Posted on 08/07/2006 3:43:15 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004’s United Nations resolution 1559, which called for the disarming of Hezbollah. NRO editor Kathryn Lopez recently talked to Phares about what’s going on in the Mideast, what happened to the Cedar Revolution, and this war we’re all in.
Kathryn Jean Lopez: What is “Future Jihad”? Are we seeing it in the Mideast now?
Walid Phares: “Future Jihad,” which has already begun, refers to a new and potent form of Islamic terrorism, characterized by a Khumeinist-Baathist axis. These are the two trees of jihadism, so to speak — the Salafism and Wahabism embodied in al Qaeda and the sort of jihadism led by Iran and also including Syria, Hezbollah, and their allies in Lebanon.
The alliance has not been in entire agreement as to strategy. The al Qaeda branch began its “Future Jihad” in the 1990s; its efforts culminated on 9/11 and have continued explosively since then. The international “Salafists” aimed at the U.S. in the past decade in order to strengthen their jihads on various battlefields (Chechnya, India, Sudan, Algeria, Indonesia, Palestine, etc.). “Weaken the resolve of America,” their ideologues said, “and the jihadists would overwhelm all the regional battlefields.”
As I argue in Future Jihad, bin Laden and his colleagues miscalculated on the timing of the massive attack against the U.S. in 2001. While they wounded America, they didn’t kill its will to fight (as was the case, for instance, in the Madrid 3/11 attacks). I have heard many jihadi cadres online, and have seen al Jazeera commentators on television, offering hints of criticism about the timing. They were blaming al Qaeda for shooting its imagined “silver bullet” before insuring a strategic follow up. But bin Laden and Zawahiri believe 9/11 served them well, and has put a global mobilization into motion. Perhaps it has, but the U.S. counter strategy in the Middle East, chaotic as the region currently appears, has unleashed counter jihadi forces. The jury is still out as to the time factor: when these forces will begin to weaken the jihadists depends on our perseverance and the public understanding of the whole conflict.
The other “tree” of jihadism, with its roots in Iran, withheld fire after 9/11. They were content to watch the Salafists fight it out with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention within the West, as terror cells were hunted down. Ahmedinejad, Assad, and Nasrallah were analyzing how far the US would go, and how far the Sunnis and Salafis would go as well.
The fall of the Taliban and of the Baath in Iraq, however, changed Iran and Syria’s patient plans. The political changes in the neighborhood, regardless of their immediate instability, were strongly felt in Tehran and Damascus (but unfortunately not in the U.S., judging from the political debate here), and pushed the Khumeinists and the Syrian Baathists to enter the dance, but carefully. Assad opened his borders to the jihadists in an attempt to crumble the U.S. role in Iraq, while Iran articulated al Sadr’s ideology for Iraq’s Shiia majority.
A U.S.-led response came swiftly in 2004 with the voting of UNSCR 1559, smashing Syria’s role in Lebanon and forcing Assad to withdraw his troops by April 2005. In response, the “axis” prepared for a counter attack on the Lebanese battlefield by assassinating a number of the Cedar Revolution leaders, including MP Jebran Tueni. In short, the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah and the kidnappings of soldiers were the tip of an offensive aimed at drawing attention away from Iran’s nuclear weapons programs and Syria’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Hezbollah was awaiting its moment for revenge against the Cedar Revolution too.
What we see now is 1) a Syro-Iranian sponsored offensive aimed at all democracies in the region and fought in Lebanon; 2) Israel’s counter offensive (which it seems to have prepared earlier); and 3) an attempt by Hezbollah to take over or crumble the Lebanese government.
Lopez: So…did the Cedar Revolution fail?
