Posted on 03/05/2008 5:59:39 PM PST by nwctwx
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March 7, 2008
“FORMER NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLYMAN AND LABOR LEADER BRIAN McLAUGHLIN PLEADS GUILTY TO RACKETEERING”
OPINION: This area is so ripe as a terrorism breeder. Mugabe and his thugs have ruined this country. I wonder who is watching, besides Freepers. -Cindy
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Mugabe poll ploy strips white firms
The Australian News ^ | March 11, 2008 | Correspondents in Harare
Posted on 03/10/2008 1:26:56 PM PDT by ltc8k6
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has signed a new law requiring foreign and white-owned businesses to hand over 51 per cent control of their operations to blacks
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Gillerman: Condemnation of Jerusalem attack failed because of terrorist state
Published: 03.10.08, 23:15 / Israel News
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman on Monday protested the Security Council’s failure to condemn Thursday’s deadly terror attack at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva in Jerusalem “because of one country driven by political motives.”
In a letter sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Gillerman accused Libya of thwarting the condemnation, calling it “a terrorist state which infiltrated the Security Council.” (Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington)
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Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Western Tourists as ‘Retribution’ Over Israel
Arutz 7 ^ | March 11, ‘08 | Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Posted on 03/10/2008 7:03:44 PM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) Members of the North African branch of the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda announced Monday that they are holding two Austrian tourists hostage “in retribution” for what they claim is Western support for Israeli counter-terrorism operations. Al-Qaeda threatened more such kidnappings. AQIM will issue their demands for release of the two Austrians soon, Abu Muhammad said.
In an audio tape aired by the Gulf-based Al-Jazeera satellite network, a man who claimed to represent Al-Qaeda in Islamic North Africa (AQIM), Salah Abu Mohammad, identified the two Austrians and said they were in good condition. The alleged hostages, a man and a woman who had been touring southern Tunisia, were reported as missing in mid-February, according to Austrian officials.
“We tell Western tourists that, while they come into Tunisia seeking joy, our brothers are being slain in Gaza by the Jews with the collaboration of the Western states,” Abu Mohammad said. “The jihadists have previously warned and alerted [Westerners] that the apostate Tunisian state cannot and will not be able to protect you, and the hands of the jihadists can reach you wherever you are on Tunisian soil.”
AQIM will issue their demands for release of the two Austrians soon, Abu Muhammad said. He further warned Austria not to take any action in Algeria, AQIM’s suspected home base of operations. Tunisian authorities, meanwhile, doubt that the hostages are still in their country.
AQIM has threatened Austrian targets in the past and it has a violent history of deadly attacks throughout North Africa. Most recently, AQIM claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bombing of an Algerian police station on January 29, 2008, that killed three people, and for a shooting three days later at the Israeli embassy and an adjacent bar frequented by Westerners in Nouakchott, Mauritania. Several people were wounded in the latter attack. AQIM called the Algeria bombing the latest in a long campaign and threatened that the cries of “Americans and all the infidels” will yet be heard.
Al-Qaeda Focusing More on Israel In addition, Al-Qaeda’s leaders have recently issued more pointed and specific threats against Israel and Israeli interests. A leader of AQIM, Abu Musab Abd Al-Wadud, issued a threat earlier this year against those North African and other Middle Eastern nations that have “diplomatic and economic ties with Hebraic nations.” The kingdom of Morocco was specifically cited as such a nation. Al-Wadud also issued a generalized threat against Western assets anywhere in North Africa.
There have also been increasing reports of an Al-Qaeda presence in the Palestinian Authority. PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas confirmed in late February that Al-Qaeda terrorists crossed the Egyptian-Gaza border when Gaza terrorists blew up the barrier separating the two sides. As far back as 2006 Abbas Al-Qaeda had set up shop in Hamas-controlled Gaza.
Dominique Thomas, a specialist on radical Islam at the School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences in Paris, told the South African Independent, “When the border was opened between Gaza and Egypt, I saw calls on forums for foreign fighters to come and infiltrate the Gaza Strip to lead the battle against Israel.”
OPINION: Well, and that global jihad and the global war on terror — today, tomorrow, and in the future... unless the “moderate” muslims get the jihadis under control and the terrorism subsides. Wishful thinking, I know.
Iran issued a new state stamp Monday, carrying the image of slain Hizbullah commander Imad Mugniyah, they claim was assassinated by Israel. Mugniyah was killed in a Damascus explosion on February 12th.
