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Thank you for reading with us.

Post when you can.

Did you get into the Russian googles of last night?

So much to find and read.

[DAVEY CROCKETT]

U.S. Wants Somalia's Islamists to Help Find Al-Qaeda Operatives
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aed5i0.MIc2o&refer=top_world_news

Iraqi Govt - Beginning Of End Of Al Qaeda In Iraq
http://www.newshounds.us/2006/06/15/iraqi_govt_beginning_of_end_of_al_qaeda_in_iraq.php

Iraqi leaders: Memo details al-Qaeda plans
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-06-15-raid-blueprint_x.htm


Israel, Egypt Jordan on alert for al-Qaeda attack
Fears of retaliation high after al-Zarqawi killed in Iraq. Israeli security official: Main fear for Israel is border attack, but we are also on alert for attempts to infiltrate country
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3263449,00.html

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http://news.google.com/news?q=Mogadishu%20protesters%20march%20against%20foreign%20troops&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mogadishu+protesters+march+against+foreign+troops&client=netscape-pp&rls=com.netscape:en-US

This story is at the first link above:

Mogadishu protesters march against foreign troops

Reuters

Friday, June 16, 2006

By Andrew Cawthorne

Thousands of Somalis chanting anti-Western slogans protested in
Mogadishu on Friday against parliament voting to allow foreign peacekeepers in
the country, a move opposed by the newly powerful Islamist militias.

Punching the air, about 3,000 protesters marched through trash-lined
streets in a protest organized by the Islamic courts, shouting: "We don't
want foreign troops."

Others waved banners that read "America open your eyes" and "Democracy
go to hell" in what organizers said was the people's response to
Wednesday's parliamentary vote.

Militia loyal to Islamic courts wrested control of Mogadishu on June 5
from warlords widely viewed as backed by Washington, after a
three-month battle that killed at least 350 people.

Seeking to counter accusations from their vanquished rivals, the
Islamists said they had no plans to start their own government and vowed to
crack down on extremists in their midst.

"We want to concentrate on bringing stability and security," Islamic
Courts Union deputy Chairman Sheikh Abdulkadir Ali Omar told foreign
journalists in the Somali capital at the courts' invitation.

"Then we are ready for dialogue and discussion in the future. We are
not here to form our own government," Omar said.

Ironically, the warlords and Islamists shared one thing -- a vehement
refusal to allow foreign troops in to secure the interim government, as
Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has been requesting since his election
in late 2004.

Yusuf's government is too weak to enter Mogadishu, and has made its
temporary home in the south-central town of Baidoa which the Islamists
appear to have flanked with a rapid march from coastal Mogadishu to
Baladwayne on the Ethiopian border.

Continued..........

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[This is the first notice on this tape, and all they have posted]

A new audio message released by Abdullah bin Rashid al-Baghdadi, Emir of the Iraqi insurgent umbrella Shura Council Friday night

June 16, 2006, 11:14 PM (GMT+02:00)

The message is nearly 14 minutes long and entitled To the Islamic Ummah. It is read out by the Shura Council spokesman Abu Ammaar al-Dulaimi.

DEBKAfile cited al-Baghdadi as new chief of al Qaeda in Iraq after the death of Abu Musab al Zarqawi on May 7.

http://www.debka.com/

[Wrong death date, it is June 7th.]

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[ The other report on this attempted kidnapping, had a dog and handler that was involved in the rescue...Thank God.

I am finding strange kidnapping stories, in every country, is there a special date that is set aside for kidnapping?]

An Israeli officer rescues an Israeli girl minutes after an attempted abduction by armed Palestinians. She was slightly injured

June 15, 2006, 5:44 PM (GMT+02:00)

Three armed Palestinians from Jenin snatched two Israeli girls waiting for a lift at Rahelim junction east of Ariel on the West Bank. One wrestled with the kidnappers, got away and sounded the alarm. An officer at the scene gave chase, whereupon the second girl was dropped off as the Palestinian car sped towards Jerusalem. Their car was quickly intercepted by Israeli security forces outside Shiloh.

http://www.debka.com/

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[a post to study and research]

An exploding car door detonated by an Israeli plane over Lebanon is suspected of killing the brothers Mahmoud and Nidal Mahjub in Sidon May 26

June 16, 2006, 11:04 PM (GMT+02:00)

This is one of the disclosures emerging from Lebanon’s break-up of two alleged Israeli sabotage-spy rings held responsible for the targeted assassination of the brothers, who were Hizballah coordinators with West Bank suicide bomb controllers, and a string of Hizballah and Palestinian terrorist activists in Lebanon. Two Israeli agents reportedly flew into Beirut international airport by commercial flight on false passports three days before the operation. They are believed to have headed for Sidon, replaced a door of the Mahjub brothers’ car with the booby-trapped facsimile. They are said to have flown out again after an Israeli plane over Sidon detonated the planted explosives with an electronic beam. In a complaint to be lodged with the UN Security Council, Lebanon will accuse Israel of acts of sabotage and violations of its territory. In addition to overflights, Israel will be charged with landing naval commandos on the Lebanese coast to deliver bomb-making materials, electronic and surveillance devices to ring members. Lebanese defense minister Elias Murr reported that in a raid of a house in Sidon, security forces discovered a device for flashing to Israeli planes the coordinates for locating targets rigged for explosion, as well communications, surveillance and bomb-making equipment. When he was captured, the ringleader of one network, Mahmoud Rafeh, a Druze from Hasbaiah in South Lebanon, made a full confession without waiting to be pressed. He led the investigators to the Sidon hideout where his ring had rigged the car door. Rafeh, in his fifties, claimed to have been enlisted in 1989 by Meir Dagan, today director of the Mossad, and described the unusual functions of his network as a logistics-cum-information center, which laid the groundwork for Israeli operations against targeted terrorist operatives. Lebanese agents were never informed of the targets, just ordered to leaving the means of destruction at drop points for Israeli agents to pick up - and then make off. The Palestinian Ain Hilwa refugee camp of Sidon, Palestinian military center in Lebanon, was shocked to learn that Hussein Khattab, a Palestinian, member of Ahmed Jibril’s radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine -General Command, was suspected of heading the second Israeli ring. His brother, Sheikh Jamal Khattab, is an Islamic cleric and an al Qaeda recruiting agent in Lebanon. Hussein escaped capture. Israel will no doubt deny any of the charges leveled by Lebanon when the issue comes up at the UN Security Council.

Copyright 2000-2006 DEBKAfile. All Rights Reserved.

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=2669

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{last night I posted about needles found on the Calif beach, they had the drug that is given as one shot, if you were caught in a bio-attack, sorry, the name is gone. Note the Texas link below}

TerroristWarning.com Headlines 06/15/2006 # 1

National:

[Virginian-Pilot] VIRGINIA - Man with bomb strapped to his body arrested in Isle of Wight

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=105980&ran=181285

[BBC] NEVADA - 'Sniper' shoots US judge at court [On 3rd floor standing near window]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5073852.stm

[Staten Island Advance] NEW YORK - 2 caught with suspicious powder in government building

"Pitchapalam Sasayamanie, 40, of Port Richmond, and Jayabalan Rajaratnam, 37, of New Brighton, were arrested for trespassing "

http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1150118110130230.xml&coll=1

[WNDU] MICHIGAN - Pipe bomb found in Niles, Michigan [On top of 1000 gallon propane tank, non hoax device]

http://www.wndu.com/news/062006/news_50513.php

[Washington Times] USA - Homeland Security accepts fake ID

"has had the card for four years and has used it again and again to board airliners and enter government buildings, without being turned down once"

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060612-123713-4122r.htm

[Accuracy in Media] USA - AMERITHRAX - Writer Jeff Stein Exposes FBI

"FBI had the wrong man in the anthrax case and won't admit it"

http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/4633_0_2_0_C/

[Burlingtonfreepress.com] VERMONT - Suspicious letter disrupts exams at Missisquoi Valley Union High School [White powder]

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060613/NEWS02/606130308/1007&theme=

[AP] USA - Labs Compete to Make New Nuclear Bomb

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2070951

[Secrecy News - Blog] NEW YORK - Preparedness for a Dirty Bomb Attack in New York

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/06/preparedness_for_a_dirty_bomb.html

[Reuters] USA - Experts: Suicide bombs biggest threat to US [TW Editor: The USA can withstand 5000 suicide bomber attacks, be would we easily withstand three strategically placed nuclear weapons? Suicide bombers are much more likely yes, but far less serious a threat.]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12481101/

[PipeLineNews.org] USA/IRAQ - Hadji Girl - CAIR Conducts Email Jihad Against Marines

http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=cair61306.htm

[DetNews.com / Michelle Malkin] USA - Don't deny motive of Islamic terrorists

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060614/OPINION03/606140309/1008/OPINION01

[AP] USA - Probe finds nation's emergency care system at 'breaking point'

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14817618.htm

[AM770CHQR] CANADA - White Powder Scare At Northwest Calgary Post Office

"pair then complained about being sick. They've now been quarantined on a city bus"

http://www.770chqr.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428218912&rem=40480&red=80121823aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm

[AP] IOWA - Police find bomb in Bettendorf home

"sizable device made with about a pound of black powder and fragmentation particles such as buckshot and shards of metal"

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060614/NEWS/60614009/1001/BUSINESS01

[KWTX] TEXAS - Hepatitis, Anthrax Vaccines Found Lying In The Street

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/3022591.html

[Miami Herald] FLORIDA - Market evacuated due to chemical smell

"someone may have thrown something into the store's ventilation system"

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14810552.htm

[AP] USA - ICE Arrests About 2,000 Illegal Immigrants

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/14/D8I84S980.html

[Bangor Daily News] USA - Chemical Security

"Thousands of facilities across the country make or use large quantities of hazardous chemicals. Nearly five years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, there are no federal rules or security standards for these manufacturing companies, water-treatment plants and refineries"

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=135789

[KFSN] CALIFORNIA - Suspicious Device Found at Clovis Community Medical Center [Hoax device]

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?sectionfiltered=local&id=4271730

[WWMT] MICHIGAN - Courthouse evacuated after suspicious package is found

http://wwmt.com/engine.pl?stationfiltered=wwmt&id=27358&template=breakout_local.html

[WLBT] MISSISSIPPI - White, Powder Substance Found in Mailbox

http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=5032472&nav=2CSf

[WOAI] TEXAS - CPS Sends Cutoff Notice to Over 1,000 San Antonio Soldiers

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=71830392-DEEB-4814-B964-991B31A3954E

[Conservative Voice - Allan Wall ] USA / MEXICO - Debating U.S. Immigration Policy - In Mexico

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/15359.html

[Dont forget to sign up at www.TransitSecurityReport.com for transportation security/terrorism headlines!]

