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For Immediate Release
March 31, 2008

“Abdullahu Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Supplying Guns and Ammunition to Illegal Aliens”

CAMDEN, N.J.

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“DEFENSE DEPARTMENT OFFICIAL PLEADS GUILTY TO ESPIONAGE CHARGE INVOLVING CHINA”

WASHINGTON , D.C.


11 posted on 04/01/2008 9:51:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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Apr 2, 2008 0:35 | Updated Apr 2, 2008 6:08
“Next terror attack ‘a matter of time’”
By TOVAH LAZAROFF

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Alexander Galiah, who lost his wife in a terrorist attack at the Rimonim junction six years ago, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday he knows from personal experience what it means to ease security restrictions for the Palestinians.

Etty Galiah, 48, was shot to death on November 18, 2002 by a Palestinian terrorist who plugged nine bullets into her car as she drove past that junction, near the Palestinian village of Taiba. The roadblock was unmanned as a gesture to the Palestinians.

So Galiah, who never remarried, was concerned to hear on Monday that the roadblock, which had been in use since his wife’s murder, had been dismantled by the army as part of a promise by Israel to US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“It’s worrisome,” said Galiah.

The father of seven has lived in the Orthodox Kochav Hashahar settlement for 28 years.”


21 posted on 04/01/2008 10:43:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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A VERY SMALL SAMPLER On The Internet:

REWARDS FOR JUSTICE.net: "WANTED TERRORISTS" (View Posters. Read More...)

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" (View Posters. Read More...)

FBI.gov - War On Terrorism: "SEEKING INFORMATION" (View Posters. Read More...)

ICE.gov - Public Information: "MOST WANTED" (View Posters. Read More...)


YNET NEWS.com (AP): "CIA: AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN BORDER REGION 'DANGER' TO US" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "If there were another terrorist attack against Americans, Hayden said, it would most certainly originate from that region.") (March 30, 2008, 21:06) (Read More...)

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "CIA DIRECTOR: AQ TRAINING WESTERN-LOOKING OPERATIVES" (March 30. 2008) (Read More...)

Link (Read More...)


FOX NEWS.com: "JIHAD USA: CONFRONTING THE THREAT OF HOMEGROWN TERROR" (March 27, 2008) (Read More...)



!@#$% (March 25, 2008)


MEMRI IWMP.org: "AL-ZAWAHIRI URGES MUSLIMS TO ATTACK JEWISH, U.S. INTERESTS WORLDWIDE" (Posted March 24, 2008) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS): "Zawahri: 'O Muslims. Today is your day. Hit the interest of the Jews and the Americans and all those who participated in the aggression against Muslims'" (March 24, 2008) (Read More...)


DANIEL PIPES.org - blog: "THE NIQAB AND BURQA AS SECURITY THREATS" by Daniel Pipes (Updated March 22, 2008)


ADNKRONOS.com (AKI): Baghdad - "IRAQ: AL-QAEDA 'ENLISTING WIDOWS AS SUICIDE BOMBERS'" (March 21, 2008) (Read More...)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "FEMALE BOMBERS SPREAD TERROR" by Sharon Behn (March 20, 2008) (Read More...)

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JIHAD WATCH.org: "VATICAN DENIES BIN LADEN CHARGE THAT POPE IS LEADING 'NEW CRUSADE,' BUT STILL WORRIED" (March 21, 2008) (Read More...)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "NEW USAMA BIN LADEN TAPE SLAMS PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATIONS, URGES HOLY WAR FOR LIBERATION" (March 20, 2008) (Read More...)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "USAMA BIN LADEN CRITICIZES EUROPE FOR ANTI-ISLAMIC CARTOONS, VOWS REACTION" (March 19, 2008) (Read More...)

A Look at More Than Cartoons (Read More...)

The Pope vs. The Alleged Insult (Read More...)


ASSIST NEWS SERVICE: Coventry, England - "POSSIBLE TERROR ATTACKS ON INDONESIAN CHRISTIANS THIS EASTER?" by Jeremy Reynalds (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A charity providing assistance for the persecuted church has received what it calls "credible reports" that the Al-Qaeda linked terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah has threatened to target Christians in Indonesia this Easter.") (March 19, 2008) (Read More...)

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "NOORDIN TOP REPORTEDLY SIGHTED IN INDONESIA" by Kenneth Conboy (March 18, 2008, 10:09 am) (Read More...)

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CNS NEWS.com: "GULF STATE'S FIRST CHURCH OPENS" by Patrick Goodenough (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Last week several western embassies warned citizens that the church could be targeted, following threats of violence from Islamists. The U.S. Embassy added the new church to a list of examples of potential targets which it said could be attacked by extremists. The Australian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates, which deals with Qatar, noted that a terrorist Web site had made reference to the new church complex.") (March 17, 2008) (Read More...)

