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I noticed that freepalert pulls communist sites/links.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/08/007604print.html
August 09, 2005
Al-Arian Letter To Kuwaiti Offered As Proof Of Guilt
Today's Al-Arian Florida jihad update comes to you from the Tampa Tribune (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
TAMPA - For the first time since Sami Al-Arian's trial started two months ago, prosecutors presented direct evidence Monday that Al-Arian tried to raise money for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad after it was illegal to do so.
Jurors were read a Feb. 10, 1995, letter Al-Arian wrote to Kuwaiti legislator Isma'il al- Shatti. The letter was seized from Al-Arian's house during a search in November 1995.
It was written 18 days after a double suicide bombing in Beit Lid, Israel, that killed 22 people, including 20 Israeli soldiers. The letter was dated 16 days after President Clinton designated the Islamic Jihad a foreign terrorist organization, making it illegal to provide it material support.
``The latest operation, carried out by the two mujahideen who were martyred for the sake of God, is the best guide and witness to what the believing few can do in the face of Arab and Islamic collapse at the heels of the Zionist enemy and in keeping the flame of faith, steadfastness and defiance glowing,'' the letter states, according to a government translation consented to by the defense.
After the letter was read, Al- Arian's attorney, William Moffitt, moved for a mistrial, arguing there was no proof the letter was sent or received. Moffitt said the government interviewed al-Shatti, who did not remember seeing the letter.
Oh, he doesn't remember seeing it. Well, that makes it ok.
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Accomplishments, Challenges and the Road Ahead
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I know this is old news, but I am having a hard time finding the following. I remember some time ago reading that there were three nukes in NYC, and only two were found in time. The third had to be detonated at sea. I think you guys figured out it was not true, but I would like to reread the thread. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Thanks!
Not much left of that thread, the mod deleted many posts. Recommend going to the links at the top of the current thread and spot checking.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A judge refused to set bail Tuesday for a Pakistani cleric facing deportation after he was accused of planning to set up a terrorism camp in Lodi to train followers to kill Americans.
The accusation from an FBI agent came during an immigration hearing for Shabbir Ahmed, 39, who is seeking bail on a charge of overstaying his visa while he was heading a mosque in the Central Valley.
"Do I believe he is planning a terror attack?" agent Gary Schaaf said. "That's some of the information that has been provided to us."
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/4830522/detail.html
Thanks Godzilla.
I learn something new everyday.
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"Terrorism or Insanity?"
Arutz Sheva ^ | 8-9-05 | Cinnamon Stillwell and Lee Kaplan
Posted on 08/09/2005 3:37:08 PM PDT by SJackson
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050809/D8BSF9780.html
"Britain May Create Secretive Terror Courts"
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Aug 9, 2:23 PM (ET)
By MARA D. BELLABY
(AP)
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Pakistani arrested in France with fake British IDs
9 August 2005
PARIS - A Pakistani man arrested with several false British identity papers in his possession is in French custody after being arrested at a Paris airport, airport and law enforcement officials said on Tuesday.
Mohammed Billal Youssaf, 23, a resident of Brescia in Italy, had arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport from the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore and was headed to London when he was arrested Sunday, one official said.
He had five fake British passports and five fake British driving licences on him, the official said. The documents had already been filled out and contained photographs of different individuals.
Youssaf was being held by the police crimes unit and checks were being conducted to confirm his identity given in the Pakistani passport he was using.
The case was currently being handled by the anti-terrorist section of the Paris prosecutors office, but if no terrorist-linked activity is uncovered, the matter will by Thursday be treated as a criminal case and referred to a different prosecutors office covering the airport.
Hizbullah has taken 'vast military and security measures' along Lebanon's border with Israel, reinforcing Party of God's frontlines and rear positions in anticipation of a large-scale Israeli offensive to cover up the withdrawal from the Gaza strip, An Nahar reported on Tuesday.
The Hizbullah border movements were noticed over the past two days, An Nahar said. That followed the return of Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah from a 5-day visit to Tehran armed with a 'carte blanche' support from Iran's new regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Nasrallah had warned before making the Tehran trip that Israel was likely to mount a large-scale military attack against Lebanon to shift attention off the Gaza disengagement operation.
Israel, in turn, has put its air force on maximum alert, claiming Hizbullah might stage hit-and-run attacks against northern Jewish settlements once the Gaza pullout begins at mid-August.
