Threat Matrix: September 2007

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The Birth of al Qaedastan

In the year 2016, the world may find itself gloomily marking September 6 as the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. The Emirate received de facto recognition when the Taliban used the name on the ceasefire agreement they signed with Pakistan on that day in 2006. If things go terribly wrong in the coming decade, they could come to rule a mountainous fragment of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Emirate would be a nightmare state: Osama bin Laden as sultan, Ayman al Zawahiri as vizier, and Mullah Omar the spiritual leader. An economy built on smuggling and heroin. Primary export: terrorism. Welcome to ‘Al Qaedastan’.

Analysts say the rise of a terrorist state straddling the rugged area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now viable. The reason is a number of troubling trends. One, the revival of a Taliban firmly in the control of Al Qaeda. Two, the seeming inability of either Kabul or Islamabad to defeat the new threat militarily. Three, and the most striking, the Taliban’s systematic supplanting of the traditional tribal leadership in the area. Full story...

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[Velveeta]

Bosnia: New video shows ‘mujahadeen atrocities ‘

Bijeljina/Beograd, 18 Sept. (AKI) - A Bosnian TV station has broadcast part of an alleged new video apparently showing gruesome crimes perpetrated againt Bosnian Serbs by a unit of Muslim fighters during Bosnia’s 1992-1995 civil war.

The footage, broadcast by BN TV apparently shows the ‘El Mujahadid’ unit “sharpening axes” which they later allegedly used to behead a Bosnian Serb soldier.

The video also reportedly shows footage of the mujahadeen in playing football using a decapitated head instead of a ball, Serbian news agency Tanjug reported.

It contains chilling scenes showing mutilated corpses mujahadeen tying up and abuse prisoners of war. A mujahadeen is heard saying: “They call us terrorists. We are terrorists and we will destroy all the enemies of Allah.”

The El Mujahid was a unit consisting of fighters from Muslim countries, who, as they say on the tape, came to Bosnia to “fight for Allah.”

The unit was formed in 1993 and in that year became part of the Bosnian Muslim Army under the command of the War Council headed by Bosnia’s then-president Alija Izetbegovic, the video recounts.

The footage also shows Izetbegovic arriving at the mujahadeen camp and shows life inside it as the fighters training for war and worship. Women in strict Islamic dress are seen living in the camp, as well as children dressed in military wear, while one small girl is shown holding a pistol.

This tape was found by the Bosnian Serb entity’s Council of Concentration Camp Victims. Its president, Branislav Dukic, says that the footage was supplied by Bosnian Muslims.

Dukic said that even among Bosnia’s Muslims there are “those who wish to prove the presence of mujahadeen in Bosnia, and the war crimes they committed on the territory of central Bosnia.”
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1317364405

[milford421]

Thanks very much for the ping to this article.

More info here:

http://www.nysun.com/article/62825

Two Bangladeshi men working aboard a Panamanian cargo ship bound for Virginia apparently jumped into the New York Harbor yesterday morning, sparking a multiagency search and rescue mission for one of the men, police officials said.

The pair, Mohammad Nayem Uddin and Mohammad Bakhtier Uddin, were reported missing from the Manhattan Bridge, a 797-foot cargo ship, at about 6 a. m., after they failed to report for roll call as the ship steamed out of the Port of Newark, authorities said.

About an hour later, a recreational fisherman spotted Mohammad Nayem Uddin waving from Hoffman Island, a 10-acre bird sanctuary southwest of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and called the police.

Mr. Uddin was taken to Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn and treated for hypothermia before being questioned by police. Mr. Uddin allegedly was uncooperative when questioned by police about his relationship to Mohammad Bakhtier Uddin, whom investigators believe is his brother, police sources said. (excerpt)

[Cindy]

Thanks to Nic Marlo for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898263/posts

“Amnesty Again (DREAM act is much worse than you thought)”
Nat Review ^ | September 17, 2007 6:00 AM | Kate O’Beirne

Posted on 09/18/2007 4:29:44 AM PDT by dennisw

[Velveeta]

I was wondering if daddy should be locked up as well.

[Velveeta]

I’m willing to hope, but I won’t hold my breath while hoping.

[Cindy]

I understand.

[Cindy]

www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=CyberDIGIHADi

[Velveeta]

Bomb Safely Dismantled In Fort Wright (OHIO)

Officials in Fort Wright managed to dismantle a bomb found inside a postal box this morning.