WHITEHOUSE.gov - News Release: "STATEMENT BY DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY TONY FRATTO ON PARTISAN HOUSE BILL" (NEWS RELEASE SNIPPET: "Today, the House of Representatives took a significant step backward in defending our country against terrorism and passed a partisan bill that will please class-action trial lawyers at the expense of our national security.") (March 14, 2008) (Read More...)

THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Source: Al-Jarida, Kuwait, March 14, 2008"): "ISLAMIC JIHAD THREATENS MASSIVE ATTACKS IN ISRAEL TO PREVENT CEASEFIRE AGREMENT" (Posted March 14, 2008) (Read More...)


FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "AL QAEDA IN IRAQ UNDER SADDAM" by Jamie Glazov (INTERVIEW SNIPPET: "Al-Magid: Thank you Mr. Glazov. I hope to provide information to the American public that will help them understand that terrorism in the U.S. from Al Qaeda did not end on September 11th, 2001. There are currently supporters of Al Qaeda not only outside of the U.S. but also inside of it.") (March 13, 2008) (Read More...)

JIHAD WATCH.org (INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE): "INDIA: POLICE IN MUMBAI ON ALERT FOR SLEEPER CELLS OF JIHADISTS" (March 13, 2008) (Read More...)

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THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "AMINA AND SARAH SAID's AUNT WARNED TO SHUT UP" (March 10, 2008) (Read More...)

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "NO HONOR KILLING HERE, MOVE ALONG" (January 10, 2008) (Read More...)


JIHAD WATCH.org (REUTERS): Jalalabad, Afghanistan - "AFGHAN CARTOON RAGE: 'IF OUR DEMANDS ARE NOT FULFILLED, WE WILL STAGE MORE PROTESTS AND RESORT TO SUICIDE ATTACKS AGAINST THE FOREIGNERS'" (March 9, 2008) (Read More...)

A Look at More Than Cartoons (Read More...)


JPOST.com: "IRANIAN GROUP PUTS REWARD ON HEADS OF BARAK, SHIN BET AND MOSSAD CHIEFS" (March 9, 2008, 22:52) (Read More...)

THE MEMRI BLOG.org ("Source: Tabnak; adlroom.com, Iran, March 9, 2008"): "IRAN STUDENT MOVEMENT SETS REWARD FOR TOP ISRAELI OFFICIALS" (Posted March 9, 2008) (Read More...)


EXPRESS.co.uk: "HAS AL QAEDA JOINED REAL IRA PLOT?" by Camilla Tominey (PHOTO CAPTION: "The Queen is seen as potential target" ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Northern Ireland has been put on terrorist alert for the Queen's visit later this month.") (March 9, 2008) (Read More...")
OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (GUARDIAN.co.uk, March 2, 2008): "MI5 TARGETS IRELAND'S AL-QAEDA CELLS" (March 3, 2008) (Read More...)

HOT AIR.com - blog: "AL-QAEDA TARGETING IRELAND?" by Ed Morrissey (March 1, 2008) (Read More...)


MEMRI IWMP.org: "MUSTAFA ABU YAZID URGES MUSLIM WOMEN NOT TO PREVENT THEIR SONS AND HUSBANDS FROM ENGAGING IN JIHAD" (Posted March 7, 2008)


MEMRI.org - Special Dispatch Series - No. 1682: "SALAH AL-DIN BRIGADES SPOKESMAN ON AL-JAZERRA CALLS ON MUSLIMS TO BOMB, BURN DOWN DANISH EMBASSIES AND KIDNAP DANISH AMBASSADORS TO SLAUGHTER THEM AT MUHAMMAD'S TOMB" (March 6, 2008) (Read More...)


DHS.gov - "HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISORY SYSTEM Current Threat Level" (SNIPPET: "March 5, 2008 -- The United States government's national threat level is Elevated, or Yellow. The U.S. threat level is High, or Orange, for all domestic and international flights.") (Read More...)

NEWSMAX.com: "COMMANDER WARNS OF AL-QAIDA THREAT TO U.S." (March 6, 2008, 9:19 pm) (Read More...)


JIHAD WATCH.org (NBC NEWS): "JIHADISTS COULD HIT TRAINS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "However, the authors of the intelligence analysis make clear that there are no known, immediate dangers. "At this time, there is no credible intelligence regarding specific plans by any extremist groups or individuals to perpetrate an act of terrorism against the U.S. mass transit system," they write.") (March 5, 2008) (Read More...)

