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Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - June 2006

Posted on 06/01/2006 7:04:43 PM PDT by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Al-Qaeda's Long March to War
(Full Story)

In recent weeks, media reports from both Iraq and Afghanistan have suggested the appearance of a slow evolution of the Islamist insurgents' tactics in the direction of the battlefield deployment of larger mujahideen units that attack "harder" facilities.

These attacks are not replacing small-unit attacks, ambushes, kidnappings, assassinations and suicide bombings in either country, but rather seem to be initial and tentative forays toward another stage of fighting.

Karzai Condemns U.S. Troops Using Gunfire

Taliban Kill, Kidnap Dozens of Afghan Police

US Sends More Troops into Iraq

Where does Karzai go from here?

Kabul Comes Undone

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To: Miami Vice; All

Thanks to Miami Vice for posting this article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1645521/posts


"Haditha Part I"
The Evening Bulletin ^ | 6/8/06 | Michael P. Tremoglie

Posted on 06/08/2006 6:45:26 AM PDT by Miami Vice


481 posted on 06/08/2006 6:52:58 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: backhoe; All

Note: The following post is a quote:
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Qaeda in Iraq confirms Zarqawi's death - Web site ~~ Reuter's Wire
Reuters ^ | Thu Jun 8, 2006 1:29 PM GMT | Reuters staff

Posted on 06/08/2006 6:51:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed on Thursday the death of the group's leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi and vowed to maintain its fight against the U.S. occupation and the Baghdad government, according to a Web statement.

"We herald the martyrdom of our mujahid (warrior) Sheikh Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq... and we stress that this is an honour to our nation," said a statement on an Islamist Web site, signed by Zarqawi's deputy, Abu Abdulrahman al-Iraqi.

The group also renewed its support for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden had declared Zarqawi his deputy in Iraq.

"We tell our prince, Sheikh bin Laden, your soldiers in al Qaeda in Iraq will continue along the same path that you set out for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi," said the statement.

The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately verified but it was posted an Islamist site often used by al Qaeda.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had earlier announced Zarqawi's death.

The last audio tape posted by Zarqawi was on June 1 in which he called on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites and blasted top Shi'ite clerics.

Zarqawi was last seen in a rare video posted on an Islamist Web site in April, in which he denounced the new Shi'ite-led government and said it was set up to help Washington find a way out of its predicament in Iraq.

Zarqawi, who had sworn loyalty to Osama bin Laden, had come to symbolise the radical Islamic insurgency against U.S. occupation in which thousands had been killed.


482 posted on 06/08/2006 6:54:37 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Velveeta

I'm doing well, the baby is doing great, it's like there's a soccer team inside me. LOL
I'm really great today hearing the news of the death of Zarqawi. I know it's pretty minor in the scheme of things and that violence will continue but it's great to see him dead and gone.

I hope everyone here is doing well. I still read a bunch here, just don't post very often. Only 3 1/2 months to go and I'll be posting the arrival of our little one.

peace all
neosgirl


483 posted on 06/08/2006 7:07:15 AM PDT by neosgirl
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To: Cindy

Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.


484 posted on 06/08/2006 7:22:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks Grampa Dave...I was just coming back to FR to post the same photo of Al...and you beat me to it...amazingly I was even checking to see if it had yet been posted!


485 posted on 06/08/2006 7:49:20 AM PDT by all4one (Remembering our soldiers..past and present...not just on Memorial Day...but everyday)
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To: all4one
Here is the latest on this great pictorial montage of Z pig:

Hi. My name is Abu Boohoo Zarqawi and I'm dead now.

Which al Qaeda Son of a pig is next?

486 posted on 06/08/2006 7:54:51 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave; Cindy; backhoe; LucyT; All

Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Air Raid

Stills from the video of the strike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawia, Al-Qaeda's Iraq leader, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday, June 8, 2006. The raid also killed 7 of al-Zarqawi's aides.

