[osint] French Newspaper beats Muslim Lawsuit
http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/3453/ French Satirical Newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo' Wins Over Controversial Cartoon Ban Request NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Lyon, France, 02/07/2006 - Despite world's growing protests about drawings of the Prophet Muhammad released by Danish publishers, French satirical political newspaper Charlie Hebdo wins in court today Vs French Muslim Council which had requested a ban earlier this week. As protests are growing in the Arab world over the publication of satirical Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish editor, French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo which had re-published the drawings and added in-house few others, won in court over the French Muslim Council that had requested early this week a ban on the French satirical publication. Despite world's growing protests about drawings of the Prophet Muhammad released by Danish publishers, French satirical political newspaper Charlie Hebdo wins in court today Vs Muslim French Council which had requested a ban earlier this week. Controversial drawings were released last September in Denmark and never raised protests at the time. Iran officials announces the release of Holocaust Drawings contest by next week. Court's decision is very much appreciated. It is a good news for all us - those who defend the principle to the right to publish satire, says Philippe Val. About Charlie Hebdo Charlie Hebdo is a French satirical political weekly newspaper. Published every Wednesday and sometimes issues a few editions variably. Charlie Hebdo is respected as being non-conformist and liberal, and remains symbolic of the press having a certain freedom of tone, which is uncommon in France. Philippe Val is currently its editor in chief. Val has a strongly left-wing slant. Agency / Source: Independent World News (IWN) Availability: All Regions (Including Int'l) Distribution: [+] Free Press Release Newswire Distribution Network. via PRZOOM - Newswire Today (NewswireToday.com) Traffic Booster: [/] Quick Newswire Today Visibility Checker # # # [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] FW: Response to Petraeus article
D - Here is a response from my friend in Baghdad regarding the Herb Meyer and Lawrence Peter article. Kurt is going on his 45th month over there know his stuff. Read on! Ken Ken - I find it more than interesting...comments are both refreshing in candor and disturbing in that they are correct. I read about the PhD brain-pool a couple days ago. This Aussie wizard: --Has no Middle East experience but has spent time in East Timor and Cyprus (according to his CV) --Based his observations on a study of Indonesian Muslims which he intends to apply in Iraq, which is akin to claiming expertise about US Baptists because you've studied Ireland's Roman Catholics...both Christian, hardly similar. Indonesian Muslims are of a different stripe than Arab Muslims, are overwhelmingly Sunni, only have a 200+ year history in Indonesia, and invoke Islam to establish union; Iraq is 67% Arab Shia'a (vs 88+% Indonesian Sunni), the two countries have significantly dissimilar histories and other resident ethnic groups (most notably the Kurds in Iraq) to bring into doubt applying the lessons of one state to resolve the situation in the other, and Iraqi Shia'a/Sunni sectarianism has led to Iraq's fracturing, not its union. However, I'm just a Mid East guy trying to get home alive (caught in a cross-fire near Taji two days ago; no leaks) and will certainly bow to Asia experts who wish to dissent with my assessment. Further, the Aussie's below dicta do not reach the amazing...why didn't I think of that? standard. Maybe one or two show some insights, but they're like inevitable discovery: think about the subject for a moment, and the revelation will come to you naturally. I think its called common sense. I give him credit for capturing these thoughts in a single document, but you and I could have done that over a beer and club sandwich. FYI: Petraeus didn't write the COIN manual for which he is taking credit; my roommate at WP, (now Mr) Clint Ancker wrote it. Petraeus is a Princeton PhD and has encapsulated and buffeted himself with like-minded folks. He's the boss, he doesn't need like-minded advisors, he needs dissenters to bring other thoughts to the argument, like Eisenhower had Montgomery and deGaulle (and even Patton). And who thinks a grizzled US 2-star field commander will listen intently to an Aussie (or US) staff LTC or COL whose claim to legitimacy is that he spent years in academia? (NB: OK...some of these guys have combat experience, but they're here because of their academic creds.) I've spent 25 years in the Mid East, and I'm starting to understand these people, but I've learned that the more you think you know, the less you really understand. What the indig understand is the brutal application of force; the touchy-feely liberal can we please get you a new Quran? approach is viewed as a sign of softness and great weakness to be exploited. The bad guys went to ground when we arrived because they assumed we'd chop off heads, rape, pillage, and plunder, like they do and because they were told that's what we would do (as an incentive to fight). The first bad guy to emerge from under his rock likely thought, hey, this isn't too bad...I can make something of this. The rest is history and 3000+ US's finest KIA. This is a very complicated part of the world, and on-the-ground experience, not academic PhDs, is needed to pull this rabbit out of the hat. The highly vaunted Baghdad Crack-down is about to kick off, disaster to follow, and I doubt you heard it here first. Kurt [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:
[osint] Families Sue Blackwater Over Guards' Gory Deaths
Families Sue Blackwater Over Guards' Gory Deaths By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press February 8, 2007 http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Washington WASHINGTON - The families of four private guards whose bodies were burned and dragged through the streets by a mob in http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Iraq Iraq told Congress yesterday that the security company that hired them failed to provide armored vehicles and other promised protections. The guards' families have sued the company, http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Blackwater+USA Blackwater USA, telling a House hearing it was the only way they can learn all the circumstances of the deaths. Blackwater and several Republican lawmakers said the lawsuit should not be argued at a congressional hearing. The deaths of the four, all former members of the military, brought to American television some of its most gruesome images of the Iraq war. A frenzied mob of insurgents ambushed a supply convoy the guards were escorting through http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Fallujah Fallujah on March 31, 2004. The men were attacked, their bodies mutilated; two of the corpses were strung from a bridge. At the hearing, the mother of Stephen Helvenston, http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Kathryn+Helvenston-Wettengel Kathryn Helvenston-Wettengel, read a statement on behalf of the families. She stopped several times to collect herself as she recounted the emotional day. She said the security guards were denied armored vehicles, heavy weapons, and maps for their convoy routes, and that the rear gunners were removed from vehicles to perform other duties. Blackwater gets paid for the number of warm bodies it can put on the ground in certain locations throughout the world, she said. If some are killed it replaces them at a moment's notice. Ms. Helvenston-Wettengel said her son was alive when Iraqis tied him to his vehicle and dragged him through the streets. He eventually was decapitated. In a statement prepared for House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Blackwater USA general counsel http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Andrew+Howell Andrew Howell said lawyers for the family members were using the hearing for their own purposes and that the case should be heard in court, not in Congress. Mr. Howell said the hearing should not delve into an incomplete and one-sided exploration of a specific battlefield incident. http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Darrell+Issa Rep. Darrell Issa, a Republican of http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=California California, said he did not believe the testimony was germane to a house committee scrutinizing American companies with Iraq contracts. He pressed the witnesses on whether their lawyers wrote their statement, but Ms. Helvenston-Wettengel said each of the four women at the hearing wrote a portion of the statement. The three men killed in addition to Helvenston - a former Navy SEAL - were a former Army Ranger represented by his daughter Kristal, Wesley Batalona; http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Michael+Teague Michael Teague, who was formerly in an Army helicopter unit, represented by his widow, Rhonda, and Jerry Zovko, who was a former Army Ranger represented by his mother, Donna. The committee also is looking into Blackwater's contract to provide security services in Iraq. After numerous denials, http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=The+Pentagon the Pentagon has confirmed that Blackwater provided armed security guards in Iraq under a subcontract that was buried so deeply the government at first couldn't find it. The secretary of the Army on Tuesday wrote two Democratic lawmakers that the Blackwater USA contract was part of a huge military support operation by run by http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Halliburton+Company Halliburton Co. subsidiary KBR. http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=Dick+Cheney Vice President Cheney ran Halliburton before he took office. Several times last year, Pentagon officials told inquiring lawmakers they could find no evidence of the Blackwater contract. Blackwater, of Moyock, http://www.nysun.com/related_results.php?term=North+Carolina N.C., did not respond to several requests for comment. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the
[osint] Devices could disable terror bombs
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/07/MNGISO03RG1.D TL Devices could disable terror bombs National security arm to test 'Render Safe' for local agency use The nation's top nuclear weapons agency announced Tuesday that it's planning to field-test devices that could eventually be used by local agencies around the country to disable a terrorist dirty bomb or nuclear weapon in the absence of experts trained to defuse nuclear bombs. The plan is an answer to concerns that, in the event of a terrorist plot on U.S. soil, the Nevada-based Nuclear Emergency Search Team wouldn't be able to get to the scene of an attack soon enough. The team, known as NEST, is the first line of defense against such attacks, which federal authorities say could radioactively contaminate a 30-block section of a city. The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced that Render Safe, devices that have been years in the making, will soon be ready for field testing and eventually could be used by FBI agents, police or firefighters or other nonnuclear authorities. The devices are covered in the agency's proposed budget for fiscal year 2008 announced Tuesday. Citing security considerations, National Nuclear Security Administration officials refused to describe how the classified devices work. Agency acting chief Thomas D'Agostino said that it isn't clear who will receive the Render Safe devices. It's not like buying fire extinguishers and handing them out, D'Agostino said. These are open questions. But the '08 budget is set up so that (if the project is funded), we can start addressing these questions. California officials have quietly launched their own effort to ensure that state agencies are prepared to prevent a nuclear terrorist attack. The state Office of Homeland Security held a preparedness meeting Jan. 24 in Sacramento with about 20 representatives from the state Department of Health Services, the California Highway Patrol, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other agencies to discuss beefing-up the state's response to a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb attack, said Homeland Security spokeswoman Elaine Jennings. The state of California takes seriously the radiological nuclear threats and is working very closely with (the federal) Department of Homeland Security to establish a statewide plan, Jennings said. Local agencies also are preparing. Using federal funds, the San Francisco Fire Department has purchased 150 radiation-detecting devices, said Assistant Deputy Fire Chief Bob Navarro, who heads the homeland security division for the Fire Department. In the federal government's hypothetical dirty-bomb scenario, an attack using the radioactive cesium-137 isotope could contaminate a 30-block range, killing 180 people and causing 270 injuries just from the direct effects of the blast itself, as well as creating radioactive hot spots around the city, Navarro said. What are you going to do when 70,000 people are contaminated by a radiological explosion? Navarro asked. How do you deal with their contaminated clothing and skin? Those are the kinds of things they're (the federal government) asking us to prepare for. This is not a joke. We take this one seriously. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group,
[osint] Terrorists tarnishing Islam's soft image
So.it is only a PR issue? The image is being tarnished by reality. Bruce http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/015164.php Pakistani govt minister: Terrorists tarnishing Islam's soft image Amir Muqam sounds as if he has gone to the Dinesh D'Souza Academy of Advanced Terrorism Studies, which holds that http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014860.php Islamic terrorism has only been around for 25 years, and we are evidently supposed to believe that no violence was committed in the name of Islam before that. Yes indeed, Islam had a soft image in the days before Khomeini and bin Laden, when only soft things like the Armenian genocide, and seventy million massacred Hindus in India, and untold numbers of Jews and Christians in the Middle East, Africa and Europe converted, subjugated as dhimmis, or massacred. It was all so soft, so cuddly. I'm glad he says that terrorists must be dealt with with an iron hand. But in his soft image talk is yet another example of the abdication of responsibility and refusal to acknowledge unpleasant realities, and the utter inability to undertake any concrete action against the jihadists, that we have seen so often from self-proclaimed moderate Muslim spokesmen. Terrorists are enemies of Islam, Pakistan: Muqam, from http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=3431Ite mid=2 Associated Press of Pakistan, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist: PESHAWAR, Feb 07 (APP): Federal Minister for Political Affairs and Provincial President PML, Engineer Amir Muqam Wednesday said terrorist are the enemies of Islam, country and people and therefore must be dealt with an iron hand. He was talking to the delegations of UC Urmar Bala led by Nazim Siar Khan, UC Urman Miana led by Fazal Mahboob, UC Hazar Khawani II led by Nazim Fazal Ilahi, UC Surizai led by Ayaz Khan and Maira Kachori led by Hussain Khan at the Hujra of Haji Abdus Sattar Khan. The Minister said Islam is a religion of peace, love and brotherhood and the terrorists were tarnishing its soft image. He said collective efforts were needed to eradicate these tendencies. The Minister while defending president's policy of war against terrorism said it was aimed at protecting the sovereignty of the country. He urged the Ulema, Religious Scholars and intellectuals to extend full support to the government in this regard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] With Us, or Else
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26804 With Us, or Else By Frank J Gaffney http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=609 Jr. The Washington Times | February 7, 2007 The outcome of the present, global conflict may ultimately turn on the implementation of a policy it took President Bush just seven words to declare on Nov. 6, 2001: You're either with us or against us. For too long, it has been possible for far too many around the world to have it both ways. This must stop. In particular, the time has come to make it clear to those who are helping our enemies that they are not with us -- and that there are real costs associated with being against us. Every one of us can contribute to this effort by making an example of a company contemplating doing a lot more business with Islamofascist Iran, at the very moment it is aggressively pursuing (with help from North Korea) nuclear arms and the ever-longer-range ballistic missiles with which to deliver them. Presumably these are the means by which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intends to realize his oft-stated goals of wiping Israel off the map and bringing about a world without America. A company that is at the moment a prime candidate for such treatment is Royal Dutch Shell. According to the Conflict Security Advisory Group (CSAG) -- an independent market research firm whose Global Security Risk Monitor online database is the industry standard for assessing publicly traded companies that do business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes -- this Anglo-Dutch corporation has done billions of dollars of business over the years with the Islamic Republic of Iran. It even has four offices in Tehran. Last week, however, Shell Chief Executive Jeroen van der Veer told participants in a conference call that his firm and a Spanish oil company, Repsol, have entered into a preliminary understanding to help the Iranian regime develop part of its vast South Pars natural gas reserve. Press reports indicate Tehran believes the deal is worth $10 billion. To be sure, that $10 billion will translate into profits for Shell and its partner. It will, though, also afford the Islamofascists in Iran revenue streams that will enable them to support more terrorists, to kill more Americans and Iraqis, to destabilize the region and to prepare genocidal attacks on this country as well as our ally, Israel. Making such a huge, further investment in Iran would, in short, be a very unfriendly act. And Shell must understand it will be regarded, and treated, as such. For one thing, the Bush administration should interpose the strongest possible objections to putatively allied governments in London and The Hague that export guarantees and insurance for this deal would seriously complicate bilateral and trilateral relations. For another, the Treasury Department should make life miserable for any banks that might contemplate helping underwrite such an investment. The real power to punish Royal Dutch Shell for being against us in this War for the Free World, however, should lie with American investors and consumers. The Roosevelt Anti-Terror Multi-Cap Fund (RATF) is the first mutual fund in the nation to be certified by the Conflict Securities Advisory Group as terror-free. It holds in portfolio neither Shell nor any other publicly traded companies doing business in Iran, Sudan, Syria or North Korea. Nationwide Financial, E-Trade, Ameritrade and Schwab have begun offering RATF as an option on their investment platforms. In addition, Sarah Steelman, the Treasurer of Missouri, has taken the first public fund terror-free -- and achieved a higher return in so doing. Her state's 529 college savings plan will shortly offer such an option as well, one that will be available to investors from all over the country. If you don't want to enrich those who are trying to kill us, insist that your money -- be it in public pension funds, 401(k) plans, mutual funds, life insurance portfolios, etc. -- is invested terror-free. Whether you are an investor or not, you have another option: Show Shell how you feel about its dealings with our Iranian enemies by filling up your car at the pumps of one of its American competitors -- who, by law, are not permitted to do business with terrorist-sponsoring states. Interestingly, Shell's CEO is already nervous about his company's ties to Tehran. As he told reporters last week: I would like to emphasize that we have here quite a dilemma. This is Iran. They are the No. 2 in oil and gas reserves in the world. But we have all the short-term political concerns. By making an object lesson of Shell, we can help resolve its management's dilemma. If it actually starts to be painful to be against us, we can ensure that more of those who wish to do business with America -- and who typically take for granted our protection of their freedoms -- line up with us, instead of with our enemies. Without help from our friends, maybe those enemies'
[osint] Violence is inherent in Islam - it is a cult of death
Of course it is Bruce http://www.islamophobia-watch.com/islamophobia-watch/2007/2/7/violence-is-in herent-in-islam-it-is-a-cult-of-death.html Violence is inherent in Islam it is a cult of death Human rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali issues a stark warning about the growing threat of Muslim extremism in Britain Islamic faith schools must close Sharia law could happen here Multiculturalism has failed Islam is the new fascism By David Cohen Evening Standard, 7 February 2007 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, never one to shrink from controversy, has some words of advice for Prime Minister Tony Blair. 'Close the Islamic faith schools today,' she says. 'Britain is sleepwalking into a society that could be ruled by Sharia law within decades unless Islamic schools are shut down and young Muslims are instead made to integrate and accept Western liberal values.' Hirsi Ali, 38, the Dutch-Somali human-rights campaigner who lives under 24-hour police protection and is in London to promote her provocative new book, Infidel, argues that Catholic and Jewish schools can stay because the values they teach are not a threat to liberal democracy. 'I haven't seen anybody coming out of a Catholic or Jewish school advocating violence against women or homosexuals, or wanting to murder innocent people in the name of their religion.' Having grown up within Islam, Hirsi Ali believes she is uniquely placed to warn the British public that they are living under a 'great deception' about the true nature of Islam. 'They have deceived themselves that the men arrested in the [alleged] beheading plot last week and the 7/7 bombers are a fringe group of radical Muslims who've hijacked Islam and that the majority of Muslims are moderate. 'But they are not. The plot to murder Muslim soldiers in the British Army is consistent with the purest teachings of Islam, which encourages you to kill Muslims who join the infidel army. Violence is inherent in Islam it's a destructive, nihilistic cult of death. It legitimates murder. The police may foil plots and freeze bank accounts in the short term, but the battle against terrorism will ultimately be lost unless we realise that it's not just with extremist elements within Islam, but the ideology of Islam itself.' But surely she must see, I counter, that the majority of British Muslims are moderates? Sitting in her publisher's office in an elegant grey-flannel trouser suit and pearl earrings, she fixes me with her lucid brown eyes. 'If the majority are moderates, why did the Muslim community never take to the streets to abhor the 7/7 bombers? Why is it that the only time we see Muslims protesting en masse is when Islam is allegedly insulted, like with the Danish cartoons, or the Pope's comments? 'I'll tell you why: because Islam is the new fascism. Just like Nazism started with Hitler's vision, the Islamic vision is a caliphate a society ruled by Sharia law in which women who have sex before marriage are stoned to death, homosexuals are beaten, and apostates like me are killed. Sharia law is as inimical to liberal democracy as Nazism. Young Muslims need to be persuaded that the vision of the Prophet Mohammed is a bad one, and you aren't going to get that in Islamic faith schools.' Suddenly Hirsi Ali halts her no-holds-barred polemic, a quizzical look creasing her brow. 'When will this interview be published?' When I tell her, she breaths a sigh of relief and in a rare moment of caution, says: 'Whew! Thankfully I'll be out of the country! I don't know what's possessed me, but I've been more forthright with you than in any other interview so far.' It is two years since I last interviewed Hirsi Ali and now, like then, I am struck by the contrast between her physicality soft voice, waif-like figure, and perfectly manicured long fingernails and the explosiveness of her rhetoric. If anything, she is more inflammatory and hardline now than she was then. Yet, as she reminds me, a lot has happened since we met, including the murder of Theo van Gogh, the Dutch film-maker who made her film, Submission, in which verses from the Koran of a man's alleged right to beat his wife are superimposed on an actress's body. Van Gogh's assassination in late 2004 propelled Hirsi Ali from being well known to world famous, because plunged into his chest by his Dutch Moroccan killer, Mohammed Bouyeri, was a knife with a letter addressed to her, warning that she was next. The political fallout from this public death threat has dramatically affected her life ever since and has made her into the new Salman Rushdie. It costs the Dutch government about 8 3.5 million (£2.5 million) to provide armed guards for her round-the-clock protection, she says, and it means that she lives 'in fear and looking over my shoulder', but insists it's a personal price worth paying. Initially forced to flee to a safe house, her neighbours hounded her out, saying her presence put their lives (and real estate stock)
[osint] What Are Islam's Weak Points?
http://islamic-danger.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-are-islams-weak-points-by-fj ordman.html What Are Islam's Weak Points? by Fjordman Only by showing that Allah is not infallible can we be victorious in keeping our freedom, our life, our liberty and pursuit of our happiness. Muslims are extremely childish in their view of themselves and the world - they are superstitious and thus afraid of dogs, of the Koran getting dirty etc. They continually tell us the truth about their paranoia, and their intentions. Therefore, one of the best tactics for us to take in the War on Terror is to mock them and exploit their childishness, so that they will expose themselves to everyone. The Arab-Islamic culture is based on shame. It's time we learn to play on their shame, just as they do on our guilt. They feel humiliated and paranoid about everything. In defense of their egos and by extention their religion they do stupid things, such as the London bombings and sharing the beheading videos with the rest of the world. While these tactics are successful in terrorizing people, they also alert Western people and other infidels that Islam may not be the religion of peace and tolerance that it claims to be. * * * The only way that islam will die out, is if it is contained within dar-ul-Islam [the Islamic world]. No immigration and all contact reduced to the necessary. This will buy time. Solutions like making them fight among each other, pushing Muslims all out of Europe etc. is buying time - future generations still have to solve the problem. There is nothing wrong with buying time - the advent of the modern age and technologies like TV/cable/Internet MIGHT slowly eat away at Islam and slowly solve the problem. The problem is still whether the time taken by the modern world to penetrate inside Islam will be too long for the world to survive. Ending the problem for good would require large parts of the opinion makers of the world recognizing that Islam is not a religion but an ideology. Once that is done then the ideology would have to be tackled on all levels just like Communism. However, attaining the moral high ground is good and necessary, but will not by itself be enough. Who ever won a war while trying not to hurt the enemy's feelings? The playing field will NEVER be level. Islam fights from Heaven. You cannot change that fact, for devout Muslims. There is no higher place than heaven. Muslims have no need for a level field. They, according to their Koran is the word of God. There is no high ground that we can occupy, in regards to Islam, in the eyes of Muslims, only in our own. The Buddhists of Central Asia undoubtedly held the moral high ground in relations to Muslims. They are all dead now. In the end, it is possible that we will win or lose by the sword. At the very least, we must be prepared to back up our ideological war with force on certain occasions. Holding a higher moral standard isn't going to defeat an Iranian President with nukes, threatening another Holocaust. *** [ Note: This runs counter to the argument that all we need is a magic formula to mobilise us, give us a clear moral superiority.] *** Islam is institutionalised slavery, and the Jihad's main purpose is to garner slaves, both men and women, from the lands of the Free. Muslims, both men and women, then become the first slaves of Islam. Two points come to mind immediately. 1. The institution of slavery crushes the spirit of slaves. They were unable to think for themselves as a consequence. A striking feature of Islamic societies. 2. Runaway slaves used to be beaten, and oft executed, as a lesson to other would be runaway slaves. The same punishment is Islamically sanctioned for the Muslim apostate. [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
[osint] Community to confront Jihad
Good idea! B FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Group launches interactive on-line community to confront Jihad JihadChat.com launched to assist in battle against radical Islam (LOS ANGELES, CA, 2/8/07) - A prominent educational organization today announced the launch of a new website titled JihadChat.com http://www.jihadchat.com which will be intended to serve as a central on-line community for those wishing to engage in strategical discussion on the subject of confronting the threat of militant Islam and Jihad. The United American Committee makes this announcement in the midst of what they believe is a perilous time in American history. The U.A.C. believes that a growing threat from radical Islam threatens to endanger American freedoms and liberties for this generation and for generations far into the future, and that the average citizen must begin to engage in discussion to confront the threat. The new website, at www.JihadChat.com, will allow individuals from around the world to network and discuss solutions and answers to defeating the threats we face. The UAC encourages everyone of all political, etchnic, and religious backgrounds who express concern regarding the Islamist threat to register on JihadChat.com. The website is a free service provided by the United American Committee. The United American Committee is a leading educational group dedicated to awakening the nation to the threats of radical Islam and works to educate Americans on the nature of Islamic extremism. Its mission is to fight the ideological aspects of the War on Terror to counter elements of radical Islam in America. - END - CONTACT: United American Committee [EMAIL PROTECTED] UAC P.O. Box 80325 Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688 www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Rubber Duck insensitivity offensive to Muslim terrorists
In Defense of the Constitution News Analysis 004/07 February 8, 2007 CAIR: Offended by Rubber Duck On February 7, the Newsday.com web site carried a story about college employee's being fired over a video they posted that insults Islam: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lipost0208,0,3675967.story The video, by five student resident hall assistants (RA's), mocked real-life terrorists by holding a rubber duck, Pete, as hostage. The five spoke in exaggerated accents, wore terrorist garb, and were generally insensitive to Muslim terrorists. How do we know that they were insensitive to Muslim terrorists? Simple: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) got involved. In the words of CAIR's spokesman, Ibrahim Hooper: It's something that needs to be addressed. Really? Five students mock Muslim terrorists (We assume they are mocking Muslims, else why would Hooper get involved?), and this is something that needs to be addressed? Parroting CAIR's attitude, university provost Joseph Shenker said that student RA's .function as role models and as teachers for the other students.We expect them to be instructing our students on being sensitive regarding all groups. There we have it. Student RA's are expected to be sensitive to all groups; including Muslim terrorists. Shenker continues: I think the tape was an insult to the victims and families involved in hostage situations. If so, why didn't Newsday.com find a beheading victim to interview? Would it be because they are all dead at the hands of Muslim terrorists? As to the families, there were none mentioned in the article. Even so, we find it very hard to believe that anyone would mind mocking Muslim terrorists. Except CAIR Imagine that! Andrew Whitehead Director Anti-CAIR (ACAIR) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.anti-cair-net.org ADVISORY: Subscribers are warned that the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) may contact your employer if CAIR believes you are using a work address to receive any material that CAIR believes may be offensive. CAIR has been known to shame employers into firing employees CAIR finds disagreeable. For that reason, we strongly suggest that corporate e-mail users NOT use a corporate e-mail account/address when communicating with ACAIR or CAIR. We make every reasonable effort to protect our mailing list, but we cannot guarantee confidentiality. ACAIR does not share, loan, sell, rent or otherwise publicize our mailing list. We respect your privacy! TIPS: All persons are invited to submit tips and leads. ACAIR will acknowledge receipt of all tips/leads, but we will NOT acknowledge the source of ANY tip or lead in our Press Releases or on our web site. Exceptions are made for leading media personalities at the discretion of ACAIR and only on request of the person(s) submitting the tip or lead. _ Change address / Leave mailing list: http://ymlp.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosting by YourMailingListProvider [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Distrust between FBI, Muslims
Amazingly.the FBI does not understand that CAIR is part of the problem (along with 80% of the mosques in this country that are bin Laden Wahabbists and the Muslim Student Associations). Bruce WP: Distrust between FBI, Muslims Effort aimed at homegrown terrorism By Karen DeYoung The Washington Post Updated: 8:43 a.m. ET Feb 8, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17037298/ LOS ANGELES - The FBI's worst fears that hidden homegrown terrorist groups could take root in this country were fanned here in the summer of 2005, when four young Muslim men were charged with conspiring to levy war against the United States via deadly attacks on military installations and synagogues in Southern California. The men belonged to what Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales called a radical Islamic organization named Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), or Assembly of True Islam. They were discovered before they could carry out their alleged plans. Although Gonzales claimed an intelligence victory, the FBI had only stumbled upon JIS. Numbers on a cellphone dropped during a gas-station holdup led local police to an apartment and a computer with documents that authorities said outlined a terrorism spree. None of the four -- three U.S.-born citizens and one Pakistani immigrant -- fit a terrorist profile. They had no ties to foreign extremists or radical imams, and their public behavior had drawn no attention. JIS was also news to officials at the California state prison where a man accused of founding the group was serving a lengthy sentence for robbery and allegedly was directing JIS operations from his cell. The discovery was an ominous surprise to federal law enforcement, whose senior officials now regularly refer to the case in speeches warning of the homegrown threat. But the high-profile indictments, announced at news conferences in Los Angeles and Washington, were unsettling to Southern California's half-million-strong Muslim community for a different reason. They're not Muslims, declared Shakeel Syed, head of the 75-mosque Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and a government-approved chaplain who has visited the four men in jail, where they await trial this year. They don't know anything about Islam. Self-styled converts with the apple-pie surnames of Patterson, Washington and James, the Americans are gangbangers, basically, Syed said dismissively, petty criminals incapable of responding even to his standard Islamic greetings. The Pakistani, described by Syed as a clueless 21-year-old, I felt sorry for. If this is to be characterized as Islam, the faith of millions of people in this country, he said, it is a great injustice and disservice. Labeling JIS Islamic just because it said it puts the religion unfairly in the spotlight again, Syed and other Muslim leaders argued. Mutual suspicion The JIS affair is one of many incidents that have regularly challenged the fragile cooperation that law enforcement and Muslims nationwide are struggling to create after years of mutual suspicion. Without that cooperation, the FBI, sheriffs and police chiefs believe they will never penetrate the world of homegrown Islamic extremists and potential terrorists the officials are convinced is out there. Muslim leaders say they are eager to help. Yet for both sides, the effort remains a steep uphill climb with frequent detours into resentment, suspicion and misunderstanding. Virtually all 56 FBI field offices and many local police departments have invited Muslim leaders to join multicultural advisory boards and to teach classes in the basics of Islam to agents and police. At community meetings, the FBI listens to Muslim complaints and asks for assistance in finding potential terrorists in their own communities. We're spending more money on outreach . . . so we can say: 'Please help us. Please look for people who are turning away from institutions to extremism. Please be our eyes and ears,' said Philip Mudd, deputy director of the bureau's national security branch. But many FBI officers have grown impatient with what they see as Muslim resistance. The Muslims are in denial over the threat in their midst, one senior officer said, adding: All they say is 'There is no problem. Stop picking on us.' Muslim leaders have frustrations of their own, ranging far beyond incidents such as the JIS case. Immigration sweeps following the Sept. 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacks and mandatory registrations long ago convinced them that the FBI sees Muslims as suspects rather than partners. How much cooperation can we give . . . at the same time we ourselves are part of the problem in [their] eyes? asked Sadullah Khan, director of the Islamic Center of Irvine, a city between Los Angeles and San Diego. Hundreds gathered at a meeting last summer to angrily confront FBI officials after an agent's public comment, quickly contradicted by headquarters, that the bureau was
[osint] Insulting Allah Now a Crime at SFSU
To be fair, insulting any other pagan moon gods ought to be made a crime too! Bruce http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24361_Insulting_Allah_Now_a_Cr ime_at_SFSU http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24361_Insulting_Allah_Now_a_C rime_at_SFSUonly only Thursday, February 08, 2007 Insulting Allah Now a Crime at SFSU At San Francisco State University, you can do anything you want to a US flag or a Christian religious symbol: burn it, deface it, submerge it in bodily fluids. It's all good. But step on paper copies of Hamas and Hizballah flags, and you're in a http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/08/EDGRJN76O61.DTL world of hurt. (Hat tip: zombie http://zombietime.com/ .) Not because they're flags, though. Because they contain the world Allah. This story starts with an anti-terrorism rally held last October on campus by the College Republicans. To emphasize their point, students stomped on Hezbollah and Hamas flags. According to the college paper, the Golden Gate (X)Press, members of Students Against War and the International Socialist Organization showed up to call the Republicans racists, while the president of the General Union of Palestinian Students accused the Repubs of spreading false information about Muslims. In November, the Associated Students board passed a unanimous resolution, which the (X)Press reported, denounced the California Republicans for hateful religious intolerance and criticized those who pre-meditated the stomping of the flags knowing it would offend some people and possibly incite violence. Now you know that there are students who are opposed to desecrating flags on campus - that is, if the flags represent terrorist organizations. But wait - there's more. A student filed a complaint with the Office of Student Programs and Leadership Development. OSPLD Director Joey Greenwell wrote to the College Republicans informing them that his office had completed an investigation of the complaint and forwarded the report to the Student Organization Hearing Panel, which will adjudicate the charge. At issue is the charge that College Republicans had walked on a banner with the world 'Allah' written in Arabic script - it turns out Allah's name is incorporated into Hamas and Hezbollah flags - and allegations of attempts to incite violence and create a hostile environment, as well as actions of incivility. At an unnamed date, the student panel could decide to issue a warning to, suspend or expel the GOP club from campus. ... The university's response? Spokesperson Ellen Griffin told me, The university stands behind this process. And: I don't believe the complaint is about the desecration of the flag. I believe that the complaint is the desecration of Allah. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US at a loss as Iraq helicopter toll mounts
