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THANKS to Penguino for pointing to this article and for the quote that follows this article snippet:

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To: nwctwx; Cindy; All
New Al Qaeda message threatens France

Paris - Al-Qaeda's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, has threatened France with attacks by an Algerian terrorist group, French media reported Thursday.

According to a transcription of a video released earlier this week, al-Zawahiri announced the official alliance between al Qaeda and the Algerian Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and threatened that it would be a 'thorn' in the throat of the French.

'Our soldier sheikh..., Osama bin Laden, has charged me to announce that the GSPC has joined al-Qaeda. We pray to God that they become a thorn in the throats of the American and French crusaders and their allies,' al-Zawihiri said in the video, which was primarily concerned with the September 11 terrorist attacks.

The substance of the video statement was made public on Monday.

Al-Qaeda messages directly targetting France are rare. The last one dates back to 2004, when bin Laden criticized the French for banning the wearing of the Islamic headscarf in public schools.

The GSPC was created at the end of the 1990s by dissidents of the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA), and in September 2005 declared France to be 'public enemy number one, enemy of our religion, enemy of our community.'

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1201373.php/New_al-Qaeda_message_threatens_France

912 posted on 09/14/2006 9:58:26 AM PDT by penguino
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Europe is pregnant with Islam and will give birth to an Islamic Nation. (Saidi Kurdi 1908)

913 posted on 09/14/2006 9:59:15 AM PDT by penguino
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Still photos from Zawahiri's latest tape with English subtitles:

http://www.minbar-sos.com/forum/showthread.php?t=872

918 posted on 09/14/2006 12:14:28 PM PDT by penguino
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Ayman al Zawahiri makes very specific references and attacks President George Bush for not accepting the “truce offered by Osama bin Laden.” He urges all Muslims to take up jihad, to make use of every opportunity to take revenge on America for its imprisonment of Sheikh Umar Abd al-Rahman,” a reference to Abd al-Rahman who is imprisoned for his role in the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

"The days are pregnant and will bear new events God Willing"

1) Warnings and more warnings
2) A Truce offer
3) An invitation to convert to Islam
4) Indication that the truce and invitation to convert was not accepted. They now believe that they are justified in launching another 9/11 or worse.

Stat safe and vigilant!!!

Steve

919 posted on 09/14/2006 12:21:52 PM PDT by Mossad1967
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Slightly Off Topic:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1157913614750&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Sep. 12, 2006 17:06 | Updated Sep. 12, 2006 20:05
"Al-Qaida cell targeted Oslo synagogue"
By MICHAEL FREUND

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "An al-Qaida-linked Algerian terror cell that was broken up by Italian police last fall was planning to carry out attacks on targets in Oslo, Norway, including the city's main synagogue.

Anne Sender, president of Norway's Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post during a telephone interview from Oslo that local authorities had informed her shortly after the suspects were arrested in November that there existed a credible terrorist threat against the synagogue.

The plot came to light only this week in the wake of a report on Monday in the Norwegian Verdens Gang (VG) newspaper.

"At the time, we were informed by the government that some people had been caught in Italy and that police had found plans indicating that they were targeting the synagogue in Oslo," Sender said.

She added that the threat was considered sufficiently serious that, in its wake, Norwegian police decided to adopt additional, unspecified measures to boost security at the synagogue.

The terrorists, who resided in Italy but were allegedly plotting attacks against sites in Oslo, belonged to an Algerian-based group known as the GSPC, a French acronym which stands for the Salafist Group for Call and Combat.

The GSPC, which has links to al-Qaida, is a splinter faction that broke away from Algeria's Armed Islamic Group in 1996.

Sender praised Norwegian police, but nonetheless expressed concern over the community's security with the approach of the High Holidays."

These are some snippets from Barham Salih’s speech yesterday (as prepared). The official transcript (including Q&A) of the event should come along soon:

As an Iraqi and Kurdish democrat, as somebody who has devoted his life to the overthrow of the fascist tyranny of the Ba’ath Party, I understand Iraq in its true context: a society traumatized by 35 years of state terrorism, a state that was designed to fail, a state that was a prison of its people, a state of imposition and repression.

