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Posted on 08/06/2005 4:45:21 PM PDT by nwctwx
I still got a "not found on this server" message. Thanks for the link though.
Iran 'supplies infra-red bombs' that kill British troops in Iraq
By Toby Harnden, Chief Foreign Correspondent
(Filed: 21/08/2005)
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/21/wiran21.xml
British soldiers in Iraq are being killed by advanced "infra-red" bombs
supplied by Iran that defeat jamming equipment, according to military
intelligence officials.
The "passive infra-red" devices, whose use in Iraq is revealed for the
first time by The Sunday Telegraph, are detonated when the beam is
broken, as when an intruder triggers a burglar alarm. They were used by the
Iranian-backed Hezbollah group against Israel in Lebanon from 1995.
A radio signal is used to arm the bomb as a target vehicle approaches.
The next object to break the infra-red beam - the target vehicle -
detonates the device.
Coalition officials see the disturbing development as a key part of an
aggressive new campaign by Teheran to drive coalition forces out of
Iraq so that an Islamic theocracy can be established.
American and British intelligence officials believe that the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard is training, supplying and funding part of Iraq's
insurgent Shia network and that its activities have been stepped up since
the spring.
Links between Shia and Sunni Muslim groups, usually via trading by
criminal arms dealers, means that expertise quickly spreads across Iraq.
"These guys have picked up in two years what it took the IRA a
quarter-century to learn," said an Army bomb disposal officer in Iraq.
Four British soldiers are believed to have been killed by infra-red
devices made in the town of Majar-al-Kabir. The bombmaker, in his early
forties, was one of the agitators behind the mob killing of six Red Caps
there in June, 2003. The man, whose name is known by this newspaper but
has not been published for security reasons, has connections to Iran,
and has reportedly been seen with agents from Teheran. His arrest has
been ordered, and two of his lieutenants were detained in June.
After the arrests, however, three soldiers from the Staffordshire
Regiment were killed when their armoured Land Rover was blown up by a
roadside bomb in al-Amara, last month as they were lured into a trap.
Second Lt Richard Shearer, Pte Leon Spicer and Pte Phillip Hewett died
instantly as they investigated gunfire.
Guardsman Anthony Wakefield of the Coldstream Guards died from wounds
inflicted by a similar infra-red device in al-Amara in May. As the "top
cover" gunner, his head and shoulders were exposed in an armoured Land
Rover. The bomb was set at a precise height and directed towards the
road so it would hit a soldier in this position.
"This was something completely new," said one military intelligence
officer. "Before, they used to keep bashing away with the same crude
devices again and again. The Iranian influence has shown itself in the
sophistication of their bombs and a new ability to innovate."
British intelligence reports indicate that complete infra-red devices,
carefully machined in military workshops, are being delivered to Shia
militants in Iraq.
British officials said Iran had also been providing Shia insurgents
with "shaped charges", which use a directional explosive force to fire a
metal projectile that penetrates heavy armour.
Iran's interference threatens to inflame sectarian tensions in Iraq and
hasten what coalition officials dread most - civil war between the
Shias and the Sunni minority.
Iran's recent elections, in which the hardline Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was
elected president gave fresh impetus to its "meddling" in Iraq,
according to Mohammad Mohaddessin, an Iranian opposition leader in exile in
Paris.
"The regime in Teheran is very concerned about a democracy being
created right next to Iran," he said. "They also believe that the more chaos
there is in Iraq, the less attention will be paid by America and
Britain to Iran's nuclear ambitions."
Iranian policy had already been boosted by Iraq's elections. They
returned a Shia-dominated government led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who lived in
exile in Iran, rather than the secular Iyad Allawi, the candidate
preferred by Washington.
Before the introduction of infra-red devices, bombs in Iraq were
usually set off by an electronic remote control signal found in a mobile
telephone, car locking device, garage door opener or even a child's toy.
They could be blocked by electronic countermeasures developed by the
Army in Northern Ireland.
These are powerless, however, against infra-red beams, which can be
modified from burglar alarm systems. Military commanders have briefed
soldiers to be more cautious and avoid rushing into potential attacks.
