Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - July 2006

[nwctwx]

Bin Laden Says Will Take Fight to America
(Full Story)

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said his group reserved the right to fight the United States on its land and warned Washington and the world community against sending forces to Somalia, according to an Internet audio tape.

"We will fight its (U.S.) soldiers on the land of Somalia ... and we reserve the right to punish it on its land and anywhere possible," said the speaker, who sounded like the Saudi-born militant.

"We warn all of the countries in the world not to respond to America by sending international troops to Somalia," he said of the African nation where Islamists' power is rising.

	2nd Tape in Two Days Endorses al-Masri as Leader in Iraq
	SITE Institute: Preliminary Summary of July 1 Tape
	Audio and Video Tapes From Usama bin Laden

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[Cindy]

ON THE NET....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=turkey
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iraq

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672350/posts


Turks Massing on Iraq Border
Strategy Page ^ | July 24, 2006 | Strategy Page/Aaron Glantz/Daniel Pipes

Posted on 07/25/2006 10:28:59 PM PDT by managusta

It appears Turkey is preparing to conduct a larger anti-PKK operation in northern Iraq.

The Turkish government told the US that (paraphrasing) "Turkey will decide (not the US)" if Turkish troops enter Iraq in force." Turkish intelligence consistently reports that from 4000 to 5000 PKK guerrillas are operating from bases inside northern Iraq.

In April 2006 Aaron Glantz wrote that the Turkish government had sent an additional 40,000 troops to southeastern Anatolia, bringing the total troops stationed near the Iraqi border to an estimated 250,000 (close to double the number of U.S. forces in Iraq).

Daniel Pipes reports " Turkish officials signaled Tuesday [July 18] they are prepared to send the army into northern Iraq if U.S. and Iraqi forces do not take steps to combat Turkish Kurdish guerrillas there — a move that could put Turkey on a collision course with the United States.

Turkey is facing increasing domestic pressure to act after 15 soldiers, police and guards were killed fighting the guerrillas in southeastern Turkey in the past week. "The government is really in a bind," said Seyfi Tashan, director of the Foreign Policy Institute at Bilkent University in Ankara. "On the one hand, they don't want things to break down with the United States. On the other hand, the public is crying for action."

Diplomats and experts cautioned the increasingly aggressive Turkish statements were likely aimed at calming public anger and pressing the U.S. and Iraq to act against the Turkish Kurdish guerrillas. But they also said Turkish politicians and military officers could act if nothing is done. …

Turkey's NTV television and Hürriyet newspaper reported the government has told the military to draw up plans for a push into northern Iraq and to advise on the possibilities such an incursion could lead to a clash with Iraqi Kurds or U.S. troops. Any operation was unlikely before the end of August, when the current military chief of staff is replaced by an officer widely regarded as a hard-liner, NTV said. …

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an appeared to confirm reports that the military was ordered to draft plans when he said Tuesday: "We know how to take care of (terrorism) on our own... Our competent units are making preparations and will continue to do so." Erdoman's spokesman, Akif Beki, refused to comment, but referred to a statement Monday by government spokesman Cemil Çicek. Çicek called on Iraqi and U.S. forces to take stronger action against the rebels and warned that if they did not, "Turkey is going to use its international rights until the very end."

Zaman. com states that "Beyond that, even an invasion is possible. Before Rice's visit, the commander of Turkey's armed forces, Gen. Hilmi Özkök, was asked if his military would ask for permission from Washington before crossing the border into Iraq.

"We cannot make a decision of that kind based on the USA," he said. "Every country is sovereign. Every country makes its own decisions. If the conditions change, you act by the changing conditions."

[MamaDearest]

The Pakistan government has decided that jihad will continue to feature in its curricula for schoolchildren.

Thanks for the links Oorang! Wonder if foreign aid funds are as necessary as "jihad training" in Pakistan? Asking the old question: Is Pakistan with us or against us?

Starting in 2002 the executive branch began to underscore the war on terrorism as a top foreign aid priority. According to the Congressional Research Service, the State Department now highlights the amount of U.S. assistance going to some 30 “front-line” states in the terrorism war. Aid to Pakistan, for example, jumped from $1.7 million in 2001 to $275 million in 2004.

[MamaDearest]

Israeli onslaught a surprise

Snip: A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.

Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of the Hezbollah's political arm, also told The Associated Press in an interview that the Shiite militant group will not lay down arms. "The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn't even expect (this) response ... that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us," said Komati.

