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Woman Accused of Supporting Terror Group
AP ^ | 9/29/6 | DAISY NGUYEN
Posted on 09/29/2006 10:23:01 PM PDT by SmithL
A naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran who was found in Iraq was indicted Friday on charges of providing support to a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the Iranian regime, federal prosecutors said.
Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, 51, then a resident of Herndon, Va., went to Iraq in 1999 to attend a training camp run by the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MEK, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said in a statement.
MEK, also known as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, and its affiliates were deemed foreign terrorist organizations by the U.S. State Department in 1997. The designations bar anyone in the United States from providing material support.
The group was founded in Iran in the 1960s and moved to Iraq in the early 1980s to base its activities against Iran's government. The group had sided with Iraq in its 1980-88 war against Iran.
The State Department says the MEK groups were funded by Saddam Hussein, supported the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and are responsible for the deaths of Americans in the 1970s.
Taleb-Jedi was discovered by coalition forces at a camp called Ashraf Base about 40 miles northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. attorney's office statement said. It was unclear when.
U.S. forces took control of the camp and sent many members back to Iran on condition that they leave MEK, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the attorney's office.
"An investigation reveals that she played an active role at the camp," Mrozek said.
Taleb-Jedi was indicted by a federal grand jury in New York City on one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. She faces up to 15 years in federal prison if convicted.
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America's Muslims Aren't as Assimilated as You Think
By Geneive Abdo
Sunday, August 27, 2006; B03
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR2006082501169_pf.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/25/AR200608250
1169_pf.html
If only the Muslims in Europe -- with their hearts focused on the
Islamic
world and their carry-on liquids poised for destruction in the West --
could
behave like the well-educated, secular and Americanizing Muslims in the
United States, no one would have to worry.
So runs the comforting media narrative that has developed around the
approximately 6 million Muslims in the United States, who are often
portrayed as well-assimilated and willing to leave their religion and
culture behind in pursuit of American values and lifestyle. But over
the
past two years, I have traveled the country, visiting mosques,
interviewing
Muslim leaders and speaking to Muslim youths in universities and
Islamic
centers from New York to Michigan to California -- and I have
encountered a
different truth.
I found few signs of London-style radicalism among
Muslims
in the United States. At the same time, the real story of American
Muslims
is one of accelerating alienation from the mainstream of U.S. life,
with
Muslims in this country choosing their Islamic identity over their
American
one.
A new generation of American Muslims -- living in the shadow of the
Sept.
11, 2001, attacks -- is becoming more religious. They are more likely
to
take comfort in their own communities, and less likely to embrace the
nation's fabled melting pot of shared values and common culture.
Part of this is linked to the resurgence of Islam over the past several
decades, a growth as visible in Western Europe and the United States as
it
is in Egypt and Morocco. But the Sept. 11 attacks also had the dual
effect
of making American Muslims feel isolated in their adopted country,
while
pushing them to rediscover their faith.
continued...........
Zawahiri Attacks Bush in New Video Posted on Web
Friday , September 29, 2006
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216697,00.html
Al Qaeda's no. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri called President Bush a "deceitful charlatan" in a new video message posted on the Internet Friday by the group's media arm.
"Why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and its allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people's sons in order to increase your profits?" Zawahiri asked in the video found on the Internet by the terrorist tracking organization SITE.
The new 17-minute video message, titled "Bush, the Pope of the Vatican, Darfur, and the Crusader Wars," was posted in two parts and carried the label of As-Sahab, Al Qaeda's media arm.
In the first part, which carries English subtitles, Zawahiri is in an office with a lamp, a cannon and a flag bearing "No God, but Allah." In the second, the deputy Al Qaeda leader appears dressed entirely in white and there is no background.
"Bush, you deceitful charlatan, be aware that the liberation of our captives is a debt on our shoulders which we must fulfill, with Allah's help and power," Zawahiri said in the video.
"You are not facing individuals or organizations, but rather are facing the Muslim nation in which the spirit of Jihad flows and which refuses humiliation under Zionist/Crusader arrogance" he said.
The video was the latest to come from Zawahri since earlier this month. Al Qaeda released a string of videos for the anniversary of Sept. 11, showing increasingly sophisticated production techniques in a likely effort to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force despite the U.S.-led war on terror.
An intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said U.S. experts view the tape as a typcial propaganda message, whose main thrust is a call for more people to join the jihad.
