Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat

Giggling...

Thanks Oorang.

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"Scrutiny for mosques, schools"
Herald Sun ^ | 24 August 2005

Posted on 08/23/2005 8:47:21 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MOSQUES and Islamic schools will come under scrutiny as the Federal Government works to prevent terrorist behaviour, Prime Minister John Howard says.

When asked if he was prepared to "get inside" mosques and schools to ensure there was no support for terrorism, Mr Howard said: "Yes, to the extent necessary". "I have no desire and nor is it the government's intention to interfere in any way with the freedom or practice of religion," he told Southern Cross radio today.

"We have a right to know whether there is within any section of the Islamic community a preaching of the virtues of terrorism, whether any comfort or harbour is given to terrorism within that community.

"Now, it's very hard for a government or any of its agencies to penetrate every aspect of life and we don't want to interfere with people's enjoyment of life – and bear in mind the overwhelming majority of Australians of the Islamic faith are good, loyal, upright, decent, committed Australian citizens and I don't want them to feel strangers in what they regard as their own country.

"Equally, if people are not willing to give their first loyalty to this country then they obviously must understand that that will arouse enormous concern within the rest of the Australian community.

"It is a question of striking a balance and I believe enlisting the support and the goodwill of the people I spoke to yesterday was a very valuable framework and a very valuable first step."

Mr Howard met with Muslim leaders in Canberra yesterday with the aim of identify ways of preventing terrorist behaviour and steering "impressionable" young Muslims away from extremism."

24 August 2005

In light of the recent statements directed toward Venezuela's
Hugo Chavez, we recommend the following relevant PINR:

"Venezuela's Hugo Chavez Makes His Bid for a Bolivarian
Revolution"
http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_report&report_id=285

Today's analyst is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute
of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore. She is currently
involved in research on maritime terrorism and piracy under the
Institute's Maritime Security Program. She is a co-editor and
contributing author for the volume "The Best of Times, the Worst
of Times. Maritime Security in the Asia Pacific." She was
previously an analyst at the Center for the Study of Terrorism
and Political Violence, St. Andrews University, Scotland.

The Malacca Straits and the Threat of Maritime Terrorism
Drafted By: Catherine Zara Raymond
http://www.pinr.com

On August 1, 2005, the foreign ministers of the three littoral
states of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore met to discuss
maritime safety and security in the Malacca Straits. They
concluded their talks with a stronger commitment to addressing
comprehensively the issue of maritime security, including the
threats of piracy, armed robbery and terrorism. The meeting
marked the recognition by the littoral states that much remains
to be done in terms of improving the safety and security of the
Malacca Straits.

The situation became all the more urgent following the recent
decision by Lloyd's Market Association's Joint War Committee to
declare the Malacca Straits an area that is in jeopardy of "war,
strikes, terrorism and related perils." The decision to add the
Straits of Malacca to the Committee's list of high-risk areas was
taken following recommendations by the private defense
consultants, Aegis Defence Services, who are said to have
carried out risk assessments on the area. Others on the list are
countries such as Iraq, Somalia and Lebanon. Although the
Committee has a purely advisory role, the result of this
declaration could be dramatically higher insurance costs for the
many thousands of ships that transit the Straits on an annual
basis.

The Aegis report stated that due to the fact that there had been
an intensification of the weaponry and techniques used by the
pirates in the Straits, they are now largely indistinguishable from
terrorists. In addition, it stated that the Straits are a target for
terrorism. The report cited a statement by al-Qaeda leader
Osama bin Laden in which he spoke about hitting enemy
countries through their economies. It also highlighted Jemaah
Islamiyah's (J.I.) past interest in the traffic passing through the
Straits. [See: "The Threat of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic
Revolutionary Movement"]

The Straits of Malacca: A High-Risk Zone?

A terrorist attack in this economically strategic waterway would
certainly have the potential to cause large-scale economic
impact, not just regionally but on a global scale. The waterway is
transited by about 60,000 ships each year, and approximately
one third of the world's trade and half of the world's oil pass
through the Straits on their way to countries such as China and
Japan.

