World Terrorism: News, History and Research Of A Changing World #5

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The following items are terrorism-related items from the National Intelligence Council's "Global Trends 2015: A Dialogue About the Future With Nongovernment Experts" report (December 2000).

States with poor governance; ethnic, cultural, or religious tensions; weak economies; and porous borders will be prime breeding grounds for terrorism. In such states, domestic groups will challenge the entrenched government, and transnational networks seeking safehavens.

At the same time, the trend away from state-supported political terrorism and toward more diverse, free-wheeling, transnational networks—enabled by information technology—will continue. Some of the states that actively sponsor terrorism or terrorist groups today may decrease or even cease their support by 2015 as a result of regime changes, rapprochement with neighbors, or the conclusion that terrorism has become counterproductive. But weak states also could drift toward cooperation with terrorists, creating de facto new state supporters.

Between now and 2015 terrorist tactics will become increasingly sophisticated and designed to achieve mass casualties.

Experts agree that the United States, with its decisive edge in both information and weapons technology, will remain the dominant military power during the next 15 years. Further bolstering the strong position of the United States are its unparalleled economic power, its university system, and its investment in research and development—half of the total spent annually by the advanced industrial world. Many potential adversaries, as reflected in doctrinal writings and statements, see US military concepts, together with technology, as giving the United States the ability to expand its lead in conventional warfighting capabilities.

This perception among present and potential adversaries will continue to generate the pursuit of asymmetric capabilities against US forces and interests abroad as well as the territory of the United States. US opponents—state and such nonstate actors as drug lords, terrorists, and foreign insurgents—will not want to engage the US military on its terms. They will choose instead political and military strategies designed to dissuade the United States from using force, or, if the United States does use force, to exhaust American will, circumvent or minimize US strengths, and exploit perceived US weaknesses. Asymmetric challenges can arise across the spectrum of conflict that will confront US forces in a theater of operations or on US soil.

Some potential adversaries will seek ways to threaten the US homeland. The US national infrastructure—communications, transportation, financial transactions, energy networks—is vulnerable to disruption by physical and electronic attack because of its interdependent nature and by cyber attacks because of their dependence on computer networks. Foreign governments and groups will seek to exploit such vulnerabilities using conventional munitions, information operations, and even WMD.

Much of the terrorism noted earlier will be directed at the United States and its overseas interests. Most anti-US terrorism will be based on perceived ethnic, religious or cultural grievances. Terrorist groups will continue to find ways to attack US military and diplomatic facilities abroad. Such attacks are likely to expand increasingly to include US companies and American citizens. Middle East and Southwest Asian-based terrorists are the most likely to threaten the United States.

Canada calls for reinforcements in Afghanistan

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Canada calls for reinforcements in Afghanistan

PAUL KORING

Globe and Mail Update

Riga, Latvia - Canada wants reinforcements for its embattled troops in
Kandahar - not just the lifting of restrictions that currently keep the
forces of major European allies far from the fighting, Foreign Minister
Peter MacKay said Tuesday.

"Lifting caveats is part of the equation," Mr. Mackay said, adding that
leaders will thrash out whether other nations have the ``capacity and
willingness to send more soldiers, to put more boots on the ground."

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is pushing combat-shy Europeans to ease
the
burden on Canadian troops doing much of the fighting - and dying - in
southern Afghanistan.

He got some support Tuesday at the NATO summit from U.S. President
George
Bush.

Member nations must accept difficult assignments if we expect to be
successful," Mr. Bush said, a pointed reference to several big European
nations that have kept their soldiers far from the fighting in southern
and
eastern Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Taliban suicide bombers struck against yesterday,
underscoring
just how dangerous Afghanistan remains.

Only a day after two Canadian soldiers were killed when a suicide
bomber
rammed an explosives-laden car into their armoured vehicle, another
attack
Tuesday injured a soldier in Panjwayi district west of Kandahar. The
wounded
soldier was airlifted to the big NATO base at Kandahar airport.

"The Canadians are doing more than their fair share," Mr. Mackay said,
echoing NATO's Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.

Mr. Scheffer lashed out at the failure of the world's most powerful
military
bloc to find the troops desperately needed in the embattled south of
Afghanistan where Canadians, Americans, British and Dutch forces are
fighting a fierce counter-insurgency against the Taliban.