No perspective is more false, no analysis more shallow than that of viewing Iraq within the context of the last three and a half years alone. Iraqi history did not begin in 2003, but if Saddam Hussein had had his way, it would have ended with him and his sons.

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Iraq is a fundamentally diverse country and we need to find a balance that protects that diversity and encourages a voluntary, democratic, federal national unity. It is a diversity that those responsible for the violence hate and reject. Our enemies are not freedom fighters, but fascists. I do not use that word lightly, because I refuse to trivialize or deny the crimes that scarred the twentieth century. We are under assault from Ba’athists, and nobody familiar with the theory and practice of Ba’athism can claim that it is not a fascist ideology. The Ba’athists and some of their allies advocate a supremacist ideology similar to the chauvinism that the apartheid regime in South Africa was built upon. Like racists elsewhere, they yearn for the restoration of the status quo ante in which they were dominant.

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By killing Zarqawi we have wounded Al-Qaeda in Iraq, but we have not eliminated it. The alliance between the Ba’athists and jihadists which sustains Al-Qaeda in Iraq is not new, contrary to what you may have been told. I know this at first hand. Some of my friends were murdered by jihadists, by Al-Qaeda affiliated operatives who had been sheltered and assisted by Saddam’s regime. Under UN resolution 687 of 1991, Saddam was not only supposed to verifiably disarm, which he did not do, his regime was supposed to stop supporting international terrorism and to “renounce all acts, methods and practices of terrorism.”

This Ba’athist-jihadist terrorist axis rejects the notion of a balanced process because it wants supremacy and theocracy. Another force that creates instability is majoritarianism. Those who have suffered discrimination and exclusion, when their numbers are finally acknowledged can easily, and understandably, seek to secure their position with majoritarianism. This is an issue not just for Iraq as a whole, but also for its regions, because those who are a majority in one part of Iraq are a minority in other areas. To prevent any such tyranny of the majority, Iraq now has a Bill of Rights which needs not just legal but practical political enforcement.

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Our security forces are increasingly capable. Arguably we should have stressed quality over quantity far earlier, but had we done so we would have heard complaints that we were not doing enough. Allow me to cite, in evidence of the pure increase in numbers the very useful figures in the Brookings Iraq index, which state that in August 2006 the Iraqi security forces were 294,100 strong, an increase of 61% on August 2005. More of these security force members are fully trained and more units are capable of autonomous operations than was the case in the past.

By the end of this year, nearly half of Iraq’s provinces will be under the control of Iraqi security forces. The command of Iraqi forces has now formally moved from the Multi- National Force-Iraq, the Coalition forces that are present with United Nations’ backing, to the Iraqi government.

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A consequence of being of the Middle East is that we are buffeted by the cross currents of the region, and in particular, by its main storm—international terrorism. Just as you have to understand our transition in terms of our history, so you must see what is happening in Iraq in terms of the dramatic changes in the Middle East and the Muslim world. There is a sea change happening. The challenge ahead of us is not to cling to the past, but to advance into the battle for the future to shape the new order. It is hard labor, slow and sometimes seemingly without reward, but we are paying off an accumulated debt from the mistakes of Western and Middle Eastern policy in the pre-9/11 era—the folly of engaging the region through its dictatorial superstructure, the contempt of the governing elites and ruling castes for their subjects.

The terrorism that we are facing is therefore not an aberration caused by the liberation of Iraq; it is not an expression of a legitimate grievance. It is the failure of the political culture that is the warped offspring of the old order, the result of decades of inequality, intolerance, injustice and officially-sponsored fanaticism.

Every day Iraq is battered by this tornado of terrorism. Every day the terrorists attempt to provoke a full-scale sectarian civil war in Iraq, the implementation of the evil plan that Zarqawi outlined in his poisonous letter of 2004. Every day, we fight back.

We are your allies in the global war against Al-Qaeda, which for the United States and Iraq is a success. Thousands of Iraqis have voluntarily joined the new Iraqi security forces, formations that depend upon volunteers, not enslavement and coercion, knowing that they fight our shared enemies.

How many other societies could come through the test that we face every day? In some ways, what is remarkable in Iraq is how much restraint so many still show in the face of appalling provocation.

