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18.12.2006
"TERRORISM INDICATORS FROM PAKISTAN - INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR--PAPER NO. 165"
By B. Raman
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"The Arab Race for the Bomb"
By Sean Daniels
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 20, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iran’s Mullahs are no longer the only apparent contenders for a nuclear crown in the Islamic Middle East.
As of December 10th, six more Arab nations declared their intention to gain nuclear energy at the annual meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh. Only the day before, Iran exacerbated tensions throughout the region by announcing that it had already begun “installing 3,000 centrifuges” in the “first step toward industrial production” of “nuclear fuel.” In this context, the GCC’s actions indicate a growing perception that the U.S. is on the verge of retreating from Iraq and may negotiate with Iran in order to achieve this end, as the recent Baker report proposed. Gulf players are now beginning to act to confront the aggression of Iran in the belief that the U.S. never will, signaling even greater division in a region that edges ever closer toward a full-blown nuclear arms race.
While Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, later attempted to assuage anxiety by reasserting the council’s “peaceful purposes” in pursuing nuclear energy, Arab pundits praised the GCC’s nuke statement as a “clear, strong and courageous” response to Iran’s nuclear program and the first show of true strength among the Sunni nations toward Shiite Iran’s growing power. According to journalist Fouad al-Hashem, Sunni nations will no longer stand idly by while Shiite Iran achieves nuclear power; “with the help of [their] allies, [the Sunni nations intend to] balance the power and build [their] own reactors even if [they] don't need them.”
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Remarks of Stewart Baker Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
Release Date: December 19, 2006
I'm going to talk today about how DHS screens for terrorism risks at our borders, and in particular how we use travel reservation data to do that. I'm going to talk first about how our automated targeting system works. Then I'll address some of the criticisms of the program, first the claim that the program was somehow sneaked into operation without notice and then the claim that the program is bad for civil liberties.
Before I do that, though, I'd like to begin with an event far from our borders. In Iraq, in February 2005, at about 8:30 in the morning, several hundred police recruits were lining up outside a clinic in Hilla.
You know what happened next.
A young Jordanian man drove into the crowd and detonated a massive car bomb. 132 people died, and about as many were wounded. It was the most deadly suicide bombing Iraq had seen.
The driver's name was Ra'ed al-Banna. We know that because the authorities found the steering wheel of his car, and his forearm was still handcuffed to it.
But I'm not here to talk about what al-Banna did in 2005. I'm here to talk about what he didn't do in June of 2003.
That's when al-Banna showed up at O'Hare Airport in Chicago and asked to be admitted to the United States. He had a legitimate passport in his own name. He had a valid visa. But he didn't get in.
Why not? Because data in the DHS computer system flagged him as someone who ought to get a bit more scrutiny than the usual passenger. So he was interviewed, using some of the data in the system. In the end, the officer who did the interview decided that al-Banna's answers weren't consistent. So the officer denied him admission, and sent him back to Jordan.
No one knows why al-Banna wanted to enter the U.S. in 2003 - or what he would have done if he'd gotten in. And personally, I'm glad we didn't get the chance to find out.
Next time we may not be so lucky. That's because the computer system that first flagged al-Banna for scrutiny is suddenly being attacked as an invasion of travelers' privacy. There are calls to abolish it or restrict how DHS uses it. Those calls are wrong, and I'd like to show why by explaining how the system works.
1. How the system works.
Hundreds of millions of people enter the U.S. each year - including 87 million by air. Our job is to move them quickly and smoothly through immigration and customs. That's a big customer-service challenge. In fact, if we take more than a minute or two with each traveler, the lines will back up out to the tarmac.
But our first mission is not to move those travelers through. Our first mission is to keep terrorists out of the country. So, did you ever wonder how we can identify potential terrorists just by glancing at their passports and asking a couple of questions?
The answer is that we can't. That quick interview is where we screen travelers. Most people go right through. But a few of them are sent to “secondary” inspection, where officers can spend more time asking more questions.
How do our officers decide who needs a closer look? Some of it is based on training and experience and intuition. Some of it is data in the passport. But their main tool is the computer system that helped stop Ra'ed al-Banna - the Automated Targeting System, or ATS. ATS means faster service for most travelers. It also means that we're smarter and more consistent about who gets a closer look.