However, both the littoral states and ship owners around the
world have expressed their concern over whether the decision by
the Joint War Committee is justified. In a joint statement, the
foreign ministers of the littoral states urged the Committee to
"review its risk assessment accordingly." The ministers
expressed their regret that the decision was taken without their
consultation and failed to take into account their existing efforts
to deal with the threats to safety and security in the Straits. The
Federation of A.S.E.A.N. Shipowners' Association declared that
the decision was "misguided."

While the reaction by the littoral states and ship owners may to
some extent be warranted given the lack of evidence pointing to
an immediate threat from maritime terrorism, completely ruling
out the possibility of an attack taking place would be an incorrect
assessment. A terrorist attack in the Straits may have a low
probability of occurring but the impact of such an attack could be
very high.

It is important to point out that the threat of international
terrorism still casts its shadow over the region. Despite a series
of arrests, the J.I. network remains resilient and is expected to
strike again. The suicide bombing at the Australian Embassy in
Jakarta on September 9, 2004, which killed some 11 people and
injured more than 180, is certainly proof of this.

As mentioned in the Aegis report, J.I. has planned attacks
against naval vessels in the region. Fears of a J.I. attack were
renewed after U.S. intelligence passed on warnings about a plot
to hijack a vessel in the region's waterways. The warnings,
issued in September 2004, stated that activists from J.I. had
been discussing plans to seize a vessel with the assistance of
local pirates.

Other terrorist attacks attributed to J.I. are: the Christmas Eve
bombings of churches in Indonesia in 2000, which killed some 19
people, the October 12, 2002 Bali suicide attack that killed
around 200 people, mostly Western tourists including
approximately 88 Australians, in a nightclub, and the Marriott
Hotel bombing in Jakarta that killed around 12 people on August
5, 2003.

The Philippines continues to be a haven for terrorist activity, with
evidence of terrorist training camps on the Philippine island of
Mindanao and growing cooperation between J.I. and the two
Philippine Muslim insurgency groups -- the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (M.I.L.F.) and the Abu Sayyaf Group (A.S.G.).

Both M.I.L.F. and A.S.G. have carried out previous maritime
terrorist attacks. One such attack by M.I.L.F. took place on a
busy seaport in Davao City, in the Philippines, in April 2003.
Around seventeen people were killed in the attack. The group
also carried out attacks on Philippine shipping, mainly placing
bombs on domestic inter-island ferries being used to transport
members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Christians
to and from Mindanao. On February 27, 2004, A.S.G. carried out
a suicide bombing on the M/V Superferry 14 shortly after it left
Manila Bay, killing more than 100 people. This attack resulted in
the greatest number of deaths since the Bali bombing,

It is clear from the militant groups operating in the region that
there is an interest in attacking maritime targets. Whether or not
they have the capability to conduct a spectacular attack on
shipping in the Straits remains to be seen.

A Terrorism-Piracy Nexus?

One of the specific criticisms leveled at the Aegis report was its
failure to distinguish clearly between piracy and terrorism. While
piracy in the Straits of Malacca has been taking place on a
regular basis for the last decade, there is little or no evidence to
suggest that pirates are forming links with international or
regional terrorist groups, such as al-Qaeda or J.I., in order to
carry out a devastating attack on a maritime target. The only
suspected link between piracy and terrorism in the Malacca
Straits is the employment of pirate tactics by the separatist
group known as the Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.).

Since the 1970s, G.A.M. has been fighting a separatist war
against the Indonesian government with the aim of creating an
independent Islamic kingdom in the province of Aceh. The group
is said to finance its terrorist activities partly through sea piracy
and smuggling. These are not, strictly speaking, acts of maritime
terrorism. It has been well documented that terrorist groups
have resorted to criminal activities in order to generate funds for
their political campaigns. However, these criminal acts are not in
themselves acts of terrorism. Therefore, the threat of maritime
piracy must not be labeled as a terrorism risk. [See: "Examining
the Threats to Indonesia's National Interests"]

Conclusion

While it is important to distinguish between the pirate attacks
taking place in the Straits and acts of terrorism, what these
pirate attacks demonstrate is that the vessels transiting the
Straits are highly vulnerable to a breach in their security. Pirates
regularly hijack tankers in order to steal the cargo or kidnap
crewmembers. If terrorists were able to take over a tanker
carrying highly hazardous chemical cargo, the implications could
be disastrous. The unpredictability of terrorism makes it hard to
carry out accurate risk assessments. However, as can be seen
from the evidence presented above, the threat from maritime
terrorism is a clear possibility in the Straits of Malacca.

