Posted on 01/01/2006 6:41:58 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT
Weapons of Disruption
C 2006 Frederick J. Cowie, Ph.D.
Whereas we have no masses, it certainly would be seriously challenging to deliver a "weapon of mass destruction" in the vast majority of geographical areas in the American West, as well as in many areas in the East and South. For instance, Montana is approximately the size of Germany, yet the population hovers only around a million (we have one representative in the House). There is no "metropolitan" area anywhere around, though Spokane is about three hundred miles away. Wyoming has more sheep than people. Utah has Salt Lake City and a few nearby populous areas. Nevada has two populated regional areas, Las Vegas and Reno. North and South Dakota have, well, a few folks here and there. Idaho folks are few and far between. I swear you can drive from San Antonio to El Paso without seeing a city policeman, because I've done it several times. Then there are Arizona, New Mexico, eastern California, inter alia. The point is we have a few population points, while the rest of the states are empty excepted for isolated small communities.Thus, out West we probably need to talk more about "weapons of disruption." (Some folks say "weapons of mass disruption," but we have no masses!)
You must ask yourself: What would I do if I were a terrorist (or a terrorism preparedness instructor) looking into the ramifications of launching a rural terrorism attack? Personally, I would concentrate on considering the consequences of disruption rather than mass destruction. Here are a few scenarios you might want consider when your local rural emergency management/response group gathers to discuss terrorism exercises.
1) Wildland Fire Incidents: Incendiary (mostly wildland) warfare has been used by military strategists for at least 2500 years, over a thousand years before the use of gunpowder. The western U.S. is disrupted, seriously disrupted, every year by wildland fires. Quite a few are started by humans, accidentally and purposefully. Starting dozens of major fires in a dozen western states could be a brilliant line of attack if militants wished to disrupt America. Thousands of security personnel could do nothing and the perpetrator/s would probably never be implicated, much less captured. Are you prepared?
2) Railroad Chemical Incidents: Many railroad main lines go through tunnels. A few strategically placed armor-piercing shells in a series of chlorine cars, along with appropriately staged derailments leaving the leaking cars in the tunnels, could shut down many main line routes in the West. Spin-off scenarios are numerous. Ready?
3) Flammable Liquid Incidents: Bridges are not easily brought down from below and approaches to bridge support structures are often highly visible and randomly monitored. However, on CNN we all have seen many tanker truck accidents involving burning hydrocarbons which have made bridge structures unusable. How hard would it be to have a few terrorists steal trucks and drive them (as opposed to hijacking planes and flying them) to strategic bridges over wide rivers or narrow gorges, ignite the gasoline (or diesel or crude), block the approaches with other incendiary or chemical releases, and make the structures extremely dangerous and impassible to highway traffic? Gotcha!
There are many variations of these themes. You probably have or can make up many more plausible, novel, and easily implemented rural-specific attack scenarios. Design exercises around them. If you want to stop terrorist events you must think like a terrorist and quit fighting last year's war!
Peace, thanks, Fred
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12 am. radio news.
Car Bomb, outside the U.S. Embassy at Karachi.
Three dead. Not identified.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1588283/posts?page=10
Emergency Alert at Susquehanna Nuclear Power
Plant
WNEP-TV ^ | March 1, 2006
Posted on 03/01/2006 9:44:05 PM MST by Palladin
An emergency alert has been raised at the Susquehanna Nuclear
Power Plant in Salem Township in Luzerne County, but officials said
the public is not in danger. According to PPL officials at the plant,
there was a release of halon in one of the non-nuclear structures at
the plant. Halon is a fire suppressant. Officials at the plant said no
flames were present, but there was a burnt smell detected.
The Luzerne County Emergency Agency also responded to the
incident, and local E.M.A officials are on alert. Officials said there have
been no evacuations. For any questions, residents of Luzerne County
can call the rumor hotline at 1-800-821-3716. In Columbia County,
residents can call the rumor hotline at 570-389-5738.
The print on this page is too small for me to see and read, there is a story about an airplane stolen in Tucson on this page and this story. Plus many others......
granny
http://www.aero-news.net/PlainPage.cfm
Wed, Mar 1 2006
Lawsuit Alleges Boeing Planes Should Be Grounded
Whistleblowers Say Planes Contain "Bogus Parts"; Earlier Case Tossed
Three former Boeing employees have filed a federal lawsuit against that company and Ducommun, claiming the Los Angeles-based
supplier sold defective and nonconforming parts, and falsified records to cover it up.
Former Boeing employees Taylor Smith, Jeannine Prewitt, and James Ailes claim the parts made their ways into more than 32 Boeing
military aircraft sold to the US, Japan, Italy and other nations. The employees -- all former members of an internal auditing team -- also
allege Boeing retaliated against them for voicing concern about their findings.
Smith and Prewitt were both laid off in Fall 2003. Ailes kept his Boeing job, until he was hired at Spirit Aerosystems after Boeing sold off the commercial
operation last year.