Phares: Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the Cedar Revolution was failed. The masses in Lebanon responded courageously in March 2005 by putting 1.5 million people on the streets of Beirut. They did it without “no-fly-zones,” expeditionary forces, or any weapons at all, for that matter, and against the power of three regimes, Iran, Syria, and pro-Syrian Lebanon, in addition to Hezbollah terror. The “revolution” was for a time astoundingly successful; since then it has been horribly failed, and first of all by Lebanon’s politicians themselves. One of their leaders, General Michel Aoun, shifted his allegiances to Syria and signed a document with Hezbollah. Other politicians from the “March 14 Movement” then stopped the demonstrations, leaving them with the support of God knows what. They failed in removing the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and brought back a pro-Syrian politician to serve as a speaker of the house, Nabih Berri. Meanwhile, even as they were elected by the faithful Cedar Revolution masses, they engaged in a round table dialogue with Hezbollah, a clear trap set by Hassan Nasrallah: “Let’s talk about the future,” he said — with the implication, of course, that they forget about the Cedar Revolution and the militia’s disarming. While political leaders sat for months, enjoying the photo ops with Hassan Nasrallah, he was preparing his counter offensive, which he unleashed just a few days before the Security Council would discuss the future of Iran’s nuclear programs.
The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Seniora also abandoned the Cedar Revolution. His cabinet neither disarmed Hezbollah nor called on the U.N. to help in implementing UNSCR 1559. This omission is baffling. The government was given so much support by the international community and, more importantly, overwhelming popular support inside Lebanon: 80 percent of the people were hoping the Cedar Revolution-backed government would be the one to resume the liberation of the country. Now Hezbollah has an upper hand and the government is on the defensive.
The U.S. and its allies can be accused of certain shortcomings as well. While the speeches by the U.S. president, congressional leaders from both parties, Tony Blair, and Jacques Chirac were right on target regarding Lebanon, and while the U.S. and its counterparts on the Security Council were diligent in their follow up on the Hariri assassination and on implementing UNSCR 1559, there was no policy or plan to support the popular movement in Lebanon. Incredibly, while billions were spent on the war of ideas in the region, Lebanese NGOs that wanted to resume the struggle of the Cedar Revolution and fighting alone for this purpose were not taken seriously at various levels. Policy planners thought they were dealing with the “Cedar Revolution” when they were meeting Lebanon’s government and Lebanese politicians. The difference between the high level speeches on Lebanon and the laissez-faire approach from lower levels is amazing. Simply put, there was no policy on supporting the Cedar Revolution against the three regimes opposing it and the $400 million received by Hezbollah from Iran.
The Cedar Revolution was basically betrayed by its own politicians and is now essentially without a head. Nevertheless, as long as the international support remains, the Revolution will find its way and will face the dangers. The one and a half million ordinary citizens who braved all the dangers didn’t change their minds about Hezbollah’s terror. The resistance and counter-attack was to be expected. Unfortunately, thus far Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah have outmaneuvered the West and are at the throats of the Cedar Revolution. The international community must revise its plans, and, if it is strongly backed by the U.S. and its allies, including France, the situation can be salvaged. The good seeds are still inside the country.
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Drugs Worth $22 Million Stolen From Area Company (two tractor-trailers full)
WRAL ^ | 8/10/06
Posted on 08/10/2006 3:11:48 PM PDT by Libloather
Drugs Worth Millions Stolen From Area Company
UPDATED: 12:07 am EDT August 10, 2006
WAKE COUNTY, N.C. -- Federal, state and local authorities are investigating an interstate drug heist, after millions of dollars in medications never made it to their intended destination.
Authorities said that the alleged heist occurred at Longistics Corporation in Wake County near Research Triangle Park late Saturday. According to police, at least three suspects targeted the company, which handles shipments for the health care industry, and stole two tractor-trailers full of prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
"The FBI estimates that the total value of the prescription and non-prescription drugs that were on those two trailers is about $22 million," said Jim Sughrue of the Raleigh Police Department.
Sughrue said that the suspects then headed to a truck stop on Jones Sausage Road off Interstate 40 East, where they left one of the cabs, hooked up the trailer to another cab and made their getaway. Authorities recovered the abandoned truck on Tuesday.
The truck stop is a popular stopping point for many truckers on I-40 and nearby I-95. Authorities said that the alleged stolen goods could have been transported anywhere in the United States.
**SNIP**
Since the alleged heist could involve the transport of stolen goods across state lines, several state, local and federal law enforcement agencies are investigating the incident. For that reason, many details related to the investigation aren't being released, including information about possible suspects.
