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Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Yep, it can be a bit overwhelming and noisy, but if one steps back from the noise; one can more easily see the situation better.
Hopefully.
Anything new?
Not a problem. But Russia is not the central issue. China is the core threat given its position as the primary nexus with regard to almost all the potentially nuclear crises that could end up going “global” (Iran-Pakistan-Taiwan-Korea).
Russia resisted being drawn into an explicitly Taiwan-based exercise with “Peace Mission 2005” (I read the Chinese actually wanted to hold that drill opposite Taiwan but Russia said “nyet”). Russia is trying to play its own triangulation strategy as we did back in the early 70s with Mao and Brezhnev. We did so at the time because we were playing the game from a position of fundamental weakness (Vietnam, antiwar protests, race riots, Watergate). Despite being flush with oil revenues, Russia is also fundamentally weak - - a declining power seeking to hold onto the trappings of former glory - - while China is a rapidly rising global power. Russia is playing a dangerous game trying to triangulate between its west and its east and keep its options open. But while Russia may honestly believe they are only trying to geostrategically counterbalance the U.S. and triangulate by partnering with China in this way, China is playing a much more dangerous game.
They are exercising world war scenarios. The latest SCO version of “Peace Mission 2007” is still directed at Taiwan (”domestic separatists/terrorists”). Perhaps Russia believes that by siding with China and somehow deterring a massive nuclear escalation involving Taiwan, that they can contain the crisis in that scenario and avoid getting pulled into a U.S.-China war that escalates to the mainland. That way their worst-case scenario would be the U.S. and China fighting it out over Taiwan but it not escalating to either country’s homeland and thus producing a nuclear escalation that would end up drawing Russia directly into the exchange as it would then expand geographically and Russia would not be able to stay neutral if the conflict both regionalized and went nuclear.
I’m not trying to rationalize or justify Russian behavior. But I learned a long time ago that to even begin to understand them, you have to try to put yourself in their shoes, which is not a pleasant exercise these days.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8587597/
Chinese nuclear comments prove explosive
U.S. says general’s remarks on use of nuclear weapons are ‘irresponsible’
The Associated Press
Updated: 4:39 p.m. CT July 15, 2005 (excerpted)
BEIJING - A Chinese general said Beijing might respond with nuclear weapons if the United States attacked China in a conflict over Taiwan, news reports said Friday. The State Department rejected the warning as “highly irresponsible.” . . .
“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition into the target zone on China’s territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu, a dean at China’s National Defense University, told visiting Hong Kong-based reporters. His remarks were reported by The Asian Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. . .
Zhu was responding to a question about how China might react to U.S. involvement in a conflict with Taiwan, the Journal said. The United States is Taiwan’s biggest arms supplier and could be drawn into fighting to help defend the island. “If the Americans are determined to interfere ... we will be determined to respond, and we Chinese will prepare ourselves for the destruction of all cities east of Xi’an,” a major city in central China, Zhu said. “Of course the Americans will have to be prepared that hundreds of, or two hundreds of, (or) even more cities will be destroyed by the Chinese,” he said. . .
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/china/2005/wwwh80524.htm
August 23, 2005
CHINA AND RUSSIA CONDUCT PEACE MISSION 2005: AN ‘EXERCISE OF POWER’
KEY FINDINGS
** Sino-Russian maneuvers are directed at Taiwan, possibly North Korea, but not terrorism.
** Predicting a “new” Cold War: papers contemplate the global “distribution of power.”
** Various outlets insist U.S. political and economic policies threaten regional stability.
** Media see war games as a signal of competition for power in Central as well as East Asia.
MAJOR THEMES
‘Exercise of Power’— Only Russian papers asserted that recent joint Sino-Russian military exercises were directed at “world terrorism” and Central Asian “color revolutions.” Peace Mission 2005, said Britain’s independent Financial Times, is not the “innocent peacekeeping drill” its name suggests. Other writers agreed with Japan and Taiwan media that the use of “amphibious equipment” and a “shore assault landing” was to make a “show of force” to the Japan-U.S. alliance and to “daunt” Taiwan independence. The pro-independence Taiwan Daily added that the “situation” on the Korean Peninsula is “worth observation,” but papers generally disagreed on the significance of holding the maneuvers in Korea’s West Sea. . . .
