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Home grown Islamists may hit US: FBI chief
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WASHINGTON -- The United States could be attacked by "home grown" Islamist terror groups, the FBI's chief has warned.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the London Financial Times newspaper in an interview published Thursday that the United States could face attacks from "home-grown terrorism" very similar to the July 7 bombings in London that killed 52 people and wounded another 700, Mueller said.

When asked if the United States could face such attacks from "home-grown groups", Mueller answered emphatically: "Absolutely, it could," the Financial Times said.

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Article21 October 2005
Osama bin Laden: more media whore than guerrilla warrior
The author of a refreshing new book says al-Qaeda has more in common with new global
movements than with nationalist armies of old.
by Brendan O'Neill


Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality,
Modernity, by Faisal Devji, Hurst & Company (London),
2005.

'It is disingenuous to try to claw back all these recent
events and attacks - things that I think are actually
quite new - and put them into old ways of seeing
political acts.' Faisal Devji, author of a refreshing new
book on al-Qaeda, Landscapes of the Jihad, has had
quite enough of the various attempts to explain the
antics of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen as having
some traditional political or national motivation.

Ask yourself the question: what the hell does Osama
bin Laden want? Why did he authorise (apparently) the
worst terrorist attack of modern times on 9/11, and
why do groups or individuals linked to him, or inspired
by him, detonate crude bombs - and often themselves,
too - everywhere from beachside cafeterias in Bali to
bank forecourts in Istanbul to Tube trains packed with
working men and women on a sunny Thursday morning
in London?

The oft trotted-out answer to these questions is that
bin Laden wants a free Palestine. Or he wants
America's grubby mitts off Saudi Arabia and an end to
the sell-out House of Saud's domination of that state.
Or he wants to liberate Iraq and Afghanistan from
American and British occupation and that however
bastardised and bloody his tactics may be, he is
nonetheless part of an 'arc of resistance' to Western
meddling in the Middle East (1).

In short, many argue: it's about territory, stupid! This
view is held by thinkers on both sides of the left/right
divide. So some of a leftish persuasion have come
dangerously close to gushing over al-Qaeda and its
offshoot groups, or at least seeking to explain their
actions with reference to historic movements for land
and freedom. Tariq Ali, for example, compares the
al-Qaeda-inspired insurgents in Iraq - those
car-bombing killers of children and religious
worshippers - to the French resistance to the fascist
Vichy regime, and said of the 9/11 attacks that 'the
subjects of the [American] Empire had struck back',
demonstrating the 'universal truth that…slaves and
peasants do not always obey their masters.' (2) He
wilfully overlooked the fact that the 'peasants' who
organised 9/11 were in fact middle-class students with
cushy lives.

On the right, al-Qaeda is referred to as an
'Islamo-fascist' movement seeking to create a 'Greater
Islamic State' in which sharia law will be ruthlessly
enforced and the people will dream of the good old
days when they were dominated by comparatively
civilised and mild-mannered Westerners. A recent
piece on Open Democracy went so far as to describe
al-Qaeda as 'classically imperialist', since it wishes to
'craft the next chapter of human history in its own
image' (3). Come off it: al-Qaeda's leaders can't even
craft an escape route from Waziristan, never mind
human history. Such views wilfully overlook the fact
that al-Qaeda is mostly made up of pissed-off posh
kids who spend their days fantasising about jihad in
chatrooms on the world wide web and occasionally
muster up enough nerve to strap a homemade bomb to
themselves and murder some civilians. History is not
normally made by such individuals.

The right cites al-Qaeda's alleged territorial and
political ambitions as a justification for a continuing
Western presence in the Middle East (because if we
leave they will set up hostile and barbaric Islamist
regimes), while the left cites them as the reason we
should get out of the Middle East (because if we stay
they'll keep blowing us up). Into this tiresome and
unconvincing debate, where both sides have effectively
made that amorphous thing we call al-Qaeda into a
petty proxy army for their own prejudices and actions,
comes Devji's fascinating new book.

Devji, an assistant professor of history at the New
School University in New York, argues that al-Qaeda
cannot be understood in traditionally political, strategic
or territorial terms. Rather than trying to force
al-Qaeda into political boxes where it simply doesn't fit
- whether it's those labelled 'nationalist', 'imperialist'
or even 'traditional terrorist' - Devji has conducted a
fairly exhaustive study of al-Qaeda's own statements
and actions and come up with some surprising
conclusions: that this outfit is more ethical than
political; that the main landscape for its jihad is the
media rather than the towns and cities of Afghanistan,
Palestine or Chechnya; and that it is not unlike other
new global movements, including environmentalism
and the anti-war movement.

