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Updated and ON THE NET...
(June 28, 2005)
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/
Cool...
US suspected of keeping secret prisoners on warships: UN official Tue Jun 28, 3:42 PM ET
VIENNA (AFP) - The UN has learned of "very, very serious" allegations that the United States is secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably aboard prison ships, the UN's special rapporteur on terrorism said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050628/wl_afp/unrightsusattacks_050628194245
China mum on reports about ballistic missile test
Press Trust of India
Beijing, June 23, 2005
Advertisement
China on Thursday remained mum on the reported successful testing of a long-range nuclear-capable ballistic missile by its navy from a submarine 10 days ago.
"China has made some efforts in the field of stepping up its national defence. But for the specific question, I suggest you refer it to the Ministry of Defence," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told reporters when asked to confirm the reports on the test.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1409686,00050004.htm
History old article.We know a lot of this is true.
'Red Mafia' Operating in the U.S. – Helping Terrorists
Col. Stanislav Lunev
Monday, Oct. 1, 2001
I would like to reveal to you today some "secrets" about the Russian mafia.
Some background first. There are thousands of Mafia-type organized crime syndicates in Russia, including about 200 operating in Moscow alone, and more than 300 functioning internationally, according to Russian police estimates.
Total membership of these gangs, known to intelligence sources as a "Red Mafia," approximates almost 1 million "soldiers" – or the equivalent of all the Russian army's ground forces.
The Red Mafia is the continuation of Russia's Communist old guard. This is why the Russian mafia is totally controlled and populated by "ex-KGB" and "ex-GRU" agents.
In reality, these men still work for Russian intelligence agencies and are still communist and still intent on destroying America – but today they have a new front and one that appears to the West less menacing.
The Red Mafia is up to all the same tricks the KGB engaged in, but now Western leaders dismiss the problems as simply a "mafia" one rather than blaming the Russian government.
The Russians are providing nuclear technology to rogue countries like Iran – and the Americans and media here buy the excuse that "the mafia" is doing it – as Russian leaders say, "We have no control over it."
This is the same mafia that staged a series of apartment bombings in Russia – using, guess who, groups linked to Osama bin Laden.
Today, U.S. intelligence experts believe that almost two-thirds of all commercial institutions in Russia, some 400 banks (those in Moscow alone control more than 80 percent of the country's finances), dozens of stock exchanges, and hundreds of large government enterprises are controlled by the mobs. About 40 percent of the GDP in Russia is in the hands of organized crime, working in concert with corrupt officials and businessmen.
These are striking figures, especially when compared to a range of 5 percent to 7 percent in the industrialized countries and up to 30 percent for some African and Latin American nations.
Of course this is Russia's domestic problem, but unfortunately now it is not only Russia's, because about 30 of the most powerful and dangerous Russian gangs are already operating in almost all American states.
Using practically unlimited resources from Russia, these criminal syndicates are working independently and in close cooperation with local gangsters to establish control over America's profitable small and medium-size businesses.
In addition, Russian mobsters are penetrating the most sensitive areas of large U.S. companies and corporations, stealing their secrets to sell and using stolen data for their own illegal activities.
They are also very busy destroying local life by taking a very active part in contract murder, extortion and racketeering, money laundering, fraud, prostitution, and other criminal "business."
Russian mobsters also pay very close attention to drug trafficking, considering this area as most promising and profitable.
In this activity Russian mobsters are using their international connections and expertise in cooperation with the most dangerous drug cartels of Latin American countries.
The seizure last May of 20 tons of cocaine from two "fishing boats" off the West Coast, manned by Russian and Ukrainian crewmen, has raised concerns in the U.S. intelligence community that Mexican drug cartels are doing business with the Red Mafia.
American experts believe that drug cartels in Mexico, considered to be among the world's most ruthless, have followed the lead of Colombian cocaine smugglers in forging alliances with the Russian mobsters and other Eastern European crime syndicates.