International:

[AP] THAILAND - More than 46 bombs rattle Thailand's restive south, killing 2

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200606152013.htm

[YnetNews] MIDDLE EAST - Israel, Egypt Jordan on alert for al-Qaeda attack

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3263449,00.html

[Middle East Online] SAUDI ARABIA - Britain warns of high terror threat in Saudi

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=16716

[The Register] UNITED KINGDOM - UK paper buys smallpox online

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/14/grauniad_buys_smallpox/

[AP] IRAQ - Al-Qaida in Iraq reportedly names new leader

"attributed to Al-Qaida in Iraq said that a militant named Abu Hamza al-Muhajer was the group’s new leader to replace Abu Musab al-Zarqawi"

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13276364/

[Reuters] SUDAN - Gunmen kill nine people in south Sudan attack

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L12763208.htm

[Gulf Times] INDIA - Nuclear-capable missile tested

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=91349&versionfiltered=1&template_id=40&parent_id=22

[UPI] NORTH KOREA - N. Korean missile test plans suspected

"Satellite images lead U.S. intelligence officials to suspect North Korea is about to test an intercontinental ballistic missile"

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060612-070942-7367r

[AP] NEW ZEALAND - NZ Defends Deporting Terrorist Suspect

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/11/AR2006061101108.html

[Sapa-AP] SOMALIA - Somali Islamic militia move on another town

"If militiamen capture Jowhar and consolidate power in Mogadishu, they will control nearly all the major towns in southern Somalia"

http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=274301

[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - Two More Kassam Rockets Launched From Gaza

http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=105282

[Reuters] ISRAEL - Israel kills Hamas militants; rockets hit Israelis

http://za.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-06-12T065624Z_01_ALL224951_RTRIDST_0_OZATP-MIDEAST-20060612.XML

[AP] ISRAEL - Israel, Hamas pull Gaza close to war

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/International/2006/06/12/1626597-sun.html

[YnetNews] LEBANON - Israeli spying cell busted

"one of the most prominent Israeli cells operating in Lebanon since 1990,"

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3262100,00.html

[The Age] AUSTRALIA - Grape grower 'plotted to bomb winery'

"I want it to look like terrorists have done it," he allegedly said"

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/grape-grower-plotted-to-bomb-winery/2006/06/13/1149964534748.html

[Manila Bulletin] PHILIPPINES - Bomb attack hits Metro anew

http://www.mb.com.ph/MTNN2006061466766.html

[NepalNews.com] NEPAL - Two children injured in bomb explosion

http://www.nepalnews.com/archive/2006/jun/jun13/news03.php

[Jerusalem Post] ISRAEL - Suspicious envelope scare proves to be false alarm

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150191578966&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[PTI] INDIA - AP cops unearth large quantity of explosives

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/002200606131513.htm

[TheParliament.com] EUROPE - EU to agree military response to disaster or terror attacks

http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200606/362a70aa-3ca3-4a14-8cfb-3e083aaef9fb.htm

[AP] GERMANY - Suspected terrorist arrested in Germany

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103AP_Germany_Terror_Suspect.html

[AP] TURKEY - Bomb injures four in Istanbul

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=2dc448a3-c45f-4d8c-8db6-eb7e207f336a&k=47108

[Independent-Bangladesh] BANGLADESH - Two killed in bomb blast

http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/jun/15/15062006cr.htm

[Jerusalem Post] ISRAEL - Army Radio receives suspicious package

"Envelopes with a suspicious white powder inside arrived at the offices of Army Radio and the Bank of Israel on Thursday, the latest in dozens of such incidents"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150355501866&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[Ap] IRAQ - Iraq Announces Info From Al-Zarqawi Raid

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060615/D8I8JAC80.html

[AAP] AUSTRALIA - Pilot hit in eyes with laser beam [www.TransitSecurityReport.com for more transportation security/terrorism headlines!]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19478147-1702,00.html

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TransitSecurityReport.com Incident Alert 06/16/2006 # 1

TSR Editor: A Continental flight from Lima Peru arrived at Houston airport with reports of 3 to 6 people ill, suffering from nausea, vomiting and light-headedness, dehydration. 2 to 3 transported to the hospital. News reports vary slightly...

[KTRK] HOUSTON - Passengers become ill on flight [3-4 passengers ill]

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=4276868

[KHOU] HOUSTON - Continental passengers become ill on flight [5 passengers ill]

http://www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou060616_mh_continentalillness.90c6180b.html

For more general terrorism related news please visit or subscribe to www.TerroristWarning.com

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http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-keyword&c=&p=plane+crash&ei=utf-8

At least 3 pages of plane crashes, they are falling out of the sky again.

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[a post for study and research, note the terrorist 007 link and Maximus, both show up]

This article begins to illuminate the wider international web to which
the
Canadian arrests are connected, by identifying actual players.

Notes:

*

While the internet forum in question is never actually named in this
article, other articles have indicated that Younis Tsouli (using the
psuedonym "Irhabi007") ran a forum called "Ikhlas" - and it is likely
that
this is the forum being referred to below

*

It is interesting that this was an __English language__ forum, NOT,
as might have been expected, an Arabic-language forum. Participation
in the
forum was password-protected

*

Identifies Fahim Ahmad and Abdul Shakur (an alias of Steven Vikash
Chand) as Canadian participants in the Forum run by Irhabi007.

*

Identifies the following individuals overseas as participants in the
same forum (date/location of arrest follows in parentheses):

Abu Omar (an alias of Aabid Hussain Khan in the UK, arrested just after
the
Canadians)
Tariq al-Daour (arrested Oct 2005 in the UK on terrorism charges)
Abu Usama El Swede (arrested Oct 2005 in Sweden for his ties to a
Bosnian
bomb plot)
Unnamed member of the Oz-Pendennis group of suspects (arrested in Nov
2005
in Australia)
Sadeequee and Ahmad (arrested in Atlanta, Georgia in March/April 2006)

*

Forum members had extended discussions about Kashmir and the various
Pakistani groups fighting there, with a particular emphasis on LeT

*

Rough timeline for the overlapping investigations/arrests:

13 Aug 2005 - Mohamed and Dirie arrested at Peace Bridge, attempting to
smuggle guns into Canada from the US.

19 Oct 2005 - Swedish national "Maximus" arrested in Sarajevo, Bosnia,
in
connexion with an alleged plot to bomb the British embassy in Sarajevo.
He
was also noted to be a recruiter for the Iraqi insurgency.

21 Oct 2005 - British police arrest Youis Tsouli, al-Dour and Waseem
Mughal
on terrorism charges. Video found in Tsouli's home contained footage
of
notable Washington D.C. landmarks and buildings. British authorities
contend that the video footage was shot by Sadequee and Ahmed

8 Nov 2005 - Australian police arrest 18 men on terrorism charges,
alleging
they scouted targets which included a nuclear reactor

March/April 2006 - Sadeqee and Ahmad are arrested in Atlanta, GA in
connexion with the evidence provided by the British authorities
(Operation
Mazhar) and an investigation by the FBI (Operation Northern Exposure)


http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=84d54ba3-0a74-4462-8f
36-2b4dbd47025f&k=86609

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=84d54ba3-0a74-4462-8f3
6-2b4dbd47025f&k=86609



Web forum linked cells


Two Toronto suspects took part in discussions


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Stewart Bell, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 15, 2006

TORONTO - Terror suspects arrested in several countries including
Canada
were members of a password-protected Internet forum where they chatted
and
shared jihadist propaganda, the National Post has learned.

Among those who participated in the English-language on-line forum were
terror suspects who have since been arrested in Canada, the United
Kingdom,
the United States, Australia, Sweden and elsewhere.

They include Fahim Ahmad, one of the 17 arrested by the RCMP in Toronto
on
June 2 in connection with what police say was a series of terrorist
plots in
southern Ontario. He participated in discussions using several
pseudonyms.

The forum and its apparent role as a link between accused terrorists in
Canada and other Western countries were exposed by the SITE Institute,
a
U.S. non-profit group that monitors jihadist Internet activity.

Among the participants in the jihadist forum were a member who used the
pseudonym c4explosive and another who called himself irhabi007 (irhabi
is
Arabic for "terrorist") and who is believed to be Younis Tsouli, 22, a
London man arrested for terrorism last October.

"If protecting the honour of our sisters is terrorism, if saving our
lands
from the ravaging of the non-Muslims is terrorism ... if purifying our
holy
lands is terrorism then let the world bare [sic] witness that indeed we
are
terrorists," one posting says.

There are also postings from a member who uses the name Abdul Shakur.
Abdul
Shakur is the alias of Steven Vikash Chand, an Islamic convert who was
among
those arrested in Toronto.

On the forum, Shakur exchanges messages with Abu Omar, an alias used by
Aabid Hussain Khan, a British man charged in the U.K. yesterday with
murder
conspiracy and terrorism.

Abu Omar has several postings concerning an outlawed Pakistani
terrorist
group called Lashkar-e-Tayiba, whom he calls "the best group in
Kashmir" and
who "recruited volunteers to fight for the Taliban. It would be really
sad
if they had left the path of jihad."

Other participants are Tariq Al-Daour, who was arrested in Britain last
fall
on terrorism charges; a man known as Abu-Usama El Swede, who was
arrested in
Sweden for his alleged ties to a Bosnian bomb plot but later released;
and
at least one person tied to a terror plot in Australia.

The postings on the site include al-Qaeda videos and English
translations of
statements by the late al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's lieutenant. There are also
religious
and ideological tracts that justify the killing of non-Muslims and
other
"infidels."

"It's just ideological jihad," said Rita Katz, director of the SITE
Institute. "It's really more like a propaganda site."

Canadian authorities have indicated their investigation into the
Toronto
group was launched due to suspicious Internet activity. It was unclear
whether they were referring to this particular forum.

The fact that so many members of the same forum have been arrested on
terror-related charges suggests the site has been closely monitored by
authorities internationally.

Terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman said "virtual networks" now play an
important
role in the global jihadist movement, helping participants nurture
their
radical views.

"They know that they're no longer alone and isolated in the sense that
there
are others who think like them and there are others who enable them and
egg
them on," said Mr. Hoffman of the RAND Institute, who wrote the
foreword to
the book Terror on the Internet.

Forums have even more impact when the participants are logging on from
different parts of the world to share their grievances, he said. That
feeds
the impression that there is a global war against Islam.

"If it's geographically diffuse I think that's more important because,
don't
forget, what they're responding to or what they're fighting against is
what
they perceive as a war being waged against Islam and against Muslims
everywhere.

"If you're getting geographically disparate people who think exactly as
you
do, then you're going to believe there is a war everywhere. It's not
just
your own interpretation of your own parochial situation."

Other users of the forum are said to include two Atlanta men who were
arrested on terrorism-related charges earlier this year. Both visited
Toronto last March, and allegedly met with two of those arrested by the
RCMP.

A dozen men and five juveniles are facing terror-related charges
following
Canadian police and intelligence investigations described as the
largest
since the Air India bombings.

The RCMP says the group trained at a rural property north of Toronto,
tried
to acquire guns and an explosive device and plotted attacks, notably
truck
bombings at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service regional
headquarters
near the CN Tower and the Toronto Stock Exchange.

The Post revealed last week the array of international connections
between
the Toronto investigations and related counter-terrorism cases in at
least a
half-dozen countries.

The RCMP probe called Project OSage and the CSIS investigation,
Operation
Claymore, are just two of several overlapping investigations that have
resulted in more than 30 arrests worldwide, including an FBI case
called
Operation Northern Exposure.

The arrests began last Aug. 13, when Canadian customs officers caught
two
Toronto men, Yasin Mohamed and Ali Dirie, trying to smuggle
semi-automatic
handguns into Ontario. They have since been charged with smuggling
weapons
for terrorist purposes.