EMA official Bill Dorsey tells Local 12 a postal worker picking up mail spotted the suspicious package around 11 this morning in the 1800 block of Dixie Highway. Police evacuated a Speedway gas station and the Fort Wright Executive building.

The Cincinnati Bomb Squad was able to disable the homemade device without detonating it. The gas station is now reopened and workers are back in the office building.

Officials are now investigating to determine how the bomb got inside the mailbox.

http://www.local12.com/content/breaking_news/story.aspx?content_id=3eaed94a-2cf1-483c-b85f-47c870c8ecd5

[Cindy]

Dismantled.

Thank You Lord and very good news Velveeta.

And now...to find who put the bomb there.

[Velveeta]

Indeed

[Velveeta]

Pipe Bomb Explodes Inside San Jose Home

SAN JOSE, Calif., Sep. 18, 2007 (KGO) - According to the San Jose Police, there was an explosion inside a home on Everwood Court at Ocala Avenue in South San Jose.

One male teenager is now in custody. Police say they believe the bomb went off accidentally, and it does not appear the boy was injured in the blast.

There are more explosive devices in the residence, and the San Jose bomb squad is on site to render the explosives harmless. There’s no visible damage to the home.

As a precaution, other homes in the area have been evacuated.

We will have more details as they become available on ABC7 News at 6.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5664167

[Cindy]

“One male teenager is now in custody.”

Good news.

I wonder if he was a gang banger.

[Velveeta]

Correction to #1648.

Fort Wright is in Northern Kentucky - not Ohio.

[Velveeta]

Could be.

I just wonder where the parents are?
I would notice if there were pipe-bombs in my house.

[Velveeta]

Caddo school system, police investigate ‘threat’ at Caddo Magnet (Louisiana)

The Caddo School Board and Shreveport police are investigating a message found at Caddo Magnet High School perceived as a threat.

School administration sent letters home with students Monday to notify parents.

“Today, the administration at Caddo Magnet High School has received information that an incident could happen on our campus on Tuesday, September 25, 2007,” said the letter from Assistant Principal Bryan Gallant.

(snip) http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070918/BREAKINGNEWS/70918050

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006233.html

UPDATED:
www.youtube.com/user/baitalmaqdes

[Velveeta]

Bomb threat shuts down high school (CA)

Newbury Park High School students were sent home Tuesday morning after a bomb threat, authorities said.

The threatening message was discovered on the school¹s answering machine Tuesday morning, said Capt. Ross Bonfiglio of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

The school decided to evacuate students to the football field then sent them home, Bonfiglio said.
(snip)
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2007/sep/18/no-headline-—nxxfcthreat19/

and an interesting comment to the article at the link:

Posted by NPMommy on September 18, 2007 at 5:44 p.m.

Only in America would a parent stand in a line outside a school separated by only a chain linked fence with their child in view sitting on bleachers threatened by a bomb for over four hours! Newbury Park High School “officials” not only endangered students by holding them at the site of a threat, but called 2500 parents to the scene as well! Terrorists are laughing today!

[Cindy]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=waqT_Ji7Llw
www.youtube.com/watch?v=np8reuP3e2o
www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=serveur6

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=aclu

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1898675/posts

“ACLU, Muslims sue FBI over records”
The Associated Press ^ | Sep.18, 2007 | GILLIAN FLACCUS

Posted on 09/18/2007 6:14:07 PM PDT by Dubya

SANTA ANA, Calif.

[Velveeta]

Jordan jihadis vow fight to the end (aka BBC meets with jihadis)

(snippet)

It was not easy to get into contact with Jordan’s jihadis. Crackdowns by the secret police here make getting to Iraq extremely difficult.

Veteran jihadi’s story

So, they only agreed to meet us at night. We were told at the very last minute who we were seeing, without being given anyone’s real names, of course, and where.

Jihad will never end. We will keep going until Judgement Day.

Abu Abdel Rahman, jihadi

Abu Abdel Rahman is a veteran jihadi. He told us he had been to Iraq from Jordan five times.

“When I am in Iraq I feel calm, happy and comfortable. There is a lot of blood, killing and carnage but I know I am there in God’s name,” he says.

“You infidel countries. You came to fight us, in Muslim lands. What do you expect: that we greet you with roses? Muslims don’t kill for the sake of killing. America and its allies have dug their own graves in Iraq,” he says.

Back home from Iraq, Abu Abdel Rahman now actively recruits other Jordanians to fight. He says it is not difficult to persuade them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7001937.stm