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"“Talibans with Oil and a Good P.R. Company”--The dark kingdom of Saudi Arabia."
National Review ^ | November 22, 2005 | Kathryn Jean Lopez & Laurent Murawiec
Posted on 11/30/2005 9:42:44 PM PST by Ooh-Ah
Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Laurent Murawiec, of the Hudson Institute, is author of the new book Princes of Darkness : The Saudi Assault on the West. Formerly an analyst at the Rand Corporation, in 2002 he gave an infamous briefing at the Pentagon to the Defense Policy Board about Saudi Arabia. NRO Editor Kathryn Lopez spoke to him about the book and the kingdom."
ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=internet
I heard a snippet on the radio news, said this man had hid the cyncide and gotten a group of hackers together to do hacking "just for fun".
It also said they had caused electric to stop, many times and that it cost $800,000. to get it back on.
The above link will also allow you to go the news, and read that he was sentenced today to 7 years. granny.............
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.true-crime/browse_thread/thread/1b14d6abcd2305cd/8315abad8abb7a3b?lnk=st&q=Dr.+Chaos&rnum=2#8315abad8abb7a3b
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"Dr. Chaos" Only 1 message in topic - view as tree Michael Newton Mar 13 2002, 1:30 am show options
Newsgroups: alt.true-crime From: "Michael Newton" - Find messages by this author Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:30:02 GMT Local: Wed, Mar 13 2002 1:30 am Subject: "Dr. Chaos" Federal prosecutors want 'Dr. Chaos' to remain locked up
By Mike Robinson Associated Press
Last updated 04:14 AM, EST, Wednesday, March 13, 2002
CHICAGO (AP) -- Prosecutors want a court to deny bond for the self-styled "Dr. Chaos" accused of stashing more than a pound of potentially lethal cyanide powder in a Chicago subway tunnel.
Joseph Konopka, 25, was scheduled to appear Wednesday before federal Magistrate Judge Edward A. Bobrick on a charge of possessing a chemical weapon, one scientists said could produce a deadly cloud of gas.
Prosecutors said they would ask Bobrick to deny bond for Konopka, a fugitive from Wisconsin who police there have accused of going on a five-county rampage of vandalism. They claim that he is dangerous and a flight risk.
Konopka could fight in court for release on bail from the Metropolitan Correctional Center or waive his right to a bond.
Konopka, formerly of De Pere, Wis., was arrested Saturday in a steam tunnel under the University of Illinois-Chicago Education Building. Police had staked out the tunnel after campus burglaries.
A 15-year-old arrested with Konopka told police and FBI agents that cyanide was stashed in a passageway in a Chicago Transit Authority subway tunnel, prompting a three-hour shutdown of the CTA's Blue Line, authorities said.
FBI agents said they found the cache a block from the federal courthouse.
It contained enough potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide to create a cloud of lethal gas that could kill everyone in a small house once acid were added, scientists said. They said a canister purportedly containing acid also found in the passageway would be enough to produce the deadly cloud.
"It would be a very big puff," said Professor Wade Freeman of the University of Illinois-Chicago chemistry department. "Released in a confined space with a lot of people, it could be disastrous."
FBI spokesman Ross Rice said agents were searching for the source of the cyanide as well as the method by which Konopka obtained keys he used to open transit-system doors that were thought secure.
Freeman said cyanide was once readily available at the drugstore but that chemical suppliers now are more careful about potential customers. But he said a skilled con artist might be able to persuade one of dozens of supply houses throughout the country to sell cyanide to him.
It also might be stolen off loading docks, he said.
Security experts said the case raises serious security questions.
"Am I concerned as a private citizen? Definitely," said Violet Smith, former president of the Chicago chapter of the American Society for Industrial Security. "My first two questions would be where did he get the stuff and how available is it?"
Meanwhile, Door County, Wis., District Attorney Tim Funnell said Konopka was wanted in Door, Shawano, Kewanee and Marquette Counties on vandalism charges and was convicted of another offense in Brown County.
