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Posted on 07/01/2007 2:42:24 PM PDT by nwctwx
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1603333/posts?page=65#65
Thanks to RDTF for the ping to this link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/graphics/2007/07/05/nterr405.jpg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/05/nterror405.xml
“45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids”
By John Steele, Crime Correspondent
Last Updated: 5:27pm BST 05/07/2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard.
One message read: “We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America.
“The first target which will be penetrated by nine brothers is the naval base which gives shelter to the ship Kennedy.” This is thought to have been a reference to the USS John F Kennedy, which is often at Mayport Naval Base in Jacksonville, Florida.
The message discussed targets at the base, adding: “These are clubs for naked women which are opposite the First and Third units.”
It also referred to using six Chevrolet GT vehicles and three fishing boats and blowing up petrol tanks with rocket propelled grenades.
Investigators have found no link between the Tsouli chat room and the group of doctors and medics currently in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.
However, sources said it was “definitely spooky” that the use of doctors for terrorist purposes was being discussed in jihadi terrorist circles up to three years ago.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “In one on-line conversation, Daour, asked what he would do with £1 million, replied: “Sponsor terrorist attacks, become the new Osama.”
The three men outwardly appeared to be leading normal lives, studying and living with their parents. Tsouli had come to the UK with his family from Morocco in 2001.
Mughal had a degree in biochemistry from Leicester University and was studying for his masters.
Daour, who was granted British citizenship in May 2005, had applied to start a law degree.”
65 posted on 07/05/2007 1:42:09 PM PDT by Cindy
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http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2007/07/02/daily16.html
“Mayport the target of terrorist plot”
Jacksonville Business Journal - 4:13 PM EDT Thursday, July 5, 2007
by Stewart Verney
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Three Muslims in England who used the Internet to incite terrorist attacks included Mayport Naval Station among their targets.
The men were convicted in London of inciting terrorist murder on the Internet and given sentences of six and a half to 10 years. The sentencing came after a two-month trial. The men were arrested in October 2005.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A judge in London sentenced Younis Tsouli, 23, to 10 years in jail; 24-year-old Waseem Mughal to seven and a half years; and 21-year-old Tariq Al-Daour to six and a half years.
Investigators found no link between the chat room run by Tsouli and the group of doctors and medics in custody over attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow.”
66 posted on 07/05/2007 1:46:27 PM PDT by Cindy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=pakistan
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pakistan_still_using_illegal_nuclear_technology_0705.html
“Journalist: Pakistan still using illegal nuclear technology smuggling networks”
Michael Roston
Published: Thursday July 5, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The journalist who first uncovered the existence of Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan’s atomic weapons trading network told a conference in Washington, DC, last week that Pakistan still using his network to procure materials for its nuclear weapons program.
The disclosure preceded the revelation that Pakistani authorities have eased the lengthy house arrest to which Khan had been subjected.
A senior editor for Nucleonics Week, Mark Hibbs writes for a specialist journal that follows the nuclear power industry. He published some of the earliest accounts of Khan’s illicit trading network, which appears to have hawked uranium enrichment technology and nuclear weapon designs to Iran and Libya.”
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46635
Terrorist Killed, Nine Detained in Iraq
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2007 – Coalition forces killed one terrorist and detained nine suspected terrorists during raids around the country yesterday and today targeting al Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders and operatives.
This morning, coalition forces targeted an al Qaeda in Iraq explosives consultant suspected of helping improvised explosive device cells west of Baghdad. As the ground forces entered the objective site, they encountered an armed man. Acting in self-defense, coalition forces engaged the man, killing him.
During the raid, another armed man emerged from an adjoining room within the building. Coalition forces again, reacted in self-defense and engaged the armed man, wounding him. Three suspected terrorists were detained during the operation.
Another raid this morning netted one suspected terrorist allegedly involved with al Qaeda in the Tarmiyah area.
Coalition forces captured the al Qaeda in Iraq administrative emir of a Baghdad neighborhood during a raid yesterday. The individual is suspected of handling logistics and financing for terrorists cells in the area, and arranging for movement of operatives for the organization.
The ground forces also detained three individuals suspected of associating with the administrative emir.
“We’re continuing to target all levels of the al Qaeda in Iraq organization, and are disrupting both their leadership structure and operations,” said Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, Multinational Force Iraq spokesman.
Meanwhile, Multinational Division Baghdad soldiers captured 25 suspected insurgents over the past 30 days during Operation “Iron Blitz” northwest of the Iraqi capital.