It wasn't immediately clear when the message was recorded, but Zawahri made a reference to the pope, indicating the message was produced sometime after Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments about Islam on Sept. 12, the official said. SITE said the message was posted on Sept. 29.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
September 29, 2006 PM Anti-Terrorism News
Al Qaeda's No. 2 Zawahiri Blasts Bush, Pope in New Video
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216697,00.html
New Video Released With Al Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/09/new_video_released_with_al_qae.php
A Video Speech from Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri: Bush, the Pope of the
Vatican, Darfur, and the Crusader Wars, by as-Sahab Productions
http://siteinstitute.org/bin/articles.cgi?ID=publications215406&Category=publications&Subcategory=0
Online Video Web Link to Zawahiri Message
http://www.lauramansfield.com/zawahiri_092906.rm
Treasury Updates Anti-Terrorist Financing Guidelines for Charitable
Sector
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp122.htm
Hamas rally draws tens of thousands - to denounce Israel and state they
will never recognize its right to exist
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20501067-1702,00.html
Iraq announces Baghdad curfew until Sunday
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/233264/1/.html
NATO soldier killed in Afghan explosion
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/afghanistan;_ylt=ApKAA4qZk5Trmfjf2n9FdbTOVooA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Bush insists progress being made in Afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060929/ts_nm/security_bush_dc_1;_ylt=ApXmPdA0LLyU0dOllMivYFvOVooA;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Bush Defends Approach to War on Terror
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092900453.html
(India) Four more arrested for Mumbai train bombings
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/September/subcontinent_September1108.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=
Somali Islamic militias to unite, official says
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/09/29/somalia.ap/index.html
Somalia: Islamic Courts Close Radio Station
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.345448165&par=0
Somali Justice Advocacy Center Appalled at Photo of Osama Bin Laden on
Somali Jihadist Web Page, Level of Anti-Jewish Propaganda
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=73460
Iran mulled nuclear bomb in 1988
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5392584.stm
Explosion hits Iran-Turkey gas pipeline-reports
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8786
Pearl father: Punish al Qaeda No. 3
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/29/pearl.claim.ap/
Hezbollah's New Mission - The "resistance" takes aim at the Lebanese
government.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/752bhtyr.asp
Kyrgyzstan: Mob goes unpunished as intolerance of religious freedom
rises
http://www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=846
(Maryland) Alleged arms brokers for terrorist group charged - Suspects
accused of trying to buy weapons in Md. for Tamil Tigers organization
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-arms0929,0,5089978.story?track=rss
(UK) Arsenic in 'Muslim holy water' - Zam Zam water comes from Saudi
Arabia
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1796298
(Pakistan) Commentary - Karachi: Metropolis of Terror
http://www.kashmirherald.com/main.php?t=OP&st=D&no=103
Commentary: The Terror War Meets the Culture War
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,216557,00.html
Commentary: A Patient Enemy: On 9/11 America entered a war that the
Terrorists had already begun
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2006/09/a_patient_enemy_on_911_america.php
Commentary: The World is in Exile
http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=6573
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=1796298
Arsenic in 'Muslim holy water'
High arsenic levels have been found in bottled water claiming to come from a sacred Muslim site, the food watchdog said yesterday.
The Food Standards Agency is warning consumers not to drink products labelled as Zam Zam water.
Tests carried out by Leicester City Council this month revealed high arsenic levels in the drink.
It follows tests last year which showed arsenic at almost three times the permitted level in bottles of Zam Zam on sale in the UK.
Arsenic can increase the risk of cancer in some cases, according the Food Standards Agency.
The Agency has written to local councils asking them to clamp down on the sale of Zam Zam water.
"Genuine Zam Zam water, which is sacred to Muslims, comes from a specific source in Saudi Arabia and cannot legally be exported from that country for commercial sale," the FSA said.
"Therefore, any product found in the shops would have an uncertain origin and could pose a safety risk to consumers."
29 September 2006
US unable to confirm Muhajir in Qaeda Iraq audio
Reuters.uk - UK
... "The voice matches the previous tape," said a ... prominent al
Qaeda
figures such as Osama bin Laden's second-in ... The video, posted last
Saturday, depicted a masked ...
http://today.reuters.co.uk/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-09-29T203420Z_01_N29203425_RTRUKOC_0_UK-SECURITY-IRAQ-QAEDA.xml
[a post for study and research]
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/hourlyupdate/148885.php
Published: 09.29.2006
Young woman dies from gunshot wounds suffered in drive-by shooting
By Alexis Huicochea
ARIZONA DAILY STAR
A 19-year-old Tucson woman died late Thursday, nearly three hours after she and a friend were wounded in a drive-by shooting on the South Side, police said Friday.
No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting.
Jerrica Nuanez and her 24-year-old friend were sitting in a car in the parking lot of a strip mall in the 6100 block of S. Nogales Highway, near East Bilby Road, around 8:45 p.m. when a minivan with several people inside drove up and made contact with them, said Officer Frank Amado, a Tucson Police Department spokesman.
Shots were fired from the van into the victims' car, he said. Nuanez and the man with her suffered one gun shot wound each.
The pair drove away from the parking lot to a neighborhood in the 6000 block of South Nelco Place, near Bilby and South Park Avenue, where residents called 911, Amado said.
Both Nuanez and her friend were taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:54 p.m., Amado said. Her friend's injuries were considered non life-threatening.
The minivan that the suspects were in was either blue or green, Amado said. No suspect descriptions were available Friday and a motive had not been established.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tip line of the Pima County Attorney's Office.
Contact reporter Alexis Huicochea at 629-9412 or ahuicochea@azstarnet.com
All content copyright © 1999-2006 AzStarNet,
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/148951
Text message leads to rescue of Mass. teen from Ga. home
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 09.30.2006
HOGANSVILLE, Ga. — A man is being held on false imprisonment and aggravated sodomy charges after a 17-year-old Massachusetts boy he met online text-messaged his family saying he was being held against his will on the man's west Georgia farm, police said.
A judge set a $1 million bond Friday for Ted Roy Williams, 58, who was arrested a day earlier. Police continued questioning the teen Friday afternoon.
