I would say that Kovtun looks like what he is, a youngish man who has been handed a death sentence.
The man is thinking thoughts, that cannot be put into words.
Russia is good at putting people in the hospital, often the mental hospital, so look for it to 'lodge in his brain'.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=8669#comment-406416
12/17/2006
Did We Nearly Lose Texas In A Nuke Explosion?
Filed under:
* General
— Uncle Dave @ 5:00 am
Thar she blows!
OK, maybe that headline is a tad overblown given the size of Texas, but given most people have forgotten we have nukes sitting around the country it’s rather disconcerting that one could have accidentally blown up. Or that nuke bomb techs being overworked!
Mishap in dismantling nuclear warhead
A watchdog group charges a nuclear warhead nearly exploded in Texas when it was being dismantled at the government’s Pantex facility near Amarillo.
The Project on Government Oversight says it has been told by knowledgeable experts that the warhead nearly detonated in 2005 because an unsafe amount of pressure was applied while it was being disassembled, The Austin American-Statesman reports.
The U.S. Energy Department fined the plant’s operators $110,000 last month.
An investigator for Project on Government Oversight says the weapon involved was a W-56 warhead with 100 times the destructive power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The watchdog group says the problem was caused in part by technicians at the plant being required to work up to 72 hours each week.
They released an anonymous letter, reportedly sent by Pantex employees, warning that long hours and efforts to increase output were causing dangerous conditions at the plant.
A spokesperson for the Energy Department declined to respond to safety complaints in the letter.
[Fars, is this going in the right direction? will it help to bring peace?]
Iran reformist regains influence
Iran's moderate former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has won election to Iran's powerful clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, results show.
With more than half the votes counted, Mr Rafsanjani, who was defeated in the 2005 presidential election, had a clear lead at the top of the list.
The election - and simultaneous local polls - was seen as a test of support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Early results suggest liberals and moderates have regained some influence.
Official results have not yet been announced in either of the two elections.
Political revival
Displaying what correspondents describe as a new lease of political life, Mr Rafsanjani led the poll with 1.3 million votes as counting continued.
IRANIAN ELECTIONS
Iranians are voting in two sets of elections
Assembly of Experts poll: Powerful clerical body which supervises the Supreme Leader
Local council polls: More than 250,000 candidates for around 100,000 seats nationwide
46.5 million eligible voters
He is almost half a million votes ahead of the second placed candidate.
His main rival, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi - seen as a political mentor to President Ahmadinejad - is trailing in sixth place, but with enough votes to retain a seat on the Assembly of Experts.
Mr Rafsanjani's strong performance has exceeded his supporters' expectations after his humiliating defeat in 2005, the BBC's Sadeq Saba in Tehran says.
The assembly of 86 theologians supervises the activities of Iran's supreme leader and chooses his successor when he dies.
Mr Rafsanjani's success was helped by an unexpectedly high turnout and by a new alliance between him and the reformists, our correspondent says.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/6188207.stm
Published: 2006/12/17 18:17:44 GMT
© BBC MMVI
Tight security for Muhammad opera
Airport-style scanners will be used to search people attending a production of a Mozart opera in Berlin featuring the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad.
Security has been tightened because of fears of a Muslim backlash against Deutsche Oper's version of Idomeneo.
Jesus, Buddha and Greek god Poseidon are also decapitated in the show.
But Islamic tradition bans images of Muhammad, and there were violent protests around the world when a Danish newspaper printed 12 cartoons of him.
The production, by director Hans Neuenfels, received its premiere three years ago, and it was his idea to include the controversial twist with the religious icons.
It gained little attention at the time, but the subsequent riots over the Danish depictions meant that Monday's performance has generated controversy.
Criticism
In September, Berlin's opera house scrapped the show on police advice. But this decision received a mixed response in the German capital.
While some Muslim leaders praised the move, Kenan Kolat, who leads the country's Turkish community, branded it as a step back to "the Middle Ages".
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble were also unhappy about the cancellation.
And Mr Neuenfels himself was critical of the revival of his production, insisting his staging was not altered.
The scene in question, where the king of Crete presents the severed heads, was a protest against "any form of organised religion, or its founders", he added.
Police spokesman Berhard Schodrowski told the Associated Press that officers would be positioned around the venue and were "ready for any eventuality".
