Posted on 08/25/2007 2:26:58 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Lowry: The CIA's record leading up to Sept. 11 was one of failure By Rich Lowry Article Last Updated: 08/25/2007 09:07:06 AM MDT
The new report from the CIA's inspector general about the spy agency's pre-9/11 failings could be titled, ''What We Did During Our Holiday From History.'' The stretch between the end of the Cold War and the Sept. 11 attacks was supposed to be a shiny new era of globalized peace and prosperity, to which an intelligence service was considered quaintly irrelevant.
The CIA conformed to the zeitgeist by remaining quaintly irrelevant. George Tenet presided over the agency, failing his way to the second-longest tenure of any director of central intelligence, a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a $4 million book advance. He made the Peter Principle work for him not just by advancing to his level of incompetence, but by benefiting from it handsomely.
Congressional Democrats pushed for the release of the scathing IG report, completed back in June 2005, to embarrass the Bush administration. But most of the failures identified in the report took place during the Clinton administration, which set the CIA's skewed priorities and selected Tenet in the first place. President Bush should be embarrassed only because he didn't fire Tenet upon taking office or after 9/11, while Bush also has failed to undertake a serious retooling of the sclerotic bureaucracy that is the CIA.
Tenet took terrorism seriously, ''sounding the alarm about the threat to many different audiences,'' in the words of the report. Maybe he should have gone on a lecture tour. Where Tenet fell down was in managing his agency. The thought may be father to the deed, but without the actual deed, the thought is only political cover in after-the-fact memoirs.
Tenet insists that he had a ''robust plan'' against al-Qaida. In reality, he only thought he had. He directed that such a plan be formulated, but according to the IG report, it never happened. Worse, Tenet did not ''work with the National Security Council to elevate the relative standing of counterterrorism in the formal ranking of intelligence priorities.''
In Tenet's defense, he operated within the context of a Clinton administration that basically was uninterested in intelligence. Tenet notes that the intelligence community lost 25 percent of its personnel in the 1990s and ''tens of billions of dollars in investment compared with the 1990 baseline.'' He implored the administration for funding increases in 1998 and 1999, but had to go ''outside established channels to work with then-Speaker Gingrich to obtain a $1.2 billion budgetary supplemental.''
Even with more resources, his managers repeatedly moved funds from counterterrorism programs to other needs, without ever raiding other programs to fund counterterrorism, according to the IG report. What could be more important than counterterrorism? Analytic resources were poured into addressing more pressing matters like the Balkans and the environment.
After 9/11, Clinton officials and Tenet argued whether the CIA had been granted the authority to kill Osama bin Laden, with the Clintonites, in a bout of retrospective bloodlust, insisting that it had. The IG report finds that restrictions on the CIA killing bin Laden had been ''arguably, although ambiguously, relaxed'' for a brief period in late 1998 and early 1999 (how Clintonian). But CIA managers refused ''to take advantage of the ambiguities,'' and even if they had, the agency didn't have the covert-action capability to kill bin Laden. Such was life during history's holiday.
What's more scandalous is how the CIA has escaped serious reform even today. Two CIA directors in a row have resisted the IG report's recommendation for an accountability board to evaluate the pre-9/11 performance of CIA officials. That word - not ''board,'' but ''accountability'' - raises hackles at Langley, where everyone is above-average at fighting al-Qaida. Even though as many as 60 CIA employees knew that two of the hijackers were in the U.S. before 9/11 and no one managed to get the word to the FBI, CIA Director Michael Hayden thinks holding anyone accountable for that or other failures would be ''distracting.'' And so the band plays on.
This caught my eye, for the same thing is happening in the day and night in San Diego.
Black bandana mask and black clothes, I have to laugh at the gangs there, it appears they either wear a hoodie sweat shirt or no shirt at all.
In the last couple days there have been reports of men all in black, with rifles and they are shooting people.
The people that get shot, are not other gang members, but old ladies and babies.........and a fair share of gang members.
