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Posted on 11/01/2005 6:57:01 PM PST by nwctwx
Thanks DC.
Does this logic sound familiar?
Snip: In the long march toward a new social order, ultra-right and left-wing agitation propaganda serve not only to polarize and destabilize society, they create a diversionary conflict to prevent recognition of the true conspiracy. Lest an informed and united citizenry form an alliance against them, principles of conflict management are employed by the power elites:
"The plan, I think, is the old one of world dominion in a new form. The money-power and revolutionary power have been set up and given sham but symbolic shapes ('Capitalism' or 'Communism') and sharply defined citadels ('America' or 'Russia'). Such is the spectacle publicly staged for the masses. But what if similar men, with a common aim, secretly rule in both camps and propose to achieve their ambition through the clash between those masses? I believe any diligent student of our times will discover that this is the case.
Davey, if you will go and read Freeper Liberty Rocks posts, you will find that she posted on this Georgia and several other college attacks, all about the same time in October.
There was a link to OU on the browse page, that is the reports on Ok. University.
There have been many school attacks/threats recently.
Atlanta has always been a target, many of the jihad messages led there.
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=200511128.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
November 28, 2005
Release Number: 05-11-128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SOLDIERS SEIZE WEAPONS CACHE, DETAIN 4 TERRORISTS
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A routine patrol yielded significant results Nov. 27 when Task Force Baghdad Soldiers discovered terrorists’ weapons and bomb-making materials and detained four suspects in the Abu Ghraib district of west Baghdad.
Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment were traveling through an area known for attacks with improvised explosive devices when they saw something suspicious in a chicken coop behind a farmhouse.
They discovered what first appeared to be unexploded ordnance buried in the ground but slightly exposed on the surface. Explosive experts were called in and they destroyed the ordnance, but the explosion uncovered a large supply of weapon systems.
This is the 29th cache discovered by B Troop since May.
The Soldiers found 19 rocket-propelled grenades, 16 82 mm mortar rounds, seven rifle grenades, six anti-tank mines, five rocket launchers, three rockets, three AK-47 assault rifles with 12 magazines, two hand grenades, two sniper rifles, two 130 mm artillery rounds, a pipe bomb, one mortar tube, one RPK rifle, a 9 mm pistol, one 50-caliber machine gun, 20 primers, 20 SKS magazines, and 10 pounds of various ammunition.
THIS STORY HAS ACCOMPANYING PHOTOGRAPHS. TO RECEIVE THE PHOTOS: CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, SGT. FIRST CLASS DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL.
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Weapons and bomb-making materials are spread out on the ground for inventory after Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Cavalry discovered a cache in a chicken coop behind a farmhouse in Abu Ghraib Nov. 27. (U.S. Army photo)
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Weapons and bomb-making materials are on display after Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Cavalry discovered a cache in a chicken coop behind a farmhouse in Abu Ghraib Nov. 27. Four terrorists were detained in the operation. (U.S. Army photo)
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Soldiers from B Troop, 1st Squadron, 11th Cavalry search through the rubble of a chicken coop and discover a weapons cache Nov. 27. First, a small cache was found but when explosive experts destroyed the ordnance, the blast revealed an even larger stash of weapons. (U.S. Army photo)
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS RELEASE, CONTACT THE TASK FORCE BAGHDAD PUBLIC AFFAIRS PLANS AND OPERATIONS NCO, SGT. FIRST CLASS DAVID ABRAMS AT: DAVID.ABRAMS@ID3.ARMY.MIL
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Someone needs to file a lawsuit seeking removal of the ACLU from our country as a traitorous group. How are they winning cases supportive of Islamic (religious) studies in our nation's schools when they are fighting Christianity (religious) in the same schools.
Our politicians need to quit being girly men and stand up for the rights of the majority in this country. Instead it's a deafening silence we're getting from them. It's high time our lawmakers kicked the ACLU to the curb.
Note: The following text is an exact quote:
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=200511130.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
November 29, 2005
Release Number: 05-11-130
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MUTIPLE CACHES UNCOVERED BY IRAQI AND U.S. FORCES
CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, Iraq —Iraqi Army Soldiers and U.S. Marines, Soldiers and Sailors of the 2nd Marine Division, discovered 66 weapons caches during the past week in al Anbar.