On Oct. 19, Bosnian authorities arrested a Swedish man in Sarajevo
codenamed
Maximus, an alleged recruiter for the Iraq insurgency, on charges he
was
planning a bomb attack.

Two days later, British police arrested three alleged members of the
Mughal
Network, Mr. Tsouli, Mr. Al-Daour and its senior member Waseem Mughal.
Mr.
Tsouli and Mr. Mughal have pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy
to
commit murder.

During a search of Mr. Tsouli's home, police seized video images that
showed
landmarks in Washington, D.C. Authorities said they were from a video
filmed
by Georgia residents Ehsanul Islam Sadequee and Syed Haris Ahmed, who
were
later arrested in the U.S.

The British arrests were followed by arrests in Sweden and Denmark. On
Nov.
8, Australian police arrested 18 men they say trained in the Outback,
were
planning terror attacks and had scouted such targets as a nuclear
reactor.

Police said the arrests had prevented a "catastrophic act of terrorism.
Prime Minister John Howard said the terror suspects were driven by
"perverted fanatical Islam."

The forum members have had extended discussions about Kashmir and the
various Pakistani militant groups fighting there, supporting theories
of a
Pakistani connection to various Western terrorist plots.

"To their credit [Lashkar-e-Tayiba] have helped at times the Taliban
and
al-Qaeda," says one posting. But another member named Brother Mujahid
argues
that another group named Jaish-e-Mohammed "have been most supportive of
the
Taliban and al-Qaeda mujahedin."

sbell@nationalpost.com

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Spinning Zarqawi - what 3 Al-Q terrorists had to say about Zarqawi's and al A's cooperation with SADDAM

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/334dhoqq.asp

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/334dhoqq.asp


Spinning Zarqawi

What three al Qaeda terrorists had to say about Zarqawi's and al
Qaeda's
cooperation with Saddam.

by Thomas Joscelyn
06/15/2006 12:00:00 AM

NOW THAT ABU MUSAB AL ZARQAWI IS DEAD, perhaps the American press can
also
lay to rest the biggest myth about the mass murderer: that he had
nothing to
do with Saddam's regime prior to the war. It is not clear where this
claim
originated, but it is widely accepted. In the cover story for this
month's
Atlantic Monthly, for example, Mary Anne Weaver writes, "In his address
to
the United Nations making the case for war in Iraq, Powell identified
al-Zarqawi--mistakenly, as it turned out--as the crucial link between
al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime."

Similar statements can be found throughout the coverage of Zarqawi's
barbarous life. But this says more about the desire to keep Saddam's
reign
separated from the rise of al Qaeda in Iraq's terror network than it
does
about the actual facts.

There is abundant evidence that Saddam's regime, at the very least,
tolerated Zarqawi's existence in regime-controlled areas of Iraq prior
to
the war. Moreover, at least three high-level al Qaeda associates have
testified to Saddam's warm welcome for Zarqawi and his associates.

Consider what a top al Qaeda operative, Abu Zubaydah, told his CIA
interrogators after his capture in March 2002. According to the Senate
Intelligence Report, Zubaydah said "he was not aware of a relationship
between Iraq and al-Qaeda." But, he added that "any relationship would
be
highly compartmented and went on to name al Qaeda members who he
thought had
good contacts with the Iraqis." Zubaydah "indicated that he heard that
an
important al-Qaida associate, Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, and others had
good
relationships with Iraqi intelligence."

Zubaydah's testimony has since been further corroborated by a known al
Qaeda
ideologue, Dr. Muhammad al-Masari. Al-Masari operated the Committee for
the
Defense of Legitimate Rights, a Saudi oppositionist group and al Qaeda
front, out of London for more than decade. He told the editor-in-chief
of
Al-Quds Al-Arabi that Saddam "established contact with the 'Afghan
Arabs' as
early as 2001, believing he would be targeted by the US once the
Taliban was
routed." Furthermore, "Saddam funded Al-Qaeda operatives to move into
Iraq
with the proviso that they would not undermine his regime."

Al-Masari claimed that Saddam's regime actively aided Zarqawi and his
men
prior to the war and fully included them in his plans for a terrorist
insurgency. He said Saddam "saw that Islam would be key to a cohesive
resistance in the event of invasion." Iraqi officers bought "small
plots of
land from farmers in Sunni areas" and they buried "arms and money
caches for
later use by the resistance."

Al-Masari also claimed that "Iraqi army commanders were ordered to
become
practicing Muslims and to adopt the language and spirit of the
jihadis."

Just as Saddam ordered, many of Iraq's senior military and intelligence
personnel joined or aided Zarqawi's jihad. Many of the more prominent
supporters and members of Zarqawi's al Qaeda branch, in fact, came from
the
upper echelon of Saddam's regime. Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri (aka the "King
of
Clubs") and his sons allied with Zarqawi, as did members of Muhammad
Hamza
Zubaydi's (aka the "Queen of Spades") family. Zarqawi's allies included
Muhammed Hila Hammad Ubaydi, who was an aide to Saddam's chief of staff
of
intelligence, and some of his more lethal operatives served as officers
in
Saddam's military, including Abu Ali, "Al-Hajji" Thamer Mubarak (whose
sister attempted a martyrdom operation in Jordan), Abu-Ubaidah, and
Abdel
Fatih Isa.

THESE BAATHISTS, and others, have spilled much blood in Zarqawi's name.
Their attacks were among "Zarqawi's" most successful, including an
assault
on the Abu Ghraib prison and the first attack on the U.N.'s
headquarters.

The latter strike was among al Qaeda's earliest, killing Sergio de
Mello,
the U.N.'s special representative in Baghdad, in August 2003.

In addition to Abu Zubaydah and Muhammad al-Masri, a third high-ranking
al
Qaeda associate has explained Saddam's support for al Qaeda prior to
the
war. Hudayfa Azzam, who is the son of one of al Qaeda's earliest and
most
influential leaders, Adullah Azzam, gave an interview with Agence
France
Presse in August 2004 in which he explained Saddam's support for al
Qaeda's
members as they relocated to Iraq:

"Saddam Hussein's regime welcomed them with open arms," Azzam
explained,
"and young al Qaeda members entered Iraq in large numbers, setting up
an
organization to confront the occupation."

Al Qaeda's terrorists
"infiltrated
into Iraq with the help of Kurdish mujahideen from Afghanistan, across
mountains in Iran." Once in Iraq, Saddam "strictly and directly"
controlled
their activities, Azzam added.

Curiously, in all of the coverage of Zarqawi's death there has been no
mention of Abu Zubaydah's, Muhammad al-Masri's, or Hudayfa Azzam's
comments.

This is not entirely surprising. Many of the basic facts surrounding
Zarqawi's early days in Iraq have been muddled by those vested in the
notion
that Saddam's Iraq never supported al Qaeda.

Even when al Qaeda terrorists themselves admit that Saddam offered them
safe
haven and support, their words fall on the mainstream media's deaf
ears.
Thomas Joscelyn is an economist and writer living in New York.

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http://jewishworldreview.com/michael/ledeen061506.php3



Omar, Bravo! A very bad week for Iran

By Michael Ledeen



http://www.JewishWorldReview.com

| The mullahs have had a lot of bad
news in
recent days - news with a particularly sinister aura, in fact. So
sinister
that they must be asking themselves what they have done to incur the
Divine
wrath.

I kid you not.

First is the loss of one of their terrorist stars, Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, the
deus ex machina of the terror war against us in Iraq. Not only does
that
deprive the mullahs of a prime instrument for generating civil war -
his
constant incitement to the Sunnis to rise up against the Shiites was
the
cutting edge of their three-year program to turn major Iraqi ethnic and
religious groups against one another - but it is a serious blow to
recruitment throughout the terror network. It is as bad for them as the
beheading videos were good. Potential jihadis want to do the beheading,
not
suffer the consequences of 500-pound bombs. The quick Iranian
deception,
pretending they were pleased at the death of Zarqawi, shouldn't fool
anybody. They have lost a basic building block of the terror structure.

Second is the worldwide campaign against terror cells, many of which
were
linked to Zarqawi, or to Iran itself. Some of the Canadians now in jail
in
Ontario had been in contact with Zarqawi, and the cell in Sarajevo had
longstanding ties to Tehran.

Third is this ominous line from al-Reuters on the occasion of President
Bush's jaunt to Baghdad:

BAGHDAD, June 13 - U.S. President George W. Bush told Iraqi Prime
Minister
Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Tuesday Iran's "interference" in Iraq must
end,
said Iraqi government sources who attended the talks.

Can it be that, at long last, we are going to take steps against the
mullahs
to save the lives of our fighters and the Iraqi civilians who have been
targeted by the terrorists who are armed and manipulated by the
Iranians and
the Syrians? Faster, please.


But that is nothing compared to the clear message from On High on the
soccer
fields of Germany. No, I'm not talking about the demonstrations against
President Ahmadinejad, I'm talking about the Mexican victory over Iran
in
the first round of the World Cup.

With the game tied 1-1, a Mexican player named Omar

http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/w/player/214007_BRAVO_Omar.html

Bravo
scored for Mexico, which went on to win 3-1. That name, Omar Bravo,
sends
chills down the spines of the mullahs. "Bravo" is a universal plaudit,
enthusiastic praise for the person to whom the "bravo" is directed. And
Omar? Well...Omar is the most hated name in the Shiite lexicon, the
symbol
of the forces of evil, the incarnation of satanic influence on earth.

And why? Because after the death of the Prophet, Mohammed's son in law,
Ali
(the husband of Mohammed's daughter Fatima) was fighting to become the
leader of all Muslims. Ali lost out to Omar Bakr and to Omar, his close
adviser and successor as Caliph. To this day, the Shiites believe that
Abu
Bakr and Omar usurped Ali's rightful inheritance as ruler of Islam. Not
only
that, but during the succession struggle Omar burst into Ali's house,
crushing the pregnant Fatima behind the door, leading to the stillbirth
of
her son. And although Ali formally accepted the elevation of Abu Bakr,
and
then Omar, the Shiites still speak of Omar with intense hatred. In Iran
today, one of the harshest things you can say about another person is
Iaanat
be'Omar, cursed by Omar.

To a devout Shiite of the sort that governs Iran today, the defeat of
the
Iranian national team by somebody named Omar Bravo cannot be easily
dismissed as a random event. It cannot possibly be a coincidence (it is
hard
for Iranians to believe that anything is a coincidence), and it is most
certainly a terrible augury. Many Iranians will interpret it as a
message to
the mullahs: just as Ali was defeated by Omar, so your doom has been
signaled by a modern Omar. And that "bravo," can it be an accident? No
way.

As I said, tough times for the mullahs. Very tough.

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Iran, Syria Sign Defense Agreement

By FARHAD POULADI, AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, TEHRAN
06/15/06

www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1872085&C=mideast

Defense ministers from close allies Iran and Syria on June 15 signed an
agreement for military cooperation against what they called the "common
threats" presented by Israel and the United States.

In a joint press conference, Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad
Najjar and visiting Syrian counterpart Hassan Turkmani said their talks
had
been aimed at consolidating their defense efforts and strengthening
support
for one another.

"Our cooperation is based on a strategic pact and unity against common
threats. We can have a common front against Israel's threats," Turkmani
told
reporters after two intensive rounds of talks with Najjar.

