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March 12, 2004 Madrid Bombings Highlight Extent and Capability of Islamist NetworksReactivation of Bosnian Support Net for New US Attacks? Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS. A series of tightly coordinated bombings on the commuter rail networks of Madrid, Spain, during rush hour on the morning of March 11, 2004, were clearly linked to the al-Qaida-related group, the Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades, which during 2003 and 2004 were engaged in geographically dispersed terrorist bombings in Ankara, Turkey, and against the UN compound in Baghdad, Iraq, in August 2003. More than anything, however, the March 11, 2004, bombings highlighted the...

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia announced a limited amnesty Wednesday for Muslim militants who surrender in the next month, saying they will not face the death penalty and will only be prosecuted if they committed acts that hurt others. Crown Prince Abdullah read the brief announcement on behalf of his half-brother, King Fahd, on state television Wednesday. He said the offer was open to anyone who has not yet been "arrested for carrying out terrorist acts." "We are opening the door of amnesty ... to everyone who deviated from the path of right and committed a crime in the...

Korean Internet Users Divided on Response to Hostage Slaying Related Articles - Kim Sun-il Executed by Captors in Iraq - Hostage Executed as Soon as Gov't Rejected Iraq Deployment Demands - An Unpardonable Act of Barbarism - Korea Reaffirms Decision to Send Troops to Iraq - Int'l Governments Condemn Beheading of Korean Hostage - Foreign Media React to Killing of S. Korean Hostage - Booby Traps Installed Around Kim’s Body - Kim Sun-il Possibly Abducted on May 31 Korean Internet users are split between those wanting to take reprisals for the killing of Kim Sun-il in Iraq and those...

An organization calling itself 'The National Army for the Liberation of Iraq' issued a statement alledging that Kurdish and Shiia militias will begin liquidating 3,000 army officers and national and religious leaders immediately upon the transfer of power on June 30. (Al Madar Newspaper, London) The leaders of the Sunni tribes in Iraq held their first organized meeting in Baghdad to unify their ranks in preparation for the transfer of power to Iraq on June 30.The lead speaker called on participants to 'continue the program that will please Allah and his messenger..by adhering to the great Islam, the religion of...

The phony fight against terrorism and Saudi followers of ChristJune 23, 2004The Associated Press is reporting today that the government of Saudi Arabia has "offered a one-month amnesty to terrorists". The report makes it clear that such amnesty is about quieting the terrorists for now and not about pursuing justice against the terrorists in the Saudi Kingdom.Foreign Minister Prince Saud declared that Saudi citizens are not allowed to go to Iraq to fight against the Americans. "Any call for holy war (in Iraq) is illegitimate", said Prince Saud. It is interesting to note that Prince Saud is actually saying that...

His death was met with outrage in Washington and remorseful determination in Seoul. On the streets of Baghdad, there was little sympathy for South Korean Kim Sun-Il, beheaded by his captors and dumped on the road between Baghdad and Fallujah. Abu Zaman, a 53-year-old driver, was blunt on the fate of the 33-year-old evangelical Christian: "He deserved it. I object to beheading, but if he was co-operating with the Americans he made a bad decision." A portrait of Kim Sun-Il, who was killed by Iraqi militants, is displayed in front of a bible at a hospital in Busan. Photo: AFP...

A fifty-year-old resident of Kumanovo was kidnapped last weekend near the village of Vaksince by unknown criminal gang. He was beaten up and then released, security sources told Makfax news agency, speaking on condition of anonymity. The same sources said a group of masked and armed persons had abducted the Kumanovo resident with initials O. F. near the Kumanovo’s village of Vaksince. The incident took place late on Saturday at 22:00 hours. The kidnappers demanded EUR 500.000 ransom to set him free. Once they became aware that the ransom money would not be paid, the kidnappers had severely beaten the...

While Big Media prattles endlessly about the leaked 9-11 Commission staff report that claims Saddam Hussein’s Iraq had no connection whatsoever to al Qaida (directly contradicted by Republican and Democrat Commissioners, by the way), the American people remain convinced the evil twins were in cahoots, at least at some level. According to the latest survey conducted on behalf of ABC News/Washington Post and another conducted by Harris, both in the last week, Americans by significant margins believe the Bush administration over its many critics, like John Kerry.According to the ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted between June 16th and June 20th,...

