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El Baradei: Iran only months away from a bomb
Jerusalem Post ^ | Dec. 5, 2005 | JP
Posted on 12/04/2005 10:52:47 PM PST by FairOpinion
IAEA chairman Muhammad ElBaradei on Monday confirmed Israel's assessment that Iran is only a few months away from creating an atomic bomb.
"If Teheran indeed resumes its uranium enrichment in other plants, as threatened, it will take it only several months to produce a bomb," ElBaradei told The Independent, according to Army Radio.
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Iraq - French engineer abducted in Baghdad
AFP via Babelfish translation | December 5, 2005
Posted on 12/05/2005 12:05:28 AM PST by HAL9000
A French Engineer Removed In Baghdad
BAGHDAD - a French engineer working in Baghdad was removed Monday morning by the unknown ones armed in the west with the capital, indicated the Iraqi police force.
The French national circulated on board his car in the district of Mansour when armed men stopped it and taken along towards an unknown destination, according to this source.
The abduction took place towards 09H20 (06H20 GMT).
Documents proving the nationality of the victim were found in the car left on the spot. The French also rented a house with Mansour, whose owner confirmed nationality, added this source.
According to the police force, it worked as engineer in a station of purification of the water of the capital.
Contacted by AFP, the embassy from France in Baghdad could not confirm information in the immediate future.
Three French journalists were removed by groups armed in Iraq, before being released healthy and safe.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/12/4/222850.shtml
"Chinese Army Buys American"
Charles R. Smith
Monday, Dec. 5, 2005
"U.S. and Allies Source of New Chinese Weaponry"
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Sunday, December 4, 2005
BANGLADESH: ISLAMIST THREAT ESCALATES WITH SUICIDE BOMBINGS.
- new terror tactic increases risk to threatened Christian leaders, institutions and NGOs.
By Elizabeth Kendal
World Evangelical Alliance Religious Liberty Commission (WEA RLC)
Special to ASSIST News Service
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- More than 30 years ago, Bangladesh fought a Liberation War for the right to be independent of Pakistan, and secular. The war cost the Bangladeshis somewhere between 500,000 and three million lives. Today, Islamic militants with al Qaeda training and links are engaged in a violent and deadly campaign to force Bangladesh to submit to Sharia law.
Islamic zeal and radicalisation have skyrocketed in Bangladesh since October 2001 causing local persecution of Christians to escalate in frequency and severity. Now organised Islamic terror threatens to destabilise the nation and the wider region. Of course it will also seriously impact the Church. Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) is presently targeting Bangladesh's secular courts and judges, and threatening to continue until Sharia is implemented. But JMB has also declared that it will target NGOs and non-Muslim religious figures and institutions engaged in "anti-Islamic activities". It is reported that Bangladesh has some 172 terror training camps operating on its soil, and that JMB has a 2,000-strong suicide squad prepared for martyrdom operations.
The pro-Islamic Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), elected in October 2001 to rule in coalition with some very radical Islamist groups, has difficulty facing and dealing with these threats. It has used Western law and democracy for its own advantage, but now the popularist Islamist puppy it has fostered and nurtured has matured, is exerting its independence, and is starting to bite. Unless the government gets serious about replacing radical madrassas with real and positive education, closing terror training camps, and promoting secularism, tolerance and democracy, then Bangladesh will develop into a Islamic terror hub and jihad launching pad. Nothing grows, spreads and wreaks havoc like a disease that is not acknowledged and is left untreated.
WAVE OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS
On Tuesday 29 November, suicide bombers from Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) also known as Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen (JuM) fatally struck law courts in two Bangladeshi cities, killing seven. Around 60 were wounded, 21 of them seriously. The death toll has since risen to ten. (Link 1)
The first bombing took place at 9:05am in Bangladesh's second largest city, the port city of Chittagong. In response to terror threats, police had been posted at the entrance of the court and were checking all visitors. Just before he was to be intercepted at the police checkpoint, the bomber took an explosive device out of his bag and threw it at the officers. He then detonated another explosive device strapped to his leg. The two policemen were killed.
