No Escape

Varied ^ | 10/03/04 | Varied

[JustPiper]

Welcome to NoE

An estimated 2,830 people died or are missing in the aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center. Ninety-eight percent of those victims were at work, and the youngest was only 2 ½ years old. One in six - 494 - are reportedly either foreigners or Americans with dual citizenship, hailing from more than 90 countries. In the attack on the Pentagon, 189 were killed, and in a field in Pennsylvania, another 45 died when their plane plummeted to earth due to the efforts of a small group of heroes who wanted to avert another crash into a building full of people.

They had No Escape!!!





Whether they were in New York, Virginia or Pennsylvania, the victims and heroes of September 11 represented the diversity that is America and the world. All will be missed. None will be forgotten.

They had No Escape!!!









They had No Escape!!!

We believe everyone of you are our Nation's watch committee. We have learned this after nearly a year at Threat Matrix :Uncovering the Truth Since November 3, 2003-Threads One thru Nineteen

To me there has never been a finer group of caring Patriot's on the web, from every walk of life and of our home- FreeRepublic.com who after so many years is finally seeing results for all the thousand's of Freeper's hard work! We are being listened to. We are being heard!

So, please help. Keep an eye out for any links of organizations that may be related to terrorists and post your findings here. We will be around for a long time and we want the terrorists and jihadists to know this:

Wherever YOU are hiding we will find you- YOU will have No Escape!

Whatever rock your hiding under, we will remove it and YOU will have No Escape!

Whatever cave you are dwelling in, we will find you and YOU will have No Escape!

And whatever hidey hole you crawl out of, YOU will have No Escape!



Remember this, we too have a "Network", our resolve is no less determined than your's, except we have more resources and hundreds of us are working very hard to stay one step ahead of YOU. Where we are not, our brave men and women of the military are. Where our military is not, our Law Enforcement agents will find you. The border agents are waiting for you when you attempt to slither across our border's. Our special ops are, oops your bad, waiting around that corner you peer from. Our federal agents are armed with much more sophisticated equipment than you can ever acquire. And remember when all else fails, look up, something will be waiting to befall you! We have a saying in our country too and it is: "God does not like Ugly! And no one has more evil and ugly in their soulless
beings than you.

You are hereby put on notice, no matter how many city blocks, desert sands we must dig through, we will find every last one of you and he who laughs last does laugh best. You are outnumbered and God is on our side! WE will show No Mercy!

September 11, 2001 Victims
American Liberty Partnership

How best to honor them?
How best to carry on?

What the three of us are doing is not unique. The inspiration has been Terrorist Hunter's, analyist's and experts before us. This blog will be unique in the sense, that the three of us will not rest and
this is our way to...

Never Forget!

I could not do this alone, I want to acknowledge I would be lost without my sisters MamaDearest and Oorang, for without their many hours of hard work NoE would not be possible. We will go far my friends! And DrymansWife who is completely irreplaceable in a very important research project and who with her and "Dryman" we would be much further back. Also the Dryman's have hosted almost every picture you see here.

Our blog will contain our findings (well, not all of them ~smile), there are 'sensitive' things we are working on that will only be revealed if we know we can and at times our summations/analysis.

[Oorang]

Another means of raising funds for terrorists?
http://www.cafepress.com/ei101/

[Oorang]

Jihadists Against "Persecution"
By Stephen Schwartz
Weekly Standard | January 25, 2005

Imam Hamza Yusuf, formerly Hanson, is a one-trick pony: He, like other radical Muslims in America, claims discrimination where none exists.

For those who have not closely followed the detailed history of Islamic extremism in America, Imam Hamza Yusuf is a San Francisco Bay Area "new Muslim" (Muslims eschew the term "convert") who spent a good deal of time, before September 11, 2001, preaching violent jihad against the West. His style is high-pitched, dramatic, and resembles that of a Southern Christian revivalist. In 1991, he delivered a classic oration titled "Jihad is the Only Way" to a local group of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an arm of the Jama'at-i-Islami movement in Pakistan, which in turn is an al Qaeda ally.