Their case isn't new: the three also filed a nearly-identical case in 2002 under federal seal through a different law firm. That case was voluntarily dismissed after
the FAA and the Department of Transportation's Office of Inspector General found no significant cause for alarm. The original complaint was made known
when the new case -- filed in May 2005 -- was refiled without one of the original plaintiffs.
For now, government agencies are distancing themselves from the allegations, as US District Judge Wesley Brown considers various motions in the case --
including one from the companies to dismiss the charges as the allegations aren't specific enough.
The Associated Press reports Ducommun did not immediately return a call for comment. As for Boeing, company spokeswoman Cindy Wall said the company
stands by their aircraft, and the parts in them -- adding there are several layers of protection in place to screen out substandard parts.
The FAA also stated its earlier investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing by Boeing and Ducommun -- and even if the parts were substandard, said FAA
spokeswoman Laura Brown, the 2002 investigation showed they were not flight-critical components.
"The parts involved in this case are not flight-critical," Brown said, adding that even if the allegations are true, "even if the parts failed, they wouldn't
compromise the integrity of the aircraft."
Since no evidence of wrongdoing was found in the earlier case... why did the US Attorney in Wichita agree to take the new case? No one would comment
directly on that... but office spokesman Jim Cross told the AP the suit doesn't show the government is expressing an opinion on the matter -- nor does it mean
it's giving up its right to recover damages should the former employees be proven correct.
Chicago labor attorney Jane McFetridge, who has followed the earlier case but is not involved in the lawsuit, said it will be a "pretty big leap" for the plaintiffs
to convince the court that they were targeted for layoffs, as n hundreds of people lost their job during the recent downturn in the aviation industry.
"It is an empty claim," McFetridge said.
FMI: www.ducommun.com, www.boeing.com
[Posted for research and study, edited version]
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http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-03-01T223235Z_01_L01449772_RTRUKOC_0_US-ALGERIA-AMNESTY.xml
Algeria says to free 2,000 in amnesty
Wed Mar 1, 2006 5:32 PM ET
By Lamine Chikhi
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algeria will release more than 2,000 Islamist
ex-fighters soon under an amnesty to promote reconciliation after years
of
conflict in the oil-exporting country, an official said on Wednesday.
The releases, the most numerous since civil strife erupted in 1992,
will be
a high-profile test of the government's push to stabilize a giant north
African nation widely seen as crucial for the security of the
Mediterranean
region.
"There will be more than 2,000 people released under the charter for
peace
and national reconciliation," AbdelKader Sahraoui, an official of the
Justice Ministry, said in an interview on state radio.
The state radio announcer said separately that this would happen
"immediately".
The releases, which would be the first of former Islamist fighters for
several years, had been widely expected since the government of the
large
north African oil-exporting country approved a raft of amnesty measures
on
February 21.
Another official source told Reuters that apart from the 2,000 people
to be
released, an estimated 10,000 people would take advantage of the
reconciliation drive in one way or another.
These ranged from prisoners having their sentences cut to bereaved
relatives
being paid compensation.
The former combatants were convicted for their role in more than a
decade of
conflict that began when the authorities canceled the 1992 legislative
elections which the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was poised to win.
The decision triggered an Islamist uprising by the Islamic Salvation
Army
(AIS), the FIS armed wing. The FIS had won the first round of the
country's
first multi-party polls in 1991.
Between 150,000 and 200,000 people, mostly civilians, were killed and
damage
has been estimated at about $30 billion.
The amnesty also gives Islamic guerrillas still fighting the
authorities six
months to surrender and be pardoned provided they were not responsible
for
massacres, rapes and bombings of public places.
[edit removed the ending of story]
C Reuters 2006. All rights reserved.
March is off to an ugly start. The headings are live links in the newsletter, the link should take you to live links.
granny
Newsletter:
March 01, 2006
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/digest2006_09.htm
UGANDAN ELECTION
Uganda opposition to challenge election in court
Uganda's main opposition Forum for Democratic Change party mounts a
court challenge to election results that extended President Museveni's
two-decade rule.
DARFUR AND CHAD
Africans unsure on UN fielding Darfur force – UN
The African Union has second thoughts about handing over its mission in
Sudan's Darfur region to U.N. command after heavy lobbying by
Khartoum.
Refugees from Chad seek safety in troubled Darfur
Chadians fleeing mounting insecurity at home cross the border into
Sudan's Darfur region, increasing refugee pressures there.
CONGO CONFLICT
U.N., Congo troops battle ethnic militia for town
Congo government soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers battle ethnic militia
fighters for control of the eastern town of Tchei.
CRISIS PROFILE: Congo conflicts defy peace
BIRD FLU
CRISIS PROFILE: Bird flu
VIEWPOINT: Put poor at centre of bird flu fight
Bird flu threatens to cut a path of death and suffering through poor
communities worldwide.
GRAPHIC: Global spread of bird flu
ISRAEL/PALESTINE CONFLICT
INTERVIEW-UN says key food stocks dwindling in Gaza
Stocks of wheat, sugar and cooking oil could begin to run out within days
unless Israel reopens the strip's main crossing point for goods.
