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Red alert sounded along Tamil Nadu coast
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/02/22/stories/2007022206310100.htm
Red alert sounded along Tamil Nadu coast
S. Vijay Kumar and
R.K. Radhakrishnan
Intelligence on more `hibernating' LTTE suicide boats for Sri Lankan targets
CRUCIAL MEETING: D. Mukherjee, DGP, Tamil Nadu (left), L.K. Tripathy, Chief Secretary, Tamil Nadu, and Major General B. Sivasankar, GOC, ATNKK Area, at the Civil Military Liaison conference in Chennai on Wednesday. — Photo: S.R. Raghunathan
MADURAI/CHENNAI: Intelligence experts estimate that 15 suicide mission boats of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam are `hibernating' in the waters between India and Sri Lanka.
They are of the opinion that these are not aimed at India; the LTTE, perhaps, hopes a repeat of the Kattunayake airport strike, this time at a major seaport.
For, the Sea Tigers are under growing pressure from the Sri Lankan Navy. The Indian waters, once considered safe for hibernating vessels, are no longer so, with the Coast Guard and the Navy having stepped up their presence in the Palk Strait and the Gulf of Mannar. Both the Coast Guard and the Navy have `smart patrolling plans.' They follow it up with real-time intelligence sharing at the unit level.
A red alert has been sounded along the Tamil Nadu coastline following the detection of large quantities of explosives concealed in a boat seized by the Coast Guard. According to information available now, the boat was packed with Trinitrotoluene (TNT) mixed with RDX and not just with TNT. This was to multiply the impact of the explosion, police sources said. The investigators have found that the suspects on the "suicide mission" were not aware of the target. "Instructions were given over satellite phone at regular intervals. The most probable target was the Colombo Port or Sri Lankan warships. The details of calls made/received over the satellite phone are being verified by the intelligence agencies," he said.
Asked why the suspects did not open fire when the Coast Guard intercepted them off the Kodiakarai coast on February 13, the official said: "They were under instructions not to retaliate when encountered by Indian security personnel."
Liaison meeting
On Wednesday, Director-General of Police D. Mukherjee briefed a Civil Military Liaison conference (in which top State Government and defence officers stationed here take part), on the law an order situation in the State. In Ramanathapuram, the police arrested six persons who helped in transporting aluminium ingots to Sri Lanka.
Canadian Oil Refinery burns...terror related?
These guys are getting stronger by the minute and are intimidating
everyone.
No one wants to touch them. They use the "Canadian value" of
multiculturalism against anyone who confronts them.
It is also curious that we have had an unexplained fire at our oil
refinery
in Sarnia but no mention to even an investigation as to the cause.
Only
talk about gas prices and not panicking the public about a gas
shortage.
How quickly do people forget our oil industry was JUST targetted.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d9f59286-56a5-4b5f-a793-7a67e996fe4f&k=64933
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=d9f59286-56a5-4b5f
-a793-7a67e996fe4f&k=64933
Yes, that is Ed's camp, except, those are junk pumps, as the gas pumps were in front of the cafe, the old glass type, this photo is of the rock shop.
It looks like flat land, LOL, it is solid rock mountains, this bldg and Ed's Camp, are on a sliver between 2 mountains.
The photographer is standing in / on Rte. 66 to take this photo.
Behind this building, is a huge wash/rock river bed, that some years runs all year, as it did one year that i lived there, other times it is a wall of water, with flash floods.
The front of this building is facing south, I bought north, about 3/4 of a mile, laugh here, I not only got to ford Ed's Wash, but also had one even larger in front of the mobile that went north to south.
My wash was so large, with nice trees, and until there was a real big flood, there were still Indian camps there.
Also on the south end of my first mountain, it was the watch the world spot, the look out spot, and the indians had chipped pictographs into the whole point.........and I swear, one of the larger ones, looks like a simple airplane.
I could lay in my bed and when the sun was right, see them.
The rest of the time was spent killing rattlesnakes from the den.
In Both washes, there were springs and just west of the bldg, in the photo, there are giant cottonwood trees, which are the site of one of Beales wagon road camps.
The road crossed my land and went down to the wash and where they had the camp, we found enough proof that the museum may still be passing out what I wrote and it was published in a local magazine.
I followed the Beale road from Kingman, to Oatman, and past that, but not into California.
