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Ping to May... with just a few hours (minutes here) to spare. ;)
ON THE NET...
http://www.memri.org/jihad.html
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP156707
Special Dispatch Series - No. 1567
May 2, 2007 No.1567
“Islamist Websites Monitor No. 93
Islamist Video: Interview with an Al-Qaeda Commander in Afghanistan”
SNIPPET: “On April 28, 2007, Islamist websites posted a 43-minute video featuring an interview with Sheikh Abu Laith Al-Libi, who is introduced in the film as “one of the leaders of Al-Qaeda in Khorasan, [Afghanistan].” The film was produced by Al-Qaeda’s media company Al-Sahab and is accompanied by English subtitles. The following are the main points of the interview.
Abu Laith states that the long-term goal of jihad is to establish Islam throughout the world, while its short-term goal is to rescue the Muslims from the oppression to which they are subject.”
SNIPPET: “The video can be viewed at: http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?ClipMediaID=807019&ak=null “
“NYC-DC-LA”
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070501-105445-4737r.htm
Putin not able to track all nukes
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published May 2, 2007 (snipped)
Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush he could not account for all of Moscow’s nuclear weapons at the same time al Qaeda was seeking to purchase three Russian nuclear devices on the black market, former CIA Director George J. Tenet said.
In his new book, Mr. Tenet states that shortly after the September 11 attacks, Mr. Bush briefed Mr. Putin about a Pakistani nongovernmental group, Umma Tameer-e-Nau. The group, whose members included extremist nuclear scientists, was helping the Taliban and al Qaeda develop nuclear arms.
The president “asked Putin point blank if Russia could account for all of its [nuclear] material,” he states in his book, “At the Center of the Storm.”
“Choosing his words carefully, the Russian president said he was confident he could account for everything — under his watch,” Mr. Tenet stated, noting that the deliberately ambiguous response tended to confirm reports of nuclear smuggling shortly after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
Mr. Tenet said the CIA informed Russian intelligence about former Soviet nuclear scientists who were working with al Qaeda.
Russian officials “refused to delve into any matters related to the security of their nuclear facilities and nuclear weapons, including reports sourced to Russian officials concerning possible theft of Russian ‘suitcase nukes,’ “ Mr. Tenet stated.
The comments contradict Russian government claims for the past 16 years that no nuclear arms were missing.
Alexander Lebed, a former Russian national security adviser, stated in 1997 that Russia could not account for about 80 portable nuclear weapons, a claim later denied by Moscow.
Mr. Tenet disclosed the presidential exchange in explaining detailed intelligence reports from late 2002 to spring 2003 stating that senior al Qaeda leaders were “negotiating for the purchase of three Russian nuclear devices.”
The former CIA chief identified the al Qaeda nuclear procurement group as including No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri and Abdel al-Aziz al-Masri, who is described as the “nuclear chief” for the terrorist group. . .
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I live in DC and we just had a group of fighter jets overhead. They are very LOUD - they sound like lightening hitting the house. Anyway, this the 2nd or 3rd time in the last month they have been flying over a residential area (which also happens to be walking distance to the Capitol). Does anyone with military experience know why they would be flying in this airspace?
Hey do we have a storm watch tread? I was on the ping list but I am not sure anyone is here any more.
Send me links or threads whatever you have.
BTW Barry is my hubby’s name LOL
Thanks Much
j