HORN OF AFRICA FOOD CRISIS
Piracy slows food aid for hungry Somalians-UN
Piracy is a growing problem along Somalia's long coastline, slowing
efforts to feed as many as 2 million Somalis left hungry by severe
drought.
ETHIOPIA-ERITREA BORDER
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Asmara rejects talks on border dispute
The Eritrean government rejects a proposal by the U.N. Security Council
to hold talks with an independent commission to resolve its ongoing
border dispute with Ethiopia, IRIN reports.
CRISIS PROFILE: Ethiopia-Eritrea border trouble
IVORY COAST UNREST
Ivory Coast factions make progress at peace talks
Ivory Coast's rival faction leaders meet on home territory and agree
measures to try to revive a stagnant peace process.
MUSLIM CHARITIES
U.S. Muslims seek Treasury meeting on charities
Muslim charities say they are being targeted in the government's
counterterrorism efforts.
INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI
UK failed to keep tabs on tsunami aid – watchdog
Auditors praise Britain’s rapid aid, but say the government doesn’t know
where it’s money went.
HURRICANE KATRINA
Katrina gives dire New Orleans schools a fresh start
As Carnival comes to an end, Louisiana’s public schools try to shake off a
reputation for corruption and forcing students to bring their own toilet
paper.
MAOISTS IN INDIA
Indian tribals blame leaders for Maoist mine deaths
Maoist violence in India is rising, with 892 people, including hundreds of
civilians, killed in 2005 and 653 deaths in 2004.
MYSTERY CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER
Mauritius PM urges population to help fight epidemic
"Chikungunya" fever, for which there is no known cure or vaccine, has
been spreading through islands off the southeast coast of Africa since
January, infecting more than 150,000 people in Reunion, Seychelles and
Mauritius.
SRI LANKA CONFLICT
Conflict still dominates life in rebel-run S.Lanka
Residents of rebel territory look across to government-held land with a
mixture of envy and fear.
NEPAL INSURGENCY
Four killed, 11 hurt in Nepal attacks
Maoist rebels ambush an army patrol in eastern Nepal and shoot dead at
least three soldiers while a separate attack in Pokhara wounds civilians.
HAITI UNREST
Haiti official tells UN not to abandon the country
Haiti's interim prime minister asks the international community not to
neglect the Caribbean country's economic and social needs just because
elections have been held.
COLOMBIA PEACE TALKS
Colombia, ELN rebels to talk again in April
Exploratory peace talks between the Colombian government and the
country's second-largest Marxist guerrilla group end with no agreement
other than to meet again in April.
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Islamic society told to pay legal fees
GARDEN GROVE (AP) - The Islamic Society of Orange County and two of its
officials must pay more than $1.7 million to lawyers for a woman who
successfully sued the organization for discrimination, a judge has ruled.
Zakiyyah Muhammad, a 60-year-old black woman who converted to Islam,
served for five years as principal of the Orange Crescent School in
Garden Grove before she was fired in 2003. The school is operated by the
Islamic Society.
An Orange County Superior Court jury awarded her $788,000 in damages in
September after she claimed she was dismissed for challenging her male
bosses and that the school board denied her a grievance hearing because
she is a Muslim woman.
Superior Court Judge Corey S. Cramin has ordered the society to pay
Muhammad's legal and expert witness fees. Cramin said he based the award
partly on the competence during the trial of Muhammad's lead attorney,
Ed Conner.
The Islamic Society on Monday sued the Chubb Insurance Group, alleging
the company should have accepted a proposed $900,000 settlement of
Muhammad's suit.
Chubb has told the society that it must pay the total awards of nearly
$2.5 million because its $1 million insurance policy was consumed by
attorneys fees at trial.
''We're saying, 'Hey wait. You should've settled this for us. Instead,
you forced us into a lawsuit we didn't want,''' said Jordan Stanzler,
the Islamic Society's attorney in the new case.
Chubb officials declined to comment, saying they were unaware of the
suit.
The Islamic Society also is appealing the jury verdict, Conner said.
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http://www.lauramansfield.com
Hearing casts light on Security Aviation man
ROB KANE: Testimony points to man accused of rocket-launcher possession as recent FBI informant.
Rob Kane, the Eagle River man accused of illegally possessing two Soviet bloc rocket launchers, worked as an informant for the FBI as recently as last year, according to testimony at a new bail hearing Wednesday. (snip)
http://www.adn.com/front/story/7493482p-7403599c.html
March 2, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
Pakistan blasts kill U.S. diplomat
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/03/01/karachi.blast/index.html
Two explosions in Marriott hotel parking lot next to US Consulate in
Karachi, Pakistan - U.S. diplomat and his driver were among at least
four people killed in an apparent suicide attack
New Al Qaeda Leader Planning Attack Against U.S.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=1676096&page=1
ABC News: "Pakistani military officials say Matiur Rehman, 29, a
Pakistani militant, is behind the new plans for an attack against the United
States. Pakistan has posted a 10-million rupee (about $166,000) award
for his capture."