He said Konopka had vandalized power stations and communications towers because "he is an anarchist -- he is sort of disillusioned with society in general and disillusioned with the way society worked and the way government worked," Funnell said. "This is his way of protesting."
Sgt. Teri Vogel of the Door County sheriff's police said Konopka waged a campaign of arson and vandalism at power stations and cellular telephone towers, sometimes using sophisticated flammable chemicals. Vogel said several counties formed a task force just to investigate Konopka.
Vogel said Konopka, who is skilled with computers and had worked in the computer security business, is brilliant but dangerous.
"He definitely has a capability or propensity to do mass destruction," Vogel said. He said Konopka had jumped bond last June, causing his grandmother and other relatives to lose money they posted.
Authorities said he has been living in Chicago's subway.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01Dec2005_news57.php
VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH / HANDBOOK, INSURGENTS, MISSING LAWYER
Al-Qaeda remnant in region 'no real threat'
Wassana Nanuam
Al-Qaeda's network in Southeast Asia poses little threat as it was weakened with the capture of its key leader in Thailand three years ago, an army intelligence source said yesterday.
The source was commenting on a website posting claimed by a militant group calling itself al-Qaeda's Southeast Asian Division, warning Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines to expect attacks on government, military and economic targets.
The source said al-Qaeda's network in the region had been all but destroyed after the capture in Ayutthaya of Hambali, an Indonesian believed to be Osama bin Laden's key link man in Southeast Asia, in 2003.
The remaining members were unable to set up an effective network, he said.
Intelligence units thought the group was probably an offshoot of the insurgency movement in southern Thailand which wanted to fabricate news that al-Qaeda groups were operating in the region.
However, the website posting served as a warning to step up security measures at important locations.
Intelligence passed from friendly countries had earlier warned Thailand there could be a terrorist attack on Khao San road in Bangkok.
"In fact, Khao San road is already an important target as there are plenty of foreign tourists there. Authorities have already paid close attention to it," said the source.
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Chidchai Wannasathit said the Anti-Money Laundering Office (Amlo) was studying the possibility of seizing the assets of people for whom arrest warrants had been issued on terrorism charges.
Amlo secretary-general Pol Maj-Gen Peeraphan Prempooti said seizing the assets of terror suspects became government policy after some organisations were found to have been involved in the drug trade, avoided paying customs duties or provided financial support for insurgents operating in the deep South.
Violence continued in the deep South yesterday.
An elderly man was shot dead by suspected militants in Muang district of Yala, police said.
Manoon Sangkul, 71, was gunned down by the pillion rider of another motorcycle when he left his house in tambon Tha Sap to go a tea shop along Phetkasem highway.
About three months ago Manoon's nephew, Puang Sangkul, 51, was shot dead near near the same location.
No arrests have been made in that case.
Islamofascists Hunting down Christians who Debate Moslems on Internet
Weekly Standard Online ^ | 11/28/05 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Posted on 12/01/2005 2:16:24 AM MST by Jacksonville Patriot
In late January, I uncovered a password-protected Arabic-language website, Barsomyat.com, that was frequented by Middle Eastern Muslims, predominantly Egyptians.
The purpose of Barsomyat.com was to systematically track Christians who were active in religious debates against Muslims on the internet chat service PalTalk.
Barsomyat featured pictures of these Christians (some of which were obviously obtained by hacking into the Christians' computers) along with death threats and attempts to track down the subjects' physical addresses.
Even Barsomyat.com's banner showed the website's intentions toward Christians, as it pictured a sheep--obviously intended to represent Christianity--getting its throat slit.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531818/posts
UPDATE...
December 1, 2005
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4185364&nav=1sW7
AP
"Dr. Chaos sentenced to seven more years in prison"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "MILWAUKEE A man serving a 13-year prison sentence for hiding bottles of cyanide in Chicago subway tunnels was ordered to serve another seven years in federal prison for damaging computers, power plants and radio towers in Wisconsin.
Twenty-nine-year-old Joseph Konopka (kah-NOP'-kah) is a former computer systems administrator who went by the online name "Doctor Chaos."
