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Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051079.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
October 22, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-79
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STRYKER BRIGADE UNCOVERS HUGE WEAPON CACHES NEAR EUPHRATES RIVER
MOSUL, Iraq – Multi-National Forces from 172nd Infantry Brigade (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) uncovered 10 weapons caches and detained 16 suspected terrorists during two operations in northern Iraq Oct. 17-18.
Soldiers from 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment detained 16 suspected terrorists and seized a weapons cache during a raid near Rawah along the Euphrates River Oct. 17. The cache included mortar aiming stakes, mortar launching equipment, mortar propellant, and explosive paraphernalia.
Soldiers from the 4-14th Cavalry also seized nine weapons caches during search operations near Rawah Oct. 17-18. The caches included over 600 various artillery rounds, over 700 various mortar rounds, mortar tubes, various rockets, several rocket and rocket propelled grenade launchers, over 100 RPG rounds, over 50,000 rounds of small arms and machine gun ammunition, machine guns, assault and sniper rifles, AK-47s, over 800 point detonating fuses, several feet of detonation cord, several feet of timed fuse, 80 pounds of TNT, several sticks of PE-4, landmines, fragmentation grenades, blasting caps, 100 kilogram fragmentation bombs, and various projectiles.
Iraqi security forces supported by Multi-National Forces continue operations in an effort to provide safety and security to the citizens of the region.
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TEXT PROVIDED BY THE TASK FORCE FREEDOM, MULTINATIONAL FORCE-NORTHWEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT LT. COL. ANDRE HANCE AT ANDRE.HANCE@MNBNW.IRAQ.ARMY.MIL
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Note: The following text is an exact quote:
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http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20051080.txt
NEWS RELEASE
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND
7115 South Boundary Boulevard
MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101
Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
October 22, 2005
Release Number: 05-10-80
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SIGNIFICANT STRIDES MADE IN OPERATION RESTORING RIGHTS
WESTERN NINEWA, Iraq – The Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, partnered with the 3rd Iraqi Army Division, captured five terrorists and nine smugglers in the past 24 hours. Two of these men are senior-level leaders responsible for planning and funding terrorism in the northern area of Iraq.
In the past five days, the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment and Third Iraqi Army Division Soldiers have secured and destroyed more than 10,000 pounds of explosives.
Citizens of Tall Afar are providing information that is leading to the capture of terrorists and the discovery of these weapons and military caches. During one raid, citizens applauded Iraqi Army and Coalition Forces as they led captured terrorists away.
Along the Syrian border, Third Armored Cavalry Regiment forces and Iraqi Border Police here captured nine smugglers as they were crossing into Iraq. The men were transporting illegal contraband that is being used to help fund the terrorists. The contraband was confiscated and all the men were transported to a holding facility for further questioning.
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TEXT PROVIDED BY 3rd ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MULTINATIONAL BRIGADE-NORTHWEST PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER, LT. COL. ANDRE HANCE AT ANDRE.HANCE@MNBNW.IRAQ.ARMY.MIL.
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http://www.wtop.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=601057
AP
"Maryland Joins Seven State Security Alliance"
Updated: Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005 - 1:32 PM
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "BALTIMORE - Maryland is joining a seven-state group to help deal with disasters and security issues.
The All Hazards Consortium is a not-for-profit organization that will bring together state and local government agencies.
It also will bring together private-sector companies, universities and civic and charitable organizations.
The consortium's members hope the group will help states respond to natural disasters and security issues better."
http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2005/10/22/1273407-sun.html
Sat, October 22, 2005
"Minutemen take patrol to Cornwall area"
By MARK BELLIS
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "AKWESASNE -- American border watchers known as the Minutemen will be patrolling near the Akwesasne Mohawk Reserve south of Cornwall this weekend.
"We're just trying to bring attention to the fact that anyone wanting to do harm to our country can get in," said Peter Lanteri, a former marine from Long Island, N.Y., who will be among 14 Minutemen patrolling the border between the Mohawk Reserve and Massena, N.Y., looking for illegal immigration and drug smuggling.
The Minuteman Civil Defense Corps., based in Tombstone, Ariz., was formed earlier this year to monitor U.S. borders. It is not associated with the U.S. government."
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507562/posts
und hidden inside vehicle at border
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | October 22, 2005 | Pauline Repard
Posted on 10/22/2005 10:46:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
SAN YSIDRO – Customs agents seized $700,000 in hidden cash from a motorist headed for Mexico yesterday, after seizing drugs and arresting a Seattle homicide suspect Thursday.
