This is background for the the Free Republic thread that I just posted on the Saudi's removal of the "Riot Banner" on Fox.
We no longer have a main news source that is even close to honest news.
post #4087
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536960/posts
Iran's former President says Iran won in the U.S.-led war on Iraq
Iran Focus ^ | 12/09/05 | Iran Focus
Posted on 12/09/2005 12:56:58 AM PST by freedom44
Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Iran’s former president and strongman Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told an international trade management show that Iran had come out as the “winner” in the United States-led war on Iraq and Washington had ended up as the loser, the official state-run news agency reported on Wednesday.
Rafsanjani said that Washington had set its sights on Tehran, but it never “thought that the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan would be to Iran’s advantage and to its own loss”.
“All the recent events in the region, including the meddling by the West and America in Afghanistan and Iraq, were in the end to Iran’s advantage”, the powerful cleric who heads the State Expediency Council said.
“Our soil is such that it can use extra-territorial invasions in the farthest regions to our benefit”.
He said that Tehran could have benefited more from the war if its management had been more active in the scene. Nonetheless, he added, Iraq and Afghanistan would be good regional partners for Iran.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536935/posts
Israel expands war arsenal to deal with Iranian nuclear threat
AP ^ | Dec 8 2005 | Steven Gutkin
Posted on 12/08/2005 10:45:07 PM PST by jmc1969
Israel is expanding its military arsenal to deal with what it views as the greatest threat to its existence: a nuclear attack by Iran.
It has acquired dozens of warplanes with long-range fuel tanks to allow them to reach Iran and signed a deal with Germany for two submarines reportedly capable of firing nuclear missiles.
Such a mission would be far more complicated than the 1981 Israeli raid that destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor. It would require heavy precision bombs that can blast through underground bunkers, manned aircraft to bombard multiple targets and possibly ground commandos to make sure weapons materials are destroyed, experts say.
"It's not a target that you can find on the map, send two F15s and solve it," said Itamar Yaar, deputy head of Israel's National Security Council.
Both the United States and Israel refuse to say whether a strike plan is in the works.
(Excerpt) Read more at signonsandiego.com ...
Granny's note: On the talk shows for several days, there has been talk of riots in Los Angeles area, if the tookie guy is executed..........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1536945/posts
2nd day of violence breaks out at new L.A. high school
Daily Breeze ^ | 12/8/05 | From wire service reports
Posted on 12/08/2005 11:18:44 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Eighteen students were arrested today in the second consecutive day of fighting at South Area High School No. 1 in Los Angeles after two groups of students faced off and yelled challenges at each other, authorities said.
The student body at the school, informally known as Santee High School, is more than 90 percent Latino while most of the rest are black. School officials deny that race is an issue at the school south of downtown, which opened this year to deal with the overcrowding at Jefferson High School.
Sixteen students were arrested Wednesday and 10 were hospitalized after school police pepper sprayed them, Monica Carazo of the Los Angeles Unified School District said.
Wednesday's brawl began with a fight between two black girls during the lunch break.
One student said students who had attended Jefferson High School were bored and wanted to stir things up at the new school.
About 100 students and parents attended a meeting tonight at the school and discussed ways to stop the violence.
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"The American case is that Garland and the others have been involved
in a multimillion-dollar counterfeiting operation, run by the
government of North Korea and encompassing more than a dozen countries
worldwide."
"Travelling as president of the Workers Party, he is said by the US to
have used the cover of his position in the party to organise the
purchase, transportation and resale of forged dollar bill notes on a
huge scale.
These are no ordinary banknotes. They are among the best forgeries in
the world, a fact that causes the American authorities huge anxiety.
Called " superdollars," they are of such exceptionally high quality
that they often deceive banks and experts."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article331764.ece
The Ira Bagman and Kim Jong Il's hot dollars
Sean Garland is legendary in Ireland for his violent republican past.
But was he also a frontman for a counterfeiting scheme run by the
communist regime of North Korea? America wants to extradite the
Workers Party chief claiming he smuggled millions of dollars in fake
$100 bills
David McKittrick reports
Published: 08 December 2005
It is a tale of codenames and counterfeiting, of the United States
secret service, Russia and North Korea, of international political and
criminal conspiracy and intrigue, of millions of dollars in illicit
currency.