"Our cooperation with the Iranians against Israeli threats is nothing
secret
and we regularly consult about this with our friends," he said.

Before the press conference, Iran's defense ministry said the two sides
"stressed strengthening mutual ties and the necessity to preserve peace
and
stability in the region."

The defense ministry statement also said they discussed "ridding the
region
of weapons of mass destruction," in an apparent reference to the widely
held
belief that Israel possesses nuclear warheads.

The United States has led opposition to Iran's nuclear program, which
Tehran
insists is aimed at civilian energy purposes but which Washington
suspects
is a cover for atomic weapons-making.

U.S. President George W. Bush has advocated diplomacy to resolve the
international row over Iran's aims but has also said "all options are
on the
table" if Iran refuses to halt sensitive uranium enrichment work.

Washington has included Syria in its so-called axis of evil that also
comprises Iran and North Korea, citing these nations as "supporters of
terrorism."

Asked about U.S. threats against Damascus and Tehran, both top defense
ministers brushed off the importance of such threats.

"This is nothing new, we will resist these threats," the Syrian defense
minister said.

However, Turkmani dismissed the possibility of hosting an Iranian
military
base on Syrian soil.

"The language of a (foreign) military base in our country is alien to
us. I
want to say that it is not on the agenda," he added.

The Iranian defense minister said: "U.S. threats are a kind of
psychological
operation. It is not new. With unity among the region's nations, these
threats will not prevail."

Although the two refused to give specifics about the agreement for
military
cooperation, Najjar said Iran "considers Syria's security its own
security,
and we consider our defense capabilities to be those of Syria."

Najjar also shrugged off reports that Iran could pose a threat to the
region.

"Iran is ready to sign a non-aggression pact with regional countries,"
he
said.

"Our military warfare equipment is based on deterrent policies and
strategy.
Enemies should know about our capabilities and should not even think
about
an assault against us," he said in response to a question about the
optimization process going on for the medium range Shahab-3 missile.

Iran's Shahab-3 missiles have a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,280
miles),
capable of hitting arch-enemy Israel and U.S. bases across the Middle
East.

Najjar added that the Syrian side has purchased some Iranian military
equipment, but did not elaborate on the purchased items and did not say
whether the purchases were made as part of the June 15 agreement.

Turkmani started an official visit to Tehran on June 11.

During his trip, Turkmani has also met with President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad,
the Islamic republic's military chiefs and visited Iranian military
factories in Isfahan and Tehran.

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15.06.2006
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA staff
Russian FSB chief praised cooperation at the annual summit of chiefs of special services and law enforcement agencies

The FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev
The FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev
Russian Federal Security Service is to form a unified databank of terrorist organizations and persons related to terrorism, FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev told foreign colleagues in Kazan. Chiefs of foreign special services and law enforcement agencies came to Tatarstan's capital Kazan for an international annual summit. Delegations from 75 secret services from 51 states and two international organizations are taking part in the meeting. "We plan to form a unified databank of terrorist organizations and persons related to terrorism in order to reduce this threat to world civilization”, he said, Interfax reported. Information will be exchanged and common approaches to the anti- terrorist fight will be defined with chiefs of security services and law enforcement agencies of the FSB's foreign partners, he said. Patrushev has pointed to a global trend toward the expansion of religious extremism.
"We are continuing to notice a trend toward the escalation of religious extremism and radicalism based on the extremely dangerous ideology of intolerance and confrontation of Muslim and Christian values and also powerful financial and material support of international terrorist organizations”, Patrushev said at a conference. "The role of international antiterrorist interaction, primarily among special services and law enforcement agencies, is growing as never before", he added. Federal Security Service Director also said Islamic states need international support in their fight against terrorism. "Islamic states are suffering from terrorism first hand. Thus, they are interested in taking part in the anti-terrorist effort and should enjoy international support. There is a certain disagreement between states, and some of them are unable to take part in the elaboration of common anti-terrorist approaches although they wish to do so," Patrushev said. To his mind, the annual meetings of the heads of secret services and law enforcement bodies of partner countries of the Russian FSB already yield specific results. He noted that the international forums in this format had been held over the past five years so as to hammer out agreed mechanisms of countering the common threat – terrorism. “We have already reached definite results in our work, which have been embodied in successful measures to ensure security of major international events, including the Summer and Winter Olympic Games in 2004 and 2005, the APEC summit in Pusan and others”, Patrushev said. “The number of forum participants rises with every passing year. Delegations of secret services of Algeria, Morocco and Malaysia participate in the forum for the first time. These countries have been attacked by terrorists several times and have experience in struggle against this evil,” the FSB director emphasized. The present meeting is the first one with the participation of Arab countries.
Patrushev underlined that “Russia’s stand on strengthening the coordinating role of the UN remains intact in countering global challenges and threats, above all terrorism”. He expressed confidence that practical implementation of UN documents, including the Security Council resolution, aimed at introducing criminal responsibility for inciting terrorism, will promote further consolidation of efforts of the international community.
“We intend, in future too, strive for general discussion and recognition of the illegal nature of terrorism in all its manifestations and for inevitability of punishments for terrorist crimes,” the FSB chief stressed, Itar-Tass reported.

Russia's President called on the international community to help free Russian diplomats
Russia's President called on the international community to help free Russian diplomats kidnapped in Iraq. To remind, one Russian diplomat was killed and four others kidnapped when unidentified gunmen attacked the Russian embassy in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, June 3. The kidnappers have yet to make ransom or other demands for the hostages' freedom. "I am counting on assistance from all our friends”, Putin told journalists at a summit of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) heads of state in Shanghai, RIAN reported. "We are continuing to work on the problem, and cooperating with the Iraqi authorities, and with our friends in neighboring states". A senior Russian lawmaker, Mikhail Margelov, said earlier that Russia was using all its connections with the Iraqi government and major political parties to secure their release, and urged all Iraqis who remembered Russian aid to the country to help in the search. But Margelov, who heads the committee on international affairs in the upper house of Russia's parliament, said the kidnapping should not affect friendly relations between Russia and Iraq, as the diplomats had been abducted by "international terrorists". The Organization of the Islamic Conference, which has condemned the kidnapping as a crime against humanity and Islam, has pledged assistance in getting the diplomats released. President Putin also said he hoped SCO bodies could be employed in dealing with such incidents. All the Russian secret services are currently acting in Iraq to find the diplomats. Russian media blamed the US for the abduction

Russian Federal Drug Control Service to open offices abroad
The Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FDCS) will open a number of offices abroad to step up cooperative efforts against drug trafficking, primarily that from Afghanistan, Gen. Alexander Fyodorov, a deputy director of the agency, told Interfax. "Preparatory work for opening first FDCS representation offices in eight countries, including Afghanistan, a number of Central Asian countries, Austria, and the US, is nearing completion”, Fyodorov said. In line with the Russian leadership's decision, the FDCS can have 50 representatives abroad, he said. As AIA reported previously, at the end of March 2006 President Putin signed a resolution allowing the Russian drugs authority to have offices abroad, to "carry out their responsibilities as part of Russia's diplomatic mission without being official diplomatic staff". As analysts note, there is a possibility that the anti-drug service will be used as a cover for intelligence operations abroad.

FSB General fired from the Russian customs
Deputy head of the Russian customs service was fired today by the decision of the Russian Premier Mikhail Fradkov, local media reported. General Nikolay Volobuev, who previously served in the KGB and FSB, was released from his duty. Local analysts connect his retiring with the wave of recent dismissals of the Russian officials in security and law enforcing structures, connected to corruption cases.

Russian FSB claims killing militants in North Caucasus
Three gunmen including an alleged notorious militant were killed during an operation in the Ingushetia region in Russia's North Caucasus republic bordering on Chechnya early Thursday, local FSB said. "One of the gunmen has been identified as Adam Nalgiyev, 31, a deputy of a field commander [nicknamed] Magas", a Federal Security Service officer said. The officer said Nalgiyev had led a militant group during a 2004 raid into Ingushetia from neighboring Chechnya. He also shot police officers and took part in other terrorist attacks on the region, the officer said, including an attack on FSB officers, the killing of an OMON special police force commander and three children, and the assassination of a local administration official, RIAN reported. A group of militants was surrounded in a forested area near the village of Ali-Yurt outside Nazran, Ingushetia's largest city, early Wednesday. The operation to apprehend the suspected militants involved police, army officers, and aircraft.

Georgian ex-KGB chief's party to stage a protest rally
The women’s organization of the Georgian opposition Justice Party of supporters of Igor Georgadze, former KGB chief of Georgia, is to stage a protest rally against the violence at the Parliament of Georgia on Thursday. The slogan of participants of the rally will be Mothers Against War and Violence, Prime-News was told by representatives of the Party. According to them, the rally is aimed against the war in Iraq and possible engagement of Georgia in the increasing tension between the USA and Iran. Participants of the rally will also demand peaceful resolution of the conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The rally will also be dedicated to prevention of wilful actions of the so-called “death brigades”, whose illegal operations have already brought toll to death of approximate 50 young people.

SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure head speaks of the future plans

Vyacheslav Kasymov (photo: Uzreport)
Vyacheslav Kasymov
Former KGB officer, currently Director of the RATS Executive Committee (in the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Vyacheslav Kasymov spoke to BVV Business Report about some of the results of the structure's activity and the plans for the short future. "During the period of 2005-2006 over 260 terrorist attacks were prevented on the territory of SCO member-states, scores of major leaders of terrorist structures were identified or eliminated. The Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure works in three directions: information-analytical support of the activity of competent agencies; coordinating-analytical activity involving the search of terrorists and organization of specific anti-terrorist actions; as well as administrative-legal activity. In general, the results of the work carried out by the anti-terrorist structure during the period from the Forum in Astana to the Summit in Shanghai illustrate that thanks to the preventive measures implemented by the competent agencies, the situation on the territory of SCO member-states remains stable, and what is even more important, it is predictable", he said.
To his mind, "the level of interaction between the special services to be sufficient to ensure the stability in the whole region covered by the SCO mandate". "RATS headquarters was established to coordinate the activity of the special services of SCO member-states on 17 June 2004. In this context, I would like to note that for the first time anti-terrorist military exercises have recently been held on the territory of Tajikistan, Kyrygzstan and Uzbekistan. At the final phase of these exercises, a special training operation was organized on the territory of Uzbekistan on neutralization of the group of terrorists in Tashkent region. According to the scenario of the exercise terrorist attacks were planned on the important life support objects of the region surrounding the capital, and the terrorists strived to create a direct threat to Tashkent city. In general, the actions of the special divisions were assessed as high both in searching and liquidation of the group… Today we are facing a threat of drug trafficking from the territory of Afghanistan. This business is operated by the terrorist organizations, which use the income to finance their activity. In particular, Talibans, which are closely related to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, and Al-Qaeda. The April 2006 meeting of the competent agencies of SCO member-states in Beijing was dedicated to the discussion of this threat. We are planning to conduct exercises with participation of Chinese and Kazakh special forces this year on the territory of Kazakhstan and Sinjan-Uygur autonomous district of China", Kasymov stated.