The things that I am learning, from the police scanner.
granny
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929415/posts
Masked gunman kills boy, 13 (at 12:40 am on a School Night)
northjersey.com ^ | November 13, 2007 | DAVID PORTER
Posted on 11/22/2007 3:39:06 PM PST by Coleus
A masked gunman strode onto a city street early Monday and fired several shots, killing a 13-year-old boy riding on a bike and wounding another youth, authorities said. According to police, three youths were approached at about 12:40 a.m. by a man wearing a black mask and black hooded sweat shirt who emerged from between two parked cars and opened fire.
The 13-year-old, identified by his parents and police as Elijah Henderson, was fatally shot in the head. A second youth, also 13, was shot several times but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said. The second boy was able to stagger away and was found several blocks from the shooting scene. The third youth fled, apparently unharmed. The two boys who were hit were taken to University Hospital in Newark, where Henderson was pronounced dead at 1:36 a.m. The second victim, identified by Henderson’s father as Isaiah Davis, was treated and released approximately 90 minutes later, according hospital spokesman Rogers Ramsey.
A surveillance video from an apartment building caught most of the crime. The grainy footage shows one boy, believed to be Davis, walking in the street while Henderson and the other boy are riding double down the sidewalk on a bike. Suddenly, a figure appears out of the shadows and crosses the street toward the youth on foot. A flash from a gunshot can be seen, followed by other shots, and the gunman runs back across the street. A separate segment of video shows the injured youth staggering down the street.
The Union County Prosecutor’s Office said it has not determined a motive for the shooting. “He was my only son,” said Henderson’s father, Cordell Henderson, of East Orange. “I just want justice. I just want to know why someone took away what was so precious to me.” Jacqueline Purdie, the slain youth’s mother, wept as she watched the surveillance video in a television news truck. The crime scene is about three-quarters of a mile from her house.
“He was on his way home,” she said. Witnesses said a suspect left in a green Mercedes Benz, according to broadcast reports. Cordell Henderson said his son was a bright youngster who loved video games and hoped to someday play football on an organized team. He wondered why the youth who was operating the bicycle on which Elijah was riding — who has not been identified by police — apparently left the scene without trying to help Elijah. “If they were friends, you would think he would have gone back and tried to at least pull him along,” he said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929853/posts
Iran will pile tsunamis on enemies [”if they continue to plot against Iran.”]
PRESS TV, Iran ^ | 23NOV07 | PRESS TV, Iran
Posted on 11/23/2007 10:55:56 PM PST by familyop
The chief of the IRGC has warned that the enemies will have to suffer the tsunamis of resistance if they continue to plot against Iran.
Brigadier General Mohammad-Ali Ja’fari said on Friday the Iranian nation is ready to fend off any attacks from the West.
“Our enemies should know that although Iran has so far been patient with the West, this is the calm before the storm,” he cautioned.
“If the Leader of the Islamic Revolution issues an order, the nation and the Basij volunteer forces will not hesitate even one second to thwart the plots hatched by the enemies,” he told a congregation of worshipers on Tehran University campus.
Earlier Jafari had told reporters in the northeastern city of Mashhad that ‘Iran’s Armed Forces and the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) are prepared better than ever to respond to any offensive against the country’.
“They [the enemies] have repeatedly threatened to attack our country but we never take their threats seriously,” he concluded.
