http://groups.google.com/group/alt.current-events.russia/msg/439dd842ead3e9df?&q=KGB+Active+Measures+In+Middle+East
The above will not copy.
Saddam and KGB link, this report was published and posted in Google groups in 1999.
Arms, money, training, it is long and you will want to read it.
The links are good, even shows where to find out about Saddams WMD, his secret route and some of the newer missile improvements he got from Russia.
On the link below a poster comments on clintons trip to russia. at the end of the article.
It appears that clinton knew from the CIA in the 90's/95 what was going on.
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Check out the old reports here and see the Web Search for this also........
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=KGB+Active+Measures+In+Middle+East&qt_s=Search
We had a post the other day, about the Christians that were murdered, and linked to a website.
Take a look at the this 1999 article, that has Saddam links.
The Long Arm of Saddam Hussein
FBI officials now believe that the brutal murder of an Iraqi-American family in late May was likely perpetrated by the Iraqi secret police. This would be the first successful assassination attempt carried out by Baghdad inside the United States.
Khazal Taima, his wife Dorothy and teenage son Leith were shot to death at their home in the Washington DC suburb of McLean during Memorial Day weekend. The crime scene, however, was almost totally bereft of physical evidence-- investigators found no sign of forced entry and no murder weapon--leading investigators to discount the possibility that the deaths resulted from a domestic dispute, robbery attempt, or suicide. The three victims were clearly murdered by someone they knew or had allowed into the house.
But who?
Taima, 63, was a well-known consultant and financier who had a long history of business dealings with the Iraqi government. In the mid-1980s, one of his consulting firms landed a $10 million contract selling American-made oil and gas machinery to the Iraqi government. "He went to Baghdad a lot," remembers a U.S. Commerce Department official who asked not to be named. "He was aggressive, a real dynamo."1 Taima even had a photograph of himself and Saddam Hussein prominently displayed in his home.
After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Taima's financial assets in Iraq were frozen by U.S. trade sanctions. During the buildup to war that fall, Taima founded the American Iraqi Foundation, aimed at " improving relations" between the U.S. and Iraq, and reportedly met with President George Bush at the White House to push for a negotiated settlement. After the war, Taima appeared frequently on national television to criticize the sanctions against Iraq.
Taima's financial situation deteriorated greatly during the 1990's due to the continuing economic sanctions against Iraq. However, he began making frequent business trips to Baghdad over the last couple years. Around this time, Taima began to fear for his life, often telling acquaintances that he had received death threats. "He was afraid someone might kill him," said a neighbor, Betsy Crawford. He told friends and family members that his car had been firebombed, though police say they have no record of this.
Shortly before his murder, Taima returned from a visit to Baghdad and told family members that his financial troubles were over. His father-in-law recalled Taima talking about a "good contract" just a couple days before his death.
1999 - WMD tipped weapons, Iraq, names and info:
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Iraqi Opposition Groups Proliferate
In nature, it is said that predators have an instinctual ability to sense when an animal much larger and more powerful than themselves is incapacitated and unable to successfully defend itself. A similar phenomenon seems to be taking place in Iraq, where Saddam Hussein's aura of invincibility appears to have been resoundingly shattered. The critical turning point appears to have been the regime's assassination of Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sader in February--an act so abhorrent to Iraqi Shi'ites that many perceived it as an act of desperation. After all, stable authoritarian regimes to not need to murder well-known public figures. Sensing this vulnerability, a number of hitherto unknown opposition groups have risen to challenge the Ba'athist regime in recent months.
In April, two groups emerged, calling themselves the "Iraqi Democratic Action Movement" and "National Options."
In May, a group calling itself the "Iraqi Army Officers' Organization - General Command" claimed credit for a number of assassinations and attacks on Ba'ath Party buildings.