Prosecutors said Konopka and a group of young followers were responsible for 28 power outages affecting 30-thousand customers in northeastern Wisconsin in 1999."
ON THE NET...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/viewAllInfo-278.html
http://www.internet-haganah.us/jihadi/salafy.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Barsomyat.com%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/395unguo.asp
"The Freedoms We Fight For
The unheralded Islamist assault on free speech."
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
11/28/2005 12:00:00 AM
Thanks to Lucy T for pointing to this discussion thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531818/posts
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051130sandiego.htm
News Release
November 30, 2005
ICE ARRESTS 17 ILLEGAL WORKERS EMPLOYED BY MILITARY SUBCONTRACTOR THAT ALLEGEDLY IGNORED NO-HIRE WARNINGS
SAN DIEGO – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents today executed federal search warrants at two facilities owned by a Southern California military subcontractor that has come under scrutiny twice in the last six years for hiring unauthorized workers.
During the enforcement actions targeting facilities operated by the Golden State Fencing Company in Oceanside and Riverside, ICE agents arrested 17 unauthorized workers, a number of whom are believed to have been re-hired despite warnings to the company not to re-hire due to their illegal immigration status. ICE agents also seized boxes of documents and other information from the company facilities during the searches.
The searches and arrests are part of an ongoing criminal investigation into Golden State’s hiring practices. In 1999 and 2004, ICE conducted audits of the firm’s hiring records, resulting in warnings to company officials about serious criminal and civil consequences for failing to comply with the orders. Subsequent to the second audit, ICE launched a criminal investigation into the company, which continues today.
In addition to reviewing employment records for Golden State’s Oceanside facility, ICE agents also recently audited some 300 employee records for the company’s Riverside facility. That review identified more than 100 employees who were unauthorized to work, including three individuals the company had been ordered not to re-hire based on the 1999 audit.
“ICE is using its unique immigration enforcement authorities to safeguard worksites and installations that are potentially vulnerable to security threats or sabotage,” said Frank Marwood, acting special agent-in-charge for ICE investigations in San Diego. “That strategy includes using criminal and administrative penalties to deter egregious violators who continue to re-hire unauthorized workers.”
Golden State is a Southern California company that has provided contract workers in San Diego to perform services at the U.S. Navy base on North Island. Previous ICE audits showed that some of Golden State’s employees had security IDs enabling them to enter North Island to construct fences on the base.
The investigation into Golden State’s hiring practices is part of Operation Safe Cities, an ongoing local ICE interior enforcement initiative implemented in 2003 to protect sensitive area businesses from possible security breaches. Since the initiative began, ICE agents here have arrested more than 350 foreign nationals working unlawfully at more than 700 businesses.
Today’s arrests are the latest in ICE’s ongoing efforts to target and remove illegal aliens working at sensitive sites and critical infrastructure locations around the nation, including defense facilities, nuclear plants, chemical plants, airports, and seaports. Unauthorized workers with access to security sensitive sites and critical infrastructure facilities are vulnerable to exploitation by terrorists, smugglers, traffickers or other criminals. In accordance with ICE’s homeland security mission, ICE agents prioritize worksite enforcement efforts by focusing on investigations related to critical infrastructure and national security.
In recent months, ICE agents have conducted a number of worksite enforcement operations at U.S. defense facilities, including the following:
Between October 18 and October 28, 2005, ICE special agents arrested dozens of illegal aliens who were performing contract work at the U.S. Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base-New Orleans in Belle Chasse, Louisiana; the White Sands Missile Range in Las Cruces, New Mexico; the U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin Training Center in San Bernardino, California; and the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base in Barstow, California.
At the Naval Air Station, ICE agents screened the identification of more than 450 contractors and sub-contractors working and detained six illegal aliens performing contract work there. The Naval Air Station had previously conducted its own investigation and formally barred more than a dozen workers from the facility.
At the White Sands Missile Range, ICE agents teamed up with the White Sands Missile Range Police Department to arrest an illegal alien trying to enter to perform contract work inside the facility. Police officials at the facility first sought help from ICE last month after intercepting 12 illegal aliens with fake documents attempting to enter the facility to work at a construction site inside.