Led by the Arellano-Felix cartel in Tijuana, those alliances have been firmly established and involved in the shipment of both cocaine and heroin.
It is known that Colombian drug cartels established connections with the Russian Mafia as early as 1992. Russian mobsters, who operated from New York, Florida and Puerto Rico, moved quickly to help the Colombians import drugs into Europe through Italy.
Employing many former KGB agents, Russian criminal syndicates controlled almost all banks in Moscow and St. Petersburg and established others in Panama and the Caribbean to launder billions of dollars in illicit drug profits for themselves as well as for the Colombians.
As NewsMax.com reported, the partnership gave the Colombians a new market for their cocaine and heroin, nearly all of which previously had been destined for the U.S. It also provided the Colombians with an access to sophisticated weapons, intelligence-gathering equipment and other military hardware, including dozens of airplanes and helicopters, and special super-speedboats now being used to ferry drugs out of the country.
Chillingly, they almost got a Russian submarine for drug smuggling but the FBI destroyed the deal.
Russian criminals are also very busy in cyberspace, considering this area a most profitable one for their future profits and development. The Red Mafia is working very carefully in cyberspace, and the real scope of this criminal activity is still little known by the American people.
Until now we have known only about some cases involving Russian criminals and small-crime groups, which were disclosed by the U.S. law-enforcement agencies.
However, Russian hackers are blamed for a series of spectacular feats in recent years, particularly for stealing secret Microsoft source codes, ransacking the Pentagon's computers, hacking into NATO's military websites, posting thousands of credit card numbers on the Internet, and stealing million of dollars from Western banks.
According to press reports, Russian hackers first captured the world's imagination in 1994, when a young mathematician, Vladimir Levin, hacked into the computers of Citibank and transferred $12 million to the bank accounts of his friends around the world.
He conducted the entire operation from his little one-room apartment in St. Petersburg.
Levin was arrested, but his case inspired other hackers, for example, Ilya Hoffman, a talented viola student at the Moscow Conservatory, who was detained in 1998 on charges of stealing $97,000 over the Internet. Another group of Russians stole more than $630,000 by hacking into Internet retailers and grabbing credit card numbers.
Some of the world's biggest Internet companies, including CompuServe and AOL, were forced to abandon Russia in 1997 because of the widespread use of stolen passwords.
Currently, Russian hackers are very busy in coordinated attacks on commercial and military computers in the U.S. and other members of NATO. When the North Atlantic alliance launched its bombing campaign in Yugoslavia in 1999, Russian hackers retaliated with their own wave of attacks on NATO member countries, breaking into their websites, posting anti-war slogans and overloading them with floods of junk e-mails.
In October 2000, a sustained break-in of Microsoft's highest-security network was traced back to a computer address in St. Petersburg. In January of the same year, an unidentified Russian hacker calling himself MAXUS stole more than 300,000 credit card numbers from CD Universe in an extortion bid, but was never caught. This list could go on and on, but there is no surprise over the quality of Russian hackers, who are extremely well-educated and talented.
However, in Moscow there is a special training center for hackers named the Civil Hackers' School, which exists with the support of Russia's intelligence services and criminal syndicates. Officially, the school is preparing specialists for legitimate jobs in computer security by shaping the new generation of computer whiz kids.
But in reality it is providing high-level training for young Russian hackers, who have provoked fear and anxiety in the West. Since 1996 this Civil Hackers' School, operating from a shabby little Moscow apartment, has trained several hundred highly trained hackers, who find jobs in the Russian intelligence community as well as in organized crime groups.
In the high-stakes game pitting fleet-fingered Russian hackers against the giants of American e-commerce and law enforcement, the Russians have been winning almost every time. All of these crimes, however, pale in comparison to the sheer size and scope of a hacking and extortion web that was so large that the FBI took the unusual step of warning the public about it in a March 2001 press release.
In this document, the FBI cited the ongoing danger from several organized hacker groups from Eastern Europe, specifically Russia and Ukraine, who were responsible for stealing more than 1 million credit card numbers and attacking the networks of over 40 businesses in 20 states of the U.S.