In the aftermath of September 11, Imam Hamza Yusuf rushed to redefine himself as a "moderate," and even as a Sufi, or spiritual Muslim. He also commenced a course of boasting about a meeting he had with President George W. Bush, as a member of an interfaith delegation, on September 20, 2001. There, his counsel to the chief executive consisted of suggesting sensitivity about using the phrase "Infinite Justice" to describe the U.S. military action against the Taliban in Afghanistan--his argument being that Muslims would be offended by it. Because of this meeting, Imam Hamza Yusuf now advertises himself as an "adviser to the president" and complains that other Muslims call him "Bush's pet."

On January 16, Imam Hamza Yusuf came forward to complain to media in his home region that he had been "harassed" by U.S. Customs officials on his way back from a conference (titled "Reviving the Islamic Spirit") in Toronto last month. He was stopped at the Toronto airport and held for three hours. Shortly after being detained, he refused to continue answering the officials' questions and began asserting various constitutional protections involving rights to attend spiritual conferences, free speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. (This was ironic considering that less than a decade ago he denounced "the false gods of this society whether we call them Jesus or democracy or the Bill of Rights.")

The Customs agents were unimpressed, but soon enough, he was allowed to continue on his way home.

"I think it's racism, and it's based on names," Hamza Yusuf said. "It's been three years now. They've had time to sort things out and they're not sorted out. Unfortunately I think they've lumped us all in together, and it's just guilt by association."

But what sort of company is Hamza Yusuf keeping? According to the "Reviving the Islamic Spirit" conference's website, his appearance came directly after a presentation by Imam Siraj Wahhaj, universally known in the American Muslim community as an extremist. Siraj Wahhaj was an unindicted co-conspirator named in 1995 in a plot to blow up New York City monuments.

Last September Hamza Yusuf addressed the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the main front organization in the United States for the Wahhabi Islamic sect. There he accused the Republican party of "basing an entire political platform, in the most powerful military nation on the earth . . . on the idea that Islamic fanatics are a threat to the security of this country," adding "this must be condemned." He ranted against "neoconservatives" who he claimed wanted to make the United States a Christian theocracy, complimented Patrick J. Buchanan, and rejected a definition of "moderate Islam" advanced by Islam expert Daniel Pipes. Pipes had constructed a series of questions for moderate Muslims. "I took that test and I failed," Hamza Yusuf said of Pipes's questions. "And I want to say to all of you, I hope you fail that test too." (There was no "test"; Pipes was simply proposing questions about pluralism.)

However uncomfortable it may be for him, Hamza Yusuf is forced to take the consequences for his past radicalism and his continuing extremist outbursts. How can this be considered "harassment"? According to the news reports on his latest experience of "discrimination," Kristi Clemens, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection assistant commissioner, put it simply, "We had ongoing, credible intelligence that conferences such as this one in Toronto had been used, are being used, and will be used by terrorists to transmit fraudulent documents, to fundraise, and also to mask the travel of terrorists. "Based on that information, we decided to have individuals verify they were who they said they were."

We all wish that, in Hamza Yusuf's words, the three years that have passed since September 11 had allowed U.S. authorities "to sort things out." But the war on terror is still ongoing. Radical Muslims in America continue to express extreme views, terrorists abroad continue killing Americans, and the U.S. government has a continuing responsibility to respond accordingly. At least the U.S. authorities have learned how to conduct security checks that require no more than a three-hour stopover while crossing our borders. For his part, Hamza Yusuf appears to have learned nothing.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16747

[JustPiper]

I have long respected Lou Dobbs and like Tancredo he is a hero in my book on the illegal and outsourcing issues, tonight I begin to post the companies that need to be contacted and tell them how we feel:

Exporting America: The list

-A-

Here is a list of companies we've confirmed are "Exporting America." These are U.S. companies either sending American jobs overseas, or choosing to employ cheap overseas labor, instead of American workers.