Ignoring history we forget that the Muhajideen did the same thing to the soviets (at our behest) in Afghanistan. B US at a loss as Iraq helicopter toll mounts Smoke billows from a US helicopter crash site, north-east of Baghdad. Smoke billows from a US helicopter crash site, north-east of Baghdad. Photo: AP David Wood, Washington February 9, 2007 The AGE FIRST, US helicopter pilots in Iraq tried flying low and fast, hoping to elude heat-seeking missiles fired by insurgents. The insurgents responded with machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades, which proved deadly, and the loss rate of helicopters soared. So the pilots went high - and the insurgents responded with lethal surface-to-air missiles. Now this grim exchange may have claimed more victims, with a US Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter lost on Wednesday about 30 kilometres north-east of Baghdad. It was the fifth helicopter that has gone down in Iraq in three weeks. Five marines and two navy hospital corpsmen on board were killed amid confusion about whether the twin-rotor troop carrier was shot down or crashed because of mechanical problems. The loss coincided with the US military's chief spokesman in Iraq saying that US and Iraqi forces had begun a joint effort to secure Baghdad and troubled al-Anbar province. The plan is being fully implemented as we speak, Major-General William Caldwell told reporters after being asked when the plan would start. Not all aspects are in place at this point. The key difference is, this time, it's an Iraqi-led plan, he said. Not only are they planning it, they are leading. Iraq is becoming increasingly dangerous for the several hundred US military helicopters flying missions there. With 4000 to 5000 increasingly sophisticated surface-to-air missiles in the hands of insurgents, analysts say, US helicopter pilots are caught in a narrowing envelope in which they can fly with relative safety. It takes years for the Pentagon to develop and field new defensive technology such as infra-red jammers. Each loss of a helicopter and crew brings an official statement saying the military is studying new tactics. But this style of warfare requires that helicopters operate over mostly hostile territory, and pilots say there are precious few tactics that haven't been tried before. In many cases we are using tactics that were developed in Vietnam, said Major-General Kenneth Glueck, an attack helicopter pilot who commands the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing in North Carolina. Helicopters have been shot down with increasing frequency since January 20, including two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and a commercial MD530F helicopter operated by private security company Blackwater USA. Twenty-seven crew and passengers were killed. Slow, cumbersome and unstable, helicopters are often at their most vulnerable flying the missions on which US troops in Iraq rely: delivering ammunition to remote units, airlifting assault troops for a surprise raid, evacuating casualties and gunning down fleeing insurgents. The US Army has announced that it will withhold $US19.6 million ($A25 million) from the Halliburton company after finding the contractor had hired Blackwater USA to provide armed security guards in Iraq, a potential breach of its government contract. The announcement came in a hearing of the House Government Oversight Committee that included testimony about the killing of four Blackwater employees in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. BALTIMORE SUN, WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK TIMES [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to 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:
[osint] A Proposed Constitutional Amendment
a http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2007/02/proposed-constitutional-amendm ent.html A Proposed Constitutional Amendment Background and justification to Amendment 28 Whereas Religion is defined as an institution dedicated to improving social conscience and promoting individual and societal spiritual growth in a way that is harmless to others not participating in or practicing the same; Whereas the United States of America was founded on the ideals of individual rights, including the individual right to practice one's religion of choice, or no religion, and that there would be no compulsion of religion, nor state sanctioned religion, nor a religious test for participation in the body politic; Whereas Islam includes a complete political and social structure, encompassed by its religious law, Sharia, that supersedes any civil law and that Islam mandates that no secular or democratic institutions are to be superior to Islamic law; Whereas Islam preaches that it and it alone is the true religion and that Islam will dominate the world and supplant all other religions and democratic institutions; Whereas Saudi Arabia, the spiritual home of Islam does not permit the practice of any other religion on its soil and even moderate Muslims states such as Turkey and Malaysia actively suppress other religions; Whereas Islam includes as its basic tenant the spread of the faith by any and all means necessary, including violent conquest of non-believers, and demands of its followers that they implement violent jihad (holy war) against those un-willing to convert or submit to Islam, including by deception and subversion of existing institutions; Whereas on 9/11/2001 19 Muslim hijackers acting in the name of Islam killed 3,000 Americans, and numerous other acts of terrorism have been directed at the American people around the world; Whereas representatives of Islam around the world including Osama Bin Laden (architect of 9/11), the government of Iran including Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, HAMAS, Hezbollah, and other Islamic groups have declared jihad (war) on America, and regularly declare that America should cease to exist; Whereas there is no organized Islamic opposition to violent proponents of Islam; Therefore: Islam is not a religion, but a political ideology more akin to Fascism and totally in opposition to the ideals of freedom as described in the United States Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights. Be it resolved that the following Amendment to the Constitution be adopted: Article I The social/political/ideological system known around the world as Islam is not recognized in the United States as a religion. The practice of Islam is therefore not protected under the 1st Amendment as to freedom of religion and speech. Article II As representatives of Islam around the world have declared war, and committed acts of war, against the United States and its democratic allies around the world, Islam is hereby declared an enemy of the United States and its practice within the United States is now prohibited. Article III Immediately upon passage of this Amendment all Mosques, schools and Muslim places of worship and religious training are to be closed, converted to other uses, or destroyed. Proceeds from sales of such properties may be distributed to congregations of said places but full disclosure of all proceeds shall be made to an appropriate agency as determined by Congress. No compensation is to be offered by Federal or State agencies for losses on such properties however Federal funding is to be available for the demolishing of said structures if other disposition cannot be made. The preaching of Islam in Mosques, Schools, and other venues is prohibited. The subject of Islam may be taught in a post high school academic environment provided that instruction include discussion of Islam's history of violence, conquest, and its ongoing war on democratic and other non-Islamic values. The preaching or advocating of Islamic ideals of world domination, destruction of America and democratic institutions, jihad against Judaism, Christianity and other religions, and advocating the implementation of Sharia law shall in all cases be punishable by fines, imprisonment, deportation, and death as proscribed by Congress. Violent expressions of these and other Muslim goals, or the material support of those both in the United States and around the world who seek to advance these Islamic goals shall be punishable by death. Muslims will be denied the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. Article IV Nothing in this amendment shall be construed as authorizing the discrimination against, of violence upon, nor repudiation of the individual rights of those Americans professing to be Muslim. The individual right of conscience is sacrosanct and the practice of Islam within the privacy of home and self is strictly protected to the extent that such individuals do not violate the prohibitions described in Article
[osint] Long Hidden DHS Report Exonerates Border Agents
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54133 INVASION USA Imprisoned border agent did report shooting DHS memo shows Compean spoke to supervisor immediately after incident _ Posted: February 7, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Jerome R. Corsi C 2007 WorldNetDaily.com WND has obtained a Department http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54134 of Homeland Security memo indicating Border Patrol agent Jose Compean made a complete, in-person verbal report to his supervisor at the scene immediately following the shooting incident for which he and colleague Ignacio Ramos are now in prison. The May 15, 2005, report filed by DHS Special Agent Christopher Sanchez documents a conversation between Compean and his supervisor that explains the decision by all nine Border Patrol agents and supervisors on the scene not to file written reports. As reported by WND yesterday, a DHS memo filed by Sanchez April 12, 2005, shows seven agents and two supervisors were present at the Feb. 17, 2005 incident also decided not to file written reports. The April 12, 2005, DHS memo stated that all the agents present at the incident were equally guilty for not filing a written report. (Story continues below) These memos directly contradict the repeated statements of the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, that agents Ramos and Compean filed false reports about the incident. As far as WND can determine, no written reports were filed by any of the Border Patrol agents or supervisors on the field. Moreover, the record of the May 15, 2005, memo indicates Compean was truthful in reporting verbally to the most senior supervisor present at the incident. Sanchez's memo of May 15, 2005, is a transcript of a hearing held by Compean with El Paso Border Patrol Sector Chief Louis Barker. The hearing was held at Compean's request in order to protest his proposed indefinite suspension resulting from his March 18, 2005, arrest on criminal charges. The first part of the hearing was held April 7, 2005, before Compean's April 13, 2005, indictment. The second recording from the hearing is dated April 28, 2005. At the administrative hearing, Compean was accompanied by union representative Robert Russell, a vice president of Local 1929, the El Paso branch of the National Border Patrol Council. In the opening statement transcribed from the April 7, 2005, audio cassette, Russell makes Barker aware that Compean had made a complete report on the scene to Jonathan Richards, the more senior of the two supervisors present at the incident. Russell's testimony references a wound Compean suffered on his hand, a gash between the thumb and index finger, which he suffered when scuffling in the ditch with the drug smuggler, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, who had abandoned his vehicle and was attempting to escape back to Mexico on foot. Russell points to this wound as evidence of aggravated assault committed on Compean by the drug smuggler. Here is Russell's recorded testimony: Well, I mean, the base . the basis of this is basically . ummm . Mr. Compean . an assault took place that day against one of our agents, and he did defend himself, and the part of the assault is never mentioned in the complaint or anywhere by OIG (Office of Inspector General) that they know clearly how this did take place. A few sentences later, Russell again references that what transpired at the scene was observed by the agents and supervisors in the field and subsequently fully known to the Border Patrol management at the station in Fabens, Texas. Russell indicates that management at Fabens themselves chose not to make a report about Compean's injury. Here is his testimony: Even management at the station in Fabens was fully aware of what had transpired and for whatever reason nothing was ever generated . and once all this comes forward, I mean, it's my belief even his attorneys' belief that even once that does come forward and all that information is presented that the charges will possibly be dropped . or dismissed . or he will be found not guilty . based on that . what did transpire. Directly contradicting prosecutor Sutton's assertion that agents Ramos and Compean filed false reports, the April 2005 administrative hearing reveals Compean was forthcoming concerning the events of the incident. In the second cassette, Russell makes clear that the reluctance to do more formal reporting after the incident came from supervisor Richards. But the fact of the matter is an assault did take place. Umm . Mr. Richards did know about it. Umm . whether Mr. Compean . Mr. Compean said yes sir to this or whether he was assaulted or not . doesn't negate Mr. Richards responsibility to take some action from the facts that were presented to him as to what happened out there. He was on the scene. He was told by another agent exactly what had happened and it pretty much apparently stopped at that point. Russell argues Richards
[osint] Memo to the American Media from Sheikh Muhammad al-Zawahiri
The fact is that much of what is reported in the American media reflects not only the propaganda machines of the Left, but also that of our Jihadi adversaries© often the content from those machines is indistinguishable. Newspapers... serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke. -Thomas Jefferson Friday Digest PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE Memo to the American Media from Sheikh Muhammad al-Zawahiri Recently, I participated in a three-day national security forum with some knowledgeable military officers. The briefing focused on Fourth Generation Warfare in the Second Nuclear Age, and the formidable threats we face from Jihadi terrorists http://PatriotPost.US/papers/primer01.asp . The non-attribution policy of such briefings prohibits me from identifying any of the presenters, but I can tell you that one of them summed up the current nuclear WMD threat as paraphrased: If the American people could see the bone-chilling threats outlined in the [classified] cable traffic concerning al-Qa'ida and other Islamist terror networks, there would be little dissension about our military mission. Unfortunately, there is a wide gap between what the mainstream media reports about Iraq and other theater operations, and the underlying rationale for those operations, which are classified in order to protect methods and sources. Though there is an effort under way now to declassify more real-time intel, it won't close that gap because the major networks and print outlets are more concerned with political agendas, which most often mirror those of the far left. Consequently, their journalism contains much more fragrance than substance. Notably, the most senior presente r at the aforementioned briefing discussed the topic Media as Terrain - how our adversaries use the media as a battleground. He used this declassified quote to make his point: I say to you: that we are in a battle, and that more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media. That quote is from an intercepted and authenticated communiqué http://PatriotPost.US/news/zawahiri.asp from Osama bin Laden's chief lieutenant, Sheikh Ayman Muhammad al-Zawahiri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, before Zarqawi's termination last June. The fact is that much of what is reported in the American media reflects not only the propaganda machines of the Left, but also that of our Jihadi adversaries. Too often the content from those machines is indistinguishable. Two weeks ago, this column took to task a mainstream-media organ ( http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=514 Newsweek ) for its cover story on Iraq entitled, We're losing. There was nothing particularly extraordinary about the Newsweek piece except that it typified the Leftmedia's relentless and traitorous http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=342 efforts to undermine America's will and national resolve to defeat a dangerous enemy. Indeed, Islamist leaders must be thrilled by the support they receive from American media Leftists -those sympathizers whom V.I. Lenin once famously dubbed http://PatriotPost.US/alexander/edition.asp?id=275 Useful Idiots. This week, among other egregious examples of Leftmedia dissent, was a notable tome that went beyond the normal disparagement of Operation Iraqi http://PatriotPost.US/Alexander/edition.asp?id=470 Freedom and instead adopted John http://PatriotPetitions.US/kerry/ Kerry's modus operandi: Don't just question the war, attack the credibility of our warriors http://PatriotPost.US/news/stuck.asp stuck in Iraq. The offender is William Arkin, a military analyst for NBC and writer for the Washington Post, whose bio fails to mention his previous employment and affiliation with Leftist organizations, including the Institute for Policy Studies, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Last week, Arkin posted a column on the Post's website attacking U.S. military personnel. The column exposed the underlying contempt held by many MSM journalists for those who defend our nation. Arkin wrote, in part: Through every Abu Ghraib and Haditha, through every rape and murder, the American public has indulged those in uniform, accepting that the incidents were the product of bad apples or even of some administration or command order. So we pay the soldiers a decent wage, take care of their families, provide them with housing and medical care and vast social support systems and ship obscene amenities into the war zone for them, and their attitude is that we should, in addition, roll over and play dead, defer to the military and the generals and let them fight their war, and give up our rights and responsibilities to speak up because they are above society?...[T]he recent NBC report is just an ugly reminder of the price we pay for a mercenary-oops sorry,-volunteer force that thinks it is doing the dirty work. The indulged rapists and murderous mercenaries of whom
[osint] Maps of War
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[osint] The New Flat Earth Society
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/dpatton/2007/dp_02121.shtml The New Flat Earth Society By Doug Patton February 12, 2007 After scoffing in my last column about the ridiculous Nobel Peace Prize nomination of former Vice President Chicken Little (aka Al Gore), I really had no intention of wasting any more time or thought on the issue of global warming for the foreseeable future. But then columnist Ellen Goodman weighed in with her arrogant opinion, and I just couldn't let it go. Wrote Ms. Goodman: I would like to say we're at a point where global warming is impossible to deny. Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. Well, Ellen, I would like to say that you, Al Gore, and all your friends in the Global Warming Cult (hereinafter known as GWC or The Cult) are now on a par with the Flat Earth Society. It was once conventional wisdom that the earth was a flat disk around which the rest of the universe revolved, and off of which any vessel would tumble if it sailed too far in any one direction. Likewise, today's GWC has so successfully dominated the debate on the issue of global warming that it is now conventional wisdom to believe that it is the greatest threat facing humanity. If all rational people believe it, the argument goes, then anyone who doubts it must be a heretic. As her primary evidence that the case is now closed on the issue, Goodman cites a recent report from the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which unequivocally blames global warming on human activity. As if we are to believe anything that comes out of the United Nations. Polling by the Pew Research Center shows that global warming is number 20 on the average person's list of policy priorities, far behind terrorism, tax cuts, crime, morality, illegal immigration and 15 other issues. Of course, Goodman's irrational explanation for these attitudes is to blame the Bush administration and its favorite media outlets. (Liberals, of course, have no favorite media outlets.) Goodman refers to the gaps between what she calls Republican science and Democratic science, and is amazed that 23 percent of college-educated Republicans believe the warming is due to humans, while 75 percent of college-educated Democrats believe it. She calls James Inhofe a Big Oil Senator, partly because he is from Oklahoma. But his biggest crime was that he dared to contradict the conventional wisdom of The Cult by describing the UN report as a shining example of the corruption of science for political gain. Goodman also attacks the American Enterprise Institute, which she claims has received $1.6 million from Exxon Oil over the years, for offering $10,000 to scientists who would counter the IPCC report. (Isn't it interesting that liberals don't think Saddam Hussein was collaborating with terrorists, even though he was offering $25,000 to the destitute families of suicide bombers, but they are more than willing to believe that reputable American scientists would risk their professional credentials for a paltry $10,000?) But Goodman's flimsiest argument comes when she tries to explain why the average person has a different set of priorities than the elites in The Cult: she believes we are psychologically paralyzed. It may be, paradoxically, she tells us, that framing this issue in catastrophic terms ends up paralyzing instead of motivating us. Quoting author Ross Gelbspan, she continues: When people are confronted with an overwhelming threat and don't see a solution, it makes them feel impotent. So they shrug it off or go into deliberate denial. What psychobabble! Al Gore, Ellen Goodman and the rest of the Kool-Aid drinking GWC are truly the new Flat Earth Society. They are so brainwashed about the conventional wisdom of this issue, it never occurs to them that the real reason most Americans believe global warming is less of a threat than zealots flying airplanes into buildings could just be because common sense is more highly prized on Main Street than it is inside the Beltway or in the halls of the UN. - Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and public policy advisor. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online, TheConservativeVoice.com and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material
[osint] Chertoff's 'Islam PC' rankles fed officials
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54164 Chertoff's 'Islam PC' rankles fed officials DHS chief warns against describing terror as 'Muslim,' emphasizes 'religion of peace' Citing recent internal memos, Department of Homeland Security employees complain their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror operations with pro-Islamic political correctness. They say headquarters has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a religion of peace. It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam, said one official who wished to go unnamed. DHS Secretary Chertoff set the tone in a staffwide memo http://wnd.com/images2/Chertoffmemo.jpg last year, when he described as extremists the two dozen Muslim terrorists who plotted to blow up 10 airliners over the Atlantic. Unlike British authorities, Chertoff did not mention the religious motivation of the terrorists. Nowhere in the one-page memo were the terms Muslim or Islamic used. WND has obtained a copy of the http://wnd.com/images2/Chertoffmemo.jpg internal alert from Chertoff, which was distributed to staff at 7:57 a.m. Aug. 10 - within hours, it says, of the arrests of a significant number of extremists engaged in a substantial plot to destroy multiple aircraft flying from the United Kingdom to the United States. It's ridiculous. 'Extremists' could mean anyone. Who are we talking about here? Neo-Nazi extremists? Environmental extremists? another DHS official said. It's so politically correct. If the head of Homeland Security can't say it, who can? He noted that as a Jew, Chertoff is especially sensitive to charges of bigotry leveled by Muslim-rights groups. In a press conference on the sky-terror plot, President Bush called the British terrorists and their ilk Islamic fascists but quickly backed off the remark after the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim groups complained. Longtime Bush confidante Karen Hughes warned the blunt phrase was hurting her efforts at the State Department to improve the U.S. image in the Muslim world. The president has not used the term again, opting instead for the generic extremists. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also has toned down her war rhetoric. Last month she referred to the terrorist group Hamas as a resistance movement, even though the group has been on her department's official terror blacklist for a dozen years. A former senior CIA analyst says America is losing the war on Islamic terror because of such political correctness. We are losing in Iraq and Afghanistan because the political leaders in both parties - and their politically correct acolytes in the media, the academy and the general officer corps - refuse to square with the American people about the enemy's motivation, said Michael F. Scheuer, who headed the CIA's bin Laden unit. He says the enemy is motivated by faith in Islam and is carrying out a jihad, or holy war, against the West. Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes says it's strategically important for the U.S. and its war allies to accurately identify the enemy. You cannot diagnose and treat a disease without first identifying and naming it, he said. So, a strategist cannot defeat an enemy without first identifying it and naming it. Still, in a report issued last month, the Homeland Security's Advisory Council recommended DHS continue to soften its language when referring to the enemy. The Department should work with subject matter experts to ensure that the lexicon used within public statements is clear, precise and does not play into the hands of the extremists, the advisory report said. The report, released by the DHS Advisory Council's Task Force on Future Terrorism, also recommended implementing more Muslim outreach programs. Broader avenues of dialogue with the Muslim community should be identified and pursued by the department to foster mutual respect and understanding, and ultimately trust, the report urged. Chertoff said he welcomed the reports findings. Headquarters has already engaged in such outreach programs. For example, it recently http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51573 dispatched a senior DHS official to personally take CAIR officials on a VIP tour of the department's anti-terror-screening operations at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, the nation's busiest airport. CAIR, a Washington-based group that's been tied to terrorists and terror groups, had complained Muslim travelers were being unfairly delayed by Customs and Border Protection agents at inspection stations. CAIR had a special inside tour of airport security, an outraged American Airlines official at O'Hare told WND. I work here. There's no way any of us would qualify for that tour. CAIR has been invited by DHS headquarters to train Customs and Border Protection agents
[osint] The battle scars of a private war
http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-na-contractors12feb12,0,7886114.story?coll=ktla- news-1 The battle scars of a private war Contractors wounded or killed in Iraq are the anonymous casualties. Ceremonies are secret, and benefits are scarce. By T. Christian Miller, Times Staff Writer February 12, 2007 HOUSTON - On a cold, overcast day here Friday, nine families came together in a hushed hotel ballroom to receive one of the nation's most prestigious civilian honors. Executives in dark blue suits shifted uncomfortably as an Army major general in battle fatigues awarded posthumous Defense of Freedom medals to the families' loved ones, all contractors killed while working in Iraq. But this was no public recognition of sacrifice. The event was held in secret, with guards to keep out the media. The Army even refused to release the names of those it was honoring. The nation's gratitude was delivered behind closed doors. A thousand miles to the north, a day later, a group of contractors got together on their own dime in a gritty cinder-block VFW hall beside a freeway in Knoxville, Tenn. This time, there were neither medals nor executives. Instead, there were sudsy beers, loud music and the camaraderie of men and women who swapped war stories of public indifference, bureaucratic ineptitude and corporate incompetence. This is what we've got. This is our party, said Jana Crowder, the wife of a contractor. She organized the conference, which drew a few dozen people, from as far as South Dakota and Maine. The contrasting events signal the issues that surround a new and largely invisible kind of pseudo-veteran: the thousands of contractors who have been injured, some fatally, working in Iraq for the U.S. government. Nearly 125,000 contractors are now at work in Iraq supporting roughly 135,000 troops, according to the most recent military figures. The ratio is far higher than for any previous U.S. conflict, military analysts say. More than 750 contractors have been killed in Iraq, according to Department of Labor statistics, and almost 8,000 injured. The figures include Americans, Iraqis and other nationalities employed under U.S. government contracts. Contractors' surviving relatives and wounded contractors have many of the same problems as military members and their families, including searing grief, difficult recoveries and unanswered questions. But the contractors' status as private employees on a public mission has created an uncertain future, where surviving a bullet in the head does not mean a lifetime of care and where a local bar becomes the closest thing to a veteran's hospital. All contractors working overseas are supposed to be covered by federal workers' compensation. Under the system, contracting companies purchase insurance to cover workers' injuries, lost wages and, in the case of death, benefits to survivors. Though the system has worked smoothly in some cases, many contractors have found themselves fighting for medical care and psychological counseling in a civilian healthcare system. Contractors with head wounds and fist-sized holes in their sides have had to fly back to the U.S. on commercial jets for medical care. For support, they have only a homemade system of sympathy, patched together through websites and e-mail. Many of the injured are blue-collar Americans, cops and truckers and oil rig hands who saw Iraq as a way to make some money and support the war. They are scattered across the U.S., isolated from those who suffered similar experiences. Few contractors expect to be treated like returning soldiers. They are quick to acknowledge that they were paid better and could quit when they wanted. But many served side by side with American troops, lived in the same harsh conditions, and braved mortar fire and roadside bombs without the protection of armored vehicles or weapons. They are frustrated at the difficulty they have encountered in getting help for their troubles. Some contractors have seen their efforts in Iraq dismissed by friends and neighbors as the product of greed. There's no support, said Art Faust, 56, a former trucker for KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary now being spun off into a separate company. Faust, of Porter, Texas, has been trying to get psychological treatment after being caught in an ambush in which three other truckers and a soldier were killed. It's just like someone hit the delete button. The Houston medal ceremony, jointly sponsored by KBR and the Department of Defense, underscored the meshing of the American military with contractors. KBR holds the single largest contract in Iraq, with 50,000 workers supplying food, fuel and mail to the military. The contractors work alongside soldiers, helping rebuild the country and providing private security guards to diplomats and senior U.S. officials. All told, the Pentagon has awarded 119 contractors the Defense of Freedom medal, which is considered the civilian equivalent of a Purple Heart. Of those,
[osint] Washington's Make-Believe Policy on Iran
http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 Washington's Make-Believe Policy on Iran By Ayn Rand Institute: http://www.americandaily.com/author/157 (02/12/07) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 Bush administration claims to have a way to deter the militant theocracy of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons--and thwart its ambition to bring death to America. http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 Washington's plan aims to pressure Teheran, financially and psychologically. The idea is to cut off Iran's nuclear program from banks and businesses in other nations, and to undermine the confidence of Iranian officials. The right amount of pressure, we are told, can induce Teheran to give up its http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 nuclear program. In fact this policy is a pathetic sham. It is a cover-up for Washington's abdication of the responsibility to protect American lives. When you consider the plan in detail, it is incredible that anyone thinks it could thwart Iran. The financial pressure so far includes a prohibition on the Iranian Bank Sepah from completing transactions in U.S. dollars. That bank is the financial linchpin of Iran's missile procurement http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 network, according to a Treasury Department official. The ban means Bank Sepah can no longer facilitate sales of oil in dollars--but Teheran has announced that it is now selling oil in euros. To extend its financial pressure overseas, Washington hopes to persuade http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 foreign governments, international banks and companies not to lend Iran money or sell it technology or nuclear expertise. This entails groveling before the likes of http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 France and http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 Germany, keen appeasers of Iran, and Russia, which gutted the already toothless U.N. sanctions against Iran. Even if some companies or countries, like Japan, agree to reduce some of their trade with Iran--the regime is about to open a brand new Russian-built reactor believed capable of producing weapons-grade nuclear material, and apparently begin industrial-scale efforts to produce uranium. Washington's scheme also calls for undermining the self-assurance of Iran's zealous http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 leadership by responding firmly to Iranian hostility. In one notable case, four Iranian officials were detained in Iraq on suspicion of abetting insurgents, but after protests from Teheran and http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 Baghdad, the officials were promptly released. Preposterously, this catch-and-release scheme is allegedly precisely the type of thing that will http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 chip away at their confidence, as one European diplomat approvingly confided to the New http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 York Times. Recently, U.S. forces detained other Iranian operatives (releasing some of them) and raided an Iranian consular office in Iraq. While our troops are now permitted to kill Iranian operatives in http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 self-defense, these measures, in sum, are but pinpricks. How could such a feeble policy fail to encourage Iran's belief that it is free to pursue its hostile goals with impunity? This plan is not some mistaken or naive attempt to deal with Iran. It is an evasion of Iran's nature and goals--an evasion of the need to eliminate the Iranian menace. Iran's nuclear quest (like its funding of insurgents who slaughter our troops in Iraq) is just the latest in a series of hostilities stretching back to the 1979 invasion of our http://www.americandaily.com/article/17654 embassy. To protect American lives, we must recognize Iran as an enemy stained with U.S. blood and assert ourselves militarily to make it non-threatening. This does not mean an Iraq-like crusade to bring them elections; it means protecting U.S. lives by destroying Iran's militant regime. But that is precisely what our leaders refuse to do. Washington has resigned itself to the emergence of a nuclear Iran (and an endless insurgency in Iraq), because our leaders do not believe we have the moral right to stop it. To do that would be self-assertive: it would mean putting America's interests first. Today's prevailing ethical standard condemns such action as selfish, and therefore immoral. Washington's moral premise rules out as illegitimate the dedicated pursuit of American self-defense. But wishing to evade the self-destructive implications of their moral principle, our leaders concoct a plan that creates the illusion of their commitment to our defense. The squeeze-Iran policy is a ruse that must be repudiated as impractical because immoral. We, the people of America, have a moral right to pursue our happiness in freedom. We owe it to ourselves to demand that our government actually fulfill its obligation to defend our freedom--not
[osint] YouTube Censors Islam Critic?
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/02/12/youtube-censors-islam-critic YouTube Censors Islam Critic? Submitted by Jason Lee Miller on Mon, 02/12/2007 At YouTube, You can say pretty much whatever You want, as long as it's not about Islam. If that's not true, YouTube user Nick Gisburne begs to differ after his account - his entire account - was deleted for its inappropriate content. What exactly did he say? Well, nothing really. He let the Koran speak for itself. Gisburne is a self-described atheist with, at least from the one video, a deep questioning of Muslim claims about the Koran. To express his doubts about Islam being a religion of peace, Gisburne created a 10-minute video, entitled Islamic Teachings that was nothing but violent quotations taken from the Koran instructing followers to kill nonbelievers and speed their way to Hell where Allah will torture them forever. It would seem quoting the holy book in a sort of testament against itself was over the line for someone working at Google-owned YouTube. Not only was the video deleted without any type of warning to the uploader, but the uploader's account was also deleted with only the explanation (or accusation) of submitting inappropriate content, a category usually reserved for nudity or video violence. Gisburne can be seen talking about the experience here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRPVsamLaKk , in a very monotone way. But the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGZh5w30g3U in question can still be found on YouTube, for as word spreads about the rather obvious free speech infringement, users by the dozens have become defiant, posting it on Gisburne's behalf. Over at Xooglers http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2007/02/long-time-no-blog.html , a blog written by ex-Google employees, Ron Garret says this doesn't reflect well on Google: This really bothers me for four reasons. First, to deem quotations from a holy text to be inappropriate content is outrageous on its face. Second, Gisburne was given no warning. Third, YouTube didn't just delete the video in question, they deleted Gisburne's entire account. And fourth, this makes a mockery of Google's don't be evil slogan. There can be no possible reason for this action other than caving to intimidation, and sanctimonious cowardice in the face of oppression is a particularly pernicious breed of evil. He advises other angry free speech advocates to contact http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2007/02/long-time-no-blog.html YouTube to express themselves directly. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Problem With Islam
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2007/02/the_problem_wit_2.html The Problem With Islam Bill Warner, the director of the http://www.cspipublishing.com/ Center for the Study of Political Islam (CSPI) http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26769 talks to Front Page's Jamie Glazov about the absence of the Golden Rule in Islam: Let's examine the ethical basis of our civilization. All of our politics and ethics are based upon a unitary ethic that is best formulated in the Golden Rule: Treat others as you would be treated. The basis of this rule is the recognition that at one level, we are all the same. We are not all equal. Any game of sports will show that we do not have equal abilities. But everyone wants to be treated as a human being. In particular, we all want to be equal under the law and be treated as social equals. On the basis of the Golden Rule-the equality of human beings-we have created democracy, ended slavery and treat women and men as political equals. So the Golden Rule is a unitary ethic. All people are to be treated the same. All religions have some version of the Golden Rule except Islam. FP: So how is Islam different in this context? Warner: The term human being has no meaning inside of Islam. There is no such thing as humanity, only the duality of the believer and unbeliever. Look at the ethical statements found in the Hadith. A Muslim should not lie, cheat, kill or steal from other Muslims. But a Muslim may lie, deceive or kill an unbeliever if it advances Islam. There is no such thing as a universal statement of ethics in Islam. Muslims are to be treated one way and unbelievers another way. The closest Islam comes to a universal statement of ethics is that the entire world must submit to Islam. After Mohammed became a prophet, he never treated an unbeliever the same as a Muslim. Islam denies the truth of the Golden Rule. By the way, this dualistic ethic is the basis for jihad. The ethical system sets up the unbeliever as less than human and therefore, it is easy to kill, harm or deceive the unbeliever. The CSPI Method for understanding Islam, as quoted on their site (with literature for sale to make Islam accessible to the ordinary non-Islamic person): 1. Islam is a religion and a political system. Only the political system is of interest to non-Muslims, since it determines how Islam treats you. Study the religion of Islam if you want to become a Muslim. 2. All of Islam is based upon the Koran, the Sira (life of Mohammed), and Hadith (Traditions of Mohammed)-the Islamic Trilogy. 3. The entire political doctrine is found in the Trilogy. By reading the Trilogy, you will understand Islam's actions and words. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else!