In June, a previously unknown Iraqi group calling itself the "Iraqi Vanguards for National Salvation" claimed responsibility for a June 14 car bomb attack in downtown Baghdad. The car, a white Datsun containing Katyusha-105 bombs, detonated in the eastern Karradah district, a residential area where members of the Special Security service live. The group said it carried out the operation "to avenge the innocent blood of the martyrs of Islam, foremost among them martyred Shi'ite leader Muhammad Al-Sadr."1
At the beginning of July, a group calling itself the "Command of Free Fighters" announced that it had seized a secret arms depot in Diyala and captured a biochemical weapon that "the regime's forces used in artillery shells and missiles." The group described itself as consisting of "Iraqi Army officers, some officials, and [elements] from the tribes."2
There has also been a dramatic rise in opposition organized around tribal affiliations. Earlier this month, at least 40 Iraqi soldiers and Ba'ath party officials were killed in two pitched battles with members of the Albu Hassan clan near the town of Rumaitha in southern Iraq. In retaliation for the execution of three members of the clan on alleged charges of drug trafficking, Albu Hassan tribesmen attacked the Ba'ath Party's offices in the town of Rumaitha on July 3, killing Iraq's chief of the southern military intelligence, Lt. Gen. Nadhem al-Jubouri, the chief of Rumaitha's security, Lt. Colonel Mohsen al-Kutawi, as well as 17 Ba'ath Party members. The next day, an assault by Iraqi army units against the clan's residential area was repulsed by tribesman armed with mortars, rocket propelled grenades and anti-tank weapons. At least 20 Iraqi soldiers were killed.
"This is the most significant unrest since the uprisings following the 1991 war," said Judith Yaphe, an Iraq specialist at National Defense University in Washington. "The problems that started this spring in the south have continued to elude Saddam's ability to resolve them." Steadily worsening economic conditions have also fueled domestic unrest--Iraq's currency plummeted to a new low over the last two months (1,200 dinars to the U.S. dollar).
1 Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, 30 June 1999.
2 Al-Hayat, 2 July 1999.
Iraq, North Korea and Russia May Have Stocks of Smallpox Virus
13 June 1999
The New York Times reported today that a U.S. intelligence report completed earlier this year concluded that Iraq, North Korea and Russia are probably maintaining supplies of the smallpox virus for military use. U.S. officials said that the report's findings were based on disclosures by a Soviet defector, blood samples taken from North Korean soldiers indicating recent smallpox vaccinations and evidence that Iraq has manufactured vaccine for smallpox in significant quantities. The report prompted President Bill Clinton to reverse an earlier decision to destroy US stocks of the virus.
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Yes, the link has been the same for all last posts, there are another 6 or 8 reports here on Iran and the jihadi groups, all posted in 1999..There is a very good photo of OBL here.......granny
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Bin Laden Prepares to Strike Again
Osama Bin Laden
In a recent interview on Qatar's al-Jazeera satellite television, exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden promised that more attacks against the United States are yet to come. There have been numerous indications in recent weeks that he is planning to do just that.
On June 25, the United States temporarily closed six of its embassies in Africa after obtaining "concrete information" that Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network is in the "advanced stages" of planning another attack. The embassies in Namibia, Senegal, Madagascar, Liberia, Togo and Gambia were closed after US intelligence intercepted phone conversations in which bin Laden's operatives discussed the transferal of explosives and personnel, and several embassies had reported being under surveillance by suspicious individuals. "We have seen a pattern of activity indicating continued planning for terrorist attacks by members of Osama bin Laden's network," said State Department spokesman James Rubin, "and we take reporting of such threats seriously."
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Defense Secretary William Cohen both canceled planned visits to Albania this month after receiving what a U.S. official called "very current intelligence" indicating that bin Laden's operatives were in Albania with orders to strike a high profile American target. "We consider Osama bin Laden a worldwide threat, and we are taking, and have been taking, the necessary measures to deal with it," said Albright.
There is also evidence that a group in Pakistan closely associated with bin Laden is planning attacks against the U.S. The militant Harakat al-Mujahideen organization (whose training camps in Afghanistan were hit in the U.S. cruise missile last year against bin Laden's network of bases) recently issued a ban on "the travel of all American citizens, including diplomats" to Kashmir. According to a July 15 travel warning issued by the State Department, "the U.S. government has received a growing body of information that suggests strongly that extremists based in Afghanistan are preparing to attack U.S. interests in Pakistan in the near future."
American officials have also discovered evidence that bin Laden is planning a major attack to mark the first anniversary of last year's embassy bombings. Information has been intercepted "that suggested that preparations had been completed," said an intelligence source in Washington earlier this month.
Many in the intelligence community are astonished that bin Laden has been this active despite encountering several setbacks in recent months. The Taliban militia in Afghanistan is reportedly considering turning Bin Laden over to a neutral country for trial on charges of masterminding last year's embassy bombings. He has been forced to move his headquarters in Afghanistan to the village of Farmihadda in hills south of Jalalabad (near the border with Pakistan). In addition, several active members of his Al Qaeda terror network have been arrested around the world. Moreover, there are reports that bin Laden has narrowly survived three assassination attempts in recent months and suffers from an unspecified illness.