ABC NEWS - THE BLOTTER: "MARCH MADNESS: HOMELAND SECURITY ISSUES WARNING ON SPORTS ARENAS FBI and DHS Issue Warning Just in Time for March Madness" by Richard Esposito (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The assessment repeatedly noted that the FBI and DHS have no "information on any credible or specific current terrorism plots to attack stadiums or arenas in the United States."") (March 4, 2008) (Read More...)

29 posted on 04/01/2008 11:06:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374069
TERRORISM FOCUS

“An Online Terrorist Training Manual - Part One: Creating a Terrorist Cell”
By Abdul Hameed Bakier


30 posted on 04/01/2008 11:11:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3648904.ece

March 31, 2008
“Convicted Islamist terrorists exploiting growing prison gang culture”
Richard Ford, Home Correspondent

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The document, The National Commission Plan 2008/2009, admits that the Prison Service currently has no specific programmes aimed at the risk posed by extremism within top-security jails.

“There is an urgent requirement to understand the custodial behaviour of this group of offenders and its potential impact on other prisoners,” the paper says.

Last year jail watchdogs gave warning of the effect of an influx of rival groups schooled in gun and gang culture.

There are more than 130 terrorist prisoners in England and Wales, including 113 category A prisoners. A Whitehall document released in November said that the number of terrorist prisoners is projected to rise to 1,600 by 2016-17.”


42 posted on 04/02/2008 2:46:25 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp898.htm

April 1, 2008
HP-898

“Under Secretary for Terrorism and
Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey
Testimony Before the Senate Committee on Finance”

Washington


49 posted on 04/02/2008 4:26:07 AM PDT by Cindy
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03 April 2008
“REMORSE*”


118 posted on 04/03/2008 2:34:43 PM PDT by Cindy
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Note: That should read “Sharia Law” but Fox News hasn’t
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347272,00.html

“NYC Cabbie Who Runs Anti-American Islamic Web Site Mocks GI Deaths, Calls for Shia Law In U.S.”
Monday, April 07, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “NEW YORK, N.Y. — A New York City cabbie who operates an extremist Islamic anti-American Web site that features violent images — including mocking the deaths of GIs in Iraq — says he’s doing the country a service by “exposing the truth.”

Yousef al-Khattab, who runs RevolutionMuslim.com from his home in Queens, told FOX News that he also wants the U.S. to embrace Islam and Sharia Law, which prohibits alcohol and can include stoning to death or severe flogging for pre-marital sex and adultery.

On any given day, log on to al-Khattab’s site and a host of startling images appear:”

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329 posted on 04/07/2008 1:26:01 PM PDT by Cindy
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JPOST.com - JERUSALEM POST: "'REPORT ON SEPT. 6 STRIKE TO SHOW SADDAM TRANSFERRED WMDs TO SYRIA'" (April 7, 2008, 21:57)

HAARETZ.com: "SADDAM COLLECTED INFORMATION ON DOZENS OF POTENTIAL TARGETS IN ISRAEL" by Amir Oren (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "In addition to the detailed collection of intelligence on potential Israeli targets, the documents also show that Saddam's intelligence was following closely the links between Iran and Hezbollah and the potential that such ties could provide Iran to operate in the territories and in North Africa.") (Last updated March 23, 2008, 08:41)
FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com: "IRAN'S HIDDEN HAND IN GAZA" by Avigdor Haselkorn (March 19, 2008)

TERRORISM-INFO.org.il - INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM INFORMATION CENTER (IICC): "SENIOR HAMAS OPERATIVE FIGURE TELLS LONDON SUNDAY TIMES' GAZA STRIP CORRESPONDENT ABOUT IRANIAN AND SYRIA MILITARY AID, DETAILING THE TRAINING RECEIVED BY HUNDREDS OF HAMAS TERRORIST OPERATIVES AND DESCRIBING THE TRANSMISSION TO HAMAS OF IRANIAN TECHNICAL KNOW-HOW FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF ROCKETS AND IEDs." (March 17, 2008)


COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "IRAN'S MEDDLING IN THE GULF" by Olivier Guitta (March 17, 2008)

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“DEFEATING TERRORISM
By Casting a Global Net”
04/07/08

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Robert S. Mueller, III
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Chatham House
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April 7, 2008

In May of 1943, Prime Minister Winston Churchill traveled to Washington, D.C. and addressed a Joint Session of Congress. He said, “The experiences of a long life…have wrought in me the conviction that there is nothing more important for the future of the world than the fraternal association of our two peoples in righteous work both in war and peace.”

It is in that same fraternal spirit that I speak to you today. The United States and the United Kingdom share a bond of friendship, forged in the fires of war and refined in times of peace. Side by side, our nations have faced down threats to our freedom and have forced tyranny into retreat.

