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Jun. 6, 2005 19:14
"Argentina: Two bombs explode next to US businesses"
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Two homemade bombs exploded outside the Buenos Aires branches of US businesses before they opened Monday, spreading leaflets that read "Yankees get out of Latin America and Argentina!", authorities said.
No injuries were reported in the blasts, which caused minor damage to an ATM machine at a Citibank branch and the front of a Blockbuster video store in a Buenos Aires suburb.
Police said a third bomb was found in a trash bag outside a McDonald's but was disabled hours before the restaurant opened.
The leaflets scattered by the bombs were signed by a group saying it was "working to liberate Argentina from imperialism.""
I know just what you mean Cindy. On one leg of a flight I was the recipient of consistent kicks to the rear of my seat by a small child, whose parent could have cared less what the child was doing or not doing. Full flight, no opportunity for a seat change.
Total bummers, huh?
Yep.
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"Insurgents behead rubber tapper"
Bangkok Post ^ | -Tuesday 07 June 2005 | POST REPORTERS
Posted on 06/06/2005 1:53:16 PM PDT by JimSEA
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A rubber tapper was beheaded at a plantation in Yala and five people, including three policemen, were wounded in a bomb blast in Narathiwat yesterday as daily violence continued in the deep South.
The headless body of Bunchan Saipetch, 59, from Si Sa Ket, was found in front of a cottage in a rubber plantation in Yala's Yaha district around 6am yesterday. Six 11mm bullet shells were found at the scene while there were multiple knife wounds to the victim's body.
His head was found later in a box left on a roadside in the same area. Attached to the box was a handwritten letter written in Thai saying: ``We will get back our Pattani state. As you arrest the innocent, we will kill the innocent.''
Police believed Bunchan, who was hired to collect latex in the plantation, was shot before being beheaded.
Earlier, a home-made bomb tied to a power pole went off around 9pm on Sunday in Yaha district, causing an electricity blackout in municipal areas for more than an hour. The force of the explosion brought down two power transmission lines. Damage was estimated at almost two million baht.
On the same day, assailants ambushed a police checkpoint in Yaha district. Police returned fire. After a brief gunfight, the assailants fled. Nobody was injured.
Metal spikes were also found scattered on Yaha-Patae road to prevent police from chasing the assailants. A large tree was cut down to block the route and car tyres burnt at several points along the road.
Separatist messages were spray-painted on roads, bridges and billboards in the area, according to police.
In Narathiwat, a bomb attached to a motorcycle went off at a public park in Sungai Kolok district, wounding three policemen and two joggers.
The bomb, believed to have been triggered by a mobile phone, exploded around 7am at Sirindhorn public park. The motorcycle to which the bomb was tied to caught fire. Nails, pieces of metal and a SIM card were found at the scene.
The injured victims were identified as Pol Lt-Col Vej Suwannarat, 57, a police inspector attached to Sungai Kolok police station; Pol Cpl Banchong Soonsuwan, 30; Pol L/C Nikhom Tanliam, 25; Thaweesak Panprasong, 63; and his wife Mrs Pannee, 61."
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"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 6/6/05"
6/6/05
Posted on 06/06/2005 5:30:49 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
More Details on Abu Raad:
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"Iraq nabs top al-Qaeda man [different from Prince of Princes]"
News 24 ^ | Jun 5, 2005 | Wilmer Muller
Posted on 06/06/2005 5:51:43 AM PDT by Coop
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Media Need to Focus on Extremist Acts, Myers Says
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 6, 2005 – The media ought to focus on the very real, vicious acts of violent extremists, and not on vague allegations of Koran abuse, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said to reporters here today.
Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers said the "press in general seems to relish always emphasizing the negative."
He said one frustration is that it always takes longer to get the facts. The Newsweek piece alleging that guards in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a Koran down a toilet relied on an anonymous source.
Checking it out required DoD to sort through more than 1.6 million documents and long hours of studying and verifying the facts. But the damage to American prestige had been done by the time U.S. officials could conclude there were isolated cases of Koran abuse - none of which involved flushing the Muslim holy book down a commode.
Myers said people should contrast that with the enemy. "What does the enemy do on a daily basis? And what does the press report about the enemy?" Myers asked. "On a daily basis in Iraq, what the enemy does is kill innocent men, women and children."
Myers noted that Jordanian-born violent extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said that he would kill innocents to try to spark a civil war between Sunnis and Shiias. Extremists under his direction have launched some of the bloodiest attacks in Iraq. Zarqawi and his henchmen have chopped off their victims' heads and put the murders on the Internet for the world to see.
"That's abhorrent behavior," he said. "That's what the press ought to be focused on -- not a couple of incidents where an overzealous guard or interrogator abused a Koran."
Myers said that even in the few cases where Koran abuse is found, America will investigate and punish those found responsible under the rule of law.