    Militants Vow to Kill Iraq PM as U.S. Handover LoomsWed Jun 23, 2004 03:19 PM ET By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamist militants vowed on Wednesday to assassinate Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, threatening to step up a bloody campaign of beheadings and other killings a week before a U.S. handover to Iraqi rule. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian accused by U.S. officials of having links to al Qaeda and who claimed responsibility for the beheading of a South Korean hostage this week, made the threat on an Islamist Web site. "As for you, Allawi...

U.S. Kills 20 Foreign Fighters in Iraq, Official Says By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: June 23, 2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 23 — Up to 20 foreign fighters were killed overnight during an American military strike on a house in the city of Falluja, a senior military official said today. The assault came after Muslim insurgents beheaded a South Korean hostage and threatened to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister. "Falluja has become a place where large numbers of foreign fighters remain," a senior military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters in Baghdad. "We are concerned about this. We don't know...

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (AP) - A nighttime attack this week in the Russian republic of Ingushetia by militants near the border of war-ravaged Chechnya killed 92 people and wounded 125, a regional government official said Wednesday. Among the dead were 67 members of law enforcement agencies, said the official, Magomed Ziyaudinnov. About 1,000 militants had taken part in the attacks late Monday night, Ziyaudinnov said, quoting the Ingush Interior Ministry. Ingush officials had previously said about 200 fighters had participated. The regional branch of Russia's Federal Security Service received information about the movements of an armed group about 30 minutes before...

Execution in Iraq stirs up hornets' nest By David Scofield Will the kidnapping and execution of a Korean contractor prompt South Korea to rethink its dispatch plans? Like the tragic execution of American Paul Johnson in Saudi Arabia, Kim Son-il, a 33-year-old South Korean man working for a Korean US military contractor in Iraq, has become the latest victim in a campaign targeting independent contractors supporting the United States military in the region. Initially it seemed Kim, a student of Arabic, may have been granted a reprieve as the time of his execution lapsed and Arab television later reported his...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The South Korean hostage beheaded in Iraq was likely kidnapped at the end of May and not June 17 as initially reported by his employer, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Wednesday. Controversy about when Kim Sun-il was abducted arose after an Islamic militant group made good on threats to kill him when the South Korean government refused to cancel plans to send more troops to Iraq. In early June — before it was widely known that Kim was missing — a videotape was delivered to Associated Press Television News in which Kim says in English...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A recording purportedly made by the mastermind of bombings and beheadings in Iraq threatened to assassinate Iraq's interim prime minister and fight the Americans "until Islamic rule is back on Earth." The audio, found Wednesday on an Islamic Web site, is supposedly from Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the same Jordanian-born terrorist whose group claimed responsibility for the beheading of of American hostage Nicholas Berg and Kim Sun-il, a South Korean whose decapitated body was found Tuesday evening between Baghdad and Fallujah. South Koreans reacted with sorrow and anger to Kim's beheading Wednesday, with President Roh Moo-hyun calling...

I was just given this. On the homepage is a few pictures. Then u can find the video at top by clicking any of those arabic links.. BE WARNED!!!!! BEHOLD THE FACE OF EVIL ISLAM AT WORK. http://www.hostinganime.com/iraqnews2/

6/22/04 - NEWARK, NJ) — A man was arrested Tuesday and charged with trying to sell parts for sophisticated military fighter jets to Iran without a license. Hamid M. Butt, 71, formerly of Humble, Texas, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after getting off a flight from Malaysia that had landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Christie said. A Pakistani native, Butt had been living in Malaysia for several years, and was arrested upon his return to the United States. He also is a naturalized U.S. citizen, authorities said. The criminal complaint against Butt was signed...

Militants kill soldier in Thai south BANGKOK - Suspected Islamic insurgents armed with assault rifles and grenades attacked an army outpost in Thailand's Muslim-dominated south, killing a soldier and wounding two others, police said on Wednesday. The raid on the outpost in Narathiwat province's Kohtamong village late on Tuesday triggered a firefight that lasted 20 minutes before the attackers retreated, police Lieutenant Paiboon Ranawan said. Advertisement Separately, a gunman shot and wounded a police sergeant in a shop in the province's Rayang district late on Tuesday, police Captain Anusorn Chanklam said. A wave of violence attributed to resurgent Islamic separatists...