"It is not acceptable that our mission in the south still lacks 20 per
cent
of its requirements," Mr. Scheffer said.

He also called for a lifting of national restrictions, imposed by some
European governments which keep their troops far from the fighting and
unavailable to reinforce the south.

"Caveats take away operational effectiveness," Mr. Scheffer said.

"We can ill afford reconstruction armies that cannot handle combat."

Aside from Poland, which has offered a 900-soldier battle group due to
arrive in Afghanistan early next year, no NATO government has offered
to
fulfill the shortfall of more than 2,500 soldiers needed to combat the
Taliban.

Mr. Harper, who arrived here after an overnight flight from Ottawa will
hold
talks with Polish President, Lech Kaczynski.

U.S. president George W. Bush, speaking in neighbouring Estonia before
arriving in Riga, echoed the call for more forces from European
nations.

"To succeed in Afghanistan, NATO allies must provide the forces NATO
military commanders require," he said. More than 21,000 U.S. troops are
in
Afghanistan, with a majority now under NATO command.

Latvia's no-nonsense President Vaira Vike-Freiberga also warned
arriving
leaders that they must take tough decisions to insure the success of
NATO's
first long-distance mission.

"A half-hearted presence there doesn't seem to be worthwhile. We must
either
go there, get the job done or say we are unable to deal with it and
leave
that country to its fate," she warned.

Being told to cut and run if they won't stand and fight won't go down
well
with some European leaders, especially when it comes from the president
of
their tiny, Baltic host state.

But the blunt calculus of body count underscores which nations are
shouldering most of the burden.

Canadian soldiers have suffered more than one-quarter of the combat
deaths
in Afghanistan this year, with 32 killed. Germany, with a contingent
400
soldiers larger than the 2,300 Canadians, hasn't been involved in any
fighting and has suffered no combat casualties. Canadians are getting
killed
at a rate five times the average for NATO and U.S. forces in
Afghanistan.

Although Afghanistan will dominate the agenda, NATO leaders, at the
first-ever summit held in a former Soviet city, are also expected to
rebuff
the membership hopes of Croatia, Macedonia and Albania. All three
Balkan
states have token forces in Afghanistan but NATO is keen to avoid
irking
Moscow over any further expansion.

Alliances leaders are also expected to agree to jointly buy a small -
perhaps four - giant Boeing C-17 military transports to alleviate the
chronic difficulty of most NATO nations to deploy and re-supply their
forces.

The stakes remain high. At a pre-summit speech, U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar,
chairman of the powerful Foreign Relations committee said: ``If the
most
prominent alliance in modern history were to fail in its first
operation
outside of Europe due to a lack of will by its members, the efficacy of
NATO
and the ability to take joint action against a terrorist threat would
be
called into question."

With Iran's help, Hizbollah trains Iraqi Shi'ite militiam en

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/17506.html

With Iran's help, Hizbollah trains Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen

A senior American intelligence official said on Monday that the
Iranian-backed group Hizbollah had been training members of the Mahdi
Army,
the Shi'ite militia in Iraq that is headed by Muqtada al-Sadr.

The official said that between 1,000 and 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi
Army
and other Shi'ite militia groups from Iraq had been trained by
Hizbollah in
Lebanon, mostly in small groups. A small number of Hizbollah operatives
have
also visited Iraq to help with training there, the official said.

Iran has facilitated the link between Hizbollah and the Shi'ite
militias in
Iraq, the official said. Syrian officials have also cooperated, though
there
is debate among intelligence officials about whether it has the
blessing of
the senior leadership in Syria, the official said.

The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity under rules
set by
his agency, and discussed Iran's role in response to questions from a
reporter.

The interview occurred at a time of intense debate over whether the
United States should enlist Iran's help in stabilizing Iraq. A commission
headed by
James A. Baker III, a former secretary of state, and Lee Hamilton, a
former
Democratic Party lawmaker, is expected to call for direct talks with
Tehran.
The claim about Hizbollah's role in training Shi'ite militias could
strengthen the hand of those within the Bush administration who oppose
talks
with Iran.

