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Chinese hackers prompt Navy college site closure
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By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
November 30, 2006
Chinese computer hackers penetrated the Naval War College network
earlier this month, forcing security authorities to shut down all e-mail
and official computer network work at the Navy's school for senior
officers.
Navy officials said the computer attack was detected Nov. 15 and two
days later the U.S. Strategic Command raised the security alert level
for the Pentagon's 12,000 computer networks and 5 million computers.
A spokesman for the Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command, located in
Norfolk , said "network intrusions" were detected at the Newport , R.I. ,
military school two weeks ago.
"The system-network connection was terminated and known affected systems
were removed and are being examined for forensic evidence to determine
the extent of the intrusion," said Lt. Cmdr. Doug Gabos, the spokesman.
"The Naval War College computer system-network is used by students at
the war college and contains Navy Professional Reading Program and other
materials, all of which are unclassified information."
The FBI and Naval Criminal Investigative Service are investigating the
breach, another official said.
The Naval War College trains senior officers, conducts war games and
carries out some classified research such as studies of future warfare.
The college's Web site was not accessible yesterday.
Adm. Michael Mullen, chief of naval operations, recently directed the
war college's Strategic Studies Group to begin work to develop concepts
for waging cyber-warfare, a Navy spokesman said.
"The Naval War College is where the Navy's Strategic Studies Group is
planning and practicing cyber-war techniques, and now they don't even
have e-mail access," one U.S. official said.
U.S. defense officials said intelligence reports indicated that the
cyber-attack on the college came from China , which a recent
congressional report said has begun a series of computer network attacks
against defense and military systems in the United States code-named
"Titan Rain."
Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Goetze, a Naval War College
professor, told a class Monday in Washington that Chinese computer
hackers were behind the network attack. Gen. Goetze told students that
communications were hobbled because the Chinese "took down" the entire
Naval War College computer network.
Students and professors at the college now have to use private e-mail
from home, raising security questions.
Cmdr. Gabos declined to comment on the origin of the attack. "The nature
and extent of intrusion are operational issues," he said. "I can tell
you it was an isolated incident and did not affect other elements of
Department of Defense."
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Sushi bar identified as probable poisoning site; Gaidar bodyguard met with Litvinenko
Three Russian businessmen, employees of a security company in Moscow,
who
met Mr Litvinenko at a hotel after he had been to the sushi bar had
yesterday gone to ground. ... One of the men, former FSB bodyguard
Andrei
Lugovoy who had known Mr Litvinenko for 10 years, was in charge of
security
for the former Russian prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, who was last night
being treated for suspected poisoning after falling ill in Dublin.
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Sushi bar identified as key link in poisoning
By Jason Bennetto and Cahal Milmo
Published: 01 December 2006
Detectives have discovered when the former Russian spy Alexander
Litvinenko
came into contact with the radioactive material that was to kill him.
After retracing the route taken by Mr Litvinenko on the day he fell
ill,
anti-terrorist officers believe the ex-KGB agent was poisoned in or
very
close to the sushi bar in central London that he visited to meet an
Italian
contact on 1 November.
Detailed forensic analysis, including radiation testing, of the places
Mr
Litvinenko visited in the hours before he went to Itsu in Piccadilly
have
found no trace of radioactivity. This strongly suggests he was poisoned
while in the restaurant, where traces of nuclear material were found.
Mr Litvinenko, 43, an outspoken critic of the Russian President,
Vladimir
Putin, became ill on the day he visited the sushi bar and died on 23
November from polonium-210 poisoning.
In a further development it was disclosed that extremely low-level
radioactive contamination has been discovered in nine buildings, two
British
Airways planes which flew to Moscow, and a car used to take Mr
Litvinenko to
hospital. A third BA aircraft is being examined in Moscow.
The current focus of the police inquiry is what happened at the sushi
bar
where Mr Litvinenko met Mario Scaramella, an Italian academic who
denies
having anything to do with the poisoning.
Mr Scaramella, who runs an organisation that tracks nuclear waste, said
earlier this week that he had been tested and was not contaminated.
Scotland Yard pinpointed the sushi bar when they traced Mr Litvinenko's
movements after he left his home in Muswell Hill, north London. By
using
information from his mobile phone records, Oyster travel card and CCTV
footage, detectives plotted his route to Piccadilly Tube station.
Locations
where he stopped along the way were tested for radiation contamination,
but
all proved negative.
As part of the inquiry detectives are testing aircraft used by several
people that met Mr Litvinenko on 1 November to discover if any of them
brought in radioactive material, or left Britain contaminated.
Three Russian businessmen, employees of a security company in Moscow,
who
met Mr Litvinenko at a hotel after he had been to the sushi bar had
yesterday gone to ground. It is not clear if they were in hiding, or
were
being questioned by the Russian authorities.
One of the men, former FSB bodyguard Andrei Lugovoy who had known Mr
Litvinenko for 10 years, was in charge of security for the former
Russian
prime minister, Yegor Gaidar, who was last night being treated for
suspected
poisoning after falling ill in Dublin.
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Steinmeier Urges Syria to Join Talks in Push for Mid-East Peace
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier spoke about his hopes
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Gulf state officials in Jordan Friday and urged Syria to join
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Siniora faces Hezbollah calls to quit
Lebanon's Western-backed premier Fuad Siniora has faced pressure to
quit in Beirut from hundreds of thousands of protestors of the
Shiite movement Hizbollah and its pro-Syrian allies. Since that
rally, demonstrators have blocked access roads and erected tents
close to cabinet offices. Large numbers of security forces are
deployed. At the rally, Christian opposition leader Michel Aoun also
called on Siniora to resign and demanded a national unity
government. Siniora says his cabinet will stay on. It was weakened
recently by the departure of six opposition ministers and the
assassination of an anti-Syrian minister. Visiting Jordan, German
Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Lebanon's situation is
alarming. Steinmeier is due to visit Siniora in Beirut on Saturday.
Two insurgents killed in Iraq, 27 detained
In Iraq, US and Iraqi troops have clashed with gunmen who killed one
Iraqi soldier and wounded five. US forces claim to have killed two
insurgents and detained 27 in multiple raids, while seven people
were killed in two separate car bomb attacks. One woman was injured
who was being used as a human shield. US forces also seized two
weapons depots. While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki received
support from US President George W. Bush after a Thursday meeting in
Jordan, he has said that his security personnel is ill-equipped to
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would be able to take over security command from US troops by June
2007. Data from Interior Ministry officials shows a 44 percent leap
in civilian casualties in November compared with October.
