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US offers $10m reward for Bali bomb suspect
07 October 2005
WASHINGTON: The United States offered a $10 million ($NZ14.3 million) reward yesterday for a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, the second-highest bounty Washington is promising in its war on terrorism.
The reward for a tip that could help kill or capture Dulmatin, an Indonesian militant believed to be hiding in the Philippines, is exceeded only by the $25 million price tags on al Qaeda head Osama bin laden and the Iraq insurgency leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Dulmatin is suspected of involvement in the nightclub bombings three years ago that killed 202 people on the Indonesian vacation island, most of them foreign tourists.
His al Qaeda-linked group, Jemaah Islamiah, is also a focus of attention in the hunt for the masterminds behind restaurant bomb attacks on Sunday that killed 22 people on Bali.
Yesterday's reward offer indicated Dulmatin was as wanted a man by the United States as Taliban leader Mullah Omar who sheltered bin Laden from US attack in Afghanistan and who also has a $US10 million bounty on him.
The State Department's "Rewards for Justice" program has handed out about $US60 million for information about US enemies, including a total $US30 million payment for a tip that led to the killing of Saddam Hussein's sons, Uday and Qusay.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Dulmatin was an electronics specialist who has trained in al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and is a senior figure in the Jemaah Islamiah network.
The State Department also offered a $US1 million reward for Umar Patek for his suspected help in coordinating the operation on the ground for the 2002 bombings.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3436121a14955,00.html
Funny those heavy Muslim population areas are some of the same as noted possible threat areas...or not?
Funny we never saw newspaper or TV clips on King County stocking up on radiation detectors. Wonder how many other major cities have made this item a priority?
Tularemia kicked up in the soil? Cancel those outdoor concerts and runs for charity. Strange Tularemia hasn't been detected as a result of prior events!
You're welcome.
If you find a 2 for 1 special on that memory, please ping me.
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2005/20051006_2964.html
Iraqis, Coalition Beefing up Border Interdiction
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2005 – Iraqi and coalition officials are doing their best to halt shipments of bomb-making materials, expertise and individuals into Iraq, DoD officials said in a Pentagon news conference today.
The officials were asked about British Prime Minister Tony Blair's assertion that Iran and Hezbollah are providing materials used to attack coalition targets and destabilize Iraq.
Army Brig. Gen. Carter Ham, deputy operations chief on the Joint Staff, said Iraqi security forces had intercepted a shipment of devices from Iran into Iraq about a month ago.
"It is principally, as we would expect, an Iraqi issue to secure their own border with Iran. We have a responsibility to help them, both in terms of training and with technology, to improve their border forces," Ham said. "It remains very clearly an area of concern, particularly for Multinational Division Southeast, which is perhaps why the British are also very concerned about that."
Ham said challenges along the Iraq-Syria border are different than those along the Iraq-Iran border.
The border between Iraq and Syria is a long stretch. While "border forts" are being built, many holes remain for insurgents and weapons to pass through. Ham said an operation is ongoing in the vicinity of Qaim to help establish security along the border and to help deny terrorist facilitators safe haven.
Iraqi and coalition officials have seen evidence that foreign fighters are infiltrating into Iraq from Syria.
Ham also said the coalition has seen an evolving terrorist capability in building improvised explosive devices. "This enemy is very imaginative, very adaptive, and very lethal," he said. "And, as we refine our IED countermeasures, they are also adapting their measures. So we are seeing greater degrees of sophistication, different techniques, different technological approaches. And that's a great challenge for us."
Related Site:
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President Urges Muslims to Denounce Violent Extremism
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2005 – The war on terror is focused on Islamic radicalism, not Islam, President Bush emphasized today as he called on Muslim leaders around the world to denounce what he called the terrorists' "murderous ideology."
Extremists who claim to murder under the banner of Islam "are not just enemies of America or enemies of Iraq," the president said during a major speech here before the National Endowment for Democracy. "They are the enemies of Islam and the enemies of humanity."
Many Muslim scholars already have publicly condemned terrorism, citing Chapter 5, Verse 32 of the Koran, Bush noted. That passage states that killing an innocent human being is like killing all humanity, just as saving the life of one person is like saving all humanity, the president explained.
Similarly, Bush noted that an imam in the United Arab Emirates said after the July 7 terror attacks in London that whoever carried the attacks out "is not a Muslim, nor a religious person."
Bush praised the United States' Muslim allies around the world who are defying Islamic extremism.