In his book, Devji describes al-Qaeda as a group that
has dispensed with 'an old-fashioned politics tied to
states and citizenship' (4). At the most basic level this
can be glimpsed in al-Qaeda's make-up: its members
and associates come from all over the place, and often
never even meet. They do not have a shared history or
geography, as nationally-inspired movements like the
Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Irish
Republican Army did in the past; nor do they share a
clear political outlook or 'vision for the future', in
Devji's words, in the same way that the old
internationalist movements that also were made up of
different nationalities did, such as the International
Brigades who fought on the side of the communists in
the Spanish Civil War.

Rather, al-Qaeda is a new and peculiarly globalised
movement. Its people can hail from Riyadh, Paris or
Huddersfield, and can claim to be acting on behalf of
Muslims in Iraq, Chechnya or Palestine - or even across
historic periods as well as borders, as in the case of bin
Laden's claim that he wanted vengeance for the Moors
who were booted out of Spain over 500 years ago.
They blow up civilians in London or Madrid as payback
for the killing of civilians in Grozny or Ramallah, and
profess to represent Muslims in nations they have
never visited, and which they might have difficulty
pointing to on a map (a bit like their arch enemy,
George W Bush, perhaps), but which they once saw on
an evening news bulletin. 'Take Mohammed Siddique
Khan', says Devji, referring to the Leeds-born former
supply teacher who blew up himself and six others at
Edgware Road in London on 7 July. 'He said he was
motivated by Iraq. When did he ever go to Iraq? What
does he truly know about Iraq?'

This is not a movement tied by territory, history or
politics; it looks more like an outfit with a chaos-theory
reading of international affairs. The idea that a
Yorkshireman can kill people in London as revenge for
the bombing of 'my people' in Baghdad or Bethlehem
brings to mind the old saying about a butterfly flapping
its wings in one part of the world and causing a
hurricane in another.

In Landscapes of the Jihad, Devji argues that
al-Qaeda's relations are 'not the kind of relations that
had characterised national struggles in the past, which
brought together people who shared a history and a
geography into a political arena defined by processes
of intentionality and control'. The jihad, he writes,
'unlike the politics of national movements…is grounded
not in the propagation of ideas or similarity of interests
and conditions, so much as in the contingent relations
of a global marketplace' (5). In short, the disparate
individuals who are part of al-Qaeda, or who claim to
be part of al-Qaeda, are not bonded by any common
experience of oppression (many of them are well-to-do
and Western-educated) or by shared political visions,
but rather by fleeting and fluid relationships, often
forged in the planning and execution of a one-off
spectacular event rather in the pursuit of a
future-oriented programme of ideas and tactics.

So al-Qaeda's fanciful war is not for something
tangible; it is not about making a state or an Islamic
territory. Where the Islamic radicals of the past - from
the Iranian revolutionaries of 1979 to that last gasp of
Islamic fundamentalism in the shape of the Taliban's
takeover of Afghanistan in 1996 - were motivated by
the desire to create an ideological state, al-Qaeda's
actions are better understood as a pose, Devji tells me,
as 'ethical gestures'. 'Their acts function as
exclamation marks', he says.

'Prior to al-Qaeda and networks of that ilk, the form
that radical Islam took was fundamentalism - a form
that explicitly drew from the communist imagination',
says Devji. 'These were movements dedicated to
setting up, through revolution, an ideological state, and
they made use of all those terms: revolution; ideology;
ideological state; even workers' committees and all
that. They had critiques of capitalism built into them to
various degrees. That is no longer evident and it is not
invoked at all by al-Qaeda. They have taken leave of
that.'

He points to the recent letter allegedly written by
Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's Egyptian deputy, to
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the mysterious Jordanian who
is accused of causing mayhem and bloodshed in
postwar Iraq apparently in the name of al-Qaeda. 'In
the letter - if we believe it is genuine - al-Zawahiri says
he is afraid that the Iraqi insurgency will degenerate
into a standard-issue national movement', says Devji.
'So he says: look, the jihad is not meant to stop with
Iraq. In fact, jihad is something that goes on until the
day of resurrection. By that, I don't think he necessarily
means that it will be suicide techniques and violence all
the way, but he sees it as a specifically ethical act that
is part of everyday Muslim life in whatever form it
occurs. It is not something that is simply meant to
institute new states.' So much for those who argue -
often from a position of moral cowardice more than
political conviction - that the terror might stop if
coalition forces leave Iraq.

