket-propelled grenades smashed the building, at one point coming every few seconds, it's unclear when the Canadians realized that they were literally in the middle of a killing field. The Taliban had strategically planted landmines throughout the compound. With nine soldiers down, three of them dead, they knew they had to get out. Are you sure you guys want to do this? the LAV platoon commander asked his fellow soldiers as they desperately pleaded to move in to save their brothers in arms. No one who was there will reveal the identity of those who risked their lives by literally driving through a daisy chain of mines to reach their comrades. The actions of one should never overshadow the actions of many, they insist. Every one of the soldiers that were there can be proud of the way that they acted, with heroism and bravery and courage, said Tower. I don't want to take away from any one of them by trying to identify a specific soldier who outshone the rest, he explained. They're all heroes to us, and that's how they'd want to be thought of. Canadians also need to understand, Tower stressed, that those who lost their lives that day were not unwilling participants. Everyone knew the risks of the six-month tour of duty. The soldiers that died weren't victims, he said. They were fighting. And they were fighting for each other. People at home should be proud of the quality of soldier that's over here. On Saturday, many of the 10 Canadians injured in the operation shed tears on the tarmac of Kandahar Air Field as they watched four
[osint] Rights Activists Confirm Gross Violations
Very little criticism of terrorists violating human rights. Bruce http://www.bianet.org/2005/12/01_eng/news68564.htm Rights Activists Confirm Gross Violations The Human Rights Foundation and representatives of the European Parliament reported rights violations--especially the mutilation of corpses--are occuring during military operations in Southeastern Turkey due to a lack of oversight. _ BIA News Center 12/10/2005 http://www.bianet.org/php/yazarlistex_eng.php?yazar=Tolga%20KORKUT Tolga KORKUT _ BÝA (Ankara, Mardin, Van) - Human Rights Foundation (IHD) representatives said that the foundation is recieving reports of corpses being mistreated and mutilated in military operations in the southeast of Turkey. Hüseyin Cangir of the IDF's Mardin office and Zeki Yüksel of the IDF's Van office told Bianet of reports that had reached them about body parts being cut from the bodies of PKK militants killed in the course of military operations. Mehdi Perinçek, the IHD advocate responsible for this region, said that these complaints were similar to many others that had not yet been made concrete. Richard Howitt, a British MEP and member of the European Parliament's human rights subcommittee, told the British newspaper The Guardian that he had heard reports of shocking torture in Turkey on a recent investigative trip. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Namik Tan called these reports silly stories...completely the products of fantasy; they have nothing to do with the truth. Nobody trustworthy in Turkey can be heard saying such things. According to the Guardian report, recounted in Hürriyet newspaper, Howitt said, What we heard was shocking. There were accounts of soldiers cutting off people's ears and tearing out their eyes if they were thought to be Kurdish separatist sympathisers ... You can't hear these things without being emotionally affected. Alatas: this is a general practice IHD General Director Yusuf Alatas, asked for his view on these accusations, said that the abuse of corpses was a general practice. He added, The shape in which bodies are found will not be known. Limbs are cut off or in pieces. Cangir described the case of a crime in the spring of 2004: Meaz Resit Reso was killed in a skirmish at Sirnak. There was no damage to his face in the skirmish, but his ears and a part of his nose were cut off. This is an announcement of a crime. We have photographs. His family's claim is that he was captured while wounded. We are not able to confirm whether the cutting of his organs took place during the skirmish, or afterwards. Cangir said there have not been any developments whatsoever concerning the crime. As for the reply to the queries that he had written to the Military Police General Headquarters, it claimed that Reso's ears and nose had been cut off by his friends. Zeki Yüksel of the Van branch describes another case that had come to the attention of the IHD, in which the bodies of several dead PKK militants were found with their throats and ears cut, along with already being riddled with bullets. Yüksel said that a mass grave containing an estimated 21 bodies was found in Bitlis in 2000, and that many of the corpses were headless. Explaining that the objection made to the Bitlis Public Prosecutor's decision not to pursue the crime in the Mus Criminal Court had been ignored, Yüksel said they were thinking of taking the case to the European Court of Human Rights. Lack of oversight Alatas warned that military operations are closed to independent oversight: Neither human rights nor internal rights rules are applied in battles and skirmishes that take place in this region-because the military operations are far from oversight. Answers to questions of who was captured alive, who was killed and why and how they died, are not forthcoming. Because in this subject there is no independent ability to oversee conduct during conflict, all of the operations carry grave flaws. In general there is an agreement that the law pays little attention to this. The perceptions of people in the region are particularly disregarded. He went on to say, in areas of warfare, aid organizations and the press are generally present. They televise military operations. Here, there is nothing of the sort. The media does not enter the regions where these operations occur. They are far from the eyes of both the country and the world. Outside of the press releases of the General Staff, no one knows anything. As long as there is no oversight, they will feel completely free. Alatas said that when the psychology of soldiers is considered, the importance of oversight becomes clear. These sorts of environments are extremely provocative. Think of the psychological condition of a soldier whose friend is killed in a skirmish. Without transparency and oversight, with such psychological conditions anything can occur. Recall the stories told by soldiers who have been discharged from service in this region. The media
[osint] Obstacles abound to U.N. Mideast force
Yeah: Hizballah, Iran and Syria. Bruce http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15218791.htm Obstacles abound to U.N. Mideast force WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon - including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway. But scores of others - skittish about a potential Middle East quagmire or already stretched thin elsewhere, such as the United States and Britain - have ruled out sending soldiers. And over the whole enterprise hangs a Catch-22: Israel refuses to leave until the force is in place, and nations won't go in until a cease-fire is in effect. We do not want foreign troops to commit suicide by entering Lebanon under the current situation, said Syed Hamid Albar, the foreign minister of Malaysia, which has 1,000 soldiers on standby. That accounts for the wait-and-see approach adopted by many nations. Diplomats are preoccupied with pushing through a U.N. resolution aimed at ending nearly a month of fighting before they tackle the question of a multinational force. The 15 countries willing in principle to deploy forces - provided they get a strong U.N. mandate with clear rules of engagement - are Australia, Brazil, Chile, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey. There is also Poland, which already has 200 soldiers serving as U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon and has said it's inclined to keep them there. Three of the 15 have offered specifics of what they're ready to commit: Malaysia, which says its 1,000-strong contingent would be backed by armored vehicles; Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, which has offered about 800 men; and Norway, which has pledged nearly 100 marines and four missile torpedo boats. Troop contributions could come from Italy, which last month promised a substantial contribution; Turkey, which has experience leading U.N. peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan and Somalia; and France, which already has about 1,300 personnel and several frigates in the area. I don't foresee any more than 5,000 French in the zone, said Cmdr. Jerome Erulin, a French military spokesman, cautioning that it was too early to determine his nation's role. Five thousand would be the high end of the range, he said. Speculation on who might command a multinational force in southern Lebanon has centered on Turkey and France. A daunting tangle of potential complications threatens to bedevil the international effort even before it gets under way. Among the more striking examples is Germany. It has not ruled out contributing troops, but its leaders - mindful of the country's Nazi past - are anxious to avoid any scenario in which German soldiers could wind up in conflict with Israelis. There are plenty of other thorny issues. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said his country would stop its offensive only after the deployment of a robust international force - an army with combat units ready and willing to rein in Hezbollah. That raises the question of whether the Europeans and others are prepared for a campaign that could go beyond peacekeeping and firing weapons purely in self defense to the potentially bloody business of engaging and disarming Hezbollah militants. And with Hezbollah mixed among civilians, that involves a very high risk that the force would cause civilian casualties. Some military analysts have raised the possibility that Hezbollah, if forced back by international troops, could lob its rockets over their heads and keep hitting targets in northern Israel. If Israel wanted to strike back by ground assault, it would presumably be up to the force to stop it. The United States says it plans to help train and equip the Lebanese army, which many hope would ultimately take over the border area. Britain has hinted it may offer technical assistance. But there are questions about whether the United States - busy training Iraqi security forces - has enough instructors to train Lebanese troops, and whether that training would be possible in Lebanon or best done in another country. Cyprus has been mentioned as a possible staging point for international troops. But Turkey, which does not recognize the island's Greek-led government, would be restricted to using Cyprus' northern, ethnically Turkish part. In much of the Muslim world, there is broad support for the idea of sending troops. Even Malaysia's largest opposition bloc, the fundamentalist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, contends the world's Muslims have a moral responsibility to help end the violence. The mission is good because it can prevent a broader Middle East conflict, said Cholil Munawir, a supporter of Indonesia's Islamic Community Forum, which bitterly opposes Israel's campaign in Lebanon. But elsewhere, public resistance is building, just as it did before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
[osint] Obstacles abound to U.N. Mideast force
Yeah: Hizballah, Iran and Syria. Bruce http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/15218791.htm Obstacles abound to U.N. Mideast force WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - Across the globe, at least 15 nations are considering sending troops to an eventual U.N.-mandated international force in southern Lebanon - including Malaysia, Indonesia and Norway. But scores of others - skittish about a potential Middle East quagmire or already stretched thin elsewhere, such as the United States and Britain - have ruled out sending soldiers. And over the whole enterprise hangs a Catch-22: Israel refuses to leave until the force is in place, and nations won't go in until a cease-fire is in effect. We do not want foreign troops to commit suicide by entering Lebanon under the current situation, said Syed Hamid Albar, the foreign minister of Malaysia, which has 1,000 soldiers on standby. That accounts for the wait-and-see approach adopted by many nations. Diplomats are preoccupied with pushing through a U.N. resolution aimed at ending nearly a month of fighting before they tackle the question of a multinational force. The 15 countries willing in principle to deploy forces - provided they get a strong U.N. mandate with clear rules of engagement - are Australia, Brazil, Chile, France, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey. There is also Poland, which already has 200 soldiers serving as U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon and has said it's inclined to keep them there. Three of the 15 have offered specifics of what they're ready to commit: Malaysia, which says its 1,000-strong contingent would be backed by armored vehicles; Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, which has offered about 800 men; and Norway, which has pledged nearly 100 marines and four missile torpedo boats. Troop contributions could come from Italy, which last month promised a substantial contribution; Turkey, which has experience leading U.N. peacekeeping operations in Afghanistan and Somalia; and France, which already has about 1,300 personnel and several frigates in the area. I don't foresee any more than 5,000 French in the zone, said Cmdr. Jerome Erulin, a French military spokesman, cautioning that it was too early to determine his nation's role. Five thousand would be the high end of the range, he said. Speculation on who might command a multinational force in southern Lebanon has centered on Turkey and France. A daunting tangle of potential complications threatens to bedevil the international effort even before it gets under way. Among the more striking examples is Germany. It has not ruled out contributing troops, but its leaders - mindful of the country's Nazi past - are anxious to avoid any scenario in which German soldiers could wind up in conflict with Israelis. There are plenty of other thorny issues. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said his country would stop its offensive only after the deployment of a robust international force - an army with combat units ready and willing to rein in Hezbollah. That raises the question of whether the Europeans and others are prepared for a campaign that could go beyond peacekeeping and firing weapons purely in self defense to the potentially bloody business of engaging and disarming Hezbollah militants. And with Hezbollah mixed among civilians, that involves a very high risk that the force would cause civilian casualties. Some military analysts have raised the possibility that Hezbollah, if forced back by international troops, could lob its rockets over their heads and keep hitting targets in northern Israel. If Israel wanted to strike back by ground assault, it would presumably be up to the force to stop it. The United States says it plans to help train and equip the Lebanese army, which many hope would ultimately take over the border area. Britain has hinted it may offer technical assistance. But there are questions about whether the United States - busy training Iraqi security forces - has enough instructors to train Lebanese troops, and whether that training would be possible in Lebanon or best done in another country. Cyprus has been mentioned as a possible staging point for international troops. But Turkey, which does not recognize the island's Greek-led government, would be restricted to using Cyprus' northern, ethnically Turkish part. In much of the Muslim world, there is broad support for the idea of sending troops. Even Malaysia's largest opposition bloc, the fundamentalist Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, contends the world's Muslims have a moral responsibility to help end the violence. The mission is good because it can prevent a broader Middle East conflict, said Cholil Munawir, a supporter of Indonesia's Islamic Community Forum, which bitterly opposes Israel's campaign in Lebanon. But elsewhere, public resistance is building, just as it did before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
[osint] Iran will counter attack with 100 times greater force
Yeah, yeah, yeah.whatever. Bruce http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8182 Iran will counter at attack with 100 times greater force Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 - The Supreme Commandant of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps criticised on Monday Arab countries for their inaction towards the killing of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine by the leaders of the United States, Britain, the Zionist regime, and their allies. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that Washington and Tel Aviv had been defeated in their battle with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Undoubtedly, if these criminals try to take action and conduct mischief against Iran they will suffer blows 100 times more powerful. The armed forces and the IRGC must, with complete awareness regarding intelligence and with a high military, political, cultural, and security understanding of regional and intercontinental issues, be fully prepared for possible threats, he said. He once again described the U.S., Britain, and Israel as an Axis of Evil. Safavi denounced the recent United Nations Security Council resolution against Iran over its nuclear program as illegal and baseless. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Shut down Iran's deadly ambitions
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20049842-7583,00.html Michael Danby: Shut down Iran's deadly ambitions To prevent a possible nuclear war, the Howard Government should consider backing US sanctions against Tehran, even if it hurts our wheat trade in the Middle East, insists Labor MP Michael Danby AUSTRALIA'S ambassador to the UN, Robert Hill, suggested last week that Australia might not back the US in imposing financial sanctions against Iran if sanctions were not approved by the Security Council. Hill's caution focuses Australia on the wider issue behind the present conflict in Lebanon - the role of Iran in instigating the Hezbollah attack on Israel, and its ambitions to become a nuclear power. This is an issue Australia cannot avoid. The role of Iran explains why Israel has responded so strongly to Hezbollah's attacks. Some have seen Israel's response as disproportionate. But whether a country's response to an armed attack is proportionate or not depends on the dimension of the threat it faces. Despite Hezbollah's missiles forcing a million Israelis into shelters or into mass evacuations, the real existential threat to Israel - and not just to Israel - is the longer-term ambition of Hezbollah's sponsors, the regime in Iran. Only last week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the Islamic Conference in Malaysia, made another call for the elimination of Israel. In Australia, both the Government and Opposition have forcefully told the Iranian ambassador that such belligerence is outrageous and will have consequences. Hezbollah's stockpile of 13,000 missiles was provided by Iran and delivered through Syria. As well as its old Soviet Katyushas, Hezbollah has hundreds of Fajr missiles, including some with much greater range than those used so far. These can only have come from Iran. On July 11, the day before Hezbollah launched its barrage and abducted two Israeli soldiers, Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, met EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels and told him that Iran would not meet EU demands to stop its nuclear weapons program. Solana told Larijani the EU would therefore support the US in imposing sanctions on Iran. On his way home, Larijani stopped in Beirut and met senior Hezbollah leaders. At that meeting, Hezbollah was given its orders - attack Israel. The motive for this order is clear: to divert attention from Iran's conflict with the US and the EU over its nuclear weapons program. The proposed ceasefire in Lebanon, desirable though it obviously is from a humanitarian point of view, may retard Iranian activities in Lebanon but is not a comprehensive answer to the wider problem: the role of the Tehran regime. Iran is publicly committed to the destruction of Israel and is bent on the development of nuclear weapons. Its agents are seeking to extend their influence in Iraq. Iran ultimately has its eye on Saudi Arabia's oil provinces, where Shi'a arabs are the majority of the population. Iran and North Korea are the only countries in the world whose leaders openly canvass the use of nuclear weapons. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has said the casualties Iran would sustain in a nuclear exchange with Israel would be acceptable if it meant Israel could be eliminated at the same time. It is striking that the EU, antagonistic to both Israel and the policies of the US in the Middle East, has taken such a strong stand on the Iranian nuclear question. France and Germany may not be admirers of the Bush administration but they know a real threat to their security when they see one, and they see one in the fanatic ambitions of the theocrats in Tehran. Unfortunately, Russia and to a lesser extent China are making a lot of money helping Iran develop nuclear capacity. They will almost certainly block any move at the Security Council to impose serious economic sanctions on Iran. This means the burden of imposing sanctions will fall on the US and its allies. Australia will have to decide where it stands. Demands from the Prime Minister's Muslim reference group that Hezbollah be delisted as a terrorist organisation will cut no ice with 95 per cent of the Australian parliament. When parliament voted for this measure, Australia was keenly aware of Hezbollah's role in sponsoring terrorism outside the Middle East. Sanctions on Iran might mean the loss of AWB Ltd's $80million wheat contract there, so we can expect the National Party to take a strong interest. This may explain former National Party leader Tim Fischer's recent criticisms of Israel and the allegedly sinister influence of the Israel lobby. So, back to Australia's role at the UN. If Iran refuses to abandon its nuclear ambitions, and if we are serious about preventing a possible nuclear war initiated by Iran, we should support financial sanctions against that country. Michael Danby is a federal Labor MP, secretary of the caucus national security committee and a member of the parliamentary
[osint] THE PEACE OF ISLAM IN PARIS
http://www.montanasnews.com/articles.php?mode=view http://www.montanasnews.com/articles.php?mode=viewid=2884 id=2884 THE PEACE OF ISLAM IN PARIS by MONTANA NEWS ASSOCIATION By Bill Wilson, MNA Senior Analyst WASH-MNA-Nov 7- The unchecked immigration of Islam to European countries such as France, Spain, Denmark and Great Britain in the name of social diversity has come home to roost as Europeans are now seeing the very beginning of the Islamic occupation of Europe with the burning of Paris. Interesting are the words of one of the most powerful Islamic clerics in all of France. The director of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur told the French Prime Minister to make sure the government choose its words carefully and sent a message of peace as it dealt with the explosive situation. Indeed, such a suggestion is akin to what has been said in other parts of the world under Islamic attack. The message: This is now Islamic territory, treat us with respect and make peace with us-that's the same message rioters shout as they pelt the French police with rocks, begging the question whether this is a riot or a revolt. For decades France has welcomed Islamic immigrants from Arab and African countries to take the jobs no one else wanted or to perform the tasks more unspeakable in its society. And for decades, the Islamic population grew until it reach some five million, about a quarter of the population. In fact, throughout Europe, the Islamic population has been growing unchecked. And now, today, France is in flames as Islamic militants, branded by the news media as youths who are upset with their economic situation, burn cars and buildings, pelt police with rocks and shoot at them with whatever weapons they can find. Some believe this is a beginning of a new Islamic front in the war on terror. The theme of Islamic poor committing violence because of their economic conditions has been one that European appeasers and members of the liberal left have used for years in excusing another group of terrorists who started their movement in much the same way as these thugs in France-the Palestinians in Israel. But poor as they may be, French police are finding that there are now coordinated attacks being planned with the use of cell phones and the internet. And they are using cars and scooters to make their hit and run attacks on more strategic targets than when the riots first started. Police discovered a Molotov cocktail factory in a Paris suburb with over 100 bottles ready for use. The Lord referred to the Arabs as locusts when He said spoke of the Babylonian judgment in Jeremiah 51:14, The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you. This migration of Islam into Europe, especially France, has been welcomed by politicians who preach diversity. Much the same as they have in the United States. But Islamic law promotes the concept that Allah has given his people the land when they move into it, and that all others must submit to Islam. This is what France is finding out today. What nation will know it tomorrow? Denmark, Spain, Britain, the United States? Seek Christ for He is the true Prince of Peace. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] CHRISTIAN PASTORS TAKEN TO COURT TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISLAM
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsviewsdetails.php?newsid=191 CHRISTIAN PASTORS TAKEN TO COURT TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISLAM AUSTRALIA. Two Christian pastors have been taken to court by the Islamic Council of Victoria and three Australian Muslims after making critical statements about the Islamic faith on a website and at a seminar for Christians held in March last year. A complaint of religious vilification was made against the two Christian pastors, Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot. The complaint deals with many issues, such as the nature of jihad, aspirations of Muslims in the west, and the connection between the laws of jihad and the treatment of non-Muslims under Islam. The Victorian Racial and Religious Vilification Act was passed in 2001 and has yet to be fully put to the test. It was established in order to promote intercultural and interfaith harmony in Victoria, in support of democratic ideals, in itself a worthy aim. Victoria has established an Equal Opportunity Commission which is empowered to develop programs under this legislation. One of their programs, called Stand up to Racism, promotes positive regard for Islam's stand on universal human rights. The complaint against the two pastors has had to be mediated through this same Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission, but attempts at achieving conciliation failed. Following this the Islamic Council of Victoria brought the case before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, a legal court which has the power to impose a significant fine against the two pastors, if they are found guilty. The case is due to be heard at the Tribunal in mid-October 2003. To pursue their complaint, the well-funded Islamic Council of Victoria has retained the services of the prestigious Australian law firm, Allens Arthur Robinson, which has offices in seven countries throughout the Asia-Pacific Region. The case is one of the first to be brought under the new legislation and its result will set an important precedent which will have influence and ramifications not only in Victoria, but also in other parts of Australia. Many evangelical Christians in the state fear that the Islamic Council of Victoria is using the case to stifle all criticism of Islam or Muslims, in effect bringing in a pseudo-blasphemy law to protect Islam. Similar legislation against religious 'hate speech' is currently before parliament in both New Zealand and the UK and is prompting serious concern from libertarians and supporters of free speech who fear the similar misuse of such laws. DANIEL SCOT The fact that one of the defendants is Pastor Daniel Scot is bitterly ironic. Scot, a Pakistani Christian, became one of the first victims of Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws when in 1986 he was charged with insulting the Islamicprophet Muhammad, which under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code carries a death sentence. The blasphemy laws have attracted widespread condemnation from human rights groups and the international community for their harsh punishments and the way they have been misused to target vulnerable religious minorities (http://www.barnabasfund.org/News/Archive/Pakistan/Pakistan-20030821.htm). Scot had been threatened