He said Hezbollah had expected "the usual, limited response" from Israel after the two soldiers were seized by guerrillas on Israel's side of the border on July 12. In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon, seizing Hezbollah officials and briefly targeting specific strongholds in southern Lebanon.

Komati said his group had anticipated negotiations to swap the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese held in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it has in past prisoner exchanges. He said Hezbollah captured the Israeli soldiers from a military area, but charged that Israelis had taken Hezbollah leaders from their homes at night.

"The response is unjustified," Komati said. He claimed the Israeli offensive was planned in advance, and Israel was only "waiting for the right time" to carry it out. Asked about reports that Hezbollah has been firing Iranian-made missiles on Israel, Komati said: "We don't deny nor confirm. We believe where the weapons come from is irrelevant."

[Cindy]

I thought that statement by Hezbollah was interesting -- almost mocking/smirking.

[Cindy]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2006/07/26/peace_activists_gone_wild

"'Peace' activists gone wild"
By Michelle Malkin
Wednesday, July 26, 2006

[MamaDearest]

Evidence in Dehli of Al Qaeda penetration in Bangladesh

Snip: The central intelligence agencies, armed with hard evidence including satellite photographs, have drawn up a list of 13 terror camps and training centres in Bangladesh that are directly run by Usamah Bin-Ladin's network.

With American forces in hot pursuit of Al-Qa''idah bases in Afghanistan and West Asia after the Twin Tower attacks, the outfit has shifted a major part of its operations to Bangladesh. It has three camps in Cox's Bazaar, four each in Bandarban and Chittagong and one each at Rangamati and Brahmanbari, a source said. In addition, seven madrasahs [Islamic seminaries] that double as recruiting centres for the home-grown Harakat-ul-Jihad-ul-Islami (HUJI), are helping enlist new Al-Qa''idah cadre, too. Three of these madrasahs are near Sylhet and one is in Rangamati, sources said.

CAIR gets DePaul professor suspended

Snip: In my position with the National Association of Chiefs of Police, I get many reports, press releases and other documents on a daily basis. Because of time constraints, I may read perhaps one-third of them, giving priority to Department of Homeland Security and FBI reports.

However, every once in a while I get something that angers me and compells me to research. Such is the case with the one report that describes the unfair, almost Stalinist treatment, of a Chicago educator whose only transgression is he supports Israel's right to defend itself from terrorists.

Responding to what has been condemned as a violation of academic freedom, professors, scholars, and students worldwide signed a petition by The Scholars for Peace in the Middle East to reinstate Professor Thomas Klocek to his teaching position at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois.

Shahid nabbed in central Israel

Snip: Shahid (suicide bomber) nabbed: Security forces have seized the shahid that infiltrated into the Kfar Saba - Hod Hasharon area.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...


http://www.nefafoundation.org/video/foreignfighters.wmv

[Cindy]

Great links MamaDearest.

[Cindy]

A little whiiiiine and hype in the wee hours here.

Note: The following news brief is a quote:
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http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3281589,00.html




Breaking News




Iran: convention in Rome will fail because we weren't invited


Iran cautioned that the gathering of the international conference Wednesday in Rome will fail and that it "will not be able to achieve a ceasefire in Lebanon because Iran and Syria were not invited to participate in the conference," as reported by British newspaper The Guardian.

A spokesperson of the Iranian foreign ministry, Hamid-Reza Asefi said that "if they quest after peace, they must invite all the countries in the region, including Syria and Iran." (Ynet)


(07.26.06, 11:24)

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=IRAN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=LEBANON
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=RUSSIA


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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1153292000898&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


Jul. 26, 2006 10:33 | Updated Jul. 26, 2006 11:41
"Putin and Ahmadinejad discuss Lebanon crisis"
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672381/posts

"(Canadian PM) No peace in Mideast with Hezbollah"
National Post ^ | 2006-07-26 | Allison Hanes

Posted on 07/26/2006 1:58:03 AM PDT by Clive

CAMBRIDGE

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=IRAN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=SHARIAHLAW
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=SHARIAH

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http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17431866&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=hanged-from-a-crane-aged-16--name_page.html

23 July 2006
"EXCLUSIVE: HANGED FROM A CRANE AGED 16
EXCLUSIVE JUSTICE IRAN STYLE: SICK GIRL EXECUTED BY JUDGE SHE DEFIED Her crime? She had sex with an unmarried man"
By Susie Boniface

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "IT WAS exactly 6am and the start of another blisteringly hot summer day when 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi was dragged from her prison cell and taken to be executed.