Today we face another threat to our freedom, and that is the threat of terrorism, imposed by violent extremists. Our nations have both seen terrorist attacks in our cities. We have both lost citizens. And we have both committed our strength to defeating the tyranny of terrorism.

In November of 2006, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, former head of MI5, gave a rare public speech in which she explained that MI5 was investigating some 200 terrorist networks, 30 active plots, and roughly 1,600 known or suspected terrorists. In a speech this past November, MI5 Director General Jonathan Evans updated that number from 1,600 to 2,000.

As FBI Director, I am often asked to give specific numbers of plots disrupted, cases opened, and suspected terrorists we are investigating. While those numbers are classified, I can say that at any given time, we have several thousand open terrorism-related cases.

It is important to remember that any numbers we can give do not account for those persons and plots who have not come onto our radar screens. We can say with certainty that we have been able to prevent other attacks, but we take little comfort from that.

Terrorists continue to try to get past our collective defenses every day. They continue to attempt large-scale, coordinated attacks, such as the 2006 London-based plot to bomb airliners bound for the United States and Canada. Many, if not most, of the passengers would have been British, American, and Canadian citizens. This case is now being tried here in London.

And they continue to attempt smaller, less sophisticated attacks, such as the car bombings outside a London nightclub, or the plot to gun down U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Though these plots failed, they remind us that while the terrorist threats have changed, they have not diminished.

And so today, following the examples of Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller and Jonathan Evans, I’d like to discuss the threat of international terrorism from the FBI’s perspective, the challenges of intelligence, and the need for strong global partnerships.

In the wake of the September 11th attacks, our path was clear. We knew our enemies were al Qaeda terrorists, and together, we went after them—from their training camps, to their funding, to their leadership. Working together, we diminished their sanctuary in Afghanistan, froze millions of dollars in finances, and captured or killed many top leaders.

But al Qaeda will not go quietly into the night. It is resilient. Its network is now diffuse. And it continues to adjust its strategies and tactics. We now confront a three-tiered threat.

The top tier is the core al Qaeda organization, which has established new sanctuaries in the ungoverned spaces, tribal areas, and frontier provinces of Pakistan. And new sanctuaries mean al Qaeda can reconstitute its leadership, recruit new operatives, and regenerate its capability to attack.

The middle tier is perhaps the most complex. We are finding small groups who have some ties to an established terrorist organization, but are largely self-directed. Think of them as al Qaeda franchises—hybrids of homegrown radicals and more sophisticated operatives. The July 7th bombers are an example of this middle layer. Two of them trained at camps in Pakistan, but they came back to Britain and lived among you while they plotted their attacks. The arrests last September of small terrorist cells in Denmark and Germany are other examples.

The bottom tier is made up of homegrown extremists. They are self-radicalizing, self-financing, and self-executing. They meet up on the Internet instead of in foreign training camps. They have no formal affiliation with al Qaeda, but they are inspired by its message of violence. Examples of this tier include last year’s plot to blow up pipelines at JFK airport in New York and a 2005 plot to attack military recruiting centers and a synagogue in Los Angeles.

The global intelligence and law enforcement communities are focused on all three of these threats—core al Qaeda, hybrid groups, and homegrown cells.

Our adversaries are evolving, and so are their tactics. We know that terrorists still desire to obtain Weapons of Mass Destruction and use them to kill as many civilians as possible. But we have also seen terrorists turn cars into bombs and drive them into airports and embassies. The plot to bomb United States-bound airliners reminds us that al Qaeda’s core organization still exists, and still thirsts for dramatic, mass-casualty attacks. But we have also seen unaffiliated groups plotting to kidnap a single British soldier from the streets of Birmingham, behead him, and post the video on the Internet.

And that is just the international terrorist threat. The FBI also devotes substantial resources to investigating domestic terrorist threats. We will never forget the 168 victims of the Oklahoma City bombing. And we also have to protect our citizens, our infrastructure, and our economy from attacks by animal rights and environmental extremists. We know you have experienced similar challenges here in Great Britain.

Terrorism is terrorism, no matter the motive. The global law enforcement and intelligence communities must be prepared to confront all permutations of these threats, all the time.

The essential components to confronting these threats are intelligence and partnerships. I’ll start with intelligence. But first, a quick story.

I met Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller just after the September 11th attacks. I was new to my job, and I asked her what she considered the key to MI5’s success in thwarting terrorist attacks. She said, “Two things: sources and wires.” That is as true today as it was the day I heard it, because sources and wires provide intelligence.

Intelligence, by its nature, is imperfect. Human sources may not be 100 percent reliable. Technology may not always be in the right place at the right time, and may not capture everything we need to hear or read. Even with the best technology, the most reliable sources, and the most talented personnel, intelligence is an art, not a science. It is a continual process of trying to determine what we know and what we don’t know, and then finding ways to fill those gaps.

