Posted on 11/25/2005 9:22:03 PM PST by Straight Vermonter
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Our Polish Allies | Our Aussie Allies |
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The operation, carried out during the night and on Wednesday morning, resulted in eight arrests in the province of Alicante (in Torrevieja), two in Granada and one in Murcia. Searches were made in ten private homes and businesses - at least two telephone call centres and a mechanical workshop - belonging to suspects in the three provinces.
The Ministry of the Interior said that Civil Guards had seized, among other things, a kilo of cocaine and 35,000 euros in cash, the profits, according to sources involved in the investigation, from drug trafficking operations, robbery and the forgery of bank cards. This was how, said the sources, some of those under arrest obtained funds that were then handed over to terrorist cells. A large amount of documentation was also discovered during the searches, as well as bank cards and the material for forging them.
The investigators consider that the cell was in charge of financing and logistics for GSPC, a radical branch of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and sent documents to the latter in Algeria to facilitate the entry of members into Europe and their movement from one country to another within the continent. GSPC is the Al Qaeda associate with the greatest presence in Europe, along with the GIA, the alleged instigator of the March 11th attacks in Madrid last year.
Five other countries
Civil Guards suspect that the gang arrested forms part of a group that exists further afield, at an international level. Data have, therefore, been passed on to five other countries - Germany, Holland, the U.K., Belgium and Denmark - about links between the people under arrest and North Africans living in these countries so that it can be established whether they form part of the same Islamic network.
The Minister of the Interior said that nothing made the forces of law and order suspect that the group arrested were planning a terrorist attack in the short or medium term in Spain. He explained that the arrests constituted a preventative measure against the real threat of Islamic terrorism, in order to cut off these infrastructure groups at the root and thus to prevent them from maturing and developing into operative terrorist cells.
Countries Supporting Ops in Iraq |
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Country |
In Iraq | In Theater | Total | Future |
1 | United Kingdom | ~8500 | 3,500 | ~12,000 | ~10,500 (?) |
2 | South Korea | ~3,300 |
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~3,300 |
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3 | Italy | 3,000 (includes 55 Italian Red Cross personel) | 30 | 3030 | ~2,700 [Sept. 2005] |
4 | Poland | 1,500 |
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1,500 | 0 [by end of 2005?] |
5 | Ukraine | ~950 |
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~950 | 0 [By mid-Oct. 2005] |
6 | Georgia | ~850 (Some in support of UNAMI) |
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850 (Some in support of UNAMI) |
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7 | Romania | ~730 (+ ~120-130 in support of UNAMI) |
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~863 (Includes UNAMI contingent) | |
8 | Japan | ~600 | ~200 | ~800 |
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9 | Australia | ~570 (+ ~100 assigned to embassy protection) | ~800 (includes ~100 for embassy) | ~1370 (includes naval component) | |
10 | Denmark | 540 |
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540 |
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11 | Bulgaria | ~400-450 |
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~400-450 |
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12 | El Salvador | 380 |
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380 |
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13 | Azerbaijan | 151 |
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151 |
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14 | Latvia | 136 |
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136 |
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15 | Mongolia | ~130 |
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~130 |
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16 | Lithuania | ~120 |
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~120 | |
17 | Albania | 120 |
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120 |
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18 | Slovakia | ~100 |
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~100 |
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19 | Czech Republic | ~90 |
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~90 | |
20 | Armenia | ~45 |
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~45 |
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21 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 36 |
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36 |
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22 | Macedonia | 35 |
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35 |
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23 | Estonia | ~34-35 |
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34-35 |
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24 | Kazakhstan | 27 |
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27 |
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25 | Norway | ~10 |
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~10 | 0 |
26 | Netherlands | 4 |
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Thank You SV, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to You & Yours.
Thanks a lot, Straight Vermonter. What a tremendous post!
It would take the MSM about a year to report that amount of good news (if then).
Bookmark and a Bumpity Bump!
The U.S. military's recent offensive in western Iraq has had a devastating impact on the al-Qaida-backed insurgency, with coalition forces killing over 700 terrorists and capturing 1,500 in the last two months alone.
These numbers are absolutely stunning. The media, if it were rooting for America or at the very least objective, should be screaming these numbers via headline and teasers every day. But instead they've chosen sides with terror.
Thanks for a very informative summary - the photos, maps and graphics are terrific! Merry Christmas and thanks for all your efforts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527868/posts
A few days ago four of America's finest were slaughtered, along with Iraqi children and others in a hospital, for committing the "war crime" of handing out toys and candy.
