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More defections? Interesting.
New Delhi, March 07:
Two top nuclear scientists of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) are currently in Taliban custody. The two were working at PAEC’s facility in North West Frontier Province. Zee News investigations reveal that the two scientists were kidnapped about six months ago. To avoid international embarrassment Pakistan Government has kept this information under wraps.
According to information available with Zee News, nuclear scientists have been kidnapped by Taliban at the behest of Al-Qaeda. Further investigations reveal that Al-Qaeda may be using the expertise of the scientists to produce nuclear bombs. The two scientists are reportedly being held somewhere in Waziristan, near Afghanistan border.
In January this year Pakistan security agencies had foiled another attempt by Taliban militia to kidnap nuclear scientists. Earlier, incidents of Taliban militia stealing uranium in NWFP have already been reported. PAEC also has a uranium mining facility in NWFP. With repeated Al Qaeda threats to the US, news of kidnapping of nuclear scientists will increase pressure on Pakistan to attack terrorist camps.
http://zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=358644&archisec=WOR&archisubsec=
Secret Network Helped Defector
March 9, 2007
WASHINGTON - A well-organized Iranian dissident group helped arrange the defection of Iran's former deputy defense minister in Turkey last month, and experts say more defectors are on the way as opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad increases within Iran.
The dissident group, which was not named for security reasons, helped in the planning of Gen. Ali Reza Asghari's Feb. 7 disappearance at a hotel in Istanbul days after his wife and other family members left Iran for a purported vacation, sources said.
The group is currently negotiating with Western intelligence agencies from a hideout somewhere in Europe for a permanent place of exile, sources said. The United States and Israel, fingered by Iran's police chief as Asghari's kidnappers, have issued carefully worded denials that their governments were involved.
Tehran regards Asghari's defection as a disaster. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," said Walid Phares, an expert in Iranian-backed Shiite terrorism. "Opposition to Ahmadinejad is growing inside Iran."
placemark
Weeeeelllll I don't expect to do a lot of sprinting from position to position and my friends will watch me carefully. I have some shooting buddies over there that are EMTs. Last time they had to work on me was about 10 years ago when I had heat exhaustion after running a TAC rifle course in a TAC vest and my AR. I'd just managed to clear the weapon at the end when I felt myself going under. They were close and managed to grab me before I hit the ground. One guy caught the weapon, the other caught me as I sagged. I learned that in south Florida, if you've ever been a heat casualty (as I have) then you have a definite "shooting season." For me it lasts from OCT to about the end of May. Anyway they lowered me to the ground and dumped an ice chest's contents on me like a mackeral on Friday. It worked.
I'll be fine tomorrow as long as I take it easy.
Yes, do take it easy. More than once I've passed out from too much heat. Guess that's why I love snowy winters and hate the heat of summer.
BEIRUT: Security forces in south Lebanon arrested a weapons dealer and his son in possession of three shoulder-mounted anti-aircraft missiles, an internal security forces statement said yesterday.
It said the man also confessed he had once acquired two of the same surface-to-air missiles - Soviet-made SAM 7s - from a base for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command south of Beirut and later sold them. The dealer, a Lebanese man, admitted he belonged to the PFLP-GC. He and his son were stopped in the southern town of Nabatiyeh last week.
Lebanese security forces have recently uncovered several caches of hand grenades and small explosive devices around Lebanon but it is unusual to discover sophisticated weaponry in the hands of arms dealers. A political crisis in Lebanon, which pits the Sunni Muslim-led government against the Shia-led opposition, has already resulted in sporadic lethal clashes and spurred fears of citizens rearming themselves. Weapons dealers have said increased demand has pushed up gun prices recently.
China says terrorism in Xinjiang is backed by Taliban, Qaeda
Beijing, March 9, 2007
China on Friday said it has crushed a major terrorist network in the restive region of Xinjiang, killing 18 militants and arresting 17 others from the banned East Turkistan Islamic Movement, which has close links with terrorist forces, including the Taliban and Al Qaeda. "We have crushed the ETIM terrorist training camp in Xinjiang. The ETIM is a terrorist organisation banned by the United Nations," a senior official from Xinjiang government said.
"There is a lot of evidence that the terrorist forces of ETIM are connected with international terrorist forces to plan and conduct some terrorist activities," a senior police official from the northwest Chinese region told reporters here.
The January five action against ETIM militants training camp in the Pamir Plateau is China's largest counter-terrorism campaign which killed 18 terrorists and led to the arrest of 17 others. Police also seized 22 hand grenades and over 1,500 incomplete weapons. One Chinese policeman was killed and another wounded in the gun battle, the official said.
The training camp was run by the ETIM with assistance from Taliban and al-Qaeda. It is believed that more than 1,000 ETIM members have been trained by al-Qaeda. ETIM was listed by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation on September 11, 2002, and was included in a list of "East Turkistan" terrorist organisations issued by the MPS in 2003.
