[osint] London Police Disrupt Terrorist Plot to Blow Up Aircraft in Mid-Flight
* http://www.foxnews. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207682,00.html com/story/0,2933,207682,00.html London Police Disrupt Terrorist Plot to Blow Up Aircraft in Mid-Flight Thursday, August 10, 2006 LONDON - Authorities in London thwarted a terrorist plot to blow up an aircraft in mid-flight between the United States and the United Kingdom using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, police said Thursday. Click here to read the Sky News story. http://news. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-1230417,00.html sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-1230417,00.html Police have arrested a number of people in London after a major covert counter-terrorist operation Security at the country's airports increased and additional measures were put in place for all flights. British Airways advised all passengers that they would not be permitted to carry any hand baggage on board any aircraft departing from any airport in the country. Passengers will be allowed to take only travel documents, eyeglasses and a handful of other items through airport security. Handbags will not permitted, the company said in a statement. Passengers were also advised that no electrical or battery powered items including laptops and mobile phones could be carried into the cabin. [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] UK police say terror plot thwarted
How long are they going to hide the al-Qaeda/Iranian connection? Bruce UK police say terror plot thwarted LONDON (CNN) -- British police have disrupted what they believe was a major terrorist plot to blow up aircraft in flight, likely between the United Kingdom and the United States, a statement from Scotland Yard said Thursday. It is believed that the aim was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board the aircraft in hand luggage. It is believed that the attacks would have been particularly targeted at flights from the UK to the USA, the statement said. Arrests were made overnight in London by the Metropolitan Police Department's anti-terrorist branch and security service. Today's arrests are the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months, Scotland Yard said. We would like to reassure the public that this operation was carried out with public safety uppermost in our minds, the statement said. This is a major operation which inevitably will be lengthy and complex. We will provide further information as soon as possible. The British Airport Authority said additional air travel security measures have been implemented in light of developments. All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be x-ray screened, a BAA statement said. The alleged terror plot comes more than five years after Briton Richard Reid attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his sneakers on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001, only a few months after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. Passengers thwarted his plan, and the plane landed safely in Boston. Reid pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in October 2002 and is serving a life sentence at the nation's super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/10/uk.terror/index.html 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:
[osint] Philippine marines capture 5 suspected Abu Sayyaf militants following clash
http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillgen.asp?fileid=20060809191449irec=0 By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press Writer MANILA, Philippines Philippine marines captured five suspected Muslim militants Wednesday following a gunbattle on southern Jolo island, where the military has been hunting down Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani and Indonesian terror suspects, officials said. It was not clear if Janjalani or members of the al-Qaida-linked Jemaah Islamiyah organization _ all targets of ongoing U.S.-backed offensives _ were among a group of Abu Sayyaf men who clashed with members of the 3rd Philippine marine brigade near mountainous Patikul town, whose thick jungles are a known lair of the rebels. Marine forces stumbled on a group of Abu Sayyaf guerrillas at dawn, setting off a 30-minute gunbattle, military spokesman Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro said. There was no immediate report of casualties. The marines recovered an assault rifle and a pistol left by the rebels and later separately captured five men near the vicinity, Bacarro said without elaborating. Government forces launched a manhunt for Janjalani and several Jemaah Islamiyah members on impoverished Jolo early this month after local residents claimed to have seen them, according to a military officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to talk to reporters. Among the Indonesians who took refuge on Jolo with Janjalani was Umar Patek, one of the suspected masterminds of the 2002 nightclub bombings in Indonesia's resort island of Bali that killed 202 people, the officer said. Other military officials have said another 2002 Bali bombing suspect who goes by one name, Dulmatin, may also be hiding with the Abu Sayyaf on Jolo, about 940 kilometers (580 miles) south of Manila. Washington has offered huge rewards for the capture of Dulmatin and Patek who Philippine police intelligence officials believe fled from Indonesia after the 2002 Bali attacks. Last week, Philippine military officials reported that Ismin Sahiron, son of one-armed Abu Sayyaf commander Radulan Sahiron, died after being wounded in a clash with Philippine troops. The father and son, who also had an arm amputated, are among 14 Filipino militants on a U.S. Defense Department list offering rewards for information leading to their capture. U.S. troops, stationed on Jolo as part of counterterrorism assistance focusing on humanitarian work, were providing intelligence and communications support to the Philippine military offensives, U.S. and Philippine officials said. 060809 094501 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
[osint] Muslim preacher accused of anti-US plots in Iraq says `purge' of occupation planned
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/Navariednews.asp?dismode=article http://www.kuwaittimes.net/Navariednews.asp?dismode=articleartid=184775449 8 artid=1847754498 By JAMAL HALABY Associated Press Writer AMMAN, Jordan A Jordanian mosque preacher accused of plotting to attack U.S. troops in Iraq said Wednesday in a military court that he wanted to purge Muslim countries of occupation. Wisam al-Dimawi appeared in State Security Court for the opening session along with three other defendants, including the cousin of the late al-Qaida terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. A fifth suspect is charged in absentia. We wanted to purge Muslim countries of occupation, the bearded 30-year-old al-Dimawi told reporters and others in the courtroom before the trial formally opened. Proceedings were adjourned until Aug. 23 because defense attorneys were absent. The indictment provided little details on the alleged plots against U.S. forces or others in Iraq. It said al-Dimawi and two other suspects were arrested at a Jordanian police roadblock near the Syrian border on May 7. Before the session, al-Dimawi said that the group was only thinking of fighting Americans. Jordan is one of Washington's main Middle East allies, but many Jordanians strongly oppose the U.S.-led military presence in neighboring Iraq. Military prosecutors charged the group with exposing Jordan to retaliatory attacks and harming its relations with an unnamed foreign country _ a reference to the United States. If convicted, each face up to 15 years in jail. The indictment says the five alleged militants sought to enter Iraq through Syria aided by a network smuggling Arab fighters. The defendants include Omar Jamil Nazzal al-Khalayleh, a cousin of al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq two months ago. The Jordanian-born al-Zarqawi was accused of organizing the triple suicide blast at hotels in Amman in November, which killed 60 people. Prosecutors alleged another suspect in custody, Salem al-Ojeimi, made it to Damascus on his way to Iraq but that others in his group never did. The same court later convened to hear a separate case involving seven alleged al-Qaida militants charged with plotting to carry out suicide attacks against Amman's international airport and resort hotels. The hearing quickly adjourned until Aug. 23 after four defendants told the tribunal that they could not afford to hire lawyers and appealed for court-appointed attorneys. The four defendants _ a Libyan and three Iraqis _ are in police custody since late February. The remaining thee _ two Iraqis and one Saudi _ are still at large and are being tried in absentia. If convicted, all face death penalty. jjh-str-bm 060809 170237 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
[osint] Plane Terror Plot Thwarted
Plane Terror Plot Thwarted Updated: 06:44, Thursday August 10, 2006 Police say they have disrupted a major plot to blow up planes in mid-flight with explosive devices smuggled aboard as hand luggage. Sky News has been told the plan was to hit around a dozen planes over UK and US cities. Police are said to have arrested 20 people in London - the culmination of a major covert counter-terrorist operation lasting several months. Passengers trying to board international flights from the UK are not being allowed to carry on hand luggage. The Home Office's level of security - indicating public risk - has been raised from 'severe' to 'critical'. Sky News' Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said he understood the threat was imminent and those arrested were mainly young, British-born Asian men. He said the alleged plan involved people boarding flights and detonating explosives on planes over UK and US cities. The swoop followed a pre-planned intelligence led operation by the Met's anti-terrorist branch and security service. A police statement said: This is a major operation which inevitably will be lengthy and complex. We will provide further information as soon as possible. Lengthy queues at airports have been reported and a Transport Department spokesman said delays were inevitable. Passengers are being asked to allow themselves plenty of extra time and to ensure that other than the few permitted items listed above, all their belongings are placed in their hold baggage and checked in. These additional security measures will make travel more difficult for passengers, particularly at such a busy time of the year. But they are necessary and will continue to keep flights from UK airports properly secure. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-1230417,00.html http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3-1230417,00.html _ 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] Plot to blow up aircraft foiled: aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States.
Police: Plot to blow up aircraft foiled Thursday, August 10, 2006; Posted: 6:24 a.m. EDT (10:24 GMT) LONDON, England (CNN) -- British police say they have arrested 21 people in connection with a terrorist plot to blow up aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States. The plot was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale, Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson said. The UK's threat warning level has been raised to critical -- meaning an attack is expected imminently. London's Heathrow airport was closed to most European flights Thursday morning, causing chaos for thousands of travelers. The closure to incoming traffic at the world's busiest international airport applied to flights of three hours or less, a spokesman said. (Full http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/10/london.travel/index.html story) British and U.S. security agencies quickly moved to limit carry-on items, causing extended delays at airport security checkpoints. The British Airports Authority said no hand luggage would be allowed onto planes leaving UK airports. (Full http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/10/uk.terror.homeoffice/index.html story) Stephenson said the plot involved a plan to blow up passenger jets flying between the United Kingdom and the United States. He said 21 people were arrested by London, Birmingham and Thames Valley police overnight in an ongoing operation. This is about people who are desperate ... who want to do things that no right-minded citizen of this country or any other country would want to tolerate, Stephenson said. The arrests were the result of a covert counter-terrorist operation, police said. It is believed that the aim was to detonate explosive devices smuggled on board the aircraft in hand luggage. Britain's Home Secretary John Reid said: We are doing everything possible to disrupt any other terrorist activity. This will mean major disruptions from all UK airports. In the United States, the Department of Homeland Security raised the terror threat to the highest level of severe, or red, for commercial flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States. In addition, the threat level has been raised to high, or orange for all commercial flights operating in or coming to the United States, a DHS statement said. Due to the nature of the threat revealed by this investigation, we are prohibiting any liquids, including beverages, hair gels, and lotions from being carried on the airplane, the statement said. A U.S. Transporation Safety Adminstration official said travelers should show up at least two hours ahead of their flights and bring plenty of patience. According to the DHS, there is no indication the plot involved American counterparts. The alleged terror plot comes more than five years after Briton Richard Reid attempted to detonate explosives hidden in his sneakers on an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001, only a few months after the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington. Passengers thwarted his plan, and the plane landed safely in Boston. Reid pleaded guilty to terrorism charges in October 2002 and is serving a life sentence at the nation's super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado. Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html#AP contributed to this report There is nothing more dangerous and difficult or more doubtful of success, Than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things,Whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders Machiavelli [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for
[osint] Travel advice for passengers
http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.871292.0.travel _advice_for_passengers.php Travel advice for passengers By Internet Editor Chris mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sudlow The Department for Transport has issued advice to air passengers after a suspected plot to blow up planes was prevented. Following this morning's police action, security at all UK airports has been increased and additional security measures have been put in place for all flights. With immediate effect, the following arrangements apply to all passengers starting their journey at a UK airport and to those transferring between flights at a UK airport. continued... http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.871292.0.trave l_advice_for_passengers.php#mpubot http://ads-delivery1.newsquest.co.uk/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.thisisl ancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.871292.0.travel_advice_for_passen gers.php/555890012/Frame2/default/empty.gif/34303033303264323434646231333730 All cabin baggage must be processed as hold baggage and carried in the hold of passenger aircraft departing UK airports. Passengers may take through the airport security search point, in a single (ideally transparent) plastic carrier bag, only the following items. Nothing may be carried in pockets. Pocket-size wallets and pocket-size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc (not handbags). Travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets). Prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (eg, diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic. Spectacles and sunglasses, without cases. Contact lens holders, without bottles of solution. For those travelling with an infant. Babyfood, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger) and sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags). Female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (eg tampons, pads, towels and wipes). Tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs. Keys (but no electrical key fobs). All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be X-ray screened. Pushchairs and walking aids must be X-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs may pass through the screening point. In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Extra time. Any liquids discovered must be removed from the passenger. There are no changes to current hold baggage security measures. Regrettably, significant delays at airports are inevitable. Passengers are being asked to allow themselves plenty of extra time and to ensure that other than the few permitted items listed above, all their belongings are placed in their hold baggage and checked in. These additional security measures will make travel more difficult for passengers, particularly at such a busy time of the year. But they are necessary and will continue to keep flights from UK airports properly secure. We hope that these measures, which are being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only. In light of the threat to aviation and the need to respond to it, we are asking the travelling public to be patient and understanding and to cooperate fully with airport security staff and the police. If passengers have any questions on their travel arrangements or security in place at airports they should contact their airline or carrier. [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
[osint] Fears of 'parallel terror group'
Fears of 'parallel terror group' By Gordon Corera BBC security correspondent A massive security operation is under way at Britain's airports despite several arrests of suspects overnight. This is an operation that will have been ongoing for some time. Security sources are saying that this was a group that was being watched for some period, perhaps even months. But in the last five days new intelligence came in which set off alarm bells inside MI5 Headquarters in Thames House and led the security services to believe they had to move fast. They believed this was a group who were actively developing the capability to carry out their intentions, and not just talk. '9/11 level' This means it is likely the police and security services believed they were putting together material to carry out this attack. The attack which was disrupted has been described as imminent but was not thought to have been planned for the day of the raids but possibly within a week or two. It would have targeted US airlines carrying passengers from London to the US. They would have been blown up using explosives carried on as hand luggage by suicide bombers. The explosive was thought to be some kind of liquid. It is not clear exactly how many flights were being targeted but it could have been up to 10 which would make this one of the most significant terrorist plots to have been seen and which could have killed people on a scale comparable to 9/11. US link One of the concerns and one of the reasons we've seen the threat level moved up to its highest - critical - is the fear that maybe this isn't all they know. Intelligence is often fragmentary and partial, so the fear perhaps is that there is another, parallel group or other individuals who are also going to carry out similar attacks. What if they remain at large and what if they decide to move because they've seen another group disrupted and arrested? That's why a lot of security measures are being taken. We know that overnight the US Department of Homeland Security raised its threat level on flights to the UK and put in place tighter security. Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk/4778889.stm [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] FW: Swiss high court allows the U.S. to receive banking information on alleged terrorist funding
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9658176/detail.html By URS-PETER INDERBITZIN Associated Press Writer LAUSANNE, Switzerland Swiss authorities will provide the United States with details from bank accounts U.S. investigators suspect of being involved in terrorist funding, a Justice Ministry official said Wednesday. Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said the documents will be handed over this month now that Switzerland's highest court has approved the transfer, rejecting the appeal by a firm owned by two Saudi Arabian citizens, a father and his son. The Saudis said in their appeal that the funds had simply come from private investments conforming to Islamic law. They denied any involvement in terrorist financing. In the ruling disclosed Wednesday, the Federal Tribunal approved the request of the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Virginia, which had been pending since 2002 as part of an investigation into money laundering and support of terrorist activities. The U.S. prosecutor requested the account information as part of an investigation into some 100 charitable organizations which are providing by means of complex financial transactions support to terrorist operations, the ruling said. The United States suspects the organizations of having links to al-Qaida, Hamas and the Palestinian Jihad, said the ruling, handed down July 4 but kept secret until the court released it Wednesday. None of the individuals involved in the U.S. investigation were identified. The U.S. said more than US$26 million was transferred to entities in the British Isle of Man owning bank accounts in Switzerland. The money was then given to the charitable organizations, the court said. The United States also alleged that further money transfers of US$5.8 million and US$1.6 million took place in August 2001 from one of the organizations to a Swiss bank account owned by the Saudis, the court said. There was no indication in the court document that the transfer was linked to the attacks on the United States the following month _ on Sept. 11, 2001. U.S. authorities in 2004 informed the Swiss that further investigations showed that the charitable organization that sent money to the Saudis' account in 2001 subsequently had transferred its entire assets to an account owned by the father and son in the English Channel island of Jersey. A major part of those funds was then sent on to one of the Saudis' accounts in Zurich, the ruling said. The judgment represents the final rejection of the appeal and allows Switzerland to hand over the banking records to the U.S. 060809 160041 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,
[osint] At-a-glance: UK airports
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778771.stm?ls At-a-glance: UK airports Security at all UK airports has been tightened after an alleged plot to blow up planes in mid-flight from the UK to the US. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif CABIN LUGGAGE ALLOWED Pocket-sized wallets and purses, plus contents Passports and travel tickets Prescription medicines, not in liquid form unless can be verified as authentic Essential medical items such as diabetic kit Glasses and sunglasses, no cases Contact lens holders, no bottles of solution Baby food and milk for those with infants - contents of each bottle must be tasted by accompanying passenger Essential sanitary items for infants Female sanitary items, unboxed Tissues, unboxed, or handkerchiefs Keys, but no electric key fobs http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778615.stm Full advice for passengers Broadly, passengers are not being allowed to take on any hand luggage except essential items in see-through carrier bags, and are advised to expect severe delays. Passengers are advised to contact their airline with any queries. British Airways said customers not wishing to travel on Thursday could rebook to travel up to 1 December subject to availability, or get a refund. Below is the situation at some of the airports so far. We have included links to airport websites, although readers may experience difficulties accessing some of them because of high demand: HEATHROW The airport has been closed to all incoming flights which are not already in the air. Air France has already cancelled five flights to Heathrow from Paris this morning. BAA has urged all passengers planning to fly out of Heathrow on Thursday to postpone their plans and remain at home unless the journey is essential. Spokesperson Jo Bird said: Heathrow is the same as every other UK airport this morning which is asking passengers not to take any hand luggage into the cabin of an aircraft. There are obviously some exceptions to this - people's wallets, prescribed medicine, but all of those will need to go into a plastic bag. There is a specific list. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/shared/img/o.gif HAVE YOUR SAY http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/start_quote_rb.gif This disruption is one of the short term limits on freedom that are needed http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/end_quote_rb.gif Tony Shield, Chorley http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/v3/inline_dashed_line.gif http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=3122edition=1 Send us your experiences Rod Plankton, of Reading, Berkshire, told the BBC News website: Severe delays on arrival at LHR at 0600 this morning - BA desk staff as helpful as possible in very difficult circumstances as many hundreds of expectant travellers continued to pile into Terminal 1. Lots of patient queuing, but no people passing to airside at 06:30 - expect severe delays http://www.heathrowairport.com/ London Heathrow Airport BELFAST INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Passengers are being advised to check in at least two hours earlier. No hand luggage is allowed to be taken on, with only the barest essentials in transparent plastic bags. Belfast International Airport security director Robin Long said delays would be inevitable. The queues of people going through central search are massive - they are actually queuing into the retail area and on to the moving walkway, he said. Unusually, we are searching absolutely everybody so that is having a massive impact. Easy jet flights from the airport to Amsterdam, London Gatwick and Luton have been cancelled, as have the airline's incoming flights from Luton and Gatwick. http://www.belfastairport.com/en/ Belfast International Airport BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT In a statement, Birmingham asked passengers to turn up for flights as normal. It said people should carry no hand luggage unless absolutely essential, and to speed up check-in they should have travel documents to hand, presenting them with passport open at right page and so on. It said people should arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare and not expecting to book in at the 'last minute'. http://www.bhx.co.uk/ Birmingham International Airport CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Security at all Wales' airports has been stepped up. At Cardiff, managers said extra staff had been drafted in to implement new security measures and to minimise delays. More than 40 flights are due from the airport on Thursday, two to the USA. It has advised people to allow plenty of extra time when checking in. The airport's managing director Jon Horne told the BBC delays were almost inevitable. http://www.cwlfly.com/ Cardiff International Airport EDINBURGH Passengers are being advised to turn up for their flights but to expect long check-in queues. They are urged to check with their airline to find out about delays to flights.
