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Posted on 04/18/2006 11:09:45 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:56 p.m. EDT Hugo Chavez Accused of Ties to Terrorists
Venezuela has sheltered groups with ties to Middle East terrorists and allows its weapons to reach Colombian guerrillas, a senior U.S. official said.
Those are among the reasons why the Bush administration announced on Monday that it banned Venezuela from purchasing U.S. weapons, saying it has failed to fully cooperate on counterterrorism, Thomas A. Shannon, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, told editors and reporters at The Washington Times.
"Cuban intelligence has effectively cloned itself inside Venezuelan intelligence to the point that [our] ability to cooperate and have a relationship with Venezuela on the intelligence side is very difficult," Shannon said. "We are worried about the kind of relationship [Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez] wants to have with Iran on the intelligence side," he added.
Shannon also expressed concern about "groups and individuals" in Venezuela with "links to terrorist organizations in the Middle East."
U.S. military officials have noted the presence in Latin America of groups linked to Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, according to the Times.
In addition, Shannon said, members of Colombian guerrilla groups like the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the National Liberation Army have "moved with a certain amount of ease" in parts of Venezuela.
"Over time, we've seen what appears to be a more structured relationship," he said. "There appears to be more movement of weapons across the frontier into Colombia, and some of it comes from official Venezuelan stockpiles, and it almost certainly involves the participation of Venezuelan officials, either corrupted or not."
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Thanks Sa.
Venezuela ping.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1633973/posts?page=8#8
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"Terror-related trauma: Palestinian kids suffer more"
"New study shows most Palestinian youngsters exposed to terror report of post traumatic symptoms, compared to only 25 percent of Israeli children"
Moran Zelikovich
Yep.
ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20614_Palestinian_Civil_War_Watch
(May 17, 2006)
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20614_Palestinian_Civil_War_Watch#comments
Terrorists Caught Crossing Texas Border - KRGV TV, 2 May 2006 - http://www.krgv.com/Video/News/7508 Video
51 Middle-east terrorists caught in 2005, confirmed by DHS documents. Weapons smuggling, clothing with Arabic military patches found on Texas smuggling route, feds stonewall news media investigators.
Terrorists Caught Crossing Texas Border - KRGV TV, 2 May 2006 - http://www.krgv.com/Video/News/7508 Video
51 Middle-east terrorists caught in 2005, confirmed by DHS documents. Weapons smuggling, clothing with Arabic military patches found on Texas smuggling route, feds stonewall news media investigators.
Just like they stonewalled in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006.
Most folks would crap their pants if they knew the truth.
I know; they'd rather keep their rose-colored glass on and pretend that Bagdad Bob stories are real.
Kingdom of the Illegals
By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 17, 2006
This month's defeat of local politicians who built the equivalent of a day-care center for illegal Hispanic immigrants in a leafy Washington, D.C., suburb was a victory not just for immigration reformers but also anti-terror watchdogs.
Angry voters in Herndon, Va., swept out their bleeding-heart mayor and two of his allies on the town council and replaced them with candidates who are not expected to renew the lease of a controversial hiring site set up to help illegal aliens find work.
Lost in all the controvery, however, is the more disturbing fact that the site -- a covered building featuring picnic tables and bathrooms -- was founded by a Muslim charity with ties to suspected Saudi-backed terror front groups. Its town operating permit won't expire until the fall of 2007, allowing the group not only time to aid and abet hundreds more illegal immigrants, but possibly recruit them.
The hiring center -- called the Herndon Official Workers Center -- is a charitable front for da'awa, or Islamic outreach to non-Muslims. Local law enforcement officials say the Saudis see new Hispanic arrivals to America as particularly ripe for conversion to Islam, and have even added an annex to their madrassa in another Washington suburb to help indoctrinate the beholden immigrants.
Years ago the Saudis and their Wahhabi lobby set up a terror-support network in Northern Virginia, right across the Potomac from the White House. Not coincidentally, Northern Virginia now boasts the fastest-growing Muslim population in the nation. Immigrants from the Middle East are flocking there, along with immigrants from Mexico and Central America attracted by a local construction boom. Authorities fear the demographic convergence is facilitating the religious conversion of possible future Jose Padillas.
More:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22437
http://laotze.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the great link nic...
We knew that Middle Easterners were crashing our borders, and we knew about Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, drugs, human smuggling, and MS-13. The Middle East patches and IED explosives find was new, and very troublesome. Naturally leading to questions. Why has this been withheld from the American people, and by whom?
We're going to have our National Guard on the border. It hasn't been reported if they'll be armed, or Rio Grande setting ducks. I hope fully armed? Next the IEDs. A reasonable person would have to assume these explosive devices would be used against Our Border Patrol, and/or our National Guard.
I knew about the patches, having read about them before. But I didn't know about IED explosives. It's quite obvious who's having this information withheld.
Very good post SA
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http://intelligence-summit.blogspot.com/2006/05/al-qaeda-intent-on-attacking-us-oil.html
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Al Qaeda intent on attacking US oil facilities
WASHINGTON (Daily Times): A leading expert on Al Qaeda has predicted that in the next phase of the terrorist group’s war on the US economy, the number of attacks on oil infrastructure targets will increase.
Michael Scheuer, who served the CIA for 11 years and was head of the agency’s Osama Bin Laden unit, told a meeting on the threat to Saudi oil industry, organised by the Jamestown Foundation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on Monday that Al Qaeda and its allies are well placed throughout the Persian Gulf to attack oil facilities and officials.