The bomber, who survived but lost both his legs and his right hand, was identified as Abul Bashar (19). He reportedly told Agence France-Presse (AFP), "I attacked the Chittagong court by the order of Allah. I did not do any wrong in carrying out the suicidal attack." A report by the Bangladesh Independent online news said police had found a JMB leaflet in his pocket. According to Chittagong police official Mohammad Majedul Huq, it was handwritten and warned police, judges and lawyers "to stop upholding man-made laws which go against Islam". At least 16 others were injured; 13 of them were police. Abul Bashar has since died from his injuries in Chittagong Medical College Hospital.
The second bombing took place in Gazipur at 9:40am. The bomber donned a lawyer's black gown and walked right past police security into the bar library where he detonated his bomb. Three people in the library died immediately and four others died from their wounds soon after in hospital in Dhaka. The suicide bomber's body was found with wires and bomb parts still strapped to it.
At around 10am on Thursday 1 December, as lawyers were staging a demonstration in Gazipur, a bomb exploded near the police checkpoint outside the chief government administrator's office. Two were killed and 30 were injured, five critically. One of the dead was a policeman, the other is believed to be the suicide bomber. According to Kazi Fazle Rabbi, Gazipur district commissioner, "The suspected bomber ... disguised himself as a tea vendor. One of his flasks exploded when police stopped him for checking." (Link 2)
ESCALATION OF TERROR
On 17 August, JMB (JuM) orchestrated a nation-wide terror attack, setting off nearly 500 small improvised explosive devices (IEDs) virtually simultaneously in 63 of Bangladesh's 64 districts. While the devices did not contain shrapnel, they did result in three deaths and left more than 150 injured. Pamphlets found near many of the explosive devices demanded the expulsion of foreign NGOs "engaged in anti-Islamic activities in Muslim countries". (Stratfor Terrorism Brief, 23 November 2005)
The carnage from the August bombing campaign was minimal but the message was loud and clear. As noted by Stratfor, the August bombing campaign "demonstrates that JuM has a widespread presence, robust logistics and sophisticated command-and-control capabilities".
After this attack JMB (JuM) declared, "Everybody is the enemy of Islam who wants to launch democracy as an institutional form. Therefore we invite the ruling party and also the opposition to initiate the rule of Islam within a short time in Bangladesh."
On 22 August, Bangladesh's leading national Bengali daily newspaper reported that the Intelligence Department had informed the government that Islamic militants are planning to attack the largest non-Muslim religious centres in Dhaka. They were also threatening to kill local and foreign non-Muslim leaders, missionaries, priests, humanitarian workers and anyone else preaching religion other than Islam. Christianity was to be particularly targeted for the purpose of discrediting the government of Bangladesh in the West. (See WEA RLC report: link 3)
On 3 October, larger bombs exploded in three district courts outside Dhaka, killing two people and wounding more than a dozen. Then on 14 November two senior Assistant Judges of Jhalakathi District Judges Court were assassinated on their way to work. Their microbus stopped outside the government staff quarters to pick up another judge. The assassin, identified as Mamun, a JMB militant, approached the microbus with the pretext of showing papers to the judges. He then shoved a package into the microbus which immediately exploded. The assassin, who survived with serious leg wounds, was immediately arrested. He was found to have some 24 JMB leaflets, and a live bomb fastened to his body. Presumably the assassin intended to escape, with the body-bomb to be used only in the case of capture. His injuries however probably prevented him detonating the body-bomb before his arrest. His willingness to explode himself and thus become a "martyr" was evidence of a shocking new tactic and ideological shift.
In their 23 November Terrorism Brief, Stratfor Intelligence reported, "According to a Nov. 22 report in the Bangladeshi English-language Daily Star newspaper, the JuM's (JMBs) policymaking body -- Majlis-e-Shura -- recently ordered its bomb and suicide squad members to fight their opposition to the death and to continue striking government offices and courts." Stratfor notes, "JuM (JMB) appears to have no problem obtaining explosives, and apparently is actively constructing devices an activity normally conducted at the end of the attack planning cycle." And Stratfor add, "JuM members reportedly received training from al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and allegedly maintain links with that group."