Dame Eliza has put it this way: “Often difficult decisions need to be made on the basis of intelligence which is fragmentary and difficult to interpret…some is gold, some dross, and all of it requires validation, analysis and assessment.”

We in the FBI are panning for gold. First, we have to determine in which streams we are likely to find gold. Which suspected networks? Which human sources? Which websites? Then, agents and analysts must take their pans and wade through the waters of intelligence, carefully searching for nuggets of gold amid streams of repetitive or irrelevant information.

The gold might be a phone number, or a name, or a receipt from a bank transaction. It will likely be hidden among thousands of other scraps of information. With deft, methodical sifting, we can separate the gold from the dross, as Dame Eliza would say. But as she also points out, gathering the intelligence is just the start. It then must be verified and connected to other intelligence. And even then we are only seeing part of the picture.

Our goal is to get as close as possible to having the complete picture. For the FBI, this means we often continue to collect information long after we have gathered enough evidence for prosecution. Once we have the threat under control, we use these cases as intelligence collection platforms. Our mission is not just to disrupt an isolated plot, but to thoroughly dismantle the entire network that supports it.

As Jonathan Evans has said, “Knowing of somebody is not the same as knowing all about somebody.” Once we identify a terror suspect, we need to know everything we can about him. Who are his associates? Where does his money come from? Where does he travel? With whom does he communicate? We try to exhaust every possible avenue of inquiry before making an arrest. Yet the investigation may still continue—in many cases thanks to the cooperation of the person charged.

With each unique investigation, we wrestle with the same questions. Have we struck the right balance between security and freedom? Did we take every reasonable step? What if we didn’t peel back the layer that would have revealed a connection to another terrorist network, or another terrorist plot? The FBI has learned the answers to these questions through hard experience.

And to make matters more complex, the key fragment of intelligence we need to break open a case may well come from a source in another country. We cannot afford to stop gathering intelligence once we reach our own borders.

That brings us to the other indispensable tool, and that is partnerships. Within the United States, this includes our state and local law enforcement counterparts. But our international partners are just as important. Today, I can tell you that the vast majority of the FBI’s terrorism cases originate from information developed by our partners overseas—even those cases in which the suspected terrorists and the potential targets are all on American soil.

Let me give you an example. Last month, an individual named Hassan Abu-Jihaad was convicted in federal court in Connecticut on terrorism and espionage charges. Abu-Jihaad was a signalman in the United States Navy.

While on active duty aboard the USS Benfold in the Middle East, Abu-Jihaad sent classified information about the movements and vulnerabilities of his Navy battle group to an extremist website based in London. This was just months after al Qaeda had attacked the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 American sailors.

We learned about Abu-Jihaad from British law enforcement officers, who found a computer disk containing this classified information while searching a residence in London.

That’s one connection—but there is another. Once we learned of Abu-Jihaad from New Scotland Yard, we began the process of learning everything there was to know about him. We discovered that he had been the roommate of a man named Derrick Shareef.

Through monitoring court-authorized wiretaps, we learned that Abu-Jihaad and Derrick Shareef discussed attacking military targets in Phoenix and San Diego. Shareef was then arrested in December 2006 and charged with plotting to detonate hand grenades at a large shopping mall outside Chicago at the height of the Christmas season. He pled guilty this past November.

This case is another illustration of both the power and the limitations of intelligence and the need for strong partnerships throughout the global intelligence and law enforcement communities. The investigation ranged from a battleship in the Persian Gulf to a shopping mall in suburban Chicago. But the intelligence we needed to tie everything together and convict both men came from a house in London.

Without New Scotland Yard, we might not have been able to unravel these plots. Our national security might have been jeopardized. And many lives—both military and civilian—might have been lost.

Fortunately, the partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom is among the strongest in the world. I am particularly grateful for the relationship between the FBI and our British counterparts. It remains a model of international intelligence and law enforcement cooperation.

The FBI has a Legal Attaché office here in London. Our staff works every day with officials in the security services, with New Scotland Yard, and with Britain’s other constabularies. FBI personnel have 20 to 30 in-person meetings every week with British intelligence and law enforcement officials. We share intelligence. We support one another’s investigations.

Our information-sharing is getting faster, easier, and more detailed every day. As recently as a year ago, we had to hand-carry hard copies of classified files to each other’s offices. Today the process is automated. For example, if New Scotland Yard needs to know if we have information about a suspect, an officer can electronically send a file or image over a secure system to our London office. Our London staff can then submit it in real time back to our databases in the United States for analysis.

This collaboration is the future of counterterrorism. We never know when a fragment of information uncovered in one country could unearth an entire network of terror in another.

