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World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #6 Disinformation, Inc.
Global Politician/Ocnus.Net ^ | Dec 17, 2006 | Professor Daniel M. Zucker

Posted on 12/17/2006 4:03:30 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT

VEVAK learned its methodology from the Soviet KGB and many of the Islamist revolutionaries who supported Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini actually studied at Moscow's Patrice Lumumba Friendship University, the Oxford of terrorism. Documented Iranian alumni include the current Supreme Leader (the faqih) Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, under whose Velayat-e Faqih (Rule of the Islamic Jurisprudent) apparatus it has traditionally operated. Its current head is Cabinet Minister Hojatoleslam Gholam-Hussein Mohseni-Ezhei, a graduate of Qom's Haqqani School, noted for its extremist position advocating violence against enemies and strict clerical control of society and government. The Ministry is very well funded and its charge, like that of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (the Pasdaran) is to guard the revolutionary Islamic Iranian regime at all costs and under all contingencies.

From the KGB playbook, VEVAK learned the art of disinformation. It's not so difficult to learn: tell the truth 80% of the time and lie 20%. Depending on how well a VEVAK agent wants to cover his/her tracks, the ratio may go up to 90/10, but it never drops below the 80/20 mark as such would risk suspicion and possible detection. The regime in Teheran has gone to great lengths to place its agents in locations around the world. Many of these operatives have been educated in the West, including the U.K. and the United States. Iranian government agencies such as embassies, consulates, Islamic cultural centers, and airline offices regularly provide cover for the work of VEVAK agents who dress well and are clean shaven, and move comfortably within our society. In this country, because of the severance of diplomatic relations, the principal site of VEVAK activities begins at the offices of Iran's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.

Teheran has worked diligently to place its operatives in important think tanks and government agencies in the West. Some of its personnel have been recruited while in prison through torture or more often through bribery, or a combination of both. Others are Islamist revolutionaries that have been set up to look like dissidents - often having been arrested and imprisoned, but released for “medical reasons”. The clue to detecting the fake “dissident” is to read carefully what he/she writes, and to ask why this vocal “dissident” was released from prison when other real dissidents have not been released, indeed have been grievously tortured and executed. Other agents have been placed in this country for over twenty-five years to slowly go through the system and rise to positions of academic prominence due to their knowledge of Farsi and Shia Islam or Islamist fundamentalism.

One of the usual tactics of VEVAK is to co-opt academia to its purposes. Using various forms of bribery, academics are bought to defend the Islamic Republic or slander its enemies. Another method is to assign bright students to train for academic posts as specialists in Iranian or Middle East affairs. Once established, such individuals are often consulted by our government as it tries to get a better idea of how it should deal with Iran. These academics then are in a position to skew the information, suggesting the utility of extended dialogue and negotiation, or the danger and futility of confronting a strong Iran or its proxies such as Hizballah (Hezbollah). These academics serve to shield the regime from an aggressive American or Western policy, and thereby buy more time for the regime to attain its goals, especially in regards to its nuclear weaponry and missile programs.

MOIS likes to use the media, especially electronic media, to its advantage. One of VEVAK's favorite tricks is setting up web sites that look like they are opposition sites but which are actually controlled by the regime. These sites often will be multilingual, including Farsi, German, Arabic French, and English. Some are crafted carefully and are very subtle in how they skew their information (e.g., Iran-Interlink, set up and run by Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife Ann Singleton from Leeds, England); others are less subtle, simply providing the regime's point of view on facts and events in the news (e.g., www.mujahedeen.com or www.mojahedin.ws). This latter group is aimed at the more gullible in our open society and unfortunately such a market exists. However, if one begins to do one's homework, asking careful questions, the material on these fake sites generally does not add up.

Let's examine a few examples of VEVAK's work in the United States. In late October, 2005, VEVAK sent three of its agents to Washington to stage a press event in which the principal Iranian resistance movement, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK), was to be slandered. Veteran VEVAK agent Karim Haqi flew from Amsterdam to Canada where he was joined by VEVAK's Ottawa agents Amir-Hossein Kord Rostami and Mahin (Parvin-Mahrokh) Haji, and the three flew from Toronto to Washington. Fortunately the resistance had been tracking these three, informed the FBI of their presence in Washington, and when the three tried to hold a press conference, the resistance had people assigned to ask pointed questions of them so that they ended the interview prematurely and fled back to Canada.

Abolghasem Bayyenet is a member of the Iranian government. He serves as a trade expert for the Ministry of Commerce. But his background of study and service in the Foreign Ministry indicates that Bayyenet is more than just an economist or a suave and savvy businessman. In an article published in Global Politician on April 23, 2006, entitled “Is Regime Change Possible in Iran?”, Bayyenet leads his audience to think that he is a neutral observer, concerned lest the United States make an error in its assessment of Iran similar to the errors of intelligence and judgment that led to our 2003 invasion of Iraq, with its less than successful outcome. However, his carefully crafted bottom line is that the people of Iran are not going to support regime change and that hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually has achieved greater popularity than his predecessors because of his concern for the problems of the poor and his fight for economic and social justice. To the naive, Bayyenet makes Ahmadinejad sound positively saintly. Conveniently overlooked is the occurrence of over four thousand acts of protest, strikes, anti-regime rallies, riots, and even political assassinations by the people of Iran against the government in the year since Ahmadinejad assumed office. So too, the following facts are ignored: the sizeable flight of capital, the increase in unemployment, and the rising two-figure rate of inflation, all within this last year. Bayyenet is a regime apologist, and when one is familiar with the facts, his arguments ring very hollow. However, his English skills are excellent, and so the naОve might be beguiled by his commentary.

Mohsen Sazegara is VEVAK's “reformed revolutionary”. A student supporter of Khomeini before the 1979 revolution, Sazegara joined the “imam” on his return from exile and served in the government for a decade before supposedly growing disillusioned.

He formed several reformist newspapers but ran afoul of the hardliners in 2003 and was arrested and imprisoned by VEVAK. Following “hunger strikes”, Sazegara was released for health reasons and permitted to seek treatment abroad. Although critical of the government and particularly of Ahmadinejad and KhameneМ, Sazegara is yet more critical of opposition groups, leaving the impression that he favors internal regime change but sees no one to lead such a movement for the foreseeable future. His bottom line: no one is capable of doing what needs to be done, so we must bide our time. Very slick, but his shadow shows his likely remaining ties to the MOIS.

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This page has the links to the articles below:

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"Voice of Beslan": General Prosecutor's Office should take notice of Saveliev's report (19/1/2007)
The victims of the Beslan terror act who have addressed the parliament of North Ossetia with a request to hear at its sitting in the presence of the victims the alternative report of State Duma deputy Yuri Saveliev, hope that the conclusions of the report will be recognized by the investigation.
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Terror
Hostage-taking in Beslan, North Osetia
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Russian Federation, Chechnya, South Federal District / International relations, Human rights, Crime
European Court has accounted Russian authorities guilty of torturing Chechnya residents (18/1/2007)
The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.
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Actions of power authorities
Caucasian Knot information
Human rights in the Caucasus
Terror
Materials of our own correspondents

Court rejects the first of 42 suits of Chechnya residents to RF Defence Ministry (26/1/2007)
Today, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow has defeated the first one out of the 42 claims of the residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya lodged against the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).
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War in Chechnya
Actions of power authorities
Caucasian Knot information
Human rights in the Caucasus
Materials of our own correspondents

Ingushetia, Chechnya / Power organs, Human rights
Ingushetian court defeats a claim to the authorities who dispersed the picket in memory of Politkovskaya (25/1/2007)
The Nazran District Court of Ingushetia has rejected the claim of the "Mashr" Association of Relatives of Missing People demanding to qualify as illegal the actions of the Mayor's Office of the city of Nazran who prohibited to hold a picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya.
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Freedom of speech in the Caucasus
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Russian Federation, Chechnya / Conflicts and military actions, Power organs, Media
Criminal case opened against analyst of separatists' "Chechenpress" agency (25/1/2007)
A criminal case has been initiated in relation to Andrei Novikov, independent journalists from the city of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, and permanent author of materials in the web site "Chechenpress" of non-recognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, under point 1, Article 280 of RF Criminal Code, for "sending two electronic letters with "extremist," in the opinion of prosecution, materials to local newspapers."
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Caucasian Knot information
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Materials of our own correspondents

Russian Federation, Chechnya / Conflicts and military actions, Media
Pavel Lyuzakov, author of "Kavkaz-Center," released (24/1/2007)
On January 19, having served his complete sentence of two years at a general security corrective colony of the Nyrob settlement in the Perm Territory, Pavel Lyuzakov, permanent author of the "Kavkaz-Center" web-site of Chechen separatists and the editor of the "Svobodnoe Slovo" (Free Word) newspaper of the Democratic Union, got liberty.
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Caucasian Knot information
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Dagestan, Chechnya, South Federal District / Power organs, Human rights, Crime
Advocate of Borozdinovskaya residents: judge refuses to request crime proofs (24/1/2007)
On January 25, the Presnenskiy Court of Moscow will continue the process on the suit of 42 inhabitants of the village of Borozdinovskaya of the Shelkovskoj District of Chechnya towards the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (RF).
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Russian Federation, Chechnya / Civil society, Society, Power organs
Picket held in Moscow against the ban of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (24/1/2007)
In the evening of January 23, at Solovetskiy Boulder in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow, a picket was held in defence of the "Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship" (SRChF), after the court ruling to liquidation it was confirmed yesterday by the Supreme Court of Russia.
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Rostov region, Chechnya, South Federal District / Power organs, Human rights, Crime
Court chair challenge rejected at the trial of Khudyakov and Arakcheev (23/1/2007)
Today, at the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don), at the trial on the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, who are charged of murdering peaceful Chechens, Sergey Arakcheev has declared a challenge to the court.
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There are several more that appear worth checking on the page.............

3,121 posted on 01/29/2007 1:26:50 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT; Founding Father; FARS; milford421

[I had no idea of who she was, now, very interesting]

Tzipi Livni, Mossad
The spy who came in from the cold:
To put the heat on Iran

By Gordon Thomas

Friday, January 26, 2007

Naturally blonde with eyes as blue as the Mediterranean over which her bedroom looks, Tzipi Livni still knows how to cut a concealed opening in her skirt or dress to reach for the Beretta handgun she once carried inside her pants.

Her high IQ -- she consistently registered 140 in tests -- and her natural skill with a gun -- learned when she grew up on her Polish father's farm in Israel - together with her general knowledge and social skills, made her an ideal recruit for Mossad.

At its training school Tzipi mastered the art of sitting on a chair in a darkened room and firing off a clip of bullets at a target flashing across a screen. Or breaking into an office to steal secrets.

Meir Amit, a former director-general of Mossad, has explained to me what Tzipi's training would have included.

"She would have been asked questions about her attitude to using her sex. Would she sleep with a stranger if her mission demanded it? She would have learned how to use sex to coerce, seduce and dominate. She would be told that using her sex for the good of Israel is permissible. But all Mossad women agents are high-minded women who know the risks involved. That takes a special kind of courage. It is not so much a question of sleeping with someone. It is to lead a man to believe she will do so in return for what he has to tell her. That does not begin to describe the great skills which are called upon to achieve this".

Today Tzipi Livni will not discuss any of the skills she used as a Mossad spy. But Cheryl Ben-Tov, the Mossad agent who played a role in kidnapping Mordechai Vanunu in London, has said that Tzipi was "like all of us, good at her job".