Hizbullah made it plain on Monday that it won't allow the Lebanese army to advance onto frontline positions on the border with Israel, defying a thinly veiled U.N. threat to withdraw the international peacekeeping force from South Lebanon unless the Lebanese army takes over the borderline from Hizbullah by Jan. 31, 2006.
Beirut, Updated 09 Aug 05, 10:22
http://www.naharnet.com/domino/tn/NewsDesk.nsf/getstory?openform&D0230AFB7F2934A1C22570580026B9AC
Wanted: Aspiring martyrs
By Sudha Ramachandran
BANGALORE - Recruitment of potential suicide bombers, which has generally been shrouded in silence and secrecy, appears to be going more public. An Iranian publication recently carried an advertisement calling for applications from aspiring "martyrdom seekers".
The advertisement calls for men and women to enlist with the "Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison" and promises those who are picked that they will be given "specific and specialized training". The aim it seems is "to achieve all-round readiness against the enemies of Islam and the sacred Islamic republic and to protect the foundations of Islam". To this end, "a martyrdom-seeking division" would be set up for each province in the country.
All that aspiring candidates to the "Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison" need to submit are two photographs of themselves, a copy of their identity cards, and a filled-in application form. The advertisement even provides an address PO Box 16535-664, Tehran where aspiring candidates to the "Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison" should forward their application forms.
The publication in which the advertisement appeared is one that is produced by an institute run by one of Iran's most conservative and radical clerics, Ayatollah Mazbah Yazdi, believed to be a spiritual advisor of Iran's new president, Mahmud Ahmedinejad, who, like its proponents, has described suicide operations or "martyrdom operations" in glowing terms. In a speech delivered some days after his election and broadcast on Iranian television, Ahmedinejad said: "Is there art that is more beautiful, more divine and more eternal than the art of martyrdom? A nation with martyrdom knows no captivity. Those who wish to undermine this principle undermine the foundations of our independence and national security. They undermine the foundation of our eternity."
This is not the first time that recruitment of volunteers for suicide operations has been done publicly and application forms for registration of aspiring bombers distributed openly in Iran. A year ago, tens of thousands of registration forms were distributed at local Islamic universities to aspiring martyrdom seekers. This distribution of registration forms was preceded by speeches in mosques where calls were made to young men and women to register.
The application form for "Preliminary Registration for Martyrdom Operations" requires the applicant to provide name, age, address and contact details. It also requires the applicant to affirm his "preparedness for carrying out martyrdom operations" and gives a choice of three targets: "occupiers of the Islamic holy sites" (referring to the US occupation of Najaf, Karbala and other places in Iraq), "occupiers of Jerusalem" (referring to Israel), and Salman Rushdie, the author of Satanic Verses against whom Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa or legal judgment for death in 1989.
The public enlistment of "martyrdom seekers" in Iran has drawn considerable media attention. But such public enlistment of suicide bombers is not exclusive to Iran. Militant organizations in other parts of the world extol martyrdom and publicly solicit suicide bombers.
Catching Tigers
This is the case with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the world-leader in suicide bombing. The martyrs' cult is very strong in the LTTE. The honoring of Tiger martyrs - martyrs are described in LTTE propaganda as gods to be worshipped - is an extremely effective recruiting tool. While fighters are recruited all year round, enlistment shoots up during Martyrs' Week ( November 21-27) when the LTTE publicly honors its dead fighters, especially those killed in suicide operations. Through songs and speeches, Tamil boys and girls are called on to sacrifice their lives for the cause of the Tamil homeland and many, moved by the propaganda, enlist.
But those who are recruited from the general public are taken on as fighters. Some might aspire to be suicide bombers, which would qualify them for the top rungs of the LTTE's martyr hierarchy, but suicide bombers are not directly recruited from the public.
The LTTE has a separate suicide squad called the Karum Puligal or Black Tigers. According to a source in the Research and Analysis Wing of India's external intelligence agency, Black Tigers are recruited from among the LTTE's fighters. These are boys and girls who have already shown extraordinary commitment to the LTTE. The LTTE is extremely selective in recruiting members for suicide operations. "Suicide operations especially against high-profile targets are planned and put into effect with utmost secrecy," the source said. "The identity of future suicide bombers cannot be revealed. This is essential for the success of an operation."
So the LTTE motivates and glorifies martyrdom, especially that which comes from suicide operations in public. It even recruits its ordinary fighters in public. But the recruitment of suicide bombers is a highly secretive process.