Bangladesh nabs Islamist leader for bomb attacks
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/March/subcontinent_March51.xml§ion=subcontinent
Report: (Adnan el-Shukrijumah) Top terrorist sighting raises no FBI
interest
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49061
Al-Qaida operative known as 'next Mohamed Atta' spotted in California,
law enforcement goes AWOL
(Ohio) Terror operative seeks to rescind plea over NSA spying
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/03/01/nsa.challenge/index.html
Ohio al Qaeda operative Iyman Faris who pleaded guilty in 2003 to
participating in a plot to blow up Brooklyn Bridge wants to rescind plea if
NSA ever eavesdropped on him without a warrant
Saudi group alleges wiretapping by U.S.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11631768/
al-Haramain Islamic Foundation - defunct charity's suit details
eavesdropping
(Palestinian Territories) Abbas: Al-Qaida is in W. Bank, Gaza
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395519524&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
"We still have not been able to lay our hands on the operatives," he
said.
(UAE) U.S. reviewing second Dubai firm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11629596/
Dubai-owned company set to take over plants in Georgia and Connecticut
that make precision components used in engines for military aircraft
and tanks
Lawmaker: Port deal never probed for terror ties
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/01/port.security/index.html
A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over
operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had
ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN
on Wednesday
Coast Guard Memo on UAE Ports Deal
http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/terrorism/coastguardintelstmnt.html
(New Jersey) Federal judge nixes NJ lawsuit against ports deal
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usport0302,0,3018410.story?coll=ny-top-headlines
Commentary: DHS Chertoff/Treasury Snow - A layered approach to cargo
security
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060226-092923-9278r.htm
Bomb expert: Simple suicide unlikely at stadium explosion
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49058
Analysis suggests Oklahoma student meant to explode among 80,000 fans
Taliban turned Yale student had right to visa: US
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060301/ts_alt_afp/usattackstalibanyale_060301194657
State Department says membership in Taliban at the time not necessarily
grounds for ineligibility, given what he was doing and why he wanted to
come to U.S.
Iraqi police killed in ambush
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,18322056%255E1702,00.html
At least four police officers were killed when gunmen attacked a police
convoy in northern Iraq
Suspected kidnapper arrested in Baghdad
http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03020004aaa00ae2.ap&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News
The Interior Ministry identified the suspect as Hussein Fahmi, a
28-year- old al-Qaida in Iraq operative arrested over two months ago in
western Baghdad
Palestinians throw molotov cocktail at Isreali bus
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395516422&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Israel PM vows to stop terror attacks
http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03020004aaa06b8d.ap&Sys=siteia&Fid=WORLDNEW&Type=News&Filter=World%20News
Olmert spoke in response to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas'
acknowledgment in a published interview that al-Qaida has infiltrated the Gaza
Strip and West Bank.
Belgium left red faced after Turkish militant disappears
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=24&story_id=28079&name=Belgium+left+red+faced+afterTurkish+militant+disappears
(Spain) Minister warns ETA has active cells across Spain
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=81&story_id=28084&name=Minister+warns+ETA+has+active+cells+across+Spain
(DHS) Tape: Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/HurricaneKatrina/wireStory?id=1675984&page=1
AP Exclusive: Video Shows Chertoff Clearly Warned Before Katrina Struck
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/355bqppp.asp
The Baby Face of Hate
MEMRI releases an astonishing example of the "true Muslim" faith.
by David Tell 06/12/2002 8:00:00 AM
IF THERE WERE JUSTICE in the universe, the Middle East Media Research Institute would already have been awarded some kind of special-achievement Pulitzer Prize. MEMRI has pioneered the careful translation, and dissemination to European and American audiences, of print and broadcast news sources in the Arab world. The group's work now pops up everywhere; here in the States, hardly a week goes by when some major daily or cable news show doesn't make use (generally without attribution) of a MEMRI translation. And the cumulative effect of such translations is--or ought to be, at least--roughly analogous to the body blow struck against European philo-communism by the first Western publication of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's novels in the 1960s. Here, really for the first time, non-Arabic speaking Westerners are being given a direct, first-person look into a previously unseen gulag. Only this time there is no barbed wire, the prisoners all serve by choice, and the anti-Semitism is no longer ancillary but central, basic, and paramount. It turns out that the Islamic Middle East, just as the Israelis have been begging us for years to figure out, has got itself trapped in a deep, deep swamp of near-psychotic Jew hatred.
Yesterday morning at the National Press Club here in Washington, MEMRI held a briefing on Arabic-language media coverage of "martyrdom and suicide bombers." Along with all the usual, scrupulously documented newspaper translations, the group also screened an eye-opening videotape compilation (with English subtitles) of recent broadcasts on something called Iqraa Television. Iqraa is one of the global satellite channels packaged by the Arab Radio and Television Network (ART), a Saudi-based company with transmission facilities in Italy which describes itself as "the leading producer of premium Arabic family programming and entertainment worldwide."
