Posted on 08/07/2006 3:43:15 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT
Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004’s United Nations resolution 1559, which called for the disarming of Hezbollah. NRO editor Kathryn Lopez recently talked to Phares about what’s going on in the Mideast, what happened to the Cedar Revolution, and this war we’re all in.
Kathryn Jean Lopez: What is “Future Jihad”? Are we seeing it in the Mideast now?
Walid Phares: “Future Jihad,” which has already begun, refers to a new and potent form of Islamic terrorism, characterized by a Khumeinist-Baathist axis. These are the two trees of jihadism, so to speak — the Salafism and Wahabism embodied in al Qaeda and the sort of jihadism led by Iran and also including Syria, Hezbollah, and their allies in Lebanon.
The alliance has not been in entire agreement as to strategy. The al Qaeda branch began its “Future Jihad” in the 1990s; its efforts culminated on 9/11 and have continued explosively since then. The international “Salafists” aimed at the U.S. in the past decade in order to strengthen their jihads on various battlefields (Chechnya, India, Sudan, Algeria, Indonesia, Palestine, etc.). “Weaken the resolve of America,” their ideologues said, “and the jihadists would overwhelm all the regional battlefields.”
As I argue in Future Jihad, bin Laden and his colleagues miscalculated on the timing of the massive attack against the U.S. in 2001. While they wounded America, they didn’t kill its will to fight (as was the case, for instance, in the Madrid 3/11 attacks). I have heard many jihadi cadres online, and have seen al Jazeera commentators on television, offering hints of criticism about the timing. They were blaming al Qaeda for shooting its imagined “silver bullet” before insuring a strategic follow up. But bin Laden and Zawahiri believe 9/11 served them well, and has put a global mobilization into motion. Perhaps it has, but the U.S. counter strategy in the Middle East, chaotic as the region currently appears, has unleashed counter jihadi forces. The jury is still out as to the time factor: when these forces will begin to weaken the jihadists depends on our perseverance and the public understanding of the whole conflict.
The other “tree” of jihadism, with its roots in Iran, withheld fire after 9/11. They were content to watch the Salafists fight it out with the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention within the West, as terror cells were hunted down. Ahmedinejad, Assad, and Nasrallah were analyzing how far the US would go, and how far the Sunnis and Salafis would go as well.
The fall of the Taliban and of the Baath in Iraq, however, changed Iran and Syria’s patient plans. The political changes in the neighborhood, regardless of their immediate instability, were strongly felt in Tehran and Damascus (but unfortunately not in the U.S., judging from the political debate here), and pushed the Khumeinists and the Syrian Baathists to enter the dance, but carefully. Assad opened his borders to the jihadists in an attempt to crumble the U.S. role in Iraq, while Iran articulated al Sadr’s ideology for Iraq’s Shiia majority.
A U.S.-led response came swiftly in 2004 with the voting of UNSCR 1559, smashing Syria’s role in Lebanon and forcing Assad to withdraw his troops by April 2005. In response, the “axis” prepared for a counter attack on the Lebanese battlefield by assassinating a number of the Cedar Revolution leaders, including MP Jebran Tueni. In short, the attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah and the kidnappings of soldiers were the tip of an offensive aimed at drawing attention away from Iran’s nuclear weapons programs and Syria’s assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri. Hezbollah was awaiting its moment for revenge against the Cedar Revolution too.
What we see now is 1) a Syro-Iranian sponsored offensive aimed at all democracies in the region and fought in Lebanon; 2) Israel’s counter offensive (which it seems to have prepared earlier); and 3) an attempt by Hezbollah to take over or crumble the Lebanese government.
Lopez: So…did the Cedar Revolution fail?