To do so required steel nerves, which made her a top Mossad agent. Now that steel could be called upon again if she replaces embattled Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert as the country's leader.

Olmert, 61, is facing not only severe criticism for the way he mishandled last year's war in Lebanon, but a separate corruption scandal. Already his chief of the Israeli Defence Forces, Lt-Gen Dan Halutz, has resigned. And politicians on the Left and Right of the Israeli spectrum are demanding that Olmert should make way for Tzipi Livni.

Then it will be Tzipi's finger on a trigger far more lethal than the handgun she can still handle. It will be her ultimate decision, when all political efforts have failed, to launch the air power of Israel in an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

That possibility draws ever closer with the growing evidence of North Korea's help to Iran on nuclear weapons development.

As physically fit and alert as those days when she was sent on dangerous missions around the world by Mossad, Tzipi has today -- at 48 and the mother of two -- become an icon for all middle-aged women who want to look stylish without power dressing.

A protege of Ariel Sharon, she became a founder member of his Kadima party. Her lawyer's skills were invaluable in helping Kadima come to power. She also played a key part in Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.

When Ehud Olmert replaced Sharon as prime minister, he appointed Tzipi as Foreign Minister. It gave her a crucial place on the world stage. Condoleeza Rice constantly sought her advice on the Middle East. Other foreign ministers queued for appointments -- including Tony Blair. George Bush gave her open-door access for her regular visits to Washington.

But she never forgot the importance of maintaining contacts with the secret intelligence world that has so shaped her life.

In her new role as deputy prime minister of Israel, she has made it a priority to meet the spy chiefs, Sir John Scarlett of MI6, General Michael Hayden of the CIA and the heads of Europe's secret services.

Between them they continue to brief her on the threat that Iran poses. But the fine detail has come from the intelligence chief Tzipi admires most -- Meir Dagan, Mossad's director-general.

Like her he is tough and non-composing -- and ready to go to war with Iran should all else fail.

But it was also he who encouraged Tzipi to hold secret talks with Syria to try and bring peace to Lebanon and present a united front against Hezbollah. Those discussions continue.

Meantime she is also busy -- often working late in her bedroom with its view of the Mediterranean -- to create a new plan to bring peace with the Palestinians.

If that fails then she is ready to, as one friend said, "crack the whip".

She has already criticised what she calls the "boys club atmosphere at the top level of Israeli decision making. Sometimes there are too many 'guy issues' in all kinds of discussions. I hear arguments between generals and admirals and I say 'guys, stop it'".

But increasingly it looks as if no one can stop Tzipi Livni becoming Israel's first female leader since Golda Meir.

Gordon Thomas is the author of Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, the new edition of which will be published in January 2007. He specialises in international intelligence matters.

© Gordon Thomas 2007

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3,122 posted on 01/29/2007 1:56:08 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: All; DAVEY CROCKETT

3,123 posted on 01/29/2007 2:52:10 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: nw_arizona_granny

Sveta also thinks that many terrorist attacks have been covered up. According to my search of the news, there were no terrorist attacks in Russia/Chechnya during all of 2006 and 2007 to date.

Weird... Putin declares victory, and terrorism stops. He's a miracle worker.

3,124 posted on 01/29/2007 3:01:43 PM PST by struwwelpeter

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3,125 posted on 01/29/2007 3:41:35 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: struwwelpeter

Perfect photo, captures, what some think of him and what he thinks of himself.

Some of the googles, look interesting, that I just posted.

I have been posting terror attacks in Russia over the last year, the news said at the time they were.

Many of them are either laid to the Chechen or 'youths', in the first couple news articles.

But I shouldn't cap on Putin for covering them up, as President Bush does the same.

I have been chasing the stories long enough, that when I hear them say it is not terror, I know that in 2 or 3 years, I will read a report on the trial for the terrorists.

I honestly do not know if I would tell all or not, I think that if they tell us it was terror, it will make it easier to recruit more terrorists..........

Say hello to Sveta for me.

3,126 posted on 01/29/2007 3:48:59 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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January 29, 2007 PM Anti-Terrorism News

(Virginia) Man once acquitted of aiding the Taliban on trial - Sabri
Benkahla accused of lying to a US grand jury about his training as a
jihadist
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467842625&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Bush warns Iran against action in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iran;_ylt=Ai7blB657UV876qT9ehrVURSw60A;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

(Iraq) Executions on Tape: Iraqi vs. Iraqi - Sunni terrorists post
videos of execution of more than a dozen captured fighters who were
supposedly working with Iranian agents in Iraq
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/executions_on_t.html

(Iraq/Dutch) Terror suspect pleads not guilty
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/terror_suspect_3;_ylt=Akmq688V6xoj.HIcXz4WTrcTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

US 'No strategic interest' in united Iraq: former US ambassador to the
UN John Bolton
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21140789-1702,00.html

(UK) Two charged in Britain with terrorism offenses after raids - CD
clip entitled "al-Qaida,"computer files entitled "Attack Against American
Troops," "Hamas Bomb," and "Instructions"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/29/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Terror-Charges.php

Pakistan Taliban vow more violence -- "Allah on 480 occasions in the
Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God's orders"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6292061.stm

(Pakistan) 11 hurt as rockets hit Pakistan Shiite mosque
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_mosque_bombing_1;_ylt=AuhW8QsX56akjWfZDWuPOqjzPukA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Pakistan: Controversial Clerics Receive "Death Threats" From
Authorities
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.381167776&par=0

(India) Austere version of Islam finding a home in India
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kerala28jan28,0,7938240.story?coll=la-home-world

(Israel) Reservist gave bomber ride, suspected terror plot
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467840695&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Israel) Dichter: Suicide bomber infiltrated from Egypt
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467839359&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Israel - Eilat Attack) Suicide bomber's family: "We're very proud of
him." -- Dozens of Palestinians, chanting slogans against Israel and the
US, converged on the family's home to "congratulate" them on the
success of the attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467841193&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Suicide bombing attempt to provoke Israeli retaliation?
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53991

Suicide-bombing planners loyal to Abbas - Today's attack 'reflects
position of Fatah the occupation must be fought'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53987

Explosion rocks Gaza near PM Haniyeh's house
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467841712&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Yemen) Islamists threaten Yemeni Jews for selling wine
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29143722.htm

Egypt releases 16 Muslim Brotherhood members
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467840823&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Egypt puts financial squeeze on opposition Islamists
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070129/wl_mideast_afp/egyptpoliticsislamists_070129174902;_ylt=AhppLIu4TjPvVncQ_VvfDaDFCBEB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

(Philippines) Bin Laden relative denies militant link - Jamal Khalifa
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/29/khalifa.abusayyaf/index.html

(US NRC) Nuclear plants get new action plan against airborne terrorist
attack
http://www.washtimes.com/business/20070129-011156-3207r.htm

"Hot" patients setting off dirty-bomb alarms - side effect of
radioactive medical therapies
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16869630/

(US) House Democrat vows scrutiny on homeland security
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/pl_nm/security_congress_dc_1;_ylt=AtTILsgdHzEUhoSVVtznpnMTv5UB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

(UK) Cartoon protester was 'cheerleader' - Abdul Saleem chanted "7/7 on
its way" and "Europe you will pay with your blood" at demonstration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6378636,00.html

UK Report: "Living Apart Together: British Muslims and the paradox of
multiculturalism"
http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/
http://www.policyexchange.org.uk/images/libimages/246.pdf

Rare defeat for U.S. in S. African "al Qaeda" case
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/pl_nm/safrica_qaeda_sanctions_dc_1;_ylt=AmuHulV1m0_uwFfVJ6Q8OAAwuecA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Guantanamo Muslim adviser treads lightly
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/guantanamo_adviser;_ylt=AoQprqneaYC0caQDpRS.AiZvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

(UPDATE) Turkish police conduct synchronized anti Al Qaeda operations
in five provinces
http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/398469.asp

Commentary: Muslims 'about to take over Europe'
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467834546&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

(Iran) Editor of Iranian Kayhan Daily Reacts to U.N. Resolution Against
Holocaust Denial:'The Resolution Prepares the U.N.'s Corpse for Burial
in the Graveyard of History'
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD144307

Other News:

(UK) Bolton Council Scrapped Holocaust Memorial Day Event
http://www.jewishtelegraph.co.uk/man_1.html

3,127 posted on 01/29/2007 5:34:14 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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Iran Condemns Bush's Order as Terrorist Act (back)

January 28, 2007

Iran has condemned the order by US President George W Bush allowing US military to capture or kill Iranian agents operating inside neighbouring Iraq, terming it a 'terrorist act'.

'I really hope that this report is wrong as such an order is a clear terrorist act and against all internationally acknowledged norms,' the head of the parliament's foreign policy and security commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi told Fars news agency Saturday.

According to the report, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a press conference blamed Bush for the order. 'As far as Iraq is concerned, Iran is not a problem but part of solving it,' Mottaki said.

'The US should not blame others for the failure of its policies and always look for scapegoats,' the Minister said.

Source: http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp? NewsCode=49279&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

3,128 posted on 01/29/2007 7:10:01 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: All; milford421; Founding Father; FARS; Calpernia

American Children - Next Terrorist Target? (back)

January 29, 2007

This is WHY we are fighting them there, so we don't here. This is CHILLING!!!

Consider these points:

According to two trainers at an anti-terrorism conference on the East Coast, preparations for attacks on American schools that will bring rivers of blood and staggering body counts are well underway in Islamic terrorist camps.

The intended attackers have bluntly warned us they're going to do it.

They're already begun testing school-related targets here.

They've given us a catastrophic model to train against, which we've largely ignored and they've learned more deadly tactics from.

According to an article from PoliceOne.com, 'We don't know for sure what they will do. But by definition, a successful attack is one we are not ready for,' declared one of the instructors, Lt.Col. Dave Grossman. Our schools fit that description to a 'T' -as in Terrorism and Threat.'

How do we know that the terrorist are targeting our schools? Todd Rassa, a trainer with the SigArms Academy and an advisory board member for The Police Marksman magazine, shared a full day's agenda on the danger to U.S. schools at a recent three-day conference on terrorist issues, sponsored by the International Assn. of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors (IALEFI) in Atlantic City.

Al-Qaeda has publicly asserted the 'right' to kill 2,000,000 American children, Rassa explained, and has warned that 'operations are in stages of preparation' now. He played vivid videotapes confiscated in Afghanistan, showing al-Qaeda terrorists practicing the takeover of a school. The trainees issue commands in English, rehearse separating youngsters into manageable groups and meeting any resistance with violence. Some 'hostages' are taken to the rooftop, dangled over the edge, then 'shot.'

In this country this year ['06], Rassa said, there have been several school bus-related incidents involving Middle Eastern males that raise suspicion of terrorist activity. These include the surprise boarding of a school bus in Florida by two men in trench coats, who may have been on a canvassing mission, and the attempt in New York State by an Arab male to obtain a job as a school bus driver using fraudulent Social Security documents. The latter gave an address in Detroit, home to a large colony of fundamentalist Muslims. Rassa claimed that floor plans for half a dozen schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey have been recovered from terrorist hands in Ir aq.

A 'dress rehearsal for what terrorists plan to do to us' has already taken place, Rassa and Grossman agreed. That was the brutal takedown in 2004 of a school that served children from 6 to 17 years old in Beslan, Russia. Some 100 terrorists were involved, nearly half of whom were discreetly embedded in the large crowd of parents, staff and kids who showed up for the first day of school; the rest arrived for the surprise attack in SUVs, troop carriers and big sedans. Across a three-day siege, 700 people were wounded and 338 killed, including 172 youngsters.