Source:Lou Dobbs/CNN

3Com
3M
A. Schulman, Inc.
Aalfs Manufacturing
Aavid Thermal Technologies
Abbott Laboratories
ABC-NACO
Accenture
Access Electronics
Accuride Corporation
Accuride International
Acme Packaging
Adaptec
ADC
Admanco
Adobe Air
Adobe Systems
Admanco
Advanced Energy Industries
Aei Acquisitions
Aetna
Affiliated Computer Services
AFS Technologies
A.G. Edwards
Agere Systems
Agilent Technologies
A.H. Schreiber Co.
AIG
Air Products & ChemicalsÊ
Alamo Rent A Car
Albany International Corp.
Albertson's
Alcoa
Alcoa Fujikura
Allen-Edmonds Shoe Corporation
Allen Systems Group
Allflex USA
Alliance Fiber Optic Products, Inc.
Alliance Semiconductor
Allstate
Alpha Thought Global
Altek
Altria Group
Amazon.com
Ames True Temper
AMD
Americ Disc
American Dawn
American Express
American Fashion
American Greetings
American Household
American Management Systems
American Standard
American Tool
American Uniform Company
Applied Micro Circuits Corp.
Amerigon Incorporated
AMETEK
AMI DODUCO
Amloid Corporation
Amphenol Corporation
Analog Devices
Anchor Glass Container
Anchor Hocking
ANDA Networks
Anderson Electrical Products
Andrew Corporation
Angelica Corporation
Anheuser-Busch
Ansell Health Care
Ansell Protective Products
Anvil Knitwear
AOL
A.O. Smith
Apex Systems
Apparel Ventures, Inc.
Apple
Applied Materials
Applied Micro Circuits Corp.
Arimon Technologies, Inc.
Arkansas General Industries
Ark-Les Corporation
Arlee Home Fashions
Artex International
Art Leather Manufacturing
ArvinMeritor
Asbury Carbons
Asco Power Technologies
Ashland
AstenJohnson
Asyst Technologies
AT&T
AT&T Wireless
Atchison Products, Inc.
A.T. Cross
A.T. Kearney
ATMI-Ecosys Corporation
Augusta Sportswear
Aurafin-OroAmerica
Authentic Fitness Corporation
Automatic Data Processing
Avanade
Avanex
Avaya
Avery Dennison
Axiohm Transaction Solutions
AXT, Inc.
Azima Healthcare Services

[JustPiper]

-B-

B.A.G. Corporation
Bakka
Ball Corporation
Bank of America
Bank of New York
Bank One
Bard Access Systems
Barnes Group
Barth & Dreyfuss of California
Bassett Furniture
Bassler Electric Company
Bausch & Lomb
BBi Enterprises L.P.
Beacon Blankets
BearingPoint
Bear Stearns
BEA Systems
Bechtel
Becton Dickinson
BellSouth
Bemis Manufacturing Co.
Bentley Systems
Berdon LLP
Berne Apparel
Bernhardt Furniture
Besler Electric Company
Best Buy
Bestt Liebco Corporation
Beverly Enterprises
Bijur Lubricating Corp.
Birdair, Inc.
BISSELL
Black & Decker
Black Diamond Equipment
Blauer Manufacturing
Blue Cast Denim
Blyth, Inc.
BMC Software
Bobs Candies
Boeing
Borden Chemical
Bose Corporation
Bourns
Bowater
Braden Manufacturing
Brady Corporation
Briggs Industries
Brinker International
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Bristol Tank & Welding Co.
Brocade
Brooks Automation
Brown Wooten Mills Inc.
Buck Forkardt, Inc.
Bumble Bee
Burle Industries
Burlington House Home Fashions
Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway

[JustPiper]