Link to Add'l Photos

487 posted on 06/08/2006 8:13:45 AM PDT by all4one (Remembering our soldiers..past and present...not just on Memorial Day...but everyday)
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To: All

What a week to get sent to work in the field bookmark


488 posted on 06/08/2006 8:15:02 AM PDT by Godzilla (You are just jealous that the Voices speak to me.)
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To: Cindy; All
Comments from Nicholas Berg's (may God rest his soul)...father on the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

Michael Berg Sees No Good In al-Zarqawi’s Death (6/8/06)

(AP) DOVER, DE. The father of Nicholas Berg, a U.S. contractor believed to have been beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq, said Thursday that he doesn’t see any good coming from al-Zarqawi’s death.

“I see more death coming out of al-Zarqawi’s death,” Michael Berg told The Associated Press after learning a U.S. air strike had killed the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Al-Zarqawi is believed to have beheaded two American civilians in 2004: Nicholas Berg, a 26-year-old businessman from West Chester, Pa., and Eugene Armstrong, a 52-year-old contractor from Hillsdale, Mich. Jack Hensley, a 48-year-old engineer from Marietta, Ga., was abducted at the same time as Armstrong and also killed.

Armstrong’s family didn’t want to discuss al-Zarqawi Thursday morning. “An evil man is dead, and what more can you say?” said family spokeswoman Cyndi Armstrong, the wife of the slain contractor’s cousin.

Nicholas Berg’s father, a pacifist who is running for Delaware’s U.S. House seat on the Green Party ticket, said al-Zarqawi’s death is likely to foster anti-American resentment among al-Qaida members who feel they have nothing left to lose.

He dismissed the notion that al-Zarqawi’s death might bring him closure. “First of all, I’m not even certain that al-Zarqawi even killed my son,” said Michael Berg, who doesn’t believe the videotape of his son’s execution or what he’s been told by the FBI any more than he believes conspiracy theories suggesting his son was killed by the U.S. government.

“I think the news of the loss of any human being is a tragedy. I think al-Zarqawi’s death is a double tragedy,” he said. “His death will incite a new wave of revenge. George Bush and al-Zarqawi are two men who believe in revenge.”

Berg said “restorative justice,”—such as being forced to work in a hospital where maimed children are treated—could have made al-Zarqawi “a decent human being.

Link to Full Article

Ummmm...excuse my ignorance....but what the &*#@ is "Restorative Justice"????!!!! What a delusional tool. I don't pretend to have ever been in this man's shoes and suffered such a great loss....but I find this just unbelievable.

489 posted on 06/08/2006 8:28:05 AM PDT by all4one (Remembering our soldiers..past and present...not just on Memorial Day...but everyday)
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To: all4one

Great news! We finally offed him (saw the news while at my dentist this a.m.). My jaw is slightly swollen but my heart is happy!


490 posted on 06/08/2006 9:21:26 AM PDT by Donna Lee Nardo (+++ DEATH TO ISLAMIC TERRORISTS AND ANIMAL AND CHILD ABUSERS +++)
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To: Cindy; nw_arizona_granny; StillProud2BeFree; all4one; nwctwx

47 women. That's alot more than we've heard reported.
The World Cup is a huge concern.



(Babelfish translation)
47 women recruited for notices?

Islamics called two thirds of the interested ones in Internet Chatroom to assassination attempts on/from Germany

Berlin the case of the three German women, who wanted to travel as suicide assassin inside to the Iraq and to Pakistan, seems to accept a larger dimension. After information of the daily mirror should obviously be recruited in the Internet over türkischsprachige homepage up to 47 women of Islamic faith for notices. About two thirds of the women originated from Germany, the others came from Belgium and Denmark. Among the women converted to the Islam were the three, from whom the speech is now: the Berlinerin Sonja B., which wanted to probably sacrifice themselves with its child in the Iraq, and two women from Bavaria. One communicated in one only for inaugurating accessible Chatroom - on Turkish, German and English. This investigated that Hamburg enterprises Pan Amp AG, which is specialized in Internet security and passed on material over the homepage to a US secret service. Meanwhile citizen of Berlin confirmed the state criminal police agency determinations against Sonja B.

