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Posted on 09/01/2006 8:57:29 PM PDT by nwctwx
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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
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Thailand
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This Public Announcement is being issued to alert U.S. Citizens traveling to and residing in Thailand to the recent military coup in Thailand. This Public Announcement expires December 19.
On September 19 a military group calling itself the Council for Democratic Reform Under the Constitutional Monarchy (CDRM) seized control of the Thai government and declared martial law. The CDRM banned any political gathering of more than five persons. The CDRM also banned the hoarding of goods or the increasing of the price of goods of any kind. The CDRM announced it will appoint a civilian government within two weeks as the first step to returning the country to democratic government.
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"I hope your mom is not delayed getting out of the city...hopefully she drove."
The rail systems are fine as long as you're leaving the city. The garages, however, are another story. They're not letting anyone in the garages around the area to get their cars until they've inspected them and have given the all clear. From the looks of traffic, they've either just done that; everyone in the city has no choice but to get out using the same streets; or both.
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"Indonesia Government Executes Christians: Firing Squad"
News.com.AU ^ | September 22, 2006 05:20am | From correspondents in Palu, Indonesia
Posted on 09/21/2006 1:29:09 PM PDT by rface
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"Brother suspect in killing (Canada's first 'Honour' killing?)"
The Ottawa Sun ^ | Thu, September 21, 2006 | JON WILLING
Posted on 09/21/2006 1:44:26 PM PDT by fanfan
"Brother suspect in killing"
Thursday, 11 a.m.:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Cops reach out to Afghan communities to find 20-year-old man after fatal shopping centre shooting.
DISBELIEF FELL over an Ottawa intensive care unit yesterday when police announced they were hunting the brother of a young woman who was shot to death at an east-end mall.
Ottawa police said last night they considered Khatera Sadiqi's 20-year-old brother, Hasibullah Sadiqi, a suspect in the shooting that killed the 20-year-old woman early Tuesday morning.
Police said Hasibullah Sadiqi should be considered armed and dangerous. Along with a picture, they released a description of the type of car the suspect drives -- a grey, two-door 1992 Mazda 323.
This morning police said they are trying to reach out to Afghan communities outside the Ottawa area in an effort to find Sadiqi."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Anyone with information that could help detectives working on the case is asked to call the major crime unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5493 or Crime Stoppers at 613-233-TIPS (8477)."
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Muslim scholars held at airport before being returned to Egypt
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Federal immigration authorities held four Muslim scholars for 24 hours at Miami International Airport, denying them access to a bed or a phone, then sent them back to Egypt without a clear explanation for their removal, an American Muslim association charged Wednesday.
Sofian Abdelaziz, director of the American Muslim Association of North America in Miami, said his group had invited the four to lead prayers at mosques in Broward and Miami-Dade counties during the holy month of Ramadan, which starts Sunday.
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109 posted on 09/21/2006 8:13:24 AM PDT by hegemony
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Flight rules on carry-on bags relaxed in Britain
Associated PressPosted online: Friday, September 22, 2006
LONDON: : Britain is relaxing restrictions on carry-on baggage from Friday, allowing musical instruments and larger bags to be taken aboard aircraft, the government announced today.
Severe limits on carry-on baggage were imposed after police announced on August 10 that they had broken up an alleged plot to bring down US-bound aircraft with liquid-based explosives.
The Department for Transport said on Thursday that one carry-on bag would be allowed, with a new larger maximum size of 56cm x 45cm x 25cm from the previous maximum of 45cm x 35cm x 16cm.
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Afghanistan’s President Notes Progress, Problems
By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2006 – Although progress has been profound and his country continues to move forward, terrorists have stepped up their efforts to derail that progress, Afghanistan’s president told the United Nations General Assembly in New York yesterday.
“We have seen terrorism rebounding as terrorists have infiltrated our borders to step up their murderous campaign against our people,” Hamid Karzai said.
Terrorists, he told the assembly, see a successful and prosperous Afghanistan as a knockout blow for their aims there.
“That is why our schools and clinics get burned down and our … teachers and our doctors get killed,” he said. “That is why, today, 200,000 of our students who went to school a year ago are no longer able to do so.”
He noted that polio cases in his country have risen from four in 2005 to 27 so far this year.
“All of these cases have occurred in some areas of southern Afghanistan, where terrorists are preventing children from access to vaccination and health care,” Karzai said. “Terrorists are prepared to cross any boundaries and commit horrific acts of violence to try to derail Afghanistan from its path to success. They want the international community to fail in its collective endeavor to help Afghanistan rebuild.