Report Drafted By:
Catherine Zara Raymond

The preparation. The part first - The preparation. The part second

At least it wasn't the implementation, parts one and two. The martyr operations is a little frightening. Wishing the martyrs self-destruct alone prematurely prior to whatever evil they plan.

After I posted them, I was deluged with malicious script and had to restore my computer. I had no idea it was so virile and nasty. Going to look at Apple Computers. I've had just about enough of this computer stuff.

This is several good reports covers a bit more than normal, mentions:

Bakri
Tariq Hamdi
Babar, who is now a gov witness.

Several other names as it covers several years.

http://www.mail-archive.com/osint@yahoogroups.com">http://www.mail-archive.com/osint@yahoogroups.com/msg14840.html

Thanks Granny for those pinr.com links.

Someone needs to join the osint group at Yahoo, they have good posts.
granny

[osint] Hizb ut Tahrir: The Islamic Rule on Hijacking
Aeroplanes

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:32:54 -0700

http://hurryupharry.bloghouse.net/archives/2005/08/19/hizb_ut_tahrir_
the_islamic_rule_on_hijacking_aeroplanes.php

August 19, 2005

Hizb ut Tahrir: The Islamic Rule on Hijacking Aeroplanes

Hizb ut Tahrir professes to be a non violent organisation and is
seeking to avoid a ban on the basis that they do not incite their
members to violence and specifically do not permit violence against
civilians.
On their page, "FAQ About Hizb ut-Tahrir", the party states:
The rules of Islam forbid any aggression against civilian non-
combatants. They forbid the killing of children, the elderly and non-
combatant women even in the battlefield. They forbid the hijacking
of civilian aeroplanes carrying innocent civilians and forbid the
destruction of homes and offices that contain innocent civilians.
All of these actions are types of aggression that Islam forbids.
That is, literally, a true statement. It is however deliberately
misleading. It is clear that Hizb ut Tahrir are using the
word "innocent" in its technical legal sense only.
If you click on this link, you can read Hizb ut Tahrir's learned and
authoritative statement on the position. The ruling in question
dates from 1988. It is Hizb ut Tahrir's present policy. It has not
been rescinded, and it has not been superseded.
It provides that
- Aeroplanes from an "Islamic country" is "Muslim property" and
cannot be hijacked.
- Aeroplanes from a "Kafir state with whom there is no direct war
with Muslims" may not be hijacked.
- Aeroplanes from a "country which is at war with the Muslims, like
Israel, it is allowed to hijack it , for there is no sanctity for
Israel nor for the Jews in it and their property and we should treat
them as being at war with us". In that case it is permitted to
hijack and destroy the aeroplane and terrorize and kill the
passengers.
As you know, Hizb ut Tahrir is a racist theocratic totalitarian
political party which has been trying to make itself look itself
look respectable, particularly since it now faces banning. Just as
the BNP has tried to play down its racism, Hizb ut Tahrir has also
been airbrushing away as much racist material as it can find from
its website, in order to give the false impression that it is not a
racist party.
When I pointed out what Hizb ut Tahrir was up to in my Open
Democracy article, Abdul Wahid claimed that "the decision to remove
some of our overseas literature from our British website was a
considered response to the legitimate proposition that people who
read it out of its context might see it as offensive".
That is simply untrue.
They removed the racist literature because it showed, too clearly,
the true face of Hizb ut Tahrir.
And now they have been caught out again.
Hizb ut Tahrir is a party whose existing policy sanctions the
hijacking of aeroplanes, and the killing of their passengers.

The triple term senators and congressmen need to hang it up and get out of Dodge. They have lost their edge and have no interest in securing our country. Like famous newscasters, they have fame and physical recognition by the public and they like it that way. It doesn't mean they are effective or that they will keep campaign promises. As long as the public buys "brand name" politicians instead of ones who genuinely want to make our country better, we're going to be chasing our tails while terrorists and illegals take over and the ACLU and CAIR tell our leaders what they can and cannot do.