The trailer tags on the missing trailers are Tennessee-issued T-290478 and Z-83247. The license tag on the missing truck is North Carolina-issued LM-1752. If you have any information relating to this case, contact your local law enforcement office.
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ABC News Exclusive: Three Alleged Ringleaders ID'd
ABC News ^ | 8/10/2006 | ABC News
Posted on 08/10/2006 11:11:47 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
Three of the alleged ringleaders of the foiled airplane bomb plot have been identified by western intelligence agencies involved in unraveling the plot.
Two of them are believed to have recently traveled to Pakistan and were later in receipt of money wired to them from Pakistan, reportedly to purchase tickets for the suicide bombers.
Sources identify the three, who are now in custody, as:
--Rashid Rauf
--Mohammed al-Ghandra
--Ahmed al Khan
[for name rauf] [from 9-30-2004
https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap5_annxD.html
Iraq’s Chemical Warfare Program
Annex D
Iraq's WMD > Iraq's Chemical Warfare Program > Annex D
Tariq Company’s Activities
The Tariq Company, also referred to as the Tariq Facility and formerly the Tariq State Establishment, encompassed several facilities near Fallujah including a headquarters complex; Fallujah I, Fallujah II, and Fallujah III (also known as Habbaniyah III, II, and I); a research site in Baghdad referred to as the “Baghdad site”; and several storage locations. Tariq was subordinate to the former Muthanna State Establishment (MSE) chemical weapons (CW) research, production and storage facility near Samarra before it was destroyed. It has a long history of ties to Iraq’s CW program, and throughout the 1990s continued to house key CW scientists and maintain basic capabilities to produce at least some CW precursor chemicals. Iraq renovated key processes and reinitiated production of basic chemicals in 2000.
* Tariq chemical facilities were designed to be, and in the case of Fallujah II previously used as, CW precursor production plants.
* Fallujah II, while under previous state ownership, produced nerve agent and sulfur mustard precursors for MSE in the late 1980s.
* Tariq as of 2002 employed some of the more influential personalities associated with Iraq’s former CW production programs.
In an effort to determine the nature and extent of Tariq’s activities after 1991, ISG conducted a series of site visits, interviews with key personnel, and document exploitation. Teams focused on evaluating activities of the two active Fallujah plants and questioning the former CW scientists, many of whom had held important positions in the former CW program, about their efforts at Tariq after the Gulf war.
Based on these investigations, ISG assesses that the Tariq Company did not provide Iraq with a break-out capability for nerve agent production.
* Pesticide (Formerly Fallujah III): Instead of synthesizing precursors and pesticides on site and in Iraq, Tariq imported concentrated commercial pesticides for formulation, repackaging, and local distribution.
* Chlorine/Phenol Plant (Formerly Fallujah II): Leading up to OIF, this plant was not fully operational, and was unlikely to have provided any basic chemicals such as chlorine or phenol to an Iraqi CW effort. Because of technical problems, the plant could not even supply local markets with its products.
* One of Tariq’s labs, the Baghdad Research Laboratory, was closed at an unknown date, according to interviews with Huwaysh, and he stated its employees did not participate in any CW-related research while it was open. Other ISG interviews indicate that the lab may have engaged in defensive nerve agent detector research.
As of 2001 or 2002, Tariq scientists were still regarded by members of the Regime as CW experts. When Saddam asked in 2001 or 2002 for an estimate of how long it would take to build a production line for CW, Huwaysh approached a team of Tariq scientists to answer the question, according to an ISG interview with Huwaysh.
* Huwaysh’s expert team included a number of Tariq employees, such as former directors Ghazi Faisal and Zuhair al-Qazzaz, according to the same interview.
We are considering the possibility that Huwaysh confused the details and actually was referring to a similar incident involving him that occurred in 1997. In the latter case, Huwaysh—not Saddam—reportedly initiated a query about how Iraq’s CW capability would be limited by an UNSCOM-ordered destruction of dual-use equipment rather than how quickly production could be restarted.
Dual-Use Facilities
Pesticide (Formerly Fallujah III)
Instead of synthesizing precursors and pesticides on site and in Iraq, Tariq imported concentrated commercial pesticides for formulation, repackaging, and local distribution.