by the council of the college in Okara, Pakistan, where he worked, that a charge would be brought against him unless he converted to Islam. The charge was brought after he refused to do so and explained his belief that his spiritual salvation could come only from Jesus Christ, and not Muhammad. Political pressure meant that Daniel was never prosecuted. However, he was forced to flee to Australia with his family to escape the threat of Islamic extremists who have since murdered four Christians accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Now seventeen years later, having fled religious discrimination in Pakistan, Scot again finds himself accused of a similar crime in Australia, the country in which he originally found refuge. This is an indication of the growing trend to place Islamic teaching and Muslim actions beyond the bounds of criticism, not only in the Islamic world, but also, as a result of misguided ideas of political correctness, in the West as well. It is a bitter twist that Scot, an Asian Christian, should face this accusation from three white Australian converts to Islam who unannounced attended the March 2002 seminar (intended for the religious instruction of Christians only - and as such should fall outside the remit of the Act) and took offence resulting in the complaint. In a painfully ironic reversal a law designed to prevent racial and religious abuse under which the Equal Opportunity Commission operates is being used by three white men to attack an Asian. FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is clear from the charges brought against Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot, that both may well have been unwise in their choice of words, and over-the-top in some of their criticisms of Islamic teaching. However it would be a travesty of justice should
[osint] US to India: Iran not a reliable partner
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1869029.cms US to India: Iran not a reliable partner NEW DELHI: The US on Monday said that although it was up to India to decide on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, Washington considers Iran to be 'not a reliable partner'. Our experience with Iran makes us realise that it is not a reliable partner, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher said here. Instead, he suggested and supported making Afghanistan a place for transit. We think by opening up Afghanistan and making it a place for transit, we have made a positive change, the visiting US official added. The US is backing the Turkmenistan-Afghanisatan-Pakistan gas pipeline project and its possible extension to India as an alternative to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. Boucher, however, added that it was for India to decide whether to go ahead with the tri-nation pipeline project based on commercial viability and its own experience of working with Tehran. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] CHRISTIAN PASTORS TAKEN TO COURT TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISLAM
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/newsviewsdetails.php?newsid=191 CHRISTIAN PASTORS TAKEN TO COURT TO SILENCE CRITICISM OF ISLAM AUSTRALIA. Two Christian pastors have been taken to court by the Islamic Council of Victoria and three Australian Muslims after making critical statements about the Islamic faith on a website and at a seminar for Christians held in March last year. A complaint of religious vilification was made against the two Christian pastors, Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot. The complaint deals with many issues, such as the nature of jihad, aspirations of Muslims in the west, and the connection between the laws of jihad and the treatment of non-Muslims under Islam. The Victorian Racial and Religious Vilification Act was passed in 2001 and has yet to be fully put to the test. It was established in order to promote intercultural and interfaith harmony in Victoria, in support of democratic ideals, in itself a worthy aim. Victoria has established an Equal Opportunity Commission which is empowered to develop programs under this legislation. One of their programs, called Stand up to Racism, promotes positive regard for Islam's stand on universal human rights. The complaint against the two pastors has had to be mediated through this same Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission, but attempts at achieving conciliation failed. Following this the Islamic Council of Victoria brought the case before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, a legal court which has the power to impose a significant fine against the two pastors, if they are found guilty. The case is due to be heard at the Tribunal in mid-October 2003. To pursue their complaint, the well-funded Islamic Council of Victoria has retained the services of the prestigious Australian law firm, Allens Arthur Robinson, which has offices in seven countries throughout the Asia-Pacific Region. The case is one of the first to be brought under the new legislation and its result will set an important precedent which will have influence and ramifications not only in Victoria, but also in other parts of Australia. Many evangelical Christians in the state fear that the Islamic Council of Victoria is using the case to stifle all criticism of Islam or Muslims, in effect bringing in a pseudo-blasphemy law to protect Islam. Similar legislation against religious 'hate speech' is currently before parliament in both New Zealand and the UK and is prompting serious concern from libertarians and supporters of free speech who fear the similar misuse of such laws. DANIEL SCOT The fact that one of the defendants is Pastor Daniel Scot is bitterly ironic. Scot, a Pakistani Christian, became one of the first victims of Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws when in 1986 he was charged with insulting the Islamicprophet Muhammad, which under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code carries a death sentence. The blasphemy laws have attracted widespread condemnation from human rights groups and the international community for their harsh punishments and the way they have been misused to target vulnerable religious minorities (http://www.barnabasfund.org/News/Archive/Pakistan/Pakistan-20030821.htm). Scot had been threatened by the council of the college in Okara, Pakistan, where he worked, that a charge would be brought against him unless he converted to Islam. The charge was brought after he refused to do so and explained his belief that his spiritual salvation could come only from Jesus Christ, and not Muhammad. Political pressure meant that Daniel was never prosecuted. However, he was forced to flee to Australia with his family to escape the threat of Islamic extremists who have since murdered four Christians accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Now seventeen years later, having fled religious discrimination in Pakistan, Scot again finds himself accused of a similar crime in Australia, the country in which he originally found refuge. This is an indication of the growing trend to place Islamic teaching and Muslim actions beyond the bounds of criticism, not only in the Islamic world, but also, as a result of misguided ideas of political correctness, in the West as well. It is a bitter twist that Scot, an Asian Christian, should face this accusation from three white Australian converts to Islam who unannounced attended the March 2002 seminar (intended for the religious instruction of Christians only - and as such should fall outside the remit of the Act) and took offence resulting in the complaint. In a painfully ironic reversal a law designed to prevent racial and religious abuse under which the Equal Opportunity Commission operates is being used by three white men to attack an Asian. FREEDOM OF SPEECH It is clear from the charges brought against Danny Nalliah and Daniel Scot, that both may well have been unwise in their choice of words, and over-the-top in some of their criticisms of Islamic teaching. However it would be a travesty of justice should
[osint] Anti-terror laws said to risk 'discrimination'
Sure, against terrorists. Bruce http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1147152006 Anti-terror laws said to risk 'discrimination' GERRI PEEV BRITAIN'S top Asian police officer has warned the government that its anti-terrorism laws risk criminalising Muslims. Tarique Ghaffur, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, also called for a judicial review of the radicalisation of young Muslims. His warning about radicalisation came as a new poll found that almost a quarter of British Muslims thought the 7/7 bombings were justified because of the government's support for the war on terrorism. It was time to investigate the cause of the anger and resentment of young British Muslims that lay behind last July's bombings in London, Mr Ghaffur told the National Black Police Association's conference in Manchester. Not only has anti-terrorism and security legislation been tightened across many European countries, with the effect of indirectly discriminating against Muslims, but other equally unwanted practices have also emerged, including increased stop-and-search legislation, he said. A Home Office spokesman said: The powers within counter-terror legislation are not aimed at a particular race, religion, or any other group. They are aimed at terrorists, whatever section of society they may come from. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Islam's Useful Idiots
