Threat Matrix: September 2007

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[nwctwx]

The Birth of al Qaedastan

In the year 2016, the world may find itself gloomily marking September 6 as the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan. The Emirate received de facto recognition when the Taliban used the name on the ceasefire agreement they signed with Pakistan on that day in 2006. If things go terribly wrong in the coming decade, they could come to rule a mountainous fragment of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The Emirate would be a nightmare state: Osama bin Laden as sultan, Ayman al Zawahiri as vizier, and Mullah Omar the spiritual leader. An economy built on smuggling and heroin. Primary export: terrorism. Welcome to ‘Al Qaedastan’.

Analysts say the rise of a terrorist state straddling the rugged area between Pakistan and Afghanistan is now viable. The reason is a number of troubling trends. One, the revival of a Taliban firmly in the control of Al Qaeda. Two, the seeming inability of either Kabul or Islamabad to defeat the new threat militarily. Three, and the most striking, the Taliban’s systematic supplanting of the traditional tribal leadership in the area. Full story...

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[KylaStarr]

LOL! Nahhh... we’re building multi million dollar homes that if the cloud cover is perfect, the wind blows correctly, you squint really really really hard, and use your imagination a bit, you can swear you see the coast.

But do we have a decent library, or movie theater??? Nooooo.. ARGHHH!!

[thecabal]

Did any of you listen to Ahmadinejad’s speech at the UN? Opened wishing for the return of the Mahdi. Three differernt times he gave the ol’ “convert or die”. Said he was going to flat-out proliferate their nuke technology to their so-called Non Aligned buddies. Threatened the destruction of the Great Satan. Seemed a bit close to a declaration of war to me. Also seemed like he was asking for like-minded countries to join him against the US and Israel. Given Chavez’s “inshallah” during his press conference at the UN last year, and the meeting with Ahmadinejad at the same time, I’m wondering if the dots are starting to be connected.

[KylaStarr]

I have not listened yet. Had an unexpected trip to the doctor today that tied me up for quite a while so I missed it.

.. heading over to the main thread to see if perhaps there’s a link

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jordan

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http://www.dailymotion.com/khilafahist/video/x325jb_mujahideen-in-jordan_news
“Mujahideen in Jordan”
(September 25, 2007)

[Cindy]

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47569

“Appeals Court Rules Military Judge Has Jurisdiction Authority in Gitmo Case”

By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2007

[Oorang]

Thanks very much Kyla. The way the MSM works you will probably not hear another word about it. *sigh*

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/site/html/search.asp?isSearch=yes&isT8=yes&searchText=T90&pid=108&sid=13&preview=
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ahmadinejad
http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/jwsearch.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=ahmadinejad
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
http://memritv.org/subject/en/121.htm
http://www.memri.org/iran.html

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http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8506290113

News number: 8506290113
10:47 | 2006-09-20

POLITICAL

“Text of President’s Speech at 61st UN General Assembly Meeting”

SNIPPET: “TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- What follows is the full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the inaugural session of the 61st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday.”

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http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=pundital

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm6zN_hQE1o
(September 25, 2007)

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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2006/iran-060920-irna02.htm

“President Ahmadinejad’s address at UNGA”

(IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
United Nations, New York, Sept 20, 2006, IRNA
UNGA-Ahmadinejad-Speech)

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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/news/iran/2005/iran-050918-irna02.htm

“Full text of President Ahmadinejad’s speech at General Assembly
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency”
(United Nations, New York, Sept 17 2005, IRNA
Iran-UN-President)

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http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/07.09.25.SweethNoth-X.gif
(September 26, 2007)

http://www.coxandforkum.com

[Oorang]

I did watch most of it and my take was pretty much like yours. It honestly didn’t surprise me as the bluster and big talk seems to be his standard mo. That’s not to say it doesn’t concern me.

I think he will antagonize and push to start a war as he believes he has been chosen by his god to help in bringing back the mahdi. All just my speculation on his delusional mindset of course.