Blocks of plastic explosives, sticks of TNT, artillery and mortar rounds used in vehicle and roadside bombs along with remote detonators were found by Iraqi and U.S. Forces. Machine guns, assault and sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and the munitions were also discovered.
Last Sunday, in Haqlaniyah, Iraqi Soldiers and Marines excavated more than 8,800 heavy machine gun rounds along with 150 artillery, mortar and tank rounds. Information gained from local citizens indicated that the cache was buried approximately one month ago by three carloads of terrorists working through the night.
Yesterday near Habbaniyah, four complete mortar systems, including their aiming sites and instruction manuals were found. At the same location, more than a dozen remote detonators for roadside bombs were also found. Thirteen men were detained at the site for further questioning.
Caches were found and destroyed from Fallujah to al Qa’im. Many of these weapons and explosive cache sites were located after receiving information from local citizens. Local citizens frequently speak to a passing patrol or by call local tips lines, while others cache sites are found during the course of clearing operations.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT THE 2D MARINE DIVISION PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER AT POOLJS@GCEMNF-WIRAQ.USMC.MIL.
THIS STORY HAS ACCOMPANYING PHOTOGRAPHS. TO RECEIVE THE PHOTOS, E-MAIL THE CPIC PRESS DESK AT cpicpressdesk@iraq.centcom.mil
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Lost in cyber space from one of your googles...LOL
Al Qaeda designed a passport office to handle international travel documents, an office that was the equivalent of a military travel planning office combined with an intelligence travel planning operation. Al Qaeda also used travel facilitators, corrupt border officials, and sympathetic travel agencies. They studied visa policies and practices, entry practices, and immigration rules of various countries, and then created an operational training course to teach operatives to forge documents. These operatives learned how to add or erase entry stamps, alter and remove visas, substitute photos, and tear out pages. Visas became an integral part of the planning process for terrorist attacks in other ways. Yemeni suicide operatives, who could have been part of the 9/11 plot but could not obtain visas as easily as Saudis, planned to hijack planes in Southeast Asian countries instead, since they could enter without visas. However, this part of the September 11 plot was never carried out.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:PkMv_BPq8y8J:www.migrationpolicy.org/events/091004_sum.php+a+deal+to+share+his+smuggling+routes+with+Al-Qaeda%0D%0A+operatives&hl=en&client=googlet
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2005/20051129_3473.html
Troops Find Car Bombs, Detain Suspects
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2005 – Soldiers from the 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, discovered three car bombs and detained nine possible terrorists west of Rawah today after their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber, military officials reported.
Two cars approached the mounted patrol at about 1 p.m. local time. One vehicle sped off while the other stopped and waited for the soldiers to investigate. The driver of the stationary vehicle blew up himself and his car. There were no casualties or damages reported as a result of the attack.
Soldiers then pursued the second car until they found it abandoned. In a search of the area, three other car bombs were discovered and nine suspected terrorists were detained.
In other news, Iraqi and coalition forces detained several insurgents throughout Iraq on Nov. 28.
Troops from the Iraqi army's 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 7th Division, detained a military-aged man during a house search conducted near Ramadi. He had a 9 mm pistol, Iranian currency, an Oman license plate and a wireless phone base station.
During a vehicle search northeast of Ramadi, Iraqi troops from the same unit detained two more men who had an AK-47 assault rifle with two full magazines and a 9 mm pistol with a full magazine.
In a joint operation with coalition forces, troops from the Iraqi army's 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, and coalition forces detained two men with possible ties to an insurgent propaganda cell north of Husaybah. One military-aged man was detained because he was on a "persons-of-interest" list for being a possible member of an insurgent propaganda cell. The second man is the brother of another person on that list who also is wanted for being a member of the cell, officials said.
East of Husaybah, members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, apprehended three men on motorcycles. The men matched a description given to the troops by a farmer who said they were seen planting roadside bombs in the area. The men on motorcycles were seen watching a cache site that was discovered earlier in the day. They were interested in coalition forces' actions, officials said.
North of Karmah, troops from the 1st Battalion, 4th Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, and coalition forces detained a man and seized weaponry during a house search. The items seized included an AK-47 with two magazines and a 155 mm artillery fuse.
All suspects and seized weapons were turned over to authorities pending further investigation.
Elsewhere, members of the 3rd Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Iraqi Intervention Force, found two weapons caches north of Dadah on Nov. 28.
