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Posted on 10/06/2008 7:27:37 PM PDT by nwctwx
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Thanks for all you’ve done (and do), Cindy. We appreciate you more than you know.
Thank you RR.
You all are very special to me, but you know that.
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Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/10749.htm
Report: Europe Fears Marine Suicide Attack From Lebanon
The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reports that the European countries, particularly those on the Mediterranean, have expressed fear of a suicide attack coming from the sea, or of an attack on UNIFIL forces, by extremist Lebanese groups.
A calming message by these countries to Syria shows understanding of Syria’s moves against organized Islamic extremism in Lebanon and stresses that the capitals of the countries are planning operations to uncover Syrian opposition groups funded by Saudi Arabia.
Source: Al-Akhbar, Lebanon, October 22, 2008
Posted at: 2008-10-22
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http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/pr102408.html
Afghan Drug Kingpin Charged With Financing Taliban Terrorist Insurgency
OCT 24 — (Washington, DC) - Michele M. Leonhart, Acting Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration joined Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to announce the arrest of HAJI JUMA KHAN, a/k/a “Abdullah,” a/k/a “Haji Juma Khan Mohammadhasni,” an Afghan drug trafficker charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics with intent to support a terrorist organization. KHAN is among the first defendants to be prosecuted under the 2006 federal narco-terrorism statute.
According to the Indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court: Since at least 1999, KHAN led an international opium, morphine and heroin trafficking organization (the “Khan Organization”) based principally in the Helmand and Kandahar provinces of southern Afghanistan. The Khan Organization arranged to sell morphine base, an opium derivative that can be processed into heroin, in quantities as large as 40 tons – enough to supply the entire United States heroin market for more than two years. According to the Indictment, the Khan Organization also operated labs in Afghanistan that produced refined heroin and sold the drug in quantities of as much as 100 kilograms, or 220 pounds, and more.
KHAN has been closely aligned with the Taliban, which was designated by the President of the United States as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Group in 2002. The Taliban’s totalitarian government controlled Afghanistan from the mid-1990s until 2001, when it was removed from power by the United States and allied military forces. Since the United States’ military intervention, the Taliban has operated an insurgency aimed at re-establishing its control of Afghanistan and forcibly expelling the United States and its allies through terrorist tactics such as suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices, shootings and kidnappings, which target American soldiers, Afghan political leaders, security contractors and civilians. The Taliban has publicly claimed credit for terrorist attacks, including a January 14, 2008 attack on civilians and employees at the Serena Hotel in Kabul, in which an American citizen was murdered.
The Taliban’s terrorist insurgency has been funded in part by drug traffickers who provide financing to the Taliban in exchange for protection for their drug routes, production labs, and opium poppy fields. KHAN has supported the Taliban’s efforts to forcibly remove the United States and its allies from Afghanistan by providing financial support in the form of drug proceeds.
“Proceeds from HAJI JUMA KHAN’s global drug trafficking organization funded the terrorist activities of the Taliban,” said DEA Acting Administrator MICHELE M. LEONHART. “His arrest disrupts a significant line of credit to the Taliban and will shake the foundation of his drug network that has moved massive quantities of heroin to worldwide drug markets.”
Mr. GARCIA said: “The arrest of HAJI JUMA KHAN is another significant step in the continuing effort to combat terrorism by stopping the flow of narcotics proceeds that help fund the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.”
Mr. GARCIA praised the investigative work of the DEA, with the assistance of the British Serious Organised Crime Agency, and thanked the Turkish National Police and the Turkish Jandarma for their role in the case. He also thanked United States and international INTERPOL authorities for their support.
KHAN will be presented this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge RONALD L. ELLIS for initial appearance and arraignment. United States District Judge NAOMI REICE BUCHWALD will preside over future proceedings in this case; a conference is scheduled before Judge BUCHWALD for October 28, 2008, at 2:30 p.m.
If convicted, KHAN, 54, faces a maximum sentence of life and a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. The prosecution is being handled by the Office’s International Narcotics Trafficking Unit. Assistant United States Attorneys MARSHALL A. CAMP and EUGENE INGOGLIA are in charge of the prosecution.
http://www.policeone.com/suspect-pursuit/articles/1749232-Suspect-arrested-in-Fla-officer-shooting/
“Suspect arrested in Fla. officer shooting
Man caught in Dania Beach was guarding pot house, police say”
By Sofia Santana, Macollvie Jean-Francois
Sun-Sentinel
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DANIA BEACH, Fla. — A Miami-Dade County police detective shot Wednesday night in South Miami-Dade County was released from the hospital Thursday, about the same time authorities swarmed a local neighborhood and arrested a suspect in the case.
Authorities found Yoel Padron Garcia, 42, at a home in the 4900 block of Southwest 28th Avenue just before 8 a.m. Thursday and charged him with three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a police officer. That’s one count for each Miami-Dade narcotics detective police officials say Garcia opened fire on outside a Naranja home in South Miami-Dade, hitting Detective Edwin Diaz in the right torso and nearly wounding fellow detectives Julio Benavides Jr. and Jean Phil Chatel.”
