Posted on 08/01/2007 10:32:19 PM PDT by nwctwx
You’re very welcome milford.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889617/posts
“Manson follower LESLIE VAN HOUTEN denied parole 18th time”
Herald Tribune ^ | August 31, 2007
Posted on 08/31/2007 4:29:24 PM PDT by Lizavetta
CORONA, Calif.
Thanks to F15 Eagle for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889496/posts
“Saudis less trusting of America these days”
MSNBC TV ^ | 08/31/2007 | By Lt. Col. Rick Francona Military analyst
Posted on 08/31/2007 11:29:30 AM PDT by F15Eagle
TGIF....shaking my head.
Correction in post no. 2072 — the other link should be
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=2069#2069
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47247
“Congressional Delegation’s C-130 Takes Evasive Action”
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BAGHDAD, Aug. 31, 2007 – The crew of a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft transporting visiting members of Congress took evasive measures yesterday when they observed surface-to-air fire upon departure from Baghdad International Airport, military officials reported.”
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47253
Coalition Forces Kill Five Terrorists, Detain 37
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2007 – Five terrorists were killed and 37 suspected terrorists were detained today as coalition forces continued to put pressure on al Qaeda’s operations in Iraq.
Military officials reported the following details of today’s operations:
— In the Tigris River Valley, coalition forces targeted an al Qaeda leader southwest of Balad who orders, finances and carries out attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces in Salah ad Din province. Reports indicated this leader recently assumed a position coordinating terrorist logistics between Baghdad and Mosul, and may have been trying to obtain chemical weapons for use in attacks against coalition forces. After ground forces secured the target building, they received small-arms fire from a nearby building. Coalition forces responded in self-defense and returned fire, killing five armed terrorists. Four additional suspected terrorists were detained.
— In the New Baghdad District of eastern Baghdad, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers captured 24 suspected insurgents during a clearing operation. The operation, carried out by soldiers of Company D, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, was part of ongoing efforts to clear insurgent strongholds in the area. The 24 suspects were being held for questioning.
— In the northern city of Bayji, coalition forces captured the alleged administrative emir of Haditha, who was believed to be residing in Bayji because of Iraqi and coalition forces’ pressure on al Qaeda in Haditha. Two other suspected terrorists were detained as well.
— In southern Baghdad, coalition forces captured a suspected key leader in that city’s car-bombing network. Reports indicate the individual had moved into the leadership position after his predecessor was detained in a June 10 operation and the previous leader was detained May 29. Several other leaders in this network were either killed or captured in the past two months. Coalition forces also detained five other suspected terrorists during the raid.
— During operations to locate al Qaeda safe houses north of Tarmiyah, coalition forces found a building containing homemade explosives and rigged with command detonation wires. An explosives team with the ground forces safely destroyed the materials on site.
“Al Qaeda in Iraq is feeling the pressure from our operations to disrupt their nefarious activities,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “We will continue to hunt the terrorists who seek to thwart Iraq’s progress.”
In operations over the past two days:
— Iraqi special operations forces and Iraqi security forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisors, detained 11 members of the Jaysh al Mahdi militia, including a company commander, during separate operations Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 in Karbala. Intelligence indicated that one of the detained Shiia extremists is linked to the Aug. 22 assassination of the mayor of Husaniyah. During the operations, the forces received enemy small-arms fire and returned proportional fire, killing one enemy fighter and wounding another. The wounded individual was evacuated to a medical facility for treatment. No Iraqi or U.S. Special Forces members were injured during the operations.
— Iraqi special operations forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisors, detained a suspected al Qaeda emir and a terrorist cell member during an operation Aug. 30 in Baghdad. Reports indicate the emir has directed and conducted kidnappings and murders of local nationals. The Sunni extremist is believed to have participated in indirect-fire attacks against local citizens. The suspects are being detained for questioning for their involvement in the injury and death of Iraqi citizens and other criminal activity.
— Marines from Regimental Combat Team 6 observed and engaged an armed group of al Qaeda terrorists killing 12 Iraqis and destroying two vehicles near the town of Karmah on Aug. 29. A group of three men was seen loading objects into a truck northeast of Fallujah, in an area known to be a weapons cache site. A second group of four men arrived in another truck, followed by a third group of six men on foot. A team of Marines was dispatched to better observe the scene and a third cargo truck carrying three men waving weapons and wearing ski masks approached the group a few moments later. The Marines called for air support and jets dropped two precision-guided bombs, destroying the first two cargo trucks. Marines called for artillery fire on the dismounted enemy personnel immediately following the air attack. Twelve members of al Qaeda were found dead upon investigation of the scene. Numerous weapons and roadside bomb-making materials also were found. All unexploded ordnance was removed from the scene and transported to a coalition base for investigation and disposal.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47258
“President, Vice President Meet with Top Officials at Pentagon”
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2007
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47252
“Afghan Police Need Martial Skills to Engage Taliban, U.S. Officer Says”
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sIebdu5veI
www.youtube.com/user/dr0mer
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Previously
http://nevadalights.blogspot.com/2007/05/ny-martial-arts-expert-and-musician.html
Monday, May 28, 2007
“NY Martial Arts Expert And Musician Pleads Guilty To Conspiring To Help Al-Qaida”
AP - 4/4/2007 10:26 PM - Updated 4/4/2007 10:27 PM
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http://www.umaryland.edu/healthsecurity/docs/usshahsabir52705.pdf
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47256
Failed Attack Leaves 12 Taliban Dead in Afghanistan
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31, 2007 – Afghan national security forces, advised by coalition forces, defeated an insurgent attack yesterday near Regay Village on the east side of the Musa Qalah Wadi in Afghanistan’s Helmand province.