Some of the rockwork is still in use, where they had to build and fill in the gaps between the mountains and hills, and make small bridges over washes.
Parts of Rte 66, are built over the Beale Wagon Road.
The first Wagon Train to go over it, was attacked by Indians, so it was not a popular road for the wagon trains, they went another 20 miles, north and it is what is now Hwy 68.
It would be the Mohave Indians there, and the last I heard they were considered a branch of the Yuma Indians, from Yuma, both on the Colorado river still.
The Beale Wagon Road was built in the early 1860's and late 50's, all the way across the country, with Beale doing the western parts, all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
It was an Army road, for moving supplies, they were afraid that the Civil War would break out in the west, as well as the south.
Indeed the Civil War in the west, almost got its start, several people from the south, came west and attempted to gain support, for a western front, also money and men.
Dig and you should find a couple battles in the Colorado history books and maybe Montana.
So as it is today, the Army College, was planning for all wars, even in the 1850's............
All this from my memory, LOL, I am not getting paid for this one, so did not check my facts................laughing.
There was a movie filmed there several years ago, something like the "Universal Soldier", with Van Dam, I never saw it, saw all I wanted, with the closed roads, so they could film and the way they messed up our Rte 66.
The town of Oatman is 12 miles west of Ed's Camp.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789396/posts
American 757: You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel [actual title!]
KOMO-TV ^ | 2/21/2007
Posted on 02/22/2007 12:58:47 PM PST by sionnsar
SEATTLE (AP) - An American Airlines 757 lost a wheel leaving Sea-Tac Airport Wednesday morning and landed safely about two hours later at Dallas-Fort Worth.
Sea-Tac spokesman Bob Parker said the tower noticed a ring on a runway threshold at about 7:30 a.m. Crews determined it was part of a wheel. Later, airport officials heard that an American Airlines jet had lost a wheel.
A search found the rest of the wheel behind a sign, next to a runway, Parker said.
The airport notified the Federal Aviation Administration, which called the situation a maintenance issue for American, he said.
American Airlines spokesman John Hotard in Fort Worth said there was no indication in the cockpit that the wheel had fallen off. The plane was rolling to the gate just before noon when the pilot was notified by someone on the group that one of the dual nose wheels was missing, he said.
The plane stopped short of the gate and all 145 passengers exited safety, Hotard said.
[This time a CD player, next time a bomb?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789376/posts
Police blow up foul-mouthed CDs that blared in church
Associated Press via cnn.com ^
Posted on 02/22/2007 12:29:02 PM PST by dmz
SANTA FE, New Mexico (AP) -- Three CD players hidden under a cathedral's pews blared sexually explicit language in the middle of an Ash Wednesday Mass, leading a bomb squad to detonate two of the devices.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1789373/posts
Sri Lanka claims rebel grenade, cyanide find in church
Catholic News ^ | 22 Feb 2007
Posted on 02/22/2007 12:26:31 PM PST by Alex Murphy
Sri Lankan government troops claim to have discovered in a Catholic church grenades, cyanide capsules and equipment belonging to rebel forces as the country's new environment minister calls for "extra-judicial" means for dealing with "dissidents".
Reuters reports that the find comes amid a rash of suspected rebel ambushes and bomb attacks against the military in the peninsula, which is cut off from the rest of Sri Lanka by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lines.
"It is clear that the LTTE terrorists will use every means ... using even places of worship, to continue their campaign of terror," the Media Centre for National Security said concerning the find in a closed room in St Mary's Church in Jaffna on Tuesday.
However, the Tigers, who wear cyanide capsules around their neck to avoid being captured alive and are fighting a new chapter of a two-decade civil war with the state, deny any involvement.
"That's impossible. We never use common buildings or public buildings as a base," Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone from Kilinochchi, the rebels' northern stronghold.
"We have no connection with those things. There are so many groups working with the military that have brought in such things, but we have no connection with that whatever."
The find comes as the foes fight artillery duels across a shared "border" that separates government from rebel territory in the far north, where analysts fear the conflict could flare after a series of major land and sea battles in recent months.
Churches under attack
Meanwhile, Journal Chretien reports that churches in north-east Sri Lanka are increasingly under attack.
"One wonders if the attacks on churches are just a coincidence, or an attempt by the government to warn the clergy not to give protection to these defenceless people," one source, who preferred to remain anonymous, told journalists.