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/entertainment/6189571.stm
Published: 2006/12/18 11:25:45 GMT
© BBC MMVI
[Interesting, almost the only good suspect, The Chechen, has tested negative.........]
I will not be silenced, says Russia critic
By Steven Shukor
BBC London
Akhmed Zakayev listened intently as his friend Alexander Litvinenko read out the names in an alleged Russian hit-list of political dissidents.
Mr Zakayev, a Chechen separatist, had just picked up Mr Litvinenko in central London and was driving him home to Muswell Hill, north London, where they were neighbours.
Hours earlier, on 1 November, Mr Litvinenko had been handed documents by Italian investigator Mario Scaramella at the now infamous Itsu sushi restaurant in Piccadilly.
The documents, it has been alleged, revealed information about the assassination of journalist and Putin detractor Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow in October.
They contained a list of enemies of the Kremlin, allegedly targeted for elimination by Russian secret services. The list included the names of Mr Scaramella and Mr Litvinenko.
As the pair headed towards north London, Mr Litvinenko, a former member of the Russian secret services, FSB, told Mr Zakayev he too was on the list.
"I was not surprised," said Mr Zakayev, the foreign minister of the Chechen government in exile and a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin. "I know they are coming for me."
The most important thing for them is to shut me up but I won't be silenced
Akhmed Zakayev
After being dropped off, Mr Litvinenko fell ill later that night and was hospitalised two days later. He died on 23 November, apparently from polonium-210 poisoning.
Kremlin officials have consistently denied any government or secret service involvement in the murder.
I met Mr Zakayev at the Piccadilly offices of a public relations agency which is co-ordinating the media interest.
Our first handshake was a little tentative. I had not yet asked him if he had been tested for polonium, but it was one of my first questions.
"Yes," was the delayed answer relayed to me by my Russian interpreter.
"Negative?" I asked, trying to convince myself I already knew the answer? "Yes."
I relaxed, but still could not bring myself to drink from the glass of water offered to me by office staff.
Mr Zakayev's car was also found to have no traces of the substance. However the documents handled by Mr Litvinenko were contaminated.
Terrorist acts
Mr Zakayev, 47, a field commander in the first Chechen war, was granted political asylum in the UK in November 2003 after fighting off an extradition request from Russia.
Authorities there accuse him of helping to prepare the theatre seizure in Moscow in 2002 and of taking part in other terrorist acts between 1996 and 1999. He denies the charges.
"I am grateful to Great Britain for having offered me safe refuge," said Mr Zakayev, who is a key witness in the Metropolitan Police's investigation into Mr Litvinenko's death.
"If you can't live in your home, there is no better place than Great Britain. Sasha [Alexander Litvinenko] and I both believed that.
"Whenever we discussed our security, Sasha always said [the Russian authorities] would never dare touch us here on British soil."
While in Moscow the two operated on opposite sides of the Chechen conflict.
Mr Zakayev said Mr Litvinenko became disillusioned with his paymasters over what he felt was an unjust war.
They linked up in London under the patronage of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Their circle expanded to include an older generation of Russian exiles, such as Oleg Gordievsky and Vladimir Bukovsky.
'No fear'
Mr Zakayev is anticipating a fresh attempt by Moscow to have him extradited in exchange for Russian help in the investigation into Mr Litvinenko's death.
He said he was prepared to be questioned in London by Russian investigators who have opened their own inquiry.
Mr Zakayev claims the Kremlin wants to silence him and others like him who speak out against the regime.
"I don't have anything to be afraid of because I know they will try anything to eliminate me.
"A person becomes a dissident when he or she doesn't fear any more.
"The most important thing for them is to shut me up. If I do that they will have achieved their objective with Sasha's killing. But I won't be silenced."
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6175627.stm
Published: 2006/12/14 05:21:07 GMT
© BBC MMVI
Interesting several papers have the report on the fine, and there is a report for having a safe plant from the Gov.
http://www.google.com/search?q=BWXT-Managed+Nuclear+Facility&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US
http://www.google.com/search?q=Energy+defense+nuclear+facility+accident&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US
http://www.google.com/search?q=BWXT-Managed+Nuclear+Facility+accident&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US&q=Nuclear+Facility+accident&btnG=Search
Getting into others:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear-weapons+plant&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US
Too many:
http://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear-weapons+plant+accident&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US
http://www.google.com/search?q=nuclear-weapons+plant+theft&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&rls=com.netscape%3Aen-US
The nuclear plant, is about the only way to get the high grade materials, all at once.
