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Posted on 04/01/2008 8:13:21 PM PDT by nwctwx
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49636
“Gates Urges Unconventional Thinkers to Address Unconventional Challenges”
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, April 21, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates today challenged military officers to become forward thinkers with the courage to advance new approaches needed to confront current and emerging threats.”
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49638
“Officials Outline Sadr City Security Plan”
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2008
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49639
“Gates Forms Task Force to Promote Intelligence, Surveillance for Warfighters”
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, April 21, 2008 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates established a new task force last week to ensure the Defense Department is doing everything possible to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) assets to support warfighters, he announced today.”
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49644
“Regimental Combat Team Commander Sees Progress in Anbar”
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=49642
Coalition, Iraqi Forces Kill, Detain Terrorists
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2008 – Coalition forces battling al-Qaida terrorists and Iranian-trained “special group” criminals killed 23 terrorists and detained 42 others during multiple engagements and missions across Iraq between April 18 and 21.
“Iraqi security and coalition force soldiers are targeting criminals who violate the Iraqi rule of law,” said U.S. Army Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff for Multinational Division Baghdad.
“Coalition soldiers are not targeting any political group or organization, but rather working with the [Iraqi security forces] targeting criminals who are engaged in violent acts or about to commit a violent act,” Batschelet emphasized.
“It is the Iranian-supported special group criminals who are the primary reason the people of Baghdad are suffering. They are responsible for continued [improvised-explosive-device] attacks and firefights that are causing innocent civilian deaths,” he said.
During two operations in Mosul, coalition forces captured an alleged al-Qaida leader and a suspected associate today. The missions were based on information gathered in an April 3 raid. The alleged al-Qaida leader is believed to oversee attack operations.
In separate operations yesterday, Multinational Force Baghdad soldiers took part in a series of engagements with terrorists and special group criminals.
— At 4 a.m., soldiers assigned to the 10th Cavalry Regiment’s 7th Squadron detained two men carrying illegal weapons and bomb-making materials in the East Rashid district.
— At 6:40 a.m., soldiers assigned to the 21st Infantry Regiment’s 1st Battalion spotted five individuals emplacing an improvised explosive device in the Adhamiyah district. The soldiers engaged the terrorists, and during the engagement, the IED detonated, killing three terrorists and wounding another.
— At 8 a.m., the 21st Infantry Regiment’s 1st Battalion engaged and killed seven terrorists carrying three PKC machines guns, three AK-47 rifles, and a rocket–propelled-grenade launcher. A Stryker element supporting the mission killed two more criminals carrying AK-47s on a nearby rooftop.
— At 3:30 p.m., a coalition force observation post in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood was fired upon by three special group criminals. U.S. soldiers returned fire killing one and wounding the other two.
— At about 4 p.m., soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered a substantial weapons cache containing 14 blocks of high explosives in the Zubaida area of Baghdad’s Rashid district.
— At 4: 45 p.m., following a rocket attack, an unmanned aerial vehicle positively identified five special group criminals loading a vehicle with rocket rails in Sadr City. The UAV followed the vehicle to a house and engaged the criminals as they were unloading the vehicle, firing one Hellfire missile, destroying the vehicle and rockets rails, and killing the two criminals.
— At 10:20 p.m., soldiers assigned to the 4th Infantry Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team killed three criminals with a missile fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle after they were positively identified carrying weapons at a cache site in eastern Baghdad.
In other operations yesterday, coalition forces also captured a suspected Iranian-trained special groups commander and three other suspected criminals in the Kadamiyah district of Baghdad. Coalition forces also killed four terrorists and detained four suspects in an operation north of Baqouba that targeted individuals believed to be housing foreign terrorists in the area.
“We are not initiating these engagements,” U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steve Stover, a 4th Infantry Division member and a spokesman for Multinational Division-Baghdad, said of the April 20 actions. “Coalition forces will continue to defend ourselves against criminals who ignore the Iraqi rule of law.”