What is the likely means of attack upon a school in the United States?

Probably not so many terrorists involved at a single location. Moving that big a contingent into place would likely attract too much attention and thwart the attack. Grossman describes a more likely possibility, in his opinion: Terrorist cells of four operatives each will strike simultaneously at four different schools. They'll probably pick middle schools with no police officers on site, where the girls are 'old enough to rape' but students are not big enough to fight back effectively.

The targets will probably be in states 'with no concealed-carry laws and no hunting culture' and in communities where 'police do not have rifles.' Rural areas may be favored, where 30 minutes or more could be required for responders to arrive in force.

The attackers will 'mow down every kid and teacher they see' as they move in to seize the school. They'll plant bombs throughout the buildings, and ' rape, murder and throw out bodies like they did in Russia.' Emergency vehicles responding and children fleeing will be blown up by car bombs in the parking lot.

In all, 100 to 300 children could be slaughtered in a first strike. Terrorists capable of this are already embedded in communities 'all over America,' Grossman and Rassa agreed. More will probably gain entry surreptitiously from Mexico, making southern California potentially a prime target.

Does Hezbollah ring a bell?

Source: http://the-gathering-storm.blogspot.com/#links

3,129 posted on 01/29/2007 7:13:01 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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Terror Cells In Charlotte, North Carolina (back)

January 29, 2007

Thirty-five years ago Charlotte, North Carolina was a relatively small southern city, located on the I-85 corridor near the North Carolina-South Carolina border. Today the city is a thriving, growing metropolis, one of the fastest growing in America and consistently rated as one of the most desirable places to live.

Churches can be found practically on every street corner both in town and in its sprawling suburbs. Charlotte has been a steady hub of southern Protestantism for the entirety of its history. That distinction continues today.

This city, therefore, is an unlikely place to find a terrorist cell that is part of a broad network of similar cells that are connected to Hizbollah, the dangerous Palestinian terrorist group associated with murderous attacks on Israel and its allies. Yet right here, in the buckle of the Bible belt, can be found one of the most dangerous and subversive Islamic extremist groups in the world.

In fact, the FBI reports that the entire state of North Carolina has become a common place of refuge for extremist Muslims, perhaps precisely due to the fact that this is a most unlikely place in which to find them. Their work can therefore be undertaken beneath the radar screen.

The FBI is investigating a terrorist network with connections in Raleigh, NC, Charlotte, NC, Greensboro, NC, Dearborn, MI, New York City, and a handful of other cities in America that serve as havens for Hizbollah. According to sources within the nation's counterterrorism apparatus, these terrorist cells did not come to North Carolina after 9/11 or after the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1992. One must go all the way back to the 1980s when a tight-knit group of Islamic extremists attended the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro. There the foundation was laid for what would become a covert haven of Muslim extremists with definite connections to worldwide terror.

This subversive network was built by Sami al-Arian, a professor in computer engineering; his brother-in-law, Mazen al-Najjar; and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Mohammed used the knowledge he gained in engineering at North Carolina A&T allegedly to mastermind the Sept. 11 attacks. He also is suspected of plotting other atrocities, such as the bombing of the USS Cole, the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, and the 1993 World Trade Center attack with his nephew, Ramzi Yousef.

Further investigations have uncovered more criminal activity by the Charlotte cell, including sending money and other aid to Hizbollah, racketeering, and money laundering.

The Counterterrorism Network reports the following:

* U.S.A. v. Mohamad Youssef Hammoud et al., Charlotte, North Carolina: 25 individuals charged in connection with cigarette smuggling, money laundering, credit card fraud, marriage fraud and immigration violations. Four individuals were charged with providing material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization, Hizballah, specifically providing currency, financial services, training, false documentation and identification, communications equipment, explosives, and other physical assets to Hizballah, in order to facilitate its violent attacks. In 2003, Mohamad Hammoud was sentenced to 155 years in prison, while his brother, Chawki, was sentenced to 51 months.

* U.S.A. v. Elias Mohamad Akhdar et al. (pdf), Dearborn, Michigan: 11 co-defendants charged with racketeering related to the Charlotte, North Carolina scheme. In January, 2004, Akhdar was sentenced to 70 months in prison and was fined over $2,000,000 after having pled guilty in July, 2003.

* U.S.A. v. Imam Mohamad-Musbah Hammoud, et al., Michigan, Canada (Ontario, Quebec), Lebanon: In March, 2006, 19 co-defendants charged with a racketeering scheme involving contraband cigarettes, counterfeit Zig Zag rolling papers and counterfeit Viagra, counterfeit cigarette tax stamps, transporting stolen property, and money laundering. A percentage of the profits derived from the illegal enterprise were given to Hizballah. On July 7, two of the defendants, Imad Majed Hamadeh and Theodore Schenk, 73 pled guilty (pdf). Hamadeh and Schenk face a maximum possible penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine.

This activity, however, is not confined to aiding and abetting terrorism overseas. The threat to the local area from these terrorist cells that seek safe haven here is very real. The Center for Immigration Studies reports, for example, that 'Kamran Sheikh Akhtar was detained in Charlotte, North Carolina while videotaping buildings there in July 2004. He entered the United States illegally through Mexico in December 1991 and claimed political asylum in 1992. Five years later, in 1997, the asylum request was denied. A month later, he sought to resist removal by filing for residency based on marriage to an American. In March 1998, he is found by an immigration judge to be removable and is given voluntary departure, but a month later the marriage petition secures a permanent residency.'

While using American law to further their subversive agenda, these killers gain asylum throughout the U.S. through the marriage exception, i.e., being married to an American prevents their deportation. Sheikh Akhtar benefitted from such an arrangement and was subsequently caught videotaping buildings in Charlotte.

According to the FBI, Charlotte is a potentially attractive notch in the belt of terrorists. The city's large banking district is considered to be one of the top financial hubs in the nation today.

Not surprisingly, there is a definite Iranian connection to the Hizbollah terrorist activity in Charlotte. According to the Washington Center for Near East Policy, 'Hezbollah operatives in Charlotte, North Carolina, responded directly to Sheikh Abbas Haraki, a senior Hezbollah military commander in South Beirut. At the same time, Hezbolllah procurement agents in Canada who coordinated with the Charlotte cell worked directly with Haj Hasan Hilu Laqis, Hezbollah's chief procurement officer who operates closely with Iranian intelligence.'

Connect the dots. Iran, which is building nuclear weapons to use against Israel, Britain, and the United States, is directly involved with the activity of Hizbollah in Lebannon, with cells operating right here in Charlotte and in other parts of the U.S.

The long and significant history of radical Islam's movements in North Carolina is reason for alarm. For twenty years the area has been the subject of intense scrutiny by Jihadist operatives who have made inroads into the region. That fact that this subversive activity is occurring not only in Charlotte, but in Raleigh, Greensboro, Ashville, Winston-Salem, and other areas of North Carolina should be a sobering wake-up call to citizens who have been lulled to sleep by the six years of calm since the 9/11 attack.

The question is, is this simply the calm before the storm?

Source: http://thelibertysphere.blogspot.com/2007/01/terror-cells-in- charlotte-north.html

3,130 posted on 01/29/2007 7:30:27 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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Fight for Islamic State (back)

January 29, 2007

by D.D. McNicoll

A radical Islamic group yesterday called on all Muslims in Australia to work towards forming a pan-global Islamic state, while NSW and federal politicians traded blows on whether the group should be banned under the anti-terror laws.

More than 450 men and women packed into a reception hall at Lakemba in Sydney's southwest to hear speakers from Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) outline their hopes for a single Islamic state that would overthrow all dictators, invaders and governments in every Muslim country across the globe.

The Khilafah conference was told that 'humankind' could only escape destruction under 'the divine order of Islam'.

A conference declaration issued at the day's end called on all Muslims in Australia to 'assume their responsibility for effecting political change in the Muslim world and to manifest universal brotherhood'.

The radical agenda of Hizb ut-Tahrir was enough evidence to convince NSW Premier Morris Iemma that the group should be proscribed.

'This is an organisation that is basically saying it wants to declare war on Australia, our values and our people,' he said. 'And that's why I believe they are just beyond the pale.

'Enough is enough, and it's time for the commonwealth to review this organisation's status and take the lead from other countries and ban them.'

But while federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock confirmed federal police were monitoring the group, he said it could not be banned without solid evidence that it was urging violence - and he challenged the NSW Government to come up with such evidence.

The conference called yesterday for the political destiny of the Muslim world to be in the hands of Muslims only, and for all external interference with their affairs to be rejected.

Addressing the conference, controversial Indonesian cleric and one of the Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders in that country, Ismail Yusanto, said Muslims were now facing a new dawn after a 'long dark night'.

Dr Yusanto called on 'all the sons and daughters of Islam, both domestically and externally' to support the establishment of a Muslim state under the direction of a single religious leader.

'Sacrifice must be encouraged,' he said, warning that Western capitalist countries would be sure to attack any emerging Islamic state.

'If the capital of the state falls, then the rest of the nation must be involved in an all-out war against the invader,' he said.

'We will call on all of Islam to be ready for a jihad.

'There is no victory and glory without sacrifice and hard work. No pain, no gain. But Islam will be victorious.'

NSW Police Minister John Watkins said last night: 'I would ask Philip Ruddock to look closely at what this group have said publicly today in the media.

'I don't know why there is not enough evidence for him to take immediate action.'

Another speaker, one of Hizb ut-Tahrir's Australian leaders, Ashraf Doureihi, said Muslims should reject capitalism and embrace Islam. 'We must make Islam the only reference point of Muslims,' Mr Doureihi said, warning that every strata of Muslim society had been infiltrated with non-Muslim ideas.

'The West has been successful in deceiving Muslims. They have become hypnotised by the Western way of life.'

However, conference spokesman Washim Doureihi said the work of Hizb ut-Tahrir was not to change the political nature of Australia.

'It is because of Islam and my allegiance to Islam that I am responsible for ensuring to do what I can to protect the safety and security of all peoples in this country and beyond,' Mr Doureihi said.

'The overriding imperative, because of my Islam, is to treat all Australians the same, and I will work hard to build a better future for all of mankind.'

Mr Doureihi said the organisation's work was directed to the Muslim world 'outside Australia - 100 per cent'.

Source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21132340-2,00.html

3,131 posted on 01/29/2007 7:31:53 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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January 29, 2007

by Quintan Wiktorowicz and John Kaltner

Dr. Wiktorowicz is an assistant professor of international studies and Dr. Kaltner is an associate professor of religious studies, both at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. The al-Qaeda document that serves as the basis for this article is available in Arabic and English here. For a printable pdf version of this article, click here.

