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Please add my name to the list of those who pray for all the TM'rs who are in need of prayer and love.
Ruth, you are just full of good stuff. Thanks for all you do here.
Tamil rebels 'recruit children'
By Ethirajan Anbarasan
BBC Tamil service
The UN's child agency, Unicef, has accused Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels of stepping up child
recruitment in the island's volatile east.
Unicef officials in the capital, Colombo, say there has been a marked increase in enlisting child soldiers in the
last two months.
They have urged the Tamil Tigers to release all the children under their custody without delay.
The Tamil Tigers have vehemently denied recruiting children in the past.
"In June this year, there were 18 cases of child recruitment reported from the eastern Batticaloa region and
in July so far we have received complaints of 28 cases in the same area," Jeffrey Keele, Unicef
spokesperson, told the BBC.
Stopping child recruitment altogether would be a difficult task in the absence of
an active peace process
Jeffrey Keele
Unicef spokesperson
Unicef bases its data on complaints from parents and reports
from community leaders and teachers who have worked closely
with missing children.
The UN agency has often accused the rebels of recruiting child
soldiers over the last 10 years. In February the Tigers said there
was no truth in a Unicef report that they recruited 4,700 child
soldiers since 2001.
While Unicef officials say that child recruitment has continued
throughout the year, the sudden increase is causing concern.
However, they admit that not all children are forcibly recruited
and that some join the rebel movement voluntarily.
Rebel denial
Tamil Tigers were not immediately available for comment on the
latest accusations but have strongly denied recruiting children in
the past.
The rebels talk of a policy of not recruiting children and had
promised to return volunteers to their parents if they were found
to be underage.
The issue of child recruitment has been a major point of
difference between Unicef and the Tamil Tigers since a February
2002 ceasefire agreement between the rebels and the
government.
But Unicef officials point out that their engagement with the
Tamil Tigers has yielded positive results and more than 1,200
child soldiers have been formally released by the rebels in the
last three years.
A few weeks ago Tamil rebels reportedly released nine children
from their custody.
Truce under threat
But the UN estimates that the Tigers still have more than 1,000
children in their ranks, and officials say they will continue to
press for their release.
Unicef's allegations come at a time of heightened tensions
between the Tamil Tigers and the Sri Lankan government over
charges of ceasefire violations.
More than 400 people are reported to have died since the truce
was agreed.
"Stopping child recruitment altogether would be a difficult task
in the absence of an active peace process," says Jeffrey Keele.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4713963.stm
Published: 2005/07/25 14:09:55 GMT
© BBC MMV
Thank you for your kind words.
I will never be as good as Cindy and some of the others.
It is good to see you on thread, I pray that means your world is going all in the right direction.
Smiles......as she goes to see if she missed anything else.
Al-Qaeda 'destroyed in Pakistan'
Pakistan has destroyed al-Qaeda's ability to operate on its soil, President Pervez Musharraf has said.
He said the network could not have orchestrated deadly bombings in London, Egypt or elsewhere from his
country.
"Al-Qaeda does not exist in Pakistan any more," he told reporters in Lahore, after unconfirmed reports
Pakistanis were being sought over bombs in Egypt.
Police in Egypt are not linking the missing men to Friday's Sharm al-Sheikh bombings, in which more than 60
died.
President Musharraf said al-Qaeda "sanctuaries" in Pakistan had been over-run, and that Pakistani security
forces had arrested 700 of the movement's fighters.
'Wrong'
He said small groups of al-Qaeda members may still be operating in the mountainous tribal regions of
Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan, but their capacity to act was greatly reduced.
As far as the government of Egypt is concerned it has not got in touch with us
Pakistan foreign ministry spokesman Muhammad Naeem Khan
"We have shattered and eliminated their command system
there," he said. Al-Qaeda's communications system had been
reduced to a "courier network".
"Is it possible in this situation that an al-Qaeda man sitting
here, no matter who he is, may control things in London, Sharm
el-Sheikh, Istanbul or Africa? This is absolutely wrong," the
president said.
Earlier in the day, Arabic television stations said police had
distributed photographs of two of six Pakistanis who had
disappeared from a hotel in Cairo earlier this month.
It appears, however, that Pakistanis were being sought even
before the bomb attacks and the Egyptian interior ministry has
not confirmed that there is a connection between them and the
Sharm al-Sheikh bombings.