US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else! By Andrew Buncombe in Washington Published: 13 February 2007 The Independent In the hugely popular television series 24, federal agent Jack Bauer always gets his man, even if he has to play a little rough. Suffocating, electrocuting or drugging a suspect are all in a day's work. As Bauer - played by the Emmy Award winner Kiefer Sutherland - tells one baddie: You are going to tell me what I want to know - it's just a matter of how much you want it to hurt. But while 24 draws millions of viewers, it appears some people are becoming a little squeamish. The US military has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America's reputation abroad. Forget about Abu Ghraib, forget about Guantanamo Bay, forget even that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name. The United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday confirmed that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently travelled to California to meet producers of the show, broadcast on the Fox channel. He told them that promoting illegal behaviour in the series - apparently hugely popular among the US military - was having a damaging effect on young troops. According to the New Yorker magazine, Gen Finnegan, who teaches a course on the laws of war, said of the producers: I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires... The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24'? The disturbing thing is that although torture may cause Jack Bauer some angst, it is always the patriotic thing to do. The meeting in November was arranged by Human Rights First, a non-profit organisation that has launched a campaign against torture both in the real world and on television. It says that since the terror attacks of September 11, the incidence of torture in television shows has soared. In 2000 there were 42 scenes of torture on prime-time US television while in 2003 there were 228. The group's David Danzig said: I think there is no question [it is having an effect]. We have spoken to soldiers with experience in Iraq who say, for young soldiers, there is a direct relationship between what they are doing in their jobs and what they see on TV... It's the same abroad. The image of the US and its military [being involved in torture] is being affirmed. The show, first broadcast in November 2001, is produced by Joel Surnow, whose California office reportedly contains a Stars and Stripes that once flew over Baghdad. Mr Surnow boasts that both the military and the Bush administration are fans of his series and insists that 24 is patriotic. But during the fourth series of the show, broadcaster Fox was forced to air a series of public service announcements, following criticism about the series' portrayal of Muslims by the Council on American-Islamic Relations. In addition, while Mr Surnow may not have any qualms about 24, it appears the show's main protagonist does. In a television interview last month, Sutherland said: You torture someone and they'll basically tell you exactly what you want to hear, whether it's true or not, if you put someone in enough pain... Within the context of our show, which is a fantastical show to begin with, the torture is a dramatic device to show you how desperate a situation is. Others point out that coercive interrogation techniques that some argue amount to torture, including the use of stress positions, military dogs and sleep deprivation, have been authorised by the highest levels of the Bush administration. Meanwhile, last year, when George Bush signed into law a piece of legislation authored by Senator John McCain to prohibit the cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners, the White House issued a so-called signing statement in which it insisted the ban could be ignored if the President so authorised. Wayne Smith, of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), an international human rights group, said: Even the FBI has confirmed executive orders authorising the use of hoods and dogs and stress positions. If [these things] were being done to US troops we would call it torture. [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
[osint] Islam - A Never Ending Atrocity
http://seaspook.blogspot.com/2007/02/islam-never-ending-atrocity.html Islam - A Never Ending Atrocity It appears that we unknowingly touched of a completely unanticipated, smoldering spark of hate within Islam by freeing the repressed Shiites of Iraq and permitting them to gain the upper hand. What I gleaned from this article is that with the exception of Iran, most Shiites in the Middle East have been repressed by Sunnis and a status quo had been established, but with our intervention in Iraq and its large population of Shiites now in nominal power this seems to have caused a ripple effect throughout islam. Other Shiites now have hope and Sunnis are frightened. It seems this archaic, barbarous culture will remain in a state of anarchy, hate and bloodshed always. It appears to me the only solution in Iraq is to get one side or the other in firm control over the other and let them sort it out in their own bloody way. The really sad part of all this is that both sides, Shiite and Sunni are killing each other over a moot point; islam itself is a false religion established by a thug for his own benefit. Excerpts from http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26894 Front Page Magazine By http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=1169 David Frum: According to Muslim tradition, the Shiite-Sunni divide originates in a disagreement over the inheritance of the Prophet Muhammad's spiritual authority and political power. Should it go to Muhammad's chosen subordinates and generals? Or to Muhammad's descendants: his son-in-law and nephew, Ali, and his grandson Hussayn? (The term Shi'ite is derived from Shiat Ali, the party of Ali.) The question was settled violently. Ali was assassinated, Hussayn killed in a battle fought on the site of the city of Karbala, Iraq, in 680. Again, many in the West will wonder: Is it really possible that people are detonating car bombs in 2007 because of a succession dispute 1,300 years ago? There has to be more to it than that! And so of course there is. Islam, as the great Islamicist Bernard Lewis has worked hard to explain, has no concept of the separation of church and state. Islamic teaching envisions a community united by shared beliefs, led by a just leader with the duty to command right and forbid wrong. Shi'a Islam teaches that this ideal was betrayed almost from the very earliest beginnings of Islam: that the rightful leader was excluded and then murdered and his place seized by usurpers and tyrants. ... So was launched a cycle over many centuries of rebellion and reprisal, heresy and martyrdom. The cycle continues to this day. If George W. Bush's surge plan for Iraq fails, the cycle will accelerate. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Faith and conflict
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20070223000906200.htm Faith and conflict An Irish imam's statements on Islamic fundamentalism unleash a storm of controversy among Muslims in that country. An Islamist Jihad member at a news conference in Gaza on January 29 claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Israel. Egyptian Islamic scholar Yusuf Al Qaradawi's public statements can be construed as justifying suicide bombing against any stronger, unjust state by a weaker minority. MUSLIM populations in the West, particularly in Europe, have of late become a battleground for reformist and traditionalist currents within Islam. These ideological labels, while being admittedly simplistic, illustrate the efforts of European Muslim communities to wrangle with the challenge of separating the political and personal aspects of faith and religious identity amid a larger culture which generally perceives them as unwelcome and inassimilable. British Muslims, Danish Muslims and French Muslims have all been implicated in this increasingly heated debate between an increasingly right-leaning, anti-immigration Europe and its increasingly ghettoised and economically disenfranchised Muslim communities. In August 2006, Irish Muslims were drawn into the fray when one of their notable imams, Dr. Shaheed Satardien, declared in an interview to Sunday Tribune that Ireland was fast becoming a fundamentalist haven and that an ocean of extremism was spreading among Muslims throughout Ireland. The statement came in the wake of the arrest in Ireland of an Algerian Muslim, Abbas Boutrab, who was found downloading information on how to blow up a passenger jet. In the interview, Satardien went on to say that Irish Muslim leaders are failing our young people who are embracing fundamentalism. Satardien lamented that young Muslims were being torn between two cultures; drawing them into support for terrorism, anti-Semitism and a hatred of Western democracy. The imam's statements unleashed a storm of controversy among Irish Muslims. Like their counterparts in Britain, Ireland's Muslim community, economically depressed relative to the white Irish population, perceives itself as increasingly unwanted and its faith as unnecessarily maligned and prejudicially castigated under the guise of anti-terrorism measures. Not surprisingly, rival imams came out with public statements condemning Satardien's comments as provoking religious hatred against Muslims and he received a volley of death threats. Satardien's statements came on the heels of a controversy among Irish imams about who would lead the several-thousand-strong Muslim community that hails from countries as diverse as Sudan, China, Pakistan and Indonesia. Initially, Satardien, himself an immigrant from South Africa, had suggested the establishment of an organisation called the Supreme Council of Ireland. This was contested by more conservative members of the community, and inter-religious politicking led to the sidelining of Satardien in favour of a more orthodox group of Islamic scholars. A rival organisation, the Irish Council of Imams, was set up and Imam Satardien was largely marginalised from the Irish Muslim religious establishment. The ideological implications of sidelining Satardien's brand of moderate Islam may well be tragic for Irish Muslims in particular and European Muslims in general. An anti-apartheid activist from South Africa, Satardien has experienced personally the ravaging effects of Islamic extremism. His brother Ebrahim Satardien was killed by an extremist Qibla faction of the South African vigilante group Pagar. Facing threats to his own life, Satardien asked for asylum in Ireland and moved to the country four years ago. Since then, he has been active in inter-faith ventures, organising conferences that promote the rejection of violence and the promotion of inter-faith understanding. Satardien blames his falling out with the main mosque in Clonkeaugh, Ireland, on the influence of the Egyptian scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al Qaradawi, whose organisation, the European Council on Fatwa and Research, is headquartered there. Sheikh Qaradawi, who interestingly also defines his version of Islam as moderate, is notorious in the West for his support to Palestinian suicide operations and his scathing denunciation of homosexuality as abominable. The author of several books, including The Lawful and Prohibited in Islam and Islam: The Future Civilization, Qaradawi enjoys a wide following across the Muslim world owing in part to his show Ash-Sharia Wal Hayat, which is aired on Al-Jazeera. If Satardien's rhetoric is focussed on consensus-building and reform within Islamic communities, Qaradawi's focus is centred on maintaining a distinct identity for Muslim communities living in the West. While compromising on certain issues (Qaradawi, unlike some of his even more conservative counterparts, does
[osint] Sharia Law Will Conquer Infidels
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=727932 FSM has introduced you to a British citizen who has preached hatred and incitement against Britons and their society for a long time. Finally, he has been arrested for glorifying terrorism. Yet FSM Contributing Editor Adrian Morgan doubts that this long overdue arrest signals any great change in Great Britain. Read why. Meet Abu Izzadeen, British Citizen: Sharia Law Will Conquer Infidels Part III Adrian Morgan Abu Izzadeen, former member of Al-Muhajiroun, has consistently escaped prosecution. In August 2005, the Attorney General and the Head of the Crown Prosecutions investigated the possibility of taking Izzadeen to court, but decided to do nothing. In yesterday's Part II, I provided a transcript of http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/global.php?id=722612 a speech which Izzadeen had made in Small Heath, Birmingham, on July 2, 2006. This speech appeared to glorify terrorism. In April 2006, a new law entered Britain's statute books, the Terrorism Act 2006 http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2006/20060011.htm . Under Schedule 1, section 1 (3a) of this law, it is illegal if someone: glorifies the commission or preparation (whether in the past, in the future or generally) of such acts or offences; and (b) is a statement from which those members of the public could reasonably be expected to infer that what is being glorified is being glorified as conduct that should be emulated by them in existing circumstances. The maximum sentence for this offense is 7 years' imprisonment, if conviction follows an indictment. On September http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6093015,00.html 20, 2006, Izzadeen interrupted a speech given by the UK Home Secretary, John Reid, at Leytonstone, northeast London. Izzadeen yelled out: I am furious. I am absolutely furious - John Reid should not come to a Muslim area. You are an enemy of Islam and Muslims. Shame on all of us for sitting down and listening to him. He spoke of state terrorism by UK police. They are going to come in the morning to your house ... they are going to kick your door down when you're in bed with your wife, then drag you from your own bed. Izzadeen said http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JGBK0XFWO1TGTQFIQMFSF FWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/09/21/nreid21.xml : John Reid, Tony Blair and George Bush's crusade can all go to Hell. Five days after this outburst, the Sunday http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/09/24/nterr24.xml Telegraph revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service had said an ongoing investigation of Izzadeen was underway. This investigation was examining the possibilities of mounting charges of incitement and solicitation to murder. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said that it may be that we still require further evidence for the most serious charges being considered. Finally, on Friday, February 9 last week, Izzadeen was brought before a judge. He had been arrested http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BPU3ZCE4PWM3FQFIQMFSF FWAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/02/09/nmuslim09.xml the day before. The arrest was connected with his Small Heath speech from July 2, 2006. He was charged under Section 1 of the 2006 Terrorism Act with glorifying terrorism. Izzadeen was told http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007060792,00.html by Judge Daphne Wickham to surrender his passport and not to attend any organized meetings before she granted him conditional bail. Izzadeen was a spokesperson for the group Al Ghurabaa and also was a senior figure in the Saviour/Saved Sect, spin-off groups formed after the dissolution of Al-Muhajiroun. In July, shortly after the notorious Small Heath speech, these groups were officially banned http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002585.html by John Reid. The Home Secretary had failed to outlaw another group comprising exactly the same membership, Ahlus Sunna Wal Jamaah. This had been inaugurated in November 2005 http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/000979.html , with Izzadeen in attendance. After Izzadeen heckled John Reid in Leytonstone, he was invited to appear on BBC's Radio 4, on its prestigious morning show Today. Izzadeen said http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003024.html : We are not talking about elections. I'm a Muslim; I work with the community, I live in the community, John Reid doesn't. And I'm telling you we have had enough. We've had enough of the police raids, enough of the shooting in Forest Gates, enough of the arrests inside Walthamstow, inside restaurants, under the guise of your war against terror which everybody knows, Muslims and non-Muslims, is a war against Islam. And I'm telling you something - if they don't stop this there's going to be a very strong reaction from the community, maybe not from me on an individual level, but people have had enough. When asked by the interviewer to
[osint] FW: IRAQ, Soldiers point of view
Why doesn't ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN etc. get this side of the story and put it out??? Take a couple of Minutes and read what this Young Soldier has to say, he has explained it better than anyone I have seen so far.. Thank God for kids like him, I use the word Kid lovingly for I have been there and done that when I was his age, except our war didn't turn out so good Coyote 1 Tim Timmons Sr. Abbeville, South Carolina Semper Fi Laus Deo \ Following the article I sent about Bush's national address and troop increase, I thought it was a good idea to let you all know what the perspective is over here. I'm tired of hearing the media's skewed version, the politicians squabbling over what they read in a report, and the average ill-informed American ranting about things he knows NOTHING about. I've been over here a couple of months now, and I've learned more about this country than a year's worth of watching CNN. I've sat in mission briefs with Colonels, talked with village elders, had tea with Shieks, played with the kids. And I agree with the President. We need more troops and we need to take greater action. There are 3 major factions here. The Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds. The Shiites are in the majority, but Saddam was a Sunni, so he kept the Shiites in check. Everyone hates the Kurds, who are Christian and in the vast minority. The Kurds received the brunt of Saddam's murderous tyranny. Now that Saddam is gone, the Shiites have taken control of Baghdad. The largely peaceful Sunnis are now the victims of radical Shiite terrorism. So the young Sunni men, who can no longer go to work and support their families, do what all young men would do. They join the Sunni militia and battle the Shiites. And thus the country sits on the brink of civil war. But this war is between them. They largely do not concern themselves with the U.S. troops. The insurgents who battle the Coalition Forces are from outside the country. And the biggest problem down here isn't the insurgent Its the politicians. The local politicians. Even though the country is controlled by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, downtown Baghdad is controlled by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The Shiites follow al-Sadr and thus the Prime Minister does what al-Sadr says. Think of it as if a warlord controlled New York and blackmailed the President into diplomatic immunity. When 1st Cav (mainly 2/5 Cav) came here in 2004, they took downtown Baghdad (known as Sadr City) by force. It cost many lives, but after a year, we held an iron grip on the largest insurgent breeding ground in Iraq. The insurgents were afraid of the Horse People, and rightfully so. But when 1st Cav left, al-Sadr influenced the Prime Minister to kick out the Coalition forces from that area of Baghdad. He said the Iraqi military forces could hold the city. But all that happened was al-Sadr regained control of his city, and it is now a heavily guarded fortress. A place where insurgents and terrorists can train and stockpile arms. And we cannot go back in becuase the Prime Minister won't let us. Our hands are tied. So where does al-Sadr get his backing? From Iran and Syria. Iran supplies him with money and Syria supplies the terrorists. The insurgents that battle the Coalition Forces are from Syria, Somalia and dozens of other places outside of Iraq . Iraq is literally a terrorist breeding ground. They have terrorist and sniper schools here. Why not? They train by teaching them to attack the military forces here. And they have an endless supply of these training tools. They have factories in Sadr City to build bombs. Both Iran and Syria have openly proclaimed their number one goal in life is to destroy the great Western Devil and the little Western Devil (America and Britain). Iran wants to control Iraq to further this purpose. Al-Sadr will get to run the country and live like a king, but in reality Iran will pull the puppet strings. Iran will have access to thousands of radical Shiites who will do whatever al-Sadr tells them to. And Iraq will be used as a breeding ground for terrorism. Terrorism that will be targeted directly at America and Britain. The Iraq Study Group advised we should let Iran and Syria help with rebuilding? Bravo to President Bush for striking that idea down and vowing to keep those two countries out of Iraq. So how do the Iraqi people feel about everything? Of course they don't want the Americans here. But they would far rather have us here than the Iranians. My platoon visited an average Sunni village on a patrol a few days ago. Their only source of income was to farm, as they could not go to the city to work for fear of violence. Many of the young men had already run off to join the militia for no other reason than to feed their families. They had no school or hospital near them and the community was dying. The village elder's granddaughter was very sick and I was able to treat her. Afterwards he invited me and my Platoon
[osint] Secrets of 'South Park'
http://abcnews.go.com ABC News Secrets of 'South Park' Cartoon Co-Creators on Tom Cruise, Mohammed and the Time They Came Close to Packing It in By JAKE TAPPER and DAN MORRIS Sept. 22, 2006 - Comedy Central's vulgar, profane, hilarious animated hit South Park begins its 10th season on Oct. 4 in an uncertain place. In the past year, the show and its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, won their first Emmy and were also honored with a Peabody for best electronic media. But the year was also fraught with moments of censorship that caused the show's creators to wonder if the world had changed so much in the last 10 years that South Park could really no longer thrive. What we've stood behind for 10 years is: It's got to all be OK or none of it is, Parker told ABC's Nightline. Because as soon as you start picking, 'Well, OK, we won't do this,' then all of a sudden the ones you did about that shouldn't be OK either. So we were starting to say, 'I don't know that this is a world that 'South Park' can live in.' South Park has been vilified as crude, disgusting and nihilistic, and the eagerness of Stone and Parker to impale every sacred cow they can reach is a major reason for its success. After all, in the fictional town of South Park, Colo. -- home to third-graders Kenny, Kyle, Stan and the evil Cartman -- everything is fair game. Even the Prophet Mohammed, who appeared as a superhero in a July 2001 episode called The Super Best Friends. People told us at the time, 'You can't really draw an image of Mohammed,' Parker says. And we were like, well, we can. We're not Muslim, so it's OK. In 2006, however, when Stone and Parker wanted to depict Mohammed in an episode, Comedy Central wouldn't let them. After all, Muslims worldwide had rioted over insulting depictions of Mohammed in a newspaper in Denmark. It seemed odd to the creators of South Park, who had been and were still allowed to depict Jesus in any number of profane ways. In fact, the episode in question, Cartoon Wars, shows a cartoon (supposedly created by al Qaeda) in which Jesus defecates on President Bush. Open Season on Jesus That's where we kind of agree with some of the people who've criticized our show, Stone says. Because it really is open season on Jesus. We can do whatever we want to Jesus, and we have. We've had him say bad words. We've had him shoot a gun. We've had him kill people. We can do whatever we want. But Mohammed, we couldn't just show a simple image. During the part of the show where Mohammed was to be depicted -- benignly, Stone and Parker say -- the show ran a black screen that read: Comedy Central has refused to broadcast an image of Mohammed on their network. Other networks took a similar course, refusing to air images of Mohammed -- even when reporting on the Denmark cartoon riots -- claiming they were refraining because they're religiously tolerant, the South Park creators say. No you're not, Stone retorts. You're afraid of getting blown up. That's what you're afraid of. Comedy Central copped to that, you know: 'We're afraid of getting blown up.' At the same time, just like we always do, we managed to get something on and say something about how we can't say something about Mohammed, Parker says. South Park, from its very beginning has been about mocking that which is held most sacred. It began as a short film, The Spirit of Christmas, made as a video cartoon for an entertainment executive to send to friends that featured Santa Claus and Jesus fighting. Its creators have stayed true to the spirit of Spirit, taking on Tom Cruise (implying that the twice-married father is gay), as well as Cruise's religion (Stan declares that Scientology is just a big fat global scam). But when the episode Trapped in the Closet (Cruise hides in the closet and refuses to come out) was scheduled to be rebroadcast, Comedy Central pulled the plug. We were told that the people involved with 'Mission: Impossible: III' demanded that show be pulled off the air, Stone says. And it was. Media behemoth Viacom, which owns Comedy Central, also owns Paramount Studios. At the time Paramount wanted Cruise to promote M:I:III. After weeks of negative publicity, Comedy Central agreed to broadcast the show. 'I Thought This Might Be It' In addition to the Cruise and Mohammed shows, Comedy Central hesitated before agreeing to rebroadcast an episode featuring some unseemly bleeding by a statue of the Virgin Mary that upset many Catholics. Going into the last run was the most sort of scared I've ever been, Parker says. I went into the run just going, 'Wow, how many times are they going to tell us we can't do something before we bail?' Because we're ready to bail. We're ready. We wanted to say some things, shake things up a bit. And I think we've done that, and I think we've done it in a bigger way than we ever will in the future. So it'd be nice to make some more shows and some more movies, but it'd also be really nice to go
[osint] FW: Virus Alert - Snopes says true
See -- http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/storm.asp Good Morning! As a service to our employees, I always try to pass on information which may help you protect your computers at home and here at work. This morning, I received an email from Symantec, our virus protection company. There is a relatively new virus going around called Trojan.Peacomm, and it appears to be a nasty one. Be assured, your computer here at work is protected from this threat, but your computer at home may not be. When this virus is run, it downloads and runs four other viruses, and leaves the door open to download and run more. They can destroy files, steal information and generally wreak havoc on your computer. The virus comes in the form of an email which is designed to catch your attention and make you want to open the attachment. The subject line is usually one of the following: A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again! U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel British Muslims Genocide Naked teens attack home director. 230 dead as storm batters Europe. Re: Your text Radical Muslim drinking enemies's blood. Chinese missile shot down Russian satellite Chinese missile shot down Russian aircraft Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft Chinese missile shot down USA satellite Russian missile shot down USA aircraft Russian missile shot down USA satellite Russian missile shot down Chinese aircraft Russian missile shot down Chinese satellite Saddam Hussein safe and sound! Saddam Hussein alive! Venezuelan leader: Let's the War beginning. Fidel Castro dead. The attachment they want you to open is usually one of the following: FullVideo.exe Full Story.exe Video.exe Read More.exe FullClip.exe GreetingPostcard.exe MoreHere.exe FlashPostcard.exe GreetingCard.exe ClickHere.exe ReadMore.exe FlashPostcard.exe FullNews.exe The best advice I can give is to follow these simple guidelines: 1.Watch what you receive in email, and don't open it if it looks suspicious. 2.Because of your position, some of you may need to open email from strangers, but most people don't. In general, if you don't know who sent it, don't open it. 3.If you know the person, but were not expecting an email attachment from them, don't open it. 4.Also, don't open any suspicious email or any email that looks too good to be true. 5.If you receive spam, don't respond to it, and don't go to their site to be removed from the mailing list...it automatically adds you to other mailing lists because they now know this is a good email address. Thanks for your time! Steve Van Norman - End forwarded message - [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Quranic Concept of War by S.K. Malik (Online .PDF)
This is a .pdf version of S.K. Malik's book, complete with a preface, LTC Joe Myers Introduction, and President M. Zia-Ul-Haq's foreword. http://www.hometownjihad.com/malik.pdf This .pdf appears to be the anchor the hometownjihad.com website is going to build around. Hometown Jihad is what Mustafa Setmariam Nasar was talking about in his massive book, and it's what Sulejman Talovic engaged in Monday night in Salt Lake City - and that makes Malik's book, Joe's essay review and the NEIN article extremely relevant in perpetuity. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Drawings link prison converts to terrorism
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/national/drawings-link-prison-converts- to-terrorism/2007/05/19/1179497333545.html Drawings link prison converts to terrorism CHILLING evidence has emerged that some of the state's most dangerous prisoners have become devotees of terrorism after converting to Islam. Drawings found in the Super Max cell of Bassam Hamzy, ringleader of 12 Islamic converts within the high-security Goulburn jail, suggest some in the gang see themselves as assassins bent on causing terror in Australia. The Sun-Herald can reveal a hand-drawn gang logo was found in Hamzy's cell bearing the words assassins australia FFL with depictions of AK-47 assault rifles. Checks by Department of Corrective Services security officers found FFL stood for Freedom Fighters Lebanon. A handwritten note was found saying: Solja Warrior We don fear death and sometimes we wish for it [sic]. Guards also confiscated a photo of Osama bin Laden found in Hamzy's cell. Critics attacked prison authorities, claiming they targeted Hamzy because he was Muslim when they revealed he had converted 11 inmates to Islam, using promises of help outside the jail. They were known as the Super Max Jihadists. Hamzy, 28, who is serving 21 years for the 1998 murder of an 18-year-old man, was transferred out of the Super Max jail last month. This is evidence that prison authorities were not targeting Hamzy because of his religion, said NSW Commissioner of Corrective Services Ron Woodham yesterday. Hamzy's defenders should look at this evidence closely, as he is clearly talking the rhetoric of a terrorist. A cryptic message on another piece of paper, appearing to refer to large sums of money, said: After 8K was given not sure what was left from 9.600. Another said: Courage, honour, no mercy, mercy 4 da weak, family 4 life and BFL [brother for life]. He had even arranged a Muslim marriage for one man serving time for rape to a Muslim woman outside the jail. An imam oversaw the marriage, which was conducted over the phone. Although such a marriage has no legal status, it can be recognised by Muslims. Six of the converts were Aboriginal prisoners serving time for murder, rape and armed robbery. The converts were caught on surveillance cameras kneeling before Hamzy and kissing his hand. The Islamic converts had shaved their heads and grown long beards, and conducted prayers in their cells several times a day. Hamzy is now in isolation behind seven separate security barriers in a high-security section of Lithgow prison, where he is denied contact with other prisoners. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] From A Border Patrol Agent
http://www.townhall.com/blog#cecce51f-7ebc-4f02-ad82-0beeed4e1938 From A Border Patrol Agent file:///C:/blog/g/cecce51f-7ebc-4f02-ad82-0beeed4e1938 Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 10:55 AM http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/a6cc0554-9c75-4ea0-af08-1fa11d473b1d In a post below I referenced an e-mail from a Border Patrol agent. I have now receievd his permission to post it: Hugh, Hope you read this. I'm a Border Patrol Agent and have been assigned to Arizona (Tucson Sector) for [many] years. This is the busiest section of border in the nation. I have been shot at and assaulted with rocks, bottles, etc. more times than I can count. I'm not bragging, just trying to establish some credibility. Here are a few facts you should be aware of: Fact: Fences are useless without Border Patrol Agents to patrol them. They don't prevent people from crossing, they merely slow them down. Fences are about certainty of arrest, not the physical barrier itself. Fact: It takes one Agent per 1/4 mile to effectively control a section of border fence. Anything less and the fence(s) are ineffective. We see it every day; the bad guys get over, under, or through. Fact: The U.S./Mexico Border is 1951 miles long. We need 4 agents per mile. We would need to deploy 7804 Agents per shift, 3 shifts per day. Total required manpower: 23,412 Agents per day. Projected BP staffing level: 18,000. Fact: Fences are absolutely necessary ONLY in urban areas where Agents have only seconds to minutes to make an apprehension. Fact: The BP will never have sufficient manpower to forward deploy agents every 1/4 mile across the border. Fence or no fence, potential terrorists, illegal aliens and drug smugglers will exploit the areas devoid of agents. Fact: Forward deploying every Agent in the BP will leave coverage gaps. These gaps will be exploited. With all Agents forward deployed no Agents will be available to cover the gaps. Fact: Huge tracts of the border are inaccessible because of environmental issues and/or terrain challenges Solution: DEFENSE IN DEPTH. 1. Forward deploy Agents in URBAN areas supported by fencing and stadium lighting (See San Diego/Texas). 2. Deploy roving patrols to rural/remote areas where agents have hours to days to make an apprehension. These agents need support from sensors, drive-through barriers, ground surveillance radar, infrared/daytime cameras, UAVs, air assets, etc to create certainty of arrest. 3. Stand up permanent immigration checkpoints in Arizona on major routes of egress from the border. Support these checkpoints with sensors, radar, remote cameras, etc to mitigate illegal traffic attempting to circumvent it. San Diego, New Mexico and Texas have employed this strategy with great effect; Arizona does not and is the weak link. Tucson Sector comprises 13% of the SW Border but accounts for nearly 40% of all BP apprehensions/illegal entries. Give Arizona the technology, drive-through barriers, agents and permanent checkpoints (WHICH HAVE BEEN BANNED BY CONGRESSIONAL LANGUAGE FROM 1999-2006!) not 800+ miles of fence. It is a catastrophic waste of money. Ask any BP Agent on the southwest border and they'll tell you the same thing. Don't know if you reply to any of your Emails, but I would love to go into greater depth if you're interested, particularly regarding checkpoints in Arizona. Thank you, It seems to me that the draft bill needs to increase not only the amount of fence constructed http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/g/70ab8c2c-9e0b-41b4-8ffb-279de0016934 prior to the first probationary Z visa issues, but also another30%+ hike in the number of BP agents. [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
[osint] CAIR: Muslim employees win settlement against Dell
http://foehammer.net:80/2007/05/sharia-wins-at-dell.html Muslim contract employees at the Dell Inc. plant in Nashville reached a settlement with the company on issues related to a dispute over prayer in the workplace, a national Islamic civil rights advocacy group announced yesterday in Washington. The Council on American-Islamic Relations said the 31 Muslim employees, who left work last month in a disagreement over Islamic prayers, will be reinstated, receive back pay, and be granted religious accommodation. Managers also will also receive additional training on existing religious accommodation policies and practices. Other terms of the settlement were not disclosed. The settlement came following a meeting yesterday between representatives of the council, Dell, the Muslim workers, the Metro Human Relations Commission and Spherion Corp., the company that provided the workers to Dell. We are pleased with both the terms of the settlement and with the cooperative attitude of all parties in the negotiations, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAIR CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said. We thank everyone from around the world who contacted Dell to express their support for reasonable religious accommodation in the workplace. Most of the affected employees are from Somalia. Abdirizak Hassan, executive director of the Somali Community Center of Nashville, said the workers walked out of the company's Nashville plant last month because they were not allowed time for prayers. CAIR showing its ugly face again. And so the appeasement continues.. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Call Me an Islamaphob
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=call_me_an_islamapho b http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=call_me_an_islamaph obns=MichaelMcBridedt=05/19/2007page=fullcomments=true ns=MichaelMcBridedt=05/19/2007page=fullcomments=true Call Me an Islamaphob Phobia, as described by Webster... an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation. Foxnews.com http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,273312,00.html picked up on an Arab News story coming out of the Organization of Islamic http://www.oic-oci.org/ Conference (OIC) in Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday that describes Islamaphobia as the worst form of terrorism http://arabnews.com/?page=4section=0article=96276d=17m=5y=2007 and the OIC was asking for steps world wide to curb it. The OIC describes Islamaphobia as the deliberate defamation of Islam and discrimination and intolerance of Muslims. The OIC alludes to Islamaphobia as a concern well before 9/11.Islamophobia became a source of concern, especially after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, but the phenomenon was already there in Western societies in one form or the other. They offer no specific examples. I'll be the first to acknowledge that the variety of the world's non-Muslim countries cultures' mix with Muslim culture like water and oil, but prior to 9/11; in spite of dozens of aircraft hijackings and the murders associated with many of them, in spite of the 1972 Olympics; in spite of the Achille Lauro (1985), in spite of the first WTC bombings (1993), in spite of the bombings of the Khobar Towers (1996), in spite of the indiscriminate killing of hundreds in the US Embassy bombings (1998), in spite of the USS Cole (2000), Muslims were able to live peacefully throughout the world without fear, harassment, nor threat of persecution. In fact it is nearly impossible to directly associate any link between 9/11 and an increase in crimes against Muslims in the US. The best accounting I can find is here at religioustolerance.org, http://www.religioustolerance.org/reac_ter1.htm where the outrageous attacks on Muslims after 9/11 translates to 3 dead, one beaten, some threats made, and some property damaged. Seems pale in comparison of the carnage that lies in the wake of motivated Muslims.twelve innocents dead in Munich, one innocent dead on the Achille Lauro and dumped into the sea, six dead and over 1000 injured in the first WTC bombing, twenty dead and 372 injured in the Khobar Towers bombings, over two hundred dead and 4000 injured in the US embassy bombings, seventeen dead in the USS Cole attack. Add in 2973 dead in the 9/11 attacks, 191 killed and 2050 injured in the Madrid bombings in 2004, Theo van Gogh murdered in the streets of Amsterdam 2004, fifty-two dead and 700 injured in the London bombings of July 2005, several killed and property damage worldwide in the aftermath of the Danish cartoon scandal of 2006. By my count that is nearly 3500 innocent people killed by those purporting to be believers in the religion of peace. Sorry if I am more afraid of Muslims than I am of, let's say, you run of the mill yokel who made some anti-Muslim remarks on 9/12. Those serving the Prophet have a much higher kill ratio than the Christians, the secularists, the atheists, the agnostics, the Jews, and the Wiccans combined. I am at a loss to figure out how being afraid of Muslims, because they happen to be the world's largest generator of terrorists, is a greater form of terror than the actual terror than that which is being perpetrated by Muslims extremists on the rest of the world's population nearly everyday of our lives. This is like castigating an assault victim for being afraid of their attacker. The OIC is clearly engaging in a classic desensitivization and relativism spin in trying to compare the brutal savagery committed by Muslim Jihadists over the past 35 years to the actual fear generated by those attacks. They are attempting to carve inroads into and place limitations on, our rights to free speech. And they are seeking an exceptional governmental deference towards their religion. All of which flies in the face of logic when compared to the body count that extreme Islamic Jihadists have racked up. Muslims need to be held accountable for those murders, not venerated as victims. Is it irrational to fear shoe bombs, dirty bombs, homicidal bombers, homicidal hijackers, anonymous Muslim car bombers, armed kidnappers, video-taping beheaders, truck bombers, airplane crashers, hotel bombers, train bombers, subway bombers, ship bombers, when all of these terror methodologies have been used or attempted in the recent past? The OIC needs a little perspective. As the second leading inter-governmental organization, behind the UN, it needs to understand that by condemning discrimination and intolerance, but not condemning murder and terror, they prove themselves the second biggest hypocritical inter-governmental
