from:"Dietmar Muehlboeck"

Religious Summer Camps in Saudi Arabia
Monday 13 June 2005
http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=388

Throughout the summer months of last year, Al Majid Islamic Channel
broadcast, via satellite, daily, programs on the religious camps taking
place across Saudi Arabia. In one show, a presenter asks a thirteen year-old
boy to sing; the boy then chants the following: "They forget about
Palestine, they forget about Palestine, and then start singing secular songs
and dress up as infidels." The host replies "Peace be upon you. Well done!"
In the last two years, journalists and intellectuals have been campaigning
against these summer religious camps in the Kingdom. Critics describe them
as centers that breed extremism and brainwash young people and accuse them
of supporting fundamentalist ideologies. In turn, those involved in running
the camps have asked their opponents to visit the camps and see for
themselves before jumping to any conclusions.
As for the youths the camps hope to attract, their opinion is divided. Ahmad
Jadaan, aged 24, doesn''t believe these camps encourage extremist thought.
On the contrary, they welcome young people and protect them, especially in
big cities across the Kingdom that lack social centers and youth clubs." The
summer camps, he adds, "offer valuable cultural and sporting activities.
Attacking the camps is wrong." In Jadaan''s experience, the camps benefit
many young Saudis who have progressed in life. They feature a variety of
lectures that offer helpful suggestions and ideas to the participating
youth. He warns "those who want to shut the camps [to] be able to offer an
alternative."
On the other end of the spectrum is Mohammed Dahlawi, also 24, who has
attended one of the many such camps and found "the title of different
lectures to be the same. The lectures were alarming and laden with political
suggestions and fundamentalists ideas. He said that after spending two
months in a religious summer camp, young men return to the outside world and
"find [themselves] totally alienated from the surroundings."
Dahlawi also exposed how lecturers often looked down on participants and
made light of their intellect. For example, in one of the lectures he
attended, the speaker was called "Abu Zaqm", of the most infamous reckless
drivers in his circle of youths who had, recently, repented. "Abu Zaqm
lectured while imitating the sounds of speeding cars and made the audience
laugh. He then asked all those present to remove all immoral possessions
from their pockets and publicly announce their atonement. Isn''t this a
mockery of our human brains?"
In effect, the ridiculous conclusions of Abu Zaqm''s lecture deserve to be
recounted. I am still, however unsure about his nickname and don''t
understand the relationship between repentance and irresponsible driving,
since overdoing the ignition and speeding can either be right or wrong but
not a sin. To go back to the lectures, apparently, as soon as Abu Zaqm
concludes his speech, the table in front of him gets covered with different
kinds of evil objects participants got rid of. How can a group of young men
taking part in a religious summer camp bring their sinful possessions along?
How is this repentance not repeated by other lecturers?
Many involved in administering these religious camps are adamant that their
activities are legitimate and subject to government supervision. In all
honesty, I find this impossible to believe. A year ago, Asharq Al Awsat
newspaper conducted an in-depth investigation on these camps. At the time,
an ex teacher informed me of undeclared and unaccounted for transgressions
occurring in various camps during the summer months. For example, a number
of young men who studied at a government-run Secondary School in Mecca
conspired to post links to certain websites on their school''s homepage,
without prior permission. Their links directed the internet user to known
Islamic militant websites such as Al Sahat and Ana Al Muslim, whose founders
are currently on the run from the Saudi authorities. The Al Sahat website
has even featured writings from Al Qaeda members.
So far, the discussion has centered on what is known of the world of
religious camps for Saudi boys and young men. What is hidden about the world
of religious camps for girls is worth being revealed as well. The few
leaflets and brochures that are leaked from the Kingdom''s camps for girls
don''t point to a totally innocent environment.
A glance at the advice in these pamphlets reveals an opposition to fashion,
jeans and white wedding dresses, as the latter imitate non-believers. More
baffling, perhaps, is the cookbook distributed at some of these camps and
aimed for the Muslim woman who wants to be a virtuous housewife and confront
Western challenges, with a hamburger on its cover! Does the hamburger become
Islamic because it is made by a Muslim woman?
Since the discussion started with a clip from a program by Al Majd
television, I hope the reader w

[osint] Daily Mail: Scientists 'raise the dead' in experiment

27/06/05 - Health section

Scientists 'raise the dead' in experiment

Zombies rising from the dead sound like the stuff of horror films and
nightmares - but it could soon be reality.

Scientists have discovered a way to bring dead dogs back to life.

Using a so-called suspended animation technique, they emptied the dead
animals' veins of blood and filled them with ice-cold saline solution to
preserve the tissues and organs.

The animals had no heartbeat or brain activity and were classed as being
clinically dead.

The saline solution was then replaced with fresh blood and electric shocks
were used to restart the heart. The dogs appeared unharmed by their
suspension and had suffered no brain damage

Scientists at the Safar Centre in Pittsburgh hope to use the technique on
humans within a year and are in talks with hospitals about trials on trauma
patients.

They believe it could save the lives of people who have suffered massive
blood loss, such as battlefield casualties or stabbings victims.

'The results are stunning. They have these dogs with complete cardiac
standstill for three hours and they recover to normality,' said trauma
surgeon Dr Howard Champion.


Find this story at
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_art
icle_id=353655&in_page_id=1774
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[osint] DW: "Every Soldier Is Aware of That Risk"

28.06.2005
"Every Soldier Is Aware of That Risk"
After a blast which killed two German soldiers in northern Afghanistan 
last
weekend, DW-WORLD spoke with a German military official stationed in Kunduz
about the duties and dangers of peacekeeping.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1630500,00.html?maca=en-rss_english_top
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On Monday, German Defense Minister Peter Struck said he had no reason to
believe the explosion in a munitions warehouse that killed the German
soldiers and five Afghans was an attack. "There are no indications of an
attack and we continue to assume it was an accident," Struck told reporters
at the time.

Yet the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which the soldiers
were part of, requested an investigation to rule out a deliberate attack. A
report is due by the end of the week on the deaths of the soldiers, who were
part of an ISAF contingent observing ammunition-sorting operations. Germany
is the biggest single contributor to ISA. Some 2,000 of the 8,300 troops on
the ground there are German.

DW-WORLD spoke with Commander Roland Vogler-Wander, the Bundeswehr's
spokesman in Kunduz.

DW-WORLD: On Saturday, two German soldiers were killed in a disarmament
action. How dangerous is it to be a Bundeswehr soldier in Afghanistan?

Vogler-Wander: The soldiers here come into contact with armaments and
munitions that have been buried for decades, that weren't correctly stored.
Of course there is a risk. Every soldier who comes here is aware of that
risk. They are also especially prepared and educated for it -- they learn
how to deal with mines, or in special situations. We try to minimize the
risk to the extent possible. But you cannot rule out that something will
happen.

The accident happened during a disarmament action. What normally takes place
in such an action?

The arms are laid out, registered, and loaded onto the truck. Anything that
can no longer be used by the Afghan army is then destroyed and disposed of.
The unusual case that led to the accident involved Piram Qul, one of the ex
commanders of the Northern Alliance. Of course, he had a lot of armaments.
But now he wants to run in the parliamentary elections, and whoever wants to
run in that race is no longer allowed to have weapons. That's why the
weapons collection was taking place in this case.

How does the Bundeswehr know where the weapons are?

We don't know. The Afghans tell us. As I said, when someone wants to run for
election, he has to give up his weapons. If someone charges him with being
in possession of more weapons, he is taken off the list of candidates. Of
course, right now it is interesting for the warlords to get into the
political process. We see that as a big opportunity.

So you're saying, giving up one's weapons is voluntary?

Right. There's no coercion.

What kinds of weapons are we talking about here?

Mostly small-caliber weapons, such as machine guns like Kalashnikovs. There
are bazookas, light weight ordnance, anti-aircraft guns, which were used in
the civil war or in the Mujaheddin against the Russians.

Do delicate situations often come up during these disarmament actions?

It is risky if the munitions aren't properly stored. For example, when the
safety has already been pulled on a mine. Of course, then it is dangerous.
But our people are trained to the point that they can recognize this danger
and say, 'We won't touch this one.'

The disarmament of militias are considered the main job of the peacekeepers
in Afghanistan. How far along are they?

There are many, many arms in Afghanistan. But I always say, every weapon
that is turned in, makes Afghanistan a bit safer. And every firearm that no
longer is in the hands of the wrong people, but that goes to the government,
adds to the further stability and also to the improvement of the country.

How do the people of Afghanistan view the deployed Bundeswehr soldiers?

Positively. The people don't want any more arms. They don't want warlords.
They want to live in peace and quiet and want stability and political
co-determination. They are pleading for it.

What's the mood among the troops after the accident on Saturday?

We live here in a camp with 300 people. We are always together. We eat
together, we work together, we have leisure time together. Losing a
colleague is very oppressive, and it hurts. I knew the people who died and
the ones who were injured. I spoke with them frequently. It certainly does
affect one personally.

What will the consequences be for the Bundeswehr after the accident?

We have to live with the fact that there is a certain amount of risk
involved. As soldiers, we know that and we are trained for it. We are
prepared for the fact, and Defense Minister Struck has also clearly said,
that we have to be ready to accept the fact that in this deployment, a
soldier can lose his life.

What other conditions make this a difficult deployment?

The climate. Its almost 50 degrees here right now. The bad roads an

[osint] Video too brutal for The Hague

Video too brutal for The Hague

http://www.serbianna.com/press/011.shtml

By Veljko Lalic

The Hague Tribunal refused to show "Meho's Camera". Because of the
brutality. The Vecernji Novosti news team viewed a private video recording
of members of the 505th Buzim Brigade of the Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosniak
(Muslim) Army, including the entire sequence of the bestial murder of
Republika Srpska Army Warrant Officer Rade Rogica.

Truly, the material is not for broadcasting. Yesterday only the reporter and
the cameraman from "Novosti" remained in the BK Television studio to the
end. Even Miodrag Popov, war correspondent, who played all the videos for
us, could not watch the recording to the end.

The material begins with a sequence of a mujahedin smoking marijuana. The
next scene shows an entire village in smoke. Luckily, none of the civilians
remained. Muslim soldiers enter every house. "I'll f*ck your (mother's)
breast," they say at the entrance to each home. Ten or so soldiers vie to
loot the homes. They load up their jeeps with all manner of things.

New sequence. No village to be seen. About thirty soldiers are singing some
sort of battle song. It is fairly garbled, with the exception of "...do not
be afraid of the chetniks (Serbs)... and... Serbian blood..."

They even set fire to a haystack they happen to pass. Total destruction.
"This is Hamza's army of liberation," a voice can be heard from the crowd.
And so (they go)... from village to village. Incredible scenes. Apocalypse,
both then and now. And forever...

Suddenly the camera approaches a group of soldiers. They've formed a circle.
In the center - a prisoner.

A blow of the fist. The camera is still at a distance of some twenty meters.
Another blow of the fist. Close up shot. (The prisoner) is Rade Rogic. A
member of the Radnicki Battalion. Born in 1957 in Sanski Most. He got lost.
This is his last appearance on video.

A young mujahedin, or at least someone introduced as such, with a green band
around his forehead, is questioning him. He speaks excellent Serbian.

"Do you know me?" he asks Rogic.

"I don't!" says Rogic.

"Where do you think I'm from?" he continues, practically growling through
his teeth.

About ten young soldiers are standing over Rogic and laughing. They say he
is a mujahedin. Rogic remains calm to the extent that is possible. He tries
to reason with them, to find at least something human in his executioners.
He raises his hand, as if to say, what is happening to you, and to find
himself awaking in some other film.

But blows return him to reality.

"Why am I here?" the obviously "domestic" mujahedin continues his
questioning.

He strikes him with his fists, grabs him by the hair, apparently cannot
decide in his fury what to do with him.

"I guess you came to fight, f*ck it!" answers Rogic.

Another blow.

"How old are you?" a new voice interjects.

"I'm thirty-two," the Serbian prisoner replies calmly.

"So what are you doing here?" the "mujahedin" asks him.

The volley of blows continues. Rogic raises his hand. He defends himself
reflexively. "Why?" he says. As soon as the blows stop, he lowers his arm.

"Where have you been?" continues the man with a green band around his
forehead.

"In the forest, f*ck it."

"So what are you doing in the forest?" he continues with the questions and
blows.

"Let's go, let's go," shouts someone from the crowd.

Rogic is still speaking: "Well, if anyone had bothered to ask you and me we
probably wouldn't be here..."

Some one hits him repeatedly in the ears.

"Don't say f*ck it, I'll f*ck your mother!" he screams.

"That's a really bad habit you have (swearing)," says another, as he holds
him by the hair and anticipates the moment he will end it all.

He pulls him by the hair toward the ground, striking him several times
behind the ear.

"Cut him there, cut him there!"

The mujahedin intervenes, ordering Rogic to shout "Allahu akhbar" (Allah is
great).

"Don't, don't, don't..." are the last words of Warrant Officer Rade Rogic.

The crushed skull remains between two stones. Although the quality of the
video is poor, one can clearly distinguish three long slashes: one across
the neck, a second across the mouth, and a third across the forehead. Posing
for the camera, the mujahedin grabs him by the hair. He raises the head. To
show off his work. Laughter can be heard.

The next scene is in a yard somewhere.

"Hey, did you kill him, did you f*ck his mother?" a voice can be heard.

A big close up shot of the killer. He's holding a rifle. Blows up his
cheeks. The look of a total idiot. He suddenly rises. He runs and raises
both hands towards the sky...

"Allahu akhbar!" he screams...

He turns towards the soldiers and continues, "Let's go, let's go..."


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[osint] Reuters: FAMILY PLEADS FOR BODY

FAMILY PLEADS FOR BODY

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-13378670,00.html?f=rss

The family of murdered British hostage Ken Bigley have appealed for the
release of his body.

They say it will enable them to put an end to the "sad story" of his death.

The 62-year-old engineer from Liverpool was taken hostage in Baghdad by
Iraqi militants and executed.

He was captured along with two US colleagues on September 16, 2004, by the
Tawhid and Jihad group.

The Americans were killed the following week and two weeks later Mr Bigley
was beheaded.

His mother Lil told the BBC's Panorama programme: "No matter what we say
now, nothing will bring Ken back.

"But the sad part of it is we haven't had a burial, we can't find his body.
That would really put an end to the sad story."

Mr Bigley's brother Stan said the family had been told by an intermediary he
had been buried and the location may one day emerge.

"We would love it to come out so we can get his remains back," he said.

Another brother Paul revealed the family had received two private videos of
him while he was being held.

In the first he was dressed normally and "was a lot more relaxed".

The second video, however, showed him looking terrified and pleading for his
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[osint] Rafsanjani involved in the murder of Dr. Ghasemlou , says an Austrian MP

 Rafsanjani involved in the murder of Dr. Ghasemlou , says an Austrian MP

BY Rashid Haidari
Saturday, June 3, 2005

Recently, an Austrian MP from The Green Party of that country said that he
had got evidence which confirmed that Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the
former president of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the current candidate
for the presidential election in that country, was among those who ordered
the murder of Dr Abdul-Rahman Ghasemlou in Austrian capital, Vienna, 16
years ago.

Dr Ghasemlou , the then Secretary General of the Kurdish Democratic Party of
Iran, and two of his comrades were invited to Vienna on July 12, 1989 by
Tehran regime to attend a meeting with its representatives with the
intention of finding a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question in that
country.

The next day, at about 7:30 p.m. Police discovered Dr. Ghasemlou s
bullet-riddled body seated in an armchair. His two associates were sprawled
dead on the floor. Within hours, the Austrians had found the murder weapon,
had one suspect, Bozorgian, in custody and the second in a hospital, and
knew the identity of the third. In a few days, they had found enough
evidence to indict all three. According to Manuchehr Ganji, the leader of
the Flag of Freedom Organization and a survivor of numerous attempts on his
own life, The Austrian authorities took the easy route  they let all three
culprits go back to Tehran.

In his recent statements, the Austrian MP Mr. Peter Pilz referred to an
Iranian journalist as the source of his information whom he had met with in
Versay three days earlier. Mr. Pilz declared that the journalist was ready
to attend a meeting with any of Austrian authorities to present his
argumentations.  Mr. Pilz insisted that he would do his best to open the
case of Dr. Qasemlous assassination.

According to the news agencies, the source of Mr. Peter Pilzs information,
mentioned as D for safetys sake, left Iran following his house had been
checked by Iranian security forces.

Mr. Pilz also said that he had seen undistributed information from the
police of his country on the event of the murder of Dr. Ghasemlou  that were
from 16 years ago and that he could compare his information with them in
order to get the final results.

The Austrian PM also believed that except for Rafsanjani, two other
candidates who have been approved by Guardian Council as qualified to run
for the upcoming presidential election had possibly had a strong hand in the
international assassinations. According to Peter Pilz, these two people are
Ahmadinezhad, the Tehran current mayor, and Muhssen Rezaee, the late general
commander of The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Pasdaran which
was formed following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in an effort to
consolidate several paramilitary forces into a single force loyal to the new
regime and to function as a counter to the influence and power of the
regular military.

The Austrian PMs statements revealing the involvement of the former Iranian
authorities in the murder of Dr. Ghasemlou  could be considered as a great
turning point on that case.

Now, sixteen years have passed since Dr Ghasemlou  was murdered. But, as we
all know, the judiciary system of Austria continues to ignore finding those
responsible for his assassination. Austrian governments non-pursuit of Dr.
Ghasemlous murderers only further harms the reputation of the Austrian
judicial system. What pro-democracy individuals, human rights activists and
defenders, public opinion in general and the Kurdish people in particular
are expecting now is that Austria will conduct a full and fair investigation
of Dr. Ghasemlous murder without any further postponements. The evidence
got by Peter Pilz will hopefully pave the way for such an investigation.

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Sources:

1. Radio Farda

2. Dialogue of Murder, by Cyrus Kadivar

3. Globalsecurity



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[osint] NYT: Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo Priso n Camp

June 24, 2005
Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo Prison Camp
By NEIL A. LEWIS

WASHINGTON, June 23 - Military doctors at GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba, have aided
interrogators in conducting and refining coercive interrogations of
detainees, including providing advice on how to increase stress levels and
exploit fears, according to new, detailed accounts given by former
interrogators.