The new American account is consistent with a claim made in Iraq this
summer
by a mid-level commander of the Mahdi Army, who said his organization
had
sent 300 fighters to Lebanon, ostensibly to fight with Hizbollah forces
there. "They are the best-trained fighters in the Mahdi Army," the
militia
commander said in an interview in Iraq. He spoke on condition of
anonymity.

The specific assertions about Iran's role went beyond those made
publicly by
senior American officials, though Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director
of
the Central Intelligence Agency, did tell Congress earlier this month
that
"the Iranian hand is stoking violence" in Iraq.

The American intelligence on Hizbollah's role is based on human
sources,
technical means, and interviews with detainees captured in Iraq,
American
officials said.

American officials say that the Iranians have also provided direct
support
to Shi'ite militias in Iraq, including explosives and trigger devices
for
roadside bombs, and training for several thousand fighters, mostly in
Iran.
The training is carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
and the
Ministry of Intelligence and Security, they say. American officials
also
suspect that in some cases the Iranians may have provided guidance to
the
Shi'ite militias to attack specific targets in Iraq.

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GOOD NEWS FOR CANADIANS
AGAINST SUICIDE BOMBING

* CANASB is in regular contact with Public Safety and Emergency
Preparedness Minister Stockwell Day and the Prime Minister's office.
The
Conservative Canadian government told us they would help Liberal
Senator
Grafstein's Bill S-206, considered a "Made in Canada Solution", to
specifically
cover suicide bombing as terrorism. Click links to read.

* Bill S-206 was referred to the Standing Senate
Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs for Hearings. See "Breaking News" in
our
www.canasb.ca web site as many leading Liberal and Conservative
Senators support
the Bill.

* CANASB's Letter to the Senate supporting the Bill is
signed by
"A remarkable collection" of prominent Canadian political, religious
and
business leaders including Bob Rae, John Tory, Ed Broadbent, David
Peterson,
General MacKenzie, Gerald Schwartz, Salim Mansur and the Anglican
primate. We
will send it to the Senate and publicize it nationally when the
Hearings start.

* Passing Bill S-206 to declare "suicide bombing as
terrorism"
would be a first for any parliament in the world.

* The Australian Parliament became the first in the world
to pass
a bipartisan motion urging suicide terrorism be declared a "crime
against
humanity". Many experts consider suicide bombing as "terrorism" and as
a "crime
against humanity" interchangeable concepts.

If you want to know more about the above, please open the attached
documents.
Again we, at CANASB want to thank you for your support, we will let you
know of
the new development as we progress.

Best regards,

Roxanne LaBrie
Vice President Communications
CANASB

This article from Opinion Journal underscores the fact that the term, "Liberal" and "Leftist" and now interchangeable. We knew that Jimmy Carter was a leftist before he endorsed Chavez' election, but now a Kennedy is partnering with the communist leader.

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Dial Joe-4-Chávez
Massachusetts Democrats love Venezuela's strongman.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez is an ally of the Iranian mullahs, a supporter of North Korea, a close friend of Fidel Castro and a good customer for Vladimir Putin's weapon factories. Now he's also a business partner of Joseph P. Kennedy II.

The former Democratic Congressman describes the deal he's cooked up with Mr. Chávez as charity for low-income consumers of heating oil. But it's worth asking what the price of this largesse is to Venezuelans and to U.S. security interests.

The arrangement is this: Mr. Chávez's Citgo--a Houston-based oil company owned by the Venezuelan government--is supplying home heating oil to Mr. Kennedy's Citizens Energy Corporation at a 40% discount. Citizens, a nonprofit outfit, says it passes the savings onto the poor, aiming to help 400,000 homes in 16 states that would otherwise have trouble heating their homes. In the process, Mr. Kennedy happens to get a high-profile publicity plug. If you think you qualify, says the television ad that drew our attention to this partnership, just dial 1-877-Joe-4-Oil.

Generous Joe is not the only one polishing his public image here. In the mold of the Castro strategy of sending armies of "doctors" and "teachers" among the Latin American poor, Mr. Chávez is trying to shape U.S. public opinion in the hope that more gringos will come to see the Chávez government as benevolent.