* ISG interviews of a senior scientist revealed that around 50 tons per year of the pesticide Nugoz was imported, sometimes using false customs declarations.
* A research scientist stated that while Tariq formulated a large list of commercial pesticides, the company did not produce pesticides at greater than laboratory scale, which he attributed to a lack of glass-lined equipment available in Tariq.
Castor Oil Production (Formerly Fallujah III)
Castor oil was also produced at Tariq from 1992 until 2002, but ISG investigations did not uncover any indication that the ricin-containing mash was further processed or transferred off-site for any purpose. According to interviews with Tariq officials, they complied with UNSCOM regulations by burning the residual castor bean mash in pits near the Fallujah III facility.
Castor oil production ended in 2002 because of rising prices of castor beans and decreasing customer interest. Two companies interested in purchasing Tariq’s castor oil were Ibn Al-Baytar and Samarra Drug Industries, but ultimately neither company purchased Tariq’s oil because its process used solvent extraction and rendered the oil unfit for pharmaceutical and medical uses, according to the same interviews.
* An ISG site visit indicated that the castor oil extraction plant appeared to be undamaged, but there was no evidence of any current activity. All of the surrounding buildings were empty, possibly because of looters.
* Tariq’s castor bean supplier, the Company for Industrial Forests, had raised its prices from 60,000 to 400,000 Iraqi dinars per ton (from US $38 to $250) in 2002, and predicted that prices would increase to 700,000 dinars ($438) the next year, according to the same interviews.
Former CW Personnel Employed by Tariq
Tariq employed a large number of CW scientists and engineers from Muthanna State Establishment, especially within upper management of the company, throughout the 1990s and up to March 2003:
* Dr. Ghazi Faysal: Worked to build Tariq under the OMI after MSE was destroyed in the first Gulf war. Served as the director of Tariq until moving to al-Basel center.
* Dr. Iyad Muhammad Rashid Rauf: Deputy General Director for the Tariq facility. Iyad Rashid researched nerve agent production in the Salah ad Din Research Department of MSE.
* Husayn Shamki: Tariq research scientist.
* Ihsen Abd al-Amir: Tariq research scientist.
* Issam Daud Faysal:Formerly of the Al Karama Facility. Involved in quality control at MSE.
* Brig.Eng. Hayder Hassan Taha: Director of the Chlorine factory at Tariq; previously worked as a chemical engineer in the Project Directorate in Al-Muthana State Co.
* Staff Colonel Ra’d Manhal: Commercial and Planning director and NMD point of contact at Tariq, former director of the MSE munitions filling station.
Chlorine (Formerly Fallujah II)
Chlorine, a feedstock for some CW precursors, was produced at Tariq from 1993 to 1996,and sporadically thereafter; however, ISG has not discovered any information that indicates chlorine from the plant was diverted to a CW program. During an ISG site visit, the director of the phenol plant stated that chlorine production had stopped months before OIF. Reporting indicates the facility was unable to obtain membranes—the key component of the technology at Tariq—to separate the chlorine.
* Members of the site visit team noted that membranes, probably older, used ones, were stacked by the roadside close to the northwest entrance. The director stated that they had been moved here to protect them in the event that the plant was bombed.
* Chlorine from the plant was sold to local sanitation plants and also consumed onsite to produce other commercial water purification compounds such as sodium hypochlorite and calcium hypochlorite, which were sold for water treatment, according to the director.
Technical difficulties with the process resulted in lower production outputs from 1996 until 2000. According to the director, the chlorine cells had been broken for several months and control valves, main instrumentation control panels and a step down transformer were missing.
In 1999, the Indian firm NEC Engineers Private, Ltd., was recruited to begin repairing the chlorine production lines, according to multiple sources. The plant director during the interview said NEC constructed the membrane cell equipment that would be use to produce chlorine and caustic soda, but one of the membranes was second-hand and perforated easily, which caused further problems with the operation.
* Once the project was completed, operational training in India was scheduled for the plant engineers in, according to documents recovered by ISG.
* Tariq, along with MIC employees and a representative from Iraqi Intelligence, formed a committee to conceal imports from India’s NEC engineers during a chlorine plant repair, according to documents recovered by ISG.