-C-

C&D Technologies
Cadence Design Systems
Cains Pickles
California Cedar Products Company
Camfil Farr
Candle Corporation
Capital Mercury Apparel
Capital One
Cardinal Brands
Cardinal Industries
Carrier
Carris Financial Corp.
Carter's
Caterpillar
C-COR.net
Cellpoint Systems
Cendant
Centis, Inc.
Centurion Wireless Technologies
Cerner Corporation
Charles Schwab
The Cherry Corporation
ChevronTexaco
CIBER
Ciena
Cigna
Circuit City
Cirrus Logic
Cisco Systems
Citigroup
Clear Pine Mouldings
Clorox
CNA
Coastcast Corp.
Coca-Cola
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Coherent, Inc.
Collins & Aikman
Collis, Inc.
Columbia House
Columbia Showcase & Cabinet Company
Columbus McKinnon
Comcast Holdings
Comdial Corporation
CompuServe
Computer Associates
Computer Horizons
Computer Sciences Corporation
Concise Fabricators
Conectl Corporation
Conseco
Consolidated Metro
Consolidated Ventura
Continental Airlines
Convergys
Cooper-Atkins Corporation
Cooper Crouse-Hinds
Cooper Industries
Cooper Power Systems
Cooper Tire & Rubber
Cooper Tools
Cooper Wiring Devices
Copperweld
Cordis Corporation
Corning
Corning Cable Systems
Corning Frequency Control
Countrywide Financial
COVAD Communications
Covansys
Cray, Inc.
Creo Americas
Crompton Corporation
Cross Creek Apparel
Crouzet Corporation
Crown Holdings
CSX
Cummins
Curtis Instruments
Cutler-Hammer
Cypress Semiconductor

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

Jimmy Carter linked to oil-for-food scam!
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | January 20, 2005 | WorldNetDaily.com


Posted on 01/20/2005 3:00:57 AM EST by Ramtek57


Former President Jimmy Carter has been linked with a key figure in the U.N.'s oil-for-food scandal by the group leading the nationwide effort to evict the United Nations from American soil and halt U.S. funding of the U.N.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42464

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42464

[JustPiper]

The nigerian scams have a new twist:

via email-

ACKNOWLEDGE MY MAIL ( Mutual Benefit )
MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Union Bank Of Nig. Plc
Union House Marina
Lagos State
Nigeria.
FROM THE DESK OF: DR IBRAHIM MARTINS
POSITION: SENIOR MANAGER, BILLS AND EXCHANGE
REPLY TO: (ibmartins@eramail.co.za)

I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust
to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent
business opportunity in my department. I work with the
Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior
manager of bills and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of my bank. I have an urgent and confidential business proposal for you.

On June 6, 1998, an Australian oil consultant/contractor with via National Petroleum cooperation (NNPC) Mr. Ali B. Ashraf made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for
twelve calenderer month valued at US$51,000,000.00(fifty _one Million US Dollars) in my branch. On maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarded address but got no reply after months we send a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employee (Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation) that MR. Ali B. Ashraf died from an automobile accident. On further investigation, it was clear that he died without making a WILL.

All attempts by the Australian to trace his next of kin were fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Ali B. Ashraf did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents including his deposit document in my bank. The total sum US$51,000,000.00 is still in my bank as dormant acct.

No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian banking law, after five years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government. If the account owner is certified death and nobody comes forward to claim it. This is the situation , and my proposal is that I am looking for aforeigner who will stand in as the beneficiary/next of kin. This is simple.

All you have to do is to immediately send me the details of a bank account anywhere in the world for me to arrange the proper money transfer document. The money will then be transferred into the account for us to share in the ratio of 50% for me 40% for you while the remaining 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred with here and there. There is no risk involved. I am using my position and connection in the bank here to do all the document work for the transaction. We shall employ the services of an
attorney to draft the will and obtain all necessary documents and letter of administration in your favor for the transfer. This transaction is risk free guaranteed. If you are interested, I will send to you the text of the application that you will send to the Union Bank authority for an approval tosubmit your claims.

Send your reply through mydirect and private email address
(m_ibmartins@yahoo.co.uk) indicate your direct Fax and telephone numbers for effective communication that this transaction needs.

Do not reply through the union bank email address because it belongs to the senior staffs for public use.