Massachusetts Democrats seem especially eager to help. In a September 29, 2005, "confidential memorandum" addressed to "President Hugo Chávez" and uncovered by a Congressional committee, William Delahunt (D., Mass.) gushed that it was a "pleasure" to have met with the strongman "to discuss your generous offer." The Democrat advised Mr. Chávez to steer his oil through Mr. Kennedy's nonprofit and declared that "from a public relations perspective" the discount oil scheme "is an extraordinary opportunity to address urgent needs of people living in poverty, while showcasing the compassion of your nation."

Compassion? If fighting poverty is the goal, Mr. Delahunt would do better to remind Mr. Chávez that charity begins at home. The U.S. is far richer than Venezuela and since Hurricane Hugo took power in 1999 Venezuelan living standards have suffered despite soaring oil prices. Annual inflation averaged more than 20% between 2001 and 2005, imposing a tax on the poorest. Meanwhile, an insecure investment climate has taken a harsh toll on private-sector employment and shrunk the middle class.

In his eight years in power, Mr. Kennedy's business partner has also polarized Venezuela with his class warfare, rewritten the constitution, politicized the judiciary, the electoral council and military, and announced he plans to rule until 2021. Freedom House now ranks Venezuela 34th out of 35 countries in the Western Hemisphere in press freedom. Only the Cuban press is more repressed.

Transparency International puts Venezuela second to last in the Hemisphere in its 2006 "corruption perception index." And then there was that revealing rant against President Bush ("the devil") at the United Nations in September. Even Mr. Delahunt criticized his Venezuelan buddy after that one.

But Mr. Kennedy keeps on trucking. Last week in a telephone interview with the Washington Post, he defended his Chávez subsidy deal as "morally righteous," arguing that the Citgo contribution to his nonprofit is only "one-half of one percent" of Citgo oil and product sales in the U.S.

We dialed Joe-4-Oil ourselves to ask directly whether it is also "righteous" to assist an anti-American tyrant at the expense of the Venezuelan people. In between berating our reporter for daring to ask such a thing, Mr. Kennedy said that Mr. Chávez has done "so much more" for the poor than any previous government. As for democracy, he said there was "ample room for improvement in the ways that people get elected in Venezuela as well as in Florida." Mr. Chávez chose his partner well.

Abe Foxman: Judging a Book by Its Cover and Its Content: A review of "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" by Jimmy Carter

Judging a Book by Its Cover and Its Content

http://www.adl.org/israel/carter_book_review.asp

A review of "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid" by Jimmy Carter
(Simon & Schuster, November 2006)
Posted: November 13, 2006

By Abraham H. Foxman

One should never judge a book by its cover, but in the case of former
President Jimmy Carter's latest work, "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid",
we
should make an exception. All one really needs to know about this
biased
account is found in the title.

It is truly shocking, at a time of Islamic extremism running rampant,
of
suicide bombs polluting cities in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, of
Iran
publicly stating its desire to wipe Israel off the map and building
nuclear
weapons to achieve that end, of the missile and rocket attacks by
Hezbollah
and Hamas on Israel, that Jimmy Carter can to a large degree only see
Israel
as the party responsible for conflict between Israel and the
Palestinians.

In some ways, Carter's book reminds me of the outlandish paper on "The
Israel
Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by professors John Mearsheimer and
Stephen
Walt, though he doesn't go to their extremes. Like them, his
examination of
almost every issue concerning the conflict results in blaming Israel
for most
or all of what has gone wrong.

Listen to his conclusions: "Israel's continued control and colonization
of
Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive
peace
agreement in the Holy Land." And, "The bottom line is this: Peace will
come to
Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing
to
comply with international law, with the road map for peace.".

In order to reach such a simplistic and distorted view of the region,
Carter
has to ignore or downplay the continuing examples of Palestinian
rejection of
Israel and terrorism, which have been part of the equation from the
beginning
and which are strong as ever today. He has to minimize or condemn all
the
instances of Israel's peace offers and withdrawals, most particularly
former
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's initiative at Camp David in 2000,
Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement from Gaza in 2005 and current
Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert's campaign pledge to withdraw from the West Bank.
And he
has to frame every example of Palestinian distress as simply the
product of
Israeli repression instead of Palestinian extremism, e.g., the economic
condition of the Palestinians, which has much to do with the continued
terrorism against Israel.