Similar is the case with Hamas and Islamic Jihad (IJ), which celebrate martyrdom in public to draw in more members. Funerals are occasions for these groups not only to deliver speeches on martyrdom but also to recruit. However, enlistment of suicide bombers or their registration is not done in public. What sets apart the recruiting style of Hamas and IJ from an organization like the LTTE is that in the former, functionaries approach individuals who are not always already members of these groups to carry out suicide operations.
In the case of Iran, it is unlikely that those who registered to become martyrs in response to the advertisement will actually be sent on suicide operations, especially against high-profile targets. The advertisement and application forms should be seen as a propaganda exercise to signal that ordinary Iranian men and women are willing to blow themselves up for a cause. The public registration of these aspiring suicide bombers signals that they are willing to take the risks that come with revealing their identity as potential suicide bombers.
While it is unlikely that those who responded to the advertisement and signed on as martyrdom seekers - tens of thousands are said to have signed up - will be dispatched on individual suicide missions, the possibility that some of them at least will figure in operations to defend cities should the United States attack Iran cannot be ruled out.
The value of the public recruitment of suicide bombers is not so much to enlist volunteers as it is a means to send a message to potential occupiers of what lies ahead.
Lahore, 9 August (AKI) - The alleged al-Qaeda operative who was arrested in Pakistan on Sunday had in his laptop, maps of cities in Italy and Germany. According to Pakistani intelligence sources, Osama bin Yousaf, 33, confessed on Tuesday to his participation within the al-Qaeda terrorist network and maps of Italy, Germany, Pakistan and Britain were also found in his home. According to the Pakistani newspaper, The Daily Times, bin Yousaf is also said to have been in contact with al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan and Europe.
Bin Yousaf confessed to being part of the al-Qaeda network and to have provided logistic support to militants, according to officials quoted in the Daily Times. The intelligence officials also said that his cell phone numbers were found in the telephone index of Abu Faraj al-Libbis - a senior al-Qaeda leader who was arrested in Pakistan in May - after which American and Pakistani intelligence agencies put him on their watch list.
Bin Yousaf was arrested after the authorities in Pakistan tracked phone calls made by him from several locations around Pakistan to Italy, Germany and Britain.
He called someone in the UK on Thursday, called someone else in Italy on Friday and made two long phone calls to somebody in Germany on Saturday, said the officials quoted in the daily. Through the calls the police managed to track his location and eventually arrested bin Yousaf in Faisalabad, a city 350 kilometres from the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
During his interrogation, bin Yousaf described how he had travelled to Afghanistan in 1992 where he received guerrilla training and was injured in fighting a year later after which he returned to Pakistan. He travelled back to Afghanistan in 1995 where he was introduced to al-Qaeda leaders. Intelligence officials in Pakistan have described bin Yousaf as being a close aide of al-Libbi and Amjad Hussain Farooqi, the, who was killed by pakistani security forces in September 2004.
In addition to the maps, officials also found, three credit cards, a computer, dozens of CDs, three grenades, two AK-47s and hundreds of bullets in bin Yousaf's possession. (Smg/Aki) 09-Aug-05 16:03
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.195608710&par=
Figure three factors: Tactical. Strategic. Social.
Tactical considerations will include ease of placement/concealability and a surplus of user friendly logistical apparatus. Local access to security and intel reports, that is areas where the local first responders or community infrastructure will have infiltrators to feed info to the cell. These folks will be notified just in time to evac themselves and families in front of the attack.
Strategic considerations will be locations that provide maximum national economic and infrastructure damage. Things that will impact food, transportation, POWER GRIDS, money, healthcare, tourism, major industry, etc.
Social considerations will probably factor in a a secondary or tertiary objective. Things like JEWISH populations and numbers of infidels that also link with lifestyles considered abominations before Allah. Like gay populations, etc. Whenever the social can be combined with the strategic, you would have I think, a TARGET. I'd say that Miami is a primary target for both social and economic and military priority (SOUTHCOM HQ).
BTW, do you know the difference between TACTICAL and STRATEGIC? As explained to me by an old and wise COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR (CSM):
Strategy is everything that you do to get the girl to go out with you.
TACTICS is everything you do from the moment you first pick her up at home.
Plant explosion near Detroit.
Excellent analysis ExS, thanks.
PLANT = PLANE
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