Dr. Bill talked once about the fact that it was not all kept in one place, said there was 7 places and no one person knew of all 7 of them.
He said he did not, after all the years that he has worked designing nuclear weapons for the U.S.
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF0404/Wolf/Wolf.html
Locking The Barn Door?
Safeguarding Nuclear Facilities
Ron Wolf
Interesting article, there is even a military tank on the property, for shooting robbers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1754528/posts?page=9
Cuba renews ties with old ally Russia
Miami Herald ^ | Dec. 16, 2006 | JAIME SUCHLICKI
Posted on 12/16/2006 12:36:01 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
In his first major policy initiative since assuming power, Gen. Raúl Castro signed a far-reaching military-aid agreement with Russia. In September, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, visited Cuba and signed an economic-aid pact providing Castro with $350 million in credits to upgrade Cuba's armed forces, including the acquisition of Russian transportation equipment, air-navigation systems, industrial goods for the energy sector and financing of future Russian investments in Cuba, among other projects. Fradkov met with Raúl Castro in a climate described as ''cordial and friendly'' by the Cuban press.
This accord with the Russians rounds out Cuba's international alliances with key strategic countries. They include Venezuela, China and Iran. Whether the Russian deal was in the making prior to Fidel Castro's surgery or developed as a more recent initiative, it reaffirms Raúl's long-standing admiration and support for Soviet policies in the past and for Russian policies in the present.
Consolidating power
As a young man, Raúl traveled behind the iron curtain and became a member of Cuba's Communist Party. Throughout the duration of the Soviet-Cuban relationship (1960-1990), Fidel and Raúl remained steadfast friends and supporters of Soviet policies, particularly in Africa, where several hundred thousand Cuban soldiers aided in bringing pro-Soviet and pro-Cuban regimes to power in the African continent. Raúl seems fascinated by the Soviet military and displays photos and statues of Soviet generals in his office.
It was only natural then that Raúl would turn to his old allies and friends for support as he consolidates power in Cuba. The Russians can provide his military dictatorship, in addition to weapons, with credits to purchase other Russian products. If the relationship with Venezuela were to sour or Venezuela decreases its oil shipments to Cuba, the Russians could step in and help. Much of Cuba's nonmilitary equipment is Russian made and requires upgrading and replacement. Finally, Russian international positions, influence in the U.N. Security Council and increasing defiance of U.S. policies, fit Raúl's world view and interests.
What can the Russians expect from a renewed relationship with Cuba? For starters the Russians haven't given up on what they claim is Cuba's debt from the Soviet era, approximately $20 billion. In 1991 I participated in a conference on Cuban-Russian relations in Moscow, and the Russian side, both academic and government officials, insisted that the Cuban debt should be paid. My response then was that, even if Cuba had the means, it would not recognize or pay that debt. Castro would always claim that Cuba's sacrifices in support of Soviet policies throughout the world far surpassed Russian economic help to Cuba. The debt seems to have been off the official agenda during Frandkov's visit.
Challenge to U.S. interests
The Russians also may be interested in resuming and expanding Cold War era espionage cooperation. The Soviet Union built the Lourdes electronic eavesdropping facility near Havana and used it to spy on U.S. military and technological secrets. It was closed by the Soviets following U.S. pressure in the 1990s, but could be recreated. The Chinese have established a similar facility in Bejucal, Cuba, and the Russians may look with envious eyes at the Chinese capacity to tap into U.S. military and civilian technology. Cooperation between the KGB and Stasi-trained Cuban espionage services, one of the best in the world, could resume, if it ever stopped, with the Cubans providing special help to the Russians.
It is yet too early to tell how far Cuban-Russian cooperation will advance or if it will represent a challenge to U.S. interests and security. Yet the new military-aid agreement and the new spirit of Russian-Cuban cooperation may indicate a continuous Cuban militancy and opposition to U.S. policies and a willingness to restart a relationship with an old, albeit much weaker and somewhat different, ally.