The suspects, many believed to be tied to insurgent cells responsible for roadside bombs, sectarian violence and indirect fire attacks, were captured by soldiers of the 1st “Ironhorse” Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division.
“These (terrorists) were targeting not only coalition forces and Iraqi security forces, they were targeting the Iraqi people to escalate sectarian tensions in the area,” Army Lt. Col. Peter Andrysiak, deputy commander of the Ironhorse Brigade, said. “The capture of these individuals has lead to a significant decrease in insurgent activity in our area.”
The Ironhorse Brigade was able to target insurgents successfully in northwestern Baghdad neighborhoods thanks to tips from the local community, Andrysiak said.
A grassroots effort by tribal leaders in the Abu Ghraib, Taji, and Saab al Bor areas, to reject al Qaeda and work to reconcile with the government of Iraq, Iraqi security forces and the coalition, is aimed at putting an end to sectarian violence in those communities.
With 25 suspected insurgents captured in June, Andrysiak said, communities in northwest Baghdad are headed in the right direction.
“By bringing these individuals to justice, we have seen a decrease in the violence in our area,” Andrysiak added. “With the help of the volunteers, we are optimistic the violence will not return.”
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
http://www.dod.mil/ddre/prize/
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http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=46643
“Defense Department Offers $1 Million Prize for Wearable Power Innovations”
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON, July 5, 2007 – A typical dismounted troop going out for a four-day mission carries as much as 40 pounds of batteries and rechargers in his pack. The Defense Department wants to reduce that load significantly, and it’s dangling a $1 million carrot to entice people to help them do it.
The Defense Department launched its “wearable power” prize competition today to come up with new innovations to lighten warfighters’ loads.
The goal is to reduce the weight for the power system that drives radios, night-vision devices, global positioning systems and other combat gear, including a recharging system, to about 2 pounds per day, explained William Rees, deputy undersecretary of laboratories and basic sciences.
“The mantra is four days, 4 kilograms,” he said.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Now the Defense Research and Engineering Office is hoping to tap into that same competitive spirit to develop longer-duration, lighter-weight power supplies.
Three prizes will be awarded in November 2008: $1 million, $500,000 and $250,000.
Competitors have until Nov. 30 to register for the competition. Everyone — private citizens, companies, international organizations — is eligible, Rees said, although the lead member of all teams must be a U.S. citizen.”
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861373/posts
“Sydney welcomes Kitty Hawk”
The Daily Telegraph ^ | July 6, 2007 | Gemma Jones and Nick Vindini
Posted on 07/05/2007 2:07:48 PM PDT by Cecily
Supervised release? We need to deport!
It’s a good ship — keeps on going.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=russia
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1861413/posts
“US Calls Russian Missile Threat ‘Unfortunate’”
voanews.com ^ | 05 July 2007 | David Gollust
Posted on 07/05/2007 3:19:20 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The United States Thursday termed “unfortunate” a threat by a senior Russian official to counter a U.S. missile defense system in Europe with new offensive deployments. But the State Department says the Bush administration is otherwise having a constructive dialogue with Moscow on the issue. VOA’s David Gollust reports from the State Department.
Officials here are not dismissing the missile threat by Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov out of hand. But they say it runs counter to suggestions by other Russian leaders, notably President Vladimir Putin, that Moscow is ready for constructive talks on regional missile defense.
Ivanov, a former Russian defense minister, generated news headlines Wednesday with a warning that Moscow would place new offensive missiles in its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad, bordering Poland, if a U.S. plan for anti-missile sites in Poland and the Czech Republic goes forward.
The Bush administration says the radar facility in Czech Republic and a battery of 10 interceptor missiles in Poland are needed to guard against a potential missile threat from Iran.
Despite U.S. assurances that the system is not aimed at Russia, Moscow contends it would undermine its strategic missile deterrence.
At a news briefing, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said the Ivanov comments were unfortunate and not constructive, and also said they were in marked contrast to positive conversations on missile defense that Presidents Bush and Putin had last Sunday and Monday in Kennebunkport, Maine:
“My read from the Kennebunkport meetings was that there was actually a good discussion on the issue of missile defense, and I think toward the end of those meetings, you had President Putin talking in terms of a discussion on a regional architecture for dealing with missile defense, and also acknowledging the fact there is a threat,” said Sean McCormack. “So that’s positive. And while we have not bridged what are obvious differences on missile defense, I think that there’s a very constructive conversation going on now.”