Today is World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day is being marked around the globe as the epidemic
continues to get worse, with an estimated four million new cases of
HIV reported each year. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on
people to keep momentum strong in the fight against AIDS, adding
that politicians should be made accountable. Sub-Saharan Africa
remains the hardest-hit region, with 24.7 million people affected.
Britain: 2nd contaminant with polonium
British broadcaster Sky News has reported that an Italian contact of
the fatally poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko has
tested positive for the same radioactive substance, Polonium 210.
British police have not confirmed this. Sky says the academic Mario
Scaramella, who met Litvinenko at a London restaurant shortly before
the Russian fell ill, apparently has "significant" contamination,
but is not showing symptoms. Pathologists, meanwhile, ahave finished
a post-mortem on the body of Litvinenko, who was a severe critic of
the Kremlin. Russia has denied being behind Litvenenko's poisoning,
as has Scaramella. Britain says radiation traces have been found at
12 locations. Three British Airways planes used between Moscow and
London were also checked.
Hundreds die in Philippines typhoon
The Red Cross says up to 388 people have been killed and 96 are
missing in the Philippines in mudslides caused by Typhoon Durian. It
said several villages close to Mount Mayon, about 320 km south-east
of Manila, were buried by mud and rocks dislodged in rains brought
by the typhoon. The death toll is expected to rise as reports come
in from other regions that have been cut off. Durian is the fourth
typhoon to hit the Philippines in three months.
Germany approves anti-terror database
German lawmakers have approved the creation of a new anti-terrorism
database which is to go into effect next year. Officials hope it
will make it easier to find suspects through better coordination
between police and security agencies. The database will list names
and information that could identify a suspect, but other details
that could help determine whether a suspect is a threat -- such as
professional qualifications -- would only be available with a
further query. The Federal Office for the Protection of the
Constitution is also to have access to telecommunications, airline
and financial data. Opponents fear that authorities using the
database could infringe on privacy rights of individuals.
Pope departs Turkey after four-day visit
Pope Benedict XVI has left Turkey at the end his first papal visit
to a Muslim nation. Earlier, the Pontiff celebrated mass in Istanbul
for members of Turkey's small Roman Catholic community. Before that
service, Benedict released four white doves as symbols of peace into
the air. During his address the 79-year-old pontiff stated that the
Vatican wished to "impose nothing on anyone", and that the church
merely wished to live in peace and freedom.
Amsterdam court jails four radicals
In the Netherlands four radical Muslims have been jailed for
planning attacks on anti-Islam politicians and the offices of the
Dutch AIVD intelligence service. The ringleader Samir Azzouz got
eight years. Three others got terms of three to four years on new
anti-terrorism laws. Two others were acquitted. Prosecutors had
argued that the convicted radicals were an extension of a group led
by Mohammad Bouyeri. He was jailed for life last year for the murder
of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh. During Azzouz' trial the court
heard that he and others were found in possession of automatic
weapons and jihad training manuals. Azzous, who has dual Dutch and
Moroccan nationality, had even made a testament video.
Dollar hits 14-year low against pound
The US dollar has fallen to the lowest level against the pound since
Britain crashed out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992. The US
greenback also lost heavily on exchange markets across the world,
tumbling against the euro and yen due to fears of faltering growth
in the US economy. Sterling rose to $1.9747, the strongest exchange
rate since September 1992. For the year, sterling is now up nearly
15 percent against the dollar and poised for its best yearly
performance since 1990.
DW to increase Arabic TV coverage
Deutsche Welle plans next year to expand its television broadcasts
in Arabic. Currently DW-TV broadcasts three hours daily in Arabic.
That will increase eventually to eight hours, according to
Director-General Erik Bettermann. Deutsche Welle also broadcasts
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Bajaur airstrike may have killed al-Zawahri
Washington, Dec 1 (ANI): The absence of any audio and video tape releases by the Al Qaeda in last one month have been inferred by the US security analysts as a breach of the "Al Qaeda's inner concentric security perimeters" during the October 31 Bajaur airstrike that might have also hit Al Qaeda's deputy Chief Ayman al-Zawahri.
According to a commentary issued by Stratfor, the Texas-based news intelligence service, 'silence' from al-Zawahri, who otherwise has "shown keenness in keeping the world abreast of his status", indicates that Bajaur airstrike "either killed him or has hit so close to home that it has forced him to go deeper underground".
"Since the airstrike, there has been no word from al-Zawahri. There has been no word from Osama Bin Laden either," commented Stratfor.
However, analysts also added that if al-Zawahri was dead, the terror communication network would find it too difficult to hide the news and "by now it would have leaked the news of his death".
"It would be very hard to hide the death of either al-Zawahri or Bin Laden, even if US intelligence could not confirm the killing", said the Stratfor commentary, thereby adding other possible reasons for the Al Qaeda's stoic silence.Other possible reason noted by them was the possibility of the complete destruction of the jihadist communication network.
"It could be that the October 31 missile strike has created technical obstacles to issuing videotapes, which would explain why there has not been much output from As-Sahab, Al Qaeda's, since the madrassa was hit. But given that As-Sahab's production facilities are unlikely to be located in the remote tribal badlands straddling the Afghan-Pakistani border, technical difficulties are not likely the case," the Daily Times quoted Stratfor commentary.
The US analysts also said that there was again a possibility that al-Zawahri has likely survived, and is trying to stay out of the radar. But whatever it may have done, the airstrike has hit the terrorist group very hard.
Al Qaeda views the location and timing of the madrassa strike as a penetration of the movements and schedules of their group. From the Al Qaeda's point of view, the US and the Pakistani intelligence has come very close to one of its inner concentric security perimeters and that penetration have already taken place. Therefore, it has brought its communications, especially its communication to the outside world, to a grinding halt, argued Stratfor.
"The lack of a communiqu‚ from al-Zawahri is much more likely the result of a conscious decision to maintain radio silence because of a breach in Al Qaeda's operational security net and it is going to maintain this posture until it identifies the security breach and seals it. This could be matter of weeks or of months. Once it is confident that it has re-established operational security, Al Qaeda will resume releasing video communiqu‚s," Stratfor added. (ANI)
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Russian probe finds fake drug market big
MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Sales of counterfeit drugs in Russia could be as high as $300 million annually, an investigation by the country's Interior Ministry showed.
