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Terror alert in Dhaka over threat of attack
on rally
Web posted at: 11/21/2005 3:32:25
Source ::: Agencies

Dhaka: A terror alert has been sounded in the Bangladeshi capital and
surrounding areas following an intelligence report about possible bomb
attacks on an opposition rally in the city tomorrow.

According to the intelligence report, the banned Islamist outfit, the
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) blamed for the August 17
serial blasts, has planned a series of bomb attacks in Dhaka. Different
groups of the militant outfit are reportedly trying to send a huge
quantity of high explosives to Dhaka through land or riverine routes.

The JMB is also trying to gather its highly trained cadres along with
members of the “suicide squad” to accomplish their mission. The JMB
might go for setting off high-powered explosives in Dhaka to eliminate
opposition and ruling party leaders and senior officials.

Keeping the intelligence reports in mind, a security blanket has been
thrown around the capital city since Saturday evening and surveillance
increased at all entrance and exit points by setting up check posts. The
security forces including the para-military forces, the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been put on high alert
across the country to prevent any possible terrorist activity by the
suicide bombers of JMB.

Fourteen opposition political parties, headed by the Awami League,
have planned a huge anti-government rally on Tuesday. Political
sources said the opposition parties are likely to issue a one-month
ultimatum to the government to concede to their demands for holding
free and neutral polls under a non-partisan caretaker government.

The opposition has planned to gather 2.5 million people on the day.
The government has decided to deploy 15,000 security personnel for
the rally.

The government is planning to start a month-long “Clean Militant
Operation” across the country aimed at wiping out members of
different banned militant organisations, especially the JMB, according
to The Independent Sunday. The operation will start from this week

It would appear that the info about al-zarqawi is a rumor. See below.... I rate Evan Kohlmann and by the way, this site is a great source.

http://counterterror.typepad.com/

November 20, 2005
Al-Qaida Takes Casualties in Iraq -- But Apparently Not Zarqawi
Despite recent reports to the contrary, Al-Qaida's Committee in Iraq has suffered numerous casualties during recent combat operations in northern and western Iraq -- including both native and foreign fighters. As I hinted at in my previous post on Iraq's foreign fighters, at least four commanders from the designated foreign terrorist organization Asbat al-Ansar in southern Lebanon have been killed during intense fighting near the western towns of Al-Qaim and Al-Karabilah. Another Yemeni national -- a veteran of multiple trips to Afghanistan -- was also slain before he could participate in an intended suicide bombing mission.

Other, highly dubious reports have also surfaced in the media today suggesting that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi may have been himself killed in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul during a U.S. military raid on a suspected Al-Qaida hideout. Needless to say, such "tips" are often posted on fringe Arabic-language message forums on the Internet and are subsequently picked up by overeager news agencies -- but ultimately, most prove to be nothing more than unfounded rumor. Certainly, Al-Qaida doesn't seem to have been at all fazed by the reported Mosul raid. Not only has Al-Qaida issued nearly twenty new communiques in the last twenty four hours, but it also claimed credit for additional insurgent attacks on U.S. forces in Mosul. Apparently, the raid that "might have killed" Zarqawi did not even succeed in decapitating Al-Qaida's military command structure in the Mosul area. This Zarqawi report ultimately will be proven or disproven by the only sure way possible: forensic evidence collected on scene. But, at least for the moment--given what we do know--it seems fair to classify Zarqawi's would-be passing as extremely unlikely.

See: (UPI) Reports of Zarqawi's death played down

UPDATE: I've fixed the broken link to the Asbat al-Ansar PDF file

Posted by Evan Kohlmann at 08:34 PM

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/November/19o/Repression%20of%20Palestinian%20Activists%20in%20the%20US%20Where%20are%20the%20Defenders%20of%20Justice%20By%20Noah%20Cohen.htm

Laughing, I read this article, it is a cry in your beer article about how difficult it was to find an attorney, after being arrested for immigration, intended violence against an Israel Support March.....in 2002.

They are so bad that even the ACLU refused to act for them,
then they wind up coneected to the Florida guy, al-arian and Lynn Stewart.........

The Arab lawyers didn't appear to want them for clients either.

According to them, we don't support Palestine supporters....

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/article_1063352.php/Germans_interrogated_terrorist_under_deal_with_Syria_report

From Monsters and Critics.com

MIDDLE EAST NEWS
Germans interrogated terrorist under deal with Syria: report
By DPA
Nov 20, 2005, 19:00 GMT

Hamburg - German interrogators were granted access three years ago to a terrorist in one of Damascus\' most dreaded jails
under a secret deal with Syria, the news magazine Der Spiegel said Sunday.

They were able to speak in 2002 with Mohammed Haidar Zammar, a Syrian who is believed to have a German passport, after he
had been captured by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in Morocco and removed to Syria, Spiegel said in its issue to
appear Monday.

