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Posted on 05/01/2007 8:52:12 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/05/lttes_tamil_eelam_air_force_se.php
“LTTE’s Tamil Eelam Air Force: Setting A Dangerous Precedent”
By Animesh Roul
(May 2, 2007; 6:40 pm)
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“Sri Lanka: Rebels with an air force
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels launch air strikes against government installations, boosting their morale after last year’s losses and taking the renewed conflict to a dangerous new level.”
Commentary by Animesh Roul for ISN Security Watch (02/05/07)
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In an apparent change of war tactics, Sri Lanka’s Tamil militant group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is now resorting to aerial attacks against government targets, a novel shift in the conflict that has ravaged the Indian Ocean island nation for three decades.
In what is regarded as the “Fourth Eelam War,” at least three successful air raids have been carried out by the LTTE’s Tamil Eelam air force (TAF) since 26 March, the date of the first such attack on the Sri Lankan air force (SLAF) base at Katunayake. The nighttime raid left three government soldiers dead and some 17 others injured.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Indeed, the TAF air attacks set a dangerous precedent in the region where many like minded militant groups are fighting for their own subversive agendas. The LTTE is believed to have logistical and other linkages with the India-based United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) and the left-wing extremist (Maoists) elements operating in the country.
Fears are growing within security and intelligence establishments in the subcontinent, especially in India. If the LTTE can have penetrative air squadrons, others could follow suit employing similar stealthy methods. Moreover, there are fears that the LTTE could eventually attack strategic installations on India’s southern coast, although these fears are remote at present, given the LTTE’s proven reluctance to provide India to enter the fray.”
However, these speculations aside, with the Norwegian brokered ceasefire in tatters since mid last year, the island nation is certainly bracing for a more violent conflict in the months ahead, as the rebels bask in a new found high.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827468/posts
Teen Shooting Suspect Makes Faces in Court
KATU-TV, Portland, OR ^ | 05/02/07 | Melica Johnson
Posted on 05/02/2007 4:32:55 PM PDT by Inspectorette
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. - A 17-year-old accused of shooting a classmate in the face at a popular outlet mall on the Oregon coast made his first court appearance on Tuesday and there are now clues as to what may have sparked the crime.
Hector Canales-Robles made faces and danced in his chair while in court. He faces adult, Measure 11 charges in connection with the shooting of 18-year-old Ty Pedersen,who was shot twice in the face on Saturday.
Pedersen had to be flown to a Portland hospital where he is currently undergoing treatment.
According to the allegations laid out in court documents, Canales-Robles was working at a clothing store at the Tanger Outlet Mall in Lincoln City when he took a break to commit the crime, going so far as to wear an all-black outfit and putting a nylon over his face.
Information in the court documents also reveal a possible motive in the crime that shocked Lincoln City - police say the victim once dated the suspect’s girlfriend.
Canales-Robles and Pedersen are both upper classmen at Lincoln City’s Taft High School where rumors of the love connection and possible motive are circulating.
Still, most students say Canales-Robles is a nice guy and is incapable of such a crime.
However, students are overwhelmingly in agreement that if he is found guilty, he should face the toughest sentence possible.
Even the school’s principal supports the District Attorney’s decision to try Canales-Robles as an adult. “I’m of the opinion that at his age, right and wrong is a notion he understands,” said Steve Kilduff.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put an “immigration hold” on Canales-Robles following his arrest.
A spokeswoman for the agency told KATU News he is an “immigration violator,” but she could not specify whether he was in the country legally or not. He could have been in the country legally but violated his immigration status somehow.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=33024
Five Enemy Fighters Killed, Four Captured in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2007 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed five enemy fighters and detained four others in Afghanistan during the past three days, military officials reported.
Afghan and coalition forces captured a man this morning while raiding a house in the Tani district of Khowst province. Inside the house, combined forces netted AK-47 assault rifles and military-style load-bearing vests.
Credible evidence led the forces to the detainee, a suspected operative in the Haqqani network, responsible for facilitating suicide bombing attacks in the province, military officials said.
“Facilitators like this are simply cowards, exploiting impressionable people for their own purposes,” said Army Maj. Christopher Belcher, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokesman.
No shots were fired, and no one was injured during the operation.
While manning a checkpoint 50 miles northeast of Qalat yesterday, Afghan border police and coalition forces engaged three vehicles approaching at high speeds that refused to slow down after appropriate warnings.
Once stopped, eight men exited the vehicles and began firing at the checkpoint. Combined forces returned fire, killing five. The three others managed to escape during the firefight. There were no Afghan civilians in the vehicles, and there were no injuries to Afghan or coalition forces.
“Enemy insurgents are attempting to slip through established security checkpoints to conduct illegal and terrorist activities,” Belcher said. “With the assistance of the Afghan people, Afghan boarder police and coalition forces will be able to put a stop to all insurgent activity in the area.”