Prepared by Media Reaction Branch (202) 203-7888, rmrmail@state.gov
EDITOR: Erin Carroll
EDITOR’S NOTE: Media Reaction reporting conveys the spectrum of foreign press sentiment. Posts select commentary to provide a representative picture of local editorial opinion. Some commentary is taken directly from the Internet. This report summarizes and interprets foreign editorial opinion and does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. This analysis was based on 55 reports from 23 countries over 8 August - 22 August, 2005. Editorial excerpts are listed from the most recent date.
“Sino-Russian Military Exercise Warns United States And Japan”
ZTS reporter Yu Song in PRC-owned Zhongguo Tongxun She in Chinese (8/18) opined:
“Although China and Russia have emphasized that the military exercise is not intentionally directed at a third country, the main act in the exercise is a shore assault landing, and in addition the Russian military is sending its trump card Tu-160 strategic long-range bombers, so the scale far exceeds antiterrorism warfare, and is seen as warning the United States and Japan not to intervene in a Taiwan Strait conflict; the United States, Japan, and Taiwan are paying very great attention to this. The U.S. military has not only expressed extremely great concern regarding the Sino-Russian joint exercise but is also monitoring it.... Ni Lexiong, a military expert in Shanghai Normal University, candidly says: ‘Part of the exercise consists of a shore assault landing and naval and air operations, which have nothing whatever to do with combating terrorism. Carrying out the exercise is in response to the U.S. provocations against China over a long period’.... The outside world is making considerable associations with regard to the exercise subject of a Chinese landing on an island under Russian cover, and even conjecturing that Russia may help defend the mainland if a Taiwan Strait war breaks out.” . . .
JAPAN: “Sino-Russian Joint Exercise - Concerns Over Countering Japan-U.S. Alliance”
Tokyo’s conservative Sankei Shimbun (8/19) (internet version):
“The first joint-military exercise between China and Russia, ‘Peace Mission 2005,’ has begun. Both countries say that the exercise ‘is not targeted against a third country.’ However, it appears that it [exercise] is targeting the ‘common strategic goal’ of the Japanese-U.S. alliance, as it includes training based on the supposition of ‘landing in Taiwan,’ among other things. China is definitely accelerating the modernization of its military, and we cannot help but have concerns over it.... Such moves reflect the joint interests of China and Russia of opposing U.S. rule by reinforcing military cooperation. Russia has been affected by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s expansion to [include] East [European countries] and the ‘democratic revolution’ in central Asia. For China, the Japanese-U.S. alliance is an obstacle to ‘annexing’ Taiwan and for China to branch into marine [development], such as development of natural resources in the East China Sea. The primary purpose of the plan for the joint-exercise, which China proposed one year ago, was to ‘train for anti-terrorism.’ However, on the exercise plan this time, it appears that Russia’s intention is to urge the Chinese side to conduct exercises in which the Russia side will mobilize the latest equipment.... Along with its economic development, China has modernized its weapons and equipment. However, in recent years, it is placing emphasis on reinforcing its air and naval power. It [the reinforcement] is on the supposition of a contingency over Taiwan, and it is believed that it is based on a strategy to prevent U.S. military intervention.... The U.S. side is concerned, since the military cooperation between China and Russia could affect security in East Asia. The reinforcement of China’s military might is also a threat to Japan. Japan is being pressed to further reinforce its alliance with the United States.” . . .
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2007/08/B04CCF5D-9CBD-4DF6-B07E-9454ECC7324D.html
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Central Asia: SCO To Hold Largest Military Exercises To Date
By Bruce Pannier
August 8, 2007 (RFE/RL) — The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will begin counterterrorism exercises on August 9 that will involve some 6,500 troops from the organization’s six members. The maneuvers begin in China and then move to Russia, where they will conclude on August 17. The troops will be backed up by 80 warplanes and combat helicopters in the SCO’s largest counterterrorist exercise, dubbed Peace Mission 2007. The nine days of drills will take place in China’s western Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Russia’s Chelyabinsk Oblast. . .