The first cache consisted of six 57 mm anti-tank mines, a 20-pound bag of propellant, two boxes of 20 artillery fuses, one 50 round box of 14.5 mm ammunition, 200 loose rounds of 14.5 mm ammunition, a small bag of mortar propellant, three Chinese fragmentation grenades, two 14.5 mm guns with spare barrels, a 14.5 mm twin gun mount, a 12.5 mm gun mount and seven 82 mm mortar rounds.
The second cache contained two AK-47s and three AK-47 magazines, five bags of artillery propellant, four boxes of artillery fuses, a grenade, a mortar charge, an anti-tank mine, 10 82 mm mortar rounds, 13 rocket-propelled-grenade rounds, a box of 12.5 mm ammunition, five 100 mm artillery shells, seven 160 mm high-explosive shells, a three-foot tube with propellant sticks, a Syrian-made long-range phone base, a Nokia telephone and a washing machine timer with batteries.
An explosives team destroyed both caches.
North of Sadah, troops from the Iraqi army's 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, and coalition forces discovered two more caches the same day.
One cache contained four artillery shells, a remote detonating kit, an AK-47 with two magazines and 50 14.5 mm shells. Another cache found nearby included one 120 mm mortar round, five boxes of blasting caps, a fragmentary grenade and six sticks of PE-4 explosive.
Both caches were being guarded until an explosives team could destroy them.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq news releases.)
Related Sites:
Multinational Force Iraq
Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq
Don't forget how many Pakistani physicians are employed in our nation's hospitals and clinics! Doesn't give me warm and fuzzies knowing their "education" can be Quranical and not totally medical.
John McCain - torture worked on me
Snip: Sen. John McCain is leading the charge against so-called "torture" techniques allegedly used by U.S. interrogators, insisting that practices like sleep deprivation and withholding medical attention are not only brutal - they simply don't work to persuade terrorist suspects to give accurate information.
Nearly forty years ago, however - when McCain was held captive in a North Vietnamese prison camp - some of the same techniques were used on him. And - as McCain has publicly admitted at least twice - the torture worked!
Two arrested in attacks on Oakland liquor stores
Snip: Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said that Donald Cunningham, 73, and Yusef Bey IV, 19, turned themselves in to face charges including robbery, felony vandalism, conspiracy and terrorist threats. Police have obtained warrants charging four other suspects with similar crimes and expect arrests soon.
Bey, who has been linked to a black Muslim group that runs the Your Black Muslim Bakery store chain, was taken to North County Jail and was being held on $200,000 bail, according to police.
Snip: It would not have been a pleasant sight. Nevertheless, it would have been one of the most horrific shows on Earth. It would have been the cloud of clouds for 2004 media take. If it had come off, the cloud would have been filled with toxic chemicals. It would have lazily spread across the skies above Amman, Jordan.
The result would have been thousands upon thousands of Jordanians spread across the ground -- dead. The planners were most disappointed that their Muslim versus Muslim scheme did not come off successfully. Furthermore, they were caught.
And to whom did the slaughterers belong? Al-Qaida's Allah, of course. Why did they plot this dastardly deed against their own kind? Because "'terrorism is a badge of honor on our chests until Judgment Day. In the name of God, we're pursuing the path of Jihad until we uproot you, exterminate your state until the rule of the king vanishes.'"
Snip: Many people use blogs as a means of communicating with employees, friends or fellow bloggers. Well the CIA has found a new use for blogs- to help in the fight against terrorism.
It has started sharing some of its information regarding some of the more 'interesting' characters in international affairs including Osama Bin Laden and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il on a series of blogs it is hosting. But don't get your hopes up that this is finally your chance to see some of the CIA's top secret documents- the blogs will only contain very general information.
Videotape shows confession of American convicted on terrorism charges
Snip: In a taped confession, Abu Ali says he was recruited by a top Saudi al Qaeda operative, and then was part of a plot to kill the President, "I and Ali agreed to either use at least three snipers who would fire simultaneously to increase the hit probability, or to carry out a martyr operation, when the US president goes out to greet the people."
Terrorist arrested yesterday trying to buy missile to shoot down airliner
Snip: A SUSPECTED terrorist was arrested yesterday as he tried to buy a missile to shoot down an airliner.
The Asian-born man, 28, was also thought to be seeking explosives for a Christmas bomb blitz in London. He was held at gunpoint by police and MI5 agents near the M25 in Hertfordshire. A source at Scotland Yard said: "We think he was buying the missile in a bid to bring down a trans-Atlantic airliner on landing or departure at a major British airport.