In exchange, intelligence officials in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder\'s office acceded to Syrian demands to quash the indictment
of two suspected Syrian spies. Berlin later accused Syria of reneging and continuing espionage in Germany in breach of the deal.

German government officials declined comment on the Spiegel report. A spokesman said only that all intelligence activities were
communicated to the parliamentary committees that monitor them.

The magazine said senior Syrian officials secretly visited Berlin in July 2002 to arrange the deal.

Zammar was believed to have been al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden\'s representative in the German port city of Hamburg and a
close friend of the three Hamburg Arab students who piloted hijacked jets in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and
Washington.

Captured at the end of 2001, Zammar has been held in the brutal Far Filastin Jail, a facility in the basement of the Syrian military
intelligence headquarters in Damascus, the magazine said. Amnesty International says torture takes place routinely there.

At the November 2002 meeting, German federal police and domestic and foreign intelligence officers travelled to Damascus and
were told by Zammar that his main contribution had been to convince one of the pilots, Marwan al-Shehhi, to join the \'jihad\'
cause.

He had also arranged for Murat Kurnaz, a man from the German port city of Bremen who has been in the U.S. Guantanamo Bay
detention camp since 2002, to travel to Afghanistan to join the Taliban.

Spiegel said the interview findings had been kept top secret and had not been shared with prosecutors investigating Islamists in
Germany.

Prosecutors had withdrawn the indictments of the two alleged Syrian agents on instructions from the German federal justice
ministry, but a second German visit to Damascus never took place because the Syrians had broken the bargain.

It was meanwhile reported that a German city was among the possible venues to be used by U.N. chief investigator Detlev Mehlis
to interview six senior Syrian officers as part of the probe into former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri\'s assassination.

Arab newspapers said Cologne was being considered as a neutral location. Mehlis comes from Germany.

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November 21, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News

U.S. doubts Mosul attack hit al-Zarqawi
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/20/iraq.main/index.html

(Iraq) 8 suspected al-Qaida members die
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/13223099.htm

Morocco Dismantles Terror Network, Arrests 17
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176173,00.html
Moroccan police have dismantled a terrorist network, arresting 17
people, including two former prisoners at the U.S. base in Guantanamo, Cuba

Belgian terror suspect held in Morocco with 16 others
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=25485&name=Belgian+terror+suspect+heldin+Morocco+with+16+others

Madrid terror suspect had details of London Tube
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=25502&name=Madrid+terror+suspect+had+details+of+London+Tube
Police find maps of Spanish trains, the London Underground and
Montrealâ€™s rail system on the personal computer of a man questioned over the
Madrid bombings.

Hezbollah attacks Israel outpost
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4456984.stm

(Australia) Terror suspect trial suspended
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17316908%255E1702,00.html
The trial of a Sydney terror suspect is on hold while a court considers
whether the Commonwealth can legislate over crimes allegedly committed
overseas, with no connection to Australia.

Experts to scrutinise 16 Arab states for money laundering
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/BusinessNF.asp?ArticleID=193704

Ex-Cellmate Says al-Zarqawi Was Tortured
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/rise_of_al_zarqawi_1
Man once imprisoned with al-Zarqawi says AZ was tortured regularly by
Jordanian prison officials in late 1990s and held 6 months in solitary
confinement

(Turkey) Two arrested in Konya for al-Qaeda links
http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/3544010.asp?gid=74
Police found bomb-making materials and note allegedly indicating that
two were planning al-Qaeda attacks in Turkey

Intel: Iran Won't Need an Exit Strategy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10118732/site/newsweek/
Iraq's national security adviser reaches memorandum of understanding
with Iran to cooperate on sensitive intel-sharing matters,
counterterrorism. and cross-border infiltration of al Qaeda figures

Iraq genocide trial for Dutchman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4455786.stm

(Russia) Buinaksk terrorist group leader caught in Dagestan
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11423643

Note: white vehicle.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1526029/posts

Dynamite hoax hits Wal-Mart gas station
Florida Today ^ | 21 November 2005 | BY JUAN ORTEGA

Posted on 11/21/2005 5:55:35 AM PST by VeniVidiVici

Three witnesses told police they saw a man and two women in a
four-door white vehicle approach the Murphy USA gas station in the
southwest corner of the Wal-Mart parking lot...The man then threw a
package of red tubes wrapped with electrical tape. They were made to
resemble dynamite, and also attached was something made to
resemble a fuse, police said.