Here's how it works. When people buy plane tickets, they give the airline some information - names, passport numbers, frequent-flyer numbers, credit cards, and so on. DHS collects this information from the airlines and uses ATS to do screening for dangerous people. ATS runs the travelers' names against lists of known or suspected terrorists. It can also do a quick link analysis, looking for travelers who gave the airline a phone number that's also used by a known terrorist.
ATS's capacity to find hidden links of this kind is one of its most powerful features. This is a lesson we learned from September 11. After-the-fact reviews of the hijackers' travel reservations showed that we might have been able to uncover the plot if we'd had better computer systems and better access to travel data.
Start with two men who helped fly American Airlines flight 77 into the Pentagon: Nawaq Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar. Their names appeared on a U.S. watchlist, because they had been spotted at a terrorist meeting in Malaysia. So they would have been flagged when they bought their tickets.
If we had kept tugging on that thread, we would have found three other hijackers who used the same addresses as the first two - including Mohamed Atta, the plot's ringleader. We also would have discovered another hijacker who used the same frequent-flyer number. That's six of the 19.
And we're not done. Five other hijackers used the same phone number as Mohamed Atta. That's eleven of 19. We could have found a twelfth hijacker in an INS watch list for expired visas, and the remainder could have been flagged by matching other basic information.
We didn't connect those dots before 9/11, but we should have. We learned that lesson, and now ATS allows us to look for these links.
I wish DHS could take full credit for ATS, but the need to screen airline passengers isn't exactly an original thought. Contrary to the claim that this program was launched in the dead of the night, it has a long and proud pedigree. This is the second point I promised to discuss.
2. How the program was launched
Faced with the evidence that we had been unable to find the 9/11 hijackers, here's what the 9/11 Commission had to say:
Targeting travel is at least as powerful a weapon against terrorists as targeting their money. The United States should combine terrorist travel intelligence, operations, and law enforcement in a strategy to intercept terrorists, find terrorist travel facilitators, and constrain terrorist mobility.
The 9/11 Commission did more than just embrace passenger screening in the abstract. It specifically endorsed ATS, and called for its expansion:
The small terrorist travel intelligence collection and analysis program currently in place has produced disproportionately useful results. It should be expanded. . . . Information systems able to . . . detect potential terrorist indicators should be used at consulates, at primary border inspection lines, in immigration services offices, and in intelligence and enforcement units.
It's hard to find a more specific recommendation in the Commission's report. In fact, if we hadn't already built ATS, we could expect legislation in the first 100 hours of the next Congress, ordering us to build it.
But Congress doesn't need to do that, because Congress has already authorized the use of travel reservation data to screen for security risks.
Just after the 9/11 attacks, Congress passed the Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which requires airlines to share reservation information about all U.S.-bound passengers with DHS. Now I suppose that our critics could argue that Congress just wanted us to gather the data and not to actually, you know, use it. We could avoid a charge of “data mining” if we just boxed the data up and put it in storage. But no serious person thinks that's what Congress had in mind. Congress expected us to do exactly what we have been doing.
Finally, if there any doubt remains about Congress's support for ATS, just look at DHS's budget. In this city, money talks. And Congress has appropriated money specifically for the ATS passenger-screening program - for instance, $37 million in 2005 and $28 million in 2006.
Let me stop here for a moment and emphasize that Congress's demand for better screening at the border has not to date been a partisan issue. The 9/11 Commission, of course, was entirely bipartisan - and unanimous in calling for better screening. The 2001 Aviation and Transportation Security Act that mandated collection of this data had overwhelming Democratic support. There were no recorded dissents when it passed the Senate and it got 200 Democratic votes in the House.
In short, both parties in several Congresses have affirmed that we need to flag terrorists who may be coming to the U.S. and that we need to make passenger information available to DHS inspectors. It would be hard to imagine a program that stands on firmer legal ground than ATS.
3. Privacy and Civil Liberties
Who could be against it? Well, predictably, privacy groups have denounced it as an unnecessary government surveillance program. That's the third point I promised to discuss - whether this program is bad for civil liberties.
I'll start with a song from the 1980s called “Somebody's Watching Me.”
When I come home at night,
I bolt the door real tight.
People call me on the phone, I'm trying to avoid.
Well, can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid?
We've all heard that sometimes “even paranoids have enemies.” That's true, but the corollary is that much of the time, they are just paranoid. Certainly that's true in the case of ATS.
The fact is that ATS does not pose a threat to privacy. First, ATS is not exactly a dossier of our most intimate secrets. It contains travel reservation data - flight numbers and destinations and traveling companions. Travelers have already chosen to give it to Lufthansa to make their flight a little more convenient. How are they harmed if DHS uses it to make sure they actually arrive at their destination?
