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Posted on 12/01/2006 8:36:14 PM PST by nwctwx
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ON THE NET...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=SOMALIA
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=GLOBALJIHAD
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ISLAMICCOURTS
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005815.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005813.html
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http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/12/the_islamic_courts_a.php
THE ISLAMIC COURTS ABANDONS MOGADISHU
ICU leaders flee to unknown location; Ethiopian and TFG troops enter the capital"
(December 28, 2006)
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http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/12/the_fall_of_the_isla.php
"THE FALL OF THE ISLAMIC COURTS
Aweys, Sharif, resign; the TFG and Ethiopian forces are on the outskirts of Mogadishu"
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000662.html
December 28, 2006
"Arab volunteers ride to the defense of the Somali jihad...
...and get killed in large numbers."
http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000664.html
December 28, 2006
"Re: Abu Jhad Muhammad Khalil al-Hakayamah"
SNIPPET: "Those looking for Hakaymah should start at the al-Medad forum."
Posted on 28 December 2006 @ 18:38 GMT
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ON THE NET....
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/26sep06-salafy_forums.html
http://www.almedad.com
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http://www.ctc.usma.edu/MythofDelusion.pdf
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http://www.ctc.usma.edu/hakaymah/default.asp
COMBATING TERRORISM AT WEST POINT
"Al-Qa`ida's Spymaster Analyzes U.S. Intelligence"
By Brian Fishman
"Authored by CTC Senior Associate Brian Fishman, this short commentary analyzes a major report on the U.S. intelligence community that was released in August by Muhammad Khalil al-Hakaymah, a long-time operator in the Egyptian al-Gamaa al-Islamiya.
Al-Hakaymah recently joined Al-Qa'ida and seems to aspire to be its chief intelligence analyst. His report indicates that Al Qa’ida has evolved from studying U.S. security tactics and electoral politics to more sophisticated analyses of U.S. bureaucratic structure and weaknesses. Whereas security planners have tended to think of bureaucratic limitations as internal problems that may limit our ability to detect, prevent, or respond to an attack, we must now consider that Al Qa’ida will actively attempt to exploit these weaknesses."
Thanks to Calpernia for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759540/posts
and you have an interesting post here, Calpernia:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759540/posts?page=8#8
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http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/27/michigans-hezbollah-connection-uncovered/
"Michigan’s Hezbollah Connection Uncovered"
December 27, 2006
Vox Populi, NewsLog
By Jim Kouri, CPP
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Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759547/posts
Democrats likely to resurrect detainee legislation (protect terrorists)
International Herald Tribune ^ | December 28, 2006 | AP
Posted on 12/28/2006 1:24:41 PM PST by IntelliQuark
Senate Democrats plan to use their newfound power to revisit one of the most contentious U.S. national security matters of 2006: Deciding what legal rights must be protected for detainees held in the fight against terrorism.
Among other things, Dodd's legislation would specifically bar coerced statements as testimony and limit the president's authority in interpreting international standards for prisoner treatment.
Dodd and other Democrats say such protections should be afforded to terror suspects because the U.S. would want other nations to apply similar rights to troops captured in war.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=somalia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=yemen
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759554/posts
17 refugees dead, 140 missing off coast of Yemen(Yemen blast terrorists out of the water)
The Daily Star ^ | December 28, 2006 | AFP
Posted on 12/28/2006 1:46:14 PM PST by mdittmar
GENEVA: Seventeen people died and 140 would-be migrants were missing at sea Thursday after Yemeni police opened fire on a group of boats attempting to smuggle 515 people from Somalia to Yemen, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)said.
Two of four boats carrying mainly Somalis and Ethiopians capsized in the Gulf of Aden late on Wednesday after Yemeni authorities spotted the vessels approaching the coastline.
Survivors said Yemeni forces opened fired as two boats offloaded passengers. Yemeni officials said the smugglers returned fire.
The third and fourth boats, anchored further offshore under the cover of darkness, tried to escape back to sea. But one of the vessels capsized near Al-Baida after becoming unbalanced by agitated passengers. The other was forced back to shore by coast-guard boats and a helicopter but capsized in heavy seas just 300 meters offshore.