[Oorang]

Yet another take on the airplane incident, with a few "new and improved" details:

Panama Arrests Syrians On Cuban Flight

[Oorang]

ANALYST ON "DIRTY BOMB" THREAT BY ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS
9/25/07

Kyrgyz analyst Ulan Kankor looks into reports which say that international terrorists are allegedly moving to Central Asia and probably to Kyrgyzstan’s Dzhalal-Abad Region because it has many uranium damps left from the Soviet era. He also highlights the recent session of the Kyrgyz Security Council to which the official Kyrgyz clergy were reportedly invited. Kankor suggests that the authorities want to initiate closer cooperation with the clergy to prevent the spread of radicalism in the country. The following is an excerpt from Ulan Kankor’s article "Will Bin Ladin get his residence permit in Dzhalal-Abad?", published by the Kyrgyz newspaper Belyy Parokhod on 19 September; subheadings as published:

It is predicted that there will be a "Fergana Hiroshima" in Central Asia. The head of the CIS antiterrorism centre, Andrey Novikov, said the other day that secret services had obtained information that terrorists were moving to the borders of Central Asia states. The terrorists are seeking ways of creating weapons of mass destruction there. They are interested in the material for creating the so-called "dirty bombs". According to intelligence officers, the terrorists are planning to get the filling for their atomic bombs at the uranium mines. These kinds of mines, by the way, also exist in our country.

Excerpted

http://www.eurasianet.org/posts/092507cab.shtml

[Oorang]

Serbia: Five more Wahabis 'probed for terrorist activities'
25 Sept. 2007

Belgrade – A special Belgrade prosecutor for terrorism and organised crime on Tuesday ordered an investigation of five members of the fundamentalist Islamic Wahabi movement suspected of planning terrorist acts.

The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that police arrested Nedzad and Dzavid Bulic, Adis Muric and Enes Mujanovic from the southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar and Bajram Aslani from the nearby Kosovo town of Kosovska Mitrovica. Only ten days ago the prosecutors indicted another 15 members of the Wahabi movement who they said were also suspected of planning terrorist acts "with the same goal and in the same part of Serbian territory."

"But the investigation should show whether their activities were coordinated," the prosecutor's office statement said.

Although still a small group, Wahabis, are increasingly seen by officials and observers as a growing threat to the Balkans. Wahabism originated in the Middle East in the early 18th century and preaches a 'pure Islam'. It advocates religious intolerance towards other religious groups, including moderate Muslims. Wahabis first appeared in the Balkans during Bosnia's 1992-1995 civil war when thousands of mujahadeen fighters from Islamic countries came to fight on the side of local Muslims. Visibly identifiable by their beards and ankle-length trousers many have remained in the country since the war, and according to foreign intelligence sources have been indoctrinating local youths and even operating terrorist training camps.

Earlier this year, police arrested seven suspected militants in southern Serbia and uncovered a radical Islamist training camp and weapons cache. As part of a crackdown on radical Islamists, Serbian police in March raided a Wahabi training camp in a mountain near Novi Pazar, in Serbia's southern Sandjak region, populated predominantly by Muslims. Militants at the camp were planning an attack on local Muslims, according to Serbian security officials.

Police arrested four suspected Islamist militants during the raid, carried out on 17 March, and a further two on 19 March. They also discovered an underground arsenal of weapons at the secluded camp, including rocket-propelled grenades, 10 kilogrammes of plastic explosives and automatic assault rifles. Those arrested in the raid are all from Novi Pazar, the commercial center of the Sandzak region, which borders Serbia’s breakaway Muslim-majority province of Kosovo.

Tensions between Wahabis and mainstream Muslims have been simmering as Wahabis seek to gain influence in Bosnia-Heregovina and also in Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo. Several clashes have been reported in Bosnia and in Sandzak between Wahabis and moderate Muslims, including in a shootout in Novi Pazar last November in which several people were injured.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1346095576

[Oorang]

Spy chief: Al-Qaeda training European recruits to attack U.S.
September 25, 2007

WASHINGTON – Al-Qaeda continues to recruit Europeans for explosives training in Pakistan because Europeans can more easily enter the United States without a visa, the nation's top intelligence officer said Tuesday. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said European al-Qaeda recruits in the border region of Pakistan are being trained to use commercially available substances to make explosives, and they may be able to carry out an attack on U.S. territory.

McConnell also said he worried that Osama bin Laden's recent video and audio releases may be a signal to terrorist cells to carry out operations, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “That's unusual. He had been absent from airwaves over the last year. Our concern is that's a signal,” McConnell said. “It just causes us to be concerned and vigilant.”