Agents checking southbound vehicles yesterday morning X-rayed a sport utility vehicle and found 67 small packages of cash hidden in the quarter-panels, U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Vince Bond said.
Bond said the cash, totaling $700,000, was seized because the driver didn't have a U.S. Department of Treasury form that is required when taking more than $10,000 out of the country. It wasn't clear if the driver was arrested.
A 30-year-old U.S. citizen was arrested Thursday when agents found 302 pounds of marijuana in his car trunk, Bond said. Inspectors checking northbound vehicles couldn't open the trunk at first, so they got in by pulling down the back seats. They found the trunk had been filled with spray foam sealant around 24 packages of marijuana.
Also Thursday, Customs agents seized 126 pounds of cocaine from the fuel tank of a large pickup entering the United States. A narcotics dog noticed the scent, and the tank was removed by a mechanic, Bond said. The driver, a 34-year-old Mexican national, was arrested.
Additionally, a man suspected in a fatal stabbing in Seattle was arrested as he tried to enter the United States from Mexico on foot Thursday, Bond said. The man gave inspectors an Alaska identity card, and his name turned up on a list of wanted fugitives. Bond had no details on the homicide, but he said the man was booked into county jail to await an escort back to Washington by Seattle detectives.
CORRECTING THE TITLE OF THE THREAD TO POST NO. 3825:
"$700,000 found hidden inside vehicle at border"
San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | October 22, 2005 | Pauline Repard
Posted on 10/22/2005 10:46:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/kouri/2005/10/pamela-vitale-murder-satanic-or.html
Jim Kouri is Vice President of the
National Association of Chiefs of Police
Sunday, October 23, 2005
"The Pamela Vitale Murder: Satanic or Ritualistic Crime and Murder"
by Jim Kouri, CPP
[Parts of the following article are taken from the book Assume the Position by Jim Kouri.]
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The news coverage of the extraordinarily brutal murder of
Pamela Vitale, wife of well-known California criminal defense
attorney Daniel Horowitz, seems to have renewed interest in
ritualistic crime. The 16-year old suspect is reported to have
been involved in some kind of self-styled Satanism including
the reading Anton LeVay's Satanic Bible and use of occult
symbols at the crime scene.
In spite of mankind's advances in the arts and sciences,
there remains a large number of people who have not
been able to -- or refuse to -- shake-off the practices of
pagan rituals, some of which date back thousands of years.
Included within the broad spectrum of paganism are so-called
Satanic cults which are suspect in a number of bizarre crimes
throughout the United States."
ON THe NET...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=%22Zarqawi%22&btnG=Google+Search&sa=N&tab=wn
http://www.altavista.com/news/results?q=Zarqawi&nc=0&nr=0&nd=4
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/10/008663print.html
October 22, 2005
"Colorado: Saudi Probed For Possible Terror Link"
Created a thread for the two men arrested in Kingston, OK that had 28 bombs... Also on the thread is an older story that details a bit more about the specific devices used, etc...
Police arrest 2 in Marshall County Bomb Scare
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507641/posts
Thanks for the link Cindy. That'll make it easier! (o:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507609/posts
Messianic madness of nuclear Osama
WorlsNetDaily ^ | October 23, 2005 | Farah
Posted on 10/23/2005 3:37:18 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Messianic madness
of nuclear Osama
Heavenly signs, bin Laden's Mahdi complex raise current
threat of 'American Hiroshima'
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1507615/posts
WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN?
spiritoftruth.org ^ | October 2nd, 2005 | J. Adams
Posted on 10/23/2005 4:30:53 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
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Other info in comments of the threads, thanks to Ovetaxt for posting these threads.
granny
Jihad Against Danish Newspaper [Offended by cartoons]
Brussels Journal ^ | October 22, 2005 | Paul Belien
"Muslim fundamentalists have threatened to bomb the paper’s offices and kill the cartoonists.
"...Muslim organisations have demanded an apology..."
"Meanwhile in Brussels a young Muslim immigrant published a poster depicting the Virgin Mary with naked breasts.
"Though the picture has drawn some protest from Catholics (though not from Western embassies, nor from the bishops), this artist need not fear being murdered in the street.
"On the contrary, he is being subsidised by the Ministry for Culture."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507732/posts
The enemy within:
WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON... America’s First Communist President
Internet Search: Bill Clinton Soviet Spy ^ | ??? | It’s anonymous and for good reasons
"Here is one part I don't know how it occurred. It will take an investigative reporter to dig up the truth.
"Bill got Hillary an extraordinary job. The job was to listen to all of Nixon’s tapes and try to find incriminating evidence against Nixon. Or destroy any evidence against Bill Clinton and McGovern.