Much as in the paper of Mearsheimer and Walt, one doesn't have to be a
pro-Israel advocate to recognize that the issues in the long conflict
are a
lot more complicated than Carter would portray. It's particularly
revealing,
that at a time when even many Arab leaders are recognizing the
destructive and
dangerous policies of the Palestinians, Carter can hardly bring himself
to
speak to such matters.

It is not the goals that Carter seeks that are so troubling -- he calls
for a
two-state solution, with Palestinians and Israelis living securely in
two
states, which, of course, is the policy of Israel -- but his obsession
with
blaming Israel for these goals not being achieved.

The problem with this approach is two-fold. He unjustly encourages
Israel-bashers around the world. The legitimizing factor of being able
to
quote a former President of the United States and winner of the Nobel
Peace
Prize cannot be overestimated.

Secondly, this gives comfort to the extremists on the Palestinian side
who are
reinforced in their extremism by this kind of "analysis." In the end,
it is
the Palestinians themselves who are hurt by such a biased approach
because
they become even further entrenched in their illusions about weakening
Israel
and the need not to change.

As disturbing as Carter's simplistic approach is, however, even more
disturbing is his picking up on the Mearsheimer -Walt theme of Jewish
control
of American policy, though in much more abbreviated form and not being
the
focus of his work. Referring to U.S. policy and the "condoning" of
Israel's
actions, Carter says: "There are constant and vehement political and
media
debates in Israel concerning its policies in the West Bank but because
of
powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the U.S., Israeli
government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned, voices from
Jerusalem
dominate our media, and most American citizens are unaware of
circumstances in
the occupied territories." In other words, the old canard and
conspiracy
theory of Jewish control of the media, Congress, and the U.S.
government is
rearing its ugly head in the person of a former President.

It is sad that Mr. Carter would attempt to use his influence in this
way. It
is dangerous because he will be used by elements that want to undermine
support for Israel in this country.

Ultimately, we have faith in the good sense, fairness and understanding
of the
American people. They know that life in the Middle East is much more
complicated and will require seeing all sides of the issue, something
President Carter doesn't seem to be interested in doing.

Rioters in 16-hour battle at migrant removal centre

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2026816.ece
Rioters in 16-hour battle at migrant removal centre

By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent

Published: 30 November 2006

The Independent

Specialist teams of anti-riot prison officers spent more than 16 hours
fighting to quell a riot that engulfed Britain's largest and most
troubled
immigrant removal centre.

The Home Office accused detainees of staging "a deliberate attempt at
sabotage" to stop them being deported after all four wings were hit by
trouble early yesterday morning.

Lin Homer, the director general of the Home Office's Immigration and
Nationality Directorate, said detainees were being moved to other
centres or
to prison after a day of unrest. She vowed that no foreign prisoners
would
be released and said the Home Office would continue "vigorously" to
remove
people from Britain.

Specially trained officers from across southern England rushed to the
Harmondsworth centre, west London, after a series of fires were lit and
staff lost control. Police sealed the perimeter as dozens of inmates
were
seen crowding a yard. The words "SOS Freedom" were scrawled on a sports
court.

The disturbances came less than 24 hours after the chief inspector of
prisons, Anne Owers, delivered a damning verdict on Harmondsworth,
saying
her report was the worst she had had to write on such a detention
centre. Ms
Owers said six out of 10 detainees felt unsafe and criticised high
levels of
force.

The centre was opened five years ago to hold foreign nationals. Two
thousand
are brought to the centre every month before they are flown out of
Britain.

Specialist teams of anti-riot prison officers spent more than 16 hours
fighting to quell a riot that engulfed Britain's largest and most
troubled
immigrant removal centre.

The Home Office accused detainees of staging "a deliberate attempt at
sabotage" to stop them being deported after all four wings were hit by
trouble early yesterday morning.

Lin Homer, the director general of the Home Office's Immigration and
Nationality Directorate, said detainees were being moved to other
centres or
to prison after a day of unrest. She vowed that no foreign prisoners
would
be released and said the Home Office would continue "vigorously" to
remove
people from Britain.

