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http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers29/paper2897.html
Paper no. 2897
27-Oct.-2008
“RESTIVE MUSLIMS – Impact on Internal Security?”
By R. Upadhyay
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It is widely believed that the terrorists involved in the recent blasts across the country belong to one or another Islamist groups with an objective to restore the institution of Caliphate. The success of home the grown jihadists claiming themselves ‘Indian Mujahideens’in attracting some of the well-educated Muslims towards their cause has not only pushed the community into the similar predicament as prevailed after collapse of Muslim power, increased the sense of alienation among them which has a deep impact on their increasing communalized psyche.”
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http://www.memri.org/iran.html
http://www.memri.org/syria.html
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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225199590625&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(AP)
JPost.com » Middle East » Article
Oct 28, 2008 21:00 | Updated Oct 28, 2008 22:32
“IAEA says Syrian nuke info needs probe”
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIENNA, Austria
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Freshly evaluated soil and air samples from a Syrian site bombed by Israel on suspicion it was a covert nuclear reactor provide enough evidence to push ahead with a UN probe, diplomats said Tuesday.”
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http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=syria&ID=SP209608
Special Dispatch Series - No. 2096
October 28, 2008 No. 2096
“Muhammad ‘Ali Ibrahim, Egyptian MP and Editor of Government Newspaper: Syria is a Vassal of Iran and Qatar”
SNIPPET: “On October 13, 2008, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai published a statement by Syrian Prime Minister Muhammad Naji ‘Utri harshly critical of Egypt. [1] In response, ‘Ali Ibrahim, Egyptian MP and editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Gomhouriyya, published an article against ‘Utri, in which he depicted Syria as a vassal of Iran and Qatar and blamed it for the current situation in Lebanon. Ibrahim went on to accuse Syria of sowing strife among the Palestinians and of helping to spread the Shi’a in Sunni countries.
The following are excerpts from ‘Ibrahim’s article:”
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51703
“Russians Know Missile Defenses Not Aimed at Them, Gates Says”
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2008 – The next president will “take a fresh look” at plans for a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today, but he dismissed Russian objections to the system as politically based.
Gates said at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace he’s confident the Russians know the proposed missile defense system in Eastern Europe does not threaten them. He called objections that 10 missile-defense interceptors would jeopardize Russia’s arsenal “laughable.”
“I think we’ve leaned forward pretty far and have been open with them about what we intend to do,” Gates said. “I think we have gone a long way toward providing the necessary assurances to Russia that this system is not aimed at them, but is aimed at a very limited threat coming from Iran.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51687
Coalition Forces in Iraq Capture Suspects, Seize Caches
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2008 – Coalition forces apprehended 11 suspected terrorists today as they continued operations to dismantle al-Qaida in Iraq networks throughout the country’s central and northern regions, military officials reported.
Coalition forces operating south of Kirkuk captured a wanted man believed to be a weapons dealer with connections to al-Qaida operatives in the Hamrin Mountains region. He also is believed to be a local al-Qaida leader who has contact with other regional leaders, officials said.
In Baghdad, coalition forces detained two suspected terrorists, including a wanted man believed to conspire directly with regional al-Qaida leaders. Following his capture, the wanted man, who reportedly also is a financier for the organization, led coalition forces to a nearby residence, where they apprehended an alleged foreign terrorist facilitator.
West of Baghdad in Karmah, forces apprehended a wanted man who officials said intelligence reports indicate is an al-Qaida financial facilitator.
Forces targeted al-Qaida supply networks during two related operations near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. During the first operation, coalition forces captured an alleged logistics facilitator for al-Qaida in the Tigris River Valley region. The wanted man identified himself to coalition forces at the time of his capture. The man then led ground forces to a second location, where they detained another wanted man who intelligence reports suggest is one of al-Qaida’s leaders in Tikrit.
