THIS IS VERY GOOD NEWS.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=2664
"December Recruiting Numbers Exceed Goals"
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2007 – Last month’s recruiting figures for all military services exceeded goals, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said during testimony today before the House Armed Services Committee.
“I’m pleased to report that all active branches of the United States military exceeded their recruiting goals for the month of December,” Gates said, “with particularly strong showings by the Army and the Marine Corps.”"
http://internet-haganah.org/hmedia/26sep06-salafy_forums.html
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005853.html
11 January 2007
Looking for the al-Medad forum? I have a wee bit of bad news :-)
Webmaster Arrested Site Shut Down by "Western Country"
Jihadist Websites -- OSC Report
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 T15:08:23Z
Journal Code: 9241 Language: ENGLISH Record Type: FULLTEXT
Document Type: OSC Report
Word Count: 304
Terrorism: Jihadist Website Announces Capture of Webmaster On 8 January, a jihadist website posted a statement announcing the arrest of Abu-al-Harith al-Mihdar and the shutting down of a website of which he was webmaster.
The statement announced the arrest of Al-Mihdar by "a Western country on suspicion of having ties to terrorist groups." The statement defied what it called the "policies of detention and killing by the forces of evil" and promised to continue "with even more determination." The statement asked members of jihadist forums to pray for the release of Al-Mihdar and for his health. Al-Mihdar had previously pointed to his bad health as a reason for not joining Mujahidin on the battlefield. Moderators ended the statement by pledging to reopen the website.
Al-Mihdar, or Walid Abd-al-Hamid al-Sharqawi al-Mihdar al-Idrisi al-Alawi, as he once introduced himself at the opening of a debate with a representative of the Islamic Group in Egypt, was the webmaster of a website that featured publications by Al-Hakayimah and various other jihadist and militant figures. Al-Mihdar announced the opening of the site only two days after Al-Hakayimah appeared on a video announcing his joining al-Qa'ida. The same video featured Al-Zawahiri praising the Egyptian member of the Islamic Group, Al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyyah, and his decision to join al-Qa'ida. Al-Mihdar, like Al-Hakayimah, identified himself with the old Islamic Group in Egypt and rejected the group's new change in doctrine namely its renunciation of violence. Al-Mihdar gained more recognition among the readers of jihadist forums after his debate with the Egyptian Islamic Group last August in which he defended al-Qa'ida and its use of violence and challenged the changes in the new Egyptian Islamic Group's methodology and doctrine.