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A look at recent Iranian propaganda:
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http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/10911.htm
Iranian Clerics, Security Officials Stress Importance Of Martyrdom Culture
At several recent Basij ceremonies, several clerics and senior officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Basij stressed the importance of inculcating a culture of martyrdom (shehada) amongst the public, with the aim of preserving the Islamic Revolution.
Source: Basijnews, Iran, October 26, 2008; Sepahnews, Iran, October 18, 21, 26, 2008
Posted at: 2008-10-27
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Basij Cmdr: Iran Can Crack Anti-Missile Defense Systems
Hossein Taeb, commander of Iran’s Basij forces, has said that in the recent maneuvers, Basij forces successfully identified and scrambled enemy anti-missile defense systems.
It was also reported that the Iranian army had held the first surface-to-surface missile firing competition between air force and ground forces missile units.
Iran’s deputy military commander Abd Al-Rahim Mousavi said that the contest ended successfully in Isfahan and Samnan provinces, that these competitions would be expanded to other provinces, and that additional types of missiles would be used.
Source: Fars, Iran, October 26-27, 2008
Posted at: 2008-10-27
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
“UK TV channel’s bid to address Muslim notions about Biblical concepts angers Muslims
Pakistani Christian TV host receives threats”
By Sheraz Khurram Khan
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“366 days for man who made Super Bowl threats”
Published: 10.28.08, 08:11 / Israel News
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Kurt William Havelock, 36, was accused of bringing a semiautomatic rifle and 200 rounds of ammunition to a parking lot near University of Phoenix Stadium where pregame activities were happening. He also sent letters to major media outlets promising to be “swift and bloody.” Havelock did not attack, however, and he later turned himself in to Tempe police. He was found guilty in June of six counts of mailing threatening communications.”
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“Eyes Wide Shut”
By Steven Emerson
Claremont Review of Books | Tuesday, October 28, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “September 11, 2001, will live in infamy, but February 26, 1993, should also cause Americans to shudder. On that day 15 years ago, Islamic militants tried to topple the World Trade Center; six people in the building were killed, over a thousand injured. It was the first time the world network of Islamic terrorists had struck on American soil. Most Americans missed the message.
Andrew McCarthy’s Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad is a comprehensive, meticulous, and impassioned reminder of that message.”
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“NEFA Foundation: New Video of Most Wanted German Terrorist Eric Breininger”
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20081027-14
Oct. 27, 2008
ISOF captures 7 suspected terrorists in separate operations
BALAD, Iraq – Iraqi Special Operations Forces capture seven suspected terrorists in separate operations in Ninawa and Diyala provinces Oct. 24-25.
In an operation on Oct. 25 in al Qadussya, Mosul, ISOF arrested three suspected Islamic State of Iraq members on a local warrant. One of the individuals is said to be a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell leader and financier who facilitates the storage and placement of IEDs in the eastern part of Mosul. The cell is known for emplacing IEDs directed against the Iraqi Police and Army.
In a separate operation on Oct. 25 in Kan’an, approximately 32 km northwest of Baqubah, ISOF captured two suspected members of an al Qaeda in Iraq cell believed to be responsible for attacks on IP, IA and Sons of Iraq.
On Oct. 24 in Mosul, ISOF captured two al-Qaeda in Iraq suspects. One of the men is believed to be part of a cell that operates in the Bulayj area emplacing IEDs and conducting attacks on IA. The other individual is said to be a member of a cell responsible for multiple attacks against Coalition forces and reportedly killed at least 20 IP.
“These series of operations are directed toward thwarting terrorist and criminal activities as the Government of Iraq demonstrates a determination to bring those operating outside the law to justice,” said Lt. Col. Neil Harper, Multi-National Corps-Iraq spokesperson.
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Press Release A081028a-111
Oct 28, 2008
Coalition forces apprehend Katai’b Hezbollah suspects
BAGHDAD –Coalition forces continue to chip away at the Katai’b Hezbollah terrorist network with the capture of four suspected network criminals early Tuesday in Abd ar Rahman, about 6 km east of Sadr City.
Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted the residence of a Katai’b Hezbollah administrator assessed to have close ties to network leadership.
Coalition forces approached the targeted individual’s residence where they detained four of the administrator’s associates without incident.
Katai’b Hezbollah is assessed to be a proxy of Iran and its members are believed to be responsible for recent attacks against Iraqi citizens and Iraqi and Coalition forces. They are also assessed to be responsible for the botched Improvised Rocket Assisted Mortar attack on Coalition forces June 4 that resulted in 18 Iraqi civilians killed, 29 injured, and 19 homes destroyed.
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Beheading a Christian for being a Christian...another day looking at the GLOBAL JIHAD.