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5741 Islam's Useful Idiots August 7th, 2006 Islam enjoys a large and influential ally among the non-Muslims: A new generation of Useful Idiots, the sort of people Lenin identified living in liberal democracies who furthered the work of communism. This new generation of Useful Idiots also lives in liberal democracies, but serves the cause of Islamofascismanother virulent form of totalitarian ideology. Useful Idiots are naïve, foolish, ignorant of facts, unrealistically idealistic, dreamers, willfully in denial or deceptive. They hail from the ranks of the chronically unhappy, the anarchists, the aspiring revolutionaries, the neurotics who are at war with life, the disaffected alienated from government, corporations, and just about any and all institutions of society. The Useful Idiot can be a billionaire, a movie star, an academe of renown, a politician, or from any other segment of the population. Arguably, the most dangerous variant of the Useful Idiot is the Politically Correct. He is the master practitioner of euphemism, hedging, doubletalk, and outright deception. The Useful Idiot derives satisfaction from being anti-establishment. He finds perverse gratification in aiding the forces that aim to dismantle an existing order, whatever it may be: an order he neither approves of nor he feels he belongs to. The Useful Idiot is conflicted and dishonest. He fails to look inside himself and discover the causes of his own problems and unhappiness while he readily enlists himself in causes that validate his distorted perception. Understandably, it is easier to blame others and the outside world than to examine oneself with an eye to self-discovery and self-improvement. Furthermore, criticizing and complainingliberal practices of the Useful Idiotrequire little talent and energy. The Useful Idiot is a great armchair philosopher and Monday Morning Quarterback. The Useful Idiot is not the same as a person who honestly has a different point of view. A society without honest and open differences of views is a dead society. Critical, different and fresh ideas are the life blood of a living societythe very anathema of autocracies where the official position is sacrosanct. Even a normal person spends a great deal more energy aiming to fix things out there than working to overcome his own flaws and shortcomings, or contribute positively to the larger society. People dont like to take stock of what they are doing or not doing that is responsible for the conditions they disapprove. But the Useful Idiot takes things much farther. The Useful Idiot, among other things, is a master practitioner of scapegoating. He assigns blame to others while absolving himself of responsibility, has a long handy list of candidates for blaming anything and everything, and by living a distorted life, he contributes to the ills of society. The Useful Idiot may even engage in willful misinformation and deception when it suits him. Terms such as Political Islam, or Radical Islam, for instance, are contributions of the Useful Idiot. These terms do not even exist in the native parlance of Islam, simply because they are redundant. Islam, by its very nature and according to its charterthe Quranis a radical political movement. It is the Useful Idiot who sanitizes Islam and misguides the populace by saying that the real Islam constitutes the main body of the religion; and, that this main body is non-political and moderate. Regrettably, a large segment of the population goes along with these nonsensical euphemisms depicting Islam because it prefers to believe them. It is less threatening to believe that only a hijacked small segment of Islam is radical or politically driven and that the main body of Islam is indeed moderate and non-political. But Islam is political to the core. In Islam the mosque and state are one and the samethe mosque is the state. This arrangement goes back to the days of Muhammad himself. Islam is also radical in the extreme. Even the moderate Islam is radical in its beliefs as well as its deeds. Muslims believe that all non-Muslims, bar none, are hellfire bound and well-deserve being maltreated compared to believers. No radical barbaric act of depravity is unthinkable for Muslims in dealing with others. They have destroyed precious statues of Buddha, leveled sacred monuments of other religions, and bulldozed the cemeteries of non-Muslimsa few examples of their utter extreme contempt toward others. Muslims are radical even in their intrafaith dealings. Various sects and sub-sects pronounce other sects and sub-sects as heretics worthy of death; women are treated as chattel, deprived of many rights; hands are chopped for stealing even a loaf of bread; sexual violation is punished by stoning, and much much more. These are standard day-to-day ways of the mainstream moderate Muslims living under the stone-age laws of Sharia. The moderate mainstream
[osint] In Politics Even A**es Need Credibility
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16713.html# In Politics Even A**es Need Credibility The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato (427 BC-347 BC) America is a nation where the power of government theoretically rests in the hands of the nation's citizens. The people's power over the politician, and the majority of government, is dependant on the citizen's vote. In a society where speech is not censored and a wide range of ideas are expounded upon regularly; one would think access to information critical to choosing those who desire to lead would be readily available to, if not thrust upon, people from every media type. Although each of the two political parties prevalent in American politics is guilty of misdirection and omission, only one has truly used these methods as an essential tool to preserve its dwindling power: the Democrats. By nature, the purpose for any political party is to consolidate a mass of people with common ideas and common goals into a single voting block to shape American government. Democrats laud themselves as a 'big tent' party that has room enough for everyone. But does not diversity in itself by definition negate the necessity of a political party? How does a party with hundreds of splintered ideological views and perhaps thousands of individualized goals bind millions of people together under one banner? The composition of the Democrat party prevents definitive statements on issues which result in a lack in sincerity and substance. In place of idea's to restore, improve, or strengthen America, Democrats give voters rhetoric, generalities, and hopeful speculation of scandals to degrade the opposition. How could a party with a bounty of charismatic political pundits but a near absence of conviction or objective, remain in contention for power in America? Democrats, with good reason, believe that Americans are gullible fools. DNC chairman Howard Dean claims that his party is full of ideas on how to save America from the ominous 'religious right' which has overtaken the Republican Party and has begun a process of destroying the essence of America. Democrats know what to do to rebuild America's squandered global reputation, he assures. Yet Mr. Dean, like many Democrats, will not reveal these ideas to the public prior to assuming power. Why? It would help the Republican Party, of course. Chairman Dean's politics, like so many other politicians, is getting in the way of his patriotism. By withholding ideas that could benefit the nation, the DNC is in effect hindering the countries ability to recover - provided there really is a danger. By refusing to participate in campaigns consisting of national ideas and national direction the democrats reveal their contempt for the American experiment. A child, while being quizzed by a parent, saying 'I know what 9 times 4 is' and flatly refusing to say the answer would not be tolerated. Yet those very same parents would vote for a political party that hides its ideas, its solutions, and its vision for America? A parent will invest hours a day going over math, history, science and spelling with their child, but not devote 2 hours a week to finding out about the people who are seeking influence their family's future? Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts ran for President of the United States in 2004 without any real platform. Remarkably, just about any statement Senator Kerry made was either already in contrast to his previous statements or actions, or would be contradicted by something the Senator would soon say or do. Yet Mr. Kerry's http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/16713.html anti-Bush, substance void, 'say anything to please' crusade managed to cajole greater than 48% of the American vote. How? The Democrats and media spent years discrediting everything President Bush said or did without regard to the benefit to the nation or America's war against terrorism. The public was led to believe that President Bush was a complete imbecile. When painting the President as a fool didn't work the democrats portrayed him as a diabolical mastermind with sinister motives. The end result of this lengthily media blitz was a gradual turning of the population against a leader who had safely led the nation through perilous times, weathered a recession, cultivated a strong economy, fostered all time high levels of home ownership levels, maintained record low unemployment numbers, and reduced taxes for the majority of the nation. But 48% of the voting American public ignored facts, focused on conjecture and voted against President Bush in 2004. Mr. Kerry showed the politicians, but apparently not all of the American people, that a political campaign doesn't necessarily need facts, substance, or ideas to persuade voters. To contend a politician simply needs charisma, audacity, good communication skills, and most importantly the ability to create anger or fear in voters minds. The Kerry
[osint] US to India: Iran not a reliable partner