According to the Iranian news agency Fars the stamp will be "a cultural message of support from the Iranian people to the Lebanese nation against the crimes of the Zionist regime." The stamp was revealed in an official state ceremony, attended by the heads of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Iranian minister of communications, representatives of Hamas, Hizbullah and family members of the Lebanese killed in the Second Lebanon War.
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Iranian group puts price on Barak's head
3/9/08
Do Ehud Barak, Meir Dagan and Amos Yadlin need to be worried? In the Iranian capital of Tehran, it was reported that an unprecedented ceremony took place on Sunday in which a price was put on the heads of the top ranking Israeli security officials as revenge for the assassination of Hizbullah arch terrorist Imad Mugniyah last month.
The Iranian news agency IRNA quoted an announcement from a radical organization called the "Islamic Student Justice Seekers" in which the group made clear its reasoning for the move.
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ANKARA: A Turkish news agency says police have foiled an alleged plot to bomb US companies in the country. Police arrested three suspects belonging to a leftist militant group during a raid in Istanbul, the Dogan agency reported. Authorities seized a remote-controlled toy car allegedly being prepared to be used in a bombing.
Police also seized a list of US companies that the DHKP-C group was targeting, including Coca Cola, Pepsi and Citibank, Dogan reported. The DHKP-C is listed as a terror group by the US and EU, and has been active since the 1970s.
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'Suspicious liquids' used in plane crash attempt (China)
Mon Mar 10, 2008
BEIJING - Passengers carrying suspicious liquids on board a Chinese airliner were involved in what officials have called an attempted terror attack last week, the national aviation authority saidMonday.
A government official from the Muslim-dominated region of Xinjiang in China's northwest had said the flight crew had foiled Friday's alleged attempt to deliberately crash a plane flying from the region's capital of Urumqi to Beijing.
But on Monday, the General Administration of Civil Aviation said in a statement on its website that "China Southern Airlines flight CZ6901 from Urumqi to Beijing discovered some passengers were in possession of suspicious liquids. "To safeguard passenger safety, the plane was diverted to Lanzhou's Zhongchuan Airport."
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Federation of BiH (FBiH) police have arrested a man identified as Muamer Basic, 24, on charges of terrorism.
The FBiH interior ministry said on Saturday (March 8th) that he had been detained in the town of Kiseljak Thursday, with two bombs in his car. On Sunday, FBiH prosecutors ordered Basic held for a month until an investigation is complete.
The Nezavisne Novine newspaper reports he told police he planned to sell the explosives rather than attack any particular target himself.
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Saudi Arabia: Police hunt distributors of mobile terror video
10 March 2008
Riyadh - Saudi police are searching for the distributors of a fundraising video featuring al-Qaeda's second in commmand Ayman al-Zawahiri, which is been circulating on mobile phones in the country in recent weeks, Arabic satellite TV channel al-Arabiya reports.
Saudi police have ordered anyone who has received the video on their mobile to hand in their phones within one week so that police can track down its distributors and stop its circulation. In the video, al-Zawahiri (photo) asks Islamists to donate money to the terror network. "Everyone who has received this video must inform the police - you have until next Saturday to do so. Anyone found on possession of the video after this date will be arrested," said an interior ministry statement.
Fifty-six people were arrested last week, suspected of having set up new al-Qaeda cells in Saudi Arabia, according to the interior ministry. All the suspects had the al-Zawahiri video on their phones and were allegedly using it to proselytise and raise funds for al-Qaeda.
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Algiers - Eight would-be suicide bombers left eastern Algeria a few days ago and are reportedly heading to the Gaza Strip to commit suicide attacks against Israeli soldiers, reported pan Arab daily al-Sharq al-Awsat on Monday. The young men reportedly left their homes days ago without saying anything to their families.
Reportedly, their intent is to join Hamas' armed wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam brigades, considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. It is reported that the eight were driven to go to Gaza after the grim images broadcasted by Arab satellite TV stations showing the dead, following Israel's military operation against alleged Palestinian rocket crews.
The raids in late February lasted five-days and left 125 people dead, half of them civilians, Israeli sources said, citing medical officials. The report said that after a few days, two of the would-be bombers reached Gaza and called their parents saying they were in good health and that they wanted "to carry out a suicide attack against the Jews." The eight men, aged between 18 and 24 come from the village of al-Raqiba in the province of Wadi, about 600 kilometres from the capital Algiers.