According to Reuters, Bangladeshi police report that the explosives used in the 29 November suicide bombings are the most powerful and highly destructive explosives used by the militants so far. Reuters also reports, "The State Minister for Home Affairs Lutufuzzaman Babar said earlier this month [Nov] that there were reports that the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen had set up a 2,000-strong suicide squad." (Link 4)
THREAT TO EMBASSIES
The British High Commission's First Secretary in Dhaka, Mike Stevenson, reports that Manik Hossain, a Muslim extremist identifying himself as a member of "al-Qaeda in South Asia", has threatened to blow up the UK mission, along with other Western missions. The threatening message was sent to the UK Embassy by fax on Sunday 27 November, and signed by Manik Hossain of Faridganj" (220km, or around 140 miles, southeast of Dhaka). Security has now been increased around diplomatic offices in Dhaka. (Link 5)
BANGLADESH: TERROR HUB
Webindia reports that on 29 November, India's Border Security Force (BSF) Director General R S Mooshahary told a press conference "the unabated mushrooming of terror camps" in Bangladesh, and the fact that Bangladesh is becoming "a hub of infiltrators and fundamentalist forces" threatens to destabilise the whole region. "In the long run," warned Gen. Mooshahary, "Bangladesh could be a greater problem than Pakistan going by the shifting of population, massive infiltration bids and mushrooming of terror camps... it has become a hub of drug dealers and smugglers."
Mooshahary claimed to have recently given Bangladesh a list of 172 terror training camps. "But their reply is the same every time," he complains, " ...that no such camps exists on their soil." (Link 6)
Elizabeth Kendal
rl-research@crossnet.org.au
Links
1) BANGLADESH BOMBING TOLL RISES
30 November 2005. SBS
http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworldnews/region.php?id=126032®ion=2
Seven killed, many injured in Bangladesh blasts
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=58404
Nine die in Bangladesh bombings
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4480408.stm
Bangladesh's escalating extremism. 29 November 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4482320.stm
2) Two dead in court attack. 2 December 2005
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17435239-23109,00.html
3) WEA Religious Liberty News & Analysis
Militants Move to Islamise Bangladesh
By Elizabeth Kendal, 16 September 2005
http://www.worldevangelicalalliance.org/news/view.htm?id=151
4) Bangladesh explosives most powerful yet -- police
30 Nov 2005. Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA129923.htm
Bombs target Bangladesh lawyers. 29 November 2005
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/29/bangladesh.blasts.reut/index.html
5) Man threatens UK, US missions in Bangladesh police
28 Nov 2005. Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA97711.htm
6) Bangladesh a hub of infiltrators and fundamentalists: BSF DG
New Delhi, 29 November 2005
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=176465&cat=India
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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What message does a suitcase full of Christmas lights send?
There has been a report of a suitcase found on the Bay Bridge at San Francisco, all evening on KGO.com radio.
Said the bomb squad hit it with a water spray and found the Christmas lights.
3 hours ago, they were saying Christmas decorations, now it is lights.
A few minutes ago, on the KGO traffic report, it was a suitcase and clothes in the freeway, I did not catch the number, wasn't expecting it.
Just odd things that I hear in the night......Laughing.
The Red Mafia is up to all the same tricks the KGB engaged in, but now Western leaders dismiss the problems as simply a "mafia" one rather than blaming the Russian government.
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There is the truth of it all.
The red mafia is led by the KGB, from what i read.
Those Russian apartment houses that explode, caught my eye a year or more ago, as it is the same method taught to the Padilla type terrorists.
It appears, that a phony repairman shows up to work on the gas lines, or check the gas meter, he loosens the gas pipe connections in the basement and leaves, knowing the explosion will happen.
The Los Angeles area, a year or so ago, had several apartment houses explode, due to escaping gas from the lines.
Apartment houses in San Francisco also explode.
Not difficult to think that they were helped to explode, once you know how it is done.
Yes, I know some are natural accidents.......maybe.
Might be interesting to know who lived in them.......
My post 3827, was mailed, while my brain was still searching.
The reporter that you are hearing the news reports on that died in the San Francisco area today, I think the name is Murphy, he is on the
aBC news and Dr. Bill talked about his death.
KGO.com radio news, said that he was dead in his attic, the fire was going thru the roof when the firemen arrived.
The fire did one million in damage to the house.
The fire is also an "unknown cause" fire.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475685417&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Dec. 5, 2005 11:37 | Updated Dec. 5, 2005 11:45
"Explosion occurs outside Netanya mall; 4 dead"
By JPOST.COM STAFF
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Four people were reported dead and dozens wounded after an explosion rocked the entrance to the Hasharon shopping mall on Herzl Street in Netanya on Monday at 11:30 a.m.
Police believe that the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber at the entrance to the mall after he was prevented from entering.
The explosion occurred near one of the main entrances. It was heard throughout the city."