In earlier operations, tips from local citizens netted three weapons caches in operations in Hakara and Basra on April 18 and 19.
— Based on a tip, Iraqi army and U.S. from Multinational Division Center found a weapons cache during a combat patrol in Hakara on April 19.
— Also acting on a tip, Iraqi army soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 36th Brigade, 9th Division, working with Multinational Division Southeast forces discovered a weapons cache in two vehicles during Operation Charge of the Knights in the Quibla district of Basra on April 19.
— A tip from another local citizen led Multinational Division Center soldiers from 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), to a weapons cache near the Abu Eid bridge April 18.
In other operations April 18:
— Coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists during operations targeting alleged associates of al-Qaida leaders southwest of Samarra and in southern Baghdad.
— In southern Baghdad, coalition forces secured a building and detained a suspect allegedly involved in procuring bomb-making materials, including components for suicide vests.
— In Beiji, coalition forces coordinated three operations targeting individuals believed to conspire with an al-Qaida leader known for coordinating bombing attacks. One suspect who attempted to evade the ground force was injured in the operation and taken to a military medical facility. Coalition forces captured two wanted men and detained 12 additional suspected terrorists.
— During two operations in Mosul, coalition forces killed three and detained seven suspected terrorists, including one who was believed to have hidden a senior terrorist leader in his house. The targeted individual allegedly conducted attacks against Iraqi security and coalition forces and was involved in killings in Baghdad.
(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq and Multintional Force Iraq news releases.)
Thanks to Calpernia for the ping to this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004920/posts
“Azerbaijan halts shipment to Iran [Iranian Nukes Ping]”
Jerusalem Post/AP ^ | 4/21/08 | n/a
Posted on April 21, 2008 3:45:31 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Azerbaijan halted a Russian shipment of equipment intended for Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, demanding more information for fear of violating United Nations sanctions, officials said Monday.
The Russian state-run company Atomstroiexport said one or two trucks carrying the equipment were stopped two weeks ago at the town of Astara, on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border.
Agency spokeswoman Irina Yesipova said officials were holding talks with both Azerbaijan and Iran.
She said the shipment contained “heat-isolating equipment” essential to the plant’s operation and that the holdup was not likely to delay the start-up of the plant, which Russia is building in the southern Iranian port city of Bushehr.
She could not give any further details about the precise nature of the equipment.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesman Khazar Ibragim said his country was seeking more information about the shipment due to fears that it might violate any of the three sets of UN Security Council sanctions imposed because of suspicions Iran is seeking to develop atomic weapons.
“Considering the sensitivity of the situation, we need to know all the details in order to know whether the shipment falls under UN sanctions,” he said.”
Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years... an increase from the current authorization of 86,000 Afghan Army soldiers to 120,000 is the only way to create an enduring defense against a resurgent Taliban and elusive Al Qaeda operatives.Thanks. :')
Note: Video included.
blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/192392.php
April 21, 2008
“Ahmed, Ever Get the Feeling You’re Being Watched?”
They watch us.
We watch them.
Another day of global jihad and GWOT.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/jihad
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/internet
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RECAP and Fyi:
http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=375
“Al-Zawahiri Calls On Muslims To Turn Mosques, Schools, Factories, Universities into ‘Centers of Support for Jihad’”
BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “He concludes by urging Muslims to take to the streets, and to turn their mosques, schools, factories and universities into centers of support for jihad and resistance.”
Posted at : 2008-04-18
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http://memriiwmp.org/content/en/blog_personal.htm?id=376
“ISI War Minister Issues Guidelines for Soldiers and Commanders”
BLOG ENTRY SNIPPET: “...and the crucial role of propaganda in the war against the unbelievers.”
Posted at : 2008-04-21
Police in Scotland have uncovered petrol station credit card frauds with a potential value of £1m, linked to international terrorism.
Banks, oil companies and police forces throughout the country are on alert after 5000 cards were copied and their details stolen at two Edinburgh filling stations. A further attempt on a filling station in Kilmarnock was discovered before card details were stolen.