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Monday October 27, 2008
“SOMALIA: CHRISTIAN AID WORKER BEHEADED FOR CONVERTING FROM ISLAM
Anti-Christian violence spills into Kenya as Somali Muslims attack in Nairobi.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NAIROBI, Kenya, October 27 (Compass Direct News) –
Among at least 24 aid workers killed in Somalia this year was one who was beheaded last month specifically for converting from Islam to Christianity, among other charges, according to an eyewitness.
Muslim extremists from the al Shabab group fighting the transitional government on Sept. 23 sliced the head off of Mansuur Mohammed, 25, a World Food Program (WFP) worker, before horrified onlookers of Manyafulka village, 10 kilometers (six miles) from Baidoa.
The militants had intercepted Mohammed and a WFP driver, who managed to escape, earlier in the morning. Sources close to Mohammed’s family said he converted from Islam to Christianity in 2005.
The eyewitness, who requested anonymity for security reasons, said the militants that afternoon gathered the villagers of Manyafulka, telling them that they would prepare a feast for them. The people gathered anticipating the slaughter of a sheep, goat or camel according to local custom.
Five masked men emerged carrying guns, wielding Somali swords and dragging the handcuffed Mohammed. One pulled back Mohammed’s head, exposing his face as he scraped his sword against his short hair as if to sharpen it. Another recited the Quran as he proclaimed that Mohammed was a “murtid,” an Arabic term for one who converts from Islam to Christianity.
The Muslim militant announced that Mohammed was an infidel and a spy for occupying Ethiopian soldiers.
Mohammed remained calm with an expressionless face, never uttering a word, said the eyewitness. As the chanting of “Allah Akubar [God is greater]” rose to a crescendo, one of the militiamen twisted his head, allowing the other to slit his neck. When the head was finally severed from the torso, the killers cheered as they displayed it to the petrified crowd.
The militants allowed one of their accomplices to take a video of the slaughter using a mobile phone. The video was later circulated secretly and sold in Somalia and in neighboring countries in what many see as a strategy to instill fear among those contemplating conversion from Islam to Christianity.”
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“Ask a Silly Question”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Actually, it wasn’t very silly at all. This from a recent article made available through WNC:
On 11 October, a forum participant posted a message to a jihadist website recounting a discussion on “sacrifice operations “with a “Salafi” who could not be convinced of the legitimacy of suicide attacks. Other forum members are asked to provide “the rule” regarding suicide attacks, as well as the “names of the shaykhs” who approved and those who did not. The message elicits a number of responses providing the author of the message with an array of material to refer to in future debates. This includes books, Koranic verses, stories, and the names of individuals condoning suicide under certain circumstances.
A translation of the message follows:”
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“”Only jihad by word and pen is left...Blood, blood, destruction, destruction””
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ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Cowhig read from Bahlul’s journal, which was seized in Afghanistan, and from letters he said Bahlul wrote from Guantanamo to al Qaeda leaders, lamenting that he could not join the September 11 hijackers he hailed as heroes.
...”Only jihad by word and pen is left,” he quoted Bahlul as writing.
“I am an officer of al Qaeda,” he quoted him as writing elsewhere. “Blood, blood, destruction, destruction.”
Bahlul also is accused of scripting the videotaped wills of his former roommates, September 11 hijackers Mohamed Atta and Ziad al Jarrah. He set up a satellite link so bin Laden could hear news reports of those attacks on his laptop computer, but couldn’t get the audio portion to work, Cowhig said....”
Posted by Robert at October 28, 2008 12:55 PM
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http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12300
IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 888-08
October 21, 2008
Victim and Family Members To See Military Commissions Proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
The Defense Department announced today that victims of terrorist attacks and family members who lost loved ones to those attacks will be able to attend military commission proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“The Department of Defense recognizes the tragic loss and suffering that victims and family members of terrorist attacks have experienced,” said Gordon England, deputy secretary of defense. “Soon, some of those victim families will have the opportunity to see first-hand the fair, open and just trials of those alleged to have perpetrated these horrific acts.”
U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is an active military base with minimal visitor housing and limited transportation support. In order to be fair to all interested victims and family members, the Office of Military Commissions will use random number generation software to select five people at a time to see military commission proceedings. Each person selected may be accompanied by one family member, if desired.
In addition, the Department of Defense, with the support of the Department of Justice, is establishing closed circuit television sites in the United States for victim and family members to watch future trial proceedings.
October 27, 2008, 11:03 PM http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5676
A US counterterrorism official said Monday, Oct. 27, that American special forces killed the head of a Syrian network that funneled fighters, weapons and cash in to Iraq when they raided Abu Kemal 7 km inside Syria Sunday. The unnamed official said the raid targeted the home of Abu Ghadiyah, leader of a key cell of foreign fighters in Iraq. A villager said the US force grabbed two men and took them away by helicopter when they flew back to Iraq.
