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Senior Taliban leader held in Pakistan
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Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior security official and Taliban sources said late Thursday

The capture of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund marked the first Pakistan arrest of a senior leader of the Islamist militia since it was driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001 when thousands of its fighters fled into Pakistan.

The security official and Taliban sources said Akhund, the third most senior member of the Taliban's 10-member leadership council, was arrested late on Monday, hours after a surprise visit to Pakistan by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.

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[Cindy]

Note: From the fly-them-to-the-moon files...

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005955.html

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/13mar07/aqm-20_new_members.jpg

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005954.html


14 March 2007
"OSINT - Press report cited, claims al-Qaida of the Maghreb has 20 new members"

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/13mar07/anti-dahlan_pic_of_the_day.jpg

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005953.html


14 March 2007
"Palestine v Palestine - Gratuitous anti-Dahlan picture of the day"

SNIPPET: "From a Palestinian al-Qaida web site, via Hamas, we get this pic of that paradigm of moderation in Gaza, Mahmoud Dahlan."

[drymans wife]

One Way, All Expence Paid, Blast Their Butts Off!!!

[Cindy]

From the you-can't-make-this-stuff-up files:

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005952.html


14 March 2007

"FITNA - controversy amongst the jihadi faithful..."

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...as jihadi satellite TV station al-Zawra is accused of 'stealing' jihadi videos from the internet and broadcasting them as though they were exclusive to the station."

[Cindy]

My only concern is though, is the amount of space garbage that's already up there in outer space.

[Cindy]

http://sfir-arabicsource.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_6471.html

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005947.html


14 March 2007
"FITNA: The suffering of the Sunnis in Lebanon after the war of last summer"

[drymans wife]

".as jihadi satellite TV station al-Zawra is accused of 'stealing' jihadi videos from the internet and broadcasting them as though they were exclusive to the station."

LOL!!! They must be democrats, I see a law suit coming.

[Cindy]

Copyright violations?
No honor among jihadis?

An endless list of possibilities.

[drymans wife]

Yea, with our luck they would become infused with a metorite and head right back for earth. Talk about martardome.

LOL

[Oorang]

Ahhh, both of those articles speak of the peaceful and tolerant side of islam (insert enormous sarcasm tag here).
Thanks much MamaD.

[Oorang]

Very interesting, thanks for posting that article Cindy.

[Cindy]

http://sfir-arabicsource.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_13.html

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http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005951.html
14 March 2007
"AGITPROP - Lebanese nasheeds, now available via archive.org"

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http://sfir-arabicsource.blogspot.com/2007/03/blog-post_09.html

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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005936.html
09 March 2007
"AGITPROP: A collection of Lebanese nasheeds"

[Cindy]

You're welcome Oorang.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text (minus the graphic) is a quote:

http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005950.html


14 March 2007
OSINT - Jihadis preparing to engage the IDF?
They are at least gathering information about IDF communications equipment.


The information they have gathered so far is probably a lot less interesting than the fact that they are making this effort.

file:12mar07:OSINT-guide_to_IDF_comm_gear

Posted on 14 March 2007 @ 10:20

[Oorang]

That would be a very lethal combination rather than a nuisance.

You have such a understated way of wording things Godzilla :-)
strata-sphere has covered the whole Po-210 saga very well (IMO).

[Oorang]

Pipe bomb found in SR (California)
3/14/2007

Someone left a pipe bomb in the landscaping along Occidental Road, Santa Rosa police reported. The home-made bomb was found Tuesday at about 2:45 p.m. along the 2100 block of Occidental. It was found near a sidewalk, said Sgt. Mike Lazzarini.

Officers blocked off the street to cars and pedestrians while the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department bomb squad was called. Bomb officers rendered the four-inch galvanized steel device safe. It wasn’t known how long it was there and officers had no suspect information.

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/NEWS/70314004/1033/NEWS01

Pipe Bomb Devices Found At Columbia College (California)
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Columbia, CA -- Law Enforcement is currently on the scene at Columbia College due to a bomb scare. Tuolumne County Sheriff's Lt. Dan Bressler says four pipe bomb devices have been found. He says they are located in the brush area between the dormitories and the motorcycle parking area on campus.

Bressler says the area has been secured, and the Calaveras County Bomb Squad has been called in to assist. Classes are still in session at Columbia. Law enforcement will not do anything with the bomb devices until activity quiets down. Bressler says it appears the bomb devices have been there for a while because they are showing “signs of weathering.”

http://www.mymotherlode.com/News/article/kvml/1173830862

Suspicious Package Evacuates Maryland Metro
Mar 14, 2007 6:31 pm US/Eastern

ROCKVILLE, Md. The Rockville Metro and Amtrak stations have been evacuated while police investigate a suspicious package found on board an Amtrak train.

An Amtrak spokesman says that the report of the suspicious package came at about 5 p.m. About 140 passengers were taken off the train at the Rockville Station. He says they will have to wait until about 7 p.m. for the situation to be cleared. He says the item is being X-rayed. All Amtrak trains going through Rockville in both directions are delayed at least 90 minutes .