Williams met the boy on the online networking site MySpace.com two weeks ago and persuaded him to visit him in Georgia, Troup County Sheriff's Lt. Rick Massie said.
continued.........
Body Found in Ocean
Homicide Squad detectives are investigating the death of a 40-year-old man who was found off the shore of Atlantic Beach on Sept. 18 at 8:10 a.m.
Nassau police say that a private fishing boat discovered the body of Paul Labella of Brooklyn, floating in the water about 1.5 miles south of Long Beach in the Atlantic Ocean. Upon arrival, Marine Bureau recovered the body. Labella was wearing a black wet suit and diving gear.
He was taken to the Nassau County Medical Examiner’s Office. New York City Police Department’s Missing Person Squad is investigating further.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=216&a_id=9871
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=216&a_id=9871
Fire Investigation
Arson/Bomb Squad detectives are investigating a fire that occurred in Plainview on Sept. 17 at 5:15 p.m. Nassau police say that the fire started in the rear of a store on Woodbury Road and spread to three neighboring stores.
The Syosset Fire Department responded and extinguished the flames with the assistance of about 150 firefighters from other departments including Plainview, Jericho, Hicksville, Bethpage, Glenwood Landing, Melville, Roslyn, Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor.
Four firefighters were injured and treated at North Shore University Hospital. The investigation is ongoing.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=216&a_id=9871
Identity Theft Arrest
Fifth Squad detectives arrested an Oceanside man on Sept. 19 for theft and identity theft that occurred in Valley Stream. Nassau police say that Charles Indiviglio, 40, schemed to defraud customers of J&J Perfection along with his wife Joanne, who was previously arrested for taking money for home improvement work which was never started. He was charged with identity theft, fraud and three counts of grand larceny.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=216&a_id=9871
Forgery Arrest
Crimes Against Property Squad detectives arrested a Queens woman for forgery in Hewlett on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. Nassau police say that Indira Balliram, 31, of Springfield Gardens, while employed as a cashier for Five Towns Kosher Meat Market on Peninsula Boulevard, used a skimming device to steal personal credit card information from customers, which she later used to create forged credit cards and make fraudulent purchases totaling more than $6,000. Detectives were notified by Citigroup. She was charged with identity theft, possession of a forged instrument and criminal possession of computer material.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=217&a_id=9870
Shooting Incident
Fifth Squad Detectives are seeking the public’s assistance in their investigation of the shooting of a 20-year-old man in Bellport on Sept. 18 at 12:25 a.m. Suffolk police say Shati Roy of Shirley was struck by a bullet at the intersection of Taylor Avenue and Brookhaven Avenue. Reportedly, a passenger in a moving vehicle fired several shots, one of which hit the victim in the leg. Roy was taken to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital where he was treated and released. The investigation is continuing. Fifth Squad detectives request that anyone who has any information about this incident, or who may have witnessed this crime, to call them at 854-8552 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS.
School Vandal Sought
Fifth Precinct Crime Section officers are seeking the public’s assistance in their investigation of several acts of vandalism that occurred at three Holbrook schools on Sept. 20. Suffolk police say that during the early morning hours, Sachem School District security discovered three separate schools vandalized with spray paint. During the investigation, police found that letters and pictures had been painted on various surfaces of the schools. The targeted schools were Grundy Avenue Elementary on Grundy Avenue, Merrimac Elementary on Broadway Avenue and Seneca Middle School on Main Street. Anyone who may have witnessed this crime, or who may have information about it, is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
Man Seriously Burned in Basement Fire
Homicide and Arson Squad detectives are investigating a fire which left a 33-year-old man seriously injured in Mastic Beach on Sept. 20 at 11 a.m. Suffolk police say officers were called to a house on Woodside Road when neighbors reported that they heard an explosion at that location. When police arrived, they discovered that Gus Asimakopoulos of Mastic had been extensively burned. Asimakopoulos was working on the oil burner at the home. He was taken by police helicopter to Stony Brook University Hospital with burns over 75 percent of his body. The investigation is continuing.
http://www.longislandpress.com/index.php?show=article&cp=217&a_id=9870
http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=162&show=article&a_id=9740
Holy High Alert!
Tom Durante 09/18/2006 3:02 pm
A threat on MySpace.com has forced administrators at Holy Trinity Diocesan High School in Hicksville to mandate tighter security and police presence at each of the school’s exits.
In a statement released on the school’s Web site, Holy Trinity officials said they had received a security and safety threat via MySpace.com and have been working with Nassau cops to catch the suspect or suspects involved. Holy Trinity has limited school access to three exits, each with a Nassau police officer to help “ensure safety.”
The school also said that if parents wanted to keep their children home today, it will be regarded as an excused absence.
[reminder report on shukrijumah]
Most alarming was the report that Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the appointed Mohammed Atta for the next 9/11, had secured the services of Mara Salvatrucha to reenter the United States after a series of all-out alarms had been issued for his arrest. Shukrijumah is now in the US as of this September 2005!
Adnan el-Shukrijumah was born in Guyana on August 4, 1975 – the first born of Gulshair el-Shukrijumah, a forty-four-year-old radical Muslim cleric, and his sixteen year old wife. In 1985 Gulshair migrated to the United States, where he assumed duties as the imam of the Farouq mosque – a mosque that raised millions for the jihad and that served as a recruiting station for Al Qaeda. In 1995 the Shukrijumah family moved to Miramar, Florida, where Gulshair became the spiritual leader of the radical Masjid al-Hijah and where Adnan became friend with José Padilla, who planned to detonate a radiological bomb in midtown Manhattan; Mandhai Jokan, who was convicted of attempting to blow up nuclear power plants in southern Florida; and a group of other home-grown terrorists.
