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bkmrk
I'm so sick of these murderous pus bags!
I think it's high time that WE declared a "FRATWA" against all jihadi murderers.
We just need an extremely wordy bulletin with references to swords, horses, winds, the moon and some cryptic numbers thrown in for good balance.
Counter their fatwas with our own FRatwas!
Let the "FRihad" begin.
(Okay, I better get to work now)
and also... it has to have horrible sentence structure!!!
: )
DNC Soucre: Rumor that Radicals Have Penetrated Town Hall Debate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238869/posts
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2004/10/003492print.html
October 07, 2004
"Bomb damages seat of Orthodox Church in Istanbul"
ARTICLE NOTE: "This follows violent protests against the proposed reopening of the one and only Orthodox seminary in Turkey. From AFP, with thanks to Twostellas:"
I'll try to remember that Velveeta.
It's better just to put that url in your bookmarks and keep checking.
As war drums beat in Babylon
Cinnamon girl starts 2 pray
Eye've never heard a prayer like this 1
Never before that day
Tearful words of love 4 people she had never met b4
Asking God 2 grant them mercy in this face of a holy war
Cinnamon Girl
Cinnamon Girl of mixed heritage
Never knew the meaning of color lines
911 turned that all around
When she got accused of this crime
So began the mass illusion, war on terror alibi
What's the use when the god of confusion keeps on telling the same lie?
Cinnamon Girl
Don't cry, don't shed no tears
1 night won't make us feel
Cause we know how this movie's ending
Cinnamon Girl
As war drums beat in Babylon
And scorch the blood red sky
Militants bomb the foreign gun
Both sides truly die
Cinnamon girl opens the book she knows will settle all the scores
Then she prays after the war that there will not b anymore
Cinnamon Girl
Florida Muslims Question FBI Interviews
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-brf-fbi-interviews,0,6068958.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Arab-Americans and Muslims in Florida question the FBI's latest plan for conducting interviews nationwide to uncover possible terrorist plots that could disrupt the presidential election next month.
For the past week, FBI officials have met with Islamic community leaders statewide to explain a July directive from FBI Director Robert Mueller to seek new information about suspicious activity ahead of the Nov. 2 general election.
The leaders said they understand the need for vigilance but have reservations about the order.
"Our community is already afraid and jittery, because there has already been several rounds of detainees and interviews since 9-11," said Ahmed Bedier, Florida spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"Arab-Americans will do everything in their capacity to ensure the security of this country," said Taleb Salhab, president of the Arab-American Community Center of Central Florida. "However, we will not tolerate the violation of our community's constitutional rights."
U.S. border crossings now linked to FBI database
http://www.canada.com/travel/story.html?id=40608d9a-c69f-4a72-bb08-d9cd594cb662
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SAN DIEGO (AP) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security unveiled new computer workstations Thursday that allow Border Patrol agents on the Canadian and Mexican borders to tap into the FBI's fingerprint database, overcoming a technological hurdle that lasted years.
At San Diego's Brown Field station, Senior Patrol Agent Arnie Villarreal rolled his finger over a glass plate that glowed red as his print was scanned and digitally stored.
The new system scours 43 million records in the FBI's criminal database for a match. If there's a hit, the FBI computer spits out the person's criminal history.
The whole process takes 10 to 15 minutes.
Before the computer networks were linked, Border Patrol agents had to drive a paper imprint to a Border Patrol office in Chula Vista, Calif., a South San Diego suburb.
"It was a very time-consuming process," said agency spokesman Richard Kite.
"It could take hours."
The bureau said workstations at all 136 Border Patrol stations now have access to the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System, known as IAFIS.
The deployment marks a "significant step" toward having the databases of the FBI and the Homeland Security Department - which includes the Border Patrol - talk to each other, said Paul Martin, the Justice Department's deputy inspector general. His office has repeatedly cited delays in linking the two networks.
But Martin noted while Homeland Security workstations can access the FBI files, the reverse isn't yet true. The inspector general reported in March the FBI and local law-enforcement agencies were not expected to have access to Homeland Security's automated system until 2008.
The workstations have also been placed at about one-third of all ports of entry.
Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Robert Bonner said all major ports of entry - land border crossings and major air and sea ports - would have the new system by the end of November. And all 317 ports of entry would have it by October 2005.
FBI questioning Muslims in mosques in US :
http://www.123bharath.com/world-news/index.php?action=fullnews&id=26827
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World News > Washington, Oct.8 : FBI agents across the United States have reportedly started a campaign to visit mosques and question Muslims who might have information relating to a possible terrorist attack before the November 2 presidential elections.
The new investigation-the latest in a series of campaigns since the attacks of Septemer 11, 2001, has according to a report in the Dawn, prompted sharp protests from American Civil Liberties Union and several Muslim organizations.