[osint] Reid attacks judges who hamper life and death terrorism battle
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1218053.ece Reid attacks judges who hamper life and death terrorism battle By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent Published: 10 August 2006 The Independent John Reid accused some politicians, judges and liberal commentators of hindering the life and death fight with al-Qa'ida as he signalled he was ready to push for new anti-terrorism laws. The Home Secretary said terrorists espousing the same ideology as those active in Iraq and Afghanistan represented the greatest threat to Britain since the Second World War. And he spelt out his frustration that the nation was using legislation dating back half a century to combat a 21st-century breed of unconstrained terrorists driven by a perverse morality. Mr Reid has overhauled the structure of the Home Office and the immigration services, as well as rebalanced the criminal justice system in his first three months in the job. He said yesterday that he wanted to turn to the overarching challenges facing Britain as he delivered a bleak assessment of the determination of fascist individuals to wreak havoc in this country. He warned they can network courtesy of new technology and can access modern chemical, biological and other means of mass destruction and they have therefore unconstrained capability. They were part of the seamless web that includes the Middle East, Iraq and Afghanistan. He said: On this home front, we face the same threat from the same type of terrorists with the same set of values. Mr Reid said: We need to understand the depth and magnitude of that threat - all of us, each of us across the whole political, media, judicial and public spectrum. He criticised some MPs and peers for opposing anti-terror legislation, judges for weighing terrorists' rights over public safety and commentators for giving more prominence to the views of Islamist terrorists than democratically elected Muslim politicians. Mr Reid said: When I see and hear all of these things, then I sometimes feel that so many people who should be foremost in recognising the threat facing us... I can't help feeling they just don't get it. They just don't get it. The Home Secretary added: This isn't an abstract discussion - it's a matter of life and death. He protested that terrorists who could cause irreparable damage on a hitherto unknown scale evade prosecution because admissible court evidence cannot be gathered, or avoid deportation because they could be in danger in their home countries. He was speaking a week after the Court of Appeal said that control orders, which are used to restrain the movements of six terror suspects, violated their human rights. Mr Reid warned: Sometimes we may have to modify some of our freedoms in the short term in order to prevent their use and abuse by those who oppose our fundamental values and would destroy all of our freedoms in the long term. Speaking in London to the Demos think-tank, he hailed a step change in the co-operation between the security services and said at least four major terrorist plots had been broken up since last year's July 7 attacks. Almost 1,000 people had been arrested on terror charges, of whom 154 had been charged and 60 awaited trial. Yet, in spite of these successes, we remain unable to adapt our institutions and legal orthodoxy as fast as I believe we need to. This is the area that puts us at risk in national security terms. The Home Secretary also argued that the end of the Cold War and globalisation had brought mass migration on a hitherto unprecedented scale, with huge potential economic benefits but also the risk of insecurity. He said managing immigration was the greatest challenge facing European governmentsand reiterated his call for a mature discussion on the issue to stop it becoming a political football. David Davis, the shadow Home Secretary, said Mr Reid was right not to underestimate the grave threat from terrorism, which was why the Tories had helped implement measures against it. He said the Government should answer Tory calls for a UK border police force and appoint a dedicated minister for counter-terrorism. John Reid accused some politicians, judges and liberal commentators of hindering the life and death fight with al-Qa'ida as he signalled he was ready to push for new anti-terrorism laws. The Home Secretary said terrorists espousing the same ideology as those active in Iraq and Afghanistan represented the greatest threat to Britain since the Second World War. And he spelt out his frustration that the nation was using legislation dating back half a century to combat a 21st-century breed of unconstrained terrorists driven by a perverse morality. Mr Reid has overhauled the structure of the Home Office and the immigration services, as well as rebalanced the criminal justice system in his first three months in the job. He said yesterday that he wanted to turn to the overarching challenges facing Britain as he delivered a bleak assessment of the
[osint] Russia jails MI6 double agent in echo of Cold War
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1218057.ece Russia jails MI6 double agent in echo of Cold War By Andrew Osborn in Moscow Published: 10 August 2006 The Independent A Cold War-style espionage row reached its dramatic climax yesterday when a retired Russian secret service officer was sentenced to 13 years in a prison camp after apparently confessing to being a double agent for MI6. In a secret Moscow trial that could have come straight from the pages of a John Le Carré novel, retired colonel Sergei Skripal, now 55, was reported to have admitted selling the names, addresses and codenames of several dozen Russian agents to MI6 over a period of 10 years. The agents he exposed worked under cover in the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and Moscow admitted that his treachery had seriously compromised Russia's intelligence network. A veil of secrecy surrounds much of the case due to its sensitivity, but it is known that Skripal was formally either an agent for the FSB (the successor organisation to the KGB) or, more likely, for the Defence Ministry's main intelligence department, known as GRU. His motives appear to have been financial; he was reportedly paid more than £54,000 to betray his country, a large sum in Russia where the average monthly wage is £160. According to the prosecution, Skripal was recruited by MI6 in the mid-Nineties during an extended foreign assignment in an unnamed country, when on military business. They alleged that he continued to spy for Britain after he returned to Russia, and even after retiring in 1999, when he started tapping former colleagues. The retired colonel was reportedly paid in cash each time he met his MI6 handler, and also received monthly payments in a Spanish bank account. The information he sold was detailed and included the dates and locations of agents' clandestine meetings with their Kremlin handlers. MI6 used his tip-offs to place the agents under surveillance to learn as much as it could about their activities, before sending them back to Moscow. Given that it takes years to train and place field agents, Skripal's betrayal was a serious blow to the FSB. Through his actions the spy caused serious damage to state security and to Russia's ability to defend itself, the state security agency said in a statement. Skripal was arrested in December 2004, though the fact that he was caught was made public only yesterday, the day he was sentenced. As well as a 13-year spell in prison, the military court ordered that he be stripped of his rank and medals. Prosecutors had originally called for a 15-year sentence, but the court reduced his term in recognition of the fact that he apparently confessed, repented, and cooperated with the investigation, and is in poor health. A British embassy spokesman declined to comment. This is the second major spy row involving Britain and Russia this year. In January, four British diplomats based in Moscow were accused of spying and of using a sophisticated data transmitter disguised as a rock to send information. The diplomats were named on state television, and embarrassing footage of them apparently retrieving data from the rock was broadcast. The FSB said at least one Russian national was arrested in connection with that scandal and is awaiting trial, accused of spying for MI6. The idea that spying ended with the Cold War appears to be a myth. Last year, Whitehall sources said there were at least 32 Russian diplomats trying to obtain military and technical secrets in Britain. [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
[osint] BAA outlines new security measures
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/10/uk.terror.baa/ BAA outlines new security measures Thursday, August 10, 2006; Posted: 2:58 a.m. EDT (06:58 GMT) story.scotlandyardafp.jpg A statement from Scotland Yard said it believed the attacks would have targeted UK flights to the U.S. (CNN) -- BAA, which owns and operates seven UK airports, including London Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, has released the following statement Thursday morning. Following this morning's police action, the Department for Transport have asked all UK airports to apply additional security measures designed to ensure passenger safety. These measures will prevent passengers from carrying hand luggage into the cabin of an aircraft with the following exceptions (which must be placed in a plastic bag): * Pocket size wallets and pocket size purses plus contents (for example money, credit cards, identity cards etc (not handbags); * Travel documents essential for the journey (for example passports and travel tickets); * Prescription medicines and medical items sufficient and essential for the flight (e.g. diabetic kit), except in liquid form unless verified as authentic; * Spectacles and sunglasses, without cases; * Contact lens holders, without bottles of solution; * For those traveling with an infant: baby food, milk (the contents of each bottle must be tasted by the accompanying passenger); * Sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight (nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags); * Female sanitary items sufficient and essential for the flight, if unboxed (e.g. tampons, pads, towels and wipes) tissues (unboxed) and/or handkerchiefs; * Keys (but no electrical key fobs) All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all the items they are carrying must be X-ray screened. Pushchairs and walking aids must be X-ray screened, and only airport-provided wheelchairs may pass through the screening point. In addition to the above, all passengers boarding flights to the USA and all the items they are carrying, including those acquired after the central screening point, must be subjected to secondary search at the boarding gate. Any liquids discovered must be removed from the passenger. BAA wish to stress that these are precautionary measures. During the next few days airports will be extremely busy, therefore only those intending to fly should come to the airport. Passengers are also asked to use public transport to get to and from the airport wherever possible. Passengers are asked to be patient while these additional security measures are put in place. Delays are likely and passengers are therefore asked to allow extra time for their journey. [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] 'Mass murder terror plot' uncovered
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329549547-111274,00.html 'Mass murder terror plot' uncovered . Threat level raised to critical . Plot 'to blow up US-bound flights' . '10 planes targeted' Mark Oliver and agencies Thursday August 10, 2006 Guardian Unlimited A terror plot to kill thousands of people by detonating explosives on up to 10 transatlantic flights from the UK was disrupted by police and the security services overnight, it emerged today. If successful, the alleged plot would have caused mass murder on an unimaginable scale, Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan police deputy commissioner, said. The alleged plan was to cause near simultaneous blasts on multiple flights - with planes travelling to the US a particular target - using explosives smuggled into passenger cabins inside hand luggage. Mr Stephenson said 21 people were in custody today following raids overnight. He said he believed the threat had been thwarted, but US officials voiced fears that individuals linked to the plot could still be at large. At 2am, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre raised the UK terror alert from severe to critical - its highest level - for the first time. The Home Office website defines critical as meaning an attack is expected imminently. The US government responded by raising its threat assessment to red, again the highest level, for commercial flights from Britain. There was serious disruption to flights, with emergency restrictions barring passengers from taking any hand luggage, apart from travel documents and essential prescriptions, onto planes. All incoming flights to Heathrow not already in the air have been cancelled. Airlines and airport officials asked passengers to rearrange flights unless their journeys were absolutely necessary. Reports suggested the plot revolved around liquid-based explosives, and all passengers from the UK and the US were told they could not carry liquid or lotions onto flights. Officials at Heathrow airport said all milk for babies would have to be tasted by an accompanying passenger. There was no official confirmation of how many flights had been intended targets in the alleged plot, but officials said it could have been as many as nine or ten. US counter-terrorism officials told the Associated Press that three major US airlines - United, American Airlines and Continental - had been targeted. Some experts said it appeared to be the most ambitious plan since the September 11 2001 attacks on New York and Washington killed around 3,000 people. US officials were taking the developments extremely seriously. We believe that these arrests have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted, Michael Chertoff, the US homeland security secretary, said. There was no indication that security services had expected an attack to be carried out today, but it had been decided to move against the terror suspects overnight. Mr Stephenson said a number of addresses were being searched. It was believed some explosives had been found, although this was not confirmed. Most of the people detained were arrested in London, while other arrests were made in the Thames Valley and Birmingham. Sources said those arrested were British-born and had been detained as part of an operation that has been ongoing covertly for several months. The home secretary, John Reid, said anti-terror officers had carried out a major counter-terrorism operation to disrupt what we believe to be a major threat to the UK. We are doing everything possible to disrupt any further terrorist activity, he added. Downing Street said Tony Blair, who is on holiday in the Caribbean, was being kept constantly informed of developments and had briefed the US president, George Bush, overnight. The anti-terror operations were carried out with Mr Blair's full support, No 10 said. The security restrictions were causing delays of up to five hours on some flights, and acute disruption at UK airports. The problems were expected to last several days, and the Home Office was keeping the security measures under review. British Airways said some flights were being cancelled as airports struggled to process passengers through security. All passengers must be hand searched, and their footwear and all items they are carrying x-ray screened. Laptop computers, mobile phones and iPods are among the items banned from being carried on board. At Heathrow terminal one and Manchester airport, queues stretched the length of the departure lounge. Passengers were frustrated by the disruption, but reporters at the airports said most were waiting calmly. However, Sarah Challiner, a 20-year-old waiting at Manchester, told the Press Association she was terrified ... really scared but had been reassured by friends who were aircraft cabin crew. Many passengers were stoical but worried about becoming bored. Eight hours without an iPod - that's the most
[osint] BBC: Miinister's statements regarding UK terror plot; UK raises threat level to highest level
From BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4778817.stm Ministers' statements in full The full text of statements by Home Secretary John Reid and Transport Secretary Douglas Alexander about the alleged terror plot disrupted by police. HOME SECRETARY JOHN REID http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/66a.gif Overnight the police, with the full knowledge of ministers, have carried out a major counter-terrorism operation to disrupt what we believe to be a major threat to the UK and international partners. The police, acting with the Security Service MI5, are investigating an alleged plot to bring down a number of aircraft through mid-flight explosions, causing a considerable loss of life. The police believe the alleged plot was a very significant one indeed. At 2am this morning the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre raised the UK threat state to its highest level - CRITICAL. This is now being publicly announced as I promised to Parliament last month. This is a precautionary measure. We are doing everything possible to disrupt any further terrorist activity. This will mean major disruption at all UK airports from today. But as far as is possible we want people to go about their business as normal. The police will provide an update on the operation later this morning and ministers will keep the public regularly informed. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/99a.gif TRANSPORT SECRETARY DOUGLAS ALEXANDER http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/66a.gif Earlier this morning, all UK airports and all airlines operating into and out of the UK were asked to implement a heightened level of security. This step has been taken to ensure maximum security on all flights so people can go ahead with their travel arrangements. However, ensuring maximum security unfortunately will involve immediate and severe disruption for passengers, with significant delays likely at all UK airports. What these changes mean in practice is that all hand baggage will now have to be checked in with only a small number of essential items allowed through search controls. Exceptions will be in place for those travelling with infants and for prescription medicines. Extra security arrangements will be in place for flights to the USA. Passengers wanting detailed information on these new arrangements for their individual flight should contact the airline they are using. Additionally advice on what will be allowed as hand luggage is also available on the Home Office, Department for Transport and Foreign Office websites. This heightened level of security will last only as long as the situation demands. We will keep this under review. I will provide a further update later in the day and would ask all passengers to show patience and understanding in the inevitably difficult circumstances they will now be facing. http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/img/99a.gif -- For more translations and news on terrorism, visit http://www.lauramansfield.com or visit our forum at http://www.lauramansfield.com/forum/ Strategic Translations is a service provided by Laura Mansfield through http://www.lauramansfield.com You may email Laura at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Strategic Arabic Translations is a fee-based translation service of LauraMansfield.com. For information on subscribing, please see http://www.lauramansfield.com/ or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives of previous issues are available at http://www.lauramansfield.com/archives.htm Copyright 2005 LauraMansfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To
[osint] Marines say kidnapped American journalist was held within eyesight of U.S. base
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060810/NEWS07/608100357/10 09 Marines say kidnapped American journalist was held within eyesight of U.S. base By ANTONIO CASTANEDA Associated Press Writer HABANIYAH, Iraq U.S. Marines who cracked the Jill Carroll kidnapping case say the American journalist was held for a time in a home within sight of a sprawling U.S. military base in western Iraq. The Marines said the big break occurred May 19 when they searched a suspect's home near the Taqqadum logistics base seven weeks after Carroll's release. A young lieutenant linked the residence to intelligence reports in the case. After one man was arrested near Taqqadum, other troops captured three more suspects and freed two kidnapped Iraqis in other hideouts where Carroll is thought to have been held, including a house that was booby-trapped and full of explosives, the U.S. command said Wednesday. One of the suspects is a member of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab insurgent groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, said Maj. Gen. William Caldwell who announced the arrests. He said no decision had been made on what legal action to take against the four. The Associated Press spoke with the Marines last month on condition the interviews not be published until the U.S. military reported the arrests. Caldwell said the military decided to announce the detentions in part because Carroll had prepared a series of articles for the Christian Science Monitor detailing her abduction, detention and survival. Carroll, a freelance journalist for the Monitor, was released March 30 in Baghdad after 82 days in captivity. Her kidnappers, a previously unknown group calling itself the Revenge Brigade, had threatened to kill her if all female detainees in Iraq were not freed. U.S. officials did release some women before her release but said the decision was unrelated to the demands. Marines said independent tips led them to a cluster of houses near an abandoned train station outside the Taqqadum base, near Fallujah and about 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Baghdad. A one-story home in the relatively peaceful neighborhood that Marines often drove by matched the tips. Where it's at, there's a mosque, a school. It blends into the neighborhood. It's like any other house, said 1st. Sgt. Chris Reed, 32, of Kirkland, Washington, who helped arrest the first suspect. On the afternoon of the operation, 20 Marines from Company L, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment driving to the targeted home were struck by a roadside bomb, although none was injured. Shortly afterward a second nearby bomb exploded and insurgents fired from a car several hundred yards away. We knew it was a limited time window. It was our best shot at it, said 1st Lt. Jake Cusack, 24, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, who matched together the intelligence reports that led to the home. Marines who arrived at the suspect's house presented their stopover as a regular visit. While several spoke with the suspect in his living room, others quickly searched the rest of the home. Inside, Marines confirmed the house matched their intelligence reports. They said they also found a slip of paper with Carroll's name written on it, $3,600 in U.S. currency and an AK-47 assault rifle hidden in a car outside. They also discovered a false ceiling in the shower, which had been used to hide explosives in the past. Hey, sir, don't react but this is it, Cusack recalled radioing to his commanding officer, who was still chatting with the suspect. Marines said the suspect calmly responded to their questions _ until one Marine mentioned how a recent spate of kidnappings in the area had angered him. He blanches, just for a second, then (a Marine) says, 'All right, you're coming up with us,' recalled Cusack. Three males at the home were detained, including the one now among the accused in Carroll's abduction. Marines said they were confident they had found the right house and man. I'm more sure about this than any other detention I've had in Iraq, Cusack said. I'm 100 percent sure he's the guy. The suspect's home lies within view of a fence that surrounds the Taqqadum logistics base, where dozens of U.S. helicopters and planes fly in and out each day ferrying supplies for Marines serving in volatile western Iraq. They didn't seem to worry that they were that close to a military base. Maybe they thought it'd be the last place anybody would look, Reed said. On the day of her release, Carroll was dropped off by her abductors at the offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Baghdad. There she was interviewed by the Sunni party's television station before she was retrieved by U.S. forces. Though she had been shown weeping on a tape broadcast on Al-Jazeera television weeks before, Carroll said she was never hurt or threatened by her captives. I was kept in a very good, small safe place, a safe room, nice furniture, she said. She said she was given clothing and plenty
[osint] Statement from Department of Homeland Security
Statement from Department of Homeland Security The Department of Homeland Security is taking immediate steps to increase security measures in the aviation sector in coordination with heightened security precautions in the United Kingdom. Over the last few hours, British authorities have arrested a significant number of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple passenger aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States. Currently, there is no indication, however, of plotting within the United States. We believe that these arrests have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted. For that reason, the United States Government has raised the nation's threat level to Severe, or Red, for commercial flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the United States. This adjustment reflects the Critical, or highest, alert level that has been implemented in the United Kingdom. To defend further against any remaining threat from this plot, we will also raise the threat level to High, or Orange, for all commercial aviation operating in or destined for the United States. Consistent with these higher threat levels, the Transportation Security Administration is coordinating with federal partners, airport authorities and commercial airlines on expanding the intensity of existing security requirements. Due to the nature of the threat revealed by this investigation, we are prohibiting any liquids, including beverages, hair gels, and lotions from being carried on the airplane. This determination will be constantly evaluated and updated when circumstances warrant. These changes will take effect at 4:00 AM local time across the country. Travelers should also anticipate additional security measures within the airport and at screening checkpoints. These measures will continue to assure that our aviation system remains safe and secure. Travelers should go about their plans confidently, while maintaining vigilance in their surroundings and exercising patience with screening and security officials. The United States and the United Kingdom are fully united and resolute in this effort and in our ongoing efforts to secure our respective homelands. -- For more translations and news on terrorism, visit http://www.lauramansfield.com or visit our forum at http://www.lauramansfield.com/forum/ Strategic Translations is a service provided by Laura Mansfield through http://www.lauramansfield.com You may email Laura at [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Strategic Arabic Translations is a fee-based translation service of LauraMansfield.com. For information on subscribing, please see http://www.lauramansfield.com/ or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives of previous issues are available at http://www.lauramansfield.com/archives.htm Copyright 2005 LauraMansfield.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] CIFA Officiasl Resign
Counterintelligence Officials Resign By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 10, 2006; A04 David A. Burtt II, director of the Counterintelligence Field Activity, the Defense Department's newest intelligence agency whose contracts based on congressional earmarks are under investigation by the Pentagon and federal prosecutors, told his staff yesterday that he and his deputy director will resign at the end of the month. In an internal message, Burtt said, I do not make this decision without trepidation, but the time is right to move on to the next phase of my career. He said he had been privileged to serve as CIFA director and was especially proud of all of you and what you have accomplished for the CI [counterintelligence] community and for the overall CI mission. Joseph Hefferon has also decided to retire, after over 31 years of federal service, according to Burtt's message. A Pentagon spokesman yesterday confirmed they were leaving and said it was a personal decision that they both made together. Burtt, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for counterintelligence at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, developed the concept for CIFA. It was established in September 2002, originally to coordinate policy and oversee the counterintelligence activities of units within the armed services and Pentagon agencies. Over the past three years, it has grown to become an analytic and operation organization with nine directorates and widening authority focused primarily on protecting defense facilities and personnel from terrorist attacks. CIFA's size and budget are classified, but according to congressional sources the agency has spent more than $1 billion over the past four years, mostly for outsourced services. One counterintelligence official yesterday estimated that CIFA had 400 full-time employees and 800 to 900 contractors working for it. The agency was criticized in December after it was revealed that a database managed by CIFA contained unverified, raw threat information on Americans who were peacefully protesting the war in Iraq at defense facilities, including recruiting offices. Last March, as a result of the continuing federal investigations arising out of charges against former congressman Randy Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.), prosecutors said they were reviewing CIFA contracts that went to MZM Inc., a company run by Mitchell J. Wade, who had pleaded guilty in February to conspiring to bribe Cunningham. Cunningham, now serving an eight-year prison term, in January 2004 sought about $16.5 million to be added to the defense authorization bill for a CIFA collaboration center. A month later, he wrote Burtt a thank-you note about the center, adding, according to prosecutors' documents: I wish to endorse and support MZM, Inc.'s work. One of the consultants to Burtt, when he was formulating CIFA in 2002, was retired Lt. Gen. James C. King, then an MZM senior vice president who had recently retired as director of the Pentagon-based National Imagery and Mapping Agency. In late 2002, Cunningham, who received campaign contributions from Wade and other MZM officials, made contracts for Wade's company one of his top priorities, according to prosecutors' documents. One result, according to prosecutors' documents, was $6 million spent for a data storage system, supposedly for CIFA, that included almost $5.4 million in profit for MZM and a subcontractor. Following disclosures in Cunningham's case, Undersecretary of Defense Stephen A. Cambone last March ordered an internal study of how funding earmarked in defense bills led to CIFA contracts for MZM. The Defense Information Systems Agency, which has been given responsibility for the inquiry, said in a statement yesterday that the investigation is still ongoing. C 2006 The Washington Post Company Accessed 10 Aug 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080901 700.html?referrer=email [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
[osint] Iranians Advising Hezbollah On Use Of Missiles, UAVs
http://www.aviationnow.com/avnow/news/channel_awst_story.jsp?id=news/HEZ.xml Iranians Advising Hezbollah On Use Of Missiles, UAVs Aviation Week Space Technology 08/09/2006 04:49:58 PM Iran has hundreds of technical advisors in Lebanon that have trained -- and continue to support -- Hezbollah forces in the use of sophisticated anti-ship and anti-tank missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), Aviation Week Space Technology is reporting in its Aug. 14 edition. While no evidence has yet emerged publicly that Iranians are operating weaponry in combat or even trained Hezbollah insurgents, the magazine quotes a U.S. intelligence official as saying, It's not just a matter of turning weapons over to Hezbollah. Key among the systems Iranians were likely involved with, Aviation Week reports, is the Hezbollah UAV shot down over the Mediterranean by an Israeli fighter Aug. 7. Obtaining the aircraft and learning to launch them and program their flight would have taken outside help, an intelligence official says. The Iranian government has denied it has advisors or trainers in Lebanon. The U.S. State Department has said Iran provides arms and funding, but State won't answer questions about advisors. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has put the number of advisors at about 100. Aviation Week says an IDF infrared video taken from high altitude, directly over the interception, shows an Israeli fighter attacking the UAV. Shortly before coming abreast of the unmanned craft, the fighter fires what was likely a Python 4 missile controlled by a helmet-mounted sight. The missile makes a tight turn of more than 100 degrees and strikes the UAV, just after the fighter passes it. The video may have been doctored to disguise the true infrared signature of the Israeli fighter, the magazine says. Fragments of the UAV recovered from the water by the IDF show a 10-foot-wide wing broken at the fuselage with two vertical stabilizers -- marked with Hezbollah insignia -- well inboard of the wingtips. A smaller canard wing was mounted on the forward fuselage. An unattached flight control appears to be from the smaller forward airfoil. Israeli officials have described the UAV fished out of Israeli waters as a Mirsad-1 built by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industries. But the debris appears to be that of a related, albeit slightly larger, canard-wing Ababil 3 (Swallow). Israeli sources told Aviation Week that a few dozen Lebanese were trained to operate the aircraft by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and Hezbollah was supplied with as many as eight UAVs. Hezbollah officials have claimed the aircraft can carry 40-50 kilograms of explosives deep into Israel, but U.S. analysts questioned the claim because of the 3-3.25 meter wingspan and 10-25 hp engines attributed to UAVs of that size. Israeli analysts suggested the Ababil might just edge into the 40-kilo payload class. Hezbollah's first recorded incursion into Israeli airspace with a UAV was in late 2004. 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
[osint] The Five Wars of Hezbollah and Israel
The Five Wars of Hezbollah and Israel http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=17226 Rami Khouri describes the five-wars-in-one that are unfolding in the warfare between Israel and Hezbollah. As negotiations move to the forefront, the other four wars will become more evident. After four weeks of violent but inconclusive warfare, there were almost as many diplomats as missiles flying overhead in Beirut in the last few days, signaling a shift from fighting to negotiating, as the war's true dimensions and stakes suddenly become more evident. This is not one war, but five, and in the political arena they will all be fought simultaneously. On the surface, the situation seems clear. Israel and Hezbollah have effectively fought each other to a draw, despite Israel's huge advantage in military power and its savage will to pummel all of Lebanon. Destroying Lebanon and slowly eroding Hezbollah's capacity to fire missiles would entail a very high political cost for all concerned, and so diplomacy must take over now. The first draft of the UN resolution to end the war agreed by the French and Americans is significant but flawed. It is significant because it mentions all the key issues that are important for both sides and that have not been resolved through war: occupied lands, cross-border attacks, return of prisoners, mutual respect of sovereignty and the 1949 armistice line. The resolution is flawed because it favors Israel on all the key issues: It says Hezbollah started the conflict; it demands unconditional return of only Israeli prisoners; it allows Israel to keep attacking and does not demand immediate Israel withdraw from south Lebanon, or subsequent Israeli withdrawal from the Shabaa Farms area that Lebanon says is Lebanese land; and, it demands an international force in south Lebanon and disarmament of Hezbollah before all of Lebanon's legitimate demands are met. The Lebanese government decision Monday to send 15,000 troops to the south - once Israel withdraws - will spur movement towards a more balanced resolution. This is an important signal that Lebanon and Hezbollah are prepared to respond to reasonable and legitimate demands by the international community, but only if Lebanese demands are met simultaneously. Still, the problem is that a cease-fire and political resolutions on this front solve only one of our five wars around here. The other four wars are: * the coming internal battles inside Lebanon to define the country's future character and orientation; * the continuing antagonism between Israel and regional players like the Palestinians, Syria, Iran and probably a majority of Arab public opinion; * the struggle for legitimacy and leadership between established Arab regimes and powerful non-state actors like Hezbollah and Hamas; and, * the global tug-of-war over the soul and identity of the Middle East, symbolized by the tensions between the United States-Israel-United Kingdom-led camp and the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas-led camp. Most of the key actors in this conflict see themselves fighting these five wars simultaneously, even though Lebanon-Israel is the only active battleground. Lebanon and Israel should be able to resolve their bilateral disputes as easily as Jordan and Egypt resolved theirs with Israel. But a weak Lebanese government in recent decades has precluded such a step because of Syrian dominance of Lebanon, repeated Israeli attacks and occupations in Lebanon, the rise of Hezbollah, and the Lebanese sect-based consensual governance system that inherently breeds a weak central government. Israel has repeatedly used its military power in the past 40 years to stop attacks against it from south Lebanon, always to no avail. Hezbollah's impressive performance to keep fighting and attacking during the past month suggests that a historic turning point has been reached: In a narrow but ferocious engagement, an Arab force has militarily fought Israel to a draw, and thus perhaps neutralized Israel's historical reliance on its military deterrence to impose its will on its neighbors. This may be why Israel is attacking civilian installations throughout Lebanon, making a wasteland of the country: a lesson to anyone else who might consider challenging it militarily. This strategy probably will not work either, because savagery, like occupation, only begets resistance and defiance. Hezbollah will emerge stronger politically from the cease-fire diplomacy if Israel is forced to comply with the key Lebanese demands of exchanging prisoners, leaving Sheba Farms, and stopping cross-border flights and attacks, in return for no more attacks against Israel from Lebanon. If and when Israel is no longer a threat to Lebanon, Hezbollah will no longer need to remain an armed resistance movement beyond the control of the government. Israel and the United States now focus their energy on preventing Hezbollah from emerging from this war strengthened politically - because a stronger Hezbollah