Problem with war is it only takes one side to start, Iran is that side.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:3enHshY_9LcJ:www.mamacoca.org/feb2002/art_bagley_globalization_organized_crime_en.html+Dolgopruadnanskaya+taliban&hl=en
This is a link that davey found, I can't read it all, but about a third of the way down from the top, is a section on Mexico, the russian mafia connections to the gangs.
Davey, it is very interesting, but the eyes want to rest.
I agree.
Thanks for the link granny.
Thanks to neosgirl's blog for the graphic url.
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ON THE NET...
http://trackingalqueda.blogspot.com/2005/12/zarqawi-image.html
http://195.42.183.35/forum/showthread.php?t=43797
http://www.g4z4.com/upload/uploads/7806484ce1.jpg
December 4, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News
Report: al-Qaida rejects Algerian recruits
http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20051204-071749-1176r.htm
The sources said many of the Arabs rejected by Al Zarqawi were Algerian
nationals who volunteered for service in Europe. They said U.S.
intelligence had penetrated Algerian factions and sent agents to join al-Qaida
in Iraq.
(Iraq) Sadr representative gunned down in Baghdad
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/focusoniraq/2005/December/focusoniraq_December21.xml§ion=focusoniraq
Iran plans to construct two new nuclear reactors
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475673325&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
(India) Three LeT terrorists killed in Srinagar
http://www.deepika.com/english/latestnews.asp?ncode=31631
(Belgium) Making of Muriel the suicide bomber
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1902761,00.html
Saudi forces arrest 17 suspected militants: TV
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/December/middleeast_December80.xml§ion=middleeastSaudi
security forces arrested 17 suspected Saudi national terrorists and
seized weapons in a series of raids around Riyadh early on Saturday, state
television said
Insurgent Attack Kills 19 Iraqi Soldiers
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051204/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=AoLSSVY8utspY6Ryxwr38wKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
(update) Four killed in Afghan attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4495182.stm
Bangladesh police round up bomb suspects
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051203/wl_sthasia_afp/bangladeshblasts;_ylt=AsVsbmUf6UcHsEHFQVQ4plis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-
Bangladesh police have rounded up over 200 suspects in investigation
into series of deadly bomb blasts - police say bomb found Saturday at
high school
(Iraq) Al-Qaeda claim (US) Marines' killing
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17456096-38201,00.html
Terror threatens Russia's survival: claim
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051202-024226-9891r.htm
Lebanese find 20 bodies in grave
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4496052.stm
The mass grave is near a former Syrian-run prison, where many Lebanese
detainees were held.
Obscure al-Qaida Chemist Worries Experts
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_s_chemist;_ylt=AmwpIqgbbcVeuWd5wi_Ht.Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-
$5 million reward posted for Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi, also known
as Abu Khabab
Sunni Leader's Slaying Leads to Tips
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_tribal_feuds_1
Biggest reason for reduction in violence in Samarra was public backlash
against insurgents after Oct. 11 assassination of Sheik Hikmat Mumtaz
al-Bazi, chief of one of area's seven tribes
Details Emerge on a Brazen Escape in Afghanistan
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/international/asia/04escape.html
Details of July 11 escape of important Al Qaeda operatives from
American military detention center in Afghanistan
FBI mishandled Florida terror investigation: NYT
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_s_chemist;_ylt=AmwpIqgbbcVeuWd5wi_Ht.Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b3JuZGZhBHNlYwM3MjE-#
Inside and outside the 'Sleeper Cell'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/02/apontv.sleepercell.ap/index.html
Showtime television series concerns extremists in L.A.
