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Threat Matrix: January 2007
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Posted on 01/02/2007 7:23:18 PM PST by nwctwx

:::FreeRepublic's Threat Matrix:::
Fighting Jihad: Strategic Thinking Needed
-Full Story-

The United States of America has some of the smartest leaders in government, military, and business in the world. Yet the American government has failed to collectively use this formidable brain-power 5+ years after the attack by Jihadists on the American homeland to develop a truly strategic plan to fight the global threat of Jihad and Islamist extremism. In one of the most complex wars in American history, rather than starting with holistic, big-picture thinking towards the challenges and prioritizing resources and actions accordingly, America has spent much of the past five years after 9/11 in reactive and bureaucratic churning.

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KEYWORDS: americascup; china; eta; globaljihad; iran; iraq; jackwheeler; jihad; lebanon; somalia; terrorism; threatmatrix; trinidad; wheeler; wot
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"Wanted
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461 posted on 01/08/2007 11:52:00 PM PST by Cindy
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To: TexKat; Jet Jaguar; JohnathanRGalt; yonif; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; All

http://www.ahwaz.org.uk/2007/01/intelligence-reports-confirm-bafss.html

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THANKS to Texkat for the ping to this post and thread.


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Intelligence reports confirm BAFS's claims on Iran's support for terrorism
Ahwaz ^

Posted on 01/08/2007 9:13:07 AM PST by TexKat

Intelligence reports relating to Iranian support for terrorism in Iraq have confirmed information issued by the British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS) almost two years ago (click for article).

Strategic Policy Consulting in Washington has stated that the Al-Qods Force, which is run by Iran's quasi-military Islamic Revolutionary Guards, is "stepping up terrorism and encouraging sectarian violence in Iraq," using the Fajr Garrison (pictured) in the Arab populated city of Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, as a base of operations. The Al-Qods Force trains militants in manufacturing improved explosive devices and finances and organises pro-Iranian militias in Iraq. According to SPC, the Iraq network is under the command of Jamal Jaafar Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi, who is also known as Mehdi Mohandes. He is alleged to have been responsible for planning the bombing of the US and the UK embassies in Kuwait in the 1980s and has been on Interpol's wanted list since 1984.

BAFS has also received credible information relating to the Iranian regime's attempts to recruit Ahwazi Arabs to fight in Iraq as well as money laundering through offshore accounts to fund terrorist operations.


462 posted on 01/09/2007 12:19:44 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26348
"Shari'a in the Ivy League"
By Pratik Chougule
FrontPageMagazine.com | January 9, 2007


463 posted on 01/09/2007 1:01:58 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26344

"Ethiopia versus the Islamists"
By Vance Serchuk
The Weekly Standard | January 9, 2007


464 posted on 01/09/2007 1:04:33 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20070109-121821-5103r.htm

"U.S. to drop charges in '99 Uganda killings"
By Jim McElhatton
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 9, 2007

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The move comes five months after U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle suppressed confessions by defendants Francois Karake, Leonidas Bimenyimana and Gregoire Nyaminani, who were reputed members of the Liberation Army of Rwanda.

The government's case relied heavily on the defendants' confessions, but Judge Huvelle barred prosecutors from using the statements. The judge ruled the confessions were inadmissible because evidence showed the defendants were tortured while imprisoned by Rwandan authorities. "


465 posted on 01/09/2007 1:19:25 AM PST by Cindy
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=23926_World_Music_Gone_Horribly_Wrong&only

Weblog:
Monday, January 08, 2007
"World Music Gone Horribly Wrong"


466 posted on 01/09/2007 1:23:06 AM PST by Cindy
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467 posted on 01/09/2007 2:02:17 AM PST by good old days
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468 posted on 01/09/2007 2:26:17 AM PST by Cindy
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Tue Jan 09 2007 02:26:51 GMT-0800.

Worldwide Caution

October 11, 2006


469 posted on 01/09/2007 2:27:02 AM PST by Cindy
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6241073.stm

Last Updated: Monday, 8 January 2007, 16:24 GMT

"China 'anti-terror' raid kills 18"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Chinese police have killed 18 people in a raid on an alleged militant training camp in the western autonomous region of Xinjiang, officials say.

One policeman was killed and another injured in the raid, which took place on Friday, a police spokesman said.

China is waging a campaign against what it calls separatist activities of Xinjiang's Uighur Muslim minority.

The announcement came as a Chinese official denounced Nobel Peace Prize nominee Uighur activist Rebiya Kadeer.

Uighur activist

Ba Yan of the Xinjiang Public Security Department said that the training camp was located on the Pamirs plateau, close to the Afghan and Pakistani borders.

Ms Ba said the camp was run by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (Etim), a group labelled a terrorist organisation by the United Nations.

"The police captured 17 terrorists and are pursuing a number of others," China's Xinhua news agency quoted her as saying.

Police seized 22 hand grenades and over 1,500 that were still being made, she said.

Xinjiang is home to eight million Muslim Uighurs, who are ethnic Turks.

Many Uighurs resent the large-scale influx into the region of Han Chinese settlers, and some groups are fighting to establish an independent Islamic nation, leading to periodic violence in the region."


470 posted on 01/09/2007 2:46:45 AM PST by Cindy
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RECAP:

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014747.php
(BBC NEWS)

January 08, 2007
"China clamps down on jihadists"

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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000617.html

November 20, 2006
"Xinhua: Over 9,600 Chinese Muslims To Make Mecca Pilgrimage by Charter Flight"

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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000616.html

November 20, 2006
"Speaking of links to Turkestan..."

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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005776.html

11 November 2006
"SPRINGTIME FOR TURKESTAN"

SNIPPET: "There appears to be something new afoot in al-Qaida, and it all points towards Turkestan on the one hand, and leadership elements of al-Qaida on the other.