The accounts, in interviews with The New York Times, come as mental health
professionals are debating whether psychiatrists and psychologists at the
prison camp have violated professional ethics codes. The Pentagon and mental
health professionals have been examining the ethical issues involved.

The former interrogators said the military doctors' role was to advise them
and their fellow interrogators on ways of increasing psychological duress on
detainees, sometimes by exploiting their fears, in the hopes of making them
more cooperative and willing to provide information. In one example,
interrogators were told that a detainee's medical files showed he had a
severe phobia of the dark and suggested ways in which that could be
manipulated to induce him to cooperate.

In addition, the authors of an article published by The New England Journal
of Medicine this week said their interviews with doctors who helped devise
and supervise the interrogation regimen at GuantÃ¡namo showed that the
program was explicitly designed to increase fear and distress among
detainees as a means to obtaining intelligence.

The accounts shed light on how interrogations were conducted and raise new
questions about the boundaries of medical ethics in the nation's fight
against terrorism.

Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, declined to address the
specifics in the accounts. But he suggested that the doctors advising
interrogators were not covered by ethics strictures because they were not
treating patients but rather were acting as behavioral scientists.

He said that while some health care personnel are responsible for "humane
treatment of detainees," some medical professionals "may have other roles,"
like serving as behavioral scientists assessing the character of
interrogation subjects.

The military refused to give The Times permission to interview medical
personnel at the isolated GuantÃ¡namo camp about their practices, and the
medical journal, in an article that criticized the program, did not name the
officials interviewed by its authors. The handful of former interrogators
who spoke to The Times about the practices at GuantÃ¡namo spoke on condition
of anonymity; some said they had welcomed the doctors' help.

Pentagon officials said in interviews that the practices at GuantÃ¡namo
violated no ethics guidelines, and they disputed the conclusions of the
medical journal's article, which was posted on the journal's Web site on
Wednesday.

Several ethics experts outside the military said there were serious
questions involving the conduct of the doctors, especially those in units
known as Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, BSCT, colloquially referred
to as "biscuit" teams, which advise interrogators.

"Their purpose was to help us break them," one former interrogator told The
Times earlier this year.

The interrogator said in a more recent interview that a biscuit team doctor,
having read the medical file of a detainee, suggested that the inmate's
longing for his mother could be exploited to persuade him to cooperate.

Dr. Stephen Xenakis, a psychiatrist and former Army brigadier general in the
medical corps, said in an interview that "this behavior is not consistent
with our medical responsibility or any of the codes that guide our conduct
as doctors."

The use of psychologists and psychiatrists in interrogations prompted the
Pentagon to issue a policy statement last week that officials said was
supposed to ensure that doctors did not participate in unethical behavior.

While the American Psychiatric Association has guidelines that specifically
prohibit the kinds of behaviors described by the former interrogators for
their members who are medical doctors, the rules for psychologists are less
clear.

Dr. Spencer Eth, a professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College and
chairman of the ethics committee of the American Psychiatric Association,
said in an interview that there was no way that psychiatrists at GuantÃ¡namo
could ethically counsel interrogators on ways to increase distress on
detainees.

But in a statement issued in December, the American Psychological
Association said the issue of involvement of its members in "national
security endeavors" was new.

Dr. Stephen Behnke, who heads the group's ethics division, said in an
interview this week that a committee of 10 members, including some from the
military, was meeting in Washington this weekend to discuss the issue.

Dr. Behnke emphasized that the codes did not necessarily allow participation
by psychologists in such roles, but rather that the issue had not been dealt
with di

[osint] AFX: US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN

US acknowledges torture at Guantanamo; in Iraq, Afghanistan - UN
06.24.2005, 11:37 AM

GENEVA (AFX) - Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the
United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in
Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.

The acknowledgement was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee
against Torture, said a member of the ten-person panel, speaking on on
condition of anonymity.

'They are no longer trying to duck this and have respected their obligation
to inform the UN,' the Committee member said.

'They they will have to explain themselves (to the Committee). Nothing
should be kept in the dark,' he said.

UN sources said this is the first time the world body has received such a
frank statement on torture from US authorities.

The Committee, which monitors respect for the Convention against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, is gathering
information from the US ahead of hearings in May 2006.

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implementation of the 1984 convention and to provide information to the
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[osint] AP: Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents

 Italy Judge Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Agents

By AIDAN LEWIS, Associated Press WriterFri Jun 24, 4:23 PM ET

An Italian judge on Friday ordered the arrests of 13 CIA officers for
secretly transporting a Muslim preacher from Italy to Egypt as part of U.S.
anti-terrorism efforts  a rare public objection to the practice by a close
American ally.

The Egyptian was spirited away in 2003, purportedly as part of the CIA's
"extraordinary rendition" program in which terror suspects are transferred
to third countries without court approval, subjecting them to possible
torture.

The arrest warrants were announced Friday by the Milan prosecutor's office,
which has called the disappearance a kidnapping and a blow to a terrorism
investigation in Italy. The office said the imam was believed to belong to
an Islamic terrorist group.

The 13 are accused of seizing Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar,
on a Milan street on Feb. 17, 2003, and sending him to Egypt, where he
reportedly was tortured, Milan prosecutor Manlio Claudio Minale said in a
statement.

The U.S. Embassy in Rome and the CIA in Washington declined to comment.

The prosecutor's statement did not name the suspects, give their
nationalities or mention the CIA by name. But an Italian official familiar
with the investigation confirmed newspaper reports Friday that the suspects
worked for the CIA.

The official also said there was no evidence Italians were involved or knew
about the operation. He asked that his name not be used because official
comment was limited to the prosecutor's statement.

Minale said the suspects remain at large and Italian authorities will ask
the United States and Egypt for assistance in the case.

The prosecutor's office said Nasr was released by the Egyptians after his
interrogation but was arrested again later.

The statement said Nasr was seized by two people as he was walking from his
home toward a mosque and bundled into a white van. He was taken to Aviano, a
joint U.S.-Italian base north of Venice, and flown to a U.S. air base in
Ramstein, Germany, before being taken to Cairo.

It said investigators had confirmed the abduction through an eyewitness
account and other, unidentified witnesses as well as through an analysis of
cell phone traffic.

In March 2003, "U.S. authorities" told Italian police Nasr had been taken to
the Balkans, the statement said. A year later, in April-May 2004, Nasr
phoned his wife and another unidentified Egyptian citizen and told them he
had been subjected to violent treatment by interrogators in Egypt, the
statement said.

Italian newspapers have reported that Nasr, 42, said in the wiretapped calls
that he was tortured with electric shocks.

On Friday, the Milan daily Corriere della Sera cited another Milan-based
imam as telling Italian authorities Nasr was tortured after refusing to work
in Italy as an informer. According to the testimony, he was hanged upside
down and subjected to extreme temperatures and loud noise that damaged his
hearing, Corriere reported.

Minale said the judge rejected a request for six more arrest warrants for
suspects believed to have helped prepare the operation.

Judge Chiara Nobile ordered the arrests after investigators traced the
agents through Milan hotels and Italian cell phones, said reports in
Corriere and another daily, Il Giorno.

Il Giorno said all the agents were American and three were women.

Minale said a judge also issued a separate arrest warrant for Nasr on
terrorism charges. In that warrant, Judge Guido Salvini said Nasr's seizure
violated Italian sovereignty, according to Italian news agency Apcom.

Nasr was believed to have fought in Afghanistan and Bosnia and prosecutors
were seeking evidence against him before his disappearance, according to a
report in La Repubblica newspaper, which cited intelligence officials.

Corriere said Italian police picked up details, including cover names,
photos, credit card information and U.S. addresses the agents gave to
five-star hotels in Milan around the time of Nasr's alleged abduction. It
said investigators also found the prepaid highway passes the agents used for
the journey from Milan to the air base.

The report said investigations showed the agents incurred $144,984 in hotel
bills in Milan, and that two pairs of agents took holidays in northern Italy
after delivering Nasr to Aviano.

Italian-U.S. relations were strained after American soldiers killed an
Italian intelligence agent near Baghdad airport in March. He was escorting a
kidnapped Italian journalist after he had secured her release from Iraqi
captors.

Germano Dottori, a political analyst at the Center for Strategic Studies in
Rome, said it is not unusual for intelligence agencies to have squabbles
with allied countries but that he could not recall prosecutors directly
involved in investigating or apprehending agents involved.

"At some point the Americans will begin to think they can't trust the
Italians," Dottori said.

Copyright © 2005 The Assoc

[osint] BBC: Saudi Stories: The Extremists

 Saudi Stories: The Extremists

Bill Law
Reporter, Saudi Stories


SAUDI STORIES
21 June: Extremists
28 June: Constitutional Three
5 July: Candidates
12 July: Writers
19 July: The Booklet
BBC Radio 4's Saudi Stories on Tuesdays at 09:30 BST
Saudi Arabia has come along way since 11 September, 2001.

For months and years after neither the government nor the vast majority of
its people were prepared to acknowledge the grip that extremists held in the
desert kingdom.

Then a series of bombings in the capital Riyadh in 2003 forced a
reassessment.

The crackdown that followed led to

shootouts with hardcore Islamic militants, known as jihadists. More than 120
have been killed and a handful captured alive.

The Saudis now say that the terrorist threat has receded. The country is
safe once again for westerners.

But, dig a little deeper and a chilling story emerges.

High-level extremists

Mansour al-Noqaidin is an ex-jihadist, jailed in the early 1990s for
terrorist acts.

Since his release from prison, he has spoken out against terrorism - and had
his life threatened.

You'll find extremists in different government departments - they don't
back terrorism in public, they do it secretly
Mansour al-Noqaidin
He has spoken against the government and it has tried to silence him.

But in his flat in Riyadh, he wanted nothing more than to talk to me.

"Yes, definitely there are extremists. And you'll find them in different
government departments, you'll find them in the mosques, you'll find them in
a lot of places in the society.

"A lot of them don't back terrorism in public, they do it secretly but they
are there," he says.

Mr Noqaidan confirms what I have learned from other sources.

Extremist teachers use weekend camps to recruit deeply religious and
impressionable young men to the cause of holy war.

Hopeful martyrs

The government says very few young Saudis are crossing the border to Iraq.
But Mr Noqaidan puts the number in the high hundreds.

"I'll tell you this story of this guy I knew 16 years ago and I met him
recently and I asked him about his kid and he showed me his kid's picture
and he told me he's now 16 and he's now in Iraq fighting for God.

"And I said to him, 'He's very young and you're going to be responsible for
his acts'.

"And he said, 'Don't worry. I'm not worried about my son, I know he will do
the right thing and believe me, I won't be upset if I hear that he became a
martyr'."

The man charged with rooting out militants is Saudi Interior Minister Prince
Naif.

He has a reputation as a ruthless tactician who has skilfully played
hardliners off against moderates.

Until recently, the interior ministry rarely if ever spoke to western
journalists. But that's changing.

Brig Gen Mansour al-Turki is Naif's spokesperson.

He is a small, intense man with an engaging smile. I spent almost two hours
with him and found him in an expansive mood.

He was proud of the numerous successes in the war against terror, citing a
recent raid that left 14 jihadists dead and only light casualties on the
government side.

'Teenage terrorists'

But Brig Gen Turki did not deny that extremist recruiters under cover of
weekend camps were a big worry.

He told me about some of the young jihadists his forces have captured alive.

"Most of them are actually under age. We're talking about boys 15, 16.

"And if a boy is religious enough, if he is really convinced of everything
but he is not convinced that he can do a terrorist act here, for example,
the older jihadists have their means of convincing him to do such a thing,"
he said.

Ask the ex-jihadist Mansour al-Noqaidin why young men are prepared to die
and he says: "It's basically because they are sincere and honestly believe
that the only way to heaven is through blood."

In Saudi Arabia extremism under cover of religion continues to flourish.

Young men continue to be recruited to the cause of holy war.

That will only change if the government is prepared to confront powerful
forces that continue to shelter and encourage extremists, a course of action
it appears unable or unwilling to undertake.

Bill Law will be writing here each Monday to accompany his series, Saudi
Stories beginning Tuesday 21 June at 0930 BST on Radio 4.

Each programme will also be available to hear online at Radio 4's Listen
again page or to download as part of the BBC Podcasting trial
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4100930.stm

Published: 2005/06/20 11:25:54 GMT

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[osint] NYT: Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?

[note: this essay was published in a german leftist/pacifist weekly ZEIT
under the headline "What, if Bush was right?"
http://www.zeit.de/2005/27/Essay_Ignatieff]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/magazine/26EXCEPTION.html?pagewanted=1&8hp
ib

Who Are Americans to Think That Freedom Is Theirs to Spread?

 By MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
Published: June 26, 2005

I.
As Thomas Jefferson lay dying at his hilltop estate, Monticello, in late
June 1826, he wrote a letter telling the citizens of the city of Washington
that he was too ill to join them for the 50th-anniversary celebrations of
the Declaration of Independence. Wanting his letter to inspire the
gathering, he told them that one day the experiment he and the founders
started would spread to the whole world. ''To some parts sooner, to others
later, but finally to all,'' he wrote, the American form of republican
self-government would become every nation's birthright. Democracy's
worldwide triumph was assured, he went on to say, because ''the unbounded
exercise of reason and freedom of opinion'' would soon convince all men that
they were born not to be ruled but to rule themselves in freedom.

It was the last letter he ever wrote. The slave-owning apostle of liberty,
that incomparable genius and moral scandal, died 10 days later on July 4,
1826, on the same day as his old friend and fellow founder, John Adams.

It's impossible to untangle the contradictions of American freedom without
thinking about Jefferson and the spiritual abyss that separates his
pronouncement that ''all men are created equal'' from the reality of the
human beings he owned, slept with and never imagined as fellow citizens.
American freedom aspires to be universal, but it has always been exceptional
because America is the only modern democratic experiment that began in
slavery. From the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 to the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, it took a century for the promise of American freedom to even begin
to be kept.

Despite the exceptional character of American liberty, every American
president has proclaimed America's duty to defend it abroad as the universal
birthright of mankind. John F. Kennedy echoed Jefferson when, in a speech in
1961, he said that the spread of freedom abroad was powered by ''the force
of right and reason''; but, he went on, in a sober and pragmatic vein,
''reason does not always appeal to unreasonable men.'' The contrast between
Kennedy and the current incumbent of the White House is striking. Until
George W. Bush, no American president -- not even Franklin Roosevelt or
Woodrow Wilson -- actually risked his presidency on the premise that
Jefferson might be right. But this gambler from Texas has bet his place in
history on the proposition, as he stated in a speech in March, that decades
of American presidents' ''excusing and accommodating tyranny, in the pursuit
of stability'' in the Middle East inflamed the hatred of the fanatics who
piloted the planes into the twin towers on Sept. 11.

If democracy plants itself in Iraq and spreads throughout the Middle East,
Bush will be remembered as a plain-speaking visionary. If Iraq fails, it
will be his Vietnam, and nothing else will matter much about his time in
office. For any president, it must be daunting to know already that his
reputation depends on what Jefferson once called ''so inscrutable [an]
arrangement of causes and consequences in this world.''

The consequences are more likely to be positive if the president begins to
show some concern about the gap between his words and his administration's
performance. For he runs an administration with the least care for
consistency between what it says and does of any administration in modern
times. The real money committed to the promotion of democracy in the Middle
East is trifling. The president may have doubled the National Endowment for
Democracy's budget, but it is still only $80 million a year. But even if
there were more money, there is such doubt in the Middle East that the
president actually means what he says -- in the wake of 60 years of American
presidents cozying up to tyrants in the region -- that every dollar spent on
democracy in the Middle East runs the risk of undermining the cause it
supports. Actual Arab democrats recoil from the embrace of American good
intentions. Just ask a community-affairs officer trying to give American
dollars away for the promotion of democracy in Mosul, in northern Iraq, how
easy it is to get anyone to even take the money, let alone spend it
honestly.

And then there are the prisoners, the hooded man with the wires hanging from
his body, the universal icon of the gap between the ideals of American
freedom and the sordid -- and criminal -- realities of American detention
and interrogation practice. The fetid example of these abuses makes American
talk of democracy sound hollow. It will not be possible to encourage the
rule of law in Egypt if America is sending Hosni Mubarak shackled prisoners
to torture. It will be im

[osint] Times: Photo claimed to show Iran President with hostage

2005-06-30 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=2693

Photo claimed to show Iran President with hostage


A photo has emerged which it is claimed links the President-elect of Iran,
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, with the taking of 60 American hostages during the US
embassy siege in Tehran in 1979.

A London-based Iranian news agency which opposes Mr Ahmadinejad is
circulating the photograph, which it says was taken by the Associated Press
news agency on the first day of the hostage crisis.

In the picture, a man which the Iran Focus agency claims it has identified
as Mr Ahmadinejad, is seen holding the arm of a blindfolded US hostage.

The possible role of Mr Ahmadinejad in the embassy takeover, which lasted
444 days and remains a significant sore between America and Iran, came to
light in the run-up to the presidential elections on June 17.

Mr Ahmadinejad is known to have been member of the "Office for Strengthening
of Unity Between Universities and Theological Seminaries" or the OSU, the
main student group behind the takeover, but his precise role in the
hostage-taking was unclear.

Yesterday, in an article on the BBC website, the broadcaster John Simpson
appeared to pour fuel on the controversy when he said he recalled meeting Mr
Ahmadinejad after the hostage crisis and remembered seeing him in the
grounds of the embassy.

"When I read a profile of him in the English-language Tehran Times, I
realised where I must have seen him: in the former American embassy in
Tehran," writes Mr Simpson.

"Ahmadinejad was a founder of the group of young activists who swarmed over
the embassy wall and held the diplomats and embassy workers hostage for 444
days."