By means of this document we send a message to America and those behind it. We are coming, by the will of God almighty, no matter what America does. It will never be safe from the fury of Muslims. America is the one who began the war, and it will lose the battle by the permission of God almighty.-- Al-Qaeda statement, April 24, 2002

In the wake of the September 11 attacks, President Bush moved quickly to dismiss al-Qaeda operatives as part of the lunatic fringe, religious usurpers bent on misrepresenting and 'hijacking' Islam to serve terrorism.1 This characterization was echoed in the Muslim world, where an assortment of government officials, religious scholars and opposition figures fervidly denounced the killing of civilians as un-Islamic.2 Abdulaziz bin Abdullah al-Ashaykh, the mufti of Saudi Arabia, argued that 'hijacking planes, terrorizing innocent people and shedding blood constitute a form of injustice that cannot be tolerated by Islam, which views them as gross crimes and sinful acts.'3 Muhammed Sayyid al-Tantawi, the rector of al-Azhar University in Cairo, issued a similar condemnation: 'Attacking innocent people is not courageous, it is stupid and will be punished on the day of judgment. . . . It's not courageous to attack innocent children, women and civilians. It is courageous to protect freedom, it is courageous to defend oneself and not to attack.'4 Shaikh Yussuf al-Qaradawi, a prominent Islamic scholar and television personality from Qatar, emphasized that 'Islam, the religion of tolerance, holds the human soul in high esteem, and considers the attack against innocent human beings a grave sin.'5 Even Islamic fundamentalist groups issued sharp denunciations. Forty-six leaders representing an assortment of Islamist movements and groups signed a letter opposed to the attacks:

The undersigned, leaders of Islamic movements, are horrified by the events of

Tuesday 11 September 2001 in the United States, which resulted in massive

killing, destruction and attack on innocent lives. We express our deepest

sympathies and sorrow. We condemn, in the strongest terms, the incidents, which

are against all human and Islamic norms. This is grounded in the Noble Laws of

Islam, which forbid all forms of attacks on innocents. God Almighty says in the

Holy Quran: 'No bearer of burdens can bear the burden of another' (Surah al-Isra

17:15).6

Signatories included the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt, the amir of the Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan and Ahmad Yassin, the founder of Hamas.

To be sure, many of these condemnations were blunted by concomitant criticism of American foreign policy as the primary catalyst for al-Qaeda's war. Leaders throughout the Middle East, including traditional allies, cautioned the United States to reflect on the consequences of its 'unbalanced' approach to the region (particularly vis-à-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iraq), and public opinion in the Arab world indicated mounting resentment against perceived American hegemony and arrogance. Yet in the wake of September 11, U.S. allies and adversaries alike in the Muslim world joined President Bush in rejecting the radicalism of al-Qaeda.

Given this broad rejection, how could al-Qaeda defend killing thousands of innocent civilians in the name of Islam?...

and

In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate.

Praise to the Lord of the universe who said in his book, 'Fight those who do not believe in Allah or the last day and who do not prohibit what Allah and His messenger have prohibited, those who do not obey the religion of truth from those who were given the book. Fight them until they pay the poll tax and are humbled.' Prayers and peace be upon the unique leader of the warriors (mujahideen), Muhammad ibn Abdullah who said to unbelievers, 'I have come to you with slaughter.' May the most excellent prayers and perfect greetings be upon him, his family, and his friends.

Allah has given success to a group of young men of Islam with his favor and generosity, and has shown his prosperity and kindness because he has restored to the ummah some of its truth. He has made the Crusader enemy drink from the cup that they made us drink from for decades and decades. The heroes who offered themselves for the destruction of the strongholds of the enemy did not offer themselves in order to gain earthly possessions, or temporary fame, or a transitory desire. Rather, they offered their souls as a sacrifice for the religion of Allah almighty, defending Muslims whom American hands had mistreated by various types of torture and forms of domination and subjugation in every place.

We offer support for the progress of the ummah's jihad, sacrifice, and martyrdom. The first charge of the heroes of the New York and Washington attacks was obedience to all of their orders, an obedience that was established before their departure to the enemy's land, beginning with the hero Ahmad al-Ghamdi, may Allah almighty have mercy on him.

We call attention to this obedience only to make evident to the ummah that the only motive these young men had was to defend the religion of Allah, their dignity, and their honor. It was not done as a service to humanity or as an attempt to side with Eastern ideologies opposed to the West. Rather, it was a service to Islam in defense of its people, a pure act of their will, done submissively, not grudgingly. We also call attention to it so that it might be a message to all the enemies of the ummah. With an iron hand, we will deliver its contents to the heads of our enemies, no matter how strong they are and no matter how weak we are. We deliver it at this time in particular in order to assure the ummah, which is currently experiencing tragedy in every place. The only way to liberation from this humiliation is the sword, which is the only language the enemy understands that will deter it.

We know some of our anxious brothers will say that the publication of this directive will amount to nothing but a document that will condemn the warriors (mujahideen). If they hide it and do not let the enemy condemn them, they think that will be better.

But we say that the tyrannical enemy is not in need of directives or justifications in order to continue its war against Islam and Muslims which it began many decades ago. By Allah, what are the directives that condemn the Palestinian people and have allowed massacres against them for more than fifty years and into the present day at the hands of a Jewish Crusade? What is the charge against the people of Iraq so that they are besieged and killed in a way that history has not seen previously? What are the directives that condemn the Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina and allow the Crusader West, with America at its head, to give free rein to their Serbian ally to annihilate and remove the Muslim people from the area under the cover of the United Nations? What is the crime of the Kashmiri people, and what are the directives that the 'servants of the cow' lord over them, so that their blood has been shed for more than fifty years? What crime have the Muslims of Chechnya, Afghanistan, and the Republics of Central Asia committed that the tyrannical Crusader Soviet military machine, followed by the Communist one, can sweep them away and then kill, destroy, and remove tens of thousands of them? What kind of authority did America possess on the day it destroyed Afghanistan by killing and banishing the Muslims in it? Before that, it established an unjust blockade against it under the cover of the United Nations. Under the same cover it tore apart Indonesia and deported the Muslims of Timor to the Moluccas Islands and Poso. Also under the protection of nations, it entered Somalia, murdered, and took possession of the land of Islam there. It was also the chief supporter of the Crusader regime in the Philippines in order to remove our Muslim brothers present there. Beyond this, there are many other issues too numerous to mention. We must state that all the Muslim peoples whom the worldwide Zionist Crusade has annihilated did not commit any crime except to say, 'Allah is our Lord.' The Zionist Crusade coalition does not need directives or guilty verdicts against Muslims to begin its war or to continue it. It did not stand around with its hands tied previously, waiting for excuses to launch its wars of extermination against Muslims. Enough of the ummah foolishly thinking that this coalition is dependent upon reasons from the Muslims themselves in order to engage in activities of annihilation, violation, and expulsion against Muslims.

It is also foolish for a Muslim to think that the Crusader enemy was waiting for justifications to attack Muslims, banish them, and wage war against their religion. It is stupidity for a Muslim to think that the Crusader Zionist public opinion which backs its government was waiting for some action from Muslims in order to support the Crusader war against Islam and thereby enkindle a spirit of hostility against Islam and Muslims. The Crusader Zionist public opinion has expended all it has in order to stand behind the nations of the cross, executing their war against Islam and Muslims from the beginning of the colonization of Islamic countries until the present day. If the successive Crusader Zionist governments had not received support from their people, their war against Islam and Muslims would not have taken such an obvious and conspicuous form. It is something that would not attain legitimacy except by the voices of the people. It has been enough for us to ignorantly and foolishly think these thoughts that, in fact, have no merit.

We have put forth this directive in order to deliver a new blow to America and to expose to the world the fallacy of the American propaganda which claims it has irrefutable evidence regarding the warriors (mujahideen) who carried out the operation. It claims it has twenty-four thousand threads leading to knowledge of the agents of the operation. But what appears to it as evidence is weaker than a spider's web, and the American case cannot rely upon it to indict the suspects, let alone convince the world with it. In this directive we say to America that hiding all trace of the agents of the operation was not something we considered. Rather, some of the heroes were intent on leaving Islamic fingerprints on the operation. This is a new blow received by the American security agency that has looked here and there in confusion unlike anything ever seen before. On account of the hunt for a trace of the heroes who entered their country, noses have sniffed with honor and pride.

By means of this document we send a message to America and those behind it. We are coming, by the will of Allah almighty, no matter what America does. It will never be safe from the fury of Muslims. America is the one who began the war, and it will lose the battle by the permission of Allah almighty.

These great events which changed the face of history on such a grand scale occurred in the ummah, and it will be a great regret to anyone who blames those who brought about the operation of September. Those ignorant ones do not speak with legal evidence or reasonable logic. Rather, they speak in their masters' languages and in the concepts of the enemy of the ummah. Let all know that those who undertook these operations did so in order to ask for the favor of Allah, may He be praised and exalted. Let all know as well that many souls died on account of these operations, the first among them the souls of the heroes. We should never think little of the passing of souls, especially the Muslims among them. And this is what compels us to pay attention to the issue of legal evidence from all its angles, without privileging one side over another and without ignoring one matter on account of another. After study and deliberation, we have found that operations like this are what will return its glory to the ummah and convince the oppressive enemy of the rights of the Islamic community.

We pass on to an initial report, without details or exposition, regarding the evidence of the legality of this kind of operation. Let it be a quick message to those who dress their political opinions in the garb of a legal ruling. Let it also be a call to those who oppose and condemn the operations to obey Allah, repent, and return to the legal evidence. Cowardice in defending the warriors (mujuhadeen) is no better than being silent. Allah is our guide and the guide of all Muslims. We summarize the exposition of the argument in what follows.

First of all, America's status among Muslims is the same as that of the Jews -- they are both people of war. What is permissible regarding the right of the occupying enemy to the land of Palestine permits the right of anything like it, which is then backed and supported.

If you are surprised by this, you will truly be surprised by those who rule that the martyrdom operations in Palestine in which civilians fall victim are among the highest forms of jihad, and then rule that the martyrdom operations in America are wrong because of civilian deaths. This inconsistency is very strange! How can one permit the killing of the branch and not permit the killing of the supporting trunk? All who permit martyrdom operations against the Jews in Palestine must allow them in America. If not, the inconsistency leads to nothing but a type of game playing with the legal ruling.

Truly, America is not, nor has it ever been, a land of treaty or alliance. If we were to line up with the other side and say that it is a land of peace, we would say that it has turned into a land of war. That occurred with its violation of the treaty and its help to the Jews for more than fifty years in occupying Palestine, banishing its people, and killing them. It is a land of war that violated its treaty when it attacked and blockaded Iraq, attacked and blockaded Sudan, attacked and blockaded Afghanistan. It has oppressed Muslims in every place for decades and has openly supported their enemies against them.

People who do not understand the sense of the legal evidence have already denied this and said that women, elderly, and children were among the victims of the operations in America. They say, 'Islam forbids the shedding of their blood, so how can the operations be legally permissible?'

We say that the prohibition against the blood of women, children, and the elderly is not an absolute prohibition. Rather, there are special conditions in which it is permissible to kill them if they are among the people of war, and these conditions exist in specific circumstances. We say that a number of protected people were among the victims of the September operations in America, but they do not fall outside the conditions that permit killing them which we will now briefly mention. It is enough for the dissenter to decide that one of the conditions applies in order to say that the operations are permissible. It is not necessary that all the conditions are met; only one suffices. These conditions are the following.

First: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers as an act of reciprocity. If the unbelievers have targeted Muslim women, children, and elderly, it is permissible for Muslims to respond in kind and kill those similar to those whom the unbelievers killed. As Allah almighty says, 'You may transgress against those who have transgressed against you just as they have transgressed against you.' There currently exists an extermination effort against the Islamic peoples that has America's blessing, not just by virtue of its effective cooperation, but by America's activity. The best witness to this is what is happening with the full knowledge of the world in the Palestinian cities of Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, and elsewhere. Every day, all can follow the atrocious slaughter going on there with American support that is aimed at children, women, and the elderly. Are Muslims not permitted to respond in the same way and kill those among the Americans who are like the Muslims they are killing? Certainly! By Allah, it is truly a right for Muslims.