“That is why they decapitate elderly women, blow up mosques full of worshipers, and kill school-going children in indiscriminate bombings of civilian areas,” he continued. “And that is why they are killing international soldiers and civilians who have come to Afghanistan to help the Afghan people, like the four Canadian soldiers who were killed four days ago while distributing notebooks and candies to children in a village in Kandahar, or the Turkish engineer who was building roads in Helmand.”
The Afghan president told the multinational gathering of the progress his country has seen since he last addressed the body two years ago and noted that millions of Afghans voted in the country’s presidential and parliamentary elections.
“We have continued to build schools and clinics and create opportunities for employment to our people,” Karzai said. “Our trade with the region and beyond is growing very rapidly; industrial activity is gradually taking root. As a result, Afghanistan's income per capita has doubled since 2002.”
In London earlier this year, he said, the international community endorsed Afghanistan’s five-year plan for development, and he noted support for the Afghanistan Compact, which provides the framework for continued international cooperation in Afghanistan.
“Under the compact, we Afghans committed to continue to work towards a stable and prosperous Afghanistan, with good governance and human rights protection for all under the rule of law,” Karzai said. “In return, the international community pledged continued and long-term political, military and financial assistance.”
The U.N.’s vision of interdependence with countries as members of a single community of nations has a strong resonance in Afghanistan, Karzai said, “where both our past troubles as well as our recent accomplishments are, in large part, related to the outside world.”
Afghanistan is a victim of terrorism, not a source of it, Karzai said.
“Military action in Afghanistan alone, therefore, will not deliver our shared goal of eliminating terrorism,” he said. “We must look beyond Afghanistan to the sources of terrorism. We must destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond Afghanistan, dismantle the elaborate networks in the region that recruit, indoctrinate, train, finance, arm and deploy terrorists. We must ensure that political currents and entities in the region are not allowed to use extremism as an instrument of policy.”
Fighting terrorism effectively is also tied to fighting the country’s illicit narcotics trade, Karzai acknowledged. “The menace of narcotics feeds terrorism and threatens the foundation of legitimate economic development in Afghanistan and, of course, in the region,” he said.
He blamed the narcotics problem on a combination of factors, including the lack of a security environment conducive to counternarcotics efforts, the absence of a comprehensive program to provide farmers with legitimate livelihoods, and clandestine credit flows to poppy farmers.
“Afghanistan is committed to fighting narcotics, alongside terrorism, with strength and determination,” Karzai said. “And through a combination of law enforcement and economic measures, we expect that the international community will continue to support us in this fight by enabling us to provide meaningful alternative livelihood to our farmers.”
Karzai thanked the international community for its “steadfast and generous support to Afghanistan over the past five years.”
“I convey the gratitude of the Afghan people for the sacrifices that the men and women in uniform from around 40 countries around the world have made in the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan,” he said. “We will honor those sacrifices by remaining true to our vision of building a secure, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan that will contribute to the progress of our region and security of the world at large.”
Ahmadinejad: 'The bottom line is, we do not need a bomb'...
Israel Calls Iran Its Greatest Threat...
Hezbollah gears up for massive 'victory' rally
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/21/060921115432.sfhnrysq.html
Muslim government executes 3 Christians
Critics say men killed to appease radicals angered by death penalty for Bali terrorists
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52090
Reporter: Don't underestimate al-Qaida nuke threat
Warning to Muslims to leave U.S. is serious, says Pakistani who met bin Laden
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52080
Iran leader's U.N. finale reveals apocalyptic view
Ahmadinejad evokes return of messianic Islamic 'madhi'
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52071
Al-Qaida threatens truck bombings in Israel
Global jihad group takes credit for assassination, warns more attacks on the way
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52082
Death threats from the 'religion of peace'
~Larry Elder
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52078
North America confab 'undermines' democracy
Attendee of high-level meeting says officials wanted to hide it from public
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52074
North American merger topic of secret confab
Meeting on integration of U.S., Mexico, Canada brings together top officials
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52063
Attendance list North American forum
Donald Rumsfeld, George Schultz among U.S. officials on roster
NORTH AMERICAN FORUM
CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS
(Internal Document, Not for Public Release)
Report dated August 31, 2006
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52079
SENATE FENCE BILL: VOTE 94-0 IN FAVOR OF CLOTURE
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"General Explains Decision to Refrain From Targeting Taliban Funeral"
By John D. Banusiewicz
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2006
THANK YOU very much JP for the links.
Look at the BIG PICTURE when assessing the terror threat.
That's my 1.5 cents. Thanks for reading it.)
