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Posted on 08/10/2004 12:58:27 AM PDT by JustPiper
Thanks for the article. I laughed out loud when I first heard the threats earlier last week. Now they a clarifying and backing down.
On an aside, nasty storm cell blowing through my part of Northern NJ right now. Looks like your in it to?
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http://internet-haganah.us/harchives/002550.html
August 21, 2004
Following the Method of Mohammad: Jihadist Strategies in the War on Terror
12 Aug talk by Mary R. Habeck at the Heritage Foundation.:
To many observers the jihadis seem to have no strategy at all. Attacks around the world appear random or even counter-productive, and there is, apparently, no over-arching strategic vision driving their project. Dr. Habeck argues quite the reverse - there are coherent strategies behind the seeming randomness of the jihadist war on the West, strategies that only make sense within the ideologies of the various extremist groups.
Click "view event" to see it in Real Player.
Posted by aaron at August 21, 2004 11:39 AM
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/08/002924print.html
August 21, 2004
Islamist Recruitment in Bosnia - A "White" Al-Qaeda
Muslims have told me that there are no jihadists in Bosnia, or that their number is negligible. Who, then, is doing the recruiting, and who is being recruited? From Israel National News, with thanks to Sparta:
(IsraelNN.com) Serbian news outlets have been reporting with increasing intensification in recent days on attempts by Islamist terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, to recruit soldiers among Bosnia's Muslims.
The independent Serbian news agency FoNet reported on Tuesday that Muslims from Bosnia-Herzegovina are being recruited to join the what has been called "white Al-Qaeda".
Slobodan Radulj, former member of Bosnia-Herzegovina's anti-terrorist task force and an adviser to the Serb member of the presidency of Bosnia-Herzegovina, told the Nezavisne Novine Serbian daily, "Reports by international intelligence services saying that future terrorists will be blue-eyed and blonde indicate that Al-Qaeda is recruiting in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. This is why the authorities should prevent radical Islamists from paying young and poor men to go to battlefields and to die there."
Posted at August 21, 2004 10:09 AM
Yes, I read that in several publications before signing on to FR.
I'm glad his attitude and words is getting some exposure.
Generally speaking, I believe that jihadis have a goal, they have patience, and their wacko perspectives are firmly entrenched in their critical non-thinking process. They don't care who they kill and that includes themselves.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22New+Jersey%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.nj.com
http://www.foxnews.com
http://www.cnn.com
Things to come or things already here?
The US media doesn't seem to know what they are talking about, in general.
We've had a very stormy 24 hours here, it's starting to wind down now. Almost 4" of rain since yesterday afternoon, several severe storms and a possible tornado just south. Now we are under a flood warning... but i'm on top of a hill. :)
oops, was commenting on the wrong article... ;)
It does seem as if they are backing down somewhat, but you never know with the Iranians it seems.
Bizarre case has baffling element
http://www.thereporter.com/Stories/0,1413,295~30195~2347739,00.html
Authorities believe two men dumped a corpse Wednesday along the ridgeline of Mix Canyon, brutally beat a witness to the brink of death and then sparked two wildfires in their frantic attempt to flee down the winding road in a U-Haul truck.
As a crew of more than 300 firefighters worked Thursday to quell the blazes, rumors and speculation swirled in the bizarre case, which apparently involved everything from a suspected homicide to a hit-and-run accident and the ongoing search for two suspects.
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A concerned Mix Canyon resident, on his way home from work, saw the suspects and stopped to investigate. The resident, a Solano County employee, was violently beaten by the suspects, Fuller said. Apparently, the suspects, who were driving a U-Haul truck, sped down the hill on the narrow, twisting Mix Canyon Road, sideswiping a black Honda about two miles from where the road ends at Pleasants Valley Road.
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The other suspect, identified as a 6-foot-tall Hispanic male wearing a green polo shirt or FedEx uniform, had fled on foot, prompting sheriff's deputies to sweep the area and warn residents the man still could be in the vicinity, hiding in the gullies or abandoned buildings of Mix Canyon.
Thanks Selene.
That's interesting.
FYI:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/187372_border21.html
Saturday, August 21, 2004
"Security boosted at border
Air, sea unit to watch Canadian crossing for terrorists, smugglers"
By PAUL SHUKOVSKY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BELLINGHAM -- The Department of Homeland Security yesterday opened the first of five Air and Marine branches along the northern frontier, demonstrating a significant new commitment to security along the largely unfortified border. The new units are designed to better secure it from terrorists as well as traffickers of drugs, guns and illegal aliens.
As the office grows over the next year, 69 federal law enforcement officers and support people will take to the air and waters off Whatcom County and the San Juan Archipelago in a small armada that includes unmarked boats, a 33-foot aluminum vessel capable of 50 mph, two helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft outfitted with advanced surveillance instrumentation."