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1869029.cms US to India: Iran not a reliable partner NEW DELHI: The US on Monday said that although it was up to India to decide on the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project, Washington considers Iran to be 'not a reliable partner'. Our experience with Iran makes us realise that it is not a reliable partner, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Richard Boucher said here. Instead, he suggested and supported making Afghanistan a place for transit. We think by opening up Afghanistan and making it a place for transit, we have made a positive change, the visiting US official added. The US is backing the Turkmenistan-Afghanisatan-Pakistan gas pipeline project and its possible extension to India as an alternative to the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline. Boucher, however, added that it was for India to decide whether to go ahead with the tri-nation pipeline project based on commercial viability and its own experience of working with Tehran. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iran will counter attack with 100 times greater force
Yeah, yeah, yeah.whatever. Bruce http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8182 Iran will counter at attack with 100 times greater force Tehran, Iran, Aug. 07 - The Supreme Commandant of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps criticised on Monday Arab countries for their inaction towards the killing of Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Palestine by the leaders of the United States, Britain, the Zionist regime, and their allies. Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi said that Washington and Tel Aviv had been defeated in their battle with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. Undoubtedly, if these criminals try to take action and conduct mischief against Iran they will suffer blows 100 times more powerful. The armed forces and the IRGC must, with complete awareness regarding intelligence and with a high military, political, cultural, and security understanding of regional and intercontinental issues, be fully prepared for possible threats, he said. He once again described the U.S., Britain, and Israel as an Axis of Evil. Safavi denounced the recent United Nations Security Council resolution against Iran over its nuclear program as illegal and baseless. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] NZ Islam celebrates long history
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/810064 NZ Islam celebrates long history Aug 8, 2006 World events in the past few years have often cast Islam in a negative light, but this week Kiwi Muslims are celebrating Islam's long history in New Zealand. The country's history of Islam is over 130 years old, dating back to the arrival of Chinese muslim gold miners in 1874. And while many of the 30,000 Muslims now living in New Zealand are new migrants, around 4,000 kiwi Muslims are Maori or of European descent. It is this diversity that Islam Awareness week hopes will help change the way New Zealanders view Islam. Their [kiwis] understanding about Muslims is that this is a very new breed of people coming to this country and they do not understand our culture they do not know how to behave...that is totally wrong, Javed khan As the presence of Islam has continued to grow, so too has its acceptance. At Auckland's Mt Albert Pak n Save supermarket, muslim staff are now able to kneel in a special prayer room. But the manager who made it possible says it's not about political correctness but about getting the most out of his staff I have a 30% staff roll over, some supermarkets in New Zealand have 100% staff roll over. We only have a couple of vacancies a week out of 320 employees. We have a line up of people coming to work here, says manager Brian Carran. It is contributions such as Carran's which are being recognised in Islam Awareness week. In return they get 110% from these employees as a result of which his profit has increased, his sales have increased and he's a very happy employer, says Federation of Islamic Association spokesperson Javed Khan. Mt Albert's Pak n Save is also flexible with its rosters to accommodate Somali workers who need to return to Africa for long stretches. And while the history of Islam in New Zealand may be long, Carran says it is time to recognise it. We have special needs here. This is not white Anglo Saxon New Zealand anymore, this is multicultural New Zealand. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] NZ Islam celebrates long history
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/810064 NZ Islam celebrates long history Aug 8, 2006 World events in the past few years have often cast Islam in a negative light, but this week Kiwi Muslims are celebrating Islam's long history in New Zealand. The country's history of Islam is over 130 years old, dating back to the arrival of Chinese muslim gold miners in 1874. And while many of the 30,000 Muslims now living in New Zealand are new migrants, around 4,000 kiwi Muslims are Maori or of European descent. It is this diversity that Islam Awareness week hopes will help change the way New Zealanders view Islam. Their [kiwis] understanding about Muslims is that this is a very new breed of people coming to this country and they do not understand our culture they do not know how to behave...that is totally wrong, Javed khan As the presence of Islam has continued to grow, so too has its acceptance. At Auckland's Mt Albert Pak n Save supermarket, muslim staff are now able to kneel in a special prayer room. But the manager who made it possible says it's not about political correctness but about getting the most out of his staff I have a 30% staff roll over, some supermarkets in New Zealand have 100% staff roll over. We only have a couple of vacancies a week out of 320 employees. We have a line up of people coming to work here, says manager Brian Carran. It is contributions such as Carran's which are being recognised in Islam Awareness week. In return they get 110% from these employees as a result of which his profit has increased, his sales have increased and he's a very happy employer, says Federation of Islamic Association spokesperson Javed Khan. Mt Albert's Pak n Save is also flexible with its rosters to accommodate Somali workers who need to return to Africa for long stretches. And while the history of Islam in New Zealand may be long, Carran says it is time to recognise it. We have special needs here. This is not white Anglo Saxon New Zealand anymore, this is multicultural New Zealand. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Shut down Iran's deadly ambitions
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20049842-7583,00.html Michael Danby: Shut down Iran's deadly ambitions To prevent a possible nuclear war, the Howard Government should consider backing US sanctions against Tehran, even if it hurts our wheat trade in the Middle East, insists Labor MP Michael Danby AUSTRALIA'S ambassador to the UN, Robert Hill, suggested last week that Australia might not back the US in imposing financial sanctions against Iran if sanctions were not approved by the Security Council. Hill's caution focuses Australia on the wider issue behind the present conflict in Lebanon - the role of Iran in instigating the Hezbollah attack on Israel, and its ambitions to become a nuclear power. This is an issue Australia cannot avoid. The role of Iran explains why Israel has responded so strongly to Hezbollah's attacks. Some have seen Israel's response as disproportionate. But whether a country's response to an armed attack is proportionate or not depends on the dimension of the threat it faces. Despite Hezbollah's missiles forcing a million Israelis into shelters or into mass evacuations, the real existential threat to Israel - and not just to Israel - is the longer-term ambition of Hezbollah's sponsors, the regime in Iran. Only last week Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the Islamic Conference in Malaysia, made another call for the elimination of Israel. In Australia, both the Government and Opposition have forcefully told the Iranian ambassador that such belligerence is outrageous and will have consequences. Hezbollah's stockpile of 13,000 missiles was provided by Iran and delivered through Syria. As well as its old Soviet Katyushas, Hezbollah has hundreds of Fajr missiles, including some with much greater range than those used so far. These can only have come from Iran. On July 11, the day before Hezbollah launched its barrage and abducted two Israeli soldiers, Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, met EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Brussels and told him that Iran would not meet EU demands to stop its nuclear weapons program. Solana told Larijani the EU would therefore support the US in imposing sanctions on Iran. On his way home, Larijani stopped in Beirut and met senior Hezbollah leaders. At that meeting, Hezbollah was given its orders - attack Israel. The motive for this order is clear: to divert attention from Iran's conflict with the US and the EU over its nuclear weapons program. The proposed ceasefire in Lebanon, desirable though it obviously is from a humanitarian point of view, may retard Iranian activities in Lebanon but is not a comprehensive answer to the wider problem: the role of the Tehran regime. Iran is publicly committed to the destruction of Israel and is bent on the development of nuclear weapons. Its agents are seeking to extend their influence in Iraq. Iran ultimately has its eye on Saudi Arabia's oil provinces, where Shi'a arabs are the majority of the population. Iran and North Korea are the only countries in the world whose leaders openly canvass the use of nuclear weapons. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has said the casualties Iran would sustain in a nuclear exchange with Israel would be acceptable if it meant Israel could be eliminated at the same time. It is striking that the EU, antagonistic to both Israel and the policies of the US in the Middle East, has taken such a strong stand on the Iranian nuclear question. France and Germany may not be admirers of the Bush administration but they know a real threat to their security when they see one, and they see one in the fanatic ambitions of the theocrats in Tehran. Unfortunately, Russia and to a lesser extent China are making a lot of money helping Iran develop nuclear capacity. They will almost certainly block any move at the Security Council to impose serious economic sanctions on Iran. This means the burden of imposing sanctions will fall on the US and its allies. Australia will have to decide where it stands. Demands from the Prime Minister's Muslim reference group that Hezbollah be delisted as a terrorist organisation will cut no ice with 95 per cent of the Australian parliament. When parliament voted for this measure, Australia was keenly aware of Hezbollah's role in sponsoring terrorism outside the Middle East. Sanctions on Iran might mean the loss of AWB Ltd's $80million wheat contract there, so we can expect the National Party to take a strong interest. This may explain former National Party leader Tim Fischer's recent criticisms of Israel and the allegedly sinister influence of the Israel lobby. So, back to Australia's role at the UN. If Iran refuses to abandon its nuclear ambitions, and if we are serious about preventing a possible nuclear war initiated by Iran, we should support financial sanctions against that country. Michael Danby is a federal Labor MP, secretary of the caucus national security committee and a member of the parliamentary
[osint] Anti-terror laws said to risk 'discrimination'
Sure, against terrorists. Bruce http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1147152006 Anti-terror laws said to risk 'discrimination' GERRI PEEV BRITAIN'S top Asian police officer has warned the government that its anti-terrorism laws risk criminalising Muslims. Tarique Ghaffur, the assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, also called for a judicial review of the radicalisation of young Muslims. His warning about radicalisation came as a new poll found that almost a quarter of British Muslims thought the 7/7 bombings were justified because of the government's support for the war on terrorism. It was time to investigate the cause of the anger and resentment of young British Muslims that lay behind last July's bombings in London, Mr Ghaffur told the National Black Police Association's conference in Manchester. Not only has anti-terrorism and security legislation been tightened across many European countries, with the effect of indirectly discriminating against Muslims, but other equally unwanted practices have also emerged, including increased stop-and-search legislation, he said. A Home Office spokesman said: The powers within counter-terror legislation are not aimed at a particular race, religion, or any other group. They are aimed at terrorists, whatever section of society they may come from. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] THE PEACE OF ISLAM IN PARIS
http://www.montanasnews.com/articles.php?mode=view http://www.montanasnews.com/articles.php?mode=viewid=2884 id=2884 THE PEACE OF ISLAM IN PARIS by MONTANA NEWS ASSOCIATION By Bill Wilson, MNA Senior Analyst WASH-MNA-Nov 7- The unchecked immigration of Islam to European countries such as France, Spain, Denmark and Great Britain in the name of social diversity has come home to roost as Europeans are now seeing the very beginning of the Islamic occupation of Europe with the burning of Paris. Interesting are the words of one of the most powerful Islamic clerics in all of France. The director of the Great Mosque of Paris, Dalil Boubakeur told the French Prime Minister to make sure the government choose its words carefully and sent a message of peace as it dealt with the explosive situation. Indeed, such a suggestion is akin to what has been said in other parts of the world under Islamic attack. The message: This is now Islamic territory, treat us with respect and make peace with us-that's the same message rioters shout as they pelt the French police with rocks, begging the question whether this is a riot or a revolt. For decades France has welcomed Islamic immigrants from Arab and African countries to take the jobs no one else wanted or to perform the tasks more unspeakable in its society. And for decades, the Islamic population grew until it reach some five million, about a quarter of the population. In fact, throughout Europe, the Islamic population has been growing unchecked. And now, today, France is in flames as Islamic militants, branded by the news media as youths who are upset with their economic situation, burn cars and buildings, pelt police with rocks and shoot at them with whatever weapons they can find. Some believe this is a beginning of a new Islamic front in the war on terror. The theme of Islamic poor committing violence because of their economic conditions has been one that European appeasers and members of the liberal left have used for years in excusing another group of terrorists who started their movement in much the same way as these thugs in France-the Palestinians in Israel. But poor as they may be, French police are finding that there are now coordinated attacks being planned with the use of cell phones and the internet. And they are using cars and scooters to make their hit and run attacks on more strategic targets than when the riots first started. Police discovered a Molotov cocktail factory in a Paris suburb with over 100 bottles ready for use. The Lord referred to the Arabs as locusts when He said spoke of the Babylonian judgment in Jeremiah 51:14, The Lord of hosts has sworn by Himself, saying, Surely I will fill you with men, as with locusts; and they shall lift up a shout against you. This migration of Islam into Europe, especially France, has been welcomed by politicians who preach diversity. Much the same as they have in the United States. But Islamic law promotes the concept that Allah has given his people the land when they move into it, and that all others must submit to Islam. This is what France is finding out today. What nation will know it tomorrow? Denmark, Spain, Britain, the United States? Seek Christ for He is the true Prince of Peace. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] UPI: The DNI's civil liberties office -- poachers tunrned gamekeepers?
Please find below an example of UPI's continuing coverage of U.S. intelligence reform. A shorter version may appear in tomorrow's Washington Times. I hope you find it interesting. You may link to it on the Web here: http://www.upi.com/inc/view.php?StoryID=20060807-075246-8844r If you would like more information about UPI's Security and Terrorism service, or to stop receiving these alerts, please get in touch. Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 202 898 8081 The DNI's civil liberties office: poachers tunrned gamekeepers? By Shaun Waterman UPI Homeland and National Security Editor WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The ACLU was one of the organizations that successfully campaigned for an office for civil liberties and privacy within the new structure that Congress gave U.S. intelligence in its huge overhaul in 2004. But they probably never imagined that one of their top lobbyists would quit to go work there. Tim Edgar, formerly a senior legislative counsel at the ACLU's Washington office started work last month as the deputy civil liberties protection officer in the office of Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte. He is one of a three-person civil liberties and privacy team headed by Alexander Joel, who quit a lucrative private sector job after the Sept. 11 attacks because we all needed to do something for the country and went to work in the CIA general counsel's office. Negroponte appointed Joel last year to the new civil liberties post, a product of the same huge 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act that created Negroponte's own job. Joel says that not everyone welcomed the idea of hiring an ACLU lawyer. I expected a mixed reaction and that's what I got, he told United Press International in a recent interview. By-and-large Tim has been warmly received, he said. There were some questions about whether he understood the shift in culture he would be making, acknowledged Joel, citing a couple of remarks along the lines of Does he really know where he's coming? Edgar himself said the main culture shift he had experienced was one that would apply to anyone making the leap from outside advocate to government insider. You're here to participate in a deliberative process (of making policy) and hopefully have your voice heard in a way you wouldn't as an advocate. The price you pay for that of course is you don't (take part in) a public debate, he told UPI. Former fellow-campaigners from the civil liberties lobby were -- at best -- cautious about Edgar's prospects. His appointment shows commendable broad-mindedness on the part of the director of national intelligence, said government transparency campaigner Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists. Will (he) do more good for civil liberties within the government than he did on the outside? I don't know. Kate Martin of the Center for National Security Studies declined to comment on Edgar directly, noting that, since Joel's appointment, Negroponte has filed affidavits in several of the pending court challenges to the (National Security Agency's program of) warrantless surveillance, seeking to shut down all court review of that surveillance on the grounds of state secrets privilege. As a result, she concluded there is no reason to believe that the civil liberties office ... will