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What matters is that we have to end this violence not just for our own sakes but also for the region. If Iraq plunges into a full blown civil war, then so will the rest of the Middle East. The borders will not matter, because each of Iraq’s communities is part of a larger whole that stretches across the region. Iraq’s security is not Iraq’s alone. Our security is a matter of regional, and so given the importance of our region, of global security. This is not a theory, it is a fact that our wiser neighbors comprehend. They see that borders will dissolve if Iraqi democracy is overwhelmed by the terrorists. For Iraq to revert to being a failed state would be to export horror to the region again, as Iraq did so frequently under the tyranny of Saddam Hussein.

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Resolved to deal with these challenges, we announced the plan for an “International Compact with Iraq” in collaboration with the United Nations. I have just arrived from a productive meeting to prepare for this International Compact in the United Arab Emirates. With the assistance of the United Nations we sat down with other interested parties to develop the International Compact. Three years after the bitter international divisions over the liberation of Iraq, the international community should begin coalescing behind the new Iraq.

The international compact involves a road map for Iraq to attain financial self-sufficiency in a 4 to 5 year time-frame. We understand that there cannot be genuine economic regeneration unless there is political stability and security. But in a nation weaned on war, where political violence has been the rule not the exception, we need to give the bored young men of Iraq a form of employment and pride that comes from hard work, not the easy swagger of the gunman.

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Moreover, we are promising clear targets for economic restructuring accompanied by mechanisms for intelligence cooperation and security coordination. For the Middle East, such an approach, with broad international support, is an innovation and, we hope, a harbinger of a Middle East based on cooperation and not conflict.

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http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/tw/tw_3036.html

Travel Warning
United States Department of State
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Washington, DC 20520

This information is current as of today, Thu Sep 14 2006 16:30:33 GMT-0700.

SYRIA

September 14, 2006

This Travel Warning is being issued to alert U.S. citizens to increased security concerns in Syria following the September 12 attack against the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. As a result, the Department of State has authorized the departure of dependents and non-emergency employees at the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on a voluntary basis. In light of these security concerns in Syria, the Department of State warns U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Syria. American citizens currently in Syria should carefully evaluate their own security situations and consider departing.

On September 12, the U.S. Embassy in Damascus was attacked by assailants using improvised explosives, gunfire, and two vehicles laden with explosives. However, the Embassy perimeter was not breached and, other than injuries suffered by two local guards, no U.S. Embassy personnel were harmed. This attack underscores the presence of terrorist groups in Syria that have the ability and intent to target American interests. The Embassy is working with the Syrian authorities to address these threats and the security issues raised by the attack on the Embassy.

U.S. citizens who remain in or travel to Syria despite this Travel Warning are encouraged to register at the Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Damascus, and to obtain updated information on travel and security in Syria. Americans in Syria should exercise caution and take prudent measures to maintain their security. These measures include being aware of their surroundings, avoiding crowds and demonstrations, keeping a low profile, varying times and routes for all required travel, and ensuring travel documents are current.

U.S. consular personnel remain available to provide emergency information and services to American citizens. The U.S. Embassy in Damascus, Syria, is located at 2, Al-Mansour St., Abu Roumaneh. The Embassy telephone number is (963) (11) 333-1342, fax (963) (11) 331-9678, e-mail: acsdamascus@state.gov. American citizens may register with the Embassy online by visiting https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs. Additional information may be found on the Embassy website at http://usembassy.state.gov/damascus.

Updated information on travel and security in Syria may be obtained from the Department of State by calling 1-888-407-4747 within the United States or, from overseas, 1-202-501-4444. Additional details can be found in the Department of State's Consular Information Sheet for Syria, the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, and the Middle East and North Africa Public Announcement which are available on the Department's internet website at http://travel.state.gov.

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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2006/09/013099print.html

September 14, 2006

Islamic jihadists attack Catholic school in Kashmir

These misunderstanders of Islam attacked the school before the Pope made his remarks.

"Muslim militants attack Catholic school in Kashmir," from CWNews.com, with thanks to Twostellas:

Sep. 13 (CWNews.com) - Muslim fundamentalists attacked a Catholic school in India's Kashmir valley on Monday, demolishing a wall and smashing windows and furniture.