Phares: Actually, it would be more accurate to say that the Cedar Revolution was failed. The masses in Lebanon responded courageously in March 2005 by putting 1.5 million people on the streets of Beirut. They did it without “no-fly-zones,” expeditionary forces, or any weapons at all, for that matter, and against the power of three regimes, Iran, Syria, and pro-Syrian Lebanon, in addition to Hezbollah terror. The “revolution” was for a time astoundingly successful; since then it has been horribly failed, and first of all by Lebanon’s politicians themselves. One of their leaders, General Michel Aoun, shifted his allegiances to Syria and signed a document with Hezbollah. Other politicians from the “March 14 Movement” then stopped the demonstrations, leaving them with the support of God knows what. They failed in removing the pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud and brought back a pro-Syrian politician to serve as a speaker of the house, Nabih Berri. Meanwhile, even as they were elected by the faithful Cedar Revolution masses, they engaged in a round table dialogue with Hezbollah, a clear trap set by Hassan Nasrallah: “Let’s talk about the future,” he said — with the implication, of course, that they forget about the Cedar Revolution and the militia’s disarming. While political leaders sat for months, enjoying the photo ops with Hassan Nasrallah, he was preparing his counter offensive, which he unleashed just a few days before the Security Council would discuss the future of Iran’s nuclear programs.
The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Seniora also abandoned the Cedar Revolution. His cabinet neither disarmed Hezbollah nor called on the U.N. to help in implementing UNSCR 1559. This omission is baffling. The government was given so much support by the international community and, more importantly, overwhelming popular support inside Lebanon: 80 percent of the people were hoping the Cedar Revolution-backed government would be the one to resume the liberation of the country. Now Hezbollah has an upper hand and the government is on the defensive.
The U.S. and its allies can be accused of certain shortcomings as well. While the speeches by the U.S. president, congressional leaders from both parties, Tony Blair, and Jacques Chirac were right on target regarding Lebanon, and while the U.S. and its counterparts on the Security Council were diligent in their follow up on the Hariri assassination and on implementing UNSCR 1559, there was no policy or plan to support the popular movement in Lebanon. Incredibly, while billions were spent on the war of ideas in the region, Lebanese NGOs that wanted to resume the struggle of the Cedar Revolution and fighting alone for this purpose were not taken seriously at various levels. Policy planners thought they were dealing with the “Cedar Revolution” when they were meeting Lebanon’s government and Lebanese politicians. The difference between the high level speeches on Lebanon and the laissez-faire approach from lower levels is amazing. Simply put, there was no policy on supporting the Cedar Revolution against the three regimes opposing it and the $400 million received by Hezbollah from Iran.
The Cedar Revolution was basically betrayed by its own politicians and is now essentially without a head. Nevertheless, as long as the international support remains, the Revolution will find its way and will face the dangers. The one and a half million ordinary citizens who braved all the dangers didn’t change their minds about Hezbollah’s terror. The resistance and counter-attack was to be expected. Unfortunately, thus far Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah have outmaneuvered the West and are at the throats of the Cedar Revolution. The international community must revise its plans, and, if it is strongly backed by the U.S. and its allies, including France, the situation can be salvaged. The good seeds are still inside the country.
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Conservative Cash For Clinton?
August 15, 2006 | By Cliff Kincaid
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Pardon Me Hillary
August 14, 2006 | By Roger Aronoff
Remember Jimmy Carter's buffoonish brother Billy, known for "Billy Beer" and dealing with Libyan dictator Gadhafi? Well, Hillary Clinton has a brother, too.
Black Gangs Terrorize D.C.
August 11, 2006 | By Cliff Kincaid
Because the Washington Post wants to obscure the basic reality of the situation, we believe that visitors to the nation's capital should be warned that there is a crime emergency in effect...
America the Vulnerable
August 10, 2006 | By Cliff Kincaid
While Israel eliminates the missile threat to its people, Americans remain vulnerable to a short- and long-range missile attack.
Al-Jazeera's Partners in Crime
August 9, 2006 | By Cliff Kincaid
Al-Jazeera has sharing agreements with CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox, Japan's NHK, and Germany's ZDF, all of which regularly use Al-Jazeera's footage and reports.
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Archived Media Monitors:
[You will want to read this one on oil]
http://www.aim.org/guest_column/4775_0_6_0_C/
A Cartel Worse Than OPEC
By E. Ralph Hostetter | August 11, 2006
Today the United States faces a cartel far more destructive of America's energy independence than OPEC's nine nations.
At this moment, America faces one of the greatest threats to its economy and perhaps its very survival as a world power. A war is under way in the Middle East, source of 50% of the world's petroleum energy, which, if distribution were disrupted, could cause a world recession or worse.
continued....................