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue spokesman Pete Piringer says the fire department, bomb squad and police are investigating the package. A Metro spokeswoman says that the Rockville Metro station was evacuated and closed at about 5:30 p.m. Bus service is taking passengers between the Twinbrook and Shady Grove stations.

http://wjz.com/local/local_story_073183235.html

[Oorang]

Radioactive waste packaged 40 years ago in Uzbekistan found in Ukrainian gutter
March 14, 2007

On March 13, a bag was found in a gutter near a construction site in Khartsyzsk (Donetsk Region, Ukraine). A sign was found on the bag saying: “Caution! Radiation! Tashkent, 1970, Central Asian Atomprom,” press office of Ukraine’s emergency ministry told a REGNUM correspondent.

The bag was showing radioactivity 83 times more than normal. Distance to the nearest dwelling house is 500 m. Five hours after the dangerous bag was found, experts from Radon special center seized the source of radioactivity and sent it for utilization. According to assessment of the local sanitary inspection, the radioactivity of the soil where the bag was found does not exceed the maximum concentration limit. There is reportedly no threat to local population and the environment.

http://www.regnum.ru/english/796008.html

Police announce arrests, confessions in Ain Alaq bus bombings (Lebannon)
March 14, 2007

Four people in Lebanese custody have confessed to involvement in the February 13 Ain Alaq twin bus bombing that left three people dead and 24 wounded, Interior Minister Hassan Sabaa said on Tuesday.

" We have arrested four Syrian nationals, and one is still at large," he told a press conference. " Through the use of sensitive information, we were led" to the suspects.

Those arrested are said to be members of the Fatah al-Islam extremist group, an offshoot from a Syrian-backed Palestinian group, Fatah al-Intifada. " Fatah al-Islam is part of Fatah al-Intifada, and we all know where their loyalties lie," said Sabaa.

Excerpted

http://www.terra.net.lb/wp/Articles/DesktopArticle.aspx?ArticleID=334641&ChannelId=4

[Cindy]

Off Topic...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070313.wiran0313/BNStory/Technology/home

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000900.html

March 14, 2007

LG making mobile phones in Iran

AP SEOUL

LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has started producing handsets in Iran with a local partner.

Production started this month, and the facility can make 1 million phones a year, LG spokeswoman Judy Pae said. Pae said she could not identify the Iranian partner or provide other details of the production arrangement or even the facility's location in Iran.

Maadiran Group, which describes itself as Iran's leading technology and office automation company, said on its website in a Feb. 17 press release that it began producing five models of handsets under license from LG Electronics, the world's fifth-largest manufacturer of mobile phones.

Iran's Minister of Industries and Mines Alireza Tahmasebi attended a ceremony marking the start of the phone production, the release said.

Posted on 14 March 2007 @ 14:52 GMT

[Oorang]

Utrecht: Ethnic Riots after Dutchman is Killed by Police
Wed, 2007-03-14

Ondiep, a working class neighbourhood in the Dutch town of Utrecht, is in turmoil. After the death last Sunday of Rinie Mulder, a 54-year old indigenous Dutchman who was shot by a police officer, non-immigrant citizens went on a rampage, burning cars, looting shops and arsoning a community centre in “inverted Paris style riots.” According to our sources the police officer who killed Mulder is a woman of Moroccan origin.

The Ondiep residents have been complaining for months about harassment and intimidation by immigrant youths of Moroccan origin. The Dutch mainstream media do not go into much detail about what is going on. Most of them do not mention the ethnicity of the victim and the police officer, though the riots clearly have an ethnic nature.

Apparently Mulder intervened when Muslim youths harassed a pregnant native Dutch woman. He was able to grab the knife of one of the youths. When the police arrived Mulder was shot because he had raised the knife. Witnesses say Mulder was indicating to the police that he had called for them.

Locals claim the police has failed to protect them for years. They say the authorities are afraid of the immigrants and tolerate their criminal behaviour. After the death of Mulder the indigenous Dutch decided they had had enough and started riots which went on for two continuous nights. The police made 130 arrests: 60 of them are Ondiep residents. According to the mainstream media the others are mainly “football hooligans” from other parts of the country. Annie Brouwer-Korf, the Socialist mayor of Utrecht, has ordered Ondiep to be sealed off from the rest of town to keep non-residents out. She expressed some sympathy for the frustrated Ondiep residents. “I understand that residents are sometimes upset about the nuisance around their own house and neighbourhood. That does you no good whatsoever.”

Excerpted

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1976

Same incident, different article:

Islam in Europe (blog)
Utrecht: Ondiep roundup
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Sunday night a man was killed in the Ondiep neighborhood of Utrecht. Rini Mulder had been fighting with a group of immigrant youth when the police showed up. The police agent felt threatened and shot Mulder dead. Since then there have been riots in the neighborhood, with 135 people arrested so far. This is a roundup of news on the issue.

Excerpted

http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2007/03/utrecht-ondiep-roundup.html