Second: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers in the event of an attack against them in which it is not possible to differentiate the protected ones from the combatants or from the strongholds. It is permissible to kill them incidentally and unintentionally according to the saying of the Prophet. When he was asked, as in al-Bukhari, about the offspring and women of unbelievers who stayed with the unbelievers and were killed, he said, 'They are from among them.' This indicates the permission to kill women and children because of their fathers if they can not be distinguished. In the account of Muslim he said, 'They are from their fathers.'

Third: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers on the condition that the protected ones have assisted in combat, whether in deed, word, mind, or any other form of assistance, according to the prophetic command. This is what happened at the time of Abu Dawud and others who were involved in the murder of Duraid Ibn al-Samma. When he was 120 years old he went out with the Hawazin tribe to advise them. They consulted him on battle procedure and he went from being a protected one to being a target because of his advice regarding the war against Islam.

Fourth: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers in the event of a need to burn the strongholds or fields of the enemy so as to weaken its strength in order to conquer the stronghold or topple the state. It is permissible even if protected ones are among the victims, as the Prophet did among the Bani Nadir.

Fifth: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers when they are using heavy weapons that do not distinguish between combatants and protected ones, as the Prophet did in Taif when he attacked its people with catapults.

Sixth: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers when the enemy is shielded by their women or children. If it is not possible to engage in battle and hold back their evil from the land of Islam, it is the consensus that it is permissible for them to kill the human shields.

Seventh: It is allowed for Muslims to kill protected ones among unbelievers if the people of a treaty violate their treaty and the leader must kill them in order to teach them a lesson. This is just as the Prophet did among the Bani Qariza.

Someone might ask, 'What permits the killing of the Muslims who were legitimately in the World Trade Center? We agree that the protected ones among the unbelievers fall under one of the previously mentioned conditions. But where do we place the Muslims who were working there during the attacks?'

We say the answer to this question can be found among seven views. Here, too, it is enough to determine that one of them applies to say it is permissible.

First: It is necessary to determine the justifications of the one doing the action if he is a Muslim. If the justifications are tantamount to a state of emergency, the action is permitted.

Second: The majority opinion rests upon the idea that only unbelievers were present in the targets that were hit, and acting in accordance with the majority opinion in legal rulings is what a responsible party must do.

Third: Al-Shafii and the distinguished jurists in the Hanafi school believe it is permissible to burn, drown, and demolish a country of those who make war even if Muslims might be killed by such actions. This is so because holding back from the buildings that contain Muslims leads to an interruption in the jihad. The distinguished ones reply that the verse that begins, 'For if believing men…' does not refer to prohibition. If that is so, the activities of this operation are allowed.

Fourth: The indiscriminate and universal application of the aforementioned verse leads to the suspension of the practice of jihad against all warring nations because there does not exist a country today that does not contain a large number of Muslims. Today, wars kill large numbers of people. The application of the verse is absurd because it invalidates the practice of jihad without proof.

Fifth: The solution to the issue of what to do with one who is at fault for killing a Muslim living among a warring people is obscured in a situation like ours. The solution is to pay half the blood money just as Muhammad ruled for those who killed the Muslims of Khatham who were living in the midst of a people of war. The Messenger paid half the blood money and did not cover up their killing, censure it, curse it, or rid them of it. Rather, he rid them of those who lived among them.

Sixth: The conduct of a Muslim who assists and strengthens unbelievers might be permitted according to earthly judgment. But his eternal judgment is based on his intention, just as Allah made the army fail that attacked the Kaba while some of its members were not from among them.

After determining that the permissibility of these operations is not objectionable from the legal side, we now turn to respond to those who prohibit the actions from the point of view of things conducive to good and things conducive to evil, also known as delegated authorities.

The teaching that the negative benefits of doing this or that action are more than the negative benefits of refraining from it, or the positive benefits of refraining from it are greater than the positive benefits of doing it, is not decreed for every one. It is not a statement that one utters from both knowledge and ignorance. Rather, delegated authorities have their principles, and it is not permitted for someone to teach it until one knows its principles.

Delegated authorities are a type of analogy because the efficient cause is a basic element of analogy. The cause must have appropriateness, and appropriateness can be divided into four types. One type is delegated appropriateness. This is a cause that is comprised of wisdom and legal utility, religious or secular, as a sign that the lawgiver did not bring about what would invalidate it or command it. This type is what is called delegated authority. The nature of delegated authorities becomes clear in mentioning their five precepts.

First, they must be necessary. Second, they must be universal. That is, they must be of benefit to all Muslims. Third, they must be conclusive. That is, they should not invalidate any other evidence or source. Fourth, following them should not lead to an evil equal to or greater than them. Fifth, following them should not lead to the suppression of a good equal to or greater than them.

When these precepts are known, it remains for the one who wishes to cite them to establish an important working principle: the principle of jurisprudence based on factual evidence found in the situation for which he wishes to determine the degree of good and evil. This allows him to ascertain the precise object of the fatwa before the fatwa is brought against it.

Despite the clarity of the matter and the obvious nature of the evidence, however, it is regrettable that many of the motives were destroyed in the comforting of America, the expressions of sorrow for her, and the legal rulings to assist her and to donate blood for her innocent (!!) victims. Legally incriminating the one who carried out the operations and expelling him from Islam is also regrettable, as is giving the Crusaders the green light to exact revenge on Muslims. This teaches all those who issue opinions that America may pursue the Afghans and Sheikh Usama bin Laden, may Allah protect him. We warn them about apostasy because of their assistance to the Crusaders by word or by their legal rulings to Arab governments that cooperation against terrorism (by this they mean the mujahideen) is lawful. This is defiant apostasy!

These comments about the permissibility of the martyrdom operations in the attack of New York and Washington are taken from the book The Truth about the New Crusader War. Whoever wants further evidence and a detailed discussion of the matter should consult the entire book.

Allah is the guide to the straight path. May Allah's peace be upon the messenger of Allah and upon his family and companions.

Source: http://americaninfidelsmusts.blogspot.com/2007/01/dar-al- harb-islam-al-quedas.html

3,132 posted on 01/29/2007 7:44:22 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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[Snipped from the lower half of article]

Ideology

The third and perhaps most important precondition for war is the rise of the Clash of Ideologies. Since the 1979 revolution that transformed Iran from a constitutional monarchy, under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to an Islamic, populist theocratic republic under the rule of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, not just Iran but the greater part of the Muslim world has been swept by a wave of religious fervor.

The ideological events that produced Islamism was as potent as either of the predecessors arising in the prior century—communism and fascism. Islamism is anti-Western, anti-capitalist, and anti-Semitic. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has the goal of not just the destruction of Israel but the entire West including the U.S. and Europe.

The West should listen to him and take him at his word.

In calling for an immediate cease fire in Lebanon, Ahmadinejad added that “the main cure is the elimination of the Zionist regime.” He called on all Muslim countries to cut political and economic ties with Israel and “isolate” the U.S. and the U.K. for support of Israel.

Following the emergency session of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Kuala Lumpur on August 3, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the president of the world’s largest nation, said the Lebanese must stop or “it will radicalize the Muslim world, even those of us who are moderate today. From there it will be just one step away to that of the ultimate nightmare: a Clash of Civilizations.

In prior battles, these forces had only terrorism as a method to attack. Today they have combined forces brought by the Leftist/Marxist-Islamist Alliance to employ Weapons of Mass Destruction with Economic means to cause an Economic Holocaust.

The Anti-War Movement

The United States has a growing antiwar movement. If one looks under the ‘covers’ we find that that this movement had its origins in the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance following the Gulf War of 2003.

Today, U.S. military deserters are going to Canada where a small group is growing. Once across the border, a network of Vietnam War-era draft evaders meets them, Quakers and anti-war activists, who are waiting with lawyers, free housing, job offers and organic groceries.

A described in Islamic Economics and the Final Jihad – The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist-Islamist Alliance, on December 13 and 14, 2003, activist delegates from the West and the Middle East joined at a conference in Cairo to exchange ideas and debate plans for actions. The second Cairo Conference against Capitalist Globalization and U.S. Hegemony brought together anti-war activists from across the world. The conference discussed how best to support the Iraqi and Palestinian resistance movements and how to challenge the United States’ drive for power. (The third Cairo Conference took place March 24 to 27, 2005, sponsored by the Stop-the-War Coalition.)

As the news of Saddam Hussein’s capture spread, delegates reaffirmed their support for the Iraqi resistance to continue against the U.S. occupation. Hamdeen Sabahy, an Egyptian M.P., said, “The resistance in Iraq is not based on Saddam Hussein. It will continue after Saddam Hussein. It is there because there is an occupation. As long as there is an American occupation, there will be resistance.”

This was much bigger than the 2002 conference, attended by four hundred people. Left-wing groups, Arab nationalist groups, and the Muslim Brotherhood organized the conference. It was supported by a number of trade unions.

In the opening session, John Rees from the Stop-the-War Coalition in Britain received loud applause when he said: “We stopped George Bush from launching his re-election campaign in London last month. Hundreds of thousands of ordinary people poured onto the streets. People have come from Britain in solidarity with you. This is not merely because we sympathize with your struggle, and that of Iraq and Palestine. We come because your struggle is our struggle; your enemy is our enemy. In the last year we have created an international mass movement. We will not let the rule of profit and arms destroy our world. Only ordinary people can stop the political elites.”

The chemistry between the conference’s left wing and Islamic currents was a revelation to many. Making a rare appearance in such a socialist-oriented gathering, Ma’moun El- Hodeibi, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood’s supreme guide, spoke at the opening session. Slamming “the authoritative imperialist and aggressive capitalist systems,” Hodeibi hailed the “new [anti-globalization] global movement.”

Since this conference the Muslim Brotherhood achieved significant victories in Egypt through the election process.

Stop-the-War’s Yakoub described the anti-war movement as a “bridge between East and West. From Cairo to Birmingham, Muslim and Jew, we have more in common than we have differences, and it’s unity that gives us the potential to be the other superpower.” British M.P., George Galloway called the conference itself a bridge between East and West. “Across the bridge, in two-way traffic, should come experience and support. We learn from here and here will learn from us.”

Sona’ Allh Ibrahim, a famous Egyptian writer who turned down a major award recently in protest at the Egyptian government, also addressed the conference. Other speakers included former Labour M.P. Tony Benn, former United Nation’s humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Denis Halliday, Salma Yaqoob from Britain and Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general. The Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance was in full attendance.

The conference released the second Cairo declaration, calling for opposition to capitalist globalization and U.S. power. It also urged support for the Iraqi resistance and the Palestinian intifada against Israeli occupation.

Ashraf El Bayoumi was one of the organizers. He is a campaigner based in Egypt who was arrested recently for joining an anti-war protest. He spoke to Socialist Workers about the importance of the event. The conference came from the belief that imperialist globalization must be met with people’s mobilization. The people who attended the conference in 2002, especially those who were invited to speak, gave an anti-imperialist flavor to the conference. There were some professors and academics who were irritated by the injustice in Iraq and Palestine, such as Thomas Nagy, a professor at George Washington University.

The Al-Ahram Weekly gave a picture of the events of the third international Cairo Anti-War Conference held March 24-27, 2005.

Perhaps it was not totally ironic that the third international Cairo Anti-War Conference ended on the same day that dozens of members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood were arrested for organizing a peaceful protest calling for constitutional reforms and the lifting of Egypt's 24-year-old state of emergency. For four days, almost 1,000 Egyptian, Arab and international activists representing anti-war and anti- globalization movements, had been arguing that the liberation of Palestine and Iraq should start with changing undemocratic regimes in the Arab world.

Activists from Islamist, secular, communist and socialist currents from across the globe sat together sharing their views, and absorbed in friendly conversation.