Police found the number of violations found during the 10-day Operation Pharmacologist exceeded by 12 times the number of violations reported during 2005, the Itar-Tass news agency said. Most of the violations were found in kiosks (8,500 instances) and municipal drugstores (3,000).
"The annual volume of sales of counterfeit medicines is worth $200 million to $300 million, according to experts" and based on the operation's findings, Alexander Chekalin, first deputy for the Interior Ministry, said Friday.
Chekalin said police also found 642 cases of sales of biological active additives through kiosks. He said the additives were produced elsewhere and did not meet Russian safety standards.
"The results of the operation show the high degree of criminalization" in this area, as well as a lack of departmental oversight, he said.
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Finches feasting in Minnesota supermarket
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- A Minneapolis-area supermarket has hired professional help to evict a pair of avian invaders that are having a feast in the bulk foods section.
So far Mark Anderson of Plunkett Pest Control has been unable to capture the two finches who have taken up residence at the Rainbow Foods Store in Maplewood, Minn., The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
Besides feasting on spilled nuts in bulk foods, the pair of birds was spotted dive-bombing the salad bar.
Anderson used a large floppy net to try to capture them but they escaped at the last second.
He planned to try again Friday.
"It's pretty rare to find birds in grocery stores," Anderson says. "But you'll see them in Home Depots and other big-box stores.
Barn swallows have built nests in the vestibule of Maplewood's Home Depot which is located just down the road from the Rainbow Foods Store.
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Analysis: Europe 's spy in al-Qaida, Part 1
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A Muslim man who was a spy in the mid-1990s for several European intelligence services inside the global jihadi network that later became al-Qaida has written a memoir saying the agencies did not understand the nature of the threat it posed.
"Inside the Jihad," written under the pseudonym Omar Nasiri, is an astonishingly detailed account of a young man's journey from the fringe of the Islamic extremist movement in Belgium to two terrorist training camps in Afghanistan .
Along the way, Nasiri says he smuggled a car load of high explosives from Brussels to Morocco; fingered one of the organizers of the 1995 Paris metro bomb attacks In London; and met Abu Zubaydah, who later became one of Osama bin Laden's top recruiters of Western jihadis, in the training camps at Khalden and Darunta in Afghanistan.
"The broad outlines of the story have been confirmed to me," and to a growing list of other major media outlets, "by intelligence officials from several European countries," said Gordon Corera, a British Broadcasting Corp. correspondent who Nasiri first approached with his story after the London subway bombings last year.
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Analysis: Europe 's spy in al-Qaida, Part 2
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A Muslim man who was a spy inside al-Qaida for several European intelligence services in the 1990s says he was cut loose right after the group bombed U.S. embassies in East Africa -- the very moment when its global reach and capabilities became so bloodily apparent.
The official who was leading the CIA's efforts against al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at the time says he never saw any sign that the agency was getting intelligence from such a source from its European allies -- raising significant questions about transatlantic cooperation.
In a memoir published last week in Europe and America , Omar Nasiri (a pseudonym) says he worked first for the French external security service, the DGSE, who sent him in 1995 to infiltrate the training camps springing up in Afghanistan in the chaos following the defeat of the Soviet Union .
When he returned the following year having met with key al-Qaida recruiter Abu Zubaydah, Nasiri writes in the memoir "Inside the Jihad," the DGSE sent him to London , where he worked for them and British intelligence in a highly unusual joint operation, keeping tabs on Islamic extremists at the Finsbury Park mosque and other meeting places.
But Nasiri says, after he dropped out of contact with his handlers the day of the August 1998 attacks on two U.S. embassies in East Africa, they hustled him out of the country, with his British contact telling him to "Leave behind everything that connects you to London -- phone numbers, addresses, photographs. Everything."
Source: UPI
Qaeda controls western Iraq : US intelligence
WASHINGTON: US forces can neither crush the insurgency in western Iraq nor counter the rising popularity of Al Qaeda in the area, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a secret Marine Corps
intelligence report.
The report, written by senior military intelligence officer Colonel Peter Devlin in August, focuses on the largely Sunni Iraqi province of Al-Anbar . As of mid-November the problems remained
the same, a senior US intelligence official told the Post. “The fundamental questions of lack of control, growth of the insurgency and criminality” remain the same, said the official. “The social and political
situation has deteriorated to a point” that US and Iraqi troops “are no longer capable of militarily defeating the insurgency in al-Anbar,” the report says.
Iraq’s Sunni population is “embroiled in a daily fight for survival,” fears “pogroms” by the Shiite majority, and is increasingly dependent on Al Qaeda in Iraq as its only hope against growing Iranian dominance in Baghdad, it adds.
Source: Daily Times ( Pakistan )
'Islamic courts responsible for deadly bombs'
Somalia's Islamic courts are responsible for suicide bombings that killed eight people and were intended to kill top government officials, said a government minister on Friday, an allegation that
the leader of Somalia 's Islamic courts denied.
On Thursday, a veiled woman and two other suicide bombers exploded cars outside the western Somali town of Baidoa, the base of Somalia's weak government, in an attack that the transitional
government had initially blamed on foreign al-Qaeda fighters
Source: The Independent
Syrian Islamic Militant Leader Killed
The Syrian leader of an Islamic militant group blew himself up Tuesday after trying to cross into Lebanon and engaging in a gunbattle with Syrian border forces. Two border guards were wounded.
The incident raises questions about the security of the Lebanese-Syrian frontier, which Israel contends is a gateway for weapons to rearm Hezbollah militants.
It comes at a time of increased tension in Lebanon as the struggle intensifies between the anti-Syria government and factions led by Hezbollah , Syria 's ally in Lebanon .
The Syrian Interior Ministry said in a statement the clash began when Omar Abdullah, 28, the leader of the Islamic militant group Tawhid and Jihad, was challenged when he tried to cross into Lebanon with fake documents.
Tawhid and Jihad, Arabic for Monotheism and Holy War, was the name originally used by al-Qaida in Iraq and in 2004, the State Department designated it a terrorist group under its original name. Groups linked to or sympathetic to al-Qaida have used the name Tawhid and Jihad, but such a group had not been known to be operating in Syria .