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http://www.google.com/search?q=China+has+stations+bases+in+Cuba&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oagmc156.php
INSIDE BEJUCAL AND LOURDES BASES IN CUBA: A REAL THREAT
Manuel Cereijo
May 2002
Since 1998, in spite that very little has been written about the Bejucal base in Cuba, Cuba's system of international communications surveillance is in full operation. Most of what has been written has been ignored by US and European authoritities. Bejucal is an electronic espionage base used by the Cuban military intelligence to intercept and process international communications passing via communications satellites.
Other parts of the same system intercept messages from the Internet, from undersea cables, from radio transmissions, from secret equipment installed inside embassies, or use orbiting satellites to monitor signals anywhere on the earth's surface.
The world's most secret electronic surveillance system has its main origin in the former Soviet Union Lourdes base in Cuba.. In a deeper sense, it results from the invention of radio and the fundamental nature of telecommunications. The creation of radio permitted governments and other communicators to pass messages to receivers over transcontinental distances. But there was a penalty - anyone else could listen in. Previously, written messages were physically secure (unless the courier carrying them was ambushed, or a spy compromised communications). The invention of radio thus created a new importance for cryptography, the art and science of making secret codes. It also led to the business of signals intelligence, now an industrial scale activity.
Dozens oof advanced nations use sigint as a key source of intelligence. Even smaller European nations such as Denmark, the Netherlands or Switzerland have recently constructed small, stations to obtain and process intelligence by eavesdropping on civil satellite communications.
All of them are smaller than Cuba's Bejucal, and none of them are so close to the United States.
Everything produced in the Bejucal sigint base is marked by hundreds of special codewords that "compartmentalize" knowledge of intercepted communications and the systems used to intercept them.
The scale and significance of the global surveillance system has been transformed since 1980. The arrival of low cost wideband international communications has created a wired world. But few people are aware that the first global wide area network (WAN) was not the internet, but the international network connecting sigint stations and processing centers.
By the early 1970s, the laborious process of scanning paper printouts for names or terms appearing on the "watch lists" had begun to be replaced by automated computer systems. These computers performed a task essentially similar to the search engines of the internet. Prompted with a word, phrase or combination of words, they will identify all messages containing the desired words or phrases.
Their job, now performed on a huge scale, is to match the "key words" or phrases of interest to intelligence agencies to the huge volume of international communications, to extract them and pass them to where they are wanted. During the 1980s, the NSA developed a "fast data finder" microprocessor that was optimally designed for this purpose. It was later commercially marketed, with claims that it "the most comprehensive character-string comparison functions of any text retrieval system in the world". A single unit could work with:
Continued..................
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/oaget002.php
CASTRO'S TERRORIST CONNECTION
By Ernesto F. Betancourt
As soon as the attack on the World Trade Center took place, Castro started to take a dual position. He rejected terrorism, as well as the American potential reaction to it. He even gave assurances that under no circumstances would he resort to terror against the American people. Now, can we believe that? From the beginning of his regime, Castro has resorted and consorted with terrorism and has invested substantial resources in terrorist plans against the US.
continueed............
http://www.amigospais-guaracabuya.org/
This is the index, there are english reports mixed in.
There is one batch of Vietnam articles that look interesting.