And today, Mo Jazayeri, the executive editor of Iran Focus, the agency
distributing the picture, was adamant that it showed Mr Ahmadinejad. He
said: "We strongly believe it was 4 Nov 1979, the first day of the hosting
taking in Tehran. The AP took these photos. There is also apparently footage
which shows Ahmadinejad and several other hostage takers taking this hostage
out of the compound and bringing him in front of the crowd which chants
Death to America. It was a very horrific scene which was shown on
television outside Iran worldwide."

According to Michael Theodoulou, who covers Middle East affairs for The
Times, the photograph, if genuine, could have a damaging effect on Mr
Ahmadinejad's relationship with America, which is already expected to be
fractious.

"These images will really anger the Americans," he told Times Online.
"Britain is never really aware of the impact the hostage crisis had on the
American pysche. No other foreign crisis had the same effect. It really
formed the image of Iran in America and is a real source of the continuing
hostility between the two countries."

But the claims have been strongly denied by Mr Ahmadinejad's office, which
says that the man in the image is not him. Other hostage-takers who were
present at the embassy siege also say that the President-elect was not
involved in the storming of the embassy.

Ramita Navai, correspondent for The Times in Tehran, spoke to Abbas Abdi,
one of the leading hostage takers, who has recently been released from
prison, this morning. She said: "I spoke to Abbas Abdi today and he said
that Ahmadinejad didn't storm the embassy. And he also said: 'Look, a lot of
people came in and out of the embassy during the crisis. It went on for more
than a year'."

Ms Navai said that so many of the students involved in the hostage crisis
went on to become politicians that there is no reason why Mr Ahmadinejad
would disguise his role in the siege.

The claim of Mr Ahmadinejad's identity in the photograph was made on the day
that the president-elect gave an impassioned speech calling for a new
Islamic revolution.

During his first press conference as President-elect last week, Mr
Ahmadinejad struck a moderate note. But today, at a memorial service for
families killed in a 1981 attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republic
Party, he said he hoped his election victory would spark a new global
Islamic revolution.

"Thanks to the blood of the martyrs, a new Islamic revolution has arisen and
the Islamic revolution of 1384 (the current Iranian year) will, if God
wills, cut off the roots of injustice in the world," the official IRNA
agency quoted Mr Ahmadinejad as saying.

"The era of oppression, hegemonic regimes, tyranny and injustice has reached
its end. The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire
world. In one night, the martyrs strode down a path of 100 years."

Mr Ahmadinejad's rhetoric will not be welcomed in the US or the EU. Last
night, Javier Solana, the head of foreign policy for the EU, said that he
will wait and see before judging the new government of Iran but insisted
that the EU's stance on Iran was clear:

"I repeat the importance the European Union attaches to political and
economic reforms in Iran as well as progress on issues of concern: human
rights, non-proliferat

[osint] Iran complains to Austrian ambassador over allegations pre sident-elect linked to assassinations

2005-07-06 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Iran complains to Austrian ambassador over allegations president-elect
linked to assassinations

By Ali Akbar Dareini
ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:30 p.m. July 5, 2005

TEHRAN, Iran  Tehran leaders sharply protested Austria's investigation into
claims that Iran's ultraconservative president-elect was involved in the
assassination of a Kurdish opposition leader, warning Vienna on Tuesday not
to damage ties between the two countries.

Foreign Ministry officials summoned Austria's ambassador in Tehran to a
meeting in which they said "such allegations are tantamount to following
Washington" in its critical line against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who won a
landslide victory last month, state-run Iranian television reported.

"One should not allow the good relations between the two countries to be
disrupted by allegations provided by Zionist elements," ministry officials
told the ambassador, according to the report.

Austrian prosecutors on Tuesday said they were investigating new information
in the 1989 slaying of Iranian Kurdish politician Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou
brought to their attention by an Austrian lawmaker who claims Iran's
president-elect was linked to the assassination.

Ghassemlou and two colleagues were gunned down July 13, 1989, in Vienna.

Ahmadinejad has dismissed as "baseless" claims that he had any role in the
slaying of the dissidents. He has also rejected separate accusations of
being involved in the 1979 hostage-taking of Americans at the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran  claims made by several of the former captives.

Iran has denounced the claims against Ahmadinejad as part of a campaign
engineered by the United States and Israel to smear the new leader, who on
Tuesday said the allegations be put to rest.

"The world has to bow down and respect the will of the Iranian nation,"
Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials, according to
the official Islamic Republic News Agency.

The new leader received a key message of support Tuesday from Iran's
powerful hard-line Revolutionary Guards, a force independent of the military
and with a broad mandate to confront external and domestic "dangers"
confronting the 1979 Islamic Revolution. They are allied with the "Basijis,"
a corps of vigilantes who enforce the Iranian regime's Islamic strictures.

"It's necessary to declare the readiness of the green-uniform Guards and
capable Basijis ... to support and cooperate with Your Excellency's serving
government," Brig. Gen. Rahim Safavi, head of the guards, said in a
congratulatory message to Ahmadinejad, state media reported Tuesday.

The 200,000-member Republican Guards report directly to Iranian Supreme
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The guards' welcome of Ahmadinejad came in stark contrast to their threat
four years ago to confront supporters of outgoing reformist President
Mohammad Khatami with "a hammer on their skull" if they threatened Iran's
Islamic regime.

Ahmadinejad's election victory brought increased concern in Europe and the
United States that Iran will take an even tougher line with the West  and
tensions have been increased by the multiple accusations against him.

A spokesman for the Vienna prosecutor's office confirmed an investigation
was under way as a result of new information provided by Peter Pilz of the
opposition Green party concerning the assassination of Ghassemlou.

"We must check the information to see if the information provided by the
witnesses is correct," said the spokesman, Ernst Kloyber.

Ghassemlou, the charismatic secretary-general of the Democratic Party of
Iranian Kurdistan, had traveled to Vienna 16 years ago for secret talks with
envoys from Tehran. Unofficial reports in Iran suggested that Ghassemlou was
lured into the session to strike a deal on averting conflict with the regime
and to discuss hopes for autonomy for his people.

The killing came only two days before the Kurdish resistance leader was set
to travel to the United States for talks with American officials, Pilz said.

Prosecutors want to interview several witnesses now believed to be in
France, their spokesman said. Pilz said that among them is a former Iranian
journalist who interviewed one of the alleged killers.

Pilz said he gave Austrian authorities details of statements made by
witnesses with information he suggested only people involved in the case
might know.

 
 
 
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[osint] Pizzeria owner goes to jail for unkind cut to France, Germ any

2005-07-14 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

 Pizzeria owner goes to jail for unkind cut to France, Germany

Items compiled from Tribune news services
Published July 13, 2005

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK -- A Danish pizzeria owner was jailed Tuesday for
refusing to serve French and German tourists in protesting their countries'
opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

A Danish court found Aage Bjerre guilty of discrimination and fined him
$900. Bjerre refused to pay, and will now serve an eight-day sentence.

"I'm doing it to show my sympathy with the United States," said Bjerre, 46.
"It shows how seriously I mean it."

In February 2003, before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Bjerre posted signs
barring Germans and French from his pizzeria on Denmark's western island of
Fanoe. He got hundreds of fan letters from the U.S. but had to sell the
pizzeria after repeated vandalism and a large drop in sales.

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[osint] FOX / AP: Palestinian Authority Executes Four Men

http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,159282,00.html

Palestinian Authority Executes Four Men

Sunday, June 12, 2005

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip  Palestinian authorities carried out their first
executions since 2002 on Sunday, killing four convicted murderers in a
campaign meant to halt a growing wave of lawlessness but which drew swift
condemnation from human rights groups.

The executions reflected the tough challenge that Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas (search) faces as he tries to impose law and order in the Palestinian
areas. Abbas has made public order a top priority, but his forces have been
severely weakened by internal rivalries, a lack of resources and years of
fighting with Israel.

Despite Abbas' efforts to revamp his security forces, militant groups and
armed gangs continue to operate with virtual impunity, often clashing with
rival factions or police.

In a fresh challenge to Abbas, two Islamic militant groups responsible for
dozens of bombings threatened Sunday to pull out of a four-month-old
cease-fire, accusing Israel of violating the truce. Leaders of Hamas
(search) and Islamic Jihad (search) said they would make a final decision in
the coming days.

"It looks like Israel will continue in this aggression and we cannot accept
that anymore," said Mohammed al-Hindi, an Islamic Jihad leader.

The truce has brought a drop in violence, although sporadic fighting has
persisted. Abbas met with the militants in Gaza last week in a bid to shore
up the truce after several days of violence that included a deadly
Palestinian rocket attack and Israeli arrest raids in the West Bank.

Sunday's executions appeared to be an attempt to deter criminals and send a
message to the public without directly confronting the militants. None of
the executed men was believed to be affiliated with any of the major
militant groups. Their crimes date to the mid-1990s.

"There is a new policy of enforcing the law, to face and fight the chaos and
lawlessness in the Palestinian territories," Interior Ministry spokesman
Tawfiq Abu Khoussa said.

Abu Khoussa said Abbas signed the execution orders Saturday. Three of the
men were hanged, and the fourth was shot by firing squad, in line with the
sentences handed down at their trials.

There was no advance notice of the pre-dawn executions, which had been
approved by Islamic authorities.

The executions follow a new wave of internal violence in the Palestinian
areas. Gunmen have clashed with Palestinian security forces in Gaza at least
three times in recent days.

Even after the executions, the unrest continued in the bustling West Bank
town of Ramallah, where a feud between two families escalated from a
fistfight into a shootout. While no one was injured by gunfire, the
officials said the shooting caused public panic.

The Palestinian Authority has had the death penalty in place since its
establishment in 1994. However, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
halted the death penalty in 2002 after criticism by European countries and
international human rights groups.

The Gaza Center for Human Rights, a Palestinian monitoring group, said the
executed men were all serving murder sentences in Palestinian prisons. The
men were common criminals.

Rigi Sorani, chairman of the human rights group, condemned the killings and
accused the Palestinian Authority of carrying out a "token" execution that
failed to go after the gunmen and rogue elements of the security forces
responsible for much of the recent violence.

"When we learned about President Abbas planning to carry out executions
three months ago, we sent him a letter, and I personally met with him to
talk him out of it," Sorani said.

Including Sunday's killings, the Palestinian Authority has executed 13
people.

The Israeli human rights group B'tselem, which spends most of its time
documenting alleged abuses by Israel against the Palestinians, also
condemned the killings and urged Abbas to halt further executions.

One of the executed men was convicted and sentenced by a special security
court  which have been criticized for lack of due process  just a week
after the crime in September 2000, according to the Gaza human rights group.

Some 47 Palestinians remain on death row, about half of them convicted
collaborators with Israel. Palestinian officials said last month they had
suspended plans to execute the collaborators, fearing their deaths would
inflame tensions with Israel.

Israel has put heavy pressure on Abbas to crack down on militants, saying
peace talks cannot resume until he reins in the gunmen.

On Saturday, Palestinian Foreign Minister Nasser Al Kidwa said Palestinian
security forces would not disarm militant groups so long as Israel's
occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues.

Israeli officials responded by accusing Al Kidwa of destroying chances of
renewing peace talks.

"Very simply, either they will fight terrorism or we will fight terrorism,"
Israeli Vice-Premier Ehud Olmert told Isra

[osint] Der Spiegel: Meet The Bin Ladens

DER SPIEGEL 23/2005 - June 6, 2005
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,359690,00.html

Meet The Bin Ladens

Osama's Road to Riches and Terror

By Georg Mascolo and Erich Follath

The Bin Laden family disowned black sheep Osama in 1994. But have they
really broken with the mega-terrorist? Recently revealed classified
documents seem to suggest otherwise. Osama's violent career has been made
possible in part by the generosity of his family -- and by his contacts with
the Saudi royals.
In early spring 2002, American intelligence agents tipped off authorities in
Bosnia-Herzegovina that something wasn't quite right with the "Benevolence
International Foundation." Their reaction was swift; special forces stormed
eight offices of the Islamic foundation in Sarajevo and in Zenica. They
found weapons and explosives, videos and flyers calling for holy war. More
importantly, however, they discovered a computer with a mysterious file
entitled "Tarich Osama" -- Arabic for "Osama's Story."

After printing out the file -- close to 10,000 pages worth -- the
intelligence experts quickly realized they had stumbled upon a true
goldmine. They were looking at nothing less than the carefully documented
story of al-Qaida, complete with scanned letters, minutes of secret
meetings, photos and notes -- some even written in Osama Bin Laden's
handwriting. CIA experts secured the highly sensitive material, dubbed
"Golden Chain," and took everything back to the United States. To this day,
only fragments of the material have been published. Now, however, SPIEGEL
magazine has been given complete access to the entire series of explosive
documents dating from the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

During that time, Osama bin Laden, known as "OBL" in CIA parlance, was
primarily interested in "preserving the spirit of jihad" that had developed
during the successful Afghanistan campaign -- a fight which saw an
international group of Muslim fighters stand up to the mighty Soviet army.
Bin Laden wanted to expand the group's activities to battle "the infidels"
in the West. A full decade before the attacks on the Twin Towers, the
documents make horrifyingly clear, bin Laden was already dreaming of
"staging a major event for the mass media, to generate donations."

Finances are the focal point in these early al-Qaida documents. OBL, as one
of the heirs of a large construction company, had a substantial fortune at
his disposal, but it was still not enough to finance global jihad. The Saudi
elite -- and his own family -- came to his assistance.

"Be generous when doing God's work"

The evidence lies in the most valuable document investigators managed to
acquire: a list of al-Qaida's key financial backers. The list, titled with a
verse from the Koran, "Let us be generous when doing God's work," is a
veritable who's who of the Middle Eastern monarchy, including the signatures
of two former cabinet ministers, six bankers and twelve prominent
businessmen. The list also mentions "the bin Laden brothers." Were these
generous backers aware, at the time, that were not just donating money to
support the aggressive expansion of the teaching of the Islamic faith, but
were also financing acts of terror against non-believers? Did "the bin Laden
brothers," who first pledged money to Al-Qaida and then, in 1994, issued a
joint press statement declaring that they were ejecting Osama from the
family as a "black sheep," truly break ties with their blood relatives -- or
were they simply pulling the wool over the eyes of the world?

Vincent Cannistraro, former head of counterterrorism for the CIA, says, "I
tracked the bin Ladens for years. Many family members claimed that Osama was
no longer one of them. It's an easy thing to say, but blood is usually
thicker than water."

Carmen bin Laden, a sister-in-law of the terrorist, who lived with the
extended family in Jeddah for years, says, "I absolutely do not believe that
the bin Ladens disowned Osama. In this family, a brother is always a
brother, no matter what he has done. I am convinced that the complex and
tightly woven network between the bin Laden clan and the Saudi royal family
is still in operation."

French documentary filmmaker Joël Soler even goes so far as to refer to the
family as "A Dynasty of Terror," in his somewhat speculative made-for-TV
piece.

But could this really be possible? Are the bin Ladens (or "Binladins," as
they more commonly spell it), with their 25 brothers, 29 sisters, in-laws,
aunts and, by now, at least 15 children of Osama, nothing but a clan of
terrorists? Or are relatives being taken to task for the crimes of one
family member, all on the strength of legends and conspiracy theories?

American celebrity attorney Ron Motley plans to file a lawsuit against
alleged Saudi backers of al-Qaida on behalf of hundreds of families who lost
relatives in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Listed among the
defendants summoned by federal judge Richard Casey at Motley's request

[osint] Dawn: PTCL claims 'smooth functioning'; over 250 workers held

PTCL claims smooth functioning; over 250 workers held



Dawn Report


ISLAMABAD, June 12: As the Pakistan Telecommunication Company claimed here
on Sunday that its entire system was functioning smoothly and uninterrupted
, police rounded up over 250 workers in Islamabad and Lahore and other
cities and towns of Punjab.

Over a dozen union activists and PTCL workers were arrested in Quetta,
according to Superintendent of Police Qazi Wahid. However, PTCL union action
committee claimed that between 20 and 30 employers, including provincial
union leaders, had been detained.

All networks are being run smoothly by PTCL technicians and workers, the
companys president and chief executive Junaid Khan said.

Security forces and armys technical personnel took over PTCL installations
across the country on Saturday night after union leaders called a strike in
protest against the governments plan to privatize the company.

Federal Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said on Sunday that the
government wanted PTCL employees to resume their work in a peaceful manner
because their strike call has been declared illegal by the National
Industrial Relations Committee.

He threatened action against anyone who would attempt to obstruct the smooth
functioning of the PTCL.

In Islamabad, the authorities directed law-enforcement agencies to arrest
any worker trying to create a law and order situation and register cases
against them under Anti-Terrorism Act (ATC).

A security source said that a list of PTCL employees had been provided to
the security staff deployed on the gates of PTCL installations and only
those whose names were on the list were being allowed in.

A police official told Dawn that security around the installations had been
stepped up and anyone trying to create problem would be booked under the
ATC.

Seven PTCL staff members arrested by Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)
police were sent to Adiala jail after the Margalla police registered an FIR
against them.

Zafar Zaidi and Tanveer Shah, PTCL action committee member, have been
detained by the ICT police for one month.

Police said a group of PTCL workers gathered outside the G- 8/4 telephone
exchange after they had been evacuated by law- enforcement personnel and
started shouting slogans against the governments privatization policy and
the Pakistan Telecommunication Company administration.

According to a Dawn report from Lahore, police picked up over 200 employees
and their relatives in the province after troops took over Pakistan
Telecommunication Company installation on Saturday.

Those picked up included union leaders and workers and relatives of those
who were not found when police raided their homes.

In Karachi, senior Pakistan Telecommunication Company officials claimed that
no employees had been taken into custody in the city or any other place in
Sindh.

They said that most of the union leaders had gone to Islamabad.



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[osint] Art Newspaper: Censorship at the Biennale?

Art Newspaper:
Censorship at the Biennale?
Gregor Schneiders project for the exhibition has been blocked by city
authorities
By Gareth Harris and Cristina Ruiz

Schneider was asked to create a work for the biennale by Spanish curator
Rosa Martinez, one of the exhibitions two organisers. He designed a massive
50-foot cube made of scaffolding covered with black fabric entitled Cube
Venice, inspired by the Kaba, the central holy site of Islam in Mecca. It
was to be erected in the middle of St Marks Square in front of the
basilica.

