Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Thirty-Six

[nwctwx]

Afghanistan Calls for Crackdown at Border
(Full Story)

Pakistan needs to do more to crack down on terrorism along the Pakistani-Afghan border, a spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday.

Rahim Karimi said in the news conference that Afghanistan need greater "cooperation" from both its eastern neighbor and the international community in its battle against Islamic militants.

Coalition and Afghan forces have in recent days been fighting fierce battles against Taliban fighters near the Afghan-Pakistan border.

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[JustPiper]

Osama alive, well,armed with nukes
Journalist: Al-Qaida chief shuttles between Pakistan, Afghanistan

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49831

[Cindy]

Thanks for the heads up Donna and Calpernia for the heads up.
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http://counterterrorismblog.org

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/04/new_bin_laden_tape_ten_main_po.php
"New Bin Laden Tape: Ten Main Points"
By Walid Phares


http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FEE6E1E5-DCC0-4E8A-80CF-FFCCA2BC4C2A.htm
"Bin Laden: West waging a crusade"
Sunday 23 April 2006, 18:05 Makka Time, 15:05 GMT

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619897/posts

"Bin Laden Tape Aired (Just Breaking!)"
Sky News ^ | April 23, 2006

Posted on 04/23/2006 5:15:35 AM PDT by areafiftyone

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Other links:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192729,00.html

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1143498901744&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4936284.stm

http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/hamas.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/jihadi/
http://www.internet-haganah.com/

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://www.memritv.org

http://www.jihadwatch.org

[Cindy]

Yep.

[Cindy]

Yep, you're right on it.

AllMyJihad has Muginyeh and other jihadis
ready to go.

UBL releases a tape.

Jihadis setting up a GO signal for jihad.

But then when it gets right down to it;
every day is a jihad day for a jihadi.

[Cindy]

You're welcome.

[Cindy]

Adding to post no. 382:

http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html
http://www.truthusa.com/MoreThanCartoons.html

[nwctwx]

I guess those rumors of a resurgence of the Taliban are proving out.

I think concern over the situation in Afghanistan/Pakistan should be rising. We still don't hear much about that part of the WOT on the nightly news thanks to Iraq, but it is just as fragile (if not moreso) there.

A true resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan would really put a damper on our hopes of cleaning things up over there. It has been a war torn country for decades, it doesn't look like much has changed unfortunately.

The growing fundamentalism in Pakistan is alarming as well.

[nwctwx]

lol, thanks.

I am getting used to typing things in html at work, so I guess I might as well do it here as well. ;-)

[bored at work]

The news Friday, "OBL alive and well with nukes".

Two days later a new tape from his holy impotence calling for a new/another jihad.

Somethings boiling over here.

I say $hit or get off the pot obl!

a hopelessly behind baw mark

[nwctwx]

Commenting on the message, Dhia Rashwan, an expert on Islamic groups at the Al Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies in Cairo, told Al Jazeera the tape showed bin Laden returning as leader after a long absence and calling on his soldiers to go to the battlefield.

More...

[nwctwx]

Fighting Escalates in Southern Afghanistan

Afghan security forces surrounded Taliban fighters hiding in a village in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, launching a gunbattle that killed at least three militants and a police officer.

Elsewhere in the region, Taliban militants attacked an Afghan construction company working for coalition forces, killing a security guard.

The fighting came as visiting British Defense Secretary John Reid said coalition troops must maintain their offensive against Taliban and al-Qaida militants to prevent their return to power.

"The greatest danger of all for the people of Afghanistan and the people of the United Kingdom would be if Afghanistan ever again came under the rule of a Taliban regime prepared to protect al-Qaida or terrorist groups," Reid told reporters in the capital, Kabul.

Afghan police and soldiers fought Taliban militants in the volatile Gelan district of southern Ghazni province about 75 miles southwest of Kabul, said provincial Gov. Haji Sher Alam. Three Taliban fighters and a policeman were killed, he told The Associated Press.

The attack on the construction company occurred on the Uruzgan-Kandahar highway near a southern Kandahar village where four Canadian soldiers were killed in a suspected Taliban roadside bombing a day earlier.