Detectives say the attacks were carried out by hired operatives of an international network. They are the first organised stings of their kind in Scotland, and one of the first to be attributed by police in the UK to a new wave of terrorist fundraising.
Columbia reflects rising threat of nuclear terrorism
The Colombian government revealed last month that the country's FARC rebels were seeking to acquire enriched uranium. The rebels may have been more interested in trading the uranium to a terrorist group than in developing it into nuclear arms for their own purposes.
A stash subsequently uncovered in Colombia proved to be harmless. But the case shows that the danger of terrorist or insurgent groups acquiring nuclear materials on the black market could be a looming threat.
The ringleader of an alleged terrorist cell which planned to blow up passenger aircraft, was seen looking up flight information just days before arrests were made, a court heard.
Abdulla Ahmed Ali, of Prospect Hill, Walthamstow, was observed by an undercover officer checking flight timetables in an internet cafe and speaking on his mobile.
The FBI says right-wing extremists have the potential to carry out the most deadly domestic attacks since they have a tendency to amass weapons and explosives and have “a propensity for violence.” Increasingly, right-wing terrorism threats come from what the FBI calls the “lone wolf” terrorist in the FBI Strategic Plan 2004-2009. Such an individual is a fringe member of a formal extremist group but acts alone instead of carrying out a group-planned attack. Despite limited funding, solo attacks can be deadly and are difficult to detect.
2 Tankers of diesel stolen from Phila depot
Two tanker trucks partially loaded with diesel fuel have disappeared from a fuel depot in Southwest Philadelphia, police said yesterday.
Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said investigators did not think the theft from the Royal Petroleum Corp. in the 6100 block of Paschall Avenue was linked to terrorism.
About 180 people who ate at a Chipotle restaurant near Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, became sick with a gastrointestinal illness, the Akron Beacon Journal reports. Health officials began investigating the outbreak after people started arriving at local emergency rooms complaining of diarrhea, nausea, and severe vomiting.
Many of those affected were Kent State students who had eaten burritos at the restaurant on Thursday and Friday. Some had donated blood and gotten a coupon for free food at the restaurant, according to WLWT, the Cincinnati NBC affiliate.
Thank you MamaDearest for all those links and snippets.
Very informative as usual.
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Exploring one of your links here for archival purposes.
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http://www.cfr.org/publication/9236
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
A nonparistan Resource for Information and Analysis
Militant Extremists in the United States
Author:
Holly Fletcher
April 21, 2008
PUBLICATION SNIPPET: “Which type of extremism poses the greatest threat to the United States?
Although environmental extremists were responsible for nearly all the domestic terrorist attacks between 2002 and 2005, right-wing extremists are still considered the most dangerous to the United States, says the SPLC. Right-wing extremist attacks are planned to target people, and if successfully carried out, intend to kill many civilians. Ecoterrorist attacks, on the other hand, aim to sabotage the infrastructure of businesses and corporations that endanger the earth; the groups do not aim to kill massive amounts of people.
The FBI says right-wing extremists have the potential to carry out the most deadly domestic attacks since they have a tendency to amass weapons and explosives and have “a propensity for violence.” Increasingly, right-wing terrorism threats come from what the FBI calls the “lone wolf” terrorist in the FBI Strategic Plan 2004-2009. Such an individual is a fringe member of a formal extremist group but acts alone instead of carrying out a group-planned attack. Despite limited funding, solo attacks can be deadly and are difficult to detect.”
USDOJ/OIG Special Report: "BOMBS IN BROOKLYN: HOW THE TWO ILLEGAL ALIENS ARRESTED FOR PLOTTING TO BOMB THE NEW YORK SUBWAY ENTERED AND REMAINED IN THE UNITED STATES" (March, 1998) (Note: This url is 404 and may have expired.)