Patrol routes are varied so that no pattern is set.
Infra-red beams have been used by the IRA, and by the Red Army Faction
to kill Alfred Herrhausen, the chairman of the Deutsche Bank, in 1989.
"There has always been cross fertilisation of terrorist technology
across the terror diaspora," said a former Army bomb disposal officer.
"Infra-red is virtually impossible to jam whereas radio control and cell
phone systems are jammable."
# Maj Gen Ali Hamadi, who commands Iraq's border defence force, was
wounded in the stomach and accused American troops of opening fire on his
vehicle in Baghdad, local police reported. A US military official
denied that any of their soldiers had been in the area at the time. Iraqis
often accuse US troops of opening fire on motorists, sometimes killing
them.
"I don't think it's NYC, though."
There are 2 buildings that could be the Chrysler and the Empire State buildings in Manhattan in that pix.
MEMRITV.org - Transcript - Clip No. 731: "HAMAS REPRESENTATIVE IN LEBANON OSAMA HAMDAN: THERE IS A BEGINNING OF EUROPEAN UNDERSTANDING TOWARDS ARMED RESISTANCE" (TRANSCRIPT SNIPPET: "The following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas representative in Lebanon Osama Hamdan, which aired on Al-Arabiya TV on June 24, 2005") (June 27, 2005)
ARUTZ SHEVA.com: "HAMAS BOMB-MAKER STAR OF SYRIAN PRODUCED TV SERIES A 12-part series on the life of the “father of suicide bombings,” Hamas bomb-maker Yihye Ayyash is set to be aired on the Lebanese-based Hizbullah satellite television station al-Manar." (April 18, 2005)
JIHAD WATCH.org (YNET): "PALESTINIAN GIRL HIDES GUN IN UNDIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The soldiers in the Balata refugee camp, a terrorist hotbed, found the gunman inside his house and ordered him to surrender his weapon. He refused, saying he didn't have it. After questioning, they found the man's sister had hidden it her underwear. Troops then arrested the Hamas terrorist. They also found a gun holster and bullets inside the building.") (April 16, 2005) (Read More...)
WorldNetDaily.com: "DOCUMENTS SHOW ARAFAT PAID FOR DISCO BOMBING Sent Thank-You Note to Family of Terrorist Who Killed 21, Injured 120" by Aaron Klein (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The attack on the Dolphinarium was one of the most brutal massacres of the Palestinian intifadah, killing 21 people, mostly teens, on a Friday night in June 2001. More than 120 people were injured in the powerful blast carried out by Hamas terrorist Hassan Khutari.") (September 15, 2004)
IACSP.com: "ABDULLAH ASSAM: THE MAN BEFORE BIN LADEN" by Steve Emerson (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Those who met Azzam were dazzled by his spellbinding oratorical skills, his capabilities as a military strategist, his religious leadership, and his interminable energy. Azzam helped bring about the mobilization of the Muslim Brotherhood movement more than any other leader. Today, the military wing of Hamas in the West Bank is called the Abdellah Azzam Brigades.")
Top job fighting extremism for Muslim who praised bomber
By Alasdair Palmer
(Filed: 21/08/2005)
Bunglawala called bin Laden a 'freedom fighter'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/21/nbung21.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/08/21/ixhome.html
A Muslim accused of anti-Semitism is to be appointed to a government
role in charge of rooting out extremism in the wake of last month's
suicide bombings in London.
Inayat Bunglawala, 36, the media secretary for the Muslim Council of
Britain, is understood to have been selected as one of seven "conveners"
for a Home Office task force with responsibilities for tackling
extremism among young Muslims, despite a history of anti-Semitic statements.
Mr Bunglawala's past comments include the allegation that the British
media was "Zionist-controlled".
Writing for a Muslim youth magazine in 1992, he said: "The chairman of
Carlton Communications is Michael Green of the Tribe of Judah. He has
joined an elite club whose members include fellow Jews Michael Grade
[then the chief executive of Channel 4 and now BBC chairman] and Alan
Yentob [BBC2 controller and friend of Salman Rushdie]."