Kim Jong Il, the paranoid leader of the hermit state of North Korea,
has a key role in it. Former IRA and ex-KGB operatives also have
parts, along with the Russian mafia and underworld criminals in
England and Ireland. Five-star hotels in Moscow feature in it: so too
may Guantanamo Bay.
And it all centres on an Irish pensioner, who claims America is
persecuting him because of his political beliefs and wants to put him
in Guantanamo. But this is no ordinary pensioner. This is Sean
Garland, legendary in Ireland for his republican and revolutionary
life. At one time he tried to shoot the British out of Ireland;
recently, his primary struggle has been against capitalism.
Reverential republican lore has it that he risked his life when,
himself wounded by British bullets, he carried away a dying comrade
following an abortive IRA attack on a security base in Northern Ireland.
Today, he is president of the left-wing Workers Party. He acknowledges
his violent IRA past  he could hardly deny it, since it is the stuff
of commemorative ballads  but says he is now involved only in
political activity.
The latest act in his incident-packed career came last week when he
jumped bail in Belfast, where he had been arrested. He has appeared in
court several times on a US extradition warrant, but he has now fled
south to his home. He is vociferously campaigning to remain in the
Irish Republic, but the US Attorney General's Office has said it will
issue a fresh extradition warrant. It is also seeking to have six
other men  one of them reputedly a former KGB man  brought to the US.
The American case is that Garland and the others have been involved in
a multimillion-dollar counterfeiting operation, run by the government
of North Korea and encompassing more than a dozen countries worldwide.
The long and detailed indictment alleges that Garland  "aka The Man
with the Hat" Â has used trips to Pyongyang, the capital of North
Korea, Russia and other countries for criminal purposes. The American
assertion is supported by police in Moscow.
Travelling as president of the Workers Party, he is said by the US to
have used the cover of his position in the party to organise the
purchase, transportation and resale of forged dollar bill notes on a
huge scale.
These are no ordinary banknotes. They are among the best forgeries in
the world, a fact that causes the American authorities huge anxiety.
Called " superdollars," they are of such exceptionally high quality
that they often deceive banks and experts.
Superdollars so worried the US that in 1996 it brought in a series of
new security measures, redesigning the $100 bill by changing the
central portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Other intricate new safeguards
included an enhanced embedded security thread, a security watermark,
changed microprinting and the use of an optically variable ink.
To Washington's dismay, however, it took the North Koreans just a few
years to come up with a sophisticated forgery based on the changed
note, so that a new type of superdollar began to turn up. The US does
not go so far as to say that North Korea is intent on undermining its
entire economy. But it regards the operation as an unwanted instance
of free enterprise that is undermining confidence in the dollar.
Garland played an important part in a network, the US claims, which
included criminals based inBirmingham, gangsters in places including
Moscow and Latvia, and Irish republicans linked to the small and
secretive Official IRA, generally known as "the stickies".
The network, according to the US, criss-crossed Europe, operating in
places such as Belarus, Poland, Denmark, the Czech Republic and
Germany. It is said to refer to the forged notes as "jackets" and
"paperwork" . A key connection was in Moscow, where Garland reportedly
went to the North Korean embassy to collect bogus money. This had been
brought out of North Korea, it was said, in diplomatic bags.
The pattern of the outfit's alleged activities has already been
fleshed out by an investigation by the BBC Northern Ireland television
programme Spotlight.
Korean defectors confirmed that the production of superdollars was a
government operation. "We bought the best of everything, the best
equipment and the best ink," said one. "We also had the very best
people, people who had real expertise and knowledge in the field. When
government officials or diplomats travelled to south-east Asia they
distributed the counterfeit notes, mixed in with the real ones at a
ratio of about 50-50."
In Moscow, General Vladimir Uskov of the Russian interior ministry
police has confirmed that Garland and others have been under
surveillance by special services. "Information we received showed that
he was involved in the supply of counterfeit dollars," the general said.
"We registered his contacts with the North Korean embassy. He visited
the embassy several times. Our information was that people working
there may have been involved in the transportation of counterfeit
dollars." One of Garland's most intriguing alleged associates was
David Levin, an Armenian-born Russian citizen who once worked with the
KGB and later moved to England, while keeping contact with the Moscow
mafia.