have any significant impact on the administration's actions. Even Edgar's former colleagues at the ACLU were not much more generous. Caroline Frederickson said the ACLU wished him well, but added it was unfortunate that the position had so little influence. He doesn't have much room to run, she said, calling the office window dressing and neutered. I hope he can have an impact, she concluded, but the statutory powers the office had would make that a steep hill to climb. Edgar himself said that he has been impressed by how dedicated many of the professionals who work in (U.S. intelligence agencies) are to the bedrock protections, for civil liberties contained in the Constitution and in statutes like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which many argue is breached by the administration's warrantless surveillance program. In their day-to-day work, people do want to be on the right side of that line (of constitutionality and legality), and they're looking for this office to help keep them the right side of that line, he said. In part, there was a fear of public controversy. The last thing anyone wants is for their program to be on the front pages ... a poster child for the civil liberties issue. Edgar said that caution reflects an understanding (in the agencies) that if they don't proceed carefully they're going to get themselves in serious trouble. That is more than just wishful thinking on his part. Several former intelligence officials have told UPI in recent months that some of their still-serving colleagues are growing increasingly concerned about the legal territory
[osint] News Flash: Qatar Warns Against U.N. Mideast Draft
Qatar Warns Against U.N. Mideast Draft -- A draft Security Council resolution on ending the war between Israel and Hezbollah would only complicate the crisis and result in grave ramifications for Lebanon and the region, Qatar's foreign minister said Tuesday. -- TBO (AP) [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MIDEAST_FIGHTING_UN?SITE=FLTAMSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: UN hears plea to amend resolution
UN hears plea to amend resolution -- The Arab League is making a formal bid at the UN to secure changes to a draft Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire resolution. -- BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5258234.stm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: 2 Suspected Islamic Militants Killed in Gunbattle
2 Suspected Islamic Militants Killed in Gunbattle -- Security forces killed two suspected Islamic militants in a gunbattle Tuesday in Indian-controlled Kashmir, and a rebel grenade attack injured 12 civilians and a soldier in the insurgency-wracked region, police said. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207460,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: UN seeks Interpol co-operation
UN seeks Interpol co-operation -- THE UN security council called today for closer cooperation between the United Nations and Interpol to increase the effectiveness of UN sanctions around the world. -- news.com.au [ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20068052-1702,00.html?from=rss ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Roadside bombs kill 19 people in Baghdad
Roadside bombs kill 19 people in Baghdad -- Four separate roadside bomb attacks killed at least 19 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, police sources said, as U.S. troops made new efforts to try to rid the capital of powerful militias and insurgents. -- Reuters [ http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNewsstoryID=13121731src=rss/topNews ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet
How Hizballah Hijacks the Internet -- The group pops up on unwitting web sites around the world in order to communicate, recruit, and fundraise -- Time [ http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1224273,00.html ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Deadly Israeli Strike Scatters Mourners
Deadly Israeli Strike Scatters Mourners -- Mourners in a funeral procession for Israeli airstrike victims scattered in panic Tuesday as warplanes again unleashed missiles that hit buildings and killed 13 people, witnesses and officials said. -- ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2288467CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] News Flash: Chinese Official Executed As Taiwan Spy
Chinese Official Executed As Taiwan Spy -- An official from China's social security fund has been executed on charges of spying for rival Taiwan, a spokesman for the agency said Tuesday, and government employees have been required to watch a video about the case. -- ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2288836CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] What's wrong with Israel?
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWFkZDUxMjYxM2I1OWIxZjJmNDFmMTk3MTlhNjg 5NzM= The 1973 Syndrome What's wrong with Israel? By Meyrav Wurmser A few days after the outbreak of the war, I spoke to old Israeli friends. They live in the Tel Aviv area, and are therefore not directly exposed to the missile attacks in the north. Like most Israeli families, though, they have friends and relatives in the north, some of whom they now host in their home. Are you winning? I asked. No, my friend said. We can't win. For years we all knew that the military was not training - that the state was cutting military budgets and closing down bases. We knew it was just a question of time before this would happen. What is your mood? I asked, hearing gravity in his voice. We can't believe that we don't even have the ability to stop an organization like Hezbollah. It's not even a state, you know. Where is our great Israeli army? This feels like 1973 all over again. I've heard that comparison again and again from other Israelis in the past few days. And I've heard a great deal of disappointment - in a political leadership that is not leading and a military leadership that is not performing. I was a child during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, but I remember it well. Israel was not defeated or destroyed in that war, but the Arab armies' ability to wage a broad surprise attack and seriously challenge the Israeli military shocked us all. The failure to anticipate the war and to obviate severe losses quickly became known as the mechdal, (great oversight). This negligence on the part of military intelligence eventually led to a commission of inquiry, which in turn forced the dismissal of much of the Israeli Defense Forces' leadership and the resignation of Prime Minister Golda Meir and her defense minister, Moshe Dayan. This smashed all illusions of the Israeli public that leaders could be trusted and that victory could always be rapidly assured. It robbed them of the triumphalism bred by the 1967 war, in which the Israeli army stunningly defeated its enemies in a mere six days. 1973 was a rude awakening, reminding Israel of its vulnerability. The war now being waged on Israel's northern cities is likewise stirring such an awakening. The Israeli public, two million of whom are refugees from their northern homes or hunkering down in shelters, is quietly questioning its leadership and its military prowess. As a nation full of pride for its military - a true military of the masses in which service is compulsory - even a modicum of doubt in victory is a tremendous rupture for the Israeli psyche. This is a nation of soldiers, parents of soldiers, and friends of soldiers, and so a loss of faith in the army is a loss of faith in oneself. But such is the reality in Israel. Where is the army of 1967? is a common question. In the absence of visible results from the incursion into Lebanon, under the strain of continuous rocket fire, the public is growing more and more concerned. They fear that complacency overtook the army in post-Oslo years; that real regional dangers were tragically overlooked in favor of local policing, leaving soldiers more comfortable at checkpoints than in battlefields. They fear that Palestinian claims and the need to suppress Palestinian terror emanating from Palestinian-controlled territories overshadowed the threats of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran - the current-day menaces lurking on the border. As Professor Zeev Sternhall wrote recently in Haaretz newspaper: the average citizen, who is not working day and night in the corridors of power and is not sunning himself near the generals' command rooms, is at a loss. Is this how we are restoring the IDF's power of deterrence? . If several thousand guerrilla fighters do constitute an existential danger to a country with a strike force and weaponry that are unparalleled in this part of the world, how is it that during the past five or six years we heard nothing to that effect from government leaders? In other words, once again there seems to have been a mechdal, a grave, fatal oversight on the part of the military and the government. It is not only Israeli citizens who are sounding the alarm, but parts of the army itself. Prime Minister Olmert spoke last week at the graduation ceremony of the National Defense College, outlining his strategic vision. When Olmert pronounced that in this war we have already achieved unparalleled achievements that have changed the face of the Middle East, Haaretz reported that senior officers in the audience wondered aloud, Is it possible that he is looking at the same war that we are? Other officers argued that if the Israeli moves were presented as a war exercise in the classroom, they would not have gotten a passing grade. Others spoke of hubris, of the faulty belief that the air force alone could overcome the Katyusha problem, and of the prolonged negligence in training reserve units and equipping them properly. And yet, in the midst of all