[osint] A Wake Up Call: The Cost of Indecisiveness
A Wake Up Call: The Cost of Indecisiveness By Yoram Ettinger | August 9, 2006 The more Israel engages itself with diplomatic processes - before it obliterates Hizballah capabilities - the more is the US sucked into these processes. http://www.aim.org/guest_column/4772_0_6_0_C/ Washington has urged Jerusalem to accelerate to 150 miles per hour on the road to destroying the capabilities of Hizballah, the Syria-Iran proxy, which murdered 300 Americans in Beirut in 1983 and is involved in anti-US terrorism in Iraq in 2006. However, Jerusalem does not press the pedal to the metal, and does not exceed 80 miles per hour. The pro-Israel Wall Street Journal, which generally reflects the Bush-Cheney world view, has expressed the US disappointment: Israel has pledged not to stop without disarming Hezbollah; a defeat for Israel will mean more danger and far more casualties down the road. President Bush's entire vision for the Middle East would suffer a severe setback if the current fighting ends with Hezbollah still a credible military force. (August 1, 2006). The more Israel retreats from the original goals of the war (i.e. disarming Hizballah), the more it undermines its stature as a producer of national security, which upgrades US power-projection, and the more it is perceived as a consumer of national security, which seeks US assistance. The more Israel appears unwilling - or unable - to obliterate Hizballah's capabilities, the more it advances Hizballah's regional posture, adrenalizing the veins of terrorist regimes, weakening pro-US Arab regimes such as Jordan and Kuwait, exacerbating Mideast instability, undermining Israel's and US' posture of deterrence, planting seeds for the next and more horrific war, and lessening US interest to expand strategic cooperation with Israel. The more Israel distances itself from its defiant tradition, which has been forged by the 1948 Declaration - and War - of Independence (in face of US military embargo!), by the 1967 Six Day War (resisting US pressure and French military embargo) and by the 1981 bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor (in spite of US, UN and European threats), the less committal are many of Israel's staunch allies on both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue and in the Christian community. The more protracted is the war, the more difficult it is for President Bush to sustain his staunch support of Israel's war on terrorism in face of pressure by Bush 41st, Jim Baker, Brent Scowcroft, Richard Haas, the State Department and the CIA bureaucracies, the multinational oil and engineering companies, Saudi Arabia, Europe and the UN. The more Israel subordinates its military operations to diplomatic processes, to international public opinion and to extreme concern for collateral damage (unmatched by any western military!), the less effective is its military and the higher the level of Israeli fatalities. Moreover, the US defense establishment is concerned whether Israel has misconstrued the 1982 Lebanon Quagmire. Is Israel throwing the baby (the necessary destruction of PLO capabilities to spray northern Israel with Katyusha missiles) out with the bath water (the ill-advised attempt to change the regime in Beirut)? The more Israel engages itself with diplomatic processes - before it obliterates Hizballah capabilities - the more is the US sucked into these processes. The processes enhance the profile of the UN, Europe and Foggy Bottom (which aim at Israel's retreat to the 1949 lines on all fronts), promote the role of the US as an even-handed mediator at the expense of its position as a unique ally of Israel, and yield undue pressure on Israel for sweeping and reckless concessions. The more Israel calls for a multi-national force in Southern Lebanon, the more it is portrayed as a country, which ignores the flight by such forces from Lebanon (i.e. US and France in 1983), which relies on subcontractors for its own defense, even when the subcontractors constitute a human-shield for terrorists and a major hurdle for Israeli hot-pursuits of terrorists. A multi-national force in Lebanon would severely undermine the relations between Israel and the components of the multi-national force. The longer the war lingers on, the more thoroughly will the Hizballah experience be implemented by Palestinian terrorists in Judea Samaria and (especially) in Gaza, which is rapidly becoming Hizballistan, adding fuel to the fire of regional anti-US terrorism. President Bush and Vice President Cheney do not consider Israel a puppet; they consider the Jewish State a unique ally with shared-values, mutual threats and joint strategic interests, a critical First Yard Line outpost in the third World War between western democracies and Middle East-based Islamic terrorism. Therefore, they have not approached Israel even-handedly. In fact, they have prodded Israel to resume the daring and the determination, which catapulted the Jewish State from being the remnant of the Holocaust in 1948 to a
[osint] Middle East: 'Suicide Bombers Are Our Nuclear Weapon'
Middle East: 'Suicide Bombers Are Our Nuclear Weapon' http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/8/4cc8d68e-d103-44dc-b957-3e055687 07ac.html By Joyce Davis mailto: Lebanon -- Munir al-Makdah, head of the Fatah militia in southern Lebanon, October 2001 Al-Makdah greeting children at the Ain Al-Hilwah refugee camp in October 2001 (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, August 9, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Palestinian fighters like Munir al-Makdah, head of the Fatah militia in southern Lebanon, have been preparing for war between Hizballah and Israel for a long time. Whatever cease-fire finally is negotiated in the present crisis in the region, it will be hard to impose among people like him, people who have spent years in the teeming refugee camps of southern Lebanon preparing for just such a fight. As far back as October 2001, when I visited the Ain Al-Hilwah refugee camp, about a half-hour ride through treacherous mountain roads from the capital of Beirut, al-Makdah was looking forward to the day when his forces would once again be unleashed on Israel. He strutted through what clearly was his kingdom, openly celebrating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, and boasting of his cooperation with Hizballah and Al-Qaeda. In November 2005, al-Makdah warned in an interview with an Italian newspaper that his cadres of suicide bombers were readying for battle. Suicide bombers are our nuclear weapon, he told L'Espresso in November 2005, echoing what he told me years earlier when he described his trainees as human bombs. I'm always developing my skills and practicing. There is always something more to learn. The training goes on all the time. -- Palestinian fighter Jihad and the resistance begins with the word, then with the sword, then with the stone, then with the gun, then with planting bombs, and then with transforming bodies into human bombs, he told me. The last weapon is a weapon the Israelis can never have: suicide bombers. While much of the world bemoans the killing of Lebanese civilians and the destruction of one of the most developed countries in the Middle East, the fighting raging in southern Lebanon is a dream come true for al-Makdah and his colleagues. Preparing For War Al-Makdah was known as commander of Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon, where an estimated 360,000 Palestinian refugees had fled from the previous wars with Israel. He was a wanted man, sentenced to death in Jordan, where authorities accused him of being part of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's network and of involvement in the September 1, 2001, attack against the United States. But inside the Ain Al-Hilwah refugee camp he was safe. Even Lebanese soldiers were afraid to enter al-Makdah's domain. That fact makes it difficult for many to contemplate Lebanese soldiers enforcing a cease-fire between Israel and Hizballah. While al-Makdah did not confirm or deny his involvement in the September 11 attack when he spoke with me, he readily acknowledged his connection with Al-Qaeda, whose fighters were inside Ain Al-Hilwah as recently as November 2005, according to his interview with L'Espresso. 'We Thank Whoever Contributes' Our goal is the resistance against the Israeli occupation, he told me in 2001. And we thank whoever contributes to the struggle no matter where he is from or who he is. Al-Makdah ran training camps for young men dedicated to jihad to liberate what they consider Palestinian land now under Israeli control. He even ran summer camps to train children as young as 5 years old in the techniques of suicide bombing. I held my first rifle when I was 10 years old, al-Makdah told me as we walked in the dusty camp, shooing chickens out of our path and shadowed by two security guards brandishing heavy machine guns. We stopped at what appeared to be a collection of hand-held rocket launchers guarded by a young man named Ali. He was 8 years old when he entered the movement, al-Makdah said with obvious pride, pointing to Ali, who smiled in confirmation. Small Weapons When I was very young, my mother put me with what is known as the Ashvel It's a children's group, Ali explained. We were trained with weapons, small weapons. Today, Ali would be 22 years old. Then, at 17, he was still in training. I'm always developing my skills and practicing, he said. There is always something more to learn. The training goes on all the time, Of course, both al-Makdah and Ali could now be dead, among those buried in the simmering ashes of southern Lebanon. But if they are still alive, they certainly are among the men sending rockets into Haifa and Tel Aviv or fighting Israelis soldiers on the ground in Lebanon. And as Israeli or international forces once again contemplate occupation of southern Lebanon, they will surely face al-Makdah's nuclear bombs, whether or not he is still directing them himself from Ain Al-Hilwah. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless
[osint] Kiss Iraq Goodbye if Shiites Align With Hezbollah
Not to burst any delusional bubbles at the US Dept of State.but Shi'ites ARE aligned with Hizballah. And so are most Sunnis. Bruce http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-menon9aug09,0,1714310.story?coll=l a-opinion-rightrail From the Los Angeles Times Kiss Iraq Goodbye if Shiites Align With Hezbollah How fallout from Lebanon could choke a fragile U.S.-Muslim alliance. By Rajan Menon RAJAN MENON is a professor of international relations at Lehigh University and a fellow at the New America Foundation. August 9, 2006 AS ISRAEL and Hezbollah continue to trade deadly blows, the Bush administration may have to brace itself for the possibility that the shock waves from the war in Lebanon could wreck its partnership with Iraq's Shiites and make Iraq's fragmentation well-nigh unavoidable. Anger over Israel's bombing of Lebanon has reached Iraq, whose population is roughly two-thirds Shiite. Muqtada Sadr, the firebrand Shiite cleric who heads the Al Mahdi militia, was first to rail against the Israeli bombardment and Washington's fulsome support of it. He continues to do so. On Friday, thousands (estimates range from 14,000 to 100,000) of pro-Sadr Shiites flooded Baghdad's streets, chanting slogans of solidarity with Hezbollah and denouncing Israel and the United States. Sadr is driven by more than religious solidarity with Hezbollah. He also seeks to outflank moderate Shiite leaders, particularly Prime Minister Nouri Maliki, perhaps even Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, and he knows that the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon could boost his already substantial political stock. Maliki and Sistani are well aware of this, of course, and they are not about to let that happen. They view Sadr as a dangerous demagogue and, unlike him, favor a continued American military presence in Iraq. But Sadr's rabble-rousing gambit has left them no choice but to follow his script. Not surprisingly, then, Maliki was quick to condemn Israeli attacks in the wake of Sadr's statements. Other senior Shiite clerics and Iraq's main Shiite parties, Dawa and the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, weighed in, expressing solidarity with Lebanon and lambasting Israel. After some delay, Sistani, by far the most influential Shiite leader, also pilloried Israel's flagrant aggression and outrageous oppression and, while not specifically naming the United States, accused the world of turning a blind eye to Lebanese suffering. After Israel's July 30 attack on a residential building in Qana, which killed at least 28 people (half of whom were said to be children), Sistani issued a fatwa condemning the dastardly crime by the Israeli enemy. He called for an immediate cease-fire and warned that Muslims will not excuse parties that put obstacles in the way of this. (What he left unsaid, but that was nevertheless clear to all who read the fatwa, was that it is the United States that opposed the cease-fire for several weeks in hopes of giving Israel time to destroy Hezbollah's bastions in southern Lebanon.) What remains unclear is whether a competitive process will begin, with Shiite leaders each ratcheting up anti-Israeli statements. That could produce a breach with the United States - one that could have lasting consequences. Shiite leaders cannot continue condemning Israel's war in Lebanon without coming out against the United States. That's because, in Arab eyes, American arms supplies and political backing are what enable Israel to persist with its military campaign. AN OPEN RIFT between the Shiites and the United States is hardly inevitable. But it's certainly possible if the war in Lebanon drags on and if Iran starts stirring the pot, which it can, given its substantial sway with Iraqi Shiite parties. With Gen. John P. Abizaid testifying before the Senate last week that Iraq's sectarian violence is getting worse, the United States can ill afford to forfeit Shiite support. It is one thing for the United States to have Sadr as an enemy; it's altogether different to lose the support of moderate Shiite leaders such as Maliki and Sistani, without whom the U.S. will be unable to hold Iraq together. U.S. forces may still remain in Iraq, but their nation-building assignment, already near-impossible, will have become truly impossible. What's worse, an unraveling of the U.S.-Shiite partnership would inevitably affect the calculus of Iraq's Kurds, possibly prompting them to declare independence. Turkey might well intervene, turning an Iraqi civil war into a regional war that would make Washington's problems, hard as it is to imagine, much worse. Bush administration rhetoric notwithstanding, the U.S. would be forced to fold its tent and go home. The good news is that there's still time to avoid this scenario by implementing a cease-fire in Lebanon. That would end the carnage and prevent Hezbollah from attaining heroic status among Iraqi Shiites. FAIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message
[osint] FW: 2 Dearborn Men Accused of Money Laundering to Support Terrorism
2 Men Accused of Money Laundering to Support Terrorism
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Two Dearborn men accused of loading up on hundreds of untraceable phones
were arraigned in Ohio on charges of money laundering to support terrorism,
Wednesday.
Ali Houssaiky and Osma Sabhi Abulhassan were arrested after buying a number
of pay-as-you-go cell phones. A suspicious clerk called police who pulled
the men over.
Police said the men initially lied, but then under interrogation admitted to
buying 600 phones. Authorities are concerned that if shipped to the Middle
East, the chips from the phones may be used to remotely detonate car bombs.
When arrested the men had a map of every Wal-Mart from Michigan to North
Carolina, where the same type of phones are sold.
Family members said the men are innocent and that the phones were being
bought for a legitimate job, despite not knowing exactly what they were to
be used for.
Ali's sister Diana Houssaiky said, It's ridiculous. I'm so afraid. I'm just
thinking about how my brother must be feeling right now. He must be so
scared. His name is Ali, his friend name is Osma; of course it's going to be
discriminated against.
Diana said the two men get paid for the phones and their boss sells them,
but didn't know to whom.
Family members have approached the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination
Committee who said they are looking into it.
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[osint] How mobile voice mail secrets are just a PIN away
How mobile voice mail secrets are just a PIN away By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor (Filed: 10/08/2006) Daily Telegraph Eavesdropping on a live mobile telephone conversation requires immense technical know-how and equipment costing hundreds of thousands of pounds. However accessing confidential voice messages left on a mobile telephone usually involves getting hold of a four-digit personal identification number (PIN) and making a two-minute call. According to some security experts, the ease with which outsiders can listen to voice mail is one of the biggest flaws of mobile telephones. All mobile telephone companies provide customers with an answering service that allows callers to leave a voice message if a handset is switched off or engaged. Usually people listen to these messages by dialling a number on their handset or by waiting for the telephone to call them back and play the recordings. However, it is also possible to access voice messages remotely from another telephone using a PIN. A few years ago, all new telephones came preprogrammed with the manufacturer's default PIN - often a memorable four-digit number such as or , printed in the instruction book. Although owners who read their instructions properly were told to change the PIN, many did not bother. For years that left voice mail vulnerable to eavesdroppers - a weakness that could be exploited by less scrupulous news outlets, private detective agencies and suspicious spouses. Over the past few years, telephone companies have tightened up voicemail security. Today remote accessing is usually possible only once the owner of the telephone has registered a new PIN with their network. Anyone wanting to listen in to voice messages must find this number. They can try trial or error - no easy task given that there are 10,000 possible numbers with the typical four-digit number. They can also ring the mobile telephone company posing as the owner and ask for a new PIN. To succeed they will need personal details of the owner to convince the company that they are genuine. Another option is to pay an employee within the mobile telephone network to provide the PIN. Justin King, the managing director of the security specialists C2i International, believes that this is the most likely route for anyone trying to listen in to telephone messages. It is also possible to use a computer programme to try out all the possible PINs, but that would be complicated, time-consuming and involve repeated calls. Today live mobile telephone calls are digitally encrypted, and, according to Mr King, the sort of equipment that is needed to listen in and decode mobile telephone calls costs between £300,000 or £400,000, is the size of a suitcase and is extremely difficult to obtain. [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] Iranians among Hizbollah Combat Dead
Interesting how little press play this is getting.or even attention from the Administration which joins previous administrations in assiduously avoiding war with Iran regardless of the provocation. Bruce http://news. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/ts_nm/mideast_lebanon_iranians_dc yahoo.com/s/nm/20060809/ts_nm/mideast_lebanon_iranians_dc Iranians among Hizbollah combat dead: TV Wed Aug 9, 5:48 PM ET Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been found among Hizbollah guerrillas slain by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon, Israel's Channel 10 television reported on Wednesday citing diplomatic sources. It said the Iranians were identified by documents found on their bodies, but gave no further details on how many were discovered or when. Neither the Israeli military nor Hizbollah representatives in Beirut had immediate comment on the report. Iran, like fellow Hizbollah patron Syria, insists its support for the Shi'ite guerrilla group is purely moral. Israel says many of the rockets being fired against its civilian and military targets are Iranian made, and that Hizbollah fighters taking on its forces trained in Iran. Washington also accuses Tehran of actively funding Hizbollah. Iran's Revolutionary Guards are traditionally very close to fellow Shi'ite Muslims in Hizbollah and were deployed in south Lebanon in the 1980s. [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] Terror flights headed towards New York, Washington, D.C., and California
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[osint] Chertoff: Plot 'Suggestive' of al-Qaida
Duuuh.wonder if he's ever heard of Operation Bojinka? Same plot over the Pacific? -Bruce http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-terror-plot,0,3229019.stor y?coll=hc-headlines-home http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-terror-plot,0,3229019.stor y?coll=hc-headlines-home Chertoff: Plot 'Suggestive' of al-Qaida By LARA JAKES JORDAN Associated Press Writer August 10 2006, 8:36 AM EDT WASHINGTON -- The terror scheme disrupted in London is suggestive of an al-Qaida plot, the Bush administration said Thursday as it issued its highest terrorism alert ever for commercial flights from Britain to the United States and raised the threat level for all domestic and international flights. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said there was no indication of plotting in the United States but said officials cannot assume that the terror operation in Britain had been completely thwarted. The administration raised the threat level for flights from Britain to red, designating a severe risk of terrorist attacks. All other flights, including all domestic flights in the United States, were put under an orange, alert -- one step below the highest level. The U.S. government banned all liquids and gels from flights, including toothpaste, makeup, suntan lotion. Baby formula and medicines were exempted. Hastily printed signs were posted at major airports warning passengers in red capital letters, No liquid or gels permitted beyond security. Chertoff said the alleged plot appeared to be engineered by al-Qaida, the terrorist group that carried out the Sept. 11, 2001, attack against the United States. It was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope, said Chertoff. It was in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot. He added, however, that because the investigation is still underway we cannot yet form a definitive conclusion. Chertoff said the plotters were in the final stages of planning before execution. We were really getting quite close to the execution phase, he said. He said it was unclear whether the alleged plot was linked to the upcoming fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 strikes. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the operation could potentially kill hundreds of innocent people. Britain said 21 people had been arrested, including the alleged main players in the plot. FBI Director Robert Mueller also pointed at al-Qaida. This had the earmarks of an al-Qaida plot, he said. Chertoff said it envisioned multiple explosions in multiple aircraft. Terrorists had targeted United, American and Continental airlines, two U.S. counterterrorism officials said. The plot was to board international flights, potentially headed to the U.S., with bombs fashioned in a way that they would be in carry-ons, and blow them up in midair, one intelligence official said. This official said the terrorists had hoped to target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California, all major summer tourist destinations. Multiple flights to multiple American cities were put on alert. Specifically, these airlines included United Airlines, American Airlines and Continental Airlines Inc., the two counterterrorism officials said. American and United flights were turned into terrorist weapons on Sept. 11, 2001, when they were hijacked and crashed. It is the first time the red alert level in the Homeland Security warning system has been invoked, although there have been brief periods in the past when the orange level was applied. Homeland Security defines the red alert as designating a severe risk of terrorist attacks. One intelligence official said the first-ever red alert signaled extreme concern within the government. We are concerned enough to put the highest wall up we can, this official said. Officials said the government has been aware of the nature of the threat for several days, and President Bush was fully briefed. A U.S. law enforcement official said there have been no arrests in the United States connected to the plot. The plan involved airline passengers hiding masked explosives in carry-on luggage, the official said. They were not yet sitting on an airplane, but were very close to traveling, the official said, calling the plot the real deal. U.S. intelligence has been working closely with the British on the investigation, which has been ongoing for months, the second official said. The metal detector and X-ray machines at airport security checkpoints cannot detect explosives. At many, but not all airport checkpoints, the TSA has deployed walkthrough sniffer or puffer machines that can detect explosives residue. As part of the foiled Bojinka Plot to blow up 12 Western airliners simultaneously over the Pacific Ocean in the mid-1990s, terrorist mastermind Ramzi Youssef planned to put together an improvised bomb using liquid in a contact lens solution container. At U.S. Northern Command, the military headquarters
[osint] Londonistan and UK Attitudes Regarding Jihadists
Come to Londonistan, our refuge for poor misunderstood Islamist victims Melanie Phillips The London Times June 06, 2006 http://www.timesonl http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2212130,00.html ine.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2212130,00.html ACCORDING TO REMARKS attributed in the past few days to security sources, no fewer than 1,200 Islamist terrorists are biding their time within British suburbs. Yet does Britain even now fully understand the nature of the threat it is facing, let alone have the will to deal with it? The recent report by the Commons Intelligence Committee on last July's London bombings barely scratched the surface of the failure by the security establishment. It failed to note, for example, Britain's dirty little secret: that from the 1990s, Islamist radicals had been given free rein in Britain in a gentlemen's agreement that if they were left alone, they would not turn on the country that was so generously nurturing them. The result was Londonistan, as Britain became the hub of al-Qaeda in Europe. This intelligence debacle, however, was only the tip of the iceberg. Among Britain's governing class -- its intelligentsia, its media, its politicians, its judiciary, its Church and even its police -- a broader and deeper cultural pathology persists to this day. Londonistan is more than the physical presence of Islamist extremists. It is also a state of mind. To a dismaying extent, the British have signed up to the false narrative of those who are laying siege to their society. The problem lies in a refusal to acknowledge that Islamist extremism is rooted in religion. Instead, ministers and security officials prefer to think of it as a protest movement against grievances such as Iraq or Palestine, or Islamophobia'. They simply ignore the statements and signs that show unequivocally that the aim is to Islamicise the West. In large measure, this is the outcome of a profound loss of cultural nerve. The doctrines of multiculturalism and minority rights, themselves the outcome of a systematic onslaught by the British elite against the country's own identity and values, have paralysed the establishment, which accordingly shies away from criticising any minority for fear of being labelled as bigoted. As a result, it ignored the radicalisation of many British Muslims by extremist Islamic institutions. Worse still, grievance culture has meant that instead of fighting the paranoia and lies driving the Islamists' hatred of the West, British society is afflicted by the very same pathology. Minority rights doctrine has produced a moral inversion, in which those doing wrong are excused if they belong to a victim group, while those at the receiving end of their behaviour are blamed simply because they belong to the oppressive majority. Britain effectively allowed itself to be taken hostage by militant gays, feminists or anti-racists who used weapons such as public vilification, moral blackmail and threats to people’s livelihoods to force the majority to give in to their demands. So when radical Islamists refused to accept minority status and insisted instead that their values must trump those of the majority, Britain had no answer. This was disastrous because Islamist violence is fuelled by precisely this false sense of victimisation. The mendacious message preached by Islamist leaders, that Britain and America are engaged in a war on Islam rather than a defence of their societies, is a potent incitement to terror by whipping up a hysteria that Muslims are under attack. So any attempt by the West to defend itself against terror becomes a recruiting sergeant for that terror. The more atrocities committed against the West, the more the West tries to defend itself; and the more it does so, the more hysteria among Muslims rises that they are under attack, and the more they are thus incited to hatred and to terrorism. The circle is completed by British fellow-travellers who promulgate the same morally inverted thinking, and thus help further to incite both Muslim extremism and Western defeatism. After the London bombings, this gave rise to the widely expressed view that the major problem was not Islamic terrorism but Islamophobia. It is impossible to overstate the importance -- not just to Britain but to the global struggle against Islamist extremism -- of properly understanding and publicly challenging this moral, intellectual and philosophical inversion, which translates aggressor into victim and vice versa. For it has destabilised debate by allowing Muslims to argue that British and American foreign policy is unfair and aggressive towards the Muslim world. So profound is the fear of being branded a bigot among British liberals that the obvious examples of illogicality, untruths and paranoia in such discourse have never been challenged. The British Establishment also ignores this because it is in a state of denial. With few exceptions
[osint] News Flash: London Police Disrupt Terrorist Plot to Blow Up Aircraft in Mid-Flight
London Police Disrupt Terrorist Plot to Blow Up Aircraft in Mid-Flight -- British authorities said Thursday they had disrupted a terrorist plot to simultaneously blow up several aircraft heading to the United States using explosives smuggled in hand luggage, averting what police described as mass murder on an unimaginable scale. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207682,00.html ] CNN [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/us.security/index.html ] MSNBC [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14278216/ ] ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2295898 ] BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4778575.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] UK-US Air Plot Terrorists Identified as Muslims, mostly British-born
London - British police have foiled a terrorist plot to 'commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale' by destroying up to ten passenger aircraft in mid-air, Scotland Yard deputy commissioner Paul Stephenson said Thursday. More than 20 suspects, most of them believed to be British-born Muslims, have been arrested in connection with the plot, which triggered immediate chaos at British airports and the cancellation of flights to and from Britain. Stephenson described the threat to aviation in Britain as 'unprecedented,' as threat levels were raised to the maximum 'critical' phase. Stephenson said police believed terrorists were planning to detonate liquid chemical devices in 'near-simultaneous' attacks on aircraft over the Atlantic. The news brought delays in air traffic and fight cancellations around the world. In Britain, an immediate ban on hand luggage, except for essential items, was imposed at all airports, and liquid substances, including baby milk, contact lense solution and medication, were being tested by security officers. Airport operator BAA urged would-be passengers to refrain from travelling to Heathrow 'unless their journey was absolutely necessary.' As numerous flights were cancelled, and a number of European airlines, including Germany's Lufthansa and Air France, stopped flights to Britain, Birmingham airport was closed. Security experts said the unprecedented security measures indicated that the 'threat is ongoing.' It emerged that Prime Minister Tony Blair, who left for a summer holiday on Barbados Tuesday, had been discussing the threat of an 'imminent attack' with US President George W Bush. The United States Thursday raised its overall terror threat level to its second-highest class. The US raised to 'orange' the threat level for all flights and to 'red' - the highest possible level - for flights coming in from Britain, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement. Chertoff said that while the US believed British authorities had 'significantly disrupted' the planned attack, the US could not be certain that the threat 'has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted,' in the statement quoted by US media. No liquids would be allowed on aircraft as part of extra security measures on flights into and within the US, Chertoff said. Earlier, Britain's Home Secretary John Reid said there had been a significant' terrorist plot aimed at bringing down a 'number of aircraft through mid-air explosions with a considerable loss of life.' The increased threat levels, which meant that an attack was 'imminent,' indicated that police were still looking for 'something or someone,' a security expert said. The government crisis committee, Cobra, which comprises key ministers and the chiefs of the intelligence agencies, had met three times in the last 24 hours, it emerged. 'We just don't know whether this is the start of something bigger,' one security expert said. C 2006 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur London - British police have foiled a terrorist plot to 'commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale' by destroying up to ten passenger aircraft in mid-air, Scotland Yard deputy commissioner Paul Stephenson said Thursday. More than 20 suspects, most of them believed to be British-born Muslims, have been arrested in connection with the plot, which triggered immediate chaos at British airports and the cancellation of flights to and from Britain. Stephenson described the threat to aviation in Britain as 'unprecedented,' as threat levels were raised to the maximum 'critical' phase. Stephenson said police believed terrorists were planning to detonate liquid chemical devices in 'near-simultaneous' attacks on aircraft over the Atlantic. The news brought delays in air traffic and fight cancellations around the world. In Britain, an immediate ban on hand luggage, except for essential items, was imposed at all airports, and liquid substances, including baby milk, contact lense solution and medication, were being tested by security officers. Airport operator BAA urged would-be passengers to refrain from travelling to Heathrow 'unless their journey was absolutely necessary.' As numerous flights were cancelled, and a number of European airlines, including Germany's Lufthansa and Air France, stopped flights to Britain, Birmingham airport was closed. Security experts said the unprecedented security measures indicated that the 'threat is ongoing.' It emerged that Prime Minister Tony Blair, who left for a summer holiday on Barbados Tuesday, had been discussing the threat of an 'imminent attack' with US President George W Bush. The United States Thursday raised its overall terror threat level to its second-highest class. The US raised to 'orange' the threat level for all flights and to 'red' - the highest possible level - for flights coming in from Britain, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a statement. Chertoff said that while the US believed