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Two oil workers hostages released in Nigeria
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Explosion rocks flare-manufacturing plant
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
A fire continued burning late today following an explosion at a Camp
Minden
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Explosion at Webster Parish plant
KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA
An explosion this afternoon rocked a Webster Parish plant that makes
flares
for the US Army. Smoke could be seen for miles but no one was reported
injured. ...
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Gas leak may have caused explosion
Beaumont Enterprise - Beaumont,TX,USA
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Writethru: Sri Lanka capital explosion kills 7
People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
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Aug 15, 1:21 PM EDT
Cargo truck runs into Qantas jet at Los Angeles airport
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Qantas airliner with more than 300 people on board was damaged when it collided with a cargo truck on a taxiway at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.
The Boeing 747 jumbo jet had just arrived from Australia and was rolling toward the terminal Monday when it was struck by the cargo truck, damaging one of its engines, according to an incident report by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Airplanes always have the right of way on the taxiways at the airport, said airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
No one was hurt. The 291 passengers and 19 crew members were taken off the plane and removed from the airfield by bus. The jet was towed to a maintenance hangar, where it remained on Tuesday.
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The plane was expected to be back in service on Wednesday after mechanics received a replacement part, said Qantas Airways spokesman Mike Abraham. He said the engine didn't suffer any major damage.
The FAA said in its report that damage to the engine was "substantial."
Abraham declined to provide more details about the accident.
"We're investigating the circumstances and it would unfair to describe anything until we know more," he said.
Abraham said passengers who were booked on a 10:30 p.m. flight to Sydney on Monday were assigned to other Qantas flights.
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Aug 15, 5:30 AM EDT
Landing system outage hits LA airport for second time in a week
By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Authorities were investigating what caused an instrument landing system that guides arriving planes onto one runway at Los Angeles International Airport to fail for the second time in a week, delaying dozens of flights.
The instrument landing system, which acts as a beacon to guide planes to the runway, failed just before 10 a.m. Monday and came back on about 40 minutes later, said Ian Gregor, spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The same system on the same runway shut off on Aug. 7 for several hours, creating 90-minute arrival delays that rippled through the system and affected dozens of flights nationwide. This time, arrivals were delayed between 30 and 45 minutes as air traffic controllers kept some planes circling in the air over Los Angeles and reduced the arrival rate from 60-to-70 planes per hour to 46, Gregor said.
The repeated problems prompted airport officials to question how well the instrument landing system was being maintained by the FAA.
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"This is clearly a systemic problem with the equipment," said Lydia Kennard, executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, a city agency that operates the airport. "We believe there's something fundamentally wrong with the equipment. It has to be fixed or replaced."
Gregor said there was no indication the two incidents were connected. The FAA has not determined what caused the Aug. 7 outage, he said.
The union that represents local air traffic controllers has questioned whether the system's age contributed to the outages.
"That piece of equipment is a precision piece of equipment," said Tony Vella, local president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association.
"We literally run those airplanes in wingtip to wingtip on parallel runways. I don't know what it's going to take out there - if the airplanes are going to have to trade paint out there - before the FAA gets this thing fixed."
The system is 9 years old and is typically reliable, Gregor said. For example, the equipment flickered off intermittently but was quickly reset the weekend of Aug. 5-6.
The malfunctioning equipment, called a "localizer," sends a radio signal to help pilots center their airplanes on the runway for landing. It is most crucial when it's foggy or hazy; the lack of fog Monday at the seaside airport was one reason the problem wasn't more severe, officials said.
In last week's case, the localizer shut off - as it is programmed to do - when something blocked the beacon signal, said Gregor. The system had to be manually reset and the only available technician was not at the airport at the time, he said.
The airport has had multiple problems in recent weeks.
It was significantly affected by a July 18 power outage at a regional FAA air traffic control center in the high desert city of Palmdale that backed up flights across parts of the western United States and Canada.
On July 26, a system designed to alert controllers to potential collisions on the ground was not operating properly when the pilot of an arriving jet mistakenly drove into the path of a plane that was taking off. An FAA review found that the departing plane pulled up suddenly and soared about 150 feet over the jet and 50 feet to the side of it.
The airport is also undergoing a $333 million runway relocation and taxiway project to prepare for the next generation of giant airliners and reduce the risk of runway accidents. The project has closed one runway and added a six-minute delay to all incoming flights in the next eight months.
