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"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 8/1/05"Posted on 08/01/2005 10:32:30 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Aug2005/20050801_2302.html
Almost 900 Detainees in Iraq Set Free in July, Officials Say
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1, 2005 – Almost 900 of the nearly 2,000 detainees held in brigade- and division-level internment facilities in Iraq were released in July, U.S. military officials in Baghdad reported.
"The release of detainees is a positive step toward the fundamentals of establishing a democracy," said Army Col. Arnaldo Claudio, the provost marshal for Multinational Corps Iraq, which oversees combat and stability operations in the country. "It is also an indication of Iraqi and coalition forces working together towards a common objective - a free and prosperous Iraq."
The colonel emphasized that the detainees had been treated well. "Detainees are treated humanely and receive medical and dental care, as well as three meals per day, as they are processed through the detainee system," Claudio noted. "In addition to the health screening, detainee spiritual needs are addressed through access to a Quran and prayer rug."
Claudio went on to say that the release of nearly 7,000 Iraqis from division and brigade internment facilities during the first six months of the year demonstrates the case review system set in place works.
(From a Multinational Force Iraq news release.)
Related Site:
Multinational Force Iraq
ON THE NET...
ICC-CCS.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Thanks to Brad's Gramma for the ping to this thread.
The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454837/posts
School bus drivers on the watch for possible terrorists
WTNH Television ^ | 8/1/2005 | Puppage
Posted on 08/01/2005 10:37:05 AM PDT by Puppage
(Danbury-AP, Aug. 1, 2005 8:33 AM) _ School bus drivers are learning to watch out for a new kind of danger.
Beginning this month, the Connecticut School Transportation Association will begin offering free training to teach bus drivers how to evaluate potential terrorist threats.
About 200 of the state's safety instructors will be trained so they can teach drivers at the regional and local level. The training will include who and what to look for and how to perform routine inspections of buses before picking up students.
Drivers who see anything suspicious before or during their routes will be trained to call a special hotline staffed by operators trained to address school bus issues. The operators are responsible for evaluating the situation and calling police.
The program is based on a national effort by the American Trucking Association in response to potential terrorist threats.
http://www.foxnews.com
Headlines only -- no url yet:
"British Cops Arrest Two More in Botched Attacks"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1454881/posts
"More on Graham and CAIR"
Jewishworldreview.com | manny_613
Posted on 08/01/2005 11:46:22 AM PDT by manny613
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.jihadwatch.org
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5252829-105806,00.html
Jihad with that?
The holy war donation tins may have gone from the fast food joints of
Lahore but the president of Pakistan apparently still needs the
militants he is supposed to be rooting out, writes Declan Walsh
Declan Walsh
Monday August 1, 2005
Guardian Unlimited
A week ago a donations box for jihad sat on the counter of the Subway sandwich
restaurant in Gulberg, a bustling middle-class suburb of Lahore. By Friday it was
gone.
"Sorry, management ordered us to remove it," said the cashier behind the till.
The transparent box - one of hundreds in businesses across the city - solicited
contributions to Jamaat-ud Dawa, an Islamic charity widely seen as a front for a jihadi
militia fighting Indian forces in the disputed territory of Kashmir.
The boxes were withdrawn as part of a wide-ranging crackdown on domestic militants
after allegations that the perpetrators of the recent bomb attacks in London had
contacts with at least two Pakistani groups.
In the past week, the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, has ordered a freeze on
such fundraising, the arrest of more than 600 people and the expulsion of foreign
students from madrasa religious schools.
But President Musharraf has ordered several such sweeps since 2001, only for the
militant groups to spring up again after lying low for a while. Sceptics are unsure
whether there is serious intent behind the present crackdown. "If you want to make a
contribution, just wait a few months," the Subway cashier said. "By then the boxes
should be out again."
Diplomats and analysts say Mr Musharraf is reluctant to dismantle the jihadi groups -
which have waged a violent campaign in Kashmir since the late 1990s - because they
provide useful leverage in negotiations with Pakistan's old foe, India.
There was substantial progress towards peace between the two countries earlier this
year but the process has slowed over the past month.