The Russian president proposed in Maine that the two countries collaborate on a regional missile defense system that would include a radar facility in southern Russia and another operated by Russia in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic that borders Iran.”
Islamabad - Hardcore Islamic students holed up in a mosque in Pakistan's capital early Friday fired several rockets at the security forces after their offer for conditional surrender was dismissed by the government, officials claimed.
'We have received these reports that they have started to use rocket launchers and explosive device against the security forces,' Information Minister Mohammed Ali Durrani told Geo news channel. He said one rocket damaged an armoured personnel carrier, but there was no causality reported.
However, the hard-line deputy chief of Lal Masjid, Red Mosque, Abdul Rashid Ghazi rejected the allegations. 'We do not have any rocket launchers,' he told Geo news channel. Heavy fire was being exchanged at the besieged mosque and the militants hurled several hand grenades, said an eyewitness.
Ghazi offered surrender on late Thursday in return for safe passage following heavy shelling by military and paramilitary troops. 'Those who give themselves in should not be arrested,' Ghazi told Aaj news as the security forces allowed the ambulances to escort dead and injured from the mosque to the hospitals during a short ceasefire. The government dismissed the offer and ordered him to unconditionally surrender.
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Stand-off at siege mosque after the army blasts through perimeter walls
July 6, 2007
A battle for the soul of Pakistan neared resolution last night as militants holed up in a besieged mosque in central Islamabad agreed to lay down their weapons in return for amnesty and safe passage after three days of fierce fighting with government forces. As dusk fell Pakistani troops blew holes in the perimeter wall surrounding the Lal Masjid or Red Mosque as US-made helicopter gunships hovered overhead and a barrage of mortars struck the compound. Inside about 60 die-hard militants, many said to have been schooled in guerrilla warfare at mountain training camps in Kashmir and Afghanistan, held dozens of women and children in an underground storeroom.
Hundreds of police and soldiers, backed by armoured personnel carriers, took up positions around the complex and imposed an indefinite curfew on the neighbourhood.
Water, gas and electricity supplies were cut to the militants who had hoped to impose sharia law on the capital, bringing Islamic rule from remote tribal regions on the Afghan border. In an indication that the militants were at last prepared to concede defeat to President Musharraf, a key ally in the US-led War on Terror, the leader of the rebels said that he was ready to surrender and abdicate his position if given amnesty. Abdul Rashid Ghazi, the deputy cleric of the Red Mosque, said that he wanted to avoid further bloodshed. However, Pakistani authorities insisted on his unconditional surrender.
Mr Ghazi is the younger brother of the chief cleric of the mosque who was captured on Wednesday as he tried to slip through the military cordon dressed in a burka and high heels. In an interview broadcast on state television, Maulana Abdul Aziz asked his followers to give themselves up. The cleric began the interview by lifting the black veil he was wearing to reveal a face dominated by a bushy grey beard. Smiling through much of the interview Mr Aziz urged his followers to leave, but some women teachers had persuaded many students at a female seminary inside the mosque compound to stay behind. He said that it would be damaging for students to stay put any longer. “They should either leave, if they can, or surrender,” he said. Despite his belated attempts to forge a resolution Mr Aziz was charged with 25 criminal offences including kidnapping, incitement to murder and firearms offences. He was remanded for seven days in police custody. His daughter, who fled the mosque with him, was also taken into custody.
But his call to surrender went unheeded by his wife who is also the head of the Madrassa Hafza attached to the mosque. She told a local television network that she had no intention of giving herself in to the security forces. Umme Hassan, in her late 30s, who many regard as more radical than her husband, has mobilised hundreds of young women who formed the nucleus of the Red Mosque’s movement for enforcement of Sharia laws.
The burka-clad, stick wielding women known as the Hafza Brigade, had assumed the role of a self-styled vice squad, raiding houses and dragging out women alleged to be involved in prostitution. They are alleged to have kidnapped seven Chinese nationals who they accused of running a brothel from an acupuncture clinic. They were also seen stopping women and reprimanding them for not covering themselves with Islamic head-scarves.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2034149.ece
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Pakistan May Return Detained Islamists to Germany
July 09, 2007
For the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, a government task force responsible for preparing for terrorist threats has met in Berlin. Indications that terrorists may be planning attacks on Europe are growing following a slew of arrests of Islamists in Pakistan. They had traveled from Germany.
The case of one German-born man ending up in Guantánamo, that of Murat Kurnaz, spawned a lot of bad press for Germany's federal government. Now Berlin faces a similar case.