What about Palestine? I have lost count of the number
of times I've been on radio or TV shows or at
conferences to discuss terrorism and heard someone
say 'Palestine is the issue!', where it's argued that
al-Qaeda's grievances are mostly motivated by Israel's
domination of the Palestinians and therefore we must
address that issue if we are to put a stop to terror. I
once attended a conference with some fairly high-level
journalists and thought I might have wandered into a
meeting of the Al-Qaeda Defence League by mistake:
my suggestion that al-Qaeda's actions were more
nihilistic than a political response to Palestine were
brushed aside as 'rubbish'.

Devji argues that al-Qaeda refers to Palestine mostly
opportunistically. 'Both al-Zawahiri and bin Laden tend
to refer to Palestine more as a symbolic than an actual
cause', he says. 'It's well known that they haven't
devoted much time to it - apart from saying, both of
them, that isn't it interesting that the issue of Palestine
seems to arouse people?' It's also been pointed out
that, post-9/11, bin Laden only started namechecking
Palestine after it was raised by commentators and
politicians in the West as the most likely explanation
for the terrorist attacks. In his book Devji quotes
al-Zawahiri's view of Palestine, in a book al-Zawahiri
wrote while on the run in Afghanistan in late 2001,
titled Knights Under the Banner of the Prophet. 'The
fact that must be acknowledged is that the issue of
Palestine is the cause that has been firing up the
feelings of the Muslim nation from Morocco to
Indonesia for the past 50 years', wrote al-Zawahiri. 'In
addition, it is a rallying point for all the Arabs, be they
believers or non-believers.' (6) In short, if you want to
make an impact, mention Palestine. Bush and Blair do
the same thing.

Devji locates al-Qaeda, not in traditional international
relations, but more in the collapse of international
relations as we previously knew them. 'Bin Laden and
al-Zawahiri explicitly trace their origins to the Cold
War, or the end of the Cold War', he says. 'They don't
trace it to some peculiarly Islamic thing, but to a global
phenomenon: the end of the Cold War. It is a global
network, and self-consciously sees itself as emerging
from the collapse of the Soviet Union and a certain kind
of international communism or Marxism.' It strikes me
that it was the falling apart of the old world order - one
based on relations between states, and conflicts over
nation and territory - that allowed the rise of a
post-national, non-state actor like al-Qaeda which sees
jihad as some kind of endless duty rather than the
means to the end of an ideological entity.

In these post-political circumstances, al-Qaeda fights
its battles in the media: its attacks are aimed at
making global headlines rather than winning
incremental victories towards some definable end. In
his book, Devji argues that al-Qaeda's acts of
martyrdom only achieve meaning 'by being witnessed
in the mass media'. He describes one video obtained
by Time magazine, which showed martyrs reading their
last testaments and bidding farewell to their families
before blowing themselves up in various parts of Iraq,
as 'the closest the jihad has come to creating its own
form of a reality television show'. The video is 'replete
with scenes straight from Hollywood', he argues: for
example, one martyr dramatically kisses goodbye his
beloved through her veil, which is 'hardly an acceptable
public spectacle for any Muslim tradition' (7). Just as
the media has increasingly become the place where
politics happens across the West - a new political arena
that has superseded crisis-ridden or sluggish
parliaments - so it is also the 'landscape' in which
al-Qaeda fights its weird war, or at least imprints its
exclamation marks.

According to Devji, al-Qaeda is not that different from
other movements that inhabit our changed world - in
terms of its substitution of moral posturing for politics
and its appeal to the media rather than to a grassroots
constituency. Indeed, Devji says al-Qaeda associates
'resemble the members of more familiar global
networks, such as those for the environment or against
war and globalisation'. He writes: 'Like the gestures
that mark the environmentalist or anti-war
movements, those of the jihad arise from the luxury of
moral choice. This is a world whose concerns are global
in dimension and so resistant to old-fashioned political
solutions, calling instead for spectacular gestures that
are ethical in nature. The passion of the holy warrior
emerges from the same source as that of the anti-war
protester - not from a personal experience of
oppression but from observing the oppression of
others. These impersonal and even vicarious passions
draw upon pity for their strength. And pity is perhaps
the most violent passion of all because it is selfless
enough to tolerate monstrous sacrifices.' (8)

Devji is at pains to point out that he isn't saying
al-Qaeda and Greenpeace are the same thing. 'One
uses murderous violence, the other doesn't!', he tells
me. But he does think we need to interrogate the new
political and social forces that have created something
like al-Qaeda if we are going to come up with better
ways of dealing with terrorism than simply by saying
'sort out Palestine and everything will be okay'. It is
time to ditch the lazy explanations that really are
political hangovers from a bygone era, and look afresh
at the problem of terrorism today.