(Excerpt) Read more at flatoday.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1525813/posts?page=8

Border Wars (More illegal immigrants. More
violence. More death. The public has had it.)
USnews ^ | 11/28/05 | Angie C. Marek

Posted on 11/20/2005 4:23:25 PM PST by Flavius

YUMA, ARIZ. --When Border Patrol agents here meet for "the muster,"
their gathering before the night shift, they've got a lot to talk about.
On a recent evening, shift commander Tony Martinez ticked off a
laundry list of events from the night before. Scores of illegal
immigrants had rushed the 8-foot metal fence that separates San
Luis, Ariz., from Mexicali, Mexico--a tactic known as the "banzai run."
A routine checkpoint stop turned up 251 bundles of marijuana in a
rental car. And a report out of Miami indicated that some illegals were
getting plastic surgery on their fingertips so their prints wouldn't be
recognized by the FBI's database. "Remember Casa Grande," Martinez
warned, referring to an incident when an agent found three axes and
three loaded guns in an illegal immigrant's duffel bag. "And please, be
careful."

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1525535/posts?page=38

INVASION USA: ARMED STANDOFF ON RIO GRANDE
World Net Daily ^ | Sunday, November 20, 2005 | Staff

Posted on 11/20/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by FerdieMurphy

Uniformed Mexicans with guns, bulldozer seize drug-bust truck
from Border Patrol

U.S. Border Patrol agents were backed down this week by armed men,
dressed in what appeared to be Mexican military uniforms and
carrying military weapons, who seized a captured dump truck filled
with marijuana from the U.S. agents and dragged it across the border
into Mexico with a bulldozer.

The border incident occurred Thursday evening when Border Patrol
agents attempted to pull over a dump truck on Interstate 10 in
Hudspeth County, Texas. The driver fled from the agents, exiting the
freeway and driving toward the Rio Grande which runs within 2 miles
of the interstate in this portion of West Texas.

The driver abandoned the truck after it became stuck in the river bed,
escaping into Mexico.

Agents called for reinforcement from the Texas state troopers and
Hudspeth County sheriff and began unloading the haul – estimated to
have been nearly 3 tons – when everything changed.

Officers "started to retrieve the bundles when the armed subjects
appeared," said Agent Ramiro Cordero, Border Patrol spokesman.

According to Hudspeth County Chief Deputy Mike Doyal, the dump
truck driver returned with armed men, some of whom drove "official
looking vehicles with overhead lights." Some of those armed, Doyal
told the El Paso Times, appeared to be Mexican soldiers in uniform
with military weapons.

"It's a very serious incident," Doyal said. "We are very fortunate ... no
one got hurt. Everyone had the presence of mind not to cause an
international incident, or start shooting."

As WorldNetDaily has reported, there are widespread reports of
U.S.-trained Mexican commandos, called the Zetas, making
cross-border runs into U.S. territory in military-style vehicles, armed
with automatic weapons.

The Zetas were trained as elite commandos by U.S. forces to combat
the drug cartels, but they have switched sides and are working for the
drug smugglers in the border area posing a special hazard to
American law enforcement and Border Patrol agents, according to a
U.S. Justice Department memo. Under the control of reputed drug
kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the Zetas are conducting a
bloody war for control of the entire southern border in an effort to
secure a monopoly on drug-smuggling and people-smuggling routes.

As both sides faced off, a bulldozer appeared from the Mexico side of
the river and was used by the armed men to pull the dump truck – and
the two-thirds of the marijuana that had not yet been unloaded – into
Mexico. The bulldozer, Doyal said, is believed to be used regularly to
make makeshift crossings over the Rio Grande.

The "armed encounter with drug smugglers," as Cordero described it,
is under investigation. No confirmation was made as to whether or not
the "soldiers" belonged to the Mexican military.

This Freeper, deserves our thanks for all his work at Free Republic and now through out the country in the fight for Truth and for Freedom..............

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1524177/posts?page=7

STATEMENT of NEWT GINGRICH BEFORE SENATE
COMMITTEE (FReeper article prompted use of
graphic)
hsgac.senate.gov ^ | NOVEMBER 15, 2005

Posted on 11/17/2005 5:23:59 PM PST by nuconvert

STATEMENT of NEWT GINGRICH BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE
(FReeper article prompted use of graphic)

On Oct. 30th, DoctorZin, a FReeper, posted an article on his
blog on FR
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512056/posts
and on his blog
http://regimechangeiran.blogspot.com/2005/10/why-havent-we-seen-this.html that
caught Washington's attention. It is entitled, "Why Haven't
We Seen This? " and asks why the world is ignoring the graphic
used at the "World Without Zionism" conference.

This past Tues, Newt Gingrich and James Woolsey (Former CIA
Director) brought an enlarged version of the graphic to a
Senate Subcommittee Hearing. It was also used by others
testifying in order to illustrate their points. The graphic is
referenced on page 7 of Gingrich's speech. (see link below)

The following are some excerpts from Newt Gingrich's speech :
continued at above link.........