The work has, however, been blocked by city authorities who may have
felt that it would offend Muslims and turn the city into a potential target
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[osint] Spiegel: Is Mzoudi Innocent or just not Proven Guilty?

2005-06-14 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

SPIEGEL ONLINE - June 10, 2005, 03:06 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,359886,00.html

German Papers

Is Mzoudi Innocent or just not Proven Guilty?

On Thursday Abdelghani Mzoudi, the Moroccan man accused of involvement in
the attacks of September 11, was acquitted by the German Federal Appeals
Court. The country's commentators are divided on whether this shows the
impartiality or ineffectiveness of the German judicial system.

Mzoudi lived with terrorists, he was friends with terrorists and he even
lent money to terrorists. But does this make him a terrorist? Judges at the
German Federal Appeals Court have decided not. Or at least not enough
concrete evidence has been found to convict him for links to 9/11. Although
the general opinion in Germany is that a conviction without proper evidence
is far from desirable, some commentators do have doubts about the working
methods of the trial.

Under the almost patriotic headline "how and why the German federal court
yesterday became a role model for other governments" the Sueddeutsche
Zeitung is practically euphoric in its praise for the judges' decision. "The
acquittal of suspected terrorist Abdelghani Mzoudi demonstrates
steadfastness in sticking to the letter of the law -- a steadfastness which
appears all the more remarkable when you consider how unstable the political
climate is at the moment."

The paper also says that the judges have not allowed themselves to be
influenced by American security officials or general public opinion. "They
have insisted on judging a person on the facts rather than his reputation,
and that, even in the fight against terror, the state must remain true to
its constitution." The paper applauds the fact that the court has judged the
defendant innocent, because it lacked the necessary evidence to prove him
guilty, even though he was suspected of being a terrorist and stood accused
of causing 3,000 deaths. "The verdict represents a rejection of the
Guantanamization of the criminal and justice system. It is a defense of the
basic principles of enlightened legal proceedings."

The commentator goes on to write that one should be especially thankful for
the court's integrity in light of the current state of German political
institutions: the country's foreign policy bows down to American interests
simply because it wants a seat on the United Nations Security Council; the
German president is suspected of partisanship; the national government finds
itself in a situation which is close to a state of emergency. "The federal
court has shown the politicians in Berlin that there is still such a thing
as the dignity of office."

The Financial Times Deutschland on the other hand is far less complimentary
about what the verdict says about the German legal system. While the paper
is impressed that the court, lacking concrete evidence, gave the defendant
the benefit of the doubt, it says that in every other respect the Mzoudi
trial was anything but a "glorious chapter" in the history of the legal
institutions on either side of the Atlantic. "On the one hand, in the US for
instance, (the legal process) has been stagnating so that no result has so
far been achieved. On the other hand, trials such as yesterday's end up as
miserable failures."

The commentator is scathing in his criticisms of how the trial was carried
out. "The prosecution's case became confused because evidence was missing.
It was also hampered by pieces of evidence, suspicions and claims which were
for the most part wishful thinking." The paper also believes that a series
of mistakes and procedural break-downs were responsible for the trial's
result. "The prosecution's arguments completely fell apart and witnesses
were presented who were then discounted as worthless by the prosecuting
lawyers themselves. In addition to all of this, the USA's tactics managed to
either hamper Germany's efforts or block them completely."

The left-leaning Die Tageszeitung is much more sanguine about the verdict,
saying that the trial was carried out in a laudably unspectacular manner.
"Four years after Sept. 11, 2001 the mood here is still relatively
unemotional -- alert, but without the furor which characterized the struggle
with the RAF (Baader-Meinhof terrorist group) in the 1970s."

The commentator goes on to say that it would be excessive to talk about a
victory of judicial independence, since this was never in danger in the
first place. "There was no notable pressure of opinion from the media or
from politicians. And there was certainly no pressure at all from the USA,
where most people seem hardly interested in what happens to people on the
periphery such as Mzoudi and his fellow Moroccan (Mounir El) Motassadeq."
The writer ends by saying that "if only everything in Germany was carried in
such an unexcitable manner."

The Berliner Zeitung, while welcoming the decision, bemoans the fact that
Mzoudi is being treated as if he were guilty anyway. "Experts point out that
Mzoudi was re

[osint] IHT: Pakistan's moderates are beaten in public

2005-06-15 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

 Pakistan's moderates are beaten in public
Ali Dayan Hasan International Herald Tribune

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2005
LAHORE, Pakistan 'Teach the bitch a lesson. Strip her in public." As one of
the police officers told me, these were the orders issued by their bosses.
The police beat the woman with batons in the full glare of the news media,
tore her shirt off and, though they failed to take off her baggy trousers,
certainly tried their best. The ritual public humiliation over, she and
others - some bloodied - were dragged screaming and protesting to police
vans and taken away to police stations.

This didn't happen to some unknown student or impoverished villager. This
happened to Asma Jahangir, the United Nations special rapporteur on freedom
of religion and head of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, the
country's largest such nongovernmental group. The setting: a glitzy
thoroughfare in Lahore's upmarket Gulberg neighborhood. The crime:
attempting to organize a symbolic mixed-gender mini-marathon on May 14.

The stated aim of the marathon was to highlight violence against women and
to promote "enlightened moderation" - a reference to President Pervez
Musharraf's constant refrain describing the Pakistani military's ostensible
shift from state-sponsored Islamist militancy and religious orthodoxy to
something else (just what is not entirely clear).

Others arrested included Hina Jilani, the UN special rapporteur on the
situation of human rights defenders, and 40 others, this writer included (an
observer, not a runner - too many cigarettes). The police, faced with
embarrassing media coverage, released us a few hours later.

The marathon was organized by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and
affiliated nongovernmental organizations in the light of recent "marathon
politics" in Pakistan. Until early April, it was government policy to
encourage sporting events for women, so Punjab Province organized a series
of marathons in which men and women could compete. The brief experiment
ended abruptly on April 3, when 900 activists of the Islamist alliance, the
Muttaheda Majlis-e-Amal, or MMA - which was effectively created as a serious
political force by Musharraf and is backed by the military - attacked the
participants of a race in the town of Gujranwala.

According to a government statement at the time, the MMA activists were
armed with firearms, batons and Molotov cocktails. Yet within days the
activists were released without charge and Musharraf's government had
reversed its policy of allowing mixed-gender sporting activities in public.

The public beating of Pakistan's most high-profile human rights defenders
highlights what most Pakistanis have known all along: "Enlightened
moderation" is a hoax perpetrated by Musharraf for international
consumption. What is known in Pakistan as the "mullah-military alliance"
remains deeply rooted, and the Pakistani military and Musharraf continue to
view "moderate" and "liberal" forces in politics and society as their
principal adversaries.

The reason is simple: Democracy, human rights and meaningful civil liberties
are anathema to a hypermilitarized state. Pakistan's voters consistently
vote overwhelmingly for moderate, secular-oriented parties and reject
religious extremists, so the military must rely on the most retrogressive
elements in society to preserve its hold on power. Jahangir and others were
beaten because they tried - in a symbolic but crucial way - to challenge the
mullah-military alliance on the streets of Lahore.

In Washington and London, Musharraf presents himself as the face of
enlightenment; in Pakistan there is another face. The Bush administration,
Musharraf's chief backer, should realize that its friend in the war on
terror came to power in a coup, continues to hold office without facing
Pakistani voters, refuses to schedule a vote, and bans women from running in
mixed-gender races. Those who stand for the values of human rights and
democracy that the Bush administration calls universal are seen as the enemy
within and are beaten on the streets.

Instead of allying himself with espousers of hate and intolerance, Musharraf
should pursue a genuine path of enlightened moderation by telling the MMA
and others that the days of treating women as second-class citizens are
over. If human rights defenders can be beaten for running for their rights,
will they have to run for their lives before the rest of the world and
Musharraf's patrons wake up?

(Ali Dayan Hasan covers Pakistan for the New York-based group Human Rights
Watch.)

LAHORE, Pakistan 'Teach the bitch a lesson. Strip her in public." As one of
the police officers told me, these were the orders issued by their bosses.
The police beat the woman with batons in the full glare of the news media,
tore her shirt off and, though they failed to take off her baggy trousers,
certainly tried their best. The ritual public humiliation over, she and
others - some bloodied - were dragged screaming and protest

[osint] BBC: Australia hostage rescued in Iraq

2005-06-15 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

 Australia hostage rescued in Iraq
Hostage Douglas Wood has been rescued from his captors after being held for
six weeks in Iraq, Australian PM John Howard has said.

"I am delighted to inform the house the Australian hostage in Iraq, Mr
Douglas Wood, is safe from his captors," he told the Australian parliament.

He said the engineer had been rescued in a military operation without giving
further details.

Mr Wood, 63, was seized in late April and had been in poor health.

Mr Howard told parliament Mr Wood was in the hands of the Australian
authorities in Baghdad and was undergoing medical checks, but was well.

"Mr Wood was recovered a short while ago in Baghdad in a military operation
which I'm told was conducted by Iraqi forces, in co-operation in a general
way with force elements from the United States," he said.

Mr Howard said no ransom had been paid for Mr Wood's release.

He praised the efforts of the Iraqi government of Prime Minister Ibrahim
Jaafari in helping to secure the release.

"I hope very shortly to express my thanks for the efforts of his forces and
may I record again our thanks to our American friends for their constant
support and availability and co-operation," Mr Howard said.

"It is a wonderful outcome for this man who suffered so much and it's a
tribute to the work of our Iraqi and American friends that this has come
about."

First Australian taken

Australia sent an emergency response team to Baghdad after Mr Wood, who is
married to an American and lives in the US, was seized by a rebel group
calling itself the Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Iraq.

The group initially demanded Australia pull its troops out of Iraq or else
they would kill Mr Wood.

He was the first Australian taken hostage in Iraq, where there are about
1,400 Australian troops stationed.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/4094822.stm

Published: 2005/06/15 10:24:40 GMT

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[osint] SPIEGEL Interview with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister

2005-06-16 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

SPIEGEL ONLINE - June 15, 2005, 06:08 PM
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,360658,00.html

SPIEGEL Interview with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister

"The Koran Doesn't Oppose Women Driving"

With Saudi Arabia's King Fahd seriously ill, questions about his successor
and about Saudi political reform abound. SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with Saudi
Foreign Minister Saud al-Feisal about the King's medical condition, women
drivers and Saudi citizens fighting with the insurgency in Iraq.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Your highness, when the news of King Fahd's serious illness
was made public, the Riad stock market fell by more than 5 percent and
updates on his health were monitored the world over. Is the Saudi kingdom
faced with a period of instability?

Saud al-Feisal: The stock market is not a good indicator for the political
stability of our country. It rises and falls by just as much with each
change in the price of oil. The doctors are satisfied with the medical
condition of the king and he will be able to leave the hospital within the
next few days. Anyway, the succession is already clear; everybody knows who
the next king of Saudi Arabia will be.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Crown Prince Abdullah, you mean. But after that, you
yourself are considered a possible successor -- and Washington would welcome
such an eventuality.

Saud al-Feisal: Those who consider that to be a serious possibility have
little understanding of the political realities in the Middle East.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Saudi Arabia has
continually delayed implementing urgently needed reforms. Why is it going so
slowly and why are reformers having such a hard time of it?

Saud al-Feisal: Saudi Arabia is changing at an incredibly quick pace, but we
can't allow ourselves any experiments. The primary goal of the government is
to strengthen the inner cohesion of our country. Even the western
democracies didn't develop within just a few years. It took centuries, for
example, until Great Britain gave women the vote.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The nation's founder, Abd al-Asis Ibn Saud, and your father,
King Feisal, introduced girl's schools, telephones and television against
the opposition of the conservatives. But today, the government can't even
seem to push the concept of driver's licenses for women through.

Saud al-Feisal: In the 1950s or 60s, it was also much easier to introduce
the telephone or telegraph than it is to allow women to drive today. It is a
cultural and a societal question that is faced with deep-seated opposition.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Do you, personally, support the idea?

Saud al-Feisal: I am for it. Not just for philosophical and political
reasons, but also for practical ones. It is not a religious question.
Nowhere in the Koran is it written that women are not allowed to drive cars.
In any case, there are many other -- and more important -- rights that have
to be granted to women; like the right to vote, for example or the right to
follow the career path they wish. There is also nothing in the Koran that
would speak against these reforms either.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: In mid-May, religious judges sentenced three Saudi
intellectuals to six, seven and nine years in prison because they demanded
that Saudi Arabia be transformed into a constitutional monarchy. Human
rights groups are outraged.

Saud al-Feisal: I cannot speak about the judges in detail, but I was in fact
disturbed by the fact that human rights observers were expelled from the
court room during this trial. The federal prosecutor who was representing
the government in the case pled for them to be admitted as observers.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Does that not clearly show that the religious authorities in
Saudi Arabia have the last word today?

Saud al-Feisal: The power of religion is not a negative power to us; rather,
it is, as Crown Prince Abdullah repeatedly points out, a power that we must
use in order to keep together our society. Where we do have a problem is
with takfir -- in other words, the tendency to denigrate people who think
differently as heretics, as apostates ...

SPIEGEL ONLINE: ... and by declaring holy war against them. Between 2,000
and 3,000 Saudi residents are currently in Iraq fighting for the jihad. Does
that alarm you?

Saud al-Feisal: We are very alarmed by that and we are doing our best to cut
off recruitment in our country and to dry up their funding sources. Our
border with Iraq is secure and the Iraqi government has now agreed to
provide us with lists of Saudi citizens currently in Iraq. That is very good
because as soon as we know we are dealing with one of our own citizens, we
can help.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why is it that so many young Saudis turn their backs on
their homeland to fight in foreign wars as Mujahedeen?

Saud al-Feisal: It is related to the images they see every day that come out
of Iraq and Palestine. They consider what they see there to be an unjust war
against Muslims. And in this part of the world, the principle of justice is
of fundamenta

[osint] Reuters: Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail

2005-06-16 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo jail
Fri Jun 17, 2005 12:31 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research)
unit will build a new $30 million (16.5 million pound) detention facility
and security fence at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the
United States is holding about 520 foreign terrorism suspects, the Defense
Department announced on Thursday.

The announcement comes the same week that Vice President Dick Cheney and
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the jail after U.S. lawmakers
said it had created an image problem for the United States.

Critics have decried the indefinite detention of Guantanamo detainees, whom
the United States has denied rights accorded under the Geneva Conventions to
prisoners of war. The prison was called "the gulag of our times" in a recent
Amnesty International report.

An air-conditioned two-story prison, known as Detention Camp #6, will be
built at Guantanamo to house 220 men. It will include exercise areas,
medical and dental spaces as well as a security control room, the contract
announcement said.

The contract announcement did not specify whether the new prison would also
hold foreign terror suspects.

Under the deal with the Norfolk, Virginia-based U.S. Naval Facilities
Engineering Command, Atlantic, the work is to be wrapped up by July 2006. It
is part of a larger contract that could be worth up to $500 million if all
options are exercised, the Defence Department said.

The project is to be carried out by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown &
Root Services of Arlington, Virginia. It includes site work, heating
ventilation and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work, the Pentagon
said.

The first prisoners arrived at the prison camp in January 2002 after the
September 11, 2001, hijacked airliner attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

The Pentagon has said about 520 detainees from more than 40 countries are
being held at the prison, without giving a precise figure.

Rumsfeld said on Tuesday U.S. taxpayers had spend more than $100 million on
construction costs and no other facility could replace it.

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[osint] WSJ: The German Chair

2005-06-18 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110006834

The German Chair
A tale of torture at the hands of an America-hating diplomat.

BY BRET STEPHENS
Friday, June 17, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

In Beirut last month, I met a Lebanese man who had been savagely tortured
over the course of a 12-year odyssey in Syrian prisons. Among the things he
had endured were electrocutions, beatings with electric cables, and being
hanged from ropes by his ankles.

And then there was "the German chair."

The German chair, as he described it, was something akin to a medieval rack,
in which progressively greater doses of pain are administered an inch at a
time. Yet why was it known as the German chair? It's a question I neglected
to ask. But I found my answer several weeks later, in New York.

What occasioned this discovery was meeting a relatively senior German
diplomat posted to the New York consulate. My wife--also German--knows his
wife socially; our children use the same playground. They had invited us to
their home for Sunday brunch.

I should say here that I speak almost no German, and it quickly became
apparent that the diplomat's wife spoke almost no English. So it was perhaps
natural that, soon after we arrived, she and my wife took to one corner of
the spacious apartment while the diplomat ushered me into his study. Less
natural was the conversation that followed. I made the normal chitchat of
first encounters: praise for the unobstructed (and million-dollar) views of
the Hudson River; a query about what he did at the consulate.

But the diplomat had no patience for my small talk. Apropos of nothing, he
said he had recently made a study of U.S. tax laws and concluded that
practices here were inferior to those in Germany. Given recent rates of
German economic growth, I found this comment odd. But I offered no
rejoinder. I was, after all, a guest in his home.

The diplomat, however, was just getting started. Bad as U.S. economic policy
was, it was as nothing next to our human-rights record. Had I read the
recent Amnesty International report on Guantanamo? "You mean the one that
compared it to the Soviet gulag?" Yes, that one. My host disagreed with it:
The gulag was better than Gitmo, since at least the Stalinist system offered
its victims a trial of sorts.

Nor was that all. Civil rights in the U.S., he said, were on a par with
those of North Korea and rather behind what they had been in Europe in the
Middle Ages. When I offered that, as a journalist, I had encountered no
restrictions on press freedom, he cut me off. "That's because The Wall
Street Journal takes its orders from the government."

By then we had sat down at the formal dining table, with our backs to Ground
Zero a half-mile away and our eyes on the boats on the river below us. My
wife and I made abortive attempts at ordinary conversation. We were met with
non sequiturs: "The only people who appreciate American foreign policy are
poodles." After further bizarre pronouncements, including a lecture on the
illegality of the Holocaust under Nazi law, my wife said that she felt
unwell. We gathered our things and left.