Al Qaeda denies commander killed in Pakistan: Al Arabiya
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/December/subcontinent_December110.xml§ion=subcontinent
Iraq terrorists give ultimatum
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051202-051857-3404r.htm
Terrorists threatened to kill four Western hostages unless all
prisoners in Iraqi and U.S. centers are released by Dec 8
Militants Wanted by Israel Return to Gaza
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5453166,00.html
Up to 15 Palestinian militants wanted by Israel have returned to Gaza
Strip - Palestinian Authority denies Israeli charges of wrongdoing
Regulator Cleared in Riggs Bank Probe
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051202/ap_on_bi_ge/riggs_probe_3
Federal investigators conclude that regulator who oversaw Riggs Bank
during period of deficient money-laundering controls and later took job
there didn't violate conflict of interest rules
December 5, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News
(Israel) Suicide bombing outside Netanya mall kills 5
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475685417&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the attack in a phone call to
Palestinian journalists, identifying the bomber as Lutfi Amin Abu Salem
(Iraq) Court Reverses Ruling in Saddam Trial
http://ap.washingtontimes.com/dynamic/stories/S/SADDAM_TRIAL?SITE=DCTMS&SECTION=HOME
The court in the Saddam Hussein trial allowed former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark and another foreign defense lawyer to address the
session Monday
(Australia) Suspect offered terror deal
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17461068%255E601,00.html
Police have offered fugitive terror suspect Saleh Jamal a deal to
return to Australia if he turns informant on six men he is alleged to have
recruited to jihad and pleads guilty to planning an attack on Sydney
Harbour.
Frenchman target of latest Iraq kidnapping
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=25892&name=Frenchman+target+of+latest+Iraq+kidnapping
Dutch put 'terror group' on trial
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4498472.stm
14 Muslim men, including Theo van Gogh's killer, go on trial in the
high-security court in Amsterdam charged with membership of the alleged
terrorist Hofstadgroep.
Bangladesh funds 'terror donor'
http://www.asianewsnet.net/level3_template1.php?l3sec=4&news_id=49208
Government released fund to Bangladesh branch of Kuwaiti NGO, the
Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS), which is at top of list of
suspected donors to Islamic militants in Bangladesh
Iran threatens counter-strike
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3179301,00.html
(Iraq) Wife pleads for life of hostage
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1904948,00.html
The wife of the kidnapped Briton Norman Kember has made a televised
appeal to the peace campaignerâs captors, begging them to release him.
Indonesians Ask Why Muslims Turn to Bombs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051204/ap_on_re_as/indonesia_suicide_bombers
U.S. not 'well-prepared' for terrorism
http://9/11%20panel%20to%20issue%20report%20critical%20of%20federal%20security%20response
9/11 panel to issue report critical of federal security response
Bin Laden may have traveled to United States as a young man: report
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=82723
"New Yorker" magazine reports that Khaled Batarfi, a Saudi journalist,
says bin Laden made at least one trip to U.S. in about 1978 with wife
and oldest son, who needed medical treatment
Colombian rebels kill politician
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/635799
FARC terrorists kill former senator and injure his son
Syrian forces clash with Islamist gunmen in northern Syria
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/653519.html
U.S. Missile, al-Qaida Death May Be Linked
http://www.forbes.com/business/manufacturing/feeds/ap/2005/12/04/ap2367966.html
Ex-Iraqi leader claims assassination attempt
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/04/iraq.main/index.html
Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was chased from a mosque Sunday
in Najaf in what he said was an apparent attempt on his life
In Basra, threats stalk elections
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512040363dec04,1,5661315.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Investigation blows open Lashkar overground links (India)
http://www.hindu.com/2005/12/04/stories/2005120406531000.htm
"(M)ainstream political parties in the State have been infiltrated by
operatives working for the Lashkar-e-Taiba â and are being used to
provide cover for the terrorist group's operations."
Indon team in secret meeting with RP officials on terrorism
(Philippines)
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2005/dec/04/yehey/prov/20051204pro1.html
Six S.Lankan soldiers killed by suspected rebels
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-12-04T092608Z_01_FOR433926_RTRUKOC_0_US-SRILANKA-ATTACK.xml&archived=False
Six soldiers killed in mine attack by suspected Tamil Tiger terrorists
- deadliest since 2002 ceasefire
French study finds rise in Islamic extremism
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2005/12/04/french_study_finds_rise_in_islamic_extremism/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+World+News
Study asserts that Islamic networks trying to establish presence in
companies involved in security, cargo, armored cars, courier services and
transportation - operatives then raise funds for militants via theft,
embezzlement and robbery
Women of Al Qaeda
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10315095/site/newsweek/
"Newsweek" cover story: "There will be more women launching more
attacks, a fact that is provoking new and growing concern among U.S.
officials."
