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The links on that post take you here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~carterglobal/carterglobal/
Where they are selling books for the above "how to's" as well as How to get a USA Passport and Live/Work in the United States of America.
They also Se Habla Espanol
Al Qaeda leader tried to smuggle dirty bomb: US
http://www.dawn.com/2004/10/06/top13.htm
WASHINGTON, Oct 5: The debate on possible nuclear threats to America entered a new phase on Tuesday when US officials said a top Al Qaeda leader had tried to obtain radioactive material for smuggling a so-called dirty bomb into the United States.
A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material and can have devastating effects if used in a densely populated area, particularly a large city.
Although the nuclear controversy always had a simmering presence in the United States, it occupied the central stage last week when in the first of the three presidential debates both President George W. Bush and his challenger John Kerry said they regarded nuclear proliferation as the most serious threat to US interests in the near future.
Both said they feared that terrorists might acquire nuclear technology from unsecured sources across the world and use it to threat US security. On Tuesday, US officials said that a top Al Qaeda leader, Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, was working on a scheme to obtain radioactive materials for a so-called 'dirty bomb' that could be smuggled into the United States.
Shukrijumah has attempted unsuccessfully to enter the United States using phony passports, US authorities said, adding that he had lived in South Florida before and worshipped at the same mosque as Jose Padilla, who is being held as an enemy combatant in a plot to detonate a 'dirty bomb'.
FBI agents had arrested Padilla, a Muslim convert also known as Abdullah al Muhajir, in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport after a flight from Pakistan. He was allegedly carrying $10,000 in from his Al Qaeda handlers.
Recent reports in US newspapers said Shukrijumah was observed last year during a trip to Canada, where authorities suspect he posed as a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. An FBI informant told US authorities the Al Qaeda leader was seeking material to build a dirty bomb.
McMaster University has a five-megawatt research reactor, whose uranium-based fuel rods come from the United States. Canadian officials have denied any security breach of the McMaster facility.
The US State Department has offered a $5 million reward for Shukrijumah, who is also sought for questioning by the FBI in connection with terrorist threats against the United States. He was named in a March 2003 material-witness arrest warrant by prosecutors in Northern Virginia, where US officials said he was planning terrorist attacks.
Note in bin Laden book sparks FBI inquiry
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/193776_book05.html
DEMING -- The FBI would like to find a person who checked out a library book about Osama bin Laden. That's because of what someone wrote in the margin of the book. The book is titled "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America."
The handwritten note in the margin is a quote from bin Laden saying, "Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded by god."
A citizen reported the comment to the FBI, which served the library district in Whatcom County with a subpoena demanding names and addresses of everyone who checked out the book. But the lawyer for the library, Deborah Garrett, filed a motion to quash the subpoena.
The U.S. Attorney's Office withdrew the subpoena before a hearing, but it could be filed again.
CIA Questions Saddam’s Ties to Al Qaeda
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/World/Saddam_alQaeda_041005-1.html
On Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a case for war against Iraq to the U.N. Security Council, in part by stating, "Iraq today harbors a deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda lieutenants."
Earlier this year, in a joint press conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in the Rose Garden on June 15, President Bush said, "Zarqawi's the best evidence of a connection to al Qaeda affiliates and al Qaeda."
And Cheney, while speaking at the D-Day Museum on July 1, said, "Later, senior al Qaeda associate Abu Musab al-Zarqawi took sanctuary in Baghdad after coalition forces drove him out of Afghanistan."
But a senior U.S. official told ABC News that the CIA report, based on captured documents and interviews with former Iraqi officials, raises serious questions about such statements.
The official said there was, in fact, no clear-cut evidence that Saddam even knew Zarqawi was in Baghdad, contrary to what Bush has claimed.
"He let Zarqawi run free in Baghdad, and his crowd," Bush said in a rally in Kirtland, Ohio, on Sept. 4.
The CIA report concludes that Zarqawi spent time in Baghdad, but casts doubt on reports that the 37-year-old had been given official approval for medical treatment there, as Bush said this summer.
"This guy Zarqawi got hospital aid there in Baghdad when Saddam Hussein was in power," Bush told the crowd at a Lancaster, Pa., event on July 9.