Europeans are being recruited specifically because they generally do not need visas to enter the United States, he said. “Purposely recruiting an operative from Europe gives them an extra edge into getting an operative, or two or three, into the country with the ability to carry out an attack that might be reminiscent of 9/11,” he said.

Excerpted

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20070925-1226-terrorthreat.html

Algeria: Police uncover terrorist cell linked to al-Qaeda
25 Sept. 2007

Algiers - Algerian police have uncovered an alleged terrorist support group accused of aiding al-Qaeda in Lakhdariya, in the remote northern region of Cabilia. According to the Algerian daily, 'el-Khabar', police arrested seven people who reportedly provided money, food and medicine to the al-Qaeda cell hiding in the mountains of the region.

Investigations began after the arrest of a hunter who was discovered wandering in the woods of Lakhdariya. The man was reported to be carrying a load of medicines to terrorists operating on the border of Boumerdes province. The newspaper said during interrogations the man admitted taking the medicines to the leader of a local cell of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb called Khalidi. He had apparently been injured while trying to escape an army attack.

The other six members of a group were aged between 20 and 40 years old and were said to be trading goods to help the terrorists survive. The Lakhdariya al-Qaeda cell is the one allegedly responsible for last week's suicide attack in the town. Algeria's interior ministry said nine people, including an Italian and two French, were injured in the bombing. In an "audio statement" posted on the Internet, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said one of its militants carried out the Lakhdariya attack with a car laden with "more than 250 kilos (550 pounds) of explosives." Lakhdaria lies some 75 km southeast of Algiers.

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.1345734052

Islamist 'leader' wants revolution
September 25, 2007

The mysterious sheik behind the Australian chapter of Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has revealed the organisation's support for military coups and revolutions to overthrow non-Muslim governments worldwide. Ismail Al Wahwah, who was little known until last month when he was banned from a Hizb ut-Tahrir conference in Indonesia, spoke out on an Arabic radio program that revealed him as the "active member" of the group in Australia.

In an interview on SBS radio last month, he attacked the West's lack of values and backed the use of suicide bombings in Iraq and Palestine, even if they killed Australians. "I say any occupied people have the responsibility to defend their country," he told SBS's Arabic radio program. "The victim should not be asked how he is defending himself."

Sheik Wahwah is understood to be the unofficial leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Australia. The Australian has obtained the first pictures of the man widely known in the Muslim community as Abu Anas. Hizb ut-Tahrir's media spokesman, Wassim Doureihi, denied the sheik was the group's leader in Australia, saying Sheik Wahwah was a senior member and that his brother, Ashraf, a civil engineer at North Sydney Council, was the official leader. But Sheik Wahwah is sent to address senior members of the Islamic community in Sydney on behalf of Hizb ut-Tahrir, and he was Australia's representative for the Indonesian conference. On the radio program, he was introduced as the "active member" of the party - a statement he did not correct.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a secretive organisation known as the Party of Islamic Liberation, which advocates the destruction of Western civilisation and the overthrow of governments and their replacement by Islamic rule. The group is banned in Europe, China and Saudi Arabia, but remains legal in Britain and Australia, actively pushing the idea of a Muslim rule.

Excerpted

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,22482616-949,00.html

[callmejoe]

>>>McConnell also said he worried that Osama bin Laden’s recent video and audio releases may be a signal to terrorist cells to carry out operations, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “That’s unusual. He had been absent from airwaves over the last year. Our concern is that’s a signal,” McConnell said. “It just causes us to be concerned and vigilant.”<<<

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/books/review/06filkins.html?pagewanted=print

. . . Wright takes the title of his book from the fourth sura of the Koran, which bin Laden repeated three times in a speech videotaped just as the hijackers were preparing to fly. The video was found later, on a computer in Hamburg. “Wherever you are, death will find you, Even in the looming tower.”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iqF9f-Hrq7q4CWNYolhPOUxn-k7A

Pakistan Derides Threat From Bin Laden
By STEPHEN GRAHAM –

(excerpted)

. . .But a Pakistani intelligence official said authorities had to take the statement seriously — a similar message from al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri preceded twin attempts on Musharraf’s life in December 2003. The official, who is not authorized to speak to the media, wouldn’t discuss whether the security ring around Musharraf would be tightened.

Bin Laden’s message was his third this month after a long quiet and came in a flurry of al-Qaida propaganda marking the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. . .