IMHP this is a win for the USA! Iraq has won only one metal in history.
Last modified Saturday, August 21, 2004 12:01 PM PDT
Iraq Pulls Off Another Soccer Stunner
By JOSEPH WHITE
IRAKLION, Greece - Emad Mohammed's 12-yard bicycle kick in the 64th minute gave Iraq a 1-0 victory over Australia in the quarterfinals Saturday, putting the invaded, war-torn country in position to compete for only its second Olympic medal in the nation's history.
Iraq will play either Paraguay or South Korea in the semifinals in Thessaloniki on Tuesday. Even a loss in the semis would put the Iraqis in the bronze medal game, where they could become the first athletes from their country to win a medal since Abdul Wahid Aziz's weightlifting bronze in Rome in 1960.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/08/21/ap/sports/d84jp4to2.txt
"It does seem as if they are backing down somewhat, but you never know with the Iranians it seems."(nwctwx)
Iran is on the do not trust list for sure. They are a bunch of blowhards most of the time. They'll blow to hard soon and they will get what's coming to them. I think they almost crossed that line this time. Let's give them a couple more feet of rope...
FBI called to Ft. Bend Co. property over explosive devices
http://view.atdmt.com/FUL/iview/bcntnful00601432ful/direct;wi.120;hi.600/01?rnd=7B325F23&click=http://abc.checkm8.com/adam/em/click/6807?cat=KTRK.NEWS;url=
Several agencies are investigating property near Rosenberg where explosive devices were reportedly found.
ABC13 Eyewitness News
(8/21/04 - ROSENBERG, TX) — Authorities are staying tight-lipped for now about a situation unfolding in Fort Bend County. Several pipe bombs were found on a property on Highway 36 north outside of Rosenberg.
The FBI, ATF and Houston bomb squad spent most of Friday night going in and out of the property. At this time investigators are not saying much about the scene, but we do know several explosive devices were recovered.
Wow! On the heels of the Hackensack, NJ explosion(s ?), no less.
Pakistan foils al-Qaeda attacks
From correspondents in Islamabad
August 22, 2004
PAKISTANI security agencies have arrested nearly a dozen al-Qaeda-linked terror suspects who allegedly plotted to attack key sites including military headquarters, the US embassy and parliament.
The arrested men included locals and foreigners, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said today.
The arrests were made around the time of country's Independence Day, celebrated on August 14 amid tight security.
Some of the attacks were to be launched during the Independence Day celebrations while the others were planned for other days, Mr Hayat said.
"We have arrested close to a dozen militants including some foreigners and have aborted their plot to create widespread mayhem in the country," he said.
Mr Hayat did not identify the arrested men, but said some of them were suspected to have links with Osama bin Laden's terror network.
"The security agencies have also recovered a large cache of sophisticated weapons which were to be used in the attacks," the minister said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10530077%255E1702,00.html
There were explosions in Hackensack?
Just have a few moments here in library--any major updates? Threats to Italy are chilling...
BREAKING NEWS
AP Interview: Accused American counterterror vigilante claims to have been zeroing in on Osama bin Laden
By PAUL HAVEN
The Associated Press
8/21/04 12:42 PM
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- An American on trial for allegedly torturing Afghan terror suspects in a private jail claimed Saturday in his first interview from custody that he was hot on the heels of Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders when he was arrested on July 5.
Jonathan Idema told The Associated Press he had official sanction from Afghans and Americans to hunt down terrorists and said he has been prevented from showing the evidence in court. Prosecutors say Idema was waging a private war, and he faces up to 20 years in a crumbling Afghan prison if convicted.
"We would have had (renegade Afghan warlord Gulbuddin) Hekmatyar in 14 days or less. We would have had bin Laden in less than 30 days" had he and his team not been arrested, said Idema, a colorful former U.S. Army soldier who spent three years in jail in the 1980s for allegedly bilking 60 companies out of more than $200,000 in goods.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States, Idema came to Afghanistan and was featured in several books about the war and the search for bin Laden. He has also worked with several western TV networks. He said he came to Afghanistan again earlier this year because he felt U.S. anti-terror efforts were failing.
At least four Afghan intelligence officials sat in on the 75-minute interview in a sparsely decorated room on the top floor of a building at the National Security Directorate -- Afghanistan's chief intelligence agency.
Though none interceded, Idema made frequent references to not being able to speak freely in their presence. He claimed he was badly beaten repeatedly by his jailers, though he had no visible cuts or bruises.
"Everything I was accused of doing (to the Afghan prisoners) got done to me," said the Poughkeepsie, N.Y.-native, sitting in a T-shirt, black pants and brown combat boots on a couch between two of the officials. He was not handcuffed.
As he has done during his trial in a Kabul court, he wore dark sunglasses throughout the interview and refused a request to be photographed.