Landscapes of the Jihad by Faisal Devji is published
by Hurst & Company. Buy this book from Amazon(UK)
or Amazon(USA).

Read on:

spiked-issue: War on terror

(1) Palestine is now part of an arc of Muslim
resistance, Seumas Milne, Guardian, 25 March 2004

(2) The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihad
and Modernity, Tariq Ali, 2002

(3) Whose al-Qaeda problem?, Sasha Abramsky, Open
Democracy, 4 October 2005

(4) p87, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality,
Modernity, Faisal Devji, Hurst & Company, 2005

(5) p11, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality,
Modernity

(6) p28, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality,
Modernity

(7) p95, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality,
Modernity

(8) A war fought for impersonal passions, Faisal Devji,
Financial Times, 25 July 2005



Reprinted from : http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CADD4.htm

This might be the most accurate report on al Qaeda, makes sense to me..........granny

[Cindy]

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[Cindy]

Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.ice.gov/graphics/news/newsreleases/articles/051019sandiego.htm


News Release


October 19, 2005

EX-U.S. NAVY INTELLIGENCE OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY IN ARMS EXPORT SCHEME
Defendant claims plot was masterminded by high-profile Pakistani weapons trader


SAN DIEGO - A former Naval intelligence officer from Escondido pleaded guilty here yesterday to three counts of illegally exporting military aircraft parts as a result of an extensive joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS).

George Charles Budenz II, 60, a retired Navy commander, faces more than six years in prison after admitting that he illegally exported engine parts for the U.S. F-5 fighter jet, the T-38 military trainer jet, and Chinook military helicopters to Malaysia and Belgium without the required export license. He is free on $35,000 bond pending his sentencing January 9.

Budenz said he made the illegal exports at the direction of Arif Ali Durrani, 56, a Pakistani national convicted in 1987 of exporting missile guidance systems to Iran. Durrani, who remains in federal custody in San Diego, was charged last month in connection with the scheme. His next scheduled court appearance is November 28.

"This case demonstrates the tenacity of criminals who illegally export licensed commodities and the perseverance of ICE agents who unraveled a complex criminal conspiracy involving a notorious arms trafficker," said Serge Duarte, deputy special-agent-in-charge for ICE investigations in San Diego. "Mr. Durrani was the mastermind behind the scheme and Mr. Budenz was his lieutenant who facilitated the exportation of the military parts on this side of the border."

The indictment for Durrani alleges that he conspired with Budenz and another local man, Richard Tobey of Temecula, California, to export from the United States defense articles designated on the U.S. Munitions List without first having obtained a license or written authorization for such export from the Department of State in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. Section 371 (Conspiracy) to wit: violation of Title 22, U.S.C. Section 2778 (Arms Export Control Act). By law, anyone attempting to export U.S. defense articles must be registered with the State Department and must apply for and receive a license or other approval for export of the defense articles.

According to court records, Budenz stated he met Durrani in 1999 and the Pakistani national told him about his prior conviction for arms trafficking, which prevented Durrani from doing business in the United States. Budenz agreed to serve as Durrani's agent here, helping him locate, purchase, and ship aircraft parts. When investigators searched Budenz's Escondido home earlier this year, they found documents related to parts orders, including one bearing a notation instructing Budenz to "remove all paperwork from the package and neutralize them prior to shipment." Budenz claims Durrani faxed him those directions.

Durrani and Budenz are accused of conspiring to illegally export an amplifier for the General Electric J85 turbine jet engine from the United States to Malaysia on or about December 24, 2004, and conspiring to export two additional amplifiers for the same engine to Malaysia on or about January 14, 2005. These amplifiers were designed for the J85 engine, which is specifically used on the F-5 military fighter jet and the T-38 military trainer aircraft.

In addition, the two men are accused of conspiring to illegally export an afterburner actuator for a J85 turbine jet engine from the United States to Belgium on or about January 14, 2005. This afterburner actuator was designed for the J85 engine, which is specifically used on the F-5 military fighter jet and the T-38 military trainer aircraft.