The worry for the west is that the groups operating in Kashmir - fired up by Islamist
ideology and anger over the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq - are lending their
expertise in violence to al-Qaida.
Bomb attacks on westerners, two assassination attempts on Mr Musharraf and the
murder of the American reporter Daniel Pearl have all been attributed to Pakistani
militants with al-Qaida links.
The London bombers appear to have moved in the same militant circles. Last week,
the New York Times reported that the Circle Line bomber, Shehzad Tanweer, was
trained at a camp north of Islamabad run by the Kashmir militant outfit
Jaish-i-Mohammad.
There are also unconfirmed reports that Tanweer visited a madrasa run by Jamaat-ud
Dawa. Since splitting from the militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba in December 2001,
Jamaat has claimed to prosecute jihad through good works, not guns.
Jamaat tends to the sick of Pakistan using a fleet of 150 ambulances, 600 medical
dispensaries and a team of doctors, said the Pakistani information secretary,
Mohammad Yahya Mujahid, in Lahore.
Wearing a long, scraggly beard of the type usually associated with deeply
conservative Muslims, Mr Mujahid said that the organisation runs 137 schools and 40
madrasas. It also sends a team of clerics to mosques around the country to "preach
and discuss political issues facing Islam".
And, most importantly, according to Mr Mujahid, Jamaat has severed all ties with the
Lashkar-i-Taiba gunmen in Kashmir. "That chapter is completely closed," he said.
But few believe him, not least the Pakistani police. About 115 Jamaat members were
arrested last week under anti-terrorist laws, although more 75 of them have since
been released.
"Our people are always arrested but the courts let them go," Mr Mujahid said
confidently. "We are law abiding citizens."
Groups such as Jamaat-ud Dawa present a sharp dilemma for Mr Musharraf. Although
their madrasas do not train fighters, analysts say, they provide a pool of indoctrinated
young men from which the militant wings can recruit.
The young jihadis are directed to a network of secret training camps in a heavily
forested area in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir. Some of the same camps are allegedly
linked to al-Qaida.
Two al-Qaida fighters captured recently told investigators in San Francisco they were
trained at a camp run by Kashmir militants near Rawalpindi.
The claim remains unconfirmed, and the interior minister says such training camps do
not exist.
Last week Mr Musharraf vowed to arrest every extremist "bigwig" in Pakistan. But if he
cracks down too strongly on the Kashmir groups, he risks a backlash from powerful
Islamic parties.
Nevertheless, diplomats say it is a step he must take to root out his country's
troubled association with al-Qaida.
"We need to see action across the board, a complete change of policy - not just
selective actions," one diplomat said.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
Rocket launchers in Nuevo Laredo
By Bill
Created 07/30/2005 - 03:38
The Brownsville Herald [1] reports that the US has temporarily closed its consulate in Nuevo Laraedo following a gunbattle
the night of July 28 between drug traffickers armed with grenades, rocket launchers and heavy machine guns. US
Ambassador Tony Garza said in a written statement that the consulate would suspend all operations except for emergency
services for US citizens through at least Aug. 5. The closure comes two days after Garza announced that escalating violence
has prompted the State Department to extend a travel advisory for the entire Mexican side of the border until further notice.
“As part of our security assessment, we will be gauging what should be a swift and certain response from the government of
Mexico, to bring this situation under control,†Garza said. Consulate officials in Nuevo Laredo are expected to reschedule
visa appointments, putting travel plans on hold for Mexican citizens.
According to the Mexican attorney general’s office, residents of the city’s Colonia Campestre district reported hearing
several rounds of shots at a home on the 2400 block of Calle Mexicali around 8 PM. No one was found inside the modest
home, but it appeared to have been damaged by rocket launcher blasts and machine-gun rounds. Mexican federal agents
discovered an abandoned Chevrolet Tahoe, three AK-47 assault rifles, two 9 mm handguns, a hand grenade and hundreds
of rounds of ammunition. Agents also found two grenade-damaged vehicles on nearby Calle Anahuac. No injuries or arrests
were reported at either location.