The CIA presented its findings to the White House one week ago today, in what is known as a red-striped document, one available to only five or six top officials.
Now it seems the ties between Zarqawi and Saddam are not quite as simple as the Bush administration has previously made out.
"This is a murky story," said Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser. "I'm sure we'll find out more but what we do know about Zarqawi is that he knew Iraq well."
Since then, the president has subtly altered his language when discussing Zarqawi's presence in Baghdad before the war. Bush no longer maintains Zarqawi was harbored by Saddam, just that he was there.
In campaign stops on Oct. 1 and 2, Bush said, "Zarqawi was in and out of Baghdad."
Now Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he knows of no intelligence linking Saddam and al Qaeda.
In prepared remarks given at the Council on Foreign Relations on Monday, Rumsfeld said, "I have not seen any strong hard evidence that links the two."
The CIA assessment was originally reported by Knight-Ridder newspapers.
New Career Opportunities in Homeland Security - And How to Find Them
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/10-05-2004/0002265590&EDATE=
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Since 9/11, homeland security
-- once a topic only for defense strategists -- has become a household word.
What's more, it's now a growing career field for those interested in law
enforcement, intelligence, border patrol and more.
"I knew right away I wanted to be in homeland security. I wanted to be
part of the solution," says Charlotte Coylar, an American Public University
System ( http://www.apus.edu ) student majoring in intelligence and currently
working as a contractor for the Department of Defense. "There are some
amazing job opportunities out there."
In fact, within just one federal cabinet department alone -- the
Department of Homeland Security -- nearly 200,000 related jobs have been
created in less than three years.
Getting started
The key to a career in homeland security is the proper training and
education. Fortunately, many higher education institutions are now offering
degrees and certificates in the field.
"We launched our comprehensive homeland security program in May 2001 --
months before 9/11," says Bob Jaffin, chair of American Public University
System's public sector and critical infrastructure studies program. This
distance learning institution serves more than 11,000 students worldwide.
"We saw a need -- and a growing interest -- and built a program using
'real-world' professors, including former CIA agents, forensic scientists,
fire chiefs and former military officers," says Jaffin. He also says that
"reality check" is an important consideration when choosing a program.
"Modern homeland security is so new that textbooks are being written right
now," he says. "It's important to choose an institution with a comprehensive
curriculum taught by diverse faculty members -- those who are experts in a
variety of related career disciplines."
How to compete
Because this new field can be very competitive, future professionals need
to be innovative to win the job. Coylar incorporated terrorism studies into
her degree path. Another student, Army Reserve Staff Sgt. David Moore,
combined traditional courses, distance learning and certification programs to
help prepare him for the job market.
"The United Nations certification I received at American Public University
System and my graduate work in international politics at Temple University
impressed my new employers," says Moore. Moore recently was hired as an
account manager for a private security company.
Finding the jobs
There are plenty of resources on the Internet to find homeland security
and related jobs. Here are a few to begin your search:
-- For career opportunities related to homeland security, visit
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/homeland.asp .
-- For related careers in readiness and security, visit
http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/homeland.asp#other .
Here are other resources for related careers:
-- U.S. Secret Service (including a list of upcoming job fairs):
http://www.treas.gov/usss/opportunities_fairs.shtml
-- National Security Agency: http://www.nsa.gov/careers/index.cfm
-- National Institutes of Health: http://www.jobs.nih.gov/current.htm
-- Bureau of Diplomatic Security:
http://www.state.gov/m/ds/career/c8853.htm
-- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA):
http://www.fema.gov/career/index.jsp
-- Transportation Security Administration:
https://tsacareers.recruitsoft.com/
-- U.S. Customs Department: http://www.customs.gov/xp/cgov/careers/
-- Centers for Disease Control (CDC): http://www.cdc.gov/hrmo/hrmo.htm
More info on American Public University System
American Public University System is comprised of American Public
University, American Military University and American Community College. The
distance learning institution was founded in 1993 as American Military
University. Today, the entire system now supports more than 11,000 students
in 50 states and 110 countries, delivering more than 50 undergraduate and
graduate degree programs as well as certificates in the emergency and disaster
management fields. The University System combines a quality, career-focused
curriculum with the convenience of 100 percent online courses and monthly
class starts. Visit http://www.apus.edu to learn more.
