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Posted on 02/01/2007 7:36:02 PM PST by nwctwx
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=116903
"Coordinated bombing kills four, puts power out in South"
(bangkokpost.com, agencies)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Thailand on Friday agreed to allow neighbouring Malaysia to play a mediator role in setting up negotiations with the various groups behind the mounting campaign of terror against the region's non- Muslim population."
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=3100
Baghdad Security Plan Officially Named
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18, 2007 – The government of Iraq and the coalition officially announced the name for the Baghdad security plan yesterday. The operation is named “Fardh Al-Qanoon,” an Iraqi phrase that translates to “Enforcing the Law.”
The title was agreed upon by the Iraqi government, with the support of coalition leaders, and reflects the Iraqi-led nature of the operation, military officials said.
"The plan is imposing the law on anyone who violates it," Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.
Under the Baghdad security plan, the Iraqi government will increase security forces in the city to partner with increased coalition troops. The Iraqi army, police, and coalition forces will live together in joint security stations throughout Baghdad to be closer to the Iraqi people they are protecting, officials said. The additional forces will also enable the coalition to create more transition teams to assist, teach and coach the Iraqi security forces.
The latest iteration of the Baghdad security plan was announced Feb. 13 by Iraqi Lt. Gen. Abboud Gambar, the officer in charge of the plan. He announced a 72-hour closure of some border crossings along the Iranian and Syrian borders, restrictions on civil liberties and the suspension of weapons licenses except for permits issued to authorized security officials and contractors.
(From a Multinational Force Iraq news release.)
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"Ten Years After Empire State Terror Attack, the Truth Comes Out"
Little Green Footballs ^ | February 18, 2007 | Charles Johnson
Posted on 02/18/2007 9:42:28 AM PST by faq
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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=24488_Ten_Years_After_Empire_State_Terror_Attack_the_Truth_Comes_Out&only
"Sunday, February 18, 2007
Ten Years After Empire State Terror Attack, the Truth Comes Out"
Well that's interesting, thanks for posting Cindy.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found 50 surface-to-air missiles in a weapons cache near Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
“These were Russian-made surface-to-air missiles that were still useable,” said Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi general in charge of a new security crackdown in Baghdad. Moussawi did not give the location of the cache, one of the largest to be found since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He said no arrests had been made.
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Crackdown on two Islamic charities
Monday 2/19/07
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday ordered a renewed crackdown on two Islamic charities blacklisted for their suspected links with Al-Qaeda.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that it had directed all Government departments to "reinforce action" against Al-Rasheed and Al-Akhtar charitable trusts. Both are on a United Nations list of entities linked to Al-Qaeda and Taliban.
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http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/19/stories/2007021902421600.htm
Rafsanjani: Islamic world can neutralizes US plots
Tehran, Feb 18, IRNA
Iran-Syria-Rafsanjani Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad here Saturday said Islamic world with the vigilance of its political and religious leaders can neutralize the US plots.
According to the EC's Public Relations Office report, Rafsanjani said creating disunity among Shia and Sunni Muslims in the region, especially in Iraq and Lebanon, is an American plot.
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http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0702186958011740.htm
PARIS: Four of six Muslims being held in France on suspicion of recruiting Islamist fighters for Iraq were remanded in custody on Sunday, a police source said.
The men were among a group of seven men and a number of wives who were detained for questioning this week as part of a Franco-Belgian operation against a group suspected of having links with al Qaeda.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/3967289a12.html
Four dead, 49 injured as bombs rip through Thai Muslim south
19/02/2007
YALA, Thailand - At least four people were killed and 49 injured when a series of coordinated explosions, arson attacks and shootings hit Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said.
Fifteen explosions injured 26 people and killed one in Yala province, one of three insurgency-torn southern provinces bordering Malaysia, while in nearby Narathiwat province, one person was killed and 23 injured in seven bombings. An unknown number of arson attacks and blasts hit Pattani province, one of which temporarily cut the provincial capital's electricity. Two villagers in Pattani were also shot dead in an ambush Sunday night.
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http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=33693
Delegates from Arab states are meeting at an arms fair in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), embarking on huge military spending in a bid to contain a perceived threat from Iran. Gulf leaders will use billions of dollars in oil revenue to buy the arms, with many of the deals to be finalised at the Idex arms fair which began in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
Saudi Arabia is thought to have ordered almost $50bn in military hardware, including fighter aircraft, cruise missiles, attack helicopters and more than 300 new tanks.
