Posted on 01/01/2006 6:41:58 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
Links to the entire reports are at the link:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=676144&contrassID=2
What to do about Iran? Rosner's time-saver
Click here to go back to Rosner's Domain
Don't have the time to read everything about Iran's nuclear controversy?
Read this abbreviated version of the best pieces published in the past couple
of days.
Feel free to make suggestions in writing to rosnersdomain@haaretz.co.il.
Shmuel Rosner
Simplicity
Max Boot, at the L.A Times: "Sooner rather than later, President Bush
must face a hard choice: Either order air strikes (or acquiesce to Israeli
strikes) or accept a nuclear-armed Iran. A lot of bluster won't make this
difficult dilemma disappear."
Read it here.
Regime Change
Robert Kegan writes in the Washington Post that "The Bush
administration, despite its doctrine of democratization, has not yet tried
to apply it in the one place where ideals and strategic interest most
clearly intersect. It has done little to push for political change or to
exploit the evident weaknesses in the mullahs' regime. The steps are
obvious: Communicate directly to Iran's very westernized population,
through radio, the Internet and other media; organize international
support for unions and human rights and other civic groups, as well as
religious groups that oppose the regime; provide covert support to
those willing to use it; and impose sanctions, not so much to stop the
nuclear program - since they probably won't -- but to squeeze the
business elite that supports the regime."
Read it here.
Non-Issue
William Pfaff of the IHT writes that Iran's nukes are a non-issue: "Why is
all this pressure being mounted against Iran when both Washington and
Jerusalem unofficially concede that there is nothing to be done to
prevent Iran's government from continuing along its present course of
nuclear development?"
Read it here.
Reality
Gerard Baker wrote this for the Times of London: "THE UNIMAGINABLE
but ultimately inescapable truth is that we are going to have to get
ready for war with Iran. Being of a free-speaking, free thinking
disposition, we generally find in the West that hand-wringing,
finger-pointing and second-guessing come more easily to us than cold,
strategic thinking. Confronted with nightmarish perils we instinctively
choose to seize the opportunity to blame each other, cursing our
domestic opponents for the situation they've put us in."
Read it here.
An Idea
Nile Gardiner and John Hulsman wrote this for the Heritage Foundation:
"There is a way out of the present diplomatic morass that will signal to
the Mullahs in Tehran that the West is serious about reining in their
nuclear ambitions, but without allowing them to destabilize the Middle
East. The United States should propose the quick admission of Israel
into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as a full and equal
member."
Read it here.
Military Option
William Arkin, Early Warning Blog: "For months, the press and
blogosphere have been filled with scoops about U.S. and Israeli
preparations for an imminent strike on Iran. Commentators in the
mainstream press, meanwhile, have questioned the likelihood of a strike
on Iran's nuclear facilities, arguing that such an attack would be
impossible or too costly given Iran's ability to hide its true targets.
"To locate and then strike these disbursed and underground facilities -
would probably require not air power but nuclear weapons," retired Gen.
Barry McCaffrey even said on NBC Nightly News Saturday night.
Commentators on both sides of this issue are wrong. Though the U.S.
military continues to prepare a preemptive attack war plan for Iran and
North Korea under the "global strike" program, speculation of an
imminent strike is utter fabrication." Read it here.
Positive Outlook
Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek: "The United States should begin the
construction of an alliance to contain Iran. Our goals should be to
prevent or massively slow down the weaponization of Iran's nuclear
program, and to frustrate its meddling in the region, support for
terrorism and opposition to a peaceful settlement of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"This is not a best-case outcome, but it has its virtues. The existence of
a clear and present danger in Iran will keep the international community
galvanized. Already, the Western alliance has been strengthened in
response to Iran's belligerence, and cooperation with India, Russia and
China seems a stronger possibility than ever before."
Read it here.
Final outcome
Fred Kaplan, Slate: "So, here's the big question: If diplomacy is the only
rational solution to this problem yet the Iranians just want nukes - in
other words, if there is no deal (or at least no deal that the United
States would realistically offer) that would compel them to give up their
dream - what's the next step?
At this point, I must confess: I don't know. Neither, it seems, does
anybody else. So, dear Slate readers, do you have any great ideas?
Send them to me. I'll print - and publicly mull over - the best of them."
Read it here.
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"By failing to strengthen (President Mahmoud )Abbas's position, the
U.S. has paved the way for a Hamas victory," states a document
prepared by the Saudi National Security Assessment Project.
"Moreover, the U.S administration's faith in the power of elections to
transform people makes it oblivious to the possibility that the
democratic process is often a double-edged sword which can have
unintended consequences," goes on to say the policy brief delivered
last Dec. 27 by the SNSAP's director, Nawaf Obaid."
"Hamas operates "extensive social services infrastructure that
includes schools, orphanages, mosques, healthcare clinics, and soup
kitchens," basic services that the Palestinian Authority under Yasser
Arafat and later Abbas, often failed to provide anything approaching
Hamas' services."
"A Hamas win will reveal the extent U.S. power, prestige, and ideals
have been undermined in the region. In fact, it will provide momentum
to these trends and will likely lead to a power vacuum in the peace
process."
The report recommends that it will be up to Saudi Arabia - "the only
country with the political, religious, and economic might to fill the
void" -- to assume greater responsibility."
Hamas is a Sunni extremist Islamic group so stand by for Saudi Arabia
and its petrodollars to take up the funding slack if the U.S., EU and
Israel shut off aid. Naturally, Saudi Arabia will try to assume a
much more powerful position in the vacuum between Hamas and Israel.
What will CICBush43 do then?
David
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060127-054934-1354r
Saudis: U.S. paved way for Hamas victory
By CLAUDE SALHANI
UPI International Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- A confidential Saudi report prepared just
weeks before the Palestinian elections predicted a Hamas victory in
Gaza and the West Bank and puts the blame on the United States: "By
failing to strengthen (President Mahmoud )Abbas's position, the U.S.
has paved the way for a Hamas victory," states a document prepared by
the Saudi National Security Assessment Project.
"Moreover, the U.S administration's faith in the power of elections to
transform people makes it oblivious to the possibility that the
democratic process is often a double-edged sword which can have
unintended consequences," goes on to say the policy brief delivered
last Dec. 27 by the SNSAP's director, Nawaf Obaid.
Furthermore, the brief states that the U.S. failed to press "Abbas to
implement his commitments to security and disarmament, and has not
succeeded in convincing donor nations to fulfill their pledges for
financial assistance to the Palestinians."
Obaid's study anticipated that the Palestinian elections set for
January 25, 2006 "will in all probability result in a victory for
Hamas."