The airport averages 1,800 daily flights and this summer's passenger total is expected to reach 18.7 million, its busiest since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. In 2005, more than 60 million people passed through the airport.
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[Does anyone else think it strange, that all of a sudden we have suspicious parcels on the airplanes?
A cell phone and now the control for a toy, which can be used to set off bombs, I think...granny]
Aug 14, 9:02 PM EDT
Toy remote control triggers airliner evacuation at LA airport
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- An Alaska Airlines jet arriving from Mexico was evacuated Monday because no one claimed a "suspicious item" - later determined to be a toy transmitter - spotted by a crew member, officials said.
Authorities using bomb-sniffing dogs found no explosives inside the plane's cargo hold or the transmitter, which was similar to a remote control for a toy car or plane, authorities said.
The FBI and other agencies were investigating, though there was no immediate threat, said bureau spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.
Airport police were notified at 8:20 a.m. that there was a suspicious item aboard the flight, which originated in Guadalajara, Mexico, said Los Angeles International Airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles.
Authorities said the crew became alarmed when no one claimed the item.
"The flight attendant discovered an item and she said, 'Is this yours?' And all the passengers said, 'No,'" airport spokesman Harold Johnson said.
The plane landed just before 9 a.m. and taxied to a remote part of the airport.
Castles said all 125 passengers and crew members were taken to a terminal in buses. Transportation Security Administration officials searched passenger luggage and belongings by hand, the FBI said.
The passengers were held at a remote gate and interviewed by law enforcement, said Castles. The last passenger was released at 3 p.m., Eimiller said.
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[under investigation, note the sites it hit, police dept...a post for study and research]
Aug 14, 7:47 PM EDT
Latest Los Angeles power failure cuts electricity to 71,200
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A power outage blacked out more than 71,000 utility customers including City Hall, police headquarters and other government buildings in the civic center area for up to 15 minutes Monday.
It was the latest in series of problems for the city Department of Water and Power, the nation's largest municipal utility, which serves 1.4 million customers.
The electrical outage also extended outside the civic center and affected some residential and commercial buildings, said DWP spokeswoman Gale Harris.
The incident triggered numerous calls reporting malfunctioning traffic lights and stuck elevators, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Ballton.
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Courts, DWP headquarters and the Police Department's Parker Center were among major buildings affected.
The failure involved a transformer bank at a North Main Street electrical receiving station but the exact cause remained under investigation, Harris said.
"A formal investigation is still being conducted," Harris said.
Power went out at 11:41 a.m. Some of the 71,200 affected customers were back up in seven minutes, and power was restored to the remainder at 11:56 a.m., Harris said.
A station operator was present, which allowed quick restoration of service, she said.
A series of DWP problems have raised questions about the reliability of electrical service in the nation's second-largest city.
A 20-minute outage hit about 4,000 civic center customers on Aug. 2, and during July's record heat wave 860 transformers failed, leaving thousands of customers without power - for days in some cases.
The latter incident revealed that city's aging power infrastructure may not be capable of keeping up with the amount of electricity that customers can demand.
The DWP had planned to spend $2.4 billion on improvements over the next five years, but officials say the utility may need to move faster, adding another $100 million or more to costs.
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LOL! Maybe the computer was lonely and calling for you.
I'm off to the dentist - broke a tooth on an almond. Ugh.
[Under investigation grass fire, plus 2 WHITE pickups, manage to hit the fire truck, on the way to the fire.granny]
Woodbridge fire engine needs at least $80,000 in repairs after collision
By Layla Bohm
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Last updated: Friday, Aug 11, 2006 - 06:11:07 am PDT
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A Woodbridge Fire engine will be out of commission for six to eight months and needs at least $80,000 worth of repairs after it was involved in a weekend collision.
The year-old engine, which cost the fire district about $250,000, had to be towed to the manufacturer in Woodland after the accident, Capt. Ken Harris said Thursday.
Two firefighters were on the engine at 5:35 p.m. Saturday as they responded to a grass fire that had gotten out of control at Tower Park, Harris said.
The engine's lights and sirens were on, and westbound traffic was yielding, said California Highway Patrol Officer Jamie Crum. But two eastbound pick-up trucks came in contact with one another, causing one to spin out of control into the side of the fire engine, he said.