[osint] BOSTOM'S BOMBSHELL
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/05/bostoms_bombshe.html Saturday, May 19, 2007 BOSTOM'S BOMBSHELL http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized /2007/05/18/legacyofanitisem.jpg Legacyofanitisem Andrew Bostom's latest tome http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/27/1/ is completed. Enormously important and explosive in its revelations on Islam. I am plowing through the manuscript and it is astonishing. The cover act is Dehodencq's. Execution of a Moroccan Jewess is based upon the actual execution of a Jewess from Tangier, Morocco, Sol Hachuel, believed to have occurred in 1834. 3 Accused, falsely, of having become a Muslim, upon adamantly and steadfastly maintaining her Jewish faith (A Jewess I was born, a Jewess I wish to die), the 17 year-old Sol was beheaded publicly for this contrived apostasy from Islam. A detailed, near contemporary account of Sol Hachuel?s heroic martyrdom, based on eyewitness interviews was published in 1837 by Eugenio Maria Romero. The following http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/26/1/ is a summary of Romero's narrative. Read Bostom's explanation of the cover http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/26/1/ here. It is wildy fascinating. The younger of two children of Chaim and Simcha Hachuel, Sol was described as a beautiful young woman. 8 Her father was a merchant of very modest means, but also a highly educated man who conducted Talmudic study groups in the Hachuel household. Through these community gatherings, Sol acquired enough Jewish religious instruction to develop an unyielding confidence in her own Judaic beliefs. Typical of families that were not prosperous, Sol?s mother kept house, leaving her daughter practically to herself. Sol developed a friendship with a Muslim woman Tahra de Mesoodi. Apparently Tahra entertained the pious Muslim hope?a particularly important impetus under the code of Maliki Islamic Law predominant in Morocco?to convert infidels to Islam. 9 Romero elaborates: 10 Read more here http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/26/1/ . This comprehensive, meticulously documented collection of scholarly articles presents indisputable evidence that a readily discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism-a specific Muslim hatred of Jews-has been expressed continuously since the advent of Islam. Debunking the conventional wisdom, which continues to assert that Muslim animosity toward Jews is entirely a 20th-century phenomenon fueled mainly by the protracted Arab-Israeli conflict, leading scholars provide example after example of antisemitic motifs in Muslim documents reaching back to the beginnings of Islam. The contributors show that the Koran itself is a significant source of hostility toward Jews, as well as other foundational Muslim texts including the hadith (the words and deeds of Muhammad as recorded by pious Muslim transmitters) and the sira (the earliest Muslim biographies of Muhammad). Many other examples are adduced in the writings of influential Muslim jurists, theologians, and scholars, from the Middle Ages through the contemporary era. More http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/28/1/ here. Ibn Warraq writes the forward http://www.andrewbostom.org/loj//content/view/61/44/ here. Excerpted below. Dr. Bostom is the first scholar to have had translated from the Arabic the works of commentators on Sura IX.29 like al-Baydawi, al-Suyuti, al-Zamakhshari, and al-Tabari. Other primary sources translated for the first time into English include documents on Jihad such as the one written by al-Ghazali , the celebrated Islamic Mystic or Sufi , laying to rest the myth that Sufis always interpreted jihad as an inner moral struggle against one's lower instincts. Muslim jurists and philosophers include Shiites al-Hilli and al-Amili (the latter translated from Persian), and representatives of all four Schools of Sunni Jurisprudence, Averroes (Maliki) , Ibn Taymiyya (Hanbali) , Shaybani (Hanafi), al-Mawardi (Shafi`i) , Ibn Qudama (Hanbali), and Ibn Khaldun (Maliki). Similarly, Dr Bostom is the first scholar to have overseen the translations of important , and in some cases , neglected or forgotten secondary sources from French works on Jihad by Edmond Fagnan, Roger Arnaldez, Charles Emmanuel Dufourcq, Clement Huart, Dimitar Angelov, and Maria Mathilde Alexandrescu-Dersca Bulgaru . Thus Dr.Bostom`s collection is truly wide-ranging, combining Shiite and Sunni , Classical and Modern, Koranic Commentators and Islamic Jurists and philosophers. There are regional examples of jihad campaigns , as well as analyses of jihad slavery by some of the most learned modern scholars of the Holy War. Dr Bostom has even taken care to find and reproduce beautifully color coded maps, with an accompanying chronology, depicting the initial five centuries of jihad conquests, and further primary documents detailing the havoc wrought by Muslims in the name of Jihad across three continents, over a period of a
[osint] Rumor on Muslim Savages Websites: The Bodies of Two of the Kidnapped Soldiers Have Been Found in Iraq
Rumor on Islamist Websites: The Bodies of Two of the Kidnapped Soldiers Have Been Found in Iraq http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/1633.htm According to a rumor posted on Islamist websites, the American forces have discovered the headless bodies of two of the kidnapped American soldiers. The reports stated that the bodies were found on May 18, after six days of searching, and that the search for the third soldier, whose fate remains unknown, is still continuing. Sources in the Mahmudiyya police force stated that the bodies were found near one of the parks in the city and bear signs of severe torture. (http://al-hesbah.org/v/, May 19, 2007) ( [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Algiers attack plans foiled, 12 arrested
Terrorism : attack plans foiled, 9 tons of bombs seized and 12 terrorists arrest on Saturday, May 19 @ 19:35:00 CDT http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesi d=6247 file=articlesid=6247 Security services have managed to spoil new terrorist attacks in Algiers and its suburbs planned by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb after the Algiers attacks of April 11, said security sources. According to investigators, terrorists involved in these attacks have been identified. All of them come from Algiers. The main one is called Hamza. He and his associates were behind an attack that targeted a car carrying workers of the American company BRC. According to well-informed sources, the Police has dismantled networks for recruiting and supporting terrorists composed of 12 elements of whom brother terrorists are wanted in addition to a business man. They worked under the leadership of Kamal Abu Hafs, the military adviser of the terrorist Harak Zuheir alias Sofiane Fassila, the new chief of al-Qaida's second zone, said the same sources. Investigations proved that Sofiane Fassila is the mastermind of terrorist attacks in the second zone of Algiers. After the terrorists's confessions, 9 tones of acid used in making bombs were seized and a work shop of bombs was discovered in Draa Ben Kheda in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou. Different explosive products and cameras were also seized. During the last week, security sources managed to dismantle networks for recruiting and supporting terrorist annex to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb. The networks include 12 members involved in the Algiers attacks of April 11th, security sources said. All the terrorist members come from the wilaya of Boumerdes. One of them is the brother of the wanted terrorist Rabeh, a former terrorist chief, the same sources added. According to the arrested terrorists, he bought a Mercedes car used in the attack carried out on a police station in the wilaya of Tizi Ouzou. Examining magistrate has decided to remandall arrested terrorists in custody on charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, financing and planning attacks in public places and supporting terrorist organisations. Ransom money invested by al-Qaida Investigations undertaken in the wilaya of Boumerdes led to identify a terrorist who owned a fast-food shop in the city of Tizi Ouzou. This terrorist invested the money given by Sofiane Fassila which came from theft, pillage and ransom. According to investigators, the terrorist organisation command employed brothers and relatives of the terrorists in familiar support networks in order to avoid any betrayal or disobedience. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Khalid Khaliq charged over al-Qaeda training manual
Man charged over terrorism manual Last Updated: Sunday, 20 May 2007, 21:30 GMT 22:30 UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6675165.stm Bombed bus A bus was blown up in Tavistock Square in central London A 34-year-old man arrested on suspicion of involvement in the 7 July London bombings has been charged. Khalid Khaliq, from Beeston, Leeds, is accused of possessing an al-Qaeda training manual on 17 July 2005. Mr Khaliq, who was arrested on 9 May, will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' on Monday. Fifty-two people died and more than 750 were injured when suicide bombers attacked three London Underground trains and a bus almost two years ago. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] The Inverted World The white race is the cancer of human history
The http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/print/the_inverted_world/ Inverted World By The Realist ‧ 12/10/06 Susan Sontag http://inverted-world.com/images/sontag.gif Susan Sontag The white race is the cancer of human history.1 http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/#fn- 69-1 Susan Sontag's words of 1967 express the central idea of the age that we live in. In the contemporary view, which I will dub the whites http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/ as cancer myth in honor of Sontag, whites are a destructive and malign force that is the major source of the world's suffering. Fifty years ago, the West saw its history as the gradual ascent from barbarism to civilization and from dogmatism to Enlightenment. Today, the West sees its history as the gradual, but still imperfect, conquest of racism. Racism has, in sum, become the defining feature of the West. This website is dedicated to the proposition that what the whites http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/ as cancer myth turns reality on its head, or is a sort of lens that shows us an inverted world. In reality, whites are the great benefactors of humanity, and have shown throughout their history a charity, generosity, and capacity for accomplishment that do not have any parallel among the other races of man. The whites http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/ as cancer myth causes a pervasive distortion of reality that prevents us from understanding and dealing with the problems the West faces. To be more precise, the myth posits that: 1. Whites are the only racist race. That is, they are the only race that has believed itself superior to other races, and this belief has led them to treat other races in a uniquely cruel manner. 2. White racism and imperialism are the primary explanation for the failings of non-whites. 3. Whites deserve no credit for their superior cultural achievement. Indeed, they deserve to be blamed for it, as whites only achieved cultural superiority by keeping non-whites down and by stealing cultural innovations from them. The whites http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/ as cancer myth does not affect merely how we view whites. Since it posits that whites are uniquely evil, the myth causes us not only to exaggerate the evil of whites, but also minimize, hide, and apologize for evil committed by other races. When stated as flatly as this, the myth looks like an absurdity that could never compel any credence whatsoever. Anyone who pays attention to world news knows that races other than whites do show enormous cruelty to people of other races: think of the genocide committed by Arabs on blacks in Sudan, for example. And yet, the myth persists because we so rarely bring ourselves to reflect on it: our belief in the evil of whites is so powerful that it does not occur to us to defend them from slander. Defending the white race seems like defending pure evil. The Inverted World will be devoted to explaining the nature, causes, and consequences of this myth and to inculcating a more accurate understanding of the nature of the races, which we will call race realism. Following thinkers like J. Philippe Rushton http://www.amren.com/9412issue/9412issue.html#cover , Richard Lynn http://www.amren.com/0212issue/0212issue.html#article1 , and Arthur Jensen http://www.amren.com/989issue/989issue.html#article1 , we believe that most of the differences in cultural achievement among the races are rooted in innate differences in intelligence and psychology. We also believe, with Tatu Vanhanen http://www.amren.com/0206issue/0206issue.html#article3 , that racial diversity leads to conflict because the races normally seek to achieve dominance over each other. Race realism has political consequences. Since many non-white groups are not suited for the type of society whites have created, and since non-whites will naturally try to achieve dominance over whites, we believe we should work to maintain white majorities in nations that currently have them. As such, we are white activists. History Textbooks as an Example of the Myth History textbook http://inverted-world.com/images/historytext.jpg According to this, whites are a cancer. To understand how pervasive and fundamental to our age the whites http://inverted-world.com/index.php/feature/feature/the_inverted_world/ as cancer myth is, consider the vision of history taught in American schools. Nothing is a better indicator of the bedrock worldview of a society than what it teaches its children in school. Just like their counterparts in other societies throughout the ages, schoolchildren in America are taught an official view of history that is carefully vetted by the authorities. In http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0375414827/ref=nosim/theinvwor-20 The Language Police, historian of
[osint] Column One: The master politician and us
Column One: The master politician and us Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 17, 2007 Monday, The New York Times reported that in just a few weeks, Iran will be capable of building nuclear bombs. The Times report, which was largely substantiated by the Chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency Muhammad el-Baradei, means that in just a matter of months, Israel is liable to find itself in danger of being wiped off the map. This grave development was barely noted by the Israeli media. They were busy with other matters. There was the State Cup soccer championship this week. And that sudden rainstorm in Jerusalem that forced the government to cancel the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the capital's liberation was a very big deal. Then, of course there is the Palestinian onslaught against southern Israel which has turned Sderot into a ghost town. But the primary reason that the Israeli media are ignoring the rapidly gathering mushroom cloud is because Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a master politician. Two weeks after the Winograd Committee's interim report found Olmert responsible for Israel's defeat at the hands of Iran's army in Lebanon last summer, almost no one seems to remember there was a report. Olmert has removed his incompetence from the pubic agenda. With no support from any quarter of the country, Olmert clings to power through his successful use of the political art of distraction. His response to the public outcry that the Winograd Committee's report unleashed was to change the subject. Rather than contend with the calls for his resignation, Olmert turned his guns on his deputy, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. After he successfully outmaneuvered his not terribly bright and politically unsavvy colleague, the media completely forgot about the issue of his incompetence to lead and placed their spotlights on Livni's pathetic political implosion. Last week, Olmert used the Supreme Court-ordered publication of his testimony before the Winograd Committee as an opportunity to attack the panel that he himself appointed. And again, rather than report on the dangers besetting Israel as a result of Olmert's incompetence, the media gave extensive coverage to Olmert's request to reappear before the committee. In his most recent gambit, this week Olmert turned his guns on State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss. As UN nuclear inspectors discovered Sunday that Iran is currently operating 1,300 centrifuges at its nuclear facility at Natanz, Olmert - the seasoned attorney - had his personal attorneys send a 58-page letter to Attorney-General Menachem Mazuz requesting that he open a criminal probe against Lindenstrauss. From the outset, Olmert and his lawyers knew that Mazuz would reject their request to investigate the comptroller for his investigation of Olmert's below market price purchase of his luxury home in Jerusalem. But that was beside the point. As far as they were concerned, the maneuver was an out and out success. The prime minister of Israel achieved his goal: for two days, his fight with Lindenstrauss and not his unfitness to lead the country was the story of the day. There is little correlation between Olmert's failure as a national leader and his success as a party politician. Two weeks after 150,000 people crowded into Rabin Square in Tel Aviv demanding his resignation for his failed leadership during last summer's war, the protest is all but forgotten and Olmert is sitting pretty. His governing coalition, and particularly his partnership with Shas and Yisrael Beiteinu, is rock solid. The consequences of the disparity between his professional and political capabilities couldn't be worse for the country. Olmert, the major league politician, sits securely on his perch while Olmert, the little league leader, is plunging us into a new war, which like the last one, he is incapable of winning. The decision to deploy a few tanks in northern Gaza on Thursday, like the decision to send a few planes to bomb a few targets over Gaza, is not part of an overall strategy aimed at defending southern Israel from rocket and mortar fire. Olmert, like his friend former prime minister Ehud Barak at the start of the Palestinian terror war seven years ago, is cynically exploiting the IDF. Rather than give the military an order to defeat our enemies, Olmert, like Barak before him, has ordered the IDF to perform a sound and light show for the public which demands that the government defend it. Olmert's refusal to order a serious strike in Gaza has brought about the effective abrogation of Israeli sovereignty over Sderot and the Western Negev. It is impossible to speak of Israel as a properly functioning, sovereign state when its citizens are forced to flee their homes because their government refuses to protect their lives and property. And Sderot is not alone. Just as the opponents of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza warned, Israel's absence from the area enabled
[osint] Maryland carry history
2 April 2007 http://www.maryland http://www.marylandshallissue.org/images/md_carry_history.pdf shallissue.org/images/md_carry_history.pdf Maryland's weapon carry laws: A brief chronology By Henry Heymering 1642 Noe man able to bear arms to goe to church or Chappell or any considerable distance from home without fixed gunn and 1 Charge at least of powder and Shott. (Maryland Statute of 1642) Presumably this included indentured servants and blacks as well as whites - as it did in Massachusetts. Every able man had to have a gun and carry it with him whenever he left home. 1715 And be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid, That no Negro or other Slave, within this Province, shall be permitted to carry any Gun or any other offensive Weapon, from off their Master's Land, without Licence from their said Master.. (Archives of Maryland 75:268 XXXIII) The first Maryland restriction on carrying weapons applied only to blacks and/or slaves - as slaves were being imported in larger numbers, and neither blacks nor slaves were citizens. A license from their master is equivalent to a note from a parent. 1776 That the Inhabitants of Maryland are entitled to the Common Law of England . and to the benefit of such of the English statutes as existed on the Fourth day of July, seventeen hundred and seventy-six. (Maryland Declaration of Rights, Art. 5a in both the original (1776) and current Maryland Constitutions) Under English Common Law around the time our Maryland and U.S. Constitutions were being written, it was not only a right to have and carry arms for self-defense but it was considered the duty of citizens to protect themselves as well as others: The right of his majesty's Protestant subjects, to have arms for their own defence, and to use them for lawful purposes, is most clear and undeniable. It seems, indeed, to be considered, by the ancient laws of this kingdom, not only as a right, but as a duty; for all the subjects of the realm, who are able to bear arms, are bound to be ready, at all times, to assist the sheriff, and other civil magistrates, in the execution of the laws and the preservation of the public peace. Opinion of the Recorder of London, 1780 (The Recorder of London was the foremost legal advisor to the city.) As neighboring Virginian Patrick Henry put it during Virginia's ratification convention 1788, The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun. (The Debates of the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution at 386, Jonathan Elliot, New York, Burt Franklin: 1888) 2 April 2007 http://www.maryland http://www.marylandshallissue.org/images/md_carry_history.pdf shallissue.org/images/md_carry_history.pdf 1809 A law prohibiting any carry of weapons with the intent feloniously to assault any person. (Archives of Maryland 570:94) Any carry, concealed or open, with no permit required for citizens, was still legal as long as it was without felonious intent. 1831 A statewide law that requires free blacks (only) to obtain a license from a local court for possession or carry (open or concealed) of firearms. (Archives of Maryland, 213:448) This is clearly racist. Why did it happen? It was a reaction to the Turner Rebellion of slaves in Virginia earlier that year. 1857 The 'Dred Scott' U.S. Supreme Court decision, by Marylander Justice Roger Taney, explains what rights a citizen was recognized to have at that time, and that negroes were not citizens: It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. [emphasis added] 1866 Concealed carry is banned for a few years, but open carry is not. (Archives of Maryland 389:468-9) This was the first time a Maryland restriction on carry of weapons for citizens could be found. It is a reasonable assumption that this law was passed partly as a result of the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, and as a result of slavery being abolished at the 1864 Maryland Constitutional Convention. Since blacks could no longer be selectively legislated against, the 1831 law was dropped and the concealed carry prohibition was made general - but could be selectively enforced against blacks or any other chosen group. 1884 At this time concealed carry, with no permit required, is legal again. Concealed carry is only illegal when arrested and charged with another
[osint] dis-Honour crimes fear leads Yard to review disappearances and deaths of 81 London women
honour killings is an oxymoron. B http://www.cps.gov.uk/london/cps_london_news/honour_crimes_conference/ Home http://www.cps.gov.uk/london/ News http://www.cps.gov.uk/london/cps_london_news/ Honour Crimes Conference London honour killings 'six a year' Honour crimes in London are on the increase, with police recording four a week since last summer. They believe an honour killing is being committed every two months in the capital, a CPS London conference heard. Across the country police are reviewing the disappearances and deaths of 122 young Asian women - 81 from London - over the past 10 years to establish whether they were killed for bringing shame on their families. The CPS and police will also ask coroners throughout the country for details of cases where they suspect that Asian women committed suicide following intimidation or harassment. Commander Andy Baker takes a question from a delegateMetropolitan Police Commander Andy Baker, Head of Homicide Investigation, (above) told the Honour Crimes Conference that the suicide rate among Asian women aged between 15 and 25 was three times the national average. For the 25 to 35 age group it was twice the average. Delegates heard that most honour crimes in the UK involve South Asian families but cases have also featured Middle Eastern, West African, Turkish, Bosnian, Kosovan and Roma families. In a keynote address, CPS London's Chief Crown Prosecutor Dru Sharpling (below) said honour crimes were disgraceful and went beyond an issue of culture. She told the conference held in London in December: If it is nothing but culture it gives the crime a legitimacy that it does not deserve or merit. Dru Sharpling speaking at the Honour Crimes Conference.This is primarily a crime against women. Honour crimes are crimes of violence which contain wholesale human rights abuses. The criminal justice system counted as nothing unless it protected the people it served, she stressed. Honour crimes are corrosive and the victim deserves protection, and the criminal law must be designed to do just that. And if they are not protected; if they are kept away from the agencies that can help; if the issue is submerged in our society, then that seems to me to give a green light to the perpetrators. In a democratic society the existence of any group of individuals whom the law could not apparently touch was unacceptable, she added. Speakers at the conference included a woman who as a teenage schoolgirl ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage. Jasvinder Sanghera was 14 when her family showed her a photograph of a Sikh man they said she would marry. Abused emotionally and physically, she fled to Newcastle two weeks before the wedding. As a result her parents refused to speak to her, saying she was dead in their eyes. Seven years later her elder sister Robina committed suicide by setting herself alight after being trapped in an arranged marriage. Jasvinder, who said she still receives threats from relatives for bringing shame on them, now runs a refuge for Asian women in Derby, handling 40 calls a week. Delegates learned that each year, a specialist unit at the Foreign Office handles around 250 cases of British women forced into marriage, rescuing between 60 and 70. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To
[osint] Preachers jump into the Hamas-Fatah fray
Preachers jump into the Hamas-Fatah fray _ Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST May. 21, 2007 _ As the fighting between Hamas and Fatah appears to have subsided following the latest cease-fire that was declared over the weekend, the two parties have now taken the battle to the mosques in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinian Authority security officials said Hamas and Fatah militiamen observed the cease-fire and no major incidents were reported on Sunday. Representatives of the two parties met in the Egyptian Embassy in Gaza City on Sunday to discuss ways of consolidating the cease-fire and preventing a resumption of the violence. Hamas announced that 22 of its members and supporters had been killed and 80 wounded in the fighting in the Gaza Strip over the past week. The movement said most of the casualties had been killed execution-style after being kidnapped by Fatah gunmen and members of various PA security forces. Although the cease-fire that was achieved under the auspices of the Egyptians calls on Fatah and Hamas to halt incitement against each other, supporters of the two parties continued to trade accusations over who was responsible for the latest round of fighting. According to sources close to the two parties, several mosques in the West Bank and Gaza Strip witnessed fistfights and screaming matches over the past few days between Hamas and Fatah supporters. The same preachers who until recently were attacking Israel, the Jews and the Crusaders in the US and Europe, have now shifted their anger toward PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah faction. According to PA security sources, some of the Hamas-affiliated preachers exploited Friday prayers to call for the killing of Fatah political leaders and security commanders. In many cases, worshipers walked out of the mosques in protest against what they described as incitement. The sources claimed that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was kicked out of a mosque near Damascus after worshipers held him responsible for the internecine fighting in the Gaza Strip. Fatah spokesmen accused Hamas of exploiting the mosques to launch a wave of incitement against their leaders. This is not the first time Hamas has used the mosques to call for killing Palestinians, said Jamal Nazzal, a Fatah representative in the West Bank. We must put an end to the incitement in the mosques. Fatah officials are particularly enraged by the harsh rhetoric that many preachers have begun using when referring to the Hamas-Fatah clashes. These preachers are calling the PA security forces the Lahad Army, a reference to the former pro-Israel South Lebanon Army headed by Gen. Antoine Lahad. The preachers have also been denouncing Abbas and his top aides in Fatah as a bunch of corrupt infidels who are conspiring with the US and Israel against Islam. The tension reached its peak on Friday, when thousands of worshipers stormed out of mosques after the preachers launched scathing attacks on Fatah. In the town of Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, preacher Maher Huli was forced to run away from a local mosque after being attacked by dozens of worshipers. Huli enraged many mosque-goers after declaring that all the PA and Fatah members who were killed in the clashes with Hamas would end up in hell. He also claimed that Fatah and Israel had been jointly bombing the Hamas-controlled Islamic University in Gaza City. Hamas militiamen who rushed to the scene assaulted a number of worshipers and fired into the air to disperse the angry crowd. A similar incident occurred in another mosque in the town, where preacher Ahmed Nakla was also forced to flee the mosque after being attacked by worshipers. In his sermon, Nakla had called for killing members of the PA security forces under the pretext that they were implementing a Zionist-American plot to eliminate Hamas. The worst incident took place in the Beersheva Mosque in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, where at least five people were wounded in a melee that erupted after the preacher accused Fatah leaders of high treason. Witnesses quoted the Hamas preacher as saying that some of the Fatah leaders were not even fit to serve as shoe shiners. The remarks were directed especially against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Azzam and PA National Security Adviser Muhammad Dahlan. _ This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708648261pagename=JPost%2FJ PArticle%2FShowFull http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708648261pagename=JPost%2FJP Article%2FShowFull (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the
[osint] One woman killed, 12 injured in an explosion in Christian Beirut neighborhood
One woman killed, 12 injured in an explosion in Christian Beirut neighborhood The Associated Press http://www.iht.com/bin/print.php?id=5796378 Sunday, May 20, 2007 BEIRUT, Lebanon: An explosion late Sunday across the street from a busy shopping mall killed a 63-year-old woman and injured 12 other people, sending black smoke billowing in the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital, police and witnesses said. Rescuers reported six of the injuries were from flying debris and broken glass. Several cars were set ablaze or wrecked in the blast, which was heard across the city and surrounding hills. Beirut and surrounding suburbs has been a series of explosions in the last two years, particularly targeting Christian areas in which the U.S.-backed majority coalition has blamed on Syria. The blast came after daylong battles between the Lebanese army and a suspected al-Qaeda-linked militant group in the northern port town of Tripoli that killed 22 soldiers and 17 militants. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., a major Christian TV station, said the woman was killed in the Beirut blast when the wall in her apartment collapsed on her from the impact of the explosion. Most of the casualties were in nearby buildings. The explosion occurred across the street from the major ABC shopping center shortly before midnight (2100GMT) in Ashrafieh, an upscale neighborhood of the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital. The mall also has restaurants and movie theaters that operated late, particularly on Sunday, a weekend here. The bomb caused a crater 1.5 meters (about 4 feet) deep and 3 meters (9 feet) wide in the road, and police officials said the explosives were estimated to weigh 10 kilograms (22 pounds). It was not clear whether it was placed under or inside a parked vehicle. The blast started fires in parked vehicles and shattered car, shop and apartment windows. Other vehicles were collapsed from the impact of the explosion. TV footage showed Red Cross workers helping an elderly man, whose head was wrapped in blood-soaked bandages. A woman in her night gown was being carried by a companion, in his pajamas. The mall's owner, Robert Abu Fadil, said on television early Monday that crews will work all night to clean up the damage, the broken glass and gutted vehicles to open for business in the morning. We were expecting this kind of thing, he said on LBC TV from the scene, pointing to extra security measures the mall and other businesses have taken in recent months. For sure this will affect us in part, but we've been through more difficult times, he said. But God is the Almighty. We will rebuild. The most prominent recent deadly attack in Beirut was the near simultaneously bombings of commuter buses in the Christian heartland that killed three people on Feb. 13. The same militant group in Sunday's Tripoli clashes, Fatah Islam, was blamed by authorities for the bus bombings, an accusation they have denied. Sunday's explosion, the fourth in Ashrafieh in the last two years, also came as the U.N. Security Council is considering a draft resolution to impose the international tribunal in the assassination of former Premier Rafik Hariri after Lebanon's government and the pro-Syrian opposition led by Hezbollah failed to agree on approving it in Beirut. A U.N. investigation into the 2005 assassination also has been expanded to include the series of bombings anti-Syrian groups blame on Syria. A U.N. investigation has linked senior Syrian security officials and allies in the Lebanese security services to Hariri's 2005 truck bombing murder while Syria controlled Lebanon. Damascus has denied involvement in Hariri's death and the other explosions, but Damascus was forced to withdraw its army from Lebanon after a 29-year presence two months after the assassination. Cabinet minister Pierre Pharaon, whose constituency includes Ashrafieh, said the explosion aimed at showing that the approval of the international court would coincide with attempts to undermine Lebanon's security. Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair
[osint] Multiple Terror Suspects Killed, Captured in Iraq; Safe House Destroyed
American Forces Press Service http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46098] WASHINGTON, May 20, 2007 - Coalition forces killed eight terrorists and detained 34 suspected terrorists during two operations today to disrupt the al Qaeda command network, Defense Department officials said. Northeast of Karmah, coalition forces advanced toward a targeted building, officials said. Six terrorists emerged from a nearby vehicle, armed with automatic weapons and military-style assault vests. Coalition forces, perceiving a hostile threat from an organized force, engaged the six men with an air strike, killing them, officials said. Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists within the targeted building for their alleged ties to senior al Qaeda leaders. Meanwhile, coalition forces approached a target southwest of Baghdad and were blocked by two armed men in tactical positions near the objective. Coalition forces perceived a hostile threat, engaged the two terrorists, and killed them, officials said. Ground forces proceeded to secure the building and detained 14 people suspected of having ties to al Qaeda. At two other locations southeast of Fallujah, coalition forces detained 16 people with suspected ties to the same network. We're continuing to target the al Qaeda network and the terrorists responsible for attacks on Iraqis and the country's forward progress, said Lt. Col. Christopher, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. Yesterday, Multinational Division Baghdad forces launched a precision strike against an abandoned building being used by terrorist forces as a safe house and weapons cache site in southern Baghdad, officials said. The house, in Radwaniyah, was destroyed by aircraft-delivered precision munitions. Coalition and Iraqi forces cordoned off the area to prevent any casualties from occurring as the result of collateral damage, officials said. In recent weeks, multiple caches of munitions and bomb-making materials have been found on the premises, officials said. In addition, coalition troops had obtained information from local nationals that al Qaeda of Iraq was using the building as a safe house for operatives. Additionally, a tanker truck that had been rigged as a vehicular bomb was discovered parked outside the house and was disposed of before it could be used against the populace or coalition forces, officials said. On May 18, troopers from the 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment on a mounted patrol engaged three members of an insurgent mortar team near the village of Sab Al Bor. According to officials, the insurgent mortar team fired a mortar round from the bed of a truck toward a U.S. outpost. The soldiers engaged the enemy mortar men with counter-fire, and three terrorists fled their vehicle. The soldiers pursued the three and later found one of the men dead as a result of wounds received during the engagement. The other two terrorists were not found. No U.S. soldiers were killed or wounded during the engagement, officials said. Elsewhere May 18, Iraqi forces along with coalition advisors detained the alleged leader of an al Qaeda affiliate group in Salah Din province. Iraqi forces also detained eight other suspects during the operation. The troops seized weapons and materials used to make IEDs during the operation, officials said. No Iraqi or coalition forces were injured during the operation. -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via
[osint] Why might Syria wish to sow chaos in Lebanon now?