Nobody apparently knows, or perhaps even cares, how deeply the Red Mafia has already penetrated the American establishment. But the danger of this activity is already real in many American states and needs very close attention from U.S. law enforcement agencies, which until now have not been able to cope with this problem.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Russia
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:AwVtTN927sIJ:www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/9/28/90942.shtml+red+mafia+and+china&hl=en
OFF TOPIC but interesting...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1433582/posts
"Developer Begins Process to Seize Justice Souter's Homestead"
The Autonomist ^ | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 | Rocco DiPippo
Posted on 06/29/2005 7:52:11 PM PDT by DaveTesla
Yep Granny, this is a true blue all American holiday - Independence Day! If we add the 7th month and the 4th day, it totals 11:
The World Trade Center and the number 11
I have been keeping Crabbie in my prayers and hope we will hear from her soon.
Scott has been very helpful to you (including assisting you with your new keyboard). Will also keep him and his safety in my prayers as he has a heavy burden to carry since Theresa's loss.
You're right Granny, we're all here trying to learn all we can that the MSM and our government doesn't tell us. Some of it is ugly stuff, but it is better that we know about it than to be like the sheeple who don't care what is going on in the world around them.
You're not the only one thinking along that vein Granny. Got to thinking the other day that it doesn't look good that I am searching some of the sites I click on for info to post here. No telling if our ISPs are telling on us?
I think it is because of the recent changes to restricted airspace and alot of pilots are still using "old" airspace maps to plot their trips. The area around the capitol and white house restricted areas are larger now.
What? And not cover which is the best mosquito repellant and what are the latest outdoor summer products for summer 2005? Priorities all4one - nothing more than priorities. 2 Iraqi illegals attempting to cross the border clearly does not fit the MSM "news" parameters (there's potential sponsorship dollars in mosquito repellant and outdoor summer products after all!)
Yep. They breed their children to be martyrs it appears and consider it quite a big deal to die for their cause. Full scale deprogramming required for these people at the very minimum.
Prayers for you Ian and hope all goes smoothly. Let us know how you're doing please!
The UN obviously hasn't heard the old adage about not throwing rocks at glass houses..... BTW, has Kofi's son returned any of his lucrative spoils yet? I thought not!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1433642/posts
"Musharraf: Rape victim free to go"
CNN.Com World ^ | Wednesday, June 29, 2005; Posted: 7:16 p.m. EDT (23:16 GMT) | AP
Posted on 06/29/2005 10:19:21 PM PDT by F15Eagle
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP)
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/larryelder/le20050630.shtml
"What about Rangel?"
by Larry Elder
June 30, 2005
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jun2005/20050629_1901.html
Al Qaeda Manual Drives Detainee Behavior at Guantanamo Bay
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 29, 2005 – If you're a Muslim extremist captured while fighting your holy war against "infidels," avoid revealing information at all costs, don't give your real name and claim that you were mistreated or tortured during your detention.
This instruction comes straight from the pages of an official al Qaeda training manual, and officials at the detention facility at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say they see clear evidence that detainees are well-versed in its contents.
Police in Manchester, England, discovered the manual, which has come to be known as the "Manchester document," in 2000 while searching computer files found in the home of a known al Qaeda member. The contents were introduced as evidence into the 2001 trial of terrorists who bombed the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998.
The FBI translated the document into English, and it is posted on the Justice Department's Web site.
The 18-chapter manual provides a detailed window into al Qaeda's network and its procedures for waging jihad - from conducting surveillance operations to carrying out assassinations to working with forged documents.
The closing chapter teaches al Qaeda operatives how to operate in a prison or detention center. It directs detainees to "insist on proving that torture was inflicted" and to "complain of mistreatment while in prison."
Chapter 17 instructs them to "be careful not to give the enemy any vital information" during interrogations.