A white Toyota Tacoma, driven by Jose Menjivar, 37, of Pittsburg, was traveling east when "something sent (it) out of control. It was either rear-ended or there was some other circumstance," said Crum, adding that he and fellow investigators are still recreating the entire crash scene.
Following behind the Tacoma was a Ford F350, also white, driven by Mark Chadwell, 34, of Stockton, Crum said.
After the trucks made contact, the Tacoma hit the fire truck, then sideswiped a silver Nissan Frontier pick-up, which had pulled over for the fire engine and was returning to the roadway, Crum said. In the process, one of the white eastbound trucks also clipped a mirror on a green Chevy in front of the fire engine.
Two passenger's in the Tacoma were treated for complaints of pain at Lodi Memorial Hospital, but there were no major injuries.
Harris said the two firefighters on the engine later went home early with stiffness and pain.
The firefighters did not appear to be at fault and the engine was in its lane and using appropriate speed, Crum said. One of the two eastbound trucks was likely at fault, he said, but investigators are still working on the case.
The 2004 HME fire engine, meanwhile, had to be towed from the scene, which slowed traffic for about an hour.
The vehicle was custom built in Woodland and delivered to the fire district in 2005. It had about 15,000 miles on it at the time of the collision, Harris said.
It was used for structure fires, grass fires, vehicle accidents and medical calls, Harris said. Repairs will likely cost between $80,000 and $100,000, though that estimate is not final because the manufacturers will have to take apart the engine to determine the extent of the damage.
Other fire departments helped with both the crash and the fire, which burned three to four acres and briefly threatened structures, Harris said. The cause of the blaze is still under investigation.
Contact reporter Layla Bohm at layla@lodinews.com.
First published: Friday, August 11, 2006
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[Good for news releases.. Note this police report, shows another bar fight, with shots fired and the Bartender stabbed for attempting to stop it, and a woman sitting in the middle of the road, until hit by a car.........granny]
Google Alert - explosive stolen
Regional Roundup
Lodi News-Sentinel - Lodi,CA,USA
... that the explosive was safe and transported it to a secure
location,
Piombo said. Zachary Gardner was arrested on suspicion of possessing
stolen
property ...
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Poor baby.
That is not any fun.
Stay out of trouble.
[I had forgotten that one of the first news reports this morning on KDWN the Las Vegas Radio, was that the Hoover Dam was now open.
It has been closed, after a blasting cap was found in the Visitors Center. On Monday I think.
That is all they said on that.
Plus yesterday KDWN was off the air for at least 5 hours, that I am aware of, for some reason the electric to the radio station or the transmitting tower, was out and the generator would not work.................
granny]
Subject: Google Alert - Shooting at Mall
Metro Police Release Video of Ambush Suspect
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
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robbery
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Mesa police investigate double shooting
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Around 4:30 pm, a person called 911 saying a shooting had occurred in
the
200 block of South Alma School Road, Mesa police Sgt. Chuck Trapani
said.
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Guard shot in suburban armored car robbery
Chicago Tribune - United States
... Kathy Shone, marketing directing for the River Oaks Center, said
the
shooting occurred outside the mall located at 159th Street and Torrence
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AROUND PENNSYLVANIA
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Do you know if this was found, it is not the same one as later, in the bunkers in New Mexico....and note the last post in the thread....granny]
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400 Pounds Of Explosives Stolen In Colorado Springs; ammonium nitrate and fuel oil stolen
The Gazette ^ | 07-15-03
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Carroll's Captors 'Worshipped' Zarqawi
ABC News - USA
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Where better than the Lake District to study cordon bleu cooking ...
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60 Minutes’s Missed Opportunity
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The Jihadi Big Tent
TCS Daily - Washington,DC,USA
... Today's Fifth Column glorifies the global jihad against the West.
ANSWER's
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Terror camps continue to run in Pak: Herald
India Monitor - Whalley Range,Manchester,UK
In its cover story, ''The Waiting Game'', the Herald magazine said
Pakistan-backed
Kashmiri militant group Hizbul Mujahideen has one of its training camps
at ...