Uzreport brought some data on SCO RATS: Its staff consists of 30 people, including 7 specialists from Russia and China each, 6 from Kazakhstan, 5 from Uzbekistan, 3 from Kyrgyzstan, and 2 from Tajikistan. The financing is share-based: Russia and China – 25% each; Kazakhstan – 21%; Uzbekistan – 15%; Kyrgyzstan – 9%, and Tajikistan 6%.

Vyacheslav Kasymov's short biographical note. He graduated from Tashkent Institute of the Engineers of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanisation, and the Higher School of the USSR State Security Committee. Has worked with KGB and National Security Service (NSS) from 1980 through 2004. In 1991-1996, headed the NSS Department. In April 1996 was appointed to the post of the NSS Deputy Chairman. Received several awards and military rank of General-Major. In January 2004 appointed to the post of the Director of the Executive Committee of the Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) by the decision of the Heads of SCO member-states.

Moldovan special forces officers arrested in Transdnestrian capital
Arrest of four officers of the Moldovan Interior Ministry on June was absolutely illegal, Moldovan Interior Minister Georgy Papuk has told the press on June 15, REGNUM reports. All of them are officers of a joint investigation group that is entrusted to provide for law and order in the Security Zone as well as in the whole region, the minister announced. “This is a provocation by local secret services and, first of all, by the so-called State Security Ministry (MGB). We call upon the Transdnestrian authorities to free the police officers”, Papuk is quoted as saying.
Georgy Papuk stressed that the security ministry mentioned by him systematically and for many years had been carrying out unlawful activities and particularly kidnapping. “Not long ago, in the Ukrainian Izmail citizen of Moldova Vladimir Gorbov was abducted. There have been recently over 160 unlawful detentions of police officers only”, the minister stressed. He addressed the Transdnestr authorities urging to cease “legal chaos and come to constructive cooperation in fighting crime”. Earlier, Transdnestr MGB officials announced that insisting on the MGB involvement in abduction of Moldovan citizen Vladimir Gorbov, Information and Security Service of the Republic of Moldova was trying to save its provocateur on the staff, who in early ‘90s participated in preparing and carrying out terror attacks, contract killings and drug trafficking in the territories of Transdnestr and Ukraine.

Romanian Social Democrat ask for communist police history clarifications
Romanian Social Democratic Senator Razvan Theodorescu yesterday asked the head of the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS), Claudiu Secasiu, to look into the information circulated in relation to his alleged collaboration with the former communist secret police, Bucharest Daily News reports. A report in central daily Romania libera said that Theodorescu's name appeared on a list of people whose Securitate files were burned in 1991 in order to hide their ties with the secret police of the communist rule. Theodorescu threatened to sue the newspaper unless it "produces all the evidence it has" about the matter within 30 days. In his letter to Secasiu, the Social Democratic senator said he was never a collaborator or informant of the Securitate. The only ties he had with the communist police were the memos in which he criticized the communist rule's policies, according to the letter. When asked whether he checked the file the newspaper was referring to before it was burned, Theodorescu said he never had the curiosity. "I was afraid I would find in it statements from people close to me”, he said. The senator added that, given that he was minister of Culture and has had a seat in Parliament for years, the information about his communist past was checked several times.

AI: Existence of secret prisons in Poland and Romania hard to prove
Amnesty International (AI) senior adviser Anne Fitzgerald said it is hard to prove if there were CIA secret prisons in Romania and Poland because if they indeed existed, they were moved. "If governments in these countries do not collaborate more rigorously with euro parliamentarians Dick Marty and Claudio Fava, it will be very difficult to obtain information about something that no longer exists”, Fitzgerald said, Bucharest Daily News reports. While Dick Marty is the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly rapporteur, Fava is a substitute in the European Parliament's sub commission on human rights. Fitzgerald said it is in Poland and Romania's interest for this subject to be clarified "once and for all." When asked how she comments the fact that the Romanian Parliament will publish a report that says there is no proof against Romania in the CIA scandal, the AI official said the results need to be sent to rapporteurs Marty and Fava. "We greet any investigation of this type; if the Romanian authorities publish these results, then they should be willing to offer access to the same sources to Dick Marty and Claudio Fava”, for the investigation to be continued by the Council of Europe and by the European Parliament. "I believe it is in Romania's interest to do this”, Fitzgerald added.

Polish Cardinal apologized for agents of the Communist era secret service
Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz has apologized to all people who have suffered as a result of collaboration with Communist era secret service by some members of the Polish clergy, Polish Radio reported. During his homily at Corpus Christi celebrations in Krakow, the cardinal asked the victims of these shameful acts not to turn away from the Church. He assured the apology contained strong commitment to unveil the truth about this infamous collaboration with the Communists, but the whole truth, as cardinal Dziwisz stressed. Records of the National Remembrance Institute suggest that some one tenth of Poland’s Catholic clergy had been entangled in activity controlled by the secret service in the country’s post war Communist period. It was a time when every Polish priest, starting from his seminary years, had a personal file in the Interior Ministry which closely monitored all activities of the Church and its people. The present hierarchy has declared its willingness to reveal the archive records, but under strict Church supervision. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, who is among the strongest advocates of such an approach, is the Metropolitan of Krakow and former personal secretary to the late John Paul II.

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14.06.2006
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA staff
Pro-Russian NGO in Ukraine stormed SBU's headquarters

SBU logo
SBU logo
Activists of the Eurasian Youth Union – EYU - nongovernmental Russian organizations with a branch in Ukraine, stormed Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) headquarters. They were protesting their leader's banishing from Ukraine. Ten attackers were detained, including local branch head, Alexander Medinsky. As AIA reported previously, the head of the Russian Eurasian Youth Union Pavel Zarifullin was detained at the Kiev Borispol Airport by the SBU. According to Ukrainian media, he arrived to Kiev on June 9 to organize a series of protest actions of his NGO in Feodosia, Nikolayev, and other Ukrainian cities. The protest actions were supposed to be directed against the proposed NATO and US joint military exercises. Earlier Zarifullin and his co-head Valeriy Korovin said at a press conference in Moscow that they announce a creation of people’s insurgent army to resist the US occupation of Crimea. After performing a thorough check, the Ukrainian security handed Zarifullin a paper on exclusion him from the country and deporting him back to Russia. After that the activist of EYU in Ukraine organized a protest outside the SBU building in Kiev. The manifestation ended with a storming of the headquarters.

Ukrainian Security Service's website advertised "erotic services"
Ukrainian Security Service's (SBU) website for unknown reason advertised "erotic services", local media reported. As it was noticed by the website visitors, an illustration in one of the reports on apprehending jealous husband who tried to blew up a plane on May 23, was actually a link to other website of erotic encounters and pornographic images. The picture was removed from the website after the information became public. As it was noted also the picture was letting the owners of the porn website to see the number of the people visiting SBU's site. As AIA reported previously, Konstantin Boiko, the chief of the SBU Special Telecommunication Systems and Information Protection Department, said that the Ukrainian segment of the Internet should be adjusted in order to prevent threats to the national security of the country. "If there will be a precedent, we would be made responsible for the consequences, and already after that all of us shall equally come to understanding that the Internet should be regulated", Boiko told at the end of May to the weekly "Vlastj deneg". In particular, the issue of licensing of activity on the Internet should be defined," noted Boiko.

Notorious Russian gangsters hit squad was GRU trained
Notorious Russian gangsters hit squad consisted of highly trained GRU officers and former employees of other secret services, Russian media reports, quoting Moascow's prosecutor's office. As it turned out during the investigation of the ill-famed "Orekhovo-Medvedko" gang, it had an "elite" group of three killers - two of which were former GRU officers. They used the best technologies to track and murder their "marks" - mostly rival gangsters. One of the heads and organizers of the gang was ex-KGB officer.

Russian FSB: Islamic militants supported from the Middle East
Russian FSB branch in Karachaevo-Cherkessiya claims that local Islamic militants are supported from the Middle East. On April 27,2006 a large group of militants was destroyed and documents which were found on them proved that they were paid for terrorist acts from abroad, local media reported.

Russian FSB fights a million hacking attacks annually
Russian FSB annually fights a million hacking attacks against official state websites, Russian media reports. Chief of the communications security center of the FSB Viktor Gorbachev said that the number is getting higher and higher every year. One of the main threats are so-called "mass attacks", when several thousands attempts of hacking are committed in several hours, he said. As an example he brought an attempt of the group of US based hackers to break into the Russian Emergency Control Ministry on April 22 this year. In March a group of Chinese hackers attacked secret services' websites for 12 hours. Hackers have made several high-profile attacks on Russian web sites in the last year, including one on Russia's first 24-hour English-language television channel, Russia Today, less than two months after it began broadcasting. The channel was temporarily forced off the air in December after hackers tried to break into its computer network. In the past two years in Russia, databases containing the information of MTS cell phone users, pension fund beneficiaries and Central Bank transactions have been hacked into and sold on the black market.

Russian court officers' service to became secret service
Russian Justice department proposes to turn the Federal court officers service into a secret service, granting it powers to recruit secret agents and conduct undercover operations, local media reported. Its officers will have almost all the rights as other secret services, except of the right to conduct phones taping and infiltrating houses of the suspects. These tasks will be conducted by the FSB. The name of the Service will also change into the Service of State Executors.

Antiterrorist equipment and techniques at display in Krasnoyarsk
Security services of the Russian city of Krasnoyarsk (the third largest city in Siberia) participate in the specialized forum "Modern security systems", local media reported. Over 30 Russian companies participate in the forum, which is combined with a public display of antiterrorist equipment and techniques. Representatives of the local FSB ran a small drill, showing the guests "liberation of hostages from the airport".

Afghani police chiefs smuggled drugs with the help of Russian secret services
Afghani police chiefs smuggled drugs with the help of Russian secret services and Tajik military, PakTribune reports. Several Afghani police commanders from Takhar Province near Afghan-Tajik border, former mujahideen chiefs, were taped during conversations on their drug trafficking activities. For example, "Commander Nasir" in the border district gives an inside picture of how some of the bigger police commanders - both in Afghanistan and in neighboring Tajikistan - punish drug-trafficking competitors to burnish their law-enforcement credentials, or take bribes from those willing to pay for favorable treatment. "When I was a big smuggler, I had relations with the Tajik officers on the other side of the border. But my competitor has relations with the Russian KGB," he says. "His people have damaged my business a lot. Once I lost $500,000 of heroin, another time $600,000, another time $700,000, another time $900,000, another time $1.1 million because of his people", Nasir said, PakTribune wrote.
To remind, AIA already reported several times on the involvement of the Tajik and Russian officers in drug trafficking from Afghanistan. In August 2005 spokesman for the Russian federal antidrug service Vasily Rogozin said that "drug trafficking has considerably grown since Tajik border guards assumed control of the Tajik-Afghan border in mid-2005,". He added that some Russian experts stayed in Tajikistan to help local border guards. Obviously, they helped them in a very "special way", as over 60 Tajik law enforcement officers were detained in November last year for drug trafficking.