The combined force was on a combat patrol when insurgents attacked from multiple compounds and trenches using small-arms fire, 82 mm mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
The Afghan forces repelled the attack with accurate small-arms fire and artillery. When the insurgents reinforced their fighting positions with additional fighters, Afghan forces requested coalition close-air support. Coalition aircraft performed precision air strikes on the insurgents, killing a number of fighters and destroying a truck that was being used as reinforcement transport. Several more insurgents were killed by direct fire during the engagement.
“The Taliban have continued to attack the Afghan national security forces and coalition forces,” said Army Capt. Vanessa R. Bowman, a Combined Joint Task Force 82 spokeswoman. “The insurgents in the Musa Qalah area are becoming desperate as the (Afghan) and coalition forces continue to find, fix and destroy them along with their (improvised explosive device) facilities and illegal drug labs.”
In other operations in Afghanistan this week:
— A coalition-contracted helicopter suffered minor damage Aug. 29 when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade while flying over the Kamdesh district in Nuristan province. The aircraft was able to land safely and none of the crew was hurt in the incident. Coalition forces contract private companies to deliver logistical supplies throughout the rugged eastern-Afghanistan countryside. An investigation into the incident is under way.
— Afghan national security forces, assisted by coalition forces, found and destroyed an insurgent-run drug lab after a brief fight Aug. 29 with Taliban fighters in Khyajehdad Village in the Musa Qalah district of Helmand province. The opium lab was the second of its kind found in a four-day period in the Musa Qalah area. Afghan and coalition forces have been conducting combat patrols in the region for the past week. No Afghan or coalition forces or non-combatants were killed or injured in the operation.
“The Taliban simultaneously lose funding and demonstrate their reprobate lawlessness when (Afghan security forces) discover and destroy their illegal narcotics facilities,” Bowman said. Coalition and Afghan forces will continue to work as a team to eliminate insurgent fighters and their sources of funding, “which threaten peace and stability in Afghanistan,” she added.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 82 news releases.
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Terror Calls Mexico
IBD ^ | August 31, 2007
Posted on 08/31/2007 5:32:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
War On Terror: Mexico may think its differences with the U.S. and status as a nonaligned country somehow shield it from the global war on terror....
Nearly 11,000 people were evacuated Thursday from Torre Mayor, Mexico City’s tallest, ritziest tower, after a terrorist called in a car bomb. The device, which Mexican investigators called “artesanal,” was easily dismantled. But the unprecedented evacuation echoed the disruptions Manhattan has seen as an al-Qaida target since 1993.
An obscure group called EPR claimed credit the next day, but it doesn’t seem to be linked with global terrorist networks.There’s reason to worry, however, that it will be.
EPR’s strategy resembles al-Qaida’s in that the target wasn’t some quaint adobe, but rather Mexico’s starkest symbol of global capitalism, its equivalent of New York’s World Trade Center.
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Police technicians have detonated three improvised explosive devices at Toronto's Leslie Street Spit after finding the bombs in the trunk of a car. Southbound lanes of the Don Valley Parkway and all lanes of the Gardiner Expressway -- both major arteries in and out of the city's downtown core -- were reopened after police shut down traffic to transport the explosives. At a news conference Friday afternoon, Deputy Police Chief Tony Warr said the three bombs were each about 35 centimetres long.
Police say the three explosives are linked to the arrest of a 37-year-old man taken into custody Thursday night. The man is the subject of an ongoing investigation into letter bombs mailed to two residences in Toronto and one in Guelph. The bombs were discovered in the trunk of the man's silver sedan, Warr confirmed at an earlier news conference Friday morning. The car was parked at an Esso gas station near Overlea Boulevard near Thorncliffe Park Drive.
Warr said police believe the three letter bomb incidents and the explosives found in the vehicle, are linked. The motive behind the letter bombs appears to be personal between the suspect and the recipients, Warr said. Police have identified the man arrested on Thursday night as Adel Arnaout.
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Good catch Oorang.
Thank you.
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“cair-WA: Release of Ferry Photos Raises ‘Fear Factor’”
cair ^ | August 27, 2007 | cair
Posted on 08/31/2007 10:46:24 PM PDT by mdittmar
Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this column:
http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2007/0831.html
Weekly Column - 08.31.2007
“ECONOMIC WARFARE IN THE FINAL PHASE”
by J. R. Nyquist
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889750/posts
“The Terrorist Round-up for September 1, 2007”
Posted on 08/31/2007 11:04:07 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889735/posts
“Former Israeli prisoner lands in Montreal”
CanWest News Service ^ | August 31, 2007 | CanWest News Service
Posted on 08/31/2007 9:42:48 PM PDT by mdittmar
MONTREAL
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In 2005, the second secretary of the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, Ofir Gendelman, said Akkal was angered because a cousin had been killed by Israeli troops. Akkal came into contact with a Hamas official who urged him not to grieve but to get revenge. He was later trained to fire a gun in preparation for an assassination in North America, Gendelman said.
According to the Israelis, Akkal was to get a gun from a gang in Detroit, smuggle it into Canada and use it to shoot an Israeli VIP identified through the media.
Akkal, a Canadian citizen, has repeatedly professed his innocence, claiming he was coerced into signing a statement of guilt written in Hebrew, which he cannot read.
Akkal had lived in Canada since 1999 and returned to Gaza in 2003 to visit relatives and search for a wife.
He claimed through his Palestinian lawyer that during his prison term he had been beaten and subjected to sleep deprivation.
Akkal’s family said he would return to Windsor.”
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070831-terrorism-impact-US-travel.html
“Missile Attacks on Airliners Could Hurt U.S. More than 9/11”
By Chris Kjelgaard
Senior Editor, Aviation.com
posted: 31 August 2007
10:17 am ET
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