MK/HGH/MG
November 24, 2007 Anti-Terrorism News - UnitedStatesAction.com
(Iraq) Iran-backed militants behind Baghdad bombing: US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071124/wl_mideast_afp/iraqunrestiranus_071124105455;_ylt=ArcYwNJeEqpFr8i7wwV0D71X6GMA
(Iraq) Thousands roar support for Sadr in Baghdad bastion
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2007/November/focusoniraq_November100.xml§ion=focusoniraq
(Iraq) Municipal official in Kirkuk, assassinated
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859850&Language=en
(Iraq) Curfew imposed as Iraqi forces launch major offensive in oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Kirkuk.php
Iraqi husband and wife journalists escape assassination attempt in Baghdad
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/africa/ME-GEN-Iraq-Journalists-Attacked.php
(Iraq) U.S. military says Mosul bomb attacks killed 21 - updated death toll on Friday attack
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071124/ts_nm/iraq_mosul_dc
(Iraq) 5000 US troops to withdraw from Iraq
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22817154-23109,00.html
Afghan suicide attack leaves 7 dead - in Kabul - including 3 children and Italian soldier
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071124/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan_4;_ylt=ApzrCF.5izzoTdWMzzxy5l_OVooA
(Afghanistan) Taliban exact revenge in area claimed by Canadian and Afghan forces -
Charghulba area checkpoint
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=72763cbb-70f0-4a9f-99ca-11e6be02470a&k=6835
(Pakistan) 2 suicide attacks kill 35 in Pakistan - in Rawalpindi - checkpoint outside army HQ
and suicide car bomb rams bus carrying ISI intelligence officers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071124/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_861;_ylt=AnDNg7Tq.6XYZFNVfPJU6nrzPukA
(Pakistan) New sectarian clashes kill 50 in Pakistan - in Parachinar district
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/November/subcontinent_November981.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
Pakistan-based militants planning worldwide attacks: Musharraf
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Pakistan/Pak-based_militants_planning_worldwide_attacks_Musharraf/articleshow/2566186.cms
(Pakistan) Troops amassing for Dir operation
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\24\story_24-11-2007_pg1_9
(Pakistan) Militants vacate Alpuri
http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/24/top3.htm
(Pakistan) 3 cops killed in Quetta violence
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\24\story_24-11-2007_pg1_6
(Pakistan) Eight hurt in explosion — in Mahmoud tehsil of Bajaur Agency
http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/24/top8.htm
Report: Pakistan warned US of plans on emergency rule
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\11\24\story_24-11-2007_pg1_3
(India J&K) Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami (HUJI) “commander” killed by associates in Kashmir
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859908&Language=en
India hunts bombers after explosions kill 13 - in Uttar Pradesh
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/November/subcontinent_November979.xml§ion=subcontinent
UP blasts blamed on terror groups, says Jaiswal
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Redir.aspx?ID=a16be996-8854-44f9-802f-07d5c15b0688&ParentID=55f3909e-ddde-4459-88a7-c196a1c0a702
Indian governor escapes assassination attempt - Goa
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859889&Language=en
(India) Bag containing explosives recovered from Patna railway junction
http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20071124/832083.html
(India) Bag allegedly containing bomb making items found in Ayodhya
http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20071124/832071.html
(Bangladesh) Hizb-ut Tahrir Islamists protest US naval presence for cyclone relief
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/147173.html
(U.S.) Annapolis, Maryland: Summit terror threat advisory issued
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071123/ap_on_re_us/mideast_peace_security_2;_ylt=Aoqntd5sjcPwEMYicYuY6HQTv5UB
(U.S.) ‘Lone-wolf terrorists’ may threaten Mideast summit
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071124/NATION/111240035/1002
(U.S.) Firefighters trained as lookouts for terrorism
http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1570117.html
(U.S.) National Guard: Study Jihadists, take advantage of DOD foreign culture,
language programs, Guardmembers urged
http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archives/2007/11/112007-jihadists.aspx
(U.S.) “Saudi Islamic school in Virginia again defending its reputation”
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/america/NA-GEN-US-Saudi-Academy.php
Iran has produced nuclear fuel pellets for its heavy water reactor
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546713033&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Lebanon) US urges calm in Lebanon — Lebanon outgoing pro-Syrian president Lahoud
declares state of emergency and ordered army to take control
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lebanon;_ylt=AuNvy2.JbyC4yENA9HQi6MbagGIB
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546711157&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Hamas: Deadlier rockets can be developed in a short period
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546712955&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/927476.html
Hamas ‘shocked’ at Arab backing of Annapolis
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/November/middleeast_November379.xml§ion=middleeast
Gaza militants stage mass protest against Annapolis conference
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/23/africa/ME-GEN-Palestinians-Gaza-Mideast-Conference.php
Arabs will go to Annapolis
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/November/middleeast_November371.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
Palestinian fighters attack Israeli troops on outskirts of Gaza Strip