Please note that you are not to appear in person, as every thing regarding this project will be strictly on documentations and every banking documents needed for this transaction will be taken care of by my self. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours Faithfully
DR IBRAHIM MARTINS
__________________________________________________________

ACKNOWLEDGE MY MAIL ( Mutual Benefit )
THE DIRECTOR AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS UNIT,
BTCI BANK,LOME TOGO.
REPLY;stella4love@tsamail.co.za

DEAR FRIEND,

WITH DUE HONOUR AND RESPECT,I AM MRS STELLA GOWON SANUSI ,
THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTS
UNIT DEPT OF BTCI TOGO LOME-TOGO IN WEST AFRICA.

I GOT YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS FROM THE TOGOLAISE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SO,AFTER PRAYING,I DECIDED TO CONTACT YOU FOR BENEFICIAL AND A100% RISK FREE BUSINESS TRANSACTION. DURING OUR AUDITING AND INVESTIGATIONS IN THISBANK, MY EPARTMENT CAME ACROSS THE SUM OF FIFTY-ONE MILLIONFIVE HUNDRED UNITED STATES OLLARS(US$51,500,000)ONLY BELONGING TO AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSMAN WHO DIED ALONG WITH HIS FAMILY(NEXT OF KIN)IN THE 5TH NOVEMBER,1997AEROPLANE CRASH IN ABIDJAN. BEFORE OUR DISCOVERY OF THIS DEVELOPMENT,THERE WAS NO TRACE OF CLAIM FROM ANY PERSON AS THE FUND REMAINS DORMANT IN HIS ACCOUNT WITH THIS BANK. ALTHOU! GH,I KEEP THIS INFORMATION SECRET WITHIN MY JURISDICTION TO ENABLE US PUT CLAIMS AND TRANSFER THE SAID AMOUNT THROUGH A TRUSTWORTHY FRIEND OVERSEAS WHOM WE SHALL PRESENT TO THE BANK AS THE BONAFIDENEXT-OF-KIN TO THE DECEASED FOR A PROFITABLE AND SUCCESSFUL DEAL.

MEANWHILE,ALL THE ARRANGEMENTS TO PUT CLAIMS AS THE BONAFIDE NEXT-OF-KIN TO THE DECEASED,TO GET THE REQUIRED APPROVAL AND TRANSFER OF THIS MONEY TO A FOREIGN ACCOUNT HAS BEEN PUT IN PLACE. THE DIRECTIVES AND THE NEEDED INFORMATION WILL BE RELAYED TO YOU AS SOON AS YOU INDICATE YOUR INTEREST AND WILLINGNESS TO BENEFIT YOURSELF FROM THIS GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

INFACT,WE COULD HAVE DONE THIS DEAL ALONE BUT BECAUSE AS WE ARE CIVIL SERVANTS WE ARE NOT LEGALLY ALLOWED TO OPERATE FOREIGN ACCOUNT AND IT WOULD EVENTUALLY RAISE AN EYEBROWS ON OUR SIDE DURING THE TIME OF TRANSFER BECAUSE WE ARE STAFFS IN THE BANK.

THESE ARE THE ACTUAL REASONS WHY IT REQUIRES ! A SECOND-FELLOW WHO WILL FORWARD APPLICATION OF CLAIMS TO THE BANK AND ALSO PRESENT A FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNT WHERE THE MONEY ON HIS/HER REQUEST WILL BE RE-TRANSFERED INTO.

ON CONCLUSION OF THIS TRANSACTION.
YOU WILL BE ENTITLED TO 25% OF THE TOTAL SUM AS GRATIFICATION.5% OF THE TOTAL SUM WILL BE USED TO REINBURSE EXPENSES THAT MIGHT ARISE FROM TELEPHONE BILLS AND OTHER EXPENSES DURING THE TRANSACTION,WHILE 70% WILL BE FOR ME AND MY PARTNERS HERE.