In in the meantime closed Chatroom also the Belgian Muriel Degauque is to have taken part in the agitation to suicide assassination attempts. Degauque delivered then in grausige way a model. The 38-Jährige traveled in the autumn 2005 to the Iraq and blew up themselves at a road block in Baakuba into air.

The topic German suicide assassin inside released intensive searches on Wednesday with several security authorities. The danger, inconspicuous German women could with an explosive belt at the body with the soccer world championship under the masses of fans mix, is considered as absolute Albtraumszenario. In addition it comes that Sonja B. Kontakte maintained for the Kurdish-Iraqi group of terror of Ansar aluminium Islam. The grouping committed countless notices in the Iraq. Sonja B. had connections to members of Ansar aluminium Islam in South Germany and Austria, as the police found out.

To unconfirmed information it is to have come in the past with determinations to the backers of the homepage, in whose Chatroom women are to have been recruited for notices, to breakdowns. According to Pan Amp is one the wire-puller the Turk Alptekin G. the man is security authorities as presumed supporters of Ansar aluminium Islam well-known. The homepage, in which the Turkish word emerges „mucadele “(Gegenwehr “), in addition was spread over servers in Germany.

The operators of the homepage have obviously also close connections to aluminium Qaida. After searches of Pan Amp emerged in the autumn 2005 on the homepage a film message of Aiman aluminium Sawahiri, the deputy of Osama is shop. A picture from the Sawahiri film, sighted by the daily mirror, exhibits an amazingly good quality. The later radiant emittance of the message of the aluminium-Qaida-Vizechefs by the Arab television station Al Jazeera is clearly worse. That means after searches of Pan Amp that servers in Germany get original material made available by aluminium Qaida - before it is then passed on as video copy for example to the transmitter Al Jazeera. Should be correct, an indication for a direct connection from aluminium Qaida would be present to Germany. Of the daily mirror asked security experts statements off lean except that, as it formulates one: „The whole thing is extremely hot. “


491 posted on 06/08/2006 9:47:14 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Oorang

>>>An activist from the Respect Party has urged Muslims in east London to stop co-operating with police. Yvonne Ridley

My goodness, the woman is daft.


492 posted on 06/08/2006 9:57:02 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Cindy

God bless our military.


493 posted on 06/08/2006 10:08:26 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: Rushmore Rocks

"I'm getting "Document Not Found" on your link. "

Sonna Gun! Try this:

http://www.640toronto.com/news/metro.cfm?cat=7428109912&rem=39964&red=80110923aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=metro.cfm


494 posted on 06/08/2006 10:10:15 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: neosgirl

Thanks for checking in and yes, it's great to see Zarqawi gone.

Glad you're feeling well, can't wait to hear about the arrival of our Neosbaby. :-)

Be well!


495 posted on 06/08/2006 10:15:45 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: all4one
Berg said “restorative justice,”—such as being forced to work in a hospital where maimed children are treated—could have made al-Zarqawi “a decent human being.

He coulda been rehabilitated! FOFLMAO. Unbelievable!

Ladies and Gentlemen - presenting leftist ideology.

The idiocy is well, idiotic.

496 posted on 06/08/2006 10:23:39 AM PDT by Velveeta
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To: all4one

Berg validates Ann Coulter.