The same source said those speaking out for IDPs were often silenced by intimidation or "elimination", often in the form of unexplained disappearances.
"The church, unable to remain a silent witness, has raised its concerns with the outside world," the source added. "The government of Sri Lanka has taken note and appears to have sought, directly and indirectly, to silence these voices by abducting and sometimes eliminating church officials."
On 13 January, members of the Sri Lankan security forces gunned down the Reverend Nallathamby Gnanaseelan., 38, a father to four young children, who led the Tamil Mission Church in Jaffna.
Minister wants to eliminate "dissidents"
Meanwhile in Colombo, Sri Lankan civil society groups have slammed the newly-appointed environment and natural resources minister, who suggested the possible use of illegal means against those who he claims bring chaos to the country, namely, Tamil rebels, journalists, peace and human rights activists, AsiaNews reports.
Patali Champika Ranawaka, an ultra-nationalist Sinhalese politician appointed environment and natural resources minister just two weeks ago, had suggested that extra-judicial means should be available to dealt with "dissidents" whether Tamil rebels or peace activists.
The controversy began last Sunday when Ranawaka told Ravaya, a local newspaper, that if existing laws were not adequate to re-establish order in the country, "we shall use other means".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1789351/posts
Talovic spotted at LDS Conference Center?
ABC 4 News ^ | 22 Feb 2007 | Susan Wood / Reed Cowen
Posted on 02/22/2007 11:42:22 AM PST by NraFreedom
A security worker for the LDS church reveals to ABC 4 News, security guards watching over the crowds at Music and the Spoken Word the Sunday before the Trolley Square shootings were trailing a man he believes was Sulejmen Talovic.
The man spoke on strict condition of anonymity to ABC 4's Reed Cowan, saying, "There was a suspicious man with an overcoat and a back pack. By overcoat I mean a trench coat." The security worker went on to say that the young man, "appeared to be carrying something inside the coat that he kept adjusting."
The security worker says the young man resembled Talovic and in the week following the Trolley Square killings, many of his peers in LDS security agree Talovic was amidst the crowd at the conference center just one day before the shootings. "If we wouldn't have been on our toes something could have happened. We highly believe it was him."
(Excerpt) Read more at abc4.com ...
http://www.sofiaecho.com/article/people-detained-for-promoting-online-radical-islam-in-bulgaria-set-free/id_20761/catid_66
PEOPLE DETAINED FOR PROMOTING ONLINE RADICAL ISLAM IN BULGARIA SET FREE
12:17 Thu 22 Feb 2007
The four people detained on charges of provoking radical Islam and
religious
intolerance via websites will be freed on bail, the supervising
prosecutor
of the case Chavdar Angelov said.
According to Bulgarian law, stricter measures are inapplicable, as the
crime
is not so grave, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency (BTA) reported.
Investigators from Sofia worked together with police and as a result of
the
effort found the people behind the two websites, focusing on radical
Islam,
religious hatred and intolerance.
Police said that the organiser of the event is a 51-year old man. He
was
connected to Ahmad Mousa from Jordan who was deported from Bulgaria in
2000
on similar charges..
The people behind the scheme will be able to leave the country as a ban
cannot be imposed according to Bulgarian law, Angelov said. The
sentence for
such crime is a prison sentence of up to three years and a 300 leva
fine, he
said.
Angelov said that police had no right to impose a ban for leaving the
country as according to the law, for such crime a three year prison
sentence
and 300 leva penalty can be imposed, Angelov said.
Taliban Recruiting Hundreds of Suicide Bombers for Major Attack on NATO Forces
http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD147307
Taliban Recruiting Hundreds of Suicide Bombers for Major Attack on NATO
Forces in the Spring: Al-Jazeera Reports
Special Dispatch—Afghanistan/Jihad & Terrorism
February 23, 2007
No. 1473
The following are excerpts from Al-Jazeera TV reports on Taliban
military
plans. The reports were aired on February 21 and 22, 2007.
To view this clip visit:
http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=1387
Reporter: "The fighters of the Afghan Taliban movement are in a real
race
against time. The spring offensive – for which the movement is
preparing by
means of training, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and with which the
NATO forces threatened [the Taliban] – is imminent, according to the
movement's leaders. This is a diligent movement, which operates at
night
more than by day, away from any surveillance or reconnaissance. The
movement's leaders said that the attack would include all of
Afghanistan,
but that it would focus on the south, in order to take control of
entire
cities."