According to comparative literature professor, Abdel-Wahab El-Missiri, the author of many works on Zionism and Jewish thought, globalization is no more than a U.S. dynamic for hegemony. “Globalization reduces people into consumptive beings with no identity or history,” El-Missiri told the Weekly. “It is no wonder that the proponents of globalization are also those who invaded Pakistan and Iraq, and blindly support the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

That rhetoric provided a new dimension to resistance in Iraq and Palestine as “the front-line” of fighting against imperialism and globalization.

According to John Rose, author of Myths of Zionism, “the Palestinian flag has come to symbolize the dispossession of the poor peoples of the world.”

“The flag adorns the great anti-globalization and anti-war mass demonstrations on every continent,” Rose said.

The general mood of the conference was one of defiance, where passionate speeches inspired a general spirit of hope and enthusiasm. John Rees, from the U.K.-based Stop-the-War Coalition, boasted of the fact that the global anti-war movement had forced many countries, including Holland, Poland, Hungary and Spain—and perhaps now Italy—to withdraw their troops from Iraq.

But there was also general consensus that resistance was the only way to liberate Palestine and Iraq. Most delegates seemed to share Galloway’s opinion that U.S. troops in Iraq would be destroyed between “the hammer of the anti-war movement and the anvil of resistance.”

Sheikh Hassan al-Zorqani, of the Sadri Shia resistance movement in Iraq, told the Weekly that the Iraqi resistance “still has a long way to go before it liberates Iraq.” He expressed enthusiasm, however, that the conference gives him “a platform to clear misconceptions about resistance.”

The conference again demonstrated the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance.

Iran Reaches the Mediterranean

Since that time Iran Reaches the Mediterranean and the conflicts erupt between the Hezbollah and Israel as described in Iran, Lebanon, Russia, and India–It is about Power and Oil!

True, the Middle East’s secular gospel is anti-Semitism, broadcast hourly from Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. In these places, state run media boom out tired sermons about “pigs and apes,” Again in Russia and China, and possible even some European countries don’t much care what happens to Israel, as long as it does not affect business.

As Barry Rubin in his article in the New York Post on August 2, 2006 wrote: “It is the greatest innovation in diplomacy since Britain's Neville Chamberlain sold out Czechoslovakia to Adolf Hitler in exchange for a promise of peace. Call it the Douste-Blazy cower.”

Philippe Douste-Blazy is the French foreign minister, and last week he was seen cowering in a doorway while visiting northern Israel after air raid sirens warned people to take cover against incoming Hezbollah rockets.

At a press conference in Beirut a few days later, Douste-Blazy praised Iran without (in contrast to the French government's attacks on Israel) criticism. He called Iran "a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region." It is also a major supplier of oil to France and a big customer for French goods.

And it built the rocket that had left Douste-Blazy cowering in that doorway. It shipped the rocket, very possibly on an Iranian airliner that landed at Beirut airport. Tehran trained and paid the Hezbollah terrorists who fired it. It also encouraged them to attack Israel and no doubt guaranteed them its military and diplomatic support in case they faced a serious threat from Israel.

Thus, we have the Douste-Blazy maneuver: First cower; then praise those shooting at you.

The French position is that Hezbollah, Syria and Iran should be brought into the cease-fire negotiations as equal partners. This is the same Hezbollah and Iran whose leadership holds anti-Semitic views not heard since the last bunker fell in Berlin in 1945.” That's the wonderful thing about multiculturalism: You can choose which side of the war you want to fight on. When the draft card arrives, just tick "home team" or "enemy," according to taste.

continues.............

3,133 posted on 01/30/2007 12:56:23 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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[a snippet from the December 2006, Ryan Mauro report]

Russia

There were key developments regarding Russia over the past two months. For example, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported that a Russian listening post was used by the Syrians to assist Hezbollah during their recent conflict with Israel. After the conflict ended, over 500 Russian military engineers entered Lebanon to rebuild infrastructure. Among the forces were two battalions of Russian Muslims, including Chechens, and a former Chechen rebel commander. This now becomes a big issue for an analyst. With Muslims, particularly Chechens, inside the Russian military, how likely is it that some of these are radical Muslims who will pass training, information, or weapons to terrorist groups?
Another point that should be noted is that, although most would dismiss this possibility, are Chechens and Muslims being used by the Russian military for strategic purposes? That question must be asked because it is clear now that the Russians use Muslim recruits to build relations with unsavory regimes (like Syria) and groups (like Hezbollah). We must also determine how it is possible that a former Chechen rebel commander could be converted to work for the Russians. The answer to that question will likely reveal dozens of more questions.

Alexander Litvinenko, a high-level FSB defector involved in top-secret units, was poisoned this month as he was investigating the death of the Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, a frequent critic of Russian President Putin. Politkovskaya was “mysteriously” shot while investigating Putin. Litvinenko was poisoned with thallium after meeting with a former colleague at a sushi bar. The most senior KGB defector to Britain, Oleg Gordievsky, has stated that he believes (as did Litvinenko) that the Russian leadership was behind the poisoning. He points to the sophistication of the poison, his knowledge of secret Russian operations, and claims that the person who put the poison in was recruited at a prison by the FSB and, was a former friend of Litvinenko.

We could learn a lot about Russia by examining these recent developments. What was Politkovskaya onto that very likely led her murder? What was Politkovskaya about to reveal that could unnerve the Russian regime so?

• That the Chechen government was secretly financed by the Russians?
• That the covert structures of the former Soviet Union never collapsed and are still very much in control in the current Russian regime?

A lot of people are investigating Politkovskaya’s death, so why would Litvinenko be targeted? We must delve into what he attempted to reveal in the past. While some of his allegations can be debated, no one can doubt that his death by poisoning enhances his credibility. We should also remember that his book, “Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within” was confiscated by the Russian authorities. What had Litvinenko alleged, in his book, that the Russians did not want to ever see the light of day?

• That the 1999 bombings that provoked the invasion of Chechnya were carried out by the FSB?
• That active covert Russian operations, involving assassination, bribery, kidnapping, and other criminal acts to oppress dissent, are ongoing?
• That Russia in the past trained and sponsored terrorists around the world, and still does?
• That leaders of terrorist groups and states, such as Carlos The Jackal, Yasser Arafat, and Saddam Hussein, were KGB agents, or at the very least, were supported by the Russians?
• That Ayman al-Zawahiri, the #2-in-command of Al-Qaeda, was trained by the FSB in 1998 on the Russian territory of Dagestan and then sent to Afghanistan to link up with Al-Qaeda?

3,134 posted on 01/30/2007 1:09:39 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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http://www.worldthreats.com/middle_east/russia_middle_east.html

"Russia and the Middle East"

by Igor Khrestin and John Elliott

Article first appeared in
Middle East Quarterly - Winter 2007

Where does Moscow stand in the fight against Islamism and the global war against terror? Facing the Chechen threat at home, the Russian government might be sympathetic to U.S. and even Israeli concerns. Not so. Despite U.S. declarations that Washington and Moscow were "increasingly united by common values" and that Russia was Vladimir Putin "a partner in the war on terror,"[1] examination of Russian president Vladimir Putin's policy toward the Middle East suggests that Moscow has become an impediment both to the fight against Islamist terror and Washington's desire to promote democracy in the Middle East. The 2006 U.S. National Security Strategy reinforces that U.S. policymakers should not only "encourage Russia to respect the values of freedom and democracy at home" but also cease "imped[ing] the cause of freedom and democracy" in regions vital to the war on terror.[2] While Russian officials denounce U.S. criticism, the Kremlin's coddling of Iranian hard-liners, its reaction to the "cartoon jihad," its invitation to Hamas to Moscow, and its flawed Chechen policy all cast doubt on Moscow's motivations.

While President Bill Clinton had focused his Middle East policy on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, his strategy toward the broader Middle East was more detached.[3] He was content to pursue dual containment toward Iraq and Iran and follow a status quo policy toward North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The 9-11 terrorist attacks focused U.S. foreign policy on the Middle East. President George W. Bush asserted that the region "must be a focus of American policy for decades to come" and declared a "forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East."[4] Putin, too, made the Middle East an area of increasing focus. But in contrast to his rhetoric of cooperation—he was the first foreign leader to call Bush on 9-11—he has pursued a contradictory strategy to bolster Russian influence at U.S. expense.

The Chechen Lens

Nothing shapes Putin's thinking about terrorism and the Middle East more than Chechnya. While Islamist terrorism threatens U.S. security, the Chechen conflict threatens both Russian security and its territorial integrity. The conflict in Russia's Chechnya province has claimed over one hundred thousand lives since President Boris Yeltsin ordered the Russian military into Chechnya in 1994.[5] After the 1996 cease-fire, Chechnya dissolved into anarchy, becoming the "Somalia of the Caucasus."[6] Foreign jihadists infiltrated the Chechen leadership.[7] In 1999, Vladimir Putin, newly-appointed prime minister, ordered Russian troops to reassert order. His tough stance catapulted him into political prominence and, eventually, the presidency.

Putin and Bush initially cooperated in the war against the Taliban. The Russian leader complied with U.S. requests to build bases in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for use in the war against the Afghan Islamists. In April 2002, U.S. and Russian militaries cooperated to dislodge terror groups from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.[8] The following month, the two leaders declared, "We are partners, and we will cooperate to advance stability, security, and economic integration, and to jointly counter global challenges and to help resolve regional conflicts."[9]

Putin's domestic war on terrorism enjoyed only limited success. Russian security forces did impose some order in Chechnya, but the Kremlin was unable to stem Chechen and Islamist terrorism on Russian soil. In 2002, 120 died in a rescue attempt after Chechen rebels took 800 people hostage in a Moscow theater. Two years later, several hundred children died after terrorists seized a school in Beslan. Even after the subsequent crackdown, Russian forces have not been able to stop Chechen Islamist raids into neighboring provinces as they seek to build an "Islamic Republic of the North Caucasus."[10] Terrorists continue to take advantage of endemic Russian corruption.[11] An independent Russian daily observed that "a police officer or soldier is killed in the Caucasus practically every day"; a senior military official admitted that the situation in Chechnya is "far from ideal."[12]

Faced with only marginal gains at home, Putin changed tack. Rather than continue cooperation with Washington on the broader war on terror, he sought to cut a deal. In 2003, he asked to join the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), even though with only 20 million Muslims—about 15 percent of the population—Russia lacked the required 50 percent minimum Muslim population.[13] While the OIC did not grant Russia full membership, it did grant Moscow observer status.[14] The relationship was symbiotic: the OIC saw Moscow as a patron that could offset U.S. pressure while Moscow received de facto immunity from criticism of Russian policy in Chechnya as a result of OIC reluctance to interfere in the internal affairs of member-states, even honorary ones.[15] Putin further outlined his vision of alliance with the Islamic world when, addressing the newly-elected Chechen parliament in December 2005, Putin called Russia "a faithful, reliable, and dedicated promoter ... of the interests of the Islamic world" and "its best and most reliable partner and friend."[16]
Arming Iran

The desire both to cut a deal and stymie Washington also explains Moscow's policy toward Tehran. Russian and Iranian interests are historically divergent. The two countries fought intermittently throughout the nineteenth century, and Soviet leaders supported separatist movements in Iran in the twentieth century.[17] Their perceived spheres of influence overlap in the Caucasus and the Caspian. The 1979 Islamic Revolution may have torn Iran away from alliance with the United States, but it did not bring Tehran and Moscow any closer. Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini considered the Soviet Union to be "godless" and purged leftists from the revolutionary coalition.[18]