For days now, I've been asking myself why I didn't answer the diplomat in
the way he deserved. Partly it had to do with my wish not to spoil the
friendship between our wives. Partly, too, his assault was so
discombobulating I didn't trust myself to respond coherently. But the main
reason is that, as his guest, I was restrained by an innate sense of
propriety, a sense the diplomat did not share. And herein lies the essence
of the torturer's art.

To inflict harm on a defenseless person--whoever he may be, whatever he has
done--goes against the human grain. It is one thing to strike out at
somebody who has just hit you. It's another thing entirely to abuse someone
who, whether as prisoner or as guest, is in your power.

Long ago the Greeks understood that nothing is so barbarous as
inhospitality. And according to popular exegesis, God did not destroy Sodom
and Gomorrah because of its citizens' sexual crimes but because of their
crimes against hospitality--the rape of strangers.

Torturers, however, are those rare people who can inflict injury on the
defenseless, work which is made easier for them because they know most
people are unable to respond in kind. Thus it was with the German diplomat.
Seated at his table, I submitted to his rules. But rather than oblige my
submission with courtesy, he took the opportunity to inflict his
insults--insults to which I, as a guest, was bound not to resist. I was, so
to speak, in his German chair.

I am tempted to violate journalistic standards here by revealing the
diplomat's name. Of course I won't: That's not the sort of man I am. The
trouble is, that's one big reason why he is the man he is. German readers
especially may recall the words of Brecht: The womb is fertile still, which
bore this fruit.

Mr. Stephens is a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board.



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[osint] SEE: Terrorist May Already Use Bosnia

2005-08-23 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: Terrorist May Already Use Bosnia
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=56364&LangID=1
2005-08-22 10:15:39

Terrorists who previously targeted the United States may be now in Bosnia,
Cybercast News Service said Friday.

Convicted terrorists may be moving to Bosnia after being freed and they have
access there to a "one-stop shop" of jihad training camps, weapons and
illegal Islamic "charities" - all at the doorstep of Europe, terrorism
experts said according to the report, which was carried by the Assyrian
International News Agency.

"[Convicted terrorist] Karim Said Atmani recently returned to Bosnia after
being released early from French prison for 'good behavior,'" terrorism
expert and author Evan Kohlmann told CNS.

Atmani, a Moroccan, was linked to the "millennium bomb plot" and convicted
by a French court of colluding with Osama bin Laden. He has been linked to
the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), an organization responsible for airplane
hijackings and subway bombings in France, CNS said.

Also finding haven in Bosnia is Abu el Maali, who like Atmani, was a foreign
national who fought in the Bosnia war. El Maali was later accused by French
authorities of attempting to smuggle explosives in 1998 to an Egyptian
terrorist group plotting to destroy U.S. military installations in Germany.
He was also accused of leading terrorist cells in Bosnia, Pakistan and
Afghanistan.

The Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation (AHF), a charity that was later found by
the U.S. Treasury to be underwriting terrorist operations including
al-Qaida, shut its offices in Bosnia after the U.S. announcement but
reopened under the name "Vazir." The new organization was registered as an
"association for sport, culture and education," CNS said.

Cybercast News Service has also obtained a video that terrorism analysts say
depicts an active jihad training camp in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a region
previously described by analysts as an ideal gateway for terror missions
into Europe.

The video shows outdoor maneuvers, explosives training and training inside
what appears to be a school gym. Exercises in hostage-taking are also shown.

Source: World Peace Herald

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[osint] Bert Nussbaumer in Tehran?

2007-10-25 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Bert Nussbaumer in Tehran?

Mohamed Mahmoud, detained in Austria under suspicion of acting as gGIMF 
said during an interrogation, that Bert Nussbaumer is held in a prison 
in Tehran together with other western hostages, as a human shield. 
Mahmoud said he was informed over this by the Al-Hesbah network. 
Nussbaumer, who was working for the "Crescent Security Group", was taken 
hostage together with four US-Americans on November 16, 2006. Since then 
his remains are unknown. According to Austrian law his relatives can 
declare him as death a year after disappearing... 
http://tinyurl.com/3e5m4p [back to Europe]

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[osint] German GIMF activities

2007-11-06 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

German GIMF activities

In a reaction to EU-commissioner Frattini's plans to make online 
terrorism incitement a crime [see dm.OSINF Nov 06] a representative of 
German GIMF gave an interview to RTL TV-news, announcing that due to the 
Germam engagement in Afghanistan German forces within Germany will 
become a legitimate target. Video with english subtitles will be 
available later today for dm.OSINF subscribers. Also the German GIMF 
forum is offering a list of email-addresses including passwords of 
"Kuffars" in order to fake filesharing accounts. Beside of a number of 
freemail accounts like hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc. the list, called 
"hateUSA.txt", also includes British and Indonesian government accounts 
as well as data from defense contractors Airbus and Bechtel.

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[osint] German GIMF Interview November 06, 2007

2007-11-08 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

A interview the administrator of the German GIMF website, Muhammed Omar, 
gave to German RTL news on November 06, 2007 is available for download 
here: http://filehost.tv/f/9989/gGIMF_RTL_06Nov07.wmv.html

I attached english subtitles to the whole piece, basically he makes two 
interesting statements:
1. German forces within Germany are legitimate targets and
2. he is contacting volunteers from Germany to Mujahedin training camps.

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[osint] Radioactive material vanishes from Bosnian hospital / Al-Qaeda training camps established in Romania, Italian paper claims

2007-11-14 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Radioactive material vanishes from Bosnian hospital

Nearly 1,000 kilograms of radioactive material has disappeared from a 
hospital in Banja Luka yesterday. The official acknowledged that "being 
radioactive, the material could be used for the production of a so 
called dirty bomb." However, he said that he did not believe that this 
was the case since "we have firm control over that aspect of the 
country's security." The official spoke to Balkan Insight by phone from 
Banja Luka and on condition of anonymity. A dirty bomb is a device which 
combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. It has 
limited force but can spread radioactive material over a wide area. 
Although it has not yet been used, it is regarded as a potential weapon 
of choice for terrorists... http://tinyurl.com/2n9lmc [back to Europe]

Al-Qaeda training camps established in Romania, Italian paper claims

Italian daily Il Secolo XIX online edition has been claiming that 
Romania houses an Al-Queda training camp. The paper reported yesterday 
that 3 Al-Qaeda members, one of them the leader of the Easteuropean 
ramification, are hiding in Romania, where they established training 
camps. According to the publication, Italian authorities intercepted 
phone calls of several terrorist suspects including clues that Al-Qaeda 
members settled in Galati, Romania, where they train those who aspire to 
fight for the Jihad how to use explosive devices. During a thorough 
inquiry by the Raggruppamento Operativo Speciale (ROS) of the Genoa 
Police, the investigators intercepted a conversation between two 
terrorist suspects, Tunisians Jameleddine Ben Mohamed Ben Moussa and 
Bechir Kaouana. They mentioned Al-Qaeda training camps in Romania, used 
for training future Jihad fighters to make and use explosive devices. 
Bucharest-based daily Ziua write stoday that the SRI (Romanian Secret 
Service) has confirmed the information, mentioning that they have 
identified and actively monitored the Romanian connections of a 
transborder criminal network related to terrorism... 
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[osint] [Fwd: Here is a list with working passwords to exactly 100 email-accounts to Embassies and Governments around the world.]

2007-09-02 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck


Here is a list with working passwords to exactly 100 email-accounts to
Embassies and Governments around the world.

http://derangedsecurity.com/deranged-gives-you-100-passwords-to-governments-embassies-2/

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[osint] Demonet

2007-09-11 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

While most of civilization is mourning the 9/11 anniversary, police in 
Europeans capital Brussels has nothing better to do than arresting 
peaceful demonstrators protesting the Islamization of Europe.
See here, somewhat live: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2438

And later tonight public TV channels are airing 9/11 conspiracy 
theorist' "documentations" and pieces on "The Poetry of Islam".
It's disgusting. dm+


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[osint] Three Austrians connected to Al-Qaeda detained

2007-09-12 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Three Austrians connected to Al-Qaeda detained

In connection with a propaganda video released by the "Global Islamic 
Media Front" (GIMF) and the "Voice of Caliphate" some six month ago (see 
here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8775600212065945479) 
threatening Germany and Austria and demanding a troop withdrawal from 
Afghanistan three individuals were detained in Vienna today.

All three are said to be second generation immigrants to Austria, 
holding Austrian citizenship, of Muslim faith. At a press conference by 
the Minister of Interiours today at 1600CET they were described as a 
26yrs old man, his 21yrs old wife and another 26yrs old man. No further 
details are available by now, more in tomorrow's edition of my brief. dm+

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[osint] Libyan president suffers stroke

2007-05-14 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Libyan president suffers stroke

Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi was hospitalized on Sunday after
suffering a stroke. Gaddafi's condition was defined as serious, and he
is currently in a coma, the Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported.
According to the report, Gaddafi's family members arrived at the
hospital to be with him... http://tinyurl.com/23vagu [back to Africa]


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Re: [osint] Partition Lebanon?

2007-12-18 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Don't forget the US-created Bosnia and Kosovo in your list...  dm+

Beowulf schrieb:
> Why keep giving terrorists their own states (Gaza, West Bank,
> Hizballah-Syrian-Iranian Lebanon, Somalia?)
>  
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[osint] Christmas Fatwa...

2007-12-24 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://www.islamqa.com/index.php?ref=81977&ln=eng

Question:
What is the ruling on eating the food (rice, meat, chicken or cake) that 
is given to us by a Christian friend that he made for his birthday or 
for Christmas or the Christian New Year? What is your opinion on 
congratulating him by saying, “Insha Allaah you will continue to do well 
this year” so as to avoid saying Kull ‘aam wa antum bi khayr (approx. 
“season’s greetings”) or “Happy New Year” etc?.

Answer:
Praise be to Allaah.

It is not permissible for a Muslim to eat things that the Jews and 
Christians make on their festivals, or what they give him as a gift on 
their festivals, because that is cooperating with them and joining in 
with them in this evil.

It is not permissible for him to congratulate them on their festivals in 
any way whatsoever, because that implies approval of their festival and 
not denouncing them, and helping them to manifest their symbols and 
propagate their innovation, and sharing their happiness during their 
festivals, which are innovated festivals that are connected to false 
beliefs that are not approved of in Islam.

And Allaah knows best.


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[osint] Radical American Convert Becomes Imam In Vienna

2007-09-20 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Radical American Convert Becomes Imam In Vienna

[Collected and translated from different german sources. dm+] Imam Abu 
Ibrahim, an American known before converting from Baptism to Islam as 
Eugen E. (born 1977) became the new Imam of Sahaba Mosque in Vienna, 
Austria. Sahabe Mosque became somewhat known to the Austrian public 
since the father of detained Mohamed Mahmoud (German GIMF), Shawki, 
served as Imam there spreading radical sermons. Imam Abu Ibrahim was 
just released after serving a five month prison term in Austria for 
planting a fake bomb in front of an office of the official Islamic youth 
organization (MJOe - Mohamed Mahoud was under suspicion for that as well 
as Neo-Nazi groups) on September 11, 2006. In an recent interview he 
said that the official Austrian Islamic faith community is unislamic, 
since they are cooperating with Austrian security authorities. In the 
same interview he condemned democracy as unislamic as well, saying it's 
like polytheism. Asked about Al-Qaeda he stated that Bin Laden and his 
followeres are not Muslims since they "made Jihad a religion" and don't 
understand what true Islam is all about. [back to Europe]

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Re: [osint] GIMF----PROTESTING ARREST...in the name of allah

2007-09-21 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

So while your posting denies that those arrested are GIMFies, a somewhat 
new German GIMF site is asking for prayers for them 
(http://gimfnews.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/stellungnahme-antwort/ - 
second german site here: http://gimf5.wordpress.com/) and offers contact 
addresses to "join jihad". Translating only parts of it:

A message to the Kuffar trying to fight us: Whatever you do, regardless 
of the arrests, no matter that our blogs/forums will be deleted - you 
will never reach your goals, we will continue until victory or martyrdom.

Dear brothers and sisters, look how much the Kuffar have to spend to 
stop us promoting Jihad. There were moren then a hundred officers incl 
specops involved in arresting our brothers and sister in Vienna (may 
Allah give them strengh). The servants of Taghut were busy observing 
them for 24hrs daily and in Berlin (Germany) a complete new branch 
consisting of 300 officers was invented - just to stop us. Now let us 
ask why there is so much done just to stop GIMF? Because what Kuffars 
fear most is Jihad and therefore they try to dissuade us from Jihad, 
they even send hypocrits calling themselves Muslims telling us that 
there is no war in Islam. Or the head of the Tawaghit is sending his 
servants [here they mention esp. "civil servants"; dm+] fighting us by 
force. Here are the reasons they fight especially GIMF:

- We support Jihad and the Mujahideen by all means, like our opinion 
[sic! dm+]

- We spread the messages of the great leaders of Jihad Shaykh Usama and 
Sheykh adh-Dhawahiri

- We show what really happens in places og Jihad without lying

One result of our work is that lot's of Muslims wake up from their world 
of dreams (in which Mujahideen are bad terrorists and Crusaders are good 
liberators) and will slowly understand the truth as it really is. All 
the means the Kuffar have to spend make us just happy...

Beowulf schrieb:
>  
> 
> 
> In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
> http://aekhlaas.net/forum/showthread.php?t=83827 
> 
> An Important Statement on the Recent Arrests in Austria and Canada
> 
> Praise is due to Allah the of-giving favors, The Exalted in Might, The Most
> Merciful.
> 
> We reached Ramadan .We praise Him and think Him for the grace of Islam and
> faith.
> Peace and blessings be upon the prophet, who was sent shortly before the Day
> of Judgment with the sword and the Koran, peace and blessings be upon his
> household the people of virtue and charity and upon his noble companions
> To proceed
> An important statement on the recent arrests in Canada and Austria
> We have seen news published on Wednesday 12-09-2007 in Canadian and Austrian
> newspapers and news sites and from global and Arabic newspapers conveyed
> that news, that three people were held in custody in Vienna the capital of
> Austria, two men and a woman, spouse of one of the two men.
> In parallel, a man was held in custody in Canada, on the back ground of a
> video message issued by Sawt Alkilafah institute to the Canadian and
> Austrian governments' months ago
> That was on the first day of the news, Wednesday.
> And after we followed up the issue we found that the Austrian authorities
> had released one of the detainees on the ground that there was no enough
> evidences to incriminate him, while kept the other two (man and his spouse)
> in custody on the ground of them being linked to the video release mentioned
> above .In addition, the suspicion that the man is the leader of the GIMF.
> The Canadian authorities charged the detainee with an attempt of detonating
> a bomb outside Canadian territory.
> Therefore, clarifications are obligatory to justify truth and prove
> falsehood false and defending every innocent person.
> 
> So I say and my success can only come from Allah:
> First : I am ,the poor slave to Allah almighty ,Abu Yasin Ahmed
> Alwathik-Billah the leader and Amir of The Global Islamic Media Front GIMF ,
> enjoying by the grace of Allah, His abundant blessings amongst my brothers
> and beloved ones ,workers in the media front and I wasn't arrested neither
> by Austria or France .
> Praise is due to Allah, Lord of all worlds who never sleeps or forgets.
> So why are you lying, people of the book??
> Do you not understand?
> Second: The front denies the arrest of any activist in the GIMF in Austria
> or Canada or any other state or by governments which claim that every once
> in a while, and we never allow innocent people to be arrested and men and
> women to be intimidated on the ground of belonging to the Front after
> getting bankrupt from the truth and using the innocent ,vulnerable people as
> a sacrifice to the White house and America to gain its blessing.
> We never accept the GIMF to be used as a ride for such things.
> Third:
> Everybody has to know that Sawt Alkhilafah is a media institute that
> emanated from a large media entity called GIMF which cares about the Muslim
> affairs in all corners of earth and advocates the mujahidin

[osint] Terror attack at US embassy Vienna prevented

2007-10-01 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Austrian media report that today at around 1200hrs CET a terror attack 
at the US embassy in Vienna/Austria was prevented. According to a police 
spokesperson a 42yrs old man dropped a backbag filled with nails and two 
hand grenades close to the embassy and tried to flee. Before doing so it 
is reported that he visited the US embassy. The suspect is in custody 
and interrogated at present. A nonconfirmed police source said that a 
book with islamic content was found in the backbag.

More to follow in tomorrows dm.OSINF brief. dm+

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[osint] Austrian police arrest 2 trying to bomb the U.S. Embassy

2007-10-01 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Austrian police arrest 2 trying to bomb the U.S. Embassy

[Collected and translated of different Austrian sources, which keep a 
surprisingly low profile on this incident. Also my sources keep their 
mouth shut, which is strange and might mean that this incident is more 
serious as reported; dm+] Police arrested a Bosnian man Monday after he 
tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with a backpack containing 
explosives, nails and a book titled “Namaz u Islamu” [Bosnian; means 
Salah, a guidebook to the five daily prayers in Sunni Islam; dm+], 
authorities said. The suspect was taken into police custody after he was 
seen dropping the bag and fleeing on foot. He was described only as a 
42-year-old native of Bosnia-Herzegovina who now lives in the province 
of Lower Austria, which encircles most of Vienna. Police said they made 
the arrest a short distance from the embassy building in a neighborhood 
where security is tight. IED experts were still examining the contents 
of the backpack. "There were a lot of nails in that bag. Had it 
exploded, it would have had an enormous shrapnel effect," said a 
spokesperson of Austria's federal counterterrorism office. It was 
unclear how far he made it into the embassy. Public broadcaster ORF 
reported that a bomb sniffer sounded an alarm as the man was passing 
through security checks and that he fled immediately when private 
security guards tried to take him down.. Interrogating the suspect seems 
to be difficult, since he seems to speak only broken German, sources 
tell that the suspect is about to be marked as mentaly disabled, he 
carried a paper noticing an appointment with a shrink. “I repeatedly 
invited the embassy to my home. Since they didn't came, I came to see 
them,” he said during interrogation. Last night a second suspect in the 
city of Tulln/Austria was detained. The first suspect stated that the 
second one gave him the order to deliver the explosive parcel at the US 
embassy, but security authorities said that he is only abused as a 
scapegoat and is just an acquaintance by chance. It was only last 
Saturday when Austrian security officials stated in connection with the 
GIMF detainees, that there is no concrete terror threat in Austria 
[Well, ya technically the embassy is not Austrian soil;]. - And finally 
a nice comment from ... someone ... “I can guarantee you, if this story 
is accurate, the RSO is having some Austrian ass for breakfast.” :-)... 
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[osint] Wilders faces arrest by Jordan over Fitna

2008-06-25 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Wilders faces arrest by Jordan over Fitna
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/06/wilders_may_face_arrest_by_jor.php

Friday 20 June 2008

The maker of the controversial anti-Muslim film Fitna, MP Geert Wilders, 
is afraid that he might be arrested while travelling abroad following a 
ruling by a court in Jordan earlier this week, reports Friday’s Volkskrant.