Suspicious powder mailed to several newspapers across the country; FBI investigating
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041006/APN/410060529&cachetime=5
The Associated Press
The FBI is investigating envelopes containing suspicious powder that were sent to several newspapers, including one in North Carolina, in the last several days.
Among them was an envelope addressed simply to The News that was opened by a Detroit Newspapers' stockroom clerk Tuesday, The Detroit News reported in a Wednesday story.
The envelope included a brown granular substance and a letter that claimed it was "snail poison," said Richard Karstensen, purchasing manager for the agency that handles business operations for The News and the Detroit Free Press.
Three News employees - including Karstensen - were exposed to the substance, but did not suffer any ill effects or undergo any treatment.
Tests hadn't been completed, but the material wasn't believed to be harmful, FBI Special Agent David Brooks said.
The letter received by The News bore a return address of an Arlington, Va., post office box and a Sacramento, Calif., postmark - as did some of the other letters, said FBI spokesman Jeff Tarpinian in Omaha, the field office leading the investigation.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Charlotte Observer received letters Monday, officials at both newspapers said. The FBI was investigating.
No injuries have been reported.
"We always take something like this seriously," said Peter Ridder, publisher of the Observer. "But it's an indication there is some kook out there trying to frighten people."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer received a similar envelope Saturday, but the substance turned out to be onion powder and other seasonings.
A day earlier, The Des Moines Register received a package, prompting the evacuation of 70 employees. Tests confirmed the substance in that letter was the chemical Metaldehyde, possibly from snail poison.
FBI's backlog is overstated
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-10-05-oppose_x.htm
During the past three years, the FBI has substantially improved its ability to analyze foreign-language terrorist intercepts. Americans are safer as a result, and we continue to strengthen our capabilities every day.
Reports that the FBI has 123,000 hours of counterterrorism audio recordings waiting for review are not accurate. In the highest-priority counterterrorism investigations, there is no backlog, and all intercepts are reviewed within 24 hours. While we do have a backlog in certain lower-priority counterterrorism matters, that backlog is only 2,800 hours — less than 1% of the total number of hours of audio collected in the FBI's counterterrorism investigations.
In arriving at the 123,000-hour figure, the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General looked at the gross number of audio hours collected by the FBI in counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations in certain languages and subtracted the gross number of audio hours reviewed during the period from Oct. 1, 2001, through Jan. 1, 2004. The numbers did not distinguish between terrorism and other investigations, so the resulting statistics include cases that have nothing to do with terrorism.
Today, new technologies and management improvements are helping us prioritize assignments and track our response time. We have also instituted strict quality controls.
Most important, we have hired more than 700 linguists since Sept. 11, 2001, and we will continue to hire qualified linguists to meet future needs. Like all intelligence organizations, we have difficulty finding speakers of lesser-used languages.
To overcome these difficulties, we have a dynamic recruiting campaign to identify, attract and hire qualified linguists. We offer hiring bonuses, training, a clear path to promotion and a chance to work closely with investigators and analysts as part of the FBI's Directorate of Intelligence. And FBI linguists can work in any of our field offices across the country so they don't have to relocate to serve their country in the war on terrorism.
American Arabs concerned over FBI's 'October Plan'
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=9015
BEIRUT: The Arab American Institute has expressed concern over recent reports that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have already or soon will be enacting an aggressive new initiative, the so-called "October Plan."
According to news reports, the initiative will include "aggressive - even obvious - surveillance" of individuals "suspected of being terrorist sympathizers, but who have not committed a crime," said a statement released Tuesday by the AAI. Furthermore, "other 'persons of interest,' including their family members, may also be brought in for questioning," and "mosques will be revisited and members asked whether they've observed any suspicious behavior."
Additional reports suggest that the DHS component of this initiative will include a massive immigration sweep in major metropolitan areas with the purpose of detaining those who are "out of status." DHS's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will concentrate its efforts on individuals who had to report as part of the Student Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS), and the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program (U.S. VISIT). It should be noted that NSEERS, or Special Registration, required citizens from 24 Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities. The national origin based program was suspended by DHS in December 2003.