<p>Flight attendants on commercial airlines are still being trained to cooperate with hijackers and be victims rather than fight back, despite the attcks of September 11.</p> <p>"Their wrists were bound, their throats slashed," Patricia Friend, president of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA), told the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee yesterday.</p>

The commission looking into the causes of the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States did not conclude that claims by the Bush administration of ties between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were pure myth, as many newspaper headlines and broadcast reports asserted. As the vice chairman of the panel, Lee Hamilton, stated, "There were connections between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's government. We don't disagree on that." Perhaps this can be placed in a context more Americans would understand. Suppose that instead of radical Islamists (would the non-radicals kindly step forward and isolate and eliminate the radicals?), we were...

IN THE NO-FLY ZONES OF northern and southern Iraq, Saddam Hussein's gunners blindly fired surface-to-air missiles at patrolling American and British warplanes. In Yemen, terrorists seized a group of British Commonwealth and American tourists, and four of the hostages died in a shootout. In Tel Aviv, the U.S. Embassy abruptly closed down after receiving a terrorist threat. Perhaps it was just a typical week in the Middle East. But in a region where no one puts much faith in blind coincidence, last week's conjunction of Iraqi antiaircraft fire and terrorism aimed at the countries that had just bombed Iraq convinced...

Allah's Butchers By Ralph Peters FrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2004 "Perhaps the greatest blasphemers in any religion are those who appoint themselves as God’s executioners. When an entire civilization embraces such butchers, both the civilization and the religion are in trouble. The ritual slaughter of Paul Johnson Jr. in Saudi Arabia wasn’t simply the act of a cluster of terrorists, but a reflection of the failure of the entire Arab world. Religions are what men make of them. In the Arab heartlands of Islam, Muslims are making a gory mess of their faith. It’s time to end the politically correct...

Every day it seems another American soldier is killed in Iraq. These grim statistics have become a favorite of network news anchors and political chat show hosts. Nevermind that they mix deaths from accidents with actual battlefield casualties; or that the average is actually closer to one American death for every two days; or that enemy deaths far outnumber ours. What matters is the overall impression of mounting, pointless deaths. That is why is important to remember why we fight in Iraq -- and who we fight. Indeed, many of those sniping at U.S. troops are al Qaeda terrorists operating...

Yet another innocent American civilian has been slaughtered at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Here was a man who never hurt a soul, had nothing but admiration and respect for Moslem culture, murdered in cold blood with his decapitated head propped grotesquely atop his lifeless body. Savage is too kind a word to describe the perpetrators of this act. Savage is a word you apply to human beings. If anything good can be said to have come from the death of Paul Johnson, it is that perhaps it will be a moment of epiphany for the American people on all...

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I have not seen this posted before. This Islamofascist got what he deserved.

You won't see this on your local news. Chalk one up for our local boys. This goon was ready to fire on a convoy. http://w3.kill-9.com/rpg-man.mpg

Iraqi with RPG being shot by what appears (or sounds like) to be Iraqi citizens...with AK47's. Being out in the open with RPG this one should be one for the Darwin Awards.

BAGHDAD, June 23 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a hospital in Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi police said. The U.S. military had no immediate information on the blast outside the Ibn Nafees hospital. There was no word on casualties.

The least desired complication to the current situation in Iraq is a dispute with Iran over the Shatt al Arab waterway. The Shatt al Arab, formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers above Basra, is the most important waterway at the head of the Gulf. It has also traditionally been a source of contention between Iraq and Iran, marking as it does the international frontier between their territories. During the early 20th century, when the dominant power in the Middle East was European, Iraq was brought to agree that the legal frontier should run along the Thalweg,...

<p>The Army's powerful 1st Armored Division is proclaiming victory over Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr's marauding militia that just a month ago seemed on the verge of conquering southern Iraq.</p> <p>The Germany-based division defeated the militia with a mix of American firepower and money paid to informants. Officers today say "Operation Iron Saber" will go down in military history books as one of the most important battles in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.</p>

The Muslim world is at war with Western civilization. We have the military might to thwart them. The question is: Do we have the intelligence to recognize the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation? Their intent is clear, but let's refresh our memories with a bit of history. At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, several athletes were massacred. In 1979, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was taken over and 52 hostages held for more than a year. In 1983, U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up, killing 241 U.S. soldiers. In 1988, Pan Am flight 103...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- U.S. forces launched an airstrike targeting militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi after his group beheaded a South Korean who had pleaded "I don't want to die" in a heart-wrenching videotape.