The American indictment describes him as "aka David Batikovich
Batikian, aka Gediminas Gotautas, aka Russian Dave". Investigators
believe that through Russian contacts he arranged passports and visas
for some of those involved.
In recent years Levin has had a particular run of bad luck, for in
2002 he was jailed for nine years in Britain at Worcester Crown Court
for conspiring to import superdollars. Last year, the Court of Appeal
in London rejected his appeal against a confiscation order for
£789,000 after hearing he had made more than £1m from superdollars.
Levin, who was found to own a range of property in Birmingham and
London, has to pay the money within two years or face an extra four
years behind bars.
Two of the other men sought by the US were also jailed along with him.
One of them, Terence Silcock, was given six years after admitting
conspiring to distribute the fake notes. Described by police as a
lifelong professional criminal in the Birmingham area, he was said to
have personally dealt with more than $4m worth of forged notes.
Garland, who was not charged with Levin and the two Englishmen, freely
acknowledges on his own website that his past contains much violence.
He is one of the last of the flinty old IRA generation that waged a
failed campaign in the 1950s. Originally a traditionalist, he joined
the internal IRA faction which by the 1960s subscribed to Marxism and
Stalinism. Known as a man of iron ideology and self-belief, even the
fall of the Berlin wall did not deflect him from his commitment to
Communism.
Few believe that anything in his colourful career has been motivated
by personal gain, regarding him as one of the keepers of the Communist
flame. Although in Moscow staff at the five-star Metropol hotel say he
regularly stayed there, his decades-long reputation for devotion to
his causes means no one thinks he was indulging in luxury for its own
sake.
In the 1950s he joined the IRA, who then instructed him to infiltrate
the British Army to procure arms. He carried out his mission
successfully, the IRA seizing guns from an Army barracks with his
inside help.
In his own words, he was "actively involved in organising and
participating in a number of major operations from 1955-56". The most
famous of these was when he led an IRA squad that attacked a police
station in County Fermanagh where two IRA militiamen, Sean South and
Fergal O'Hanlon, were shot dead. A republican song acclaims, "Another
martyr for old Ireland, Sean South from Garryowen". Garland was
seriously wounded in the incident. In the years that followed, he was
imprisoned on various occasions in both parts of Ireland for IRA
activities.
When the organisation split into traditional and Marxist factions in
the late 1960s he opposed the "narrow nationalism" of the
Provisionals, and pursued a left-wing political path as one of the
leaders of what was known as the Official IRA. That faction announced
a ceasefire in 1972, but for years remained intermittently involved in
violence. In particular, it was embroiled in a series of often lethal
feuds with the mainstream IRA and other republican splinter groups.
There were many killings, especially during the 1970s, as the Official
IRA suffered fatalities and killed opponents. The feuds were made all
the more vicious by the fact that many of those involved were former
colleagues who knew each other well.
Today, the Official IRA shuns publicity, but rumours occasionally crop
up that members are involved in robberies, forgery activities and in
running drinking clubs. In one 1975 incident, Garland was almost
killed in a feud when he was reputedly shot by rival republicans.
Undeterred, he has over the years remained active in the Workers
Party, which he heads and dominates.
The party clings to the hope that Protestants and Catholics in
Northern Ireland will unite to overthrow the capitalist system. This
has not worked, attracting no appreciable Protestant support while
holding diminishing appeal for Catholics. The Workers Party once held
a number of seats in the Irish parliament, but its strength has been
greatly reduced. It contests elections, but it receives less than 1
per cent of the vote on either side of the border.
Its approach is marked domestically by opposition to Sinn Fein and
traditional republicanism, and abroad by its links with surviving
Communist and Socialist elements. The party is an implacable opponent
of US foreign policy which, it asserts, "has inflicted great
suffering, repression and untold deaths". Garland says this is why the
US is after him.
He denies any current involvement in the Official IRA and has denied "
any involvement in any criminal activity" and knowledge of
superdollars. He did not answer bail, he says, because extradition
arrangements between the US and the UK mean there is no possibility of
his being able to face allegations "in an open and fair court".