"We oppose ICE's use of selective enforcement at this time. While doing little to prevent terrorism, these tactics will further alienate Arab and Muslim Americans, the very people with whom law enforcement needs to build trust," said James Zogby, President of the AAI. "We are also concerned, given the pre-election nature of this initiative, that these tactics may have a chilling effect on the participation of some segments of the Arab American and American Muslim communities in the coming election," he added.
Friendships drive Islamic terrorists, CIA veteran says
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2004/10/04/friendships_drive_islamic_terrorists_cia_veteran_says/
PARIS -- Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks forced the West to take a collective crash course on Islamic terrorism, the myths endure: The militants are impoverished and uneducated. Lifelong religious fervor drives them to embrace jihad. Al Qaeda aggressively recruits and brainwashes the men.
Those ideas are tempting but wrong, argues Marc Sageman, a CIA veteran-turned-forensic psychiatrist. In a book based on 172 case studies of jihadis, Sageman concludes that social bonds are a more vital force than religion in molding extremists.
Mohamed Atta and his fellow hijackers were a classic example of this ''bunch of guys" theory: educated, upwardly mobile, but alienated immigrants who formed a tight-knit clique in Hamburg. Powerful friendships drove their radicalization, Sageman said. In long talks about Islam, their love for one another mixed with hate for the West, propelling them finally into Al Qaeda, he says.
''It's a group phenomenon," Sageman said. ''To search for individual characteristics in order to understand them is totally misleading. It will lead you to a dead end."
Sageman came to Paris early last month to discuss his book, ''Understanding Terror Networks," with scholars and law enforcement officials who are among the West's foremost specialists on radical Islam. His work has struck a chord because it searches for scientific answers to questions that haunt the world with each new act of bloodshed: Why? Who are the terrorists? What makes them kill?
Like many European investigators, Sageman, who spent seven years in the CIA, emphasizes the fluid, spontaneous nature of the global jihad and Osama bin Laden's hands-off approach to leadership, based on providing money and inspiration.
The Al Qaeda network has not engaged in active recruitment or so-called mind control, he argues. Instead, extremist cliques made up of friends and relatives seek out brokers, usually veteran jihadis who can channel them to training camps and other gateways to the network, he said.
''Joining the jihad is more akin to the process of applying to a selective college," Sageman wrote. ''Many try to get in, but only a few succeed, and the college's role is evaluation and selection, rather than marketing."
His theses have been disputed. In 2002, the Dutch intelligence service found that Al Qaeda had ''explicitly instructed" recruiters to base themselves in Europe and troll for aspiring jihadis in prisons, mosques, and other gathering places.
Although he has advised the Homeland Security and Defense departments and testified before the Sept. 11 commission, Sageman says his book relied on court documents, articles, and other data. Most of the accused or convicted extremists Sageman studied were middle class or wealthy, rather than poor; married, rather than single; educated and skilled, rather than illiterate.
The main threat to the United States is a Madrid-style attack, Sageman asserts.
''A 9/11 is no longer possible for two reasons," he said. ''Al Qaeda is no longer the threat it was . . . and the environment has completely changed. Everyone is looking out for terrorists."
Minnesota seeking federal funds for border security
http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5018083.html
Facing criticism that Minnesota has spent too little to prevent terrorists from crossing into the United States from Canada, the state has drawn up plans to earmark $1 million in Homeland Security funds next year for border counties to bolster defense against infiltration.
The federal funds would go to seven northern counties, which want to buy radios and other gear to allow deputies to talk directly with U.S. Border Patrol agents, an important tool in detecting and stopping illegal immigration. Sheriffs from those counties have until Nov. 1 to agree on how to split the $1 million, which would be distributed in 2005.
Border counties balked earlier this year after state homeland security officials rejected their applications for federal money to buy radios and other equipment that the counties said were important to enforce border security.
"I don't know why they were rejected; it sounds like a good way to spend money to me," Tim Leslie, assistant commissioner of the Department of Public Safety, said Tuesday. His department oversees state homeland security spending.