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859882&Language=en
IDF troops fire at two Palestinians in northern Gaza Strip
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1195546711072&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
(Saudi Arabia) Surprise, Surprise: Yet More Evidence that the Majority of Foreign Fighters in
Iraq Come from Saudi Arabia
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/surprise_surprise_yet_more_evi.php
(Algeria) Maghreb al Qaeda defiant after senior figure dies
http://africa.reuters.com/top/news/usnBAN430350.html
Algeria: A court sentences Al Qaeda-linked terrorist to eight years in prison
http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8308
Nigerians trained in Al-Qaeda Algerian camps face trial
http://www.echoroukonline.com/english/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8305
Sudan : Jihad a tradition not stopped by peace agreements
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve3665
Report: “Egypt: Extremists call on supporters to adopt new non-violent Jihad” - Jemaa al-Islamiya
seeks to “avoid bloodshed in Islamic societies” and “avoid internal wars and divisions”
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1589433034
(Canada) Terror attacks of 9-11 drove Mounties and CSIS to work together, inquiry told
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jYHz2PtMCPuv6_hrQYJZKUblxVEQ
(UK) Maker of Undercover Mosque documentary considers suing police
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/nov/24/channel4.television?gusrc=rss&feed=media
(Turkey) One PKK rebel killed in SE Turkey
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/24/content_7139234.htm
Turkish PM says more democracy will finish off Kurdish rebels
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071124/wl_mideast_afp/turkeykurdsunrestpolitics_071124122755;_ylt=At6aD.uuewc5nqv5zwaOm9jtfLkA
(Thailand) Three killed by southern insurgents
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=123902
(Thailand) Insurgent core leader detained in Songkhla
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=123893
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/read.php?newsid=30057306
Sri Lankan military: Fighting kills 17 rebels in north, Blast kills 2 policemen in east
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/asia/AS-GEN-Sri-Lanka-Civil-War.php
(North Korea) U.S. official goes to Asia for nuke talk
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_koreas_nuclear;_ylt=AhIlZp4iyY0HUdK9ELi_eS6CscEA
(Columbia) US calls for proof hostages in Colombia alive
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/November/theworld_November696.xml§ion=theworld
Other News:
(France / Sweden) Sarkozy: ‘too many Muslims in Europe’
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/11/sarozy-too-many-muslims-in-europe.html
Muslim population in European cities
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/11/muslim-population-in-european-cities.html
(France) Marseilles: Building of Great Mosque
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/11/marseilles-building-of-great-mosque.html
Netherlands: Pressure on freed doctor not to lodge complaint against Libya
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/11/netherlands-pressure-on-freed-doctor.html
(Denmark) Nationalist leader says Danish identity under threat from Muslim immigrants
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/24/europe/EU-GEN-Denmark-Nationalist-Leader.php
Islamic bank gives OIC over USD 27 billion
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859962&Language=en
2nd “fiqh” (jurisprudence) conf. for Islamic financial institutions
http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=1859975&Language=en
Against Nazi News:
Klarsfeld family of Nazi hunters honored
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/23/europe/EU-GEN-France-Nazi-Hunters.php
(Germany) Neo-Nazi questioned in swastika attack on youth
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=46294
German rightist jailed for Hitler salute
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=46291
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Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds
November 25, 2007
Smoking Guns and Mushroom Clouds
By MARTIN WALKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/books/review/Walker-t.html?8bu&emc=bu
THE SEVENTH DECADE
The New Shape of Nuclear Danger.
By Jonathan Schell.
251 pp. Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. $24.
ARSENALS OF FOLLY
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race.
By Richard Rhodes.
Illustrated. 386 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $28.95.
It is a reasonable assumption that three nuclear powers, the United
States, India and Israel, have prepared a variety of more or less
robust
contingency plans to neutralize Ptakistan’s nuclear arsenal of some 40
or so warheads, should Islamist militants appear to threaten the regime
of President Pervez Musharraf. There have been ominous signs that other
Middle Eastern states, including Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, are
considering their own nuclear options as they contemplate a future that
may feature a nuclear-armed Iran.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, five declared nuclear powers and
Israel
constituted the nuclear club. Today India, Pakistan and North Korea
have
joined their number. Iraq under Saddam Hussein came within perhaps a
year of doing so, and Iran is waiting in the wings. We are poised on
the
brink of a new age of multiple nuclear powers.
Jonathan Schell, writing 25 years after his seminal “Fate of the Earth”
revitalized the antinuclear movement, places the blame for this change
squarely on the Bush administration. He maintains in “The Seventh
Decade” that the United States has launched a historic revolution in
nuclear affairs, embracing a first-strike policy to combat
proliferation, and pursuing new generations of nuclear weapons. This
new
thinking was spawned in the Pentagon from 1989 to 1993, when Dick
Cheney
was defense secretary; it fell into quiescence during the Clinton
years,
but has been reborn with vigor now that Cheney is vice president.
continued.