Hiding the scenes of 9/11 from us (too offensive) is the wrong thing to do. Americans need to be reminded constantly of what we face and how we need to plan against that happening again.

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=51453

Police Unravels "Al-Qaeda" Terror Threats on Sofia

Top news: 21 August 2005, Sunday.

Two Bulgarian boys, aged 11 and 12, are behind an
Internet "Al-Qaeda"
statement, which threatened to strike the capital Sofia
and wipe it out,
police said.

The statement was posted August 18 on the site of Sofia
municipality.

"Sofia will be blown into pieces by bombs and shootings
on Spetember 11,"
read the statement, which claimed to have been signed
by Al-Qaeda terror
group and Osama bin Laden.

Police found out the statement was posted from an
internet club in the small
town of Dupnitsa, near Sofia.

Police interrogated the boys in the presence of their
parents. The
mischievous boys said they did it for fun.

1] Date: Tue 23 Aug 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: Reuters Health, Mon 22 Aug 2005 [edited] ---------------------------------------------------------------- Swedish researchers said on Monday [22 Aug 2005] that they had identified a previously unknown virus which may cause many cases of serious respiratory infections in children. They named the virus Human bocavirus and suggested the researchers start a systematic search for all the viruses that cause respiratory infections. The report, published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underlines how little doctors know about the sources of most respiratory infections. ------------------------------------------------------------- A separate team of California researchers found they could identify only about 40 percent of viruses infecting patients, and both teams said rapid testing for viruses would be useful in diagnosing and treating respiratory illnesses. Health experts say this step was particularly important because there are fears that influenza, in particular avian influenza, could cause a global pandemic. Being able to test quickly to find out what is making someone sick can mean the difference between life and death, because antiviral medications must be given early on to prevent serious illness in the case of influenza. ------------------------------------------------------------- In their sample of 540 children in a pediatric hospital ward, the new bocavirus was responsible for 17 of the cases, the Swedish researchers found. "Lower respiratory tract infection is a leading cause for hospitalization of infants and young children and accounts for 250 000 hospitalizations a year in the United States alone," Tobias Allander of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and colleagues wrote in their report. ------------------------------------------------------------- "The most important viral agent in this group of patients is respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Other important agents are influenza viruses, parainfluenza viruses, adenoviruses, rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, and human metapneumovirus." But the causes of between 12 percent and 39 percent of these serious infections are never identified," the researchers said. ------------------------------------------------------------- In a 2nd study, Janice Louie of the California Department of Health Services, Lawrence Drew of the University of California, San Francisco and colleagues checked patients reporting to the hospital with flu-like illness including "unspecified upper respiratory infection," acute bronchitis, sinus infections, and pneumonia. They could identify a virus in only 103, or 39 percent, of the patients. These included influenza A or B in 54 patients, picornavirus in 28, RSV in 12, human metapneumovirus in four and human coronavirus OC43 in 2 patients. --------------------------------------------------------------- --- ProMED-mail ****** [2] Date: Tue 23 Aug 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: Reuters Health, Mon 22 Aug 2005 [edited] ------------------------------------------------------------- A new human virus, provisionally named human bocavirus, has been identified in the respiratory secretions of children, according to a report released Monday. "Our approach and methodology are similar to [those] of the human genome project," Dr. Tobias Allander from Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, told Reuters Health. "Our finding of a rather prevalent previously unknown pathogen suggests that the screening is worth pursuing in a larger scale." ------------------------------------------------------------- The new virus is similar to 2 related members of the Bocavirus family that infect cattle and dogs, report Allander and colleagues. Consequently, they propose the name "human bocavirus (HBoV)" for the new virus, writing in the research journal PNAS Early Edition. The virus was first spotted in 2 specimens from Asian patients. ------------------------------------------------------------- In a later series of screenings, 17 of 540 nasal samples proved to be positive for HBoV, the researchers found, and in 14 cases it was the only virus detected. All 14 children with HBoV for whom records were available had respiratory illness for 1-4 days prior to hospital admission. None of the HBoV-infected children had gastrointestinal symptoms, conjunctivitis or rash, the authors say. ------------------------------------------------------------- "We will of course perform additional studies on human bocavirus," Allander said. "However, in order to sort out the epidemiology, disease association, and other aspects of this infection, multiple studies from all around the world will likely be more important." ------------------------------------------------------------- To identify other viruses, Allander explained, "we are working on a number of sample collections in collaboration with clinicians. However, we believe that the most fruitful future approach will be a broad and unbiased exploration of the viruses that infect humans, a 'human virome' project. We think such a collaborative project should be seriously discussed." There are many diseases with no known cause, "and some of them have similarities to virus infections," he concluded. "Therefore, virus discovery is an urgent scientific task." [Byline: Will Boggs, MD] ------------------------------------------------------------ -- ProMED-mail [At the time of posting this report, Dr Allander and colleagues' publication has appeared in neither the current issue of PNAS nor the 22 Aug 2005 Early Edition, so comment is reserved. ProMED-mail acknowledges receipt of the same reports from George Robertson and Mary Marshall. - Mod.CP] .........................cp/pg/mpp

