Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - September 2006

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Five Years Later, We're Still Not Safe
-Full Story-

In the five years since terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Americans have accepted inconvenience, sacrificed personal liberties and paid billions of dollars for a security clampdown that touches virtually every aspect of their lives.

And we're still not safe.

A close examination of the federal government's homeland security effort shows that there have been major accomplishments since the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. But it also reveals how vulnerable the nation remains to catastrophe.

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	> Adam Yahiye Gadahn

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[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/cgi-bin/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=hizb+ut+tahrir

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

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676188/posts?page=2149#2149

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September 10, 2006

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Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D.
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org

Radical Islamic Group Advocates Execution for Islamic Defectors

A radical Islamic group which advocates execution for Islamic defectors is still operating legally in Britain—at least for the moment.

That despite a promised ban on the group by British Prime Minister Tony Blair in Aug. 2005 after the 7/7 terrorist attacks on London.

Hizb ut Tahrir, which claims its international headquarters in London, has far-reaching and radical aims.

Group members would like to reestablish Islamic rule throughout the Muslim world, an idea inspired by the medieval Arabic caliphate, which ruled, in part, from Saudi Arabia to southern Spain. Though Hizb ut Tahrir has come under closer inspection by the British government, its activities have not yet been banned. However, it appears that may be changing with new evidence about the group coming to light.

Hizb ut Tahrir has been undertaking a massive recruitment drive in the U.K., regularly launching or hijacking political issues (for example the “Stop Islamophobia” campaign at British universities), then stepping aside from these campaigns once a sufficient recruitment pool has been created from which it can draw recruits. Hizb ut Tahrir’s recruits are generally young.

These recruits then go through a cult-like induction process whereby they agree as the true chosen Muslims to work towards Hizb ut Tahrir’s goals of Islamic rule. Hizb ut Tahrir won’t say about how many recruits it has, but based on the attendance of some of its events, the number is 8,000-plus in Britain alone (perhaps as many as 100,000 worldwide).

The international, anti-terrorist organization Vigil has been monitoring Hizb ut Tahrir since 7/7.

The organization’s spokesperson, Dominic Whiteman, said by e-mail, “Hizb ut Tahrir is all about taqiyya. Taqiyya is the dispensation allowing Muslims to conceal their faith when under threat, persecution or compulsion. Opportunistic groups like Hizb ut Tahrir warp taqiyya to mean they can lie to promote their version of their religion. It is based on Qur'an 3:28 and 16:106 as well as hadith, tafsir literature, and juridical commentaries. In short Hizb ut Tahrir lies publicly, but we and other intelligence groups are well-aware of what they are saying privately.”

Whiteman added that the Hizb ut Tahrir group is all about achieving “critical mass” in terms of numbers of recruits anywhere it is operating.

“It gets the mass of Muslims on its side and, following the strategy of Mohammed in his seizure of Mecca, eventually overthrows states by violent coup,” Whiteman said. “This includes Britain. These people are so deluded as to think that they actually stand a chance of establishing their totalitarian Islamic Caliphate in Britain! What they fail to comprehend is that we know far too much about them – through infiltration and those many recruits who’ve seen through them and left - for them to stand a chance.”

Whiteman said that a recently released document from Canadian subject Jamal Harwood, Head of Hizb ut Tahrir Britain’s Executive Committee, says that, “hundreds of millions of the world’s Muslims wish to be united under a Caliphate which bears responsibility for securing peoples lives, property, beliefs (not only Islamic) and other matters that produce stability and harmony in society through Shariah law, content to live side by side with people of other faiths. To color it, as the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) frequently does, as a medieval theocracy, or an evil ideology, not only insults one billion Muslims but belittles their aspirations for a better life through this system.”

Whiteman referred to a draft copy of the Hizb ut Tahrir draft constitution (recently taken off the Hizb ut Tahrir website in a hurry by group members) that he said includes intolerant, sexist and racist edicts such as, “Those who are guilty of apostasy from Islam are to be executed according to the rule of apostasy. The Caliph must be male; jihad is a compulsory duty of all male Muslims, female Muslims cannot live with foreign men.”