Adnan attended flight schools in Florida and Norman, Oklahoma, along with Mohammed Atta and the other 9/11 operatives, and he became an accomplished commercial jet pilot, although he never applied for a license with the Federal Aviation Commission.
In April 2001 Adnan spent ten days in Panama, where he reportedly met with al Qaeda officials to assist in the planning of 9/11. He also traveled to Trinidad and Guyana. The following month, he obtained an associate’s degree in computer engineering from Broward Community College.
During this time, he managed to amass passports from Guyana, Trinidad, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Canada. He also began to adopt a number of aliases, including Adnan G. el-Shukrijumah, Abu Arifi, Jafar al-Tayyar, Jaafar At Yayyar, Ja’far al-Tayar, and Mohammed Sher Mohammed Khan. (the name that appeared on his official FBI file.) He traveled to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, where he met with Ramzi Binalshibh, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and other members of the al Qaeda high command. The planners of 9/11. He also spent considerable time within the al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where he was trained in explosives.
El-Shukrijumah proved to be unique among the terrorists. Not only could he speak English without the slightest trace of an accent, but he also possessed the ability to blend into a crowd, to alter his looks, and to assume a multitude of identities. He represented the proverbial Mr. Cellophane.
Following the success of 9/11, el-Shukrijumah became singled out by bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to serve as the field commander for the next great attack on US soil – the so-called American Hiroshima – that would leave millions dead and the richest and most powerful nation on earth in ashes. In preparation for this mission, Adnan, along with fellow al Qaeda sleeper agents Anas al-Liby, Jaber A. Elbaneh, and Amer el Maati, was sent to McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, a facility that boasted a five-megawatt nuclear research reactor, the largest reactor of any educational facility in Canada.
At McMaster, where they may have enrolled under aliases, el-Shukrijumah and his associates wasted little time in gaining access to the nuclear reactor and stealing more than 180 ponds of nuclear waste for the creation of radiological bombs.
In the wake of Operation Enduring Freedom, US military officials discovered the reoccurrence of el-Shukrijumah’s name in “pocket litter” – documents and scraps taken from prisoners and dead al Qaeda soldiers. The name did not set off immediate alarms until Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda’s military operations chief, was captured in Karachi, Pakistan. After days of interrogations, coupled with severe sleep deprivation, Khalid Mohammed, as noted earlier, told US officials that bin Laden was planning to create a “nuclear hell storm” in America. Unlike other attacks, the terrorist chief said, the chain of command for the nuclear attack answered directly to bin Laden, al-Zawahiri, and a mysterious scientist called “Dr.X” He further confessed that the field commander was a naturalized American citizen whom he called “Jafar al-Tayyar” (“Jafer the Pilot”).
US officials soon learned that Jafar the Pilot was an alias for Adnan el-Shukrijumah and that he and other al Qaeda agents had been sent to McMaster. By the time Canadian officials became alerted to the situation, it was too late – the elusive Adnan had already crossed the border into Buffalo, where he remained sheltered by members of a local mosque.
On March 21, 2004, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert Mueller issued a BOLO (“be-on-the-lookout”) for el-Shukrijumah and Amer el-Maati, along with Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who received a biology degree from MIT and penned a doctoral thesis on neurological science at Brandeis; Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani (aka “Fôopie”), who took part in the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania; and Adam Yahiye Gadahn (aka Adam Pearlman), a convert to Islam who grew up on a goat ranch in Riverside, California. Also mentioned was Abderraouf Jdey, the leader of the al Qaeda cell in Toronto.
Several days after the BOLO was released, Adnan and Jdey were spotted at a Denny’s Restaurant in Avon, Colorado, where one ordered a chicken sandwich and a salad. The restaurant manager described them as “demanding, rude and obnoxious.”
Following this sighting, the diminutive Adnan, who stands at five feet four and weighs 132 pounds, resurfaced at a terrorist summit in the lawless Waziristan Province of Pakistan in March 2004. The summit has been described by the FBI as a “pivotal planning session” in much the same manner a 2000 meeting in Kuala Lumpur was for the 9/11 attacks. Attending the meeting were Mohammed Babar, who (as stated above) has been charged with buying materials to build bombs for use in attacks in Great Britain, and al-Hindi, a Pakistani technician whose computer contained plans for staging attacks at financial institutions in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, DC.
On May 27, 2004, el-Shukrijumah was spotted at an Internet café in Tegucigalpa, the hilly capital of Honduras, where he made calls to France, Canada, and the United States. He was described as badly dressed and bearded. At his table were Mara Salvatrucha leaders (jefes) from Panama, El Salvador, Mexico and Honduras.
From Tegucigalpa, he made his way north to Belize in British Honduras and , from Belize, to Mexico’s Quintana Roo State, south of Cancun.