December 16-17, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
Shooting resumes, Gaza cease-fire ends and Gaza Weapons Smuggling
Flourishes
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_politics
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htfMSkE4ZF0gMBrxfQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHZkMjZyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=13539qeqt/EXP=1166501156/**http%3a//abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory%3fid=2732818%26CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
(Australia) 13 terror accused plead not guilty
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20945426-1702,00.html?from=public_rss
The Regathering Storm - Newsweek: 12 Westerners being trained by Al
Qaeda in Pakistan for special mission - picture here
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16240565/site/newsweek/
http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061225_Issue/061216_Afghanistan_hsmall.standard.jpg
UK arms deal probe stopped over Saudi threat to cease terror help:
report
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world_business/view/247781/1/.html
You need us, Taliban's mentor tells Pakistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/18/wpak18.xml
(Canada) Focus shifts north amid terror fears
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-12-17-canada-border_x.htm?csp=34
Abbas forces overrun part of Gaza after polls call
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061217/ts_nm/palestinians_dc
Spanish judge jails seven Islamic militant suspects
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htfMQXPYVFACcAzxHQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjb3ZrYjNkBHBvcwM0BHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=14sj8ddap/EXP=1166446231/**http%3a//www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp%3fxfile=data/theworld/2006/December/theworld_December409.xml%26section=theworld%26col=
France to withdraw special forces from Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061217/ts_afp/afghanistanunrestfrancewithdraw_061217103832
Gunmen stage mass kidnapping in Baghdad - Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms
kidnapped 20-30 Iraqi Red Crescent employees amd Roadside bomb kills 3
U.S. soldiers in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_mass_kidnapping
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061217/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldiers_dc
(Afghanistan) Taliban fought in vain on hill
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=249634
(U.S.) Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121502044.html
(U.S.) Talk of Satellite Defense Raises Fears of Space War - Senior
official warned that nations and possibly terrorists "acquiring
capabilities" to destroy space systems
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/16/AR2006121600791.html
(Afghanistan) NATO convoy attack kills one
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20943401-1702,00.html
(India) Mobile phones latest terror tools
http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/18743.html
Women in terrorism: a Palestinian feminist revolution or gender
oppression?
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/women_terror_e.htm
Israeli Arab Planned Terror Attack in Upper Nazareth
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117589
Gunmen kill Philippines congressmen
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20941084-38196,00.html
Muslims shots dead in south Thailand
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20938152-38197,00.html
(Iraq) 6 suspects detained in Sadr City raid
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_raid
(Afghanistan) Taliban deny receiving backing from Pakistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/16/AR2006121600213.html
(Iraq) Court sentences al-Qaida member to death - Iraqi court sentenced
Libyan member of al-Qaida in Iraq to death for 8 attacks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061216/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_libyan_sentenced_1
Hillier: NATO offensive's aim to 'take out' Taliban leaders
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/15/nato-offensive.html
(U.S.) Informants' tips used to build case in Taliban plot
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4406435.html
Europe on edge over possible holiday terror attacks
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2006/12/16/europe_on_edge_over_possible_holiday_terror_attacks
Philippines moves on Saudi-based charity - International Islamic Relief
Organization (IIRO) frozen, following U.S. Treasury action
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061215-060131-7963r
U.S. needs to better monitor money laundering: report - GAO report
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061216/pl_nm/usa_moneylaundering_report_dc_1
AP: Some Gitmo detainees freed elsewhere - Over 200 released by other
countries
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/after_guantanamo
The Book on Iraq - New Pentagon counterinsurgency manual issued - see
Andrew Cochran's Dec. 15 post
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16222877/site/newsweek/
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/12/new_pentagon_counterinsurgency.php
'Taleban law' blocked in Pakistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6182395.stm
Iran warns of painful revenge if sanctions imposed
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htfMMT84JFh8wAaxLQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHZkMjZyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=12ojg1cun/EXP=1166296211/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/wl_nm/iran_nuclear_larijani_dc_1
Gone quiet - CNN's Henry Shuster: No messages from al-Zawahiri for 10
weeks
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/15/schuster.column/
Hamas, Fatah clash in deepening violence and Israel lets Haniyeh cross,
but not the $35 million
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
http://washtimes.com/world/20061214-114623-3267r.htm
(US) Terror-Free Investing (Commentary) - Missouri state treasurer on
investing in companies with no ties to terrorist states
http://www.opinionjournal.com/cc/?id=110009382
2 Marines reportedly killed near Baghdad - Shiite tribal sheik linked
to British forces also killed in Basra
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq
U.S. to retry terror case against Colombian rebel - First trial of FARC