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Abu Sayyaf man in doc's kidnap held in Basilan
3/10/08
Police intelligence operatives on Monday arrested a suspected member of the Abu Sayyaf who allegedly took part in the abduction of a doctor in Isabela City, Basilan, ABS-CBN Regional Network Group reported. The Philippine National Police identified the suspect as Ronnie Tillung alias Taming Yakan. He was arrested at around 11 a.m.
Tulling was allegedly involved in the kidnapping of Dr. Nilo Barandino, a local physician kidnapped on Nov. 28, 1992. Barandino was eventually freed and is now continuing his practice. Tuling was transferred to Zamboanga City and will be detained at the city jail.
Aside from the Barandino kidnapping, the Abu Sayyaf has been tagged in other abductions, including the Dos Palmas resort (2001) and the Sipadan dive site (2000) incidents. Authorities have tagged the group as the Philippine arm of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network.
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Special Dispatch Series - No. 1866
March 11, 2008 No. 1866
“Al-Qaeda Commander in Northern Iraq: We Are in Dire Straits”
SNIPPET: “On February 12, 2008, the Qatari daily Al-’Arab published an interview with Al-Qaeda commander in northern Iraq Abu-Turab Al-Jaza’iri. The interview, at an Al-Qaeda hideout in northern Iraq, was conducted according to Al-Qaeda’s stipulations - including no disclosure of the region where it took place and no communications or recording equipment of any kind brought to the site.
During the interview, Al-Jaza’iri acknowledged that Al-Qaeda’s position in Iraq was difficult, and that Al-Qaeda had committed mistakes, including indiscriminately murdering civilians, which had caused its popularity to decline sharply. He also termed the most recent terrorist attacks in Algiers ‘folly.’
The following are excerpts from the interview:”
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“Coalition Forces in Iraq Kill, Capture Terrorists Over Several Days’ Operations”
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2008
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“Bush looks into terror list for Venezuela”
The Miami Herald ^ | March 10, 2008 | PABLO BACHELET
Posted on 03/10/2008 11:52:35 AM PDT by King of Florida
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SPRING 2008 • VOLUME XV: NUMBER 2
“Mohamed Sifaoui: ‘I Consider Islamism to Be Fascism””
Middle East Quarterly
Spring 2008, pp. 13-17
INTERVIEW SNIPPET:
“MEQ: Why did you stay in Algeria?
Sifaoui: I didn’t want to leave the country under pressure, because of the possibility of another terrorist attack. Nor do I believe that I was especially brave to stay. It is not a question of being brave or weak. The only thing that matters is the message and the values that you want to transmit. As a journalist, I felt that I had to stay. We never obtained press freedom in Algeria, but I wanted to struggle to get a small part of it. We made some progress, but then, Islamism took us backward. By staying, I wanted to show that I would not accept submission to Islamist censorship and its diktat.
MEQ: Are you still worried? After all, two bodyguards are supervising this interview.
Sifaoui: No, I am not worried. I have built sort of a shell around me. I keep calm, and I do not panic. Honestly, I prefer not to think about it; otherwise, I would worry too much.
MEQ: Are you proud today to have risked your life for your ideas?
Sifaoui: Yes, because I am lucky enough to be alive.”
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“No Honor Killing Here, Move Along”
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“Homicide Bombs Kill 25 in Eastern Pakistan City, Wrecks a Police HQ”
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “LAHORE, Pakistan — Massive homcidebombs ripped through a seven-story police headquarters and a house in Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 150, deepening Pakistan’s security crisis as a wave of Islamic militancy sweeps the country.
The two blasts happened about 15 minutes apart in different districts of this eastern city. The first tore the facade from the Federal Investigation Agency building as staff were beginning their working day. It also damaged scores of homes in the neighborhood.
City police chief Malik Mohammed Iqbal said an explosive-packed car was driven into a parking lot and detonated next to the building — which houses a department of the federal police’s anti-terrorism unit — knocking out the walls of several offices and part of a stairwell.
Pervez Malik, another city police official, said 17 people were killed and another 165 were wounded.
“It is the deadliest attack I ever saw,” Iqbal said.
The second explosion shattered the office of an advertising agency in a residential neighborhood, about 15 miles away. Mohammed Afzal, another city police official, said three people were killed there, including two children of a gardener.
Iqbal said both blasts were homicide attacks.”
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