At Fort Irwin, a U.S. Army desert warfare training facility, ICE agents took custody of six illegal aliens attempting to enter Fort Irwin, to perform contract work there. Base security had requested the assistance of ICE after questioning the validity of the documents presented by the illegal aliens as they attempted to enter the base for employment.
And at the Marine Corps Logistics Base, ICE agents took custody of an illegal alien attempting to enter to perform contract work there. Security officials at the base had intercepted the individual after he allegedly presented a fraudulent driver’s license and social security card to officials there.
On October 5, 2005, ICE arrested three illegal aliens who served as language instructors at the U.S. Army Special Operations Command at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Two were criminally charged with using false documents to gain employment and making false statements. The third was charged with being in the country illegally. The employees provided instruction to U.S. Special Forces.
On October 4, 2005, seven illegal aliens were arrested at the U.S. Air Force Base in Mountain Home, Idaho, following an investigation by ICE and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. The men were working for Nutek Construction, which was sub-contracted to build housing on the air base.
On August 26, 2005, ICE agents arrested six Mexican nationals at the U.S. Army’s Fort Irwin in Barstow, Calif. The men were working illegally for Laurence-Hovenier, Inc., a construction company building military housing at the base. The workers, most of whom had security badges authorizing them to enter the base, were identified after agents audited the hiring records of more than 700 Laurence-Hovenier workers. The audit found that more than 40 percent of the employees on the company’s payroll might not have been authorized to work in the U.S. The investigation continues.
On July 26, 2005, ICE agents arrested six illegal aliens working at the Homestead Air Reserve Base in Homestead, Fla. The men, who were contracted by a Texas-based corporation, were working on a major runway-resurfacing project. Officers working at the Air Reserve’s main gate noticed irregularities in the documents presented by the three men and called ICE for follow-up.
To aid employers with the immigration document screening process, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services operates the Basic Pilot Program, a Web-based system that businesses can use to verify the employment eligibility of newly hired workers. Nationwide, there are thousands of employer sites linked into the Basic Pilot Program, including nearly 2,000 in California. In San Diego, over 100 businesses are now using it. Interested employers are urged to call the agency’s toll-free number (888-464-4218) to obtain more information.
-- ICE --
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051130santaana.htm
News Release
November 30, 2005
44 INDICTED IN LANDMARK MARRIAGE FRAUD INVESTIGATION
Probe targets Orange County network that arranged sham marriages primarily for Asian aliens
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A total of 44 individuals, many of them based in Orange County’s Little Saigon, have been indicted for their roles in an elaborate scheme to obtain fraudulent immigrant visas for hundreds of Chinese and Vietnamese nationals based on sham marriages to U.S. citizens.
The 13 separate indictments stem from a three-year, multi-agency investigation known as Operation “Newlywed Game.” The probe, led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is believed to be one of the largest marriage fraud investigations ever undertaken in the United States. ICE received substantial assistance in the case from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, and the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service.
Based on sealed indictments, ICE agents, accompanied by personnel from the Diplomatic Security Service, executed arrest warrants and conducted searches at 11 locations in Southern California and two sites in northern California yesterday. Among the locations searched was a Westminster residence where agents located the records of a now defunct travel agency, MT Travel, that investigators suspect was being used as a front to facilitate marriage fraud.
During the operation, 11 of the defendants were taken into custody. Most of the remaining suspects were either already under arrest on other charges, or will be summoned to appear in federal court for arraignment. (See accompanying list, page 3.)
The suspects in the case face a variety of federal charges, including conspiracy, fraud and misuse of visas, making false statements in passport applications, marriage fraud, and inducing aliens to enter the country illegally. Nine of the suspects who were arrested yesterday made their initial appearance in federal court in Santa Ana Tuesday afternoon. Two others appeared in federal court in San Francisco.
According to the indictments, the marriage fraud scheme involved a loose-knit network of “facilitators,” “recruiters,” and “petitioners.” At the heart of the conspiracy were the facilitators, who charged up to $60,000 to orchestrate sham marriages for foreign nationals with U.S. citizens for the purpose of submitting fraudulent immigrant visa petitions on behalf of the aliens.