Another section of the manual directs commanders to teach their operatives what to say if they're captured, and to explain it "more than once to ensure that they have assimilated it." To reinforce the message, it tells commanders to have operatives "explain it back to the commander."
And at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, detainees take this instruction to heart. Many of the more than 500 detainees are "uncooperative" in providing intelligence, Army Brig. Gen. Jay Hood, commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo, told military analysts who traveled to the facility June 24 and reiterated today during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee.
Some detainees have never uttered a single word during more than three years of interrogation. Others give false names or refuse to offer their real names.
This can prove challenging for interrogators at the facility, because many detainees "follow the al Qaeda SOP (standard operating procedures) to the T," according to Army Col. John Hadjis, chief of staff for Joint Task Force Guantanamo.
Officials say they see evidence of the al Qaeda-directed misinformation campaign in allegations of detainee abuse and mishandling of the Koran at Guantanamo Bay.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld expressed frustration over this effort during a June 21 interview on the "Tony Snow Show."
"These detainees are trained to lie, they're trained to say they were tortured, and the minute we release them or the minute they get a lawyer, very frequently they'll go out and they will announce that they've been tortured," Rumsfeld said.
The media jumps on these claims, reporting them as "another example of torture," the secretary said, "when in fact, (terrorists have) been trained to do that, and their training manual says so."
During a February 2004 Pentagon news conference, a DoD official said new information provided by detainees during questioning is analyzed to determine its reliability.
"Unfortunately, many detainees are deceptive and prefer to conceal their identifies and their actions," said Paul Butler, principal deputy assistant secretary for special operations and low-intensity conflict.
Butler said the Manchester document includes "a large section which teaches al Qaeda operatives counterinterrogation techniques: how to lie, how to minimize your role."
The document, he said, has surfaced in various locations, including Afghanistan.
The manual's preface offers a chilling reminder of the mentality that drives al Qaeda disciples and the lengths they will go to for their cause.
"The confrontation that we are calling for ... does not know Socratic debates, ... Platonic ideals ... nor Aristotelian diplomacy," its opening pages read. "But it knows the dialogue of bullets, the ideals of assassination, bombing and destruction, and the diplomacy of the cannon and machine gun."
Related Sites:
Joint Task Force Guantanamo
The Manchester Document
US struggles on China war planning
Some Gitmo suspects silent for years are now talking
Iraqi forms political front for insurgents
2 dozen people plead Not Guilty to gang related activity in LA
Ahmadinejad to export new Islamic revolution
UPDATE...
http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200506\FOR20050629d.html
"Checkpoint Charlie Memorial Threatened by Funding Shortage, Apathy"
By Eva Cahen
CNSNews.com Correspondent
June 29, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - A memorial to people killed while trying to flee communism by escaping across the Berlin Wall will be destroyed unless the director can raise enough money by July 4 to buy the land from a bank.
The memorial, which stands at the former border crossing known as Checkpoint Charlie, opened last October. Since then, hundreds of thousands of people from around the world have visited the historic site."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/230673_ricin30.html
Thursday, June 30, 2005
"Second arrest for man in ricin case
He's accused again of having ingredient"
By TRACY JOHNSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A man who avoided a prison sentence for making ricin earlier this year was arrested again this week, when he was caught a second time with the key ingredient for making the deadly toxin, federal authorities say.
Robert Alberg, who has been diagnosed with depression and a form of autism called Asperger's syndrome, had a packet of castor seeds in the Seattle group home where he's been living, Assistant U.S. Attorney Mike Lang said yesterday.
Alberg allegedly ordered them on the Internet, a violation of the five-year probation term he received in January. Lang said that although Alberg has admitted he was planning to use them to harm himself, it would have required making more of the highly dangerous toxin."
Introduction of as little as 10 grams of botulinum toxin into a milk tanker truck, could kill hundreds of thousands of people and cost the economy billions of dollars, according to an analysis by Stanford University researchers released yesterday despite opposition from federal officials.
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