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Posted on 10/12/2004 8:58:00 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Thanks JP.
"Clinton covered up 1996 Atlanta Olympic bombings "
Interesting... not surprising...
Tearing Down the Wall between the FBI and CIA
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_5512.shtml
Dems Register Al Qaida Terrorists in Ohio Vote Drive
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/24/120810.shtml
Democratic Party activist groups in Ohio have registered at least two known terrorists involved in a plot to blow up a shopping center in a bid to get out the vote for John Kerry.
Nuradin Abdi - a Somali immigrant and admitted al-Qaida member who was indicted earlier this year as part of a conspiracy to blow up the Columbus Mall - was registered to vote by the civil rights group ACORN, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
ACORN has spearheaded an aggressive Democratic Party vote drive in key battleground states.
Iyman Faris, another new Ohio voter added to the rolls by Democrats, is currently serving a 20-year jail sentence for his role in surveilling potential al Qaida targets - including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Dispatch said.
According to the Ohio News Now TV network, Abdi's name was added to the rolls by ACORN employee Kevin Eugene Dooley, as part of the group's Project Vote operation.
Dooley was indicted earlier this year on two felony election offenses -- false election registration, and submitting false election signatures to the Ohio Board of Elections.
"As far as board of elections is concerned, Abdi is a registered voter," Ohio board of elections director Matt Damschroeder told ONN.
Only after Abdi's case was exposed did Ohio officials strike his name from the voting rolls, due to his status as an illegal alien.
Faris became a naturalized citizen in 1999 but is not eligible to vote because he's an incarcerated felon.
Most Russians feel Al-Qaeda is Russia's enemy
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=10714032
MOSCOW. Oct 24 (Interfax) - Seventy-seven percent of Russian citizens consider the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda to be Russia's enemy, while 7% disagree with this statement, the Public Opinion Foundation reported following a poll held on October 16.
Seventy-seven percent of the 1,500 respondents said Al-Qaeda is involved in organizing and carrying out terrorist attacks in Russia, and only 4% disagreed with this theory.
Seventy-four percent of those surveyed said they have no doubts that Chechen terrorists are connected with Al-Qaeda. Four percent disagreed with this opinion.
Al-Qaida’s vote for Bush
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/EC3AC145-96B2-4858-AE3D-63FDE0B59D69.htm
...excerpt...
Predictions about how they would try to influence this form of the democratic process were sparked by the train bombings in Madrid last March.
The timing of the attack, coming immediately before presidential elections in Spain, produced a backlash of anger against Jose Maria Aznar’s right-wing government, leading to the victory of the Socialist Party (PSOE).
The bombing was seen by many as a consequence of Aznar’s support for the US-led war in Iraq, a war opposed by the overwhelming majority of Spaniards. Aznar’s attempt to exploit the bombings to push the agenda of his Popular Party backfired and lead to his defeat.
But what does this augur for the US? National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was one of the first to speculate on this event's impact on the US presidential elections.
In an 18 April interview on the US news talk show Face the Nation, she said: "I think that we do have to take very seriously the thought that the terrorists might have learned, we hope (sic), the wrong lesson from Spain. I think we also have to take seriously that they might try during the cycle leading up to the election to do something."
This statement was followed by one from Attorney General John Ashcroft. In a 26 May press conference, Ashcroft said: "The Madrid railway bombings were perceived by Usama bin Ladin and al-Qaida to have advanced their cause. Al-Qaida may perceive that a large-scale attack in the United States this summer or fall would lead to similar consequences."
Ashcroft's supposition is that Bin Ladin would like to influence the US elections in the same way al-Qaida influenced Spain's.
What would similar consequences mean for the US? Defeat for the hawkish incumbent, Bush, at the polls and the derailment of a neo-conservative policy on Iraq.
Ashcroft all but said 'Usama bin Ladin wants you to vote for John Kerry'.
The dollar is taking a beating in overseas trading. Rumor has it one or more Asian countries are in process of selling dollars and buying gold. The extraordinary number of commercial gold shorts must be the most alarmed of all.
You will want to read the threat in post #1466
ping
here we go. its either a terrorism play, or Soros trying to create a market crash before the election.
Sounds like it. Soros or our most favored trading partner...
BRUSSELS : European Union authorities launched an alert on Sunday to find airline passengers who travelled last week on flights with a Thai man who tried to smuggle two bird flu-infected eagles into Belgium.
The unidentified Thai man responded to public appeals to come forward on Sunday and is now receiving preventive treatment in a hospital in the northern Belgian city of Antwerp, the Federal Institute of Public Health said.
The EU's executive arm launched its alert following confirmation Saturday that the two Mountain Hawk Eagles were infected with avian influenza, which has hit six Asian nations killing at least 30 people in Thailand and Vietnam.
The European Commission said it had received a request from Belgian authorities "to assist them in their search for flight passengers of different nationalities who might have been exposed to the flu virus".
"Although the risk of transmission from the animals to humans is limited, it cannot be excluded since the birds travelled in the passenger cabin in hand luggage," it said in a statement.
Excerpted
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/europe/view/113301/1/.html
VANCOUVER (CP) - A Muslim leader under attack for calling Jews "brothers of monkeys and swine" says he is no anti-Semite.
Excerpted (obviously)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/21/679667-cp.html
TORONTO (CP) - A Canadian-based security expert will tell a panel on Internet pharmacies this week that mail-order drug companies could become targets for terrorists.
Alan Bell of Globe Risk International Security Consulting said a study he completed of 18 Internet pharmacies in Canada suggests the websites for the businesses could be compromised by terrorist groups working outside the country
Excerpted
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/24/683784-cp.html
That's interesting, but unfortunately, not surprising.