Coalition forces captured four suspected Kataib Hezbollah terrorists in Abd ar Rahman, east of Sadr City. Kataib Hezbollah, also known as Hezbollah Brigades, is a terrorist group believed to receive funding, training, logistics and material support from Iran to attack Iraqi and coalition forces using what the military calls “explosively formed penetrators” – roadside bombs designed to pierce armor-hulled vehicles – and other weapons such as rocket-assisted mortars.
Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces targeted the residence of a suspected Kataib Hezbollah administrator with close ties to network leadership. Coalition forces approached the targeted individual’s residence, where they detained four of his associates without incident.
In operations yesterday:
— Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s Company A, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, detained an operative of an Iranian-backed enemy group during a targeted raid in the Rashid district’s Hayy Aamel community. The patrol returned to a combat outpost with the suspect, who was wanted for indirect-fire and roadside-bomb attacks.
— Soldiers from the same brigade’s Company C found a roadside bomb composed of four 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds encased in concrete in a house in the Rahid district’s Hayy Jihad community. A coalition explosives ordnance disposal unit responded to the site and found the bomb had no initiating device. Company C soldiers also seized three 120 mm mortar rounds, two 155 mm rounds and 10 pounds of homemade explosives attached to an egg timer while conducting a security patrol in the same community.
— Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s Troop B, 7th Squadron, 10th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, responded to a tip from an Iraqi citizen and found an identical bomb, consisting of four 57 mm anti-aircraft rounds encased in concrete, in Rashid’s Hadar community. The homemade explosive had a washing-machine timer and a cell phone, but was not wired to the explosives that were hidden in brush about 10 feet from a local school. An EOD unit responded to the scene to disarm the bomb.
— Iraqi soldiers searching the Adl Clinic in Baghdad’s Mansour district found a false wall hiding eight homemade hand grenades with fuses.
— Iraqi soldiers arrested a man after finding two bombs in the underbelly of his vehicle in the Mansour district.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51686
U.S. Forces Kill Militants After Helicopter Attack in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2008 – U.S. forces in Afghanistan assigned to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Regional Command East killed 12 militants yesterday and detained one other while securing the site where a coalition helicopter was forced to land in Wardak province after taking enemy fire.
The UH-60 Black Hawk came under small-arms fire from a number of militants. The helicopter crew returned fire, but had to land when the tail was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, officials said.
Coalition ground forces responding to the scene were engaged by several militants in the area, officials said. Coalition forces responded, initially killing five militants. Coalition forces continued searching the area and were engaged by more militants. They again responded, killing seven more militants and detaining one.
The helicopter was recovered and taken to a nearby ISAF base.
Also yesterday, Afghan and coalition forces killed one armed militant and detained seven suspected militants during combined operations targeting the Taliban and Haqqani terrorist networks in Ghazni and Khowst provinces.
In Khowst’s Sabari district, Afghan and coalition forces searched a compound associated with a Haqqani commander suspected of facilitating the movement of foreign fighters in Afghanistan. The targeted militant also believed to plan and coordinate terrorist activities in the province, officials said.
As the combined force entered the targeted compound, an armed militant attempted to assault the force. In response to the insurgent threat, the force engaged the militant with small-arms fire, killing him. The combined force detained six suspected militants during the operation.
A second operation, in Ghazni’s Waghez district, netted a targeted militant with ties to multiple Taliban commanders. Coalition forces searched the compound without incident, detaining the targeted insurgent.
(Compiled from U.S. Forces Afghanistan news releases.)
Hang in there, FRiend.
Always.
A good evening to you Unrepentant VN Vet.
PROPAGANDA On The Internet...
www.youtube.com/profile?user=ysdechi&view=videos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7IdMcjKoO8
DANIEL PIPES.org (HUDSON INSTITUTE): "PLO ACKNOWLEDGES: STILL AT WAR WITH ISRAEL" by Daniel Pipes (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Yasir Arafat may have shaken Yitzhak Rabin's hand in 1993 and signed solemn declarations about ending the war to eliminate Israel, but late last month, in a New York City courtroom, the Palestine Liberation Organization formally confirmed that it still sees terrorism against Israelis as legitimate acts of war.") (October 28, 2008)
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org: "BARACK OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ALLIANCES" by Rachel Neuwirth (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO's press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel's coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour.") (October 24, 2008)
https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=92680
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CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Sub-Saharan Africa - Zambia
28 Oct 2008
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Thanks to fanfan for the ping to this thread.