"The first time you hear a story," Myers told the reporters, "you ought not to assume the worst."
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Citizen Tips Target Insurgent Activity in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, June 6, 2005 – Tips from local residents helped Iraqi security forces rescue a kidnapping victim, seize weapons and uncover a weapons cache June 5, Multinational Force Iraq officials in Baghdad reported today.
Iraqi police from the Shaab Police Station responded to a tip and launched a raid on a local residence, where they found a kidnapping victim unharmed inside, officials said.
Four suspects were taken into custody for questioning, officials said.
In other anti-insurgent activity, an Iraqi citizen who witnessed two sacks of ammunition and weapons being dropped in a field turned the contents over to soldiers at Camp Justice.
Officials said the citizen saw a white Toyota pickup truck drop the sacks and investigated the contents. Inside the bags were 37 Iraqi hand grenades, 101 Bulgarian grenade fuses, two Spanish artillery fuses, two French 130 mm artillery proximity fuses and one heavy machine gun, officials said.
The resident transported the cache to Camp Justice and turned it over to soldiers at the gate, officials said.
Also in Iraq, soldiers with the 1st Brigade, 3rd Iraqi Army Division, acted on a tip from a civilian and uncovered a weapons cache consisting of 20 122mm rockets.
No injuries or damages were reported during the incidents.
(Compiled from Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq news releases.)
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Canadian man sentenced for smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States
NewsDay ^
Posted on 06/06/2005 3:10:39 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- A Canadian man was sentenced Monday to five years in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle South Korean aliens into the United States.
Tal Chung Kim, 55, of Vancouver, British Columbia, pleaded guilty in August in U.S. District Court, admitting that he tried to smuggle seven South Korean citizens into the United States through Canada near Lake Champlain in September 2003.
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&e=3&u=/ap/20050606/ap_on_re_eu/un_terrorist_sanctions
"U.N. Sanctions Islamic Jihad Group"
Sun Jun 5, 9:58 PM ET
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations has imposed sanctions on the Islamic Jihad Group, an organization active in Central Asia that the U.S. government has blamed for bombings last year against the U.S. and Israeli embassies.
The U.N. Security Council committee in charge of anti-terrorism sanctions against al-Qaida and remnants of Afghanistan's former Taliban rulers added the group to its sanctions list on June 1, saying it was linked to the al-Qaida terror network, according to an announcement late Friday."
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06.07.05
Jihadi Files Update
Posted in General at 4:35 am by Vladimir
Posted on June 7
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0607200501.rmvb
- flack attack.
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0607200502.swf
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0607200503.swf
- a couple of flash files. What do they mean?
Posted on June 6
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0606200501.rmvb
- Mine attack.
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0606200502.3gp
http://hackjaponaise.cosm.co.jp/terror/0606200503.avi
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"Air Force Academy chief has work ahead tackling "Team Jesus" climate"
Denver Post ^ | 6/6/05 | Jim Spencer
Posted on 06/06/2005 4:05:53 PM PDT by Crackingham
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Even if I could run like Terrell Davis, catch like Rod Smith and throw like John Elway, I don't think I could play for Fisher DeBerry. The Air Force Academy football coach wants his team to play for "Team Jesus Christ," according to a banner he hung in the locker room last fall. "Team Jesus Christ" placed me on permanent waivers several years ago, when I wondered if an official Southern Baptist plan to convert Jews to Christianity included spiking bar mitzvah deli trays with nonkosher meat.
Air Force Academy superintendent John Rosa is not as sarcastic or insensitive in summing up his school's problem with religious intolerance. But in a speech Friday to the national executive committee of the Anti-Defamation League, the three-star general was much more direct. Rosa said he will approach problems of religious intolerance with the same urgency and seriousness he has applied to the academy's sexual-assault scandal and troubles with alcohol abuse. A reluctance to address those scandals cost Rosa's predecessor his job.
Rosa called religious slurs "vicious." He called proselytizing inappropriate. He admitted that too many of his non-Christian cadets, faculty and staff feel the academy doesn't support their religious freedom. He predicted that changing the school's overwhelmingly Christian culture so that people of all faiths feel mutual respect will take "five to six years if everything goes well."
He referred to a new religious sensitivity seminar called "Respecting the Spiritual Values of All People" as nothing more than a "baby step."
The general understands. Unfortunately, when it comes to religious tolerance, too many of those under his command don't. No one thinks sexual assault is good, Rosa pointed out. No one thinks alcohol abuse is good. But surveys show religious intolerance is not a problem for 84 percent of Rosa's Christian cadets and 92 percent of his Christian faculty and staff.
"When I say we have a problem," Rosa admitted to the ADL, "a large majority of people don't agree.""