Whiteman said it is ironic, given the terrorist exhortations of Hizb ut Tahrir’s founder Omar Bakri that, “individuals are prevented from possessing laboratories and producing materials that could harm the Ummah or the state.”

Whiteman commented, “To call this constitution medieval would be paying the Flinstones too much of a compliment. It is the work of Islamofascists who have no governmental future in Britain. It is written by individuals who genuinely think that they, as the true Muslims, and that they have a divine right to owning Britain lock, stock and barrel and imposing their women-fearing, barbaric ideals on the rest of us, with an aim to using Britain as a launch pad from where to carry out jihad (Islamic holy war) on other states. These people indoctrinate recruits with conspiracy theory and a Manichean world view – the Hizb ut Tahrir prism – through which they paint a picture of non-believers setting out to destroy Islam.”

Whiteman said that, “Like the Nazis, group members brainwash recruits into thinking there is a line of continuity between historical and contemporary events with no allowance for the vagaries of history or circumstance. If their constitution doesn’t convince you of their totalitarian aims and lies, there are readily available cached pages from their website on the web which talk of destroying all Jews – not of wanting to live alongside them.”

(In late 2003 the BBC program “Newsnight” discovered that Hizb ut Tahrir’s website promoted racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calling suicide bombers martyrs, and urging Muslims to kill Jewish people).

Whiteman said that Hizb ut Tahrir continually states that it disavows violence; that it considers the armed struggle to be forbidden by the Shariah, “yet its literature runs completely contrary to its public statements, using the language of violent jihad and blatantly exposing them as the simple frauds they are. They are in recruitment stage right now. Their plan is to split British Muslims away from non-believers but that will never happen.”

Recent evidence from New York, Whiteman said, has linked Hizb ut Tahrir through funding networks to actual terrorism. That link, Whiteman said, “will likely be the last straw for British Home Secretary John Reid in deciding to ban them. That will end the group, at least in Britain.”

A ban will severely diminish the group’s effectiveness, Whiteman said.

“They will be monitored and disrupted when they morph into other groups when they are eventually banned – just like what’s happening to al Ghurabaa, the Saved Sect and other Al Mujahiroun offshoots. For those of us Brits whose fathers and grandfathers fought on the beaches of Normandy to drive back a fascist, totalitarian enemy, it makes us shudder that Britain has let in even worse fascists through the back door, though admittedly these Islamofascists are stateless, weak and at each others’ throats.”

Whiteman commented, “Just like our fathers and their fathers it is our duty to see that this threat is defeated, disbanded and left to wallow in shame. I am particularly proud to be working alongside so many true British Muslims as we infiltrate and expose these hate-mongers – especially Hizb ut Tahrir who think they are ever so clever. We can rid Britain of this fetid enemy from within, who dare call themselves Muslims, when in reality they are a tragic bunch of individuals suffering awful delusion.”

According to Whiteman, the new evidence from New York – unspecified at this time – is likely to lead to the group also being banned in Australia also. It is already banned in several Muslim countries including Egypt, as well as being banned in Russia, and, for anti-Semitism, in Germany.

[Cindy]

THANKS to a Special Emailer for pointing to the latest program by Global Crisis Watch.

http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/

QUOTE:

Latest Podcast

September 11, 2006

Global Crisis Watch convenes a counterterrorism round table on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and looks forward to the threat risks ahead with Dr. Walid Phares, author of "Future Jihad," Bill Roggio, BillRoggio.com, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of "My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir."

http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/gcw/gcw_060911.mp3

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1698948/posts

"A Burial at Arlington
Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 10 September 2006 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)"

Posted on 09/10/2006 12:27:14 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob

[Cindy]

Thank you CallMeJoe and Radu for your posts.

Just a thought.

Webmasters for jihad sites have come and GONE (thank God) and they have posted a lot of jihadi graphics over the years. How many have taken artistic license with their web graphics, I do not know.