"Such an outcome would have wide ranging implications for Saudi
Arabia's national security and emerging foreign policy in the region,"
warned the confidential brief made available to United Press
International, adding that "the Palestinians face dire social welfare
needs not addressed by the current government."
Recent surveys conducted by the Saudi National Security Assessment
Project indicate that there is deep distrust of senior officials in
the Palestinian Authority, most of whom are Fatah members. "This
situation has created an opportunity that Hamas has been able to
exploit."
The brief cites United Nations statistics indicating that "almost 75
percent of Palestinians live below the poverty line."
Given that Hamas operates "extensive social services infrastructure
that includes schools, orphanages, mosques, healthcare clinics, and
soup kitchens," basic services that the Palestinian Authority under
Yasser Arafat and later Abbas, often failed to provide anything
approaching Hamas' services.
Additionally, Hamas' reputation for financial probity, are in contrast
to perceived Fatah corruption and incompetence.
As the primary regional supporter of the Palestinian cause, Saudi
Arabia finds it has a unique moral responsibility to insure that
humanitarian needs of the Palestinians continue to be met,
particularly given the distinct possibility that U.S. and European
Union funds are under threat of being suspended now that Hamas will be
in power.
"A victory by Hamas presents a challenge to Saudi Arabia in that this
financial support will likely need to be increased if the U.S. and
Europe reduce or refuse to support a Hamas-controlled Palestinian
government," says the brief.
"American policies in the region, especially its unfettered support
for Israel and its designation of Hamas as a terror organization,
complicate the situation, and demonstrate that the Bush administration
is clearly out of touch. Thus, they are unable to understand the
situation from the Palestinian perspective," states the Saudi report.
The report goes on to say: "Palestinians have lost faith in a
leadership they had expected would revitalize the economy, rein in
official corruption, curb criminal activity, and revive efforts for
the creation of an independent Palestinian state."
Adding a word of caution, the Saudi report states: "A Hamas win will
reveal the extent U.S. power, prestige, and ideals have been
undermined in the region. In fact, it will provide momentum to these
trends and will likely lead to a power vacuum in the peace process."
The report recommends that it will be up to Saudi Arabia - "the only
country with the political, religious, and economic might to fill the
void" -- to assume greater responsibility.
Saudi Arabia is by far the largest supporter of the Palestinian
Authority's social and economic services. In addition private Saudi
citizens and charitable foundations donate approximately $150 million
per year to support the general social and economic programs in the
Palestinian territories. This makes the Kingdom the largest single aid
donor to Palestine.
The Saudi report stresses that Hamas' agenda must be moderated. "But
considering the centerpiece of its charter is the destruction of
Israel, that will be difficult to do."
However, according to unnamed Hamas officials cited in the Saudi
report, "the only way that the organization can moderate its approach
and still save face would be to resurrect the 2002 Abdallah peace
initiative."
This is in reference to a peace proposal put forward by King Abdullah
of Saudi Arabia, then Crown Prince, during an Arab summit in Beirut in
which he was prepared to offer Israel full recognition and normal
relations in return for Israeli withdrawal from all territories
occupied since 1967 and return of the Palestine refugees to Israel.
Reviving the Abdullah initiative would make Saudi Arabia a direct
partner in the peace process and consolidate its position as the chief
backer of the Palestinians on the world scene.
The report concludes "The Saudi leadership should prepare for this
outcome."
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(Comments may be sent to Claude@upi.com.)
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"...the EU risked becoming "the first empire in history to go down
before it was founded."
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060127-105125-9798r
Walker's World: Turning out EU's lights
By MARTIN WALKER
UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- While the stunning election victory of
Hamas in Palestine has dominated the world's attention, another
important bombshell has exploded in Berlin, where it now seems that a
majority of Germans now see the European Union as the problem, rather
than as any kind of solution.
The Berliner Zeitung newspaper has obtained a leak of the latest
Eurobarometer opinion poll, organized by the EU's own Commission, that
shows a large majority of the 1,534 Germans polled blaming the EU for
economic and social problems. And 84 percent of Germans polled fear
that German jobs are likely to be lost to EU countries where labor
costs are lower.
The poll also showed that one in two Germans feared that further
European integration, for example the inclusion of Turkey and/or
Ukraine into the 25-member EU, could result in an economic crisis. As
a result, 59 percent of those polls said that no further enlargement
should take place in the foreseeable future.
Almost two-thirds of those polled, 64 percent, said declining social
standards and welfare and pension benefits were a serious problem for
Germany, and while they did not blame the EU specifically, they said
that EU membership was "part of the negative development" making
German life less agreeable.
Germany, with the largest economy and biggest population in the EU,
has traditionally been the political and commercial locomotive of
European integration, the country that usually bankrolled the complex
deals reached to resolve the EU's internal crises. But Germany's
sluggish economic growth and high unemployment over the past decade as
the country has grappled with the challenge of integrating the former
East Germany have tested this unique German role.
Many of the EU's current difficulties can be attributed to this German
weakness, and the vacuum of European leadership in policy and planning
that resulted. And while Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel,
seems ready to resume that role of German leadership and is currently
winning high approval ratings from German voters, the broader
unpopularity of the EU among Germans and their doubts about further
enlargement will limit her room to maneuver on the EU stage.
This leak of the Eurobarometer poll was echoed by two further unhappy
developments for the EU. First, a survey of members of the Association
of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce published by Die Welt
newspaper found 76 percent of the members said that the EU "interferes
too much into business."
German businessmen are not against the EU in principle. Indeed, the
poll showed that a majority of 58 percent wanted harmonized
environmental rules across Europe and also preferred a single
Europe-wide tax system - a development that key nation states like
Britain adamantly oppose. But the image of the EU as bureaucratic and
over-interfering in business is damaging for the EU, an organization
whose prime boast is that its single market has helped build European
prosperity.
Another damaging development was the claim this week by Frits
Bolkestein, the former EU Commissioner for the internal market, that
the EU's new single currency, the euro, may not survive in the long
term. In a speech to Dutch businessmen in London Wednesday Bolkestein
warned that the euro would face a dramatic test in about ten years
time when the pension crisis hits Europe "ruthlessly," with a swelling
number of baby-boomers reaching retirement while too few young workers
are available to pay the taxes needed to service the pensions.
Important states like Italy, the third largest economy in the
Eurozone, are wholly unprepared for this crisis, Bolkestein warned.
These states "will be forced by political pressure to borrow more and
increase their budget deficit, with consequences for interest rates
and inflation," he said. And all other countries using the euro would
be affected by the consequent deficits and pressure on the currency,
he added.