Despite all of this, bin Laden's network of terrorists keeps managing to regenerate itself. The key to this resurgence is his continual supply of money from wealthy Islamic followers. The CIA recently discovered that money has been channeled to bin Laden from his family and other supporters through the Dubai Islamic Bank in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Senior U.S. Treasury Department and the National Security Council officials were sent to the UAE earlier this month to stem the flow. State Department spokesman James Foley said on July 8 that the the UAE government has "taken steps to clean up the bank and to restore its reputation."
Meanwhile, Saudi investigators uncovered a second channel of funding, leading from Riyadh to London. According to U.S. sources, the money was transferred from bank accounts in Saudi Arabia to a Saudi-owned financial institution in London which is now being investigated by British authorities. "The Saudis were really taken aback when they found out the net worth and status of some of the people sending money to Osama. Together they owned about $20 billion in assets. These were pillars of the establishment," said a U.S. intelligence analyst with close ties to the Saudi government. He added that one of the suspected donors was a Saudi prince. More than $50 million had been transferred through this channel to bin Laden's before the flow was cut off.1
According to Kenneth Katzman of the Congressional Research Service, bin Laden now has the resources to strike U.S. targets anywhere in the world. With up to $300 million in independent sources of financing and operatives of many different nationalities, "he's really come into a position where he threatens a broad range of U.S. policy interests," Katzman told CNN last month. "He could try to strike in Latin America. He could strike in Mexico, the Far East -- even in Washington, D.C."
Unfortunately, conspicuous efforts to avert these attacks, such as closing embassies and canceling visits abroad by high-ranking U.S. officials, allows bin Laden to portray himself as the heroic Islamic fighter who makes the world's only superpower tremble before him. "When you close six embassies in a region in the world, you send a message to the world that . . . the terrorists made us blink," said Harvey Kushner, chairman of the Criminal Justice Department at Long Island University.
1 "US fears Bin Laden plans new attacks," The Observer, 11 June 1999.
My eyes quit, have fun......LOL
http://www.google.com/search?q=KGB+Active+Measures+In+Middle+East&btnG=Search&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&client=googlet
About the middle of this page, or on page 2 is a link for:
Halldor2
If you will check the archives for December 2005, you will have the latest Russian news, plus there is jihadi reports.
Most interesting is a letter written to President Bush, from the town of Beslan, asking for help to get the terrorists that attacked the Beslan School.....in the December 2005 list of news, it is a long string of reports.
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Snip: As if threats of pandemic superflu weren't enough, yet another new and potentially fatal "superbug" is spreading worldwide — including in Tucson. No mere threat, this bug has infected hundreds of Tucsonans already and hospitalized dozens, some with life-threatening illness. Appearing at first as just a pimple, maybe a small cut, the infection often is mistaken by many victims — and their doctors — for a spider bite, delaying vital treatment. Known as MRSA — methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus or "mersa" — it is in fact a highly contagious bacteria that has developed strong resistance to most antibiotics, making it hard to treat and setting the stage for dangerous invasive disease.
Mersa itself is actually nothing new. This resistant form of staph bacteria has been around for decades, but was limited mostly to outbreaks in hospital and nursing-home patients. What's alarming doctors and public-health officials now is that mersa has moved into the general public — often infecting young people who have been nowhere near a hospital.
Infection begins on the skin, triggering inflammation, boils or nasty abscesses that can take weeks of treatment to stop — including surgery and hospitalization. But if it moves to the bloodstream, mersa can cause bone infection, lung-damaging pneumonia, organ damage, even fatal toxic shock syndrome. Several Tucson emergency rooms report treating some 500 cases of mersa this year — triple the number seen just two years ago.
Snip: Dhaka - Police said two street children discovered a ticking time-bomb under a bus in the capital of Bangladesh, where at least 13 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in the past week in a wave of attacks by suspected Islamic radicals.
Authorities in Gazipur, just north of Dhaka, have announced an indefinite school vacation after two attacks last week killed nine people, and police in a town farther north removed a bogus bomb from a school.
Snip: This 50-kilometre stretch of the Mexico-US border about 60 kilometres from Tucson, where George Bush gave a major speech last week on illegal immigration, is one of the key entry points for illegal immigrants.
And it is along this forbidding stretch of country that Connie Foust and Carmen Mercer, known locally as the Granny Brigade, have spent many of their nights these past eight months patrolling the border.
Clevelander's homing pigeon towed in as Israeli spy
Snip: The girls were instructed to take the pigeon back with them to their yeshiva, write a note and attach it to the pigeon’s foot. (The pigeon’s owner gave them the bird in a cake box; thus the name Uga which means cake in Hebrew). Within 24 hours, they were told, Uga would return to its native coop.
