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Rebels took 12 members of Chechnya's presidential security service captive, an official said Wednesday, contradicting earlier reports that 18 of the officers had died in heavy fighting.
The Interfax news agency had quoted security service chief, Chechen First Deputy Premier Ramzan Kadyrov, as saying Tuesday that 18 of its members had been killed in fighting outside the southern village of Avtury. However, Kadyrov told NTV television later that six had been killed.
Interfax quoted Chechnya's chief prosecutor, Vladimir Kravchenko, as saying Wednesday that 12 of the security service officers had been taken captive.
Kravchenko said about 30 security troops apparently were ambushed by 60 or 70 rebels, according to Interfax. In addition to the six security servicemen, five rebels were killed, he said.
Sobering:
100,000 dead--WMDs--The coming strike on America
William's Note:
Sources have told me that the intelligence briefings given to select members of congress talk about plans for 100,000-plus casualties, WMD use (although analysts fail to use the N-word), and a general plan of horrors that the average American can't comprehend.
By request, I have reprinted the "countdown" article in a single post. As many have written in the past, it is time for all Americans to become vigilant. The cells are already here. We need people looking. The un-classified version given to the media is in the articles section.
Countdown to the Next Strike
by William Webb
The mainstream media is great at taking something like the Iraq prison photos and running them into the ground. They are horrible and pathetic when it comes to reporting on something like the groups who plan to cause hundreds of thousands of American casualties.
Likewise, politically-tainted commissions like the 9/11 body, are great Monday-morning quarterbacks and give politicians and political hacks a chance to mug for the cameras. Hindsight is 20/20. Foresight is something tragically lacking within the beltway.
You will hear both the media and the politicians in shock before this year is up. The United States is going to get hit hard--and as much as I personally hope I am wrong--WMDs will feature in the strikes.
For the next several days, we will investigate the non-classified material available and help you connect the dots so you aren't surprised when the next round of mass murder begins
In July 2003, radical Saudi Sheik Nasser bin Hamd al-Fahad issued a fatwa, or religious edict, granting legal religious authority to the use of weapons of mass destruction against both the United States and Great Britain and their civilian populations.
For anyone familiar with the operations of Al-Qaida, this fatwa should serve as a grim, horrific warning to read, listen to, and most importantly, understand.
Osama bin Laden has cloaked his next planned major mass murder in religious legitimacy by obtaining these rulings prior to the strikes.
Two months after publication of the fatwa, on September 10, 2003, the State Department issued a warning which stated in part: “We expect Al-Qaida will strive for new attacks that will be more devastating than the September 11 attack, possibly involving nonconventional weapons such as chemical or biological agents. We also cannot rule out the potential for Al-Qaida to attempt a second catastrophic attack within the U.S.
Terrorist actions may include, but are not limited to, suicide operations, hijackings, bombings, or kidnappings. These may also involve commercial aircraft and threats to include conventional weapons, such as explosive devices. Terrorists do not distinguish between official and civilian targets.”
The theory is jihad. The act is the use of weapons of mass destruction against cities in the West. The fatwa provides religious justification for the act.
Sheik Fahad, Sheik Ali al-Khadir and Sheik Ahmed al-Khaldi are three of the most radical Saudi clerics and have written dozens of books, pamphlets, and other materials full of incitement and religious rulings against the United States and the West. The three were arrested following the May 12, 2003 terrorist attacks in Riyadh, and the possibility of them receiving the death penalty has led to further threats against the Saudi royal family from bin Laden.
According to Yoni Fighel and Moshe Marzouk of the International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism, “Sheikh al-Fahad’s fatwa is one of several such edicts issued by Islamic clerics granting religious authorization to carry out terrorist attacks using weapons of mass destruction
against American targets and targets of those who provide assistance to “the crusader’s world of heresy.” Edicts issued by the same clerics, who have connections to Al-Qaida, offer the religious backing for the continuation and escalation of the organization’s terrorist activity against the U.S.
“In our estimation, the Al-Qaida organization and other radical Islamic groups associated with it will use such edicts to gain support for their efforts to carry out large-scale attacks against Western targets. These efforts are likely to include plots against Western civilian infrastructure targets with the intention of maximizing the human toll and economic loss.”
An Arab journalist writing in the Arabic daily Hayat highlighted the use of fatwas by clerics to legitimize violence. Under the subhead, “fatwas permit murder,” the journalist made the following points:
o Saudi Sheikh Safar Abd Al-Rahman Al-Hawali, who prefers to use the Internet to publish his religious rulings permitting the killing of groups and nations, ruled that the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan are unbelievers because they support the Americans against the Islamic government of the Taliban. The fatwa read:
‘Support of any kind for the unbelievers against the Muslims, even if only verbal, constitutes blatant heresy and hypocrisy, and anyone doing so goes against Islam. Members of the Afghan opposition or others who do so must repent, recant this loathsome deed, and support their Muslim brothers...’ The fatwa said, that the September 11 tragedy is strictly an act of ‘measure for measure.’ Namely, ‘a response to Clinton’s missile aggression against Al-Qaida following the bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi.
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