CatStevens.com: "CALL FOR ISLAMIC CHARITY AND A UNITED UMMAH" by Zakiah Koya, New Straits Times, Kuala Lumpur, December 12, 1997, Courtesy of Kirby
"TRANSCRIPT OF OSAMA BIN LADIN INTERVIEW BY PETER ARNETT Transcript of Osama Bin Ladin The first-ever television interview with Osama Bin Ladin was conducted by Peter Arnett in eastern Afghanistan in late March 1997. Questions were submitted in advance. Bin Ladin responded to almost all of the questions. CNN was not allowed to ask follow up questions. The interview lasted just over an hour." (March 1997)FOX NEWS.com: Washington - "DOCUMENTS SHOW STATE DEPARTMENT WARNED CLINTON ABOUT BIN LADEN" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The State Department warned the Clinton administration in July 1996 that Usama bin Laden's move to Afghanistan would give him more fertile ground to spread radical Islam, according to newly declassified documents." (August 17, 2005)NEWSMAX.com: "IRAQI GENERAL: BIN LADEN VISITED BAGHDAD" by Carl Limbacher with the NewsMax.com staff (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Speaking in halting English, former Iraqi Gen. Georges Sada described the bin Laden visit to ABC Radio's Sean Hannity. "I can make sure one thing - I know - I have seen by my eyes. It was in '84, '85, Osama bin Laden himself was coming to Iraqi air force headquarters. "Gen. Sada explained: "At that time he was looking for contracts to build air fields in Iraq."") (January 27, 2006)OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (YNETNEWS.com): "ISRAEL WARNED U.S. OF BIN LADEN [IN 1988]" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The name Bin Laden became familiar to the Israeli Mossad in the years 1986-1987, Bar said. At that time Israel had been gathering written material in Gaza and the West Bank, and came across the name of Bin Laden, who was described in one of the documents as a Saudi millionaire who joined Sheikh Abdullah Azzam's Mujahidin that ventured to Afghanistan to aid in the war against the Soviets. The document referred to Bin Laden's preaching and his fatwas (Muslim law rulings). Mossad investigators realized at that point that Azzam's movement represented a problem, and that anyone involved in it could represent a threat to the western world.") (January 25, 2006)
“We learn from history that we never learn anything from history.” -Hegel
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&q=depaul+university&ie=UTF-8&scoring=n
http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/education/depaul-university-OREDU000019.topic
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Thanks to a special freepmailer for pointing to this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-depaul-bomb-threat-webapr22,1,4245208.story
“No bombs found after threat closes 2 DePaul buildings in Loop”
THE BLOTTER
THE BLOTTER
8:25 PM CDT, April 21, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Two DePaul University buildings were evacuated Monday evening after a bomb threat, but no explosive devices were found, officials said.
University officials canceled all evening classes after someone telephoned in a bomb threat to one of the school’s Loop campus offices, officials said.
The threat was reported shortly before 5:30 p.m. at the school’s Lewis Center building, 25 E. Jackson Blvd., Chicago Police Officer John Mirabelli said.
Lewis and an adjoining building, O’Malley Place, 23 E. Jackson Blvd., were evacuated, DePaul spokeswoman Denise Mattson said.”
JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS) - Snippet: ""I call on Muslims around the world, if you run into the maker of the film, kill him," said one of the speakers at the rally, Awit Mashuri. "Geert Wilders is a Christian terrorist," declared a placard held up by a protester. "Kill Geert Wilders," read another..." (March 31, 2008)
Off Topic, but interesting.
blog:
“’Politics of fear’: Obama spokesman whines over Hillary ad mentioning Bin Laden”
POSTED AT 7:00 PM ON APRIL 21, 2008 BY ALLAHPUNDIT
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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Note: The following news brief is a quote:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3534455,00.html
Japan freezes assets of 25 individuals, companies with business ties in Iran
Published: 04.22.08, 08:40 / Israel News
Japan froze the assets of 25 individuals and companies involved in Tehran’s nuclear development program, in accordance with the sanctions imposed on Iran by the UN Security Council. (AFP)
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