Here are the data points."


471 posted on 01/09/2007 2:52:42 AM PST by Cindy
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ON THE NET...

ETIM
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=etim


472 posted on 01/09/2007 3:02:24 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1186

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=antichristian

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764562/posts

"Protestants spy, Russia's Federal Security Service Pskov branch chief charges"
Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review ^ | Jan 8 | unknown

Posted on 01/09/2007 3:08:39 AM PST by AdmSmith


473 posted on 01/09/2007 3:14:14 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=antichristian

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1763683/posts

Man Sets Fire to Nativity Scene
Breitbart ^ | January 6, 2006

Posted on 01/07/2007 5:54:57 AM PST by NYer

RICHMOND, Calif. (AP) --

A man walked into a church, doused a nativity scene with a flammable liquid and set it ablaze in front of a practicing choir, police said.

Robert Mills, 40, of San Pablo, was arrested Friday night while hiding in a park minutes after police said he walked into St. Cornelius Parish and announced he was going to set the church on fire.

Mills told everyone to leave but blocked the doorway until he began showering the sanctuary with the liquid, giving choir members a chance to escape, said Richmond Police Lt. Enos Johnson.

The fire destroyed the nativity scene, a lectern and carpeting, and caused extensive smoke damage. No one was injured.

Prosecutors will likely charge Mills with arson and possibly false imprisonment because the building was occupied when the fire occurred, police said.

"If they establish it's a hate crime, they could go in that direction," Johnson said.


474 posted on 01/09/2007 3:18:12 AM PST by Cindy
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475 posted on 01/09/2007 7:23:07 AM PST by Godzilla (When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.)
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U.S. submarine collides with Japanese supertanker in Persian Gulf
476 posted on 01/09/2007 9:10:22 AM PST by JellyJam (Best headline ever: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: JellyJam

Yes and thank you JellyJam.

I find it incredible that they were that close to each other, but I'm not a submariner -- so maybe these incidents are more common than I know.


477 posted on 01/09/2007 11:18:02 AM PST by Cindy
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Thanks to Texkat for the ping to this thread and post.

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1764765/posts


Al-Qaeda-linked suspect killed in Jordan
AFP ^ | January 9, 2006

Posted on 01/09/2007 9:40:32 AM PST by TexKat

IRBID, Jordan (AFP) - Jordanian security forces have killed a suspected Al-Qaeda militant and captured another in a shootout in northern Jordan, state-run television reported and security officials said.

Some security forces were hurt in the operation lasting more than four hours, in which intelligence agents and police took part after a tip-off that Al-Qaeda militants were plotting attacks in Jordan, reports said Tuesday.

"An Al-Qaeda terrorist was killed and another was captured in

Advertisement Irbid", around 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of the Jordanian capital Amman, television said quoting a security official.

The suspect killed was identified as Suleiman al-Anjadi, "holder of a temporary Jordanian passport", television said, implying he was a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip.

The captured suspect was named as Jordanian national Awni al-Mansi.

According to the report, "a group of intelligence forces backed by general security forces (police) were able to kill this morning (Tuesday) a terrorist militant of the Al-Qaeda group and capture another".

The joint force "stormed a house in the Matlaa neighbourhood of Irbid, where they had sought refuge and the suspects opened fire on the security forces when they tried to arrest them", the report added.

The operation was launched after security forces "received a tip-off that Al-Qaeda was plotting attacks in Jordan," television said.

"A number of security forces were slightly wounded" in the operation, it added.

A security official who declined to be identified said the operation began at around 7:30 am and lasted until noon, and that a large number of weapons, ammunitions and explosives were seized, including automatic rifles.

The official said that seven members of the security forces were wounded in the shootout with the militants.

Government officials meanwhile declined to give further details on the operation but expected some information to be forthcoming after the weekly cabinet meeting Tuesday evening.

An AFP photographer who travelled to Irbid said police cordoned off the Matlaa neighbourhood in Irbid and kept journalists at bay.

The ground floor stone house where the suspects had been holed up was damaged, said the photographer, adding that some 20 policemen backed by a civil defence car and a bulldozer were posted outside the house.

Jordan, a key US ally and one of the most stable nations in the Middle East, has been the target of Al-Qaeda attacks over the past few years, including unprecedented hotel bombings in November 2005.

Those attacks targetting three hotels in Amman killed 60 people and were claimed by the Al-Qaeda branch in Iraq of Jordanian Islamist Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in June 2006 in a US air raid in Iraq.

An Iraqi woman, Sajida al-Rishawi, was sentenced to hang in September in connection with the hotel bombings, along with five other Iraqi nationals and a Jordanians sentenced to death in absentia.

In December a Jordanian military tribunal also condemned to death three Syrians and an Iraqi over a rocket attack on an American warship moored off the southern port of Aqaba the previous year.

Zarqawi's group had claimed responsibility for the attack that killed a Jordanian soldier but caused no US casualties.

In December the Al-Qaeda group in Iraq called for the assassination of Jordan's King Abdullah II in a statement posted on the Internet.

"We say to Abdullah ... you will soon experience the same fate as your traitor great-grandfather," the statement said, referring to King Abdullah I, who was assassinated in Jerusalem in 1951.

"We appeal to the lions and to free men in Jordan to ... watch out for him," said the statement.


478 posted on 01/09/2007 11:20:36 AM PST by Cindy
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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005849.html


09 January 2007
"Statement from the jihadi brothers in Tunisia (or is it?)"


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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=morocco

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005848.html

09 January 2007
"'False god of Morocco'"


480 posted on 01/09/2007 11:24:35 AM PST by Cindy
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