Aug 23, 2005 1:13 pm US/Eastern
Huge Security Upgrade Coming For NYC
Expect To See More Surveillance Cameras And Motion Sensors

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_235055304.html

(AP) NEW YORK Over the next three years, the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority will add 1,000 surveillance cameras and 3,000 motion
sensors to its sprawling network of subways and commuter rail facilities as
part of a $212 million security upgrade announced Tuesday with Lockheed
Martin Corp.

The agreement marks the MTA's largest financial commitment to its
counterterrorism program. Although the agency approved a $591 million
security plan in 2002, it had spent only a fraction of that until the deal
with Lockheed Martin.

MTA Executive Director Katherine Lapp rejected suggestions that the
announcement was tied to last month's terrorist attacks in the London
Underground that killed 52 people, saying planning for the security
upgrades has been going on for more than a year. An MTA spokesman said the
entire system already has about 1,000 security cameras.

"These types of systems are very sophisticated and they have to be able
to understand how they will be deployed in an open environment such as
ours," Lapp said of the contractors. "We wanted to make sure that we
did it right, that we got to a place where we are today. ...This is not
something over the last month that we decided to accelerate."

(continued at link)

Jordan says Syrian militants behind rocket attack

By Suleiman al-Khalidi Tue Aug 23,10:39 AM ET

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050823/ts_nm/security_jordan_syria_dc_1

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian militants linked to al Qaeda's leader in Iraq,
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, were behind last week's rocket attack on U.S.
warships in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, Jordanian security officials said
on Tuesday.

Zarqawi's Sunni Muslim group claimed responsibility for Friday's
attack, in which the rockets missed their targets, but hit a warehouse and a
hospital, killing a Jordanian soldier, and struck the Israeli port of
Eilat.

An Internet statement said those who had carried out the strikes had
"withdrawn ... and returned safely to their base."

The Jordanian officials identified the suspects as an Iraqi named
Mohammed Hameed Hassan, also known as Abu Mukhtar, and a Syrian named
Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sahli and his two sons.

The officials, who asked not to be named, said Sahli had been part of
an al Qaeda sleeper cell in Amman. He was arrested shortly after his
sons, Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman, fled across the border to Iraq with
Hassan on Friday.

They said the Syrians had used forged Iraqi passports to enter Jordan,
a tightly policed pro-Western kingdom where militant attacks are rare.

Another security source said the four-member group had received direct
orders from Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has led a campaign of bombings and
kidnappings in postwar Iraq.

The attack was the most serious on U.S. targets in Jordan since the
2002 killing of American diplomat Lawrence Foley in Amman. A Jordanian
court has convicted Zarqawi in absentia for Foley's shooting and sentenced
him to death.

Amman has received several warnings in recent months that al Qaeda
planned to attack the port of Aqaba, which handles many supplies for U.S.
forces in Iraq, security sources said.

They said the three missiles fired in Friday's attack were among seven
Katyusha rockets smuggled into Jordan from Iraq by car two weeks
earlier. The other four were found abandoned.

A Jordanian source said Amman was concerned about signs that Syria had
become a conduit for anti-U.S. fighters heading to Iraq -- as U.S.
officials complain -- but said there was no proof the Damascus government
condoned such activities.