The facilitators often used recruiters, who typically received $1,000 for each referral, to identify U.S. citizens willing to marry the aliens and submit the immigration visa petitions to USCIS. The U.S. citizen petitioners were paid thousands of dollars, plus travel expenses.
Since the foreign nationals often resided in Vietnam or China, the facilitators would then make arrangements for the U.S. citizen petitioners to go overseas to marry the aliens. After the sham marriage, the facilitators assisted the petitioners and aliens with filing bogus immigration petitions. The facilitators would also coach the petitioners and the aliens on what to say at subsequent adjustment of status interviews to persuade the USCIS officer that the couple had a legitimate marriage.
Because many of the facilitators used the same petitioners more than once, some of the U.S. citizens involved in the scheme had multiple “spouses” and submitted numerous fraudulent immigration petitions. Adjudicators at the USCIS California Service Center where the petitions are processed noticed the irregularities and alerted ICE agents, sparking the investigation. USCIS continued to support the investigation by referring scores of these cases through its newly established Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) program.
“Visa fraud undermines the integrity of our nation’s legal immigration system,” said Loraine Brown, special agent-in-charge for ICE investigations in Los Angeles. “These arrests should send a clear message that ICE is working aggressively to ensure that this kind of criminal activity does not go unchecked or unpunished.”
“You can expect an increasing number of immigration benefit fraud cases being detected as a result of USCIS and ICE's new joint anti-fraud strategy,” said Don Crocetti, Director of the FDNS for USCIS.
As part of Operation “Newlywed Game,” investigators reviewed scores of immigration files, as well as employment and travel histories to determine each defendant’s role. According to investigators, the suspects went to elaborate lengths to make the sham marriages appear legitimate, posing for wedding pictures, fabricating love letters, even creating fraudulent joint tax returns.
“The scope of this case clearly illustrates that the combined efforts of law enforcement agencies are yielding enhanced security of our borders by protecting the integrity of U.S. passports,” said Joe Morton, Director of the Diplomatic Security Service.
In addition to prosecuting the perpetrators of the scam, authorities are seeking to identify foreign nationals who may have illegally received immigration benefits as a result. ICE agents say those cases will be reviewed on an individual basis for potential criminal prosecution and deportation.
-- ICE --
http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=505762
"Judge Rules in Indiana House Prayer Suit"
Updated: Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2005 - 9:26 PM
By DEANNA MARTIN
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge on Wednesday barred the Indiana House from opening its sessions with specifically Christian prayers, ruling that such prayers amount to "an official endorsement of the Christian religion."
Judge David Hamilton advised House Speaker Brian Bosma that invocations given in the Legislature should not use the name of Jesus Christ or Christian terms such as savior."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "The Indiana Civil Liberties Union challenged the prayer practices in a lawsuit on behalf of four people, including a Quaker lobbyist, who said they found the tradition of offering the usually Christian prayers offensive."
ON THE NET...
PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org
LucyT...this info. about tracking Christians via their computer reminds me of the slaying of the Coptic Christian family earlier this year in northern New Jersey. This same issue was brought forth in that case...but IIRC the "official" reason for their murder was robbery. I didn't buy that reasoning then and I don't buy it now. More cover-ups in the name of the so-called religion of peace.
I'm not sure what would be so special about reaching the end of 2005 without a new major attack; I think that Ramadan 2006 might be a more relevant date by which we'd expect to see a major attack.
http://counterterror.typepad.com/the_counterterrorism_blog/2005/12/yemen_sponsor_o.html
December 01, 2005
"Yemen, sponsor of terror again?"
Thanks for that celtic-cat.
It does seem to still be crescent shaped. As well as being engineered demographically to accomodate islam/muslim prayer time and direction to mecca. Interestingly disturbing.
Still, to this day, yes.
As you've been saying about the Imams in America.
Poor Clinton, his head's always been a problem. Either people giving it to him or him just not using it!
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Good point, Davey.
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