Afghan national police and coalition forces detained three well-known improvised explosive device facilitators April 30 during a combat operation targeting a Taliban IED cell northwest of Khowst city in the Saberi district of Khowst province. Combined forces mounted an air assault into Zambar village and nabbed Haji Nazir, Nazir Khan and another individual known only as Latif, in three separate compounds.
The three suspects are believed to be mid-level Taliban leaders involved in Taliban fighter recruiting and financing, and they are the alleged masterminds behind an IED cell operating in the Sabari district, military officials said.
No shots were fired during the successful mission and there were no injuries to any Afghan civilians reported.
“The information gained from these three individuals will assist us in detaining other key Taliban leaders,” Belcher said. “We will continue to pursue and interdict Taliban leaders who threaten the people of Afghanistan.
“Taliban leaders have two choices,” he continued. “Stop fighting and reconcile with the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, or face elimination by Afghan national security and coalition forces.”
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070502-4.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070502-2.html
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=33028
Bush: Al Qaeda Cannot Gain Safe Haven in Iraq
By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 2, 2007 – The decision America faces in Iraq is not whether to take sides in a sectarian civil war, but whether to continue the fight against al Qaeda, the organization that attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, and is now threatening stability in Iraq and the entire Middle East, President Bush said here today.
“I fully recognize what happens in Iraq matters here at home,” Bush said at a meeting of the Associated General Contractors of America. “The recent attacks are not the revenge killings that some have called a civil war; they are a systematic assault on the entire nation. Al Qaeda is public enemy No. 1 in Iraq, and all people of that society ought to come together and recognize the threat, unite against the threat, and reconcile their differences.”
U.S. forces have a new strategy to fight al Qaeda in Iraq, and the early stages of that strategy are encouraging, but the terrorists are bound to fight back, Bush said. In the past few weeks, al Qaeda has stepped up its campaign of high-profile suicide-bomb attacks, which are designed to reignite sectarian violence, discourage Iraqi citizens, and break U.S. support for the war, he said.
“The terrorists will continue to fight back. In other words, they understand what they’re doing,” Bush said. “And casualties are likely to stay high. Yet, day by day, block by block, we are steadfast in helping Iraqi leaders counter the terrorists, protect their people, and reclaim the capital. And if I didn’t think it was necessary for the security of the country, I wouldn’t put our kids in harm’s way.”
As the Baghdad security plan unfolds, U.S. forces will not be able to prevent every terrorist attack, Bush cautioned. However, he said, the plan is designed to shrink the areas where al Qaeda can operate, gather more intelligence about their presence, and allow American and Iraqi forces to dismantle their network.
The new security plan is still in its early stages, Bush noted, as Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, hasn’t received all the reinforcements he asked for. Last night, Bush vetoed an emergency war-funding bill that included deadlines for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and today he reiterated his calls to Congress to give Petraeus more time to implement the new plan and gauge its success.
“This issue of Iraq and this war on terror deserves a serious discussion across the United States,” Bush said. “We don’t agree on every issue, but one of the things I have heard here in Washington is that people understand the consequences of failure in Iraq. If we were to leave Iraq before the government can defend itself, there would be a security vacuum.”
A security vacuum in Iraq would allow extremists to move in and take control, using the country’s significant natural resources to fund their objectives, Bush said. Al Qaeda terrorists would not be content simply to see U.S. forces leave Iraq, he said, but would see withdrawal as a sign of weakness and would attack America on its own soil.
“There would be no benefit in allowing chaos to spill out of Iraq and into the broader Middle East. There would be no benefit in emboldening Iran and endangering our allies in the region. And there would be no benefit in allowing the same terrorist network that attacked America on 9/11 to gain a safe haven from which to attack us again,” Bush said. “Even if you think it was a mistake to go into Iraq, it would be a far greater mistake to pull out now.”
Success in the war on terror is going to be difficult and will require sacrifice, but Americans must not forget the potential positive outcomes of success, Bush said. He pointed to Japan, which was once a sworn enemy of the United States and is now a close ally, as an example of “the possibilities of liberty to change history.”
“We fully understand that the long-term way to protect America is to defeat an ideology of hate with an ideology of hope,” he said. “I learned firsthand the power of liberty to transform an enemy into an ally.”