El-Shukrijumah remained in Mexico for much of the summer. In late August, he was spotted in the northern Mexican province of Sonora near “terrorist alley” (Where 8,000 illegals from terror-prone countries like Sudan, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia have come into the US in the past six months.) Alberto Chapetti of the US Consulate in Nogales issued warnings about the presence of the terrorist in the area along with the posting of a $5 million reward for tips leading to his arrest.
Concern about el-Shukrijumah’s sojourn in Mexico was heightened in November 2004 with the arrest in Pakistan of Sharif al-Masri, a key al Qaeda operative. Al-Masri, an Egyptian national with close ties to Ayman al-Zawahiri, informed interrogators that al Qaeda has made arrangements to smuggle nuclear supplies and small tactical nuclear weapons into Mexico. From Mexico, the weapons were to be transported across the border with the help of a Latino street gang.
In response to this information, US officials began monitoring all heavy trucks crossing the border, while Mexican officials pledged to keep close watch over flight schools and aviation facilities. Such precautions may have been adopted too late. A piper PA Pawnee crop duster had been stolen from Ejido Queretaro near Mexicali on November 1, 2004. The plane’s tail number was XBCYP. The thieves, Mexican officials surmised, were either drug dealers or al Qaeda operatives, and clearly one was a highly trained pilot.
Dr. Paul Williams states that Osama has smuggled ten to twenty nuclear weapons into the US! American Hiroshima could happen soon!
http://www.stopdoomsday.com/article-Al-Qaeda-Connection.html
[several photos at link]
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/060929.php
As-Sahab Releases "Bush, the Catholic Pope, and Darfur: The Crusader's Wars"
By Nick Grace and Richard Lafayette
September 29, 2006
The thirteenth video of al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri was released on the Internet today by as-Sahab, the terror network's media wing. The 18-minute production, titled "Bush, the Catholic Pope, and Darfur: The Crusader's Wars," is not as well produced as previous Zawahiri messaging products and appears to have been rushed by as-Sahab "onto the street" in order to respond quickly to current events.
The video features two separate videos of Zawahiri - one which is well-produced using computer-generated and bluescreening techniques, and a second one that appears to have been hastily taped in front of a tarp in an open air environment. The well-produced segment is an 8-minute response by aZawahiri to a speech that President Bush delivered on September 7, 2006, relating to the Global War on Terror and the intelligence gains the U.S. has achieved through detainee interrogations. The second and poorly produced video is a 10-minute speech about the situation in Darfur and the controversial September 12, 2006, lecture by Pope Benedict XVI. The transition between the two segments is a hard cut in the video.
Interestingly, a key theme that has been visible in recent as-Sahab products but which is conspicuously absent from this video is al Qaeda's effort to undermine secular and moderate Muslims.
The video
The contrast between the cameras, lighting and environment used in both segments is light and day, and it is clear that the second video was recorded somewhat in haste. What remains unclear is why as-Sahab chose to bundle the two speeches into a single messaging product.
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060929_zawahiri.rm [38.1 Megs]
In advance of the product release onto the Internet , an animated gif banner was posted in advance on the al-Bouraq and Ekhlaas Forum message boards late on Wednesday, September 27.
The video was released in three file formats (DixX, RealMedia and 3GP) and packaged in the RAR format, which is usually used to "zip" multiple files together. The RAR files are password-protected, presumably to block the video from being opened and viewed by Web surfers who discover the files through random searches, with the password, "AVdeoC2008."
A total of four different file sizes have been posted to exactly 328 links on free file transfer sites.
183 Megs (DivX): 56 links
28.2 Megs (RM): 84 links
18.9 Megs (RM): 111 links
5.52 Megs (3GP): 77 links
Interestingly, the name of the RAR file varies on some of the links.
183 Megs (DivX): nd2-k.rar, ikjiokkkkkkawaer.rar, uytp.rar, oipf.rar, sauder4555.rar, tttttyttttyuucd.rar, 8iuuyyyyuuuu7.rar
28.2 Megs (RM): pend2m.rar
18.9 Megs (RM): dr_paN.rar, p-G3nd.rar, dr-paN.rar, drpaN.rar, N_low.rar
5.52 Megs (3GP): pGGnd.rar
The reason for the use of multiple file names is probably for security and counterintelligence purposes. In the event of a leak or mole within as-Sahab's nebulous network of Internet seeders, al Qaeda could determine the source of the leak by identifying who had access to and responsibility for a compromised file.
Segment 1
The first segment features Zawahiri wearing a white tunic and black turban and sitting in an office environment and reading from cue cards held just to the left of the camera. Close examination of the video, however, reveals that the "office" is a well-produced 3D graphic. Behind him is a flag bearing "No God but Allah" written in Arabic, a smaller desk flag, which cannot be identified, to his left and to his right a miniature model of a cannon, which symbolizes the ceremonial cannon used in the Middle East that is fired daily at sunset during the month of Ramadan to announce the break of the fast.
Indeed this segment has clearly been bluescreened. Although As-Sahab's bluescreening capabilities are increasingly sophisticated with the release of each new messaging product, the lighting used in the raw video footage is too bright against the softer tones of the background collage. The hard edges of the bluescreen matte is visible in his finger when he points upwards and also on his left shoulder, directly under the model cannon. The sides of his beard also display a "halo effect," which is a common problem when bluescreening is attempted. The "halo effect" is also noticeable in the blur of his hand and finger when he moves quickly. See examples here and here. Furthermore, the light of the lamp to his right does not contain a "hot spot" where the bulb would be and also does not shine onto the flag that "hangs" on the wall.