And this is true not just for terrorism—the same can be said for all criminal threats, from transnational organized crime rings, to child pornography, to cyber attacks. The intelligence we seek often resides where our adversaries are based, not where we are based.

Our enemies live in the seams of our jurisdictions. No single agency or nation can find them and fight them alone. If we are to protect our citizens, working together is not just the best option, it is the only option.

Like the fascism our nations defeated six decades ago, terrorism is designed to make us afraid of today, afraid of tomorrow, and afraid of each other. It is a battle based not on territory, but on ideology—on freedom versus fear, on tolerance versus tyranny.

Once again, freedom is at stake. Once again, freedom-loving nations must rise to the challenge of our time. And once again, the road ahead will not be easy. This struggle will not end in a single, decisive battle. It may persist for generations, and we may encounter many unforeseen setbacks as we go forward.

But we go forward together. For generations, our nations have stood together, have suffered together, and have triumphed together. And we will do so again.

The struggle will be hard fought, and hard won—but it will be won. Our aim, in the words of Winston Churchill, is “victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be…come then, let us go forward together with our united strength.”


372 posted on 04/08/2008 2:53:20 AM PDT by Cindy
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RECAP AND UPDATES:

Note: The top link includes photos.

WESTERN RESISTANCE.com - blog (FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS): "UK: ISLAMIST AIR TERROR PLOT - THE STORY SO FAR..." by Adrian Morgan (April 7, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (DAILY MAIL.co.uk): "JIHADIST IN JET BOMB PLOT POSED AS HONEYMOONER ON FALSE PASSPORT" (April 7, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "UK JIHADIST HOPED TO STRIKE NUCLEAR PLANTS" (April 5, 2008)

WESTERN RESISTANCE.com - blog: "UK: TRIAL OF MUSLIMS FOR AIR TERROR MASS MURDER PLOT" (April 4, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): London - "JET PLOT JIHADISTS MADE 'MARTYRDOM' VIDEOS: 'We will take our revenge and anger, ripping amongst your people and scattering the people ... decorating the streets'" (April 4, 2008)

Link

COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org: "NEFA 'TARGET AMERICA' REPORT ON THE TRANSATLANTIC LIQUID BOMB PLOT" (April 3, 2008, 4:40 pm)

NEFA FOUNDATION.org - Report # 15 in a NEFA series, 'Target America': "A NEFA ANALYSIS OF BOJINKA II" (April 2008) (pdf)

JIHAD WATCH.org (DAILY MAIL.co.uk): "BRITISH MUSLIMS 'PLANNED TO KILL THOUSANDS BY BOMBING SEVEN TRANSATLANTIC AIRLINERS IN ONE GO'" (April 3, 2008)

Link

379 posted on 04/08/2008 4:35:36 AM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bus/

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blog:

http://threatswatch.org/rapidrecon/2008/04/thinking-about-the-unthinkable/

“Thinking About the Unthinkable”
By Michael Tanji on April 7, 2008 at 4:57 PM


408 posted on 04/08/2008 6:45:03 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aclu

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/alhussayen
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hussayen

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Sami+Omar+Hussayen%22&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Sami+Al-Hussayen&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nw

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http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=8136603&nav=menu227_7
(AP)

“Boise attorneys tapped by ACLU to argue detainee case”
Associated Press - April 8, 2008 4:04 PM ET

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union say two Boise attorneys will be among 11 lawyers who will defend detainees who face military trials at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Boise lawyer David Nevin and his partner, Scott McKay, previously made a successful defense of Sami al-Hussayen, a University of Idaho graduate student charged with aiding terrorists, the Idaho Statesman reported.

The ACLU last week said the two Boise lawyers are part of an $8.5 million effort to provide top civilian defense attorneys for military detainees held at the compound.”

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Previously...

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&um=1&tab=wn&scoring=n&q=janet+reno+%2B+aclu&btnG=Search+News

www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/johnadams.html
www.aclu.org/safefree/detention/34775res20080403.html

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60908

“Gitmo lawyers wanted!”
by Doug Powers
Posted: April 07, 2008
1:00 am Eastern

COMMENTARY SNIPPET: “Reno will spearhead the ACLU’s $8.5 million effort, dubbed “The John Adams Project,” to see to the well-being of all the wrongly accused, Ghandi-esque saints being illegally detained at Gitmo.

Reno’s lengthy record of support for human rights goes clear back to 1993 in Waco, Texas, where she fought night and day for almost two months to defend the rights of 74 Branch Davidians, 20 of them children, until they were burned alive.”