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“Sunni Muslim sheikhs join US in fighting Al Qaeda”
Christian Science Monitor ^ | May 3 2007 | Sam Dagher
Posted on 05/02/2007 4:46:46 PM PDT by ASC2006
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“Israel’s US envoy says concerned about Syrian arms”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3395138,00.html ^
Posted on 05/02/2007 5:44:22 PM PDT by jhpigott
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/02/pet.food.poultry/index.html
“Feds: Millions have eaten chickens fed tainted pet food”
POSTED: 4:23 p.m. EDT, May 2, 2007
SNIPPET: “• Chickens in possibly hundreds of farms may have been fed tainted food
• Likelihood of human illness after eating such chicken is “very low”
• No human illness linked to the tainted feed reported to FDA, USDA”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NEW YORK (CNN) — People have eaten millions of chickens that were given feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal officials said Tuesday, though they said the threat to human health is minimal.
The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given contaminated feed to poultry raised for human consumption, and that 2.5 million to 3 million people ate them.
The officials added that they expect to discover that chickens on possibly hundreds of farms in other states were also given tainted feed.”
You have to know - these chickens were not served at the White House.
Thank you!
I didn’t know that.
Do they raise their own?
Actually, what I meant to say is, “Does the cook buy from a private farm/poultry farm?”
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http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/346.php?nid=&id=&pnt=346&lb=hmpg2
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/apr07/START_Apr07_rpt.pdf
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/apr07/START_Apr07_quaire.pdf
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827479/posts
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20070501-092007-9746r.htm
“A rising tide of fury”
By Tony Blankley
May 2, 2007
OP ED SNIPPET: “Whenever I refer to the threat of radical Islam, I am inundated with e-mails chastising me for unjustified alarmism (that is the polite description of the missives).”
Note: See video.
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“Fertiliser Bomb Plot.”
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http://www.memritv.org
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http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1437
4/30/3007 Clip No. 1437
“Taliban Military Commander Mullah Dadallah: Bin Laden Planned the Baghram Base Attack on American VP Cheney”
SNIPPET: “Following are excerpts from an interview with Taliban Military Commander Mullah Dadallah, which aired by Al-Jazeera TV on April 30, 2007.”
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uquP6rgQ45Y
“Dadullah Interview 07”
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Today: May 02, 2007 at 16:25:5 PDT
“Train With Shuttle Parts Derails”
By JAY REEVES
Associated Press Writer
MYRTLEWOOD, Ala. (AP) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It was the second time in less than a week that the train jumped the tracks while carrying the booster segments across the country from the manufacturer, ATK Launch Systems Group of Promontory, Utah, to Cape Canaveral, Fla., Herring said.”
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“An unauthorized e-mail request from a soldier”
By Michelle Malkin · May 02, 2007 08:11 PM
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“Army crack down on bloggers”
By Michelle Malkin · May 02, 2007 10:53 AM
stepping back in time...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827574/posts
http://varifrank.com/archives/2007/05/mission_accompl_1.php
“Mission Accomplished”
FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS.org - "EXCLUSIVE: WOULD IRAN TARGET THE AMERICAN MAINLAND? HEZBOLLAH'S TERROR NETWORKS IN US BEAR WATCHING" by Joel Himelfarb (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The U.S. government is offering a $5 million reward for the capture of Mugniyeh, who divides his time between Lebanon and Iran, where he is protected by the Islamic Republic. In their 2005 book "Lightning Out of Lebanon: Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil," perhaps the most detailed study to date of Hezbollah's operations in this country, authors Tom Diaz and Barbara Newman wrote that Mugniyeh "directs Hezbollah's network of cells in the Western Hemisphere." The FBI and other law-enforcement agencies are loath to talk publicly about specific Hezbollah cells or operatives or to speculate about the possibility that Hezbollah could stage attacks in the United States. "Hezbollah is here, now...."") (April 16, 2007) (Read More...)
TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER at the Israel Intelligence' Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC): "Following an appeal from the Argentinean Attorney General, Interpol issued international extradition warrants for five senior Iranians and one senior Hezbollah operative. The charge was involvement in the suicide bombing attack of the Jewish community center building (AMIA) in Argentina in 1994.") (March 28, 2007) (Read More...)
TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S.): "Argentina accuses Iran of responsibility for the Hezbollah terrorist attack which destroyed Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, 1994. The Argentinean Attorney General's office announced it had found Iran responsible for the terrorist attack and an Argentinean judge issued arrest warrants for seven senior Iranians and one senior Hezbollah member" (November 14, 2006) (Read More...)
TIME.com: "COULD A MISSING IRANIAN SPARK A WAR?" by Robert Baer (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "As IRGC commander in Lebanon, Asgari was also one of Hizballah's stepfathers. In the late '80s and early '90s, he was Hizballah Secretary General's Hasan Nasrallah's primary Iranian contact, and certainly in a position now to provide evidence of Nasrallah's involvement in terrorism. Asgari was the primary Iranian contact for one of the world's most lethal and capable terrorists, 'Imad Fa'iz Mughniyah. Mughniyah is indicted in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 and the murder of a Navy diver.") (March 22, 2007) (Read More...)
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