Tobey, who pleaded guilty last August in San Diego federal court to conspiracy charges to violate the Arms Export Control Act, admitted that he was instructed by Durrani to export a canopy panel for the T-38 military trainer jet to the United Arab Emirates without obtaining State Department approval.

For Durrani, the San Diego case is just the latest in a string of investigations linking him to arms trafficking. In October 1986, ICE agents in Connecticut arrested him on charges that he had illegally exported guidance systems for the HAWK anti-aircraft missile from the United States to Iran. Durrani unsuccessfully argued that his actions were part of a U.S. government-sanctioned covert operation in connection with the Iran-Contra affair. Among other claims, Durrani alleged that Lt. Col. Oliver North, the former National Security Council aide, authorized his arms shipments to Iran. In April 1987, Durrani was convicted on three counts of violating the Arms Export Control Act.

The following year, the State Department statutorily debarred Durrani from exporting any defense articles from the United States. Durrani served his sentence and was released from prison in September 1992. In 1995, Durrani was ordered deported from the United States. In January 1998, Durrani voluntarily left the United States. Ultimately, he took up residence in Baja, Mexico.

On June 12, 2005, Mexican law enforcement officials arrested Durrani for being in Mexico illegally. Days later, Durrani was being deported by Mexican authorities to his native Pakistan when ICE agents met his connecting flight in Los Angeles. Upon his arrival, ICE agents arrested Durrani pursuant to a sealed indictment and arrest warrant issued in the Central District of California in May 1999. The indictment resulted from an investigation by ICE agents in Oxnard that began in 1993.

The 1999 indictment, which was unsealed at his initial court appearance in June, charged Durrani with two counts of violating the Arms Export Control Act. Specifically, the indictment alleged that Durrani's now defunct company, Lonestar Aerospace in Ventura, California, illegally exported more than 100 compressor blades for the General Electric J-85 military jet engine to foreign customers in 1994. Those charges were dismissed last month paving the way for Durrani's prosecution in the Southern District of California on the new charges.

-- ICE --

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[Cindy]

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/mikeadams/2005/10/21/172189.html

"Exterminating Whitey"
Oct 21, 2005
by Mike S. Adams

[LucyT]

The enemy within.
From your article:

And the one idea is, how we are going to exterminate white people because that in my estimation is the only conclusion I have come to.

We have to exterminate white people off the face of the planet to solve this problem
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So we just have to just set up our own system and stop playing and get very serious and not be diverted from coming up with a solution to the problem

and the problem on the planet is white people.

[FairOpinion]

In Italy, Al Qaeda Turns to Organized Crime for Protection (Terrorists smuggled into Europe)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507005/posts

Editor's Note: Italian media report that Al Qaeda is moving operatives through Italy on their way to North Africa and Europe with the help of a Naples-based criminal network similar to the Mafia.

Italian investigators say Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda organization is moving deep into the Mediterranean peninsula's underworld of organized crime.

Italian media recently revealed that hundreds of Al Qaeda operatives coming from North Africa are being sent to Northern Europe though a maze of safe houses belonging to the Neapolitan Camorra, a Naples-based criminal network akin to the Mafia.

The internationally connected Camorra organization specializes in drug trafficking, prostitution, gambling and human and arms trafficking. Historically, the Camorra has worked with terrorist groups from all latitudes and political persuasions.

According to Italian investigative sources, the Camorra could help Al Qaeda obtain forged documents and weapons for its operatives, who disembark almost daily from ships connecting Italy to the Arab countries of North Africa. In addition, in exchange for substantial cargoes of narcotics, these operatives are moved through Camorra's connections from Naples to Rome, Bologna, Milan and eventually to other major European cities such as Paris, London, Berlin and Madrid.

[nw_arizona_granny]