Saeed and Aleem N. got a head start on the morning of June 18. They took a taxi from the city center of populous Lahore, Pakistan to Allama Iqbal International Airport. The brothers hugged one more time at the check-in counter of Qatar Airways. Aleem's plane was scheduled to depart for Frankfurt, via Doha, at 7:35 a.m. Aleem, a 45-year-old Pakistani with a German passport, was to be picked up at the Frankfurt Airport by his wife Katja.
"Aleem had returned from Peshawar two days earlier," says his brother Saeed M. "He was carrying a bag containing 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of lapis lazuli." Aleem said the blue gemstones sell well in Germany, according to Saeed. As usual, the gemstone trader spoke little about what else he had been doing in the region near the Afghan border, a region Germany's foreign intelligence service, BND, calls "al-Qaida's staging area."
Of course, the father of four children missed his plane home this time. While still at the airport, he was arrested by Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI. He has been incarcerated ever since and he is being interrogated by ISI agents.
Are Attacks Being Prepared in Germany?
The arrest of the devout Muslim, who is from Germersheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, is seen by the German government as the most recent proof that Islamists are preparing attacks in Germany. In June, for the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the German Chancellery (Angela Merkel's equivalent of the White House) even summoned the so-called Security Group, a government round that meets only in periods of crisis, and which was this time attended by the state secretaries of the Interior, Foreign and Defense Ministries.
The reason for the special meeting -- which was chaired by Thomas de Maiziere, Angela Merkel's chief of staff at the Chancellery, was a secret CIA analysis that presents a list of reasons why Germany is currently particularly at risk, in the United States government's opinion. Besides Germany's participation in NATO's Afghanistan mission, the reasons include the high number of German Islamists with contacts to Pakistan and the good opportunities for traveling to Western Europe that people returning from the Hindu Kush region enjoy. Before the week was over, August Hanning, a state secretary in the Interior Ministry, alerted the public too, by means of an unusually drastic appeal. "We're moving right into the spectrum of targets," he warned.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,492424,00.html
Probably too rational of a concept for the powers that be, unfortunately.
I did not understand this then but in the last two days since the terrorist activities in the UK were brought to a head I was not surprised when there were reports that those arrested were all involved in the health services. Those terrible words "those who cure you will kill you" suddenly made sense.
This should serve as a BOLA to all Americans. Take a look at your local health system. Keep an eye out for malpractice by any muzzie docs. Nurses especially can serve as our eyes and ears. They see and take note of irregularities in the ER, the OR, and elsewhere.
Although the "electronic jihad" Web site Al-jinan.org was offline for part of Thursday, the site has been able to survive for about four-and-a-half years for a number of reasons. While its domain name server registration features a number of contradictions that make tracing its origins difficult, the capabilities of the site's Electronic Jihad application are also limited. Still, the mere presence of the site is likely a precursor of an emerging cyber threat.
Al-jinan.org's domain name server is being hosted by Ibtekarat, a Web hosting company based in Beirut. Created in December 2002, the site's registration information cites an address with a Los Angeles postal code, while listing the Egyptian city of Al Esmaeiliya as its "registrant city," and Iraq as its "registrant country."
Anyone can register as a user with the Al-jinan.org Web site and install the Electronic Jihad application on their computer. This gives the user the ability to launch denial-of-service attacks using their own computing resources, although the severity of such an attack depends upon the attacker's resources.
"From what can be gathered off of the Al-jinan Web site, it does not appear that they have executed any large-scale, serious attacks," Erich Marquardt, program manager of Global Terrorism Analysis at Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Jamestown Foundation, told InformationWeek. According to claims posted on Al-jinan.org, they have contributed to knocking offline various Web sites they deem as anti-Islamic. "These Web site shutdowns, however, are usually temporary," he added.
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/07/the_white_house_cair_and_the_o.php
“The White House, CAIR and the OIC”
By Steven Emerson
(July 5, 2007, 12:33 p.m.)
The London and Glasgow bomb plots were carried out with the approval of Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, a top foreign intelligence source said last night.
“It was an established fact from Day 1 that al-Qaeda was behind this and it was planned by its followers in Great Britain with bin Laden’s blessing,” the source told The Times. British security officials were more guarded, saying that it was too early to say whether the plot was masterminded by some foreign hand or hatched in Britain.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2034118.ece
That's just crazy. In fact, the subject matter of the entire article is crazy.
Yes.
Well said Palladin, thank you.
And then you have these extreme "head in the sand" apologists that write this sort of lunacy:
Muslim doctors will never inflict harm
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