Hey granny check your email VERY instersting stuff. Doing more goolging and will post in a little while.
| Experts question intelligence agencies' abilities to thwart attacks |
| BY CHRIS MONDICS |
| Knight Ridder Newspapers |
WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Nearly four years after the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings, American intelligence agencies still are struggling to improve their ability to detect potential threats, experts testified Monday before a panel seeking to focus attention on gaps in the nation's terror defenses. Former U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh and John Gannon, a former senior official of the CIA, said the capacity of the FBI and the CIA to anticipate terrorist attacks remains hampered by a shortage of analysts and by obstacles to sharing information. "There is a lot being done but that doesn't answer the question that concerns me most: Will it last?" Gannon said. Monday's hearing was organized by former members of the Sept. 11 Commission, which disbanded last year after it completed a highly critical 567-page report on the failures of the Bush and Clinton administrations to react to signals that the al-Qaida terror network was preparing an attack on American soil. Members of the commission, which was chaired by former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, have said they intend to try to keep the public spotlight on the issue to improve chances that all their recommendations will be enacted. They've established the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, funded through private grants, to follow-up on their work. Last year, President Bush signed legislation enacting one of the commission's top proposals, establishment of a national intelligence director to coordinate intelligence gathering across the federal government. But other recommendations, including a proposal to intensify congressional oversight of intelligence gathering, have languished. Gannon said the FBI still was having difficulty switching from its traditional focus on solving crimes to employing the analytical techniques needed to thwart a terror attack. Although the FBI is the nation's lead domestic intelligence agency, Gannon said anyone other than a traditional crime fighting FBI agent is treated within the agency like "office furniture." Stephen Kodak, a FBI spokesman, said Monday that the bureau was addressing the problem by hiring more staff to enhance its analytical capabilities. The bureau's terrorist-fighting operations also are struggling to come back from the cancellation earlier this year of a $170 million program to upgrade its computer systems. The Virtual Case File system, which was supposed to permit FBI agents to access case files from the field, was cancelled because bureau officials concluded it was out of date - even before it had been put into use. FBI director Robert S. Mueller III testified before Congress earlier this year that the problems stemmed in part from a poorly drawn contract and from the bureau's failure to grasp the complexity of the project. "With respect to the Virtual Case File project, there is no getting away from the conclusion that it is an unmitigated failure," said Thornburgh, who in addition to serving as attorney general had also been governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 through 1987. Kean and other members of the 9/11 commission worried last summer as they issued their final report that flaws in the nation's terror defenses were so complex and numerous that sustaining interest would be difficult. Toward that end, former commission members have scheduled eight hearings focusing on intelligence, foreign policy and the potential use of chemical, biological or nuclear weapons by terrorist groups. Former commission member Jamie Gorelick, who chaired Monday's hearing, made clear the panel also would focus on the role of Congress. "It is the unanimous view of the former commissioners that the most glaring failure is the adoption of congressional reforms," Gorelick said. "Without reform of the oversight functions, without a more streamlined appropriations process you are not going to achieve half of the changes that are needed." The Sept. 11 Commission said in its final report that the failure of intelligence agencies to share information had slowed the government's ability to fend off terrorist attacks. Thornburgh said Monday that some progress had been made in getting the agencies to work together, but that problems persisted in part because there is very little specific guidance for agents and their supervisors on what kinds of information should be shared. |
| Source Link: http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/politics/11829922.htm |
You are so right on all.
I have a book for you to read. I promise you will be glad you read it! This book really upset me, I would read a few chapters then lay it down then read some more put it down.
"The Camp of the Saints.
Published for the first time in 1973, Camp of the Saints is a novel that anticipates a situation which seems plausible today and foresees a threat that no longer seems unbelievable to anyone it describes the peaceful invasion of France, and then of the West, by a third world burgeoned into multitudes. At all levels — global consciousness, governments, societies, and especially every person within himself — the question is asked belatedly what's to be done?
It has been out of print I see it is back...hmmmmmm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1881780074/103-0146718-4230244?v=glance
I had to order it from the following link about 5 years ago. The Social Contact Press deals in books of this nature and if you buy from them you will get on the get on the black list of books. Books they don't want us to read.
They also have a quarterly journal that comes out. Most of the time it is over my head LOL but I know you would learn a lot from this.
~snip~From website...
MILITANT ISLAM AND THE WEST
Posted: 4.12.05
Now available: the Winter issue of The Social Contract journal in which Guest Editor Brenda Walker assembles articles urging America to take jihad more seriously.
~snip~
Immigrant numbers and immigration policies rank high in the activities and concerns of The Social Contract enterprises. We favor immigration, but at much lower, more traditional levels. We are in favor of fewer admissions in order to reduce the rate of America's population growth, protect jobs, preserve the environment, and foster assimilation.
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/index.html
Let me know if anyone reads it. Never mind if you read it you will want to tell me! smiles
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