"We believe the man was also in negotiations to purchase a large quantity of explosives and guns in preparation for a bomb blitz and terrorist shootings in London.
"We believe the planned attacks were to be carried out by Islamic fundamentalists following the ideals of the al-Qaeda movement."
The first 94 pages of court documents released regarding the Oklahoma bombing case (this is a large pdf file).
Link:
http://hyperion.hmdnsgroup.com/~malkin/archives/files/search-warrant.pdf
NOT ONE, NOT a SINGLE ONE of the missing persons cases or murdered tourists in Aruba has EVER been solved. NO missing person has EVER been found.
Sorry, here's the link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1516416/posts?page=1338#1338
Here's another link with one list of names:
http://www.visitaruba.com/facts/newsdesk/missing.html
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http://www.stoptheaclu.org
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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
RUSSIA: RADICAL RESTRICTIONS FOR NGOS AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Russia is launching new restrictive measures to bring civil society under tighter government supervision an control. A controversial draft law aimed at tightening state control over NGOs (non-governmental organisations) passed its first reading at the State Duma on Wednesday 23 November. Also the Russian language magazine "Vedomosti" published an article on 14 November based on a document from the Ministry of Justice that recommends radical measures for intensifying control of religious groups.
The measures are doubtless a response to some major Kremlin fears: the prospect of a Western-sponsored "velvet revolution"; the threat of Russian Orthodox displeasure at, and loss of influence due to, the growth of "totalitarian sects" (non-Orthodox groups – includes Protestants/evangelicals); and the threat of destablising, government-undermining Islamic terrorism (Wahhabi) and revolution (Hizb ut-Tahrir). (Notice: all the "non-traditional" problematic elements are in the brackets!)
THE NGO BILL
On Wednesday 23 November, a new Bill that would place non-governmental organizations (NGOs) under strict state control, passed its first reading in the Russian State Duma, by 370 votes to 18. The draft bill is expected to pass its second and third readings by the end of this year. The Bill would then need to be approved by the Federation Council before President Putin could sign it into law.
According to The Moscow Times, Independent Duma deputy Vladimir Ryzhko protested in the debate before the vote, "This bill will put an end to civil society in Russia. The Duma has neither the moral nor the constitutional right to vote in favor of it." (Link 1)
But as The Moscow Times reports, Andrei Makarov, the Deputy of the pro-Kremlin United Russia majority party, defended the legislation. He claimed it was a means to fight extremism and money laundering, and denied that it sought to clamp down on NGOs. Also, "Alexei Ostrovsky, a member of the nationalist Liberal Democratic Party and a co-author of the bill, heaped scorn on NGOs and accused the CIA, the U.S. intelligence agency, of fomenting uprisings. 'We remember how those human rights organizations defended human rights in Yugoslavia, Ukraine and Georgia under the cover of the CIA, and we know how it ended,' he said."
Ostrovsky's words echo those of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) chief, Nikolai Patrushev, who, in the Russian State Duma on 12 May this year, accused American, British and other foreign humanitarian and educational NGOs of providing cover for professional spies. Patrushev accused Western organisations of bankrolling peaceful revolutions in former Soviet republics, and claimed that Western intelligence services use information gathered by NGOs to bring about political upheaval. (Link 2)
The Moscow Times reports: "If the current bill is passed into law, the country's 450,000 NGOs will be forced to re-register with the Justice Ministry's Federal Registration Service under tighter rules next year. The agency would also have to check that NGOs did not use foreign grants to finance political activities.
"The bill would also bar foreign NGOs from having representative offices or branches in Russia and restrict Russian NGOs' ability to accept foreign cash or employ non-Russian workers."
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports, "According to the Center for Development of Democracy and Human Rights, Russia has over 400,000 active NGOs, 2,000 of which are exclusively devoted to human rights advocacy and 15,000 of which deal with human rights among other issues." (Link 3)
One thing the NGOs fear is abuse of power, and that any number of excuses will be found to deny registration to, shut down or expel NGOs that irritate the government.
Holly Cartner, Human Rights Watch's regional director told the Moscow Times that she believed the legislation would "eviscerate" civil society in Russia. "The express purpose of this law is to emasculate the NGO community," she said.