But the size of these exercises has led some to speculate that they are not aimed solely at terrorist groups. Stephen Blank is a professor of national security studies at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College. In views that he stressed are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the War College or the U.S. Defense Department, Blank commented on the scope of the SCO military exercises.
“The size of these exercises is growing and many experts do not believe that they are confined only to so-called antiterrorist activities or even just to Central Asia,” Blank says. “The August 2005 Sino-Russian exercises, which were conducted under the auspices of the SCO, were so large and so thoroughly combined arms and major-theater conventional warfare in their approach that people believed these were aimed as much at Taiwan and Korea as they were at any potential Central Asian contingency.”
One fact that supports Blank’s comments is that the bulk of forces in Peace Mission 2007 are from Russia and China, with Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan reportedly contributing small numbers of troops and Uzbekistan sending only observers to the maneuvers. . .
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=11781
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 03:10
Subject: /Taiwan-Diplomacy/China/UN/
ROUNDUP: China to attack if Taiwan poll backs joining UN: report (excerpted)
Taipei (dpa) - China will attack Taiwan if the island votes to join the United Nations in a referendum planned for next year, according to a Chinese official cited in a Taiwanese newspaper Tuesday. The China Times quoted Yu Keli, director of the Institute of Taiwan Studies under the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as saying that China would view a successful referendum as a major incident that could lead to Taiwan’s separation from China. That would force China to use non-peaceful means against Taiwan, as stipulated in an Anti-Secession Law passed in 2005.
The March 2008 referendum - held at the same time as a general election - would ask Taiwanese if they favour the country applying for UN membership under the name of “Taiwan.” Because of the graveness of the referendum, China has been using all diplomatic and political means - including pressuring the US, Japan and the European Union - to block Taiwan’s holding the vote, the daily quoted Yu as saying. The paper quoted unnamed Chinese sources as saying that China is closely monitoring Taiwan’s preparation to hold the UN referendum.
China’s increased anxiety comes chiefly from the pro-unification opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang or KMT) support for the UN referendum, and China has tried to persuade the party Taiwan’s not to back the vote without success, the China Times said. In the past, China hoped to use the KMT to restrain the ruling and pro-independence DPP, but the apparent KMT and DPP alliance has led China to believe it has lost its grip on the island. . .
Beijing fears this is Taiwan’s first step towards changing its name and eventually seeking formal separation from China. The Taiwanese government insists that it has no plan to change its national title or to declare independence. China’s National People’s Congress, or parliament, enacted the Anti-Secession Law on March 14, 2005, allowing “non-peaceful means” against Taiwan if the island seeks independence or if the possibility of “peaceful reunification” is exhausted.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/24/america/NA-GEN-US-Taiwan.php
Top US military commander in Pacific criticizes Taiwan’s president
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 24, 2007 (excerpted)
WASHINGTON: The top U.S. military commander in the Pacific criticized Taiwan’s president on Tuesday for statements on the island’s independence he said were unhelpful to keeping peace in the volatile Taiwan Strait. The comments by Adm. Timothy Keating reflect worry by officials in Washington over a plan by Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian to hold a referendum on Taiwan’s entry into the United Nations under its own name — an initiative that rival China strongly condemns. Taiwan and China split amid civil war in 1949, and China has repeatedly threatened to attack should Taiwan formalize its de facto independence. Keating told an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank that Chen’s “rhetoric isn’t entirely helpful” and that his “statements for Taiwan independence could potentially increase Taiwan Strait tensions.” But, Keating added, “it is a two-way street, the increased tension, and I don’t see that happening near term.” . . .
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007/07/26/116064/Taiwan-must.htm
Taiwan must not wait for death: president
Thursday, July 26, 2007
TAIPEI, CNA
President Chen Shui-bian said yesterday that Taiwan must not sit idly by and wait for its doom in the face of China’s attempts to suffocate the country with diplomatic suppression and military threat. Chen likened China’s approach toward Taiwan to “a man pointing a gun at his rival with one hand while pushing him into the corner with the other.” “We must not surrender, wait for death or commit a slow suicide. It would be impossible to forbid Taiwan’s people from making no move, “ Chen said while receiving a political delegation from the U.S. Democratic Party. . .