"The real test for the euro is not now, but in ten years time,"
Bolkestein went on. "Therefore, in my view the long-term chances of
survival of the euro should be questioned."
This looming pensions crisis is one of the arguments used by opponents
of the euro in Britain, Sweden and Denmark against their countries
joining the single currency. They claim that the choice would be
between bailing out high deficit states like Italy, or cutting Italy
loose from the rest of the eurozone in order to stave off a currency
crisis.
A further blow for the EU came this week when another former
Commissioner, Austria's Franz Fischler, warned that the EU risked
becoming "the first empire in history to go down before it was
founded."
Fischler, the veteran Agriculture Commissioner throughout the 1990s,
was launching his new book, 'Europe: The Unwanted State," on the
margins of a conference convened in Salzburg by the Austrian
government to launch "a new political and cultural debate" to rethink
what the EU is and what it should become. Austria, the current holder
of the rotating Presidency of the EU, launched the conference to
coincide with the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, and to tackle
the crisis of confidence that has gripped the EU since Dutch and
French voters rejected the draft new EU constitution their referendums
last year.
Any restoration of confidence in the EU will depend heavily on German
economic recovery, and there are strong indications that this may be
coming. Germany's business confidence index reached a 6-year high this
week, with signs of increasing productivity, good profits and renewed
investment.
But against the good economic news came a further blow this week to
German self-confidence: new demographic figures showed that Germany
had the world's highest proportion of childless women. This underlines
the coming pension problem that Bolkestein had stressed. The
statistics, collected by the EU in 2005, found that thirty per cent of
German women have not had children, and women graduates were even less
likely to breed, with 40 percent of them having no children.
Unless the birth rate recovered and began to grow again, as it is
doing in Britain, Sweden and France, Germany would have to "turn out
the lights," commented the country's Minister for Families, Ursula von
der Leyen.
Are you listening to Drudge?
He keeps playing clips of Cindy Sheehan.
She made an odd statement, something like "I might as well run for congress, it will be easier than what I am doing now, traveling all over the world and kissing babies".
All this talk about her running for congress, brings questions to my mind.
Who will pay for the campaign? Soros? Venezuela? the communist party?
Who wants her to take up the news time?
What is being covered up? Is something about to break and the major media wants to avoid reporting it?
Can Cindy win?
Something is getting smelly........pass the tinfoil.
"We can't turn a Katrina over to a FEMA again because they have no
legal authority or enough manpower. DHS has got to be there to
coordinate the whole effort," he said. "It has got to be done pretty
quickly too, because the next test is right around the corner and we
have got to do better the next time around."
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060124-102951-6794r
DHS unpreparaed for new attacks: claim
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Experts warn that the Department of
Homeland Security is unprepared for a terrorist attack or natural
disaster because it lacks regional bodies to act as intermediaries
between local, state and federal levels of government.
James Carafano, a Senior Fellow for National Security at the
conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington unveiled a list of five
issues he thinks must be dealt with before the five-year anniversary
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at a foundation briefing this
week.
He urged the formation of regional DHS offices, which he said would
improve coordination between different levels of government. Caravano
said DHS must mobilize state and local governments and public safety
officials as partners in intelligence, emergency response and domestic
counterterrorism, he said.
"Regional offices are needed to enhance the effectiveness of DHS,"
Caravano told United Press International. "It is an absolute no
brainer."
When Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff took over from
Tom Ridge last July, a major reorganization and realignment of
structure took place within the department. DHS spokesman Russ Knocke
said regional offices were not included in restructuring.
Regional offices were proposed in the initial formation of DHS, but
were shot down by the Office of Management and Budget. Caravano said
the initial program for regions was too elaborate and expensive.
"It was way too ambitious and it got real political," he said. "It
became like empire building within DHS."
Caravano said Chertoff got sick of the politics that came with
regional governing and went a different route. However, he believes
Congress must be pushed to implement effective regional coordination.
"Congress has been asleep at the wheel on this issue," he said.
Knocke said the DHS had avoided politics by working with regions at a
direct level rather than creating individual regional offices. "One
major concern with regions is that it would create an extra level of
bureaucracy and establish a kind of silo effect and various little
fiefdoms responsible for a variety of cross cutting activities," he
said.
DHS is currently working with the top 75 most populated metropolitan
cities in the nation to assess their emergency preparedness systems,
Knocke said. "There is tremendous coordination at all levels," he said.
Speaking at the Heritage Foundation event, Thomas Lockwood, Director
of the Office of National Capitol Regional Coordination within DHS,
said it was difficult to expect autonomous jurisdictions to sit down
and coordinate together because of each one's unique economic and
political concerns.
"It is not an easy thing to get jurisdictions together," Lockwood
said. "What we want to do is strengthen regional coordination among
all partners while respecting jurisdictional authority."
Others believe regional organizations would result in a more effective
response because DHS offers the legal authority to put relief plans in
motion quickly. The federal government's lagging response to Hurricane
Katrina, which ravished the Gulf Coast last fall leaving thousands
homeless, was a glaring example of the need for regional DHS offices,
according to this argument.
"Katrina was a reality test that couldn't be replicated by any
training exercise and the problems that went along with those relief
efforts still exist," said retired Army General William Moore, now a
consultant with Computer Sciences Corporation.
A regional body would also serve as a reassurance to those at the
local level who are far removed from the inner-workings of Washington
and the federal government, said former Attorney General Edwin Meese.
"They have to have that link and a feeling that they will have a voice
at the local level," said Meese. When it comes down to disaster
relief, Meese said, "The first responders are the ones at the local
level -- there cannot be a lack of certainty."
Continued...........posted for research and study....
LOL
Please take note that I posted my Cindy Sheehan comments, before Drudge got the same thoughts.........LOL
I scooped the Drudge program.
But then any thinking American should have had the same thoughts.
LOL
http://www.riskwatch.com/Whitepapers/GAORiskMgmt-1-17-2006.pdf
GAO releases New Report on Risk Management
Further Refinements Needed to Assess Risks and Prioritize Protective
Measures at Ports and Other Critical Infrastructure
The three DHS components GAO studied varied considerably in their
progress in developing a sound risk management framework for homeland
security responsibilities. The varied progress reflects, among other
things, each component's organizational maturity and the complexity of
its task. The Coast Guard, which is furthest along, is the component
of longest standing, being created in 1915, while IAIP came into being
with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2003.
IAIP, which has made the least progress, is not only a new component
but also has the most complex task-addressing not just ports but all
types of infrastructure. The Coast Guard and ODP have a relatively
robust methodology in place for assessing risks at ports; IAIP is
still developing its methodology and has had several setbacks in
completing the task. All three components, however, have much left to
do. In particular, each component is limited in its ability to compare
and prioritize risks. The Coast Guard and ODP can do so within a port
but not between ports; IAIP has not demonstrated that it can do so
either within or between all infrastructure sectors.