The protesters have reportedly accused the Bush Administration of sowing "fear in the Muslim community" through this questioning. Someof them are now insisting that lawyers be present when such questioning takes place.
American Muslim Voice director for Northern California, Khalid Saeed, was quoted as saying that the American Muslims and Arabs felt intimidated by the new campaign which was the fifth incidence of an explicit FBI dragnet against these communities.
"The FBI plans to deliberately tail people based on their religion or ethnic origin during a month that is both religiously and politically crucial," claimed Dalia Hashad, an advocate with the American Civil Liberty Union.
"Instead of bolstering security, the FBI's new drive is going to stop Muslims and Arabs from attending mosques during the month of Ramadan, and participating in the upcoming election," she warned. (ANI)
Keeping Our SA Up
By William S. Lind (10/08/04)
http://www.americandaily.com/article/5341
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My friend “F-18,” who occasionally writes to this column, long ago introduced me to “situational awareness” or SA. To a fighter pilot, it means not missing a mortal danger, like someone coming up on your six o’clock position (aka “your six”). In Fourth Generation war, SA means not getting mesmerized by one aspect of war outside the state system to the point where we neglect others. At present, the focus on Iraq and Afghanistan tends to diminish our SA by leading us to define 4GW as war with Islam. Two recent news reports remind us that there is much more to it.
The first concerns Nigeria, where a tribal militia is threatening the oil export industry. A story in the September 29 "Washington Post Express" says, “[Militia leader] Dokubo-Asari claims to be fighting for self-determination in the region and greater control over oil resources for eight million Ijaws, the dominant tribe in the southern delta region, which accounts for most of the daily oil exports.” In a Fourth Generation world, tribes will again become important entities that wage war. That it should happen early in Nigeria is not a surprise; Nigeria is a state in name only, and the Nigerian Government is merely another gang. But because Nigeria is a major oil exporter, tribal war has suddenly reached out and touched America. Part of the reason that oil last week settled at over $50 per barrel was the Ijaw threat to Nigeria’s oil fields.
The second report was the headline article in the September 28 "Washington Times:" “Al Qaeda seeks tie to local gangs; Salvadoran groups may aid entry to U.S.“ The story goes on to report that “Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a key al Qaeda cell leader…was spotted in July in Honduras meeting with leaders of El Salvador’s notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, which immigration officials said has smuggled hundreds of Central and South Americans – mostly gang members – into the United States…authorities said [El Shukrijumah] was in Canada last year looking for nuclear material for a so-called ‘dirty bomb’…”
If, or some would say when, the U.S. gets nuked, that is how the bomb will most likely be delivered: not by missile but by some Central American gang. Why? Because those gangs have the best delivery system for anything illegal. Mara Salvatrucha is already waging low-level 4GW in the U.S., as many a police department could attest. And gangs, by their nature, are for hire. A few million al Qaeda dollars could easily rent Mara Salvatrucha’s delivery system. Before the rise of the state, when a group wanted to go to war, they rented whatever capabilities they needed: armies, galleys, a cook in their enemy’s kitchen who could add some “special” seasoning to his prince’s dinner, whatever. The Fourth Generation motto is, “Back to the future.”
These two reports remind all Fourth Generationists to follow the old fighter pilot rule: keep your SA up. If you don’t, if you allow yourself to focus on just one aspect of the Fourth Generation threat, you’re gonna get hosed.
Let me add two footnotes to this column:
1) U.S. and Iraqi Government forces are announcing a “big victory” in taking the city of Samarra. This shows they still don’t get it. Following Chairman Mao’s advice, when we attacked, the Iraqi guerillas retreated. The victor is not whoever holds Samarra today, but who can keep hold of it for six weeks, six months or six years. My bet is it won’t be ourselves.
2) The Fourth Generation seminar met Friday for the first time since last spring, and we have decided to write our own field manual on Fourth Generation war. It will be modeled on the excellent field manuals the U.S. Marine Corps issued when General Al Gray was Commandant. We plan to have it out in the first half of next year; hopefully, some of the websites that carry this column will offer the whole FMFM.
Who will be the next bin Laden?
http://www.dailyherald.com/dupage/main_story.asp?intID=3826853
...excerpt...
KARACHI, PAKISTAN - After leaving university, Atta-ur Rehman traded his jeans and T-shirts for a beard and cap, his civil-service aspirations for a martyr's spot in heaven.
He used to spend his time playing cricket, but he is now in a Pakistani jail facing a death sentence on terrorism charges.
Rehman, along with nine other "comrades," is charged with carrying out a deadly June attack against a senior Pakistani Army general in Karachi. The general escaped narrowly, but 10 people, including seven soldiers, were killed.
Rehman's circle call themselves Jundullah (God's Army), and have close ties to al Qaida. Most are young, educated men, whom Rehman allegedly sent to training camps in Pakistan's remote tribal areas.
