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Al-Qaeda’s Inroads into the Caribbean
Jamestown Terrorism Monitor ^ | 10-2005 | Chris Zambelis
Security threats emanating from the Caribbean Basin typically revolve around its position as a key trans-shipment point for South American narcotics to the United States and Europe, as well as illegal immigration, money laundering, and other forms of banking and document fraud.
Indeed, organized criminal networks from as far away as Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Asia, in addition to U.S. and South American organizations, have a formidable presence in the region.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507802/posts
That's super.
Thanks Liberty Rocks.
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=2132772005
Sun 23 Oct 2005
"Scots told to be on alert for al-Qaeda terror attack"
MURDO MACLEOD
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "POLICE in London have arrested three men on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities as Scots were warned that they are not immune from al-Qaeda attacks.
Scotland Yard said the three men, in their early 20s, who were not identified, were detained on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation" of terrorist acts.
Police said the arrests were not linked to the July bomb attacks on London, which killed 52 people and four suicide bombers.
Two men were arrested on Friday at homes in west London and Chatham, south of the capital, while the third man reported voluntarily to police. Detectives were searching the two homes and a third property, also in west London.
The move came as leading security experts warned Scots to be on the alert against Islamist extremists. Jim Brooks, a vice-president of London-based security consultants Control Risks Group, warned that Edinburgh and Glasgow possessed the kind of internationally famous targets that would attract terrorist attention.
Brooks, who served with the US Navy Seals special forces, was in Scotland to address business executives."
ON THE NET...
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17965_Contractor_Burned_Alive_in_Iraq&only
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17965_Contractor_Burned_Alive_in_Iraq#comments
Anyway, we're in good shape so nobody should worry about us. I hope we don't lose power, but there's a good chance that we will so I may be off the net for awhile. I wish I knew what has happened to the FR emergency contact list. If anybody has it and I'm off too long feel free to give me a call.
I'll try and stay on and catch up with TM some tonight until it really starts to get hairy in a few hours. A few prayers our way would be appreciated. Soon my wife and I will kneel to the Lord and do the final preparation.....
I'll pray for you and your wife ex-soldier, your neighborhood and the general area.
Sounds like you are well-prepared.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1507742
Venezuela getting ready to confront United States with military training of left-wing groups
India Daily ^ | October 23 2005 | Sonia Joshi
Posted on 10/23/2005 10:26:20 AM PDT by jmc1969
Oil rich Venezuela scared of the same fate as Iraq, is planning some extreme measures to confront United States in case it is attacked. Venezuela is fast spreading arms, money and military training tactics to left-wing groups in Ecuador and six other Latin American countries. According to some international think tanks, the plan is to rage insurgency from outside Venezuela in case Venezuela is attacked and occupied.
According to media sources, left-wing groups in Ecuador and six other Latin American countries have received training in urban guerrilla war tactics from Venezuela this year, The Miami Herald reported Oct. 22, citing an Ecuadorian military intelligence report. While the report does not directly link Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to the training, it does identify two Caracas installations -- one belonging to the Venezuelan army and the other to the Ministry of Defense -- where the training took place. In the past, Caracas has denied it supports groups or organizations that use violence to achieve political ends.
(I'm at work right now, hope to leave after 9 p.m.) ... we're getting the first outer band. It's a monster - this is some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen. Moving very fast. We're under a tornado warning; a twister is still bouncing around east of I-75.
God bless you both, and your families.
Ping to # 3848.
I have run across the term Grey Terror before, so from the Prophecy article of this morning, here it is.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Grey%20Terror
Spetsnaz could be plan, I have trouble reading the grey on grey.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:5F6vzIhof9AJ:militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov6/15.html+Grey+Terror&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet
I'm sorry to hear that jellyjam.
We're praying for you.
October 23, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News
(Colorado) Saudi In Aurora Probed For Possible Terror Link
http://cbs4denver.com/crime/local_story_295124217.html
Federal court documents claim Homaidan Al-Turki "is closely aligned to
terrorists and may be providing material support to terrorism."
(Egypt) Police halt attacks on churches
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20051022-104521-2500r.htm
Israel: Palestinian hid grenade under baby
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9785318/
Al Qaeda acknowledged that its senior operative Abu Azzam has been
killed
In Italy, Al Qaeda Turns to Organized Crime for Protection
http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=f38d897f8f8818412fb11cc2c68b7912
Militant leader killed in gunfight (India)
http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/WorldNF.asp?ArticleID=188212
Abdul Hamid, a commander of the Hizb-ul Mujahideen group in Jammu &
Kashmir, killed in gun battle
Behind the face of evil: Terrorism on the big screen
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/ny-ffmov4476464oct23,0,2268487.story?coll=ny-entertainment-headlines
Sunday October 23 2005 09:06:17 AM BDT
ABUL KALAM AZAD
The country’s Islamist militant outfits have been looking to implement, in stages, a decade-long strategy to prepare an atmosphere compatible with an Islamic revolution in Bangladesh, said intelligence officials.(New Age)
The officials, who are working to apprehend the leaders of the outfits, said the strategy was adopted in 1998 together with other Islamist groups and parties which believe in jihad and want to establish Islamic rule.