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

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

http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=166

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013056print.html
September 10, 2006
"Hizballah: Up to 90% of rocket arsenal left"

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013055print.html
September 10, 2006
"Institute for Counter-Terrorism: Hizballah could resort to terror attacks"

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694213/posts?page=556#556

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699100/posts

QUOTE:


Al Qaeda releases 9/11 anniversary message
CNN ^ | 10September2006 | CNN

Posted on 09/10/2006 7:53:21 PM PDT by Btrp113Cav

(CNN) -- A lengthy statement from al Qaeda No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington calls on Muslims to step up their resistance against the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

[Cindy]

UPDATE...

http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/060910.php
"As-Sahab and al-Eklhaas Media Network Release 9/11 Videos"
By Nick Grace
September 10, 2006

Part 1: http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060911a_assahab.rm [21 Megs]
Part 2: http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060911b_assahab.rm [14 Megs]
http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/aq/060910_ekhlaas.wmv [125 Megs]


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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Production is poor in comparison to recent as-Sahab products but standard with Global Islamic Media Front and al-Boraq Media products, which now produces materials for the Islamic Army of Iraq."

http://gimfupload.2ya.com/
http://www.alboraqmedia.org/


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http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/

QUOTE:

Latest Podcast

September 11, 2006

Global Crisis Watch convenes a counterterrorism round table on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and looks forward to the threat risks ahead with Dr. Walid Phares, author of "Future Jihad," Bill Roggio, BillRoggio.com, and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, author of "My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir."

http://www.globalcrisiswatch.com/gcw/gcw_060911.mp3

[Velveeta]

Thank you, Radu.

[Velveeta]

Near the bottom it looks like 2 missiles or a missile launcher. I see like a smoke cloud near the top.

What do you see?

[Cindy]

stepping back in time with Fair Opinion...

QUOTE:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699115/posts


FLASHBACK: 1996 Bin Laden's Fatwa, Declaration of War against Americans
PBS ^ | 1996 | Osama Bin Laden

Posted on 09/10/2006 8:25:39 PM PDT by FairOpinion

The following text is a fatwa, or declaration of war, by Osama bin Laden first published in Al Quds Al Arabi, a London-based newspaper, in August, 1996. The fatwa is entitled "Declaration of War against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Places."

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But your most disgraceful case was in Somalia; where- after vigorous propaganda about the power of the USA and its post cold war leadership of the new world order- you moved tens of thousands of international force, including twenty eight thousands American solders into Somalia. However, when tens of your solders were killed in minor battles and one American Pilot was dragged in the streets of Mogadishu you left the area carrying disappointment, humiliation, defeat and your dead with you. Clinton appeared in front of the whole world threatening and promising revenge , but these threats were merely a preparation for withdrawal. You have been disgraced by Allah and you withdrew; the extent of your impotence and weaknesses became very clear. It was a pleasure for the "heart" of every Muslim and a remedy to the "chests" of believing nations to see you defeated in the three Islamic cities of Beirut , Aden and Mogadishu.

Those youths know that their rewards in fighting you, the USA, is double than their rewards in fighting some one else not from the people of the book. They have no intention except to enter paradise by killing you. An infidel, and enemy of God like you, cannot be in the same hell with his righteous executioner. .

More than 600,000 Iraqi children have died due to lack of food and medicine and as a result of the unjustifiable aggression (sanction) imposed on Iraq and its nation. The children of Iraq are our children.

(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...

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It's long and rambling and sometimes hard to follow, but the intent is clear and the part, where he talks about how encouraged they were when they were able to get Clinton to withdraw US troops from Somalia, after killing a few Americans is also very clear. That perceived weakness embolden them, that they can wage war against the US with a chance to win.
Also note the mention of Iraq actually several times -- if there was no link between Saddam and Al Qaeda, and some claim they were enemies, then how come Bin Laden was so concerned about Iraq way back in 1996?

Also note the discussion of the youth willing to martyr themselves.