Analysis: Why might Syria wish to sow chaos in Lebanon now? By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JONATHAN SPYER http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708647313 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708647313pagename=JPost/JPA rticle/ShowFull pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Thirty eight people lost their lives on Sunday in fierce fighting between the Lebanese military and Sunni jihadist operatives near the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, close to the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. This outbreak of violence represents the heaviest toll in intra-Lebanese violence since the conclusion of the Lebanese civil war of 1975-90. The events in Nahr al-Bared cast light on a side of the Lebanese crisis which has until now been largely ignored by the international media. This is the emergence in recent months of an organization of armed Sunni Islamist operatives in the largely-Sunni north of the country. So far, much of the coverage has suggested that the group in question, known as Fatah http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708647313pagename=JPost/JPA rticle/ShowFull# al-Islam, may be linked to the al-Qaida network. Nevertheless, informed opinion suggests caution before drawing the simple conclusion that Fatah al-Islam is merely Osama bin-Laden's latest local franchise. Fatah al-Islam is a breakaway of a Syrian-backed Palestinian organization called Fatah-intifada, which itself split from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah group in 1983. Fatah-intifada has little presence outside of the Palestinian refugee camps of Lebanon http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708647313pagename=JPost/JPA rticle/ShowFull# and Syria, and is widely regarded as a tool of the Syrian regime with little popular support. The group, led by a Palestinian called Shakir al-Abssi, surfaced in the Nahr al-Bared camp last November and is thought to contain around 100 fighters from the camp. The group includes Sunni Islamists of a variety of nationalities, about half of whom are drawn from the Sunni Lebanese community. Apart from Palestinians, there are also said to be Syrian and Saudi citizens among its ranks. While Syrian officials have been keen from the outset to describe al-Abssi and his group as operating in favor of al-Qaida, Lebanese authorities suspect that the group may in fact be a client of the Syrian authorities themselves, established to act as an instrument of policy in Lebanon, fomenting disorder. The Assad regime has a long history of utilizing terrorist and paramilitary groups for such a purpose. Fatah-intifada itself was used by Hafez Assad in a power struggle with Yassir Arafat in the Lebanon refugee camps between 1985-88. The regime is known also to have engaged operatives of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party to carry out assassinations in Lebanon during the civil war period. Suspicions regarding Fatah al-Islam center on the fact that Shakir al-Abssi was sentenced in 2003 to three years in prison in Syria after being convicted of plotting attacks inside the country. This was an unusually lenient sentence. By comparison, for example, Syrians suspected of involvement in the Muslim Brotherhood are routinely given 12-year terms. Al-Abssi, after his release, turned up among pro-Syrian Fatah-intifada circles in Nahr al-Bared and shortly afterward emerged as the leader of the new group, Fatah al-Islam. These facts have led General Ashraf Rifi, head of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (FSI), to conclude that this is a Syrian creation to sow chaos. Which raises the question, why might the Syrians wish to sow chaos in Lebanon, and why now? A draft resolution for the unilateral establishment of an international tribunal on the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri was circulated in the UN Security Council http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708647313pagename=JPost/JPA rticle/ShowFull# by the US, France and Britain last week. It is known that the Syrian regime is determined to prevent this tribunal at all costs, since it is believed that senior Syrian officials may be found to have been involved in the Hariri killing. Could it be that the regime in Damascus might see an escalation of tension in Lebanon as currently helpful - as a tacit reminder to the international community of what Damascus is capable of when put in a corner? This is the view of senior officials in Lebanese government, and is in keeping with earlier practices of the Damascus regime. The writer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Research in International Affairs center, IDC Herzliya. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of
[osint] 22 troops, 19 Fatah al-Islam fighters dead
22 troops, 19 Fatah al-Islam fighters dead http://www.dailystar.com.lb/printable.asp?art_ID=82400cat_ID=2 By Rym Ghazal Daily Star staff NAHR AL-BARED, NORTH LEBANON: At least 41 people were killed Sunday in a fierce battle here and in the streets of nearby Tripoli between the Lebanese Army and members of an extreme Islamist group, in the deadliest clashes involving the army since the Civil War. We are being heavily shelled and many houses have already been destroyed, Ashraf Abu Khurj, a Palestinian resident of the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, told The Daily Star over the telephone on Sunday afternoon. Army tanks shelled the camp throughout the day after militants from Fatah al-Islam took control of army posts at the camp's entrance. The camp's electricity, phone lines and water were cut off. Army sources said the shelling was targeting Fatah al-Islam's headquarters inside the camp. There are bodies on the streets, Khurj and other camp residents said by phone. As fighting continued late Sunday, an army source told The Daily Star that so far, 22 soldiers have been confirmed dead, adding that a minimum of 17 militants had also been slain. AFP said at least two civilians had also perished in the crossfire. At an emergency meeting Sunday night, Cabinet ministers decided to put off ordering the army to enter the camp pending a discussion on Monday. The fighting broke out in the early morning after security forces raided a suspected Fatah al-Islam safehouse in Tripoli. Security sources said that troop were in pursuit of suspects in a Saturday bank robbery in Amioun in the Koura area in which several armed men made off with over $100,000. Security forces raided several buildings in the Zahreyeh, Tel and Meateen areas of Tripoli, where the suspected robbers were thought to be in hiding. We traced the [bank robbers] to an apartment in Tripoli, which turned out to be an office for Fatah al-Islam, Interior Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi said. He said that after a decision was made to storm the apartment, armed men emerged to confront security forces in several neighborhoods of Tripoli. The security forces have for two weeks been monitoring armed groups that have been infiltrating some neighborhoods in Tripoli in an attempt to control the city, Rifi said. Fatah al-Islam spokesman Abu Salim spoke with The Daily Star over the phone as the fighting raged Sunday. We will continue to defend ourselves and our honor until the end, he said, setting his group's death toll at five. He said his group had taken control of four army positions in reaction to the early raid. Medical and other security sources reported that between 11 and 19 militants and an unknown number of civilians had been killed. Medical sources inside the camp said there 17 civilians had been wounded there - seven critically - including women and children. Witnesses said militants seized army positions at the entrance to the camp, capturing two armored personnel carriers. Gunmen also opened fire on roads leading to Tripoli and ambushed a military unit, killing two soldiers, security officials said. Unconfirmed reports circulated that a number of army soldiers were kidnapped by the militants during the clash, with their whereabouts still unknown as The Daily Star went to press. Columns of smoke and the sound of shelling and gunfire reverberated throughout Tripoli as the army assailed several buildings in the city with rocket-propelled grenades and tankfire and pounded away at the refugee camp, approximately 15 kilometers north of the city. Fatah al-Islam has been linked by the Lebanese government to deadly bus bombings in Ain Alaq on February 13. It has denied any role in those attacks. Hundreds of area residents took to the streets, chanting God be with you, Lebanese Army and cheering as tanks released a steady barrage of shells on the camp. Some residents said they were willing to fight along with the army. We have arms, and we will use them to fight alongside with the army whenever our leader tell us to do so, said Ali Dahban, 45, referring to Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri. Mouhamra is known as a bastion of heavy Future Movement support in the area. A constant stream of troops and heavy equipment could be seen heading to North Lebanon on Sunday afternoon. Extra army checkpoints were set up along the main roads into Tripoli and Nahr al-Bared. The International Committee of the Red Cross expressed concern for the welfare of the 40,000 inhabitants of the camp. ICRC spokeswoman Virginia de la Guardia called on all sides to allow Red Crescent ambulances access to the camp. Fatah al-Islam accused the government of trying to pave the way for an offensive against the Palestinian camps in Lebanon, which house more than half of the country's approximately 280,000 refugees. Fatah al-Islam, said to be an offshoot of the Syrian-based group Fatah al-Intifada, is headed by Shaker
[osint] Bearded Gazans on razor's edge between life and death
Good. B Bearded Gazans on razor's edge between life and death By mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] KHALED ABU TOAMEH http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullci d=1178708640015 cid=1178708640015 Once, Hamas http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullci d=1178708640015# members were afraid to wear beards for fear of being arrested by Israel's security forces. Today, they are once again afraid of appearing in public with beards - this time for fear that they will be killed or kidnapped by Fatah militiamen in the Gaza Strip. Sources close to Hamas said over the weekend that at least 10 bearded men have been shot and killed in the past week after being stopped in the street by Fatah http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullci d=1178708640015# gunmen. One case was caught on camera and has since appeared on the Youtube Web site. The film shows several Fatah gunmen shooting a bearded man in the legs. As the man lies in a pool of blood in the street crying for help, a Fatah gunman approaches him and fires at his head from an automatic rifle, killing him instantly. This man was just an ordinary citizen who happened to wear a beard, said a Hamas official. It's become very dangerous to appear with a beard on the streets of the Gaza Strip http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFullci d=1178708640015# . According to the Hamas official, most of the victims were killed execution-style by Fatah militiamen and members of various Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority security forces. They include two journalists working for the Hamas-affiliated Falasteen newspaper, Suleiman Ishi and Muhammad Abdo. The two are not members of Hamas, but they were killed simply because they had beards, he said. They were kidnapped by members of Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard and executed in a Palestinian security installation. Another Hamas official in Gaza City said that many young men had begun shaving their beards for fear of being identified as Hamas members. We never imagined that the day would come when Muslim men would be afraid to walk in the street because they are wearing beards, he said. He said that about 40 bearded men have been hospitalized after being kidnapped and shot in the legs by Fatah gunmen in the past few days. Doctors have been forced to amputate the legs of some of them because of the severity of their wounds, he added. Fatah accused Hamas militiamen of using the same method against its members. Several Fatah and PA security officers who had been abducted by Hamas militiamen were shot in the legs and left to bleed in the street, said a senior Fatah official in Gaza City. He said three members of the PA National Security Force were shot in the legs on Saturday after being kidnapped by Hamas militiamen earlier in the day. The three, Abdel Rahman Barawi, Khalil Abu Shawish and Ala Abu Shamaleh, were admitted to the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City for treatment. (F)AIR USE NOTICE: All original content and/or articles and graphics in this message are copyrighted, unless specifically noted otherwise. All rights to these copyrighted items are reserved. Articles and graphics have been placed within for educational and discussion purposes only, in compliance with Fair Use criteria established in Section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976. The principle of Fair Use was established as law by Section 107 of The Copyright Act of 1976. Fair Use legally eliminates the need to obtain permission or pay royalties for the use of previously copyrighted materials if the purposes of display include criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 establishes four criteria for determining whether the use of a work in any particular case qualifies as a fair use. A work used does not necessarily have to satisfy all four criteria to qualify as an instance of fair use. Rather, fair use is determined by the overall extent to which the cited work does or does not substantially satisfy the criteria in their totality. If you wish to use copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml THIS DOCUMENT MAY CONTAIN COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL. COPYING AND DISSEMINATION IS PROHIBITED WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT OWNERS. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted
[osint] Brother of German train bombing plot killed in Lebanon fighting
Justice will out. B 47 killed in Lebanon fighting Group holed up in camp; slain man said to be suspect in German terror plot The Associated Press Updated: 6:21 a.m. ET May 21, 2007 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18777683/ TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp Monday where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was holed up, pounding the camp with artillery a day after the worst eruption of violence since the end of the country's civil war. Lebanese officials said one of the men killed in Sunday's fighting was a suspect in a failed German train bombing - a new sign that the camp had become a refuge for militants planning attacks outside of Lebanon. In the past, others in the camp have said they were aiming to send trained fighters into Iraq. Saddam El-Hajdib was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Fatah Islam group, an official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. El-Hajdib had been on trial in absentia in Lebanon in connection with the failed German plot and is the brother of another suspect in custody in Germany. Meanwhile, another attack in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut late Sunday raised fears of growing instability across Lebanon. The violence between the army and the Fatah Islam group in the northern port city of Tripoli and the adjacent Nahr el-Bared refugee camp has killed at least 27 soldiers and 20 militants, security officials said Monday. The clashes are a significant blow to a country already mired in a dire political crisis between the Western-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition. Little is known about the ideology and backing of the Fatah Islam group. Some officials in Lebanon believe it has ties to al-Qaida, and the group has said it follows an al Qaida ideology. But other Lebanese officials claim it is simply a Syrian-backed group sent by Damascus to destabilize the country after Syria's forced withdrawal from Lebanon in April 2005. Hundreds of troops, backed by tanks and armored carriers, surrounded the camp early Monday, as black smoke billowed into the air. The militants responded at daybreak by firing back with mortars. The clashes between army troops surrounding the camp and Fatah Islam fighters began Sunday after a gunbattle raged in a neighborhood in Tripoli, a predominantly Sunni city known to have Islamic militants, witnesses said. Explosion hits Christian sector of Beirut Meanwhile, in Beirut late Sunday, an explosion across the street from a busy shopping mall killed a 63-year-old woman and injured 12 other people in the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital, police said. The bomb left a crater about 4 feet deep and 9 feet wide, and police said the explosives were estimated to weigh 22 pounds. The blast - heard across the city - gutted cars, set vehicles ablaze and shattered store and apartment windows. Beirut and surrounding suburbs have seen a series of explosions in the last two years, many targeting Christian areas. Authorities blamed Fatah Islam for Feb. 13 bombings of commuter buses that killed three people, but the group denied involvement. Syria has denied involvement in any of the bombings, but Lebanon's national police commander Maj. Gen. Ashraf Rifi said Sunday that Damascus was using the Fatah Islam group as a covert way to wreak havoc in the country, with people assuming it's al-Qaida. Perhaps there are some deluded people among them but they are not al-Qaida. This is imitation al-Qaida, a 'Made in Syria' one, he told The Associated Press. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station reported Sunday that among the dead militants were men from Bangladesh, Yemen and other Arab countries, underlining the group's reach outside of Lebanon. A senior Lebanese security official said a high-ranking member of Fatah Islam, known as Abu Yazan, was among those killed. Lebanese applaud army's tough response Hundreds of Lebanese applauded the army's tough response in the refugee camp in a sign of the long-standing tensions that remain between some Lebanese and the estimated 350,000 Palestinians who have taken refuge in Lebanon since the creation of Israel in 1948. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said the fighting was a dangerous attempt at hitting Lebanese security. Mainstream Sunni Muslim leaders, clerics and politicians threw their support behind the army, as did the Palestine Liberation Organization representative in Lebanon. It also underlined the difficulty authorities have in trying to defeat the country's armed groups which control pockets across Lebanon. Fatah Islam is an offshoot of the pro-Syrian Fatah Uprising, which broke from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah movement in the early 1980s and has headquarters in Syria, Lebanese officials say. It is believed to be led by Shaker Youssef al-Absi, a Palestinian who was sentenced to death in absentia in
[osint] Indian police defuse train bomb
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1929151.htm Last Updated 21/05/2007, 21:09:43 http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1929151.htm# http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/i/s.gif http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1929151.htm# http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/i/s.gif http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s1929151.htm# Indian police have defused a bomb found on a train in the eastern city of Kolkata. Police say the find comes three days after a blast at a mosque which killed 11 people in the south of the country. The train was headed for a Hindu holy town about two hours west of Kolkata. The bomb was found during a routine security check minutes before the train was about to leave a station. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Iran furious over Cannes film festival entry
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1929131.htm Iran furious over Cannes film festival entry Iran has protested to France over the screening at the Cannes film festival of an animated film about a woman growing up in revolutionary Iran, slamming the movie as a political act. Persepolis, which stems from a best-selling comic book series by Iranian emigre Marjane Satrapi, shows its heroine struggling with the authorities in the early days of the Islamic revolution. The Cannes film festival has selected a film about Iran which presents an unreal picture of the outcomes and achievements of the Islamic revolution, a letter to the French cultural attache in Tehran said. The letter was written by the government-run Farabi Cinema Foundation. Could the selection of this film... not be counted as a political or even anti-cultural act on the festival's part? it said. The Farabi foundation works under the culture and Islamic guidance ministry and is tasked with promoting and marketing Iranian cinema all over the world. It complained that Persepolis was the only Iranian film competing in the competition this year and accused the festival authorities of acting in line with the biased policies of domineering powers against Iran. Satrapi, whose black-and-white comic-memoirs have been translated into more than 20 languages and won several awards, co-directed the film along with Vincent Paronnaud. The film, to be premiered in Cannes on Wednesday, shows Satrapi's rebellious eight-year-old screen persona watching the downfall of the shah followed by the imposition of Islamic law after the 1979 revolution. She witnesses the horrors of the war with Iraq, leaves for Austria but quickly feels the solitude of an exile. Satrapi, who now lives in France, published the first book of the four-volume series in France in 2000. The series has not been published in Iran, which applies tough vetting on publications and bans books deemed to be decadent and un-Islamic or contrary to revolutionary values. This is not the first time this year Iran has been angered by a major film. In March the authorities and bloggers alike were infuriated by the war epic 300, a smash hit for its gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian wars, with officials saying the movie was American psychological warfare against Iran. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] National Continuity Policy
http://www.whitehou http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html se.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary May 9, 2007 National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51 HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20 Subject: National Continuity Policy Purpose (1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies. This policy establishes National Essential Functions, prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency. Definitions (2) In this directive: (a) Category refers to the categories of executive departments and agencies listed in Annex A to this directive; (b) Catastrophic Emergency means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions; (c) Continuity of Government, or COG, means a coordinated effort within the Federal Government's executive branch to ensure that National Essential Functions continue to be performed during a Catastrophic Emergency; (d) Continuity of Operations, or COOP, means an effort within individual executive departments and agencies to ensure that Primary Mission-Essential Functions continue to be performed during a wide range of emergencies, including localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies; (e) Enduring Constitutional Government, or ECG, means a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers among the branches, to preserve the constitutional framework under which the Nation is governed and the capability of all three branches of government to execute constitutional responsibilities and provide for orderly succession, appropriate transition of leadership, and interoperability and support of the National Essential Functions during a catastrophic emergency; (f) Executive Departments and Agencies means the executive departments enumerated in 5 U.S.C. 101, independent establishments as defined by 5 U.S.C. 104(1), Government corporations as defined by 5 U.S.C. 103(1), and the United States Postal Service; (g) Government Functions means the collective functions of the heads of executive departments and agencies as defined by statute, regulation, presidential direction, or other legal authority, and the functions of the legislative and judicial branches; (h) National Essential Functions, or NEFs, means that subset of Government Functions that are necessary to lead and sustain the Nation during a catastrophic emergency and that, therefore, must be supported through COOP and COG capabilities; and (i) Primary Mission Essential Functions, or PMEFs, means those Government Functions that must be performed in order to support or implement the performance of NEFs before, during, and in the aftermath of an emergency. Policy (3) It is the policy of the United States to maintain a comprehensive and effective continuity capability composed of Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government programs in order to ensure the preservation of our form of government under the Constitution and the continuing performance of National Essential Functions under all conditions. Implementation Actions (4) Continuity requirements shall be incorporated into daily operations of all executive departments and agencies. As a result of the asymmetric threat environment, adequate warning of potential emergencies that could pose a significant risk to the homeland might not be available, and therefore all continuity planning shall be based on the assumption that no such warning will be received. Emphasis will be placed upon geographic dispersion of leadership, staff, and infrastructure in order to increase survivability and maintain uninterrupted Government Functions. Risk management principles shall be applied to ensure that appropriate operational readiness decisions are based on the probability of an attack or other incident and its consequences. (5) The following NEFs are the foundation for all continuity
[osint] America, Z Beautiful
http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=54859 http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=54859v=0603579711 v=0603579711 America, Z Beautiful BY MARK STEYN May 21, 2007 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/54859 Are you a fine upstanding member of the Undocumented-American community? That's to say, are you (if you'll forgive the expression) an illegal immigrant? Great news! Being illegal is now perfectly legal! Just for being one of the circa 12 million people who shouldn't be here, you can now be here indefinitely! If you were living and working in America illegally before January 1st 2007, you're now entitled to one of the new Z-1 probationary visas. And your parents and spouses are entitled to one of the new Z-2 visas, and your children to the new Z-3 visas. Don't worry, it's not an amnesty. Every politician in America is opposed to amnesty - if not the concept, then at least the word. That's why the visa starts with the letter that's furthest away from the one amnesty begins with. Z stands for zellout .no, hang on, zurrender or Zapatista, or some other word way up the other end of the alphabet from amnesty. But the point is, at a stroke there will be no more illegal immigrants. Because being illegal means you're now legal. Unless, of course, you came to America after January 1st 2007 and thus aren't covered by the zamnesty. But in that case why not apply for the Z-1 anyway? After all, you're here illegally so how would US Immigration know when you arrived? Especially with 12-15-20 million urgent applications tossed in on top of what's already a multi-year backlog. They're not exactly going to be doing a lot of in-depth background checks, especially not for a visa category whose only entry requirement under US law is that you've broken US law when you entered. By the way, when I said came to America, if you're visiting Toronto for a weekend break from Yemen or Belarus, don't be deterred by the fact that Canada is not technically in America. Why not just head down to Buffalo and apply for the old Z-1, too? After all, it's not such a stretch to regard every single person on the planet as a Z-1-in-waiting. This being America, pretty soon - a court decision here, a court decision there - the presumption of every school district and hospital and welfare administrator will be that they're obliged to treat everyone who walks in through the door as if they were a Z-1. You zee one, you've zeen 'em all. As for the notion that dumping a population the size of four mid-sized European Union nations into the lap of America's arthritic legal immigration (please, no tittering; apparently there is still such a thing) bureaucracy will lead to tougher enforcement and rigorous scrutiny and lots of other butch sounding stuff, well, if that were the case, there wouldn't be a problem in the first place. You can declare that illegal now mean legal very easily; to mandate that incompetent now means competent is a tougher proposition. But, as John McCain declared, This is what the legislative process is all about - and in the sense that it's a sloppily drafted bottomless pit of unintended consequences on a potentially cosmic scale whose sweeping reforms will inevitably require even more sweeping reforms of the reforms in a year or two's time, he's quite right. Also, as Senator McCain says, This is what bipartisanship is all about. I'm not a fan of bipartisanship for its own sake. This is a very divided political culture in which bipartisanship is all but nonexistent on everything else, starting with war and national security. So, when the political class is in lockstep bipartisan mode, that's sufficiently unusual all by itself. When it's in bipartisan mode on an issue on which the public is diametrically opposed, that looks less like bipartisanship and more like the lockstep myopia of an out-of-touch one-party state. America is not Europe, which is being transformed by a fast-growing Muslim population profoundly alienated from the broader society. Nonetheless, fast-moving demographic shifts are always a huge challenge. Last year, National Review's John Derbyshire noted the enrolment statistics for his school district on suburban Long Island, 1,400 miles from the southern border: High school: 17 per cent Hispanic Intermediate: 28 per cent Hispanic Elementary: 31 per cent Hispanic Those figures would have stunned any Long Island school superintendent of 40 years ago. Derbyshire's numbers suggest that at some point not far away every school board in America will have to factor in bilingual education programs and ever swelling Special Ed budgets, making one of the highest cost-per-pupil/lowest scores-per-pupil education systems even more expensive and even less educational. At some point, it's worth trying to climb over the rubble of the 2007 Z-1s and the 1986 amnesty and the 1965 immigration act, and going back to basics: What is immigration for? In the modern western world, to question immigration in even the most cautious way is to
[osint] THOUSANDS MARK DEATH OF SUSPECT IN DANIEL PEARL MURDER
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Securityloid=8.0.4161595 92par=0 loid=8.0.416159592par=0 PAKISTAN: THOUSANDS MARK DEATH OF SUSPECT IN DANIEL PEARL MURDER javascript:aumenta(); javascript:diminuisci(); Karachi, 18 May (AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - Thousands of people including members of banned Jihadist organisations, Islamic seminary students, Muslim religious party militants attended a funeral prayer in Karachi Friday for Saud Memon who was allegedly secretely held and tortured by authorities in connection with the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Memon died at a Karachi hospital earlier on Friday from wounds his supporters allege were inflicted by Pakistani intelligence agents. The funeral prayers took place at a mosque belonging to the Al-Rasheed Trust where those gathered raised slogans against Pakistani president General Pervez Musharraf and Pakistani intelligence agencies. A cloth merchant Saud Memon was implicated in Pearl's murder after the mutilated body of the American reporter - who had been decapitated by his captors - was found buried in a Memon-owned plot in the outskirts of Karachi. Some five months ago Memon's family claimed he had been abducted by agents of the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). The relatives filed a case in Supreme Court of Pakistan for his release, but the government denied it was holding Memon, classifying him as 'missing'. Two weeks ago Memon was found lying unconscious in front of his house. His body bore signs of beatings and his confusional mental state suggested he had suffered extreme psychological stress at the hands of his interrogators, Memon's family said. They accused the ISI of dumping him in front of his house after failing to obtain proof of his involvement in any wrongdoing. On 4 May, Memon appeared in a stretcher in front of the Supreme Court where his lawyer accused the ISI of unlawful detention. The court ordered that Memon be taken to the hospital immediately to be treated for his injuries. Memon's death is likely to further fuel the row over hundreds of people listed by authorities as missing but who the government's critics allege are illegally detained. The issue is a key element in the dispute between Pakistan Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhary and Musharraf. When a number of the so-called missing people recently appeared before Supreme Court and recounted how they were held captive by the Pakistani secret services for as long as two years, Chaudhary summoned the ISI head demanding an explanation. The campaign against the illegal detention of people was initially launched by a retired top military officer and former ISI official Khalid Khawaja, who is currently in jail under what authorities say are maintenance of public order' provisions. (Aki/Syed Saleem Shahzad) May-18-07 18:15 http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Securityloid=8.0.4161595 92par=0# http://www.adnki.com/php/sendmail.php?loid=8.0.416159592 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 3 bombs discovered on train in India
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070521/ap_on_re_as/india_train_bombs;_ylt=AqxCf wqFmKiXghFAaHZfploBxg8F 3 bombs discovered on train in India Mon May 21, 4:50 AM ET CALCUTTA, India - Police discovered three bombs hidden in a train parked at Calcutta's main railroad station on Monday and safely removed them, police said. The discovery comes days after a bomb went off in a mosque in the southern city of Hyderabad, killing 11 people. Our people were on a routine search of trains and found the bombs in one of the trains, said Amarkanti Sarkar, Inspector General of Railway Police. No one claimed responsibility for planting the bombs, and police said it was too soon to name a suspect. The train was set to travel from the Howrah railroad station in Calcutta to Tarakeswar, a small town sacred to Hindus some 50 miles west of Calcutta. Hundreds of pilgrims use the train daily. There have been several attacks on trains in the last year, including the July bombings of seven Mumbai commuter trains that killed more than 200 people, and the bombing of a train linking India and Pakistan that killed 68 people in March. In January, an explosion ripped through two cars of a passenger train near Belacoba railroad station, about 345 miles north of Calcutta, killing four people. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Fifty dead as Lebanese troops battle
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070521/news/news4.html Fifty dead as Lebanese troops battle From correspondents in Nahr Al-Bared, Lebanon May 21, 2007 08:10am Article from: Reuters LEBANESE troops battled Islamist militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp overnight and 50 people were killed in the clashes, Lebanon's bloodiest internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war. Twenty-five soldiers and 15 militants died in the clashes which erupted before dawn at Nahr al-Bared camp and the nearby Sunni Muslim city of Tripoli, in north Lebanon. A cabinet minister said the fighting with Fatah al-Islam, which the government says is backed by Syria, seemed timed to try to derail UN moves to set up an international court to try those suspected of carrying out political killings in Lebanon. n Beirut, an explosion under a car parked by a shopping mall in the mainly Christian east of the capital killed a woman, a security source said. Witnesses said six people were also wounded by broken glass. Four Fatah al-Islam members were charged with bombings in the capital earlier this year, but it was not immediately clear if there was any link between today's explosion and the fighting in the north. Security sources said at least 15 militants were killed when troops stormed buildings in Tripoli, where some of them were holed up. Four militants who were earlier thought to have been killed in the camp had turned themselves in, they said. Palestinian officials in the camp, home to 40,000 refugees, said at least 10 civilians were killed and 50 wounded. Lebanese officials could not say whether militants inside the camp had been killed. The army blasted militant positions in the camp with tank, mortar and machinegun fire, a military source said. More than 20 soldiers were wounded overall, the source said. The International Committee of the Red Cross appealed for access to the camp. We haven't been able (to go in), because of the heavy fighting. We don't know how many wounded there are inside, spokeswoman Virginia Dela Guardia said. Fatah al-Islam, a Sunni group, said the army had launched an unprovoked attack. We warn the Lebanese army of the consequences of continuing the provocative acts against our mujahideen who will open the gates of fire ... against (the army) and against the whole of Lebanon, it said in a statement faxed to Reuters. The authenticity of the statement could not be verified. The army had tightened its grip around Nahr al-Bared after four Fatah al-Islam members, all Syrian nationals, were charged with planting bombs on two buses in a Christian area near Beirut in February. Three civilians were killed in those attacks. Fatah al-Islam is known to have Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians in its ranks. Its leader is a Palestinian. Cabinet minister Ahmad Fatfat, speaking in Tripoli, said the violence was part of efforts to sabotage UN moves to set up the international tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. A UN inquiry has implicated Syria and Lebanese officials in the Hariri killing. Damascus denies any involvement. Syria also denies any link to Fatah al-Islam, whose leader, Shaker al-Abssi, says the group has no organisational links to al-Qaeda but agrees with its aim of fighting infidels. Syria said it had closed two border crossings to north Lebanon due the violence. The main crossing remained open. Mr Fatfat told Lebanon's pro-government Future TV: There is someone trying to create security chaos to say to world public opinion: 'Look, if the tribunal is established, there will be security trouble in Lebanon'. The United States, France and Britain last week circulated a draft UN resolution that would unilaterally set up the court, which is at the heart of a political crisis in Lebanon. The army said the clashes began when Fatah al-Islam attacked army posts around the camp and in northern Tripoli. It sent reinforcements to the outskirts of Nahr al-Bared, but did not push inside, in line with a 1969 Arab agreement bars Lebanese security forces from Palestinian camps. Television footage of a Tripoli building stormed by the army showed corpses, some charred, on a floor strewn with rubble. Security forces had also been trying to arrest Fatah al-Islam members suspected of robbing a bank on Saturday, security sources said. A group of them had been detained. Fatah al-Islam was formed last year by fighters who broke off from the Syrian-backed Fatah Uprising group. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=33222/stime=1179752351/nc1=3848619/nc2=3848643/nc3=3848542 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com
[osint] Dozens Killed in Lebanese Fighting
http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERALfn=/2007/05/21/668559.htm lcvqh=itn_lebanon fn=/2007/05/21/668559.htmlcvqh=itn_lebanon Dozens Killed in Lebanese Fighting By BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer 3 hours ago TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese troops tightened a siege of a Palestinian refugee camp Monday where a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida was holed up, pounding the camp with artillery a day after the worst eruption of violence since the end of the country's 1975-90 civil war. Lebanese officials said one of the men killed in Sunday's fighting was a suspect in a failed German train bombing _ a new sign that the camp had become a refuge for militants planning attacks outside of Lebanon. In the past, others in the camp have said they were aiming to send trained fighters into Iraq. Saddam El-Hajdib was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Fatah Islam group, an official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. El-Hajdib had been on trial in absentia in Lebanon in connection with the failed German plot. The death toll remained uncertain as hundreds of Lebanese army troops, backed by tanks and armored carriers, surrounded the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp on Tripoli's outskirts early Monday. M-48 battle tanks unleashed their cannon fire on the camp, sending orange flames followed by white plumes of smoke. The militants fired mortars toward the troops at daybreak Monday. At least 27 soldiers and 20 militants had been killed, Lebanese security officials said Monday, but they did not know how many civilians had been killed inside the camp because it is off-limits to their authority. One official in the camp said a total of 34 people had been killed inside the camp, including 14 civilians. But that could not be independently confirmed and other estimates of civilian deaths were lower. An army officer at the frontline, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said troops directed concentrated fire at buildings known to house militants. Everything we know that they were present in has been targeted, he told The Associated Press. Ahmed Methqal, a Muslim cleric in the camp, told al-Jazeera television by phone that sniper fire had confined the camp's 30,000 residents to their houses and that five civilians had been killed. They are targeting buildings, with people in them, he said. What's the guilt of children, women and the elderly? Mohammed Hanafi, identified by al-Jazeera as a human rights activist in the camp, said a total of 34 people had been killed and 150 wounded. It was unclear if Lebanese authorities had known El-Hajdib's whereabouts, or the whereabouts of the group's leader, before a gunbattle first broke out in Tripoli, a predominantly Sunni city known to have Islamic militants, witnesses said. After the first street fighting, the army began its siege of the nearby camp. But Lebanon has struggled to defeat armed groups that control pockets of Lebanon _ especially inside the country's 12 Palestinian refugee camps housing 350,000 people, which Lebanese authorities can't enter. Some camps have become havens for Islamic militants accused of carrying out attacks in the country and of sending recruits to fight U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq. Palestinian officials in the West Bank rushed to distance themselves from the Fatah Islam group and urged Palestinian refugees in the camp to isolate the militant group, which first set up in the northern Lebanese camp last fall after its leader was released from a Syrian jail. The group's leader, a Palestinian named Shaker al-Absi wanted in three countries, said in a March interview with The New York Times that he was trying to spread al-Qaida's ideology and was training fighters inside the camp for attacks on other countries. He would not specify which countries but expressed anger toward the United States. And he was sentenced to death earlier in absentia along with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq killed last summer by U.S. forces in Iraq, for the 2002 assassination of an American diplomat in Jordan. Al-Absi had been in custody in Syria until last fall but was released and set up in the camp, where he apparently found some recruits, Lebanese officials said. The Lebanese Broadcasting Corp. TV station reported Sunday that also among the dead militants also were men from Bangladesh, Yemen and other Arab countries, underlining the group's reach outside of Lebanon. Prime Minister Fuad Saniora said Sunday the fighting was a dangerous attempt at hitting Lebanese security. Major Palestinian factions have dissociated themselves from the group. Lebanese Sunni political and religious leaders backed the army and the government. Meanwhile, in Beirut late Sunday, an explosion across the street from a busy shopping mall killed a 63-year-old woman and
[osint] Terror warning on APEC meeting
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21771532-5006009,00.html Terror warning on APEC meeting By Nick Ralston and Maria Hawthorne May 21, 2007 12:00 A top US terrorism expert has told Australia to be prepared for all possibilities at September's APEC meeting in Sydney, as the cost of hosting the summit hit more than $330 million. White House adviser and counter-terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman, who is on a week-long visit to Sydney, said Australia had traditionally been a difficult target for terrorists. But he said the notion that terrorists were now only plotting against soft targets was wishful thinking. I think Australia takes very seriously the idea that you have to prepare, train and plan for any eventuality, he told reporters. (The idea that) terrorists look for a soft target is a bit of wishful thinking ... I think you really do have to prepare for all potentialities and eventualities. Professor Hoffman said his main advice to Australia on managing its security was that no country could afford to go it alone in the war on terrorism. International and inter-agency cooperation was crucial to tackling the threat of terrorism and Australia would have to be well prepared for the APEC summit in Sydney in September. Prof Hoffman's comments came as APEC 2007 Taskforce deputy secretary Alan Henderson told a Senate estimates committee that the cost of hosting the summit had blown out to $331.5 million. An extra $15.5 million was added to the budget for the APEC leaders' week after two-and-a-half-year-old estimates were updated. Mr Henderson said the increase was due to two things; that more detailed costings were now available, and responsibility for meetings in other cities, such as the finance ministers' meeting in Coolum, had been transferred from other departments. Those estimates were pretty rough at that stage as well, Mr Henderson said. It turned out that the funds transferred to the prime minister's department for some of those meetings ... were not sufficient. The $331.5 million figure took in all commonwealth agencies, including $78.9 million to supplement the NSW government's security provision, he said. But Mr Henderson refused to shed any light on one of the most pressing APEC preparation issues - the national costume that the leaders of the 21 member countries will wear on the last day of the summit. Mr Henderson confirmed that a company had been engaged to produce the outfit but declined to name it, saying that would give away the surprise. Sample designs have been sent to Prime Minister John Howard and his wife Janette for final approval, he said. He also refused to say how much the outfit would cost. The items of national dress for the 21 leaders will be a very modest budget, Mr Henderson said. It will be quality, distinctively Australian clothing. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Al-Qaida recruiting black bombers