Hadley Won't Confirm Death of Al Qaeda Leader
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177633,00.html
President Bush's national security adviser refused to confirm that top
Al Qaeda leader killed - 2 top U.S. CT officials agree with Pakistani
statements
Saddam Trial Plot Foiled
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177621,00.html
Iraq official: Sunni Arab insurgent group plotted to attack Saddam's
trial when it resumed Monday
Terror suspect could return (Australia)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17462878%255E1702,00.html
Police offer fugitive terror suspect Saleh Jamal deal to return to
Australia: plead guilty to planning attack on Sydney Harbor
National:
[AP] USA - 9/11 Commission: 'Another Attack Will Occur'
" because Congress and the White House haven't done enough to secure the nation"
http://www.wdsu.com/nationalnews/5463433/detail.html
[AFP] USA - US at risk for another terrorist attack: commission chair
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/04/051204215805.8bw4nf1a.html
[TheKansasCityChannel.com.com] MISSOURI - Plane Lands At KCI After Taliban Note Found
"It said, 'Taliban is here."
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/5446348/detail.html
[WINS] NEW JERSEY - Bomb Threat Causes Plane Evacuation at Newark
"believed to be an imitation of a similar threat that forced a jet to make an emergency landing in Kansas City a day earlier"
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_337174403.html
[Mercury-Register] CALIFORNIA - Bomb squad called in for suspicious box found at cemetery
"contents of the box looked like the end cap of a pipe with paper wrapped around it and some type of liquid substance inside," "
http://www.orovillemr.com/Stories/0,1413,157~26686~3148956,00.html
[Milford Daily News] MASS - Suspicious powder proves harmless
http://www.milforddailynews.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=82155
[nbc5i.com] TEXAS - Mysterious Rash Puzzles Hospital Staff [photo]
http://www.nbc5i.com/health/5438574/detail.html
[IBS] TEXAS - FBI: Thieves Stealing Drugs May Be Terrorists, Part Of Gang
http://www.click2houston.com/news/5443575/detail.html
[Information Week] GLOBAL - CYBERTERROR - Sober Attack Biggest Virus Outbreak Ever
http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174403382
[Community Press] CANADA - Trenton plant evacuated; suspicious package found
http://www.communitypress-online.com/template.php?id=25383&RECORD_KEY(News)=id&id(News)=25383
[New York] NEW YORK - Briefcase behind bomb scare
"suspicious package had been delivered to the Armed Forces Recruiting Center next door"
http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15670688&BRD=1169&PAG=461&dept_id=17708&rfi=6
[Sentinel and Enterprise] USA - Suspicious package spotted at Fitchburg Intermodal Station
http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_3268917
[Reuters] WASHINGTON - Library of Congress evacuated over suspicious odor
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-11-30T192902Z_01_YUE060836_RTRUKOC_0_US-CONGRESS-LIBRARY-EVACUATION.xml
[Rocky Mountain News] USA - Fed Center flap draws a busload of support [Editors Note - As always we support the Constitution, and believe we should not allow the threat of terrorism to be used to degrade our rights.]
"Davis, 50, of Arvada, refused in September to show her identification when federal police boarded RTD's No. 100 bus when it entered the Federal Center"
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4279299,00.html
[PapersPlease.org] USA - United States -vs- Deborah Davis - Next stop big brother
"She's a 50 year-old mother of four who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. Her kids are all grown-up: her middle son is a soldier fighting in Iraq. She leads an ordinary, middle class life. You probably never would have heard of Deb Davis if it weren't for her belief in the U.S. Constitution"
http://www.papersplease.org/davis/
[CBS] CALIFORNIA - Weak Strain Of Bird Flu Found At Sun Valley Farm
http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_333212149.html
[TheChamplainChannel.com/AP] VERMONT - Police Detonate Bomb Found In Burlington
http://www.thechamplainchannel.com/news/5434076/detail.html
[Star Telegram] USA - Cabin security worries flight attendants [TW Editors Note - the 9-11 hijackers didnt use explosives, they primarily used sharp objects. Untill the TSA gets it right, untill pilots are allowed to carry guns, untill cargo is screened, untill cockpits are secured, people should consider alternate means of travel.]
