"Abu Talha the German" (goes with post 370)
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Posted on 12/01/2008 6:12:32 PM PST by nwctwx
CIA Hit Men at War: ‘If they look military, we can kill them.’
~snippet
UPDATE: The CIA ground team veteran had emphasized that the agency and its operatives took care to operate within the law, a point that could have been made more clear in the first version of this story.
A CIA spokesman, for example, thought it had portrayed the agency badly.
“This report is truly bizarre, an apparent part of the cottage industry dedicated to portraying the agency as careless and slapdash,” CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said late Thursday.
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2009/01/cia-hit-men-at-war-if-they-loo.html
Harsh tactics effective, says CIA director
http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1390862
Journalists call Livni ‘terrorist’ during press conference on Gaza operation
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni had a testy press conference Friday in Washington, D.C., moments after she signed an agreement with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meant to combat arms smuggling to Gaza.
From the starting moments of the press conference, Livni was beset by a less-than friendly barrage of questions, with a number of journalists asserting that Israel’s military operations in Gaza will only make Middle East peace more distant.
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While she was speaking inside, a protest was being held outside the building by an anti-war group calling themselves “Women in Pink”, who repeatedly chanted “there is a war criminal in this building.”
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1056185.html
FBI: Fresno man held in bomb hoax at Nellis AFB
A 30-year-old man from Fresno, Calif., is facing a federal charge after allegedly driving onto Nellis Air Force base in a rental truck that he said contained a bomb.
Anhwar Telly Young appeared Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas on a charge of threat to kill or cause damage by explosive, a felony.....
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/16/state/n084811S18.DTL
Man charged with threatening Obama on website
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE50G07920090117
..that sure didn’t take long to get started, did it?
Nope, didn’t take long at all. Plenty of crazies out there.
Israel declares unilateral Gaza cease-fire
Israel declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its 22-day offensive that turned Gaza neighborhoods into battlegrounds and dealt a stinging blow to the Islamic militants of Hamas. But Israeli troops will stay in the Palestinian territory for now and Hamas threatened to keep fighting until they leave.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians;_ylt=AqM5S4oX.erEck.YoWQ_na6s0NUE
Suicide bomber kills deputy head of Iraq Sunni party
A suicide bomber on Sunday killed a deputy leader of an influential Iraqi Sunni Arab political party as he and other politicians met to discuss an upcoming provincial election, the party’s leader said.
Hassan Zaidan al-Lihebi, deputy leader of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, was killed by a suicide bomber who stormed his house, shot at guards and blew himself up in a crowded reception room, Saleh al-Mutlaq, the party’s leader, told Reuters.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE50H22E20090118
Video threatens Germany over Afghanistan
BERLIN – German authorities said Sunday that they believe a purported al-Qaida video in which a man threatens Germany over its military presence in Afghanistan is authentic.
The video, dated October 2008, features a man calling himself “Abu Talha the German,” who speaks with his face covered by a black turban.
Speaking in fluent though slightly accented German, he notes that Germany — which has more than 3,300 soldiers in Afghanistan — has the largest contingent of troops after the U.S. and Britain.
“If the Germans ... gullibly and naively think that they can get away scot-free as the third-biggest troop provider, then German politicians are out of place in parliament,” he says.
The speaker does not offer a more specific threat, though he says at one point that “it has been my wish to blow myself up for Allah since 1993.”.....
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_terror_video;_ylt=Aqde4w_F3Ls2OwsCHIX28sh0bBAF
Iran court convicts 4 over alleged US-backed plot
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090117/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_us;_ylt=AgBKin31yV9jmGm6dNN2oXxvaA8F
They’re all feeling pretty brazen these days.
Bad sign for things to come.
They’re all a bit light in the loafers. Nothing to do in those caves.
Yep, best to be on high alert.
Soooo many people converging on D.C., with reporters broadcasting worldwide. I’m sure someone would like all that primetime exposure.
"Al-Qaeda’s terrorists are being struck down by the bubonic plague. A nasty business we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemies – or maybe we would... "
From the SUN
and Drudge
"Abu Talha the German" (goes with post 370)
Hmmmm, interesting.
Let’s hope it’s just good fate.
Tips to FBI about suspicious activity on the rise
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI said Saturday it is receiving more and more tips about suspicious activities and items as the inauguration approaches, though there have been no specific or credible threats.
“The closer you get to the event, the more threat streams come in. People become a little bit more aware and want to do the right thing and pick up the phone and call us and tell us,” said John Perren, the special agent in charge for counterterrorism at the FBI’s Washington field office.
“Agencies want to forward us everything they have, just to ensure that this inauguration will be the safest inauguration there has ever been,” Perren said.
The FBI is one of 58 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies that are part of the largest inaugural security operation in history.
There is no credible intelligence, at this point, that indicates terrorists plan to disrupt the events. But intelligence officials are concerned about potential attack scenarios, such as a car bomb or other explosive devices.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090117/D95P2RJO0.html
FDA urges people to avoid peanut butter products
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health authorities on Saturday urged consumers to avoid eating cookies, cakes, ice cream and other foods that contain peanut butter until authorities can learn more about a deadly outbreak of salmonella contamination.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090118/D95PI1900.html
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