UPDATE *** UPDATE *** UPDATE ***
FBI.gov - Seeking Information: "ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (ALIASES: "Adnan G. El Shukri Jumah; Abu Arif; Ja'far Al-Tayar; Jaffar Al-Tayyar; Jafar Tayar; Jaafar Al-Tayyar")
Were you aware that this initiated at NEIN? I knew it sounded way to familiar from when TM first started
Exclusive to Canada Free Press and Northeast Intelligence
Next Attack Imminent:
Muslims ordered to leave the United States
By Paul L. Williams & David Dastych
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Urgent news from Abu Dawood, one of the newly appointed commanders of the al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan:
Final preparations have been made for the American Hiroshima, a major attack on the U. S.
The search for Adnan El Shukrijumah
Muslims living in the United States should leave the country without further warning.
The attack will be commandeered by Adnan el Shukrijumah ("Jaffer Tayyer" or "Jafer the Pilot"), a naturalized American citizen, who was raised in Brooklyn and educated in southern Florida.
The al Qaeda operatives who will launch this attack are awaiting final orders. They remain in place in cities throughout the country. Many are masquerading as Christians and have adopted Christian names.
Al Qaeda and the Taliban will also launch a major strike (known as the "Badar Operation" against the coalition forces in Afghanistan during the holy month of Ramadan.
The American people probably will be treated to a final audio message from Osama bin Laden which will be aired some time later.
The announcements from Abu Dawood were obtained by Hamid Mir, the only journalist to interview Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the wake of 9/11. Mir earlier reports regarding the resurgence of the Taliban with support from Iran and Russia and an unofficial truce (reported by some Western sources) between President Pervez Musharraf and al Qaeda have been panned out by the press in recent months.
Mr. Mir interviewed Dawood (no specific date indicated) at the tomb of Sultan Mehmud Ghaznawi, on the outskirts of Kabul. Dawood and the al Qaeda leaders who accompanied him sported short beards and were dressed casually, for disguise. The al Qaeda commander had contacted Mir by cell-phone to arrange the meeting. The contents of the encounter are as follows:
Q: How did you have my local mobile number?
A: We watched you on Geo TV walking in the mountains near Kabul with British troops. You were embedded with our enemies. We were sure that you are staying in one of the few hotels or guest houses in Kabul. We were looking for you in Serena and Intercontinental hotels, but then some Taliban friends informed us that they had your phone number and you might visit them in Zabul [an Afghani province]. We got your number from Commander [Muhsen] Khayber. [Khayber was responsible for a homicide bombing in Casablanca that killed 32 people]. Don't worry about that. We will not make any harm to you. We just want to warn you that you better don't take any rides in the tanks and humvis of the Western Forces; they are not safe for any journalist in Afghanistan.
Q: Thanks for your concern; can I know your name?
A: Yes my name is Abu Dawood, if you remember, we have already met in Kunar two years ago, but at that time I had a long beard, now I have a small one. You were there in the mountains, close to Asadabad [a small village in the Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan] and you met some Al Qaeda fighters. I was among them.
Q: OK. I just want to say that I am a journalist, I have to speak to both sides of a conflict, for getting an objective view and that is why I was traveling with the British troops; now I am sitting with you and that is my real job. I have interviewed Osama bin Laden as well as Condoleezza Rice, General Pervez Musharraf and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. I hope you will appreciate my objective approach?
A: You have claimed to be objective, but you and your TV channel have always given much time to the propaganda of our enemies. Anyhow, it was our moral responsibility to warn you that you better try to avoid traveling with the British, American, Canadian, French, Spanish and Italian troops in Afghanistan, we will target all of them, we don't want that people like you suffer by our attacks, it is not good for you, and at least you should not be killed with the enemies of Islam. I am sure, brother Khayber have informed you that the Taliban will launch a big operation against the Crusader Forces, in the holy month of Ramadan; don't come to Afghanistan in Ramadan. You will see a lot of fadaee amalyat ["suicide bombings"] in the coming days, Kabul will become a graveyard of NATO and ISAF.
Q: Yes Khayber told me about the "Badar Operation" in Ramadan. I think you are an Afghani but you are not a Talib, are you a member of Al Qaeda?
A: You are right. But we are with the Taliban, just helping them, fighting under their command. Every Al Qaeda fighter can become a Talib, but every Talib cannot become Al Qaeda.
Q: So where is Sheikh Osama bin Laden?
A: I don't know exactly, but he is still in command of Al Qaeda, and he is in contact with his Mujaheddin all over the world.
Q: Why there was no new video statement from him, in last two years?
A: Because the CIA can feed his fresh picture to the computers fitted on their Predator planes, and these planes can get him, like Nek Muhammad or Akbar Bugti. But he has released many audio messages this year. Listen to him carefully. Don't underestimate his warnings. America is playing with the security of Muslims all over the world, now it is our turn again. Our brothers are ready to attack inside America. We will breach their security again. There is no timeframe for our attack inside America; we can do it any time.