Hezbollah supporters in US police custody
Published Date: November 24, 2007
KUWAIT: Diplomatic sources revealed that US security officials arrested
a
group of Lebanese men in the United States in connection with smuggling
cigarettes and liquor to various Arab nations. The group was headed by
a
Lebanese man named Mahmoud Ashmar (29) and during interrogations,
Ashmar
confessed that the revenues of the smuggled cigarettes and liquor were
used
to fund Hezbollah and some Kuwaiti and Saudi people were involved in
their
dealings.
The FBI started contacting its counterparts in various GCC states in
order
to identify the names of the group’s GCC contacts. The FBI then
referred the
case to the CIA after the FBI discovered that the group was associated
to
the Lebanese Hezbollah party. Ashmar also confessed that the group had
connections in Canada and the CIA is now asking Canadian officials to
participate in the investigation.
Ashmar stated that the group received financial support from Arab
contacts
disguised as tourists to the United States who came to the US during
the
summer. He said the group used to receive envelopes from their contacts
and
each envelope contained around $300,000. Ashmar further said numerous
envelopes came from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Ashmar pointed out that their Saudi connections would give the
envelopes to
Shiite merchants in Kuwait and then the merchants brought the envelopes
to
the United States and Canada. FBI agents discovered a letter inside one
envelope stating that the envelope was sent from Kuwait. Ashmar also
said
that some envelopes were handed over to groups by women touring the US.
He
noted that the women did not know that they were funding Hezbollah and
thought they were giving donations to charitable organizations.
from: osint@yahoogroups.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1929934/posts?page=2
Putin meets top Saudi official as Russia eyes arms sale
Agence France Presse(AFP) ^ | 11/24/07
Posted on 11/24/2007 7:28:56 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Putin meets top Saudi official as Russia eyes arms sale 17 hours ago
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1929975/posts?page=35
Iran to Launch Home-Made Submarine, Destroyer
FARS News Agency (FNA),Iran ^ | 2007-11-24
Posted on 11/24/2007 9:21:46 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Iran to Launch Home-Made Submarine, Destroyer
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian army’s naval commander said that the country is due to launch a home-made destroyer and a submarine on Wednesday.
Freepers have posted photos and plans for homemade subs in this thread, it is a must see.
a 1999 thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3826f2d15b21.htm
FBI Director Admits Russians May Have Secret Weapons in U.S.
News/Current Events News Keywords: BURIED NUKES
Source: newsmax
Published: 8 Nov. 1999
Posted on 11/08/1999 07:57:05 PST by flamefront
FBI Director Louis Freeh admitted that Russia may yet have stored weapons – including nuclear suitcase bombs – at secret locations around the U.S.
The stunning revelations appeared in yesterday’s editions of the New York Post. The paper quoted Congressman Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) as having had a conversation with Freeh in the past two weeks.
Weldon said that Freeh “acknowledged the possibility that hidden weapons caches exist in the United States . . .”
Weldon, a leading congressional expert on Russia and chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on military research and development, said, “There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country. The question is what and where.”
continued.
There is a useful, very long list of old F.R. threads in post 65 of this thread, amazing what Freepers know:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3aa107c92318.htm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929922/posts
Southern California Wildfires (Live thread)
Local news | Today | Me
Posted on 11/24/2007 6:46:08 AM PST by al baby
MALIBU, Nov. 24, 2007 - Residents were ordered to evacuate their homes early Saturday ahead of a wildfire that scorched about 250 acres in the hills above Malibu as the dry Santa Ana wind returned to Southern California.
The San Diego police scanner was busy this afternoon, lots of small fires, and the dispatcher said ‘set’.
