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Posted on 10/02/2007 7:01:23 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=47666
Coalition Forces Detain 14 Suspects, Kill Six Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2007 – Coalition forces killed six terrorists and captured 14 in operations over the past three days in central and northern Iraq, officials reported.
Coalition forces captured two wanted terrorists and detained an additional 10 suspects during operations today. In Baghdad, coalition forces captured an associate of al Qaeda in Iraq believed to be a foreign terrorist facilitator with ties to terrorist safe houses in the region.
Coalition forces detained seven suspected terrorists during two coordinated operations along the Tigris River Valley. West of Samarra, ground forces targeted alleged associates of an al Qaeda in Iraq group responsible for attacks in and around Huwaish. Intelligence reports indicate that one of the individuals has ties to an al Qaeda in Iraq senior leader and his security network and has held meetings with numerous terrorists in the target area. The ground force captured one wanted individual and detained two additional suspects on site.
In another operation west of Tarmiyah, coalition forces targeted an alleged associate of Abu Usama al-Tunisi, the former emir of the southern belt who was killed during an operation Sept. 25. The targeted individual is believed to be involved in foreign terrorist facilitation in Tarmiyah and Taji. The ground force detained four suspected terrorists on site without incident.
Farther north, coalition forces conducted an operation targeting an alleged al Qaeda in Iraq senior leader in Kirkuk. Intelligence reports also indicate that the targeted individual has numerous connections to al Qaeda in Iraq members operating in Mosul. The ground force detained two suspected terrorists on site in Kirkuk. Another two suspects were detained in Mosul during an operation targeting an associate of al Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders in the city.
“We’re not waiting for al Qaeda to strike, we’re going after them where they hide,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman. “These operations are examples of the continued success we’re having against al Qaeda in Iraq and the foreign terrorists they facilitate.”
In other operations, coalition forces killed six terrorists and detained two suspects Oct. 1 and yesterday in the central part of the country.
West of Balad yesterday, coalition forces conducted an operation targeting associates of an al Qaeda in Iraq member believed to be the key communications link between senior leaders of al Qaeda and al Qaeda in Iraq. When the ground force approached the target, they were engaged by an armed man who emerged from a vehicle. Coalition forces returned fire, killing two terrorists and igniting the vehicle. The ground force also detained one suspect on site.
Early Oct. 1, coalition forces discovered three men attempting to reseed improvised explosive devices in an area where the ground force had previously destroyed several IEDs. Perceiving hostile intent, coalition forces engaged, killing one terrorist. The ground forces searched a nearby building in the same location and discovered two IED pressure plates, which were safely destroyed on site. That afternoon, surveillance elements witnessed three men emplacing several IEDs along a canal road. Coalition forces called an air strike on the target, killing the three terrorists.
During a two-day operation, coalition forces also discovered three significant weapons caches at a local school reported to be used as an al Qaeda in Iraq safe house and mortar team staging area. Numerous weapons and ammunition were found on site, to include mortar rounds, rocket-propelled grenades, pressure plates, blasting caps, rockets reported to be used as surface-to-air weapons in field expedient rocket launchers, hand grenades, IED-making material and a training manual. The ground force detained one suspect during the operation.
“Successful operations like these will assist the Iraqi people in their reconciliation efforts,” Danielson said. “We will continue dismantling al Qaeda so Iraqis can regain control of their villages.”
In Iraq operations Sept. 30:
— Iraqi security forces with U.S. Special Forces advisors detained four suspected extremists in two separate operations in southern Iraq. The individuals detained include a suspected “special groups” member in Nasariyah suspected of conducting IED and indirect-fire attacks against Iraqi and coalition forces, and an extremist in Hay Aamel who is responsible for multiple IED attacks on Iraqi and coalition forces. The assault force found several tools or devices that were used to conduct kidnapping and torture. The devices consisted of electric saws, drills and ropes. Three other suspicious men were detained for further questioning.
— Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers prevented a pair of roadside bombs from detonating in East Rashid. Troops from the 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment “Wolfpack,” spotted one IED consisting of two 60 mm mortar rounds with wire while conducting clearing operations in Doura. Soldiers with Company B, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment “Warriors,” also foiled a potential roadside-bomb strike when, acting on a tip from a resident, they entered a neighborhood and observed an individual acting suspiciously. After that person fled the area, a careful search of the vicinity uncovered a 155 mm artillery shell rigged to explode.
— Elements of 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, and Iraqi National Police conducted a raid east of Baghdad resulting in the detention of a high-value individual and three other suspected extremists. Soldiers from Troop A and the time-sensitive target platoon of 3-1 Cav. Regt. conducted the raid with their police partners to kill or capture the individual and to deny extremists sanctuary in the regiment’s area of operation. The individual is suspected of maintaining a leadership position in a local extremist network. Information obtained by the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team officials links the individual to indirect fire attacks against coalition forces and weapons smuggling.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
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More Evidence Shows Iran Directly Supports Iraq Insurgents
By David Mays
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, 2007 – Coalition forces are finding more evidence that Iran is directly supporting insurgents in Iraq, a U.S. military officer said today.
“We know that they do have official involvement,” Air Force Col. Donald Bacon explained during a conference call from Baghdad. “When you actually have captured Quds Force operatives and leaders in country and you know that they’re involved in it, … there is no doubt that there’s official involvement.”
Bacon is chief of strategy and plans for Multinational Force Iraq. He spoke with online journalists and “bloggers” shortly after the command announced the detention of Mahmud Farhadi, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force officer accused of providing weapons to Iraqi criminal elements.
“We would like to see Iran live up to their commitments that they have stated publicly … to help seek a secure and stable Iraq,” Bacon said. “When we find a Quds force operative that is instrumental to the shipment of these weapons and funding and training of these extremists, we have no choice but to fulfill our responsibilities.”
Farhadi heads the so-called “Zafr Command,” which trains and smuggles Iranian insurgents and weapons across the border into north-central Iraq, Bacon explained.
“The area they oversee here in Iraq is an area that we have found a lot of explosively formed penetrators. Those come from Iran,” Bacon said. “We’ve also had a lot of indirect-fire attacks involving weapons that come from Iran, missiles, in particular, and 240 mm rockets.”
Bacon also announced that a cache of 120 mm mortar rounds was discovered Sept. 30 in Baghdad.
“We know from our experts that they were of Iranian origin,” Bacon said. “You wouldn’t think so because it has English markings on there, but that’s the way they market them. And you can actually look at the Iranian Web site and actually look at the weapons that they market on their Web site, and they have the same kind of markings.”
These and other recently discovered stashed weapons belong to “rogue elements” associated with Shiia extremists, the colonel explained. “We’re finding these things all the time,” he said.
Bacon noted some success stories in deterring foreigners from assisting insurgents, including a particularly effective campaign involving a would-be Saudi suicide bomber who was badly burned in his unsuccessful attempt in Iraq.
“So he got captured. We gave him medical care,” Bacon explained. “Over time he’s been sent back to Saudi Arabia where he is now fairly visible on TV talking about: ‘Hey, this is wrong. I made a mistake.’”
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“Court ruling may put executions on indefinite hold”
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Third shooting on Highway 101 wounds man in San Jose
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/3/7 | John Coté
Posted on 10/03/2007 1:15:27 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN JOSE - Police are investigating a third shooting on Highway 101 in the past four days, but investigators said today they have no evidence the incidents are related.
The latest shooting happened about 3:15 a.m. today in San Jose near the Story Road exit, police said. The victim was driving south when what he described to investigators as an older model, silver luxury sedan with custom rims pulled alongside him.
The driver of the luxury sedan shot the man once in the leg as they approached the Story Road exit in central San Jose, police said.
The man was taken to the hospital. His injury is not considered life-threatening.
Authorities said the other two shootings on Highway 101 since Sunday appeared to involve different vehicles.
The first happened late Sunday, when 25-year-old Londell Wilson of San Mateo was shot to death while driving north in Burlingame.
Police are looking for three cars that were near Wilson’s Honda Civic when it hurtled off the freeway and overturned in a drainage ditch.