Gadahn has said the streets of America shall run red with blood, later singling out Los Angeles as a target of attack. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55796 Al-Qaida recruiting black bombers Pitch to African-Americans invokes 'martyr' Malcolm X _ Posted: May 21, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern C 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Al-Qaida is aggressively recruiting black Americans for suicide operations against the homeland, say FBI analysts who have reviewed recent videotaped messages from the terror group's leaders. A speech released May 5 by Osama bin Laden's deputy confirms earlier fears that African-Americans are the No. 1 recruiting target for the next generation of attacks. Al-Qaida has been trying to lower its Arab profile to reduce the odds that its terror cells will be subjected to security scrutiny. Federal and local law enforcement authorities should be aware that al-Qaida terrorists may not appear Arab, warns a recent Homeland Security intelligence report obtained by WND. Non-Arab al-Qaida operatives could find it easier to avoid unwanted scrutiny since they may not fit typical profiles. In the latest message, al-Qaida No. 2 Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri clearly seeks to sow political and racial discontent among African-Americans. He makes frequent references to what he calls the martyr Malcolm X, and says I want blacks in America to know that we are waging jihad to lift oppression from all mankind. Zawahiri encourages African-Americans to follow the example of Malcolm X, a.k.a. al-Hajj Malik al-Shabaaz, who he says was not afraid to sacrifice his life to fight American oppression. According to a transcript of the hour-long screed, Zawahiri said this is the culture which the struggler and martyr Malcom X (may Allah have mercy upon him) fought against when he told his repressed black brothers in America, 'If you're not ready to die for it, take the word freedom out of your vocabulary.' Freedom is something that you have to do for yourself, he quotes Malcolm X as as saying. The price of freedom is death. Zawahiri, again citing the teachings of Malcolm X, suggests that black Muslims who do not rise up against America are no better than house slaves. It's the first time al-Qaida has identified Malcolm X as a fellow Islamic struggler and martyr, analysts say. Zawahiri's focus on race relations may be benefiting from the input of a U.S. citizen named Adam Yahiye Gadahn - a.k.a Azaam al-Amriki - who is a senior member of al-Qaida's media committee, said former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer, now an analyst for the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank specializing in national security. Indeed, he added, the deftness and political timeliness of Zawahiri's statements suggest that al-Qaida may have more than a single American advising it. Last year, in another nearly hour-long videotaped speech, al-Qaida propaganda chief Gadahn invited blacks to convert to Islam and take revenge against a nation that enslaved their ancestors. Gadahn, a white convert from California thought to be operating out of al-Qaida's new base in Pakistan, slammed his native America, which he said shamelessly brought us lynch laws, Jim Crow, and a death row where only convicts of certain races are sent. In courting African-Americans, he also encouraged them to forsake Christianity, which he claims whites have used as an excuse to abuse blacks. Islam rejects the Judeo-Christian doctrines concerning Eve and Ham, which the West has used to justify all manner of abuse and ill treatment of women and blacks, Gadahn said. Islam is for everyone. Gadahn, who is wanted by the FBI for treason, also claims that America enslaved Africa. Islamic terrorism analysts point out that al-Qaida's racial history lessons conveniently leave out the fact that Arab Muslim slave traders sold Africans into bondage. The Arab is the true master of the African, said Bill Warner, director of the Center for Study of Political Islam. Blacks like to imagine Islam is their counterweight to white power, not that Islam has ruled them for 1,400 years. Blacks account for the largest share of Muslims in America. A great many of them are converts to Islam. And remarkably, the religion is flourishing among African-Americans since 9/11. Analysts fear the trend plays right into bin Laden's hands. Black converts say Islam has more in common with their African heritage than Christianity. In fact, black Muslim leaders often refer to such conversions as reversions, claiming black reverts are merely returning to the Islamic faith prominent among their African forebears who were forced into slavery. You have African-American men seeking liberation, explained black Muslim leader Eric Erfan Vickers, and many see Christianity as a white man's religion that continues to oppress. Vickers, a convert to Islam, does not consider al-Qaida a terrorism group. They are involved in a resistance movement, he
[osint] UK: Suspicious fire on historic ship
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070521-cutty-sark-lon don.html Suspicious fire on historic ship From correspondents in London May 21, 2007 05:06pm Article from: Agence France-Presse THE Cutty Sark, the world's last remaining tea clipper and one of London's tourist attractions, went up in flames in a suspicious fire today. The BBC and Sky News showed aerial images of remains of the charred ship, which had been engulfed in flames. The boat-museum, under reconstruction and due to reopen in 2009, caught fire about 4.45am (1.45pm AEST). Firefighters had been concerned gas canisters on board for repair work could explode. Cutty Sark Enterprises chairman Chris Levett said that while the ship's decks were unsalvageable, the damage did not appear as bad as originally feared. He said that half of the planking, as well as all the historic artefacts on board, had been removed for the conservation project and he was confidence the ship could be fully restored. It will be the old ship. The ship has been through many things in its lifetime. It has sailed the oceans of the world, it has battled with nature through its life, he told the BBC Radio 4 Today program. This is going to make us even more determined to get this ship back up and running and keep her as original as possible. Cutty Sark Trust chief executive Richard Doughty said he was told the blaze was being treated as suspicious and called it a tragedy. When you lose the original fabric, you lose the touch of the craftsmen. You lose history itself, he said. What is special about Cutty Sark is the timber, the iron frames, that went to the South China Sea. To think that is threatened in any way is unbelievable. It is an unimaginable shock. The only remaining tea clipper, the Cutty Sark made its first voyage in 1870, and is one of the most famous ships in the world. Sky News earlier showed amateur footage of massive flames climbing towards the sky. No one was reported injured in the fire, police said. Residents were evacuated and taken to a Greenwich hotel, Scotland Yard said. The ship has been in dry dock in Greenwich since 1954. The 137-year-old Cutty Sark, was given a £11.75 million ($28.21 million) National Lottery grant for a restoration project that would see the vessel being lifted 3m. The ship was said to be in a serious state of deterioration before it was closed in November for the work. A glass bubble was also going to be attached at the ship's waterline to give year-round protection to visitors in the dry berth and to the lower hull itself. The Cutty Sark was originally used to deliver tea from China in the 1870s. Built 1869 by Scott Linton, Dumbarton, the Cutty Sark is the sole surviving extreme clipper, designed to be very fast. She was one of the last tea clippers built, but as this trade was taken over by the steamers using the Suez Canal, she turned to general trading including transporting wool from Australia. It was during this time that she made her legendary fast voyages. Captain Dowman of Falmouth decided she should be preserved and in 1922 bought the ship and made her part of a floating nautical school he was operating. In 1938, his widow presented the ship to the Thames Nautical Training School at Greenhithe. They maintained the ship until 1952 when the Cutty Sark Preservation Society was formed under the leadership of Frank Carr, director of the National Maritime Museum, and the patronage of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh. The ship was permanently installed in a stone dry-dock at Greenwich on the Thames, and fully restored to her appearance as an active sailing vessel. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=11648958/grpspId=1705447214/msgI d=33226/stime=1179752846/nc1=3848620/nc2=3848642/nc3=3848541 [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
[osint] Witness the first video combines the Martyr Mohamed Atta and Ziad Jarrah martyr
Video: http://ia331311. http://ia331311.us.archive.org/2/items/abtalunaa/abtaal_manhaten.wmv us.archive.org/2/items/abtalunaa/abtaal_manhaten.wmv Includes some fascinating jihad testimony from a jovial Atta and Jarrah, pangyric loops of the WTC attacks and collapse, and some rather interesting footage of bin Laden giving an instructional and/or motivational presentation at a training camp. --S. . http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=2420737/grpspId=1705303292/msgId =105831/stime=1179633860/nc1=3848613/nc2=3848432/nc3=4507179 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Growing number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam in the US - NY, California, Texas, Florida
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/americas/view/277203/1/.html Growing number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam in the US By Channel NewsAsia's US Correspondent Steve Mort | Posted: 19 May 2007 2352 hrs Orlando : Muslim leaders in the United States say interest in their religion has increased in the past few years. More Hispanic Americans are converting to Islam, particularly in New York, California, Texas and Florida, which have the greatest concentration of Hispanic residents. The al-Rahaman mosque in Orlando opened in 1975 and is the oldest Muslim place of worship in the city. But over the years, its membership has changed, and now increasing numbers of Hispanics like Jesus Marti are joining the congregation. Jesus Marti, Hispanic Muslim, said: Islam is definitely a way of life, for discipline where you follow and you try to enhance yourself to get the most positive things out of yourself. Muslim leaders say Jesus Marti and other Hispanics choose Islam for a variety of reasons. They say Muslims and Hispanics face common issues and concerns, like finding their way in a new, unfamiliar country. The media focus on Islam since September 11th has also been a factor. Imam Muhammad Musri is president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida. The society has about 40,000 members. Imam Muhammad Musri said: There are so many common denominators between immigrant Muslims and immigrant Hispanics who see the issues common to both of them - immigration issues, trying to find a job, keep a job, buy a home - all the same struggles two groups of people happen to be going through creates this bond between them. Hundreds of worshippers attend Imam Musri's mosque, and there is an increasing demand for religious literature in Spanish. For Jesus Marti and his fellow Hispanic worshippers, the decision to convert to Islam is personal, but also part of a broader trend. He hopes greater diversity among America's Muslims will help strengthen understanding of Islam within the wider US population. Experts say it's not surprising that the number of Hispanics in the United States converting to Islam is growing, with many issues now united both communities. - CNA/ch [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Homeland Security Information Network Needs to Be Better Coordinated
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=7163 Homeland Security Information Network Needs to Be Better Coordinated Jim Kouri The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for coordinating the federal government's homeland security communications with all levels of government, the private sector, and the public. In support of its mission, the department has deployed a Web-based information-sharing application -- the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) -- and operates at least 11 homeland security networks. The department reported that in fiscal years 2005 and 2006, these investments cost $611.8 million to develop, operate, and maintain. In view of the significance of information sharing for protecting homeland security, the Government Accounting Office was asked to testify on the department's efforts to coordinate its development and use of HSIN with two key state and local initiatives under the Regional Information Sharing Systems -- a nationwide information-sharing program operated and managed by state and local officials. This article is based on a recent GAO report that addresses, among other things, DHS's homeland security networks and HSIN. In performing the work for that report, GAO analyzed documentation on HSIN and state and local initiatives, compared it against the requirements of the Homeland Security Act and federal guidance and best practices, and interviewed DHS officials and state and local officials. In developing HSIN, its key homeland security information-sharing application, DHS did not work effectively with two key Regional Information Sharing Systems program initiatives. This program, which is operated and managed by state and local officials nationwide, provides services to law enforcement, emergency responders, and other public safety officials. However, DHS did not coordinate with the program to fully develop joint strategies and policies, procedures, and other means to operate across agency boundaries, which are key practices for effective coordination and collaboration and a means to enhance information sharing and avoid duplication of effort. For example, DHS did not engage the program in ongoing dialogue to determine how resources could be leveraged to meet mutual needs. A major factor contributing to this limited coordination was that the department rushed to deploy HSIN after the events of September 11, 2001. In its haste, it did not develop a comprehensive inventory of key state and local information-sharing initiatives, and it did not achieve a full understanding of the relevance of the Regional Information Sharing Systems program to homeland security information sharing. As a result, DHS faces the risk that effective information sharing is not occurring and that HSIN may be duplicating state and local capabilities. Specifically, both HSIN and one of the Regional Information Sharing Systems initiatives target similar user groups, such as emergency management agencies, and all have similar features, such as electronic bulletin boards, chat tools, and document libraries. The department has efforts planned and under way to improve coordination and collaboration, including developing an integration strategy to allow other applications and networks to connect with HSIN, so that organizations can continue to use their preferred information-sharing applications and networks. In addition, it has agreed to implement recommendations made by GAO to take specific steps to improve coordination, including developing a comprehensive inventory of state and local initiatives; and ensure that similar coordination and duplication issues do not arise with other federal homeland security networks, systems, and applications. Until DHS completes these efforts, including developing an inventory of key state and local initiatives and fully implementing and institutionalizing key practices for effective coordination and collaboration, the department will continue to be at risk that information is not being effectively shared and that the department is duplicating state and local capabilities. Sources: Department of Homeland Security, Government Accounting Office, National Security Institute, National Association of Chiefs of Police [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
[osint] NSA seeks to open classified network to allies
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36953dcn=e_gvet http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=36953dcn=e_gvet NSA seeks to open classified network to allies By Bob Brewin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 17, 2007 The National Security Agency is working to open classified Defense Department communications networks to key allies, a move that the U.S. intelligence community has resisted for years, according to an internal NSA briefing presentation obtained by Government Executive. NSA and Defense plan to open a classified network known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), to a small pool of trusted allies, including Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, according to PowerPoint briefing slides dated April 27, 2007, and prepared by NSA's Office of Assured Information Sharing Technologies and Products. SIPRNet, a closed system with no access to the Internet, is the primary means by which commanders communicate secret military strategies worldwide. It hosts a wide range of applications and systems, including classified e-mail and search capabilities. Core Defense systems, such as the Global Command and Control System and the Defense Message System, run over SIPRNet. Classified portals, such as Defense Knowledge Online and Army Knowledge Online, both of which serve as jumping-off points to classified military databases, also are hosted on SIPRNet. Military and security analysts said the move to open the secret network to allies is a significant but necessary step to cement military partnerships with those countries, which have engaged in operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and have participated in maritime patrols in the Pacific. Warfare has become more coalition-centric, and more than ever we need to trust and rely on our partners, said Bernie Skoch, a consultant with Suss Consulting in Jenkintown, Pa.. Skoch, a retired Air Force brigadier general whose experience in military communications includes a stint as director of customer advocacy at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said NSA's plans represent a significant change in the management of the SIPRNet. For years, the four countries listed in the NSA briefing, along with other U.S. allies, have petitioned Defense to open SIPRNet to them so that they could have access to classified information they believed would help their militaries better coordinate operations with the United States. The Pentagon has resisted these requests. Foreign access to SIPRNet is, quite understandably, very limited, according to a document on the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Web site that explains how information technology is transforming warfare. Only America's closest allies, the British and Australians, were granted access, albeit temporary and limited, in certain joint missions . . . .. ... In some cases in Iraq, the British could not even see or copy intelligence data gathered by British operatives themselves, when it fused with the Americans' own data stored on the SIPRNet But broadening access has its engineering challenges, said Skoch. Because SIPRNet has no access to the Internet, it has remained free of the cyberattacks that plague Defense's unclassified network -- called the Non-classified Internet Protocol Network, or NIPRNet -- which does connect with the Internet. Allowing allies access to SIPRNet involves weighing the risks of cyberattacks and unauthorized users gaining access to classified information against the military benefits of sharing the information, Skoch said. In this case, he said, the benefits are equally significant to the risks. Information sharing is an essential ingredient to any close partnership, said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, a security training and certification organization in Bethesda, Md., which trains federal information security officials. The biggest obstacle to opening the SIPRNet to allies, Paller said, will be to do so in a way that doesn't give away the jewels. The briefing slides outline the strategy to obtain approval for opening SIPRNet, recommending that NSA leverage its position on the Defense Information Systems Flag Panel -- whose membership includes admirals, generals and civilian Senior Executive Service leaders in all four military services -- to change the policy. NSA intends to brief senior Defense leadership, ask for their approval and then work with DISA on the technical details, according to the briefing. NSA did not respond to queries for comments on this article. The NSA public affairs office asked Government Executive not to run any article based on the briefing slides, which were marked unclassified, For Official Use Only. COMMENTS * This article does not begin to capture the ways in which SIPRNet access to foreigners is granted. About two years, I arranged for a British officer to have SIPRNet connectivity here in the Pentagon. The IT group designed a virtual private network
[osint] Suicide bomb kills 14, wounds 35
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dbdc8126-9b8d-45d7- 846d-2f239309ae46 http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=dbdc8126-9b8d-45d7 -846d-2f239309ae46k=36180 k=36180 Suicide bomb kills 14, wounds 35 in eastern Afghanistan, after U.S. convoy rolls by Canadian Press Published: Sunday, May 20, 2007 GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) - A suicide bomber on foot blew himself up in a crowded market in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday just after a U.S. convoy drove by, killing 14 people and wounding 31, officials and witnesses said. The attack in the city of Gardez damaged around 30 shops, shattering windows and destroying the stores closest to the explosion. Three vehicles were damaged, including a taxi blasted by dozens of pieces of shrapnel. Witnesses said a U.S. convoy appeared to be the target, and Maj. William Mitchell, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said there were initial reports of injuries to ISAF soldiers, though he didn't have further details. Six people died at the scene of the blast, police said. Another eight later died at a hospital, said Ghulam Hazrat Majedi, the doctor in charge of the Gardez hospital. He said two of the 31 people injured were in a critical condition. Afghan soldiers donated blood for the wounded. Nasar Ahmad, a 30-year-old shopkeeper whose three cousins were seriously injured in the blast, said he saw a U.S. convoy driving through the city just before the explosion. I heard a strong blast and then saw a fireball go up, Ahmad said from Gardez' hospital. For 10 minutes I couldn't hear and I didn't know where I was. I saw a lot of people injured lying in the street. Shah Mohammad, 19, said all those killed or wounded by the blast were Afghan civilians. The convoy had already passed when the attack happened, he said. The blast in Gardez comes one day after a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan killed three German soldiers and seven civilians. Violence in Afghanistan has increased sharply in the last several weeks. More than 1,600 people, have been killed in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an AP count based on U.S., NATO and Afghan officials. The dead have mostly been militants, but about 300 civilians have also died in the violence. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Hassan Butt: Al-Qaeda Supergrass
Al-Qaeda Supergrass By Lewis Panther http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news3.shtml A FRIGHTENED supergrass today reveals how thousands of young Muslims are preparing to unleash fresh terror atrocities on Britain's streets. Shame-faced Hassan Butt, 27, spent 10 years close to the heart of the al-Qaeda network as its preachers of hate recruited suicide bombers here. He acted as a heartless fundraiser from the Muslim community, collecting cash to send brain-washed young Brits to terrorist training camps in Pakistan. But, in the wake of the 7/7 London bombings, in which 52 innocent victims died, he no longer gloats about his sinister exploits. Instead he is about to become the biggest whistle-blower of all time- by exposing how the radical Islamic extremists operate. And he warned: It's sad but we WILL have more atrocities like 7/7 because there are tens of thousands of Muslims who still support violence. Wanted in Pakistan for plotting against President Musharraf, Butt is back here living in fear of our security forces - and of Islamic revenge squads threatening him with jihad. Sinister And at last he is ready to tell the truth about our enemy within. He glanced nervously over his shoulder as he talked to our reporter in a cafe close to where the London suicide bombers hatched their deadly mission. He revealed how he: COLLECTED taxes from doctors and wealthy businessmen in the Muslim community with his sinister team to fund terrorism. LURED desperate drug addicts, aided by their evil dealers, in a plot to poison the West with drugs. BLAMES moderate Muslim leaders for failing to face up to preachers of hate like hook-handed Abu Hamza and exiled Omar Bakri, leaving them free to twist young minds. Butt said: Saying thousands of British Muslims support terrorism is no over-estimation. I know because I used to raise money from them. Doctors, teachers and businessmen would all chip in-and they knew it was going towards terrorism. There might only be a few who go on to become suicide bombers, but it only takes a few to do all the damage if they have got that support network around them. And the kids who are being recruited aren't getting any help from the mosques to stop them. The moderate Muslims like the MCB (Muslim Council of Britain) aren't doing enough to stop people like Omar Bakri. He's certainly to blame for wrecking a lot of lives. It is the first time someone so senior inside the British Muslim terror network has spoken out about al-Qaeda. Butt, a former law student, is paranoid about being watched by MI5 as he moves from sleeping on one friend's floor to another's. But he's even more nervous about being hunted down by his former friends who believe they are fighting a holy war. A gang of thugs have already stabbed him in the street after he renounced their violent ways. But before he turned his back on terror, young Muslims, especially those who do not feel part of Britain, were easy targets for Butt. He was raised in Manchester and was just 16 when he became involved in radical and pro-violent Islamic groups. He said: I was helping in a drug rehabilitation centre, which gave me easy access to potential jihadi recruits. The addicts were vulnerable and easy to convert to our cause. Profits It may sound sick to outsiders but I genuinely believed I was fighting a war. That's why I was photographed with a loudhailer calling for Muslims to attack the British and Americans when I was in Pakistan. The centre also gave me easy access to the drug dealers. You got to find out who they were and they wouldn't stand up to us either. Knowing we'd been involved in terrorist training made them stand up and pay attention -and pay up part of their profits. They even thought they were helping our cause by only selling crack and heroin to non-Muslims. We saw it as a tactic of war to keep poisoning the West with drugs. We all believed that you could steal, rob, lie and even sell drugs to support our fight. Butt found his recruits in the gyms and snooker halls. We'd talk about the suffering of the Muslims all over the world, he explained. We were well versed in the Koran, in the sayings of the Prophet and could make them believe it was permissible for people to go around killing innocent men, women and children. During his stay in Pakistan, Butt mixed with an even more violent band of radicals, buying guns to be shipped to fighters inside Afghanistan. And it was there in 2002, at his flat in the capital Islamabad, that he met the ringleader of the 7/7 London suicide bombings, Muhammed Siddique Khan. They were introduced by New York-born Junaid Babar, who later became star witness against the fertiliser bombers who plotted to kill hundreds of clubbers at London's Ministry of Sound and thousands of shoppers at the Bluewater complex in Kent. At that time Butt sent dozens of
[osint] Expired SIMs saved hundreds
Expired SIMs saved hundreds http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1098010 Chitti Pantulu HYDERABAD: If it were not for expired SIM cards, there would have been four blasts at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad on Friday. Police sources told DNA that out of the four mobile phone bombs placed at the masjid, three failed to explode because their SIM cards had expired and hence could not complete the circuit needed for the bombs to explode. If the other three bombs had exploded the toll would have been more than 200. The bombs were timed to explode during the peak prayer time, said a police officer closely connected with the investigation. Police sources said they recovered five SIM cards from the spot and all had been purchased by Shahed Bilal from West Bengal. Bilal is a rising star of the Jaish-e-Mohammed and learnt his bomb-making skills at Harkat-ul-Jihad-i-Islami, a Bangladesh terror outfit, said a senior police officer. Andhra Pradesh Home Minister K Jana Reddy and senior police officials literally owe to their lives to the expired SIM cards. The other three bombs - packed in tiffin boxes with TNT and RDX - were timed to explode one after the other to create maximum damage, said a source. All the three SIM cards had been disconnected a couple of days back after Bilal had failed to pay the bills. The bombs bear a striking similarity to the one that exploded in Malegaon killing 37 people. It is a planned terrorist act as you can see from the type of device (used to trigger the blast) used. It is a sophisticated device. We are looking into all possibilities, Police Commissioner Balwinder Singh said. Samples of the bombs from Mecca Masjid have been sent to the Forensic labs in Hyderabad for analysis though police officials said they were a mixture of TNT and RDX. Mumbai ATS team to help probe DNA Correspondent. MUMBAI: A crack unit of the Mumbai Police's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) left for Hyderabad on Saturday to help their Hyderabad counterparts with the investigation into the Mecca Masjid blast . We have sent a four-member team, led by Deputy Inspector General of Police Subodh Jaiswal to help the Hyderabad blast investigators, said ATS chief and Joint Commissioner of Police Krishan Pal Raghuvanshi. The team will collect samples and raw materials and compare it with Malegaon samples. On September 8 last year, 35 people were killed and 300 injured when a series of bombs kept on bicycles outside a local mosque and an adjacent burial ground rocked the textile city of Malegaon in Maharashtra's Nashik district minutes after Friday afternoon prayers. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Pakistan denies CIA influx
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1 http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1click_id=126art_id=nw2007052115585 6785C525243 click_id=126art_id=nw20070521155856785C525243 Pakistan denies CIA influx Islamabad - Pakistan on Monday denied a report that up to 50 US Central Intelligence Agency officials are in the country hunting for Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. The report in the Los Angeles Times at the weekend said a major hunt for bin Laden launched by the CIA in 2006 had unearthed no significant leads on his whereabouts. There is no question of 50 CIA agents looking for bin Laden in Pakistan, foreign office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam told a weekly briefing when asked to comment on the report. We have no real evidence or intelligence on bin Laden's whereabouts and nobody knows where he is, she added. The LA Times report quoted US officials as saying that Al-Qaeda had a command base in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan that was being increasingly funded by cash coming out of Iraq. US officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney when he visited Islamabad earlier this year, have alleged that Al-Qaeda is regrouping in the troubled tribal zone bordering Afghanistan. Aslam, however, said there was no Al-Qaeda base on Pakistani soil. There may be some remnants of Al-Qaeda in Pakistan, but we are taking strong action against them, she said. The LA Times said the CIA had deployed as many as 50 clandestine operatives to Pakistan and Afghanistan - a dramatic increase over the number of CIA case officers permanently stationed in those countries. All of the new arrivals were given the primary objective of finding what counter-terrorism officials call high-value targets, meaning bin Laden and Al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahri, according to the report. Nevertheless, US intelligence and military officials said their latest efforts had yet to produce a single lead on bin Laden's or al-Zawahri's location, the LA Times said. We're not any closer, the report quotes a senior US military official as saying. Bin Laden carries a $25-million US bounty on his head and is accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States which killed nearly 3000 people. Sapa-AFP http://www.iol.co.za/general/news/newsprint.php Quickwire Published on the Web by IOL on 2007-05-21 15:58:56 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Influx of Al Qaeda, money into Pakistan is seen
http://www.latimes. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-binladen20may20,1,6397 543.story?track=rssctrack=1cset=true com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-binladen20may20,1,6397543.story?track=rss ctrack=1cset=true Influx of Al Qaeda, money into Pakistan is seen U.S. officials say the terrorist network's command base is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq. By Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer May 20, 2007 WASHINGTON - A major CIA effort launched last year to hunt down Osama bin Laden has produced no significant leads on his whereabouts, but has helped track an alarming increase in the movement of Al Qaeda operatives and money into Pakistan's tribal territories, according to senior U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the operation. In one of the most troubling trends, U.S. officials said that Al Qaeda's command base in Pakistan is increasingly being funded by cash coming out of Iraq, where the terrorist network's operatives are raising substantial sums from donations to the anti-American insurgency as well as kidnappings of wealthy Iraqis and other criminal activity. The influx of money has bolstered Al Qaeda's leadership ranks at a time when the core command is regrouping and reasserting influence over its far-flung network. The trend also signals a reversal in the traditional flow of Al Qaeda funds, with the network's leadership surviving to a large extent on money coming in from its most profitable franchise, rather than distributing funds from headquarters to distant cells. Al Qaeda's efforts were aided, intelligence officials said, by Pakistan's withdrawal in September of tens of thousands of troops from the tribal areas along the Afghanistan border where Bin Laden and his top deputy, Ayman Zawahiri, are believed to be hiding. Little more than a year ago, Al Qaeda's core command was thought to be in a financial crunch. But U.S. officials said cash shipped from Iraq has eased those troubles. Iraq is a big moneymaker for them, said a senior U.S. counter-terrorism official. The evolving picture of Al Qaeda's finances is based in part on intelligence from an aggressive effort launched last year to intensify the pressure on Bin Laden and his senior deputies. As part of a so-called surge in personnel, the CIA deployed as many as 50 clandestine operatives to Pakistan and Afghanistan - a dramatic increase over the number of CIA case officers permanently stationed in those countries. All of the new arrivals were given the primary objective of finding what counter-terrorism officials call HVT1 and HVT2. Those high value target designations refer to Bin Laden and Zawahiri. The surge was part of a broader shake-up at the CIA designed to refocus on the hunt for Bin Laden, officials said. One former high-ranking agency official said the CIA had formed a task force that involved officials from all four directorates at the agency, including analysts, scientists and technical experts, as well as covert operators. The officials were charged with reinvigorating a search that had atrophied when some U.S. intelligence assets and special forces teams were pulled out of Afghanistan in 2002 to prepare for the war with Iraq. Arduous search Nevertheless, U.S. intelligence and military officials said, the surge has yet to produce a single lead on Bin Laden's or Zawahiri's location that could be substantiated. We're not any closer, said a senior U.S. military official who monitors the intelligence on the hunt for Bin Laden. The lack of progress underscores the difficulty of the search more than five years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Despite a $25-million U.S. reward, current and former intelligence officials said, the United States has not had a lead on Bin Laden since he fled American and Afghan forces in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in early 2002. We've had no significant report of him being anywhere, said a former senior CIA official who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on condition of anonymity when discussing U.S. intelligence operations. U.S. spy agencies have not even had information that you could validate historically, the official said, meaning a tip on a previous Bin Laden location that could subsequently be verified. President Bush is given detailed presentations on the hunt's progress every two to four months, in addition to routine counter-terrorism briefings, intelligence officials said. The presentations include complex schematics, search patterns, what we're doing, where the Predator flies, said one participant, referring to flights by unmanned airplanes used in the search. The CIA has even used sand models to illustrate the topography of the mountainous terrain where Bin Laden is believed to be hiding. Still, officials said, they have been unable to answer the basic question of whether they are getting closer to their target. Any prediction on when we're going to get him is just ridiculous, said the senior U.S. counter-terrorism
[osint] Teesta shoals used to train JMB men
http://www.thedailystar.net/2007/05/21/d70521070283.htm Arrested Militants Tell Police Teesta shoals used to train JMB men Rafique Sarker, Rangpur The arrested JMB militants, now on remand disclosed that Joyprotap Madrasa in remote shoal area of Teesta river in Pirgachha upazila was used as a JMB militant training camp. Two militants back from Afghan war--Abdul Quddus Khan Salafi and Abul Kalam Azad--trained a large number of newly recruited JMB members there who came from adjoining districts, police sources told this correspondent. Abdul Quddus is on remand and Abul Kalam is on the run. Most of the newly recruited JMB members were madrasa students, they told police during interrogation. Rangpur Police Superintendent Hasif Aziz said, We are almost sure that Salafi is a returnee from Afghan war. He used to train JMB militants at in the remote Teesta shoals. A large number of JMB militants received training there He said police are not yet sure if Salafi had connection with al-Qaeda. He is being quizzed. Police sources said, police is hunting for Abul Kalam Azad who had been at large following countrywide bomb blasts on August 17, 2005. He is still visiting different clandestine JMB training camps in the northern districts. He visited Protapjoysen Madrasa at Annadanagor in Pirgachha upazila a few days before the four JMB cadres were arrested, police said. Rangpur DB police arrested Abdul Quddus Khan Salafi, Rubel Hosen, Mohidul Islam and Anisur Rahan from different areas of the district on Thursday. Rubel was a member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, a police official of Pirgachha thana said. Police sources said, at least 10 training camps were run in remote shoal areas of Teesta and Brammahputra in Rangpur and Kurigram districts. Madrasas and mosques in those areas were chosen for training camps to avoid attention of the law and order enforcers. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 7 killed on bus in Iraq; parliament hit
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3195716 7 killed on bus in Iraq; parliament hit By RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press Writer Virginian Pilot May 21, 2007 BAGHDAD (AP) -- Gunmen in two cars attacked a minibus heading to Baghdad from a Shiite town north of the capital Monday, killing seven passengers, including a child, police said. A mortar shell hit the roof of the parliament building inside the heavily guarded Green Zone in Baghdad, but no one was injured, a lawmaker said. Thousands of soldiers, meanwhile, continued combing through fields and questioning suspects as the search for three missing U.S. soldiers continued following a May 12 ambush south of Baghdad that killed four other soldiers and their interpreter. The minibus, which left the town of Khalis, was driving near the violence-wracked city of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, when it was ambushed outside the town of Hibhib, police said. The attack underscored the sectarian violence and instability that continues to plague Diyala province north of Baghdad despite the three-month-old security crackdown in Baghdad and surrounding areas. In western Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near a group of Iraqi soldiers patrolling the Sunni-dominated Adil neighborhood in western Baghdad, killing three of the soldiers and injuring two. In the confusion of the attack, the soldiers fired near the office of Adnan al-Dulaimi, the leader of parliament's largest Sunni Arab bloc, the Iraqi Accordance Front, according to his office. No one was injured. The stepped-up U.S. and Iraqi patrols of the capital during the crackdown have left the troops more vulnerable to attack by insurgents, military officials say. The U.S. military reported Sunday that six U.S. soldiers on patrol in Baghdad were killed in a roadside bombing along with their interpreter on Saturday. A seventh soldier died in a blast Saturday in Diwaniya, a mostly Shiite city 80 miles south of the capital, where radical Shiite militias operate. Those deaths brought the number of American troops killed in Iraq since Friday to at least 15 - eight of them in Baghdad. So far, at least 71 U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month - most of them from bombs. The mortar shell that hit parliament landed almost above the office of the parliament speaker and caused only minor damage, said lawmaker Sabah al-Saadi, who was at a committee meeting inside at the time. A few hours later, several more mortar rounds were fired. Some of them landed in the Green Zone, but there were no reports of casualties, the U.S. Embassy said. An April 12 suicide bombing in the parliament's dining hall killed one lawmaker. The blast was part of a sharp increase in recent weeks of mortar attacks on the Green Zone, which also houses other Iraqi government offices and the U.S. Embassy. The compound, on the banks of the Tigris River, is surrounded by cement walls and patrolled by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, as well as private security guards. Amid the almost daily mortar barrages, people living inside have questioned whether it is truly safe to remain there. Journalists have also been targeted by the violence, and the Iraqi newspaper Azzaman reported Monday that one of its reporters, Ali Khalil, 22, was kidnapped while leaving a relative's house in the increasingly volatile Baiyaa neighborhood of Baghdad and found dead several hours later. Khalil was survived by his wife and 1-week-old baby, the newspaper said. The attack came three days after two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were ambushed and killed on their way home from work. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said 104 journalists - not including Khalil - have been killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. About 80 percent of the journalists killed were Iraqi, according to CPJ. In other violence Monday, two gunmen killed two police officers as they walked by the police station in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. Insurgents also fired mortar rounds into a bank in Baqouba as customers were waiting in line to collect their pensions, killing two people, police said. Violence also hit the southern city of Basra, with gunmen killing one police officer and wounding another in an attack on their patrol, police said. Police also reported that the chief of customs in Basra, Col. Khalaf al-Badran, escaped injury when a roadside bomb struck his convoy as it left the airport. And a fuel tanker was damaged when it was hit by a roadside bomb, police said. Two Republican senators said Sunday at an international conference hosted by the Geneva-based World Economic Forum in Jordan that the U.S. has evidence Iran sent weapons and trainers to instruct militants in Iraq to carry out terror attacks. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told a panel discussion on Iraq's future that during a trip last week to Iraq, he saw evidence that Iran was supplying weapons and bomb-making components to Iraqi terrorists. A former Iranian
[osint] At Padilla terror trial, a witness's surprise effect
At Padilla terror trial, a witness's surprise effect http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0521/p03s03-usju.htm A witness for the US government has painted a less-than-menacing picture of a terrorist training camp. Federal prosecutors had high hopes that Yahya Goba would emerge as a key witness in the trial of suspected Al Qaeda recruit Jose Padilla. Now they are hoping he doesn't. When Mr. Goba was arrested in September 2002, he was portrayed as America's worst nightmare. Government officials said he was a member of an Al Qaeda sleeper cell who was recruited for jihad, went to Afghanistan to train in the use of weapons and explosives, and returned to Lackawanna, N.Y., to quietly await further instructions from Osama bin Laden. It was the same path that prosecutors say was followed by Mr. Padilla. Goba's detailed telling of his story was seen by federal prosecutors as a winning trial strategy, an opportunity to show the jury firsthand how a Muslim-American could wind up in a terrorist training camp run by Al Qaeda. But the picture of Goba that is emerging from the witness stand at Padilla's trial is less menacing than federal prosecutors had hoped. Rather than boosting the government's case, his testimony appears to be helping Padilla make his. Goba began his testimony on Friday and is expected to continue on the witness stand Monday morning. He is appearing at the trial under a plea agreement and is seeking to have the government reduce his 10-year prison sentence. Goba, who is married with a 4-year-old daughter, has a strong additional incentive to cooperate in every way with the government. He wants to avoid being designated an enemy combatant and diverted out of the criminal justice system into indefinite military detention. Padilla was held and interrogated for three years and eight months in military custody as an enemy combatant before being named in the current criminal case. The Miami indictment charges that Padilla and his two codefendants formed a terror support cell that provided money, equipment, and recruits to Islamic militants. Padilla is portrayed as a willing recruit. His lawyers say he is a devout Muslim who traveled to the Middle East to advance his religious study. They deny that he attended a terror training camp in Afghanistan. Goba as a stand-in for Padilla The irony of Goba's testimony is that defense attorneys appear to be doing to the prosecution with their own witness what prosecutors set out to do to the defense. They are using Goba as a stand-in for Padilla. In his opening statement to the jury, Assistant US Attorney Brian Frazier said that Goba would explain just what kind of training Jose Padilla wanted at the camp in Afghanistan. Defense lawyers objected. And US District Judge Marcia Cooke sustained their objection. It was a preview of what was to come. When the government announced last week that Goba would be the next witness, defense lawyers argued that prosecutors would try to hold Padilla accountable for Goba's conduct by implying to the jury that both were members of a single, massive Islamic conspiracy. Judge Cooke rejected the government's broad Islamic conspiracy theory, saying there was no evidentiary connection between Goba's cell in Lackawanna and the alleged South Florida cell. The judge limited Goba's testimony to his own personal experiences at the Al Farooq training camp in Afghanistan. He could testify about filling out a Mujahideen Data Form identical to the form that the government says Padilla filled out. But the judge barred prosecutors from showing the jury a 30-second film of Mr. bin Laden visiting the Al Farooq camp while Goba was there. The judge ruled it wasn't relevant to Padilla's case because Padilla is alleged to have attended the camp 10 months earlier. Cooke's limitations set the stage for a dramatic turnabout. Testimony has limitations Instead of Goba discussing the radical, violent, terrorist goals of many of his fellow recruits and their Al Qaeda hosts at Al Farooq, his testimony has been limited to his own experiences and beliefs. He told the jury under questioning by defense lawyers that he never intended to join Al Qaeda, engage in terrorism, or harm anyone. He attended the training camp because he'd been told by an Islamic preacher that it was a religious duty to prepare for jihad to assist Muslims struggling against oppression in places like Bosnia, Kosovo, and Chechnya. Are you now, or have you ever been a terrorist? Padilla defense lawyer Michael Caruso asked. No, Goba answered. You felt that it was necessary to do this training so that if called upon, you could help your [Muslim] brothers and sisters facing atrocities all over the world? Mr. Caruso asked. Yes, Goba said. Defense lawyers asked Goba to explain his beliefs about jihad, or Islamic holy war. He agreed that jihad can represent an inner struggle within a Muslim and that when it takes the form of physical fighting, it is only