"I believe those missing 16 or 18 minutes was edited out by Hillary when she learned that Nixon had a conversation about Bill Clinton and George McGovern as Soviet KGB agents.
"I believe that's how their "marriage" came about. Bill and Hillary created an unbreakable pact between them. "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507747/posts
Thanks granny! :)
The enemy within:
Over 10,000 Saudi Students US Bound (young Saudi muslim males)
Asharq Alawsat (UK arabic newspaper) ^ | 23 October 2005 | Omar El Okeily & Najah al Osaymi
Posted on 10/23/2005 11:25:49 AM MDT by Mount Athos
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- More than 10,000 Saudi students will travel to the US to attend university as part of a government-sponsored program following the adoption of new measures by the Ministry of Higher Education aimed at facilitating travel procedures for Saudis.
In total, 21,000 Saudis are expected to take part in the program in the next four years.
---To: Mount Athos
Meanhile, how many American students were denied admission to higher ed, so those universities could take the Saudis?
Politicians, Bill Gates and other CEOs complain about the declining enrollment of Americans in science, math, and engineering programs, while at the same time supporting programs like this. I work for an American-owned/based Fortune 500 company that is financially supporting universities in India!
And foreign students pretty much have diplomatic immunity once they get here.
12 posted on 10/23/2005 11:41:39 AM MDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507741/posts
http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com/
from a speech by
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman
Al-Zawahiri. Al-Jazeera TV aired
this speech on October 23, 2005.
Al-Zawahiri: We felt deep sadness and
sorrow at the news of the disaster that
befell the Muslim Pakistani people as a
result of the earthquake that hit Pakistan
and Afghanistan yesterday. We pray to
Allah that He will place our brothers killed
in the earthquake alongside the martyrs
and the righteous. Dear brothers, how I
wish my brothers and I that we could be
with you on this day. But America's
collaborators prevent us from supporting
our Muslim brothers in their time of
hardship.
The important thing is: I call today upon
Muslims in general, and upon the Islamic
charities in particular, to go to Pakistan and
assist their Pakistani brothers. They should
try to outdo one another in this. They
should bear in mind the troubles they will
encounter in so doing. We are all aware of
the extent of the raging American war
against the activities of the Islamic
charities. We all know that the Musharraf
government is a branch of the CIA. Despite
all this, I call upon all Muslims to hasten to
the aid of their brothers in Pakistan, any
way they can, and, in order to provide as
much aid as possible, they should bear in
mind the harm (that may come) from the
Americans and their collaborators.
Comment: Al-Jazeera might offer Ayman a weekly
column.
I. Summary and
Introduction
"The threat is real," said Henry Crumpton, the
U.S. State Department's counterterrorism
coordinator. He was visiting Indonesia last week,
nearly three weeks after suicide bombers killed
20 people and wounded more than 100 on the
resort island of Bali. "But what really concerns
me is weapons of mass destruction," Crumpton
said, pointing to evidence U.S. officials said they
found in Afghanistan that al-Qaida was working
on anthrax weapons.
On June 1, 2005, President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez
Musharraf said of Al Qaeda told CNN: "These people
were involved in the ... production of anthrax,....." In a
court filing dated May 20, 2005, an attorney for the United
States Department of Justice wrote: "The investigation
into the anthrax attacks is one of the largest and most
complex investigations in law enforcement history. To
bring those responsible to justice, the investigation
remains intensely active." Four years earlier -- in the
Summer of 2001 -- the former top Al Qaeda expert for the
Federal Bureau of Investigation John O'Neill had warned
that Al Qaeda was going to use anthrax. He was head of
security for the World Trade Center.
The night before 9/11 O'Neill sat at his usual table at
Elaine's. O'Neill told his friend that the country was due
for something big. He said that he expected that there
would be another attack on the World Trade Center --
because Al Qaeda seeks to finish what they start. O'Neill
knew of "Operation Bojinka" and that one of Khalid
Mohammed's alternative scenarios was use of a
biochemical weapon in connection with the detention of
the blind sheikh and other WTC plotters. He had seen the
reports of surveillance of the January 2000 meeting in
Malaysia attended by Al Qaeda anthrax technician Yazid
Sufaat. But he wasn't in a position to do anything about it.
Holding his trademark cigar, he said "life doesn't get
much better than this." He died the next day in the plane
attack on the towers.