Iqraa is ART's effort to provide "a focused insight into the teachings of the Quran" to "intellectual, elite, and conservative Islamic markets." It is widely watched.
And it is hair-raisingly insane. The April 25, 2002 interview with Prof. 'Adel Sadeq, head of the psychiatry faculty at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo, for example. Professor Sadeq beams with glee as he explains how Western civilization "has no concepts such as self-sacrifice and honor," which is why Americans fail to understand that the suicide bomber experiences "the height of ecstasy and happiness" just at the moment when, "ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and then he presses the button to blow himself up." Big smile.
Then there's the May 9, 2002, program on "discipline in the family," featuring one Jasem Al-Mutawah, an "expert on family matters," who patiently describes to his viewers where on her body, how severely, with what weapon, and under what circumstances a man should beat his wife.
And, most harrowing of all, perhaps, especially if you have kids of your own, there is the May 7, 2002 edition of "Muslim Woman Magazine," hosted by Doaa 'Amer, a soft spoken, highly polished anchorlady who might just as well be Joan Lunden or Katie Couric--except that she's wearing a body-length robe. And also that she's a monster. Ms. 'Amer begins as follows:
"Our report today will be a little different, because our guest is a girl, a Muslim girl, but a true Muslim. Allah willing, may our God give us the strength to educate our children the same way, so that the next generation will turn out to be true Muslims who understand that they are Muslims and know who their enemies are. This girl will introduce herself immediately.
She is the daughter of my sister in faith and of the artist, Wagdi Al-Arabi. Her name is Basmallah and we will ask her as well."
The camera then begins a low pan downward and to the right as Ms. 'Amer offers a "peace be unto you" welcome to her guest. Who turns out to be . . . a toddler.
Toddler: Allah's mercy and blessing upon you.
'Amer: What's your name?
Toddler: Basmallah.
'Amer: Basmallah, how old are you?
Toddler: Three and a half.
'Amer: Are you a Muslim?
Toddler: Yes.
'Amer: Basmallah, are you familiar with the Jews?
Toddler: Yes.
'Amer: Do you like them?
Toddler: No.
'Amer: Why don't you like them?
Toddler: Because . . .
'Amer: Because they are what?
Toddler: They're apes and pigs.
'Amer: Because they are apes and pigs. Who said they are so?
Toddler: Our God.
'Amer: Where did he say this?
Toddler: In the Koran.
'Amer: Right, he said that about them in the Koran. Okay, Basmallah, what are the Jews doing?
Toddler: The Pepsi company.
'Amer: [Approving laughter.] You also know about the boycott, Basmallah? Did they love our master, Muhammad?
Toddler: No.
'Amer: No. What did the Jews do to him?
Toddler: [Pauses, struggling for the right answer.] The Prophet Muhammad killed someone . . .
'Amer: Obviously, our master Muhammad was strong and could have killed them. All right, you know the traditions about the Jews and what they did to the Prophet Muhammad?
Toddler: [Mumbled assent.]
'Amer: Is there a story you know?
Toddler: Yes, the story about the Jewish woman.
'Amer: The Jewish woman? What did she do to our master, the Prophet Muhammad?
Toddler: The Jewish woman?
'Amer: Yes.
Toddler: There was a Jewish woman who invited the Prophet and his friends.
When he asked her, "Did you put poison (in my food)?" she said to him, "Yes." he asked her, "Why did you do this?" and she replied, "If you are a liar you will die and Allah will not protect you; if you speak the truth Allah will protect you."
'Amer: And our God protected the Prophet Muhammad, of course.
Toddler: And he said to his friends, "I will kill this lady."
'Amer: Of course, because she put poison in his food, this Jewess.
Toddler: Oh.
'Amer: [Speaking directly into the camera.] Basmallah, Allah be praised, Basmallah, Allah be praised. May our God bless her. No one could wish Allah could give him a more believing girl than she. May Allah bless her and her father and mother. The next generation of children must be true Muslims. We must educate them now while they are still children so that they will be true Muslims.
For more information from and about the Middle East Media Research Institute, see their web site at Memri.org
http://www.memri.org/
And if you're able, please consider sending them a contribution.
David Tell
mailto:webeditor@weeklystandard.com
is opinion editor of The Weekly Standard.
C Copyright 2005, News Corporation, Weekly Standard, All Rights Reserved.
Rob Kane is as good as dead.
You do not tell who the informants are.
I have to wonder where this story will go....?
It is as good as the ricin/doctor story, could go anywhere in the world.........
Thanks.