By March 2000, with help from the Indian firm NEC Engineers, the chlor-alkali plant was brought back on-line. On 02 July 2003, neither the chlorine nor the phenol plants at Fallujah II were in working order. With little likelihood of any production in the near future, few employees were at the facility.
Phenol (Formerly Fallujah II)
Since its 1995 commissioning, UNSCOM was suspicious of the true nature of Tariq’s phenol plant because of its proximity to Tariq’s chlorine plant and a lack of details about modifications performed at the plant. As of OIF, the plant was no longer in operation, according to an ISG site visit and interviews with the director of the plant; the temperature control equipment was broken, as had been the case for some years, and was one of the reasons for the plant’s low production levels.
* According to the plant director, the phenol had mostly been for al-Ramadi facility, where it was converted into a resin, used for making molds.
* ISG visited a resin facility north of Baghdad in March 2004, and observed that this large phenol consumer did not use indigenously produced phenol from the Tariq facility; rather, they imported phenol from South Africa, with UN permission.
* Additional processes at the phenol plant included a small azeotropic ethanol distillation unit, recovered from Al Muthanna. The purified ethanol was then sent to SDI and hospitals for pharmaceutical purposes, according to the director.
* In addition to a large list of industrial uses including resin and fiberglass production, phenol could also be used as a starting block for cyclohexanol, one component of cyclosarin, when reacted catalytically with chlorine. Cylcohexanol can also be synthesized from benzene, a much cheaper and more abundant chemical in Iraq, but we have no information that indicates Iraq used either process to produce cyclohexanol.
Research Activities
We assess the bulk of the Tariq’s research throughout the 1990s—formulation and stability of pesticides—was legitimate and not CW related; however, a limited amount of defensive work with nerve agent simulants, and even gram-scale synthesis of agent may have occurred.
* A research scientist reported that a typical formulation research project included evaluation of the following factors: literature research on pesticides; availability and ease of import of raw concentrated ingredient, emulsifiers, and stabilizers within Iraq; stability testing and physical properties testing of formulated product over time and temperature ranges; and field testing with 500 kg pilot-scale batches.
* The scientist confirmed to ISG that malathion, dichlorovos and 2,4-D amine, the amine salt of 2,4-D, had all been synthesized on a laboratory scale.
Because of feared repercussions and the awareness of the dual-use nature of Tariq’s products, officials at Tariq were often reported as hesitant to allow or support research that could be considered CW-applicable by the international community.
* Ghazi Faisal had instructed the researchers to avoid synthesis of organophosphorus compounds as it might cause them difficulties with the UN, according to ISG interviews with Tariq scientists, and a senior scientist claimed he did not know of any synthesis of phosphorus based compounds.
* Huwaysh stated that he went out of his way to make sure that no CW research was going on, even to the point of canceling the Tariq research center in Baghdad.
Tariq, in addition to its own research for industrial processes, also bid for and won research contracts from the IIC list of 1,000 chemicals, none of which were phosphorus-related. Tariq’s research and development department routinely reported the progress of these projects to Hamza Yassin, chief of chemical research and development at the OMI, according to reporting.
* Tariq researchers evaluated scale-up feasibility of the following industrial chemicals: benzyl alcohol, acetyl chloride, sodium hydroxide, aluminum hydroxide, ortho-chloroanaline, calcine, ferrous chloride, and mono-chloro acetic acid.
Tariq scientists have also participated in CW defensive research, including the development of suitable nerve agent simulants for military training purposes and possible gram-scale production of VX standards for testing detectors and studying its degradation products.
* A senior scientist, when asked about military equipment at Tariq, immediately mentioned a Russian-made detection system brought to the site by another senior scientist and used in simulant research.
* A research scientist described larger-scale simulant research project in 2002 that had been directed by a presidential order. The research group produced 1,000 liters of Tariq One—Nogoz as a nerve agent simulant, and Tariq Two—diethyl amine as a nitrogen mustard simulant. The compounds were colored with dye, and thickened with a polymer. He asserted that any symptoms from the formulated pesticides would pass within a half hour, according to ISG interviews with him.