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/13300363.htm
[KGW] USA - Unit 8 Investigation: Hole found in homeland security
http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_112805_news_nuke_series.1ccd54f7.html
[Daily Breeze] CALIFORNIA - Harman points to danger areas for South Bay
"Attacks at our ports could eliminate thousands of people and thousands of jobs, cost billions of dollars, hundreds of millions in transportation-related delays, eliminate billions in tax revenue and disrupt domestic and international trade,"
http://www.dailybreeze.com/business/articles/2039827.html
[US Department of Homeland Security (press release)] USA - BORDER SECURITY
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=4954
[King5] USA - Businesses still unprepared for terrorism
http://www.king5.com/sharedcontent/northwest/bizcoach/stories/NW_112905terrorDS.2454ba55.html
[AP] NEW MEXICO - Citi Building Evacuated After 3 Become Inexplicably Sick
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/5437751/detail.html
[WALB] USA - Experts: Agriculture "very vulnerable" to terror plots
http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4184248&nav=5kZQ
[USA Today] USA - DHS hotline a hotbed of weak tips
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-30-homeland-hotline_x.htm
[CBS2] USA - Suspicious Post Office Package Was Medical Sample
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_336105714.html
[AP] WASHINGTON DC - Arkansas Man Scales White House Fence
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/04/D8E9PQ680.html
[Evening Echo News] WASHINGTON DC - White House evacuated in small-plane scare
http://www.eecho.ie/news/bstory.asp?j=128137740&p=yz8y38374&n=128138395
[Daily Bulletin] CALIFORNIA - Airplane stolen at El Monte airport
" theft has been reported to Los Angeles County's Terrorism Early Warning Group"
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3276834
[New West Network] USA - Inside the Climate of Fear in the National Park Service
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/4591/C38/L38
[TheNewMexicoChannel.com] NEW MEXICO - Man Injured By Homemade Bomb
"police bomb squad team was called in to remove several other bombs from inside the house"
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/news/5462753/detail.html
[Reuters] FLORIDA - FBI mishandled Florida terror probe: Report
"falsified documents to try to cover mistakes and retaliated against an agent who complained about the problems"
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&subsection=Americas&month=December2005&file=World_News2005120525613.xml
[CNN] MEXICO - Mexican 'FBI' investigates 1,500 agents [TW Editors note - if drug cartels can buy Mexico's AFI, so can Al Qaeda]
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/04/mexico.drugs.reut/index.html
[Community Dispatch] USA - Tips for Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities
http://communitydispatch.com/artman/publish/article_2998.shtml
International:
[KUNA] IRAQ - Saddam trial to resume after foiled bomb attmept on court building
http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=793794
[RIA Novosti] RUSSIA - URGENT: Documents with dirty weapon technologies found in Chechnya
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051201/42283397.html
[Interfax] RUSSIA - Federal troops enter combat with militant group in Chechnya
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11428460
[C4] SPAIN - ETA blamed for bomb attack in Spain
"bomb has exploded at the headquarters of a transport company in the Basque country causing damage but no injuries."
http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=137540
[AP] BELGIUM - European police detain 15 in raids linked to suicide bomb
http://www.kristv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4186224&nav=Bsmh
[AP] IRAQ - Two U.S. Allies Leaving Iraq, More May Go
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051201/D8E7MI1G5.html
[Kyodo News] BANGLADESH - 2 killed, 33 injured in bomb blast in Bangladesh
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=7&id=357055
[WebIndia123] INDIA / BANGLADESH - India seals borders with Bangladesh following bomb attack in Dhaka
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=178188&cat=India
[WebIndia123] INDIA - Bomb hoax at Metro Railway Headquarters
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=178475&cat=India
[Pravda] PAKISTAN - Bomb explosion in north Pakistan: 5 killed, 2 injured
http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/12/01/68912.html
[Virginian Pilot] IRAQ - With the 5th Fleet: Bomb crew disposes of all kinds of hazards
http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=96221&ran=26847&tref=po
[Reuters] IRAQ - Security incidents in Iraq, Dec 4
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KAM444160.htm
[New Kerala] UNITED KINGDOM - British police arrest suspected terrorist
"attempting to buy bombs and a rocket to shoot down a passenger plane"
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=59095
[DPA] EHTIOPIA - Ethiopia, Somalia pledge to fight terrorism in Horn of Africa
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/article_1065850.php/Ethiopia_Somalia_pledge_to_fight_terrorism_in_Horn_of_Africa
[AP] HAITI - Bus carrying 14 children hijacked in Haiti
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1102AP_Haiti_Kidnappings.html
[News 24] SOMALIA - Hijacked cargo ship freed