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PM - March 2, 2006 Anti-Terrorism News
03/02/06 FOX Poll: Most Oppose Port Deal
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186634,00.html
69 percent oppose UAE deal; most Americans oppose allowing a Dubai
company to run some U.S. ports, even as a majority understands the U.S.
would continue to control port security'; One in four sees the United Arab
Emirates as a strong ally, but most either disagree or are unsure
U.S. urges UAE to end its boycott of Israel
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060301-113324-4242r.htm
Patriot Act compromise passes Senate, awaits House vote
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/patriot.act.ap/index.html
Iraq captures suspect in Saudi oil attack
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395524091&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Terrorist growth overtakes U.S. efforts
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060301-113323-8165r.htm
Thirty new terrorist organizations have emerged since the September 11,
2001, attacks, outpacing U.S. efforts to crush the threat, said Brig.
Gen. Robert L. Caslen, the Pentagon's deputy director for the war on
terrorism.
36 People Die in Unrelenting Iraq Violence
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-03-02-15-47-57
(Iraq) Baghdad orders Friday daytime curfew
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/03/02/iraq.main/index.html
Iraqi Data Shows Civilians Dying Most
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_DEATHS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME
Editor of U.S. Arabic Newspaper: Religious Extremism is Spreading Among
Muslim Youth in the U.S.
http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=sd&ID=SP110506
U.S. State Department creates new office for Iran
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/us.iran/index.html
Japan asks Iraq to confirm killer's arrest
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060302-051424-7533r
Japanese officials want confirmation of Iraqi Interior Ministry claim
that captured al-Qaeda member Hussein Fehimi confessed to beheading 116
people, including Japanese citizen
US claims 61 Zarqawi-linked rebels captured in Iraq
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060302/pl_afp/iraqunrestzarqawi_060302161229
61 linked to al-Qaeda Iraq captured during operation on training camp
northeast Fallaujah on Monday, and capture 10 more today
Moussaoui's sentence centers on legal point
http://interestalert.com/story/siteia.shtml?Story=st/sn/03020000aaa0582a.ap&Sys=siteia&Fid=NATIONAL&Type=News&Filter=National%20News
Simply put, the dispute centers on whether Moussaoui was obligated to
tell the truth to federal agents when he was questioned in the weeks
prior to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Purported al-Qaida document says fighters should attack oil pipelines
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564692907253434075
Al-Qaida has encouraged its followers to attack oil pipelines and
facilities in
Muslim countries but not wells
Ariz. Man Indicted of Trying to Make Ricin
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-biological-weapon-charge,0,7704921.story?coll=sns-ap-nation-headlines
A man arrested last year for possessing explosives and illegal
silencers has been indicted on charges of attempting to produce a biological
weapon.
Thailand to help investigate terrorism funding networks
http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=7042
International Islamist Front’s Bangladeshi Commander Captured
http://billroggio.com/archives/2006/03/international_islami.php
Bill Roggio's blog post about arrest of major terrorist leader and OBL
ally Abdur Rahman today in Bangladesh
Afghan war vet to lead Asian terror group
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060302-033620-9970r
Afghan war veteran Abu Dujana has taken over leadership of Jemaah
Islamiyah; succeeds jailed militant Abu Rusdan
Terror probe targets 3 sites
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060302/METRO01/603020360/1006/rss01
FBI agents searched exclusive ticket agency in North America for Yemen
Airways and 2 homes in Detroit and Hamtramck in investigation into
illegal money transfers to Middle East
Senators eye last word on ports deal
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20060302-124528-7919r.htm
Commentary: The ports 'promise letter' that wasn't
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060301-091502-5715r.htm
Strikes Against UAE Port Deal Begin Adding Up
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186556,00.html
(Israel) Bereaved parents call on Oscars to drop suicide bomb movie
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=BKJRDMKPGAI4LQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/03/02/wparad02.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/02/ixportal.html
Our terror info is fine: Afghanistan
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1015907
"We have provided evidence of him (Omar) being outside of Afghanistan,
in Quetta in Baluchistan, to our Pakistani friends."
Riots Bring Concern of al-Qaida 'Schools'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/mideast_jailing_jihadis;_ylt=AhY0LjBKlxilu1c2RfhMu1Ss0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
"These jails are like schools or universities for Islamic extremists,
where they influence other prisoners and spread their 'takfiri' views"
India to warn Bush of Bangladesh terror
http://www.upi.com/InternationalIntelligence/view.php?StoryID=20060301-120024-9068r
Warning over money laundering in casinos (Ireland)
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=201446810&p=zxy4476z5&n=201447696
Financial Action Task Force evaluation: “This lack of anti-money
laundering and combating financing of terrorism requirements for the gaming
sector was a matter of concern for the evaluation team"
Terror's dirty money laundry (Thailand)
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/03Mar2006_news17.php
Painstaking work by Indonesians has tracked money trail financing major
bombings and hundreds of deaths - bad news is that money laundry runs
through Thailand
New York Prosecutors Cite Ties To Colombian Terrorist Group
http://www.wnbc.com/news/7610888/detail.html
(Spain) 180 ETA prisoners could get out of prison early
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NGoto/131994608?-3813
MYSTERY CHIKUNGUNYA FEVER
Mauritius PM urges population to help fight epidemic
"Chikungunya" fever, for which there is no known cure or vaccine, has
been spreading through islands off the southeast coast of Africa since
January, infecting more than 150,000 people in Reunion, Seychelles and
Pay too much and you could raise the alarm
By BOB KERR
The Providence Journal
28-FEB-06
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Walter Soehnge is a retired Texas schoolteacher who traveled north with his wife, Deana, saw summer change to fall in Rhode Island and decided this was a place to stay for a while.