I could not keep the reports separate, they no more than called for fighters, then there was a new one.
granny
[latest thread]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930079/posts
Celebrities flee, homes gutted as wildfire ravages Malibu [Matthew McConaughey, Minnie Driver...]
breitbart.com ^
Posted on 11/24/2007 4:37:19 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Celebrities flee, homes gutted as wildfire ravages Malibu Nov 24 05:47 PM US/Eastern Hollywood stars were among nearly 10,000 people forced to flee as wind-driven wildfires tore through the celebrity enclave of Malibu on Saturday, gutting at least 35 multi-million dollar homes and threatening hundreds more, officials and reports said.
continued.............
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1930015/posts?page=34
Ex-FBI deputy director dispels conspiracy theories about the Oklahoma City bombing in memoir
Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier ^ | November 24, 2007
Posted on 11/24/2007 11:59:37 AM PST by xjcsa
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -— A team of FBI agents that re-examined the Oklahoma City bombing after a resurgence in conspiracy theories uncovered no new reliable leads, the man who initially supervised the bureau’s investigation told a newspaper.
continues........see Calpernia’s posts starting at #34, they begged to be googled.....................
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1483299/posts
Armed and Dangerous: Private Police on the March
Covert Action Quarterly ^ | by Mike Zielinski
Posted on 09/12/2005 9:13:12 PM PDT by Calpernia
THE ERA OF DUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IS HERE AS GOVERNMENT AND CORPORATIONS HIRE RENT-A-COPS TO GUARD BUSINESSES AND GATED COMMUNITIES AND TO BREAK STRIKES. NOW, ABUSES BY THE PRIVATE SECURITY INDUSTRY AND ITS EMPLOYEES THEMSELVES THREATEN PUBLIC SECURITY.
CONTINUES............
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1342023/posts
The Clintons Terrorist Ties
VARIOUS ^ | Various
Posted on 02/12/2005 5:32:38 PM PST by Calpernia
Found this list of history from 1775 on crypto and how it was used, until today........declassified,
http://www.nsa.gov/history/histo00007.cfm
It was one of the links on a Calpernia old thread.
[another must read thread, from Calpernia’s list:]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341799/posts
The Clinton and Islam partnership: Evidence of negotiations using America’s public school children
Renew America ^ | April 2004 | Jen Shroder
Posted on 02/12/2005 9:00:56 AM PST by doug from upland
The Clinton and Islam partnership: Evidence of negotiations using America’s public school children
Jen Shroder
Jen Shroder
April 13, 2004
[Much of this post researched and confirmed by Wes Vernon of NewsMax. Over 23 references linked below]
Abdurahman Alamoudi, President of the American Muslim Council, supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah and accused of ties with Osama bin Laden, helped develop “Religious Expression in Public School” which was launched by Clinton in 1995. These “Presidential Guidelines” greatly impact public schools today. Nadine Strossen, President of the ACLU, refers to these guidelines as the authority to support the ACLU’s lawsuits restricting Christmas celebrations and removing Nativity scenes from public schools. Meanwhile all practices of Islam are encouraged.
School districts are pressured to utilize these dubious guidelines, which Clinton sold to America as “issued by 35 religious groups,” including the American Muslim Council/Alamoudi/suspected terrorist.
In United States v. Abdurahman Muhammad Alamoudi reads:
“I have reviewed a transcript of a translation of a recorded statement made in Arabic by Alamoudi:
‘...bombing the American embassy in Kenya in which many African Muslims have died and not a single American died. You killed 500 Africans and injured 5,000 and then you said we exploded an American embassy! [emphasis added] This is not good and this gives a bad image of the Muslims and Arabs, and even inside America itself. What is the result you achieve in destroying an embassy in an African country?
I prefer to hit a Zionist target in America or Europe or elsewhere but not like what happened at the Embassy in Kenya. I prefer, honestly, like what happened in Argentine?
[Other man interrupts:] the Israeli Embassy?
[Back to Alamoudi:] No. The Jewish Community Center. It is a worthy operation,...even though we are very sorry for the death of the innocent. You have to choose the target so as not to put the Muslim in an uncomfortable situation. Our brothers who want to struggle have to choose this target.’” —Brett Gentrup, Special Agent, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quoting Alamoudi, contributor to our public school guildelines.