[osint] News Flash: Pakistan arrests militant suspect
Pakistan arrests militant suspect -- The Pakistani authorities have placed the former head of an outlawed Islamic militant group under house arrest. -- BBC [ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4779009.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: Bombing Near Iraq Shrine Leaves 35 Dead
Bombing Near Iraq Shrine Leaves 35 Dead -- A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq Thursday, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122, an official said. -- TBO (AP) [ http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLTAMSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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: Liquid bomb threat to airliners echoes 1995 plot
Liquid bomb threat to airliners echoes 1995 plot -- A UK bomb plot foiled on Thursday echoed one planned a decade ago in Asia and lays bare the threats airlines still face despite heightened vigilance since the deadly hijackings of 2001, security analysts say. -- Reuters [ http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryID=2006-08-10T132955Z_01_L10213806_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-BRITAIN-AIRLINES.xmlarchived=False ] 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: U.S. removes weapons-grade uranium from vulnerable Polish site
U.S. removes weapons-grade uranium from vulnerable Polish site -- An elite U.S. unit secretly removed a cache of weapons-grade uranium this week from a vulnerable site in Poland that terrorists could have stolen to make a crude nuclear bomb, officials told the New York Daily News. -- Fort Wayne News Sentinel [ http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/15239950.htm ] News Flash Provided by IntellNet [ http://www.intellnet.org ] -The Intelligence Network -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] Statement from Scotland Yard
Am I missing something here? No reference to Muslims, al-Qaeda or Iran? Bruce Statement by DAC Peter Clarke, Head of The Anti-Terrorist Branch THE FOLLOWING IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO DAC PETER CLARKE, HEAD OF THE ANTI-TERRORIST BRANCH, CENTRAL HALL, 11.50: I would like to give you some details about the counter terrorist operation, which took place overnight. I shall focus purely on the criminal investigation. As always, I must preface my remarks with a request for restraint - and by that I mean restraint in the reporting of events so far as they relate to those who have been arrested. We must all, please, be careful to say or do nothing that might prejudice the right of any individual to a fair trial. The investigation has focused on intelligence, which suggested that a plot was in existence to blow up transatlantic passenger aircraft, in flight. The intelligence suggested that this was to be achieved by means of concealed explosive devices smuggled onto the aircraft in hand baggage. The intelligence suggested that the devices were to be constructed in the United Kingdom, and taken through British airports. The number, destination and timing of the flights that might be attacked remain the subject of investigation. This has been, and continues to be, a fast moving investigation. Today marks the culmination of one phase of what is a major operation that has already lasted several months, and will undoubtedly last long into the future. During the investigation an unprecedented level of surveillance has been undertaken and our objective is to gather intelligence and evidence in support of the investigation. We have been looking at meetings, movements, travel, spending and the aspirations of a large group of people. This has involved close co-operation, not only between agencies and police forces in the United Kingdom, but also internationally. As is so often the case in these investigations, the alleged plot has global dimensions. The investigation reached a critical point last night when the decision was made to take urgent action in order to disrupt what we believe was being planned. As always in these cases, the safety of the public was our overriding concern. Throughout the night a significant number of arrests were made. All the arrests were made on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of Acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000. The people arrested remain in custody in London where officers will pursue the investigation from the Metropolitan Police Anti-Terrorist branch. Searches are also underway at a number of business and residential premises in London and elsewhere. We anticipate that these will take some time to complete. I am sure you will understand and realise that this is a very early stage in what will be a meticulous, painstaking criminal investigation. We will now be embarking on the next stage of the investigation, an investigation that will take us wherever the evidence leads. As and when I am able to do so, I will give out information on the progress of the investigation. But please be aware that we will only release specific information when we are sure it is correct. At this very early stage it is not appropriate for me to answer questions. I will give you further information only when I am able and it is appropriate to do so. At this point I must focus on the criminal investigation and any subsequent legal process, and refrain from speculation. ___ Statement by Deputy Commissioner, Paul Stephenson at 09.50 outside New Scotland Yard We are confident that we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction and commit mass murder. The Commissioner has been fully briefed and he is at NSY today. He and I want to pay tribute to officers from the Met's Anti-Terrorist Branch and the security services for the work they have undertaken to disrupt these activities. We believe that the terrorists' aim was to smuggle explosives onto airplanes in hand luggage and to detonate these in flight. We also believe that the intended targets were flights from the UK to the USA. Overnight we have arrested 21people. The majority of those arrests have been in London but we have also made arrests in Thames Valley and Birmingham. We are currently searching a number of addresses. We are grateful to our colleagues in other force areas for their support. DAC Peter Clarke Head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch will give further details about this part of the operation later this morning. As the operation got underway we spoke to community leaders to make them aware that a major anti-terrorist operation was taking place but without giving specific details about locations. This extensive dialogue will continue throughout the operation. We would like to reassure the public that this operation was carried out with public safety upper most in our minds. This is a major operation, which will inevitably be lengthy and
[osint] ALL flights now have restricted carry-ons [not just UK flights]
Even toothpaste! --S. http://news. http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1188979.php/U.S._ai r monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1188979.php/U.S._air _threat_level_raised_to_red U.S. air threat level raised to red By UPI Staff United Press International August 10, 2006 WASHINGTON (UPI) -- In light of British police breaking an airline bombing plot, U.S. officials Thursday raised the threat level for air transport to the highest, code red. == The Transportation Security Administration said in a == statement passengers on all domestic and international == flights would be banned from transporting any type of == liquid or gel in their carry-on luggage. The ban applies == to all types of beverages, shampoo, toothpaste, hair gels == and other items of a similar consistency, the TSA announced. Britain imposed similar bans with the exception of baby formula, which the traveler would have to prove safe by drinking some. The move came after Scotland Yard announced the arrests of 21 people in London and Birmingham late Wednesday. They said intelligence indicated they were involved in a plot to simultaneously down as many as 10 U.S.-carrier flights from Britain to the United States using explosive liquids in carry-on baggage. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said officials had no indication that the plot included attacks inside the United States. The U.S. Air Transport Association issued a statement asking passengers to be patient with the temporary measures that would result in intensified searches and considerable delays. - [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: Thwarted plot may have been the Big One
Thwarted plot may have been the Big One -- Classic al-Qaida plan biggest in scope, ambition since Sept. 11 -- MSNBC [ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14285388/ ] 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: Pakistan discusses Guantanamo prisoners with US
Pakistan discusses Guantanamo prisoners with US -- A Pakistani team has held talks with the United States authorities in Washington on consular access to Pakistani prisoners at Guantanamo prison, a Pakistani minister said on Thursday. -- Xinhua [ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/10/content_4946631.htm?rss=1 ] 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] UK Airline Plot: New Information (tidbits)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/us.security/index.html: A U.S. administration official said the terror plot targeted Continental, United, and American Airlines. It was not immediately clear whether other airlines also were involved. http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1841140,00.html: Reports citing official sources said the apparent idea was to use a liquid-based explosive, and there were suggestions one explosive component was to have been hidden in bottles of fizzy drink... There were reports of anti-terror officers being deployed in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Mr Stephenson (the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police) said a number of addresses were being searched. It is believed some explosive materials have been found, although this has not been confirmed. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2306721,00.html: Detectives are currently searching a number of business and home addresses. Buildings in Walthamstow, East London, and in High Wycombe, were among those cordoned off by police tape and guarded by uniformed officers. A police spokesman said that several items of interest had been found. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1841817,00.html: American airlines cancelled three flights bound for London from Chicago, Boston and New York, along with three flights in the opposite direction. The remaining flights were expected to run up to three-and-a-half hours late. [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] UK terror alert response
Links to terrorism and Pakistan: Dare we say Muslim terrorists? Bruce QA: UK terror alert response Officers at Stansted Airport Security is stepped at Stansted Airport among others A massive security operation is under way at Britain's airports despite several arrests of suspects overnight. What do we know about the reported plot? According to BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera, the authorities believe the target of the plot included US as well as UK airlines flying to all parts of the US and it seemed to have involved a number of waves of simultaneous attacks. It is thought there could have been three waves of attacks on different days, targeting three planes each time. It is believed that the plot may have revolved around liquids of some kind. Officials say the explosives could have been sophisticated and extremely effective. It is possible they could have been carried in fizzy drink bottles or cans. The plot was expected to be carried out soon - not on Thursday or in the next couple of days, but not much later. What sparked the alert? New intelligence was received in the last five days which led to the decision to act as soon as possible. HAVE YOUR SAY We are lucky to have these talented and dedicated workers Caroline Blagburn, Cardiff http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?threadID=3122edition=2 Send us your comments It is not clear exactly what it was, but it seems to have made officials realise they did not have the full picture. Who is believed to have been behind it? It is too early to say who might be involved, but there are understood to be links in the investigation to Pakistan. What level of threat remains? MI5 has raised the security threat level to the UK to critical - the highest rating, while stringent security measures have been introduced at UK airports. According to our security correspondent, there may be a fear that there is another, parallel group or other individuals who are also going to carry out similar attacks. How long will disruption and increased security measures continue? BAA, the airports operator, is advising all passengers planning to fly out of Heathrow airport to make alternative travel arrangements or postpone their journeys. Meanwhile, British Airways has cancelled all short-haul flights in and out of Heathrow on Thursday. The Department for Transport says the security measures imposed are being kept under review by the government and it is hoped they will be in place for a limited period only. http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/email/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm E-mail this to a friend http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_new s/4778889.stm Printable version http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778889.stm [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] Info about police raids
Contains specific locations for some raids as well as descriptions of a few of the suspects. --B http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1841778,00.html Plane plot investigators search houses Matt Weaver and agencies Thursday August 10, 2006 Guardian Unlimited Police were today searching a number of homes and businesses in London, High Wycombe and Birmingham after the arrest of 21 people in connection with the alleged terrorist plot to blow up planes leaving the UK. Houses were evacuated in High Wycombe around Walton Drive, where at least one person was arrested in one of a series of raids around the country last night. The home secretary, John Reid, said he believed all the main players in the plot were accounted for. The 21 suspects were being held in London's Paddington Green police station following the raids. The US homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, said the alleged plan to target passenger jets was in some respects suggestive of an al-Qaida plot. Mr Chertoff told a press conference in Washington, DC, that the plan had been to detonate liquid explosives on board multiple commercial aircraft. He said it was alleged to involve carrying explosive material and detonating devices disguised as drinks, electronic devices and other common objects. One of the homes raided included a flat in Walthamstow north-east London, which was stormed by about 20 officers. They rammed the front door to a house containing a number of flats in Forest Road, shortly before midnight last night, neighbours said. John Weir, 50, who lives opposite the terraced property, said plain clothed officers in unmarked cars silently lined up opposite the house before the raid. He said: At about 10.30pm, unmarked police cars all lined up on the street and just sat there. About 11.50pm two vans came up the road and parked at either end of the street. Then about 20 officers - four of them were in uniform - ran up and bashed the door in. Mr Weir said officers headed upstairs to a first floor flat, which they proceeded to search by torchlight. He said: The only lights they turned on were the ones just inside the front door. When they went upstairs they didn't turn any lights on and you could see the torches flashing as they started their search. They were swarming all over the place. There must have been forensic officers there because I saw them taking tool boxes and lots of equipment in. Mr Weir said he believed two north African men had been living in the flat for about a month. He said: I saw a couple of north African-looking men about three weeks ago. They were in their mid 30s. They were dressed quite normally in T-shirts and trousers. I haven't seen them in the last couple of weeks. There is not often anyone there at that house. West Midlands police said two of those arrested were from Birmingham. They are believed to come from the Bordesley Green area, after homes were sealed off there last night. Forensic teams were searching the area. [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] 10 Implications Regarding Foiled UK Plane Plot
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?id=7534 http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?id=7534siteSection=28 siteSection=28 10 Implications Regarding Foiled UK Plane Plot Posted: August 10th, 2006 11:07 AM PDT The Business Travel Coalition * Full Coverage on: Terror http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/fullsection.jsp?siteSection=28 in the Airports 1. This development will reinforce for corporations the importance of knowing at all times where their travelers are. This has become a travel management best practice for global corporations. The Air Canada Tango controversy and U.S. travel distribution reform both point to the threat of content fragmentation and the implied consequence of travelers booking flights outside their corporation's managed travel program at airline.com wherein information regarding their whereabouts is lost. 2. Foreign flag carriers will likely see an immediate boost in traffic, as U.S. carriers were the apparent targets. 3. A considerable amount of business travel to the UK will be cancelled for today, and the rest of the week due to security concerns as well as airport hassles. 4. Business travel to the UK will likely remain off if corporations and travelers are not confident that the threat has been eradicated. 5. Business travel demand will likely be dampened, at least somewhat, if additional security measures are perceived to be truly onerous. This has implications for domestic U.S. travel as well as U.S.-to-UK travel. 6. A falloff in business travel demand could blunt the upward pressure on U.S.-to-UK Business Class fare levels, which have been very strong this year. 7. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and some Members of Congress, will likely use this opportunity to argue for the removal of the cap on the number of airport screeners. 8. Registered Traveler program (RT) detractors will likely seize on this opportunity to argue airport security is serious business, and as such, resources, including TSA management time and attention, should not be diverted for the benefit of a small segment of the flying public. RT proponents will look at new levels of airport hassles and delays and argue the development only underscores the importance of the RT program. 9. New momentum will likely build behind Secure Flight. Some will argue (per the above point) that TSA resources devoted to RT should be immediately redirected to Secure Flight. 10. Fractional jet and corporate flight department options will receive greater interest from corporate security executives and senior management for security and executive productivity reasons. [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] Plot 'Could Have Killed Unprecedented Numbers'
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?id=7532siteSection=28 Alleged Plot 'Could Have Killed Unprecedented Numbers' Posted: August 10th, 2006 11:12 AM PDT John Bingham Press Association Newsfile Had it succeeded, the alleged plot to blow up aircraft mid-air could have killed unprecedented numbers of passengers, terrorism experts suggested today. Prof Paul Wilkinson of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St Andrews University said nothing on this apparent scale had succeeded before. This is really a very ambitious plot indeed, it is the kind of spectacular potentially lethal attack which the al Qaida network has been particularly interested in carrying out,'' he said. I would be very surprised if it was found that they were not involved as a movement. It is possible I suppose that some other movement could have copied the kind of techniques that had been used by the al Qaida network but I think that's unlikely. I don't think we should in any way underestimate it, it's a significant and serious development and the authorities are right to be responding with exceptional measures.'' He said that the only close comparison could be with the foiled Bojinka plot to blow up 12 Western airliners simultaneously in Asia in the mid 1990s. The plot, which would have killed thousands in the Asia Pacific region, was scuppered when plans were found in the Manila, Philippines, base of terrorist Ramzi Yousef who also planned the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. We know from the investigation of the 9/11 commission that the original plot for the 9/11 attacks was to attack 10 cities and not just New York and Washington as happened, it really does show that this is a movement which is intent on causing massive death and destruction.'' Prof Wilkinson said that Yousef's career added credibility to suggestions that plotters may have been planning to take liquid bomb ingredients'' on board. He said that Yousef was known to have developed techniques for liquid-based devices which - crucially - could be assembled quickly on-board an aircraft making it very difficult to detect beforehand. He said that the experience of the use of suicide bombers on planes made such threats likely. There are people who would be looking for the recipes and that is the reason any information on this is very dangerous to put around,'' he said. What I think is the real worry is that sufficient plotters are prepared to take the necessary ingredients on board the plane and assemble the device which would then be used there on the plane.'' [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] Pakistani intelligence assisted in investigation; suspect and locations named
One possible suspect named: High Wycombe was today being guarded by officers. The house was believed to be occupied by a Mohammed Farwar. --B http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2306811,00.html Times OnlineAugust 10, 2006 Pakistani intelligence helped foil bombing plot From Zahid Hussain in Islamabad, Steve Bird and agencies Pakistani intelligence agencies helped the British authorities foil the terror plot to blow up aircraft travelling between Britain and America, highly placed sources in Pakistan said today. The agencies have been working closely with British anti-terror police in monitoring the activities of the suspected terrorists for some time, many of whom have links with Pakistan-based Islamic militant groups, The Times has learnt. Today Pakistani security forces put Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, leader of the outlawed Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, (LeT) under house arrest. The largest of the separatist groups fighting the Indian forces in Kashmir, the LeT has also been blamed by Indian authorities for last month's train bombings in Bombay which killed more than 200 people. Throughout the night and early morning police carried out a series of raids in London, Buckinghamshire and Birmingham, arresting 21 people. One of the properties was in Walthamstow, north east London. At 10.30pm last night around twenty officers burst into a rundown three storey building that is believed to contain three flats. John Weir, 50, who lives opposite the terraced house said plain clothed officers in unmarked cars silently lined up opposite the house before the raid at about 10.30pm. He said: About 11.50pm two vans came up the road and parked at either end of the street. Then about 20 officers, four of them were in uniform, ran up and bashed the door in. None of them had weapons on them although they weren't local police. I know that because our local police station is just up the road and it wasn't the officers from there. They did everything very quietly. Mr Weir said officers headed upstairs to a first floor flat, which they proceeded to search by torchlight. He said: The only light they turned on were the ones just inside the front door. When they went upstairs they didn't turn any lights on and you could see the torches flashing as they started their search. They were swarming all over the place. There must have been forensic officers there because I saw them taking tool boxes and lots of equipment in. However, Mr Weir said he did not see police take anyone out of the house or remove any property. He said the flat involved had been sold about a month ago. It was sold overnight. One day it was up for sale and the next it was gone. I think two men moved in the following weekend. No furniture was moved or anything, it was really strange. Mr Weir said he believed two north African men had been living in the flat for about a month. He said: They were in their mid-thirties. They were dressed quite normally in T-shirts and trousers. I haven't seen them in the last couple of weeks. There is not often anyone there at that house. Mr Weir said he originally thought police were carrying out a drugs raid as the property had been searched for cannabis about three years ago. This afternoon uniformed police officers were still guarding the front and back entrances to the property. Damage to the front door where police had rammed it open could be clearly seen. In Buckinghamshire police swooped on three homes in a quiet residential area of High Wycombe early this morning. Two of the addresses in High Wycombe are within a quarter of a mile of each other. At one house police have extended their cordon, keeping everyone well away from the premise. Residents woke to find dozens of officers swarming outside their houses. One man woke to find police had sealed off one of his neighbours' homes. He said: We've got loads of police over the road. My wife was going out to work and she said: 'There's loads of police out there.' They've sealed off the house. He said he believed the occupants of the house were off Asian or Middle Eastern origin. Another house in High Wycombe was today being guarded by officers. The house was believed to be occupied by a Mohammed Farwar. A neighbour said police had been at the property for most of the night. She said: This is a very quiet road, nothing happens here. The police won't tell us what has happened inside the house. A foreign family has lived their for about ten years and they have never caused any bother. They've got five grown-up children. They keep themselves to themselves-We don't really converse with them because they don't speak much English. [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
[osint] Planes Vulnerable to Bombs Built on Board
http://www.securityinfowatch.com/online/Detection-Systems/Experts--Planes-Vu lnerable-to-Bombs-Built-on-Board/8942SIW481 August 10th, 2006 10:10 AM EDT Experts: Planes Vulnerable to Bombs Built on Board Liquids, gels and aerosols are now banned on U.S. flights AP Photo/Kevin Wolf Liquids and gels are now banned from U.S. flights for fear that they may hide the materials for engineering explosives. By SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press Writer The next terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft could be carried out by passengers who hide their bomb ingredients in innocent-looking containers for talcum powder, baby formula or medicine bottles and assemble their weapon behind a locked restroom door, security experts warn. The announcement Thursday of a foiled terror plot aiming to blow up flights from London to the United States using explosives hidden in hand luggage pointed to a potential new chapter in the battle against airline terrorism: a world of hours-long security checks, visual inspections of prescription drugs, and bans on bringing liquids or laptops on board. Several bomb-disposal experts and troubleshooters for airline security interviewed by The Associated Press said mobile phones, computers, wrist watches or anything else with a battery should be prohibited from flights. Perhaps most chillingly, they warn that security staff at airports are not looking for the right things anymore - and the change in tactics required is likely to overwhelm current security standards. That theater we see, of people taking off shoes, is not going to stop a suicide bomber. The terrorists have already sniffed out the weak spots and are adopting new tactics, said Irish security analyst Tom Clonan, who noted that security measures usually adapt to the last attack, not the next threat. He said that a terrorist group will almost certainly try to blow up a plane with a bomb assembled on board unless security measures improved fundamentally. Anti-terrorist authorities in Britain and the United States declined to describe the bomb design used by terrorists in the foiled plot - whether they were primarily liquid or, more likely, contained liquids in a more complex ingredient list. Whatever the case, experts predicted passengers may soon have to change their travel habits radically. Every businessman needs to have his laptop on a long-haul flight, and now you won't be able to. Even a battery-operated watch would provide enough power for a detonator. All you need is one shock, said Alan Hatcher, managing director of the International School for Security and Explosives Education in Salisbury, England. Airlines have toyed with the idea of banning innocuous personal-care items from carry-on luggage following previous security scares, only to have the focus switch elsewhere because of the mammoth difficulty of enforcing tougher rules. Thursday's announcement dramatically raises the likelihood that security will come first no matter what the logistical hurdles. The technology for the kind of liquid or crystallized explosives possibly involved in the thwarted terror plot is not new. The threat first appeared in January 1995 in the Philippines, when police stumbled upon a suspected al-Qaida plot to target U.S.-bound, long-haul planes with bombs based on nitroglycerine carried on board in containers for contact-lens solution. At that time, aviation authorities announced plans to ban aerosols, bottled gels and containers of liquids holding more than 30 milliliters on U.S. airliners departing Manila, an idea never properly enforced. Even then, baby formula was excluded from the limits - even though, in its powdered form, it could provide a good vehicle for masking crystallized explosives. A decade later in Belfast, Northern Ireland, an Algerian man was convicted of possessing 25 computer disk drives detailing how to bring down an aircraft using, among other things, crystallized explosives hidden in a container of talcum powder. During that trial an FBI explosives expert, Donald Sachtleben, testified he had built and successfully detonated three bombs based on the instructions found in the Algerian's home. Despite this decade-old knowledge, security officials in Dublin and across Europe still permit passengers to carry on a wide range of receptacles without any visual inspection. And the increasing probability that terrorists will try to strike with explosive components hidden in hand-luggage has been accompanied by a trend among discount airlines to encourage passengers to bring more carry-on baggage. In recent months Europe's market-leading airline, Irish budget carrier Ryanair, has imposed a mandatory charge on all check-in luggage; an Irish competitor, Aer Lingus, has announced plans to follow suit. I'm really surprised the Irish aviation authority hasn't stepped in to moderate this rush to hand luggage by airlines, said aviation expert Gerry Byrne. All our airport security has been geared towards baggage going into the
[osint] Be on the lookout
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005694.htm Be on the lookout By Michelle Malkin http://michellemalkin.com/ . August 09, 2006 08:11 http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005694.htm PM Northeast http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/site/modules/news/article.php?storyid=492 Intelligence Network seems to have gotten its hands on the photos of the missing Egyptian men that the FBI wouldn't give out this morning. Take a look: egyptians.jpg http://michellemalkin.com/archives/images/egyptians.jpg (Ed. note: Two actually surrendered; they were not captured. Also, don't be confused by the domain name. HomelandSecurityUS.Com is not DHS.) NIN also posts these details: 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 - CAPTURED 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 - CAPTURED 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 - CAPTURED 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 You know, it was alert citizens who nabbed the Beltway http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,66702,00.html snipers. Law enforcement should welcome help from the public. Oh, and Michael http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501status=a rticleid=240016198628375 Chertoff is an idiot. Via IBD http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501status=a rticleid=240016198628375 : Less than a year before 9-11, 17 national Muslim and Arab groups marched on Washington to protest support for Israel. The rally attracted more than 10,000 Muslims, who denounced Jews and, for the first time, openly supported Hamas and Hezbollah. Some of their leaders ominously warned America it would suffer a terrible fate if it did not divorce Israel. Many who attend such rallies are here illegally from the Middle East, yet the feds don't pick them up because their bosses are handcuffed by political correctness and don't want to look racist. Sensitivity toward Muslims is so raw that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff this week felt compelled to express disappointment that the FBI put out an alert for 11 Egyptian students who failed to show up at Montana State University. They entered the country on visas, then vanished. Chertoff said not to worry, just a bunch of kids cutting class. No threat here. Three were arrested Wednesday, but how can Chertoff be so sure the 11 weren't deployed to videotape skyscrapers or train for jihad? With Hezbollah trying to infiltrate America, and teams of suspicious young men entering the U.S. under false pretenses, it's time to put more teeth in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System that requires young men from the Middle East who arrived after 9-11 to check in with immigration officials during their stays - not kill the program, as some in Washington have proposed. [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] N.Korea atomic test seen harming NE Asia economies
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNewsstoryID=2006-08 -08T213944Z_01_N08179832_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-ECONOMY.xmlarchived=False storyID=2006-08-08T213944Z_01_N08179832_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-ECONOMY.xm larchived=False N.Korea atomic test seen harming NE Asia economies Tue Aug 8, 2006 5:39 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A test of a nuclear weapon by North Korea would have a negative though not cataclysmic impact on South Korea's economy and could pose strains on China, said a study on Tuesday by a leading U.S. economist. An analysis by Marcus Noland of the Institute for International Economics found that among North Korea's neighbors, South Korea was the most economically vulnerable to a nuclear breakout by the North. A test by isolated North Korea, which declared itself a nuclear power in February 2005 without testing, could cause Japan to suffer some capital flight. China had slight economic exposure to North Korea, but could suffer if a crisis provoked by Pyongyang soured ties with the West and Japan, it said. The economic implications of a nuclear test for the region while not catastrophic, would not be benign, wrote Noland, a leading expert on the North Korean economy. Defying international warnings, North Korea test-fired seven missiles on July 5 in a move that was later condemned in a U.N. Security Council resolution. Talks on ending North Korea's nuclear programs among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States have been stalled since November. Noland's 22-page study used the results of the 1998 nuclear test by Pakistan that drew widespread sanctions against Islamabad and the 1997-98 financial crisis in South Korea to project the economic impact of a North Korean nuclear test. South Korea's vulnerability to a market panic has risen because its financial system is far more open and the level of foreign investors' participation is far greater than it was during the late 1990s financial meltdown, the study said. Seoul authorities, however, have official reserves of over $200 billion and the legal ability to reimpose capital controls to mitigate the crisis, the study added. China, with huge reserves and an economy centered on coastal regions would appear to be the least economically threatened by a nuclear test, Noland wrote. But China had indirect exposure to North Korean provocations if trade partners reacted to Beijing's role as the main backer of Pyongyang, the study said. A political dispute that spilled into trade policy or simply contributed to soured trade relations with the U.S., Japan, and EU could significantly harm China's economy, it said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] 'A new hub for terrorism?'