As I stood there last night with an America flag and a "God bless our troops" sign, counterprotesting the above filth and showing support for our military, one especially angry "peace lover" threw some insults about me and the flag. When I mentioned that I had served for that flag, he said nothing. When I asked if he had served for that flag, his reply was,
"No, I'm not a MURDERER!
Quite a peace vigil, huh? We're not just fighting this war overseas, unfortunately.
Good news ping.
Not time tell him ... Peace, Love, Go hug a terrorists
TOO MANY PRISONERS
My response is not suitable for sharing on a public forum. :-)
I'm sure that's your own special way of saying "Job well done, U.S. military!"
I started reading and was glad to see the good news...then I was astounded!
It just got better and better...I will enjoy reading it word-for-word again!
Thank you for such an "upper"!
Thank you for being there and exposing the trash.
award of the day.
Terrorism Headlines of the Week
Domestic
Student From Virginia Is Convicted of Plotting With Al Qaeda to Assassinate Bush
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - An Arab-American student from Virginia was convicted Tuesday of plotting with operatives of Al Qaeda to assassinate President Bush and hijack airplanes.
The Justice Department has seen the trial as an important test of its ability to use foreign intelligence sources for a criminal case in an American court.
The student, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, was convicted on numerous charges of conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism. The federal jury, in Alexandria, Va., rejected Mr. Abu Ali's account that after he was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2003, his captors beat and tortured him into confessing.
Mr. Abu Ali, 24, an American citizen who was born to a Jordanian father and grew up in Northern Virginia, faces the possibility of life in prison when he is sentenced by Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of Federal District Court on Feb. 17.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/national/nationalspecial3/23convict.html
Source: The New York Times
Jury convicts Pakistani defendant who said his confession was coerced
NEW YORK (AP) - A Pakistani man who claimed he was pressured into a false confession was convicted Wednesday of trying to help an al-Qaida operative slip past U.S. immigration officials.
A federal jury deliberated for about five hours before finding Uzair Paracha, 25, guilty of providing material support to terrorists and of other related charges. He faces up to 75 years in prison.
The government accused Paracha of trying to help Majid Khan, an alleged al-Qaida member, sneak into the country using fake travel documents.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Karl Metzner told the jury Paracha wanted to help Khan and "did so knowing that a terrorist was coming here for one purpose: to kill Americans."
Paracha testified he was pressured into confessing and only told investigators "what I thought they wanted to hear." His defence lawyer, Edward Wilford, said the FBI denied his client food and sleep during hours of questioning - "the ideal conditions to create a false confession."
Khan, the man Paracha is accused of trying to help, is presumed to be in jail overseas.
Source: The Associated Press
Terror Suspect Indicted After 3 Years in Jail
WASHINGTON Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen whose three-year detention in a Navy brig without criminal charges has been a defining legal battle in the Bush administration's war on terrorism, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami, the Justice Department said Tuesday.
In an 11-count indictment, Padilla and four codefendants were accused of operating a terrorist cell in Canada and the United States in the eight years leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The indictment, handed up last week and unsealed Tuesday, charges the five men with providing and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder individuals overseas. It contends that they sent money and recruits overseas with an intention to "murder, kidnap and maim."
Padilla, 35, was born in Brooklyn and raised in Chicago, where he was arrested a number of times in gang-related crimes. As an adult, he moved to Florida, married and converted to Islam. In May 2002, as he was returning from Pakistan, the FBI arrested him at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport; a month later, President Bush designated him an "enemy combatant" and ordered him held in military custody.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-padilla23nov23,1,3777254.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&ctrack=1&cset=true
Source: Los Angeles Times
Al-Arian Jury Still Undecided
TAMPA - -- A second week of jury deliberations in the terror-support trial of Sami Al-Arian and three other men ended Wednesday with no verdict.
Jurors will resume their work Monday. They have spent six days weighing the 51-count indictment that charges Al-Arian, Ghassan Ballut, Hatim Fariz and Sameeh Hamoudeh with conspiracies to commit racketeering and to commit murder abroad.
Source: Tampa Bay Tribune
Great additions, thanks!
World War III kickin ass & takin names BUMP!
Re Indonesia:
IMO (Freely given and worth almost that much) Indonesia & Pakistan are the two countries to keep an eye on. as if either one go over to the darkside it will be a major victory for radical Islam. Of the two Pakistan is more of a concern as it really doesn't have a strong cental government, poverty ridden, large numbers of Salafiist/Wahhabi Madrassa's, large parts of the country where govenment forces can't go without getting into firefights.
Remember in the last election Indonesian people handed the radical Islamists their head. This gives me cause for hope.
/little miss mary sunshine.
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