The Good Shepherd Mission School in Pulwama is run by a popular missionary priest, Father Jim Borst of the Dutch Mill Hill order, who has been in the region since 1963. Although Muslim militants persuaded the state government to begin proceedings to expel the priest in 2004, Christian groups campaigned successfully to reverse that order. A leading retreat preacher, Father Borst is credited with initiating the translation of the Bible into the Kashmiri language. The elderly priest-- now in his 70s-- is regularly sought by local Muslims and Hindus, as well as Christians, to comfort the sick and suffering.

During the September 11 attack on the missionary's school, the Muslim militants involved shouted slogans denouncing all Christian missionaries.

Posted at September 14, 2006 09:49 AM

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September 14, 2006

Jihadists behead photographer in Jammu & Kashmir

The misunderstanders of Islam are busy in India these days. "Abducted photographer beheaded in J&K," from the Times of India, with thanks to Arjun:

SRINAGAR: Police on Thursday recovered the body of a photographer whose head had been chopped off after being abducted by militants in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir, triggering anti-Pakistan protest by local residents, official sources said here.
The head of Shabir Ahmad Dar was recovered from saffron fields in Chandhara area on Thursday morning, while the body was found from Kruenchh village, about a kilometre away, the sources said. Dar, a resident of Hathiwara village, was abducted on Wednesday night.

Angry local residents staged a protest demonstration against the militants and also raised slogans against Pakistan demanding an end to terrorism in the state, they said.

Memo to the angry local residents: don't hold your breath.

Posted at September 14, 2006 12:43 PM

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September 14, 2006

"Pope says jihad is violent, Indian authorities fear violent response from Muslims"

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Al Qaeda presence in Kashmir worries India
http://www.india-defence.com/reports/2476 ^

Posted on 09/08/2006 1:12:24 PM PDT by Srirangan

In a major breakthrough, security forces in Jammu's Medhar region have recovered two video CDs containing a film of a training camp being operated by the Al-Qaeda at an undisclosed location, an ANI TV report said on Friday.

The CDs carry no hint of the exact location of the training camps.

The CDs were obtained from two Al-Qaeda terrorists who were gunned down by the security forces. The CDs show youth receiving physical training, shooting and riding horses.

The youths are also shown singing motivational songs. The CD shows youth as young as 12-year-old are being taught expertise in the use of artillery.

It is not clear as to how the CDs landed in Jammu and Kashmir. In recent times, there were reports that Al-Qaeda has made a foray into the Kashmir valley.

Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is also shown delivering a speech and inspiring the youth to fight for the jehadi cause. While many knew about the terrorist outfit in the eighties and nineties, Al-Qaeda hogged the international limelight after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Tower in the US.

Al-Qaeda, an Arabic word meaning 'the Base', was founded sometime in 1988 by Osama bin Laden and Muhammad Atef, the latter a native Egyptian and a one-time member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Al-Qaeda grew out of the Services Office, a clearing house for the international Muslim brigade that opposed the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

In the 1980s, under the leadership of bin Laden and the Palestinian religious scholar Abdullah Azzam, the Services Office recruited, trained and financed thousands of foreign mujahideen or 'holy warriors' from more than 50 countries.

Seeking to extend the Islamic jihad or 'holy war' beyond the borders of Afghanistan even after the March 1988 Soviet pledge to withdraw its forces, bin Laden created Al-Qaeda.

The organisation today supports Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, and Kosovo. It also trains members of terrorist organisations from the Philippines, Algeria and Eritrea.

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http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Terrorism&loid=8.0.340510972&par=0

TERRORISM: SUICIDE BOMBER'S 'WEDDING' TO FEATURE IN NEW TV SHOW

Dubai, 14 Sept. (AKI) - A new programme airing on al-Arabiya, the Dubai-based pan-Arabic network, will on Friday show rare footage of a mock wedding ceremony carried out for a suicide bomber on the eve of his terrorist mission. Known as The Martyr's Wedding - the young man is being symbolically wed to the 'virgin' that under Islamic teaching awaits him in heaven - it is also believed to be a form of moral encouragement by terrorist groups to encourage followers to conduct suicide operations.