Estonian Greens complain on Security Police tracing and mail cover
Estonian Greens movement has announced that the country's Security Police (KAPO) has been collecting information on their activity. The Greens are claiming that the KAPO watched electronic correspondence of the delegates of the annual assembly of the European wildlife management organizations held in Tartu, and has made some inquiries about the delegates to hotels, writes PM Online. The Greens have been revolted by the KAPO actions; the representatives of the organizations on the environment preservation from 26 countries who have gathered in Tartu have sent an open reference on the KAPO activities to the so-called Special commission of the Estonian Parliament, the European Parliament and the Security Police of Estonia itself. According to the board member of the Estonian Greens movement Peepa Mardiste, before the annual assembly the Greens have met with the KAPO representatives who have shown them the event's agenda that was possible to learn only from the electronic correspondence of the organizers. We also were informed by the hotel, that the KAPO has made inquiry about the delegates", says Mardiste. According to him, the KAPO was interested in the activity of the Greens even earlier. "They are interested in radical defenders of the environment and the "Greenpeace" activists, but we are not engaged in any illegal activity," Mardiste says. We want the KAPO to spend the tax payers money not for shadowing free associations and would concentrate on the important risks influencing the state security".

New info on Romanian Conservative leader's Securitate file published
The file on Romanian Conservative Party chief Dan Voiculescu's relations with the former secret police is being checked by the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, the council's spokesman, Cazimir Ionescu, announced, Bucharest Daily News reports. Ionescu said new information had emerged in Voiculescu's file but refused to give further details. However, Voiculescu once again stated that he was never a Securitate officer and there was no new information in his file. He claimed to have read a copy of it and said he did not come across anything that could incriminate him as a Securitate officer. However, Ionescu said Voiculescu had been informed about the new information. The CNSAS decided to initiate an urgent investigation of Voiculescu's Securitate file after the latter was appointed deputy prime minister by his party and asked for allegations regarding his collaboration with the Securitate to be cleared.
"I ask the CNSAS members to declassify absolutely all possible documents, to investigate all the way, so this tension is solved and this aspect is cleared once and for all," said Voiculescu, adding that he expected to receive a letter from the CNSAS absolving him of collaboration with the former political police. When asked about the contents of his Securitate file, Voiculescu said there was nothing in it that said he had collaborated with the Securitate. One example he gave was that while he was a student, a Securitate agent had written in his report that he wanted to ask Voiculescu if any of his hokey teammates intended to stay back in Prague, where they were playing a match. "Why is it may fault that he intended to ask me?" Voiculescu wondered. The PC chief said he had asked Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu and President Traian Basescu not to approve his appointment as deputy prime minister till the CNSAS announced the results of their investigation.
The CNSAS representative said the new file in Voiculescu's case came from the intelligence service, SRI. However, he could say if the file confirmed Securitate collaboration. Ionescu said the dialogue with Voiculescu will go on and did exclude the possibility of hearing from him again.

Several European lawmakers want Romania and Poland removed from CIA prisons report
Several European lawmakers do not want Romania and Poland mentioned in the final report of the investigation into alleged CIA prisons in Europe, according to EU Observer. Currently the report of the EP commission and the one issued last week by the Council of Europe mention Romania and Poland as possible detention sites for CIA prisoners, although both governments have denied it.
The Independence/Democracy group within the European Parliament asked dropping Romania and Poland from the final report because most of the group's lawmakers are Polish, the EU Observer writes. The commission on Monday night adopted the preliminary report, which is meant to be submitted next month to the EP plenum. However, most lawmakers on Monday approved the report condemning what it called mounting evidence of U.S. human rights abuses, and accused the CIA of using fictitious airlines to transfer terror suspects to countries where they could be tortured. The European Parliament's six-month inquiry into reports of CIA secret prisons and flights in Europe found that detainees were transferred to countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Afghanistan.
The report was approved by 25 votes against 14, with seven abstentions, a week after Swiss senator Dick Marty, investigating the allegations on behalf of the Council of Europe, concluded that 14 European nations colluded with U.S. intelligence in a "spider's web" of human rights abuses to help the CIA spirit terror suspects to illegal detention facilities.

Czech Republic does not help CIA
The Czech Republic is not among the European countries who helped CIA intelligence agency in the programme of transport of prisoners of war suspected of terrorism, according to a report which the Amnesty International (AI) sent CTK. Unlike in the previous reports, the Czech Republic is not mentioned as one of the countries cooperating with CIA. AI reports about six cases of illegal transport of detainees, in which allegedly Bosnia and Herzegovina, Britain, Germany, Italy, Macedonia, Sweden and Turkey took an active part. The AI report said that without any trial, the captives were transported by planes to prisons in other countries and allegedly were tortured there. According to the earlier information by AI, three planes with captives suspected of terrorism aboard landed 20 times in Prague. Czech authorities and the counter-intelligence service said they knew nothing about such stop-overs. The case of stop-overs by CIA planes with captives aboard has already been discussed for eighteen months.

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13.06.2006
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA staff
Notorious KGB chief and Soviet leader forged his biography

The KGB chief Yuri Andropov
KGB chief and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov
Notorious KGB chief and Soviet leader Yuri Andropov forged his biography to climb the communist party's ladder, Russian edition Itogi reports. Recently declassified secret files of Andropov showed that he "adapted" his biography to the demands of the Bolshevik times – he made himself a son of an Ossetian proletarian, while he was actually from a rich bourgeoisie family, probably with Jewish roots. At the beginning Andropov, according to the files, was not very accurate while inventing his family's "proletarian" past. He was questioned at least four times in the thirties because of the discrepancies in several forms he filled. Each and every time he managed to fool commissions that checked his background. The final version of his biography stated that he was the son of a railway official and was probably born in Nagutskoye, Stavropol Guberniya, Imperial Russia. But as the top secret archives showed, Andropov was born in wealthy Jewish family – Feinstein or Flekenstein in Moscow. His father, most probably died fighting in the ranks of the so-called "White Army", which battled the Bolsheviks. His family, which allegedly arrived in Russian from Finland, may have been dealing in dimonds and suffered from

Andropov's mother Evgenia (photo: "Andropov and KGB" by Sergey Chertoprud, 2004)
Andropov's mother
"pogroms" during the WW I. One of the most interesting details is that Andropov (whose real name was Grigory and not Yuri), was born several hundred metres far from the Lubianka – Soviet secret police headquarters in Moscow, Itogi reports.
Reference file:
Andropov was born in 1914. In 1951 and joined the Communist party secretariat. In 1954, he became the Soviet Ambassador to Hungary. Andropov was one of those responsible for the Soviet decision to invade Hungary during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Later he headed the Department for Liaison with Socialist Countries (1957-1967) and was promoted to the Central Committee Secretariat in 1962, succeeding Mikhail Suslov, and in 1967 he was appointed head of the KGB. In 1973 Andropov became a full member of the Politburo, although he did not resign as head of the KGB until 1982. A few days after Leonid Brezhnev's death (November 10, 1982), Andropov was the surprise appointment to General Secretary over Konstantin Chernenko. He was the first head of the KGB to become General Secretary. His appointment was received in the West with apprehension, in view of his roles in the KGB and in Hungary. In foreign policy he achieved little — the war continued in Afghanistan. Andropov's rule was also marked by the deterioration of relations with the United States. Andropov died of kidney failure on February 9, 1984, after several months of failing health. He is buried in Moscow, in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.

Russian senator from Kalmykia claims FSB framed him
The Russian Supreme Court will rule on whether or not the activities of Levon Chakhmakhchian, member of the Federation Council from Kalmykia, can be qualified as criminal. "The Supreme Court has scheduled the consideration of the plea from the Prosecutor General's Office for June 16," the senator's lawyer Boris Kuznetsov told Interfax. As AIA reported, FSB agents found 300,000 dollars in the Chakhmakhchian’s case during a secret operation. The banknotes where found during checks made by security agents into facts of bribery practiced by some senior officials for withholding certain facts found out during inspections made by the Russian Audit Chamber. Chakhmakhchian claims that he was framed by the FSB.

Ukraine's state treasury to control security services' money
Ukraine's Finance Ministry plans to finish soon transferring to the state treasury of control over security services' money. SBU, Interior Ministry, Intelligence Service and State Customs Service's accounts will be under treasury's control to prevent misuse of resources, local media reported.

Kazakh KNB chief: Special unit “Arystan” cleansed
The head of the Kazakh KNB Amangeldi Shabdarbaev finished cleansing the command staff of the “Arystan” special elite unit. In an interview to the Kazakhstan's daily Megapolis, KNB head, who was appointed to the office 100 days ago, told of his activity. Following serious deep check of the unit after its five officers murdered a leading Kazakh oppositionist Altynbek Sarsenbayev, the head of the KNB discovered a number of problems with its commanding staff. A reform in the unit replaced over 20 commanding officers, who were fired without a right to join the force later. A new head of the elite unit was appointed “a skilled reserve officer with a field-work background ”, but his name remains secret.
He also said the KNB is changing slightly terms of receiving new recruits, giving priority to the educated persons. Shabdarbaev also touched the issue of corruption of the state structures, noting that KNB is dealing with this threat to society. He brought examples of recent arrests of the officials in various, including security structures. Shabdarbaev denied rumors of alleged Chechen separatists' "resting bases" in Kazakhstan and said that cooperation on security issues with Russia is on the highest level.

The OSCE may observe trial of the KNB officers accused of murder
The OSCE considers it necessary to send its observers to a trial on the case of assassination of a famous politician Sarsenbayev and his aides by the KNB special unit officers. Christian Strohal, Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, has stated this at an OSCE conference on promoting tolerance, inter-cultural, inter-religious and inter-ethnic understanding, in Almaty, Kazakhstan Today reported. The case on assassination of Altynbek Sarsenbayev and his aides Vasily Zhuravlev and Baurzhan Baibosyn will be considered in Almaty regional court in Taldykorgan. The trial will start on 14 June under the chairmanship of judge Lukmat Merekenov. The trial proceeding will be open.

Basentsi Azoyan (photo: Panarmenian.Net)
Basentsi Azoyan

Armenian military intelligence chief passed away
59-year-old chief of the intelligence department of the Armenian armed forces general staff, major general Basentsi Azoyan passed away, Armenian Defense Minister’s Spokesman, colonel Seyran Shahsuvaryan told Panarmenian.Net. A graduate of the KGB’s Institute, in 1974-1995 Basentsi Azoyan occupied high posts in the national security system. In 1980-1982 he was detached to Iran and in 1983-1986 to Afghanistan. Since 1995 Basentsi Azoyan has served for the Armenian armed forces. He was decorated with the orders for Military Service, Marshal Baghramyan, Andranik Ozanyan, Garegin Njdeh, the order for Strengthening Partnership and the order for Irreproachable Service as well as with the USSR medals and orders. Azoyan will be buried in the Yerablur pantheon.

Poland opens inquiry into 1981 John Paul II death plot
Investigators in Poland said Monday they have opened an inquiry into a suspected plot behind an assassination attempt on late Polish-born Pope John Paul II in 1981. "The inquiry is not into the attack itself but into a plot by communist (secret) services," said Ewa Koj of Poland's National Remembrance Institute (IPN), which is charged with prosecuting Communist and Nazi crimes.
Koj, head of the IPN's investigative department in the southern city of Katowice, told the PAP news agency the inquiry aimed to probe suspected involvement by several countries in planning the assassination attempt on the pope. The IPN has previously said that it does not have direct proof that Polish Communist-era secret police took part in the attack.