This segment is subtitled in English and appears to have been translated by a native English speaker. Common grammatical mistakes - leaving commas outside of end quotes - are prominent and the acronym "KIA" (Killed in Action) is used.
Zawahiri addresses President Bush, "the lying failure" and "deceitful charlatan," and focuses heavily on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), whose interrogations Bush specifically cited in his September 7 speech on the Global War on Terror. While stating that the "liberation" of KSM and other al Qaeda assets in U.S. custody is "a debt on our shoulders which we must fulfill," Zawahiri takes pains to make the point that KSM "has hurt you thousands of times more than you have hurt him."
Zawahiri claims that the U.S. is retreating in the face of advances by the Mujahideen in Iraq and Afghanistan, and repeatedly calls Bush a "liar" whose bluff the speech is meant to counter. "Can't you be honest at least once in your life," he states, "and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq... And do you have the courage to stand in front of your people and tell your nation that you lied to them and drove them – and continue to drive them – to terrible things because of foolish fantasies?"
The video ends abruptly and hard cuts to the second segment.
Segment 2
The second segment features Zawahiri sitting in front of a brown tarp and appears to have been recorded in an open air environment with ambient lighting. The overall effect is odd, especially in comparision with the first segment, because the lighting is very poor and it appears that the source video was of very low quality. The sound of wind against the microphone clipped to his shirt is audible at times and the tarp ripples throughout the video. Nevertheless, Zawahiri is more relaxed in the segment as he reads cue cards to the side of the camera, gesticulates with both of his hands and even cracks a smile at one point.
This segment is not subtitled in English and its publication seems to have been rushed.
Zawahiri connects two subjects in the speech - the September 12 lecture by Pope Benedict XVI that led to outrage and riots across the world as well as the proposal over the deployment of United Nations peacekeepers to war-torn Darfur.
Regarding the Pope, Zawahiri calls him a "charlatan" and states that the Pope "accused Islam of being incompatible with rationality while forgetting that his own Christianity is unacceptable to a sensible mind." According to the SITE Institute, he calls upon the Pope and Christians to convert to Islam. "We will call upon him," he says, "and all of the Christians to become Muslims who do not recognize the Trinity or the crucifixion, and say that Allah united with the human."
He then rallies his audience to converge onto Darfur, where a largely Christian black minority is under siege from Sudanese Muslim Arabs, and states "O Muslim nation, come to defend your lands from Crusaders masked as United Nations (forces). Nothing will protect you except popular jihad."
Transcript of Segment 1
In the name of Allah, and all praise is due to Allah, and may peace and prayers be upon the Messenger of Allah, and his family, companions and allies. Muslim brothers everywhere: peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings.
The murderer and spiller of Muslim blood, Bush, has stated that he has secret prisons, in which he holds the dangerous leaders of the group Qaida al-Jihad, including the Mujahid brother Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah free him), and he has stated that during the three years after Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad’s arrest, the interrogators have been able to get from Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad valuable information which has helped the Crusaders to kill and arrest a number of leaders of al-Qaida.
But I ask this lying failure: who are these leaders of al-Qaida whose killing or capture was facilitated by the information extracted from Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad?! And I say to him: you lying failure!
What is the extent of your losses after the capture of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah free him)?
Bush – you deceitful charlatan – three and a half years have passed since your capture of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad, so how have you found us during this time?
Losing and surrendering? Or – by the grace of Allah – attacking, seeking martyrdom, advancing and injuring you on a daily basis, with Allah’s help?
The strikes of the Mujahideen have deprived you of the pleasure of quenching your thirst for revenge with the capture of our champions, those who repeat what Abu Firaas said:
I have been captured, although my friends are not defenseless in war
Nor is my horse a foal or its master unskilled
But if the elimination of a man is decreed
Then neither Earth nor sea can save him
And my friends said, “Either flight or death”
So I said: they are two things the sweetest of which is bitter
But I will go to that in which there is no shame
And enough for you are two things the best of which is captivity
They say to me, “You’ve sold safety for death”
So I said: by Allah, I have not suffered loss
And will death abandon me for an hour if captivity doesn’t abandon me?
Death is loss, so choose that which preserves your memory
For man has not died as long as his memory is preserved.
And I tell him: you lying failure, why can’t you be brave at least once in your life and inform your nation of the disasters being faced by your forces in Afghanistan and Iraq? Why don’t you tell them how many million citizens of America and its allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people’s sons in order to increase your profits?
Can’t you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq under the pretext of the presence of nuclear weapons there and under the pretext of al-Qaida’s connections with Saddam Hussein, following which evidence proved that you intentionally lied and misled?
And do you have the courage to stand in front of your people and tell your nation that you lied to them and drove them – and continue to drive them – to terrible things because of foolish fantasies?
And I tell him: you foolhardy charlatan, if the arrest of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah free him) has helped you in the “war on terror,” why then are your forces retreating in secret from the south and east of Afghanistan and being replaced by the forces of NATO which are screaming for help due to the horribleness of what is happening to them at the hands of the Taliban and al-Qaida?
And I tell him: if the capture of Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah free him) has enables you to inflict blows on al-Qaida, why then are your forces hastily arranging their pullout from Iraq?