An American military official said earlier that the cross-border raid by helicopter-borne special forces at al Sukkariya near Abu Kemal in N. Syria Sunday, Oct. 26 targeted “the foreign fighter network” that travels through Syria into Iraq. In the first US comment on the incident, the anonymous spokesman hinted at more cross-border action when he said: “We are taking matters in our own hands.”
He spoke shortly after Damascus summoned the US and Iraqi envoys to protest the “serious aggression” in which 8 “civilians” were killed and 14 wounded.
Three days earlier, US commander in western Iraq, Maj. Gen. John Kelly, called the Syrian border “an uncontrolled gateway” for fighters entering Iraq. He described the borders with Saudi Arabia and Jordan as “fairly tight” and referred to US forces’ success in shutting down the “rat lines” in Iraq with help from governments in North Africa. “The one piece of the puzzle where we have not shown success on is the nexus in Syria,” Gen. Kelly said.
Counter-terror sources report he was referring to help from the Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian governments, as well as Western Europe countries hosting large North African migrants, in drying up the stream of al Qaeda’s recruits for Iraq. However, Syrian president Bashar Assad has frustrated years of US effort to shut down the network operating out of his territory.
Military sources report: This was not the first US military incursion of Syria. Previous US strikes on Syrian soil in 2004 and 2005 targeted al Qaeda exit points to Iraq and involved bombardments and clashes with Syrian border units.
These US attacks were discontinued for three years. Sunday’s operation was an extension of the US-Iraqi offensive to purge the northern Iraqi town of Mosul and northern Syria of al Qaeda elements, the jihadists’ last two strong bastions in the region.
According to eye witnesses, 8 US troops dropped by at least 2 helicopters stormed a farm house in Sukkariya and killed 8 people before flying back to Iraq. Damascus announced it held US forces responsible for “this aggression and all its repercussions.” It called on the Iraqi government to launch an immediate investigation into “this serious violation and prevent the use of Iraqi territory for aggression against Syria."
Al Qaeda fighters recently captured by the US military in and around the northern Iraqi city of Mosul revealed the unabated flow of arms, fighters, cash and explosives from Syria to Iraq. The discovery belied Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem’s assurance to US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice when they met in New York in September that Damascus had halted this traffic.
Abu Kemal is located opposite the al Qaim region of Iraqi Anbar. For most of the five-year Iraq war, it was al Qaeda’s main logistics base for the jihadists fighting in Anbar. Recently this province, finally cleared of terrorists, was handed over to Iraqi forces. Washington is determined not to allow the Syria rat line to destroy one of the great US achievements of the war.
Asked if the incident was compatible with Israel’s talks with Syria, Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni commented: Damascus must stop aiding al Qaeda as well two other terrorist groups, Hizballah and Hamas. Political sources note that the northern Syrian operation bears strongly on the US presidential campaign 10 days before voting. Both candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, will no doubt comment and if the attacks continue and meet with Syrian reprisal, they could become a focal campaign theme.
US cross-border incursions from Afghanistan firing missiles from drones at Taliban and al Qaeda havens in Pakistan are ongoing. The latest attack took place Sunday night killing up to 20 insurgents
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Nun who was Gang-raped by Hindu Extremists tells her Story to the Media
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ORISSA STATE, INDIA (ANS) — On the same day that a Roman Catholic nun was burned alive by a group of Hindu fundamentalists who stormed the orphanage she ran in the district of Bargarh (Orissa), a priest who was at the orphanage was also badly hurt, and another nun from Bubaneshwar’s Social Center was gang-raped by groups of Hindu extremists before the building housing the facility was set on fire.
The attacks followed two days of anti-Christian violence in the state of Orissa (north-east India) following the assassination of radical Hindu leader Swami Laxanananda Saraswati.
While the Catholic nun who was gang-raped in the violence in Kandhamal, Orissa on August 25, 2008 has signed a statement, which she read at a Press Conference in New Delhi, on October 24, 2008, her name is being withheld in this article to respect the Indian Supreme Court Advisory on the use of names of victims of gender violence.
In her statement to the media, the nun says that on August 24, around 4:30pm, hearing the shouting of a large crowd at the gate of Divyajyoti Pastoral Center, she ran out through the backdoor and escaped to the forest along with others.
“We saw our house going up in flames. Around 8:30 pm we came out of the forest and went to the house of a Hindu gentleman who gave us shelter.”
The nun says that on August 25, around 1:30 pm, the mob entered the room where she was staying in that house, one of them stopped her, caught her hair and pulled her out of the house.
“Two of them were holding my neck to cut off my head with an axe. Others told them to take me out to the road; I saw Fr. Chellan also being taken out and being beaten. The mob consisting of 40-50 men was armed with lathis, axes, spades, crowbars, iron-rods, sickles etc. They took both of us to the main road. Then they led us to the burned down Janavikas building saying that they were going to throw us into the smoldering fire.”
