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Follow-Up
(Thanks Nena)
The Saturday Profile
For Muslim Who Says Violence Destroys Islam, Violent Threats
Source: NY Times
LOS ANGELES, March 10 Three weeks ago, Dr. Wafa Sultan was a largely unknown Syrian-American psychiatrist living outside Los Angeles, nursing a deep anger and despair about her fellow Muslims.
Today, thanks to an unusually blunt and provocative interview on Al Jazeera television on Feb. 21, she is an international sensation, hailed as a fresh voice of reason by some, and by others as a heretic and infidel who deserves to die.
In the interview, which has been viewed on the Internet more than a million times and has reached the e-mail of hundreds of thousands around the world, Dr. Sultan bitterly criticized the Muslim clerics, holy warriors and political leaders who she believes have distorted the teachings of Muhammad and the Koran for 14 centuries.
To hear the interview with Dr. Wafa Sultan: http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
Three-day alert declared on Israels northern border from Sunday.
DEBKAfile reports Lebanese Hizballah poised for major attack
March 12, 2006, 10:23 PM
The IDF has rushed large forces to the border region, thrown up roadblocks on main highways and deployed mobile units. People living in the border zone were advised to open their secure rooms and shelters and refrain from going out to work in their fields and orchards.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report: Lebanon’s 14-party national conciliation commission holds a crucial conference Monday, March, 12. Israeli generals are divided over how this will affect border security. According to one school of thought, Hizballah might find it more prudent to refrain from aggression against Israeli targets in view of the eleventh-hour deal its leader Hassan Nasrallah has struck with Lebanon’s majority leader in parliament, Saad Hariri.
Under this accord, Hariri and his faction will abstain for backing the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt’s demand for the Hizballah to disarm and disband its armed militia, in according with a UN security council resoltuion. Some Israeli military chiefs do not believe that with this deal in his pocket, Nasrallah will call attention to his organization by attacking Israel.
A second group of Israeli generals, led by OC northern command Maj.-Gen Udi Adam, believes that Lebanon’s domestic politics do not determine Hizballah’s tactical decisions.
They see one strong motive for the Hizballah chief to go on the offensive as being to showing the extremist flag in order to encourage Hamas to go it alone and form a government without Mahmoud Abbas’s defeated Fatah. It would be a good moment to meddle in Palestinian politics in view of the standoff in Hamas-Fatah coalition negotiations. Over the weekend, Fatah sneeringly advised Hamas to give up because they were incapable off governing. Then, Monday, March 13, Abbas sets off for Europe, placing the coalition bid on ice for absence of a presidential hand to sign ministerial appointments.
The second group of Israeli military chiefs also report:
2. Hizballah’s forces are in offensive array and large supplies of artillery ammo have been brought to the forward positions facing Israel.
3. Nasrallah is still burning to get even for his kidnap gang’s defeat in battle against Israeli forces on Nov. 21, 2005 at the divided village of Ghajar.
Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz was convinced by the second argument and ordered the alert.
http://www.debka.com/
I'm not sure.
>>>>She said British extremists turned him from a "happy boy" into a fanatic.
Even from this one statement, you can tell that *she knows*.
Muslims, clergy rally in support of suspended chaplain
NEW YORK (AP) -- Correction officers rallied with clergy and Muslim supporters to support a suspended jails chaplain, under investigation for allegedly making a comment that "the greatest terrorists in the world would occupy the White House."
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NY_CHAPLAIN_SUSPENDED_BAOL-?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=MIDEAST&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Tapes reveal WMD plans by Saddam
By Rowan Scarborough
Audiotapes of Saddam Hussein and his aides underscore the Bush administration's argument that Baghdad was determined to rebuild its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction once the international community had tired of inspections and left the Iraqi dictator alone.
In addition to the captured tapes, U.S. officials are analyzing thousands of pages of newly translated Iraqi documents that tell of Saddam seeking uranium from Africa in the mid-1990s.
The documents also speak of burying prohibited missiles, according to a government official familiar with the declassification process.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060313-123146-7380r.htm
Breaking
4 Alarm going on in Queens affecting 5 businesses
nothing on the wires yet and FNC has been reporting this for 30 min
Abbas group targets holiday festivities
Attack plotter calls Jews 'descendants of monkeys'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49231
Smokey four-alarm fire burns through storesThree businesses engulfed in flames; no word on injuries
Eyewitness News
(New York -WABC, March 13, 2006) - A four alarm fire erupted in a strip of stores in the Jamaica section of Queens this morning.
John Delgiorno is live in Newscopter 7.
The fire burned through stores at 89-28 Sutphin Boulevard, right in the heart of Jamaica. The fire quickly went to four alarms as authorities attempted to get the flames under control.
It was reported at about 11:45 a.m. Monday.
The blaze may have started in a variety store, but later spread to the entire block, leaving about three businesses engulfed in flames. There is no word on injuries.
Downtown Jamaica is clogged with emergency vehicles, snarling traffic in the area.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=3988083
Officials Advise Stocking Up on Provisions -- and Warn That Infected Birds Cannot Be Prevented From Flying In
By BRIAN ROSS - March 13, 2006 — - In a remarkable speech over the weekend, Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt recommended that Americans start storing canned tuna and powdered milk under their beds as the prospect of a deadly bird flu outbreak approaches the United States....