As noted by a Moscow Times editorial, "These measures, which would allow the authorities to keep tabs on every little group, presumably warm the hearts of all those former KGB agents now running the country." (Link 4)
RESTRICTIONS ON RELIGION
On 14 November, the Russian language magazine "Vedomosti" published an article entitled "Spiritual Centralism; Government Prepares Religious Reform", by Anastasiia Kornia, Nedezhda Ivanitskaia". Stetson University's "Russia Religion News", which monitors news media reports about religion in Russia and other countries of CIS, has published a translation under the heading, "Department of Justice contemplates restrictions on religion". (Link 5)
The article commences: "'Vedomosti' has obtained a report by the Ministry of Justice that contains radical measures for intensifying control over religious organizations. In particular, it is proposed to stiffen the procedures for issuing entry visas for missionaries and to simplify the procedures for liquidating religious centers."
The Ministry of Justice's report recommends that the basis for liquidation of a religious centre could be two verdicts of a court regarding "crimes of an extremist nature" issued with regard to two of its members in the course of one year. It is also proposed to establish administrative and criminal liability for illegal missionary activity.
Vedomosti reports, "The [Justice] ministry's report was prepared for the October enlarged session of the Security Council. The document's authors consider that Russia has been subjected to 'foreign religious expansion.' In the past ten years the number of religious movements in the country has grown from 20 to 69. To counter this expansion it is proposed to limit the flow into Russia of foreign missionaries and to regulate the registration of religious associations."
Paul Globe, writing for Window on Eurasia, notes that Russia views the multiplication of religious movements as a threat to the social and religious fabric of the nation, rather than simply a reflection of Russia's new-found commitment to religious freedom. (Link 5)
Vedomosti also reports, "According to a source in the government, after simplifying liquidation, the Ministry of Justice would want at the same time to make registration of a religious organization more complicated."
According to Vedomosti, the Ministry of Justice is also proposing to introduce a requirement that all members of one religion be subordinate to "a single central organization of one confessional identity on a given territory in the capacity of legal entity."
It is this third proposal that has created the most controversy. Muslims believe this proposal is specifically targeted against them. Vedomosti quotes Geidar Djemal, the chairman of the Islamic committee as saying, "In the first place this pertains to Islam. This is connected with the campaign to discover the forces that are destabilizing the regime." But the same concerns, about the difficulties of uniting all confessions and traditions under one central authority, are being voiced by Jews and, doubtless, Protestants.
The limiting and regulating of issuances of entry visas for foreign religious figures is an administrative procedure that would be easily implemented. This will devastate Russia's many young Protestant Theological Colleges and ministries (including NGOs) that are presently reliant on foreign professors and workers.
The other two proposed measures would require new laws and none have yet been drafted. Some analysts wonder if the Justice Ministry's proposals were leaked in order to test the waters, to probe public opinion.
Vedomosti reports that Evgeny Sidorenko, the director of the Department of Constitutional Legislation and Security Legislation of the Ministry of Justice, said that the fate of such legislation could be determined in the course of work on a law for combating terrorism. Such work, he said, has been going on in the State Duma since last year.
According to Vedomosti, the Orthodox Church is not concerned by the prospect of more restrictive legislation. "'It is hard to comment on suggestions that are not finalized,' says the vice-chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin. 'But so far as I know, nobody is preparing any revolutions. We are talking about improving the law within the framework of already existing concepts. This will permit society, to a great extent, to control what happens within the religious sphere.'"
PERSECUTION WILL BE BUILT ON A FOUNDATION OF DISINFORMATION
The government and the Orthodox Church are laying a foundation of disinformation upon which they will marginalise and persecute the non-traditional, "totalitarian sects" (includes Protestants/evangelicals). Here is one example of how this is done.
The Russian Federation Federal Service of Drugs Control has spoken out strongly against the practice of "totalitarian sects" operating drug rehabilitation ministries. "We express serious concern in connection with the activity of totalitarian sects in the field of drug rehabilitation", the head of the department, General Alexander Mihajlov, told Interfax on Friday 25 November. (Link 6)
Mihajlov warned that non-tradition or totalitarian sects providing drug rehabilitation services are, in the process, creating people who are psychologically dependent. He believes that the psychological dependence that people develop towards the "sects" is just as dangerous and damaging to their health as any dependence upon narcotics. He believes the government and traditional church must work together to prevent Russian citizens coming in contact with "sects".