He argues that coverage of the affair has been "sensationalised".
Garland's return to the Republic points to a lengthy extradition
process. The long-running affair of the dodgy superdollars seems set
to run for a long time yet.
This shows a worry for New Years Eve......
granny
"France warned of more flare-ups rooted in urban insecurity"
France warned of more flare-ups rooted in urban insecurity Jon Henley in Paris
Thursday December 8, 2005 The Guardian
French intelligence warned yesterday that the urban unrest that saw more than
3,000 youths, mainly from immigrant communities, arrested and nearly 10,000 cars
go up in flames could arise again at the slightest provocation.
In a report leaked to the French press, the agency Renseignements Généraux,
the intelligence service for the police, said the violence, which hit 274 French
towns and housing estates, was neither organised nor manipulated but amounted to
"urban insurrection".
The report warns that "any new chance event (the death of a youth) will spark a
new outbreak of generalised violence". Even the festivities of New Year's Eve
"risk being particularly sensitive" this year.
The unrest began on October 27 after the accidental electrocution of two boys
apparently hiding from the police at an electricity sub-station in
Clichy-sous-Bois, Paris. Other poor, heavily immigrant suburbs around the
capital erupted, followed by cities countrywide.
The report, extracts of which were published in yesterday's Parisien, puts the
total damage at more than €250m (£170m).
The agency said it had found no evidence that radical Islamists inspired the
unrest. The rioters' main motivation was "their social condition, excluded from
French society". Some suburbs had become "veritable urban ghettos of an ethnic
nature". France, meanwhile, was more concerned with the rise of Islamic
radicalism and religious terror, and had neglected the suburbs' "complex
problems". The difficulties included extreme social segregation, above-average
unemployment and a strong sense of insecurity.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1661734,00.html
Fake Ontario licences alarm U.S.
McGuinty fears U.S. will go ahead with strict passport rules Ontario eyes new security features after major fraud revealed
Dec. 8, 2005. 04:31 AM RICHARD BRENNAN AND ROBERT BENZIE QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU
Ontario is planning new security features on drivers' licences, and better control over how they're issued, amid U.S. concerns that 56,000 licence plates, permits and other transportation documents have been lost or stolen.
Premier Dalton McGuinty acknowledged yesterday that changes are crucial, after Auditor General Jim McCarter revealed the provincial Ministry of Transportation has lost track of thousands of "high-risk" documents.
The premier said he was especially concerned because McCarter's exposé comes amid mounting pressure from the United States to force Canadians and Americans to show passports at border crossings instead of their drivers' licences.
"If the U.S. proceeds to make it mandatory that Canadians produce a passport at the border, or that Americans have to produce a passport at the border, that is going to hurt our economy and it's going to hurt their economy," he said.
But Joanna Gonzalez, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington, said the fact that thousands of lost or stolen documents are circulating in Ontario will only bolster calls for tighter border security.
That's one reason Washington is pushing a new law that would require travellers to and from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, the Caribbean and Panama to have a passport "or other secure, accepted document" to enter the U.S. after Jan. 1, 2008, she said.
McGuinty, who will meet next week with the Great Lakes Governors Council in Milwaukee, said he has discussed the passport issue with New York's George Pataki. "Governor Pataki is very sensitive to this issue and we've talked about working together so that we might ensure that we have an alternate secure document like a driver's licence," he said. "(New York has) moved to a licence with some kind of holographic detail, which is more secure, and he's encouraging us to take a look at that," McGuinty said.
The premier said he and Transportation Minister Harinder Takhar have yet to determine what measures should be taken to prevent counterfeiting or other fraudulent activities.
McGuinty later told the Legislature the government, in the new year, will be asking companies to submit proposals for licences with enhanced security features, "including micro-printing and holographic symbolism."
"Those are the kinds of commitments that we are making to ensure that our drivers' licences are as secure as they can possibly be," he said.
Robert Bothwell, a professor at the University of Toronto who specializes in U.S.-Canadian relations, agrees that serious problems with the licensing system only devalue the Ontario driver's licence, especially when it's offered as identification at the U.S. border.
"Every serious security breach of that kind is a problem," he said.