Source: Forbes
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The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced Thursday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
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LONDON -- The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced Thursday as a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
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Boston Globe - Dec 01 1:06 AM
LONDON -- The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced yesterday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a Russian former prime minister reported symptoms consistent with poisoning.
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The FBI arrested Homero Hernandez, 35, and Felipe Dejesus Lara-Diaz, 21, on charges of selling drugs in Brown County and on the Menominee reservation.
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The FBI has joined the investigation into the police shootings of two 21-year-old men which left one of them dead and the other wounded. The development comes after a chaotic community meeting Thursday night where hundreds of residents demanded to know why city police shot two unarmed men.
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ABC Action News - Dec 01 7:06 AM
FORT LAUDERDALE - The FBI is launching a civil rights investigation into a fatal shooting by Fort Lauderdale police. The announcement came yesterday as residents expressed anger at a chaotic community meeting.
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LONDON (AP) - The FBI is joining the British probe into the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic, the agency announced yesterday as investigators found traces of radiation at a dozen sites in Britain and a former Russian prime minister reported symptoms of poisoning.
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Miami Herald - Dec 01 12:13 AM
The FBI has joined the investigation into the Fort Lauderdale police shootings of two 21-year-old men. At the same time, residents and the NAACP are expressing their frustration at the officers' use of deadly force.
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Robert S. Mueller III visits the region's field office in Norfolk, praising its investigations. Cyber crime, terrorism, public corruption and violent crime are among the chief concerns for FBI agents working in the Hampton Roads area, the agency's director said Thursday during a stop at the Norfolk office.
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The bomb discovered near an interstate underpass has been deemed that it would not have been a significant threat to the structure. FBI officials say that they could not give an indication of how long the explosive device had been sitting next to the Williams Street bridge.
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No Domestic Spying in Ohio Terror Case
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No Domestic Spying in Ohio Terror Case
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 30, 2006; 10:23 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A federal judge who dismissed a challenge of the Bush
administration's domestic spying program said the case against a
convicted
al-Qaida supporter was built on statements he made to investigators,
not
evidence from warrantless eavesdropping.
The challenge by Iyman Faris, now serving a 20-year prison sentence,
was
among the first to seek evidence of warrantless eavesdropping by the
National Security Agency, a practice that began after the terrorist
attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001.
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THE STRUGGLE FOR THE LACANDON SELVA
Ethnic War Coming to the Zapatistas' Jungle Stronghold?
by Bill Weinberg, WW4 REPORT
http://ww4report.com/node/2862
ECUADOR'S CHAVEZ?
Rafael Correa and the Popular Movements
by Yeidy Rosa, WW4 REPORT
http://ww4report.com/node/2863
VENEZUELA: SECESSION IN THE OIL ZONE
Interventionist Legacy Behind Zulia Separatist Movement
by Nikolas Kozloff, WW4 REPORT
http://ww4report.com/node/2855
INDIGENOUS BORDER SUMMIT
Dissected Nations Oppose Wall and Militarization
by Brenda Norrell, IRC Americas Program
http://ww4report.com/node/2859
THE BETRAYAL OF WESTERN SAHARA
International Complicity in Morocco's Repression
by Simon Cunich, Green Left Weekly
http://ww4report.com/node/2860
NUCLEAR-FREE CENTRAL ASIA
A Model for the Korean Peninsula?
by Rene Wadlow, Toward Freedom
http://ww4report.com/node/2861
>From Weekly News Update on the Americas:
BOLIVIA: THE OPPOSITION STRIKES BACK
http://ww4report.com/node/2858
PERU: ACHUAR WIN OIL FIGHT
http://ww4report.com/node/2857
URUGUAY: ECO-PROTESTS ROCK IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT
http://ww4report.com/node/2856
CENTRAL AMERICA: SANDINISTAS TAKE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENCY,
GUATEMELAN GENERALS ORDERED ARRESTED!
http://ww4report.com/node/2853
THE REAL SCOOP ON BIOFEULS
"Green Energy" Panacea or Just the Latest Hype?
by Brian Tokar, WW4 REPORT
http://ww4report.com/node/2864
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO OUR READERS
http://ww4report.com/node/2866
"Sorry, sorry, sorry, I am very sorry. We would like to
apologize and ask our compatriots to forget the past so our
nation can concentrate on the future. Let bygones be
bygones."
--Khieu Samphan, Khmer Rouge "Brother Number Five," when
asked by a
reporter about the killing fields upon turning himself in,
New York Times,
Dec. 30, 1998
"I call on all Iraqis, Arabs and Kurds, to forgive,
reconcile and shake hands."
--Saddam Hussein, upon his conviction on genocide charges,
BBC News, Nov. 7, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6123526.stm
Exit Poll: Are you anticipating a New Years Eve nuclear
terrorist attack on New York City? C'mon, tell the truth.
Responses to last month's Exit Poll:
http://ww4report.com/node/2849
Protests escalate in Beirut
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20061201.wleban1201/BNStory/International
Protests escalate in Beirut
Globe and Mail Update and Associated Press
Beirut - Protests in the centre of Beirut escalated Friday and
Hezbollah
supporters have surrounded the Lebanese Parliament buildings.
On Friday, their advance was blocked by special forces troops loyal to
Prime
Minister Fuad Saniora's government.
Under the direction of yellow-capped Hezbollah supporters, crowds began
pitching tents, refusing to allow anyone in or out of the Parliament.
Earlier, hundreds of thousands of protesters from Hezbollah and its
pro-Syrian opposition allies amassed in downtown Beirut seeking to
force the
resignation of Mr. Saniora, who was holed up in his office ringed by
hundreds of police and combat troops.
The Shiite Muslim Hezbollah and its allies mobilized their bases for
the
protest, arranging to bus supporters from all over Lebanon and handing
out
free gasoline coupons to people in remote regions.
The crowd, which police estimated at 800,000, created a sea of Lebanese
flags that blanketed downtown. Hezbollah officials put the number at 1
million - one-fourth of Lebanon's population.
Mr. Saniora went about his schedule in what appeared to be a tactic to
ignore the throngs that quickly filled the streets. With heavy traffic
reported on highways leading downtown, pro-government factions urged
calm.