Saudi Arabia's military power
Army, air force and navy manpower: 200,000
Tanks: 1055
Combat aircraft: 300
2005 defence spending: $25.4bn
It follows concern from Gulf states that Iranian military influence has grown across the wider Middle East region.
Massive spending
Tim Ripley, Middle East analyst with Jane's Defence Weekly, said: "The Gulf states have a shopping list of arms worth more than $60bn if all the deals under discussion go through."
Saudi Arabia's purchase of 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from BAe Systems is the largest deal to be made. The deal is yet to be finalised but appears to be back on after Britain's serious fraud office dropped an investigation into the company's accounting.
Meanwhile, the UAE has set aside $2bn for a rapid reaction brigade and has earmarked a further $6bn for missile defence batteries, airborne early-warning systems and aircraft. Both countries are members of the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) established in 1984. Other members of the GCC, including Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, are also expected to invest heavily in arms.
Iranian influence
Gulf leaders have watched with growing alarm as Iranian influence has spread throughout the Middle East. Marc Lee, the organiser of a conference on defence in the region, said: "People are concerned that if there is a complete breakdown in Iraq, it may wash over to them. "They are acutely conscious of the instability threats on the other side of the Gulf and the threat from Iran."
Last week, the Pentagon alleged that tank-piercing roadside bombs were being provided to Iraqi Shia fighters by the Iranian government. Iran is also suspected of using its influence in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, most notably towards the Hezbollah (Party of God) political party and resistance movement.
Warnings
Iran has warned that any attempt to halt its nuclear programme would result in attacks on US interests around the world.
Iran's military power
Army, air force and navy manpower: 545,000
Tanks: 1600
Combat aircraft: 300
2005 defence spending: $6.2bn
American plans for a possible attack on Iran's nuclear sites are reported to be well advanced, despite public denials. Against this backdrop, many Sunni Arab states are boosting their own defences.
"There are some people who are wary about Iran, but the Americans are running a very successful public-relations campaign against Tehran," said a senior Saudi diplomatic source. "A lot of Saudis fear that the US will come and make mischief then go away, but we have to live here afterwards." At the last Idex exhibition, in 2005, $2bn of deals were done in five days but this year is expected to break all records.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/884C6F3B-846E-4E7B-A140-31D8828C2A0C.htm
EIGHT metres underground, Ahmed is digging for gold in the sands of Gaza. Crawling on his belly in a narrow tunnel, he pulls a heavy plastic sack towards him and attaches a rope around its neck. There is barely enough room for the bag to pass, and as Ahmed's head touches the walls of this cramped tomb, earth trickles dangerously from the smooth roof. Unconcerned, he jerks down hard on the rope and a distant diesel-powered winch engine kicks in. The bag slithers its way into the darkness. It is heavy and awkward, but precious.
Inside are four new Kalashnikov rifles, still factory-sealed. The underground journey is short, just 300m from Egypt into Gaza, but at the end each bag, and the deadly weapons that it contains, is worth another 1,000. On a good night the same clandestine, cross-border tunnel trade will earn Ahmed and his bosses 100,000.
Ahmed is a smuggler in the world's most dangerous stretch of land: the Gaza Strip. He is a digger in what has become one the most lucrative tunnelling industries in the world - a secret flow of weapons beneath the sand that threatens to engulf the area in civil war and provoke another all-out Middle East conflict.
Just 20 miles away, in Gaza City, the two main Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, have been at each other's throats over who should be in power. The streets resounds to the sound of gunfire, and a Palestinian civil war, another bloodbath, could be starting. Ahmed says he has been working flat out for the past few months to supply each side's weaponry. For the secret moles of Gaza, business has never been so good.
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http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/spectrum.cfm?id=250152007
FBI prepares defence against kitchen sink bombs, possible new terror weaponry
Sunday, February 18, 2007
QUANTICO, Va. - Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to help the FBI defend against what officials say is the next frontier for terrorists in the United States.
Ten years ago, peroxide-based bombs were mostly the work of young pranksters. But the easy-to-make yet deadly chemical cocktails were embraced in the late 1990s by Palestinian militants and suicide bombers bent on killing large groups of people. Now, Yeager says, the "Mother of Satan" explosives are considered the most likely weapon that terrorists will use against the U.S., more so than a nuclear or radiological "dirty" bomb.