Pakistan's foreign ministry has said it doubts that Pakistanis had
anything to do with the Egyptian attacks.
A spokesman said the government had not been officially
informed by Egypt about the missing Pakistani nationals or of
their possible link to the Sharm al-Sheikh attacks.
London pressure
Thousands of Pakistani troops have been deployed in Waziristan
since Gen Musharraf's decision to back the US war on terror in
2001.
Despite the troop presence, there are almost daily complaints
from Afghanistan of cross-border militant incursions onto its
territory.
There have been several high-profile arrests of suspected
al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan, most of them from cities, not the
border region.
Pakistan came under renewed pressure to act against militants
and religious extremists following the 7 July bomb attacks in
London.
It emerged that two of the four suicide bombers, both Britons of
Pakistani descent, flew into Karachi last year.
What they did for three months has not been established but
security officials want to know if they met militants or attended
religious schools where they might have been radicalised.
Last week, Gen Musharraf defended a recently launched
crackdown against extremists but also said Britain must do more
to tackle its own militancy threat.
On Monday, he promised that those arrested for publishing hate
material or misusing mosque loudspeakers would be tried in
anti-terrorism courts.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4715923.stm
Published: 2005/07/25 17:54:50 GMT
© BBC MMV
(Why do I feel like this is all a lie?
granny)
S. African airline strike strands travellers http://english.people.com.cn/200507/26/eng20050726_198249.html
Suicide bomb squad linked to East Africa
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1682912005
London bombs
July 26, 2005
Search for bombers centres on East Africa connection
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1708386,00.html
Bin Laden's hand in bombings
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1742710,00.html
Islamic Jihadists employing gangs to drug and rob Indian Military personnel and run away with their identity cards – getting ready for massive strike
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/3776.asp
Waziristan: Bin Laden's hiding place?
By Rahimullah Yusufzai
BBC correspondent in Peshawar
There is growing world attention on the remote Pakistani tribal region of South Waziristan as efforts
continue to locate Osama Bin Laden and other key al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects.
However, so far no senior al-Qaeda or Taleban figure has been caught in this semi-autonomous area where
the Pakistani army beefed up its presence after the US intervention in neighbouring Afghanistan in October,
2001.
There are persistent reports that sympathetic Pashtun tribesmen in the area are providing fugitives with
shelter and support.
In the latest government move to pin them down, the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe was fined $95,000 under a local
law of collective responsibility.
The tribe's offence was to fail to stop rocket attacks against the Pakistan army and the paramilitary Frontier
Corps deployed in South Waziristan.
Relations between tribal elders and the military have been strained recently over the deaths of a number of
civilians in a tragic shooting incident blamed on soldiers and described by the government as a case of
"mistaken fire."
Following angry complaints from the local community, the government was quick to constitute a
three-member committee to inquire into the 28 February incident.
But the probe is unlikely to satisfy the tribesmen because the committee's three members are military and
civil officers who the tribesmen say cannot be expected to give an independent report.
The deaths of the civilians, six of whom were Pakistani tribesmen and six Afghan refugees, has fuelled
tension in the area and made it even more difficult for the army to win the hearts and minds of the tribal
people while pursuing al-Qaeda and Taleban suspects.
Homes demolished
Pakistan has pursued the classic carrot and stick approach in its seven Federally Administered Tribal Areas
(FATA), including South Waziristan, in a bid to seek tribal support for the US-led war on terrorism.
A record number of development projects, some funded by the US, have been initiated in the
under-developed tribal region to improve education, health and communication facilities.
But tribes that refuse to cooperate have been punished with the demolition of homes, sealing of shops and
business, seizure of vehicles and dismissals from government jobs.
Tribal elders have already delivered 60 out of 123 tribesmen on a wanted list accused of sheltering
suspects. They have promised to step up efforts to surrender the rest.
The strategy of the authorities seems to revolve around interrogating the suspects and locating al-Qaeda
and Taleban fugitives through information provided by them.
At the same time, the army's Quick Reaction Force, comprising commandoes and equipped with helicopter
gunships and artillery, has taken part in four military operations in South Waziristan.
Military spokesmen say that the force killed eight al-Qaeda suspects, including Osama Bin Laden's
Arab-Canadian aide Ahmad Saeed Khadar, in one operation last October.