With a democratic system having been established in Taiwan, there should be a democratic process allowing the people to decide on the future of Taiwan and its relations with China through referendums, he said, urging the United States to review its opposition to referendums on such issues in Taiwan. The United States, which opposes referendums on independence or sovereignty issues in Taiwan, has expressed disapproval of a plan by the ruling Democratic Progressive Party to push for a referendum on whether the country should continue to apply to join the United Nations under the name of Taiwan. Pointing to the planned referendum, U.S. State Department officials noted that Washington “opposes any initiative that appears designed to change Taiwan’s status unilaterally.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081600277.html
U.S. ties with isolated Taiwan souring over China
By Ralph Jennings
Reuters
Thursday, August 16, 2007; 3:36 AM (excerpted)
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan, ridiculed by China at every opportunity and recognized by only a couple of dozen countries worldwide, has no stauncher ally than the United States, but goodwill appears to be in limited supply. The United States, Taiwan’s biggest trading partner and main arms supplier, has grown increasingly impatient since the island ignored its warnings against holding a referendum on U.N. membership alongside presidential elections next March. For Washington, the self-ruled island, which Beijing has claimed as its own since their split in 1949 during a civil war, is needlessly provoking China by pressing for U.N. membership and grandstanding about formal independence. . .
A U.S. State Department official this week called the referendum an “initiative that appears designed to change Taiwan’s status unilaterally.” Then Chen told a visiting U.S. lawmaker he was “baffled” by U.S. opposition and asked Washington not to draw a “red line.” There are other signs Washington might be getting frustrated with Taiwan, which has just 24 diplomatic allies, mostly tiny, poor countries, compared to China’s 170. The United States has criticized Chen’s “four wants, one have not” statement in March, which suggested pursuing independence and dropping the China reference in Taiwan’s official name, the Republic of China, as “unhelpful.” . . .
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CA2E5C41-AD9A-4A79-8C35-54C4A34D73FA
“New York Islamist Day Parade”
By Joe Kaufman and Beila Rabinowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/17/2007
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/16614/Extremist-yobs-hijack-airport-demo-to-cause-mayhem
“EXTREMIST YOBS HIJACK AIRPORT DEMO TO CAUSE MAYHEM”
“The protest at Heathrow”
Friday August 17,2007
By John Twomey
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “GANGS of anarchists plotting clashes with police have infiltrated the Heathrow climate protest camp.
The extremists, many of them veterans of anti-demo cracy demonstrations around the world, have been identified by police intelligence officers among the hundreds of law-abiding protesters.
Scotland Yard said some of the thugs have previously caused trouble at high-profile events including the anti-capitalist May Day marches, G8 protests and Reclaim the Streets demos in the past decade.
Officers plan to tackle them using the same tactics employed against football hooligans.
Intelligence officers in uniform will stalk the ringleaders on the eve of the direct action protests planned for this weekend.”
PLANE HIJACK ATTEMPT.
Updating this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1882963/posts
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UPDATE:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-08/18/content_6032980.htm
“Turkish passenger plane hijacked”
(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-18 15:33
ISTANBUL, Turkey -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Most of the passengers managed to escape from the rear exit of the plane while the hijackers were releasing the women from the front exit, one passenger told the private Turkish television station NTV.
Doganer said only crew and “a small number” of passengers were left on board. CNN-Turk television said two crew — possibly the pilots — and nine passengers were still inside.
It was not clear how many hijackers were on board. The passenger, who was not identified, said the hijackers were speaking Arabic among themselves.
Doganer said there were 136 passengers on board when the plane left Ercan airport in northern Cyprus.”
10 posted on 08/18/2007 1:03:36 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6952594.stm
Last Updated: Saturday, 18 August 2007, 07:30 GMT 08:30 UK
“Hijack attempt on Turkish plane”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “It is thought the hijackers do not possess weapons, but appear to carry what is thought to be a bomb, Mr Doganer told Turkish TV.