Note all this was in 1996 -- declaration of war on the US by Bin Laden, and Clinton did nothing, just ignored it.

THAT was the time when we should have started the War on Terror, since the terrorists officially declared war on us.

1 posted on 09/10/2006 8:25:43 PM PDT by FairOpinion

[nwctwx]

Thanks Cindy. There have been a lot of messages from them lately.

[Cindy]

Yep, I agree.

[nwctwx]

From that CNN link:

"Your leaders are hiding from you the true extent of the disaster," al-Zawahiri says in a statement posted on the Internet late Sunday. "And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events, with Allah's permission and guidance."

[Cindy]

Don't miss this please.

http://www.memrifilms.org/
(Note: All TMers should watch this.)


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http://www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=158

http://www.memri.org/jihad.html

[Velveeta]

Thank you.
Nice work!

[Cindy]

OPINION: Well, Al-Zawahiri should take his new events and stuff them up his...where the sun doesn't shine.


THANKS nw for pointing to that article snippet.

[Velveeta]

>>>"And the days are pregnant and giving birth to new events

First thing you think is '9 months'

but also can be 'in the ninth month'

[Cindy]

Adding 1 more link to post no. 574:

http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=jihad&ID=SP128606
"Special Dispatch Series - No. 1286
September 8, 2006 No.1286
Bin Laden's Speeches 2003-2006"

[Cindy]

PERSECUTION.ORG
http://www.persecution.org

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Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D.
P O Box 27693
Alb., NM 87125-7693
Tel: (505) 400-7145
www.joyjunction.org

Protestants Face Guns, Beatings, Fines and Deportation

Following a police raid on a Protestant summer camp near the southern town of Termez in Uzbekistan, about 20 church members were detained and many of them beaten.

Uzbekistan is located in Central Asia, north of Afghanistan (www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/uz.html).

Protestant sources speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals told Forum 18
News Service about the Aug. 24 raid.

One Protestant, Husan Primbetov, is still incarcerated, while more than a dozen others were freed within 24 hours. Five more individuals were freed on Sept. 4 after many were tortured.

A Ukrainian national, among those let go on Sept. 4, is awaiting deportation.

Deported in a separate case on Sept. 5 was the wife of the pastor of the Bethany Protestant church in the capital of Tashkent, which has long faced pressure from the authorities.

Forum 18 reported that the news service has been unable to find out from the government's Religious Affairs Committee why Protestant churches and other religious minorities are being subjected to such pressure. Only the committee spokesperson Aziz Abidov is authorised to speak to the media on behalf of the committee, and Forum 18 reported that the news service has been unable to reach him at his office.

According to Forum 18's sources, at 10 p.m. on Aug. 24, about 20 law enforcement officers, including some from the National Security Service secret police wearing bullet-proof vests and wielding automatic guns, burst into the Uztelekom holiday camp in the village of Uch-kizil in the Termez district, where 20 Protestants had gathered for a religious meeting. Police confiscated Bibles and New Testaments. Everyone present was taken to the police station in Termez, where the men were beaten.

“I was taken to a separate room and ordered to undress and kneel,” Forum 18 reported that Vitaly Suvorov, a Protestant from the Termez suburb of Jarkurgan, stated after his Aug. 25 release. “A gas mask was put on me and the air supply cut off. The police swore unrestrainedly at us and forced us to confess that we had been holding an unlawful meeting.”

Forum 18 reported he said police did not provide any food for those individuals detained. Following his “meeting” with the police, Tashkent's accident and emergency hospital department found that Suvorov had been injured with “ two scratches on his left cheek, bruises to the top of his head, a scratch to his right elbow, abrasions to both calves, and concussion.”

Suvorov, Forum 18 reported, has been fined before for his religious activity.

Although the police released most of the church members on Aug. 25, Forum 18 reported that six of them remained under arrest. Five of these were freed on Sept.4, leaving Husan Primbetov, a Protestant from Kokand in the Fergana valley in eastern Uzbekistan, the last church member still in detention. Some of those freed were fined, while others still face charges under the Code of Administrative Offences. Protestant sources told Forum 18 that police stole valuable items including digital cameras and cell phones from some of those incarcerated.