Each component faces many challenges in making further progress.
Success will depend partly on continuing to improve various technical
and management processes that are part of risk management. For
example, obtaining better quality data from intelligence agencies
would help DHS components estimate the relative likelihood of various
types of threats-a key element of assessing risks. In the longer term,
progress will depend increasingly on how well risk management is
coordinated across agencies, because current approaches in many ways
are neither consistent nor comparable. Also, weaving risk-based data
into the annual budget cycle of program review will be important.
Supplying the necessary guidance and coordination is what the
Department of Homeland Security was set up to do and, as the Secretary
of Homeland Security has stated, what it now needs increasingly to
address. This is a key issue for the department as it seeks to
identify relative risks and take appropriate actions related to the
nation's homeland security activities.
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will
obliterate
it, just as it obliterated others before it."
THE COVENANT OF THE HAMAS: MAIN POINTS
Aug 18, 1988
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1980_1989/THE+COVENANT+OF+THE+HAMAS+-+MAIN+POINTS+-+18-Aug-8.htm
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1980_1989/THE+COVENANT+OF+THE+HAMAS+-+MAIN+POINTS+-+18-Aug-8.htm
The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement was issued on August
18,
1988. The Islamic Resistance Movement, also known as the HAMAS, is an
extremist fundamentalist Islamic organization operating in the
territories
under Israeli control. Its Covenant is a comprehensive manifesto
comprised
of 36 separate articles, all of which promote the basic HAMAS goal of
destroying the State of Israel through Jihad (Islamic Holy War). The
following are excerpts of the HAMAS Covenant:
Goals of the HAMAS:
"The Islamic Resistance Movement is a distinguished Palestinian
movement,
whose allegiance is to Allah, and whose way of life is Islam. It
strives to
raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine." (Article 6)
On the destruction of Israel:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will
obliterate
it, just as it obliterated others before it." (Preamble)
The exclusive Moslem nature of the area:
"The land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Holy Possession] consecrated
for
future Moslem generations until Judgment Day. No one can renounce it or
any
part, or abandon it or any part of it." (Article 11)
"Palestine is an Islamic land... Since this is the case, the Liberation
of
Palestine is an individual duty for every Moslem wherever he may be."
(Article 13)
The call to jihad:
"The day the enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the
individual
duty of every Moslem. In the face of the Jews' usurpation, it is
compulsory
that the banner of Jihad be raised." (Article 15)
"Ranks will close, fighters joining other fighters, and masses
everywhere in
the Islamic world will come forward in response to the call of duty,
loudly
proclaiming: 'Hail to Jihad!'. This cry will reach the heavens and will
go
on being resounded until liberation is achieved, the invaders
vanquished and
Allah's victory comes about." (Article 33)
Rejection of a negotiated peace settlement:
"[Peace] initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and
international
conferences are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic
Resistance
Movement... Those conferences are no more than a means to appoint the
infidels as arbitrators in the lands of Islam... There is no solution
for
the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and
international conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in
futility."
(Article 13)
Condemnation of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty:
"Egypt was, to a great extent, removed from the circle of struggle
[against
Zionism] through the treacherous Camp David Agreement. The Zionists are
trying to draw other Arab countries into similar agreements in order to
bring them outside the circle of struggle. ...Leaving the circle of
struggle
against Zionism is high treason, and cursed be he who perpetrates such
an
act." (Article 32)
Anti-Semitic incitement:
The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and
kill
them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks
and
trees will cry out: 'O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come
and
kill him." (Article 7)
"The enemies have been scheming for a long time ... and have
accumulated
huge and influential material wealth. With their money, they took
control of
the world media... With their money they stirred revolutions in various
parts of the globe... They stood behind the French Revolution, the
Communist
Revolution and most of the revolutions we hear about... With their
money
they formed secret organizations - such as the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs
and
the Lions - which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy
societies and carry out Zionist interests... They stood behind World
War I
... and formed the League of Nations through which they could rule the
world. They were behind World War II, through which they made huge
financial
gains... There is no war going on anywhere without them having their
finger
in it." (Article 22)
"Zionism scheming has no end, and after Palestine, they will covet
expansion
from the Nile to the Euphrates River. When they have finished digesting
the
area on which they have laid their hand, they will look forward to more
expansion. Their scheme has been laid out in the 'Protocols of the
Elders of
Zion'." (Article 32)
"The HAMAS regards itself the spearhead and the vanguard of the circle
of
struggle against World Zionism... Islamic groups all over the Arab
world
should also do the same, since they are best equipped for their future
role
in the fight against the warmongering Jews." (Article 32)
Post 1768 begs for googling:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=The%20Islamic%20Resistance%20Movement
The word manifesto is always interesting:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Its%20Covenant%20is%20a%20comprehensive%20manifesto%20
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet&q=Is+Covenant+is+a+comprehensive+manifesto+&spell=1
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=destroying%20the%20State%20of%20Israel%20through%20Jihad
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Islamic%20Holy%20War
How the U.S. Pledge to our flag will sound with allah in it:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=allegiance%20is%20to%20Allah
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Islam%20will%20%0D%0A%20obliterate%20%0D%0A%20it
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Islamic%20Waqf%20
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=The%20call%20to%20jihad
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=is%20an%20individual%20duty%20for%20every%20Moslem%20wherever%20he%20may%20be
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=%20banner%20of%20Jihad%20be%20raised
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Hail%20to%20Jihad
These crept into my mind, so will post them here:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=jihad%20gangs
This is one to check, much to learn here, did you know that the mexican "ol'e" is another meaning for the word allah?
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=allah%20gangs
Check: alt.prisons in google groups:
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=gangs%20for%20allah%20in%20the%20prisons
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=jihad%20prisons
Posted for research and study, Read this one slowly......
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn29.html
At least Hamas is open about its evil intentions January 29, 2006 BY
MARK
STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
I was at a county fair in New Hampshire last summer and stopped by the
National Guard tent. They had those "Support Our Troops" ribbon
stickers for
sale -- one on a Stars-and-Stripes background, one of them just plain
yellow. I've never liked the whole yellow-ribbon thing: It's too
victimological, too passive, too enervated. One of the distinctive
features
of that immediate post-9/11 moment of near national unity was the
blessed
absence of yellow ribbons. It would have been the wrong symbol for an
America full of righteous anger.
But four years on, and there are "Support Our Troops" yellow ribbons
a-plenty. "What's the idea behind that?" I asked the National Guardsman
manning the display.