The three are reported to be "close friends… so that's what they mean
by a 'free media'."
In January 1993, Mr Bunglawala wrote a letter to Private Eye, the
satirical magazine, in which he called the blind Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman
"courageous" - just a month before he bombed the World Trade Center in
New York. After Rahman's arrest in July that year, Mr Bunglawala said
that it was probably only because of his "calling on Muslims to fulfil
their duty to Allah and to fight against oppression and oppressors
everywhere".
Five months before 9/11, Mr Bunglawala also circulated writings of
Osama bin Laden, who he regarded as a "freedom fighter", to hundreds of
Muslims in Britain.
The Muslim Council of Britain was one of several organisations invited
to a meeting held by Tony Blair after the London bombings. The Prime
Minister said afterwards that he would set up a task force to tackle
extremism "head on".
Mr Bunglawala's job at the Home Office will be to help to organise a
programme to tackle radicalism and extremism among young Muslims.
News of his appointment comes 10 days after he wrote to Mark Thompson,
the BBC Director General, accusing a forthcoming BBC1 Panorama
programme of possessing "a pro-Israeli agenda".
Although the programme had yet to be completed, Mr Bunglawala said that
the BBC had allowed itself to be used by "highly placed supporters of
Israel in the British media to make capital out of the July 7 atrocities
in London".
The programme, A Question of Leadership, which will air tonight at
10.20pm, seeks to discover whether British Muslim leaders can tackle the
extremism in their midst.
It features an interview with Sir Iqbal Sacranie, the secretary general
of the Muslim Council of Britain, who says members of the Palestinian
terrorist organisation Hamas are "freedom fighters".
Sir Iqbal compares Hamas suicide bombers to Nelson Mandela and Mahatma
Ghandi.
He says: "Those who fight oppression, those who fight occupation,
cannot be termed as terrorist, they are freedom fighters, in the same way as
Nelson Mandela fought against their apartheid, in the same way as
Gandhi and many others fought the British rule in India."
Sir Iqbal also refers to the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas,
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as "the renowned Islamic scholar".
Sir Iqbal attended a memorial service at the Central Mosque in London
for Sheikh Yassin after he was killed in an Israeli air strike last
year.
The programme also shows a leading Saudi cleric, an honoured guest of
the East London Mosque, claiming that Islam is "the best testament to
how different communities can live together", while back in his pulpit in
Mecca, he has referred to Jews as "monkeys and pigs" and also as "the
rats of the world". Christians are "cross worshippers" and Hindus "idol
worshippers".
Mr Bunglawala said: "Those comments were made some 12 or 13 years ago.
All of us may hold opinions which are objectionable, but they change
over time. I certainly would not defend those comments today."
The Home Office refused to confirm or deny the appointment.
Someone who i guess is todays version of EOM has been emailing Jill St. Claire. This his follow up post from the one dated Jul 13th with that 60 day warning.
http://www.homelandsecurityus.net/follow_up_jihadi_email.htm
who the hell knows IMO.
-pez
Pez, I'm sure she has, but if she hasn't yet; Jill needs to report it to the authorities.
ON THE NET...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1467861/posts
Security fears grow at Southwest border
The Boston Globe ^ | August 21, 2005 | Brian MacQuarrie
Posted on 08/21/2005 3:02:13 PM PDT by MassRepublicanFlyersFan
When their names are called, 98 percent of all undocumented aliens ordered to appear at Harlingen Immigration Court do not answer. They are weeks into their new lives in all corners of the United States.