Saudi successes in 2003 in killing and capturing several Al Qaeda figures may be one reason there have not been more attacks against the region’s oil facilities. He said Al Qaeda, apart from military actions, clearly intends to use its media apparatus to “stir the troubled pot of oil-related international worries” and thereby increase pessimism about the price of oil and the dependability of oil supplies. Al Qaeda websites, he noted, had even owned the string of attacks on Nigerian oil facilities called the attackers the “lions of Nigeria” and reminding them that “Allah supports you”.
Scheuer said Bin Laden’s intention is to bankrupt the US economy, which is “entirely likely” to lead to attacks on infrastructure targets inside the US by Al Qaeda, its allies and groups that may not necessarily be associated with either. The attacks would probably focus on large targets that could cripple parts of the US economy. Other groups, however, may be satisfied with staging small-scale attacks on pipelines, pumping stations, tanker trucks as in Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
In a password-protected Al Qaeda forum on the Internet, targets such as the Trans-Alaska pipeline are highlighted. The attacks could be staged by small teams of Muslims living in the US or trams that could be brought across the border from Mexico or Canada.
Scheuer said that Al Qaeda’s February 2006 attack on the Abqaiq refinery in Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest such complex, should be seen as the beginning of a new and more systematic phase of Al Qaeda’s targeting of the oil infrastructure. The attack appears to have been well planned but badly executed. Even in failure, however, the attack boosted the price of oil by nearly $2 a barrel and added to the readiness of oil producers and their worried insurers to increase the “terrorism premium” already built into the basic price of oil. The orders for the Abqaiq attack came direct from Osama Bin Laden. Two days later, there was a fatwa from the Al Qaeda-related cleric, Sheikh al-Anzi, which said that such attacks are legitimate and they must be conducted in a way that does not produce permanent damage to the Muslim community’s ability to exploit and benefit from its energy reserves.
Another speaker at the event, British expert Stephen Ulph, said the threat to the oil sector looms like a “menacing spectre” over the Saudi and Gulf states. In his view the Abqaiq attack has done damage to the image of Saudi stability and won prestige for Al Qaeda. These events, he stressed, “command our attention” as Al Qaeda’s insurgent strategy, right from the beginning, has focused on the issue of Middle East oil wealth as a cardinal feature of its global struggle. Originally, Bin Laden advised against targeting these facilities on the grounds that they constituted a fundamental resource for the Muslim community. However, it elaborated a new “bleed-until-bankruptcy” strategy against the US as the prime backer of Gulf regimes. He pointed out that although the US military has removed itself form Saudi Arabia, the ‘mujahideen’ continue to use the slogan “expelling the polytheists from the Peninsula” as an “ideological banner” rather than as a political demand. This is because it is a struggle whose dimensions simply dwarf the banalities of temporary reverses on the ground. He said Saudi and American electronic espionage against the insurgent groups was much improved today over the past. After the Abqaiq attack, Saudi security forces conducted raids across the country and rounded up Islamist militants, half of them suspected of financially aiding terrorist attacks and propagating jihadists ideology.
According to Ulph, “Al Qaeda’s objective in these attacks is more abstract – prestige to the movement, damage to Saudi self-confidence and uncertainty on the global oil market. As world energy consumption is predicted to increase by more than 50 percent by the year 2025, concerns from the security of Saudi energy exports will increase accordingly. With this trump card handed to Al Qaeda in its asymmetric warfare, actual success in damaging the country’s energy facilities is not necessary to raise fears of insecurity. In this respect, Al Qaeda has correctly identified a fundamental weak point and scored what has in fact been an uninterrupted series of triumphs.”
Another expert, John SK Daly, who addressed the meeting, said should a major terrorist attack on Saudi Arabia’s major oil facilities succeed, the impact on global oil prices would be immense, dwarfing any other man-made event. He pointed out that the massive Abqaiq complex is a critical element in Saudi Arabia’s prosperity. He said Al Qaeda’s most fearsome weapon is the hijacked commercial aircraft and its interest in using one for an attack in Saudi Arabia predates 9/11. He said, “The Abqaiq attack is the first harbinger of Osama Bin Laden’s December 2004 statement urging militants to attack oil targets in the Gulf to stop the flow of oil to the West.” He pointed out that the immediate answer to the Abqaiq attack by the Saudi government was “repression and more security”.
However, the fact that Saudi Aramco vehicles were used in the attack indicates that Al Qaeda operatives at the very least have access to the oil giant’s assets, leaving open the possibility of future “inside jobs”. An attack could also be mounted from across the border in Iraq, where Saudi fighters are active. He said the possibility of such an attack is ‘inevitable’ and 100 percent security in the kingdom is impossible. Most of the oil facilities are in the Eastern provinces where a restive Shia population “chafes under the austere tenets of Wahabism”.
posted by Marko at 5/17/2006 08:32:00 AM
TMCNET.com: Jakarta, Indonesia - "TERRORIST GROUP TARGETED JAPAN-LINKED POWER PLANT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Noordin is believed to have picked the power plant as a target because it is capitalized and operated by foreign companies.") (April 16, 2006) (Read More...)
LOCAL10 .com: Miami - "$100,000 REWARD OFFERED IN INCIDENT AT TURKEY POINT NUCLEAR PLANT Inspectors Find Hole Drilled Into Pressurized Pipe" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "If you have any information, you are asked to call the FBI at (305) 944-9101.") (April 10, 2006) (Read More...)
HERALD-SUN.com: Durham, North Carolina - "NUCLEAR PLANT SECURITY BREACHES ALLEGED" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The employee was motivated to come forward after two security threats recently occurred at the plant, Warren said. Security staff claim that an armed guard was fired on in August, and that an intruder was able to climb up a critical communications tower and raise a black flag in early November.") (December 13, 2005) (Note: This url may expire.) (Read More...)
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Posted on 05/17/2006 6:23:51 PM PDT by Spiff
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