We also work hard to protect that information from abuse. To get access to ATS, employees have to pass a background check and have an active security clearance. Some of the most sensitive bits of data can only be seen by supervisors. And users of ATS are closely audited. All system queries are logged, and can be traced back to the employee who did the analysis. We have zero tolerance for misuse of the system. All misconduct is punished; an employee who breaks the rules faces penalties that range from suspension to termination.
Finally, let's look at the other side of the equation. If the most extreme privacy advocates got their way and shut the program down, how exactly do they expect us to protect ourselves from terrorists?
They don't like programs that put everyone through the same screening, like our airport security programs. They say it's silly to make grandmothers and infants go through all these searches. But they think selecting some travelers for greater scrutiny on the basis of limited information is even worse. That leads to profiling and searches based on stereotypes rather than real data. Everyone agrees that race and religion shouldn't be the basis for inspecting travelers. But when we gather more individualized information and look for links to terrorist credit card numbers or addresses, the critics say we're building a national database that threatens privacy. What's left? It seems as though the only thing these groups would let DHS do to prevent an attack is to pray it won't happen. As long as we don't pray in public.
Using ATS to screen for passengers who should get a second look is better for civil liberties - and for security - than any of those alternatives. It's also more effective.
Ra'ed al-Banna is not the only person that ATS has helped keep out of the country. It happens every day. Just a few months ago, at Minneapolis-St. Paul, ATS flagged a high-risk traveler for additional scrutiny before he arrived. Once we got him into secondary inspection, we found that he had a manual on how to make Improvised Explosive Devices, or “IEDs” — the kind of bombs terrorists use to kill and maim so many of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Our officers also found video clips of IEDs being used to kill soldiers and destroy vehicles, as well as a video on martyrdom. This was a dangerous man, and we are all safer because ATS flagged him for scrutiny.
ATS isn't just a useful tool against terrorists. It has also helped break up international crime syndicates. In March 2004, a woman returned to Newark International Airport from the Dominican Republic, accompanied by her children. CBP officers examined ATS data and noticed that the woman hadn't taken the kids with her on the outbound flight. They did some more digging and discovered that the woman had made numerous such trips before. Each time she left without the children; each time she returned with them.
ATS also allowed the officers to link this woman to other travelers. And it turned out that some of them had the same travel patterns — they would leave the U.S. alone, and come back with children. It was an international child-smuggling ring, and ATS helped us take it down.
In conclusion, let me just remind everyone that the border is our last, best chance to identify and turn away terrorists. Once they're in the country, they're much harder to find and much harder to stop. We need the best possible information on the hundreds of millions of people who cross the border every year. ATS helps us marshal that information. It helps us protect Americans from terrorism, and the more Americans understand it the more confident I am that they will support it — with enthusiasm.
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"Nigerian Church Under Immediate Threat From Authorities"
By Michael Ireland
Special Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
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Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Wed Dec 20 2006 03:47:35 GMT-0800.
Worldwide Caution
October 11, 2006
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RPT-UPDATE 1-Russia criticises West over UN draft on Iran
reuteurs ^ | Dec 19, 2006 | Reuters
Posted on 12/20/2006 3:48:11 AM PST by Flavius
MOSCOW, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday criticised Western powers for trying to punish Iran in the U.N. Security Council draft resolution on the Islamic republic's nuclear programme.
Sergei Lavrov, referring to the Europeans and the United States, said a proposed travel ban on Iranian officials "is in our view an attempt to bring an element of punishment and we agreed from the start not to do that".
"Our partners ... are trying to turn the situation around in their favour by inserting into the resolution statements which would de facto lift all limits on the restraints that are being introduced in Iran and will sever ... trade-economic ties with Iran in completely legitimate areas," he told a Moscow news conference.
Earlier, at the United Nations, Britain and France, which drafted the text along with Germany, decided to distribute the measure to the council so the 15 members could prepare for a vote.
But no vote has been set yet because of differences with Russia and China.
The text allows for a lifting of all sanctions if Iran fully complies with all council resolutions and demands from the International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors.
It bans imports and exports of materials and technology relating to uranium enrichment, reprocessing and heavy-water reactors, as well as ballistic missile delivery systems
To meet Russia's objections, it excludes any mention of a light-water reactor Moscow is building at Bushehr in southwest Iran, Iran's first nuclear power plant.