Mullah Dadallah (translated into Arabic): "There are 6,000 Taliban
mujahideen ready to fight in the spring campaign, and the number will
rise
to 10,000. The greater the number of Jewish and Christian forces
fighting
us, the more this will encourage the people to join us."
Reporter: "The Taliban says it has obtained a new anti-aircraft weapon,
but
it did not go into details. As proof, it presented Al-Jazeera with
footage
showing what they say is a U.S. military helicopter burning after being
downed, in Kandahar about two months ago."
[...]
Reporter: "In a noteworthy development, the Afghan Taliban movement
presented what it called its 'new weapon,' which will confront NATO's
lethal weapons. This is the weapon of suicide operations. Taliban
military
commander [Mullah] Dadallah used this gathering to recruit over 500
suicide
bombers for the coming spring campaign, which he promised would be
bloody.
He stressed that the Taliban is capable of multiplying their numbers."
Mullah Dadallah (translated into Arabic): "Praise be to Allah, who gave
us
this great power of self-sacrifice, among Arabs and non-Arabs. Our
preparations for the war in the field of self-sacrifice activities are
not
enough by themselves. These operations are not sufficient to defeat
them.
The weapon of devotion is still the most important. In addition, we
must
remember our martyrs and their blood, which they sacrificed for a
greater
cause."
Reporter: "One of the suicide bombers summed up for Al-Jazeera the
reasons
for carrying out this act. He denied that poverty or depression, or any
other of the reasons given by commentators, had led to his decision."
Suicide bomber (translated into Arabic): "I understand what a
self-sacrifice operation means. I am an educated student from a
well-off
family. I have no mental problems or anything like that. I could
complete
my studies and become a doctor."
Reporter: "The suicide operations that the movement is preparing for
include the use of car bombs and motorcycle bombs, as well as the
explosive
belts worn by suicide bombers. All the movement's leaders and fighters
whom
we met emphasized that this year will be the decisive one in favor of
the
Taliban. One of them proudly told us that Afghanistan is the graveyard
of
the empires – from the Mongols and the British to the Russians – and
that
now, NATO's turn has come."
Lengthy wait for woman in 'spy' case
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_Africa&set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=nw20070222114221685C236528
Lengthy wait for woman in 'spy' case
February 22 2007 at 01:59PM
Luanda - A British rights activist who faces charges of spying after
being arrested on a fact-finding mission to northern Angola may have to
wait months for her case to be resolved, her lawyer said on Thursday.
Sarah Wykes, a veteran activist for London-based Global Witness, was
due in the capital Luanda later in the day after being cleared late on
Wednesday to leave Cabinda province where she was detained on Saturday.
Wykes had been freed from custody earlier in the day after posting bail
of 180 000 kwanzas (about R14 000).
Her lawyer Francisco Lwemba said that Wykes would need permission to
leave the southern African country before her case came to court but he
hoped that she would not be forced to remain hanging around.
Totally rejected the spying allegations
"According to documents from the public prosecutor's office, Sarah
Wykes will not be able to leave Angola without prior authorisation from the
relevant authorities," Lwemba told AFP.
"We hope that they won't turn down any request to leave."
Lwemba said that the justice process was likely to be drawn-out.
"We know it's going to be a lengthy process as the police have got to
present their evidence and the prosecutor has got to verify these
accusations before any eventual decision on taking the case to court," he
added.
Wykes was picked up while meeting with civil society groups while
preparing a report on the enclave's oil reserves for Global Witness which
campaigns against the corrupt exploitation of natural resources.
The Cabinda enclave produces more than half the oil that has made
Angola sub-Saharan Africa's second largest producer after Nigeria. But
Cabindans say that none of the billions of dollars generated for Luanda's
coffers trickles down to them.
In an interview with Angola's Radio Ecclesia, Wykes said she had been
touched by "solidarity" shown by her fellow rights activists in Angola.
"I am not able to speak about the case" while it goes through the
wheels of justice, she added.
Global Witness has totally rejected the spying allegations.
"Global Witness believes that charges of espionage are completely
unfounded and should be dropped immediately and unconditionally so that she
be allowed to return to the UK," it said in a statement on its website.