But a February 1989 visit by Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze and a reciprocal visit to Moscow by then-Majlis speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani four months later cemented a détente. Relations expanded with Moscow after the Soviet Union's collapse. On August 25, 1992, Tehran and Moscow signed an US $800 million deal for Russian companies to build two nuclear reactors at Bushehr.[19] While this contract predates Putin's presidency, the Russian leader turned a blind eye to signs that the Iranian program was not entirely civilian. Five years after Rafsanjani threatened to use nuclear weapons against Israel,[20] and despite an International Atomic Energy Agency finding that Iran was in noncompliance with the nuclear nonproliferation treaty's safeguards agreement,[21] Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insists that the Iranian program "is conducted fully in accordance with international norms."[22]

So what explains Russian behavior? Maintaining nuclear trade with Tehran enabled Putin to cement a tacit agreement in which Iran declines to interfere in Chechnya and other Islamist causes which threaten Russia. Winning Iranian acquiescence is especially important given its proximity to Russia's troubled south. In exchange, the Kremlin shields the Iranian government from Western pressure. Russian unwillingness to accept sanctions against Iran for its nuclear noncompliance has vexed Washington,[23] as has Moscow's refusal to force an Iranian reaction to the May 2006 European Union and U.S. package of incentives.[24]

Any Middle Eastern government which seeks Moscow's support understands it must either side with the Russian struggle against Chechen separatists or, at a minimum, agree not to meddle. With the end of the Cold War, the Israeli government has sought to better its relations with Moscow. Since 1999, Israeli intelligence has shared information with their Russian counterparts and has assisted Russian forces in training and border security. Israeli officials have likened the Chechen separatists to Palestinian terrorists.[25] Damascus, too, has assisted Russia diplomatically. In September 2005, Syrian president Bashar al-Assad welcomed the pro-Moscow president of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, to Damascus, granting the embattled Chechen leader some international legitimacy.[26]

The commercial factor is also a bonus. The Russian government has secured lucrative contracts with several states that Washington considers pariahs. In December 2005, the Iranian government signed a billion dollar arms deal that included twenty-nine Tor M1 missile defense systems to protect the Bushehr nuclear facility.[27] The Russian government has also sold Strelets missiles to Syria.[28] Putin halted sales of even more sophisticated weaponry only after vigorous U.S. and Israeli protest.[29] That Iran is also oil-rich is added incentive; Russia has $750 million invested in energy projects there.[30] The Russian oil firm Lukoil seeks to move 23 percent of production to the Middle East by 2015.[31]
Russia's Cartoon Jihad

Bush characterizes the U.S. fight as a "war with Islamic fascists."[32] Putin, too, has cracked down on Islamist terror in Russia. But what works at home is not necessarily what Putin embraces for those outside Russia. On February 4, 2006, protests erupted in many Muslim countries against cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which had been published months before in the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. In Lebanon and Syria, mobs sacked the Danish embassy and, in Libya, they attacked an Italian consulate. But rather than stand up for free speech—as did many outside the Middle East—the Russian government sided with the Islamists.

Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the Duma's (parliament) International Affairs Committee, chided the Danish government for allowing such cartoons to be published. "The [Danish] prime minister washed his hands of the whole matter, with the usual comments, chapter and verse, about freedom of speech," Kosachev said, before chiding the Danes for citing the right of free speech as reason not to crack down on "anti-Russian hysteria over Chechnya in Denmark"[33] a few years earlier. Then, three days after the mass protests erupted, Putin said, "One should reflect 100 times before publishing or drawing something … If a state cannot prevent such publications, it should at least ask for forgiveness."[34]

To drive home the point, on February 17, Andrei Dorinin, acting mayor of the southern Russian city of Volgograd, shut down the local paper Gorodskie Vesti, after it printed a cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad along with Jesus, Moses, and Buddha.[35] The government also charged Anna Smirnova, editor of Nash Region in Vologda, with "inciting racial hatred"—an offense punishable by up to five years in prison, according to article 282 of the Russian criminal code—after her paper republished the original Jyllands-Posten cartoons. She was fined 100,000 rubles (about US$3,700). The paper's owners, citing concerns over the "safety of the journalists," shut down the newspaper.[36]

What makes the Russian government's actions curious is that they initiated the crackdown absent any significant public outcry, let alone riots, against the cartoons. According to a nationwide poll conducted by the Levada Center, only 14 percent of respondents were "outraged" by the Prophet Muhammad cartoons; the plurality simply did not care.[37] The reactions of Russia's religious leaders were likewise muted. Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, head of the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate, noted that "in a cultured society, it is necessary that there be cultured people."[38]

While local politics played a part in the crackdowns,[39] the general Kremlin reaction showed that the fight against Islamism was relative. While Putin will neither tolerate terrorism nor the ideology behind it at home, he will at times justify that same extremism abroad if it wins Moscow points in the Islamic world, prolongs the tacit agreement against Islamic countries' interference in Chechnya, and undercuts the general U.S. and European diplomatic position in the Middle East. Andrei Serenko, an expert at the Fund for Development for Information Policy, explained, "To prove Vladimir Putin's thesis that ‘a strong Russia is a defender of Muslims,' [the Kremlin] can sacrifice a regional newspaper."[40]
Hamas Tours Moscow

Perhaps nothing underlined the relativity of Moscow's fight against terror as much as the Kremlin's 2006 invitation to Moscow of a Hamas delegation. In February 2006, Putin announced, ‘‘We are willing in the Hamas invited to Moscow near future to invite the authorities of Hamas to Moscow to carry out talks."[41] The State Department reacted cautiously. Spokesman Sean McCormack warned that "as a member of the Quartet, we would certainly expect that Russia would deliver that same message" to Hamas, namely to renounce violence, recognize Israel, and respect previous Palestinian and international agreements.[42]

While Moscow had long supported the Palestine Liberation Organization and lobbied for the creation of the Palestinian state, Putin's outreach to Hamas broke with tradition. Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the international relations committee of the Federation Council, Russia's upper house, had praised the Israeli assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yasin.[43] When a Hamas suicide bomber killed seventeen people in Beersheba in August 2004, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement condemning "the new barbarous foray by the extremists," and declaring, "We are convinced that no political or other purposes can be reached by means of violence and terror."[44]

Hamas leaders seized the opportunity proffered by Putin. Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said, "We salute the Russian position and … accept it with the aim of strengthening our relations with the West and particularly with the Russian government."[45] The Hamas delegation met with Lavrov, toured the capital with the leaders of Russia's Muslim community, and had an audience with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[46] The Russian government's engagement with Hamas did not lead the group to abandon terrorism.[47] One Russian journalist concluded, "Moscow invited the Palestinians just to invite them, and Hamas came just to come."[48]

The Russian press was less forgiving than the Kremlin. In the press conference, an Izvestiya reporter asked Hamas delegation leader Khalid Mashaal to comment on his June 2000 pronouncement that children should be trained as suicide bombers. The Hamas leader defended his comment. "We have our own symbols, our own examples to imitate. And we are proud of this,"[49] he told the assembled press. So what did Putin's outreach achieve? Again, Chechnya played front and center in his strategy: Hamas promised not to meddle in the North Caucasus.[50]

What does the Hamas visit signal for Russian-Israeli relations? Under Putin, ties between Moscow and Jerusalem initially blossomed. The Russian president appreciated Jerusalem's no-nonsense approach to terrorism, as well as its technical assistance with regard to Chechnya. That one million Israelis speak Russian facilitates business. Economic relations between Moscow and Jerusalem thrived; hundreds of Israeli businesses operate in Russia.[51] Russian business leaders look to fill Israel's growing energy needs.[52] Today, direct trade between the two states is valued at approximately $1.5 billion.[53] In April 2006, the Russian government launched an Israeli satellite capable of spying on the Iranian nuclear program.[54] But while some writers once celebrated Putin's new approach,[55] the enabling of Iran's nuclear program and the invitation to Hamas suggest that optimism regarding Russia's president is premature. While the Russian government is willing to criticize its Iranian and Arab clients to placate the West, it seldom translates harsh words into action. The Russian Foreign Ministry's contradictory statements[56] following the July 12, 2006 Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon seemed designed to obfuscate rather than stake out a clear position against terror. The Russian government may appreciate the fruits of economic relations with Israel, but when it comes to standing on principle against terror, Putin draws a line. Russia does not consider Hamas or Hezbollah to be terrorist groups; to stand too much with Israel against terror might mean undercutting Putin's Faustian bargain with Islamists over Chechnya.
Conclusions

The post-9-11 U.S.-Russian honeymoon did not last. While some tension resulted from Putin's growing authoritarianism,[57] more responsible was Putin's decision to place Russia squarely in opposition to Washington's desire to contain Iranian nuclear ambitions, delegitimize terrorism, and promote democracy.

That Washington and Moscow diverge on the Middle East should not surprise. A June 2000 foreign policy concept paper approved by Putin defines Moscow's priorities in the Middle East "to restore and strengthen its position, particularly economic ones."[58] Putin has pursued this strategic pragmatism even when it puts Moscow in the position of arming Iran and Syria while strengthening economic relations with Israel.

How wise is Putin's policy? Not all Russian analysts are convinced it will further Moscow's interests. Dmitri Suslov, an expert with Moscow's Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, explained, "[T]here is a big risk here, that by providing greater legitimacy for Islamists, Russia could invite greater instability in the Middle East and at home."[59] Prominent Russian columnist Yulia Latynina argued that "by holding talks with rogue states, Russia comes perilously close to being perceived as a rogue state in its own right."[60]

Nor is success assured for Putin's gamble that he can appease external Islamists to win space for Russian actions in Chechnya. In June 2006, Islamists in Iraq kidnapped and murdered four Russian diplomats—including one Muslim. They issued a tape declaring, "God's verdict has been carried out on the Russian diplomats … in revenge for the torture, killing, and expulsion of our brothers and sisters by the infidel Russian government." [61] Simply put, Putin may subscribe to Realpolitik, but Islamic extremists are not well-versed in its intricacies.

Igor Khrestin is a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. John Elliott is a research associate at the Council on Foreign Relations.