But Russia has continued to seek deletion of the travel ban on leading Iranian officials and firms associated with the nuclear programme.
(Reporting by Oleg Shchedrov)
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Posted on 12/20/2006 3:50:28 AM PST by Flavius
Thanks, Cindy.
Black turban this time per your BBC link.
CHRONOLOGY-Messages attributed to al Qaeda
Dec 20 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al Zawahri said in a video tape aired by Al Jazeera on Wednesday his group would continue to target Western countries so long as Muslims were under attack.
Following is a chronology of major statements attributed to Osama bin Laden, Zawahri or their allies in the last six months. At least 37 messages have been broadcast since Al Jazeera aired the first statement by bin Laden in 2001.
June 1 - Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Musab al-Zarqawi calls on fellow Sunnis to reject any reconciliation with "infidel" Shi'ites, in an audiotape.
June 9 - Zawahri urges Palestinians, in a video, to reject a referendum on a statehood proposal that implicitly recognises Israel.
June 22 - Zawahri vows vengeance against the United States for the death of Zarqawi in a U.S. air strike.
June 30 - Bin Laden praises Zarqawi as a "lion of jihad", and vows al Qaeda will continue to fight U.S. forces and their allies "everywhere", according to an Internet audiotape.
July 1 - Bin Laden warns Iraq's Shi'ite majority of retaliation for attacks on Sunni Arabs and says his group will fight the United States anywhere in the world.
July 7 - A year on from the London bombings, al Qaeda issues a video with comments from Zawahri, bin Laden and one bomber. Zawahri says bombers Shehzad Tanweer and Mohammad Sidique Khan had been trained in al Qaeda camps.
July 27 - Zawahri, in video statement titled "The Zionist-crusader war on Lebanon and the Palestinians", calls on Muslims to fight attacks on their countries.
Sept. 29 - Zawahri calls U.S. President George W. Bush a "lying failure" for saying progress had been made in the war on terrorism. He also calls the Pope a charlatan because of his remarks on Islam.
Dec. 20 - Zawahri says that al Qaeda will continue to target Western countries so long as Muslims were under attack. Zawahri says Washington is scrambling for an exit from Iraq and Afghanistan, but is approaching the wrong parties.
-- He also says that elections would not free Palestinian land from Israeli occupation and that any path other than holy war would lead to "loss and defeat".
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20563084.htm
Who unfortunately hasn't turned to worm food yet. Will have to evaluate more of what he has to say as the day progresses.
Yep, black turban.
Thanks Velveeta for that chronology of messages.
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"Eurabian Nights
A Horror Travelogue"
by Srdja Trifkovic
Hello folks! As I remember, so much good information on this thread! Thank you everyone for working to find this valuable information and making the rest of us aware of these threats. Well done folks!
The information on this thread continues to drive home the fact that there are millions of people in this world plotting our deaths and our country’s destruction. That should provide incentive for any rational person to prepare. To have the means to keep yourself and your family warm, fed, and safe in the event of a prolonged utility (electric, gas, etc) failure. Be able to evacuate in minutes, not hours. I can leave the area with 3 days of supplies within 10 minutes of an event (keep in mind I don’t have a family to worry about). This requires ‘staging’ critical gear.
Simply be prepared to deal with emergencies on your own. Don’t forget the simple things like always having a fire extinguisher in your house and car. Keep gas tanks at least half full. I top off the tank every morning when I stop for a breakfast sandwich on my way to work.
Each day that passes brings us a day closer to the next attack. It was 8 years between the first and final attack on the WTC. It’s only been 5 years since the final WTC attack. The next hit could still be years off, but make no mistake, it is coming. From the latest posts I’m seeing here, could be this Christmas season.
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December 20, 2006
Ahmadinejad: Britain, Israel, US to 'vanish like the pharaohs'
"Oh, and by the way, we're a nuclear power." From AFP, with thanks to James:
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has predicted that Britian, Israel and the United States would eventually disappear from the world like the Egyptian pharaonic kings.
"The oppressive powers will disappear while the Iranian people will stay. Any power that is close to God will survive while the powers who are far from God will disappear like the pharaohs," he said Wednesday, according to Iranian news agencies.
"Today, it is the United States, Britain and the Zionist regime which are doomed to disappear as they have moved far away from the teachings of God," he said in a speech in the western town of Javanroud.
"It is a divine promise."
We'll see.