Bothwell noted "a certain amount of skepticism" about the quality of Canadian documents "because they are documents of preference for criminals or what have you."
"This is the kind of thing that pushes towards some kind of national identity document," Bothwell said.
McGuinty admitted his government has not done a good job of tracing the 56,000 licence plates, permit stickers, trip permits and temporary drivers' licences — 49,000 of them reported missing, and the others stolen.
"There's been some slippage in a number of areas. There's no doubt about that," he said.
"We've made some progress and we'll continue to work hard to make some more," he said, noting that two privately run licensing facilities, in Elmira and Windsor, have been shut down. A third office at an undisclosed location is "under very serious investigation."
"We've got some documents that have gone missing. The issue is one of inadequate oversight. We will continue to bring stronger oversight to bear," McGuinty said. "We will tighten that up and continue to argue that what we should have is a secure licence as an alternative for a passport at the border."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Artic le_Type1 &c=Article&cid=1133910614507&call_page=TS_News&call_pageid=968332188492&call _pagepath=News/News&pubid=968163964505 Al Qaeda suspect back in T.O.
Dec. 7, 2005. 04:06 AM MICHELLE SHEPHARD STAFF REPORTER
Abdullah Khadr, who Western intelligence services allege ran an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in the late 1990s, has been released from custody in Pakistan and returned to Toronto, a free man.
The Toronto Star has learned the 24-year-old Canadian, whose brother is the only Canadian held in the U.S. detention centre in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was accompanied by Canadian officials on a flight to Toronto's Pearson International Airport last Friday.
Khadr is the eldest of Ahmed Said Khadr's four sons. The senior Khadr, an accused terrorist financier, was killed in a 2003 shootout with Pakistani forces.
Abdullah Khadr was questioned at the airport by RCMP investigators, then dropped off at his grandparents' home in Scarborough and told he was a "free man," according to his relatives and lawyer.
Court documents show that Khadr and his sister Zaynab are under investigation by the RCMP for terrorism-related offences. But Khadr has not been charged criminally in Canada.
Two days after he returned, RCMP investigators visited him again and questioned him at a local doughnut shop.
The revelation of Khadr's return raises a series of questions about who precisely was holding him in Pakistan and why he was quietly released.
"How did he get flown into the country? Who was holding him? Why has his family been told nothing?" Khadr's Edmonton-based lawyer Dennis Edney asked yesterday.
U.S. officials told the Star yesterday they may seek to have charges laid against Khadr, then have him extradited to the U.S. to face trial.
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December 9, 2005 Anti-Terrorism News
7 terrorist suspects held in Spain
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/12/09/spain.terror.arrests/index.html
Spanish authorities have arrested seven people suspected of financing
the activities of Islamic terror groups
Airport codes leaked onto Internet
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20051209-014431-4204r.htm
Mediators in Iraq make contact with kidnappers
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1917187,00.html
Feingold Threatens to Filibuster Patriot Act Deal
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178104,00.html
(Israel) Arab Youth Apprehended With Explosive Bombs
http://www.arutzsheva.com/news.php3?id=94519
Malaysia to clamp down on terrorist publications
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/182719/1/.html
Malaysian censors will tighten controls on publications that promote
terrorism and "holy war"
(Israel) Soldier Murdered Near Jerusalem, IDF Kills Two Terrorists
http://www.arutzsheva.com/news.php3?id=94480
As many as 60 cars still burn nightly in France
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=25&story_id=26036&name=As+many+as+60+cars+still+burn+nightly+in+France
Saudi says he nixed Fox News 'Muslim riots' banner
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47771
(Belgium) GICM terror suspects face 10 years jail
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=26020&name=GICM+terror+suspects+face+10+years+jail
The federal public prosecutor demanded in Brussels Court on Thursday
the maximum sentence of 10 years jail for the alleged leaders of the
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM).