Explosives, Large Arms Cache Found in Moscow Apartment

Created: 24.08.2005 11:22 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:22 MSK, 23 minutes
ago

MosNews

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/24/moscowexplosives.shtml

At least 80 kilos of TNT, 20 automatic weapons and 40 grenades have
been found in a flat of a residential building in southeastern Moscow, RIA
Novosti reports.

â€œThe large cache was found as a result of operational-search
activities carried out by policemen and officers of the Russian FSB (Federal
Security Service),â€ a source in the capitalâ€™s law-enforcement
agencies told Interfax.

Convicted 9/11 terrorist Motassadeq to appeal

23 August 2005

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=23027&name=Convicted+9%2F11+terrorist+Motassadeq+to+appeal

HAMBURG - Lawyers for the only man ever convicted in connection with
the September 11 attacks Tuesday said they have filed an appeal of last
week's re-trial guilty verdict.

Defence lawyers for Moroccan-born Mounir al-Motassadeq told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur they had filed an appeal because the verdict had been
based on purely circumstantial evidence linking the Moroccan-born defendant
to the 9/11 attacks.

In a virtual repeat of its 2003 verdict, Hamburg State Superior court
last Friday found Motassadeq guilty of membership in a terrorist
organisation.

The court sentenced him to seven years in prison. However, the court
exonerated him of charges of actual direct
involvement in the September 11 attacks.

Even with that partial exoneration, German federal prosecutors hailed
the decision a significant step toward combating terrorism.

During months of protracted wrangling, prosecutors and defence
attorneys had squared off over the issue of whether Motassadeq had been an
integral part of the al-Qaeda terrorist cell that carried out the attacks
by hijacking planes and flying them into the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.

Prosecutors told the court how Motassadeq made payments while plotters
were absent in al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan.

Defence lawyers argued that Motassadeq was not involved in the Hamburg
terrorist cell headed by Mohammed Atta. Atta and two other students
from Hamburg piloted hijacked planes on September 11, 2001.

The prosecution's case was severely hampered when the U.S. State
Department declined to hand over key intelligence documents that the German
lawyers considered incontrovertible proof of Motassadeq's involvement.

The U.S. decision was one of several serious setbacks for German
prosecutors, who had difficulty finding incriminating evidence against
Motassadeq, now being tried a second time after his first conviction for
terrorism was overturned on appeal.

He was accused of foreknowledge and being an accessory to the September
11 attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York and
Washington.

Only a German version of U.S. notes on the interrogation of two 9/11
organizers, Ramzi Binalshibh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, were provided to
the court. Both men asserted that Motassadeq was not aware of the plot
by his Hamburg student friends.

Both al-Qaeda organizers are in U.S. custody, probably outside the
United States. The court has questioned the reliability of their evidence,
noting that they may have been tortured.

The prosecution contended that eight technical training school students
in Hamburg had by spring 1999 devised the idea of hijacking airliners
and using them as suicide bombers, then approached Osama bin Laden for
assistance.

Motassadeq sought to portray himself as ignorant of Atta's mission
despite his close friendship with Atta and their attending prayer meetings
together at a mosque noted for radical preaching.

In 2003, Motassadeq was convicted by the Hamburg court on charges of
aiding and abetting the murders of the more than 3,000 September 11
victims and being a member of a terrorist group. He was sentenced to 15
years imprisonment.

The conviction was quashed on appeal and a new trial ordered.

DPA

ON THE NET...

http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Al_Zarqawi
http://www.islammemo.cc/news/newsimages/al-jazerra/a11zar.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WORLD/meast/03/05/zarqawi.pics/story.zarqawi.jpg

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45929
"Zarqawi setting up bases in Jordan, Gaza Strip?
Terror chief boasts of Eilat, Aqaba attack amid concerns of network expansion"
Posted: August 24, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "JERUSALEM – A website affiliated with al-Qaida yesterday announced the terror groups' Iraq insurgency leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was responsible for last week's rocket attack that nearly hit a U.S. naval ship in the Gulf of Aqaba and an airport in Israel's Eilat port town, driving home fears here the terror chieftain has established a base in Jordan intent on carrying out attacks against both the Heshamite kingdom and the Jewish state.

Some are pointing to ideological connections between Zarqawi's group and Hamas, and warning al-Qaida may try to gain a foothold in the Gaza Strip after Israel's departure from the area."