443 posted on 04/09/2008 1:56:56 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1999275/posts?page=4#4

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1999275/posts

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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=00DE36CD-F49B-4779-B11D-4E04CB8577EA

“Hatred at York University”
By Dan Rabkin
FrontPageMagazine.com | Wednesday, April 09, 2008


471 posted on 04/09/2008 7:22:44 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: All; Jet Jaguar; RDTF; backhoe; Jeff Head
ON THE INTERNET:

MEMRI IWMP.org - blog: "ISLAMIC PARTY OF TURKESTAN RELEASES VIDEO SHOWING EXECUTION OF THREE CHINESE HOSTAGES" (April 10, 2008)

Link

GLOBAL INCIDENT MAP.com (CNN): "CHINA - China says 35 arrested in Olympics plot) (April 10, 2008)

Link

stepping back in time...OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com (NYTIMES.com, January 10, 2007): "CHINA: MUSLIM TERROR RAID FINDS INTERNATIONAL TIES (January 10, 2007)

stepping bakc in time...OSINT.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "CHINESE POLICE RAID TERROR CAMP" (January 9, 2008)

SAAG.org - Search Term: "ETIM"

Google - News Search: "ETIM"

VIDEO (MEMRITV.org on YouTube.com): "JIHAD IN CHINA: VIDEO DEPICTS ISLAMIST TRAINING" (Added March 13, 2008)

stepping back in time...Video - Link (November 8, 2006)


SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 2614: "THREAT TO BEIJING OLYMPICS FROM UIGHURS - International Terrorism Monitor --- Paper No. 379" by B. Raman (March 10, 2008)

stepping back in time...SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS GROUP - Paper no. 2361: "SECURITY DURING BEIJING DURING OLYMPICS - International Terrorism Monitor: Paper No. 274" by B. Raman (September 7, 2007)

YNET NEWS.com (AP): "CHINESE OFFICIAL SAYS FOILED TERROR PLOT TARGETED BEIJING OLYMPICS GAMES" (Published March 9, 2008, 13:01)

Link

Link


SOUTH ASIA ANALYSIS.org - Paper No. 2654: "FOILED ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP PLANE FROM URUMQI - International Terrorism Monitor -- Paper No. 385" by B. Raman (March 29, 2008)

Link

Link

WTOP.com (AP): Beijing - "WOMAN CONFESSES TO CHINA PLANE ATTACK" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The unidentified woman had drained soda cans, used a syringe to fill them with gasoline and poured the contents in the plane's bathroom, next to the fuel-filled wings, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported Wednesday.") (March 27, 2008, 4:15 am)

FOX NEWS.com: Beijing - "CHINESE OFFICIAL: FLIGHT CREW PREVENTED PLANNED TERRORIST ACT ABOARD JETLINER" (March 9, 2008)

BBC NEWS: "CHINESE 'FOILED AIRLINE ATTACK'" (Last updated March 9, 2008, 10:29 GMT)

Link


WTOP.com (AP): Shangai, China - "AUSTRALIANS TAKEN HOSTAGE IN CHINA FREED" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Police in China have shot and killed a local man who took 10 Australians hostage on a tourist bus.") (March 5, 2008, 5:29 am)

Link

Link

Link

Link

510 posted on 04/10/2008 9:57:32 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/350.pdf
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docid=hsnews-000002700584

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http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/643

“Fighting Global Islamist Ideology the Key to War on Terror”
by Steven Emerson
IPT News
April 10, 2008


577 posted on 04/12/2008 3:45:05 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nuclear

http://www.memri.org/bin/search/search.cgi?nocpp=1&p%3Ats_udav=0&sort-method=3&Match=1&Terms=nuclear&Realm=All

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/searchb10.asp?search=nuclear&searchtype=all&B1=Submit

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080416/METRO/556828862/1001

Page 1 of 2

“Nuclear attack on D.C. a hypothetical disaster”
By Gary Emerling
April 16, 2008

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “”It’s inevitable,” said Cham E. Dallas, director of the Institute for Health Management and Mass Destruction Defense at the University of Georgia, who has charted the potential explosion’s effect in the District and testified before a hearing of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. “I think it’s wistful to think that it won’t happen by 20 years.”

The Senate committee has convened a series of hearings to examine the threat and effects of a terrorist nuclear attack on a U.S. city, as well as the needed response.”


773 posted on 04/16/2008 1:09:06 AM PDT by Cindy
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www.youtube.com/user/Hamsawiy3

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Hamsawiy2
“This account is suspended.”

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http://www.youtube.com/user/Hamsawiy
“This account is suspended.”


834 posted on 04/17/2008 3:13:09 AM PDT by Cindy
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Thanks to Velveeta for the ping to this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2002722/posts

“Breaking: blog which exposed the Hamdania/Haditha incident is hacked”
http://euphoricreality.com/ | 04/16/2008 | RaceBannon
Posted on April 16, 2008 8:38:48 PM PDT by RaceBannon

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To: Velveeta; euphoriadev
Thanks for the ping Velveeta.