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118523/posts
Khawaja guilty (WOT - Canada)
Ottawa Citizen ^ | Wednesday, October 29, 2008 | Andrew Duffy
Posted on October 29, 2008 7:54:29 AM PDT by fanfan
OTTAWA - Momin Khawaja, the Ottawa computer specialist who plotted jihad from his government desk at foreign affairs, has been found guilty of five terrorism related charges. Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford ruled Wednesday that Mr. Khawaja, 29, played a significant role in a plot to bomb sites in London, England in 2004. Mr. Khawaja, the judge concluded in his verdict, was not guilty of the two most serious terrorism offences connected to his building of a radio-frequency device for London terror cell. The judge, however, found Mr. Khawaja guilty of two related, lesser Criminal Code offences. Mr. Khawaja, who displayed no outward signs of emotion throughout the trial,
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http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs27/27503/27503p.pdf
http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs27/27503/drugover.htm
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/18862/2008.pdf
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stepping back in time...
http://www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/swecker111705.htm
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http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/fbi_91241___article.html/authorities_river.html
“FBI: Zetas arming for confrontation with U.S. authorities”
October 29, 2008 - 9:05AM
By Jeremy Roebuck, The Monitor
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “McALLEN — Recent U.S. efforts to disrupt drug smuggling routes through the Rio Grande Valley have prompted threats of retaliation against authorities on this side of the river, according to an FBI intelligence report.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, who control the country’s northeast smuggling routes stretching from Matamoros to Nuevo Laredo, have sustained particular damage under the current campaign - so much so that Zetas like González have reportedly taken over cartel operations. His sphere of control is now believed to stretch from Rio Bravo to Miguel Alemán.”
FUTURE THREAT?”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Recent federal intelligence suggests González, the Zeta member purportedly running operations in Reynosa, may have recently planned an attack - ultimately thwarted - on the U.S. Consulate in Nuevo Laredo.”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023278.php
(STRAITS TIMES.com)
October 29, 2008
“Australia’s Jihad Jack free”
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023194.php
(AUSTRALIAN)
October 22, 2008
“’White boy’ terror suspect claims to have ‘fooled’ al-Qaeda”
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Previously..
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=3D93E1B8-1FB6-4EC1-9B99-3BC63346B833
“Aussie Al-Qaeda “
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, January 28, 2003
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Jack Thomas was “just an average Aussie,” a sometime cabdriver and chef who enjoyed watching movies and playing pool. That is, until he converted to Islam, changed his first name to Jihad, forsook Foster’s Lager, and journeyed to Pakistan — where he is now under arrest on suspicion of terrorist activities and ties to al-Qaeda. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat asserts that “there is more than credible evidence” to establish Thomas’s terrorist activity.
His friends and family say he did it for love. His beloved Maryati, an Indonesian Muslim, was adamantine: no conversion, no marriage. Jack embraced Islam, and he and Maryati were married in 1999. Generally those who join any Faith solely in order to marry are far from fervent. In Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh has uproarious fun with Rex Mottram’s superficial, perfunctory, and romance-motivated conversion to Catholicism. But Jihad Thomas is no Rex Mottram. The reasons lie hidden within Thomas’s heart, but at very least he took his new religion seriously enough to shove off for Pakistan — according to his family, to study to become an imam.
Thomas fits the profile of other Western converts to Islam such as John Walker Lindh and a fellow Australian, Camp X-Ray detainee David Hicks.”
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=51712
“Vessel Crews Thwart Pirate Attacks in Gulf of Aden”
American Forces Press Service
MANAMA, Bahrain, Oct. 29, 2008
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ICC-CCS.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT - REPORT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Weekly Piracy Report
21-27 October 2008
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 21 to 27 October 2008.