A group calling itself The Messenger of Allah Unites Us has called for 
an international arrest warrant against Wilders accusing him of racism, 
inciting hatred and insulting Islam and Muslims, reports the paper.

The group was also behind a call for a boycott of Dutch products in 
Jordan earlier this year. A spokesman for the foreign affairs ministry 
told the Telegraaf that the court had not yet issued a warrant for the 
arrest of Wilders, founder of the anti-immigration party PVV.

However, foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen is aware of the 
possibility that Wilders may be arrested and has ordered an analysis of 
the risks the MP faces.

One option would be for Amman to ask Interpol to issue an international 
arrest warrant, the paper says. But more likely would be for Jordan to 
ask foreign countries which Wilders may visit to arrest and deport the MP.

The anti-terrorism coordinator is also aware of the situation and is 
‘fortunately taking it very seriously’, Wilders told the Volkskrant. The 
risk of arrest limits his freedom of movement ‘hugely’ and makes it 
impossible to carry out his work as an MP, Wilders says.

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[osint] Contractors charged in DOD conspiracy case

2008-01-07 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Contractors charged in DOD conspiracy case

Two U.S. Department of Defense contractors have been charged with 
conspiring to steal information on fuel supply contracts, the U.S. 
Justice Department said. In addition, two contracting firms and another 
individual were charged with participating in the scheme to steal 
information relating to contracts on supplying fuel to Defense 
Department worldwide aircraft fleet, the Justice Department said in a 
news release Monday. The indictment charged Christopher Cartwright and 
Paul Wilkinson and two affiliated companies - Far East Russia Aircraft 
Services Inc., based in Prague, Czech Republic, and Aerocontrol LTD, 
based in the Isle of Man - and Matthew Bittenbender, a former senior 
contract fuel manager at Avcard, in the conspiracy. Cartwright, 
Wilkinson, FERAS and Aerocontrol allegedly conspired with Bittenbender 
to defraud the United States, commit wire fraud and steal trade secrets, 
the indictment read... http://tinyurl.com/2x4vs2 [back to Related Issues]

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[osint] Department of Defense Contractors Arrested and Charged With Conspiring to Steal Information

2008-01-07 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Department of Defense Contractors Arrested and Charged With Conspiring 
to Steal Information

Two Department of Defense contractors were arrested in New York City on 
Jan. 6, 2008, and charged with conspiring to steal information relating 
to U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contracts to supply fuel to DOD 
aircraft worldwide, the Department of Justice announced today. Two 
contractor firms and a third individual are also charged with 
participating in the conspiracies.  In a three-count indictment returned 
on Dec. 5, 2007, and unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, 
Christopher Cartwright and Paul Wilkinson were charged for their roles 
in the conspiracies. Along with Cartwright and Wilkinson, two affiliated 
companies -- Prague, Czech Republic-based Far East Russia Aircraft 
Services Inc. (FERAS) and the Isle of Man-based Aerocontrol LTD -- were 
also charged in the indictment. FERAS also has an office in Houston. 
Cartwright and Wilkinson are U.S. citizens who have been living in 
Prague. A separate charge was filed today in U.S. District Court in 
Baltimore against a third individual, Matthew Bittenbender, alleging the 
same criminal conduct. Bittenbender resides in Baltimore. The Department 
said the conspiracies took place from about February 2005 to about July 
2006... http://tinyurl.com/2govus [back to Related Issues]

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[osint] German GIMF update

2008-01-15 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

[Due to a slow progress in installing new hard- and software just a 
quick'n'dirty update on activities of the German GIMF; dm+]

On January 20, 2008, GRAZ, which is after Vienna the second largest 
Austrian city and capital of the federal state of Styria will hold 
elections for town council. Graz rioght wing FPOe politician Susanne 
Winter [http://tinyurl.com/2l363x] has attacked Islam as a religion at 
her party's New Year's meeting in the Styrian capital. Winter, who is 
head of the FPOe's list for the January 20 municipal election, called 
Islamic prophet Mohammed "a child molester“ because of his alleged 
marriage to a six-year-old girl and "a field marshal" who had written 
the Koran during "epileptic fits." She termed Islam "a totalitarian 
system of domination that should be thrown back to its birthplace on the 
other side of the Mediterranean." Winter added on Monday that "there is 
widespread abuse of children among Muslim men“ but then declared that 
she didn't want to offend anyone or insult any religion. This led to 
aggressiv refusal by all other Austrian political parties and the 
Federal President. Styrian Governor Franz VOVES aired a TV-message 
apologizing to all Muslims.

Today a video appeared on youtube [http://tinyurl.com/382ggm] uploaded 
by username "nellyno1" [not available anymore since 15011525; dm+] in 
which Mrs Winter and Austria is threatened as such:

- Text: "Susanne Winter - you made a mistake - inshallah you will be 
punished for what you said." [In a mixture of plain German and Austrian 
slang; dm+]
- Relevant parts of Mrs Winter's speech is shown
- Text: "This was a mistake" Sound: "Ok, let's go - allahu'akbar" 
underlayed with sound of a submachine gun.
- Text: "And now you have to deal with such people. - Those are Alla's 
warriors. We are those warriors - we Muslims - And you, Susanne, have a 
problem with us now."
- The usual epic and pathetic Jihadi photos are shwon for some three 
minutes.
- A video of WTC on 9/11 is shown; Text:" Look at this, Susanne, because 
of what you said similar things can happen in your country as well - and 
you are responsible for this."
- Another 1.5 minutes of Jihadi propaganda pictures, incuding a map of 
Europe marked as "Eurabia"...
- Text: "This video is adressed not only to Susanne Winter, but also to 
all infidels lacking respect for Allah and Islam. Inshallah the day will 
come on which you will be punished."
- Text: "And now a message to all Muslims - Brothers and Sisters, we 
need to stand together, regardeless of nation - Muslim is Muslim. Fight 
those who insult Islam, who insult Allah, who killed your families. 
Don't fight each other brothers, but together against the enemies. 
Inshallah all humans will find the right way and this right way is Islam 
- Selam to all Muslims."
- Text: "Made by Bilal & Jasko"
- The Sandžak Fjiljan flag with the text: "Sandzaklije - smo mi - Oni 
pred kojim drhtu Svi" is shown, which translates as "We are from Sandzak 
- and everyone is afraid of us."

While I'd assess this video as the work of some wannabies - as mentioned 
it went offline after only a few hours on youtube - the internal German 
GIMF board is announcing an adequate written statement on Mrs Winters 
speech, calling for a 'Hukm', an Islamic ruling [eg Fatwa] over those 
"insulting the prophet or Islam in general.". GIMF also wrote that some 
advise will be given how to treat such people, calling for a hard 
punishment. dm+


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[osint] German GIMF statement on Mrs Winter

2008-01-15 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

As announced in this afternoon sent out first email regarding 
FPOe/Winter/Islam the German branch of GIMF posted an official statement 
in their internal forum on the incident. The statement came this 
afternoon on 1705CET, some three hours after the youtube video 
disappeared. At the end it is stated - as I wrote earlier - that the 
first video does not come from GIMF. Interesting seems that GIMF is 
using Mrs Winter and FPOe only as a lead to hit out at official Austrian 
Muslim representatives. Esp mentioned is Omar Al-Rawi, who is tasked 
with "integration" by the official Muslim community in Austria, but also 
is a social-democrat representative to the Vienna city council 
[Al-Rawi's family history seems to be interesting as well, as far as I 
know there was some uncle (?) in Saddam's army involved in mass-murder 
of Kurdish civilians in Iraq].:

"Short declaration of GIMF on the statements of FPOe on the Prophet 
Mohammed sas:
The statements made [by Mrs Winter] again show the hatred western 
politicians feel for Islam. And as well the dissembling face of 
so-called Muslim representatives is revealed, for example that of Omar 
Al-Rawi, who is one of them and whom's critic came only on a very low 
profile saying only this [the statements] is a "lack of respect". 
Subhan'allah was that all you had to say on this? As often those 
self-declared scholars screen the [real] knowledge. How comes this 
Al-Rawi or any other so-called Muslim representative is not explaining 
the judgement and punishement for individuals insulting Islam? Because 
they are only agents [in the sense of traitors] of the infidels, tasked 
to extinguish the fires set by infidels. [Would they be true 
representatives of the Muslim community] It would be their task to 
declare an Islamic judgement over such people like Susanne Winter, like 
that she must be killed and all her belongings and blood would be 
permitted to Muslims. Proof for that can be found in the Sunnah of the 
Prophet Mohammed sas, because the Sahaba of the Prophet did it that way. 
In the next days GIMF will send out a detailed statement including proof 
that those insulting the Prophet must be killed and that any Muslim is 
allowed to kill them without asking anyone for permission. This is a 
call to all true Muslims in Germany and Austria. Act like the Sahaba of 
the Prophet did and let yourself not be distracted by the hypocrite and 
apostate. As long as they don't distance themselves from Mrs Winkler we 
apply all this to all politicians of the FPOe. The video on youtube is 
not produced by GIMF, it's amteurish and does not suit our methods."

The mentioned youtube video is taken offline by the original poster, 
interested parties just drop me an email, I can send it to you.
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[osint] Update on CEJANOVIC/Attack on US embassy VIENNA

2008-01-16 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

A court ordered psychiatric examination of Asim CEJANOVIC [see dm.OSINF 
backgrounder as of October 03, 2007] was released today stating that Mr 
CEJANOVIC was compos mentis when he carried a backbag filled with 
explosive material to the US embassy in VIENNA on October 01, 2007. He 
will go on trial on February 21, 2008 and might be detained up to five 
years for preparing an attack using explosive material. Mr CEJANOVIC' 
defense lawyer said he had "nothing bad in mind" and just wanted to hand 
the backbag filled with explosives, handgrenates and nails over to the 
RSO. The federal prosecuter disagrees with this opinion saying that Mr 
CEJANOVIC would just have needed some 30 to 60 seconds to arm the device 
and to detonate it. So far Austrian security authorities publicly tried 
to give the impression that the incident at the US embassy Vienna was 
just an isolated attempt carried out by a mentally disabled person 
without any terroristic or Islamic background. Most mainstread media 
also canceled reporting on the incident, public broadcaster ORF even 
removed articles from it's website. dm+

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[osint] Iraq / Contractor /Arrests

2007-11-20 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Italian guards held after Baghdad shooting

Iraqi soldiers on Monday detained a group of Italian private security 
guards after they opened random fire in central Baghdad wounding a 
woman, a senior Iraqi army officer told AFP. The controversial issue of 
private security guards working in Iraq has been in the spotlight since 
a shooting in September in which guards of Blackwater USA gunned down 
civilians in a Baghdad square. Iraqi soldiers arrested some men of an 
Italian PSD (private security detail) after they opened fire randomly on 
citizens in Karrada in which a woman was wounded, Brigadier General 
Qasim Ata told AFP... http://tinyurl.com/38fl4z [back to Middle East]

Iraq Arrests 2 U.S. Guards After Shooting

Iraqi troops detained 43 people, most Sri Lankans and other foreigners, 
in a convoy run by a U.S.-contracted firm after an Iraqi woman was 
wounded in a Baghdad shooting involving their vehicles, the U.S. 
military said. It denied reports that two Americans were also arrested. 
U.S. military and embassy officials had no immediate information about 
the report, which follows a series of recent shootings in which foreign 
security guards have allegedly killed Iraqis. Brig. Gen. Qassim 
al-Moussawi said the convoy was driving on the wrong side of the road in 
the central Baghdad neighborhood of Karradah when the shooting occurred. 
Those arrested included two American guards, along with 41 people from 
Sri Lanka, nine from Nepal and 10 Iraqis, the Baghdad military spokesman 
said. He earlier said an Italian, nine from Bangladesh and one from 
India were detained but later retracted that statement... 
http://tinyurl.com/3dewsb [back to Middle East]

U.S. military says no Americans detained in Baghdad shooting

The U.S. military said Tuesday that there are no Americans among the 
detainees involved in a security guards shooting in Baghdad on Monday. 
The U.S. military said in a statement that the 43 detainees came from 
Fiji, India, Iraq, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Iraqi security forces on Monday 
seized contractors of a foreign security company after they opened fire 
in central Baghdad. An Iraqi Interior Ministry source said earlier that 
preliminary investigation found that two American contractors were among 
the detainees. The U.S. military noted in the statement that the 
contractor appears to be ALMCO, which works for the Defense Department 
not as a security contractor, but a logistics and construction 
contractor, adding that the company has their own security guards... 
http://tinyurl.com/24mfga [back to Middle East]

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[osint] Supersizing Osama bin Laden

2007-12-06 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2007/12/supersizing_osama_bin_laden.html
Supersizing Osama bin Laden
Has Morgan Spurlock found the world's most wanted man?
December 5, 2007 1:10 PM

It may be the publicity coup of the decade - or it may just be 
publicity. Blog-led rumours are circulating that US documentary 
filmmaker Morgan Spurlock tracked down the world's most wanted man, 
Osama bin Laden.

Spurlock, best known for his McDonalds dietumentary Super Size Me, has 
finished his latest project entitled Where In The World?, describing his 
efforts to succeed where the US government and the world's military have 
failed in locating bin Laden. The film won't be shown until January at 
the Sundance festival.

What's the evidence? Pretty flimsy. First, potential distributors who 
wanted to see a 15 minute clip of the documentary at the Berlin film 
festival in February were made to sign draconian non-disclosure 
agreements. Second, movie blogs such as the excellent Slashfilm got 
excited by a quote from Spurlock's cinematographer Daniel Marracino: 
"We've definitely got the Holy Grail."

What's the truth? Maybe Spurlock did track down the fugitive al-Qaida 
leader. But it seems unlikely. Signing non-disclosure agreements for 
preview screenings are not uncommon. And the quote by Marracino dates 
back to a July piece in Variety, which makes the context less exciting:

 "We've definitely got the Holy Grail," avers Spurlock's New 
York-based director of photography on the project, Daniel Marracino. 
"Visually, this film is just going to be gorgeous."

Anyway, top marks to Spurlock's publicist, and ponder another example of 
the interweb's echo chamber - although not yet on the level of the 
Guardian's popular news item about astronaut sex, a February 2000 
article that was the second most-read item on this site yesterday.

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[osint] Indonesian police opens fire on Aussie anti-terror chief in ambush mix-up

2007-12-07 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Indonesian police opens fire on Aussie anti-terror chief in ambush mix-up

Undercover officers opened fire on a bulletproof vehicle carrying the 
Australian head of an anti-terrorism school in Indonesia after mistaking 
[Ha! I'm used to those Indonesian “mistakes”... dm+] him for a drug 
trafficker, police said on Friday. Lester Cross, director of the Jakarta 
Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation, was unharmed when shots hit a 
window and a tire on Sunday in the city of Semarang, about 250 km east 
of the capital, Jakarta. The school, which is jointly run by Indonesia 
and Australia, was set up in July 2004 to help police from across Asia 
fight terrorist networks. It also serves as an information clearinghouse 
and provides regional governments with anti-terrorism experts... 
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[osint] Germany Prepares to Ban Scientology

2007-12-10 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Germany Prepares to Ban Scientology

[So official Germany looks for "dialogue" with Islam - but can someone 
please name me a single terrorist motivated by Scientology? And isn't it 
strange that there are no Leftists whining about “Scientologyphobia”? 
Scientology might be weird, but is it certainly not a threat to 
civilization. dm+] Germany's interior ministers announced Friday that 
they consider Scientology to be unconstitutional. They have asked the 
country's domestic intelligence agency to prepare a dossier on the 
organization's activities with a view to ban it next year. Germany's 
interior ministers announced on Friday that they considered Scientology 
to be unconstitutional and said they would seek to ban the organization. 
Berlin Interior Minister Ehrhart Körting told reporters that the 
interior ministers of Germany's 16 federal states and the federal 
Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble "consider Scientology to be an 
organization that is not compatible with the constitution." The 
ministers, who are meeting for a two-day conference in Berlin, now plan 
to charge the country's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office 
for the Protection of the Constitution, with preparing a dossier to pave 
the way for a possible ban next year... http://tinyurl.com/2rovwp [back 
to Europe]


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[osint] Muslim Pilgrims Attacked in North Ossetiya

2007-12-12 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Muslim Pilgrims Attacked in North Ossetiya

[Read carefully; imho there's no reason to believe the Jihadis more then 
the police officer; dm+] A group of Muslim pilgrims traveling from 
Chechnya to Saudi Arabia were attacked in the predominantly Christian 
region of North Ossetiya, Russia, according to a December 10, 2007 
report by the Sova Information-Analytical Center.  The incident took 
place on December 6 near the town of Stary Terek.  A Muslim cleric 
accompanying the pilgrims reported that several cars approached a site 
by the road where the Muslims were preparing for evening prayers and 
started to insult them. The insults escalated into what was apparently a 
premeditated attack, with the attackers were armed with baseball bats, 
hammers, and stones. They demanded that the pilgrims, several of whom 
were injured, leave the site. A local police official gave a 
substantially different version of the incident to the press, claiming 
that it took place not in Stary Terek, but near the memorial cemetery 
for victims of the Beslan terrorist attack, which claimed the lives of 
dozens of local children. The pilgrims allegedly urinated on the 
memorial, which drew the ire of local motorists, thus leading to the 
attack.  No arrests were reported in connection with this incident... 
http://tinyurl.com/2hwr3s [back to Central Asia]

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[osint] He who Got Slapped

2010-12-04 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

He who Got Slapped

According to source, Ahmedinejad's statements
infuriated Revolutionary Guard Chief of Staff Mohammed Ali
Jafari, who exclaimed "You are wrong! (In fact) it is YOU
who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to
the press?!" Source said that Jafari then slapped
Ahmedinejad in the face, causing an uproar and an immediate
call for a break in the meeting, which was never resumed.

http://213.251.145.96/cable/2010/02/10BAKU98.html




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[osint] Time to Speak Up - Part Two

2010-12-09 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Post : Time to Speak Up - Part Two
URL:
http://th3j35t3r.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/time-to-speak-up-part-two/
Posted : December 9, 2010 at 20:47
Author : th3j35t3r
Categories : Uncategorized

"Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict
truth" - Mark Twain

Skiddie? DDOS? WTF?