More than 25,800 people have been recorded arriving in Yemen from troubled Somalia this year. Somalis reaching the country are automatically given refugee status if they apply because most are fleeing violent conflict. Ethiopians are not automatically considered refugees but can put their cases individually. Of the more than 88,000 registered refugees in Yemen, 84,000 are Somalis.
Yemeni authorities said Thursday they captured all 17 smugglers and their four boats, and that a search operation was still under way for survivors.
UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said he was shocked by the loss of life.
"I am deeply saddened," Guterres said in Geneva. "Despite efforts to halt this horrible trade, brutal smugglers continue to prey on the desperation of poor people fleeing persecution and violence."
Somalis on the boats said they came from troubled areas in central Somalia. Many said they had fled as a result of the conflict between the Ethiopian-backed Somali government and Islamist miltias.
The boats from Somalia usually land along a remote 300-kilometer stretch of tribal-ruled coastline. The UNHCR has only limited access to much of the insecure coast. - AFP
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1759559/posts
December 27, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/27/newsid_2545000/2545949.stm
ON THIS DAY
December 27, 1985
"1985: Gunmen kill 16 at two European airports"
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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000663.html
December 28, 2006
"Portrait of a Prime Minister, groveling."
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December 28, 2006
"Nice of you to notice..."
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http://yalibnan.com/site/archives/2006/12/mufti_juzo_hezb.php
"Mufti Juzo: Hezbollah using Mafia tactics in Lebanon"
Monday, 25 December, 2006 @ 4:57 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Beirut – According to the Mufti of Mount Lebanon, Hezbollah has transformed itself from a resistance group to a Mafia organization, trying to force its will on the Lebanese people by using Mafia tactics."
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23800_Answering_Human_Rights_Watch&only
LITTLEGREENFOOTBALLS.com - weblog: "ANSWERING HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH"
(December 28, 2006)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/12/28/airline-plot-mastermind-will-face-trial-after-all/
BLOG:
"Airline-Plot Mastermind Will Face Trial After All"
posted at 5:00 pm on December 28, 2006 by see-dubya
NOTE: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2544
Combined Forces Capture 60 Insurgents, Kill Cell Leader
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, 2006 – Combined forces captured 60 suspected insurgents and killed one cell leader over the past four days in Iraq.
-- Soldiers from the 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, detained 30 suspected insurgents Dec. 26 southwest of Mahmudiayh. The detainees are being held for questioning.
-- 5th Iraqi Army Division forces, with coalition advisors, raided a suspected terrorist training camp today during operations near Baqubah. Combined forces detained 13 insurgents suspected of attacks against coalition forces and civilians.
-- Soldiers with the 2nd Brigade Combat Team and the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, killed one suspected insurgent and captured 13 more during a four-day operation in Baghdad that ended today.
-- 7th Iraqi Army Division forces, with coalition advisors, detained three suspected insurgents today during operations near Tameem. The detained are responsible for multiple roadside-bomb and car-bomb attacks against coalition forces, Iraqi security forces and civilians.
-- Special Iraqi army forces, with coalition advisors, captured an al Qaeda in Iraqi terror cell leader Dec. 26 during operations in Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad. The terrorist is believed responsible for the June kidnapping two U.S. Army soldiers who were later found tortured and murdered.
-- Iraqi soldiers responded to a car-bomb detonation yesterday in northeastern Baghdad that killed 15 people and wounded 20 others. Iraqi soldiers transported the injured to a hospital for medical treatment.
-- U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 36th Infantry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, rescued two kidnapping victims yesterday who were being held captive by insurgents in Hit, Iraq.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=34175&siteSection=1
"Murders Up in New York, Other Cities"
Updated: December 28th, 2006 04:37 PM EDT
By KAREN MATTHEWS
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "After many years of decline, the number of murders climbed this year in New York and many other major U.S. cities, reaching their highest levels in a decade in some places.
Among the reasons given: gangs, the easy availability of illegal guns, a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns when they do not get the respect they demand, and, in Houston at least, an influx of Hurricane Katrina evacuees."