A group of heavily armed militants waged a two-hour attack against the headquarters of the Thavazoo company in Shah Wali Kot district, about 25 miles north of Kandahar city, said Haji Mohammed Youssef, the company's director.

One guard was killed and two were wounded before the remaining security personnel fled, Youssef said. The Taliban fighters then entered the compound, burned 14 trucks and bulldozers and stole equipment before escaping.

Youssef said coalition forces gave him a contract to build a 25-mile stretch of road.

"Coalition forces are giving us money to help rebuild our country, but the enemies of Afghanistan don't want us to succeed," he told The AP.

On Saturday, U.S. and Afghan soldiers arrested 16 Taliban members in two raids in the southern Zabul province, which neighbors Kandahar, local Afghan army commander Gen. Rahmattalluh Roufi said Sunday.

"The Americans are questioning them now to see if they are important Taliban members or not," Roufi told the AP.

It was unclear if the arrests or the Taliban attack on the construction company were linked to the killing of the four Canadian soldiers, the deadliest attack on that nation's troops since they deployed here in 2002.

Militants have stepped up attacks against coalition and Afghan forces, particularly across southern Afghanistan, in a bid to derail reconstruction efforts four years after a U.S.-led military force toppled the Taliban regime for harboring Osama bin Laden.

Rising violence is a growing concern for nations contributing troops to a force operating here under a NATO mandate. The force is to rise from its current 10,000 soldiers to about 21,000 by November as it gradually assumes command of all international troops in Afghanistan.

Some 6,000 mainly British, Canadian and Dutch soldiers have started deploying in remote tribal-dominated southern region.

Britain's deployment coincides with its taking control of the NATO mission in May for three years.

[nwctwx]

Here is a paraphrased (mostly direct) transcript of a brief interview on MSNBC with Steven Emerson.

(MSNBC 2:31pm – in progress)

"He (bin Laden) is hitting all hot buttons to prove that there is a war against Islam"

The tape provides him an ability to say it is justified to carry out attacks against civilians. There has been a backlash against some attacks against civilians (especially in Jordan), so here is an effort for pre-justification of an attack against future civilian targets.

He is trying to rally the masses into launching a jihad against the U.S. (again). He has issued numerous threats, but has failed to pull major attack off. He is telling supporters to go ahead and attack, then gives reasons why they should attack.

We gain intelligence from these tapes, but probably not as much as we used to think we did. Watch background, attire, health, etc. It is less important than it was in the past.

[nwctwx]

Here is a paraphrased (mostly direct) transcript of a brief interview on MSNBC with Walid Phares.

(MSNBC 2:55pm)

He (bin Laden) fears there will be a deployment of forces, to help the people of Darfur escape the fundamentalist regime. He wants Sudan to be under a Taliban like regime.

I think the statement comes to recognize what it exists there, and that’s a very dangerous situation. Janjaweed have connection to al Qaida. He is calling on regional brothers to come join the battle in that area of the world.

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More on Darfur

[MamaDearest]

Islamist rally at Israeli consulate shows Muslim flags over White House

Snip: A New York rally by the Islamic Thinkers Society outside the Israeli consulate yesterday featured chants of "The mushroom cloud is on its way! The real holocaust is on its way!"

The demonstration by the Queens-based group was monitored by the Investigative Project on Terrorism whose members noted signs including "Islam will Dominate" and a picture with an Islamic flag flying over the White House.

[Cindy]

I'm the only one in our family that still types in html for my web pages.
I guess I'm not "old-fashioned" if you're doing it at work, nw.

[La Enchiladita]

For the sake of all the efforts we have made and successes we have had there, I'm hoping the "resurgence" is a paper tiger.

[MamaDearest]

Letters to the editor about "undocumented immigrants.

Snip: .....We could change rape to unauthorized sex, theft to unauthorized taking, murder to unauthorized life taking, torture to unauthorized pain administration, terrorism to unauthorized attempt to intimidate, terrorist attack to unauthorized random life taking. .......

Far right politician decries Islamisation of France

Snip: Philippe de Villiers, head of the anti-immigrant Movement for France (MPF) party, also charged that Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport was endangered by Islamist radicals who he said had infiltrated the ground staff there.