According to State Department figures, over 100 have been killed in drug trafficking violence on northern Mexican border
since June. At least eight of those deaths include Nuevo Laredo police officers and commanders.
See our last post [2] on Nuevo Laredo.
Links
[1] http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_more.php?id=66341_0_10_0_C
[2] http://www.ww4report.com/node/690
Source URL: http://www.ww4report.com/node/838
bump!
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEH20050731103829&Page=H&Title=Top+Stories&Topic=0
Rape of India Lady by 3 officials of Pakistan Army.
Other Pakistan/India news.
**19**
Fake passports found at airport(Heathrow)
Gulf Times ^ | Aug 1 2005 | NA
Posted on 08/01/2005 4:33:36 PM CDT by Dog
LONDON: A bag stuffed with bogus passports, documents and bank cards was found abandoned at London’s Heathrow Airport, a newspaper said yesterday.
The News of the World called the find a ‘potential terrorist goldmine’ and said anti-terrorist officers were urgently probing the discovery.
The bag was spotted by a taxi driver on a verge near London’s main airport on Thursday.
The paper said the fear was that the bag could have been meant to aid further bombers enter and exit the country.
The 19 passports inside were for Pakistani, British, Indian, Nepalese and South African nationals.
The newspaper said pictures of the same men appear on different passports in different names.
Many passports had fake visas in different shades of ink from genuine documents.
The holdall, bearing a tag of a Middle East airline, contained a letter written to a man in Dewsbury, - home to July 7, London suicide bomber Mohamed Sidique Khan.
Other documents were linked to nearby Leeds, where two other July 7, suicide bombers hailed from, and north London, another area involved in anti-terror investigations.
An interior ministry source told the weekly: “The holdall could be quite a significant discovery. Somebody must have really panicked to have thrown away so much potential evidence.” – AFP
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(Note that Jihad Unspun is owned by: Bev Kennedy*** granny
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Jihad_Unspun_and_Google_News.asp
Jihad Unspun and Google News
A pure propaganda site is indexed by the innovative, popular Google News.
The Google search engine is the most popular method in the world for finding information
online, handling more than 200 million search requests a day. Building on their success,
Google has now developed Google News (www.news.google.com), a portal that is quickly
becoming one of the most influential sources of world news.
Here's how it works: Google News has accepted
thousands of news sources for inclusion in a pool, which
Google's computer continually scans by algorithm to
group articles by topic. When the user types in a search
word, such as 'Israel', Google News presents links to
hundreds of relevant news stories on that topic. (Greater prominence is given to articles
more recently released, and more popular online.)
But with the proliferation of vitriolic anti-Israel and anti-Semitic material on the web (the
number of neo-Nazi websites in Germany, for example, has tripled in the past four years)
and much of it deliberately disguised in 'news format', the question is: What does Google
News consider a legitimate news source ? as opposed to fiction or propaganda? The Google
News website states only:
While the sources of the news vary in perspective and editorial approach, their
selection for inclusion is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology.
This goal to present a broad spectrum of viewpoints is praiseworthy, but HonestReporting is
concerned with Google News' acceptance of one particular site ? Jihad Unspun ? as Mideast
'news', despite the site's record of blatantly distorting established facts, glorifying terror, and
publishing highly defamatory anti-Semitic material. Jihad Unspun's articles appear
prominently on searches for Israel-related topics on Google News. But click through, and this
is what Jihad Unspun serves up:
? Outrageous 'Zionist conspiracy' theories, such as the canard that 9/11 was a sinister Zionist
plot, as were the recent Istanbul bombings: 'Zionist Intelligence Engineered Istanbul Blasts'.
? The authors generally refuse to call Israel by name, employing instead the terms 'Zionist
forces' and 'Hebrew state'. Some examples:
'Resistance Fighters Attack Zionist Vehicles' (i.e., deadly terror attacks on
Israeli civilian cars)
'Zionist Chief of Staff Promises More Suffering for Palestinians'
'Hebrew State Refuses British Involvement'
'Zionist Terrorist Forces Demolish More Palestinians Homes, Mosque'
? All of Israel is referred to as 'occupied territory' and all Israelis are 'settlers'. For example,
a report on the closing of the Sbarro's pizzeria, site of the horrific 2001 bombing, reads:
Owners of a Zionist restaurant in central occupied Jerusalem have failed to
convince customers to frequent it anew. Clients deserted the 'Subaru'
restaurant after a Palestinian commando blew himself up in it about three
years ago, killing 17 settlers and wounding tens others.