And I tell him: Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad (may Allah free him) has hurt you thousands of times more than you have hurt him.
Abu Firaas says,
They boast of removing my clothes, while
My clothes are red with their blood
And a sword’s hilt whose blade broke in them
And the butt of a spear whose head was destroyed in them
Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad is a soldier of Islam who has been fighting its enemies, the Russians and the Americans, for more than 20 years.
And I tell him: Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad is the leader of a march, pioneer of an awakening and vanguard of a nation, and he has left behind him thousands who have either learned from him or learned from those who learned from him and who take as their example his life story and his continuing sacrifices and giving of himself in Allah’s path for the word of Allah to be the highest and the word of the unbelievers the lowest.
And I say to him: what you have perpetrated against Khalid al-Shaykh Muhammad and the other Muslim captives in your prisons and the prisons of your slaves in Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and elsewhere, is not hidden from anyone, and we are a people who do not sleep under oppression and who do not abandon our revenge until our chests have been healed of those who have aggressed against us.
And we, by the grace of Allah, are seeking to exact revenge on behalf of Islam and Muslims from you and your soldiers and allies.
So persevere – if you can – through the horrors of war, because we – with Allah’s help – are persevering.
Al-Baroodi (may Allah have mercy on him) said,
When the people call on each other and the spears cross
And the war turns on its axis
When the people want to flee from death
And the horses’ chests heave and the blows become severe
And when the empty earth turns with us as if we
Have drunk of a cup from which no one awakes
I persevere in it until its sky clears
And I persevere when misfortune strikes
Bush, you deceitful charlatan: you’ve captured Ramzi Yousef, Umar Abd al-Rahman, Wali Khan, Ibn al-Shaykh, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Khalid al-Shyakh, Abu al-Faraj al-Libi and hundreds of Mujahideen and champions of Islam in your war against Islam which you call the “war on terror.”
And you agents in the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan have captured thousands of the youth and soldiers of Islam whom you made to taste at your hands and the hands of your agents various types of punishment and torture.
But we, by Allah’s grace, are taking revenge on their behalf daily from your troops and the troops of your allies and agents in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Arabian Peninsula and all Muslims countries from Indonesia to Morocco, and moreover, on your own soil every day.
And the terribleness of the fighting only increases our determination to sacrifice and give of ourselves in the Path of Allah.
Abd al-Rahman, son of Hassan bin Thabit (Allah was pleased with them both) said,
I am from an honorable people who increase in
Hostility and courage with the severity of events
Bush, you deceitful charlatan: be aware that the liberation of our captives is a debt on our shoulders which we must fulfill, with Allah’s help and power.
And be aware, you deceitful charlatan, that you are not facing individuals or organizations, but rather are facing the Muslim nation in which the spirit of Jihad flows and which refuses humiliation under Zionist/Crusader arrogance.
So are you able to kill or capture the nation of Islam?
Therefore, stop the bluffing that you have captured so-and-so and killed so-and-so, because Iraq and Afghanistan are overflowing with the bodies of your KIAs, and their buddies are fleeing from death to death, suicidal and despondent.
[good photos at link]
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/060917.php
As-Sahab Releases "Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi"
By Nick Grace
September 17, 2006
As-Sahab, al Qaeda's media propaganda unit, today released a new 23-minute video on radical message boards called "Jihad Poems of Sheikh Abu Yahya al-Libi" that features Mohammad Hassan (alias Abu Yahya al-Libi), an al Qaeda fighter originally from Libya who escaped from Bagram prison in July 2005. He appears wearing a suicide vest as he reads handwritten notes in front of at least 14 al Qaeda militants, some of which clutch kalashnikovs. During the introduction of the video the crowd fires the weapons into the air.
This is the fourth known video to feature al-Libi. Previous as-Sahab videos that include him include a sermon in celebration of Eid, a eulogy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and an interview about his imprisonment and escape from Bagram. Unlike most of as-Sahab's recent video products, this new video is not subtitled in English.
An animated gif banner was posted in advance on the Ekhlaas Forum, the main portal for al Qaeda messaging, on Friday, September 15.
The video was released in two file formats (MPEG and RealMedia) and compressed in the RAR format. The RAR files are password-protected, presumably to block the video from being opened and viewed by Web surfers who discover the files through random searches. The password, "qwert55," is included in the text of as-Sahab's post on the Ekhlaas Forum.
A total of five different file sizes have been posted to exactly 300 links on free file transfer sites, including sendspace.com, badongo.com, openupload.com, megaupload.com, depositfiles.com, filehostia.com, quicksharing.com, share2net.com, filecities.com, filefactory.com, bigupload.com, desiupload.net, clonefile.com, filehosting.cc, savefile.info, fileblob.com, uploadr.com, spywork.info, axifile.com, mytempdir.com, savefile.com, easy-share.com, sharex1.com, bigupload.com, rogepost.com, share42.com, rapidshare.de, zshare.net, ez-files.net, yourfilelink.com, quickdump.com, savefile.info, oron.com, storeandserve.com, crazefiles.com, reshare.co.uk, up4world.com, filecoast.com, uploadyourfiles.de, transferbigfiles.com, razr-host.net, uploadpalace.com, and hyperupload.com.