PLEASE YOU HAVE BEEN ADVICED TO KEEP TOP SECRET AS WE ARE STILL IN SERVICE AND INTEND TO RETIRE FROM SERVICE AFTER WE CONCLUDE THIS DEAL WITH YOU. I WILL BE MONITORING THE WHOLE SITUATION HERE IN THIS BANK UNTIL YOU CONFIRM THE MONEY IN YOUR ACCOUNT.WE THEN COME DOWN TO YOUR COUNTRY FOR SUBSEQUENT SHARING OF THE FUND ACCORDING TO THE PERCENTAGES PREVIOUSLY INDICATED AND FOR INVESTMENT IN ANY COUNTRY YOU MAY ADVICE US TOO.

ALL OTHER NECESSARY INFORMATION WILL BE SENT TO YOU W! HEN I HEAR FROM YOU.

I SUGGEST YOU GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE,STATING YOUR WISH IN THIS DEAL.
REPLY ME ON THIS E.MAIL ADDRESS:gowonnstella@yahoo.co.uk

BEST REGARDS,
MRS STELLA GOWON SANUSI

[JustPiper]

Assets of Syrian terror suspect frozen
U.S. accuses man of bankrolling insurgents in Iraq
Tuesday, January 25, 2005 Posted: 5:43 PM EST (2243 GMT)

The Treasury Department contends a Syrian man gave support to terror networks run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration acted Tuesday to freeze the finances of a Syrian man accused of helping bankroll insurgents in Iraq by providing support to al Qaeda's top operative there.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01/25/terror.financing.ap/index.html

[JustPiper]

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER

Group presses Carter on oil-for-food scam
Wants ex-president linked to key figure to release list of financial contributors

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42553

[JustPiper]

Annan Questioned in Oil-For-Food Scandal

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OIL_FOR_FOOD_INVESTIGATION?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME

[JustPiper]

thank you backhoe, this began from an investigative project with MamaD and Oorang!

[JustPiper]

glad you found us Jocko!

[JustPiper]

Now this is the meat of NoE and the investigative prowess of MamaD and Oorang, they deserve their merit in the stars!

[JustPiper]

Thanks sweetie, there are certain things covered at NoE and your contributions mean alot!

[JockoManning]

Thanks.

[Oorang]

Terrorists Use Shadowy Networks to Move

By WILLIAM J. KOLE
Associated Press Writer
January 25, 2005, 3:13 PM EST

VIENNA, Austria -- Trafficking people for forced labor and sexual slavery has become the world's No. 2 most lucrative crime, and terrorists are using shadowy underground networks to move around, a senior U.S. counter-trafficking official warned Tuesday.

Human trafficking, particularly the smuggling and enslavement of young women for prostitution, is tied with weapons smuggling as the second-largest illegal moneymaking activity, said T. March Bell, the Justice Department's senior special counsel for trafficking issues and civil rights.

Only the narcotics trade reaps more profits for organized crime, but traffickers are earning billions of dollars exploiting tens of millions of victims each year, Bell said, calling it "the No. 1 human rights issue today."

The profits are huge, he told reporters, citing the example of a brothel owner in Southeast Asia who typically might pay $8,000 for a young woman. "We think that owner can make a $200,000 profit on that $8,000 investment," Bell said.

Terrorists also are taking advantage of sophisticated smuggling operations to obtain counterfeit passports and transit to Western countries to plot or carry out attacks, he said.

Although the traffickers are dealing mainly with young women peddled to brothels or men, women and children sold into virtual slavery on farms and in factories, "they're moving any kind of people for a price," Bell said. He declined to elaborate, citing classified intelligence.

Despite the massive scale of the crime, law enforcement agencies are having a difficult time bringing perpetrators to justice -- in part because of corruption within their own ranks.

In the former Yugoslavia, there have been numerous cases of corrupt police officers engaged directly in the sex trade or willing to alert a bordello operator to an impending police raid in exchange for a bribe.

Police officers in many poor, developing countries where trafficking is widespread tend to be poorly paid, making them particularly susceptible to bribes, Bell said. In Cambodia, the average officer earns just $35 a month, he said.

