Snip: “The dominance of Muslims from other countries in profitable branches of the economy like market trading is a reality,” Mr. Ilyukhin warned. He added that the government is to blame for allowing this mass migration to happen, and predicted that ethnic Russians could riot against migrants on a scale rivaling the current disorders in France.
Al-Khansaa - for female jihadists
Snip: Al-Qaida even has an on-line "webzine" for female would-be jihadists, called "al-Khansaa." It includes advice on how they should raise their children to be future jihadists. It also discusses female holy fighters -- "mujahidat" -- in Islamic law. It is purported to be written by women and meant to target women specifically.
An editorial that appeared in that publication last year included the following: "We will stand covered in our veils and robes, with our weapons in our hands and our children in our arms." This webzine is linked to a new series of militant Islamist web sites emerging from Saudi Arabia, a supposed ally of the United States.
Will French riots breed Islamic jihadism?
Snip: She warned of a dangerous cocktail of tendencies in today's suburbs. The growing insularity of immigrant communities, resentment against society, and the opportunity for recruitment Islamists may see in the riots have created, "an ideal terrain for terrorism", she said.
Islamic propaganda from Kuwait
Snip: "Many see Islam increasingly as a monolith and cultural and security threat. These conservative think tanks are often funded by wealthy conservative and pro-Israeli donors and foundations."
Mexico nabs purported head of Juarez cartel
Snip: Ricardo Garcia Urquiza, captured in a shopping mall in Mexico City on Nov. 11, is accused of overseeing an organization that moved up to 5 tons of Colombian cocaine a month into Mexico and on to the United States.
Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca said that since late 2004, Garcia Urquiza was responsible for as much as 20 percent of the narcotics that reached America's streets from Mexico.
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Exiled Iranian Says Nation Hides Materials
My Way News ^ | Nov. 21, 2005 | BARRY SCHWEID
Posted on 11/21/2005 3:17:17 PM PST by conservativecorner
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Iranian exile who opposes his country's Islamic government said Monday that Iran's military is building a series of secret tunnels to hide equipment for missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who helped expose nuclear facilities in Iran in the past, told a news conference in September that tunnels were under construction mainly in an area called Parchin.
But on Monday he said the secret construction of missiles extends well beyond that location. He said that on orders of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the Iranian defense ministry has taken over an area in eastern and southern regions of Tehran.
North Korean experts have cooperated with Iran in the design and building of the complex, producing blueprints, for instance, the dissident said.
A leading Iranian aerospace group, Hemmat Industries, is located in the area and is building three versions of Shahab and Ghadar missiles, Jafarzadeh said.
The Shahab 3 has a range of 1,300 to 1,900 kilometers and Ghadar, still in the production stage, 2,500 to 3,000 kilometers, he said.
Some of the tunnels are located in Kahk Sefid Mountain, he said, pointing to a map.
In an interview, Jafarzadeh said the most significant development was that Iran was concentrating its work on missiles and nuclear warheads all together in tunnels underground in the Tehran area.
"I think the United States should be doubly worried about this because President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sped up its nuclear weapons program and the revolutionary guards are now dominating all three branches of power - executive, legal and judicial," Jafarzadeh said.
"It's a nightmare," he said.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack agreed that Iran has a covert nuclear program. "It's hidden from sight and it's hidden through a variety of means," he said.
However, McCormack said he did not know about Jafarzadeh's latest disclosures. And there's been "a very mixed record in terms of some of these groups in talking about so-called revelations about Iran's nuclear programs."
Negotiations between the European Union and Iran are stalemated.
Paul Leventhal, founding president of the Nuclear Control Institute, a private watchdog group, criticized the Bush administration for trying to defuse the standoff by endorsing a Russian proposal to let Iran enrich its own uranium so long as the enrichment is done in Russia.
"The United States has stepped onto a slippery slope," he said, and given Iran's record of concealment and deception, "this is an approach that invites serious trouble for the future."