Unlike the rest of Angola, from which it is geographically separated by
a narrow stretch of coastal Democratic Republic of Congo territory,
Cabinda was a Portuguese protectorate and not a colony.
Its residents feel closer linguistically and culturally to their
Congolese neighbours and separatist movements have been active over the
years.
Putin the Comedian returns ..." As a multi-ethnic and multi-religious country, he added, Russia has long experience in fostering cooperation between faiths and ethnicities"
Good news, according to the inimitable Spengler, "Russia does not propose to ally with the Muslim world against the United States." Maybe but can we tell the differnce between what Spengler thinks they are doing and what it results in if a mushroom pops up somewhere?
Last Thursday Putin:
installed as acting president of Chechnya the strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, whose private army allegedly murders and abducts enemies of the regime with impunity. The son of a Muslim rebel, the bete noire of human-rights advocates, Kadyrov embodies internal policy toward its Muslim population. It is the same policy that Russia pursued these three centuries past.
Not exactly un-Ivan III-like from Vlad.
Russia does not propose to ally with the Muslim world against the United States. Putin's initiative should be thought of as a hudna, a brief truce in a long war. With justification, Putin cites Russia's experience with the Islamic world. It has been enmeshed in imperial ventures on its southern border for 300 years and now stands at the frontier between Islam and the Western world. The new Chechnya offers a likelier model for the new Middle East than the Bush administration's delusional pursuit of democracy. Russian troops killed between 35,000 and 100,000 civilians in the first Chechen war of 1994-96, and half a million were driven from their homes. Dead and displaced Chechens, that is, comprised roughly half the population. Another 5,000 or so died in the second Chechen war of 1999-2000, when Russian forces leveled the capital city, Grozny.
In Kadyrov Russia has found a local overlord who actually will do what the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin vainly hoped that Yasser Arafat would do: deal swiftly of the local hotheads who get out of line. Putin and his colleagues have bested Israel's death toll during the Palestinian intifadas by two orders of magnitude. Putting Kadyrov, 30, in charge of what remains of Chechnya adds insult to injury.
Putin's pragmatism with respect to the human rights of Russian Muslims detracted not a whit from the festivities in Riyadh, because issues of principle have no place whatever in Middle Eastern politics. "I see in Putin a statesman and a man of peace and fairness," said King Abdullah to the official Saudi Press Agency before the visit. "That's why the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia extends a hand of friendship to Russia."
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Here comes the money lines:
For the moment, Russia and Saudi Arabia have a pressing interest in common, namely avoiding a US (or Israeli) military strike against Iran. Neither is prepared to deal with the consequences. Saudi Arabia fears for the loyalties of its own Shi'ites, and Russia fears for the stability of its southern borders. It might seem that Russia would benefit from hostilities in the Persian Gulf, which would increase the oil price as well as Russia's own leverage in the international oil market. But the strategic issues override this apparent economic advantage. A nuclear-armed Iran is the last thing Russia wants, but Moscow is not prepared - yet - to confront the consequences of a general destabilization of its soft, Muslim-majority underbelly.
Russia's position in the world differs in fundamentals from that of the United States and Western Europe. United Nations projections show its population declining from about 150 million in 1989, when communism collapsed, to about 90 million at mid-century, and the median age will rise from 25 to 50 years. Russian women have 13 abortions for every 10 live births, and life expectancy has fallen to 65 years from 70 years in 1985. But Russia's Muslim majorities continue to grow and will exceed the non-Muslim European population in as little as three to four decades.
Linear projections are one thing, and the will to live is another. On paper, Russia's position appears hopeless; whereas current trends show a Muslim majority in Europe a century hence, Russia may have a Muslim majority in less than two generations.
Perhaps it is inevitable that Washington should misunderstand Moscow at this juncture in history.
One thing we do know, in the ultimate sense, the Russians want their grandchldren to enjoy life on this earth, not with 72 sex machien chicks in a promised afterlife. This signifies ultimately for what we can depend on in their behavior.