ALERT
Gulf of Aden
Masters using the Maritime Security Patrol Area (MSPA) while transiting the Gulf of Aden are not relieved of their obligation and should continue to maintain a strict 24 hour look out using all available means to get an early warning of an approaching threat. Early indication of a piratical incident will enable the master to contact the Coalition Navies, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre and respond appropriately to prevent boarding.
Nigeria
Violent attacks carried out by pirates on board vessels at anchor and vessel carrying out STS operations. Mariners are advised to exercise extreme caution in these waters.
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
The number of attacks has reduced since 2006. However, the area is still listed as a high risk area and mariners are advised to be cautious especially while approaching the anchorage and while at anchor at Chittagong
Suspicious crafts
None reported
Recently reported incidents
21.10.2008:0330 LT: Tema anchorage, Ghana.
Robbers boarded a chemical tanker at anchor, broke open forecastle locker, stole ship’s stores and escaped. Authorities informed.
14.10.2008: 1400 LT: Posn: 12:59.425N – 048:29.721E: Gulf of Aden.
Nine armed pirates in two speedboats attacked and hijacked a dhow underway enroute from India to Berberra, Somalia. Pirates sailed the dhow to an undisclosed location in Somalia. There were 13 crewmembers onboard held hostage. The vessel was released on 23.10.2008.
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Coalition Captures Iranian-Backed Terrorism Suspects
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29, 2008 – Coalition troops in Iraq today captured a suspected financer and four others associated with an Iranian-backed terrorist group believed to be responsible for bombings, military officials said.
Acting on intelligence information, coalition forces this morning targeted the suspected Kataib Hezbollah facilitator during an operation in Amarah in Iraq’s Maysan province, which borders Iran.
Kataib Hezbollah, also known as Hezbollah Brigades, is a terrorist group believed to receive funding, training, logistics and material support from Iran to attack Iraqi and coalition forces using what the military calls “explosively formed penetrators,” or EFPs – roadside bombs designed to pierce armor-hulled vehicles – and other weapons such as rocket-assisted mortars. The group is believed to be responsible for a June 4 explosion in the Shaab district of Adhamiyah in Baghdad that killed 16 Iraqi civilians and injured 29 others, officials said.
The suspect and his associates were detained without incident. During their search, troops discovered more than $50,000 in U.S. currency and nearly 12 million Iraqi dinar, the equivalent of about $10,000, officials said.
It was the second blow to the leadership of terrorist networks in Iraq in two days, officials said. Yesterday, coalition forces captured a suspected terrorist and an additional suspect during an operation near Tikrit, about 100 miles north of Baghdad, they said. During that operation, the suspect surrendered to coalition forces and identified himself as the wanted man believed to be an al-Qaida in Iraq cell leader in the area.
On Oct. 27, coalition troops captured six men suspected of working with Iranian-backed terrorist groups in eastern Baghdad, officials said. Based on a resident’s tip, soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, detained the men, who a witness identified as terrorists known to Iraqi security forces.
During the operation, troops also seized five AK-47 assault rifles with 32 magazines, a 9 mm pistol with three magazines, a shotgun and 60 shotgun shells, an SKS rifle, a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a fragmentation grenade, a scope and nine magazines for a Dragonov rifle and 3,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition.
In other news from Iraq, coalition and Iraqi security forces yesterday seized several illegal weapons caches in and around Baghdad. The seizures were based on residents’ tips and included Iraqi soldiers and national police as well as the 25th Infantry Division’s 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, and the 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Brigade, 4th Brigade Combat Team.
The seizures included two 60 mm mortar base plates, three 60 mm high explosive mortar rounds, three 81 mm high-explosive mortar rounds, four rocket-propelled grenade launchers, five RPG warheads, three RPG fuse assemblies and hundreds of rounds of 7.62 mm ammunition. In what was believed to be a bomb-making factory, they found 160 blocks of C4 explosives, 34 complete EFPs, 53 copper plates, 40 shaped plates for EFPs, three presses and a punch and 14 107 mm rockets.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/797
“MSA Chapter Official: Don’t Vote; Destroy”
IPT News
October 28, 2008
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