Q: What do you mean by another attack in America?
A: Yes a bigger attack than September 11th 2001. Brother Adnan [el Shukrijumah] will lead that attack, Inshallah.
Q:Who is Adnan?
A: He is our old friend. The last time, I met him in early 2004, in Khost. He came to Khost from the North Waziristan. He met his leaders and friends in Khost. He is very well known in Al Qaeda. He is an American and a friend of Muhammad Atta, who led 9/11 attacks five years ago. We call him "Jaffer al Tayyar" ["Jafer the Pilot"]; he is very brave and intelligent. Bush is aware that brother Adnan has smuggled deadly materials inside America from the Mexican border. Bush is silent about him, because he doesn't want to panic his people. Sheikh Osama bin Laden has completed his cycle of warnings. You know, he is man of his words, he is not a politician; he always does what he says. If he said it many times that Americans will see new attacks, they will definitely see new attacks. He is a real Mujahid. Americans will not win this war, which they have started against Muslims. Americans are the biggest supporters of the biggest terrorist in the world, which is Israel. You have witnessed the brutality of the Israelis in the recent 34-day war against Lebanese civilians. 9/11 was a revenge of Palestinian children, killed by the US-made weapons, supplied to Israel. The next attack on America would be a revenge of Lebanese children killed by US-made cluster bombs. Bush and Blair are the Crusaders, and Muslim leaders, like Musharraf and [Afghani President Hamid] Karzai are their collaborators, we will teach a lesson to all of them. We are also not happy with some religious parties in Pakistan and Egypt, they got votes in the name of Mujaheddin, and then, they collaborated with Musharraf and [Egyptian President] Hosni Mubarak. Now look at all of them, Musharraf and Karzai don't trust each other, the CIA and ISI don't trust each other, all the hypocrites and enemies of Mujaheddin are suspecting each other; this help to us is coming from Heavens. Allah is with us.
Q: But if you attack inside America again, then Muslims living in America will face lot of problems, why would you like to create new problems for your brothers and sisters?
A: Muslims should leave America. We cannot stop our attack just because of the American Muslims; they must realize that American forces are killing innocent Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq; we have the right to respond back, in the same manner, in the enemy's homeland. The American Muslims are like a human shield for our enemy; they must leave New York and Washington.
Q: But your fighters are also using the American Muslims as their shield, if there are no Muslims in America, then there would be no Al Qaeda, may be the Americans would feel safer?
A: No, not at all. We have a different plan for the next attack. You will see. Americans will hardly find out any Muslim names, after the next attack. Most of our brothers are living in Western countries, with Jewish and Christian names, with passports of Western countries. This time, someone with the name of Muhammad Atta will not attack inside America, it would be some David, Richard or Peter.
Q: So you will not attack America, until Muslims are there?
A: I am not saying that, I am saying that Muslims must leave America, but we can attack America anytime. Our cycle of warnings has been completed, now we have fresh edicts from some prominent Muslim scholars to destroy our enemy, this is our defending of Jihad; the enemy has entered in our homes and we have the right to enter in their homes, they are killing us, we will kill them.
A note about the authors:
Hamid Mir, the author of the interview, is a top Pakistani reporter, head of the Geo TV Bureau in Islamabad. He has won a world-wide acclaim for his interviews with Osama bin Laden and Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, before and following 9/11. His new book about OBL is due to appear in Britain, later this year.
Long time investigative journalist, Paul L. Williams is the author of such best-selling books as The Dunces of Doomsday, The Al Qaeda Connection , Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11. He has been the subject of a PBS documentary and the subject of programs on the Discovery and History channels. He is a frequent guest on such national news networks as Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR.
(International journalist David M. Dastych writes for Poland's acclaimed weekly,Wprost. His columns appear regularly in the Edmonton-based Polish Panorama.) He can be reached at: David.dastych@aster.pl
Your welcome Cindy
No.
It started here (at least this is one of them).
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.338885348&par=0
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Dubai, 12 Sept. (AKI) - Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In an interview quoted on the website of the al-Arabiya television network, Mir spoke about his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with al-Qaeda members and Taliban leaders."
It did not start at NEIN - they were just one of the first to run with it.
I'm skeptical, as this seems to come up every Ramadan. At the same time I am very fearful of what Shukrijumah might be up to.
I understand.
The whole thing is a big headache sometimes. ;-)
Whenever the nuclear issue comes up, there are lots of experts willing to chime in. The longer I study this stuff, the more I realize there are very few experts.
http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=so06allison
This is an excellent analysis from the current edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists which is not the rather sensationalistic treatment that we generally get from NEIN and WND.
I find it even more compelling in that this author doesn't really display an agenda.
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