227 Megs (MPEG): 44 links
38.1 Megs (RM): 89 links
16.9 Megs (RM): 73 links
7.96 Megs (RM): 58 links
3.52 Megs (RM): 36 links
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060917_assahab.rm [38.1 Megs]
The video appears to have been recorded recently during the Summer months with two cameras. Wide shots reveal background topography, especially two distant hills behind al-Libi, but it remains unclear where this product was taped. Trained analysts may, in fact, be able to identify the location. The lighting is also rather poor in comparison with other videos and there does not appear to be any visible direct sunlight. It is possible that al-Libi's speech was conducted either at sunrise or shortly before dusk.
This is a 9-25-06 program on terrorism, I managed to hear the Pakistan portion and found it very good, the same and yet with more background info.
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/gcw/gcw_060925.mp3
from:
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/
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Friday, September 29, 2006
FAITH UNDER FIRE
Girl rejects boy – he starts riots that burn 18 churches
Nigerian catastrophe triggered when Christian brushes off Muslim's 'advances'
Posted: September 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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Pastor Olaribigbe in front of the destroyed Celestial Church of Christ
An investigation has revealed that the Muslim riots that destroyed 18 Christian churches, 20 homes owned by Christians and dozens of Christian shops in the Nigerian city of Dutse happened after a Christian girl rejected a Muslim boy's advances.
As WND reported earlier, the riots erupted after the boy accused the girl of "blasphemy" to the prophet Muhammad.
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Now word comes from Voice of the Martyrs that the investigation shows nearly 5,000 Christians were displaced and 40 Christian shops destroyed in the capital city of Jigawa state.
"After an Islamic young man made several unsuccessful advances on Jummai, a female Christian, he angrily reacted by calling her a fake Christian who follows a 'useless Jesus,'" the VOM report said.
"Jummai responded by telling the boy he followed a 'useless prophet – Muhammad'," the report said. "Furious, the Muslim boy raised alarm through the town by proclaiming that a Christian lady blasphemed Muhammad. She was quickly taken to the local police station where she was kept in custody to diffuse the potentially volatile situation."
After several hours, the Muslim returned to the police station with a "militant band of friends" and incited them to attack police by alleging the woman wasn't being punished after her "insult" to Muhammad.
At least six Christians were injured in the resulting riots that destroyed churches, homes, vehicles and shops, officials said.
The government ended up imposing a nighttime curfew and deploying soldiers in tanks and trucks to deter further mayhem, officials said.
Aderemi Ogunmola was treated for a slash on his head
Voice of the Martyrs also said Aderemi Ogunmola was one of the Christians who was caught in the violence, and was captured by the Muslim militants to be beaten and slashed. They doused him with gasoline but he fled before he could be killed.
Rioters also ransacked the Christ Apostolic Church and while Pastor Adeyinka was trying to flee in his car, they stopped him and burned his car as he escaped.
Pastor Adeyinki and his burned car
Voice of the Martyrs said it is mobilizing workers to help repair the damage at Calvary Life Church, Divine Life Church, Assemblies of God Church, Living Faith Church, Christ Apostolic Church, The Apostolic Church, Ecwa Clinic Church, Presbyterian Church, Anglican Cathedral, Celestial Church and others.
The Christian aid organization Barnabas Fund said the conflagration destroyed two-thirds of all Christian churches in the area, including St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral, and there were reports that the state's governor himself was attacked when he tried to calm the mob.
The Barnabas Fund noted Muslims already were in an uproar worldwide because of a recent comment from the pope where he cited a historic document that describes Islam as violent.
"There have been attacks against Christians in the Palestinian territories, Somalia and Iraq," the group said.
The comments from the pope that have left the Muslim world calling either for his death or his conversion to Islam came as he quoted 14th-century Byzantine emperor Manuel II Paleologus.
"He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached," the pope quoted.
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Iran mulled nuclear bomb in 1988
By Frances Harrison
BBC News, Tehran
A letter from 1988 in which Iran's top commander says Iran could need a nuclear bomb to win the war against Iraq has come to light in Tehran.
The commander is quoted in the letter, written by the father of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, to top officials in the final days of the war.
It has only now been made public - by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The letter seems at odds with Tehran's statements that Iran is not seeking a bomb because it is against Islam.
Sensitive
The letter from Ayatollah Khomeini lists the requirements of military commanders if they are to continue fighting against Iraq.
It mentions more aircraft, helicopters, men and weapons, and also quotes the top commander saying Iran would within five years need laser-guided and atomic weapons in order to win the war.
Some Iranian news agencies have, however, deleted the reference to atomic weapons in the letter.
It is sensitive because Iran has always said it is not seeking a nuclear weapon and leading clerics say an atomic bomb would be against Islam.
Ayatollah Khomeini's letter also reveals how challenged Iran's economy and military were by the eight years of war against Iraq.
The letter quotes the prime minister of the time saying the economy was operating at a level below zero and volunteers for the front were in short supply.
Ayatollah Khomeini's letter has been made public at a time when Iran is preparing for a possible confrontation with the US over its nuclear programme.
But it also comes against a background of an argument between Mr Rafsanjani and a top military commander over who was instrumental in persuading Ayatollah Khomeini to agree to a ceasefire with Iraq that the Ayatollah himself likened to drinking a poisoned chalice.
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Published: 2006/09/29 14:50:20 GMT
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