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“Two Dead In UCA Shooting (Arkansas)”
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Posted on October 26, 2008 11:07:37 PM PDT by kcvl
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http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2374489
“Terrorism Comes to Damascus: Syria Faces its Own Islamist Threat”
By Fadhil Ali
(October 24, 2008)
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Previously...
http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001439.html
October 22, 2008
“I’M PRETTY SURE THE ROAD TO TEHRAN PASSES THROUGH DAMASCUS”
(October 22, 2008)
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444087,00.html
“Assailants Gouge Out Afghan Man’s Eyes in Front of Family”
Sunday, October 26, 2008
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan —
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Sayed Ghulam, 52, was recovering in a hospital in the country’s largest southern city, Kandahar.
Ghulam said three armed men knocked on his door in the Sangin district of Helmand province late Thursday. When he opened the door, they punched him in the face, put the barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle in his mouth and gouged out his eyes with a knife in the presence of his wife and seven children.”
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_e008.htm
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
October 26, 2008
“The Israeli security forces detained a terrorist from Rafah who infiltrated into Israel through Egypt. He was sent by Hamas in the Gaza Strip to abduct IDF soldiers to use as bargaining chips for the release of imprisoned Palestinian terrorists.1 The incident is a severe violation by Hamas of the lull arrangement.”
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3613633,00.html
Report: Syria sends delegates to N. Korea on pending arms deals
Published: 10.27.08, 10:47 / Israel News
Syria dispatched a high-ranking delegation to North Korea, in order to ensure the arms deals signed between the two countries take place as scheduled, the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Monday.
Syrian sources denied the report, which suggested the visit was prompted by the failing health of North Korean President Kim Jong-il. (Roee Nahmias)
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2008/10/syrian_strike_aimed.php
“Syrian strike aimed at al Qaeda’s coordinator in Syria”
By BILL ROGGIO
October 27, 2008 12:12 AM
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023252.php
October 27, 2008
“Briton and South African shot dead in Kabul by their Afghan security guard”
Hi Cindy,
as always your hard work here has been appreciated over the years, plenty. i wonder if you sleep sometimes. but no matter the outcome of the new election, won’t we still have this issue to deal with? why are you leaving, if obama wins? he also has policies on terrorism, from what i gather he wont be so trigger ready as former politicians, but Mcain is also taking a different route. why give up your livelihood?
you yourself say ‘Jihad - another day’ right, don’t think of it from a presidential standpoint, the enemies are still there no matter who gets into power.
i’m just curious as to why you’d leave according to presidency when the enemy is the same???
boggles me...but in any case, take care of yourself.. you need a break from this place. for your health id almost vote obama.
all the best.
placemark
http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1363
October 25, 2008
As part of the thaw in US relations with Damascus, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has relayed a friendly message to Hamas political leader Khalid Meshaal through Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem’s aides.
The message, described by Moussa Abu Marzouk, one of the heads of Hamas’ Damascus headquarters, as a “verbal communication.” was received as four Syrian divisions completed their deployment on Lebanon’s borders last week (see exclusive map). In the message, Rice praised the Palestinian terrorist group for halting its missile fire into Israel.
DEBKA-Net 24 exposed the complete deployment - from the Syrian 4th Division along Lebanon’s northern border and the 10th, 12th and 14th Divisions on Lebanon’s eastern frontier opposite the Hermil mountains and the Beqaa Valley, and down to the Hermon Mountains facing South Lebanon and northern Israel.
Neither the Americans nor the Israelis had expected Damascus to round off this troop concentration so fast. It was taken for granted that Damascus would wait to the spring of 2009, after the rainy season. However, president Bashar Assad saw two advantages in going ahead before the Nov. 4 US presidential election:
First, Israel would be unlikely to strike in the days leading up to the US election and, second, Damascus would present the new man in the White House with a fait accompli.
The first concentration of 6-8,000 Syrian troops was disclosed on Oct. 3 when two Syrian commando brigades of the 4th Mechanized Division took up positions along 2 km of the El Kebir River which marks that sector of the border - opposite northern Lebanon and its largest town of Tripoli.
Then, last week, Damascus consigned the 12th Mechanized Division to the border of the Lebanese Beqaa Valley and its central mountains, so completing the encirclement.
Syrian military positions now range from points opposite the northern Lebanese town of Al Qaa on Mt. Hermil to points further south up to the Massena border crossing 50 km north of Beirut. The Syrian 4th and 12th Divisions abut on the 10th Division ranged opposite South Lebanon and the disputed Shebaa Farms enclave. The military chain continues with the 14th commando division positioned on the Syrian slopes of Mt Hermon opposite Israeli military positions.
Not only are Lebanon’s borders enclosed, but Syria, in conjunction with Iran, has also established a military presence inside Lebanon. In the summer, they emplaced radar stations on the tall Lebanese peaks of Mt. Sannine and Barukh of the central mountain range, giving them a detailed view of every move on Lebanese territory, in northern Israel and on the eastern Mediterranean.