Every step of the way the troubled teenager plagued by mental problems shouted "repentance, repentance" as the militiamen marched her to the town's Railway Square.

The Iranian judge who had sentenced Atefeh to death was left unmoved as he personally put the noose around her neck and signalled to the crane driver.

Kicking and screaming, Atefeh was left dangling for 45 minutes from the arm of the crane as the crowd sobbed and - under their breath - damned the mullahs.

Atefeh's crime? Offending public morality. She was found guilty of "acts incompatible with chastity" by having sex with an unmarried man, even though friends say Atefeh was in such a fragile mental state that she wasn't in a position to say no.

But Judge Haji Rezaii was determined she should hang, regardless of the rules of international law which say only adults over 18 can be executed, and that the courts have a duty to children and the mentally ill.

The brutal end to Atefeh's short life has shone a new light on Iran's Shariah law, where adultery, theft and rape all carry the same punishment - death. Officially around 100 people - some just children like Atefeh - are executed each year. But human rights groups say the true figure could be much higher in a country where only half of the women can read, only one in 10 have a job and two-thirds are beaten in their homes."

[Cindy]

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200607/INT20060726b.html



"Int'l Force in Lebanon Must Avoid Past Mistakes, Analysts Warn"
By Patrick Goodenough
CNSNews.com International Editor
July 26, 2006


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http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/archives/000475.html

July 25, 2006

"An International Force: Advantages and Disadvantages"
By Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror

Jerusalem Issue Brief
Institute for Contemporary Affairs
founded jointly at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
with the Wechsler Family Foundation

Vol. 6, No. 4 - 25 July 2006

[backhoe]

Kicking and screaming, Atefeh was left dangling for 45 minutes from the arm of the crane as the crowd sobbed and - under their breath - damned the mullahs.

Yes, they did not even make an attempt to kill her humanely- a common feature of middle-east executions.

A blogger I highly recommend-- Atlas Shrugs, google her-- has covered this "little shop of horrors" aspect of The Alleged Religion of Peace:

Jihad Media Hides Evil Savagery

You rarely (if ever) read about Islamic Iran's peculiar appetite for public hangings which I try to chronicle from time to time here, here,  here and here for example. Their record as the greatest violators of human rights (the beat China?), is hardly spoken of. When Iran installs the torturer and murderer of Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi  on the UN Human Rights council, little is made of it in the Jihad media.  Nor do you hear the unimaginable acts of barbarity perpetrated on the Christians in Lebanon, painfully described here  by Brigitte Gabriel. The Jihad media is the horrible accomplice is all this evil by their silence and their cover.

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[Cindy]

Thank you backhoe for this informative post.
I hope all the TMers and lurkers click those links and
read the info provided.
Yep, I'm familiar with the Atlas Shrugs blog.
She does an A+ job.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21775_Hizballahs_Money_Pipeline_in_the_Crosshairs
(msnbc)
(July 25, 2006)

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=21775_Hizballahs_Money_Pipeline_in_the_Crosshairs#comments

[backhoe]

Thank you backhoe for this informative post. I hope all the TMers and lurkers click those links and read the info provided. Yep, I'm familiar with the Atlas Shrugs blog. She does an A+ job.

Atlas doesn't pull any punches-- she fusses and cusses and sometimes makes typos-- but her passion and fierceness are a welcome break from the multi-culti, O! So! PC! blathering of the Chattering Heads in the Drive-By Media.

She's a partisan in the good sense of the word, and one of my first stops on the 'net.

[Cindy]

"Atlas doesn't pull any punches..."

I agree.

[Cindy]

TODAY'S WAR NEWS (RECAP AND UPDATES)

http://www.ynetnews.com
http://www.jpost.com
http://www.haaretz.com
http://off-topic.internet-haganah.com/
http://www.foxnews.com

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=israel
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=2006israelwar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=globaljihad
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jihad

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=syria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=lebanon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=gaza

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hezbollah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hizballah
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hizbullah

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=hamas


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1672353/posts?page=102#102

[Cindy]

http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=4575

"GROUP PROFILE:

Mujahideen Shura Council
Mothertongue Name:
Majlis Shura Mujahideen fi al-Iraq

Aliases: Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Iraq

Base of Operation: Iraq"