‘The 10-year-long mission was undertaken only after establishing a strong foundation by recruiting thousands of workers and agents since the early 1990s,’ said an intelligence official.
‘They have been smoothly marching toward their destination with their task already half done,’ said the official, who has obtained some crucial information about the mission.
His investigation reveals the frequent bombings are meant to make the countrymen used to such incidents so that they accept it as a part of life and not react on a mass scale. ‘The militants will continue bombing, assuming it will inure the people and help them to launch jihad.’
Intelligence officials said Islamist outfits that are operating have separate identities to give the impression that the bombings are isolated incidents, but in reality they are now working in unison to achieve their goal of establishing a fundamentalist, theocratic state.
Apart from recruiting dedicated leaders and workers they have been able to plant their people in most institutions of the society, including government departments and agencies.
Among them there are influential ministers, lawmakers, politicians, law enforcers, government officials, businessmen and journalists, but they are all working behind the scenes.
Investigation reveals that the militants have resumed trying to implement the strategy by carrying out secret killings, fighting law enforcers and looting firearms and other weapons to become stronger than the government forces.
‘They have earned sufficient strength and put their people in powerful quarters and key places, and they began operating in the northern part of Bangladesh in April last year, unveiling their faces for the first time,’ said an official.
Militants under the banner of Jagrata Muslim Janata, led by Bangla Bhai, created a reign of terror in the region through torturing, killing and maiming hundreds of people. ‘It was a big test which came out quite successfully, facing virtually no resistance or retaliatory action by the authorities,’ said the official.
‘The decision of certain sections in the government to release arrested militants, instead of pressing charges, and disobeying the prime ministerial order to arrest Bangla Bhai proves that they have successfully crossed the first obstacle,’ he added.
He said the frequent bombings were the deadliest part of the 10-year plan. ‘The bombings were meant to prove the expertise and the strength of the militants, and to inspire their followers and sympathisers,’ said the official, who is trying to find out the next step that will follow the bombings.
Investigators said that Harkat-ul Jihad Al-Islam, which began operating secretly in 1992, is the mother organisation of the militant Islamist outfits now active in the country. Nearly 3,000 Bangladeshi youths fought in the Afghanistan war, of whom 24 were killed and 10 were wounded.
They got training in the use of firearms and explosives, and were thoroughly imbued with the spirit of jihad. After returning home they started dreaming of Islamic rule in Bangladesh and began working towards that end, said intelligence officials.
Founded by Afghan war veterans in 1992, Harkat came to limelight through a press conference in the city in 1996, and soon other like-minded people and groups joined it to further the cause of jihad.
To achieve their goal the Islamist outfits also made a deal with Rohingya militants and trained their youths at the hide-outs in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
According to the pact, thousands of Rohingya militants will join hands with the outfits when they launch jihad after implementing the decade-long mission. In return, the Rohingyas will be helped by these outfits in their own struggle to create a separate Arakan state. Twenty-five Rahingyas nabbed in Chittagong admitted their link with Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, which is reportedly carried out the bomb attacks.
Hundreds of field-level militants were arrested after the August 17 and October 3 bombings, but it has failed to have any impact on the vast organisational structure of the outfits, believe intelligence officials.
They said that unless the big fish like Abdur Rahman and his brother Ataur Rahman Sunny, Bangla Bangla and their patrons in the powerful quarters are apprehended, nothing effective can be done and their operations will continue according to their plan.
The bombing in three districts on October 3 proved how dedicated the militants are, and unless the government puts itself on a war footing and is relentless in rooting them out, their operations will continue till they achieve their goal.
‘The Islamist outfits thought the government would come down heavily on them after the series of bombing incidents, but they gained more confidence and became more determined as almost nothing was done,’ said an intelligence official.
http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidDate=2005-10-23&hidType=TOP&hidRecord=0000000000000000067454
82 Jl militants in AFP battle list
AT LEAST 82 Jemaah Islamiyah (Jl) terrorists in Mindanao are in the military's order of battle.
Armed Forces Southern Command Chief Lt. Gen. Edilberto Adan said the terrorists from Indonesia could have already left the Philippines.
"More or less 82 (Jl) are listed in our order of battle," Adan said. "But the question is, are they still in 'the Philippines? They may or may not be." We are not very sure because they could move - they could go outside the country. The Jl terrorists change their names after they have sneaked into the country, he said.
Adan said Dulmatin, a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia that killed 202 mostly Australian tourists, is in the long list. The strategy of Australia is to move the battle against the terrorists down to their breeding ground, parts of which are in Mindanao.
"Australia also realized - that again their citizens were victims - and since it possible the Jl perpetrators were trained in the Philippines, it is their interest as well to help the Philippines in preventing, denying the use of Philippine territory in the training of their regional terrorists of Jl," he said.