leader Ricardo Palmera, aka Simon Trinidad, ended in hung jury
http://www.mtstandard.com/articles/2006/12/15/newsnationworld/hjjdihiejjiaij.txt
Suicide bombing injures 3 Afghan soldiers
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_333034.html
Islamic Jihad says its militants fire 8 rockets at Israel
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_333030.html
(India) 7/11 blasts accused says he attended terror camp in Pak
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=342245&sid=NAT
Somali Islamists accuse US of sowing divisions with Al-Qaeda remarks
and Al-Qaeda controls Somali Islamist movement: US official
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061215/ts_afp/somaliaunrestusqaeda_061215095829
http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9htfMSGsoJFmK4A5SnQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHZkMjZyBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=1314qss88/EXP=1166279686/**http%3a//news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061215/pl_afp/somaliaunrestusqaeda_061215003341
Bombers hit Afghanistan as NATO launches operation and 8 Taliban rebels
killed in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/ts_nm/afghan_dc
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/7598_1868562,000500020005.htm
(South America) Tri-border transfers 'funding terror' - BBC: Telefax,
business in South American region, sends millions overseas
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6179085.stm
FBI Issues Warning to Police as Terrorist's Health Fails - Warning of
reprisals as health of Sheik Rahman fails - see Bill West's Dec. 14 post
and Rahman's role in 1993 WTC bombing
Saudis Planning to 'Clean up' al Qaeda in Anbar - Saudi intel official
tells ABC News that they could "clean up" Anbar of al Qaeda networks
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/saudis_planning.html
(Afghanistan) The Taliban's Book of Rules - Newsweek's Christopher
Dickey with translated 9-page pamphlet, now saved on CT Library page
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16169421/site/newsweek/
http://counterterrorismblog.org/library/
December 18, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
Upcoming Video By Al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri Say Fundamentalist
Websites
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.369727343&par=0
(Afghanistan) Ten dead in fresh Afghanistan gunbattles
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061218/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrestus_061218105642
Blast hits NATO convoy in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061218/wl_nm/afghan_violence_dc_3
The Regathering Storm - Newsweek: 12 Westerners being trained by Al
Qaeda in Pakistan for special mission
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16240565/site/newsweek/
http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Mag/061225_Issue/061216_Afghanistan_hsmall.standard.jpg
In Afghanistan, money tips the scales of justice
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-justice18dec18,0,4393580.story?coll=la-home-headlines:
Pakistanis, Afghans mull tribal talks on Taliban
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061218/wl_nm/pakistan_afghan_dc_1
(Pakistan) Al-Qaeda training jihadis from Pak: report
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1871738,00050001.htm
(Iraq) Car Bomb kills five at market - at wholesale vegetable market in
southern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 19
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20949529-1702,00.html
(Iraq) Red Crescent stops work in Baghdad after kidnap
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/SectionHomeL.asp?section=middleeast
(Iraq) Gunmen free 17 seized at Baghdad Red Crescent office
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO838178.htm
Saudis report Shi'ite 'state' inside of Iraq
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061218-121346-2567r.htm
Hamas threatens to resume suicide bombings - Terror group warns if
government toppled, 'all options open'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53412
(India) 3 terrorists killed in Jammu and Kashmir
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1871775,000600030010.htm
Yemen: Al-Qaeda Cell Uncovered - in Sanaa
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.369622476&par=0
Six Yemenis released from Guantanamo
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/December/middleeast_December297.xml§ion=middleeast
Report: Al-Qaida strengthening in Somalia
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061218-074059-1628r
Somalia Islamists discuss defections - 200 troops serving govt
defecting to Islamic courts movement
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_re_af/somalia_4
(Somalia) Growth of Radicalism (my title)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2510196,00.html
(Spain) Mujahedin fighters return to Spain from Iraq: report
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2006/December/focusoniraq_December92.xml§ion=focusoniraq
Norwegians trained by Al-Qaida
http://www.norwaypost.no/cgi-bin/norwaypost/imaker?id=37241
U.N.: States Urged To Ratify Nuclear Terrorism Treaty
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.369257589&par=0
Car bomb explodes in Nigeria's oil delta
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1851499.htm
Russian Terrorists Plan Massive Cyber Attacks — Expert
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/12/18/computerattacks.shtml
(USA) Feds Find No Credible Terror Threats for Holiday
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/12/feds_find_no_cr.html
Special Forces units work in allied countries and clash with the CIA
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-intel18dec18,0,3935943.story?coll=la-home-headlines:
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Jews attacked 4 times more than Muslims, police say
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20061217-110724-7282r.htm
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The Russians Have Never Stopped Spying on Us
newsbyus.com ^ | Alan Caruba | Alan Caruba
Posted on 12/17/2006 2:04:21 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
It is not for nothing that Vladimir Putin, the president of the Russian Republic, is a former member of the KGB. From its earliest days, Soviet Russia maintained a vast army of spies around the world and penetrating the United States remained high on its list of priorities.
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