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Posted on 02/01/2008 6:55:58 PM PST by nwctwx
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“AP Hints Pro-Lifers Bigger Terrorists Than Foreign Radicals”
By Dave Pierre | February 20, 2008 - 00:22 ET
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(”Source: Aftab, Iran, February 17, 2008”)
“Russian Deputy FM Calls On Iran To Enrich Uranium In Russia”
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Iran Announces Improved SAM
Iran has announced the successful testing of its “improved” SA5 surface-to-air missile, the S-200.
Source: Tehran Times, Iran, February 18, 2008
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(”Source: Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, London, February 16, 2008; Rooz, Iran, February 18, 2008”)
“Iranian Leader Khamenei: Delay In Iran’s Nuclear Program – Against God’s Will”
Posted at: 2008-02-18
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“Video: Rioting breaks out on Kosovo-Serbia border”
Posted on 02/20/2008 2:56:21 AM PST by kronos77
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331316,00.html
People’s Weekly Brief
“Mike Baker: Terrorists and Morality”
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
By Mike Baker
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Just the other night, while having our usual Wednesday happy hour at the office with the handful of PWB staffers either still gainfully employed or not currently incarcerated, one of the interns asked if I thought it was morally okay to be happy that the senior Hezbollah terrorist Imad Mughniyeh had just been blown up in a car bomb in Damascus, Syria.
Huh? Or better yet, mmmm.
As I poured myself a tasty measure of bourbon (from a bottle bought just that day to celebrate Mughniyeh’s explosion) I stared at the intern with my best, most sincere look of concern. This was certainly a moral quandary.
A young, idealistic intern, just at the beginning of life’s journey — all full of beans and optimism. As I silently pondered how the folks at Bakers make their bourbon so yummy, I also took a minute to consider how best to answer the intern’s stupid question. The pause clearly made me look wise. Wise and sensitive to her concern.
I sat down, snagged a couple of cashews, which I think go really well with bourbon, and stared hard at the intern.
The fact that just that morning I had declared it “Mughniyeh Finally Got What He Deserved By Being Blown Straight To Hell Day” at the office, with a banner, refreshments and everything, clearly had made her think I was insensitive to his death.
The rest of the staff sat quietly waiting for an answer. “Did I think it was morally okay to be happy that Mughniyeh got all blowed up?”
Time for an answer.”
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“Fidel Castro: The Teflon Tyrant Resigns”
By Humberto Fontova
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, February 20, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Last September, Fidel Castro vowed to stay in power until President George W. Bush leaves the White House. Even with his failing health, one would have been hard-pressed to bet against the dictator who outlasted nine U.S. presidents and his great sponsor in the Soviet Union. Castro’s retirement yesterday, in favor of his brother Raul, confirms that he will not be able to keep his word. But to understand his legacy, and its implications for Cuba’s future, one must go back to a promise that Castro made at the dawn of his one-man rule nearly half a century ago.
Upon entering Havana on January 7, 1959, Cuba’s new leader Fidel Castro broadcast that promise into a phalanx of microphones. “Cuban mothers let me assure you that I will solve all Cuba’s problems without spilling a drop of blood.” As the jubilant crowd erupted with joy, Castro continued. “Cuban mothers let me assure you that because of me you will never have to cry.”
The following day, just below San Juan Hill in eastern Cuba, a bulldozer rumbled to a start, clanked into position, and started pushing dirt into a huge pit with blood pooling at the bottom from the still -twitching bodies of more than a hundred men and boys who’d been machine-gunned without trial on the Castro brothers’ orders. Their wives and mothers wept hysterically from a nearby road.”
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“Exile Group Claims Iran Is Developing Nuclear Warheads”
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Posted on 02/20/2008 4:27:13 AM PST by maquiladora
placemark
from my cell
heard on radio report of bomb threat to a college? in NJ
UPDATE:
http://www.whbf.com/Global/story.asp?S=7900139&nav=0zGo
“Lockdown lifted at New Jersey college”
Associated Press - February 20, 2008 3:33 PM ET
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP)
Background to the lockdown that has been lifted:
http://www.1010wins.com/4-Hour-School-Lockdown-Over/1689124
Posted: Wednesday, 20 February 2008 3:53PM
“St. Peter’s College in Jersey City Under Lockdown”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “JERSEY CITY, N.J. (1010 WINS/AP) — St. Peter’s College locked down its campus Wednesday for several hours following the discovery of a note that referenced killing students and the massacre at Virginia Tech.
1010 WINS AUDIO: Steve Sandberg Reports
Nothing dangerous was found and the lockdown was lifted just before 3 p.m. Wednesday, school spokeswoman Lorraine McConnell said. According to the school’s website evening classes will be held as scheduled.
She said campus security became aware at 10:40 a.m. of the handwritten note, taped in the stairwell of an administration and classroom building, and had e-mail and cell phone text message alerts sent to students within two minutes.
McConnell said it was the first time the private Roman Catholic school used its text message alert system, installed last summer in response to the April 2007 mass shooting at Virginia Tech in which 33 people died.”
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Morocco: Islamist party dissolved
al Bawaba ^ | Februari 20 2008
Posted on 02/20/2008 1:25:39 PM PST by knighthawk
Moroccan Prime Minsiter, Abbas El Fassi, issued on Wednesday a decree dissolving the Islamist party “Al Badil Al Hadari” (Civilzational Alternative), as part of the dismantling of a terrorist network described as “Jihadist” earlier this week.