One of those held on Aug. 24, Forum 18 reported, was a Ukrainian citizen from Kiev, Yuri Stefanko, who was held and beaten at the police station until Sept.4. The Uzbek authorities are now drawing up documentation for Stefanko's deportation.

Meanwhile, Forum 18 reported, the authorities are stepping up enforcement action against the Bethany Baptist church in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district of Tashkent, which has long been denied official registration, and as a result the right to operate.

On Sept.5, church member Viktoria Khripunova - who has no citizenship - was deported. Her passport was stamped with the words, “Deported from Uzbekistan.”

“In fact the authorities wanted primarily to get rid of Viktoria's husband, the Bethany church's pastor Sergei Khripunov. But as Sergei is an Uzbek citizen they decided to deal with him through his wife,” a Tashkent Protestant, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, told Forum 18. “The authorities got what they wanted and Khripunov has left Uzbekistan with his wife.”

Khripunov is among many Bethany church members to have been fined in recent years for “unlawful” religious activity (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=588). On June 25 this year his Daewoo Nexia car was taken by unidentified individuals and vandalized.

Khripunova's deportation is the second of a Bethany church member in as many months. Ivan Bychkov, leader of the church's youth group, was deported to Russia on Aug. 11. A Russian citizen, Bychkov was born and brought up in Tashkent, where his family still lives (see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=833).

Forum 18 commented it appears that deportation is becoming one the authorities’ favorite methods tactics in their battle with religious minorities. Jehovah's Witness Yevgeny Li, a Ukrainian citizen who held a temporary residence permit in Tashkent, was deported from Uzbekistan over the border to Kazakhstan. Li's home was in Tashkent and his elderly parents and wife - who are Uzbek citizens - remain in the capital. The Jehovah's Witnesses fear that other residents of Uzbekistan who are not Uzbek citizens could also suffer deportation.

In May, Forum 18 reported, the Uzbek authorities deported Russian Jehovah's Witness lawyer Kirill Kulikov, who was visiting the country to defend fellow believers who were being persecuted by the authorities. In April, three Turkmen Protestants were deported back to their homeland (see F18 News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=804).

Another Protestant pastor in Tashkent, who also preferred not to be named for fear of retaliation, told Forum 18 in late Aug. that in the previous week “all” church leaders were summoned to the secret police.

Pentecostals have also come under pressure, Forum 18 reported

A Tashkent source who preferred not to be identified told Forum 18 that in July the police blockaded a Pentecostal Full Gospel Church holiday camp in the village of Avangard in Yangiyul district (a Tashkent suburb). The police questioned all the church members present.

A local businessman and director of the Sion Trade company, A. Shishkin, who had been teaching the children, was sentenced in July to a fine of $38 U.S. by the Yangiyul District Court under Article 241 of the Code of Administrative Offences, which punishes “failing to observe the correct procedure for teaching religious beliefs.”

Forum 18 reported authorities contend that as Shishkin did not have a licence to teach religion, his teaching constituted a crime.

A hostile news article on the Full Gospel camp was published on July 24 by the local news agency gorizont.uz, and was widely reproduced by other web news agencies. Forum 18 reported that Uzbek Protestants described the article to the news service as “libelous.”

The Full Gospel camp faced problems as soon as it started in May, Forum 18 reported. Police raided the camp, beat the watchman and used force to take all those present to the local police station, where they were threatened about involvement in what officers claimed was an “illegal religious meeting”
(see F18News www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=803).

For more background, see Forum 18's Uzbekistan religious freedom survey at
www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=777.

[Cindy]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699135/posts

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20390747-1702,00.html

"Road train explodes in far-western NSW"
September 11, 2006

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A TWO-trailer road train carrying fertilisers and car batteries has exploded in far-western New South Wales."


ARTICLE SNIPPET: "It is not known yet what caused the explosion."