So the Soehnges live in Scituate now and Walter sometimes has breakfast at the Gentleman Farmer in Scituate Village, where he has passed the test and become a regular despite an accent that is definitely not local.
And it was there, at his usual table last week, that he told me that he was "madder than a panther with kerosene on his tail."
He says things like that. Texas does leave its mark on a man.
What got him so upset might seem trivial to some people who have learned to accept small infringements on their freedom as just part of the way things are in this age of terror-fed paranoia. It's that "everything changed after 9/11" thing.
But not Walter.
"We're a product of the '60s," he said. "We believe government should be way away from us in that regard."
He was referring to the recent decision by him and his wife to be responsible, to do the kind of thing that just about anyone would say makes good, solid financial sense.
They paid down some debt. The balance on their JCPenney Platinum MasterCard had gotten to an unhealthy level. So they sent in a large payment, a check for $6,522.
And an alarm went off. A red flag went up. The Soehnges' behavior was found questionable.
And all they did was pay down their debt. They didn't call a suspected terrorist on their cell phone. They didn't try to sneak a machine gun through customs.
They just paid a hefty chunk of their credit card balance. And they learned how frighteningly wide the net of suspicion has been cast.
After sending in the check, they checked online to see if their account had been duly credited. They learned that the check had arrived, but the amount available for credit on their account hadn't changed.
So Deana Soehnge called the credit-card company. Then Walter called.
"When you mess with my money, I want to know why," he said.
They both learned the same astounding piece of information about the little things that can set the threat sensors to beeping and blinking.
They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment. And if the increase hits a certain percentage higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified. And the money doesn't move until the threat alert is lifted.
Walter called television stations, the American Civil Liberties Union and me. And he went on the Internet to see what he could learn. He learned about changes in something called the Bank Privacy Act.
"The more I'm on, the scarier it gets," he said. "It's scary how easily someone in Homeland Security can get permission to spy."
Eventually, his and his wife's money was freed up. The Soehnges were apparently found not to be promoting global terrorism under the guise of paying a credit-card bill. They never did learn how a large credit card payment can pose a security threat.
But the experience has been a reminder that a small piece of privacy has been surrendered. Walter Soehnge, who says he holds solid, middle-of-the-road American beliefs, worries about rights being lost.
"If it can happen to me, it can happen to others," he said.
(Bob Kerr is a columnist for The Providence Journal. E-mail bkerr@projo.com.)
http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk=RAISEALARM-02-28-06
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588897/posts
LOCALS BELIEVE RUSSIAN MILITARY IS POISONING
CHECHEN CHILDREN
Eurasian Daily Monitor ^ | Thursday, March 2, 2006 | By Andrei Smirnov
Posted on 03/02/2006 5:50:19 PM MST by spanalot
Chechen girls suffering mystery illness Last December 7, Taisa
Minkailova, a 13-year-old Chechen girl from the village of
Starogladkovskaya in the Shelkovskoy District of Northern Chechnya,
complained of health problems. She was gasping for air, experiencing
convulsions and headaches, and her limbs became numb...
On December 9 two more Chechen girls from the same village were
taken to a hospital... A week later 19 more children and three adults
were admitted to the Central Hospital... All of these patients were
females from three settlements: Kobi, Shelkozavodskaya, and
Shelkovskaya (Newsru.com, February 21). "All victims had the
temporary diagnosis of poisoning by an unknown toxin,"...
Despite Alimkhadzhiev's cautious statements, almost everyone in
Chechnya was convinced that the Russian military could be
responsible for the poisoning. Just two months earlier, several
students from Staroshedrinskaya, a village in Shelkovskoy District,
had reported the same symptoms. However, the authorities had
managed to hush up the incident (Novaya gazeta, January 16).
According to the Kavkazcenter rebel website, a group of unidentified
Russians had come to the school in Staroshedrinskaya after the first
attacks and taken away a strange item, forbidding school personnel
from discussing their visit...
But the number of poisoned children in Shelkovskoy District was so
huge (at least 100 victims by the end of December, according to
different sources) that it was impossible to conceal. Popular anger
became so loud that Ramzan Kadyrov, acting prime minister and the
leader of the pro-Russian forces in Chechnya, had to appeal to
General Alexander Baranov.
(Excerpt) Read more at jamestown.org ...
This bank article, needs to go deeper, it is not news.
I tried to remember when it became a law.
Late 1980's for sure.
Here we could not accept $10,000. in cash for the purchase of anything.
No Title company will accept it. (Two $5,000. cashiers checks are ok.)
We were told it was a Federal law, set up to catch dope sellers.
So it is not a shocking thing.