http://www.siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications109405&Category=publications&Subcategory=0 ------------------------------------------------------------ SITE Publications The Fighting Policy of Qaedat al-Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers By SITE Institute October 21, 2005 A presentation of “The Fighting Policy of Qaedat al-Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers,” recently issued by the Global Islamic Media Front, an al-Qaeda mouthpiece, and authored by Abu Abdullah Ahmad al-Omar, seeks to explain the phases and ultimate goal of the insurgency of al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by its emir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, against Americans and the current, interim Iraqi government. -------------------------------------- According to the text, Zarqawi had formulated a strategy against the American Army following the fall of Afghanistan, nearly a year before the start of the War in Iraq, and his actions and that of his group follow a pragmatic, yet Shari’a applicable course to defeat America. ------------------------------------------- According to the author, Zarqawi fled with some companions to Kurdistan after Afghanistan fell and prepared to fight Americans before they “invaded Iraq for more than a year,” establishing camps and warehouses, and recruiting followers from Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Zarqawi is stated to have not launched the insurgency until the Iraqi Ba’ath regime toppled, so it will be the “clean start for Abu Musab away from the accusations of supporting the Ba’ath party, which was represented by Saddam”. ---------------------------------------- The jihad in Iraq, then, entails three distinct phases, each possessing specific targets and desired ends. ---------------------------------------The first phase, to “isolate the American Army,” entails the murder of Arab translators who represent the link between the Americans and the Iraqis, and the murder of Iraqi security forces, who “became shields to the American Army.” As the American casualties increase over a protracted period, the author believes that they “will find it imperative to withdraw,” regardless of alleged lies by the media. -----------------------------------The second phase includes the targeting of Arab or foreign ambassadors, to isolate the Iraqi government and make it only recognizable on paper. According to the text, the murder of the Egyptian and Algerian diplomats was not only justified, but al-Qaeda in Iraq is absolved of blame because they “warned all nations several times” to not send their ambassadors. -------------------------------------- The third phase involves the targeting of the “infidel’s militia” of the Shi’ites in al-Ghadr Brigade, which the author alleges to be supported by ---------------------------------------- Iran and Syria, and have also been attacking the Sunnis. The author finds that the area must be cleared from any “competitor” before the American Army withdraws from Iraq, so the mujahideen may control the land and set up Shar’a courts to fight the “heretic doctrine and forbidden things.” THe mujahideen in Iraq represent the “new generation,” training in explosives and car bombs, and “that is what the whole world is afraid of!” -------------- ------------------------- A full translation of the presentation is provided to our Intel Service members.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Links to the news on the Avian Flu, all over the world.

Note: Arizona Governor, says the Feds are not stocking enough medicine, so Arizona is also going to stock up, as a state project.

Arizona could be a larger danger that some areas, due to the people who walk across the border and are not in any way checked for disease.

http://news.google.com/news?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&persist=1&hl=en&client=google&ncl=http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/markalexander/2005/10/21/172463.html

[Cindy]

OPINION: The guy does seem to have quite a hang-up.
Well hate is evil and the gentleman does seem to be quite hateful if the article is accurate.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Jihadis set their sights on The
Queen
London October 21, 2005 4:37:28 PM IST

Terrorist group Al Qaeda has reportedly
threatened to assassinate English monarch Queen
Elizabeth II.

Al Qaeda has released two videotapes that show
the terror group promising to attack the Queen
unless British troops were pulled out of Iraq.

Femalefirst quoted a report in the Daily Star as
saying that the tapes contained footages of the
9/11 WTC attack, a map of UK on fire and a voice
that said that the Queen was the primary
assassination target

The tape posted on various websites also pointed
out US President George W Bush as a probable
target.

Other footage contained in the films, include
images of jihadi camps showing military training
and scenes of men apparently assembling bombs.
One of the films also shows Al-Qaida operatives
urging British Muslims to "take the decision now"
to join them.

Officials said that the British radical Islamic
group, Supporters of Sharia, was likely to be
behind the tapes, adding that these emerged in
defiance of the British government's stringent new
anti-terror measures. (ANI)

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[Cindy]

Great article FairOpinion.

THANK YOU.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4351204.stm

Weeks' before al-Qaeda judgement

Judgement has been reserved in a case involving a man with suspected al-Qaeda links alleged to have downloaded
information on how to blow up a plane.

Abbas Boutrab, 27, denies possessing 25 computer discs containing instructions on bomb-making downloaded from
the web.

Belfast Crown Court judge Mr Justice Weatherup said it would take him "some weeks" to prepare and give his
written verdict on the case.

His defence claimed Mr Boutrab only viewed the material "out of curiosity".

They claimed that the "evidence, taken as a whole, is weak evidence".

Mr Boutrab, who has been charged under three different aliases, has an address at Whitehouse on the Shore Road
in Belfast.

The prosecution claim that between October 2002 and April 2003, he downloaded details of how to construct a
bomb capable of downing a plane and how to make a silencer for an assault rifle.