Rehman doesn't fit the mold of the typical al Qaida leader. Traditionally, most were Arabs who gained status by resisting the Russians in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Muslims in Carolinas feel targeted by FBI
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/9864782.htm
CHARLOTTE — As early as this week, the FBI will begin interviewing Muslims across the Carolinas as part of what the agency says is a nationwide push to stave off a terrorist attack before the November elections.
Muslims aren’t the only ones who will be questioned in the effort, officials say. But they are the only group in Charlotte being contacted about the interviews ahead of time.
Local Muslims say the interviews again show how they’ve been singled out since the 9-11 attacks. Last year, immigrants from countries linked to terrorists were fingerprinted and questioned as part of a “special registration” effort. Many say they were interviewed by the FBI after the Sept. 11 attacks. About 8,000 Muslims live in the Charlotte area.
Last Saturday, Kevin Kendrick, FBI special agent in charge for North Carolina, gathered 40 to 50 Charlotte-area Muslim leaders to alert them to the interviews. Similar meetings are taking place across the state, Kendrick said.
Contacted by The Charlotte Observer, Kendrick would not say whether the questioning had started or how long the effort will last. He wouldn’t say what questions will be asked, how the agency will choose the people to interview, or how many people will be questioned. He did say agents will try to hold the interviews at their subjects’ homes, but would not rule out workplace visits.
One man who attended Saturday’s meeting said Kendrick told them the visits would start this week.
Area Muslims are reacting with anger and frustration.
“We’re trying to say, ‘The people that you’re looking for are not the people that we know,’ ” said Rose Hamid, a member of Muslim Women of the Carolinas who attended Saturday’s meeting. “The people who come to the mosque on Fridays are not the ones who are going to be doing these things.”
Hamid said she worries that Muslims may lose their jobs if FBI agents or police approach them at work.
Since 9-11, local FBI officials have met several times with local Muslims to forge a better relationship. Still, tension remains.
“I admire the fact that the FBI would send their head man in North Carolina ... and have an outreach like that,” said Inayat von Briesen of Charlotte, who attended the meeting. “But it’s hard not to feel like you’re being targeted.”
Von Briesen said he’s concerned that the interviews could become a “witch hunt” for those in the United States illegally.
Kendrick said immigration status isn’t the focus. “This is not a roundup,” he said.
Agents from all 56 FBI field offices nationwide have been ordered to step up their interviews prior to the November elections, said Bill Carter, an agency spokesman in Washington.
Local and state police could do some interviewing, Kendrick said.
Carter said intelligence officers gathered information last spring that indicated al Qaeda planned to attack the United States before the elections.
“We’re stepping up the efforts now because the window of time is growing smaller,” Carter said.
Asked if presidential politics had anything to do with the timing of the interviews, Carter said it is based on intelligence reports, nothing else.
FBI: 'There was no threat'
http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt/news/100804_NW_r2_school_terror_threats.html
The FBI and school officials in Birch Run are trying to calm parents fears after plans of their schools are found on a computer disc in Iraq.
As we first told you Thursday night, Birch Run is among eight districts in six states included in the information discovered by the U.S. military.
The information, which included things like floor plans of the schools, was found in Iraq this July. But local FBI officials say there was never a specific threats to schools.
Officials say the information found is not publicly available on the Internet, but it appears to have been downloaded in Baghdad.
Why these particular school districts were selected isn't known.
One U.S. official says the CD also includes an education department report guiding schools on how to prepare and respond to a crisis.
The government became more interested in the information, following the school attacks in Russia earlier this year and has warned districts to increase security.
The FBI and school officials say they take this information seriously but don't want people to panic.
"I met the expert reporting intelligence officer that looks at information and sends out a report. I can tell you what the final report looks like and there was no threat. There never was and the community should be happy to hear that," FBI Special Agent Walt Reynolds told abc12's Bisi Onile-Ere.
The other districts included in the warnings are in Florida, Oregon, Georgia, New Jersey and California.
Birch Run Schools Superintendent Wayne Wright tells us school security will be tightened.
Well, good. She and others should have absolutely no problem calmly and firmly telling that to the Feds when they arrive for their visits. ;)
Just got on. Fired off a post over at the unmentionable forum. I am majorly torqued. How dare they use our fears against us ? Pure fearmongering (of course you have to pay to get the sordid details- but the stuff leaks out on the free forum). Most of the people on that forum (the free one) are not very well versed in history and are falling for the b----, hook, line, and sinker. I am utterly disgusted. (and with myself- as well- I too, fell for it briefly--until I realized that nuke detonations in the deep Atlantic don't lead to croakers dying in the Chesapeake Bay and Ocean City Maryland. There would be some release of radiation no matter how deeply the nuke was detonated. I am disgusted. And I am glad JR banned the site.)
You have been missed!
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