We had a white middle aged man show up here in the late
1980's, I didn't like him, but had to write a contract for
him, when he showed up in my office.
His goal was to buy as many acres as possible, hundreds of them.
It turned out that he was making meth.
The cash he gave me had been buried, I still have photo copies of it in my files.
The contract was not accepted, and it took me months to get the same bills back to him, as I did not have a trust account, and that is why the bills had to be copied and signed for, a rule that I made for myself, let there be no
doubt that the person handing me didn't get back the same bills.
If I had run a trust account, he would have given me the dope money and I would have deposited it.......but had to give him my check back, so his money would have been laundered.
If his offer had been accepted, the money would have gone to his escrow at the Title Company, my way was legal, and saved me headaches.
When he got arrested for the meth making, it was a riot, all of the real estate and Title Companies had photocopies of his buried money.
A Highway Patrolman, told me that the man had murdered a woman by pushing her in front of a car, he did the first investigation and turned it over to the local sheriff, who did nothing on it...............now you know why i didn't bother to call the cops, they still have not been here, after 10 days.
The radio is saying that 15 departments of the police, from 3 states is doing a big bust in the tri-state area this week. That is Calif, Az, and Nevada.
Mentions gangs, warrants and criminals.
Our sheriff's dept has not been effective for the 29 years that I have lived here.......I once asked the FBI to investigate and that was a year before the OKC bombing.
Scared the man, he couldn't figure out how granny knew what he was, or what I knew.......LOL grannies know it all, people talk to them.
The name comes from
the Swahili for "that which bends up" that is a reference to the
positions that victims take to relieve the joint pain.
http://www.cbwinfo.com/Biological/Pathogens/CHIK.html
<<<>>>
This reminds me of the dead scientist that Vel found yesterday in her google.........
Promed has had several reports on it.
Note that the 7,000 figure is ONLY for the Baghdad area, NOT the rest
of Iraq; a much, much higher figure.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1721366,00.html
Baghdad official who exposed executions flees
Jonathan Steele
Thursday March 2, 2006
The Guardian
Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear
of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been
killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN
human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
"The vast majority of bodies showed signs of summary execution - many
with their hands tied behind their back. Some showed evidence of
torture, with arms and leg joints broken by electric drills," said
John Pace, the Maltese UN official. The killings had been happening
long before the bloodshed after last week's bombing of the Shia shrine
in Samarra.
Mr Pace, whose contract in Iraq ended last month, said many killings
were carried out by Shia militias linked to the industry ministry run
by Bayan Jabr, a leading figure in the Supreme Council for the Islamic
Revolution in Iraq (Sciri).
Mr Pace said records, supported by photographs, came from Baghdad's
forensic institute, which passed them to the UN. The Baghdad morgue
has been receiving 700 or more bodies a month. The figures peaked at
1,100 last July - many showing signs of torture.
Reports of government-sponsored death squads have sparked fear among
many prominent Iraqis, prompting a rise in the number leaving the
country. Mr Pace said the morgue's director had received death threats
after he reported the murders. "He's out of the country now," said Mr
Pace, adding that the attribution of the killings to government-linked
militias did not come from Dr Bakir.
"There are other sources for that. Some militias are integrated with
the police and wear police uniforms," he said. "The Badr brigade
[Sciri's armed wing] are in the police and are mainly the ones doing
the killing. They're the most notorious."
Some Iraqis accuse the Mahdi army militia, linked to the radical
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, of seizing and killing people. But Mr Pace
said: "I'm not as sure of the Mahdi army as I am of the others."
Abbas: Al-Qaida Has Infiltrated Gaza Strip
March 2, 2006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_re_mi_ea/palestinians_al_qaida
By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH, Associated Press Writer
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas
said in an interview published Thursday that the
al-Qaida terror network has infiltrated the Gaza Strip
and West Bank, which could have dire consequences for
the Middle East.
Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in
response Thursday that Israel was intensifying its
"war" against al-Qaida.
Abbas said in an interview with the London-based Al
Hayat newspaper that he had not expected al-Qaida
would succeed in setting up operations in the
Palestinian areas.
"We have signs of an al-Qaida presence in the West
Bank and Gaza," Abbas said, without elaborating. "We
haven't yet reached the stage of capturing them."
"The infiltration of al-Qaida can ruin the whole
region," he added.
Asked to comment on Abbas' remarks, Olmert said Israel
was aware of al-Qaida's attempts to set up operations
on its borders.
"There are, of course, attempts by terror elements,
including international ones, to extend their reach in
areas adjacent to us," Olmert told reporters in
Jerusalem, adding he did not know what information
Abbas' remarks were based on.
"We are systematically intensifying our war," he said,
adding that "all restraints have been lifted on
security forces where preventing and thwarting
(terror) is concerned."
Israel has in the past warned that al-Qaida was
operating in the Gaza Strip, and arrested a
Palestinian allegedly working with the group.
[edited]
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has repeatedly cited
Israel as a target, and the Palestinian cause as one
of the reasons for the network's attacks.
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