Passengers told local TV that the hijackers were tall, dark skinned, apparently speaking Arabic and claiming to be from al-Qaeda.”
11 posted on 08/18/2007 1:13:43 AM PDT by Cindy
HIJACK UPDATE:
Suspect arrested.
http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=42990
“Four held in Jewish cemetery vandalism”
17 August 2007
BERLIN (AP) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Three of the four men admitted to knocking over more than 70 gravestones at the cemetery in Ihringen, near the French border, on Aug. 11, police in Freiburg said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The men were aged between 15 and 28 and their identities were not revealed.”
August 16, 2007
Note: The folloiwing text is a quote:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2007/August/07_crm_619.html
Massachusetts Man Who Helped Carry Out WWII Nazi
Mass Murder Of Jews In Poland Is Ordered Deported
WASHINGTON – An immigration judge in Boston has ordered the removal of Vladas Zajanckauskas, a Sutton, Mass., man who served during World War II in a notorious Nazi unit that took part in the brutal liquidation of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto in German-occupied Poland, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher for the Criminal Division announced today.
Immigration Judge Wayne R. Iskra ordered Zajanckauskas removed to his native Lithuania. In a 41-page decision, the judge found that Zajanckauskas served as a non-commissioned officer at the SS-operated base and training camp in Trawniki, Poland, where he and other men “were trained to assist in all aspects of Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to murder all Jews in Poland.” Judge Iskra ruled that Zajanckauskas participated in Nazi-sponsored persecution at Trawniki and in Warsaw when he was deployed there by the SS with other “Trawniki men” to take part in the liquidation of the Jewish Ghetto during Operation Reinhard.
In his decision, Judge Iskra noted that Zajanckauskas “admitted that Trawniki men sent to Warsaw stood in the cordon to prevent Jews from escaping, guarded the transit square where captured Jews awaited transportation to labor and concentration camps, conducted house-to-house searches for hidden Jews, skirmished with resistance fighters, and took part in the shooting of some captured Jews.” Members of Zajanckauskas’ own sub-unit, in which he was “one of the top-ranked individuals,” committed “terrible crimes,” including murder and rape, the judge found. Prior to the brutal April-May 1943 operation, the Warsaw Ghetto held about 40,000 Jews. During the operation, about 7,000 of the ghetto inhabitants were sent to be gassed at the Treblinka extermination camp, thousands more died in the fighting, and the rest were sent to various Nazi concentration camps and forced labor camps.
Zajanckauskas, who was born in Lithuania in 1915, immigrated to the United States from Austria in February 1950 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1956.
Zajanckauskas’ U.S. citizenship was revoked by a federal district court judge in Boston in 2005 on the basis that he had obtained his U.S. visa by falsely telling U.S. officials that he had been a farmer in Lithuania until 1944. The denaturalization and removal cases were investigated and prosecuted by the Criminal Division’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
“Vladas Zajanckauskas was an accomplice in Nazi mass murder,” said OSI Director Eli M. Rosenbaum. “Had he told the truth after the war, he never would have been permitted to enter this country.”
The removal case was litigated by OSI trial attorneys William H. Kenety, Stephen Paskey and Edgar Chen, and it is a result of OSI’s continuing efforts to identify, investigate and take legal action against participants in Nazi persecution who reside in the United States. Since OSI began operations in 1979, it has won cases against 105 individuals who participated in Nazi crimes of persecution. In addition, attempts by more than 175 individuals implicated in wartime Axis crimes to enter the United States have been thwarted as a result of OSI’s “Watch List” program, which is enforced in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Off Topic, but fyi.
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=1224408
(AP)
“China Begins Building New Nuclear Plant”
August 18, 2007 - 2:37am
BEIJING (AP) -
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Co. signed agreements in July to sell four nuclear power plants to China and hand over technology to make its newest reactor.
The deal is expected to make Westinghouse’s third-generation AP1000 reactors the basis of China’s future efforts to develop commercial nuclear power technology.”
Thanks for the ping.
I hope we check the inbound trucks to the US as well.