497 posted on 06/08/2006 10:53:04 AM PDT by Rushmore Rocks
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Who's on Deck? What Zarqawi's death means for the insurgency

The U.S. military, U.S. intelligence, and the Bush administration deserve a hearty cheer for the airstrike that killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The guerrilla and terrorist leader was responsible for some of the most horrific acts of a brutal war, such as personally beheading American hostage Nicholas Berg; masterminding the strike on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad; and orchestrating the bombing of three hotels in Jordan, including one in which a wedding was being held. In addition to these terrorist atrocities, Zarqawi was also al-Qaida's point man in Iraq, a leader in the campaign to disrupt democratic elections, and one of the fiercest proponents of sectarian war. His screeds against Shiites drew reprimands even from fellow militants such as Osama Bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Zarqawi was the symbol of the anti-U.S. insurgency—which other insurgent leader can most Americans name?—and his killing sends a message to the insurgents and to al-Qaida that the United States remains a potent enemy. It also tells Americans that day-to-day victories still occur in Iraq despite the many setbacks that dominate the headlines. Most important, Zarqawi was a major force behind the growing civil war in Iraq. His removal will not usher in an era of sectarian harmony, but his survival made that prospect far more difficult.

Still, the history of killing terrorist and insurgent leaders suggests that we must be cautious before declaring the death of any leader to be decisive. In 1992, Israel killed Abbas al-Musawi, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Hezbollah, to much self-congratulation. Although Musawi was a determined and capable leader, his successor, Hassan Nasrallah, has proved to be one of the most effective terrorist and guerrilla leaders in history.

Many Iraqis, including many hostile to the United States, did not see Zarqawi as their leader. Zarqawi was a vicious thug who lacked the religious credentials of Hamas' Sheik Ahmad Yassin, or the panache of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine's Leila Khaled. The beheadings and other barbarous acts he conducted outraged many Sunni Arabs. Even by the standards of al-Qaida, Zarqawi's interpretation of Islam was intolerant. His criticism of religious scholars who were insufficiently supportive, violence against Iraqis who violated his call to boycott elections, and general unwillingness to accept what he saw as deviance alienated many potential allies, including those among Iraq's Sunnis who shared his other goals of ensuring Sunni dominance and expelling the United States from Iraq. Zarqawi also hogged the limelight. Despite recommendations from Zawahiri that he ensure that the insurgency have an Iraqi face, Zarqawi regularly issued statements that implicitly glorified his own role at the expense of local fighters. Not surprisingly, he was never able to unify the Sunnis of Iraq, let alone other Iraqis. As a result, today the Sunni insurgents often do not work together and at times even fight among themselves.

A new jihadist leader might succeed in uniting the insurgency more effectively. Such a leader could eschew the sectarian vitriol Zarqawi regularly spouted. He might be an Iraqi, making him better able to bring together the strands of jihadism and nationalism. And unlike Zarqawi, who also actively plotted attacks outside Iraq, a new leader may focus the struggle on targets within the country.

Nor does the structure of the Iraqi insurgency suggest that the killing will have a lasting impact. When Israel killed the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fathi Shiqaqi, in 1995, it paralyzed the organization. Shiqaqi had led a highly hierarchical organization, and his successors squabbled for years over leadership and next steps. The Iraqi insurgency, in contrast, is highly decentralized, and the loss of any individual leader will not shut down most of the fighters because they are not waiting for their commanders to tell them where and when to strike. (It also means that, like Zarqawi, any new leader will exercise at best limited control of the overall movement.)

The removal of leaders can also have dangerous unexpected consequences. U.S. officials thought that the capture of Saddam Hussein would deal a major blow to the Iraqi insurgency, which they believed was led by former Baathists with close ties to the Iraqi dictator. In fact, his capture on Dec. 14, 2003, removed a stigma under which many insurgents operated: No longer were they seen as fighting to restore a brutal dictatorship but rather to liberate Iraq from the United States.

Despite these concerns, we should celebrate the death of a truly evil man. But as we do, we must remember that the problems the United States faces in Iraq go well beyond one person.

Daniel Byman is the director of the Center for Peace and Security Studies in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.

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498 posted on 06/08/2006 11:36:57 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: backhoe

Excellent post Backhoe, thanks.


499 posted on 06/08/2006 11:38:13 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Oorang

Thank you kindly. It's from the heart.


500 posted on 06/08/2006 11:40:43 AM PDT by backhoe
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