Mihajlov's words echo a May 2005 report delivered by the Dean of Saint Alexander Nevskii Cathedral, archpriest Alexander Novopashin, to an international workshop entitled "Neo-pentecostal sects in Russia: threat of religious extremism".
In that report Novopashin claims that "only 3%-5% of drug addicts can achieve a steady remission", and that "pseudoreligious totalitarian sects of destructive nature" take advantage of this situation. He says the sects claim to be benevolent when really they are predatory, and only seeking recruits. Novopashin claims the sects recruit by reprogramming a narcotic dependence into a psychological dependence – an addiction to the sect and its leaders. He claims, "Psychiatrists have already borrowed from sectology a new term – sect addiction." He then illustrates the religious practice of the sects using extreme examples, such as the "Toronto Blessing", before finishing with a story of a young girl who has a wonderful testimony of apparent conversion and rehabilitation through an evangelical ministry. She then denounces her "sect-dependence", returns to drugs, and returns to the Mother Orthodox Church. (Link 7)
INDISCRIMINATE CLEANSING
So this is the situation faced by the Russian government: traditional Muslims are calling for the government to prosecute Wahhabis along with Hizb ut-Tahrir, so as to prevent unrest, bloodshed and terrorism in the Muslim provinces and in Moscow. (Link 8) The government knows this is necessary for national security.
At the same time, the highly influential traditional Russian Orthodox Church is calling for the government to deal with the non-traditional/foreign/"totalitarian sects" (including Protestants/evangelicals) so as to prevent "psychological addiction" and social breakdown. The government knows this is necessary for political security.
President Putin is doubtless aiming to cleanse Russia and bolster both national and political security by sweeping out all non-traditional religion in the easiest way possibly: indiscriminately, and for maximum political advantage.
Elizabeth Kendal
rl-research@crossnet.org.au
Links
Duma Gives Nod to Tough NGO Bill (subscription)
By Francesca Mereu. 24 Nov 2005
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/11/24/001.html
ALTERNATIVELY
Putin crackdown to limit the power of foreign-funded NGOs
From Jeremy Page and Julian Evans in Moscow. 24 Nov 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1887789,00.html
Russian Parliament Gives 1st Approval to Tightening Control Over NGOs
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/11/23/registration.shtml
FSB Chief: NGOs a Cover for Spying
By Simon Saradzhyan and Carl Schreck. 13 May 2005
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050513&articleId=139
Russia: NGOs Say New Bill Threatens Civil Freedom
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/45a60888-5deb-4700-80cb-e4dc3f68f277.html
Civil Society Should Not Be Smothered (subscription)
Editorial. 24 Nov 2005
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2005/11/24/005.html
Vedomosti: "Spiritiual Centralism; Government Prepares Religious Reform"
by Anastasiia Kornia, Nedezhda Ivanitskaia".
Under the title: Department of Justice contemplates restrictions on religion
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Kremlin seeks tighter controls over religion.
by Paul Goble
http://www.stetson.edu/~psteeves/relnews/0511a.html#03
regarding the "totalitarian sects" and drug rehabilitation
http://www.interfax-religion.ru/?act=news&div=7762 (Russian)
SECTS AND DRUG ADDICTS
report of Dean of Saint Alexander Nevskii Cathedral, archpriest Alexander Novopashin, on international workshop "Neo-pentecostal sects in Russia: threat of religious extremism"
http://www.lermanet.com/cisar/russia/2005_05_26.htm
Mufti Salman: The developments in France will seem 'childish pranks' in comparison with what can happen in Russia. Moscow, 17 Nov 2005
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=582
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=interview&div=12
Elizabeth Kendal is the Principal Researcher and Writer for the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC) www.worldevangelical.org/rlc.html. This article was initially written for the World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty News & Analysis mailing list.
Elizabeth can be contacted by e-mail at rl-research@crossnet.org.au.
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Yet American travel guides, travel magazines and newspaper articles feature Aruba and urge Americans to travel there. The words "stupid tourist" have exceptional meaning in Aruba. The words "missing and probably dead tourist" have even greater meaning there.
Snip: Aruba, Forward Operating Location - The U.S. has a small presence in Aruba, with two medium and three small aircraft, about fifteen permanently assigned staff and twenty to twenty-five temporarily deployed operations and maintenance personnel.
Snip: Aid to Aruba: 26 million (1995); the Netherlands provided a $127 million aid package to Aruba and Suriname in 1996
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