Putin has embarked on a monstrous enterprise, next to which Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor seems like a country parson. European Russia is dying, and Muslims will compose a majority of citizens of the Russian Federation by as early as 2040. But the successors of Imperial Russia, the Third Rome after the fall of Constantinople to Islam in 1453, refuse to slide without a struggle into the digestive tract of the House of Islam. Western Europe may go with a whimper rather than a bang as Muslim immigrants replace the shrinking local population, but the Russians have no such intention. Putin and his comrades will employ all the guile and violence at their command to delay the decline of European Russia. The Europeans are the emasculated remnant of a fallen civilization; for better or worse, the Russians still are real men.
Putin is playing a Great Game in Central Asia, comparable in scope to the long duel with Britain during the 19th century, but with a difference: Russia's object is no longer imperial, but existential. America's blundering about its borders in the form of "color revolutions" in the republics of the former Soviet Union is an intolerable form of interference.
Interesting idea.
It is instructive to contrast Russia's policy in Chechnya with America's catastrophic policy in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Force, duplicity and bargains with the devil are the hallmarks of Russian strategy. Free elections have brought Hamas to power in the Palestinian territories, entrenched Hezbollah in Lebanon, and set in motion a civil war in Iraq. By contrast, Putin has pacified the most stubborn Muslim population in the world, namely Chechnya, by means that horrified the world. The United States offers democracy to the Muslim world, and is universally hated; Putin destroys an entire Muslim country, and is welcomed as a friend. The question begs itself: who better understands the Islamic world, Vladimir Putin or George W Bush?
Why am I continually reminded of William T Sherman in all this?
Posted by admin on February 21, 2007
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bombs_found_in_abandoned_suitcases_in_tra
in/articleshow/1662227.cms
Bombs found in abandoned suitcases in train
BHAGALPUR: Fifteen bombs were on Thursday found in suitcases abandoned
in a
coach of the Sealdah- Varanasi Express train near Dhanauri station
during
intensified searches of trains in the aftermath of the Samjhauta
Express
blasts.
Police said passengers travelling in coach number 95411 noticed two
abandoned suitcases near the toilet and immediately informed Government
Railway Police and railway officials.
After breaking open the suitcases, five powerful and 10 small crude
bombs
and materials used for making them were found in one suitcase.
The other suitcases contained some admit cards for a test for a
government
job and bills of the Jharkhand State Electricity Board, officials said.
The bombs were being defused. No arrests had been made in this
connection,
they said.
IRAN: DEMONSTRATORS STAGE RALLY IN FRONT OF ITALIAN EMBASSY
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.388927957&par=0
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.3889279
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IRAN: DEMONSTRATORS STAGE RALLY IN FRONT OF ITALIAN EMBASSY
Tehran, 22 Feb. (AKI) - Pro-government demonstrators staged rallies on
Thursday in front of the embassies of Britain, Italy, the Vatican and
France
to protest against UN sanctions approved last December against Tehran
over
its nuclear programme, which Western powers fear is aimed at building
nuclear weapons. Students with the Islamic militia Basij chanted
slogans
against Italy ('shame, leave the sanctions') and called for its right
to a
nuclear programme. Iran claims its programme is solely for civilian
use.
They also called for the resignation of the Italian government - which
had
however resigned the previous day over a Senate vote on its foreign
policy -
and protested in front of the Holy See's embassy against a papal
address
last September interpreted as linking Islam to violence saying it had
'offended Islam and the Prophet Mohammed'.
[an amazing collection of eco terrorists and how to support them, you will have to read a few to really understand what we are up against and why we cannot convince so many Americans, that we have a war going on.........granny]
http://breakallchains.blogspot.com/2007/02/jailed-eco-terrorist-hit-with-ecology.html
Monday, February 19, 2007
Jailed 'eco-terrorist' a hit with ecology students Ex-'Most Wanted' is activist hero in B.C. classroom
SID TAFLER
Special to The Globe and Mail
VICTORIA -- To the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, Tre Arrow is an eco-terrorist. He was on the FBI's Most Wanted list, accused of firebombing and burning logging and gravel trucks in Oregon that caused $250,000 in damage.
But to the children at the Oak and Orca Bioregional School in Victoria, he is a political prisoner and an activist hero.
Mr. Arrow fled to Canada in 2002. He was arrested nearly three years ago and has been in jail in British Columbia while the extradition process winds its way through the legal system.
At the Deep Ecology workshop at the alternative school in an aging house overlooking the city, Mr. Arrow's life of high drama and intrigue is an integral part of the curriculum.