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http://www.cybercrime.gov/reporting.htm

61 posted on April 17, 2008 1:27:58 PM PDT by Cindy


847 posted on 04/17/2008 1:35:16 PM PDT by Cindy
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RECAP and UPDATED:

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "NEW CHARGES FOR NAIVE KIDS" (April 17, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MyFoxTampaBay): "PIPE BOMB EVIDENCE CAN BE USED IN FLORIDA MUSLIM STUDENTS' CASE" (February 28, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (MyFoxTampaBay): "USF MUSLIM STUDENTS TRYING TO GET BOMB EVIDENCE THROWN OUT, SAY COP WAS RACIST" (February 20, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org: "PROSECUTOR: FLORIDA MUSLIM STUDENTS HAD EXPLOSIVES" (February 7, 2008)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TAMPA TRIBUNE): "THIRD ARREST IN MOHAMED/MEGAHED CASE" (December 13, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (TAMPA TRIBUNE): "'MARTYRDOM' DETONATOR VIDEO DETAILS REVEALED IN 'NAIVE KIDS' CASE" (November 21, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "GOOSE CREEK TWO UPDATE: JUDGE DENIES MEGAHED BAIL REQUEST" (October 29, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Tampa, Florida - "FLORIDA: MUSLIM STUDENT ACCUSED OF CARRYING BOMB-MAKING MATERIALS NOW SAYS HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS IN HIS CAR'S TRUNK" (October 24, 2007)

THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "TERROR SUSPECT WANTS HEARING CLOSED" (October 18, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "THE GOOSE CREEK TWO: MEGAHED REPORTEDLY RESEARCHED HIGH-POWERED RIFLES; ACCUSED OF SENDING CODED MESSAGES" (October 6, 2007, 09:30 am)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "THE GOOSE CREEK TWO, EGYPT, AND NATIONAL SECURITY" (October 4, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "EGYPT  TO HIRE LAWYER FOR COLLEGE STUDENT FACING FEDERAL EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (October 3, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "AFFIDAVIT SHINES MORE LIGHT ON USF CASE" (September 27, 2007)

Link

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "Breaking...MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK UPDATE: MAKING BOMBS TO SAVE A 'MARTYR'" (September 14, 2007, 05:42 PM)

More Links (September 27, 2007)

THE AVIATION NATION.com - blog: "USF TERROR SUSPECT HAD TWO PASSPORTS, DIFFERENT NAMES" (September 16, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org: Tampa - "USF SUSPECT PRODUCED VIDEO ON REMOTE CONTROLLED EXPLOSIVES" (September 14, 2007)

FreeRepublic.com - Discussion Forum (BLOGS.TAMPABAY.com/ST. PETERSBURG TIMES): "CAR'S EXPLOSIVE CONTENTS REVEALED AT HEARING FOR USF STUDENTS" (September 14, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (ST. PETERSBURG TIMES): Tampa - "MUSLIM STUDENTS ARRESTED IN SC HAD BULLETS IN CAR" (September 6, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): "DADDY MEGAHED SAYS RACISM LED TO SON'S TERROR CHARGES" (September 3, 2007)

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org (IPT News): "INDICTED USF STUDENT HAS TERROR PAST IN EGYPT" (August 31, 2007)

US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release: Washington - "TWO MEN INDICTED IN FLORIDA ON EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (August 31, 2007)

Tampa.FBI.gov: Washington - "TWO MEN INDICTED IN FLORIDA ON EXPLOSIVES CHARGES" (August 31, 2007)

Link

Link

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK UPDATE: FEDERAL GRAND JURY INVESTIGATES" (August 30, 2007)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "MYSTERY AT GOOSE CREEK: WHO ARE THE ACCUSED PIPE BOMB BOYS?" (August 12, 2007, 1:51 pm)

TAMPA BAYS 10.com: Tampa, Florida - "PROSECUTOR: ISLAMIC STUDENTS HAD PIPE BOMBS" by Mike Deeson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "She says she saw lot of traffic, a lot of people going back and forth, oxygen tanks being delivered UPS and Fed Ex deliveries and a lot going on.") (Last updated August 7, 2007)

JIHAD WATCH.org (CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIERS): Goose Creek - "SOUTH CAROLINA: 2 MUSLIMS CHARGED WITH FELONIES IN EXPLOSIVES SCARE" (Agusut 6, 2007)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "SOUTH CAROLINA POLICE CHARGE 2 STUDENTS WITH HAVING SEVERAL PIPE BOMBS NEAR NAVY BASE" (August 6, 2007)

850 posted on 04/17/2008 2:43:41 PM PDT by Cindy
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