Threat Matrix: April 2008

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Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army

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.

This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and Germany is likely to make a bigger commitment.

But American and Afghan government sources with knowledge of the expected Afghan proposal say that 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. Read More

	France May Send More Troops to Afghanistan
	Special Operations Increase Possible for Iraq
	Al-Qaeda Grooming Militants Who 'Look Western': CIA Chief

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[Cindy]

http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hezbollah/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizballah/
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hizbullah/

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http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15617

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 by Staff Writer

“Iranian mortars negate southern Israel defenses”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A military correspondent for Israel’s Channel Two News reported on Tuesday night that many of the mortar shells fired at southern Israel by Gaza-based Palestinian forces earlier in the day were Iranian-made 120mm shells.

The heavy mortar shells have far more destructive power than the locally-produced Kassam rockets, and have a range of up to 5 miles. The speed at which the shells travel also renders useless an early warning system installed in several southern Israel communities to give residents an opportunity to reach safety in the event of an attack.”

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995901/posts

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=15623

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 by Staff Writer

“IDF believes renewed conflict with Hizballah is close”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A senior Israeli army intelligence officer told a parliamentary oversight committee on Tuesday that Lebanon’s Hizballah terrorist militia has significantly advanced his preparedness for renewed open conflict with Israel in recent months.

The officer was quoted by The Jerusalem Post as saying that while the UN resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War was supposed to push Hizballah out of range of northern Israel, the group has redeployed most of its forces, including medium-range ballistic missiles, south of the Litani River.”

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/sudan/

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F357F00E-EE83-4AE4-BFE7-C45823B80395

“Christian ‘Difficulty’ in Sudan?”
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, April 03, 2008
Was it really an April Fools trick or did the World Council of Churches (WCC) actually admit that Christians in Islamist Sudan endure some unpleasantness?

According to an April 1 report from the WCC news service, a WCC delegation recently visited Khartoum and was “shocked” to learn that a Christian cemetery in the nation’s capital is also being used as a used car lot.

Once the visiting ecumenists recover from their shock, maybe they’ll get around to realizing that Sudan is governed by theocratic Islamists who killed 2 million southern, mostly Christian Sudanese during the war that concluded in 2005.

The Religious Left has adopted the suffering in Darfur, a Sudanese province, as one of its pet issues. Their concern for Darfur is admirable. Hundreds of thousands of African Muslims have perished there, usually at the hands of Arab militias backed by the Islamist regime in Khartoum. Since Darfur is about Muslims killing other Muslims, it evidently is permissible for the Religious Left to take an active interest in it.

But the even more horrible and genocidal sufferings of the southern Sudan rarely provoked a peep from the Religious Left in the United States or elsewhere in the West, including the Geneva-based WCC. The war in southern Sudan was negotiated to a tenuous peace in 2005 with help from the Bush Administration, urged on by a coalition in the U.S. of evangelicals, Jews, black church leaders and other human rights activists who began organizing in the 1990’s. The world’s worst case of Islamist terror somehow never aroused enormous interest from the WCC, the National Council of Churches in the U.S. or other Religious Left groups supposedly so concerned about global justice.

But miracles do occur, and the WCC finally found its way to Khartoum, evidently having heard rumors of difficulties for Christians there.”

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995358/posts?page=3#3

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995939/posts

“Uyghur: Tibet unrest spreads to Muslim separatists in China who demand home rule”
Times of London ^ | Jane Macartney
Posted on 04/03/2008 2:49:57 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/xinjiang/

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995942/posts

“China/Uyghur: Group says Chinese police arrest 70 in Xinjiang”
Reuters ^ | 04/03/08 | John Ruwitch
Posted on 04/03/2008 2:59:33 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18081&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080403-05
April 3, 2008

1-15 Inf. Regt. operation snatches key suspect (Salman Pak)

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

BAGHDAD – An early morning operation April 2 in Salman Pak by Company A, 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment led to the detaining of a Multi-National Division – Center key suspect.

A neighbor of the suspect came forward and helped MND-C Soldiers identify the individual.

The suspect was number two on the 1-15 Inf. Regiment’s list of suspected criminals and number four on the MND-C list.

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18078&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080403-02
April 3, 2008

Citizen’s tip leads Iraqi Army to EFP cache (Mahmudiyah)

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

BAGHDAD – A tip from an Iraqi citizen led Iraqi Army soldiers to a weapons cache in Mahmudiyah, April 1.

The cache included two complete explosively-formed projectiles, four rocket-propelled grenades, a 60 mm mortar tube, a 60 mm mortar round and small arms ammunition.

The contents of the cache have been turned over to Multi-National Division – Center Soldiers for destruction.