Alamoudi met often with then President and Hillary Clinton and has been described as Hillary’s friend and advisor on Islamic affairs. Protected by Clinton’s Presidential Guidelines, funding for Islamic educational materials began pouring in from Saudi Arabia and Muslim nations. Houghton Mifflin textbooks became saturated with Muslim beliefs as the Council of Islamic Education (CIE) helped write the textbook (originally denied by the publisher, Houghton Mifflin, until their Editorial Director was caught bragging about it in print).
CIE Director, Shabbir Mansuri, boasted that he is waging a “bloodless” revolution, promoting world cultures and faiths in America’s classrooms. CIE has warned scholars and public officials who do not sympathize with its requests that they will be perceived as racists, reactionaries, and enemies of Islam.
Islamic organizations that remind Muslims it is their RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION (Dawa) to promulgate Islam are applauding Clinton and his religious guidelines today:
“In the U.S. one of the strongest arguments in favor of seeking religious accommodation for your child is President Bill Clinton’s 1995 statement of principles addressing the extent to which religious expression and activity are permitted in public school. This was given to every school district in the United States.” ~ SoundVision
Additionally, Clinton went beyond the ACLU copyright guidelines and added:
“Students generally do not have a Federal right to be excused from lessons that may be inconsistent with their religious beliefs or practices.”
Pay attention. There went religious freedom.
At the end of his term, Clinton addressed Muslim leaders with a Ramadan message containing quotes from our children’s textbooks today. Clinton categorically lists his accomplishments to Muslims:
“As America’s six-million-member Muslim community grows in numbers and prominence, Americans of every religious tradition are learning more about the origins and meaning of Islam. That on “the Night of Power,” the Angel Gabriel appeared to the Prophet Muhammad and revealed to him the first verses of the Koran. That the Koran declares that Ramadan was the month Allah’s words were sent down, and so should be spent in fasting.” -Bill Clinton
As terrorists executed attacks on America, then President Clinton slashed our defenses, gutted our intelligence, pardoned terrorists, halted investigations of Islamic charities and negotiated for peace, evidently with a powerful bargaining chip, our children through our public education system. Fundamentalist Islam is determined to advance, entering by persuasion within our public schools and by sword at our borders. President Clinton has clearly provided both doorways as we are swarmed by two approaches of Islam, courting our children while bombing our buildings.
Is it hard to believe Clinton, professing to be Christian, could betray Christ and America like this? Examine the fruit. Lying under oath, dubious activities with staff, slipping in an ACLU document as written by “religious groups” is compounded when one remembers how Hillary demanded public funding for (brace yourself) a dung covered depiction of the Virgin Mary, with breasts of elephant dung, surrounded by genital pornography at the Brooklyn Museum in October 1999.
Together the Clintons met with Muslim groups in the White House so often it became commonplace. In speeches against President Bush, Clinton has condemned America by blaming us for the Crusades. With this kind of history, it is not hard to believe Clinton betrayed America’s Christian heritage and used our children as bargaining chips in negotiations with Islamic leaders.
Today, Christmas and Nativity scenes are outlawed while Clinton’s nominee, U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton, recently approved “Islam: A Simulation” where children learn to “become Muslim, recite the Quran, fast for Ramadan and pray to Allah including this prayer:
“In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of Creation,
The Compassionate, the Merciful,
King of Judgment-day!
You alone we worship, and to You alone we pray for help,
Guide us to the straight path.”
The double-standard is shocking, but one need only look at our public school guidelines and who wrote them, with clauses designed to open or close doors at the will of the ACLU, (which also co-issued Clinton’s guidelines), to discover how our nation finds itself in such a dreadful state today.
Sources:
http://www.blessedcause.org/clinton with much more documented source material and over 23 references
Newsmax Articles investigated and confirmed after above linked article:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/13/172143.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/15/121909.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/21/115449.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/1/29/123639.shtml
United States v. Alamoudi transcript (PDF!)
http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/usalamoudi93003dec.pdf
[Another must read thread, from Calpernia’s list:]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1341941/posts?page=1
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership, Inc. ^ | 1999 | By Stephane Courtois, Mark Kramer (Translator), Jonathan Murphy, Karel Bartosek, Andrzej Paczkowski
Posted on 02/12/2005 2:45:19 PM PST by Calpernia
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression By Stephane Courtois, Mark Kramer (Translator), Jonathan Murphy (Translator), Karel Bartosek, Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Panne, Jean-Louis Margolin (Contributors); Introduction to the U.S. edition by Martin Malia Published by Harvard University Press, 1999 Originally published in France, 1997
Reviewed by Claire Wolfe
Examining the photos and reading their captions in The Black Book of Communism, you might expect the surrounding 700+ pages to contain a wail of outrage. The photos, though few, are as graphic and heart-rending as the worst from Nazi Germany.
continued................