Idema accused the FBI of orchestrating his arrest, saying the agency was trying to cover up its own incompetence in hunting for terrorists.
But the U.S. government has described Idema as a vigilante working on his own. An Afghan government spokesman told AP that Idema had met with two top Afghan politicians. But there was no confirmation his mission was approved by either U.S. or Afghan officials.
After initially denying any knowledge of Idema's activities, the U.S. military announced in July that it had received a prisoner from the American and held him for more than a month at Bagram Air Base before deciding that he was not the man Idema said he was. A military spokesman said the military did not realize Idema was working on his own at the time.
Idema also convinced NATO peacekeepers to help his group on three raids in the capital of Kabul. The security force said experts found traces of explosives in two houses raided by Idema and his colleagues.
Idema, Americans Brent Bennett and Edward Caraballo, and four Afghans stand accused of torturing about a dozen prisoners in their private jail. The Afghan prisoners, including a senior judge and six of his family members, have been released. Idema hinted there were other operatives in his counter-terror crew that had not yet been arrested.
The trial is set to resume Monday.
Idema denied the torture charges.
"Nobody was hung upside down. Nobody was burned with cigarette butts ... nobody was beaten, nobody was tortured, nobody had boiling water poured on them," he said. "Did we interrogate people? Absolutely. Did we keep them up with sleep deprivation? Absolutely."
Idema said that earlier this year he sent information to the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Watch command center, including the address of a hide-out then being used by bin Laden. He said he passed the information along while he was living in Fort Bragg, N.C., in January or February.
He said he got his information from three Afghan agents working for him in the field, but he would not say how the agents communicated with him in America.
"I gave (the FBI) bin Laden's exact address right outside Peshawar," a northwestern Pakistani city, he said. "I gave them the grid coordinates, the street and house number and everything. They got there five days after he left. It's like, what are you doing? Do you not want to catch bin Laden?" He said the FBI later confirmed bin Laden had been at the house.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter said Saturday the agency couldn't respond to the allegations.
"He was arrested by Afghan authorities and there is an ongoing trial which precludes us from commenting on any matters concerning Mr. Idema at this time," Carter said.
Most intelligence officials believe bin Laden is holed up in the mountainous tribal region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Peshawar is the nearest major city to that region.
Idema said he also passed along the location and satellite phone number of Ayman al-Zawahri, the alleged al-Qaida No. 2, but the FBI again failed to act. He said the incident occurred earlier this year and that his frustration prompted him to come to Afghanistan himself in April.
Idema repeated claims that he had also uncovered a plot to send 36 al-Qaida agents into the United States, kill Afghan President Hamid Karzai and attack the main U.S. base at Bagram with a high tech explosive that he said is not detectable by bomb-sniffing dogs.
"This is too unbelievable for me to make up," he said.
Idema claimed that higher ups in the FBI were slow in acting on his intelligence, embarrassed that his Afghan sources were giving him better information than they were getting, and angry that he would not reveal their names.
"This (his arrest) was not driven by the Northern Alliance, this was not driven by the Afghans. If the Afghans had their way, this never would have happened. This was driven solely by the American FBI. Solely. Because they didn't want to be embarrassed," Idema said.
Idema reiterated claims he had approval of top Pentagon officials, including officials in Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's office.
He also said senior Afghan officials including Defense Minister Mohammed Qasim Fahim and former Education Minister Yunus Qanooni were also aware of his operation.
Idema said he has documents to prove his claims, but has so far been prevented from showing them in court. He also complained that his access to documents seized during his arrest has been limited. The documents were handed over to the U.S. Embassy in July, and returned to Idema only Tuesday. He said many were missing. U.S. Embassy spokesman Roy Glover had no comment.
The chief prosecutor in the case, Mohammed Nahim Dawari, acknowledged Saturday that Idema had met with senior Afghan officials like Qanooni and Fahim, but he said that was not evidence that they knew what he was up to.
"They received him because he was a foreigner," Dawari said.
Qanooni and Fahim were not immediately available for comment, but a brother of Qanooni, Mohammed Hibrahim, told AP he was present at a meeting between Qanooni and Idema. He said Idema identified himself as a U.S. special forces operative.
Qanooni and Fahim were prominent in the Northern Alliance, which helped the United States sweep aside the Taliban in 2001. Idema was in Afghanistan during the war and says he has documents that prove he fought with the Northern Alliance and continues to be an adviser.
Dawari, the prosecutor, said he believed Idema's motives were good, but that his methods were "extreme."
"I believe he was against terror and against al-Qaida," Dawari said. "But the methods he used were not good ... What he did was wrong and he should be punished."
http://www.nj.com/breakingnews/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0477_BC_Terror-USVigilante-In&&news&tradecentercrash
Just got on myself - trying to catch up as well. Going to read backwards today.
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