[osint] Abbas Intelligence Official Attacked In Gaza
http://www.javno. http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=45458 com/en/world/clanak.php?id=45458 Abbas Intelligence Official Attacked In Gaza A convoy carrying a top aide to President Mahmoud Abbas's intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip came under fire on Saturday. Reuters A convoy carrying a top aide to President Mahmoud Abbas's intelligence chief in the Gaza Strip came under fire on Saturday despite a new ceasefire deal between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, security sources said. It was not immediately clear who attacked the convoy, which was carrying senior intelligence aide Mohammad al-Masri of Fatah. Security sources said he was unharmed. Published: May 19, 2007 13:44h [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Two Al-Qaeda members surrender to security
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10012243.html http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10012243.html Two Al-Qaeda members surrender to security alqaeda3.jpg http://www.yobserver.com/uploads/1/alqaeda3.jpg Terrorists Gabr al-Bana and Abdul-Rahman Ba Sorah Two Al-Qaeda members who escaped from the Political Security Prison in Sana'a in February 2006 have turned themselves in to security authorities. According to security sources, the two men surrendered after several months of negotiation between the security authorities and the men, through the tribal leaders of the tribes to which the two men belong. Gabr al-Bana, 39, who is from al-Dhale'a and lived in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania USA, and Abdul-Rahman Ba Sorah, 25, a Saudi national from Hadhramout, surrendered themselves after the authorities provided insurance that they would not extend their sentences, said the security source. The source declined to give more details about the terms of surrender. Mohammed al-Qosi, the Deputy Minister of the Interior, said that the men were hiding out between Marib and Abyan. He says that the men actually turned themselves in unconditionally. The two men are now being held at the Political Security Prison in Sana'a, and that they indeed surrendered themselves without condition, said a political security source who asked that his name be withheld. Ba Sorah and al-Bana ware among of the 23 persons who escaped from the Political Security Prison in February 2006, after they dug a 300-meter tunnel under the prison wall. After this escape, many prison officials were jailed, for failing to keep the prisoners confined. Ten of the escapees have surrendered themselves in the last few months, while a few others were killed in subsequent confrontations with security. According to the political security source, there are only six prisoners left at large. The most significant of those is Jamil al-Badawi, who was convicted of playing a lead role in the bombing of the USS Cole near Aden. He had been sentenced to death, although the High Court had reduced the sentence to 15 years. Yemen has asked Interpol to help track down the remaining six escapees, whom it believes have fled the country. Al-Bana, who has American citizenship, is one of the most dangerous people in Yemen, according to the Yemeni and American authorities. The FBI has accused al-Bana of being the essential supporter of an Al-Qaeda cell called the Lackawanna Group in the U.S., and of being one of the most dangerous of the six members of this group, who received training in Afghanistan. Washington has announced a $5 million bounty to anyone who has any information leading to the arrest al-Bana. Ba Sorah is accused by Yemeni authorities of planning to attack the Italian and British embassies [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Palestinian militants bring worst fighting to Lebanon for 20 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_articl e_id=456464 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_artic le_id=456464in_page_id=1811 in_page_id=1811 Al Qaeda-backed Palestinian militants bring worst fighting to Lebanon for 20 years Last updated at 17:52pm on 20th May 2007 Lebanese troops have been battling al Qaeda-linked militants based in a Palestinian refugee camp with 38 people dead in Lebanon's bloodiest internal fighting since the 1975-90 civil war. Thirteen soldiers and 19 militants died in the clashes, which erupted before dawn at the Nahr al-Bared camp and spread into the nearby Sunni Muslim city of Tripoli in north Lebanon. A cabinet minister said the fighting with Fatah al-Islam, which the government says is backed by Syria, seemed timed to try to derail U.N. moves to set up an international court to try those suspected of carrying out political killings in Lebanon. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] U.S. crime rises as police fight other threats
http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9 http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9newsid=28275 newsid=28275 U.S. crime rises as police fight other threats Mon May 21, 2007 8:47AM BST By Jason Szep BOSTON (Reuters) - After a night of dancing, Chiara Levin was shot in the head by a stray bullet from a gunfight as she sat in a Cadillac sport utility vehicle. Hours later she was dead. The killing of the 22-year-old Kentucky native, who recently graduated university with honours, in a tough neighbourhood in Boston's Dorchester district on March 24 sparked weeks of outcry in a city where the murder rate neared a 10-year high last year. Like Boston, many U.S. cities are struggling to stem a wave of violent crime and murder that has raised questions of whether police are fighting terrorism at the expense of street crime, and whether a widening wealth gap feeds the problem. We're at a tipping point in violent crime in many cities, said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based law enforcement think tank that released data in March showing the murder rate rising by more than 10 percent in dozens of big U.S. cities since 2004. What we're seeing over the past 24 months is a new volatility. In some big cities violent crime and murder are up. Some are seeing a reduction. It's a dramatic shift from the past 10 years when it was mostly all decreases, he said. Criminologists are worried. Federal Bureau of Investigation data shows murders and shootings hitting smaller cities and states with little experience of serious urban violence. The last similar period of volatility was right before the big crime wave of the 1980s and 1990s. Explanations vary -- from softer gun laws to budget cuts, fewer police on the beat, more people in poverty, expanding gang violence and simple complacency. But many blame a national preoccupation with potential threats from overseas since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since 9/11, police obligations have increased substantially above and beyond decreasing street crime, Jens Ludwig, a criminal justice expert at Georgetown University. So even if police resources were held constant, there is this growing obligation on their part, so the resources available to fight street crime have gone down. POLICE ON THE BEAT Some police departments have seen staff reduced as police officers fight in Iraq, while resources that could be used to fight street crime get channelled into security at airports and other transit points seen as vulnerable after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Centre on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, said many U.S. cities cut programs that emphasized prevention, community-oriented policing and controls on the spread of guns, often citing budget cuts. Boston is now reviving some of those ideas. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced on May 10 a $15 million (7.6 million pound) anti-crime plan to add more police as Boston grapples with 22 murders reported this year, on pace with last year's tally, which was one murder shy of a 10-year high hit in 2005. Boston stands out because it was seen as a national leader in halting violent crime in the late 1990s, when politicians basked in what became known as the Boston Miracle. Homicides collapsed 77 percent from 1990 to 1997 and the city went for almost two years without a homicide against anybody under 18. The violent crime rate started to rise again nationwide during the recession of 2001 and 2002, when many state governments, local city governments and the Feds cut back on their crime-fighting efforts, said Levin. In Boston, we are now putting more police on the streets in crime hot spots and we are also increasing the number of after-school programs and summer jobs. They are not up to the level that they were in the middle 1990s. But we're doing a better job than we did two years ago, he said. One sign that future crime rates could worsen is an uneven economy and frail consumer sentiment, said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminal justice expert at University of Missouri-St. Louis. He tracks crime rates in big U.S. cities against the Reuters/ University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, which fell to an eight- month low in April on rising gasoline prices and troubles in the housing market. The index, he said, is emerging as a comparatively potent predictor of property crime and robbery. Just as the economy is sending out mixed signals, that's what were getting in the crime statistics right now, he said. Wexler's data at the Police Executive Research Forum, compiled from 56 police jurisdictions, showed murder up 2.89 percent in 2006, robberies climbing 6.48 percent but aggravated assaults down 2.2 percent. Some big cities -- Dallas, Denver and Washington -- posted sharp declines in murder rates. The FBI's latest report, in December, showed violent
[osint] Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Invade US
http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=7169 Tens of Thousands of Criminal Aliens Invade US; Senate Lie of Immigration Reform Jim Kouri May 18, 2007 It's old news that Presidente Vicente Fox exported Mexico's poorest citizens into the United States for a number of reasons: It relieved him of the responsibility of providing social and healthcare services for them; it provides his country's economy with an influx of US cash when these illegal workers send money the earn in the US back home; and it defuses problems with far-left groups who are usually successful in using the poor to advance their political agenda. So Presidente Fox gave his poor the bum's rush out of Mexico: Here's your sombrero, here's a map, here's a bottle of water, now get out! But there is another benefit to the exportation of Mexicans into the US -- Mexico saves money on his criminal justice system by exporting his criminal population to the United States. Thus, Mexico's crime problem becomes our crime problem; his prison problem becomes our prison problem. According to Lt. Steve Rogers, a decorated cop and award-winning writer, there are tens of thousands of murderers, rapists, child predators, robbers and drug dealers who are illegally in the United States. One study shows over 200,000 criminal aliens are preying on US citizens. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson, AZ Sector have apprehended 27,834 illegal aliens with criminal records, 74 of which were for homicide. Last fiscal year, the Tucson Sector apprehended 14,506 illegal aliens with criminal records. These figures do not include the thousands of criminal aliens apprehended by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents or those in other Border Patrol sectors in other states. And it doesn't include the tens of thousands of criminal aliens who are able to escape detect at the border. Meanwhile our political leaders are trying to scam Americans with phony reform legislation which will actually reward lawbreakers and increase the number of illegal who will flood our borders to partake of the giveaways. For instance, part of the Senate bill will allow illegals to pay instate (lower) college tuition, while citizens will have to pay higher tuition is they live out-of-state. This scam goes beyond political parties -- Republicans and Democrats are both in on it. Congressmen on both sides of the aisle repeatedly display how they can talk out of both sides of their mouths depending on whom they're addressing. For instance, recently in New York, Senator Hillary Clinton told a cheering crowd that the United States had to protect our borders and deal with illegal immigration. She acknowledged it was a key component of the US homeland security strategy -- to prevent terrorists and weapons, including nuclear weapons, from entering the US. The former first lady blasted President Bush on border security in a statement posted to her official Senate Web site: This administration has failed to provide the resources to protect our borders, or a better system to keep track of entrants to this country, she complained, adding, I welcome the addition of more border security. In the past she has claimed to be adamantly against illegal immigrants. But, according to the Washington Times, Clinton and her fellow New York Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer turned thumbs down on two amendments to a Department of Homeland Security spending bill, which would have funded 2,000 new Border Patrol agents and more than 5,000 new detention beds to house illegal aliens. Our political leaders are talking one way, yet voting another way on the issues of border security and illegal immigration, warns Congressmen Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter. These so-called leaders are playing politics with the most important issue of our time -- Homeland Security. Clinton, like so many Democrats and Republicans, attempts to appear as if she's a national-security hawk. The reality is many are trying once again to pull the wool over Americans' eyes. They are willing to trade public safety for votes. Meanwhile, law enforcement commanders are finding themselves overwhelmed with criminal aliens perpetrating serious crimes such as homicides, rapes, child sexual abuse, robberies and others. It's time Americans notify their elected officials that they are not going to be scammed with empty rhetoric, says Lt Rogers. Meanwhile, the so-called states of emergency in New Mexico and Arizona are disingenuous. Between the two states only 56 National Guard troops were mobilized and sent to the Mexican border. I've seen more troops mobilized during a snowstorm, says one police chief. [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]
[osint] Prelude to the 6 Days
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer051807.php3?printer_friendl y Jewish World Review http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ May 18, 2007 / 1 Sivan, 5767 Prelude to the Six Days By Charles Krauthammer http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | There has hardly been a Middle East peace plan in the past 40 years - including the current Saudi version - that does not demand a return to the status quo of June 4, 1967. Why is that date so sacred? Because it was the day before the outbreak of the Six-Day War in which Israel scored one of the most stunning victories of the 20th century. The Arabs have spent four decades trying to undo its consequences. In fact, the real anniversary should be now, three weeks earlier. On May 16, 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Nasser ordered the evacuation from the Sinai Peninsula of the U.N. buffer force that had kept Israel and Egypt at peace for 10 years. The United Nations complied, at which point Nasser imposed a naval blockade of Israel's only outlet to the south, the port of Eilat - an open act of war. How Egypt came to this reckless provocation is a complicated tale (chronicled in Michael Oren's magisterial Six Days of War) of aggressive intent compounded with miscommunication and, most fatefully, disinformation. The Soviet Union had reported urgently and falsely to its Middle East clients, Syria and Egypt, that Israel was massing troops on the Syrian border for an attack. Israel desperately tried to disprove this charge by three times inviting the Soviet ambassador in Israel to visit the front. He refused. The Soviet warnings led to a cascade of intra-Arab maneuvers that in turn led Nasser, the champion of pan-Arabism, to mortally confront Israel with a remilitarized Sinai and a southern blockade. Why is this still important? Because that three-week period between May 16 and June 5 helps explain Israel's 40-year reluctance to give up the fruits of that war - the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Gaza - in return for paper guarantees of peace. Israel had similar guarantees from the 1956 Suez war, after which it evacuated the Sinai in return for that U.N. buffer force and for assurances from the Western powers of free passage through the Straits of Tiran. All this disappeared with a wave of Nasser's hand. During those three interminable weeks, President Lyndon Johnson did try to rustle up an armada of countries to run the blockade and open Israel's south. The effort failed dismally. It is hard to exaggerate what it was like for Israel in those three weeks. Egypt, already in an alliance with Syria, formed an emergency military pact with Jordan. Iraq, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Libya and Morocco began sending forces to join the coming fight. With troops and armor massing on Israel's every frontier, jubilant broadcasts in every Arab capital hailed the imminent final war for the extermination of Israel. We shall destroy Israel and its inhabitants, declared PLO head Ahmed Shuqayri, and as for the survivors - if there are any - the boats are ready to deport them. For Israel, the waiting was excruciating and debilitating. Israel's citizen army had to be mobilized. As its soldiers waited on the various fronts for the world to rescue the nation from its peril, Israeli society ground to a halt and its economy began bleeding to death. Army Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, later to be hailed as a war hero and even later as a martyred man of peace, had a nervous breakdown. He was incapacitated to the point of incoherence by the unbearable tension of waiting with the life of his country in the balance, knowing that waiting too long would allow the armies of 100 million Arabs to strike first his country of 3 million. We know the rest of the story. Rabin did recover in time to lead Israel to victory. But we forget how perilous was Israel's condition. The victory hinged on a successful attack on Egypt's air force on the morning of June 5. It was a gamble of astonishing proportions. Israel sent the bulk of its 200-plane air force on the mission, fully exposed to antiaircraft fire and missiles. Had they been detected and the force destroyed, the number of planes remaining behind to defend the Israeli homeland - its cities and civilians - from the Arab air forces' combined 900 planes was . . . 12. We also forget that Israel's occupation of the West Bank was entirely unsought. Israel begged King Hussein of Jordan to stay out of the conflict. Engaged in fierce combat with a numerically superior Egypt, Israel had no desire to open a new front just yards from Jewish Jerusalem and just miles from Tel Aviv. But Nasser personally told Hussein that Egypt had destroyed Israel's air force and airfields and that total victory was at hand. Hussein could not resist the temptation to join the fight. He joined. He lost. The world will soon be awash with 40th-anniversary retrospectives of the war - and
[osint] The Collapse of American Culture
What we don't know is whether America will become a Mexican country or an Islamic country 50 or 100 years from now. If the Mexicans take over, it will only be a matter of time before they too are destroyed by Islam. Not a pretty picture for America, but it will happen if we don't wake up and start defending our American culture against all aggressors. http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/24785.html The Collapse of American Culture A current article from Swedish writer, Fjordman, titled http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2065 Jihad and the Collapse of the Swedish Model, presents a look at present day Sweden which will soon become a model for all of Europe and eventually the United States of America if it's allowed to continue. The problem in the United States will be even worse with two foreign factions fighting for control of the country, Islam, and the invaders from Mexico. Forty some years ago, many Americans realized that population growth in America would soon exceed the ability of our natural resources to support it. We adopted new forms of birth control and brought our population growth under control. Now, over the past 15 years, invaders from Mexico have been illegally entering our country and cranking out babies like rabbits. As a result, population growth in America has increased ten fold and they're not even Americans. This year the population exceeded 300 million thanks to contributions from Mexico and liberal immigration policies. In a relatively short period of time, foreigners in many American cities will outnumber Americans, just as they are now doing in Los Angeles and San Diego, Ca. And just as is now happening in Sweden, our national culture will be trampled on and replaced by foreign culture. Politicians will be elected of and by foreign invaders and their supporters on the Left, just as they are now doing in Los Angeles. Once elected to office, they can then begin changing our laws to encourage and legitimize more foreign influence on our country and culture. People like me who favor preserving American culture and oppose losing it to, and having it replaced by alien cultures, will be branded as racists and hate mongers and drummed out of public view by liberal socialists who bow at the alter of cultural diversity and political correctness all in the interest of using minorities with little knowledge of, or loyalty to American culture, as a voter base to increase their political power. If you speak out against illegal invaders from Mexico in our country and want them deported, you are a racist and insensitive to their needs. If you speak out against the Islamic culture and demonstrate it's incompatibility with American culture, you are labeled a racist and Islamophobic and must be silenced. You cannot be allowed to oppose the future voter base of the Democratic Party. In July, 2005, radio talk-show host Michael Graham was suspended by station WMAL-AM for describing Islam as a terrorist organization on his program after complaints from the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim extremist supporting organization itself. A new book, http://www.samsonblinded.org/ Samson Blinded by Obadiah Shoher, presents a stark and realistic look at the political conflict between Israel and Islam. Only by shedding liberal idealism the West can win against Islamists. Advocating political rationalism, Shoher deplores ideological myths, and argues for separating politics from moralism. Because the book is critical of Islam and appeasement policies, Yahoo and Google banned Shoher's book site from their advertising programs for unacceptable content, Amazon deleted the reviews, GoDaddy cancelled hosting, JewishBlogging.com refused to list Shoher's blog as Jewish, and Booksurge terminated the publishing contract. According to a recent WND news article American Airlines is blocking World Net Daily as a hate site for publishing the truth about Islam. World Net Daily is a hate site? WND is a major news website that isn't afraid to publish the truth when others won't. Yes, some of their writers are experts on terror and highly critical of Islam, but someone has to be or the truth will never be known. Americans cannot continue to be dumbed down by political correctness. According to several subscribers to NewsWithViews.Com's newsletter, companies such as Earthlink and SBC Global are intentionally blocking delivery of NWV's e-mail to subscribers. According to NewsBusters, the article that first broke this story on May 19 cannot be found by doing a Google News search even though other recent articles by NewsBusters can. Google News has stopped disseminating news content from New Media Journal. After sending the Google Help Desk a query concerning the matter, Managing Editor, Frank Salvato, was informed that there had been complaints of hate speech directed at his website, and as a result, New Media Journal would no longer be part of Google News. As
[osint] 86 year old Christian woman forcibly converted to Islam
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article11126 86 year old Christian woman forcibly converted to Islam Conversion comes after her husband is accused of blasphemy LAHORE, PAKISTAN - The 86 year old wife of a Christian man, who was accused of setting the Quran, the Muslim holy book on fire on May 9, has been forcibly converted to Islam. This was stated by the National Director of Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) in an ANS interview on May 15. Walter Fazal Khan, 84, a retired section officer got into trouble when his driver, Raja Riaz, accused his master of torching the Quran Walter remarried Gladdis after demise of his first wife. Three of their four children are abroad while one of their son Najam is living in Pakistan. With mutual consent the couple allowed Gladdis' nephew Raja Riaz who has converted from Christianity to Islam to live in their house and serve as a driver. The records reveal his Christian name as David, Francis told ANS. Some time back Gladdis gifted all her property to her son, Najam. This angered Raja Riaz who allegedly plotted to trap Walter Fazal Khan in a bid to get Gladdis property. Raja filed a case against Najam and the court had fixed May 10 as the date for hearing. Francis quoted Raja Riaz as saying in his petition he moved in a civil court that Gladdis is a widow and Najam had confiscated her property illegally. He alleged that Raja had wanted to kill his master on May 9 so that he could prove Gladdis as a widow in the court on May 10. In line with his alleged plot, Francis revealed that Riaz' daughter set Quran to fire on May 9 while his son clamored to attract the attention of the people of the area. At that time Walter was taking bath. The Police arrested him as he came out of the washroom with a towel wrapped around his waist, Francis told ANS. Francis regretted that Walter's house has been occupied by a Muslim cleric, who he said wants to build a Madressah (religious school) there. He alleged Raja in collusion with Muslim clerics had forcibly converted Gladdis to Islam. She is kept in her house which has been occupied by a cleric now, he said. We are trying to recover Gladdis through High Court, said Joseph Francis. When ANS asked him what CLAAS was going to do to help some 500-600 Christians of Charsadda district confronting the threat to convert to Islam, Francis said they were soon leaving for a fact-finding mission in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. This indicates Talibanization of Pakistan has set in motion. Condemning the six party religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) sponsored Apostasy Bill he feared if the bill became law it would pose a serious threat to the forcibly converted Christians who we recover through High Court. We are deadly against the bill. Every Pakistani citizen should be free to adopt any religion he wants. There are non-believers in Christian states shall they kill them, he argued. He said even the atheists are not immune from God's blessings. Joseph termed the bill as inhuman. To a question he said they had long been campaigning for the repeal of Pakistan Blasphemy Laws. The blasphemy law continues to be abused because of its vague formulation, which allows arbitrary enforcement. In addition, it only takes the testimony of four Muslims to bring about a conviction. It is not worthy that in several cases complaints have been made on the insistence of local clerics or members of the Islamic parties. The motives are varied and some seem to be purely because the accused is a member of minority faith. In other cases, this fact is exacerbating by economic or professional rivalry, said an excerpt from the paper Joseph Francis read on March 28, 2007 while addressing UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. He handed a copy of the paper to ANS during the interview. Francis said he had apprised the members of the European Parliament of the situation confronting Pakistani Christian in his address on April 19, 2007. He said he highlighted the constitutional discrimination with religious minorities in Pakistan besides updating his audience on Blasphemy Laws, Hudood Laws, Law of Evidence, Fundamentalist groups, minority prisoners and forced conversion. On April 18 in Amsterdam he said he met with members of Dutch Parliament as well as members of ruling United Christian Democratic party and its ally Christian Union party. He said he also held talks with members of Labour Party. We appealed to them to give refugee status to the ones who have been acquitted in forced conversion and blasphemy cases, he said. Today Christian girls, especially minors are the prime targets of Muslims, who in order to get admission in paradise abduct these girls, rape them and escape from the law .forcibly convert them to Islam, Francis said while addressing the European Parliament on March 19. In the wake of 9/11, the 7/7 London bombings and Danish cartoon issue of the Prophet
[osint] New Terror: Cells With No Links to Al Qaeda
New Terror: Cells With No Links to Al Qaeda By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628582/site/newsweek/ May 21, 2007 issue - The men who gathered inside the small Bronx apartment were tense, and they chatted nervously before the ceremony. The participants, among them a New York City musician and an emergency-room doctor from Florida, had allegedly gathered to meet a brother from Canada who called himself Ali. The brother had come with a message-from Sheik Osama. You are in the belly of the enemy, the man from Canada warned, and cautioned his audience to be careful whom they spoke to. The oppressors are everywhere. Once it was clear they all understood, the jazz musician bent to his knees, clutched the visitor's hand and took a solemn oath. He pledged to be one of Islam's soldiers ... on the road to jihad. The doctor allegedly did the same. Then they each embraced the oath giver, the final step in Al Qaeda's sacred initiation ritual. An audiotape of that extraordinary scene played in a federal courtroom last week as one of the initiates, Dr. Rafiq Sabir, a graduate of Columbia University Medical School, stood trial on federal charges that he provided material support to terrorists. What Sabir and the others didn't know when they attended the ceremony two years ago was that the man administering the oath was not really a jihadist, but Ali Soufan, an undercover FBI agent who had spent the better part of his career hunting Qaeda operatives. Sabir's defense lawyer has cried entrapment. The accused himself later testified he had no idea that the Sheik Osama he was heard pledging his loyalty to was the Qaeda terror chief named bin Laden. But the musician, an accomplished jazz bassist named Tarik Shah who once played with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, has already pleaded guilty to a terror-related charge. So have two other men in the case, a Washington, D.C., cabdriver and a Brooklyn bookstore owner. The FBI counts the case as one more victory in what it considers to be its top-priority mission: finding would-be terrorists before they can carry out their plans. Federal officials say the case-along with a half dozen other recent investigations-is part of a worrisome trend: copycat jihadist cells that spring up inside the United States without any concrete connection to Qaeda central or other foreign terror organizations. Concerns were reinforced last week when the Justice Department announced it had busted a plot by six men-including four ethnic Albanians, three of whom had entered the country illegally more than 20 years ago-to attack Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. The Feds say the men undertook firearms training in the Pocono mountains and conducted surveillance of Fort Dix and other U.S. military facilities. But they weren't exactly professional conspirators. The men made a video of themselves shooting guns and shouting God is great in Arabic, and took it to a local Circuit City to have DVD copies made. A store employee, alarmed by the content, called the police. The group ended up talking to undercover federal informants about acquiring weapons, including fully automatic assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. (The men were charged but not indicted last week.) Homegrown groups lack the expertise of terrorists who undertake training in Qaeda camps, which probably makes them more prone to blunder. But terrorists overseas do aim to encourage such freelancers, who-in theory-are harder to identify and track because they can pop up anywhere. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are now using sophisticated English-language videos and Web sites to inspire followers in Europe and America to start their own jihadist cells. We have seen an increase in the number of self-radicalized groups that use the Internet ... and are not organized by overseas groups, FBI Director Robert Mueller told reporters last week. Al Qaeda puts out a steady supply of videos to inspire the faithful; last year the group produced 48. And they are no longer the clumsy and amateurish productions of a few years ago. Many have English subtitles or are narrated in perfect English by a man who calls himself Azzam the American-a California expat, born Adam Gadahn-who converted to Islam and joined Al Qaeda. Law-enforcement officials compare this to a Madison Avenue ad campaign. Al Qaeda is banking on the idea that if they pump up the volume and increase the number of messages, they'll be able to push fence-sitters over the edge, says a senior law-enforcement official who asked not to be named discussing intelligence issues. How effective is the propaganda? It's impossible to quantify. The New Jersey case seems to show that at least some believers get inspiration from what they can download from the Web. According to the FBI complaint in the case, one of the key figures in the plot had DVD files of the last will and testament of two of the 9/11 hijackers on his laptop.
[osint] Canada's major airports are vulnerable to terrorists and attackers bent on storming through preboarding checkpoints
Nearly all airports in the world are so vulnerable. B http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070520/cops_airports_0 70520/20070520?hub=Canada New studies show that there are still major gaps in airport security that can be exploited by terrorists. New studies show that there are still major gaps in airport security that can be exploited by terrorists. (file) Airport checkpoints vulnerable to attack: report Updated Sun. May. 20 2007 5:19 PM ET Canadian Press OTTAWA -- Canada's major airports are vulnerable to terrorists and attackers bent on storming through preboarding checkpoints with weapons, says a newly released report. The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority wants a beefed-up police presence, and faster response times by airport cops, to protect lives put at risk by this critical gap'' in security. Typically the police response at (major) airports occurs in less than five minutes,'' says an internal CATSA report obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. However, even within a one- or two-minute time period, a terrorist or other attacker can cause significant damage and fatal and non-fatal injuries to people at the screening line. CATSA's screening officers face this threat every day. There are few possible options to respond to this threat.'' The security authority, a Crown corporation created in 2002 to improve and standardize airport passenger screening after the 9-11 attacks, has no policing function. Its 4,400 screening officers, under contract at 89 Canadian airports, lack any powers of arrest and detention whenever a screening incident occurs. Instead, they rely on local airport police to respond to alarms within a minimum number of minutes mandated by Transport Canada regulations, though the actual time frame is kept secret for security reasons. CATSA wants to shorten the minimum response time and have an enhanced police presence'' at checkpoints, says the heavily censored 2006 report. Currently, CATSA helps subsidize a hodgepodge of air-terminal policing, from city cops at some airports, to provincial police and RCMP at others. A consultant hired by the security authority to review policing reported in late 2005 that each airport functions completely in isolation of the others and there is no national reporting standard or training associated therewith. ... Consequently, in an operational crisis, one could not reasonably expect a consistent response from one airport to another.'' The consulting firm questioned why the federal government standardized passenger screening but left policing to local airport authorities, an issue also raised in a 2003 Senate committee report. CATSA officers intercepted 650,000 prohibited items last year, some of them dangerous weapons, says the newly released report. Passengers carrying prohibited items such as knives, bullets, kubatons, and pepper spray routinely try to go through PBS (preboard screening) and might challenge screening officers.'' A kubaton is a truncheon with a key ring on one end. In a September 2005 meeting with about 50 Winnipeg airport employees, the agency was told of a rise in unruly passengers and verbal abuse directed towards screening officers from both passengers and non-passengers.'' A spokeswoman for CATSA said the agency called in the cops about 300 times last year because of threatening passengers. On at least one occasion several years ago, a passenger threw a cup of scalding coffee at a screening officer, said Anna-Karina Tabunar. But so far, there have been no injuries directly resulting from slow police response times. There has not been any incident where anyone was put in danger because of delayed response,'' Tabunar said in an interview. Even so, the current minimum needs to be tightened, she said. This is an area that could be improved. ... The time could be shortened.'' Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon is currently reviewing a series of proposals to improve airport security, including making his own department primarily responsible for airport policing as well as reducing response times for CATSA checkpoint incidents. A spokeswoman for Cannon, Natalie Sarafian, said the minister is still reviewing the recommendations. She could not say when he plans to announce his decisions. Last week, Transport Canada proposed new regulations that would give airlines more legal clout to bar abusive passengers from flights. The government says about 250 disruptive incidents take place on Canadian planes annually. 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] --
[osint] The Little Muslim Mermaid
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/05/the_little_musl.html Sunday, May 20, 2007 The Little Muslim Mermaid http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized /2007/05/20/mermaid_burka.jpg Mermaid_burka http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_on_re_eu/denmark_little_mermaid Mermaid statue draped in Muslim dress AP hat tip TRK COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The Little Mermaid statue in Denmark's capital was found draped in a Muslim dress and head scarf Sunday morning. Police removed the clothing after a telephone caller reported it, spokesman Jorgen Thomsen said. The statue sculpted in tribute to author Hans Christian Andersen draws about 1 million visitors a year and is targeted occasionally by vandals. On Tuesday, the statue's face, left arm and lap were found doused with red paint. It just gets weirder and weirder over there. That poor mermaid has been defaced (here http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/05/17/mermaid-copenhagen-vandal .html?ref=rss ) In addition to the paint assaults over the years, Eriksen's 1.5-metre bronze has been beheaded, toppled from its perch - which can be easily reached from a stone walkway and nearby rocks - pawed by tourists seeking a close-up peek, had one arm sliced off, and been accessorized with sex toys, sashes and other objects. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Kansas Congressman Rebukes Mayor on Guns
http://www.nysun.com/article/54886 Kansas Congressman Rebukes Mayor on Guns By http://www.nysun.com/authors/Russell+Berman RUSSELL BERMAN Staff Reporter of the Sun May 21, 2007 WASHINGTON - Rep. Todd Tiahrt is Mayor Bloomberg's bogeyman, the congressional embodiment of what the mayor says is a powerful lobby allowing illegal guns to flow onto the city's streets. As part of his national campaign against illegal guns, Mr. Bloomberg has targeted Mr. Tiahrt aggressively, even running television ads in his Kansas district that tell voters that a law their congressman sponsored is helping criminals, not the police. The veteran Republican lawmaker has stayed mostly quiet in the face of the onslaught, but now he is fighting back. In a 30-minute interview in his office last week, Mr. Tiahrt accused Mr. Bloomberg and his aides of negotiating in bad faith, and he says the famously nonpartisan mayor is putting politics over police safety. I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers, Mr. Tiahrt said. The measure he has sponsored, known as the Tiahrt amendment, puts limits on the use of gun tracing data by law enforcement agencies and in civil litigation. City officials argue that it ties their hands in aggressively prosecuting gun crimes and getting illegal guns off the streets. Mr. Tiahrt says the opposite is true. Repealing the amendment, which has passed Congress each year since 2003, could endanger undercover police officers by making aspects of their investigations available to the public, he said. They could be, by looking at the trace data, ferreted out, or discerned, and that would place them in jeopardy as well, he said. To city officials, Mr. Tiahrt's claims are beside the point. In the eyes of City Hall, the congressman is a foot soldier for the National Rifle Association and a spokesman for the gun industry. And to Mr. Tiahrt, Mr. Bloomberg is using a passion for gun control as a plank in a national, if not presidential, campaign. Mr. Tiahrt, 55, is a former Boeing executive first elected to Congress in 1994. A lifetime member of the NRA, he is a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment, saying guns in the hands of private citizens act as a deterrent to criminals. He owns about a dozen guns himself, some for collecting and others for hunting. I have more guns than I need and not as many as I want, he said with a laugh. In the interview, he also offered a glimpse of Mr. Bloomberg's personal style, as the mayor first tried to persuade Mr. Tiahrt to agree to changes in the legislation before taking a more hard-charging approach. The courtship began with charm - the mayor sent the congressman a copy of his book with a personal inscription - but soured before long. Mr. Tiahrt met with Mr. Bloomberg and his aides in the congressman's Capitol Hill office on January 23, while the mayor was in town for a summit on illegal guns. He described the meeting as cordial, saying he presented himself as open to negotiating on some areas of the legislation - allowing the sharing of aggregate trace data - while not budging on others, such as the use of the data in civil litigation. He characterized City Hall officials as less open to compromise. It became very clear to me that they didn't want to come to some sort of agreed settlement on something that would be good for police officers and effective for catching criminals, Mr. Tiahrt said. They wanted to go to where the mayor wanted to go, and they wanted to do it at the peril of undercover police officers. Within three months of that initial meeting, Mr. Bloomberg, through his coalition against illegal guns, had unleashed television ads in Mr. Tiahrt's district, along with the districts of other key members of the House Appropriations Committee. In the ad that ran in Wichita, Kan., a narrator urges constituents: Ask Representative Tiahrt why he voted to protect criminals, instead of cops. How many people actually saw the ad targeting Mr. Tiahrt is another question. Two stations in Wichita refused to run it, questioning its accuracy and calling it misleading. Mr. Tiahrt said he called the mayor when he heard about the ad last month. Mr. Bloomberg told him things weren't moving fast enough and that the advertising might speed up the process, the congressman said. Mr. Tiahrt wasn't buying it. For him to use these ads to try to make something happen doesn't make any sense, he said of the mayor. It's just that he's trying to push this political agenda. City Hall tells a vastly different version of events and blames Mr. Tiahrt for causing the impasse. The city's criminal justice coordinator, John Feinblatt, said Mr. Tiahrt never followed up on the January meeting and infuriated city officials by secretly offering a proposal for a revised bill that would have stiffened the Tiahrt amendment by tightening restrictions on the use of trace data in civil suits. The changes, Mr. Feinblatt said,
[osint] Canadians want to exit dirty war in Afghanistan