Romanian government’s secretary says he was not a Securitate agent
The delegate minister for the coordination of the Romania’s government's General Secretary's Office, Radu Stroe, said yesterday that the document which was handed to him by President Traian Basescu during the his official appointment ceremony included information about a recent formal discussion he had with the president and some other political leaders. Thus, Stroe rejected the rumors saying the document was about an alleged connection he has had with the former communist secret police, the Securitate.
"Despite the speculation concerning that document, it did not comprise information that is a threat for me and my political career. On the contrary, the document includes information in accordance with my political statements and actions concerning an issue much debated by the media in the recent days," said Stroe, Bucharest Daily News reported.
The minister pointed out that the piece of paper illustrates the way in which the head of state likes to approach certain delicate issues.
Stroe also explained that he has never been involved with the Securitate and that the secret police were the ones who monitored his moves, adding that the reason for which he chose not to reveal the information in the document is that as a head of the commission controlling the activity of the Intelligence Service he has learned to be prudent when it comes to information that might be labeled as classified.

EU parliamentarian: Romanian officials knew about CIA flights
The head of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe in the European Parliament (ALDE), Graham Watson, said in an interview with Deutsche Welle that there are suspicions that Romanian officials knew about the CIA flights, despite the strong denials Romanian authorities have sent. "I suspect that there are people in the intelligence services and people in the former government who know about these actions and who have not yet given explanations," said Watson, adding that one of the current Romanian government's main objectives is to ask serious questions to people in the former government and to heads of the intelligence services. Watson's statement follows the report made public by the head of the Council of Europe investigation, Dick Marty, who said there were corroborated facts strengthening the presumption that landing points in Romania and Poland were detainee drop-off points for CIA prisoners. Watson urged the members of the parliamentary commission responsible for the investigation of the alleged CIA prison on Romanian territory to do their job. The head of the commission, Norica Nicolai, has denied the accusations brought by Dick Marty's report and said it makes allegations without evidence.

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12.06.2006
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA staff
Day of Russia goes under tight security as terrorist acts possible

Celebrations of the Russia's Day (photo: Reuters)
Celebrations of the Russia's Day
Secret and security services of Russia are on full alert as the country celebrates its Independence Day. On this day, in 1990, the Russian parliament formally declared its sovereignty. The holiday has been officially recognized since 1991 when it was established by Boris Yeltsin, who was the president of the Russian Federation at the time. The holiday was renamed as Russia's Day in 2002, when it was included as a holiday in the new Labor Code. More than 200000 law enforcement officers ensure security of Russian citizens during the celebrations, a senior Interior Ministry official said Monday, RIAN quoted. Alexander Chekalin, first deputy interior minister, said police patrol and quick-response units had been strengthened all around the country, especially in places of mass gathering of people, including airports, railway stations, and at high security facilities. The police said traffic in the center of Moscow had been restricted for the duration of the festivities. There are fears of possible terrorist acts during the celebrations, as it happened during other holidays in various places in Russia. For example, on May 9, 2004 Ahmad Kadyrov, pro-Russian President of Chechnya was killed. In May this year Russian FSB and Anti-terrorist center reported averting tens of terrorist acts in different regions during the celebrations of the May 1 and Easter. As AIA reported previously, FSB officials fear activization of the Chechen separatists. There are forecasts of increasing of their activity in summer, as their leaders - Shamil Basaev and Movladi Udugov pronounced of "transferring military activities over the Volga river" and possible actions in the large Russian cities.

Russian FSB: Ukrainian Foreign Ministry heads are on the US payroll
Russian FSB sources said to the Novii Region Russian edition that Ukrainian Foreign Ministry heads are on the US payroll. The newspaper cites the sources saying that Pentagon have already transferred money to the personal accounts of Ukrainian officials in the US banks, but they will have an access to it when Ukraine will join NATO. The newspaper also cites unnamed Ukrainian expert and Belarus diplomat, who confirmed this version of the Russian secret service.

Russian FSB destroyed militant's base in Ingushetia
A militant's base discovered during a sweep operation in a forest outside village of Yandare in Ingushetia (Northern Caucasus) early on Sunday morning has been destroyed, a spokesman for the local branch of the Federal Security Service told Interfax. "A silver-colored VAZ-21114 car was found on the base. The car might have been used during the latest crimes in Ingushetia", he said. The militants apparently left the base shortly before the arrival of security units, he added. A radio receiver, ammunition, household stuff, medicines, food supplies, and other belongings were found at the base, the spokesman said. Ingush special operations police commander Musa Nalgiyev, his small children, bodyguard and driver were killed in the village of Karabulak early on Friday morning. Senior local official Galina Gubina was also shot dead in a nearly simultaneous attack in the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya.

Azerbaijani secret services deported political leader of Iranian Azerbaijanis
Leader of the South Azerbaijan National Awakening Movement (SANAM) Mahmoudali Chohraganli was deported from Baku by the local secret services. He was sent to Dubai and further to the USA. Head of the SANAM's Europe bureau in Turkey Mahmoud Bilgin told APA that at the night of the 9th of June-the fifth day of his stay in Turkey, Chohraganli was deported by the local secret services to Baku from Istanbul. He was offered several countries to leave for, but he decided to go to Azerbaijan. After 10-hour-stay at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport, the SANAM leader was also deported by the Azerbaijani confidential bodies. Bilgin regretted for such negligence towards the SANAM leader but he hoped for permanent support from Turkey and Azerbaijan. "South Azerbaijani Turks have always considered Turkey and Azerbaijan as their supporters. However, we could not have thought that our supporters will fear of the Persian regime in the period when Iran is collapsing. We call on these states to back their southern brothers. However, let them not to think that South Azerbaijani Turks will not be able to determine their fortune without their support. We believe the power and will of struggle of 35 million South Azerbaijani Turks," Bilgin underlined. It is considered that deportations of the SANAM leader were made under Iranian pressure.

China calls for more security services' cooperation in the SCO framework
All member-states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) support the strengthening of cooperation of security services and resistance to terrorism, Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Li Huei has said.
"At present China as well as other SCO countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) are targets of the plans of international terrorists. Therefore it is a common aspiration of SCO member-states to strengthen cooperation in security and resistance to terrorism, extremism and separatism," he told a Monday briefing dealing with the summit beginning in Shanghai on June 15, Interfax reported.
He said that the anti-terrorist exercises held in the SCO framework on both a bilateral and multilateral basis are an important component of this resistance and that the practice will continue. "SCO exercises serve to strengthen peace and stability in the region and throughout SCO and they are not directed against third countries or organizations," he said.
As Russian media reports, SCO countries started combining common list of the wanted perpetrators, extremists and terrorists, for joint activities aimed at their apprehension. The list will be based on the one created by SCO's antiterrorist regional staff – RATS. The common list will provide all the SCO members' security services with extensive data on possible terrorist activity and that will assist in predicting and preventing of hostile activities.

Central Asian states' secret services join forces against militants
Secret services of Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan joined forces to search for the militants from the gang that attacked Kyrgyz Batken region on May 12. The gang, which consisted of natives of these countries, killed five Kyrgyz security officers. Five gang members managed to escape and became wanted in all of the abovementioned states. So it was decided that the secret services will seek them jointly, local media reported.

Bulgarian ex-spy apologizes to Serbs
Georgi Koritarov, former agent of the Bulgarian secret service Darzhavna Sigurnost (DS), and at present one of the most popular journalists in Bulgaria, asked Serbs for forgiveness. "I apologize to the citizens of Serbia for having worked for the Bulgarian intelligence services on their territory. I contacted many people, some of whom are popular politicians at present, but my actions did not do anyone harm”, Koritarov said in an interview with the Serbian newspaper Blic. Revealing of Koritarov's name as DS agent last week by the Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumen Petkov was largely discussed by the Bulgarian media. “I know how that happened. Being a popular journalist, I often criticized the Interior Minister blaming him for not being able to tackle with corruption. They probably thought that I would ask them not to announce data about my past. No matter how paradoxical it may sound, my life is independent”, Koritarov said. It all happened in 1977, when Koritarov got out of the obligatory military service by means of a forged diagnosis about epilepsy. The secret services learnt about that and made him work for them. Koritarov’s first task was to observe the work of a lecturer in Serbian studies in the Sofia University, where he studied. Later, Koritarov joined a youth organization. He often traveled to former Yugoslavia working as an interpreter. “One of the leading figures then was Predrag Bulatovic, who is now a leader of the opposition in Montenegro. The secret services told me to keep him under observation”, Koritarov said. He did not point to other names saying he did not want other people to have problems because of his past. Koritarov left the services in 1984. “They had great demands, which I could not fulfill”, the Bulgarian journalist told the Blic. He added that he hopes he would preserve his colleagues and personal friends in Serbia, who were not linked to his past. “I apologize if I have insulted anyone”, Koritarov said, FOCUS reported.

Bulgarian media top chair: Declassifying State Security agency archives is manipulative
Declassifying of the files from archives of the former State Security agency (DS) in Bulgaria is manipulative, Georgi Lozanov, the Chair of the Bulgarian media coalition said in an interview for FOCUS News Agency. “Selecting separate persons, which throws doubt that you wanted to tell part of the truth. There may be no guarantee”, he said. Lozanov has even calculated a formula, which explains the debate surrounding the opening of the classified files of State Security: (Will + Connoisseurship + Civil control) / Time = Justice.

New Romanian law helps former president escape accusations
The head of the Institute for the Study of the Communism's Crimes (ISCC), Marius Oprea, said the new law of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives (CNSAS) will help former President Ion Iliescu escape accusations of having collaborated with the Securitate. Oprea expressed his indignation that a simple informer of the former secret police is subject of public criticism while Iliescu will get away, according to the new law, Bucharest Daily News reported.
The ISCC head said Iliescu was a prime secretary of the Romanian Communist Party and he was the one approving the recruitment of informers of the Securitate. In addition, he used to decide for some party members to be followed or to have their homes bugged.
"Party members could be recruited as informers by the Securitate only with the approval of the prime secretary, who was Ion Iliescu. (...) Why should the one giving these approvals get away? I don't understand why a bloody informer needs to be subject of public opprobrium, while Ion Iliescu to be just fine?" wondered Oprea. He explained that the new law will not find Ion Iliescu an informer because he was in a higher position. "Ion Iliescu was an activist his whole life, since he was in high school until now," said Oprea, who is also a state advisor on security matters.