Ummm...so someone in the position of Michael Leavitt is giving this advice to the American people...is this a joke...what type of inane comment is that for someone in his position to give. I would hope that he would give better advice to the people he is being paid to inform. This remark comes off as being flippant and downright ignorant IMHO.
Bullet Found on Alaska Airlines Plane (3/12/06)
SEATTLE (AP) -- Passengers were taken off an Alaska Airlines plane Sunday after a federal air marshal found a bullet in the cabin, the airline said.
Airline spokeswoman Caroline Boren said Transportation Security Administration agents found no gun or any other items of concern during a subsequent search of the San Francisco-bound aircraft.
TSA agents rescreened passengers of Flight 384, which had been scheduled to depart Seattle-Tacoma International Airport at 3:15 p.m. The plane took off at 5:43 p.m., Boren said.
Is it not frightening to never know what a passenger may have on them?
The "I only fly with Angels" Piper
I read the "Hot Zone" about the Ebola virus a few year ago...I may revisit that book...not that I want to. One of the main things from that book that stayed with me was the ability to spread a deadly disease around the world, quickly, via our airline networks.
I find it interesting that without a single known case of animal to human transmission; they are looking for this to mutate to a viral form so quickly. The tin-foil hat wearer in me thinks there is more going on behind the scenes than we know...as usual. But an administration official telling us to have canned goods and dry milk under our beds...well that to me says...good luck...nice knowing you...nothing the government plans to do...kiss your arse goodbye...as we already have our government supplied bunkers to get to and quick.
Interesting view. I am a tad ignorant about Mr Farah and am researching about him more to evaluate the accuracy of his information in the past.
My husband just came back from a business trip, he doesn't travel much. But the thought of him being on a plane just makes my stomach jump. I am glad that he is back. I have friends and colleagues who travel on planes every week...this is just something I could not even entertain for work.
A suspected Islamic militant and three others have been killed in a bomb blast after security forces besieged a house in eastern Bangladesh, officials say.
Mollah Omar, a member of the banned Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, died in the blast in the town of Comilla, along with his wife and two children, officials said. The deaths follow the recent arrests of the group's chief, Abdur Rahman and his deputy Siddiqul Islam or Bangla Bhai.
Excerpted
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4800948.stm
Follow up on above article:
Bomb expertise made him JMB's Mollah Omar
Tue. March 14, 2006
The Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) started calling Shakil as Mollah Omar as he proved his expertise in bomb making.
It is Shakil who supplied the explosives which was used in killing two judges in Jhalakathi on November 14 last year. Before his death, suicide bomber Hasan Al Mamun who killed the two judges -- Jagannath Pandey and Sohel Ahmed -- in Jhalakathi, disclosed Shakil's name in his confessional statement
In the charge sheet of the two judges killing case, Shakil alias Molla Omar was described as JMB's explosives expert who made and delivered the bombs to Mamun and trained him about its explosion mechanism.
Excerpted
http://www.thedailystar.net/2006/03/14/d6031401022.htm
Pakistani Qaeda suspect held in Afghanistan (Haji Nader)
Monday, March 13, 2006
JALALABAD: Afghan security forces have captured a Pakistani national suspected of links with Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan, an official said on Sunday.
The man, identified as Haji Nader was captured on Thursday after authorities received intelligence that the man was crossing the border into the eastern province of Kunar, said Mohammad Hassan Farahi, local security director. He said there was “strong and trusted intelligence” that the man was involved in several anti-government operations and that he was entering Afghanistan to train militants.
According to intelligence sources in the capital Kabul, the suspect is from Dir district of NWFP.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C03%5C13%5Cstory_13-3-2006_pg1_2
Wanted JMB militants hiding in Sundarbans (Bangladesh)
Mon. March 13, 2006
Raid soon to flush out militants and dismantle their bases
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), police and other law enforcing agencies are preparing to launch a special combing operation in some areas of the Sundarbans to bust hideouts of Islamic militants.
Wanted Islamist militants are hiding in the deep forest after arrest of JMB kingpins Abdur Rahman and Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, according to intelligence sources.
On June 17, 2001, Koira police in Khulna arrested six Islamist militants from the Sundarbans. They were Hafez Nuruzzaman alias Pintu Molla of Jessore, Abu Zafor alias Mehedi Hasan, Mohiuddin, Arif Hossain and Mostafa Kamal of Faridpur and Syed Mohammad Alam of Kushtia. They told police during interrogation that there were several secret camps in the forest where madrasa students were trained for a Taliban-style movement in the country.
Excerpted
Algiers, 13 March (AKI) - The Algerian authorities on Sunday freed on Abdelhaq al-Yadah, the former leader and founder of the Islamic Armed Group (GIA). It was one of the most significant releases yet under a comprehensive amnesty aimed at ending a decade of civil war. Al-Yadah, arrested in 1993, was facing the death penalty. His release follows the liberation six days before of the second in command of the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), Ali Belhaj.
The measure was the outcome of a Charter for Peace approved with a referendum on 29 September last year, which provides for the release of all terrorists who have reneged their actions in Algeria's civil war in the 1990s.
Al-Yadah had been convicted of many murders but authorities freed him on the grounds that the killings had been "targeted murders" rather than collective massacres.
Both Islamist groups, which were key players in the civil war against the Algerian government, have long ceased to operate in the country after the end of the war in 1998. However, former militants of the Islamic Armed Group have become members of the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which is still active in parts of the country.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=
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