Instead, the pigeon got lost and ended up in Lebanese territory. It was caught by Lebanese soldiers who thought the girls’ message was anything from a cryptic code to a message between lovers. Or worse, that the Israelis were sending a bird infected with avian flu into their country.
Gas and Germs, a 2002 report on the WMD in Syria, add to this very good report the truckloads of Saddams WMD......
(This is only a snip of the report)
granny
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Third, Syria proved resourceful in identifying a wide variety of suppliers, and in shifting gradually and with perfect timing, from European to Asian suppliers.
The friends were many. Egypt's transfer of chemical munitions (which also included small quantities of chemical warfare agents for research purposes) was a onetime affair. But in the late 1970s and during the 1980s, Syria made important strides thanks to knowledge obtained from the Soviet Union (and later, Russia), West Germany, France, and Iran.
The link with the Soviet army developed from its patronage of the Syrian army. The Soviet contribution to the Syrian chemical enterprise is not completely clear, but it seems to have included institutional transfer of information (in part, by the Soviet Chemical Corps), turning a blind eye to information collection by Syrian scientists and chemists-in-training who came to the Soviet Union, and the provision of sample components of munitions.[20]
When the Syrians first developed an aerial bomb containing binary sarin nerve gas, they made use of the Soviet aerial incendiary bomb ZAB for the weaponization of DF and isopropyl alcohol. From these, sarin is obtained in a binary system.At a later stage, the Syrians also explored the possibility of developing chemical warheads for the Soviet aerial cluster bomb PTAB-500 (which contains bomblets) and for the short-range Soviet missiles in Syrian possession, the FROG-7 and SS-21. By the time the commander of the Soviet Chemical Corps visited Syria in 1988, it was widely assumed that the Soviet Union had provided its Syrian clients with the capacity to arm Scud missile warheads with the persistent nerve agent VX.[21]
The connection has continued between Syria and post-Soviet Russia. In 1993, Syria acquired at least 800 kilograms of raw material for production of an updated version of VX, through a straw company established by the retired general Anatoly Kuntsevich, at that time Russian president Boris Yeltsin's adviser on chemical disarmament and commander of the Russian Military Academy for Chemical Warfare. The material was smuggled from the academy, apparently together with technological knowledge about its use. (Kuntsevich was later sacked.) Russian suppliers are believed to have provided additional raw materials via Cyprus, and to have facilitated Syria's production of advanced VX and its development of improved cluster chemical warheads.[22]
But it is in delivery systems that the Russian role is most pronounced. For a host of reasons, both economic and political, Russian arms manufacturers have been actively marketing upgraded weapons systems to Syria.[23] The Syrian air force is aging and deteriorating, due to lack of maintenance and spare parts. Syria sees its missile arsenal as compensation. Some of these systems are particularly suited to WMD, especially a new optically-guided Scud missile that might be capable of penetrating U.S.- and Israeli-made missile defense systems. According to the Russian sources, the upgraded Scud is much more accurate than its predecessors, with a miss distance not exceeding 10 to 20 meters. Accuracy is crucial to delivering the extremely persistent nerve agent VX.
West German companies also did their share. The first Syrian project involved setting up a production line for serial manufacturing of di-fluoro—DF, from which sarin nerve gas for binary munitions is obtained. The process involves two stages. The first requires resistance to a compound that includes chlorine, which has to be produced before the DF; and the second requires resistance to fluoride, an even more destructive component than chlorine. The processes require highly resistant industrial glass components. Syria chose two German companies to provide them: Schott and Sigri.[24]
Schott is one of the largest industrial glass manufacturers in Germany.The company's commercial name, Boresist, highlights its specialization in installations for the production of chemicals, made from glass of high durability in which boric oxide is a supplement to silicon oxide. It was this that led the SSRC to camouflage the entire operation under the name "Borosilicate Glass Project," whose components—chlorine-resistant chemical-reaction vessels and pipes—were supplied by Schott. Thus began the production of chemical weapons in Syria. A few years later—after many tons of the chlorine compound di-chloro (and from it, DF) had been manufactured—a spokesman of the Schott Glasswerke, answered critics. He explained that the company had no idea of the real purpose the Syrians had intended for the equipment Schott sold them. In competitive industries, he claimed, it was quite common for customers not to tell suppliers the reasons for their purchases.[25]
From this search,
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Scientific%20approaches%20into%20Russia%2C%20Middle%20East%20
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.
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 campaigner’s 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 — 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
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