Those cars were a dark turquoise station wagon, a white four-door sedan and a red or burgundy four-door sedan, all with chrome rims, Burlingame police Sgt. Jim Ford said Tuesday.
Witnesses described the station wagon and the red sedan as “show quality,” cars that have been modified to compete in auto shows, Ford said.
“We’re interested in talking to the drivers,” Ford said Tuesday. “I would say they are vehicles of interest.”
One witness said the three cars were traveling at the same speed and “were all together” as they approached Wilson’s Honda, Ford said.
Exactly what happened next is unclear, but Wilson was shot once in the upper torso before his car crashed.
Investigators are exploring whether one of more of the vehicles may have boxed Wilson in...
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October 1, 2007
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http://sacramento.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/sc100107.htm
INDICTMENT AND ARREST FOR COMPUTER HACKING
SACRAMENTO — United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today the arrest of GREG KING, 21, of Fairfield, California, and the unsealing of an Indictment returned on September 27, 2007, charging KING with four counts of electronic transmission of codes to cause damage to protected computers.
This case is the product of an extensive investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to Assistant United States Attorney Matthew D. Segal, a prosecutor with the Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office who is handling the case, the Indictment alleges that KING used a “botnet” to attack computer servers. A botnet is a network of infected computers that, unbeknownst to their owners, are compromised by a hacker and programmed to respond to a hacker’s commands. The infected computers are referred to as “bots,” “zombies,” or “drones.” According to documents filed with the court, KING allegedly controlled over seven thousand such “bots” and used them to conduct multiple distributed denial of service attacks against websites of two businesses. In a distributed denial of service attack, a hacker directs a large number of infected computers (“bots”) to flood a victim computer with information and thereby disable the target computer. On the Internet, KING was also known as “Silenz, Silenz420, sZ, GregK, and Gregk707.”
When agents went to arrest KING at his residence this morning, KING went out the back door of the residence carrying a laptop computer, depositing it in the bushes in the backyard. Agents obtained a warrant to search KING’s backyard and seized the computer. KING was arrested and is expected to appear before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Sacramento at 2:00 p.m. today.
The maximum statutory penalty for a violation of transmission of damaging code to a protected computer is ten years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. However, the actual sentence will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables, and any applicable statutory sentencing factors.
The charges are only allegations and the defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
http://newyork.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/illegal%20payment100107.htm
“TEXAS OILMAN ENTERS MID-TRIAL GUILTY
PLEA TO CHARGES OF CONSPIRING TO MAKE ILLEGAL
PAYMENTS TO THE FORMER GOVERNEMNT OF IRAQ”
NEW YORK-
October 1, 2007
http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel07/gangcharges100107.htm
“FEDERAL RACKETEERING CHARGES FILED AGAINST CRIPS GANG MEMBERS IN WICHITA
First Federal Racketeering Case Filed in Kansas Charges a Wichita Street Gang with Making Murder, Robbery, Drug Trafficking Part of Doing Business”
WICHITA
Thank you jellyjam.
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1732
October 5, 2007 No.1732
“Does Religious Law Permit Visiting Egyptian Pyramids?”
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1733
October 4, 2007 No.1733
“Egyptian Opposition Paper Editor Stands Trial for Article on Mubarak’s Failing Health”
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“Islamic Prejudice: Christians”
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, October 04, 2007
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071004/D8S29L7O0.html
“Vulnerable Germ Labs Tough to Identify”
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Oct 4, 3:45 AM (ET)
By LARRY MARGASAK
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal terror-fighting agencies can’t identify all the American research laboratories that could become targets of attackers, congressional investigators have found.
The Government Accountability Office asked a dozen agencies whether they kept track of all the labs handling dangerous germs and toxins, or knew the number. All responded negatively.
The findings were prepared for a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing Thursday.”
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Hamas Executive Force Integrated Into Palestinian Police
The interior ministry of the deposed Palestinian government has announced that Hamas’s Executive Force has been integrated into the Palestinian Police.
The integration is part of Hamas attempts to reorganize the security apparatuses in Gaza.