Source: BBC

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Islamic Radicalism 'Doomed To Fail,' Bush Says

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Oct. 21, 2005 – Evoking President Ronald Reagan's leadership of America's resolve in confronting communism during his two terms in office, President Bush said today that Islamic radicalism is doomed to fail as communism did.
Bush spoke at the Ronald Reagan Library, in Simi Valley, Calif., for the dedication of the new Air Force One Pavilion at the museum, featuring the 707 jet used by Reagan during his presidency.

America prevailed in the 20th-century contest of wills between American freedom and Soviet totalitarianism, Bush noted. In the 21st century, "our freedom is once again being tested by determined enemies," he added. Terrorists like those who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001, "are followers of a radical and violent ideology," Bush said.

Terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and others of his ilk "exploit the religion of Islam to serve a violent political vision -- the establishment of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom," Bush said.

Islamic extremists distort the concept of jihad, or holy war, to command their followers to murder anyone not in agreement with their principles, including other Muslims, the president said. Like old-style Soviets imbued with the ideology of communism, today's terrorist leaders "presume to speak" for the masses, he added.

The terrorists abhor democracy and embrace totalitarianism's traditional control over people's religious and political beliefs as well as social conduct, Bush said, adding that extremists also believe that "men and women who live in liberty are weak and decadent."

And, like communistic ideology, Islamic radicalism "is doomed to fail," Bush said.

The extremists will fail, Bush said, because their vision "undermines the freedom and creativity that make human progress possible and human society successful."

With beliefs anchored onto archaic, medieval concepts, Bush said, "the only thing modern about our enemies' vision is the weapons they want to use against us."

Bush noted that other political movements that rejected human liberty "condemned themselves to isolation, decline and collapse."

"Because free peoples believe in the future, free peoples will own the future," Bush said.

America and its allies are confronting Islamic radicals "with confidence and a comprehensive strategy," Bush said, while striving to preempt possible new terror attacks. The United States also is working to stop terrorists and the world's outlaw regimes from obtaining weapons of mass destruction, he said.

Efforts also are ongoing to prevent terrorists from using other nations' territory for training, Bush said, or as a base to launch attacks.

The United States and its coalition partners are striving to replace hatred and resentment in the Middle East with "democracy and hope and freedom," Bush said.

"We will prevail in the war on terror," he said, because today's generation of Americans "is determined to meet the threats of our time."

There will be tough moments as the war on global terrorism continues, Bush cautioned. But the president said he's confident of victory, because "we have seen America face down brutal enemies before."

"The power of freedom," Bush said, will triumph over "the dark ideologies of tyranny and terror."

Victory over terrorism is assured because Americans believe, as President Reagan did, "that freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit," Bush said.

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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/10/20/65701.html

Thousands of people remonstrate against Taliban

Thousands of people marched through an eastern Afghan town Thursday shouting "Die terrorists" to protest against
the Taliban for allegedly killing a top Muslim cleric in a mosque bombing, officials said.

It was one of the biggest anti-Taliban demonstrations since U.S.-led forces ousted the fundamentalist regime in
late 2001 for harboring Osama bin Laden. The demonstration occurred in Khost province, an area plagued by
insurgent violence.

Mohammed Ayob, the region's police chief, said "thousands and thousands of people" had filled the small town's
streets, alleyways and a downtown square.

Mohammed Akbar Zadran, a government district chief, put the number of protesters at 4,000.

"People are shouting, 'Die terrorists! Die terrorists!"' he said. "They are demanding the government protect the
clerics so no more are killed."

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http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=54070

Jemaah Islamiyah still training in Mindanao

MANILA -- Members of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) extremist network are still training in the southern Philippines
despite commitments by Muslim separatists to help the government hunt them down, a military official said Friday.

"The JI is still making use of some Mindanao bases for training activities," said military deputy chief Lieutenant
General Samuel Bagasin.

He said JI was operating in the mountainous areas of Lanao del Sur and Maguindanaoon on the main southern island
of Mindanao and the nearby small island chains of Basilan and Jolo.

JI members were recruiting locals and had also forged links with Abu Sayyaf, a local Muslim outlaw group with ties
to the Al-Qaeda network, Bagasin said after a meeting of senior military officials.

However he stressed that he was not saying JI members were training in the camps of the Moro Islamic Liberation
Front (MILF), the country's main Muslim separatist group that has signed a ceasefire with Manila.

The MILF, which is negotiating a peace deal with the government, has committed to help the government crack
down on JI but intelligence officials have said some MILF commanders are sheltering the foreign militants in their
camps.