The army has lost 16 soldiers to date in encounters with the militants. Unknown militants have launched
rockets against army camps four times in the past two months.
Since the US military intervention in neighbouring Afghanistan in October, 2001 more than 70,000 Pakistani
soldiers and militiamen have been deployed throughout Pakistan's tribal areas and along the 2,500
kilometre border with Afghanistan.
The deployment was done first at the request of the US to plug the escape routes of al-Qaeda and Taleban
members fleeing across the border first from Tora Bora cave region in December 2001, and later from other
Afghan border provinces.
Last July, Pakistani troops - for the first time since Pakistan's creation in 1947 - entered the Tirah valley in
Khyber tribal region, the Shawal valley in North Waziristan, and Mohmand agency and extended the writ of
the government in these lawless areas.
And now it is South Waziristan that finds itself under the microscope.
Until this operation leads to the capture or death of Osama Bin Laden, South Waziristan looks set to remain
prominent in the world's media.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/3532841.stm
Published: 2004/03/04 17:40:22 GMT
© BBC MMV
Glad to RR.
Thank you DC.
Anyone who is able to add to this hospital thread regarding any incident in the United States; it would be appreciated.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1450380/posts
Thanks Oorang.
U.K. cops want to attack terrorism Web sites
By Dan Ilett
http://news.com.com/U.K.+cops+want+to+attack+terrorism+Web+sites/2100-7348_3-5803380.html
Story last modified Mon Jul 25 10:50:00 PDT 2005
British chief police officers are asking the U.K. government for new powers that would allow them to
attack terrorist Web sites.
A list of antiterror recommendations from the Association of Chief Police Officers has been handed to Members
of Parliament in the wake of the London bombings this month, as the government reviews laws on how to tackle
terrorism.
Under the proposals, it would become an offense to fail to disclose encryption keys and to use the Internet to
facilitate acts of terrorism.
In a press statement last week, Ken Jones, chairman of the ACPO Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee, said:
"(The) evolving nature of the current threat from international terrorism demands that those charged with
countering the threat have the tools they need to do the job. Often there is a need to intervene and disrupt at
an early stage those who are intent on terrorist activity in order to protect the public. Clearly our legislation
must reflect the importance of such disruptive action."
The list of recommendations does not detail how police would attack Web sites, but in many cases remotely
disabling a Web server involves a denial-of-service attack, in which floods of data are sent to the server to
overwhelm it.
The organization said that the measure would help police stop the spread of child abuse images on the Web.
"This power has significant benefits for counter terrorism and overlaps with other police priorities namely
domestic extremism and paedophilia," ACPO said in its proposals. "This issue goes beyond national borders and
requires significant international co-operation. The need for appropriate authority and warranty is implicit."
One former policeman who now works in computer forensics was concerned about the international implications
of making cyberattacks legitimate. Simon Janes, international operations manager at Ibas, said: "It's no different
to parachuting officers into another country to investigate something. There would have to be some
international consent, but I can't see a way around it. It does pose the question, what if that (target) is
another government Web site?"
A representative for Spy.org.uk, a civil-liberties advocacy Web site, also warned that attacks on foreign Web
sites could backfire.
In an e-mail to CNET News.com sister site Silicon.com, the representative wrote: "Who exactly is going to
define what a 'terrorist Web site' is? There are none of these hosted in the U.K., so the targets must be abroad.
Will a blog or discussion forum be attacked because one or more of the posters puts up a message gleefully
praising some terrorist atrocity or other?"
"The only people who seem to have a legal hacking law at the moment are the Australians, but it does not
appear that they have dared to use it against overseas targets," the representative continued. "Hackers will
delight in faking their IP addresses, or using U.K. government systems which they have compromised to launch
'legal' cyberattacks on their victims--how is anybody going to tell the difference?"
While the police have admitted that the time it takes to break some encryption standards has slowed
investigations, moves to stop people hiding encryption keys have already been included in the Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act. However, this has yet to be approved by the Home Office, the U.K. government
agency that oversees law enforcement, and the police have asked for further updates on its progress.