In the old days Mexico used to charge a tariff/bribe money if you brought too much in. We used to go down to a house on the beach, in a time when it was reasonably safe, with enough belongings to stay several months in the summer.
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d49d435e-76cf-439d-91be-780802edc962&k=57802
Number of organized crime groups up
Meagan Fitzpatrick, CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, August 17, 2007
Canadian police are tackling more organized crime this year than last, statistics released Friday reveal.
In its annual report on the state of organized crime, the RCMP said the number of gangs operating in 2007 jumped to 950 from 800 in 2006.
“This is significant and reinforces our commitment to work together to detect, reduce, and prevent organized crime in Canada,” William Elliott, the newly named RCMP commissioner, said at a news conference in Calgary. “The good news is that we’re better at identifying these groups than ever before.”
The higher number of gangs counted this year could be a result of more accurate reporting of their existence and better intelligence about their activities, the report explained. Elliott said even further intelligence would reveal whether organized crime is really more rampant than before.
But he stressed that, while this year’s gang numbers are up, progress is being made in fighting organized crime.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882982/posts
Five Men Indicted In Connection With Identity Theft Ring
NY1 ^ | August 16, 2007 | Staff
Posted on 08/18/2007 4:26:56 AM PDT by csvset
The Manhattan district attorney indicted five men Thursday for allegedly being part of an identity theft ring that stole more than a million dollars from wealthy citizens.
Prosecutors say the ring leader was Igor Klopov, 24, from Russia.
Klopov’s accused of targeting people’s home equity line of credit accounts. He was arrested in New York in May when he came to pick up $7 million in gold from an undercover investigator.
He allegedly picked his victims from the Forbes 400 list and used his home computer to get property records and mortgage information off the Internet.
“There is a great deal of sensitive information readily accessible by cyber criminals on the Internet and individuals and financial institutions need to be extremely careful to know who they are dealing with,” said Manhattan Chief Assistant District Attorney Jim Kindler.
Four other members of the ring were also arrested Thursday in Michigan, Florida, Texas and Kentucky. Prosecutors say they were plotting to steal another $10 million and could spend up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1115184
“14-yr-old pregnant girl burnt alive”
Vaishali Balajiwale
Monday, August 13, 2007 08:58 IST
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NASHIK: A teenaged pregnant girl, who was set afire by four miscreants in Bhusawal, succumbed to her injuries at the Jalgaon Civil Hospital on Sunday.
Fourteen-year-old girl Maryam (name changed), in her dying declaration to the police, stated that while Babar Soma Irani, Shiri Babar Irani and Talip Babar Irani held her hands and poured kerosene on her body, the man whose child she was carrying, Babakar Feroz Irani, set her on fire. She was alone in the house at that time.”
Fyi Only.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/131817
M
3 Elul 5767, August 17, ‘07
“El Al Flight From NYC Does U-Turn”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “(IsraelNN.com) An El Al flight that took off from New York City to Israel Friday morning returned to Kennedy Airport after a technical malfunction was discovered on the plane.”
UPDATE - HIJACKING
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1882963/posts?page=60#60
UPDATE:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ECAB5769-3461-47A6-8F17-49B574F39849.htm
“Turkish hijack ends peacefully”
The Atlas Jet aircraft landed
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But Osman Gunes, the Turkish interior minister, said the men were of Turkish and Syrian nationality.
Gunes said: “One of them, Mehmet Resat Ozlu, is a citizen of the Turkish Republic. The other... holds a Syrian passport, but is probably a person of Palestinian origin.”
60 posted on 08/18/2007 5:09:57 AM PDT by Cindy
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Saturday, August 18, 2007 at 13:42
“Turkish plane hijacking drama ends peacefully”
Istanbul (dpa) -
ARTILCE SNIPPET: “The plane had taken off from Ercan in Northern Cyprus on a flight destined for Istanbul when the hijacking took place.
Turkish officials said the hijackers were a Turk, Mehmet Ozlu, and a Syrian national, Muhammad Asis Maliki, who initially had been identified in media reports as a Palestinian.”
61 posted on 08/18/2007 5:13:14 AM PDT by Cindy
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