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1843130,00.html
[Washington Post] BOSNIA - Terrorist Cells Find Foothold in Balkans
"raid netted explosives, rifles, other arms and a videotape pledging vengeance for the "brothers" killed fighting Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002098.html
[Jerusalem Post] IRAN - El Baradei: Iran only months away from a bomb
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475683499&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
[manorama] ISRAEL / IRAN - Netanyahu calls for strike on Iranian nuclear facilities
http://www.manoramaonline.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=manorama/MmArticle/CommonFullStory&cid=1133748324302&c=MmArticle&p=1002194839100&count=10&colid=1002258272837&channel=News
[DAILY TIMES] IRAN - Iran not holding Qaeda man
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005%5C12%5C05%5Cstory_5-12-2005_pg7_4
[AP] INDONESIA - Police seize bomb-making chemicals in east Indonesia [2.75 tons of ammonium nitrate ]
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3179508,00.html
[Telegraph] PAKISTAN - Al-Qaeda number three 'killed by CIA spy plane' in Pakistan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/04/wpak04.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/12/04/ixworld.html
[LB] SRI LANKA - High Alert
"Six soldiers were killed in a landmine blast in northern Sri Lanka Sunday"
http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/new_full_story.php?subcatcode=1&catname=Economy&newscode=1119977410
[The Mercury] TURKEY - Turkey travel advisory warning 'senseless'
"warning to Australians visiting Turkey, advising them "to exercise a high degree of caution . . . because of the high threat of terrorist attack""
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17454310%255E421,00.html
[Ynet] ISRAEL - Mofaz orders return to targeted assassinations
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3179208,00.html
[Reuters] NIGERIA - Nigerian politician says escapes assassination bid
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L04739755.htm
[Reuters] VENEZUELA - Venezuela crude pipeline sabotaged-official
"adding that there had been two attempts to blow up a gas pipeline in the same region and sabotage production at two power stations"
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04151749.htm
[URA Inform] UKRAINE - State of Emergency proclaimed in Ukraine [Bird flu]
http://en.ura-inform.com/archive/?/2005/12/05/~/49301
[Science Daily] ROMANIA - New bird flu outbreak reported in Romania
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051204-19455300-bc-romania-birdflu-crn.xml
[Sunday Times] GLOBAL - Bird flu drug useless: Vietnamese doctor
Tamiflu is really only meant for treating ordinary type A flu. It was not designed to combat H5N1 ... Tamiflu is useless.
"The WHO admitted Tamiflu had not been widely successful in human patient"
http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&month=December2005&file=World_News2005120533011.xml
[Focus] ISRAEL - Explosion Rocks Shopping Mall in Netaniya, Israel
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=138&newsid=77971&ch=0&datte=2005-12-05
41 recommendations - more F's than A's. Chairman Thomas Kean "People are NOT paying attention. "God help us if we have another attack." [God will not help us if we don't help ourselves]
I read the whole article to see if they mentioned our pisspoor visa program and of course the non existent border solution. Nothing.
BTW who knows who the National Intelligence Director is? I just happened to see a brief snippet from him the other day otherwise I haven't heard from him at all.
Pakistan says commander's death a blow to al-Qaeda
AP , ISLAMABAD
Monday, Dec 05, 2005,Page 1
The death of one of al-Qaeda's top commanders is a "big blow" for Osama bin Laden's terror network, Pakistan's interior minister said yesterday.
Officials said on Saturday that the death of Hamza Rabia, believed responsible for planning overseas strikes, had been confirmed by DNA tests after an explosion last week in one of Pakistan's tribal areas along the border with Afghanistan.
"He was a high-profile commander in the network," Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao told reporters. "Naturally any person killed in their hierarchy is a big blow for them."
(Edited out the part about the missile, that might have come from on of our small spy planes..granny)
Rabia, a key associate of al-Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri, died Thursday in an explosion in the North Waziristan tribal area, Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Saturday.
Two US counterterrorism officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because of the information's sensitivity, said Rabia was believed to be an Egyptian and head of al-Qaeda's foreign operations, possibly as senior as the No. 3 in the terrorist group, which puts him at a level just below bin Laden and al-Zawahri.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2005/12/05/2003283049
Documents with dirty weapons technologies found in Chechnya
That article is very troubling. If they could get any of this stuff into Iraq think of the damage they can do.
And, the other story about bl traveling to the US makes one wonder why we wouldn't know for sure by his visa history. Of course, he may have used a false passport but why would he need to do that in the 70's?
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