TORONTO (CP) - The president of the Canadian Islamic Congress says he personally does not believe that all Israelis over the age of 18 are legitimate targets of suicide bombers, despite saying so on television last week.
But that has not satisfied critics who were infuriated by Mohamed Elmasry's comments last week. In a release issued Sunday by the CIC, Elmasry said he was trying to express the view of many Palestinians, not his personal opinion.
Excerpted
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2004/10/24/683671-cp.html
I also don't believe Muslims agree on matters related to the Mahdi. It is like Catholics agreeing with the general scenario in the "Left Behind" series or Protestants placing relevance on the prophetic visions at Fatima. Even those Muslims who believe in the coming of the Mahdi along with the return of Jesus would most likely reject UBL as he does not qualify (strictly speaking) as he meets certain conditions, but not others.
But it is beside the point, whether UBL is "dead, captured, or in a hidey hole" the Islamic world is as ripe for another Messianic figure to rescue them from their plight as were the humiliated Germans after WWI. If UBL does not seek to be the Mahdi, someone else will (we see this with Moqtada al-Sadr with his Black Flags and his "Army of the Mahdi").
You can look at religious postings and see all sorts of Christian folks who try to apply current events to scriptural prophecy. How many times has someone tried to prove someone is the AntiChrist by adding up the numbers in their name to 666 (in English of all things). The same phenomenon happens with Muslims.
And just as even Christians who believe in the literal meaning of prophecies fall into different camps (pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib, amillenials, post-millenials, preterists, etc, etc), I imagine there is even less agreement among Muslims as the Quran does not mention the Mahdi. That is strictly from the Hadiths. And making things more interesting is that some Muslims place value on the Judeo-Christian Bible and its prophecies and tend appropriate them (and often contort them) for their own purposes.
If Kerry is elected, I am sure some of them will see it as a prophetic sign and declare him the Dajjal (AntiChrist) as he would be the first American President with a Jewish background.
Whoever aspires to be a Messianic figure like the Mahdi will have to "prove" themselves by becoming a personification of a "self-fulfilling prophecy". This is why there is the desire for the "spectacular hit" that has very meaningful timing. Interesting that after all this time, Zarqawi has just now announced he is putting himself and his organization under the authority of UBL.
This millenarian Mahdist theology has emerged before in recent history. Churchill's "River Wars" were fought in Sudan in the 1890s against a self-proclaimed Mahdi (which is why he had choice words about Muslims in that book - - just like if you find American uses of the word "Jap" it probably has something to do with WWII - - context is important). More important was the Wahhabi rebellion in Saudi in 1979. Sunnis reject the Imamate so I have always had trouble understanding how any could believe in a Hidden Imam as do the Shi'a, but the lesson of 1979 is profound. It can happen. Without being sacrilegious, who would have thought that evangelical Protestants would acclaim and advocate movie depicting the Passion of the Christ from a Traditionalist Catholic viewpoint (incorporating visions from 200 years ago by the nun Anne Catherine Emmerich). The common objective was large enough that the differences began to seem small.
http://www.meforum.org/article/159
"Another Mahdist movement with even more parallels to bin Ladin's jihad took place in 1979, when Juhayman al-‘Utaybi (d. 1980) led an attempt to overthrow the government of Saudi Arabia. He and several hundred of his followers seized the Great Mosque in Mecca m and occupied it for nearly two weeks, until they were dislodged by Saudi security forces (possibly with foreign assistance). The surviving attackers were executed. What is interesting about this movement is the very fact that it was a Mahdist one: ‘Utaybi led the revolt in the name of the Mahdi, his brother-in-law Muhammad bin ‘Abdallah al-Qahtani (d. 1979), who participated in the attack. They called for severing of relations with the West; overthrowing the illegitimate Saudi regime and redistributing its wealth; and expelling all foreigners from Arabia.17
This agenda could have been written by Usama bin Ladin. What is particularly significant is that a strict Wahhabi such as ‘Utaybi would attempt to wield Mahdism as an oppositional tool. Wahhabism is known not only for its puritanism in matters of behavior but also for its eschewal of mysticism and its distrust of non-Qur'anic elements in Islam, including (at times) hadith. Yet this did not prevent ‘Utaybi from presenting Qahtani as the Mahdi, suggesting that Mahdism has penetrated the ranks even of extreme Wahhabis. ‘Utaybi, Qahtani "al-Mahdi," and their Mahdist followers were gunned down or executed by the Saudi authorities. But their claim to have an eschatological figure in their midst—one, furthermore, quite unhappy with the existing Muslim regime—demonstrates that Mahdism can take concrete form, even in the modern Sunni world and, indeed, in the very heart of conservative Islam."
Hey pauldingbabe, we haven't heard from you in awhile.
Gold up to $428.40.
"Democratic Party activist groups in Ohio have registered at least two known terrorists"
Par for the course...scuttlebutt off of powerlineblog.com is that Kerry has been getting moocho moola from the KLA (OBL's friends in Kosovo.)
There was a time in this country where this would have one tried for treason...now it's the perogative of presidential candidates?!
There is no way Kerry could command the military if this proves true!
We KNOW who real men are by the good things they've done in the past. The tempermental ones who have done things (or NOT done things) just to prove their point don't qualify. Real men in camo are members of our armed forces.
By the way, it seems John-Boy Kerry hasn't noticed the world economy includes layoffs, unemployment and outsourcing in just about every other major country in the world. He'd like us to believe it is only happening here and he is the one to solve it (like HE is THE answer- such arrogance and deceit.
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