Law enforcement is trying to counter that by improving the training of police officers, ensuring they are paid professional salaries, and making anti-trafficking units the envy of police forces by equipping them with the latest technology and holding them to higher standards, Bell said.

While the most effective weapon against traffickers is "street-level law enforcement," police agencies increasingly are turning to undercover operations in an effort to infiltrate clandestine rings, often using officers who pose as brothel customers or as middlemen looking to hire cheap laborers, he said.

In the United States and many European countries, ex-victims are getting increased protections and refugee status in the hopes of persuading them to testify against their former captors, Bell said.

A key challenge is winning the trust of former victims who all too often are "frightened, scared, intimidated and coerced" by traffickers who confiscate their identity papers, skim their earnings and threaten them or their families with violence, he said.

"Unless a victim feels safe, they're not going to provide much information to prosecute the perpetrators," he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-terror-trafficking,0,7418774.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

[Oorang]

Terrorist-linked Islamic Charities Responsible for Funneling More than $1 Million in Aid to Central Iraq

Though great strides have been made in the war against terrorist financing in the past four years, loopholes continue to exist whereby alleged terror front organizations are able to funnel money and “humanitarian aid” to combat zones in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.

The new frontier in countering terrorist financing is in central Iraq, where insurgents are locked in deadly battle with U.S. and coalition military forces. In October 2004, the New York Times quoted senior government officials—with “access to detailed intelligence reports”—as confirming the significant role of “wealthy Saudi donors and Islamic charities” in providing material support “through Syria” to as many as 50 hardcore insurgent cells spread across the country.

Though the exact role of such Islamic charitable organizations in Iraq is still unclear, several groups confirmed to be past benefactors of terrorism are now present and hard at work in the Sunni Triangle of Iraq, including with the financial support of U.S.-based affiliates...

http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/01/terroristlinked.html

[JustPiper]

A Not-So-Magical Reality
Latin America and the US

A long, but very interesting read

[Oorang]

Just posting some research on Kamran Bokhari

Kamran Bokhari-linked to Al Muhajiroun and Al Qaeda to speak at SMSU terrorism forum with State Department Official David Ballard

http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/000113.html

The U.S. Institute of Peace Stumbles

Terrorist in SMSU schedule labeled a travesty

http://www.servetus.org/es/news-events/articulos/200308291.htm

The last couple of years Bokhari has been speaking and writing about bringing democracy to the Islamic world. Frequently joining him is Muqtedar Khan (more on M. Khan in another post). Bokhari seems to wear duplicitous hats, which causes me to wonder as to his motive for calling for democracy in the Islamic world. Is it because it makes for a PC sound bite? Does he believe that the Islamic street, under "free" elections, would vote in the radical/fundamentalist candidate? The Islamic street certainly did that in Iran about 25 years ago. No, I am not saying the take-over in Iran was democratic but the Islamic street was running wild with glee when it happened.

Scholars Call for Reinterpretation of Islamic Teachings

Pakistani Democracy: Between Rock and a Hard Place

And one for the whine file:

How Registration is Impacting Students

[JustPiper]

Mama just brought it to my attention on TM that Maytag is moving to Mexico and they are on the exporting list of Dobb's

-D-

Dana Corporation
Daniel Woodhead
Dan Post Boot Company
Dan River
Data-Ray Corporation
Datex-Ohmeda
Davis Wire Corp.
Daws Manufacturing
Dayton Superior
Dearborn Brass
DeCrane Aircraft
Delco Remy
Dell Computer
Del Monte Foods
DeLong Sportswear
Delphi
Delta Air Lines
Delta Apparel
Direct TV
Discover
DJ Orthopedics
Document Sciences Corporation
Dometic Corp.
Donaldson Company
Dorr-Oliver Eimco USA, Inc.
Douglas Furniture of California
Dow Chemical
Dresser
Dun & Bradstreet
DuPont
DuPont Beaumont Works