? The site publishes the writings of the rabidly anti-Semitic Edgar J. Steele, including an
article with these passages:
It isn't Arabs rigging the US stock market and commodities futures markets - it
is jews.
It wasn't Arabs who sent our military into Afghanistan and Iraq - it was jews
It wasn't Arabs who forged the Anne Frank "diary" - it was jews.
It wasn't Arabs who lied about gas chambers at Dachau and Auschwitz - it was
jews.
It wasn't Arabs who demolished the World Trade Center - it was jews.
It wasn't Arabs who had Jesus Christ crucified - it was jews.
The owner and publisher of Jihad Unspun is Khadija Abdul Qahaar
(a.k.a. Bev Kennedy), who converted to Islam after 9/11, became
an advocate for its most radical fringe, then launched the website
without any journalistic credentials.
While the site is duly protected by the First Amendment (we found no
overt calls to murder), the material Jihad Unspun publishes does not
meet a reasonable definition of 'news', but is rather anti-Israel and anti-American
propaganda that masquerades as news. Google News recognizes this loophole in its system ?
in March of last year Google News responded to an email campaign protesting the inclusion
of the radical Indymedia site (where the term 'Zionazis' was prevalent), and removed
Indymedia from their service.
With the highly influential Google News still a work-in-progress (it remains in experimental
'beta' mode), HonestReporting encourages subscribers to write to Google News at
news-feedback@google.com, encouraging the removal of Jihad Unspun from their list of
legitimate news sites. Though the goal of providing a spectrum of news sources is laudable,
hateful propaganda has no place on Google News.
Thank you for your ongoing involvement in the battle against media bias.
HonestReporting.com
LOL - with the photo already on the fakes.....LOL
A few years ago, there was a big Stamp Show, in the east, one of the dealers lost a bag with a million dollars worth of stamps.
The taxi driver was loading them and left it sitting on the curb.
I have read of the same happening with diamonds.
Of course, it could be that the future user was hiding behind a post and someone grabbed the bag, before he could.
Ahh the possible stories to be written for this one.
LOL
Yep, it kind of goes with my post earlier today #2951 regarding an older article discussing the MO of a fake id peddler in London. I came across that one while looking for info on Ujaama and Aswat.
If the guy lost the bag of fake id's by mistake he better start running from his own people immediately. More arrests today, seems like the 7-21 guys are singing like canaries.
EGYPT Update...
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/08/007473print.html
August 01, 2005
Red Sea bombing suspect shot dead
From Reuters:
CAIRO - Egyptian police shot dead one of the prime suspects in the bombings which killed at least 64 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh on July 23, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
His wife was also killed and their four-year-old daughter was injured in an exchange of fire with police, a security source added.
Mohamed Fulayfel was killed in the exchange near Gebel Ataqa, a hill 18 km (11 miles) west of the town of Suez, it said in a statement. It did not say when the gunfight took place.
Police investigating the Sharm el-Sheikh bombings were looking for Fulayfel, who is also on trial in absentia for bombings at three Red Sea resorts in October last year. One bomb, at the Hilton hotel in the town of Taba, killed 34 people.
His brother Suleiman was killed in the Hilton hotel blast, along with a Palestinian man who police said was the mastermind of the operation. Police said they died because the timing device did not work properly...
Posted at August 1, 2005 02:10 PM
well, that is the way to get things done....kill his parents and cousins next.
You can't get info out of a dead guy.
yes, but look at the two AQ Germany released....the top financier for 9/11.....the US should have taken him out when he was released.
It's gotta be tough being a terrorist and/or a terrorist web master.
You never know who's watching your every move.
Makes you sweat -- if you're a terrorist.
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