MamaDearest, I'm SO sorry!!!
You're most welcome fanfan.
TGIF.
THANKS MamaDearest.
Prayers on the way!
That quote from PIJ regarding Human Bombs is quite untrue.
It is another PIJ propaganda bit to inspire and uplift the human bomber.
THE TRUTH IS...
The human bomber, once he/she detonates, dies a torturous death and goes straight to Hell. That is eternal defeat -- for the human bomber.
Oh, I'm so sorry. Prayers up for your sister and her daughter. And for you.
Mega thanks for pulling up the info in your post no. 531 regarding AQ-linked group in China, MamaDearest.
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/117054.aspx
"Group Linked to Al-Qaeda"
By Audra Ang
Associated Press Writer
March 9, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "CBNNews.com - BEIJING (AP) - Lawmakers from China's restive western Muslim region said Friday that 18 suspects killed in a raid on an alleged terror camp in January had links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.
Shi Dagang, a lawmaker from the Xinjiang region, also confirmed that 18 people from the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, or ETIM, died in the raid and 17 others were arrested.
"They had close connections to al-Qaeda," Shi said at a news conference during China's annual legislative session."
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000711.html
January 10, 2007
China: Muslim Terror Raid Finds International Ties
nytimes.com - 2007/01/10/:
The police found links to international terrorist groups in a raid on a suspected terrorist camp in the far western Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region last week, the Foreign Ministry said. The police said the secret camp, near the borders with Pakistan and Afghanistan, was run by the Chinese Uighur Muslim separatist group known as the East Turkestan Islamic Movement. They said 18 suspects were killed and 17 others arrested. "There is a large amount of evidence that shows, including evidence we got from this raid, that the E.T.I.M. is associated with international terrorist forces," said the ministry's spokesman, Liu Jianchao. He also said that it "planned, organized and carried out a series of violent terrorist activities in China." He gave no details. China has said before that the group has links to Al Qaeda.
Posted on 10 January 2007 @ 13:27 GMT
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/005776.html
11 November 2006
"Springtime for Turkestan"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "There appears to be something new afoot in al-Qaida, and it all points towards Turkestan on the one hand, and leadership elements of al-Qaida on the other.
Here are the data points."
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http://osint.internet-haganah.com/archives/000616.html
November 20, 2006
"Speaking of links to Turkestan..."
SNIPPET: "A reader responded to our report regarding a certain elevation in the visibility of Turkestani and/or Uighur elements of the global jihad by pointing to this FBIS report from August of 2005. Granted that the Chinese connection in this instance was in Hong Kong, not Xinjiang (i.e. Eastern Turkestan - the two are some thousands of kilometers apart), nevertheless the story is interesting enough to put into circulation...
Spanish police find London link between Madrid bomber and Libyans in China Tuesday, August 2, 2005 T09:49:37Z:"
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/001856.html
21 April 2004
"US/Chinese cooperation in the war on terror"
BEIJING (AP)
and a few more details...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iran
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1798480/posts
Report: Missing Iranian official can prove Tehran's ties to terror
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835359.html ^
Posted on 03/09/2007 10:30:44 PM PST by Muentzer2005
The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.
A former colleague of Ali Reza Asghari, 63, told the newspaper, which is published in London, that the document also cites groups such as the Mahdi Shi'ite militia operating in Iraq ...
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
ON THE NET...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=iraq
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Democrat Hypocrisy on Iraq
Added May 09, 2006
Praying. I'm so sorry.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070309-1.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 9, 2007
Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Iran
White House News
On March 15, 1995, by Executive Order 12957, the President declared a national emergency with respect to Iran pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the actions and policies of the Government of Iran. On May 6, 1995, the President issued Executive Order 12959 imposing more comprehensive sanctions to further respond to this threat, and on August 19, 1997, the President issued Executive Order 13059 consolidating and clarifying the previous orders.
Because the actions and policies of the Government of Iran continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, the national emergency declared on March 15, 1995, must continue in effect beyond March 15, 2007. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to Iran. Because the emergency declared by Executive Order 12957 constitutes an emergency separate from that declared on November 14, 1979, by Executive Order 12170, this renewal is distinct from the emergency renewal of November 2006.
This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 8, 2007.
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Thanks, Cindy
I shall monitor this issue and report back as any news arises: it seems to have escaped my attention.
That said, kids are always blowing up letterboxes here: it is a dumb prank that is actually extremely dangerous. Normally homemade explosives are used (FREEPmail me if you want to know the specific methodology they use: I don't want to give Yankee kids any stupid ideas from their Kiwi cousins...)
The use of commercial explosives here is therefore novel and suggests something quite a bit more sinister...
Cheers
*DieHard*
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