A press release of the Prime Minister’s office, cited by MAP, said that the decision has been taken in line with article 57 related to the political parties, on the basis of the alleged links between the network and the creation of the party, as well as on “the serious evidence on the involvement of its main leaders.”
The party Secretary General, Mustapha Mouatassim, was among the 23 people arrested as part of the case. Among those arrested was also Mohammed Merouani who heads the unrecognized “Umma Party” and Hizbullah Al Manar TV’s correspondent, Abdelhafid Sriti.
Police sources reported on Tuesday that 23 people were arrested on Monday and Tuesday following the dismantlement of this “terrorist network”, led by Abdelkader Belliraj, a Moroccan living in Belgium. According to the police, the network was preparing to carry out attacks in the kingdom and had ramifications and links with organizations operating in Morocco and abroad.
An Islamic preacher accused of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon has asked a British court to block his extradition to the United States.
This month, Britain's Home Office approved the extradition of Abu Hamza al-Masri, who once led London's Finsbury Park Mosque.
The mosque's worshippers have included Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui and so-called "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
Thanks for the update, MamaDearest.
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“The Good Guys Hit the Trifecta - Another Important Terrorist Leader Killed”
By Andrew Cochran
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Previously...
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/index.cfm?page=dulmatin
REWARDS FOR JUSTICE
SEEKING INFORMATION AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
“Wanted
Dulmatin (aka) Amar Usman
Up to $10 Million Reward”
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/02/senior_al_qaeda_in_i_2.php
“Senior al Qaeda in Iraq intel officer killed in Diyala”
By BILL ROGGIOFebruary 20, 2008 10:05 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Multinational Forces Iraq has confirmed it killed a senior intelligence officer of al Qaeda in Iraq’s network in Diyala. Arkan Khalaf Khudayyir, also known as Karrar, was killed during a raid by “Coalition forces” in Khan Bani Sa’ad on Feb. 17. Multinational Forces Iraq uses the generic term Coalition forces to describe Task Force 88, the special operations hunter-killer teams tasked with dismantling al Qaeda in Iraq’s senior leaders and wider network.
Karrar was described as a senior intelligence leader for al Qaeda in Iraq’s network in Baqubah. Karrar facilitated suicide bombing attacks in the Diyala River Valley. This network also has been responsible for attacks in Baghdad, “to include attacks by female suicide bombers.””
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Troops in Iraq Identify Slain Terrorist, Rescue Civilian, Destroy Bombs
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2008 – Iraqi and coalition troops identified a slain terrorist, rescued a kidnapped civilian and destroyed a munitions cache in Iraq over the past three days.
Karrar, also known as Arkan Khalaf Khudayyir, was a senior intelligence leader involved in the al Qaeda in Iraq network in Baqouba. He also was linked to the suicide-bombing network in the Diyala River Valley region, which among other strikes, is responsible for recent attacks in Baghdad conducted by female suicide bombers.
As coalition forces conducted an operation near Khan Bani Sad on Feb. 17, they saw Karrar and another suspect fleeing their vehicle. Karrar brandished a weapon and intended to fire on coalition forces, military officials said. The assault force engaged, killing both men. Upon subsequent search of the vehicle, coalition forces found an AK-47 assault rifle and ammunition, which they later destroyed.
“Iraqi and coalition forces will relentlessly pursue terrorist leaders like Abu Karrar who plan al Qaeda’s indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians,” said Army Maj. Winfield Danielson, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
Officials noted that recent coalition operations in the Diyala region had disrupted the local suicide-bombing network.
In other news, Iraqi and coalition forces yesterday rescued a kidnapping victim bound in a hole under the Intisar neighborhood of Mosul.
A local resident expressed suspicion to the combined force that a possible terrorist prison and interrogation facility existed in the neighborhood. While searching the target area, Iraqi soldiers noticed a “disturbed” area on the courtyard grounds. Upon closer inspection, combined forces discovered the inconsistent pattern of dirt was covering a padlocked hatch.
Troops cut the lock and found the kidnapping victim in an underground chamber. The handcuffed man, who told forces that he had been locked in the room for a couple days, was transported to a coalition medical facility for treatment.
“The terrorists continue to try and intimidate the Iraqi people through kidnapping and other tactics of fear,” said Army Maj. Gary Dangerfield, a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment spokesman. “The Iraqi security forces and its coalition partners will maintain a relentless pursuit of insurgents by either capturing or killing them.”
Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers seized a munitions cache Feb. 18 northwest of the Iraqi capital. An Iraqi citizen relayed the cache’s location to Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers from the 25th Infantry Division’s Company C, 1st Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team.
The cache included eight rounds of varying sizes, 17 18-pound bombs and seven improvised explosive devices designed to look like speed bumps. An explosive ordnance disposal team safely detonated the munitions.
“Finding and destroying these caches continues to degrade terrorist operations,” said Army Maj. Al Hing, a spokesman for the unit. “Every operation we execute brings increased security for the Iraqi people.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Thanks for the ping, Cindy!
Thanks for the ping, Cindy!
You’re doubly welcome bd476 and I saw your updates.
I appreciate it.
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