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December 20, 2006
Ahmadinejad: Iran now nuclear power
He has said this before.
From YnetNews:
Iran is now a "nuclear power," its President, Mahmoud Ahamdinejad, declared Wednesday, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. During a speech delivered in the Western Iranian province of Javanroud, Ahmadinejad said: " The Islamic Republic of Iran is now a nuclear power, thanks to the hard work of the Iranian people and authorities."
The announcement of Iran as a "nuclear power" is bound to significantly escalate tensions between the West and Iran, and marks a dramatic stage in the Islamic Republic's nuclear campaign.
In recent days, the US military has begun to build up forces around the Gulf, in what is being seen as as a warning to Iran.
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Ahmadinejad: Iran has nuclear technology
More threats and bravado from the Thug-In-Chief. "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: The Iranian People Is the Owner of Nuclear Technology. Talking to Iran in Language of Threats Is a Bitter Mistake," from MEMRITV, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Following are excerpts from an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , which aired on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 1, 2006.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Look, they are destroying homes with the people inside. They are burning fields. Neither children nor adults are safe from them. With laser-guided bombs, they attack shelters of defenseless women and children leaving them in a pool of their blood.
Crowd: Death to Israel.
Death to Israel.
Death to Israel.
Death to Israel.
Death to Israel.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: They have no boundaries, limits, or taboos when it comes to killing human beings. Who are they? Where did they come from? Are they human beings? "They are like cattle, nay, more misguided." A bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians. Next to them, all the criminals in the world seem righteous.
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We ask you: Who lived on the land of America 250 or 300 years ago? Don't the rulers of America today rule because of the massacre of the native Americans? If we accept the principle that anybody whose forefathers ever lived on any land 2,000 or 3,000 years ago should rule today, then America should be ruled by the native Americans who are there today. There is proof that they existed. There are films, photos, documents, maps, and their descendants.
Crowd: Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
Death to America
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Today, the Iranian people is the owner of nuclear technology. Those who want to talk with our people should know what people they are talking to. If some believe they can keep talking to the Iranian people in the language of threats and aggressiveness, they should know that they are making a bitter mistake. If they have not realized this by now, they soon will, but then it will be too late. Then they will realize that they are facing a vigilant, proud people.
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1398
December 19, 2006 No.1398
"Al-Hayat Editor: Iran is Trying to Position Itself as ‘The Only Power in the Region’"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In an article titled "Iran and the Obstructing Third," published December 13, 2006 in the London-based Al-Hayat daily, the newspaper's editor-in-chief Ghassan Charbel depicts Iran's policies in Lebanon, Iraq, the Palestinian Authority, and elsewhere in the Middle East as an attempt to attain regional hegemony and to position itself as a counterweight to the U.S.
The following are excerpts from the English version of the article:"
Thanks for these updates.
And we're supposed to sit down and try to negotiate with this madman?
My advice: Give Israel the assignment to "negotiate". They'll do it best.
It comes down to this -- either we learn from history or we don't.
Time will tell.
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"Al Qaeda's Zawahiri Threatens More Attacks on USA, West (updated)"
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COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "AL QAEDA DEPUTY AL-ZAWAHIRI CONDEMNS PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS, URGES 'JIHAD'" by Jeffrey Imm (December 20, 2006)
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
"Another Video from Zawahiri on JihadTV"
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"Unhinged in Chapel Hill"
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Insurgent Killed, Captured; Caches Found in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2006 – Coalition and Iraqi forces killed one insurgent, captured six suspects, and discovered weapons caches around Iraq over the past three days.
-- Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division killed one insurgent and discovered five roadside bombs today in eastern Baghdad.
-- During operations near Ramadi, Iraq, 7th Iraqi Army division forces, with coalition advisors, yesterday captured two suspects believed responsible for kidnapping and murdering Iraqi policemen in the area.
-- 8th Iraqi Army division forces, with coalition advisors, captured a suspected improvised explosive device cell leader yesterday during operations in al Kut. The suspect allegedly facilitates IED attacks against Iraqi security and coalition forces in the Wasit province.
-- U.S. soldiers with the 2nd Infantry Division's Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade, found three roadside bombs in eastern Baghdad on yesterday. The improvised explosive devices were detonated by an explosive ordnance detachment unit.
-- Iraqi Army soldiers arrested three men Dec. 16 in an improvised explosive device plot north of the Iraqi capital.
(Compiled from Multi-National Corps – Iraq sources.)
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