Al-Qaida affiliate group rescues a member from hospital
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051208/2005120810.html
Over 20 gunmen attacked public hospital in Karkouk, killing 3 guards
and injuring 6, then freed their colleague affiliates
Four Years After the Fall of the Taliban, Afghans Optimistic About the
Future
http://abcnews.go.com/International/PollVault/story?id=1363276
First national survey by news organization shows huge majorities are
optimistic and thankful for U.S. action, with bin Laden as unpopular as
the Taliban
Iraq Insurgents Claim to Kill U.S. Hostage
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ak6JPsxgaQGGsfuaHZJv8kOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Islamic Army in Iraq says it killed "the American security consultant
for the Housing Ministry," identified as Ronald Schulz from Alaska
Shoe Bomber Alert Preceded Airport Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1383832
NYC - JFK - federal law enforcement had been on alert for possible shoe
bomber before Miami Airport incident
House, Senate Reach Deal on Patriot Act
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq;_ylt=Ak6JPsxgaQGGsfuaHZJv8kOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Extends provisions authorizing roving wiretaps and permitting secret
warrants for books and records from businesses and libraries for 4 years
U.S. Commander: Bin Laden Alive
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/08/terror/main1108780.shtml
The top military commander in Afghanistan said Thursday that he
believes Osama bin Laden is still alive
6 Arrested In Eco-Terrorism Investigation
http://www.kirotv.com/news/5493746/detail.html
The arrests were made in New York, Virginia, Oregon and Arizona, and
each of the defendants has been indicted in Oregon or Washington
Ex-terrorists to speak at new venue
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47808
Princeton University canceled event because 'too inflammatory'
Terrorist Used Arab-American University as Base
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=94485
An Islamic Jihad terrorist used the Arab-American University Zebabda,
near Jenin, as a base for terrorist operations, according to the Middle
East Newsline service.
Europe Worried About Homegrown Terrorists
http://www.620ktar.com/?nid=46&sid=123052
Yelling into a radio reporter's microphone, the radical French Muslim
from a working class neighborhood of Paris urged his friends to join him
on the battlefields of Iraq. "I'm ready to set off dynamite and boom!
Boom! We kill all the Americans!" Boubaker el-Hakim cried. "All my
brothers over there, come defend Islam!"
(Pakistan) "Terrorist camps" in Balochistan detected
http://www.dawn.com/2005/12/08/top5.htm
Shoe Bomber Alert Preceded Airport Shooting
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=1383832&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
NYC-JFK Airport: Egyptian Man Had Been Stopped at New York Airport;
Shoes Tested Positive for Explosive
Iranian president denies Holocaust and taunts Europe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=S04QJNJZWRM55QFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2005/12/09/wiran09.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/12/09/ixportal.html
Iran's Ahmadinejad says Israel should be moved to Europe
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/08/051208164944.y49anqze.html
(Russia) Supreme Court upholds 15 years for Ingushetia terrorist
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20051208/42388289.html
Israeli warplane fires at Gaza rocket sites
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2005/December/middleeast_December185.xml§ion=middleeast
(Iraq) Daughter: Hostage doing 'same work' as terrorists
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47790
8 terrorists die in Syria clash with Islamists
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3181536,00.html
Singapore tips off Manila on terror plot by rebels
http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Philippines/10003364.html
Singaporean government warned Philippines of presence of 7 members of
Jemaah Islamiyah in Metro Manila
Moroccan source: Terrorist cell reveals plans for establishing Al-Qaeda
in North African countries
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=2978
Terrorist cell allegedly planned restructuring Al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia
- also planned to have GSPC rejoin Osama Bin Ladin's organization and
set up branch in Morocco, Algeria, & Tunisia
Indictment names 21 people in fake government documents enterprise
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--fakedocuments1207dec07,0,3867955.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork
NY state official: "What this shows is the vulnerability we have to
terrorists. A terrorist could illegally enter this country and get a
driver's license in anyone's name and become an instant person."
Govt to monitor 12 possible sources of terror financing (Bangladesh)
http://www.bangladesh-web.com/news/view.php?hidDate=2005-12-08&hidType=TOP&hidRecord=0000000000000000076500
COMMENT: From the article, this law resembles the U.S. Bank Secrecy
Act, as amended by the USA Patriot Act
US Blasts Security Council for Failing to Condemn Terror Attack in
Israel
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-12-07-voa1.cfm
Ambassador Bolton blamed Algeria for objecting to passage urging Syria
to close Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which claims responsibility for
attack
French jihadis thrive on alienation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4493706.stm