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/202820.php

Iran’s president at Columbia University - a transcript
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.24.2007

(excerpt)

MR. COATSWORTH: Which was posed by President Bollinger earlier and comes from a number of other students. Why is your government providing aid to terrorists? Will you stop doing so and permit international monitoring to certify that you have stopped?

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, I want to pose a question here to you.

If someone comes and explodes bombs around you, threatens your president, members of the administration, kills the members of the Senate or Congress, how would you treat them?

Would you award them or would you name them a terrorist group?

Well, it’s clear. You would call them a terrorist.

My dear friends, the Iranian nation is a victim of terrorism. For — 26 years ago, where I work, close to where I work, in a terrorist operation, the elected president of the Iranian nation and the elected prime minister of Iran lost their lives in a bomb explosion. They turned into ashes.

A month later, in another terrorist operation, 72 members of our parliament and highest ranking officials, including four ministers and eight deputy ministers, bodies were shattered into pieces as a result of terrorist attacks. Within six months, over 4,000 Iranians lost their lives, assassinated by terrorist groups, all this carried out by the hand of one single terrorist group.

Regretfully that same terrorist group, now, today, in your country, is being — operating under the support of the U.S. administration, working freely, distributing declarations freely.

And their camps in Iraq are supported by the U.S. government.

They’re secured by the U.S. government. . .

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=393#393

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1890027/posts?page=949#949

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859319/posts?page=1165#1165

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875105/posts?page=1338#1338

http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370095

[callmejoe]

>>>Referring to the approaching World Qods Day, the spokesman stressed, “Supporters of the Zionist regime will definitely receive the final response for their support on that day.”<<<

October 5 = 23 Ramadan (Night of Destiny/Qods Day/Judgment Day)

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=153322

Intl. Qods Day to be observed worldwide on October 5 (excerpt)

TEHRAN (IRNA) — The International Qods Day will be observed on the 23rd day of the holy month of Ramadan (Friday, October 5).

The Coordination Council of the Islamic Propagation Organization (IPO) said in a statement that the International Qods Day will be held on the fourth Friday of the holy month. . .

[Oorang]

Thanks much Joe. Interesting times.

[Oorang]

The Islamist Trojan Horse
September 20, 2007

"We're fighting them there, so we don't have to fight them here" has become a hymn for the American right and an abominable lie to the left. But drowned out by all the noise is the fact that "they" are here already, having landed a long time ago and gotten very busy indeed constructing the American wing of jihad.

Have you watched the Arabic Channel, also known as TAC, which serves the New York region? Probably not, as most New Yorkers neither understand nor speak Arabic. But if you are among the estimated 1 million viewers — legal and illegal, new and old Arabic-speaking immigrants to the tri-state area — who tune in daily to Channel 507 on Time Warner Cable, this is what you can get:

• A daily dose of Islamic jurisprudence from an Egyptian sheik, Amr Khaled, who comes direct from Cairo as TAC's prime advocate of "peaceful jihad," on how the duty of every Arab-American is to become first, second, and only a member of the Muslim Ummah.

• A nightly helping of Syria's CNN-style digest of the world, sent fresh from a Damascus studio where the Iraq war is nothing but an American butchery of Arabs, and the Zionist regime in Jerusalem is just biding its time until it gets what it deserves.

Excerpted

http://www.nysun.com/article/63064

[Cindy]

Thank you Oorang.

So, 6 Syrians, 1 Cuban and “some” utensils were missing, but this was not a hijacking attempt.

Standing by with my Happy Meal waiting the next update.

[Cindy]

Thanks Oorang.
That’s interesting.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=newyork
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=ny

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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/09/why_is_new_yorks_governor_invi.php

“Why Is New York’s Governor Inviting Terrorists to Get a NY Drivers License?”
By Michael Cutler
(September 25, 2007)

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070922/NATION/109220062/1001

Page 1 of 2
“N.Y. to allow illegals to drive”
By Stephen Dinan
September 22, 2007

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=gwot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=wot

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018258.php

September 25, 2007
“Message to PC police: We have a responsibility to monitor U.S. Mosques”

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stepping back in time...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63D1C99A-7D1B-43F4-9E87-CB9F8A24FBBA

“Should the Police Monitor Public Meetings in Mosques?”
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, March 18, 2003