[1] Introduction, "The National Security Strategy of the United States," Sept. 2002.
[2] "The National Security Strategy of the United States," Mar. 2006, p. 39.
[3] Robert O. Freedman, "U.S. Policy toward the Middle East in Clinton's Second Term," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Mar. 1999.
[4] George W. Bush, remarks, National Endowment for Democracy, United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 2003.
[5] "Russia: Annotated Timeline of the Chechen Conflict," Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, Feb. 7, 2006.
[6] Leon Aron, "Chechnya: New Dimensions of the Old Crisis," AEI Russian Outlook, Feb. 1, 2003.
[7] Lorenzo Vidino, "How Chechnya Became a Breeding Ground for Terror," Middle East Quarterly, Summer 2005, pp. 57-66.
[8] The New York Times, Apr. 30, 2002.
[9] Joint declaration, President George W. Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin, Moscow, May 24, 2002.
[10] "Timeline of the Chechen Conflict," Feb. 7, 2006.
[11] The Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2004.
[12] Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Moscow), Aug. 22, 2006.
[13] Kommersant (Moscow), June 29, 2005.
[14] Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister, remarks, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Sept. 1, 2005.
[15] Shahram Akbarzadeh and Kylie Connor, "The Organization of the Islamic Conference: Sharing an Illusion," Middle East Policy, June 22, 2005.
[16] Izvestiya (Moscow), Dec. 13, 2005.
[17] Patrick Clawson and Michael Rubin, Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos (New York: Palgrave, 2005), p. 60.
[18] Baqer Moin, Khomeini: Life of the Ayatollah (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999), pp. 125, 217-8.
[19] Vladimir Orlov and Alexander Vinnikov, "The Great Guessing Game: Russia and the Iranian Nuclear Issue," The Washington Quarterly, Spring 2005.
[20] Kayhan (Tehran), Dec. 15, 2001.
[21] "IAEA Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran," GOV/2005/77, Sept. 24, 2005.
[22] RIA Novosti (Moscow), July 13, 2006.
[23] The Washington Post, Mar. 25, 2006.
[24] Associated Press, July 21, 2006.
[25] Ilya Bourtman, "Putin and Russia's Middle Eastern Policy," Middle East Review of International Affairs, June 2006; The Washington Times, Sept. 7, 2004.
[26] Mark Katz, "Putin's Foreign Policy toward Syria," Middle East Review of International Affairs, Mar. 2006.
[27] RIA Novosti, July 13, 2006.
[28] Lee Kass, "Syria after Lebanon: The Growing Syrian Missile Threat," Middle East Quarterly, Fall 2005, pp. 25-34.
[29] Kommersant, Jan. 14, 2006.
[30] Radio Free Europe /Radio Liberty, Feb. 10, 2006.
[31] Alexandr Zaslavsky, "Russian Production in the Middle East," Pro et Contra, Mar.-June 2006, pp. 45-53.
[32] Remarks at Austin Straubel International Airport, Green Bay, Wis., White House press release, Aug. 10, 2006.
[33] Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Dec. 22, 2005.
[34] Agence France-Presse, Feb. 8, 2006.
[35] Novye Izvestiya (Moscow), Feb. 20, 2006.
[36] Lenta.ru (on-line), Apr. 14, 2006.
[37] "Rossiyane o Karikaturnom Skandale," Levada Center, Moscow, Feb. 27, 2006.
[38] United Press International, Feb. 7, 2006.
[39] Novye Izvestiya, Feb. 20, 2006.
[40] Novye Izvestiya, Feb. 20, 2006.
[41] The New York Times, Feb. 10, 2006.
[42] Associated Press, Feb. 10, 2006.
[43] Kommersant, Mar. 4, 2006.
[44] Kommersant, Mar. 4, 2006.
[45] Agence France-Presse, Feb. 9, 2006.
[46] Izvestiya, Mar. 6, 2006.
[47] Izvestiya, Mar. 6, 2006.
[48] Novoye Vremya (Moscow), Mar. 12, 2006.
[49] Izvestiya, Mar. 6, 2006.
[50] Novoye Vremya, Mar. 12, 2006.
[51] Itar-Tass news agency (Moscow), Apr. 30, 2006.
[52] FK Novosti (Moscow), July 21, 2006.
[53] Bourtman, "Putin and Russia's Middle Eastern Policy."
[54] Associated Press, Apr. 25, 2006.
[55] See, for example, Mark N. Katz, "Putin's Pro-Israel Policy," Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2005, pp. 51-9.
[56] Associated Press, July 20, 2006; "Nachalo Vstrechi s Ministrom Innostrannih Del Saudovskoi Aravii Princem Saudom al'-Feisalom," official website of the president of Russia, July 25, 2006.
[57] Dick Cheney, 2006 Vilnius Conference, Vilnius, Lithuania, White House press release, May 4, 2006.
[58] "Kontseptsia Vneshnei Politiki Rossiyskoy Federatsii," Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, June 28, 2000.
[59] The Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 21, 2006.
[60] The Moscow Times, Mar. 15, 2006.
[61] Associated Press, June 26, 2006.

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http://americaninfidelsmusts.blogspot.com/

Monday, January 22, 2007
MUST READ: THE 7 PHASES OF THE BASE (AL QUEDA)

The Seven Phases of The Base (al Queda)

The First Phase Known as "the awakening" -- this has already been carried out and was supposed to have lasted from 2000 to 2003, or more precisely from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York and Washington to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. The aim of the attacks of 9/11 was to provoke the US into declaring war on the Islamic world and thereby "awakening" Muslims. "The first phase was judged by the strategists and masterminds behind al-Qaida as very successful," writes Hussein. "The battle field was opened up and the Americans and their allies became a closer and easier target." The terrorist network is also reported as being satisfied that its message can now be heard "everywhere."

The Second Phase "Opening Eyes" is, according to Hussein's definition, the period we are now in and should last until 2006. Hussein says the terrorists hope to make the western conspiracy aware of the "Islamic community." Hussein believes this is a phase in which al-Qaida wants an organization to develop into a movement. The network is banking on recruiting young men during this period. Iraq should become the center for all global operations, with an "army" set up there and bases established in other Arabic states.

The Third Phase This is described as "Arising and Standing Up" and should last from 2007 to 2010. "There will be a focus on Syria," prophesies Hussein, based on what his sources told him. The fighting cadres are supposedly already prepared and some are in Iraq. Attacks on Turkey and -- even more explosive -- in Israel are predicted. Al-Qaida's masterminds hope that attacks on Israel will help the terrorist group become a recognized organization. The author also believes that countries neighboring Iraq, such as Jordan, are also in danger.

The Fourth Phase Between 2010 and 2013, Hussein writes that al-Qaida will aim to bring about the collapse of the hated Arabic governments. The estimate is that "the creeping loss of the regimes' power will lead to a steady growth in strength within al-Qaida." At the same time attacks will be carried out against oil suppliers and the US economy will be targeted using cyber terrorism.

The Fifth Phase This will be the point at which an Islamic state, or caliphate, can be declared. The plan is that by this time, between 2013 and 2016, Western influence in the Islamic world will be so reduced and Israel weakened so much, that resistance will not be feared. Al-Qaida hopes that by then the Islamic state will be able to bring about a new world order.

The Sixth Phase Hussein believes that from 2016 onwards there will a period of "total confrontation." As soon as the caliphate has been declared the "Islamic army" it will instigate the "fight between the believers and the non-believers" which has so often been predicted by Osama bin Laden.

The Seventh Phase This final stage is described as "definitive victory." Hussein writes that in the terrorists' eyes, because the rest of the world will be so beaten down by the "one-and-a-half million Muslims," the caliphate will undoubtedly succeed. This phase should be completed by 2020, although the war shouldn't last longer than two years.

Pertinent Links:

1) The Fourth Rail: The Seven Phases of The Base

Posted by American Infidel at 1/22/2007 10:00:00 AM 0

3,136 posted on 01/30/2007 2:12:25 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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MUST READ: ISLAMIC ECONOMICS & SHARIAH LAW: A PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION

Islamic Economics and Shariah Law: A Plan for World Domination
David J. Jonsson

My goal today is to put you into the mind of an Islamist — to think like an Islamist. It is only possible to understand the events occurring by understanding their thinking and what it would mean to live under Shariah law. There is a well-worn Cliché “It’s the economy stupid” that appears around election times. So it is with Islamic Economics and the Clash of Ideologies we are witnessing today. See also: Islamic Economics and the Final Jihad: The Muslim Brotherhood to the Leftist/Marxist - Islamist Alliance.

It should be realized that the goal of the Islamists, following in the footsteps of Muhammad, is not so much to conquer the land but to Islmanize the populations. In so doing they seek to have the lands come under Shariah law and that the lands become dar al-Islam—the land of Islam and that all non-Muslims accept the status of Dhimmis—subservient to Muslim rule. The Plan involves the incremental acceptance of basic tenants of Shariah law as applied to all aspects of life—the Islamic “Way of Life”. This implies the desire to incrementally change the laws and ultimately the Constitution of the U.S. This requires the population to accept the new laws as equally valid and acceptable. Initially this will result in parallel legal systems and progressing from there with laws that may be applied locally and ultimately nationally. Jihad can be with the pen and the tongue, just as it can be the sword and the spear as Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood has said. Knowledge combined with economic control can be wielded with the precision of a sharp sword to effect any desired social/political change necessary for the fulfillment of Islam’s goal.

• What is the vision of the Islamists?
• The Genesis of Islamic Economics
• The Goal: Establishment of a Separate Muslim Society
• The Movement - Experiments in Islamic Economics
• HAMAS: Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine• What is Islamic Finance?
• Understanding of the Role Of Islamic Economics
• Transnational Movements and the Creation of One World under Islam
• White Collar Jihad Defined
• The Role of Jihad—Not to Conquer Lands But Islamization of Populations
• Islamic Economics: Not an Exotic Addition to the English Country Garden
• The Call to Economic Jihad
• The Question: What Is Islamic Ideology?
• The Importance of Islamic (Shariah) Law
• The Goals of Implementing Shariah Law
• The Four Principles of the Islamic Economic System
• Islamic Economics -- The Third Economic System
• The Role of Propaganda
• Fundamental Differences between Islamic Economics and Capitalism/Socialism/Communism
• The Islamic Concept of Property Ownership
• Distribution not Production is the Islamist’s Solution
• Islamism Limits the Way Wealth Is Acquired
• Islamism Seeks to Regulate Company Organization
• Control of Currency Potentially Leading to the Destruction of the Hegemony of the Dollar
• Redistribution through Tax on Assets – Zakat
• Interest (Riba) under the Shariah
• The Impact of Islamic Economics and Shariah Law on Social Conditions
• The Strategy for World Domination
• The Expansion of the Oil Cabal
• The Change of Laws to Accommodate Shariah Principles
• How Is Economic Jihad Being Used?
• Significance of Foreign Control of Dollar Assets
• Dow Jones-Citigroup Islamic Index

...

Read the whole thing and then think of this article whenever you read about financial instruments being created that will comply with Shari'ah law, etc. as well as any other accomodation that the West makes for islam...

Pertinent Links:

1) Islamic Economics and Shariah Law: A Plan for World Domination

Posted by American Infidel at 1/21/2007 11:19:00 AM

3,137 posted on 01/30/2007 2:16:21 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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To: All; Calpernia; DAVEY CROCKETT; Founding Father; FARS; LucyT; milford421; Donna Lee Nardo; ...

You will want to read this article, it has so much in it that I had never read before, and much that is not common knowledge I think.
granny

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/thomas102506.htm

The spy who never came in from the cold

By Gordon Thomas

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

On Friday morning March 16, 1984, William Buckley, the CIA Station
Chief in
Lebanon, began his three hundred and forty-third day in Beirut. He was
alone
in his tenth floor apartment in the Al-Manara apartment building in the
western suburb of the city. Beyond the windows of his living room were
views
of the Chouf Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea. It was going to be
one of
those sublime days which compensated for what Lebanon had become for
the few
foreigners still living here: a dangerous and volatile hell hole.

Below, stretching into the distance, were a hundred and more spiralling
mosque minarets. From them loudspeakers would soon summon the faithful
to
their first prayers.

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3,139 posted on 01/30/2007 6:18:32 AM PST by nw_arizona_granny (Pray for peace, but prepare for the worst disaster. Protect your loved ones.)

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Report: Russians Used Photo of Litvinenko for Target Practice

Alleged footage of elite Russian troops using pictures of poisoned spy Alexander Litvinenko for target practice has been posted on the Internet by a Polish newspaper Web site.

The video was allegedly shot years before the ex-spy's death, but if authentic shows that the Russians considered him a possible target for assassination for some time.

The newspaper claims the footage was shot in 2002, two years after Litvinenko defected to the United Kingdom, where he publicly criticized the Russian security service, or the FSB, and Vladimir Putin.....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/01/report_russians.html

3,140 posted on 01/30/2007 8:49:56 AM PST by Velveeta (Bears!)

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