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ACPO said: "Recent investigations have been made more complex by difficulties for investigating officers in
ascertaining whereabouts of encryption keys to access computers etc. An amendment to part three of the
Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to make it an offence to fail to disclose such items would provide some
sanction against suspects failing to co-operate with investigations."
But Ibas' Janes said this law could overlook cases where people forget their passwords. "It only works if you
make the penalty the same for that which you are being investigated. Why would you be compelled to hand
over an encryption key unless you were performing acts of terrorism? But people do forget their passwords, of
course," he said.
Spy.org.uk challenged this point. The representative wrote: "Presumably what ACPO are trying to do is to
remove the existing defence of 'I have genuinely forgotten my PGP pass-phrase', which is simply unfair, and it
still does not acknowledge the existing weaknesses of the part three regulations with regard to opportunistic
encryption keys."
Dan Ilett of Silicon.com reported from London.
Copyright ©1995-2005 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.
Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades Denies al-Qaeda’s Physical Participation in the Egyptian Bombings, but Maintains Financial Culpability for the Operation
By SITE Institute
The Abu Hafs al-Masri Brigades issued a statement today, July 25, 2005, denying al-Qaeda’s participation in the triple bombing attack perpetrated in Sharm al-Sheikh, Egypt, Saturday, July 23, 2005, and announces that the organization does not have a branch named the “Brigades of Martyr Abdullah Azzam.” In addition, the group rejoices in the “blessed operation” executed by the “Mujahideen of Egypt,” and though the group denies physical participation or sending men to execute the operation, they state that al-Qaeda Organization “only financed the operation.”
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications72905&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
The Mujahideen of Egypt Claims Responsibility for the Egyptian Bombings, Lists the Names of the Suicide Bombers, and Issues a Statement Refuting the Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam’s Claim for the Attack and Finally, Warns the Jews and Christians to Leave Egypt within Sixty Days
By SITE Institute
July 25, 2005
The Mujahideen of Egypt issued two separate statements claiming responsibility for the Sharm al-Sheikh bombings Saturday, July 23, 2005, including details of the attack and the identification of the five suicide car bombers in the first message. The second statement refutes the claim made by the Brigade of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam for the attack. Further, the Mujahideen of Egypt issues a warning that the Jews and Christians are to leave Egypt within sixty days, else, they will witness “what you never saw in your dreams.”
The first statement explains that the car bombs targeted Ghazala Gardens Hotel, the old market, and Jewish hotels and tourist buses, and the group alleges the casualties to included “between 95 and 120” dead and injured to exceed 250. In addition, the Mujahideen of Egypt include the names of the “martyrs” involved in the bombings, one of whom was the son of the group’s “General Leader,” Hammoudi al-Masri.
In the second message, the group mentions the “crusader’s media” talking about al-Qaeda’s involvement in the attack, and maintains that five people of their group were the executors. They state that the car bombs were composed of a “local taxi, three from out of the country, the last was a bus,” and they crushed the “dens of the Jews” in Egypt.
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications72805&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Keep in mind that AQ put out the almost exact same warning on July 6th.
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Al-Qaeda Warn Sunnis to Stay Away from Likely Targets
By Anadolu News Agency
Tuesday July 26, 2005
Al-Qaeda in Iraq have warned Sunnis to stay away from places that could be the targets of attacks.
An internet site statement issued by the network has read that Muslims should stay away from 'places of betrayal and immorality' so as not to be harmed.
Bagdat (Baghdad) International Airport was pointed out as a place where 'the Crusaders and their seceders take shelter'.
Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi leads al-Qaeda in Iraq.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050725&hn=22181
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http://www.gnoni.net/up_ar/ar/renamed_%20.zip
http://drr.cc/up7/renamed_.zip
http://dm3ty.net/uploader/uploads/renamed_.zip
http://www.gnoni.net/up_ar/ar/IDs%202.zip
http://drr.cc/up7/IDs%202.zip
http://dm3ty.net/uploader/uploads/IDs2.zip
http://www.mucadele.com/mucadele/Audio/Marslar/AllahuMevlana.WMA
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:Pi7iJ_zB-J0J:mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/069100.php+terrorist+connection+to+fake+doctor&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet
This is dated 2-25-05 and talks about the plan to kill
President Bush.
Small problem, I can't see to read the page.
I do not know this website, is it a propaganda site, commie or?
Good ones, Oorang, they're loaded!
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