"Well," he said, "a lot of people don't support the war and they aren't
comfortable with the flag-colored ribbon but they support the troops."
It seemed to me unlikely that people who were uncomfortable with the
national flag were likely in any meaningful sense to be supportive of
the
national army. But a couple of weeks later, driving past a house in
Hanover,
N.H., I saw an even sillier qualification: "Support Our Troops. Bring
Them
Home Now" -- so they can sit around the barracks feeling like losers
until
they're needed for some hurricane-relief operation.
Joel Stein (no relation) of the Los Angeles Times took a lot of heat
last
week for coming right out with it and saying that he didn't support the
troops and that it was a humbug phrase that he and his anti-war
comrades
shouldn't have to use as cover for their position. Good for him. He's
right.
It's empty and pusillanimous, the Iraq war's version of "But some of my
best
friends are Jewish . . ." If you're opposed to the mission, if you
don't
want to see it through, if you're supporting a position whose success
would
only demoralize those serving in Iraq and negate their sacrifice, in
what
sense do you "support the troops"? Stein ought to be congratulated for
acknowledging that he doesn't. We armchair warmongers are routinely
derided
as "chickenhawks," but Stein is a hawkish chicken, disdaining the
weasel
formulation too many anti-war folks take refuge in.
The Palestinian elections were similarly clarifying. The old guard --
Yasser
Arafat's Fatah cronies -- had their own take on the "But some of my
best
friends are Jewish" routine. For years they insisted, at least in the
presence of Americans and Europeans, that they were in favor of a
"two-state
solution" -- Israel and Palestine living side by side -- at the same
time as
they supported and glorified and financially subsidized suicide bombers
and
other terrorists. Insofar as their enthusiasm for a two-state solution
was
genuine, it was as an intermediate stage en route to a one-state
solution.
Hamas, by contrast, takes a Joel Stein view: Why the hell should we
have to
go tippy-toeing around some sissy phrase we don't really mean? Hamas
doesn't
support a two-state solution, it supports the liquidation of one state
and
its replacement by other, and they don't see why they should have to
pretend
otherwise. And in last week's elections for the Palestinian Authority
they
romped home. It was a landslide.
As is the way, many in the West rushed to rationalize the victory. The
media
have long been reluctant to damn the excitable lads as terrorists. In
2002
the New York Times published a photograph of Palestinian suicide
bombers all
dressed up and ready to blow, and captioned it "Hamas activists." Take
my
advice and try not to be standing too near the Hamas activist when he
activates himself.
Oh, no no no, some analysts assured us. The Palestinians didn't vote
for
Hamas because of the policy plank about obliterating the state of
Israel but
because Fatah is hopelessly corrupt. Which is true: The European
Union's
bankrolled the Palestinian Authority since its creation and Yasser and
his
buddies salted most of the dough away in their Swiss bank accounts and
used
the loose change to fund the intifada. After 10 years you can't blame
the
Palestinians for figuring it's time to give another group of people a
chance
to siphon off all that EU booty.
So I'd like to believe this was a vote for getting rid of corruption
rather
than getting rid of Jews. But that's hard to square with some of the
newly
elected legislators. For example, Mariam Farahat, a mother of three,
was
elected in Gaza. She used to be a mother of six but three of her sons
self-detonated on suicide missions against Israel. She's a household
name to
Palestinians, known as Um Nidal -- Mother of the Struggle -- and, at
the
rate she's getting through her kids, the Struggle's all she'll be
Mother of.
She's famous for a Hamas recruitment video in which she shows her
17-year-old son how to kill Israelis and then tells him not to come
back.
It's the Hamas version of 42nd Street: You're going out there a
youngster
but you've got to come back in small pieces.
It may be that she stood for parliament because she's got a yen to be
junior
transport minister or deputy secretary of fisheries. But it seems more
likely that she and her Hamas colleagues were elected because this is
who
the Palestinian people are, this is what they believe. The Palestinians
are
the most comprehensively wrecked people on the face of the earth: After
60
years as U.N. "refugees," they're now so depraved they're electing
candidates on the basis of child sacrifice. To take two contemporaneous
crises, imagine if the population displacements caused by the end of
the
Second World War and by the partition of British India had also been
left to
the U.N. to manage and six decades later they were still running the
"refugee" "camps," now full of grandchildren and great-grandchildren,
none
of whom had ever lived in any of the places they're supposed to be
refugees
from. Would you wish that fate on post-war Central Europe or the Indian
subcontinent?
So what happens now? Either Hamas forms a government and decides that
operating highway departments and sewer systems is what it really wants
to
do with itself. Or, like Arafat, it figures that it has no interest in
government except as a useful front for terrorist operations. If it's
the
former, all well and good: Many first-rate terror organizations have
managed
to convert themselves to third-rate national-liberation governments.
But, if
it's the latter, that too is useful: Hamas is the honest expression of
the
will of the Palestinian electorate, and the cold hard truth of that is
something Europeans and Americans will find hard to avoid.
As with Joel Stein, you're always better off knowing what people
honestly
think. For decades, the Middle East's dictators justified themselves to
Washington as a restraint on the baser urges of their citizens, but in
the
end they only incubated worse pathologies. Western subsidy of
Arafatistan is
merely the latest example. Democracy in the Middle East is not always
pretty, but it's better than the West's sillier illusions.
A google alert included this link, and all the names made me think of the Zawahiri tape and missing names, from 2005.
When I can see again, will have a go at googling them.
granny
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369667
Volume 2, Issue 8 (April 28, 2005) | Download PDF Version
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
The Voice of the Caucasus - A new Jihadi magazine
Continuing JI concerns in Singapore
More attacks due in Indonesia
The Oman Islamist Enigma
Peace Talks Amid Renewed Violence in the Philippines
Yemen Facing Insurgency on Two Fronts
Coalition Warfare, Part II: How Zarqawi Fits into Bin Laden's World Front
The Voice of Jihad is Back
Jihad Terms and Terminology
The Voice of Jihad is Back
By Stephen Ulph
Perceptions as to the war on terrorism in Saudi Arabia took a knock with the news of a series of armed confrontations during the month of April. The first of these, the bloodiest in a two-year struggle between al-Qaeda and government forces, was a three day exchange beginning on April 3 at al-Rass, a small town in the al-Qassim region some 200 miles north of the Saudi capital Riyadh. Government reports spoke of 18 al-Qaeda fatalities, including a number of those on the most wanted list, in particular Sa'ud al-Utaybi and the Moroccan Abd al-Karim al-Majati, the presumed mastermind of the March 2004 Madrid train bombings. The second clash took place in Mecca on April 21 during which two mujahideen and two policemen were killed, targeted by rocket-propelled grenades. On the same day a third incident occurred at the Red Sea port city of Jeddah, resulting in the arrest of two militants.