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Planned an 'October 2005 surprise', I have not checked it out.
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http://press.jrc.it/NewsExplorer/entities/en/338162.html
List of Pakistan professors, would prove interesting if googled]
http://www.hec.gov.pk/htmls/supervisor/supdetail.asp?id=10
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NDTV Correspondent
Friday, August 11, 2006 (London):
Homes and businesses across England are being searched after police say that a plot to blow up UK flights to the US was disrupted on Thursday.
Police are currently questioning 24 people, and they are convinced that they have detained the key players, but believe the network involved is global.
US intelligence officials believe that the plotters hoped to stage a practice run followed by actual attacks on up to 10 planes within days.
Bush commends intelligence
US President George Bush, on his part, has commended the performance of intelligence officials in the UK and added that the war against terror continued.
"The recent arrests that our fellow citizens are now learning about are a stark reminder that this nation is at war with Islamic fascists who will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom, to hurt our nation. I want to thank the government of Tony Blair and officials in the United Kingdom for their good work in busting this plot," said Bush.
Meanwhile, the flights from London landed in Delhi and Mumbai early on Friday morning after services at Heathrow were virtually paralysed following the news of the terror bid.
"We were a little scared at that time but later it was okay. Once we got airborne it was more relaxed," said a passenger.
"They weren't letting us take milk for our baby. They relented only after we tasted the milk in front of them to prove that it was indeed milk, said another."
Pakistan arrests
Meanwhile, several allegedly related arrests have been made in Pakistan.
The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesperson in London has said that these arrests were made after exchange of information between the two governments.
Moreover, on the heels of the arrests in the UK, a suspicious package also forced an Air Canada flight to the United States to make an unscheduled landing as jittery air travelers remain on high alert.
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Bomb Squads Roll out to Two Salem Locations
Salem-News.com ^ | August 10,2006
Posted on 08/10/2006 6:25:58 PM PDT by oneolcop
Salem-News.com (August 10,2006 14:00) Bomb Squads Roll out to Two Salem Locations Salem-News.com Residents should stay clear of Roth's IGA on Lancaster and Salem Hospital
(SALEM) -Local area police are on the scene of two suspected suspicious devices in Salem. Information is scarce, but both Salem and State Police bomb squads have been deployed according to Salem Police.
One of the locations is the Roth's IGA store at 702 Lancaster Drive NE in Salem.
The other location is Salem Hospital at 665 Winter Street SE.
Good for you, good job.
Don't you dare take us off your ping list, laughing, as I think of how valuable your work is and how it would be missed.
placemarker
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Bank of England names 19 terror suspects
AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/10/06 | AP
Posted on 08/10/2006 9:33:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LONDON - The Bank of England froze the assets of 19 people early Friday, naming them as people arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged terror plot to bomb British passenger jets.
"On the advice of the police and security services, the Treasury has instructed the Bank of England to issue notices to effect a freeze of the assets of a number of individuals arrested in yesterday's operations," a Treasury statement said.
Most of those named in the list were London residents, and many bore Muslim names.
Scotland Yard had no immediate comment.
The bank released the following names: Abdula Ahmed Ali, Cossor Ali, Shazad Khuram Ali, Nabeel Hussain, Tanvir Hussain, Umair Hussain, Umar Islam, Waseem Kayani, Assan Abdullah Khan, Waheed Arafat Khan, Osman Adam Khatib, Abdul Muneem Patel, Tayib Rauf, Muhammed Usman Saddique, Assad Sarwar, Ibrahim Savant, Amin Asmin Tariq, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, and Waheed Zaman..
The oldest person on the list, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, is 35. The youngest, Abdul Muneem Patel, is 17.
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On the Net:
Bank of England release: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2006/082.htm
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Jet Stuck in Mud at Mississippi Airport
AP ^ | 8/10/6
Posted on 08/10/2006 9:06:06 PM PDT by SmithL
Jackson, Miss. -- A jetliner strayed off the runway Thursday night at an airport and got stuck in the mud, stranding more than 200 passengers for hours, authorities said.
The Delta Airlines jet, bound for Atlanta from San Francisco, was diverted to Jackson because of bad weather in the Atlanta area, an airport official said.