On several occasions, through a telephone call and a speaker phone, he has been a guest lecturer in the class from behind the locked gates and barbed wire at the Vancouver Island Regional Correctional Centre.
On a bright midwinter afternoon recently, the eight children in this mixed-aged class of nine- to 13-year-olds joined in spirited discussion about Mr. Arrow.
"Why are we talking to Tre?" asked teacher Morgan Obendorfer, 28.
"Because he's not guilty."
"Because capitalism owns democracy."
"Because he's going to be strung up if he's sent back to the U.S."
"It'll be a show trial, he'll have three seconds to make his defence."
Like many children their age, some of these students talk out of turn, push each other, or engage in other disruptive behaviour.
They are frequently told to behave, stay on topic and pay attention.
The excitement in the class rose as they gathered around a wooden chair with a phone on the seat and a picture of a smiling, bearded Tre Arrow taped to the back.
"Why is it powerful for a group of kids to be talking to a political prisoner?" Mr. Obendorfer asked.
"Because kids have power."
"Because we're cute and adorable."
"Because kids can't go to jail, they're too young."
A few minutes later, the phone rang and Mr. Arrow's call was amplified to through the speaker phone. He greeted the teacher, who visited him in jail the day before, and asked for all the pupils' names. Then something remarkable happened.
Mr. Arrow spoke for 24 minutes non-stop about his life and work as an environmental activist without a single interruption from the children, who appeared to listen intently despite a weak connection that caused frequent breaks in the monologue.
He described his commitment and "calling" to the environmental movement. "I needed to help expose the damage being done to our Mother Earth. We only have one home, we can't jump to another planet if we destroy this one."
He talked of becoming a tree-sitter at Eagle Creek in Oregon to prevent the logging of an old-growth forest, and of deciding, during a protest in Portland, to climb to a 23-centimetre ledge on a U.S. Forest Service office building, where he stayed for 11 days.
Born Michael Scarpitti, he told the children the decision to change his name to Tre Arrow "came from the spirit of the trees as a gift from my ancestors."
He also told of running for Congress as a Pacific Green Party candidate in 2000, getting more than 15,000 votes in a bid for Oregon's Third Congressional District.
"We had lots of media attention and public support and we ended up getting the Eagle Creek logging sale cancelled."
He said he fled to Canada and lived under an assumed name because he was convinced he couldn't get a fair trial in the United States. And he denied involvement in the arson and firebombing, contending others involved implicated him in return for reduced sentences.
"They're trying to silence me and keep me locked up in a cage for the rest of my life."
He said he was arrested in Canada in 2004, but left out one important detail -- he was picked up in a Victoria store trying to shoplift a pair of bolt-cutters he later said would be used to break into locked dumpsters to scavenge food for the poor.
Last May, Vic Toews, then the federal justice minister, ordered Mr. Arrow extradited to face charges in the United States. Mr. Arrow's lawyers have launched an appeal in the B.C. Court of Appeal, which is expected to be heard in April.
Mr. Arrow has also applied for bail and for refugee status in Canada. The class at Oak and Orca is only one part of his support network in Canada and the United States, which has raised $350,000 in bail sureties.
When the call ended, the students were asked to discuss what they had heard.
"It was very cool to talk to him again."
"It was really inspiring about what he said about his spiritual name."
Then Mr. Obendorfer summed up: "It's pretty paradoxical that someone who cares so much about the earth is locked away in a little cage. Maybe we can make something positive of this. Maybe one day we can bring him here for Deep Ecology."
at 9:02 PM
[talk about brainwashing the young............granny]
http://breakallchains.blogspot.com/2007/02/brigitte-mohnhaupt-raf-member-to-be.html
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Brigitte Mohnhaupt - RAF member to be freed after 24 years
× Brigitte Mohnhaupt is not a security risk, court rules
× Families of gang's victims angry at killer's release
Kate Connolly in Berlin
Tuesday February 13, 2007
The Guardian
Two police photographs of Brigitte Mohnhaupt, who has spent 24 years in prison for her involvement in nine murders. Photographs: AP/EPA
A former leader of the Baader Meinhof gang that terrorized West Germany in the 1970s and 80s is to be freed from prison after 24 years following a court ruling yesterday.
Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, who is serving five life sentences plus 15 years for her role in the murders of several prominent Germans, including a banker, a prosecutor and an industrialist, will be freed on five years' probation next month.