http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/08/10/d60810020325.htm Strategically Speaking 'A new hub for terrorism?' Brig Gen Shahedul Anam Khan ndc, psc (Retd) Nothing that the article: A New Hub for Terrorism? appearing in the Washington Post of August 2, says has not been said in our press, in the last year and a half in particular, insofar as it relates to Jamaat-e-Islam (JI) and its alleged link to the two radical groups in Bangladesh whose leaders are under orders of execution. The article is of course articulated most immaculately. It has covered other aspects apart from the issue of terrorism and has suggested a carrot and stick policy, of incentives and threats, should the government not come up with acceptable changes in certain political institutions. But this article will dwell only on the comments related to terrorism and the indigenous militants in Bangladesh. Selig Harrison quite reflects the (mis)perception of some of the alarmist strategic analysts in India, who see all their woes springing from across their borders, and all the terrorist incidents that occur in India as being planned, financed and executed by foreign hands in foreign lands. But suggesting that the Bangladesh radicals' links with foreign intelligence agencies and al Qaeda is fomenting terrorism in India as well as Southeast Asia, is taking a very reductionistic view of terrorism, and its rise in the region including Southeast Asia. Terrorism, and insurgency, one complementing the other, in India and Southeast Asia, predated the formation of the two identified religious radical groups in Bangladesh. In fact, one could perhaps say that the possibility of a reverse osmosis of the phenomenon in this case is more. The article has rightly caught our attention, being written by an American South Asian expert of repute, and published in a newspaper whose reportage has led to the resignation of a US president. But the piece suffers from the shortcomings that are inevitable in a detached author's piece pegged on information fed by local sources; it is speculative and judgmental. His quoting the Indian police officials' comments after the Bombay blasts, insinuating links of the key suspects, having connection with groups in Nepal and Bangladesh, which are directly or indirectly connected to Pakistan shows the weakness of the basic premise on which he wants to validate his argument that Bangladesh is becoming a hub for terrorism because, the allegation, made so soon after the blasts, has not been substantiated even after more than one month of the occurrence. Therefore, to use a groundless comment, obviously made with more haste than conviction, does not seem to be a very cogent way to prove one's point. To any keen observer, the tenor of the piece cannot hide the source of some of the information on which the author rests his arguments. As for relocating al Qaeda operations from Malaysia and Indonesia to Bangladesh, as the author suggests has been done, one feels that it is an unwise strategic action on the part of the militants to shift thousands of miles away from their original operational base in regions with no ethnological or etymological similarity. And what is their target? To destabilise a country in which they are seeking a safe haven from pressures at home? It also negates his statement that terrorism is radiating out from Bangladesh to Southeast Asia. However, what had been said now and in the past in respect of the radicals bear repetition, if only because the complex equation of the radicals and their internal and external links, has the potential for destabilising the state, to the extent that the neighbours may construe the development inside our country, as being a factor in their security and act in the manner they chose fit, to prevent its impact on their own. The talk about militant camps and Indian militants in the Northeast conducting their operations based in Bangladesh should not be lost on our establishment. While there is a constant barrage of accusations that we have to bear with from the Indian authors, one is also not unfamiliar with reports in some of our newspapers, and one was about one of the scores of Indian militant factions, that appeared very recently in a Bangla daily, talking of Indian insurgents camps in our territory, with pictures to prove the point. The possibility of these elements seeking temporary relief in inaccessible areas in our territory cannot be ruled out, and something that the border force must guard against. After all, if a journalist can track these elements and take pictures of their temporary shelters, it defies logic that the BDR is not able to locate them. What has been said in the article regarding the international links has been a matter of discussion in various circles in the country for some time. While some were speculative, other reports, regarding the linkages of the JMB and JMJB with the international terrorist groups, have not been confirmed as yet; and thus
[osint] Peace group under FBI surveillance
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006c/081106/081106o.php Peace group under FBI surveillance By LINDA COOPER and JAMES HODGE School of the Americas Watch, a faith-based peace organization that seeks to close a U.S. military school that has advocated the use of torture and assassination, finds itself under surveillance by the FBIs counterterrorism unit. Fr. Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest who founded the organization, recently told members of the U.N. Human Rights Committee in Geneva that the spying has been going on for years. And he has the documents to prove it. With help from the American Civil Liberties Union, Bourgeois obtained FBI records showing it has been targeting his organization, which monitors the U.S. military school for Latin American officers, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The group organizes an annual November protest against the school in Fort Benning, Ga. What is chilling, Bourgeois said, is that the surveillance continues despite the fact the FBIs own documents conclude that SOA Watch is a peaceful group. An Oct. 14, 2003, field report advises FBI headquarters that SOA Watch leaders have taken strides to impart upon the protest participants that the protest should be a peaceful event. A Dec. 29, 2003, document says, Overall the crowd was peaceful in their actions and the SOA Watch leaders appear to foster that type of environment. A Nov. 30, 2004, document states, This years protest was peaceful as it has been for the most part over the past 15 years. Despite these assessments, said Gerry Weber, the ACLUs legal director in Georgia, the FBI surveillance of SOA Watch, once classified as routine, somehow became priority, subjecting the group to monitoring by the counterterrorism division. The FBI denies it monitors political activity. But Weber said the bureau has made no allegations of wrongdoing against SOA Watch activists, aside from civil disobedience, leading one to conclude that the FBI is identifying groups opposed to the administrations policies as potential threats. Its become clear to me, Bourgeois said, that any person or organization critical of U.S. foreign policy becomes the enemy, is seen as subversive, as a possible terrorist. SOA Watch is often characterized as a grass-roots movement with a large faith-based constituency, including the support of hundreds of priests, nuns and lay Catholics, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and the Presbyterian General Assembly. Bourgeois told U.N. committee members that it was a scandal that the U.S. government was squandering time, money and resources infiltrating and spying on a peace group, rather than investigating the military school, its use of torture manuals and the heinous crimes of its graduates, who have caused so much suffering and death in Latin America. The ACLU hosted the panel of Americans in Geneva, which also included women, minorities and immigrants allegedly victimized by the government. The U.N. committee is reviewing U.S. compliance with a major international human rights treaty. The redacted FBI documents, which can be found on the ACLUs Web site at www.aclu.org/spyfiles, have the names of FBI personnel blacked out, as well as those of informants and SOA Watch demonstrators. The documents note the news coverage that the activists receive, as well as the annual growth of the demonstrations, which drew an estimated 19,000 last year. The Dec. 29, 2003, memo registers the effect that stiffer fines and prison terms have had on the group, saying the immediate jailing of trespassers has had a chilling effect on those deciding whether to participate in an overt act of civil disobedience. Weber said the ACLU sees no indication the surveillance will stop anytime soon, as its difficult to challenge it in court. Bourgeois said he wouldnt be surprised if the spying increased, given the recent successes of the movement. In March, after he led delegations to meet with Uruguayan defense minister Azucena Berrutti and Argentine defense minister Nilda Garré, both governments announced they were severing their long ties to the school. Their decisions came two years after Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez made the same announcement six weeks after meeting with Bourgeois delegation. The priest has also appealed to Bolivian President Evo Morales, who is expected to make a similar announcement. On the domestic front, SOA Watch and its network helped Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern get legislation cutting the schools funding to the House floor. The June 9 showdown was the first time in six years that the issue was brought to a vote. While the measure failed by a 218-188 margin, school critics were encouraged that the issue had garnered 29 Republican supporters and that only 16 more votes are needed to pass the measure. The developments on Capitol Hill and in South America have fueled the movement, Bourgeois said, making it less
[osint] Forces on Terrorism-Bin Laden has Africa on his mind
http://www.observer.gm/enews/index.php?option=com_content http://www.observer.gm/enews/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=5402 Itemid=42 task=viewid=5402Itemid=42 Forces on Terrorism-Bin Laden has Africa on his mind Maybe some people thought Osama Bin Laden had forgotten about them or, at least, he had forgotten about Africa. They were wrong. His audio tape broadcast on Arab television in late April reminded everybody that he still has Africa very much on his twisted mind. With a US$25 million bounty on his head and hiding in a cave along the Afghanistan border with Pakistan, Bin Laden let Africa know it's very much on his mind. Speaking on the tape with his usual hatred against non-Muslims urged his supporters to kill all the infidels. Bin Laden also urged his mindless supporters to fight any United Nations peacekeeping efforts in Sudan. Bin Laden's justifications for killing civilians in the past have rubbed many Arab leaders the wrong way. Unsurprising was the large part of the tape that had to do with his complaint about the Western rejection of the terrorist group Hamas. Bin Laden's comments about the West's rejection of the terrorist group Hamas held no surprise for observers. The real surprise in this tape was his call to the Mujahedin and all their sympathizers, especially in Sudan and the Arab peninsula, to prepare for long war against the crusader plunderers in Western Sudan. A number of possibilities exist to explain the messages on the tape. No reports have come to light of anyone who has actually seen or spoken with Bin Laden. Taped messages are the only way he can get out of his thoughts against the West and Israel. His militant leaders in Iraq and other zone of anarchy are taking the spotlight away from Bin Laden, and he wants to remind the world that even though he lives in a cave, he is still someone important. He may also want to taunt his hunters, and by the tape and reference to current events, show that he is still alive and plotting. It may be, too, that Sudan remains a special interest for Bin Laden. He spent the years 1992-96 in the country living in a large white mansion in an upscale khartoum neighbourhood. He owned 35 companies and employed 4000 people. He built roads, an airport, helped the country to get out of financial difficulties and, on a huge farm, tinkered with various agricultural schemes. The country also gave al-Qaeda room for military training bases. The long, upguarded border with Egypt provided easy access for al-Qaeda militants to make mischief in that country. A Sudanese Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed Bin Laden's peacemakers. We will not host any terrorist, the spokesman said, adding that Sudan intends to cooperate fully with the international community to solve any problems. There may be another more compelling reason why Bin Laden's interest in Africa reawakened. The international focus on the Sudan situation is one thing, but another is the increase in Asian interest in Africa, starting with giant China. In April, Hu-Jintao, the Chinese president, paid a friendly visit to Nigeria to increase mutual trust, enhance mutually beneficial cooperation, advance common development and to forge a new type of China-Africa strategic partnership. The Chinese President brought to Nigeria such things as tariff benefits, debt cancellation, aid promises, loans and professional training systems. In a visit to Kenya, the Chinese President came with much more than smiles. He got an agreement to explore for oil reserves of blocks totalling 115 square kilometers off Kenya's Indian Ocean Coast. Not to be outdone, Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's Prime Minister also went to Africa, visiting Ethiopia and Ghana. Koizumi's visit, he said, was mainly to focus international attention on Africa's developmental needs and to publicise Japan's position as a significant leader in aid to the continent. The last thing Bin Laden wants to see is any world leader coming to Africa to help development. To build an al-Qeada presence, he depends on regime weakness, corruption, popular discord, lax financial regulations, virtually non-existent border controls and muslim communities he can fill with extremism. Africa is made to measure. The presence of two economic giants committed to doing business in Africa stands in the way of Bin Laden's pretensions to establish an Islamic world order and certainly messes up his plans for Africa. Bin Laden's threat to Sudan was different from his 2003 threat to Nigeria and to Morocco. In that message released to the media and filled with pious sentiments, Bin Laden told supporters what he wanted, to get rid of the government. He urged a violent change of regime not only in Nigeria but also in Morocco. In 2003 an al-Qaeda terror network was uncovered in Kenya. The cell had plans to attack Western targets in the country and was recruiting local Kenyans to carry out the attacks. In 2005, Bin Laden sent Abu-Ubayda al
[osint] US, North Korea may be on collision course
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNewsstoryID=2006- 08-08T150447Z_01_SEO6257_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-REPORT.xml storyID=2006-08-08T150447Z_01_SEO6257_RTRUKOC_0_US-KOREA-NORTH-REPORT.xml US, North Korea may be on collision course: group By Jon Herskovitz SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea needs to be given a face-saving way of coming back to talks on its nuclear weapons program or it might opt to increase tension through missile or nuclear tests, a report released on Wednesday said. The influential International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report on the stalled six-way nuclear talks and the North's multiple missile launches in July that one way to reduce tensions might be for the United States to ease some of the financial restrictions it placed on the communist state. Unless negotiations resume soon with both sides showing more flexibility, Washington and Pyongyang could find themselves on a collision course with Seoul caught in the middle, it said. Talks among the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States have been stalled since last November, following a U.S. crackdown on firms it suspects of aiding the North in illicit activities such as counterfeiting. North Korea has denied any wrongdoing and said it would be unthinkable for it to return to the discussions while Washington was trying to topple its leaders through financial pressure. If Pyongyang is not given a face-saving way of backing down, it could escalate the confrontation by testing another missile or even conducting a nuclear test, which would certainly lead to even harsher condemnation and more severe sanctions, the ICG report said. Defying international warnings, North Korea test-fired seven missiles on July 5. The U.N. Security Council later passed a resolution chastising Pyongyang for the launch. The ICG recommended that the United States free up North Korean assets frozen in a Macau bank that can be linked to legitimate business activities. In September, the U.S. Treasury Department branded Banco Delta Asia -- a bank in Macau that did business with North Korean firms -- a willing pawn in Pyongyang's illicit activities. The bank denied the allegation, but said in February it had stopped dealing with North Korea. U.S. officials have said the bank froze about $24 million in assets. Some of the accounts belonged to North Korea's top leaders, who have since found it difficult to bank in other places because of the U.S. crackdown. Washington has vowed to maintain the restrictions. The report also recommended that the U.S. government appoint a special envoy solely dedicated to the six-party talks who can visit Pyongyang for informal bilateral discussions. It called on Washington to avoid veiled threats and name calling. The chief U.S. envoy for the talks is an assistant secretary of state. Washington has said it can talk directly with Pyongyang within the six-party process. The report recommended that South Korea link its expansion of economic cooperation with the North to the resumption of the six-party talks and for Seoul to refrain from making any more critical comments about how the United States and Japan responded to the missile launch. A united front is needed more than ever. North Korea must no longer be allowed to exploit differences between the parties, it said. The independent International Crisis Group -- set up in 1995 to try to prevent, contain and resolve conflicts -- is funded by foundations, governments and individual donations. It has high-level access to government policy makers. [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
[osint] North Korea's leader 'in hiding'
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1153522006 North Korea's leader 'in hiding' KWANG-TAE KIM IN SEOUL KIM Jong Il, the North Korean leader, has not 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. According to South Korea's spy agency, Mr Kim was last seen at a Russian art performance and a tyre factory on 4 July, a day before the launches. The North's propaganda machine has not reported on Mr Kim's activities, but last week the country's official news agency said he had sent a consolation message to Fidel Castro, the ailing Cuban leader. Mr Kim usually visits military units a few times a month to bolster his policy that rewards the 1.1 million-strong armed forces with the country's scarce resources despite chronic food shortages. Some North Korea watchers have speculated that Mr Kim might be in a bunker, since the communist country is believed to have gone on a quasi-war footing after the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning the missile tests. In 2003, Mr Kim disappeared for seven weeks when his hardline regime quit the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and the United States invaded Iraq. Cheong Seong-chang, a North Korea analyst at the independent Sejong Institute, attributed Mr Kim's latest absence to massive flood damage in the country, saying he has shied away from the public in times of crisis in the past. Last month's heavy rains killed at least 549 and flooded more than 48,000 acres of farmland, raising new famine fears. [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] FW: HIZBALLAH BRINGS HONOR TO THE WORLD OF ISLAM
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0608093494191739.htm Iranian diplomat: Hizbollah brings honor to world of Islam http://www.irna.ir/en/news/line-17/key-86/ Dubai, Aug 9, IRNA javascript:history.back(); http://www.irna.ir/en/news/line-17/key-5808/ Iran- http://www.irna.ir/en/news/line-17/key-12160/ Lebanon- http://www.irna.ir/en/news/line-17/key-5900/ Ambassador Iranian Consul General in Dubai Mohammad-Jaafar Khatibzadeh here Wednesday said that the Lebanese Hizbollah brings honor to the world of Islam and hoped for its victory in the Zionist regime's war against Lebanon. He told IRNA that all world Muslims consider Lebanon as part of the world of Islam, adding that what is taking place in this country has annoyed the people of the world. Turning to the glorious rallies in support of Lebanese people's resistance throughout the world, he said they are obvious examples of popular support for the country's resistance. During the Zionist regime's one-month war against Lebanon, independent governments have also been supporting Lebanon's resistance and innocent people. Fortunately, in the ongoing unequal war, the meeting point of right and wrong is so distinct that it prompts every free man to sympathize with the patient Lebanese people, he added. The Iranian diplomat said that despite being displaced in the war, Lebanon's innocent people do not complain once they are questioned by reporters and consider themselves as soldiers of the brave and faithful Arab leader, Seyed Hassan Nasrollah and fully support him. He pointed to the Zionist regime's brutal attacks on Lebanese people in a completely unequal war, he said that the flame of war ignited by the Zionist regime in Lebanon has so far resulted in major human and economic loss. In spite of all difficulties imposed on Lebanese people in the war, the US and France are seeking to have a biased resolution approved by the United Nations Security Council, he said. Concerning the approach of UAE government to Lebanese resistance, he called it as favorable, advanced, Islamic and humanitarian. He assessed the UAE press coverage of Zionist regime's war against Lebanon and Lebanese people's resistance as positive. About the relief aid provided for Lebanese people by Iranian Consulate in Dubai, he said, Hundreds of dirhams have so far been transferred to two bank accounts, which have been opened by the consulate and allocated to the cause. Besides, to encourage tradesmen to help Lebanese people, several meetings have already been held. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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] Microsoft patch sparks Homeland Security alert
http://www.digitalworldtokyo.com/2006/08/microsoft_patchs_sparks_homela.php Microsoft patch sparks Homeland Security alert 060810_DHS_MS.jpg The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned Wednesday that a recently patched Microsoft Windows vulnerability could put the nation's critical infrastructure at risk. The patch, described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040, relates to Windows Server services. It was one of 12 updates issued Tuesday, by the software giant, but security experts are particularly concerned with the bug because hackers have already exploited the vulnerability. The vulnerability is described: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms06-040.mspx. Microsoft is advising customers to give this update priority, said Christopher Budd, a security program manager with Microsoft's security response center. The top thing that we're trying to help people understand is we want them to take 06-040 and put it at the top of the stack, he said late Tuesday. The DHS statement echoed Microsoft's sentiments warning that the vulnerability could impact government systems, private industry and critical infrastructure, as well as individual and home users. The statement can be found: http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5789 Attackers have already started exploiting the vulnerability in a limited manner, Budd said. A sample exploit has been published within Immunity's security testing toolkit and snippets of the malware are beginning to circulate in public, security vendors said. The bug is of particular concern because Windows Server services are generally enabled by default on Windows systems, and a worm based on the flaw could end up being widespread. Windows Server services are used for common network applications like file sharing and printing. The fact that DHS has taken the rare step of warning about MS06-040 underscores the severity of the situation, said Jonathan Bitle, manager of technical accounts with Qualys. But because security conscious companies are blocking the Internet ports used by this malware - ports 139 and 445 - any worm will have a hard time jumping from one corporate network to another, Bitle said. It will probably be the type of situation where if a worm does come out, it will hit sporadically through different companies where they haven't been able to apply the patches or put the controls in place. [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] Report of Package Closes Rail Section
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/09/AR2006080900 510_pf.html Report of Package Closes Rail Section By Debbi Wilgoren Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 9, 2006; 2:14 PM A report of a suspicious package on the Metrorail tracks in the Brentwood area of Northeast Washington prompted a three-hour service shutdown this morning between the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood and Gallery Place-Chinatown stations. Metrorail spokeswoman Cathy Asato said the system halted service just after 9 a.m. along a busy downtown stretch of the Red Line, including Union Station and Judiciary Square, disrupting rush hour for thousands of commuters. The 12-by-12-by-4 inch fiberglass box was left on the tracks between the Rhode Island Ave-Brentwood and New York Ave stations and was discovered by a track worker discovered the box performing routine inspections. About 11:45 a.m., the package was exploded, Metrorail spokeswoman Candace Smith said. The package, which measured approximately 12 inches by12 inches, turned out be an empty box with Amtrak markings. Service resumed a short time later. The closure included stations relatively far from the site, such as Union Station and Judiciary Square, because those stations have no place for trains to turn around and reverse course, Asato said. Metro activated 15 shuttle buses to run service between the closed stations. Passengers reported delays of 20 minutes or more. Commuters were also stalled this morning at the intersection of 16th St. and Massachusetts Ave, near Scott Circle, where U.S. Secret Service police investigated another suspicious package report. Police closed off Massachusetts Avenue west of the circle shortly after 8:30 a.m., creating significant backups on nearby 17th Street and Rhode Island Avenue. At 9:29 a.m., police declared the package -- which turned out to be an unattended suitcase -- safe. [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] Plot Echoes One Planned by 9/11 Mastermind in '94
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/world/europe/09cnd-bojinka.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/world/europe/09cnd-bojinka.html?_r=1oref =sloginpagewanted=print oref=sloginpagewanted=print August 10, 2006 Plot Echoes One Planned by 9/11 Mastermind in '94 By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/raymond_bonner /index.html?inline=nyt-per RAYMOND BONNER JAKARTA, Aug 10 - The plot to blow up several airliners over the Atlantic, uncovered by British authorities, bears a striking resemblance to a plot hatched by http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/a/al_qaed a/index.html?inline=nyt-org Al Qaeda operatives 12 years ago to simultaneously blow up airliners over the Pacific. That plot was hatched in Manila by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was starting his climb to be a top lieutenant to http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/osama_bin_lade n/index.html?inline=nyt-per Osama bin Laden, and by Ramzi Yousef, who was the mastermind of the first attempt to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993. It was financed by bin Laden. Mr. Mohammad gave the operation the codename Bojinka, which was widely reported to have been adopted from Serbo-Croatian, and to mean big bang. But Mr. Mohammed has told http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/c/central _intelligence_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org Central Intelligence Agency interrogators that it was just a nonsense word he chose after hearing it on the front lines in Afghanistan, where he was fighting with Muslim rebels against Russia, according to The 9/11 Commission Report. Mr. Mohammed was seized in Pakistan in 2003, and is now being held by the C.I.A. at an undisclosed location. The Bojinka plot was anything but nonsense. At an apartment in Manila, Mr. Mohammed and Mr. Yousef began mixing chemicals, which they planned to put into containers that would be carried on board the airliners, as the London plotters are said to have been planning to do. In those days, it would have been relatively easy to get liquid explosives past a checkpoint. Mr. Mohammed and Mr. Yousef studied airline schedules and planned to sneak the liquid onto a dozen planes headed to Seoul and Hong Kong, and then on to the United States. The plot was foiled in early 1995, when a fire broke out in the apartment where some of the plotters were working. Among the things found when the police investigated was Mr. Yousef's laptop computer, containing a file called Bojinka. The police also found dolls wearing clothes containing nitrocellulose, according to the 9/11 report. Mr. Yousef also was later captured in Pakistan, turned over to the United States, tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Mr. Mohammed has told interrogators that after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which involved explosives in a truck and which failed to bring down the building, he needed to graduate to a more novel form of attack, according to the 9/11 report. That led to Bojinka, and the first thoughts about using planes to bomb the World Trade Center. [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] Thwarted London Plot May Have Been 'The Big One'
Highly unlikely. First of all, it is not against the US proper; secondly it is not significantly larger than 9/11 (as al-Qaeda promised) and thirdly, it is not a precursor to the third and final attack which al-Qaeda claims would destroy America. Bruce http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8944 http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8944siteSection=30 6 siteSection=306 August 10th, 2006 10:10 AM PDT Thwarted London Plot May Have Been 'The Big One' The Latest from SIW http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8944siteSection=30 6 Thwarted London Plot May Have Been 'The Big One' Counterterror officials say plot may have been the kind of major follow-up attack feared sinced 9/11 http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8942siteSection=30 6 Experts: Planes Vulnerable to Bombs Built on Board Challenge is finding the ingredients in screening, since they can be hidden in everyday objects http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8940siteSection=30 6 British Police Thwart Aircraft Bomb Plot http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8941siteSection=30 6 From DHS: Chertoff's Statement on Threat http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8930siteSection=30 6 At the Frontline: Former Secret Service Agent Richard Raisler http://www.securityinfowatch.com/article/article.jsp?id=8918siteSection=30 6 In Case of Emergency, Activate Business Continuity Plan By PAUL HAVEN Associated Press Writer Its scope was ruthlessly ambitious, causing destruction officials say would have been unimaginable. The alleged plot to take down several U.S.-bound planes with liquid explosives appears to be unlike anything the world has seen in years. Counterterrorism officials said Thursday the London plot appears to bear the fingerprints of al-Qaida, and may have been the Big One they have been dreading since Sept. 11, 2001, particularly as the five-year anniversary of the carnage approaches. More than 20 people have been jailed, terror threat levels have been raised to some of their highest levels, and hundreds of flights have been canceled worldwide. The scope or the magnitude of this attack is much larger than previous attacks, said Rohan Gunaratna, a terrorism expert at Singapore's Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies. He added that everything known so far points to involvement by Osama bin Laden's terror group. It is a classic al-Qaida tactic. It is a hallmark of al-Qaida to carry out coordinated, simultaneous attacks, and the aviation domain is certainly known to al-Qaida. They have obvious experience in working around that system and extensive knowledge of the aviation domain. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff echoed those sentiments, saying the attack was sophisticated, it had a lot of members and it was international in scope. He added that: It was in some respects suggestive of an al Qaida plot, but cautioned that the investigation was still under way. There have been dozens of thwarted plots around the world since the Sept. 11 attacks, and several that were murderously successful. Suicide bombers killed 52 people in London on July 7, 2005, 58 in two attacks in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2003, and 202 in Bali in 2002. Islamic radicals killed 191 people in Madrid on Mar. 11, 2004, then blew themselves up days later when police were closing in. While al-Qaida's call for global jihad clearly acted as inspiration, there has been no direct evidence that bin Laden or his No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, had advance knowledge of those attacks, that they helped plan them, or that they provided financial or logistical help to those who carried them out. The group's failure to match the destruction it inflicted in the Sept. 11 attacks has led to speculation that a global dragnet that has forced bin Laden into hiding and ensnared many of his most trusted deputies may have degraded al-Qaida's abilities. Analysts said Thursday that is a theory to be believed only at the world's peril. The airline plan had the potential to dwarf the attacks of recent years - killing hundreds, perhaps thousands. It also appears to have involved far more extensive planning and expertise. Counterterrorism agents have been tracking the alleged plotters for months, and made arrests in London and its suburbs, as well as Birmingham. A British police official said the suspects appeared to be homegrown, though it was not immediately clear if they were all British citizens. Magnus Ranstorp, a terrorism expert at Sweden's Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies who has done extensive research into al-Qaida's efforts to recruit in Europe, said the foiled plot in Britain could very well have been an attempt at 'the Big One.' Andrea Nativi, a researcher at the Rome-based Military Center for Strategic Studies, said the London plot resembled that of Sept. 11, 2001, in its ambition and was entirely different in scope from other terror schemes of recent
[osint] Terror raid pair in new abuse probe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6003224,00.html Terror raid pair in new abuse probe Press Association Wednesday August 9, 2006 10:48 AM The brothers at the centre of the Forest Gate anti-terror raid have been accused of hurling abuse at soldiers. A Scotland Yard spokesman said: We are investigating an allegation of harassment outside Wellington Barracks at 10pm on August 1. The matter is being investigated by Belgravia Police. There have been no arrests. The Sun claims they screamed We hope you die in Iraq and spat at the Welsh Guardsmen while they were on duty. CCTV footage is being examined. Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, was shot in the shoulder when police swooped on their home in Forest Gate, east London, on June 2. His brother Abul Koyair, 20, was also arrested and released without charge by officers searching for a suspected chemical bomb which was never found. Officers from Scotland Yard's Child Abuse Investigation Command are also investigating Kahar over suspicion of possessing and making child abuse images. The officer who shot Kahar is back on duty. A two-month investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission last week concluded that the police officer's gun went off as a result of contact on a narrow staircase between the officer and Kahar. The operation involved close to 250 officers, with 15 taking part in a raid of two properties - numbers 46 and 48 Lansdown Road, Forest Gate. Both men were freed without charge after a week of questioning at the high-security Paddington Green police station. While their home is being repaired, the brothers are staying at the four-star deluxe Crowne Plaza Hotel, close to Buckingham Palace and New Scotland Yard. Rooms at the central London venue cost upwards of £123 a night. [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: Man Tries to Enter Qatar Plane's Cockpit
Man Tries to Enter Qatar Plane's Cockpit -- A man tried to force his way into the cockpit of a Qatari Airways flight Thursday before he was restrained and the plane returned safely to Amman, airport officials said, adding that they did not believe it was a hijacking attempt. -- ABC News [ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2296662CMP=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] British Police Thwart Airline Terror Plot