So I really need to clear up a few things that certain folks aren't
quite grasping regarding XerXes, methods and tactics.

XerXeS

Contrary to popular belief, I do not have C&C of a botnet, by their very
nature botnets require the injection in some form or other of malware
onto unsuspecting user's machines in order to gain enough 'zombies' to
facilitate an attack. Any skiddie can create a botnet at the expense of
the resources that don't belong to them. (For example 4Chan/Anonymous).

XerXeS however, as has been shown numerous times, does not require a
botnet, zombie PC's or other people's bandwidth in order to successfully
pull down a site.

An early beta video of a XerXeS hit can be viewed HERE
(http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/2990-Exclusive-Video-of-XerXeS-DoS-Attack.html)

A later version of XerXeS against another target can be viewed HERE
(http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/3258-Hacker-Releases-Second-Video-of-Enhanced-XerXeS-DoS-Attack-on-Apache-Vulnerability-.html)

So, if as has been suggested, I really am a 'Skiddie' – here is my
question – where can you download XerXeS? I know you can't download it
anywhere because it exists in only 3 places, and all of those places are
accessible to me only. Who's the skiddie here?

What XerXeS is:

* Denial of Service Attack
* Surgical
* Precise
* Effective
* Causes NO collateral damage
* Causes NO long term damage
* Not limited to Apache Servers Only
* Never going to be released.

What XerXeS is NOT:

* Distrubuted Denial of Service Attack
* Clumsy
* Cumbersome
* A Botnet
* A government sponsored project.

Methodology and Tactics

As you may know I normally target Jihadist sites, but recently turned my
attentions to Wikileaks.

So what was I thinking?

Initially, hitting Wikileaks servers hosted by OWNI (France), PRQ
(Sweden), and BAHNHOF with ease, had the desired outcome of 'coralling'
the Wikileaks operation onto a US hosted platform that could resist
XerXeS – Amazon EC2.

The WL perceived victory was short-lived as enough pressure was now
building both politically and technically (by that I mean service
providers were aware that WL was now a prime target and couldn't risk
their own operations by providing services to WL).

As predicted, providers to WL started dropping them – first EasyDNS,
then Amazon, then Paypal and Mastercard soon followed. The service
providers acted as a force-multiplier, leaving the Wikileaks name
nowhere to go except rely on volunteer mirrors.

So the head of the snake is almost cut off. The Wikileaks name is
something few people, as far as service providers, will deal with. Their
supply chain is being cut off.

So, great they have 2000 voluntary mirrors! By the very nature of
volunteers providing 'mirrors' causes WL to be highly unstable as they
will be up and down and sporadic on a day-by-day basis.

Final note on this:

With regard to hits I pull and hits I don't. Those of you who know of me
will know that I say what I mean and mean what I say:

It works like this: strike-verify-tweet – doesn't get much simpler eh?
And by saying nothing I am also saying something, if you see what I mean.

'There's an unequal amount of good and bad in most, the trick is to work
out the ratio and act accordingly'

Stay Frosty and Peace out.

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[osint] Major Update

2011-02-21 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Major update on dmos.info e-Library: about 50 new documents;




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[osint] Muslim anger at sniffer dogs at station

2008-06-27 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Muslim anger at sniffer dogs at station
By Samuel Underwood
Comment | Read Comments (27)

Muslims travelling on trains from Brighton have objected to sniffer dogs
being used to search them for drugs and bombs.

The trial by the British Transport Police (BTP) on all rail passengers
travelling through the station prompted complaints from some Muslims who
said their religion did not allow direct contact with dogs.

The findings, outlined in a Government report, showed that in another
trial on the Heathrow Express platform at London's Paddington station,
body scanners were considered unacceptable on religious grounds by
female Muslims.
advertisement

The report on five rail security trials conducted in 2006 and the
public's response to them also revealed that some Asians and black
people felt they could be selected for tests because of their ethnicity
or because screening staff saw them as potential terrorists.

But the BTP said that despite being conscious of other people's beliefs,
no-one would be absolved of the security checks on religious grounds.

A BTP spokesman said: "We are obviously aware of, and sensitive to,
cultural sensitivities.

"BTP officers do have the power to stop and search anyone under section
44 of the Terrorism Act.

"This also covers the use of dog handlers and dogs, which are used to
indicate any substance they have been trained to detect.

"As a force we obviously look at feedback about how people from all
faiths and backgrounds view the use of dogs and how we can incorporate
that into how the dogs and their handlers interact with people."

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.2366906.0.muslim_anger_at_sniffer_dogs_at_station.php

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Re: [osint] Muslim anger at sniffer dogs at station

2008-06-27 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Barrier Lifted for Harley

Vice President Gore also used the occasion to illustrate a bureaucratic 
barrier to state and local governments. He presented a dispensation in 
absentia to Portland's sharp-nosed, drug-sniffing pig named Harley. The 
Vice President designated Harley an
honorary dog. Federal regulators allowed federal funds to pay only for 
drug-sniffing dogs, though Harley works better and costs less.

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/rtable/264e.html

Beowulf wrote:
> Maybe we could get some pigs trained up.
> 
> B
>  
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> -Original Message-
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> Dietmar Muehlboeck
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> To: osint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [osint] Muslim anger at sniffer dogs at station
> 
> Muslim anger at sniffer dogs at station
> By Samuel Underwood
> Comment | Read Comments (27)
> 
> Muslims travelling on trains from Brighton have objected to sniffer dogs
> being used to search them for drugs and bombs.
> 
> The trial by the British Transport Police (BTP) on all rail passengers
> travelling through the station prompted complaints from some Muslims who
> said their religion did not allow direct contact with dogs.
> 
> The findings, outlined in a Government report, showed that in another trial
> on the Heathrow Express platform at London's Paddington station, body
> scanners were considered unacceptable on religious grounds by female
> Muslims.
> advertisement
> 
> The report on five rail security trials conducted in 2006 and the public's
> response to them also revealed that some Asians and black people felt they
> could be selected for tests because of their ethnicity or because screening
> staff saw them as potential terrorists.
> 
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[osint] Muslimer holder vagt ved dansk kirke

2008-06-30 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Muslimer holder vagt ved dansk kirke
http://www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/artikel/290659:Kirke---tro--Muslimer-holder-vagt-ved-dansk-kirke

30. jun 2008 14:33 Mindre hærværk og bedre kontakt til områdets muslimer
er de positive gevinster, Gellerup Kirke i Århus har fået ud af at have
to muslimske mænd til at passe på kirken

To muslimer med palæstinensisk baggrund er blevet ansat til at passe på
Gellerup Kirke i Århus.

De to mænd, Ali Kauid og Khalid Omari, holder øje med, at ingen begår
hærværk i kirken eller begår indbrud i bilerne på parkeringspladsen,
skriver Udfordringen.

Kauid og Omari, der begge er medlemmer af fædregruppen i Gellerupparken,
begyndte som frivillige vagter for cirka tre år siden, da der var
problemer med indbrud i parkerede biler ved kirken.

Ikke flere indbrud
I dag er der færre problemer fortæller de to vagter, der betegner sig
selv som kirkens bodyguards.

- Nu sker der ingen indbrud mere, for nu ved alle, at vi er her og
holder vagt, siger Khalid Omari.

Fremmer kontakt til andre muslimer
Kirken er da også godt tilfreds med de to muslimske vagter, fortæller
den ene af kirkens præster.

- Det er en stor tryghed, da de er godt kendt og respekterede i området.
De har en god måde at snakke med de unge på, siger Niels Hviid.

- Det fremmer også den gode kontakt, vi har til moskeerne, imamerne og
de muslimske kulturelle foreninger, siger han.

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[osint] WHAT IRANIAN LEADERS REALLY SAY ABOUT DOING AWAY WITH ISRAEL

2008-07-01 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf

WHAT IRANIAN LEADERS
REALLY SAY
ABOUT DOING AWAY WITH ISRAEL

A REFUTATION OF THE CAMPAIGN TO EXCUSE
AHMADINEJAD’S INCITEMENT TO GENOCIDE



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[osint] Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council

2008-07-02 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Discussion of religious questions now banned at UN Human Rights Council

http://europenews.dk/en/node/11665

The UN Human Rights Council is not allowed to judge religions, according 
to president Doru Romulus Costea of Romania. Criticism of Sharia law or 
fatwas is now forbidden.

This ruling follows attempts by the Egyptian and Pakistani delegates at 
the Council to silence criticism of human rights abuse in the Islamic world.

The representative of the Association for World Education, in a joint 
statement with the International Humanist and Ethical Union, had 
denounced the stoning to death of women accused of adultery and of girls 
being married at the age of nine years old in countries where Sharia law 
applies.

The speaker, David Littman, was interrupted by no fewer than 16 points 
of order and the proceedings of the Council were suspended for forty 
minutes when the Egyptian delegate said that “Islam will not be 
crucified in this Council” and attempted to force a vote on whether the 
speaker should be allowed to continue.

On giving his ruling after the break Council President Costea said that 
the Council "is not prepared to discuss religious questions and we don’t 
have to do so". "Declarations must avoid judgments or evaluation about 
religion. … I promise that next time a speaker judges a religion or a 
religious law or document, I will interrupt him and pass on to the next 
speaker".

Litmann, who is also a representative for the World Union of Progressive 
Judaism, had been threatened before following a statement he made in 
January in which he had criticized the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel, a 
matter deemed irrelevant by the Council in the debate condemning Israeli 
incursions into Gaza.

When stopped, Litmann had opined that “there is something rotten in the 
state of this Council”. For this, the WUPJ had been threatened with 
expulsion form the UN and its president summoned to appear before the 
NGO Committee in New York and forced to apologise.

In commenting on Monday’s events at a press conference on Wednesday 18 
June, outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, 
said: "It is very concerning in a Council which should be... the 
guardian of freedom of expression, to see constraints or taboos,

or subjects that become taboo for discussion.” She did not refer 
specifically to the incident in the Council on Monday but she pointed to 
treatment of homosexuals in many countries -- prosecuted as criminals in 
a number of Islamic and some other states -- as "fundamental" to debate 
on sexual discrimination around the world. "It is difficult for me to 
accept that a Council that is the guardian of legality, prevents the 
presentation of serious analysis or discussion on questions of the 
evolution of the concept of non-discrimination,"

The affair has resulted in UN agency stories from AFP and ATS on 17 
June, and again on 18 June from AFP, ATS, AP, Reuters, with quotes from 
President Costea, Louise Arbour. American Ambassador Warren Tichenor and 
Amnesty International.

The following comments on the events of June 16 at have been prepared by 
David G. Littman, NGO Representative of Association for World Education 
(AWE) and Roy W. Brown, Representative of the International Humanist and 
Ethical Union (IHEU).

Shipwreck of the Human Rights Council
At 4:40 pm on June 16, David G. Littman was given the floor by the 
president of the UN Human Rights Council, to deliver a joint statement 
for the AWE and IHEU under agenda item 8: Integrating the Human Rights 
of Women throughout the United nations system.

Within 22 seconds, he was stopped – on a ‘point of order’ – by the 
delegate of Egypt. The verbatim transcript lasting has been left exactly 
as it was spoken (less the 40 minute break) and it can be seen and heard 
on the UN webcast archive at: pm by scrolling down to item 8 and the 
presentation by AWE.

Analysis
At the Islamic summit in Mecca in December 2006, the OIC decided to 
adopt a policy of zero tolerance against any perceived insults to Islam 
as part of their overall strategy of advancing the cause of Islam 
worldwide. The measures agreed upon included creating an “Observatory” 
to monitor all reports of “Islamophobia”. Muslims throughout the world 
were to be encouraged to report any cases of perceived Islamophobia, 
however trivial. Cases submitted so far, for example, have included 
Muslims who have received “hostile glances”.

At that summit, two imams from Denmark presented the Danish cartoons 
(including some they had added themselves) and protests were then 
organised throughout the Middle East and elsewhere leading to a number 
of deaths and the burning of the Danish embassy in Beirut.

Plans were also put in place to seek changes in national and 
international law to provide additional “protection” for Islam. The 
battlegrounds were to include the European and national parliaments, and 
the UN, including the Human Rights Council. It was also proposed t

[osint] Was Google's network of online services manipulated to silence critics of Barack Obama?

2008-07-03 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/01/business/google.php

Bloggers take aim at Google

Was Google's network of online services manipulated to silence critics 
of Barack Obama? That was the question buzzing on a corner of the 
blogosphere over the past few days, after several anti-Obama bloggers 
were unable to update their sites, which are hosted on Google's Blogger 
service.

The bloggers, most of them supporters of Senator Hillary Clinton and all 
of whom are critical of Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential 
nominee, received a notice from Google last week saying that their sites 
had been identified as potential spam blogs.

"You will not be able to publish posts to your blog until we review your 
site and confirm that it is not a spam blog," the Google e-mail read.

Many of the bloggers were affiliated with JustSayNoDeal.com, a Web site 
opposed to an Obama presidency.

In an article that appeared on Bloggasm.com, the reporter Simon Owens 
spoke with some of the affected bloggers, who said they believed that 
Google had fallen prey to a campaign by Obama advocates. According to 
the bloggers, Obama supporters clicked on a "flag" on the anti-Obama 
blogs to make Google believe that they were spam.

Should that be the case, it would be an embarrassment for Google.

On its Web page explaining the "flag" feature, Google says that "it 
can't be manipulated by angry mobs. Political dissent? Incendiary 
opinions? Just plain crazy? Bring it on."

On Monday, Google did not explicitly rebut the idea that it had been 
tricked but said that the cause of the temporary blockage appeared to be 
elsewhere.

"It appears that our anti-spam filters caused some Blogger accounts to 
be blocked from creating new posts," a Google spokesman, Adam 
Kovacevich, said in a statement. "While we are still investigating, we 
believe this may have been caused by mass spam e-mails mentioning the 
'Just Say No Deal' network of blogs, which in turn caused our system to 
classify the blog addresses mentioned in the e-mails as spam."

Kovacevich said that Google had restored posting rights to the affected 
blogs and that it was "very important" to Google "that Blogger remain a 
tool for political debate and free expression." He gave no further 
details about Google's spam-monitoring techniques or how they relate to 
the Blogger service.

Some of the blocked bloggers have reported that their sites have since 
become unblocked. But some of them had already moved their blogs to 
WordPress, a rival blogging service, and remain angry about what they 
call Google's "guilty until proven innocent" policy.

"Without any notice, apology, or explanation, my posting privilege has 
been reinstated," wrote the author of the blog Come a Long Way, who 
identifies herself as GeekLove. "As bloggers, it is a good thing we 
still have choices, and I have exercised my choice to leave Blogger and 
establish a new home at WordPress."

Carissa Snedeker, of Silver Springs, Nevada, whose Blue Lyon blog was 
affected by the temporary freeze, said she did not believe Google's 
explanation and that she was still convinced that Obama supporters 
"flagged" her blog. Yet she is mostly upset at Google.

"What frustrated me was that Blogger didn't give us the benefit of the 
doubt," Snedeker said, adding that she had been publishing her blog on 
the site for three years. "It would have taken a human five seconds to 
figure out we are not spam," she said.

Her blog is now hosted on WordPress.



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[osint] Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise

http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14250-microwave-ray-gun-controls-crowds-with-noise.html

Microwave ray gun controls crowds with noise

A US company claims it is ready to build a microwave ray gun able to
beam sounds directly into people's heads.

The device – dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) –
exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses
rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be
detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce
recognisable sounds.

The device is aimed for military or crowd-control applications, but may
have other uses.

Lev Sadovnik of the Sierra Nevada Corporation in the US is working on
the system, having started work on a US navy research contract. The
navy's report states that the effect was shown to be effective.
Scarecrow beam?

MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause
discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio
safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the
eardrums.

"The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation
factor," he says. "You can’t block it out."

Sadovnik says the device will work thanks to a new reconfigurable
antenna developed by colleague Vladimir Manasson. It steers the beam
electronically, making it possible to flip from a broad to a narrow
beam, or aim at multiple targets simultaneously.

Sadovnik says the technology could have non-military applications. Birds
seem to be highly sensitive to microwave audio, he says, so it might be
used to scare away unwanted flocks.

Sadovnik has also experimented with transmitting microwave audio to
people with outer ear problems that impair their normal hearing.
Brain damage risk

James Lin of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
University of Illinois in Chicago says that MEDUSA is feasible in principle.

He has carried out his own work on the technique, and was even
approached by the music industry about using microwave audio to enhance
sound systems, he told New Scientist.

"But is it going to be possible at the power levels necessary?" he asks.
Previous microwave audio tests involved very "quiet" sounds that were
hard to hear, a high-power system would mean much more powerful – and
potentially hazardous – shockwaves.

"I would worry about what other health effects it is having," says Lin.
"You might see neural damage."

Sierra Nevada says that a demonstration version could be built in a
year, with a transportable system following within 18 months. They are
currently seeking funding for the work from the US Department of Defence.