Nationwide, the number of non-Mexicans who are entering the country illegally is skyrocketing, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Through Aug. 9, for the first 10 months of fiscal 2005, a total of 135,097 non-Mexicans had been apprehended out of 1.02 million undocumented immigrants arrested overall. In all of fiscal 2004, the number of non-Mexicans apprehended was 75,392; in fiscal 2003, the figure was 49,545.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
http://www.internet-haganah.us/harchives/004810.html
August 21, 2005
"Hamas Radio: Jaffa is the Same as Gaza, Tel Aviv the Same as Rafah"
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http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/eng_n/d17aug_e05.htm
"Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the Center for Special Studies (C.S.S)
"Disengagement News Update No. 2"
August 17, 2005
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The following is a translation of an hate mongering and terrorism inciting anti-Israeli song broadcast on Sawt Al-Aqsa on August 16, 2005:
“Al-Qassam warriors, Al-Qassam warriors,
Rain rockets on the settlers!
Prepare the [missile] launchers and aim them at the settlements,
Glorify the name of Allah, the lord of the world!
Hero, improve the Qassam rockets,
Don't let any Jew sleep!
Oh, Qassam, we want you to make land mines,
Prepare ambushes for the settlers!
The fearless fighters descended upon the settlements
May Allah preserve them, the symbol of our honor.
They carried the bombs, girded themselves with explosive belts
And sang songs of leave-taking [as they made their way] to the highest heavens.
Oh, Hamas, your army swears that
Millions of shaheeds are marching to Al-Aqsa!
We, oh Qassam, swear allegiance to death!
Strap on the belts and load them with TNT!
Oh, shaheed's mother, be happy for the shaheed!
Your son is in paradise, happy and blissful!
(Announcer: Listen, Sharon , to the Hamas announcement:
Leave Haifa, Jerusalem and Imwas [ancient Emmaeus, an abandoned Palestine village in the Ayalon Vally on the road to Jerusalem ]
We will be victorious, oh, Bush,
We will be victorious, oh, Sharon 2,
And you will see that tomorrow
If Allah so wills it.
The Al-Aqsa Brigades will make you tremble in Haifa and Tel Aviv
They will strike you in Safed and Acre ,
Because we, our dear ones,
Do not distinguish between [ Jewish] Palestine and [Arab] Palestine3,
For [as] Jaffa is the same as Gaza , Tel-al-Zuhour 4is the same as Rafah,
And the Galilee is the same as Hebron .
We make no distinction between the parts of the earth of the homeland. [i.e. the whole of Palestine is ours]."
If you can't hit the home page, then I suspect you have some local software running that is blocking access or a "helpful" ISP placing filters in your way.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467778/posts
"Daily Terrorist Round-Up 8/21/05 (3rd Dead Terrorist in Saudi Raid)"
Posted on 08/21/2005 11:59:41 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter
http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=556182
(AP)
"Man Arrested in Greenbelt Stabbings"
Updated: Sunday, Aug. 21, 2005 - 9:04 AM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "GREENBELT, Md. - Greenbelt police have arrested a man accused of stabbing two teenagers Friday night at the Beltway Plaza Mall.
Authorities say 19-year-old Abdulla Hammadi of Glendale was arrested early Saturday and charged with two counts of first-degree assault."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/237380_madcow21.html
Saturday, August 20, 2005
"Study: 8 mad cow citations in area"
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "PORTLAND -- Slaughterhouses in Oregon and Washington have been cited at least eight times for breaking federal rules to protect against mad cow disease, putting the Northwest above average for violations, according to a new study.
The group Public Citizen requested the data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1467891/posts
"Inside 911: Go beyond what has been reported [LIVE THREAD]"
National Geographic ^ | 08.21.2005 | National Geographic
Posted on 08/21/2005 4:39:34 PM PDT by ~Vor~
It's the helpful ISP again. I'm going to try another browser I rarely use.
Thx for the ping to Threat Matrix...interesting stuff. How fast does it move?
OFF TOPIC...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1467906/posts
"ZOT Orders 10 Million Litres of Diesel to Mitigate Shortage"
The Post (Lusaka) ^ | Aug, 2005 | Zumani Katasefa
Posted on 08/21/2005 5:23:46 PM PDT by rface
"ZAMBEZI Oil Transport (ZOT) has ordered 10 million litres of diesel to mitigate the shortage of the commodity on the market."
Weekdays pretty fast...weekends apparently not so much! lot's of info...amazing researchers on this thread.
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