SPIEGEL ONLINE - August 10, 2006, 11:10 AM URL: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,431030,00.html US-UK Traffic Targeted British Police Thwart Airline Terror Plot British police on Thursday said they had foiled a major terrorist plot to blow up several airplanes traveling from Britain to the United States with explosives smuggled in hand luggage. Multiple arrests have been made. British Home Secretary John Reid said the threat posed by the plot to bring down a number of aircraft through mid-flight explosions would have caused a considerable loss of life. The would-be attackers had targeted as many as 10 planes and were apparently close to carrying out their plan. The police believe the alleged plot was a very significant one indeed, Reid said. At 2 a.m. this morning the Joint Terrorism Analysis Center raised the UK threat state to its highest level critical. PHOTO GALLERY: TERROR THREAT CAUSES AIRPORT CHAOS http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTU1NjQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.htm l REUTERS http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTU1NjQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.htm l REUTERS http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTU1NjQmbnI9MQ_3_3,00.htm l DPA Click on a picture to launch the image gallery (14 Photos). The police have taken at least 21 people into custody in London and elsewhere in Britain after a major anti-terrorist operation lasting several months. The suspects, reportedly from Britain's sizable Asian Muslim community, apparently wanted to use some sort of liquid chemical devices to cause explosions. We don't think that it was planned to happen today, a police source told told Reuters. We had intelligence and we had to move against what was a planned attack. The plan was to take a ready-made explosive device rather than something which would be made up on board. The incident has created havoc at Britain's major airports, as the authorities are forbidding passengers from taking almost any hand luggage onboard. Electronic items like laptops, mobile phones and iPods were all coming in for particular scrutiny. The BBC reported that passengers were being giving transparent plastic bags for only the most essential items such as wallets and passports. Several flights going in and out of Britain were cancelled on Thursday and officials in the United States also raised the security threat level for commercial aircraft. Increased threat level US Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the threat level for commercial flights originating in the United Kingdom would be raised to an unprecedented severe level or color-coded red. Currently, there is no indication ... of plotting within the United States, Chertoff said. We believe that these arrests have significantly disrupted the threat, but we cannot be sure that the threat has been entirely eliminated or the plot completely thwarted. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, currently vacationing in the Caribbean, briefed US President George W. Bush on the situation overnight, according to the Associated Press. A senior US counterterrorism official said authorities believe dozens of people -- possibly as many as 50 -- were involved in the overseas plot. The plan had a footprint to al-Qaida back to it, said the official, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. British police have not ruled out a link to al-Qaida, but downplayed any direct involvement. Chaos for air travelers At London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest, check-in lines stretched out the door and armed police searched the terminals. The airport, which normally sees 1,250 departures and arrivals a day, was closed to arriving European flights, and airlines including Alitalia, Lufthansa, Iberia and Aer Lingus canceled flights to Heathrow. A passenger holds her passport and other items in a plastic bag at Manchester airport. AP A passenger holds her passport and other items in a plastic bag at Manchester airport. Tony Douglas, Heathrow's managing director, said the airport hoped to resume normal operations Friday, but that passengers would still face delays and a ban on cabin baggage for the foreseeable future. At this point in time it is unclear how long these restrictions will remain in place, he said according to the Associated Press. Some flights were leaving Thursday, but with severe delays. But many travelers appeared to accept the hassles involved with flying these days. I'm sure enough people thought 9/11 could have been today. That could have been us, Luci Mason, whose flight to Scotland was canceled, told the AP. The people here are annoyed, but not up in arms. Some disruption might save my life. mry/ap/reuters/bbc _ C SPIEGEL ONLINE 2006 All Rights Reserved Reproduction only allowed with the permission of SPIEGELnet GmbH _ More about this issue: Related SPIEGEL ONLINE links: Photo Gallery: Terror Threat Causes Airport Chaos
[osint] News Flash: Five London Suspects Still at Large
Five London Suspects Still at Large -- Five of the suspected London terrorists are still at large and are being urgently hunted, according to U.S. sources who have been briefed on the airplane bombing plot. -- ABC News - The Blotter [ http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/five_london_sus.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: 2 Men in Ohio Found With Airport Security Information, Held on Terror Charges
2 Men in Ohio Found With Airport Security Information, Held on Terror Charges -- Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207795,00.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] Schwarzenegger Deploys National Guard to Airports
Schwarzenegger Deploys National Guard to Airports August 10, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger activated the National Guard Thursday to bolster security at California airports after authorities said they had foiled a terror plot involving U.S.-bound planes from Britain. ``I have ordered the redeployment of security assets to high priority locations to respond to this threat,'' Schwarzenegger said in a statement. ``These assets include bomb-sniffing dogs, the California National Guard, and the California Highway Patrol, in concert with local and federal law enforcement agencies.'' A spokeswoman for the governor did not know how many guard troops would be deployed. A U.S. intelligence official said the plotters had hoped to target flights to major airports in New York, Washington and California. Authorities raised the nation's terror alert warning level and banned nearly all liquids and gels from flights after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the terrorists planned to use liquid explosives disguised as beverages and other common products. The ban extended to toothpaste, makeup and suntan lotion. Baby formula and medicines were exempted. Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney said he would send the National Guard in to Boston's Logan Airport for the first time since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Schwarzenegger followed suit, ordering the California guard deployed at the state's airports. ``I have taken immediate steps to enhance the security of California's airports and protect the people of this state,'' the governor said. The heightened security measures produced long lines and delays at California airports. The United Airlines terminal at San Francisco International Airport was a scene of utter chaos by midmorning Thursday. Both the security and check-in lines featured multiple switchbacks where frustrated and confused travelers pushed and elbowed each other. Kathy McMahon, 49, of Mill Valley, was frantically helping her daughter, who's headed off to college in New Jersey, stuff sunscreen, makeup, contact lens solution and other liquids into every corner of her half-dozen suitcases. ``I think it's ridiculous,'' McMahon said. ``But we'll do it anyway. What are you going to do?'' Laurence Fetters, federal security director for the Transportation Security Administration at Los Angeles International Airport, said there was no information indicating the airport or any inbound flights had been targeted. Even so, he urged passengers departing LAX to leave plenty of time before flights. There were also reports of delays at other Southern California airports. ``Most flights did delay a little bit, but they left with some passengers missing their flights,'' said Victor Gill, spokesman at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. http://kfwb.com/pages/67195.php - -- 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. -- 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
[osint] Armed Police At Sea Ports
Then they know more and are looking for other terrorists too. Bruce Armed Police At Sea Ports Updated: 16:24, Thursday August 10, 2006 Armed police have been sent to sea ports and the Eurotunnel terminal at Dover after the terror plot to blow up airplanes flying from Britain to the US. Fears of an attack have prompted greater vigilance at English Channel crossing points at Dover and Folkestone, Kent Police said. A spokesman said the force is on heightened alert after news that terrorists could be trying to target transatlantic flights from the UK. He said: There is nothing to suggest any specific threat to anywhere in the county. However, in response to the national alert, there is an increased police presence, including some armed officers. These are at key sites including the Channel ports, Eurotunnel, Manston Airport and Ashford International station. Police have advised travellers to be extra vigilant and call the Anti-Terrorist hotline on 0800 789 321, if they have any information or see anything suspicious. Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel train operator, has brought in extra staff to help with increased demand from flight cancellations across the Britain. So far, there have been no reports of delays on Eurotunnel or ferry services. C 2006 BSkyBBack to Top Terms Conditions Privacy Statement Accessibility Information Site Map http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1230441,00.html --- -- 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. -- 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 U.S.-French Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon : Strengths and Weaknesses
http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief006-6.htm The U.S.-French Draft UN Resolution on Lebanon : Strengths and Weaknesses Dore Gold, 7 August 2006 Vol. 6, No. 6 * The U.S.-French draft resolution calls for a full cessation of hostilities by the warring parties. It demands the immediate halt by Hizballah of all attacks. Regarding Israel, there is also a demand for the immediate cessation of military operations; however, Israel is only expected to halt offensive military operations. Not onl y is Hizballah treated more harshly, but implicitly Israel may continue to conduct defensive military operations. * The draft resolution only partially addresses some of Israel's main concerns in the present conflict. Israel's abducted soldiers appear and their release is not linked to the question of Lebanese prisoners in Israel. However, the abducted soldiers are relegated to the preambular language of the draft resolution, rather than appearing in the operative language that specifies what the parties have to do. * Israel's concern with rocket proliferation in Lebanon is also addressed in the long-term proposals in the draft resolution through an international embargo on the sale or supply of arms. This could justify a partial U.S. or Western naval blockade to look for contraband weapons similar to what the U.S. Navy maintained in the Persian Gulf in the 1990s against Iraq. There is no reference in the draft resolution to how remaining stocks of Hizballah missiles will be addressed. * The U.S.-French draft resolution envisions the adoption of a further resolution in the future, under Chapter VII, for the deployment of a UN-mandated multi-national force. But Chapter VII is a two-edged sword. In the future, if Israel is dissatisfied with the performance of the multi-national force and feels it must conduct limited operations in Lebanese territory (from over-flight to destroying new rocket deployments), under such circumstances Israel could be charged with violating a Chapter VII resolution. Because of the severe repercussions of such a violation, the Arab bloc, with some European support, will likely call for sanctions against Israel. *The Shebaa Farms were captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War along with the rest of the Golan Heights; their future disposition, it has been assumed, is part of the Israeli-Syrian territorial dispute. Lebanon claimed that in 1951, Syria transferred the Shebaa Farms to Lebanon. However, no such agreement was ever deposited at the UN and Lebanese Army maps from 1961 and 1966 shows the Shebaa Farms to be inside Syria. Hizballah's claim to the Shebaa Farms has no basis in either UN resolutions or in past diplomatic documentation. Yet, by granting that the Shebaa Farms issue is a genuine dispute, the draft resolution rewards Hizballah by recognizing one of its main claims over the last six years. On August 5, 2006, U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton announced that he had reached an agreed text with his French counterpart over a draft resolution for a cease-fire in Lebanon. In the UN system, a resolution being proposed to the Security Council is called a draft resolution until it is adopted; only then does it become a numbered resolution. The draft resolution now being considered conceives a multi-stage process for stabilizing Lebanon: first, a cessation of hostilities with no specific call for an Israeli withdrawal. Second, a further resolution under Chapter VII of the UN Charter for a UN-mandated force (Operative Paragraph 10). Third, a long-term solution for Lebanon based on nine separate principles. At this point, the draft resolution only partially addresses some of Israel's main concerns in the present conflict. Israel's abducted soldiers appear and their release is not linked to the question of Lebanese prisoners in Israel. However, the abducted soldiers are relegated to the preambular language of the draft resolution that discusses general principles, rather than appearing in the operative language that specifies what the parties have to do. In future drafts, Israel's abducted soldiers should appear in the operative language of the resolution. Israel's concern with rocket proliferation in Lebanon is also addressed in the long-term proposals in the draft resolution through an international embargo on the sale or supply of arms. This could justify a partial U.S. or Western naval blockade to look for contraband weapons similar to what the U.S. Navy maintained in the Persian Gulf in the 1990s against Iraq. But there is no reference in the draft resolution to how remaining stocks of Hizballah missiles will be addressed.1 A follow-up resolution should specify how the Hizballah missile forces will be dismantled, allowing for Israel to contribute to the discussions over the monitoring effort, as was the case in the 1996 Monitoring Group. A follow-up resolution should also detail how peacekeeping forces will be deployed
[osint] Pakistan arrests militant suspect
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4779009.stm Pakistan arrests militant suspect Hafiz Mohammad Saeed Lashkar-e-Toiba was founded by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed The Pakistani authorities have placed the former head of an outlawed Islamic militant group under house arrest. Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, who until five years ago headed the Lashkar-e-Toiba, was detained in Lahore. He now heads an Islamic charity, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, which has been listed by the US as a terrorist group. A spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa said police are now at the home of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, and that a rally by the group next week has been cancelled. Lashkar-e-Toiba is a militant group based in Pakistan that has been fighting Indian rule in Kashmir and has been blamed by India of carrying out several attacks. The US believes that Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity which Mr Saeed now heads, operates as a fundraising operation for Lashkar-e-Toiba, and that both groups maintain close links with militant organisations around the world. Although Lashkar-e-Toiba is banned in Pakistan, the charity Jamaat-ud-Dawa is not. Police detain two Lashkar-e-Toiba suspects in Delhi http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3181925.stm Lashkar-e-Toiba profile India has called for Pakistan to act more forcefully to crack down on militant groups or those funding them in the wake of the Mumbai blasts. Last month, it postponed the latest round of peace talks with Pakistan, indicating that the climate for dialogue following the Mumbai bombings - in which more than 180 people were killed - would have to improve before the talks could be resumed. Balancing act The BBC's Dan Isaacs in Islamabad says the placing of Mr Saeed under house arrest and the banning of its forthcoming rally in Lahore is almost certainly connected to pressure being placed on Islamabad both by India and the United States. Our correspondent says Pakistan's reluctance to act more forcefully against these groups stems largely from an uncertain balance of power in which President Musharraf has had to reign in the influence of Islamic militant organisations. He has to be careful not to antagonise the country's military and intelligence services, which have in the past supported Islamic militants fighting to end Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir. [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: Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink
Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink -- The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera. -- ABC News - The Blotter [ http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/explosive_gel_t.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] Inside Iran: Signs of the Apocalypse
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/060523a.aspx _ http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/world/index.aspx CBNNews World inside iran Inside Iran: Signs of the Apocalypse By George Thomas CBN News Sr. Reporter CBN.com http://www.cbn.com/ - QOM, Iran - Whether it is his belief that Israel should be wiped off the map, denials of the Holocaust, obsession with going nuclear, or support for radical Islamic terrorist groups, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a man on a divine mission. To understand him and that mission, you have to travel to a small dusty village called Jamkaran that is tucked into a corner of Iran's holy city of Qom. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, CBN News made that journey, heading south from Iran's capital of Tehran. Some 95 miles and a couple of wrong turns later, we arrived at the Jamkaran mosque on the outskirts of Qom. Behind the Jamkaran mosque, there is a well. And according to many Shiite Muslims, out of this well will one day emerge their version of an Islamic savior. They call him the Mahdi, or the 12th Imam. Ron Cantrell has written a book about him. The Mahdi is a personage that is expected to come on the scene, by Islam, as a messiah figure. He is slotted to come at the end of time, according to their writings -- very much like how we think of the return of Jesus, said Cantrell. Cantrell said the Mahdi, a descendent of the Prophet Mohammed, vanished in the middle of the 9th century. No one knows what he really looks like. The 12th Imam disappeared around the age of 9, said Cantrell, with a promise that he would return and bring Islam to its total fruition, as the world's last standing religion. Enter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Since becoming the president of Iran in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has emerged as the Mahdi's most influential follower. He has stated that his mandate is to pave the way for the coming of this Islamic messiah, Cantrell explained. In almost all his speeches, the president begs Allah to hasten the return of the Mahdi. During one speech, he is talking to soldiers at a military parade in Tehran, which was also attended by CBN News. Oh, Allah, please facilitate Imam Mahdi's early return and make us one of his supporters, said Ahmadinejad. He said something similar last September, just before ending a speech at the United Nations in New York. Oh mighty lord, I pray to you to hasten the emergence of your last repository, the promised one, that perfect and pure human being, the one that will fill this world with justice and peace, Ahmadinejad prayed. A few days later in Iran, Ahmadinejad told a group of religious leaders that, during his UN speech, he felt a bright light around him. His reactions were captured on video and later posted on a conservative Iranian Web site. I felt it myself. I felt that the atmosphere suddenly changed, and for those 27 or 28 minutes, all the leaders of the world did not blink. When I say they didn't move an eyelid, I'm not exaggerating. They were looking as if a hand was holding them there, and had just opened their eyes to the message of the Islamic Republic, Ahmadinejad recalled. Ahmadinejad is reportedly tied to a radical Islamic society in Iran that believes man can hasten the appearance of the Mahdi by creating chaos in the world. Ahmadinejad has stated that this chaos must take place before the Mahdi can come on the scene. Some wonder if Ahmadinejad believes these are the end times. And, whether his calls for the destruction of Israel and nuclear pursuits are ways to accelerate the divine timetable. With him, it is a win-win situation, Cantrell said. If we attack him, he wins because chaos happens. If we don't attack him, he gets to create the chaos, which he has said he is willing to do. In Shiite Muslim belief, the Madhi's second coming will be marked by apocalyptic times. Wars, famines, and floods will ravage the Earth -- followed by Judgment Day and a battle between good and evil. On this Tuesday, as the sun dips behind the mountains that surround Jamkaran, the faithful -- many of whom voted for Ahmadinejad -- arrive by the thousands from across Iran to pray for the Mahdi's return. Ezatallah Alimoradi, a follower of the Mahdi, said, I feel so refreshed in my spirit when I come here to Jamkaran. This day belongs to the Mahdi, said another follower, Akram Alsadat Emmami, and I've come to share my heart with him. The night begins with a visit to the sacred well. CBN News was given a rare opportunity to film people praying there. The opening of the well is covered by a green-like metal box to prevent people from jumping in. Most of the time here is spent praying and kissing the metal box. Others scribble prayer requests to the Mahdi on pieces of paper that are then dropped into the well. One man asks the Mahdi to forgive his sins. If you ask in the right way, your prayers will be answered, he explained. Another seeks healing for family members. I don't come here just to pray for myself, he said. I also ask the Mahdi to
[osint] News Flash: ABC News Exclusive: Three Alleged Ringleaders ID'd
ABC News Exclusive: Three Alleged Ringleaders ID'd -- Three of the alleged ringleaders of the foiled airplane bomb plot have been identified by Western intelligence agencies involved in unraveling the plot. -- ABC News - The Blotter [ http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/abc_exclusive_t.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] Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink
Explosive Gel Was to Be Concealed in Sports Drink August 10, 2006 1:56 PM Richard Esposito Reports: The suspected terror plotters arrested in Britain had planned to conceal their liquid or gel explosives inside a modified sports beverage drink container and trigger the device with the flash from a disposable camera. ABC News has learned exclusively that the plotters planned to leave the top of the bottle sealed and filled with the original beverage but add a false bottom, filled with a liquid or gel explosive. The terrorists planned to dye the explosive mixture red to match the sports drink sealed in the top half of the container. This, they thought, would ensure that they would be able to pass through security -- even if they were asked to unseal and drink the beverage. The flash in a disposable camera has enough electrical power, they apparently believed, to set off the homemade explosive. There are any number of homemade or modified commercial liquids that would have made effective explosives, with enough energy to damage or destroy a plane. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/ [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] Doing it right in Afghanistan
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20073658-7583,00.html Editorial: Doing it right in Afghanistan August 10, 2006 Sending troops is a difficult but necessary commitment AUSTRALIAN troops are once again on the move. In parliament yesterday, John Howard announced that 390 Australian Defence Force soldiers, including an infantry company of 120, would join a Dutch reconstruction team in Afghanistan's Oruzgan province, replacing a 200-member special forces taskforce due to return home next month. In deploying troops to Afghanistan, the Prime Minister is sending a powerful message that even as Australia pursues commitments elsewhere in the world, it is not about to leave unfinished business to fester in the war on terror. As a victim of Soviet domination followed by Taliban depravity, Afghanistan deserves all the help it can get. And if Kevin Rudd is correct that there are potentially tens of thousands of al-Qa'ida still active there, all the better for them to be dealt with thousands of kilometres from our shores by trained professionals. The deployment is as vital as it is dangerous. The violent and chaotic Afghanistan that was left after Soviet invaders withdrew in 1989 became the ultimate failed state. What resulted was a disorganised shambles that played host to terrorists and a brutal Islamic theocracy under the Taliban. Afghanistan's chief exports became opium, terrorism and refugees. Since the ouster of the Taliban, northern Afghanistan has been relatively stable. Five million children have returned to school, three million refugees have returned home and a small but growing economic base has developed. Add to this a popularly elected President and parliament and publicly debated constitution and it looks like a nation-building success story. Unfortunately things haven't gone so well in the south after neglect by the international community which failed to provide security for the region. This has been exacerbated by Pakistan's two-faced ability to give cover to terrorists operating across its border with Afghanistan while simultaneously portraying itself as an ally of the West in the war on terror. This has led to a plethora of heavily armed non-state actors operating with impunity within the country's borders. As the experience of Hezbollah's occupation of southern Lebanon shows, the loss of sovereignty to militias and criminals is profoundly dangerous and destabilising. Though it will stretch an already burdened military, this is a worthwhile mission. Afghanistan is just one part of a much broader fight between democracy and theocratic fascism that began five years ago with the attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Centre. It is especially ironic that opponents of the deployment such as Bob Brown, whose normal refrain is that Australia shirks international agreements and obligations, have in this case suggested we stay home and let the rest of the world sort it out. But both as part of the coalition that helped unseat the Taliban and as a nation that has been in al-Qai'da's crosshairs since long before 9/11, Australia has a duty and interest in setting things right in Afghanistan. Dangerous waters Australian sovereignty is damaged by the migration bill NOTHING has changed since John Howard's ill-judged and dangerous migration amendment bill was first introduced into the federal parliament in May to suggest it now deserves support. Even in its present form, mildly watered-down after a backbench revolt, the bill represents the worst kind of policy-making, trading Australian sovereignty to appease Jakarta's anger over our granting protection to 42 Papuan asylum-seekers in March. Instead of using diplomacy to assert Australian sovereignty when Jakarta threw a tantrum over the decision, the Prime Minister came up with a bill to ensure anyone arriving illegally on Australian shores by boat is taken offshore for assessment. In the process, he handed Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the right to decide who comes to this country and under what circumstances. The Australian backed Mr Howard in 2001 over his controversial Pacific solution, which succeeded in stopping people smugglers exploiting the tide of human misery produced by upheaval in the Middle East. But this newspaper cannot support a measure that undermines Australian sovereignty. Arguing against the bill yesterday, Labor immigration spokesman Tony Burke observed that almost five years has passed since more than 300 desperate men, women and children drowned in a failed attempt by criminals to smuggle them into Australia on board the unseaworthy Siev-X. In stark contrast, the modest boatload of 43 Papuans who landed on Cape York in January were possibly the first to do so in the four decades since Indonesia imposed its administration in the Papuan capital, Jayapura. The spectre raised earlier this year of a flotilla of vessels carrying asylum-seekers from the troubled Indonesian province to northern Australia has
[osint] TALIBAN HANGS WOMAN, 70, SON FOR SPYING
http://paktribune.com/news/print.php?id=152075 Taliban militants hang woman, son in southern Afghanistan, official says KABUL: - Suspected Taliban militants hanged a woman and her son from a tree after accusing them of spying for the government, while fighting between supporters of rival warlords in northwestern Afghanistan killed four people, officials said Wednesday. The 70-year-old woman and her 30-year-old son were killed Monday in the village of Daigh, about five miles north of Musa Qala in the southern province of Helmand, said Amir Mohammad Akhunzada, the province's deputy governor. Akhunzada did not identify the two but said the woman's son-in-law worked for the police. After the slaying, the militants threatened to kill anyone working for the government, he said. ''This hanging is totally against Islam,'' Akhunzada said. ''They use the name of Islam to go against Islam. ''The Taliban have stepped up attacks in southern Afghanistan this year. More than 900 people have died in violence since May, mostly militants killed in fighting with security forces. The violence, the deadliest since the Taliban regime's ouster in late 2001, has underscored the weak grip of the government of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai, particularly in the volatile south and east of the counury. Also in Musa Qala, British troops in a NATO-led security force accidentally shot and killed an armed Afghan policeman wearing civilian clothes after mistaking him for an insurgent outside a base on Tuesday, the British Ministry of Defense said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * 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: London Police Seek Up to 10 More Suspects in Plane Bomb Plot
London Police Seek Up to 10 More Suspects in Plane Bomb Plot -- British authorities are urgently seeking up to 10 more suspects in the terrorist plot uncovered early Thursday morning to blow up U.S.-bound flights with liquid explosives carried onto planes via carry-on luggage, FOX News has learned. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207682,00.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] Twenty-fifth Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e0a0acfb-927e-42b5-ae0 f-541dd84690a6 http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=e0a0acfb-927e-42b5-ae 0f-541dd84690a6k=27655 k=27655 Twenty-fifth Canadian soldier dies in Afghanistan due to 'weapons-related-incident' Donald McArthur, CanWest News Service Published: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The 25th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan was accidentally shot by a fellow Canadian soldier about noon Wednesday, just days after arriving in Kandahar to begin his tour of duty. Master Cpl. Jeffrey Scott Walsh, based out of Shilo, Man. with the second battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was conducting routine operations along Highway One near the Zhari district centre, about 20 km west of Kandahar city, when the accident occurred. He arrived in Kandahar less than a week ago as part of a month-long relief-in-place operation that will see fresh troops replace more than 2,000 troops returning to Canada. He is the first soldier in this incoming rotation to be killed. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Walsh will not be forgotten. I was deeply saddened today to learn of the death of Master Corporal Jeffrey Scott Walsh. He will be greatly missed, he said. On behalf of Canadians, I extend my sincere sympathy to the family, friends and loved ones of Master Corporal Walsh, and am hopeful that they find strength in knowing that our nation mourns at their side. We wish to express our condolences to the family and friends of Master Cpl. Walsh, said Lt.-Col. Brian Irwin, chief of staff for Task Force Afghanistan. Our thoughts and prayers go to him, his family, his wife, his children and to his friends. The incident is being probed by the National Investigation Service, an independent and internal body within the military. An investigator has already visited the site of the incident. Troops coping with the tragedy came under insurgent mortar fire in the hours after the shooting but the military said the two incidents were not connected. The base near Zhari frequently comes under fire. Earlier in the day, about 7:45 a.m., six Canadian soldiers bound with supplies for Spinboldak on the porous border with Pakistan were injured when their vehicle collided with a truck on Highway 4 about 30 km south of Kandahar. They were airlifted by helicopter to the air field hospital where four were treated and released for minor injuries. Two remain in hospital. One is listed in good condition and the other in fair condition. The fatal mishap occurred while Master Cpl. Walsh, who touched down in Kandahar on Aug. 3 or 4, was on patrol and learning the ropes from soldiers bound for home in what the military refers to as a left-side-right-side operation. Incoming soldiers sit beside the soldiers they are relieving in these exercises and then their roles are reversed. The military wouldn't say whether the weapon involved was a sidearm or the C-7 assault rifles Canadian soldiers carry and wouldn't confirm whether the mishap occurred inside or outside of a vehicle. It is also unclear whether the gun involved belonged to a soldier who had just arrived in theatre or was bound for home. Irwin said Canadian soldiers come to Afghanistan only after receiving the best possible training and come outfitted with the best possible weapons and equipment. In a theatre like this, though, there is always a small degree or margin for error, he said. Regrettably, in this incident it appears that there was an accident and certainly appears that that margin of error may have been crossed. The military has already ruled out enemy fire as playing a role in the incident and Irwin confirmed that when soldiers are on patrol their weapon would be loaded, it would be readied but the weapon would be on safe. Master Cpl. Walsh is the sixth Canadian soldier killed in less than a week and the 17th since operations moved to volatile southern Afghanistan in February. The grim week - the grimmest Canada has endured since joining the war on terror in 2002 - is a bitter pill but soldiers' support for the mission hasn't wavered, said Irwin. Without a doubt, losing a soldier is something that we all take to heart, without a doubt a tragic loss that affects us all, he said. Without a doubt, the resolve remains within the task force. The soldiers are committed and understand the necessity of this mission that they've undertaken. The toughest seven days Canada has faced in Afghanistan began last Thursday when four soldiers were killed and ten injured during a fierce and protracted fight with Taliban insurgents in and around an abandoned school near Pashmul, west of Kandahar City. Cpl. Christopher Jonathan Reid was killed when insurgents targeted his light armoured vehicle with an improvised explosive device. Several hours later, shrapnel from a rocket propelled grenade killed Sgt. Vaughn Ingram, Cpl. Bryce Jeffrey Keller and Pte. Kevin Dallaire. On Saturday, just
[osint] TURKEY: US Seeks Effective Tripartite Mechanism Against PKK
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnewsalt=trh=20060810hn=35523 alt=trh=20060810hn=35523 US Seeks Effective Tripartite Mechanism Against PKK US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack announced on Wednesday that the US is working to make the tripartite mechanism of Turkey, Iraq and the US more effective against the PKK terror organization. Regarding the appointment of a US special envoy for coordinating contacts about the PKK between Turkey and the US, McCormack said in his daily briefing that the State Department was seeking to appoint the right person to the job. Secretary Rice is thinking about that. We have had some initial discussions with the Turkish Government on that matter, McCormack said. The Turkish government has persistently called on the Iraqi government and the US to take swift action against the PKK terrorists hiding in northern Iraq who cross into Turkish territory to carry out terror attacks. Following persistent pressure and threats from Turkey, the US administration has decided to appoint a special envoy to coordinate the fight against the PKK terror organization. The US administration is likely to appoint a retired general as the special envoy - a move which will be welcomed by Turkey. The appointment of the envoy is expected to remove the bureaucratic obstacles between the two countries in the fight against the PKK. [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] Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an 'Impressive Fellow'
Guess Mike Wallace is easily impressed.