Villiers has stirred up controversy in recent weeks with increasingly tough statements about Muslims, which critics call racist and officials describe as exaggerated. France's 5 million Muslims make up the largest such minority in Europe. "I am the only politician who tells the French the truth about the Islamisation of France," he said in a Europe 1 radio interview kicking off his campaign for the election next year.

[Selene]

March 10,2006
We are Awaiting Orders from Our Commander Osama Ben Laden

"The operations are ready to go, we are just waiting for orders from the commander in chief, Osama Ben Laden (may Allah preserve him). He will decide whether to strike or to hold. We swear by Allah that there are so many tricks and tactical maneuvers that will make your heads spin, by the grace of Allah. You will be brought to your knees, but not until you lose more loved ones and experience significant destruction.

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP111206

[Cindy]

Thank you Selene.
I'm making a new set of links now.
I'll add this one.

[Cindy]

Oh, ok, that is from an older set of links and here they are. Thanks for the memory jogger, Selene.

INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "RAKAN BEN WILLIAMS HAS LEFT THE VATICAN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "RAKAN BEN WILLIAMS...JIHADI SUPER HERO!  When he's available as an 8" action figure we'll buy two, one for each of our dogs:-)") (March 11, 2006)

MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1112: "Purported 'Al-Qaeda Undercover Soldier. U.S.A.': Last Warning to American People - Two Operations Will Occur; Your Homeland Security Agency Must Surrender; States Far Away From Washington, D.C. Such as Arizona Will Be Hit; We Await Orders From Our Commander Osama Bin Laden; America Will Be Brought to its Knees" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "[1]MEMRI Special Dispatch 1038, "Islamist Website Design Contest: Winner Fires Missiles at U.S. Army Base in Iraq," December 1, 2005, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP103805 , [2] http://www.asharqalawsat.com/details.asp?section=1&issue=9842&article=332378 , November 8, 2005. [3] At the bottom was the GIMF symbol. See: http://www.alhesbah.org/v/showthread.php?t=40498 , November 24, 2005. [4]http://www.asharqalawsat.com/details.asp?section=1&issue=9842&article=332378 , November 8, 2005.") (March 10, 2006)

www.memri.org/jihad.html"

GLOBAL POLITICIAN.com: "U.S. SHUTS DOWN ISLAMIST SITE THREATENING WORLD LEADERS" by Jeremy Reynalds (November 29, 2005)

INTERNET-HAGANAH.US: "THE 'RAKAN BEN WILLYAMZ' THREAT TO BERLUSCONI AND FRIENDS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The statement is an explicit threat against Berlusconi, John Howard, Koizumi, Blair and Bush.") (November 25, 2005)

"www.alfirdaws.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&t=9116"

"www.alfirdaws.org/forums"

AAWSAT.com: "AL-QAEDA REVEALS ITS LATEST THREAT: RAKAN BIN WILLIAMS" by Mohammed Al Shafey (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "London, Asharq Al-Awsat- The Global Islamic Media Front, the voice of al Qaeda on the internet, has revealed its latest threat which it identified as Rakan bin Williams, who would wreck havoc worldwide. The name refers to an English convert to Islam. Al QaedaÕs strategy "will depend on surprise such as when near simultaneous attacks were carried out in Morocco and Turkey. Al Qeada's aim was to target the border between Europe and the Muslim world, east and west, so let this serve as a lesson to the entire west, we have arrived at your borders and no one will be able to stop us", the group said on the internet. The British Sun newspaper indicated last week that al Qaeda was recruiting English men and pointed out six English-language websites affiliated with al Qaeda had published material encouraging Europeans to enlist and undergo military training.") (November 8, 2005)

SOFIR.org - SOCIETY FOR INTERNET RESEARCH.org: "RAKAN BEN WILLIAMS: THE NEXT GENERATION OF JIHADI TERRORISTS IN EUROPE" by Reuven Paz (November 2, 2005) (html)

E-PRISM.org: Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center THE PROJECT FOR THE RESEARCH OF ISLAMIST MOVEMENTS (PRISM) OCCASIONAL PAPERS Volume 3 (2005), Number 8, Director and Editor: Reuven Paz: "RAKAN BEN WILLIAMS: The Next Generation of Jihadi Terrorists in Europe" by Reuven Paz (November 2005) (pdf)