"Everywhere we have engaged in the fight against extremism, Muslim allies have stood up and joined the fight, becoming partners in a vital cause," he said. Among them are Afghan troops in combat against Taliban remnants and Iraqi soldiers sacrificing to defeat al Qaeda, he said.
Bush urged other Islamic leaders around the world to take a stand against extremism.
"The time has come for all responsible Islamic leaders to join in denouncing an ideology that exploits Islam for political ends and defiles a noble faith," he said.
The terrorists' ideology -- whether it's called "Islamic radicalism" or "militant jihadism" or "Islamofascism" or something else -- is very different from the religion of Islam, Bush said. "This form of radicalism exploits Islam to serve a violent, political vision," he said.
It's a vision of a totalitarian empire that "denies all political and religious freedom" and will use any means necessary to achieve it, including terrorism, subversion and insurgency, he said.
In following that vision, extremists "distort the idea of jihad into a call for terrorist murder against Christians and Jews and Hindus, and also against Muslims from other traditions, who they regard as heretics," Bush said.
And, as often as not, it's innocent Muslims who fall victim to these radicals, he added.
Bush noted the irony in Osama bin Laden declaring himself a leader for the Muslim masses. "Bin Laden said his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not,'" the president said.
"And what this man, who grew up in wealth and privilege, considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers and suicide bombers," Bush said. "He assures them that this is the road to paradise, though he never offers to go along for the ride."
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I get your drift and good points, all of them.
Except 19 is not pulled out of the air.
They will try to honor their "magnificent 19" as they call them.
Numbers are important, historical dates/anniversaries are important.
Thanks Lahargis, but its TEAM work.
>>>Bin Laden standing over the US, with blood running and a head of a bull, or something like that. <<<
I'm trying to figure this one out. Does the bull symbolize Wall Street? Will the subway stations in that area and in the vicinity of where the Twin Towers stood be the target?
It's the Appeasement Game. Everything seems to be going south (literally and seriously). Lots of concern for the future.
Yes, but--the magnificent 19 were actually 20, but one got arrested before he could act.
The cells are alway 5 men, no? (Except that now, there are also women.)
Indeed.
That would be a smart move my friend.
Fatal accident, eh? Sure.
They said allah willed it that way. ;-)
I remember we were trying to figure it out at the time.
Then recently I read somewhere that Bin Laden is waiting to perpetrate a big attack on the US, before showing himself, now we have the metro threat... and it all reminded me of that picture, but when I tried to search for it I couldn't find it.
Yes--page before this one.
NORMAN, Okla. -- Norman police confirmed Thursday that they ran a routine investigation of a 21-year-old University of Oklahoma student who blew himself up on campus Saturday night.
At a 2 p.m. news conference, Norman Police Department spokesman J.D. Younger said an off-duty, plainclothes officer overheard a conversation Joel Henry Hinrichs III had with the proprietor of a Norman feed store last Thursday at 4 p.m. The conversation centered on a purchase of ammonium nitrate fertilizer.
"I think it's important to note that it's not a criminal activity to purchase ammonium nitrate fertilizer," Younger said.
However, he noted that the context of Hinrichs' conversation with a manager of Ellison Feed & Seed was suspicious. Younger indicated that the off-duty officer reported that Hinrichs asked about different types of fertilizer and the concentration of ammonium nitrate in each.
Ammonium nitrate was the primary ingredient in the bomb that killed 168 people in the explosion that brought down the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The officer, according to Younger, took a mental note of the conversation and its context, and then followed Hinrichs outside. The officer took down the student's license tag number, contacted Norman's police department dispatch operation, had Hinrichs checked for outstanding warrants -- but, alas, found nothing.
The officer continued his investigation Thursday night, but could only conclude that Hinrichs was an OU student and lived in university-subsidized housing. The officer did contact a Norman bomb squad technician; however, the plan at that time was for the off-duty officer to complete a written report for submission the following Monday.
OPINION: Cells these day seem to run about 3-5 people, but suiciders come in 1 lone individual or a 2 person team.
They no doubt see it as a divine symbol that the number ended up being 19, on 11-9 (by the way they read dates), so they will put even more significance on that number
Consider also: the 1 and 9 trains on the IRT, running the West Side, one of the most heavily traveled routes.
Good point. I guess the have to let the main planners survive, to go on to the next assignment.
Which brings us once again to the Norman bombing.
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