"Saniora out! We want a free government!" protesters shouted through
loudspeakers. The crowd roared in approval amid the deafening sound of
Hezbollah revolutionary and nationalist songs. "We want a clean
government,"
read one placard, in what has become the opposition's motto.
Heavily armed soldiers and police had closed all roads to downtown,
feverishly unfurling barbed wire and placing barricades.
Despite Hezbollah's assurances the protests will be peaceful, the heavy
security came amid fears the protests may turn into clashes between
pro- and
anti-Syrian factions or that Hezbollah supporters could try to storm
Mr.
Saniora's government headquarters.
Hezbollah's security men, donning caps, formed two lines between the
protesters and the security forces to prevent clashes.
Launching a long-threatened campaign to force Lebanon's U.S.-backed
government from office, Hezbollah and its pro-Syrian allies said the
demonstration would be followed by a wave of open-ended protests.
The battle is a fallout from the summer war between Hezbollah and
Israel
that ravaged parts of Lebanon. The guerrilla force's strong resistance
against Israeli troops sent its support among Shiites skyrocketing,
emboldening it to grab more political power. Hezbollah also feels Mr.
Saniora did not do enough to support it during the fight.
Pro-government groups, in turn, resent Hezbollah for sparking the fight
by
snatching two Israeli soldiers, dragging Lebanon into war with Israel.
A defiant Saniora vowed his government would not fall, warning in a
nationally televised speech Thursday night that "Lebanon's independence
is
threatened and its democratic system is in danger."
Mr. Saniora asked Lebanese to show support by raising the Lebanese flag
on
their windows and balconies. Hezbollah's leader also called on
protesters to
carry the same banner, the national red and white flag with the
historic
cedar tree in its middle.
But both camps seemed wide apart on what kind of Lebanon they want.
Government supporters accuse Syria of being behind the Hezbollah
campaign,
trying to regain its lost influence in its smaller neighbour. Hezbollah
and
its allies, in turn, say the country has fallen under U.S. domination
and
that they have lost their rightful portion of power.
Tension have been running high between Sunni Muslims, who generally
support
the anti-Syrian government, and Shiites, who lead the pro-Syrian
opposition,
and Lebanon's Christians, who are divided between the two.
In a stark sign of the divide, the spiritual leader of Lebanon's
Sunnis,
Grand Mufti Mohammed Rashid Kabbani, gave Friday prayers at the prime
minister's headquarters in a show of support for Mr. Saniora, a Sunni.
"Fear has gripped the Lebanese," Mr. Kabbani said, appealing for the
protests to end. "The constitution guarantees freedom of expression,
but
trying to overthrow the government in the street is a call for stirring
up
discord among people, and we will not accept this."
Hezbollah had threatened to call for demonstrations unless it and its
allies
obtain a veto-wielding share of the Cabinet - a demand that Mr. Saniora
and
the anti-Syrian parties have rejected. The aim of the protests is to
generate enough popular pressure to further paralyze the government,
forcing
it to step down.
Hezbollah has proven in past rallies that it can draw hundreds of
thousands
of its Shiite supporters into the streets.
Hezbollah's deputy leader, Sheik Naim Kassim, made it clear the fight
is
against "American tutelage" and said the protest action will continue
until
the government falls.
"We will not let you sell Lebanon, we will protect the constitution and
people of Lebanon," Mr. Kassim said on television Friday, addressing
Mr.
Saniora.
The United States has made Lebanon a key front in its attempts to rein
in
Syria and its ally, regional powerhouse Iran. President Bush warned
earlier
this week that the two countries were trying to destabilize Lebanon.
Hezbollah's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, called for the protests to
be
peaceful. From the other camp, the head of the anti-Syrian bloc in
parliament, Saad Hariri, said his supporters should not hold
counter-demonstrations.
Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese also flooded the downtown area last
week
after Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel was shot dead to show their
support
for Mr. Saniora's government.
Lebanon has had a string of assassinations of anti-Syrian figures in
the
past two years, including a prominent Christian government minister
gunned
down last week and Hariri's father, former prime minister Rafik Hariri,
who
was killed in a February 2005 bombing.
Charges dropped against terrorist Lodhi
Friday December 1, 01:28 PM
Charges dropped against terrorist Lodhi
Charges have been dropped against convicted terrorist Faheem Khalid Lodhi for allegedly lying to Australia 's national security agency.
Lodhi had been ordered to stand trial in the NSW Supreme Court, charged with five counts of providing false information to the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO).
But the charges have been withdrawn by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions, the court was told.
Prosecutor Geoffrey Bellew SC told an arraignment hearing that the trial did not need to proceed as Lodhi was already serving a substantial sentence.
Earlier this year, Lodhi - who planned to blow up the Australian electricity supply system - was jailed for a maximum of 20 years on three terrorism-related offences.
During his sentencing in August, Justice Anthony Whealy ordered Lodhi serve at least 15 years.
The 36-year-old Pakistan-born architect received the harshest sentence yet handed down in Australia for a terrorism offence.
Lodhi also became the first person convicted of preparing for a terrorist attack on home soil,
He was convicted of acting in preparation for a terrorist act by seeking information about chemicals capable of making explosives.
He also was found guilty of possessing a "terrorism manual" and of buying two maps of the electricity grid, connected with preparation for a terrorist act.
When Lodhi appeared before Justice Whealy in September on the five outstanding charges, the judge questioned whether he should face another trial.
Hearing that a trial could take up to three months, the judge asked whether prosecutors "would be prepared to reappraise their position".
Justice Whealy described the five counts as "minor" when compared to the very serious offences for which he had been jailed.
Mr Bellew told Justice Graham Barr that Lodhi was already serving a substantial sentence and the trial did not need to proceed.
Justice Barr accepted the DPP's submission.
Had the trial proceeded, Lodhi would have been the first person tried in NSW for making false statements under the ASIO Act.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061201/2/11msi.html
[What gets published in the mid - east]
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=18590
First Published 2006-12-01, Last Updated 2006-12-01 17:03:17
It starts with visual identification
Muslims in US may face Nazi treatment of Jews
Gallup poll shows that 39% of surveyed Americans are in favor of requiring Muslims in US to carry special IDs.
By Bernd Debusmann - WASHINGTON
When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.
The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country."
Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans."
At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax.
"I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL, which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland
"For me to suggest to tattoo marks on people's bodies, have them wear armbands, put a crescent moon on their driver's license on their passport or birth certificate is disgusting. It's beyond disgusting.
"Because basically what you just did was show me how the German people allowed what happened to the Jews to happen ... We need to separate them, we need to tattoo their arms, we need to make them wear the yellow Star of David, we need to put them in concentration camps, we basically just need to kill them all because they are dangerous."
The show aired on November 26, the Sunday after the Thanksgiving holiday, and Klein said in an interview afterwards he had been surprised by the response.
The switchboard went from empty to totally jammed within minutes," said Klein. "There were plenty of callers angry with me, but there were plenty who agreed."
POLLS SHOW WIDESPREAD ANTI-MUSLIM SENTIMENT
Those in agreement are not a fringe minority: A Gallup poll this summer of more than 1,000 Americans showed that 39 percent were in favor of requiring Muslims in the United States, including American citizens, to carry special identification.
Roughly a quarter of those polled said they would not want to live next door to a Muslim and a third thought that Muslims in the United States sympathized with al Qaeda, the extremist group behind the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
A poll carried out by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an advocacy group, found that for one in three Americans, the word Islam triggers negative connotations such as "war," "hatred" and "terrorist." The war in Iraq has contributed to such perceptions.
Klein's show followed a week of heated discussions on talk radio, including his own, and online forums over an incident on November 22 involving six Muslim clerics. They were handcuffed and taken off a US Airways flight after passengers reported "suspicious behavior" that included praying in the departure gate area.
The clerics, on their way to a meeting of the North American Imams Federation, were detained in a holding cell, questioned by police and FBI agents, and released. Muslim community leaders saw the incident as yet more evidence of anti-Muslim prejudice.
IGNORANCE SEEN AS KEY PROBLEM
Several American Muslims interviewed on the subject of prejudice over the past few weeks said ignorance was at the core of the problem.
"The level of knowledge is very, very low," said Mohamed Esa, a U.S. Muslim of Arab descent who teaches a course on Islam at McDaniel College in Maryland. "There are 1.3 billion Muslims in the world and some people think they are all terrorists."
Hossam Ahmed, a retired Air Force Reserve colonel who occasionally leads prayer meetings for the small Muslim congregation at the Pentagon, agreed. "Ignorance is the number one problem. Education is of the essence."
There are no hard figures on how many Muslims have been subject to harassment or prejudice and community leaders say that ugly incidents can prompt spontaneous expressions of support. Such as the e-mail a Minneapolis woman sent to CAIR after the imams were taken off their flight.
"I would like to ... help," the e-mail said. "While I cannot offer plane tickets, I would be happy to drive at least 2 or 3 of them. My car is small, but at least some of our hearts in this land of the free are large."
And optimists saw signs of change in the November 4 election of the first Muslim to the U.S. House of Representatives, which has 435 members.
Democrat Keith Ellison, a 43-year-old African-American lawyer, did not stress his religion during his campaign for a Minnesota seat, but said his victory would "signal to people who are not Muslims that Muslims have a lot to offer to the United States and the improvement of our country."
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Dialogue? Here's an example of their dialogue:
The Islamic Genocide Plan
By FrontPage Magazine
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 1, 2006
The following words and pictures prove that radical Muslims have long dreamed, plotted, and demonstrated in favor of the annihilation of Israel and all the Jews in the world. Unfortunately, words and demonstrations are not where they are willing to stop. -- The Editors
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, President of Iran:
. "As the Imam [Ayatollah Khomeini] said, Israel must be wiped off the map.”
. “... the annihilation of the Zionist regime will come.”
. "There is no doubt that the new wave of attacks in Palestine will soon wipe off this disgraceful blot [Israel] from the face of the Islamic world."
. “The creation of the occupying regime in Israel is a strong action by the ruling arrogant American imperialist world order against the world of Islam.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25704
OT. Notice it says "A parent." ONE parent.
Santa Claus Deemed Too 'Religious' for School Fundraiser
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
November 30, 2006
(CNSNews.com) - A Christmas-themed event to raise money at a public elementary school in Warwick, N.Y., has been altered to accommodate a parent's complaints that the program would illegally spotlight a "religious" figure - Santa Claus.
http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/Articles/Santa%20Claus%20Deemed.html
TerroristWarning.com Terrorism Headlines 12/01/2006 # 1
National:
[Salt Lake Tribune] UTAH - Fake bomb in SLC shop
" beneath the hood of a U.S. Army-owned minivan"
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4753202
[Reuters] USA - U.S. warns of possible Qaeda financial cyber attack
"The U.S. government warned American private financial services on Thursday of an al Qaeda call for a cyber attack against online stock trading and banking Web sites beginning on Friday"
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=businessNews&storyid=2006-12-01T021743Z_01_WBT006236_RTRUKOC_0_US-SECURITY-USA-QAEDA.xml&src=rss&rpc=23
[The Enquirer] OHIO - I-71 bomb detonated; highway still closed
"The FBI is leading the investigation, Norwood Police Lt. Tom Williams said. The device consisted of a clock, gas cans and wiring, WCPO reported"
http://edit.enquirer.gannettonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/399990018/1056/COL02
[Press Enterprise] CALIFORNIA - Explosives missing at construction site
"Two packages containing 110 pounds of explosives were stolen over the weekend from a construction site in Menifee, a federal firearms official said Tuesday"
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_explosives29.35b1ed4.html
[KPTV] OREGON - Police: Apartment Complex Bomb Scare A Hoax [Hoax Device]
"Authorities said they located a device which appeared to be a pipe bomb with an attached electronic fuse. As a precaution, they evacuated the 40 residents"
http://www.kptv.com/news/10399649/detail.html
[Raw Story] WASHINGTON D.C. - Mysterious liquid and anthrax note shut down Lincoln Memorial
"A suspicious packing envelope, along with a note mentioning anthrax, was found Nov. 27 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, and a suspicious liquid resembling a sports drink was found in the ladies' restroom"
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Mysterious_liquid_shuts_down_Lincoln_Memorial_1127.html
[AP] CALIFORNIA - Students Evacuated After Hand Grenade Found at SoCal High School [inert]
"Officials report an inert hand grenade was found this morning along with a note threatening that there were more devices hidden on the campus of Peninsula High School in Rolling Hills Estates"
http://www.kfwb.com/pages/133639.php?contentType=4&contentId=247845
[AP] USA / MEXICO BORDER - Disease Threat From Exotic Pets Could Rival Terrorist Attack