In its ruling, made public on its website, the Stuttgart state court said: "This is not a pardon, rather a decision based on specific legal considerations. The decision ... was reached based on the determination that no security risk exists."
The decision was condemned by the families of Mohnhaupt's victims, particularly because she had shown no remorse.
"I regard this as a perversion of justice," said Dirk Schleyer, 54, whose father Hanns Martin Schleyer, a former Nazi and head of the employers' federation, was held hostage by the gang under Mohnhaupt's leadership in 1977 before being killed in cold blood in a French forest. His body was later found dumped in a car boot.
Mr Schleyer said he feared Mohnhaupt's release meant it would never now be possible to establish who shot his father.
The court ruling was also condemned by Konrad Freiberg, the head of Germany's police union, which lost 10 officers in killings by the gang, also known as the Red Army Faction (RAF). "We will not forget these murders. A feeling of bitterness remains," he said.
Mohnhaupt was a leader of the "second generation" of the RAF. She took over after its founders, Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, committed suicide in prison. She played a key role in the wave of terror in 1977 known as the "German autumn", when Germans whom they held responsible for pursuing Germany's economic success at the expense of dealing with its Nazi past, were kidnapped and killed.
She was involved in the 1981 attempted murder of US General Frederick Kroesen, the commander of American forces in Europe, and his wife in a rocket propelled grenade attack on his car. She also presented flowers to a bank executive before shooting him dead. The gang killed 34 people before it was disbanded in 1998.
Mohnhaupt will probably have to change her looks and identity upon release at the end of next month. Most of the more than 20 terrorists who have been freed have been socially rehabilitated. Most work under assumed identities. Mohnhaupt was an artist before the gang became her life and was said to be contemplating a return to painting. She has never given an interview and has never asked for a pardon.
President Horst Köhler is contemplating a pardon for Christian Klar, another gang member who has served 24 years after being given nine life sentences. Two other former RAF terrorists remain in jail.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2011815,00.html
For more information about the Red Army Faction, including all the group's communiques and statements translated into english, see http://www.germanguerilla.com
To google this site, will take nerves of steel, some of the names I know, others I do not:
http://www.thejerichomovement.com/prisoners.html
More known and unknown:
http://www.prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/pplist-alpha.shtml
[sample of page, above link]
Can't Jail the Spirit
Political Prisoners and POW's in the US
Last updated on February 14, 2007
This list is alphabetical. To find prisoners in your home state — or any other location — use the Find command in your browser – for example, "Find NY" or "Find CO". And as of February 2005, there are so many names that we have split off onto separate pages the lists of:
* those who have died in custody, and
* those who have been recently released.
Compiled by the Prison Activist Resource Center. For other PP/POW-related resources, go to our political prisoner page.
Ali Khalid Abdullah #148130
Mound Correctional Facility
17601 Mound Rd
Detroit, MI 48212
www.geocities.com/ppwc_uk/aboutali.html
Haki Malik Abdullah (s/n Michael Green) # C-56123
PO Box 3456
Corcoran, CA 93212
Mumia Abu-Jamal # AM-8335
SCI Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370
www.mumia.org (International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal)
www.freemumia.org (Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal [SF])
www.j4mumia.org (Justice For Mumia [NY])
www.mumia2000.org
Sundiata Acoli (s/n Clark Squire) # 39794-066
PO Box 3000
USP Allenwood
White Deer, PA 17887
http://www.afrikan.net/sundiata/welcome.html and prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/sundiata-acoli
Charles Sims Africa # AM-4975
SCI Graterford, Box 244
Graterford, PA 19426-0244
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/charles-sims-africa-st.html
Debbie Sims Africa # 006307
SCI Cambridge Springs
451 Fullerton Ave
Cambridge Springs, PA 16403
prisonactivist.org/pps+pows/MOVE/debbi-sims-africa-st.html
Interesting site and more declassified papers:
http://olymedia.mahost.org/cointel.htm
I see H. Rap Brown listed here, but what I have noted, is that several have taken a muslim name, but the prison still makes them use the good plain American name also:
http://olymedia.mahost.org/pprisoners.htm
I am going to send the rest of tonights posts to all.
If you are asking why I am still looking at this ugly group, it is the knowledge that it will show the muslim/communist/gang/ prison converts and connections.........
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