The Star Tribune reported Sept. 12 that state homeland security officials were denying money to counties along the border with Canada.
Meanwhile, the report said, the state was spending millions of anti-terrorism dollars on police and emergency equipment that offer little or no benefit in preventing terrorist attacks. The state awarded $208,100 to Edina for a custom-made armored vehicle to deal with weapons of mass destruction and $164,800 to Rock County, on the Iowa-South Dakota borders, to improve its 911 telephone system to better respond to traffic accidents and motorists stranded in snowstorms.
In recent weeks, U.S. Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., renewed his calls for state homeland security officials to send more money to the border counties.
"I've been raising hell about this, along with some other people," Peterson said Tuesday. "I think you can argue that the most important thing we can do is secure that border up there."
The plan to earmark $1 million for the seven border counties in 2005 was detailed in a Sept. 19 memorandum by the Department of Public Safety's division of homeland security and emergency management. Homeland security officials said giving $1 million to those counties is among proposals "we currently are focusing on as high-priority." A final decision depends on an advisory commission review, federal funding levels next year and the response of the northern sheriffs.
They will meet later this week to determine how they would divide the $1 million.
"I think we'll be getting about $140,000 per county, which will take care of my first gripe of communications," said Kittson County Sheriff Kenny Hultgren, whose county has miles of wilderness and was the site of a notorious illegal border crossing. Hultgren said the news story drew attention to border security. "It got brought into the public's eye," he said.
Sheriffs' deputies and Border Patrol agents operate on different radio frequencies and currently must relay messages by phone through their dispatchers. New equipment would allow them to talk directly by radio, saving time and avoiding confusion.
"All the sheriffs want [better] communications; that's Number One for all seven of us," said Koochiching County Sheriff Duane Nelson.
In a related development Tuesday, U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger announced that people caught trying to enter the United States with bogus documents or stories would be jailed and their cases routinely referred to his office for possible prosecution.
Heffelfinger said that before his initiative, which began last week, some immigrants suspected of using fake documents were merely deported, not prosecuted. He said he didn't know how many cases had been handled that way.
RIP, enjoy your virgins!
They say a 'true' EOM existed back then with all the answers
Back in June/July there were hospital warnings in Illinois and Iowa
Thanks Karl, as always, if you come across any niegrian connections would you post it at NoE please?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1234408/posts?q=1&&page=1
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea's Defense Ministry says the United States will withdraw a total of 12,500 troops from South Korea by 2008.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The United States vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate end to military operations in Gaza and an Israeli pullout.
Its been a long time since we haunted the illegal threads and I'm sure glad you found your way here! I had no idea about the Rio Grande, thanks!
Next wave of Al Qaeda leadership
As the group's Arab core is captured or killed, a new generation of Pakistanis fills the void
N CUSTODY: Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, a computer expert for Al Qaeda, was arrested in July for allegedly planning attacks in the US.
http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2004/1005/p01s04-wosc.html
Israeli-UN ambulance row deepens
IDF picture alleged to show militant loading a rocket onto a UN ambulance
The Israeli army picture alleged to show a Palestinian militant loading a rocket onto a UN ambulance
The UN Secretary General is sending a team to investigate Israeli claims that Palestinian militants in Gaza used a UN ambulance to transport rockets.
Israeli-UN ambulance row deepens
The UN Secretary General is sending a team to investigate Israeli claims that Palestinian militants in Gaza used a UN ambulance to transport rockets.
{Anything to detract from Kofi's involvement into Food for Oil}
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3716022.stm
Iran 'increases missile range'
Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani
Former President Rafsanjani is still a powerful man in Iran
Iran has missiles with a range of 2,000 km, a former president and one of the country's most influential politicians has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3716490.stm
UN staff arrested for terrorism
From correspondents in Jerusalem
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10987697%255E1702,00.html
Closed bases emerge as key training centers for homeland security
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/local/9820028.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp
Gipper?
This is what we are all about at NoE, would you please post this link there? I'd really appreciate it!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1234408/posts?q=1&&page=1
and the "New Moon" M'Dear?
Good hypothesis and it seems sound!
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