Specially trained officers from across southern England rushed to the
Harmondsworth centre, west London, after a series of fires were lit and
staff lost control. Police sealed the perimeter as dozens of inmates
were
seen crowding a yard. The words "SOS Freedom" were scrawled on a sports
court.

The disturbances came less than 24 hours after the chief inspector of
prisons, Anne Owers, delivered a damning verdict on Harmondsworth,
saying
her report was the worst she had had to write on such a detention
centre. Ms
Owers said six out of 10 detainees felt unsafe and criticised high
levels of
force.

The centre was opened five years ago to hold foreign nationals. Two
thousand
are brought to the centre every month before they are flown out of
Britain.

Attacks on Iraq's oil industry

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

LONDON - Reuters

A mortar attack set ablaze oil storage tanks in northern Iraq on
Monday,
police said.

A source at the state North Oil Company said output from the region
could
be reduced for some time.

Before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the pipeline from the northern
Kirkuk
oilfields to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan was shipping some
700,000 barrels per day (bpd) to world markets. Now, the pipeline
operates
intermittently at best because of constant sabotage attacks.

Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraq has relied almost
exclusively on
its southern Basra oil terminal in the Gulf for exports. Oil production
has
been stuck at 2 million bpd with exports of 1.5 million bpd. That
compares
to a pre-war output of just under 3 million bpd and exports of around 2
million.

Past strikes on Iraq's oil industry and its employees:

Nov. 27, 2006 -- A mortar attack set ablaze oil storage tanks in
northern
Iraq, police said. A source at the North Oil Company said output from
the
region could be reduced for some time.

July 2006 -- A sabotage attack along Iraq's northern oil export route
to
Turkey fractured both pipelines and halted flows, an Oil Ministry
official
said.

July 16, 2006 -- The head of Iraq's North Oil Company, Adel Qazaz,
was
kidnapped in Baghdad, an Oil Ministry official said

June 10, 2006 -- Iraq resumes intermittent pumping along the
Iraq-Turkey
pipeline.

June 8, 2006 -- Gunmen kidnap a senior oil ministry official on his
way
home from work. Kidnappers have not contacted the ministry or family of
Muthana al-Badri, Director General of Iraq's State Company for Oil
Projects
(SCOP).

June 7, 2006 -- Four Iraqi oil employees were kidnapped as they
return
from checking on an oilfield near the northern oil hub of Kirkuk. No
group
claims responsibility.

March 2006 -- A blast hit Iraq's Southern Oil Company headquarters in
Basra, damaging one of its buildings, but operations were not affected,
a
source in the company said.

Feb 2006 -- A bomb tore open an oil products and fuel pipeline near
the
northern Iraqi refinery town of Baiji, disrupting supplies.

Jan 2006 -- Insurgents blow up at least two pipelines feeding the
main oil
pumping station in Kirkuk, halting exports from the north that had only
just
resumed.

Dec 2005-Jan 2006 -- Shipments of Basra Light from the Gulf drop to
their
lowest level since 2003 at 1.1 million bpd due to bad weather and
logistical
problems.

Oct 2005 -- Four blasts hit a main gathering centre for at least four
fields that feed the Iraq-Turkey pipeline, halting northern oil
exports.

Oct 2004 -- Jordanian militant Zarqawi threatens to attack foreign
trucks
carrying imports of oil products into Iraq.

Sep 2004 -- The obscure "Followers of Zarqawi Group" claims
responsibility
for an attack on Iraqi oil pipelines near Kirkuk that halt crude
exports to
Turkey.

June 2004 -- Saboteurs blow a hole in one of Iraq's southern oil
export
pipelines and disrupt shipments to world markets.

Apr 2004 -- Statement from Zarqawi claims responsibility for a foiled
suicide boat attack on Iraq's vital Basra oil terminal.