Criminals who once operated in the area no longer have the support of the population as Iraqi Security Forces build on their capacity to enforce the rule of law.

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.mnf-iraq.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18085&Itemid=21

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RELEASE No. 20080403-07
April 3, 2008

Informant leads Soldiers to multiple caches (Kutimiyah)

2nd BCT, 3rd Inf. Div. PAO

Multi-National Division – Center PAO

FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq – Iraqi Army Soldiers with 5th Battalion, 25th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division assisted by Multi-National Division – Center Soldiers from 2nd Brigade Combat Team recovered five weapons caches in Kutimiyah, north of Joint Security Site W-1, April 2.

At the site of a farm, Soldiers found 45 rocket propelled grenades, 300 PKC heavy machine gun rounds, 37 mortar and projectile fuses, one DSHKA .50 caliber machine gun with 500 rounds of ammunition, one anti-personnel mine, two 81 mm mortar tubes, a 55 gallon barrel containing a PKC machine gun and 2000 PKC machine gun rounds.

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[Cindy]

https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=82287

YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report
“Warden Message: Angola TAGG Airlines Prohibited”
CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Sub-Saharan Africa - Angola
2 Apr 2008

[Cindy]

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020551.php

April 3, 2008

“”He wanted me to train them for Islamic extremist jihad or holy war”: Informant in Ohio jihad trial”

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Previously...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020186.php
(AP)

March 5, 2008
“Jihad terror trial begins in Ohio”

[Cindy]

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_1161.html

“Worldwide Caution”
January 17, 2008

SNIPPET: “This Worldwide Caution updates information on the continuing threat of terrorist actions and violence against Americans and interests throughout the world. American citizens are reminded to maintain a high level of vigilance and to take appropriate steps to increase their security awareness.”

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Merci Ian.

[Godzilla]

Cabinet approves large-scale emergency army drill next week (Israel) April 02/2008

History seems to be repeating itself. The arab armies (minus Egypt and Jordan) are going through progressively larger operations and deployments - essentally telegraphing their punch. I only hope the Israeli generals and leaders have picked up on this.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Thanks much, Oorang.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

Agreed. And I hope Israel turns a defiantly deaf ear to continuing calls emanating from some American contingents, at the U.N. and from elsewhere across the globe, to give P-E-A-C-E a chance.

Although, we now know for certain -- since we just heard it from al zawahiri himself -- that al qaeda does NOT kill innocents. < Sarcasm: OFF > So, it follows that this must also be true whether the killer muckrakers hail from Iran, Syria or other regions or whether they slither within Hamas, Hizbollah or any of the multitude of other organized hate groups.

[Godzilla]

And I hope Israel turns a defiantly deaf ear to continuing calls emanating from some American contingents, at the U.N. and from elsewhere across the globe, to give P-E-A-C-E a chance

Couldn't agree more. Our "peace" efforts have done more to encourage more violence than anything else. Gaza is the biggest example. Israel left the infrastructure in place for one of their biggest produce systems. The pali's first thing was to destroy that and the rest of the infrastructure - turning that area into a cesspool. Now Hamas is getting help with longer range and more powerful rocket, Hezzies have 3X the rockets they had before, and Syria is feeling frisky, thinking that Israel is weak. Israel's defensive has been allowed to weaken, painting themselves into a corner. If they get hit with LR Syrian rockets - damascas will likely get nuked - Israel has few other options if a rocket blitzkreig opens up.

[drymans wife]

“If they get hit with LR Syrian rockets - damascas will likely get nuked - Israel has few other options if a rocket blitzkreig opens up.”

Agree...Very tender times we are in.

[drymans wife]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346168,00.html

Most Beautiful Camels Seek Top Prize in Desert Pageant

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — It is the Arab world’s answer to the Westminster Dog Show — a camel beauty pageant. Nearly 20,000 one-humped hopefuls are about to compete for the coveted title of most attractive camel in the world.

The drop-dead dromedaries are judged on such characteristics as ear curvature, nose shape and glossiness of coat. Prizes range from brand new Range Rovers to more than $10 million in cash.

Owners, hoping to curry favor with the judges, act like nervous stage moms, painstakingly grooming their camels, adorning them with bright national flags and rhinestone harnesses.

“Camels are a part of our culture, and this is a chance to celebrate their beauty and make some money at the same time,” said Salem Ebrahim Al Mazrouei, Director of Operations for the festival, which is sponsored by the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

snip..

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006325.html

03 April 2008
“REMORSE*”

[Cindy]

http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006324.html

03 April 2008
“JIHADI WORKPLACE REMEDIAL EDUCATION”

[drymans wife]

New Recruits and software huh..