The nun stated that when they reached the Janavikas building, they threw her to the verandah on the way to the dining room, which was full of ashes and broken glass pieces.
“One of them tore my blouse and others my undergarments. Father Chellan protested and they beat him and pulled him out from there. They pulled out my saree and one of the stepped on my right hand and another on my left hand and then a third person raped me on the verandah mentioned above. When it was over, I managed to get up and put my petticoat and saree. Then another young man caught me and took me to a room near the staircase. He opened his pants and was attempting to rape me when they reached there.”
The nun says she hid under the staircase.
“The crowd was shouting ‘where is that sister, come let us rape her, at least 100 people should rape.’ They found me under the staircase and took me out to the road. There I saw Fr. Chellan was kneeling down and the crowd was beating him. They were searching for a rope to tie us both of us together to burn us in fire. Someone suggested to make us parade naked. They made us walk on the road till Nuagoan market, which was half a kilometer from there. They made us fold our hands and walk. I was with petticoat and saree as they had already torn away my blouse and undergarments. They tried to strip even there and I resisted and they went on beating me with hands on my cheeks and head and with sticks on my back several times.”
When they reached the market the market place about a dozen of OSAP policemen were there.
“I went to them asking to protect me and I sat in between two policemen but they did not move. One from the crowd again pulled out from there and they wanted to lock us in their temple mandap. The crowd led me and Fr. Chellan to the Nuagaon block building saying that they will hand us over to BDO. From there along with the block officer the mob took us to police outpost Nuagaon, other policemen remained far (away).”
The mob said that they will come back after eating and one of them who attacked her remained back in the police outpost, the nun said.
“Policemen then came to police outpost. They were talking very friendly with the man who had attacked me and stayed back. In the police outpost we remained until the inspector in charge of Balliguda with his police team came and took us to Balliguda. They were afraid to take us straight to the police station and they kept us sometimes in jeep. In the garage, from there, they brought us to the station.
“The inspector in charge and other government officers took me privately and asked whatever happened to me. I narrated everything in detail to the police, how I was attacked, raped, taken away from policemen paraded half naked and how the policemen did not help me when I asked for help while weeping bitterly. I saw the inspector writing (this) down. The inspector asked me ‘are you interested in filing FIR? Do you know what will be the consequence?’ At about 10:00 pm I was taken for medical check-up accompanied by a lady police officer to Balliguda Hospital. They were afraid to keep us in police station, saying the mob may attack police station. So the police took us to the IB (Inspection Bungalow) where CRP men were camping.”
On August 26 around 9:00 am, the two Catholics were taken to Balliguda police station.
“When I was writing the FIR, the I I C asked me to hurry up and not to write in detail. When I started writing about the police, the I I C told me ‘this is not the way to write FIR, make it short.’ So I re-wrote it for the third time in one and half pages. I filed the FIR, but I was not given a copy of it,” the nun explained.
At around 4:00 pm the inspector in charge of Balliguda police station along with some other government officers put the two Catholics in the OSRTC bus to Bhubaneswar along with other stranded passengers. Police were there till Rangamati where all passengers had their supper.
“After that I did not see the police. We got down near Nayagarh and traveled in a private vehicle and reached Bhubaneswar around 2:00 am on August 27,” she said.
The nun concluded: “State Police failed to stop the crimes, failed to protect me from the attackers, they were friendly with the attackers.”
She said the police tried their best to say that it was best that she did not register an FIR, and not make complaints against police. She added that the police did not take down her statement as she narrated in detail and they abandoned her half of the way.
“I was raped and now I don’t want to be victimized by the Orissa police. I want a CBI enquiry.”
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New Iranian naval base can block Strait of Hormuz, confront Israeli subs
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October 28, 2008, 12:23 PM
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Iran’s naval chief Adm. Habibollah Sayyari told state radio Tuesday, Oct,.28, that the base could be used to block the entry of any “enemy” into the Persian Gulf. Iran has warned it would close the narrow Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the world’s oil passes, if the US attacked its nuclear installations.
The new base is in the port town of Jask on Iran’s southeastern coast opposite the point where the Gulf of Oman flows into the strait.
Military sources note the additional advantages of its location for Tehran are quick access to the Red Sea, Indian Ocean and Horn of Africa and support for three objectives:
1. A naval presence opposite the Gulfs of Oman and Aden, where Israeli maintains Dolphin submarines. For Tehran their presence is part of Israel’s belligerent posture opposite Iran.
2. Intensified military involvement in Sudan on the Red Sea.
3. As a counterweight for the US, NATO and Russian naval might building up off the pirate-ridden Somali coast. From Tehran, this build-up looks like a potential threat to its maritime supply lanes and oil export routes.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
“Update on Relief Work for Christians Brutalized by Violence in Orissa State”
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
ORISSA, INDIA
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