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5300/1/32/ Canadians want to exit dirty war in Afghanistan Even before the full impact of revelations about the treatment of prisoners captured in Afghanistan hits home, recent polls showed that a majority of Canadians want to end our military role in that country. The Tories and the corporate media (including the CBC, with its massive coverage of the visit by retired NHL players and the Stanley Cup to Kandahar) are going all-out to support the war effort. But anti-war sentiments have crystallized as the majority view, and further Canadian casualties seem likely to strengthen that position. A Strategic Counsel poll taken in April asked, How long should Canadian troops stay in Afghanistan?. The largest number of respondents (46%) said return as soon as possible; stay until original commitment in 2007 - 18%; stay until our new commitment in 2009 - 8%; stay as long as it takes to rebuild and stabilize the country - 5%; don't know/no answer/ refuse - 5%. The same survey found that 57% of respondents believe that Canadians oppose sending troops to Afghanistan, while just 36% think that Canadians support sending troops. Also in April, Angus Reid Strategies asked about this statement: Canada should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan before their mandate ends in February 2009. 52% of respondents agreed, 34% disagreed, and 14% were not sure. One of the most recent polls, conducted by SES Research in early May, found that 54.6% of respondents agreed that If the casualties continue, Canada should pull out of Afghanistan. SES also asked people to rate the Harper government on this issue. 18.4% of those surveyed agreed with the Conservative government's management of the mission, and another 25.5% somewhat agreed, for a total of 43.9%. That was less than those who disagreed (34.0%), and another 14.3% who somewhat disagreed, for a total of 48.3%. Another 7.8% were not sure. Most of these surveys came before a story by Paul Koring in the April 25 Globe and Mail revealed in late April that the Harper government knew from its own officials that prisoners held by Afghan security forces faced the possibility of torture, abuse and extrajudicial killing... But the government has eradicated every single reference to torture and abuse in prison from a heavily blacked-out version of a report prepared by Canadian diplomats in Kabul and released under an access to information request. The government denied the existence of the report until complaints to the Access to Information Commissioner forced it to release a heavily edited version. An unedited copy obtained by the Globe and Mail states that Extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture and detention without trial are all too common. The Foreign Affairs report (Afghanistan-2006; Good Governance, Democratic Development and Human Rights) seems to remove any last vestige of doubt that the senior officials and ministers knew that torture and abuse were rife in Afghan jails, Koring wrote. The findings are similar to reports by Louise Arbour, the UN Human Rights Commissioner, the U.S. State Department, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, and various international human-rights groups. But the information had a huge impact in Parliament, where the Harper government veered wildly between claims that it was not aware of the fate of detainees, to the attitude that such detainees were guilty and deserved to face torture and death. Most seriously for the government, the information makes it clear that Canada has refused to adhere to the Geneva Conventions rules for safeguarding transferred detainees from torture and abuse. The report, said Koring, makes repeated dark references to the reputation and performance of Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, or intelligence police, which receives most prisoners captured by Canadian troops. With the blood of Afghan detainees on its hands, it will now become even more difficult for the federal government to pose as the defender of human rights in Afghanistan. That problem will become even more critical for supporters of the war if the full truth about the situation of women in Afghanistan becomes more widely known. In an April 10 speech in Los Angeles, courageous female Afghan MP Malalai Joya told listeners that The US government removed the ultra-reactionary and brutal regime of Taliban, but instead of relying on Afghan people, pushed us from the frying pan into the fire and selected its friends from among the most dirty and infamous criminals of the `Northern Alliance', which is made up of the sworn enemies of democracy and human rights, and are as dark-minded, evil, and cruel as the Taliban Today the Northern alliance leaders are the key power holders and our people are hostage in the hands of these ruthless gangs of killers. Many of them are responsible for butchering tens of thousands of innocent people in the past two
[osint] 14 killed, 31 injured as bomber targets U.S. convoy in Afghanistan
http://www.buffalonews.com/180/story/80573.html 14 killed, 31 injured as bomber targets U.S. convoy in Afghanistan GARDEZ, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber apparently targeting a U.S. convoy killed 14 people and wounded 31 Sunday in a crowded eastern Afghan market, witnesses and officials said. The powerful explosion in the city of Gardez damaged about 30 shops, shattering windows and destroying the closest stores. Witnesses said a U.S. convoy appeared to be the target. Maj. William Mitchell, a spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, said initial reports said NATO soldiers had been injured, though he didn't have further details. Nasar Ahmad, a 30-year-old shopkeeper whose three cousins were seriously wounded in the blast, said he saw a U.S. convoy driving through the city just before the explosion. I heard a strong blast and then saw a fireball go up, Ahmad said in his hospital bed. For 10 minutes, I couldn't hear, and I didn't know where I was. I saw a lot of people injured lying in the street. Shah Mohammad, 19, said all those killed or wounded by the blast were Afghan civilians. The convoy had already passed when the attack happened, he said. A day earlier, a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan had killed three German soldiers and seven civilians. Ghulam Hazrat Majedi, the doctor in charge of the Gardez hospital, said two of the wounded were in critical condition. In the eastern province of Ghazni, 30 Taliban fighters were killed Saturday during a battle between coalition and Afghan forces, said Mohammad Qazam Allayar, the deputy provincial governor. He said 18 Taliban were injured and 11 arrested. Violence in Afghanistan has increased sharply in the last several weeks. More than 1,600 people have been killed in insurgency- related violence this year, according to an AP count based on reports from U.S., NATO and Afghan officials. The dead have mostly been militants, but about 300 civilians also have been killed. A coalition statement said that, in recent days, Afghan and coalition operations have resulted in the removal of over 100 enemy fighters. The coalition's press office said it wasn't immediately clear what the word removal meant. The statement said local Afghans are increasingly cooperative. The people have said, 'Enough to the bloodshed and intimidation,' and are reporting criminals and insurgents. They are also closing off their lands and villages to them, said Maj. Donald Korpi, a spokesman with the unit involved in the Ghazni battles. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] 21 suspected Islamic radicals to go on trial in Mauritania
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/21/africa/AF-GEN-Mauritania-Islamist- Trial.php 21 suspected Islamic radicals accused of terror link to go on trial in Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: The trial of 21 suspected Islamic extremists, some of whom are accused of ties to the terrorist group behind a deadly attack in the Algerian capital last month, begins Monday. Seven of the suspects are Mauritanian natives and are accused of having received military training from the al-Qaida-linked Salafist Group for Call and Combat in Algeria, said attorney Ahmed Ould Youssouf, head of a national association of Mauritanian lawyers. The aim of their training was to commit acts of terrorism in Mauritania and to wage war against foreign armies in Iraq, Youssouf said. The group consists of men arrested in April 2005, as well as a second group arrested in June of that year and accused of mounting an attack on a Mauritanian army garrison that killed 17 soldiers and wounded 69 others. Algeria's Salafist Group for Call and Combat, which changed its name to al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa when it announced its alliance with al-Qaida in January, is on the U.S. list of terrorist organizations. The group claimed responsibility for twin bombings on April 11 in Algiers that killed 30 people. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] PEANUT FARMER EX-PREZ blasts Bush, Blair on Iraq
http://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=2007\05\05-20\zalsoz\924.h tm http://english.alarabonline.org/display.asp?fname=2007\05\05-20\zalsoz\924. htmdismode=xts=20/05/2007%2003:09:33%20ã dismode=xts=20/05/2007%2003:09:33%20ã US ex-president blasts Bush, Blair on Iraq Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter blasted George W. Bush's presidency as the worst in history in international relations and denounced British Prime Minister Tony Blair's loyal relationship with Bush in interviews released on Saturday. I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history, Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, said in a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from the Carter Center in Atlanta. The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including (those of) George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me, Carter told the newspaper. In an interview on Britain's BBC radio, Carter slammed Blair, who leaves office next month, for his tight relations with Bush, particularly concerning the Iraq war. Abominable. Loyal, blind, apparently subservient, Carter said when asked how he would characterize Blair's relationship with Bush. I think that the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world, Carter said. Carter, who was president from 1977-1981 and won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his charitable work, was an outspoken opponent of the invasion of Iraq before it was launched in 2003. In the newspaper interview, Carter said Bush had taken a radical departure from all previous administration policies with the Iraq war. We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered, he said. But that's been a radical departure from all previous administration policies. The White House declined to comment on his statements, but the Republican National Committee struck back at Carter. Most Americans will probably take his criticisms with a grain of salt considering he also challenged Ronald Reagan's strategy for the Cold War, and history has since proven him wrong, said RNC spokeswoman Amber Wilkerson. Carter told the BBC that if Blair had opposed the invasion he could have reduced the ensuing harm by making it tougher for Washington to shrug off critics, even if the British prime minister had not been able to stop the war. It would certainly have assuaged the problems that have (arisen) lately, Carter said. One of the defenses of the Bush administration in America and worldwide ... has been: 'Okay, we must be more correct in our actions than the world thinks because Great Britain is backing us,' Carter said. I think the combination of Bush and Blair giving their support to this tragedy in Iraq has strengthened the effort and has made opposition less effective and has prolonged the war and increased the tragedy that has resulted, he told the BBC. Blair, who made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday, has said he will step down in June. His Labour Party has named his long-serving finance minister, Gordon Brown, to succeed him. Brown was a member of the Cabinet that voted in favor of the war, but has said mistakes were made in Iraq and he will review policy there. In the newspaper interview, Carter, who brokered the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, also criticized Bush's Middle East policies. For the first time since Israel was founded, we've had zero peace talks to try to bring a resolution of differences in the Middle East. That's a radical departure from the past, Carter said. The criticism from Carter, which is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush's environmental policies and the administration's quite disturbing faith-based initiative funding. I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history, Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in yesterday's editions. Carter also said the administration abandoned or directly refuted every negotiated nuclear arms agreement, as well as environmental efforts by other presidents. Carter also offered a harsh assessment of the White House's Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives - created by Bush - which helped religious charities get $2.15 billion in federal grants in fiscal 2005 alone. The policy from the White House has been to allocate funds to religious institutions, even those that channel those funds exclusively to their own particular group of believers in a particular religion, Carter said. As a traditional Baptist, I've
[osint] Winds of War: Straight From the Camel's, uh, Jihadist Mo uth
http://www.bloggernews.net/16961 Winds of War: Straight From the Camel's, uh, Jihadist Mouth. This post was written by WC on 21 May, 2007 (08:43) | From http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/ The Gathering Storm Blog The Democrats and Leftists have been beating the inane drum of how we are creating more terrorists by fighting on the global front of Islamism in Iraq. You really can't expect any kind of educated analysis from those who are a product of a liberal education system. But that's another story. Let's see what the enemy thinks about the Iraq front against the Islamist Jihadists because if the Left actually thought about the meaning of the war they may find that the Jihadists don't agree with their analysis as http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/05/interview_with_a_foreign_fight.php this jihadist fighting in Iraq tells us. In regards to the bill in the U.S. Congress for the upcoming withdrawal from Iraq, I would comment that this is a normal response to what is occurring. It is the result of the efforts of your brothers among the mujahideen. our next step. is to establish an Islamic State. We will start by setting free all of the Muslim lands from the oppressor regimes. Of course, we have not forgotten about Palestine, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Andalusia [Spain], the Philippines, and all the other countries. The Islamic State of Iraq is seeking to export the jihad to neighboring countries. The jihad that began in Muslim Afghanistan and then spread to Iraq shall not stop there and will not be limited by any border. The Islamic State of Iraq will make sure the jihad will not stop until it reaches Jerusalem. We inform the Jews, we inform the lowlife Olmert, and we inform the apostate [Arab] rulers who support them that the jihad is here, Islam is here, and the followers of the Prophet are here. Got that dhimmicrats? Of course not. To them and the moonbats that support them what we have is just a http://michellemalkin.com/archives/006121.htm small minority of jihadists braying that they will takeover the world http://www.harvardhouse.com/Muhammads_prophecy_5.htm now and like in http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/ 1939, and training the next generation to hate http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/31/HAMAS.TMP now and like in http://www.crossroad.to/text/articles/tnmfobe1196.html 1939, and using intimidation and thuggery worldwide http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2005-10-22-egyptchurches_x.htm now and like in http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/knacht.html 1939. Get the picture, Dhimmicrats? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] How Britain encouraged terrorism - Part Four
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=9533 UK: How Britain encouraged terrorsm sic - Part Four Hamza arrived at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London in 1997. By this time, he had become a vocal exponent of radical Islam. Britain has long had a policy of accepting asylum seekers onto its shores. A noble policy in principle, it has allowed Islamists who are too extreme for their own Islamic countries to arrive and thrive. Within Britain, these individuals have been allowed to continue preaching their extremism, with little or no interference from the authorities. Individuals such as Omar Bakri Mohammed, Abu Qatada, Yasser al-Siri, http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/002488.html Mohammed al-Massari arrived as refugees seeking sanctuary, and then proceeded to agitate among British Muslims. One famous arrival was Abu Hamza al-Masri (pictured), the fiery former cleric of the Finsbury Park Mosque. Hamza arrived on http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article669525.ece July 13, 1979, not as a refugee, but on a one-month visitor's visa. Egyptian Hamza, real name Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, was not allowed to work according to the visa terms, but he did. He renewed the visa for a month and when this ran out, he did not renew it. On May 16, 1980 he married a British woman, Valerie Traverso, and in summer, 1982, he was allowed to live in Britain indefinitely. Traverso had left her husband Michael Macias, to marry Hamza. It was not until http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,925698,00.html 2003 that it was revealed her divorce from Macias did not happen until July 1982. The marriage which gave Hamza legitimate right to remain was itself illegitimate. In June 1984, Hamza moved to divorce Valerie, and the decree was issued on August 15, 1984. In October that year, Hamza married a young Moroccan woman and he became a UK citizen in 1986. By this time, Hamza (still called Mostafa) had shown little Islamic fervor, though when Valerie found he was cheating with an alleged prostitute he promised to become religious. Once his citizenship was secured, Hamza went traveling. When he left Britain, he still had two eyes and two hands. In 1987, while on the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca he met Sheikh Abdullah Azzam, founder of the Afghan Muhajideen, the group originally formed to fight the Soviets who had invaded in early 1979. Azzam and his sons were assassinated in Peshawar, Pakistan in November 1989. According to the BBC in http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3752517.stm 2004, Hamza shortly afterward this meeting packed his bags and went to Afghanistan, vowing never to return. The BBC promotes the lie which Hamza told, that he had gone to Jalalabad to engage in reconstruction work, and here he had lost both hands and one eye while clearing mines. Hamza came back to Britain in 1993 but by 1995 he had gone to Bosnia to provide support to the Muslims. The tale of how he lost his hands was doubted by British writer Farrukh Dhondy, who suggested in http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=5570 2003 that his injury ensued from a bomb-making gone wrong. In http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article641949.ece 2006, Omar Nasiri revealed the truth. Nasiri was a Moroccan, acting as an undercover agent for both French and UK intelligence. He described how he attended an Al Qaeda training camp in http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/index.php?id=811317 Darunta, Afghanistan, which was blown up by a US air strike on October 12, 2001. In the late 1990s in Darunta, Nasiri was told by his explosives tutor Assad Allah of an event that had occurred when Allah was a student. One fellow student had messed up his recipe for explosives, and rushed towards the door with the liquid timebomb in his hands. Just as he got outside, the mixture exploded. It blew both his hands straight off and destroyed one of his eyes. Nasiri asked if the person survived, and was told: Yes. He lives in London now, and preaches in the mosques. His name is Abu Hamza. Hamza arrived at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London in 1997. By this time, he had become a vocal exponent of radical Islam. With a group of henchmen he began to bully the trustees until he finally gained power there. Abdulkadir Barkatullah, one of the trustees, said that he had reported the thuggish behavior of Hamza and his associates to the polic on no less than http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article670249.ece seven occasions, but no action was taken. In the mid-1980s, before he had gone to Afghanistan, Hamza had already been reported to police by various mosque trustees for his bullying behavior. From 1997 onwards there was a power struggle at the mosque. When Hamza was not allowed to gain entry to the building, he and his followers would hold prayer sessions in a road near Finsbury Park underground station. The route of the 106 bus, which I used to take
[osint] Hezbollah sides with the terrorists in Lebanon
Of course, Hizballah IS terrorist. B http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2007/05/hezbollah_sides.php Hezbollah sides with the terrorists in Lebanon From Beirut to the Beltway More soldiers than terrorists have been killed in the battle between the Lebanese army and the Assad-backed terrorists in the north. The army that the Syrian regime turned into an ineffective police force to guard celebrities and usher social events, is facing its greatest challenge since the Hizbullah riots pit Lebanese against each other. Heavy artillery and machine-gun fire reverberated through Nahr al-Bared on Monday as Lebanese troops tightened their grip around the northern Palestinian refugee camp, where militants of the extremist Fatah al-Islam group are holed up. The death toll climbed to near 50, with the number of civilians killed inside the camp unknown. At least 27 soldiers and 20 militants had been killed, Lebanese security officials said Monday, but they did not know how many civilians had been killed inside the camp because it is off-limits to their authority. One official in the camp said a total of 34 people had been killed inside the camp, including 14 civilians. But that could not be independently confirmed, and other estimates of civilian deaths were lower. This battle cannot be won by Fatah al-Islam. They are outnumbered by the increasingly popular army, even though they seem to have a lot of weapons. The group, which the head of the Internal Security Forces called imitation al-Qaeda, consists of former Iraq fighters and international terrorists. That they all got into Lebanon with the help of Syrian intelligence should be a confirmation to all that the Assad regime is a major sponsor of world terror. According to An-Nahar, one of the killed terrorists was involved in the Ain Alaq bombings in February, and another was wanted over the 2006 plot to blow up trains in Germany. Even if the Lebanese army wins this one, the battle will not be over. The group is not confined to one refugee camp, and the Assad regime has grown other terrorist organizations in other camps in the south and near Beirut. The regime is also escalating its terror attacks. A car bomb exploded in the heart of Beirut last night, killing an old woman and wounding 19 others. Their terrorism will likely be escalated as we approach the establishment of the Hariri tribunal by the UNSC. There is also the terrorism of Hizbullah and Michel Aoun. In their condemnation statement, the Party of God did not name the terrorists, condemning instead any attack from whatever source on the Lebanese army. The statement expressed concern that there is an attempt to embroil the Lebanese army in a never ending struggle to serve known project. Hizbullah predicted that calls for escalation and fighting will spread chaos and create clashes in Lebanon. The Iranian-funded party then called for a political solution to end the current crisis, laying the blame on the ruling party. In other words, Hizbullah is siding against the Lebanese government and army by not even acknowledging Fatah al-Islam, or its sponsor, and blaming it on a US-Israeli conspiracy. It is ironic how they don't want the army to be engaged in a long struggle against terror, while they advocate permanent war against Israel. I shouldn't waste my breath by asking, but where is Hizbullah's defense strategy now? I should not forget that their weapons are designed to be magnets for destruction, and their strategy is to assist the Assad regime in destroying the country's state institutions. These multinational terrorists (Yemenis, Bengalis, etc) were allowed to flaunt their weapons because of Hizbullah's opposition to the disarmament of Palestinian factions (so all the terrorists needed to do is hijack one). These terrorists were empowered precisely because of Hizbullah's obstructive role, not to mention their occupation of downtown Beirut which is draining the embattled Lebanese army. As for Michel Aoun, he thought it was apt to prescribe a solution in the form of government resignation. While he seemingly supported the operation to root out the terrorists, he blamed the events on the government's focus on the weapons that liberated the land, describing Hizbullah's weapons as a source of stability, and ignoring that Hizbullah violated an agreement during the National Dialogue to do away with the Palestinians weapons. The crazed former general and his divine buddies might as well join Fatah al-Islam. The Lebanese army should not count on their support, but it should count on the support of the majority of Lebanese people, who still dream of the rule of law, even if many of them don't know what that requires. [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] Fight on, Lebanon--Fatah al-Islam wages Syria's war by proxy
http://www.freerepublic.com:80/focus/f-news/1837117/posts file:///C:/Program%20Files/Common%20Files/Microsoft%20Shared/Stationery/pos ts Fight on, Lebanon--Fatah al-Islam wages Syria's war by proxy. file:///C:/%5Ehttp://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=28392 FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | May 21, 2007 | Elias Bejjani In my capacity as the Lebanese Canadian Coordinating Council (LCCC) chairman, I strongly denounce the criminal attack against the Lebanese Army and Security Forces in North Lebanon over the weekend by gunmen of the Fatah al-Islam group which is affiliated - in decision-making and in weapons - with the Syrian Intelligence Services. The rulers in Damascus had brought in its mercenary fighters several months ago to the Palestinian Camps in Lebanon with the objective of stirring strife, creating an anarchy situation, obstructing the creation of the International Tribunal and, most importantly, prevent the rise of a strong self-reliant Lebanese State and institutions that would spread its control over every inch of Lebanese soil and disarm the militias and impose the rule of law. It is worth mentioning in this context that the Syrian intelligence militia, camouflaged under the name of Fatah al-Islam, was behind the bus bombing crime in the town of Ain Alaq in the North Meten Lebanese region that killed innocent Lebanese civilians this past February. The LCCC holds the Syrian regime and the Lebanese opposition in all its factions fully responsible for the bloody clashes and demands the Lebanese and international judiciary prosecute its leadership for the attacks it has committed on the legitimacy of the Lebanese State, obstructing the operation of its constitutional institutions, creating a state of security anarchy, undermining the Lebanese economy and impoverishing the Lebanese people and pushing them to emigrate. We urge the Army Command and the Lebanese government to deal decisively and with military means with the situation in the Nahr El-Bared Camp once and for all because not doing so will weaken the army and give the Lebanese opposition and those behind them in the Syrian regime a new impetus to repeat what happened several times in the past. We commend the Lebanese army's rank-and-file and reiterate our full confidence in them. We unreservedly support their patriotic mission of the nation's salvation, and we demand the Lebanese government to take a decisive and immediate resolution to control the Lebanese-Syrian borders and seek the assistance of the international forces to carry out this mission. We also demand the Lebanese state and its legitimate security forces put a complete end to all illegal, illegitimate militia weapons, both inside and outside the Palestinian camps, and in all the self-styled security zones in which Hezbollah has erected its mini-state. We offer our sincere condolences to the members of the Lebanese Armed Forces and Security Forces who gave their lives over the weekend defending the nation and protecting its people, their freedom and their identity. We ask God to grant their families the grace of patience and reliance on the Almighty, and to the martyrs eternal life in God's heavenly paradise. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email
[osint] TV Station filmed attack on German Troops, pre-informed by terrorists
http://radio-utopie.de/inland.php?themenID=525 Afghanistan: TV Station filmed attack on German Troops, pre-informed by terrorists Daniel Neun | 2007-05-21 Kunduz: When terrorists allegedly blowing up three German soldiers on May 19 in northern town of Afghanistan, Kunduz - where German PSYOP forces are operating - a camera team of Ariana Television was present and filmed the attack, the biggest German newspaper Bild reports today(1). An correspondent of the TV Station in Kabul received a telephone call from the terrorists who told him time and place of the alleged suicide bombing at Kunduz market. German officials did not comment on that, also no names of dead soldiers have been released, no photos of dead soldiers have been shown so far. Meanwhile the leader of left opposition in German Parliament, Oskar Lafontaine, accused the German Government of Angela Merkel of oblique being involved in terrorist activities. The Left Party demand immediate withdraw from the Afghanistan War.(3) In Kunduz the PSYOP units Operative Information, OpInfo of German Forces have their base.(2) On May 3 a few PSYOP soldiers have been sent to south of Afghanistan by German Minister of Defense, Franz Jung, and his deputy Peter Wichert (4). Peter Wichert was in north of Afghanistan when the attack happened (5). Questions of why the alert had not been raised for German troops after Mullah Dadullah was killed last week, or how the terrorists could know about the shopping tour of German soldiers on Kunduz market also haven´t been answered yet by the German Government. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] US opens door to millions of Muslims
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/05/us_opens_door_to_millions_of_m.h tml US opens door to millions of Muslims James Lewis The proposed immigration deal will throw open our doors to increased immigration from Muslim lands, not just Mexico. From the http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/muslimlife/immigrat.htm US State Department website: The fourth and most recent wave of Muslim immigration (into the US) has come after 1965, the year President Lyndon Johnson sponsored an immigration bill that repealed the longstanding system of quotas by national origin. Under the new system, preferences went to relatives of U.S. residents and those with special occupational skills needed in the United States. The new law was a signal act in American history, making it possible for the first time since the early part of the 20th century for someone to enter the country regardless of his or her national origin. After 1965, immigration from Western Europe began to decline significantly, with a corresponding growth in the numbers of persons arriving from the Middle East and Asia. In this era more than half of the immigrants to America from these regions have been Muslim. (italics added) Christopher Hitchens just http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2007/06/hitchens200706 wrote about Londonistan, Until he was jailed last year on charges of soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, a man known to the police of several countries as Abu Hamza al-Masri was the imam of the Finsbury Park Mosque. He was a conspicuous figure because, having lost the use of an eye and both hands in an exchange of views in Afghanistan, he sported an opaque eye plus a hook to theatrical effect. Not as nice as he looked, Abu Hamza was nonetheless unfailingly generous with his hospitality. Overnight guests at his mosque's sleeping quarters have included Richard Reid, the man in whose honor we now all have to take off our shoes at the airport, and Zacarias Moussaoui, the missing team member of September 11, 2001. Other visitors included Ahmed Ressam, arrested for trying to blow up LAX for the millennium, and Nizar Trabelsi, a Tunisian who planned to don an explosive vest and penetrate the American Embassy in Paris. On July 7, 2005 (7/7, as the British call it), a clutch of bombs exploded in London's transport system. It emerged that one of the suicide murderers had been influenced by the preachings of Abu Hamza, as had two of those attempting to replicate the mission two weeks later. The new immigration bill will allow hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions of Muslims to come into the United States over the next decade. Many of them have been indoctrinated all their lives to hate the United States, but that's not on the immigration qualifications. Nobody asks newcomers have you been taught to hate the United States? But that is exactly how France and Britain created their domestic terrorist threat: By importing hundreds of thousands of unassimilated people under the guise of multicultural love and peace. Almost all vote for the Left. Socialists are the same all over. They don't believe in the nation-state, and sincerely try to bring about a more perfect world in which nations would not exist. They therefore knock holes in the bottom of our little lifeboat, in the belief that they're doing us all a big favor. They're nice saboteurs. When the French Left imported millions of Muslims, with Gaullist help, they were trying to import Socialist voters who would then be rewarded with welfare benefits. Today we have nightly riots in the French burbs, with thousands of cars being torched by celebrating Muslim teenagers living on welfare. When the British Left decided to important two million Pakistanis straight from the badlands of Peshawar, they knew what they were doing. The cover story was multiculturalism but the reality was subversion. In their minds, the new European Union was going to be the model for an international order, just like the Soviet Union used to be. It's exactly the same mindset. Whether the immigrants harbor a murderous mindset towards their host country doesn't matter at all to the Left. In fact, it makes the newcomers better revolutionary material. The first generation of Muslim immigrants to Britain felt much more favorably inclined toward their host country. Their children are being recruited by radical imams, and some of them suicide-bombed the London Underground two years ago. Two million Pakistanis now live permanently in Britain. They vote Labour, and have a elected a floridly anti-Semitic Mayor of London Hitchens writes: It's impossible to exaggerate how far and how fast this situation has deteriorated. ... I find myself haunted by a challenge that was offered on the BBC by a Muslim activist named Anjem Choudary: a man who has praised the 9/11 murders as magnificent and proclaimed that Britain belongs to Allah. When asked if he might prefer to move to a country which practices
[osint] New Saudi currency features Al-Aqsa Mosque
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016540.php New Saudi currency features Al-Aqsa Mosque Friend and Ally Update: In Allah They Trust: Currency Features Al Aqsa Mosque, from http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/126782 Israel National News, with thanks to Sr. Soph: (IsraelNN.com) Saudi Arabia has found a new way to express sympathy for the Palestinian Authority (PA) by issuing new currency with images of the Al Aksa Mosque, located on the Temple Mount. The other side of the note shows the image of the Dome of the Rock. The Arab world has been conducting a campaign for several years to deny that the holy site has any connection with Judaism and that the First and Second Temples never existed in Jerusalem. Will the State Department call the Saudis to account? What do you think? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] Deadly business in Afghanistan
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE22Df01.html Deadly business in Afghanistan By Philip Smucker KANDAHAR - Mohammed Naseem plays with his rambunctious two-year-old daughter in his newly built home before jumping into his car for a drive to work in what is arguably one of Asia's most dangerous cities. With a pistol tucked under his seat, he talks about a fellow businessman who has come to him for advice. He keeps having these phone calls in the middle of the night, explains Naseem, one of a few dozen remaining Afghan-Americans living in Kandahar. The speaker says he is Taliban and that he wants two Toyota pickups for the jihad to fight NATO. I know some people who have already surrendered to such extortion, but I just told him to be strong and not give in to their demands, Naseem says. If you give them an inch and they will take a mile. As an Afghan-American in southern Afghanistan, Naseem is one of dozens of men raised and schooled in the United States who thought they were returning to a peaceful Afghanistan after the US military announced that it had defeated the Taliban after the invasion of 2001. Instead, these entrepreneurs now find themselves trying to make a difference in the middle of a war zone. They say they are harassed and intimidated by both resurgent Taliban and a government that does not care if they stay or return to the US. In 2002 and 2003, a lot of Afghans had great hopes and that actually gave some of us living abroad a sense that they could come back and try to apply the things we learned in the West in our home towns, says Naseem, who still has no plans to leave. While those heady days are over, a core of Afghan-Americans still struggles to make an economic and moral difference in the embattled south. In just four years, Naseem now owns the largest advertising company in southern Afghanistan. He has introduced billboards across the southern Pashtun belt in a country that once learned of products and ideas mostly through word of mouth. Along with a booming Internet cafe that serves Kandahar's young, curious and ambitious, Naseem's greatest passion is his newspaper, The Red Mountain Weekly. The color newspaper has filled a void and spread its wings across southern Afghanistan. Starting two years ago with 500 copies and six pages, it is up to a 7,000 weekly circulation and 12 pages. The paper's offices overlook the biggest traffic circle in Kandahar, the scene of suicide bombings and police beatings, depending on the hour of the day. Would you like to see a cop taking a bribe? he asks, grabbing a camera. Below, an Afghan policeman has stopped a motorist and the inevitable is about to transpire. Naseem has the courage and tenacity to keep printing his newspaper in a dog-eat-dog city that does not reward enterprise or responsible journalism. Kandahar's mayor recently grabbed one of a Red Mountain photographer's cameras and hurled it on to the pavement after a series of stories exposing government corruption and police brutality. We go after pretty much anyone making tyranny or trouble, says Naseem. In Kandahar, that can come in the form of a government official or a suicide bomber. Red Mountain reporters race by motorbike to the scenes of suicide bombings. Last week, the first major attack in weeks involved a double bombing, the second designed to target the police who arrived at the scene for the first. Later in the day, a government convoy of the minister for information was hit. We spend time at the scene and then we go to the family and community leaders, says Naseem, formerly of Seattle and Philadelphia. Inevitably, we find that men killed in suicide attacks are the primary breadwinners for their family. And then there are the stories to be done on the Taliban's rampant school burnings. I think that, ethically, as a business person, you are obliged to give something back to the community, says Naseem, who hopes to reach the break-even point with his newspaper this year. As for using too much wood to print his newspaper, Naseem is attacking that problem as well. With a group of local businessmen he has helped start a Green Kandahar tree-planting scheme that has 1,500 new seedlings in place across the city and a water truck to keep them growing in desert climes. Most of the Afghan-Americans in the southern war zone are not nearly as bullish about their future as Naseem, who picked up a sixth sense for business while running a fried-chicken and cheese-steak restaurant in Philadelphia. Launching a new business in Afghanistan is made more difficult by a government that appears to care little if investors sink or swim. Businessmen must survive on their own, says Wahid Faqiri, an Afghan-American who returned to his country after several years of work as a journalist in Washington, DC. In fact, government officials often exist just to extort bribes and shut down new establishments that don't pay them. As he talked over a meal with a
[osint] Egypt releases more than 100 Islamic extremists
Dumb and dumber. B http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708653903 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178708653903pagename=JPost%2FJ PArticle%2FShowFull pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Egypt releases more than 100 Islamic extremists _ Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POSTMay. 21, 2007 _ About 135 Muslim extremists who spent more than a decade in Egyptian prisons have been released after signing statements renouncing violence, police officials said Monday. Egypt began releasing members of al-Jihad, which was formerly headed by al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman Al-Zawahri, two weeks ago after some of their leaders agreed to renounce violence against the Egyptian state, officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Al-Gamaa al-Islamiyya, which in Arabic means Islamic Group, and to a lesser extent al-Jihad, which means holy war, were responsible for a violent campaign against the Egyptian regime in the 1990s. Neither has been involved in attacks in Egypt since. Both groups were accused of participating in the 1981 assassination of President Anwar al-Sadat. Al-Zawahri was jailed for his involvement in the assassination but was released in 1984. After his release, he left Egypt and helped form al-Qaida with Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s. Al-Gamaa first proposed a unilateral cease-fire in 1997 that went into effect in March 1999. Most of its leaders, who spent 25 years in prison, as well as hundreds of its members, have since been freed from prison. Al-Jihad has long opposed the concept of reconsidering its radical views. But a few months ago, a top ideologue for al-Jihad and other militant groups, Sayed Imam Abdul-Aziz el-Sherif, 57, led a review of the group's ideology and concluded that the group should unequivocally renounce violence. El-Sherif left Egypt in 1986 to go to Afghanistan. He later wound up in Yemen where he was arrested in 2001 and handed over to Egypt in 2004. He is serving a life sentence and was not one of the militants released by authorities. Hundreds if not thousands of militants are still believed to be in prison from both militant groups as well as other smaller networks. Egypt has never disclosed an official figure of militants or political inmates in its prisons. Controversial emergency laws imposed since Sadat's assassination give security forces broad powers - including great leeway in making arrests and detaining people indefinitely. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] FW: New York City to Get Terror-Proof Power Line
Unless/until Muslims have infiltrated ConEd and access the terror-proof power line from the inside. B http://www.newsmax.com:80/archives/ic/2007/5/21/131228.shtml?s=us New York City to Get Terror-Proof Power Line Consolidated Edison, Inc and American Superconductor Corporation have agreed to put a superconducting power line under midtown New York that should lead to a sturdier power grid able to withstand extreme weather and attacks. The move is part of an effort by Con Ed to upgrade the power grid in New York. A power outage in Queens, New York last summer, and the August 2003 blackout that hit parts of the U.S. Northeast, Canada and the Midwest, have raised concerns about power delivery in New York's financial district, seen as vital to the nation's economy. The Department of Homeland Security will fund up to $25 million for the nearly $40 million superconductor cable, it calls Project Hydra, after the mythical Greek monster that grew back multiple heads when one was severed. The cable will link two substations in Manhattan. The department said the project could lead to further deployment of the technology which also suppresses power surges. We have asked AMSC and Consolidated Edison to demonstrate superconductor solutions in New York City that will serve to keep our centers of commerce on line under all conditions - including grid events related to severe weather, accidents or terrorist attacks, Jay Cohen, the Department of Homeland Security's undersecretary for technology, said in a statement on Monday. High temperature superconducting cables made with ceramic materials can carry 10 times more power than traditional cables, but are costly and face technological challenges. Superconducting cable must be cooled with liquid nitrogen to -382 degrees Fahrenheit (-230 Celsius). At that point, conductivity resistance falls, allowing the cables to carry the extra power. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[osint] U.S. fears pullout of British troops by Blair successor
Socialist Labor gov't support for the US by Blair was anomalous in the first case, couldn't be expected to hold. B http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20070520-115400-9 668r http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070520-115400-9668r.htm U.S. fears pullout of British troops by Blair successor U.S. officials are bracing for the prospect that Gordon Brown -- Tony Blair's almost certain successor as British prime minister -- will act quickly to reduce his country's military commitment in Iraq. President Bush has been briefed by White House officials to expect an announcement from Mr. Brown during his first 100 days in power on British troop withdrawals. Such a move would be designed to boost the new prime minister's popularity in opinion polls. Mr. Bush recently discussed with a senior White House adviser how to handle the fallout if the U.S. were to lose its main ally in Iraq. A source close to Mr. Brown insisted that such U.S. fears are unfounded. Gordon is a committed Atlanticist who wants to strengthen and deepen our ties with America around our shared values, and who wants to persuade the rest of Europe to work in closer cooperation with America, he said. Mr. Brown, speaking at a Labor Party event yesterday, defended the decision to go to war in Iraq but seemed to leave the door open to reassessing the extent of Britain's commitment. The number of troops that started off was 44,000, and there are now just 7,000, and that number continues to go down, he said in response to shouts of Get the troops out. I am going to go out to Iraq and look at the situation and see what is happening, Mr. Brown said. A close ally of Mr. Brown called over the weekend for British troops to be withdrawn from Iraq more quickly. We should get out of Iraq as soon as is practicable, said Nigel Griffiths, a former Cabinet minister, who resigned as deputy speaker of the House of Commons over a decision to replace the Trident nuclear-weapons system. We should consult the Iraqi government -- but they cannot have a veto. This cannot be delayed. We must make our timetable known to the Iraqis. During a farewell trip to Iraq over the weekend, Mr. Blair said his successor would continue his policy. I have no doubt at all that Britain will remain steadfast in its support for Iraq, for the Iraqi people and for the Iraqi government as it tries to make sure it overcomes the threat of terrorism and continues to make progress, Mr. Blair said shortly after a mortar attack on Baghdad's fortified Green Zone. The policy I pursue is one for the whole of the government, so even when I leave government, I am sure that support will continue. However, senior figures in the National Security Council, the Pentagon and the State Department have privately expressed fears about Mr. Brown. They think that cordial relations between the two country's leaders will be at an end if the incoming prime minister plays gesture politics over Iraq. There is a sense of foreboding, one senior official said. We don't know if he will be there when we need him. We expect a gesture that will greatly weaken the United States government's position. Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois Republican, who discussed Iraq policy at the White House last week, said: The American view is that he's a much weaker political leader than Blair. There's the fear in Washington that he won't be as strong an ally. Mr. Bush's aides fear that Mr. Brown will support Democratic Party demands in Congress for a timetable for a U.S. pullout from Iraq and encourage wavering Republicans to defect -- leaving Mr. Bush more isolated. Sen. John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, said he expects Mr. Brown to support his party's calls for the Iraqi government to meet benchmarks for progress or face a cutoff in funding for the war. Gordon Brown should be himself, Mr. Kerry said. I would expect him to be where the vast majority of Democrats are, which is not for a precipitate pullout, but for proper benchmarks. He will want to show that he is his own man. I would expect him to do that publicly. The number of British troops in Iraq is being cut from 7,100 at the start of the year to 5,500, but there is no official timetable for a full-scale withdrawal. [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