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=c014b2f8-6fd4-4a23-91b0-00fda4233513&k=40770
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=c014b2f8-6fd4-4a23-91b0-00fda4233513&k=40770
15yo girl jailed with 20 men raped repeatedly
From correspondents in Brasilia
November 23, 2007 11:07am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
A 15-YEAR-old girl robbery suspect was put in a jail cell with more
than 20
men, and for a month was raped relentlessly and forced to have sex for
food,
human rights groups say.
“She was raped from day one’’ at the jail in Para state, a Children and
Adolescent Defence Centre (Cedeca) spokeswoman said.
The number of men in the cell varied from 20 to 34 while the girl was
there.
“She was raped innumerable times and forced to exchange sexual
relations for
food,’’ said Miere Cohen, the president of the Order of Brazilian
Lawyers
Human Rights Commission.
Media reports of the case have sparked outrage across Brazil,
especially
since it closely followed an earlier incident of a 23-year-old woman
who was
also jailed in Para state for one month together with 70 men.
The teenager, whose identity was not disclosed, was arrested in Para
state
capital Abaetetuba on October 21 on suspicion of robbery and put behind
bars
at a local police station jailhouse until an anonymous caller tipped
off the
media.
“Nobody really knows what she was charged with. She was a suspect in a
robbery but police were unable to tell us which robbery. There was no
formal
charge,’’ Ms Cohen said.
The girl’s lawyers said police at one point said they believed the
suspect
was not under-age.
“Whether she was 15, 20, 50, 80 or 100 doesn’t matter. A woman should
not
have been kept in a jail cell with men,’’ Para Governor Ana Julia
Carepa
said.
She said she would mete out “exemplary punishment’’ in the case.
The girl, whose family is very poor, “is distraught and very afraid,
but
said she’s able to recognise the police officers who locked her up and
the
detainees who raped her. She’s ready to talk”, the Cedeca spokeswoman
said.
Suspect still not named.
Good morning to you.
No, not named.
Having listened to the San Diego police scanner for about a month now, I understand why.
There is a color war going on in most of nation, does not matter what color you are, it is the wrong one.
If they gave names to all the suspects, it would only increase the attacks on them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts?page=112#112
Vote Early, Vote Often
Equal Justice Foundation ^ | 4/4/05 | by Kay Daly
Posted on 11/09/2005 5:54:55 AM PST by Calpernia
[You will want to save this link, for 2 years, links to voter fraud has been posted here by Calpernia and others.
Thank you Calpernia.
granny]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930200/posts
Fascinating look into the birth of Al Qaeda
Concord Monitor ^ | November 25. 2007 | Thomas Lippman
Posted on 11/25/2007 6:12:11 AM PST by nuconvert
Thomas Lippman
Washington Post
[Post #11 has an interesting link to the booktv for this...
granny]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930221/posts
Al-Qaeda Kingpin: I Trained 9/11 Hijackers
The Sunday Times ^ | November 25, 2007 | Chris Gourlay and Jonathan Calvert
Posted on 11/25/2007 7:10:23 AM PST by Fennie
In a small windowless cell lit by a single light bulb, Louai al-Sakka sits isolated from the world and fellow inmates for 24 hours a day. His concrete box is in the bowels of Kandira, a high-security F-type prison 60 miles east of Istanbul, which was built to house Turkey’s most dangerous criminals. The prison has been criticised by human right groups such as Amnesty International. The guards control everything, including the cell’s light switch. Sakka’s only visitor is Osman Karahan, a lawyer who shares his fervent support for militant Islamic jihad. Since being convicted as an Al-Qaeda bomb plotter last year, Sakka has decided to reveal his alleged role in some of the key plots of recent years, providing a potential insight into the unanswered questions surrounding them. His story is also one of a globetrotting terrorist in an organisation that is truly multinational...
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