Source: Al-Ayyam, Palestinian Authority, October 3, 2007
Posted at: 2007-10-03
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3456295,00.html
Vandals spray swastikas in Haifa synagogue
Published: 10.04.07, 09:59 / Israel News
Vandals sprayed swastikas and defiled a synagogue in the northern city of Haifa overnight, the police said Thursday.
Similar incidents occurred in the city earlier this week. (Ahiya Raved)
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“Gates Discusses Hostage Situation with Colombian President”
By Fred W. Baker III
American Forces Press Service
BOGOTA, Colombia, Oct. 3, 2007
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“GOP urges probe in China firm deal”
By Bill Gertz
October 4, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Republican Reps. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan and Duncan Hunter of California wrote to Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. formally requesting that CFIUS conduct a security review of the deal, which was announced by 3Com last week.
Both lawmakers, the ranking members of the intelligence and armed services committees, respectively, expressed “alarm” at the proposed merger because of Huawei’s “close ties to the Chinese government.”
“There is little doubt that this proposed arrangement should be reviewed by CFIUS, and we formally request that you initiate a review regardless of whether or not Bain Capital Partners submits the deal for examination,” they stated.
“This review should be conducted, and a determination made, as to whether this sale will in any way impact the national security of the United States or increase the vulnerability of U.S. computer networks and telecommunications systems to Chinese intrusion.””
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http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14413&Itemid=128
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20071004-02
October 4, 2007
Iraqi Forces, U.S. Special Forces detain al-Qaeda financier, one other
BAGHDAD – Iraqi forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained two individuals believed to be linked to the al-Qaeda in Iraq criminal network Oct. 2, near Baghdad.
During one of the operations, Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division detained a suspected al-Qaeda financier in Kindi. The extremist financier is suspected of traveling to foreign countries to acquire financial support for terrorist activities and is suspected of supplying more than $50,000 to al-Qaeda each month. He is believed to have received $100,000,000 this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt.
The terrorist is linked to financing cells in Doura, Tarmiyah and Baqubah, and uses a leather merchant business as a front to smuggle weapons and explosives from surrounding countries. Intelligence shows he has stores in Fallujah, Syria and Jordan.
He allegedly employs 40 to 50 extremists who help deliver and emplace improvised explosive devices to attack Iraqi and Coalition Forces. The group allegedly pays cell members $3,000 for each operation.
The financier is additionally linked to purchasing explosives and weapons that were used to destroy the dome of the sacred “Golden Mosque” in 2006 and then re-attacking it in 2007. In April, the suspected terrorist allegedly shot at a Coalition patrol in Al-Mansour, killing three U.S. service members and wounding one.
During a separate operation, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected al-Qaeda platoon leader Oct. 2 in Radwaniyah.
The extremist commands 15 men to attack Iraqi and Coalition Forces with IEDs and direct firefights. In April, the leader and his group emplaced and detonated an IED along the main highway in Radwaniyah, injuring several Iraqi Army Soldiers and destroying a tactical vehicle. In May, the group attacked an Iraqi Army traffic control point and killed several Soldiers during the firefight.
No U.S. or Iraqi members were harmed during these operations.
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Office of the Spokesman
This information is current as of today, Thu Oct 04 2007 02:42:45 GMT-0700.
Worldwide Caution
April 10, 2007
PERSECUTION.ORG
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“Informants, Bombs And Lessons”
Stratfor Terrorism Report ^ | 10-4-07 | Fred Burton, Scott Stewart
Posted on 10/04/2007 3:40:52 AM PDT by nancyvideo
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Leeds-man-appears-in-court.3251257.jp
Published Date: 03 October 2007
Source: EP Leeds First & County
Location: Leeds
“Leeds man appears in court on terror handbook charge”
By Staff Copy
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A 37-YEAR-old man appeared in court accused of keeping a terror manual.
Calvert Fletchman is accused of possessing information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, namely a copy of a terrorist handbook.
Fletchman, arrested in the Little London area of Leeds on August 16, spoke only to confirm his identity at the short hearing at City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
District Judge Quentin Purdy remanded him on bail on condition of residence at his home address, daily reporting to police, and that he does not apply for international travel.
The judge committed the case to the Old Bailey, where Fletchman will next appear on November 9.”
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