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Agencies trying to divide Mujahideen: Hizb
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinigar,India
Srinagar, Aug 14: Kashmir’s frontline militant outfit Hizbul Mujahideen
on Monday denied any association with the posters published in its name
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Mirwaiz welcomes Hizb statement
GreaterKashmir.com (press release) - Srinigar,India
Srinagar, Aug 13: Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Chairman of a faction of
Hurriyat
Conference has welcomed Hizbul Mujahideen’s statement asking Kashmiri
Pandits to ...
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/full_story.asp?Date=14_8_2006&ItemID=38&cat=21
Channel surfing with the mujahideen
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... How do you channel surf with the mujahideen? I asked myself that
question
as I flipped from one show to another, trying to act casual. Politics
was out. ...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/08/14/channel_surfing_with_the_mujahideen.html
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Google Alert - fire at school
Alaska Fire Blamed on Kids and Matches
Washington Post - United States
... "There's no indication that there was any intent for the fire to
spread
to the school and certainly not to the rest of the village," he said.
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Google Alert - ARAB M U S L I M Riots
The Islamic-Fascist Propaganda Machine
Canada Free Press - Canada
... of the Islamic Conference and League of Arab States for ... uproar
over the Danish newspaper caricatures that sparked riots across the
Muslim
world — that ...
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Children Challenge the System
Arutz Sheva - Israel
... areas had been destroyed during the Arab riots of 1929 ... that
Jews
harass and provoke their Arab neighbors, local ... alleged to have
killed
29 Muslim worshippers in ...
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Global Islamic Media Front Encourages Online Jihadists to Attack America Through the Written and Visual Media
By SITE Institute
August 15, 2006
Encouraging Muslims in the jihadist Internet community to attack America through the written and visual media, the Global Islamic Media Front distributed an announcement yesterday, Monday, August 14, 2006, containing a list of tasks and purposes for this mission. In the message, distributed to password-protected forums, the author writes that the distribution of English translation of terrorist statements, communiqués and multimedia is necessary to counteract the media organizations, such as al-Arabiya and al-Hurra, “falsifying true things,” amplifying the actions of the enemy forces and downplaying Mujahideen operations. The message states: “People of jihad have to create a media war that goes parallel to the military war. They should not be short on anything because we see the effect the media has on the nation and people in supporting or denouncing it”.
For this purpose, the GIMF urges Muslims to master the English language and the art of writing, and disseminate material to American newspapers, forums, television channels, famous writers such as Thomas Friedman and Samuel Huntington, and research groups, specifying RAND.
A translation of the message is provided to our Intel Service members.
http://www.siteinstitute.com/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications203206&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya’s Position Regarding the War in Lebanon and Hezbollah
By SITE Institute
August 14, 2006
The Egyptian Islamic Group [al-Jama’a al-Islamiya] of the "blind sheikh," Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, published an article to its official website, http://egyig.com/index.php , yesterday, Sunday, August 13, 2006, stating their position vis-à-vis the war in Lebanon and Hezbollah, and questioning: “Was not Rome Defeated?” This allusion and interpretation within the article of Surah Ar-Rum, from the Qur’an, supports their belief that Hezbollah should be supported since it is engaged in war with Israel and represents a victory for Islam, despite Hezbollah being a Shi’ite organization and a part of a network of Iran, Syria, and Shi’ite militias in Iraq which allegedly seek the elimination of Sunni Muslims. Hezbollah’s defeat, as if Rome were to have lost to Persia, would, according to the article, weaken Muslims’ resolve and allow for the United States and Israel to complete the New Middle East plan and project power over all “resistance groups” and Muslim in the region.
The article presents Hezbollah as a different strain of Shi’a, closer to Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army in fighting American forces, than the Shi’te brigades that attack Sunni people. The article states: “For Hezbollah has its own situation due to its presence in the lines of conflict against Israel, and its leadership is for resistance, and also due to its forcing the Zionist enemy to retreat from Lebanon in the year 2000”. In the opinion of al-Jama’a al-Islamiya, the “Zionist American agenda” presents a much larger danger to the Muslim Nation than Hezbollah possible could. They state: “The steadfastness of Hezbollah does not mean the defeat of the Sunnis, but the defeat of the Zionist-American plan”.
A translation of the article is provided to our Intel Service members.
http://www.siteinstitute.com/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications202806&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
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