However, another indication, just as telling, was the reappearance on the web on April 27 of the al-Qaeda web magazine Sawt al-Jihad (Voice of Jihad), the ideological periodical for the Peninsular mujahideen. Publication of all Sawt al-Jihad periodicals had been interrupted last October, and it was assumed that this was an indication of the difficulties the mujahideen were facing in the increasingly efficient security environment of the Kingdom. The appearance of issue no. 29, therefore, comes as a slap in the face to the regime.
The theme of the 50-page edition, entitled al-Samidun (The Steadfast), is as expected one of ‘we're still here'. It dedicates much of its contents to elucidating and explaining the events of April's clashes with the authorities. Whether already planned before the confrontations, or as a homage, the magazine contains articles penned by some of those involved, including an editorial by Sa'ud al-Utaybi and an article with the sarcastic title Qadayna ala al-Irhab (We have put an end to terrorism). Here al-Utaybi pours scorn on the claims of the Saudi authorities to have eliminated jihad in the Kingdom as mere "daydreams". He claims that their standard by which victory is judged differs from that of the government. "Whatever we have suffered in the Arab Peninsula and elsewhere," Al-Utaybi affirms, "let the Tyrant know that our war throughout the world is one single war, beginning with his master the Americans wherever they may be, and not ending until all the thrones of Tyrants are cast down." Al-Utaybi ends with a call for more youths to join the jihad. To those who are unable to do so in the Peninsula he asks what prevents them from making their way to Iraq or other fronts? "Or for those who cannot join a front line, what stops them from sniping at Americans and killing the Crusader or Apostate enemies of God at home?"
The section "Observations: Events in the Eyes of the Mujahideen" gives an extended treatment of the April events and provides the full list of casualties and detainees (in some cases for the first time, and pointedly correcting the misinformation it claims is being put out by the government). The fatalities it lists as the following:
- Sa'ud bin Hamud al-Utaybi
- Nayif bin Abd al-Aziz al-Awshan
- Karim bin al-Tahami al-Majati (an interview with whom is to appear in the following edition) and his 11-year old son Adam.
- Fawwaz bin Mufaddi al-Enezi
- Majid bin Muhammad bin Sa'id al-Qahtani
- Sa'd bin Muhammad al-Uqayyil
- Mut'ib al-Maqati al-Utaybi
- Nawaf bin Nayif al-Hafi al-Utaybi
- Abd al-Rahman bin Abdallah al-Ju'aydan
- Faysal bin Muhammad al-Baydani al-Harbi
The magazine also lists the names of the six arrested:
- Shaikh Hamad al-Humaydi
- Salih bin Abd al-Aziz al-Jum'a
- Sa'd bin Salama al-Enezi
- Adil bin Sa'd al-Mutayri
- Zayn bin Jadid al-Bahiji
- Salih bin Abd al-Rahman al-Shamsan
The chapter al-Samidun wa–Ashab al-Rass (The Steadfast Ones and the People of al-Rass) give the mujahideen's take on the April 3-5 events, linking it fancifully with the al-Rass of the Qur'an who were destroyed for turning against God's messengers of warning. The basic purpose of the article is to turn the mujahideen's ‘defeat' into a victory and belittle the achievement of the authorities.
This is followed by a biography of one of the above arrestees, Shaikh Hamad al-Humaydi, an important mujahid ideologue whose loss will be felt. The homage continues with one of his essays urging jihad, supported, as is customary, by Qur'anic quotations and quotes from classic Muslim scholars who supported militant jihad.
The Islamic law theme is continued with a treatise by Abdullah bin Nasir al-Rashid on those considered to have immunity from conflict, dealing with the thorny subject of treatment of the Ahl al-Kitab (those other ‘People of the Book', i.e. Jews and Christians) and the issue of Dhimma (‘protected people', those subservient to Muslims).
The founder of the Peninsular mujahideen Yusuf al-Ayyiri (killed in June 2003), reappears in a lengthy article, which once again makes the point of the need for mujahid youths not to bother to seek permission from their parents for such a sacred duty, and addresses a homily to parents enjoining them not to seek to prevent their sons from enlisting. This is then bolstered by a question and answer chapter discussed by Abdullah bin Nasir al-Rashid on fatwas on Jihad and Shari'ah.
A couple of interesting points also appear in the text. One is an appeal for sympathizers not to misuse the Voice of Jihad name to front their audio publications, since it implies erroneous connection with the Peninsular mujahideen. The other is a set of detailed warnings and instructions on precautions to take when attempting to communicate with the editorial staff: not to use a known phone line, make sure to use a proxy whenever possible, avoid mentioning any information which might identify the correspondents or their whereabouts.
The Voice of Jihad alternated publication with the Mu'askar al-Battar (al-Battar Training Camp) periodical, which provided materials of a more military and training application. It will be interesting to see if the Mu'askar also makes its reappearance shortly, as some gauge of future militancy in the Kingdom.
Stephen Ulph is a Senior Fellow of The Jamestown Foundation and editor of Terrorism Focus.
Jihadi Terms and Terminology
By Stephen Ulph
Al-Rawafidh: The rejectionists, renegades
An opprobrious term used by Salafists to refer to the Shi'ites.
Al-Sham or Bilad al-Sham: The historical name for Greater Syria, which generally includes modern-day Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Israel and some areas of Turkey. A group calling itself Tanzim Jund al-Sham (Organization of the Army of Greater Syria) has appeared on Islamist forums (see "The Qatar theater bombing" in this issue of Focus). The use of this term, like Bilad al-Haramayn, Bilad al-Rafidayn and Bilad al-Berber, indicates the mujahideen's disregard for what they consider to be ‘Crusader/Zionist' borders.
Al-Riyadhah al-Badaniyyah: Physical Exercises, Fitness Training
Mu'askar al-Battar features a regular section by this name in which the magazine lays out a regiment of exercises including cardiovascular/endurance and strength training for the mujahideen. Al-Battar states, "There is no doubt physical strength is of the greatest importance in the mujahid's preparation... fitness training is the first step in any military training." It goes on to provide Qur'an and Hadith supporting their view of the importance of physical training.
Al-Khafeefah (Refers to Aslihat al-Khafeefah): Light Weaponry
Mu'askar al-Battar has featured detailed articles on the use of light weaponry in combat, which is among the easiest of manufactured weaponry to acquire. They provide a history of the weapons, a breakdown of their component parts, maintenance and safety procedures, and comparative charts of ammunition, range, and accuracy. They also provide the benefits of a given weapon; the Kalashnikov, for example, is "considered the best weapon for storming and invading from the standpoint of strength and durability".