After refueling, pilots edged off the runway at Jackson-Evers International Airport and the plane became stuck.
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Qatar airline attemted hijack:
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.....................9/11, 8/10, 7/9?.........................
Interesting progression of numbers.
63 posted on 08/10/2006 8:13:34 AM PDT by DoctorMichael
Iran’s Supreme Leader orders Muslims to support Hezbollah
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8197
Could Aug. 22 Be the End of the World Thanks to Iran?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,207597,00.html
Chechen parliament hails Putin
The pro-Moscow elite in Grozny demonstrates its loyalty to the Russian president
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16489
Putin calls for immediate ceasefire, talks in Mideast
http://www.trend.az/?mod=shownews&news=24986&lang=en
German Intelligence Between Israel and Hezbollah
Michel Elbaz, Sami Rosen
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Germany has been carrying out a key role in realization of deals on exchange of prisoners between Israel and the Hezbollah organization. Of five deals concluded between 1991 and 2004, three were prepared by the German mediators. Any other state never managed to establish such an effective secret contact between Hezbollah and Israel. In July 2006 both sides first of all addressed Berlin with the request to arrange the next exchange of captives, after abduction of two Israeli reservists by the Shiite insurgents. According to the general opinion, Germany, by virtue of the former experience and the settled contacts with all participants of the conflict, has biggest chances to make a new deal, though some other countries have been trying to challenge it now, and France was the first to do so. Berlin in its mediatory activity is formally guided by exclusively humanitarian reasons. However, a detailed research of its role in the history of exchange deals between Israel and Hezbollah testifies that mediatory mission, as a rule, had served only as a cover of much more pragmatic purposes. Participation in these deals has been dictated by economic and political aspirations of Berlin in the Middle East, first of all in Iran, its preoccupation by destiny of its own abducted citizens, and also by external and domestic interests of the German intelligence community.
http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1018
Iran will expand nukes
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran vowed Sunday to expand its uranium enrichment, defying a U.N. Security Council deadline to suspend its nuclear activities by the end of the month or face the threat of political and economic sanctions.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/08072006/worldnation-ph-wn-iran.html
Police probe firebombing as potential terrorist act
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Font: * * * * CanWest News Service; Montreal Gazette
Published: Wednesday, August 09, 2006
MONTREAL - The Quebec provincial police is investigating whether the firebombing of a car owned by petroleum industry spokesperson Carol Montreuil was a terrorist act.
The car burst into flames Thursday around 3:15 a.m. in the driveway of Montreuil's home 30 kilometres north of Montreal in Lorraine, Que., according to police spokesperson Marc Butz.
Montreuil is eastern Canada Division vice president of the Canadian Petroleum Products Institute.
The provincial police anti-terrorism unit is to analyze the charred shell of the car to determine what caused the explosion.
"We don't know if it was a bomb or some technical malfunction," Butz said yesterday. "That could take several days, even weeks."
However, Butz said the case may be linked to a December 2004 attack on a Hydro Quebec transmission tower in the Eastern Townships.
A little-known group called the Initiative de resistance internationaliste claimed responsibility for both incidents in emails sent to some media outlets in 2004 and on Friday, he said.
On Sunday, the police seized computer files from the Journal de Montreal to trace an email the paper received, Butz said.
The email blamed oil companies for holding consumers hostage while making big profits, damaging the environment and financing wars in places such as Iraq.
In June, Montreuil, vice-president of the Canada Petroleum Products Institute, which represents oil companies, said they intend to pass along the costs, and that the $200-million-a-year carbon tax will emerge in the form of 1.5-cent increase a litre in fuel.
Montreal Gazette
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=d4bbd58f-11a4-4945-800d-92025da4dfbc&k=11876
Thanks to Milford421 for this update...........
Posted: Thursday, 10 August 2006 8:18PM
"The outage most likely affected some traveler's at LaGuardia and
JFK airports." Such a coincidence.
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/67428.php
NEW YORK -- A water leak
damaged equipment in a central office
facility owned by Verizon, causing cell phone service to be knocked
out to Sprint Nextel customers in Queens on Thursday.
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