Bruce
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Mike Wallace Says Iranian President an 'Impressive Fellow'
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
NEW YORK - Twenty-seven years after a chilling sit-down with Ayatollah
javascript:siteSearch('Ayatollah%20Khomeini'); Khomeini that was one of
Mike javascript:siteSearch('Mike%20Wallace'); Wallace's most memorable,
the CBS newsman snagged an interview this week with current Iranian
President javascript:siteSearch('President%20Mahmoud%20Ahmadinejad');
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
The 88-year-old Wallace had been pursuing the interview for so long that he
had to be reminded by Ahmadinejad when he first asked for it.
A portion of Wallace's interview, conducted Tuesday at a crucial time in the
Mideast with Israel fighting the Iran-backed
javascript:siteSearch('Hezbollah'); Hezbollah, will be shown Thursday on
the CBS Evening News. A fuller report will air on Sunday's 60 Minutes.
In the interview, Ahmadinejad said of the Bush administration, see how they
talk down to my nation.
During the midst of the American hostage crisis in 1979, Wallace interviewed
Iranian leader Khomeini, locking eyes with the cleric when he asked for a
response to Egyptian
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el-Sadat calling Khomeini a lunatic.
Of Ahmadinejad, Wallace said, He's an impressive fellow, this guy. He
really is. He's obviously smart as hell.
Wallace said he was surprised to find that the Iranian president was still a
college professor who taught a graduate-level course.
You'll find him an interesting man, he said. I expected more of a
firebrand. I don't think he has the slightest doubt about how he feels ...
about the American administration and the Zionist state. He comes across as
more rational than I had expected.
Wallace said he and producers Bob Anderson and Casey Morgan had been seeking
the interview for more than a year, since he sat next to Ahmadinejad at a
javascript:siteSearch('United%20Nations'); United Nations breakfast and
told the Iranian leader that he'd like to come to Iran to talk to him
someday. Wallace admitted he had forgotten about that encounter until the
Iranian president brought it up.
Summoned to Iran for the interview, Wallace and his team waited for nearly a
week until he was brought in to speak to Ahmadinejad.
Tehran in August isn't Wallace's usual haunt; that's when you'll usually
find him in Martha's Vineyard. It's also no way to spend retirement. CBS
News announced in the spring that Wallace had retired as a regular 60
Minutes correspondent, although he would still be available for special
interviews.
Wallace said he nearly fell out of his chair when Ahmadinejad told him, I
hear this is your last interview.
Wallace said he replied: What do you think? Is it a good idea to retire?
He said the Iranian president told him it was important to keep doing
interesting things. And Wallace is already thinking about his next story: he
said he's trying for an interview with
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); Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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[osint] IRAN CAUGHT DEAD-HANDED
http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/news /worldnews/iran_caught_ dead_handed_worldnews_uri_dan ___mideast_correspondent.htm IRAN CAUGHT DEAD-HANDED By URI DAN Mideast Correspondent August 10, 2006 -- JERUSALEM - The bodies of members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard were found among Hezbollah fighters killed by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon - conclusive proof that Tehran is supporting the terror group, it was reported yesterday. Israel's Channel 10 television said the Iranians were identified by papers on their bodies, but gave no further details on how many were soldiers or where or when they were found. Revolutionary Guard members have been training Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, sources said. Iran has insisted its support for the terror group is purely moral. Israeli officials have said that many of the rockets being fired against it are made in Iran. A captured Hezbollah guerrilla, who took part in the kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers that sparked the war in Lebanon, confessed in a video released this week that he received military training in Iran. Hezbollah said it categorically denies the lies and claims that the enemy is promoting that Iranian fighters are present in the confrontations with the occupation forces. Hours earlier, defiant Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in a televised speech, warned that expanded Israeli military operations into Lebanon would be repelled by the same fierce resistance that has prevented Israeli troops from controlling the area over the 29 days since the conflict began. You can invade, you can land by air, by sea and take any hill - we will expel you with force and transform our land in the south to a graveyard for Zionist invaders, Nasrallah said. We will kill your officers and soldiers and inflict a calamity on you in the battlefield. Nasrallah also called on the Arab residents of northern Israel to evacuate the city of Haifa. I plead with you to leave that city, he said. Mounting evidence of Hezbollah's Iranian connection and Nasrallah's threats came amid these developments: * Hezbollah guerrillas killed 15 Israeli soldiers in clashes across southern Lebanon, making it one of the bloodiest days of fighting. Ten of the Israeli soldiers died in a battle in the border town of Debel, where Hezbollah militants used anti-tank missiles, sources said. The Israeli army said 40 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the battle. * Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's security Cabinet authorized a plan to send troops further into the country - up to the Litani River - about 18 miles from the Israeli border. Israel's Maariv newspaper reported today that Olmert later decided to put plans for the wider offensive on hold to give U.S.-led efforts to curb Hezbollah a chance. Israel Army Radio reported this morning that heavy battles were in progress in south Lebanese villages across the Galilee panhandle. Hezbollah said its fighters were engaged in a violent confrontation with Israeli forces advancing on a border village. Also today, Israeli troops - backed by tanks - entered the southern Lebanese town of Marjayoun. Israeli forces were not met with any resistance as they entered the village. Sources said the operation was aimed at knocking out Hezbollah launch sites used to fire rockets on the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona - an indication the battle was part of the current military operations in the south. * Diplomatic efforts to reach an agreement on a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the escalating conflict faltered yesterday over differences between the United States and France on the timing of an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. France backs Lebanon's call for Israeli troops to pull out once hostilities end and Lebanon deploys 15,000 troops of its own. The United States supports Israel's insistence on staying until a robust international force is deployed to the region. Meanwhile, Iran's America-hating president. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. tried to play down the world's fears of what would happen if he gets a nuclear weapon. He granted an interview to Mike Wallace, which will be broadcast tonight on The CBS Evening News. The time of the bomb is in the past, it's behind us, the bearded fanatic told Wallace. Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges. [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
[osint] Home Countries of US Illegals Often Refuse Repatriation
Expand Guantanamo. http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT2006081 0b.html Home Countries of US Illegals Often Refuse Repatriation By Kevin Mooney CNSNews.com Staff Writer August 10, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - Foreign governments, whose citizens violate U.S. immigration law and then commit crimes while in America, should be forced to pay restitution to the victims of those crimes, according to Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe. Poe would also like to penalize foreign governments that refuse to repatriate their citizens who have entered the U.S. illegally. Those countries, he said, should have their U.S. foreign aid reduced, where possible. Right now, there are no consequences for these governments not taking their own people back, Poe told Cybercast News Service. Instead, we are the ones that have to pay the consequences. U.S. immigration officials expect that more than 300,000 criminal aliens will be incarcerated in state correctional facilities in Fiscal Year 2007 -- individuals who are deportable under American law. An internal audit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), obtained by Cybercast News Service, also reveals that another 25,000 individuals are expected to be incarcerated on the federal level and targeted for deportation. However, in many cases, the home countries of these criminal aliens refuse to take them back. Poe has already pushed for cutting foreign aid to countries that defy repatriation. He added an amendment to the Foreign Operations spending bill (HR 5522) earlier this year, but it was later withdrawn. DeeAnn Thigpen, the press secretary to Poe, said the congressman plans another attempt to win support for the bill. Poe is also currently working on legislation that would make it possible for American citizens to seek compensation in court from foreign governments whose citizens have committed crimes in the U.S. The issues of deportation and repatriation have been complicated by recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, said Jamie Zuieback, a spokeswoman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) in Washington, D.C. In one case, Zadvydas v. Davis, the U.S. government used a resident alien's criminal record to try to deport him to Lithuania, where his parents lived, and then to Germany, but both countries refused. After Kestutis Zadvydas was held in custody for six months and there was still no prospect of him being deported, the Supreme Court ruled that he could not be held indefinitely. Zadvydas was ultimately released. The case was decided in June 2001 in a 5-4 ruling. Another case involved two Cuban nationals who were ordered deported, but after 90 days had elapsed and their deportation appeared unforeseeable, attorneys for the men successfully argued that they should be freed. Clark v. Martinez was decided in Jan. 2005 in a 7-2 ruling. The DHS internal audit, which focused on ICE's Office of Detention and Removal (DRO), showed that in Fiscal Year 2003, Ethiopia, Eritrea, China, India, Iran, Jamaica, Laos and Vietnam refused to submit travel documents for the repatriation of their own citizens. China and India are the two most defiant countries in terms of repatriation, according to the audit. Zuieback estimated that roughly 40,000 Chinese are in the U.S. illegally and awaiting deportation. But, as a result of the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, criminal aliens and even high risk aliens must be released following the issuance of the final removal order. Since the U.S. does not provide China with foreign aid funding, Poe has another suggestion. If they refuse to take back lawfully deported individuals, we can cut the number of visas we give out whereby we let people in legally, he said. This can include student visas. The audit report http://www.cnsnews.com./pdf/2006/Terror2.pdf shows that as of June 2004, there were over 133,662 illegal aliens who were unlikely to ever be repatriated as a result of the unwillingness of their home country to provide the necessary travel documentation and arrangements. A variety of methods are employed by those countries that work to thwart U.S. immigration policy. Ethiopia, for instance, will not issue travel documents for repatriation unless proof can be furnished that shows the illegal alien in the U.S. had parents who were born in Ethiopia. It is also necessary for illegals to demonstrate that they still have family members residing in Ethiopia at the moment repatriation is sought. Iran requires illegal aliens to to produce overwhelming documentary evidence of their nationality. The DHS audit report shows that in Fiscal Year 2003, the detention of both criminal and non-criminal aliens from the top eight uncooperative countries that block repatriation took up 981,202 detention days and cost over $80 million. The report adds that the lack of cooperation on the part of foreign governments has created a mini-amnesty program for tens of thousands of illegal aliens.
[osint] Muslims/Arabs Concerned About McKinney's Possible Replacement
http://www.cnsnews.com/ThisHour.asp Muslims/Arabs Concerned About McKinney's Possible Replacement (CNSNews.com) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations wants the man who beat Cynthia McKinney in Tuesday's congressional runoff election to meet with Muslim and Arab-American leaders -- to discuss his recent remarks implying that voters with Arabic names may be 'terrorists.' According to CAIR, Johnson -- in a televised debate with Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- said, ...but since we're talking about Middle East policy, I will say that the abundant number of contributors to Mrs. McKinney's campaign are, have Palestinian and Arab surnames, now I could accuse her of being under the control of terrorists. In a letter to Johnson, CAIR Government Affairs Director Corey Saylor wrote, This comment seems to suggest that Arab-American and Muslim participation in the political process has sinister connotations and that having an Arabic name somehow indicates a propensity for violence. The Muslim community considered McKinney a friend, while some in the Jewish community suspected she is anti-Semitic. Johnson is now the Democratic nominee for McKinney's House seat. [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] Airlines face huge terror bill
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=411579 http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=411579in_page _id=2 in_page_id=2 Airlines face huge terror bill Robert Lea, Evening Standard 10 August 2006 BRITAIN'S major airlines face a bill potentially running into tens of millions of pounds after today's 'critical' security alert meant London's major airports all but gave up trying to put passengers on domestic and European flights. British Airways cancelled its short-haul flight schedule from Heathrow en masse and another 40 scratched services at Gatwick took the total number of BA cancellations to more than 400. An unquantified number of intercontinental flights are also being cancelled, with disruption on services to New York and Heathrow. Hundreds more flights were cancelled by easyJet as it scrapped its entire flight schedule for the day from Gatwick, Stansted and Luton. Ryanair said it had cancelled over 50 flights but admitted many more are suffering delays of more than five hours. A spokesman for BA declined to put a price on the cost of the disruption. 'It's too early to tell. We are concentrating simply on the operation at present,' he said. However, analysts are already drawing comparisons with last August's Gate Gourmet catering staff strike which saw 900 BA flights cancelled, stranding 100,000 passengers. This will ultimately cost the airline £45m. The costs of today's airport and flights disruption - which are likely to have a knock-on effect over several days - will force the airlines to pay out refunds and compensation to many passengers. BA shares dived 6%, down 22p to 368p, the biggest faller in the FTSE 100 and wiping £260m off the value of the flag-carrier. Another £200m was wiped off the value of Ryanair, as shares in the Stansted-based airline plunged 5%. Shares in easyJet were off 3%. While the rest of the stock market attempted to shrug off the heightened fears of renewed terrorist attacks on London, shares in other travel and holiday companies were under pressure. Biggest victim among London's top 350 stocks was Avis Europe, the car hire company which is based at most major airports. Its shares crashed by 8%, shedding 5¼lp to 61¾lp. InterContinental Hotels, heavily reliant on the holiday and leisure market, also took a sharp tumble, off 30½l;p at 835p. Another big loser was MyTravel, the holiday company that runs its own charter airline. Its shares fell more than 3%. Shares dive £20bn, then cool heads prevail SHARES nosedived on first news of the foiled terror attack today but the initial knee-jerk reaction calmed as cooler heads prevailed. In the first hour of London trading, shares tumbled until the FTSE 100 index was down 108 points - equivalent to a £20bn loss. But, mindful of the market's fightbacks after 9/11 and 7/7, dealers said such a sell-off was not warranted. Losses were later trimmed back to just 76.2 on the day, leaving the Footsie at 5784.3. 'Since 9/11, every act of terrorism has seen a law of diminishing returns set in,' said 4Cast analyst Ray Attrill. [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] U.S. anti-terror efforts remain uncoordinated
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-08/09/content_4942372.htm U.S. anti-terror efforts remain uncoordinated www.chinaview.cn 2006-08-09 23:50:57 WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- Five years after the start of an unprecedented reorganization of the U.S. intelligence community, the country's anti-terror efforts remain largely uncoordinated, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The counter-terrorism infrastructure has become so immense and unwieldy that even some insiders have trouble in understanding how it works or how much safer it has made the country, according to the report. Although the country has spent 430 billion U.S. dollars so far on overseas military and anti-terror operations, and established a number of new anti-terror institutions, critics say that after nearly five years, the fight against terrorism often seems like a chaotic work in progress. Continuity and coherence have been undercut by rapid turnover among top officials, particularly in the institutions responsible for domestic security and preparedness. For example, the FBI's sixth counter-terrorism chief since 2001 tendered his resignation in April after 10 months on the job. Many with government training and security clearances resign or retire, only to sign on at far higher salaries with the burgeoning private-sector security industry. To address the problem, the National Counter terrorism Center has recently presented U.S. President George W. Bush a 160-page plan that aspires to achieve what has eluded his administration in the five years since the September 11 terror attacks: bringing order and direction to the fight against terrorism. For the first time, the classified National Implementation Plan sets government-wide goals and assigns responsibility to achieve them to specific departments and agencies. Enditem [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] Heathrow worker one of arrestees
One must look at Muslims working in sensitive positions closely. -Bruce CNN (talking to ITV reporter) is reporting now that one arrested worked at Heathrow airport and that he was wearing Heathrow pants/overalls when arrested. Others arrested were students. Several of them traveled to Pakistan, and the head of the AT squad said that their movements have been tracked, as well as their spending patterns. MSNBC this morning stressed the homegrown element of the operation. 14% of Pakistanis in UK are unemployed, compared to 4% of population at large there. NFI -- 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] Braced for terror attack
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=175 41124 http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/tm_objectid=17 541124method=fullsiteid=50061headline=braced-for-terror-attack-name_page. html method=fullsiteid=50061headline=braced-for-terror-attack-name_page.html Braced for terror attack Aug 10 2006 Michelle Fiddler, Neil Hodgson And Mary Murtagh Armed police officers patrols JLAARMED police patrolled Liverpool John Lennon airport today as a major terrorist threat sparked a national alert. Huge queues built up at check-in desks across the country as airport staff enforced rigid security procedures. Itfollows news of asuspected plot to allegedlyblow up aircraft in mid-flight early today. A joint operation by the Metropolitan police's anti-terrorist branchand security service uncovered a suspected plan to detonate bombs smuggled on board an aircraft in hand luggage. Home Office minister Dr John Reid said the plot was designed to bring down a number of aircraft through mid-flight explosions, causing a considerable loss of life. Twenty-five people have been arrested in connection with the terrorist plot, most in London with some in the Thames Valley and Birmingham. All arethought to be British. Searches were continuing at a number of other addresses. Heathrow closed at 9am to all incoming flights which had not yet taken off. Todaythe usual bustling airport forecourt outside JLA's terminal building was eerily quiet. All traffic apartfrom buses and taxis was directed to acar parkto drop off and pick up passengers. Alongside armed police, mobile CCTV vans were stationed at the airportand asniffer dogchecked passengers and their luggage. Queues built up at the check-in desks as passengers transferred permitted personal belongings into clear carrier bags. All other hand luggage had to go inside airplanes' holds. Approximately 20 flights were due to depart beforenoon, butby 9am seven of those flights, including those to Shannon, Berlin, Venice and Carcassonne, had already been cancelled. Marjorie Nicholl from St Helens said: We heard before we left the house this morning about the problems. We're only going for a day trip to Belfast so we weren't stowing any luggage anyway. We left our handbags and everything we didn't need at home. All I'm carrying is my money, passport and glasses. I found it fine in the airportthis morning. We've been largely unaffected but all the other passengers seem calm. I think everybody understands why this has to happen. Managers at the airport, which carries around 4.5 million passengers every year, were advising those catching planes or picking up arrivals to allow more time for the security checks. The area in front of the terminal and the pick-up/drop-offareawas cleared, and only passengers were allowed inside the terminal. Liverpool JLA corporate affairs manager Robin Tudor said: Arrangements for buses and taxis remain as normal. Thereare queues to the roundabout near the airport and people walking across the grass area to reach us. Police were stopping people on Speke Hall Avenue to warn of the delays. Mr Tudor said passengers had to follow check-in procedures. There will be no internet check-in, so people who have printed off their own boarding cards at home will have to go through the normal check-in. No hand luggage will be allowed. Passengers need to think very carefully. They should put all hand luggage inside suitcases. The security searches were also stepped up, causing long delays. Mr Tudor said: Searches have been stepped up. We know it is a slow process but it will now be more rigorous. The heightened alert will remain in place indefinitely. A Department of Transport spokesman said: We hope that these measures, whichare being kept under review by the government, will need to be in place for a limited period only. What you can take with you TRAVELLERS can take limited hand luggage in a transparent plastic carrier bag. Nothing can be carried in pockets. Items allowed are: . Pocket-size wallets and purses plus contents. . Essential travel documents. . Prescription medicines and medical items essential for the flight, not liquid. . Glasses without glasses cases. . Contact lens holders, not bottles of solution. . Tissues (unboxed). . Keys (not electrical). . Female sanitary items, unboxed. . Baby food and milk. Contents must be tasted by accompanying passenger. . Nappies, wipes, creams and nappy disposal bags. . Pushchairs and walking aids will be X-ray screened and only airport-provided wheelchairs can pass through screening point. . Passengers to the US face secondary searches at boarding gate. . Any liquids will be taken from passengers. . Electrical or battery-powered items, including laptops, mobile phones, iPods and remote controls, must be checked in as hold baggage. Three-hour flight delay warnings at Manchester HUGE queues built up at Manchester airport today as passengers were warned flights could be
[osint] Iran's president accuses US, European countries of bullying
Whiner. If you can't stand the heat. Bruce http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_ 1188955.php/Irans_president_accuses_US_European_countries_of_bullying Iran's president accuses US, European countries of bullying By DPA Aug 10, 2006, 19:00 GMT New Delhi - The United States and Europe do not want a dialogue with Iran on its access to peaceful nuclear technology and were using bullying tactics in their atomic row with Tehran, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published Thursday in India's Hindu newspaper. Ahmadinejad also indicated in the interview given in Teheran that his country would resist mounting pressure to withdraw its civilian nuclear programme. He said any attempt to take away the country's rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty might cause it to reconsider complying with the treaty, which is aimed at preventing the spread of atomic weapons and promoting international cooperation on the peaceful use of nuclear technology. Referring to last week's UN Security Council resolution threatening sanctions on Iran, the Iranian president said: 'The only conclusion I can draw is that they are bullying us. They want to impose their will on us. They really are not looking for a dialogue.' He said the council was an instrument at the disposal of the United States and certain European countries that they were using to threaten Iran. 'They want to place a Damocles' sword on our head so that we give up eventually, but they have miscalculated,' the president said. 'The time for such behaviour is past, ... and they will regret the miscalculation they have made today.' Reiterating that Iran's nuclear activities were peaceful, developed indigenously and conducted within International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, Ahmadinejad said: 'If they decide to use instruments at their disposal to put pressure on us to limit our activities and try to take away what is rightfully ours and to distort our rights, obviously we are going to change our mind.' The Iranian leader said the time when weapons of mass destruction determined the course of political and human relations was in the past. 'There are only a few big powers that want to speed up the arms race, and of course, the reason they are interested in this is to line their own pockets,' he said. The Iranian president also said that the recent fighting in Lebanon, whose Hezbollah militia Tehran is accused of funding and training, would change the ongoing equation in the region. He said there were developments that were yet to unfold and hoped these would lead to a just and durable peace. 'Having said that, once you look at the arena and also the behaviour shown by America, Britain and the Zionist regime, this dream, this hope, sometimes seems far-fetched,' he added. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups 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: Pakistani intelligence helped British security agencies crack a terrorist plot to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft, and has arrested two or three suspects in recent days, officials said
Pakistani intelligence helped British security agencies crack a terrorist plot to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft, and has arrested two or three suspects in recent days, officials said Thursday. -- Pakistani intelligence helped British security agencies crack a terrorist plot to blow up U.S.-bound aircraft, and has arrested two or three suspects in recent days, officials said Thursday. -- Yahoo! (AP) [ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060810/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_britain_terror_plot ] 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] Experts: Air security focuses on past threats
Fly naked! Or go on the offensive against the terrorists. Why are the Iranian and Syrian regimes still in power? Bruce Experts: Air security focuses on past threats Laptops, cell phones and watches pose potential danger (AP) -- The next terrorist attack could be carried out by airline passengers who hide bomb ingredients in hair gel or baby milk bottles and assemble their weapon in a locked restroom, security experts warn. The announcement Thursday of a foiled plot to blow up jetliners flying from London to the U.S. using explosives hidden in hand luggage could be the opening of a new chapter in air travel, they said: hours-long security checks, visual inspections of prescription drugs, bans on everyday items. Bomb experts and troubleshooters for airline security interviewed by The Associated Press said mobile phones, computers, wrist watches or anything else with a battery should be prohibited from flights. Perhaps most chillingly, they warned that security staff at airports are not looking for the right things -- and the change in tactics required would likely overwhelm current security operations. That theater we see, of people taking off shoes, is not going to stop a suicide bomber. The terrorists have already sniffed out the weak spots and are adopting new tactics, said Irish security analyst Tom Clonan, who noted that security measures usually are designed for the last attack, not the next threat. He said a terrorist group will almost certainly try to blow up a plane with a bomb assembled on board unless security measures improve fundamentally. Anti-terrorist authorities in Britain and the United States declined to describe the bomb design in the foiled plot -- whether it was primarily liquid or, more likely, contained liquids in a more complex ingredient list. Whatever the case, experts predicted passengers may soon have to change their travel habits radically. Every businessman needs to have his laptop on a long-haul flight, and now you won't be able to. Even a battery-operated watch would provide enough power for a detonator. All you need is one shock, said Alan Hatcher, managing director of the International School for Security and Explosives Education in Salisbury, England. Airlines have toyed with the idea of banning innocuous personal-care items from carry-on luggage following previous security scares, only to have the focus change because of the difficulty of enforcing tougher rules. But Thursday's developments could dramatically increase the likelihood that security will come first no matter what the logistical hurdles. The technology for the kind of liquid or crystallized explosives possibly involved in the thwarted terror plot is not new. The threat first appeared in January 1995 in the Philippines, when police stumbled on a suspected al-Qaeda plot to target U.S.-bound planes with bombs based on nitroglycerine carried on board in containers for contact lens solution. At that time, aviation authorities announced plans to ban aerosols, bottled gels and containers of liquids holding more than 30 milliliters, about an ounce, on U.S. airliners departing Manila, but the idea was never properly enforced. Even then, baby formula was excluded from the ban -- even though, in powdered form, it can provide a good vehicle for masking crystallized explosives. A decade later in Belfast, Northern Ireland, an Algerian man was convicted of possessing 25 computer disks detailing how to bring down an aircraft using, among other things, crystallized explosives hidden in a container of talcum powder. During that trial, FBI explosives expert Donald Sachtleben testified he built and detonated three bombs based on the instructions found in the Algerian's home. Despite this decade-old knowledge, airport security officials around the globe still permit passengers to carry a wide range of containers onto planes without any visual inspection. The increasing probability that terrorists will try to strike with explosive components hidden in hand-luggage has been accompanied by a trend among some discount airlines to encourage passengers to rely more on carry-on baggage. In recent months Europe's market-leading airline, Irish budget carrier Ryanair, has imposed a mandatory charge on all check-in luggage. An Irish competitor, Aer Lingus, has announced plans to follow suit. I'm really surprised the Irish aviation authority hasn't stepped in to moderate this rush to hand luggage by airlines, said aviation expert Gerry Byrne. All our airport security has been geared towards baggage going into the hold. ... It will overwhelm security if the emphasis is suddenly switched to (relying on) hand baggage. A British security expert, Steve Park, said a likely terrorist scenario would involve a two- or three-member team boarding the same flight, each carrying a different part of the planned bomb. They could combine resources on the plane. That would be perfectly possible on a busy flight, he said. Critical to
[osint] Plane plot involved energy drink, MP3 player, official says
Plane plot involved energy drink, MP3 player, official says
Air travel in chaos after plot to bomb airliners exposed
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/us.security/index.html
Thursday, August 10, 2006; Posted: 2:44 p.m. EDT (18:44 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terrorists planned to use MP3 players and energy drinks
to blow up as many as 10 jetliners bound for the United States, authorities
said Thursday.