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[osint] Sharia law 'could have UK role'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7488790.stm

Sharia law 'could have UK role'

Principles of sharia law could play a role in some parts of the legal 
system, the Lord Chief Justice has said.

Lord Phillips, the most senior judge in England and Wales, said there 
was no reason sharia law's principles could not be used in mediation.

However, he said this would still be subject to the "jurisdiction of the 
English and Welsh courts".

Sharia is a set of principles which govern the way many Muslims believe 
they should live their life.

The Archbishop of Canterbury prompted controversy when he said use of 
certain aspects of the law "seems unavoidable".

In a speech at the East London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, Lord 
Phillips said that sharia suffered from "widespread misunderstanding".

Lord Phillips said: "There is no reason why sharia principles, or any 
other religious code, should not be the basis for mediation or other 
forms of alternative dispute resolution.

"It must be recognised, however, that any sanctions for a failure to 
comply with the agreed terms of mediation would be drawn from the laws 
of England and Wales."

Severe physical punishments such as flogging, stoning and the cutting 
off of hands would not be acceptable, he said.

He added: "There can be no question of such courts sitting in this 
country, or such sanctions being applied here.

"So far as the law is concerned, those who live in this country are 
governed by English and Welsh law and subject to the jurisdiction of the 
English and Welsh courts."

'Misunderstood'

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, had been misunderstood 
when it was reported in February that he said British Muslims could be 
governed by sharia law, the judge said.

Dr Williams suggested that sharia could play a role in "aspects of 
marital law, the regulation of financial transactions and authorised 
structures of mediation and conflict resolution".

Lord Phillips said: "It was not very radical to advocate embracing 
sharia law in the context of family disputes, for example, and our 
system already goes a long way towards accommodating the archbishop's 
suggestion.

"It is possible in this country for those who are entering into a 
contractual agreement to agree that the agreement shall be governed by a 
law other than English law."


Inayat Bunglawala from the Muslim Council of Britain told BBC News that 
sharia law applied only to civil matters.

He said: "I think it's important to clarify that English common law 
already allows us to go to mediation to whichever third party we wish. 
"So that is why you have sharia council, that is why you have Jewish 
courts. It is a truly voluntary arrangement.

"There is no parallel legal system. This system cannot override English 
common law system at all."




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[osint] 'The Insurgents Are not Winning in Afghanistan'

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,563645,00.html

'The Insurgents Are not Winning in Afghanistan'

A recent Pentagon report painted a grim picture of the conflict in 
Afghanistan, concluding security conditions had deteriorated sharply. In 
an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, US expert Jeremy Shapiro says NATO 
forces are actually on the right track.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Policy-makers in the US and Europe are shocked by the 
gloomy Pentagon assessment for Afghanistan. You, however, are pleading 
for more optimism. Why?

Shapiro: There is ample reason for gloom, but we need to keep in mind 
that in the best of circumstances, Afghanistan is a long-term mission. 
We are talking about a committment of 10 or 20 years. I believe we have 
fundamentally the right strategy in place, but even if that is so it 
will take some time to show progress. I don’t believe we need the major 
review people are talking about.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Everyone seems to be asking for more troops in 
Afghanistan, though. President George W. Bush, John McCain, even Barack 
Obama.

Shapiro: More soldiers could be put to good use there, but they wouldn’t 
fundamentally change the situation. Let's assume we would send in 10,000 
more, as is contemplated: They could improve the local situation in a 
few areas for a time, but they would not rectify the problem of the 
Pakistani border areas and their ability to infiltrate insurgents into 
Afghanistan. As long as we don't solve that problem, you could put 
100,000 soldiers into Afghanistan and you would still have asymmetric 
attacks in various parts of Afghanistan and a rate of civilian and 
military casualties similar to the current one. And I have not yet heard 
viable suggestions on how to deal with the problem of the Pakistani 
border areas.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: But isn't it understandable that security is paramount 
to people in Afghanistan?

Shapiro: Of course, but we can’t solve that problem simply by increasing 
forces. Achieving overall security in Afghanistan will be a slow process 
and unfortunately we will have to tolerate violence in the country for a 
long time. The insurgents are not winning in Afghanistan -- they have no 
capacity to stand toe-to-toe with Western forces or the Afghan National 
Army. Their ideology is bankrupt and they are unpopular in the country. 
The real problem is the lack of civilian capacity in the international 
forces, corruption, and the dearth of effective Afghan governance 
capacity and security forces. These are actually harder issues to 
address than troop levels, but they must be tackled. Relatively 
speaking, the military part is actually in fairly good shape.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Then why is the debate so focused on a possible troop 
increase?

Shapiro: In political circles, we tend to avoid discussing the really 
tough issues -- such as government reforms in Afghanistan. Instead we do 
what we know: We throw more military forces at the problem. But what we 
really need is patience. That is something we have in very short supply 
in North American and European capitals. The current counter-insurgency 
strategy in Afghanistan is not a bad one. It takes time but there are 
signs of progress. Just look at the state of the Afghan National Army. 
Nearly everybody I talked to in Afghanistan raves about the army. It is 
adding about 4,000 people a month. They have not lost an encounter with 
insurgents since April of last year.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: That means the current debate on troop increases is 
wrong-headed?

Shapiro: I have mixed feelings about the debate. More attention for 
Afghanistan is certainly a good thing. But the debate seems too 
influenced by comparisons with the surge in Iraq. There, increase in 
troops indeed dampened the violence. But if you look closer, one could 
observe in Iraq not just an increase of US troops but also a change of 
military strategy and a switch of tribal loyalties. The situation is 
simply not comparable with Afghanistan.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: So would you advise Europeans to reject American demands 
for more troops?

Shapiro: Beyond the number of total Western forces in Afghanistan, there 
is also a trans-Atlantic question here. How should the trans-Atlantic 
partners share the burdens of the mission that has UN approval, that 
flies the NATO flag, and that is supported by the vast majority of 
Afghans? Currently, the balance of commitment is skewed. If Europeans 
don’t address that imbalance, the United States will probably continue 
to fill the gap. This would not be a disaster for Afghanistan, but it 
might be for NATO.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Would there be enough public support from Americans who 
are simply tired of the war effort?

Shapiro: Yes. Afghanistan is, unlike the Iraq invasion, a very 
bipartisan war. It is still very popular in the US -- and there is a 
growing feeling that the conflict has been neglected.



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[osint] 'Ignorance Is Rife and Many Prejudices Exist'

'Ignorance Is Rife and Many Prejudices Exist'

The Balkans Stability Pact is coming to an end. Yet, the region is by no 
means stable. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview the outgoing EU Coordinator 
Erhard Busek weighs up the chances of a flourishing future for these 
countries and demands the EU open new accession talks.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Busek the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe 
was founded by the European Commission and 40 partner countries and 
organizations to help the former crisis region with reconstruction. You 
were the coordinator in Brussels for six years. What progress has been made?

Erhard Busek: The region has growth rates of between 5 and 10 percent. 
With regard to human rights, good laws are now in the process of being 
passed, but there still are problems implementing them. On the other 
hand, all elections in the region have been held without any hitches. 
That's a very good result, if you consider that democracy did not used 
to exist here.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: You paint a very rosy picture: The parliamentary 
elections in Macedonia had to be repeated in some constituencies because 
of irregularities. A man was even killed.

Busek: You will find violence in Spain's Basque country and 
irregularities happen in Florida, as well as Italy. Sometimes we are too 
critical of the Balkans.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Apart from Macedonia, only Croatia is safely on the way 
to joining the European Union.

Busek: That has more to do with the EU than those states. It was too 
early for Bulgaria and Romania to join. What the EU failed to do in 
those cases, the Balkans now has to pay for because the hurdles have 
been set higher. Croatia would have been in a better position to join 
the EU than Bulgaria and Romania.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Has the Kosovo independence problem been solved? 
Belgrade has given no indication of accepting the new reality.

Busek: Serbia will not give up its claim to the territory that easily. 
Serbia is a country that remembers a battle that took place 600 years ago …

SPIEGEL ONLINE: … the Battle of Kosovo, which its claim to Kosovo is 
based on …

Busek: … you have to take account of that. Sadly, Brussels gave away an 
important means of putting pressure on Belgrade by signing the 
Stabilisation and Association Process.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: How can Kosovo exist on its own? According to 
Transparency International, the mini-state is the fourth most corrupt 
country in the world.

Busek: I doubt that. There are not enough figures on Kosovo to back that up.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: You don't think there is rampant corruption there?

Busek: If there is no legislation, then everything is corruption. Kosovo 
is a state under construction. The EU should not just constantly monitor 
the country, but instead should help the government to build up the 
economy, promote investment and provide loans.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: In Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnjaks, Serbs and Croats are 
blocking the way to a complete and functioning state. The High 
Representative, sent by the West, can only helplessly watch. Has 
Brussels given up on the country?

Busek: In the past 13 years, the international community has not done 
enough to bring the three ethnic groups closer together. The problem is 
the member states, many of which pursue their own unique interests. Take 
the Greeks (more...), who are fighting with Macedonia over the country's 
name. For Europe's foreign policy this is bad.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Bosnia is considered a prestige project when it comes to 
nation building. Why isn't everyone acting in concert?

Busek: Are you sure all EU foreign ministers know where Bosnia is? 
Ignorance is rife and many prejudices exist. The fact that countries, 
such as Austria, earn a lot of money in that region isn't mentioned very 
often.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: How do we move forward?

Busek: Accession negotiations have to be undertaken urgently with all 
countries. Then they are occupied with real questions and can spare 
themselves the other nonsense. That's good occupational therapy and 
produces competition. Some will fulfil the requirements in three years 
others in 20. The EU's crying shame is that it always proceeds 
bilaterally -- a common and overall strategy is missing.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: After the Irish "no" vote on the Lisbon Treaty, the EU 
is in crisis. Taking in new members seems a questionable proposition.

Busek: That, in reality, is a joke. What's still to be integrated is 
smaller than for example Romania.

SPIEGEL ONLINE: The powers of the Balkan Stability Pact are now being 
transferred to the so-called South Eastern Cooperation Process, based in 
Sarajevo. Is this step coming too early?

Busek: It is a major historical change. Since the Congress of Vienna, we 
have been telling people in the Balkans what they should do. Now, it's 
up to them. If we continue to treat them like children, they will never 
grow up. Every child has to burn his or her fingers once.

Re: [osint] Austrian al-Qaeda hostage is 'doing very poorly': source

2008-07-05 Thread Dietmar Muehlboeck

Oh really - two thoughts:

1. And that although the offical Austrian Islamic Faith Community begged 
on Al-Jazeera some month ago for their release - something they never 
did for Bert Nussbaumer (Crescent Security / Iraq) although I asked them 
to do so in a press release I fired.

2. And that although the offical Austrian negotiator ambassador Prohaska 
is married to a member of the bin Laden clan. Wont help either...? I 
wonder why?

dmos.info

Beowulf wrote:
>  
> 
> Austrian Al-Qaeda hostage is 'doing very poorly': source
> 
> 
> http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gosfo0SEEcoH6hC7VudqCePKcbIA
> 
> BAMAKO (AFP) - One of the two Austrians kidnapped by Al-Qeada in February is
> "doing very poorly," a Malian source close to the negotiations to free the
> hostages said Friday.
> 
> "One of the two hostages is doing very poorly. He should be placed under
> medical supervision urgently," a Malian official who wanted to remain
> anonymous told AFP.
> 
> He would not say which one of the hostages was ill or what his ailment was.
> 
> One of the kidnap victims, Wolfgang Ebner, 51, told his son he was suffering
> from cholera and malaria when he spoke to him on the telephone in mid-June.
> The phone call was the first sign of life of the hostages in 110 days.
> 
> Ebner and his companion Andrea Kloiber, 44, disappeared on February 22 from
> Southern Tunisia. On March 10, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed
> responsibility for their kidnapping.
> 
> According to several sources, they are now being held in the desert in
> northern Mali.
> 
> The hostages "could have been freed" some 10 days ago "but something didn't
> work out," the Malian official said without giving details.
> 
> The kidnappers initially demanded the release of a number of Islamic
> extremists imprisoned in Algeria and Tunisia in exchange for the hostages.
> 
> They later asked for the withdrawal of Austrian troops from Afghanistan and
> the release of two Islamic militants jailed in Vienna.
> 
> Another source close to the negotiations said a five million euro (7.9
> million dollars) ransom was also being sought. 
> 

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[osint] Police dogs to wear bootees in terror searches at Muslim homes

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/07/07/police-dogs-to-wear-bootees-in-terror-searches-at-muslim-homes-89520-20634599/

Police dogs to wear bootees in terror searches at Muslim homes

Police dogs will have to wear bootees when searching the homes of Muslim
suspects for bombs and drugs - so they do not cause offence.

New guidelines will urge officers to be aware of religious sensitivities
when using sniffer dogs.

The rules, to be published later this year, were originally designed to
cover mosques but have now been extended to include other buildings.

Some Muslims regard dogs as "ritually unclean".
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If an objection is made on faith grounds, officers could only use them
only in exceptional cases.

Where they are deployed, they will have to wear rubber-soled bootees.

The guidelines are being drawn up by the Association of Chief Police
Officers, which said yesterday: "We are trying to ensure police forces
are aware of sensitivities people can have with dogs to make sure they
are not going against any religious or cultural element."

Ibrahim Mogra, one of Britain's leading imams, said the move is
unnecessary. He said: "In Islamic law the dog is not regarded as impure,
only its saliva. If security measures require to send a dog into a
house, then it has to be done. We Muslims should do our bit to change
attitudes."

John Midgley, co-founder of the Campaign Against Political Correctness,
said: "The police are being overly sensitive to potential criminals and
not sensitive enough to the public at large."

Caroline Kisko, of the Kennel Club, said:

"We would not condone making search dogs wear special clothing, which
could cause them distress."

Police animals are at present only issued with footwear at scenes of
fires and explosions - to prevent them injuring their paws.

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[osint] Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq

Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq
Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge 
stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port 
Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week 
airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for 
higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing 
the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and 
Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or 
smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the 
remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex 
about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts 
recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.

"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior 
U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The 
Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because 
of the sensitivity of the subject.

While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called 
"dirty bomb" — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive 
material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. 
Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher 
levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.

The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, 
Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth "tens of 
millions of dollars." A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, declined to 
discuss the price, but said the yellowcake will be processed at 
facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.

"We are pleased ... that we have taken (the yellowcake) from a volatile 
region into a stable area to produce clean electricity," he said.

Secret mission
The deal culminated more than a year of intense diplomatic and military 
initiatives — kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the 
convoys were under way: first carrying 3,500 barrels by road to Baghdad, 
then on 37 military flights to the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia 
and finally aboard a U.S.-flagged ship for a 8,500-mile trip to Montreal.

And, in a symbolic way, the mission linked the current attempts to 
stabilize Iraq with some of the high-profile claims about Saddam's 
weapons capabilities in the buildup to the 2003 invasion.

Accusations that Saddam had tried to purchase more yellowcake from the 
African nation of Niger — and an article by a former U.S. ambassador 
refuting the claims — led to a wide-ranging probe into Washington leaks 
that reached high into the Bush administration.



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[osint] Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and pray to Allah

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031784/Schoolboys-punished-detention-refusing-kneel-pray-Allah.html

Schoolboys punished with detention for refusing to kneel in class and
pray to Allah

Two schoolboys were given detention after refusing to kneel down and
'pray to Allah' during a religious education lesson.

Parents were outraged that the two boys from year seven (11 to
12-year-olds) were punished for not wanting to take part in the
practical demonstration of how Allah is worshipped.

They said forcing their children to take part in the exercise at Alsager
High School, near Stoke-on-Trent - which included wearing Muslim
headgear - was a breach of their human rights.

One parent, Sharon Luinen, said: "This isn't right, it's taking things
too far.

"I understand that they have to learn about other religions. I can live
with that but it is taking it a step too far to be punished because they
wouldn't join in Muslim prayer.

"Making them pray to Allah, who isn't who they worship, is wrong and
what got me is that they were told they were being disrespectful.

"I don't want this to look as if I have a problem with the school
because I am generally very happy with it."

Another parent Karen Williams said: "I am absolutely furious my daughter
was made to take part in it and I don't find it acceptable.

"I haven't got a problem with them teaching my child other religions and
a small amount of information doesn't do any harm.

"But not only did they have to pray, the teacher had gone into the class
and made them watch a short film and then said 'we are now going out to
pray to Allah'.

"Then two boys got detention and all the other children missed their
refreshment break because of the teacher.

"Not only was it forced upon them, my daughter was told off for not
doing it right.

"They'd never done it before and they were supposed to do it in another
language."

"My child has been forced to pray to Allah in a school lesson." The
grandfather of one of the pupils in the class said: "It's absolutely
disgusting, there's no other way of putting it.

"My daughter and a lot of other mothers are furious about their children
being made to kneel on the floor and pray to Islam. If they didn't do it
they were given detention.

"I am not racist, I've been friendly with an Indian for 30 years. I've
also been to a Muslim wedding where it was explained to me that alcohol
would not be served and I respected that.

"But if Muslims were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy
Communion there would be war."

Parents said that their children were made to bend down on their knees
on prayer mats which the RE teacher had got out of her cupboard and they
were also told to wear Islamic headgear during the lesson on Tuesday
afternoon.

Deputy headmaster Keith Plant said: "It's difficult to know at the
moment whether this was part of the curriculum or not. I am not an RE
teacher, I am an English teacher.

"At the moment it is our enterprise week and many of our members of
staff are away.

"The particular member of staff you need to speak to isn't around. I
think that it is a shame that so many parents have got in touch with the
Press before coming to me.

"I have spoken to the teacher and she has articulately given me her
version of events, but that is all I can give you at the moment."

A statement from Cheshire County Council on behalf of the school read:
"The headteacher David Black contacted this authority immediately
complaints were received.

"Enquiries are being made into the circumstances as a matter of urgency
and all parents will be informed accordingly.

"Educating children in the beliefs of different faith is part of the
diversity curriculum on the basis that knowledge is essential to
understanding.

"We accept that such teaching is to be conducted with some sense of
sensitivity."

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