Trial of former Czech StB officers postponed indefinitely
The Prague City Court today postponed indefinitely the hearing of the case of the almost 50-year-old murder that was allegedly committed by two Communist secret police (StB) officers who sent a parcel with explosive to then Strasbourg governor Andre Tremeaud, that killed his wife. Of the two accused, Milan Michel, 79, alone turned up at the court. "To continue the hearing would mean an attempted murder," his lawyer Cestmir Kubat said. In the past, Kubat defended many former StB members, including Alois Grebenicek, the father of Miroslav Grebenicek, a former chairman of the Communist party (KSCM) which is a member of the Czech Parliament, CTK reported.
Kuban insisted on the postponement of the hearing due to his client's bad health condition who, he said, has the right to live. "Mrs Tremeaud only had the right to live," state attorney Martin Omelka objected. The laywer of Stanislav Tomes, the second defendant, said that although Tomes was interested in the case he was ill at present. The court has therefore decided to review the health condition of both defendants and then decide how it will continue the proceedings.
If found guilty, Michel and Tomes face up to 15 years in prison.
According to the police, the suspects expected the lethal parcel, which they passed off for a box of cigars, to be unwrapped by Tremeaud at a reception during the session of the European Community of Coal and Steel, which was also attended by several leading French politicians. However, it was opened by Henriette, Tremeaud's wife, only three days later. She died from injuries she received in the explosion. The prosecution of Michel and Tomes was proposed by the Office for the Documentation and Investigation of Crimes of Communism (UDV) which has been dealing with the case since 1996.
The StB's participation in the Strasbourg explosion was disclosed by Ladislav Bittman, a former StB officer who emigrated to the USA in 1968, in his book The Deception Game that appeared in 1972.
Bittman lives under a new name in the USA and teaches at Boston University. According to him, the bomb attack was to be the culmination of a disinformation campaign masterminded by the Soviet secret service KGB with the aim to arouse an impression that neo-Nazism was being activated in Germany.
The extensive campaign aimed to thwart the German-French reconciliation process and the emergence of the European Community.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=916

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These are the links in the first of these, that I posted, it is #36, I think.

I was curious as to the spy agency they talked of.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=341

This has several to check on russian spies.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=546

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This is only part of the article, but it caught my eye, a 2005 report...........

Ukrainian SBU may have participated in huge weapons scam in 1992-97
During 1992-1997, armaments and military property on $132 billion were illegally removed from Ukraine, the Head of Parliamentary Ad Hoc Commission, Sergey Sinchenko reported, the local media informed. In 1996, 114 firms were illegally selling stolen arms abroad, whereas the officials of Defence Ministry were involved in the scam. Moreover, this time even the heads of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) were involved, for without their participation the weapons could not have been transferred abroad. Sinchenko noted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited weapons and military property enough to equip a 10-million army. According to foreign sources, these weapons were worth at least $89 billion. Significant part of the weaponry and military property was plundered. Only 20% of the deals were carried out by the organizations, which were officially authorized by the State to carry out such transactions, he said. Sinchenko also noted that the difference between the quantity of the nuclear ammunition transferred by Ukraine to Russia, and the quantity, which was accepted by Russia, reaches 250 units. The location of these unaccounted units is unknown.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=546

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[This is hot off the press for today, what do you make of the beginning, about Iran??]

16.06.2006
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review
AIA staff
Iranian Intelligence to pressure on Iranian refugees and dissidents abroad

ranian Minister of Intelligence and Security Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejeie
Iranian Minister of Intelligence and Security
Following the recent uprisings in the northern provinces and demonstrations across the country, which the Iranian secret services has attributed protests to "foreign elements", Tehran decided to "strike back". As local sources reported, the Minister of Intelligence and Security Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ezhei expressed fear that “the enemy is trying to sow divisions among the people and their government.” He claimed that “a number of the instigators of the unrests are located over the borders and we have begun to make them lose hope in their tactics. Through the Foreign Ministry, we are in contact with the governments of countries where these people are residing or have fled to or from where they are being directed. We have tried to convince these countries to hand them over to the Islamic Republic or at least restrict their activities”. But it is insufficient to his mind, so the Iranian secret services will start acting abroad to oppress "instigators". Mostly it applies to the Iranians in Azerbaijan and leaders of the Iranian Azerbaijanis abroad, local sources report.
As AIA previously reported, Tehran's secret services recently have boosted their work in the countries of the Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. The regional activity of Tehran's secret services concerns mainly the South-Caucasian and Central-Asian politics of the USA. From the point of view of confidential information, Iranian representatives pay most attention to the regional contacts of the Americans in political and military sphere, in particular – to the Pentagon, CIA, and NATO officials' visits to the countries of the region. The Iranians also have a particular interest in all contacts of the employees of the local US embassies, and in the activity of US academic circles and humanitarian foundations. Iranian special services' primary purpose is to collect information about possible use of the states in the region for military, intelligence, and propaganda activity of the USA against the Ayatollahs' regime.

Tajik security services investigate a series of explosions in the capital
Tajik security services are checking into a series of explosions in Dushanbe, which took place yesterday's night and one explosion at the gas pipeline. Three explosions rocked the capital of Tajikistan - by the Iranian embassy, 100 meters from the country's Parliament, near a charitable foundation run by the leader of an Islamist party, and near the Constitutional Court. No one was injured, though explosions caused minor structural damage. A terrorist attack has not been ruled out by the secret services. In a separate incident, a gas pipeline exploded early Friday 20 kilometers outside Dushanbe, leaving central regions of Tajikistan without gas. Fire-fighters needed five hours to bring the flames under control.

Russian scientist accused of espionage claims he is not guilty
Russian scientist Oscar Kaibyshev, a former director of the Institute for Metal Superplasticity Problems, accused of espionage for South Korea, claims he is not guilty, Russian media reported. Supreme Court of the Volga republic of Bashkortostan started reviewing his case. As defense claims, many evidence in case is irrelevant or was obtained by the FSB illegally. For example, South Korean citizens were searched and questioned illegally, without a warrant and without a decent translation.But the court dismissed most of the applications against the evidence. As AIA reported previously, the espionage trial of a Russian scientist has been previously adjourned in January after the defendant complained of feeling unwell. Kaibyshev, 66, stands accused of passing dual-use technology to South Korea The trial of the scientist from Ufa, 1,500 km southeast of Moscow, is being held behind closed doors as the Russian FSB claims that top-secret information will appear in the case. The case against Kaibyshev, who faces 10 years in prison if convicted, was initiated after FSB officers detained last year a South Korean delegation that was leaving Russia with 500 pages of technical documentation and several compact discs containing technical data from Kaibyshev's institute. The institute said the confiscated data focused on years of collaboration between the institute and the tire maker ASA, a subsidiary of Seoul-based Hankook Tire. Kaibyshev said that the firm was using superplastic technology in designs for high-pressure tires. The technology is apparently able to stretch titanium alloy to improve its mechanical properties, but FSB experts said the technical data provided to South Korean experts could be used to produce missiles and weapons.

Russian FSB to run drill in Novosibirsk
On Friday night Russian FSB will run an antiterrorist drill in Novosibirsk (Russia's third largest city) metro, local media reported. The drill will include releasing hostages captured by the terrorists in the underground. All the local special and security services will participate in the training.

Russian FSB forming special medical service
Russian FSB forming joint special medical service for the country's secret services, Rossiiskaya Gazeta reported. Each service has today its internal medical structure, as the employees of such bodies need "special" treatment and health control. Of course, all the data on their medical condition and treatment is highly classified. The head of the FSB and the Russian President recently urged to develop the special medical services. They will be soon combined into one joint structure.

Lithuanian members of parliament curious about new prime minister's youth interest in KGB
The former Minister of Transport and Communications and Finance Zigmantas Balcytis, who has been the Acting Prime Minister of Lithuania since June 1, was proposed on June 15 by the country's President Valdas Adamkus, to the post of the Prime Minister. During the following debate on the candidacy of Balcytis at the Lithuanian Seym (parliament) the members of parliament were interested most of all in the details of the contender's biography. As the correspondent of the Regnum news agency reports from Vilnius, they questioned Zigmantas Balcytis about his activities as a head of a unit of the Komsomol (the Communist Youth Union) under the Soviets. The members of parliament also wanted to clear out whether the information was true that in his youth Balcytis even wanted to join the KGB, but was rejected because of bad health. Balcytis denied the information, announcing he failed to hold a leader's position in the Komsomol and added that he was an instructor-controller there and was in charge of financial flows. As for the KGB, he declared that had never aspired joining the security service. I was really turned down on account of poor health, well, not from the KGB, but from an aviation school," Balcytis is quotyed by the Regnum as saying.

Latvian President blocked publishing of the "KGB sacks"
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga blocked parliament's decision to publish the names of nearly 4500 suspected Soviet secret police informants, Novonews reported. To her mind the files in the notorious "KGB sacks" are too fragmentary and mixed, while nobody knows who are the people in the files – informants or victims of the KGB. As AIA reported last week, Latvia's parliament approved a bill to publish the names in the state newspaper Vestnesis on November 1. The date was picked to steer clear of any political influence on upcoming parliamentary elections in October. When the Soviet intelligence service left Latvia, most files showing who worked with the KGB, and who they informed on, were taken back to Moscow. Those left contain mainly the names of agents active in 1991, when they were recruited and by whom, according to officials overseeing the files. With the publishing of the names, an accompanying statement would explain that the role of those identified was unclear, and that they could have been coerced into working with the KGB or be completely innocent.
Two years ago, Vike-Freiberga sent a similar bill back to parliament for reconsideration, saying it did not stipulate who would have access to the files and how they would be used. Her veto can be overridden in Parliament with a two-thirds majority vote.

CIA has had a staff in Bulgaria – the most active on the Balkans
“CIA has had a staff in Sofia for a few years already. It was established around the embassy”, Serbian military analyst Milovan Drecun told FOCUS News Agency. He said he referred to people working for the intelligence services. According to the analyst, the CIA’s staff is one the most active ones on the Balkans. “As reports said, it will become more influential, because the USA will deploy military bases in Bulgaria and the intelligence should defend them from the activities of extremists, Milovan Drecun said. Also, he said that Bulgarian secret services are performing certain activities, connected to the region by order of the US services. Drecun grounded his claims on his reliable sources from the leadership of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and KFOR. According to him, the Bulgarian services are very active on the Balkans and have strong presence in Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo. FOCUS reminds that Drecun told the Montenegrin newspaper Dan that a CIA staff in charge of the Balkans had functioned for years in Sofia. The leader of the Montenegrin opposition Predrag Bulatovic had been observed at its order.

A scandal in Romanian politics connected with Securitate's collaborator – the head of the coalition
Sources within the Romanian authority in charge of granting access to files of former communist intelligence services, or CNSAS, Friday said the members of the authority concluded unanimously the head of ruling coalition Conservative Party Dan Voiculescu was a collaborator of the former secret services. If they are not contested, CNSAS decisions become final and are published in the Official Gazette within 15 days, unless the persons found to have collaborated with the communist secret services step down from their public posts.
Last week, the Conservative Party, or PC, nominated Voiculescu for the state minister post left vacant by businessman and PC member George Copos, who resigned early June citing his disapproval of the new Fiscal Code draft approved by the Government.
Voiculescu said he planned to take the state minister seat. He asked CNSAS to run a check of his past, as the law required.
On Thursday, Voiculescu said he would appeal in court any decision that implies he was a collaborator during the communist regime.
On Friday, the president of PC's executive board, Sabin Cutas, said if CNSAS' conclusion, which was reached after a six-hour meeting Thursday, finds Voiculescu did indeed collaborate with the former secret services, than he would resign his seat in the Senate, Mediaform reports.
As Bucharest Daily News reported, after being heard on Tuesday by the CNSAS, Voiculescu admitted that two new files had appeared out of the blue and asked the intelligence agency to explain why it kept them secret for 16 years. "I officially ask intelligence chief Radu Timofte to explain publicly why the documents sent to CNSAS now were absurdly kept secret for 16 years and to specify when the agency had discovered these files," said Voiculescu, adding that the agency should immediately send to CNSAS any other documents they may have on him.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=920

From the Iran part, from 2005.

http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=201