...or... you wonder how the blind Sheik is doing?
Me too.
Well of course, you're so right.
That guy sure has a following...at least on the internet.
Off Topic, but interesting...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759607/posts
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2006/1228062bar1.html
"Ethics Rap For Duke Prosecutor
North Carolina bar accuses Nifong of "dishonesty, fraud, deceit""
DECEMBER 28
A few more details...
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=9439
Updated: December 28th, 2006 10:01 AM PDT
Home > Top News Headlines
"Hijacked Russian Jet Forced to Land in Prague"
Nadia Rybarova
The Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Airbus A320 flying from Moscow to Geneva, landed at Ruzyne airport shortly before 11 a.m., airport spokeswoman Pavlina Hajkova said.
Police spokesman Pavel Hantak said that the alleged hijacker was "pacified on board the plane" and the man, a Russian citizen, was taken into custody by Czech police.
Pantak said the man been threatening the crew of the plane but did not elaborate.
Deputy director of Aeroflot, Lev Koshlyakov, told Rossiya television, "One of the passengers said he had an explosive device.""
Well now, this is a no-no...
http://www.airportbusiness.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=9438
Updated: December 28th, 2006 09:58 AM PDT
Home > Top News Headlines
"Brazilian Travelers Storm Airport Runway to Protest Flight Delays"
Alan Clendenning
The Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Brazilian travelers incensed about an overbooked flight stormed a runway Wednesday to prevent a commercial jet from taking off, and a tourism industry leader said two months of chronic flight delays have been a "disaster" for tourism.
The protest happened after a group of about 30 travelers with tickets to the northeastern city of Recife waited more than 40 minutes aboard a bus outside a Tam Linhas Aereas SA jet at one of Sao Paulo's two airports, Brazil's Globo TV reported.
When the crew closed the jet's door because the plane was full, some of the passengers got off the bus in an attempt to stop the plane from leaving. It was unclear how many people were involved in the protest.
Police removed the protesters from the tarmac, but the flight was delayed for more than two hours in a repeat of similar incidents last week, when Brazilians invaded runways at several airports plagued by delays just before Christmas."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759631/posts
"Saddam Likely to Be Hanged Before New Year, US Military Official Says [hanged within 24 hours even?]"
FOX News ^ | Dec 28, 2006
Posted on 12/28/2006 4:43:02 PM PST by jdm
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1759678/posts
Strip-Searched Muslim Woman Gets Apology
AP via CBS3 TV in Philadelphia ^ | Dec 28, 2006
Posted on 12/28/2006 5:46:42 PM PST by jdm
The Department of Homeland Security has sent a letter apologizing to a Muslim woman who was detained at the Tampa airport and strip-searched at a county jail.
Safana Jawad, 45, a Spanish citizen who was born in Iraq, was detained on April 11 because of a suspected tie to a suspicious person, authorities said. She was held for two days before being deported to England.
Jawad filed a complaint, and the agency apologized in a letter dated Dec. 8.
"On behalf of the Department of Homeland Security, I offer you my sincere apology for having to undergo a strip search," wrote Timothy J. Keefer, acting chief counsel for the department's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
The agency declined to release the name of the suspicious person in the case.
Department spokeswoman Joanna Gonzalez said it is standard practice to send a response letter to someone who complains. She said the agency does not track the number of apologies it issues.
Jawad was traveling to Clearwater to visit her 16-year-old son, who lived with her ex-husband, Ahmad Maki Kubba. Kubba, an Iraqi exile and American citizen for 27 years, was praised last year by Gov. Jeb. Bush for organizing a group to vote in Iraq's election.
Kubba said his ex-wife's detention prompted his son to move to Spain.
"I lost my son because of what happened," Kubba said. "My son wanted to be in the U.S. Navy, and he speaks both English and Arabic. He would have been just what they are looking for. What they did to Jawad was unfair and is hurting America."
A Pinellas County jail internal investigation cleared deputies of wrongdoing in the case.
"We followed the same protocol with her as with any inmate," Sgt. Jim Bordner said.
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