Jihadi Terms and Terminology
By Stephen Ulph
Taghout: ‘Tyrant'
Originally a pre-Islamic idol, the term denotes any object or individual that prevents mankind from doing good. In jihadist literature it is commonly used to denote heads of state of Muslim countries which are not governed by Shari'a law. ‘Taghout' used as an adjective is used in the sense of ‘profane, oppressive' (e.g. ‘the Taghout courts.')
Taghout al-Asr: ‘The Tyrant of the [present] Age' is the United States of America – in its role as a superpower opposing the program of the mujahideen to establish the Islamic Nation.
Al-Saloul: ‘The Family of Saloul'
A deliberate distortion of the official term Al Sa'ud, (the ‘Sa'ud Dynasty') and designed to refer insultingly to them. Al Saloul originally denoted the family that guarded the pagan shrine of the Kaaba in Mekka in pre-Islamic times. The adjective Salouli is also used (‘the Salouli regime').
Al-Sandouq al-Mayyit: ‘Dead Box'
This is a communications system whereby the operations team can receive instructions from command without the two levels having direct communication with each other. The technique is mentioned by the al-Qaeda leader Abu Hajar ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Muqrin (killed in June 2004) in Volume 6 of the online magazine Mu'askar al-Battar in the chapter Jama'at al-Amal al-Sirri (‘Covert Operations Group').
Bilad al-Haramayn: The Land of the Two Shrines
Referring to Makka and Madina, the holy cities in present-day Saudi Arabia. Mujahidin use this term to avoid legitimising the Saudi system, and to affirm their rejection of the national boundaries in the Peninsula.
Bilad al-Rafidayn: The Land of the Two Rivers
The rivers refer to the Tigris and Euphrates in present day Iraq. Modelled on the previous term, it first achieved currency with the declaration of al-Zarqawi's allegiance to Osama Bin Laden, and the renaming of his group Tanzim al-Qaeda fi Bilad al-Rafidayn.
Bilad al-Berber: The Land of the Berbers
Not yet established as an official term, it made it appearance on jihadi forums with reference to the jihad in Algeria. As with Bilad al-Haramayn, it does not imply recognition of present boundaries, and embraces the entire Maghreb from Morocco to Libya.
Ard al-Ribat: The Land of the ‘Frontier Post'
Palestine/Israel. Construed by the mujahidin as a war zone. A posting on the Osama Islmiyya jihad forum on January 17 2005 laments why there is yet no ‘Qaedat Jihad fi Ard al-Ribat'.
March 17th,2005
http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2369441
Al-Qaeda's Strategy Until 2020
By Stephen Ulph
In light of this issue's report on the Idarat al-Tawahhush and its view on the secondary importance of Afghanistan in al-Qaeda's global struggle, a further window into al-Qaeda's strategic thinking is provided by a Jordanian analyst Bassam al-Baddarin. Writing on March 11 for the Arabic language daily al-Quds al-Arabi, his article ‘Al-Qaeda has drawn up working strategy lasting until 2020,' puts together from the assorted writings of al-Qaeda's ‘strategic brain' Muhammad Makkawi, what appears to be a coherent long-term strategy. It seeks to explain the series of events since September 11 2001, the events in Afghanistan and Iraq, and potentially beyond.
The subject of al-Baddarin's study, Muhammad Ibrahim Makkawi, is better known as Sayf al-Adel. He was a colonel in Egyptian Special Forces before joining with the mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet invasion. At the 1998 foundation of World Islamic Front against Crusaders and Jews (the full, official title for al-Qaeda), Sayf al-Adel was granted a pivotal role in military training, and subsequently headed the military wing, succeeding Abu Hafs al-Masri to become number three in al-Qaeda after Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. In 2003, Iran at one point offered to extradite Sayf al-Adel, whom it claimed to have under arrest, in exchange for Mujahideen-e Khalq Organization leaders, but Washington rejected the offer.
The theory:
Al-Baddarin identifies from Sayf al-Adel's writings a core thesis explaining events — a regional war against the Americans. It aims at opening the jihadist triangle of terror, beginning with Afghanistan, passing though Iran and southern Iraq, and ending with southern Turkey, southern Lebanon and Syria. The first, achieved, step in this strategy was to regionalize the struggle with the United States. In this, the events of September 11 constituted the first step: dragging the United States into the Arab region in preparation for an extended war of attrition. Al-Qaeda knew in advance that the quick and inevitable response would be a comprehensive attack from the super-power against Afghanistan, but that this would play into their hands by provoking another giant — the Islamic Nation — and forcing it to wake up from its slumbers. In what appears a parallel with Abu Bakr Naji's theory in "The Management of Barbarism," al-Baddarin sees in al-Qaeda's writings on the web a fore-knowledge of the course of events, that in a pre-prepared program "it sacrificed the Taleban Movement and transferred a large number of its fighting strength outside Afghanistan, to Iran and Iraq." This was to keep pace with the shift by Washington of the theatre to an even more comprehensive confrontation in Iraq. "Indeed al-Qaeda had seen this in advance … Therefore, Al-Zarqawi and his comrades left for Iraq and remained quiet in the north" until coming to fruition "through the well-known declaration of
allegiance between al-Zarqawi in Iraq and bin Laden in Afghanistan." In this manner, al-Baddarin concludes, "it can be said that al-Qaeda's strategy until the year 2000 (sic for 2020) turned its second page." All that remains are "the Syrian and Lebanese dossiers, and finally the Iranian dossier." This last is an inevitable strategic and tactical target for US military presence in the region. As to Washington's strategic preparation for this, al-Baddarin states, "al-Qaeda leaders say that the U.S. Administration has defined five objectives: ending the Palestinian intifada; controlling Lebanon's Hizbullah; effecting the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; promoting the success of the Iraqi election process; and securing the oil fields in the Arabian Gulf region and maritime crossing points." The upshot of this costly, dispersed U.S. strategy is the draining of the superpower's military resources.
The immediate question on the above is how much of these strategic theses of al-Qaeda actually predate events, or whether they constitute a ‘moving target' that takes as much from the unfolding of events as it purports to steer them. The one concession to the unpredictability of human events is al-Zarqawi's narrow escape from being traded by Saddam Hussein in return for averting the invasion — interpreted by Sayf al-Adel as God's intervention to save the group. The role of Iran in this program is also insufficiently clarified, as al-Baddarin himself states, and would imply "a certain [long distance] patient deal, still unknown … convincing Iran of the benefit in the end would be on two tracks: getting rid of Saddam and controlling Iraq, and then moving on to confronting the Americans." Even so, the article is thought-provoking as a serious and intelligent attempt at weaving together the strands of information floating on the web into a coherent whole. As such it is eagerly being consumed on the jihadi forums.