"Exotic animals captured in the wild are streaming across the U.S. border by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232121,00.html
[KCRA] CALIFORNIA - Bomb Threat Leads To Evacuations In Fairfield
"Two detonation times were given, but the times came and went without incident"
http://www.kcra.com/news/10415592/detail.html
[AP] OKLAHOMA - Ponca City clinic evacuated by bomb threat
"LeClair says the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the F-B-I have searched but found no evidence of a bomb"
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5739971&nav=menu410_3
[Bridgeton News] NEW JERSEY - Charge: Two sold pipe bomb to FBI agent
http://www.nj.com/news/bridgeton/local/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1164720378146180.xml&coll=10
[News-Record] NORTH CAROLINA - Anthrax scare at High Point gas station
"A gas station manager spilled a suspicious white powder onto himself this morning after opening a letter addressed to an employee that read in part "here's some anthrax for you," according to police"
http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/NEWSREC0101/61128005/1006/NEWSREC0101
[AP] TEXAS - 2 Men Arrested In Taliban Plot
http://wfrv.com/topstories/topstories_story_332215211.html
[KMBC TV] MISSOURI - Suspicious Package Found In Northland [Bomb scare]
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/10418794/detail.html
[WND] USA - 45,000 terror-threat illegals released into U.S. population
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53151
[San Francisco Chronicle] USA - Ex-spy's poison on the Internet $69 can get you a trace of the commonly used lethal industrial substance
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/28/MNGHSML5LM1.DTL
[WDBJ] VIRGINIA - Suspicious letter brings Haz-Mat team to Galax Post Office
"The Galax police chief says a patron found a letter containing a suspicious white powder "
http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=5746682
[Jim Kouri] USA - Former US Border agents have plan to stop invasion
http://www.smallgovtimes.com/story/06nov29.border.agents.invasion/
[nbc15online.com] ALABAMA - FBI says violent gang is showing signs of being in our area [MS-13]
http://www.nbc15online.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=e89e641d-fd04-49f1-b5c4-572278562014
[nbc41.com] OHIO - Supermarket Evacuated After Suspicious Letter Found
"Kroger supermarket was evacuated Thursday morning after a letter with white powder was found inside the business"
http://www.nbc4i.com/news/10430905/detail.html
[Miami Herald] FLORIDA - Police blow up suspicious suitcase in Little Havana [False alarm]
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/16131694.htm
[Hammonton News] NEW JERSEY - 2 residents receive suspicious mail
http://www.thehammontonnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/611290318/1002
[CourierPostOnline.com] NEW JERSEY - Suitcases trigger bomb scare [False alarm, in front of Fire Dept]
http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061130/NEWS01/61130049/-1/NEWS0301
[AP] MARYLAND - Second Harford County grocery targeted by bottle bomb
"It's the second such bombing at a county grocery store this week. No one was hurt in either incident"
http://www.wmdt.com/wires/displaystory.asp?id=56196534
[WSVN] FLORIDA - Suspicious package momentarily closes down part of downtown Miami [False alarm/ Dry Run? - photo]
" bomb squad was seen X-raying a plastic, gray suitcase, which was sitting next to a bus stop sign"
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI34072/
[news4Jax.com] FLORIDA - Suspicious Package At Bank Prompts Baymeadows Road Closure
http://www.news4jax.com/news/10442086/detail.html
[Atlanta Journal-Constitution] GEORGIA - Illegals immigrants working at airport arrested
"Federal immigration agents arrested six illegal immigrants Wednesday who had security badges that gave them access to restricted areas of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, including the tarmac"
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2006/11/29/1129airportarrests.html
[WND] USA - 45,000 terror-threat illegals released into U.S. population
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53151
[GlobalIncidentMap.com] USA / GLOBAL - View Terrorism And Suspicious Incidents On Our Interactive Global Incident Map
"Custom Versions Of The Map are Available for law enforcement, military, government, and private organizations"
www.GlobalIncidentMap.com
International:
[Reuters] IRaQ - Car bomb kills 3, wounds 22 at Baghdad pet market
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC125722.htm
[AP] PAKISTAN - Suicide attacker detonates bomb in northwestern Pakistan, killing himself
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/01/asia/AS_GEN_Pakistan_Bombing.php
[Reuters] SRI LANKA - Sri Lanka President's brother escapes bomb blast
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL321543.htm
[Mail and Guardian] UNITED KINGDOM / RUSSIA - Spy death in Britain linked to nuclear thefts
"amid concern that significant quantities of polonium 210, the substance that killed former spy Alexander Litvinenko, are being stolen from poorly protected Russian nuclear sites"
"about 40kg of weapons-usable uranium and plutonium were stolen from poorly protected nuclear facilities in the former Soviet Union between 1991 and 2002"
"Globally there have been more than 300 cases during the past four years where individuals have been caught trying to smuggle radioactive material. In 2005 there were 103 confirmed incidents of trafficking and other unauthorised activities involving nuclear and radioactive materials, many involving Russia"
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=291134&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
[Reuters] IRAQ - Bomb kills 4 near Baghdad hospital
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-11-28T094648Z_01_L27854770_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsLanding-C4-World-2
[The Local] SWEDEN - Swedish courts cleared after bomb threat
"Skellefteå and Lycksele courts were re-opened after extensive searches by the police, who concluded that no serious threat was posed to the courts and employers"
http://www.thelocal.se/5640/20061128/
[AP] UNITED KINGDOM - Radiation Traces Found on 2 British Airways Jets
"Authorities found traces of radiation on two British Airways 767 jetliners Wednesday as investigators widened their search for clues into the poisoning death of former Russian spy and Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko"
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4806300
[Mosnews/AP] RUSSIA - 5 Russians Detained Over Illegal Purchase of Portable Surface to Air Missiles
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/11/28/manpadsellers.shtml
See also http://mosnews.com/news/2006/11/28/manpadsellers.shtml
[RIA Novosti] RUSSIA - 1dead, 2 wounded in car attack in Chechnya
"Unidentified gunmen opened fire from their car on a truck carrying Russian Interior Ministry servicemen"
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20061128/56082714.html
[Financial Times] RUSSIA - Mystery illness hits former Russian PM
"Yegor Gaidar, Russia's former prime minister and the architect of the country's market reforms, last week suffered a sudden, unexplained and violent illness on a visit to Ireland, a day after Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB spy, died in London from an apparent radiation poisoning"
"doctors had so far been unable to identify the cause of the violent vomiting and bleeding that he suffered during a conference in Ireland"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15938963/
[Vanguard] NIGERIA - Bomb explosion rocks PDP aspirant's home, leaves one dead
"One person was killed yesterday in Benin after an explosive device went off at the GRA residence of a chairmanship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Richard Ehimegbai.