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MEMRI: Lebanon on the Brink of Civil War: Popular Street Actions To
Begin Tomorrow, December 1, At 3 PM Local (8 AM ET)
http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD137306

Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia and Hezbollah Training Also Linked to
Iraq Violence; US evidence of Iranian support for Iraq terrorists -
brand-new weapons from Iranian factories
http://abcnews.go.com/International/IraqCoverage/story?id=2688501

(Iraq) Bush rejects idea of pullback; Maliki says Iraqis can take over
by June
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/30/news/bush.php

India: 30 Mumbai Attack Suspects Charged
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.364922049&par=0

(India) 7/11-like terror can hit Mumbai again
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai_may_encounter_more_711-like_terror_attacks_Police/articleshow/660415.cms

(Somalia) At least 12 killed in suicide car bomb blasts
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20852341-401,00.html

Turkey holds 18 in Qaeda swoop during Pope visit: TV
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/30/AR2006113000045.html

Data on U.S. military's Iraqi operations leaked onto Internet -
Privately owned personal computer loaded with file sharing software
responsible
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/30/D8LNDQ3G0.html

NY court says ferry passengers can be searched to deter terrorism
http://www.silive.com/newsflash/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1164918643205760.xml&storylist=simetro

Commentary: What is a 'moderate' Muslim? - Irshad Manjii
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2476832_1,00.html

Democrats Reject Key 9/11 Panel Suggestion - Neither Party Has an
Appetite for Overhauling Congressional Oversight of Intelligence
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901317.html

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1. Bush tells Abdullah time not ripe for dialogue with Syria Open this result in new window
AFP via Yahoo! News - Nov 29 4:38 PM
US President George W. Bush told King Abdullah II of Jordan the time was not ripe for dialogue with Syria, which would only see encouragement for its interference in Lebanon, a White House official said here.
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2. Talks with Syria would be akin to approval - Bush Open this result in new window
The Daily Star Lebannon - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
US President George W. Bush told King Abdullah II of Jordan on Wednesday the time was not ripe for dialogue with Syria, which would only see encouragement for its interference in Lebanon, a White House official said here. The king told the president during a dinner at Amman's Raghadan Palace that a solution to the Palestinian problem.
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3. Iran, Syria review regional developments Open this result in new window
Islamic Republic News Agency - Nov 30 7:41 AM
Iran - Syria -Regional developments Iran's Ambassador to Damascus Mohammad Hassan Akhtari conferred with the Syrian Vice President Farouk al-Shara on issues of mutual concerns.
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4. Iran, Syria agree to connect power networks via Iraq, Turkey Open this result in new window
Payvand Iran News - Nov 30 7:22 AM
Iran and Syria on Wednesday reached an agreement to connect their electricity networks via Turkey and Iraq, Iran Energy Minister said. -MNA
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5. German foreign minister may include Syria in tour Open this result in new window
AlertNet - Nov 30 5:18 AM
Source: Reuters BERLIN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier may visit Syria during a four-day visit to the Middle East to prepare for the country's EU presidency which starts in January ...
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6. What Iran & Syria Want Open this result in new window
RealClearPolitics.com via Yahoo! News - Nov 29 6:02 AM
On Thursday, President Bush will meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in Jordan. The vast majority of the meeting will undoubtedly focus on the challenges of controlling the sectarian violence in Iraq and achieving national reconciliation, but the President should also get a thorough debriefing on Iraq's recent dealings with Iran and Syria.
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7. France, U.S. agree useless to talk to Syria: Chirac Open this result in new window
Reuters via Yahoo! News - Nov 29 5:23 AM
France and the United States agree there is no point in talking to Syria because the conditions for an honest dialogue do not exist, President Jacques Chirac said on Wednesday.
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8. More Iraqi Refugees Escape to Syria Open this result in new window
ABC News - Nov 29 11:26 AM
Thousands More Iraqi Refugees Escape Daily to Syria, Fleeing Violence for Precarious Existence
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9. Assad: Syria to Challenge U.S. Efforts Open this result in new window
Los Angeles Times - Nov 29 8:43 AM
DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday his country will continue to challenge U.S. efforts to exert control over the Middle East, sounding a defiant tone ahead of President Bush's arrival in the region for talks on Iraq.
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10. Time not ripe for dialogue with Syria, Bush tells Abdullah Open this result in new window
Khaleej Times - Nov 29 7:09 PM
AMMAN - US President George W. Bush told King Abdullah II of Jordan on Wednesday the time was not ripe for dialogue with Syria, which would only see encouragement for its interference in Lebanon, a White House official said here.
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