"Every serious terrorist group knows about them and knows how to make them," Yeager said. The forensic scientist heads the explosives unit at the FBI's laboratory in Quantico, Va., about 55 kilometres south of Washington.
"Bad guys are bombers. You don't have to have the level of sophistication to make a bomb that you need to get nuclear materials," Yeager said. The bombs are made by mixing chemicals that are used in common household items, including hydrogen peroxide and paint thinner, and easily found at drug stores or hardware stores. Experts know them as TATP, short for triacetone triperoxide, and HMTD, or hexamethylene triperoxide diamine.
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=e5104522-0b94-4ed8-93a4-e7b6cb228d57&k=5082
The media went into a tizzy over National Security Advisor (NSA), MK Narayanan’s Munich speech last week. The stock market, however, ignored it, and the Sensex reversed a four-day, 642-point correction to shoot up 345 points. Meanwhile, journalists trying to figure out what the NSA meant drew a blank.
For the record, Mr Narayanan told a conference on Security Policy that, “Isolated instances of terrorist outfits manipulating the stock markets to raise funds for their operations have been reported. Stock Exchanges in Mumbai and Chennai have, on occasion, reported that fictitious or notional companies were engaging in stock-market operations. Some of these companies were later traced to terrorist outfits.”
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http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=155247
GHQ seeks CII fatwa on martyrs
Monday, February 19, 2007
ISLAMABAD: General Headquarters has asked the Council of Islamic Ideology to issue a decree, or fatwa, stating whether a soldier killed in Pakistan while fighting terrorists or pre-empting sectarianism is a martyr.
GHQ sent a list of eight questions to the council about the various circumstances in which a soldier who dies on duty can be considered a martyr. The council responded to GHQ that it was not within its ambit to issue decrees, but it was forwarding the questions to muftis. The replies of the muftis were sent back to GHQ, but not published in the CII’s report.
GHQ asked the CII’s opinion on the status of soldiers killed in accidents during military exercises or on the way to war zones, or who die of mountain sickness on Siachen; soldiers killed in a border area or along the Line of Control in a stove blast, or a landmine explosion; and about Pakistani soldiers killed while serving abroad under the United Nations.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\19\story_19-2-2007_pg1_5
Berlin - Seeking to combat terrorism, cross-border crime and illegal migration, European member states last Thursday agreed on new plans to give each other access to their police databases. German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble hailed the decision as a major step to improve to police cooperation, security in freedom in the 27-member bloc. Germany currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
The joint decision to set up a network of national crime records to improve data exchange will give all member states access to other countries’ DNA and fingerprint data, as well as direct online access to vehicle registries. Under the new rules, police services can ask their colleagues in another country to find out whether they have data matching the profile of a suspected criminal offender. It also includes the exchange of personal information about potential terrorists and about violent offenders, such as football hooligans travelling to matches in other countries, New Europe reported.
Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Spain and The Netherlands already adopted the rules in 2005. Germany and Austria started to share their national criminal registers in December 2006.
Since then some 1,500 DNA traces found in Germany have been matched with persons known to the Austrian criminal authorities while Austria recorded 1,400 hits in Germany. Slovenia, Italy, Finland, Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and Sweden also plan to join the system.
http://www.focus-fen.net/?id=n106000
Terrorism message being spread via Internet
February 18, 2007
WASHINGTON — A popular book among terrorists, "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad," explains how radical Muslims who can’t fight on the front lines can still take part. For instance, mothers can show their children violent videos to get them excited about the movement, an al-Qaida expert said, warning "39 Ways" isn’t the only reading material.
"These books are widely translated, widely circulated and read," said Jarret Brachman, director of research for the U.S Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. Al-Qaida fanatics are logged on in their own virtual world and have created "distance-learning" there for young people while radical writers concoct more propaganda for the Internet and print, experts said.
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http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/local_news/article/0,1891,TRN_5784_5361268,00.html
INTERPOL forwarded information concerning Mohammed Jamal Khalifa to U.S. intelligence agencies just days before the alleged al Qaeda financier was killed by gunmen.
Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, was killed on about Jan. 30, 2007, in Madagascar, according to news reports. Khalifa's family said the Saudi national was killed by a group of 20 to 30 armed men who stole his computer and briefcase.
Khalifa's family said they believe the killing was political. Terrorism analysts have speculated that an international intelligence agency might have been behind the attack.
Three INTERPOL bulletins were released today to INTELWIRE in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for all documents concerning Khalifa. The release has been heavily redacted. INTERPOL also withheld additional documents pertaining to an "open investigation."
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http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2007_02_16_exclusives.html
Blast Hits Russian McDonald’s, Seven Injured
18.02.2007
An explosion in a McDonald’s restaurant in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg on Sunday injured several people, the Reuters news agency reports quoting Russian police.
A police spokesman said there had been an explosion in the restaurant on Nevsky Prospect, the city’s main thoroughfare, and that five people had been wounded. Russia’s Interfax news agency quoted emergency services as saying six were hurt with concussion, burns and shrapnel wounds. The cause of the explosion was unclear.
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This is a short Urdu documentary which has English Subtitles on the hypocrisy of the Pakistan Government for joining the United States on the “War on Terrorism.” Towards the end, the documentary focuses on the Mujahideen and one of their great victories over the Murtadeen Pakistan Army.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/18/india.train.ap/index.html
20 feared killed in India train fire
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Twenty passengers were feared killed when two coaches of a train traveling to Pakistan caught fire early Monday in northern India, a news report said.
An explosion was believed to have caused the fire, which engulfed two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, the only train link between rival India and Pakistan, the Press Trust of India news agency said. The fire occurred near Deewana, a railroad station about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of New Delhi, it said.
The train was traveling from New Delhi to Atari, the last railroad station before the land border with Pakistan, PTI said.
placemark
Sabotage (Suitcase IEDs) suspected in India-Pakistan train fire
The old anonymous "terrorism threat" excuse again!
We've been sick with two distinctly different viruses at our house. Hoping all here have not gone through this at your homes.
Basri sports a crude tattoo of Mickey Mouse on his wrist and spent his youth drinking alcohol and jamming to Nirvana songs in a rock band. He was never religious, and even now struggles to remember verses from the Koran. Yet until his arrest this month, the 30-year-old was one of Indonesia’s most wanted Islamic militants, accused in the grisly beheadings of three Christian girls and a string of other attacks on Sulawesi island, a key terror front in the world’s most populous Muslim nation.
I vote for a Muslim America (satire)
Snip: News reported yesterday that USA welcomes 7000 more Muslims. Hurrah! Just what we need. Another Muslim province to rival Detroit. Maybe they can set up intramural sports or like unto. May the losers be beheaded. Slice ‘em, dice ‘em.
In fact, I believe that America should institute the ‘sharia,’ that ‘legal and justice system’ prescribed by the hallowed Koran. Enough of our liberal courts with leftist judges. Ensconce the sharia and be done with it.
Anti-Christian pogron called Muslim-Christian clash
Snip: Traditional Islamic law allows Muslim men to marry Christian women but not Christian men to marry Muslim women. Romances across the divide are one of the main sources of tension between Egypt’s two main religious communities.
Muslim claims Western life led him to drugs
Snip: Bilal “Bobby” Vagh, 22, claimed his strict Muslim upbringing made him naive and he got involved in drugs only after he came “under the thrall” of a charismatic young WA drug dealer who befriended him.
But the Court of Appeal upheld the six-year jail term given to Vagh for dealing speed, LSD and ecstasy, backing District Court Judge Shauna Deane’s finding that he made an informed decision to deal drugs and was responsible for his actions.
Europe: Muslim "aliens" appear
Snippets: Europe confesses it does not know what to do with extremist Muslim "aliens."
"’Aliens are here, they don't accept our values, they are a threat to our way of life and turn to radicalism,’" said Daniel Fried, assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, State Department.
Devout Muslims adhere to the Koran, not host governments. Allah speaks, not national leaders.
Senior leaders of al-Qaida operating from Pakistan have re-established significant control over their once battered worldwide terror network and over past year have set up band of training camps near Afghan border, NYT will claim in Monday leads... MORE...
http://drudgereport.com/
Sorry, the Old Gray Lady known as the NYT has lost it's drive to write the truth. I'll believe this when it runs in Army Times or The Washington Times.
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