Eight assorted cars and six buildings were badly damaged in the explosion"
http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/niger_delta/nd329112006.html
[AP] SYRIA / LEBANON - Islamic militant leader killed in suicide attack at Lebanon-Syria border
http://www.cp.org/english/online/OnlineFullStory.aspx?filename=w112865a&newsitemid=73346036&languageid=1
[AP] AFGHANISTAN - Suicide bomb kills 2 civilians in southern Afghanistan
"A suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up next to a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two civilians. It was the third straight day troops there have been hit by suicide attacks"
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564848539688371933
[Monitor] UGANDA - Bomb kills 1, injures four
http://www.monitor.co.ug/news/news113016.php
[Reuters] INDIA - Bomb kills soldier, wounds six in Assam
"One soldier was killed and six others, including an officer, wounded on Wednesday when their jeep hit a bomb planted by suspected separatist rebels "
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-11-29T172606Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-278265-1.xml&archived=False
[Sapa] SOUTH AFRICA - Explosives, ammunition found in old Cape hotel
"Several civil commercial explosives as well as ammunition were found stored in boxes. We also confiscated magazines, detonators, cordtex, boosters, charges, igniting cord, fuse heads, fuses and blast indicators"
http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=291669
[Regnum] LITHUANiA / LATVIA - Device resembling explosive found on Lithuania-Latvia border
"a device resembling explosive was found near the village of Kvetkelis on telegraph poles of electric lines from Lithuania to Latvia"
http://www.regnum.ru/english/747095.html
[Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence] SRI LANKA - LTTE sets four 1000 Kg bombs to blast Panichchankerni Bridge
"the LTTE have set four bombs each weighting of 1000 Kg to totally destroy the bridge"
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20061129_04
[Mosnews/AP] RUSSIA - 5 Russians Detained Over Illegal Purchase of Portable Surface to Air Missiles
http://mosnews.com/news/2006/11/28/manpadsellers.shtml
See also http://mosnews.com/news/2006/11/28/manpadsellers.shtml
[AP] PAKISTAN - Pakistan Launches Nuclear-Capable, Medium Range Missile in Military Exercise
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,232637,00.html
[This Day] NIGERIA - Bomb Explosion Rocks Elumelu’s Campaign Office
http://www.thisdayonline.com/nview.php?id=64576
[Telegraph] UNITED KINGDOM / GLOBAL - 33,000 BA passengers alerted over radiation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/30/npoison30.xml
[AP] SPAIN / FRANCE - Spain says security forces on alert after gun robbery blamed on Basque militants
"French anti-terrorism police have said ETA was responsible for the Oct. 24 robbery of more than 200 handguns in the southeast town of Vauvert. Spanish officials have put the number of guns at 350"
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/11/29/europe/EU_GEN_Spain_Basques.php
[Reuters] SOMALIA - Suspected suicide bomb near Somali govt, 4 dead
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061130/wl_nm/somalia_ethiopia_dc
[PTI] PAKISTAN - Bomb scare in Parliament
http://www.mid-day.com/news/nation/2006/november/147552.htm
[PTI] INDIA - 1500 kg of explosives seized
"The items, including gelatin sticks and detonators, were well packed in high quality polythene arousing suspicion that they were headed for the island nation via sea"
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/nov/30tn.htm
[JTA] BELARUS - Blast hits FSU Holocaust memorial
"A homemade device was planted and detonated under the wreaths and flower baskets"
http://jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=5820
[AP] SOMALIA - 3 Suicide bombers strike Somali government town
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/11/30/somalia.ap/
[PTI] INDIA - Army officer injured in IED explosion
http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/01/stories/2006120116660100.htm
[ThinkSpain] FRANCE - Three ETA suspects detained in France
"arrests in France yesterday of three alleged ETA activists, among whom is reported to be the head of the gang's logistical operation"
http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/12291
[BlackAnthem.com] IRAQ - 2 Terrorists Killed, 27 Terrorists Detained
"Coalition Forces killed two terrorists and detained 27 suspected terrorists in multiple raids Friday targeting al-Qaida terrorists throughout the region"
http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Allies_20/TWO_TERRORISTS_KILLED_27_SUSPECTED_TERRORISTS_DETAINED.shtml
[Scotsman] TURKEY - Eighteen al-Qaeda arrests as Pope visits mosque
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1780152006
[Blackanthem.com] AFGHANISTAN - 11 Terrorists Captured by Afghan, Coalition Forces
"Credible intelligence indicated the compound was a refuge for terrorists operating in Khowst Province . During the search of the compound, terrorist propaganda was found"
http://www.blackanthem.com/News/Allies_20/11_Terrorists_Captured_by_Afghan_Coalition_Forces.shtml
[AFP] ISRAEL - Bomb attack on Arab Bank’s Gaza branch
" bomb attack targeted a branch of the Arab Bank in Gaza City before dawn on Friday, causing extensive damage to the office but no casualties"
http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/December/middleeast_December12.xml§ion=middleeast&col=
[IsraelNN.com] ISRAEL - 29 Arrests in Counter-Terror Operations
"28 of the suspects are affiliated with Hamas"
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=116660
[Ottawa Citizen] CANADA - O-Train service halted by false bomb call
"police were called at about 5:50 p.m. and told there was a possible bomb on a train"
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=f5b3228c-953e-40de-a21e-56e6367643fb&k=96675
[Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence] SRI LANKA - LTTE sets four 1000 Kg bombs to blast Panichchankerni Bridge
"the LTTE have set four bombs each weighting of 1000 Kg to totally destroy the bridge"
http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20061129_04
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