In early June 2003, a Central Intelligence Agency
("CIA") report publicly concluded that the reason for
Mohammed Atta's and Zacarias Moussaoui's inquiries into
cropdusters was for the contemplated use in dispersing
biological agents such as anthrax. An early September
2003 Newsweek article included a rumor by a Taliban
source that at a meeting in April 2003 Bin Laden was
planning an "unbelievable" biological attack, the plans for
which had suffered a setback upon the arrest of Khalid
Shaikh Mohammed ("KSM"). He had been captured the
previous month in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. In November
2003, a report by a UN Panel of experts concluded that Al
Qaeda is determined to use chemical and biological
weapons and is restrained only by technical difficulties.
In May 2004, Patrick Hughes, Lieutenant General
(Retired), Assistant Secretary for Information Analysis,
Homeland Security Department testified before the 9/11
Commission. He explained that interrogations and other
evidence revealed that Al Qaeda wanted to strike the US
with a nonconventional weapon, most notably anthrax.
The same week, the WTC head testified that while they
had not received any briefing on the use of planes, they
had taken steps to prepare for an attack using anthrax
based on intelligence that had been received.
In a statement issued June 16, 2004, the 9/11
Commission Staff concluded that "Al Qaeda had an
ambitious biological weapons program and was making
advances in its ability to produce anthrax prior to
September 11. According to Director of Central
Intelligence George Tenet, al Qaeda’s ability to conduct
an anthrax attack is one of the most immediate threats
the United States is likely to face." On August 9, 2004, it
was announced that in the Spring of 2001, a man named
El-Shukrijumah, also known as Jafar the Pilot, who was
part of a "second wave," had been casing New York City
helicopters. Photographs from a seized computer disc
included the controls and the locks on the door between
the passengers and pilot. In a bulletin, the FBI noted that
the surveillance might relate to a plot to disperse a
chemical or biological weapon.
On March 31, 2005, the Commission on the Intelligence
Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of
Mass Destruction, in its "Report to the President of the
United States," concluded "al-Qai'da's biological program
was further along, particularly with regard to Agent X
[anthrax], than pre-War intelligence indicated. The
program was extensive, well-organized , and operated for
two years before September 11, but intelligence insights
into the program were limited. The program involved
several sites around Afghanistan. Two of these sites
contained commercial equipment and were operated by
individuals with special training."
The CIA reportedly has been quietly building a case
that the anthrax mailings were an international plot. This
is old news. It's just no longer bureaucratically impolite to
openly contest the FBI's (former) theory about a lone,
American scientist. Many people have argued that a
US-based Al Qaeda operative is behind the earlier Fall
2001 anthrax mailings in the US, and that the mailings
served as a threat and warning. Princeton islamist scholar
Bernard Lewis has explained that while islamists may
disagree about whether killing innocents is sanctioned by
the laws of jihad, extremists like Zawahiri agree that
notice must be given before biochemical weapons are
used. "The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an
al-Qaeda analyst retired from the CIA who once headed
its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack
someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings
followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997
to newspaper branches in Washington, D.C. and New York
City, as well as symbolic targets. The letter bombs were
sent in connection with the detention of the blind sheik
Abdel Rahman and those responsible for the earlier World
Trade Center bombing in 1993.
Handwritten notes and files on a laptop seized upon the
capture of KSM, Al Qaeda's #3, included a feasible
anthrax production plan using a spray dryer and
addressed the recruitment of necessary expertise. What
your morning paper did not tell you, however, was that
the CIA seized a similar disc from Ayman Zawahiri's
right-hand, Ahmed Salama Mabruk, 5 years earlier. The
computer disk was confiscated from him during his arrest
by the CIA in Azerbaijan and handed over to the Egyptian
authorities. Mabruk, at the time, was the head of Jihad's
military operations. There is a risk that observers
underestimate the time that Al Qaeda has had to make
progress in such recruitment and research and
development.
(continued at link, there is much information here and links to more......granny)
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:_fu5QNCMyKoJ:www.cmu.edu/joss/content/articles/volume6/TsvetovatCarley/+gaining+control+of+a+seemingly+third%0D%0Aparty+terrorist+network,+i.e.,+al+Qaeda&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet
"Journal of Social Structure"
About al Qaeda and the structure of it's different groups and cells and how to gather the information.
From:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=gaining%20control%20of%20a%20seemingly%20third%0D%0Aparty%20terrorist%20network%2C%20i.e.%2C%20al%20Qaeda
I am VERY disturbed by this:
Over 10,000 Saudi Students US Bound
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507741/posts?q=1&&page=51
Perhaps we don't deserve to exist as a nation if we are this stupid.
42 posted on 10/23/2005 11:28:27 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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