INTELLIGENCE INSIDER WASHINGTON, June 22 — A new book by the senior Central Intelligence Agency officer who headed a special office to track Osama bin Laden and his followers warns that the United States is losing the war against radical Islam and that the invasion of Iraq has only played into the enemy's hands. In the book, "Imperial Hubris," the author is identified only as "Anonymous," but former intelligence officials identified him as a 22-year veteran of the C.I.A. who is still serving in a senior counterterrorism post at the agency and headed the bin Laden station from 1996 to...

<p>Dozens of Saudi jihadis are reported to have been killed in Fallujah in recent months, and many Saudi families have visited the Iraqi city to pay their respects to their "martyred" sons.</p> <p>Now the tactics employed by the Fallujah insurgents are turning up in the attacks on Westerners in Saudi Arabia.</p>

June 23, 2004 75 Die as Chechen Rebels Stage Raid Across Border By C. J. CHIVERS and STEVEN LEE MYERS ROZNY, Russia, June 22 - An audacious overnight raid by heavily armed militants in a southern Russian republic neighboring Chechnya killed at least 75 people and wounded dozens more before the fighters withdrew with minimal losses and a cache of captured weapons, officials said Tuesday. The raid, which began late Monday night with attacks against police and security posts across the republic of Ingushetia, was concentrated in the principal city, Nazran. It was the largest attack by Chechnya's separatist rebels...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea's president strongly condemned the beheading of a South Korean hostage in Iraq but remained determined to send more troops, saying they were needed to help rebuild the country. President Roh Moo-hyun rejected the kidnappers' claim that South Korea's plan to send 3,000 additional troops to Iraq would hurt Iraqis. The captors killed Kim Sun-il, a 33-year-old South Korean working in Iraq, after Seoul rejected their demand to cancel the South Korean deployment. "The South Korean plan to send troops to Iraq is not to engage in hostilities against Iraqis or other Arab people...

Prosecutors say the group also considered attacking Americans in Kenya to retaliate for the Somalia mission. Mr. Mohamed testified that Mr. bin Laden sent him to Nairobi in late 1993 to look over possible American, French, British and Israeli targets for a bomb attack, including the American Embassy. He said he took photos, drew diagrams and wrote a report, which he delivered to his boss in Khartoum. "Bin Laden looked at the picture of the American Embassy and pointed to where a truck could go as a suicide bomber," he said. American prosecutors say Al Qaeda had more grandiose plans:...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire accused by the United States of plotting bomb attacks on two U.S. embassies in Africa, has left Afghanistan, Afghan sources said Saturday. Bin Laden's whereabouts were not known, said the sources who declined to be identified. Taliban authorities in the militia's southern stronghold of Kandahar refused to either confirm or deny reports that bin Laden had left the country. The Taliban have called bin Laden their honored guest, a friend who helped the Afghan resistance fight invading Soviet soldiers in the 1980s. The Taliban's ambassador in Islamabad, Saeed-ur-Rehman Haqqani, said...

NEW YORK (AP) - A lawyer who has made a career out of defending radicals went on trial Tuesday on charges she helped one of her clients - a jailed terrorist sheik - communicate with his followers. Federal prosecutor Christopher Morvillo told the anonymous jury in his opening statement that Lynne Stewart "used her status as a lawyer as a cloak to smuggle messages into and out of prison." He said she allowed Omar Abdel-Rahman to "incite terrorism." Abdel-Rahman is a blind Egyptian cleric serving a life sentence at a maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colo., for conspiring to blow...

Israeli pressure 'is paying off against terrorists' By Inigo Gilmore in Jerusalem (Filed: 23/06/2004) Israel has turned the corner in the fight against Palestinian terrorist attacks, the defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, claimed yesterday. He said the marked drop in attacks was due not to lack of motivation among the militants but because their capabilities to carry out operations had been significantly reduced. Mr Mofaz told senior officers at a briefing: "We are seeing a new trend. The level of terror is slowly declining. We must keep up the offensive operations. The pressure is working." This year 19 people have died...

Summary More than 200 Chechen militants staged attacks in Ingushetia province June 22, killing at least 57 people -- including 18 police officers. Though the attack -- one of the bloodiest in recent memory -- does not indicate a shift in militant tactics, there is reason to believe the guerrillas will try expand their fight beyond Chechnya's borders in the near future. Analysis A large band of Chechen militants carried out attacks June 22 on a number of targets within Russia's Ingushetia province. Some 57 people were killed before Russian soldiers were dispatched to restore calm to the area. The...