A senior congressional source said it's believed the plotters planned to mix
a British version of Gatorade with a gel-like substance to make an
explosive that they would possibly trigger with an MP3 player or cell phone.
British and Pakistani authorities joined forces to block the plot to bomb
the airliners, officials said.
British police acted urgently overnight, arresting 24 people in what U.S.
government officials said privately could have been the biggest terrorist
attack since 9/11.
Five suspects in the plot are still at large, ABC News, citing U.S. sources,
reported on its Web site.
Information gathered after recent arrests in Pakistan convinced British
investigators they had to act urgently to stop the plot, sources told CNN.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were
suggestive of an al Qaeda plot, and President Bush said the arrests are a
stark reminder that the U.S. is at war with Islamic fascists. (Watch
javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/politics/2006/08/10/bush.terror.plot.sta
tement.cnn','2006/08/17'); Bush say what the arrests mean for the U.S. --
2:37)
Bush thanked British Prime Minister Tony Blair for busting this plot.
(Full
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/10/washington.terror.plot/index.html
story)
Authorities immediately banned all passengers headed to or departing from
U.S. airports from carrying any liquid in their carry-ons. The massive lines
that resulted at security checkpoints made chaos of air travel worldwide as
flights were delayed or canceled. (Full
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/08/10/terror.passengers.ap/index.html/
story)
The effects of the plot rippled across the globe Thursday.
* The U.S. raised the terror threat level to severe for all flights
leaving Britain for the United States. Britain raised its alert level to
critical.
* Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney ordered the National Guard to Boston's
Logan Airport, and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered the
National Guard to airports in his state.
* Besides banning liquids, British police are also banning passengers from
carrying electronic key fobs, which have the potential to trigger bombs.
(Watch
javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/world/2006/08/10/uk.heathrow.ceo.presser
.cnn','2006/08/17'); what passengers must do at the world's busiest
international airport -- 3:06)
* A U.S. administration official said the plot targeted Continental,
United, British Airways and American Airlines flights to New York,
Washington and California. (Map of flight delays
http://www.fly.faa.gov/flyfaa/usmap.jsp external link)
* As many as 10 flights were targeted, and the plot may have involved up to
50 people, U.S. officials told CNN.
* U.S. and British officials said some suspects could still be on the loose
and their investigations were continuing.
* Indications are that at least 21 of those arrested are British citizens
and some were of Pakistani ethnicity, a senior U.S. intelligence official
said.
* In a sign of the heightened security, Chertoff said the U.S. was
dispatching extra air marshals to Britain.
* Chertoff said it was unclear if all suspects were in custody.
Chertoff said the plotters were getting close to the execution phase.
There were very concrete steps under way to execute all elements of the
plan, he said.
The plot was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale, London's
Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson said. (Full
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/08/10/uk.terror/index.html story)
Chertoff said the plan was reminiscent of a plot by 9/11 coordinator Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed, who in 1995 had envisioned detonating bombs on 11 airlines
possibly traveling over the Pacific Ocean.
The plot was as sophisticated as any we have seen in recent years as far as
terrorism is concerned, Chertoff said. (Watch
javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/us/2006/08/10/chertoff.homeland.security
.cnn','2006/08/17');/ Chertoff detail the threat to blow up jetliners --
7:38)
CNN terror analyst Peter Bergen said two factors pointed to the influence of
al Qaeda. He said al Qaeda was obsessed with commercial aviation and that
the timing of the plot was very interesting.
It's not clear when this was going to be implemented ... but we are coming
up on the fifth anniversary of 9/11. They do want to make a big statement,
he said on CNN's American Morning.
The U.S. threat level has been raised to the highest level of severe, or
red, for commercial flights originating in the United Kingdom bound for the
United States, according to the Department of Homeland
[osint] Germany, Italy Boost Security After U.K. Plane Bomb Plot Foiled
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100sid=a_wd1zEPQGG0refer=germ any sid=a_wd1zEPQGG0refer=germany Germany, Italy Boost Security After U.K. Plane Bomb Plot Foiled Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The German and Italian governments stepped up security after anti-terrorist police in the U.K. said they had foiled a plot to blow up airliners bound for the U.S. using explosives smuggled in hand luggage. ``As a precaution, we have ordered air-security measures to be heightened once again,'' the German Interior Ministry in Berlin said in a faxed statement, adding that details would not be made public. Italy's Interior Ministry said it had ``heightened vigilance'' and plans to monitor ``objectives related to the United Kingdom.'' U.K. authorities arrested 21 people overnight, Deputy Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson said today. The U.K. and the U.S. raised their terror alerts to the highest level. Sky News said six aircraft were targeted. Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, said as many as 440 flights may be canceled. ``No country is immune to attacks,'' Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said in a statement released by his office in Brussels. ``Solidarity and international cooperation in the fight against terrorism remain vital.'' In France, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will hold an anti-terrorism meeting with Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy and security officials at 4 p.m. today to discuss the implications. Britain today raised its terror alert to ``critical,'' the highest category in a five-point scale, indicating an attack is expected ``imminently,'' according to the Home Office Web site. Airports were instructed not to permit hand baggage aboard flights, the U.K. Department of Transport said. Italian `Measures' In Italy, Luigi Irdi, spokesman for Italy's Transport Minister, Alessandro Bianchi, said, ``We are evaluating whether to introduce the same measures in Italy on international flights as those adopted in the U.K.'' He said the ``measures'' referred to ``not permitting hand baggage aboard flights.'' Asian countries said they weren't taking immediate action. ``We are in contact with British authorities, but we have no plan to upgrade our terror warning,'' said Michel Lu, a spokesman at Taiwan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Taipei. Alfonso Cusi, general manager of the Manila International Airport Authority in the Philippines, also said the threat level there hadn't been raised. ``We don't want to overreact because it could affect passengers and we don't want to cause undue panic,'' he said. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Police chief warns of youth alienation
Eliminating mosques and Islam would end Islamic alienation. Bruce http://www.asianimage.co.uk/display.var.872236.0.police_chief_warns_of_youth _alienation.php Police chief warns of youth alienation By Asian Image reporter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The Police Service risked further alienating young British Muslims unless more was done to tackle institutional Islamophobia in its ranks say Islamic groups spokespersons. The comments came after Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Tarique Ghaffur, called for an independent judicial inquiry into the radicalisation of young Muslims in the wake of the July 7 London bombings. Massoud Shadjareh, chair of the Islamic Human Rights Commission, said: It has been clear for a very long time that there is an institutional Islamophobia in the implementation of stop and search. continued... http://www.asianimage.co.uk/display.var.872236.0.police_chief_warns_of_yout h_alienation.php#mpubot We need to get rid of a culture that exists - unfortunately it exists in our society as a whole, but it is much more damaging when mixed with the powers the police have. Tarique Ghaffur, the country's highest ranking Muslim officer, said Islamophobia in Western society had created a generation of angry young people who were vulnerable to extremism. In a keynote speech to the National Black Police Association conference in Manchester, Mr Ghaffur said Britain, its police service and the Islamic community had reached a critical crossroad in efforts to prevent the flight, fight or separation of Muslims. The cumulative effect of Islamophobia, both internationally and nationally, linked to social exclusion, has created a generation of angry young people who are vulnerable to exploitation. The simplistic anti-western messages of extremist organisations can be attractive to such vulnerable young people, advocating closed and hostile views of other religions. We must think long and hard about the causal factors of anger and resentment. In particular, we need to adopt an evidence-based approach to building solutions. Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari, secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, added, Almost every Muslim family seems to know of someone, somewhere in the UK who has been stopped and searched for no reason other than the way they look or dress. [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] Al Qaeda's playbook evolving
Schuster: Al Qaeda's playbook evolving ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- British authorities have arrested at least 21 people suspected of plotting to blow up passenger jets heading from Britain to the United States. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the plans were suggestive of an al Qaeda plot. CNN's Tony Harris discussed the plot with senior investigative producer Henry Schuster. HARRIS: Henry, first of all, talk to us, if you would, about the details of this plot and how those details to conceal liquid explosives into carry-on luggage bags is indicative of kind of the evolving thinking of these terrorist groups. SCHUSTER: Well, Tony, I spoke just a little while ago with a former Scotland Yard inspector who was involved in many of these counterterrorism cases, and he says that there is a couple of things that you have to pull away from this. One is that obviously we're talking about, as he said, initiated devices, suicide bombers. Two, how would they over the period of years from 1994, when we first saw from al Qaeda this sort of planning to put bombs on airplanes. In fact in 1994, al Qaeda actually pulled off a test run of one of these bombs that was assembled on an airplane using liquid explosives and a detonator. In that case, it was a Casio watch. Here the thinking is that it might have been one of these electric key fobs. So he says ... we're only talking about a small amount of explosives. Look at what Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, had. That was only a small amount of explosives, yet it was enough to bring down a plane, and that was much evolved from what happened in 1994. In 1995 and 1996, there was a plot to bring down up to 11 transoceanic flights from the Pacific into the United States. This plot is very reminiscent of that. So you begin to see where there's an evolution of the al Qaeda playbook here. HARRIS: Let me just ask you, why continue to target aircraft? Are there vulnerabilities that the terrorists are aware of in the system to protect all of us? SCHUSTER: Well, there's a couple of reasons, Tony. And the first one is that -- and I spoke to someone this morning who said, you have to remember, they do what they know how to do. And in this case, they've been trying aircraft, they've been trying public transportation for more than a decade. I mean, you could look back to 1994. So this is what they know. I mean, we expect them to be much more sophisticated and ... we say, why aren't they going after shopping malls? Why aren't they going after other targets? But this is what they know. And there is -- think about this -- I mean, mass murder on an unimaginable scale is the way the British talk about what would have happened. So the impact here... HARRIS: I see. SCHUSTER: And then you have Osama bin Laden earlier this year saying, we have plots under way against you that you don't even know about. Now, you know, these guys do have a tendency to say what they mean, even if some of what they're doing is propaganda. They don't make idle threats. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/schuster/index.html 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
[osint] Italy steps up anti-terror security
http://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-08-10_1103300.html Italy steps up anti-terror security Foiled bomb plot in Britain causes havoc at airports (ANSA) - Rome, August 10 - The Italian Interior Ministry said on Thursday that it had stepped up security at potential terrorist targets following a major bomb plot alarm in Britain . Security at potential targets has been intensified, particularly regarding structures linked to the United Kingdom, the ministry said in a statement . It stressed, however, that there were no specific alarm signals for Italy . Premier Romano Prodi, who is on vacation in his home town of Bologna, said that we are not taking any other special measures at the moment . But it's clear that our guard remains high and it certainly won't be lowered in the future, the centre-left leader said . British police said on Thursday morning that they had thwarted a plot to blow up several airplanes in mid-flight between Britain and the United States . More than 20 suspects were arrested in overnight raids in and around London and Birmingham . London Police Deputy Commissioner Paul Stephenson told reporters that we are confident we have disrupted a plan by terrorists to cause untold death and destruction. Put simply, this was intended to be mass murder on an unimaginable scale . Sources close to the investigation said up to 10 planes had been targeted in the plot which was believed to involve an explosive liquid chemical . Security has been beefed up at both British and US airports, causing massive delays and cancellations . British carriers including British Airways and Virgin Atlantic banned hand luggage on flights, informing passengers that they were to pack all mobile phones, computers and handbags with their checked-in luggage . Passengers were also banned from taking liquids on board except for essential medicines. Parents with babies were told that milk would be allowed providing they agreed to taste it in front of security officials . The alarm caused havoc at Italian airports as well, with cancellations and long delays of flights to London . British Airways urged Italian passengers to abandon or postpone any travel plans involving British destinations . Security measures were also stepped up at Italian airports, with spot checks on passengers' hand luggage . The Interior Ministry said it was not considering a hand luggage ban at the moment . It said its anti-terrorism committee CASA was meeting on Thursday afternoon and that Interior Minister Giuliano Amato was personally following developments . The scare sent shares down in Milan in line with other European exchanges. The bourse fell 1.06% in morning trading . Shares in national flag carrier Alitalia tumbled almost 3% while insurance firms fell around 1% . [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] NYTimes Whitewash
http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060810130748.aspx Nasrallah's Dreams of Israel Annihilation Missing from NYT Neil MacFarquhar's http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2006/20060807142613.aspx glossy profile of Hezbollah's terrorist leader Sheikh Nasrallah http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/world/middleeast/07nasrallah.html?pagewan ted=all included this description: He always calls Israel 'the Zionist entity,' maintaining that all Jewish immigrants should return to their countries of origin and that there should be one Palestine with equality for Muslims, Jews and Christians. Wednesday night on the O'Reilly Factor, Bernard Goldberg, the former CBS News reporter who confronted his network's liberal bias, bashed the gullible Times profile and pointed out that MacFarquhar's rendering, while meant to be a rare bit of criticism of Nasrallah, was actually far less sinister than what Nasrallah really has in mind for Jews once they all get back to Israel. Goldberg reminded viewers of Nasrallah's assertion http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZmY2E1YjY3YTRlOGYwN2IzNGEzODU2ZDNiMm JiM2I in the October 22, 2002 Lebanon Daily Star that if the Jews all gather in Israel it will save us the trouble of going after them world wide. Goldberg on the Factor: And the Times just reports this as if he really means it. I don't think any serious person thinks he really believes it. So I do a little checking, and I mean a 'little' checking. And I come up with one more sentence from Sheikh Nasrallah that was in a major paper in Lebanon. And it says, 'If the Jews all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide.' The Times left that out of the story. Now, that's either sloppy reporting or willful ignorance. I don't know which it is, but neither of them is a good thing. A Nexis search suggests that Nasrallah's dream of Jewish annihilation has appeared just once in the Times, and then only in a May 2004 book review by novelist Elena Lappin of an anti-Israeli book. By the way, The Daily Star signed an exclusive marketing representation, printing and distribution agreement with the Times international edition, the International Herald Tribune, in 2000. [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 Only Solution to the Mideast Crisis: Get Rid of Iran
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=article http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?page=articleid=2439 id=2439 From the Editor: The Only Solution to the Mideast Crisis By Gerald Flurry September 2006 President Bush tried to get the world's most powerful leaders to sign a document condemning Iran (and its puppet Syria) for causing the current Middle East conflict. The whole world knows that Iran is the primary sponsor of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza. But Russia, China and other nations said there was no evidence to support such a view! There is years and years of mounting evidence that Iran sponsors these terrorist organizations and that it is the number-one nation sponsoring terrorism today. The evidence that Iran is causing this crisis is overwhelming. To say there is no evidence supporting this view is laughable-if the fate of the world weren't at stake! The situation took a sharp turn when Tehran and Damascus made the decision to enter the fray (Stratfor, July 12). This intelligence organization and most of the other objective ones clearly see who is behind Hamas and Hezbollah. If we are going to solve the Middle East problem, we must start by facing reality. The people in Israel need to know who their enemies are. The only friends they have at present are their fellow terrorist fighters, America and the British peoples. We need to understand why this is so. President Bush has been aggressive but he is also having trouble facing reality in some areas. Stratfor says, Washington also does not want Israeli actions to jeopardize its negotiations with Tehran over Iraq while the political process is at its breaking point. America doesn't want to jeopardize its negotiations with Tehran over Iraq. How pathetic. Those negotiations are the same kind Prime Minister Chamberlain of Britain had with Hitler in the 1930s just before World War ii exploded! America lacks the will to confront Iran, the head of the terrorist-sponsoring snake-just as Chamberlain lacked the will to confront Hitler. It takes more than negotiations or words to stop a Hitler or an Ahmadinejad, Iran's leader. You can't negotiate with people who are trying to kill you. You either destroy them or they will eventually destroy you. Prime Minister Chamberlain thought that his surrendering land and people to Hitler would bring peace with honor. It did just the opposite: The world exploded in war, Britain lost its honor, and the West came dangerously close to losing that war. We never learn the important lessons from history. Mankind refuses to be taught. We keep making the same mistakes over and over. Even the brutal violence and wars of history teach us for only a short span of time. We are seeing the little nation called Israel show a dangerous lack of will with the Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. July 24, Israel's public security minister, Avi Dichter, said his country does not want to destroy Hezbollah, but just to prevent its attacks. Israel's air offensive and limited ground assault is aimed only at stopping the rocket attacks in the short term and buying Israel a bit of time. The Jews have a broken will. America and Britain have the same prophesied disease (Leviticus 26:19). The cause is our immoral and decadent way of life, as the terrorists keep telling us. And in this area they are right! So don't be surprised if the Jews show a lack of will and fail to remove the Hezbollah terrorists. That will mean victory for the terrorists and Iran. The terrorist-fighting nations lack the will to win the war. Here are two statements that illustrate the difference between the radical Islamists and the Middle East Jews (emphasis mine throughout). After the PA's parliament approved the Hamas government on March 28, a Palestinian Authority legislator said, The Koran is our constitution, Mohammed is our prophet, jihad is our path and dying as martyrs for the sake of Allah is our biggest wish! Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stated in June 2005, to the Israel Policy Forum in New York, We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies. That translates into we are too tired and weak to survive as a nation! Abundant evidence is stacking up to show Israel's policy of concessions and retreat has made its enemies that much bolder and more capable. Sadly, that policy is unlikely to change. Michael Freund, formerly a deputy director in the prime minister's office under Benjamin Netanyahu, stated plainly: The audacity of the terrorists, and their willingness to attack Israeli forces head-on, is a direct result of the weakness that has characterized Israeli policy in recent years. Freund explained: In May 2000, Israel pulled out of Lebanon like a thief in the night, and in August 2005, Israel fled Gaza in broad daylight. Preferring to buy short-term quiet at the expense of long-term strategic interests, Israel ended up paying a heavy price.
[osint] News Flash: Plane plot involved energy drink, MP3 player, official says
Plane plot involved energy drink, MP3 player, official says -- Terrorists planned to use MP3 players and energy drinks to blow up as many as 10 jetliners bound for the United States, authorities said Thursday. -- CNN [ http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/10/us.security/index.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] British Dhimmis Notifying TERRORISTS About Counter-terror raids
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=22031_British_Dhimmitude_Watc honly British Dhimmitude Watch As they launched raids on the alleged Islamic terrorists plotting to blow up a dozen airplanes with explosives hidden in baggage, British authorities reached out to the Muslim Council of Britain and other radical Islamic front groups to make sure the police would be sufficiently sensitive (sensitive to the suicide bombing, beheading, stoning jihadists- JL)!! to the needs of the Muslim community: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2307001,00.html Muslim leaders informed, but wary, of anti-terror raid. Muslim community leaders were contacted by the police and Government officials early this morning as the first statements were released to the press. Khurshid Ahmed, leader of the British Muslim Forum was rung by a chief superintendent from the Metropolitan Police and a senior official from the Department for Communities and Local Government just before 7am to be told the arrests had taken place. (Khurshid Ahmed! Are they nuts! Ahmed is a senior figure in Jamaat-i-Islami, the Pakistani party committed to the establishment of an Islamic state ruled by sharia law! He chairs an organization that publishes screeds that refer to non-Muslims as barbarians and call for a universal Islamic revolution. His writings clearly indicate his support for jihad - JL). The police also contacted Dr. Muhammed Abdul Bari, General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, at 6.54am. He was told that a number of arrests had taken place for the public's safety but given few details. (Mohammed Abdul Bar is the imam of the East London mosque. He welcomed Abdul Rahm al Sudais to London for the opening of the London Muslim Centre. Al Sudais said, Jews are the scum of the earth, rats of the world, monkeys and pigs who should be annihilated. Mohammed Abdul Bari is a staunch defender of al Sudais - JL). Mr Ahmed said that he felt the operation had been handled well but he warned that if the police failed to find any evidence to incriminate the people concerned then relations between the government and the Muslim community would deteriorate further. I was woken up by the police who said there was a threat to blow up a plane and that a number of arrests had been made, he said. Since then I have been in contact with people from the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to find out what has been happening. Mr Ahmed said he had spent the morning contacting local authorities, police authorities and Muslim community groups to ensure there was no backlash when further information was released about the identity of those arrested. He had already spoken to leaders in Bradford, London and the Midlands. A reminder: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21998only one quarter of British Muslims believe the 7/7 bombings in London were justified., leader of the British Muslim Forum was rung by a chief superintendent from the Metropolitan Police and a senior official from the Department for Communities and Local Government just before 7am to be told the arrests had taken place. The police also contacted Dr Muhammed Abdul Bari, General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain, at 6.54am. He was told that a number of arrests had taken place for the public's safety but given few details. Mr Ahmed said that he felt the operation had been handled well but he warned that if the police failed to find any evidence to incriminate the people concerned then relations between the government and the Muslim community would deteriorate further. I was woken up by the police who said there was a threat to blow up a plane and that a number of arrests had been made, he said. Since then I have been in contact with people from the Home Office and the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to find out what has been happening. Mr Ahmed said he had spent the morning contacting local authorities, police authorities and Muslim community groups to ensure there was no backlash when further information was released about the identity of those arrested. He had already spoken to leaders in Bradford, London and the Midlands. A reminder: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21998only one quarter of British Muslims believe the 7/7 bombings in London were justified. [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
[osint] Neighbours shocked by terror raid
Neighbours shocked by terror raid http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/page.cfm?objectid=17541550 http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/page.cfm?objectid=17541550me thod=fullsiteid=50002 method=fullsiteid=50002 Aug 10 2006 The property in Bordesley Green being searched in connection with the anti-terror operation NEIGHBOURS in Belcher's Lane, Bordesley Green, were shocked and bemused after two van-loads of policemen descended on the area early this morning. One described two Asian men running across the back garden of the premises before they were seized by police and driven off. Another, school secretary Christine Gibbins, aged 50, said she had recently seen two Asian men in their 20s in the property. She said: I really didn't know much was happening this morning until I saw the police vans outside. There are always people coming and going from that place. Story http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/page.cfm?objectid=17541550me thod=fullsiteid=50002#story_continue continues http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/mail/news/page.cfm?objectid=17541550me thod=fullsiteid=50002#story_continue Continue story ADVERTISEMENT http://ads.trinitymirror.co.uk/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/icbirmingham/birm inghammail/news/931074651/x60/TrinityMirror/datingdir-h-RF-550785-mpu/dating dir-h-RF-550785-mpu.html/61336663353062313434373761653030?http://icbirmingha m.icnetwork.co.uk/dating I've lived here for 30 years and the area has really changed a lot. A lot of people are renting in the area and so you don't get to know people as you used to. It's still very shocking, though. The property, bearing signs for ACS Management Group, has an upstairs flat in which neighbours say a young girl in her 20s has lived for about a month. The shutters of the two-storey premises were today firmly locked shut and the area outside cordoned off with police tape. A telephone number and website address are clearly posted on the shop sign but neither was in operation today. Rita Cook, aged 48, who has lived on the road for 25 years, first noticed the vans at 7.30am. I saw the police waiting, she said. You just don't expect this kind of thing around here. I didn't know them and I've lived here for years. Another resident said two men and a white girl had been arrested at the same property about four months ago. 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
[osint] FW: Breaking News Thu., August 10, 2006
Must be Muslims then. Not Irish, or Finns after all. Bruce Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com: AT LEAST TWO OF THE SUSPECTS IN TODAY'S FOILED TERROR PLOT HAD PREPARED MARTYRDOM TAPES, ABC NEWS HAS LEARNED. http://abcnews.go.com?CMP=EMC-1396 -- 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] Many troops feared dead as Sri Lanka ammo dump explodes
10 Aug 2006 16:08:30 GMT Source: Reuters http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP259208.htm http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP259208.htm TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Many troops battling Tamil Tiger rebels in east Sri Lanka were feared dead or wounded on Thursday after an ammunition dump at an army camp apparently accidentally exploded, military sources said. We fired artillery all day. Maybe one of the guns overheated and accidentally blew up, said one source. The dump exploded. We expect lots of casualties and deaths. Reuters correspondents in the eastern town of Trincomalee heard sustained explosions coming from the camp about 30 km (20 miles) away, which lit up the night sky on the horizon. The army said the explosion appeared to be accidental, but had no details on the damage caused. Hospital officials at the nearby government-held town of Kantale sent four ambulances to the area as a precaution. 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] News Flash: 6 of 11 Missing Egyptian Exchange Students Now in Custody
6 of 11 Missing Egyptian Exchange Students Now in Custody -- Three additional Egyptian students who were being sought for failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University were taken into custody Thursday. -- Fox News [ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207619,00.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/