Adan said he viewed the strategy of visiting Australian Minister of Defense Robert Mill to fight terrorists was the right one.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/zam/2005/10/23/news/82.jl.militants.in.afp.battle.list.html
"We know of others who may be planning to," he added. "I don't think there's anything we can do legally to prevent this."
Judd, who said CSIS had informed the U.S. government, made the comments at a conference of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies.
Contacted by Sun Media last night, a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office directed inquiries to Public Safety Minister Anne McLellan even though CBC-TV had reported that Prime Minister Paul Martin's first reaction was one of anger when informed of Judd's comments.
Alex Swann, a spokesman for McLellan played down the comments by the spy agency boss, saying Judd alluded to the participation of Canadian radicals in the Iraqi insurgency when he appeared before a special Senate committee reviewing terrorism last March 7.
Judds remarks prompted an immediate response from Conservative foreign affairs critic Stockwell Day, who said the Martin government "must do everything possible to condemn and discourage" such activity.
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2005/10/21/pf-1271960.html
London, Oct. 22 – Compact discs containing al-Qaeda’s training manuals and propaganda materials are being freely distributed in Iran’s eastern and southeastern provinces, according to local residents.
The instructions, all in Arabic, cover a wide range of political and ideological indoctrination, as well as offering detailed guidelines on military and security tactics, according to residents of the provincial cities of Mashad and Zahedan who have seen the CDs.
“They are easily available and cost nothing”, Gol-Mohammad Baremi, who lives in the southeastern city of Zahedan, told Iran Focus in a telephone interview. “But they can’t be for local people. Hardly anyone here speaks Arabic”.
Some security analysts suspect that the CDs could be part of the much larger stocks prepared for shipment to Iraq and other Arab countries.
“They are either being produced in Iran’s eastern provinces to be smuggled to Iraq, or they are being brought into Iran from Afghanistan and Pakistan, en route to Iraq”, Paramjit Gupta, a counter-terrorism specialist based in Dubai, said in a telephone interview. “The question, as always, is the degree of official Iranian involvement. Given the strong presence of [Iranian secret police] MOIS agents in these provinces, I imagine the government knows very well what’s going on”.
In July 2004, the presidentially-appointed commission investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks upon the United States concluded that al-Qaeda’s relationship with Iran was far deeper and more long-standing than had been envisaged before. The 9/11 Commission noted that as many as 10 of the hijackers transited through Iran before the hijackings.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4096
Police arrest 'man who was asked to join 7 July bombers'
ALASTAIR DALTON
A MAN who was reported to have been asked to join the group of suicide bombers which attacked London in July has been arrested by police.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed yesterday that anti-terrorist officers had arrested a 27-year-old man in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, on Saturday.
He was held on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000.
Scotland Yard said he was arrested following comments made to the News of the World.
The newspaper is understood to have passed an interview with a man they named as Imran Patel to police involved in the investigation into the London bombings.
Patel, believed to be an auditor in Leeds, is reported to have had military training in Pakistan. The newspaper said he was in his early thirties.
Patel allegedly told the newspaper he met the suicide bombers - Mohammad Sadique Khan, 30, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, Jermaine Lindsay, 19, and Hasib Hussain, 18 - in Dewsbury after he returned to the UK.
He told the paper Khan had asked him to join the bombing mission. However, he decided not to take part after the group suggested attacking a school where children would have been the victims.
Patel was reported to have said he would never attack a target in Britain but would willingly do so abroad.
He also said he had a young Muslim friend who was close to launching an atrocity in Britain.
Patel was reported as saying: "He is definitely ready. This guy is married. I said to him, 'What about the wife?'
"He said, 'I'll ask permission from my wife, but if it's not granted it's permissible for me still to go.'"
Patel said he also knew of at least six other Muslims from Dewsbury who had trained in camps in Pakistan, and who were now back in Britain. Patel said he agreed to speak to the newspaper to make people "understand that Jihad is valid". Jihad is an Arabic word that refers to the Islamic struggle to do good. Many extremist Muslims use it to refer to holy war.
He told the newspaper: "It is permissible, but only in appropriate places, and Britain is not one of them."
He was reported to have been among a group of British Muslims recruited by a mullah in Dewsbury to go to Pakistan for military training in 2003.
Two residential addresses are being searched in connection with the Dewsbury investigation, a police spokesman said. Khan also lived in Dewsbury. The two were reported to have met at Patel's house, where they watched Jihad videos calling for Muslims to launch a holy war. They were also reported to have held discussions about their "mission" to carry out terrorist attacks in Britain.
The paper said Patel had not given the bombers' identities to the police after refusing to take part in the attacks because he did not want to see his Muslim "brothers" jailed.
The Met spokesman said the man had been taken to a West Yorkshire police station for questioning. He said: "We thank the News of the World for drawing the matter to our attention, and material passed to the police by the newspaper is being assessed by the Anti-Terrorist Branch."
• Police were last night granted more time to question three terror suspects following a series of armed police raids across the South East of England. Officers from the Anti-Terrorist Branch said the arrests were not connected to the London transport explosions.
They now have until Thursday to question the three, who were in custody in a central London police station.
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