Paul Johnson jnr was butchered for you. Pictures of his decapitated body, with his severed head on his chest, were posted on the internet in the early hours of Saturday (Sydney time) for your benefit. So was the message that "the infidel got his fair treatment". You were the target. The symbolism was carefully considered. The 49-year-old American civilian, kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, was dressed in an orange jumpsuit similar to those worn by prisoners of the US military in Guantanamo Bay. The method of execution was also considered for maximum impact. The images were quickly placed on the internet...

Stunning raid kills at least 48 near Chechnya About 100 militants attack border posts, ministry HQ YURI BAGROV ASSOCIATED PRESS CHERMEN, Russia - Thousands of troops poured into a southern Russian city today chasing suspected Chechen rebels who set fire to police and government buildings in neighbouring Ingushetia province. At least 48 people were killed in the bold overnight attacks. An official with the Interior Ministry for the province of Ingushetia said 18 policemen were among the 48 dead. However, the Interfax news agency later quoted President Vladimir Putin’s envoy to the region as saying 47 police had been killed,...

A Homicide Bomber in Iraq thought he could destroy a Bradley APC by running up to it and detonating. The results are obvious.

Did Saudi security forces collude with Al-Qaeda to kidnap and slaughter Paul Johnson? Unfortunately, the kingdom is freedom-impaired and so the truth may remain elusive-and therein lies the problem: Truth and transparency. As Saudi Arabia stares apathetically at its potential demise, it reaps the just deserts of its self-fractured foreign and domestic policies-policies predicated on secret backroom deals, support for terror in other world regions and cowardice before the long sword of Wahabism. The Saudi melting pot has become a cauldron of mixed messages, disingenuous pronouncements from smooth talking Ambassadors and a resultant haven for terror that grows worse by...

WAMPUM, Pa. (AP) - At a racetrack north of Pittsburgh, the air is thick with the smell of burning rubber and overheated brake pads. Cars hit speeds of 100 mph, then execute 180-degree, sliding turns. But the drivers squealing around the BeaveRun Motorsports Complex aren't risking lives in the name of speed - instead, they're speeding to save lives, teaching people leaving for Iraq the skills they may need while driving in a war zone. As government agencies and private security teams prepare people for deployment, business at racetracks offering instruction on driving through roadblocks, past roadside bombs and away...

SEOUL, June 22 (Reuters) - A member of parliament for South Korea's ruling party said acquaintances serving as religious coordinators in Iraq had seen a South Korean hostage alive and safe on Tuesday. "Those clerics, who also had helped release Japanese hostages earlier, told me in telephone talks this morning and an email this evening they saw Kim Sun-il this morning in Baghdad," Kim Seung-gon told Reuters. Kim is secretary general of the Asia Conference of Religion for Peace, a interdenominational religious organisation.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A mortar attack in Baghdad and two assaults on U.S. forces northeast of the capital killed one soldier and wounded nine others, the military said Tuesday, as militants showed no sign of letting up in attacks against Americans ahead of the June 30 transfer of sovereignty. On Tuesday, the U.S. Army scheduled the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing for Spc. Sabrina Harman in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal case, the U.S. command said. The session, known as an Article 32 hearing, will determine if the 26-year-old will face court martial. The session will be held...

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Suspected assassins killed a university lecturer and her husband in the latest attacks on prominent Iraqis in the northern city of Mosul, police said on Tuesday. Relatives said Layla Abdullah Saad, the dean of the college of law at Mosul University, had received threats but had refused to hire security guards to protect her house where she was shot and stabbed to death on her doorstep. Residents said the murders -- which followed the killing of a lecturer from the same university in January -- appeared to fit a pattern of attacks designed to intimidate voices...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans bombarded an English-language "Al Jazeera" Web site on Tuesday to urge Muslim militants not to behead a South Korean hostage, but the site did not belong to the Arabic television station of that name. Militants kidnapped 33-year-old Arabic graduate Kim Sun-il on June 17 and threatened on Monday to kill him within 24 hours. A mediator told Reuters in Baghdad the militants had agreed to give more time for talks on his fate. Al Jazeera broadcast a videotape of Kim pleading for his life. Its English-language Web site is www.english.aljazeera.net. But South Koreans headed to...