Three years after forcing Syria to quit Lebanon, the Bush administration was ready to okay Syria’s massed troop concentration on Lebanese borders. Permission was granted in an apparently cursory meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Syrian foreign minister Walid Muallem on Sept. 27 at UN Center in New York.
Damascus counted this as validation of its drive for restored domination of Lebanon by dint of its military.
Washington also satisfied itself that the deal promised major profits:
1. The Assad government sounded willing for the first time to obstruct Hizballah and hold up its supplies of military hardware.
Syria’s 4th and 12 Divisions are in position for blocking Hizballah’s primary smuggling routes.
2. It was inferred that Damascus was at last beginning, albeit two years late, to honor UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which banned arms supplies to Hizballah as part of the ceasefire which ended the Israel-Lebanon war. Syria and Iran mocked that resolution for two years by smuggling weapons in bulk to the Shiite terrorists.
3. Damascus’ implied willingness to go against Hizballah was taken by Washington as a measure of Assad’s readiness to stand up to Iran at present - and break away in the future.
4. And might not that willingness be extended to embrace Tehran’s other terrorist protégés, the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami, both of whose headquarters have long been welcome in Damascus?
Middle East sources stressed that, for the time being, all these exciting benefits are no more than fond hopes, which the Bush administration cannot hope to see fully developed in the short months remaining of its term - if at all. Bashar Assad’s relations with the United States are littered with a trail of broken promises, as Rice’s predecessor, Colin Powell, can affirm.
Nevertheless, the secretary of state keeps pushing on.
Washington and Middle East sources reveal that the message she addressed to Hamas’ political chief Khaled Meshaal in Damascus was the first communication ever from a senior US official to the Palestinian fundamentalists, which Washington lists as a terrorist group. Rice even complimented Hamas for halting its missile and rocket fire into Israel and voiced the hope that Palestinian organization would go further and join Palestinian-Israeli diplomacy.
After Moussa Abu Marzouk on Oct. 22, spilled the beans of what he called American recognition of his organization, the state department issued a hurried denial and set up an interview for Assistant Secretary of State David Welch with the London-based Saudi paper Shawq al Awsat.
The interviewer, Manal Lutfi, pushed hard for an admission of the US-Syrian détente, citing examples. But Welch stuck to his guns: “…I say there is no revision of our policies towards Syria.”
Formally speaking, he was truthful. However, the groundwork has certainly been laid for the major revision which he denied. Syrian troops have been allowed to openly close in on Lebanon without a demurral from the Bush administration. Washington has been caught out communicating with Bashar Assad’s extremist Palestinian guest, Hamas, for the first time.
The outcome of these preliminaries - milestone in themselves – will no doubt come to light only when a new president sits in the White House
Typical DEBKA consistency.
Syria, Hizballah on alert for Israeli action after US raid Exclusive Report
October 27, 2008, 12:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=5677
Israeli strike now feared by Hizballah and Damascus Middle East sources report that Damascus and the Lebanese Hizballah have alerted their forces to a possible Israeli strike against Hizballah’s arms smuggling routes, supply sources, and stocks, using as a precedent the US cross-border raid which killed eight people at an al Qaeda base in northern Syria Sunday, Oct. 26.
Those sources report that Syrian president Bashar Assad and Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah fear that US-Israeli military synchronization for Israel’s attack on Syria’s nuclear reactor in September 2007 may have been repeated in Sunday’s American raid at Abu Kemal.
According to military sources, intelligence analysts in Damascus, Beirut and Tehran have concluded that US Air Force planes, specifically those providing an umbrella for the helicopter-borne raid, flew over Israel before reaching Syrian skies.
They point out that, on the morning of the attack, Israel’s military intelligence chief, Brig. Amos Yadlin, appeared before the cabinet session in Jerusalem with an unusually grave assessment of the military collaboration between Damascus and Hizballah.
He disclosed that Syria had become “Hizballah’s arms warehouse” and was catering to “every single Hizballah wish for strategic resources.”
Syria has given Hizballah,, medium-range surface rockets, radar systems and anti-air missiles. Yadlin reported that “Assad trusts Hizballah more than his own army.” Its operatives work out of Syria without any restraint.
Damascus and Hizballah find room for anxiety in three more events:
1. Israel’s chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazy met the UNIFIL commander Gen. Claudio Graziano last week and put him on notice that Israel would no longer put up with the ongoing Syrian violations of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which imposed an embargo on arms supplies to Hizballah.
2. Before Sunday’s cabinet meeting, defense minister Ehud Barak and Gen. Ashkenazi put their heads together on ways to halt these violations.
3. Barak then phoned Gen. Graziano to reiterate that Israel had run out of patience with Syrian arms smuggling to Hizballah.
Israel normally liaises with the UNIFIL commander through the OC Northern Command, Brig. Gad Eisenkott. Direct high-level contacts are rare.
All these pointers to possible Israeli military action in the steps of the American raid have made Damascus and Hizballah’s leadership anxious; they fear Israel has reached breaking-point and may no longer choose to look the other way on Hizballah’s massive rearmament
I missed it, glad you reposted. May God bless you.
Thank you Flutters.
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