Threat Matrix: January 2007

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[Rushmore Rocks]

Haven't seen an article. Just saw it being discussed on Fox News. And yes, I am appalled. Our brave young men are just sitting ducks out there. I'm afraid it is just a matter of time until there will be a tragic incident.

[good old days]

Here is a thread about it:

Tennessee guardsmen to be commended for actions at Arizona border (Award for retreating)

[Oorang]

Is this the incident you are thinking of?

National Guard Commander in Arizona to Testify About Border Confrontation

[WestCoastGal]

Yes thanks everyone.

I certainly hope they do something about this!!

[Oorang]

Very informative article, thanks Cindy. I sent it on to various friends and relatives in N.C. Some are aware, some I'm still working on :-)

[Cindy]

Is this new or one of the older incidents?

[Cindy]

Thanks...I should have kept scrolling.

[Oorang]

Thanks for posting that link. This "don't shoot" policy is just nuts. That's not exactly what I think of it but I'm trying to maintain some ladylike demeanor.

[Cindy]

Thanks Oorang.

OPINION: That "non-violent" statement got to me just like pornography/prostitution is a "victimless crime." Throw-away phrases by people who don't grasp the entire picture.

[WestCoastGal]

From January 3rd.

At least one that was reported. I am willing to bet they don't tell us all the details of what goes on down there.

[Oorang]

Man once acquitted of aiding the Taliban on trial
Jan. 29, 2007

A man who was acquitted three years ago of providing services to the Taliban went on trial again Monday, this time accused of lying to a US grand jury about his training as a jihadist. The lawyer for Sabri Benkahla, 31, told a jury that prosecutors essentially laid a perjury trap for Benkahla after his acquittal. The defense has also accused the US government of pursuing a vindictive prosecution after its legal defeat.

Benkahla was one of only two defendants who were acquitted in the government's prosecution of a dozen Muslim men who participated in what the government called a "jihad network" that used paintball games in the Virginia woods in 2000 and 2001 as a means to train for holy war around the globe.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467842625&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Background on the Sabri Benkahla case from 2006:

Man Indicted Again in Terror Probe

[Cindy]

Ok, I went to one of my web pages and got a link I saved from that time period.

http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/01/05/armed-mexicans-attack-unarmed-national-guard-troops-on-us-soil/

"Armed Mexicans Attack Unarmed National Guard Troops on US Soil"
January 05, 2007
NewsLog
By Jim Kouri, CPP

[Oorang]

This is, IMO, a very interesting look inside South Waziristan. It is too long to post in it's entirety but well worth the read.

Pakistan Taleban vow more violence
Monday, 29 January 2007

Pro-Taleban militants have been strengthening their hold in Pakistan's tribal areas following controversial peace deals with the authorities.

Haroon Rashid of the BBC's Urdu service is one of the few reporters working for a Western media organisation with access to the area. Local militants took journalists to see the site of an air raid by Pakistan's armed forces in troubled South Waziristan region. Here, our reporter describes his meeting with the militants' leader.

SNIP:Baitullah seemed a man with only jihad (holy war) on his mind. During the interview he quoted several verses from the Koran to defend his stance that foreign forces must be evicted from Islamic countries.
"Allah on 480 occasions in the Holy Koran extols Muslims to wage jihad. We only fulfil God's orders. Only jihad can bring peace to the world," he says.

SNIP:"We will continue our struggle until foreign troops are thrown out. Then we will attack them in the US and Britain until they either accept Islam or agree to pay jazia (a tax in Islam for non-Muslims living in an Islamic state)."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6292061.stm

[Rushmore Rocks]

"Only jihad can bring peace to the world."


Normally, I would laugh at such a statement. What's scarey is that they really believe it.

[Cindy]

Yes, that is very interesting and all should read this.

THANK YOU Oorang.

[Cindy]

Note: The following text is a quote:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2849

33 Detained in Iraq; Insurgent Training Site Destroyed

American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2007 – Coalition forces detained 33 insurgents and destroyed a terrorist training facility this week in operations across Iraq.
In raids in Iraq yesterday:

-- Coalition forces in Karmah captured 11 suspected terrorists, including a high-level al Qaeda courier with ties to senior al Qaeda in Iraq personnel.

-- Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, with Iraqi army troops, detained seven suspected insurgents near Baghdad. The insurgents are allegedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the region.

-- Coalition forces detained four suspects responsible for facilitating foreign fighter movement in Bayji.

-- Coalition forces in Baghdad captured three individuals with ties to senior al Qaeda in Iraq leadership.

-- Coalition forces detained three suspected terrorists, including the leader of an IED cell, in Ramadi.

Also this week in Iraq, soldiers from Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, and Iraqi army soldiers found and destroyed a suspected insurgent training site Jan. 27 while patrolling northwest of Samarra.

At the site, combined forces found 20 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, one 82 mm mortar tube with a base plate, four 60 mm mortar tubes with base plates, a car battery and more than 7,000 large caliber machine gun rounds. An explosive ordnance disposal team destroyed the weapons and buildings.

In Baghdad on Jan. 27:

-- Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), with Iraqi police, discovered two large weapons caches, containing 669 57 mm mortar rounds.

-- Fifteen Iraqis died when two car bombs detonated in a New Baghdad commercial district.

-- A Sunni mosque was damaged during heavy fighting between insurgents and neighborhood residents in a southwestern section of the city.

In a separate operation that day, paratroopers of Company A, 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, with Iraqi army soldiers, found and secured an IED west of Iskandariyah.

The day before, paratroopers from Companies A and C, 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division had detained five suspected insurgents attempting to emplace an IED in a town 20 miles south of Baghdad.

(Compiled from Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)

[Oorang]

You're welcome Cindy.

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Pakistan: Controversial Clerics Receive 'Death Threats' From Authorities

Karachi, 29 Jan. 2007 - Following last week's deadly bomb blasts in the Pakistani cities of Islamabad and Peshawar, well-placed sources in the capital told Adnkronos International (AKI) that president General Pervez Musharraf asked the Pakistani Air Force to carry out an air strike on the largest Islamic seminary or madrassa in Islamabad where two of leading ideologues of the Pakistani Taliban, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz, are holed up after attempts to flush them out turned into a fiasco.

Pakistan conducted an air strike on a suspected militant training camp in South Waziristan on 16 January - after intense US pressure - putting an end to a peace deal between the two Waziristans and the Pakistani government. The revenge promised by local pro-Taliban militants came quickly, with an apparent sucide attack on 22 January in North Waziristan, killing at least three members of Pakistan's security forces.

The clerics who appear to have riled president Musharraf, are brothers Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz, the sons of the slain Maulana Abdullah, one of the oligarchs of the resistance against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

Both are controversial religious figures and there have been direct requests from Washington and London for their arrests. They are both wanted by Pakistan's interior ministry and cannot leave the premises of the Lal Masjid, the central mosque in Islamabad, as there are warrants for their arrest.

Excerpted

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Security&loid=8.0.381167776&par=0

[Oorang]

Excellent news!

[Oorang]

Current news on the Dockrats:

South Africa: More Than Two Terror Suspects At Large, U.S. Says

Al-Qaeda inroads into sleepy SA town?

[Cindy]

YEP.