Here are the 5 names for the theft of explosives in New Mexico, all are now in custody.
http://news.corporate.findlaw.com/prnewswire/20060112/12jan20061814.html
Jan. 12, 2006
ATF Arrests Additional
Suspects in Connection With
Theft of New Mexico
Explosives
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 12
/PRNewswire/ --
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Jan. 12
/PRNewswire/ -- Special agents from the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
and Explosives (ATF) have arrested two
more men in connection with the theft of
400 pounds of explosives from an ATF
explosives licensee.
The apprehensions of Joseph Mulnix, 29,
yesterday and Robert Shaw, 40, on Jan.
3 at their respective homes in
Bloomfield, N.M., brought to five the
number of people arrested and charged
in the case. ATF completed the recovery
of all the stolen explosives, the largest
reported heist of 2005, on Dec. 24.
ATF agents took Leslie Brown, 44, into
custody without incident Dec. 23 at his
home in Ignacio, Colo., and later that
day arrested Leslie Brown's brother,
David Kendrick Brown, 49, and Eric
Wayne Armstrong, 32, in Bloomfield.
"We are confident that we have all the
individuals responsible for the explosive
theft in custody," said ATF Resident
Agent in Charge Wayne Dixie.
continued.......
Posted for study and research:
MEXIDATA . INFO
Column 013006 Brewer
http://www.mexidata.info/id768.html
Monday, January 30, 2006
Latin American Gangs Threaten Mexico
and the U.S.
By Jerry Brewer
Those most likely to harbor gangs intent on
terror are those who may view the United
States as a declining superpower due to
recent events. Many in countries that find
it virtually impossible to control gangs,
criminals and terrorists within their own
territories – a threat that emanates as far
south as the tri-border confluence of
Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.
Charles Shapiro, the former U.S.
ambassador to Venezuela, states, “Almost
every extremist terror group is now
represented in Latin America.” And that
includes Islamic terrorists, among others
al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic
Jihad. Living there among an estimated
population of 25,000 Arabs, or those of
Arab descent.
Apart from Western Hemisphere criminals,
for decades there have been pockets of
smugglers, terrorists, drug traffickers, arms
dealers, and organized crime figures from
Russia, Japan, China, Nigeria and others
nations in the area. And most of the
successful infiltration into Latin American
nations is due to weak governments,
corrupt establishments, unscrupulous
leftist leaders, and sagging economies.
The isthmus between North and South
America, with Panama as a central hub, is
a chokepoint for the movement of
land-based vehicles and people towards
Mexico and the border of the United
States. Reports have described sightings
of al-Qaeda operatives in Central America,
and some observes believe their alleged
presence “conforms to their desire to
secure land routes to the United States
through collaboration with Central
American gangs.”
The U.S. Justice Department recently
reported that a drug trafficker, Noel Exinia,
admitted importing a quarter ton of cocaine
into the United States from Mexico. Too,
he was to smuggle in 20 men who were
“Iraqi terrorists,” charging them
US$8,000.00 a head. Exinia, according to
papers filed in a Brownsville, Texas federal
court, told associates in wiretapped
conversations that these men were
“Osama’s people” (Usama Bin Laden).
Although this information was
subsequently deemed questionable, it
spoke considerably of human trafficking
possibilities with an Islamic terrorist
potential.
Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft
has claimed that Adnan G. El Shukrijumah,
a known al-Qaeda member and suspect in
the planning of 9/11, was spotted in July
2004 in Honduras meeting with Mara
Salvatrucha gang members. This
announcement was followed by a
confirmation by U.S. officials that
Shukrijumah had attempted to acquire
radioactive material for the production of a
“dirty bomb” to be smuggled into the U.S.
U.S. Government officials report that over
90 MS-13 gang member insurgents have
been apprehended nationwide since 2004.
More than a third have been caught in the
Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas, with at
least 40 caught in the Laredo area.
There are reports of Kaibiles, ex-members
of Special Forces units from Guatemala,
training paramilitary “Zeta” gunmen – who
are the enforcement arm of Mexico’s
treacherous Gulf Cartel, and other cartel
assassins. Gun battles throughout Mexico
have clearly shown the death and
destruction brought on by unchecked
violence and the sophisticated weapons
used by these rogue commandos.
The Tucson (Arizona) Sector has reported
more than a hundred attacks against
Border Patrol agents along the border by
paramilitary-looking attackers. This in total
disregard for our law enforcement at all
levels. They are bold and no longer
content to keep a low profile on and around
U.S. soil, plus some have placed bounties
on the lives of U.S. law enforcement
officers.
Border Patrol agents say they are not
prepared to fight an enemy this
sophisticated and well armed.
A report from Dallas last year, by the
Associated Press, advised of Latin American
gang violence “that’s become all too
common in Mexico, right here in Dallas.”
The report described seeing
“execution-style murders, burned bodies,
and outright mayhem.”
Here too is a wake up call to go hand in
hand with a nation’s voracious drug habit,
and the suppliers of the demand from the
south – according to officials in both
countries an estimated 95 percent of the
unlawful weapons seized or confiscated in
Mexico were first sold legally in the United
States. In one case, Mexican and U.S.
authorities working together traced 80
confiscated firearms to a Mexican citizen
who had paid Texas residents to buy
weapons on his behalf.
The terrorism risk at our southern border is
real and requires the attention of
authorities at the highest levels of
government. Yet walls and fences will not
block this threat, for many of the gangsters
and insurgents already reside in many of
our cities. Protection can only come from
initiative, commitment, diplomacy, and an
international team effort by free nations
interested in stemming this cancerous
world phenomenon.
——————————
Jerry Brewer, the Vice President of Criminal
Justice International Associates, a global
risk mitigation firm headquartered in
Montgomery, Alabama, is also a columnist
with MexiData.info.
This so closely matches what Dr. Bill Wattenberg said tonight, it seemed wise to post it.
Dr. Bill said: " I have been telling you for years that al-Qaeda has nuclear supplies, they will hit us any day now, with a Hiroshima type, small about 10 meg(?) sized nuclear bomb".......
granny...............
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Saturday, September 3, 2005
August, 2005.
Posted for study and research.
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Tuesday, August 2, 2005
http://www.anti-communistanalyst.com/Russianwarplans.html
This is Freeper Jan Molina's website and it is a must read article, about Russia's plans.
There are links in the report that need to be checked.
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