Source: Agence France Presse

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Cholera in Ghana, Nigeria, Turkey (one citizen +2 tourists) I have only posted the reports on schools. granny ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`````` [4] Cholera - Ghana (Eastern Region) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: GhanaWeb [edited] ______________________________________________________________ 40 cases of cholera had been reported at the Koforidua Regional Hospital from Mon, 17 Oct 2005 to Thu, 20 Oct 2005. 36 of the sick persons were students of the New Juaben College of Commerce (NJUACOCO) from where the 1st case was reported, while the remaining 4 were from the adjoining communities. --------------------------------- Dr Kojo Tinkorang, the Deputy Eastern Regional Director of Health Services, told the GNA in an interview on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 that as of that morning, only 2 of the affected people were still on admission while the rest had been treated and discharged. ---------------------------------- Dr Tinkorang said the 1st case was reported by a new student of the NJUACOCO who visited Accra on Mon afternoon, 17 Oct 2005, and by the next morning, 32 cases were reported from the school. ----------------------------------- On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, 4 cases were reported from the nearby communities. Dr Tinkorang said the heath authorities moved into the school, inspected food and sanitary facilities at the school, organized health talks and gave the students and teachers prophylaxis treatment as a preventive measure. ---------------------------------- He said as at Fri morning, 21 Oct 2005, no new case had been reported at the school and the [affected] communities, but the health authorities have started using public address systems and the FM radio stations to educate the public on personal hygiene and environmental sanitation. ----------------------------------- Dr Tinkorang said he led a team of health workers to inspect the sanitary sites in the New Juaben Municipality to ensure that the disease did not spill over to other parts of the municipality. ----------------------------------- He described what he saw at all the sanitary sites as "very bad and a danger to the community" and mentioned the communities the team visited as Betom, Zongo, Asokore-Kuma, Srodae and Effiduase. Dr Tinkorang called on the New Juaben Municipal Assembly to work hard to help improve upon the conditions at the sanitary sites. He said though no new cases had been reported, his outfit was maintaining a surveillance system because the incubation period of the cholera bacterium was 3 days. _______________________________________________________________ -- ProMED-mail [Koforidua, the capital of the Eastern Region, is only 59 km (37 miles) from Ghana, to the north and slightly east. The incubation period of cholera is fairly short, usually 1-5 days (average 2-3). To have a student visit Accra on an afternoon with 32 cases developing by the following morning, however, suggests that the student is not likely to be the source. Additionally, the infection does not generally spread from person to person, as the infectious dose to infect 50 percent of people is high -- but rather through contaminated water or food in which the organism can replicate. - Mod.LL] _________________________________________________________________ [8] Dysentery - Russia (Chuvashia) Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: Itar-Tass [edited] _______________________________________________________________ 77 schoolchildren in the Chuvashia village of Vurnary proved to have intestinal infection, and 56 of them are now in a hospital, the Chuvashia Health and Social Development Ministry said on Sun, 16 Oct 2005. --------------------------------- According to the preliminary information, 48 children aging from 7 through 17 [years of age] have dysentery. Doctors say that their condition is not critical. The school is under sanitary treatment. -------------------------------- One of the theories is that the children were poisoned with [contaminated] sausage, so the school canteen is temporary closed. _______________________________________________________________ -- ProMED-mail _______________________________________________________________ ****** [9] Dysentery - Ukraine (Khmelnitsky) Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 From: ProMED-mail Source: Ura.inform.com [edited] _____________________________________________________________ In Netyshyn, Khmelnitsk region, 25 patients remain in hospitals after they were poisoned by dairy produce in kindergartens, reported the press service of the Ministry for Emergency Control. --------------------------------- 368 children between the 2-6 years of age were hospitalized form Netyshyn kindergartens. The kefir produced in the Slavuta mini-milk plant contained [_Shigella sonnei_ - Mod. LL], which caused the infection. The investigation is to be continued. -_______________________________________________________________ -- ProMED-mail __________________________________________________________________ ****** [10] Cholera - Worldwide - WHO WER Notifications Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 From: Marianne Hopp Source: WHO Epidemiological Record, 21 Oct 2005 _____________________________________________________________ Notifications of cholera received from 14 to 20 Oct 2005 ------------------------------------------------------ country / dates / cases / deaths Africa Guinea-Bissau 4-16 Oct 2005/ 978/ 10 Asia India 17 Jul - 17 Sep 2005/ 344/ 1 -- ProMED-mail