The programme is the second in a new series on terrorism which examines some of the social, religious, political and economic factors that play into the terrorist phenomenon and boasts rare or previously unknown video footage.

The first episode, aired last Friday, discussed the backgrounds of the the three most wanted leaders of Al-Qaeda - Osama Bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - revealing details that have never been shown through video footage and interviews with their relatives and friends.

The upcoming second episode, entitled "From Recruitment To Death", looks at how young people are being convinced to join extremist groups, and how they are being trained on weapons and in carrying out suicidal attacks.

There is also footage showing how and where members of those groups receive intensive training in explosives and in combat with various kinds of weapons.

The surprise of the show, according to al-Arabiya, will be a special interview with one of the former leaders of an extremist group - a friend of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. The two co-founded an Islamic terrorist group in Jordan in the nineties, and spent four years together in jail. This former terrorist leader will be speaking of his experience as a prominent leader of a terrorist group until he reflected, repented and decided to reject violence and the murder of innocent people.

246 posted on 09/14/2006 2:42:43 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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EGYPT: FBI HELPING AL-QAEDA HUNT, PRESS REPORTS

Cairo, 14 Sept. (AKI) - Egyptian intelligence officials are working with FBI agents on the investigation and hunt for alleged terrorists who infiltrated Egypt last month, according to opposition daily al-Wafd. The newspaper says the joint operation involves combing the entire area close to the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria, the suspects' likely entry point, and claims that the security forces have arrested eight people in recent weeks. The suspects, who are being detained, are accused of belonging to organisations based on religious ideologies.

The arrest of a suspected terrorist and the information gathered from his laptop, have shown that their targets were once again the tourist resorts on the Red Sea, security sources said.

More than 70 Egyptians were arrested earlier this month in and around Alexandria, while another group was detained in the Nile Delta town of Damanhur.

"They were arrested because they consulted Islamist websites linked to militant groups," said a lawyer representing the detainees.

The news reports of the presence of al-Qaeda operatives in Egypt have been met with scepticisim by many experts and analysts of Islamic terrorism.

248 posted on 09/14/2006 2:45:10 PM PDT by RDTF ("We love death. The US loves life. That is the big difference between us two.” Osama Bin laden)
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Key Terror Leader Captured in Iraq; Security Focus in Baghdad Expands

By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2006 – Iraqi and coalition forces captured a key al Qaeda operative and some 70 more terror suspects in Iraq during a series of 25 raids in and around Baghdad Sept. 12, a senior Multinational Force Iraq spokesman told reporters in Baghdad today.
The raids netted a personal associate of Abu Ayyoub al-Masri, Army Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said. Masri took control of al Qaeda in Iraq after a U.S.-led air strike killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in early June.

While not revealing the detainee’s name, Caldwell called him “the leader of assassination, kidnapping and IED (improvised explosive device) cells in Baghdad.” He “is known to have directly participated in numerous terrorist acts” and to have contributed to sectarian violence throughout the city, Caldwell said.

In addition, the detainee played a key operational role in terrorist activities leading up to and during operations in Fallujah in November 2004, he said.

The Sept. 12 raids, which also netted dozens of other terror suspects and multiple weapons caches, is part of an ongoing effort to help secure Baghdad during Operation Together Forward, Caldwell told reporters.

Iraqi and coalition forces have been focusing on five specific neighborhoods that were experiencing the most sectarian violence. During the past two weeks, more than 150 focused operations resulted in 66 terrorists killed and 830 terror suspects detained, Caldwell said.

The focus expanded today into the Shaab and Ur neighborhoods, he said.

This approach appears to be working in the focus areas, where violence is down, Caldwell said.

However, he acknowledged that violence in other parts of Baghdad experienced a “spike” yesterday and noted that terrorist death squads “are clearly targeting civilians outside the focus areas.”

“Overall, Baghdad’s level of sectarian violence has been reduced,” he said, “but remains above the levels of violence we saw before the Golden Mosque bombing in Samarra in late February.”

Iraqi and coalition forces are working together to help bring these levels down, particularly with Ramadan just 10 days away. “As we approach Ramadan, we know there is generally an increase in violence, and the government of Iraq has ongoing plans to address this,” Caldwell said.

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